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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dakota Lithium, a U.S. battery manufacturer founded in 2008, has signed a three-year partnership with B.A.S.S. as a premier sponsor of the Bassmaster Tournament Trail and the Official Lithium Battery of Bassmaster through 2025.
"Here at Dakota Lithium, we are proud to be partnering with Bassmaster as the first Official Lithium Battery. Dakota Lithium is the top battery choice of professional anglers. Partnering with the leading professional fishing tournament series just made sense. We are looking forward to joining the elite brands that are supporting the future of fishing," said Dakota Lithium CEO Andrew A. Jay.
Dakota Lithium already works with multiple current Bassmaster Elite Series pro anglers. Two-time Bassmaster Classic champion Hank Cherry, Greg DiPalma, Austin Felix, Marc Frazier, Brock Mosley, Chad Pipkens, Tyler Rivet, Matt Robertson and Kyle Welcher are all part of the Dakota Lithium pro staff.
"I was the first Bassmaster Elite angler to use Dakota Lithium batteries and have been on the team from the beginning," said Mosley, who has notched five Top 10 Elite finishes in the past two seasons. "It is truly amazing to see how far they have come and to see them sponsor the 2023 Bassmaster season."
Fellow Elite pro Matt Robertson echoed that enthusiasm for the partnership.
"When you combine the best lithium battery and the best fishing organization, you get Dakota Lithium and Bassmaster," said Robertson, who has claimed two Top 10s this season. "Like Bassmaster, Dakota Lithium is the highest quality, longest lasting battery on the market. Nothing makes more sense than Dakota Lithium becoming the first Official Lithium Battery of Bassmaster."
Dakota Lithium will be a premier sponsor for the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk, Bassmaster Elite Series, St. Croix Bassmaster Opens Series presented by Mossy Oak Fishing, Strike King Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops, Abu Garcia Bassmaster High School Series presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship and the grass-roots TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation regional and championship tournaments.
In addition to their tournament sponsorship, Dakota Lithium will be highlighted during Bassmaster LIVE, which is streamed on Bassmaster.com and broadcast Saturday and Sunday mornings on the FOX Sports platforms, and will enjoy exposure in Bassmaster and B.A.S.S. Times magazines and across various industry-leading social media platforms.
Lithium batteries have become an industry standard for competitive fishing, providing twice the usable power at half the weight of traditional batteries. In a quickly growing market, Dakota Lithium has become the brand of choice for professional athletes, primarily due to Dakota Lithium's performance, reliability, lifespan and best-in-class 11-year warranty.
"This new partnership with Bassmaster and Dakota Lithium shows how Dakota Lithium has become the go-to battery in the marine industry, and partnering with Bassmaster is the next step in continuing that dominance," said Craig Storms, Dakota Lithium national sales representative and pro staff manager.
"We are proud to welcome Dakota Lithium as a new premier partner and look forward to connecting them with anglers and Bassmaster fans," said B.A.S.S. CEO Chase Anderson. "Dakota Lithium already works alongside so many anglers at all levels, and we are excited to introduce their long-lasting batteries to our passionate fans over the next several years."
Founded in 2008 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by two pilots and a chemical engineer, Dakota Lithium is the leading consumer lithium battery brand in the US and Canada. Built on a culture of relentless improvement and reliability, Dakota Lithium batteries have twice the power, half the weight, and 5X the lifespan of traditional batteries. Backed up by DL's best-in-class 11-year warranty.
Here at Dakota Lithium, we believe that quality makes the difference. And that quality is measured by lifespan – how long a battery lasts. That's why we focus on building batteries that last a long, long time. By harnessing a unique chemistry and our engineering know-how, Dakota Lithium lasts 5-10x longer than traditional batteries, providing lasting value for our customers and reducing e-waste and the impact on our planet.
B.A.S.S., which encompasses the Bassmaster tournament leagues, events and media platforms, is the worldwide authority on bass fishing and keeper of the culture of the sport, providing cutting edge content on bass fishing whenever, wherever and however bass fishing fans want to use it. Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., the 515,000-member organization's fully integrated media platforms include the industry's leading magazines (Bassmaster and B.A.S.S. Times), website (Bassmaster.com), TV show, radio show, social media programs and events. For more than 50 years, B.A.S.S. has been dedicated to access, conservation and youth fishing.
The Bassmaster Tournament Trail includes the most prestigious events at each level of competition, including the Bassmaster Elite Series, St. Croix Bassmaster Opens Series presented by Mossy Oak Fishing, TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Series, Strike King Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops, Abu Garcia Bassmaster High School Series presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship, Yamaha Rightwaters Bassmaster Kayak Series powered by TourneyX, Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship presented by Skeeter and the ultimate celebration of competitive fishing, the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk.
Media Contacts: Emily Harley, B.A.S.S. Communications Manager, 205-313-0945 (o), 205-253-1114 (c), eharley@bassmaster.com
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Cloud-based Inventory Management Platform Now Available Nationwide
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael A. Razny, a third-generation jeweler and graduate gemologist, is trailblazing the jewelry industry by launching Crystal, a first-of-its-kind cloud-based inventory management and point-of-sale platform for single and multi-location jewelry stores.
"Throughout my entire career in jewelry I've had to use outdated technology, along with many other jewelers. The jewelry industry has been underserved and overlooked for so long. I knew the problem wouldn't solve itself because our industry is too niche for big tech," Razny explains.
Crystal officially launched in 2020 after Michael A. Razny teamed up with Joel Steinbaugh, the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Crystal. Before Crystal, Steinbaugh previously led design and full-stack development at multiple seed-stage startups in the education, music, and gaming industries. To displace generic retail point solutions and antiquated jewelry management software that owners have struggled with for decades, Razny and Steinbaugh created Crystal, a jewelry software that finally provides independent jewelers unprecedented inventory management capabilities. This includes custom attributes, dynamic reporting, an integrated point-of-sale, and an iOS app that allows retailers access to the platform with any device at any location.
Prior to Crystal, Razny managed retail operations at Razny Jewelers, one of the top revenue-generating independent jewelry stores in the nation. There, he experienced first-hand the inconveniences independent retailers faced when utilizing inventory management that contributed to negative customer experiences, strained vendor relationships, and decreased profitability. Razny reflects, "It was frustrating operating with such limited software, so Joel and I decided to build an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and test its viability in my store. Shortly after that, word spread and we saw interest from jewelers across the country."
Since launching in 2020, Crystal has managed inventory, point-of-sale, and operations for industry-leading jewelers from New York to L.A., including Henne, Polachecks Jewelers, Material Good, Michael Herman NY, David Gardner's Jewelers, and Walter's & Hogsett, among many others.
Razny shares, "Jewelry stores are generational businesses passed down through families. My grandfather opened Razny Jewelers in Chicago in 1951. It's been in the family for 70 years. As a third-generation jeweler with more than eight years in tech, I felt uniquely suited to move jewelry software forward. Crystal is more than a software company to me, it's my family's legacy."
About Crystal
Launched in 2020, Crystal is a solution for jewelers by jewelers. Combining modern design with an intuitive user experience for flawless and secure inventory management, Crystal is setting the standard for jewelry retailers everywhere. With a cloud-based inventory management and point-of-sale platform, Crystal is at the forefront of the jewelry industry by creating a software that provides a universally accessible iOS app, custom assets, effortless use of data navigation, instantaneous report generation, and a fully-integrated point-of-sale.
For more information, please visit https://crystalinventory.io/.
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The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday.
An NTSB preliminary report released Thursday cites Amtrak and BNSF Railway for the estimated damage amount.
The collision occurred about 12:40 p.m. CT on June 27 at a passive graded crossing, where there was a stop sign and a "crossbucks" sign indicating a railroad crossing.
After the train hit the truck, eight of its cars and two locomotives derailed.
Four people were killed in the collision near the town of Mendon. The victims were Billy Barton II, 53, the dump truck driver; train passengers Rochelle Cook, 57; Kim Holsapple, 56; and Binh Phan, 82, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has said. All but Phan were pronounced dead at the scene, the agency said. Phan died at a hospital later that same day, the highway patrol added.
There were 270 passengers and 12 crew members on the train.
The NTSB said in its preliminary report that BNSF authorizes train movement in the area.
"Train movements are coordinated by a BNSF train dispatcher located at the Dispatch Center in Fort Worth, Texas," NTSB officials said. "Train movements on the Marceline Subdivision are governed by operating rules, special instructions, timetable instructions, and the signal indications of the traffic control system and supplemented with an overlaid positive train control (PTC) system."
The positive train control system was operating at the time of the collision, according to the NTSB.
The Chicago-bound train was traveling at 89 mph in a 90 mph zone when the emergency brakes were applied. The train was still going at 87 mph when it hit the truck, which was loaded with large rocks and ended up in a ditch adjacent to the road.
In June, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said community members have raised concerns about the crossing where the crash took place.
The "very steep" incline can have an impact on large and heavy vehicles, she said, adding the agency is also looking into whether drivers could see trains approaching, referring to vegetation on or along the track and other factors that could hinder a vehicle driver's vision.
The NTSB said Thursday, "Future investigative activity will focus on highway railroad grade crossing design specifications, railcar design, survival factors, and passenger railcar crashworthiness."
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd's civil rights, calling Lane's role in the restraint that killed Floyd "a very serious offense in which a life was lost" but handing down a sentence well below what prosecutors and Floyd's family sought.
Judge Paul Magnuson's sentence was just slightly more than the 27 months that Lane's attorney had requested, while prosecutors had asked for at least 5 1/4 years in prison — the low end of federal guidelines. Lane was convicted earlier this year of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care.
Lane, who is white, held Floyd's legs as Officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd's neck with his knee for nearly 9 1/2 minutes on May 25, 2020. Bystander video of Floyd, who was Black, pleading that he could not breathe sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the world in a reckoning over racial injustice over policing.
Two other officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, were also convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights — for depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and for failing to intervene to stop Chauvin — and will be sentenced later.
Floyd family members had asked Magnuson to give Lane the stiffest sentence possible, with brother Philonise Floyd rejecting the idea that Lane deserved any mercy for asking his colleagues twice if George Floyd should be shifted from his stomach to his side.
"Officer Lane did not intervene in one way or another," he said.
Prosecutor Manda Sertich had also argued for a higher sentence, saying that Lane "chose not to act" when he could have saved a life.
"There has to be a line where blindly following a senior officer's lead, even for a rookie officer, is not acceptable," she said.
Magnuson told Lane the "fact that you did not get up and remove Mr. Chauvin when Mr. Floyd became unconscious is a violation of the law." But he also held up 145 letters he said he had received supporting Lane, saying he had never received so many on behalf of a defendant. And he faulted the Minneapolis Police Department for sending Lane with another rookie officer on the call that ended in Floyd's death.
Magnuson cited two letters in particular that he said came from doctors who recounted a situation when their diagnosis was overruled by a more senior physician, "to disastrous result to the patient." He said the doctors described being haunted that they did not stand up to the senior physician.
"It speaks loudly to this case," Magnuson said.
In sentencing Chauvin earlier this month on a civil rights charge in Floyd's killing, Magnuson appeared to suggest that he bore the most blame in the case, telling Chauvin: "You absolutely destroyed the lives of three young officers by taking command of the scene."
Lane did not speak at Thursday's sentencing and neither he nor his attorney, Earl Gray, commented to reporters afterward. Philonise Floyd called the sentence "insulting" and said he didn't understand why Lane — whom he called "an accessory to murder'' — didn't get the toughest possible sentence.
"To me I think this whole criminal system needs to be torn down and rebuilt," he said.
Magnuson also said he would recommend that Lane serve his sentence at the federal prison in Duluth, a minimum-security facility about 2 1/2 hours from the Minneapolis area. The facility is classified as a "camp," has no fence and has dormitory-style housing rather than cells. Prison assignments are made by the Bureau of Prisons.
Gray argued during the trial that Lane "did everything he could possibly do to help George Floyd." He pointed out that Lane suggested rolling Floyd on his side so he could breathe, but was rebuffed twice by Chauvin. He also noted that Lane performed CPR to try to revive Floyd after the ambulance arrived.
Lane testified at trial that he didn't realize how dire Floyd's condition was until paramedics turned him over.
When Lane pleaded guilty in state court in May to one charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter, Gray said Lane hoped to avoid a long sentence. "He has a newborn baby and did not want to risk not being part of the child's life," he said.
Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to a federal civil rights charge in Floyd's killing and to another civil rights charge in an unrelated case involving a Black teenager. That netted a 21-year sentence from Magnuson, toward the low end of 20- to 25-year range both sides agreed to under his plea deal.
Chauvin was also convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in state court and is serving a 22 1/2-year state sentence. His federal and state sentences are being served simultaneously.
Kueng pinned Floyd's back during the restraint and Thao helped hold back an increasingly concerned group of onlookers outside a Minneapolis convenience store where Floyd, who was unarmed, tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.
Magnuson has not set sentencing dates for Thao, who is Hmong American, and Kueng, who is Black. But he has scheduled a hearing for Friday, after their attorneys objected to sentencing calculations under the complicated federal guidelines. Prosecutors are seeking unspecified sentences for them that would be lower than Chauvin's but "substantially higher" than Lane's.
Thao and Kueng are free on bond pending sentencing on their federal convictions. They are also charged with state counts of aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. They have turned down plea deals and are scheduled to go to trial on those charges on Oct. 24.
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Levolution (LEVL) traded 5.2% higher against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on July 21st. Over the last seven days, Levolution has traded 41.6% lower against the dollar. Levolution has a total market cap of $1.58 million and approximately $1,072.00 worth of Levolution was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Levolution coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0122 or 0.00000053 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $23,175.85 or 0.99969790 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004314 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded 6.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.61 or 0.00006932 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 9.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.92 or 0.00003967 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004314 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
Levolution Profile
Levolution (LEVL) is a coin. It was first traded on April 2nd, 2019. Levolution’s total supply is 311,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 129,678,864 coins. Levolution’s official website is levolution.io. Levolution’s official message board is levolution.io/news. Levolution’s official Twitter account is @LevolutionP and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Buying and Selling Levolution
It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Levolution directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Levolution should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Levolution using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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The Diamondbacks reinstated Bukauskas (shoulder) from the 60-day injured list Wednesday and reassigned him to the minors.
Arizona hasn't officially announced what affiliate Bukauskas will join, but he'll presumably be sticking around at Triple-A Reno, with whom he made his last rehab appearance Sunday. Though Bukauskas was added back to the Diamondbacks' 40-man roster while lefty Dallas Keuchel was designated for assignment in a corresponding move, the big club doesn't look as though it'll have a spot available in the bullpen for the right-hander for the time being. During his eight-appearance rehab assignment between the rookie-level Arizona Complex League and the Triple-A club, Bukaskas struck out nine over eight scoreless frames.
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*(CNN) — Hours before Dave Chappelle was set to hit the stage in Minneapolis, the venue canceled the sold-out show.
First Avenue, well known as the venue featured in Prince’s 1984 film “Purple Rain,” declined to host Chappelle’s comedy show after backlash over comments in some of his previous Netflix specials that have been criticized as transphobic.
“The Dave Chappelle show tonight at First Avenue has been canceled and is moving to the Varsity Theater,” First Avenue writes in a post on its verified Instagram account.
“To staff, artists, and our community, we hear you and we are sorry,” the statement reads. “We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down. We are not just a black box with people in it, and we understand that First Ave is not just a room, but meaningful beyond our walls.”
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The statement continues: “The First Avenue team and you have worked hard to make our venues the safest spaces in the country, and we will continue with that mission. We believe in diverse voices and the freedom of artistic expression, but in honoring that, we lost sight of the impact this would have. We know there are some who will not agree with this decision; you are welcome to send feedback.”
Chappelle has made jokes about the trans community in sets over the years, but his 2021 Netflix special “The Closer” increased ire among some in the LGBTQ+ community and its allies after Chappelle said he was “team TERF,” the term for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.”
“Gender is a fact,” Chappelle said during the special, which was nominated for two Emmy Awards earlier this month. “Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact.”
CNN has reached out to reps for Chappelle for comment.
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BEDFORD, Pa. – An agricultural showcase awaits those in Bedford County.
The 148th Bedford County Fair will begin Sunday at the fairgrounds, west of downtown Bedford on Business Route 30, which is West Pitt Street. It continues through July 30.
John Holbert, fair vice president, said the fair is an event that many people look forward to and attend every year.
"It's a family tradition, and some people come for the livestock, some come for the carnival midway, some come for the food, some come for the motorsports and some come for a combination of things," he said.
Auto racing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sunday, and it will feature late-model sportsman, modified, pure stock and four cylinders.
Demolition derbies will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
"This is something that only happens at the fair," Holbert said. "The derbies fill the grandstand every year. You need to get here early."
Bullride Mania will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
New this year will be pig racing that will be held Monday through July 30.
"We had it several times in the '90s and early 2000s, and we decided to book that back this year," Holbert said. "We'll also have racing hot dogs, and that'll be weiner dogs with saddle blankets on to look like hot dogs."
Auto racing will be offered at 7:30 p.m. July 29, featuring late models, semi-lates and four cylinders.
"For people watching an event, the car races draw the most people in," Holbert said.
Throughout the week, visitors will have the chance to view livestock and agriculture exhibits along with a petting zoo.
Bartlebaugh Amusements will be providing an array of rides in the midway, along with games and carnival concessions.
A variety of food vendors will be on hand serving up gyros, barbecue, pizza, roasted corn and baked potatoes, french fries, funnel cakes, shaved ice, ice cream, monkey bread and cinnamon buns.
"We always try to have a good variety of food," Holbert said.
Musical entertainment will be featured daily on the midway stage.
"People will have a lot of family fun at the fair," Holbert said. "Come and take in the entire event. You need to walk around and look at everything."
One-price admission is $10, which includes midway rides, exhibitions and grandstand shows.
Family Day is be held Monday, and admission will be $5.
Military Day will be presented Monday. Military personnel and veterans will be admitted for free with proper identification.
Senior Day will be offered on Tuesday. Seniors 65 and over will receive free admission with Medicare card until 4 pm.
Parking is $3 each day.
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A 12-year-old boy in China stole his father’s car and took his younger sister on a 200km joyride because they were bored, Chinese media has reported. The boy from Huzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China, got his younger sister to steal the key to their father’s SUV while their parents were at work on Monday and left in the car around 10am. The children’s father returned home at 12 noon the same day, discovered the car and children missing, and called the police, The Paper reported. The SUV was later found passing along the highway in neighbouring Jiangsu province, 200km away, at a speed of 120km per hour. A news video posted on video-sharing platform Zhongbao, showed surveillance footage of the SUV wobbling while making an awkward right-hand turn, causing the vehicle behind to narrowly avoid colliding with it. When police caught up with the pair the boy said after driving for a while he began to feel scared and exited the freeway. He then stopped the car at a car park next to a school before the police arrived. ‘I spend US$22,200 a day’: China influencer cancelled for promoting ‘evil trends’ “When were you born?” A police officer is heard asking the boy in the video news report. “In the year 2009,” the boy answered. The officer continued: “Did you steal the key, or was it given to you by your father?” “My sister took it,” the boy replied. The boy told police that he had observed his father while driving and had played a driving simulation game which inspired him to take the car. The father was shocked when he learned the driver of his missing car was his son and that his daughter was seated next to the boy in the front passenger seat. The incident was the subject of widespread discussion on mainland social media about children and safety. One Weibo user said: “120km per hour by a 12-year-old boy? Crazy! The parents could send him to fly a plane.” Another said: “It was too dangerous. I couldn’t dare imagine if something unexpected happened.” | https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186105/200km-joyride-boy-china-aged-12-steals-fathers?utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-07-22T01:10:28Z | https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3186105/200km-joyride-boy-china-aged-12-steals-fathers?utm_source=rss_feed | false | 2 |
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Do covid vaccinations drive covid infections?
One year ago, in July 2021, some independent covid analysts noted that in Europe, countries with high covid vaccination rates had much higher covid infection rates than countries with low vaccination rates. They proposed that covid vaccination might perhaps drive covid infections.
Yet this was not the case. Instead, the European delta wave simply followed the typical respiratory virus regional pattern, moving from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, and Western Europe happened to have higher covid vaccination rates than Eastern Europe. Indeed, just a few weeks later covid infections peaked in Eastern Europe at even higher levels than in Western Europe.
To make the false correlation work, the analysts at the time had to ignore several Eastern European countries with high vaccination rates – notably Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic – as these countries had the same low infection rates as other Eastern European countries.
In the US, the delta summer wave started in southern states with rather low vaccination rates, and some journalists were quick to claim low vaccination rates were driving infections. When infections moved north, these journalists fell silent or invoked seasonality.
One year later, the “more injections, more infections” hypothesis is back. Indeed, both in the US and in Europe, there is once again a correlation between higher vaccination rates and higher infection rates, even within some countries. Is negative vaccine effectiveness finally a reality?
This time around, the situation is a bit more complex. As the European chart above shows, the typical west-east pattern is still at play: the two high-infection outliers, Denmark and Portugal, are typical European covid forerunners (they already passed the latest omicron wave); in contrast, the low-infection low-vaccination outliers are again all in Eastern Europe and they are yet to see the latest omicron wave. Hungary is once again breaking the correlation.
But there are three additional aspects that must be taken into account: first, countries with high vaccination rates tend to be richer and tend to test more; second, vaccinated and boosted people tend to test more than unvaccinated “honey badgers”; and third, vaccinated and boosted people are protected against infection for some months, but then “catch up” with already recovered people, who enjoy a much more durable protection.
If these factors are taken into account, the seemingly negative vaccine effectiveness disappears. The best place to study this is Denmark, which provides test-adjusted infection rates per age group and vaccination status in non-recovered people (see charts below). But even in places like Israel and Britain, as soon as one adjusts for test rates, the correlations disappear (see below).
In Germany, it was noted that in late June and early July, four eastern German states had both lower infection rates and lower vaccination rates. Yet these states had higher infection (and death) rates during previous covid waves (delta and omicron), and by mid-July, the striking geographic correlation had already started to disappear.
There have also been claims that countries with high vaccination rates are seeing ever higher infection waves, whereas this is supposedly not the case in countries with low vaccination rates (e.g. in South Africa). But this assertion – to the extent it is correct – doesn’t prove negative vaccine effectiveness, either.
By early 2022, countries with low vaccination rates – e.g. in Eastern Europe, Latin America, or Africa – typically had already much higher population infection rates than countries with high vaccination rates (e.g. in Western Europe, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand).
Indeed, already a year ago SPR could predict that the pandemic would turn into a “pandemic of the vaccinated”, as unvaccinated recovered people enjoyed a very robust protection against reinfection, whereas vaccinated people were faced with rapidly waning protection against infection. Only the synthetic and immune-escaping omicron variant has managed to significantly increase reinfections in recovered people and forestall the “pandemic of the vaccinated”.
Thus, even strong omicron waves in Asian and Western countries do not indicate negative vaccine effectiveness. There is one exception to this, though: vaccinating into an emerging or ongoing covid wave really appears to increase infections (and even deaths), possibly because in many people covid vaccination causes a transient immune suppression lasting about a week. Two classic examples of this effect are vaccination forerunners Israel and Chile.
Finally, there have also been claims, based on data from the Netherlands and from the Canadian province of Manitoba, that covid vaccines provide negative protection against severe disease (i.e. they increase hospitalizations). But this is not the case, either.
In the case of Manitoba, the data was from May, when there were essentially no infections and vaccine effectiveness naturally converges towards zero. In the case of the Netherlands, the raw data was not adjusted for already recovered people; even so, the Dutch data still showed a 75% booster effectiveness against severe covid.
A truly negative vaccine effectiveness would require some kind of permanent immune suppression or immune disregulation that causes infection or severe disease at lower viral loads than normal. While antigenic imprinting (OAS) is real – both in vaccinated and in previously infected people – there is currently no evidence that this has led to negative protection (though it could happen).
In conclusion, there is still no evidence of true negative vaccine effectiveness, neither against infection nor against severe disease. However, because of rapid immunity waning and testing effects, covid cases are higher in vaccinated than in already recovered people.
Moreover, because of the older age of vaccinated and boosted people, and because of the limited effectiveness of vaccines against severe disease (50%-80% instead of 95%), the vast majority of hospitalized covid patients are indeed vaccinated/boosted people (see charts below).
Taken together, it may appear as if covid vaccines are a complete failure, even though this is still not the case. Nevertheless, outside of actual high-risk groups – i.e. people at high risk of severe acute covid – covid vaccines really show no benefit, but may cause some serious adverse events.
Annex 1: Israel
A) Booster rate by 01/2022 vs. cases in 2022 (correlation)
B) Booster rate by 01/2022 vs. test positivity (no correlation)
Annex 2: Germany
A) Lower infection rates in four eastern German states. These states had higher infection rates in previous waves, and the effect started to disappear by mid-July. In terms of deaths, eastern Germany is still worse off than western Germany (details).
B) Eastern German states: higher case rates in previous waves.
Annex 3: Denmark
A) Vaccination rate per age group. Above 65, the booster rate (dark blue) is almost 100%.
B) PCR test rates per vaccination status: Boosted people (green) and vaccinated people (blue) tend to test more than unvaccinated people (orange).
C) Test-adjusted infection rates: No significant differences in people aged 6 to 60. Above 60, the booster rate is almost 100%. Note that these charts exclude recovered people.
D) Hospitalization rates per vaccination status (relative and absolute). 1) A recent booster dose still provides protection, but in people younger than 60, absolute protection becomes rather small; 2) because of their age, most hospitalized patients are boosted (green).
See also
- The Nine Great Covid Mysteries
- Covid Vaccines Adverse Events
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Back9Network Becomes Official Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties
HARTFORD, Conn. and MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Back9Network, a new lifestyle television network and media company, and USA TODAY Sports, one of the world's leading multi-platform news and information media companies, today announced that Back9Network has become an Official Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties.
As part of the partnership, effective immediately, select Back9Network coverage and content will be available online at USATODAY.com — http://www.USATODAY.com/golf. Back9 in 90, the daily online video update on the day's events in golf and beyond, is among the initial Back9Network.com content offerings currently available via USATODAY.com/sports.
The agreement also provides rights for both parties to utilize each other's online content and coverage, as well as mutual link sharing. Future syndication of Back9Network content is expected to take place across other sites that comprise USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties and Gannett Co.
"We're very proud that Back9Network has been named an Official Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties, and we are excited to extend our content to USA TODAY Sports (www.usatoday.com/sports) and invite those sports fans to also visit us on Back9Network.com (www.back9network.com)," said James L. ("Jamie") Bosworth, founder and CEO, Back9Network.
"As we launch a newly redesigned Back9Network.com this week at the PGA Merchandise Show, we are thrilled to give USATODAY.com visitors a taste of our character-driven content and distinct perspective on golf's incredible influence on culture and life," concluded Bosworth.
"We're excited to welcome Back9Network to the USA TODAY Sports family," said Chris Pirrone, General Manager of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties. "We are committed to offering passionate fans of all sports the most engaging and comprehensive coverage on any platform, and we're confident that golf fans will love Back9Network's golf coverage. Our advertising partners are also excited to engage with Back9Network's devoted golf fanbase across desktop, video, mobile and social."
About Back9Network:
Back9Network, based in Hartford, Conn., is a new lifestyle television network and media company. Back9Network was developed as a complementary alternative to traditional media's focus on professional golf tournament coverage. Focused on compelling storytelling, interesting personalities, features and fashions, interviews and instruction, travel, gear and so much more, fans of all kinds will want to hang with the Back9Network. Back9Network.com, the online clubhouse for Back9Network, delivers a fresh perspective on the golf lifestyle and its worldwide influence.
Back9Network's Corporate Headquarters and TV/Video Production Studio are a central part of the rebirth of downtown Hartford. Back9Network joins ESPN, NBC Sports and YES Network in Connecticut, which is quickly becoming the sports media capital of the world. Back9Network's leadership includes respected and outspoken executives from the golf and media industries. Clint Eastwood serves as chairman of the Back9Network Creative Committee. For further information, visit www.Back9Network.com.
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When Is It Legal to Pass on the Right in Idaho?
If we had a dollar for every time this happened, we could probably treat ourselves to a Hot Rock fillet at Barbacoa. It just happened again!
We live in Southeast Boise. One of the many reasons we love that location is because it's so close to I-84. There’s a handful of ways to get to the Broadway on-ramp from our place, but after testing them all it seems like the quickest way to do it is using Linden to get from Boise Ave to Broadway. (And that route takes us past the Murder House which we love staring at.)
Let us rephrase that. It’s the quickest way to get there IF no one’s trying to turn left onto Leadville from Linden! Linden’s a two-lane road (one lane traveling in each direction.) If someone decides they’re going to turn left onto Leadville, traffic starts to back up and you’ll feel like you’ve been sitting there for 84 years!
And that’s why “it” happened again. An impatient driver decided they just couldn’t wait it out, so they squished themselves into the bike lane to pass the turning car and all of the cars behind it…on the right. They were uncomfortably close to our passenger side mirror. Here's a really terrible illustration of the incident.
Um…they’re not allowed to do that, right?
Right! Passing on the right in Idaho is illegal UNLESS it falls into one of these buckets described in the Idaho Department of Transportation's Driver Manual:
- When the vehicle you’re overtaking on a two-lane, two-way road is signaling to turn left
- On a one-way or multi-lane street with two or more lanes going in your direction
So, what happens if you're busted for passing on the right when you're not supposed to? You could be accessed 2 points on your license under Idaho Code 49-633.
Are you guilty of doing this? We get it. It’s been a long time since you took Drivers Ed, so this is just a little refresher course! We like to give them every once in a while. For example, we recently reminded Boise drivers that YES, you can turn left on red in some instances. Do you know when? You can see if you’re right or get a refresher by clicking HERE. | https://liteonline.com/pass-on-right-rule/ | 2022-07-22T01:16:23Z | https://liteonline.com/pass-on-right-rule/ | false | 1 |
Stamp Is Latest in Music Icons Stamp Series
NEWPORT, R.I., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Famed folk singer Pete Seeger was honored today as he was inducted into the Postal Service's Music Icons Forever stamp series at the Jane Pickens Theater.
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"The Postal Service is pleased to present our new Music Icons stamp honoring Pete Seeger, a man who inspired countless musicians and millions of fans around the world," said Tom Foti, the Postal Service's product solutions vice president, who served as the stamp ceremony's dedicating official. "He was not only a champion of traditional American music, he was also celebrated as a unifying power by promoting a variety of causes, such as, civil rights, workers' rights, social justice, the peace movement and protecting the environment."
The other participants at the stamp ceremony were members of Seeger's family; Chris Funk, music director of the Newport Folk Festival Presents For Pete's Sake; and Béla Fleck, who performed the national anthem.
The Pete Seeger Forever stamps are being sold in panes of 16.
The stamp art features a color-tinted, black-and-white photograph taken in the early 1960s by Dan Seeger, the performer's son. Pete Seeger is shown in left profile, singing and playing his iconic banjo.
The square stamp pane resembles a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve. One side of the pane includes the stamps and the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. A larger version of the stamp-art photograph appears on the reverse side with the words "Pete Seeger FOLK SINGER."
Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp and pane. Dan Seeger's photograph was color-tinted by Kristen Monthei.
The Forging of a Folk Hero
Pete Seeger (1919-2014) revived and championed traditional American music. A resolute voice of conscience and defender of American liberties, he adapted and popularized the song "We Shall Overcome," which rose to become the predominant anthem of the civil rights movement. His own compositions galvanized populist uprisings: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" has given musical voice to peace movements since the Vietnam War, and "If I Had a Hammer" has been embraced by an array of activists.
"It is an honor to see a photo of my father I'd taken some 60 years ago become this wonderful Forever stamp," said Dan Seeger. "My dad did most of his correspondence by hand — written letters — and I can imagine him smiling and of course appreciating this great honor because he relied on the U.S. Mail with its simplicity and honesty, knowing that thoughts and ideas can go from the sender over a tremendous expanse to a single receiver and get delivered."
Responding to Seeger's enormous charisma as a performer, audiences turned his concerts into sing-alongs, led by his clear tenor and ringing five-string banjo, its head inscribed: "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender." In the eyes of generations of admirers, Seeger's ideals and ordeals elevated him from folk singer to folk hero.
He was raised in New York and Connecticut by musician parents. Young Peter Seeger intuitively took to any musical instrument put within his reach. While he was still a toddler, his family made a pilgrimage to the South — homemade trailer in tow — to introduce classical music to the people of Appalachia. Following a recital by Seeger's parents, the teacher-student balance quickly reversed; audience members gave an impromptu concert of regional folk tunes. A return to the South during his teenage years further enticed Seeger. Rural Southern folk music — and the five-string banjo that characterized it — would influence his long, extraordinary career.
Seeger dropped out of college after two years at Harvard University, where he had prioritized populist causes and music over academics. In the late 1930s, he moved to New York City and also worked in Washington, DC, where he archived folk songs and recordings for the Library of Congress. He also hitchhiked and hopped boxcars to see America and hear its music. During these youthful wanderings, he met influential folk musicians, including Huddie Ledbetter, best known as Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie, who penned "This Land is Your Land" at around the same time. Guthrie and Lead Belly became two of Seeger's mentors.
Seeger and Guthrie roamed the country and organized the Almanac Singers, a loose coalition of musicians who tunefully promoted labor unionization wherever they went. Staunchly anti-fascist, the Almanacs wrote patriotic songs as Hitler menaced Europe and America entered World War II. Drafted in 1942, Seeger served three years in the Army, entertaining troops stateside and in the South Pacific until the Allied victory.
After the war, Seeger formed the Weavers, a quartet of like-minded musicians. They did not anticipate huge mainstream success, but it arrived quickly: "Goodnight, Irene," a Lead Belly composition that was the flip side of their first release, became the number one song of 1950. This surprise hit was followed by other catchy releases. Some, such as "Wimoweh," and in later years, "Guantanamera," were imported gems that Seeger plucked from obscurity. "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" and "On Top of Old Smokey" were among the songs from Americana that he repopularized. Still others, such as "The Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer)," were written or co-written by Seeger, with the catchiness and thematic qualities of folk anthems.
The Weavers' success was meteoric and their downfall just about as swift. The group's left-wing politics did not sit well with Congressional anti-Communist crusaders during the early Cold War era. Disc jockeys stopped playing Weavers records, their bookings dried up, and they disbanded in 1952. They would regroup a few years later, but they would never regain the same widespread popularity.
Subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, Seeger was asked whether he had sung for Communist groups. Defiantly, he called such questions improper, and asserted his patriotism and his right to sing to anyone who wanted to hear him. His lack of contrition brought him 10 counts of contempt of Congress, each carrying a one-year prison term, a sentence not overturned until 1962. Although not imprisoned as the legal process played out, he was effectively blacklisted. Media executives were intimidated by the consequences of association with those branded subversive, and Seeger would not appear on network television again until 1967.
He was sidelined but couldn't be silenced. Seeger recorded prolifically, embarked on a musical world tour with his family, sang with civil rights groups in the Deep South, and virtually invented the college campus concert circuit.
During Seeger's exile from radio and TV, the seeds he had sown for a folk revival bore ample fruit for other artists. The Kingston Trio had a hit record with "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" as did Peter, Paul and Mary, who also charted with "If I Had a Hammer." The Byrds electrified "Turn! Turn! Turn!," a beautifully simple song that Seeger had adapted from a favorite biblical passage. That record topped the charts in 1965. Seeger also fostered the careers of a new generation of folkies, including Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, partly through his early stewardship of the Newport Folk Festival.
In 1963, Seeger garnered some radio airplay with his biggest solo hit, "Little Boxes," a song satirizing the conformity in "ticky-tacky" housing developments proliferating across the post-war American landscape. Although the song's popularity ended his long radio silence, Seeger remained motivated not by hit records but by the unity and harmony of voices lifted in purposeful song.
Classrooms were among his favorite venues. In time, the school kids he had sung with in the 1940s and '50s grew into the politically empowered college students of the 1960s. As the civil rights and anti-war movements gathered steam, Seeger was often present on campuses to offer his talents and support.
Having taken a stand in so many of the 20th century's pressing societal issues, Seeger found his next cause in his own backyard. Sailing near the log cabin he built with Toshi, his longtime wife and partner, he became alarmed by sewage, garbage and chemical runoff in the Hudson River. To call attention to the river's plight, he spearheaded efforts to build a sloop like the tall-masted wooden cargo boats that had sailed the Hudson in centuries past.
Called Clearwater, the vessel was launched in 1969 and ever since has brought attention to the river through onboard concerts, education programs and riverside festivals. Now a National Historic Site, the sloop Clearwater and the organization supporting it have inspired generations of river stewards, and other environmental groups have emulated its organizational model.
Seeger was widely honored during the later years of his life, winning both the National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1994. In 1996, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His album "Pete" won the 1997 Grammy Award for best traditional folk album, an award he also won in 2009 for "At 89." New audiences were introduced to Seeger's music when Bruce Springsteen devoted an entire 2006 album to Seeger songs.
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at a concert marking the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, Seeger, along with Springsteen and a crowd of some 400,000 people, sang "This Land is Your Land."
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Ten British paedophiles were deported from Poland after travelling to the country under the pretence of helping refugees following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- British sex offenders went to refugee-laden Poland in the early weeks of war
- Ten convicted paedophiles travelled east in the first six weeks as 'volunteers'
- As many as 5,000 unaccompanied children displaced in first weeks of conflict
British sex offenders were tracked going to refugee-laden Poland in the early weeks of war, seemingly to take advantage of the chaos unfolding on the border with Ukraine.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) yesterday revealed ten convicted paedophiles travelled east in the first six weeks after Vladimir Putin's invasion, under the guise of providing assistance to refugees.
All ten were interviewed by Polish authorities and removed from the country, said an NCA spokesman, adding: 'We have an international network that identifies these threats... we contact our partners and say you have a convicted sex offender on your patch.'
As many as 5,000 unaccompanied children were displaced in the first weeks of the conflict.
Now two thirds of Ukraine's children have been driven from their homes, according to UNICEF, with 200,000 forced into Russia where some are being put up for adoption.
British sex offenders were tracked going to refugee-laden Poland in the early weeks of war amid reports that as many as 5,000 unaccompanied children were displaced in the first weeks of the conflict
The NCA spokesman continued: 'It is no coincidence, I think, that somewhere in the region of ten known British child sex offenders travelled to Poland in the first six weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, allegedly to provide humanitarian assistance.
'Normally they're meant to have declared this [their conviction] as part of their entry. We find inevitably, they haven't.
'As far as I understand it, all ten were asked to leave, following an interview with Polish immigration and Polish law enforcement. So they're no longer in Poland.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037849/Ten-British-paedophiles-deported-Poland-pretence-helping-refugees.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-22T01:17:38Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037849/Ten-British-paedophiles-deported-Poland-pretence-helping-refugees.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true | 4 |
At 58, Brad Pitt told Otessa Moshfegh in the cover story for GQ’s August issue, he’s entering what he considers to be the “last semester or trimester” of his career. That means picking up new hobbies, rethinking his work, and—yes—experimenting with his look. While promoting his latest movie Bullet Train in Europe over the last few days, he’s been wearing a string of very funky custom outfits, which were revealed to be created by private-label designer Haans Nicholas Mott, that seem to speak to all of these things at once. In brief remarks emailed to GQ, Mott gave us an inside look at his work with one of the biggest stars on earth.
Mott started his referral-only private clothing practice in early 2010, and also co-founded the ready-to-wear label Anecho with fellow designer Anastasia Khodkina in 2015. His process, according to a representative for the designer, is rigorous and intimate, in order to yield clothing “with outcomes determined by the individuals inhabiting the garments.” In Pitt’s case, the designer collaborated with the actor directly: “i love working with mr pitt because he has a clear sense of how he wants to be in the world and we make work in that space, i.e. mr pitt proposing an espresso linen skirt to go with the linen jacket,” Mott tells GQ, in all lowercase, via email. (Fashion designers seem keenly aware of the way personal typography can give your thoughts character: Rick Owens, for example, types in all-caps.) “there is an accord between mr pitt’s vision of our shared space and my freedom to navigate within it. his sense of color / fit / texture / pattern is utterly nuanced and genuinely special.”
That much has been clear from their work together. In Berlin, Pitt wore a kicky brown linen skirt set with a blush button down and moto boots; in Paris, he wore the two-piece linen kit the color of a refreshingly cold cantaloupe granita. These pieces, among the others Mott made for Pitt’s press tour, are evocative of the designer’s signature style: spare and idiosyncratic, slouchy and comfortable, with jaunty contrast stitching and buttons that were individually hand-formed by Mott’s father. And while posing alongside his Bullet Train castmates at these events, it feels like the clothes helped Pitt become into something of a red carpet trickster: he’s goofing off, jumping into the air, running at the camera, and just generally being hammier than usual. This is not Brad Pitt smoldering in a penguin suit. Then again, a knee-length skirt or a pair of drawstring pants are easier to attempt an aerial leap in than, say, a classic tux.
By tapping Mott to dress the early stages of his “last semester,” Pitt is firmly wedging his private interest in the experimental art and design worlds into the decades-old bedrock of his very public leading-man persona. That sort of intentionality rings true to Mott’s practice.
“the wearer must do real independent work to understand how they want to be in the world, i cannot do this work for them,” Mott continues. “i must do real independent work to understand how i want to make / build in the world, they cannot do this work for me. there is a shared authorship with strict (albeit resonant) individualities at play, unfolding as a dialogue of joint action.” | https://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-skirt-haans-nicholas-mott-interview | 2022-07-22T01:20:42Z | https://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-skirt-haans-nicholas-mott-interview | false | 1 |
EA will bring women’s club football to its final instalment of the FIFA series when it releases FIFA 23 on September 30.
According to a blog on the PlayStation website, EA aims to make FIFA 23 the “most connected, inclusive, ambitious and all-around biggest entry yet”. As a result, the women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 will be playable alongside the men’s World Cup Qatar 2022.
As well as the World Cup, women’s club football has been added to the series. The FA Women’s Super League and French Division 1 Féminine leagues will be available from launch, however more are scheduled to arrive. Women’s football was added to FIFA 16 in 2015, but only included a limited selection of international sides. The scope increased up until last year, which saw 17 international squads and the ability to create a female character for the game’s Pro Clubs mode added for the first time.
EA also revealed that for the first time ever, the cover of the game will feature both a male and a female player, with Chelsea’s Sam Kerr appearing alongside Paris Saint Germaine’s Kylian Mbappé.
With the Euro 2022 tournament bringing rising popularity to the women’s game, FIFA 23 producer Matt Lafreniere commented, “We’re committed to building an equitable experience and aspire to help grow women’s football”. There will be more announcements regarding the women’s club game in the near future.
Women’s games will be also included in those that benefit from the game’s new Hypermotion 2 technology, which utilises machine learning to create new and realistic player movements in real-time. As mentioned in the reveal trailer, Hypermotion 2 will add “more animations than ever before and more realism”. More than 6,000 Hypermotion-enabled animations will make players “move and play more responsively and realistically than ever before.”
FIFA 23 will be the final instalment in EA’s 30-year FIFA legacy, after it was announced that the publisher would be losing the license over disagreements regarding exclusivity and costs. FIFA will now extend the license to a range of different companies, whilst EA announced that it will be moving to a new brand, EA Sports FC, from 2023.
Fans can also enjoy cross-play between PlayStation, Xbox and PC when the game is released on September 30, and pre-orders are open now.
In other news, Zynga’s upcoming shooter, Star Wars: Hunters, has been delayed to 2023 following lengthy playtesting. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/gaming-news/fifa-23-will-include-womens-club-football-for-the-first-time-3274453 | 2022-07-22T01:25:29Z | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/gaming-news/fifa-23-will-include-womens-club-football-for-the-first-time-3274453 | true | 3 |
MT. MORRIS — The Mt. Morris Fire Foundation is seeking to raise $2 million toward the cost of a new fire station.
The estimated cost of a new building is $4.5 million, and the nonprofit foundation, along with the fire district staff, is asking for the public’s assistance to avoid increasing property taxes.
The current Mt. Morris firehouse is nearly 100 years old and was originally built as a car dealership and service station when Model T’s filled the streets.
The station has been modified over the years to remain functional, however, with low ceilings, narrow overhead doors, porous brick and close proximity to the street, among other issues, the foundation board and fire department staff are pursuing the construction of a new building.
“Our firehouse has served it’s useful life,” said Fire Chief Rob Hough. “Our commitment to life-saving work has not wavered, and the staff continues to serve the community despite the indisputably difficult and unsafe environment from which they operate. The new firehouse will allow us to operate in a safe and responsive manner into the foreseeable future.”
The cost of the new building reflects fiscal prudence and is in line with stations in similar-sized communities in northwest Illinois.
The initial projected cost is $4.5 million, and the district is not seeking to increase taxes in any way, officials said. Besides charitable donations, the district is pursuing state and federal grants, and local, state and federal low-interest loans.
“It will be a modest, sensible structure keeping with the aesthetics of the downtown,” said Scott Diehl, Fire District Board of Trustees president. “It will afford the district much-needed space with a little room to grow. It is designed to address the inefficiencies of the current building and provide a modern safe environment for our staff.”
The Mt. Morris FireProtection District serves a 45-square-mile area surrounding the town, responding to nearly 1,100 emergency calls for service annually.
The district employs a fire chief and six EMT/paramedics, and relies on the dedication of 20 volunteers, officials said in a press release.
“Since 2000, due to a drastic increase in medical calls, the fire station has been staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with onsite paramedics,” the release said.
Donations may be mailed to Mt. Morris Fire Foundation, 15 E. Center St., Mt. Morris, IL 61054.
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Maelstrom slams music distribution platforms: “[The] end-goal of Spotify, Instagram, Facebook or SoundCloud (or even Bandcamp to some extent) isn’t to help us”
“It’s up to us to try and use these alternatives, and shape them the way we want them to be (fair, transparent, permissionless).”
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French producer Maelstrom has expressed scathing concerns about the “end-goals” of major music streaming platforms and distribution methods, stating his support for the “possibilities” in decentralised blockchain technology.
He makes the comments during an interview with Resident Advisor.
Maelstrom – real name Mael Péneau – discusses the model of streaming giants and social media platforms such as Spotify, Instagram, Facebook and Soundcloud, “even Bandcamp”, he says, before urging artists to look further afield at more artist-focussed, open-source models built on the blockchain.
The producer says: “The situation is extremely difficult. [The] end-goal of Spotify, Instagram, Facebook or SoundCloud (or even Bandcamp to some extent) isn’t to help us. Their end-goal is to make money. And to do so, they need us to work for free, and to give away all of our rights to control any of the data and art we’re generating for them.”
He goes on to praise the benefits of Web3: “What’s interesting to me is the possibility of deeper and more meaningful interactions between listeners and creators, where the border between both roles start to move a little, to shift, to change.”
However, Maelstrom adds that blockchain technology’s involvement in the music industry could “replace platform capitalism.” He insists that “it’s up to [artists] to try and use these alternatives, and shape them the way we want them to be (fair, transparent, permissionless).”
Also in the piece, acid house producer A Guy Called Gerald, who recently removed his music from Spotify, compares publishing music on the platform to “fighting against giants”. He says, “All I want to do is to put my music across to the people.”
Recently, peer-to-peer platforms such as Limewire and Napster have announced their return, while platforms such as Audius are offering a cryptocurrency-based alternative to streaming. | https://musictech.com/news/industry/maelstrom-slams-music-distribution-platforms-the-end-goal-of-spotify-instagram-facebook-or-soundcloud-or-even-bandcamp-to-some-extent-isnt-to-help-us/ | 2022-07-22T01:30:17Z | https://musictech.com/news/industry/maelstrom-slams-music-distribution-platforms-the-end-goal-of-spotify-instagram-facebook-or-soundcloud-or-even-bandcamp-to-some-extent-isnt-to-help-us/ | false | 1 |
BLAINE, Minn. — Scott Piercy shot a 6-under 65 to share the 3M Open lead with Sungjae Im after the first round Thursday.
Tony Finau was two strokes back, with three near misses of birdie putts over his last four holes, along with Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Emiliano Grillo and Tom Hoge.
On a dry, windy, 86-degree day at the TPC Twin Cities in suburban Minneapolis, the course's penchant for producing low scores held up once again.
Playing in the second group of the day off the first tee, Piercy made 151 feet worth of putts. He birdied four of the first five holes on his back nine.
The 43-year-old Piercy, who led the 3M Open in 2019 by two strokes after the first round, is one of several on-the-fringe players in the field this year seeking a late-season lift in the FedEx Cup race. Piercy arrived in Minnesota in 138th place, with the cut for the playoffs at 125 and two events left after this to qualify. In four of his last six starts, Piercy has failed to advance to the weekend.
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On tour since 2009, Piercy has four career wins. Just last week, he switched his caddie, his swing coach, his driver and his putter — an uncharacteristically drastic series of decisions for him.
"Every shot counts, and it's time to buckle down," Piercy said. "Not that we don't try to buckle down all the time, but there's extra buckling down, I guess. To start off this way is really nice."
Im, who's 19th in the FedEx Cup standings and 24th in the world, birdied four of his last six holes. The 24-year-old from South Korea tied for eighth at the Masters this year but tied for 81st last week at the British Open.
Finau, the lone member of last year's U.S. Ryder Cup team and the 17th-ranked player in the world, has two top-five finishes this summer.
The Utah player missed a 3-foot birdie putt on 15 and left a 4-footer for birdie just short on 16. Then on the 18th, his tee and approach shots were spot on, but an 8-foot birdie putt lipped out and settled 4 inches from the cup. Making two of those three would've put him in the lead.
The highest-ranked player in the field, Hideki Matsuyama, withdrew. He cited a sore wrist after shooting a 77 to match his worst round of the season, his Saturday at the Masters on April 9.
Entering the week in eighth place in the FedEx Cup race and the world's No. 14 player, Matsuyama hit into the water three times on the unforgiving and lakeside 18th hole and took a quadruple-bogey 9. Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters winner and a fourth-place finisher at the U.S. Open this summer, tied for seventh at the first edition of the 3M Open in 2019.
Mardy Fish, the former tennis star who's playing on a sponsor exemption, was tied for last at 81. | https://auburnpub.com/3m-lead-shared-by-im-smooth-putting-piercy-after-1st-round/article_9134b1d0-690d-56ac-b96a-400c7ccc5b18.html | 2022-07-22T01:31:03Z | https://auburnpub.com/3m-lead-shared-by-im-smooth-putting-piercy-after-1st-round/article_9134b1d0-690d-56ac-b96a-400c7ccc5b18.html | true | 11 |
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Self-service direct mail website, EveryDoorDirectMail.com, reaches major milestone as advertisers send mail to 10,000,000 homes, businesses, and PO Boxes.
Richmond, Virginia (PRWEB) January 28, 2013
EveryDoorDirectMail.com, powered by Taradel LLC, today announced it has reached a major milestone - mailing more than ten million offers via the USPS® Every Door Direct Mail® program.
"The (EDDM™) adoption rates from small business owners, as well as national players, has far exceeded our forecasts,” said Taradel Founder and CEO, Jim Fitzgerald. “To mail more than ten million offers, about a year after launching, while helping business owners grow and flourish, is a remarkable accomplishment.”
The rapid sales growth landed Taradel on the list of Inc. 5000 companies for the fifth consecutive year in 2012, a rare feat that has resulted in unprecedented exposure for the nine year old company.
“We're receiving phone calls from Fortune 500 companies, investment groups, and most importantly, our clients, who could not be more pleased with the ROI the service delivers,” added Fitzgerald. “One thing is for certain, direct mail is not going anywhere."
The company's success is largely based on bundled graphic design, printing, and direct mail services, combined with a proprietary online mapping technology that makes targeting prospective customers as easy as pointing and clicking on a map. Once an advertiser submits an online order, agency-quality postcards or flyers deliver to prospects in as little as one week.
Additionally, EveryDoorDirectMail.com saves advertisers from time-consuming trips to the Post Office® while eliminating the complications associated with coordinating marketing campaigns amongst multiple vendors.
For more information, visit EveryDoorDirectMail.com. Follow Taradel on Twitter @TaradelPrinting and at Facebook.com/EveryDoorDirectMail
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 28, 2013) - Today, the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, announced the Government of Canada's renewed commitment to Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program. Since 2009, the Program has funded a total of 115 projects, helping to ensure Canada's historic heritage can be enjoyed by future generations.
"I am very pleased to announce the renewal of the National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program, which has a proven record in the conservation of the country's historic heritage," said Minister Kent. "This program has not only helped to protect and improve Canada's irreplaceable national historic sites for future generations, but has also supported local economies across Canada by creating jobs and promoting tourism."
Through Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost Sharing Program, up to 50% of eligible costs incurred in the conservation and presentation of a national historic site are reimbursed. The continuation of the Cost-Sharing Program demonstrates the government's support for Parks Canada's mandate of protecting and presenting places of national historic significance, and fostering the public's understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of these places in ways that ensure their commemorative integrity for present and future generations.
Since 2009, the Program has provided $16.9 million in contribution funds to non-federally owned or administered national historic sites for their conservation and presentation. On average for every dollar contributed by the Program, 2.4 times the contributed amount came from other funding sources. Cost-sharing projects are aimed to address the most critical needs such as urgent stabilization, restoration and repairs to structures of national historic significance.
A recipient can be eligible to receive a maximum of $100,000 annually depending on the extent of conservation work and specific terms and conditions of a signed contribution agreement. Eligible recipients are not-for-profit organizations, aboriginal organizations and other levels of government that are owners or eligible lessees of national historic sites. The next deadline to submit an application to the Program is March 8, 2013. Additional information and application forms are available on Parks Canada's website.
Parks Canada works to ensure Canada's historic and natural heritage is protected and, through a network of 44 national parks, 167 national historic sites, and four national marine conservation areas, invites Canadians and people around the world to engage in personal moments of inspiring discovery at our country's treasured natural and historic places.
For additional information, please see the accompanying backgrounders at www.parkscanada.gc.ca under Media Room.
Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program
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Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program is a contribution program whereby up to 50% of eligible costs incurred in the conservation of a national historic site can be reimbursed. The Program assists non-federal owners of national historic sites who demonstrate a real and immediate threat to the commemorative integrity of their national historic site and for which an intervention is required in the short term to maintain the physical integrity of threatened cultural resources. A national historic site possesses commemorative integrity when it is healthy and whole, and when the site's heritage values are protected, communicated and respected. The Program supports Parks Canada's mandate of protecting and presenting places of national historic significance, and fostering the public's understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of these places in ways that ensure their commemorative integrity for present and future generations.
Since 2009, the National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program has provided $16.9 million in contribution funds to non-federally owned or administered national historic sites for their conservation and presentation. To date, a total of 115 projects were funded across the country that ranged from small to large and aimed to address the most critical needs such as the urgent stabilization of structures at the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward, British Columbia; the rehabilitation of the tipple following a severe windstorm at the Atlas No.3 Coal Mine in Drumheller, Alberta; the replacement of the slate roof on Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Guelph, Ontario; repairs to the copper roofs and surrounding stone masonry walls on the basilica of St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec; and the restoration of the Victoria Jubilee Bandstand at the Halifax Public Gardens, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Funding has also allowed communities, such as St. Andrew's in Manitoba, to restore long silent church bells at St. Andrew's Anglican Church through stabilization work on the tower, or to commemorate important anniversaries, such as the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Lucy Maud Montgomery at Leaskdale Manse, in Uxbridge, Ontario, with the restoration of the interior of the house. Elsewhere, funding helped to create a pool of local tradesmen with experience in heritage conservation, for example through the work on the McAdam Railway Station, in New Brunswick and work on outbuildings at Barkerville, in British Columbia.
The renewal of the Cost-Sharing Program reflects the government's desire to support job creation in the built heritage sector by providing funding for conservation of national historic sites. National historic sites contribute to tourism in over 400 communities across Canada through direct spending, visitor spending and spin-off economic activity. This Program will create opportunities for many skilled construction and conservation professionals to work on historic places across Canada for years come.
National Historic Sites of Canada Cost-Sharing Program
Backgrounder
Eligibility for Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program
Eligible national historic sites are those that are owned, or leased from eligible owners, by non-profit organizations, not-for-profit aboriginal organizations and other levels of government. An applicant representing properties located within a historic district which is a national historic site can only submit one funding application. Ineligible applicants include those representing or applying on behalf of individuals, the federal government (i.e. federal departments and/or agencies), federally-owned national historic sites, or for-profit organizations (including condominium corporations, private residences, etc.); and those representing historic places that are not designated as national historic sites.
Eligible projects include those intended to develop technical and planning documents agreed by Parks Canada as necessary to ensure the site's commemorative integrity, and conservation projects to preserve, rehabilitate and/or restore components of a national historic site, in order to ensure its commemorative integrity. Conservation projects may also include the development and implementation of presentation projects that focus on communicating to the public the reasons for designation as a national historic site. A recipient can be eligible to receive a maximum of $100,000 annually depending on the extent of conservation work and specific terms and conditions of a signed contribution agreement.
Criteria for Parks Canada's National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program
Parks Canada assesses applications according to the following established criteria:
<br /><br />1. Demonstrated level of threat to the commemorative integrity of the<br /> national historic site and proposed mitigation strategy or measures;<br /><br />2. Demonstrated adherence to the Standards and Guidelines for the<br /> Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (second edition) and Parks<br /> Canada's Cultural Resource Management Policy;<br /><br />3. Demonstrated need for program funds, including evidence that the project<br /> could not proceed effectively without funding from the Program;<br /><br />4. Level of financial risk associated with the project, including the<br /> financial stability/viability of the applicant, the financial management<br /> capacity of the organization, and the amount of secured matching funding<br /> in place; and<br /><br />5. Demonstrated capacity to carry out and complete the proposed activities,<br /> in terms of technical expertise, skill sets and prior experience, within<br /> a given fiscal year.<br /><br />
Parks Canada assesses proposals relative to other proposals received. In addition, Parks Canada reserves the right to consider geographic balance, project diversity and other Agency priorities in funding decisions.
Additional information and applications forms are available at www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/lhn-nhs/ppf-csp/index.aspx.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Adam Sweet
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Office of the Minister of the Environment
819-997-1441
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819-953-8371
www.twitter.com/parkscanada
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EUGENE, Ore. — If you've been out in Eugene so far during the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, you may have noticed things are a little quieter than expected. Travel Lane County says early estimates put the number of visitors during the...
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Nope (2022, D: Peele) -- S: Kaluuya, Palmer, Yeun -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
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Nope (2022, D: Peele) -- S: Kaluuya, Palmer, Yeun -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Oscar® winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) and Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80% as of 7/21/22
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nope
Running Time: 130 minutes
Estimated Budget: $68M
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I liked the movie a lot. I avoided trailers so I was going into the movie very cold, only knowing it's going to be some kind of UFO story.
It's a very rich movie, filled with details about these people and these settings. It's so engrossing you could have made a great movie just about their day to day lives and relationships without a supernatural element. I also think it succeeds the same way other movies like The Shining, where the set-up is so intriguing you start wondering how you would behave in such a situation.
I thought the design of the creature was very cool. Like a jelly-fish cross-bred with kites.
The only disappointment (if you can call it that) is I felt the main story was outshined by the Gordie subplot. Holy shit, they nailed that creepy-pasta-urban-legend tone. That felt like a real thing, and what happens is so horrible. I had a strange experience, during the shot where the chimp's face is moving closer and closer to the camera, staring directly at you, I felt like I was in real danger. Obviously, my brain knows I'm watching an illusion, yet for a couple of seconds my body tensed up and my senses where scanning the area around me preparing to have to defend myself. Only a few times in my life have I had that experience of reacting to a movie as though it were real.
I hope to see it again in a week or two. Lots of stuff is left vague, leaving it for you to piece together what must have happened, which didn't bother me because there was so much going on I never had the chance to lose interest.
EDIT: Huh, I just watched the trailer posted above, and it looks like there's a couple shots of a character/sequence not in the finished movie; the glasses guy on the studio lot the day of the attack, and then later a shot of him watching video footage of the chimp.
It's a very rich movie, filled with details about these people and these settings. It's so engrossing you could have made a great movie just about their day to day lives and relationships without a supernatural element. I also think it succeeds the same way other movies like The Shining, where the set-up is so intriguing you start wondering how you would behave in such a situation.
I thought the design of the creature was very cool. Like a jelly-fish cross-bred with kites.
The only disappointment (if you can call it that) is I felt the main story was outshined by the Gordie subplot. Holy shit, they nailed that creepy-pasta-urban-legend tone. That felt like a real thing, and what happens is so horrible. I had a strange experience, during the shot where the chimp's face is moving closer and closer to the camera, staring directly at you, I felt like I was in real danger. Obviously, my brain knows I'm watching an illusion, yet for a couple of seconds my body tensed up and my senses where scanning the area around me preparing to have to defend myself. Only a few times in my life have I had that experience of reacting to a movie as though it were real.
I hope to see it again in a week or two. Lots of stuff is left vague, leaving it for you to piece together what must have happened, which didn't bother me because there was so much going on I never had the chance to lose interest.
EDIT: Huh, I just watched the trailer posted above, and it looks like there's a couple shots of a character/sequence not in the finished movie; the glasses guy on the studio lot the day of the attack, and then later a shot of him watching video footage of the chimp.
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Little Rock woman, doctor speak up about skin cancer risks during the summer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Many Arkansans are spending their days at the pool cooling off during this extreme heat, but one local doctor is encouraging you to be extra mindful of the risks at hand when you are in the sun. Dr. Henry Wong is a dermatologist at...
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Pete Pedersen 1940-Leonard "Pete" Simon Pedersen, 82, of Cheyenne, passed away on July 19, 2022 at home in Cheyenne, WY. Pete was born in Minneapolis, MN on May 6, 1940 to Danish parents Alfred and Harriet Pedersen. He grew up with two younger sisters Eileen and Joyce in Medicine Lake MT, working with his dad at their wheat farm. After graduating from high school, he attended Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. This sparked his interest in business and accounting. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. Pete moved to Denver in 1966 and started his career as a Financial Advisor with Bosworth, Sullivan Co. Although the company changed names five times he continued to work for the same company for 48 years. He and his son, Bryan, joined together to form the Pedersen Investment Group of RBC Wealth Management. In his late 20's he met Sandy Aleksich. They fell in love in Denver CO at a “Montana Party” and two years later, they married in 1969. They moved to Cheyenne in 1971 and started a family, complete with Bryan and Valerie. As a family, they loved travel, musicals/plays, museums, skiing, camping, back packing and he loved salmon fishing with his buddies in Alaska. Community service was important to Pete. He was active in Young Republicans, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Cheyenne Soccer Association Board, Kiwanis, Old West Museum Board, Goodwill Board, Cowboy Joe Club member and was on the CFD Security Committee for over 40 years. In addition to his wife Sandy Pedersen and son Bryan Pedersen (wife Sara), daughter Valerie Martin (husband Tobias), Pete is survived by his sisters Eileen Klisis (husband George) of Great Falls, MT and Joyce Eck (husband Ed) of Missoula, MT, and his grandchildren Brock, Dane, Ea and Brant Pedersen. He was preceded in passing by his parents Alfred and Harriet Pedersen. The funeral service will be held at Ascension Lutheran Church on Tuesday, July 26 at 1:30 pm. Following will be a gathering at Pete’s, “home away home”, Uncle Charlie's. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Wyoming Children’s Society, Cheyenne Frontier Days Scholarship Fund, or a charity of your choice in Pete’s name. 2022 | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/pedersen-pete/article_6c0892d0-1b68-57eb-9f22-a911184eed25.html | 2022-07-22T01:44:59Z | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/pedersen-pete/article_6c0892d0-1b68-57eb-9f22-a911184eed25.html | false | 1 |
What is the best Royal Canin dog food?
Royal Canin is a high-quality dog food brand popular in many countries all over the world, thanks to its trustworthy ingredients and formulated blends made to fit your dog’s nutritional needs. Royal Canin has food made exactly for your pooch no matter what size, breed, or stage of life it’s in. If you have a purebred dog, Royal Canin has many breed-specific blends to boost your dog’s particular attributes.
How often should I feed my dog?
Your dog’s age and size will determine its feeding schedule. However, other factors can affect your dog’s appetite. Your dog’s activity level, breed, and relationship with food also play a role. Pay attention to your dog’s food behaviors to understand its needs throughout the stages of its life.
For example, puppies should have food measured and distributed three or four times a day. The amount of food and frequency of feeding changes often as they grow into full-sized adult dogs. Continue to check the amount you’re feeding your growing puppy to ensure they are getting enough but not overeating.
Adult dogs with a regular amount of activity can have their food distributed twice a day, about 12 hours apart in the morning and at night.
- Small dogs: Small dogs should be consuming 1 to 1 1/2 cups of food every day.
- Medium dogs: Medium-sized dogs eat 2 cups to 2 2/3 cups of food a day.
- Large dogs: Large dogs can eat 2 4/5 cups to 3 cups per day.
How to feed a new dog
If you have a new dog, there is an opportunity for bonding during feeding times. New dogs can be fed with dry food in portions out of your hand. You should measure out what is needed in its daily diet and scoop some in your hand throughout the day. Feeding your dog lets them learn to trust you. It also helps puppies learn not to nip and to be delicate when eating from your hand.
Best puppy food
A starter kit for puppies begins with getting it the right food. Your puppy’s diet should be carefully considered and monitored to avoid infections or viruses. The breed can also factor into the nutrient combination it needs. For mixed breeds, ask a vet to help you determine the projected size of your puppy as an adult to ensure it is fed the appropriate amount.
Top dry food for small puppies
This puppy blend is for small breed puppies with a likely adult size of 9 to 22 pounds. The kibble is smaller and meant for tiny mouths.
Top dry food for medium puppies
This blend is for puppies up to a year old with a projected adult size of 23 to 55 pounds. It provides the nutrition for the high-energy needs of a medium-sized dog.
Top dry food for large puppies
This food is made for large puppy breeds with an adult weight of 56 to 100 pounds. It is designed to encourage proper chewing to ensure good digestion.
Best adult dog food
Adult dogs need a diet appropriate for their age and size to ensure a healthy, long life. Royal Canin offers food for adults from small to large dogs and also formulates product lines for specific breeds. Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Poodles and Chihuahuas are just a few of the breeds with specialized food blends.
Top dry food for small adults
This is a special blend of dry dog food meant for small dogs. It is specifically made for dogs from 10 months to eight years old that weigh 9 to 22 pounds.
Top dry food for medium adults
This kibble for medium breeds ages 1 to 7 is designed to encourage chewing and improve digestion.
Top dry food for large adults
This dry food is designed for large breeds from 15 months to 5 years old. The blend encourages the specific needs of larger dogs by providing optimal digestion, joint and bone health.
Top dry food for special breeds
This food specially designed for the Golden Retriever breed, but there are numerous specific dog foods for other purebred dogs. The Golden Retriever blend supports health and weight management with nutrients to also encourage a glossy coat.
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Best wet food
Royal Canin has great wet food with special blends for puppies, adult dogs, and mature dogs. The food comes in either canned or bagged and boxed packaging. Wet food can sometimes be used as a way to encourage finicky dogs to eat or just to spoil your pooch. It can also benefit dogs with sensitive teeth or delicate stomachs.
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Royal Canin Starter for Mother and Babydog
This is a wet food for young puppies and the mothers during pregnancy. It is used for weaning through 2 months old when starting your puppy on dog food.
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Fresh off the All-Star break, the Astros took Game 1 of a doubleheader against the Yankees thanks to a dramatic bases-loaded walk-off hit by pinch-hitter J.J. Matijevic in the bottom of the ninth. Good thing as Aaron Judge was due to hit second in the top of the tenth inning with Anthony Rizzo hitting in front of him and the zombie runner possibly lurking nearby. So, yeah, I was nervous during the bottom of the ninth, especially with Ryan Pressly unavailable in this doubleheader due to the birth of his child. The script was set for New York to capitalize in the next inning. Thankfully, the game didn’t reach that point.
While the final result was great, I wasn’t necessarily a fan of how the game got to a certain point in the bottom of the ninth. Namely, the decision to pinch-hit Mauricio Dubón with Yordan Alvarez, with runners on second and third with one out. That decision left somewhat of a bad taste in my mouth, considering how the Yankees smartly walked Houston’s best hitter to load the bases. Yes, while the Astros’ expected run value increased from 1.4 to 1.56 runs, it didn’t meaningfully change the complexion of the situation. A single hit, or sacrifice fly, easily scores Alex Bregman from third base. Game over, and the Astros win. Loading the bases didn’t matter to New York; it was about preventing Alex Bregman from scoring from third base.
Does Dubón give you a higher chance of a hit if you let him hit over Alvarez? No, he probably doesn’t, but the risk of a double play is already lessened. For the Astros, as long as something out of the ordinary didn’t unfold, a ball in play from Dubón possibly has more value than loading the bases with two hitters with a higher propensity to strike out in Chas McCormick and Matijevic. Only Michael Brantley, at 88.5 percent, has a higher contact rate for the Astros than Dubón’s 87.4 percent. Plus, by removing Dubón to send Alvarez to the plate, Dusty Baker was also down a hitter known more for his contact in a situation where the traditional double play wasn’t in effect.
One counterpoint to this thought is if Dubón generates an out, then Baker probably replaces McCormick with Alvarez in a two-out situation in any case. In turn, the Yankees undoubtedly walk the latter and face the same situation with Matijevic. It is also fair to point out that Baker possibly realized this potential conundrum and decided he’d prefer McCormick over Dubón at the plate in a game-winning situation. Speculation on my part, but it is a possibility. However, McCormick’s propensity to strike out (24.7 percent in 2022) hurts more in any two-out situation versus Dubón’s tendency to avoid strikeouts (7.6 percent in 2022) when you need to put the ball in play.
There is a reason why Baker is a Major League manager and why I am sitting on my couch writing a blog post. Perhaps Baker saw some value in forcing Michael King to face a bases-loaded situation when a walk also drives in the winning run. King, in theory, couldn’t afford a sudden lapse of control or command, whereas an open base gives him a bit of breathing room if the at-bat gets away from him. I think this rationale was the primary motivator in pinch-hitting Dubón with Alvarez in the first place to force King into an unenviable position on the mound with the bases loaded. Using Alvarez in that spot essentially forced New York’s hand. Ultimately, Baker’s decision in the bottom of the ninth wasn’t all that outlandish, but it wasn’t optimal, either. It was one of those decisions that led to a positive outcome, but you don’t necessarily agree with how it came about. | https://www.crawfishboxes.com/2022/7/21/23273405/astros-love-the-result-but-not-the-decisions-to-get-there | 2022-07-22T01:46:04Z | https://www.crawfishboxes.com/2022/7/21/23273405/astros-love-the-result-but-not-the-decisions-to-get-there | false | 1 |
BEAUMONT, Texas — The intoxication manslaughter trial for a Port Arthur man accused of hitting and killing beloved Beaumont Police Officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell resumed Thursday with several witnesses taking the stand for day three of testimony.
Luis Torres, 20, is charged with intoxication manslaughter. Torres is accused of driving drunk and hitting Officer Yarbrough-Powell and her partner, Officer Gabriel Fells, on August 9, 2020, on Cardinal Drive.
Police said Torres hit the unit head-on with the two officers inside while he was driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 69.
Torres was 18 years old when the deadly crash took place. According to a probable cause affidavit, his blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.
Torres initially pleaded guilty in April and was set to be sentenced on Monday, May 23, 2022. Torres withdrew his guilty plea the day he was set to be sentenced, opting to go to trial instead.
The reason for the withdrawal is unknown.
If Torres is convicted, he could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
On Thursday, Beaumont Police Department Crime Scene Technician Michelle Ceja was the first to take the stand. Jury members were shown evidence of photos Ceja took the night Officer Yarbrough-Powell died.
Jury members were shown photos of the defendant and his injuries taken on site along with the damaged vehicles.
Related: 18-year-old indicted for intoxication manslaughter in crash that killed Beaumont Police officer
One of the jury members wiped her eyes with a handkerchief as photos of the deceased officer were displayed on the monitor.
Defense Attorney Tom Burbank in cross-examination only asked the technician if she saw DPS taking photos at the scene and if she had gone anywhere else to collect evidence. She answered no to both questions.
The second witness called to the stand testified that she was having a family get-together the night of the crash and that Torres went to her apartment.
She said Torres did drink a beer at her residence, but she didn't know he was underage at the time.
She testified that he dropped a beer at the gathering, but he cleaned it up. At one point, he sat on a flowerpot and it fell to the floor, which led her to believe he was intoxicated.
The witness said she was worried about Torres leaving, so she told him he could sleep on the couch, but he refused the offer.
She testified that Torres texted someone at the party that he had been drinking before he arrived.
Defense attorney Burbank asked her how many people were at the party when he showed up, and the witness listed four people. She also confirmed to Burbank that Torres sipped on the beer, and didn't guzzle it.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Kasey Carrier was the third witness to be called to the stand.
Trooper Carrier described the process of making a probable cause affidavit and how the process of charging a suspect works.
He said after he spells out why a person should be arrested, a judge makes the decision if the arrest should take place. He described how DPS gets a warrant to get a blood sample.
The witness testified that he went to St. Elizabeth Hospital the night of the crash and instructed a registered nurse to do a blood draw on Torres.
Trooper Carrier testified that Torres knew and acknowledged why the trooper was there to begin with.
The fourth witness called to the stand was St. Elizabeth Registered Nurse Ronnie Hamilton.
She described the process of taking a blood draw and testified that she made sure she saw the warrant for a blood draw from the trooper and asked Torres if he approved.
“I like to hear it from the patient himself,” she said in testimony.
The next witness was Texas DPS Trooper Francisco Rangel, who is stationed in Nacogdoches.
He was questioned about the day he took the blood sample kit and its contents to the lab in Houston and testified that he didn’t tamper with it.
The court took a drastic, emotional turn when Forensic Pathology Specialist Dr. Ray Fernandez took the stand.
Dr. Fernandez said Officer Yarbrough-Powell suffered multiple fractures to her skull.
Prior to showing photos, Officer Yarbrough-Powell's family was asked to step out. The judge said the court of appeals would not allow autopsy pictures because the pictures are gruesome and the body is mutilated.
Only some photos were shown. There was a photo of the officer's face with abrasions on her nose, teeth, scalp and more.
The images also displayed Officer Yarbrough-Powell with lacerations on her hands and injuries to her legs.
Dr. Fernandez only showed images that were allowed by the judge.
12News crew at the court said officers on the other side of the room that knew Officer Yarbrough-Powell had their heads down, as the images were hard for them to see.
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Singapore Stock Market Expected To Remain Rangebound
(RTTNews) - The Singapore stock market has finished lower in two of three days since the end of the two-day winning streak in which it had collected more than 30 points or 1 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,150-point plateau although it figures to bounce higher again on Friday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed to higher, with gains from the technology and property stocks likely capped by weakness from the energy companies. The European markets were mixed and the U.S. bourses were up and the Asian markets figure to split the difference.
The STI finished modestly lower on Thursday following losses from the financial shares, property stocks and industrial issues.
For the day, the index slumped 17.99 points or 0.57 percent to finish at 3,152.30 after trading between 3,144.77 and 3,166.28. Volume was 800.8 million shares worth 816.7 million Singapore dollars. There were 235 decliners and 223 gainers.
Among the actives, Ascendas REIT lost 0.35 percent, while CapitaLand Investment fell 0.26 percent, City Developments gained 0.39 percent, DBS Group and Mapletree Logistics Trust both dropped 0.58 percent, Genting Singapore added 0.65 percent, Hongkong Land and DFI Retail both surrendered 1.01 percent, Keppel Corp tumbled 1.06 percent, Mapletree Commercial Trust shed 0.55 percent, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation tanked 1.47 percent, SATS slumped 0.74 percent, SembCorp Industries plunged 2.30 percent, Singapore Exchange sank 0.71 percent, Singapore Technologies Engineering cratered 1.22 percent, Thai Beverage retreated 0.79 percent, United Overseas Bank and Wilmar International both declined 0.99 percent, Yangzijiang Financial plummeted 2.30 percent, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding crashed 1.10 percent and CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Mapletree Industrial Trust, SingTel, Comfort DelGro and Keppel DC REIT were unchanged.
The lead from Wall Street is upbeat as the major averages shook off early weakness on Thursday, moving solidly into the green as the day progressed.
The Dow jumped 162.06 points or 0.51 percent to finish at 32,036.90, while the NASDAQ spiked 161.96 points or 1.36 percent to end at 12,059.61 and the S&P 500 gained 39.05 points or 0.99 percent to close at 3,998.95.
The volatility on Wall Street came as traders expressed uncertainty about the outlook for the markets following the recent upward move. The NASDAQ benefitted from a significant advance by shares of Tesla (TSLA), which reported second quarter earnings that beat expectations.
The latest U.S. economic data may have also helped ease concerns about the outlook for interest rates, with the Labor Department noting that initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose to an eight-month high last week.
A separate report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia showed regional manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted at a faster rate in July. The Conference Board also released a report showing its index of leading economic indicators decreased for the fourth straight month in June.
Crude oil prices tumbled on Thursday, extending losses from the previous session amid concerns about the outlook for energy demand in the near term due to slowing economic growth and rising interest rates. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures for September ended lower by $3.53 or 3.5 percent at $96.35 a barrel.
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Pivotal Research Group initiated coverage on Starz
STRZA with a Buy rating and a $21.00 price target.
Pivotal Research Group commented, "A potential acquisition of Starz appears compelling for a large diversified content operator that has the leverage to drive higher pricing for Starz, successfully exit Starz movie relationships and the ability to boost Starz original content strategy. We put the odds of a sale of the company at 60% given Liberty's desire to sell, historic success with sales and significant upside for the right strategic buyer. Further, given how Liberty set up the effective Starz spin there does not appear to be a major barrier to a potential relatively quick tax efficient sale."
Starz closed at $16.21 on Friday.
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The Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival is hosting its annual Summer Theatre Festival. The festival is in two parts: the first part in July, running two productions at The MAIN in downtown Newhall. First of the theatrical presentation is the inside season of two plays: “Enemy of the People” and “The Sandman.”
The two plays are running in rep, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. “Enemy of the People,” by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Luck Hari. Enemy balances a difficult line between a political drama and a domestic farce. “You would think the piece is a contemporary piece, and pulled from recent headlines” Said Luck Hari, the director of the play. “Everything is up for debate: truth, facts, community well-being. Everyone gets skewered: the media, politicians, high-minded liberal thinkers, community activists.”
Enemy of the People is family friendly (PG rated). And performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8 p.m.
The second production at the Main this July is “The Sandman,” a world premiere children’s show, produced in collaboration with Eclipse Theatre L.A. The Sandman by Phil Lantis, based on the fairytale Ole Lukøje by Hans Christian Andersen, and directed by Nancy Lantis. The Sandman brings dreams and stories to a young boy for seven nights. He is visited by great thinkers, small animals, large dolls…anything The Sandman can conjure… The performance is child friendly (rated G) and a delightful journey for the entire family. Performances run Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Main.
“This summer the festival has expanded to include two world premieres and the return of Shakespeare in the Park” says David Stears, the executive director of the company. “We are very happy to continue this great tradition of summer theatre in our community.”
The annual festival kicked off this month with mini festival of short, 15-minute musicals, and the annual opening night gala. The second part of the festival will be in August with an original musical and Shakespeaere returning to the outdoors in Rivendale park in Towsley. The Summer Theatre Festival is the annual festival presented by the Santa Clarita Shakespeare and runs in July and August.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak need a dose of realism on the NHS
The Times
As the Conservative leadership campaign continues towards its grand finale and a new prime minister prepares to take centre stage, across the country an ill wind is blowing.
The author James Baldwin once said that people can cope with almost anything once they know where reality is. Yet people are not being given a realistic account of what is happening in the health service and the pressure cooker it is working in. There is an ill wind in the lack of realism the government is allowing into public discourse about the challenges the NHS faces.
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RAWALPINDI: Mehmet Pacaci, Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan, called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at GHQ on Thursday.
According to a press release issued by the ISPR, matters of regional security situation, mutual and professional interest with special emphasis on defence and security collaboration between the two brotherly countries, were discussed during the meeting.
The COAS said: “We highly value our brotherly relations with Turkey which are deeply rooted in history and entrenched in our cultural and religious affinities.”
The visiting dignitary appreciated Pakistan’s role for regional stability and pledged to play his role for further improvement in diplomatic cooperation with Pakistan at all levels. | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40187352/coas-turkish-envoy-discuss-collaboration | 2022-07-22T01:57:36Z | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40187352/coas-turkish-envoy-discuss-collaboration | true | null |
AN 18-PIECE JAZZ BIG BAND ENSEMBLE WILL ACCOMPANY THE SCREENING OF THE OSCAR®-WINNING FILM
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LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world premiere of WHIPLASH IN CONCERT will debut at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on Saturday, October 28th. Oscar®-winning composer Justin Hurwitz will conduct his score performed by an 18-piece jazz big band ensemble, accompanying the screening of the original film. Whiplash is written and directed by Damien Chazelle, who won the Oscar® for Best Director for La La Land, his second collaboration with Hurwitz.
Whiplash tells the story of a promising young drummer (Miles Teller) who enrolls at a music conservatory, only to fall under the wing of a cut-throat instructor (JK Simmons) who will stop at nothing to awaken his student's true potential. The intense relationship between mentor and protégé is punctuated with a rich and diverse score and soundtrack that highlights the challenges of performing music at a world-class level. Whiplash won three Academy Awards® including Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Simmons.
"It's going to be a thrill and a high-wire act to perform all of the jazz big band and incredible drum solos in sync with the movie," said Hurwitz. "Also, I just love this movie, have been very affected by the movie, and am excited for people to revisit Damien's brilliant writing and directing on a big screen."
WHIPLASH IN CONCERT is a co-production between Cutting Edge Group and Hurwitz Concerts in association with Bold Films. Following the world premiere in Boston, WHIPLASH IN CONCERT will debut in select locations across the globe including Toronto on October 30th followed by a festival premiere in Seoul in November.
"Cutting Edge was honored to be a small part of the original film production of Whiplash during which we got to experience firsthand the power and genius of the film's soundtrack," said Tara Finegan, COO of Cutting Edge Media Music. "I am delighted that we can now bring the film and its music to fans around the world in a live concert event that gives audiences a front row seat to these awe-inspiring musical moments."
"Watching Whiplash In Concert with Justin Hurwitz leading a live orchestra is a unique and memorable way to experience this iconic film," according to the film's producer, Bold Films.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, July 22 at 7am PT/10 am ET and may be purchased at the following links:
Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre – October 28,2022:
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Hurwitz Concerts is a company started in 2022 to produce live concerts of Justin Hurwitz's scores.
Cutting Edge Media Music are the experts in music for media - film, televisions, games, advertising, Broadway - across its publishing, label, services, and marketing verticals and owns and controls the music IP in some of most popular media properties and franchises in the world.
Cutting Edge operates as a financier, publisher, record label and has provided a range of music services to over 1000 feature films, tv shows, musical theatre productions and games, including such films and television shows as: Stranger Things, Bridgerton, The King's Speech, Moonlight, Drive, Star Trek: Discovery, Fury, John Wick, Sicario, Whiplash, Hacksaw Ridge, and The Walking Dead; such Broadway shows as Matilda, The Color Purple, Anastasia, and My Fair Lady; and such triple AAA games as: Sunset Overdrive, Assassins Creed Valhalla, Red Dead Redemption and Cyberpunk 2077.
Cutting Edge's divisions include Lakeshore Records (Soundtrack Label), Music.Film (Film & TV Music Licensing Platform), Broadway Records (Musical Theater Label), Cutting Edge Music Publishing (Music Publisher), 12on12 (Specialty Vinyl), White Stork (Custom Music House) and CEG Analytics (Royalty Tracking & Analysis).
Bold Films, founded in 2004, is an independent entertainment production and finance company dedicated to providing an artistic haven for creative talent. Bold Films' mission is to produce original, studio-quality film and television projects, which have worldwide commercial appeal. Bold Films financed and produced Academy Award®-nominated films such as Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler," starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo; Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash," starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and Nicholas Winding Refn's "Drive," starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac. Most recently, Bold Films produced Antoine Fuqua's "The Guilty" starring Jake Gyllenhaal released by Netflix, as well as Emmy-nominated "Oslo" based on the Tony Award-winning drama, released by HBO.
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SAN FRANCISCO - January 28, 2013 - Merriman Capital, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. MERR, initiated equity research coverage of Premier Alliance Group Inc. PIMO at Neutral.
Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Premier Alliance Group, Inc. (PIMO) provides IT and business-consulting services to corporations in the United States. With 153 professionals, PIMO provides focused solutions expertise related to energy demand, regulatory compliance, and complex operational analytics.
"Companies today have clear concerns about energy costs and compliance with governmental regulations," commented Joel Achramowicz, Managing Director at Merriman Capital. "These enterprises can look to Premier for specialized consulting and IT systems solutions expertise addressing these critical areas."
About Merriman Capital, Inc.
Merriman Capital, Inc. is an investment banking firm providing equity and options execution services, market making, and differentiated research for high growth companies. The firm also provides capital raising, advisory, and M&A services. Merriman Capital, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. MERR and is the leading investment banking firm for OTCQX companies. For more information, please go to http://www.merrimanco.com/.
Merriman Capital, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer and member of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) http://www.finra.org/ and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) http://www.sipc.org.
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Neeraj Chopra's one throw is enough: Netizens in awe as javelin star qualifies for World Championships final
Many Neeraj Chopra fans woke up early morning on Friday (July 22) to watch the star athlete in action and he did not disappoint them. The fans took to Twitter to showcase their love for the star, many being in awe of the javelin thrower, who appeared quite calm and at ease while throwing.
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Neeraj Chopra was the best version of himself in the Group A qualifiers as he made it into the final of the men's javelin throw at the World Athletics Championships with a massive throw of 88.39m in only his first attempt. This is the first time that Tokyo Olympics gold medallist has qualified for the Championships final. He missed the event in Doha in 2019 due to injury and in 2017 London event, he could not even make it to the final, getting disqualified in only the qualifiers. This year, coming on back of superb performances in first 3 events of the season, Neeraj ensured he took the qualifiers seriously and did it with just one attempt, throwing a massive 88.39m.
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Many Neeraj fans woke up early morning on Friday (July 22) to watch the star athlete in action and he did not disappoint them. The fans took to Twitter to showcase their love for the star, many being in awe of the javelin thrower, who appeared quite calm and at ease while throwing. To make it to the final like that appeared like a walk-in-the-park for the Olympic champion for India. But only Neeraj knows how difficult the training has been for him in the last 7 months.
Take a look at best reactions on Neeraj qualifying for the final.
As the commentator predicted, "he wants one & done" #NeerajChopra does it pretty quickly & with ease before admin's laptop could wake up _
With 88.39m, Olympic Champion from __ #India enters his first #WorldAthleticsChamps final in some style _ at #Oregon2022 pic.twitter.com/y4Ez0Mllw6 — Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) July 22, 2022
#NeerajChopra at qualification events. _#WCHOregon22 #CraftingVictories __ pic.twitter.com/5aTvFtEuNg — Inspire Institute of Sport (@IIS_Vijayanagar) July 22, 2022
Neeraj Chopra qualifies for final in one throw, hats off sir ______#Oregon2022 #NeerajChopra pic.twitter.com/zz3eHU17vV
— Bunty Agarwal (@agarwal5577) July 22, 2022
This is Neeraj Chopra's Era and we are just living in it
Took only 1 throw to qualify for the final.
A massive 88.39_ to breach the automatic Q mark of 83.5m_#WCHOregon22 #javelinthrow
__ @WorldAthletics @afiindia pic.twitter.com/lAhtryCNPN#NeerajChopra — Aayansh and 100k others (@Aayanshkashyp) July 22, 2022
Another Indian in form of Rohit Yadav will soon be in action in the Grouo B qualifiers of the men's javelin throw at the Championships going on in Oregon. Neeraj did not throw again after he qualified for the Championships. He will be aiming a better show as the final will have stiff competition with all world class or in-form throwers taking part. The 24-year-old will also be looking to cross the elusive 90m mark. He came very close to overcoming that challenge at the Stockholm Diamond League where he threw a national record of 89.94m. Neeraj and Rohit (If he qualifies) will be in action on Sunday (July 24 )morning in Indian Standard Time.
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MLB stands by Kyle Schwarber count after Home Run Derby controversy
Major League Baseball is standing by its count.
Controversy swirled during the Home Run Derby on Monday night in Los Angeles, as viewers watching on ESPN believed that Kyle Schwarber had matched Albert Pujols’ total of 20 home runs in the first round. The final count, however, revealed that Pujols had defeated Schwarber, 20-19.
Fans on social media seemed to be placing blame on ESPN, but MLB is responsible for the counting of the home runs.
The Post reached out to MLB seeking clarity on the confusion. According to the league, MLB employed three people on-site to serve as counters during the Home Run Derby and also used its instant replay center to confirm the number of home runs hit. All three of them had the same count for Schwarber — 19 homers — which matched what was on the ESPN broadcast. MLB also had an umpire on the field making calls, as in a normal game.
The league believes the confusion was a result of the ESPN broadcast not showing where some of the balls Schwarber hit actually landed. MLB reviewed Schwarber’s round and stood by the final count of 19 home runs.
The Home Run Derby played out at a fast pace, with the batter-appointed pitchers often making their next pitch before the previous batted ball lands.
It’s a remarkably difficult endeavor for the announcers, the cameras, the producers and the scorekeepers to keep track of — and this chaos is precisely what drives a lot of the mass public interest in the event.
Schwarber, who was the No. 1 seed for the eight-person Derby, did not appear to be bothered by the loss. He bowed to Pujols and hugged him after the first-round matchup.
That was not the only controversial moment of the Derby. During the finals, the last pitch in regulation to Nationals star Juan Soto was released by the pitcher after the clock struck zero. Soto hit that ball out for his 14th home run, and in the bonus round he bested Julio Rodriguez’s total of 18 to win the Derby.
Rodriguez, the Mariners rookie, denied Mets star Pete Alonso’s chance at a three-peat by defeating him in the second round, 31-23. Alonso defeated Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Braves in the first round.
Soto defeated Pujols 16-15 in the second round after knocking out the Guardians’ Jose Ramirez in the first round.
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Mu leads US trio into women's 800 semis
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EUGENE, Ore., July 21 (Reuters) - In a World Championships already boasting some notable clean sweeps, the United States remained in the hunt for a first 1-2-3 in the women's 800 metres after their big three, led by Olympic champion Athing Mu, advanced from Thursday's heats.
Mu, Raevyn Rogers and Ajee Wilson all looked good, while Kenya's Mary Moraa and Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson of Britain, the only other athletes to have gone under 1:58 this season, also went through on a warm, humid night.
Mu, 20, has enjoyed a stellar first half of the season, albeit with her best time two seconds down on her 1:55.04 personal best set on the same Hayward Field track almost a year ago.
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"The focus coming here was just to be consistent," she said. "I think the main goal is definitely to get gold because we are here on the U.S. soil and who deserves more gold?
"Tactically if I feel that it is better for me to go to the front, I'll do that. If it is not, I will just stick back. It will depend on only how I am feeling."
Rogers, who has a world silver and Olympic bronze to her name, left things a little late before a surge secured her place, while Wilson, third in the last two World Championships, looked assured.
Defending champion Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda also went through, second behind Mu in a slowly-run heat, while Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji was the fastest of the qualifiers in 1:58.83.
The semi-finals are on Friday with the final on the last night of action on Sunday.
The 800m is an event right at the heart of the debate over athletes of differences of sexual development (DSD), with many of its best performers of the last decade, including multiple world and Olympic champion Caster Semenya, now not allowed to run.
Their increased testosterone levels means they cannot compete in anything from 400m to a mile unless they take hormone suppression medication.
The all-time list is also skewed by the presence of DSD athletes and as well as several from former Eastern Bloc countries with dark doping histories, with the world record dating back to 1983.
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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – Scattered storms are possible tonight and early Friday morning. Some could be strong and produce gusty winds.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH is in effect for Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh, and Monroe Counties in Alabama and for Greene County in Mississippi
Isolated severe storms are possible through the night as a complex of thunderstorms rolls south. These storms will be capable of producing damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph. Heavy rain and frequent lightning will also be an issue. The batch of storms will likely weaken after crossing Highway 84.
Showers and storms will linger into Friday morning. Storms will be a bit more isolated and spottier through the rest of the day Friday. Leftover clouds will keep temperatures slightly below average with highs in the upper 80s.
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Covid lunacy strikes again: Mother's horror after little girl is kicked out of hospital with a terrible head injury because she tested positive to the virus
- Wynta, aged three, was sent home untreated from Gladstone Hospital on Sunday
- She fell off a kitchen stool and was vomiting and unable to recognise her mum
- When Wynta arrived at the hospital, doctors focused on performing Covid tests
- After undergoing two tests the toddler was diagnosed with Covid and sent home
- Wynta's mother appeared on Today Show to criticise the hospital's response
The mother of a three-year-old toddler who was denied treatment for a serious concussion because she tested positive for Covid has doubled down on her criticism of the hospital on breakfast television.
Deborah Reeves appeared on the Today Show on Friday to recall the traumatic experience of taking her daughter Wynta to Gladstone Hospital in central Queensland around midday on Sunday after she fell off a kitchen bar stool and forcefully hit her head.
As Ms Reeves told Daily Mail Australia yesterday, upon arriving to hospital Wynta received no treatment for her head injury.
Instead, the distressed toddler was forced to take two Covid tests.
'I was horrified. I was horrified. I thought we are here for a head injury, not Covid,' Ms Reeves told the Today Show.
Three-year-old Wynta (pictured the day after her fall) was sent home untreated from Gladstone Hospital after falling off a kitchen bar stool and suffering a concussion
Wynta was first given a rapid antigen test, which came back negative, before senior doctors decided to perform a PCR test, which came back positive.
After the second Covid test, Wynta was sent away from the hospital having received no specific treatment for her head injury.
'I'm so upset, I really feel that her head injury should have trumped a Covid test,' Ms Reeves said.
'She fell off a chair and got Covid.
'At no point did anyone look at my daughter's head injury.
'I am disgusted with the medical system. My daughter could have died and all they cared about was their positive Covid test.'
Wynta (pictured in the ambulance) was taken via ambulance to the hospital vomiting and unable to recognise her mother but received no treatment and was sent home after a second Covid test returned a positive result
Ms Reeves said she was not permitted by doctors to see her daughter's Covid test result, with the positive diagnosis later written on her discharge letter.
While she did not dispute the result, Ms Reeves said she was frustrated she wasn't allowed to access the information.
'We weren't concerned about any other symptoms or Covid symptoms... it was just the fall, and when they left us by ourselves and said that we could come home, I stood there for 10 minutes and just thought, 'What do I do now?' Ms Reeves said on Today
'And then there was nobody around. I didn't see another nurse or another doctor. There was just nobody to be seen, and so I got our things and went home.'
Ms Reeves said she was left speechless by the ordeal.
'They weren't interested in the head injury. I think we need to go back to treating the issues that need to be treated, not just panicking about Covid first and foremost,' she said.
In little Wynta's discharge letter, obtained by Daily Mail Australia, hospital staff noted she suffered a head injury but said it was 'deemed unremarkable neurologically'.
Wynta's discharge letter (above) acknowledges the toddler suffered a head injury and states she was diagnosed with Covid
Gladstone Hospital executive director Monica Seth said she was 'happy to meet with Wynta's mother'.
'I cannot comment publicly on an individual case due to patient privacy. We are always looking to improve our service whenever possible and would be happy to meet with Wynta's mother to discuss her concerns, which can be arranged by contacting Gladstone Hospital's Patient Liaison Services,' Ms Seth said.
'Gladstone Hospital's Emergency Department is staffed appropriately.'
Ms Reeves said she called 13HEALTH, a Queensland telephone health service, who said her daughter was likely concussed.
She also followed up with the family's GP, who also agreed with the concussion diagnosis.
Five days after the fall, Wynta is still lethargic and has bruising on her forehead.
Wynta still has bruising on her forehead five days after her fall (above) but received no treatment at Gladstone Hospital after presenting with concussion symptoms
Ms Reeves said she had her own run-in with Gladstone Hospital in 2020 when she suffered a bilateral pulmonary embolism - a blood clot that blocks blood flow to the lung.
'It's a bad hospital,' she said.
'They isolated me for 12 hours with no treatment while they waited for a Covid test result.
'I told them I'd already had three but they wouldn't listen.
'Something really needs to be done.'
Gladstone Hospital has suffered a series of critical staff shortages in recent years with the region's 60,000 locals forced to travel more than an hour to Rockhampton to receive basic treatments like fracture plastering.
On Monday, expectant mothers were warned Gladstone Hospital's maternity ward is on 'bypass', meaning women in labour will need to drive to Rockhampton to reach proper birth facilities.
The bypass is the result of a shortage of obstetricians
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Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, July 23rd, 2022, Dunbar Cave State Park will hold the “Unknown Realms” cave tour.
This tour is designed to be a follow-up to our standard cave tour. We venture beyond what you have already seen and explore some of the less frequented areas of the cave. Paths that one time was part of the old commercial tour but have been out of use for 50 years or more.
Park rangers will discuss the history and legends of the cave that developed as Dunbar Cave became the social hotspot of the 19th century.
The cost is $20.00 per person and everyone must be over the age of 10.
A handheld flashlight (no cell phones) is required. Sturdy hiking boots are recommended. Photography is not allowed inside the cave.
Please check in at the Visitor Center 15 minutes before the tour starts.
Date: July 23rd
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Meet at: The Visitor Center
Price: $20.00
Dunbar Cave State Park Programs Information
Programs are free unless noted otherwise. All programs require reservations by the Deadline Listed. Programs with no reservations by the deadline will be canceled.
All programs begin at the Visitor Center unless another site is listed.
Children must be accompanied by an adult (one adult for each three children).
Age limits are definite – please do not sign up a child who is younger or older than the age limits given.
Dunbar Cave State Park is located at 401 Old Dunbar Cave Road, Clarksville Tennessee.
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Verizon Secures Over $400M Network Modernization Deal with FBI
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A few months ago, during the I/O 2022, Google announced the future availability of a app that somehow would replace GooglePay, your mobile payment platform. The new app, called google-wallet, you will retain all the advantages of the service that the company has offered over the years on various devices Androidbut with some improvements.
Now, the Mountain View company has started rolling out this app to all users. Next TechSmart will explain what are the changes and how can you download it now in a smartphone.
What’s new about Google Wallet
Notably, Google Wallet isn’t that far removed from what Google Pay was. In the end, it is just a small change in name and appearance, since the company’s objective is that users not only be able to store their credit and debit cards, but also to be able to store supermarket and business customer cards, COVID certificates, traffic fines, plane tickets, etc.
This is something that could have been done with Google Pay, but the name of the app doesn’t really match what it offers. Of course, Google Wallet too allows you to make mobile payments by synchronizing a compatible credit or debit card.
It also adds a much more intuitive and minimalist look, with available options to add other types of tags or an option to automatically include tags displayed in gmail. Thus, if a plane ticket is received for emailthe app can add it automatically.
It’s worth remembering that in 2011, Google created Wallet to run as a contactless payment application that used the technology near field communication (NFC). Wallet also functioned as a digital storage space to store the cards.
In 2018, the company combined Google Wallet with another payment system, Android Pay, to create a hybrid of the two, which would be Google Pay. In fact, this system is the one currently used to manage digital wallets and make payments on apps and websites.
However, in some countries like USA, Singapore and India, there is a different application, called G Paywhich integrates a number of features, offers and peer-to-peer payments.
This is how you can download Google Wallet
Google Wallet, which will replace Google Pay, is starting to roll out to some Android device users and the update is likely to roll out to everyone in the coming weeks.
No action is required as the Google Pay app, once updated, it will simply be called Wallet and will therefore include the new look and feel. Now there is a way to get this new platform from today in a cell phone.
For it, just have to visit this website From a device and download the APK of the latest version of Google Pay (2.150.460235810, already known as Google Wallet), by clicking the button ‘Download APK’
Then you just have to wait for the download to complete, and then click the button ‘Open’ that will appear at the top of the screen. Then install the APK like any other app by following the steps on the screen.
Once installed, you will be able to see as Google Pay disappears from the mobile device and is replaced by Google Wallet. The map and the rest of the passes that you have included in the app will be kept. | https://voonze.com/google-wallet-the-new-wallet-that-is-now-available/ | 2022-07-22T02:34:37Z | https://voonze.com/google-wallet-the-new-wallet-that-is-now-available/ | false | 1 |
North Texan says monkeypox pain is 'probably one of the worst things I've ever been through'
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Monkeypox cases in North Texas on are the rise.
On Thursday, Denton County announced two more presumptive positive cases, totaling three.
Dallas County reports 52 cases, and 10 in Tarrant County.
Health officials urge everyone to get tested if you are experiencing symptoms even if the risk of mass spread remains low.
Monkeypox symptoms include, a rash—which could look like pimples, fever or chills, muscle aches, headaches, feeling exhausted and swollen lymph nodes.
Monkeypox can be spread through close contact.
"Basically direct contact, person to person or person to animal, or exchanging body fluids, or kissing or any proximity or close contact with someone who had monkeypox you can get it that way," said Christian Grisales, PIO for Dallas County Health and Human Services.
If you want a vaccine, it could be hard to come by as Dallas County Health and Human Services say right now due to low supply it's only for people who have tested positive for the disease.
"We are working with the state trying to get more vaccine and that's why we're hoping that we get that shipment soon enough so we can have it or make it available for anyone in the community," added Grisales.
Cody Bonham knows what it's like to have Monkeypox, "It's excoriating."
For weeks, the pain Bonham said was unbearable, "Probably one of the worst things I've ever been through."
Bonham said he was exposed to Monkeypox during the Daddyland Festival in Dallas which ran from late June to July Fourth, days later he and his partner Jason got the vaccine, but it was too late as that night Bonham said he started to feel something was off.
"I noticed just a small rash and I really didn't think anything of it probably razer burn but as things went on it ended up getting worse and really just started this excruciating pain it was just awful," added Bonham.
"It's really hard to watch him go through that, there's only so much you can do," said his partner, Jason Martinez.
Martinez never tested positive for Monkeypox, Bonham is recovering and almost out of quarantine.
"I think it's also the fact that it's been painted as a gay disease has not been helpful either, I think as soon as this hits another part of the community that it's going to be an uproar and everyone is going to be scrambling and those vaccines are going to be ready," said Martinez.
Health officials point out, anyone can get this disease, not just those in the LGBTQ+ community.
If you do feel symptoms health officials urge you to get tested at your local clinic.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6pn26v/pathogen) has announced the addition of the "Pathogen Inactivation: The Penultimate Paradigm Shift" book to their offering.
In this imperfect world, pathogen inactivation has been sought as a way to achieve a zero-risk blood supply. Although no group of techniques can be relied upon as a true panacea, pathogen inactivation is a bold leap in a positive direction. With the assumption of remarkably low risk, albeit at a higher cost, these techniques hold promise for addressing not only the known safety concerns, including bacterial contamination, but also the next new virus for which we are unprepared. This comprehensive and timely volume presents the basic concepts, reviews the research performed to date and provides practical implementation advice from an international panel of early adopters.
Topics addressed include:
- The rationale for pathogen inactivation.
- The challenges posed by some targets of inactivation.
- Assessing the toxic effects.
- Methods and considerations for red cells, platelets and plasma.
- Practical experience from several European sites.
- Regulations and implementation from both North American and European perspectives.
This text will be of interest to those who are already using pathogen inactivation techniques (to compare and refine their operations), practitioners who are considering pathogen inactivation for their facilities in the near future (to identify aspects for consideration), and those who just want to be more knowledgeable about it (to be ready when asked to step up).
Key Topics Covered:
1 Pathogen Inactivation: Rationale and Some History
2 The Targets
3 Toxicology Assessment of Pathogen-Inactivation
4 Pathogen Inactivation of Red Cell Components
5 Pathogen Inactivation of Plasma and Cryoprecipitate
6 Pathogen Inactivation of Platelets
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15 United States: Solvent/Detergent Plasma
16 US Perspectives on Implementation
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The January 6 committee, in its final public hearing until the fall, presented damning new evidence Thursday highlighting then-President Donald Trump's three-hour refusal to publicly condemn the unfolding insurrection at the US Capitol or to call off the violent mob.
The primetime session -- the eighth hearing so far this summer -- focused on the "187 minutes" between Trump telling his supporters to march to the Capitol, and when he finally told them to "go home."
The hearing was co-led by Rep. Elaine Luria, a Virginia Democrat, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican. Two former Trump White House aides who resigned in the immediate aftermath of the attack -- Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews -- testified in-person Thursday.
Here are takeaways from Thursday's epic prime-time hearing.
Trump chose not to act
The committee used Thursday's hearing to show how Trump not only failed to act, but chose not to as he watched the violent assault on the US Capitol unfold.
Several witnesses with first-hand knowledge of what was happening inside the White House on January 6 told the committee that Trump did not place a single call to any of his law enforcement or national security officials as the Capitol attack was unfolding, according to previously unseen video testimony played during Thursday's hearing.
The panel said it "confirmed in numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders, Vice President Mike Pence's staff, and DC government officials: None of them -- not one -- heard from President Trump that day," Luria said.
The committee used that testimony to make the case that Trump's refusal to intervene amounted to a dereliction of duty.
Former officials who were with Trump as he watched the riot unfold on television, including then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump's body man Nick Luna, told the committee they had no knowledge of the former President making a single call to the heads of various agencies who could have responded to the violence, including the secretary of defense or attorney general.
Keith Kellogg, Pence's national security adviser who was also with Trump that day, testified that he never heard the former President ask for the National Guard or a law enforcement response.
Kellogg also reaffirmed that he would have been aware if Trump had made such an ask.
Matthews, the former White House spokeswoman, said she spoke with White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany during the riot, and McEnany "looked directly at me, and in a hushed tone, shared with me that the President did not want to include any sort of mention of peace" in a tweet that they were crafting.
"To me, his refusal to act and call off the mob that day and his refusal to condemn the violence was indefensible," Matthews said at the hearing.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley told the House select committee that he was astonished by the fact that he never heard from Trump as the Capitol attack was unfolding -- suggesting his failure to act amounted to an abdication of his duties as Commander in Chief, according to previously unseen video from his close-door deposition.
"You know, you're the Commander in Chief. You've got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America and there's nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?" he said in the clip.
"Were starting to fear for their own lives': Disturbing audio and video shows danger felt by Pence security detail
Thursday's hearing featured new and disturbing video and audio showing how endangered Pence's security detail felt he was as they tried to evacuate the vice president from the Capitol.
The committee painted the fullest picture to date of the danger facing Pence and his team as rioters called for hanging Pence when he refused to go along with Trump's efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election.
A committee witness testified that Pence's detail was so concerned with what was transpiring that they "were starting to fear for their own lives," and that there were calls "to say goodbye to family members."
The witness was a National Security Council official who worked in the White House on January 6, whose audio testimony was masked to shield the official's identity.
"Is the VP compromised? Like, I don't know. We didn't have visibility, but if they're screaming and saying things, like, say goodbye to family....this is going to a whole other level soon," the national security official said.
The House select committee also revealed, for the first time, Secret Service radio traffic as agents assessed the Senate stairwell where Pence would be evacuated, while rioters were confronting police in a hallway downstairs at the same time. The video played Thursday spliced together the surveillance tapes with the security footage and sound of Pence's detail, bringing into focus how near a miss Pence and his detail experienced.
Committee contrasts Pence's presidential actions with Trump's inaction
One focus of the select committee's hearing was the presidential actions that were taken on January 6, not by Trump but by Pence.
The committee emphasized how Trump did not try to call law enforcement or military officials on January 6, while Pence -- whose life was endangered by rioters -- "worked the phones" speaking to Milley and then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller.
The committee played video of Milley's deposition where he said he had "two or three calls" with Pence.
"He was very animated, and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. There was no question about that," Milley said. "He was very animated, very direct, very firm to Secretary Miller: Get the military down here, get the Guard down here, put down this situation."
Luria painted a direct contrast to what Trump did on January 6: "The President did not call the vice president or anyone in the military, federal law enforcement or DC government. Not a single person," she said.
The committee's comparison between Trump and Pence underscores how Trump is still angry with his vice president over January 6. Politically, Pence has gone against Trump in several primaries ahead of a possible 2024 presidential contest. The former vice president has endorsed Republicans who rejected Trump's false claims of fraud, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp -- who defeated a Trump-backed primary challenge -- and Arizona Republican Karrin Taylor Robson, who is running in the state's gubernatorial primary against a Republican who has embraced Trump's lies about the election.
The committee, which counts two anti-Trump Republicans as members -- Kinzinger and the committee's vice chairman, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming -- has painted Pence as one of the key officials who stood up to Trump after he lost the 2020 election.
The committee also included in its hearing Thursday a clip of Joe Biden on January 6 condemning the violence -- in what was a subtle nod to Biden acting presidential before in comparison to Trump before he was inaugurated as president.
Committee adds corroboration of Hutchinson testimony
The January 6 committee on Thursday provided new evidence to back up the explosive testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who publicly described Trump's angry interactions with his Secret Service detail after Trump was told he could not go to the Capitol.
Luria said the committee had information from two additional sources to partially corroborate Hutchinson's testimony that Trump lunged at his Secret Service detail. One of the witnesses, Luria said, "is a former White House employee with national security responsibilities."
While the individual was not named, Luria said that the official testified that Tony Ornato, then-Trump White House deputy chief of staff and a current member of the Secret Service, told him the same story that Hutchinson testified Ornato had told her -- that Trump was "irate" when Robert Engel, the Secret Service agent in charge on January 6, 2021, would not take him to the Capitol.
The second witness was retired Washington, DC police Sgt. Mark Robinson, who was in Trump's motorcade that day. Robinson testified that the Secret Service agent responsible for the motorcade had said that Trump had a "heated" discussion with his detail about going to the Capitol.
Robinson added that he had been in "over 100" motorcades with Trump and had never heard of that type of exchange before January 6.
Hutchinson's testimony about Trump lunging at his Secret Service detail has become a key point that Trump's allies have tried to use to discredit the investigation.
While the detail about Trump lunging toward a Secret Service agent was just one snippet of Hutchinson's testimony, the pushback likely contributed to the committee's decision to add additional testimony backing up her account during Thursday's hearing. Luria noted that the committee expected to receive more testimony in the coming weeks about the interaction.
Never-before-seen videos, photos, audio bring 187 minutes to life
The hearing was peppered with never-before-seen videos, photos and audio that reanimated the horrors of January 6 and -- amazingly, 18 months later -- broke new ground about what happened that day. In this respect, the panel delivered on its promise to bring new material.
We saw previously undisclosed outtakes of video statements that Trump released on January 6 and 7, which showed Trump struggling to condemn the rioters. There was also the chilling audio of Pence's security detail, strategizing his evacuation from the Senate, which brought the vice president dangerously close to the rioters, some of whom wanted to kill him.
There was in-the-room footage and photos of congressional leaders on the phone with Miller. The bipartisan group, including then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sought Miller's assurances that the National Guard would restore order so they could resume the Electoral College proceedings.
And lawmakers highlighted Capitol security footage that had never seen the light of day, until Thursday. This included footage of GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri running through the Capitol to get away from the rioters, which the committee contrasted with Hawley's very public support for overturning the election, and his infamous raised fist he gave to the crowd of rioters outside.
Taken together, these clips created a compelling multimedia experience, which the committee hopes will capture the public's attention and drive home their message. After all, the panel hired a prominent former TV executive to produce the hearings, and has worked aggressively with subpoenas and court battles to obtain mountains of new material. It's all now coming together.
Secret Service in the spotlight
Thursday's hearing came after a whirlwind week for the US Secret Service. The Department of Homeland Security inspector general who conducts oversight of the agency publicly accused the Secret Service of deleting text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, which are critical to multiple inquiries about the insurrection. That inspector general probe is now a criminal investigation, CNN has reported.
(The Secret Service denies maliciously deleting anything, says any missing messages were lost during a routine phone replacement program, and says it is cooperating with all ongoing inquiries.)
As mentioned, the hearing featured testimony from an unnamed White House security official and a DC police sergeant who provided more context on the Secret Service's activities. And Luria said some Secret Service witnesses have recently lawyered up, and that the committee expects "further testimony under oath and other new information in the coming weeks."
Any additional cooperation from Secret Service officials could help the committee figure out what happened with the potentially missing text messages, which has emerged over the last few days as a key flashpoint in the investigation, with lawmakers increasingly upset at the agency.
Public hearings to resume in September
The committee will take a summer break in August and resume public hearings in September.
"Our committee will spend August pursuing emerging information on multiple fronts, before convening further hearings this September," Cheney said.
Lawmakers have said their investigation is ongoing. Earlier in the hearing, Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, said "we continue to receive new information every day."
The panel has conducted eight public hearings so far, and has seen impressive TV ratings while presenting substantial amounts of damaging new information about Trump and January 6. The next wave of hearings in September will come during the final stretch of the midterm campaign.
Committee members have said they intend to issue an interim report around that time as well.
This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Vehicles were vandalized, bags were stolen and several people reported minor injuries when three females allegedly became unruly at the McVeigh Rec Center pool in Kensington Thursday. According to police, it all started around 4:30 p.m. when staff members attempted to eject the females from the pool for unruly behavior.
Police say the females refused to leave and became hostile. Police say they taunted and threatened staff members, who then shut down the pool as other swimmers evacuated.
READ MORE: Philadelphia Weather: Dangerous Heat Wave Continues With A Shot At A RecordOnce a staffer got the females to leave, police say they vandalized three vehicles. Police say the vehicles had scratches, dents and even a broken windshield. A bag was also taken from one of the vehicles.
READ MORE: Philadelphia's Largest Neighborhood Summer Food, Music Festival Returns Bigger Than Ever This AugustWhile staff members were attempting to get the three females to leave, police say two unknown men entered the rec center and took a bag belonging to one of the employees. It was later recovered.
Police say the offenders fled the area.
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Perficient, Inc. PRFT, a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, is experiencing an increased demand from customers in helping apply social business strategies and technologies to their portal and collaboration solutions. Social business has the power to increase employee productivity by giving users access to necessary resources and allowing them to collaborate more intuitively. It can drive innovation, improve customer loyalty, find efficiencies, mobilize workforces and empower leaders.
“Social business is a powerful trend that cannot be ignored. Imagine if all knowledge workers were empowered with the information they needed to be successful – what kinds of innovative solutions could be created, and what kind of relationships could be cultivated,” said Michael Porter, principal for Perficient's National Portal and Social Practice. “Yet, organizations are still challenged with how to get the right information to the right people when they need it and in the format they want to consume it. This is where a successful social business strategy can help create a winning organization, one that allows for communication, ad hoc collaboration and engagement both internally and externally with customers.”
Perficient partners with organizations to help navigate the social landscape, and design and implement the right technologies, whether it is CMS, portals or e-commerce solutions, to foster social interactions, create engagement and realize more significant business results.
“Today, these organizations are realizing that jumping on the social business bandwagon has to be well thought out, and take into consideration the user experience. We see a major opportunity for the chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief information officer to take the lead and partner in crafting the right strategy for social business,” continued Porter. “The social CMO is challenged with delivering value to empowered customers, fostering lasting connections, and capturing and measuring results. Fortunately, in addition to the numerous external social media sites available, IBM provides powerful social portal and social networking software in the form of WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections. A large part of what we're doing now around social business is helping our customers couple the right tools with the right strategy.”
Witness Perficient's Social Business Expertise in Action
Porter and Saren Sakurai, strategist for Perficient XD, will delve deeper into the social CMO conversation at the IBM Connect 2013 conference, the premier social, collaboration and community event worldwide, which is being held Jan. 27 – 31 in Orlando, Fla. In their session, “Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer,” Porter and Sakurai will explore the trends companies see that help engage their customers, including social communities, gamification, web analytics, personalization, customer segmentation and mobile. They also will touch on plans to help engage potential customers and turn them into long-lasting relationships.
In addition, during the conference Perficient experts, Jonathan Distad and Glenn Kline, will showcase how the company has partnered with clients Premier healthcare alliance and Fluor Corporation to create exceptional web experiences using IBM's latest social business and collaboration solutions to improve customer satisfaction and employee collaboration within organizations. Both Distad and Kline recently were named an IBM 2013 Channel Champion for Collaboration Solutions, which recognizes innovative thought leaders who have made a collective contribution over the past year to the IBM community by demonstrating the power of IBM solutions through successful client engagements, sharing knowledge and experiences, and helping grow the community of business leaders focused on IBM solutions.
Healthcare Gets Social at Premier healthcare alliance
Premier, a provider-owned performance improvement alliance of more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals and 90,000-plus other healthcare sites, maintains the nation's largest clinical, financial and outcomes database. It contains information on one in every four patient discharges, 2.5 million real-time clinical transactions a day and close to $43 billion in annual purchasing data.
In the session, “Premier Case Study: Saving Money and Lives through Excellent Web Experiences,” Premier Chief Technology Officer Denise Hatzidakis and Perficient's portal, social, and collaboration expert Jonathan Distad will discuss how, in partnership with IBM, Premier developed solutions that offer social business capabilities and data analytics to help health systems improve quality while safely reducing costs.
Social Business Goes Global at Fluor Corporation
Perficient jointly delivered a global, social business intranet with its client Fluor Corporation. Fluor Corporation delivers engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management to governments and clients in diverse industries around the world. Through its global network of offices on six continents, Fluor's 43,000 employees provide comprehensive capabilities and world-class expertise in the fields of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, fabrication, operations, maintenance and project management.
In the session, “Connect and Collaborate Globally: Fluor Corporation's Social Business Intranet,” Fluor expert Say Lim and Perficient expert Glenn Kline will discuss the new social computing platform – OneFluor – which is powered by IBM Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal with Web Content Management, and delivers relevant communication and collaboration capabilities to employees around the globe.
Find Out More
Perficient experts will be on hand at Connect 2013 in exhibit booth A22 to discuss how the company helps clients deliver exceptional web experiences for all stakeholders, whether internal, customer-facing or partner-centric, that achieve a desirable mix of brand, functionality, usability, and technology innovation.
For more information on Perficient's IBM expertise including analytics to recognize changing market conditions and to attract new audiences; technology expertise in portal, collaboration, content management, BPM, SOA, MDM, Data Warehouse, Business Analytics, and ECM; integration services for social media, web analytics, structured & unstructured data; and IBM Lotus and WebSphere education and enablement, visit www.perficient.com/connect2013.
For updates throughout the event, follow Perficient experts online at www.perficient.com/connect2013 and via social media by viewing Perficient's IBM Technologies blog, Perficient's Portals blog and on Twitter @Perficient_IBM and @PRFT_Portals.
To learn more from Perficient expert Michael Porter, check out Perficient's recently published perspective, “Social Business Ushers in New Normal for Enterprises in 2013.” In this perspective, Porter offers his thought leadership and expertise on how companies can address social business trends and offers insights into what makes organizations truly social.
To schedule a media interview with a Perficient IBM or portal, social and collaboration expert, please contact Liz Drazen at 314-529-3563 or liz.drazen@perficient.com.
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Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient's professionals serve clients from a network of offices across North America and three offshore locations, in Eastern Europe, India, and China. Perficient helps clients use Internet-based technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, and reduce information technology costs. Perficient, traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market(SM), is a member of the Russell 2000® index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-winning “Premier Level” IBM business partner, a TeamTIBCO partner, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, an EMC Select Services Team Partner, and an Oracle Platinum Partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed through the House on Thursday, their latest campaign-season response to concerns a conservative Supreme Court that already erased federal abortion rights could go further.
The House’s 228-195 roll call was largely along party lines and sent the measure to the Senate, where it seemed doomed. The bill is the latest example of Democrats latching onto their own version of culture war battles to appeal to female, progressive and minority voters by casting the court and Republicans as extremists intent on obliterating rights taken for granted for years.
Democrats said that with the high court recently overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973, the justices and GOP lawmakers are on track to go even further than banning abortions.
“This extremism is about one thing: control of women. We will not let this happen,” said Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., who sponsored the legislation. All of the bill’s nearly 150 co-sponsors are Democrats. Addressing fellow lawmakers, she added, “Women and girls across this country are watching you, and they want to know: Are you willing to stand up for them?”
In his opinion overturning Roe last month, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court should now review other precedents. He mentioned rulings that affirmed the rights of same-sex marriage in 2015, same-sex intimate relationships in 2003 and married couples’ use of contraceptives in 1965.
Thomas did not specify a 1972 decision that legalized the use of contraceptives by unmarried people as well, but Democrats say they consider that at risk as well.
Republicans said the bill went too far. They said it would lead to more abortions, which supporters deny, allow the use of drugs not yet fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration and force health care providers to offer contraceptives, even if that contradicted their religious beliefs.
“Women deserve the truth, not more fear and misinformation that forces an extreme agenda on the American people,” said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.
Every Democrat supported the legislation, while Republicans overwhelmingly opposed it by 195-8. The House Democrats’ campaign committee quickly jumped on that disparity, with spokesperson Helen Kalla saying her party will “fight to protect women’s freedoms from the GOP’s sinister agenda.”
The measure seemed destined to become a campaign issue and not law. Minutes after House passage, Republicans blocked quick Senate approval of a similar bill. Support by at least 10 GOP senators would be needed to reach 60 votes, the threshold required for most legislation to pass in that chamber, which is divided 50-50.
The contraception bill explicitly allows the use of contraceptives and gives the medical community the right to provide them, covering “any device or medication used to prevent pregnancy.” Listed examples include oral contraceptives, injections, implants like intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives, which prevent pregnancy several days after unprotected sex.
The bill lets the federal and state government, patients and health care providers bring civil suits against states or state officials that violate its provisions.
House Democrats have begun forcing votes on several issues related to privacy rights, hoping for long-shot victories or to at least energize sympathetic voters and donors and force Republicans from competitive districts into difficult spots.
The House voted last week to revive a nationwide right to abortion, with every Republican voting no, and voted largely along party lines to bar prosecuting women traveling to states where abortion remains legal. Neither is expected to survive in the Senate.
Yet the House voted Tuesday to keep same-sex marriage legal, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats in backing the measure. Though 157 Republicans voted no, that tally raised expectations that the bill could win enough support for GOP senators to pass, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Nearly all adults, 92%, called birth control “morally acceptable” in a Gallup poll in May. A PRRI poll in June showed about 8 in 10 said they opposed laws that restrict what types of birth control can be used to prevent pregnancy.
Even so, anti-abortion groups and Republican leaders oppose the contraception legislation, and there was no immediate sign that significant numbers of GOP senators would be willing to defy them. In contrast, same-sex marriage has such firm public acceptance and is such a clear-cut issue that growing numbers of Republicans have been willing to vote for it.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said the contraception legislation “seeks to bail out the abortion industry, trample conscience rights, and require uninhibited access to dangerous chemical abortion drugs.” The National Right to Life Committee said it “goes far beyond the scope of contraception” and would cover abortion pills like RU486, which supporters said was incorrect.
The measure drew a mixed reaction Wednesday from two of the Senate’s more moderate Republicans.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was “most likely” to support the measure. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, demurred, saying she was working on bipartisan legislation that she said would codify the rights to abortion and perhaps for contraception.
There are few state restrictions on contraceptive use, said Elizabeth Nash, who studies state reproductive health policies for the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
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Oregon pitcher Christian Ciuffetelli signs contract with Washington Nationals
Christian Ciuffetelli is the first 2022 Oregon Duck to sign an undrafted free agent contract. The right-handed pitcher shared on Instagram Tuesday that he has joined the Washington Nationals organization. The MLB draft concluded earlier Tuesday. Eight Ducks were selected, four of which were incoming commits. Josh Kasevich (second...
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JANESVILLE
When Rock County Vietnam War veteran William “Billy” Hamilton returned home at the San Francisco airport in 1969, the reception he received wasn’t much of a homecoming.
The 2nd Class Petty Officer who served in three combat tours arrived back on American soil to war protesters who threw used baby diapers at him, he and his caregiver Natalie Kampa told The Gazette earlier this week, to the point where his Navy uniform was unrecognizable.
Hamilton and other area former military service members will get a chance at a second homecoming with the new Veterans Appreciation Day at the Rock County 4-H Fair next week. On Thursday, July 28, the fair will honor five veterans before the Craig Morgan concert at 8 p.m. at the grandstand.
The Rock County 4-H Fair runs Tuesday, July 26 through Sunday, July 31 at the fairgrounds, 1301 Craig Ave., Janesville.
“(This) means a lot to me, because I never was recognized when I came back from Vietnam,” Hamilton said. “You know, they spit on us and called us baby killers and so forth, so not a very good welcome when I came back.”
An idea
The Rock County Fair Board came up with the idea to honor local veterans this year as they were booking Morgan, a country singer and a U.S. Army veteran who served on active duty and in the reserves for 17 years.
Fair Board Director Abbey Gasser said the recognition ties nicely with Morgan’s performance, as the singer is a supporter of veterans. And while the fair has had Veterans Days in the past, it has never been to the extent of featuring local service members, Gasser said.
The fair board received 18 veterans’ nominations and selected five to be featured.
“It was hard, because we wanted all 18 of them. We would have put up there if we could have made that work,” Gasser said. “We essentially had a committee and everybody picked their top five and there was a group that came to the top pretty quickly. These are people who have received Purple Hearts.”
A day of thanks
Ralph “R.K.” Mitby is also one of those five.
For years, Mitby was a regular at the fair—often, in fact. the first face fairgoers saw.
Mitby volunteered for two decades as a ticket seller, following in the footsteps of his father, who also gave his time to the fair working in the concession stand. Mitby began volunteering for the fair while working as a middle and high school counselor for the Milton School District, a job he started shortly after coming home from serving in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Navy.
He is a two-time Purple Heart awardee who was drafted into the Army after applying for the Peace Corps, but his clearance to serve in the Corps came too late.
“There’s many, many others that could be recognized, and it’s just nice to be able to represent a lot of a lot of veterans,” Mitby said. “There’s a lot of individuals that gave everything that they had.”
In addition to the pre-concert recognition, the fair will hang a banner that people can take photos in front of and win a contest. VFW Post No. 1621 will bring its color guard and the National Guard will bring some of its equipment to display.
The Edgerton Community Outreach group will also conduct a 50/50 raffle that day, with proceeds going toward its $2 million transitional housing project for veterans. And veterans will receive free admission to the fair any day with a valid ID.
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The 2022 fair will otherwise mostly look similar to prior years, with judging of more than 7,000 4-H and FFA projects entered by more than 1,000 exhibitors. There will be carnival rides, food and music.
This year, there will also be a new bingo tent open each night of the fair. Regular round winners will receive cash prizes and family round winners will receive door prizes. Most of the door prizes will be Rock County Fair-branded items, Fair Board Director Abbey Gasser said.
“I’m kind of hoping the livestock barns just empty and (the exhibitors) come to bingo,” Gssser said.
There will be a daily grandstand event, including a family outdoor movie night showing of “Sing 2” on Tuesday, July 26 at dusk; country music singer Craig Morgan at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 28; and Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 30.
The fair will also offer a limited number of Mega Passes for both admission and unlimited carnival rides, valid every day of the fair, Gasser said. For one person, the $110 Mega Pass is a 50% discount off the normal price of fairgrounds admission and a carnival pass, or a savings of $40 a day.
The fair is also offering a $20 per-person Friday admission and carnival ride combo ticket, which Gasser said was “extremely successful” last year.
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Which cornerbacks and safeties have the highest ratings in Madden 23?
Need to fill out the secondary.
The secondary is a key part of any defense, as the players at the cornerback and safety positions need to stay in position, and with the NFL’s most explosive wide receivers. EA Sports and the Madden 23 team have released player ratings for the league’s players, including the cornerbacks and safeties of the league. But, which players at the these positions have the highest ratings in Madden NFL 23? Let’s take a look.
The highest-rated cornerbacks
Here are the highest-rated cornerbacks in Madden 23:
- Rams CB Jalen Ramsey (98 OVR)
- Packers CB Jaire Alexander (94 OVR)
- Bills CB Tre’Davious White (93 OVR)
- Eagles CB Darius Slay Jr. (92 OVR)
- Browns CB Denzel Ward (92 OVR)
- Saints CB Marcus Lattimore (91 OVR)
- Colts CB Stephon Gilmore (91 OVR)
- Chargers CB JC Jackson (90 OVR)
- Ravens CB Marlon Humphrey (90 OVR)
- Falcons CB A.J. Terrell Jr. (89 OVR)
The Rams won the Super Bowl this past February, and much of that had to do with their stout defense. Not only will the LA Rams have the highest-rated defensive end in Madden 23, but Los Angeles will also bring back star defender Jalen Ramsey. Ramsey will begin Madden 23 as a 98 OVR cornerback.
Related: Which running backs have the highest ratings in Madden 23?
The remainder of this list includes a number of other household names, including Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander, Colts’ Stephon Gilmore, and Ravens star Marlon Humphrey.
The highest-rated safeties
Now, here’s a look at the highest-rated safeties in Madden 23:
- Saints SS Tyrann Mathieu (94 OVR)
- Chargers SS Derwin James Jr. (93 OVR)
- Cardinals SS Budda Baker (92 OVR)
- Titans FS Kevin Byard (92 OVR)
- Broncos FS Justin Simmons (91 OVR)
- Bills FS Micah Hyde (91 OVR)
- Vikings SS Harrison Smith (90 OVR)
- Seahawks SS Jamal Adams (90 OVR)
- Bengals FS Jessie Bates II (90 OVR)
- Bills SS Jordan Poyer (90 OVR)
The top-rated strong safety is the “Honey Badger,” Saints star Tyrann Mathieu. Mathieu will begin the year with a 94 OVR rating, one point higher than Chargers strong safety and avid Madden player, Derwin James Jr.
The highest-rated free safety is Titans’ Kevin Byard. Byard, Broncos safety Justin Simmons, and Micah Hyde are the top three free safeties in Madden 23. | https://www.gamepur.com/guides/which-cornerbacks-and-safeties-have-the-highest-ratings-in-madden-23 | 2022-07-22T03:17:10Z | https://www.gamepur.com/guides/which-cornerbacks-and-safeties-have-the-highest-ratings-in-madden-23 | true | 1 |
Man accused of secretly recording women, underage girl in bathroom, authorities say
PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) - A man in North Carolina is facing 16 felony charges after deputies say he took pictures of women with a hidden camera.
WITN reports Eric Zobre is facing charges that include secret peeping, possession of images from secret peeping, sexual exploitation of a minor and violating a domestic violence protective order.
According to the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office, the case against Zobre started in December 2021 when deputies became aware of a domestic violence protective order violation.
Authorities said Zobre was taken into custody for that violation and then a person informed them that he was also showing various nude photos of women to other people.
According to the sheriff’s office, this person said Zobre was telling others how he got the images along with stealing items from his employer, Grady White Boats.
After a search warrant, deputies said they seized a camera and other electronic devices and the suspected stolen items from Zobre’s employer. They found photos of women in various stages of undressing on the devices.
Pitt County detectives and those from Atlantic Beach police said they identified multiple victims in the photos, including an underage girl, with images of the women in restrooms.
Deputies said they also found numerous photos of Zobre’s previous partners, reportedly used to humiliate them.
Zobre’s employer, Grady White Boats, confirmed the items police found appeared to be stolen property from the company.
Authorities said Zobre was booked into jail on a $1.375 million bond.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Acadia" or the "Company")(NASDAQ: ACAD) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and docketed under 21-cv-00762, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Acadia securities between June 15, 2020 and April 4, 2021, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased Acadia securities during the Class Period, you have until June 18, 2021 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Acadia is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development and commercialization of small molecule drugs that address unmet medical needs in central nervous system disorders. The Company is developing pimavanserin as a treatment for dementia-related psychosis and as an adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia, as well as an adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder.
In April 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approved pimavanserin for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease psychosis.
In June 2020, Acadia submitted a supplemental New Drug Application ("sNDA") with the FDA to expand pimavanserin's label to include treatment for dementia-related psychosis (the "pimavanserin sNDA").
The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the materials submitted in support of the pimavanserin sNDA contained statistical and design deficiencies; (ii) accordingly, the pimavanserin sNDA lacked the evidentiary support that the Company had led investors to believe it possessed; (iii) the FDA was unlikely to approve the pimavanserin sNDA in its present form; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On March 8, 2021, post-market, Acadia issued a press release providing a regulatory update on the pimavanserin sNDA, disclosing "that the Company received a notification from the [FDA] on March 3, 2021, stating that, as part of its ongoing review of the Company's [sNDA], the FDA has identified deficiencies that preclude discussion of labeling and post-marketing requirements/commitments at this time." Acadia advised that "[t]he notification does not specify the deficiencies identified by the FDA and there has been no clarification by the FDA at this time."
On this news, Acadia's stock price fell $20.76 per share, or 45.35%, to close at $25.02 per share on March 9, 2021.
Then, on April 5, 2021, pre-market, Acadia issued a press release announcing that the Company had received a Complete Response Letter ("CRL") from the FDA indicating that the pimavanserin sNDA could not be approved in its current form. Specifically, the press release stated that, "the [FDA Division of Psychiatry], in the CRL, cited a lack of statistical significance in some of the subgroups of dementia, and insufficient numbers of patients with certain less common dementia subtypes as lack of substantial evidence of effectiveness to support approval."
On this news, Acadia's stock price fell $4.41 per share, or 17.23%, to close at $21.18 per share on April 5, 2021.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com
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NEW YORK — A former Coinbase product manager and his brother, along with a Houston man, were charged Thursday in what federal authorities described as the U.S. government’s first cryptocurrency insider trading case.
The brothers — Ishan Wahi and Nikhil Wahi — were arrested while the Houston man, Sameer Ramani, remained at large, federal authorities said as they announced the unsealing of an indictment in a federal court in Manhattan.
Authorities said Ishan Wahi, 32, was a product manager at Coinbase Global Inc., one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, based in Seattle, when he provided tips to Nikhil Wahi, 26, and their friend, Ramani, 33. All three were charged with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud.
The indictment said Ishan Wahi was stopped by law enforcement prior to boarding a May 16 flight to India and was prevented from leaving the country. In the hours before the flight, he had telephoned and sent texts to his brother and Ramani to alert them about an investigation Coinbase was carrying out, according to a release.
Ishan Wahi bought a one-way airline ticket to India in an “unsuccessful attempt to flee from the United States” after agreeing to be interviewed for an internal probe by Coinbase, the indictment said.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the prosecution represents the government's first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency markets. He said it was a reminder that the cryptocurrency markets are not a law-free zone.
Michael Driscoll, head of the FBI’s New York office, said the defendants collected about $1.5 million in illegal profits by trading in at least 25 different crypto assets.
Attorneys representing Ishan Wahi said in an email to The Associated Press that their client is innocent and “intends to defend himself vigorously against these charges and in the SEC action.”
Messages seeking comment were sent to other defense lawyers.
The Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil insider trading charges against the men in Seattle federal court.
The SEC said the charges were brought against the trio after they carried out a scheme to trade ahead of multiple announcements regarding certain crypto assets that were going to be made available for trading on the Coinbase platform.
"As today’s case demonstrates, whether in equities, options, crypto assets, or other securities, we will vindicate our mission by identifying and combatting insider trading in securities wherever we see it,” said Carolyn M. Welshhans, Acting Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit.
The New York indictment said Ishan Wahi began working as a product manager on the asset listing team in October 2020. It said he provided tips about confidential information to his brother and friend from June 2021 until this past April.
Brian Armstrong, the chief executive for Coinbase, said on Twitter and in a blog post Thursday that the company began an internal probe in April “about possible frontrunning of assets shortly before being listed on Coinbase.”
The indictment said the frontrunning was identified publicly by a Twitter posting in April on an account “that is well known in the crypto community, with hundreds of thousands of followers.”
Armstrong said that the company gathered sufficient evidence and then fired Ishan Wahi and forwarded its findings about the three men to the Justice Department.
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Jalna: A man allegedly under the influence of alcohol climbed atop a 100-foot mobile phone tower in Maharashtra’s Jalna district seeking that his wife return home from her parent’s place, a police official said on Thursday.
The incident took place in Dabhadi village in Badnapur tehsil on Wednesday and the man, identified as Ganpat Bakal, came down only after an assurance from villagers, fire brigade and police personnel that they would strive to solve the domestic dispute, he added.
“He was under the influence of alcohol. He came down from the tower after four hours. Bakal was detained and then released later,” he said.
Eyewitnesses said the scene reminded them of the legendary drunken act by Dharmendra’s character in the 1970s blockbuster ‘Sholay’.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man who tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but was uninjured, his campaign said.
Zeldin was giving a speech when a man climbed onstage and appeared to begin wrestling with the congressman, said Katie Vincentz, a spokesperson for Zeldin’s campaign.
A video of the event in Perinton posted on Twitter showed the man...
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man who tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but was uninjured, his campaign said.
Zeldin was giving a speech when a man climbed onstage and appeared to begin wrestling with the congressman, said Katie Vincentz, a spokesperson for Zeldin’s campaign.
A video of the event in Perinton posted on Twitter showed the man appearing to grab Zeldin’s arm and the two fell to the ground as other people tried to intervene.
“Thanks to the swift action of several brave eventgoers, the perpetrator was subdued,” New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement.
Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who has represented eastern Long Island in Congress since 2015, is a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
He is challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul this November.
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The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 90 million on Thursday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, Trend reports citing Xinhua.
The U.S. COVID-19 case count rose to 90,066,295, with a total of 1,025,796 deaths, as of 1:40 p.m. Eastern Time, the data showed.
The United States remains the nation worst hit by the pandemic, with the world's most cases and deaths.
U.S. COVID-19 caseload reached 50 million on Dec. 13, 2021, crossed 60 million on Jan. 9, 2022, exceeded 70 million on Jan. 21, and surpassed 80 million on March 29. | https://en.trend.az/world/us/3623814.html | 2022-07-22T03:34:43Z | https://en.trend.az/world/us/3623814.html | false | null |
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION RENT today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending January 20, 2013.
RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES*
*Week ended January 19, 2013
RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY RENTALS
**Titles have delayed availability in certain rental outlets
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Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.
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Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive rental point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which calculates title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, by-mail/online subscription and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, measuring in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 5,000 storefronts, over 40,000 kiosks and over 24 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.
About Rentrak Corporation
Rentrak RENT is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with advanced demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and Movies. Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com
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GLOBAL ECONOMY-Global slowdown fears darken prospects for Asian factories
By Leika Kihara
TOKYO, July 22 (Reuters) - Worries over a global slowdown are casting a shadow over Asia's recovery prospects with factory activity growth slowing in Japan and Australia, keeping pressure on policymakers to support their economies while tightening monetary policy to combat inflation.
Japan's manufacturing activity grew at the slowest pace in 10 months in July, the purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on Friday, boding ill for an economy struggling to shake the wounds from the pandemic.
Factory activity also slowed in Australia with the index falling to 55.7 in July from 56.2 in June, a separate survey showed on Friday.
The surveys underscore the hit manufacturers are suffering from supply constraints, rising raw material costs and slowing global demand - all factors flagged by the Bank of Japan as among key risks to the country's economic recovery.
"July's PMIs suggest that the manufacturing sector is slowing as demand weakens, while the latest COVID-19 is starting to hit the services sector," Marcel Thieliant, senior Japan economist at Capital Economics, said on Japan's PMI.
"While that index never dropped as far as in other advanced economies, it is not showing the strong improvement seen elsewhere either."
PMI surveys for Britain, euro zone and the United States are due out later on Friday.
Soaring inflation, driven by Russia's war in Ukraine, has forced central banks across the globe to tighten monetary policy even at the cost of cooling their economies.
Despite suffering the economic pain from the Ukraine war, the European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years on Thursday as concerns about runaway inflation trumped worries about growth.
Aggressive rate hike plans by the Federal Reserve have stoked market worries over a U.S. recession. Many Asian central banks also found themselves scrambling to catch up tightening policy to tame inflation and keep their currencies from depreciating too much.
China and Japan remain exceptions by keeping monetary policy loose, a sign their economies - the second- and third-largest in the world - lack strength to offset the weaknesses in other parts of the globe.
China's economic growth slowed sharply in the second quarter, weighed by widespread COVID lockdowns and pointing to persistent pressure over coming months from a darkening global outlook.
The slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, as well as the fallout from aggressive central bank tightening, forced the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to slash its growth forecast for the region on Thursday. (Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Sam Holmes) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11038027/GLOBAL-ECONOMY-Global-slowdown-fears-darken-prospects-Asian-factories.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T03:47:46Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11038027/GLOBAL-ECONOMY-Global-slowdown-fears-darken-prospects-Asian-factories.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 8 |
Commonwealth Financial Network® announces the addition of three leading independent financial services firms. All former affiliates of LPL Financial, Ellis & Ellis Investment Management, LLC, Ingargiola Wealth Management Group, and Cornerstone Investment Group bring with them more than $255 million in combined total client assets.
“Ellis & Ellis Investment Management, LLC, Ingargiola Wealth Management Group, and Cornerstone Investment Group are industry leaders who share our strong cultural values and client-centric business model,” said Andrew Daniels, Commonwealth's managing principal of field development. “We welcome each firm to Commonwealth and look forward to being a supportive partner to them as they enhance their practices and achieve their strategic growth objectives.”
Ellis & Ellis Investment Management, LLC, based in LaGrange, Georgia, and led by father-son team Robert Ellis and Will Ellis, is a holistic wealth management firm focusing on retired high-net-worth individuals. A total of six advisors oversees more than $150 million in total client assets.
“The business philosophy of Ellis & Ellis mirrors Commonwealth's in the sense that we, too, operate by a client forward philosophy,” said Mr. Will Ellis. “Our team is a cohesive group of motivated and ambitious individuals who act with integrity. We saw the same characteristics, and sense of care and personalized attention, from the moment we engaged in a dialogue with Commonwealth.”
Ingargiola Wealth Management Group, based in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, is led by Lou Ingargiola and his colleague, Sean McAndrew. Ingargiola offers a comprehensive approach to wealth management for individuals, families, and businesses and integrates strong thought leadership and social media initiatives into the practice. Together, the advisors have $70 million in total client assets.
“Our advance and preserve strategy has proven to be a successful business model for us and helps set us apart from others in our industry,” said Mr. Ingargiola. “Our clients are assured that their goals are our goals, too. Partnering with Commonwealth, who shares the same client-forward approach, will enhance our brand and allow us to continue to follow the vision and mission of our practice.”
Cornerstone Investment Group, based in Pikeville, Kentucky, and led by Ronnie Spence, is an independent firm specialized in serving clients working within the natural resources industry. Mr. Spence delivers strategic and tactical investment allocations and recommendations based on varying client objectives and oversees more than $35 million in total client assets.
“Commonwealth is the perfect match for my needs, as I sought a truly independent firm that offered not only an open architecture of products and services, but also the tailored support and advanced and integrated technology to easily implement strategies for my clients,” said Mr. Spence. “These benefits will grant me more time to focus on the single most important factor for the success of my practice—my clients.”
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Founded in 1979, Commonwealth Financial Network, member FINRA/SIPC, and a registered investment adviser, is the nation's largest privately held independent broker/dealer, with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. J.D. Power and Associates ranks Commonwealth “Highest in Independent Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms” two times in a row.* The firm supports more than 1,500 independent registered representatives nationwide and makes available a comprehensive array of financial products and services. For more information, please visit www.commonwealth.com.
*Commonwealth Financial Network received the highest numerical score in the independent advisor segment in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2010 and 2012 Financial Advisor Satisfaction StudiesSM. The 2012 study was based on nearly 2,800 total responses and measures overall financial advisor satisfaction among advisors registered with Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) investment firms. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of financial advisors surveyed between November 2011 and January 2012. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
22-23-27-33-35
(twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-five)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
22-23-27-33-35
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Known as the Windber Trolley Graveyard, this surreal collection of abandoned streetcars sits vacant in the quiet Pennsylvania forest. A fascinating spot to head to on your next outdoor adventure, keep reading to find out more.
Perfect for history lovers or those who are intrigued by abandoned buildings and places, you'll find this trolley graveyard inside the town of Windber, about an hour and a half east of Pittsburgh. Follow the signs to 19th Street and located at the very end of the dirt road you'll see the entrance.
This collection was started by a retired civil engineer named Ed Metka back in 1992. The graveyard contains trolley cars from all over the country. With a grand total of about 4 dozen different street cars, you may be able to spot some familiar-looking trolleys depending on what cities you've visited. Old trolley cars from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh can be found here.
As you pass throughout the property you'll notice most trolleys are covered in graffiti, contain broken windows, and pathways are littered with leaves and various debris.
Take a step inside one of the trolleys and you'll be met with a stunningly decayed interior of ripped seats, rusted trolley walls, and a tiny peek into what it was like to ride public transportation back in the early 20th century.
If you'd like to visit the graveyard today, you'll first need permission from Ed Metka. To reach him, try emailing Vintage Electric Streetcar Co at vesco@aol.com. His tours are priced at $30 and contain a wealth of information regarding where each trolley came from and approximately how old it is.
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Rising death toll of children in private schools
Nigerian children have continued to suffer the impact of unsecured learning environment, both in public and private settings. Some children have been kidnapped, killed, maimed, and/or afflicted with other manners of abuse in schools, thereby violating their fundamental human rights.
On Friday, July 8, the news was broken about how two children died in their school bus in Aguda-Surulere in Lagos State.
According to Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State police command’s spokesperson, “One of the victims is an 8-year-old male. We are yet to get the details of the other one.”
Explaining how it happened, Hundeyin said, “A school bus driver ignored repeated complaints from the children he was taking home that they were not feeling well.”
And unless children are raised in a healthy and safe school environment during childhood, their future development could be seriously hampered
He added that some of the children became unconscious, while two eventually died.
Nigerians were shaken in January 2022 by the news of the murder of the kidnapped Hanifa Abubakar, a 5-year-old girl by Abdulmalik Tanko, the owner of the school where she was enrolled for early childhood education.
This year again, Chidera Eze, a 5-year-old pupil of a mission pre-school in Ogba, Lagos State, was reported to have drowned during a swimming lesson organised by the school allegedly due to the carelessness of the caregivers.
In 2021, the media were filled with sordid news of rape, abuse, and harassment of pupils in Nigerian schools. One of such cases was the 11-year-old boy, allegedly molested by fellow students at a mission school in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The country has not forgotten in a hurry the sudden and unfortunate death of Sylvester Oromoni who was alleged to have been killed by his colleagues in a school where there is supposed to be guardians and safety.
Schools are meant to provide an important environment for care and development of a child, especially at the nursery/primary level.
According to experts, school attendance at the pre-school and primary levels bridges the gap in home care and lays the foundation for future learning.
And unless children are raised in a healthy and safe school environment during childhood, their future development could be seriously hampered.
The role of government is one that is anchored on the rule of law derived from the constitution, and the law confers on the government the responsibility to protect the citizens.
So the rise in children being killed in schools is one that is very disheartening. The schools and children fall under two major ministries, the education, and culture and information ministries.
The government’s role in this regard is obviously in the area of enacting and implementing policies that will curb this kind of avoidable issue.
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These incidents are mainly witnessed in private schools, and this tends to suggest that most private school owners may not be professionals.
We therefore advise that government should intensify monitoring of schools, especially private schools for basic safety measures. We believe such monitoring should include unannounced visitations and on-the-spot assessments.
We are aware that the Lagos State Ministry of Education is doing a lot with regard to ensuring healthy and safe school environments for children.
However, we urge the government to as a matter of urgency ensure that school buses have a first-aid box in case of an emergency and health safety and environment officer.
The Education Quality Assurance Unit of the ministry of education is saddled with enhancing quality standards in educational institutions below the tertiary level, setting clearly defined learning outcomes through holistic evaluation.
The truth is that Lagos has many schools and going by the size and the enormous nature of the work before the quality and assurance agency, they are overwhelmed by the task.
In Nigeria, the instance of pre-schoolers being objects of victimisation in unsecured school environments and/or carefree cum selfish educators’ disposition is the order of the day.
No doubt, crimes, and unfortunate happen-stances are common human occurrences; however, in countries such as the USA, Canada, and Finland, among others, there are government articulated strategic approaches to ensure the safety and comfort of children, especially while in school.
According to Donald Trump, the immediate past president of the USA, “Every child deserves to grow up in a safe community surrounded by a loving family and to have a future filled with opportunity and with hope.”
Trump took steps to ensure that schools were safe and secure, just like airports, stadia, and government buildings during his tenure. That is not to say there were no unfortunate incidences in schools during his regime and even till now.
Just on Tuesday, May 24, there was a report of a gunman who invaded Robb Elementary School in Uvalde – Texas, a school that teaches children aged 7 to 10 years, killing 19 before he was killed by law enforcement agents.
The culprit was hacked down because there were functional security operatives in place who did not give room for more damages to be done by the killer. That is exactly one of the differentiating landmarks between these countries and Nigeria.
When institutions are strengthened and allowed to work with adequate autonomy, the rule of law will take its course. | https://businessday.ng/editorial/article/rising-death-toll-of-children-in-private-schools/ | 2022-07-22T04:05:44Z | https://businessday.ng/editorial/article/rising-death-toll-of-children-in-private-schools/ | true | 1 |
My colleague and teammate, the Rev. John Mayden, Jr., wrote a book called “Prayer: The World’s Most Reliable Wireless Connection.” (Ambassador International. 2020) After the sheer joy of being reminded of who we meet and who is so eager to communicate with us in prayer, I found the section on introspection and the important insights on gathering our thoughts before prayer most helpful. John provides needed reminders here for all who pray: examining our motivations and setting all of these intimate pieces before God (and before ourselves) each day as we seek to work and live as disciples of Jesus.
Another influential and articulate mentor for many of us is the prolific N.T. Wright from England. His insightful and refreshing reminders for us to respectfully keep a multilayered view of scripture in mind—especially the larger story the Bible is telling—can help us weigh our hearts and intentions and, by God’s grace, align them with the LORD’s larger story. Wright’s amazing and helpful scripture and the authority of God (SPCK. 2005) is a gift to the church today.
Combining these important insights can encourage us to allow God’s Spirit and the scriptures to address us and redirect us in all our distractions, “busy work” and the clamor of life. The LORD may even surprise us as we reflect in prayer about our good intentions, our faith and religion. Nevertheless, with God’s ever-ready help, we can slow down (daily), focus on Christ, and allow the LORD check our motives; align our intentions—and our actions—with the larger story God started at creation. Let’s sing about it!
Let us stop and check our intentions
Motivations are part of prayer
Because even our kindness and forgiveness
can reflect a selfish care
Fears of hell may drive our good deeds
Morality become solely concern for self
While our self-less Maker’s wider story
is abandoned, dusty on a shelf
There’s a sacred larger story
Scripture tells the longer arc
Yet we often miss the forest
for arguing about the bark
Creation, fall, Israel, Jesus,
now a church to live his Way
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth—through us—we pray.
So, Lord, check all my kindness
My forgiveness and good deeds
Make sure they’re aimed toward joining you
in planting kingdom seeds
Keep my heart and motivations
in tune with your larger plan:
That day when all divisions cease—
when you are all in all—and we’re all hand in hand. | https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/clergy-corner-for-july-22-2022/article_7a8f0e45-8dd8-50c1-b108-226fc6fc63e2.html | 2022-07-22T04:06:15Z | https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/clergy-corner-for-july-22-2022/article_7a8f0e45-8dd8-50c1-b108-226fc6fc63e2.html | false | 1 |
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(three, thirteen, twenty-eight, thirty-one; Bonus: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
03-13-28-31, Bonus: 8
(three, thirteen, twenty-eight, thirty-one; Bonus: eight) | https://www.myplainview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17321496.php | 2022-07-22T04:06:52Z | https://www.myplainview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17321496.php | true | null |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
2-4-4-8
(two, four, four, eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
2-4-4-8
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Kevin Naiqama will head back to the English Super League in 2023, signing a two-year deal with the Huddersfield Giants.
Naiqama switched back to the NRL from the Super League ahead of the 2022 season, wanting to be closer to family he hadn't seen in a number of years thanks to coronavirus border restrictions.
With those restrictions now lifted and travel across the world far simpler, Naiqama, who has struggled to break into the Sydney Roosters' NRL side under Trent Robinson this year, will move back to England where he will link up with Huddersfield.
The Giants currently sit in third spot on the table and are having a strong season, albeit behind St Helens and Wigan at the top of the table, with the Catalan Dragons slipping a point behind them in recent times.
Naiqama, who debuted with the Newcastle Knights in 2010, played 113 games in the NRL across his time with the Knights, Panthers and Wests Tigers (where he played 90 games) before moving to the Super League in 2019.
One of the best outside backs in the competition during his time with a successful St Helens outfit, he played 65 games before being granted a release to return to Australia.
He has made just four appearances for the tri-colours and the desire to play top class football for the Fijian representative was a clear driving factor.
Naiqama also said the lure of being coached by Ian Watson was a big factor in the decision to join Huddersfield, with other Super League clubs believed to be interested.
"There's a couple of factors; Ian Watson, the coach that he is and the ability he has and the team that the Giants are building," Naiqama said.
"When I was playing at St Helens, it felt like we were playing ourselves when we played teams coached by Ian Watson in terms of the style and in playing the long game.
"When he was at Salford, he took them to the Grand Final and the following year took them to a Challenge Cup Final, he did a great job and he's doing a great job at Huddersfield taking them to a Challenge Cup Final. There's an exciting journey ahead for Huddersfield Giants. I'm hoping to add value to the team and set up the success that we're hoping to achieve.
"It's really exciting to be joining the Giants: Huddersfield have come up this year more than any other year. There's no surprise to that with Ian Watson and the group of players that are there, they're building something really special, and I hope to be a valuable part of it."
Huddersfield currently have former NRL players Ricky Leutele, Danny Levi, Chris McQueen and Jack Cogger in their squad, as well as English representatives Jermain McGillvary and Joe Greenwood, and French star half Theo Fages. | https://www.zerotackle.com/kevin-naiqama-finds-new-home-for-2023-after-roosters-stint-120581/ | 2022-07-22T04:20:42Z | https://www.zerotackle.com/kevin-naiqama-finds-new-home-for-2023-after-roosters-stint-120581/ | true | 1 |
Pingali Venkaiah's daughter passes away, YS Jagan expresses condolences
Ghantasala Sitamahalakshmi, daughter of the designer of the national flag, Pingali Venkaiah, passed away. She breathed her last at her home in Macharla, Palnadu district on Thursday afternoon.
Ghantasala Sitamahalakshmi, daughter of the designer of the national flag, Pingali Venkaiah, passed away. She breathed her last at her home in Macharla, Palnadu district on Thursday afternoon. AP Chief Minister YS Jagan, Government Whip Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy, former minister Pattipati Pulla Rao and leaders expressed their condolences on the death of Sita Mahalakshmi.
On the occasion of the completion of 75 years since the creation of the national flag, on March 12 last year, Chief Minister YS Jagan went to Macharla and honoured Sita Mahalakshmi and handed over a check of Rs.75 lakh on behalf of the government. As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Sita Mahalakshmi is scheduled to be felicitated on the 2nd of next month. But in the meantime she passed away.
Seethamahalakshmi's husband was Ugranarasimha. She has six children and one of them is Narasimha who worked as a teacher and retired and is staying in Macharla. Narasimha wrote a book on the history of his grandfather Pingali Venkaiah. The experiences of the independence period were learned through the mother and incorporated in the book. | https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/pingali-venkaiahs-daughter-passes-away-ys-jagan-expresses-condolences-754602 | 2022-07-22T04:25:03Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/pingali-venkaiahs-daughter-passes-away-ys-jagan-expresses-condolences-754602 | false | 1 |
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan security forces arrested several people by early Friday and cleared the main camp protesters have occupied for more than three months while demanding the nation's leaders resign over an unprecedented economic collapse.
Army and police personnel arrived in trucks and buses around midnight, removing tents and protest banners at the site near the presidential palace in the capital, Colombo, where demonstrators have gathered for the past 104 days. They blocked off roads leading to the site and carried long poles.
The security forces were witnessed beating up at least two journalists. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, the main lawyers’ body in the country, also said at least two lawyers were assaulted when they went to the protest site to offer their counsel. Its statement Friday called for a halt to the “unjustified and disproportionate actions” of armed forces against civilians.
The move against the protesters followed the swearing-in Thursday of new President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was chosen by lawmakers earlier this week to finish the term of the leader who fled the country after protesters stormed his residence.
He now has the power to chose a prime minister to succeed himself.
The months of protests concentrated on the ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family's political dynasty, but Wickremesinghe has also drawn their ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate and an example of the country's problematic political establishment.
Sri Lanka's economic chaos has left the nation's 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food.
On Monday, in his role as acting president, Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency that gave him broad authority to act in the interest of public security and order. Authorities have broad power to search premises and detain people, and Wickremesinghe can change or suspend any law.
On Friday, he issued a notice under the state of emergency calling out the armed forces to maintain law and order. The emergency must be reviewed by Parliament regularly to decide whether to extend it or let it expire.
Wickremesinghe, 73, has wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs and has been overseeing bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund. He said Monday those discussions were near a conclusion and talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas. | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Sri-Lankan-forces-make-arrests-clear-main-17321462.php | 2022-07-22T04:32:25Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Sri-Lankan-forces-make-arrests-clear-main-17321462.php | true | 19 |
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Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange traded 38 points, or 0.23 per cent higher at 16,655.5, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a positive start on Friday. Here are a dozen stocks which may buzz the most in today's trade
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Former Nebraska football legend and NFL player Jason Peter spoke at Riverside Golf Club on Thursday for a Nebraska Greats Foundation event.
From jokes about his ex-teammate and current Nebraska coach Scott Frost, who made a surprise appearance at the event, to stories about his two brothers and past playing days, Peter spoke about a variety of topics to a packed room as he was joined on stage by the executive director of the Nebraska Greats Foundation, Jim Rose.
The foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Jerry Murtaugh, who was a linebacker on the Nebraska national championship team in 1970. The organization is dedicated to helping former college athletes from any university in the state who need medical or emergency assistance.
Peter said he was very excited about the opportunity to speak for a cause that means something to him.
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“There’s a lot of people that it happens to,” Peter said. “A lot of attention nowadays happens in the professional league with the concussion, the disabilities and stuff like that, but the reality is you don’t have to go and play five years in the NFL. It literally can be one play over the course of a game that changes your life and what your needs will be. I would like to see the colleges be more involved in helping their former student athletes because there are a lot of people who are struggling with hospital bills or addiction or alcoholism or whatever. They don’t really have anywhere else to turn.
“It’s not just that he (Nebraska Greats Foundation president Jeremy Murtaugh) has this thing set up. He’s out there and looking for money and for help for these people. It was an honor when they asked me to come back.”
Peter said Thursday was the first time he could remember being back in Grand Island since 2009. He said he loves coming to a town like Grand Island because it’s the “heartbeat of the state.”
“This is real Nebraska,” Peter said. “The cities have gotten bigger, Omaha and Lincoln, and Grand Island is not some small podunk town, but it’s still much more the way I think outsiders would think of Nebraska. It’s the quality of people and the way that the important things in life matter. In my experiences, the people of Grand Island have done a good job of prioritizing those things.”
After the event was the auction, where items such as a football signed by Peter, a helmet signed by Frost, and a Larry the Cable Guy suite gameday experience were available.
Current Nebraska football players Garrett Nelson, Alante Brown and Marques Buford Jr were also in attendance on Friday.
Nelson announced that he would be donating part of the money he is making from NIL to the foundation, becoming the first currently active athlete to do so.
The Tom Dinsdale Auto Nebraska Greats Golf Jamboree will take place on Friday at Riverside Golf Course. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. with an autograph session of the celebrities attending the event at 10. A player and celebrity lunch will follow at 11, and there will be a shotgun start for the gold tournament at noon.
Celebrities taking part in the jamboree are Eric Crouch, Jeff Kinney, Mandy Monson, John Baylor, Brendan Stai, Tom Kropp, Boyd Epley, Jared Crick, Brooke Delano and more.
Peter said he’s looking forward to spending some time with past and present Nebraska greats, although he said Frost may not be in that category.
“I don’t know if I would consider Scott a Nebraska great, but you’ve got to get your cheapshots in when you can,” Peter said. “It’s going to be awesome. I don’t get around the guys as much. I think it’s human nature, you fall into your own life and path and requirements. Everyone’s got their own families. Usually when you’ve got some free time, you end up spending it with them. It’s nice when you have these events and get to spend some time with guys you played with or you watched them play or knew of them before you.
“Now you’ve got guys like Garrett and Alante and Buford, they come in and you get to meet the guys that are relaying the tracks. We’re counting on those guys. They don’t need to carry that burden of bringing Nebraska back but everybody in this state knows what Nebraska football should look like and right now, these guys are the ones carrying the torch.”
Peter played college football at a high level, finishing his career as a two-time first-team All-Big 12 selection. He started every game his final three seasons, 47 straight games. He also earned consensus first-team All-America honors in 1997 and was a finalist for the Outland Trophy.
During his career, the Huskers were 49-2 with losses to Arizona State and Texas during his junior year. Nebraska won three national titles and four bowl victories.
Peter then played for five seasons in the NFL after being drafted by the Carolina Panthers. His professional career ended due to a multitude of surgeries on his neck and shoulders.
Throughout the event, Peter had a few thoughts about this year’s Nebraska team, but the one he came back to was winning is contagious.
“I’m super excited for these guys to have an opportunity to play these 13 games and see what they can do,” Peter said. “Last year was last year, but if the ball bounces our way a few times, especially early in the year…When these guys know what it feels like to put together three or four wins, losing’s going to be that much more of something they despise. In my life, I think of the two games we lost probably more than any game we won.
"These guys have not obviously experienced winning at that level but certainly capable of it. The mentality and the way they carry themselves, everything will change when they put a few lines in that win column.”
By Cody Frederickcody.frederick@theindependent.comFormer Nebraska football legend and NFL player Jason Peter spoke at Riverside Golf Club on Thursday for a Nebraska Greats Foundation event.From jokes about his ex-teammate and current Nebraska coach Scott Frost, who made a surprise appearance at the event, to stories about his two brothers and past playing days, Peter spoke about a variety of topics to a packed room ash he was joined on stage by the executive director of the Nebraska Greats Foundation, Jim Rose.The foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Jerry Murtaugh, who was a linebacker on the Nebraska national championship team in 1970. The organization is dedicated to helping former college athletes from any university in the state who need medical or emergency assistance.Peter said he was very excited about the opportunity to speak for a cause that means something to him.“There’s a lot of people that it happens to,” Peter said. “A lot of attention nowadays happens in the professional league with the concussion, the disabilities and stuff like that, but the reality is you don’t have to go and play five years in the NFL. It literally can be one play over the course of a game that changes your life and what your needs will be. I would like to see the colleges be more involved in helping their former student athletes because there are a lot of people who are struggling with hospital bills or addiction or alcoholism or whatever. They don’t really have anywhere else to turn.“It’s not just that he (Nebraska Greats Foundation president Jeremy Murtaugh) has this thing set up. He’s out there and looking for money and for help for these people. It was an honor when they asked me to come back.”Peter said Thursday was the first time he could remember being back in Grand Island since 2009. He said he loves coming to a town like Grand Island because it’s the “heartbeat of the state.”“This is real Nebraska,” Peter said. “The cities have gotten bigger, Omaha and Lincoln, and Grand Island is not some small podunk town, but it’s still much more the way I think outsiders would think of Nebraska. It’s the quality of people and the way that the important things in life matter. In my experiences, the people of Grand Island have done a good job of prioritizing those things.”After the event was the auction, where items such as a football signed by Peter, a helmet signed by Frost, and a Larry the Cable Guy suite gameday experience were available.Current Nebraska football players Garrett Nelson, Alante Brown and Marques Burford Jr were also in attendance on Friday.Nelson announced that he would be donating part of the money he is making from NIL to the foundation, becoming the first currently active athlete to do so.The Tom Dinsdale Auto Nebraska Greats Golf Jamboree will take place on Friday at Riverside Golf Course. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. with an autograph session of the celebrities attending the event at 10. A player and celebrity lunch will follow at 11, and there will be a shotgun start for the gold tournament at noon.Celebrities taking part in the jamboree are Eric Crouch, Jeff Kinney, Mandy Monson, John Baylor, Brendan Stai, Tom Kropp, Boyd Epley, Jared Crick, Brooke Delano and more.
Peter said he’s looking forward to spending some time with past and present Nebraska greats, although he said Frost may not be in that category.“I don’t know if I would consider Scott a Nebraska great, but you’ve got to get your cheapshots in when you can,” Peter said. “It’s going to be awesome. I don’t get around the guys as much. I think it’s human nature, you fall into your own life and path and requirements. Everyone’s got their own families. Usually when you’ve got some free time, you end up spending it with them. It’s nice when you have these events and get to spend some time with guys you played with or you watched them play or knew of them before you.“Now you’ve got guys like Garrett and Alante and Burford, they come in and you get to meet the guys that are relaying the tracks. We’re counting on those guys. They don’t need to carry that burden of bringing Nebraska back but everybody in this state knows what Nebraska football should look like and right now, these guys are the ones carrying the torch.”Peter played college football at a high level, finishing his career as a two-time first-team All-Big 12 selection. He started every game his final three seasons, 47 straight games. He also earned consensus first-team All-America honors in 1997 and was a finalist for the Outland Trophy.During his career, the Huskers were 49-2 with losses to Arizona State and Texas during his junior year. Nebraska won three national titles and four bowl victories.Peter then played for five seasons in the NFL after being drafted by the Carolina Panthers. His professional career ended due to a multitude of surgeries on his neck and shoulders.Throughout the event, Peter had a few thoughts about this year’s Nebraska team, but the one he came back to was winning is contagious.“I’m super excited for these guys to have an opportunity to play these 13 games and see what they can do,” Peter said. “Last year was last year, but if the ball bounces our way a few times, especially early in the year…When these guys know what it feels like to put together three or four wins, losing’s going to be that much more of something they despise. In my life, I think of the two games we lost probably more than any game we won. These guys have not obviously experienced winning at that level but certainly capable of it. The mentality and the way they carry themselves, everything will change when they put a few lines in that win column.” | https://theindependent.com/sports/football/jason-peter-speaks-in-grand-island-at-nebraska-greats-foundation-event/article_833828e0-0970-11ed-b21d-9bf1545d8807.html | 2022-07-22T04:48:29Z | https://theindependent.com/sports/football/jason-peter-speaks-in-grand-island-at-nebraska-greats-foundation-event/article_833828e0-0970-11ed-b21d-9bf1545d8807.html | false | 1 |
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation says 58% of its highly ambitious Mumbai Coastal Road Project is complete.
The 10.58 km Mumbai Coastal Road project connects Princess Street at Marine Drive in south Mumbai to the Worli end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in south central Mumbai.
The Rs 12,721 crore (Rs 127.21 billion) Coastal Road is expected to be ready by November 2023.
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Feature Presentation: Rajesh Alva/Rediff.com | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/see-mumbai-coastal-road-project/20220722.htm | 2022-07-22T04:50:30Z | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/see-mumbai-coastal-road-project/20220722.htm | true | null |
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Among multiple items he’s prioritizing as his tenure leading the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit comes to a close, Mike Brown says he’s being deliberate about advising others.
“Whatever I can do in my last weeks to help the service members — making sure their performance reviews are done, whatever we can do for promotion boards, any assistance I can provide people given my commercial experience my whole career in Silicon Valley before leading DIU with career advice — I will,” Brown told FedScoop in a recent interview.
Formed by then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2015, DIU was designed to leverage the investment and speed of advances in commercial technologies to ultimately help strengthen the military and enable more rapid deployments of cutting-edge capabilities. The unit has expanded since then and established outposts to promote further innovation in a few of the United States’ key technology hubs.
After steering DIU for the last nearly four years, Brown opted not to extend his term — and recently announced plans to exit in September.
In a recent conversation with FedScoop, the CEO-turned-federal director reflected on some of what defined his service at DIU — the great, and the not-so-good parts — and also shared new details about his plans for his final days there and what’s to come.
“I want to continue in the same area of national security and technology. I think it’s a nexus that’s going to be increasingly important as we look out over the next couple of decades,” he noted.
Changing the game
DIU has experimented with and helped field dozens of technologies for DOD components under Brown’s leadership.
“We’ve brought 50 different capabilities to the military, so it’s kind of hard to pick favorites. But I’ll give just a couple of examples, rather than saying they are favorites,” Brown said. “What we’ve done with small drones certainly would be up there.”
Through the unit’s Blue UAS program, officials are helping vet and scale more unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, from U.S. and allied countries for DOD use. It was created with the intention of becoming the most efficient method for government validation of UAS available for commercial systems, though it isn’t the only one.
“Being able to harmonize some requirements across the military and provide those on a [General Services Administration] schedule so that, across the federal government, other parts of the government can buy these cyber-hardened, qualified drones, and support [American] and allied suppliers is critically important,” Brown noted — particularly “because China has the jump here, with the world’s largest market share of small drones.”
In the director’s view, DIU also has “pioneered the concept that we don’t have to build our own rockets.” Considering the commercialization of space, he said it’s critical for the government to be able to buy payload space and launch small satellites, sensors and other national security devices as-a-service.
Further, the unit has enabled a number of artificial intelligence-driving projects to bring sensor fusion together — including providing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) with “a better picture of the airspace over North America and being able to give the president more time should he ever have to make a decision about what’s happening over airspace and whether we need to respond,” Brown said. “We’ve dramatically reduced the amount of time that it takes to understand what’s going on and correlate different sensors.”
DIU officials have also promoted more use of digital wearables by military personnel and department leadership to improve how they capture and benefit from health indications.
“So, I’m wearing a commercial digital watch — and, or a ring,” Brown said, pointing to the device on his wrist.
Working with Philips Healthcare, DIU is combining that data from individuals like Brown and using the heaps of data points collected to detect COVID-19 in the military “up to 72 hours in advance of my ever feeling a symptom,” with 75% accuracy, the director noted.
“So it’s a completely new way to change the game on readiness — not just is the equipment ready and am I trained on the equipment — but am I ready, as a human?” he said.
Many solicitations for company-built solutions to military problems were posted under the director’s purview. “A lot of them now are focused on our newest portfolio, which is energy,” Brown added.
The U.S. military is the world’s largest consumer of energy, he said.
Aligned with the priorities of the current administration, DIU recently launched a few projects associated with energy resilience. Officials involved want to essentially take what the commercial sector is doing to improve energy conservation, like developing new fuels, and incorporate those elements into the military.
“For example, right now we’re converting a lot of the Army vehicles and trucks to be hybrids, because we found that 80% of the time that they’re in use they’re idling somewhere. They’re not going somewhere, but just keeping someone cool or warm. And that, of course, wastes fuel and creates a signature that adversaries can attack. So we’re busy with that tactical vehicle hybridization,” Brown said.
Level up
DIU roots trace back to DIUx, the DOD’s original — and experimental — innovative acquisition team. In 2018, it was made a permanent part of the Pentagon, and the “x” in its name was dropped. From his perch leading requests for and releases of commercial technologies for DOD since then, Brown sees a variety of ways DIU can “level up” again, in the near term.
“One is, we want to make sure that we’re creating a much closer connection between what we’re doing at DIU and mainstream acquisition,” he said.
The unit is now engaging in meetings with all of the program executive officers for each service. As they refine procurement approaches, Brown wants to see each of those PEO leaders turn to the commercial market first, “because most of the problems that we have to solve in the military, except for the very last step — which could be some kinetic action, like blowing something up — are issues that the commercial world is facing.” Problems associated with cybersecurity, fusing sensors, or computer vision, for instance, are “being solved by the commercial world, frankly, in a much bigger volume,” he noted.
The director added: “We’re participating in industries in some cases that we’ve created, but just as a regular customer. So, we need to make sure that we are connecting what we’re doing in the military to all of that incredible commercial activity that’s happening around us.”
DIU should also conduct much more outreach to provide U.S. venture capitalists and entrepreneurs with market signals about the capabilities and quantities associated with technology the military urgently requires.
“And then we need to be reinforcing that with more and larger production volume contracts. Some of what DIU is doing is providing that today. The 100 vendors we’ve introduced through DIU have $3.7 billion of follow-on revenue, but that’s not very much relative to what DOD buys,” Brown said.
One counter-drone technology supplier DIU worked with recently landed a billion-dollar follow-on contract from Special Forces Command. And another vendor the unit collaborated with to provide predictive maintenance for aircraft just won a half-billion-dollar follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency, “because their platform can provide synthetic trajectories of hypersonic missiles,” Brown noted, but there should be much more.
The soon-to-exit director added that DIU also needs to work more closely with companies in allied nations, so that “we’re getting the best of technology available globally — not just what’s available in the U.S. — to support our warfighters.”
Up next
Brown’s government service did involve some frustrations, rough points and controversy.
In 2021, he formally requested for his name to be withdrawn from consideration by President Joe Biden to become the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment following an inspector general’s investigation into allegations of nepotism pushing ethical boundaries as director.
The reasoning Brown gave for removing himself as the nominee was that he did not want delays posed by an ongoing inspector general investigation regarding allegations of wrongdoing to hold up the process for that important procurement position.
“The allegations made by one former employee is that we misused our hiring authority. I have complete confidence that those are going to be resolved positively — but unfortunately, the inspector general takes a very long time,” Brown said.
The allegations came from Bob Ingegneri, who was DIU’s Chief Financial Officer from May 2019 to June 2020, and became public shortly after Biden’s nomination of Brown to be the Pentagon’s head of acquisition.
In an official complaint to the DOD’s primary oversight arm, Ingegneri alleged that Brown abused his top role to hire people close to him and also increase payments to certain defense contractors.
“Those allegations came over a year ago. I still don’t know when the inspector general is going to complete their work, but I’m looking forward to it being completed so that we can put this behind us,” Brown told FedScoop, adding, “I have confidence that we’ve done everything at DIU according to the way we should have and I don’t have any qualms about what they might be finding in their work.”
Preparing for Brown’s impending departure, the Pentagon last week officially announced that it is accepting applications for a new director until August 15.
“Mike has had a tremendous impact on technology adoption and development these past four years,” Brown’s boss — Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu — said in the official statement. “Under his tenure, barriers to entry for commercial companies have been lowered and numerous key technologies have been deployed to the warfighter. I am sure that wherever he next goes, he will be very successful. Our new director will certainly have very large shoes to fill.”
Regarding what’s next for his career, Brown confirmed he will be reflecting on improvements he can help make associated with commercial defense technologies from outside of the department.
“So, I’ve agreed with the Hoover Institute at Stanford University to be a visiting scholar next year,” he said. “I’m looking forward to spending some time doing some thinking and working with some of the great people there, including HR McMaster, Condoleezza Rice and Gen. Jim Mattis.”
Beyond “helping individuals” in his final weeks at DIU, Brown is pressing Pentagon leadership to move defense modernization forward — and ensuring the unit’s insiders have the resources needed to be able to continue to meet the needs of DOD and the expectations of Congress. As for his legacy at DIU, he ultimately wants to be remembered for implementing Ash Carter’s concept about building a better bridge between the commercial world and the military — and effectively scaling it.
“We’re bringing in 100 new vendors with 50 capabilities that have transitioned, meaning they’re in warfighters’ hands. We have 97 projects underway right now. So, we’ve shown that this can scale — it’s not just a concept that you can do as a one-off, we can scale up and really make a difference,” Brown said.
To hear more from FedScoop’s conversation with Brown, listen to the interview on this week’s DefenseScoop podcast. | https://www.fedscoop.com/pentagons-departing-diu-director-reflects-on-his-legacy-and-whats-next/ | 2022-07-22T04:51:27Z | https://www.fedscoop.com/pentagons-departing-diu-director-reflects-on-his-legacy-and-whats-next/ | false | 1 |
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On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi officially resigned, remitting his mandate to the hands of the president, and putting an end to his national unity government after 17 months in office.
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"President Sergio Mattarella has received Mario Draghi, who ... has reiterated the resignation of the government he leads," a statement from Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic Ugo Zampetti read, adding that "the President has taken note (of the resignation). The current government remains in office to take care of current affairs."
Draghi announced his intention to meet Mattarella in the early morning, while addressing the lower house ahead of a scheduled confidence vote. As he shortly explained to the lower house, his decision to step down came after a confidence vote held in the senate on Wednesday, which the government survived with a thin majority.
"In view of what has happened yesterday in the upper house, I ask to suspend the session because I am about to go to the President of the Republic in order to communicate my decisions," Draghi told deputies before meeting the president.
Having formally accepted Draghi's resignation, Mattarella could now either launch a round of consultations among parties in parliament, to see whether another majority could be formed, or call for snap elections directly.
Draghi's cabinet has been in charge since February 2021. The 74-year-old former president of the European Central Bank already made an offer to resign last week, when the populist Five Star Movement -- a major ally in the national unity coalition -- boycotted a confidence vote on a key relief bill, thus denying its support to the cabinet.
Mattarella rejected Draghi's resignation last week, asking him to assess the situation in parliament. | https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Italian-PM-Mario-Draghi-Resigns-20220721-0007.html | 2022-07-22T05:02:42Z | https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Italian-PM-Mario-Draghi-Resigns-20220721-0007.html | true | 1 |
Mr Phiphat said the proposed stimulus packages comprise a B1-billion project called “Booster Shot” under the supervision of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and a B1bn sport tourism project that aims to promote international and local sporting events around the nation, reports the Bangkok Post.
The ministry and private sector proposed the Booster Shot to the prime minister this week and the agenda is being reviewed by the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), determining whether to use the central budget or the emergency loan decree.
He said the NESDC has not made a decision.
“Without additional budget, we must admit revenue this year is more likely to tally B1.2 trillion, B300 billion below the target," said Mr Phiphat. “The TAT was allocated a limited budget of around B2.2 billion in fiscal 2023, much lower than B5-6 billion during pre-pandemic years.”
Despite tourism’s contribution to GDP reaching 18% before the pandemic, he said during the past two years the ministry proposed a number of measures to help tourism operators, but most were rejected.
Mr Phiphat said the Booster Shot programme is urgently needed by the industry to stimulate demand and strengthen tourism stakeholders.
The TAT is expected to cooperate with airlines to increase capacity to at least 50% of pre-pandemic levels and help tourism operators, such as tour buses that suffered from a lack of Chinese customers, to carry more local tour groups.
For the sports tourism projects, which will use the budget from the National Sports Development Fund, the ministry aims to promote three international events: MotoGP 2022 in September, followed by two trail running events in Chiang Mai. They comprise the inaugural “Amazing Thailand World Mountain & Trail Running Championships” in November, which was postponed from last year, and Doi Inthanon Thailand By UTMB 2022 in December.
“We already secured those events for Thailand. With more active marketing and promotions, we can draw more foreign athletes and audiences to the country, along with creating more sports events around Thailand to attract local tourists,” he said. | https://www.thephuketnews.com/tourism-ministry-anticipates-b1-2trn-revenue-without-stimulus-84988.php | 2022-07-22T05:07:01Z | https://www.thephuketnews.com/tourism-ministry-anticipates-b1-2trn-revenue-without-stimulus-84988.php | false | 1 |
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom is nearing a return from a stress reaction in his right scapula after throwing 60 pitches across five innings in a simulated game Thursday at the team's spring training complex.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner was initially supposed to throw live batting practice Tuesday, but the outing was pushed back two days after he experienced muscle soreness in his right shoulder.
DeGrom has already made three minor league rehab starts, the most recent last Thursday for Triple-A Syracuse.
The 34-year-old right-hander has been sidelined since spring training but was expected to return shortly after the All-Star break. The Mets haven't said if he'll make any more minor league starts before being activated.
New York opens the second half Friday night at home against the San Diego Padres.
DeGrom hasn't pitched in the majors since July 7, 2021. He missed the second half of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow.
In other news announced Thursday, the Mets said first baseman and designated hitter Dominic Smith was placed on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with a right ankle sprain. The move was retroactive to July 17.
Reserve outfielder Ender Inciarte elected free agency on Sunday. He had been designated for assignment.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-3-6-0
(five, three, six, zero)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-3-6-0
(five, three, six, zero) | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17321516.php | 2022-07-22T05:10:51Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17321516.php | true | null |
Honda CB350 is currently sold in either DLX, DLX Pro, Anniversary Edition and the RS spec
When we talk about Honda motorcycles, products like CB Shine are the second-highest selling motorcycle in the country, after Hero Splendor. But when we talk about scooters, Activa is the king and is expected to be for the foreseeable future.
But Honda’s premium offerings like H’ness CB350 constitute about 50 times fewer sales than Activa. This is expected in a country like India where commuters and budget scooters outsell everything. But Honda CB350 is a retro-styled motorcycle that aims at nostalgic customers.
A similar strategy is employed by Royal Enfield and their Classic 350, arch-rival to CB350, sold 25,425 units in June 2022 and 29,959 units in May 2022. Where Honda H’ness CB350 sold 3,308 units in May 2022. This is a staggering difference between two different products aiming at the same audience. CB350 makes 20.78 bhp and 30 Nm which is more than Classic 350’s 20.2 bhp and 27 Nm. Still, Classic 350 is unmatched at this point.
Honda CB350 Brigade
In an attempt to drive more sales, Honda is aiming to hit the Indian nostalgia a little more. Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has recently filed a trademark for CB350 Brigade name in India. Earlier this month, we saw Honda share a new teaser invite for 8th Aug. Are they getting ready to launch Honda CB350 Brigade on that date?
The Honda teaser had the word Formidable mentioned. Is it the teaser for CB350 Brigade – The Formidable Brigade Coming Soon? Only time will tell. Other options include Forza 350 maxi-scooter or CRF300L ADV CRF300L ADV was recently spotted in a Honda dealership which might be the more probable product to be launched in India next month.
So, what is Honda CB350 Brigade? Is it a new variant like we got the CB350RS? CB350 Brigade might be Honda’s attempt to pay homage to the Indian armed forces. It might be a special defence forces edition of CB350. This is not a new concept as Royal Enfield has been doing it for quite some time now. Even Jawa and Yezdi have done the same. With 15th Aug being India’s Independence Day, that is a possibility.
Launch & Competition
From Royal Enfield stables, we have seen Pegasus 500 and 350 Signals Edition. Pegasus 500 was a limited edition model which was designed to pay tribute to Royal Enfield’s involvement with British Army in World War II. It was limited to only 1,000 units worldwide. Some of those 1,000 units were also sold in India. Pegasus 500 was only offered with Classic 500 and in two exclusive shades namely, Olive Drab Green and Service Brown.
While Signals Edition is not a limited edition like the Pegasus 500 was. Also, Signals Edition is only offered in India unlike Pegasus 500 which was offered globally. Signals Edition was heavily inspired by Pegasus 500 in terms of looks, but was offered here in India based on Classic 350. Royal Enfield Signals Edition is an attempt by the Chennai-based company to pay tributes to Indian Military. It was offered in two colours namely, Airborne Blue and Stormrider Sand.
We can expect Honda CB350 to get a similar vibe as Royal Enfield Classic 350 Signals Edition. It might also feature the numbering like Signals Edition too and get exclusive colours. Right now, Honda CB350 range starts from Rs. 1.95 lakh (ex-sh) and we expect Brigade variant to be priced at a premium of Rs. 15,000. | https://www.rushlane.com/honda-cb350-brigade-trademark-filed-new-variant-12444019.html | 2022-07-22T05:14:17Z | https://www.rushlane.com/honda-cb350-brigade-trademark-filed-new-variant-12444019.html | false | 1 |
Manchester United have impressed in pre-season with three wins from three despite having only one new signing at their disposal for their tour of Asia and Australia, but the club are continuing to negotiate on all fronts for a number of top targets.
Erik ten Hag remains keen on bolstering his defence this summer and Bayern Munich defender Benjamin Pavard has joined his ‘list’ of potential candidates, although the Frenchman doesn't want to play in his usual role. Elsewhere, a new attacker is still being eyed and the Red Devils have been backed to sign former player Memphis Depay.
Mirror Football takes a look at all the latest transfer stories coming out of Old Trafford…
Pavard eyes centre back role at United
Manchester United remain intent on bolstering their right back options this summer after it was revealed that Erik ten Hag is willing to depart with Aaron Wan-Bissaka after failing to be impressed by the former Crystal Palace man, while Diogo Dalot is his first choice as things stand.
And United have now identified Bayern Munich’s Benjamin Pavard as their next defensive target, according to L’Equipe. But the Frenchman is said to want to test himself at centre back, despite being a natural right back, which could affect any chance of a move following Lisandro Martinez’s arrival.
Pavard would like to leave Bayern in search of regular first team action, yet that would be no guarantee at Old Trafford if he wishes to operate in the centre of defence. However, if he is willing to play in his natural position at right back, then a move could be on.
Should Benjamin Pavard commit to playing at right back if he were to move to Man Utd? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Depay return considered
Former Manchester United forward Memphis Depay is expected to leave Barcelona this summer after being deemed surplus to requirements following the La Liga’s outfit’s overhaul of attacking players. It has seen the arrivals of Ferran Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski in 2022.
And despite only joining the Catalan giants last summer, Depay looks as though he is on his way out just 12 months later, after accumulating 13 goals and two assists in 37 appearances in all competitions last season, with United now backed to bring him back to Old Trafford.
The Red Devils are said to be considering a sensational swoop for Depay this summer after being given the go-ahead to pursue a deal for the Netherlands international, according to the Express, with Barcelona willing to depart with the forward for as little as £20 million.
Tielemans interest ‘growing’
Manchester United may have agreed a fee with Barcelona for Frenkie de Jong but a move continues to stall as the Dutch midfielder drags out proceedings, which has led Erik ten Hag to draw up a list of alternative options in the event he fails to sign his countryman.
Leicester City’s Youri Tielemans has been mooted as one of those on his list, and although they face stiff competition from Arsenal for his signature, which is said to be his preferred destination, the Red Devils’ interest in the midfielder is reportedly ‘growing’.
That’s according to journalist Ben Jacobs, via Manchester World, who also says that United’s interest in Tielemans is ‘genuine’. The Belgium international would certainly be a much cheaper alternative to De Jong, meaning the Red Devils could decide to pounce.
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Dean McDermott Calls Tori Spelling 'So Cute' in Troop Beverly Hills During Family Movie Night
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Pass the popcorn!
Dean McDermott joined his wife, Tori Spelling, and their kids for a movie night on the latest episode of Spelling's reality TV show, @Home with Tori, which aired Thursday. The cameo marked McDermott's first appearance on the Vizio series.
On @Home with Tori, the family sat outside to watch Spelling's 1989 film Troop Beverly Hills on a projector. The moment can be seen in a preview clip first shared by Us Weekly.
When Spelling asked the group, "Do you see me, you guys? That's me!," McDermott replied: "You're so cute, babe."
Spelling — who shares sons Liam Aaron, 15, Finn Davey, 9, and Beau Dean, 5, plus daughters Stella Doreen, 14, and Hattie Margaret, 10, with McDermott — was a teenager when she played a girl scout in Troop Beverly Hills.
RELATED: Tori Spelling Celebrates Daughter Stella's 14th Birthday, Praises Her 'Courage': 'I Love You'
Late last year, multiple sources told PEOPLE that the couple's marriage was under strain. A source said in November –– after Spelling released a holiday card without her husband –– the pair was experiencing a "great deal of tension" in their relationship.
The parents were later spotted taking their five children out to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Los Angeles.
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"They both enjoy being a family and love their lives with the kids, but there is a great deal of tension between them which continues to make them drift further apart," the source said at the time. "They have gotten to a point where there are no easy fixes."
"Marriages with five children need to have a lot of trust, love and understanding," the source continued. "Without that, little things add up and a big thing could collapse everything."
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In March, McDermott honored Spelling and his daughters on Instagram for International Women's Day.
"Happy International Women's Day to these incredibly smart, creative, strong, fierce and funny Women," he captioned a series of pictures of his family including Stella in a full-face of makeup, Hattie smiling in a car, and two glam photos of Spelling.
He added, "I'm so blessed to have you in my life. I love you So Much!! #happyinternationalwomensday #luckyguy."
@ Home with Tori airs on Watchfree+, VIZIO's free streaming service. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/dean-mcdermott-calls-tori-spelling-050951592.html?src=rss | 2022-07-22T05:19:46Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/dean-mcdermott-calls-tori-spelling-050951592.html?src=rss | false | 2 |
Affordable RV Adventures in Sacramento, California has debuted a new look on its website. As one of Sacramento's premier RV rental, service, and repair companies, the new website shines with a clean, updated look, bright colors, and an easy-to-use navigation bar.
Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2013
Affordable RV Adventures, Inc. has updated its website for RV Rentals, allowing its customers to easily locate the services and information they need. Included in the new site is an extensive list of links for clients to utilize as they are planning vacations and trips across the West.
The revamped site spotlights important services that Affordable RV Adventures offers, such as its RV rental consignment program. Owners John and Shirley Loja recognize the value that a consignment program holds for RV owners. “Our RV rental consignment program is a way for you to use your own motorhome when you want to, while bringing the cost of ownership down,” they stated.
To participate in the program, owners leave their RV at the Sacramento rental location. The Lojas handle all of the details of renting it out to other clients, including advertising, calls and emails, client screenings, insurance coverage, storage, regular inspections, maintenance, and service of the RV. Owners still retain the right to use their motorhome whenever they want—with a simple phone call to the Lojas informing them of the dates.
The new website also features another service Affordable RV Adventures is known for: RV parts, service, and repairs. Because they stock a variety of motorhome parts on site at their Cameron Park facility, the business is able to offer fast, convenient repair services, including an extensive number of factory-authorized RV repair services.
The newly revamped website, designed by the Internet search marketing company The Web Guys near Indianapolis, Indiana, also includes an online reservation request that potential clients can easily access to check into a rental.
About Affordable RV Adventures
Affordable RV Adventures, Inc. is located near Sacramento, California. The company provides Class A motorhome rentals, Class C motorhome rentals, RV repair, and RV rental consignment to the Sacramento and surrounding areas.
Customers can find more information about the company by visiting their website at http://www.affordablerentalsandsales.com.
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Give the one you love a sexy gift this February 14th
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 29, 2013
Many couples want to find the perfect way to spice up their Valentine's Day. My Secret Luxury, the leading online provider of luxury sex toys and romance products, has just the products to make that happen.
Leveraging unmatched expertise in adult pleasure products and a rigorous evaluation process, My Secret Luxury has carefully curated a handful of unique and sexy gift ideas for this year's Valentine's Day. My Secret Luxury recommends: LELO Tiani 2 Couples Vibrator; Jimmyjane HELLO TOUCH Vibrator; Bijoux Indiscrets Massage Oil Candle; and Luz de la Riva Camille Blindfold. These products are the surest way to create a hot and heavy night – or morning for that matter! My Secret Luxury delivers the right tools to enable everyone to experience an erotic renaissance.
For couples not sure about which products they desire or for anyone whose romantic ideas are big and bold, My Secret Luxury offers the Romance Concierge service. The Romance Concierge can put together a customized kit with all the right offerings or plan an unforgettable romantic event. Whether it's arranging dinner at a secluded restaurant or a surprise getaway to Tahiti, no task is too big or too small for the Romance Concierge.
For those who want a little unexpected pleasure in their lives, the Secret Subscription from My Secret Luxury mails a kit of romance tools each quarter to keep clientele satisfied and coming back for more. This way, Valentine's Day doesn't have to be once a year. It is possible to relive your wonderfully romantic night every few months.
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Rams unveil SoFi Stadium-inspired, 20-carat weight Super Bowl LVI ring originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.
Well, the Los Angeles Rams liked their Super Bowl LVI win over the Cincinnati Bengals and went all out on the ring design, which was officially unveiled during a ring ceremony in front of players, coaches and staff on Thursday:
The ring is inspired by SoFi Stadium, home of the Rams and where they won the championship. The shape of the ring reflects that of SoFi, and a twistable top reveals the bowl of the stadium inside, as shown in better detail here:
According to the Rams, the ring has the most diamond carat weight in NFL championship ring history, with approximately 20 carats of white diamonds situated on top of white and yellow gold.
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Much of the carats represent specific dates that are key to the Rams’ recent move to Los Angeles: the .23 carats along the columns represent the Rams’ 23 points against the Bengals, 1.12 carats of round diamonds honors three key dates in which the Rams’ move to Los Angeles was approved on Jan. 12, 2016, the hiring of head coach Sean McVay on Jan. 12, 2017 and the Rams’ 30-22 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Jan. 12, 2019 for the team’s first playoff win since relocating.
Furthermore, the 20 carats in total represents SoFi’s opening in 2020 while the Vince Lombardi Trophy on the face of the ring has .12 carats of round diamonds as a nod to the team’s 12 regular-season wins.
The design was the result of a collaborative effort between players, team leadership and Jason of Beverly Hills, a Los Angeles-based jewelry store.
"To be able to not only win the Super Bowl, but also to do it in the house Mr. Kroenke built, is really a dream come true," said Los Angeles Rams Vice President of Football & Business Affairs Tony Pastoors in a statement. "We are grateful to Jason and his team for their creativity and passion to deliver a championship ring that reflects our team and their historic season, the one-of-a-kind stadium where it happened, and the city that inspired all of it."
The Rams are about two months away from beginning their Super Bowl defense, and these shiny new rings will surely give them motivation to win another next year in Arizona. | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/rams-unveil-sofi-stadium-inspired-20-carat-weight-super-bowl-lvi-ring/3000690/ | 2022-07-22T05:24:36Z | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/rams-unveil-sofi-stadium-inspired-20-carat-weight-super-bowl-lvi-ring/3000690/ | false | 10 |
Mary Anne Widler, 87, of rural Enterprise, died on Sunday, July 17, 2022. She was born on July 6, 1935 on her family’s farm in the Sutphen’s Mill area north of Chapman, Kansas. Her parents were Marvin and Alice (Picking) Gfeller. She graduated from Dickinson County Community High School (DCCHS) in Chapman in 1953. She married Frank Lehman in 1954 and they lived in California while Frank was still in the Navy. Following Frank’s service in the Navy, the couple returned to Abilene where the family made its home west of Abilene. Frank and Mary raised six children. They divorced after 37 years of marriage. Mary later married Floyd Widler of rural Enterprise and they farmed together until Floyd’s death in 2016.
Mary worked at the First Presbyterian Church in Abilene as the church secretary for many years. She then worked on the staff at the National Greyhound Association headquarters for more than 20 years before retiring. She enjoyed gardening, antiques, and collecting dolls.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Marvin and Alice Gfeller, her brother Platoon Sergeant John Gfeller, her sister Lt. Colonel Helen Gfeller, her sister Muriel Wyman, her former husbands, Frank Lehman and Floyd Widler, and her two daughters, Deanna Lehman and Sandra Howard.
Mary is survived by her four sons, Roger, David, Thomas, and Michael (Stacey); seven grandsons, Kalen Howard, Kenton Howard, Blaise Lehman, Brock Lehman, Brogan Lehman, Lucas Lehman, and Bentley Lehman; two great-grandsons, Haydn Howard, Rylan Howard, all of Abilene.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 21st at the First Baptist Church, 1697 2100 Avenue, Enterprise, Kansas. Pastor Stan Norman will officiate and will also be joined by Rogers Walls who will assist with the service. Burial will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. There will be a lunch at the Baptist church following a brief graveside service.
Memorials may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project in care of the Danner Funeral Home. Online condolences may be sent to www.dannerfuneralhome.net. | http://www.abilene-rc.com/obituaries/obituaryl-mary-anne-widler/article_83ac06c2-0923-11ed-88be-3bf0a6c689ec.html | 2022-07-22T05:29:04Z | http://www.abilene-rc.com/obituaries/obituaryl-mary-anne-widler/article_83ac06c2-0923-11ed-88be-3bf0a6c689ec.html | false | 1 |
'Work to be done': aviation still overwhelmingly male
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Farnborough (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Rebecca Lutte regularly takes to the skies behind the controls of her RV-10 kit plane.
Lutte, who is often joined in the air by her husband in the passenger seat, says that on several occasions air traffic controllers asked if her spouse was there in case of problems.
"It's not often. But it just shows that there's still more work to be done," says Lutte with a smile.
While some women have overcome such prejudice and made inroads into the sector in recent years, aeronautical careers remain largely the preserve of men -- especially at the top.
According to a 2021 study by Lutte, an associate professor at the Aviation Institute, University of Nebraska at Omaha, fewer than six percent of pilots at the world's leading airlines are women.
Just eight of the largest 100 carriers in the world in terms of passengers carried have female bosses.
Those that do include Air France, under the baton of Anne Rigail, Aer Lingus' Lynne Embleton and since July 1 KLM's Marjan Rintel.
"Aviation is a system that was originally designed by men and for men," says Lutte.
"Over the years, women have gained in numbers, but they've really had to fit into a system that wasn't designed for them."
Reducing inequality
Barriers faced by aspiring female aviators include uniforms designed for men and scant representation of women in training manuals.
As in other sectors, sexism and aggressive sexual behaviour are pervasive.
In a 2018 study by Women in Aviation International, 71 percent of women survey said they had suffered some form of workplace harassment.
Several women have nonetheless made their mark on aviation.
They include US flyer Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane under her own steam.
France's Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman in the world to obtain a pilot's licence when she received hers in 1910.
During the 20th Century several female aviators fought for their countries -- notably the paramilitary Women Airforce Service Pilots programme which supported the US air force during World war II.
More recently, some airlines have made reducing inequality in the industry a priority.
US carrier United committed to ensuring that by 2030 at least half of the 5,000 pilots the carrier intends to train by then will be women and minorities.
- Female role models -
Some airlines, such as Air India, are further down the path to equality with women making up some 13 percent of its pilots, according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots.
Canada's CAE simulation technologies and training group offers women training grants and signed a partnership agreement with no-frills European airline easyJet at the Farnborough air show this week.
The British carrier expects to take on one of the European women participating in the programme.
Equality will take time, but there are reasons for optimism says Sandra Bour Schaeffer, CEO of Airbus UpNext, part of the European plane-maker which develops and tests disruptive future aviation technologies.
The Franco-German engineer, who has some 20 years' experience in the industry, says the key is to bring young talent onboard and emphasise training.
"First of all one must not limit the girls in their choice but open perspectives to them, showing them there are many things which can equally be done by women as men," she says.
Bour Schaeffer says it is important to have female role models who have already succeeded -- though it remains a turbulent journey.
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To say Tijuana is having a culinary moment is an understatement. The border city has long been a favorite stopover for travelers and a destination for fun-seekers, but over the last decade, the city’s chefs have changed Tijuana’s image from an anything-goes party town into a serious eating destination.
Visitors have come to recognize the deep culinary roots that form the bedrock of the city’s historic restaurants and to appreciate newer culinary influences brought by immigrants from other regions of Mexico, elsewhere in Latin America, and all over the world. On the main thoroughfare of Avenida Revolución, diners can sample the original Caesar salad and then hop over to one of area’s avant-garde kitchens showcasing modern Baja cuisine — the style itself is influenced by Mediterranean, Asian, American, and local sensibilities.
With momentum fueled by the newest generation of chefs emerging from local culinary schools, as well as renewed faith in the city’s traditional food scene, Tijuana’s “moment” does not seem to be ending anytime soon. From a six-course Baja-Mediterranean dinner and a beloved truck serving Sonora-style mariscos to the city’s quintessential adobada tacos, our guide highlights the definitive Tijuana eating experiences.
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California Shooting Sports and Ann Arbor Arms become the newest dealers to carry acclaimed lineup of tactical gear from Wilderness Tactical Products.
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) January 29, 2013
Two new companies, California Shooting Sports and Ann Arbor Arms, join Wilderness Tactical's over 200 dealers nationwide. Both companies are dedicated to the safety and well being of their neighborhoods and offer a wide variety of courses ranging from beginners gun information to emergency medical care.
Based on the motto “Safety through Education and Training,” California Shooting Sports provides 10 shooting ranges and a large retail area providing the necessities for shooting sports and gun owners.
Ann Arbor Arms is a family company; owners Bill and Holli Ponin opened their store with both the seasoned gun carrier and the average citizen in mind, so that all citizens can protect themselves and their families from harm.
All Wilderness Tactical products are proudly produced in the U.S.A. and have been regularly used by the military, law enforcement and general public for 30 years. The Phoenix-based company boasts a large group of loyal customers, who swear by Wilderness's quality of long lasting products available for purchase on their website.
“We are excited to welcome Ann Arbor Arms and California Shooting Sports to our growing network. I am confident our products will be a great addition to their retail stores,” said President of Wilderness Tactical Products Ralph Holzhaus.
About Wilderness Tactical Products:
Wilderness Tactical Products, L.L.C. was founded in 1981 to fill the needs of people who demanded durable, high-quality equipment. Their products have been tested from the icy mountain peaks of South America to the blistering Sonoran desert for nearly 30 years and they have proven themselves time and again. Wilderness Tactical Products' branded products have consistently been favorites of serious outdoors people, mountain climbers, search and rescue, American Pistol Institute and Gunsite personnel, as well as armed military, intelligence, police, instruction and civilian professionals around the world. For additional information please call 1-800-775-5650 or visit http://www.TheWilderness.com
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‘We’re not garbage’: A Sydney team’s ambitious plan to use a submarine to salvage a refugee wreck
By Jordan Baker
Sydney lawyer Tom Zreika was two years old when his family fled war-torn Lebanon by boat. Thousands made the same trip before the civil war ended in 1990, and many died at sea. “Never in my wildest dreams” did he think he would see his countrymen making that desperate decision again, especially in peacetime.
But Lebanon’s economy has collapsed, and there are dire shortages of food, fuel and medicine. So in late April an estimated 80 people, including Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals, boarded a boat designed for 12, choosing to risk the dangerous trip to Cyprus rather than stay in poverty-stricken Tripoli.
The boat sank. Up to 32 people – including children and women trapped in the captain’s cabin – died. The grief and anger at their deaths intensified civil unrest in Lebanon’s north and sent shockwaves through the Lebanese diaspora, many of whom remember their own boat trip and, like Zreika, thought that chapter of their country’s history had closed.
Word reached two prominent members of Sydney’s Muslim community – Zreika, the chair of Sydney-based aid organisation AusRelief, and respected Bankstown doctor Jamal Rifi – that the families of the dead were calling for the bodies of their loved ones to be retrieved from the wreck and given a muslim burial.
As the Lebanese government was not in a position to respond, Rifi and Zreika decided to take on the job themselves. They have hired a submarine to find the wreck, retrieve the bodies, and commemorate the disaster.
Their mission is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, initially funded by a single, anonymous donor. It is complicated and has already faced many setbacks. It may not succeed. But they consider the attempt a mark of respect, not only for those who died on the latest voyage, but to all the refugees who have died at sea.
“No boat, ever, of any refugee, or would-be refugee … has been retrieved or their bodies retrieved,” says Rifi, who has long supported refugees in Australia and on Manus Island. “No government has made any attempt to retrieve the drowned bodies to give them a proper burial.
“If we can’t retrieve any bodies, if we can’t float the boat, then we’ll get a religious leader on this site … and we will place a plaque on the boat.”
Zreika says the mission is about honouring the dead, who were desperately trying to create a better life for their children as so many others, such as his own parents, have done. “Why invest so much in this project?” he says. “Because they’re not garbage. We’re not garbage.”
AusRelief has hired the Pisces VI, a deep sea submarine capable of taking passengers to a depth of more than 2000 metres, to find and retrieve the wreck. The Pisces is usually used by governments or scientists, but its owner has spent time in the Middle East and understands the importance of burial to muslims, Rifi said.
The vessel is in a shipping container in Spain, and is due to leave for Lebanon next week. The trip will take several weeks, and requires complicated paperwork that has taken months to organise.
There have been myriad delays and its departure may be delayed again if European authorities decide other cargo takes precedence, or a European Union member country decides it needs the vessel. Once it arrives in Beirut, the Lebanese navy will provide transport to Tripoli, a barge to take it out to sea, a support ship and a security escort.
The Sydney team has identified a small search area and is confident it will be able to locate the boat, which is estimated to be around 450 metres below the surface.
They will have seven days to carry out their mission, which is likely to be in late August, unless there are further delays. “Seven days of diving,” says Zreika. “And at the end of the seven days it’s up to us to make a decision [about what to do next]. If we can’t recover it, we’ll consult with the locals. We may have a ceremony at sea. We’d place a plaque as far as we can go down, and take footage of it.”
If they do find the boat, they will attempt to attach deflated airbags, then slowly inflate them to lift it to the surface. They expect many of the bodies to be in the captain’s cabin, as eyewitness accounts suggest those inside could not open the jammed door to escape as the boat sank. Most of the people on deck were rescued.
A representative for AusRelief in Tripoli, where the organisation has a kitchen that provides food, has also warned relatives that the bodies would likely have decomposed at sea. One father said, “even if the submarine gets me the shoes of my daughter, I will be satisfied.”
Zreika will fly to Lebanon to lead the mission when the submarine arrives. Rifi, however, cannot. He has a political profile there because his brother, Ashraf, is a prominent Sunni member of the Lebanese parliament and a former justice minister.
Last year, a military court sentenced Rifi sentenced in absentia, without any opportunity to present a defence, to 10 years in prison with hard labour for being a collaborator with the enemy, Israel, and a traitor. There is no avenue for appeal and, if he returned, he would be jailed. He has described it as a “de facto death sentence”, and has blamed the influence of Hezbollah, a Shiite political party and militant group.
He was found guilty of violating the 1954 anti-Israel boycott law for being a board member of Project Rozana, an Australian non-government organisation that pays for the training of Palestinian medical workers in Israel and funds the transport of children from the West Bank and Gaza for medical care.
He is hoping he will be pardoned when the new crop of Lebanese MPs, elected in May, is able to form a new coalition government. But he says there is no connection between the salvage project and his case.
The situation in Lebanon is remains dire, particularly in the north, which is home to the families of many in Sydney’s Lebanese community. Due to decades of corruption and economic mismanagement, in which Lebanon lived well beyond its means, the currency has collapsed, queues for bread are growing longer, and hospital supplies have run dry.
Many fear the country will descend into full-blown violence and Lebanon will become a failed state.
There is also anger in Tripoli over reports that the boat’s sinking may have been the result of an over-zealous attempt by the navy to turn it back.
The anonymous donor provided the money to cover the upfront fee for the submarine of $430,000. However, Zreika hopes more donations will cover not only the cost of the project, but also provide money to support the survivors’ families.
“Australia gave me so much,” says Zreika. “It’s my duty to give back. We’ve made something of ourselves. But people who are stuffed in a corner, they don’t have an opportunity. In the scheme of things I don’t consider it to be an expensive project.
“It’s an unusual mission for a humanitarian organisation. With the support of our donors, I think we can achieve it.”
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