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SHENZHEN, China, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese leading logistics and energy equipment supplier China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd posted approximately 163.7 billion yuan ($25.7 billion) in operating revenue in 2021, a 74-percent growth year-on-year, marking the first time for the company to hit the 100-billion-yuan line.
It also represents the fastest growth the company has made in nearly 10 years. Operating revenue of CIMC stood at 94.2 billion yuan in 2020.
Its operating profit increased 81 percent on a yearly basis to reach 13.47 billion yuan in 2021, breaking the historical record.
The company plans to distribute a full-year dividend of 0.69 yuan per share to its shareholders, with total cash payment of about 2.48 billion yuan, accounting for 38.22 percent of its net profit.
According to the Fortune Global 500 between 2018 and 2021, minimum operating revenue of companies on the list ranged from $24 billion to $25.3 billion, which translates into about 150 billion yuan to 160 billion yuan. Based on the current foreign exchange rate, that means CIMC could join the Fortune Global 500 club this year.
Six major segments of business -- container; vehicles; energy, chemical and food equipment; airports, firefighting and automated logistics equipment; offshore; logistics -- accounted for over 90 percent of CIMC's total operating revenue in 2021. Among them, container manufacturing, the company's core business, contributed roughly 40 percent of the total.
The container business achieved an operating revenue of 65.97 billion yuan in 2021, surging 197.64 percent compared with a year earlier. Net profit of the business segment soared 469.94 percent year-on-year to hit 11.33 billion yuan. The significant growth was driven by the dual impact of COVID-19 pandemic and cycle of shipping industry.
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Terminix Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TMX)'s sale to Rentokil Initial plc. If you are a Terminix shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI)'s sale to funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC for $11.00 per share in cash. If you are a MoneyGram shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN)'s sale to an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners, LLC for $24.25 per share. If you are an IntriCon shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL)'s sale to Oasis Petroleum Inc. for 0.5774 shares of Oasis common stock and $6.25 in cash per share. If you are a Whiting shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Halper Sadeh LLP may seek increased consideration for shareholders, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact the firm free of charge to discuss their legal rights and options. Please call Daniel Sadeh or Zachary Halper at (212) 763-0060 or email sadeh@halpersadeh.com or zhalper@halpersadeh.com.
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Vectrus, Inc. (NYSE: VEC)'s merger with The Vertex Company. If you are a Vectrus shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (NYSE: SWM)'s merger with Neenah, Inc. Following the closing of the transaction, Schweitzer-Mauduit shareholders will own approximately 58% of the combined company, and Neenah shareholders will own approximately 42% of the combined company, respectively, on a fully diluted basis. If you are a Schweitzer-Mauduit shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Huttig Building Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBP)'s sale to Woodgrain Inc. for $10.70 per share. If you are a Huttig Building shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NASDAQ: OAS)'s merger with Whiting Petroleum Corporation. If you are an Oasis shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Halper Sadeh LLP may seek increased consideration for shareholders, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Dozens of community members trained alongside the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Tuesday as part of the second Annual “Be Like Bre” Challenge.
The event was held at the department’s training academy and was meant to honor fallen IMPD officer Breann “Bre” Leath.
Officer Leath was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic disturbance call back in 2020. This Saturday, April 9th, marks the two-year anniversary of her death.
“She was an incredible person,” said Desiree Biggers, one of Leath’s best friends and a patrol officer with IMPD. “If you don’t know what actually feeling sunshine is – that was Breann.”
Clouds took over the skies Tuesday evening as the event started, but Biggers said she could still feel her best friend’s light shining through.
“We’re missing that light, but we will continue on in her legacy,” Biggers said. “‘Be Like Bre’ is as strong as it was on April 9th 2020 as it is today.”
To honor Officer Leath, police officers and community members joined together for a workout challenge. It started with a two-mile run followed by 77 push-ups, 77 sit-ups, and 77 squats. Joined together – the workout equals Officer Leath’s resting unit number – B231.
“It was great. The community show up, IMPD officers show up, So we’re like ‘Hey why not – let’s also do another one’ and make sure we keep doing it in remembrance of her. [To] make sure she’s never forgotten,” said Sgt. Babacar Diouf.
As Officer Leath’s former field training officer, Sgt. Diouf started the ‘Be Like Bre’ Challenge last year as a way to honor the legacy she leaves behind.
“She was a great woman, a great mom, a great police officer,” said Sgt. Diouf.
Now, IMPD officers vow to make it an annual tradition — bringing the community together.
“We’re going to do this every year,” said Biggers. “We want to make sure that we don’t forget, but we also want to make sure that [Bre] knows that we’ll never forget her and what she brought to this community.”
Biggers said there is still an opportunity for those who could not make it to this year’s event to ‘Be Like Bre.’
“If you are looking to do something in Breann’s honor this week, by all means find a family that is struggling,” said Biggers. “Inflation is getting at all of us right now. Gas prices are high. Do something nice for someone. If you see somebody trying to get gas and it looks like they’re only putting $10 in their tank and you can spare $5 – that’s a Breann thing right there.”
The event was free and open to all ages, but donations were also being accepted. All funds raised from this event will go to Officer Leath’s young son.
If you are interested in donating, read more about the Central Indiana Police Foundation’s Breann Leath Memorial Fund.
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WAYNE/RANDOLPH COUNTIES, Ind. — Indiana State Police are now investigating the death of a Randolph County man after an incident involving the assault of an off-duty Richmond police officer and a pursuit through two counties.
Tuesday morning the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office received a report of the theft of a 1985 Peterbuilt semi-tractor. Around 11:30 a.m., off-duty Richmond Police Officer Austin Adams saw the truck on U.S. 27 near Union Pike.
Adams began following the stolen semi while attempting to get uniformed officers to the area.
ISP said the driver pulled over to the side of Webster Road near Flatley Road, which allowed Adams to make contact. When he identified himself as an officer, the driver then assaulted Adams.
Investigators identified the driver as 40-year-old Troy Lewis of Randolph County.
After the encounter with the off-duty officer, Lewis fled the scene, leading authorities on a pursuit from Wayne County into southern Randolph County.
The vehicle eventually stopped on Base Road south of County Road 850 South, however, Lewis refused to exit the vehicle.
Officers reported hearing a gun go off and found Lewis suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There were no rounds fired by any police officer during the chase.
Both Lewis and Officer Adams were transported by medical helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
Lewis was later pronounced dead. Officer Adams is being treated for serious injuries.
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BEAVERTON, Ore. — The May election is around the corner and there will be some big measures on the ballot. One of them will affect every school in the Beaverton School District.
The proposed $723 million, 30-year bond would mean various upgrades and projects for each of the 53 schools in the district.
Becky Tymchuk is the vice chair of the Beaverton School Board and also heads the district’s bond campaign. She said if the bond passes, the money would go into six major buckets to improve schools: modernization, deferred maintenance, security and other equipment, additional capacity, technology and seismic upgrades.
“We live in the Pacific Northwest, where we have been told for years and years and years that sometime, somewhere, there is going to be a large earthquake. It's just a matter of when,” Tymchuk said.
That’s why she said it’s imperative the district begin working to bring about 40 older schools up to code. Right now only 13 meet earthquake readiness standards, according to a 2019 seismic evaluation.
In a district video, a construction project manager for the district, Eric Bolken, used Legos to highlight the dangers of not doing seismic upgrades to older buildings.
“As the ground shakes in an earthquake, the structures have a tendency to tip over,” said Bolken in the video.
He demonstrated that adding a shear wall would help strengthen buildings, using the Lego set to to show the difference between a building without a shear wall and another that had one.
“Now as the same motion happens, the shear wall stays, the unsupported wall does not,” Bolken noted.
Bolken said the bond money will also go toward making sure newer buildings connected to older ones can collectively withstand an earthquake.
“We're trying to not only bring old structures up to current code, but also make sure that the whole building is working together,” he said.
“We have a moral imperative as a school board and as a school district to invest in safe buildings for our students and staff,” Tymchuk said.
The bond would also pay for complete rebuilds of Raleigh Hills K-8 School as well as Beaverton High School.
“We have Beaverton High School that’s 105 years old. Parts of it are still being used from 105 years ago,” said Tymchuk, who added that Raleigh Hills is about 75 years old.
If passed, for a property value assessed at $303,021, the estimated tax increase would be about $76 for the first year. The proposed bond would appear on taxpayers’ property tax bills for the next 30 years, but the construction projects would be complete within seven years.
A frequently asked questions page on Beaverton School District's bond website gives more insight into what people can expect over the years.
“Because of the way in which the debt service schedule is built, the actual tax rate for this proposed bond will decline over time,” the district wrote on its website.
While the bond would mean different projects at all schools in the district, only the oldest schools with the most pressing need would get seismic upgrades. That covers six schools: Cedar Park, Five Oaks, Highland Park, Meadow Park, Mountain View and Whitford Middle Schools. More schools would be upgraded in years to come under different bond proposals.
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Updated: April 05, 2022 05:28 PM
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A man who allegedly shot and killed a hotel security guard, stole a car and then got into a shootout with officers faced a judge Tuesday.
Prosecutors say there's no shortage of reasons to keep Donovan Bookout behind bars. They say the details of this case alone should be evidence enough to prove Bookout is a danger to the community. But it was his lengthy, violent criminal history that convinced a judge to keep him locked up.
Bookout appeared virtually from MDC for his detention hearing Tuesday, just one week after Albuquerque police say he shot and killed Daniel Mora, a security guard at the Ambassador Inn on Candelaria Road.
"This defendant absolutely poses a danger to the community, and there are no release conditions that the court can fashion to protect the safety of the community," said Jolanna Macias, prosecutor.
The state's prosecutor walked through the entire timeline, starting with the hotel shooting and then an armed carjacking just down the street. She also brought up a different incident – just one month earlier – when police say Bookout shot someone at a different hotel.
"These crimes were perpetrated on random, innocent members of the community,” said Macias.
Bookout's defense acknowledged the seriousness of the allegations but argued they could be mitigated with strict conditions of release, including mental health treatment. Second Judicial District Court Judge Britt Baca-Miller did not agree.
"I am going to grant the state's motion for pretrial detention," said Baca-Miller.
A public safety assessment recommended Bookout be released. The judge believes that's because he does not have any violent convictions, but says the evidence against him is enough to say otherwise.
"I can't think of any conditions of release that I could fashion that could adequately monitor Mr. Bookout's actions to make sure he is not violent," Baca-Miller said.
Bookout's public defender did bring up a prior case from 2015 that was dismissed for lack of competency. It was not part of her argument to release him from jail, but she believes it could be an issue moving forward.
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Updated: April 05, 2022 06:43 PM
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Vaccines and boosters have been required for all students at the University of New Mexico this year, and that requirement includes student-athletes.
UNM Athletics Director Eddie Nuñez spoke openly about these requirements Tuesday afternoon during a roundtable discussion. He made it clear if an athlete wasn’t vaccinated, that would be the end of their time playing for UNM.
“In the current year we are in, that is part of the expectation that we live under, and if you don't want to be here because you feel that your reasons and the university doesn't agree with the reasons, whether medical or religious, or doesn’t meet that criteria then, unfortunately, New Mexico is not the place for you,” Nuñez said.
This season all student-athletes received their full vaccine and booster shots, and while they don't know how long this requirement will last, they are having these conversations with future athletes now.
“Incoming recruits, we tell them at this point if things don't change you might have to anticipate but understand I do feel we are going to get to a place where that won’t be a requirement,” Nuñez said.
Nuñez says he wanted to make sure no one was caught off guard by this requirement so his department talked with athletes before the final decision was made. But for now, vaccines are required and he wants to make sure his whole department is in compliance.
But vaccines weren’t the only thing Nuñez talked about Tuesday, he also brought up funding his department got from the capital overlay.
UNM Athletics got $6.1 million but that money is going to be split between six or seven different projects. While a lot of people were pushing for major projects to be done at The Pit they are only doing $300,000 of renovations there and more money is going across the street.
“We are going to redo the track out there because it is over 15 years old, that surface is, as you know, it hosts everything from the state high school to senior games to Special Olympics, it’s one of the most used tracks in the state sot that was a big project for us,” Nuñez said.
Other projects include new lights at the football stadium, to back of house improvements at The Pit like improving the locker rooms.
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Updated: April 05, 2022 08:19 PM
Created: April 05, 2022 06:41 PM
ROSWELL, N.M – A jury Tuesday heard opening statements, as well as testimony from the first witnesses in what is expected to be a four-day-long murder trial.
The trial of 31-year–old Luis Jimenez got underway in U.S. District Court in Chaves County. Jimenez is charged with first degree murder in the December 2012 death of Saul Sanchez, 39, He also faces a separate count of aggravated burglary related to the incident.
Jimenez is accused of shooting and killing Sanchez at a 1500 block of West Third Street residence in Roswell. At the time, Sanchez, along with his wife and two daughters, were staying at the home of a friend who was out of town.
According to the prosecution, Jimenez, and another man Joseph Barnhill allegedly gained entry to the house by breaking a window, with the intent of committing a burglary.
“You are going to hear that these individuals came together that day. And they were Luis Jimenez and Joseph Barnhill,” Dianna Luce, district attorney for New Mexico’s Fifth Judicial District, said in opening arguments by the state.
“They went there to burglarize the house. They got there in Luis Jimenez’s car. They both went into the house, with the intent of committing the burglary and they were both armed when they went in,” Luce added.
When Sanchez and his family returned to the house after attending a funeral that day, they discovered that the place was ransacked.
Sanchez then allegedly encountered Jimenez. That is when, according to the prosecution, Jimenez shot Sanchez in the face. He and Barnhill then fled the scene before police arrived.
In 2018, Jimenez and Barnhill were both charged with murder and aggravated burglary. The murder charge against Barnhill was dropped in 2020 as part of a plea agreement in which Barnhill pled guilty to the burglary charge.
The prosecution gave a preview of its case against Jimenez. Luce mentioned surveillance video at a local jewelry store, where Jimenez reportedly went to twice on the day of the burglary, including once where he sold a necklace and bracelet that was allegedly stolen from the home during the burglary.
Other pieces of evidence included a flash light allegedly found on the hallway floor of the Third Street home the prosecution says had Jimenez’s DNA on it.
Luce added that security camera footage from near the residence where the shooting happened showed a Toyota Corolla, similar to one owned by Jimenez’s wife and that Jimenez drove, was at the scene of the crime that December day.
When police searched Jimenez’s residence, they found .22 caliber ammunition, including a spent shell casing. Though the gun with which Sanchez was shot was never found, Luce said, investigators determined the spent casing found in Jimenez’s home was fired from the same gun as another spent casing that was found next to Sanchez’s body.
The defense declined to give an opening argument.
In all, the prosecution is expected to call 18 witnesses to the stand, they will include Sanchez’s wife and two daughters; and Barnhill, now 34 years old.
Barnhill is expected to testify that as they fled the scene, Jimenez admitted to having shot Sanchez.
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Billie Dove Graham
Thaxton
Mrs Billie Dove Graham, age 93 passed Sunday April 4, 2022 at the Pontotoc Nursing Home after an extended Illness.
Mrs Graham was the daughter of Johnny Bevill and Dovie Irene Hodge Bevill. She was born on Sept, 26, 1928 in Ms. Mrs Graham was a former cook and server at Thaxton School, and a life long member of Thaxton Methodist Church. Billie Dove love to garden and was a collector of Red Fox keepsakes. In later years she was a homemaker who loved and took care of her family.
Funeral Services were Monday, April 4 at Thaxton Methodist Church with Interment in Thaxton Community Cemetery. Bro William Montgomery officiated . She leaves her Son, Zane Moody of Thaxton and her daughter Susan Moody Winters, of Thaxton. 4 grandchildren and 5 grandchildren. She also leaves a very special niece, Tami Lorick.
Billie Dove was preceded by her parents, her husband, Hanon Graham, a daughter in law, Shelia Moody, Sisters Rudell Gooch, Mae Dillard, Ilene Dillard, Otie Carwyle, and a brother Otto Bevill. Our family at Associated are very greatful to have been chosen to serve the Graham/Moody family. Associated Family Funeral Home of Tupelo had charge of all arrangements. You may leave your condolences and messages @ associatedfuneral.com by clicking on the tributes link.
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William ‘Bill’ White
Pontotoc
William "Bill" Stratton White, age 73, passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at his residence. He was born September 15, 1948 to Earl Stratton and Mary Lola Fritch White. Bill was a member of Piney Grove Baptist Church. He was a meat cutter for over 50 years having worked at Piggly Wiggly and Price Cutters. Bill was a Vietnam Veteran where he served in the Army. He enjoyed playing and watching golf.
Services were Monday, April 4, at Browning Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Marcus Coward officiating; burial followed in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Browning Funeral Home in Pontotoc was in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Grace Hester White; his children, Linda, Richard, Jennifer and William; two sisters, Arlyss Friddle and Mary Catherine White; two brothers, David White and Earnest White; and a hose of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Deborah Kay White; three brothers, Ralph White, Richard White and an infant brother.
Condolences may be offered at www.browningpontotoc.com
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Dennis Pannell
Randolph
Dennis Pannell, 86, passed away Friday, April 01, 2022, at NMMC in Tupelo. He was born September 24, 1935. Services were Tuesday April 5, at Baldwin Memorial Funeral Home. Burial followed at Eddington Cemetery.
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Ollie Hobson
Pontotoc
Ollie Louise Castleberry Hobson, 73, was born on July 23, 1948 in Sledge, MS to the late Mary and Vernon Castleberry. She passed away unexpectedly, yet peacefully, on March 31, 2022. Ollie, widely know as Memaw, was a praying, God-fearing Christian woman who loved sitting outside and enjoying peace and quiet, talking on the phone with her family, watching her shows on TV, tending to her plants and feeding and playing with her animals on the farm. Ollie was first a Christian, second a wife to the late Bill Hobson, and third a mama and homemaker. Later in life, Ollie defied all odds and went back to school and accomplished her dream of becoming a nurse. She loved her residents and treated them as if they were her own family until she retired. She then spent her days taking care of and loving on her grand and great grand babies. She recently moved to Texas and spent her days relaxing and enjoying the farm animals.
Services were Tuesday, April 5, at Tutor Memorial Funeral Home in Pontotoc. Bro. L D Gillespie and Bro. Jimmy Flake officiated. Burial was in the Pinecrest Memorial Garden in Water Valley, MS. Tutor Memorial Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include her brothers; one sister; 5 children-Sandra Howard (Johnny), Bobby Hobson, Danny Hobson, Kathy Hobson and Christy Hobson; grandchildren-Christina Hobson, Jeremy Roberts, Brandon Hobson, Tiffany Wood (Bryan), Alex Hobson (Kim), Amber Loggins (Rodney), Jessica Pinkston, Emma Johnson and JJ Johnson; 14 great grandchildren that include Kagan and Keelyn Hobson.
Memaw loved all of her babies dearly, and she prayed for them all regularly. She had a special gift of encouragement, never met a stranger, and always pointed everyone toward the Lord in prayer.
Pallbearers were Johnny Howard, Jeremy Roberts, Bryan Wood, Alex Hobson and Marcus Johnson.
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Pontotoc
Bobby Dulaney, 73, passed away Wednesday, March 30, 2021, at NMMC in Tupelo. Services were Saturday, April 2, at Tutor Memorial Funeral Home in Pontotoc. Burial followed at Oasis of Love Cemetery.
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PEARL — After rallying back from a three-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh and taking a lead against No. 18 Southern Miss, No. 9 Ole Miss was unable to hang on late against the Golden Eagles in a 10-7 loss at Trustmark Park.
Trailing 6-3 and with just two hits up to that point, Ole Miss (19-9) found just enough offense to get itself back in the game in the seventh. Sophomore shortstop Jacob Gonzalez tied things up at six with a booming double up the middle with two outs and then scored the go-ahead run on a balk from Golden Eagles pitcher Dalton Rogers.
But Southern Miss (20-8) would tie the game and retake the lead in the top of the eighth with a three-run home run to left center from Danny Lynch off of senior closer Brandon Johnson, who entered the game with an ERA of 0.73.
Ole Miss is now 79-53 all-time against the Golden Eagles.
"Here we are in, whatever, Game 28, and we have to be better defensively and give ourselves a shot," coach Mike Bianco said. "We looked at one point like we were going to go down 6-3, and that would have been really disappointing. ... Not taking anything away from Southern Miss. They're real good. They pitched it well. We don't do much offensively up until, I guess it was the bottom of the seventh. Few and far between with the hits. Really just didn't play a very good game."
Junior Derek Diamond made his first midweek start of the season and was unable to make it out of the third, though a pair of fielding errors didn’t help his cause. The Rebels took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second on a towering home run to right field from junior catcher Hayden Dunhurst, but Southern Miss tied the game in the top of the third.
The Golden Eagles took the lead in the fourth on a double to right field from Carson Paetow and tacked on another run in the fifth off freshman Riley Maddox. Southern Miss catcher Rodrigo Montenegro’s second RBI of the night came in the seventh and made it a 6-3 game.
Ole Miss made three errors in the third and fourth innings combined.
"Just mentality and focus is the biggest thing. We do it in practice, but it hasn't been carrying over to games," Dunhurst said. "We're just going to have to up that confidence and the practice and just the repetition and just keep going at it."
Southern Miss’ pitching stymied Ole Miss batters through five innings, holding the Rebels to a lone hit. But things started to come together for the Rebels in the seventh.
Following a walk, a bloop single from sophomore third baseman Reagan Burford and a walk from Dunhurst, junior second baseman Peyton Chatagnier drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Gonzalez then played the part of hero, hitting a line drive that scored Burford and Dunhurst before putting the Rebels ahead on a balk.
A triple from Southern Miss’ Reece Ewing in the top of the eighth put Johnson into the game earlier than Bianco would have preferred. It set up a game-tying single from Christopher Sargent and the backbreaking long ball from Lynch.
"(Johnson) comes in in an emotional part of the game, and we're hoping that he wouldn't have to get six outs," Bianco said. "As it would happen, they don't get a single or a double, they get a triple, and so he comes in a tight, tough spot ...
"Lynch just hit a changeup. I don't know what the (velocity) was on it, but hit a changeup out. We just talked this weekend, and one of the reasons that makes Brandon so good is he's able to mix three pitches, and how many people are hitting his changeup? And they did tonight."
The Rebels got the game-tying run to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, but sophomore Calvin Harris popped up to end the game.
The Rebels host Alabama in a three-game series starting Friday. First pitch is 6:30 p.m.
Pregame:
PEARL — No. 9 Ole Miss takes on No. 18 Southern Miss at Trustmark Park in Pearl. Junior Derek Diamond will get the start on the mound for the Rebels, who are looking to build off a series win at Kentucky. Ole Miss leads the all-time series between the teams 79-52.
Follow along on our Facebook page and with beat reporter Michael Katz on Twitter.
Here is tonight's starting lineup. Redshirt sophomore T.J. McCants is out with an ankle injury.
1. SS Jacob Gonzalez
2. LF Calvin Harris
3. CF Justin Bench
4. 1B Tim Elko
5. RF Hayden Leatherwood
6. DH Kemp Alderman
7. 3B Reagan Burford
8. C Hayden Dunhurst
9. 2B Peyton Chatagnier
First inning:
Diamond surrendered a hit, but the Golden Eagles did not scratch any runs across. The Rebels went down in order in the bottom of the inning. 0-0 headed to the second.
Second inning:
Diamond recorded his first two strikeouts of the night. He's surrendered just two singles thus far. Consecutive walks with two outs set the Rebels up in scoring position for junior catcher Hayden Dunhurst, who hit a three-run home run to right field to break the scoreless tie. Rebels lead 3-0 headed to the third.
Third inning:
Back-to-back doubles put Southern Miss on the board, and an ensuing single made it a 3-2 game. An error from sophomore shortstop Jacob Gonzalez tied the game at three. Diamond left the game with two outs in the second and was replaced by freshman Mason Nichols. Nichols struck out the last batter. The game is tied at three headed to the fourth.
Fourth inning:
A Southern Miss double to right field put the Golden Eagles in front 4-3. Freshman Riley Maddox replaced Nichols and got out of the inning. The Rebels failed to scored in the bottom of the fourth.
Fifth inning:
A line drive from Rodrigo Montenegro with two strikes brought another run home for the Golden Eagles, making it 5-3.
Sixth inning:
Ole Miss got its second hit of the game, a single from sophomore Calvin Harris. It was negated by a double play. It's still 5-3, headed into the seventh.
Seventh inning:
Montenegro drove in another run with a deep single to right field to make it 6-3. Ole Miss loaded the bases and scored a run on a sacrifice fly from junior second baseman Peyton Chatagnier. Gonzalez tied the game with a booming double up the middle, and Gonzalez scored the go-ahead run on a balk.
Eighth inning:
A triple and base hit tied the game at seven. A three-run home run off senior Brandon Johnson put the Golden Eagles back in front.
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More than 1,100 Minnesota residents used the state’s insulin safety net program to secure over $6 million worth of the lifesaving drug last year, the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy and the MNsure health insurance exchange said Tuesday.
Eligible residents in immediate need of assistance — those who have less than a seven-day supply of insulin and will likely face significant health consequences without it — can use the emergency program to get a 30-day supply right away at their pharmacy and pay no more than a $35 copay.
The Minnesota Insulin Safety Net Program also helps residents who need longer-term help covering the costs of insulin. Eligible Minnesotans can get up to a year’s supply for no more than $50 per 90-day refill.
The program was created by the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act, which was enacted in 2020. It’s named for Alec Smith, who died from diabetic complications in 2017 at the age of 26 after rationing his insulin to make it last longer.
“Alec’s law continues to save lives, and the increased number of Minnesotans utilizing this safety net underscores that our work isn’t finished,” Democratic Rep. Michael Howard, of Richfield, who was the lead author in the House, said in a statement.
Howard is also author of a current piece of legislation to cap copayments on prescriptions for insulin and other lifesaving medications, such as asthma inhalers and EpiPens.
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Even 40 points from DeMar DeRozan wasn’t enough for the Chicago Bulls to beat the Milwaukee Bucks in their final meeting of the regular season.
But despite the 127-106 loss at the United Center, the news wasn’t all bad for the Bulls on Tuesday night. They clinched their first playoff berth since 2017 when the Orlando Magic upended the Cleveland Cavaliers earlier in the night.
After Zach LaVine was sidelined for the night for ongoing management of his left knee injury, DeRozan shouldered most of the production for the Bulls offense.
By the end of the third quarter, he had 40 points and had made all eight of the team’s free throws. His three-point play with 2:24 to go in the third cut the Bucks lead — which had been 21 points — to 10 at 86-76.
But DeRozan didn’t score in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter, leading coach Billy Donovan to bench his star to rest his legs for Wednesday’s game against the Boston Celtics.
The loss capped a season sweep by the Bucks, who dominated the Bulls in their last two matchups, and it highlighted how impactful injuries might be in the playoffs for the Bulls, who fell stagnant on offense without LaVine.
Patrick Williams earned his first start since October in LaVine’s absence, finishing with a season-high 18 points. Coby White was the only other Bull to score in double digits, finishing with 13 points and shooting 3-for-7 from 3-point range.
Nikola Vučević offered a rare highlight for Bulls fans in the fourth quarter by drilling Bucks guard Grayson Allen with an elbow to the head and sending him crashing to the court. Allen earned ire for fracturing Alex Caruso’s wrist in January.
Vučević avoided a flagrant foul on the play, which was whistled dead because of an offensive foul shortly before he made contact with Allen.
With three regular-season games remaining, the Bulls (45-34) are battling the Toronto Raptors (46-33) for the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference. They trail the Raptors by one game after Tuesday’s play.
Whether they’re the fifth or sixth seed, the playoffs will require the Bulls to do something they’ve accomplished only once all season — beat a top-four team in the East.
The Bulls are 1-19 against the top four teams in the East and the top three in the Western Conference. That lone win came back on Nov. 1 against the Celtics, whom the Bulls will face for the last time Wednesday.
Their record against top competitors leaves the Bulls with a shaky foundation for the playoffs, which will be an uphill battle without home-court advantage.
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The mission, at least the regular-season challenge, is almost complete. And it might be over before they take the court again.
With Tuesday night’s 144-115 victory over the Charlotte Hornets at FTX Arena, the Miami Heat need only one victory in their final two games to wrap up the No. 1 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
And even that might not be necessary, the Heat potentially clinching in advance of Friday night’s return to the court, against the visiting Atlanta Hawks, pending the result of upcoming games for the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks.
With assistant Chris Quinn guiding the Heat for a second consecutive game with coach Erik Spoelstra still in NBA health-and-safety protocols, the Heat found ample answers on a night Kyle Lowry was given off for rest, producing the second-highest scoring game in the franchise’s 34 seasons. The record remains 149 in a March 2018 double-overtime game.
“You can tell we have a lot of weapons on that end of the court,” Quinn understated.
There were a career regular-season-high 35 points from Tyler Herro, 27 from Jimmy Butler, 22 from Bam Adebayo and 21 from Duncan Robinson.
“I think it’s just continuing to play to our strengths,” Robinson said.
The 35 points from Herro tied Dwyane Wade’s franchise record for regular-season points by a reserve.
“He’s special,” Butler said. “Yes, his confidence is at an all-time high, as it should be,” Butler said.
Herro’s effort helped fuel the Heat’s 23-of-42 3-point shooting, setting the franchise record for 3-pointers.
“Yeah, I was having fun, for sure,” said Herro, who closed 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
With the victory the Heat matched their season-best five-game winning streak.
Five Degrees of Heat from Tuesday’s game:
1. Closing time: The Heat fell behind by 10 early, trailed 32-29 at the end of the first period, and led 70-60 at halftime.
After falling behind in the third, the Heat regrouped to take a 102-97 lead into the fourth.
A turning point then came with 10:26 left, when Quinn successfully challenged what was ruled a charging foul on Butler. With the reversal, a foul was called on Kelly Oubre, with Butler’s two free throws putting the Heat up 109-99, matching the Heat’s largest lead to that stage.
A Herro 3-pointer followed for a 112-99 Heat lead that quickly was pushed to 18.
“We knew the way they play we could score a lot of points tonight,” Herro said.
The Heat scored 42 points in the fourth, 7 of 13 from beyond the arc in the period.
“I think it’s our spacing has improved, and guys are working to help guys get shots,” Quinn said. “Our guys are really doing a great job of helping one another.”
2. Tucker exits: At a time of year you don’t want to be losing players, starting power forward P.J. Tucker exited to the locker room midway through the third period, lost for the game with a strained right calf.
That came with Markieff Morris, who had started Sunday night in Toronto, already sidelined with strained left hip flexor.
Tucker, who was given Sunday off in Toronto, had been listed as questionable with an irritated left knee.
He closed with seven points and seven rebounds in 21:47.
“He’ll get looked at tomorrow,” Quinn said.
3. Rested, rejuvenated: But Sunday off apparently did wonders for Butler, who scored 14 first-half points, including a buzzer-beating jumper than staked the Heat to their 10-point halftime lead.
Butler also had a team-high five assists and two steals in his 18 first-half minutes, helping the Heat end the second quarter on a 12-3 run.
“Jimmy’s a total winning player,” Quinn said. “He can feel a game, when the game’s going on, what a team needs.”
Butler closed with a game-high eight assists.
“The confidence, the ball movement always helps,” Butler said.
4. Space race: Robinson provided exactly the type of spacing Spoelstra envisioned with his move to the second unit, shooting 6 of 7 on 3-pointers in the first half, after Max Strus opened 2 of 3 from beyond the arc in his initial stint.
The six 3-pointers were Robinson’s high for any half this season.
Robinson closed 7 of 11 from beyond the arc, his only shots of the game, seizing the moment in his new bench role.
“For me,” he said, “it’s just about wrapping my mind around that. It’s definitely not something that’s easy, per se.
“Whatever’s required of me on a nightly basis, I’m two feet in, four feet in.”
5. Rotation revision: Herro, Robinson, Caleb Martin and Omer Yurtseven played as the Heat’s four primary reserves, with Yurtseven’s chance coming with Dewayne Dedmon missing the game with an ankle sprain.
The reshuffle left Victor Oladipo on the outside of the rotation, after his 21 points sparked the Heat’s win over the Raptors.
“Tonight, with Jimmy back and some other guys back,” Quinn said, “it was a decision to do what we were kind of doing before that Toronto game.”
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All he needed was a little bit of rest.
Fresh off two days of rest for the first time since becoming a full-time player, Kyrie Irving pelted the Rockets with a barrage of treys to power the Nets to a 118-105 victory over Houston on Tuesday.
Irving scored 11 points in the opening period and finished with 42 on 8-of-16 shooting from downtown and 13-of-24 shooting from the field altogether. It was one of his more efficient scoring games of the latter stretch of the season, a get-right game for a superstar guard who had struggled to score in his last few games.
And it was a much-needed victory for a Nets team that finds itself still at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff picture, still clawing for its very playoff livelihood, still facing elimination — potentially missing the playoffs altogether — if they lose one too many games in the next seven days.
But in Brooklyn, it’s one game, one day at a time. And on Tuesday, the Nets secured a victory that moved them up from 10th place to 9th.
It’s almost unfathomable. A self-proclaimed championship contender with two max superstar scorers and future Hall of Famers is excited about beating a young, inexperienced and athletic Rockets team wallowing at the bottom of the Western Conference standings.
But such is the state of affairs at Barclays Center, where a season destined for a championship went awry, and fast, in the middle of the year. First, it was Irving’s decision against getting vaccinated that rendered him ineligible to play at Barclays Center. Then it was Kevin Durant’s midseason MCL sprain that left James Harden shouldering the load on his own. Then Harden called it quits and forced a trade to Philadelphia while Durant was out hurt and while Irving was still only eligible to play on the road. It was a recipe for disaster, a sequence of grossly unfortunate events that sent the Nets spiraling from first in the East with a 27-15 record to now fighting for the right to call themselves a playoff team.
If they’re going to be more than just a fringe contender — or, as some would call it, a pretender — their odds begin to increase in tandem with Irving’s dominance. Since returning to full-time status after Mayor Adams created an exemption for unvaccinated pro athletes in New York City, Irving made just 38 of his first 105 field goals. In the Nets’ disappointing loss to the Atlanta Hawks, he missed significantly more shots (20) than he made (12).
It was a sharp left turn for a star offensive talent many considered a snub for the NBA’s Top 75 list, a player who had scored 60, 50 and 43 points in the games leading up to the creation of the exemption.
“This game is up and down,” the Nets’ star guard said after shootaround Tuesday morning. “This is quite a time to be going through a mini shooting slump or shots that I normally make not going in, but the confidence is there. Just gonna continue to work in the gym and just stay focused on what I can control.”
Tuesday night looked more like those spectacular games for Irving, who put the icing on the cake when he spun around Rockets’ guard Kevin Porter Jr., shifted Houston’s big man Alperen Sengun with a hesitation dribble, then brought the ball over Sengun’s head before switching hands midair to finish with the left.
On the first game of a back-to-back, Irving accrued most of the mileage. Durant played the game largely on cruise control. He finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in 36 minutes of play.
Therein lies the problem these Nets have faced all season. Against a Rockets team with the worst record in the NBA, the Nets built a 21-point third-quarter lead, only for Houston to cut it to as little as nine a few minutes into the fourth. The Nets struggle against teams as young and athletic and free as the Rockets. Kevin Porter Jr. finished with 36 points and rookie Jalen Green added 28. The Nets had a number of unforced errors they’ll need to correct in their next film session, too. They turned the ball over 16 times, which led to 25 points for Houston off giveaways.
The Nets will take the bad with the good, the good being a win that moves them up the standings. The good being a get-right game for Irving who had previously struggled from the field. And the good being positive momentum for the first time in what feels like forever for a championship team barely holding onto its playoff standing.
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A Roseville police officer was struck by gunfire Tuesday night while responding to a report of shots fired at a residence near Lake Owasso, officials say.
Officers were dispatched about 7:30 p.m. to a house in the 2900 block of West Owasso Boulevard, according to Deputy Chief Joe Adams of the Roseville Police Department.
When they arrived, the suspect continued to fire at police and at neighboring homes, eventually striking an officer, Roseville police said on Twitter. The wounded officer was taken to a hospital.
Joe Adams, Roseville assistant police chief, gave a brief statement near the scene of Tuesday night’s shooting. Police have now confirmed an officer was shot; condition has not been released. Suspect was arrested and also taken to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/U83y33bwIA
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The suspect was eventually arrested and also taken to a hospital.
Police did not offer any details about the extent of the injuries to the officer or the suspect.
Officials said there is no longer a danger to the public, and that they expect to release more information about the incident later Tuesday night.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The St. Paul Saints combined impressive pitching with just enough hitting to pull out a 3-2 victory over the Louisville Bats in the first game of the Triple-A baseball season Tuesday night in front of a crowd of 3,989 at Louisville Slugger Field.
Saints starting pitcher Mario Sanchez allowed just one hit over the first four innings of the game. He no-hit the Louisville lineup through the first three innings before giving up a leadoff single to open the fourth.
Wladimir Pinto pitched the next two innings, giving up one hit and no runs to come away with the victory. Saints relievers Trevor Megill and Yennier Cano combined to pitch the final three innings for St. Paul, giving up one run each, Megill in the eighth inning and Cano in the ninth.
The Saints managed just five hits in the game but scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and ninth innings to hold the Bats at bay. Saints catcher David Banuelos gave St. Paul a 3-1 with a solo home run to left-center in the ninth.
Derek Fisher added a double for the Saints, while Royce Lewis, Jake Cave and Palacios all singled. Lewis, one of the Twins’ top prospect, played in his first game since 2019, finishing with his single, stealing a base and scoring a run in four at-bats.
Louisville outhit St. Paul 7-5.
The teams continue their six-game series with Game 2 at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday. Daniel Gossett will be the Saints’ starting pitcher.
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The Timberwolves have played a similar game against inferior opponents for the past couple of months — just outscored them. Defense, need not apply.
And, frankly, it usually works. It did Sunday in Houston, when the Wolves out-lasted the Rockets 139-132. When you sport one of the league’s top offenses since the calendar flipped to 2022, and possess talents like Karl-Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell, one side of the ball is often enough to hold off teams that lack similar firepower.
But that’s a dangerous way to live, as Minnesota learned Tuesday.
Washington scored at will, and the Wolves simply couldn’t produce enough offense to hold serve in their 132-114 loss to the Wizards on Tuesday at Target Center.
“We were fortunate to score 130 a lot of games and it’s covered up our defensive lapses because our scoring was so high,” Towns said. “We just gotta get back to that Timberwolves basketball we talk about. We didn’t do it tonight. We didn’t look like a team that was trying to make the playoffs. We looked a little lethargic, can’t afford that on games like this against a team like this.”
Minnesota tried every pick and role scheme it had in its bag — nothing worked. Nothing will when no one expresses a willingness to sit down and guard.
“We just got outcompeted,” Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. “They played harder, which is disappointing given everything we have to play for.”
The defeat is a major blow to Minnesota’s quickly fading hopes to move up to the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference. It was a wasted opportunity given Denver — the team Minnesota (45-35) entered the evening with the best chance to catch — got blown out by San Antonio.
So instead of moving to just one game back of the Nuggets, the Wolves remain two behind. For Minnesota to avoid the play-in tournament, the Wolves now need to finish 2-0, beating San Antonio on Thursday and Chicago on Sunday, while Denver needs to finish 0-2, losing to Memphis on Thursday and the Lakers on Sunday. The odds, while not zero, are slim.
But the defensive issues of late were always likely to come to a head, as they did Tuesday.
Washington (35-44) got whatever it wanted, shooting 55 percent from the floor and 43 percent from 3-point range. Everyone who took the floor for the Wizards scored at least eight points. The Wolves were able to keep up for a half, as Towns and Russell each scored 15 points over the first 24 minutes, while Malik Beasley added 14 of his own. But the offense ran dry in the second half.
An Ish Smith banked-in triple put Washington up 101-93 at the end of three, and the Wizards opened the final frame on a 23-8 run with Kristaps Porzingis on the bench to put the game — and perhaps the Timberwolves’ hopes to avoid the play-in — to bed.
Minnesota went 7 for 21 from the field in the fourth quarter.
“We didn’t really guard them. It was evident from the very beginning,” Finch said. “When you get into one of those games, all you have to do is hit one cold streak, which we did at the beginning of the fourth, and it’s over.”
Frankly, while the Wizards are eliminated, they’ve played well of late. Washington has now won five out of seven games. The Wizards are a team trying to win games and built momentum toward next season, much like the Wolves were last spring.
“We knew this team wasn’t a tank team. They were coming in to play hard, trying to figure out who they were, get some momentum going into the season playing hard,” Finch said. “We didn’t have the extra gear and the extra determination that we needed with everything that we have to play for and we didn’t.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A few days after general manager Bill Guerin beefed up the Wild lineup with a couple of big acquisitions at the trade deadline, coach Dean Evason made a sweeping declaration of sorts.
His team had just defeated the Vancouver Canucks in overtime, and minutes after a very physical game, a reporter asked Evason if the Wild can handle that style of play moving forward. In a rather emphatic response, Evason replied, “The group that we have now, nobody should be more physical than us.”
Perhaps the Wild felt like they had something to prove on Tuesday night at Bridgestone Arena.
That might explain why Jake Middleton, Marcus Foligno, and Nic Deslauriers all dropped the gloves in the opening frame against the Nashville Predators. As much as the Wild have outmuscled opposing teams over the past couple of weeks, they knew doing it against the Predators would send a message.
Instead, the Wild struggled to stay out of their own way early on, and it cost them in a 6-2 loss. With the loss, the Wild are now 0-3-0 against the Predators this season, and have been outscored 17-6 in those games.
For the Wild, the idea of fighting the Predators to get themselves into the game was far better in theory than in practice. After both Middleton and Foligno fought for the Wild less than 30 seconds apart, Brandon Duhaime took a costly penalty, and the Predators went up 1-0 thanks to a snipe from Roman Josi on the power play.
Though the Wild tied the game at 1-1 with a goal from Mats Zuccarello, the Predators answered back 25 seconds later, getting a power play goal from Ryan Johansen to make it 2-1. He added another power play goal late in the first period to helped the Predators stretch their lead to 3-1.
The physical play continued into the second period where Duhaime tried to inspire the Wild with a fight of his own. It backfired as Duhaime lost the fight in decisive fashion, and Philip Tomasino scored for the Predators a few minutes later to make it 4-1.
While the Wild got a goal from Kirill Kaprizov late in the second period to cut the deficit to 4-2, they never got any closer than that in the game.
Despite a big push from the Wild early in the third period, the Predators stayed in complete control thanks to the stellar play of Juuse Saros between the pipes. They got a late goal from Matt Duchene to make it 5-2 before Johansen completed his hat trick to finalize the score at 6-2.
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As if the humbling loss wasn’t bad enough for the Wild, they lost Matt Dumba in the game, as well. He delivered a crushing blow on Michael McCarron midway through the game and left the ice favoring his shoulder.
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Elon Musk is joining Twitter's board of directors a day after revealing that he'd become the social media platform's largest shareholder with a 9% stake.
The billionaire has criticized Twitter publicly about its commitment to free speech. He's also run into trouble on the platform as the CEO of Tesla after financial regulators found he had posted inaccurate information about the company.
Musk is barred from owning more than 14.9% of Twitter's outstanding stock while he sits on the board, Twitter Inc. said in a Tuesday regulatory filing.
Musk has been speaking with the company in recent weeks and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that "it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board."
"He's both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term," Agrawal wrote.
Musk said he's looking forward to working with Agrawal and the board "to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!"
Musk wasted no time in weighing in on one of the biggest gripes Twitter users have about the platform late Tuesday, asking in a tweet if he should add an edit button.
"Now it's time to get out the popcorn and watch the developments over the coming months with Musk on the board," wrote Daniel Ives, who follows Twitter for Wedbush Securities.
Twitter's board will have 12 members with Musk. Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter last and his term on the board expires at an upcoming stockholders' meeting on May 25. Three other board members have terms that are set to expire but have been nominated to retain their seats.
Dorsey tweeted Tuesday that Musk and Agrawal "both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team."
"I'm really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter's role in it," Dorsey said.
After amassing 73.5 million Twitter shares worth a total of about $3 billion, Musk has not spoken specifically about any Twitter rule changes he might push.
In March, Musk told his 80 million followers on Twitter that he was " giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform.
Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with the SEC over his ability to post on Twitter. His lawyer has contended in court motions that the SEC is infringing on the Tesla CEO's First Amendment rights.
Shares of Twitter rose about 5% Tuesday.
Elon Musk joins Twitter board after buying nearly $3 billion in stock
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The numbers are startling. Crime in Raleigh's Glenwood South neighborhood has steadily been increasing. So much so that Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson addressed the City Council with a report on recommendations to help curb the amount of crime in the area.
"I want to make Raleigh the safest city in the nation for residents and visitors to live, learn, work and play," Patterson said. "My desire is vibrancy over catastrophe."
Her comments came just days after six people were killed and several others shot during nightlife hours in Sacramento, California.
"I believe that this conversation is timely given what we have seen this past weekend in Sacramento in their entertainment district," she said.
From June 2021 to March 2022, Raleigh had 64 concealed-weapon violations in the Glenwood South district. From June 2019 to March 2020, there were 15 such violations.
Overall, during the aforementioned periods, total weapons violations were 76 and 16, respectively.
"The most glaring thing is the weapons violations," said Patterson. "We see an increase from people coming from outside of Raleigh. Over half of the people that we arrest do not come from this jurisdiction."
RPD said its biggest level of concern comes from an increase in calls of intoxicated people with handguns, assaults on bouncers, EMS workers, and other law enforcement officers, residents and visitors drinking alcohol in parked cars, and an increase in noise complaints made by neighboring residents.
"I can't stress it enough that I desire to work collectively," Patterson added. "The issues we are seeing at some point, I believe we may have a national incident. And I don't want that at any level and I don't think you want that at all."
Councilman-at-large Jonathan Melton said in the meeting that he supported the chief's recommendations.
"No one is going to want to go there if it is not safe. And so we have to make it safe," Melton said. "And I don't want us to be on the news reasons. I want Raleigh to be on the news for good reasons."
Mayor Mary Ann Baldwin inquired whether the City could require businesses to have magnetometers, or metal detectors, at the entrances of their businesses.
The city attorney responded by saying, "I would say that the police attorney has talked with me about this, and we are looking to kind of analyze what we can and cannot do in that arena."
Raleigh police chief addresses increase in Glenwood South crime
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Mistrial possible in Parkland shooter's sentencing
Just two days into the jury selection, defense attorneys for Nikolas Cruz in the Parkland school shooter's sentencing could request that the process start over again.
Eleven prospective jurors who said they could not follow the law were excused by Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer before the defense was able to question them Tuesday.
The court is now in recess until Wednesday after Cruz's defense team raised concerns about a possible procedural misstep.
They raised the issue after several jurors were released earlier Tuesday afternoon.
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The judge asked a group of potential jurors in court if they could or could not follow the law.
About 11 or so jurors raised their hands, saying that they could not. They were then released and sent out of the building.
Since the case is only in phase one of jury selection, Scherer has been limiting questions to only if potential jurors had hardships for serving on a jury for several months.
Those hardships include having a vacation, wedding plans, a job issue or family problems.
The question if they can or cannot follow the law wasn't supposed to be asked until phase two, which is set to happen in May.
The defense is now saying those 11 or so jurors were excused without attorneys having the chance to further ask them questions.
Jury expert Joe Guastaferro said what the judge did is uncommon.
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"This particular circumstance is very unusual that jurors have been dismissed and now they're being called back," he said. "I've never heard of that happening, and it's not if there's a shortage of jurors."
It's a procedural issue that had Cruz's defense team asking for time to consider seeking a mistrial motion.
Ultimately, Scherer decided to recess for the day and will reconvene Wednesday morning.
Guastaferro said declaring a mistrial, even this early on in the process, creates concerns.
"I think the jurors are taking this very seriously, I think both sides are taking this very seriously and I think these 11 potential jurors should be let go," he said.
Cruz has already pleaded guilty to killing 17 people during the 2018 rampage.
The 12 jurors selected will have to decide whether Cruz will face the death penalty or life in prison without parole for killing seventeen people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Disney docking at Port Everglades starting next year
Mickey Mouse will be setting sail out of South Florida starting next year.
Broward County commissioners on Tuesday approved a dedicated terminal at Port Everglades that will serve as a second home for Disney Cruise Line.
Commissioners approved a contract for Miami-based Bermello, Ajamil & Partners to craft a design that would transform Terminal 4 into Disney's newest nautical home.
"Disney is known for its remarkable creativity worldwide," Broward County Mayor Michael Udine said. "I'm sure this new terminal will reflect the magical Disney experience for travelers. We are certainly very happy and complimented that Disney Cruise Line will be sailing from our Port Everglades."
Improvements to Terminal 4 and the adjacent berth will begin once the interior and exterior designs are complete.
The entire project must be finished by the fall of 2023, when Disney Cruise Line plans to set sail from Port Everglades for the first time.
Broward County and Disney Cruise Line agreed to a 15-year deal that will include one ship within Disney's fleet to be homeported at Port Everglades year-round beginning next year. A second, seasonal ship will be added by 2025.
Disney will still have a presence at its original homeport of Port Canaveral, about 60 miles east of Walt Disney World.
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I’M CONFUSED about the Federalist Society and who originated originalism and the fact that the Founding Fathers were deaf and needed signers to work out the Constitution, women standing in the front of those bewigged guys and waggling their hands (“We the people of the United States”) and getting some words wrong (“in order to form a more perfect Onion”) and in all this waving of bare arms (which they referred to as the “exercise” of free speech) the bare arms got confused with rifles, and I’m sorry but it strikes me as backwardness, the Founders having had no conception of cordless phones or the germ theory of disease or credit cards — they didn’t even know about baseball. James Madison didn’t know a curve from a slider.
And now after brief spring training, the season begins. I plan to camp in the right field bleachers where you can appreciate the heroic ranginess of the outfielders, their instant calculations of the trajectory of a fly ball, the dash, the leap, the miraculous catch, a beautiful piece of geometry in action. There may be three or four of those plays in a game and they’re worth the time spent waiting, and meanwhile I have a notebook with me, I being a writer, and as you near 80, there’s no time to waste.
I prefer simplicity that saves time. I despise French cuffs, the search for cufflinks, the folding of the cuff, the complex insertion of the link in four holes; I prefer a black T-shirt and jeans. So I have turned down lifetime achievement awards because they involve tuxedos and cufflinks and studs and sitting at a dais and listening to speeches. They tried to put me in the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, they offered me the Mark Twain Award, but it involved cufflinks so I said no.
Prizes have taken over literature and the arts and anyone who wins a big prize is forever stuck with the label — “the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist,” the “Grammy Award-winning songwriter,” as if the decision of five geeks on a committee is the defining moment of your career. The top literary prize is the Nobel, awarded by Swedes, which eliminates any hint of comedy, and so the prize goes every year to morbid writers who create the sort of moribund stuff you should get out of your system by the age of 25.
No, recognition and prizes are a bucket of sheep manure and what counts is the fact that you sit down to your work with enthusiasm even after all these years. Dancers starve themselves, guitarists get carpal tunnel syndrome, actors get old and the roles get smaller and smaller, painters inhale toxic fumes, but we writers are unstoppable. Especially in English.
What a fabulous language. “Don’t cut the branch you’re standing on.” In English, it’s light, somewhat ironic. (Duh.) In German (“Schneiden Sie nicht den Ast, auf dem Sie stehen.”) it’s got a sword and a helmet and leather underwear. And how about “There is a great deal of human nature in everybody.” It says it all.
I began my so-called career when I was 14, writing sports for the Anoka Herald, sitting at an Underwood in the front window of the office of the editor Warren Feist, looking across the street at the Anoka Dairy, trying to make the high school football and basketball teams as heroic as losers can be. I couldn’t play football due to a heart valve problem so I wrote about it but I looked across the street at classmates enjoying ice cream cones, boys talking to girls, some boys clinging to a girl, the swirl of social life all very interesting to me, a fundamentalist kid warned against worldliness, and that’s what I wanted to write about. Football was terribly moralistic, good vs. evil, and the Dairy scene was sensuous, the hand-holding, the arm around the waist, the head against the shoulder.
And now, a lifetime later, this woman leans against me as I write and asks what I’m doing and I read her the first paragraph about the signers and she laughs. How simple life is. If I were a tenor, would she ask me to sing “La donna é mobile”? I very much doubt it. And now she is pulling me upright and leading me off somewhere. I know it’s an odd way to end a column but that’s life. It was never a bad day that had a good evening.
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“IN THE BATTLE between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” said President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address.
“This is a real test. It’s going to take time.”
Thus did Biden frame the struggle of our time as the U.S. leading the world’s democracies, the camp of the saints, against the world’s autocrats, the forces of darkness.
But is “democracy” really America’s cause? Is “autocracy” really America’s great adversary in the battle for the future?
Not all autocrats, after all, are our enemies, nor are all democrats our reliable friends.
When Ukraine was invaded, the U.N. General Assembly voted on a resolution which “deplores in the strongest terms” Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine.
Among the 35 nations that abstained was India, the world’s largest democracy. Whose side is India on in the great struggle?
Freedom House ranks Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, all friends, partners and sometime allies of the United States, as “not free.”
Are we in a global struggle against all of these nations, all of these regimes, because all of them are autocracies?
As for America’s own wars, democracy-versus-autocracy would seem to be a misguided way to describe any of them.
In the Revolution, we were military allies from 1778 on with King Louis XVI of France, against Great Britain, the Mother of Parliaments. Our goal was not establishing a democracy, but our independence, separation, from the most democratic nation on earth.
When we declared war on the kaiser’s Germany in April 1917, we allied ourselves with four of the greatest colonial empires on earth: the British, French, Russian and Japanese empires.
When that Great War began, Germany’s Second Reich was a good deal more democratic than the czarist regime of Russia’s Nicholas II.
In World War II, we allied with the world’s largest colonial empire, Great Britain, and the USSR of Joseph Stalin. Democracy was not the cause for which we went to war, but payback to Japan for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Our most important ally in that Asian war was the Nationalist China of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, no democrat.
History, religion, race, culture, tribe and territory more often define the 100-plus nations of Africa, the Middle East and Asia than whether they are democracies or autocracies.
During the Cold War, we collaborated openly with dictators — Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Chiang Kai-shek in China, Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, the shah of Iran, Ngo Dinh Diem, and a succession of generals after his assassination, in South Vietnam.
If they stood with us against the Communists in the Cold War, we stood by them. “He may be a SOB, but he’s our SOB,” FDR said of Somoza.
Communism was our ideological enemy, not autocracy.
If you were an enemy of communism in the Cold War, autocrat or not, you were likely to be treated as a friend by the USA.
If we make global “democracy” the measure of success in the great struggle of our time, our victory or defeat in that cause depends on political decisions and internal choices of scores of nations not our own.
But when did the internal politics of other lands become either the business of the United States or the yardstick of our success as a nation?
To make global democracy our goal in this century’s great “battle” is to allow America’s success or failure as a nation to be judged and measured by what other nations, not our own, succeed or fail in doing.
America’s founding mission was not democracy, nor any other ideology. It was what we declared it to be in the document our fathers agreed to at the Constitutional Convention of 1787:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
“Democracy” is not even mentioned in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights.
If whether other nations are democratic or autocratic is the measure by which we judge America’s success, this must lead invariably to U.S. interference in the internal affairs of those nations not our own — to ensure success in the great struggle.
To pursue global “democracy” is thus a formula for endless interventions in the internal affairs of other nations, endless conflicts and eventual war. The antidote is John Quincy Adams’ formulation:
“(America) goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy; she is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all; she is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
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Chris Sununu would like all of us (press, people, politicos) to “lighten up” and understand that he was only joking about Donald Trump in a Washington appearance the other night.
Fair enough. With all that is wrong in the world these days, a little humor is very much appreciated.
What we doubt was appreciated by many is the foul language that young Sununu tossed around repeatedly during his appearance before the Gridiron Club. He sounded more like Will Smith at the Oscars than the man who currently holds the position of Governor of New Hampshire.
He needs to take that position seriously. He needs to understand that when he speaks it is the office which he is representing. His claim that he was speaking at a private event is absurd. The Gridiron Club is comprised of hundreds of journalists. Word gets out.
Sununu is seeking reelection. There is serious talk that he may seek national office thereafter. The Washington club often hears from presidents and those who aspire to that office. Sununu was being given a tryout. He got some cheap laughs but he bombed with his “F-bombs.”
He would do well to spend time crafting some truly clever lines that better show his intellect than do four-letter words.
One good thing about the price of gasoline: It underscores how New Hampshire’s low-tax philosophy has kept motorists here in better shape than other states.
Whatever the spin or slant of the particular media back home, the work of on-the-ground correspondents in covering the horrendous war in Ukraine has been nothing short of admirable and in some ways astonishing.
Gov. Chris Sununu is getting it from all sides, which usually means he’s doing something right. In this case, it was his promise to veto a redistricting plan for New Hampshire’s two congressional districts. As drawn, the map might have made Elbridge Gerry (of Gerrymandering fame) green with envy.
It is dawning on more legislators that using state run stores to peddle pot may not be a great branding image for New Hampshire. Plus, the scheme isn’t likely to make anywhere near the money initially estimated. Perhaps smoke got in their eyes?
The New Hampshire House is about to give final approval and send to the Senate a plan to fully legalize marijuana and feature it for sale exclusively at state liquor stores. What could possibly go wrong?
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To the Editor: Would you vote for a convicted insurrectionist running for Congress this year? Jason Riddle of Keene was recently sentenced to 90 days in federal prison for his part in the January 6th insurrection, and he’s also a Republican candidate in New Hampshire’s 2nd District to hopefully challenge incumbent Democrat Annie Kuster in November’s midterm election. Part of the federal criminal case against Mr. Riddle included: trespassing into the Capitol (Congress) building, and the theft of both a Senate orientation book, along with a bottle of Wine from a legislator’s office refrigerator, which Riddle drank while taking selfies. Soon after, Riddle twice appeared on a Boston TV station gloating arrogantly that he’ll probably win this congressional seat due to all the great publicity he’s gotten from the whole Jan. 6th insurrection fiasco. Personally, I think it would be a total disgrace if Riddle finished anywhere above dead last in the Republican primary on September 13. Riddle needs consequences and to somehow realize that this was a very stupid stunt he pulled. Our right to vote is a tremendous privilege we have in America and it should never be taken for granted. However, if our midterm election has Riddle vs. Kuster all set in the 2nd District race, I’d have to hold my nose and just simply vote for Riddle. Please vote straight-ticket “RED” (or Republican) in the midterm election on Nov. 8th!
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Letter: When a Country Calls Apr 6, 2022 18 min ago Facebook Twitter Linkedin SMS Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin SMS Email Print Save When a Country CallsTo the Editor: For Boris Zlochevsky and his countryfolk:When a country callsHer citizens respondIn the UkraineA Russian tankIt’s steel immolatedCoolsAnd ticksExpiredThe source of painOf a mother’s wailing waitFor a son lostTo sateThe neo tsar’s fetishRapaciousIn quest voraciousTo live the pastAs the presentOnce moreTo savorThe glory and favorOf an empire lostA fool’s goalTo thatI cannot cheerWhen a country callsHer citizens respondIn the UkraineA girlStands aloneAnd singsResoluteFearlessAnd proudThe definitionOf a nationDefiantTo thatI will cheerMICHAEL CAMERON WARDLee Facebook Twitter Linkedin SMS Email Print Save Tuesday, April 05, 2022 Letter: Oil is what's driving war Letter: Conservative columnists were weak on Sunday Conservative columnists failed to impress Sunday Letter: Daylight Savings Time is a misleading term Letter: Left, right and center should be pleased with Sununu Left, right, center should be pleased with Sununu Monday, April 04, 2022 Letter: Think twice before voting Think before legislating Letter: Just say no to provisional ballots Letter: Young leaders must buck the state's gerontocracy Young leaders must buck the state’s gerontocracy Sunday, April 03, 2022 Letter: $400 for a comedy show is a slap in the face Letter: Why isn't filing a tax return easier to do? Why isn’t filing an IRS tax return easier to do? Letter: Gas hasn't set a record Gas hasn’t set a record Load more {{flag}} {{title}} {{byline}} 1 min to consume {{summary}} Most Popular Letter: Young leaders must buck the state's gerontocracy Letter: Senate should reject HB 1393 Letter: We need immigrants because we need workers Letter: Why isn't filing a tax return easier to do? Letter: Republican senate candidates wrong on gas tax Letter: Croydon schools still have sufficient budget Letter: Think twice before voting Letter: Left, right and center should be pleased with Sununu Letter: $400 for a comedy show is a slap in the face Letter: Epping DoD contractor unable to renew license Editorial Cartoon: Chip Bok Editorial Cartoon: Michael Ramirez Editorial Cartoon: Steve Breen Editorial Cartoon: Michael Ramirez Editorial Cartoon: Steve Kelley Editorial Cartoon: Gary Varvel Follow this section Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today Syndicated Columns Wednesday, April 06, 2022 Patrick J. Buchanan: Is global 'democracy' America's mission? Garrison Keillor: Just one more morning of an old man Sunday, April 03, 2022 Patrick Hynes: What exactly is the Dem position on COVID? Patrick J. Buchanan: Insult diplomacy: Does Biden's vilification of Putin help? Friday, April 01, 2022 John Stossel: Let them in Load more {{title}} 1 min to consume Union Leader Newsletters Yes No Daily Headlines Yes No Breaking News Yes No Weekend Top 10 Top upcoming NH events. Yes No Business Now Because time is money. NH 365 Yes No Yes No Queen City Survival Guide Weekly look at Manchester life. Yes No Out of Range Monthly outdoor guide. I acknowledge having read the Union Leader’s Privacy Policy. Yes* SUBMIT
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IT HAS BEEN more than two years since our lives abruptly changed because of a new virus. Now we are returning to something that feels normal and learning how to live with COVID-19. It has been a long and sometimes heartbreaking road, but I am filled with appreciation for those who kept us safe.
There are many examples of heroism, leadership, skill, professionalism, and grace under pressure: healthcare workers, teachers, first responders, frontline retail workers, and many others. We owe them all a great debt of gratitude.
Any recognition of heroism, however, is incomplete without taking a moment to say thank you and celebrate a job well done by the New Hampshire National Guard. From the first days of the pandemic until now, the Guard has been there for every step of our state’s emergency response.
In early March, a half dozen men and women from the National Guard completed a multi-month deployment at Catholic Medical Center. We had a small ceremony to celebrate their commitment and dedication and to offer our sincere appreciation. The team worked side by side with our staff to deliver food, distribute supplies, and ensure the hospital was clean and sanitized. Without their work, getting through the delta and omicron surges would have made an extraordinarily difficult time for patients and staff nearly impossible.
Prior to that latest deployment, the Guard organized and staffed mass vaccination centers around New Hampshire to ensure as many people as possible could access those much-needed shots. In the earliest days of the pandemic, when COVID-19 tests were in short supply, the Guard set up testing sites in large parking lots so the public could safely and conveniently get swabbed. These men and women braved both bitter cold and sweltering heat—not to mention the threat of an entirely new disease—without ever hesitating.
In the earliest days of the pandemic, we got to work preparing for what we believed would be an overwhelming surge. Our team at CMC, along with our colleagues at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Elliot Hospital, the Manchester VA Medical Center, and a large deployment of men and women from the National Guard authorized by Governor Sununu, stood up the very first Alternative Care Site in New Hampshire. Over the course of a single weekend, we transformed The Stanley Spirou Field House at Southern New Hampshire University (thanks to our gracious hosts at SNHU) into a 250-bed field hospital. Think about it; a 250-bed field hospital in a single weekend. An extraordinary feat of logistics, hard work, and leadership with the NH National Guard at the helm.
I arrived home very late that Sunday night, exhausted but grateful and overwhelmed by the amazing responsiveness and teamwork of the National Guard. These were men and women with jobs, families and commitments, yet they dropped everything to step up and keep us safe and ready.
As a young man, I spent several transformative years in the United States Marine Corps. I loved being a Marine, loved the culture, the esprit de corps and our motto of Semper Fidelis — always faithful. I remain full of pride for that experience and obviously hold Marines in very high regard. Working side by side with the men and women of the NH National Guard has taught me a valuable lesson that the Guard brings the same level of dedication and commitment to mission. The National Guard’s motto is Always Ready, Always There. They have lived up to this motto—and continue to—never wavering at a daunting job and leading from the front at every step of the way.
The next time you see a member of the NH National Guard in the grocery store, at town hall, or at the little league field, please take the opportunity to thank them for their service and for helping New Hampshire lead the way through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Detroit Red Wings center Michael Rasmussen celebrates his goal in the second period of Tuesday's game against the Boston Bruins at Little Caesars Arena.
Alex Nedeljkovic made a career-high 47 saves, Jakub Vrana had a goal and an assist, and the host Detroit Red Wings snapped a six-game winless streak by downing the Boston Bruins 5-3 on Tuesday.
Dylan Larkin, Michael Rasmussen, Filip Zadina and Sam Gagner also scored for the Red Wings (27-34-9, 63 points).
Patrice Bergeron had a goal and an assist for Boston. Erik Haula and Brandon Carlo had first-period goals and Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves.
The Bruins had won 10 of their previous 12 games.
David Pastrnak, who leads the Bruins with 38 goals, missed the game with an undisclosed injury.
The Bruins (44-21-5, 93 points) emerged from the first period with a 2-1 advantage.
Haula scored his 13th goal less than five minutes into the contest. He fired a shot from the right circle off a feed from Taylor Hall. Tomas Nosek picked up the second assist.
Carlo made it 2-0 with a shorthanded goal. He scored from the slot on a rebound of a Derek Forbort shot. Bergeron was also credited with an assist.
Larkin scored his 30th goal in the final minute of the period. He lifted a shot past a screened Swayman that found the upper corner of the net. Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond had the assists.
Rasmussed tied it just short of six minutes into the second period when he collected a loose puck in front of the Bruins' crease and slipped it past Swayman.
Zadina's one-timer at 11:32 of the period gave Detroit a 3-2 lead. Vrana set up Zadina and Pius Suter notched the other assist.
Vrana scored on the power play at 4:08 of the third period to extend the Wings' advantage to two goals. His shot from the left side deflected off a defenseman's stick and over Swayman's shoulder. Filip Hronek and Jake Walman had the assists.
Bergeron made it a one-goal game with less than three minutes remaining. Charlie McAvoy and Hall assisted on Bergeron's 19th goal.
Gagner sealed Detroit's win with an empty-netter. Nedeljkovic was credited with an assist.
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Observations and other notes of interest from Tuesday night’s 144-115 victory over the Charlotte Hornets:
— First, appreciate that even with Chris Quinn coaching in place of Erik Spoelstra, who is in NBA health-and-safety protocols, this remains all choreographed by Spoelstra.
— Quinn acknowledged as much pregame, speaking of the constant communication between the two, as Spoelstra remains in NBA quarantine.
— So Victor Oladipo not playing as a rotation player a game after his breakout performance in Toronto was not done on a Quinn whim.
— Instead, even with Kyle Lowry sitting this one out, it was made clear that Gabe Vincent, Duncan Robinson and Caleb Martin rank ahead in the perimeter rotation.
— Which also short-circuits the debate of an Oladipo spot in the playoff rotation.
— With Robinson showing in this one that his 3-point shooting still matters.
— Even as his defense constantly is attacked.
— And no Markieff Morris this time as a rotation player, either.
— A game after he started in Toronto.
— And not even in uniform.
— After spending Monday night in New Orleans, rooting on his Kansas Jayhawks.
— Listed out with a strained hip flexor.
— And he could have been used, with P.J. Tucker lost for the night with a calf strain in the third period.
— With less than a week to go in the regular season, the Heat made clear who is in.
— And who is out.
— It was a night off, nothing more, for Lowry, after he pushed through both of the games in Chicago and Toronto during the weekend back-to-back set.
— That again had Vincent in the starting lineup.
— With the first five rounded out by Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, P.J. Tucker and Max Strus.
— Butler and Tucker had been given Sunday off in Toronto.
— As for the notion of instead starting Oladipo instead of Vincent, that likely would have resulted in somewhat taking the ball out of the hands of Butler and Adebayo.
— Vincent, by contrast, consistently have deferred this season.
— The Heat opened 0 for 5, with the Hornets jumping to a 9-0 lead.
— The Heat’s first points did not come until a pair of Adebayo free throws 2:03 into the game.
— Before the Hornets then moved to 3 of 3 on 3s for a 12-2 lead.
— The Heat’s first basket came on an Adebayo jumper with 9:23 left in the opening period.
— The Hornets opened 5 of 5 from the field.
— Eventually the Heat pulled even.
— Tyler Herro played as Heat sixth man.
— With Martin, Robinson and Omer Yurtseven entering together to round out the first nine.
— Yurtseven’s chance came with Dewayne Dedmon given the night off due to an ankle sprain.
— Herro’s first 3-pointer moved him past Kelly Olynyk for 12th on the Heat all-time list.
— Butler’s second steal tied Alonzo Mourning for 15th on the Heat all-time list.
— Quinn had said pregame he has not been surprised by Oladipo’s ability to step in and step up.
— “It’s what we expected based on what we see,” Quinn said, “and how much work he’s put in to build his strength back, his conditioning levels and all that stuff.”
— Because that’s what coaches say.
— Of the Heat’s week-to-week turnaround, Quinn said, “It was kind of one week to another week pretty drastic. But guys just stuck together. There was some slight rotational changes with our team, but the vibe around the team, everyone is really enjoying each other.”
— He added, “And you could see about our play, they’re helping each other on the court. The ball movement, the player movement on that road trip was definitely taken to a new level, and out of necessity, to beat some really good teams.”
— Quinn said if he had a vote for Defensive Player of the Year, it would go to Adebayo.
— “In my opinion, he is the Defensive Player of the Year,” Quinn said. “For us, he does everything defensively. We’re obviously asking him to switch so much. To really have the ability to guard one through five, and guard it the way he does, is very unique. And to be a part of a winning team and a winning defense, and pretty much we put it all on him.”
— Gordon Hayward was a late scratch for the Hornets, due to a sore left foot.
— “Just precautionary,” Hornets coach James Borrego said. “A little bit of work here the last couple of days, a little soreness. So just out of precaution.”
— Hayward only had recently returned.
— “After being off 22-plus days, games off, that’s a significant amount of time,” Borrego said. “Especially the injury and where it is and some of his history. There’s some soreness there, so we just gotta manage it.”
— Borrego on the Heat, “Miami is a hell of a team. They are a physical, aggressive.”
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Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.
Forty states are experiencing longer outages — and the problem is most acute in regions seeing more extreme weather, U.S. Department of Energy data shows. The blackouts can be harmful and even deadly for the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable communities.
Power grid maintenance expenses are skyrocketing as utilities upgrade decades-old transmission lines and equipment. And that means customers who are hit with more frequent and longer weather outages also are paying more for electricity.
“The electric grid is our early warning,” said University of California, Berkeley grid expert Alexandra von Meier. “Climate change is here and we’re feeling real effects.”
The AP analysis found:
—The number of outages tied to severe weather rose from about 50 annually nationwide in the early 2000s to more than 100 annually on average over the past five years.
—The frequency and length of power failures are at their highest levels since reliability tracking began in 2013 — with U.S. customers on average experiencing more than eight hours of outages in 2020.
—Maine, Louisiana and California each experienced at least a 50% increase in outage duration even as residents endured mounting interruption costs over the past several years.
—In California alone, power losses have affected tens of thousands of people who rely on electricity for medical needs.
The AP analyzed electricity disturbance data submitted by utilities to the U.S. Department of Energy to identify weather-related outages. The analysis also examined utility-level data covering outages of more than five minutes, including how long they lasted and how often they occurred. Department officials declined comment.
Driving the increasingly commonplace blackouts are weather disasters now rolling across the country with seasonal consistency.
Winter storms called nor'easters barrel into New England and shred decrepit electrical networks. Hot summers spawn hurricanes that pound the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard, plunging communities into the dark, sometimes for months. And in fall, West Coast windstorms trigger forced power shutoffs across huge areas to protect against deadly wildfires from downed equipment.
Maine
The power grid's fragility hit home for Lynn Mason Courtney, 78, a blind cancer survivor living in a retirement community in Bethel, Maine, a rural town of 2,500 along the Androscoggin River.
When Courtney's building lost power and heat for three days following a 2020 winter storm, the temperature inside fell to 42 degrees (6 degrees Celsius). Extended loss of heat isn’t something most people are prepared for in a cold state such as Maine, she said, and one resident relied on old camping gear to try to keep warm.
"I developed hypothermia. I was dehydrated,” Courtney said. “Two people on oxygen had nowhere to go. They just stayed in the apartment and hoped like hell that the power would come back on.”
Winter storms left more than 500,000 without power in Maine in 2017 — more than a third of the state’s population. And in recent years, the state has seen record numbers of weather-related interruptions. The state never recorded more than five per year until 2018, but in 2020 it had 12, AP's analysis found.
As with much of the nation, Maine’s electrical infrastructure was built decades ago and parts are more than 50 years old, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The brittle condition of the state's power grid and repeated disruptions worsened by climate change worry Courtney.
“When the power goes out, it’s extraordinarily difficult and dangerous,” she said. "If you’re disabled, it’s scary. You’re not safe.”
As the planet warms, storms that threaten power reliability are likely to hit some areas harder, said Penn State University meteorology professor Colin Zarzycki.
A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, increasing energy packed by storms no matter the season. The phenomenon produces, for example, increasingly destructive tropical hurricanes that strike the Southeast and Pacific storms that cause flooding on the West Coast.
On the East Coast, some nor'easters will convert to rainstorms as freezing weather shifts north. But those that fall as snow could be bigger than ever, Zarzycki said.
And some areas will get less snow but more sleet and freezing rain that can wreak greater damage on electrical systems, because ice-laden equipment is easier for winds to topple.
“Those really high-end nor’easters, the ones that take over CNN for days, those are going to occur with the same or increased frequency,” Zarzycki said. “Where these events occur could lead to increased vulnerability, because the infrastructure is not prepared.”
Louisiana
The combination of at-risk infrastructure and climate change can be deadly: After Hurricane Ida knocked out power to much of coastal Louisiana last year, heat killed or contributed to the deaths of at least 21 people, local coroners reported.
In New Orleans alone, heat caused nine deaths and contributed to 10 others, according to coroner’s office records. Most who died were elderly and African American. Spokesman Jason Melancon could not say which victims did not have power, but 75% of the city was still without power when most died.
David Sneed, 65, died in his wheelchair on the 12th-floor of the subsidized apartment where he’d been without power for several days after the storm hit Aug. 29.
Sneed was obese and had a cognitive impairment that made walking difficult, so he used the wheelchair most of the time, said Rev. Ken Taylor, a professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where Sneed was a doctoral student.
Three days after the storm, Sneed called Taylor in near-panic and said he was unable to leave because the building's elevator was not working. So the next day, Taylor went to Sneed’s apartment to bring him food and water — and it felt like 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius), with no windows open.
When the professor returned the following day, he found the elevator was working. Sneed said he'd go down to the first floor where it was cooler. But when the reverend came back to check on him again, Sneed didn’t answer.
When an apartment employee opened the door, Sneed’s body was in the bedroom, slumped in his wheelchair.
“I speculate that he had rolled into his bedroom to put on some pants to go downstairs ... and the heat or his heart or a combination of the two” killed him, Taylor said. The coroner’s office said Sneed died from the heat.
The financial toll of storms is huge — Louisiana’s largest power company has said it will cost an estimated $4 billion to repair damage from the hurricanes of 2020 and 2021. State regulators have approved $3.2 billion of that, which Entergy Corp. estimates will add $8 a month for 15 years to the average residential bill.
Problems with the grid and costs to fix them are expected to grow in coming decades, said U.C. Berkeley's von Meier.
Much of the grid was built decades ago, and the majority of power transmission facilities are now at least 25 years old. That’s forced utilities to quadruple spending on the U.S. transmission system since 2000 to about $40 billion annually, according to Department of Energy data.
Billions more will be spent, with costs passed on to consumers, but those efforts won’t keep up with problems from climate change, von Meier said. “Rates will go up, reliability will go down,” she said.
California
In California, widespread anger erupted in recent years as utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. imposed deliberate power outages to guard against wildfires.
Almost 200 California wildfires over the past decade were traced to downed power lines that ignited trees or brush, including a record 41 blazes in 2021. Among them was a 2018 fire that ripped through the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise and killed 85 people, resulting in criminal involuntary manslaughter convictions of PG&E. Another fire blamed on PG&E last year burned almost 1 million acres (390,000 hectares), 1,300 buildings and much of the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville.
Now when wind storms are forecast and the landscape is dry, utilities cut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers, sometimes for multiple days, to reduce fire risk.
Beyond closing businesses and causing food to spoil in refrigerators, outages can be life-threatening for people with health conditions whose medical equipment requires electricity.
An AP review of utility filings with California regulators found nearly 160,000 instances of power shutoffs to customers with medical needs from 2017 to 2021. PG&E was responsible for more than 80%.
“We know there has been a trade-off between safety and reliability,” said PG&E Vice President Sumeet Singh. He said shutoffs were a last resort to guard against fires and that the company has reduced the number of people affected through better forecasting of hazardous weather and more localized shutdowns.
Richard Skaff, a paraplegic who is an advocate for the disabled in Northern California, said he has endured two forced outages each lasting five days over the past several years. He was fortunate to have a generator to keep his electric wheelchair powered and his house heated, but said many others with disabilities live on minimal incomes and struggle to get by during outages.
“If we’re going to allow PG&E and others to de-energize the grid, if we accept that as a concept, you have to look at the implications of that first,” Skaff said. “You have to determine the effects on the most vulnerable people."
PG&E and other utilities have sought to lessen the impacts by notifying people with needs in advance of shutoffs and setting up response centers where they can charge their phones or other essential devices.
Utilities also have started creating “microgrids” — local electrical networks that can disconnect from the main grid and operate independently to reduce the scope of shutoffs.
“We're very sensitive to the needs of our customers," said Southern California Edison Vice President Erik Takayesu. “We run risk calculations to ensure we’re making the right decisions. But it's really hard ... Each individual customer will have their own individual experience. The best we can do is help the customer prepare.”
The state utilities commission and some local officials have said the industry's efforts are insufficient for outages that can cover large portions of the state and affect numerous towns and cities.
By the end of this year, PG&E and Southern California Edison expect to have spent almost $20 billion since 2020 on wildfire prevention. The companies are cutting back vegetation near their equipment and putting up stronger power lines. PG&E plans to bury 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of lines over 10 years so they won't be exposed to falling trees.
PG&E's customers paid on average almost $140 more last year versus the previous year to avert wildfires from their operations.
Rising electric bills because of extreme weather have outsized impact on low income households and communities of color, said John Howat, a senior energy analyst at National Consumer Law Center. These communities devote a higher proportion of their income to home energy bills, so they get hit harder than wealthier households.
Since it will take utilities many years to carry out their wildfire prevention efforts, companies will continue to use forced shutoffs to protect against wildfires.
The intentional outages help utilities avoid liability for deadly wildfires, but they amount to recurring crises for power customers who are disabled, elderly or with special needs, said Aaron Carruthers, executive director of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Unless more is done to prepare needy communities, shutoffs will continue to put lives at risk, threaten people's health and leave vulnerable people scared, Carruthers said.
Gabriela Madrigal, a 34-year-old Santa Barbara resident who needs a powered wheelchair to get around, said she's endured perhaps a dozen preventive shutoffs by Southern California Edison over the past several years.
Madrigal — who has a debilitating, neurological condition called spina bifida — lives in low-income city housing with her mother, who is her primary caregiver.
Each time the power blinks out, it catches them off guard, Madrigal said. When the outages last hours or days, her wheelchair goes dead. The chair weighs several hundred pounds with Madrigal in it, and her mother has trouble moving it.
So when the power goes off and no one else is around to help, “we're pretty much stuck,” Madrigal said. “It takes a toll on someone.”
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Associated Press data journalist Caroline Ghisolfi contributed to this article.
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Matthew Brown reported from Billings, Montana, Patrick Whittle from Bethel, Maine, Janet McConnaughey from New Orleans and Jasen Lo from Chicago.
AP data journalist Camille Fassett in Oakland, California is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — A lot of people are still trying to get their basic needs met like food and water.
Last week, the Woodridge Mobile Home Park neighborhood, along with other areas in Springdale, faced devastation after an EF-3 tornado tore through the town.
Their lives might be scattered across the ground, but their spirits remain high.
"God was watching over me,” said Lorraine Miller, a Woodridge resident whose home was damaged. “It wasn’t my time to go.”
Miller moved into her home two years ago.
She was sleeping inside her bedroom when one of her walls and windows caved in.
“I was sleeping right here,” Miller said while pointing at her bed. She now sleeps in her spare room.
“I thought maybe I could sleep in here, but I couldn’t,” Miller said. “It’s too cold.”
However, she calls herself fortunate compared to her neighbors.
“A lot of people don’t have insurance,” Miller said.
Those residents are having to rebuild on their own or have to think about moving elsewhere to start over.
On Thursday, came a bit of relief as tubs of household items, bottled water, chips, and sanitation wipes were passed out to residents.
“To see something that nice destroyed like that,” Miller said. “It’s just heartbreaking.”
The Woodridge neighborhood is not the only community affected by this storm.
To make sure everyone gets the help needed, 5NEWS is teaming up with the First National Bank, American Red Cross, and iHeart Radio for a monetary donation drive for Springdale tornado relief.
From 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. you'll be able to make donations by driving through the First National Bank on Johnson Mill Boulevard, off exit 69 of I-49.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On Tuesday, #2 Arkansas dominated Central Arkansas, 21-8. The Hogs improved to 2-0 all-time against the Bears.
Dylan Leach would complete the cycle with a sixth inning home run. He is only the second Razorback to hit for the cycle since 1994. Leach had two home runs on the night.
UCA scored three runs in the first innings putting the Hogs in an early hole. Arkansas would respond by scoring 13 runs in the next four innings.
The Hogs hit four home runs including a Brayden Webb grand slam to break the game open.
Arkansas will now hit the road to begin a series with the Florida Gators on Thursday.
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HEY, WILLIE! Others chime in on Augusta National dreams and memories
HEY, WILLIE!
Regarding your (April 1) column about playing Augusta National ...
I’ve played Pine Valley (twice), Cypress Point (twice), Pebble Beach (used to be on the Carmel High golf team in the ’80s and it was our home course) and the Old Course at St. Andrews.
The last course on my personal top five is Augusta National, but alas I don't think I'll get on.
The guy who got me on Pine Valley and Cypress Point is also a member at Augusta National, but I just don't have the courage to ask him.
BRIAN IN CHICAGO
HEY, BRIAN!
Never up, never in. Also, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. In other words, ask the Augusta member — you know, without specifically asking him.
“How long is the course from the member tees? Do all putts really break toward Rae’s Creek? Is pimento cheese a year-round thing or only for Masters week?”
Maybe he’ll take the hint.
Anyway, back to our name-dropping on golf courses. I know a Pine Valley member but have no desire to play that beast. I’ve peeked over the fence at Cypress Point during a pit stop on the 17-Mile Drive.
I’ve sat outside the Pebble clubhouse, safely away from the fairways and greens, and watched tourists finish their rounds at 18. If every hole was the 19th, I’d be a low-single-digit handicap.
And someday I’ll walk the Old Course. Yes, walk, not play. Standing policy for me: Never, ever ruin a perfectly good vacation by getting beat up by a famous golf course.
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HEY, WILLIE!
I’ve also played Augusta.
In 1984 a client of mine gave me a very special gift for my birthday. We flew to Vidalia to pick up the member, who was the owner of a Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain.
We played the nine-hole course first, and I can say I parred the very first hole I played at Augusta National. After that it was downhill. Once I got on the main course it was a humbling experience. But it was the best 106 I've ever shot in my life.
The Augusta experience was summed up with my response to a bad drive on No. 13. I grounded my club and yelled damn. I was told by the member that gentlemen do not ground their clubs and curse at Augusta National. End of story.
LARRY M
HEY, LARRY!
Can you introduce Mr. Piggly to Brian in Chicago?
HEY, WILLIE!
You never did mention your final score at Augusta.
S.T.
HEY, S!
You noticed.
(Psst … I beat Larry from above.)
HEY, WILLIE!
Jordan Spieth has been my favorite golfer and, to me, a wonderful human being ever since he broke into the public view. I’m so bothered by his golfing difficulties for the last several years.
He looks so uncomfortable at setup and you never know where his drives are going. I remember, when he was at his best, he had a relaxed look at setup and he started his backswing with a slight forward press of his hands before taking the club back.
I copied that and it felt good. I wonder why he abandoned that technique and if he should try it again?
LOU
HEY, LOU!
There’s no bigger head-case than the guy who’s no longer playing as well as he (or she) did at his best, whether it’s a PGA Tour pro or a 24-handicap.
Those folks literally wake up in the middle of the night with a swing thought that’ll fix everything. The sane ones bookmark that thought and come back to it in the morning. The worst cases turn on the light, get in front of the mirror and grab anything resembling a club in order to examine the latest cure.
Not sure where Spieth falls on that spectrum, but regardless of any recent struggles, he’s usually energized by the smell of azaleas and the taste of sweet tea. Expect him to be in this week’s conversation.
Speaking of traditions unlike any other, I think we’re three weeks into our Old Golf Joke Tour. This time, it’s David’s turn …
HEY, WILLIE!
Larry had played golf in the same foursome every Saturday for years. He, Bob, Stan and Phil were pretty evenly matched, and they got along well. But one Saturday, Larry came home with a long face.
“How was the golf?” his wife asked.
“Terrible,” Larry replied. “We were on the second green when Stan collapsed and died.”
“Oh, that's awful,” his wife exclaimed.
“It was awful for all of us,” Larry said. “After that it was hit the ball, drag Stan. Hit the ball, drag Stan.”
DAVID
HEY, DAVE!
One of classics. Keep ’em coming.
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Group claims fetuses in DC home proof of illegal abortions
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 11:13 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - An anti-abortion group says the five fetuses found last week in a member’s home came from the medical waste being disposed by a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
The group, known as the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, claims it contacted the police to collect the fetuses in hopes that an autopsy would prove that the clinic was conducting federally illegal late-stage abortions.
Last week, the Metropolitan Police Department removed five aborted fetuses from the home of Lauren Handy, a longtime anti-abortion rights activist.
Police removed the fetuses one day after Handy and eight others were charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020.
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Minnesota Senate’s drought relief bill differs from House’s proposal, could delay relief to farmers
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Over the last year, drought conditions have hit many of Minnesota’s farmers hard. But now, both chambers of the state’s legislature have passed drought relief packages, with the Senate unanimously approving its version last Thursday.
“How could we pinpoint relief to those areas that really faced that severe drought,” said Senator Carla Nelson (R-Rochester).
Both bills allocate $10 million of funding to drought relief, and farmers in eligible counties will be able to apply for grants of up to $5,000 dollars.
“The counties that were designated in the USDA drought as a natural disaster area are the ones that are eligible,” said Nelson.
There are some minor differences between the two chambers, mainly on where those $10 million will go, which is delaying its move forward.
“In the Senate version, there is money for the veterans diagnostic laboratory. In the House version, there’s money for the Department of Natural Resources. We’re also watching Avian influenza being found and spreading across the state,” said Senator Nick Frentz (DFL-North Mankato).
The optimistic timeline is that drought relief money makes it way into the pockets of farmers by mid-June, but even that is no guarantee.
“I would like to see that funding go to farmers by mid-June. Every situation will be different, and of course, each farmer’s got a different situation,” said Frentz.
Frentz, a member of the Senate’s Ag Committee, said more funding will be needed beyond those $5,000.
“We do the $5,000 limit because that allows us to expedite it. It will not be enough to offset all farm losses from drought across the state,” said Frentz.
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RPS discusses school start time changes
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – On Tuesday, Rochester Public Schools (RPS) superintendent Kent Pekel discussed school start time changes with the school board.
The current school time for elementary school students is 9:35 a.m. to 4 p.m. The recommended change would be 8 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.
The current school time for middle school is 8:20 a.m. to 3 p.m. The change would be 9:15 a.m. to 3:52 p.m.
The current school time for high school is 8:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The change would be 9:15 a.m. to 4:12 p.m.
The district said feedback from parents and school staff contributed to the time switch recommendation.
“Middle school and high school students have really benefited from the later start time. However, elementary school students have lost some prime learning time where they are most alert and most engaged,” said Kent Pekel, RPS superintendent.
Pekel said it would be harder to have all schools on the same start time schedule.
“The money in transportation is all in putting the bus on the street.,” Pekel said. If we ran one route. What’s called one-tier. We would have to have twice as many buses, and twice as high a cost to get every kid to every one of our schools at the same time.”
The district is also concerned about how much the change could cost and has to consult with the bus company.
Pekel said RPS could get an estimate by the middle of the month.
“This is particularly complex. Because we’re doing all of this at exactly the moment that we are completely redrawing the map of Rochester Public Schools because we’re changing school boundaries. And we’re opening schools and closing one school,” Pekel said.
The school board could discuss the start time changes in May.
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Scottsdale resident Gerda Weissmann Klein, author, humanitarian, inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor, died April 3. She was 97.
During World War II, Weissmann Klein and her family were deported from the Bielsko ghetto in Poland. Her parents were sent to Auschwitz, but Weissmann Klein was transported to the Gross-Rosen camp system to perform forced labor. Liberation came after a brutal 350-mile death march to avoid the advance of the Allied forces. Of the 4,000 women who started the march, fewer than 120 survived.
Weissmann Klein wrote 10 books, and her autobiography, “All But My Life,” is frequently used as a text by Holocaust educators. Her life also was the subject of an Oscar- and Emmy-winning short film, “One Survivor Remembers,” and her story is featured in the film “Testimony,” which is part of the permanent exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
As she recounts in her autobiography, she married her liberator, U.S. intelligence officer Kurt Klein, in Paris in 1946, and the couple then moved to the United States. They spent most of their lives together in Buffalo, N.Y., where they had three children. The Kleins dedicated their time to community service, promoting tolerance, advocating for Holocaust education and human rights. They moved to Scottsdale for their retirement.
Kurt Klein died in 2002. In 2011, “The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath,” was published, featuring the letters and correspondence between Gerda and Kurt from the time they became engaged weeks after she was liberated until their wedding a year later.
In 2008, Weissmann Klein, a naturalized citizen, founded with her granddaughter, Alysa Ullman Cooper, Citizenship Counts, a nonprofit that teaches students across the country about civic rights and responsibilities. For this and other humanitarian work, on Feb. 15, 2011, President Barack Obama presented Weissmann Klein with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
“The death of Gerda Weissman Klein underscores the importance of Holocaust education. Today’s generation of students are the last to have the opportunity to meet and hear from a Holocaust survivor, a victim of the genocide that claimed more than six million Jewish lives,” said Sheryl Bronkesh, president of the Phoenix Holocaust Association. “Schools should not delay in bringing in survivors — in person or virtually — to talk to students so that they can learn directly about the consequences of hatred and bigotry.”
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When Jake Reisman, 26, spelled the words “camp makes my heart sing,” his mother, Sara, knew her nonspeaking, autistic son would love a retreat center and residential community that she and other Jews were opening at a former Jewish overnight camp site in Prescott.
Ten years in the planning, Teva Community was founded by a group of friends in their 50s and 60s who have nostalgic memories of their beloved Camp Teva, renamed Camp Lebeau in 1978. The summer camp run by the Phoenix Jewish Community Center closed in the late 1980s and was reopened as the YMCA’s Camp Anytown.
Abandoned for 10 years, the 35-acre wooded site with a lodge and bunkhouses is on its way to becoming a supported living community for adults with autism who communicate their thoughts and desires alternatively through letterboards, keyboards, computer tablets and other devices.
And that’s not everyone Teva Community will serve. The educational and multi-purpose retreat center will be offered to like-minded nonprofits, teachers and families that support people with autism.
Sara Reisman, president of the board, said that Teva (Hebrew for nature) Community will fill a need for a living and learning environment for people who have grown up and “aged out” of government-funded services.
According to Autism Speaks, it is estimated that 40% percent of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder are considered nonverbal, meaning that they may never learn to speak more than a few words. The use of spelling methods (letterboards, keyboards, computer tablets, etc.) has given autistic people an alternative form of communication.
“When we started using some of these spelling methods, we learned that he’d been listening all this time,” said Amy Greiner, mother of Joshua, a 20-year-old with autism and executive director of Teva Community. “He really understood everything and his schools were not supportive. So, I started homeschooling him four years ago. He understands multiplication and division and now writes poetry.”
Federal law guarantees an education for children with developmental disabilities, like autism, until the age of 21. At that point, they lose the specialized help and structure they’ve had for most of their lives.
That gives parents like Reisman cause for deep concern. “From a very young age, when we realized that autism is here forever and it’s not something that’s going to be cured or needs to be cured, we’d been thinking, what are we going to do?”
One answer is Teva Community, where nonspeaking adults who need a lot of support can live with some independence.
“As they get older, they don’t want to live at home,” said Nate Stein, vice president of the board and Jake Reisman’s uncle. “They want to live as independently as they can, to make their own friends and have their own relationships.”
The retreat center, near Iron Springs and Granite Basin Roads, will open the summer of 2023. The facilities still need construction and refurbishing. Structures include 12 bunkhouses (120 beds), two bathhouses and a large lodge with a commercial kitchen. “It needs significant repair,” said Stein, who spent his career running Jewish community centers in Phoenix, Tucson, Tempe and other places and was also a director of Camp Lebeau.
Given the makeup of the board and the site’s history, the founders are drawing a good share of donations — $163,000 in just a few months — from the Arizona Jewish community. Other donors who have contributed to the recent Facebook fundraising campaign are from the autism community. The founders themselves have donated thousands of dollars toward the $35,000 needed to purchase the YMCA camp, which sits on U.S. Forest Service land.
“We were concerned about how potential donors would feel that it’s not being turned into another Jewish camp,” Reisman said. “But we have had so much support from the Jewish community. Everyone is so excited because autism pretty much touches almost everybody. If you don’t have a child, you have a friend or relative with a child. Plus, we’ll have reunion retreats there and people can come back to camp.”
Such programs for adults with autism can be $6,000 a month if paid privately. But Teva Community organizers are hoping for government assistance in the form of revenue from training programs, social security and Medicaid vouchers. “Our goal is not to make it a burden on families; but to have their government benefits cover their residential needs,” Stein said.
The Teva Community website makes a strong case for the residential program: “Most importantly, based on input from nonspeaking autistics themselves, we believe we can create an environment that they need, want and deserve, one that’s positive, empowering, centered on human rights and dignity, with pathways to meaningful careers, increased confidence, autonomy, growth, self-expression and joy.” JN
For more information, visit tevacommunity.org.
Ellen Braunstein is a freelance writer based in Chicago.
From left to right, Nate Stein, Jake Reisman, Lisa Stein, Maya Reisman, Shar Brandhagen, Sara Reisman and Jeri Reisman with dog Eris.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A west side used car dealership continues to battle the city and the state over deep holes forming in front of their property.
“You know a lot of people walk around with their phones, and they are not looking. You know, next thing they are falling in,” said Karen Pedigo, Office Manager of Pedigo’s Auto Sales.
Two of the holes measure 8 ft and 5 ft deep. They are in a wide easement near the road in front of Pedigo’s Auto Sales. The store is on West Washington Street right on the Marion-Hendricks county line.
For two months they have been calling the Indianapolis Department of Transportation (INDOT) and the Mayor’s Action Line looking for answers. Pedigo says each entity passed responsibility back and forth.
“I would like them to figure out what caused the problem, and to fix the problem,” added Pedigo.
INDOT confirmed the holes are indeed in the right of way on a state road. They also said they have a maintenance agreement with the city.
If a state road falls within Indy’s city limits, they claim Indy’s Department of Public Works (DPW) is responsible for all upkeep of sidewalks, grass plats, or connecting drainage.
“We decided we better do something. I talked to my husband about putting some cones out there to keep people from getting in them,” said Pedigo.
We spoke with DPW. They are reaching out to their lawyers to determine if INDOT’s maintenance agreement is valid, or if there is possibly a misunderstanding of the agreement.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Joel Embiid showed again Tuesday night why he believes he deserves this season’s MVP Award.
It prompted teammates, coaches and even former teammates to make the case, too.
The five-time All-Star had 45 points and 13 rebounds, and helped open things up for his Philadelphia teammates to make a franchise-record 17 3-pointers in the first half of a 131-122 victory over the Indiana Pacers that moved the 76ers into a tie with Boston atop the Atlantic Division.
“They made a concerted effort to trap him on the catch and Joel did the right thing by throwing it out,” coach Doc Rivers said. “The first half was phenomenal. It shows how explosivee we can be. The ball was moving and Joel was dominant.”
Embiid played so well he’s now in position to become the first center since Shaquille O’Neal to win the league’s scoring title and he’s the first player since Russell Westbrook in 2016-17 to post 12 games with 40 or more points and 10 or more rebounds.
And on Tuesday, it wasn’t just the numbers.
He gave Philadelphia the lead on a banked-in 3-pointer to end the first quarter — a shot that gave Philadelphia the lead for good and spurred a 49-point second quarter.
The Pacers never fully recovered from Embiid’s early onslaught. By halftime, he had 27 points on 12-of-18 shooting with seven rebounds.
“He’s just incredible,” Pacers guard T.J. McCollum said, referring to his former teammate in Philly. “He’s putting his back to the basket and punishing guys and he’s passing whenever he’s doubled and he’s stepping out and making 3s. It’s incredible to watch.”
Buddy Hield scored 25 points and Tyrese Haliburton had 21 points, eight rebounds and five assists for Indiana, which has lost a season-worst eight straight.
The 76ers, meanwhile, continued to build momentum for a playoff push that begins next week, largely on the shoulders of Emiiid.
And they did nothing to disappoint Tuesday.
Tyrese Maxey made a career-high eight 3s, seven in the first half, and had 30 points for the 76ers. James Harden had 11 points and 14 assists.
Indiana managed to cut the deficit to 111-106 with 9:19 left to play. But Philadelphia answered with a 10-3 run to put it away.
“We played very well in the first half but we’ve got better at the finish,” Embiid said. “We’ve just got to talk to each other and play with the same intensity we did in the first half.”
TIP-INS
76ers: DeAndre Jordan was ejected for a flagrant foul with 9:19 left in the game. … Maxey also had seven assists. … Tobias Harris finished with 17 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals. … Philadelphia lost its only previous meeting this season against Indiana. The two teams meet for the third and final time this season Saturday.
Pacers: Indiana finished this season with a 16-25 record at home, its second straight sub-.500 mark after 31 straight seasons of posting winning records at home. … Hield had 11 rebounds while Jalen Smith finished with 19 points and seven rebounds. … Rookie Isaiah Jackson had 16 points and four blocks. … Fan favorite Lance Stephenson had 10 points in what could be his final home game in Indy. …
HE’S BACK
McConnell returned to action Tuesday, marking his first appearance in a game since Dec. 1. McConnell missed 54 games with ligament damage in his right wrist and made it back against his former team. He had two points, four rebound and five assists.
Why now?
“I wanted to come out and forge an identity with the new guys and what better way to forge that identity than coming back to play,” McConnell said.
QUOTABLE
“I thought we took our foot off the gas in the second half,” Harris said. “It’s a good win but we have to be better to get to the level we want to get to.”
UP NEXT
76ers: Visit Toronto on Thursday before closing out the regular season with two home games.
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The Pontotoc Board of Aldermen voted 3-2 on Tuesday night (April 5) to opt out of the medical marijuana business as it is currently structured under the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act.
Aldermen Joe DiDonna, David Anderson and Alderwoman Lena Chewe voted to opt out, while alderman Jeff Stafford and Alderwoman Jimma Smith voted against the motion.
“I’m not against people getting marijuana when there’s a medical need for it,” DiDonna told the audience. “If they need it they should be able to get it. But I don’t feel good about the new law right now without the department of health giving us all the rules and regulations about how it’s all going to be done.”
“If we don’t opt out now, we’re stuck with whatever rules they come up with,” he said. “And without knowing the details, the door’s wide open for the law to be abused. Once all the rules are known and in place we can look at it again. But I know that out in Oklahoma the Drug Enforcement Agency has already made numerous arrests of the Chinese cartel who have moved in on their medical marijuana program and it’s been a disaster.”
Alderman David Anderson echoed DiDonna’s concern.
“Until all the rules and regulations are written we’re opening ourselves up for considerable damage,” Anderson said. “If you opt-in you’re writing a blank check to go along with everything they legislate. We need to opt-out and keep an open mind until the rules are known.”
Mayor Bob Peeples said the board’s decision to opt-out of the cultivation, processing, sale and/or distribution of medical cannabis does not permanently close the issue.
“The board can re-address the medical marijuana issue again at any time,” Peeples said. “The option to opt-in can be be brought back up at any time. But if we don’t opt-out by the May 2 deadline, we’re automatically in. And our biggest concern is following guidelines that aren’t even written yet.”
The board's decision to opt out on the marijuana issue followed an almost 90 minute public hearing which included comments from eight Pontotoc residents.
Six of those who commented encouraged the board not to opt out of the medical marijuana program, while one resident urged the board to opt out in favor of a better written law with regulations already intact.
Pontotoc resident Edward Moorman encouraged the board not to opt-out of the program which he said would benefit his wife who suffers from multiple sclerosis.
“Her doctor said it would help her with MS,” Moorman said. “There is so much misinformation out there about marijuana, full of lies. It’s been demonized for years. There are benefits to marijuana and no reason for it to be illegal.”
Resident Bruce Weatherly told the board he was in favor of opting-out.
“It’s a bad law passed by criminal narcotic lobbyists,”Weatherly said. “It’s use should be regulated by registered pharmacists, not store front shops. This board has to protect our society when our legislators will not. Marijuana is a narcotic. There is a genuine use for medical marijuana but we need to keep the criminal elements out.”
State lawmakers passed the medical marijuana legislation in January and Governor Tate Reeves signed the bill into law, allowing people with certain medical conditions to get certified by a licensed physician, nurse practitioner or optometrist to receive medical cannabis.
If a county or city votes to opt out, residents will be allowed to collect signatures and petition for a referendum to opt back into the program.
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PORTSMOUTH — Shawnee State University Development Foundation has announced the establishment of the Sharon E. Coburn Memorial Scholarship thanks to the generosity of Mark Coburn (Columbia, MD), and his sons Jeffrey (Ellicott City, MD), Bradley (Alexandria, VA), and Matthew (Mequon, WI), as a memorial to his late wife and their mother, Sharon Eileen Coburn, RN, FNE, (née Roe). The scholarship provides an endowed $1,000 and three-year renewable nursing scholarship to SSU.
As a 1959 graduate of Minford High School, Sharon would be delighted to know that the scholarship established in her name will assist a Minford High School senior pursuing a career in the nursing profession. The first scholarship will be awarded in 2022-2023 academic year.
A 1962 graduate of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Portsmouth, Ohio, Sharon also earned her bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s College in Standish, ME and her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
She began her career at Ohio State University Hospital & Doctors Hospital, both in Columbus. After moving to Columbia, MD, in 1971, Sharon worked at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, and then served as one of the pioneers who worked to establish Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) in Columbia, MD. Over the next 15 years, Sharon held several positions at HCGH, advancing to Assistant Director of Nursing.
The next 10 years saw family relocations to Virginia and Indiana, where Sharon continued to sharpen her skills with increasingly responsible positions at Arlington Hospital and as Director of Nursing at the 240-bed Crystal City Nursing and Rehab Center, both in Arlington, VA, followed by staff positions at St. Vincent’s and Arbor Hospitals in Carmel and Indianapolis, IN.
Sharon returned to HCGH in 1997, where she managed the Emergency Department through a period of rapid growth and expansion, followed by managing the Employee Health Program. She developed a Quality Assurance Program and served as the first President of the Maryland Chapter of the Professional Standards Review Organization.
As the Hospital and Howard County’s population expanded, the need for a program to address sexual violence also grew. Known for her strength, courage, and engagement with difficult work, Sharon was charged with creating and leading the SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner) program, in conjunction with the STTAR Center (Sexual Trauma Treatment Advocacy and Recovery Center), using funding obtained through Victims of Crime Assistance and the Maryland Dept. of Human Resources. After becoming a SAFE-trained nurse, Sharon developed the program’s policies and procedures, and partnered with the STTAR Center to recruit and train other nurses. She became the program’s face and voice, collaborating with County agencies including the Child Advocacy Center, the Howard County Police Dept., and the State Attorney’s Office. In 2006 Sharon was nominated as one of Maryland’s Health Care Heroes for her devotion, perseverance, and commitment to excellence in her leadership of the SAFE program.
Sharon’s life of service to her patients, her profession, and her family is truly an example of a life well lived. Sharon is loved and remembered by those who knew and worked with her in the profession, hospital, and program to which she was so deeply devoted.
To learn more about scholarship opportunities at Shawnee State University, visit www.shawnee.edu/scholarships. To explore programs offered in the university’s Department of Nursing, visit www.shawnee.edu/nursing.
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ASHLAND • Jeannie Burton felt a burden years ago to do something to honor Vietnam War veterans.
In 2017, Congress and former U.S. President Donald Trump recognized March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day, which gave Burton a timeline to go by.
On Saturday, Burton, who is the director of the Benton County Library System, along with the Town of Ashland, will place their second annual program, honoring those who fought in the Vietnam War.
The event will be held at the Ashland Park beginning at 2 p.m.
The spark to move to action on this came when Burton met up with local Benton County war veterans that she knew, prompting the inaugural event in 2019.
“It’s been very eye-opening to me,” said Burton. “It’s been very humbling. I can say that the veterans have all been very appreciative that someone even cared enough to do something for them because when they came home from the war, they did not receive a very good reception and some of them have been very bitter since that time. And I think this has helped some of them not be so bitter. I know times have changed, and it may be too late for some to change their minds, but a lot of them have carried a lot of anger and disappointment down through the years. You know, regardless of what happened or why we had the war, their country asked them to go and they went and did their best.”
The program was put off each of the last two years due to COVID-19 restrictions and reservations as all of the Vietnam veterans fall into the “at-risk” category due to age and other health concerns.
This year, the event will be held outdoors to help mitigate any risks.
Serving as a key speaker of the program is Senator Chris McDaniel (R-Ellisville). Senator Kathy Chism (R-New Albany) is also expected to be in attendance. Other members of the state legislature have been extended invitations as well.
Local lawyer Tony Farese will serve as the event’s emcee. Local singers, Katherine Farese and Carrie Simpson will be performing live as well.
Meals will be provided to each veteran that attends.
“I think it’s a real honor to do this for the veterans,” said Burton. “I think it’s something that is good for our community.”
Thunderstorms likely in the morning. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 72F. SW winds shifting to NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
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SCIOTO — The Department of Public Utilities will be flushing fire hydrants in the city beginning Tuesday, April 12th thru Tuesday, May 17, 2022. During periods of flushing, customers may experience loss of water/low pressure/colored water for a period of time. When flushing is completed, customers should notice an improvement in their water service. Schedule is:
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 – All of Sciotoville.
Thursday, April 14, 2022 – All of Wheelersburg to Franklin Furnace.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 – All of New Boston, north on State Route 139, including Eden Park, Rosemount Rd., west on Gallia St. to Mabert Rd.
Thursday, April 21, 2022 – West on Gallia St. from Mabert Rd., all areas south of 11th St to Charles St. and west of Offnere St.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 – North to the end of Mabert Rd., from Gallia St., including Wayne Hills area, west from Robinson Ave., Young St. to Offnere St., and areas north to Kinney’s Lane.
Thursday, April 28, 2022 – South from 11th St. and Offnere St. to Front St. and streets west from Offnere St. to Chillicothe St.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 – North from 12th St. and Offnere St. to Kinney’s Lane. All streets west to Chillicothe St. north to end of Argonne Rd. North on Scioto Trail to Coles Blvd. East on Coles Blvd. to and including Shawnee Rd.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 – All streets in south/west end of Portsmouth.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 – All of West Portsmouth, including Friendship, north on Routes 73/104.
Thursday, May 12, 2022 – All of Rosemount area and north on Route 23.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 – All high pressure areas.
Flushing will begin at 6 p.m. and will last approximately six to eight hours.
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March 31 was my mother’s birthday. It marked 24 years since her last birthday celebration - 24 years of milestones, accomplishments, upsets, heartbreaks, and experiences that I did not get to share with my mama. There have been so many times I wished I could just call her and talk about my day. There have been countless occasions I have needed to feel her arms wrapped around me telling me everything would be OK. I can’t recall how many times I’ve cried because I was overwhelmed or upset or just plain tired and all I would have needed was for her to touch my hand and wipe my tears away.
I know, I sound like a baby and maybe I am. I was a mama’s girl. I was a somewhat spoiled, only child and it was just the two of us. She was my best friend as much as my mother. She worked 10 hours a day at the printing plant in Corinth most weeks to provide for us. She bought me what I wanted and needed when she could and she loved and protected me. She taught be things and guided me in the right direction.
I often think how much things would have been different if she had lived. I’m sure Micah would be smarter, happier and better off if he had known her. Her influence would have been great on him, but he doesn’t even remember her. I would be a better person, too. I would be a better mother, I’m sure. I would not be as bitter or cynical about some things and I think I would make smarter decisions and be better off in all areas of my life as well. She would have pushed me and kept me in check. She would have made sure I followed all my dreams and didn’t stray from my path. She would have helped me when I needed help and loved me when I needed it most.
…But that didn’t happen. Life happens and death is a part of life. Many people are in the same situation as I am, wondering what might have been, wondering what they could have done differently, and wondering why their mother had to die. I have lived over half my life without a mother. I was just 22 when she died. It's not fair. It's not right. It's just life and I carry on doing the best I can.
I don't feel that I truly appreciated my mother. I took a lot for granted. I didn't tell her I loved her enough. I didn't honor her like I should have. I rarely gave to her as much as she she gave to me. I expected her to be there for me when I needed her. I expected everything from her and she would have given it to me.
Many of us take our mothers for granted. Love your mother while you can and let her know that you love her daily. Honor and cherish her and do for her as much as she does for you. If she needs you, be there for her. She has taken care of you when you were sick, so take care of her. She has helped you financially, so help her if you can. She has given you her whole heart, so give yours. Learn from her. Listen to her. Visit her. Take her shopping. One day you will want to do all these things and she won't be there, so do them now. I wish I had.
So, even though this is way to late, I love you and need you, Rosa Lee Campbell, and I always will. I miss you and wish you were here every day of my life. XOXO Tina.
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SOUTH SHORE Ky. — Kite Day will be hosted at McKell Middle School Football Field in Greenup.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and admission is free.
“We’ll have lots of giveaways so everyone will have a kite to fly, even hand kites for younger children that they can make themselves,” said Anne Stephans, Chairman of Greenup Tourism Commission.
A craft table will be set up so children can make hand kites which are wooden rings ribbons can be tied to so little ones can run while the ribbon trails behind them.
“The kite club will be coming in from West Virginia and they will be demonstrating things with some big kites and will help people learn how to fly their own kite,” said Stephans.
Visitors are encouraged to bring their own kites but kites will be given away and for sale as well.
“The Kite Club will be bringing their vendor trailer so they have lots of different things they have for sale so we will have kites we can give away for free but if anyone is interested in some of the larger fancier bigger kites they can purchase their from the Kite Club and have someone there on site to help them learn how to fly it,” said Stephans.
Stephans said the football field will be a great location with plenty of parking, safe walkways for families, and plenty of space without powerlines or trees.
“It is for all ages, everyone is welcome, we hope that we can put something for free in all the kid’s hands especially but it is definitely for any age,” said Stephans. “We want to just have a family friendly free event for people to just come and get outside.”
The event is sponsored by Greenup Tourism and Greenup County Schools Literacy Grants, Greenup County Extension Sevice, and Greenup County Family Resource Centers are event partners.
“Greenup County Literacy Grants will be on site with some books they are going to give away,” said Stephans.
Dragon Fly food truck will be there to offer kid friendly options, kite themed artwork from Greenup Schools will be displayed, a photo booth, animal spinners, windsocks, giant balloon sculpture, special guest, and live music by student groups will be part of the event.
The event will also offer Kona Ice, cotton candy, face painting, hand kite making, and books for free.
“We want people to enjoy the beauty of our community and just have something to do that is just purely for fun,” said Stephans.
Reach Darian Gillette at (740) 353-3101 ext. 1931, or by email at [email protected]
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It’s a good time to remember that in good times, as well as the current tough economic times, child abuse cuts across social, racial and economic lines.
Its victims are found in penthouses and shotgun shacks.
It's a tragedy that often happens in a child's house — where a youngster should feel the most safe and secure — out of sight of concerned adults.
It's a crime carried out by those whom the youngster loves and depends on. Its victims are often too young to understand or speak out or defend themselves.
It's a dirty little secret.
No one likes to think that somewhere, every day, youngsters are being slugged into unconsciousness, burned, starved, deprived of proper medical attention and proper clothing, and in the worst cases, killed by those they only wanted to love.
Nonetheless, it happens.
Each year, more than 2,000 American infants and children -- more than five a day — die at the hands of parents or caretakers, according to statistics from the U. S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Another 160,000 youngsters — a number equal to the population of every man, woman and child in 26 cities the size of Ripley — are permanently disabled or seriously injured annually, according to those figures.
Why the abuse? Theories vary. Perhaps it's the pressures of single parenting. In a tough economy, perhaps a lost job triggers a blow-up, and someone takes it out on a kid. Perhaps too many adults, for whatever reason, treat kids as property instead of people. In one local social worker’s words: "It's do this, and bam bam if you don't."
It's a dirty secret that is huge below the surface. Social workers estimate for every abuse case reported, three more aren't.
If you know something, even suspect something, call the Tippah County Department of Human Services.
To report abuse or neglect, call the Abuse Hotline at 1-800-222-8000.
Help put the brakes on child abuse.
The call you make could save a Tippah County youngster from getting some real breaks at home.
Thunderstorms likely in the morning. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 72F. SW winds shifting to NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
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CHESAPEAKE — The Portsmouth Trojans secured a road win in their Ohio Valley Conference opener — defeating Chesapeake 11-0 in five innings on Monday.
Trojans senior Daewin Spence pitched a shutout on the hill for Portsmouth, allowing only two hits and striking out 12 Panther batters in the winning effort.
Junior Tyler Duncan had three hits and a pair of RBI for Portsmouth, which improves to 3-1 (1-0 OVC) with the victory.
Drew Roe, Spence, Reade Pendleton, Amari Harmon, Zach Roth and Nathaniel Berry each had a hit in the contest.
Portsmouth hosts South Point on Wednesday in its OVC home opener.
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BOX SCORE
Portsmouth 5 1 1 0 4 — 11 9 0
Chesapeake 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 2 6
Portsmouth hitting
Drew Roe 1-4, R
Tyler Duncan 3-4, 3R, 2RBI
Daewin Spence 1-3, R, RBI
Reade Pendleton 1-3, R, RBI, BB
Amari Harmon 1-4, R, RBI
Zach Roth 1-3, R
Vinnie Lonardo 0-3
Jake Carter 0-2, BB
Nathaniel Berry 1-2, 2R, BB
Portsmouth pitching
Daewin Spence 2H, 12K, 0ER, 0BB (W)
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JACKSON • At the MHSAA Powerlifting State Championships, 11 lifters from Tippah and Benton County found their way to the podium before the weekend was over.
On Friday, the girls kicked off the championships, where Ripley's Allyson Christmas and Keke Morgan both earned a second place finish in their respective weight classes.
Christmas, a sophomore, squatted 300 pounds, benched 110, and deadlifted 285 for a total of 695 - just 25 pounds short of Tishomingo County's Kaley Latch (720) in the 123-pound weight class.
Morgan, a powerful freshman, squatted 320, benched 110 and deadlifted 340 for a total of 770. Corinth's Crista Wilson won the Class 4A girls 181-pound class with a total of 820.
The boys took their turn on Saturday, where in the Class 1A meet, Falkner's Joseph Swinford and Ashland's Octavius Anderson claimed second and third place, respectively, in the 123-pound class.
Ashland's Jamyson Griffin also took second place in the 148-pound class with a three-lift total of 980 - just 10 pounds short of champion Evan Edmondson of Vardaman.
Also for Ashland, sophomore Brendon Gorman came in second place in the 275-pound weight class, lifting 1,145 pounds.
Falkner senior Eli Janes lifted 1,140 pounds in the 220-pound class to finish just 60 pounds behind Tupelo Christian's Lake Sullivan for a second place finish. Falkner's J.T. Swinford landed in third in the 181-pound class.
In the 4A meet, Ripley freshman Adin Wilson and senior Jase Coleman went back-to-back with second and third place finishes in the 132-pound class.
Wilson lifted 940 pounds and Coleman 890 to finish behind Tishomingo County's Brandon Valdez, who threw up 960 pounds.
In the 181-pound class, Immanuel Griffin took home the second place spot after squatting 440 pounds, benching 245, and deadlifting 565 for a grand total of 1,250.
Thunderstorms likely in the morning. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 72F. SW winds shifting to NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
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SCIOTOVILLE — The Notre Dame Titans’ baseball team secured a 19-2 road win over East in Southern Ohio Conference Division I play on Monday.
The Titans scored in every inning, including five runs in both the second and third frames — and seven in the fourth.
Junior Dylan Seison led Note Dame at the plate, going 2-of-3 with four runs scored and a game-high five RBI.
Notre Dame collected 12 hits as a team, including multi-hit days by Alex Cassidy, Nate Johnson and Myles Phillips.
Cassidy got the win on the mound, allowing five hits and no earned runs in five innings pitched.
East scored both their runs in the second inning on RBI-hits by Zander Cooke and Ethan Rase.
Notre Dame (1-3, 1-1 SOC I) travels to New Boston on Wednesday in SOC I play, while East (1-5, 1-2 SOC II) hosts Clay on Wednesday in SOC I play.
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BOX SCORE
Notre Dame 1 5 5 7 1 — 19 12 0
East 0 2 0 0 0 — 2 5 6
Notre Dame hitting
Dylan Seison 2-3, 4R, 5RBI, BB
Brody Coleman 1-1
Matt Boldman 1-4, R, 2RBI
Zach Duncan 1-1, RBI
Alex Cassidy 2-4, RBI
Mason Tarr 0-1
Reagan Lester 0-4, R
Nate Johnson 2-5
Braidan Shepherd 1-1, 3R, RBI
Myles Phillips 2-3, 3R, 2RBI
Hunter McNutt 0-1
Brock Shepherd 0-2, 2R, RBI, BB
Eugene Collins 0-1
Alex Stiles 0-0, 3R, 2BB
Reed Lasswell 0-0, R, BB
East hitting
Cam Justice 1-3
Bailey Hicks 0-3
Landehn Pernell 0-2
Kaiden Huston 0-2
Leviticus Justice 0-2, R
Chris Escamilla 1-2, R
Ethan Rase 2-2, RBI
Zander Cooke 1-2, RBI
Hayden Conkel 0-1
Dustin Bailey 0-1
Pitching
Alex Cassidy (ND) 5IP, 5H, 0ER, 6K (W)
Landehn Pernell (E) 2H, 1ER, 2BB, 1K
Cam Justice (E) 3IP, 10ER, 5BB, 4K
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Walnut's Madi Kate Vuncannon was named to the Daily Journal's All-Area Girls Basketball First Team after averaging 28.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.8 steals per game. | FILE
Four Tippah County basketball stars landed on the Daily Journal’s 2022 All-Area team that was announced on Sunday.
Of highest honors, Pine Grove senior point guard Carson Rowland was named the Boys Basketball Player of the Year after leading the Panthers to the MHSAA Class 2A State Championship, averaging 20.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.
Rowland’s selection marks just the third player from Tippah County to ever win the award since its inception in 1987. Ripley’s Jeremy Johnson won the Boys Player of the Year in 2000, while former Lady Tiger Miayorka Johnson won it in 2004.
His head coach, Jake Walker, completed the clean sweep of the boys’ top awards as he was named the Boys Basketball Coach of the Year as well.
Joining the first-team ranks on the girls side was Walnut’s Madi Kate Vuncannon, who led the Lady Wildcats with 28.4 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.8 steals per game, while shooting 47% from field and 41% on 3-pointers.
Ripley center Alorian Story made the cut as a second-team selection after totaling 22 points and 12 rebounds per game in her sophomore campaign.
Lastly, LaTrell Vance capped his great career as a Tiger with a third-team nod, posting 16.5 points, 7.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.8 steals per game as a senior.
The Daily Journal’s All-Area basketball teams are split into three, five-member teams that is chosen by the high school sports staff in Tupelo, who covers 16 counties and their respective teams in the Northeast Mississippi region.
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SCIOTOVILLE — Dominant pitching helped the Notre Dame Lady Titans earn an 11-0 road win at East on Monday in SOC I softball play.
In five innings of work, Lady Titans sophomores Kyndall Ford and Gwen Sparks combined for 15 strikeouts in 17 total batters faced — nine for Ford who earned the win and six by Sparks.
Notre Dame allowed only one East hit — a single by senior Mia Caldwell.
Sparks and Ford also led Notre Dame with three hits and three RBI apiece.
Sophomore Gracie Ashley went 2-of-3 at the plate with a pair of RBI.
Notre Dame (3-0, 2-0 SOC I) travels to New Boston on Wednesday in SOC I play, while East (0-5, 0-2 SOC I) travels to Clay on Wednesday in SOC I play.
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BOX SCORE
Notre Dame 4 3 0 2 2 — 11 12 0
East 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 1 4
Notre Dame hitting
Bree Hicks 0-2, R
Tally Herrmann 1-1, RBI
Gwen Sparks 3-4, 3R, 3RBI
Kaylyn Darden 0-4
Kyndall Ford 3-3, 3RBI
Madison Brown 0-2, R
Libby Kelly 1-2, R, RBI
Annabelle Ball 0-1
Katie Strickland 0-2
Adyson Arnold 1-1, R
Maddie Entler 1-2, R
Mia McPheters 0-1
Gracie Ashley 2-3, 3R, 2RBI
East hitting
Mia Caldwell 1-2
Pitching
Kyndall Ford (ND) 1H, 0ER, 1BB, 9K
Gwen Sparks (ND) 2IP, 0H, 0ER, 6K
Karleigh Lennox (E) 5IP, 12H, 7ER, 1BB, 2K
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TUPELO – Once Oxford finally broke through, it didn’t stop until the game was blown wide open.
After being no-hit through four innings, the No. 2-ranked Chargers piled up eight runs in the fifth en route to a 9-1 win over No. 7 Tupelo in this Division 1-6A series opener Tuesday.
McClain Ray (2-2), Tupelo’s ace, had location issues, and it finally caught up to him. He issued five walks, including three in the fifth inning, and hit a batter. Of his 98 pitches, 51 were balls.
“We got a few runners on base and then just broke it open,” Oxford catcher Campbell Smithwick said. “That’s all we needed, and our dugout did a great job keeping us in the game, keeping us with momentum.”
Smithwick had two of Oxford’s six hits. The junior leadoff hitter bookended the fifth inning with an RBI double and a two-run single.
“He’s at leadoff for a reason,” Oxford coach Cade Hoggard said. “He’s arguably our best hitter. He’s got good plate awareness.”
The Chargers (15-6, 5-2) chased Ray with two outs in the fifth and a 3-0 lead. A wild pitch and an RBI walk – all with the bases loaded – made it 6-0 ahead of Smithwick’s two-run hit.
That was more than enough support for Oxford starter Dixon Webb (7-1). In 6 1/3 innings, he allowed one run on five hits with seven strikeouts and two walks..
The only real trouble he faced came in the third when Tupelo (10-9, 3-4) loaded the bases with two outs. Webb got a groundout to end the threat.
“He did a great job competing with three pitches,” Hoggard said. “He works quick, he stays in the zone, he’s going to get the ball moving.”
These teams meet again on Thursday at Oxford, and the series concludes Saturday at Tupelo.
Extra Bases
Big Inning: Aidan Goulding’s double and Hayden Campbell’s bunt single set up Smithwick’s RBI double, which made it 1-0. The Chargers scored five of the eight runs with two outs.
Big Stat: Tupelo’s pitchers issued eight walks.
Coach Speak: “We just went through a stretch there where we couldn’t find it. Next thing you know a two-spot, three-spot turns into eight, and it can’t happen. You’re not ever going to recover from that.” – Tupelo’s Justin Reed
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CHESAPEAKE — The Portsmouth Lady Trojans scored multiple runs in each inning of Monday’s 16-0 road win at Chesapeake in both teams’ Ohio Valley Conference softball opener.
Senior Madison Perry and sophomore Sydney Johnson both had a team-high four RBI for Portsmouth, which improves to 3-1 (1-0 OVC) with the victory.
Perry collected a team-high four hits and four runs scored.
Sophomore Olivia Dickerson allowed no hits to Chesapeake batters, issuing just one walk and striking out seven in five innings in the circle.
Portsmouth was scheduled to travel to Gallia Academy on Tuesday, before its OVC home opener on Wednesday against South Point.
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BOX SCORE
Portsmouth 4 2 3 4 3 — 16 14 2
Chesapeake 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 6
Portsmouth hitting
Emily Cheatham 1-4, R
Olivia Ramey 1-3, 3R, RBI, BB
Madison Perry 4-4, 4R, 4RBI
Olivia Dickerson 3-4, 3R, 2RBI
Ayonna Carr 1-2, R, RBI, BB
Katie Born 0-3
Madison Ankrom 1-4, $
Sydney Johnson 2-4, 4RBI
Kyndal Karns 1-3, RBI
Sydney Meadows 0-1, 2R
Portsmouth pitching
Olivia Dickerson 5IP, 0H, 0ER, 1BB, 7K
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OAK HILL — First, and unfortunately for the West Senators, their bus arrival was late into Oak Hill on Monday.
But, their offense — against Oak Hill pitcher Nate Clutters —apparently didn’t travel with them.
That’s because the Oaks’ ace Clutters kept the visiting Senators off the basepaths, and almost off the scoreboard altogether, as Oak Hill hammered out 15 hits —including at least one in every inning —en route to a 10-1 rolling of West in a Southern Ohio Conference Division II baseball bout.
That’s correct, the Oaks ‘Clutters’ up the Senators —scoring three second-stanza runs on three hits, erupting for five more markers on four more hits in the third, and finally tacking two more on in the fifth from a hat batsmen followed by three consecutive singles.
Meanwhile, Clutters pitched a perfect opening three frames, followed by retiring the Senators 1-2-3 in the seventh in going the distance.
West gained its only run in the fourth —when Trevor Fike broke up the perfect game with a single to center, followed by going to second on a wild pitch and scoring on a Tucker Spriggs single combined with the Oaks’ only error of the day.
The run was indeed unearned, as Clutters’ only other runners allowed were a Reese Coleman one-out walk in the fifth —followed by Fike singling again in the sixth, and Spriggs being hit by a pitch.
In between, Clutters picked off Fike at first —meaning he stranded two Senators for the entire game, after getting Jacob Davis to ground into a 4-3 inning-ending double play in the fourth.
Clutters also struck out six, and didn’t pitch under much duress —leading the Oaks’ (3-2, 2-1 SOC II) way for their third win of the season in five tries.
Coleman had reached third on a stolen base and wild pitch respectively, but Clutters K’d the final two Senators to stymie West to one run.
“We needed that from Nate. And to be honest, he had been struggling a little bit coming into tonight. Just hadn’t been able to get into a rhythm yet. This cold weather has been tough on every pitcher. But the weather was a little bit better today, and he got into a zone there,” said OHHS coach Jason Wright. “He got confidence as the game went on and it was good to see him up there pitching with confidence.”
With Clutters in clear control, the Oaks offered him plenty of run support —in the form of an 8-0 advantage after three frames, followed by the 10-1 cushion following five.
All 10 tallies for the Oaks were earned off two Senator pitchers —Davis for the opening two innings and Fike for the closing cantos.
With one out in the second, the Oaks’ only seniors teamed up to give the hosts a 1-0 edge —when Isaiah Needham singled and stole second, and Dylan Venegas singled Needham home on a hard-hit ball which glove-grazed West second baseman Cole Windsor.
Davis then hit Eddie Abele with a pitch, setting up nine-hole hitter Andy Meldick mashing a two-out single to right — which crossed Venegas and Abele.
So seven batters went to the plate in the Oaks’ second, only to be outdone by the nine against Fike in the third.
And again, West had recorded outs when the bottom of the Oak Hill lineup did its offensive damage.
With one away, Clutters and Aidan Hall had back-to-back singles to left —followed by free passes to Needham (hit by pitch) and Abele (walk), sandwiched around a Fike strikeout.
Clutters crossed home on the walk to Abele for the 4-0 lead.
But eight-hole hitter Layne Swingle smacked a double to the gap in left, unloading the bases and bringing in Hall, Needham and Abele.
Meldick then made it 8-0 —singling to center to score Swingle.
In the fifth, Swingle was then hit by a pitch —followed up by three consecutive singles from Meldick, Gavin Howell and Rylan Sams.
Sams’ safety to center was a two-run single —plating both Swingle and Meldick and making it 10-0.
While Meldick muscled for a 3-for-4 day at the plate, Howell, Clutters, Hall and Venegas all went 2-for-4 — and Needham notching 2-for-2.
In truth, the Oaks mixed up their hits with some shots with some shallow gappers and droppers —which West’s outfield could not track down.
“The bottom of our lineup did a lot of damage for us today. That was big. Andy (Meldick) had three hits and Layne Swingle came up with that three-run double in the third. That’s what we need and we’re trying to figure out,” said Wright. “We need guys one thru nine to all swing the bats. The good thing is we’re only going to get better. Because with only two seniors, we’re young.”
That the Oaks are —as Monday’s matchup was important for both clubs keeping within striking distance of league leaders Valley, Wheelersburg and Minford.
West was right there as well, but fell to 5-2 — and to 2-2 in the division with the loss at Oak Hill.
“West got a lot of games in last week and won most of those, so this was a good challenge for us,” said Wright. “But then again, there are no letdowns in this league. Every game in our league is a challenge. As soon as you let your guard down, then some team comes along and smacks you in the face.”
Unfortunately for the young Senators on Monday, that was probably how they felt.
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West 000 100 0 — 1 3 2
Oak Hill 035 020 X —10 15 1
PWHS: Jacob Davis 2IP, 3R, 3ER, 4H, 1HB, 0BB, 1K, 10BF; Trevor Fike 4IP, 7R, 7ER, 11H, 2HB, 3BB, 2K, 26BF
OHHS: Nate Clutters 7IP, 1R, 0ER, 3H, 1HB, 1BB, 6K, 24BF
W —Nate Clutters; L — Jacob Davis
PWHS hitting: Trevor Fike 2-3 RS, Tucker Spriggs 1-2 HBP, Reece Coleman BB SB
OHHS hitting: Gavin Howell 2-4; Rylan Sams 1-3 2RBI; Nick Clutters 2-4 RS; Aidan Hall 2-4 RS; Isaiah Needham 2-2 2RS HBP BB SB; Dylan Venegas 2-4 RBI RS; Eddie Abele RBI 2RS HBP 2BB; Layne Swingle 1-3 D 3RBI 2RS HBP: Andy Meldick 3-4 3RBI RS
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OAK HILL — The West Lady Senators defeated Oak Hill 11-0 in a full seven innings on Monday in SOC II softball play.
West (7-0, 4-0 SOC II) collected 11 hits as a team at the plate, and junior pitcher Sydney McDermott allowed only one hit in the circle.
McDermott struck out 13 Lady Oaks batters in the complete-game victory.
Sophomore Kaylor Pickelsimer drove in a team-high three RBI on a pair of hits in the road win.
West traveled to North Adams on Tuesday before hosting Wheelersburg on Wednesday in a battle of SOC II unbeatens.
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BOX SCORE
West 0 1 3 4 0 2 2 — 11 11 1
Oak Hill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 1 6
West hitting
Emma Sayre 2-5, 3R
Macie Bradford 0-5
Emily Moore 1-4, 3R, RBI
Kaylor Pickelsimer 2-4, R, 3RBI
Abi Boland 2-3, 2RBI
Myla Meade 1-2, R, BB
Acie Stone 1-4, R
Sydney McDermott 1-4, RBI
Kylie Osborne 1-3, RBI
Karli York 0-1
West pitching
Sydney McDermott 7IP, 1H, 0ER, BB, 13K
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SPRING SCOREBOARD — April 5
Softball
Portsmouth at Gallia Academy, ppd. to April 7
Clay at South Webster, ppd.
West at North Adams, ppd.
Wheelersburg at Raceland (Ky.), ppd.
New Boston at Whiteoak, ppd.
Western at Eastern, ppd.
Wellston at Oak Hill, ppd.
Point Pleasant (W. Va.) at Symmes Valley, ppd.
Russell (Ky.) at Rock Hill, ppd.
Ashland (Ky.) at Coal Grove, ppd.
South Point a South Gallia, ppd.
Baseball
South Webster 9, Clay 0, susp. in 2nd inning (at Chillicothe VA Memorial Stadium)
Huntington at Northwest, ppd.
Western at Eastern, ppd.
Wellston at Oak Hill, ppd.
South Point a South Gallia, ppd.
Gallia Academy at Meigs, ppd.
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If the Nets win out, they will finish seventh.
It’s the silver lining, the light at the end of a dark tunnel for a Nets team that’s sustained blow after blow in a season littered with championship aspirations. For all their struggles, all their injuries, all their troubles and misfortunes, the Nets are still in control of their own fate. They can still hold home-court advantage in next Tuesday’s play-in tournament game. They can still avoid a win-or-go-home scenario if they string together enough wins.
Tuesday’s win over the Houston Rockets, plus losses by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets, vaulted the Nets up the standings from 10th to 8th place. As long as the Nets handle business and win their remaining three games, it doesn’t matter what happens elsewhere. They hold the tiebreakers over both the Hawks and Cavaliers and are a full game ahead of the Hornets. If the Nets win out, they will give themselves the best possible chance at securing the East’s seventh seed.
“I think it would be great. It would be great to be seventh. Better than eighth. Eighth better than ninth,” head coach Steve Nash said. “At the same time, I think there’s a balance to be struck here. We want to win all the games, we want to finish seventh, we want to have the play-in at home and an opportunity to go in on one game. Of course, all four teams in the play-in want to do that. We’ve also got to balance that with our growth, with all the injuries, making sure guys can get through in one piece as possible and so we’re trying to balance a few things here.”
If the Nets are going to do that, it won’t be easy. After all, there’s nothing more the Knicks would love to do than wreck the Nets’ odds at finishing in seventh, and a loss, plus wins for the competition would send the Nets directly to 10th, which is win-or-go-home territory.
That’s the wrinkle in play now in Year 2 of the NBA’s play-in tournament. At the end of the season, the seventh and eighth seeds in each conference will play each other to determine the seventh seed in the playoff picture. The loser of that No. 7 vs. 8 game will play the winner of the No. 9 vs. 10 game.’ The loser of the 9 vs. 10 game will go to Cancun, as will the loser of the consolation game between the loser of 7 vs. 8 and the winner of 9 vs. 10.
The Nets don’t want to be 9th or 10th, where they were before Tuesday’s win. And where they’ll end up if they falter on the second leg of a back-to-back on Wednesday, against their crosstown rivals who have long been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, but would love nothing more than to spoil the Nets’ party.
“It’s a big game,” Knicks star RJ Barrett said on Tuesday. “I know I’m excited. I know the team is fired up.”
But this is what it’s going to take, a win against a still tough-to-beat Knicks team, even if they’re at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. The Nets have struggled against teams that profile like the Knicks — young, athletic teams that scrap and run and try to turn you over.
The Nets can’t help but think about seeding. It’s the only thing keeping them alive in their hunt for a championship.
“It puts you in a position where you’ve got to raise your game up to the challenge, and we’ve faced teams where we’ve been on the other side of that losing,” said Kyrie Irving. “So, we’d rather be in the driver’s seat and sit comfortably and be able to control our own destiny, and I think that’s where we’re where we’re most comfortable.”
Funny enough, Wednesday’s decisive rivalry game will also be the first time both Irving and Kevin Durant step foot on the Madison Square Garden floors as teammates since the two decided to join forces in Brooklyn three summers ago. Durant missed the entire first season in Brooklyn, and Year 2 was wrecked by COVID-19. Irving missed all games in New York City this season until Mayor Adams created a vaccine exemption for pro athletes.
“You know how that series goes between us and the New York Knicks,” said Irving. “And it’s been that way since I’ve been a fan of the Nets since I was a kid. So it’s gonna be action packed. … It’ll be an exciting environment where you know what to expect. It’s the Mecca. So what better way to close out your season, the final few games, playing in one of the most historic arenas in the world.
“But that aside, we’ve just got to bring it. And looking forward to it. Looking forward to back and forth action. And I know the Knicks will be ready, so we’ve just got to be prepared. It’s about us.”
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Group claims fetuses in DC home proof of illegal abortions
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 11:13 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - An anti-abortion group says the five fetuses found last week in a member’s home came from the medical waste being disposed by a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
The group, known as the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, claims it contacted the police to collect the fetuses in hopes that an autopsy would prove that the clinic was conducting federally illegal late-stage abortions.
Last week, the Metropolitan Police Department removed five aborted fetuses from the home of Lauren Handy, a longtime anti-abortion rights activist.
Police removed the fetuses one day after Handy and eight others were charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020.
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GENEVA, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpian SA ("Alpian"), an innovative digital private bank, today announced the granting by FINMA of a banking license and a successful CHF19 million Series B+ closing, enabling Alpian to shortly launch to the public in Q3 2022, becoming Switzerland's first digital private bank.
Alpian, majority-owned by Fideuram-Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, secured a third round of financing, fully subscribed by Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking. The financing will support the deployment of Alpian's range of services in Switzerland, comprising both private and online banking.
This hybrid model combines a secure, state-of-the-art banking experience with the support of Alpian's qualified wealth advisors, giving affluent clients access to services normally reserved for traditional private banking. To complement this, Alpian has seamlessly woven everyday banking features into its digital offering.
Schuyler Weiss, CEO of Alpian, commented:
"Since 2019, we have built what will become Switzerland's first digital private bank. With the funds raised during the Series B+ and with its new standing as a licensed Swiss bank, Alpian is well equipped to launch its offering."
Pasha Bakhtiar, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo Partner and Chairman of the board at Alpian, added:
"We are proud to have passed these two milestones on our way to delivering a truly unique and bespoke digital private banking offering. The successful journey so far is a testament to the resilience and dynamism of the Alpian team, as well as the vision of REYL Intesa Sanpaolo."
Luca Bortolan, Head of Direct Bank Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, added:
"From the beginning, we have seen Alpian as a great opportunity to invest in the development of digital private banking. Alpian will bring both strategic and synergy driven value, demonstrating our proactive commitment of addressing the needs of its current and future clients."
About Alpian SA
www.alpian.com
Alpian is Switzerland's first ever digital private bank, incubated by REYL Intesa Sanpaolo and incorporated in October 2019.
About REYL Intesa Sanpaolo
www.reyl.com
Founded in 1973, REYL & Cie is a diversified banking group with offices in Switzerland, Europe (London, Luxembourg, Malta) and the rest of the world (Singapore, Dubai).
About Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking
www.fideuram.it
Headquartered in Milan, Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking is the leading private banking player in Italy and a key subsidiary of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, which controls all the group's private banking activities.
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Google Cloud and founding members form initiative to eliminate data lock-in and ensure access to data across leading storage, analytics, and database providers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud and many of the fastest-growing data, analytics, storage, and database providers in the tech industry today announced they are forming a new initiative to ensure that global businesses have more seamless access and insights into the data required for digital transformation. As founding members of the Data Cloud Alliance, Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, and Starburst are committing to make data more portable and accessible across disparate business systems, platforms, and environments—with a goal of ensuring that access to data is never a barrier to digital transformation.
Businesses face growing pressures to digitally transform—to reach consumers in new ways, launch entirely new digital businesses, and to meet increasingly complex governance and compliance requirements. Data is essential to digital transformation. Every consumer interaction - searches, e-commerce transactions, online comments, clicks, upvotes, and much more - creates more data every minute. The proliferation of data, along with the many software and cloud-based applications used to analyze and manage it, means businesses increasingly need common digital data standards, and a commitment to open data, in order to effectively utilize data to digitally transform.
The Data Cloud Alliance is committed to accelerating adoption of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning best practices across industries through common industry data models, open standards, and integrated processes. Members of the alliance will work together to help reduce customer challenges and complexity with data governance, data privacy, data loss prevention, and global compliance. For the betterment of customers' data clouds, the alliance will commit to solving skills gaps through skill development for practitioners in modern data and analytics technologies.
Data Cloud Alliance members will provide infrastructure, APIs, and integration support to ensure data portability and accessibility between multiple platforms and products across multiple environments—on-premises, in public or private cloud, or in a hybrid model; and each Alliance member will collaborate on new, common industry data models, processes, and platform integrations to increase data portability and reduce complexity associated with data governance and global compliance.
"Data is the common foundation for all digital transformations," said Gerrit Kazmaier, VP and GM of Databases, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence at Google Cloud. "By committing to open data standards, access, and integration between the most popular data platforms and applications today, we believe we can significantly accelerate business transformations and close the data to value gap."
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- "Our clients win when we are the catalyst to enable smoother technology pathways for stronger collaboration and more industry growth. With the Data Cloud Alliance, we are teaming with our ecosystem partners to be maniacally focused on open standards for data exchange across the cloud continuum. It's about creating an open gateway for all partners to join us in unleashing more value for our clients and accelerating their digital transformation post pandemic," said Lan Guan, Accenture Cloud First Data & AI lead.
- "As enterprises accelerate their journeys to cloud and modernize their data stacks, they need to be equipped with the necessary skills, freedom of technology choice, and data portability to ensure their data analytics strategies are future proofed," said Chad Verbowski, SVP of Engineering at Confluent. "We're excited to join the Data Cloud Alliance to contribute our data streaming expertise and help make sure access to data is never the barrier to innovation."
- "Databricks is excited to partner with Google Cloud to foster data sharing based on open standards like Delta Lake. The Data Cloud Alliance reinforces our commitment to open data sharing and the open data lakehouse paradigm, which empower data teams to collaborate more effectively," said David Meyer, SVP of Products, Databricks.
- "We are proud to be a member of the new Data Cloud Alliance, furthering our mission to make AI part of an organization's everyday activities. This initiative will empower more companies to seamlessly scale their AI projects and deliver exceptional results," said David Tharp, SVP of Ecosystems and Alliances at Dataiku.
- "We are excited to collaborate with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance on industry standard data models, processes, and platform integrations to help increase data portability for our clients that choose Google Cloud products for their digital transformation journey," said Francisco Barroso, principal, US Analytics & Cognitive offering leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
- "Successful digital transformation requires data to be accessible across systems, platforms, and environments," said Shay Banon, Founder and CTO, Elastic. "We are proud to partner with Google Cloud and the Data Cloud Alliance members to help customers build a strong data foundation through open data access, sharing, and integration."
- "Fivetran is proud to pledge support for the Data Cloud Alliance. As the data-to-value gap increases, no one technology or service can tackle this challenge alone. We recognize our obligation as a data cloud leader to expedite and automate the first leg of analytics—data integration, particularly from SaaS and database sources—so that rich insights are made available to organizations much faster in order to make data-driven decisions," said Mark Van de Wiel, Field CTO at Fivetran.
- "We are excited to partner with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance to unify access to data across clouds and application environments to remove barriers to digital transformation efforts," said Mark Porter, Chief Technology Officer, MongoDB. "Legacy frameworks have made working with data hard for too many organizations. There couldn't be a more timely, and important data initiative to build faster and smarter data-driven applications for customers."
- "Neo4j is committed to open standards, best practices, and skills development, as a means of breaking down barriers to productivity and interoperability. We're proud to partner with Google Cloud and other founding members of the Data Cloud Alliance in evolving best practices and standards for the modern data stack," said Philip Rathle, SVP Products at Neo4j.
- "Redis is excited to partner with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance to collaborate on the ways data and AI can help solve customers' evolving modern application challenges and unlock the next wave of innovation and customer success," said Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-Founder at Redis.
- "We believe every company should have the right to quickly access their data without barriers and expensive penalties. Starburst is proud to be a founding member of the Data Cloud Alliance, and remains committed to quickly unlocking access to data so companies can be truly data-driven and accelerate their digital transformation journeys," said Justin Borgman, Co-Founder and CEO of Starburst.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Pemazyre® (pemigatinib) for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as confirmed by a validated diagnostic test that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
Pemazyre®, discovered by Incyte and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan markets, is the first selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma, a type of biliary tract cancer, in China, representing a new milestone following its approval in Hong Kong market in January 2022, and in the Taiwan market in June 2021.
The approval in China was based on two clinical studies. One is the FIGHT-202 study, which is a Phase 2, multi-center, open-label, single-arm study (NCT02924376) evaluating the safety and efficacy of pemigatinib in adult (age ≥18 years) patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with documented FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement. The other study was a bridging study (CIBI375A201, NCT04256980) conducted in China evaluating the safety and efficacy of pemigatinib in Chinese cholangiocarcinoma patients. The primary end point was overall response rate (ORR) evaluated by an independent radiological review committee (IRRC) per RECIST V1.1.
In the FIGHT-202 study[1], as data cut of date (April 7th,2020), a total of 108 subjects with FGFR2 fusion/rearrangement were enrolled and orally received pemigatinib 13.5mg per day(Q3W 2 weeks on/1 week off), the IRRC-confirmed ORR was 37.0% (95% CI: 27.94%, 46.86%), including 4 complete responses(CR). The median duration of response (DOR) was 8.08 months with responses lasting ≥ 6 months in 26 of the 40 (66.0%) responding patients and ≥ 12 months in 15 (37.5%) patients. In study CIBI375A201, as of data cut-off date (January 29th, 2021), among 30 efficacy evaluable Chinese subjects enrolled, the IRRC-confirmed ORR was 50%(95% CI: 31.3%,68.7%). The overall safety profiles of FIGHT-202 and the study CIBI375A201 are similar and the majority of the adverse events were grade 1 or 2 per CTCAE V5.0. Pemigatinib was generally well tolerated in Chinese patients with cholangiocarcinoma.
Professor Jian Zhou in Zhong Shan Hospital Fudan University stated that: "Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most common malignancy originated in the liver with a high incidence rate in Asia. The disease is usually not diagnosed until it has already developed into an advanced unresectable and/or metastatic stage. There are limited treatment options currently, which call for innovative drugs."
"The approval of Pemazyre® by the NMPA, following the approval in Hong Kong and Taiwan market earlier in Greater China market, represents that Innovent has further broadened our product market coverage. At the same time, the approval of Pemazyre® also provided a new treatment option for cholangiocarcinoma patients in China." Dr. Yongjun Liu, President of Innovent, stated: "Data from previous clinical trials of Pemazyre® in participants with advanced cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy has shown satisfactory safety results and also revealed encouraging efficacy signals. The approval further enhanced our confidence and interests in conducting in-depth clinical development of pemigatinib in more potential indications, including the ongoing global clinical trial (including China) evaluating pemigatinib as a first-line therapy for cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion."
About Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma and FGFR2 Rearrangement
Cholangiocarcinoma is a malignant tumour originated from biliary epithelium cells and it is categorized as intrahepatic or extrahepatic based on anatomical location of origin. The incidence of cholangiocarcinoma has been increasing progressively over the past decade. Surgery is the first line treatment for patients with resectable disease. However, most cholangiocarcinomas have been in advanced and/or metastatic status at diagnosis and lost the chance for surgical resection. The treatment options for patients who relapse after surgery or have advanced / metastatic disease are limited and the recommended therapy method is systemic chemotherapy with gemcitabine plus cisplatin, which has a medium overall survival of less than a year.
Aberrant signaling through FGFR resulting from gene amplification or mutation, chromosomal translocation, and ligand-dependent activation of the receptors has been demonstrated in multiple types of human cancers. Fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling contributes to the development of malignancies by promoting tumor cell proliferation, survival, migration, and angiogenesis. Results from early clinical studies of selective FGFR inhibitors, including Pemazyre, have shown a tolerable safety profile for the class and preliminary signs of clinical benefit in participants with FGF/FGFR alterations.
About Pemazyre® (pemigatinib)
In April 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Incyte's Pemazyre® (pemigatinib), a selective, oral inhibitor of FGFR isoforms 1, 2 and 3, for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as detected by an FDA-approved test. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s).
In Japan, Pemazyre® is approved for the treatment of patients with unresectable biliary tract cancer with a FGFR2 fusion gene, worsening after cancer chemotherapy. In Europe, Pemazyre® is approved for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy. Pemazyre® is marketed by Incyte in the United States, Europe and Japan.
In December 2018, Innovent and Incyte entered into a strategic collaboration for three clinical-stage product candidates discovered and developed by Incyte, including pemigatinib (FGFR1/2/3 inhibitor). Under the terms of the agreement, Innovent has received the rights to develop and commercialize the three assets in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
In March 2020, Innovent announced that the first patient was dosed in the pivotal registrational trial evaluating pemigatinib in patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma in China.
In June 2021, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.
In January 2022, Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
In April 2022, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2(FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as confirmed by a validated diagnostic test that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
Pemazyre® is a trademark of Incyte Corporation.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, metabolic and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully-integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 32 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune diseases and other major therapeutic areas, with 7 products, TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), PEMAZYRE® (pemigatinib), olverembatinib (BCR ABL inhibitor) and Cyramza® (ramucirumab), 1 asset under NMPA NDA review, 5 assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and an additional 19 molecules in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hanmi and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com. and www.linkedin.com/company/innovent-biologics/.
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OUOZZZ is a doll brand that believes in the power of smiles and commits to giving humanistic care to children, including those with depression and anxiety disorders. Inspired by the beauty and power of African-American fashion styles, OUOZZZ is now having its new characters on archetypes of inclusive skin-toned girls who have "Afro" hairstyles.
Looking back at the history of fashion evolution, many female icons wearing natural afros set a precedent for what it means to be "IT" girls—to embrace and take pride in their natural beauty. OUOZZZ believes beauty coming in all colors and the newly released products speak to its will: children who play, cuddle and hug to sleep with OUOZZZ dolls will feel happy, confident, and more represented.
OUOZZZ genuinely understands children and designs dolls to truly address their needs. When playing with dolls, children want to feel like spending time with their closest friends, and dolls are someone they can trust and develop a sense of belonging with, rather than simply sleeping partners. By releasing the new line iFrodoll, OUOZZZ wants to convey the message to its customers, especially baby girls, that they are always supported to be confident in their own looks, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or background, and they should be brave enough to fight the stereotypical standard of beauty.
The new iFrodoll line has three different characters which are the cute girl Nevaeh, the sleeping Dora, and the outgoing Ash. And instead of leaving it at that, OUOZZZ also creates a sub-category of accessories based on the characters, like backpacks and blankets matching the dolls, to offer a more complete experience for children.
Before iFrodoll, OUOZZZ's doll family has four characters: the sleeping Iris, the gentle Abby, the joyful Becky, and the brave boy Carl. OUOZZZ dolls are designed to bring smiles to children, with textures that are often cited as "incredibly soft" and "super comfortable" by its fans. Now by releasing the new line, OUOZZZ is growing as a brand not only innovative and caring but also inclusive.
About OUOZZZ
Designed by a new dad, OUOZZZ is a subordinate brand of Starpony. Starpony is a professional toy company that aims to design and create world-class toys while providing an extraordinary customer experience. Starpony devotes itself to enriching families and providing educational toys by inspiring creativity and sparking curiosity.
OUOZZZ products are sold on Amazon and Walmart.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) (TSX: PAAS) ("Pan American") will announce its unaudited results for the first quarter of 2022 ("Q1 2022") after market close on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Pan American will also hold its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Shareholders Meeting") the same day at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 pm PT).
Q1 2022 Unaudited Results Conference Call and Webcast
Pan American plans to release its unaudited results for Q1 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022, after market close. Details for the related conference call and webcast are as follows:
Webcast: via our website at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/
or directly at https://services.choruscall.ca/links/panamericansilver20220512.html
The live webcast, presentation slides and the Q1 2022 report will be available at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/. An archive of the webcast will also be available at the same link for three months.
Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders
Pan American is scheduled to hold its Shareholders Meeting at the offices of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, 1200 Waterfront Centre, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 pm PT).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders and proxyholders are encouraged not to attend the Shareholders Meeting in person and are urged to vote in advance by proxy, as discussed in the Company's management information circular (the "Circular").
The Shareholders Meeting may be accessed remotely via live conference call and audio webcast. Material related to the Shareholders Meeting, including the Circular, is available at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/ under the heading "Annual General and Special Meeting".
Details for the Shareholders Meeting conference call and webcast are as follows:
Webcast: via our website at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/
or directly at https://services.choruscall.ca/links/panamericansilver20220511.html
About Pan American Silver
Pan American Silver owns and operates silver and gold mines located in Mexico, Peru, Canada, Argentina and Bolivia. We also own the Escobal mine in Guatemala that is currently not operating. Pan American Silver provides enhanced exposure to silver through a large base of silver reserves and resources, as well as major catalysts to grow silver production. We have a 28-year history of operating in Latin America, earning an industry-leading reputation for sustainability performance, operational excellence and prudent financial management. We are headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and our shares trade on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "PAAS".
Learn more at panamericansilver.com.
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JUNO BEACH, Fla., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy Resources, LLC President and CEO and NextEra Energy Partners, LP President Rebecca Kujawa issued the following statement regarding today's announced agreement between the Department of Justice and ESI Energy, LLC, a NextEra Energy Resources affiliate, concerning eagle deaths at certain wind farms.
"Today, ESI Energy voluntarily entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice related to the accidental fatalities of eagles at certain wind farms owned and/or operated by NextEra Energy Resources and NextEra Energy Partners. We disagree with the government's underlying enforcement policy, which under most circumstances makes building and operating a wind farm into which certain birds may accidentally fly a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) – even when the wind farm was developed and sited in a way that sought to avoid avian wildlife collisions. The reality is building any structure, driving any vehicle, or flying any airplane carries with it a possibility that accidental eagle and other bird collisions may occur as a result of that activity.
"Unfortunately, the federal government, at odds with many states and a number of federal court decisions, has sought to criminalize unavoidable accidents related to collisions of birds into wind turbines while at the same time failing to address other activities that result in far greater numbers of accidental eagle and other bird mortalities.
"We have a long-standing and well-earned reputation for protecting our environment and positively co-existing with and supporting wildlife around our facilities, and we have never sited a wind turbine knowing an eagle would fly into it nor have we taken any action in disregard of federal law. In fact, our company makes significant efforts to avoid accidental collisions with bird populations, including eagles. Over the last 20 years, NextEra Energy has invested more than $150 million across the U.S. to support our avian impact mitigation efforts, including taking actions to mitigate avian interaction with our poles, wires and energy generation facilities. We believe that the wind energy industry, including NextEra Energy Resources, voluntarily does more than any other industry in seeking to minimize interactions with avian wildlife.
"However, the most expedient solution was to resolve this dispute and focus our attention on continuing to develop, build, and operate emissions-free wind energy centers for a lower carbon America built by good-paying American jobs. In order to put this issue behind us, ESI Energy agreed to plead guilty to three misdemeanors under the MBTA associated with accidental eagle fatalities at three of our subsidiary wind facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico. The MBTA is a 1918 statute that prohibits individuals and entities from pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting most U.S. birds. NextEra Energy Resources has always maintained, and continues to believe, notwithstanding ESI's plea, that this statute was only intended to cover intentional behavior, like hunting and poaching of migratory birds. As recently as last year, the federal government had adopted regulations that codified that accidental collisions did not violate the MBTA.
"Also, as part of the resolution of this matter, ESI has agreed that a number of NextEra Energy Resources' and NextEra Energy Partners' wind facilities will apply for eagle 'take' permits under another federal statute, even though we believe that, like the MBTA, this law does not require a permit to cover unintentional collisions that occur when eagles fly into properly developed wind energy facilities.
"Compliance with the agreements, which includes, among other provisions, payment of a fixed amount and cost caps for compliance with the eagle management plan for a period of at least five years, is not expected to have a material impact on the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy or NextEra Energy Partners. This resolution will resolve all past fatalities and provides a framework that will allow us to move forward without a continued threat related to these statutes.
"NextEra Energy Resources' goal has always been, and remains, to develop our projects in ways that will not damage wildlife populations, including eagle populations, and we hope that our resources committed as part of this resolution will be devoted to optimizing eagle conservation."
NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (together with its affiliated entities, "NextEra Energy Resources") is a clean energy leader and is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the U.S., with approximately 24,600 megawatts of total net generating capacity, primarily in 38 states and Canada as of year-end 2021. NextEra Energy Resources, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun based on 2021 megawatt hours produced on a net generation basis, and a world leader in battery storage. The business operates clean, emissions-free nuclear power generation facilities in New Hampshire and Wisconsin as part of the NextEra Energy nuclear fleet. NextEra Energy Resources, LLC is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). For more information, visit www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). NextEra Energy Partners acquires, manages and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Partners owns interests in geographically diverse wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. For more information about NextEra Energy Partners, please visit: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NextEra Energy's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning future compliance with the agreements associated with the resolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into eagle fatalities, including any related impacts to the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NextEra Energy and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or may require it to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this news release and the following: effects of extensive regulation of NextEra Energy's business operations; inability of NextEra Energy to recover in a timely manner any significant amount of costs, a return on certain assets or a reasonable return on invested capital through base rates, cost recovery clauses, other regulatory mechanisms or otherwise; impact of political, regulatory, operational and economic factors on regulatory decisions important to NextEra Energy; disallowance of cost recovery based on a finding of imprudent use of derivative instruments; effect of any reductions or modifications to, or elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support utility scale renewable energy projects or the imposition of additional tax laws, tariffs, duties, policies or assessments on renewable energy or equipment necessary to generate it or deliver it; impact of new or revised laws, regulations, interpretations or constitutional ballot and regulatory initiatives on NextEra Energy; capital expenditures, increased operating costs and various liabilities attributable to environmental laws, regulations and other standards applicable to NextEra Energy; effects on NextEra Energy of federal or state laws or regulations mandating new or additional limits on the production of greenhouse gas emissions; exposure of NextEra Energy to significant and increasing compliance costs and substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions as a result of extensive federal regulation of its operations and businesses; effect on NextEra Energy of changes in tax laws, guidance or policies as well as in judgments and estimates used to determine tax-related asset and liability amounts; impact on NextEra Energy of adverse results of litigation; effect on NextEra Energy of failure to proceed with projects under development or inability to complete the construction of (or capital improvements to) electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities or other facilities on schedule or within budget; impact on development and operating activities of NextEra Energy resulting from risks related to project siting, planning, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements, as well as supply chain disruptions; risks involved in the operation and maintenance of electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities, retail gas distribution system in Florida and other facilities; effect on NextEra Energy of a lack of growth or slower growth in the number of customers or in customer usage; impact on NextEra Energy of severe weather and other weather conditions; threats of terrorism and catastrophic events that could result from terrorism, cyberattacks or other attempts to disrupt NextEra Energy's business or the businesses of third parties; inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage for protection of NextEra Energy against significant losses and risk that insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; a prolonged period of low gas and oil prices could impact NextEra Energy's gas infrastructure business and cause NextEra Energy to delay or cancel certain gas infrastructure projects and could result in certain projects becoming impaired; risk of increased operating costs resulting from unfavorable supply costs necessary to provide full energy and capacity requirement services; inability or failure to manage properly or hedge effectively the commodity risk within its portfolio; effect of reductions in the liquidity of energy markets on NextEra Energy's ability to manage operational risks; effectiveness of NextEra Energy's risk management tools associated with its hedging and trading procedures to protect against significant losses, including the effect of unforeseen price variances from historical behavior; impact of unavailability or disruption of power transmission or commodity transportation facilities on sale and delivery of power or natural gas; exposure of NextEra Energy to credit and performance risk from customers, hedging counterparties and vendors; failure of counterparties to perform under derivative contracts or of requirement for NextEra Energy to post margin cash collateral under derivative contracts; failure or breach of NextEra Energy's information technology systems; risks to NextEra Energy's retail businesses from compromise of sensitive customer data; losses from volatility in the market values of derivative instruments and limited liquidity in over-the-counter markets; impact of negative publicity; inability to maintain, negotiate or renegotiate acceptable franchise agreements; occurrence of work strikes or stoppages and increasing personnel costs; NextEra Energy's ability to successfully identify, complete and integrate acquisitions, including the effect of increased competition for acquisitions; environmental, health and financial risks associated with ownership and operation of nuclear generation facilities; liability of NextEra Energy for significant retrospective assessments and/or retrospective insurance premiums in the event of an incident at certain nuclear generation facilities; increased operating and capital expenditures and/or reduced revenues at nuclear generation facilities resulting from orders or new regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; inability to operate any of NextEra Energy's owned nuclear generation units through the end of their respective operating licenses; effect of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets or actions by third parties in connection with project-specific or other financing arrangements on NextEra Energy's ability to fund its liquidity and capital needs and meet its growth objectives; inability to maintain current credit ratings; impairment of liquidity from inability of credit providers to fund their credit commitments or to maintain their current credit ratings; poor market performance and other economic factors that could affect NextEra Energy's defined benefit pension plan's funded status; poor market performance and other risks to the asset values of nuclear decommissioning funds; changes in market value and other risks to certain of NextEra Energy's investments; effect of inability of NextEra Energy subsidiaries to pay upstream dividends or repay funds to NextEra Energy or of NextEra Energy's performance under guarantees of subsidiary obligations on NextEra Energy's ability to meet its financial obligations and to pay dividends on its common stock; the fact that the amount and timing of dividends payable on NextEra Energy's common stock, as well as the dividend policy approved by NextEra Energy's board of directors from time to time, and changes to that policy, are within the sole discretion of NextEra Energy's board of directors and, if declared and paid, dividends may be in amounts that are less than might be expected by shareholders; NextEra Energy Partners, LP's inability to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms could have an effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and on the value of NextEra Energy's limited partner interest in NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP; effects of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets on the market price of NextEra Energy's common stock; and the ultimate severity and duration of public health crises, epidemics and pandemics, and its effects on NextEra Energy's business. NextEra Energy discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NextEra Energy undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (together with its subsidiaries, NEP) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NEP's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning future compliance with the agreements associated with the resolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into eagle fatalities, including any related impacts to the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy Partners. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "aim," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NEP and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause NEP's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties could require NEP to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders is affected by wind and solar conditions at its renewable energy projects; operation and maintenance of renewable energy projects and pipelines involve significant risks that could result in unplanned power outages, reduced output or capacity, personal injury or loss of life; NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects can be materially adversely affected by weather conditions, including, but not limited to, the impact of severe weather; NEP depends on certain of the renewable energy projects and pipelines in its portfolio for a substantial portion of its anticipated cash flows; NEP may pursue the repowering of wind projects or the expansion of natural gas pipelines that would require up-front capital expenditures and could expose NEP to project development risks; terrorist acts, cyberattacks or other similar events could impact NEP's projects, pipelines or surrounding areas and adversely affect its business; the ability of NEP to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could be materially adversely affected by international, national, state or local events and company-specific events, as well as the financial condition of insurers. NEP's insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; NEP relies on interconnection, transmission and other pipeline facilities of third parties to deliver energy from its renewable energy projects and to transport natural gas to and from its pipelines. If these facilities become unavailable, NEP's projects and pipelines may not be able to operate or deliver energy or may become partially or fully unavailable to transport natural gas; NEP's business is subject to liabilities and operating restrictions arising from environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, compliance with which may require significant capital expenditures, increase NEP's cost of operations and affect or limit its business plans; NEP's renewable energy projects or pipelines may be adversely affected by legislative changes or a failure to comply with applicable energy and pipeline regulations; Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) may claim certain immunities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Mexican law, and the Texas pipeline entities' ability to sue or recover from Pemex for breach of contract may be limited and may be exacerbated if there is a deterioration in the economic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico; NEP does not own all of the land on which the projects in its portfolio are located and its use and enjoyment of the property may be adversely affected to the extent that there are any lienholders or land rights holders that have rights that are superior to NEP's rights or the U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspends its federal rights-of-way grants; NEP is subject to risks associated with litigation or administrative proceedings that could materially impact its operations, including, but not limited to, proceedings related to projects it acquires in the future; NEP's operations require NEP to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations of the U.S. government and Mexico; NEP is subject to risks associated with its ownership interests in projects that are under construction, which could result in its inability to complete construction projects on time or at all, and make projects too expensive to complete or cause the return on an investment to be less than expected; NEP relies on a limited number of customers and is exposed to the risk that they may be unwilling or unable to fulfill their contractual obligations to NEP or that they otherwise terminate their agreements with NEP; NEP may not be able to extend, renew or replace expiring or terminated power purchase agreements (PPA), natural gas transportation agreements or other customer contracts at favorable rates or on a long-term basis; if the energy production by or availability of NEP's renewable energy projects is less than expected, they may not be able to satisfy minimum production or availability obligations under their PPAs; NEP's growth strategy depends on locating and acquiring interests in additional projects consistent with its business strategy at favorable prices; reductions in demand for natural gas in the United States or Mexico and low market prices of natural gas could materially adversely affect NEP's pipeline operations and cash flows; government laws, regulations and policies providing incentives and subsidies for clean energy could be changed, reduced or eliminated at any time and such changes may negatively impact NEP's growth strategy; NEP's growth strategy depends on the acquisition of projects developed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) and third parties, which face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, the environment, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements; acquisitions of existing clean energy projects involve numerous risks; NEP may continue to acquire other sources of clean energy and may expand to include other types of assets. Any further acquisition of non-renewable energy projects may present unforeseen challenges and result in a competitive disadvantage relative to NEP's more-established competitors; NEP faces substantial competition primarily from regulated utilities, developers, independent power producers, pension funds and private equity funds for opportunities in North America; the natural gas pipeline industry is highly competitive, and increased competitive pressure could adversely affect NEP's business; NEP may not be able to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms, which would have a material adverse effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and pursue other growth opportunities; restrictions in NEP and its subsidiaries' financing agreements could adversely affect NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEP's cash distributions to its unitholders may be reduced as a result of restrictions on NEP's subsidiaries' cash distributions to NEP under the terms of their indebtedness or other financing agreements; NEP's subsidiaries' substantial amount of indebtedness may adversely affect NEP's ability to operate its business, and its failure to comply with the terms of its subsidiaries' indebtedness could have a material adverse effect on NEP's financial condition; NEP is exposed to risks inherent in its use of interest rate swaps; widespread public health crises and epidemics or pandemics may have material adverse impacts on NEP's business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEE has influence over NEP; under the cash sweep and credit support agreement, NEP receives credit support from NEE and its affiliates. NEP's subsidiaries may default under contracts or become subject to cash sweeps if credit support is terminated, if NEE or its affiliates fail to honor their obligations under credit support arrangements, or if NEE or another credit support provider ceases to satisfy creditworthiness requirements, and NEP will be required in certain circumstances to reimburse NEE for draws that are made on credit support; NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) or one of its affiliates is permitted to borrow funds received by NEP's subsidiaries and is obligated to return these funds only as needed to cover project costs and distributions or as demanded by NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP (NEP OpCo). NEP's financial condition and ability to make distributions to its unitholders, as well as its ability to grow distributions in the future, is highly dependent on NEER's performance of its obligations to return all or a portion of these funds; NEER's right of first refusal may adversely affect NEP's ability to consummate future sales or to obtain favorable sale terms; NextEra Energy Partners GP, Inc. 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NEP discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings made through the date of this news release. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NEP undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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In the wake of the global disruption of the supply chain, high performance leaders for the final mile are in top demand more than ever before.
ORLANDO, Fla., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialist executive search firms for the final mile such as TransgisticsTalent.com have received triple the number of requests for top leadership talent in the Final mile segment of the 3PL distribution sector.
James P. Tolan, Managing Partner of the firm, admits that Transgistics Talent has been compelled to beef up its own talent research teams as the competition for top leadership talent in the C- Suite has been overwhelming.
As more private equity firms acquire final mile businesses, the need to place high performance leaders to increase profitability is paramount.
"We are experiencing a surge in demand for top high-performance leaders" said Tolan, "very similar to peak performance athletes in professional sports teams, if you have the right leadership, they drive the winning culture hands down", he added.
"Our clients rely on our reputation of having the ability to understand their business and tap into our vast network of final mile executives and leaders who can hit the ground running and make a difference from day one", he said.
The award-winning search firm has also cited shortages in the entire management cycle they are filling for transportation hubs, cold storage, and all white glove home deliveries.
"We look for integrity, specialized experience and a driving passion to lead winning teams, says Tolan, and our search process speaks to these metrics without compromise."
The global reshuffle of talent has helped many of our clients' micro-focus on how important bringing in top leadership will be to their bottom line, and this has our team bustling with renewed activity to fulfil the mission mandated to us by our final mile clients.
About Transgistics Talent
Transgistics Talent is a privately held executive search firm that deploys its decade of experience to enable growth for its clients in the logistical / 3pl/ final mile / home delivery space.
Led by Managing Partner James P. Tolan, the firm has associates throughout North America to serve multiple markets and verticals within the logistics niche.
For more information visit: www.Transgisticstalent.com and discover more about talent solutions for final mile, home delivery 3pl, logistics.
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1,000 amendments can’t stall SC transgender sports bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina’s Republican House majority outlasted more than 1,000 amendments by Democrats on Tuesday and passed a bill that would bar transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools in colleges.
The delaying tactic by Democrats was largely symbolic but it still held off a vote for hours before the bill passed 82-28 on Tuesday evening. The bill was just one routine step away from heading to the South Carolina Senate for its consideration. That chamber is dominated by Republicans too.
If ultimately passed and signed into law, the bill would have South Carolina join a number of other conservative states in requiring transgender students to compete with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
Between the four large boxes of amendments and a tornado warning that evacuated the chamber, debate dragged on for nearly eight hours. But the Republican House majority passed the bill about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.
About a dozen states have already passed similar legislation, and transgender athletes have become an issue in midterm campaigns in such states as Pennsylvania. But Republicans aren’t in lockstep, with GOP governors in Indiana and Utah vetoing bans in their states.
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Group claims fetuses in DC home proof of illegal abortions
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 12:13 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - An anti-abortion group says the five fetuses found last week in a member’s home came from the medical waste being disposed by a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
The group, known as the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, claims it contacted the police to collect the fetuses in hopes that an autopsy would prove that the clinic was conducting federally illegal late-stage abortions.
Last week, the Metropolitan Police Department removed five aborted fetuses from the home of Lauren Handy, a longtime anti-abortion rights activist.
Police removed the fetuses one day after Handy and eight others were charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020.
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GENEVA, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpian SA ("Alpian"), an innovative digital private bank, today announced the granting by FINMA of a banking license and a successful CHF19 million Series B+ closing, enabling Alpian to shortly launch to the public in Q3 2022, becoming Switzerland's first digital private bank.
Alpian, majority-owned by Fideuram-Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, secured a third round of financing, fully subscribed by Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking. The financing will support the deployment of Alpian's range of services in Switzerland, comprising both private and online banking.
This hybrid model combines a secure, state-of-the-art banking experience with the support of Alpian's qualified wealth advisors, giving affluent clients access to services normally reserved for traditional private banking. To complement this, Alpian has seamlessly woven everyday banking features into its digital offering.
Schuyler Weiss, CEO of Alpian, commented:
"Since 2019, we have built what will become Switzerland's first digital private bank. With the funds raised during the Series B+ and with its new standing as a licensed Swiss bank, Alpian is well equipped to launch its offering."
Pasha Bakhtiar, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo Partner and Chairman of the board at Alpian, added:
"We are proud to have passed these two milestones on our way to delivering a truly unique and bespoke digital private banking offering. The successful journey so far is a testament to the resilience and dynamism of the Alpian team, as well as the vision of REYL Intesa Sanpaolo."
Luca Bortolan, Head of Direct Bank Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, added:
"From the beginning, we have seen Alpian as a great opportunity to invest in the development of digital private banking. Alpian will bring both strategic and synergy driven value, demonstrating our proactive commitment of addressing the needs of its current and future clients."
About Alpian SA
www.alpian.com
Alpian is Switzerland's first ever digital private bank, incubated by REYL Intesa Sanpaolo and incorporated in October 2019.
About REYL Intesa Sanpaolo
www.reyl.com
Founded in 1973, REYL & Cie is a diversified banking group with offices in Switzerland, Europe (London, Luxembourg, Malta) and the rest of the world (Singapore, Dubai).
About Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking
www.fideuram.it
Headquartered in Milan, Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking is the leading private banking player in Italy and a key subsidiary of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, which controls all the group's private banking activities.
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Google Cloud and founding members form initiative to eliminate data lock-in and ensure access to data across leading storage, analytics, and database providers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud and many of the fastest-growing data, analytics, storage, and database providers in the tech industry today announced they are forming a new initiative to ensure that global businesses have more seamless access and insights into the data required for digital transformation. As founding members of the Data Cloud Alliance, Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, and Starburst are committing to make data more portable and accessible across disparate business systems, platforms, and environments—with a goal of ensuring that access to data is never a barrier to digital transformation.
Businesses face growing pressures to digitally transform—to reach consumers in new ways, launch entirely new digital businesses, and to meet increasingly complex governance and compliance requirements. Data is essential to digital transformation. Every consumer interaction - searches, e-commerce transactions, online comments, clicks, upvotes, and much more - creates more data every minute. The proliferation of data, along with the many software and cloud-based applications used to analyze and manage it, means businesses increasingly need common digital data standards, and a commitment to open data, in order to effectively utilize data to digitally transform.
The Data Cloud Alliance is committed to accelerating adoption of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning best practices across industries through common industry data models, open standards, and integrated processes. Members of the alliance will work together to help reduce customer challenges and complexity with data governance, data privacy, data loss prevention, and global compliance. For the betterment of customers' data clouds, the alliance will commit to solving skills gaps through skill development for practitioners in modern data and analytics technologies.
Data Cloud Alliance members will provide infrastructure, APIs, and integration support to ensure data portability and accessibility between multiple platforms and products across multiple environments—on-premises, in public or private cloud, or in a hybrid model; and each Alliance member will collaborate on new, common industry data models, processes, and platform integrations to increase data portability and reduce complexity associated with data governance and global compliance.
"Data is the common foundation for all digital transformations," said Gerrit Kazmaier, VP and GM of Databases, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence at Google Cloud. "By committing to open data standards, access, and integration between the most popular data platforms and applications today, we believe we can significantly accelerate business transformations and close the data to value gap."
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- "Our clients win when we are the catalyst to enable smoother technology pathways for stronger collaboration and more industry growth. With the Data Cloud Alliance, we are teaming with our ecosystem partners to be maniacally focused on open standards for data exchange across the cloud continuum. It's about creating an open gateway for all partners to join us in unleashing more value for our clients and accelerating their digital transformation post pandemic," said Lan Guan, Accenture Cloud First Data & AI lead.
- "As enterprises accelerate their journeys to cloud and modernize their data stacks, they need to be equipped with the necessary skills, freedom of technology choice, and data portability to ensure their data analytics strategies are future proofed," said Chad Verbowski, SVP of Engineering at Confluent. "We're excited to join the Data Cloud Alliance to contribute our data streaming expertise and help make sure access to data is never the barrier to innovation."
- "Databricks is excited to partner with Google Cloud to foster data sharing based on open standards like Delta Lake. The Data Cloud Alliance reinforces our commitment to open data sharing and the open data lakehouse paradigm, which empower data teams to collaborate more effectively," said David Meyer, SVP of Products, Databricks.
- "We are proud to be a member of the new Data Cloud Alliance, furthering our mission to make AI part of an organization's everyday activities. This initiative will empower more companies to seamlessly scale their AI projects and deliver exceptional results," said David Tharp, SVP of Ecosystems and Alliances at Dataiku.
- "We are excited to collaborate with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance on industry standard data models, processes, and platform integrations to help increase data portability for our clients that choose Google Cloud products for their digital transformation journey," said Francisco Barroso, principal, US Analytics & Cognitive offering leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
- "Successful digital transformation requires data to be accessible across systems, platforms, and environments," said Shay Banon, Founder and CTO, Elastic. "We are proud to partner with Google Cloud and the Data Cloud Alliance members to help customers build a strong data foundation through open data access, sharing, and integration."
- "Fivetran is proud to pledge support for the Data Cloud Alliance. As the data-to-value gap increases, no one technology or service can tackle this challenge alone. We recognize our obligation as a data cloud leader to expedite and automate the first leg of analytics—data integration, particularly from SaaS and database sources—so that rich insights are made available to organizations much faster in order to make data-driven decisions," said Mark Van de Wiel, Field CTO at Fivetran.
- "We are excited to partner with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance to unify access to data across clouds and application environments to remove barriers to digital transformation efforts," said Mark Porter, Chief Technology Officer, MongoDB. "Legacy frameworks have made working with data hard for too many organizations. There couldn't be a more timely, and important data initiative to build faster and smarter data-driven applications for customers."
- "Neo4j is committed to open standards, best practices, and skills development, as a means of breaking down barriers to productivity and interoperability. We're proud to partner with Google Cloud and other founding members of the Data Cloud Alliance in evolving best practices and standards for the modern data stack," said Philip Rathle, SVP Products at Neo4j.
- "Redis is excited to partner with Google Cloud and the members of this Data Cloud Alliance to collaborate on the ways data and AI can help solve customers' evolving modern application challenges and unlock the next wave of innovation and customer success," said Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-Founder at Redis.
- "We believe every company should have the right to quickly access their data without barriers and expensive penalties. Starburst is proud to be a founding member of the Data Cloud Alliance, and remains committed to quickly unlocking access to data so companies can be truly data-driven and accelerate their digital transformation journeys," said Justin Borgman, Co-Founder and CEO of Starburst.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Pemazyre® (pemigatinib) for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as confirmed by a validated diagnostic test that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
Pemazyre®, discovered by Incyte and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan markets, is the first selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma, a type of biliary tract cancer, in China, representing a new milestone following its approval in Hong Kong market in January 2022, and in the Taiwan market in June 2021.
The approval in China was based on two clinical studies. One is the FIGHT-202 study, which is a Phase 2, multi-center, open-label, single-arm study (NCT02924376) evaluating the safety and efficacy of pemigatinib in adult (age ≥18 years) patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with documented FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement. The other study was a bridging study (CIBI375A201, NCT04256980) conducted in China evaluating the safety and efficacy of pemigatinib in Chinese cholangiocarcinoma patients. The primary end point was overall response rate (ORR) evaluated by an independent radiological review committee (IRRC) per RECIST V1.1.
In the FIGHT-202 study[1], as data cut of date (April 7th,2020), a total of 108 subjects with FGFR2 fusion/rearrangement were enrolled and orally received pemigatinib 13.5mg per day(Q3W 2 weeks on/1 week off), the IRRC-confirmed ORR was 37.0% (95% CI: 27.94%, 46.86%), including 4 complete responses(CR). The median duration of response (DOR) was 8.08 months with responses lasting ≥ 6 months in 26 of the 40 (66.0%) responding patients and ≥ 12 months in 15 (37.5%) patients. In study CIBI375A201, as of data cut-off date (January 29th, 2021), among 30 efficacy evaluable Chinese subjects enrolled, the IRRC-confirmed ORR was 50%(95% CI: 31.3%,68.7%). The overall safety profiles of FIGHT-202 and the study CIBI375A201 are similar and the majority of the adverse events were grade 1 or 2 per CTCAE V5.0. Pemigatinib was generally well tolerated in Chinese patients with cholangiocarcinoma.
Professor Jian Zhou in Zhong Shan Hospital Fudan University stated that: "Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most common malignancy originated in the liver with a high incidence rate in Asia. The disease is usually not diagnosed until it has already developed into an advanced unresectable and/or metastatic stage. There are limited treatment options currently, which call for innovative drugs."
"The approval of Pemazyre® by the NMPA, following the approval in Hong Kong and Taiwan market earlier in Greater China market, represents that Innovent has further broadened our product market coverage. At the same time, the approval of Pemazyre® also provided a new treatment option for cholangiocarcinoma patients in China." Dr. Yongjun Liu, President of Innovent, stated: "Data from previous clinical trials of Pemazyre® in participants with advanced cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy has shown satisfactory safety results and also revealed encouraging efficacy signals. The approval further enhanced our confidence and interests in conducting in-depth clinical development of pemigatinib in more potential indications, including the ongoing global clinical trial (including China) evaluating pemigatinib as a first-line therapy for cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion."
About Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma and FGFR2 Rearrangement
Cholangiocarcinoma is a malignant tumour originated from biliary epithelium cells and it is categorized as intrahepatic or extrahepatic based on anatomical location of origin. The incidence of cholangiocarcinoma has been increasing progressively over the past decade. Surgery is the first line treatment for patients with resectable disease. However, most cholangiocarcinomas have been in advanced and/or metastatic status at diagnosis and lost the chance for surgical resection. The treatment options for patients who relapse after surgery or have advanced / metastatic disease are limited and the recommended therapy method is systemic chemotherapy with gemcitabine plus cisplatin, which has a medium overall survival of less than a year.
Aberrant signaling through FGFR resulting from gene amplification or mutation, chromosomal translocation, and ligand-dependent activation of the receptors has been demonstrated in multiple types of human cancers. Fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling contributes to the development of malignancies by promoting tumor cell proliferation, survival, migration, and angiogenesis. Results from early clinical studies of selective FGFR inhibitors, including Pemazyre, have shown a tolerable safety profile for the class and preliminary signs of clinical benefit in participants with FGF/FGFR alterations.
About Pemazyre® (pemigatinib)
In April 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Incyte's Pemazyre® (pemigatinib), a selective, oral inhibitor of FGFR isoforms 1, 2 and 3, for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as detected by an FDA-approved test. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s).
In Japan, Pemazyre® is approved for the treatment of patients with unresectable biliary tract cancer with a FGFR2 fusion gene, worsening after cancer chemotherapy. In Europe, Pemazyre® is approved for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy. Pemazyre® is marketed by Incyte in the United States, Europe and Japan.
In December 2018, Innovent and Incyte entered into a strategic collaboration for three clinical-stage product candidates discovered and developed by Incyte, including pemigatinib (FGFR1/2/3 inhibitor). Under the terms of the agreement, Innovent has received the rights to develop and commercialize the three assets in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
In March 2020, Innovent announced that the first patient was dosed in the pivotal registrational trial evaluating pemigatinib in patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma in China.
In June 2021, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.
In January 2022, Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
In April 2022, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China approved Pemazyre® for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2(FGFR2) fusion or rearrangement as confirmed by a validated diagnostic test that have progressed after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.
Pemazyre® is a trademark of Incyte Corporation.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, metabolic and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully-integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 32 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune diseases and other major therapeutic areas, with 7 products, TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), PEMAZYRE® (pemigatinib), olverembatinib (BCR ABL inhibitor) and Cyramza® (ramucirumab), 1 asset under NMPA NDA review, 5 assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and an additional 19 molecules in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hanmi and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com. and www.linkedin.com/company/innovent-biologics/.
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OUOZZZ is a doll brand that believes in the power of smiles and commits to giving humanistic care to children, including those with depression and anxiety disorders. Inspired by the beauty and power of African-American fashion styles, OUOZZZ is now having its new characters on archetypes of inclusive skin-toned girls who have "Afro" hairstyles.
Looking back at the history of fashion evolution, many female icons wearing natural afros set a precedent for what it means to be "IT" girls—to embrace and take pride in their natural beauty. OUOZZZ believes beauty coming in all colors and the newly released products speak to its will: children who play, cuddle and hug to sleep with OUOZZZ dolls will feel happy, confident, and more represented.
OUOZZZ genuinely understands children and designs dolls to truly address their needs. When playing with dolls, children want to feel like spending time with their closest friends, and dolls are someone they can trust and develop a sense of belonging with, rather than simply sleeping partners. By releasing the new line iFrodoll, OUOZZZ wants to convey the message to its customers, especially baby girls, that they are always supported to be confident in their own looks, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or background, and they should be brave enough to fight the stereotypical standard of beauty.
The new iFrodoll line has three different characters which are the cute girl Nevaeh, the sleeping Dora, and the outgoing Ash. And instead of leaving it at that, OUOZZZ also creates a sub-category of accessories based on the characters, like backpacks and blankets matching the dolls, to offer a more complete experience for children.
Before iFrodoll, OUOZZZ's doll family has four characters: the sleeping Iris, the gentle Abby, the joyful Becky, and the brave boy Carl. OUOZZZ dolls are designed to bring smiles to children, with textures that are often cited as "incredibly soft" and "super comfortable" by its fans. Now by releasing the new line, OUOZZZ is growing as a brand not only innovative and caring but also inclusive.
About OUOZZZ
Designed by a new dad, OUOZZZ is a subordinate brand of Starpony. Starpony is a professional toy company that aims to design and create world-class toys while providing an extraordinary customer experience. Starpony devotes itself to enriching families and providing educational toys by inspiring creativity and sparking curiosity.
OUOZZZ products are sold on Amazon and Walmart.
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Norman voters elected Larry Heikkila their next mayor, selected Helen Grant to fill the Ward 4 seat and Alex Ruggiers for the Office No. 2 school board seat, and shot down a proposed water rate increase Tuesday.
As results begin to roll in around 7 p.m. Tuesday, keep up with each race's updated tallies below. All below numbers are unofficial results from the Oklahoma State Election Board.
Mayoral race
Mayor Breea Clark and Larry Heikkila are facing off in the runoff for mayor. With 100% precincts reporting, Heikkila has taken the race:
- Clark: 46.61%
- Heikkila: 53.39%
Ward 4 race
Helen Grant and Gale Hobson are vying for the Ward 4 City Council seat in Tuesday's runoff. With 100% of precincts reporting, Grant has taken the seat with the following vote tallies:
- Grant: 54.41%
- Hobson: 45.59%
Norman Public Schools Board of Education Office No. 2
Alex Ruggiers and incumbent Dan Snell are in Tuesday's runoff for a seat on Norman Public Schools' school board. With 100% of precincts reporting, Ruggiers has taken the seat with the following totals:
- Ruggiers: 63.63%
- Snell: 36.37%
Water rate increase
With 100% of precincts reporting, Norman voters shot down the proposed water rate increase:
- For: 45.41%
- Against: 54.59%
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Norman voters said "no" to a water rate increase Tuesday, preliminary election results from the election board indicate.
Results showed, 54.59% voted against and 45.41% for it. Votes totaled 24,127, with 13,170 who voted no and 10,957 who voted for it.
Voters were asked to increase the water rate from $7.50 to $9.30, and the rate for 0-5,000 gallons from $3.35 to $4.20. At least 73% of households fall into the consumption category of up to 5,000 gallons per month.
City spokeswoman Tiffany Vrska said the city "respects the will of the people and will continue to provide the utmost levels of service with resources and funding available."
Additional revenue would help the city finance a $15 million project to install automatic water meter readers and a $17 million well-blending initiative to combine groundwater and surface water to better maintain residual chlorine levels. City staff asked for the increase to replace 300 miles of aging water lines of the city's 640 miles of pipe. The replacement cost is $750,000 per mile of lines.
Vrska also said staff "intends to identify funds as quickly as possible in order to move forward with groundwater treatment plans, per DEQ [Department of Environmental Quality] requirements."
"Although this may mean vast delays in other capital projects for Utilities, the health and safety of the Norman community comes first. Timelines concerning forward movement on the Advanced Water Metering initiative will be revisited and the public will be kept apprised of plans," she said.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) (TSX: PAAS) ("Pan American") will announce its unaudited results for the first quarter of 2022 ("Q1 2022") after market close on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Pan American will also hold its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Shareholders Meeting") the same day at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 pm PT).
Q1 2022 Unaudited Results Conference Call and Webcast
Pan American plans to release its unaudited results for Q1 2022 on Wednesday May 11, 2022, after market close. Details for the related conference call and webcast are as follows:
Webcast: via our website at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/
or directly at https://services.choruscall.ca/links/panamericansilver20220512.html
The live webcast, presentation slides and the Q1 2022 report will be available at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/. An archive of the webcast will also be available at the same link for three months.
Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders
Pan American is scheduled to hold its Shareholders Meeting at the offices of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, 1200 Waterfront Centre, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 pm PT).
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders and proxyholders are encouraged not to attend the Shareholders Meeting in person and are urged to vote in advance by proxy, as discussed in the Company's management information circular (the "Circular").
The Shareholders Meeting may be accessed remotely via live conference call and audio webcast. Material related to the Shareholders Meeting, including the Circular, is available at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/ under the heading "Annual General and Special Meeting".
Details for the Shareholders Meeting conference call and webcast are as follows:
Webcast: via our website at https://www.panamericansilver.com/investors/events-and-presentations/
or directly at https://services.choruscall.ca/links/panamericansilver20220511.html
About Pan American Silver
Pan American Silver owns and operates silver and gold mines located in Mexico, Peru, Canada, Argentina and Bolivia. We also own the Escobal mine in Guatemala that is currently not operating. Pan American Silver provides enhanced exposure to silver through a large base of silver reserves and resources, as well as major catalysts to grow silver production. We have a 28-year history of operating in Latin America, earning an industry-leading reputation for sustainability performance, operational excellence and prudent financial management. We are headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and our shares trade on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "PAAS".
Learn more at panamericansilver.com.
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Norman voters have chosen Larry Heikkila to be the city's next mayor, preliminary election reports indicated Tuesday.
Heikkila received 53.39% of the votes, beating incumbent Breea Clark. Votes cast totaled 24,345 with 12,999 for Heikkila and 11,346 for Clark.
"I am humbled, and so very honored the citizens of Norman have chosen me to become Norman’s next mayor," Heikkila said.
He credited "a grassroots campaign" who wanted a change.
"I hold the confidence the citizens have given me to bring a change to Norman very serious," he said. "I will be the champion Norman needs to make a positive impact for everyone in our community."
During the Feb. 8 primary, Heikkila and Clark defeated opponents "Midway" Bob Thompson, Dr. Nicole Kish and Alice Stephenson-Leuck. Clark received 4.45% more of the votes than Heikkila in the primary.
It was an election both candidates fought on battleground issues facing Norman, from increasing police funding to boost staff levels to economic development and quality of life projects to retain families and attract tourism to the city.
"Everyone who ran entered the mayoral race had one central goal, and that was to improve the City of Norman. While some of us had different opinions of what means, I thank all of the candidates for their dedication and their love for the City of Norman," he said.
Clark broadcast her concession speech to her official Facebook page.
“I will do everything I can in power to support mayor-elect Heikkila,” she said to a crowd of supporters.
Clark said the election was not about her nor was it about her opponent – it was about improving Norman.
“The future of our community and the future of our state is not something I'm willing to risk. It's time for the drama and the partisan politics to end,” she said.
Clark also thanked her volunteers, her campaign workers and her family for their support.
“I want to thank every candidate,” she said. “Midway Bob, Dr. Kish, Ms. Leuck, and again, mayor-elect Heikkila, I wish you the very best.”
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JUNO BEACH, Fla., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy Resources, LLC President and CEO and NextEra Energy Partners, LP President Rebecca Kujawa issued the following statement regarding today's announced agreement between the Department of Justice and ESI Energy, LLC, a NextEra Energy Resources affiliate, concerning eagle deaths at certain wind farms.
"Today, ESI Energy voluntarily entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice related to the accidental fatalities of eagles at certain wind farms owned and/or operated by NextEra Energy Resources and NextEra Energy Partners. We disagree with the government's underlying enforcement policy, which under most circumstances makes building and operating a wind farm into which certain birds may accidentally fly a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) – even when the wind farm was developed and sited in a way that sought to avoid avian wildlife collisions. The reality is building any structure, driving any vehicle, or flying any airplane carries with it a possibility that accidental eagle and other bird collisions may occur as a result of that activity.
"Unfortunately, the federal government, at odds with many states and a number of federal court decisions, has sought to criminalize unavoidable accidents related to collisions of birds into wind turbines while at the same time failing to address other activities that result in far greater numbers of accidental eagle and other bird mortalities.
"We have a long-standing and well-earned reputation for protecting our environment and positively co-existing with and supporting wildlife around our facilities, and we have never sited a wind turbine knowing an eagle would fly into it nor have we taken any action in disregard of federal law. In fact, our company makes significant efforts to avoid accidental collisions with bird populations, including eagles. Over the last 20 years, NextEra Energy has invested more than $150 million across the U.S. to support our avian impact mitigation efforts, including taking actions to mitigate avian interaction with our poles, wires and energy generation facilities. We believe that the wind energy industry, including NextEra Energy Resources, voluntarily does more than any other industry in seeking to minimize interactions with avian wildlife.
"However, the most expedient solution was to resolve this dispute and focus our attention on continuing to develop, build, and operate emissions-free wind energy centers for a lower carbon America built by good-paying American jobs. In order to put this issue behind us, ESI Energy agreed to plead guilty to three misdemeanors under the MBTA associated with accidental eagle fatalities at three of our subsidiary wind facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico. The MBTA is a 1918 statute that prohibits individuals and entities from pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting most U.S. birds. NextEra Energy Resources has always maintained, and continues to believe, notwithstanding ESI's plea, that this statute was only intended to cover intentional behavior, like hunting and poaching of migratory birds. As recently as last year, the federal government had adopted regulations that codified that accidental collisions did not violate the MBTA.
"Also, as part of the resolution of this matter, ESI has agreed that a number of NextEra Energy Resources' and NextEra Energy Partners' wind facilities will apply for eagle 'take' permits under another federal statute, even though we believe that, like the MBTA, this law does not require a permit to cover unintentional collisions that occur when eagles fly into properly developed wind energy facilities.
"Compliance with the agreements, which includes, among other provisions, payment of a fixed amount and cost caps for compliance with the eagle management plan for a period of at least five years, is not expected to have a material impact on the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy or NextEra Energy Partners. This resolution will resolve all past fatalities and provides a framework that will allow us to move forward without a continued threat related to these statutes.
"NextEra Energy Resources' goal has always been, and remains, to develop our projects in ways that will not damage wildlife populations, including eagle populations, and we hope that our resources committed as part of this resolution will be devoted to optimizing eagle conservation."
NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (together with its affiliated entities, "NextEra Energy Resources") is a clean energy leader and is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the U.S., with approximately 24,600 megawatts of total net generating capacity, primarily in 38 states and Canada as of year-end 2021. NextEra Energy Resources, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun based on 2021 megawatt hours produced on a net generation basis, and a world leader in battery storage. The business operates clean, emissions-free nuclear power generation facilities in New Hampshire and Wisconsin as part of the NextEra Energy nuclear fleet. NextEra Energy Resources, LLC is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). For more information, visit www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). NextEra Energy Partners acquires, manages and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Partners owns interests in geographically diverse wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. For more information about NextEra Energy Partners, please visit: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NextEra Energy's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning future compliance with the agreements associated with the resolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into eagle fatalities, including any related impacts to the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NextEra Energy and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or may require it to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this news release and the following: effects of extensive regulation of NextEra Energy's business operations; inability of NextEra Energy to recover in a timely manner any significant amount of costs, a return on certain assets or a reasonable return on invested capital through base rates, cost recovery clauses, other regulatory mechanisms or otherwise; impact of political, regulatory, operational and economic factors on regulatory decisions important to NextEra Energy; disallowance of cost recovery based on a finding of imprudent use of derivative instruments; effect of any reductions or modifications to, or elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support utility scale renewable energy projects or the imposition of additional tax laws, tariffs, duties, policies or assessments on renewable energy or equipment necessary to generate it or deliver it; impact of new or revised laws, regulations, interpretations or constitutional ballot and regulatory initiatives on NextEra Energy; capital expenditures, increased operating costs and various liabilities attributable to environmental laws, regulations and other standards applicable to NextEra Energy; effects on NextEra Energy of federal or state laws or regulations mandating new or additional limits on the production of greenhouse gas emissions; exposure of NextEra Energy to significant and increasing compliance costs and substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions as a result of extensive federal regulation of its operations and businesses; effect on NextEra Energy of changes in tax laws, guidance or policies as well as in judgments and estimates used to determine tax-related asset and liability amounts; impact on NextEra Energy of adverse results of litigation; effect on NextEra Energy of failure to proceed with projects under development or inability to complete the construction of (or capital improvements to) electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities or other facilities on schedule or within budget; impact on development and operating activities of NextEra Energy resulting from risks related to project siting, planning, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements, as well as supply chain disruptions; risks involved in the operation and maintenance of electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities, retail gas distribution system in Florida and other facilities; effect on NextEra Energy of a lack of growth or slower growth in the number of customers or in customer usage; impact on NextEra Energy of severe weather and other weather conditions; threats of terrorism and catastrophic events that could result from terrorism, cyberattacks or other attempts to disrupt NextEra Energy's business or the businesses of third parties; inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage for protection of NextEra Energy against significant losses and risk that insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; a prolonged period of low gas and oil prices could impact NextEra Energy's gas infrastructure business and cause NextEra Energy to delay or cancel certain gas infrastructure projects and could result in certain projects becoming impaired; risk of increased operating costs resulting from unfavorable supply costs necessary to provide full energy and capacity requirement services; inability or failure to manage properly or hedge effectively the commodity risk within its portfolio; effect of reductions in the liquidity of energy markets on NextEra Energy's ability to manage operational risks; effectiveness of NextEra Energy's risk management tools associated with its hedging and trading procedures to protect against significant losses, including the effect of unforeseen price variances from historical behavior; impact of unavailability or disruption of power transmission or commodity transportation facilities on sale and delivery of power or natural gas; exposure of NextEra Energy to credit and performance risk from customers, hedging counterparties and vendors; failure of counterparties to perform under derivative contracts or of requirement for NextEra Energy to post margin cash collateral under derivative contracts; failure or breach of NextEra Energy's information technology systems; risks to NextEra Energy's retail businesses from compromise of sensitive customer data; losses from volatility in the market values of derivative instruments and limited liquidity in over-the-counter markets; impact of negative publicity; inability to maintain, negotiate or renegotiate acceptable franchise agreements; occurrence of work strikes or stoppages and increasing personnel costs; NextEra Energy's ability to successfully identify, complete and integrate acquisitions, including the effect of increased competition for acquisitions; environmental, health and financial risks associated with ownership and operation of nuclear generation facilities; liability of NextEra Energy for significant retrospective assessments and/or retrospective insurance premiums in the event of an incident at certain nuclear generation facilities; increased operating and capital expenditures and/or reduced revenues at nuclear generation facilities resulting from orders or new regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; inability to operate any of NextEra Energy's owned nuclear generation units through the end of their respective operating licenses; effect of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets or actions by third parties in connection with project-specific or other financing arrangements on NextEra Energy's ability to fund its liquidity and capital needs and meet its growth objectives; inability to maintain current credit ratings; impairment of liquidity from inability of credit providers to fund their credit commitments or to maintain their current credit ratings; poor market performance and other economic factors that could affect NextEra Energy's defined benefit pension plan's funded status; poor market performance and other risks to the asset values of nuclear decommissioning funds; changes in market value and other risks to certain of NextEra Energy's investments; effect of inability of NextEra Energy subsidiaries to pay upstream dividends or repay funds to NextEra Energy or of NextEra Energy's performance under guarantees of subsidiary obligations on NextEra Energy's ability to meet its financial obligations and to pay dividends on its common stock; the fact that the amount and timing of dividends payable on NextEra Energy's common stock, as well as the dividend policy approved by NextEra Energy's board of directors from time to time, and changes to that policy, are within the sole discretion of NextEra Energy's board of directors and, if declared and paid, dividends may be in amounts that are less than might be expected by shareholders; NextEra Energy Partners, LP's inability to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms could have an effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and on the value of NextEra Energy's limited partner interest in NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP; effects of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets on the market price of NextEra Energy's common stock; and the ultimate severity and duration of public health crises, epidemics and pandemics, and its effects on NextEra Energy's business. NextEra Energy discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NextEra Energy undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (together with its subsidiaries, NEP) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NEP's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning future compliance with the agreements associated with the resolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into eagle fatalities, including any related impacts to the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of NextEra Energy Partners. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "aim," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NEP and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause NEP's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties could require NEP to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders is affected by wind and solar conditions at its renewable energy projects; operation and maintenance of renewable energy projects and pipelines involve significant risks that could result in unplanned power outages, reduced output or capacity, personal injury or loss of life; NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects can be materially adversely affected by weather conditions, including, but not limited to, the impact of severe weather; NEP depends on certain of the renewable energy projects and pipelines in its portfolio for a substantial portion of its anticipated cash flows; NEP may pursue the repowering of wind projects or the expansion of natural gas pipelines that would require up-front capital expenditures and could expose NEP to project development risks; terrorist acts, cyberattacks or other similar events could impact NEP's projects, pipelines or surrounding areas and adversely affect its business; the ability of NEP to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could be materially adversely affected by international, national, state or local events and company-specific events, as well as the financial condition of insurers. NEP's insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; NEP relies on interconnection, transmission and other pipeline facilities of third parties to deliver energy from its renewable energy projects and to transport natural gas to and from its pipelines. If these facilities become unavailable, NEP's projects and pipelines may not be able to operate or deliver energy or may become partially or fully unavailable to transport natural gas; NEP's business is subject to liabilities and operating restrictions arising from environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, compliance with which may require significant capital expenditures, increase NEP's cost of operations and affect or limit its business plans; NEP's renewable energy projects or pipelines may be adversely affected by legislative changes or a failure to comply with applicable energy and pipeline regulations; Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) may claim certain immunities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Mexican law, and the Texas pipeline entities' ability to sue or recover from Pemex for breach of contract may be limited and may be exacerbated if there is a deterioration in the economic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico; NEP does not own all of the land on which the projects in its portfolio are located and its use and enjoyment of the property may be adversely affected to the extent that there are any lienholders or land rights holders that have rights that are superior to NEP's rights or the U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspends its federal rights-of-way grants; NEP is subject to risks associated with litigation or administrative proceedings that could materially impact its operations, including, but not limited to, proceedings related to projects it acquires in the future; NEP's operations require NEP to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations of the U.S. government and Mexico; NEP is subject to risks associated with its ownership interests in projects that are under construction, which could result in its inability to complete construction projects on time or at all, and make projects too expensive to complete or cause the return on an investment to be less than expected; NEP relies on a limited number of customers and is exposed to the risk that they may be unwilling or unable to fulfill their contractual obligations to NEP or that they otherwise terminate their agreements with NEP; NEP may not be able to extend, renew or replace expiring or terminated power purchase agreements (PPA), natural gas transportation agreements or other customer contracts at favorable rates or on a long-term basis; if the energy production by or availability of NEP's renewable energy projects is less than expected, they may not be able to satisfy minimum production or availability obligations under their PPAs; NEP's growth strategy depends on locating and acquiring interests in additional projects consistent with its business strategy at favorable prices; reductions in demand for natural gas in the United States or Mexico and low market prices of natural gas could materially adversely affect NEP's pipeline operations and cash flows; government laws, regulations and policies providing incentives and subsidies for clean energy could be changed, reduced or eliminated at any time and such changes may negatively impact NEP's growth strategy; NEP's growth strategy depends on the acquisition of projects developed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) and third parties, which face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, the environment, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements; acquisitions of existing clean energy projects involve numerous risks; NEP may continue to acquire other sources of clean energy and may expand to include other types of assets. Any further acquisition of non-renewable energy projects may present unforeseen challenges and result in a competitive disadvantage relative to NEP's more-established competitors; NEP faces substantial competition primarily from regulated utilities, developers, independent power producers, pension funds and private equity funds for opportunities in North America; the natural gas pipeline industry is highly competitive, and increased competitive pressure could adversely affect NEP's business; NEP may not be able to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms, which would have a material adverse effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and pursue other growth opportunities; restrictions in NEP and its subsidiaries' financing agreements could adversely affect NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEP's cash distributions to its unitholders may be reduced as a result of restrictions on NEP's subsidiaries' cash distributions to NEP under the terms of their indebtedness or other financing agreements; NEP's subsidiaries' substantial amount of indebtedness may adversely affect NEP's ability to operate its business, and its failure to comply with the terms of its subsidiaries' indebtedness could have a material adverse effect on NEP's financial condition; NEP is exposed to risks inherent in its use of interest rate swaps; widespread public health crises and epidemics or pandemics may have material adverse impacts on NEP's business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEE has influence over NEP; under the cash sweep and credit support agreement, NEP receives credit support from NEE and its affiliates. NEP's subsidiaries may default under contracts or become subject to cash sweeps if credit support is terminated, if NEE or its affiliates fail to honor their obligations under credit support arrangements, or if NEE or another credit support provider ceases to satisfy creditworthiness requirements, and NEP will be required in certain circumstances to reimburse NEE for draws that are made on credit support; NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) or one of its affiliates is permitted to borrow funds received by NEP's subsidiaries and is obligated to return these funds only as needed to cover project costs and distributions or as demanded by NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP (NEP OpCo). 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The Norman North boys still had a bitter taste in its mouth when it took the field against U.S. Grant on Tuesday night.
The Timberwolves are a week removed from falling in their final game of the Alabama-Southern Coast Cup Tournament to Westmoore in penalty kicks. The team’s only goals came in the penalty kicks during a season in which they’ve shown improvement on the offensive side of the ball.
But Tuesday, after 12 minutes of fast-paced, up-and-down offense, the T-Wolves got a break when Carlos Vara was fouled just outside the left corner of the penalty box.
Bostyn Carroll faked the free kick, and Owen Whitman followed him up by hitting a low, sweeping curve that just made it inside the right post to give NNHS a 1-0 lead.
It was the goal that jumpstarted the team’s 4-0 win over U.S Grant.
“I think there was that frustration and so I’m glad that we were able to play on our field again and open it up,” NNHS head coach Khalil Benalioulhaj said. “Everybody was really motivated to get some goals in.”
The free kick opened up the floodgates for the T-Wolves’ offense.
A little over three minutes later, Luke Wheeler took a shot inside the box that was blocked by the goalie. Whitman got the rebound and passed it across the front of the goal to Vara, who tapped it in easily.
Whitman got his second goal of the game in the 60th minute on a similar shot from the top of the box, in which the junior made one touch to the outside and fired the ball hard into the lower corner of the goal.
“He’s a fantastic player,” Benalioulhaj said about Whitman. “He usually doesn’t play an attacking role in his club team, he plays in a defending role, but he’s just such a good player that we have to have him up top and he’s finally getting some goals and it’s good to see.”
The T-Wolves scored their third goal of the first half in the 23rd minute, when Carroll found himself one-on-one with the goalie in the box. The junior made a quick move to the outside and passed it into the back of the net to help Norman North enter halftime with a 3-0 lead.
“The second half I really just wanted us to possess the ball a little bit more,” Benalioulhaj said. “We were really run-and-gun in the first half and we scored three goals, but we probably should’ve gotten scored on because we were pushing it up so high.”
Norman North only got one more goal off in the second half, but the team looked more dominant and in control with a possession-heavy offensive attack.
With the win, the Timberwolves surpassed four goals in a game for the third time this season. The big lead allowed Benalioulhaj to get all of his bench players some time at the end of the game.
“I definitely wanted to get our subs in,” he said. “Last year we didn’t score as well, so our subs didn’t get into the game as much because it was always one or two that we scored. It was nice to get four and three in the first half , it just gives us more confidence as a coaching staff to get those guys in.”
• Norman North girls pour it on in second half in win over U.S. Grant: The T-Wolves’ gave itself plenty of chances early, but only ended up with two goals to show for it in the first half.
Becca Tweedy opened up a tie game in the 10th minute on an assist from Catherine Meng and Rylie Goodman extended the lead to two with a shot from the top of the box that just snuck past the goalie’s outstretched arms.
The T-Wolves got their third goal of the day 12 minutes into the second half on another long shot, this time by Kendra Hudgins. Less than two minutes later, Hudgins got another ball bouncing to her at the top of the box and once again got it past the keeper to extend the lead to four.
Caroline McAlester, Tweedy Goodman and Narissa Fults each found the back of the net in an 8-0 win for the Timberwolves.
NHS girls, boys knock off Lawton — The Norman High girls’ team got four goals from Kaylyn Simmons on their way to a 12-2 win over Lawton on Tuesday.
Aniya Facen had a first half hat trick and scored the first goal of the game in the sixth minute. Chloe Soto (15th, 29th minute), Jane Lockhart (21st minute) and Greta Mansell (36th minute) each netted goals in the first half as the Tigers took a 10-1 lead into halftime.
Addison Rice scored six minutes into the second half and Simmons netted two more late in the game to close out the win. Goalkeeper Harper Schindler finished with four saves.
The NHS boys also snagged a 10-0 win Tuesday.
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In the wake of the global disruption of the supply chain, high performance leaders for the final mile are in top demand more than ever before.
ORLANDO, Fla., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialist executive search firms for the final mile such as TransgisticsTalent.com have received triple the number of requests for top leadership talent in the Final mile segment of the 3PL distribution sector.
James P. Tolan, Managing Partner of the firm, admits that Transgistics Talent has been compelled to beef up its own talent research teams as the competition for top leadership talent in the C- Suite has been overwhelming.
As more private equity firms acquire final mile businesses, the need to place high performance leaders to increase profitability is paramount.
"We are experiencing a surge in demand for top high-performance leaders" said Tolan, "very similar to peak performance athletes in professional sports teams, if you have the right leadership, they drive the winning culture hands down", he added.
"Our clients rely on our reputation of having the ability to understand their business and tap into our vast network of final mile executives and leaders who can hit the ground running and make a difference from day one", he said.
The award-winning search firm has also cited shortages in the entire management cycle they are filling for transportation hubs, cold storage, and all white glove home deliveries.
"We look for integrity, specialized experience and a driving passion to lead winning teams, says Tolan, and our search process speaks to these metrics without compromise."
The global reshuffle of talent has helped many of our clients' micro-focus on how important bringing in top leadership will be to their bottom line, and this has our team bustling with renewed activity to fulfil the mission mandated to us by our final mile clients.
About Transgistics Talent
Transgistics Talent is a privately held executive search firm that deploys its decade of experience to enable growth for its clients in the logistical / 3pl/ final mile / home delivery space.
Led by Managing Partner James P. Tolan, the firm has associates throughout North America to serve multiple markets and verticals within the logistics niche.
For more information visit: www.Transgisticstalent.com and discover more about talent solutions for final mile, home delivery 3pl, logistics.
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Oklahoma just needed a win to get back on track.
The Sooners had suffered one of their toughest losses of the season against Texas on Sunday heading into Tuesday’s contest with Oral Roberts University. That game saw the Sooners lead 7-1 in the sixth inning before the Longhorns ended the game on an 11-1 run to win the game by four runs.
The win gave the Longhorns the series’ win. But for OU coach Skip Johnson, the focus for the team against ORU wasn’t about bouncing back from the loss.
“I think it was more of just trying to go out and play good baseball,” Johnson said. “Instead of worrying about winning or losing the game, just go play good baseball. We played really good this past weekend. Friday was a little bit of a let down, Saturday we played good, Sunday we played extremely well for six innings.”
If the message was simply playing good baseball, they accomplished that against ORU Tuesday, taking care of business with an 8-2 win at L. Dale Mitchell Field.
It was the Sooners’ solid offensive outing that kept them ahead, and it started with back-to-back RBIs from Blake Robertson and Tanner Tredaway that put the Sooners on the board in the first inning. In the second inning, Peyton Graham’s single to left field scored Wallace Clark that gave the team a three-run lead.
Clark, who was walked and stole two bases to advance to third before finding home, is earning the trust of the coaching staff.
“He’s really a smart player,” Johnson said. “He plays at an even-keel level. He really has quality at-bats every bat he has. That’s what you want. You can’t ask him to get a hit. You ask him to have a quality at-bat and you try to hit the ball hard and that’s what he’s bought into. and he’ll continue to grow in that area.”
The only lull for the Sooners offensively came in the third and fourth innings, where they hit just one run combined. But Braden Carmichael’s work on the mound kept ORU from finding momentum, as the Golden Eagles also didn’t register a hit in either inning.
Graham — who led the Sooners’ offensively all evening with three hits, three runs and two RBIs — hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to help the Sooners regain momentum offensively.
Jimmy Crooks followed that up with a triple to right field, which scored Tredaway to give the Sooners two runs in the inning.
“When we start getting it rolling, it becomes electric. It really does,” Johnson said.
The Sooners’ scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to push their lead. Other than ORU’s runs in the seventh and ninth innings, the Sooners kept control for most of the game.
Tredaway finished with three hits, two runs and two RBIs. Robertson added two hits and two runs. The Sooners finished with 10 hits.
Carmichael earned the win on the mound with two strikeouts while surrendering just one hit and no runs in four innings. ORU recorded six hits in 34 at-bats.
The Sooners will look to get back on track in conference play with a three-game series against Oklahoma State in Stillwater this weekend. The first game is set for 6 p.m. Friday.
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SCAPPOOSE, Ore. — The sheriff of Columbia County was one of two law enforcement officers directly involved in a deadly shootout with a suspect at a tow yard near Scappoose last week, authorities revealed on Tuesday.
According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Brian Pixley was one of two officers placed on "critical incident leave" after the shooting on March 31. The other was Sergeant Chad Drew, an 18-year veteran of Oregon State Police (OSP).
Information released by law enforcement late last week indicated that officers from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) and OSP responded shortly before 10 a.m. to reports of a disturbance at Grumpy's Towing, along Columbia River Highway just outside of Scappoose.
The suspect they confronted at the scene, 39-year-old Michael Stockton, was wanted for murder in the March 27 shooting death of 25-year-old Timothy Fowlkes near Northeast Halsey Street and 192nd Avenue at Money Saver Mini Storage.
It is not clear if the responding officers in Columbia County were at all aware of Stockton's status as a suspect in the previous shooting at the time that they arrived at the scene on Thursday, and investigators have since said that the shooting was "unrelated" to the Gresham investigation.
According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, Stockton fired multiple shots at the officers, both of whom returned fire, killing him. Neither officer was injured.
Following the shooting, investigators reportedly found that Stockton had two guns in his possession.
Brian Pixley first joined the CCSO in 2003, though he served a stint as an officer with the Scappoose Police Department between 2006 and 2010. He returned to CCSO as a deputy in 2010, and was elected sheriff in 2019.
The Washington County Major Crimes Team is leading the investigation into the police shooting.
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PORTLAND, Ore — TriMet is facing a $10 million lawsuit from the city of Portland for alleged deeply flawed work on a streetcar track, leaving it with major structural defects that could cost the city millions in repairs.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the suit says the transit agency failed to properly manage the construction of the the city-owned platform near the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
The transit agency’s California-based contractor, Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. — a firm hired by TriMet to make fixes to the Southeast Portland platform — is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The suit alleges the company failed to “perform the work in a professional and workmanlike manner” and supervise subcontractors, leading to cracks in part of the platform and other foundational flaws.
The Portland City Council unanimously gave the city the greenlight to sue TriMet in March. According to that resolution, a city-hired engineer found multiple problems that cropped up after the construction firm finished the job in 2015 — including cracked walls and empty space undermining the structure that needed to be filled. Repairs, court documents say, could cost the city more than $10 million.
City attorneys say leaders at the transportation agency failed to oversee the construction firm and ensure the work was up to their standards.
For over two decades, the city has maintained a streetcar system that runs through downtown. In 2013, the city and TriMet embarked on the “Eastside Close the Loop Project,” an effort to create a full streetcar loop around the central city with a connection over the Tilikum Crossing Bridge.
Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. did not respond to Oregon Public Broadcasting's request for comment. A TriMet spokesperson declined to comment citing pending litigation.
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Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.
Forty states are experiencing longer outages — and the problem is most acute in regions seeing more extreme weather, U.S. Department of Energy data shows. The blackouts can be harmful and even deadly for the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable communities.
Power grid maintenance expenses are skyrocketing as utilities upgrade decades-old transmission lines and equipment. And that means customers who are hit with more frequent and longer weather outages also are paying more for electricity.
“The electric grid is our early warning,” said University of California, Berkeley grid expert Alexandra von Meier. “Climate change is here and we’re feeling real effects.”
The AP analysis found:
—The number of outages tied to severe weather rose from about 50 annually nationwide in the early 2000s to more than 100 annually on average over the past five years.
—The frequency and length of power failures are at their highest levels since reliability tracking began in 2013 — with U.S. customers on average experiencing more than eight hours of outages in 2020.
—Maine, Louisiana and California each experienced at least a 50% increase in outage duration even as residents endured mounting interruption costs over the past several years.
—In California alone, power losses have affected tens of thousands of people who rely on electricity for medical needs.
The AP analyzed electricity disturbance data submitted by utilities to the U.S. Department of Energy to identify weather-related outages. The analysis also examined utility-level data covering outages of more than five minutes, including how long they lasted and how often they occurred. Department officials declined comment.
Driving the increasingly commonplace blackouts are weather disasters now rolling across the country with seasonal consistency.
Winter storms called nor'easters barrel into New England and shred decrepit electrical networks. Hot summers spawn hurricanes that pound the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard, plunging communities into the dark, sometimes for months. And in fall, West Coast windstorms trigger forced power shutoffs across huge areas to protect against deadly wildfires from downed equipment.
Maine
The power grid's fragility hit home for Lynn Mason Courtney, 78, a blind cancer survivor living in a retirement community in Bethel, Maine, a rural town of 2,500 along the Androscoggin River.
When Courtney's building lost power and heat for three days following a 2020 winter storm, the temperature inside fell to 42 degrees (6 degrees Celsius). Extended loss of heat isn’t something most people are prepared for in a cold state such as Maine, she said, and one resident relied on old camping gear to try to keep warm.
"I developed hypothermia. I was dehydrated,” Courtney said. “Two people on oxygen had nowhere to go. They just stayed in the apartment and hoped like hell that the power would come back on.”
Winter storms left more than 500,000 without power in Maine in 2017 — more than a third of the state’s population. And in recent years, the state has seen record numbers of weather-related interruptions. The state never recorded more than five per year until 2018, but in 2020 it had 12, AP's analysis found.
As with much of the nation, Maine’s electrical infrastructure was built decades ago and parts are more than 50 years old, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The brittle condition of the state's power grid and repeated disruptions worsened by climate change worry Courtney.
“When the power goes out, it’s extraordinarily difficult and dangerous,” she said. "If you’re disabled, it’s scary. You’re not safe.”
As the planet warms, storms that threaten power reliability are likely to hit some areas harder, said Penn State University meteorology professor Colin Zarzycki.
A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, increasing energy packed by storms no matter the season. The phenomenon produces, for example, increasingly destructive tropical hurricanes that strike the Southeast and Pacific storms that cause flooding on the West Coast.
On the East Coast, some nor'easters will convert to rainstorms as freezing weather shifts north. But those that fall as snow could be bigger than ever, Zarzycki said.
And some areas will get less snow but more sleet and freezing rain that can wreak greater damage on electrical systems, because ice-laden equipment is easier for winds to topple.
“Those really high-end nor’easters, the ones that take over CNN for days, those are going to occur with the same or increased frequency,” Zarzycki said. “Where these events occur could lead to increased vulnerability, because the infrastructure is not prepared.”
Louisiana
The combination of at-risk infrastructure and climate change can be deadly: After Hurricane Ida knocked out power to much of coastal Louisiana last year, heat killed or contributed to the deaths of at least 21 people, local coroners reported.
In New Orleans alone, heat caused nine deaths and contributed to 10 others, according to coroner’s office records. Most who died were elderly and African American. Spokesman Jason Melancon could not say which victims did not have power, but 75% of the city was still without power when most died.
David Sneed, 65, died in his wheelchair on the 12th-floor of the subsidized apartment where he’d been without power for several days after the storm hit Aug. 29.
Sneed was obese and had a cognitive impairment that made walking difficult, so he used the wheelchair most of the time, said Rev. Ken Taylor, a professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where Sneed was a doctoral student.
Three days after the storm, Sneed called Taylor in near-panic and said he was unable to leave because the building's elevator was not working. So the next day, Taylor went to Sneed’s apartment to bring him food and water — and it felt like 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius), with no windows open.
When the professor returned the following day, he found the elevator was working. Sneed said he'd go down to the first floor where it was cooler. But when the reverend came back to check on him again, Sneed didn’t answer.
When an apartment employee opened the door, Sneed’s body was in the bedroom, slumped in his wheelchair.
“I speculate that he had rolled into his bedroom to put on some pants to go downstairs ... and the heat or his heart or a combination of the two” killed him, Taylor said. The coroner’s office said Sneed died from the heat.
The financial toll of storms is huge — Louisiana’s largest power company has said it will cost an estimated $4 billion to repair damage from the hurricanes of 2020 and 2021. State regulators have approved $3.2 billion of that, which Entergy Corp. estimates will add $8 a month for 15 years to the average residential bill.
Problems with the grid and costs to fix them are expected to grow in coming decades, said U.C. Berkeley's von Meier.
Much of the grid was built decades ago, and the majority of power transmission facilities are now at least 25 years old. That’s forced utilities to quadruple spending on the U.S. transmission system since 2000 to about $40 billion annually, according to Department of Energy data.
Billions more will be spent, with costs passed on to consumers, but those efforts won’t keep up with problems from climate change, von Meier said. “Rates will go up, reliability will go down,” she said.
California
In California, widespread anger erupted in recent years as utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. imposed deliberate power outages to guard against wildfires.
Almost 200 California wildfires over the past decade were traced to downed power lines that ignited trees or brush, including a record 41 blazes in 2021. Among them was a 2018 fire that ripped through the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise and killed 85 people, resulting in criminal involuntary manslaughter convictions of PG&E. Another fire blamed on PG&E last year burned almost 1 million acres (390,000 hectares), 1,300 buildings and much of the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville.
Now when wind storms are forecast and the landscape is dry, utilities cut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers, sometimes for multiple days, to reduce fire risk.
Beyond closing businesses and causing food to spoil in refrigerators, outages can be life-threatening for people with health conditions whose medical equipment requires electricity.
An AP review of utility filings with California regulators found nearly 160,000 instances of power shutoffs to customers with medical needs from 2017 to 2021. PG&E was responsible for more than 80%.
“We know there has been a trade-off between safety and reliability,” said PG&E Vice President Sumeet Singh. He said shutoffs were a last resort to guard against fires and that the company has reduced the number of people affected through better forecasting of hazardous weather and more localized shutdowns.
Richard Skaff, a paraplegic who is an advocate for the disabled in Northern California, said he has endured two forced outages each lasting five days over the past several years. He was fortunate to have a generator to keep his electric wheelchair powered and his house heated, but said many others with disabilities live on minimal incomes and struggle to get by during outages.
“If we’re going to allow PG&E and others to de-energize the grid, if we accept that as a concept, you have to look at the implications of that first,” Skaff said. “You have to determine the effects on the most vulnerable people."
PG&E and other utilities have sought to lessen the impacts by notifying people with needs in advance of shutoffs and setting up response centers where they can charge their phones or other essential devices.
Utilities also have started creating “microgrids” — local electrical networks that can disconnect from the main grid and operate independently to reduce the scope of shutoffs.
“We're very sensitive to the needs of our customers," said Southern California Edison Vice President Erik Takayesu. “We run risk calculations to ensure we’re making the right decisions. But it's really hard ... Each individual customer will have their own individual experience. The best we can do is help the customer prepare.”
The state utilities commission and some local officials have said the industry's efforts are insufficient for outages that can cover large portions of the state and affect numerous towns and cities.
By the end of this year, PG&E and Southern California Edison expect to have spent almost $20 billion since 2020 on wildfire prevention. The companies are cutting back vegetation near their equipment and putting up stronger power lines. PG&E plans to bury 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of lines over 10 years so they won't be exposed to falling trees.
PG&E's customers paid on average almost $140 more last year versus the previous year to avert wildfires from their operations.
Rising electric bills because of extreme weather have outsized impact on low income households and communities of color, said John Howat, a senior energy analyst at National Consumer Law Center. These communities devote a higher proportion of their income to home energy bills, so they get hit harder than wealthier households.
Since it will take utilities many years to carry out their wildfire prevention efforts, companies will continue to use forced shutoffs to protect against wildfires.
The intentional outages help utilities avoid liability for deadly wildfires, but they amount to recurring crises for power customers who are disabled, elderly or with special needs, said Aaron Carruthers, executive director of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Unless more is done to prepare needy communities, shutoffs will continue to put lives at risk, threaten people's health and leave vulnerable people scared, Carruthers said.
Gabriela Madrigal, a 34-year-old Santa Barbara resident who needs a powered wheelchair to get around, said she's endured perhaps a dozen preventive shutoffs by Southern California Edison over the past several years.
Madrigal — who has a debilitating, neurological condition called spina bifida — lives in low-income city housing with her mother, who is her primary caregiver.
Each time the power blinks out, it catches them off guard, Madrigal said. When the outages last hours or days, her wheelchair goes dead. The chair weighs several hundred pounds with Madrigal in it, and her mother has trouble moving it.
So when the power goes off and no one else is around to help, “we're pretty much stuck,” Madrigal said. “It takes a toll on someone.”
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Associated Press data journalist Caroline Ghisolfi contributed to this article.
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Matthew Brown reported from Billings, Montana, Patrick Whittle from Bethel, Maine, Janet McConnaughey from New Orleans and Jasen Lo from Chicago.
AP data journalist Camille Fassett in Oakland, California is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics.
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The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has previously said he'd sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk.
The bill is one of several anti-abortion measures still alive in Oklahoma’s Legislature this year, part of a trend of GOP-led states passing aggressive anti-abortion legislation as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court is considering ratcheting back abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years.
The Oklahoma bill, which passed the Senate last year, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother, said GOP state Rep. Jim Olsen, of Roland, who sponsored the bill. Under the bill, a person convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
“The penalties are for the doctor, not for the woman," Olsen said.
Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place. The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a “bounty” of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion. Several states, including Oklahoma, are pursuing similar legislation this year.
The Oklahoma bill’s passage came on the same day as more than 100 people attended a “Bans Off Oklahoma” rally outside the Capitol in support of abortion rights.
“These legislators have continued their relentless attacks on our freedoms," said Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes. “These restrictions are not about improving the safety of the work that we do. They are about shaming and stigmatizing people who need and deserve abortion access."
Wales said Planned Parenthood's abortion clinic in Oklahoma has seen an 800% increase in the number of women from Texas after that state passed its new anti-abortion law last year.
The Texas law bans abortion once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
Also Tuesday, the Oklahoma House adopted a resolution to recognize lives lost due to abortion and urge citizens to fly flags at half-staff on Jan. 22, the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
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Well, that was fast.
Twitter announced Tuesday, via Twitter, that it is indeed working on an edit feature for tweets.
Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and power Twitter user who is now Twitter’s largest shareholder and newly appointed board member, on Monday evening launched a Twitter poll asking users if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on.” More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making “significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button.” Its Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn't a joke and it has been working on it since last year — and that it didn't get the idea from Musk's poll.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.”
So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to answer if it was a feature that would be rolled out for all users.
Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit feature has for years been the most requested, since people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter had considered an edit button, but in a January 2020 Q&A maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He cited wanting to keep the spirit of Twitter's text-message origins — texts can't be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been highly circulated by others. Dorsey stepped down as CEO in November 2021.
People who study Twitter also say adding an edit button would change the nature of Twitter, making it less valuable as a historical warehouse that stores official statements by politicians and other high-profile people. Twitter, for better or worse, “has become the de facto news wire,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media who researches propaganda.
Tweets are often embedded in news stories, which could cause problems if the users edit important or controversial tweets without leaving evidence of the original statement. Grygiel suggested instead giving Twitter users a window of time to edit their tweets before they publish them.
Letting powerful Twitter users edit their tweets means they would not be historical statements anymore, Grygiel said. “We need to think about what the implications are, what these tweets are, who has power.”
The company acknowledged those concerns Tuesday evening. Sullivan, tweeted, “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”
Musk, too, had said that a proposal for a post-publication edit window of a few minutes “ sounds reasonable.”
Musk is someone who could seemingly use an edit button. His tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, when funding was not secured, led to a $40 million SEC settlement and a requirement that Musk's tweets be approved by a corporate lawyer. Musk is still embroiled in a fight over that settlement.
Twitter had earlier seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to Musk’s poll. Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, retweeted the poll with a seeming reference to an earlier tweet by Musk, saying “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Musk had used the same language in a March tweet describing another one of his polls that asked whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast — Police and other investigators walked the silent streets of ruined towns around Ukraine's capital, documenting widespread killings of unarmed civilians and other alleged war crimes by Russian forces that could draw tough new Western sanctions as soon as Wednesday.
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy kept up demands for war-crimes trials for Russian troops and their leaders, he and others increasingly warn that the Russians are regrouping for a new assault on Ukraine's east and south.
So far, Ukrainian forces are holding back Russian troops trying to push into the country's east, but they remain outnumbered in both troops and equipment, Zelenskyy said in a video address to his country late Tuesday.
“But we don’t have a choice — the fate of our land and of our people is being decided," he said. "We know what we are fighting for. And we will do everything to win.”
Over the past few days, a global outcry erupted over grisly images of what appeared to be intentional killings of civilians in Bucha and other towns before Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv. The evidence has led Western nations to expel scores of Moscow’s diplomats and propose further sanctions.
The U.S., in coordination with the European Union and Group of Seven big economies, is expected to roll out more sanctions Wednesday, including a ban on all new investment in Russia, a senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the upcoming announcement.
Also, the EU’s executive branch proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia. It would be the first time the 27-nation bloc has sanctioned the country’s lucrative energy industry over the war. The coal imports amount to an estimated 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) per year.
Zelenskyy spoke by video Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council about the suspected executions in the 6-week-old invasion that has seen countless other civilians killed by Russian shelling and airstrikes on cities and towns.
He said civilians in towns around Kyiv had been tortured, shot in the back of the head, thrown down wells, blown up with grenades in their apartments and crushed to death by tanks while in cars.
Zelenskyy said that both those who carried out the killings and those who gave the orders “must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes” in front of a tribunal similar to the one established at Nuremberg after World War II.
Moscow's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, said that while Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.” Reiterating what the Kremlin has contended for days, he said that video footage of bodies in the streets was “a crude forgery” staged by the Ukrainians.
“You only saw what they showed you,” he said. “The only ones who would fall for this are Western dilettantes.”
As Zelenskyy spoke to the diplomats, survivors of the monthlong Russian occupation showed investigators bodies of townspeople allegedly shot by Russian troops.
Police and other investigators walked the still largely empty streets of Bucha, where dogs wandered among ruined buildings and burned military vehicles. Officials snapped photos of the corpses before gathering up some of them.
Survivors who hid in their homes during the occupation, many of them beyond middle age, wandered past charred tanks and jagged window panes with plastic bags of food and other humanitarian aid. Red Cross workers checked in on intact homes.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha have counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and interviewed Ukrainians who told of witnessing atrocities. Also, high-resolution satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town.
The dead in Bucha included a pile of six charred bodies, as witnessed by AP journalists. It was not clear who they were or under what circumstances they died. One body was probably that of a child, said Andrii Nebytov, head of police in the Kyiv region.
Many of the dead seen by AP journalists appeared to have been shot at close range, and some had their hands bound or their flesh burned.
The AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have jointly verified at least 90 incidents during the war that appear to violate international law. The War Crimes Watch Ukraine project is looking into apparent targeted attacks as well as indiscriminate ones.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the images from Bucha revealed “not the random act of a rogue unit” but “a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities.” He said the reports of atrocities were “more than credible.”
“Only non-humans are capable of this,” said Angelica Chernomor, a refugee from Kyiv who crossed into Poland with her two children and saw the photos from Bucha. “Even if people live under a totalitarian regime, they must retain feelings, dignity, but they do not.”
Chernomor is among the more than 4 million Ukrainians who have fled the country in the wake of the Feb. 24 invasion.
Russia has rejected similar accusations of atrocities in the past by accusing its enemies of forging photos and video and using so-called crisis actors.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court at The Hague opened an investigation a month ago into possible war crimes in Ukraine.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv, a 25-year-old, Dmitriy Yevtushkov, searched the rubble of apartment buildings and found that only a photo album remained from his family’s home.
In the besieged southern city of Mykolaiv, a passerby stopped briefly to look at the bright blossoms of a shattered flower stand lying among bloodstains, the legacy of a Russian shell that killed nine in the center of the city earlier this week. The onlooker sketched out the sign of the cross in the air, and moved on.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, meanwhile, warned that in pulling back from the capital, Russian President Vladimir Putin's military is regrouping its forces in order to deploy them to eastern and southern Ukraine for a “crucial phase of the war." Russia's stated goal currently is control of the Donbas, the largely Russian-speaking industrial region in the east that includes the shattered port city of Mariupol.
“Moscow is not giving up its ambitions in Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
While both Ukrainian and Russian representatives sent optimistic signals following their latest round of talks a week ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will not accept a Ukrainian demand that a prospective peace deal include an immediate pullout of troops followed by a Ukrainian referendum on the agreement.
Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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What are the most popular products from The Ordinary on Sephora?
Few beauty brands have created quite as much buzz as The Ordinary. The skin care line launched in 2013 with accessible prices, clinical product names and a mission: to disrupt the beauty industry’s fixation on luxury product markups by delivering simple, reliable formulas made with high-performing ingredients. If you think you’re overspending on skincare, try these popular The Ordinary products from Sephora.
How to pick The Ordinary products
The minimalist formulas in The Ordinary products focus on trusted individual ingredients like glycolic acid, retinol, caffeine and vitamin C derivatives. However, with product names like Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate Solution 20% in Vitamin F, it can be hard to figure out exactly which product you need for your skin concerns. Fortunately, since The Ordinary’s ingredients are so straightforward, a quick online search or a consultation with the nearest Sephora employee can help you zero in on the right product. For example, ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate is a form of vitamin C that can brighten skin and reduce signs of aging. Or, if you want to alleviate dry skin, look for moisturizers with ingredients like hyaluronic acid or glycerin.
Most popular The Ordinary eye product
The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG
What you need to know: The Ordinary’s only eye product is also one of its most famous.
What you’ll love: The formula contains caffeine and a green tea derivative to reduce the look of puffiness and dark circles in the under-eye area. The lightweight serum is great for users who struggle with traditional heavier eye creams.
What you should consider: While many users saw reduced puffiness, this serum may not help much with fine lines.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Most popular The Ordinary serums
Top The Ordinary serum
The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 Hydrating Serum
What you need to know: This twice-daily, oil-free serum is a great all-around addition to a skin care regimen for all skin types.
What you’ll love: The Allure Best of Beauty-winning formula pairs hyaluronic acid with vitamin B5, so it absorbs easily to hydrate skin and reduce the look of fine lines.
What you should consider: Its texture can sometimes feel sticky, making it tough to layer other products or makeup.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top The Ordinary serum for the money
The Ordinary 100% Plant-Derived Squalane
What you need to know: Squalane helps lock in moisture for all-day comfort, especially if you struggle with dry skin.
What you’ll love: This serum contains only vegan plant-derived squalane, and while it’s recommended for dry skin, it can also hydrate oily and acne-prone skin without irritating.
What you should consider: If you have combination or oily skin, this serum may leave skin feeling too oily.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Most popular The Ordinary products for dry skin
Top The Ordinary dry skin product
The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA
What you need to know: A little of this moisturizer goes a long way. It hydrates well without leaving the skin feeling greasy.
What you’ll love: Formulated with amino acids, hyaluronic acid, glycerin and more moisturizing components, this rich cream feels lightweight on your skin and acts as a primer, layering well with makeup.
What you should consider: It can take a while to absorb. Depending on your climate, it may not provide enough hydration.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top The Ordinary dry skin product for the money
The Ordinary High-Adherence Silicone Primer
What you need to know: Even if you don’t love the feel of silicone-based primers, this one is so lightweight it may be worth a try.
What you’ll love: This primer uses adaptive silicones to create a blurred, matte surface for your makeup. The hydrating formula keeps dry patches from turning flaky.
What you should consider: It’s important to use only a small amount of this primer to prevent it from pilling.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Most popular The Ordinary products for oily skin
Top The Ordinary oily skin product
The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% Oil Control Serum
What you need to know: This serum contains a powerful dose of niacinamide, an ingredient prized for its ability to soothe inflammation and control oil production.
What you’ll love: It helps calm blemishes and regulate sebum production for reduced congestion and a less shiny T-zone. If you’re struggling with acne, this serum could be a helpful addition to your regimen.
What you should consider: Its texture may make it difficult to layer with other products.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top The Ordinary oily skin product for the money
The Ordinary Salicylic Acid 2% Masque
What you need to know: The 2% concentration of salicylic acid in this mask helps gently exfoliate and unclog pores.
What you’ll love: Formulated with purifying charcoal and acne-fighting salicylic acid, this mask needs only 10 minutes to sweep away dead skin cells, clarify skin and improve skin texture.
What you should consider: Some users reported their tubes arriving under-filled.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Most popular The Ordinary products for anti-aging
Top The Ordinary anti-aging product
The Ordinary “Buffet” Anti-Aging Serum
What you need to know: When it comes to boosting overall skin health, this lightweight serum tops the list.
What you’ll love: It’s packed with potent compounds like peptides and hyaluronic acid that can minimize fine lines, ease dryness and improve skin elasticity.
What you should consider: Not everyone experienced visible results.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top The Ordinary anti-aging product for the money
The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Exfoliating Peeling Solution
What you need to know: Use this exfoliator once weekly to dissolve dead skin cells, clear pores and soften skin.
What you’ll love: If you’re familiar with alpha-hydroxy acids, this serum can be a potent addition to your skin care regimen
What you should consider: Its concentration may be too intense for those new to chemical exfoliators.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Other The Ordinary products worth considering
The Ordinary 100% Organic Cold-Pressed Rose Hip Seed Oil
What you need to know: After your nighttime serum, apply this multipurpose oil to fight irritation, even out skin tone and hydrate.
What you’ll love: Rose hip seed oil can help moisturize dry patches and soften skin. It can even reduce the appearance of scarring.
What you should consider: This heavy oil works better when applied at night. Not everyone is a fan of the scent.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
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Which baby booties are best?
Baby booties aren’t just a cute accessory for your little one — they’re practical, too. They help keep tiny feet warm, stay on more securely than a pair of socks alone, and are extra thick, which helps protect little toes from getting pinched. Baby booties are often a child’s first introduction to semi-solid footwear, getting them accustomed to wearing shoes as they grow, crawl and walk.
For a stylish bootie that offers comfort and protection, take a look at the Ugg Unisex Bixbee Ankle Boot.
What to know before you buy baby booties
Even if your baby spends most of their time in a baby carrier or stroller when you go out, booties are still a good idea. They are cozy, warm and, unlike socks, usually have a method of closure that makes them less likely to slip off unnoticed. They also help to keep the baby’s feet clean, which can be a bonus if your baby still enjoys putting those little feet in their mouth.
Bootie closure methods
The most common closure types include an elastic band, Velcro pull, and loop or snap buttons. The elastic band provides a snugger fit than socks alone while Velcro lets you loosen or tighten the bootie as needed. Snap buttons are the least adjustable but also perhaps the most secure, as they’re harder to for the baby to pull loose.
Size and fit
A bootie should be fitted but with room for toes to move around. If the bootie is too loose, it might feel heavy or clumsy to wear. On the other hand, if it is too narrow in the sides or tight at the toes, it can also be uncomfortable. Baby booties usually come in sizes ranging from newborn to 24 months.
Design or theme
Some booties come in one color or several, while others have animal or character faces on the tops of the feet. These faces often have fabric ears and embroidered features. Animal designs might help get your baby excited about putting their booties on, or they might make them want to take the booties off and play with them. Consider the shoe’s design and how your baby will respond to it.
What to look for in a quality baby bootie
The high-quality markers here are pretty straightforward, combining several top-tier elements to provide babies with dependable booties as they learn and grow. Fabrics play a key role, as do anti-slip designs on the bootie’s sole.
Warm materials
Booties are designed to be warmer than socks, so you want to look for soft, reliable materials that will protect tiny toes from the elements. Fleece or polyester are best at keeping little feet warm. Some booties come in cotton, which is comfortable if not as warm, while others use cotton blends that are soft and strong but vary in warmth. A polyester and cotton bootie, for instance, is going to be warmer than a cotton and nylon one.
Non-slip soles
Rubber skid dots or lines on the bootie’s sole help babies who are learning how to walk or stand keep their footing. Fabric alone is smooth and slippery, especially on hardwood floors. Rubber non-slip designs provide safe, practical support to encourage the exploration of movement.
Dependable shape
Booties are more fitted and formed than socks, so maintaining their shape — especially if they go in and out of the washer and dryer — is important. If a bootie starts to warp or bend, it can also become uncomfortable to wear. If your baby has already started walking, a misshapen bootie could get in the way of their moving freely.
How much you can expect to spend on baby booties
Baby booties start around $10-$20 but go all the way to $35 or more, depending on the quality of the materials and construction.
Baby bootie FAQ
Should socks be worn with baby booties?
A. No. Booties are a cross between a sock and a shoe, so they are soft on skin, functioning as both the shoe and the sock.
Are baby booties washable?
A. Yes, most booties are washable. Read the instructions to make sure you don’t damage them in washing.
What about arch support?
A. Babies have flat feet and therefore don’t require booties with arch support. Arches don’t begin to noticeably develop until a child is 2-6 years old.
What’s the best baby bootie to buy?
Top baby booties
What you need to know: This ultra-soft bootie features a furry textile exterior with a faux suede outsole and Velcro strap closure, available in three infant sizes.
What you’ll love: It comes in five stylish colors and is warm. It has slip-resistant soles and stays on even as a baby kicks.
What you should consider: It runs small, and while it is supposed to be machine-washable, it is recommended you hand-wash instead.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top baby booties for the money
Luvable Friends Unisex Fleece Booties
What you need to know: This fleece-lined polyester bootie has anti-slip soles, an adjustable Velcro closure and comes in seven infant and toddler sizes.
What you’ll love: It’s soft, flexible, and gentle on a baby’s skin. It comes in 11 colors and has rubber dots on the soles to prevent sliding and slipping. It’s machine-washable and the price is hard to beat.
What you should consider: Sizes run a little small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hudson Baby Unisex Fleece Booties
What you need to know: This polyester bootie comes in fun animal face designs as well as solid colors, with a Velcro closure.
What you’ll love: There are plenty of animal-face options, from a pink flamingo to a seasonal reindeer. It’s a soft bootie with anti-slip soles, is machine-washable and comes in eight infant and toddler sizes.
What you should consider: The closures can be adjusted to accommodate wider feet but generally it runs small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which bubble waffle maker is best?
Everybody loves waffles, but it can get boring eating the same old circular waffle day in and day out. You can shake it up a little by making square waffles. However, it’s still pretty much the same. To truly change up your breakfast, make bubble waffles with the Health And Home 3-In-1 Waffle, Bubble Waffle and Omelet Maker. It makes waffles convex circles rather than concave squares, completely changing how it feels to eat without changing the flavor. It can also make standard waffles and omelets.
What to know before you buy a bubble waffle maker
Bubble waffle maker types
There are three types of bubble waffle maker. Two of the options are electric, and one uses your stove.
- Electric: The two varieties of electric waffle makers are pressed and flipped. Pressed waffle makers have you pour the batter into the bottom and simply close the lid. They are small and efficient. Flip makers need you to spin the cooking plates to cook the waffle evenly. They are large, expensive and typically found only in commercial environments.
- Stovetop: Few stovetop waffle makers are still produced, let alone bubble waffle makers, as they are more dangerous and less effective. It’s best to ignore this option should you find one.
Waffle results
A given bubble waffle maker produces waffles of varying shapes, sizes and amounts. Most bubble waffle makers only produce one waffle at a time in a six-sided honeycomb-like shape roughly 6 inches wide. Budget makers usually cut the size down to 3 to 4 inches long but retain the shape. Most makers produce a 0.75- to 1-inch thick waffle, even budget makers.
What to look for in a quality bubble waffle maker
Extra plates
Some bubble waffle makers have swappable cooking plates and include a standard waffle plate in addition to bubble waffles. A few also include an omelet cooking plate.
Temperature settings
The best bubble waffle makers offer temperature control during cooking. This lets you increase the heat for a crispy waffle or lower it for a soft waffle. Most bubble waffle makers don’t have a temperature control option, requiring you to go strictly by time cooked to produce your preferred result.
Indicator lights
Most bubble waffle makers have one indicator light that tells you the heating element is powered and functioning. The best have a second indicator light which triggers once the waffle has finished cooking. Some use a sound effect rather than, or in addition to, a cooked indicator light.
How much you can expect to spend on a bubble waffle maker
Bubble waffle makers usually cost $25-$50. Some mini makers can cost as little as $15. Higher-end makers usually cost $50-$75. The most advanced makers usually cost more than $100, possibly as much as $200-plus.
Bubble waffle maker FAQ
How long does a bubble waffle take to cook?
A. That depends equally on your waffle recipe, the bubble waffle maker you’re using and how much batter you need to fill it. Some makers have indicator lights that trigger once the waffle is fully cooked. Most will require some trial and error on your part before you find the proper balance of batter amount, heat and time to produce your preferred doneness of waffle.
How should I clean a waffle maker?
A. That depends on the cooking plates. The easiest bubble waffle makers to clean are those with removable nonstick plates. Just wait for them to cool, take them out and clean them as you would any other kitchen gear. If they aren’t removable, you’ll need to be careful how you scrub them so that you don’t get any water into the electrical components if it has any. Non-stick plates will likely need to have charred batter chipped away. You can wipe the exterior clean of batter without fuss.
Can my children safely use a bubble waffle maker?
A. Yes, with the proper oversight. Most bubble waffle makers use handles that are detached enough from the cooking plates and heating element that burning oneself is fairly difficult to do. However, pouring batter and removing a cooked waffle brings children dangerously close to the hot metal plates — it’s best that younger children not be allowed to perform these tasks at all.
What’s the best bubble waffle maker to buy?
Top bubble waffle maker
Health and Home 3-In-1 Waffle, Bubble Waffle and Omelet Maker
What you need to know: This pick includes three plate types for breakfast variety.
What you’ll love: This three-in-one waffle maker includes bubble and standard waffle cooking plates plus an omelet cooking plate. All of the plates are nonstick. Cool-touch handles make opening and closing simple and safe. Indicator lights show when the maker is on and once it has fully preheated.
What you should consider: Some consumers didn’t receive the correct variety of cooking plates. Others were unhappy with the lack of precise temperature control.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top bubble waffle maker for the money
CucinaPro Mini Bubble Waffle Maker
What you need to know: This budget pick can still make a mean bubble waffle.
What you’ll love: Multiple recipes and an easy-to-follow instruction guide are included. One waffle only takes minutes to cook. The cooking plates are nonstick and easy to clean. It includes a cord wrap and stands upright for easy storage.
What you should consider: The bubble waffles it makes are small. Some consumers had issues with the maker becoming hot enough to cook properly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Dyna-Living Bubble Waffle Maker
What you need to know: This rotating pick doesn’t mess around.
What you’ll love: The cooking plates are non-stick and each heat equally when flipped 180 degrees. It has a temperature control knob that hits 50-250 degrees. It has an adjustable cooking timer that goes up to five minutes. It has a power indicator light.
What you should consider: It’s among the priciest options. It takes up significant kitchen counter space and is difficult to store.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which RV roof sealant is best?
RVs make camping feel luxurious, but they’re known for needing routine maintenance. One thing you can’t forget to maintain is your roof, as leaks can become worse over time, and the water that makes it into your home may ruin wooden cabinets or cause mold. RV roof sealant can ensure your rig is watertight, keeping unwanted moisture out. For example, Dicor White EPDM Rubber Roof Coating is easy to use while providing a tight seal.
What to know before you buy RV roof sealant
How often should you seal your RV roof?
It would help if you aimed to reseal your RV roof yearly. To ensure your roof is watertight, you should replace it after roughly 10 to 20 years. Maintaining your roof every year and replacing it every decade may sound expensive, but repairs resulting from an improperly maintained roof are far more costly.
RV sealant degrades over time due to rain, sunlight and alternating temperatures. When you notice water coming through your sunroofs, it is time to reseal your roof.
How do you clean your RV roof before sealing it?
Cleaning your RV roof before applying sealant is essential. Knowing how to clean your roof properly depends on the type of roof you have. Most RV roofs are coated with rubber materials. If your RV roof is rubber-coated, you’ll need to know if it is thermal polyolefin or ethylene propylene diene monomer.
EPDM roofs need more maintenance, but they’re less expensive and more commonly used in RV manufacturing. Once you know what kind of rubber is used on your roof, you can choose the proper roof cleaner.
Some RV roofs are made from fiberglass or aluminum, in which case you can use gentle dish soap and water. Some RV roof cleaners are safe for aluminum and fiberglass roofs, but you’ll want to read any disclaimers on the bottle to ensure it won’t harm your roof’s finish.
Can you use silicone to seal an RV roof?
If you have silicone on hand and need to seal your RV quickly, you can technically use it to caulk your roof. Still, using silicone isn’t ideal as it doesn’t last long. Silicone peels easily from glass and aluminum and is difficult to remove entirely. Ideally, you should stick to using RV roof sealant, as it will last longer and save you money over time.
What to look for in a quality RV roof sealant
Longevity
Sealing your roof can be expensive. It’s best to buy an RV roof sealant known to last. Buying cheaper RV roof sealant may save you money upfront, but you’ll have to replace it more often. Additionally, using a cheap sealant that doesn’t last could lead to other costly repairs inside your RV.
Solar reflective
The sun’s rays are one of the main factors that degrade sealant, leading to more maintenance over time. A solar reflective sealant reduces your RV’s internal temperature and extends your sealant’s life. Even if your bond is solar reflective, you’ll want to avoid applying it in direct sunlight when it is hot outside. The sealant needs time to dry, and direct sunlight can prevent it from drying properly.
Easy to apply
Some sealants spread easier than others. When sealing an RV roof, you’ll often need to use a paint roller or caulk gun. Choosing a sealant that applies easily with rollers and doesn’t require significant force when using a caulk gun will reduce time and effort.
Flexible seal
Much like your tires, your RV’s roof will expand and contract as the temperature changes. Caulk’s with overly-rigid seals may tear when your RV roof expands, allowing water into your rig. Many RV sealants provide a flexible seal that will flex with your RV’s roof, preventing damage.
How much you can expect to spend on RV roof sealant
RV sealant tape costs around $30, but you may need multiple rolls depending on the size of your rig. Liquid RV sealant costs $80 or more if you want enough for your entire roof.
RV roof sealant FAQ
Is it safe to walk on your RV’s roof?
A. Yes, so long as your roof isn’t damaged or wet, it is perfectly safe to walk on it.
Can you power wash your RV roof?
A. You’ll need to clean your RV roof before applying sealant, and power washing may sound like a quick way to get it done. Still, you shouldn’t power wash your RV roof, as it will likely damage your seal and may even damage your roof.
What’s the best RV roof sealant to buy?
Top RV roof sealant
Dicor RPCRC1 White EPDM Rubber Roof Coating
What you need to know: This option is effective and easy to use.
What you’ll love: This sealant includes easy-to-understand instructions, and the manufacturer has numerous YouTube videos that teach you how to use it properly. Most buyers had no trouble applying this option and felt the seal was watertight. This sealant dries quickly.
What you should consider: In many cases, you may need to buy two gallons to seal your roof completely.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top RV roof sealant for the money
Beech Lane RV Roof and Leak Permanent Repair Tape
What you need to know: This sealant tape is easy to apply and affordable.
What you’ll love: This tape is pliable and stretches as needed. You can fold the backing on this tape without tearing, allowing you to start the tape without accidentally wasting any. This tape is UV-resistant and weather-proof.
What you should consider: This tape won’t stick to silicone and can become unusable if you leave it in the sun before applying it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This solar-reflective sealant is practical and comes in multiple sizes.
What you’ll love: You can buy a 1-gallon or 5-gallon bucket. This sealant is easy to apply. The bright-white color looks great on most RV roofs. After using this option, most users noticed a difference in their RV’s internal temperature.
What you should consider: This sealant takes longer to dry than other options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which sundresses are on sale?
If you’re enjoying warmer, sunnier spring weather, you’re probably counting down the days until summer arrives so you can enjoy even more sunshine. And if you’re already thinking about upgrading your summer wardrobe, make sure to add a few sundresses to your cart while they’re on sale this week.
Retailers are keenly aware that this summer will see more tourism, gatherings and outings than in the past two years, which is why they’ve begun slashing prices on sundresses. So whether you’re looking for a sweet floral print or a spaghetti-strap style that doubles as a cover-up, you’ll find just what you’re looking for among this week’s sales.
What you need to know about sundresses
What is a sundress?
A sundress is a casual summer dress made with lightweight materials, including cotton, rayon or polyester blends. They’re sleeveless styles with wide necklines, and they usually have flowy or full skirts. Skirt length varies considerably among styles, as hemlines can be cut anywhere between the mid-thigh and ankle.
Sundress prints and colors
Sundresses often have busy floral prints, and they’re not the only patterns or designs you’ll see in these styles. Many sundresses have polka dots, gingham, animal prints or stripes. And if you’re wondering which colors are most popular for sundresses — anything goes. Some styles embrace pastel palettes, while others embrace vibrant yellows, oranges or reds.
How to pull off a sundress this season
Sundresses are quintessential summer fashions, and you’ll need a handful of accessories to pull off the look this season — some of which you might have already.
- Jewelry: Simple, lightweight jewelry pairs well with sundresses, including thin necklaces and hoops. If you’re going for a bolder look, statement necklaces and earrings coordinate well with a sundress’ accent colors.
- Sunglasses: Just about any pair of sunglasses will match a sundress, and this season, some of the most popular styles have retro, boxy and oversized cat-eye silhouettes.
- Bag: Because sundresses have busy prints, opt for a solid-colored handbag. According to Pantone, trending colors for summer include rich purples, yellows and teals. Muted neutrals are also popular, including light gray and pale beige. Straw and woven bags are also popular choices.
- Footwear: Sundresses coordinate well with casual summer footwear, including sandals, flip-flops, espadrilles and canvas slip-ons. If you’d like to dress up your sundress, opt for strappy heels or open-toe pumps.
How much you can expect to spend on sundresses
Basic cotton sundresses cost $50 and below, but they often have short lifespans. Well-made styles, often made with blended materials, hold up to regular wash and wear and run $60-$150. Designer sundresses with fine construction usually cost $200 and above.
Top sundresses to get while they’re still on sale
Nina Leonard Shark-Bite Hem Midi Dress In Navy White Print
If you’re looking for a simple sundress, this navy style has an understated design with tiny white anchors. The polyester blend is lightweight and comfortable, not to mention it’s easy to wash.
Sold by Kohl’s
Croft & Barrow Smocked Swing Midi Dress In Teal Floral Print
Smocked sundresses, such as this style, are flexible and flattering. The teal floral print echoes this season’s trending colors, and it’s easy to find colorful jewelry to match.
Sold by Kohl’s
Draper James RSVP Smocked Body Midi Dress
The tiered skirt on this midi style gives the sundress plenty of movement while you walk or dance. Because the dress is cotton, it becomes progressively softer with wash and wear.
Sold by Kohl’s
Qearal Boho Floral Summer Dress
If you’re looking for a shorter sundress, this boho-inspired style is a compelling option available in over a dozen vibrant designs. The relaxed fit also makes it a perfect beach or pool cover-up.
Sold by Amazon
Draper James RSVP Ruffle Neck Midi Dress
This green and white sundress is slightly structured and has ruffle straps, giving it a more formal appearance than others. It’s a popular choice for fancy summer gatherings.
Sold by Kohl’s
LC By Lauren Conrad Sleeveless Faux-Wrap Dress In Coral Fleurs
If you’re looking for a coral sundress, this modern style features a crisscross bodice and ruffle hem. It has an elastic waistband that gives you a figure-eight silhouette.
Sold by Kohl’s
Zesica Summer Boho Strapless Max
Popular for capsule summer wardrobes, this strapless maxi is suitable for just about every occasion, from date nights to day trips. The affordable style comes in over 20 prints.
Sold by Amazon
Draper James RSVP Bow Strap Midi in Lemon Gingham
It’s hard to beat a yellow sundress, especially this simple style in lemon gingham. It’s colorful and sunny, and it’s one of the most versatile colors for summer wardrobes.
Sold by Kohl’s
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Which car battery charger is best?
Those who have faced a dead battery know the sinking feeling and ensuing frustration. Now you have to wait for a tow or shell out for a new battery. But common draining events don’t have to ruin your day.
Whether you’re storing your battery long term or need a jump on the side of the road, the right car battery charger gives you just enough juice to get your vehicle rolling. For most at-home and on-the-road applications, the best car battery charger is the TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger.
What to know before you buy a car battery charger
What is a car battery charger
Much like a charger for your phone or computer, a car battery charger is a portable device that can restore power to a depleted car battery. There are numerous kinds of car battery chargers out there, from trickle chargers to jump-starters. Which you choose will depend on your needs, and what type of battery you have in your vehicle.
How car battery chargers work
Car battery chargers are either powered by their own lithium-cell battery, or by AC power through your wall socket. They’re most commonly used on lead-acid batteries but are often also compatible with AGM and GEL batteries.
With a slew of settings to optimize your battery’s longevity and recharge rate, the charger box is your central point of command. From there, a negative and a positive cable with alligator clips extend out, which attach to their respective terminals on your vehicle’s battery to deliver the charge.
Car battery charger vs. trickle charger vs. jump starter
Car battery chargers can seem a little complicated at the start as every different model is technically a charger. Today, most chargers have cross-functionality, further blurring the line between each kind. There are a few important differences, however, that will determine which charger best suits your needs.
- Car battery charger: As the standard charger, these are designed to deliver a moderate amperage to your battery. Depending on your battery’s depletion level, these can be used to recharge your battery in a couple of hours so you can start your car again, or for more long-term maintenance applications
- Trickle charger: Unlike a regular car battery charger, these are made to deliver a low and steady current for long periods of time. Trickle chargers are best used for any vehicle battery you plan on storing for a period greater than two weeks and are most typically used as maintenance chargers over the winter.
- Jump starters: Like jumper cables, jump-start chargers deliver a large blast of juice to your car’s battery so that it can start again in an instant. These are excellent tools to have on hand in your trunk so you never have to wait for a tow or a kind stranger again.
How to use a car battery charger
Before you begin, make sure your car (if you haven’t removed the battery) and your battery charger are switched off. If you’re charging inside your car, start by connecting your positive alligator clip to the positive terminal of your battery. Leave your battery connected. Then, you’ll need to attach the negative clip to sufficient ground. This can be a bare metal part of your car’s chassis or a bolt on the engine block. If you’ve removed your battery, connect each clip to its respective terminal.
Once you’re all hooked up, go ahead and plug in your charger, turn it on, and select the proper settings to begin charging.
What to look for in a quality car battery charger
Amps
Car battery chargers typically have a moderate amperage rating compared to trickle chargers and jump-starters. This is usually in the 10-40 amp range. The higher the amperage, the faster your vehicle’s battery will recharge. If you’re looking to maintain your batteries, opt for a lower amp rating. If you want a charger that can restore batteries quickly or get you off the side of the road, you’ll need 25-40 amps (about two to four hours of charge time for a half-dead battery).
Volts
Voltage describes your vehicle’s battery capacity. You need to make sure that the charger you get has the matching volt rating to your battery. Most cars are six or 12 volts. Trucks and RVs are 12 or 24 volts. If you charge your battery with a higher-rated charger, you’ll risk overcharging and frying the battery. Go lower and you transform your charger into an energy sink that will further deplete the battery.
Functionality
Today, many chargers have multiple functions, allowing you to alternate charging modes depending on your needs. These modes modulate the amp current and monitor your battery’s charge so as to protect its longevity.
For users who need a good maintenance charger, features such as float mode and ambient temperature sensors are crucial for real-time monitoring so as to prevent overcharging. And if you’re working with old batteries, you’ll want a desulfator that can help restore some of your battery’s performance.
How much you can expect to spend on a car battery charger
Depending on the number of features it has, a car battery charger will cost between $30-$120.
Car battery charger FAQ
Do car battery chargers only work on cars?
A. Car battery chargers commonly work on lead-acid, AGM, STD and GEL batteries. This means you can use it for many vehicles on both land and sea, including boats, water scooters, RVs and motorcycles. They also work on machines such as electric-powered lawn mowers.
What causes a car battery to drain?
A. Batteries have a natural discharge rate, usually in the decimals, that causes them to lose voltage over time. When left in your car or vehicle, they are prone to what is called parasitic decay, which is caused by your car’s electrical devices that require about an amp a day to maintain. Lastly, common events such as leaving your lights on overnight, or running your electronics without the engine on for a long period of time can sap a battery of its power.
What are the best car battery chargers to buy?
Top car battery charger
TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With three different amp currents, the TowerTop is a solid all-around charger for most vehicles.
What you’ll love: Not only can the TowerTop maintain or quickly charge your battery between its two-, 10- and 25-amp capacity, but its engine start aid feature delivers enough power to jump your car in under 120 seconds. At 12 volts, it’s compatible with most vehicles that have a lead-acid, GEL, AGM or STD battery. Its automatic charging system detects temperature and voltage changes so you never overcharge your battery in float mode.
What you should consider: This battery is not available for six- or 12-volt vehicles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top car battery charger for the money
What you need to know: With two different volt and amperage ratings, this feature-packed budget charger is a great maintenance tool for any fleet of vehicles or arsenal of home appliances.
What you’ll love: This automated charger is designed to maintain or quickly recharge batteries using a 10-amp stream at 12 volts, or a five-amp stream at 24 volts. Its built-in fan and winter and summer modes adjust for ambient temperature to protect your battery. And the pulse repair function can be used to desulfate your battery.
What you should consider: You can’t use this battery to jump-start your engine or bring back a totally dead battery.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Schumacher SC1281 100-amp 30-amp 6-volt/12-volt Fully Automatic Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With its rugged design and convenient handle, this charger is perfect for outdoor applications, especially marine batteries.
What you’ll love: Offering both six- and 12-volt compatibility, this fully automatic charger works on common lead-acid batteries and deep-cycle marine batteries. The 100-amp jump-start feature can be used to get your car or SUV running in a pinch. The 30-amp stream makes this an excellent charger for anyone who needs a quick turnaround and isn’t interested in trickle chargers. The alternator tester is an added bonus to help you troubleshoot a car that won’t start.
What you should consider: Some users report overcharging their batteries when using this charger. Be sure to read the manual as there are important precautions and procedures to follow to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which infant shoes are best?
Newborns and young babies might not need shoes for walking in, but they’re undeniably cute. But which infant shoes should you buy? Are they just for show or are there any other important features to consider?
Picking out the right shoes for your baby is important for their comfort and foot health. If you’re looking for adorably small versions of classic adult shoes, Vans Infant Slip-On Shoes are an excellent choice.
What to know before you buy infant shoes
Style
Baby shoes are available in a wide range of styles from sneakers and moccasins to Mary Janes and T-bar shoes. Since the main purpose of shoes for babies is to look cute because they can’t yet walk, you should focus on choosing a style that you like. Many parents and caregivers like to choose tiny versions of shoes they like or own, so you’ll find a range of big shoe brands selling shoes for babies.
Sole
Babies need soft-soled shoes that allow them to wiggle and flex their feet in the same way they’d be able to without shoes on. This is important for healthy foot development, especially in babies who wear shoes regularly. If you see shoes with rubber soles like you’d find on adult footwear, it’s best avoided.
While walking isn’t a concern for newborns, infant shoe sizes fit babies up to 12 months so early walkers will be toddling around in their infant shoes. Whether your baby is walking independently or with the help of a baby walker, they need soft-soled shoes to replicate the feeling of walking barefoot. That said, it’s better for new walkers to go without shoes where appropriate.
Materials
Look for shoes made from soft, comfortable materials that won’t rub. Many shoes for infants are made from canvas or synthetic mesh materials. Anything that’s flexible, breathable and won’t rub the feet is a good choice. Avoid shoes made from leather or faux leather as they’re not flexible enough and much more likely to rub the feet. Some are lined with fleece or other soft materials to prevent chafing and keep little feet comfortable, but these are better for cold weather as they may overheat your baby’s feet on warm days.
What to look for in quality infant shoes
Colors
Infant shoes come in a wide range of solid colors as well as prints and other designs. If you’re looking for solid-colored shoes, you’ll have a choice of neutral hues as well as brighter shades. Then there’s everything from Disney prints to stars to camouflage to dinosaurs. In short, there’s a wealth of options, whether you want something cute or sensible.
Easy closure
Choose shoes that are as easy as possible to put on and take off. You’ll thank yourself later. Hook and loop closures are quick and easy, as are simple slip-ons.
Grip
Your baby will be in infant size shoes until they’re approximately 12 months old. While having traction on the soles isn’t necessary until babies start walking, if you have an early walker on your hands, make sure their shoes are have good grip so they don’t slip over. Just remember, babies are safer and more comfortable walking barefooted indoors.
How much you can expect to spend on infant shoes
Basic baby shoes cost around $10-$15, while those from popular brands can cost as much as $40-$60.
Infant shoes FAQ
At what age do babies need shoes?
A. Babies don’t really need shoes until they start walking, but it’s fine for you to occasionally put shoes on babies from birth. Most of the time, your baby should be in bare feet or in socks, because it’s better for their development. However, if you want to put shoes on your baby to keep their feet warm or simply look cute while you’re out of the house, it’s okay to do so.
What size shoes do newborns wear?
A. Newborns wear infant size one shoes, which are different from toddler size one or little kids size one shoes. Infant shoes come in sizes one to four, with infant size one fitting babies of approximately 0-3 months, infant size two fitting babies of approximately 3-6 months, infant size three fitting babies of approximately 6-9 months and infant size four fitting babies of approximately 9-12 months.
What are the best infant shoes to buy?
Top infant shoes
What you need to know: Vans fans will love these mini versions of the classic checkered slip on.
What you’ll love: The shoes are soft with flexible soles so babies can move and stretch their feet comfortably. They’re extremely easy to put on, even if your baby never shops wriggling.
What you should consider: They run slightly large, so double check the size before buying.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top infant shoes for the money
What you need to know: These affordable baby shoes are great for buyers who aren’t looking for big brands.
What you’ll love: You can choose from a range of solid colors and cute designs. They’re soft and flexible, so comfortable for little ones to wear. They’re available in three sizes to fit babies from birth to 9 months.
What you should consider: They’re not exceptionally durable, but babies grow out of them quickly, so they don’t need to be.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Cribster Baby Shoes
What you need to know: Iconic Chucks in infant size are a great choice for Converse fans.
What you’ll love: They’re made from 100% cotton canvas, so they’re flexible and comfortable for babies, with a hidden hook and loop closure so they’re easy to get on and off. You can choose from five colors.
What you should consider: Some reports of the Converse logo being printed on the inside of the shoe rather than the outside.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which rain boots are best for toddlers?
If you’ve ever seen a toddler jump in a puddle on a rainy day, you know they need a good pair of rain boots. Those boots need to be well-protected against the elements and gentle on your toddler’s feet. Then you have to think about style, considering any favorite colors, themes or characters your toddler might want to show off when they go splashing about in the rain. Check out the CasaMiel Unisex Rain Boots for a well-made boot that’s as comfortable as it is safe and durable.
What to know before you buy toddler rain boots
A toddler is defined as a child from 1 to 3 years old, and shopping for something like a pair of rain boots for a toddler is significantly different from shopping for kids rain boots in older age brackets. Children grow fast, and toddlers, in particular, are still figuring out how to work with their feet, meaning price and functionality become key components.
Size for the right season
A toddler’s feet grow fast, so there’s a much smaller window for clothing and shoe usability. If you buy boots ahead of the rainy season, do the math. For example, if you purchase a month in advance, consider how quickly your child’s feet have grown in the last month and plan accordingly. The last thing you need is a pair of boots that’s already too small.
Boot weight
While you want a sturdy and durable boot, you also want something lightweight and easy to walk in. A toddler is still learning how to control their own movements and doesn’t need to be tripping over heavy boots. If you’re not sure about a boot, have your toddler try them on inside and see how they move in them.
Width of the toe box
The toe box is where the toes reach the tip of the boot and is a crucial factor, especially if your toddler has wider feet. For those who wear wide-width shoes or boots, a wider toe box means less chance of blistering and discomfort. The size of this toe box will vary based on the boot size. Toddler rain boots generally don’t come in wide sizes, so trusting existing reviews can help.
What to look for in a quality toddler rain boot
You want a boot that is made safely from quality materials. It should be practical for use on rainy days. No one expects toddler boots to last forever, and with the way kids grow, you might not even get a ton of use from them. Even so, you want something safe and comfortable for your child.
Pull handles
It can be a challenge to get shoes onto a squirming toddler. Pull handles on either side of the boots can save time and energy, slipping boots onto a child’s feet so they can get out the door faster. It also makes it easier for them to get the boots on themselves if the toddler is independently minded and likes to do things without assistance.
Textured sole
A good rain boot has grooves in the sole to help the wearer keep their footing and prevent slips or falls. This is especially important with toddlers as they play around in puddles on wet or slippery surfaces.
Natural rubber
Polyvinyl chloride is a durable, lightweight plastic that is more cost-effective than rubber for rain products, but it also contains harmful chemical additives like lead and phthalates. A quality rain boot is made from natural rubber, which comes from a plant called Hevea brasiliensis, instead of PVC or synthetic rubber.
How much you can expect to spend on toddler rain boots
The average price is around $20-$40, with some boots costing as much as $50-$60.
Toddler rain boots FAQ
Are toddler shoe sizes different from kids shoe sizes?
A. Yes, toddler sizes are different. They use the same numerical system but with different lettering at the end. For example, a size 6T is not the same as a size 6 in kids shoes.
Are rain boots lined?
A. Sometimes. While not all boots are lined, some are lined on the inside with cotton or lightweight synthetic material.
Can they be worn in the snow?
A. Rain boots are not the same as snow boots and don’t provide the same insulation. It is, therefore, not recommended that your child wear them in the snow.
What’s the best toddler rain boot to buy?
Top toddler rain boot
What you need to know: This natural rubber boot comes in eight colors in sizes 4-10T.
What you’ll love: It’s made from natural, non-toxic materials. It is well-made, lightweight and has grooves in the sole to prevent slipping and sliding. There are pull handles on both sides.
What you should consider: It runs narrow and does not come in half sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top toddler rain boot for the money
Lonecone Rain Boots with Easy-On Handles
What you need to know: This rubber boot comes in over a dozen colorful prints in sizes 4-10T.
What you’ll love: There’s a wide variety of themed prints, from dinosaur to unicorn options. The rubber is phthalate-free and lead-free with a soft cotton lining. There are pull handles on both boots.
What you should consider: It runs a little narrow and does not come in half sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Outdoor Master Lightweight Rain Boots
What you need to know: This rain boot comes in six bold colors in sizes 6-10T.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to clean with a quick rinse and has thick pull handles that are easy to use. It’s great for wide-width feet and features a reflective piece on the heel for visibility in low light. There are grooves in the sole to help prevent slips and falls.
What you should consider: It doesn’t come in smaller sizes or half sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which formula dispenser is best?
In the first few months of a baby’s life, they need to eat frequently. While this can be a demanding task, especially if you’re trying to make a bottle while simultaneously holding a hungry baby, a formula dispenser is a convenient piece of equipment that can make life much more pleasant.
Depending on the amount of formula needed and your preferred style, there are a variety of formula dispensers that are ideal for your family. However, if you’re looking for an automatic formula dispenser with various features, the Baby Brezza Formula Pro Advanced Formula Dispenser is a top choice.
What to know before you buy a formula dispenser
What is a formula dispenser?
Formula dispensers are containers that hold a specific amount of formula, making it quicker to prepare a bottle than measuring out each scoop from a formula container. For example, a formula dispenser allows you to pre-measure out the amount of formula your baby needs ahead of time so you can simply pour it into the bottle when your baby is hungry.
Types of formula dispensers
Here are the most common types of formula dispensers.
- Automatic formula dispensers are more of an appliance and look similar to a single-serve coffee machine. It has a water tank and holds up to an entire container of formula to make any size bottle needed.
- Single formula dispensers look similar to small containers. They can fit enough formula for one bottle up to an entire container of formula.
- Stackable formula dispensers are convenient because you can pre-fill enough containers to make several bottles easily. They are thin like water bottles and easy to store.
- Compartment formula dispensers also have several chambers to prepare more than one bottle but look like a large divided container rather than a stackable dispenser.
What to look for in a quality formula dispenser
Capacity
When your baby is younger and only drinking two or four-ounce bottles, any formula dispenser should have a large enough capacity. However, you’ll want to ensure that your formula dispenser has a large enough capacity to make up to an eight-ounce bottle to accommodate your growing baby.
Compartments
Whether you want a formula dispenser to take on the go or make it easy to prepare a bottle in the middle of the night, a formula dispenser with multiple compartments is convenient as you won’t need to fill it as often. For example, if you’re going to be out all day or want enough formula to feed a baby throughout the night, you’ll want a formula dispenser with at least three to five compartments.
Lid
The lid on a formula dispenser is arguably one of the most important features. Formula dispenser lids come in many different styles, including twist-off, hinge variety or completely snap-off covers. Twist off is harder to do one-handed but is less likely to break open in a diaper bag. Also, lids with a spout are much easier to funnel into the bottle than wide-mouth lids.
How much you can expect to spend on a formula dispenser
Depending on the size and type, formula dispensers cost $3-$150.
Formula dispenser FAQ
How much formula does a formula dispenser hold?
A. The amount of formula a dispenser can hold varies from one option to the next. For example, a sizeable automatic formula dispenser may hold up to a whole can of baby formula, while a smaller travel size dispenser may only hold four to 6 ounces. However, the majority of formula dispensers hold about eight ounces of formula.
Can I put pre-mixed formula in my formula dispenser?
A. No. Since formula dispensers are not designed to hold liquid, they are not sealed tightly enough for water and will probably leak. Plus, pre-made formula needs to be used within two hours if left at room temperature and 24 hours if refrigerated.
What are the best formula dispensers to buy?
Top formula dispenser
Baby Brezza Formula Pro Advanced Formula Dispenser
What you need to know: Mix and warm a formula bottle simultaneously with this automatic formula dispensing machine.
What you’ll love: Since it’s fully customizable, you can choose the exact bottle size and temperature for a perfect formula bottle every time. Plus, it works with almost every type of bottle and brand of formula.
What you should consider: While it’s quick and takes all the work out of making a formula bottle, it’s difficult to tell if there is a glitch and an incorrect amount of formula is dispensed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Top formula dispenser for the money
Munchkin Formula Dispenser Combo Pack
What you need to know: Those who are often traveling will appreciate how easy it is to make formula bottles on the go with this simple and affordable formula dispenser.
What you’ll love: With three separate compartments, this dispenser can hold enough formula to make three eight-ounce bottles. Plus, you’ll also receive a single-serve dispenser for quick trips or to quickly prepare a bottle at home.
What you should consider: This dispenser can melt with extremely hot water from sanitizing or a dishwasher, which makes the lid not fit correctly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Accmor Smart Stackable Powder Formula Dispenser
What you need to know: With ten separate compartments, this formula dispenser can hold 60 to 80 ounces of formula for easy-to-make bottles at home or on the go.
What you’ll love: Not only is this dispenser ideal for formula, but it can also hold rice cereal snacks or keep a pacifier clean and easy to find. In addition, it’s the same size as a water bottle, making it easy to store in a variety of diaper bag compartments.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that the top can be difficult to screw on correctly without spilling contents.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What are the top-rated lip liners on Sephora?
When you find that perfect shade of lipstick, you don’t want to worry about it bleeding around your mouth or fading before you’ve finished your morning coffee. But it only takes the right lip liner to help your lipstick stay in place all day.
You can use a liner to outline your lips when wearing a color that tends to run or smear, such as red. But you can also fill them in completely to provide a base for your lipstick to stick to, increasing its wear time. It’s worth getting liners in multiple colors to match your most-worn lipstick shades.
Looking to add a creamy, easy-to-apply lip liner to your makeup bag? Here are the most popular formulas you’ll find at Sephora, all of which can help your lip color go the distance.
Most popular lip liners on Sephora for under $20
Sephora Collection Retractable Rouge Gel Lip Liner
This retractable liner features a unique gel-cream formula that helps it last longer. It also provides a soft, comfortable feel and prevents the liner from drying out your lips. It’s available in more than 25 shades, too.
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This liner doesn’t require any sharpening and can help prevent your lip color from bleeding or feathering. It offers a non-drying formula and doesn’t transfer as easily as other formulas. It’s also paraben-free.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner
With its matte finish and rich pigmentation, this lip pencil is perfect for contouring your lips. It has a creamy texture that’s easy to blend out and can help your lip color last for hours. The packaging is recyclable, too.
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Smashbox Be Legendary Line and Prime Pencil
This lip pencil features a primer oil complex that creates the ideal base for your lip color and makes it comfortable on the lips. It’s versatile, so it can be used to line the outer edge of your lips or all over as a base. The formula is also vegan and cruelty-free.
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Huda Beauty Lip Contour 2.0 Automatic Matte Lip Pen
This richly pigmented liner is transfer-proof and waterproof, making it an excellent option for all-day wear. It contains licorice and soybean to help plump your lip but still feels creamy and comfortable. It even has a mini sharpener built into the base.
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Most popular lip liners on Sephora for $20-$25
Make Up For Ever Aqua Lip Waterproof Lip Liner Pencil
Stop smudging, feathering and fading with this super-creamy long-lasting liner. It contains vitamin E and jojoba oil for a comfortable feel on the lips, but the formula is completely waterproof. It works well on its own or as a base layer.
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KVD Beauty Everlasting Lip Liner
Despite its intense color, this liner feels weightless on the lips. It sets almost immediately and can last all day without fading. The formula is also paraben-free, vegan and cruelty-free.
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Too Faced Lady Bold Waterproof Longwear Lip Liner
Offering an extremely smooth application, this liner fills in the lips quickly and easily and forms a base that lasts all day. It prevents feathering and bleeding and features ingredients that help condition and nourish your lips. Best of all, you can achieve full color in a single swipe.
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Lawless Forget The Filler Definer Lip Liner
Featuring a clean formula, this lip liner is sustainably sourced, vegan and cruelty-free. It offers bold color, but it’s also ultra-creamy, so it never tugs at your lips. It features many highly emollient ingredients to give it a weightless feel.
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Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner
This super-smooth waterproof lip liner works extremely well for shaping the lips and helping them appear fuller. It can last for up to six hours without smudging or fading and is available in 15 shades, ranging from soft nude to rich red.
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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil
Thanks to its waterproof formula, this long-wearing liner boasts a 24-hour wear time. It isn’t drying and doesn’t get cakey because it contains jojoba oil, vitamin E and cottonseed oil to nourish the lips. It’s available in more than 15 shades, including a clear option that works with any lipstick color.
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Most popular lip liners on Sephora for $25-$30
Pat McGrath Labs Permagel Ultra Lip Pencil
These waterproof liners are incredibly smooth and creamy, so they’re easy to apply and blend. The formula’s soft texture makes it easy to fill in and shape for your lips, too. Best of all, they take a little time to set fully, so you can smudge and soften the liner to get the perfect look.
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Patrick Ta Monochrome Moment Precision Lip Crayon
This smooth, creamy liner glides effortlessly over your lips but can still last all day. Its emollient formula allows for even coverage and makes the liner feel comfortable on the lips. It’s still lightweight, though, so it stays in place for hours.
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Hourglass Panoramic Long Wear Lip Liner
With a richly pigmented emollient formula, this pencil blends easily for user-friendly application. It provides bold color without smudging, too, so you don’t have to touch up your lips constantly. It’s paraben- and cruelty-free, and there’s even a built-in blending brush at the end.
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Thanks to its smooth, supple formula, this makes lining your lips effortless. It’s waterproof to help it last all day, but it also contains vitamins A and E, carnauba and candelilla waxes and conditioning oils to help nourish your lips. It comes with a sharpener, too.
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