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As Ohio continues to see a decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, hundreds of Ohio National Guard members deployed to help hospitals deal with an increase in patients are starting to return home.
At the peak of the omicron wave, there were approximately 2,000 guard members deployed at 62 hospitals and 18 testing sites across the state, Ohio Department of Health Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said. As of Tuesday, there were about 1,200 Ohio National Guard members at 28 hospitals and 13 testing centers.
“This has been an extraordinary intervention and one that’s made a big difference for so many hospitals and the communities they serve,” Vanderhoff said.
After COVID cases and hospitalizations reached record levels in Ohio in January, the state has a decline over the past few weeks. In the last week, hospitalizations statewide decreased by 18%, Vanderhoff said.
The Ohio Hospital Association reported a 50% decrease in hospitalized patients with coronavirus and a 51% decrease in the virus in ICU patients over the last three weeks.
West central Ohio, which includes Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties, and southwest Ohio, which includes Butler, Warren, Clinton, Hamilton, Clermont, Adams and Brown counties, have seen a similar decrease, but at a slower rate.
Compared to three weeks ago COVID inpatients have decreased 38% in west central Ohio and dropped 40% in southwest Ohio, according for OHA. During the same period ICU patients with coronavirus have decreased by 46% in west central Ohio and dropped 39% in southwest Ohio.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture's deliberately featureless faces. It said the damage can be repaired.
The Yeltsin Center in Ekaterinburg said the vandalism of the painting “Three Figures” by Anna Leporskaya occurred Dec. 7. It said the suspected culprit worked for a private company providing security at the gallery.
The painting, dating from the 1930s, shows three torsos and heads with hair but no facial features; the vandal drew eyes on two of them with a ballpoint pen. The Yeltsin Center said the painting has been sent for restoration to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which owns it.
The Russian news site RBK said a criminal case has been opened on charges that carry a sentence of up to three months in prison. The picture had been reportedly insured for 74.9 million rubles (roughly $1 million).
Leporskaya, who lived from 1900-1982, was a student of Kazimir Malevich, a seminal Russian abstract artist best known for his 1915 work “Black Square.” | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Russian-gallery-says-guard-added-eyes-to-16847739.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:19 | en | 0.977114 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The world of Well-Read Black Girl, and founder Glory Edim, keeps growing.
What began in 2015 as an Instagram book club and a phrase on a T-shirt given to Edim by her boyfriend is now a newsletter, literary festival, podcast and the basis for two published anthologies. On Thursday, Liveright Publishing Corporation and Well-Read Black Girl announced a partnership for a literary series dedicated to debut fiction by women and non-binary authors, “with a focus on people of color and traditionally underrepresented voices.”
The series is called “WRBG x Liveright" and stating in 2023 will publish two books a year. It continues a wave of recent imprints centered on diversifying the literary market, from Tiny Reparations at Penguin Random House to Black Privilege Publishing at Simon & Schuster. It also comes at a time when a wave of new laws and other actions have led to books being removed from schools and libraries around the country.
“I founded Well-Read Black Girl in 2015 to serve as a one-of-a kind affirming space for Black women to encounter literature and engage in critical discourse with one another," Edim said in a statement.
“We started with a devotion to Black voices, but now, aware of the deep structural changes occurring in the publishing industry and public education — and the tide of rising dissent that threatens to silence authors of color and queer, non-binary, trans and disabled writers — it is time to expand our work.”
During a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Edim said that the idea for the series came out of conversations with Liveright editor Gina Iaquinta, whose authors include Nicole Dennis-Benn, Rion Amilcar-Scott and Amber Sparks. Edim said that initially she and Iaquinta will only look at submissions from authors with agents, but she is open to changing the requirements in the future and perhaps establishing a literary prize or fellowship.
Last fall, Liveright published “On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library,” for which Edim chose stories by Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat and Zora Neale Hurston among others. Edim's affinity for Liveright's parent company, W.W. Norton & Company, dates back to her years as a student at Howard University, when assignments often were drawn from Norton's widely used anthologies.
“You would have a poetry collection with Rita Dove and Audre Lorde in it, or African American literature edited by Henry Louis Gates,” she said. “I was just so impressed that so many books I was reading came from this powerhouse group. I would love for some of the books I'm working on to end up in the hands of students, young people reading and learning.” | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Well-Read-Black-Girl-to-help-launch-new-literary-16847726.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:20 | en | 0.962747 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit over high health care bills filed on behalf of more than 3 million employers and people seeks as much as $1.2 billion from a large Northern California health systems in an antitrust class-action trial getting underway Thursday.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege in court documents that Sutter Health abused its market power and “caused enormous adverse economic impacts” by discouraging patients from using lower-cost insurance and lower-cost hospitals.
Sutter Health said in a statement Wednesday that it looks forward to “demonstrating that in Northern California’s highly competitive market, Sutter’s integrated healthcare network provides high-quality care that creates efficiencies, drives down total cost of care and benefits the diverse communities we serve.”
The lawsuit claims Sutter used its market power for inpatient services in seven mostly rural Northern California areas where it is the only or dominant hospital to bind insurers in four other communities where it has competition.
That allowed Sutter to overcharge for its own services, the lawsuit alleged, and caused nearly $400 million in insurance premium overcharges to the plaintiffs between 2011-2017. Five companies provided the health insurance: Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Aetna, United Healthcare, and Health Net.
The law allows triple damages if the plaintiffs win against Sutter Health, meaning a potential award of $1.2 billion.
The named plaintiffs are four people who paid health insurance premiums and two companies that paid premiums for their employees since 2011, but the class includes any individuals or companies in the same position across much of Northern California.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys estimate that includes 3 million patients and employers. The system operates 24 hospitals with more than 12,000 doctors and 16,000 nurses.
It's the second round lawsuits against Sutter Health.
The health system two years ago paid different plaintiffs $575 million to settle similar claims that it used anti-competitive practices to artificially increase patients’ costs and agreed then in a separate settlement with the state to accept a court-approved monitor for 10 years to make sure it no longer works through insurance companies to increase patients’ costs.
California's attorney general alleged then that Sutter used its market power to block insurance companies from using incentives to steer patients to cheaper health care providers.
Critics said that practice made it more difficult for patients to use Sutter’s lower-priced competitors, though the Sacramento-based nonprofit denied the allegations and did not admit wrongdoing.
The 2019 settlement also prohibited Sutter from continuing what state officials called an “all or nothing” approach that required insurance companies to include all of the health system's hospitals in their provider networks even if it didn’t make financial sense.
And it increased pricing transparency while limiting what Sutter could charge for out-of-network procedures.
In the current case, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco found in favor of the case going to trial, stating in part that “the contracts were systemwide and required health plans to include Sutter inpatient services in the (noncompetitive) markets.”
A jury will decide if that was to force higher prices that were passed on to patients through higher premiums, the judge ruled.
Sutter said there is no evidence that it worked to maintain its monopoly power in the seven communities where it dominates. And systemwide volume discounting in turn lowers prices, the company said.
“The indisputable evidence shows that Sutter did not violate the antitrust laws but sought only to properly give effect to a valid volume discount,” Sutter said in court papers.
State officials and consumer advocates largely blamed Sutter's previous practices for Northern California residents typically paying health insurance premiums that were $3,000 higher than in Southern California at the time. A typical inpatient procedure in the northern part of the state might have cost $90,000 more than in Southern California.
Sutter has argued that insurance companies were to blame for bumping up costs and noted there were no allegations that its contracts affected patient care. Despite the antitrust claims, it said there is plenty of competition.
About 1,400 self-funded employers and unions settled the lawsuit two years ago. They also initially sought damages that could have exceeded $1 billion.
The trial getting underway in a San Francisco courtroom includes the far larger group of employers and individual patients, with an even bigger potential price tag for alleged damages.
Jury selection was Wednesday in advance of Thursday's opening. The trial is expected to take four to six weeks. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/3-million-plaintiffs-seek-1-2B-from-California-16847501.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:22 | en | 0.964691 |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama is reconsidering its decision last week to retain the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan on a campus building while adding the name of the school's first Black student.
Trustees will meet publicly in a livestreamed video conference on Friday to revisit their decision to keep the name of former Alabama Gov. Bibb Graves on a three-story hall while renaming it Lucy-Graves Hall to also honor Autherine Lucy Foster, the University of Alabama System said.
The decision to honor Lucy alongside a one-time KKK grand cyclops was criticized harshly by some. An editorial in the student newspaper said Graves’ name doesn’t belong beside Lucy’s, given his association with the violent, racist organization.
Foster herself expressed ambivalence, telling WIAT-TV she didn't know much about Graves, who was considered a progressive, pro-education governor in the 1930s, despite having led the Klan in Montgomery during a period when it was at its strongest.
“I wouldn’t say it doesn’t bother me, but I accept it because I didn’t ask for it and I didn’t know they were doing it until I was approached the latter part of last year,” said Foster, 92.
The committee that recommended honoring both people together “acknowledges the complexity of this amended name,” the university said.
“The board’s priority is to honor Dr. Autherine Lucy Foster, who, as the first African American student to attend the University of Alabama, opened the door for students of all races to achieve their dreams at the university. Unfortunately, the complex legacy of Governor Graves has distracted from that important priority,” it said.
Foster, who lives in metro Birmingham, briefly attended classes in Graves Hall after enrolling at all-white Alabama in 1956 but was expelled three days later after her presence brought protests and threats against her life. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university, where she had returned and earned a masters degree in education in 1992.
The university also recognized Foster in 2017 with a historic marker in front of Graves Hall, which houses the college of education. It named a clock tower after Foster, and she’s a member of the university’s student hall of fame.
Graves, who began the first of two terms as governor in 1927, left the KKK in the late 1920s, after multiple terms in the legislature. As a member of the House, he opposed ratification of Alabama's 1901 Constitution, which was meant to ensure white supremacy in the state and remains in effect today although heavily amended.
Several state universities have stripped Graves' name from buildings in recent years as the nation reconsidered its past. Troy University renamed its Bibb Graves Hall for the late Rep. John Lewis, who was denied admission there in 1957 and led voting rights marchers in Selma in 1965.
John England Jr., a former Alabama trustee who is Black, served as chairman of the naming committee. He previously said the members wrestled with what to do about Graves’ name.
“Some say he did more to directly benefit African American Alabamians than any other governor through his reform. Unfortunately, that same Gov. Graves was associated with the Ku Klux Klan. Not just associated with the Ku Klux Klan, but a Grand Cyclops – It’s hard for me to even say those words,” he said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Alabama-revisits-pairing-KKK-leader-and-Black-16847432.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:22 | en | 0.981205 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Chris Young combined his skills as an artist and a producer to earn seven nominations at the Academy of Country Music Awards, including album of the year and single of the year.
The show's co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett announced the nominations on Thursday. Allen and Barrett will share hosting duties with country superstar Dolly Parton during the show being livestreamed on Prime Video from Las Vegas on March 7.
Young shares three of those nominations with his collaborator Kane Brown for their hit song “Famous Friends.”
Miranda Lambert earned five nominations, including entertainer of the year, and is now tied with Reba McEntire for her 16th female artist of the year nomination. First-time nominee Walker Hayes also received five nominations, due to his viral Applebee's themed song "Fancy Like," up for single of the year.
Chris Stapleton, a five-time nominee, is up for entertainer of the year, alongside Lambert, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood.
Album of the year nominees include Carly Pearce, Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Young, Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.
Wallen is back as a four-time nominee after being removed from last year's ACM ballot after he was caught on camera using a racial slur. Wallen earned nominations for album of the year for "Dangerous: The Double Album," which was the most popular album across all genres last year. He also earned nominations for male artist of the year and song of the year.
Co-hosts Allen and Barrett also earned nominations for male and female artist of the year, respectively.
Pop star Taylor Swift also got a nomination — her first from the ACMs since 2018 and her 32nd nomination total — for “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)" off her re-recorded version of “Red (Taylor's Version)." | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/chris-young-leads-academy-of-country-music-nominations/W6SM7KL735GYTL74BH3DNNDVOM/ | 2022-02-10T16:13:23 | en | 0.977347 |
HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark says it will begin negotiations on a new defense cooperation agreement with the U.S. that may include allowing American troops and military equipment to be stationed on Danish soil — in reversal of a decades-old policy.
But Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed to reporters Thursday that the move is not due to current tensions between Russia and Ukraine. She said talks on intensifying military cooperation between Copenhagen and Washington have been in the works for a long time.
The potential new Danish-American defense cooperation deal “is a breakthrough after many decades" of a policy against allowing foreign troops to be stationed on Danish soil, she told Danish media.
“An increased American commitment here in Denmark will improve the access of the United States to the European continent,” Frederiksen said, as quoted by Danish public broadcaster DR.
Danish Defense Minister Morten Boedskov told reporters that no American military bases would be established in Denmark, and he declined to comment on where U.S. troops would be placed in the country.
Danish broadcaster TV2 said the Danish government is seeking to strike a similar kind of defense deal with Washington as neighboring Norway did in May 2021. Both Scandinavian countries are staunch NATO allies of the U.S.
With its treaty with Washington, Norway has allowed unhindered access to U.S. troops that can move freely in and out of the country. However, they must respect Norwegian law, meaning — among other things — that the U.S. cannot send nuclear weapons, landmines or cluster bombs with its soldiers to Norwegian soil.
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MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — A training session on water rescues turned real for firefighters in suburban St. Louis when the crews sprang into action to save two teenagers.
Maryland Heights Fire Protection District crews were wrapping up training Tuesday on Creve Coeur Lake when they spotted two people running across it, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. As they watched, the ice covering the lake broke and the pair fell through.
The training firefighters, along with Pattonville and Creve Coeur firefighters, quickly scrambled to pull the two teens to safety from the icy lake within minutes.
The Maryland Heights fire district posted video of the rescue on YouTube and details about the rescue on its Facebook page.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An umbrella group representing British Jews told an Israeli ultranationalist politician on Thursday that he is unwelcome, drawing outcry from Israeli opposition politicians.
Bezalel Smotrich is leader of a small religious ultranationalist Jewish faction in the Knesset that is currently in the opposition. He has a long record of anti-Arab and homophobic remarks, and until last year served as a government minister.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, a prominent organization that represents the U.K.’s Jewish community, tweeted in Hebrew that Smotrich, who is visiting the country, is “not wanted here.”
“We reject the horrible opinions and hateful ideology of Bezalel Smotrich and call on all members of the British Jewish community to show him the door," the group said. "Get back on the plane, Bezalel, and be remembered as a disgrace to the world. You are not wanted here.”
Smotrich, who is also a leading figure in the West Bank settler movement, dismissed the criticism. In a Twitter post, he called the British group a “relic of an old and crumbling establishment” and said he had received dozens of supportive phone calls and apologies from Jewish figures in the U.K. who wanted to meet him.
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party said the Board of Deputies’ comment was a “shame,” and that by turning away Smotrich they are dismissing a large chunk of Israeli society.
But Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who heads the centrist Yesh Atid party, said the uproar over Smotrich wasn't surprising.
“If we will let racist voices, racist parties and racist Knesset members to enter Israeli politics, this will harm us abroad, especially with world Jewry,” he told a news conference. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/British-Jewish-group-says-Israeli-politician-not-16847633.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:39 | en | 0.971322 |
Two years into the pandemic Jackie Hansen still left home only for doctor visits, her immune system so wrecked by cancer and lupus that COVID-19 vaccinations couldn’t take hold.
Then Hansen got a reprieve — scarce doses of the first drug that promises six months of protection for people with no other way to fend off the virus.
“This is a shot of life," Hansen said after getting injections of Evusheld at a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center clinic. She can't wait to “hug my grandkids without fear.”
Up to 7 million immune-compromised Americans have been left behind in the nation's wobbly efforts to get back to normal. A weak immune system simply can't rev up to fight the virus after vaccination like a healthy one does. Not only do these fragile patients remain at high risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, they can harbor lengthy infections that can help spark still more variants.
With more of the country now abandoning masks and other precautions as the omicron wave ebbs, how to keep this forgotten group protected is taking on new urgency.
This is “quickly transitioning into an epidemic of the vulnerable,” said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. While healthy vaccinated people may return to pre-pandemic activities with little worry about severe consequences, “the immunocompromised -- despite vaccination, despite taking all precautions -- cannot, and remain at risk.”
“We’re going to have to navigate this as a society and it’s going to be a really difficult societal conversation,” he added.
Indeed, amid all the talk about omicron being less severe for many people, the most contagious variant so far laid bare how the immune-compromised need more defenses.
“The pandemic has not spared them yet,” said Dr. Ghady Haidar, an infectious disease specialist at UPMC, where people hospitalized with serious COVID-19 over the past month have been a mix of the immune-compromised and the unvaccinated.
Hansen, a retired nurse, has had to have tough conversations about why she can't be around anyone who's not vaccinated.
“Other people’s behaviors really affect and jeopardize the lives of people like myself,” said Hansen, who nearly died from the flu shortly before the pandemic began.
“We’re all tired of wearing a mask, everybody just wants to put it behind us,” Hansen said. But while for most people "'it’s an annoyance to put a mask on to go to the grocery store,” she’s had to fight to get her cancer care scheduled during COVID-19 surges.
There aren't many options for the immune-compromised as community-wide COVID-19 precautions wane. Health authorities are pushing a fourth vaccine dose for these vulnerable patients, since some get at least a little protection from repeat vaccinations. The immune-compromised are supposed to get three up-front doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines followed by a booster, one more shot than the U.S. recommends for everyone else.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also is considering if the immune-compromised need their booster a little sooner -- three months after their last shot rather than five months.
But many patients are anxiously awaiting AstraZeneca's Evusheld, the first set of antibodies grown in a lab to prevent COVID-19 -- rather than treat it -- in people who can’t make their own virus-fighters. Evusheld contains two types of antibodies, given in two shots at the same appointment, that are expected to last for six months.
The problem: There’s not nearly enough to go around. A federal database shows nearly 500,000 of the 1.2 million doses the government has purchased have been distributed, and an AstraZeneca spokesperson says the rest should arrive before April.
Without enough for everyone deemed immune-compromised, many hospitals used a lottery system to dispense doses to their highest-risk patients -- and no one knows what will happen later in the year when those people need another dose.
A study found Evusheld cut by 77% the chances of a COVID-19 infection, although that was before omicron appeared.
While that's not perfect protection, one organ transplant recipient credits his Evusheld dose with preventing him from becoming seriously ill.
Just getting to the Evusheld appointment at a University of Washington clinic in Seattle, over an hour from his home, made Ray Hoffman nervous. He takes strong immune-suppressing drugs after recent liver and kidney transplants and never ventures out without his mask — but wound up with a masked but coughing cab driver. The next day Hoffman developed cold-like symptoms that turned out to be mild COVID-19, and his worried doctors told him the protective antibody injections likely made the difference.
“I’m just really happy that, fortunately for me, it was just a couple of days of feeling pretty bad and then that was the worst of it,” he said.
As long as Evusheld helps weakened patients avoid a severe infection, “that is definitely a win,” said UPMC's Haidar. “I’m cautiously optimistic.”
Hansen, the suburban Pittsburgh patient, knows she can’t completely let down her guard but says Evusheld has eased her crippling fear.
“Maybe I can go out for lunch, maybe my husband and I can go do something instead of just sitting here in the house,” she said. “This drug needs to be made more available. It’s a great victory for me but until everybody else that’s compromised gets it, it’s hard for me to celebrate.”
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AP journalist Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sebastián Yatra calls his experience with Disney's “Encanto” a "gift from God.”
The Colombian singer-songwriter performs “Dos Oruguitas,” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and nominated to the Oscars for best original song. The movie is also nominated for best animated film and best original music.
“Being present this way at the Oscars, not only with this song but with the movie ‘Encanto’ which is inspired by my country, is a gift from God, a gift from life," Yatra said.
"Being the voice chosen to sing this song among so many wonderful Colombian artists and performers is simply a matter of being very lucky, being in the right place at the right time,” he said in an interview from Medellin, Colombia.
Set in the land of magical realism, “Encanto” follows Mirabel Madrigal, a teenage girl frustrated by the fact that she is the only member of her family without magical powers. The cast, led by Argentine-American actress Stephanie Beatriz, includes Diane Guerrero, John Leguizamo, Wilmer Valderrama and Angie Cepeda.
It is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be co-directed by a Latina, Charise Castro Smith, and features original songs by Miranda that have topped the Billboard charts, such as "We Don't Talk About Bruno," which became the most listened to theme of a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, surpassing "Let It Go" from "Frozen."
But when it came to submitting a song to the Academy Awards, the chosen one was “Dos Oruguitas.”
The moving allegorical ballad is the first Spanish-language song nominated for an Oscar since “Al Otro Lado del Río” from “The Motorcycle Diaries” won Uruguayan Jorge Drexler the award in 2005. That year, the academy invited Spanish star Antonio Banderas, a face better known than Drexler's, to perform it at the ceremony in a bittersweet moment for the songwriter and his Latin American fans.
But Yatra’s 28.9 million followers on Instagram (and 17.1 million on TikTok) could potentially give a boost to the Oscars' ratings, which last year plummeted to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers.
“I think there are big chances of making history not only for Colombia but for the Spanish language and Latin artists in general,” Yatra said. “I think Drexler definitely put up like the steppingstones and now, more and more, everybody is open to having new faces at the Oscars ... If I have the opportunity to be that new face there, I’m definitely gonna enjoy it and just sing my heart out.”
The Latin star, who's hits include “Robarte un Beso”, “Un año” and “Tacones Rojos”, recalled how he was contacted to participate in the project. Apparently, Miranda had heard his ballad “Adiós,” released early last year, and decided he was the one.
“My manager Paula (Kaminsky) called me and told me, ‘Sebas, they are calling me from the Lin-Manuel and the Disney team for the movie ‘Encanto.’ I didn’t even finish listening. I said, 'Yes! Whatever they tell you, say yes. And well, obviously I said yes and she told me it was to sing one of the songs from the movie.
“And beautiful things kept happening,” he continued, “because it was to sing one of the songs, then it was the main love song, than it was going to be in Spanish and they also wanted to record it in English in case different countries wanted to use it in English.”
He proudly pointed out that, although they recorded it in both languages, they decided to keep it in Spanish in all versions of the movie. “Even if you are listening to the movie in Chinese, when the part of ‘Dos Oruguitas’ comes in, you hear it in Spanish, which is the first time this has happened in the history of Disney movies.”
“Dos Oruguitas” will compete for the Oscar with “Be Alive” from “King Richard,” “Down to Joy” from “Belfast,” “No Time to Die” from “No Time to Die” and “Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days."
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony will be aired live on March 27 on ABC from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Chris Young combined his skills as an artist and a producer to earn seven nominations at the Academy of Country Music Awards, including album of the year and single of the year.
The show's co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett announced the nominations on Thursday. Allen and Barrett will share hosting duties with country superstar Dolly Parton during the show being livestreamed on Prime Video from Las Vegas on March 7.
Young shares three of those nominations with his collaborator Kane Brown for their hit song “Famous Friends.”
Miranda Lambert earned five nominations, including entertainer of the year, and is now tied with Reba McEntire for her 16th female artist of the year nomination. First-time nominee Walker Hayes also received five nominations, due to his viral Applebee's themed song “Fancy Like," up for single of the year.
Chris Stapleton, a five-time nominee, is up for entertainer of the year, alongside Lambert, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood.
Album of the year nominees include Carly Pearce, Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Young, Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.
Wallen is back as a four-time nominee after being removed from last year's ACM ballot after he was caught on camera using a racial slur. Wallen earned nominations for album of the year for “Dangerous: The Double Album,” which was the most popular album across all genres last year. He also earned nominations for male artist of the year and song of the year.
Co-hosts Allen and Barrett also earned nominations for male and female artist of the year, respectively.
Pop star Taylor Swift also got a nomination — her first from the ACMs since 2018 and her 32nd nomination total — for “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)" off her re-recorded version of “Red (Taylor's Version)." | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Chris-Young-leads-Academy-of-Country-Music-16847728.php | 2022-02-10T16:13:58 | en | 0.976921 |
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture's deliberately featureless faces. It said the damage can be repaired.
The Yeltsin Center in Ekaterinburg said the vandalism of the painting “Three Figures” by Anna Leporskaya occurred Dec. 7. It said the suspected culprit worked for a private company providing security at the gallery.
The painting, dating from the 1930s, shows three torsos and heads with hair but no facial features; the vandal drew eyes on two of them with a ballpoint pen. The Yeltsin Center said the painting has been sent for restoration to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which owns it.
The Russian news site RBK said a criminal case has been opened on charges that carry a sentence of up to three months in prison. The picture had been reportedly insured for 74.9 million rubles (roughly $1 million).
Leporskaya, who lived from 1900-1982, was a student of Kazimir Malevich, a seminal Russian abstract artist best known for his 1915 work “Black Square.” | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/russian-gallery-says-guard-added-eyes-to-avant-garde-work/VHQJBB7IAFEHVC762QQIC73QEU/ | 2022-02-10T16:14:00 | en | 0.977114 |
HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark says it will begin negotiations on a new defense cooperation agreement with the U.S. that may include allowing American troops and military equipment to be stationed on Danish soil — in reversal of a decades-old policy.
But Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed to reporters Thursday that the move is not due to current tensions between Russia and Ukraine. She said talks on intensifying military cooperation between Copenhagen and Washington have been in the works for a long time.
The potential new Danish-American defense cooperation deal “is a breakthrough after many decades" of a policy against allowing foreign troops to be stationed on Danish soil, she told Danish media.
“An increased American commitment here in Denmark will improve the access of the United States to the European continent,” Frederiksen said, as quoted by Danish public broadcaster DR.
Danish Defense Minister Morten Boedskov told reporters that no American military bases would be established in Denmark, and he declined to comment on where U.S. troops would be placed in the country.
Danish broadcaster TV2 said the Danish government is seeking to strike a similar kind of defense deal with Washington as neighboring Norway did in May 2021. Both Scandinavian countries are staunch NATO allies of the U.S.
With its treaty with Washington, Norway has allowed unhindered access to U.S. troops that can move freely in and out of the country. However, they must respect Norwegian law, meaning — among other things — that the U.S. cannot send nuclear weapons, landmines or cluster bombs with its soldiers to Norwegian soil. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Denmark-may-allow-US-troops-on-its-soil-pact-in-16847696.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:04 | en | 0.970345 |
NEW YORK (AP) — With inflation going only higher, stocks are swinging on Wall Street Thursday as expectations build that the Federal Reserve will have to get more aggressive about removing the tremendous support it’s given the economy.
The hottest inflation reading since 1982 sent the S&P 500 down 0.2% in morning trading. It also sent Treasury yields jumping, as traders built up bets the Fed may have to apply the brakes to the economy with a bigger-than-usual hike in interest rates next month. The yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly topped 2% for the first time since August 2019.
Stock prices swung after the report, which was even hotter than economists expected. At the start of trading, sharp slumps for tech stocks sent the S&P 500 down as much as 1.2%, following the usual playbook when expectations build for rising rates. But Wall Street pared its losses as oil producers and other companies that could benefit from higher inflation and interest rates gained.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down just 46 points, or 0.1%, at 35,722 after earlier losing as many as 288 points. The Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower, as of 10:37 a.m. Eastern time, after coming back from a 1.9% loss.
Inflation has been building over the last year as the economy roared back from the pandemic. Supply shortages and snags in global supply chains also pushed inflation higher, and prices at the consumer level were up 7.5% last month from a year earlier.
A separate report also said fewer workers filed for unemployment last week than expected. That’s encouraging for workers, but it could add more upward pressure on inflation.
The strong jobs market and high inflation have forced the Federal Reserve to make a hard pivot, and it’s said it’s ready to begin removing the massive aid it’s poured into financial markets. Such moves to raise interest rates could rein in inflation, but they would also put downward pressure on all kinds of investments, from stocks to cryptocurrencies.
Following the inflation report’s release, traders see a better than 50% chance that the Fed will raise short-term interest rates by half a percentage point at its meeting next month, double the traditional move. A day earlier, those same traders saw just a 24% probability of such a big move, according to CME Group. Whatever its size, it would be the first increase since 2018.
In the bond market, yields were jumping most for shorter-term Treasurys. The two-year yield leaped to 1.46% from 1.36% late Wednesday, a notable move. It tends to track expectations for Fed movement.
The 10-year yield also rose, up to 1.98% from 1.93% after earlier topping 2%, but not by as much as the two-year Treasury. It tends to move more on expectations for future inflation and economic growth.
Expectations for higher rates helped send several Big Tech stocks lower, including a 1.6% drop for Microsoft That’s been the usual reaction in the market recently, a mirror image to the preceding years when ultra-low rates helped send tech stocks to the market’s biggest gains.
Helping to offset the losses were gains for companies that can actually benefit in a world with higher inflation and interest rates. Energy stocks in the S&P 500 climbed 0.9%, for example, as the price of crude oil continues to rise. Producers of raw materials rose even more.
The Walt Disney Co. jumped 5.5% after it reported a rebound in theme-park attendance last quarter and said it added more subscribers to its Disney+ streaming service than analysts expected. Both its profit and revenue for the latest quarter topped Wall Street's forecasts.
If companies can keep growing their profits, their stock prices could continue to rise even if higher interest rates limit how much stock investors are willing to pay for each $1 of earnings.
That's why one of the big questions on Wall Street is how companies will navigate the higher inflation sweeping the world.
At Coca-Cola Co., Chairman and CEO James Quincey said the company will likely raise some prices to offset rising transportation and commodity costs. But Quincey said the company is treading carefully.
“While it’s easy to respond to inflation by putting up the prices, there is clearly __ as there is broad-based inflation __ going to be a squeeze on real incomes in a number of countries,” Quincey said Thursday during a conference call with investors. “We do not want to lose customers.”
Coca-Cola rose 1.6% after it reported stronger profit for the latest quarter than expected.
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AP Business Writers Dee-Ann Durbin and Yuri Kageyama contributed. | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/stocks-slip-yields-soar-on-hottest-inflation-in-40-years/XBFULKOPENBSFPCWUCV35TNPWE/ | 2022-02-10T16:14:06 | en | 0.965729 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — There promises to be plenty of “California Love” when Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar combine Sunday for the Super Bowl halftime show. The hip-hop icons are to talk about their set at a midday news conference.
The five music icons will perform at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Lamar — a Pulitzer Prize winner — are Southern California natives.
Dre emerged from the West Coast gangster rap scene alongside Eazy-E and Ice Cube to help form the group N.W.A., which made a major mark in the hip-hop culture and music industry with controversial lyrics in the late 1980s. Dre is responsible for promoting rap stars such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Lamar. Dre also produced Blige's No. 1 hit song “Family Affair.”
The Super Bowl returns to the Los Angeles area for the first time since 1993. It’s the third year of collaboration between the NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation. The Los Angeles Rams play the Cincinnati Bengals.
The five music artists have a combined 44 Grammys. Eminem has the most with 15. Blige is the only return performer among the group — she was part of an ensemble cast that featured Aerosmith, NSYNC, Britney Spears and Nelly back in 2001.
Other rap artists who have performed at the Super Bowl include Travis Scott, Sean “Diddy” Comb, Queen Latifah, Nelly and Big Boi of Outkast.
The National Association of the Deaf arranged to have Sean Forbes and Warren Snipe, also referred to as “WaWa,” perform sign language interpretations of the songs performed by the headliners.
Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Blige and Lamar join a list of celebrated musicians who have played during Super Bowl halftime shows, including Beyoncé, Madonna, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and most recently The Weeknd.
Roc Nation and Emmy-nominated producer Jesse Collins will serve as co-producers of the halftime show. The game and halftime show will air live on NBC. | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/super-bowls-halftime-performers-face-questions-from-media/WF6XEWFDI5CKXKJFM2CDCROTCQ/ | 2022-02-10T16:14:13 | en | 0.934863 |
SEATTLE (AP) — King County is trying a new tactic in hopes of dislodging stalled labor negotiations between six local concrete companies and their workers.
A months-long mixer driver strike continues to halt local government projects and force hundreds of layoffs in the construction industry, The Seattle Times reported.
King County is soliciting bids from concrete companies looking to become the county’s exclusive suppliers of concrete. In order to qualify, companies must have a union contract in place with their workers, according to a copy of the county’s request for qualifications.
Executive Dow Constantine said Wednesday the offer is meant to secure a steady county supply of concrete and encourage companies to reach a deal with their striking workers.
“My sincere hope is that by having the opportunity to really secure the business for themselves — $30 million over the course of next three years, much more in the future — that they will understand that there are larger issues and really more money at stake than what’s represented in the relatively minor differences between the Teamsters and concrete companies in this negotiation,” he said.
The concrete companies and Teamsters did not comment on the announcement Wednesday.
A smaller strike began in November and expanded to 330 workers for six companies. Negotiations between the companies and the drivers’ union, Teamsters Local 174, have stalled. Neither side will provide financial details about their negotiations.
Constantine said, “the dollars involved are pretty insignificant compared to the economic harm that’s happening right now.”
Taxpayer-funded roads, light rail lines and other projects are facing delays, including a bus-line expansion and Washington State Convention Center expansion, because of the strike.
Pressure continues to mount on both sides as contractors can’t finish work and stalled projects have led to hundreds of layoffs in other trades. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Facing-project-delays-county-pushes-for-concrete-16847480.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:16 | en | 0.965803 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The world of Well-Read Black Girl, and founder Glory Edim, keeps growing.
What began in 2015 as an Instagram book club and a phrase on a T-shirt given to Edim by her boyfriend is now a newsletter, literary festival, podcast and the basis for two published anthologies. On Thursday, Liveright Publishing Corporation and Well-Read Black Girl announced a partnership for a literary series dedicated to debut fiction by women and non-binary authors, "with a focus on people of color and traditionally underrepresented voices."
The series is called “WRBG x Liveright" and stating in 2023 will publish two books a year. It continues a wave of recent imprints centered on diversifying the literary market, from Tiny Reparations at Penguin Random House to Black Privilege Publishing at Simon & Schuster. It also comes at a time when a wave of new laws and other actions have led to books being removed from schools and libraries around the country.
“I founded Well-Read Black Girl in 2015 to serve as a one-of-a kind affirming space for Black women to encounter literature and engage in critical discourse with one another," Edim said in a statement.
“We started with a devotion to Black voices, but now, aware of the deep structural changes occurring in the publishing industry and public education — and the tide of rising dissent that threatens to silence authors of color and queer, non-binary, trans and disabled writers — it is time to expand our work.”
During a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Edim said that the idea for the series came out of conversations with Liveright editor Gina Iaquinta, whose authors include Nicole Dennis-Benn, Rion Amilcar-Scott and Amber Sparks. Edim said that initially she and Iaquinta will only look at submissions from authors with agents, but she is open to changing the requirements in the future and perhaps establishing a literary prize or fellowship.
Last fall, Liveright published “On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library,” for which Edim chose stories by Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat and Zora Neale Hurston among others. Edim's affinity for Liveright's parent company, W.W. Norton & Company, dates back to her years as a student at Howard University, when assignments often were drawn from Norton's widely used anthologies.
“You would have a poetry collection with Rita Dove and Audre Lorde in it, or African American literature edited by Henry Louis Gates,” she said. “I was just so impressed that so many books I was reading came from this powerhouse group. I would love for some of the books I'm working on to end up in the hands of students, young people reading and learning.” | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/well-read-black-girl-to-help-launch-new-literary-series/W24WGDLACVGAXJSU62ZALCIG24/ | 2022-02-10T16:14:19 | en | 0.962501 |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Catholic Medical Center has agreed to pay $3.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law against kickbacks.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, the Manchester hospital paid its cardiologists to cover for another cardiologist’s patients when she was on vacation or otherwise unavailable at no charge to her. That doctor in turn referred millions of dollars in medical procedures and services to Catholic Medical Center over the course of a decade, prosecutors said, in violation of a federal law against paying physicians in exchange for referrals involving government health care programs such as Medicare.
The hospital did not admit liability as part of the settlement. A hospital spokesperson said it “vigorously disagrees” with allegations that it broke the law but settled to avoid long and costly litigation.
“This call coverage arrangement originated almost 15 years ago with the input of legal counsel in order to provide high quality care for patients. It is no longer in place,” said Lauren Collins-Cline. “CMC holds itself to the highest ethical standards in patient care and business conduct. That’s embedded in our mission and will always remain our highest priority.”
The settlement resolves allegations originally raised by a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former hospital employee, and some of the settlement will go to him.
Federal officials said such kickback schemes undermine the health care system, compromise medical decisions and waste taxpayer money.
“When patients are referred for medical services, those referrals should be based solely on medical need and not affected by financial considerations,” U.S. Attorney John Farley said in a statement. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Hospital-to-pay-3-8-million-to-resolve-kickback-16847461.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:22 | en | 0.973153 |
Grand juries, which meet in secret, review criminal charges brought by police and prosecutors and investigate possible criminal behavior. The proceedings are usually one-sided because the accused is not present and witnesses are not cross-examined.
A grand jury may issue an indictment if it finds probable cause that a crime was committed and the accused person is responsible. An indictment is an accusation that must then be proven in court. The grand jury may also elect to issue no indictment.
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BUTLER COUNTY
Indictments returned during a recent session of the Butler County grand jury:
Lamont Hayes, 3951 W. 8th St., Cincinnati; indicted on one count each of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, carrying concealed weapons (direct), and driving under suspension.
David C. Long, 638 Ludlow St., Apt. 104, Hamilton; indicted on one count each of possession of a Fentanyl-related compound and aggravated possession of drugs.
Nicholas James Harrison, 1746 Kahn Ave., Hamilton; indicted on one count of domestic violence.
Dustin James Carpenter, 737 Earl Ave., Dayton; indicted on one count each of receiving stolen property and having weapons while under disability (direct).
Summer Yvonne Hill, 3600 Sewell St., Middletown; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs (direct) and possession of a Fentanyl-related compound (direct).
Chelsey L. Combs, 7698 Chambersburg Road, Dayton; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia (direct).
Lorenzo Connor, 237 Dickens Toad, Toledo; indicted on one count each of possession of marijuana and trafficking in marijuana.
Sabrina Vanwinkle, 23 Savitz Drive, Hamilton; certified back to the lower court on one count each of possessing drug abuse instruments and failure to reinstate a license.
Whitney Marcum, 412 Fallert Ave., Hamilton; indicted on one count of aggravated trafficking in drugs.
Joshua Dixon, 1128 Ludlow St., Hamilton; indicted on one count each of having weapons while under disability. having weapons while under disability (direct), and carrying concealed weapons.
Walter A. Weathers, III, 330 Hanover St., Hamilton; indicted on one count each of trafficking in cocaine and trafficking in cocaine (direct).
Jack R. Rauen Jr., 3453 Hamilton Mason Road, Hamilton; indicted on one count of failure to appear (direct).
Ashley Ra-Nae Rison, 2126 Clark St., Hamilton; indicted on eight counts of sexual battery (direct), and one count each of tampering with evidence (direct) and furnishing alcohol to an underage person (direct).
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WARREN COUNTY
Indictments returned during a recent session of the Warren County grand jury:
Keith A. Dodsworth, 8114 Timbertree Way, West Chester; indicted on one count each of possession of cocaine; possession of a Fentanyl-related compound; operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Steven V. Hymer, 4306 Moselle Drive, Liberty Twp.; indicted on one count each of possession of cocaine; operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them; operating a vehicle while under the influence of a listed controlled substance or a listed metabolite of a controlled substance; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Loma Lin Bennett, 969 Ohio 28, #142, Milford; indicted on one count of theft.
Zachary Wallace Kirby, 500 Cincinnati Ave., #72, Lebanon; indicted on one count of having weapons while under disability.
James David Banks, 7409 Mentz Road, Franklin; indicted on one count each of burglary, menacing by stalking, telecommunications harassment, and violating a protection order.
Krystal Dawn Smith, 238 Pepperidge Drive, Trenton; indicted on one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs, aggravated possession of drugs, possession of a Fentanyl-related compound, possessing drug abuse instruments, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Giovanni T. Lee, Ohio Link, 2012 Madison Ave., Toledo; indicted on one count each of felonious assault, and possession of a deadly weapon while under detention.
Joseph Cecil Jordan, 3428 Hochwalt Ave., Dayton; indicted on eight counts of public indecency.
Robert Lee Harris, 3067 Vivian Drive, Loveland; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia, and operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle without a valid license.
Calvin L. Simmons, 603 Granada St., Middletown; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Wyatt Fluty, 304 S. River St., Saratoga, Wy.; indicted on one count each of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a specified governmental facility, aggravated possession of drugs, obstructing official business, and resisting arrest.
Dione Eric Kellum, Warren County Jail; indicted on one count of aggravated possession of drugs.
Andrea L. Blevins, 481 Beam Drive, Franklin; indicted on one count each of possession of a Fentanyl-related compound; possession of drugs; operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them; driving under suspension or in violation of license restriction; possessing drug abuse instruments; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Jesse William Knight, 1101 Oxford State Road, Middletown; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, driving under suspension or in violation of license restriction, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Diane Yvonne Crouse, 1329 Orchard St., Middletown; indicted on two counts each of aggravated vehicular assault and vehicular assault, and one count of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them.
James Everett Trexler, 4907 Erza Court, Mason; indicted on one count each of theft and misuse of credit cards.
Thomas Jeffrey Conover, 2644 N. Ohio 48, Lebanon; indicted on one count each of tampering with evidence; operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them; aggravated possession of drugs; obstructing official business; resisting arrest; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Jessie Lee Smith, LKA 5232 W. Ohio 63, Lebanon; indicted on one count of failure to provide notice of change of address.
Donald Patrick Collett, 8719 Monticello Drive, West Chester; indicted on one count each of carrying a concealed weapon and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.
Daniel Tanksley, Warren Correctional Institution; indicted on one count each of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a specified governmental facility and illegal conveyance of communications device onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility.
Benjamin Michael Carlucci, Warren Correctional Institution; indicted on one count each of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a specified governmental facility and illegal conveyance of communications device onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility.
Kenneth Black II, 421 Jennings Ave., Apt. 1, Mansfield; indicted on one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs, aggravated possession of drugs, illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a specified governmental facility and illegal conveyance of communications device onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility.
Jamie Alan Figueroa, Warren Correctional Institution; indicted on one count each of felonious assault and possession of a deadly weapon while under detention.
Aaron J. Clark, 5698 Lynn St., Franklin; indicted on one count each of possession of a Fentanyl-related compound, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Regina Colleen Smith, 2963 Ohio 73, Unit C, Otway; indicted on one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Joshua Cain Brown, 7592 Darl Drive, Middletown; indicted on one count of violating a protection order.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan has granted fast-track approval to U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 pill, the heath minister said Thursday, as the country struggles to slow fast-spreading omicron infections.
The approval came less than a month after Pfizer applied in mid-January, an exceptional speed in a country where foreign drug approvals usually take much longer.
Health Minister Shigeyuki Goto said the availability of Pfizer's Paxlovid pill gives high-risk patients, including elderly people and those with underlying health issues, greater treatment options.
The approval comes as surging cases among elderly patients are starting to overwhelm hospitals in Tokyo and other metropolitan areas, and delayed booster vaccinations have reached only about 8% of the population.
Most of Japan's 47 prefectures are currently under a mild version of a state of emergency. On Friday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced plans to extend current restrictions in Tokyo and 12 other areas for three more weeks until March 6.
Japan is counting on oral treatments to help reduce serious cases and deaths, and Kishida said the government has secured 2 million doses of the Pfizer pills. Goto said distribution of the Pfizer pills will begin Monday.
Kishida is facing growing criticism over the slow rollout of booster vaccines. He recently set a target of 1 million doses by the end of February, but experts say it may be too late.
The Pfizer pill, a combination of the antiviral drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, is the second COVID-19 oral treatment Japan has approved, after Merck & Co.'s antiviral pill molnupiravir.
Japan’s Shionogi & Co. is also in the final stage of clinical testing of its own pill. The company plans to supply 1 million doses this year. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Japan-OKs-Pfizer-COVID-19-oral-pills-amid-surging-16847502.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:29 | en | 0.944826 |
HAMILTON, Ohio — Chase your dreams like Ja’Marr Chase. Put your best foot forward like Evan McPherson.
Those are just a couple of the messages leaders at Ridgeway Elementary in Hamilton are sending to students as they teach during the Bengals’ historic Super Bowl run.
But it’s not just about words. It’s about actions, too.
In honor of the Bengals’ trip to Los Angeles, Hamilton City School District students are mobilizing to do good in the name of some of their favorite players.
During class Monday, students decorated and filled water bottles with beads to build noisemakers. They also made Bengals-themed bracelets they plan on selling. The goal: To raise money for Cincinnati native Kevin Huber’s Foundation for Underserved Rescues. The kids said they love the fact the Bengals’ longest-tenured player helps shelter and rescue animals, so they’re getting in on the effort.
“He cares, and knowing he cares and has a place in his heart for those animals is a good thing,” said student Lilah Ball.
Her classmate Jason Fisher-Coffee added, “When you make it something bigger, it’s better.”
Their principal, Kathy Wagonfield, said it’s all about growing the community stakeholders of tomorrow.
“We’re all in this together,” Wagonfield said. “The saying is really true — it takes a village. And that’s what we wanna get across to kids this week, too.”
Wagonfield said she wants the students to see the work the Bengals do beyond the football field, and how they use their very public platform to make the place they call home better.
That’s why they didn’t stop with Huber’s foundation. Students also raised money for the Sam Hubbard Foundation, which works to feed the hungry. Wagonfield said the school raised more than $500 in its “Change for Charity.”
No matter how the game ends, this Bengals team is making a huge impact on the children cheering them on.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped last week to their highest level in more than two years, potentially bumping some homebuyers out of the market with Americans getting squeezed by higher costs for just about everything.
The average rate on the 30-year loan jumped nearly a quarter point to 3.69% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday. After rising nearly a half-point early in the year, the average long-term rate had been flat for three weeks. A year ago, the long-term rate was 2.73%.
Although it's still historically low, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage hasn't been this high since the first week of January 2020 when it was 3.72%.
The average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, popular among those refinancing their homes, was 2.93%. It stood at 2.77% a year ago.
The Federal Reserve has signaled that it would begin the first in a series of interest rate hikes in March, reversing pandemic-era policies that have fueled hiring and growth but also contributing to inflation levels not seen in some 40 years.
The Labor Department said Thursday that consumer prices jumped 7.5% last month compared with 12 months earlier, the steepest year-over-year increase since February 1982. Higher costs for just about everything has hammered consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy.
Home prices have risen up even more. Depending on where you are seeking to live, the price for a new home has broadly risen about 14% and as much as 30% in some cities. Housing has been in short supply even before the pandemic, and higher prices and rising interest rates will make it even harder for those seeking a move to buy a new home. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Long-term-US-mortgage-rates-hit-3-69-highest-in-16847533.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:35 | en | 0.981214 |
Main Street in Hamilton, between Western and Lawn avenues, will close to through traffic beginning at 10 p.m. today until 6 a.m. Friday.
This closure is needed for repairs to a natural gas main, according to the city.
Work is weather permitting, and “No Parking” signs and detours will be posted. Traffic control will be in place during the road closure. Motorists are advised to use caution in the work zone and obey the temporary traffic patterns.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers are considering a proposal to create a legal aid clinic in northern Maine that supporters said is important for rural residents who need representation.
Democratic Senate President Troy Jackson introduced the proposal on Wednesday. It would authorize University of Maine School of Law to open the clinic in Fort Kent.
Jackson said there aren't enough attorneys practicing in rural parts of Maine. The legal workforce is also aging in those parts of the state, he said.
The lack of lawyers “leaves our citizens' basic rights unprotected,” Jackson said. He said the proposal would fill two needs by "increasing access to legal counsel, while also opening opportunities for young people to consider a career in law.”
The clinic would be a three-year pilot program that would provide free legal aid to Maine residents. It would also recruit new attorneys to rural parts of the state, supporters said. The state would be able to duplicate the program elsewhere in the state after three years.
The proposal will need votes before a committee of the Maine Legislature in the coming weeks. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Maine-looks-to-grow-access-to-lawyers-in-state-s-16847578.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:41 | en | 0.976542 |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A medical examiner in Florida said Thursday that comedian Bob Saget died from an accidental blow to the head, likely from “an unwitnessed fall.”
Saget was found dead Jan. 9 in a Florida hotel room. He’d performed in the area the night before as part of a stand-up tour.
A toxicology analysis didn't show any illicit drugs or toxins in Saget's body, said a statement from Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany in Orlando.
“His injuries were most likely incurred from an unwitnessed fall," the statement said. “The manner of death is accident."
The medical examiner's conclusion was first announced by Saget's family on Wednesday.
“The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma,” their statement said. “They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.”
The 65-year-old entertainer was found on his hotel bed at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando. A hotel security officer entered the room after Saget failed to check out, and called 911. There were no signs of foul play, authorities said last month.
Best known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” Saget was married to Kelly Rizzo Saget and had three daughters from a previous marriage.
Saget was on the road as part of his “I Don’t Do Negative Comedy Tour,” and said just before his death that he enjoyed warm audience receptions in Orlando and the Ponte Vedra Beach resort area.
“I’m back in comedy like I was when I was 26. I guess I’m finding my new voice and loving every moment of it,” he’d posted on Instagram.
Saget’s death prompted an outpouring of affection from fans and colleagues, who recalled him as both funny and extraordinarily kind. His family said they were overwhelmed and comforted by “the incredible outpouring of love from Bob’s fans.”
“As we continue to mourn together, we ask everyone to remember the love and laughter that Bob brought to this world, and the lessons he taught us all: to be kind to everyone, to let the people you love know you love them, and to face difficult times with hugs and laughter,” his family said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Medical-examiner-Bob-Saget-died-from-unseen-blow-16847479.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:47 | en | 0.987572 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Thursday described his decision to “pause” relations with Spain as a protest over the behavior of Spanish energy companies in Mexico.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday the pause “is not breaking off relations” with Spain, describing it as “nothing but a respectful, fraternal protest for the abuses and wrongs committed against the people of Mexico.”
López Obrador had said Wednesday he was taking a time-out in relations with Spain, but didn’t clarify what that meant. He has repeatedly accused Spanish companies of taking unfair advantage of private-sector openings to sign crooked contracts to build power plants in Mexico.
López Obrador had previously asked Spain to apologize for the brutality of the 1521 conquest of Mexico and centuries of colonial rule. Spain never did, and some have accused López Obrador of using the five-century-old issue to distract attention.
López Obrador's announcement of the diplomatic pause Wednesday came at the end of a diatribe against Spanish energy companies that he said engaged in “robbery” and treated Mexico like “a conquered land.”
“Right now the relationship is not good,” López Obrador said Wednesday. “I would like to put it on pause, until we can normalize it. That I think would be in the best interest of Mexicans and Spaniards.”
“Let’s give ourselves a little time, a pause,” he said. “Maybe relations will be reestablished when the administration changes.”
Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares downplayed the Mexican president’s remarks on Wednesday, saying they were made “in an informal context, in answer to a journalist’s question, and so do not constitute an official position or statement.”
“You would have to ask President López Obrador what he meant by this,” Albares said.
Spanish energy companies like Repsol and Iberdrola took advantage of openings in the last decade that allowed private and foreign companies to build electrical power plants in Mexico, a sector once dominated by Mexico’s state-owned utility.
López Obrador is seeking to reverse those openings because he said the state-owned company was put at a disadvantage with private firms. That proposed change has drawn concern about protecting the Spanish firms’ investments.
In a 2020 letter, López Obrador wrote, “The Catholic Church, the Spanish monarchy and the Mexican government should make a public apology for the offensive atrocities that Indigenous people suffered.”
The letter came as Mexico marked the 500th anniversary of the 1519-1521 conquest, which resulted in the death of a large part of the country’s pre-Hispanic population.
In 2019, López Obrador asked Spain for an apology for the conquest.
Spain’s foreign minister at the time, Josep Borrell, said his country “will not issue these apologies that have been requested.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Mexican-president-sends-protest-to-Spain-over-16847699.php | 2022-02-10T16:14:53 | en | 0.970114 |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Opposition from the Senate's top Republican to President Joe Biden's nominee for Minnesota's next U.S. attorney complicates his path to swift confirmation.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote to nominee Andrew Luger this week to express his concerns after a man was sentenced to 10 years below the recommended maximum for setting a deadly fire during the violent demonstrations that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Luger, who previously served as Minnesota's U.S. attorney under Democratic President Barack Obama, did not have a role in the case.
“I just had to place a hold on a nominee to be U.S. attorney for Minnesota because the person recently acting in that job recommended an unusually soft sentence below the maximum guideline to a convicted fatal arsonist because the arsonist was taking part in a far-left political riot at the time,” McConnell said during a speech on the Senate floor, referring to the prosecution team in the case.
The hold doesn’t block Democrats from confirming Luger, but the party may have to spend time on the floor voting on the confirmation rather than moving the nomination quickly through with unanimous consent.
Luger wrote back to McConnell and noted he “was not involved in the decision making regarding the matter” and couldn’t comment on the sentencing of Montez Lee Jr., the Star Tribune reported.
“I can, however, assure you that, if confirmed as U.S. Attorney, violent crime cases — regardless of motivation — will be prosecuted fully, and that I will require the prosecutors under my supervision to make all prosecutorial decisions based on the individual facts and circumstances of each case, and without regard to the political or ideological viewpoint of the defendant, consistent with the Principles of Federal Prosecution,” Luger wrote.
U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright — who could be on the shortlist to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer — sentenced Lee to 10 years in federal prison, well below the 20 years in line with federal sentencing guidelines.
Surveillance video showed Lee pouring an accelerant around a Minneapolis shop and lighting it. The remains of Oscar Lee Stewart Jr., 30, were recovered from the rubble nearly two months later. An autopsy found that Stewart died of smoke inhalation and excessive burns.
Lee was not prosecuted in Stewart’s death, and said he didn't know anyone was in the building when he ignited it. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Minority-leader-opposes-US-attorney-nominee-for-16847563.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:00 | en | 0.966418 |
SALEM, Mo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, who represents Missouri's 8th District covering a large area of southeastern and south-central Missouri, is running for reelection.
Smith announced his reelection bid in a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday.
“Too many politicians are trying to climb their way up the ladder instead of making real change,” Smith wrote. “I am running for reelection to fire Nancy Pelosi and put the American people back in charge.”
Smith is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump who had been considering joining the crowded field of GOP candidates running for U.S. Senate in 2022. Incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt announced in March he would not seek a third term.
So far, Trump has not endorsed a Senate candidate in Missouri. The field of Republicans includes former Gov. Eric Greitens, Attorney General Eric Schmitt and two other members of Congress — Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long.
Smith, 41, of Salem, was first elected in a special election in 2013 after Jo Ann Emerson resigned to become CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Missouri-Congressman-Jason-Smith-announces-16847753.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:06 | en | 0.976157 |
Two years into the pandemic Jackie Hansen still left home only for doctor visits, her immune system so wrecked by cancer and lupus that COVID-19 vaccinations couldn’t take hold.
Then Hansen got a reprieve — scarce doses of the first drug that promises six months of protection for people with no other way to fend off the virus.
“This is a shot of life," Hansen said after getting injections of Evusheld at a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center clinic. She can't wait to “hug my grandkids without fear.”
Up to 7 million immune-compromised Americans have been left behind in the nation’s wobbly efforts to get back to normal. A weak immune system simply can't rev up to fight the virus after vaccination like a healthy one does. Not only do these fragile patients remain at high risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, they can harbor lengthy infections that can help spark still more variants.
With more of the country now abandoning masks and other precautions as the omicron wave ebbs, how to keep this forgotten group protected is taking on new urgency.
This is “quickly transitioning into an epidemic of the vulnerable,” said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. While healthy vaccinated people may return to pre-pandemic activities with little worry about severe consequences, “the immunocompromised -- despite vaccination, despite taking all precautions -- cannot, and remain at risk.”
“We’re going to have to navigate this as a society and it’s going to be a really difficult societal conversation,” he added.
Indeed, amid all the talk about omicron being less severe for many people, the most contagious variant so far laid bare how the immune-compromised need more defenses.
“The pandemic has not spared them yet,” said Dr. Ghady Haidar, an infectious disease specialist at UPMC, where people hospitalized with serious COVID-19 over the past month have been a mix of the immune-compromised and the unvaccinated.
Hansen, a retired nurse, has had to have tough conversations about why she can't be around anyone who's not vaccinated.
“Other people’s behaviors really affect and jeopardize the lives of people like myself,” said Hansen, who nearly died from the flu shortly before the pandemic began.
“We’re all tired of wearing a mask, everybody just wants to put it behind us,” Hansen said. But while for most people "'it’s an annoyance to put a mask on to go to the grocery store,” she’s had to fight to get her cancer care scheduled during COVID-19 surges.
There aren't many options for the immune-compromised as community-wide COVID-19 precautions wane. Health authorities are pushing a fourth vaccine dose for these vulnerable patients, since some get at least a little protection from repeat vaccinations. The immune-compromised are supposed to get three up-front doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines followed by a booster, one more shot than the U.S. recommends for everyone else.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also is considering if the immune-compromised need their booster a little sooner -- three months after their last shot rather than five months.
But many patients are anxiously awaiting AstraZeneca's Evusheld, the first set of antibodies grown in a lab to prevent COVID-19 -- rather than treat it -- in people who can’t make their own virus-fighters. Evusheld contains two types of antibodies, given in two shots at the same appointment, that are expected to last for six months.
The problem: There’s not nearly enough to go around. A federal database shows nearly 500,000 of the 1.2 million doses the government has purchased have been distributed, and an AstraZeneca spokesperson says the rest should arrive before April.
Without enough for everyone deemed immune-compromised, many hospitals used a lottery system to dispense doses to their highest-risk patients -- and no one knows what will happen later in the year when those people need another dose.
A study found Evusheld cut by 77% the chances of a COVID-19 infection, although that was before omicron appeared.
While that's not perfect protection, one organ transplant recipient credits his Evusheld dose with preventing him from becoming seriously ill.
Just getting to the Evusheld appointment at a University of Washington clinic in Seattle, over an hour from his home, made Ray Hoffman nervous. He takes strong immune-suppressing drugs after recent liver and kidney transplants and never ventures out without his mask — but wound up with a masked but coughing cab driver. The next day Hoffman developed cold-like symptoms that turned out to be mild COVID-19, and his worried doctors told him the protective antibody injections likely made the difference.
“I’m just really happy that, fortunately for me, it was just a couple of days of feeling pretty bad and then that was the worst of it,” he said.
As long as Evusheld helps weakened patients avoid a severe infection, “that is definitely a win,” said UPMC's Haidar. “I’m cautiously optimistic.”
Hansen, the suburban Pittsburgh patient, knows she can’t completely let down her guard but says Evusheld has eased her crippling fear.
“Maybe I can go out for lunch, maybe my husband and I can go do something instead of just sitting here in the house,” she said. “This drug needs to be made more available. It’s a great victory for me but until everybody else that’s compromised gets it, it’s hard for me to celebrate.”
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AP journalist Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this report.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Most-vulnerable-still-in-jeopardy-as-COVID-16847691.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:12 | en | 0.964574 |
INDIANAPOLIS — If you are one of the many Americans suffering from sticker shock in the grocery aisle, economists say you shouldn't expect relief anytime soon.
Food commodity prices have already risen by 6% this year. Unfortunately, economists expect prices to continue to climb.
In a report to its clients, economists with the mighty Goldman Sachs predicted food prices at grocery stores will increase between another 5% to 6% this year.
This news comes after a similar increase last year, when grocery store prices jumped 6.5%.
"Everybody can attest to the fact that we’re paying more than we’ve ever paid before for basic necessities,” market analyst Bill Dendy told WCNC.
Dendy said the squeeze can be felt across every aisle. Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs were nearly 12% more expensive in November of 2021 than in the year prior, according to the Consumer Price Index.
“We’re finding it in the meat, finding it in the milk section, finding it in the produce section, it’s across the board," he said.
So who's to blame? Goldman Sachs and Dendy agree that the rise is due to pandemic-related supply issues. Goldman Sachs also noted high labor costs and skyrocketing prices for things that are necessary for farmers, like fertilizer, only make matters worse.
This has all helped contribute to the highest overall rate of inflation the U.S. has seen in 39 years.
There are a few ways you can save money at the grocery store.
First, before buying anything, make a list of what you need and start watching sales. Flipp is an app that lets you view store circulars in one place.
If you decide to buy food early, pop the items in the freezer. The USDA's app Food Keeper tells you what you can freeze and for how long.
Then there are coupons and cashback apps.
Coupons can be found on store apps and cashback apps, like Ibotta, in the form of rebates. Depending on the promotion, you may be able to stack the deals.
While 70 cents or $1 back per item may not seem like a lot, it adds up when there are more than 20 items in your cart. | https://www.kens5.com/article/money/grocery-store-prices-goldman-sachs-report-inflation/531-0f6184c8-7979-499a-beb0-3a95be5be307 | 2022-02-10T16:15:15 | en | 0.960883 |
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A disruptive passenger prompted a flight from New York to Florida to divert to a North Carolina airport Wednesday night, officials said.
Frontier Airlines flight 1335 left LaGuardia Airport and was headed to Orlando International Airport when it was diverted to Raleigh-Durham International Airport around 8:15 p.m. because of a “disruptive passenger," according to a statement from the airport. Airport law enforcement, fire-rescue and Wake County EMS responded, the airport statement said, but there were no details about how the situation was resolved.
The flight departed for Orlando around 9:40 p.m., airport officials said, referring questions to the FBI and the airline.
The investigation is ongoing and no federal charges have been filed, FBI spokesperson Shelley Lynch said in an email. The airline didn't immediately respond to a request for information.
Savannah Figueroa, who was on the flight, told WRAL-TV that the man claimed people were touching him and trying to stick him with needles to collect his DNA and threatened everyone on the plane. When flight attendants asked the man to lower his voice, Figueroa said he got angrier.
The man was cursing, screaming and threatening everyone on the plane, she said. Eventually, several men stood up and took off their belts to restrain the man. Figueroa said the flight was in the air for an hour after the man began yelling, Figueroa said.
Video taken on the flight showed flight attendants blocking the cockpit doors and passengers helping restrain a man on the flight. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/NY-flight-to-Florida-diverted-over-disruptive-16847738.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:18 | en | 0.978221 |
In 2021, nearly one in three Americans said they had fallen victim to a phone scam, according to a Truecaller Insights U.S. Spam & Scam Report. In fact, millions of people reported having lost an average of $502 to phone scams last year – up from $351 in 2020, Truecaller said.
VERIFY producer Tamika says she recently received three phone calls claiming to be from Apple Support alleging that her Apple ID had been compromised. She wants to know whether these calls are real or fake.
THE QUESTION
Are scammers impersonating Apple Support to try to steal your iCloud account information?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, scammers are impersonating Apple Support to try to steal your iCloud account information.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been warning people about these fake calls from scammers pretending to represent Apple Support since December 2020. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) also warned of the same phishing scam in June 2021.
Alvaro Puig, who serves as the FTC’s consumer education specialist, explains how the scam works on the FTC’s website. Puig writes that the scammers are known to leave a recorded message that says there has been suspicious activity on an individual's Apple iCloud account. The scammers also claim the person’s account may have been breached.
“The scammers say you can conveniently press 1 to speak with someone (how nice of them!). Or they give you a phone number to call. Don’t do either. It’s a scam. They’re trying to steal your personal information, like your account password or your credit card number,” according to Puig.
The FTC and Apple Support say if you get an unexpected call or message about a problem with any of your Apple iCloud accounts, hang up. They also share tips on what not to do if you receive one of these scam calls:
- Do not press 1 to speak with customer support
- Do not call a phone number they gave you
- Do not give out your personal information
Puig says if you think there may actually be a problem with one of your accounts, you should contact Apple using a phone number or website you know is real. You can also learn how to block unwanted calls on a mobile phone or on your home phone on the FTC’s website.
The BBB also offers advice regarding these scam calls on its website:
- Don’t answer these calls and inform your local carriers.
- Never give anyone you’re not familiar with access to your devices, including smart phones, laptops and PCs.
- Set up two-factor authentication on your iCloud and other accounts to add a layer of protection and security.
- Never provide personal information to someone you don’t know or any unsolicited requests.
- Remember, scammers can use fake caller ID information to make it appear the calls are coming from Apple or other familiar companies or people.
If you do get a call you think is a scam, you can report it at ReportFraud.ftc.gov or to the BBB Scam Tracker. If you believe that your Apple ID has been compromised, or if you might have entered your password or other personal info on a scam website, Apple says you should change your Apple ID password immediately.
More from VERIFY: Yes, the Equifax data breach settlement email and website are real | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/apple-support-phony-fake-calls-icloud-phone-scam/536-c66424e5-bd05-43da-ba94-f0b2a16ead44 | 2022-02-10T16:15:21 | en | 0.944956 |
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) — A northeast Louisiana city has improved and created 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) of walking and bicycle trails around wetlands at a former golf course, and the lieutenant governor is scheduled to be there this weekend for the official opening.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser’s office said he will join West Monroe Mayor Staci Mitchell and other city officials for the Highland Park Wetlands Trails ribbon-cutting Saturday afternoon.
The $729,000 project is part of a plan to link trails from Kiroli Park to downtown. The Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism contributed $280,000.
The Trenton Street golf course closed in 2014.
Mitchell said city officials want everyone to have the chance to get outside, for health and transportation.
"We received a small grant for these trails a few years ago. We wanted the project to be bigger and better. More substantial surfaces, bridges, just a better project,” Mitchell told KNOE-TV when the contract was awarded in June 2021. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/New-bike-walking-trails-in-Louisiana-to-open-16847681.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:24 | en | 0.961023 |
NEW YORK — It is officially NBA Trade Deadline day as the NBA's annual deadline to get a deal done approaches at 3 p.m. E.T. this year.
We're already had some big trades this week in the Blazers trading C.J. McCollum to the Pelicans and the Pacers trading away key players in Caris LeVert to the Cavaliers and All-Star forward Domantas Sabonis to the Kings.
Will we get more fireworks?
Much of the buzz centers around players including Brooklyn's James Harden and Philadelphia's Ben Simmons.
We're tracking all the action on deadline day with reaction from our Locked On NBA local experts around the country below.
Locked On NBA's Live Trade Deadline Show kicks off at 2 p.m. E.T. on all TEGNA websites and the Locked On NBA YouTube Channel
NBA Trade Deadline: Trades and rumors tracker
Could Russell Westbrook be on his way out of L.A. already?
The Lakers traded away a lot to get Russell Westbrook to the Lakers this past summer but it hasn't been working out for Westbrook or the Lakers. What is L.A. going to look like after Thursday?
James Harden reportedly hopes for trade to 76ers before deadline
James Harden wants out of Brooklyn without making it publicly known, according to reports from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Rumors have swirled that the Nets and 76ers could try to make a deal involving Harden and Sixers star Ben Simmons, who has sat out this season thus far, but they reportedly aren't close to a deal as of Thursday morning.
Pre-Trade Deadline Day Moves
Feb. 9: Jazz get Nickeil Alexander-Walker in 3-team deal
Jazz get:
- Nickeil Alexander-Walker (via Portland)
- Juancho Hernangomez (via San Antonio)
Blazers get:
- Joe Ingles (via Utah)
- Elijah Hughes (via Utah)
- Second-round pick (via Utah)
Spurs get:
- Tomas Satoransky (via Portland)
- Second-round pick (via Utah)
Feb. 9: Thunder trade pick for KZ Okpala
Heat get:
- 2026 second-round pick
Thunder get:
- KZ Okpala
Additional agreement: The 2023 first-round pick already owed to Oklahoma City from Miami has been amended to a 2025 first-round pick (1-14 protected), and if not conveyed, to a 2026 unprotected pick.
Feb. 8: Sacramento Kings trade Haliburton to Pacers for Sabonis
Pacers get:
- Tyrese Haliburton
- Buddy Hield
- Tristan Thompson
Kings get:
- Domantas Sabonis
- Justin Holiday
- Jeremy Lamb
- 2023 second-round pick
Feb. 8: Portland Trail Blazers trade C.J. McCollum to Pelicans
Pelicans get:
- CJ McCollum
- Larry Nance Jr.
- Tony Snell
Blazers get:
- Josh Hart
- Nickeil Alexander-Walker
- Tomáš Satoranský
- Didi Louzada
- 2022 first-round draft pick (protected)
- 2026 second-round pick (whichever is better between teams)
- 2027 second-round pick (whichever is better between teams)
Feb. 7: Indiana Pacers trade Caris LeVert to Cleveland Cavaliers
Cavaliers get:
- Caris LeVert
- 2022 second-round pick (via Miami)
Pacers get:
- Ricky Rubio
- 2022 first-round draft pick (lottery protected)
- 2022 second-round pick (via Houston)
- 2022 second-round pick (via Utah)
Feb. 4: Blazers trade Norman Powell, Robert Covington to Clippers
Clippers get:
- Norman Powell
- Robert Covington
Blazers get:
- Eric Bledsoe
- Justise Winslow
- Keon Johnson
- 2025 second-round pick (via Detroit) | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/locked-on/nba-podcast/nba-trade-deadline-tracker-will-big-moves-come-before-thursdays-deadline/535-8ddbfef8-0a90-4e78-b2a9-aef3b8751fe1 | 2022-02-10T16:15:27 | en | 0.842699 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Sebastián Yatra calls his experience with Disney's “Encanto” a "gift from God.”
The Colombian singer-songwriter performs “Dos Oruguitas,” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and nominated to the Oscars for best original song. The movie is also nominated for best animated film and best original music.
“Being present this way at the Oscars, not only with this song but with the movie ‘Encanto’ which is inspired by my country, is a gift from God, a gift from life," Yatra said.
"Being the voice chosen to sing this song among so many wonderful Colombian artists and performers is simply a matter of being very lucky, being in the right place at the right time,” he said in an interview from Medellin, Colombia.
Set in the land of magical realism, “Encanto” follows Mirabel Madrigal, a teenage girl frustrated by the fact that she is the only member of her family without magical powers. The cast, led by Argentine-American actress Stephanie Beatriz, includes Diane Guerrero, John Leguizamo, Wilmer Valderrama and Angie Cepeda.
It is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be co-directed by a Latina, Charise Castro Smith, and features original songs by Miranda that have topped the Billboard charts, such as “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” which became the most listened to theme of a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, surpassing “Let It Go” from “Frozen.”
But when it came to submitting a song to the Academy Awards, the chosen one was “Dos Oruguitas.”
The moving allegorical ballad is the first Spanish-language song nominated for an Oscar since “Al Otro Lado del Río” from “The Motorcycle Diaries” won Uruguayan Jorge Drexler the award in 2005. That year, the academy invited Spanish star Antonio Banderas, a face better known than Drexler's, to perform it at the ceremony in a bittersweet moment for the songwriter and his Latin American fans.
But Yatra’s 28.9 million followers on Instagram (and 17.1 million on TikTok) could potentially give a boost to the Oscars' ratings, which last year plummeted to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers.
“I think there are big chances of making history not only for Colombia but for the Spanish language and Latin artists in general,” Yatra said. “I think Drexler definitely put up like the steppingstones and now, more and more, everybody is open to having new faces at the Oscars ... If I have the opportunity to be that new face there, I’m definitely gonna enjoy it and just sing my heart out.”
The Latin star, who's hits include “Robarte un Beso”, “Un año” and “Tacones Rojos”, recalled how he was contacted to participate in the project. Apparently, Miranda had heard his ballad “Adiós,” released early last year, and decided he was the one.
“My manager Paula (Kaminsky) called me and told me, ‘Sebas, they are calling me from the Lin-Manuel and the Disney team for the movie ‘Encanto.’ I didn’t even finish listening. I said, 'Yes! Whatever they tell you, say yes. And well, obviously I said yes and she told me it was to sing one of the songs from the movie.
“And beautiful things kept happening,” he continued, “because it was to sing one of the songs, then it was the main love song, than it was going to be in Spanish and they also wanted to record it in English in case different countries wanted to use it in English.”
He proudly pointed out that, although they recorded it in both languages, they decided to keep it in Spanish in all versions of the movie. “Even if you are listening to the movie in Chinese, when the part of ‘Dos Oruguitas’ comes in, you hear it in Spanish, which is the first time this has happened in the history of Disney movies.”
“Dos Oruguitas” will compete for the Oscar with “Be Alive” from “King Richard,” “Down to Joy” from “Belfast,” “No Time to Die” from “No Time to Die” and “Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days."
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony will be aired live on March 27 on ABC from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
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Sigal Ratner-Arias is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sigalratner. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oscars-2022-Sebasti-n-Yatra-calls-Encanto-a-16847682.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:31 | en | 0.97013 |
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio forward Keldon Johnson got the opportunity of a lifetime to put on the Team USA basketball jersey and capture the gold medal at the 2021 Summer Olympics.
A huge accomplishment in his otherwise young pro-career.
It reflected how much he's grown as a player in just a few seasons as a professional player.
However, some felt he made the team thanks to Spurs' Gregg Popovich serving as the USA head coach.
And Johnson wants to be clear, he earned that roster spot himself as he told The Undefeated.
“They pulled me to the side that morning and was just like, ‘We want to invite you to the Olympics,’” Johnson said. “I didn’t want to believe it until I knew, ‘All right, I’m going.’ Wild. Wild. I was just kind of shocked because nobody expected that.' And some people were quick to be like, ‘Well, Pop was the coach.’ And those are the people that never be around Pop. Because if they knew Pop, everyone in there had to agree in order for me to be on that team."
"He’s not going to give me anything easy. Last thing he wants is, ‘Oh, well, I’m putting him on the team because of me.’ I know I worked hard for it," he said.
Johnson played well with Team USA even in limited minutes.
His energy and toughness were needed when the team was struggling to develop chemistry ahead of the Olympic games.
Ultimately, Johnson earned himself a gold medal and was not shy about his accomplishment wearing it daily once he had it in hand.
“Man, I was mesmerized,” Johnson said. “I was just like, ‘Damn, it’s really true.’ And I know I put in the time and I worked for it, but just to see it in your hands, like, ‘I got a gold medal.’ That’s crazy.”
Aside from netting himself a gold medal, Johnson learned a lot from his veteran teammates like Draymond Green.
In Green, Johnson found himself, someone, to lean on and learn more about how to play.
“And he was always someone I could go and ask a question to, and he’d give me an honest answer. And [I appreciated] just seeing how he approached the game and how he break down the game, how he look at the game, how he could control the game without scoring the basketball," Johnson told The Undefeated.
Johnson is having a solid third NBA season.
He is posting career-highs in points per game (15.4) and three-point shooting (43%). He is also averaging 6.1 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.
The sky's the limit for Johnson who already has a gold medal, and a 2021 Rising Stars nod.
Twitter: @KENS5, @JeffGSpursKENS5 | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/nba/spurs/spurs-keldon-johnson-earned-his-spot-on-team-usa-nba-san-antonio/273-5d2b910a-ed09-464a-87ee-d8e7faf85232 | 2022-02-10T16:15:33 | en | 0.990149 |
WASHINGTON — How do you eat mixed nuts? That question causes all out chaos in this year's Super Bowl ad for Planters.
The "Feed the Debate" commercial stars former "Community" co-stars Ken Jeong and Joel McHale. Jeong told Forbes he was "giddy" to get to work with McHale on the Super Bowl ad because "he is one of my best friends."
During the 60-second spot, the two actors are seen hanging out in a bar, when it's revealed Jeong eats mixed nuts one at a time, which McHale, who eats mixed nuts all together, is taken aback by.
Jeong and McHale go back and forth arguing on the nutty topic.
"If only you were as selective with your roles as you are with your nuts," McHale tells Jeong.
They then decide to settle the debate in the most reasonable way possible...by asking the internet.
As you can see in the ad, the question quickly tears friendships apart and prompts protests and even news coverage.
"Huh, who knew America would tear itself apart over a minor difference of opinion," McHale remarks in the ad.
NBCUniversal said it has sold all of the ad space for the 2022 Super Bowl, with some 30-second commercial spots going for as much as $7 million.
Some of the other Super Bowl ads released so far includes Michelob ULTRA's "Superior Bowl" spot with Peyton Manning and Serena Williams, Budweiser's "A Clydesdale's Journey" and Guy Fieri in the "Land of Loud Flavors."
Back in 2020, Planters got a lot of attention for its pre-game Super Bowl ad that killed Mr. Peanut. The brand then aired an ad featuring the 104-year-old spokesnut's funeral, where he was then reborn as "Baby Nut."
The Super Bowl is on Sunday, Feb. 13. | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/ken-jeong-joel-mchale-reunite-planters-super-bowl-ad/507-0b81b390-615d-4252-9334-5a0ca42587a5 | 2022-02-10T16:15:39 | en | 0.967758 |
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A plea deal has been reached for a former sheriff's deputy accused of soliciting sex and nude photos from women in exchange for money that prosecutors say they used to buy drugs.
Stephen Bunnell, the former chief deputy of the Caledonia County Sheriff’s Department, pleaded not guilty last fall to two counts of misdemeanor prohibited acts and two counts of prohibited conduct on suspicion of paying women for sex and nude photos.
A plea agreement filed in court on Monday calls for Bunnell to plead guilty to one count of prohibited conduct and an amended charge of disturbing the peace by telephone in exchange for a two-year deferred sentence, a $100 fine and $162 in court surcharges, the Caledonian-Record reported. The other two charges would be dismissed.
Under the plea deal, Bunnell must comply with the standard conditions of probation and participate and complete “a program or treatment for sex offenders” through the Department of Corrections. He also would be banned from engaging in any work or volunteer position in which he has direct supervisory authority over females, the newspaper reported.
The plea agreement must be approved by a judge. A change-of-plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Plea-deal-filed-for-deputy-accused-of-soliciting-16847531.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:43 | en | 0.967339 |
BEIJING, China — American halfpipe champion Chloe Kim opened about her mental health on Thursday after successfully defending her Olympic title, joining Shaun White as the only snowboarders to win back-to-back titles on the halfpipe.
Kim said she is able to handle fame and pressure much better now than after she won her first Olympic gold four years ago in Pyeongchang. After making history in 2018, Kim went home and realized that life as an Olympic champion wasn't as great as she thought it might be.
There were demands on her time; she could not go out without being noticed. There was a dark side — a trove of racist, anti-Asian messages and posts on social media. She threw her gold medal in the trash (but later fished it out), wondering if fame and fortune were really for her.
But she won't be tossing out her Beijing medal and hopes to inspire others by opening up about her own struggles.
"It's unfair to be expected to be perfect, and I'm not perfect in any way. But I think after my last Olympics, I put that pressure on myself to be perfect at all times and that would cause a lot of issues at home. I would be really sad and depressed all the time when I was home and that's not something...I was hurting the people I love the most by doing that," Kim explained.
"And so I think the biggest challenge for me now is just to be as open as possible because I hope that maybe one day a little girl can hear my story and be inspired to be, you know, to keep going, to never give up, to learn that it's OK to have a bad day, that you can move on and that you'll come out in a better place at the end of it all," the Olympic champion added.
The conversation surrounding Olympic athletes' mental health was thrust into the spotlight during the Tokyo Games, when gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Caeleb Dressel shared their feelings about pressure and expectations. It's been a big topic again this week after two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin's struggles in competition and the outpouring of support online afterward. | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/olympics/chloe-kim-opens-up-on-mental-health/507-0809496a-8afd-4d50-b51a-372807acbd84 | 2022-02-10T16:15:46 | en | 0.987263 |
HOOKSETT, N.H. (AP) — Two people were killed in a crash in Hooksett after their pickup truck slid on black ice, spun out and struck a telephone pole, police said.
The crash happened on West River Road on Wednesday night, WMUR-TV reported.
In a separate crash, a pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer in Littleton, the Caledonian-Record reported. The crash happened happened on Main Street. The street was closed for part of Wednesday afternoon.
Police are investigating. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Police-2-killed-in-crash-truck-slid-on-black-ice-16847554.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:49 | en | 0.977379 |
Marijuana was involved in a deadly South Carolina crash in which a former “American Idol” contestant has been charged with driving under the influence, according to an arrest warrant.
Caleb Kennedy, 17, ran over a man with his pickup truck Tuesday after driving up a residential driveway, authorities said. Kennedy told deputies after the crash that he had taken a “deep draw” from a vaping device and then felt its effects while driving, a prosecutor said in court Wednesday.
Kennedy’s lawyer, Ryan Beasley, said no alcohol was involved.
The warrant is the first indication that marijuana is part of the prosecution's felony charge, which carries a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
The crash was a “terrible accident,” and Kennedy is deeply sorry, Beasley told The Associated Press. Beasley said he believes that something caused a reaction with prescription medication that Kennedy was taking.
The country music singer is accused of driving his truck into Larry Duane Parris, 54, who was standing just outside his shop where he fixes boats in Spartanburg County, authorities said. The impact of Tuesday's crash drove Parris inside the shop, where he was found by his daughter, Solicitor Barry Barnette said.
In a 911 call, Parris’ daughter can be heard screaming for help, and Kennedy can be heard on the tape saying he was sorry as he held the dying man inside the shop, the solicitor said. Parris was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
“He was holding the victim in his arms when the police got there,” Beasley told the AP.
“This was obviously a terrible, terrible accident,” Beasley said. Kennedy, a high school junior, “by all indications is a great student, never been in trouble.”
Kennedy is being charged as an adult and remains jailed after a judge denied any bond for now. Beasley said he planned to request bond at a court hearing later this month.
Kennedy advanced into the Top 5 of the ABC talent show last year, but dropped out after a video circulated of him sitting next to someone wearing what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Kennedy apologized at the time for the video, saying on social media that “it displayed actions that were not meant to be taken in that way.”
Kennedy’s mother, Anita Guy, told news outlets that the video was filmed when Kennedy was 12 and had been taken out of context. She said Kennedy had been imitating characters from a movie. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Police-Ex-American-Idol-star-took-marijuana-16847494.php | 2022-02-10T16:15:56 | en | 0.987307 |
BRIDGEPORT, W. Va. (AP) — The remains of a West Virginia pilot killed behind enemy lines during World War II have been identified, officials said.
Scientists used dental, anthropological and DNA analysis to confirm the identity of U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Richard W. Horrigan, 24, of Chester, news outlets reported, citing a statement Wednesday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Horrigan was a pilot with the 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, serving in Germany and was part of an armed reconnaissance mission in April 1945 to the Alt Lönnewitz Airfield. He crashed while shooting at enemy planes parked at the airfield, likely due to anti-aircraft fire, the statement said.
Horrigan could not be recovered because the airfield was behind enemy lines, the statement said.
Officials investigating the site in 2017 located Horrigan's plane. The site was excavated in 2019 and remains found were sent for identification.
A rosette will be placed next to Horrigan’s name on the Tablets of the Missing at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery to show his remains have been found and identified. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Remains-of-West-Virginia-pilot-killed-in-WWII-16847683.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:02 | en | 0.966253 |
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said 12 people were injured by falling debris from an attempted drone attack Thursday on an airport in the southern Saudi region of Abha, near the kingdom's border with Yemen.
Hours later, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been battling the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Saudi air defenses destroyed the bomb-laden drone, according to the coalition. Saudi state television and accompanying social media accounts carried video from inside Abha’s airport showing operations there running as normal after the incident.
The coalition said the people who were hurt included travelers and workers at the airport. Two of the injured were Saudi citizens, four were Bangladeshi residents and three were Nepali residents. There was also one person each from Sri Lanka, the Philippines and India hurt.
A Yemen rebel spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yehia Sarie, tweeted that a Houthi drone had hit the target with "precision," insisting that the airport in Abha is used to carry out attacks on Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has been involved in Yemen's civil war since 2015, fighting against the rebel Houthis who overran the capital, Sanaa, and ousted the internationally recognized government from power.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi King Salman. The White House said the president and king discussed “Iranian-enabled attacks by the Houthis against civilian targets in Saudi Arabia.” Biden underscored U.S. commitment in supporting Saudi Arabia in the defense of its people and territory from such attacks, it added.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, both fighters and civilians, and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Charity group Oxfam this week said a yearlong battle over the strategic Yemeni city of Marib alone has displaced about 100,000 people. The fighting in Marib led to increased Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in recent weeks. The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition and backs Yemeni militias fighting the Houthis. U.S. officials have scrambled to reassure the Gulf strategic allies of U.S. defensive support.
The U.S. initially backed the Saudi war effort as the coalition tried to drive the Iranian-backed Houthis from the capital, Sanaa, and restore the previous government to power. President Biden, however, has since tried to distance the U.S. military from involvement in Yemen’s war, where both sides are accused of human rights abuses.
A Saudi readout of the monarch's call with Biden said King Salman discussed the importance of strengthening mutual security cooperation and cited Saudi support for U.S. efforts in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The White House says Biden briefed the king on ongoing multilateral talks focused on Iran's nuclear program.
King Salman stressed the need to work together to counter the destabilizing activities of Iran’s proxies in the region, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The two also discussed their shared commitment to maintaining balance and stability in oil markets as Brent crude hovers around $90 a barrel.
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Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Saudi-Arabia-12-hurt-in-attack-targeting-airport-16847725.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:14 | en | 0.9658 |
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — A murder-suicide is suspected in the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found in their Florida home, investigators say.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that the bodies were found Wednesday in a trailer home the two shared in Dunedin, Florida. The Gulf Coast town is just north of Clearwater.
Deputies did a welfare check after neighbors reported not seeing them for a few days. The body of 73-year-old Frances “Darlene” Neubert was found in a front room. In a back room, the body of Jeffrey Dinyer, 51, was found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The sheriff's release did not say how Neubert was killed. A spokeswoman said Thursday an autopsy will determine a cause of death.
The pair lived together at the home but were not related, the spokeswoman said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sheriff-Murder-suicide-suspected-in-Florida-16847703.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:20 | en | 0.987681 |
It seems like the craze for Allu Arjun's 'Pushpa The Rise' is spreading like a wildfire. Apart from actors, the film has found a great fanbase among cricketers. Virat Kohli celebrated a difficult catch during the ODI match with West Indies by mimicking Srivalli's hook step. Now, even Yuzvendra Chahal has joined the bandwagon of the Pushpa fan club.
The cricketer posted a reel on his Instagram where he's lip-syncing Allu's iconic line from the film, 'Pushpa...Pushparaj... main jhukega nahi saala.' Chahal was on spot with his rendition and it went viral in no time. Within 8 hours, the video has got more than 3 lakh views and some hilarious comments.
Watch the video
Actor Aly Goni reacted to the video and said, "Phir ball Kaun uthayega?" Behram Siganporia said, "Wicket celebration should be like this." Australian cricketer David Warner commented on the video and called him, "Copy cat."
It seems like Arjun's latest blockbuster has got the biggest fans from the world of cricket. The movie has surely been doing wonders as not only did it reach Australia and make David Warner dance, it has now reached the Caribbean shores as Dwayne Bravo took on the dance challenge.
Allu Arjun's dance step from the song 'Srivalli' has got many users imitating the steps. Australian cricketer David Warner and even many Indian cricketers including Suresh Raina and Khaleel Ahmed shared their video dancing on the song which has come to be called 'Pushpa walk'.
Even, the former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) star Dwayne Bravo has also posted his dance move and went on to tag Warner and Raina. "Going with the trend!! @davidwarner31 @sureshraina3 how did I do!," the pacer stated. | https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-not-only-virat-kohli-but-yuzvendra-chahal-also-gets-into-allu-arjun-s-shoes-enacts-pushparaj-s-iconic-line-2933521 | 2022-02-10T16:16:22 | en | 0.976155 |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Thursday approved a law prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel land mines to implement an international treaty the nation acceded to five years ago.
The law was passed without a vote after being introduced by Justice Minister Ali Sabry on Wednesday.
Both government forces and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels were accused of widely using anti-personnel and anti-tank mines during Sri Lanka’s quarter-century civil war, which ended in 2009.
The rebels were able to produce their own mines before their defeat.
In 2017, Sri Lanka became a party to the Ottawa Convention of 1997, which bans anti-personnel mines.
The new law outlaws the production, use or transfer of land mines, except for training military and police personnel in mine detection, clearance, deactivation and destruction.
Violations can be penalized by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of approximately $2,500.
According to initial U.N estimates, some 100, 000 people were killed in the civil war. The government said in 2016 that 22,100 people were killed or injured by land mines or explosive remnants of the war. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-approves-law-implementing-anti-land-16847493.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:27 | en | 0.971581 |
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese activists have taken to social media to appeal for help for a neglected, government-run orphanage in the capital, Khartoum, where local authorities said 54 children have died over the past three months.
The high death toll, reported earlier this week, has caused outrage in this African country wracked by turmoil and economic downslide since an October military coup upended its transition to democratic rule.
The orphanage in Khartoum had housed more than 320 children, including 80 with disabilities, who a government statement described as living in “tragic conditions,” sometimes with up to 26 children in a single room.
The orphanage authorities have not given any cause of death. Volunteer Afkar Omar Moustafa said most of the children had suffered from malnutrition but also various diseases amid shortages in staff and medical services.
“Children need special medical care and other services, which are currently unavailable,” she said. “The orphanage needs a quick assistance ... to prevent a catastrophe.”
An official with the Ministry of Social Affairs, which oversees orphanage facilities, said that sustained funding is also urgently needed because donations have drastically declined in recent months amid dire economic condition across the county.
The official said prosecutors have opened a probe and ordered autopsies of the deceased. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to the media.
A military statement on Wednesday said the army has provided food aid and other assistance to the orphanage, without elaborating.
Sudan has for years struggled with an array of economic woes, including widespread shortages of essential goods and soaring prices of bread and other staples. Since 2020, Sudan embarked on a reform program meant to transform the economy and have the nation rejoin the international community after over two decades of isolation during the rule of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
The economic hardships accelerated since the military takeover in October, removing the transitional government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. Western governments have halted their economic assistance over the coup while unabated street protests against the military rulers have paralyzed the county. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sudan-activists-appeal-for-help-for-orphanage-16847583.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:33 | en | 0.97131 |
The protests over the hijab debate in Karnataka are growing each day, with the issue gathering more and more political traction. Amid this, the state government has issued a crucial decision regarding the reopening of schools and colleges.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced on Thursday that the schools in the state will reopen from Monday, February 14, for students up to class 10, while the schools for higher classes and degree colleges will reopen sometime later.
The Karnataka CM further said that the announcement regarding the reopening of schools for higher classes and other higher educational institutes will be made later. Thus, the educational institutes in Karnataka will be reopening in a phased manner.
While making the announcement regarding the reopening of schools, CM Bommai said, “I appeal to everyone to work together and see that there is peace in the colleges. Schools will reopen from Monday for classes up to 10th standard. Degree colleges will reopen later.”
The chief minister further added, “The last two days have been very peaceful. Today a 3-member bench (of high court) has, while adjourning the matter for Monday, appealed to all the schools to reopen but no religious dress codes should be followed by both sides.”
Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court heard the matter regarding the hijab row in colleges in the state in court today. During the hearing, the bench asked all the college students to avoid wearing any religious symbols or attires while attending classes.
The HC further deferred the matter till Monday, February 14. The Supreme Court also weighed in on the Karnataka hijab row, saying that they will be open to taking up the matter if the Karnataka HC decides to defer the issue.
Earlier, CM Basavaraj Bommai had announced that the schools and colleges in the state will be shut down for a few days amid the rising tensions regarding the hijab row, to make sure that peace and harmony in the state are maintained. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-hijab-row-karnataka-schools-to-reopen-till-class-10-from-february-14-colleges-to-remain-closed-2933520 | 2022-02-10T16:16:34 | en | 0.962474 |
HOLIDAY, Fla. (AP) — A teacher was struck by a sports utility vehicle and trapped underneath it in the back parking lot of a Tampa Bay area high school early Thursday morning, officials said.
The 28-year-old woman was taken to a hospital with serious injuries following the 6:50 a.m. incident outside Anclote High School, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release. The report said the 24-year-old male driver “failed to observe" the pedestrian.
“Right now, all we can do is pray for the teacher who was injured and do our best to take care of the students and staff at Anclote High School,’’ Pasco County Schools Superintendent Kurt Browning said in a statement. “This is a traumatic event for everyone involved."
A crisis team has responded to the school to offer assistance to students and staff at the school, district officials said.
The school is in Holiday, which is northwest of Tampa.
No additional details have been released.
Vehicle 1, a 2020 Kia Sorento, was traveling in the rear parking lot of Anclote High School and failed to observe a pedestrian. As a result, the vehicle struck the pedestrian who suffered serious injuries and was transported to an area hospital. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Teacher-hit-critically-hurt-by-car-outside-16847437.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:39 | en | 0.979748 |
TORONTO (AP) — The truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions is tightening the screws on the auto industry, forcing Ford, Toyota and General Motors to shut down plants or otherwise curtail production on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
The bumper-to-bumper demonstration entered its fourth day Thursday at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products back and forth across the border.
Meanwhile, U.S. authorities braced for the possibility of similar truck-convoy protests in the United States, and authorities in Paris and Belgium banned road blockades to head off disruptions there too.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a bulletin to local and state law enforcement agencies that it has received reports that truckers are planning to “potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities” in a protest against vaccine mandates and other issues.
DHS said the convoy could begin in Southern California as early as this weekend, possibly disrupting traffic around the Super Bowl, and reach Washington in March in time for the State of the Union, according to a copy of Tuesday’s bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. It said that the protest could be disruptive and tie up traffic but that there have been no calls for violence.
The ban on road blockades in Europe and the threat of prison time and heavy fines were likewise prompted by online chat groups in France that have been calling for drivers to converge on Paris starting Friday night, and to continue on to Brussels on Monday.
The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries, and the effects of the blockade there were felt rapidly.
Ford said its Windsor, Ontario, engine plant reopened Thursday after being shut down on Wednesday because of a lack of parts. But the factory and the company’s assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, are operating at reduced capacity, the automaker said.
“This interruption on the Detroit-Windsor bridge hurts customers, auto workers, suppliers, communities and companies on both sides of the border,” Ford said in a statement. “We hope this situation is resolved quickly because it could have widespread impact on all automakers in the U.S. and Canada.”
On the U.S. side, GM canceled the second shift on Wednesday and the first shift Thursday at its midsize SUV factory outside Lansing, Michigan.
Toyota said it will not be able to manufacture anything at three Canadian plants for the rest of the week because of parts shortages. In a statement, the automaker blamed supply chain disruptions, weather and pandemic-related problems, but the shutdowns came just days after the blockade began Monday.
Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, said all of its North American factories were running Thursday, but shortages because of the blockade forced it to shorten shifts at several plants.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration is watching the bridge blockade closely, noting the risk to the U.S. auto industry.
Hundreds of demonstrators in trucks have also paralyzed the streets of downtown Ottawa for almost two weeks, and dozens more have been blocking the border crossing at Coutts, Alberta, decrying vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers and other COVID-19 restrictions and railing against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Freedom Truck Convoy has been promoted and cheered on by many Fox News personalities and attracted support from the likes of former President Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens said Wednesday that police had not removed protesters there for fear of inflaming the situation. But he added: “We’re not going to let this happen for a prolonged period of time.”
As of Wednesday, the demonstration involved 50 to 74 vehicles and about 100 protesters, police said. Ottawa police said Thursday they were “able to negotiate for a dozen more trucks to leave” downtown and said 10 others left, but the city warned about traffic disruptions because of a new demonstration at the Ottawa airport.
To avoid the blockade and get into Canada, truckers in the Detroit area have had to drive 70 miles north to Port Huron, Michigan, and cross the Blue Water Bridge, where there was a 4½-hour delay leaving the U.S.
While protesters have been calling for Trudeau’s removal, most of the restrictive measures around the country have been put in place by provincial governments. Those include requirements that people show proof-of-vaccination “passports” to enter restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and sporting events.
Many provinces announced plans this week to remove or relax those restrictions after the surge in omicron cases crested in the country.
Pandemic restrictions have been far stricter in Canada than in the U.S., but Canadians have largely supported them. Canada’s COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the U.S.
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Krisher contributed from Detroit and Ben Fox contributed from Washington. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Truck-blockade-at-U-S-Canadian-border-shuts-auto-16847492.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:45 | en | 0.961429 |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Senate has voted to ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The Seattle Times reports if the bill passes the House and becomes law, the ban would limit not just magazines for rifles that hold 20 or 30 rounds, but for a host of semiautomatic pistols, which often carry more than 10 rounds.
The late Wednesday vote on Senate Bill 5078 by the Senate’s Democratic majority marks the first time such a bill has passed a floor vote at the Legislature.
For years, restrictions on firearm magazines have been a top priority for many Democrats and advocates of stricter gun regulations. Conservatives and gun-rights advocates have meanwhile assailed such laws as not effective and an infringement on the Second Amendment.
The legislation — which passed 28-20 — was requested by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
Whether Democrats can get the proposal through the House by the end of the legislative session — which concludes March 10 — remains unclear.
In a regularly-scheduled meeting with reporters hours before the bill passed, House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma, didn’t commit to giving SB 5078 a floor vote in that chamber. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/WA-Senate-OKs-ban-on-sales-of-high-capacity-gun-16847553.php | 2022-02-10T16:16:51 | en | 0.954265 |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state lawmaker who has won praise from former President Donald Trump for his attempts to illegally reverse President Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin filed paperwork Thursday to run for governor, a move that would shake up the Republican primary.
State Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a conspiracy theorist who was also disciplined last month by Republican leadership over false election claims, filed paperwork with the state creating a gubernatorial campaign committee on Thursday. The move came after his campaign website was up briefly on Wednesday before being taken down after he was contacted by news outlets.
Ramthun did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday. He planned an event Saturday to officially launch his campaign.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, also a purveyor of false claims that Trump won the 2020 election, is endorsing Ramthun in the race.
“He’s going to win — 100%. It’s not even going to be close,” Lindell told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We’re going to get rid of the (voting) machines. In Wisconsin, and nationwide, we’re going county by county. And when you do that, now you’re going to have elections that people get one person one vote.”
Ramthun attended a symposium last year in South Dakota hosted by Lindell where election conspiracy theories were discussed. Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who is leading an ongoing investigation into the 2020 election, was at the same meeting.
Ramthun has called on the Legislature to rescind Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes that were awarded to Biden, a move that Republican leaders and nonpartisan attorneys for the Legislature have repeatedly said is illegal.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos last month removed Ramthun of his only full-time staffer after Vos said Ramthun falsely accused Vos of signing a deal with attorneys for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to authorize absentee ballot drop boxes.
Ramthun joins former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and former U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson in the GOP primary. Nicholson is running as an outsider candidate, much like Ramthun who has been the leading Republican voice in the Statehouse in trying to overturn Biden's win.
Kleefisch and Nicholson's campaigns did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
The winner of the Aug. 9 primary will advance to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The race is a top priority for both parties given swing state Wisconsin's importance in the 2024 presidential race.
Republicans who control the Legislature are fast-tracking a host of bills changing election administration and voting rules, all of which Evers is all-but certain to veto but that other Republican candidates for governor support.
Evers has been running as a defender of democracy and the only thing standing between Republicans and an overhaul of the state's election system before the next presidential election.
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BEIJING (AP) — Here is one measure of just how out-of-favor the Alpine combined, contested Thursday at the Beijing Olympics, has become in ski racing: A total of only 27 athletes took part.
That's less than half as many as the 65 at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, and quite a bit fewer than the 43 for the downhill and 47 for the super-G earlier this week.
Here's another: For the first time in Olympic history, no American men entered the event.
And one more: It is not being held even once during the current World Cup season.
All of which helps explain why there is talk of saying goodbye to the combined at the Winter Games, even though back when ski racing made its Olympic debut in 1936, it was the only event on the schedule. Only later were the downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super-G added.
“We don’t know for sure whether it’ll be around next year,” said Christof Innerhofer, a 37-year-old Italian who won a bronze in the combined at the 2014 Sochi Games and was 10th on Thursday. “It would be nice if I got to participate in the last one.”
That sort of sentiment was common among those competing Thursday on the manufactured snow at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center (which hosts what perhaps will be the last Olympic women’s combined next Thursday).
“I kept saying it would be pretty cool to win the last ever one,” said Jack Crawford, the Canadian whose combined times — see how they came up with the event's name? — from a downhill run in the morning and a slalom run in the afternoon left him in third place behind Austrian skier Johannes Strolz and needing to settle for possibly being the last man with a bronze.
One person unwilling to concede outright that this will be it for the discipline was Johan Eliasch, president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) since June. He was not definitive about anything, saying the issues still need to be studied and decisions need to be considered.
Asked after watching the slalom run whether that was the last combined at a Winter Olympics, Eliasch responded: “I hope not.”
“It goes without saying,” he acknowledged, “that things must be improved.”
It turns out the combined’s greatest appeal is also its biggest problem.
Because it requires one speed run and one technical run, some praise the event as the best test of versatility in the sport.
That sort of widespread skill set is also rarer and rarer, so there just are not many skiers left who are capable of performing well in both a downhill and a slalom. One example: Silver medalist Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway said he hadn’t even practiced, let alone raced, a slalom in two years before Thursday.
“I mean, the combined was the core of what it meant to be a ski racer before me. And honestly, through a lot of my career, it was important to me. So it would be a shame to see it go away,” said Bode Miller, who won a silver in the combined at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and a gold at the Vancouver Games in 2010, four years after Ted Ligety gave the U.S. gold, too. “We’ve seen specialization dominate every sport over the last, whatever, 20-30 years, so it’s not shocking. There’s not really four-event skiers anymore in a serious way, the way there was prior to my career and the way that I did it.”
Miller made the point that FIS needs to do whatever it can to better promote Alpine skiing and attract new fans, and so if for some reason that means getting rid of combined, well, so be it.
Neither FIS nor any of its athletes wants give up medal events at the Olympics, of course.
So one school of thought is that the combined could be replaced by a parallel event in which two skiers race each other head-to-head, instead of going down the hill one at a time. That would be another addition to the Winter Games; a mixed team event joined in 2018 and is back in 2022.
“I like the combined better than a team race,” Innerhofer said. “A team race makes no sense.”
OK, well, how about the parallel format?
“Eh, I don’t like that one, either,” he said. “How many parallels have you seen that were really fair? None.”
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AP Sports Writers Andrew Dampf and Pat Graham contributed to this report.
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Governor optimistic of approval for tax cuts, voting access — Morgan Lee, Associated Press
Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham expressed optimism Wednesday that legislators will embrace her proposals for tax cuts with a little over a week left in the annual regular legislative session, coupled with disbelief that Democratic legislators are hesitating to back major crime-fighting initiatives.
The governor also said she is determination to expand voting access through legislation, and is confident that New Mexico will offer some incentives to spur local hydrogen fuel development, as the federal government dedicates billions of dollars to the fledgling industry.
Lujan Grisham, running for reelection in November, has proposed eliminating longstanding state taxes on Social Security income that would benefit middle- and upper-income retirees, as well as a slight reduction to the state's gross receipts tax on most retail sales and business transactions.
"I'm very confident that those are coming together in the way that they need to" on tax cuts, said Lujan Grisham. She alluded to an additional proposal on tax relief for working families that has not been made public.
The state's quick-fire 30-day legislative session, which follows an abbreviated format in even-numbered years, ends on Feb. 17 at noon.
"On the other hand, it feels like it's a very long time to get all the things that we believe will make a difference for New Mexicans," Lujan Grisham said.
Legislators have given a mixed reception to bills for enhanced criminal penalties and sidelined proposed changes to the state's pretrial detention system aimed at keeping more people behind bars pending trial for serious crimes.
Lujan Grisham said the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate have been slow to recognize that anti-poverty measures are not enough to contain crime.
"We are on track to have the deadliest year ever in Albuquerque, with violent crime increasing statewide," Lujan Grisham said. "I can't explain their inability to reconcile that issue."
In 2017, New Mexico joined a growing number of states in adopting risk-based approaches to releasing defendants that phased out money-based bail.
Numerous district attorneys and the mayor of Albuquerque say the pretrial justice system is failing to protect the public, while an analysis from the Legislature's budget and accountability office shows that arrests and convictions remain steady as crime rates have increased.
Republican legislators and district attorneys gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to protest a Senate-endorsed bill that would ensure the right to a parole hearing for juveniles convicted of serious crimes, including murder, and sentenced as adults. They said the Legislature is straying from its public safety obligations.
"We have to have answers to protect the citizens of New Mexico," said District Attorney Dianna Luce of southeastern New Mexico
Legislators have spurned several bills that would provide state incentives to jump-start local hydrogen production using natural gas and coal, amid warnings from environmentalists that the industry may worsen climate-warming pollution.
Still Lujan Grisham said she expects New Mexico to be a staging ground for the industry, with support from the state.
"We have an $8 billion situation, an effort by the federal Department of Energy," the governor said. "It's happening to ... decarbonized transportation, and I will expect New Mexico to still be a top contender."
Senate lawmakers on Wednesday advanced an initiative backed by Democrats to expand voting access, while scrapping elements that would have further automated voter registration at state motor vehicle offices. Amendments also scaled back plans for a state holiday on Election Day, though all public schools would close.
"I'm working to make sure that every single voter, eligible voter in the state of New Mexico has adequate, easy, protected access to the ballot box," Lujan Grisham said.
New Mexico mask mandate to stay despite other states phasing them out – Ryan Botel, Albuquerque Journal
Although many states are phasing out mask mandates, New Mexico is actually extending its own.
The Albuquerque Journal reports Dr. David Scrase, acting health secretary, said yesterday the state plans to continue current mandates, which were extended to March 4th last week, despite having an email inbox overflowing with messages from people demanding an end to the mandate.
Scrase said "nothing would make him happier" than being able to end the mandate, but that officials wouldn't feel comfortable doing so until the data supports that decision.
Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said yesterday the state will reevaluate the mandate based on modeling if and when cases begin declining quickly, at which point an announcement would be made regarding the changing public health order
New Mexico regulators looking to mitigate rolling blackouts - Associated Press
Regulators in New Mexico are trying to work with utilities to deal with supply chain problems that could threaten adequate power availability during peak consumer demand this summer.
The five-member Public Regulation Commission held an open public meeting Wednesday as they consider emergency measures to mitigate the looming crisis of rolling blackouts, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Public Service Company of New Mexico has said it may not have enough generating capacity for customers in the hottest months of July and August when electricity demand climbs to its highest levels.
Pandemic-induced supply-chain issues also have delayed the construction of four new solar facilities that were supposed to replace power from the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station when that plant shuts down in June.
PRC Chairman Joseph Maestas said supply-chain problems are also affecting other utilities around New Mexico, particularly some of the state's electric cooperatives.
The Journal reports that commissioners have agreed to immediately compile a lengthy questionnaire for all local utilities to fully assess the problems and consider emergency measures to alleviate potential power shortages.
PNM is a financial supporter of KUNM.
Former Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales dies of cancer at 56 - Associated Press
Javier Gonzales, who served one term as the mayor of Santa Fe, has died after a battle with cancer, authorities said Wednesday. He was 56.
Gonzales' death was announced by Christus St. Vincent where he had worked as vice president and chief development officer of the hospital's foundation after leaving politics.
In an interview with the Santa Fe New Mexican in October 2020, Gonzales said he was diagnosed with cancer after he'd struggled with hip pain and a loss of energy.
He told the newspaper that doctors found a tumor near one of his kidneys.
Gonzales was elected in 2014 and was Santa Fe's first openly gay mayor.
He decided against running for a second term in 2018, citing a desire to spend more time with his two daughters.
"I am deeply saddened by the loss of an undisputed leader and deeply treasured member of the northern New Mexico community," New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement. "Javier Gonzales was a trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a dedicated leader. He was also a beloved son, a remarkable father and an incredible friend, including to me."
Funeral plans were not immediately disclosed.
State Senate moves to end life-without-parole sentencing for young people – Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico
After two hours of debate and four attempted amendments, the New Mexico Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 8, approved a bill that would abolish sentences of life without parole for people who aren’t 18.
Young people in New Mexico who are tried and convicted as adults and sentenced to life have to serve 30 years before being eligible for parole. Senate Bill 43 would cut that time in half.
“Most of these children, the vast majority of them, have had enormous trauma in their lives,” said Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (D-Albuquerque), the bill’s sponsor. “And I don’t believe that it’s right to throw them away. I think children especially have enormous capacity to change.”
This is the second time Sedillo Lopez has tried to pass this measure. The first time was in 2021.
She was flanked by her expert witness, Denali Wilson, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and a founding member of the N.M. Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth.
Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill (D-Silver City) said sentencing a child to life in prison without the possibility of parole is a human rights abuse, specifically a violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United States is the only country in the world that hasn’t ratified the convention, Hemphill said.
“Childhood is separate from adulthood,” Hemphill said, quoting the convention. “This is a period of time that should be protected, so children can grow and develop.”
Republican senators repeatedly mischaracterized how parole works, conflated the bill with bail reform, and introduced amendments that sought to either water down or completely undermine the point of the legislation.
Rather than debate the merits of the bill, they slowed the hearing, turning the discussion into a blanket indictment of Democratic lawmakers for allegedly failing to pass bills this session that, in their view, would address crime.
“The declaration was made early on before this session that, ‘Hey, we’re gonna be tough on crime,’” said Sen. Gregory Baca (R-Belen). “Where have we seen that? We’re protecting election workers … when this will never be prosecuted. That’s our ‘tough-on-crime?’ How about the murderers? Let’s try starting with them. There’s an idea.”
The law on which Senate Bill 43 was modeled passed in 2014 in West Virginia, Sedillo Lopez said.
“In the eight years since the passage of that law, there has been no known person released who committed a new offense,” she said.
THE AMENDMENTS
The first amendment was brought by Sen. Cliff Pirtle (R-Roswell).
It was handwritten.
It would have extended the parole eligibility timeline from 15 to 20 years, which he and Sen. Mark Moores (R-Albuquerque) indicated was the wish of the state’s district attorneys association.
Sedillo Lopez said in a previous session she had already compromised the timeline from 10 to 15 years. Pirtle’s alteration failed on a 24-13 vote.
Baca suggested another amendment. This one was not handwritten. The details are unclear, since the amendment was not available on the Legislature’s website before this article was published. Baca said it would have allowed a judge to impose a “dual adult sentence” that would hang over the defendants until they complete their juvenile sentences.
Sedillo Lopez said that change would expose more children to long adult sentences. It failed 24-14.
Pirtle introduced a third amendment that would have given the parole board the option to hold a hearing rather than requiring the board to hold a hearing after 15 years in cases where the defendant was sentenced to multiple consecutive sentences.
Sedillo Lopez said that change to the bill would undermine its whole purpose. It failed 21-14.
The fourth and final proposal came from Sen. Gregg Schmedes (R-Tijeras). It would have denied parole in cases where the child is convicted of first-degree murder of a police officer.
Sedillo Lopez pointed out that the bill already accounts for this. The amendment failed 20-15.
PUNISHMENT IS NOT A DETERRENT
Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino said he has “given up” on punishment as a deterrent to crime.
“I’ve been watching it for 50 years, and it’s never gone down,” Ortiz y Pino said. “The country is more violent today than it was 50 years ago when I was starting out in social work, and the punishments were much less than they are today.”
There are 2.3 million people in U.S. prisons and jails today, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Still, the country is no less violent, Ortiz y Pino said.
“If just piling on sentences did anything, I could have more sympathy for some of the amendments that have been proposed, but they won’t do any good,” Ortiz y Pino said.
Adding more years to the sentence just makes the child less able to re-enter society when they do get out, he added.
Instead, lawmakers should work on the root causes of violent crime, he said, including poverty, lack of good education and drug addiction, he said.
“When I was little, my mom just drilled it into my head: ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right,’” Ortiz y Pino said. “What earthly use is it to ruin another kid’s life because he was mean, dumb, angry and stupid enough to kill somebody in the first place?”
Official: It's winter but dryness elevates wildfire threat – KOB-TV, Associated Press
A fire official in northwestern New Mexico says there's an active wildfire threat in the region despite it still being winter.
Capt. Tony Herrera, the wildland coordinator for San Juan County Fire and Rescue, said fire dangers generally diminish during winter but there has been heightened fire activity due to dry conditions.
"It's a trend that has no sign of slowing down," he told KOB-TV.
Herrera said recent snowfall provided much-needed moisture but said it hasn't been enough to take the area out of drought and provide enough relief as the state moves toward warmer weather.
"So the danger of it being so dry in the middle of winter is that people get complacent; they don't realize how high the fire danger actually is," Herrera said. "When in actuality it is still very dry, the fire potential is still very high."
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BEIJING — Two of the United States' top snowboarding superstars, Chloe Kim and Shaun White, are moving on to the medal round of their halfpipe competitions at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Kim executed a near-flawless first qualifying run, putting her way ahead of her competitors, and showing her form is there for a gold medal. If successful, she would be the first woman to ever claim a second gold in the women's halfpipe competition.
Kim held on to her first place finish despite a fall on her second run. At the end, Kim topped the leaderboard with 87.75 points. She finished four points ahead of the second place finisher Japan's Mitsuki Ono. China's Cai Xuetong came in third with 83.25 points
"On the second run I fell so that wasn't really great, but I was really stoked on my first run that I just wanted to take the second run and like try a different line I never practiced before," Kim said. "I'm not surprised that I fell but I'm just having so much fun out here. The pipe is so good."
A fall during White's first run put him in 19th place. A series of major wipeouts by his competitors in the second round, as well as a stellar performance from the three-time Olympic champion netted him 86.25 points, and put him in fourth place.
In qualifying, competitors use their best score to move on to the next round.
White was elated with his second turn at the halfpipe. Before getting to the finish line, he ripped his goggles off and cheered. He was also obviously relieved — wiping his brow as he awaited his score to be announced.
White and Kim face major pressure
Both Kim and White went to Beijing with the chance to achieve major milestones in their careers.
White, 35, is competing in his last Olympics after appearing in five total Winter Games. He is the first, and only, snowboarder to win three Olympic gold medals and the oldest-ever halfpipe rider to represent the U.S.
White appeared at ease as he wraps a storied career.
"I've given it my all, there's been some ups and downs along the way to get here. But through all of that, I feel like I've got stronger and better," he said.
Kim became the youngest female Olympic snowboarding champion during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics at just 18. After facing immense pressure following her star-making performance in South Korea, she took a much-needed break.
"I'm honestly in such a good place right now - just so grateful, taking it all in, and I'm so excited for tomorrow," she said Wednesday. "I'm just focusing on the run I want to do tomorrow, visualizing it tonight and hoping I'll be able to put it to my feet."
Kim must now beat 11 other snowboarders in the women's halfpipe final on Thursday to claim gold. White will get his chance to do the same Friday during the men's halfpipe final.
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BEIJING — Nathan Chen completed his redemption story at Beijing. The 22-year-old won gold Thursday in the men's figure skating program against a competitive field of skaters.
After the venue ceremony at Beijing's Capital Indoor Stadium, Chen was still soaking up his achievement.
"I never really felt I'd be able to make it this far in my career," he said. "I'd always, of course, dream about making the Olympics and winning the Olympics, but I [thought], 'That's hard, I don't know if I can make that happen.'"
As he took the ice with a slight grin, Chen looked confident and exuded joy as he skated to a remix of "Rocket Man" and "Benny and the Jets" by Elton John. His performance gained a standing ovation by team officials and other Olympic athletes sitting in the stadium.
His fifth place finish in this event at the Pyeongchang Olympics was a shadow following Chen as he headed to Beijing. But since hitting the ice at the 2022 Winter Games, Chen has showed he overcame those demons and the immense pressure he faced this week — and then some.
Chen surpassed the field with a score of 218.63 points, giving him a total of 332.60 after his short program from earlier in the week. That's 22.55 points ahead of silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan, who received a total score of 310.05. Shoma Uno of Japan won bronze with 293.00.
Japan's Hanyu attempts never-been-done move
Two-time defending gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu, also of Japan, placed fourth at 283.21 after falling multiple times during his routine.
Hanyu's large fanbase in China was evident even in the limited crowd at the stadium. The few hundred local fans in attendance loudly applauded the Japanese star every time he landed a jump. Even in warmups, the 27-year-old's moves excited spectators, and his falls elicited groans from the crowd. Fans, holding signs and with their phones at the ready, waited outside the stadium hoping to get a glimpse of him in exiting vehicles.
Hanyu attempted to make history by landing a difficult, never-been-done-before-in-competition quadruple axel in which a skater does 4.5 rotations on a jump, but failed.
A deferential Chen said the prior gold medalist "progressed the sport in so many ways." Despite Hanyu's fall, Chen said his effort Thursday to land the quad axel was "really special to see."
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When Republican-led states balked at expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's administration tossed them a carrot — allowing several to charge monthly premiums to newly eligible enrollees.
Republicans pushed for the fees to give Medicaid recipients "skin in the game" — the idea they would value their coverage more — and to make the government program resemble employer-based insurance.
But with studies showing that the fees led to fewer low-income adults signing up for coverage and fewer reenrolling, the Biden administration is moving to eliminate them.
It will force Arkansas and Montana to phase out premiums by the end of 2022. Federal health officials have indicated they may do the same in six other states allowed to charge premiums — Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The policy flip is one of several moves the administration has made to change how states run their Medicaid programs, and it provides a stark example of how Medicaid changes depending on who has control of the White House and state capitols.
Medicaid provides health coverage to people with low incomes
Medicaid, which has about 83 million enrollees, is a state-federal partnership that provides health coverage to people with low incomes. Washington is responsible for a lot of the funding and states handle operations. For decades, states have complained that the federal government sets too many rules and doesn't respond quickly enough when states want to make changes, which they do through a wide variety of "waivers" designed to improve care or control costs.
But in recent months, the power struggle has intensified around these waivers, which states often seek so they can test new approaches for delivering health services. Waivers have been used since long before the ACA was passed and have become an integral part of the Medicaid program; some states have renewed theirs to last for decades.
With spending on Medicaid waivers now making up about a third of federal spending on the program, they've become a lightning rod for disputes between states and the federal government.
Such conflicts are not new, said Matthew Lawrence, an associate professor at Emory University's law school. But lately, "the level of conflict is unprecedented."
"The conflicts are more consequential because there is so much more money on the table," said Josh Archambault, a senior fellow with the conservative Cicero Institute, a Texas-based think tank.
Billions of dollars could be at stake
At stake for states is not merely retaining authority on how to run their Medicaid program, but often billions of dollars in federal funding. Because securing a waiver can often take years, states are dismayed the Biden administration is trying to withdraw previously approved ones before they are up for renewal, Archambault said.
Both Georgia and Texas have sued the Biden administration for revoking part of their waivers approved in the waning days of President Donald Trump's administration. The changes sought by each state varied widely.
Neither of these Republican-led states has expanded Medicaid to cover all adults with annual incomes under 138% of the federal poverty level (about $18,800), as 38 other states have done.
For its part, Georgia sued the Biden administration in January after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rejected key parts of its waiver, which would have required newly eligible enrollees to pay a monthly premium and work or volunteer as part of a plan to modestly increase enrollment. This was approved in October 2020 but never implemented by the state, which delayed rollout awaiting the Biden administration's review of its plan.
The lawsuit says the decision by CMS was an illegal and arbitrary "bait and switch of unprecedented magnitude."
The Texas lawsuit filed in May stems from the Biden administration's reversal of a 10-year waiver extension approved five days before Joe Biden was sworn in as president. That waiver allowed the Texas Medicaid program to reimburse hospitals for treating uninsured patients and included $30 billion in federal aid. The Biden administration said Texas did not appropriately seek public comments. The move to reverse the waiver was seen as a way to nudge Texas toward expanding Medicaid. A federal district judge in August sided with Texas and issued a temporary injunction.
In another example of reversing Trump's policies, CMS last year told Michigan, Wisconsin, Arkansas and New Hampshire that the federal government was withdrawing previous approval to impose work requirements on newly eligible adults. The change, however, had little practical effect since the work requirements had been put on hold by federal courts.
Advocates say the enrollees are caught in the middle
Advocacy groups say Medicaid enrollees are caught in the middle of these political battles.
Laura Colbert, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Georgians for a Healthy Future, said the lawsuit brought by the governor and state attorney general is a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. "Federal courts have repeatedly struck down work requirements for Medicaid-eligible adults because work requirements ultimately act as a barrier to health coverage and care," she said.
Typically, CMS reserves the right to terminate or rescind a waiver as long as its decision is not considered "arbitrary or unreasonable," said MaryBeth Musumeci, associate director of KFF's Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
In the Texas case, in fact, the federal court said CMS was arbitrary and unreasonable in revoking the state's Medicaid waiver.
Brian Blase, a former Trump health adviser and president of Paragon Health Institute, a research firm, said having so much of the Medicaid program run through waivers is problematic because states are seldom held accountable for how the waivers work and that the program changes depending on which party is in power in Washington.
"States get whipsawed back and forth under the current structure of Medicaid," he said.
Blase and other conservatives want Congress to give states a defined amount of money — a block grant — for Medicaid each year and let states manage it as they see fit. Democrats have fought such proposals, saying they would limit how much money states have to help the poor, especially during difficult economic times.
The proposal to fund Medicaid through block grants is at the center of another simmering waiver feud. The Trump administration in its final days approved a new financing plan for Tennessee that would convert the state's federal Medicaid funding into a type of block grant. The Biden administration reopened the public comment period last summer. Nearly all of the 3,000 letters submitted opposed the plan.
Blase said some Republican states expanded Medicaid only because they were allowed to implement it with work requirements and premiums. Taking away those provisions, he said, "is an affront to those states and will discourage other states from adopting the expansion."
But it's unlikely Republican-led states would turn away from the expansions they've implemented because it's politically difficult to kick people off the program.
Democrats have long opposed Medicaid premiums, so it's no surprise the Biden administration is moving away from them now that it has data to show their negative impact.
A 2021 study in Michigan found that the number of adults dropping out of Medicaid increased by nearly 12% after the state began charging them a monthly premium, which now averages about $18 a month. Disenrollment rose by nearly 1 percentage point for every dollar charged monthly, the study found.
States needed waivers because federal law prohibits charging premiums to most Medicaid enrollees.
Katharine Bradley, a senior researcher at Mathematica who recently helped evaluate premium policies in several Medicaid programs for CMS, said premiums as low as $1 a month act as a deterrent to signing up, she said.
"All the evidence points in the same direction — that premiums inhibit overall enrollment," Bradley said.
Michigan — like other states with premiums — stopped enforcing the provision during the pandemic. But even before the national health emergency, Michigan enrollees faced few consequences for not paying. If people did not pay, the state would deduct the amount from their state tax refund or any lottery winnings.
By contrast, before the pandemic, states such as Indiana, Iowa and Montana disenrolled thousands of Medicaid enrollees who did not pay.
When asked late last year whether CMS would eliminate premiums in all Medicaid waivers, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said: "We want our programs to be consistent."
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Medalists in team figure skating still haven't received their prizes at the Beijing Olympics, because of an apparent failed doping test. Russian media report that the athlete in question is Kamila Valieva, who made history by landing two quadruple jumps.
Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Valieva, 15, tested positive for a heart drug called trimetazidine, which can boost athletes' endurance and blood efficiency. Russian media outlets report that Valieva submitted the sample in question before winning last month's European championship.
Valieva returned to the ice Thursday after missing practice on Wednesday. Her absence had led to speculation that she might have been suspended — but Olga Ermolina, a press officer of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, told media outlets that Valieva is not under an Olympic suspension. That implies Valieva will compete in the women's single competition, which begins on Tuesday.
The teams' medal ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee (who won gold), the U.S. (silver) and Japan (bronze) was called off on Tuesday because of what officials describe as a "legal issue." As of Thursday, the medals remain in limbo. If Russia's win is thrown out, fourth-place Canada would gain a spot on the podium and the U.S. would rise to take the gold.
The high-profile case is a test of the Olympics' ideals of the fairness and integrity of sport, according to USOPC board chairwoman Susanne Lyons.
"While we don't have all the information on this situation, the reality is that the whole credibility of the Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Movement stands teetering on the edge," Lyons said in a statement sent to NPR.
Aside from the timing of the test, another complication could be Valieva's age. At 15, she is a "protected person," as defined by the World Anti-Doping Code. That lowers the potential punishment for minor athletes who are confirmed to be doping to a minimum of a reprimand and a maximum of a two-year ban. And under the code, officials are not required to publicly identify such athletes.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says trimetazidine was added to the WADA Prohibited List in 2014 — initially as a stimulant banned only during competition. But for 2015, it was classified as a metabolic modulator and banned both during and outside of competition.
Trimetazidine has previously been linked to athletes from Russia, which remains under sanctions stemming from its state-sanctioned program of using drugs to cheat in sports.
At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, trimetazidine was detected in Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva. In that case, Sergeeva was disqualified and her two-person team's results were thrown out.
Also in 2018, Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky's team was stripped of its bronze medal after he tested positive for meldonium — another drug that increases blood flow. It's banned under the same section of the WADA prohibited list as trimetazidine.
Krushelnitsky received a four-year ban. Sergeeva was initially hit with the same punishment, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her ban to two years, despite her previously testing positive for meldonium. Sergeeva is competing in the Beijing Games; she took her first training runs on Thursday.
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Iona at Siena, 9 p.m.
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UConn at Xavier, 7 p.m.
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St. Bonaventure at Saint Louis, 9 p.m.
Long Beach St. at Hawaii, 12 a.m.
Nevada at Utah St., 9 p.m.
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UMBC at Mass.-Lowell, 5 p.m.
Fordham at Duquesne, 5:30 p.m.
DePaul at Providence, 6:30 p.m.
Hofstra at Delaware, 6:30 p.m.
Canisius at Marist, 7 p.m.
Hartford at NJIT, 7 p.m.
Vermont at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.
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Temple at Tulane, 2 p.m.
Miami at Wake Forest, 3 p.m.
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The Citadel at VMI, 3:30 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Alcorn St., 4 p.m.
Florida at Kentucky, 4 p.m.
Georgia St. at Appalachian St., 4 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Virginia, 4 p.m.
Longwood at NC A&T, 4 p.m.
McNeese St. at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.
Murray St. at Morehead St., 4 p.m.
Samford at ETSU, 4 p.m.
Stetson at Florida Gulf Coast, 4 p.m.
Texas A&M-CC at Nicholls, 4 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at SC-Upstate, 4 p.m.
VCU at George Mason, 4 p.m.
William & Mary at James Madison, 4 p.m.
Bellarmine at North Alabama, 4:30 p.m.
Presbyterian at Winthrop, 4:30 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at Jacksonville St., 5 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Lipscomb, 5 p.m.
Houston Baptist at SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.
Incarnate Word at New Orleans, 5 p.m.
MVSU at Alabama A&M, 5 p.m.
Tennessee St. at Austin Peay, 5 p.m.
UALR at Troy, 5 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama St., 5:30 p.m.
North Florida at Kennesaw St., 5:30 p.m.
Radford at Hampton, 5:30 p.m.
Campbell at High Point, 6 p.m.
La Salle at Richmond, 6 p.m.
Liberty at Jacksonville, 6 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Norfolk St., 6 p.m.
SMU at East Carolina, 6 p.m.
Syracuse at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Tennessee, 6 p.m.
Florida A&M at Jackson St., 6:30 p.m.
Arkansas St. at South Alabama, 7 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at UNC-Wilmington, 7 p.m.
Notre Dame at Clemson, 7 p.m.
W. Carolina at Wofford, 7 p.m.
Mississippi St. at LSU, 8 p.m.
Illinois St. at Indiana St., 1 p.m.
Oklahoma at Kansas, 1 p.m.
George Washington at Dayton, 2 p.m.
Rutgers at Wisconsin, 2 p.m.
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Indiana at Michigan St., 3:30 p.m.
Ohio at E. Michigan, 3:30 p.m.
Kansas St. at Iowa St., 4 p.m.
Valparaiso at Missouri St., 4 p.m.
Marquette at Butler, 4:30 p.m.
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Toledo at N. Illinois, 4:30 p.m.
UT Martin at E. Illinois, 4:30 p.m.
Belmont at SE Missouri, 5 p.m.
Omaha at S. Dakota St., 5:15 p.m.
Ohio St. at Michigan, 6 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.
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Drake at Bradley, 8 p.m.
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Texas at Baylor, Noon
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TCU at Texas Tech, 4 p.m.
W. Kentucky at UTSA, 4 p.m.
Grambling St. at Texas Southern, 4:30 p.m.
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Sam Houston St. at Chicago St., 3 p.m.
California at Oregon, 4 p.m.
Lamar at Seattle, 4 p.m.
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UC Riverside at UC San Diego, 4 p.m.
Idaho St. at E. Washington, 5 p.m.
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Arizona at Washington, 6 p.m.
San Francisco at Santa Clara, 6 p.m.
Air Force at San Diego St., 8 p.m.
Pacific at San Diego, 8 p.m.
Utah at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Grand Canyon at Dixie St., 9 p.m.
Portland St. at Montana, 9 p.m.
Wyoming at San Jose St., 9 p.m.
Arizona St. at Washington St., 10 p.m.
BYU at Pepperdine, 10 p.m.
CS Northridge at CS Bakersfield, 10 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at Portland, 10 p.m.
Saint Mary's (Cal.) at Gonzaga, 10 p.m.
Texas Rio Grande Valley at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.
UCLA at Southern Cal, 10 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon St., 10:30 p.m.
UC Davis at UC Irvine, 10:30 p.m.
UConn at St. John's, Noon
Monmouth (NJ) at Iona, 1 p.m.
Siena at Rider, 1 p.m.
Stony Brook at Maine, 1 p.m.
Manhattan at Quinnipiac, 2 p.m.
UAB at Old Dominion, 2 p.m.
Charlotte at Middle Tennessee, 3 p.m.
Mercer at UNC-Greensboro, 3 p.m.
N. Kentucky at Wright St., Noon
Robert Morris at Youngstown St., Noon
Detroit at Oakland, 1 p.m.
Maryland at Purdue, 1 p.m.
Green Bay at Milwaukee, 2 p.m.
Nebraska at Iowa, 2 p.m.
Northwestern at Illinois, 2 p.m.
N. Iowa at Loyola Chicago, 4 p.m.
Marshall at UTEP, 3 p.m.
Cal St.-Fullerton at Hawaii, 12 a.m.
Colorado St. at Boise St., 4 p.m.
UMBC at New Hampshire, 4 p.m.
Saint Louis at St. Bonaventure, 5 p.m.
Lafayette at Colgate, 6 p.m.
American at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
Bucknell at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
Canisius at Fairfield, 7 p.m.
Howard at Md.-Eastern Shore, 7 p.m.
James Madison at Delaware, 7 p.m.
NC Central at Coppin St., 7 p.m.
Niagara at Marist, 7 p.m.
Vermont at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Norfolk St. at Delaware St., 7:30 p.m.
SC State at Morgan St., 7:30 p.m.
Dayton at Rhode Island, 9 p.m.
William & Mary at UNC-Wilmington, 2 p.m.
E. Illinois at Austin Peay, 6 p.m.
High Point at Longwood, 6 p.m.
Drexel at Coll. of Charleston, 7 p.m.
Duquesne at Davidson, 7 p.m.
Tulsa at UCF, 7 p.m.
Virginia at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama A&M, 8 p.m.
W. Kentucky at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Jackson St., 8:30 p.m.
Florida A&M at Alcorn St., 8:30 p.m.
MVSU at Alabama St., 9 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.
West Virginia at Kansas St., 7 p.m.
IUPUI at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
Georgetown at Creighton, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at Kansas, 9 p.m.
Grambling St. at Prairie View, 8:30 p.m.
Southern U. at Texas Southern, 8:30 p.m.
S. Utah at N. Colorado, 8 p.m.
Santa Clara at Portland, 9 p.m.
Washington St. at Oregon, 9 p.m.
Michigan St. at Penn St., 6:30 p.m.
Iona at St. Peter's, 7 p.m.
Merrimack at Sacred Heart, 7 p.m.
VCU at Fordham, 7 p.m.
Villanova at Providence, 8 p.m.
Clemson at Florida St., 7 p.m.
Hofstra at Elon, 7 p.m.
Liberty at North Florida, 7 p.m.
South Carolina at Mississippi, 7 p.m.
Tulane at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Wake Forest at Duke, 7 p.m.
NC State at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m.
Kentucky at Tennessee, 9 p.m.
Kent St. at Toledo, 6 p.m.
Akron at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.
E. Michigan at Cent. Michigan, 7 p.m.
Memphis at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Ohio, 7 p.m.
N. Illinois at Ball St., 7 p.m.
Bradley at S. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Indiana St. at Missouri St., 8 p.m.
N. Iowa at Illinois St., 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Ohio St., 8:30 p.m.
Arkansas at Missouri, 9 p.m.
Butler at DePaul, 9 p.m.
Wisconsin at Indiana, 9 p.m.
Florida at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.
Iowa St. at TCU, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Oregon St., 9 p.m.
Wyoming at New Mexico, 9 p.m.
San Francisco at Pacific, 10 p.m.
UC Irvine at UC San Diego, 10 p.m.
Utah St. at San Diego St., 10 p.m.
San Jose St. at Nevada, 11 p.m.
Manhattan at Fairfield, 1 p.m.
Colgate at Army, 6 p.m.
Albany (NY) at Binghamton, 7 p.m.
Boston U. at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
George Mason at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.
Illinois at Rutgers, 7 p.m.
Loyola (Md.) at Lafayette, 7 p.m.
Maine at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Mass.-Lowell at NJIT, 7 p.m.
Navy at American, 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at UMBC, 7 p.m.
UMass at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m.
Vermont at New Hampshire, 7 p.m.
George Washington at Duquesne, 7:30 p.m.
Seton Hall at UConn, 8:30 p.m.
SMU at Temple, 9 p.m.
Presbyterian at SC-Upstate, 6 p.m.
Campbell at Radford, 6:30 p.m.
ETSU at Mercer, 7 p.m.
Furman at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
Georgia at LSU, 7 p.m.
Jacksonville at Stetson, 7 p.m.
Kennesaw St. at Florida Gulf Coast, 7 p.m.
Miami at Louisville, 7 p.m.
Mississippi St. at Alabama, 7 p.m.
NC A&T at Hampton, 7 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at Charleston Southern, 7 p.m.
Winthrop at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.
Wofford at The Citadel, 7 p.m.
North Alabama at E. Kentucky, 7:30 p.m.
Jacksonville St. at Lipscomb, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh at North Carolina, 8 p.m.
Morehead St. at UT Martin, 9 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Auburn, 9 p.m.
St. John's at Xavier, 6:30 p.m.
Boston College at Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
Evansville at Drake, 8 p.m.
Georgetown at Marquette, 8 p.m.
La Salle at Saint Louis, 8 p.m.
Loyola Chicago at Valparaiso, 8 p.m.
Purdue at Northwestern, 9 p.m.
Chicago St. at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.
Bellarmine at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.
Utah Valley St. at Tarleton St., 8 p.m.
Baylor at Texas Tech, 9 p.m.
Seattle at Texas Rio Grande Valley, 8 p.m.
Dixie St. at New Mexico St., 9 p.m.
Boise St. at Air Force, 10 p.m.
Grand Canyon at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.
UNLV at Fresno St., 10:30 p.m.
Gonzaga at Pepperdine, 11 p.m.
Minnesota at Penn St., 4 p.m.
CCSU at Bryant, 7 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Merrimack, 7 p.m.
IUPUI at Robert Morris, 7 p.m.
LIU at St. Francis (Pa.), 7 p.m.
Old Dominion at Marshall, 7 p.m.
St. Francis (NY) at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m.
Wagner at Sacred Heart, 7 p.m.
Towson at UNC-Wilmington, 6 p.m.
Troy at Appalachian St., 6:30 p.m.
Austin Peay at Murray St., 7 p.m.
Delaware at Elon, 7 p.m.
Drexel at William & Mary, 7 p.m.
East Carolina at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Georgia Southern at Georgia St., 7 p.m.
James Madison at Coll. of Charleston, 7 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at FIU, 7 p.m.
North Texas at FAU, 7 p.m.
South Alabama at Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.
UNC-Greensboro at Chattanooga, 7 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at Louisiana-Monroe, 7:30 p.m.
UTEP at Louisiana Tech, 7:30 p.m.
Charlotte at W. Kentucky, 8 p.m.
E. Illinois at Belmont, 8 p.m.
McNeese St. at Nicholls, 8 p.m.
Rice at UAB, 8 p.m.
UTSA at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.
VMI at Samford, 8 p.m.
SE Missouri at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Tennessee St., 8:30 p.m.
Longwood at High Point, 9 p.m.
Buffalo at E. Michigan, 6 p.m.
Ill.-Chicago at Youngstown St., 7 p.m.
Michigan at Iowa, 7 p.m.
N. Illinois at Akron, 7 p.m.
Wichita St. at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Denver at Omaha, 8 p.m.
Oral Roberts at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.
St. Thomas (MN) at South Dakota, 8 p.m.
UMKC at North Dakota, 8 p.m.
W. Illinois at S. Dakota St., 8 p.m.
Creighton at DePaul, 10 p.m.
UCF at Houston, TBA
Abilene Christian at Sam Houston St., 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas St. at Texas St., 8 p.m.
UALR at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Incarnate Word, 8:30 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Texas A&M-CC, 8:30 p.m.
Oregon St. at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.
Cal Poly at UC Davis, 9 p.m.
Colorado St. at New Mexico, 9 p.m.
Montana St. at E. Washington, 9 p.m.
Montana at Idaho, 9 p.m.
N. Colorado at Idaho St., 9 p.m.
Oregon at Arizona St., 9 p.m.
Sacramento St. at Weber St., 9 p.m.
Colorado at California, 9:30 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at UC Riverside, 10 p.m.
Cal St.-Fullerton at UC Santa Barbara, 10 p.m.
Hawaii at UC San Diego, 10 p.m.
Long Beach St. at CS Northridge, 10 p.m.
N. Arizona at Portland St., 10 p.m.
San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m.
San Francisco at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 10 p.m.
Santa Clara at Loyola Marymount, 11 p.m.
Utah at Stanford, 11 p.m.
Washington St. at UCLA, 11 p.m.
Washington at Southern Cal, 11:30 p.m.
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Burnley 0, Watford 0
West Ham 1, Watford 0
Newcastle 3, Everton 1
Burnley 1, Man United 1
Norwich 1, Crystal Palace 1
Tottenham 2, Southampton 3
Man City 2, Brentford 0
Aston Villa 3, Leeds 3
Wolverhampton vs. Arsenal, 2:45 p.m.
Liverpool vs. Leicester, 2:45 p.m.
Man United vs. Southampton, 7:30 a.m.
Brentford vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 10 a.m. ppd
Everton vs. Leeds, 10 a.m.
Watford vs. Brighton, 10 a.m.
Norwich vs. Man City, 12:30 p.m.
Burnley vs. Liverpool, 9 a.m.
Newcastle vs. Aston Villa, 9 a.m.
Tottenham vs. Wolverhampton, 9 a.m.
Leicester vs. West Ham, 11:30 a.m.
Man United vs. Brighton, 3:15 p.m.
West Ham vs. Newcastle, 7:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Brentford, 10 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Watford, 10 a.m.
Brighton vs. Burnley, 10 a.m.
Crystal Palace vs. Chelsea, 10 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Norwich, 10 a.m.
Southampton vs. Everton, 10 a.m.
Man City vs. Tottenham, 12:30 p.m.
Leeds vs. Man United, 9 a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Leicester, 11:30 a.m.
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Barnsley 0, Cardiff 1
Huddersfield 2, Derby 0
Birmingham 1, Sheffield United 2
Blackpool 3, Bristol City 1
Hull 0, Preston 1
Middlesbrough vs. Fulham, 10 a.m. ppd
Millwall vs. QPR, 10 a.m. ppd
Nottingham Forest vs. Coventry, 10 a.m. ppd
Reading vs. Stoke, 10 a.m. ppd
West Brom vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m. ppd
Swansea 1, Blackburn 0
Coventry 1, Blackpool 1
Derby 3, Hull 1
Fulham 3, Millwall 0
Luton Town 2, Barnsley 1
Stoke 3, Swansea 0
Cardiff 4, Peterborough 0
Blackburn 0, Nottingham Forest 2
Bournemouth 3, Birmingham 1
Bristol City 2, Reading 1
Preston 0, Huddersfield 0
QPR 2, Middlesbrough 2
Sheffield United 2, West Brom 0
Huddersfield vs. Sheffield United, 7:30 a.m.
Barnsley vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Birmingham vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m.
Blackpool vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Fulham, 10 a.m.
Middlesbrough vs. Derby, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Cardiff, 10 a.m.
Nottingham Forest vs. Stoke, 10 a.m.
Peterborough vs. Preston, 10 a.m.
Reading vs. Coventry, 10 a.m.
Swansea vs. Bristol City, 8 a.m.
West Brom vs. Blackburn, 3 p.m.
Sheffield United vs. Hull, 2:45 p.m.
Cardiff vs. Coventry, 2:45 p.m.
Millwall vs. QPR, 2:45 p.m.
Peterborough vs. Reading, 2:45 p.m.
Bournemouth vs. Nottingham Forest, 2:45 p.m.
Fulham vs. Huddersfield, 7:30 a.m.
Blackburn vs. Millwall, 10 a.m.
Bristol City vs. Middlesbrough, 10 a.m.
Cardiff vs. Blackpool, 10 a.m.
Coventry vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Luton Town vs. West Brom, 10 a.m.
Preston vs. Reading, 10 a.m.
QPR vs. Hull, 10 a.m.
Sheffield United vs. Swansea, 10 a.m.
Stoke vs. Birmingham, 10 a.m.
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Burton Albion 0, Sheffield Wednesday 2
Cambridge United vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m. ppd
Charlton 3, AFC Wimbledon 2
Ipswich 1, Gillingham 0
Milton Keynes Dons 2, Lincoln 1
Morecambe 1, Bolton 1
Oxford United 3, Portsmouth 2
Rotherham 1, Accrington Stanley 0
Shrewsbury 1, Fleetwood Town 1
Sunderland 1, Doncaster 2
AFC Wimbledon 0, Rotherham 1
Accrington Stanley 2, Oxford United 0
Cheltenham 2, Sunderland 1
Crewe 1, Plymouth 4
Doncaster 0, Ipswich 1
Fleetwood Town 1, Milton Keynes Dons 1
Gillingham 1, Cambridge United 0
Lincoln 2, Morecambe 1
Portsmouth 2, Burton Albion 1
Sheffield Wednesday 1, Wigan 0
Wycombe 0, Shrewsbury 0
Bolton 2, Charlton 1
AFC Wimbledon vs. Sunderland, 10 a.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Burton Albion vs. Cambridge United, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Ipswich, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Oxford United vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Portsmouth vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Wigan vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Rotherham, 7 a.m.
Wigan vs. Crewe, 2:45 p.m.
Burton Albion vs. Bolton, 2:45 p.m.
Lincoln vs. Doncaster, 2:45 p.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Accrington Stanley, 2:45 p.m.
Rotherham vs. Wigan, 2:45 p.m.
Bolton vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Accrington Stanley, 10 a.m.
Charlton vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Crewe vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Doncaster vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Lincoln, 10 a.m.
Gillingham vs. Plymouth, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
Shrewsbury vs. Morecambe, 10 a.m.
Sunderland vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Cheltenham, 10 a.m.
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Harrogate Town 2, Bradford 0
Barrow 1, Tranmere 1
Crawley Town 2, Stevenage 2
Forest Green 2, Newport County 0
Leyton Orient 0, Colchester 1
Rochdale vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m. ppd
Salford vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m. ppd
Scunthorpe 0, Oldham 1
Sutton United 1, Bristol Rovers 1
Swindon 1, Exeter 2
Walsall 0, Northampton 1
Sutton United 0, Salford 0
Carlisle 1, Port Vale 3
Exeter 1, Leyton Orient 0
Forest Green 2, Rochdale 1
Harrogate Town 1, Crawley Town 3
Mansfield Town 2, Colchester 1
Northampton 1, Newport County 0
Oldham 2, Bristol Rovers 1
Scunthorpe 1, Walsall 0
Stevenage 0, Bradford 1
Tranmere 3, Swindon 0
Hartlepool 3, Barrow 1
Barrow vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Colchester vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Salford, 10 a.m.
Newport County vs. Oldham, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Northampton, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Harrogate Town, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Swindon vs. Scunthorpe, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Tranmere, 10 a.m.
Crawley Town vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
Exeter vs. Harrogate Town, 2:45 p.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Sutton United, 2:45 p.m.
Hartlepool vs. Tranmere, 2:45 p.m.
Northampton vs. Colchester, 9 a.m.
Newport County vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Exeter vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Forest Green vs. Walsall, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Leyton Orient, 10 a.m.
Oldham vs. Bradford, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Scunthorpe vs. Rochdale, 10 a.m.
Stevenage vs. Bristol Rovers, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m.
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(CNN)About 150 million years ago, a young long-necked dinosaur fell ill, likely coughing and suffering from a fever as it wandered what is now southwest Montana.
The fossil of this dinosaur, nicknamed "Dolly" for Dolly Parton, has revealed what could be the first evidence of a respiratory infection in a dinosaur, according to new research. A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
The diplodocid, an herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck, reached about 60 feet (18 meters) in length and was between 15 and 20 years old when it died, according to Cary Woodruff, lead study author and director of paleontology at the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana.
Dolly's remains, including a complete skull and neck vertebrae, were first discovered in 1990 at a site in Montana yielding other dinosaur discoveries. They aren't able to determine Dolly's gender based on the fossils.
Recently, Woodruff and his colleagues decided to take a closer look at three of Dolly's neck bones and discovered abnormal bony protrusions with an irregular shape and texture.
The researchers used CT imaging to determine that the abnormal bone growth likely formed in response to an infection in Dolly's air sacs. The dinosaur had a complex respiratory system and the air sacs connected to its lungs.
The researchers believe that the diplodocid developed a respiratory infection within its air sacs and the infection then spread to its neck bones.
"During times of trauma, bone can grow pretty fast, so I imagine all in all, we're looking at a prolonged infection that occurred sometime during the last year of Dolly's life," Woodruff said in an email.
"Given the likely symptoms this animal suffered from, holding these infected bones in your hands, you can't help but feel sorry for Dolly," Woodruff said in a statement. "We've all experienced these same symptoms -- coughing, trouble breathing, a fever, etc. -- and here's a 150-million-year-old dinosaur that likely felt as miserable as we all do when we're sick."
The bony growths were only about a centimeter in height, so it's unlikely that they protruded or caused Dolly's neck to swell, Woodruff said. Instead, Dolly was likely most miserable due to her flu or pneumonia-like symptoms, including weight loss and sneezing.
Dolly's illness may have been caused by a fungal infection not unlike aspergillosis. This is a common respiratory illness in modern birds and reptiles that can lead to bone infections. When aspergillosis is left untreated, it can be fatal in birds, so it's possible that Dolly died after falling ill, although they can't tell when the dinosaur died after getting sick.
But how did Dolly get sick in the first place? Trying to piece together the puzzle of dinosaur disease with only bones, given that soft tissue doesn't fossilize, can be difficult.
It's possible that the environment in Montana 150 million years ago contributed to Dolly's illness. At the time, there was an inland seaway slowly withdrawing northward toward Canada, Woodruff said.
"The baby Rocky Mountains were in their infancy, and the environment would have been very similar to the Gulf Coast region of the US -- relatively flat, large rivers draining into the seaway, warm, humid, and well vegetated," he said. "One possibility we proposed was that Dolly's infection was from a fungal infection. Warm, humid climates are a perfect habitat for fungi today, and the same was true millions of years ago."
If Dolly had an aspergillosis-like infection, the dinosaur could have caught it in a multitude of ways, like accidentally breathing in a fungal spore or catching it from another member of the herd.
In modern birds, crowded conditions can cause the spread of infection. Dinosaurs like Dolly were known to stick close together during nesting season, which could have caused infections to "spread like wildfire," Woodruff said.
While the true cause will likely never be known, this research has provided more insight into the immune systems of dinosaurs.
"This fossil infection in Dolly not only helps us trace the evolutionary history of respiratory-related diseases back in time, but gives us a better understanding of what kinds of diseases dinosaurs were susceptible to," Woodruff said.
Previous research has revealed that, much like humans, dinosaurs suffered from gout, cancer and infections from injuries. There is also evidence of a tuberculosis-like infection in a marine reptile that lived 245 million years ago.
But this is the first time a dinosaur fossil has revealed evidence of a respiratory infection.
Making this discovery helps researchers to better understand how dinosaurs breathed, the evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs, and the pathways of infections and diseases in dinosaurs that aren't too dissimilar from ones we experience today, Woodruff said.
Next, the researchers want to determine if any of the other dinosaur fossils found in the same location as Dolly had this infection and explore what other diseases dinosaurs may have had that can be found in modern birds.
Paleopathology, or the study of pathological conditions found in ancient human and animal remains, is growing as scientists across different disciplines work together to understand the lives of dinosaurs.
Woodruff predicts that the approach, techniques and makeup of research teams will change in the future, something that has him excited for discoveries on the horizon. Including specialists from different disciplines, such as medical experts, is allowing for new insights as researchers analyze fossils.
"Previously, we could only really speculate," Woodruff said. "We could tell that a bone had broken and healed, but we had no idea of what caused the break. While that can certainly still be the case today, the more we approach these pathologies from a differential diagnosis perspective, and importantly, the more we work with medical professionals, the greater our identification accuracy is." | https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/world/dinosaur-respiratory-infection-scn/index.html | 2022-02-10T16:19:16 | en | 0.969465 |
(CNN) — An entire golf resort, four-star hotel and nearly 200 houses must be destroyed after being built in a protected natural area, Spain's highest court has ruled, following a 14-year legal battle.
The luxury Marina Isla de Valdecañas development, which features 185 villas, a four-star hotel and an artificial beach, should be demolished, according to a supreme court decision published Tuesday.
The development was built on an island -- La Isla de Valdecañas -- in a reservoir in the Extremadura region, western Spain, with hundreds more villas and a second hotel slated to be added to the site.
The luxury development is around 100 miles west of Madrid, and it boasts the closest fine sand beach to the Spanish capital, according to its website.
It has been subject to a 14-year legal battle brought by an ecological campaign group named Ecologistas en Acción, which said the development had been built in a protected area that should be returned to its natural state.
CNN has contacted Marina Isla de Valdecañas for comment.
In July 2020 a court in Extremadura ruled that the hotel, villas and golf course, which were already in operation, should remain standing as they were not causing environmental damage.
The ruling estimated the cost of destroying the whole development would be nearly 34 million euros ($38.8 million), and compensation to property owners would reach 111 million euros ($126.7 million).
It therefore ruled out demolition on economic grounds, as the regional Extremadura government would have had to foot the bill, and said that only facilities still under construction should be destroyed.
However Tuesday's decision overrules that ruling and orders their demolition.
Ecologistas en Acción celebrated the latest ruling, which it said avoids setting a "dangerous precedent" for other illegally constructed buildings.
Guillermo Fernández Vara, president of the Extramadura regional government, said on Wednesday he would try to save the development, likely by lodging an appeal with Spain's constitutional court. | https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spain-golf-resort-demolition-scli-intl/index.html | 2022-02-10T16:19:22 | en | 0.966944 |
BEIJING (AP) — Germany 4, Rest of World 0.
The Beijing Olympics were a luge runaway for the world’s sliding superpower, which won gold in men’s, women’s and doubles events — then put those champions in Thursday’s team relay and watched them end the season with one more victory.
Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig and the doubles team of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt finished in 3 minutes, 3.406 seconds at the Yanqing Sliding Center, 0.080 seconds ahead of silver-medalist Austria and 0.948 seconds ahead of bronze-medalist Latvia.
The medal standings were a runaway. The relay was not. Wendl and Arlt had to make up a one-tenth of a second deficit in the final heat of the competition, then skidded a bit just before the finish line — but had just enough speed to prevail.
“That's a great performance," German coach Norbert Loch said. “And now, beer. We earned it.”
Geisenberger is now a six-time gold medalist — three in a row in the women’s race, three in a row in relays. Same for Wendl and Arlt, who have pulled off the doubles-then-relay sweep in each of the last three Olympics. Ludwig is merely a three-time gold medalist, after being part of the relay triumph in 2018 and then climbing atop the podium twice this week.
Those four sliders, combined: 15 Olympic gold medals.
Every non-German luge nation, combined: 14 Olympic gold medals.
The United States was seventh, with one Olympic career ending and three others just starting. Chris Mazdzer — the four-time Olympian and 2018 men’s silver medalist — is done on this stage, confirming that he's going to retire after one final farewell World Cup race.
Mazdzer teamed up with Ashley Farquharson and the doubles team of Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander for the relay, with a finishing time of 3:05.741.
And afterward, Mazdzer said the future of the team is bright.
“I think we have absolutely amazing athletes," Mazdzer said. “I know every athlete at USA Luge pushes so hard to become the best."
For Farquharson, DiGregorio and Hollander, Beijing represented an Olympic debut. Mazdzer brought the team in for a group hug when the run was over, and they were all smiles afterward.
“I think this being our first Olympics and how we performed this last week is amazing," Farquharson said. “We can only go up from here."
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SPRINGVILLE, Utah, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home Services Summit, the first-ever conference created exclusively for home services franchisees and franchisors, is set to take place virtually on February 17th and 18th, 2022. The conference, in tandem with the monthly Home Services Summit Webinar Series, aims to provide an environment for home services franchisees and franchisors to network, hear from industry experts and learn new business-growth strategies.
"I created the Home Services Summit to meet the unique needs of franchisors at a time when the home services vertical is becoming one of the leading opportunities in franchising," said CEO, Scott Abbott. "At the summit, attendees will hear from thought leaders in the industry and how they built and created some of the industry's most successful franchising brands."
Event highlights include eight engaging panels featuring 20+ panelists from prominent companies like Five Star Franchising, Horse Power Brands, Junkluggers, Franchise Fastlane and Princeton Equity Group. The summit will feature two keynote speakers: Scott Stratten, author and President of UnMarketing, and Greg Nathan, author, business psychologist and Founder of Franchise Relationships Institute. 400+ franchisees and franchisors are expected to attend.
"At the conference, we're going to cover some hugely important topics in the home services franchising world, including third-party lead generation, customer financing, closing sales and selling your company," said Abbott. "We're excited to share this collective of knowledge from industry visionaries to our attendees and help this lucrative industry continue to grow."
Interested franchisees and franchisors in the home services industry can visit https://events.hubilo.com/home-services-summit/register to register. The cost for attendance is $49 for franchisees, $99 for franchisors and $199 for vendors and suppliers. Registration closes the day of the event.
For more information, visit https://homeservicessummit.com/annual-summit-home-services-summit-2022/.
ABOUT HOME SERVICES SUMMIT:
Started in 2021, Home Services Summit was founded with the mission of creating an environment where home services franchisors and franchisees can connect with and learn from others in the home services space. For more information, visit https://homeservicessummit.com/.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acceptance Insurance (OTCQX: FACO), a leading provider of auto insurance and related products, has been named to Forbes' 2022 list of America's Best Employers. Acceptance employs over 1,300 team members serving more than 300 neighborhoods in 13 states nationwide.
This prestigious award is determined by an independent survey of 60,000 American workers across 25 different industries, indicating their willingness to recommend their own employers to family and friends.
Based on the results of the study, Acceptance Insurance ranks among the top 500 mid-sized U.S. employers receiving the most recommendations.
"We're honored to be recognized for creating one of the most welcoming and fulfilling workplaces in the country," said Larry Willeford, President and CEO of Acceptance Insurance. "At Acceptance, we find passion in our purpose because it extends far beyond insurance. Our service vision is to take care of each other – our colleagues, the customers we serve, and the communities we call home. I'm proud to be part of a team that rigorously pursues that vision in the words we use, the commitments we make, and the way we treat others."
This year's Forbes list winners competed in the hottest U.S. job market in recent history. Near pre-pandemic demand for workers is being met with limited supplies as more team members consider their options and opportunities. A recent hiring survey found that insurance industry recruiting remains "extremely competitive" as more than half of all companies anticipate increasing staff levels in 2022.
This demand in hiring comes after many months of layoffs and closures spurred by COVID-19 and related underwriting losses within the industry. Last year, one out of every five insurance companies reported that it had decreased staff size up to 20 percent.
Acceptance Insurance has avoided similar layoffs, remaining open throughout the pandemic with consistent staffing levels and robust safety protocols in place. Instead of downsizing, the company chose to double-down on initiatives that promote its culture both inside and outside of the office.
Last year, Acceptance launched its "Get a Smile, Give a Smile" sweepstakes to help individuals and charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Feeding America, The Humane Society of the United States, Wounded Warrior Project, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
In December, the company wrapped up a three-month campaign recognizing hundreds of outstanding team members. Acceptance also recently launched EmpowHER, the company's team member resource group, to support female-identifying team members and allies.
"The timing of this recognition is especially important to all of us," added Willeford. "Even while competition for talented team members is at an all-time high, Acceptance stands apart as an inclusive, people-first company where everyone succeeds together."
To learn more about career opportunities at Acceptance Insurance, visit acceptanceinsurance.com/careers.
About Acceptance Insurance
Acceptance Insurance (OTCQX: FACO) is both an omnichannel insurance agency and insurance carrier operating in 13 states across 338 retail locations. Their team of 1300-plus focuses on developing long-term relationships with historically underserved customers and those who prefer more flexible payment schedules and greater risk tolerance. Local community engagement, supported by robust digital messaging on owned and earned platforms, gives each agency a local feel and the resources of an institutional carrier.
The technology that powers their claims department and the values that comprise the Acceptance culture both serve their mission: passionately helping hard-working people deal with life's uncertainty. This commitment to service is evident in their A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.
Additional information can be found online at www.acceptance.com.
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MELVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a Read & Publish agreement with the University of Malaga, Spain, starting in 2022. This is AIP Publishing's first Read & Publish agreement in Spain.
During the three years covered by the agreement, 2022-2024, researchers at the University of Malaga will be able to publish open access without incurring article processing charges (APCs) in 10 of AIP Publishing's hybrid journals, including Applied Physics Letters, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, and Review of Scientific Instruments. They will also benefit from unlimited reading access to 20 AIP Publishing titles.
"We are delighted to be partnering with AIP Publishing in this agreement," said Juan Teodomiro López-Navarrete, the University of Malaga's Vice-Chancellor for Research and Transfer. "We aim to support our researchers in publishing their work as easily and widely as possible. The addition of AIP Publishing journals to their open access options is an important step forward for them, for the University, and for science in Spain."
"We are delighted that our first Read & Publish agreement in Spain is in partnership with the University of Malaga," said Penelope Lewis, AIP Publishing's Chief Publishing Officer. "We hope that this agreement will encourage other institutions to consider similar partnerships to broaden opportunities for researchers and authors."
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA
The University of Malaga is a young, growing university with about 40,000 students, renowned for quality teaching, cutting-edge research, and knowledge transfer. Whilst maintaining strong regional ties it has an established international outlook. Together with the University of Seville, The University of Malaga is a key collaborator in the Andalucía TechPark, which focuses on leading areas of research and maintains strategic alliances with more than 150 companies.
ABOUT AIP PUBLISHING
AIP Publishing's mission is to advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanity by breaking barriers to open, equitable research communication and empowering researchers to accelerate global progress. AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and support the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities on its behalf and on behalf of our publishing partners.
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Samantha Lee tied for the all-around title, won the floor exercise and finished second in two other events to lead Ocean Lakes to a sixth consecutive Class 6 Region A gymnastics championship Wednesday night.
Lee and Kellam’s Ericka Robinson tied for the all-around championship, and Ocean Lakes’ Katie Wilkinson was third.
The Dolphins’ string of region titles began with the 2016-17 season, and Ocean Lakes won state title in 2020.
On Wednesday, Ocean Lakes’ Rebekkah Funderburk won the uneven bars, followed by Lee and Kellam’s Rylee Gibson.
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The Dolphins swept the top three spots in the balance beam, led by Mackenzie Murphy. Wilkinson was second and Lee finished third.
Lee was followed in the floor by teammate Lelia Snellinger and Kellam’s Robertson.
Robertson won the vault, followed by Lee and Landstown’s Amelia Steinemer.
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Class 6 Region A championships
All-around: 1t. Samantha Lee (Ocean Lakes) and Ericka Robertson (Kellam); 3. Katie Wilkinson (OL). Uneven bars: 1. Rebekkah Funderburk (OL); 2. Lee (OL); 3t. Rylee Gibson (Kel) and Robertson (Kel). Balance beam: Mackenzie Murphy (OL); 2. Wilkinson (OL); 3. Lee (OL). Floor exercise: 1. Lee (OL); 2. Lelia Snellinger (OL); 3. Robertson (OL). Vault: 1. Robertson (Kel); 2. Lee (OL); 3. Amelia Steinemer (Landstown). | https://www.pilotonline.com/757teamz/vp-sp-region-gymnastics-20220210-uaqztvur7na37lyfs5xob6xmgm-story.html | 2022-02-10T16:19:49 | en | 0.882122 |
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Restorative Elements, Alchemee's first of many new brands, focuses on helping to correct the appearance of various types of skin hyperpigmentation and discoloration including sunspots, age spots, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) and uneven skin tone. The Restorative Elements new Restorative Routine is a dermatologist-developed, clinically-proven routine formulated to work together to gently and safely help fade the visible signs of skin hyperpigmentation so consumers can say hello to their skin, uninhibited. With science-backed and safe ingredients that can be used twice a day, every day, makeup can now belong in the "only if you want to" moments.
This synergistic three-step routine is designed to take the guesswork out of improving the appearance of multiple types of discoloration with a proprietary brightening blend containing Niacinamide, Licorice Root, and Centella Asiatica. These ingredients were purposefully chosen and curated by experts and leading dermatologists due to the significant research and clinical studies proving their ability to help visibly correct dark marks and spots.
"At Alchemee, we are committed to helping people build confidence for life by providing solutions to their skin concerns," said Shannon Pappas, General Manager of Alchemee. "From Proactiv, we know the struggles that people with acne deal with, even after their acne has cleared. The dark spots left behind is what sparked the creation of Restorative Elements and with the help of our top experts, we created a line of products that expands beyond post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and helps visibly tackle the appearance of many types of hyperpigmentation while still being safe and gentle enough for twice daily use."
The Restorative Elements routine is suitable for all skin types, is free of parabens, phthalates, oil and bleaching agents including hydroquinone, and is dermatologist-developed and clinically-tested. The Restorative Routine consists of three steps including:
- Step 1: Brightening Gel Cleanser: An antioxidant and vitamin-rich gel cleanser that gently lathers to remove impurities while nourishing skin and helping to reduce the appearance of hyperpigmentation. The Brightening Gel Cleanser should be used in morning and evening routines.
- Step 2: AHA Resurfacing Pads: These exfoliating pads feature chemical and physical exfoliants for the best of both worlds. Textured, weaved pads formulated with 6% glycolic acid help refine and smooth overall texture as well as help fade the look of dark marks and spots. The AHA Pads should be used all over the face at night and can be used to spot treat specific pigmented areas in the morning.
- Step 3: Dark Mark Corrector: A silky, lightweight corrective moisturizer that helps to visibly fade the appearance of dark marks and spots while moisturizing and nourishing the skin. The Dark Mark Corrector should be used in morning and evening routines, followed by an SPF during the day.
"Hyperpigmentation is considered a chronic skin condition and the most important elements of choosing a skincare regimen for chronic conditions are safety and efficacy," said consulting board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Rachel Nazarian. "With a chronic condition, you're using ingredients long term, so those ingredients need to be proven safe over a prolonged period of use. I love that all products in the Restorative Elements lineup contain botanical or vitamin-derived ingredients such as Niacinamide, Licorice Root, and Centella Asiatica that have a strong science-backed track record of success and together, form an impressive skincare system that is an accessible alternative to in-office treatments."
In clinical trials, 92% of users saw skin texture improvement, 90% said their post-acne dark marks had reduced, and 92% noticed their skin looked more radiant after 8 weeks of continued use of all three products.1
Learn more about Restorative Elements and focus on bright days ahead at restorativeelements.com.
For more information about Alchemee, visit alchemee.com
About Restorative Elements
Restorative Elements is the clinically-proven, dermatologist-developed skincare routine formulated to gently and safely help fade the visible signs of skin hyperpigmentation (PIH) and uneven skin tone – when used daily as directed. Brought to you by Alchemee, the makers of the Proactiv acne skincare brand, to provide solutions that are as effective as they are transformative.
About Alchemee
Alchemee, formerly The Proactiv Company, is an industry leader in developing solution-based skincare systems. Alchemee takes medically-based breakthrough technologies and combines them with the best condition-based treatment fighters into clinically-proven regimens. Proactiv is Alchemee's flagship brand, America's #1 acne routine, and has been used and trusted by millions around the world. Proactiv has been recognized with more than 40 awards and honors from the beauty and health industry.
1 Based on self-evaluations of 37 users in a clinical study using the entire routine
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WASHINGTON — Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering America’s consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy.
The Labor Department said Thursday that consumer prices jumped 7.5% last month compared with 12 months earlier, the steepest year-over-year increase since February 1982. Shortages of supplies and workers, heavy doses of federal aid, ultra-low interest rates and robust consumer spending combined to send inflation accelerating in the past year.
When measured from December to January, inflation was 0.6%, the same as the previous month and more than economists had expected. Prices had risen 0.7% from October to November and 0.9% from September to October.
There are few signs that inflation will slow significantly anytime soon. Most of the factors that have forced up prices since last spring remain in place: Wages are rising at the fastest pace in at least 20 years. Ports and warehouses are overwhelmed, with hundreds of workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest, out sick last month. Many products and parts remain in short supply as a result.
The steady surge in prices has left many Americans less able to afford food, gas, rent, child care and other necessities. More broadly, inflation has emerged as the biggest risk factor for the economy and as a serious threat to President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats as midterm elections loom later this year.
The Fed and its chair, Jerome Powell, have pivoted sharply away from the ultra-low-interest rate policies that the Fed pursued since the pandemic devastated the economy in March 2020. Powell signaled two weeks ago that the central bank would likely raise its benchmark short-term rate multiple times this year, with the first hike almost surely coming in March. Investors have priced in at least five rate increases for 2022.
Over time, those higher rates will raise the costs for a wide range of borrowing, from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and corporate credit. For the Fed, the risk is that in steadily tightening credit for consumers and businesses, it could trigger another recession.
Many large corporations, in conference calls with investors, have said they expect supply shortages to persist until at least the second half of this year. Companies from Chipotle to Levi’s have also warned that they will likely raise prices again this year, after having already done so in 2021.
Chipotle said it’s increased menu prices 10% to offset the rising costs of beef and transportation as well as higher employee wages. And the restaurant chain said it will consider further price increases if inflation keeps rising.
“We keep thinking that beef is going to level up and then go down, and it just hasn’t happened yet,” said John Hartung, the company’s chief financial officer.
Executives at Chipotle, as well as at Starbucks and some other consumer-facing companies, have said their customers so far don’t seem fazed by the higher prices.
Levi Strauss & Co. raised prices last year by roughly 7% above 2019 levels because of rising costs, including labor, and plans to do so again this year. Even so, the San Francisco-based company has upgraded its sales forecasts for 2022.
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“Right now, every signal we’re seeing is positive,” CEO Chip Bergh told analysts.
Many small businesses, which typically have lower profit margins than larger companies and have struggled to match their sizable pay raises, are also raising prices. The National Federation for Independent Business, a trade group, said it found in a monthly survey that 61% of small companies raised their prices in January, the largest proportion since 1974 and up from just 15% before the pandemic.
“More small business owners started the new year raising prices in an attempt to pass on higher inventory, supplies and labor costs,” said Bill Dunkelberg, the NFIB’s chief economist. “In addition to inflation issues, owners are also raising compensation at record-high rates to attract qualified employees to their open positions.”
Those pay gains could eventually force additional price hikes as companies seek to cover the costs of the higher wages.
In the past year, sharp increases in the costs of gas, food, autos and furniture have upended many Americans’ budgets. In December, economists at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School estimated that the average household had to spend $3,500 more than in 2020 to buy an identical basket of goods and services. | https://www.pilotonline.com/business/ct-biz-us-consumer-prices-20220210-jsjme4bl5fatlaok46cjubtt64-story.html | 2022-02-10T16:19:54 | en | 0.975888 |
Newport News Shipbuilding’s operating earnings — the difference between revenue and the cost of building and overhauling Navy ships — jumped last year, largely because of better performance on Virginia-class submarines and a recovery from 2020′s pandemic-affected results.
The shipyard’s earnings for the year rose 51% to $352 million, even though revenue was up less than 2% to $5.66 billion.
Its parent company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, said net earnings — its after-tax profit — fell nearly 22% to $544 million, or $13.50 per share. HII’s revenue rose just under 2% to $9.52 billion.
HII’s net was hit by a less favorable accounting adjustment of pension and postretirement plan expenses to reconcile the standards used for publicly-traded companies and those required under U.S. government cost accounting standards.
HII president and chief executive Mike Petters said 2021 was “another year of consistent program execution in the face of a challenging operational environment on multiple fronts.”
At Newport News, higher revenue on aircraft carrier and submarine work came from the new Block V Virginia-class and Columbia-class submarines program, as well as the overhaul and refueling of USS John C. Stennis and stepped up work on the two newest Ford-class carriers, the Enterprise and Doris Miller.
Those gains were somewhat offset by a decline in nuclear support services, however.
In the last quarter of the year, meanwhile, the shipyard christened Virginia-class submarine New Jersey. The overhaul and refueling of USS George Washington is 94% complete and construction of the carrier John F. Kenney is 83% complete.
Looking ahead, Newport News expects this year to complete the overhaul and refueling of USS George Washington this year, finish maintenance and modernization on USS Gerald R. Ford and begin testing the electromagnetic catapult on the Kennedy.
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This year will also see the yard deliver the submarine Montana, as well as completion of an overhaul of USS Helena.
Next year, the shipyard is set to deliver the submarine New Jersey, while float off for the submarine Massachusetts and the crew move onto the Kennedy are also planned.
HII expects modest growth in revenue this year from its shipyards in Newport News and Mississippi, along with improved profit margin, and is looking for a roughly 70% rise in revenue from its Technical Solutions division, which includes its unmanned vessels operation in Hampton.
Petters said the company “completed transformational changes” at Technical Solutions, saying it is in position for “sustainable, long-term value creation.”
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When you hear of a message in a bottle, perhaps the term calls to mind faraway images of someone stranded on a remote island or penning love letters centuries ago.
But they turn up more often — and closer — than you might think.
One environmental organization has come across dozens of them while cleaning up America’s rivers: everything from treasure maps to loneliness-fueled pleas to the universe, stuffed inside glass bottles or even Gatorade containers.
Curious what’s inside? Now’s your chance to find out.
Nauticus in downtown Norfolk recently launched the “Message in a Bottle” exhibition. It runs through April 24.
The traveling exhibit is in partnership with Living Lands & Waters, an Illinois-based nonprofit that has conducted about 1,400 major river cleanups in 21 states since launching in the late 1990s.
Founder Chad Pregracke said he started the organization after growing up near the Mississippi River. He was in the water all the time, diving for mussel shells, among other activities, and constantly came across garbage.
“I wanted to do something about it because it bothered me,” he said. “I thought people would care and want to see it cleaned up. ... and I was right.”
Pregracke now spends stretches of time on a barge used to clean the Mississippi and other rivers, along with towboats, workboats and cranes.
Volunteers come across all sorts of things — bowling balls, kitchen appliances. But “the top of the pyramid,” the apex, he said, is a message in a bottle.
“If you find a message in a bottle you’re kind of a king or queen,” he said. “They’re fun to find.”
When one is found, the crew takes it back to the barge and opens it to reveal the message.
“There’s that intrigue,” he said.
In some cases, they weren’t necessarily meant to be found, with the author writing to a higher power. Others include contact information and addresses.
Pregracke has occasionally been able to connect with the people who wrote them. He’s also tried investigating the occasional treasure map, to no avail.
Some bottles travel hundreds of miles from their origin, traversing creeks to end up in a major river.
Pregracke has a couple favorites from over the years.
One is a glass jar that contains a presidential portrait of President Bill Clinton.
“I thought that was kind of cool because it’s just so random,” he said.
Another was a piece of guitar sheet music found in a 40-ounce Budweiser bottle where the Wabash River meets the Ohio. It was titled “Lavender For You.” After a national newspaper did a story on it several years ago, a man called to say he’d written it for a girlfriend who broke his heart. The man also accurately described the location where it was found, which hadn’t been mentioned in the story.
Stephen Kirkland, executive director of Nauticus, said the museum reached out to Living Lands & Waters about a year ago when the staff heard of the traveling exhibit.
“We are a museum quite literally built on the banks of a river,” he said. “It’s important we share these messages of environmental conservation and stewardship.”
Though the bottles travel, Nauticus built the displays — a more artistic venture than the maritime museum usually handles. The displays describe the location, timing and contents of each message in a bottle.
“Ahoy My name is Charlie, I am 14 in 8th grade” at a school in New Jersey, one message reads, adding that the writer’s class had recently read “The Lightning Thief” and was releasing the bottle in the Delaware River. “I higly recommend the book. Please write back. Anchors Away Semper Fi.”
One soda bottle found in Washington, D.C., contains strands of human hair. A group of three vegetable oil bottles has pages from the Bible dipped in oil.
“Why? Who knows,” Kirkland said. “There’s a human element to all this that’s just cool.”
Messages in a bottle have it all, he said: romance, lore, history. Nauticus is also focusing on the conservation aspect, including programming about plastics pollution.
“Our message is, don’t do this,” Kirkland said with a laugh. “What we’re looking at basically is trash. But someone created art out of trash and it’s just gorgeous.”
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When: Through April 24
Where: Nauticus, 1 Waterside Drive, Norfolk
Tickets: General museum admission, $11.50 for ages 4 through 12; $15.95 for ages 13 and up.
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It used to be cruel to break someone’s heart — especially around Valentine’s Day.
Now, it’s a popular request.
Breakable chocolate hearts — molded candy shells that are broken to reveal hidden goodies — came into vogue in 2018 when Kim Kardashian asked A-list Chef Chris Ford to fashion more than 100 for a fragrance campaign.
They’ve been a social media sweetheart ever since.
Local baking shops such as Wine and Cake Hobbies in Norfolk and online sites including Walmart and Amazon sell molds and small wooden mallets for DIYers. Williams Sonoma online carries Ford’s Butter Love & Hardwork hearts for $130.
Local bakeries are making the treats for more than half the price, most between $40 and $60.
Erica Cary of Guilty Pleasures Treats, an online bakery based in Norfolk, markets them around V-Day but “they can be for any event.” Cary loads Guilty Pleasures’ crackable hearts with jelly beans at Easter and, for graduations, converts chocolate into school colors and decorates the top with an edible photo image in a gold fondant frame.
Cary can use bittersweet or milk chocolate, but a white chocolate heart colored red is her standard, outselling her other V-Day specialties. The heart can be embellished with a message and comes with a mini wooden mallet.
She typically fills the heart with Hershey’s Kisses and foil-wrapped solid chocolate hearts, but the core can be anything a heart desires: M&M’s, fun-sized Snickers, petits fours, conversation hearts, sprinkles, love notes. Even gift cards.
Just like the human heart, however, it is fragile.
“You have to balance the content’s weight with the strength of the chocolate mold,” said Mary Griffith of Virginia’s Finest Chocolates by Mary, in Williamsburg.
At The Williamsburg Chocolatier, Maryann Boho advised packing the delectable tickers only with “solid stuff.”
“It won’t gush out after you hit it,” she said. “No chocolate-covered cherries.”
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Because of Valentine’s Day, many aspiring fiancés want to place a diamond ring inside for the surprise. Some bakers shy away from that, suggesting a plastic stand-in in case the object of their affection gets heavy-handed during demolition.
Not Nohemi Ortiz. Sixty percent of her Lovely Hearts Virginia Beach business is breakables, including vegan and sugar-free varieties. She’s comfortable enclosing boxed jewelry.
She said her clients “tend to be careful.”
Men usually buy them for their significant other, while women treat their gal pals or children. The breaking is a cathartic release for the recently jilted and a safe way for kids to have double the fun — breaking the heart and eating its pieces.
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The addition of Romatier accelerates GainShare's performance marketing leadership and recent client growth.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading performance marketing agency, GainShare, has hired Alesha Romatier as the company's Senior Vice President, Head of Accounts and Strategy. Romatier will lead GainShare's account teams overseeing clients' performance marketing strategy and delivery.
With decades of experience in performance marketing on the agency, publisher, and brand side, Romatier brings a wide scope of knowledge to GainShare. She previously has held senior level positions at Publicis, FTD, Leapfrog Online/iProspect and most recently lead customer acquisition at insurance provider, Benefytt. Her leadership will further GainShare's integrated marketing efforts and strategy for account management teams, ultimately delivering market share for clients.
Romatier will be based out of the company's Chicago office and will report to Cass Baker, President and COO of GainShare. Alesha reunites with past Leapfrog colleagues Baker, Matt Kelley, EVP of Performance Digital & Analytics and Alex Marsh, Director of Performance Analytics.
"We are thrilled to announce Alesha is joining GainShare to lead our account teams," said Baker. "Leading our clients in a constantly changing marketing environment requires strong leadership in all aspects of what we do. Alesha's combination of client and services side experience gives her a depth and understanding of all sides of the direct-to-consumer marketing equation. Our clients' look to us to build their brands and drive new revenue, we're confident that Alesha's experience and leadership give her a unique understanding and perspective to deliver results."
GainShare continues to broaden their offerings as the market changes accelerate and client needs demand it. Over the past year GainShare has grown its performance creative team, expanded its core DRTV/CTV solutions twofold, and grown its addressable and performance media business. The addition of Romatier's expertise and invaluable insights caps off an unprecedented year for GainShare.
"GainShare is an experienced performance marketing agency with a unique story and background that will resonate with marketers in every industry," said Romatier. "Their holistic understanding of their client's marketing mix, customer journey, and consideration of the interplay between customer acquisition, brand and awareness building and channel mix is unparalleled. I'm thrilled to lead and further enhance the integrated efforts and client-first mindset that GainShare is known for."
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GainShare brings 35+ years of deep expertise and proven response-generating techniques to every aspect of performance marketing. With offices in Chicago and Toronto, we provide performance marketing services including strategy, creative, digital, media and analytics. We are scientific, creative, predictive marketers who are passionate about driving bottom-line measurable results that accelerate our clients' businesses. GainShare consistently over-delivers on acquisition and profit objectives—offering solutions that help our clients grow their brands and gain share of market. https://www.gainshare.com
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PHOENIX, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpine 4 Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALPP), a leading operator and owner of small market businesses, has announced that its vertically integrated subsidiaries Vayu Aerospace Corporation (Vayu), ElecJet and Quality Circuit Assembly (QCA) have successfully incorporated ElecJet's Solid-State Battery into a new battery assembly capable of delivering 1.55kw of power, named the "Vayu A4M1 Power System." The A4M1 is roughly 2.5 times more powerful than its current lithium-ion power pack and can extend the G1's vertical flight capabilities with heavier payloads, if necessary. The battery cell is fire resistant, can be punctured and still operate, giving the G1 best in class safety and reliability. The battery is also capable of fast charging at a rate of 4C, which equates to a 15-minute charge time.
TK Eppley, President of Vayu Aerospace Corporation, had this to say, "Interest for our US-1, US-2, and G1 is building with customers around the world. The company has also received inquiries from several customers in the gas exploration and aerial surveillance sectors specifically for our A4M1 powered G1. We believe the addition of the A4M1 battery pack will redefine what is possible in autonomous flight and lead to increased sales moving forward."
Kent B. Wilson of Alpine 4 commented: "The electrification of aviation and aerospace is on the forefront of what we are doing at Alpine 4 and across our subsidiaries. The vertical integration of Vayu, Elecjet and QCA clearly demonstrates the strength of our DSF business model when multiple subsidiaries align on a project. Our next generation US-2 will be one of the world's first airframes designed around a Solid-State Power System. The use of our solid-state battery technology will be a key component in the future of electric flight due to its reliability, safety and charging speeds."
About Alpine 4 Holdings: Alpine 4 Holdings, Inc. (ALPP) is a NASDAQ traded conglomerate that acquires businesses that fit into its disruptive DSF business model of Drivers, Stabilizers, and Facilitators. At Alpine 4, we understand the nature of how technology and innovation can accentuate a business. Our focus is on how the adaptation of new technologies, even in brick-and-mortar businesses, can drive innovation. We also believe that our holdings should benefit synergistically from each other, have the ability to collaborate across varying industries, spawn new ideas, and create fertile ground for competitive advantages.
Four principles at the core of our business are Synergy. Innovation. Drive. Excellence. At Alpine 4, we believe synergistic innovation drives excellence. By anchoring these words to our combined experience and capabilities, we can aggressively pursue opportunities within and across vertical markets. We deliver solutions that not only drive industry standards, but also increase value for our shareholders.
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RICHMOND — Roughly 400 children age out of foster care each year in Virginia, and a local legislator is working to ensure they all have a safety net to keep them off the streets.
Del. Anne Ferrell Tata, R-Virginia Beach, introduced a bill that would provide a $470 monthly housing allowance for six months to teens leaving the foster system. The legislation received bipartisan support and passed the House of Delegates on Tuesday.
“These are very vulnerable kids who can fall through the cracks,” Tata told The Virginian-Pilot. “We have a lot of moms and dads in the House of Delegates and I think the bill really resonated with parents.”
Teens aging out of traditional foster care have some assistance in Virginia. Fostering Futures, a program offered by the Department of Social Services, lets young adults stay within the system until they turn 21. Those who want to participate must register for the program, regularly go to school or work and attend a variety of meetings.
Tata said Fostering Futures is a wonderful program — but it doesn’t work for everyone. Some teens had such awful experiences in foster care they want out of the system, she explained. But then they end up struggling to make it on their own.
Others may sign up for Fostering Futures, she said, but get kicked out when they can’t handle the requirements.
“You have to remember what some of these kids have been through,” Tata said, adding tasks that appear manageable to most may be challenging for those struggling with trauma.
The delegate hopes the housing allowance can serve as a short-term safety net that keeps teens off the street while they reconsider Fostering Futures or explore other options.
The plan would cost about $626,521 annually, according to the bill’s fiscal impact statement.
Tata said she reached out to groups helping foster children shortly after her winning her seat in November to learn about their challenges. Explaining she has a strong faith, Tata said she feels a responsibility to look out for Virginia’s youth.
Several nonprofits spoke in favor of the bill during a House subcommittee meeting last month, including Connect with a Wish, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Children’s Home Society of Virginia and Hampton Roads’ chapter of Standup for Kids.
“We absolutely support this bill,” said Cassie Baudean, director of policy and strategic operations for CHSV. “Virginia has one of the highest numbers of youth aging out in the country and nationwide we know between 20-25% of those youth end up homeless within two years.”
The Department of Social Services does not have a position on the bill, according to an agency representative who spoke at the meeting.
In an interview with the Pilot, Mark Stevens, executive director of Standup for Kids, said many of the homeless youth they help in Hampton Roads aged out of foster care. He said his organization recently took in an 18-year-old girl who aged out of the system in August. She quickly sought support from a man she met online who offered to care for her. Instead, she became a victim of human trafficking.
“Within in the first 48 hours of homelessness, they will usually end up being preyed on in some way,” Stevens said. “This bill could go a long way to saving these kids’ lives.”
According to a December report from the Virginia Department of Social Services, there were 47 foster care children in Hampton, 106 in Newport News, 160 in Norfolk and 199 in Virginia Beach.
Aprille Hipe, 23, was among those numbers. The Virginia Beach receptionist said she opted to join Fostering Futures when she aged out of the system at 18. Hipe was able to keep up with the program’s demands, but believes those who can’t deserve another source of short-term support.
“Foster kids are always under stress,” she said. “I never knew what was going to happen next or where we were going to go next. Situations like that make people do stupid, crazy things.”
Melvin Roy, 21, also spent years in the Virginia foster care system. The Old Dominion University student said he had four different homes throughout high school.
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Roy joined Fostering Futures when he turned 18. But he said some of the other teens he knew didn’t see it as an option.
“A lot of people who had terrible experiences — they just wanted to break away from the whole system,” Roy said. “My experience was a roller coaster, but it wasn’t to the point where I was done with the system.”
Roy said he supports the bill, and any efforts to offer support to teenage foster children.
“They are the most overlooked population just because of their age and the assumptions people make about them,” he said. “But they are human and people need to get to know them and see what kind of heart they have.”
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PHILADELPHIA and ATLANTA, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anexinet Corporation, a Mill Point Capital LLC portfolio company, and Veristor Systems Inc. announced today that they are merging. The unified company will offer full-lifecycle expertise across the complete technology landscape and deliver the superior technical experience customers need to make informed decisions in today's complex digital world.
The merging of Veristor and Anexinet brings a highly complementary, innovative solution and service portfolio that addresses the increasing need for diverse, scalable skills as well as secure, intelligent solutions. The importance of this growing segment has continued to expand throughout the pandemic as companies focus on better enabling their hybrid workforce, engaging with their customers through all digital channels, and managing the growing risk of security threats. Together, they will guide customers' technology strategies including insights into what to buy, what to build, how best to manage, and how to secure critical enterprise environments to improve market share and reduce costs.
"Veristor is an advanced technology solutions provider with deep expertise in security, storage, networking, DevOps, and collaboration," said Brian Glahn, CEO, Anexinet. "This merger demonstrates our commitment to delivering solutions that materially improve our clients' business operations while enabling seamless experiences across touchpoints, locations, and channels. Not only does the merger double the size of our customer base, it greatly expands our engineering capabilities and delivery teams to allow us to better serve our customers."
"Anexinet's mission as a value-led company with a passion that puts people-first is perfectly aligned with Veristor's culture, making them an ideal partner," said Ashby Lincoln, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Veristor. "By combining our expertise, resources, and geographical reach we are creating a technology solution and service powerhouse. Together, Anexinet and Veristor have the combined strategy, design, engineering, security and managed services practices that will further accelerate technology time-to-value for our mutual clients as they modernize and transform the digital environments that run their businesses."
Leveraging Mill Point Capital, Anexinet is building a single company that is truly aligned with what enterprise-class organizations want to build but can't achieve on their own or by relying on a single hardware or software vendor.
"This merger, following Anexinet's fully-integrated acquisitions of SereneIT and Light Networks for their automation, CCaaS, and UCaaS solutions, demonstrates the continued commitment to provide innovative, secure solutions to their clients," said Michael Perdue, Anexinet Chairman of the Board and Mill Point Capital Executive Partner. "Combining Anexinet and Veristor significantly expands their product and service offerings and amplifies their go to market capability while providing enhanced value to their customers and partners."
The merger of Anexinet and Veristor is effective today. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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From intelligent, full-stack engagement strategies and solutions to modern, secure infrastructure products and services, Anexinet focuses on technology-enabled business transformation that drives value. For over two decades, Anexinet has helped companies worldwide solve their most complex challenges—from engaging front-end interactions to dependable back-end solutions. Anexinet's record of client success springs from a culture rooted in thought leadership and delivery excellence. For more information, please visit http://www.anexinet.com or follow Anexinet on Twitter or LinkedIn.
About Veristor
A leading provider of transformative business technology solutions, Veristor helps its customers accelerate the time-to-value for the software, infrastructure, and systems they deploy. We do this by harnessing deep expertise in today's most advanced data center, security, networking, hybrid cloud, and big data technologies and guiding businesses to the right solutions for their most pressing challenges. And with a full suite of design, deployment, support, and managed service offerings, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers at every step of their technology journey to make technology truly work for them. For more information, please visit veristor.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
About Mill Point Capital
Mill Point Capital LLC is a private equity firm focused on control investments in lower-middle market companies, with a focus on the industrials, business services and IT services sectors in North America. Mill Point's experienced team of investors and Executive Partners seek portfolio company value enhancement through rigorous implementation of transformative strategic initiatives and operational improvements. Mill Point is based in New York, NY. For more information, please visit www.millpoint.com.
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757 Collab in Norfolk hired Eastern Shore native Travis Young as director of diversity, equity and inclusion and strategic partnerships to help Hampton Roads build a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem.
757 Collab, located in the Assembly campus in downtown Norfolk, coordinates the efforts and resources of the 757 Angels investor group, the 757 Accelerate business-growing program and 757 Startup Studios workspace. The organization had partnered with entrepreneurial leader Techstars to assess the region’s ecosystem. While highlighting many regional strengths, the report also noted an inclusion gap in that the demographics of local tech entrepreneurs don’t represent the community at large — a problem not unique to Hampton Roads.
That’s where Young, who grew up in Cape Charles, is going to get to work by building relationships that can lead to critical partnerships, and, ultimately, help more entrepreneurs build their businesses, said Monique Adams, 757 Collab managing director.
Young brings experience through inclusion efforts with the New York City Department of Education and The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. He launched a nonprofit called Nationhood that uses research on legislation, policy, and other initiatives to create social impact campaigns that amplify causes to a broader audience. He’s founded a number of projects that build collectives around social justice topics.
Young shared more about his experience and next steps in answers to Inside Business questions.
What do you hope to accomplish with 757 Collab and in the region?
My goal is to listen first. Although I was born and raised here, I haven’t lived here full-time in almost 15 years. Even though a lot has changed, a lot remains the same. I want to ensure that I’ve done my due diligence to ensure that I’m interfacing with all of the right stakeholders who have been doing the work of expanding the ecosystems before I create programs that no one wants.
What do you think are the strengths of Hampton Roads? What attracted you here?
During the beginning, I started to think about what I wanted out of life, how I wanted to spend my time, and where I wanted to be geographically. I’m not alone on that train of thought. We see it with the Great Resignation. For me, I wanted to be closer to family, and this moment felt like the perfect time to make a significant shift. I left New York City in October of 2020 during the early onset of the COVID-19. This move was supposed to be temporary, but I ended up staying and realizing that Hampton Roads is home. The strength is in the people and their resilience. Your favorite’s favorite is likely from Virginia.
What are some of the region’s challenges?
All I see are opportunities but ask me that question again in six months.
How will your experiences, both in your career and personally, guide you in your new role?
After graduating from Bayside High School, I moved to Richmond to attend Virginia Commonwealth University (Go Rams). VCU is a very diverse school in terms of culture and ethnicities. I was very active on campus. As the co-founder/president of the Economics Club, I was always trying to recruit new members to join, so I took advantage of meeting people who did not look like me. That stuck with me while living in Chicago and NYC. The ability to network has now evolved into the ability to be a connector needed in building and growing partnerships.
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Over the course of my career, I’ve also held multiple roles in different industries, so I consider myself to be a generalist, which could be viewed as a gift and curse. For me, I think that having a diverse set of skills gives me more tools that I can leverage to help solve a problem.
What was growing up on the Eastern Shore like?
It was the best. I had the ultimate childhood experience. I remember riding my bike, go-cart racing with my cousin and having massive water balloon fights in the neighborhood. On the land, we had all types of fruit trees. I loved picking figs off the tree with my grandmother and helping her make preserves. Life was so simple then.
What motivates you?
My family. I do everything in support of them.
What do you do in your downtime?
I love to travel. I’ve had some of the most transformational experiences abroad. Traveling opens up your worldview, and then you realize how insignificant some things are when you think about it writ large. I also enjoy cooking. I cofounded BLKPalate, a Brooklyn culinary collective that used food as the lens to talk about the intersection of race, class and privilege. My passion for cooking stems from my time sous-cheffing in high school at Harbor Grille in Cape Charles, which is now Brown Dog Ice Cream. | https://www.pilotonline.com/inside-business/vp-ib-757-collab-travis-20220210-yseb2s75c5epbliegkrvmesjz4-story.html | 2022-02-10T16:20:15 | en | 0.972288 |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thailand-based Aonang Princeville Villa Resort & Spa has now earned both GBAC STAR™ Facility Accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council™ (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, and Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA). This means the property is the first in the world to achieve GBAC STAR™ / GHA WellHotel® for Medical Travel and Well-being, which ensure hotels comply with cleaning, disinfection, and infection prevention standards, as well as customer experience and safety protocols specific to the needs and expectation of medical travel and wellness guests.
"Travelers are increasingly considering the ways in which hotels are keeping guests safe ahead of booking their stays," said Patricia Olinger, executive director, GBAC. "Third-party verification of a property's health and safety protocols gives guests confidence that these businesses are prepared to manage biorisks."
According to the Wellness Tourism Association's 2021 Wellness Travel Consumer Survey, which polled 2,500 consumers from 52 countries and territories, the top offering respondents rated as extremely important was a "certified and safe hotel environment." The GBAC STAR / GHA WellHotel® Program aligns GHA's WellHotel® program with GBAC STAR, the cleaning industry's only outbreak prevention, response, and recovery accreditation. The virtual accreditation is performance-based and requires documentation for 38 elements, including cleaning and disinfection chemicals; goals, objectives, and targets related to guest satisfaction for medical travel and wellness guests; audits and inspections; and emergency planning and response.
"We have seen travelers' expectations evolve during the pandemic," said Karen Timmons, CEO, GHA. "As we move past the pandemic, there is growing evidence that travelers will increasingly look for validation of safety, cleanliness and guest experience before booking a trip. The GBAC STAR / GHA WellHotel Accreditation helps build guest trust in your brand by ensuring hotels comply with recognized industry-wide hotel cleaning and sanitation standards, as well as customer experience and safety protocols specific to the needs and expectations of medical travel and wellness guests. I would like to congratulate Aonang Princeville Villa Resort and Spa on achieving GBAC STAR Facility accreditation and becoming the first hotel in the world to achieve the joint GBAC STAR / GHA WellHotel® Accreditation for Medical Travel and Well-being."
Aonang Princeville Villa Resort & Spa is a four-star boutique resort on the beachfront of Aonang, Thailand along the Andaman Sea. The resort provides several wellness activities and services designed to help guests achieve their mental and physical health goals. In addition to wellness, Aonang Princeville Villa focuses on sustainability and attracts environmentally-conscious tourists from around the world to take part in environmental restoration projects.
"Our resort is incredibly proud to offer an environment that helps guests maintain or improve their wellbeing and health," said Khun Kusuma Kinglek, CEO, Aonang Princeville VillaResort & Spa. "Because wellness is at the core of our business, it was only natural for us to pursue and achieve the requirements of the GBAC STAR / GHA WellHotel® for Medical Travel and Well-being programs."
Learn more and apply for GBAC STAR Accreditation at gbac.org/star. Apply for joint GBAC STAR/ GHA WellHotel® Accreditation at wellhotel.org.
Find accredited facilities and those pursuing accreditation via the GBAC STAR Facility Directory at gbac.org/directory.
About GBAC, a Division of ISSA
Composed of international leaders in the field of microbial-pathogenic threat analysis, mitigation, response, and recovery, the Global Biorisk Advisory Council™ (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, provides training, guidance, accreditation, certification, crisis management assistance and leadership to government, commercial, and private entities looking to mitigate, quickly address, and/or recover from biological threats and real-time crises. The organization's services include biorisk management program assessment and training, infectious disease and biological material response and remediation, the GBAC STAR™ Facility and Service Accreditation Programs, training and certification of individuals, and consulting for building owners and facility managers. For more information, visit www.gbac.org.
About ISSA
With more than 10,500 members—including distributors, manufacturers, manufacturer representatives, wholesalers, building service contractors, in-house service providers, residential cleaners, and associated service members—ISSA is the world's leading trade association for the cleaning industry. The association is committed to changing the way the world views cleaning by providing its members with the business tools they need to promote cleaning as an investment in human health, the environment, and an improved bottom line. Headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., USA, the association has regional offices in Milan, Italy; Whitby, Canada; Parramatta, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Shanghai, China. For more information about ISSA, visit www.issa.com or call 800-225-4772 (North America) or 847-982-0800.
About GHA
Global Healthcare Accreditation® (GHA) is an innovative accreditation body with specialized foci in medical and wellness travel, safety, and well-being. Founded in September of 2016, GHA's initial purpose as an independent accrediting body centered on improving the patient experience for medical travelers and supporting healthcare providers in validating quality, increasing visibility, and implementing a sustainable business model for medical travel. Since then, GHA has developed a variety of programs covering the entire spectrum of the care continuum and offers certification and accreditation for stakeholders in all aspects of health and wellbeing. For more information about GHA, visit www.ghaccreditation.com or contact Bill Cook at wellhotel@ghaccreditation.com.
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NEW YORK — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s previous guidance, issued six years ago, helped slow the kind of prescribing that ignited the worst overdose epidemic in U.S. history. But it also caused some doctors to become too quick to cut off patients taking prescription painkillers and too strict in keeping the drugs from patients who might benefit, CDC officials said.
“We began to hear how the guidelines were being misused and misapplied” said the CDC’s Christopher Jones, a co-author of the draft guidance.
The proposed changes, contained in a 229-page draft update in the Federal Register, would roll back some suggested limits on the drugs. Their publication opens a 60-day public comment period. The CDC will consider comments before finalizing the updated guidance.
The general intent is to foster individualized patient care, Jones said. It also offers more options for treating the kind of short-term, acute pain that follows surgeries or injuries.
One expert expressed initial wariness about a proposed revision.
The 2016 guidance succeeded in helping to reduce inappropriate and dangerous prescribing, said Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman of Georgetown University Medical Center. Its critics have included pain patients, but also painkiller manufacturers and groups they fund, she said.
“There was nothing wrong with the original guidelines,” said Fugh-Berman, a paid expert witness for plaintiffs in cases targeting pharmaceutical marketing practices.
Opioids can be an important tool in treating severe pain from cancer, surgery and serious injuries. But they also can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ orders.
Beginning in the 1990s, some drugmakers, insurers and pain specialists called for wider use of the drugs for more common ailments like backaches and arthritis. The push was tied into the marketing of drugs like OxyContin, which were billed as less addictive than other opioids.
When U.S. overdose deaths began skyrocketing, prescription painkillers were identified as a big reason. Governments tried to restrict the prescriptions, but the overdose epidemic worsened as people hooked on pills switched to heroin and then to fentanyl. Those kinds of illegal injected drugs are now associated with the majority of U.S. overdose deaths.
The CDC’s 2016 prescribing guidelines said opioids should not be the first treatment for chronic pain. Doctors were urged to first try other medications or nondrug options, limit opioid prescriptions for short-term pain to three days, and to prescribe the lowest effective dose possible.
The guidelines are voluntary, but they were widely adopted and added momentum to a dramatic decline in opioid painkiller prescriptions.
They also came under attack from pain patients and drug manufacturers, who argued some people in severe pain were being denied needed relief.
In 2019, CDC officials signaled that they were concerned about those reports. They examined newer research, resulting in the new proposal, Jones said. Drugmakers had no input into the writing of the draft revision, he said.
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Changes include:
—The CDC would no longer suggest trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.
—The agency would drop the specific recommendation that doctors avoid increasing dosage to a level equivalent to 90 milligrams of morphine per day.
—The CDC would say doctors should consider having patients undergo urine tests to see if they are using other controlled and illicit drugs, but no longer would call on having such testing done annually.
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WASHINGTON — An effort to strictly control stock ownership by members of Congress is gathering momentum on Capitol Hill for the first time in a decade, fueled by politically vulnerable lawmakers who recognize the potency of signaling to voters that they will act on the perceived corruption in Washington.
The issue of banning the ownership and trading of individual stocks by lawmakers is complex. It raises questions of just what other kinds of personal investments or economic liabilities could be perceived as conflicts of interest, and how far the prohibitions should extend. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the House majority leader, initially expressed opposition, and even now, it is not clear how far Pelosi will go to ensure passage of strong legislation.
But with pressure mounting from rank-and-file members in both parties and both chambers of Congress, the top two Democrats on Wednesday signaled an openness to action.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, took to the Senate floor to embrace a stock ownership ban and encourage Democrats to reach out to Republicans to reach agreement quickly.
Pelosi was less effusive, telling reporters at her weekly news conference that she would accept such a ban, but with a complicating twist. She said she wanted any stock limitations, including a toughening of existing disclosure rules on stock ownership and trading that now apply to members of Congress and the executive branch, to also apply to the judicial branch of government, especially the Supreme Court.
The judiciary branch does have ethics rules that oblige some disclosure, in some cases more quickly and more often than the congressional branch. But an investigation last month by The Wall Street Journal found hundreds of instances in which federal judges presided over cases involving companies in which they or their family members owned stock.
“It has to be governmentwide,” she said, adding, “the judiciary has no reporting. The Supreme Court has no disclosure. It has no reporting of stock transactions, and it makes important decisions every day.”
Multiple proposals for a trading ban already exist in the House and Senate, including a new bill unveiled this week by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Steve Daines, R-Mont. One proposal by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., reintroduced Wednesday, would ban individual stock trading and extend financial disclosure rules to both the judiciary and the Federal Reserve Board.
The speaker’s caveats angered some of the strongest proponents of fast action to ban congressional stock ownership, who saw them as a veiled attempt to ground the effort. For all the merits of applying disclosure rules to the judiciary, they argued, such legislation would spark debate on the constitutional separation of powers and the rights of Congress to dictate to the judicial branch.
“That is literally a different conversation, and one that is so hard to wrap your arms around that you’ve tanked the movement,” said Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., a co-author of bipartisan stock-ban legislation that has been gaining momentum.
She added, “I haven’t heard from a single constituent, ‘I’m really worried about the Supreme Court ruling in such a way for their personal gain.’ That’s not a thing.”
The drive to ban congressional stock trading was touched off in 2020 by a spate of revelations that senators from both parties had traded health care stocks after closed-door briefings on the then-nascent coronavirus pandemic.
It has gathered momentum in recent weeks as Democrats from conservative-leaning districts, eager to demonstrate independence from Pelosi and other party leaders, have taken up the issue to appeal to a growing populist sentiment among their constituents. Proponents readily admit that voters perceive Congress as corrupt.
“The idea that we’re coming in and buying, selling, buying, calling in puts, it’s a bipartisan problem,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who co-wrote the stock-ban legislation with Spanberger in 2020.
Lawmakers saw the power of the issue in the 2020 elections, when it propelled the Senate victories of two Georgia Democrats, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who castigated their incumbent Republican rivals for their stock trades.
The sophisticated and lucrative trades of Pelosi’s wealthy husband, Paul Pelosi, have also attracted attention, after investors on TikTok and other platforms took to reviewing her stock disclosures and mimicking his investments.
Schumer said Wednesday, “I believe this is an important issue that Congress should address, and it is something that has clearly raised interest on both sides of the aisle over the last few weeks.”
Pelosi’s embrace was hardly unequivocal. She said she had tasked the House Administration Committee, which has jurisdiction over the chamber’s operations, to produce new stock-trading legislation, and that she assumed “they will have it pretty soon.”
She also called for stricter penalties on lawmakers who flout existing rules on reporting stock ownership and trading under a 2012 law called the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.
“What we’re trying to build is consensus,” she said.
The worry among proponents of action is that the committee, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a close Pelosi confidant, will bottle up the effort. Lofgren has said little other than that she is reviewing the issue and the merits and shortcomings of the existing stock prohibition bills. She has not scheduled any hearings or a public drafting of committee legislation.
“I look forward to working with members and stakeholders to determine whether new strategies to enhance transparency and accountability and to create public confidence in the United States Congress can be devised,” Lofgren said in a statement.
Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., said that regardless of how tepid Pelosi’s language may have been, she had provided a jolt to the effort to ban stock trading. Malinowski faced accusations last year that he had failed to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in trades, which is sure to dog him as he faces a tough reelection race this fall. Since his ethics run-in, he has become a vocal proponent of mandating that all investment holdings be placed in a blind trust.
“The speaker listens to her caucus, as she should,” he said, noting her change in words, if not in tone, reflected the direction of her party. “Did her initial public opposition actually add to the momentum? I think it elevated the debate, let’s put it that way.”
Striking such an agreement could prove tricky. Existing bills differ on whether spouses and family members should also be prohibited from owning and trading individual stocks, whether capital gains taxes on forced stock sales should be deferred, and whether the prohibition should apply to other assets like businesses.
And some Democratic leaders have raised questions about a slippery slope. Insider trading is already illegal, and the STOCK Act bars members of Congress from trading on any “nonpublic information derived from” their position. That law also mandates disclosure of most stock trades, although Pelosi noted that it had not been an effective deterrent.
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If Congress is going to go further and bar individual stock ownership outright, critics argue, then what about real estate holdings? Should a lawmaker with student loans be allowed to weigh in on legislation on loan forgiveness?
“My answer to that is, let’s apply common sense,” Malinowski said. “Most people can distinguish having investments in stock market from owning a house or having student loan or having to abide by the speed limit.”
Spanberger conceded that some of her colleagues had suggested that a ban on stock ownership could dissuade capable people from running for Congress. But she expressed little sympathy.
“There are a lot of jobs and millions of Americans out there,” she said. “If this is too much of a limitation, you’ve just demonstrated what your priorities are, and you shouldn’t be in Congress.”
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HSINCHU, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AP Memory Technology Corporation (AP Memory, TWSE: 6531), the world's leading supplier of ultra-low power and low pin count PSRAM (IoT RAM), low density LPDRAM and an emerging supplier of AI memory solutions for edge / IoT applications, collaborates with Synopsys to deliver optimized and scalable RAM memory solutions for next generation IoT applications and devices. The solution delivers validated interoperability between the AP Memory's IoT RAM and Synopsys' DesignWare® Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI) IP. The Synopsys DesignWare IP offers high transfer rate and low latency in serial memories for IoT and mobile applications. Future collaborations will extend the solution to support even lower power, low pin count solutions such as 1.2V I/O IoT RAM (OPI and HPI), as well as AIOT RAM (15pins - 2.1GB/s). AIoT RAM supports the low pin count of IoT RAM with higher performance (~5x bandwidth) and lower active power, targeting Edge AI applications.
AP Memory's IoT RAM builds on a rich set of PSRAM features that offer low signal pin count, low power and high transfer rate options to meet the demanding power and form factor constraints of IoT and mobile applications. Synopsys' DesignWare SSI IP will enable designers and developers to make the most out of the potential of AP Memory IoT RAM product line which is scalable from the QSPI (6~7 pins – 72MB/s~166MB/s), to the well-known OPI (11 pins – 500MB/s) and up to the most advanced HPI (20pins - 1GB/s) PSRAMs.
"AP Memory is delighted to collaborate with Synopsys. Together, both companies will accelerate development of IoT endpoints and deliver optimal extended memory solution to fulfill the ultimate endpoint experiences," said Ivan Hong, Vice President and General Manager of IoT Business Unit of AP Memory.
"Our close collaboration with AP Memory provides mutual customers with a comprehensive memory solution that meets the required low-power and memory performance needs of IoT designs," said John Koeter, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IP at Synopsys. "The interoperable solution allows SoC designers to accelerate their time-to-market while minimizing integration risk for SoCs requiring energy-efficient, high-performance memories."
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AP Memory is a fabless DRAM and IP product company. As a world leader in Pseudo-SRAM, AP Memory delivers reliable solutions of low-pin-count ultra-low-power IoT RAM and high-performance derivative products. AP Memory is also the world-leading company in AI memory solutions, particularly for 3D IC. For more information, please visit www.apmemory.com
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The National Archives and Records Administration discovered what it believed was classified information in documents Donald Trump had taken with him from the White House as he left office, according to a person briefed on the matter.
The discovery, which occurred after Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month, prompted the National Archives to reach out to the Justice Department for guidance, the person said. The department told the National Archives to have its inspector general examine the matter, the person said.
It is unclear what the inspector general has done since then, in particular, whether the inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department.
An inspector general is required to alert the Justice Department to the discovery of any classified materials that were found outside authorized government channels.
Making a referral to the Justice Department would put senior officials in the position of having to decide whether to open an investigation, a scenario that would thrust the department into a highly contentious political matter.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the National Archives had asked the Justice Department to examine Trump’s handling of White House records.
Officials with the National Archives did not respond to messages seeking comment.
In January, after a lengthy back and forth between Trump’s lawyers and the National Archives, Trump handed over more than a dozen boxes of materials, including documents, mementos, gifts and letters. Among the documents were the original versions of a letter that former President Barack Obama had left for Trump when he was first sworn in and letters written to Trump by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Also included in the boxes was a map Trump famously drew on with a black Sharpie to demonstrate the track of Hurricane Dorian heading toward Alabama in 2019 to back up a declaration he had made on Twitter that contradicted weather forecasts.
The boxes had originally been sent to Mar-a-Lago from the White House residence, where a range of items — including clothes — were hastily packed up in Trump’s final days in office. Legally, Trump was required to leave the documents, letters and gifts in the custody of the federal government so the National Archives could store them.
After the FBI, during the 2016 presidential campaign, investigated Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified material while she was secretary of state, Trump assailed her, helping make the issue pivotal in the outcome of that race. In that case, the intelligence community’s inspector general had made a national security referral to the FBI, prompting the investigation of Clinton.
But during Trump’s administration, top White House officials were deeply concerned about how little regard Trump showed for sensitive national security materials. John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, tried to stop classified documents from being taken out of the Oval Office and brought up to the residence because he was concerned about what Trump may do with them and how that may jeopardize national security.
Similar to Clinton, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka used personal email accounts for work purposes. And even after being warned by aides, Trump repeatedly ripped up government documents that had to be taped back together to prevent him from being accused of destroying federal property.
Now Trump faces questions about his handling of classified information — a question that is complicated because as president he had the authority to declassify any government information. It is unclear whether Trump had declassified materials that the National Archives discovered in the boxes before he left office. Under federal law, he no longer maintains the ability to declassify documents after leaving office.
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He invoked the power to declassify information several times as his administration publicly released materials that helped him politically, particularly on issues like the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Toward the end of the administration, Trump ripped pictures that intrigued him out of the President’s Daily Brief — a compendium of often classified information about potential national security threats — but it is unclear whether he took them to the residence with him. In one prominent example of how he dealt with classified material, Trump in 2019 took a highly classified spy satellite image of an Iranian missile launch site, declassified it and then released the photo on Twitter.
If Trump was found to have taken materials with him that were still classified at the time he left the White House, prosecuting him would be extremely difficult and it would pit the Justice Department against Trump at a time when Attorney General Merrick Garland is trying to depoliticize the department.
The department and the FBI also still have significant scars from the investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information, as the bureau was accused of unfairly tarnishing her and interfering in the 2016 election.
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DETROIT, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Motown Museum today announced a $1 million grant from Bank of America to further its innovative programming and expansion campaign. Motown Museum Chairwoman and CEO Robin Terry made the announcement.
The $1 million grant from Bank of America, which will help strengthen the surrounding neighborhood and deliver life-changing programming, is the most recent contribution to Motown Museum's expansion initiative. This award brings the museum's total amount raised for the expansion to $38 million of the $55 million expansion campaign. The first phase, Hitsville Next, comprises three original Motown-era homes that have been transformed to serve as the centerpiece of the museum's expansive suite of educational and creative programming. As home to the museum's mix of camps, workshops, master classes and community events, Hitsville Next is designed to provide artistic development and inspiration for future generations of creatives and entrepreneurs.
Construction on phase two of the expansion is already underway, including work on what will become an immersive outdoor plaza that will serve as a multipurpose community gathering place and welcome destination for museum visitors. The plaza will be regularly activated with memorable performances by local talent and will afford unique visibility opportunities for emerging artists and entrepreneurs. Due to the phase two construction, indoor tours of Hitsville U.S.A. are temporarily paused, while restoration of the world-famous historic building begins. Construction is projected to be completed by Summer 2022.
"We are incredibly grateful to Bank of America and can't thank them enough for their partnership, which is impactful as we prepare for our expansion and tell the stories of the incredible Motown legacy on a larger scale," said Terry. "Their commitment to supporting culture and taking meaningful action to build thriving communities is admirable and reflective in this generous gift."
A longtime partner of the Motown Museum, Bank of America recognizes the power of the arts to help economies thrive, connect individuals with each other across cultures, and educate and enrich societies. Bank of America is committed to providing arts and cultural organizations with vital support across the State of Michigan and around the world. Partnerships include exhibition sponsorships, as well as support for programs that help arts nonprofits deliver arts outreach and educational programs to ever-broader audiences, celebrate diverse cultural traditions and protect cultural heritage. In 2021, Bank of America distributed over $6 million in grants to Southeast Michigan organizations that create pathways to employment, provide job training, support food access and distribution.
"A vibrant community is fueled by its artistic and cultural centers, and in Detroit, there's no better example than the Motown Museum," said Matt Elliott, President, Bank of America Michigan. "Detroiters and visitors from around the world will now enjoy new and inspiring experiences at the museum, made possible in part through financial support from Bank of America. This not only celebrates the Motown legacy, but will also spur new investment and tourism, aligning with our pledge to support initiatives that help create economic mobility."
Announced in late 2016, the Motown Museum expansion will grow the museum to a 50,000-square-foot world-class entertainment and education tourist destination featuring dynamic, interactive exhibits, a performance theater, recording studios, an expanded retail experience and meeting spaces designed by renowned architects and exhibit designers. When completed, the new museum campus will have a transformative impact on the surrounding Detroit neighborhoods, providing employment, sustainability and community pride by serving as an important catalyst for new investment and tourism in the historic area.
For more information on programs, visit www.motownmuseum.org.
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Founded in 1985 by Esther Gordy Edwards, Motown Museum is a 501(c)(3) not for profit, tax-exempt organization in Detroit. The museum is committed to preserving, protecting and presenting the Motown story through authentic, inspirational and educational experiences. Announced in late 2016, the Motown Museum expansion will grow the museum to a 50,000-square-foot world-class entertainment and education tourist destination featuring dynamic, interactive exhibits, a performance theater, recording studios, an expanded retail experience and meeting spaces designed by renowned architects and exhibit designers. When completed, the new museum campus will have a transformative impact on the surrounding Detroit neighborhoods, providing employment, sustainability and community pride by serving as an important catalyst for new investment and tourism in the historic area.
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It’s been an eventful few years for Tidewater Community College’s visual arts program, but students may have a new downtown Norfolk home by spring 2023.
Development has just started on a $8 million renovation project to transform the bottom floor of the Harbor Heights condominium building into classrooms, art studios and other amenities for students, TCC President Marcia Conston said.
“We’re more than excited to bring the arts back to downtown,” Conston said.
The 37,000-square-foot facility will also house galleries, exhibition spaces and computer labs for the program, Conston said. TCC leaders chose the space because it’s just blocks from other downtown campus buildings and near the Neon District arts area. Conston said the move would also strengthen the community college’s ties with the Governor’s School for the Arts and the Chrysler Museum.
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TCC’s Real Estate Foundation completed the purchase of the property at 260 Boush St. for $2 million in October, according to city property records. The college also owns and maintains offices on several floors of the building, which was constructed in 2007.
TCC moved its visual arts program from its previous home in Olde Towne Portsmouth when its building lease expired in June. The program is currently operating out of 300 Granby St. at the downtown Norfolk campus, according to its website. A group of Portsmouth developers are planning to transform the old visual arts building into apartments, a restaurant and a duckpin bowling alley.
The first floor of Harbor Heights was once home to The Market at Harbor Heights, a supermarket operated by the former Hampton Roads grocery chain Farm Fresh. At the time it opened in 2007, it was the first downtown Norfolk supermarket in 37 years. But Farm Fresh leaders said the location wasn’t making money and closed the store in early 2011. Since then, downtown residents and city officials have unsuccessfully tried to bring another grocer to the downtown area.
TCC leaders selected the Harbor Heights location a few months after a planned $20 million arts facility project at the former Norfolk Greyhound station collapsed when a major donor pulled support.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Angela Rivers, Senior Vice President at Bank of America, joins the INROADS National Board of Directors. Rivers is a Consumer & Small Business Third Party Executive at Bank of America leading a team of professionals accountable for the performance and risk management of third parties to help ensure the delivery of products and services to the bank's 66 million consumer customers.
"I am honored to serve on the INROADS National Board of Directors. Their mission is one that makes a meaningful difference in the lives of countless leaders in our community and aligns with my personal values and our company's goals to advance equity and diversity within our community," said Rivers.
Rivers is a skilled and experienced financial services professional with nearly 40 years of risk management experience in the public sector and financial industry, including criminal and corporate fraud investigations, operational risk management, policy and governance in the industry. A recipient of the North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine — the highest award for community service in the state of North Carolina — Angela has a long, proven history of working to make her community a better place.
Throughout her career, Rivers has worked tirelessly to advance diversity and inclusion efforts. She has served as an active member of the bank's Black Executive Leadership Council, which focuses on engaging, investing in and influencing the success of Black/African Americans within the company.
"INROADS is growing. Our board leadership is reflective of our growth. Having incredible leaders like Angela join and power our mission positions us to do greater things, and helps us extend our mission for 50 more years," said INROADS National Board of Directors Chair and SVP of Customer Success and Business Transformation at F5 Networks, Yvette Smith.
About INROADS
Founded in 1970, INROADS delivers innovative programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate and elevate the development of underrepresented talent throughout their careers. Through this development, students become equipped for corporate and community leadership that affects community renewal, social change and elevates economic status and quality of life. INROADS has more than 30,000 alumni, over 900 interns and serves 4,000+ students and 200 corporate clients. Learn more at INROADS.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn: @INROADSInc.
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VIRGINIA BEACH — Plans are in the works for a new affordable housing complex in Virginia Beach that will have dedicated units for low-income residents with mental illness.
The proposed apartment project — the location has not been determined — will include an office for the regional headquarters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which will offer free support groups, classes and access to resources to the residents and others, Ruth Hill, director of the city’s Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation, told the City Council on Tuesday.
Approximately nine of the 60 apartments will be reserved for people experiencing serious mental health issues, Hill said. The remaining units would be for households earning up to 80% of the area median income. The energy-efficient building would include some units designed for people with physical or sensory disabilities.
Councilman Michael Berlucchi said the concept of supportive, permanent housing helps with the care and treatment of mental illness.
“A project like this is transformational, not only for the people’s lives who live with mental illness, but also for the families and the people they work with and for our community at large,” Berlucchi said. “If you don’t have access to permanent, supportive housing, then you’re much more likely to find yourself in a situation where you’re going to have an interaction with law enforcement.”
Councilman Rocky Holcomb, a chief deputy in the sheriff’s office, said that while the project will be a good start, his work has shown that the city needs even more affordable housing for people with mental illness.
“This has been our biggest struggle, dealing with this mental health problem,” Holcomb said. “We’ve got to think big.”
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The mixed-use project is still in the early planning stage, but city officials are looking at a vacant city-owned site to develop it, said Kathy Warren of the city’s economic development department.
It’s a necessity, Warren said, that the land be near a public transit route and close to medical facilities.
Virginia Beach Community Development Corp., a nonprofit that owns and manages hundreds of affordable rental housing units throughout the city, will own the complex and provide management and maintenance services.
“Everybody wants to be a productive member of society, and if we can help them get there, it will help all of us,” said Jen Williams, volunteer coordinator for NAMI. “It will help us financially because they’re not going to be dependent on us for money. They’ll be able to work because they’ll have a place to live.”
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CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BayCare Health System, a leading not-for-profit organization in West Central Florida, has named John W. Davis the new vice president of Managed Care. He began on Feb. 7.
Davis, who was the vice president of accountable care strategies at UnitedHealthcare, is responsible for planning and directing all aspects of managed care at BayCare. He oversees the negotiations of contract reimbursement rates, structures, language and terms. He also leads the managed care fee for service and value-based contracts and compliance.
"We're thrilled to have Davis join BayCare," said Janice Polo, executive vice president and chief financial officer at BayCare. "His experience and leadership will help us move forward our strategic goals in managed care across the system."
Davis brings more than 25 years of managed care experience to BayCare. In his various roles at UnitedHealthcare, he led accountable care programs for commercial and Medicare lines of business. He also led the development of new concepts and technologies for incentive-based payment models to help improve quality and lower costs through efficiencies and improved member experience.
"BayCare is a premiere health care system in the Tampa Bay market," said Davis. "I'm excited to join a well-established organization that's patient-centered and innovative. I look forward to help establish long-term reimbursement models that will move forward BayCare's overall managed care vision and strategy."
Davis completed his bachelor's degree in management at the Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.
About BayCare Health System
BayCare is a leading not-for-profit health care system that connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 15 hospitals and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the Tampa Bay and central Florida regions. Inpatient and outpatient services include acute care, primary care, imaging, laboratory, behavioral health, home care, and wellness. Our mission is to improve the health of all we serve through community-owned, health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. BayCare is the nation's only large health system ranked in the top 20 percent by IBM Watson Health® Top Health Systems that's also a FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit www.BayCare.org.
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Washington Commanders player Jonathan Allen deleted and apologized for a tweet about Adolf Hitler on Wednesday after saying he’d like to have dinner with the genocidal maniac.
“(Earlier) I tweeted something that probably hurt people and I apologize about what I said,” Allen wrote in his apology tweet. “I didn’t express properly what I was trying to say and I realize it was dumb!”
Allen played basketball at Western Branch High before moving to Northern Virginia and going on to star at the University of Alabama.
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Another user had asked Allen which three people, dead or alive, he’d like to eat dinner with. Allen, 27, said his grandfather, Michael Jackson and Hitler.
The questioner asked Allen to explain the Hitler selection.
“He’s a military genius and I love military tactics,” Allen wrote, “but honestly I would want to pick his brain as to why he did what he did. I’m also assuming that the people I’ve chosen have to answer all my questions honestly.”
Allen’s response was the latest in a long-running tradition of football people praising Hitler’s extremely questionable and proven ineffective military strategy and leadership tactics.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bodymatter, a precision health technology company harnessing the power of technology, data, clinical science, and AI to unlock new levels of human health, well-being, and performance, has raised nearly $3M USD in Series Seed funding with participation from early-stage investors, venture, family offices, and entrepreneurs.
Sleep is a $90B market, and funds will be used to build the company's senior leadership and overall team with the goal of growing Bodymatter into the leader in the health & wellness industry with multiple digital products, solutions, and offerings both on and offline. With SleepWatch, and its millions of users worldwide, the company has already positioned itself as a leader in the emerging sleep space.
"We're proud to be at the forefront of a new generation of precision health technologies with SleepWatch," said Ryan Archdeacon, Co-Founder and CEO. "We are at a unique juncture in time where the volume and dimensionality of personal health data has reached critical mass. The road is now paved for elevating the health potential of people everywhere to new heights. At Bodymatter, we envision a world where the perfect night of sleep is a matter of choice, not happenstance."
Ryan Archdeacon is joined by Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Eugene Spiritus, the former Chief Medical Officer at University of California Irvine Medical Center. "Many people do not realize that the choices they make on a daily basis have a profound effect on the quality of their sleep," said Dr. Spiritus.
About Bodymatter
Bodymatter empowers people everywhere to unlock new levels of human health, well-being, and performance. Harnessing the power of technology, data, clinical science, and AI, the company is defining a new industry sector at the forefront of sleep-tech, one of the largest untapped opportunities in health. With millions worldwide already using its personalized sleep improvement program, SleepWatch, Bodymatter stands to elevate human sleep to new heights. Having secured its Series Seed funding and with significant revenue traction, the company is looking to take its operations to the next level and is recruiting ambitious leaders and partners to join in furthering its vision. For more information, visit www.bodymatter.io, follow @Bodymatter on LinkedIn, and follow @SleepWatchApp on Twitter.
Media Contact: Ryan Archdeacon, press@bodymatter.io
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A tempering of home price growth combined with a solid increase in household incomes improved the affordability outlook for Californians in the fourth quarter of 2021, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.
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The percentage of home buyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in California in fourth-quarter 2021 inched up to 25 percent from 24 percent in the third quarter of 2021 but was down from 27 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to C.A.R.'s Traditional Housing Affordability Index (HAI). The fourth-quarter 2021 figure is less than half of the affordability index peak of 56 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
C.A.R.'s HAI measures the percentage of all households that can afford to purchase a median-priced, single-family home in California. C.A.R. also reports affordability indices for regions and select counties within the state. The index is considered the most fundamental measure of housing well-being for home buyers in the state.
A minimum annual income of $148,000 was needed to qualify for the purchase of a $797,470 statewide median-priced, existing single-family home in the fourth quarter of 2021. The monthly payment, including taxes and insurance on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, would be $3,700, assuming a 20 percent down payment and an effective composite interest rate of 3.28 percent. The effective composite interest rate was 3.07 percent in third-quarter 2021 and 2.96 percent in fourth-quarter 2020.
With the median price of condominiums and townhomes reaching another record high in fourth-quarter 2021, affordability for condos and townhomes dipped from the previous quarter. Thirty-six percent of California households earned the minimum income to qualify for the purchase of a $610,350 median-priced condo/townhome in the fourth quarter of 2021, which required an annual income of $113,200 to make monthly payments of $2,830. The fourth quarter 2021 figure was down from 41 percent a year ago.
Compared with California, half of the nation's households could afford to purchase a $361,700 median-priced home, which required a minimum annual income of $67,200 to make monthly payments of $1,680. Nationwide affordability was down from 55 percent a year ago.
Key points from the fourth-quarter 2021 Housing Affordability report include:
- Compared to the previous quarter, housing affordability in the fourth quarter of 2021 declined in 19 counties, improved in 19 counties and remained unchanged in 13 counties. Compared to the previous year, forty-one counties experienced a drop in housing affordability from a year ago, 6 counties increased year-over-year, and four counties remained flat from last year.
- In the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, affordability improved from the previous quarter in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and Napa and was unchanged in the remaining five counties. San Mateo County was the least affordable Bay Area county, at just 19 percent of households able to purchase the $2,100,000 median-priced home. Forty-two percent of Solano County households could afford the $585,000 median-priced home, making it the most affordable Bay Area county.
- In the Southern California region, Los Angeles was the only county whose affordability improved from the previous quarter. Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties recorded a decline in affordability from the previous quarter and San Diego was unchanged. At 17 percent, Orange County was the least affordable, and San Bernardino was the most affordable at 42 percent.
- In the Central Valley region, Kings County was the most affordable at 54 percent, and San Benito was the least affordable at 27 percent.
- In the Central Coast region, Santa Cruz County was the least affordable, and San Luis Obispo County was the most affordable at 22 percent.
- For the state as a whole, Lassen (63 percent) was the most affordable county in in the fourth quarter of 2021, followed by Kings (54 percent), Merced (45 percent), Shasta (45 percent) and Tuolumne (45 percent). Lassen also required the lowest minimum qualifying income to purchase a median-priced home at $46,000.
- Mono (13 percent), Orange (17 percent) and Santa Cruz (17 percent) were the least affordable counties in the state, with each requiring at least a minimum income of $158,000 to purchase a median-priced home in the county. San Mateo required the highest minimum qualifying income to buy a median-priced home in fourth-quarter 2021 at $390,000. The other two California counties with a minimum qualifying income exceeding $300,000 were San Francisco ($338,800) and Santa Clara ($311,200).
- Housing affordability declined the most on a year-over-year basis in Yuba and Mariposa, dropping 13 and 11 points, respectively from the fourth quarter of 2020. The drop in affordability in Yuba was due partly to a surge in the county's median price from a year ago but also was due to the decline in its median household income. For Mariposa, the decline in affordability was caused by a 25.3 percent year-over-year increase in its median home price.
See C.A.R.'s historical housing affordability data.
See first-time buyer housing affordability data.
Leading the way…® in California real estate for more than 110 years, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (www.car.org) is one of the largest state trade organizations in the United States with more than 200,000 members dedicated to the advancement of professionalism in real estate. C.A.R. is headquartered in Los Angeles.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cara Collective, a leader in poverty alleviation, is pleased to announce it will honor JPMorgan Chase at the upcoming 7th Annual Cara Gala presented by Allstate on Friday, April 8, 2022. JPMorgan Chase will receive the Trailblazer Award for its longtime partnership with Cara Collective and for the company's commitment to driving inclusive economic growth in the United States and around the world.
"JPMorgan Chase is a trailblazer because time and time again, they have demonstrated their commitment to leading the charge in closing the racial wealth gap and driving an equitable and inclusive economy," said Kathleen St. Louis Caliento, President & CEO of Cara Collective. "Their work has provided more access to homeownership, employment, entrepreneurship, and so many more opportunities that create real change in our communities. Beyond all that, they've also remained an integral part of Cara Collective by staying engaged at numerous levels, including as a hiring partner, a dedicated funder, a member of our Board of Directors, a strong advocate of inclusive employment, and beyond."
Previous Trailblazer recipients include real estate company Sterling Bay, Rivers Casino, and philanthropists Dona and Sam Scott, Pete and Amy Kadens, Jim and Kay Mabie, and Martin H. Nesbitt.
Cara graduate Oreletta Garmon will also be recognized with the Jesse Teverbaugh Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is given annually to a graduate who is a shining example of the Cara community. Oreletta first started her Cara journey in the mid-'90s, seeking to break the cycle of addiction and homelessness for her and her children. For the past seven years, she has been employed with Rush University Medical Center, most recently as the Program Navigation Coordinator for Equal Hope, Rush's Breast Cancer Task Force that provides free or low-cost quality access to healthcare for all women.
The 7th Annual Cara Gala also marks Cara Collective's return to an in-person Gala for the first time in two years. The 2020 event was cancelled in the early onset of the COVID pandemic and the 2021 event pivoted to a live, virtual offering. The Cara Gala is annually attended by more than 550 civic, philanthropic, and business leaders and raises more than $600,000 for the workforce development nonprofit.
"With this event, we are marking an opportunity to gather once again in-person to uplift this vital mission, celebrate what we have achieved in more than 30 years of this work, and look to where we are going next," added Caliento. "We feel incredibly fortunate to be able to share this evening with our community."
In addition to Presenting Sponsor Allstate, lead sponsors for the 7th Annual Cara Gala include The Beebe Family, BMO Harris Bank, Deloitte, JLL, Molson Coors, The Owens Foundation, The Quirk Family, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Sterling Bay, and United Airlines.
Sponsorships for the Cara Gala are available at www.caracollective.org/gala, or by contacting Shikha Jain, Chief Philanthropy Officer, at sjain@carachicago.org or 312.798.3307.
About Cara Collective
Cara Collective seeks to fuel a courageous national movement to eradicate relational and financial poverty. Through our four entities – Cara, Cleanslate, Cara Connects, and Cara Plus – we engage job seekers, employers, and other organizations across the country to break the cycle of poverty through the power and purpose of employment. Since 1991, we've helped more than 7,900 people get placed into more than 12,900 jobs and get started on their path to real and lasting success. To learn more, please visit www.caracollective.org.
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MIAMI, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Care Angel, the leader in digital health engagement and collaboration using AI and voice nurse assistant technology, today announced the appointment of Mike Twigg as chief revenue officer and executive vice president of global sales. Mr. Twigg brings to the position over 32 years of experience leading and mentoring teams and driving substantial growth in client asset size and annual revenue. Earlier in his career he was highly instrumental in pioneering several flagship products for Wolters Kluwer, one of the largest providers of compliance solutions to financial institutions in the world with annual revenues of $4.6 billion. His leadership background in spearheading growth initiatives and developing stronger, sustainable relationships will translate in his role with Care Angel, where he will be responsible for serving large clients while providing strategic guidance, extending sales and expanding market share. In Mr. Twigg's previous role he consistently exceeded sales performance goals across approximately 44 top tier national accounts.
"Mike's extensive experience as a sales industry veteran is expected to be an invaluable asset to Care Angel as we continue to advance our next-generation cognitive technology services, accelerate our sales efforts and move up market to acquire larger payer clients and expand our footprint across health systems and more mature provider groups," said Bud Flagstad, Care Angel CEO. "He brings to the role a substantial track record of successfully driving complex enterprise sales. The Care Angel team is looking forward to building off those achievements as we go to the next level."
Mr. Twigg earned his BS in Psychology from the University of Michigan and has received numerous professional recognitions for high performance throughout his career as well as several Innovation Awards in a Global Competition.
"The Care Angel solution is truly a game changer - capable of addressing many of the critical issues facing healthcare and society today, especially during this trying pandemic, delivering personalized service to those that need it, when they need it, where they need it and at a lower cost, "said Mr. Twigg. "I am excited to join the company's executive team at a time of such positive transformation for the company in terms of the growth opportunities but also in the potential to use AI cognitive technology to upend how patients are engaged and their conditions are monitored, and at tremendous scale that was previously not possible."
About Care Angel
Care Angel is the industry leader in automation and exponentially scalable solutions for continuous engagement, management, surveillance, triage, navigation and care of millions. ANGEL, the world's first voice-enabled, AI-Nurse Assistant comes to life through the company's award-winning SmartCare Platform. ANGEL enables the most effective, efficient and scalable way to engage, monitor and manage large, at-risk populations with complex and chronic conditions at the lowest cost, starting with a simple phone call or text-based care conversation. Care Angel's AI solutions give care teams the ability to conversationally collect accurate patient data, consistently and continuously, receiving regular updates on vitals and well-being to inform and manage real-time interventions and avoid missed care opportunities.
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FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) announced the successful implementation of CGI's Momentum® as part of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Unified Financial Management System (UFMS) program. Operating as a shared service, this modernization streamlines systems to create a single source of financial and acquisition information for DOJ to improve its financial management performance, strengthen its business processes, and support delivery of its mission, objectives, and strategic goals.
CGI's Momentum® plays a pivotal role as the software solution underpinning UFMS, which combined and replaced the Department's six core financial management and multiple procurement systems. Through this implementation, DOJ gains a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to manage information across all DOJ components. Specifically, UFMS streamlines and standardizes business processes and procedures across all DOJ components, providing secure, accurate, timely, and actionable financial data to management personnel. It also provides DOJ with consolidated management information, as well as the capability to meet all mandatory requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Justice Acquisition Regulation.
"For nearly two decades, CGI has used its deep knowledge of DOJ's business processes, accounting, and technology to serve as the Department's trusted advisor," stated Clay Goldwein, Senior Vice-President at CGI Federal. "Successful completion of the implementation enables DOJ to consider new approaches to improve enterprise systems as demonstrated by the recent introduction of a unified asset management solution supported by CGI's Sunflower, which will drive effective and efficient stewardship of assets for the Department."
About CGI Federal
CGI Federal Inc., a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Inc., is dedicated to partnering with federal agencies to provide solutions for defense, civilian, healthcare and intelligence missions. Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 82,000 consultants and other professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. With Fiscal 2021 reported revenue of C$12.13 billion, CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Easton, PA, has successfully gone live with OpenGov Citizen Services. The City invites constituents to apply for permits and licenses online via its new portal, allowing users to submit applications online anytime and from anywhere.
Easton's Planning & Codes Department is led by a dynamic leader in Stephen Nowroski who has been committed to transitioning to improving the City's online permitting and licensing processes after struggling with an outdated system throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. After a competitive evaluation, the City of Easton selected OpenGov, and, specifically, OpenGov Citizen Services, mainly, for its ability to scale across the enterprise, its ease of use, and the success other neighboring communities found with the software.
"We are eager to streamline our processes and bring efficiency along with convenience to our residents," said City of Easton Director of Planning & Codes Stephen Nowroski. "Partnering with OpenGov will help us better serve our stakeholders for years to come."
With the implementation of OpenGov Citizen Services, the City of Easton enables a variety of capabilities to manage permitting, licensing, and code enforcement, including:
- Automating operational permitting, licensing, and code enforcement processes
- Providing residents access to critical information surrounding community initiatives
- Reviewing, approving, and scheduling inspections, and issuing permits and licenses from a single digital platform
- Improving staff and constituent insights for more informed decision-making that impacts the community
"We are thankful for the opportunity to partner with the City of Easton," said OpenGov Senior Vice President of Professional Services Angela Langston. "The time and dedication the Planning & Codes team has put into its implementation process has it set up for continued success. We look forward to watching the team thrive with OpenGov Citizen Services."
The City of Easton joins more than 1,000 public sector organizations leveraging OpenGov to revolutionize work processes with cloud-based software designed specifically for the needs of government.
About OpenGov
OpenGov is the leader in providing our nation's state agencies and local governments with modern cloud software to help power more effective and accountable government. Built exclusively for the unique budgeting, financial, and community development needs of the public sector, OpenGov solutions help our more than 1,000 customers plan effectively, increase efficiency, and improve engagement through better collaboration and transparency.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Climavision, a pioneering weather tech company that is leveraging high-resolution radar and satellites to fill existing coverage gaps and vastly improve the accuracy of weather forecasting, today announced that agricultural commodity leader Cargill will be leveraging Climavision's commodity risk management solution to assist its agricultural businesses.
Cargill is using Climavision's proprietary approach to weather to help determine risk levels to agriculture around the world. Climavision's unique forecasting product will enable Cargill to better understand the impact of weather changes and accurately predict upcoming threats, such as large storms, floods, or droughts.
"Traditional commodity weather forecasting has long played a critical role for companies like Cargill, but climate change now demands a higher level of forecasting detail and immediacy," said Climavision Co-Founder and CEO Chris Goode. "Severe weather events are happening more frequently and require a change in approach in how agricultural companies manage risk. Climavision's ability to provide highly skilled forecasting models on a real-time basis around the world will enable Cargill to better manage risk in an increasingly volatile weather landscape."
"Climavision's global modeling capabilities for agriculture were a key factor for Cargill in choosing to partner with them," said James Weed, vice president, Trading Data & Analytics Lead, Cargill. "Their approach to proprietary data and forecasting will play a critical role for Cargill's agricultural businesses. We look forward to expanding our partnership with Climavision as they continue pushing the bleeding edge of weather technology."
The agricultural sector represents one of the many industries that can improve performance and manage climate risk with advanced weather forecasting technology. Climavision helps companies across logistics, media, transportation, etc. to better predict and manage disruptions from adverse weather events to climate disasters.
About Climavision
Climavision brings together the power of a proprietary, high-resolution weather radar and satellite network combined with advanced weather prediction modelling and decades of industry expertise to reduce existing coverage gaps and drastically improve forecast ability. Climavision's revolutionary new approach to climate technology weather solutions reduces the economic risks of climate change on companies, governments, and societies alike. Climavision is backed by The Rise Fund, the world's largest global impact platform committed to achieving measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns. The company is headquartered in Louisville, KY, with research and development operations in Raleigh, NC. To learn more, visit www.Climavision.com
About Cargill
Cargill's 155,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve our purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. We combine 155 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, we are building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture. For more information, visit Cargill.com and our News Center.
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Technology PR Solutions
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