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PHOENIX, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A baby boy who was supposed to be born on Christmas Eve received a special send-off from Santa Claus to mark the end of his 12-week stay in Dignity Health St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit (NyICU). Baby Joseph Róman, who arrived more than 13 weeks early, will spend his first Christmas at home with his mom and dad. But, before he was discharged from St. Joseph's NyICU, Santa himself wished him and his family a very merry Christmas.
Santa's visit to St. Joseph's NyICU is an annual tradition. Each year, Santa greets some of the hospital's tiniest and most critically ill boys and girls who are gaining strength in the NyICU. Some even get dressed up in adorably festive holiday outfits. And although not all of the babies will get to celebrate Christmas at home this year, Santa's special stop at St. Joseph's is a way to make the holidays memorable for patients and their loved ones.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Nimmo's three-run homer capped a five-run 10th inning and the New York Mets came back late to beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 on Wednesday night.
Starling Marte grounded an RBI double over third base off Hunter Strickland with one out in the ninth, scoring Nimmo from first to tie the game at 3.
Dominic Smith's double off Dauri Moreta (0-2) drove home pinch-runner Ender Inciarte from second base with the go-ahead run in the 10th. James McCann delivered an RBI single before Nimmo's shot sent the NL East leaders to their 20th series win this season — they took two of three from the last-place Reds.
“Even though it’s Cincinnati and it’s a hitter’s ballpark, it’s huge,” Nimmo said. “We know we’re a good offense but we also faced good pitching the last few days. We know we’re capable of it. This does nothing but add confidence to the offense and for the guys in the clubhouse.”
Pete Alonso went 4 for 5 with a double. Nimmo had three hits and scored three times from the leadoff spot as New York remained 2 1/2 games ahead of second-place Atlanta.
A loss would have left the Mets with their slimmest lead since April 16.
Adam Ottavino (3-2) struck out two in a hitless ninth for the win.
Nick Senzel hit a two-run homer for the Reds, who have the worst record in the National League.
“You have to play all nine innings, sometimes 10,” Cincinnati manager David Bell said. “That’s what we did and that’s what the Mets did. They got us tonight, but we gave ourselves a chance to win.”
Facing a hard-throwing rookie for the third straight day, the Mets couldn't get much going against Graham Ashcraft, who allowed 10 hits but only two runs in six innings.
Cincinnati threw Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo and Ashcraft in succession against the Mets, who were shut out 1-0 on Tuesday night.
“They made us scratch and claw this entire series,” Nimmo said. “Hats off to those starters we faced the past few days. It was really important to pull it out at the end today.”
Mets lefty David Peterson came off the paternity list to pitch following the birth of his son, but his first career start against Cincinnati lasted only 3 2/3 innings. He allowed three earned runs and walked five.
Senzel, who had one homer through his first 181 at-bats this season, homered for the second time in three games to put the Reds ahead 2-1 in the second.
Adonis Medina permitted only one hit in three scoreless innings of relief to keep it a one-run game. But the Mets didn't break through against the worst bullpen in baseball until the ninth.
“We had a lot of hits, a lot of opportunities. It was frustrating not to be able to break through,” manager Buck Showalter said. “We're getting people out there and just not cashing in. It's a good win for the trip back home tonight.”
New York's only runs prior to the ninth came on Jeff McNeil's RBI single in the first and a broken-bat single by Tomás Nido that drove home a run in the fourth.
Things got testy in the 10th when Moreta brushed back Eduardo Escobar with a pitch, but both players were restrained before any others left the dugouts.
PROUD PAPA
After a whirlwind week with the birth of his son, Peterson was able to throw a bullpen and get one good night's sleep before Wednesday's start. “I was able to get in a decent time last night and catch up on some sleep,” he said. “I’m glad my wife and him are healthy and everything’s good back home. He’s a blessing. Being a father is the most amazing thing that’s happened to me.”
NO SLEEP ’TIL FLUSHING
Showalter wasn't happy the Mets had a night game in Cincinnati before starting a four-game home series Thursday night against Miami. “I don’t know how they get away with that,” he said. “The schedule is what it is. I don’t think it’s good for the game, quite frankly. Still a great way to make a living, even if you don’t sleep.”
Thursday's starter, Trevor Williams, traveled back to New York ahead of the team.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Mets: RHP Chris Bassitt remains on track to start Friday against the Marlins at Citi Field. Bassitt was placed on the COVID-19 injured list last Friday.
Reds: 1B Joey Votto did not play due to tightness in his lower back. ... RHP Tyler Mahle has a strained right shoulder and was placed on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Sunday. ... DH Jonathan India was hit on the left ankle by a pitch leading off the game and exited an inning later. X-rays were negative.
UP NEXT
Mets: Williams (1-5, 4.34 ERA) pitches Thursday night against Miami at Citi Field.
Reds: LHP Mike Minor will start the first game of Thursday's doubleheader against the Pirates, which makes up a May 6 postponement. The starter for Game 2 is undetermined after Mahle went on the IL.
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TAIPEI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GRAID Technology ("GRAID"), the creators of the world's first NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card, is showcasing its revolutionary enterprise data protection solution to the world at the Taiwan Tech Arena Pavilion during CES 2022.
As a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree, GRAID's SupremeRAID™ NVMe RAID card is defining the future of data storage with its incredible speed, power and flexibility. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition that honors the most exceptional design and engineering achievements in consumer technology. GRAID SupremeRAID™ was handpicked by an elite panel of industry expert judges, including prominent members of the media, designers and engineers, from a record-high number of over 1,800 submissions — demonstrating its vast potential and status as a trailblazing industry innovator.
"We are honored to display our award-winning solution at the Taiwan Tech Arena. Our team is deeply passionate about providing customers with the world's most powerful data protection for NVMe SSDs, without sacrificing the performance they need — and that begins with a forward-thinking approach. We selected Taiwan for our R&D center due to its extraordinary tech talent and reputation as an up-and-coming hub of innovation. This unique combination enabled us to develop SupremeRAID™, which provides the speed, ease of use, flexibility and TCO the market demands for the future of high-performance workloads," said Leander Yu, CEO of GRAID.
Visionary technology to maximize SSD performance
Named one of the Ten Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021 by CRN, GRAID SupremeRAID™ is already breaking world records with its visionary software plus hardware solution. SupremeRAID™ is the first NVMe RAID card in the world to eliminate the traditional RAID bottleneck and deliver maximum available SSD performance. With SupremeRAID™, GRAID is offering a new way for enterprise data centers to achieve record-breaking NVMe SSD or NVMeoF performance without sacrificing data security or business continuity.
While traditional RAID cards have worked well for enterprise data storage to a point, these technologies are struggling to keep up with the high level of performance offered by modern NVMe SSDs. With a single NVMe SSD able to deliver around one million IOPS and 7GB/s of throughput, traditional RAID cards or software RAID systems are no longer capable of handling the massive performance leap of an SSD — leading to a performance bottleneck in storage infrastructure.
GRAID's disruptive solution sidesteps this challenge altogether with an entirely novel architecture that uses a GPU, rather than legacy RAID card, to deliver unparalleled computing performance. Designed for a modern software composable environment, GRAID SupremeRAID™ protects direct-attached flash storage as well as storage connected via NVMeoF, while delivering a blazing 16M IOPS 110GB/s throughput with a single card – at least 5 times faster than the competition.
Traditional hardware RAID cards also need to be directly connected using cables, which severely limits their usefulness in modern Software-Composable Infrastructure. However, GRAID SupremeRAID™'s plug-and-play design doesn't require extra cabling to connect SSD disks to the RAID card, which eliminates the costs of refactoring existing hardware and avoids another potential point of failure.
GRAID will be showcasing its solution at Taiwan Tech Arena, Booth #61423, D7, as well as at the CES 2022 Innovation Awards Showcase at the Venetian Expo, Halls A-C, Booth #52952. To set up a meeting with GRAID during CES 2022, email info@graidtech.com
About GRAID Technology
GRAID's extraordinary software plus hardware solution has redefined the value of SSD RAID cards and makes GRAID SupremeRAID™ the most powerful and flexible NVMe SSD RAID in the world. Book a demo today at www.graidtech.com
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
9-7-8-8, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, seven, eight, eight; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
9-7-8-8, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, seven, eight, eight; FIREBALL: seven) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17456861.php | 2022-09-21 16:41:08 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17456861.php |
Collaboration creates holistic affiliate and influencer program oversight through managed campaigns and self-service tools for Rakuten Advertising members
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Advertising is partnering with leading influencer marketing platform, Mavrck, to expand its influencer marketing services and create holistic program oversight, optimization and measurement for its affiliate advertisers. This partnership will seamlessly incorporate influencer marketing into Rakuten Advertising's managed affiliate campaign strategies and positions Rakuten Advertising to introduce a fully integrated self-service influencer solution.
Brands managing large-scale and targeted influencer campaigns with Rakuten Advertising will benefit from more sophisticated influencer discovery and curation, with streamlined onboarding, communication and reporting tools. A central dashboard will offer a complete view of their affiliate and influencer campaigns, empowering brands with a holistic vision of their full-funnel affiliate marketing strategy.
"Influencers have become more essential than ever, as brands seek to drive consideration and purchase activity through their Affiliate Marketing strategies," said Jeff Wender, CRO, Rakuten Advertising. "Partnering with an industry leader like Mavrck expands and enhances our influencer management capabilities and empowers brands to achieve their goals from awareness to activation, while delivering breakthrough performance objectives and results."
The partnership with Mavrck is Rakuten Advertising's latest and most significant move towards delivering a differentiated suite of influencer marketing solutions that will create the integration, insight and control brands need to succeed. More than 5,000 marketing professionals at more than 500 global consumer brands rely on Mavrck's technology to more effectively access and manage relationships with content creators. Since 2014, Mavrck has activated more than 3 million creators and paid more than $200 million in incentives.
"Rakuten Advertising is a proven leader and innovator in the affiliate marketing industry, and we are excited to launch this partnership with them," said Lyle Stevens, CEO and Co-Founder of Mavrck. "Affiliate marketing is a leading monetization strategy for creators, and by partnering with Rakuten, we can improve our offering while expanding our reach, diversifying our insights and advancing measurement and sales attribution. Together, we are strongly positioned to drive better business outcomes for both brands and creators with affiliate marketing."
To learn more about this partnership and Rakuten Advertising's influencer marketing suite, visit https://rakutenadvertising.com/content/influencer-marketing-solution/.
Rakuten Advertising connects leading agencies, brands, and publishers to active and engaged consumers around the world. With access to Rakuten's diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty. Its foundation of advanced technology, data and strategic services positions Rakuten Advertising to offer a differentiated suite of marketing and advertising solutions while continually pushing the industry forward. It is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc. (4755: TOKYO), one of the world's leading Internet service companies. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices throughout EMEA, APAC, LATAM and North America. Learn more at www.RakutenAdvertising.com.
Mavrck is the all-in-one, advanced influencer marketing platform enabling global consumer brands to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to discover and collaborate with influencers, advocates, referrers, and loyalists to create trusted content and insights for customer journey touchpoints at scale. Using its self-service influencer manager, Mavrck allows marketers to take an automated and performance-based approach to influencer marketing.
Founded in 2014, Mavrck has offices in Boston and Denver. Mavrck's platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail TouchPoints' Retail Innovator Awards, honored as "Best Influencer Marketing Platform" by Digiday, is the #1 influencer marketing platform for the enterprise on software review site G2, and was named to the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000. Mavrck was also named a "Leader" among the top influencer marketing platforms in Forrester's evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, Q2 2020.
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steven.shaw@rakuten.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as his administration makes an extended effort to demonstrate that the United States hasn’t lost focus on the Pacific even while dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden will begin his talks over dinner Thursday evening with leaders from the eight ASEAN nations attending the two-day summit. It will be the group’s first meeting at the White House. Leaders will take part in more formal talks at the State Department on Friday.
The ASEAN nations include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Leaders from the other two ASEAN members, Myanmar and the Philippines, are not expected to attend the summit.
The special summit in Washington comes before Biden departs next week for a whirlwind visit to South Korea and Japan — his first visit to Asia as president — for talks with those two countries’ leaders. He’ll also meet during the trip with leaders from the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance with the U.S. known as the Quad: Australia, India and Japan.
Biden has sought to put greater focus on the Quad and improving relations with Pacific nations in the early going of his presidency as he sees a rising China as the most threatening economic and national security adversary to the United States.
Biden, who vowed to make the Pacific a greater focal point of U.S. policy, has seen his attempt at an “Asia pivot” complicated by the most serious fighting in Europe since World War II, which has consumed much of his foreign policy bandwidth in recent months.
A top White House Asia policy adviser said the administration remains committed to stepping up relations with southeast Asian nations to address climate, economic and education initiatives.
“There has been a sense that in previous administrations that we had set off with a determined pace to focus on East Asia or in the Indo-Pacific and then find ourselves with other pressing challenges that perhaps draws (us) away a little bit,” Kurt Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the White House National Security Council, said at an event on Wednesday hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace. “I think there is a deep sense that that can’t happen again.”
Outgoing Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is skipping the summit. The bloc has barred Myanmar — it has been gripped by crisis since the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021 — from sending all but nongovernmental leaders for the meetings.
The Biden administration condemned the military coup that led to the ouster of Suu Kyi. She was convicted by a military court last month of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison in the first of several corruption cases against her. Suu Kyi has denied the charges.
Biden is also expected to address the situation in Myanmar with ASEAN leaders, as well as discuss China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Campbell said the administration expects the private talks will be “direct, polite, but maybe a little bit uncomfortable at times” as the U.S. and ASEAN members are not on the same page on all issues.
Biden has called for Russia to be disinvited from November’s scheduled Group of 20 summit because of its invasion of Ukraine. ASEAN member Indonesia, which holds the presidency of the Group of 20 this year, has resisted the calls to pull Moscow’s invitation.
At a virtual summit with ASEAN leaders last year, Biden said Washington would look to start talks with Pacific nations about developing a regional economic framework. Campbell said that the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework would be under discussion during this year’s summit, though it was unclear how substantive the talks would be.
Japan’s Washington ambassador, Tomita Koji, said at another forum in Washington earlier this week that the framework could be launched during Biden’s upcoming visit to Japan. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/biden-hosts-asean-as-he-looks-to-show-pacific-commitment/ | 2022-05-12 07:00:54 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/biden-hosts-asean-as-he-looks-to-show-pacific-commitment/ |
Journalism can be a dangerous business. The Committee to Protect Journalists says 42 journalists and media workers have been killed around the world this year alone. Attacks on press freedom have intensified in the U.S. and abroad.
This is the subject of the new documentary on HBO Max called “Endangered.” It follows four journalists working in democracies, two in the U.S., one in Brazil, and another in Mexico. Each faces profound challenges to their work — and some face challenges to their lives.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Folha de Sao Paulo’s Patricia Campos Mello, a journalist featured in the film, and “Endangered” executive producer, Ronan Farrow, about the fragile state of press freedom around the world.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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1 dead, 7 injured after truck drives through Colorado bar crowd
GOLDEN, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - One person died and seven others were injured after a pickup truck plowed into a crowd gathered outside a Colorado bar.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says a fight broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning in the parking lot outside Rock Rest Lodge Bar & Grill in Golden, Colorado.
Bouncers broke up the brawl and led one of the two groups involved behind the building. At that point, investigators say three men from the other group jumped in a truck and backed it into the crowd.
Law enforcement says the three men inside the truck drove through the crowd on purpose.
“It appears he intentionally drove into the victims, striking at least eight individuals, including restaurant employees,” the sheriff’s office said.
The truck left the scene but was found a short distance away. The three people inside were detained.
Deputies say the suspected driver, 29-year-old Ruben Marquez, will face charges of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault.
The owner of the truck, 25-year-old Ernesto Avila, was allegedly riding as a passenger. Avila is facing charges of accessory.
Deputies say the other passenger is not facing charges at this time.
“I’ve been here six years and we’ve never had anything like this,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told media in a news briefing.
Rock Rest Lodge said in a social media post that the bar remained closed Sunday after the incident.
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One of the first things Brad Keselowski did before buying into Jack Roush’s race team was check the years remaining on the contract for Chris Buescher, the driver he was inheriting with his purchase.
He was pleased to learn that Buescher was locked down. But it wasn’t long enough, in Keselowski’s mind.
“I kind of felt like he was a hidden free agent gem that wasn’t being scouted properly and felt that way for a handful of years,” Keselowski said. “The first thing, it was literally the first thing I did when I signed the papers … was putting an offer in front of him to give him a contract extension.
“I thought he was somebody we could build around and get results.”
Buescher picked up the first win for rebranded RFK Racing last week at Bristol Motor Speedway, and the first win for a Roush car in a points-paying race since since Daytona in 2017. Buescher and Keselowski both won a pair of qualifying races at Daytona in February.
It also marked the first time in this format of NASCAR’s playoffs that drivers who are not eligible for the championship swept the three races of the first round. Now Buescher, a native of Prosper, Texas, returns to his home state hoping to again play the spoiler.
The second round of the playoffs open Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, where Buescher and Keselowski finished eighth and ninth in May in the exhibition All-Star race. Buescher is thrilled to be part of an energized race team.
“I’ve had really good teammates through the years at different organizations at the Cup level, but nobody that’s put in the amount of effort as Brad Keselowski,” Buescher said. “He’s very passionate about it. He puts in the work and the time and the effort to be able to make this thing successful, and we’ve seen it this year.
“For Brad to come over in the ownership role and have that faith in me early on meant a lot to me. That’s a pretty big pat on the back when we haven’t always had the results to show for it.”
TEXAS TOO TOUGH
Texas Motor Speedway has been in the playoff rotation since 2005, and typically two annual stops for the Cup Series.
Texas swapped its spring race for the All-Star race the last two seasons, but the All-Star race will be at North Wilkesboro in North Carolina next season and Texas will have just one Cup race for the first time since 2005.
The demise of the speedway can be linked to a 2017 repaving and reconfiguration in Turns 1 and 2 that reduced the banking from 24 to 20 degrees. Passing became extremely difficult and NASCAR has been seeking solutions to improve the on-track product.
“I don’t like the racetrack and think they kind of ruined it. Texas, I just don’t enjoy very much,” said 2020 NASCAR champion Chase Elliott.
The race is concerning for the remaining 12 drivers in the playoff field because the second round has so many variables. Texas has been a difficult track for teams, next up is Talladega Superspeedway and then the field will be trimmed by four at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
“With the unknowns of Talladega and the Roval, we’re looking at Texas as a place we can go run up front, try to maximize our points and be in contention for the win,” Denny Hamlin said. “Passing was very difficult in the All-Star race though, so I expect that to be the case like it has been for the last few years at Texas.
“Qualifying up front and having a smooth day on the track and on pit road are going to be key for us to have a shot.”
ODDS AND ENDS
Chase Elliott cycled back to the points lead as the playoff field was reset for the second round. Austin Cindric is ranked last in the 12-driver field. … Christopher Bell is seventh in the standings but the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was the only contender in the first round to score three top-five finishes. He was the points leader before the reset and the only driver to clinch a berth in the second round ahead of Bristol. … Kyle Larson is the FanDuel favorite to win Sunday at Texas.
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OAKWOOD VILLAGE, Ohio (WJW) — Authorities are on the scene of an explosion at an Oakwood Village, Ohio metal manufacturing factory where more than a dozen people were injured Monday afternoon.
Witnesses reported hearing a big “boom” shortly after 2 p.m. Crews from multiple cities were then sent to the Alexander Road address where I. Schumann & Co., which produces copper alloys, is located.
The Oakwood Village Fire Department confirmed to Nexstar’s WJW that 13 people were taken to the hospital following the explosion and that at least one of them was in critical condition. Another person was reportedly injured but not taken to the hospital.
Fire Captain Brian DiRocco said he saw quite a few burn victims on scene and that at least one person had to be pulled from the rubble before being taken to the hospital.
The official address of the building is in Bedford, but it is considered Oakwood Village.
Flying over the scene, a WJW helicopter camera recorded a fire and a large plume of smoke coming from the building, but firefighters have since brought the blaze under control. From the ground, debris could be seen scattered hundreds of yards away and a large chunk of the building was missing. Some of the nearby cars caught fire as well.
The smoke billowing into the air could be seen for miles around the site and it was even caught on weather radar for a while.
“There has [sic] been reports of a smell of ‘Burning Oil’ in areas,” Broadview Heights Fire Department said on Facebook. “This is likely from the fire scene. We are likely to notice this odor for a while yet.”
Seven Hills Fire Department said they were aware of the haze and smell traveling through their area and told people not to call 911, as it may “tie up resources currently needed for the event in Oakwood.”
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With inflation on the rise and increasing environmental concerns, companies like Varla Scooter have devised unique ways to fill the market gaps. It has been noted that most injuries occur when students commute to school. People who run short on time during high-traffic hours may encounter accidents.
According to the national data, 5,623 college-aged vehicle accident victims died in a year. Another 567,000 sustained injuries. This means that a total of 572,000 were either killed or injured in crashes. This accounted for 20% of the national total.
Varla Scooter has devised a perfect solution to reduce these numbers. They are producing the scooters for adults that allow the students to commute easily without leaving any carbon footprint.
"Environmental concerns are the main reason we have always negated the idea of owning a car or bike. Plus, our parents are rightfully concerned about our safety during the rides. Varla comes as a knight in shining armor, enabling us to travel easily and safely," says Ben Michael, a student in Los Angeles.
"Every year, thousands of students get injured during accidents at the school times. This is due to traffic, poor transport situation, and fast running. The companies like Varla are providing safe solutions to the customers. The motor scooter is easy to ride and help the students to reach their destination on time," says traffic control expert Youvas Cory from Houston.
Varla has introduced a fairly new concept to the people and brings best electric scooter that are greatly helpful for the customers. An electric scooter for adults is also a good option for teachers and older students. When companies like Varla take the responsibility of keeping the youth safe, they will be set up for success and reduce the chances of injuries.
According to the recently collected data, students are most susceptible to accidents during commuting to and from school. There are many reasons students come across accidents as they move to and from schools and colleges. Some of which are:
- 32.8% of high school students nationwide have texted or e-mailed while driving
- 34% of teens aged 16 and 17 admit that they send and respond to text messages while driving
So, it is essential to increase awareness among student groups. Allow them to shoulder the responsibility and use the motorized scooter for an easy and safe commute.
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AUSTIN, Minn., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, today announced its quarterly dividend on the common stock, authorized by the Board of Directors at 27.5 cents ($0.275) a share on March 27, 2023, will be paid May 15, 2023, to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 17, 2023.
The May 15 payment will be the 379th consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the company. Since becoming a public company in 1928, Hormel Foods Corporation has paid a regular quarterly dividend without interruption.
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Explore This Pataskala Couple’s Tropical Garden Paradise of More Than 300 Plants
Jerry Raack and Joanne Kick-Raack created a bromeliad bonanza, with hundreds of the colorful plants displayed inside and out.
In May, Jerry Raack and Joanne Kick-Raack commence “the big migration.” That’s what they call the semiannual move of some 300 bromeliad plants from indoors to outdoors at their creekside Pataskala garden.
“It’s an event, and it happens twice a year,” says Jerry, a retired Bell Labs manager and an international bromeliad expert. He and Joanne enjoy the tropical, frost-sensitive plants in the garden for the summer, then move them back into their home and greenhouse in fall.
Throughout the Raacks’ landscape on their 6-acre, wooded property, Joanne artfully displays these architectural beauties. She hangs silvery, spiderlike Tillandsias from various trees and stages containers of flamboyantly flowering bromeliads on the back deck. She arranges a couple dozen larger Vriesea and Guzmania bromeliads under the canopy of mature oak and maple trees. Their strappy leaves intrigue with pink and green stripes, burgundy mottling and zebralike patterns. And their cultivar names, like “Red Chestnut” and “Hieroglyphica,” give clues to their exotic features.
“For the most part, they maintain themselves with the natural rains we get through the summer,” Jerry says. “We occasionally water them, and that’s only during real hot, dry spells.”
While the Raacks have grown bromeliads for decades, the plants are becoming increasingly popular as houseplants for their bold leaf patterns and long-lasting flowers. Once rare, bromeliads are now popping up everywhere—in mall entrances, hospital atriums, corporate offices, hotel lobbies and home interiors. Many Central Ohio garden centers carry several varieties. Grocery and big box stores even feature collections of colorful flowering varieties.
“They are a fascinating family of plants,” Jerry says. “They only exist naturally in the New World from the southern U.S. into South America. So, it’s a confined family, and I have a penchant for studying things in details.”
Indeed, he has studied them for 55 years. When Jerry was a new college graduate, he received his first bromeliad as a gift from his brother. He was eager to learn more, so he joined the International Bromeliad Society. He ended up meeting bromeliad collectors throughout the world and eventually served as its president for six years. He’s also published articles, given lectures and traveled extensively in search of new bromeliads. He discovered nearly two dozen in remote places like the cloud forests of Ecuador and the highlands of the Andes Mountains in Peru. Two bromeliads, Tillandsia raackii and Tillandsia kickae, are named in his and Joanne’s honor.
When the couple met in 1988, they were delighted to discover they both were “plant geeks.” Joanne studied plant pathology at Cornell University and had extensive agricultural and horticultural careers in both industry and academia. When they married, they traveled to Ecuador for their honeymoon.
Back home, they started expanding the gardens around the house that Jerry built in 1977 with architect Kevin Knight. Garden radio show host Fred Hower helped them with the initial landscape design. Jerry’s work then took the couple to England for a year where they toured many gardens in their spare time. They returned home inspired. They adopted the country’s informal, all-seasons style and added more hydrangeas, hellebores, hostas and plenty of other perennials.
Their garden continued to evolve as Jerry built beds, two ponds, stone walls, walkways and steps. Joanne contributed with garden design, plant selection and placement, container arrangements, annual displays and pruning.
Over the years, the Raacks have experienced plenty of gardening challenges. As deer became more abundant and destructive, the Raacks enclosed 3 acres of their property with a protective fence. The emerald ash borer became another challenge. While they originally gardened in the shade of their wooded property, they eventually had to adapt for more sunshine as the ash borer killed nearly all the ash trees.
Fortunately, Jerry had planted a succession of trees, including several he bought early on while working a part-time retirement job running the tree and shrub area at a local nursery. Through trips to wholesale nurseries, he discovered and bought many unusual trees and shrubs.
“We figure that job was a net loss in income!” Joanne says. Their favorites include kousa dogwoods, false cypress, Japanese maples, dawn redwood and stewartia. Thankfully, many serve as roosts for bromeliads and replicate the shade of their native habitat.
Each fall, as the bromeliad migration back indoors resumes, Joanne says the plants have grown and multiplied. “There are more plants at the end of the year than the beginning,” Jerry says. “And that’s when I start giving things away.”
They donate over 100 plants a year to places like Kingwood Center Gardens (Mansfield), Columbus Zoo & Aquarium, Denver Botanic Gardens, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Toledo Zoo & Aquarium, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, Florida), Atlanta Botanical Garden and Riverbanks Zoo & Garden (Columbia, South Carolina).
Throughout the year, they often travel to discover more bromeliads or tour more gardens. This last winter, the couple celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in Ecuador, photographing and documenting more bromeliads.
“Plants and gardening have been a huge part of our lives together,” Joanne says. “It’s totally been a shared love.”
Try These Easy-Care Bromeliads
The bromeliad family is large and varied with 3,700 species, including its two best-known members, pineapples and Spanish moss. In Central Ohio, several bromeliads are easy to grow indoors as houseplants and can be transitioned outdoors for the summer. Here are the Raacks’ recommendations:
Neoregelia: These flamboyantly colored bromeliads are ideal for beginners. Outdoors, their crowns collect water in a central tank that keeps them hydrated for days, even weeks. They are beloved for their spectacular foliage and brilliant blooms in reds, oranges and yellows. Indoors, give them plenty of bright light for maximum leaf color. Fill the tanks to overflowing, then allow them to somewhat dry out (typically in 10 days to two weeks).
Aechmea fasciata: Known as urn plant or silver vase plant, this Brazilian native features a rosette of silver-green leaves that form a tank or “urn” in the center to collect rainwater. It’s typically sold when its bright pink bract and sky-blue flowers are in bloom. The show will last for many weeks before it fades, then the parent plant dies back and leaves “pups” or baby plants at its base. When growing as a houseplant, place the plant in bright light, fill the tank to overflowing then refill when nearly dry.
Guzmania: This popular genus of bromeliads is known for its colorful, star-shaped bracts that last two to four months. Indoors, they prefer bright, indirect light near an east- or west-facing window. Keep water in the central tank.
Tillandsia: These sea-creaturelike plants are mostly epiphytes, meaning they naturally grow attached to other plants typically in treetops. Their roots are used to hold them in place, while nutrients are absorbed through the leaves. To grow as houseplants, place Tillandsia in bright, indirect light and soak them in water for 15 minutes once a week. Enjoy them suspended in a glass globe, clinging to a picture frame or displayed on a piece of driftwood.
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Couple welcome first baby born from a uterus transplant outside clinical trial
Posted/updated on: July 26, 2023 at 5:09 am(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- The first baby has been born from a transplanted uterus, outside of a clinical trial, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Monday.
UAB said the birth occurred via a planned cesarean section in late May, and mom Mallory -- who prefers to be identified only by her first name for privacy reasons -- and her baby boy are healthy.
Mallory had been diagnosed over two decades ago with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, a rare condition characterized by the absence of a uterus or an underdeveloped uterus and vagina, according to the National Institutes of Health.
"I had come to terms with knowing that, OK, I won't be able to carry my own children; but for me, it always felt like something that was lacking," Mallory said in a statement.
Mallory was accepted into and joined the uterus transplant program at UAB Medicine, and she and her husband Nick and their daughter had to relocate to Birmingham for over a year. She received a donated uterus from a deceased donor through the nonprofit Legacy of Hope.
Aside from a uterus transplant, Mallory also underwent an in vitro fertilization process before a high-risk pregnancy and delivery. The entire process took nearly 18 months, according to UAB.
Mallory's son is the first baby born from UAB's uterus transplant program -- only one of four in the U.S. -- and the university's Comprehensive Transplant Institute.
"We are thrilled for Mallory and her husband, Nick, and humbled that they entrusted our UAB Medicine care team to guide them through this long, difficult -- and exciting -- journey of transplantation, pregnancy and childbirth," Dr. Anupam Agarwal, UAB's senior vice president for medicine, said in a statement.
"Our goal and dream for this program is to make this routine for women who want to experience pregnancy and childbirth but can't for a variety of health reasons. We have the expertise and the multidisciplinary teams in place here to help make this reality. Their work with Mallory and our other transplant recipients and pregnancies to date has just been phenomenal," Agarwal added.
With the arrival of their son, Mallory and Nick are now parents of two. The couple also have a daughter, whom they welcomed with the help of Mallory's sister, who was their gestational surrogate.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Eureka CA
651 PM PST Tue Jan 10 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Mendocino and south central Humboldt Counties through 715 PM PST...
At 650 PM PST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Richardson Grove State Park, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Richardson Grove State Park, Richardson Grove and Piercy.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3987 12389 3991 12391 4012 12371 3996 12355
TIME...MOT...LOC 0250Z 232DEG 13KT 3994 12381
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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SALT iConnections New York will emphasize investor networking opportunities
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SALT, a premier global thought leadership forum focused on innovation and investing, and iConnections, a leading financial technology platform for alternative investors, today announced SALT iConnections New York will take place May 16-18, 2023 at The Glasshouse in New York City.
The flagship event will convene more than 1,000 alternative investment managers, asset allocators, entrepreneurs and policy experts for capital introductions and discussion around financial markets. Registration will open in February and speakers will be announced throughout the spring.
"Our number one mission with SALT is to connect intellectual capital with investment capital," said John Darsie, Managing Director of SALT. "We are thrilled to grow our partnership with iConnections, which has become an indispensable platform for asset owners looking to allocate capital intelligently and asset managers looking to grow."
"We look forward to deepening our partnership with SALT to help foster valuable connections between asset managers and allocators," said Ron Biscardi, CEO of iConnections. "The collaboration allows us to combine our cutting-edge technology with SALT's global community to create a powerful experience for all attendees."
For more information on the event, please visit salt.org or iconnections.io. Follow @SALTConference and @iConnections_io on Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest news, including speaker announcements.
About SALT
SALT is a global thought leadership forum focused on innovation and investing, founded in 2009 by Anthony Scaramucci and SkyBridge. Its mission is to empower big ideas by connecting people and capital. SALT's flagship events bring together the world's foremost investors, creators and thinkers for high-level collaboration and networking. For more information, please visit salt.org.
About iConnections
iConnections is a financial technology platform connecting asset allocators and investment managers. The iConnections desktop and mobile app allows allocators to evaluate and engage with relevant managers, who share company information securely on the platform. iConnections hosts its own flagship conferences and powers myriad third-party global investor events. In an increasingly digital world, iConnections has reimagined how the investment industry connects. Visit iconnections.io to learn more.
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LONDON, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LCM Partners is overjoyed to announce that this year it has won two Private Debt Investor Awards: "Distressed Debt and Special Situations Investor of the Year, Europe" and "Speciality Lender of the Year, Europe".
Private Debt Investor is the global publication of record for private debt, tracking the institutions, the funds and the transactions shaping the world's private credit markets. Its annual awards are now in their tenth year with winners selected based on votes received from the publication's readers, including private debt industry participants and the institutional investor community.
This is LCM's seventh win in the European Distressed Debt category with the firm's flagship strategy, Credit Opportunities ("COPS"), acquiring performing, rescheduled and non-performing consumer and SME loans. The Group is also celebrating its 25th anniversary this year as an ever-present operator in the European credit market and these awards are recognition of the firm's market leading position within the alternatives asset class.
In March 2018, LCM launched its speciality finance strategy, SOLO (Strategic Origination & Lending Opportunities), which focuses on granular asset-backed lending via long-term strategic partnerships with established originators. More specifically, SOLO has made significant progress over the last five years building a presence in the renewables sector, funding smaller-ticket assets and service equipment rather than the larger infrastructure assets themselves.
Paul Burdell, CEO of LCM Partners, said:
"This is an excellent way to start what we expect will be another exciting year for LCM. Indeed, macro-economic uncertainty creates an environment in which our strategies thrive. 2022 was a record year in terms of deployment for our special situations and non-performing loan strategy and we believe this may only be the tip of the iceberg. However, we also see a very large opportunity within European speciality finance. We are uniquely positioned to partner with banks, finance companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), who can also benefit from using our proprietary technology and loan servicing capabilities, at a time when capital is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive.
Thank you again to all of our clients and industry peers for supporting our nomination for these prestigious awards. We very much hope to reward the faith they have shown in us in 2023."
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Notes to Editors:
LCM is a leading European alternatives asset manager based in London, which specialises in whole loan consumer and SME credit portfolios. Offering unrivalled expertise in investing in and managing credit portfolios, LCM has approximately €6.9 billion of drawn and/or committed capital and has invested in over 4,700 portfolios of performing, re-scheduled and non-performing loans.
For more information, please visit LCM's website at www.lcmpartners.eu.
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The 9mm handgun fires only for authorized users, ensuring it can't be used by children or criminals.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Biofire Technologies unveiled the Biofire Smart Gun®, a 9mm handgun that uses fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics to ensure only authorized users can fire it. Designed for home defense, the Biofire Smart Gun enables firearm owners to defend themselves against external threats while preventing unauthorized access and misuse. The shooting experience is seamless: authorized users can simply pick the gun up and fire it. The Biofire Smart Gun is the first and only biometric firearm on the market.
"Biofire's approach is totally novel: we've applied high-precision engineering principles to make a meaningful impact on preventable firearm deaths among children. No one had tried that before. As a result, Biofire is now offering the most technologically advanced consumer firearm the industry's ever seen," said Kai Kloepfer, CEO and Founder of Biofire. "The Biofire Smart Gun shoots like any high-quality firearm, but it also feels like you're holding the future in your hand. This is a new era in firearm safety driven by ambition and optimism, motivated by the idea that we can in fact help save people's lives."
Firearm-related accidents, homicides, and suicides are now the leading cause of death for American children, taking thousands of lives every year. According to one study, more than forty percent of American children whose parents believe their guns are secured said they could access those guns within two hours. One in eight middle and high school students in Colorado say they can access a loaded firearm within 10 minutes. Millions of children live in households with loaded, unsecured firearms.
"The Biofire Smart Gun was designed specifically for real gun owners who want a quality home defense firearm that cannot be used by children or criminals," said Mike Corbett, Biofire advisor and former member of SEAL Team 6. "In a few years, I believe that the head of every household in America who wants a home defense firearm is going to choose this Smart Gun."
Led by the belief that focusing on gun owners' needs is the best way to drive innovation, Biofire conducted interviews with thousands of gun owners to inform the Biofire Smart Gun's design. Engineers who developed the Smart Gun prioritized reliability and speed, informed by their backgrounds in military ballistics, high-precision weapon-targeting systems, and other technical defense roles.
"The Biofire Smart Gun shoots like a gun—there's no delay. If it weren't for the futuristic look, you wouldn't know that it isn't just a regular mechanical pistol," said Ian McCollum, the firearm technical expert behind Forgotten Weapons, a YouTube channel with 2.5M subscribers. "That's very appealing to people interested in a home defense firearm, which is a significant market segment. I've come away from the opportunity to fire the gun myself pretty excited and impressed by the system—so far, Biofire has done it right."
Key Biofire Smart Gun Features
- Biofire's Guardian Biometric Engine integrates state-of-the-art capacitive fingerprint identification and 3D infrared facial recognition systems that independently verify a user's identity - whichever recognizes the user first, unlocks the firearm. It works in a wide variety of conditions, including if a user is wearing gloves or a face covering. Customizable LED indicators show when the gun is armed.
- Users' biometric data never leaves the firearm, which has no onboard WiFi, Bluetooth, or GPS.
- The firearm immediately locks when it leaves an authorized user's hand. Integrated IR sensors in the grip keep the firearm armed while an authorized user is holding the gun, removing a need to continuously authenticate their biometrics.
- Solid state, encrypted electronic fire control technology ensures it's impossible to modify the Biofire Smart Gun to circumvent its biometrics or to convert it into a conventional handgun. While it's a system commonly seen on modern fighter jets and missile systems, the Smart Gun is the first handgun in the world to operate with "fire-by-wire".
- A rechargeable, removable, high-endurance lithium-ion battery powers the firearm. The battery lasts for several months with average use and can fire continuously for several hours.
- A secure, portable Smart Dock provides an interface for the owner to add and remove trusted users via the high-resolution touch screen. The Biofire Smart Gun and Smart Dock together are a closed system that protects personal information with defense-grade data security.
- At time of launch, customers can personalize their firearm, choosing from 64 unique combinations of polymer, trigger, and magazine release colors.
- Available in right-handed and left-handed models, and with customizable grip-size options.
For owners of home defense weapons, conventional methods for securing firearms force them to choose either speed or security – unlocking a firearm or taking it out of a safe costs valuable time when seconds matter. As a result, millions of gun owners store their firearms loaded and unsecured, with nearly half citing the belief that locks prevent quick access in an emergency. Some owners opt to secure their guns in their locked cars, but as gun thefts have soared in the last several years, cars parked outside residences are now the leading source of gun thefts.
"The Biofire Smart Gun finally provides firearm owners with a highly accessible and reliable personal security device," said Lt. General Guy C. Swan III (ret.), a member of the Biofire board. "After firing the Smart Gun with my own hands, I am convinced this is going to satisfy a significant unmet need from the consumer market at this critical time. This product will save lives while safeguarding the rights of all Americans."
Since the infamous New Jersey smart gun mandate was repealed in 2019, Biofire has raised $30 million to develop the Biofire Smart Gun. It is the first and only venture capital-backed firearm technology company in the United States, with its 2022 Series A led by Founders Fund. Other investors in Biofire include highly respected VCs, family offices, and strategic investors including 10X Capital, Draper Associates, Liquid 2 Ventures, Cathexis Ventures, Crosstimbers Ventures, Break Trail Ventures, Grant Park Ventures, Structure Capital, Service Provider Capital, Gavin de Becker & Associates, Gaingels and Will Manidis.
The Biofire Smart Gun has been undergoing extensive durability and live-fire performance tests to optimize for manufacturing, so final specifications are subject to change. The Smart Gun will ship to customers through the same legal ATF transfer process required of all traditional firearms. Biofire will begin fulfilling customer orders in early 2024, in adherence with all applicable state and local regulations. It is now available for pre-order on smartgun.com with a refundable $149 deposit, total price of $1,499.
About Biofire
Founded in 2016 by CEO Kai Kloepfer, Biofire's mission is to provide gun owners with advanced tools for keeping their families safe. We believe that centering gun owners in firearm safety solutions is the most effective way to innovate and, ultimately, make our communities safer. Biofire is strongly committed to expanding access to safe and informed gun ownership and emphasizes the importance of education and training to every current and future gun owner. We are a member of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry's trade association.
Learn more at smartgun.com.
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For months, San Francisco Public Works inspectors Alejandro del Calvo and Jondelle Bretz have been roaming the Mission, trying to enforce the city’s new illegal vending law.
For more than a year, the neighborhood has been one of the city’s hotspots for people hawking stolen goods, with the two BART stations crowded with vendors, frustrating residents and nearby businesses who’ve called the situation chaotic and dangerous. Officials temporarily closed the 24th Street BART plaza last summer, saying the vending had created lawlessness.
Bretz and del Calvo say there are now fewer vendors since they started enforcement and sidewalks and bus stops are more accessible during the day, but it’s still a game of cat and mouse. And after dark, the streets fill back up. Still, they see a notable difference.
“There have been massive gains,” del Calvo said. “There’s a lot to still handle, and from DPW, we're doing the best we can as DPW inspectors.”
While Bretz and del Calvo are accompanied by a police officer, they said they get threatened regularly.
“They say they’re going to kill me,” said Bretz.
On Saturday morning, as del Calvo and Bretz crossed 24th Street, unpermitted vendors began packing up quickly as soon as they saw the men in neon yellow vests. The team made their way Saturday morning up and down eight blocks of Mission Street between 16th and 24th, an area rife with unlicensed street vendors were hawking shoes, clothes, bathing products, tools and other goods.
“They know the drill,” del Calvo, said as he watched the vendors scoop belongings into suitcases. “They already know us — we see them packing up as soon as we’re here.”
A year ago, the supervisors — with Mayor London Breed’s backing — passed a law to regulate illegal vending to address the crisis in the Mission and at U.N. Plaza, but it’s still an open question whether the enforcement is working. The hand-wringing over illegal vending comes as City Hall is the midst of an intense debate about public safety and street conditions.
Supervisors are expected to vote this week on Breed’s push to spend another $25 million to fund police overtime.
Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission, has been vocal about the illegal vending and broader crime, drug use and homelessness in the neighborhood, reiterating this week that the neighborhood is in chaos and is being neglected by City Hall.
Ronen said at a hearing Wednesday that she felt “betrayed” by the SFPD’s decision to use overtime dollars to fund its officers downtown instead of putting more cops in the Mission.
“I've been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence,” she said.
“I have been told time and time and time again, ‘There are no officers we can send to the Mission,’ ” she said passionately. “It hurts.”
Ronen did successfully lobby for new ambassadors to help calm the neighborhood's streets.
And Public Works inspectors have now spent months warning vendors about the new legislation, which they started enforcing in September.
The ordinance required street vendors to obtain a permit from the city and provide proof of purchase for goods they were selling. According to the most recent data from Public Works, 122 street vendors have received permits — the vast majority of them, 112, authorized for the Mission.
Now, Public Works inspectors such as del Calvo and Bretz spend their days ensuring vendors have permits or telling them to pack up and move on. It can be a challenging task. They’re aware that many vendors are trying to support their families, but they want to help restore order to an area that many local residents have grown increasingly frustrated with and no longer feel safe navigating.
“We’re trying to be as nice as we can be, and get as much compliance as we can,” del Calvo said.
On Saturday, Ronen spokesperson Santiago Lerma described the situation now as “a tale of day and night.”
“During the day, when inspectors are out and backed up by SFPD, conditions on the street are vastly improved,” he said. “In the evening, after the inspectors go home, it's a completely different story.”
Since September, Public Works inspectors have issued 23 violation notices along Mission Street between 16th and 24th streets, spokesperson Rachel Gordon said, with 20 additional instances in which goods were removed as “abandoned” with no vendor present. Inspectors have also issued two violation notices for vendors at Mission Street and Ocean Avenue, and one for a vendor at Fourth and Market streets.
At U.N. Plaza, where street vending is not allowed, vendors have not been issued any violation notices, she said, because sellers “did not stick around to have the notices handed to them,” Gordon said.
“However, goods displayed for sale have been removed as “abandoned” 15 times,” she said.
When del Calvo began doing street enforcement, “24th and Mission looked like a Moroccan bazaar,” he said.
They began by issuing notices of correction — which don’t include fines — to unpermitted vendors. If that didn’t work, they escalated to violation notices, which can carry fines of $250, with escalating penalties. When inspectors see unpermitted vendors, they pass out information about how to obtain city permits and tell them to pack up their stuff and move along.
On Saturday, some passers-by stopped to greet the inspectors, including David Bjorklund, 73, who was visiting the neighborhood for his weekly trip to Rainbow Grocery.
“The Mission needs a major redo,” he said. “From the Embarcadero to the end of the line … It’s a mess.”
Bjorklund said his wife was still at home because he didn’t want her to come with him.
“Too many undesirable characters hanging out,” he said.
Del Calvo said it’s tough at times to get vendors on board. The inspectors might spend an hour or more on each block, talking to vendors and making sure they comply with the new ordinance. They know that as soon as they leave, new vendors might set up shop. But they say they’ve seen slow, steady improvement. At first, many vendors were angry at them. As months passed, however, they’ve gotten more on board, and now, have relationships with many of the vendors.
“They were reluctant at first (to get permits) because it had gone unabated for so long,” Bretz said. “But once they get them, they were proud — they feel legitimate.”
“We’ve grown a pretty thick skin over the past nine months,” del Calvo said.
The inspectors wandered over to chat with Audomaro Necada-Pacheco, who was selling merchandise on the southwest corner of the intersection of 24th and Mission. He hadn’t gotten his permit, yet, they said.
They chatted briefly, and he began collecting his things.
On the block between 15th and 16th, Bretz wandered over to Felicia Massey, who was selling shoes, jeans and a couple of sculptural candlesticks.
“You’re not going to like me,” Bretz said, “but I’m going to have to ask you to pack it up.”
“Not a problem,” she replied. “I’m just waiting for my sister to come with the car.
She sells stuff on the weekend — it “helps pay the bills,” she said, adding that she hadn’t been aware of the permitting program.
She’d have her sister look into what they’d need to do to get a permit, but “it feels like they’re coming and evicting me without any kind of warning.”
Community advocates remain concerned about the state of the neighborhood.
Ryen Motzek, president of the Mission Merchants Association, said having inspectors at 24th Street has helped. But he said he believes the neighborhood needs more resources and attention and a more robust safety presence.
“It’s no sustainable solution,” he said. “They’re just slapping Band-Aids everywhere.”
After hours, he said, the BART plazas border on “mania.”
Like Ronen, he said he felt like the city was neglecting the Mission in favor of policing downtown to prevent retail theft — ignoring rampant commercial burglaries, robberies and more serious crime in the neighborhood.
“San Francisco has a lot of affluent neighborhoods,” he said. “These crimes aren’t happening there. … The silent majority does not want the Mission to look or feel the way it does.”
SFPD Chief Bill Scott has said the department is grappling with a staffing shortage, which has forced them to use overtime to backfill unfilled positions. He also said that theft is one of the biggest issues for the city.
“The prevailing issue is there are not enough San Francisco police officers to go around to do what we need to do,” Scott told supervisors.
On the block between 15th and 16th, Bretz and del Calvo stopped to chat with Eduardo Garcia, who had a slew of tools and other goods carefully lined up on a tarp.
Did he have his permit?
He did, he said, pulling out the plastic-covered document.
“Perfect,” Bretz said, with relief.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia board overseeing the state’s efforts to get patients access to medical marijuana has approved production licenses for two companies, a step to getting patients access to medication after a seven-year wait.
The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved licenses for Botanical Sciences and Trulieve Georgia, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Specifically they’ll be able to sell medical marijuana oil that contains no more than 5% of the THC compound that is found in marijuana and that makes users high.
State law requires the companies to begin production within a year.
The state first authorized medical marijuana oil in 2015 to treat illnesses including severe seizures, Parkinson’s disease and terminal cancers. But there is still no legal way to buy it in Georgia, although nearly 25,000 patients have gotten physician approval and been placed on a state registry. Patients have gone to other states or bought through underground markets.
“It’s good news to our certified patients in Georgia, and we look forward to ensuring that the product comes to market as quickly and as safely as possible,” said Sid Johnson, the commission's chairman.
Trulieve plans an indoor cultivation and processing facility in the south Georgia town of Adel.
The commission sought to award six production licenses last year, but contracts were never finalized because of protests filed by 15 losing companies that the awards were unfair.
The program was frozen until Gov. Brian Kemp appropriated $150,000 for an administrative law judge to hold hearings and resolve the protests.
The judge, Stephanie Howells, rejected all the protests in decisions finalized Friday. But the commission only awarded two of the state’s six licenses Wednesday because of pending litigation over the process, Johnson said. He said he couldn’t provide further information.
The two winning companies will be able to cultivate medical marijuana oil on 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters) of indoor growing space.
Each company will be authorized to open five dispensaries, which will serve only registered patients.
Trulieve is a large company that already has dispensaries in eight states. Botanical Sciences is a new company that plans to operate in Glennville, a small city in southeast Georgia.
“It’s a brand-new industry in our state, and we look forward to working with companies that provide the medicine for those patients,” said Andrew Turnage, the commission’s executive director.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP)Jesse Zarzuela led Central Michigan over Miami (Ohio) on Tuesday night with 19 points off of the bench in a 68-56 win in a Mid-American Conference opener.
Zarzuela shot 13 of 13 from the free throw line for the Chippewas (6-8). Brian Taylor scored 16 points and added seven rebounds. Markus Harding was 4 of 9 shooting, including 2 for 5 from distance, and went 3 for 5 from the line to finish with 13 points.
The RedHawks (6-8) were led in scoring by Morgan Safford, who finished with 20 points and two steals. Anderson Mirambeaux added 18 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks for Miami (OH). Mekhi Lairy also had seven points and six assists.
Zarzuela scored 15 points in the second half to help lead Central Michigan to a 12-point victory.
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Research shows stress leading oncologists to consider leaving the field, retiring or selling their practice
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 90% of oncologists said they experience emotional exhaustion at work, and more than two-thirds said they experience additional symptoms of burnout, such as cynicism, detachment and feeling unaccomplished or ineffective, according to new research released today from Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions in the eleventh edition of Oncology Insights, a biannual research-based report series analyzing the views of oncologists nationwide.
This edition features perspectives from more than 170 U.S. oncologists on the impact of burnout on oncologists, as well as changing value-based care models and patient access barriers to specialty medication.
More than half (56%) of participating oncologists said they are experiencing higher levels of stress than prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While 55% say they are able to manage stress effectively, 60% require 4 or more additional hours per week to complete their work responsibilities, with one-third reporting they require 7 or more additional hours weekly. Nearly one-third of respondents (30%) say they have considered retiring early as a result of increased workplace stress. These findings on the state of oncologists' mental health show that increased levels of stress and persistent pressures, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, could potentially lead to oncologists leaving the field.
"Our research shows a stark contrast between oncologists' reported ability to manage stress and the actual impact it is having on their well-being, which certainly warrants closer evaluation and monitoring," said Bruce Feinberg, DO, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions.
"Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions offers expert guidance and services that enable physicians to meet the increasing demand for oncology care. These research findings, coupled with the recent Surgeon General's advisory noting a projected physician shortage by 2033, shine a light on the need to address the high levels of stress among oncologists," said Heidi Hunter, President of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions. "In line with the Surgeon General's recommendation, we will continue developing solutions to help reduce administrative burdens, so oncologists can have more time for their patients and their personal well-being."
In addition to findings on workplace burnout, the report also examines oncologists' views on patient access barriers and their perspectives on what's next for value-based care after the Oncology Care Model (OCM) is phased out in June 2022. Key findings include:
- Nearly 90% of respondents noted prior authorizations as a significant barrier when starting patients on new medications, with 80% saying this process has a negative impact on patient outcomes.
- Nearly 75% of participating oncologists said they are unsure if they will join the yet-to-be-defined program that will replace the OCM.
The full report is available for download at cardinalhealth.com/oncologyinsights.
Cardinal Health understands the importance of mental health support and has invested nearly $2.6 million in suicide prevention and increased access to mental health services. Cardinal Health has also launched a global mental health initiative for its employees called Mind Matters.
About Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for health care facilities. With 50 years in business, operations in more than 30 countries and approximately 44,000 employees globally, Cardinal Health is essential to care. Information about Cardinal Health is available at cardinalhealth.com.
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The 2021 Ford F-150 pickup truck is being recalled for windshield wiper arms that could break, obstruct outward vision, and increase the risk of a crash, the NHTSA disclosed on Monday.
The wiper arm spline might not have the correct tooth height, which could lead to the arm stripping from the spline and detaching from the truck. Drivers and passengers might notice erratic or slow wiper speeds before it detaches.
The recall encompasses 222,454 F-150 pickup trucks. It is an expansion of a recall announced April 14, 2022, encompassing 652,996 units from the 2020-2021 F-150 model years, as well as heavy duty iterations and Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator full-size SUVs. The older recall was labeled 22S26 by Ford, whereas the expanded recall is 23S10.
The difference in the recalls was the current population of trucks had a smart wiper motor that sensed precipitation and would apply less torque to the wiper arms based on the circumstances. Originally, Ford thought the lower maximum torque of that type of wiper precluded it from the original recall. Further investigation found that the rate of windshield arm failures matched that of the high torque wiper motor.
Ford acknowledged 576 reports of inoperative or detached windshield wiper arms related to this condition globally.
Redesigned for 2021, the 2021 Ford F-150 has been recalled 15 times for an array of safety issues.
To complicate matters, another windshield wiper recall on America’s bestselling vehicle was announced Nov. 15, 2022, for a windshield wiper motor that can become inoperative and lead to the wipers failing. That recall was labeled 22S71, and covered 474,561 trucks from the 2021-2022 model years. That recall fix required a new windshield wiper motor.
This expanded recall may require new windshield wiper arms. Ford advises owners to take their vehicles to a Ford or Lincoln dealer for inspection, and to have the wiper arms replaced if necessary at no cost to owners. Reimbursement will be available through Sept. 13, 2023, for owners who have already paid for the fix out of pocket.
Owners can expect notification by mail as early as March 27. For more info, contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332 or visit Ford’s recall website.
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CHICAGO (AP) — At age 103, Sister Jean awakes daily at 5 a.m. She sits up quickly to avoid going to sleep again — “I’ve got too much to do,” she says. After prayers for the day ahead, she reads the Gospel on her tablet.
“I guess there aren’t too many 103-year-old nuns using iPads these days – there aren’t too many 103-year-olds, period,” she writes in her memoir that will be published Feb. 28. “But I’m pretty comfortable with modern technology. I’ve always said, ‘If you’re not moving forward, you’re going to get left behind real quick.’ Adaptability is my superpower.”
In “Wake Up with Purpose: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years,” Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt tells her life story, offers spiritual guidance and shares some of the lessons she’s learned.
The beloved Catholic nun captured the sports world’s imagination and became something of a folk hero as the chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men’s basketball team that reached the NCAA Final Four in 2018.
She has been featured by newspapers and TV stations across America. Her NCAA news conference, she was told, had more journalists than Tom Brady drew at the Super Bowl. Her likeness appears on socks, bobbleheads, even a Lego statue at her gallery in Loyola’s art museum. She sees the attention as a holy opportunity to tell her story and share what she’s learned; to help others wake up with purpose. Among her priorities, there’s little that she enjoys more than talking with young people.
“I love life so much and enjoy being with young people,” she told The Associated Press. “They’re the ones who keep me going because they bring such joy into my life — and they keep you updated on what’s happening in their world.”
She arrived in a wheelchair for the interview at her office in the university’s student center. She wore purple Nike Air Max sneakers with the words “Sister” and “Jean” written on the back, and her maroon and gold Loyola scarf that often gets compared to Harry Potter’s. She smiled warmly and waved to prospective students and shook hands with current students, asking them about their classes.
“What’s your dream?” she asked some of them.
Samuel Grebener, a 19-year-old freshman, told her he was thinking about medical school. They then talked about their shared love for the Loyola Ramblers. “She knows more about basketball than me,” Grebener said.
It was 9 a.m. and by then, she had already written her usual scouting report and emailed the players on the team to congratulate them on a victory.
“I believe this was a turning point and that we’re now in a winning streak” she wrote. “Our next game will be challenging, but just keep working hard. I will be there in prayer and in spirit and bless your hands virtually.”
In her office — surrounded by bobbleheads, posters and pins with her image — she studied game stats carefully in preparation to meet with the team at practice. Before a pizza lunch at the nearby cafeteria, she met other students.
Catharina Baeten, a 20-year-old-junior, told Sister Jean she had decided to attend Loyola because of its excellent programs in psychology and women-and-gender studies. “And also because of you,” she told the nun.
“Everyone loves Sister Jean,” Baeten said later, recalling that she first met the nun during a tour of Loyola when she was in high school. “There’s not a single unkind bone in her body and she represents our values… she’s the embodiment of compassion.”
Born in San Francisco in 1919, Sister Jean grew up in a devoutly Catholic family. She witnessed the impact of the Great Depression, World War II and the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, which she recalls crossing on foot when it opened in 1937.
Her religious calling, she said, came at the age of 8. She was in third grade when she met a kind, joyful teacher who belonged to the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Brimming with admiration, she would pray every day: “Dear God, help me understand what I should do, but please tell me I should become a BVM sister,” she recounts in her memoir, co-written with sportswriter/broadcaster Seth Davis.
“I guess God listened to me on that one,” she writes.
She followed her calling to the order’s motherhouse in Dubuque, Iowa, where she made her vows. She went on to teach at Catholic schools in Chicago and southern California, where she also coached girls’ basketball, before she ended at Mundelein College — on the Chicago lakefront —in the 1960s. The school became affiliated with Loyola in 1991, and Sister Jean was hired to help students with the transition.
In 1994, she was asked to help student basketball players boost their grades – “the booster shooter” she called herself, and later that year she was named chaplain of the men’s basketball team. The role, she writes in her memoir, became “the most transformational and transcendent position” of her life.
“Sports are very important because they help develop life skills,” she said. “And during those life skills, you’re also talking about faith and purpose.” Her motto: “Worship, Work, Win.”
“I know that God will call me when he wants me. So, I just feel I have a lot more work to do,” she said.
During a recent practice, she watched from the sideline in her wheelchair. On a break, the players on the men’s and women’s teams took turns shaking her hand.
“Her consistency is incredible,” said senior forward Tom Welch, 22. “She does it every day, every game. She brings the same energy to our pregame prayers.”
She also breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of the rivals in her scouting report. She’s “letting us know who’s good at shooting, who to send to the free throw line… pretty in-depth details,” Welch said. “And then sometimes, you know, she’ll make us laugh, feel good for a game.”
The laughter has been needed this season. The team is 9-16 overall and last in the Atlantic 10 conference with a 3-10 record.
Allison Guth, the women’s basketball coach, called Sister Jean a legend.
“Every day I walk in the office and she’s in her office. You talk about being there at 103. It’s because it’s a passion for her. It’s about love,” Guth said. “I think they should be telling stories about her forever.”
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the end of March, the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees issued their annual report, revealing that these programs are projected to run out of money within a decade. Edmund Moy, former White House aide, 38th Director of the U.S. Mint (2006–2011), and U.S. Money Reserve's Senior IRA Strategist, offered his insights on the situation.
Watch this video to learn more.
According to the trustees' report, Medicare will not be able to pay full benefits to all beneficiaries starting in 2031, and Social Security will not be able to pay full benefits starting in 2033. "The bad news is that in 10 years or less, both programs won't have enough money to pay full benefits," Moy says, adding, "Unless these programs are fixed, the percentage paid to beneficiaries will keep going down over time. Only Congress can fix these programs, but they're caught between a rock and a hard place."
Moy says beneficiaries of these programs may wish to look for other income sources for retirement. From his experience in government, Moy knows that changing the current trajectory of these programs could be tricky. "One solution is to take control over your retirement, like with a precious metals IRA, because it is a self-directed IRA, and you own the physical gold in your precious metals IRA."
Learn more insights from Moy on U.S. Money Reserve's website: https://www.usmoneyreserve.com/news/executive-insights/
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Founded in 2001, U.S. Money Reserve has grown into one of the world's largest private distributors of U.S. and foreign government–issued gold, silver, platinum, and palladium legal-tender products, as well as precious metals IRAs. Hundreds of thousands of clients across the country rely on U.S. Money Reserve to diversify their assets with physical precious metals.
U.S. Money Reserve's uniquely trained team includes coin research and numismatic professionals equipped with the expert market knowledge to find products that offer the highest profit potential for precious metals buyers at every level. U.S. Money Reserve goes above the industry standard to provide superior customer service, with the goal of establishing a long-term relationship with each and every one of its customers. U.S. Money Reserve is based in Austin, Texas.
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Abbott Reports Third-Quarter 2022 Results and Raises Full-Year EPS Guidance
Published: Oct. 19, 2022 at 7:30 AM EDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
- Worldwide sales of $10.4 billion in the third quarter
- Raises full-year earnings-per-share guidance
- Continues to strengthen portfolio with new product approvals and launches
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2022.
- Third-quarter sales of $10.4 billion decreased 4.7 percent on a reported basis and increased 1.3 percent on an organic basis, which excludes the impact of foreign exchange.
- GAAP diluted EPS1 was $0.81 in the third quarter. Excluding specified items, adjusted diluted EPS was $1.15.
- Abbott is raising its full-year 2022 EPS guidance. Abbott projects full-year diluted EPS on a GAAP basis of $3.75 to $3.81 and projects adjusted diluted EPS of $5.17 to $5.23.
- Full-year 2022 guidance assumes COVID-19 testing-related sales of $7.8 billion, which includes sales of $7.3 billion through September 2022 and projected sales of $0.5 billion in the fourth quarter.
- U.S. Medical Devices sales grew 11.3 percent in the third quarter, led by strong double-digit growth in Electrophysiology, Structural Heart and Diabetes Care.
- In September, Abbott presented new data showing its FreeStyle Libre® continuous glucose monitoring system helped reduce acute diabetes-related events, leading to a 67 percent decrease in hospitalizations in people with Type 2 diabetes on once-daily (basal) insulin therapy.2
- During the quarter, Abbott launched its latest-generation FreeStyle Libre 3 system in the U.S., which automatically delivers up-to-the-minute glucose readings and unsurpassed 14-day accuracy3 in the world's smallest and thinnest3 wearable sensor.
- During the quarter, following a manufacturing stoppage earlier this year, Abbott restarted production of Similac® as well as EleCare® and metabolic infant formulas at its Sturgis, Michigan, facility.
"Our results and increased guidance in the current macroeconomic environment reflect the strength of our diversified business model and execution," said Robert B. Ford, chairman and chief executive officer, Abbott. "We're particularly pleased with improving sales growth rates in U.S. Medical Devices, which is being fueled by several recent product launches, as well as continued strong performance in Established Pharmaceuticals."
THIRD-QUARTER BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Note: Management believes that measuring sales growth rates on an organic basis is an appropriate way for investors to best understand the underlying performance of the business. Organic sales growth excludes the impact of foreign exchange.
Total sales in the third quarter were negatively impacted by year-over-year declines in COVID-19 testing-related sales and a manufacturing stoppage initiated in February of certain infant formula products manufactured at Abbott's Sturgis, Michigan, facility. Excluding COVID-19 testing-related sales4 and the U.S. sales associated with the manufacturing stoppage5 in the current and prior years, total worldwide sales decreased 0.6 percent on a reported basis and increased 6.0 percent on an organic basis in the third quarter.
Worldwide Nutrition sales decreased 14.9 percent on a reported basis and 10.3 percent on an organic basis in the third quarter. Total worldwide Nutrition and Pediatric Nutrition sales were negatively impacted by a manufacturing stoppage initiated in February of certain infant formula products manufactured at Abbott's Sturgis, Michigan, facility. Abbott resumed production at the facility during the third quarter. International Pediatric sales were negatively impacted by challenging market conditions in China.
In Adult Nutrition, global sales decreased 4.0 percent on a reported basis and increased 2.4 percent on an organic basis, led by Ensure®, Abbott's market-leading complete and balanced nutrition brand.
Diagnostics sales in the third quarter were negatively impacted by year-over-year declines in COVID-19 testing-related sales. Global COVID-19 testing-related sales were $1.7 billion in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $1.9 billion in the third quarter of last year.6 Excluding COVID-19 testing-related sales, worldwide Diagnostics sales declined 0.2 percent on a reported basis and increased 6.1 percent on an organic basis in the third quarter.4
Established Pharmaceuticals sales increased 4.9 percent on a reported basis and 12.2 percent on an organic basis in the third quarter.
Key Emerging Markets include several emerging countries that represent the most attractive long-term growth opportunities for Abbott's branded generics product portfolio. Sales in these geographies increased 6.2 percent on a reported basis and 13.0 percent on an organic basis, led by strong growth in several geographies including India, China, Brazil and Vietnam and several therapeutic areas, including cardiometabolic, gastroenterology and central nervous system/pain management.
Other sales increased 1.1 percent on a reported basis and 9.9 percent on an organic basis in the quarter.
Worldwide Medical Devices sales decreased 0.5 percent on a reported basis and increased 6.4 percent on an organic basis in the third quarter. Sales growth in the U.S. was led by strong double-digit growth in Electrophysiology, Structural Heart and Diabetes Care. Internationally, sales growth was negatively impacted by intermittent COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in China as well as supply constraints in certain areas, most notably Electrophysiology.
In Diabetes Care, FreeStyle Libre sales were approximately $1.0 billion in the quarter, including U.S. growth of more than 40 percent. International FreeStyle Libre sales were negatively impacted by supply constraints of Abbott's first-generation FreeStyle Libre system in certain emerging markets.
ABBOTT'S EARNINGS-PER-SHARE GUIDANCE
Abbott is raising its projected full-year 2022 diluted earnings per share under GAAP to $3.75 to $3.81. Abbott forecasts specified items for the full-year 2022 of $1.42 per share primarily related to intangible amortization, costs related to a voluntary recall, asset impairments, expenses associated with acquisitions, restructurings and cost reduction initiatives and other net expenses. Excluding specified items, Abbott is raising its projected adjusted diluted earnings per share to $5.17 to $5.23 for the full-year 2022.
ABBOTT DECLARES 395TH CONSECUTIVE QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
On Sept. 15, 2022, the board of directors of Abbott declared the company's quarterly dividend of $0.47 per share. Abbott's cash dividend is payable Nov. 15, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 14, 2022.
Abbott has increased its dividend payout for 50 consecutive years and is a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, which tracks companies that have annually increased their dividend for at least 25 consecutive years.
About Abbott:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
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Abbott will live-webcast its third-quarter earnings conference call through its Investor Relations website at www.abbottinvestor.com at 8 a.m. Central time today. An archived edition of the webcast will be available later in the day.
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YORK, Pa. — A Bankrate survey showed nearly one in three Gen Z workers are not actively saving for retirement, and the number of people who feel they’re behind increases by the generations.
Gen Z includes ages 18 to 25; Millennials include anyone ages 26 to 41. James Royal, a principle writer at Bankrate, said as Americans get older, more of them felt behind.
“For Gen Z, about 30% of them said they were behind in retirement savings… well that number went up for millennials, that number was even higher for Gen X and when you got to baby boomers, 71% of them felt behind in retirement,” said Royal.
FOX43 talked to Pennsylvanians who fell into the Gen Z and Millennial categories about the survey to if they felt they were behind.
Few said they were saving, but many also felt they were trying to catch up.
“I’m falling short, I need to catch up and I have kids I’ve got to travel to see,” said Kara Reisser. “My son is in the Marines; it’s a lot of traveling that’s hindering me a little bit.”
Taylor Jones, gym coach at PA Fitness, said that she feels she is on track and looks at retirement as an investment in her future. Although, the investment is worth a few sacrifices as she had to cut back to save a few dollars.
“I had to cut some things, look for cheaper options, or maybe buy store brand to make up for that {cost} but my job right now is performance-based, so if I need to make more money I can just perform a little better,” said Jones.
Royal said many Gen Zers and Millennials are not investing due to the rise in cost, student loans and not being in their professional careers. The survey says other contributing factors are:
Inflation or higher cost of living: 43%
New expenses: 36%
Intent to keep more cash on hand: 35%
Stagnant or reduced income: 24%
Market volatility: 23%
17-year-old Brendan Steinfelt is currently applying to colleges and plans on majoring in cybersecurity. He is employed, but Steinfelt says he is focusing on the things that are most important to him at this time in his life.
“I feel like right now I could be spending it on a lot more important things like gas because it’s so expensive, school… that’s coming up for me so I don’t think retirement is what I need to be worried about right now,” said Steinfelt.
Steinfelt said that he knows saving for retirement is important but it’s not something he feels he should worry about right now.
Julia Reed, a licensed practical nurse (LPN), said at the start of the pandemic she saved up enough money but still feels like she is behind.
“I feel like the beginning of it I got ahead a little bit because I work in healthcare so there was a ton of overtime and a ton of bonuses, but now with everything else I haven’t been able to get ahead,” said Julia Reed.
Currently, Reed still has student loans from her first nursing program and is returning to school to become a registered nurse (RN). Reed said that she is paying for her RN degree out of pocket to prevent taking on more debt.
“When I’m done with school then I’ll go to my forever job,” said Reed. “Even though my employer does put stuff in towards retirement, there’s no room for growth for me there so at the end of the day it’s not going to follow me into retirement, but I do plan on looking into retirement plans with my future employer when I graduate.”
According to the Bankrate survey, Americans who aren’t actively saving can miss out on hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“At just saving $5,000 a year, a little less than $100 a week at below average returns for the stock market, you can build up $1.3 million over a four-year investment career,” said Royal.
In the survey, it states, “For a worker who starts investing at age 22 and reliably invests $5,000 and earns an 8% return over a 40-year period, those contributions would turn into about $1.295 million at age 62. For the worker who waits just 10 years, until age 32, that same contribution leads to $566,000 or so – a difference of more than $728,000! That’s the cost of waiting only a decade.”
Jill Demarco, a coach at PA Fitness, falls into the Millennial category and is actively saving for retirement. She says the reason she saves is that she is a single mother and wants to secure her and her child's future, but similar to the survey, she also feels like she is falling behind.
“I’m currently contributing enough to retire with where I want to, but I definitely would have to save more than if I would have started 10 years ago,” said Demarco.
Royal said it’s never too late for anyone to get started with a 401k or Brokerage account. The money put into these accounts will compound and build over time. Royal said it can be as little as $10 and that will make more of a difference than not saving.
“Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t save this month of this year,” said Royal. "Resolve to make it a priority as soon as it’s possible and to get on track."
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HURRICANE — The United Methodist Women of Forrest Burdette Memorial United Methodist Church, 2848 Putnam Ave., Hurricane, are sponsoring the annual Spring Festival annual Easter Egg and Craft Sale from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 1.
Crafters and vendors with a wide variety of merchandise, jewelry, wood items, hand-crafted bags, unique fabric gifts and much more will be on hand.
Handmade chocolate-dipped Easter eggs have been constructed by at least two generations of ladies of Forrest Burdette beginning in 1969. Since that time, 60,311 eggs “have been made with love” during the week before Palm Sunday. This year, flavors available are vanilla, coconut, cherry nut, maple nut and the favorite, peanut butter, dipped in milk or dark chocolate.
There will also be baked goods and candies, hot dogs, barbeques and drinks for sale. Come visit with friends and look for gifts and decorations for Easter and Mother’s Day.
This is a long-standing tradition for the annual Spring Festival of Crafts and Eggs at Forrest Burdette.
For directions to the church, check out the web site, www.forrestburdette.com. To place an advanced egg order or questions, call the church office, 304-562-5903.
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Upcoming title Eyeball Pool pairs decades of experience building pool games with Immutable's technology for a modern take on pool gaming featuring full asset ownership.
SINGAPORE, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eyeball Games, a Singapore-based studio from the creators of the hit mobile game 8 Ball Pool, is partnering with Immutable, the leading web3 gaming platform, to unveil Eyeball Pool — a web3-based mobile pool game — as one of the first titles on Immutable's new zKEVM platform. Eyeball Pool is currently in beta with a full launch planned for early 2024.
8 Ball Pool is a cult classic that has racked up over 1 billion downloads since its release over 10 years ago and holds the Guinness world record as "The most downloaded mobile pool game." The title remains as popular as ever with more than 10 million daily active users.
This partnership with Immutable will enable the Eyeball team to accelerate development of its blockchain-based challenger, which gives players full ownership of their digital assets and includes other features that come from using blockchain infrastructure.
Eyeball Pool is designed from the ground up with its own physics engine and stunning graphics. The game features a player-vs-player mode and a range of tournament modes which include an AI skill-matching engine.
Partnering with Immutable and leveraging its API-based infrastructure allows Eyeball Games to significantly reduce the game's development time and costs significantly. Eyeball Pool is the first of a number of games rolling out on Immutable utilizing the recently announced Immutable zkEVM, which enables creators to tap into smart contracts to incorporate advanced trading and game mechanics.
"Immutable Games Studio is constantly striving to push the boundaries and diversity of web3 games, and the addition of such a popular genre as pool to the Immutable blockchain family is yet another important step toward offering players as much variety as possible," said Andrew Sorokovsky, VP of Global Business Development at Immutable.
"We believe there's power in partnering with a specialized ecosystem for gaming versus one that tries to include all use cases. Immutable works day and night to improve its gaming ecosystem, developer tooling, and publishing capabilities – the Immutable zkEVM is a testament to this. With Immutable's help, we look forward to redefining the pool game experience," said Jonathan Ivarsson, CEO of Eyeball Games.
In January, Eyeball Pool completed a 30-minute sellout mint of 4,001 genesis NFTs called Balldroids Gen 0. Users who missed the drop will soon have another chance. The team is expanding the NFT series with the introduction of the multiplayer Phase 2 game. The Balldroid Gen 1 will act as an early access pass, and the NFTs will be launched on ImmutableX.
In addition to getting access to a closed multiplayer beta where they can win weekly rewards, Balldroid holders can claim exclusive game starter packs of NFT cues, currency, and an NFT season pass that unlocks a paid rewards path. Balldroid holders will also enjoy a perpetual ad-free experience when the mobile game is launched.
The full launch of Eyeball Pool on mobile devices is slated for Q1 2024, on Immutable zKEVM, after which the NFTs will convert into exciting game starter packs with exclusive and unique items for the game. In the meantime, gamers can sign up for teasers, early releases and NFT whitelists here.
About Immutable
Immutable is a global leader in gaming on a mission to bring digital ownership to every player by making it safe and easy to build great web3 games.
The Immutable gaming platform makes it easy for game studios and independent developers to safely and confidently build and launch successful games on Ethereum. The product suite includes pre-built solutions, optimised for usability, that help developers get to market faster without sacrificing security or player experience. Builders get personalised web3 guidance, live support for their communities, and access to the largest ecosystem in gaming.
Immutable was the first gaming platform to deliver a zero-knowledge (zk) scaling solution to the Ethereum community and provides developers with multiple zk-based scaling options, including Immutable X, a rollup based on StarkWare technology, and Immutable zkEVM, powered by Polygon.
Immutable's in-house gaming capabilities means they know how to build great games first-hand through Immutable Games, a global leader in web3 game development and publishing. Backed by a world-class team who have proven track records of bringing games to millions of players, Immutable Games has pioneered the world's first blockbuster NFT trading-card game Gods Unchained and is currently building the highly anticipated mobile RPG Guild of Guardians.
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Eyeball Pool is being developed by the same team that built and sold 8 Ball Pool to Miniclip. Our previous game now has over 1 billion downloads and today, 12 years later, still has over 10 million daily active players. Our new game has no relations to the previous game and is a completely new game that's designed to be better than the previous with superior physics, graphics, user controls and audio that gives back ownership to the players through the use of NFT and blockchain technology.
For more information, please visit: https://www.eyeball.games
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Bezos family donates $710M to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
The Bezos Family Foundation announced a $710 million gift to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years.
The donation will fund 36 new research labs, the building of a large research facility, investments in clinical trial infrastructure and immunotherapy research over ten years, the center said Wednesday.
Thomas Lynch, president and director of the center, rebranded this month as Fred Hutch, but widely known as The Hutch, said he worked with Mike and Jackie Bezos to understand what motivated their giving. Jackie Bezos is the mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, while her husband, Mike, is Jeff Bezos’ stepfather. Jeff Bezos, the world’s second wealthiest person, stepped down from his role as CEO of Amazon in July 2021.
Lynch learned the Bezos family deeply valued collaboration in research and treatment.
“But don’t underestimate the importance of urgency,” Lynch said in an interview. “Because I think that’s something that I feel passionately about and I know that Mike and Jackie feel passionately about being able to bring cures to patients soon.”
The Bezos family has previously given almost $68 million to The Hutch’s research since 2009, the center said. It declined to say whether Mike and Jackie Bezos had given through their foundation or through another entity. A communications firm that previously worked with the Bezos Family Foundation directed requests for comment back to The Hutch.
In a statement, Mike Bezos praised the merger of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle Children’s Hospital and UW Medicine earlier this year into a unified adult cancer research center.
“We hope our investment in The Hutch leads to answers for the most pressing medical questions,” Bezos said. “We also hope this inspires others to join us now in pursuing scientific and medical breakthroughs.”
This new donation comes as President Joe Biden has called on the private sector and foundations to join a reignited cancer “moonshot” and move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in February of cutting U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years.
The size of the gift and the investments in complementary areas are a testament to the trust that philanthropists like the Bezos family have in the academic community to deliver value back to society, said Peter Kuhn, a cancer researcher and professor at the University of Southern California.
“If you take the friction out of the system of how an academic institution like The Hutch can work with its academic partners and commercial partners in both the therapeutic and the diagnostic world, that’s how we get acceleration,” Kuhn said.
The center hopes to accelerate the pace of clinical trials, Lynch said, with the aim of reviewing and opening trials within 90 days.
The work researchers and clinicians will be able to do at The Hutch will also benefit patients and researchers elsewhere in the country, said Nilofer S. Azad, an oncology professor at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University.
“We can really use scientific knowledge in ways that are practical towards changing patient care, but that does require significant resources,” she said
Fred Hutch, which merged with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in April, received another major gift in September of $78 million from Stuart and Molly Sloan, a sign philanthropic donations to the expanded center are increasing. In 2021, it reported that about $86.4 million or 8% of its overall revenue of $984 million came from philanthropic donations.
“Research gives you hope and gives us hope that options might be different for the next patients down the road,” Lynch said.
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The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show is the largest trade show of its kind in the world to support an $7.8 billion industry, took place at the Venetian Expo and Caesar’s last week in Las Vegas.
The SHOT Show (SHOT stands for Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) is the once-a-year gathering place for anything outdoors—manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, publishers and wildlife conservation organizations. It’s where a passion for firearms, ammunition and outdoors equipment, plus the industry’s unified support for the Second Amendment, are on display.
The SHOT Show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. The show generates millions of the dollars in revenue that funds NSSF programs and services that help “promote, protect and preserve” hunting and the shooting sports.
Among those programs sponsored by the NSSF are Project ChildSafe, the industry’s firearm safety education program; Operation Secure Store, which helps firearm retailers prevent thefts; and First Shots, which provides introductions to target shooting.
More than 2,500 exhibitors participated in last week’s show, featuring products from all 50 states and 115 countries. With hundreds of new and improved products to be showcased, the SHOT Show boasts 13.9 miles of aisles, a distance more than half a marathon.
This is the 45th annual SHOT Show. The first SHOT Show was in 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri. The show has resided in Vegas since 2010.
With so many items being displayed, we cannot talk about all the new items at this year’s show, but here is a short list of some of the things that caught our eye:
APS Accurate Pistol Systems – ($199) – The APS 1SHOT is a dynamic pistol rest that gives an operator the ability to fire their handgun with increased accuracy, stability, and safety. When it comes to saving lives, accuracy is everything. 5 world records for accuracy have been set with the 1SHOT. Although it looks like it, the 1Shot is not a pistol brace. The 1SHOT by design never attaches to the firearm. The operator simply places their handgun against the wall of the 1Shot to safely stabilize the firearm, significantly reducing recoil and trigger pull errors.
Advantage Arms Mod .22lr conversion kit for Glock – ($395) Advantage Arms has been the top selling .22lr conversion kit for the Glock, XD, and 1911 since 1998. This year we have introduced our new MOD kits, which comes with a threaded barrel and 15rd magazines. Work on Muscle Memory and Shot Transition and less cost for ammunition. Teach your kids and grandkids to shoot, share your enthusiasm for the sport. Also available for XD, 1911, Hellcat and P365.
Buck Knives Alpha Hunter — Hunters select a knife to take on their hunt based on many features, including: size; shape; function ability; blade steel; handle materials; and more. Buck Knives’ new Model 662 Alpha Hunter, and the slightly smaller Model 664 Alpha Scout, fixed-blade knives check all those boxes—and much more. The Alpha knives are crafted from S35VN steel in the Buck Knives’ state-of-the art facility in Post Falls, Idaho. The Alpha Hunter’s and Alpha Scout’s drop-point, stainless steel blades are crafted from S35VN steel and feature jimping texture along the blade’s spine to provide better finger traction and in-the-hand control for the more challenging cutting tasks.
Clamtainer Ammo Buddy — (starting at $15) — Jamestown Plastics, a Brocton, NY-based custom thermoformer and manufacturer of the Clamtainer performance clamshell is launching new initiatives for 2023 around its ammunition-specific container, the Ammo Buddy. Ammo Buddies are not generic one-size-fits-all plastic boxes but, rather, caliber-specific storage containers that hold your ammunition in a space-saving and ultra-organized manner. Available for a multitude of rifle and pistol caliber ammunition, as well as for 12- and 20-gauge shotgun shells, Ammo Buddy is a form of “Clamtainer”, the clever plastic see-through storage containers that are derived from premium clamshells. Clamtainers feature the revolutionary and patented Click It® Closure System, a simple built in mechanism that allows for easy, one-handed opening, but that also securely keeps the container closed, even when dropped.
Wire Ups by God’s Country Camo – ($25) — A new tool, no Hunter, Farmer, Rancher, Oil Field Worker, First Responder, Law Enforcement Personnel, member of the Military or General Outdoorsmen should be without. Wire-Ups solve the problem of crossing fences alone or with others, freeing up your hands to easily move people and gear through an obstacle without damaging the fence in the process.
Protec All Terrain Watches – ($525) — Time Concepts is introducing ProTek, its new brand of tritium tactical watches, from the Former Owner and Founder of Luminox, Barry Cohen. Stemming from the successful history of Luminox, ProTek is designed for a similar core group that includes Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters, SWAT, Tactical, Military, Special Forces, and First Responders. Designed in Switzerland, ProTek is an American brand with superior self-powered Swiss tritium illumination, and the brand chose the best quality components available to ensure years of problem free wear with no issues, including sapphire crystals with antireflective coatings for all watches.
Recoil Ring – Worn on the middle finger of the trigger hand, Recoil Ring™ absorbs and reduces energy produced from recoil into the hand. Recoil Ring™ eliminates pain, injury and protects the proximal phalange, tendons, ligaments, and skin on the back of the middle finger from the trigger guard when discharging a firearm. Also known as trigger bump. Recoil Ring™ increases grip, and allows for a smooth, consistent, undisturbed follow through on single shots and especially when discharging multiple rounds. Recoil Ring™ is made of nickel-plated steel and Sorbothane®. Sorbothane® is a proprietary, visco-elastic polymer, a thermoset, polyetherbased, polyurethane material. With a very high damping coefficient, Sorbothane® combines shock absorption, good memory, vibration isolation and vibration damping characteristics. Recoil Ring™ comes in US ring sizes 6-17 or any custom size that is needed. Recoil Ring™ does not protect against faulty firearms or ammunition. | https://www.swoknews.com/sports/shot-show-offers-glimpse-of-new-products/article_1ef6e2bc-1f4b-521b-9af4-81cb8cef9630.html | 2023-01-26 07:44:42 | 0 | https://www.swoknews.com/sports/shot-show-offers-glimpse-of-new-products/article_1ef6e2bc-1f4b-521b-9af4-81cb8cef9630.html |
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22-year-old D'Sean Perry of Miami was one of three people killed in a shooting at the University of Virginia.
Three football players for the University of Virginia Cavaliers were killed in a shooting on campus Sunday evening.
The shooting happened in a parking garage on the UVA campus as a group was returning from a weekend field trip to Washington, DC.Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry were killed and two more people were wounded in the incident.
Perry was a
standout during his days at Gulliver Prep in Miami. He won the 2018
defensive player of the year award for the South Florida Conference. He received offers from the University of South Florida and University of Florida before deciding to enroll at Charlottesville in 2019. The 22-year-old linebacker and defensive end made two tackles this weekend while playing against Pitt for the Cavaliers on Saturday.
"This is a message any leader hopes never to have to send, and I am devastated that this violence has visited the University of Virginia," UVA President Jim Ryan wrote in a message to students on Monday. "This is a traumatic incident for everyone in our community, and we have cancelled classes for today."
Police believe that
former UVA football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is responsible for the shooting. Jones was on the field trip with about 25 other students. The shooting led to a half-day lockdown of campus until Jones was arrested in Henrico County nearly 80 miles from the school. Jones had previously been reported to authorities for his possession of a firearm. | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-football-standout-among-three-players-killed-in-uva-shooting-32905289 | 2022-11-15 10:25:28 | 1 | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-football-standout-among-three-players-killed-in-uva-shooting-32905289 |
Which Sceptre TV is best?
Sceptre TVs are known for their low cost and high value. Sceptre makes three styles of TVs and seven styles of monitors. While it does make 4K ultra-high-definition and Android TVs, most of its products use LED panels. This keeps costs down in a world where bigger names such as Samsung and Sony use organic LEDs and quantum LEDs for greater picture quality.
If you are looking for a Sceptre TV with HDMI ports to connect to your PlayStation and Xbox consoles in addition to watching your favorite shows, take a look at the Sceptre 50-Inch 4K UHD Ultra Slim LED TV.
What to know before you buy a Sceptre TV
Sceptre is a maker of budget TVs and appeals to those who want a good picture without paying a huge price for all the latest frills. When you choose Sceptre, you are looking to get the best viewing experience you can for the least money possible.
Don’t forget the picture is only half the story when it comes to watching television. A great picture isn’t as enjoyable unless you have great sound, too. Consider upgrading your Sceptre TV with a sound bar or speaker system.
Resolution
This is a tricky measurement that explains only a part of the viewing experience. Screen resolution is the sharpness of the picture displayed on the screen. The greater the number of tiny individual dots, called pixels, the sharper the picture. Resolution is usually expressed by two numbers, the horizontal width and the vertical height.
Screen size
This is the other part of how picture sharpness is defined. If two televisions have the same number of pixels, the smaller screen will display sharper images than the larger one.
Ports
Today’s viewers like to watch more than TV shows on their TVs. Input ports are built in so you can hook up your favorite devices, including cable boxes, sound bars and game consoles. Look for HDMI ports as well as USB ports and audio jacks so you can watch and listen without disturbing others.
What to look for in a quality Sceptre TV
Android TVs
If you stream content via services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ or YouTube, you’ll find that Sceptre’s Android TVs come with Google Assistant built in. Just say “OK, Google” to find shows, check sports scores or even dim the lights in the room as you settle in with a bowl of popcorn. Also built into Sceptre’s Android TVs is Chromecast, the system that lets you display content from your phone, tablet, laptop or computer on your TV.
LED TVs
LED stands for light-emitting diodes, semiconductors that emit visible light when charged with an electric current. LEDs replaced the cathode ray tubes that characterized the bulky TVs and computer monitors people used for many years. Sceptre makes dozens of LED TVs in eight sizes, from 19 to 75 inches. All have brilliantly lit displays with a full array of colors.
4K/UHD TVs
UHD stands for Ultra High Definition and means the TV screen has at least 3,840 by 2,160 pixels, essentially double the prior standard of 1080p. The UHD name was created to replace the 4K label. These are Sceptre’s top TVs with its highest levels of resolution.
How much you can expect to spend on a Sceptre TV
Most cost $400-$700. Models in Sceptre’s budget line run $100-$400 and its biggest and best TVs go for $700-$2500.
Sceptre TV FAQ
Will my 4K TV play everything in 4K?
A. A TV can only play content at the level it was recorded. Your 4K TV will display 4K images of all video made to 4K standards.
How do I clean my Sceptre TV?
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The OPEC oil cartel and its allies decided Wednesday to boost production in September by a much slower pace than in previous months at a time of high gasoline prices and unstable energy supplies exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, and its allies, led by Russia, said they will increase output to 100,000 barrels a day next month after raising it by 648,000 barrels per day in July and August. The group considered what effects staggering inflation and rising COVID-19 rates may have on global demand for fuel in the fall.
It comes after U.S. President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia last month, aiming to improve relations and encourage more oil production from the cartel to draw down high prices at the pump. While gasoline prices have been falling, they are still high and posing a political problem for him as inflation surges.
No oil production agreement was announced, but Biden said he expected OPEC to take steps to increase production in the coming weeks. Those hopes didn’t materialize.
As a result, “the U.S. may go looking for other sources of oil, whether it’s Venezuela or Iran,” said Jacques Rousseau, managing director at Clearview Energy Partners.
Biden’s administration also is encouraging the U.S. oil and gas industry to increase production.
“You’ve just seen the second-quarter results from some of these companies. They are record profits,” Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser for energy security at the State Department, said Wednesday on CNBC. “They should be investing those dollars right back into production increases.”
Despite the modest increase announced by OPEC+, the administration was trying to highlight that prices are already falling and could fall further with more domestic production.
“We’re pretty pleased with what we’re seeing” on prices for oil and gas down from highs, but “we know that this is not enough,” Hochstein said.
A senior Biden administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations, called the OPEC+ announcement a step forward. The official said the group has restored all the production cuts it made in 2020 during the depths of the pandemic, when oil prices and demand plummeted.
The group has been gradually adding more oil and gas to the market as economies recovered.
Some OPEC nations, such as Angola and Nigeria, have been producing less than the agreed-upon amount. Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, on the other hand, have the capacity to increase production.
OPEC’s decision appears to be an attempt to appease those countries that can’t produce more, Rousseau said.
“Any time you increase the target, there’s countries that can’t participate,” he added. “If you only raise production by 100,000 barrels per day, that’s just a small piece for everybody.”
As a result, the amount of oil on the market might not keep up with demand, so high oil prices may persist for some time.
While the U.S. was probably hoping for a larger production increase, “in terms of overall supply/demand management, OPEC’s decision is logical,” Noah Barrett, research analyst for energy and utilities at Janus Henderson Investors, said in a note. “There’s still a great deal of uncertainty on oil demand in the back half of this year, driven by questions around Chinese demand, and the potential for U.S. or even a global recession.”
The price of oil rose sharply after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. It fell somewhat since OPEC+ last met but rose modestly Wednesday. A barrel of U.S. benchmark crude was selling for just over $94, compared with more than $105 per barrel a month ago. Brent crude, the international standard, was selling for just over $100 a barrel, also down about $110 from a month ago.
Russia’s oil and natural gas exports to the world have declined as many nations imposed sanctions or curtailed buying from the major supplier due to its invasion of Ukraine. Russia also has reduced or cut off natural gas to a dozen European countries, further driving up energy prices, squeezing people’s spending power and threatening to cause a recession if nations can’t stockpile enough natural gas to get through the winter.
It was the first official monthly meeting of the OPEC+ group since its leader, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, died at age 63 in his home country of Nigeria last month. Haitham al-Ghais, a veteran of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, took over as secretary general of OPEC this week.
In the U.S., a gallon of regular gasoline was selling for $4.16 on average Wednesday. That’s substantially lower than in June, when the nationwide average surpassed $5 a gallon, but it’s still painfully high for many front-line workers and families to afford and about 31% higher than what drivers were paying a year ago.
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Associated Press writers Josh Boak and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/opec-to-decide-oil-output-to-world-amid-high-inflation/ | 2022-08-04 00:47:58 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/opec-to-decide-oil-output-to-world-amid-high-inflation/ |
For the thousands of workers who’d never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock.
Now they are being courted by long-established employers whose names aren’t typically synonymous with tech work, including hotel chains, retailers, investment firms, railroad companies and even the Internal Revenue Service.
All of those sectors have signaled on recruiting platforms that they are still hiring software engineers, data scientists and cybersecurity specialists despite the layoffs in Big Tech. It’s a chance for them to level the playing field against tech giants that have long had their pick of the top talent with lucrative compensation, alluring perks and sheer name recognition.
No employer is making a more aggressive push than the country’s largest: the federal government, which is aiming to hire 22,000 tech workers in fiscal year 2023. Federal agencies have participated in a series of “Tech to Gov” job forums targeted in part at laid off workers, hoping to ease their own chronic labor shortages that have hindered efforts to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and modernize the way they deliver benefits and collect taxes.
“It’s a real opportunity for the federal government,” said Rob Shriver deputy director of the U.S. office of Personnel Management. “We have just about any tech job that anybody could possibly be interested in the federal government.”
Federal, state and local government tech job postings soared 48% in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to an analysis by tech trade group CompTIA of data from Lightcast, a labor analytics firm. It was a sharp contrast to the 33% decrease in tech job openings during that period in the tech industry, and a 31.5% slowdown in such postings across the economy, according to CompTIA’s figures.
Tech hiring reached a historic high of more than 4 million in 2022, although hiring began to fall off in the second half of the year, according to CompTIA. This year, there have been about 1.26 million tech postings between January and May, a level more on par with the pre-pandemic years, said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA.
To be sure, the competition for tech talent remains tight, and many companies, including tech companies, are still hiring — just more slowly. The unemployment rate for tech workers is just 2%. But some who lost their jobs in Big Tech swiftly landed jobs at non-tech firms.
After Hector Garcia, 53, was laid off by Meta’s Facebook in November, it didn’t take long for him to be snapped up by Abbott, the Chicago-based global health company, which expects to hire hundreds of software engineers, data architects and cybersecurity analysts over the next years.
“I decided to go for something that I hadn’t done before,” said Garcia, a data architect who said he got offers from tech firms but was intrigued by the idea of working for a manufacturer that produces something tangible in medical devices.
Jonathan Johnson, CEO of online retailer Overstock, said that he has seen a 20% increase in applications for tech job openings in first quarter compared to a year ago. He also noted that it’s taking a shorter time to fill a spot compared to a year ago and that the quality of applicants has improved.
“There’s less demand and more supply,” Johnson said.
The layoffs have been especially shocking for the newest generation of workers who are too young to remember the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and “grew up consuming the apps and services of the big tech brands,” said Christine Cruzvergara, chief education strategy officer for Handshake, a leading career site for college students and graduates.
“The volatility and layoffs of the past year rocked that image of stability and growth,” Cruzvergara said.
During the September 2022-2023 school year, the share of applications by tech majors to tech companies fell by 4.4 percentage points on Handshake, compared to last year. In contrast, the share of applications by tech majors to government jobs on the platform grew by 2.5 percentage points.
Tech firms still saw a 46% increase applications from tech majors, as Handshake received more applications overall from that group. But the application to government jobs rose much faster, tripling from last year. Hospitality and health care jobs also saw an increase in applications from tech majors — 18% and 82%, respectively — and their share of applicants from that pool remained steady.
Kevin Monahan, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Career and Professional Development Center, said he first saw a shift last fall before some of the biggest layoffs. More students returned from internships saying that tech companies weren’t extending job offers or return internships at that time.
“Indirectly, students were able to see the writing on the wall,” Monahan said.
Ly Na Nguyen, a computer science major at Columbia University, said she went off LinkedIn for a couple of weeks at the height of the layoffs because it was so disheartening to read posts from people shocked over their dismissals. Nguyen is happy to be returning to Amazon this summer for another internship, which she said has added prestige to her resume. But overtures from outside Big Tech has have grabbed her attention.
“Right now, I’m super flexible,” Nguyen said. “I’d definitely look at a government job.”
In March, young tech workers from several federal agencies spoke at an online forum on Handshake about the government’s urgent need to recruit new talent. Less than 7% of the federal workforce is under 30.
“No one is necessarily going to strike it rich working in the government,” said Chris Kuang, co-founder of the U.S. Digital Corp, a federal fellowship program for early career technologists, answering a question about pay. But he encouraged students to consider benefits such as pension plans, job stability and the possibility of working on “any issue under the sun.”
“In this economy, a federal job will be one of the most secure types out there,” Kuang said.
The government faces plenty of competition from private sector companies making similar overtures.
Hotels and restaurants also posted slightly more tech jobs in the first quarter of 2023 compared to last year, according to CompTIA figures, as the sector emerges from the economic turmoil of the pandemic.
Hilton saw a 152% increase in applications to internships and full-time jobs from tech majors on Handshake this school year, compared to the year prior.
“We do want to demystify the siloed thinking of ’Hey, if I want to work in tech, I have to go work at a tech firm,” Hilton Chief Human Resources Officer Laura Fuentes said at Handshake’s annual conference of company and higher education leaders.
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AP Retail Writer Anne D’Innocenzio in New York contributed to this story. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/still-hiring-big-tech-layoffs-give-other-sectors-an-opening/ | 2023-06-28 09:11:04 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/still-hiring-big-tech-layoffs-give-other-sectors-an-opening/ |
If you listen to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen or President Joe Biden, it sounds like the country will implode if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling in a couple months. But Biden's words don't match his actions.
He says hitting the debt limit is an existential threat. But by refusing to meet and negotiate with congressional leaders to discuss it, the Biden administration comes closer to bringing about the very crisis they claim they're trying to prevent.
Even if it seems Biden isn't paying attention to the debt ceiling and government borrowing, Americans should be concerned. The runaway inflation of the past few years is a natural consequence of the unchecked government spending.
If Congress declines to raise the debt ceiling, then the Treasury is limited to spending only what it receives in tax revenue.
The good news is that the Treasury collects more than enough tax revenue to pay the holders of Treasury securities and pay recipients in programs like Medicare and Social Security. The bad news is that Treasury has no plan for how to prioritize payments when the debt ceiling binds, so it's unclear who would actually get paid.
But the real debt limit is not the one Congress sets for itself. It's the one the market sets when it refuses to buy any more federal debt.
Yet the Biden administration acts as if the problem of rising federal debt will eventually go away by ignoring it. They don't even want to discuss budget reforms. Biden has refused to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy since they last met over two months ago.
By failing to plan ahead, the administration is inviting chaos and hoping that threat pushes House Republicans to cave. Instead of meeting conservatives halfway with compromise reforms, Biden wants his opponents to allow the prodigal spending of the last 15 years to continue by raising the debt ceiling with no reforms attached.
The debt ceiling is one of the few things standing in the way of the White House and the big spenders in Congress. As such, it is also one of the last bulwarks protecting the American people from ruinous taxation and inflation. The administration should stop stalling and help fix the fiscal situation before it gets worse.
EJ Antoni, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Parker Sheppard, PhD, is Director of the Center. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/22/columnist-the-presidents-stalling-tactics-wont/ | 2023-04-22 10:19:14 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/22/columnist-the-presidents-stalling-tactics-wont/ |
A nascent but rapidly growing industry of abortion providers administers abortions only through telemedicine, with no physical clinics. A federal court ruling Wednesday that aims to ban the mailing of abortion pills could make it much harder for them to operate.
But for now, several of the more than a dozen virtual clinics — including Hey Jane, Juniper Midwifery, Pills by Post and Carafem — say they will continue offering medication abortions that include mifepristone, the pill under dispute, as they await clarity from the Food and Drug Administration. Honeybee, which fills the prescriptions for most of them and is the largest mail-order pharmacy for abortion pills in the United States, said it would continue to mail the pills to the 24 states where it’s allowed.
“As a licensed pharmacy, we abide by the FDA’s policies and regulations,” said Jessica Nouhavandi, co-founder and president of Honeybee. “And so until the FDA says anything, which they haven’t yet, then we will continue business as usual.”
On Friday evening, the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay, which expires Wednesday at midnight, that keeps mifepristone, the first of two drugs typically prescribed to induce abortions, widely available. Rulings in the lower courts, if they go into effect, could severely limit the availability of the drug, including allowing it to be administered only to patients in a doctor’s office.
Virtual clinics use clinicians with special licenses, and serve women who are physically in states where abortion remains legal and have a mailing address there. They offer online consults, by video or messaging, and write prescriptions that are usually filled by a mail-order pharmacy. A visit generally costs $200 to $300, though some clinics provide discounts or free services for patients with low incomes.
Some of these providers offer same-day appointments and overnight delivery, and have clinicians on call if patients have questions during the process. Some also prescribe pills for women who are not pregnant but may need them in the future. They include Choix, Pills by Post and Juniper Midwifery.
Virtual clinics started in 2020 and account for a growing share of legal abortions. They provided 11% of all abortions in December, or 8,540, up from 4%, or 3,610, in April, before Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to data released this week by WeCount, a research group collecting nationwide counts of abortion procedures and pill prescriptions.
The WeCount numbers do not include patients who get medication abortions via telehealth from clinics that also offer in-person abortions. They also do not include women who order abortion pills illicitly from providers outside the United States. New data shows that enough abortion pills have been ordered from overseas to more than cover the decline in legal abortions in the United States.
Demand at virtual clinics has continued to accelerate. Honeybee is filling more than 10,000 abortion medication prescriptions a month this year, an increase of several thousand from the end of last year. Since a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the FDA approval of mifepristone last week, the pharmacy has had its largest number of abortion medication orders.
Several of the providers said they were not concerned about legal risks of continuing to operate in the face of the recent court rulings.
“We’re going to continue to provide prescriptions for both mifepristone and misoprostol,” said Dr. Razel Remen, the owner of Pills by Post, which offers telemedicine abortions in four states. “We feel we are bound by what the FDA says and not what the courts say.”
Abortion on Demand, the virtual clinic with the largest footprint, operating in 22 states and Washington, D.C., had said it would stop prescribing mifepristone by Monday, when the court decision had been set to go into effect. After the Supreme Court stay, Dr. Jamie Phifer, the medical director of Abortion on Demand, said that she was confident the clinic could continue to prescribe both pills in most states past Wednesday, but that the situation was rapidly changing.
“We may opt to switch to miso-only in other states pending more information next week,” Phifer said, referring to misoprostol, the second pill in the two-pill regimen for medication abortion. It can safely be used alone, though with a somewhat lower rate of effectiveness and more side effects.
Most virtual clinics said they would still prescribe misoprostol if they could not prescribe both pills. Some, like Twentyeight Health and Wisp, indicated there could be a pause in service if they had to switch to the one-pill regimen. Several more virtual clinics, including Choix and Forward Midwifery, said they did not yet know how they would proceed next week because of the legal uncertainty.
In states where abortion remains legal, there are no risks to women who obtain and take the pills from these providers, said Farah Diaz-Tello, the legal director of the advocacy group If/When/How. The legal risks from possible FDA enforcement for the providers and the pharmacies are less clear, and they said they hoped for more clarity next week.
The industry for virtual abortion clinics is young: They were made possible during the pandemic when the FDA began allowing abortion providers to mail pills without an in-clinic visit on an emergency basis. The FDA made the policy permanent in December 2021.
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last June, which ended the nationwide right to abortion, California and New York have had the most abortions from virtual clinics, the WeCount data shows. Prescriptions in half a dozen states more than tripled from last April through the end of the year.
One virtual clinic, Hey Jane, which started in 2021 and prescribes in eight states, has seen its number of monthly patients more than double since Dobbs. To meet demand, it has grown its clinical staff fivefold in the last year and introduced a sliding pay scale. It is also expanding to more states, starting with Maryland this month and focusing on states that border those with restrictions.
There are several reasons for the rapid rise in orders from virtual clinics, say the people who run them. In some states where abortion remains legal, it can be hard to get an appointment in person, because clinics have seen surges of patients traveling from states with bans. The increased publicity for various options of obtaining abortions since Dobbs has also made more women aware of virtual clinics, they say. Some patients also find virtual clinics more convenient and private.
“We’re able to offer that care from the comfort of home in a very confidential way,” said Jillian Barovick, a midwife and co-founder of Juniper Midwifery.
There are now competing rulings and lawsuits over medication abortion, which the Supreme Court is expected to resolve.
“We don’t know what the U.S. Supreme Court is going to do, we don’t know what the FDA is going to do,” said Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California Davis School of Law. “And I think we’re seeing a larger group of prescribers and other actors using that uncertainty to take a stand.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/virtual-clinics-have-been-a-fast-growing-method-of-abortion-that-could-change/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-04-15 04:03:09 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/virtual-clinics-have-been-a-fast-growing-method-of-abortion-that-could-change/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Target employee leads to drug trafficking arrests of California couple
By Hal Scheurich
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DAPHNE, Alabama (WALA) — A couple from California was arrested in Daphne over the weekend and charged with drug trafficking. After searching a converted school bus, police said they found an assortment of illegal drugs. Investigators say the couple claims they were in route to Florida and stopped off in Daphne on the way.
According to police, the couple wasn’t being very discrete, from the vehicle they were driving to where they stopped to allegedly get high.
There was a very distinguished aroma coming from a customized and tie-dye-painted school bus which could only be described as loud and flamboyant that police said drew the attention of a Target employee Saturday morning, November 5, 2022.
“We got a phone call from an employee who walked by the bus and actually smelled what she knew as the burning odor of marijuana coming from it,” said Sgt. Jason Vannoy with Daphne Police.
When police arrived, they questioned two suspects who they said only admitted to having a couple rolled marijuana cigarettes. During a probable cause search of the bus, investigators said multiple bags, jars and boxes of illegal drugs were discovered.
“There was I think thirteen pounds of marijuana, a large amount of what’s called, “shatter,” which is kind of a marijuana derivative and then there was a psylocibin…a pack of psylocibin mushrooms,” Vannoy said.
Daphne Police have charged both 28-year-old Holden Chandler and 23-year-old Brielle Healey with drug trafficking, possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. Investigators said they were on their way to Florida from California when they decided to pull off in Daphne.
“I guess, just being close off the interstate. They did want to use the dog park in Daphne to let their dogs run around,” said Vannoy. “I’m not sure if they went there first or if that was their plan or not.”
Both suspects were booked into the Baldwin County Jail on no bond pending a bond hearing. In addition to the drug charges, Healey is also charged with violating a domestic protection order filed against her by Chandler.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow has postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for this week because of stark differences in approach and tensions over Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the decision to put off the talks that were scheduled to start Tuesday in Cairo was made at the political level.
“We faced a situation when our U.S. colleagues not just demonstrated their reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way,” Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow.
Ryabkov claimed the U.S. wanted to focus solely on resuming inspections under the New START treaty and stonewalled Moscow’s request to also discuss specifics related to the weapons count under the strategic arms reduction pact.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that Moscow had decided to unilaterally postpone the Cairo talks and would propose new dates.
“The United States is ready to reschedule at the earliest possible date as resuming inspections is a priority for sustaining the treaty as an instrument of stability,” the State Department said.
This week’s meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission established under New START would have been the first in more than a year. The timing of the talks was intended to show that Russia and the U.S. remain committed to arms control and keeping lines of communication open despite soaring tensions over Ukraine.
Russia has protested the deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine. Ryabkov said the situation in Ukraine contributed to Moscow’s decision to delay the talks.
“Naturally, the events unfolding inside and around Ukraine in this case impact that,” he said. “Arms control and the dialogue in this sphere can’t be immune to what is happening around, and the bigger picture, which is quite complicated and largely disquieting, has played a role.”
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the treaty was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
In August, Russia declared a temporary halt on U.S. inspections, charging that visa restrictions, sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the U.S. and its allies, and other obstacles made it difficult for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites, giving the U.S. “unilateral advantages.”
At the same time, Moscow said that it “highly values” New START and held the door open for resuming inspections in the future.
While Russia and the U.S. have suspended mutual inspections under New START since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moscow’s move raised new uncertainty about the pact’s future. | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-russia-says-nuclear-talks-with-us-delayed-amid-differences/ | 2022-11-29 15:04:31 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-russia-says-nuclear-talks-with-us-delayed-amid-differences/ |
Leslie Jordan, the actor and comedian known for playing Beverly Leslie on the long-running sitcom Will & Grace, as well for roles on American Horror Story and Call Me Kat, died Monday at age 67.
While his acting career spanned more than 30 years, Jordan began reaching new audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic with his humor and Southern accent. He posted to 11 million followers between Facebook, Instagram and TikTok about how he was coping with the societal changes, and included videos of him dancing, singing and telling stories.
Thousands of people issued their condolences Monday and recounted how Jordan lifted their spirits over the past couple years.
These are some of his most heartwarming and joyous moments.
He bought his first condo at 67
Jordan purchased his first condo at 67 and celebrated with his own rendition of the famed theme song to "The Jeffersons" sitcom. "Moving on up to the East side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky," he sang. "Moving on up to the East side, I finally got a piece of the pie."
Leslie Jordan had just bought his first home at 67...a condo.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) October 24, 2022
The caption for this video read: "I really did it. It's never too late to be happy, y'all." pic.twitter.com/MOr9vbRk1v
He shared some of his most prominent memories
In one video, Jordan, who was a gay man, talks about how as a child, his father took him to his first football game and began explaining how it works, to which Jordan replied, "But when do the majorettes come out?"
Jordan took a liking to baton twirling and would practice his moves in the front yard, much to the chagrin of his father, who'd plead with him to take his routine inside.
"He loved me. He just didn't know what to make of me," Jordan said as he demonstrated his baton twirling. "But he would come home from work and I'd be in the front yard. He'd be with all of his Army buddies."
The following line, "Daddy, watch me twirl" has become a meme staple and was even made into a song.
He gave his impressions of the latest songs
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande released their collaboration "Rain on Me" in 2020, to which Jordan posted a video bopping his head to the record and said, "I think I read about this in the Bible, the book of Revelations. I think it means it's the end of the world or something – makes me want to dance."
rest in peace leslie jordan 💔 throwback to his reaction to rain on me pic.twitter.com/VWMy7QBkc0
— she thinks her piss is wine (@grxndesenigma) October 24, 2022
Of Cardi B and Megan the Stallion's collaboration "WAP," he didn't get far into the song due to the explicit lyrics, but admired the effort, anyway.
"I can't believe it. That is just shocking," he said. "Well I don't judge, to each his own. I guess every garbage can has its lid."
never forget when Leslie jordan listened to WAP for the first time talmbout “every garbage can has its lid” 😭😭💀 pic.twitter.com/nbCmR2HWpf
— syntrib8 (@bolt_tems) October 24, 2022
He showed off some of his hobbies
Jordan shared with his followers that he is prescribed Ambien to help him sleep, but if that doesn't work, he takes to journaling.
He opens his notebook to display his handwriting and the various stickers he uses to decorate the pages, which include cats, rabbits and flowers.
Leslie Jordan on Ambien showing us his journal with his sticker collection ❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/aKsQApcCrt
— Dr. Spooky Steve MD (@_Stevie_Dee) April 23, 2020
"I think I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels," he said. "I just like things pretty. I think that's why homosexuals were put on this earth, just to make things pretty."
There are also various videos on Instagram of Jordan, a Chattanooga, Tenn., native, performing country songs with the likes of Danny Myrick, Travis Howard and Brothers Osborne. He debuted his first album, "Company's Comin'," which is gospel, in 2021.
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NORCROSS, Ga. — It hasn't been long since the Norcross Blue Devils and the North Gwinnett Bulldogs each hoisted a region title trophy. Although the wait wouldn't be long for either, the taste of victory would be just as sweet.
That's exactly what is at stake on Friday night at Norcross High School for a pair of teams that have dominated their respective regions over the last decade plus. When you add it all up, you get a combined 11 region championships and 3 state titles from each team since 2010.
Both teams also have supreme talent with gifted players already committed to college on both sides of the ball. It is a true heavyweight battle.
For the Blue Devils, they are led by longtime head coach Keith Maloof. The highly-decorated head coach took over the helm at Norcross in 1999, and has since led his teams to six region titles and two state championships, when they won back-to-back years in 2012 and 2013.
Since then, Norcross has only won Region 7 (8A) twice (2016, 2020), with only one playoff finish advancing past the second round. Despite the long term success, one might say Norcross is due and they are certainly knocking on the door.
Led by a trio of 3-stars on offense, this Blue Devils offense is potent. Tight end Lawson Luckie, a Georgia commit, wide receiver Zion Taylor, a Georgia Tech commit, and wide receiver Nakai Poole, committed to Mississippi State, lead the attack.
Take a look at their stats in 2022, according to MaxPreps:
- Zion Taylor: 36 receptions, 589 yards, five touchdowns
- Nakai Poole: 33 receptions, 463 yards, three touchdowns
- Lawson Luckie: 33 receptions, 428 yards, five touchdowns
Norcross is averaging 42.5 points per game, scoring more than 50 in three straight wins.
On the flip side for the Bulldogs, a team that has won seven region crowns since 2010 including the 2017 state championship in Region 6 in head coach Bill Stewart's first year. Stewart led them to four straight winning seasons until 2021 when they went an even 6-6.
Friday night's matchup is truly a battle of one of the state's top offenses going head-to-head with one of Georgia's top high school defenses. North Gwinnett is led by prolific 4-star defensive tackle Kayden McDonald, who made his Team11 commitment to Ohio State University on 11Alive on Monday.
Additionally, 4-star Kentucky commit and linebacker Grant Godfrey anchors the front seven of the Bulldog defense with 3-star Wake Forest commit and defensive end Tyler Walton contributing in major ways as well.
North Gwinnett has been eliminated in the second round in two straight seasons, so the Bulldogs will look to build on that momentum if they are able to get in to the 2022 GHSA playoffs.
The game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. at Norcross High School.
Be sure to check out #Team11 football show every Friday night at 11:15 for an in-depth breakdown of all of the high school football action in metro Atlanta.
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Man killed, girl injured in what police call mistaken identity shooting in West Knoxville
A Knoxville man was killed and a 16-year-old girl was critically injured in a shooting that police believe was a case of mistaken identity.
Around 9 p.m. June 11, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to a shooting near the intersection of Walker Springs and North Gallaher View roads, a police department spokesperson said in a press release,
An orange Dodge Charger was found wrecked off the roadway and two gunshot victims were found inside the car, the release said. The driver, identified as 27-year-old Avila Anfernee, of Knoxville, was pronounced dead at the scene, while his passenger was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds. She remained hospitalized June 12 with critical, life-threatening injuries.
A 4-year-old child was in the backseat of the car. The child was not injured in the shooting or subsequent crash, but was nearly hit by the gunfire, according to ballistics evidence at the scene.
It is believed the Charger was waiting in a turn lane at the intersection when an unidentified individual exited a car and fired numerous rounds into the Charger from close range, the release stated. Anfernee then sped away from the intersection before crashing.
The initial information gathered at the scene indicated the suspect was in a red sports car and left the scene traveling south on North Gallaher View Road. Detectives had not verified the authenticity of that description.
Anyone with information is asked to contact East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers at 865-215-7165.
Liz Kellar is a public safety reporter. Email lkellar@knoxnews.com.
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Claire Regina Jurchak, 100, of Harding, passed away Friday, July 7, 2023, in Wesley Village, Jenkins Twp.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Jan. 19, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Martin and Christine Draina Hudak.
Claire was a graduate of St. Nicholas High School, Wilkes-Barre. She devoted her entire life to family and friends and she will be truly missed. Claire was the first female supervisor in Exeter Twp. She helped establish the Exeter Twp. Medical Center and served as secretary to the board for 18 years.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Philip Jurchak; son-in-law, Frank “Chip” Smith; grandson, John Paul Jurchak; great-granddaughter, Rylie Ruttinger; foster son, Ted Sakowicki; siblings, infant, William Hudak; Martyna McLean; Msgr. Francis Hudak; and Martin Hudak Jr.
Surviving are her children, Philip Jurchak (Susan), Meshoppen; James Jurchak (Janet), Harding; John Jurchak (Penny), Belmont, N.C.; Mary Angelella (Fran), Harding; Mark Jurchak (Kekette), Chadds Ford; David Jurchak (Julie), Harding; and Tina Smith, Harding; 23 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; brother, Thomas Hudak, Wilkes-Barre; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Special thank you to the staff at Wesley Village for their compassionate and loving care.
The family will receive friends and relatives from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Adonizio Funeral Home LLC, 251 William St., Pittston. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday by her grandson, the Rev. Benedict Jurchak, in Corpus Christi Parish, Church of the Holy Redeemer, Route 92, Harding. Those attending are asked to go directly to the church Monday morning. Interment will follow in Mountain View Burial Park, Harding.
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Throwback Thursday - Amber Alert
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) -
The advent of the cell phone brought with it countless conveniences and opened the doors to innovations that stretched far beyond simple communication. One such innovation was the ability to quickly spread urgent alerts, including Amber Alerts, directly to mobile phones. NewsSource8′s Brian Bouchard revisits a turning point in this technology’s history in this week’s Throwback Thursday.
When we hear the sound of a notification on our phones today, it’s usually a message from a friend or an update from a social media app. But back in 2005, a beep on your cell phone could have meant the difference between a child lost and a child found. In this week’s Throwback Thursday, we dial the time machine back to 2005 where WAGM reporter Dick Palm explains this revolutionary integration of technology and public safety.
Unicel, US Cellular, and seven other wireless carriers have joined forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to enable some 180 million cell phone users to assist law enforcement in the search for abducted children. Cellular customers can now opt to receive amber alerts on their phones.
“They will receive it via a text message through their cellular phone. If they have a cellular phone that is a digital handset, which would be a handheld phone that can receive text messages, and most people are aware of text messages, it comes in like an email.” says Kathy Wilson – Unicel Store Manager
Wilson says about 90 percent of Unicel’s customers will be able to receive the amber alerts.
“But the customer has to sign up for them”
Wilson says for the Unicel subscribers to receive the alerts all they have to do is go online.
“You will be able to sign up on our website, unicel.com and you will receive a text message based on your zip code if there is a child reported missing.”
Wilson says the zip code will allow the customer to only receive alerts from their particular region.
“Yes, as soon as a child is reported missing in their area, they will be sending out the alerts to the customers that have signed up for the service, letting them know the description of the child.”
According to Wilson, her subscribers won’t have to pay any additional charges to receive the alerts.
“No, because all incoming text messages are free. Other wireless carriers, depending upon the carrier, there would be a charge”
Dick Palm, NewsSource8
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From the Zugspitze to the North Sea or Berlin – every edition of Check-in presents a different region in Germany. Hosts Nicole Frölich and Lukas Stege take it in turns to discover the local tourist attractions and explore the sights. They go climbing, diving or hiking and try out the local culinary specialties. | https://www.dw.com/en/check-in-lots-of-fresh-air-on-to-fischland-dar%C3%9F-zingst/video-61170550 | 2023-02-18 10:06:23 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/check-in-lots-of-fresh-air-on-to-fischland-dar%C3%9F-zingst/video-61170550 |
MOSCOW — Russian authorities accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones overnight in an effort to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin decried the alleged attack attempt as a “terrorist act” and said Russian military and security forces stopped the drones before they could strike.
In a statement carried by Russian state-run news agencies, it said no casualties took place.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti that Putin wasn’t in the Kremlin at the time and was working from the Novo-Ogaryovo residence.
The Kremlin added that Putin was safe and his schedule was unchanged.
There were no immediate comment from Ukrainian authorities. The Kremlin didn’t present any evidence from the reported incident, and its statement included few details.
Tass quoted the statement as saying that the Kremlin considered the development to be a deliberate attempt on Putin’s life ahead of the Victory Day that Russia celebrates on May 9.
Kremlin spokesman Peskov said a military parade would take place as scheduled thatday.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP)Rayj Dennis’ 18 points helped Toledo defeat Central Michigan 84-59 on Saturday night.
Dennis had five rebounds and eight assists for the Rockets (17-6, 8-2 Mid-American Conference). Setric Millner Jr. shot 4 for 9 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 9 of 10 from the free throw line to add 18 points. JT Shumate shot 5 for 9, including 0 for 3 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points, while adding six rebounds and three steals. The Rockets picked up their seventh straight victory.
Brian Taylor finished with 20 points and seven rebounds for the Chippewas (8-15, 3-7). Reggie Bass added 10 points and six assists for Central Michigan. In addition, Max Majerle had nine points.
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Sept. 1, 1924—May 11, 2023
MOUNT PLEASANT—Marie Heyden (Hauser), 98, of Mount Pleasant, peacefully returned to God while at Brookside, May 11, 2023. Born in Wadsworth, IL to Frank and Louise Hauser, she was the last surviving of the family including six brothers, and a sister.
Marie graduated from Warren High School of Gurnee, IL in 1942.
She was an active community member in a variety of roles, including member of the Wisconsin Optometric Ladies Auxiliary, and member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. She was a highly successful and industrious Mother, Friend, and Wife, that knew courage, loyalty, and patience. An avid bowler throughout her life, with honors noted at Sheridan Lanes.
Preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Donald L. Heyden, June 1, 1992. She’s survived by five children: Dianne Apostoli (Richard), Candice Feely (Terry), Gary Heyden (Linda), Richard Heyden (Laurie), and Jeffery Heyden (Tami); nine grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Visitation Tuesday, May 30, 2023, from 5:00-7:00 PM, a with short service from 7:00-7:30 PM at Proko Funeral Home.
Proko Funeral Home
5111 60th St.
Kenosha, WI 53144
262-654-3533
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LEE COUNTY, Fla.– The City of Cape Coral celebrated our planet by cleaning up trash around the city this weekend.
Michael Ilczyszyn is the Cape Coral interim city manager. He said with the rainy season approaching, the cleanup is needed now more than ever.
“We have rainy season coming in a couple weeks and any debris we can clean up today, we can keep out of our canal system,” said Ilczyszyn.
This is a citywide clean-up today. The city is partnering with Keep Lee County Beautiful to host this event.
Its goal is to have broken the world record for most people involved in a citywide cleanup event!
They got high-tech for this event. They used the Cape Coral 311 app to track the trash pick-ups. So, all you needed to do is geotag where your full trash bags were, and the city came and picked them up.
Jacque Mcgarvey lives in Cape Coral and was one of the volunteers for this event. She said she’s finding lots of debris.
“There’re pretty big items, I’ve got this big, huge thing, and boxes, and then just the usual stuff,” showed Mcgarvey.
John Gunter is the Cape Coral Mayor. He said events like this bring the community together.
“It’s a time where we can come together as a community and try to make our community a better place,” said Gunter.
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Browns QB Deshaun Watson: “I never forced anyone to do anything”
Published: Jun. 14, 2022 at 1:45 PM CDT|Updated: 20 hours ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Admitting “it’s been tough,” Browns QB Deshaun Watson maintained his innocence Tuesday in the face of 20+ civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct and possibly more on the way.
Watson addressed the media on day 1 of mandatory minicamp in Berea, OH.
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A full moon may wash out most shooting stars during the peak of the Perseids, but the Bay Area still will have a few chances to see one of the year’s brightest meteor showers.
Starting Sunday, July 17, people who gaze up at the dark sky will catch some streaks among the stars from the Perseids meteor shower. Expect about 40 meteors per hour, but during particularly intense storms, viewers may see as many as 120 per hour, said Andrew Fraknoi, the emeritus chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.
The full moon peaks Aug. 11, just one day before the Perseids’ peak on Aug. 12, and the moonlight is expected to outshine some of the faintest streaks from the shower.
But if the particles from the breakup of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the shower’s parent body, hit a large cloud of cosmic dust while intersecting with the Earth’s orbit, there’s a chance of seeing brighter meteors.
“The good news is the Perseids are unpredictable and sometimes have quite bright shooting stars, fireballs that are so bright they may look like fireworks,” Fraknoi said.
The Perseids appear to come from the constellation Perseus, but will be visible across the entire night sky.
A smaller meteor shower is also expected to appear around the same time as the Perseids — the Delta Aquariids.
This meteor shower, which appears to come from the constellation Aquarius, peaks around July 29, the day after the new moon, according to the American Meteor Society.
Although far fainter than the Perseids, the Delta Aquariids’ appearance during the new moon may make up for the full moon’s interruption of what is regarded as one of the best meteor showers of the year among astronomy experts.
“They’re not as fast as the Perseids, but they also have reports of characteristic colors such as yellow and blue, rather than the white streaks of the Perseids, which flash by quickly,” said Paul Lynam, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz’s Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton.
Stargazers observing the sky around the peak of the Delta Aquariids may see around five to 10 shooting stars per hour.
Because the Perseids will also be active around late July, it’s possible to see meteors from both showers at that time, Lynam said. It won’t be easy to differentiate which streak comes from which shower.
To see the meteor showers, experts recommend heading out to a dark sky spot in the Bay Area. Locally, some of the best spots include Del Valle Reservoir near Livermore and Henry Coe State Park in Morgan Hill, according to the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers.
Allow at least 10 minutes — preferably longer — for your eyes to adapt to the dark. Don’t use binoculars or a telescope, because that limits the field of vision.
Both the Perseids and Delta Aquariids are best viewed between midnight and around 5 a.m., an hour before the sun rises in San Francisco.
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Hospital employee dies after patient strikes groin, coroner says
SUMTER, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities say a South Carolina hospital employee has died days after a patient altercation.
Sumter County Coroner Robert Baker Jr. told WIS that 40-year-old Kevin Robinson died after a female patient who was committed to Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital with “mental and emotional” issues struck Robinson in the groin on May 31.
Baker said Robinson collapsed, went into cardiac arrest, and was hospitalized in the ICU until he died days later. He said an autopsy was performed on June 3, but the results are still pending.
The Sumter Police Department identified the person who attacked Robinson as 27-year-old Imani Cox, and she was charged with assault and battery.
Jail workers confirmed Cox is still in custody, and court records show she has been granted a $7,500 surety bond but has not posted it.
Police said Robinson worked at the hospital as a mental health technician.
“He worked for us for 11 years and was well-loved by his team members,” the hospital said in a statement, “We extend our heartfelt condolences to our team member’s loved ones and to our Tuomey hospital family who share his loss.”
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NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Rite Aid Corporation.
Shareholders who purchased shares of RAD during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) despite representations to the contrary, the number of new members that the Elixir pharmacy benefit management services business was adding during the selling season ending on January 1, 2023 was in material decline; (ii) Rite Aid was likely to recognize a significant charge for the impairment of goodwill related to Elixir due to a decrease in "lives" covered by Elixir's pharmacy benefit management services business; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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A former manager for Jimmie Allen filed a lawsuit against the country music star Thursday, alleging the singer raped and sexually abused her over the course of 18 months in a pattern of behavior that was so pervasive, she says, she contemplated suicide.
Allen denied the allegations in a statement to Scripps News, admitting to a sexual relationship with the woman — identified in the lawsuit only as Jane Doe — but saying that his encounters with her were consensual.
The woman says Allen's abuse started immediately when she began representing him in 2020. At the time, she worked for Wide Open Music, a Nashville-based management company. She alleges repeated verbal harassment took place in private and in public, including in front of audiences. In March 2021, she says, Allen raped her for the first time.
The woman's lawsuit alleges it happened after a dinner in Los Angeles with Allen and industry executives.
"While she only drank a couple of glasses of white wine, Plaintiff does not remember anything after dinner that evening," the lawsuit says. "She lost consciousness and awoke naked in her hotel room several hours later, with Jimmie Allen insisting she take Plan B as soon as possible."
Plan B is a contraceptive designed to help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.
"Disoriented and confused, Plaintiff was bleeding vaginally," the suit continues. "Plaintiff felt mortified and humiliated. She realized she had lost her virginity through no choice of her own and felt she had betrayed her faith."
Allen was engaged to his now-wife at the time. The couple separated last month.
In a statement to Scripps News, Allen said, "It is deeply troubling and hurtful that someone I counted as one of my closest friends, colleagues and confidants would make allegations that have no truth to them whatsoever. I acknowledge that we had a sexual relationship — one that lasted for nearly two years. During that time, she never once accused me of any wrongdoing, and she spoke of our relationship and friendship as being something she wanted to continue indefinitely. Only after things ended between us, did she hire a lawyer to reach out and ask for money, which leads me to question her motives. The simple fact is, her accusations are not only false, but also extremely damaging. I've worked incredibly hard to build my career, and I intend to mount a vigorous defense to her claims and take all other legal action necessary to protect my reputation."
The legal team representing Allen's accuser told Variety, which first reported the news, that their team didn't ask Allen for money prior to filing the lawsuit. They claim they approached the singer "to discuss Allen's behavior and resolution of our client's claims." Only after threats from Allen did they file a lawsuit seeking damages, they told the outlet.
The woman says the abuse continued for more than a year after. It included grabbing her breasts and buttocks and putting his hand down her pants in public.
"When Plaintiff drove Allen to and from events, he sexually abused her at red lights, in green rooms, on airplanes, and in other places she was required to be to support him at events," the suit says. "He raped her in private while choking her."
On multiple occasions, she says, Allen taped sexual interactions to use as blackmail against her.
In February 2022, Allen's accuser says she nearly collapsed while on a set in Honolulu. At a nearby emergency room, she says a doctor told her to, "'run' and get far away from Allen, documenting the vaginal trauma on her person."
The lawsuit also targets Wide Open Music, accusing the company of firing Jane Doe after she told them about the abuse and assault. She also says the company didn't adequately prepare her for or warn her about Allen's behavior.
When she was assigned to work with Allen in 2020, the accuser says Wide Open Music founder Ash Bowers told her Allen was known to push sexual boundaries and described him as "promiscuous but 'harmless,'" according to the lawsuit.
The woman informed the company about difficulty working with Allen in 2021 and told them the following year he was humiliating her. She did not inform them of the rape or other assault until October 2022, at which time Wide Open Music ended their representation of Allen. They also terminated Jane Doe.
Bowers told Variety the woman was not fired as retaliation for reporting Allen's behavior but that her job was eliminated since the company no longer represented Allen, her assigned client.
Nonetheless, the lawsuit accuses the company and Bowers of gross negligence, saying given the accuser's visible and voiced distress and Allen's known behavior, Bowers or other representatives of the company should have investigated much earlier.
Since the lawsuit's filing, consequences for Allen have been swift. His record label reportedly suspended him, as did United Talent Agency. The company told Scripps News, "We have suspended our representation of Jimmie Allen due to the recent allegations against him, which we take seriously."
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, lake effect snow.
Additional snow accumulations of up to 2 inches in the most
persistent lake snows. For the Winter Storm Watch, heavy snow
possible. Total snow accumulations in excess of 9 inches
possible.
* WHERE...Jefferson and Lewis counties.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, until 7 PM EST this
evening. For the Winter Storm Watch, from Wednesday afternoon
through Thursday evening.
* IMPACTS...Slick roads will be possible today, then travel could
become very difficult later Wednesday into Thursday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Lake effect snow will fall in relatively narrow bands. If
traveling, be prepared for rapidly changing road conditions and
visibilities.
Submit snow reports through our website or social media.
Begin needed preparations at home or with your vehicle. Travel
may become difficult, so plan accordingly.
* WHAT...Lake effect snow. Additional snow accumulations of up
to 2 inches in the most persistent lake snows.
* WHERE...Oswego county.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM EST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the evening commute.
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Which Valentine’s Day ideas for kids are best?
Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, is the perfect day to let the kids in your life know how much you love them and what they mean to you. There are many traditional Valentine’s Day ideas for kids, from delicious treats to a huggable plush. There are also creative and unconventional ideas, from Valentine’s Day-themed DIY projects to play sets. Whether they like to indulge in a box of chocolates, bake cookies, build with blocks or create works of art, kids will appreciate a Valentine’s Day gift that matches their interests and hobbies.
What are the best Valentine’s Day gift ideas for kids to buy?
For the traditionalist
This adorable 6-inch plush teddy bear holding a heart is a classic Valentine’s Day gift for kids. Each bear has curly hair, black button eyes and a soft brown nose. Choose from mocha, light brown, cream or pink bears holding hearts that say “Be Mine,” “Hug Me” or “Love You,” or pick a sequined heart for a more modern, popular style.
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Hershey’s and Reese’s Cupid’s Mix Chocolate Assortment
Little chocolate lovers will be excited to receive this selection pack of Hershey’s Kisses and Miniatures and Reese’s Miniatures. It’s full of fan favorites, so there aren’t any dud options that get left at the bottom of the pack.
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This Pez set contains four Valentine’s Day-themed Pez dispensers and plenty of candy refills. It’s a cute choice for kids with a sweet tooth.
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For the fashionista
Charming Girl Kids’ Sterling Silver Pink Crystal Heart Pendant & Stud Earring Set
This set of a matching sterling silver and pink Swarovski crystal heart necklace and round pink Swarovski crystal post-back stud earrings will sweeten any child’s Valentine’s Day. The pendant comes with a 15-inch chain with a spring ring clasp. The jewelry is packaged together in a box.
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“Star Wars” Candy Hearts Love Valentine’s Day Graphic T-shirt
This T-shirt for kids gives candy conversation hearts a “Star Wars” twist. The pastel-colored hearts have puns such as “You R2 Cute” and “Yoda Best.” Choose from black, cranberry, red or pink cotton T-shirts or a cotton/polyester blend heather gray one, all available in youth sizes 2-12.
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With their light-up heart design, these sneakers not only look cool but they’re Valentine’s Day appropriate. They’re comfortable with cushioned soles and come in little kid and big kid sizes.
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For the foodie
For kids with a more sophisticated palate, purchase this decadent box of dessert truffles. Featuring the flavors of the most delicious desserts from around the world, this impressive collection includes chocolate lava cake, strawberry creme tarte, tiramisu, black forest cake, creme brulee, and vanilla dulce de leche truffles.
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Tovla Jr. Kids Cooking and Baking Gift Set
Aspiring bakers will love this kit that contains everything keen cooks need to start baking and preparing meals. This kit contains measuring cups, kid-safe knives, utensils, recipe cards and more than enough other accessories to please chefs-in-the-making.
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For the reader
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Minnie’s Valentine Paperback Book
This book, available in both paperback and Kindle editions, features Mickey and Minnie. When Mickey doesn’t know what gift to get for Minnie for Valentine’s Day, Minnie goes undercover and uses a disguise to teach Mickey how to make a Valentine’s Day gift that comes from the heart.
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Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
Perfect for young readers, this book features a wide range of families, showing kids that they all have love in common. It’s a great choice for helping teach kids to be inclusive from a young age.
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For the artist
Crayola Table Top Easel and Art Kit
Enthusiastic young artists will love this set that contains watercolor paints, watercolor pencils, brushes, paper and a built-in easel. It’s a good entry-level kit for those just getting started with art, but the pigments could be of higher quality.
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For the builder
Lego Romantic Valentine Picnic
This 126-piece set for ages 7 and up features a couple of Lego figures sitting on a buildable picnic blanket, under a blooming tree of red flowers and next to a fountain, with a bluebird looking on. They share a Valentine’s Day picnic of buildable sandwiches, desserts and beverages. They exchange Valentine’s gifts such as a red balloon, flowers, a chocolate bar and a love letter.
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Lego Classic Large Creative Brick Box
Spark creativity with this large box of bricks that kids can use to build anything their heart desires. It contains 790 assorted pieces in a range of colors, giving little ones plenty of scope to build their own creations.
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For the scientist
I Heart Guts Plush Human Heart
Gift the budding scientist or medical professional in your life a plush human heart that won’t only make them smile, but teach them too, with the hangtag that explains all about how the human heart works. This 4-inch heart is sure to make yours skip a beat with its cute smile.
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- Creatd retains Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP, with expertise in public listings, spin-offs, and structured products.
- Creatd closes its first tranche of private financing for its media subsidiary, OG Collection, Inc.
- The Company expects to complete the spin-off at the end of Q1 2023.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (OTCQB: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), today announced that it has closed the sale of 7.5% of the equity interests of its subsidiary, OG Collection, Inc. (the "OG Collection"), its acclaimed media archive capturing some of the most iconic publications and people of the 20th century. As previously discussed, the Company intends to sell up to 25% of the subsidiary ahead of its expected listing on the OTC in the first quarter of 2023. The Company has also disclosed the results of its recent appraisal, which affirmed a valuation of the OG Collection subsidiary, including all intellectual property, trademarks, licensing, and physical assets, at between $15-20MM.
The Company has retained Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP as lead counsel overseeing the OG Collection spin-off. A record date will be set prior to the distribution of the spun-out shares of OG Collection, Inc. Only those shareholders that can demonstrate physical ownership as of such record date will be entitled to the new security.
Commented Chairman and CEO, Jeremy Frommer, "We will not stop generating long-term value for our shareholders. I will personally ensure that only physical shareholders of record will be distributed shares in the NewCo. My intention is to apply for the ticker 'OGCL' and complete the spin-off by the end of Q1 2023. There is tremendous value to unlock in this asset and we have the right team to do it. There are a number of further exciting developments for this company that we will be announcing over the upcoming 30 days."
Continued Mr. Frommer, "Presuming the technical strategy surrounding the OG Collection spin-off is successful, we will be well-positioned to repeat the same tactical steps for another Creatd subsidiary, our consumer products business division, Creatd Ventures. Included in Creatd Ventures' portfolio are the following brands: Dune, Basis, Brave, and Camp. I have already begun preliminary discussions regarding a spin-out or merger of the Creatd Ventures assets with new companies. This should create an even more powerful fundamental buy-in on the shorts and repel their manipulative behaviors."
About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (OTCQB: CRTD) is a company with a mission to provide economic opportunities to creators and brands by multiplying the impact of platforms, people, and technology. Creatd's pillars work together to create a flywheel effect, supporting our core vision of creating a viable and safe ecosystem for all stakeholders in the creator economy.
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The EFL Cup fourth round looked the ideal way to ease back into domestic football after the World Cup. Then Manchester City drew Liverpool.
City had already eliminated Chelsea in the previous round, while Arsenal and Tottenham also fell by the wayside, creating a clearer path for those with genuine aspirations of silverware.
However, as top-six rivals Newcastle United and Manchester United were handed relatively kind home draws against Bournemouth and Burnley respectively, the two most recent EFL Cup winners were pitted against one another.
City made seven changes from their previous Premier League match for that Chelsea tie, with Jurgen Klopp swapping his entire starting line-up prior to scraping past Derby County on penalties.
Even with players still returning from Qatar, both Pep Guardiola and Klopp must know the risk of altering their teams again for this clash if they are to maintain hopes of celebrating at the end of February.
City had won the EFL Cup four seasons in a row prior to last season, tying Liverpool's then record eight titles, only for the Reds to respond by taking the trophy last term.
This has proven to be a competition that can provide a timely boost as the final comes shortly before the return of European action in the English spring.
While City are again in contention for a quadruple Liverpool only narrowly missed out on last season, Klopp's men appear set to fall some way short in the Premier League and face Real Madrid in the Champions League. They should not be passing up opportunities to add silverware in a hurry.
The same youthful line-up that just about got the better of Derby would surely be punished by City's superstars, perhaps including the well-rested Erling Haaland.
That Derby tie saw a record 15th EFL Cup shoot-out success for Liverpool, who defeated Chelsea in last season's final by the same method – both after goalless draws as the Reds have kept four clean sheets in a row in the competition.
As City look to avoid missing out on the quarter-finals in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2006-07, having lost to West Ham at this stage last term, this clash should be similarly close.
Yet another shoot-out would recall fond memories for City, with their last EFL Cup meeting against Liverpool coming in the final six years ago. The sides could not be separated in a 1-1 draw, but Manuel Pellegrini's men won 3-1 from the spot.
That was one of three draws between the two in this competition, with Liverpool winning a further three encounters outright. Only once, in the third round in the 1969-70 season, have City beaten the Reds in 90 minutes. They went on to win the trophy for the first time in that season.
The last time City faced the holders in the EFL Cup was back in the 2011-12 campaign, when they dumped out Birmingham City but were then themselves eliminated in the semi-finals – by eventual winners Liverpool.
Liverpool have faced City as holders once and thrashed them 4-0 in 1995.
A repeat at the Etihad Stadium seems highly unlikely, with Liverpool winning just one of their past seven away matches against City in all competitions, albeit that was in a knockout scenario as a 2-1 success knocked Guardiola's side out of the 2017-18 Champions League.
"It's never a boring game against them," said Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders. "Both teams will put on a top show.
"We know against them that we have to be 100 per cent concentrated on the things we have to do, we need to be difficult to play against, be quick and efficient in the moments we have the ball.
"It's a strange situation coming back from a World Cup and having this fixture straight away. The teams have proved in the past that whoever makes it on the pitch will make it a top show."
The outcome of that top show could set the tone for the second half of the season for both of these sides. | https://www.beinsports.com/us/premier-league/video/man-city-and-liverpool-return-to-action-in-2/2009995 | 2022-12-22 17:20:33 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/us/premier-league/video/man-city-and-liverpool-return-to-action-in-2/2009995 |
Bolsonaro’s legal woes deepen with undeclared diamond gifts
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Undeclared diamond jewelry brought into Brazil from Saudi Arabia has deepened the legal jeopardy of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. An investigation into two sets of jewels reportedly worth millions is only the latest scandal threatening the former far-right leader, but an extensive paper trail and even videos could make the case particularly daunting for Bolsonaro. He is also under investigation for any involvement in a rampage by his supporters through the national capital after he left office and for numerous actions during the presidential election campaign he lost last fall. Bolsonaro also has been accused of causing genocide for an indigenous community in the Amazon. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/03/24/bolsonaros-legal-woes-deepen-with-undeclared-diamond-gifts/ | 2023-03-25 05:52:34 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/03/24/bolsonaros-legal-woes-deepen-with-undeclared-diamond-gifts/ |
YEARWOOD'S DOTTIE'S YARD FUND TO RAISE FUNDS FOR 27 ANIMAL SHELTERS IN 27 STATES ON JULY 27TH AT 6PM C
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Trisha Yearwood's animal fund, Dottie's Yard, Yearwood is hosting a live virtual event with TalkShopLive on Wednesday, July 27, at 6PM C to benefit Empty the Shelters and help animal shelters across the country. Fans and animal lovers can participate in the live event at TalkShopLive. Yearwood's mission is to help every dog find their forever home. As shelters never have enough essential supplies to accommodate over 6.5 million surrenders and strays surrendered annually at shelters, they always need support.
"There are so many shelters across the country, a lot of them are volunteer, a lot of them rely on people to donate money, or to foster or to adopt or to give supplies and we just want to shine a light on rescue and the need and to be able to help as many animals as we possibly can." says Yearwood.
For the first time, the Trisha Yearwood Paw Hoodie will be available for purchase exclusively for 24 hours with all proceeds going directly to Dottie's Yard. Fans may also donate directly to Dottie's Yard. Donations over $25 will receive a special Dottie's Yard magnet.
All donations and proceeds from the special hoodie during TalkShopLive will go to 27 participating Empty the Shelters in 27 different states. In addition, each shelter will receive 27 leashes and 27 collars from the Trisha Yearwood Pet Collection. Also, all 27 shelters will each receive 27 5lb bags of Trisha Yearwood Dog Food.
The 27 participating shelters are in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
TalkShopLive: https://talkshop.live/watch/9ZpzjUASf6kF
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A person was fatally stabbed at a high school in St. Paul on Friday, police said.
The St. Paul Police Department did not immediately confirm if the victim of the stabbing at Harding High School was a student.
The school district said on Twitter that it locked down the high school about 11:45 a.m. “due to a serious incident.”
School was dismissed and students were sent home at about 1:20 p.m. All evening and weekend school events have been canceled.
No further details were immediately released. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-fatal-stabbing-reported-at-minnesota-high-school/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-02-10 22:03:05 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-fatal-stabbing-reported-at-minnesota-high-school/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
ReliaQuest opens office in downtown Tampa, latest glimpse of modernization
TAMPA, Fla. - ReliaQuest's Water Street office is the area’s first corporate anchor tenant.
FOX 13 was given rare access inside on Monday.
"Cybersecurity is the greatest technical challenge of our generation. It takes creativity, clarity, consistency and performance," said CEO Brian Murphy. "We wanted to have an environment for people to interact and to come together, to poke at things, to break stuff, and we do in a collaborative way," he said.
READ: 'The hidden gem': Convention center incorporating Tampa waterfront view in newest addition
The top seven floors of 1001 Water Street are home to cyber-security giant ReliaQuest. The company employs about 500 people locally many of whom live, work and play in downtown Tampa 2.0.
"It is like night and day to seeing what Tampa was to what it is today," said John-Kyle Smith, an employee. "You definitely feel like you get more work done, but it feels like it’s less strain on you," he said.
READ: YMCA proposes extensive Tampa Heights revamp
Gone are the boring cubicles of the past. ReliaQuest's 142,000 square feet of office space is largely open and cutting edge. Mini-offices provide quiet space while at the same time, huge windows scream check out the view.
"I just feel like everybody wants to be us, we're the it people right now, we're the it building," said another employee Melissa Ingraham.
READ: NFL Foundation and Bucs grant funds new youth fields in Tampa
"When you look at the traditional downtown it's about 30 years since there's been a brand-new building built. We're thrilled with the outcome, everything we wanted and more," said David Bevirt, Executive Vice President of Corporate Leasing for Strategic Property Partners.
Innovation, collaboration and modernization, that's ReliaQuest and its home, Water Street.
"The secret’s been out for a long time, Tampa is a great place to be. We love our part in helping people understand you can grow large billion-dollar companies from zero to here," Murphy shared. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampas-water-street-new-center-for-modernization | 2023-06-13 13:43:59 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampas-water-street-new-center-for-modernization |
PHOENIX — They shared laughs, smiles, memories. There also were tears, fears, unease.
“It’s really painful and hard to watch, and it’s really taken a toll on a lot of us,” said Kelly Gedney of Surprise, Arizona. “We can feel the fear that she has. It’s scary to me that she’s in a cage when she is traveling to her court cases. She’s been wrongfully detained and we’re going to do everything we can to get her home.”
Griner has spent the past four months in a Russian prison and is currently on trial. She’s accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil when she arrived at the Moscow airport while returning to play for her Russian team, facing a prison term of up to 10 years if convicted.
The WNBA and U.S. officials have worked to free Griner, without success. Griner was able to send a handwritten letter to President Joe Biden, saying she feared spending the rest of her life in prison while pushing the administration to not forget about other American detainees.
President Biden called Griner's wife, Cherelle, on Wednesday to tell her that he is working to free her as soon as possible.
“One hundred thirty-nine days have passed since my wife has been able to speak to me, to our family and our friends,” Cherelle Griner said during the rally, stopping to compose herself several times. “I’m frustrated my wife is not going to get justice. I know you all are frustrated, too. That’s why you’re here.”
The rally at the Footprint Center, home of the Phoenix Mercury and Suns, was part celebration of Griner’s accomplishments on and off the court with a call to action.
The rally featured videos of Griner giving back to the community, dancers and a dramatic poem reading as many of Mercury teammates sat together in chairs on the right side of the court.
Phoenix Suns player Torey Craig spoke, as did Mercury player Brianna Turner.
“To know BG is to know such a kind spirit, a nice person, such a giver — I can go on and on about the type of person she is,” said Turner, who also was able to exchange letters with Griner. “We need to get her back home. She deserves to be home. She needs to be back with her family and friends. We are BG.”
Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton, the former Phoenix mayor, also was on hand after pushing a resolution calling for Griner’s immediate release passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week.
“Today was important, a show of unity, speaking in one voice that we expect our president, our administration to do what it takes to bring our fellow American back home,” Stanton said.
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To see more AP stories on Griner: https://apnews.com/hub/brittney-griner | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mercury-hold-public-rally-in-support-of-brittney-griner/2022/07/06/81161e4c-fda3-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html | 2022-07-07 03:40:22 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mercury-hold-public-rally-in-support-of-brittney-griner/2022/07/06/81161e4c-fda3-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html |
The Justice Department on Wednesday released the findings of an extensive federal investigation into the Louisville Police Department, concluding that the department has a practice of violating the Constitution and using excessive force. In a blistering 86-page report, the Justice Department painted a dire picture of the Louisville police, recounting examples of officers being unnecessarily violent, using racist rhetoric and failing to properly investigate sexual and domestic violence.
Here are seven findings from the report.
1. Louisville police use force unnecessarily
The report describes Louisville police officers as repeatedly acting unnecessarily violent and lashing out for no legitimate reason.
“Officers use force simply because people do not immediately follow their orders, even when those people are not physically resisting officers or posing a threat to anyone,” the report said. That includes cases of officers unconstitutionally using force just “to inflict punishment or to retaliate against those challenging their authority.”
In one bracing example, the Justice Department report describes an officer encountering a woman who was intoxicated and screaming and crying on her friend’s lawn. The report said that the woman was fighting with her friends and an officer initially waited idly for 90 seconds, then ran up, used his boot to hold her on the ground and pressed his foot into her chest.
When the woman tried to bite his shoe, the report said, the officer went “into a frenzy” and began beating the woman’s face with his flashlight. The report describes the woman as slight and the officer as taller and heavier. The officer, the report said, admitted that he did not know how many times he had hit the woman in the face. The officer then left the woman lying on her stomach with her arms handcuffed behind her, leaving her at risk of being unable to breathe, the report said.
“Despite using clearly excessive force, the officer faced no discipline,” the report said. When a supervisor responded to the scene, the report said, the person “began laughing as the officer told him what happened.”
2. Louisville police ‘unnecessarily escalate encounters’
The report also describes Louisville police officers as acting rashly and improperly, saying they “unnecessarily escalate encounters” and “routinely rush into encounters without adequately weighing the threat or resistance presented by the individual involved.”
Rather than trying to de-escalate the situation, the report said, officers will “engage in escalating behavior” that can startle or anger the people involved. That often leads officers to use force “that is unwarranted or disproportionate,” the report said.
This “tendency to ratchet up tensions and escalate situations not only leads to constitutional violations,” the report said, “but it also threatens the safety of everyone involved and undermines community trust.”
The report also said that Louisville police are frequently called to cases of people in crisis, where officers also often fail to try to de-escalate situations, leading to “uses of force and arrests that were avoidable.” Nearly a quarter of uses of force reviewed by the Justice Department involved people in the midst of crisis, the report said, and “a large share of those incidents involved at least one unreasonable use of force.”
3. Poor oversight helps lead to excessive force
The Louisville police’s issues with using force are due in part, the report said, to poor oversight. Investigations into uses of force “are perfunctory,” the Justice Department said. Supervisors tasked with investigating these cases make little effort to actually probe what happened, the federal review said, and in their reports, supervisors “sometimes mischaracterize or omit facts that would undermine a conclusion that force was justified.”
Louisville police investigations into shootings by officers “are routinely deficient,” the report said, including cases where investigators would ask leading questions during interviews, “at times suggesting possible justifications for the officer’s use of force.”
4. Black people ‘disproportionately’ bear the burden
The report bluntly says that the Louisville police force “unlawfully discriminates against Black people in its enforcement activities” and carries out “racially disparate enforcement that harms Black people.”
Black people in Louisville, the report says, “disproportionately” bear the burden of the police department’s actions, including uses of force, unreasonable uses of force and improper stops. The Justice Department said that the police force’s own data show racial disparities in its enforcement activities, but that report likely understates the scope of the issue, because the department “has failed to document thousands of police encounters in Black neighborhoods.”
5. After racist comments, department had ‘inadequate and dismissive response’
The report also highlights examples of bigoted commentary and behavior among Louisville police officers. In 2015, the report said, a White sergeant berating three Black men in a car called them “f---ing monkeys.” The sergeant was investigated by the department for “discourtesy and conduct unbecoming,” rather than bias or prejudice, and retired before facing looming discipline.
In another case, a White officer called a Black man “boy” after the man ran from police and allegedly dropped a gun. Officers chased the man, then tackled, hit and handcuffed him, the report said. An officer told the bleeding man he was acting like a “thug” and inveighed against “the problem with this community.” The report said that supervisors found the officers’ uses of force justified and added that they were “verbally counseled for vulgar language in the heat of the moment.”
These comments were not limited to officers encountering people in the community. During an in-service training in 2019, the report said, a White officer referred to “minorities” as the people committing “violent crime,” among other comments. Black officers told investigators they were appalled by her remarks. The officer “denied saying anything appropriate and said she had ‘some black friends,’” the report said, and she was not disciplined.
The Louisville Police Department’s “inadequate and dismissive response to racial bias signals that discrimination is tolerated,” the report said.
6. Louisville police criticized for response to 2020 protests
The report faulted the police for how the department responded to the unrest that erupted in the summer of 2020. The findings in this section echo what other reviews have found, with after-action reports criticizing some police departments that responded to those protests as unprepared and saying they improperly used force.
In Louisville, where protests were driven by Breonna Taylor’s death earlier that year, police sometimes used force — including riot sticks and chemical agents — against demonstrators “who did no more than passively resist or disperse more slowly than officers desired.” Officers at times fired less-lethal rounds at moving vehicles, shattering glass and endangering people in the area, the report said. Police also made improper arrests during the demonstrations, the report said, and journalists also faced “mass arrests and retaliatory force.”
The federal review also faulted the department for its actions afterward, saying that rather than assess how officers handled the unrest, the Louisville police have “not conducted meaningful reviews of its own actions.”
“Despite the significance of the 2020 protests, [the Louisville police] did not prepare a formal review of its overall response,” the report said. “Likewise, supervisors failed to review nearly all of the force events occurring during the 2020 protests because officers routinely did not report their uses of force.”
The report also said that the department later lashed out against protests critical of police long after the largest protests had abated.
7. Poor responses to sexual assault and domestic violence cases
The report is sharply critical of how the Louisville police respond to reports of sexual assault and domestic violence, including cases involving its own officers.
While the report says the Justice Department did not conclude that these behaviors “result in gender bias in violation of federal law,” it does say investigators believe that such bias might be interfering with how the Louisville police handle these issues.
According to the report, the department falls woefully short at investigating reports of domestic violence and sexual misconduct by officers. In some cases, the Justice Department said, the Louisville police carried out administrative investigations but failed to address significant issues, including reports that officers “tried to intimidate or retaliate” against the women making the allegations.
The report also said the department’s officers frequently “engage in gender stereotyping” when responding to calls about sexual and domestic violence. Investigators sometimes failed to document victim injuries or made little to no effort to interview suspects. The report also said that when responding to domestic violence calls police have to complete a screening to determine the danger the victim’s partner poses and that officers failed to do the screening on numerous occasions.
Many officers within the Louisville police were “dedicated” to properly responding to cases of sexual assault and domestic violence, the report said. But the department has “hampered” investigators’ abilities, the report added, cutting nearly by half the number of detective spots on a domestic violence team. As a result, people on that team say, detectives can no longer contact every victim, instead sending many of them “form letters telling them to call [police] if there is any new evidence in their case.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/08/seven-highlights-justice-departments-blistering-louisville-police-investigation/ | 2023-03-08 19:50:55 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/08/seven-highlights-justice-departments-blistering-louisville-police-investigation/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that members have ratified a new master contract with Goodyear covering about 6,000 workers at facilities in Akron, Ohio; Topeka, Kan.; Danville, Va.; and Fayetteville, N.C.
They join roughly 4,000 unionized workers at Bridgestone locations in Akron; Des Moines, Iowa; Bloomington, Ill.; Russellville, Ark.; LaVergne and Morrison, Tenn., and 1,800 USW represented Michelin-BF Goodrich employees in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Fort Wayne, Ind., who ratified contracts on August 19, 2022.
USW International President Thomas M. Conway said that workers won meaningful economic and contract language improvements in the agreements, which were ratified by an overwhelming majority of members across the three employers.
"The hard work of our negotiating committees and the solidarity of the membership throughout the industry have been rewarded with fair contracts for everyone," Conway said. "We made it a priority to raise wages and retain cost-of-living adjustments without giving in to management's demands that we sacrifice quality, affordable health insurance options."
The newly ratified contracts feature wage increases, maintain cost-of-living adjustments, provide lump-sum payments, improve retirement options, eliminate two-tier wage systems, provide access to much improved health care for some members—that was previously unavailable to them—and preserve access to quality, affordable health insurance plans for all of the membership.
The agreements also allow recently hired and younger employees to accrue vacation and progress through the wage scales more quickly in an effort to help the employers retain more workers.
The contracts with Goodyear and Bridgestone set terms for four years, while the Michelin-BF Goodrich agreement is set to expire after three.
The USW represents 850,000 men and women employed in metals, mining, pulp and paper, rubber, chemicals, glass, auto supply and the energy-producing industries, along with a growing number of workers in tech, higher education, public sector and service occupations.
More information, contact: Tony Montana – (412) 562-2592 or tmontana@usw.org
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A Trendy New Bordentown, NJ Coffee Shop Is Now Open
If you know anything about me, I’m a big coffee girl so this news was so exciting to me when I saw it!
A trendy new coffee shop opened in the Bordentown, NJ area that will be worth the trip. I saw their Instagram account pop up and it's so aesthetically pleasing.
Turtle Beans Coffee Roasters is having its grand opening event coming up on August 7th, but they are currently open for business according to their Insta posts and website.
Not only is this a cute coffee shop that will make your social media accounts look cute, their goal as a business is truly inspiring.
On their website, they go into how they’re very passionate about making sure their customers have the best experience while drinking their coffee, but they're also passionate about saving the turtles as well.
Did you know that 129 out of approximately 300 different tortoise and turtle species are endangered?
This fact was enough to make the owners of the shop, Steven and Linda, do what they could to help the cause.
They share a mutual love of animals and coffee according to their website, so what better way to help than by combining their mutual loves?
Turtle Beans Coffee Roasters is located at 225 Farnsworth Ave, Bordentown, NJ 08505, and is currently open.
If you’re looking to go out and support not only this great local business but a great cause for helping different species of turtles, you can join them for their Grand Opening event on Sunday, August 7th. | https://wpst.com/a-trendy-new-bordentown-nj-coffee-shop-is-now-open/ | 2022-07-19 02:23:30 | 1 | https://wpst.com/a-trendy-new-bordentown-nj-coffee-shop-is-now-open/ |
NEW YORK, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of ServiceSource International, Inc. ("ServiceSource" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SREV), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by Concentrix Corporation (NASDAQ: CNXC). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $1.50 in cash for each share of ServiceSource common stock owned.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to stay out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, federal prosecutors said in court documents.
Holmes had a one-way plane ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California.
Holmes, who was CEO of Theranos during the company’s turbulent 15-year history, was convicted in a scheme that revolved around the company’s claims to have developed a medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. But the technology never worked, and the claims were false.
Holmes booked the 2022 flight without a scheduled return trip and only canceled it after prosecutors contacted Holmes’ attorneys about the “unauthorized flight," prosecutors said.
Holmes' attorneys did not immediately respond Friday to email and phone messages from The Associated Press. In a Jan. 23, 2022, email responding to prosecutors' concerns about the planned trip, they said Holmes had booked it before the jury's verdict to attend a wedding in Mexico.
“Given the verdict, she does not plan to take the trip and therefore did not provide notice, seek permission, or request access to her passport (which the government has) for the trip,” wrote Lance Wade, one of Holmes’ attorneys.
On November 17, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Homes to more than 11 years in prison. Davila ordered Holmes, who is pregnant, to report to prison on April 27, giving her enough time to give birth to her second child before she is incarcerated. She gave birth to a son shortly before her trial started last year.
Prosecutors did not protest Davila's decision to give Holmes five months of freedom or bring up the fact that they considered her a flight risk.
Holmes is scheduled to return to court on March 17 for a hearing on her request to stay out of prison while she appeals her conviction. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/prosecutors-elizabeth-holmes-is-a-flight-risk/507-608f5fd6-f23c-4012-ab65-9dde18747f20 | 2023-01-21 18:14:45 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/prosecutors-elizabeth-holmes-is-a-flight-risk/507-608f5fd6-f23c-4012-ab65-9dde18747f20 |
SYDNEY, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA) received a deficiency notification from the Listing Qualifications Staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, dated December 9, 2022, notifying the company that it is not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement set forth in the Nasdaq Capital Market's rules for continued listing (the "Notice").
The deficiency notification has no immediate impact on the company's operations or listing. Kazia's securities will continue to trade as normal on Nasdaq-CM under the ticker KZIA.
Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of at least US$ 1.00 per share, and failure to do so for a period of 30 consecutive business days triggers a deficiency notice. Based on the closing bid price of Kazia's American Depository Shares, each representing ten ordinary shares of the company (ADSs), for the period from October 27, 2022 to December 8, 2022, the company no longer met this requirement as of December 8, 2022.
Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the company has 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice, or until June 7, 2023, to regain compliance, during which time the company's securities will continue to trade as normal on Nasdaq-CM. If at any time before June 7, 2023, the bid price of the company's ADSs closes at or above US$ 1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days, the company will regain compliance with the minimum bid requirement. If the company does not regain compliance during this period, it may be eligible, upon satisfaction of certain Nasdaq requirements, for an additional period of 180 calendar days to regain compliance or its securities may be subject to delisting from Nasdaq.
The company will closely monitor the situation and intends to resolve the deficiency and regain compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The deficiency notice has no impact on the company's listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), where it continues to trade as normal under the ticker KZA.
Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA) is an oncology-focused drug development company, based in Sydney, Australia.
Our lead program is paxalisib, a brain-penetrant inhibitor of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR pathway, which is being developed to treat multiple forms of brain cancer. Licensed from Genentech in late 2016, paxalisib is or has been the subject of ten clinical trials in this disease. A completed phase II study in glioblastoma reported promising signals of efficacy in 2021, and an important study for registration, GBM AGILE, is ongoing, with final data expected in CY2023. Other clinical trials are ongoing in brain metastases, diffuse midline gliomas, and primary CNS lymphoma, with several of these having reported encouraging interim data.
Paxalisib was granted Orphan Drug Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in February 2018, and Fast Track Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in August 2020. In addition, paxalisib was granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Designation by the US FDA for DIPG in August 2020, and for atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumours (AT/RT) in June 2022 and July 2022, respectively.
Kazia is also developing EVT801, a small-molecule inhibitor of VEGFR3, which was licensed from Evotec SE in April 2021. Preclinical data has shown EVT801 to be active against a broad range of tumour types and has provided compelling evidence of synergy with immuno-oncology agents. A phase I study commenced recruitment in November 2021.
For more information, please visit www.kaziatherapeutics.com or follow us on Twitter @KaziaTx.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Three major international aid groups on Sunday suspended their operations in Afghanistan following a decision by the country's Taliban rulers to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations.
Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE said they cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without the women in their workforces. The NGO ban was introduced a day earlier, allegedly because women weren't wearing the Islamic headscarf correctly.
The three NGOs provide healthcare, education, child protection and nutrition services and support amid plummeting humanitarian conditions.
"We have complied with all cultural norms and we simply can't work without our dedicated female staff, who are essential for us to access women who are in desperate need of assistance," Neil Turner, the Norwegian Refugee Council's chief for Afghanistan, told The Associated Press on Sunday. He said the group has 468 female staff in the country.
The Taliban takeover in August 2021 sent Afghanistan's economy into a tailspin and transformed the country, driving millions into poverty and hunger. Foreign aid stopped almost overnight. Sanctions on Taliban rulers, a halt on bank transfers and frozen billions in Afghanistan's currency reserves have already restricted access to global institutions and the outside money that supported the country's aid-dependent economy before the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces.
Last month, in an interview with the AP, a top official from the International Committee of the Red Cross, Martin Schuepp, said more Afghans will struggle for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead and the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule.
The U.S. warned the NGO ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions.
"Women are central to humanitarian operations around the world," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. "This decision could be devastating for the Afghan people."
The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply disturbed by reports of the NGO ban.
"The United Nations and its partners, including national and international non-governmental organizations, are helping more than 28 million Afghans who depend on humanitarian aid to survive," he said in a statement.
The International Rescue Committee said it was dismayed by the Taliban decision, adding that more than 3,000 of its staff in Afghanistan are women. It was not immediately clear if it is also suspending operations.
The NGO order came in a letter on Saturday from Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif. It said any organization found not complying with the order will have their license revoked in Afghanistan. Ministry spokesman, Abdul Rahman Habib, declined to comment Sunday on the NGOs' decision to suspend their operations or give details about the ban.
The flurry of rulings from the all-male and religiously-driven Taliban government are reminiscent of their rule in the late 1990s, when they banned women from education and public spaces and outlawed music, television and many sports.
The Economy Ministry's order comes days after the Taliban banned female students from attending universities across the country, triggering backlash overseas and demonstrations in major Afghan cities.
At around midnight Saturday in the western city of Herat, where earlier protesters were dispersed with water cannons, people opened their windows and chanted "Allahu Akbar (God is great)" in solidarity with female students.
In the southern city of Kandahar, also on Saturday, hundreds of male students boycotted their final semester exams at Mirwais Neeka University. One of them told The Associated Press that Taliban forces tried to break up the crowd as they left the exam hall.
"They tried to disperse us so we chanted slogans, then others joined in with the slogans," said Akhbari, who only gave his last name. "We refused to move and the Taliban thought we were protesting. The Taliban started shooting their rifles into the air. I saw two guys being beaten, one of them to the head."
A spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, Ataullah Zaid, denied there was a protest. There were some people who were pretending to be students and teachers, he said, but they were stopped by students and security forces.
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Based in New York, David Gura is a correspondent on NPR's business desk. His stories are broadcast on NPR's newsmagazines, All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and he regularly guest hosts 1A, a co-production of NPR and WAMU.
Congress, which has been unable to pass comprehensive crypto legislation, is digging into what happened as regulators try to police the new, mysterious world of virtual currencies with old laws.
After the spectacular collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, a growing chorus of people in Washington, D.C., are asking Congress for more clarity on how to regulate crypto. | https://www.wunc.org/2022-11-23/ftxs-new-ceo-reveals-just-how-big-a-mess-hes-dealing-with | 2022-11-23 15:26:52 | 1 | https://www.wunc.org/2022-11-23/ftxs-new-ceo-reveals-just-how-big-a-mess-hes-dealing-with |
Bankruptcy judge halts Suns new television deal, for now
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - A Federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has put a potential deal between the Suns basketball team, Gray Television (parent company of Arizona’s Family), and streaming service Kiswe on hold.
Diamond Sports Group, the owner of cable channel Bally’s Sports Arizona, asked for injunctive relief, claiming the team violated U.S. bankruptcy laws with the agreement with Arizona’s Family and Kiswe on April 28th. Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, according to a report by CNBC.
Judge Christopher Lopez, handling Diamond’s bankruptcy case, granted Diamond’s request to halt the Suns deal, for now, with Arizona’s Family and Kiswe.
The judge also ruled that Gray Television and Kiswe did not violate bankruptcy laws, according to The Athletic.
CEO of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury teams, Josh Bartelstein, reacted to the ruling in the following statement:
“The Phoenix Suns and Mercury are excited to continue giving our fans everything they want for the best possible experience and making our games accessible to everyone. We are committed to working collaboratively on a fair resolution that will be in the best interest of our fans, our community, and our players.”
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57-year-old man accused of strangling another man at nursing home
DUNKLIN COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS/Gray News) - Police in Missouri arrested and charged a 57-year-old man who is accused of strangling another man at a nursing home.
Shedrick White was charged Wednesday with felony murder in the first degree.
According to a release from the Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, White is accused of murdering 38-year-old Marvin Hale by strangling him at the Senath South Health Care Center nursing home in Senath, Missouri.
According to court documents, investigators learned Hale and White fought around 1:30 p.m. and the two were separated by a nurse, with Hale placed in another room.
Later, court documents state the nurse returned to the first room and saw Hale slumped on the floor with a call cord hanging across his shoulders and his nose bleeding.
According to court documents, the nurse told investigators there were no other patients in or near the room because the second incident was in the early morning hours, around 3:30 a.m.
An ambulance was called, and Hale was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A July 6 autopsy determined Hale’s cause of death was strangulation.
During an interview with White, investigators say he admitted to being involved in the first fight with Hale but denied a second fight.
White is currently being held in the Dunklin County Jail without bond.
The Dunklin County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol and Senath Police Department are investigating.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials released data Tuesday showing how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases have been accelerating, but doctors are hoping an old drug will help fight the sexually transmitted infections.
Experts believe STDs have been rising because of declining condom use, inadequate sex education and reduced testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions of Americans are infected each year. Rates are highest in men who have sex with men, and among Black and Hispanic Americans and Native Americans.
“Sexually transmitted infections are an enormous, low-priority public health problem. And they’ve been a low-priority problem for decades, in spite of the fact that they are the most commonly reported kind of infectious disease,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., a retired health official who lectures at the Colorado School of Public Health.
To try to turn the tide, many doctors see promise in doxycycline, a cheap antibiotic that has been sold for more than 50 years.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drafting recommendations for using it as a kind of morning-after pill for preventing STDs, said Dr. Leandro Mena, director of the agency’s STD prevention division.
The drug is already used to treat a range of infections. A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine showed its potential to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
In the study, about 500 gay men, bisexual men and transgender women in Seattle and San Francisco with previous STD infections took one doxycycline pill within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Those who took the pills were about 90% less likely to get chlamydia, about 80% less likely to get syphilis, and more than 50% less likely to get gonorrhea compared with people who did not take the pills after sex, the researchers found.
The study was led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and built on a similar French study that saw promise in the idea.
“We do need new approaches, new innovations” to help bring sexually transmitted infections under control, said Dr. Philip Andrew Chan, who is consulting with the CDC on the doxycycline recommendations.
Mena, of the CDC, said there is no sign the STD trend is slowing.
Mississippi had the highest rate of gonorrhea cases, according to 2021 CDC data released Tuesday. Alaska saw a sharp increase in its chlamydia case rate that allowed it to overtake Mississippi at the top of that list. South Dakota had the highest rate of early-stage syphilis.
And Arizona had the tragic distinction of having the highest rate of cases in which infected moms pass syphilis on to their babies, potentially leading to death of the child or health problems like deafness and blindness.
Using an antibiotic to prevent these kinds of infections won’t “be a magic bullet. but it will be another tool,” said Chan, who teaches at Brown University and is chief medical officer of Open Door Health, a health center for gay, lesbian and transgender patients in Providence, Rhode Island.
Experts noted the CDC will have many factors to weigh as it develops the recommendations.
Among them: The drug can cause side effects like stomach problems and rashes after sun exposure. Some research has found it ineffective in heterosexual women. And widespread use of doxycycline as a preventive measure could contribute to mutations that make bacteria impervious to the drug, as has happened with antibiotics before.
Nevertheless, the San Francisco Department of Public Health in October became the first U.S. health department to issue guidance about doxycycline as an infection-prevention measure. And some other clinics have been been recommending the antibiotic to patients who may be at higher risk.
Derrick Woods-Morrow, a 33-year-old artist and an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, is an early adopter. Woods-Morrow, said he isn’t a fan of condoms — they can break and sometimes people slip them off during sex. But he wants to stay healthy.
About a decade ago, he started taking an anti-viral medication before sex to protect himself from HIV infection. Five years ago, a doctor told him about research into whether doxycycline might protect people from other diseases.
“I thought it was probably in my best interest to protect myself, and my partners as well,” he said. He said it’s been a positive experience and that he hasn’t tested positive for chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis while using it.
“I feel like it’s a tool to sort of take back the sexual freedoms that someone may have lost and to really enjoy sex and interactions with people with a piece of mind,” he said.
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff
CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on Tuesday denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city.
Vallas, a former schools CEO backed by the police union, and Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, advanced to the April 4 runoff after none of the nine candidates was able to secure over 50% of the vote to win outright.
Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person to lead the city, won her first term in 2019 after promising to end decades of corruption and backroom dealing at City Hall. But opponents blamed Lightfoot for an increase in crime and criticized her as being a divisive, overly contentious leader.
She is the first elected Chicago mayor to lose a reelection bid since 1983, when Jane Byrne, the city’s first female mayor, lost her Democratic primary.
Speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Lightfoot called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”
“Regardless of tonight’s outcome, we fought the right fights and we put this city on a better path,” Lightfoot said. She told her fellow mayors around the country not to fear being bold.
At his victory party, Vallas noted that Lightfoot had called to congratulate him and asked the crowd to give her a round of applause. In a nod to his campaign promise to combat crime, he said that, if elected, he would work to address public safety issues.
“We will have a safe Chicago. We will make Chicago the safest city in America,” Vallas said.
Lightfoot’s loss is unusual for mayors in large cities, who have tended to win reelection with relative ease. But it’s also a sign of the turmoil in U.S. cities following the COVID-19 pandemic, with its economic fallout and spikes in violent crime in many places.
Public safety has been an issue in other recent elections, including the recall of a San Francisco district attorney who was criticized for progressive policies. The pandemic also may shape elections for mayor in other cities this year, such as Philadelphia and Houston, where incumbents cannot run again due to term limits.
There are clear contrasts between Vallas and Johnson.
Vallas served as an adviser to the Fraternal Order of Police during its negotiations with Lightfoot’s administration. He has called for adding hundreds of police officers to patrol the city, saying crime is out of control and morale among officers has sunk to a new low during Lightfoot’s tenure.
Vallas’ opponents have criticized him as too conservative to lead the Democratic stronghold. Lightfoot blasted him for welcoming support from the police union’s controversial leader, who defended the Jan. 6 insurrectionists at the Capitol and equated Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate for city workers to the Holocaust.
Johnson received about $1 million from the Chicago Teachers Union for his campaign and had support from several other progressive organizations, including United Working Families. The former teacher and union organizer has argued that the answer to addressing crime is not more money for police but more investment in mental health care, education, jobs and affordable housing, and he was accused by rivals such as Lightfoot of wanting to defund the police.
Johnson has avoided the word “defund” during the race, and his campaign says he does not want to cut the number of police officers. But in a 2020 radio interview, Johnson said defunding is not just a slogan but “an actual real political goal,” and he sponsored a nonbinding resolution on the county board to redirect money from policing and jails to social services.
Crime was an issue that resonated with voters.
Rita DiPietro, who lives downtown, said she supported Lightfoot in 2019. But she voted for Vallas on Tuesday, saying she was impressed by his detailed strategy to address public safety.
“The candidates all talk about what they’d like to do,” she said. “This guy actually has a plan. He knows how he’s going to do it.”
Lindsey Hegarty, a 30-year-old paralegal who lives on Chicago’s North Side, said she backed Johnson because “he seemed like the most progressive candidate on issues like policing, mental health” and public transit.
Race also was a factor as candidates courted votes in the highly segregated city, which is closely divided in population among Black, Hispanic and white residents. Vallas was the only white candidate in the field. Lightfoot, Johnson and five other candidates are Black, though Lightfoot argued she was the only Black candidate who could win. U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia was the only Latino in the race.
Lightfoot accused Vallas of using “the ultimate dog whistle” by saying his campaign is about “taking back our city,” and of cozying up to the president of the Fraternal Order of Police, whom she calls a racist. A recent Chicago Tribune story also found Vallas’ Twitter account had liked racist tweets and tweets that mocked Lightfoot’s appearance and referred to her as masculine.
Vallas denied his comments were related to race and says his police union endorsement is from rank-and-file officers. He also said he wasn’t responsible for the liked tweets, which he called “abhorrent,” and suggested someone had improperly accessed his account.
Lightfoot touted her record of investing in neighborhoods and supporting workers, such as by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She also noted that the city has navigated unprecedented challenges such as the pandemic and its economic and public safety fallout to protests over policing.
But Lightfoot and some of her supporters see some of the criticism of her leadership as motivated by racism, sexism and anti-gay sentiment.
“No other mayor has been asked to change this city within four years,” said city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, who is Black, and noted that white mayors like Rahm Emanuel and Richard Daley served multiple terms. “When we get in the game, the rules change.”
At a weekend campaign stop, Vallas said he is focused on things like public safety, Chicago’s “demoralized” police department and the number of residents “fleeing” the city’s school district.
“It’s all a product of bad leadership,” Vallas said.
Vallas, who has led school systems in Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia, lost a 2019 bid for mayor. This time, he was laser-focused on public safety, saying police officers who left the force under Lightfoot’s administration will return if he’s elected.
The other candidates were businessman Willie Wilson, Chicago City Council members Sophia King and Roderick Sawyer, activist Ja’Mal Green and state Rep. Kambium “Kam” Buckner.
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Shooting in downtown Cleveland hospitalizes 9 people
Published: Jul. 9, 2023 at 3:51 AM MST|Updated: 29 minutes ago
CLEVELAND (WOIO/Gray News) - Police say a shooting in downtown Cleveland sent multiple people to the hospital.
Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia confirmed the shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of West 6th Street. She said an unknown suspect opened fire toward a group of people.
Ciaccia also confirmed nine people were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds, WOIO reports. Their conditions are unknown, but Ciaccia confirmed there are no current fatalities.
Police said there have been no arrests in this shooting.
WOIO reached out to Cleveland Police and Cleveland EMS for more details.
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Elena Andres, 38, says she didn't think things could get worse after she left the hospital without her baby.
On May 6, at 37 weeks gestation and after experiencing food poisoning symptoms, Andres was told her daughter no longer had a heartbeat.
On May 7, after an induction and 15 hours of intense labor, Andres gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. The baby weighed 8 pounds and 13 ounces.
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Her name was Maxine.
"It was very traumatic," Andres tells TODAY.com through tears. "Immediately when they held her up you could just tell — she was gray. She was gone."
Andres works for the City of Austin in the Austin Public Health Department. After returning home from the hospital, Andres says she informed her HR department that she'd "be taking maternity leave a little bit early" because she had lost her child.
"They said: 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, but you don't qualify for (leave) anymore,'" Andres says.
Andres was told that maternity leave does not apply to people in her situation, but instead is used for people who "give birth and care for a healthy newborn baby."
In a statement to TODAY.com, a spokesperson for the City of Austin said that "the loss of a child is an unthinkable tragedy for any parent" and that they "will ensure any city employee experiencing such a devastating loss receives the support and time they need."
"While the death of a child is not covered under FMLA, there are several other leave options available in the City, such as accrued leave, emergency leave and the City’s leave bank that fellow employees contribute to," the spokesperson said. "We care for and value our staff members and are continuously looking for ways to provide needed support and will update policies to do so when those needs become evident. Our Human Resources Department is currently developing a leave program for when an employee loses a child for consideration and approval by City leadership.”
In order to take the time off, Andres says she used up all her sick time, vacation time and received short-term disability coverage for an additional six weeks off with a note from a doctor.
After The Texas Tribune, which first reported on Andres' story, inquired about the city's policy, Andres says HR offered her four more weeks of paid time off.
She returned to work on July 18.
"The anger that I have at the policies of the city — I'm never going to forget," Andres says. "It's so unnecessarily and unbelievably cruel.
'It was just out of the blue'
Andres was thrilled to learn she was pregnant.
"I'm 38, so I didn't think I'd be able to have more kids," she says. "We were really excited about it."
Andres' pregnancy was relatively uneventful — every ultrasound was normal.
Then, shortly after her 37 week doctor's appointment, Andres and her husband got sick.
Doctors monitored the baby while Andres was treated for dehydration. Assured her baby was OK, Andres was sent home. The next day, Andres felt better but could no longer feel her baby move. She called her doctor again, who told her to return to the emergency room.
"When we got there, the nurses took vital signs and couldn't find a heartbeat," she says. "They called for doctor and again, no heartbeat.
"And that was that," she adds. "It was just out of the blue."
After giving birth, Andres says she was able to hold her baby girl for a few moments.
"The nurses who took care of us were so kind," she says, sobbing. "They cleaned her, wrapped her up and put a little hat on her. They took pictures. They brought us a keepsake box before we left with a clipping from her hair ... one of the nurses made little bracelets with her name on it."
'It was a big kick in the face'
Andres says her postpartum experience was excruciating.
"I couldn't walk normally for a week," she says. "My pelvic pain made it impossible to sleep. I had the normal bleeding that occurs after a pregnancy for two months straight.
"My milk came in — that was horrible," she adds, crying. " I had to put cabbage and ice (on my breasts) to help with the swelling. It was miserable — a constant reminder of what happened. The body doesn't just go back to normal."
Andres also still had to parent her 2-year-old son, Adrian.
"I was devastated. I lost 40 pounds. It was hard to get out of bed. I just cried all the time, but life doesn't stop — I have a toddler," she says. "I love him so much, so he made things easier at times, but a 2-year-old is going to make everything also way harder.
Andres recalls the moment she had to tell her son that his sister wasn't coming home.
"He was excited to help with the baby," she says. "When we came home he asked: 'Where's the baby?' We had to tell him: 'I'm sorry, the baby can't come home. The baby is gone.'"
Andres' difficult postpartum period was made worse, she says, by being denied maternity leave and having to hobble together paid days off work.
“You’re thinking about how you’re going to wake up and feed your other kid and how you’re not going to walk into traffic,” she says, “but I also had to think about am I going to code my time sheet for the next six weeks and still get paid.”
"It doesn't sound like much ... but it was so hurtful," Andres says. "It was a big kick in the face, but when you've already broken both your legs.
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Marshall Health, CHH offer latest surgical system for knee, hip replacement
HUNTINGTON — The orthopaedic team at Marshall Health and Cabell Huntington Hospital now offers the latest Smith+Nephew CORI Surgical System for knee and hip replacement.
“The CORI Surgical System is designed to offer broader capabilities and expand our range of robotic-assisted replacements for those seeking total knee and partial knee replacement as well as revision knee surgery,” Matthew Bullock, Marshall Health orthopaedic surgeon at Cabell Huntington Hospital and associate professor at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, said in a press release. “The CORI Surgical System has specific software that enables surgeons to ‘map out’ the knee area during surgery instead of using a CT scan. After the mapping process, surgeons have an accurate model of the patient’s knee that allows the surgery to be fully customized to the patient.”
In addition to the modeling features, the CORI Surgical System includes a handheld device with which surgeons can shape the bone for fitting of the knee implants, according to the release.
Bullock said this design offers a combination of the surgeon’s trained hand and the system’s digital technology.
“We also use the CORI Surgical System in hip replacement, leveraging the platform’s technology for computer-guided surgery and patient-specific implant alignment,” Bullock said.
As part of their joint replacement procedures, patients may receive implants made of oxidized zirconium, a cutting-edge material available only from Smith+Nephew. According to Bullock, Oximium implants for the knee and hip have a strong record of performance and durability, including for patients who have concerns about implant materials.
The CORI Surgical System is also the first robotic-assisted system to be indicated for use in revision knee surgery, according to the release.
“Image-free smart mapping eliminates the potential for image distortion, with 3D joint models registering anatomy in detail,” said Alexander Caughran, Marshall Health orthopaedic surgeon at Cabell Huntington Hospital and assistant professor at the School of Medicine. “From a research standpoint, we want to continue our study of robotic-assisted revision knee replacement, and the CORITM system enables us to do so.”
Marshall Orthopaedics is the largest provider group in the Tri-State region that offers robotic-assisted knee replacement and computer-guided hip replacement with the CORI Surgical System, officials added.
Manufacturing, energy summit to be held
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Manufacturers Association (WVMA) will host its upcoming Manufacturing and Energy Growth Summit from May 1-2 at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling.
The annual event brings together industry leaders, professionals and enthusiasts from around the world to discuss the latest trends, challenges, opportunities and intersections of the manufacturing and energy industries. This year’s conference theme focuses on manufacturing, energy, and the environment.
“Our goal with the Summit is to provide a platform for thought-provoking conversations and innovative ideas that shape the future of manufacturing and energy not just in West Virginia, but in the Appalachian region,” said WVMA President Rebecca McPhail in a news release. “We believe that the insights and connections gained at the conference will help attendees drive opportunities for industry growth and energy diversity.”
Confirmed speakers for the event include:
Brian Anderson, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Samantha Beers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Josh Young, American Chemistry Council
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QurAlis Corporation, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing breakthrough precision medicines for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases with genetically validated targets, today announced that Kasper Roet, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder, will participate in the following conferences in June.
The QurAlis corporate presentation can be accessed by visiting the presentations section of the Company's website at www.quralis.com.
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QurAlis is trailblazing the path to conquering amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases with genetically validated targets with next-generation precision medicines. QurAlis' proprietary platforms and unique biomarkers enable the design and development of drugs that act directly on disease-causing genetic alterations. Founded by an internationally recognized team of neurodegenerative biologists from Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, QurAlis is advancing a deep pipeline of antisense oligonucleotides and small molecule programs including addressing sub-forms of ALS that account for the majority of ALS patients. For more information, please visit www.quralis.com or follow us on Twitter @QurAlisCo.
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Americans still support asylum for immigrants fleeing persecution, poll finds
As the Biden administration prepares to end the use of a Trump-era border measure that restricts access to asylum, most Americans continue to support protections for immigrants who are fleeing persecution and torture abroad.
By 55% to 23%, Americans say the U.S. should continue to offer asylum to people who arrive at the border, if they are found to be fleeing persecution, according to a new survey conducted for The Times by the YouGov polling organization.
Support for offering asylum crosses party lines, although Democrats are significantly more in favor of it, and Republicans are more closely divided.
A much wider partisan gap divides Americans on the question of how many of the people who seek asylum are actually fleeing persecution. Among Democrats, nearly half said most or all asylum seekers had valid claims. Only 1 in 6 Republicans took a similar view, the L.A. Times/YouGov poll found. More than 6 in 10 Republicans said that few or none of the asylum seekers had valid claims.
The L.A. Times/YouGov poll surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,573 adult American citizens, who were interviewed online Dec. 9-14. The results have a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction.
The poll also found that most Americans continue to support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that allows people who were brought to the U.S. as children to legally live and work in the U.S. The program is being challenged in court by Texas and several other Republican states.
Half of those surveyed said that DACA should continue, compared with 29% who said it should be ended. An additional 21% were not sure.
More than half of respondents — 55% — said that even if DACA ends, those covered by it should be allowed to continue to work and live legally in the United States.
The poll results come as Biden administration officials debate how to handle asylum cases in the future.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, border agents have used Title 42, a section of the public health code, to rapidly expel would-be immigrants at the border, often without considering their asylum claims. A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to stop using the pandemic-era measure by Wednesday.
Although the public supports offering asylum to immigrants who are found to be fleeing persecution, Americans also think the process should move faster. More than 4 in 10 Americans said the asylum process shouldn’t take longer than 6 months; more than two-thirds said it should not take longer than a year.
Currently, asylum cases can take years to be heard in court.
The poll made clear that Americans continue to have little patience for President Biden’s handling of immigration. Just 8% of respondents said they strongly approve of Biden’s immigration policies; an additional 25% said they somewhat approve of them.
That’s a significantly less favorable judgment than the public’s overall view of Biden’s job performance: 40% of Americans approve, according to YouGov’s polling.
Most Americans have favorable or neutral opinions about immigration more broadly, according to the poll. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans think that immigration either makes the U.S. better off (35%) or doesn’t make much difference (23%).
Similarly, a majority of Americans support birthright citizenship, the constitutional provision that automatically grants U.S. citizenship to every child born in this country. That view is widespread, with support outpacing opposition among liberals and conservatives, white Americans and those of color and Democrats and Republicans.
There is a big exception: people who said they voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Those voters are closely divided, with 44% in favor of ending birthright citizenship and 41% opposed.
That finding is consistent with another finding of the poll — the sharply partisan divide on whether immigration helps or hurts the country.
While just over a third of Americans say immigration makes the country better off, 29%, including 52% of Trump voters and 49% of Republicans, believe immigration makes the country worse off.
These anti-immigration Americans make up around half of the GOP, and they support major changes to the country’s immigration laws.
Americans who believe that immigration makes the country worse off oppose birthright citizenship, 46% to 38%. They favor ending DACA, 60% to 28%. And they are much more likely than the general population to say that even legal immigration is a problem in the United States.
More than 4 in 10 among those who believe immigration makes the country worse off say legal immigration is a problem; only 17% of the general population agrees.
The politics of immigration appear set to shift with age, however. Millennial and Gen Z Americans — the two most diverse generations — have dramatically different views on immigration than their older counterparts.
Americans ages 45-64 and 65 and older have nearly identical views on immigration; 38% of each group believe that immigration makes the country worse off.
By contrast, only 15% of those under age 30 and 21% of those ages 30-44 think immigration makes the country worse off.
The difference among the age groups is driven more by changes among Republicans than among Democrats. Republicans under 30 are much more likely than older Republicans to believe that immigrants help the country. Forty-two percent of Republicans under 30 said that immigrants make the country better off.
Various studies have attempted to measure the effect of immigration on the economy. The Center for American Progress, a research group aligned with Democrats, said that providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants would boost the nation’s gross domestic product.
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According to 3 sources acquainted with the making plans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is predicted to formally announce his access into the 2024 presidential race next week via submitting papers with the Federal Election Commission. This announcement coincides with a Miami collecting of probably the most governor’s best donors, who will obtain updates on campaign technique and requests to assist lift vital budget for his bid. A extra formal campaign kickoff match is deliberate nearer to June 1, in accordance to sources.
When requested in Sarasota, Florida, if he was once going to announce a run inside the next 15 days, DeSantis spoke back that he had “a couple more things left on the [legislative] agenda,” which contains the state finances, to attend to. DeSantis’ access within the 2024 presidential race follows months of visits to early presidential number one states and around the nation to advertise his new ebook and spotlight his legislative document as governor. He these days serves his 2d time period as Florida governor after being re-elected in November 2022 with virtually 20 issues more than his opponent.
In the hot legislative time period, which resulted in May, DeSantis signed a number of conservative expenses, together with a six-week abortion ban and a permitless hid firearm raise invoice. He has additionally been highlighting bipartisan expenses to building up instructor pay, decrease prescription drug costs, and reduce taxes for home items.
DeSantis has proved to be a a success fundraiser, having won $225.8 million in donations from his state political committee, “Friends of Ron DeSantis,” since launching it in January 2018. He has raised greater than $4.3 million for Republican organizations in ten other talking engagements since March, in accordance to his political crew. A really perfect PAC supporting DeSantis, “Never Back Down,” has already raised over $30 million. The state committee, “Friends of Ron DeSantis,” these days has greater than a whopping $85.7 million money readily available that can be transferred to a PAC however indirectly to DeSantis’ campaign.
Trump has constantly focused DeSantis at campaign occasions and on social media, and his PAC, “MAGA Inc.”, has run advertisements condemning him for his previous votes on Social Security and Medicare reform. While DeSantis has declined to confront Trump via title, after a contemporary interview with The Messenger, the place he criticized Florida’s six-week abortion ban, he presented a right away reaction. DeSantis has steadily mentioned how the Republican celebration wishes to spoil its “culture of losing” in fresh elections, together with in 2020 when Trump misplaced to President Joe Biden. | https://blackchronicle.com/ron-desantis-to-launch-presidential-campaign-next-week-sources-say/ | 2023-05-18 04:41:59 | 0 | https://blackchronicle.com/ron-desantis-to-launch-presidential-campaign-next-week-sources-say/ |
Haart "boasted that her 'mantra' is the phrase, 'fake it till you make it,'" EWG counsel Lanny J. Davis said of the complaint. "A life of 'faking it'— that is, lying and stealing — may have worked for Haart before, but it cannot work for her in court. Her time has run out."
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elite World Group, LLC (EWG), the world's first talent media company, just filed a complaint in Delaware claiming former CEO Julia Haart stole millions of corporate assets for her own personal indulgences, and then lied to try to cover it up.
The complaint filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware by plaintiffs EWG and its subsidiary E1972, Inc., alleges that defendant Julia Haart repeatedly abused her trusted position for self-enrichment, stealing millions of corporate funds.
Haart used her positions to access millions of dollars in EWG and E1972 assets, including:
- $1 million in a single year on clothes, accessories and makeup for herself.
- More than $500,000 on lavish trips for her and her family.
- $500,000 to pay off her personal American Express credit card.
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars for legal services rendered to her personally, including $50,000 for a divorce attorney.
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars on her children, including tuition for and a donation to her son's school.
- $160,000 for cosmetic surgical procedures.
- Thousands of dollars on amusement park tickets and airport car services for her children.
Haart would charge these expenses to the EWG corporate credit card or ask to be reimbursed by EWG for purchases made on her personal credit card. Haart went so far as to claim purchases were investments in her "personal image" and brand. Such personal expenses were not authorized by either the boards of EWG or E1972.
"While the extent of her unauthorized spending is still being unearthed," the complaint reads, "it is clear that Haart's vanity and disregard for her fiduciary duties caused her to spend millions of dollars of money that was not hers, solely to feed her personal self-aggrandizement… Haart never cared about growing EWG or E1972… Julia Haart's only interest was Julia Haart."
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Authorities: California residents caught shoplifting in Marana
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Three California residents were caught shoplifting in Marana, according to Marana Police.
On July 3, Marana Police received at least five shoplifting incidents involving the same suspects. Four of the thefts happened at Marana stores, with the others in Pima County.
According to MPD, the suspects stole approximately $10,000.00 worth of cosmetics and other high-end hygiene products during a two-hour window.
Marana PD issued a “Be on the lookout,” and the three were spotted in a vehicle in Pinal County.
Pinal County deputies made the stop and the Marana PD drove over to arrest them and recovered the merchandise.
The arrestees are California residents and were identified as 29 years old Kimanese Stuart, 26 years old Antonio Jones, and 26 years old Aubrianna Nash.
Marana police say all three were booked into the Pima County Jail on felony charges of Organized Retail Theft.
They no longer appear in the jail roster.
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KOKOMO, Ind. — An arrest has been made in the disappearance of an 18-year-old Kokomo woman who walked into a house in October 2016 and was never seen by friends and family again.
Flint Vincent Farmer, 57, of Kokomo was arrested at a residence in the 600 block of South Purdum by the Kokomo Police Department around 1 p.m. on Monday and charged with one count of murder.
According to the Kokomo Police Department, Farmer is accused of murdering 18-year-old Karena McClerkin who was last seen on Oct. 11, 2016.
Gerry McClerkin, Karena’s grandmother, has been searching for answers to her grandaughter’s death for nearly six years.
“She walked into a house on S Washington; the 1000 block; and she never walked out supposedly,” McClerkin said.
“The last words I heard my granddaughter tell me when I asked her to move in with me was, ‘I’ll be okay mamaw,’” McClerkin explained.
Since Karena’s disappearance, Kokomo police have investigated numerous leads. For years, the case was cold until the fall of 2021 when police said investigators received new information on Karena’s disappearance. Working with Indiana State Police and other resources, investigators were able to determine the events that occurred on or about Oct. 11, 2019.
After presenting this information to the Howard County Prosecutor’s Office, a warrant was issued for Farmer on one count of murder.
Police haven’t revealed the details in the break in the investigation that lead investigators to Farmer.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Lieutenant Richard Benzinger at (765) 456-7324, rbenzinger@cityofkokomo.org, or the Kokomo Police Department Hotline at (765) 456-7017.
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One of the most vocal bystanders as a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd three years ago is suing the city, alleging he was assaulted and suffered emotional distress as he witnessed the handcuffed Black man beg for his life, go limp and stop breathing.
Donald Williams of Minneapolis filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court.
While now ex-officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck on May 25, 2020, he threatened Williams and other bystanders with a can of mace, shaking it at them after Williams expressed concern for Floyd, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges that Chauvin and another now-former officer, Tou Thao, taunted Floyd, Williams and other bystanders who expressed concern and that Thao placed his hand on Williams’ chest. Williams took those actions as threats and, the lawsuit says, he was fearful for his safety and the safety of the other witnesses.
The lawsuit says Williams is seeking more than $50,000 for each count, a standard dollar amount that must be listed in Minnesota if a plaintiff intends to seek anything above that figure. He alleges one count of assault, one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress and one count of negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Because of the officers’ conduct, William has endured emotional distress, pain, suffering, humiliation, embarrassment and medical expenses, according to the lawsuit.
A city spokesperson told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday that the City Attorney’s Office does not have a comment.
Chauvin was convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges in Floyd’s death and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison. Chauvin also pleaded guilty to a separate federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 21 years on that count. He is serving the sentences concurrently at a federal prison in Arizona.
Thao was recently convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing on that count. He has also been convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights and received a 3 1/2-year federal sentence.
Floyd, a Black man, died May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as he pleaded for air. The killing, captured on bystander video, touched off protests around the world and prompted a national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
Williams, a former wrestler and a mixed martial arts fighter who also worked security, testified during Chauvin’s trial. He said Chauvin appeared to increase the pressure on Floyd’s neck with a shimmying motion and in response he had yelled at Chauvin that he was cutting off Floyd’s blood supply.
Williams was asked during the trial if he grew angrier as the arrest continued, and he agreed that he did. He also didn’t disagree when a lawyer for Chauvin said Williams also called Chauvin names multiple times including “tough guy” and a “bum.”
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Detroit guard Cade Cunningham is planning to have season-ending surgery to repair his left shin, a person with knowledge of the situation said Monday.
The No. 1 pick in the 2021 draft is expected to be ready for the start of training camp next season, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither Cunningham nor the team announced the plans for surgery publicly.
ESPN first reported that Cunningham would be having the season-ending procedure. Cunningham was on the floor in Miami before a game last week doing some shooting, which prompted some speculation that he may be coming back.
Cunningham hasn’t played since Nov. 9 while dealing with the shin issue, which has been treated as a stress fracture.
“It’s up to the medical group and to Cade,” Pistons coach Dwane Casey said in late November. “Whatever is best for his health. I’m all for it. I’m 100% behind him.”
Cunningham was an All-Rookie team pick last season after averaging 17.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.6 assists. He had improvement in all three of those categories this season, with averages of 19.9 points, 6.2 rebounds and 6.0 assists through 12 games.
Detroit is 7-22 so far this season, the worst record in the NBA, and is being outscored by 7.1 points per game — the second-worst rate in the league. The Pistons were 3-9 in Cunningham’s 12 games and have gone 4-13 since.
Detroit’s next game is Wednesday at Charlotte.
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Former Arkansas governor and 2024 presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson (R) says former President Trump has “taken us back to bitterness,” urging the GOP to move on as Trump campaigns for another White House term.
“Why does the party need to move on from Donald Trump?” NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard asked Hutchinson in an interview that aired Tuesday.
“Because Donald Trump has taken us back to bitterness. He’s taken us back to what’s a personal vendetta. Whenever you look at what he wants to do as president, it’s more about getting even with his political enemies than leading our country, and that concerns me,” Hutchinson said.
“And also, we wanna win. And the fact is that nobody wants a Biden-Trump race again,” he added. “Trump lost to Biden, and Biden hasn’t led as well. We need a change in that, but if we repeat what we did in 2020, we will lose again. So we need to have new leadership,” Hutchinson said, pitching himself as that alternative.
Hutchinson kicked off his 2024 campaign earlier this month.
Trump announced just after the November midterms — and President Biden hasn’t officially launched a bid, though he said he intends to.
The former Arkansas governor joins Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in the Republican ring, though others, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, are expected to join.
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PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a logger and soldier, I often had wet boots," said the inventor from Chubbuck, Idaho. "I thought of this idea to create a waterproof secure box to place expensive footwear so that it can be dry and covered from the elements."
He invented BOOT SHED to provide a more secure means to dry various articles of footwear. This device would be a heated enclosure where expensive footwear would remain out of sight for enhanced security while they are being dried and warmed for the next use. The wearer could retrieve the footwear and any other warmed weather accessory for enhanced comfort when venturing out. Additionally, this could help prevent rotting, molding and unpleasant smells of footwear and may potentially help extend the life of the footwear.
The original design was submitted to the Boise sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SGJ-161, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Public/private sector workforce and tech leaders convene in Delaware to address labor shortages, post-incarceration employment
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Teresa Hodge, President and CEO of Mission: Launch, in partnership with What's Next Washington, R3 Score and the Bank on 100 Million Coalition, announced a hackathon to identify solutions to address post-incarceration workforce challenges in the United States. Bank on 100 Million (Bo100M) is an initiative that speaks to the urgent need to meet the future today, where it is estimated more than 100 million Americans, by the year 2030, will have an arrest and/or conviction record. Bo100M is designed to meet people living with records where they are while engaging policymakers, nonprofit leaders and corporate leaders as key stakeholders.
The two-day, invite-only event will be held December 13th and 14th at the Chase Conference Center in Wilmington, Delaware, in partnership with the Delaware Workforce Development Board.
Aventiv Technologies, a leader in developing technology solutions to empower rehabilitative justice, is the event's presenting sponsor and will join other featured speakers/facilitators on stage, including:
- Jordan Babineaux, Author, former NFL player and Bank on 100 Million Lead Influencer
- Saad Soliman, Chief Growth Officer, Patient Sortal Inc. and Reentry Expert
- Teresa Hodge, President & CEO Mission: Launch and Co-Founder of R3 Score Technologies, and Innovative Reentry Expert
- Susan Mason, Executive Director, What's Next Washington and Workforce Reentry Specialist
- Laurin Leonard, President & CEO Co-Founder R3 Score Technologies, Co-founder Mission: Launch, and Social Innovation Thought Leader
"For the past several years, market data has indicated the labor shortage in the United States is slowing economic growth, "said Mission: Launch CEO Teresa Hodge. "Future-ready corporations recognize in order to grow, justice-impacted Americans can no longer be overlooked. By convening technology executives, public and private workforce development leaders, those with the lived experience of incarceration, and other key stakeholders, we will need to identify scalable solutions to drive impact in communities overrepresented in the criminal legal system."
The gathering is a twelve-hour accelerator focused on solving cross-industry hiring challenges and developing user-friendly products that tap into overlooked yet qualified talent and consumers.
"As the Presenting Sponsor, Aventiv Technologies proudly engages the justice-impacted community and stands with them to drive better workforce outcomes," said Margita Thompson, Chief Communications and Community Engagement Officer at Aventiv Technologies. "We provide technology solutions that empower rehabilitative justice and create greater reentry opportunities for everyone that enters the justice system. We believe a better future includes the stability of having a job and keeping family and support networks connected to their incarcerated loved ones. The goals of the hackathon speak to the core of who we are as a company."
Wilmington, DE, was selected to be the inaugural city for the Bank on 100 Million (Bo100M) launch. The Bank on 100 Million coalition looks forward to a 2023 roadmap of future convenings in other cities seeking to bring these conversations and best practices to life.
"We are very excited by the solution-driven 'energy' coming to Delaware," said Saad Soliman, Chief Growth Officer, Patient Sortal and Delaware Workforce Development Board appointee. Like many other cities around the country, Wilmington faces a delicate balance between quality of life, public safety, and inclusion. The commitment to more innovative and inclusive workforce development is the shared value in which our communities can prosper and heal."
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean university said Tuesday the Uyghur student who reportedly went missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city recently, adding fresh questions to the mystery of his whereabouts.
Amnesty International said Friday that Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang in western China, had traveled to Hong Kong from South Korea to visit a friend on May 10 but has not been heard from since he texted his friend about being questioned at the city’s airport.
But Seoul’s Kookmin University, where the student is pursuing a doctorate in sports studies, told The Associated Press he is still in South Korea. The student has been frequently contacting his professor over his Ph.D. preparations, according to the school’s public affairs office.
Amnesty said it was trying to independently confirm the student’s whereabouts and safety, adding it will be able to provide a further response when it has more information.
The Associated Press has not been able to directly contact the student and the university refused to provide his contact details, citing privacy concerns. The school has not provided evidence of the student’s whereabouts, but said the professor communicated with him and confirmed his presence in South Korea. The professor didn’t respond to calls from the AP.
The alleged disappearance of Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who has been studying in Seoul for seven years, sparked widespread concerns on social media since Amnesty first reported his case, saying the student appeared to have been detained and interrogated. Amnesty raised questions about the Hong Kong government’s possible involvement in human rights violations that rights groups accuse the Chinese government of committing against Uyghurs.
A day later, the Hong Kong government hit back at what it called “groundless and unfounded remarks” as an attempt to smear it. It said government records showed the student had not entered the city, nor was he refused entry, and it requested an apology from the group.
The United Nations and human rights groups accuse China of detaining a million or more Uyghurs and members of other predominantly Muslim groups in camps where many have said they were tortured, sexually assaulted and forced to abandon their language and religion.
China denies the accusations, which are based on interviews with survivors and photos and satellite images of the Xinjiang region where many Uyghurs live.
Many Uyghurs in exile have tried to search for family members who were detained or went missing in China, but say communication is difficult because of pervasive surveillance there. They also feared that being contacted from overseas might get their families into trouble.
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Christie calls GOP presidential debate pledge a ‘useless idea’
By Andrew Millman and Shawna Mizelle, CNN
Washington (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday it was a “useless idea” to force 2024 GOP contenders to sign a pledge to back the party’s ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates.
“It’s only in the era of Donald Trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge. So I think it’s a bad idea,” the former New Jersey governor told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” about the Republican National Committee requirement.
Christie, who kicked off his presidential bid earlier this month, said he’s expressed his views directly to RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “so this is not the first time she’s hearing it.”
But he affirmed that he would do what was needed “to be up on the stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser Donald Trump” – saying the former president cost the party the House in 2018 and the White House and Senate in 2020, and was responsible for “the worst midterm performance we have seen in a long, long time” in 2022.
“I’ll take the pledge in 2024 just as seriously as Donald Trump took it in 2016,” Christie said.
Trump, as a candidate in 2015, did not rule out an independent run for president at a debate in Cleveland. He ultimately signed a pledge to support the party’s eventual nominee and to not run as a third-party candidate if he did not win the GOP nomination.
McDaniel has repeatedly supported requiring a so-called loyalty pledge for participation in the GOP debates, telling CNN on Friday it was a “no-brainer.”
“Once it’s all done and the dust is settled and you’ve made your best case, if the voters choose someone else, then you need to get behind who the voters chose and make sure we beat Joe Biden,” McDaniel said. “We can’t have division. We can’t have people who get on the debate stage who are going to come out and say, ‘I’m not going to support the eventual nominee.’”
Most of the GOP primary field has signaled support for the pledge, including most recently former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, whose campaign had previously sought to amend the pledge.
“You have to make the pledge based on the fact that Donald Trump is not going to be our nominee and you’re confident of it. Therefore, you can sign a statement saying you’re going to support the nominee of the party. I’m not going to, you know, support – just like other voters are not going to support – somebody for president who is under indictment,” Hutchinson told ABC News on Sunday.
Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court last week to 37 charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.
The RNC announced earlier this month that the first presidential primary debate will take place on August 23 in Milwaukee. Qualifying candidates will need to register at least 1% in three national polls, or a combination of national polls and a poll from the early-voting states recognized by the RNC. Candidates will also need “a minimum of 40,000 unique donors to candidate’s principal presidential campaign committee (or exploratory committee), with at least 200 unique donors per state or territory in 20+ states and/or territories,” the RNC said in a statement.
A recent CNN Poll found Trump was the first choice of 53% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters in the primary, roughly doubling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 26%. Other hopefuls were all polling in the single digits, including Christie, Hutchinson, former Vice President Mike Pence, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
Pardon pledge
Another pledge making waves in Republican presidential circles is a call by GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for 2024 contenders to commit to pardoning Trump if elected president.
Pence said Sunday that it was “premature” to discuss such a pardon, telling NBC News, “I don’t know why some of my competitors in the Republican primary presume the president will be found guilty.”
But he said he would evaluate any request for a pardon if he wins the White House.
“We need to let the courts do their job. And let this case work its way through our judicial system,” the former vice president told NBC News. “If I have the great privilege of being president of the United States, as I did when I was governor, we would (evaluate) any request for pardon for any American.”
Scott would not answer Sunday when asked if he would join Ramaswamy in his pledge or if he thought Trump’s indictment was unfounded.
“I’m not going to deal with the hypotheticals, but I will say that every American is innocent until proven guilty,” the GOP senator told Fox News.
But Haley, another South Carolinian presidential contender, said last week that she would be inclined to pardon Trump if she were elected president because, she argued, “the issue is less about guilt and more about what’s good for the country.”
This story has been updated with additional information.
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The 26-year-old man with a lengthy rap sheet charged in the killing of a Bibb County deputy sheriff should not have been out of lockup when the deadly shooting took place, according to some state authorities.
Austin Patrick Hall, charged with capital murder in the slaying Bibb County Deputy Brad Johnson and attempted murder in the wounding of Deputy Chris Poole, had been in trouble with the law beginning in his teens.
Hall had at least 46 criminal charges lodged against him since 2016.
Hall’s criminal history has been scrutinized and used in a call for stricter laws and reform to lessen the chance of something like Hall’s slaying happening again.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Wednesday issued a statement on Hall’s criminal past, calling the state’s Good Time Law – which allows inmates to shave off incarceration days with good behavior in prison – broken.
Marshall also talked about Hall being out on bond for arrests that took place following his formal release from the Alabama Department of Corrections.
At the time of last week’s shooting, Hall had completed a prison sentence for an earlier crime and was not on parole or probation.
Cam Ward, director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, said he agrees with Marshall’s concerns, saying “good time” needs to be more equitable.
Ward also said that better communication among state, county and city law enforcement agencies, as well as court systems, could help to prevent future tragedies.
“I’m like everybody else in that if he (Hall) had that many charges, that many convictions, he shouldn’t have been out,’’ Ward said. “Point blank he shouldn’t have been out. And we see that a lot.”
Hall’s first encounter with the law came in 2016 when he was charged with theft and burglary, for which he received probation. While on probation, he was arrested on nine new charges of theft and burglary, Marshall said.
Hall pleaded guilty to second-degree theft and, in 2018, was sentenced to nine years and nine months in state prison, likely because of his criminal history, Marshall said.
Hall was on work release with the Alabama Department of Corrections in 2019 when he escaped. He was on the run for more than a month when he was taken into custody following a police chase that ended in Georgia.
In that case, Oxford police officers tried to stop Hall when they spotted a vehicle that had been reported stolen out Pelham.
Police tried to pull over the vehicle but the driver – Hall – refused to stop and a chase ensued eastbound on Interstate 20.
The pursuit ended when Georgia State Patrol “pitted” the suspect at mile marker 5. Hall’s vehicle overturned but he was not injured.
“Despite this, after serving less than four years of his sentence, the shooter was awarded correctional incentive time (good time), which was, and inexplicably remains, permissible under the state’s ultra-lenient incentive time law,’’ Marshall said.
At the time of his capture, Hall also had outstanding warrants in Chilton County for domestic violence.
While he was being held in the Calhoun County Jail in 2020 after his recapture, court records show, authorities say Hall attacked an officer and tried to choke him. He was charged with second-degree assault.
Hall was indicted in Calhoun County in May on 10 charges of second-degree receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, second-degree assault, certain persons prohibited from carrying a firearm, drug possession, resisting arrest, attempting to elude and third-degree burglary.
Those indictments stem from the 2019 incidents in Calhoun County.
Hall ended his sentence on April 8, 2022, and was fully released from the Department of Corrections’ custody and supervision.
“Days after his release from state custody, the shooter bonded out of jail on 10 new charges in Calhoun County and 12 new charges in Chilton County—including charges of assaulting a police officer and illegally possessing a firearm,’’ Marshall said.
“In both counties, his bond was set in keeping with the recommended fee range. After he made bond, the shooter walked free to await his trial.”
Marshall said as was the case with the 2021 death of Sheffield police Sgt. Nick Risner, “this tragedy requires that we reassess the state laws and policies that abetted this shooter in the death of Deputy Brad Johnson.”
He said, as he has said previously, that Correctional Incentive Time laws are broken.
“Had the shooter served his entire sentence, he would not have been able to commit his brazen crime spree across our state, which ended in capital murder,’’ the attorney general said. “Furthermore, an inmate who escapes custody should never, under any circumstance, be rewarded with early release.”
Ward said he agrees with Marshall on the need for changes in the good time laws.
“Good time does have a place in the criminal justice system,’’ Ward said. “The problem we’re seeing with good time is a lot of times, someone’s getting credit only for the good.”
“It should be a more equitable system. You count good time, but every time there’s an escape or a violent act or you’ve made an infraction, it should be counted against that good time, so you have a true measure of whether someone is doing it right or not,’’ he said.
“In this case, Marshall is correct,’’ Ward said. “There are instances where we’re not truly balancing out the entire picture of good time. Good time has a role. The problem is, you’ve got to count the bad days with the goods days, and right now they’re just counting the good days.”
Additionally, Marshall said, the crime of assaulting a police officer should be a Class B felony, not a Class C felony. The bond schedule for assaulting a police officer needs to be increased to better account for the severity of the crime.
Class B felonies are punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Class C felonies are punishable by a minimum of one year and one day to a maximum of 10 years in prison.
“As I said last week, Alabama’s justice system failed the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and Deputy Brad Johnson. I stand ready to partner with the Alabama Legislature to correct these deficiencies at the earliest opportunity and will continue to fight against any effort to further weaken Alabama’s criminal justice system.”
Ward said a “calamity of errors” took place in Hall’s case that just shouldn’t have happened.
“It’s kind of baffling,’’ he said. “The system overall needs to be overhauled.”
He said because of a disjointed communication system between state county and city, oftentimes you don’t get a complete picture of somebody.
“Right now, to get a complete picture of that guy, I had to go into five or six databases to figure out his complete picture,’’ he said.
“It’s so easy now in hindsight to look back and point fingers, but how was he out on bail? It’s easy to point fingers after a tragedy, it is, but we all agree there’s some holes that we’ve got to tighten up,’’ he said. “People making the decisions sometimes are not getting the complete picture of the person they’re making a decision on.”
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government is facing another serious crisis after a junior party threatened on Wednesday to withdraw from the four-party coalition over disagreements about how to deal with rising inflation.
The liberal Freedom and Solidarity party said it wasn’t willing to be in the government anymore because of Finance Minister Igor Matovic, a populist leader whose Ordinary People party won the 2020 parliamentary election.
“Igor Matovic is the biggest problem of the coalition,” said Economy Minister Richard Sulik, the leader of Freedom and Solidarity.
Sulik has often clashed with Matovic, considered a populist politician, over how to tackle soaring inflation driven by high energy prices amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Freedom and Solidarity gave Prime Minister Eduard Heger a deadline until the end of August to reshuffle the Cabinet and rule without Matovic or its four ministers would resign.
Matovic’s Ordinary People party has rejected that option.
“Slovakia has been facing the hardest time in history,” Heger said. “This is not the time for the government to fall.”
After winning the election on an anti-corruption ticket two years ago, Matovic struck a deal to govern with Freedom and Solidarity, the conservative For People party, and We Are Family, a populist right-wing group that is allied with France’s far-right National Rally party.
The government made the fight against corruption a key policy issue.
But amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, it collapsed as Matovic was forced to resign as prime minister after he orchestrated a secret deal to acquire 2 million doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine despite disagreement among his coalition partners.
The same parties formed a new government with Heger, who is a close ally of Matovic’s and deputy head of his Ordinary People party, appointed as a new prime minister while Matovic assumed his previous post of finance minister in the new government.
The current Slovak government has been donating arms to Ukrainian armed forces while opening its border for the refugees.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Aaron Judge had a go-ahead single in the 10th inning for his fourth hit of the game, and the New York Yankees beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 on Saturday after cutting Aaron Hicks with $27.6 million on the outfielder’s contract.
New York overcame a 4-1 deficit in a three-run fifth inning against Luke Weaver on Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s homer, Judge’s RBI double off the left-field wall and Anthony Rizzo’s run-scoring single.
Judge also had a run-scoring single against the left-field fence in the third as part of a 4-for-4 afternoon with three RBIs. He is hitting .378 with seven homers, 18 RBIs and a 1.402 OPS in 11 games since returning from the injured list on May 9..
“I try not to think about being in a hot streak,” he said. “It’s about going out there and assessing the situation. I look at who is on the mound and what I have to do to help the team. If you go up with that mindset, you never know if you’re hot or cold.”
Greg Allen, reacquired by the Yankees on Friday night, opened the 10th as the automatic runner on second. He advanced on Gleyber Torres’ flyout and scored on Judge’s single off Ian Gibaut (3-1).
“If you’re not competing against him, he’s fun to watch,” Reds catcher Luke Maile said.
Anthony Rizzo followed with a two-run homer, his second in two nights and 24th at Great American Ball Park.
“Having Riz behind me helps big time,” Judge said.
Rizzo is hitting .303 with 11 homers and 28 RBIs.
“Rizzo has been our rock,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He’s been rock solid to start the year, that one constant, even when we missed Judge for the 10 or 11 games, Anthony was right in the middle of things. He’s hit for power and is one of our leaders.”
Reds manager David Bell admitted that walking Judge at that point among the scenarios he pondered.
“With Judge there, that’s an uncomfortable situation,” Bell said.
Clay Holmes (2-2) allowed a walk in a scoreless ninth, and Ryan Weber pitched the 10th to give the Yankees seven pitchers with saves, the most of any big league team.
After the final out, Boone exchanged a handshake with banned Reds great Pete Rose, who watched the game from a first-row seat.
New York (28-20) has won five of six and 10 of 13, improving to a season-high eight games over .500.
Hicks was designated for assignment to make room for Allen, acquired in a trade with Boston on Friday. The 33-year-old Hicks was batting .188 with a homer and five RBIs in 28 games this season. His $70 million, seven-year contract is guaranteed through 2025.
Cincinnati (19-26) has lost five of six.
“Those games are so much fun,” Maile said. “I wish every game was like that.”
The game drew 41,374 fans, Cincinnati’s second-largest home crowd and the team’s second sellout this season. Many of them raucously cheered for the Yankees.
Run-scoring singles by Jake Fraley in the first and Spencer Steer in the third and Maile’s two-run homer in the fourth built a 4-1 lead against rookie Jhony Brito.
FINALLY
Ben Rortvedt went 2 for 4 with a double and two strikeouts in his Yankees debut. Acquired from Minnesota in March 2022 trade that sent Gary Sánchez to the Twins, Rortvedt strained his right oblique during that spring training, went on the injured list and stayed in the minors when he returned. He had left shoulder aneurysm surgery late in spring training this year and played his first minor league game on April 21.
NOT QUITE
Judge was cut down at the plate in the fifth while trying to score from second on Rizzo’s single to right, Fraley to second baseman Jonathan India, who relayed to Maile at the plate.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: LHP Carlos Rondón (left elbow strain, back stiffness) played catch at up to 120 feet before Saturday’s game before catching a flight to New York, where he’ll rejoin the team after it returns from the current trip.
Reds: OF Henry Ramos was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right hip strain. OF Will Benson was recalled from Triple-A Louisville … A magnetic resonance imaging test revealed that RHP Derek Law has a flexor mass strain in his right elbow, Bell said. … India fouled a ball off his left leg, just below the knee, before striking out in the ninth and left the game at the start of the 10th. Bell said X-rays were negative.
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NEW YORK , June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX), a biotechnology company developing a clinical pipeline of orally administered, small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announced participation in the following scientific and investor conferences in July:
- July 6-8: Symposium 234: Mucosal Immunology – A Translational View into the Clinic. Martina Wirth, Ph.D., Manager Translational Pharmacology at Immunic, will present preclinical data and data from the company's phase 1b clinical trial of IMU-856 in celiac disease in an e-poster, and during a poster pitch session, at this conference in Potsdam, Germany. The poster presentation will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
- July 11-12: SVB Securities Therapeutics Forum. Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Immunic, will participate in one-on-one investor meetings at this conference in New York.
- July 15-19: 47th Annual International Herpesvirus Workshop. Immunic's collaboration partner will present a poster and participate in a satellite workshop at this conference in Missoula, Montana. The poster presentation will be accessible on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
- July 20: Immunic's Celiac Disease KOL Roundtable. Immunic's management will be joined by two renowned key opinion leaders to discuss ongoing active celiac disease and its high unmet medical need for new treatment options, in a webcast on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at 8:00 am ET. Featured key opinion leaders will be:
The Celiac Disease KOL Roundtable will be held virtually via Zoom. To participate, please register in advance at: https://imux.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m-d7ddH1SDqFWc7alKSiKA. Registrants will receive a confirmation email containing a link for online participation or a telephone number for dial in access. An archived replay of the webcast will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
About Immunic, Inc.
Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX) is a biotechnology company developing a clinical pipeline of orally administered, small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company's lead development program, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), is currently in phase 3 and phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of relapsing and progressive multiple sclerosis, respectively, and has shown therapeutic activity in phase 2 clinical trials in patients suffering from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. Vidofludimus calcium combines neuroprotective effects, through its mechanism as a first-in-class nuclear receptor related 1 (Nurr1) activator, with additional anti-inflammatory and anti-viral effects, by selectively inhibiting the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH). IMU-856, which targets the protein Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6), is intended to restore intestinal barrier function and regenerate bowel epithelium, which could potentially be applicable in numerous gastrointestinal diseases, such as celiac disease, where it is currently in preparations for a phase 2 clinical trial. IMU-381, which currently is in preclinical testing, is a next generation molecule being developed to specifically address the needs of gastrointestinal diseases. For further information, please visit: www.imux.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenue, projected expenses, sufficiency of cash, expected timing, development and results of clinical trials, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. Examples of such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to management's and employee's participation in scientific and investor conferences. Immunic may not actually achieve the plans, carry out the intentions or meet the expectations or projections disclosed in the forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management's current expectations and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results and performance could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including, without limitation, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing inflation, impacts of the Ukraine – Russia conflict on planned and ongoing clinical trials, risks and uncertainties associated with the ability to project future cash utilization and reserves needed for contingent future liabilities and business operations, the availability of sufficient financial and other resources to meet business objectives and operational requirements, the fact that the results of earlier preclinical studies and clinical trials may not be predictive of future clinical trial results, the protection and market exclusivity provided by Immunic's intellectual property, risks related to the drug development and the regulatory approval process and the impact of competitive products and technological changes. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in the section captioned "Risk Factors," in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on February 23, 2023, and in the company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov or ir.imux.com/sec-filings. Any forward-looking statement made in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Immunic disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. Immunic expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all the contents of this press release.
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Immunic, Inc.
Jessica Breu
Head of Investor Relations and Communications
+49 89 2080 477 09
jessica.breu@imux.com
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Paula Schwartz
+1 917 633 7790
immunic@rxir.com
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KOGS Communication
Edna Kaplan
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kaplan@kogspr.com
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