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NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd (HORP) announced that Coca-Cola, Kroger, Diageo, BIC, Spin Master and Bureau Veritas will lead at the virtual 2022 North America Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® - the success and leadership summit for women to be held on Feb 28, 2022. The summit enables organizations across North America the opportunity to learn and share best practices for leadership, success and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) across industries and is an excellent opportunity for organizations to exchange learnings on gender diversity & inclusion ahead of International Women's Day. The 2022 North America edition of the summit is the kick-off edition of the 2022 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® (editions in North America, Europe, Asia, ANZ, Middle East and Africa in 2022). Break the ceiling touch the sky® has since 2015 enabled over 30000 women leaders to greater success. Plans are also open now for the 2022 India Edition of the summit which will be held on April 19, 2022.
The 2022 North America Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® will feature several C-Suite speakers including Shawn Till, EVP and CEO, North America, Bureau Veritas; Christina Ruggiero, President of Operations, Central Zone of North America, The Coca-Cola Company; Bob McDonald, Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and retired Chairman and CEO, The Procter & Gamble Company; Tara Deakin, Chief People Officer, Spin Master Ltd.; Julie Hamilton, Chief Commercial Officer, Diageo; Chester Twigg, Group Commercial Officer, BIC; Helen Bradley, CHRO and Executive Committee Member, Bureau Veritas; Elle Morris, Senior Vice President, Global Strategy, Marks, a part of SGS & Co; Angie Halamandaris, Founder-President, Juniper Group and Co-Founder, Heart of America Foundation; Valerie Love, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, The Coca-Cola Company; Carlos Barroso, President and Founder, CJB and Associates; Alex von Behr, President, vBAssociates and Senior Advisor, House of Rose Professional and former Global Chief Customer Officer, Unilever Plc; Denny Iker, Principal, YI Consultants; Christopher Thomson, Site HR/LR Director, Oshawa Assembly, General Motors, Ranu Gupta, Managing Partner, Performance Leverage; and Anthony A. Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional and best-selling author of "Break the ceiling touch the sky: success secrets of the world's most inspirational women."
Individual delegates can join this virtual summit for USD 99 and Teams can participate at USD 1980 net for 22 delegates. The summit is free for new mums with children up to 2 years of age on Feb 28, 2022. Visit https://houseofroseprofessional.com/btctts-world-tour-2022/2022-north-america-edition/
Break the ceiling touch the sky® is a key enabler of Mission 2029 for a Better World – HORP's joint 10 year mission with the world's leading companies to shape a better world through better diversity & inclusion, better leadership and better business. The measure for Mission 2029 for a Better World is to help quintuple the number of Female CEOs in the world's 500 Largest Companies (from 14 in mid-2020 to 70 in 2029) and double the number of Male CEOs in the same group who actively invest in gender diversity and inclusion.
Commented Shawn Till, EVP and CEO, North America, Bureau Veritas, "A diverse workplace achieved through an inclusive culture is an integral part of Bureau Veritas' identity. The Group has developed organically and through many different acquisitions with a richness of capability from drawing together people of diverse experiences and backgrounds including gender, age, ethnicity, etc. We are delighted to partner with Break the ceiling touch the sky®."
Colleen Lindholz, President, Kroger Health shared, "I'm proud of the role so many talented women leaders are playing to help businesses get back to growth despite the challenges of the pandemic. Together, we are driving change, creating opportunity, and defining a more innovative, inclusive future. In healthcare, we see it every day in the more than 2200 Kroger Health pharmacies and 220 clinics across the USA. We are proud to once again champion the cause at the 2022 North America Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky and support Mission 2029 for a Better World."
Commented Julie Hamilton, Chief Commercial Officer, Diageo Plc, "The future is female. Research is indicating that women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing, through a combination of their buying power and influence. Given this reality, it is imperative we have more gender balanced leadership at the very top of organizations. At Diageo we believe that the fastest way to greater diversity at the top is to actively support greater opportunity for women to learn, grow and lead."
Sponsor partnership programs for all Editions of Break the ceiling touch the sky® globally can be explored by emailing anthony@houseofroseprofessional.com.
House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd® is a global leader in the Talent, Training and Transformation businesses. The Company operates internationally via its registered brands Break the ceiling touch the sky®, Dream Job International® and CEOSmith®.
MEDIA AND CUSTOMER INQUIRIES:
Anthony A. Rose at anthony@houseofroseprofessional.com
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TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Tampa Bay, is pleased to announce their sold-out roster of 2022 Annual Sponsors. Each year, CREW relies on annual sponsors to support member events, scholarships, philanthropic endeavors, mentorship programs and much more. It is with deep gratitude that we announce and sincerely thank our 2022 annual sponsors.
GRAND BENEFACTOR:
- Vari
DIAMOND:
- FNF Family of Companies
- Redstone
- Shumaker
PLATINUM:
- CVS Health
- PBX-Change
- Strategic Property Partners
- Suncoast Credit Union
- The Fund
GOLD:
- Cushman & Wakefield
- Feldman Equities, LLC & Tower Realty Partners
- JLL
- Marcus & Millichap
- My Favorite Art Place
- Old Republic Title
- Ryan Companies US
- TVS Design
SILVER:
- Capital One Finance
- CBRE
- Dentons Bingham Greenebaum
- GLE
- Stewart Title Guaranty Company
- Suddath
- Sutter Roofing
- W3 Insurance
CREW Tampa Bay is a chapter of CREW Network, which is the premier business network dedicated to transforming the commercial real estate industry by advancing women globally.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seed&Spark, the crowdfunding platform that's helped filmmakers raise over $35M to make thousands of movies and shows, today announced multiple changes in its service offering to accelerate sustainable careers for creators.
Seed&Spark will eliminate its 5% service fee starting today, shifting exclusively to a voluntary tipping model and moving more funds raised directly into the pockets of the independent storytellers using the platform.
Also launching today, The Seed&Spark Patrons Circle will offer established filmmakers and industry veterans the opportunity to directly champion underrepresented perspectives in film and creators building success on their own terms. Founding patrons include Mark Duplass, Jason Reitman, Emily V. Gordon, Couper Samuelson (Blumhouse Pictures), Damian Bradfield, Jennifer Cloer, Tamar Guttmann, and JL Pomeroy (bridgeLine media), Sylvia Zakhary (Mamag Studios), and Abigail Disney.
All Seed&Spark campaigns are eligible to receive funding from Patrons, who are committing a minimum pledge of $1,000 per project. To learn more or to become a Patron, please visit bit.ly/foundingpatron.
"Even after 10 years, we're still a company for and by creators. These last two years have presented incredibly strong headwinds and still the creators in our community are making more powerful work than ever before," said Emily Best, Seed&Spark CEO. "Our job at Seed&Spark is to listen as carefully as we can to what creators really need, and to meet them in this moment it was clear we needed to deliver some financial relief and some encouragement and inspiration."
Beyond providing a critical infusion of capital, Patrons are bringing their expertise and creative guidance to the independent film community in upcoming mentorship sessions that are open to everyone, with special opportunities for creators fundraising on Seed&Spark.
"As a longtime supporter of Seed&Spark's mission, I'm incredibly excited and grateful to have joined the Patrons Circle," said Mark Duplass. "I really value the opportunity to connect with and support up and coming filmmakers. There have been phenomenal projects that have come out of Seed&Spark's creator community, and I can't wait to see what else they have in store."
Seed&Spark has also expanded its crowdfunding offerings beyond the film space, inviting authors, playwrights, musicians, podcasters, comic book creators, film festivals, and production companies to take advantage of its suite of crowdfunding and educational opportunities.
These new initiatives build on Seed&Spark's mission to ensure that all kinds of stories are told by all kinds of storytellers, sparking important conversations along the way. Over the past 10 years, Seed&Spark has helped creators around the world make nearly 3,000 new movies and shows, supported by over 237,000 fans that contributed $36M+. With the highest crowdfunding success rate in the world for movies and shows, as well as a library of free resources, tools, and education, Seed&Spark helps pioneering storytellers take control of their creative careers.
For more information on all updates visit seedandspark.com. You can also follow Seed&Spark on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
About Seed&Spark
Seed&Spark shifts power to communities through creativity. We make it possible for creators everywhere to make their work sustainably, and we amplify and accelerate the impact of the work they make. Our creator services, which include crowdfunding and free education, empower creators to gather resources to make their work, while our inclusive workplace products deploy those compelling films into corporations and organizations to help employees deprogram implicit bias and to inspire action. Learn more about our mission and values.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were higher on Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. was up 10.50 cents at $7.9650 a bushel; Mar. corn rose 16.25 cents at $6.60 a bushel; Mar. oats gained 21.50 cents at $6.7525 a bushel; while Mar. soybeans advanced 39.25 cents at $16.2875 a bushel.
Beef and pork were higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Feb. live cattle was rose .80 cent at $1.4317 a pound; Jan. feeder cattle was up .45 cent at $1.68 a pound; Feb. lean hogs gained 1 cent at $.9072 a pound. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/business/article/Grains-higher-livestock-higher-16847773.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:01 | en | 0.948039 |
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc., a tax-exempt organization supported by Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), has elected Cynthia Cardona as its president. Additionally, Lilly has selected Cardona to serve as senior director of social impact for the company.
As president of the Lilly Foundation, Cardona will lead its philanthropic activities to advance racial justice, improve educational outcomes for underserved students, enhance global health outcomes and improve the quality of life for people in Indianapolis. As head of Lilly's social impact team, she will lead the company's civic and investor engagement, employee giving and volunteerism, corporate responsibility reporting, global health partnerships and disaster relief efforts.
"Cynthia is a trusted and valued member of our company with a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion. I'm confident that she will leverage her considerable professional and unique lived experiences to advance Lilly's volunteer, philanthropic, and social impact work to make lives better for people here in Indianapolis and around the globe," said Leigh Ann Pusey, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications.
Cardona first came to Lilly in 2001 as a pre-MBA diversity fellowship intern and became a full-time employee in 2004. Her experience has spanned from working in primary care sales to holding a variety of consumer and brand marketing leadership positions, including chief marketing officer of Lilly Japan. Most recently, Cardona worked on Lilly's corporate affairs team on strategic enterprise-wide projects, including developing Lilly's corporate messaging and health equity framework.
Cardona serves on the board of a local nonprofit, La Plaza, Inc., which provides and connects the Central Indiana Latino population to critical health, educational and other social services. She has earned several degrees from Stanford University, including a B.S. in civil engineering, M.S. in civil/structural engineering, and an MBA with a certificate in public management.
About Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
To extend Lilly's reach and impact, the company established the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation in 1968. The Foundation is a private, tax-exempt organization that makes strategic and philanthropic investments consistent with Lilly's purpose. Eli Lilly and Company Foundation supports improving global health, strengthening communities, improving educational opportunities and combating racial injustice and inequity.
About Eli Lilly and Company
Lilly is a global health care leader that unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We were founded more than a century ago by a man committed to creating high-quality medicines that meet real needs, and today we remain true to that mission in all our work. Across the globe, Lilly employees work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. To learn more about Lilly, please visit us at lilly.com and lilly.com/news. I-LLY
This press release contains forward-looking statements about leadership changes and reflects Lilly's current beliefs. There are risks and uncertainties related to leadership changes. For discussion of important risks and uncertainties, please see Lilly's latest Forms 10-Q and 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements.
Refer to: Carrie Munk, munk_carrie@lilly.com, 317-416-2393
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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.lakecountystar.com/entertainment/article/Russian-gallery-says-guard-added-eyes-to-16847739.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:07 | en | 0.977114 |
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.
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 calls on having such testing done annually.
—For patients receiving higher doses of opioids, the CDC would urge doctors to not abruptly halt treatment unless there are indications of a life-threatening danger. The agency would offer suggestions about how to taper patients off the drugs.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- mParticle, the largest independent Customer Data Platform, today announced Søstrene Grene Import A/S, a Danish retail chain, has selected mParticle as its customer data infrastructure. Sostene Grene will rely on mParticle to unify its customer data and activate insights across customer touchpoints online and in-store.
Søstrene Grene sells Scandinavian inspired home furnishings and accessories, toys, kitchenware, candles, gifts and personal care products. The company has an online presence and more than 240 stores across 15 markets including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, The Netherlands, France, The Faroe Islands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. To support the company's continued growth, Søstrene Grene recognized the need to securely manage its first-party customer data, while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations across its geographic markets.
"We are confident that mParticle will play a foundational role in our digital transformation. The platform's ability to ingest data and control permissions through a single interface makes it an extremely powerful tool for managing customer data across our organization," said Rasmus Skjøtt, Chief Digital Officer, Omnichannel, at Søstrene Grene. "Gaining a unified view of each customer will help us provide shoppers with the most relevant information and product deals whether they are shopping online or in-store."
mParticle empowers Søstrene Grene with a comprehensive understanding of the customer journey by providing a unified ID for all known customers. With a clear picture of customer behavior, Søstrene Grene can optimize customer engagement, deliver relevant product recommendations and offers, and improve overall customer experience. mParticle also enables Søstrene Grene to A/B test and compare marketing programs across channels, unlocking new insights and a data-driven advantage not previously available with a siloed approach.
"The future of retail lies in how well a company understands the customer journey," said Karen Gallantry, mParticle Chief Revenue Officer. "Søstrene Grene's products are designed to inspire creativity and joy, and every customer touchpoint must do the same. Using mParticle, Søstrene Grene can unleash deeper insights to ensure they deliver on their brand promise with every customer interaction."
About Søstrene Grene
Søstrene Grene is a Danish retail chain which since 1973 has worked to bring beauty and joy to everyday lives through ever-changing aesthetic design made to create and support moments of 'hygge'.
The brand offers a wide assortment within home interiors, furniture, hobby items, kitchen supplies, children's toys, specialty food and candy, gift-wrapping, party supplies and more. The family-owned company is now managed by the second generation after the founders from the headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark, while the stores are mainly run on a joint venture or franchise basis. The chain holds more than 240 stores across 15 European markets as well as webshops on 8 markets.
Read more about Søstrene Grene on https://sostrenegrene.com/ or on the press site here: https://press.sostrenegrene.com/
About mParticle
mParticle makes it easy to holistically manage customer data along the entire product and customer lifecycle. Teams across companies like Starbucks, NBCUniversal, Spotify and Airbnb use mParticle to deliver great customer experiences and accelerate growth by solving the foundational challenges that impede success at scale. Founded in 2013, mParticle is headquartered in New York City with employees around the globe.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The band Spoon has taken a sonic fork in the road and, appropriately enough, the first single from their new album mentions another piece of silverware — a knife.
“The Hardest Cut” — complete with the line "we live on a knife" — roars with a dark, grunge-meets-'70s guitar energy, a signal of what's to come from the Texas-based band on their 10-track, 10th album, “Lucifer on the Sofa.”
“We wanted to make a rock ‘n’ roll record, a great rock ‘n’ roll record," says frontman Britt Daniel. "I just don’t feel like there’s enough great rock ‘n’ roll records being made these days.”
“Lucifer on the Sofa” via Matador Records is a turn toward more muscular, minimalist classic rock, more aggressive and rehearsed than the band's predecessor “Hot Thoughts,” where synths were prominent and songs constructed on the fly.
“We always tend to want to react a bit against the record we just did. That last record was more of a pieced together record, a produced record. It was a record where a lot of times we started recording and we didn’t know what the song really was,” says Daniel.
For “Lucifer on the Sofa,” drummer Jim Eno says Spoon tried to lean into Texas rock and early ZZ Top, using more real instruments than effects.
“The stuff that sounds like a band playing in a room has always been the kind of records that we grew up listening to. So it was trying to capture some of that,” says Eno.
Daniel estimates the new album was two-thirds done when the pandemic hit in March 2020. “I found myself with a lot of alone time and I wrote a lot more songs. That was the thing that kind of made me feel normal during the harshest part of lockdown,” he says.
While some songs the band had been kicking around for a few years, several were informed by the pandemic, including the “The Devil & Mister Jones” about a bad dude and “Wild,” about the drudgery of life.
“We like to challenge ourselves and not repeat ourselves,” says Eno. “I feel like some bands may just have the exact same formula over and over again, and I feel like we try not to do that.”
The album starts with a cover of Smog’s “Held” and chugs along in a rock vein until getting a little spacey with “Astral Jacket” and “Satellite,” before taking a weird and cool detour with the title track.
“The lucifer on the sofa is me,” says Daniel. “It’s the character that I can become when I’m at my worst. And I think a lot of people have that same kind of character. Nobody is the same person at all times and at times of distress bad things tend to come out.
“Whenever I recognize that person come out, I try to get past it. My way of trying to get past it in this song is to get up off that sofa.”
Members of Spoon have lately returned to Austin full-time and Daniel says he's most enjoying listening to live music on a daily basis.
“It’s a town where it’s all about live performances and bands that are doing it because it’s fun and not doing it with an eye on the music industry,” he says. “It’s the life I like.”
Spoon is getting great reviews for the new clutch of songs, with Rolling Stone saying it might be the band's best record and Paste magazine calling it “the sound of a band in peak form who are pushing to get better, go further and resist any temptation to slack off.”
That's a far cry from the days when Spoon were dropped by Elektra Records and had difficulty convincing anyone to put out their “Girls Can Tell” album. Daniel was advised to change the band's name. It was considered damaged goods.
“Maybe that would have been the smart thing to do, but we didn’t do it that way,” he recalls. “We somehow found an audience and then labels were more welcome to putting out our records.”
The band plans to tour with the new material, kicking off live shows on April 6 in Boston and ending June 4 in Phoenix. Along the way, they'll make stops in, among other cities, New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles.
Daniel and Eno are eager to play live again and happy how “Lucifer on the Sofa” ended up. “I think Britt’s writing the best songs that he’s ever written,” says Eno. “When you’re in a band with a great songwriter, everything can fall together a lot more easily.”
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Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits | https://www.lakecountystar.com/entertainment/article/The-band-Spoon-returns-with-a-great-rock-n-16847775.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:13 | en | 0.979661 |
WASHINGTON — Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for COVID-19 again and is in self-isolation, Clarence House announced Thursday morning.
The 73-year-old heir to the throne met dozens of people during a Wednesday evening reception at the British Museum.
“This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating,” the official account of the Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall tweeted. “HRH [His Royal Highness] is deeply disappointed not to be able to attend today’s events in Winchester and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible.”
Charles had a previous bout with coronavirus in March 2020, when cases began to spike around the world. Officials said he had mild COVID-19 symptoms then. Charles and his wife, Camilla, isolated at Queen Elizabeth II's Balmoral estate in Scotland at the time.
Charles' office, Clarence House, confirmed that he is triple vaccinated.
It was not immediately clear what his condition was or whether Charles had recently met with his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who over the weekend celebrated the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
Details about whether or not Charles is currently experiencing any symptoms has yet to be released.
During his previous bout with COVID-19, he recovered after seven days in self-isolation and told Sky News at the time that he was "lucky in my case" and "can so understand what other people have gone through"
In remarks delivered on the eve of her Platinum Jubilee, the monarch expressed a “sincere wish’’ that Camilla be known as “Queen Consort” when Charles succeeds her as expected to the throne. In giving her blessing, the popular and respected sovereign is placing significant heft behind the move.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/prince-charles-isolating-positive-covid-19/507-a17413e1-5734-4595-bc51-0c6b061216e6 | 2022-02-10T16:22:15 | en | 0.982233 |
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.lakecountystar.com/entertainment/article/Well-Read-Black-Girl-to-help-launch-new-literary-16847726.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:19 | en | 0.962747 |
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.
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CARY, N.C., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital transformation has accelerated significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the extra demands on data scientists have revealed significant barriers to effective working and high levels of job dissatisfaction in some areas. For example, around four in 10 are dissatisfied with their company's use of analytics and model deployment, while more than 20 barriers to effective working emerged, according to a survey of data scientists commissioned by analytics leader SAS.
However, the work of data scientists has grown in importance with many organizations accelerating digital transformation projects by using technology to improve business operations. More than 90% of respondents indicated the importance of their work was the same or greater compared to before the pandemic.
To delve deeper into the state of data science, the report assesses the impact of the pandemic, challenges faced, overall satisfaction with the analytics environment and more. The research showed the pandemic upended standard business practices, shifting the assumptions and variables in models and predictive algorithms and causing a ripple effect of adaptations in processes, practices and operating parameters.
More than two-thirds of respondents were satisfied with the outcomes from analytical projects. However, 42% of data scientists were dissatisfied with their company's use of analytics and model deployment, suggesting a problem with how analytical insights are used by organizations to inform decision making. This was backed up by 42% saying data science results were not used by business decision makers, making it one of the main barriers faced.
The survey also highlighted some specific skills gaps. Less than a third of the respondents reported having advanced or expert proficiency in program-heavy skills, such as cloud management and database administration. This is an issue given that use of cloud services is up significantly, with 94% saying they experienced the same or greater use of cloud since COVID-19 struck.
"There have clearly been more demands placed on data scientists as the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation projects that many organizations were planning anyway," said Dr. Iain Brown, Head of Data Science at SAS UK and Ireland. "A major source of frustration is finding a way for organizations to implement the insights from analytics projects and use them in their decision making, which means giving data scientists a seat at the boardroom table might be a way forward.
"Linked to this, we found concerns around support for data science teams and a lack of talent, which has been an issue for some time with demand outstripping supply. Organizations must realize that investing in a team of data scientists with complementary skills could reap huge value for the business, so the cost of hiring needs to consider the return on that investment as we move to significantly more digital and AI-driven business processes."
The research also identified gaps in consistent organizational emphasis on AI ethics, with 43% of respondents indicating that their organization does not conduct specific reviews of its analytical processes with respect to bias and discrimination and only 26% of respondents reporting that unfair bias is used as a measure of model success in their organization.
When it comes to the challenges identified to ensure fair and unbiased decision making, Dr. Sally Eaves, an industry expert, said, "Data scientists can lend their expertise to craft working guidelines for data access, usage security, and broader issues, such as sustainability and data ethics and bias."
"Rather than sometimes hoping they are given appropriate, clean data and relying too much on the technology to drive fair outcomes, they can play an active role to put in place the right guidelines and checks at each stage of the analytical process to try and eliminate bias. Having a transparent and explainable flow from data to decision is obviously key to this."
The research revealed positive outcomes from the global disruption of the pandemic. Nearly three-quarters (73%) said they are just as productive or more productive since the pandemic, while a similar proportion (77%) revealed they had the same or greater collaboration with colleagues. This suggests many of the challenges highlighted were in existence, possibly to a greater degree, before the pandemic.
Other challenges experienced were the amount of time spent on data preparation versus model creation. Respondents are spending more of their time (58%) than they would prefer gathering, exploring, managing and cleaning data.
"Overall, the data scientist has ample reason to feel empowered and optimistic about how the pandemic has shone a spotlight on the importance of their role within their organization and how it might evolve over time," said Brown. "This holds especially true if data scientists can leverage the whole spectrum of available tools to manage the analytics life cycle, pursue data science training and skill development opportunities, and embrace data prep as the first step in modeling."
Additional findings and discussion points, including strategies for data scientists to improve processes and outcomes, are available in the full report: Accelerating Digital Transformation.
Survey methodology
Data professionals were invited to answer survey questions during 2021 about their work via multiple sources, including TechTarget community members and through social media platforms. In all, 277 data professionals globally completed survey responses, and the quantitative portion of the research was augmented with qualitative interviews with the data professionals and experts.
A majority of respondents worked for companies with more than 1,000 employees, and a majority of the respondents held a master's degree or higher, with roughly an even split of individual contributors and managerial level respondents.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/3-million-plaintiffs-seek-1-2B-from-California-16847501.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:25 | en | 0.964691 |
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
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CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConceiveAbilities is celebrating twenty-five years of building families with the relaunch of their blog "All Things Conceivable." With more families choosing surrogacy, ConceiveAbilities is invested in providing expert information needed to embark on a successful surrogacy journey. Whether you are building your family through surrogacy or becoming a surrogate or looking to egg donation, ConceiveAbilities' blog is the best resource to learn about surrogacy and family-building.
ConceiveAbilities has published hundreds of informative blogs highlighting how surrogacy works, fertility experts, and personal stories from families and surrogates throughout their history. The new redesign allows people to research and learn about the surrogacy process in a meaningful way that is accessible and personal to where they are in their surrogacy journey, further cementing ConceiveAbilities as a leading surrogacy agency.
The biggest star of the relaunch is the comprehensive blog Everything You Need to Know About Surrogacy that compiles twenty-five years of know-how from the most experienced surrogacy agency in the world. Eleven supporting collections allow readers to take an even deeper dive into how the surrogacy process works.
From understanding surrogacy success rates to how the first-in class All-In Surrogate Care and Compensation Package works, these collections highlight the most important topics from the best experts in the surrogacy field including key questions like what is surrogacy, why does someone need a surrogate, and why does someone become a surrogate.
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As surrogacy becomes more popular, people are seeking reliable information. The number one surrogacy myth is that gestational surrogates are genetically related to the baby, which is completely false. This collection highlights ConceiveAbilities' expert knowledge of the surrogacy process and showcases its deep partner relationships with the best fertility centers and reproductive endocrinologists to provide readers with true surrogacy facts.
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Understanding why someone needs a surrogate is an important part of the process. For those struggling with infertility, impacted by medical issues like cancer and starting a family as gay men, surrogacy is a way to fulfill their dream of a becoming a parent. This collection explores the why and shares real-life stories of how surrogates have and can change people's lives.
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Women who become surrogates are very special people who are motivated to bring joy to families. From what drives a woman to help a family to surrogate requirements and characteristics, this collection provides insight into a surrogate's decision to give the gift of life and how to start the process to become a surrogate.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/British-Jewish-group-says-Israeli-politician-not-16847633.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:31 | en | 0.971322 |
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."
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Chris-Young-leads-Academy-of-Country-Music-16847728.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:38 | en | 0.976921 |
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acera Surgical, Inc. (Acera), a leading bioscience company developing and commercializing a portfolio of fully synthetic materials for regenerative medical applications, today announced its first patient enrollment in a multicenter, head-to-head clinical study evaluating Restrata® for the treatment of non-healing venous leg ulcers (VLUs). William Marston, M.D., the George Johnson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine is the study's lead investigator. The study will be the first level 1 clinical comparison between Restrata and a biologic skin substitute.
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are a chronic ulcer type which affect 3% of the world population, including over 2 million people annually in the US.1,2 VLUs are a major cause of morbidity and poor quality of life resulting from venous insufficiency in the lower limbs. This type of wound presents clinical challenges as VLUs may require many months of treatment before healing is achieved.3 The US economic burden of VLU treatment was close to $15 billion in 20144.
Dr. Bradley P. Abicht, DPM, FACFAS, Section Chair of Podiatry at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin commented, "Our team is excited to participate in this head-to-head, prospective clinical trial to further develop Restrata as a novel approach for difficult-to-treat venous leg ulcers. Our practice has been pleased with the outcomes of Restrata when used to treat very complex lower extremity wounds of varying etiology."
Dr. John Park, MD, Vascular Surgeon at Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska remarked, "I am very delighted to be part of this trial and to enroll our center's first patient as it will provide important evidence comparing the efficacy of Restrata versus a leading competitor for the treatment of venous leg ulcers. I applaud Acera Surgical for conducting this study since it is the first of its kind in a VLU population."
The study is a prospective, randomized multi-center trial comparing wound closure between Restrata, the synthetic hybrid-scale fiber matrix, with a living cellular skin substitute in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. The primary outcome measurement of the trial will be the number of study participants with 100 percent epithelialization (closure) of the wound within a 16-week period.
Nick Gallucci, Acera's Chief Commercial Officer, said, "Over the course of our short history, Acera Surgical has demonstrated our commitment to proving the benefits of synthetic wound healing through investment in high quality research. Today's health care environment demands high quality outcomes for patients while improving the efficacy of health care delivery. We are extremely excited about the response to Restrata we are getting from across the wound care spectrum, both physicians and administrators alike."
About Restrata®
Restrata is a fully synthetic hybrid-scale fiber matrix, indicated for use in a variety of wounds including surgical wounds, trauma wounds, and chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers. Restrata is manufactured with synthetic bioresorbable polymers and possesses a fibrous structure with high porosity. The product architecture, which is similar to native extracellular matrix, allows for cell ingress and retention, as well as neovascularization of the newly forming tissue without the need for added growth factors. As the wound healing process progresses, Restrata completely degrades via hydrolysis, leaving native tissue in its place. Restrata is shelf stable and carries a two-year shelf life.
About Acera Surgical, Inc.
Born from research and bold patient-focused innovation, Acera is a bioscience company developing engineered synthetic solutions for a variety of regenerative medical and surgical applications. At Acera, we are Revolutionizing Healing and Changing Lives. Additional information about Acera, its technology and products may be found at www.acera-surgical.com.
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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.weareiowa.com/article/sports/olympics/chloe-kim-opens-up-on-mental-health/507-0809496a-8afd-4d50-b51a-372807acbd84 | 2022-02-10T16:22:39 | en | 0.987263 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Denmark-may-allow-US-troops-on-its-soil-pact-in-16847696.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:44 | en | 0.970345 |
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW), a leading multi-generational brand appealing to a wide array of consumers who enjoy the fun of making their own furry friends, has been recognized on the Forbes list of America's Best Employers 2022. This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced today and can currently be viewed on the Forbes website.
"We are honored to again be recognized as a top employer by Forbes. Our passionate associates are the heart of our brand and their dedication to providing exceptional experiences for our guests, suppliers and other partners has been instrumental in the growth of our business," said Sharon Price John, Build-A-Bear President and Chief Executive Officer. "This is especially meaningful as we kick off our 25th anniversary year of celebration. I am very proud of our organization and I want to thank our associates who live our core values and mission to "add a little more heart to life" each day. As we receive this honor, it is an opportunity to celebrate the strength of our culture and the ongoing efforts of our team to remain highly engaged and innovative."
Forbes and Statista selected America's Best Employers 2022 through an independent survey applied to a vast sample of approximately 60,000 American employees working for companies with more than 1,000 employees in America. Across 25 industry sectors, 1,000 employers have been awarded, 500 large employers and 500 midsize employers. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from employees that were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employers to friends and family. Employee evaluations also included other employers in their respective industries that stood out either positively or negatively.
ABOUT BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP, INC. (NYSE: BBW)
Build-A-Bear is a multi-generational global brand focused on its mission to "add a little more heart to life" appealing to a wide array of consumer groups who enjoy the personal expression in making their own "furry friends" to celebrate and commemorate life moments. Nearly 500 interactive brick-and-mortar retail locations operated through a variety of formats provide guests of all ages a hands-on entertaining experience, which often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection. The company also offers engaging e-commerce/digital purchasing experiences on www.buildabear.com including its online "Bear-Builder" as well as the new "Bear Builder 3D Workshop". In addition, extending its brand power beyond retail, Build-A-Bear Entertainment, a subsidiary of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., is dedicated to creating engaging content for kids and adults that fulfills the company's mission, while the company also offers products at wholesale and in non-plush consumer categories via licensing agreements with leading manufacturers. For more information, visit the Investor Relations section of buildabear.com.
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ATLANTA — It's no easy feat making it to the Olympics. It takes hard work, dedication, luck, and hours upon hours of practice.
Reaching that goal once is something most athletes across the world can only dream of - but to do it two, three, even four times in one's life is truly something special.
This year, four athletes on Team USA are taking things a step further, competing in their now-fifth Winter Olympics.
Those include curler John Shuster, skeleton slider Katie Uhlaender, and snowboarders Shaun White and Lindsey Jacobellis.
White in particular has announced that Beijing will be his final Olympics, telling ESPN: "I got pretty excited about the idea of finishing my Olympic career where I started it [in Italy in 2006]. But through this process, I realized I don't think I can do another four years, mentally or physically. This is going to be my last go."
The famed snowboarder is widely considered one of the top athletes in sport and has won three previous gold medals. He made his Olympic debut back in 2006 at the Turin Winter Games and had hoped to bring his career full circle when the Olympics return to Italy in 2026.
With that plan now abandoned, White is pushing to make sure Beijing is where he can grab hold of a fourth gold before winding down his impressive career.
In the meantime, fellow snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis already has snatched herself a gold medal during this year's games, the first for Team USA.
According to the Associated Press, the 36-year-old racer from Connecticut was best known prior to Beijing for taking a massive lead in the final jump at the 2006 Turin Games. However, she unfortunately rode over the crest and fell, placing her in silver.
She had not won another Olympic medal since, but broke that streak in spectacular fashion in Beijing.
Curling star John Shuster has won two medals in his Olympic career: one gold and one bronze.
The men's US curling team recently competed and beat Russia in a nail-biter on Wednesday. Ultimately it would be Shuster's final throw of the match that would seal the deal.
While skeleton slider Katie Uhlaender hasn't won any medals, he career has nonetheless been impressive, with multiple World Championship medal wins.
She's also the first American woman from any sliding sport to make five Olympic teams, according to the Associated Press. What makes that accomplishment even more astounding is the fact there have only ever been six US Olympic women’s skeleton teams.
According to the Team USA website, Uhlaender began competing in skeleton back in 2004. After he sliding career, she hopes to become a producer or write to "combine her writing and photographic skills in a creative way." | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/sports/olympics/team-usa-athletes-competing-in-5th-olympics/85-24ea508b-3327-477c-8b46-8bc961c9d748 | 2022-02-10T16:22:46 | en | 0.977932 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Facing-project-delays-county-pushes-for-concrete-16847480.php | 2022-02-10T16:22:50 | en | 0.965803 |
GDAŃSK, Poland, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GetResponse, marketing automation software, announces its conversion into a Polish joint-stock company. This change enables GetResponse to move forward with implementing an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP).
In order to share business success with key employees and ensure they are directly impacted during times of accelerated growth, the development of an ESOP model was necessary.
"Our focus has been on creating an environment in which our employees can become true business owners," said Maciej Ossowski, Board Member and Director of GetResponse MAX. "Employee ownership is one of the most powerful ways to boost motivation and retention and attract new talent, as well as align long-term goals, and we couldn't be more excited to now offer this benefit."
In addition to added business transparency and an ESOP program, the transition to a joint-stock company gives employees liquidation options if they decide to monetize their shares. GetResponse has committed to an unconditional buyback program for every employee holding shares. This means there is no external event that needs to happen in order to sell shares, which results in direct financial benefits for employees and their families.
For more information about investor relations, please visit getresponse.com.
About GetResponse
Founded in 1997, GetResponse, a simple-yet-powerful marketing automation software, has more than 20 years of experience empowering businesses to garner tangible results. Along with 24/7 customer support available in eight languages, GetResponse features more than 30 tools: email marketing, website builder, conversion funnel, marketing automation, live chats, webinars, paid ads, and more.
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BEIJING, China — Team USA and Team Canda men's hockey both started their Beijing Olympics medal journeys in dominant fashion Thursday with contributions from athletes with Iowa ties.
Learn more about the hockey players and their Thursday performances below.
Staal played in the National Hockey League for 17 seasons, but did not sign with a team for the 2021-22 season. He joined the Iowa Wild in January to get back on the ice ahead of the Olympics.
He even scored the game-winning goal at Wells Fargo Arena on Jan. 15.
- Assists: 1
- Points: 1
- Shots on Goal: 3
- +/-: -1
- Total Ice Time: 15:12
- Shifts: 23
- Average Time on Ice/Shift: 0:39
Team Canada men's hockey schedule: Friday, Feb. 11 at 10:10 p.m. CT vs. USA (preliminary round); Sunday, Feb. 13 at 7:10 a.m. CT vs. China (preliminary round)
Smith played for the Cedar Rapids Roughriders from 2017-19. In the 2018-19 season, he led the team with 53 points (18 goals, 35 assists) in 59 games.
- Shots on Goal: 2
- +/-: +1
- Total Ice Time: 10:24
- Shifts: 17
- Average Time on Ice/Shift: 0:36
Team USA men's hockey schedule: Friday, Feb. 11 at 10:10 p.m. CT vs. Canada (preliminary round); Sunday, Feb. 13 at 7:10 a.m. CT: USA vs. Germany (preliminary round)
Miele played with the Cedar Rapids Roughriders during the 2005-06 season and part of the 2006-07 season. He totaled 17 goals and 25 assists in 65 games with the Roughriders.
- Assists: 1
- Points: 1
- Shots on Goal: 4
- +/-: +1
- Total Ice Time: 15:53
- Shifts: 23
- Average Time on Ice/Shift: 0:41
Kampfer played for the Iowa Wild during the 2013-14 season, tallying six goals and 20 assists in 69 games. He also played for the Sioux City Muskateers from 2004-06 and was named the Muskateers' top rookie his first year.
- Assists: 1
- Points: 1
- Shots on Goal: 3
- +/-: +3
- Total Ice Time: 17:12
- Shifts: 30
- Average Time on Ice/Shift: 0:34
McLaughlin played for the Cedar Rapids Roughriders from 2016-18. He tallied 36 points (14 goals, 22 assists) in 81 games and was team captain his second season.
- Shots on Goal: 1
- +/-: 0
- Total Ice Time: 8:38
- Shifts: 14
- Average Time on Ice/Shift: 0:37
Hentges played for the Des Moines Buccaneers during the 2017-18 season. During that time, Hentges racked up four goals and eight assists in 16 games.
- Did not play
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state lawmakers have advanced plans to boost spending in the current year by $2.7 billion, including paying state employees and teachers more.
The House Appropriations Committee approved House Bill 910 on Thursday, setting it up for a vote before the full House as early as Friday.
The measure includes $5,000 pay boosts for university and state agency employees, $2,000 bonuses to teachers and $1,000 bonuses to other K-12 workers including school bus drivers, part-time employees and cafeteria workers. It also restores $383 million to the state's K-12 funding formula that had been cut when lawmakers feared revenue decreases at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beyond the spending, the document also sets up $1.6 billion in state income tax rebates.
Revising the current year's budget, which ends June 30, is an annual ritual for lawmakers. But this year is seeing a huge burst of spending, most of which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and lawmakers want to maintain in the next budget that begins July 1. The bonuses for teachers would become permanent salary increases next year, allowing Kemp to complete the $5,000 raises he promised teachers when he ran for governor in 2018.
“This year, revenue has done things we never dreamed that it would do,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Terry England, an Auburn Republican.
With $2.35 billion in spare cash even after filling the state's savings account to its legal limit of $4.3 billion, the House is agreeing with Kemp's plan to give $1.6 billion in tax rebates in April — $250 to every single person filing state income taxes, $375 to every single person heading a household and $500 to married people filing jointly.
The burst of spending comes as Kemp and lawmakers are up for election later this year.
As is typical in the midyear budget revision, lawmakers clawed back some money that agencies haven't spent and redirected it toward other projects. Much of that money is being channeled into one-time spending that will replace money the state might have borrowed.
The House plan calls for spending $45 million this year to relocate employees from the state-owned 2 Peachtree building in downtown Atlanta to vacant office space in the Capitol complex. Officials say the 2 Peachtree building is too rundown to be worth renovating.
"The cost to update that building to current standards far exceeds the value of that building, so it’s best to get our folks moved on out of there,” England said.
The state would also spend $29 million in cash to replace roofs at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, $4.6 million to replace air conditioning and roofs at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry and $7 million on renovating youth detention centers statewide. All that money would have been borrowed.
The budget also shifts $10 million into educational loans for mental health and substance abuse workers that would be forgiven if they work in Georgia for a specific period of time, part of a broader push this year by Republican House Speaker David Ralston of Blue Ridge to beef up mental health services.
House leaders are supporting Kemp's plan to spend $432 million to buy a private prison and begin building a second prison, in a plan that also includes closing several older state prisons.
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BEIJING, China — They may be the youngest team in the competition, but the U.S. men's hockey team got off to a flying start, whipping China 8-0 in the Olympic qualifying round.
Forward Sean Farrell, a 20-year-old who skates at Harvard, led the way with a hat trick (3 goals) and two assists for a five-point game. Skaters with Minnesota ties also made a significant impact with forward Ben Meyers (Delano, U of M Gophers) picking up a goal and two assists, and Noah Cates from Stillwater notching a goal. Brock Faber from Maple Grove picked up an assistant and anchored the U.S. defensive corp.
Seven of the eight U.S. goals were scored by players currently in college.
Goaltender Drew Comesso earned the shutout win. The 19-year-old from Boston University is the youngest tender to ever start for a U.S. men's Olympic team.
Tomorrow night's contest will feature a far more challenging opponent, as the U.S. takes on Canada. The game will be interesting, as the roster for both teams was significantly impacted by the NHL's decision to not allow its players to take part in the Olympics due to concerns over COVID and China's quarantine policies.
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RENO, Nev., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greater Commercial Lending (GCL), which provides loans to businesses and organizations in under-served and rural communities, has completed nearly $73 million in financing for two facilities in North Carolina that will turn a natural byproduct of landfills into renewable natural gas. The financing is guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The Foothills Renewables Project in Caldwell County, NC, and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Person County, NC, are being developed by EVENSOL LLC, which develops and acquires renewable fuels-based assets in the biomass, biogas and biofuels sectors. The North Carolina facilities will sell the renewable natural gas to bp, whose ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and to help the world get to net zero.
Construction of the facilities has already begun, and plant construction is targeted for completion in Q3 2022, with commissioning and operations to follow.
"We are delighted to be helping make possible landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas projects that will enhance sustainability, and also bring jobs and positive economic activity to two regions in North Carolina that need the boost," said Jeremy Gilpin, executive vice president of GCL.
"EVENSOL is a highly experienced group with a track record in successful, renewable energy project development and operations. While solar and wind energy get a lot of attention, the biogas niche is a workhorse of the renewables sector and provides a reliable and solid flow of energy," Gilpin added.
The EVENSOL principals pointed out that the availability of USDA-guaranteed credit via GCL has made an important difference for the projects, from both business and efficiency standpoints.
"From a pure financing perspective, our ability to access a significant portion of the projects' required capital at very competitive rates, from GCL is a unique benefit for these projects and our investors. From both an operational and financial perspective, the availability of this type of project financing is very important," said David Wentworth, President and CEO at EVENSOL, which is based in Sisters, Oregon.
"Renewable natural gas is, by its nature, a variable-priced product. That often makes financing both challenging and expensive. GCL has enabled us to take advantage of a federal program at a low interest rate that is stable. It's an enormous benefit for us. The USDA program is an asset to the renewables sector, and GCL has helped make the process and the terms very straightforward. Importantly, this arrangement should be replicable for other projects down the road," said Benny Benson, president of ENERGYneering Solutions, which is designing and constructing the facilities, and will operate the plants upon completion.
The Upper Piedmont and Foothills Renewables Projects each focus on capturing landfill gas, which is primarily methane, and processing it into renewable natural gas. These projects make an important impact for the environment by taking a natural byproduct of waste and turning it into energy. Both projects include the development, design, permitting, construction, commissioning and operations of a state-of-the-art landfill gas-fueled renewable natural gas (RNG) facility. Primary processing components include: Air Liquide MEDAL membrane systems for CO2 separation, Vilter Compression Packages, Perennial LFG blowers and refrigeration, Guild N2 rejection systems, High Voltage Switchgear, Step-Up Transformer(s) and Industrial Grade Radiators/Silencers. These are all housed in and around rigid frame metal buildings, designed to optimize sound attenuation, together with supporting and ancillary equipment and gas and electrical interconnection infrastructure.
About Greater Commercial Lending
Greater Commercial Lending (GCL) is a credit organization that brings together credit unions and community lenders from around the U.S. to provide government-guaranteed loans to businesses and initiatives in rural and under-served markets throughout the U.S. and its territories. It helps finance key infrastructure services, like power, renewable energy, transportation and fiber optic, as well as schools, hospitals, restaurants, agriculture, hotels and manufacturers. GCL partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which guarantee loans, to arrange credit at favorable terms. GCL is a subsidiary of Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU).
About EVENSOL LLC
EVENSOL LLC was established to create value for its partners, investors, and project counterparties through the selective acquisition and development of renewable fuels-based energy assets, with particular focus on the biomass, biogas and biofuels sectors throughout the US and abroad.
EVENSOL pursues the development and acquisition of renewable energy assets requiring special attention to technical detail, flexibility in commercial and financial contract structure, process challenges, environmental limitations, and other factors constraining investor/developers not fully integrated in the design and operations of such facilities. The EVENSOL value proposition is to selectively identify undervalued, distressed and sub-optimal assets, acquire and/or develop such projects, and aggregate them into regional operating portfolios with fully integrated internal management controls.
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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.
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NEW YORK and MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthpointCapital Management LLC ("HealthpointCapital") is pleased to announce it has completed the sale of CrossRoads Extremity Systems ("CrossRoads, or the "Company") to DePuy Synthes, The Orthopaedics Company of Johnson & Johnson. The transaction marks the first exit for HealthpointCapital's Musculoskeletal Fund. HealthpointCapital acquired a majority stake in CrossRoads in May 2019 and proceeded to further the Company's position as the innovation leader in its segment.
CrossRoads, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Memphis, TN, is a pure-play, innovative designer and manufacturer of procedure-specific, sterile-packed implants and instruments for elective foot and ankle surgery. Under HealthpointCapital's ownership, CrossRoads also successfully broadened the Company's product portfolio with the asset acquisitions of First Ray LLC, Kator LLC and Mortise Medical LLC. These acquisitions added complementary product offerings and substantial intellectual property.
"Foot and Ankle surgery is a high growth sector in Orthopedics and the leading companies are searching for compelling, differentiated innovation," said HealthpointCapital President Mike Mogul. "We worked together with the excellent CrossRoads team, supported a massive increase in product launch velocity including acquisitions and significant development of the sales and marketing organizations as they created that compelling opportunity."
The Company's comprehensive portfolio is centered on differentiated products for foot surgery with proven benefits such as dynaBunion4D®, miniBunion3D® and DynaForce™ Staple Compression Plates. These "breakthrough technologies for faster healing" deliver improved operating room experience, simplicity and accuracy for the surgeon and better patient outcomes. In addition, CrossRoads' high-quality, reusable instrumentation and unique EcoSMART® instrument management program promotes efficient inventory management and improved economics for healthcare facilities. CrossRoads is led by co-founder and CEO Vernon Hartdegen and co-founder and VP of R&D Chad Hollis. Both will join DePuy Synthes.
John H. Foster, HealthpointCapital CEO and Founder, said, "Our investment in CrossRoads is a great example of the HealthpointCapital thesis for building differentiated, high-performing musculoskeletal companies that can become cornerstone acquisitions for the large medtech strategics. The Company's exceptional execution of our strategic roadmap, financial plan and organizational design created a fast-growing foot and ankle industry leader. We are proud to have played a role in the Company's tremendous growth. Many thanks to the entire CrossRoads team for their contributions and successes." HealthpointCapital partners Mike Mogul, John Foster and Milen Todorov actively participated on the CrossRoads Board of Directors.
"As a long-term investor in CrossRoads, we chose to partner with HealthpointCapital to help realize the value that the CrossRoads team was creating," said Gary Stevenson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of MB Venture Partners, "Through supporting and funding rapid product and market development including a key acquisition, the team was able to realize their full potential in creating one of the most exciting small companies in orthopedics."
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. acted as legal advisor and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to CrossRoads.
About HealthpointCapital Management LLC:
HealthpointCapital, founded in 2002, is the leading private equity firm focused exclusively on the musculoskeletal sector. The Firm is led by CEO and founder John H. Foster and President Mike Mogul, former Group President at Stryker Corporation and former CEO of DJO Global, a former Blackstone portfolio company. HealthpointCapital brings together extensive medical device operating experience, a strong private equity track record, and an extensive network of clinical, distributor and strategic company relationships to help portfolio companies accelerate growth. Notable recent exits for HealthpointCapital include OrthoSpace (acquired by Stryker), Blue Belt Technologies (acquired by Smith & Nephew), and BioHorizons (acquired by Henry Schein). For more information, visit www.healthpointcapital.com.
For investor or media inquiries, please contact Tessa Cicitta, HealthpointCapital, 212-935-7780 or tcicitta@healthpointcapital.com
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges on Thursday rejected a senior Ivory Coast politician's claim for compensation after he was acquitted of involvement in deadly violence following elections in 2010.
Former Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude was cleared in 2019, along with former president Laurent Gbagbo, of responsibility for crimes including murder, rape and persecution following the disputed elections.
Judges halted the trial before defense lawyers had even presented evidence, saying prosecutors failed to prove their case.
Appeals judges upheld the acquittals last year. Ble Goude's laywers subsequently filed a written request for compensation, arguing that he was “the victim of a wrongful prosecution amounting to a grave and manifest miscarriage of justice.”
Using two ways of calculating compensation, Ble Goude's lawyers sought either 819.300 euros or 381.900 euros ($937,402 or $436,893) compensation.
Dismissing the request Thursday, judges ruled that the failed case did “not rise to the level of a wrongful prosecution and no other form of a grave and manifest miscarriage of justice has been shown to have taken place.”
More than 3,000 people were killed in violence that erupted after Gbagbo refused to accept defeat by his rival, current Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara in the 2010 election. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/ICC-rejects-compensation-for-freed-Ivory-Coast-16847770.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:08 | en | 0.978594 |
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HONK Technologies, the industry-leading digital roadside assistance and vehicle transport platform company, finished 2021 with exceptional growth over pre-pandemic levels, fueled in part by the success of two new services: Vehicle Transport Services and FirstOnScene Accident Information Services.
Q4 2021 was HONK's sixth straight quarter of revenue growth since the industry-wide downturn at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. HONK's record 90% annualized growth rate in Q4 drove record revenues in calendar 2021, with growth of nearly 70% over 2020. While HONK's digital-first platform ensures efficiencies and quality through automation, HONK's hiring remained strong throughout the pandemic, and continues to be strong into 2022.
HONK also diversified its offerings releasing two new services:
- Vehicle Logistics: Provides automotive retailers with transparent, trackable, and one-click scheduling for same-day vehicle transports to address complex logistics challenges.
This new service was HONK's fastest growing segment, winning four large customers in multi-million dollar deals that now comprise nearly one-third of HONK's revenues. - FirstOnScene Accident Information Services: On average, it takes a customer 7-10 days after an accident to report a claim and provide photos of the damage to their insurance carrier. HONK can reduce cycle time by three to five days and save insurers $500 to $800 per claim. Using HONK's FirstOnScene proprietary mobile technology, a HONK service provider can collect photos, video, and information detailing vehicle damage at the accident scene. These real-time data points and information are instantly available from the insurer's client dashboard, other integrated third-party AI tools, and claims management software.
This service is currently in the midst of rolling out with two of the 15 largest U.S. auto insurers.
"I'm very proud of the growth HONK achieved in 2021," said Corey Brundage, CEO and Founder of HONK. "2020 was a very challenging year for our industry, but instead of hunkering down, HONK leaned into the challenge and diversified with two new services, one of which already accounts for nearly one-third of our annual revenue. It's a testament to the passionate, innovative culture we've built at HONK."
About HONK Technologies
HONK, a flexible on-demand mobility platform, helps top insurers, fleets, automotive OEMs and retailers deliver modern, digital roadside customer experiences and meet scalable same-day vehicle transport demands. HONK's digital-first, modular approach is designed to optimize roadside assistance programs, auto claims processing, accident scene management, fleet maintenance management, vehicle logistics and transport, so businesses can increase efficiencies through advanced digital tools, customizable integrations, and HONK's high-performing service provider network to build brand-defining retention and loyalty engines.
To learn more, visit www.honkforhelp.com/industry-solutions.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Japan-OKs-Pfizer-COVID-19-oral-pills-amid-surging-16847502.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:14 | en | 0.944826 |
BEIJING (AP) — Irene Schouten of the Netherlands completed a speedskating sweep of the women’s distance events at the Beijing Games, setting another Olympic record Thursday with a victory in the 5,000 meters.
Schouten won the 3,000 on Saturday, also setting an Olympic mark on the opening day of speedskating at the Ice Ribbon oval.
She was even more dominant in the longest women’s race with a winning time of 6 minutes, 43.51 seconds. That took down the 20-year-old Olympic mark held by Germany’s Claudia Pechstein (6:46.91).
No one else was even close. Schouten finished 4.67 seconds ahead of silver medalist Isabelle Weidemann of Canada, while the bronze went to Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic (6:50.09).
It was the seventh career medal for Sáblíková, making her the most decorated Czech Olympic athlete. She had been tied with cross-country skier Katerina Neumannova.
Sáblíková was the most recent skater to pull off the 3,000-5,000 double at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Schouten is now the sixth skater to win both events.
Francesca Lollobrigida of Italy, silver medalist in the 3,000, faded to fourth in 6:51.76.
The same skaters finished in the top four of the 3,000, but the order was juggled a bit.
Weidemann moved up one place from bronze medalist in the previous distance race, while Sáblíková improved from fourth to third to claim a place on the podium.
The top spot was the same.
Schouten gave the Netherlands its fourth gold medal in five speedskating events at the Beijing Games.
It looks like another rout for the Big Orange Machine, which also dominated at the oval in the last two Olympics.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HR for Health and Group Dentistry Now today announced that registration is open for the 7th annual DSO Leadership Summit. Long known as the industry's #1 event for networking and education, the 2022 DSO Leadership Summit will take place October 6-8, 2022 in Nashville, TN. Emerging dental group and DSO executives, owners, investors and industry partners can register for the popular two-day event by visiting www.dsoleadershipsummit.com.
This year's meeting features a full slate of talks and panels focusing on the business, staffing and technology challenges faced by emerging and mid-sized group dental practices. The event, known for its energy, excitement, and knowledge sharing, will be held at the Summit's new location – the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN. Fan favorites, DSO Diagnosis and the Emerging Groups to Watch Awards, will return by popular demand, along with new sessions from never-before-seen industry experts who will provide fresh and modern perspectives.
Specially curated for senior DSO executives, venture capitalists, and key industry partners, this exclusive learning and networking event offers the perfect opportunity to share strategies, lessons learned, and new ideas with industry peers in a collegial, small group setting.
"Terrific agenda, tremendous content, and a great educational experience for everyone - most importantly the doctors who are here to glean information on best practices and how to position themselves, their practices, their future growth plans." - David Pegg, Dental Care Alliance
"The DSO Leadership Summit was founded on the idea of knowledge sharing – the more we learn from each other, the better we each will be," said HR for Health COO and DSO Leadership Summit Co-founder, Ralf Tomandl. "Each year the Summit builds on that foundation by creating a non-judgmental environment where attendees and speakers can be vulnerable to share their concerns and issues. It is this transparency that provides the greatest learning opportunities and keeps our attendees coming back year after year."
"In 2021, Group Dentistry Now partnered with HR for Health to make the DSO Leadership Summit even more special. GDN added their own signature to the event with the Emerging Dental Groups to Watch Awards Gala – a first for the DSO industry! The venue was packed to capacity and the red-carpet gala set the tone for the meeting and got the party started," said Bill Neumann, Group Dentistry Now's CEO. He also noted, "An unexpected bonus for this meeting – and something highly unusual for events – is the vast majority of attendees stayed through the end of the meeting, including the after-hours events. This is a testimonial of how extraordinary the occasion was."
"The intimate feel of this conference makes it so that people are having more intentional conversations. Maybe being a little bit vulnerable? Instead of boasting about how well they're doing, they're saying "How can we succeed together and keep the industry rising?" - Dr. Roshan Parikh
With over 400 attendees expected, event organizers predict the 2022 meeting will be the Summit's seventh consecutive sellout. To learn more about the DSO Leadership Summit or to register, visit: www.dsoleadershipsummit.com
About Group Dentistry Now®
Founded in 2014, Group Dentistry Now is the leading multimedia company dedicated to providing relevant news, education, products, podcasts, webinars, consulting, career placement and services to DSOs and dental group practices. Group Dentistry Now has a weekly enewsletter – DSO Weekly – which features the best products and services to increase efficiencies in your dental group or DSO, all the industry events, and highly engaging analysis, news and education. Visit www.GroupDentistryNow.com to subscribe.
About HR for Health®
HR for Health is empowering practice owners with the resources to develop and implement enforceable employment policies and avoid legal pitfalls. The platform provides offices with a comprehensive and compliant HR experience including, customized employee handbooks, seamless time and attendance tracking, payroll, performance and task management tools, plus live HR support. For more information, visit HR for Health at www.hrforhealth.com, Facebook.com/HRforHealth and www.linkedin.com/company/hr-for-health
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HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia’s parliament passed a Holocaust restitution bill Thursday that includes compensation for lost Jewish property and funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II.
Following years of wrangling over the issue, lawmakers in the 100-seat Saeima voted 64-21 to approve the Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community on the bill's final reading.
Lengthy negotiations involving the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, Latvian Jewish representatives and government authorities started in 2005. The United States and Israel also were involved in the talks.
The bill authorizes spending 40 million euros ($45 million) over 10 years to revitalize Latvia’s 9,500-strong Jewish community, provide social and material assistance to Holocaust survivors, and to fund Jewish schools, building restoration and cultural projects.
Latvia was occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Red Army, which was pushed away a year later by Nazi Germany's advancing troops. Moscow retook Latvia in late 1944, and the country remained part of the Soviet Union until it gained independence in 1991.
Some 95,000 Jewish people lived in Latvia before the World War II. The thriving prewar community suffered enormous losses during the Nazi occupation. By the time the Red Army reoccupied Latvia, an estimated 90% of the country's Jews had perished.
Jewish community members were prevented from recovering the property they owned in June 1940, when Latvia's first Soviet occupation started, due near-total destruction. The Soviet Union first seized those properties, which were then taken over by the Nazis, again nationalized by the Soviet Union and later become property of the Latvian state.
After independence in 1991, Latvia introduced laws on returning nationalized property. But the issue was left unresolved with no one left to claim the assets of Jews. The remuneration provided in the legislation refers to “goodwill compensation” by Latvia, a nation of 2.8 million, for unrecovered Jewish property.
Decades after the Holocaust, many European countries have taken steps to compensate the families of prewar Jewish property owners, though the picture is very mixed.
Poland, which was home to the largest Jewish population of Europe, has not adopted any legislation that would regulate the return of property or provide compensation to prewar owners.
In many cases, properties first seized by the Nazis were later nationalized by Poland's communist regime. The vast majority of those dispossessed were not Jewish, but the issue looms large in Poland’s relationship with Israel and the United States.
Poland passed a law last year that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property. It sparked a major diplomatic crisis with Israel which has still not been resolved. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Latvia-passes-long-awaited-Holocaust-restitution-16847790.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:21 | en | 0.970445 |
BEIJING (AP) — Israeli skier Barnabas Szollos was happy to have the No. 1 bib so he could get a chance to sit in the leader’s box after the downhill run of the Alpine combined at the Beijing Olympics.
He thought his moment in the spotlight would end there.
When he followed his 11th-place finish in the downhill with the second-best slalom time and wound up an unexpected sixth, he had achieved Israel’s best-ever individual result at the Winter Games.
“This,” Szollos said, “is more than I expected.”
With just 27 athletes taking part in the race, Szollos finished only 1.75 seconds behind Austrian winner Johannes Strolz.
Israel’s national Twitter account quipped: “For a country where most people ski on sand, 6th place is pretty good. Mazal Tov champion!”
Szollos was born in Hungary and raised in Austria but gained Israeli citizenship through his father, who used to coach the national team. He and his two siblings — his sister Noa is also competing in Beijing — have Israeli passports.
He’s been to Israel only twice.
“It’s a nice country (but) for me it’s a bit too hot,” Szollos said. “You know when you live all the time in Austria and it’s cold, you prefer the cold.”
Szollos was not raised Jewish and does not understand Hebrew.
“I speak Hungarian, German and English but not Hebrew yet,” he said.
Israelis can ski at Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights but Szollos has not skied there yet.
“It’s much better,” he said, “to ski in Austria.”
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Long-term-US-mortgage-rates-hit-3-69-highest-in-16847533.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:27 | en | 0.981214 |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HybridChart, the leader in mobile charge capture and workflow solutions for rounding physicians, announced today a partnership with Kovo HealthTech Corporation (TSXV: KOVO), a leader in healthcare technology and Billing-as-a-Service. This partnership highlights HybridChart's continued effort to help optimize practice workflows, drive down healthcare costs, and enhance revenue cycle management.
HybridChart creates easy and fast charge captures at the point of care, which flow electronically into Kovo's industry-leading billing software, creating a seamless workflow for medical billing. Benefits of HybridChart's comprehensive solution include secure messaging and discharge coordination, improving overall efficiency, and allowing providers to bring the focus back to patient care.
"The alignment of our solutions serves as a scalable blueprint for modern revenue cycle management in healthcare's disconnected landscape," said Gregory Sanders, MD, Founder and CEO, HybridChart. "Working together we are providing much needed smart interoperability, promoting synergy of each of our proficiencies, and bringing clients an integrated solution."
Kovo allows healthcare providers to digitally track and manage complex patient care registration, services, and billing and payments, using its proprietary OneRev technology platform. Partnering with HybridChart extends its solution to providers outside of the office setting, reducing claim cycle length and eliminating the need for manual data entry.
"Joining forces with HybridChart is another way we're bridging the gap between providers and their billers, with data flowing strategically in real time," said Greg Noble, CEO of Kovo. "This comprehensive integration adds to our team's ability to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, so healthcare providers can focus on what matters most, delivering quality care."
About HybridChart
HybridChart, a leading provider of medical technology, connects healthcare teams, increases efficiency, and improves patient outcomes. HybridChart EVOLVE, the fourth version of this software, adapts to unique workflows and enhances profitability. Used by providers from diverse specialties, practices of all sizes across the United States benefit from EVOLVE's 5 core features: Charge Capture, Census Management, Secure Messaging, Discharge Planning, and Data Analytics.
Find HybridChart on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
About Kovo HealthTech Corporation
Kovo HealthTech Corporation is a leader in healthcare technology and Billing-as-a-Service ("BAAS"). Kovo helps US healthcare providers digitally track and seamlessly manage complex patient care registration, services, billing and payments for over 3.5 million patients in 40+ states. Kovo helps healthcare practitioners get paid more quickly so they can focus on offering quality care.
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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.expressnews.com/sports/article/Super-Bowl-s-halftime-performers-face-questions-16847724.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:29 | en | 0.934863 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Maine-looks-to-grow-access-to-lawyers-in-state-s-16847578.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:33 | en | 0.976542 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leveraging 20+ years of trust industry and systems knowledge, ICR Partners has launched its SMAxChange. ICR's SMAxChange delivers custodial and trading data services from SMA managers for trust organizations running their businesses on virtually any trust accounting system and utilizing almost any portfolio management system provider.
The SMAxChange expands ICR's 3rd party investment solution by supporting the use of products that are not available via model delivery, in addition to ICR's already-established robust model delivery. ICR's SMAxChange offering currently supports fixed income, ESG and client-specific tax managed portfolios, in addition to other unique investment options.
The SMAxChange allows for an accelerated implementation timeline and a cost-effective solution provided by ICR, a proven trust industry investment solution firm.
As of this release, 3 trust organizations have been successfully implemented, utilizing 2 different trust accounting systems.
ICR Partners, with clients operating in 26 states and more than $280 billion in wealth assets, provides technology-enabled manager research, contracting, model delivery, and custodial support services to trust organizations. As an SEC registered investment advisor based in Arlington, Texas, ICR provides institutional quality investment delivery designed for the specific needs of each of its clients.
For more information contact Maria Very at 817-854-3253 or maria@icrpartners.com.
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OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) — A man who wanted to join the protests in Canada's capital over mask mandates called in a bomb threat so police would waste their time chasing it, authorities said, but he called the wrong Ottawa — a village in Ohio.
The man, a 20-year-old from Akron, Ohio, called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office twice Monday, said sheriff’s Capt. Brad Brubaker.
The first time he made a bomb threat, and then in a second call he said he had been shot, Brubaker said. That’s when the man found out he was talking with someone in Ohio.
“He wasn’t paying attention and just called the first number he found,” Brubaker told The Lima News. “He said he was mad about mask mandates.”
The sheriff’s office said it would ask the county prosecutor to consider charges against the man. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Man-upset-over-Canada-s-mask-mandates-threatens-16847802.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:39 | en | 0.980397 |
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX China Holding, Inc. ("IMAX China," HKSE: 1970) today announced it will hold a quarterly conference call to discuss its full-year 2021 financial results on Wednesday, February 23, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Thursday, February 24, at 8:00 a.m. Hong Kong Time).
To access the call via telephone, interested parties in the US and Canada should dial (800) 289-0720 approximately 5 to 10 minutes before the call begins. Hong Kong callers should dial 800-961-245 and other international callers should dial (647) 484-0258. The conference ID for the call is 3170737. A replay of the call will be available via webcast at www.imax.cn/investor/l-en or via telephone by dialing (888) 203-1112 (US and Canada), or (647) 436-0148 (international). The Conference ID for the telephone replay is 3170737.
About IMAX China
IMAX China is a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, and is incorporated under the laws of Cayman Islands. IMAX China was established by IMAX Corporation specifically to oversee the expansion of IMAX's business throughout Greater China. Shares of IMAX China trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of September 30, 2021, there were 1,664 IMAX theater systems (1,580 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 85 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
IMAX®, IMAX® Dome, IMAX® 3D, IMAX® 3D Dome, Experience It In IMAX®, The IMAX Experience®, An IMAX Experience®, An IMAX 3D Experience®, IMAX DMR®, DMR®, IMAX nXos® and Films to the Fullest®, are trademarks and trade names of the Company or its subsidiaries that are registered or otherwise protected under laws of various jurisdictions. More information about the Company can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/imax), Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
This press release contains forward looking statements that are based on IMAX management's assumptions and existing information and involve certain risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are discussed in IMAX Corporation's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A man wanted in a double homicide in suburban Denver has been arrested in central Kansas.
Casey Devol, 29, of Franktown, Colorado, was arrested Wednesday in Salina, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado said on its Facebook page. He’ll be held in the Saline County Jail until he can be extradited to Colorado, officials said.
Devol is suspected in the shooting deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found in a Franktown home’s garage early Tuesday morning, officials said. Investigators believe the pair were killed Monday night. Their names had not been released by Thursday morning.
Douglas County Sheriff’s officials said Devol knew both victims, and surveillance video shows him at the home and carrying weapons to and from his pickup truck at the time of the killings.
Franktown is about 27 miles (43.5 kilometers) southeast of Denver. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Man-wanted-in-Colorado-double-homicide-arrested-16847767.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:45 | en | 0.97721 |
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) today announced it will hold a quarterly conference call to discuss its fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 financial results on Wednesday, February 23, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
This call is being webcast and can be accessed at investors.imax.com. To access the call via telephone, interested parties in the US and Canada should dial (888) 220-8474 approximately 5 to 10 minutes before the call begins. Other international callers should dial (647) 484-0475. The conference ID for the call is 6273867. A replay of the call will be available via webcast at investors.imax.com or via telephone by dialing dial (888) 203-1112 (US and Canada), or dial (647) 436-0148 (international). The Conference ID for the telephone replay is 6273867.
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of September 30, 2021, there were 1,664 IMAX theater systems (1,580 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 85 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
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Medicinal and recreational use of marijuana has been increasing, along with the drug's potency, over the past two decades. But how it may impact brain health, particularly during key periods of development and maturation, remains unclear, according to a new report.
The scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published Thursday in its journal Stroke, includes an analysis of current research and could inform clinical practice guidelines on the drug.
"There's a lot of uncertainty in the medical community about the health effects of marijuana. This scientific statement is intended to guide health care professionals in having a balanced and intentional discussion with patients about the potential known and unknown effects of marijuana on brain health," writing group chair and neurologist Dr. Fernando D. Testai said in a news release. He is a professor of neurology and rehabilitation at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In August 2020, the AHA published a statement on the impact of marijuana use on cardiovascular health. This is its first statement about the drug's impact on brain health. A growing number of states have legalized or decriminalized it over the past two decades, and the use of marijuana, also known as cannabis, is on the rise in the U.S., especially among adolescents and young adults. More than one-third of high school seniors and 43% of college students reported using marijuana in 2018, according to the statement.
The concentration of THC – tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component in marijuana – also has been increasing, from 4% in 1995 to 15% in 2018. THC is the compound that gives users the sensation of being high. While some states have legalized marijuana, it's still illegal federally, with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Food and Drug Administration classifying it as a Schedule 1 controlled substance.
The other major component of the marijuana plant, cannabidiol, abbreviated as CBD, has no psychoactive effects and is legal when its THC content is less than 0.3%. CBD, which has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, is being investigated in clinical trials for its potential for treating Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.
Prolonged exposure to THC can disrupt memory, learning and brain development, according to rodent studies cited in the new scientific statement. During prenatal development, THC can disrupt signaling pathways that alter the offspring's thinking, emotional behavior and response to stress. During adolescence, THC may change the structure and function of brain circuitry, affecting cognition, emotional regulation and social behavior.
The human body naturally produces compounds called endocannabinoids, which are essential to brain development and maturation and are involved in the regulation of body processes such as learning, memory, pain control and sleep. THC can disrupt those processes by attaching to the same neurons in the brain that endocannabinoids do.
"Data obtained in these animal studies demonstrate that disruption of endocannabinoid pathways leads to behavioral and cognitive abnormalities, such as poorer memory and learning ability and a heightened sensitivity to stress," Testai said. "Also, there may be vital life periods – gestation and adolescence – when the brain may be particularly vulnerable to the impact of THC."
Human studies have had more mixed results.
Studies found psychological problems and difficulties with cognitive function in children whose mothers used marijuana while pregnant. In a study of young adults who were followed for 25 years, they also found a correlation between more years of self-reported exposure to marijuana and declining scores on verbal memory tests.
Some studies also found a thinning of areas of the brain involved in cognition and orchestrating thoughts and actions, but other studies found no differences in the brains of marijuana users and non-users. According to the statement, research also shows cannabis users have an increased risk of strokes.
Finally, it highlighted the numerous questions regarding cannabis use that remain unanswered, such as whether its impact on brain health varies according to the user's age; how it may interact with medications; whether different THC levels impact the brain differently; whether marijuana affects people differently when they smoke it versus consuming it in edible products; and whether using the drug medicinally versus recreationally impacts the brain differently.
"Our understanding of the effects of marijuana on the brain is imperfect, and human research in this area is a work in progress," Testai said. "Still, the results of recent animal studies challenge the widely accepted idea that cannabinoids are harmless and call for caution when using marijuana, particularly while pregnant or during adolescence."
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ashley Caldwell thinks of Christopher Lillis as family, and Justin Schoenefeld as something even more.
Together, they're Olympic gold medalists.
The trio of Americans won gold in the Olympics’ first mixed team aerials event Thursday, giving the United States its first medals in the freestyle skiing discipline since Jeret “Speedy” Peterson in 2010.
Caldwell was a precocious, breakout star when she made her Olympic debut as a 16-year-old at the 2010 Vancouver Games. The 2017 world champion is now in her fourth Olympics but had never finished higher than 10th.
The 28-year-old Caldwell and Schoenefeld have been dating for about three years, making her breakthrough to an Olympic podium all the sweeter.
“I’ve been in the hunt for a gold medal my entire career,” Caldwell said. “To do it with these guys is incredible. Chris has been like a brother to me forever, and Justin is the love of my life, so that really helps.”
It’s the first American medal in aerials since Peterson won silver at Vancouver. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot a year later.
The last Americans to win gold were Eric Bergoust and Nikki Stone in 1998.
Lillis’ back double full-full-double full was given the highest score of any trick in the finals, and the U.S. gold was assured when Schoenefeld followed with a clean back double full-full-full.
“This has been a three-year process for us, for me getting ready for this Olympic Games and being able to throw those quintuple twisting triples," Lillis said. "I was just happy to get the opportunity to throw one and to put it down.”
Two-time medalist Jia Zongyang cost China a chance at gold when he flipped forward on his landing, and the host country settled for silver. Canada won bronze.
The mixed team event made its debut at the Beijing Games. Each country gets three jumpers and can’t use more than two per gender. All six countries in the finals went with two men and one woman.
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BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In time for Random Acts of Kindness Day 2022, Grace & Kind's interactive character, Carry Kindness®, is included in the February issue of Costco Connection and shares how Carry Kindness helps kids learn and practice kindness.
Grace & Kind, a woman owned business, has been encouraging kindness since 2012. Founder Nancy Raciti distinctly remembers being picked on in kindergarten. Raciti explains, "I created Carry Kindness as a way for kids to focus on kindness. Children color Carry and help her on her mission to carry kindness around the world. Numerous research studies verify the benefits of kindness. It's valuable for everyone."
Stemming from the creation of Carry Kindness, Raciti wrote The Adventures of Carry Kindness. It tells the story of how a kind heart can change the world. The illustration of Carry Kindness at the back of the book allows children to immediately color their own Carry Kindness and begin to practice kindness.
Teachers are using Carry Kindness in their classrooms. Abby Fremouw, a 2nd grade teacher at Sorensen Magnet School in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, reads The Adventures of Carry Kindness to her students, they each color a Carry of their own, and write their name on the back of her. Students learn how to address envelopes and mail Carry out into the world.
Participating is easy with three simple steps:
- They ask their recipients to write down the Act of Kindness they did with Carry Kindness
- Send Carry to someone else to continue her mission to carry kindness around the world
- Mail a letter back to the student so they can see the difference their kind hearts are making
Fremouw shares, "This project spreads so much joy to my students. Every time we receive a letter in the mail, my kids are on the edge of their seats waiting to hear who it is for and what the random act of kindness is described in the letter. As a teacher, I love using Carry Kindness to launch our Kindness Club, teach geography, as well as incorporating it into lessons about Social Emotional Learning. This is a unit I use throughout our whole year in various aspects of the classroom."
About Nancy Raciti:
Drawing on her first schoolyard memory of being the new kid at school and the resulting intimidation she experienced, Nancy Raciti has become an advocate for kindness. That event, in part, is what led her to open Grace & Kind, an online apparel and merchandise boutique that features kind designs and conversation-starting tees. Influenced by the research that shows children learn kindness best by rehearsing it, Nancy created Carry Kindness®. Carry is a fun and interactive way for kids to practice being kind. Previously a full-time voice actor, Nancy Raciti now uses her voice to share the message of kindness.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan called on the State Board of Education on Thursday to stop requiring face coverings in schools.
Hogan cited the state's improving health metrics, a well as the widespread availability of vaccines for school-age children.
“A growing number of medical professionals, parents, and bipartisan state officials throughout the nation are calling for an end to school mask requirements,” the Republican governor wrote in a letter to Clarence Crawford, the board's president. “In light of dramatic improvements to our health metrics and the widespread availability of vaccines, I am calling on you to take action to rescind this policy.”
Hogan sent the letter on the same day he announced that COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maryland have fallen below 1,000. The governor noted that hospitalizations have dropped by 71% since peaking last month just below 3,500.
While the pandemic has presented challenges for everyone, the governor wrote that 'it has been perhaps most difficult and disruptive for children."
“The consequences include failing grades, regressed social development, and increased mental health challenges," Hogan wrote. "If these trends are not reversed quickly, we face the unthinkable prospect of a generation left behind, both academically and socially.”
Hogan also pointed out that Maryland ended the state's indoor mask mandate in May. While he praised Crawford for supporting in-person instruction and emphasizing social-emotional health, the governor wrote that “now, it is critical to move toward normalcy for students and families by rescinding the school masking policy.”
The policy was adopted by the State Board of Education in Dec. 2021, and enacted by the Maryland General Assembly’s Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review Committee.
“We must all learn to live with this virus, not in fear of it,” Hogan wrote. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Maryland-governor-calls-to-end-school-mask-16847771.php | 2022-02-10T16:23:58 | en | 0.96283 |
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Junior Achievement and Accenture today announced the release of JA Connect, an updated work and career readiness resource for middle and high school students. JA Connect is a free online resource for teens and educators that helps students explore the world of work and how interests and education relate to work and career pathways. The current release of JA Connect is a significant update from the initial release of the platform in the fall of 2020 and includes enhanced activities to engage today's learners. JA Connect is available at connect.JA.org.
"The future of work is already here, and it's critical we help today's young people better understand the connection between education and work and careers," said Jack E. Kosakowski, President and CEO of Junior Achievement USA. "Accenture has been an invaluable partner in conceptualizing and developing JA Connect as a resource that students and educators can use to create plans or future academic and career success."
"At Accenture, we care deeply about the impact we have with our partners and communities," said Cesar Villalta, Global Technology Security Leadership, Accenture. "Partnering with JA in this way allows us to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity to accelerate equality for all students, equipping them for future career success."
JA Connect is Junior Achievement's first self-guided student experience, featuring a flexible, modular repository of activities related to work and career readiness. The content is relevant to JA programs in the Work and Career Readiness Pathway and extends or enhances classroom content. The activities can also be used independently.
All activities on JA Connect are bite-sized, averaging 5-10 minutes each. The JA Connect includes:
- Basic, intermediate, and advanced content that allows student navigation through increasing
levels of complexity - Highly interactive, media-rich, scenario-based learning
- Work and Career Readiness content focused in four areas that high school students identified of primary interest:
Educators interested in learning more about JA Connect or JA learning experiences in general are encouraged to contact the JA office in their community at www.JA.org/Locations.
About Junior Achievement USA® (JA)
Junior Achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. JA programs are delivered by corporate and community volunteers and provide relevant, hands-on experiences that give students from kindergarten through high school knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Today, JA reaches nearly 2.5 million students per year in 103 markets across the United States, with an additional 5.2 million students served by operations in 100 other countries worldwide. Junior Achievement USA is a member of JA Worldwide. Visit www.JA.org for more information.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 674,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Medical-examiner-Bob-Saget-died-from-unseen-blow-16847479.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:04 | en | 0.987572 |
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan and ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UfiSpace, the leading provider of open disaggregated networking solutions and JSC Kazakhtelecom, the national carrier of Kazakhstan, today announced the completion of multiple successful integrations with UfiSpace Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) and Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) solutions.
Last year, the operator initialized the testing of a disaggregated IP core network using UfiSpace's S9700 Series of core routers followed by UfiSpace's S9500 series of disaggregated cell site gateways. The tests were dedicated to validating interoperability of new solutions within their current infrastructure and included testing for IGP routing, MPLS LDP, convergence for link failures QoS, Timing (SyncE, G.8275.1 T-BC clocking), system management and more.
"We are going through the most challenging times in modern history of our country, it is not easy to discuss new developments in technology. But as leading telecom operator not only in Kazakhstan but all central Asia we have to continue to innovate, scale, and bring world-class service to our customers," says Nurlan Meirmanov, Chief Innovations Officer at Kazakhtelecom. "We have been reviewing the disaggregation approach for our networks for the past few years. For us, as rapidly growing operator, it is especially interesting due to flexibility in new service delivery and reduced capital expenditure. Ourselves, we would not be able to complete the task. UfiSpace, IP Infusion and DriveNets were an outstanding support and helped us to prove readiness of disaggregated solutions for our infrastructure. Kazakhtelecom will focus on the strategy of network disaggregation and virtualization."
UfiSpace S9500 series of DCSGs are fully featured cell site routers, which utilizes carrier-grade white box hardware capable of running open network software, such as IP Infusion's OcNOS, to enable a more cost efficient 3G/4G/5G mobile backhaul solution. The DCSG was introduced by industry advocate Telecom Infra Project's OOPT group in conjunction with leading global operators Vodafone, Telefonica, TIM Brazil, BT, and Orange.
"IP Infusion's best-of-breed DCSG solutions have enabled Kazakhtelecom to build flexible, high-capacity infrastructure, allowing them to introduce new services to subscribers throughout Central Asia with agility, while reducing total cost of ownership for the operator," said Atsushi Ogata, President and CEO of IP Infusion. "Our 20 years of experience in network routing, combined with the knowledge gained from servicing thousands of diverse customer networks, ensures we can meet the evolving requirements of mobile backhaul infrastructure."
UfiSpace's core router solution distributes traditional monolithic chassis components such as line cards, fabric cards, controllers and protocol software into separate building blocks consisting of disaggregated white boxes. UfiSpace's S9700 routers were the world's first DDCs to be accepted by Open Compute Project and deployed by tier-one network operators.
"We are glad to work with Kazakhtelecom, an innovative operator and one of the first to adopt a disaggregated network architecture in the region, and support the installation and testing of DriveNets Network Cloud solution," said Ido Susan, CEO at DriveNets. "DriveNets Network Cloud solution extends cloud attributes into telco-grade networks with a game-changing scale, economic model and service innovation. We are confident that our approach based on the OCP DDC conforms to Kazakhtelecom's strategy to build high-quality, high-scale core network and Kazakhtelecom can consider disaggregated solutions for additional use cases as the network evolves."
About UfiSpace
UfiSpace is a leading provider for end-to-end 5G networking solutions for telecommunication companies, cloud service providers and data centers. Through passion, dedication, and engineering excellence, our innovative 5G technologies has led to worldwide deployments of our disaggregated cell site gateway routers (DCSG) and the world's first Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) routing system for a disaggregated IP/MPLS backbone. With a vertically integrating supply chain, we deliver high quality and cost-effective open networking solutions with the goal of accelerating industry growth and lowering the costs of 5G deployments for our customers. To keep updated with UfiSpace's latest activities please follow us on LinkedIn.
About JSC Kazakhtelecom
JSC Kazakhtelecom was established on June 17, 1994. It is the largest telecommunications company in Kazakhstan and has the status of a national telecommunications operator. Since the middle of the 2000s, JSC Kazakhtelecom has consistently held high positions in the rating of the most profitable enterprises of the country with an annual turnover of tens of billions of tenge. JSC Kazakhtelecom owns the National Information Superhighway, which is a transport fiber-optic ring that connects large cities of Kazakhstan with digital streams with high data transmission speed. Additional information can be found at https://telecom.kz/en.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Mexican-president-sends-protest-to-Spain-over-16847699.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:10 | en | 0.970114 |
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kentik®, the network observability company, today announced the launch of Kentik Market Intelligence (KMI), a new product that gives internet service providers (ISPs) and digital businesses a way to navigate and interpret the global internet ecosystem. With KMI, users gain competitive intelligence to benchmark how their network stacks up against others, establish cost-reducing peering relationships, understand the most widely connected providers in different geographies, and prospect for new sales opportunities.
"The launch of Kentik Market Intelligence comes from popular demand. For too long, ISPs have relied on a mix of oral tradition and the manual process of crunching vast amounts of routing-table data to try to understand how networks connect to each other," said Avi Freedman, Co-founder and CEO of Kentik. "KMI is the fastest, easiest and only commercially available product to provide an out-of-the-box, global understanding of the internet ecosystem."
"As the world's number one ranked IP backbone, Kentik Market Intelligence provides us with an easy-to-view, up-to-date and detailed understanding of global IP traffic flows for our key markets," said Mark Currier, Global Product Manager at Arelion. "KMI provides the capability to independently compare and validate our network connectivity and offers valuable market insights which support our day-to-day decision-making."
The benefits of KMI for engineering, marketing and sales teams include:
- Benchmarking against competitors and the internet: Monitor how competitors' rankings are evolving. See which service providers connect to the most customer networks in any market. Get alerts when there are changes to relationships.
- Cost-reducing, data-driven peering and interconnection decisions: Learn about customers, providers and peer relationships of any autonomous system (AS) in any country to support network expansion and interconnection.
- Prospecting for new sales opportunities: Identify competitors' customers in any market, including whether or not they're critically dependent on a single upstream provider.
- Market expansion: Understand the reach and relative market share of each autonomous system number (ASN) across geographies of interest. Market network connectivity based on objective ranking data in a geographical market.
KMI processes hundreds of millions of BGP routing announcements every day and classifies AS relationships into peering and transit. As a result, KMI users can identify the relative size of providers, peers and customers for any AS in any geography. The information is presented in easy to interpret rankings and charts.
Some of the top networks and largest internet-traffic carriers across various geographies include: Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier), Cogent, GTT Communications, Hurricane Electric, Lumen, NTT America, PCCW Global, Tata Communications, Telecom Italia Sparkle, and Zayo. To see where these and other ISPs rank, or to learn more about Kentik Market Intelligence, visit kentik.com/product/market-intelligence.
NANOG 84 attendees can get a live demo of KMI at the conference next week, February 14-16.
ABOUT KENTIK
Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights and fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host and container flow, internet routing, performance tests and network metrics. We show networking pros what they need to know about their network performance, health and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world's most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik for network observability. Market leaders like IBM, Box and Zoom rely on Kentik for network observability. Visit us at kentik.com and follow us at @kentikinc.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Minority-leader-opposes-US-attorney-nominee-for-16847563.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:16 | en | 0.966418 |
HOUSTON, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hines, the global real estate firm, today announced that Laura Hines-Pierce has been promoted to co-CEO of the firm, effective immediately. Laura has served as Hines' senior managing director in the office of the CEO since 2020, and previously served as the firm's transformation officer.
"Laura has brought tremendous innovation to the firm and has been instrumental in driving efficiency and creating value for our investors and clients. It's an honor to have her join me as co-CEO," said Jeff Hines, chairman and co-CEO of Hines. "Leading Hines during the real estate industry's massive transformation takes strategic thinking, vision and empathetic leadership, which are qualities that Laura exemplifies. I'm looking forward to us continuing my father's legacy of prioritizing quality, service and integrity together."
"I'm proud to become co-CEO and continue the momentum we're experiencing across the board at Hines," said Laura Hines-Pierce, co-CEO of Hines. "My father has been the catalyst for our global expansion and growth over the past three decades and I'm excited to partner with him at this pivotal moment for the firm. The pace of innovation in real estate is finally catching up with other industries; my primary focus has always been – and continues to be – positioning Hines at the forefront of those changes."
Most recently, Laura joined the office of the CEO in 2020 and helped build the investment management platform that launched three flagship funds across the U.S. and Asia with a total current investment capacity of $4.8 billion in equity translating to $10.8 billion in purchasing power. She has also integrated innovation into all areas of the business and further defined the firm's ESG commitments.
Prior to that, she was the firm's transformation officer and worked with the co-heads of investment management, the global chief investment officer and the CEO of capital markets, to refine investment strategy and acquisition efforts. She also served as project manager for River Point, a one-million-square-foot development in Chicago, and was part of the grassroots team that established the OneHines Women's Network, which was the catalyst for the company's focus on diversity and inclusion. Prior to joining Hines, she worked for Sotheby's in New York. She graduated from Duke University with a BA in Economics and Art History and received her MBA from Harvard University.
Hines will continue to move forward with enacting its succession plan with the expectation that Laura's two brothers, Adam and Matthew Hines, will join her and Jeff in the office of the CEO, at Jeff's discretion. Adam Hines currently works in the capital markets division of the firm and Matthew Hines is part of a development team in the company's west region.
About Hines
Hines is a privately owned global real estate investment firm founded in 1957 with a presence in 255 cities in 27 countries. Hines oversees investment assets under management totaling approximately $83.6 billion¹. In addition, Hines provides third-party property-level services to more than 367 properties totaling 138.3 million square feet. Historically, Hines has developed, redeveloped or acquired approximately 1,486 properties, totaling over 492 million square feet. The firm currently has more than 171 developments underway around the world. With extensive experience in investments across the risk spectrum and all property types, and a foundational commitment to ESG, Hines is one of the largest and most-respected real estate organizations in the world. Visit www.hines.com for more information. ¹Includes both the global Hines organization as well as RIA AUM as of June 30, 2021.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Missouri-Congressman-Jason-Smith-announces-16847753.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:22 | 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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OWENSBORO, Ky., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green River Distilling Co., the 10th oldest distillery in the state of Kentucky, today announced the launch of its flagship Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Aged more than five years, this is the first Green River bourbon to hit shelves in more than a century and comes on the heels of the distillery's historic revival in September 2020.
Green River Distilling Co. was founded in 1885 by John W. McCulloch, a man focused on quality and considered a visionary in sales and marketing. McCulloch traveled the world to promote Green River Whiskey, and it quickly became known as some of the finest in Kentucky. Green River won many international awards, including a gold medal and "best of show" at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and later a grand prize at the 1905 Liege Exposition in Belgium. It was also known as "The Whiskey Without Regrets," one of the most memorable advertising slogans in bourbon.
Fire and Prohibition relegated Green River to history. Now, more than 100 years later, history has come full circle with the release of the new Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
Today's Green River bourbon was distilled by Master Distiller Jacob Call, an eighth-generation distiller and Kentuckian. Call's family distilling history stretches back to the earliest days of bourbon when his ancestor Samuel Call distilled whiskey on his Kentucky farm in the late 1700s. Green River was known for its quality whiskey, and Call and his team are proud to bring the same commitment to distilling Green River bourbon today.
"For the first time in more than 100 years, Green River bourbon is flowing inside the walls of its original home," said Call. "As someone with a family connection to the first days of Kentucky bourbon, being a part of the revival of such a legendary whiskey has been the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pre-Prohibition, Owensboro was an epicenter of bourbon production in Kentucky with more than 20 distilleries in the city. Green River was one of the most important, and its rebirth helps bring the city's rich bourbon heritage back to life.
"Visiting the Green River distillery in Owensboro is like stepping back in time to earlier days of bourbon production in the United States," said Eric Gregory, President of the Kentucky Distillers' Association. "Many bourbon lovers don't realize that Owensboro and Western Kentucky were among the most important regions for bourbon production in the 1800s. When you're standing on the Green River campus, you're standing on hallowed ground."
Each bottle of today's Green River bourbon includes the phrase "The Pride of Owensboro" to pay homage to the city and its bourbon legacy.
"I'm proud of our team's great work bringing Green River back to life in Owensboro after years of dormancy – not only because of what it means to our company, but what it means for this wonderful city," said Simon Burch, CEO of Green River Distilling Co. "In its heyday, Green River's success was intrinsically linked to Owensboro's proud whiskey making heritage. The revival of the brand will make this true once again, and we plan to sell it far and wide, just like the original Green River."
Burch worked closely with John's great-grandson Rob McCulloch to revive the Green River brand. "We're so grateful to Rob for sharing his family's history with us, and it's a privilege to continue to build on the legacy that John McCulloch created," said Burch.
On the revival, Rob McCulloch said, "I've always wanted to see Green River whiskey made at its original location in Owensboro. It completes the story my great-grandfather started in 1885."
The new Green River bottle design took cues from the brand's past, including key icons like horseshoes, rivets, and the original Green River colors. "We worked with local historians and spent time in museums and Owensboro libraries to immerse ourselves in the Green River pre-Prohibition world," said Cathy Steen, Chief Commercial Officer. "We had a wonderful archive that inspired us to think about how the brand design would have organically evolved for today's bourbon fans."
A limited release of Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey will be available for purchase at select retail locations in Kentucky in February for $34.99 (SRP). It will be available for purchase at the Green River Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky, beginning at 10 am CST tomorrow, Friday, February 11, 2022. The distillery will be open with a celebration of Bluegrass, BBQ, and Bourbon until 6 pm CST. In the coming months, Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey will also be rolling out to select retailers in Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, and Northwest Florida. For more information on availability, including online availability in Kentucky and a select few other states, visit www.greenriverwhiskey.com.
Tasting Notes
Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is 90 proof and has been aged more than five years at the distillery in Owensboro. It is rich in color with an amber hue and made with all Kentucky-grown corn, most from Daviess County. The mash bill is 70% corn, 21% winter rye, and 9% malted 2 and 6-row barley. The higher rye content results in a bourbon with warming spice notes on the nose and palate. Additional aroma notes to look for include cinnamon, dried cherry, and light leather. For taste, it has notes of cinnamon, vanilla, caramel, and chocolate mint. The finish is rich, thick, and lingering.
Charity Auction in Support of Western Kentucky Tornado Relief
At the brand's launch event on February 10, 2022, an auction will be held to raise money for those affected by the devastating tornadoes in Western Kentucky. World-renowned artist Aaron Kizer, the distillery's artistic director, hand-painted 10 barrels filled with Green River bourbon for auction.
Visit the Distillery in Owensboro
On the western end of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the distillery in Owensboro is a great place to visit and the first stop for many whiskey lovers as they make their way East. The city is considered one of the most important spots in the history of bourbon, allowing visitors to experience the roots of America's favorite spirit. While visiting, people can experience the thriving Owensboro community and experience its sights, sounds, and tastes. Visitors can learn more about COVID-19 precautions and book a visit on the distillery website at www.greenriverdistilling.com.
About Green River Distilling Co.
Green River Distilling Co. is the fourth largest independent bourbon distillery in the United States, located in Owensboro, Kentucky, and distiller of the revived Green River Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Founded by John W. McCulloch in 1885, DSP-KY-10 received national and international acclaim for its whiskey. The distillery endured fire, Prohibition, multiple owners, and a period of decline to reemerge today. Under the leadership of Eighth-Generation Master Distiller Jacob Call, the distillery produces 90,000 barrels of bourbon and rye a year for bulk, private brand, private label partners. The distillery is a heritage member of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and welcomes visitors from around the world. For more information, visit www.greenriverdistilling.com.
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Montana St. at N. Arizona, 2 p.m.
Utah Valley St. at New Mexico St., 2 p.m.
Idaho at Weber St., 3 p.m.
San Diego at Pepperdine, 3 p.m.
New Mexico at Nevada, 3:30 p.m.
BYU at Saint Mary's (Cal), 4 p.m.
Boise St. at Utah St., 4 p.m.
Dixie St. at Grand Canyon, 4 p.m.
E. Washington at Idaho St., 4 p.m.
Sacramento St. at S. Utah, 4 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at CS Northridge, 5 p.m.
Colorado St. at San Jose St., 5 p.m.
Gonzaga at San Francisco, 5 p.m.
Montana at Portland St., 5 p.m.
Portland at Pacific, 5 p.m.
San Diego St. at UNLV, 5 p.m.
Santa Clara at Loyola Marymount, 5 p.m.
UC Irvine at UC Davis, 5 p.m.
Wyoming at Fresno St., 5 p.m.
Cal Poly at UC Santa Barbara, 7 p.m.
Hawaii at Long Beach St., 7 p.m.
UC San Diego at UC Riverside, 9 p.m.
Drexel at Northeastern, Noon
Duquesne at UMass, Noon
Xavier at Providence, Noon
Fordham at Rhode Island, 1 p.m.
UTEP at Marshall, 1 p.m.
Villanova at Seton Hall, 1 p.m.
DePaul at Georgetown, 2 p.m.
Delaware at Hofstra, 2 p.m.
Penn St. at Rutgers, 2 p.m.
Syracuse at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.
Clemson at Georgia Tech, Noon
Florida St. at Miami, Noon
South Carolina at Georgia, Noon
Vanderbilt at Tennessee, Noon
Memphis at East Carolina, 1 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at Charlotte, 1 p.m.
North Carolina at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.
Elon at Coll. of Charleston, 2 p.m.
Kentucky at Alabama, 2 p.m.
La Salle at Richmond, 2 p.m.
NC State at Duke, 2 p.m.
Notre Dame at Louisville, 2 p.m.
Towson at James Madison, 2 p.m.
UCF at South Florida, 2 p.m.
UTSA at W. Kentucky, 2 p.m.
William & Mary at UNC-Wilmington, 2 p.m.
Cincinnati at Tulane, 3 p.m.
Old Dominion at UAB, 3 p.m.
Saint Joseph's at George Mason, 3 p.m.
Mississippi at Mississippi St., 4 p.m.
Virginia at Wake Forest, 4 p.m.
Michigan at Northwestern, Noon
VCU at Dayton, Noon
Butler at Creighton, 2 p.m.
Robert Morris at Cleveland St., 2 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Fort Wayne, 2 p.m.
UConn at Marquette, 2:30 p.m.
Arkansas at Missouri, 3 p.m.
Drake at S. Illinois, 3 p.m.
N. Iowa at Missouri St., 3 p.m.
Purdue at Wisconsin, 4 p.m.
LSU at Texas A&M, 3 p.m.
North Texas at Rice, 3 p.m.
Arizona St. at Arizona, 2 p.m.
Colorado at Stanford, 3 p.m.
Southern Cal at Washington St., 3 p.m.
UCLA at Washington, 3 p.m.
Oregon St. at Oregon, 4 p.m.
Utah at California, 4 p.m.
Albany (NY) at Vermont, Noon
Saint Louis at George Washington, 2 p.m.
New Hampshire at Hartford, 3 p.m.
Binghamton at Mass.-Lowell, 5 p.m.
Stony Brook at UMBC, 5 p.m.
Norfolk St. at Delaware St., 5:30 p.m.
Siena at Manhattan, 7 p.m.
NC Central at Coppin St., 4 p.m.
North Alabama at Lipscomb, 4 p.m.
SC State at Morgan St., 5 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama A&M, 6 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Jackson St., 6:30 p.m.
Florida A&M at Alcorn St., 6:30 p.m.
MVSU at Alabama St., 6:30 p.m.
Austin Peay at UT Martin, 7 p.m.
Florida at Auburn, 7 p.m.
Jacksonville at Kennesaw St., 7 p.m.
Detroit at Ill. Chicago, 5 p.m.
E. Michigan at Ohio, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Nebraska, 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.
St. Thomas (MN) at UMKC, 7 p.m.
Maryland at Iowa, 9 p.m.
Ohio St. at Illinois, 9 p.m.
W. Illinois at Oral Roberts, 5 p.m.
Grambling St. at Prairie View, 6:30 p.m.
Southern U. at Texas Southern, 6:30 p.m.
Champion Christian College Tigers at UALR, 7:30 p.m.
Sam Houston St. at Lamar, 8 p.m.
Wyoming at San Jose St., TBA
Stephen F. Austin at New Mexico St., 4 p.m.
Portland St. at Idaho, 7 p.m.
N. Colorado at S. Utah, 8:30 p.m.
Montana at E. Washington, 9 p.m.
Nevada at Fresno St., 9 p.m.
Florida St. at Syracuse, 6 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Boston College, 7 p.m.
Miami at Virginia, 6 p.m.
Mississippi St. at Kentucky, 6 p.m.
Presbyterian at SC-Upstate, 6 p.m.
Winthrop at Charleston Southern, 6 p.m.
Campbell at Hampton, 7 p.m.
High Point at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at Radford, 7 p.m.
Indiana St. at Loyola Chicago, 6 p.m.
West Virginia at Kansas, 8 p.m.
Boise St. at Air Force, TBA
Pacific at Pepperdine, 9 p.m.
UC San Diego at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.
James Madison at Drexel, 5 p.m.
Richmond at Duquesne, 5 p.m.
Davidson at La Salle, 6 p.m.
Dayton at Rhode Island, 6 p.m.
Holy Cross at Boston U., 6 p.m.
Lehigh at Bucknell, 6 p.m.
New Hampshire at Vermont, 6 p.m.
American at Navy, 7 p.m.
Army at Colgate, 7 p.m.
Binghamton at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.
Fordham at UMass, 7 p.m.
George Mason at George Washington, 7 p.m.
Hartford at Maine, 7 p.m.
Lafayette at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m.
NJIT at Mass.-Lowell, 7 p.m.
UMBC at Stony Brook, 7 p.m.
Delaware St. at Morgan St., 5 p.m.
SC-Upstate at Presbyterian, 6 p.m.
St. Bonaventure at VCU, 6 p.m.
Wichita St. at UCF, 6 p.m.
Morehead St. at UT Martin, 6:30 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at William & Mary, 6:30 p.m.
Austin Peay at Murray St., 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at South Florida, 7 p.m.
NC A&T at Longwood, 7 p.m.
Saint Joseph's at Saint Louis, 5 p.m.
Buffalo at Ball St., 6:30 p.m.
Bowling Green at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Akron, 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at E. Michigan, 7 p.m.
N. Illinois at Kent St., 7 p.m.
Providence at Butler, 7 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin at Chicago St., 7 p.m.
Toledo at Ohio, 7 p.m.
Michigan St. at Wisconsin, 7:30 p.m.
Marquette at DePaul, 8 p.m.
Texas Tech at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.
Tulane at Tulsa, 7:30 p.m.
East Carolina at Houston, 8 p.m.
Iowa St. at Texas, 8 p.m.
Memphis at SMU, 8 p.m.
TCU at Baylor, 8 p.m.
Arizona St. at California, 4 p.m.
UCLA at Oregon, 7 p.m.
Tarleton St. at Utah Valley St., 8 p.m.
San Jose St. at San Diego St., 9 p.m.
Texas Rio Grande Valley at Seattle, 9 p.m.
Utah St. at New Mexico, 9 p.m.
Fresno St. at UNLV, 9:30 p.m.
Bryant at CCSU, 7 p.m.
Canisius at Manhattan, 7 p.m.
Merrimack at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.
Monmouth (NJ) at Rider, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at St. Francis (NY), 7 p.m.
Nebraska at Penn St., 7 p.m.
Niagara at Iona, 7 p.m.
Quinnipiac at Fairfield, 7 p.m.
Sacred Heart at Wagner, 7 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m.
St. Peter's at Marist, 7 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
Ohio St. at Maryland, 8 p.m.
North Alabama at E. Kentucky, 5 p.m.
High Point at Charleston Southern, 5:30 p.m.
Arkansas at Florida, 6 p.m.
E. Illinois at Belmont, 6 p.m.
Louisville at North Carolina, 6 p.m.
McNeese St. at Nicholls, 6 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Miami, 6 p.m.
W. Kentucky at Charlotte, 6 p.m.
Winthrop at Radford, 6 p.m.
Marshall at Old Dominion, 6:30 p.m.
SE Missouri at Tennessee Tech, 6:30 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Tennessee St., 6:30 p.m.
Auburn at South Carolina, 7 p.m.
Boston College at Florida St., 7 p.m.
Chattanooga at UNC-Greensboro, 7 p.m.
Duke at Virginia, 7 p.m.
ETSU at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
FIU at Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m.
Georgia St. at Troy, 7 p.m.
Jacksonville at Stetson, 7 p.m.
Kennesaw St. at Florida Gulf Coast, 7 p.m.
LSU at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.
Liberty at North Florida, 7 p.m.
Mercer at Wofford, 7 p.m.
Missouri at Georgia, 7 p.m.
Samford at Furman, 7 p.m.
Tennessee at Alabama, 7 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 7 p.m.
Georgia Southern at South Alabama, 8 p.m.
Jacksonville St. at Lipscomb, 8 p.m.
Notre Dame at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m.
Wake Forest at NC State, 8 p.m.
Texas A&M at Mississippi, 9 p.m.
Northwestern at Indiana, 6 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Oakland, 7 p.m.
Fort Wayne at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Illinois at Purdue, 7 p.m.
North Dakota at UMKC, 7 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at W. Illinois, 7 p.m.
IUPUI at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Ill. Chicago at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Rutgers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
South Dakota at St. Thomas (MN), 8 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Texas A&M-CC, 6 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Incarnate Word, 6:30 p.m.
Sam Houston St. at Abilene Christian, 7 p.m.
FAU at North Texas, 7:30 p.m.
Bellarmine at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m.
Southern Miss. at UTSA, 8 p.m.
UAB at Rice, 8 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at UTEP, 9 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at BYU, 1 p.m.
Idaho St. at N. Colorado, 2 p.m.
Cal Baptist at Grand Canyon, 8 p.m.
Portland St. at N. Arizona, 8 p.m.
Wyoming at Colorado St., 8 p.m.
E. Washington at Montana St., 9 p.m.
Idaho at Montana, 9 p.m.
New Mexico St. at Dixie St., 9 p.m.
Pacific at San Diego, 9 p.m.
Portland at San Francisco, 9 p.m.
Saint Mary's (Cal) at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.
CS Northridge at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.
Santa Clara at Pepperdine, 10 p.m.
UC Davis at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.
UC Riverside at CS Bakersfield, 10 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m.
Weber St. at Sacramento St., 10 p.m.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/NY-flight-to-Florida-diverted-over-disruptive-16847738.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:35 | en | 0.978221 |
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeOmic, a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile devices to power precision health and wellness solutions, today announced the acquisition of Bavard, a Utah-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) startup offering intelligent digital assistants and platforms. The purchase comes as AI technology has experienced widespread adoption in the health care space, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bavard offers an enterprise-grade conversational AI platform that integrates seamlessly with an organization's platforms to deliver more personalized experiences. LifeOmic customers are now able to access AI-enabled customer support via a chat bot on the website or within the LIFE mobile applications. Utilizing advanced natural language processing, LifeOmic users can utilize unique features, including the ability to communicate in any language and to receive a custom experience based on past interactions. Customers can instantly connect with support at any time to receive faster responses and can connect with live agents when escalation is necessary.
"Our customers are our number one priority, and this acquisition ensures we're able to offer the best support possible," said Dr. Don Brown, LifeOmic CEO and founder. "They can now engage with a platform that responds 24/7 and is powered by thousands of data points to provide personalized suggestions when they need it most."
LifeOmic's digital health tools are used by employers, consumers and health care organizations to improve health outcomes. With the expanded abilities from Bavard's technology, employers are able to expedite the onboarding of LifeOmic products to their employees and consumers are able to easily ask questions about LIFE Apps. Overall, customers will have a seamless customer support experience and with enhanced intelligence and context for each interaction.
"The majority of people are spending more time online and the need to optimize the experience is greater than ever. We created Bavard's conversational platform to engage with users around the clock, even after a live support team has gone home," said Angelique Brown, Bavard CEO and co-founder. "Together with LifeOmic, we are excited to leverage this cutting-edge technology in the health and wellness industry to help organizations deliver better user experiences at scale."
To learn more about LifeOmic, visit LifeOmic.com
About LifeOmic:
LifeOmic is a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning, and mobile devices to power precision health solutions for providers, researchers, healthcare IT, pharma, employers and individuals. The company's cloud-based software securely aggregates, stores and analyzes health data to accelerate the development and delivery of precision health treatments.
LifeOmic's enterprise product portfolio consists of the Precision Health Cloud, a cloud-based repository of all clinical data such as a basic profile, whole genome sequences, gene expression levels, lab results, medical images, and more to power solutions for recovery, monitoring, research, patient-reported outcomes, health literacy, treatment and survivorship, as well as LifeOmic Precision Wellness, the employee wellness and engagement platform. The company's suite of consumer products includes the LIFE Ascent personal wellness solution and the LIFE Extend and LIFE Fasting tracker mobile apps; the LIFE Apps health resources website and SkillSpring for connecting domain experts with consumers.
About Bavard
Utah-based Bavard, founded in July 2020, has built the future of conversational AI to engage and support users around the clock. Its enterprise-grade conversational AI platform integrates seamlessly with an organization's platforms to deliver more personalized experiences utilizing advanced natural language processing (NLP), a complex form of artificial intelligence. The technology can be leveraged in a variety of ways to offer users more features and data, as well as connect users with live agents when escalation is necessary.
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/New-bike-walking-trails-in-Louisiana-to-open-16847681.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:41 | en | 0.961023 |
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the CDC, one in four adults 65 and older fall each year, and one out of five falls cause serious injury such as broken bones or head injuries. Coupled with local COVID-19 ordinances and a competitive housing market, many seniors are feeling as though they don't have enough safe housing options. A local program, "Dignity at Home" launched by the nonprofit Marin Center for Independent Living (Marin CIL), is an ambitious fall-prevention program to address this critical health issue by providing people a no-cost option for upgrading their current living spaces.
"We need to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities can live and stay in their homes," says Matthew Estipona, Community Organizer at Marin CIL, "As Marin County struggles to address the dearth of housing for our community, Dignity At Home helps people stay in their own homes… and should serve as a reminder that future units must be able to accommodate the diverse and pressing needs of all of Marin residents."
Dignity at Home is free to Marin County individuals who live with a disability and/or are over 60 and at risk for at-home falls. To qualify applicants must have an annual household income not exceeding $119,980. It includes a wide-range of home modification packages for renters and owners alike such as installing grab bars, providing shower seats, fixing broken or uneven wooden steps, replacing worn carpet, and installing railings all free of charge.
In a county where quality of life and active lifestyles are celebrated, it's easy to forget the daily challenges faced by many Marin residents, including issues around housing. People with disabilities and mobility issues often live with the stress of simply moving around their homes. Dignity at Home is alleviating that worry with 95% of participants reporting they have a greater sense of security and confidence.
"My biggest fear was falling," says JoAnne Sainte-Pierre, a Novato resident now able to move around confidently in her own home. "Getting grab bars installed may not sound like much, but it's been a huge comfort. I appreciate it every day."
Marin CIL is committed to making applications as easy as possible. Interested applicants may access the application directly online at marincil.org/dignity-at-home or contact Tonique McNair, Assistive Technology Advocate, at (415) 459-6245 x20 to apply over the phone.
"Our goal is to make it easy and accessible for you to feel secure and stable in your place of residence. The application can be done over the phone with us in three minutes," assures Estipona.
ABOUT MARIN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
Marin Center for Independent Living (Marin CIL) provides services and support to people living with disabilities and those aging into disability. Since 1979, Marin CIL has been the leading community-based, peer-led disability justice organization for Marin's access and functional needs communities. Find out more at marincil.org.
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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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Sigal Ratner-Arias is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sigalratner. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Oscars-2022-Sebasti-n-Yatra-calls-Encanto-a-16847682.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:47 | en | 0.97013 |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyten, an advanced materials company, announced today it was selected as one of the Top 10 New Battery Companies of 2022 by NAATBatt International.
John Duke, Chief Business Officer at Lyten, was on-site at NAATBatt 2022, the 13th annual meeting and conference of NAATBatt International in Litchfield Park, Arizona, to accept the honor and to give a presentation about Lyten's innovative LytCell™ lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries to conference attendees.
"It is an honor to be recognized by NAATBatt as one of the top 10 New Battery Companies," said Duke. "Lyten's lithium-sulfur batteries represent a breakthrough in battery science and will be able to deliver up to three times the gravimetric energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. With greatly improved power and safety, unmatched by Li-ion, our LytCell batteries will make a significant difference in the future of electrified transportation."
NAATBatt International is an organization for supporting the development of the advanced battery industry and the battery supply chain in North America. In response to the announcement that Lyten was named a Top 10 New Battery Company, Dan Cook, CEO and Co-Founder of Lyten said, "We are proud to have been recognized by NAATBatt for our lithium-sulfur battery innovations. Because our lithium-sulfur batteries do not utilize cobalt or nickel, this will enable U.S. automotive manufacturers to greatly shorten their battery supply chain and provides them more control over their electric vehicle production."
Lyten's batteries, first publicly announced in September of 2021, will represent a clear advantage to competitive battery technologies. With the development of its three-dimensional graphene material – Lyten 3D Graphene® – Lyten's more powerful batteries are designed for automotive, aviation, and aerospace industries. LytCell™ batteries will perform better at both lower (-30) and higher (+60°C) temperatures than Li-ion, will be up to 50% lighter, have faster charge rates, and they are orders of magnitude safer than Lithium-ion.
The company is currently planning a state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur battery pilot line and 3D Graphene fabrication plant in Silicon Valley, slated to open this year.
About Lyten
Lyten is an advanced materials company developing a revolutionary lithium-sulfur battery technology for use in a variety of applications in automotive, aerospace, defense, and many other markets. Lyten 3D Graphene® is the advanced material that enables lithium-sulfur batteries to improve the range and safety of electric vehicles, while also achieving a lower carbon footprint than other EV batteries. Lyten holds more than 260 issued or pending patents. Founded in 2015, the privately held company is based in San Jose, California. Visit www.lyten.com for more information.
About NAATBatt
NAATBatt is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to promoting the commercial interests of its members by supporting developments in advanced battery technology consistent with the goals of enhancing energy efficiency, reducing petroleum dependence, and enabling carbon-free electricity generation. NAATBatt's programs, committees and publications help its members increase their knowledge and grow their business in one of the most important industries of the 21st Century. For more information about NAATBatt and its programs and activities, go to: www.naatbatt.org.
This press release contains forward looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties.
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Brittney Popa
MBE Group on behalf of Lyten
bpopa@mbe.group
+1 248.554.3507
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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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Plea-deal-filed-for-deputy-accused-of-soliciting-16847531.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:53 | en | 0.967339 |
TYSONS, Va., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M.C. Dean, a $1+ billion multi-national systems integration and engineering firm, has launched a new website and brand refresh to represent its role as a cyber-physical solutions leader.
"The explosive growth of intelligent devices, embedded software, and ubiquitous networks, and the complexity and risk inherent in the Industrial Internet of Things require exceptional engineering and integration expertise to deliver interoperability, reliability, and security for large scale infrastructure and global enterprises," said Bill Dean, M.C. Dean chief executive officer. "Technology advancements combined with economic, environmental, and social shifts are accelerating the need to optimize human and natural resources."
The brand refresh embodies these changes and the company's mission to transform the way complex, large-scale systems are designed, delivered, and sustained — enhancing client outcomes, improving lives, and changing the world for the better.
"The new website focuses on the company's expertise, agility, and trust — tackling customer challenges like they are our own, developing teams of great people, and serving as an outstanding corporate citizen," said Regine de la Cruz, M.C. Dean vice president of marketing and communications.
The company has grown by nearly 25 percent over the past year and is hiring across a range of technical, trade, and business disciplines. The world is changing rapidly. Let's change it together. Apply online at www.mcdean.com.
About M.C. Dean
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence®. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation's most recognizable mission critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. The company's capabilities include electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio visual, and IT systems. M.C. Dean is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, and employs more than 5,100 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability.
Media Contacts: Regine de la Cruz
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Ramneek Kaur
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Learn about the new Mercedes-Benz all-electric EQS. Go to MercedesBenzofJacksonville.com for more information.
Mercedes-Benz of Jacksonville is ready to "electrify" you (FCL Feb. 10, 2022)
The Jacksonville International Auto Show is Feb. 17th - 20th at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/mercedes-benz-of-jacksonville-is-ready-to-electrify-you-fcl-feb-10-2022/77-b7eb02d8-c77f-4161-8ab4-33ffc5b48e13 | 2022-02-10T16:24:59 | en | 0.710904 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Police-2-killed-in-crash-truck-slid-on-black-ice-16847554.php | 2022-02-10T16:24:59 | en | 0.977379 |
CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MedCore Partners is pleased to announce the sale of Cooks Hill Manor, a 72-unit assisted living community in Centralia, Washington.
"This was a strategic disposition for MedCore and its investors as we continue to build and capitalize our value-add senior housing acquisition portfolio in multiple markets across the United States. This was a profitable disposition for us as the seller and will be a great project for the buyer going forward," said Anthony Fulco, Director of Acquisitions. "We would like to thank Tony Cassie at Walker Dunlop for facilitating this transaction."
MedCore currently owns 15 senior living communities in Arizona, California, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. In addition, MedCore has two senior living projects under construction, both of which will open in 2022. This will bring their seniors housing portfolio to 17 assets with 2,032 units.
To learn more about this project or MedCore, please contact Anthony Fulco at (713) 471-4750.
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Know the signs, symptoms, risks and treatment options for heart disease and stroke. Go to TrueToYourHeart.com for more information.
Tackle your heart health during 'Heart Health Month' (FCL Feb. 10, 2022)
NFL legend, Ron Jaworski discusses heart health with cardiologist, Dr. David Strobl. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/tackle-your-heart-health-during-heart-health-month-fcl-feb-10-2022/77-7d38642d-7985-473f-9f81-393e4d6a1ea6 | 2022-02-10T16:25:05 | en | 0.809557 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Police-Ex-American-Idol-star-took-marijuana-16847494.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:06 | en | 0.987307 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro-Tech Endoscopy has introduced the first self-expanding tracheobronchial nitinol y-stent. The Y-Shaped Tracheal Stent System is designed to be a flexible, compliant device to aid in the treatment of malignant neoplasms at the tracheobronchial carina.
Key features include:
- Low profile delivery system for ventilation and visualization of the stent during placement
- Silicone covering to restrict tumor ingrowth
- Repositioning sutures for adjustment or removal of the stent
The flexible, compliant Y-shaped Tracheal Stent System aids in the treatment of malignant neoplasms at the tracheobronchial carina. The device is effective in providing relief for patients with malignant tracheobronchial strictures due to its nitinol self-expanding design and ease of deployment.
"I use the Micro-Tech y-shaped Tracheal Stent System because it is easy to deliver across carina lesions," said Chakravarthy Reddy, M.D. at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. "Its innovative design allows for visualization during placement and does not require suspending ventilation during positioning. The stent walls also provide increased airway diameter when compared to silicone stents."
For more information about the Y-shaped Tracheal Stent System, contact us at mtendoscopy.com.
About Micro-Tech Endoscopy
Since 2000, Micro-Tech Endoscopy has been focused on creating top-quality products for endoscopic diagnosis, and therapeutic medical devices that allow physicians to provide the highest level of care. By partnering with doctors dedicated to innovation, Micro-Tech is committed to bringing better devices to market, with unparalleled speed, at an economical price, and without the burden of contracts. Micro-Tech does not compromise on quality and does not believe customers should either.
Micro-Tech Endoscopy has operations in America, Asia, and Europe and leverages this global reach to rapidly commercialize and refine the products it brings to its clinician partners. Micro-Tech's team has a wealth of experience in the field and in-depth understanding of both product and use cases.
With the health care industry transforming rapidly, Micro-Tech Endoscopy is dedicated to setting the pace as a disruptor. Micro-Tech is more than a medical technology company, it is building a community of healthcare innovators and making health care more value-driven.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Theatre is bringing back the art of oral storytelling with the "Untold Stories" series.
Each show is different, with different performers.
"Every show, six different local writers, actors, performers, everyday people telling a story, live in person, called from their life experience," Florida Theatre President Numa Saisselin said.
The artistic director behind the theme is Barbara Colaciello. She says it all started with a small group sharing their ideas.
"People started giving me these vivid memories of floods and the St. Johns River and creeks and places that they played," Colaciello said.
The titles of all four shows have some sort of water tie-in. The first back in November was titled "Ebbs and Flows." Saturday's performance is called "Out of the Swamp," and the final two shows are "There and Back Again" and "Fish out of Water."
"I knew that that was key to the program, that I wanted to use this idea that we're surrounded by water and interact with it daily," Colaciello said.
Just like any story told by word of mouth, the visuals are left up to the audience to imagine.
"It's such an intimate thing to just simply listen to one another, and the minute you go on that stage, you're being witnessed. And so it's a real ritualistic engagement with the community," Colaciello said.
You can check out the series Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Florida Theatre. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/gmj/florida-theatre-2022-oral-storytelling-series/77-1824d8fc-ab96-4af7-adda-e570faacd8fb | 2022-02-10T16:25:11 | en | 0.975949 |
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in Massachusetts have a created a set of playing cards featuring images of the victims of unsolved homicides or of missing persons in the hope that they generate tips that lead to resolution of the cases.
Each victim or missing person is someone's mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, child, or partner, state police Col. Christopher Mason said in a statement Wednesday.
“You may remember hearing of some of these cases, others will be new to you,” he said in a video introducing the cards. “But know this, for each and every one, there’s someone who lives with a hole in their heart or their home which was once filled by one of these victims.”
The deck, featuring 52 cards in the four standard suits, is a collaboration between the state police Unresolved Case Unit, the state Department of Correction and district attorney’s offices across the state.
The front of the card features a photograph, name, and facts about the case. The reverse includes tip line information and a mailing address. The decks are being distributed to state prison inmates.
While law enforcement agencies in other states have issued playing cards featuring unsolved cases, this is the first time it has been done in Massachusetts, officials said.
Four of the cases are from the jurisdiction overseen by the Northwestern district attorney’s office, including Paul Kirschner, a 70-year-old man found stabbed to death in his Shutesbury home in September 2010.
“Even if it is a longshot, this project provides a glimmer of hope that someone may come forward with information that could prove helpful to the case,” Northwestern First Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne said in a statement.
Another card features John and Geraldine Magee, found shot to death in their Andover home in December 2011. Some cases are decades old, including the death of Theresa Corley, 19, found strangled off Interstate 495 in Bellingham in 1978. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Police-hope-playing-cards-help-resolve-unsolved-16847776.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:12 | en | 0.967533 |
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moloco (www.moloco.com), a leader in machine learning (ML) and growth solutions for performance marketers, announced today it has hired Ryan Goldman as Vice President of Marketing. With nearly two decades of experience in marketing roles for B2B technology companies, Mr. Goldman will help drive the next stage of Moloco's growth as it continues to democratize machine learning solutions for businesses of all sizes.
"I am very excited to have someone of Ryan's pedigree on the team," said Ikkjin Ahn, CEO of Moloco. "Not only does he bring a wealth of expertise in product marketing, business strategy, and go-to-market planning for several billion-dollar companies, but his exceptional leadership skills and business acumen will be of great value as we continue to grow our operations throughout the world and fulfill our vision of empowering businesses to thrive."
At Moloco, Mr. Goldman will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies that strengthen the company's competitive position in the marketplace and for increasing revenue. He will work closely with the executive team to lead the company's growth strategy, while overseeing and expanding all aspects of the marketing team, including corporate marketing, demand generation, communications and other functions.
"Machine learning is transforming every aspect of marketing, monetization and growth for so many types of businesses today. More than any other company, Moloco is guiding the industry into the future by helping customers activate their first-party data to protect consumer privacy while finding, engaging and rewarding their users," said Ryan Goldman, vice president of marketing at Moloco. "These are very exciting times for Moloco and for every business that relies on data to achieve its goals. I couldn't be more thrilled to join the team and help build on the company's incredible momentum."
A subject matter expert in cloud computing, analytics, SaaS products, mobile products, machine learning and more, Mr. Goldman has demonstrated strong leadership while driving corporate growth and transformation for a number of high-growth technology companies. Most recently, he was the vice president of product marketing at SoundCloud, a next-generation music entertainment company. He previously served as vice president of product marketing at Pendo, a company that provides a cloud platform that makes software better, where he overhauled the company's product marketing function in order to help it raise Series F funding at a $2.6 billion valuation. Prior to that, he was the vice president of marketing for the application monitoring company Sentry, where he helped drive 3.5x annual recurring revenue growth.
Mr. Goldman holds his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and graduated from Tufts University with a BA in International Relations. He regularly volunteers at PAWS SF, a non-profit dedicated to helping seniors and individuals with disabilities or illness keep their companion animals.
About Moloco
Moloco's goal is to make the digital economy more transparent, equitable, and profitable by delivering advanced machine learning to companies of all sizes. With Moloco's machine learning platform for growth and performance, every app publisher and online retailer can now unlock the value of their unique, first-party data. Moloco Cloud DSP enables performance marketers to scale user acquisition quickly and achieve greater lifetime value through battle-tested prediction models. Moloco Retail Media Platform enables online retailers and marketplaces to establish their own performance ad business. Moloco was founded in 2013 by a team of former Google machine learning engineers. Headquartered in Redwood City, Moloco has nine offices across the US, UK, Korea, China, Japan, and Singapore. For more information, visit www.moloco.com.
Media Contact
Jenn Zimmer
The Hoffman Agency
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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.firstcoastnews.com/article/money/grocery-store-prices-goldman-sachs-report-inflation/531-0f6184c8-7979-499a-beb0-3a95be5be307 | 2022-02-10T16:25:17 | en | 0.960883 |
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University police are reviewing an officer's use of force during the arrest of a Black man last week on the school's campus in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Entertainment website TMZ reported that cellphone video of the arrest appears to show a white officer with an elbow pressed against the neck and face of a Black man he had pinned to the ground in the snow.
A woman recording the incident yells that the officer is hurting her boyfriend. She taps the officer, and he responds by warning her he will use his Taser on her if she does it again, TMZ said.
Purdue University Police Chief John Cox said in a statement Wednesday that the officer arrested the man Friday following a call from a third party who said “it appeared a woman was being held against her will.”
The statement did not say if the man was charged or for how long he was detained. It is unclear if the man or the woman who shot the video are students at Purdue.
Internal reviews are conducted whenever an officer uses force during an arrest, the police department said.
The investigation will “include input from all witnesses to the arrest and take into account all available evidence, including video from officers’ body-worn cameras and statements from the students involved,” the department said. It said no one was hurt in the arrest. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Purdue-police-reviewing-white-officer-s-arrest-of-16847800.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:18 | en | 0.98402 |
Morton Salt teams with Salt-Science, Inc. to launch an exclusive line of electrolyzed sanitizing equipment that disinfects using only salt and water.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Imagine never running out of surface cleaners and disinfectants again. Now, imagine that they are free from harsh chemicals, non-irritating and made from simple household ingredients. Today, Morton Salt and Salt Science Inc., a leader in sanitation and sterilization solutions, announce a partnership to bring consumers an easy-to-use, efficient and more sustainable option to chemical-based cleaners.
The new Morton branded line of electrolyzing bottles and applicators will allow households and businesses to make cleaners and disinfectants on demand simply using tap water and Morton® Table Salt. The solution produced is derived from a 40-year-old proven technology used in the medical industry that is now at your fingertips.
The new line of electrolyzing bottles and applicators is safe and effective on multiple surfaces and can be made for a fraction of the cost spent on store bought, single use cleaners and disinfectants. Proprietary software coupled with precision components in the devices charge the ingredients to create a solution approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as being effective against bacteria, germs and viruses, including COVID-19.
"We're tremendously excited about our licensed partnership with Salt-Science, Inc. to bring a bold new product to market," said Brian Bissell, Senior Marketing Director, Morton Salt. "This new offering is a great fit with our company's vision to create more innovative and sustainable salt-based solutions to help improve the lives of consumers at home and serve the businesses we support."
Adds Randall Satin, President of Salt-Science, Inc., "We are finding that consumers desire natural alternatives to many chemical-based household cleaners. We thought of nobody else but Morton when considering a brand for a solution made from salt. We believe this Morton product line will change the game when it comes to cleaning and disinfecting."
The initial "on-the-go" product will launch in February 2022 on Amazon.com and at MortonGo.com with whole home devices available in the summer of 2022.
About Morton Salt, Inc.
Morton Salt, Inc. is a trusted authority in salt in North America. The iconic Morton® brand, coupled with the broadest footprint in the industry, has made the company a leader since 1848. Morton produces salt for culinary, water softening, household, road deicing, food processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and numerous other uses. Headquartered in Chicago, Morton Salt with its affiliates in the Bahamas and Canada has more than 3,500 employees committed to safety, quality, and service in the communities in which it operates. www.mortonsalt.com
About Salt Science, Inc.
Salt Science, Inc. is dedicated to HOCL cleaning and disinfection solutions that are made from salt. Founded by a doctor, tech investor, and a facilities director, Salt Science innovates new ways to clean and disinfect that are good for the environment and good for one's health.
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Jury selection continues for a fourth day Thursday in the federal hate crimes trial for the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
So far, 52 potential jurors have qualified for the next round of questioning. The judge wants a pool of 50 to 60 potential jurors to move on for strikes in order to narrow that group down to 12 jurors and four alternates before the trial begins.
In November, a jury found both Travis and Gregory McMichael and their former neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, guilty of murder in Arbery's death. The three white men chased 25-year-old Arbery, who was Black, through Brunswick's Satilla Shores neighborhood before Travis McMichael shot Arbery.
Once the jury is picked, the judge said the trial will last seven to 12 days. Opening statements will likely happen early next week.
U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood said the court summoned 1,000 people for jury duty, the same number that was called for the state trial. In the federal trial, however, they pulled people from all 43 counties in Georgia's Southern Federal Court district to try to seat an impartial jury.
Live Updates
9 a.m.: Jury selection is scheduled to resume. Nearly half of all those questioned so far have qualified for the next round of questioning Monday. At this same point in the state's case, only 15 potential jurors had qualified for that case's next round of questioning. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/ahmaud-arbery/day-4-jury-selection-federal-hate-crimes-trial-ahmaud-arbery-killers/77-ab473e44-9a47-4eaf-9078-1a079ab52e13 | 2022-02-10T16:25:24 | en | 0.967774 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Remains-of-West-Virginia-pilot-killed-in-WWII-16847683.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:24 | en | 0.966253 |
WASHINGTON — Dousing a social media firestorm, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to counter harm from illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.
The White House was put on the defensive as outrage from the political right, some of it with racial overtones, was cresting online.
“No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta said in a joint statement.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said separately it was never the intention to pay for drug pipes, and complained that any such impression was created by “inaccurate reporting.”
Monday was the deadline for service organizations and local governments to apply for a share of $30 million in federal money for “harm reduction” efforts to prevent disease, injury and other collateral trauma to people addicted to illicit drugs. Harm reduction, such as providing a space where drug users can inject and be monitored for overdoses, is a controversial idea. Critics see it as enabling drug use, but public health advocates say it's a pragmatic approach to keep bad situations from getting worse.
The original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed “safe smoking kits/supplies” among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money. They were among a dozen categories that included overdose prevention drugs, medication lockboxes, test kits for infectious diseases, and syringe disposal containers. The grant solicitation did not specifically mention pipes, although they can be a part of safe smoking kits.
Daniel Raymond, director of policy for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, said only a few programs in the U.S. have handed out safe smoking kits.
“None of this was being done with federal funds,” Raymond said. “I feel very confident in saying that. I would have been aware if that were true.”
Nonetheless reports that the Biden administration was using federal dollars to pay for “crack pipes" took off. Some Republican senators piled on, castigating the administration.
Misleading claims about the HHS program dominated social media early Wednesday, many of them from conservative commentators and Republican politicians sharing memes and tweets that received tens of thousands of likes.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas tweeted: “Last week, Biden talked about being tough on crime. This week, the Biden Admin announced funds for crack pipe distribution to “advance racial equity.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee chimed in on Twitter Tuesday night to say, “End government-funded crack pipes.”
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida called the purported pipe distribution “insanity” in a video published on Twitter, which had 245,000 views by Wednesday afternoon. “The Biden administration is going to be sending crack pipes and meth pipes targeting minority communities in this country,” he said.
Some social media users even went as far as to say that Biden and other Democrats were going to give out crack pipes during Black History Month.
“Joe Biden is handing out crack pipes to help ‘racial equity’... during Black History Month,” Errol Webber, a Black Republican candidate for California’s 47th Congressional District, said on Twitter. “No I’m not joking. No I’m not lying. This is what he thinks of our community.”
HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim tweeted that such reports were “blatant misinformation,” and Wednesday at the White House briefing Psaki said paying for pipes was never part of the plan.
“They were never a part of the kit,” said Psaki. “It was inaccurate reporting and we wanted to put out information to make that clear.”
Late Wednesday, Rubio issued a press release saying, “I am glad the Biden administration acknowledges sending crack pipes to our nation’s addicts is a bad idea."
Advocates of harm reduction feared the blow-up would hamper efforts to coax drug users out of the shadows.
Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law, said he was disappointed by the White House response.
“This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities," Beletsky said. "As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber pushback against something that is quite sound and rooted in science, they backtrack. They put their tail between their legs and back pedal.”
But administration officials Becerra and Gupta said they continue to stand by “proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes.” HHS also pointed out that the harm reduction grants are required to conform to federal, state and local laws, and crack pipes are illegal in many jurisdictions.
Homemade pipes for smoking crack and methamphetamine may break easily or also release toxic fumes. Because of that, safer pipes may be one of the components of the kits.
But they also can and do include other supplies, such as alcohol wipes to clean hands or a pipe, or lip balm for cracked lips, Raymond said. Such give-away kits can be a way to start a conversation with drug users, perhaps pointing them toward change. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/no-money-drug-pipes-feds-douse-social-media-firestorm/530-e54cc006-0ad2-48f2-98b3-13ef8b759958 | 2022-02-10T16:25:30 | en | 0.969874 |
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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DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MyHealthAngel, a tech-enabled marketing company specializing in delivering innovative customer acquisition and retention solutions with the U.S. Senior adult markets announced today that it is confirmed as one of 30+ key sponsors at the annual Medicare Marketing & Sales Summit, to be held in Las Vegas, February 16-18, 2022 at Caesars Palace. MyHealthAngel joins BLOOM, Anderson, Advantasure, Deft Research, and more at this highly anticipated event.
MyHealthAngel (MHA) operates a unique digital platform that fosters community and engagement through interactive online events designed to improve the lives of older adults. Our mission is to combat loneliness and social isolation by providing experiences, resources and social connections that enable older adults to live life to the fullest. The interactions that come from the MyHealthAngel community and events focus on improving the social determinants of health for all Seniors. 80% of Seniors who have attended MyHealthAngel events have reported that they experience an increased quality of life after attending a MyHealthAngel event.
"We are so excited to be a sponsor at this year's RISE Conference in Las Vegas," said Co-Founder and CEO, Daniel Feldman. "Through this sponsorship, MyHealthAngel will be able to demonstrate its unique customer acquisition and retention platform with the right customers all in one place."
The highly rated RISE Medicare Marketing & Sales Summit, offers innovative tactics in a highly competitive environment to local and regional Medicare Advantage health plans. Over 350 leaders and senior executives gain practical guidance and techniques to drive enrollment for their Medicare Advantage line of business, as well as exchange strategies and ideas to thrive in a competitive market.
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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.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/apple-support-phony-fake-calls-icloud-phone-scam/536-c66424e5-bd05-43da-ba94-f0b2a16ead44 | 2022-02-10T16:25:36 | en | 0.944956 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Sheriff-Murder-suicide-suspected-in-Florida-16847703.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:36 | en | 0.987681 |
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs determined PurposeBuilt Brands provided a reasonable basis for certain advertising claims for its Green Gobbler Drain Clog Dissolver but recommended that other challenged claims be modified or discontinued. The claims were challenged by S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., a manufacturer of competing pour-in drain opening products.
Efficacy Claims
NAD determined that the advertiser provided a reasonable basis for claims that Green Gobbler Dissolver is an effective drain opener and that it works on "tough" clogs. However, NAD determined that the evidence in the record did not support the advertiser's claims that its dissolver works quickly. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser discontinue the claims:
- "Fast-acting hair clog remover"
- "WORKS WITHIN MINUTES: Unclog drains . . . within minutes!"
- "Tackles Stubborn Clogs Fast!"
NAD concluded that the advertiser has sufficient evidence to support the following claims regarding Green Gobbler Dissolver's ability to sink through water, ostensibly to reach a drain clog:
- "Sinks Through Standing Water"
- "Dense Formula Sinks Through Water"
- "Heavier than water, so it sinks"
NAD determined that the advertiser provided a reasonable basis for claims that Green Gobbler Dissolver liquifies hair and other organic material and noted that, while the evidence and arguments do not directly address soap, it is well accepted that soap generally dissolves in water. NAD also found that the advertiser's claim that its product "dissolves" or "liquifies" paper has a reasonable basis. However, NAD cautioned the advertiser to avoid making the claim in a manner that conveys that the product can dissolve paper towels or other sturdier forms of paper that it was not shown to be efficacious at dissolving. Further, NAD questioned certain elements of the advertiser's testing and recommended that it discontinue its claim that Green Gobbler Dissolver "dissolves" or "liquifies" grease and oil.
NAD determined that the advertiser did not provide a reasonable basis for the following claims related to how the physical properties of Green Gobbler Dissolver help it to be effective and recommended that they be discontinued:
- "Sticks to pipe walls"
- "Clings to pipes to keep them working"
- "Maintains free-flowing pipes & drains"
However, NAD found that the advertiser's testing established that Green Gobbler Dissolver exhibits a certain amount of viscosity such that there is a reasonable basis for its claim that the product is "thick" and has a "high-density formula."
Ingredient Claims
NAD determined that the advertiser's confidentially submitted materials about the formulation of Green Gobbler Dissolver and the description of its chemistry in its expert submissions amounted to a reasonable basis for its assertion that the product "does not contain sodium hydroxide."
Environmental and Safety Claims
NAD also determined that the evidence in the record does not amount to a reasonable basis for the claim that Green Gobbler Dissolver has "no harsh chemicals" and recommended that it be discontinued.
During the proceeding, the advertiser modified its "safe formulation" and "non-corrosive" claims to limit the message to pipes and avoid conveying a broader safety message. NAD concluded that the advertiser's testing amounts to a reasonable basis for these modified pipe safety claims.
NAD found that while the listed active ingredients in Green Gobbler Dissolver may be safer along certain metrics than ingredients in traditional drain openers, the evidence presented does not reliably support a broad, comparative safety message that the product itself is "safer" than the ingredients in competing products. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser discontinue its use of the term "safer" or modify the claim to indicate the relative safety of certain ingredients for specific metrics.
NAD also cautioned the advertiser to avoid:
- Conveying unsubstantiated broader product safety claims.
- Presenting claims regarding the absence of sodium hydroxide in its product in a manner which conveys the implied message that its product is "safer."
NAD determined that the evidence in the record supports the advertiser's "biodegradable" claim, which was modified to ensure that "biodegradable" references the product contents and not the package.
NAD found that the claim "Finally . . . POWER meets Green" reasonably conveys a general environmental benefit message that Green Gobbler Dissolver has achieved the unlikely combination of a drain opener that is both sufficiently powerful to unclog drains and "green," that is, broadly environmentally friendly. Because the evidence in the record does not support such broad environmental benefit messages, NAD recommended that the claim be discontinued.
Remaining Challenged Claims
NAD found that in the context of the challenged advertising, the advertiser's "revolutionary" and "breakthrough" claims reasonably convey a message that Green Gobbler Dissolver provides some new, advanced method of drain unclogging that is "safer" and "more effective" than other drain openers with sodium hydroxide – a message that is not supported. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser modify its "revolutionary" and "breakthrough" claims to avoid conveying the message to consumers that its product innovations provide unsupported benefits.
NAD also recommended that the advertiser discontinue its use of "new" to refer to its dual chambered bottle and, in the future, use the claim "new" to refer to products and innovations that are introduced to the market within the past six months.
NAD found that the advertiser's guarantee claim, "Guaranteed! Or its free*," which was modified during the proceeding, conveys a limited, supported message about the advertiser's money-back guarantee policy. However, NAD noted that the claim "GUARANTEED TO WORK" (the original version of the claim, which was still prominently used at the time of the proceeding) constitutes an affirmative performance claim that is not supported by the evidence and recommended that the advertiser discontinue this version of the claim.
NAD further recommended that the advertiser discontinue the comparative "easier" and "easiest" claim and noted that the advertiser can make claims about the ease of use of its pre-chambered packaging (as opposed to the ease of clearing clogs), provided, however, that its claims are presented in a non-comparative context.
During the proceeding, the advertiser stated that it would permanently discontinue and permanently modify several challenged claims for business reasons. The following claims were permanently discontinued:
- "Dissolves fats, sludge, and lint;"
- "Works on contact;"
- "Faster;"
- "Superior performance;"
- "Most effective;"
- "More effective;"
- "ultra" in the context of "ultra-thick;"
- "non-toxic;"
- "non-caustic;"
- "no toxic fumes;"
- "Environmentally friendly formula;"
- "Eco-clean unique formula;"
- "Non-irritating to skin;"
- "Powerful enough to plow through any clog;" and
- "New!" in the context of its packaging design and application.
NAD did not review the permanently discontinued or pre-modification claims on the merits.
In its advertiser statement, PurposeBuilt Brands stated that it "will comply with NAD's recommendations in its future advertising."
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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.firstcoastnews.com/article/sports/locked-on/nba-podcast/nba-trade-deadline-tracker-will-big-moves-come-before-thursdays-deadline/535-8ddbfef8-0a90-4e78-b2a9-aef3b8751fe1 | 2022-02-10T16:25:42 | en | 0.842699 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-approves-law-implementing-anti-land-16847493.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:42 | en | 0.971581 |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo.Tax, a startup and early leader in simplifying and automating taxes for startups and small businesses, today announced a $10 million Series A funding round.
The funding round was led by Infinity Ventures with participation from Google Ventures, Acrew Capital, and Fin Venture Capital, in addition to participation from the existing seed investors – Uncork Capital, Floodgate, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Lux Capital.
Neo.Tax is automating taxes, starting with making the R&D tax credit simple to claim for startups – and enabling fintechs and accountants to offer this seamlessly to their customers. And what better fintech to kick this off with than Mercury.
Mercury provides banking for startups, along with virtual & physical debit cards, API access and custom team-management, and integrations with the tools startups are already using. Neo.Tax started as a Mercury customer but it soon became clear there was a lot more to do together. "What truly excited us about working with Mercury is our values-alignment," said Ibrahim, CEO of Neo.Tax.
"NeoTax has built an amazing product that has made it quick and painless to access R&D tax credits and we are excited to partner so that our customers can easily access the service." says Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury. "We created Mercury Capital to help our customers find trusted and easy-to-access funding options for their business"
Mercury customers are now able to complete their R&D Tax Credit claim in minutes, with the flexibility of a self-service solution backed by friendly white glove support. "Neo.Tax is like having a former IRS Agent walking our customers through the process," said Stephen Yarbrough, Chief Tax Officer at Neo.Tax.
Neo.Tax has received overwhelming gratitude from early-stage startups for modernizing the tedious and difficult process of applying for the R&D tax credit. "This is awesome!" said Lukas Wagner, VP Finance at Pipe. "I hope at some point you can do this for all of our taxes." Which is precisely aligned with the Neo.Tax vision.
Neo.Tax's approach is reflected in their founding team, where a Stanford PhD in Machine Learning (Firas Abuzaid) is automating the brain of a former IRS Agent (Stephen Yarbrough), productized by a former Intuit product manager (Ibrahim).
The Series A funding will go toward growing the product, data and engineering teams that are currently working on a series of automated tax products, in addition to the R&D Tax Credit. "We are leveraging cutting-edge technology to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and map the tax genome to optimize businesses' taxes," said Firas Abuzaid, CTO of Neo.Tax. "We're overthinking taxes so that businesses don't have to."
Despite incredible technological advances, taxes have not changed. "It's crazy that taxes haven't advanced since the Rosetta Stone Age," continued Ibrahim, "and computers are supremely advantaged at solving this ancient and archaic problem, because it's all rules and numbers." Neo.Tax reimagines taxes as an advantage by making taxes simple and straightforward.
About Neo.Tax
Neo.Tax is building the easiest and most accurate tax software for businesses. Their first product simplifies the complex process of applying for the IRS R&D Tax Credit, putting up to $250,000 back into each company's pocket. This is the first step towards turning taxes into a modern advantage for businesses. Neo.Tax's approach is reflected in their founding team; a Stanford PhD in Machine Learning automating the brain of a former IRS Agent, productized by a former Intuit product manager. For more, visit Neo.Tax
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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.firstcoastnews.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/ken-jeong-joel-mchale-reunite-planters-super-bowl-ad/507-0b81b390-615d-4252-9334-5a0ca42587a5 | 2022-02-10T16:25:48 | en | 0.967758 |
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.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Sudan-activists-appeal-for-help-for-orphanage-16847583.php | 2022-02-10T16:25:49 | en | 0.97131 |
Davis died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to Danielle Maggio, a singer, adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and associate producer of the 2017 documentary "Betty: They Say I'm Different."
Davis spent part of her childhood in Pittsburgh and settled there during the second half of her life.
Sometimes referred to as "Madonna before Madonna," Davis was the rare woman to make funk albums in the 1970s, and her three albums from that time were showcases for her fearless personality and sexuality and insistence on control of her material and her image.
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Davis producer Greg Errico, former drummer for Sly and the Family Stone, would call her style "down and dirty funk." Her records sold modestly at the time, but their impact has been cited often in the decades following.
"The reach of her influence & sonic lineage is immense," the author and critic Hanif Abdurraqib tweeted Wednesday. "You've heard her, even if you think you've never heard her. I'm glad we got her at all."
Born Betty Mabry in Durham, North Carolina, she was still a teenager when she moved to New York City in the early 1960s and enrolled in the the Fashion Institute of Technology.
She would eventually find work as a model for Seventeen and Glamour among other magazines and would meet Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone and numerous other musicians. She was also releasing her own work, including the singles "The Cellar" and "Get Ready for Betty" and she wrote "Uptown (to Harlem)" for the Chambers Brothers.
She dated Eric Clapton and Robert Palmer among other rock stars, but was best known for her time with Miles Davis. They were only together for a brief time in the 1960s: He alleged - and she denied - that she had an affair with Hendrix. But her influence on Miles Davis and the future of jazz lasted far longer.
Miles Davis would cite her for opening him up to the sounds of Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone among others, leading to his classic 1970 album "Bitches Brew" (a title she has said was her idea), which helped launch the genre of jazz fusion.
"His world was progressive jazz, plus he was a lover of classical music, so there were lots of things he hadn't picked up on," Betty Davis told the Guardian in 2010.
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She released no new music for decades, but she was not forgotten. "Betty Davis" and other '70s albums were reissued and her music was heard on "Orange Is the New Black" and other TV series.
In 2019, she broke her long silence with "A Little Bit Hot Tonight," a funky blend of Eastern and Western influences which she wrote, arranged and produced and asked Maggio to perform.
"It was a wonderful, surreal experience," Maggio told The Associated Press. "As an ethnomusicologist who writes about Betty it was amazing to see her music making process first hand. She taught me the song and taught all the musicians their parts. She was very hands on and was an amazing producer." | https://6abc.com/betty-davis-miles-daves-singer-obituary/11552005/ | 2022-02-10T16:25:50 | en | 0.991186 |
ATLANTA, Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) has earned a spot on CDP's 2021 Supplier Engagement Leaderboard. Norfolk Southern was recently recognized with an A- climate change rating in CDP's highest rated tier, the Leadership Level. CDP is the leading carbon disclosure system for the global business community.
Companies responding to the full version of CDP's climate change questionnaire receive a Supplier Engagement Rating (SER), in addition to their climate change score. The assessment reflects how effectively companies work with their supplier network to address climate change. Participants with the best SER are celebrated as Supplier Engagement Leaders – which this year is the top 8% of companies who disclosed to the full climate questionnaire.
"Norfolk Southern delivers for both the U.S. supply chain, and for the low-carbon economy with sustainable shipping solutions. We're honored to be recognized by CDP as a member of the elite 2021 Supplier Engagement Leaderboard," said Josh Raglin, chief sustainability officer for Norfolk Southern. "Our company knows the importance of leveraging technology and smart operating practices to achieve our robust climate goals, in alignment with the larger freight transportation industry. This accomplishment shows our long-term commitment not only in the business of moving freight, but also in the business of a better planet."
This ranking compliments Norfolk Southern's ongoing sustainability initiatives, including setting a science-based target to achieve a 42% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 2034 and issuing $500 million of green bonds to fund eligible green projects. Norfolk Southern improved locomotive fuel efficiency by 7% over the past two years, saving around 47 million gallons of diesel and avoiding over 470,000 metric tons of GHG emissions.
"Our data shows that companies currently have blinkers on when it comes to assessing their indirect impacts and engaging with suppliers to reduce them. Companies must act urgently to cascade action and manage environmental impacts throughout their supply chains to scale the level of action to secure a 1.5°C future," said Sonya Bhonsle, global head of value chains and regional director corporations for CDP. "Many congratulations to the 500+ companies earning a place on CDP's 2021 Supplier Engagement Leaderboard. As a Supplier Engagement Leader, Norfolk Southern is a trailblazer driving the transition towards a sustainable net-zero future."
CDP is a non-profit organization that administers the most widely used carbon disclosure ratings across the world. Norfolk Southern was among the early companies to begin voluntarily reporting its greenhouse gas emissions in 2009.
More information on the company's sustainability strategy can be found here: http://www.norfolksouthern.com/betterplanet.
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About Norfolk Southern
Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation's premier transportation companies, moving the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Norfolk Southern connects customers to markets and communities to economic opportunity, with safe, reliable, and cost-effective shipping solutions. The company's service area includes 22 states and the District of Columbia, every major container port in the eastern United States, and a majority of the U.S. population and manufacturing base.
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