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Doctors often use urine tests to make sure patients taking medication for opioid addiction are sticking with treatment. A new study suggests they may be missing some cheaters.
Nearly 8% of these patients sometimes spike their urine by adding their treatment medicine, buprenorphine, to the samples. Such spiking may go unnoticed by doctors who use rapid tests instead of more sophisticated lab tests that can reveal who’s cheating.
“These patients are at particularly high risk for opioid overdose, as they are not receiving the protective effects of buprenorphine,” said Dr. Jarratt Pytell of University of Colorado School of Medicine, who led the study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry.
About 2.4 million U.S. adults are prescribed this gold standard medication for opioid addiction. It works by preventing craving and is often paired with counseling and other support. With overdose deaths climbing, Congress recently made it easier for more doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, which is sold under the brand name Suboxone.
In the study, researchers looked at more than 500,000 urine test results from Millennium Health, a large laboratory. The tests had been ordered by doctors from 2017 through April 2022.
Less than 2% of samples — from 7.6% of patients — had evidence that patients directly added buprenorphine to the urine specimen. Spiking was indicated by a low amount of a substance produced as buprenorphine breaks down in the liver.
Suspicious specimens were more likely to be collected in primary care doctor’s offices than in specialty treatment clinics. And patients with evidence of spiked samples were more likely to test positive for heroin or fentanyl use.
Doctors shouldn’t cut off patients who cheat, Pytell said. That could lead to overdose. Instead, a suspicious result should prompt a frank discussion and possibly a higher level of care. Doctors should discuss whether patients are struggling with inadequate housing, mental health issues or financial strain.
“When patients tamper with their urine specimen it often indicates that they are unstable in their recovery and they could use more help,” said study co-author Brendan Saloner of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Unfortunately, many patients are punished either by their program or by some legal authority, and they therefore have reasons why they may want to mask that they are not taking their buprenorphine as prescribed.”
Dr. Kim Dougan, a primary care doctor in the Seattle area, has treated hundreds of patients with buprenorphine.
“People not only get their life back, they get their jobs back, they get their families back,” Dougan said. Her new patients take a weekly urine test that is sent to a lab. Long-term, stable patients do an annual test.
If lab results look suspicious, she brings it up with the patient, but doesn’t punish or judge.
“My job is to say, ‘What’s going on here?’” Dougan said. “Being open and nonjudgmental is important.”
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LAVAL, QC, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. ("Couche-Tard" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce it has been awarded the Bronze-level Parity CertificationTM by Women in Governance for its progress towards gender parity in the workplace.
"We are proud to be receiving this certification as it is a testament to the values we live by and signals we are moving in the right direction towards gender parity," said Suzanne Poirier, Senior Vice President, Operations, at Couche-Tard. "Our team at Couche-Tard is committed to fostering a culture that provides an environment for women to fully participate and grow in their careers as well as advancing equality between women and men in the workplace."
Women in Governance's Parity Certification helps organizations increase the representation of women in sectors where they have historically been underrepresented and in senior management positions. This innovative certification evaluates parity at an organization's decision-making level as well as at every level of the organization, with particular attention paid to the multiple impacts of diversity in women's career advancement (intersectionality). The certification also assesses the organization's commitment to implementing processes that enable women to achieve career advancement, thus creating a pipeline of diverse female talent.
"At Couche-Tard, diversity and inclusion is a strong pillar of our sustainability strategy and the winning culture we strive daily to protect and promote," said Ina Strand, Chief People Officer at Couche-Tard. "We know we have more work to do, and we will use the feedback we receive to continue on our journey of creating an environment where all our people can excel, grow and bring their authentic selves to work."
As part of its diversity and inclusion journey, Couche-Tard has launched several business resource groups, beginning with the Women's Council, to support underrepresented team members. It has also developed and participated in talent programs to create pipelines for advancement including leadership development courses and mentorship programs dedicated to accelerating and developing minority team members. These efforts and more have resulted in true progress in more equitable gender representation, opportunities and pay across all parts of the company from store to senior management levels.
Women in Governance (WiG) is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 to support women in their career advancement and access to decision-making bodies, as well as progressive organizations striving to close the gender gap in the workplace. The organization pursues its mission with its Parity Certification™, inspiring events, as well as robust governance training and mentoring programs. More information is available at www.womeningovernance.org.
Alimentation Couche-Tard is a global leader in convenience and mobility, operating in 24 countries and territories, with more than 14,300 stores, of which approximately 10,900 offer road transportation fuel. With its well-known Couche-Tard and Circle K banners, it is one of the largest independent convenience store operators in the United States and it is a leader in the convenience store industry and road transportation fuel retail in Canada, Scandinavia, the Baltics, as well as in Ireland. It also has an important presence in Poland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Approximately 122,000 people are employed throughout its network. For more information on Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or to consult its audited annual Consolidated Financial Statements, unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and Management Discussion and Analysis, please visit, please visit: https://corpo.couche-tard.com
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CAMDEN, N.J., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Campbell's® Chunky® is dropping a soup packed with so much heat, fans will need to sign a waiver to try it! New, limited time Chunky Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle Soup will be available on January 27 to the first 500 brave souls who sign a "waiver"* stating they can handle the heat at ChunkySpicyWaiver.com.
As measured by the Scoville heat unit scale, a tool for measuring the spiciness of peppers, Chunky's Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle Soup is thirteen times spicier than Chunky Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup, while still maintaining the true savory flavor of chicken and vegetables people love. Each can of Chunky Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle will be accompanied by a cool off kit, featuring a cooling towel, fan, sweatband, and tissues.
"We've seen a tremendous response to our Chunky spicy lineup and fans keep asking for more," said Kristina Moses, Brand Manager, Campbell's Chunky. "As our spiciest soup to date from Chunky, Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle answers the call for more heat, and we're excited to see how many brave consumers are willing to sign the 'waiver' for the chance to try."
The limited time soup offering is the hottest entrant in the spicy line introduced by Chunky in 2022 that includes Spicy Chicken Noodle, Spicy Steak and Potato, Spicy Sirloin Burger and Spicy Chicken and Sausage Gumbo.
Chunky Ghost Pepper Chicken Noodle Soup and cool off kits will be available to the first 500 fans to sign the waiver beginning January 27 at 1 p.m. ET. To learn more about the new soup and sign up for notifications ahead of the drop, visit ChunkySpicyWaiver.com. In addition, follow Chunky on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok to stay in the loop on the latest brand news.
*The "waiver" is a total joke and not legally binding but definitely part of the fun.
For more than 150 years, Campbell (NYSE: CPB) has been connecting people through food they love. Generations of consumers have trusted Campbell to provide delicious and affordable food and beverages. Headquartered in Camden, N.J. since 1869, Campbell generated fiscal 2022 net sales of nearly $8.6 billion. Our portfolio includes iconic brands such as Campbell's, Cape Cod, Goldfish, Kettle Brand, Lance, Late July, Milano, Pace, Pacific Foods, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, Snyder's of Hanover, Swanson and V8. Campbell has a heritage of giving back and acting as a good steward of the environment. The company is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 as well as the FTSE4Good and Bloomberg Gender-Equality Indices. For more information, visit www.campbellsoupcompany.com or follow company news on Twitter via @CampbellSoupCo.
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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border” with the installation of 130 double-stacked shipping containers, hundreds of migrants found their way around them, belying his claim.
They walked through tribal lands to the edge of a towering wall built during Donald Trump’s presidency to surrender to border agents waiting outside the reservation, expecting to be released in the U.S. to pursue asylum.
Families, young parents carrying toddlers, elderly people and others easily waded through the knee-deep Colorado River before dawn Wednesday, many in sandals with shopping bags slung over their shoulders.
The wall isn’t the issue it was in 2018 when Congress denied Trump funding for one of his top priorities, prompting the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. But last week’s events in Yuma are a reminder of obstacles that the government faces with border barriers: difficulty building on tribal land, most notably in the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and opposition from landowners, especially in Texas, where, unlike other border states, much property is privately owned.
Ducey’s critics have seized on images from Univision network showing two containers that toppled during 11 days of construction for unknown reasons. Gary Restaino, the top federal prosecutor in Arizona, used a bilateral meeting in Mexico City to needle the governor Friday, tweeting, “We’re not dumping a bunch of shipping containers in the desert and calling it a wall to get cheap press.” Ducey retorted that ”we’ve taken matters into our own hands” because the federal government hasn’t done enough.
Migrants continue to avoid barriers by going around them — in this case, through a 5-mile (8-kilometer) gap in the Cocopah Indian Reservation near Yuma, a desert city of about 100,000 people between San Diego and Phoenix that has become a major spot for illegal crossings.
President Joe Biden halted wall construction his first day in office, leaving billions of dollars of work unfinished but still under contract. Trump worked feverishly in his final months to reach more than 450 miles (720 kilometers), nearly one-fourth of the entire border.
The Biden administration has made rare exceptions for small projects at areas deemed unsafe for people to cross, including four gaps in Yuma. It expects to award a contract for Yuma this fall and take up to 28 months to complete work.
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its Yuma plans in July, Ducey said he couldn’t wait. Like fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, he has sparred with the Democratic administration over immigration policies, often suing and recently offering free bus rides to the East Coast for asylum-seekers who are released in the United States to pursue their cases.
“Arizona did the job the federal government has failed to do — and we showed them just how quickly and efficiently the border can be made more secure – if you want to,” Ducey said to celebrate installation of the containers, which run the length of 13 football fields in five locations combined.
A string of 44 double-stacked containers ends abruptly in an open desert expanse. Farther north, at the Morelos Dam, containers plug several openings in an area that had become less traveled in recent months.
The day Ducey declared his project complete, the Border Patrol encountered a fairly typical count of about 850 migrants entering the country illegally in its Yuma sector. Most were dropped off by bus or hired vehicle on the Mexican side and walked through the reservation in darkness under a crescent moon.
Migrants used vehicle barriers, dirt roads and flashlights on their phones to guide them to Border Patrol agents outside tribal lands to be taken into custody.
CBP hasn’t commented on Ducey’s containers but says its plan to plug gaps in the Trump-style barrier of steel poles topped with a metal plate up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) high will make a difference by funneling traffic to fewer areas.
“If Yuma has 10 gaps and people were crossing all 10 gaps, it’s much more difficult for us to deal with than if Yuma has one or two gaps and the majority of traffic is crossing through those gaps,” said John Modlin, chief of the Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, sector.
Asked for comment, the Cocopah Indian Tribe referred to a May 2020 letter to CBP expressing strong opposition to a wall, saying it would cut access to the river and tribal members in Mexico.
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CHEONGJU, South Korea, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cheongju Craft Biennale Organizing Committee (Chairman LEE, Beom-Seog, Mayor of Cheongju City) accepts online submissions for the '2023 Cheongju International Craft Competition' on the official website (http://ccbcompetition.com) until May 7 (Sun).
There are two fields for submission: Craft Competition, which calls for craft works, and Craft City Lab Competition, which calls for proposals. Regardless of nationality, anyone over the age of 18 can apply.
In the Craft Competition, one person or one team can submit one piece without restrictions on genre or material. Only works produced between 2021 and 2023 can be submitted. The first round will be announced in early June, and those who have passed the first round will receive their actual works. Final results will be announced in August.
The grand prize winner of the Craft Competition will receive a total of 60 million won in prize money. Awards are awarded according to the details of awards such as gold, silver and bronze awards. This time, four categories were newly established: Young Artist Award, Partner Award, Popularity Award, and Residency Award. The Partner Award with the Biennale's official partner company and the Popularity Award, determined by expert and audience evaluation, will announce the final winners at the closing ceremony.
The theme of the Craft City Lab Competition is 'Craft and City'. Competition theme is a city where crafts and humans coexist. One person or one team can apply for one project. Only applicants selected in the first screening will be subject to the second PT screening in early June. The final winner must complete research and writing by August this year.
The winners of this year's competition are provided with the ZEROBASE promotion in connection with Seoul Auction Blacklot, Korea's leading art auction company.
Artwork can be submitted on the official website(http://ccbcompetition.com). For related inquiries, please proceed only by e-mail cbcompetition2019@gmail.com.
Meanwhile, the Cheongju International Craft Competition started in 1999 and has produced about 1,800 award-winning works by artists from 50 countries. It has led the flow of world crafts. The winning works of this competition will be exhibited for 45 days from September 1st to October 15th in Cheongju, Korea and people can meet it through exhibitions and publications of award-winning works at the 2023 Cheongju Craft Biennale.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is slipping Tuesday as the U.S. government creeps closer to the edge of a potentially disastrous default on its debt.
The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower in its first trading after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy closed a meeting late Monday that they called productive but ultimately ended with no deal.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 56 points, or 0.2%, at 33,225, as of 1:03 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.7% lower.
Washington is facing a deadline as early as June 1, when the U.S. government could run out of cash to pay its bills unless Congress allows it to borrow more. Economists and investors widely believe a default would send shockwaves through the global economy and financial markets.
The stock market has remained resilient despite the concerns, largely because this scenario has played out many times before with Congress ultimately agreeing to a deal. The alternative simply seems too dire for anyone to allow.
But a worry on Wall Street is that Washington may not feel urgency to act until financial markets shake hard enough to show the stakes for politicians.
Some areas are showing more concerns, particularly in the bond market where some Treasury bills are supposed to get repaid around the date of a possible default. Prices for those bonds have fallen, in part because of the debt-ceiling worries, which in turn has pushed up their yields.
The worries about the debt ceiling are coming on top of concerns that the slowing economy may already be heading for a recession. A preliminary report released Tuesday morning suggested the economy remains split, with manufacturing remaining under pressure while growth for travel and other service businesses is strengthening.
“The US economic expansion gathered further momentum in May, but an increasing dichotomy is evident,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
On Wall Street, electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors fell 5.9% to 28 cents after it announced a reverse stock split in order to boost its share price. Investors will get one new share for every 15 they currently hold. Its stock has remained below $1 since mid-March.
On the winning side of Wall Street was Lowe’s, which rose 1.7% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. But it also cut its financial forecasts for the year partly because of lower-than-expected sales to do-it-yourself customers.
Last week, rival Home Depot projected its first decline in annual revenue since 2009 in the aftermath of the housing market crash and financial crisis.
Retailers are among the last companies to report their results for the first three months of the year, and most companies have been beating expectations. Retailers in particular have gotten lots of attention because resilient spending by U.S. households has been one of the main positives keeping the economy out of a recession.
Manufacturing and other areas of the economy are struggling under the weight of much higher interest rates meant to get inflation under control.
High interest rates have also meant stress for the U.S. banking system. Three high-profile bank failures since March have rattled the system, and Wall Street has been on the hunt for the next bank that could suffer a debilitating drop in confidence by its customers.
Some of the heaviest scrutiny has been on PacWest Bancorp, but it’s rallying for a second day after announcing the sale of a $2.6 billion portfolio of real-estate construction loans. It’s up another 13.4% after jumping 19.5% Monday.
Other banks also rallied, including a 5.7% jump for Zions Bancorp. and a 4.9% climb for Comerica.
Also helping to limit losses for Wall Street were energy stocks, which climbed with the price of crude oil. Exxon Mobil gained 2.7%, and Chevron rose 3.2%.
In the bond market, the 10-year Treasury yield ticked up to 3.73% from 3.72% late Monday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.37% from 4.32%.
Most stock markets abroad fell, including a 1.3% drop for Hong Kong and a 1.5% slide for Shanghai.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, February 2, 2023
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Apple’s latest smart device is finally available to pre-order
Apple released the first HomePod in 2018, and fans have eagerly awaited an upgrade for years. The latest HomePod promises audio-quality enhancements, Matter support and more. We interviewed our tech expert, Jaime Vazquez, to learn more about this exciting new smart speaker.
In this article: Apple HomePod (2nd Generation), Apple TV 4K (3rd Generation) and Echo Studio with Echo Sub
What you should know about the new HomePod
What happened to the original HomePod?
The original HomePod boasted incredible audio and a sleek design, but it was discontinued on March 12, 2021. Apple shifted its focus toward its HomePod Mini, but it lacked the high-end audio associated with the original HomePod.
“This is huge news for a variety of reasons,” said Vazquez. “The primary reason is that original HomePod owners can now breathe a little easier. All electronics die eventually, and the first-generation HomePods have been gone for years. Some are prone to problems or failure, and there aren’t a lot of great replacements.”
Sound quality
Apple promises the second-generation HomePod will deliver “incredible audio quality, with rich, deep bass and stunning high frequencies.” This device is built with five tweeters and an S7 chip that should help maximize the speaker’s potential.
“The second generation has fewer woofers and tweeters than the original, and there is some debate over whether this is good or bad,” Vazquez said. “That said, I trust them. The second-generation AirPods proved that Apple engineers are serious about improving audio quality and spatial audio. To me, any audio quality improvement is worth the price of admission.”
Matter support
Matter is a relatively new smart home interoperability standard that will allow devices from various brands to interact seamlessly. “In the next few years, when you buy a Matter-certified device, it doesn’t matter if it’s Google, Ring, Eufy or another manufacturer; they will all talk to whatever your platform is,” Vazquez said.
The new HomePod can connect to and control Matter-enabled devices, which is a massive win for Apple users. Historically, Apple HomeKit has had fewer compatible smart devices than its competitors; thanks to Matter, this will be a thing of the past.
Other considerations
Like its predecessor, you can connect two second-generation HomePods to create a stereo pair. Vazquez said, “The differentiator is that every other smart speaker is a great add-on for people with existing stereo setups, but a HomePod, and certainly a pair of them, are good enough to replace your existing setup.”
The second-generation HomePod has built-in temperature and humidity sensors, making it easier to create automated routines based on the room’s environment. This is a huge leap forward for smart speakers, as most require secondary smart devices to monitor a room’s environmental conditions.
The newest HomePod also features a large touch surface, making it easier to navigate. It’s illuminated from edge to edge to give it a unique aesthetic. “It feels like a work of art with the glossy top. It’s just beautiful,” said Vazquez.
Apple HomePod second generation and related products our expert recommends
Apple HomePod (2nd Generation)
This Matter-enabled device features high-quality audio and can be paired with other HomePods to enhance the sound and loudness. It has built-in temperature and humidity sensors. It encrypts your voice data for an added layer of security. It’s available in black or white.
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The voice-recognition features let each household member tailor their experience to them. Many were impressed with this small device’s sound quality. It can be connected to another HomePod mini to create a stereo pair. It’s available in various colors, such as black, orange and white.
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This can be used as a home hub and is compatible with HomeKit or Matter-enabled Thread accessories. It has Dolby-Atmos capabilities for enhanced sound. Many said this is the best Apple TV device yet.
Sonos One (Gen 2) Smart Speaker
This smart speaker’s audio quality is nearly as good as the HomePod 2nd-Gen. It works with 80 streaming services and is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. You can pair it with a Sonos Sub for a top-notch listening experience.
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This is an excellent gift for those planning to buy the new HomePod, as it can be used for an Apple Music subscription. You can load it with up to $500 and include a gift message.
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When paired with the Echo Sub, the Studio’s sound quality is comparable to the HomePod 2nd Gen. You can control it with Amazon Alexa voice commands. It’s available in black or white.
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LONDON (AP) — As the Manchester City team bus made its way out of Anfield, there came a parting shot.
An object, supposedly thrown by home fans after the bad-tempered 1-0 loss to Liverpool on Sunday, caused a small crack in the windshield.
It’s a rivalry that has turned ugly, the bitterest in the Premier League.
City manager Pep Guardiola had already successfully avoided coins being hurled in his direction during the match. Liverpool, meanwhile, condemned the behaviour of the away fans after offensive chants relating to Hillsborough — the tragedy in 1989 that resulted in the deaths of 97 of its fans.
As fierce as the competition has been on the field during a four-year period when the teams have dominated English soccer, so has the feud been off it. A person with knowledge of the bus incident said City will make an official complaint to the English Football Association.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because City has yet to publicly comment on the events surrounding the match. The coin-throwing and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp’s pre-match comments will also be included in the complaint, the person said.
“There are three clubs in world football who can do what they want financially,” Klopp said on Friday, an apparent reference to City, Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle, who are backed by Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, respectively.
Tensions between the clubs have been building for some time — dating back to before their recent battle for supremacy at the top of the Premier League.
Raheem Sterling’s transfer to City in 2015 pointed to a shift in the balance of power from one of European soccer’s traditional giants to its newly-enriched rival, which was bought by the Abu Dhabi royal family in 2008. As a result, the England forward was heavily-criticized for what was perceived as a financially motivated move.
“Trophies don’t get handed out, you’ve got to earn them,” former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said at the time. “You’ve got to deliver in big games and he hasn’t done that yet.”
Sterling went on to win four titles at the Etihad Stadium and 10 major trophies.
But the rivalry really intensified when Klopp emerged as the greatest threat to Guardiola’s dominance.
Liverpool beat City in three-straight games in the second half of the 2017-18 campaign, which saw Guardiola’s team crowned champion with a record 100 points.
It was a notice of intent from Klopp, while Liverpool fans appeared determined to intimidate City, not only with the famously daunting atmosphere inside Anfield, but also by attacking the visiting team bus ahead of a Champions League quarterfinal match.
The damage caused was so severe that a replacement bus was required to get the team back to Manchester.
The small crack left on the windscreen on Sunday was not as dramatic, but it was the latest incident involving two teams that have set standards on the field that have not been matched by their fans off it.
Liverpool said it wants to work with City to eradicate “vile chants.”
“The concourse in the away section was also vandalized with graffiti of a similar nature,” Liverpool added in a statement after Sunday’s match.
Meanwhile, Klopp, who was sent off for angrily charging out of his technical area to remonstrate with the referee’s assistant, apologized for the coin-throwing.
“Horrible,” he said. “I am sorry. It never should happen.”
How the FA unpicks a game that was overshadowed by flash points off the field is not straight-forward. It has limited jurisdiction over isolated incidents of objects being thrown from the crowd from individuals. And while it has condemned the chants from City fans, it would only normally act when discrimination is involved.
Klopp’s fate is also uncertain.
The Liverpool manager won’t face an automatic suspension for his red card, the FA said. The governing body will review the incident before deciding whether to offer him a ban and/or a fine. If his behaviour is deemed to be serious enough, he could face a hearing and potentially more severe punishment.
If the fall-out from this latest engrossing clash between City and Liverpool has shown anything, it’s that this rivalry isn’t going away any time soon.
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‘Forever chemicals’ in deer, fish challenge hunters, tourism
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer — and that’s prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key pieces of the economy.
Authorities have detected the high levels of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in deer in several states, including Michigan and Maine, where legions of hunters seek to bag a buck every fall. Sometimes called “forever chemicals” for their persistence in the environment, PFAS are industrial compounds used in numerous products, such as nonstick cookware and clothing.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched an effort last year to limit pollution from the chemicals, which are linked to health problems including cancer and low birth weight.
But discovery of the chemicals in wild animals hunted for sport and food represents a new challenge that some states have started to confront by issuing “do not eat” advisories for deer and fish and expanding testing for PFAS in them.
“The fact there is an additional threat to the wildlife — the game that people are going out to hunt and fish — is a threat to those industries, and how people think about hunting and fishing,” said Jennifer Hill, associate director of the Great Lakes Regional Center for the National Wildlife Federation.
PFAS chemicals are an increasing focus of public health and environmental agencies, in part because they don’t degrade or do so slowly in the environment and can remain in a person’s bloodstream for life.
The chemicals get into the environment through production of consumer goods and waste. They also have been used in firefighting foam and in agriculture. PFAS-tainted sewage sludge has long been applied to fields as fertilizer and compost.
In Maine, where the chemicals were detected in well water at hundreds of times the federal health advisory level, legislators passed a law in 2021 requiring manufacturers to report their use of the chemicals and to phase them out by 2030. Environmental health advocates have said Maine’s law could be a model for other states, some working on their own PFAS legislation.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a bill in September that bans the chemicals from cosmetics sold in the state. And more than 20 states have proposed or adopted limits for PFAS in drinking water, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
More testing will likely find the chemicals are present in other game animals besides deer, such as wild turkeys and fish, said David Trahan, executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, a hunting and outdoors advocacy group.
The discovery could have a negative impact on outdoor tourism in the short term, Trahan said. “If people are unwilling to hunt and fish, how are we going to manage those species?” he said. “You’re getting it in your water, you’re getting it in your food, you’re getting it in wild game.”
Maine was one of the first states to detect PFAS in deer. The state issued a “do not eat” advisory last year for deer harvested in the Fairfield area, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Portland, after several of the animals tested positive for elevated levels.
The state is now expanding the testing to more animals across a wider area, said Nate Webb, wildlife division director at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “Lab capacity has been challenging,” he said, “but I suspect there will be more facilities coming online to help ease that burden — in Maine and elsewhere in the country.”
Wisconsin has tested deer, ducks and geese for PFAS, and as a result issued a “do not eat” advisory for deer liver around Marinette, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) north of Green Bay. The state also asked fishermen to reduce consumption of Lake Superior’s popular rainbow smelt to one meal per month.
Some chemicals, including PFAS, can accumulate in the liver over time because the organ filters the chemicals from the blood, Wisconsin’s natural resources department told hunters. New Hampshire authorities have also issued an advisory to avoid consuming deer liver.
Michigan was the first state to assess PFAS in deer, said Tammy Newcomb, senior executive assistant director for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
The state issued its first “do not eat” advisory in 2018 for deer taken in and near Oscoda Township. Michigan has since issued an advisory against eating organs, such as liver and kidneys, from deer, fish or any other wild game anywhere in the state. It has also studied waterfowl throughout the state in areas of PFAS surface water contamination.
The state’s expanded testing also has proven beneficial because it helped authorities find out which areas don’t have a PFAS problem, Newcomb said.
“People like to throw up their arms and say we can’t do anything about it. I like to point to our results and say that’s not true,” Newcomb said. “Finding PFAS as a contaminant of concern has been the exception and not the rule.”
The chemical has also been found in shellfish that are collected recreationally and commercially. Scientists from the Florida International University Institute of Environment sampled more than 150 oysters from around the state and detected PFAS in every one, according to their study in August. Natalia Soares Quinete, an assistant professor in the institute’s chemistry and biochemistry department, described the chemicals as “a long-term poison” that jeopardizes human health.
Dr. Leo Trasande, a professor of pediatrics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who has studied PFAS, said the best way to avoid negative health effects is reducing exposure. But, Trasande said that’s difficult to do because the chemicals are so commonplace and long-lasting in the environment.
“If you’re seeing it in humans, you’re likely going to see the effects in animals,” he said.
Wildlife authorities have tried to inform hunters of the presence of PFAS in deer with posted signs in hunting areas as well as advisories on social media and the internet. One such sign, in Michigan, told hunters that high amounts of PFAS “may be found in deer and could be harmful to your health.”
Kip Adams, chief conservation officer for the National Deer Association, said the discovery of PFAS in states like Maine and Michigan is very concerning to hunters.
“With the amount of venison my family eats, I can’t imagine not being able to do that,” Adams said. “To this point, everything we’ve done has been about sharing information and making sure people are aware of it.”
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — On a quiet street corner, a sign marks the birthplace of a beverage behemoth: Here, in 1954, the Tri-City Beverage Corp. bottled its first case of Mountain Dew.
The soda was originally uncolored and lemon-lime flavored, and its inventors used it as a mixer with bourbon. “Mountain dew” is also a nickname for moonshine, which farmers sometimes processed from leftover crops. Labels on early soda bottles promised it was “specially blended in the traditional hillbilly style.”
It wasn’t until after PepsiCo bought the company in 1964 and eventually built a global youth-oriented brand, one marketed by extreme-sports athletes, that the soft drink left its Appalachian roots behind.
In a way, Mountain Dew came full circle last year when PepsiCo turned the brand toward a new alcoholic beverage: Hard Mtn Dew. At a One Stop Wines & Spirits frequented by students from Eastern Tennessee State University, the new 24-ounce cans are prominently displayed. Although the brew bears little resemblance to its ancestor, its alcoholic content is “exactly what Mountain Dew is all about,” said Charles Gordon Jr., owner of Tri-City Beverage.
Hard Mtn Dew reflects a major change in the alcohol industry, which for the past century mainly produced drinks categorized as beer, wine or spirits. In recent years, those lines have blurred, and a fourth category of ready-to-drink beverages has emerged — hard seltzers and other flavored malt beverages, wine coolers and canned cocktails. Although these products differ in primary ingredients and how the alcohol is processed, all are typically flavored and packaged for casual consumption.
This isn’t the first time a new type of alcoholic beverage exploded in popularity, but some earlier fads were associated with single products like Zima, Smirnoff Ice or Four Loko. “It’s only really in the last three to four years that it’s become a major category,” said Nadine Sarwat, a beverage analyst at Bernstein Research.
Sales of hard seltzers and ready-to-drink canned cocktails were valued at nearly $10 billion in 2021 by the Grand View Research firm, which expects them to grow by double digits in coming years. And in a major shift, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have debuted alcoholic products in the U.S. market. In February, Monster Beverage, a maker of energy drinks, began rolling out its first line of alcoholic drinks, called the Beast Unleashed.
But as alcohol-related deaths in America reach record highs, regulators and public health experts are voicing concern that the new class of drinks and the expanding industry could alter how people buy and drink alcohol. Some also expressed worry that the convenience of the new products could reverse the long-term decline in alcohol consumption by young people. And recent studies show that consuming even one alcoholic drink a day increases a person’s risk of cancer and heart disease.
Coca-Cola and Monster Beverage declined repeated requests for comment, and PepsiCo referred questions about products bearing its brands to the independent companies that it had licensed to manufacture and market them.
Pamela Trangenstein, a scientist with the alcohol research group at the Public Health Institute in California, recently supervised a study at college football games. She described a sea of empty White Claw hard seltzer cans covering the floor of a student section at one stadium.
“The carbonation and sugar content can make it taste like you aren’t drinking alcohol,” she said.
A Tantalizing Opportunity
Americans’ drinking habits have been shifting over time. The popular practice of avoiding calories and carbs has been driving down beer’s market share for years, said Bonnie Herzog, a Goldman Sachs managing director who analyzes the beverage industry. At the same time, alcohol companies are vying to win back people under 30, who are consuming less alcohol than did previous generations at that age. And the coronavirus pandemic supercharged sales of portable products as consumers sought beverages they could drink at home.
“Health and wellness, variety, convenience — that’s the appeal,” Herzog said.
Hard Mtn Dew exemplifies these trends. It is sugar- and caffeine-free, and taps into consumers’ connection to a brand they’ve known for years. Although the new product is 5% alcohol by volume, a 24-ounce can contains the equivalent of two standard drinks. Fans who got an early taste seemed to like it. “I drank Hard Mountain Dew and felt like I was staring at God,” an online reviewer wrote.
Major alcohol producers such as Anheuser-Busch InBev and Diageo have invested heavily in this category, but the moment has also presented traditional soda makers with a tantalizing new market, Herzog said. In addition, manufacturers and distributors make a higher profit per case of alcoholic beverages than for nonalcoholic drinks, according to Kevin Asato, a beverage industry consultant.
In 2018, Coca-Cola dipped a toe in the market when it introduced Lemon-Dou in Japan, the first hard drink among its brands since the 1980s. In 2020, the company paired with Molson Coors Brewing Co. to make Topo Chico Hard Seltzers, and last year, Coca-Cola entered into agreements to produce Fresca Mixed cocktails, Simply Spiked Lemonade and a canned Jack & Coke.
On an earnings call on Feb. 14, James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola, cited its “early alcohol experiments” like Jack & Coke, scheduled for sale in California at the end of next month, as a way for the company to be “a total beverage company — everywhere.”
By licensing its soft drink brands to established alcohol makers for sale through existing distributors, Coca-Cola kept within the lanes of the regulatory firewalls that separate alcohol producers, distributors and retailers. This three-tier system has characterized the U.S. alcohol industry since the repeal of Prohibition and is intended to prevent a single company from vertically integrating and suppressing its competitors.
PepsiCo, in contrast, has attached fewer of its brands to new alcoholic drinks — just Hard Mtn Dew and Lipton Hard Iced Tea, so far — but has shown greater willingness to disrupt the status quo.
The company established a wholly owned subsidiary, Blue Cloud Distribution, to keep more control over sales and marketing, and a greater share of the profits. The venture involved hiring more than 250 employees and obtaining individual state licenses to distribute alcohol and a fleet of trucks.
To comply with the three-tier system, PepsiCo licensed Mountain Dew’s brand to the Boston Beer Co. and provided it with Mountain Dew flavoring. That way, PepsiCo is independent from production and can instead control distribution.
Not all states have approved of the arrangement. Last spring, regulators in Kentucky and Georgia denied Blue Cloud distributor licenses, ruling that Blue Cloud had blurred the lines between manufacturer and distributor. Indiana regulators denied Blue Cloud a comparable license last month.
Jeff Birnbaum, a spokesperson for Blue Cloud, pointed out that Hard Mtn Dew and Lipton Hard Iced Tea are manufactured and marketed by separate companies, in accordance with the three-tier system.
Local beer distributors have also tried to block the new competition. In October, beer wholesalers in Nevada and Virginia filed complaints with regulators asking them to revoke Blue Cloud’s licenses.
And in December, independent beer distributors appealed to federal regulators, calling on the Treasury Department’s alcohol and tobacco tax bureau to investigate whether retailers were giving soft drink companies more favorable treatment of their alcoholic products. Soda companies routinely pay retailers so-called slotting fees for prominent placement of their products, but doing so for alcoholic beverages would violate the three-tier system, the distributors argued.
They also provided photographs of what they called “inappropriate placement” of Hard Mtn Dew in stores, shown next to children’s juice boxes and toy cars.
Birnbaum, a spokesperson for Blue Cloud, said the company did not dictate to retailers how to display its drinks but urged them to avoid confusing alcoholic and nonalcoholic products and to correct improper placement. He also noted Hard Mtn Dew was priced and packaged in line with other malt-based, ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages and “boldly says on its label that it is for individuals 21 and older.”
Mary Ryan, administrator of the alcohol tax and trade bureau, said her office had not received evidence of any violations. The bureau is accepting public comments until June 7 on whether it should revise regulations that assess the independence of retailers, among others.
Sarwat, the beverage analyst, expressed doubt that the tactics employed by Blue Cloud and PepsiCo would lead to abandoning the three-tier regulatory system — but she didn’t dismiss their influence.
“Any time Pepsi or Coke do anything, given how deep their pockets are, it is one to watch closely,” she said.
The Effects on Health
Excess drinking already kills more than 140,000 Americans each year, according to the latest estimates, far surpassing drug overdoses or firearm deaths.
Alcohol experts take heart at the growing ranks of openly “sober curious” young people, and beverage companies are trying to tap that group with a profusion of new nonalcoholic products, including zero-proof wines and nonalcoholic aperitivos. But some public health experts have expressed concerns that the widening variety of alcoholic drinks could reverse those trends.
The long-term effects on drinking habits will not be known for years, according to Matt Rossheim, an associate professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. “In public health, it’s constantly this game of Whac-a-Mole, as industry is just so quick to innovate and launch things, and then it takes us years and years to figure out what happened,” he said.
Of the few government surveys measuring drinking behaviors, none collect detailed data on the new alcoholic beverages, said Marissa Esser, who leads the alcohol program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Monitoring the Future survey, which measures substance use among eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade U.S. students, will include questions about hard seltzers and ready-to-drink cocktails for the first time this fall.
Because these types of drinks tend to be inexpensive, packaged in single-serve containers and sold in places like gas stations and convenience stores, they are likely to appeal to young people, Rossheim suggested.
Industry executives acknowledged the marketing benefit that springboards off familiar brands. On an earnings call in November, Rodney Sacks, CEO of Monster Beverage, pointed out that the new line’s products featured “mean green,” “white haze,” “peach perfect” and “scary berries” — all “based on Monster’s well known and popular flavor profiles.”
Women are a coveted consumer. Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, said the push into hard sodas appeared to target the female drinker, whose alcohol intake has been catching up to men’s in recent years. “A low-calorie, flavored alcohol beverage has been their tried-and-true approach to attracting a female market,” she said.
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China calls Biden comments calling leader Xi a dictator ‘extremely absurd and irresponsible’
BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday called comments by President Joe Biden describing Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator “extremely absurd and irresponsible.”
The new clash of words comes just over a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing that sought to break the ice in a relationship that has hit a historical low.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Biden’s comments at a fundraiser in California “go totally against facts and seriously violate diplomatic protocol, and severely infringe on China’s political dignity.”
“It is a blatant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition,” Mao said at a daily briefing.
“The U.S. remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible,” Mao said.
Blinken’s visit, during which he met with Xi, was aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers but appeared not to have achieved any solid results.
Biden, at the fundraiser on Tuesday night local time, said that Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions surrounding a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been shot down by the Air Force over the East Coast.
“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn’t know what happened,” Biden said.
Mao reiterated China’s contention that the balloon was intended for meteorological research and had been blown off course accidentally.
“The U.S. should have handled it in a calm and professional manner,” she said. “”However, the U.S. distorted facts and used forces to hype up the incident, fully revealing its nature of bullying and hegemony.”
Blinken’s visit had been originally scheduled for February, but was put on hold after the balloon incident. While it marked a return to high-level contacts between the sides, China continues to refuse talks between their militaries.
In recent days, the U.S. says Chinese warplanes and naval ships have maneuvered in threatening ways to their U.S. counterparts in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, despite agreements between them on protocols for avoiding such incidents.
During Blinken’s visit, China reiterated its strong objections to U.S. support for the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory. The U.S. has also sought to block Beijing’s access to cutting-edge computer chip manufacturing technology that could be used for military purposes, and accused China of stealing American intellectual property.
After meeting with Xi on Monday, Blinken acknowledged entrenched differences. “We have no illusions about the challenges of managing this relationship. There are many issues on which we profoundly, even vehemently, disagree,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government imposed sanctions Monday on a Bosnian state prosecutor who is accused of being complicit in corruption and undermining democratic processes in the Western Balkans.
The Treasury Department said its Office of Foreign Assets Control designated sanctions against state prosecutor Diana Kajmakovic, whom the agency calls a “brazenly corrupt state prosecutor with links to criminal organizations.”
Treasury says Kajmakovic was identified during a larger law enforcement crackdown on organized crime and narcotics trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Investigators analyzed encrypted conversations that mentioned Kajmakovic working in support of narcotics traffickers and other criminals, the agency said.
Kajmakovic allegedly helped hide evidence, prevent prosecution and assist criminal activity in exchange for personal gain and helped to block an investigation into her alleged criminal affiliates.
The U.S. government uses an executive order signed by President Joe Biden as its authority to impose sanctions. The order addresses people who threaten international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — For at least one night, the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t miss Giannis Antetokounmpo at all.
Brook Lopez scored 25 points, Jrue Holiday added 24 and the hot-shooting Bucks withstood Antetokounmpo’s absence while trouncing the Miami Heat 138-122 on Wednesday, tying their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at a game apiece.
Milwaukee shot 25 of 49 from 3-point range to match an NBA record for 3-pointers in a game as the Bucks showcased their depth by thriving without their two-time MVP. Pat Connaughton, who hadn’t even played in Game 1, scored a playoff career-high 22 points and shot 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
“Everyone’s ready,” Lopez said. “Everyone has the right mentality coming into the game — the mentality it takes to be a Milwaukee Buck. There’s no one above anyone else. We’re just out there trying to win.”
Antetokounmpo remained out for Milwaukee after leaving the Bucks’ 130-117 Game 1 loss early in the second quarter with a bruised lower back. He suffered the injury on a hard fall after getting fouled late in the first period during a drive to the basket.
“We’ll continue to monitor him and expect for him to improve and still continue to be optimistic that soon he’ll be ready to play,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said before the game.
The Bucks’ ability to succeed without their superstar assured this series would be tied as it heads to Miami for Game 3 on Saturday.
“I would like to be up 2-0, but that’s in the past now,” said Jimmy Butler, who led the Heat with 25 points. “So we’re taking it to the crib, and we’ve got to handle business on our home floor.”
Milwaukee now shares the NBA record for 3-pointers in a playoff game with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who made 25 in a 123-98 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 2 of the 2016 East semifinals.
It was a remarkable turnaround for a team that shot 11 of 45 from beyond the arc in its Game 1 loss.
“There was a stretch there where it seemed like everything was going in,” said Grayson Allen, who was 4 of 8 from beyond the arc and scored 16 points.
Allen was one of six Bucks with at least 16 points as Milwaukee relied on a team effort to make up for Antetokounmpo’s absence. Joe Ingles had 17 points while shooting 5 of 6 from beyond the arc. Khris Middleton had 16.
“It takes the whole team,” Middleton said. “I think you saw that tonight. It wasn’t just one guy that carried us. A lot of people expect me or Jrue to take on all the load that Giannis does, but what he does, we can’t match. So we have to do it by committee.”
The Bucks also were missing guard Wesley Matthews, who had strained his right calf in Game 1. The Heat didn’t have Tyler Herro, who broke his right hand in Game 1 and likely won’t return this season unless Miami reaches the NBA Finals.
The Bucks initially thrived by relying on the same formula they used the last time they played a home postseason game without Antetokounmpo. They gave the ball to Lopez early and often.
Lopez, who scored just 10 points in Game 1, had 14 by the end of the first quarter Wednesday. During Milwaukee’s 2021 title run, Lopez had scored a playoff career-high 34 points to help the Bucks beat the Hawks 123-112 in Game 5 of the East finals while Antetokounmpo was out with a hyperextended left knee.
The success of Lopez inside opened things up for everyone on the perimeter.
Connaughton sank a 3-pointer that capped an 11-0 run to put Milwaukee ahead 62-41 with 5:29 left in the second quarter. Butler ended that spurt by making two free throws, but the Bucks scored the next 13 points – including seven from Ingles – to grab a 32-point lead.
“They had some good, clean, easy looks in the beginning,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said., “And then once they got on a roll, they were hitting some tough step-backs, stuff at the end of the shot clock. Any time there was kind of a momentum shift, they seemed to knock down a big one.”
The Bucks led by as many as 36 in the third quarter. The Heat outscored the Bucks 37-20 in the fourth quarter to make the final score somewhat respectable. TIP-INS
Heat: Duncan Robinson replaced Herro in the starting lineup and had 14 points. … After not playing at all in Game 1, Victor Oladipo had seven points by halftime Wednesday. He finished with 15.
Bucks: Milwaukee had gone 11-8 in regular-season games that Antetokounmpo missed. … Lopez received the NBA Cares Community Assist award for the month of March because of his support of youth literacy. The NBA will donate $10,000 to the Milwaukee Public Library Foundation.
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Experienced Digital Healthcare Advisor & Management Expert to Assist Digestive Disease Startup
CHICAGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivante Health, the leading digital solution for digestive health and disease, today announced the addition of business management authority and Wharton School of Business faculty member Rachel Pacheco to the company's board of directors. Pacheco will work with the company's leadership team and other board members to help scale the business amid a growing need by employers and health plans for solutions that both reduce medical claims and help employees improve their digestive health.
Pacheco teaches global strategy and organizational behavior at the Wharton School, is the author of Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, and serves on the board of advisors of multiple startups in the digital health and wellness space including Maven Clinic and Wellthy.
Her background also includes serving on the executive teams of several healthcare and big data startups, as chief people officer at a healthcare consultancy, and as a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches entrepreneurial courses focusing on the practical side of working in a small organization. She holds a PhD and MBA from The Wharton School and a BS from Georgetown University.
"We are currently in strong growth mode with a 400% growth in our client base since 2021, multiple Fortune 500 clients, and partnerships with best-in-class employer healthcare solutions," said Bill Snyder, Vivante Health CEO. "Rachel's experience in helping young companies build a culture that can both drive and support expansion will be instrumental in helping us sustain that momentum and continue delivering world-class care to clients and their employees."
Pacheco joins a board of prominent benefit specialists and investors that includes Sally Welborn, former senior vice president of global benefits for Walmart Stores, Inc., and a consultant on healthcare and employee benefits; Shawn Ellis, managing director at NFP Ventures and managing partner at Distributed Ventures; and Robert Garber, a partner at 7wireVentures. Both NFP Ventures and 7wireVentures are investors in Vivante Health, which closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by 7wireVentures in March.
"Digital health is transforming healthcare, and Vivante Health is in the forefront of the movement in the digestive disease space," Pacheco said. "Joining their board gives me the opportunity to improve the lives of some of the more than 70 million Americans suffering from digestive health issues by helping build a business foundation that can carry the company into their next phase of growth."
Vivante Health's GIThrive is the first comprehensive digital health platform designed specifically to address digestive health issues. The platform combines gut bacteria analysis and trigger food identification with app-based personalized action plans, food diaries, educational materials, and 24/7 personal support from registered dietitians and health coaches backed by a multidisciplinary team of gastroenterologists, microbiome scientists and other clinical professionals. The program is designed to educate, coach and monitor users to reduce dependence on medications, reduce flare ups, and ultimately improve quality of life – all without lab visits or in-person appointments.
One nonprofit organization participating in the GIThrive program reduced annual medical spend for participants by 15% thanks to fewer emergency room visits and inpatient admissions. In addition, 70% of participants reported a positive impact on their health.
About Vivante Health
Vivante Health is an innovative digital healthcare company reinventing the way chronic conditions are managed, gut first. The company's all-in-one gut health program, GIThrive, empowers people to improve digestive health through easy-to-use technology, advanced science and on-demand human support, while also lowering their cost of care. For more information, visit the company website or email info@vivantehealth.com.
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Prestigious award honors "innovation in the legal technology sector and for working on precedent-setting, game-changing projects and initiatives."
ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- David Carter, founder and CEO of Calloquy, PBC, the first remote litigation platform designed for litigators, has been named a finalist for Innovator of the Year as part of Legalweek's Leaders in Tech Law Awards. The winner of the award will be announced during an in-person awards ceremony at 2023's Legalweek to be held in March in New York, one of the most respected events for legal professionals to examine the changing legal landscape and seek solutions that empower leaders to reimagine today's law firms and legal departments.
Carter is dedicated to innovation in the legal profession. As a partner at an AmLaw100 law firm leading litigation teams through early days of the pandemic, it became clear to him that mass-market videoconference platforms had serious shortcomings when it came to protecting the attorney-client privilege and offering a secure environment to conduct litigation. "Each day, litigators across the country place their client's most sensitive discovery data at risk when they participate in depositions on platforms that are not built for litigation. Calloquy's mission is to fix that. We have created a platform that makes remote litigation teams more efficient in their work at every step of the case, while providing a more secure environment for conducting remote depositions, arbitrations, and mediations." Building a company from the ground up with a perpetual focus on securing client information and protecting work product and attorney-client privileges means that security and compliance have been cornerstones of the platform's framework since inception.
A sizable component of that framework is the precautions Calloquy takes to ensure its court reporters operate in a secure environment. Calloquy's fulltime court reporters conduct depositions and arbitrations from the company's secure facility, leveraging their state-of-the-art technology, secure network, and redundant internet connectivity to ensure a high-quality and secure experience. Employing their own court reporters means Calloquy can provide more accurate transcripts and provide them more expeditiously.
This innovative approach to making remote litigation is evident throughout the platform. Bill Koch, Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer at Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, heralds Calloquy's one-of-kind melding of standard tenets of litigation with new sophisticated concepts. "It's been very apparent throughout our beta testing process that Calloquy has looked to the future and met head-on important challenges facing today's litigators. Calloquy has left the one-size-fits-all norm behind and has created a purposeful, focused platform for online legal proceedings that intelligently combines traditional style with high-tech, innovative concepts - all immediately recognizable and usable by litigators."
While Carter is eager to push the boundaries of the ever-shifting legal landscape, he is just as focused on ensuring that the company makes a positive impact. Calloquy is a Public Benefit Corporation. As top law firms begin to use Calloquy, the company is able to provide free platform access to legal service organizations and pro bono cases. Diversity is also a central theme for Carter's professional experience. He was honored to serve as lead counsel representing thousands of police officers, fighters and paramedics across the country in amicus briefing before the federal appellate courts in favor of marriage equality. His career as a telecommunications lawyer focused on making systems and technology more accessible for rural and underserved areas. While an equity partner, Carter served on his firm's Mansfield Rules Taskforce, which helps to implement practices that lead to more diverse applicant pools for hiring and leadership positions throughout the firm.
Calloquy is an Atlanta-based public benefit company (PBC) with 60+ employees. Calloquy is headquartered in Atlanta with offices in Dallas, Texas and Tustin, California.
ABOUT CALLOQUY
Calloquy is the first virtual legal proceedings platform intentionally built for the way litigation is practiced now. Its technology and court reporting services empower attorneys to conduct and manage legal proceedings more effectively and securely, while increasing productivity and reducing costs. The company provides remote court reporting services from its secure facilities, helping to ensure that the process is more secure from start to finish. The company is helping to shape The Next Era of Litigation™ by combining legal industry-specific videoconferencing technology, world-class security, highly professional court reporting services, and an access-to-justice social mission. Calloquy is a Public Benefit Corporation, and its commercial litigation clients fuel that mission by enabling the company to provide free platform access to legal service organizations and pro bono cases. For more information, please visit www.calloquy.com
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CNX-Network, a blockchain-based application platform, has announced that the presale is live. The presale, which is now taking place via the official website, will come with several added benefits for those who participate.
The network is one that takes the typical interfaces of popular online platforms and recreates them on their blockchain. Applications that we all use on a daily basis are mostly owned by major companies and platforms. Since they have created a monopoly position in these markets for themselves, customers have no choice then to accept the terms set by these companies. This causes them to pay high fees and make multiple accounts for every individual needed application.
CNX-Network recreates these daily used platforms, and combines them into a user-friendly network. Having a similar interface for every application makes it very easy to use and accessible for everyone.
As Dominic Letsch, the CEO of CNX-Network, explains, "Why can't we create an ecosystem of all of the existing platforms, with almost no fees, running on our own blockchain and cryptocurrency. In this way, we can help people with lower incomes use these platforms without the high costs."
Following the presale, there are plans to create hundreds of platforms through the CNX-Network and allow one login and user account to have access to all of them. The very low fee that will be paid for this access and use of the applications will be in the form of the platform's native CNX token.
CNX-Network is currently planning to get listed on multiple exchanges and has surpassed 250,000 unique users on their network already. Interested parties are encouraged to sign up via the official CNX-Network website for more information.
About CNX-Network
CNX-Network is a blockchain-based utility network that offers access to the many interfaces that drive the modern world, all built on decentralized technology. Backed by a team of experts in finance and tech, the CNX-Network is a fast-expanding project with plans to take on the digital world at large.
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KYIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports.
The next time he turned up — 20 hours later — it was in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine.
Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday was the first time in modern history that a U.S. leader visited a warzone outside the aegis of the U.S. military — a feat the White House said carried some risk even though Moscow was given a heads-up.
Over the next five hours, the president made multiple stops around town — ferried about in a black SUV rather than the presidential limousine — without any announcement to the Ukrainian public that he was there. But all that activity attracted enough attention that word of his presence leaked out well before he could get back to Poland, which was the original plan. Aides at the White House were surprised the secret held as long as it did.
But Russia knew what the Ukrainian public did not. U.S. officials had given Moscow notice of Biden's trip.
The president had been itching since last year to join the parade of other Western officials who have visited Kyiv to pledge support standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the capital.
Biden's planned trip to Warsaw, Poland, and the Presidents' Day holiday provided an obvious opening to tack on a stop in Kyiv. A small group of senior officials at the White House and across U.S. national security agencies set about working in secret for months to make it happen, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. Biden only gave the final sign-off on Friday.
Sullivan said the trip “required a security, operational, and logistical effort from professionals across the U.S. government to take what was an inherently risky undertaking and make it a manageable risk.”
Once Biden was secreted aboard the Air Force jet, the call sign “SAM060,” for Special Air Mission, was used for the plane instead of the usual “Air Force One.” It took off from Joint Base Andrews at 4:15 a.m. Eastern time.
After a refueling stop in Germany, Biden’s aircraft switched off its transponder for the roughly hour-long flight to Rzeszow, Poland, the airport that has served as the gateway for billions of dollars in Western arms and VIP visitors into Ukraine.
He arrived in Kyiv at 8 a.m. Monday and was greeted by Ambassador Bridget Brink and entered his motorcade for the drive to Mariinsky Palace. Even while he was on the ground in Ukraine, flights transporting military equipment and other goods were continuing unabated to Rzeszow from Western cities.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, many main streets and central blocks were cordoned off without explanation. People started sharing videos of long motorcades of cars speeding along streets where access was restricted — the first clues that Biden had arrived.
Biden traveled with a far smaller than usual retinue: Sullivan, deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon and the director of Oval Office operations, Annie Tomasini. They were joined by his Secret Service detail, the military aide carrying the so-called “nuclear football,” a small medical team and the official White House photographer.
Only two journalists were on board instead of the usual complement of 13. Their electronic devices were powered off and turned over to the White House for the duration of the trip into Ukraine. A small number of journalists based in Ukraine were summoned to a downtown hotel on Monday morning to join them, not informed that Biden was visiting until shortly before his arrival.
Even with Western surface-to-air missile systems bolstering Ukraine’s defenses, it was rare for a U.S. leader to travel to a conflict zone where the U.S. or its allies did not have control over the airspace.
The U.S. military does not have a presence in Ukraine other than a small detachment of Marines guarding the embassy in Kyiv, making Biden’s visit more complicated than visits by prior U.S. leaders to war zones.
“We did notify the Russians that President Biden will be traveling to Kyiv,” Sullivan told reporters. “We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes.” He declined to specify the exact message or to whom it was delivered but said the heads-up was to avoid any miscalculation that could bring the two nuclear-armed nations into direct conflict.
While Biden was in Kyiv, U.S. surveillance planes, including E-3 Sentry airborne radar and an electronic RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft, were keeping watch over Kyiv from Polish airspace.
The sealing off of Kyiv roads that are usually humming with traffic brought an eerie calm to the center of the capital. It was so quiet that crows could be heard cawing as Biden and Zelenskyy walked from their motorcade to the gold-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral under skies as blue as the outer walls of the cathedral itself.
“Let’s walk in and take a look,” Biden said, wearing his trademark aviator sunglasses against the glare. The presidents disappeared inside as heavily armed soldiers stood guard outside.
Cathedral bells chirped at the stroke of 11:30 a.m. followed shortly by air raid alarms, at 11:34 a.m., just before the men reemerged. The sirens were first a distant howl rising over the city, followed seconds later by alarms from mobile phone apps wailing from people’s pockets.
Those alarms are voiced by “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill, and his Luke Skywalker voice urged people to take cover, warning: “Don’t be careless. Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
The two leaders walked at a measured pace with no outward signs of concern through the cathedral's arched front gate onto the square in front, where the rusting hulks of destroyed Russian tanks and other armored vehicles have been stationed as grim reminders of the war.
When the square isn’t blocked off, as it was during the leaders’ visit, people come to look at the vehicles, many taking selfies.
Biden appeared to pay the hulks no mind as he and Zelenskyy followed behind honor guards carrying two wreaths to the wall of remembrance honoring Ukrainian soldiers killed since 2014, the year Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and Russian-backed fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine.
It was only then that the first images of Biden in the capital popped up on Ukrainian social media and the secret visit became global news.
The all-clear notice, also voiced by Hamill, sounded at 1:07 p.m., long after Biden had headed to the U.S. Embassy for a brief stop before departing the country.
“The air alert is over," Hamill said. “May the force be with you.”
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Police are searching for two suspects involved in an armed robbery that took place in the East Highland Park neighborhood of Henrico.
At around 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, officers were called to the 2600 block of Byron Street for a reported robbery. Upon their arrival, officers learned that the victim had reportedly been robbed of items by two suspects.
One of the suspects reportedly brandished a firearm during the robbery but no injuries were reported, according to police.
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- Exro will supply development partner SEA Electric with high-voltage Coil Drive Systems, comprised of a high-voltage Coil Driver™ and an electric motor, beginning with a pilot in Q4 2022.
- After successful in-field validation with the pilot, the first purchase order will supply 500 units with deliveries starting in Q4 2023, followed by increasing volume of production series systems up to a minimum of 1,500 units over the 36-month term of the agreement.
- SEA Electric's innovative zero-emissions electric vehicle powertrains, optimized with Exro's Coil Driver™ technology, will make next-generation Class 5/6 delivery applications more sustainable, cost-effective and efficient.
- The announcement is the latest in a series of contracts that have converted partners into commercial customers.
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Exro Technologies Inc. (TSX: EXRO) (OTCQB: EXROF) (the "Company" or "Exro"), a leading clean technology company that has developed a new class of power control electronics for electric motors and batteries, today announced that it has signed an initial purchase order and multiyear master sales and service agreement (the "agreement") to supply 1,500 Coil Drive System units to industry leading commercial electric vehicle company SEA Electric ("SEA"). Today's announcement is the latest in a series of commercial agreements with Exro's development partners.
Widely recognized as a market leader in the electrification of commercial vehicles, SEA Electric has a global presence, deploying product in seven countries including USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia and South Africa with collectively more than one million miles of independently OEM-tested and in-service international operation.
Under the agreement, SEA Electric will purchase high-voltage Coil Drive System units from Exro, along with a production slot, system pricing and commissioning services. Pilot vehicle integration will begin as early as November of this year, followed by track and on-road testing in 2023. These testing phases will culminate with series production Exro 400V Coil Drive System units.
The agreement commences with delivery of up to 25 Coil Drive System sample units comprised of a high-voltage Coil Driver™ and an electric motor. These sample units will be used as a part of a joint nine-to-twelve-month pilot program as part of SEA Electric's rigorous on-road testing phase in the company's next-generation F-59 Class 5/6 delivery vehicles. After successful in-field validation, the first purchase order will supply 500 units with deliveries starting in Q4 2023, followed by an increasing volume of production series systems up to a minimum of 1,500 units over the 36-month term of the agreement.
Exro and SEA Electric have collaborated on a wide range of projects since early 2020. Following the development efforts between the companies, this agreement moves the partnership into a new commercial phase for SEA Electric's next generation F59. Exro and SEA Electric continue to collaborate and move forward with additional development projects, including an SiC 800V application for a next generation Mack LR heavy duty truck.
Exro's Coil Driver™ technology accelerates the transition toward electrification in mobility by solving performance-cost trade-offs. The Coil Driver™ is a unique Edison Gold award-winning technology that optimizes the performance and efficiency of electric motors and batteries through power electronics. In e-mobility, this proprietary control technology utilizes the physics of coil-switching to expand the capabilities of motors by enabling two separate torque profiles (low speed torque, and torque at speed), effectively acting as an electronic gear. What this provides is the opportunity for manufacturers, like SEA Electric, to reduce the number of motors, the size of batteries and eliminate the need for mechanical gearing allowing electric vehicles to achieve better acceleration, gradeability, high-speed torque and improved efficiencies for a lower cost.
Automotive-grade Coil Driver™ units will be manufactured at Exro's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Calgary, Alberta. The 37,000 square foot facility is unique in North America and utilizes clean energy solutions including solar power and battery energy storage with a net-zero carbon emissions objective. With industry focused on reshoring resources to improve delivery, Exro's sustainable manufacturing capabilities are positioned to be a competitive advantage for customers looking to secure low-risk long-term supply chain components.
"Our goal over the next five years is to eliminate 2.5 billion pounds of CO2 emissions through the deployment of our electric delivery and garbage trucks, shuttle buses, cargo vans, and more," said Tony Fairweather, Chief Executive Officer of SEA Electric. "Exro's innovative Coil Driver technology will help accelerate our goal, by enabling the next generation of our electric fleets to consume power more intelligently and with minimal resources or waste."
"We are thrilled to announce another milestone in our partnership with SEA Electric," said Sue Ozdemir, Exro CEO. "The project has faced delays as taking new tech to market is never linear, but this milestone is representative of SEA and Exro's joint commitment to next-generation electrification in e-mobility. As we look to 2023 and beyond, our technology is de-risked, and momentum is building with customers like SEA who are looking for a differentiated technology that can improve performance while reducing cost. This latest announcement is a demonstration of Exro advancing to the next phase with a great partner and major industry player, and we are pleased to signal this unlocking of value to the market for our shareholders."
Exro is a clean technology company pioneering intelligent control solutions in power electronics to help solve the most challenging problems in electrification. Exro has developed a new class of control technology that expands the capabilities of electric motors, generators, and batteries. Exro enables the application to achieve more with less energy consumed.
Exro's advanced motor control technology, the Coil DriverTM, expands the capabilities of electric powertrains by enabling intelligent optimization for efficient energy consumption. Exro is working with many partners from all over the world to bring their technology to the electric mobility industries and beyond.
For more information visit our website at www.exro.com.
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Global automotive technology company SEA Electric was founded in Australia in 2012, creating its proprietary electric power-system technology (known as SEA-Drive®) for the world's urban delivery and distribution fleets, as well as front powered school bus applications.
Widely recognized as a market leader in the electrification of commercial vehicles on a global basis, SEA Electric commands a global presence, deploying product in six countries including USA, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia, and South Africa with collectively more than one million miles of independently OEM-tested and in-service international operation.
The company's global sales, after-sales and engineering are represented in all subsidiaries, whilst North America is home to the company's headquarters.
For more information visit SEA Electric's website at www.sea-electric.com.
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US carrier, S Korea warships start new drills amid tensions
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan launched a new round of naval drills with South Korean warships on Friday, a day after North Korea fired more ballistic missiles and flew warplanes in an escalation of its weapons tests.
The Reagan and its battle group returned to the waters near the Korean Peninsula after North Korea earlier this week launched a nuclear-capable missile over Japan in response to the carrier group’s earlier training with South Korean navy ships. North Korea views U.S.-South Korean military exercises as a practice to invade the country.
The latest two-day drills, which also involve U.S. and South Korean destroyers and other ships, were taking place in international waters off the peninsula’s east coast. The drills are aimed at bolstering the allies’ defense capabilities and will involve training to escort the Reagan southeast of South Korea’s southern island of Jeju, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
“We will continue to strengthen our firm operational capabilities and readiness to respond to any provocations by North Korea,” the statement said.
North Korea may react to the new drills with more missile tests. The North’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday the carrier group’s redeployment poses “a serious threat to the stability of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity.”
North Korea’s record pace of weapons testing this year is intended to expand its arsenal so that it can credibly threaten the U.S. mainland and regional allies with nuclear arms, then engage in negotiations with the U.S. from a stronger position as a recognized nuclear state. Its two ballistic missile launches on Thursday were the North’s sixth round of weapons firings in less than two weeks.
The intermediate-range North Korean missile tested Tuesday was like a Hwasong-12 missile which is capable of reaching the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, observers say. Other missiles launched recently are short-range weapons that target South Korea.
North Korea is ready to conduct its first nuclear test in five years and is preparing to test a new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile and a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Heo Tae-keun, South Korea’s deputy minister of national defense policy, told lawmakers earlier this week.
On Friday, Heo had trilateral video calls with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts to discuss North Korea’s recent missile tests. They stressed the security cooperation among the three countries would be bolstered if the North continues its provocations, the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement.
On Thursday, naval destroyers of the three countries conducted one-day joint drills off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast to hone their abilities to search, track and intercept North Korean ballistic missiles. Last week, they held anti-submarines exercises involving the Reagan in the area.
North Korea also flew 12 warplanes dozens of kilometers from the inter-Korean border, prompting the South to scramble 30 military aircraft in response. There were no clashes.
The eight North Korean fighter jets and four bombers were believed to have conducted air-to-surface firing drills, South Korea’s military said. Yonhap news agency reported it was likely North Korea’s biggest warplane mobilization for such an exercise near the border.
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How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday 11/23/2022
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Stocks closed higher on Wall Street following the release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting, which showed Fed officials agreed that smaller rate hikes would likely be appropriate “soon.”
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Wednesday, the Nasdaq added 1% and the Dow climbed 0.3%.
Deere rose after the equipment maker reported higher earnings than analysts were expecting. Long-term Treasury yields were slightly lower. Oil prices fell, European markets closed mostly higher and Asian markets closed mixed overnight. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving and will close early on Friday.
On Wednesday:
The S&P 500 rose 23.68 points, or 0.6%, to 4,027.26.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 95.96 points, or 0.3%, to 34,194.06.
The Nasdaq rose 110.91 points, or 1%, to 11,285.32.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 3.08 points, or 0.2%, to 1,863.52.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 61.92 points, or 1.6%.
The Dow is up 448.37 points, or 1.3%.
The Nasdaq is up 139.25 points, or 1.2%.
The Russell 2000 is up 13.79 points, or 0.7%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 738.92 points, or 15.5%.
The Dow is down 2,144.24 points, or 5.9%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,359.65 points, or 27.9%.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – Lawmakers in Washington say they’ve found a solution for the pilot shortage by increasing the retirement age, a move that major pilot associations oppose out of safety concerns.
Lawmakers are celebrating a bipartisan agreement to fund the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years, which they say will also tackle major issues like “addressing workforce shortages in the aviation sector,” according to Rep. Don Davis (D-NC).
The legislation cleared the House on Thursday and now heads to the Senate. It includes a provision to raise the pilot retirement age from 65 to 67, a move that Senator Lindsey Graham says will “allow thousands of experienced and well-trained pilots to stay on the job.”
However, Captain Dennis Tajer says while the idea sounds good, the reality is different.
“Issues that may not keep someone from working as an attorney or as a doctor, keep you out of the flight deck,” Tajer said.
Tajer has been a pilot for over 30 years and is the spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association. He says the proposed retirement age increase would create other challenges.
“The real killer in this, the international group that handles flying, ICAO, does not allow flying outside of individual countries beyond age 65,” Tajer explained.
Tajer says that means international pilots may be forced to re-train on smaller domestic aircraft once they hit 65.
Additionally, pilot associations oppose increasing the retirement age. Along with Democratic Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who vows to try to stop the changes.
“I will continue to work with the Senate to ensure that we listen to our pilots,” Jackson Lee said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/house-bill-raises-retirement-age-to-quell-pilot-shortage/ | 2023-07-21 23:04:26 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/house-bill-raises-retirement-age-to-quell-pilot-shortage/ |
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The excitement continues at Yesway, one of the country's fastest growing convenience store chains! In May, the company celebrated the Grand Openings of three new Allsup's-branded stores located at 410 E. 11th Street in Friona, Texas; 1303 East 1st Street in Hereford, Texas; and 1590 Northwest Parkway in Azle, Texas. These are the latest in a previously announced series of both new to industry stores and major raze and rebuilds Yesway is undertaking within both the Yesway and Allsup's portfolios.
These three new stores each feature 5,630 square feet of interior merchandising space, 28 fueling positions, and are open 24 hours per day. Customers visiting these new stores will find their favorite Allsup's world-famous burritos; a full assortment of Yesway and Allsup's private label snacks; a new trucker/automotive section; high quality fresh Allsup's bread, milk, and eggs; and a beer cave; along with amenities including Western Union service, ATM availability, and Coin Cloud digital currency machines offering 30+ digital currencies.
To kick each of the week-long celebrations off with a bang, country music stars and ultimate Allsup's fans, Coffey Anderson and Will Banister, played free concerts for customers, families, and friends at the Azle Grand Opening and the joint Friona and Hereford Grand Opening respectively. Customers in attendance also enjoyed free Pepsi and Frito-Lay products, free hot dogs, an appearance by Tony the Tiger, and the chance to win exciting prizes.
"We are so pleased to bring these new stores to our long-time, loyal Allsup's customers in Friona, Hereford and Azle, Texas," said Tom Trkla, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yesway. "We also believe it is essential to support the people and the communities we serve. That is why, in honor of these latest grand openings, we have made donations of $1,250 each to the Friona Volunteer Fire Department, the Friona Police Department, the Hereford Food Pantry, the Hereford Police Department, the Azle Police Department, the Azle Fire Department and EMS, and the Azle Independent School District," he added.
To learn more about upcoming Grand Openings taking place throughout the summer, or to find the Yesway or Allsup's store closest to you, please visit www.Yesway.com/locations or www.Allsups.com/allsups-locations/.
Editor note: Contact Erin Vadala, Warner Communications; (978) 468-3076; erin@warnerpr.com to arrange interviews. High-resolution images and graphics are available upon request.
About Yesway – Yesway is one of the fastest-growing convenience store operators in the United States. Established in 2015, Yesway is a multi-branded platform that acquires, transforms, and enhances portfolios of convenience stores by leveraging expertise in real estate and technology, and by implementing data-driven decision making. Yesway has recently been named the "2021 Convenience Store Chain of the Year" by CStore Decisions and is currently ranked #21 on the "2022 CSP Top 202 Chains" list by total portfolio size. Yesway ranked #2 in year-over-year relative store growth on the Convenience Store News "2020 Top 20 Growth Chains" list and its CEO has been named a "CSP 2020 Power 20 Deal Maker." Yesway's portfolio currently consists of 405 stores located in Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, including the Allsup's Convenience Store chain. www.yesway.com
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A procession of storms is drenching Northern California this week, with rainfall already topping 2 inches in San Francisco and surpassing 8 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains. More precipitation is on tap through the weekend, prompting concerns of widespread urban flooding and potential landslides.
The downpours are fueled by an atmospheric river, a band of moisture that can flow for thousands of miles, in this case from the tropical Pacific near Hawaii all the way to the West Coast. Even though you can’t see them, these rivers in the sky transport colossal amounts of water around the planet.
“An average atmospheric river instantaneously carries 2 to 3 times what the Amazon River typically carries,” said Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
When that moisture falls as rain, it can have devastating consequences. Scientists believe that a series of atmospheric rivers caused the Great Flood of 1862, a megaflood that left 6,000 square miles of California’s Central Valley underwater. Atmospheric rivers cause about $1.1 billion in flood damage annually across the western United States.
But atmospheric rivers also provide important benefits.
“They’re responsible for the majority of California’s water supply,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the Nature Conservancy.
During the wet season, atmospheric rivers replenish agricultural and urban water supplies. Such storms also build up the snowpack that supplies the state with water beyond the end of the wet season. Climate change, however, is transforming the nature of atmospheric rivers — which makes California’s relationship with them more perilous than ever.
What is an atmospheric river?
Scientists generally distinguish atmospheric rivers from other storms based on the large amounts of water they transport through the atmosphere — also known as vertically integrated water vapor transport, or IVT.
“It’s water moving fast above your head,” Swain said.
The higher the IVT, the more moisture being carried and the more precipitation on the way.
Atmospheric rivers also don’t look like typical storms. They stretch hundreds or even thousands of miles in length while spanning around 500 miles in width, on average. These corridors transport moisture relatively close to the Earth’s surface, within the lowest mile or two of the atmosphere. At any given moment, four or five atmospheric rivers, on average, are transiently ferrying moisture from tropical oceans to higher latitudes in each hemisphere.
Bands of moisture that make landfall in California are stretched out from tropical Pacific waters all the way to the West Coast. When atmospheric rivers encounter mountain ranges along the California coastline, moisture shoots upward into colder layers of the atmosphere and condenses into droplets that fall back to the surface as rain and snow.
In California, atmospheric rivers contribute up to 50% of the state’s annual precipitation, according to a 2011 study. The state’s unique topography along the coast shunts moisture upwards, where cooler temperatures transform water vapor to rain and snow.
“California’s mountains are very effective at squeezing the moisture out of atmospheric rivers,” Gershunov said.
Atmospheric rivers can also end droughts: 33% to 40% of droughts from 1950 to 2010 in California ended because of landfalling atmospheric rivers, according to a 2013 study.
Categorizing atmospheric rivers and their impacts
A recently developed system, similar to ratings for hurricanes and tornadoes, categorizes atmospheric river events on a scale from 1 through 5, based on how much moisture they carry and how long they last. Events on the lower end of the scale are beneficial, up to a point.
“Beyond that point, that’s when we start to have problems with atmospheric rivers, when they’re very intense,” Swain said.
In February 2017, a category 5 atmospheric river drenched Northern California and filled Lake Oroville in Butte County to the brim. Water cascaded over the emergency spillway and ate away at the ground holding up the structure. Fearing catastrophic failure, officials ordered evacuations of nearly 190,000 people downstream. The spillway held, but repairs cost over $1 billion.
The moisture that led to the 2017 storms emerged near Hawaii, but atmospheric rivers that make landfall on the West Coast can begin throughout the Pacific Ocean — even as far as Japan and Indonesia.
“Pineapple Express just refers to one type, or sub-flavor, of atmospheric rivers,” said Katerina Gonzales, a climate researcher with the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership.
Gonzales led a recent study that reported on how Pineapple Express-type atmospheric rivers that begin near Hawaii tend to carry more moisture and are slightly warmer than their counterparts during the winter months.
Whether an atmospheric river produces rain or snow upon landfall depends directly on temperature, Gonzales said. The warmer an atmospheric river, the higher it needs to travel before precipitation shifts from rain to snow.
In California, snowpack provides around a third of the state’s water supply. When drought isn’t raging, this critical resource steadily feeds reservoirs during warmer, drier months. Rain’s impact on streams, aquifers and reservoirs can be harder to predict and more ephemeral.
Having a clearer picture of how much rain or snow an incoming atmospheric river will bring may help water managers and adaptation planners prepare for deluges. Reconnaissance flights and data collected by instruments parachuted through atmospheric rivers are improving forecasts and contributing to research studies.
Sacramento underwater
Strong atmospheric rivers in quick succession could produce a megaflood on the scale of the 1862 Great Flood, when San Francisco tallied nearly 3 feet of rainfall and Sacramento was completely flooded, forcing Gov. Leland Stanford to row to his inauguration.
“It would be a very, very bad month for California,” Swain said. “It would be bad for virtually everybody.”
Swain and colleague Xingying Huang of the National Center for Atmospheric Research performed climate simulations and identified monthlong sequences that could produce widespread flooding across the state.
Given today’s climate, a series of atmospheric rivers could produce staggering amounts of precipitation in just 30 days: 40 to 55 inches in the Sierra Nevada, for example. This rain wasn’t constant over the scenario period. Instead, there were bursts of high precipitation intensities. Such a deluge would produce catastrophic flooding.
A megaflood could be even more likely in the coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the researchers found. In simulations of a warmer future, the precipitation was even more extreme, with the Sierra Nevada seeing an astounding 55 to 70 inches in 30 days. Across the entire state, the scenario packed 71% of the precipitation of an average water year into a 30-day period.
“That (scenario) would just blow anything we’ve seen out of the water — maybe even 1862,” Swain said.
On top of the heavier precipitation, in a warmer world, snow would be limited to higher, cooler elevations. That means a shift from water storage in snowpack to rain and potential runoff — a “double whammy” that increases flood risk even more, as described in Huang’s earlier work.
Atmospheric rivers in a warming world
As the climate warms, atmospheric rivers and storms are expected to become more intense and unleash more precipitation. But that doesn’t mean that droughts will be a thing of the past. California’s climate is also expected to swing more dramatically between dry and wet periods
“When it does rain, it’s more likely to pour,” Swain said.
This future will present additional challenges for reservoir managers trying to balance water supply needs with flood management.
One of the reasons for more extreme weather? Changes to the paths of jet streams — winds that circle the globe from west to east about 5 to 9 miles above the Earth’s surface and steer weather systems, like storms and atmospheric rivers. With global warming, these winds are expected to slow, causing heavy rains and heat waves to linger.
Scientists also expect the polar jet stream to move northward due to global warming. That would mean atmospheric rivers that make landfall in California today could just pass by to the north. Warming temperatures could also bring a northward shift of the subtropical jet, which would bring more atmospheric rivers to Southern California, according to a 2016 study.
But exactly to what degree atmospheric rivers will be redirected in the future is an emerging area of research.
“For California, it’s actually sort of uncertain what’s going to happen,” said Christine Shields, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and co-author of the 2016 study.
Harnessing the benefits and mitigating the damage of atmospheric rivers in the face of climate change will require human actions, like reining in greenhouse gas emissions and investing in resilient water infrastructure, Gonzales wrote in an opinion essay last year.
“Atmospheric rivers may be painted as the bad guy, when they’re neither the villain nor the savior of us,” Gonzales said.
Jack Lee (he/him) is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jack.lee@sfchronicle.com | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/Atmospheric-rivers-hitting-California-will-become-17686559.php | 2022-12-31 03:51:33 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/Atmospheric-rivers-hitting-California-will-become-17686559.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental skin patch is showing promise to treat toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts — training their bodies to handle an accidental bite.
Peanut allergy is one of the most common and dangerous food allergies. Parents of allergic tots are constantly on guard against exposures that can turn birthday parties and play dates into emergency room visits.
There is no cure. The only treatment is for children 4 and older who can consume a special peanut powder to protect against a severe reaction.
The patch, named Viaskin, aims to deliver that kind of treatment through the skin instead. In a major test with youngsters ages 1 to 3, it helped those who couldn’t tolerate even a small fraction of a peanut to eventually safely eat a few, researchers reported Wednesday.
If additional testing pans out, “this would fill a huge unmet need,” said Dr. Matthew Greenhawt, an allergist at Children’s Hospital Colorado who helped lead the study.
About 2% of U.S. children are allergic to peanuts, some so severely than even a tiny amount can cause a life-threatening reaction. Their immune system overreacts to peanut-containing foods, triggering an inflammatory cascade that causes hives, wheezing or worse. Some youngsters outgrow the allergy but most must avoid peanuts for life and carry rescue medicine to stave off a severe reaction if they accidentally ingest some.
In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment to induce tolerance to peanuts -– an “oral immunotherapy” named Palforzia that children ages 4 to 17 consume daily to keep up the protection. Aimmune Therapeutics’ Palforzia also is being tested in toddlers.
France’s DBV Technologies is pursuing skin-based immunotherapy as an alternative way to desensitize the body to allergens.
The Viaskin patch is coated with a small amount of peanut protein that is absorbed into the skin. A daily patch is worn between the shoulder blades, where toddlers can’t pull it off.
In the new study, 362 toddlers with peanut allergy first were tested to see how high a dose of peanut protein they could tolerate. Then they were randomly assigned to use the Viaskin patch or a lookalike dummy patch every day.
After a year of treatment, they were tested again and about two-thirds of the toddlers who used the real patch could safely ingest more peanuts, the equivalent of three to four, researchers concluded.
That compares to about a third of youngsters given the dummy patches. Greenhawt said they likely include children who are outgrowing the allergy.
As for safety, four Viaskin recipients experienced an allergic reaction called anaphylaxis that was deemed related to the patch. Three were treated with epinephrine to calm the reaction, and one dropped out of the study.
Some youngsters also accidentally ate peanut-containing foods during the study, and researchers said allergic reactions were less frequent among the Viaskin users than those wearing the dummy patches. The most common side effect was skin irritation at the patch site.
The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The results “are very good news for toddlers and their families as the next step toward a future with more treatments for food allergies,” Dr. Alkis Togias of the National Institutes of Health, which wasn’t involved with the study, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
Togias cautioned that it’s too early to compare oral and skin treatments, but pointed to data suggesting each might have different pros and cons — raising the possibility that oral therapy might be stronger but also cause more side effects.
DBV Technologies has struggled for several years to bring the peanut patch to market. Last month the company announced the FDA wants some additional safety data for toddlers, and a separate study already is tracking longer treatment. A study of 4- to 7-year-olds also is underway.
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Greg Abbott’s handwritten notes raise fresh questions over who “misled” him about Uvalde shooting response
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Handwritten notes Gov. Greg Abbott made following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde raise new questions about who allegedly “misled” the governor about the widely criticized police response to the shooting, causing him to initially relay inaccurate information to the public that he would later retract.
The nine pages of blue ink on white lined paper, first published by the Houston television station KTRK, show how Abbott prepared his remarks for a news conference May 25, the day after the shooting — presumably based on information being given to him. Abbott said Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officers had “engaged with the gunman” outside the school before the gunman was able to enter through a back door.
But that turned out to be false.
The next day, a Department of Public Safety commander said the gunman went into the school unobstructed by any police. Abbott, in turn, said he had taken handwritten notes based on the details law enforcement and other officials had told him, which are what he used to prepare his public statements about the incident. He added that he was “livid” about being “misled.”
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Handwritten notes by Gov. Greg Abbott on the Uvalde school shooting
Who exactly gave Abbott false information, however, remains a mystery. Abbott last week declined to identify the culprits, saying only they were “public officials.”
Uvalde CISD police Chief Pete Arredondo told The Texas Tribune this week that he was not the source. Arredondo said after he heard Abbott make the false statement that the shooter had been confronted outside the school, he asked DPS officials, whom he declined to identify, why state leaders had been given inaccurate information.
Abbott’s notes do not indicate who told him police confronted the gunman outside. Abbott wrote the word “mayor” at the top of the document. Uvalde Mayor Steve McLaughlin declined to answer questions about what he discussed with the governor before the May 25 news conference. DPS also declined to comment.
Since Abbott on May 25 praised the “amazing courage” of police and said the death toll of 21 students and teachers “could have been worse,” a more complicated picture of the law enforcement response to the shooting has emerged.
[“The wrong decision”: Texas DPS says local police made crucial error as school shooting continued]
State police said Arredondo, as incident commander, made the “wrong decision” by ordering officers not to immediately confront the shooter. Arredondo pushed back against that assertion last week, saying he was not in charge of the scene, did not issue any orders and immediately ran into the school upon his arrival, hoping to confront the shooter.
Despite being the school district police, Arredondo said he and his officers did not have keys to open the doors to the adjoining classrooms where the shooter carried out the massacre. More than 40 minutes passed before police were able to find a key that worked, enter the rooms and kill the gunman.
Arredondo is the only police officer who responded to the shooting to offer a public first-person account of his actions. Other agencies who responded — including the U.S. Border Patrol, Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office — declined to answer questions about their officers’ conduct.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — He sounded a global alarm, warning leaders about the survival of humanity and the planet. In language that was sometimes downright undiplomatic, he called out those he blames for the perilous state of the world.
It was Antonio Guterres’ strongest, most striking speech since he took the helm of the United Nations in 2017. And if you were the leader of a country, it was clear he wanted your undivided attention.
Guterres has spoken out often on growing geopolitical divisions, increasing inequality and the failure of nations to move quickly to tackle the climate crisis. But what was noticeable about his state-of-the-world speech Tuesday was its no-nonsense language, its gloomy tone and its focus not only on the breadth of challenges confronting “the splintering world” but his solutions — and his repeated plea to those in power that there is still hope and it’s time for action.
Guterres’ language was especially blunt when he lashed out at the growing divides in the world, saying “the international community is not ready or willing to tackle the big dramatic challenges of our age.” He then ticked them off — the war in Ukraine, spreading conficts, climate, money, ending extreme poverty and achieving quality education for all children.
The U.N. chief then took no-holds-barred aim at those he views as responsible.
Self-absorbed governments that are ignoring the U.N. Charter’s key principles of working together. Social media platforms ruled by profits that misinform, cause “untold damage” to people, communities and societies, and buy and sell data “to influence our behavior.” Artificial intelligence that “can compromise the integrity of information systems, the media and indeed democracy itself.”
There were more targets: the Group of 20 richest countries in the world that emit 80% of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. The fossil fuel industry that reaps hundreds of billions of dollars while family budgets shrink and the planet burns. In a controversial proposal, he called on rich developed countries to tax these windfall profits and use the money to help countries suffering losses from the climate crisis and people struggling with rising food and energy prices.
“Polluters must pay,” Guterres said — unusually stark language for the world’s most prominent diplomat.
To review Guterres’ language this week — and to compare it to a year ago — is instructive in understanding why his speech this year was so singular.
Last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic still raged, the secretary-general was already warning presidents and prime ministers that the world faced “the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime.” That was before Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking global food and energy crises and dividing the already splintered community of nations even further.
His warning this year was even more alarming: “Our world is in peril — and paralyzed.” And in perhaps his most dire warning, he said, “We have a duty to act. And yet we are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction.”
David Scheffer, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, said the 2022 version of Guterres is “a truth-teller” for a world “that has reached a point where either we’re surviving or we’re going to perish.”
“It’s the most consequential speech by a secretary-general in the history of the United Nations,” said Scheffer, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “He set out not only the crises of our time, but he sent out a clarion call to ensure the survival of both humanity and of the planet.”
He said Guterres abandoned “the niceties of diplomacy” and predicted that his speech will become known as the “survival” address.
“He basically said, `wake up,’ and he was not ambiguous about it,” Scheffer told The Associated Press. No leader, he said, can ignore or challenge “anything that the secretary-general said today without being regarded as an irrelevant leader at this time in history.”
Richard Gowan, U.N. director of the International Crisis Group, said he thought it was a “gloomy speech,” but he allowed that Guterres “has a lot to be gloomy about.”
“I do think he feels it’s urgent to speak as frankly as possible,” Gowan said. “His overarching goal was clearly to try to confront world leaders with the poor state of international cooperation and threats to the planet. I thought he did that pretty effectively, but he has made similarly dire warnings in the past with little real impact on international relations.”
For the first time at the high-level meeting, a secretary-general projected an image before world leaders to illustrate his speech — a picture of the first U.N.-chartered ship carrying grain from Ukraine. The Brave Commander was part of the deal between Ukraine and Russia that the United Nations and Turkey helped broker. It traveled from a Black Sea port to the Horn of Africa, where millions of people are on the edge of famine.
Guterres called it an example of promise and hope “in a world teeming with turmoil.” He stressed that that cooperation and dialogue are the only path forward, and he warned that “no power or group alone can call the shots.”
“Guterres has long been known to feel that the U.N. needs a couple of clear diplomatic wins to restore confidence in the utility of multilateralism,” Gowan said. “The grain deal gave him that win, and he used it well as a hook for his talk.”
A talk that will go down in U.N. history as something very different — no matter what direction the world goes from here.
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Edith M. Lederer, chief United Nations correspondent since 1998, has been covering international affairs for more than a half-century. For more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-analysis-un-chief-speaking-to-leaders-doesnt-mince-words/ | 2022-09-21 12:34:44 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-analysis-un-chief-speaking-to-leaders-doesnt-mince-words/ |
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — PGA Tour rookie Harry Hall intended to slip on his Vegas Golden Knights jersey while playing Colonial’s par-3 13th hole Saturday. That plan changed after falling out of the lead because of consecutive double bogeys.
It was only after finishing the third round back in a share of the lead, with Adam Schenk at 10-under 200, that the Englishman who lives in Las Vegas after playing at UNLV pulled on the jersey. His favorite NHL team was playing the local Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Final.
“Being 3 over going into the (13th) hole, I didn’t think that would be the best thing to do,” said Hall, who was the solo leader after the first and second rounds. “Yeah, I’m T1 after the round, so I thought I’d wear it in the interviews.”
Hall’s final putt in a round of 2-over 72 was a 10-foot par at No. 18 after he chipped from the fringe out of an awkward stance that had his heels hanging over the lip of a bunker. That followed a 10-foot birdie at the 383-yard 17th.
Schenk, also looking for his first win but in his 171st PGA Tour event, closed out a 67 with a 16-foot birdie putt.
“It was a lot of luck making that putt. It was a foot and a half of break and extremely fast,” he said.
The 31-year-old Indiana native was the runner-up at the Valspar Championship in mid-March, but has since missed four cuts and tied for 31st at the RBC Heritage. He hit 11 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 greens while recording only one bogey Saturday.
“We just did a really good job managing everything today. It was one of those days where right where we were looking was right where I actually hit it,” Scheck said. “It doesn’t happen very often, but it’s nice when it does.”
Harris English, who shot a 70 in the final group with Hall, was a stroke back at 9-under 201 after his bogey on 18, when an 8-foot par chance curled just by the cup. That was two holes after he had sole possession of the lead with a 40-foot birdie on the par-3 16th.
Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world and the Colonial runner-up last year, bogeyed three of his last five holes for a 72 after opening with consecutive 67s. He was among six players tied for 10th place at 4 under.
Defending champion Sam Burns, who overcame a seven-stroke deficit in the final round last year and beat Scheffler on the first playoff hole, had his second consecutive 70. He is tied for 16th at 3 under, again seven strokes off the lead after three rounds.
The only player to win in back-to-back years was Ben Hogan, who did it twice — 1946 and 1947, the event’s first two years, and again in 1952-53.
It is the first time since 2014 that it is a shared lead going into the final round at Colonial. There was a four-way tie after 54 holes that year, though eventual winner Adam Scott wasn’t part of that quartet.
Hall’s double-bogeys came at Nos. 6 and 7, after 14 birdies and only two bogeys in his 41 holes before that.
After his tee shot at the 401-yard sixth hole went into the right rough, Hall’s approach settled behind a temporary concession stand. After several minutes with a rules official, a couple of drops on a cart and a couple of more on a washed-out area of turf, his pitch through a small gap came up short in the rough of the mounded green.
That double-bogey took him to 10 under, at the same time Emiliano Grillo missed a 6-foot par putt a hole ahead to drop to the same score — and a share of the lead, instead of having it outright.
Grillo has a double-bogey and two bogeys over his last six holes in a round of 72 that left him at 6 under and tied for fourth place with Justin Suh (66).
Hall’s approach at the 420-yard seventh flew out of bounds to the right off the green.
When he got to the 13th hole at 9 under, he was coming off a 12-foot birdie at No. 12. But that had followed a scrambling par on the 626-yard 11th hole when he was in the rough after each of his first two shots on what is the course’s longest hole by 80 yards.
“Yeah, to be T1 after today is pretty cool, especially after that front nine,” Hall said. “It goes to show how hard the course is, and I did a good job battling it back and getting those two birdies on that back nine.”
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CALIFORNIA, Md., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Technology International (CTI), a leader in rapidly delivering open technology solutions and multi-domain integration for the invisible battlespace and a platform company under the Bluestone Investment Partner (Bluestone) portfolio, announced that Marcia O'Brien has been named chief financial officer (CFO).
In her role as CFO, Ms. O'Brien is responsible for defining and overseeing all aspects of CTI's financial operations—from financial planning and reporting to accounting and compliance. She has over 30 years of experience and a proven track record of financial excellence for companies offering engineering, software development, and cost analysis services for U.S. civilian and defense agencies.
Ms. O'Brien will join the company's executive leadership team reporting directly to the company's chief executive officer (CEO), Dr. Jay Moorman.
"We are thrilled to have Marcia join CTI," said Dr. Moorman. "She will bring valuable expertise to her new role, and we will rely heavily on her leadership as we advance our value proposition to our customers and scale CTI to new heights."
"I am delighted to have the opportunity to be a part of the CTI team," said Ms. O'Brien. "I look forward to working with an outstanding executive leadership team as we collectively take CTI to the next level."
Ms. O'Brien joins CTI from MCR, where she served as CFO since 2001 and guided the company through a recent merger with Systems Planning and Analysis. Prior to her tenure at MCR, she held a variety of leadership roles across the government contracting and accounting industries, including controller at SAIC and Dyncorp and auditor at KPMG.
CTI is dedicated to building quality defense solutions for the warfighter. CTI's solutions are the preferred standard in our mission space due to our unique application of agile methodologies, utility-driven design, and iterative, hands-on development with our users. Here at CTI, we believe in the power of collaborative development with government, industry, and academia. Find out more at http://www.ctic.us/.
CTI is a platform company under the Bluestone Investment Partner portfolio. Bluestone invests in lower middle-market companies in the defense and government services arena. The extensive industry-focus and experience of its firm's principals and investors offers unique insights and value to the management teams of its portfolio companies. Few private equity firms offer the combination of industry-focused intellectual and investment capital that Bluestone has assembled. Find out more at https://www.bluestoneinv.com/.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is marking its Europe Day, that celebration of “peace and unity,” together with Ukraine for the first time. The display of solidarity doesn’t mean the war-ravaged country is closer to becoming an EU member, though.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU’s executive branch, made a special trip to Kyiv on Tuesday to deliver warm words about the the bloc and Ukraine’s common destiny to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Ukraine has been fighting for the ideals of Europe that we celebrate today to create lasting unity and peace,” von der Leyen said.
After more than a year of war with invading Russia, Ukraine sees joining the bloc as an essential element of a future in the Western world. But as the 27 current members commemorated their bond as one, it was clear how far off Ukraine’s membership remains.
Next month, it will be one year since the EU nations made Ukraine a candidate for membership. They have lavished the country with praise, boosted it with billions in aid and military support and adopted multiple rounds of sanctions.
Some European leaders often dress in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s national flag and say “Slava Ukraini,” which means Glory to Ukraine, to end their speeches.
Yet, frustration on the Ukrainian side is evident. Weary and hoarse, dressed in army olive-drab, Zelenskyy visited the Netherlands last week with a heartfelt plea to speed up the country’s membership process.
Von der Leyen heard the same message Tuesday and acknowledged that it was “impressive to see that despite a full blown war, Ukraine is working hard, tirelessly and intensively” to meet the EU’s requirements.
Time, however, is an extremely flexible concept in the EU, and patience an essential one. The EU foresees the next assessment in October. “A lot of progress has been made, but work has to continue,” von der Leyen said.
That is hard for Zelenskyy, a leader who is counting in weeks and months when his nation might be on the road to victory — or ruin. The best advice, though, is for Ukraine to stay the painstakingly slow course that will likely take many years, if not over a decade.
“A promise has been made, and in essence it is now in the hands of Ukraine. The EU cannot postpone things forever,” Ghent University Professor Hendrik Vos, an expert on EU decision-making, said.
But unexpected things can happen, as suddenly overflowing grain silos in several eastern EU nations proved early this spring. To help Ukraine export its grain, sunflower oil and other farm produce after a Russian blockade closed off the Black Sea route, the EU lifted trade restrictions to allow the shipments to pass through the bloc and hopefully on to needy world markets.
Yet in neighboring nations like Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, stocks built up, prices plummeted and an extremely vocal and influential group of voters — the EU’s 10 million farmers — started grumbling, demonstrating that economics may trump sentimental shows of support.
“Of course we have solidarity with Ukraine,” said Christine Lambert, the president of the COPA EU farmers union, “but there are also significant economic aspects to this,” adding that “it’s sort of creating a hole in our budget. It will result in problems and farmers can’t bear these problems alone.”
Apart from making sure that France and Germany never go to war again, the founding principles of the EU also included avoiding hunger in the bloc in the wake of World War II. It allowed farming to take on an exceptionally important role in EU policies, and even now agricultural subsidies take up almost a third of the EU’s designated budget.
The war and climate change have put EU farmers increasingly in a squeeze and taking in — and on — a nation like Ukraine, which is historically seen as the breadbasket of Europe, would be especially challenging.
Before the war, Ukraine still had a major stake in the global market of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil. Agriculture products accounted for more than 40% of exports.
Opening the EU up to such a competitor worries many farmers, especially if Ukraine is made a member. Lambert pointed out how EU farmers need to meet tough environmental and social rules, which Ukrainians so far don’t have to comply with.
Once Ukraine joins, it will in principle have the whole market of the current 27 nations at its disposal. But it will also need to abide by EU rules, right down to the size of chicken battery cages to meet animal welfare standards.
“Farmers will be saying they don’t want unfair competition from big Ukraine chicken farms that don’t have to play by the rules,” Vos, the university professor, said.
And Ukraine will only be able to join if it gets major financial aid from the current members to rebuild its nation and upgrade to EU standards. It will turn many of the EU nations that now get money from EU coffers into net contributors. Little wonder that many in the EU are not ready to embrace Ukraine as a member just yet.
“Many years. We’ll need that time to see that obligations are satisfied,” Lambert said.
Such considerations from a small group of stakeholders won’t stop the groundswell of history, though. In the EU’s successive sweeps of expansion, short-term financial losses never stood in the way in the end.
When the Iberian Peninsula wrested itself free from dictatorship during the 1970s, poor and needy Spain and Portugal were embraced in the EU a decade later despite the cost.
When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, the EU took in eight eastern nations in 2004, also at a major cost to the existing members.
Each time, talks on nitty gritty issues went on deep into countless nights but eventually compromises were found — more money was given to grumbling members, sometimes long transition times imposed.
Russia’s war in Ukraine could well be an equal watershed in EU history.
“In a country senselessly attacked, some might think it is impossible, improbable, or too distant to talk about a free and peaceful Ukraine in the European Union. But Europe is about making the impossible possible, and so is Ukraine,” von der Leyen said.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Someone in Indiana bought a Hoosier Lottery Powerball Double Play ticket worth $50,000.
The ticket matched four numbers and the Powerball for Monday night’s drawing. The Hoosier Lottery said the winner bought the ticket at Family Express No. 63 located at 5901 US Hwy 6 in Portage.
The winning Powerball Double Play numbers for the July 10 drawing were 21-30-37-41-56 with the Powerball of 14.
Double Play is an optional $1 add-on for a Powerball ticket. It is separate from Power Play, which multiplies non-jackpot winnings from the main drawing by up to 10 times their original value.
Players use the same numbers in the main Powerball drawing and Double Play, which has a top prize of $10 million. Double Play drawings are held after every Powerball drawing on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DANNY TREJO, the prolific Actor, Author and Restaurateur who has starred in dozens of films and television shows, including DESPERADO, HEAT, the FROM DAWN TILL DUSK series, CON AIR, ONCE UPON A TIMES IN MEXICO, SPY KIDS, MACHETE, SONS OF ANARCHY, KING OF THE HILL and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT and the New York Times best-selling author of TREJO: MY LIFE OF CRIME, REDEMPTION, AND HOLLYWOOD has been announced as the Grand Marshal of the historic 90th Anniversary of the Hollywood Christmas Parade Supporting Marine Toys for Tots, now celebrating its 75th Anniversary. The parade will be presented by Associated Television International and The City of Los Angeles in the streets of Hollywood, CA on Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. PST.
Danny Trejo said, "Wow! I'm honored to represent Los Angeles. As a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I never would've imagined I'd be the Grand Marshal of the Hollywood Christmas Parade. Then and now I still love cruising the streets of Hollywood. What an unbelievable honor!"
Lieutenant General James B. Laster, President and CEO of Marine Toys for Tots said: "We are thrilled to be partnering with the Hollywood Christmas Parade for our 75th Anniversary, as it is right here in Los Angeles, where we began our operation years ago. And today we are proud to continue our mission of bringing much needed holidays gifts and cheer to those less fortunate."
Hosted by Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean Cain and Montel Williams, with Special Co-Host Elizabeth Stanton, the parade features Hollywood celebrities and movie cars, award-wining bands from around the country, dazzling equestrians, large-than-life character balloons, colorful floats, and humorous specialty acts. The parade culminates with the appearance of the Jolly Old Elf himself, Santa Claus and his reindeer, ushering in the holiday season! To view a sizzle reel of highlights from past Hollywood Christmas Parades, please visit: https://vimeo.com/480561401/6401a3b270
For Parade inquiries, please call the 24/7 Hollywood Christmas Parade Hotline toll free at 1-833-PARADE1 (1-833-727-2331). For updates on this year's parade, please visit the parade's official website at www.thehollywoodchristmasparade.org
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About Danny Trejo:
Danny Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry with a hard earned and atypical road to success. From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo's name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond, but it is his continuous role as a devoted father of three and an intervention counselor that bring him the most satisfaction.
Trejo has starred in dozens of films including DESPERADO, HEAT, the FROM DUSK TILL DAWN series, CON AIR, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, SPY KIDS, MACHETE, and MACHETE KILLS. On the television side, Trejo had recurring roles on SONS OF ANARCHY, KING OF THE HILL, BREAKING BAD, and THE FLASH, among others. In the 3rd season of AMERICAN GODS, Trejo played the character of "Mr. World." Most recently, he can be seen in the role of Rancor Keeper in THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT airing on Disney+.
Trejo has starred in and voiced various popular video games like CALL OF DUTY, FALLOUT, GRAND THEFT AUTO, and DEF JAM. Additionally, the actor has voiced characters in the animated films STORKS, THE BOOK OF LIFE, MAYA AND THE THREE directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez, and Universal Pictures' MINIONS 2: The Rise of Gru, released in Summer 2022.
Trejo's colorful life and prolific career are chronicled in the bio-documentary INMATE #1 released in 2020. Trejo shares his love of food with the world in the release of his first cookbook TREJO'S TACOS: RECIPES and STORIES from LA. Trejo's fearlessly honest memoir, TREJO: MY LIFE OF CRIME, REDEMPTION, AND HOLLYWOOD, was released in July 2021. Trejo's expanding restaurant empire includes Trejo's Tacos, Trejo's Cantina and Trejo's Coffee and Donuts.
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The study explored how K-12 educators define equity, identify types and sources of inequity, and work to achieve equity for their students
PORTLAND, Ore., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NWEA – a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students – released today a new study featuring perspectives and insights from districts, school leaders, and teachers on equity initiatives, challenges, and recommendations for improving outcomes. Overall, the study found alignment in how equity is defined by the education community and how important it is to make it a priority focus across all aspects of the education ecosystem.
Using a blind study format in which the participants were not aware that the research was for NWEA, the research team conducted 61 online interviews in 2022. Participants represented the education leader and teacher populations in U.S. public schools. The study explored how K-12 district and school leaders and teachers define equity, identify the types and sources of inequity that exist for their students, work to achieve equity for their students, including determining key hurdles to overcome, and how their district's political and local environment (or other factors like demographics) may impact how they think and act differently when it comes to equity.
Key findings:
- The importance of equity was clearly agreed upon by U.S. educators and district/school leaders with equity being defined in a similar manner: ensure that every student receives the resources and support they need to succeed in learning.
- Family support emerged as a new component in the definition of equity.
- Almost all study participants shared challenges in implementing effective strategies and initiatives to address equity issues.
- The impacts of the pandemic increased the focus on equity, specifically on the needs of the individual child instead of overall systemic inequities.
- Communicating the value of and actions needed to achieve equity continues to be a challenge, especially in polarized communities.
"This study confirms that educators are passionate about ensuring the needs of each student are met and that barriers to opportunities are removed," said Fenesha Hubbard, MEd, leading NWEA expert on equity-focused professional learning and upcoming author of The Equity Expression: 6 Entry Points for Nonnegotiable Academic Success. "It also reiterated that equity work is deeply individual and cannot be approached with a 'one-size-fits-all' solution."
Hubbard offered these recommendations for approaching equity work, based on the study findings:
- When it comes to enacting equity, schools need a way to think about and approach equity from a different perspective so that it doesn't feel like one more thing to implement. One way to do this is to focus on equity as it relates to content and academic success, using the six Entry Points for Equity: mindsets, relationships, products, spaces, processes, and systems. The Entry Points for Equity is a framework to guide the equity conversation and provide educators with tools to empower them as change agents and move students toward success.
- Educators must understand how mindsets and relationships can work together for equitable teaching and learning experiences to occur. When educators bring these dimensions of equity into our work, it will help them better work with families and caregivers.
- Equity work requires that we take responsibility for the academic success of learners, and that we believe all students deserve access to high quality teaching and learning. Educators must be deliberate in raising their awareness of self and others, exploring their beliefs, and examining their actions, while always keeping students in the forefront of their minds and at the center of all conversations.
- Understanding the different academic identities of students -- the dispositions and beliefs that make up a student's relationship with teaching, learning, and subject areas such as math or science -- is one way to begin to address equity. It's imperative that teachers make a conscious effort to support the development of healthy academic identities in our learners.
Read the full study at https://www.nwea.org/resource-center/resource/equity-definitions-and-perspectives-from-u-s-educators/
About NWEA
NWEA® (formerly known as Northwest Evaluation Association) is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators in more than 146 countries through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we're partnering with educators to help all kids learn.
Contact: Simona Beattie, Sr. Manager, Public Relations, simona.beattie@nwea.org or 971.361.9526
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Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The Associated Press college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years, and six teams — including Kansas — made their season debut on Sunday.
The Crimson Tide received 25 first-place votes and 1,523 points in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank, two points more than the Bulldogs. Georgia received 28 first-place votes to become the first team since Alabama in November 2019 to have the most first-place votes but not be No. 1.
The Tide was No. 2 behind LSU that year, with 21 first-place votes to the Tigers’ 17.
The last time there was a two-point margin between Nos. 1 and 2 was Nov. 1, 2020, when Clemson was ahead of Alabama. There have been three other polls with a two-point margin at the top since 2007.
Ohio State remained third, but the Buckeyes also gained some ground on the top two, getting 10 first-place votes.
The Crimson Tide started the season at No. 1, but the defending national champion Bulldogs took the top spot away from their Southeastern Conference rivals after Week 2 when Alabama needed a late field goal to beat Texas.
The Bulldogs remain unbeaten but needed a fourth-quarter rally to beat four-touchdown underdog Missouri on Saturday night. Earlier in the day, the Tide managed to pull away from Arkansas in the second half without Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young.
Young sprained his throwing shoulder in the first half and missed most of the game in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
No. 4 Michigan, No. 5 Clemson and No. 6 Southern California all won and held their places this week, though the Wolverines and Tigers are now separated by just three points.
No. 7 Oklahoma State, followed by Tennessee, Mississippi and Penn State, round out the top 10.
The rest of the AP Top 25 got a major overhaul after 10 ranked teams lost, five to unranked opponents. That cleared the way for seven teams to move into the rankings this week, most notably No. 19 Kansas.
The Jayhawks are ranked for the first time since Oct. 18, 2009, which was the longest drought for a team currently in a Power Five conference.
POLL POINTS
The closest margin between Nos. 1 and 2 in AP poll history is zero. Oklahoma and Miami tied for No. 1 in the 2002 preseason poll, and Miami and Washington shared the top spot in mid-October 1992.
The last time there was a one-point margin between the top two teams was 1992, when the Hurricanes and Huskies were separated by a point in the weeks before and after they were tied.
With Kansas back in the rankings, the longest poll appearance drought belongs to Illinois, which was last ranked in 2011. And the Illini have positioned themselves to make the leap with a 4-1 start heading into their home game against Iowa next week.
Next up on the list is Rutgers (2012), Oregon State (preseason 2013) and Vanderbilt (final 2013).
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The voters generally decided to start from scratch at the back half of the rankings, flipping seven teams.
— No. 17 TCU is in the rankings for the first time since a brief stay in 2019 at 25th.
— No. 18 UCLA is off to its first 5-0 start since 2013.
— No. 19 Kansas stayed unbeaten by knocking off Iowa State. The Jayhawks last started 5-0 in that 2009 season, then proceeded to drop their next six games and fall to the bottom of major college football for more than a decade.
Both Kansas schools are ranked for the first time since Oct. 14, 2007.
— No. 22 Syracuse improved to 5-0 with an easy victory against Wagner and finally cracked the rankings. The Orange are ranked for the first time since early in the 2019 season.
— No. 23 Mississippi State has been ranked for only one week (after the first regular-season game of 2020) since the end of 2018 season.
Both Mississippi SEC schools are ranked for the first time since Nov. 11, 2015.
— No. 24 Cincinnati. The Bearcats are the one team to enter the rankings this week that already had been in this season. Cincinnati fell out after a Week 1 loss at Arkansas and has won four straight since.
— No. 25 LSU has its first ranking under coach Brian Kelly. The Tigers have won four straight, including two SEC games, since losing a heartbreaker to Florida State on Labor Day weekend.
OUT
Among the seven teams to drop out of the AP Top 25, five of them will be unranked for the first time this season: Oklahoma, Baylor, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Pittsburgh.
Florida State and Minnesota had brief stays in the AP Top 25. The Seminoles and Gophers were teams on the rise for a week and then both lost at home.
CONFERENCE CALL
SEC — 7 (Nos. 1, 2, 8, 9, 13, 23, 25).
Pac-12 — 5 (Nos. 6, 11, 12, 18, 21).
ACC — 4 (Nos. 5, 15, 16, 22).
Big 12 — 4 (Nos. 7, 17, 19, 20).
Big Ten — 3 (Nos. 3, 4, 10).
American — 1 (No. 24).
Independent — 1 (No. 16).
RANKED vs. RANKED
No. 25 LSU at No. 8 Tennessee.
No. 17 TCU at No. 19 Kansas.
No. 11 Utah at No. 18 UCLA.
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PITTSBURGH, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was working in my yard and thought that I needed to add something unique to my fence," said the inventor from Indianapolis, Ind. "This invention will allow people to decorate their fence easily and for any occasion."
He created a prototype for JUST PULL ME, patent-pending, that provides a fencing system that allows for a display of graphic elements that fits any type of occasion. The device would be easy to install, remove, and store when not in use. The canister could easily attach to any existing fence system and remain mounted on the fence when not in use. Additionally, this could be useful for homeowners, business owners, renters, fence installation contractors and more.
The original design was submitted to the Indianapolis sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-IPL-819, 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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Hundreds of Fred Meyer, QFC employees say they’ve experienced problems receiving paychecks
Hundreds of workers at local Fred Meyer stores are telling KIRO 7 that there’s an ongoing problem with their paychecks.
Some say their paychecks are coming up short, while others say they’re not getting paid at all.
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Unions representing Fred Meyer and QFC workers say they’ve tried everything to resolve this problem and blame the rollout of a new computerized payroll program in October.
Some workers say they haven’t been paid since last month and others are still waiting for the pay raises they were supposed to get in October.
Unionized Fred Meyer workers in Oregon are suing its parent company, Kroger, in federal court over the same issues.
A grocery worker’s union is now planning a campaign to petition Fred Meyer customers to contact Kroger and urge the company to fix this problem.
“One of my members, at this particular store in Tumwater, did not receive pay for five weeks and was continually working without pay,” said UFCW Grocery Union representative Patty Estes. “This is completely shocking, whenever we do have a contract that is up or changes like this that are made within a company, usually they’re fixed within a few weeks. I’ve never seen it this bad before … especially around the holidays.”
On Friday, workers from several Fred Meyer stores and one QFC store will be handing out leaflets in Pierce, Mason and Thurston counties, asking customers to help out with this issue.
In a statement to KIRO 7, a Fred Meyer spokesperson confirmed that a technical error had affected payroll for some employees:
“We recently launched a new associate payroll processing platform. A technical error affected payroll processing for a small percentage of our associates. We have apologized to our associates and understand the impact.”
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Cars crashed into tires and other garbage piled on a highway in the northern Netherlands in the early hours of Thursday, police said, as protests by radical farmers against government plans to rein in nitrogen emissions continued.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte branded the protests “unacceptable.”
Police in the northern province of Friesland said nobody was injured when several cars were involved in an accident caused by dumped garbage, but warned motorists to be alert to “extremely dangerous situations” caused by the farmers’ protest actions.
A handful of new protests took place overnight, including farmers burning hay bales near a major highway, despite police and security authorities appealing to farmers Wednesday to halt the dumping.
“Protesting is a fundamental right and as long as it stays within the limits of the law, a lot is possible,” the emergency services said in a joint statement. But they said the latest actions “seriously endanger road safety and can lead to life-threatening situations for road users.”
In a sign of the increasingly radicalized farmer protests, cleanup operations have been hampered by intimidation of contractors hired to clear roads and by the presence of asbestos in some of the piles of debris dumped on roads.
“Wilfully endangering others, damaging our infrastructure and threatening people who help clean up is beyond all limits,” Rutte said in a tweet.
“These life-threatening actions must stop. There are plenty of other ways to express your dissatisfaction within the law. Most farmers do that,” he added.
The farmers are angry at government targets for reining in emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia that they say threaten to decimate the farming industry and their way of life.
The ruling coalition wants to cut emissions of pollutants by 50% nationwide by 2030 to improve soil, air and water quality in an EU nation known for its intensive farming practices. It has called on provincial authorities to draw up plans to reduce emissions and earmarked an extra 24.3 billion euros ($24.6 billion) to fund the changes. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/cars-hit-tires-dumped-on-dutch-highway-amid-farmer-protests/ | 2022-07-28 11:18:10 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/cars-hit-tires-dumped-on-dutch-highway-amid-farmer-protests/ |
PHILADELPHIA, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is investigating securities fraud allegations on behalf of investors who purchased the securities Dentsply Sirona, Inc. ("Dentsply" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: XRAY) between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022 (the "Class Period").
If you purchased the securities of Dentsply during the Class Period, would like to discuss Berger Montague's investigation, or have questions concerning your rights or interests, please contact attorneys Andrew Abramowitz at aabramowitz@bm.net or (215) 875-3015, or Michael Dell'Angelo at mdellangelo@bm.net or (215) 875-3080 or visit: https://investigations.bergermontague.com/dentsply-sirona/
Whistleblowers: Anyone with non-public information regarding Dentsply is encouraged to confidentially assist Berger Montague's investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under this program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to thirty percent (30%) of recoveries obtained by the SEC. For more information, contact us.
Dentsply is a dental equipment manufacturer that produces a wide array of dental supplies, ranging from anesthetics, plaque and gum disease prevention, tooth polishers, and artificial teeth.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate the Company's revenue and earnings by manipulating its accounting for a distributor rebate program in order for senior executives to be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation.
The truth about Dentsply's misconduct was revealed through a series of disclosures, beginning on April 19, 2022, when Dentsply announced the sudden termination of its CEO.
On May 10, 2022, Dentsply announced that, following reports from several whistleblowers, the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors had commenced an internal investigation regarding certain financial reporting matters, including "the Company's use of incentives to sell products to distributors in the third and fourth quarter of 2021" and whether "certain former and current members of senior management directed the Company's use of these incentives and other actions to achieve executive compensation targets in 2021."
As a result of these disclosures, Dentsply's share price declined significantly and investors suffered heavy losses.
Berger Montague, with offices in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and San Diego, has been a pioneer in securities class action litigation since its founding in 1970. Berger Montague has represented individual and institutional investors for over five decades and serves as lead counsel in courts throughout the United States.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the second straight week following six weeks of declines that had given prospective homebuyers a glimmer of hope.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate inched up to 6.48% this week from 6.42% last week. A year ago the average rate was 3.22%, less than half of the current average rate.
The average long-term rate reached a two-decade high of 7.08% in late October and again in early November as the Federal Reserve continued to crank up its key lending rate in an effort to cool the economy and tame inflation.
At its final meeting of 2022, the Federal Reserve raised its rate 0.50 percentage points, its seventh increase last year. That pushed the central bank’s key rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, its highest level in 15 years. The Fed has signaled it may raise its rate another three-quarters of a point in 2023, which would be in a range of 5% to 5.25%.
Rates for 30-year mortgages usually track the moves in the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing loans. Investors’ expectations for future inflation, global demand for U.S. Treasurys and what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates can also influence the cost of borrowing for a home.
The big increase in mortgage rates has sunk the housing market, with sales of existing homes falling for 10 straight months to the lowest level in more than a decade.
While home prices have fallen as demand has declined, they are still nearly 11% higher than a year ago. Higher prices and a doubling of mortgage rates have made homebuying much less affordable for many people.
Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said that the higher rates have pushed mortgage application activity to a quarter-century low, but offered some optimism for 2023.
“Homebuyers are waiting for rates to decrease more significantly, and when they do, a strong job market and a large demographic tailwind of Millennial renters will provide support to the purchase market,” Khater said.
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DETROIT, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Award recognizes company for spearheading Mechatronics program at Wayne County Community College District
- Program expected to launch during second quarter of 2023
- Presented during 2022 Rainbow PUSH Global Automotive Summit
- Second Benchmark Award company has earned since award was established in 2017
Stellantis North America today received its second Benchmark Award from Rainbow PUSH Coalition for its commitment to supporting a workforce training program at Wayne County Community College District.
The award, presented by Reverend Jesse Jackson and Chairman John A. Graves to Stellantis North America COO Mark Stewart during the 2022 Rainbow PUSH Global Automotive Summit, recognizes the company's leadership in establishing the innovative Mechatronics program at the college.
The Mechatronics program includes more than $10 million in donated robotics equipment from Stellantis, Comau and other Tier 1 suppliers to create training for job opportunities in the automotive industry. An additional $10 million will be invested by the college for infrastructure and staffing to support the program, which is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2023.
"On behalf of the dedicated Stellantis team, I'm deeply humbled and honored to accept our company's second Benchmark Award, in recognition of the innovative Mechatronics program at Wayne County Community College," Stewart said. "This exciting program is an excellent example of how companies like Stellantis, and outstanding educational institutions like Wayne County Community College, can be very intentional about bringing business acumen and resources to bear to create tangible and sustainable economic benefits for diverse communities."
Rainbow PUSH established the Benchmark Award in 2017 to recognize organizations, businesses and individuals who create opportunities "through innovative methodologies and unsolicited management strategies," according to the organization.
"The importance of the automotive industry being involved with and connected to the communities it serves through educational programs like this cannot be overstated," Graves said. "At the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, we continuously encourage automakers to support workforce development programs that reflect the communities where they sell their products."
The company also earned the Benchmark Award in 2019 in recognition for its successful MatchMaker program, which has generated more than $4 billion in new business opportunities for minority-owned businesses since its inception in 1999.
The 2022 Rainbow PUSH Global Automotive Summit, which took place November 14-15 in Detroit, was the organization's 23rd annual automotive summit.
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Stellantis (NYSE: STLA) is one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider. In North America, it's best known for producing and selling vehicles in a portfolio of iconic and award-winning brands such as Jeep®, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Alfa Romeo and Fiat. Powered by its diversity, Stellantis leads the way the region and the world move – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which it operates. For more information, visit www.stellantis.com.
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Hundreds honor WWII veteran on his 103rd birthday: ‘I could go another 103′
SUN CITY, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - World War II veteran Gino Mei has had birthdays worldwide, but Thursday’s celebration in Arizona may have been one of his favorites.
Arizona’s Family reports hundreds of people came out to his street to give the U.S. Army veteran a 103rd birthday celebration he won’t soon forget. They did a drive-by salute to honor him.
“I feel great. I feel like I could go another 103,” Mei said.
People from all over the area joined in, including the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, veterans’ groups, police departments and more.
Before the parade, he was made an honorary Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office posse member.
Then it was outside where hundreds of people saluted him for his service and amazing life.
The 103-year-old said he has seen a lot over the years. He was in Italy with his parents when World War II broke out. He was drafted into the Italian Army when he was 18, but when they found out Benito Mussolini was going to side with Adolf Hitler, Mei was shipped to America. That’s where he joined the U.S. Army and went back to Europe, where he fought the Germans.
Mei said one time, he was put in charge of a mission to get across the river because the officers said it was too dangerous. There were 200 soldiers in his team. They were all decoys and helped.
“I got the Bronze Star in the war for that effort,” Mei said.
The U.S. Army veteran said he was recuperating in France and thought he was coming home, but then Gen. George Smith Patton said every abled-body soldier had to fight. So, Mei went to D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest.
Besides the Bronze Star, he received the Purple Heart and several other medals. He stayed in the Army for nearly five years.
And when it comes to living a long life, Mei said it’s thinking of others.
“I always enjoyed doing things for other people,” he said.
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Pelosi attacker David DePape's ex says he is 'mentally ill,' once came home thinking he was Jesus: report
Oxane Taub is speaking out about purported ex David DePape, who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer inside his California home
Oxane Taub, the purported former life partner of David DePape — the man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi inside his California home — says DePape has "been mentally ill for a long time."
Taub is jailed a nudist activist in California who goes by the name Gypsy. She is currently locked up in the Californian Institution for Women after being convicted on abduction charges in 2021, according to ABC7.
"Hello this is Gypsy Taub. I am the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children," Oxane Taub told the outlet.
"He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time," she added, saying she had two sons with the man before splitting up seven years ago.
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Taub went on to detail one incident when DePape reportedly came home after disappearing for almost a year out of the blue.
"He came back in very bad shape. He thought he was Jesus. He was constantly paranoid, thinking people were after him. And it took a good year or two to get back to, you know, being halfway normal," Taub told the outlet.
Pressed about DePape's political leanings, Taub said he had never been particularly involved.
"When I met him, he was only 20 years old , and he didn't have any experience in politics, and he was very much in alignment with my views, and I've always been very progressive. I absolutely admire Nancy Pelosi," she said.
She went on to offer her "deepest apology" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband.
PELOSI ATTACK: WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE SUSPECT DAVID DEPAPE'S STEPDAUGHTER SAYS HE WAS ABUSIVE
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott says DePape faces charges of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and other felonies following the incident.
Officers found DePape struggling with Paul Pelosi over a hammer inside the Pelosi home at 2 a.m. on Friday. Officers ordered the men to stop, at which point DePape, 42, reportedly attacked the older man. Police then tackled him and arrested him.
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Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery, but he was sent to the hospital for surgery to care for a skull fracture. Officers say he was struck at least once by the hammer.
"Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul. Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving," Nancy Pelosi said in the "Dear Colleague" letter to all members of Congress on Saturday.
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Kaleyra Founder and CEO Dario Calogero to Transition to the Company's Chief Strategy Officer Upon the Appointment of His Successor as CEO
Board Has Engaged Independent Executive Search Firm to Assist with the CEO Search Process
Appoints Two Accomplished Executives with Decades of Experience in Telecommunications and Software to the Board of Directors
NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) ("Kaleyra" or the "Company"), an enterprise Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) business, today announced a CEO transition plan and significant enhancements to its Board of Directors (the "Board") to reposition the Company for sustainable growth and value creation.
Kaleyra has announced that Mr. Dario Calogero, its founder and Chief Executive Officer, has notified the Board of his intention to step down from his position as CEO of the Company after serving over 20 years in the role. The Board has retained a leading independent executive search firm to assist with the CEO search process. Mr. Calogero will continue his service to the Company as a director and will remain in his role as the Company's CEO to support the leadership transition and ensure continuity and stability until the Board selects a new CEO. Upon the appointment of Mr. Calogero's successor, Mr. Calogero will transition to the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer, in which he will focus on organic and inorganic growth strategies for the Company.
Dr. Avi Katz, Chairman of Kaleyra's Board, commented, "On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Dario for his many years of service to the Company as CEO. Under his leadership, Kaleyra has grown from a small start-up to a leading global 'Communications Platform as a Service' ("CPaaS") business with over 600 exceptional employees and 3,000 valued customers and business partners worldwide. Despite the current global economic uncertainty and challenging headwinds, the Board remains confident in the Company's long-term fundamentals. With our recent investments in our partnership pipeline and our technology, the Company can thrive under new leadership. We look forward to a seamless transition and continuing to work with Dario as a member of the Board."
Dario Calogero commented, "Two decades after building Kaleyra from a start-up to its current status as a global company, I believe that the timing is right to bring in additional leadership to guide Kaleyra through its next phase of growth. I am excited to be able to return more of my focus to the entrepreneurial spirit of the Company as Chief Strategy Officer, while strengthening the leadership team with new energy and ideas by relinquishing my role as CEO. I am extremely proud of the foundation we have built, with a global partner base and an omni-channel suite of powerful, secure and reliable tools to bridge the communication divide between brands and their customers. As a founder, director, Chief Strategy Officer and large shareholder, I look forward to Kaleyra's bright future."
Kaleyra also announced today that it has appointed Kathleen Miller and Karin-Joyce ("K.J.") Tjon as directors to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Upon the appointments of Ms. Miller and Ms. Tjon, the Board will consist of eight directors, all of whom, other than Mr. Calogero, will be independent.
"We are excited to welcome Kathy and K.J. to the Kaleyra Board of Directors," said Dr. Katz. "Both Kathy and K.J. are accomplished executives with decades of experience leading dynamic, high-growth businesses through times of change and transformation. We believe their track records, driving improved sales and profitability, and their deep expertise in telecommunications, SaaS and software will be extremely valuable as we work to become the leading global CPaaS company. We look forward to working with our new directors to unlock and deliver enhanced value for our customers, partners, shareholders and other stakeholders."
Kathleen Miller, 58, is an accomplished financial strategist with decades of leadership experience driving growth and profitability across public and private SaaS, FinTech and other technology companies. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Miller served as Chief Financial Officer of Nitro Software Ltd. (ASX: NTO), a high-growth SaaS-based workflow productivity company that she led through its initial public offering, from January 2019 to December 2020. Previously, Ms. Miller served as Chief Operating and Financial Officer of nCourt, LLC, a high-growth SaaS-based software and payment service provider, from March 2014 to September 2018. She also served as Chief Financial Officer of eSecuritel Holdings LLC, a leading provider of cell phone and wireless products insurance services, from 2009 to 2013. Earlier in her career, Ms. Miller served in senior financial roles at Movius Interactive Corporation, Witness Systems, Inc. (former Nasdaq: WITS) and MapInfo Corporation (former Nasdaq: MAPS). She began her career at Coopers & Lybrand LLP. Ms. Miller is an experienced public and private company director and currently serves on the boards of Tecsys, Inc. (TSX: TCS), a supply chain and complex distribution management system provider; IOU Financial, Inc. (TSXV: IOUFF), an online lender to small businesses; and TrueCommerce, Inc., a privately held supply chain and inventory management software company. Ms. Miller holds a B.S. in Accounting from Alfred University and an M.S. in Legal Studies from Fordham University.
Karin-Joyce Tjon, 60, has more than two decades of experience as a senior financial executive in the technology and telecommunications sectors. Most recently, Ms. Tjon served as Chief Financial Officer of Alorica, Inc., a fast-growing business process outsourcing (BPO) company, where she was responsible for all aspects of corporate finance, such as Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Treasury, Regulatory filings, tax, procurement and Investor Relations, from July 2018 to May 2020. Prior to her role at Alorica, Ms. Tjon served as Chief Operating Officer and President of Scientific Games (Nasdaq: SGMS), a developer of technology-based products and content for the global gaming and lottery markets, from February to August 2017. Previously, she served as Chief Financial Officer at EPIQ Systems (former Nasdaq: EPIQ) (from July 2014 to October 2016) and Hawker Beechcraft (2011 to 2014). Ms. Tjon also spent over nine years at Alvarez & Marsal, a leading professional services firm specializing in business transformation and performance improvement, from 2002 to 2011. Ms. Tjon currently serves on the boards of Nubia Brand International Corp. (Nasdaq: NUBI), a blank check company focused on the wireless telecommunications sector, and Volcon, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLCN), a developer and manufacturer of electric off road powersport vehicles. Ms. Tjon holds a B.S. in Organizational Behavior and Management from Ohio University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) is a global group providing mobile communication services to financial institutions, e-commerce players, OTTs, software companies, logistic enablers, healthcare providers, retailers, and other large organizations worldwide. Through its proprietary platform and robust APIs, Kaleyra manages multi-channel integrated communication services, consisting of messaging, rich messaging and instant messaging, video, push notifications, e-mail, voice services, and chatbots. Kaleyra's technology makes it possible to safely and securely manage billions of messages monthly with over 1,600 operator connections in 190+ countries, including all tier-1 US carriers. For more information, please visit www.kaleyra.com.
Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Kaleyra in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and their potential effects on Kaleyra as well as other factors they believe are appropriate in the circumstances. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Kaleyra will be those anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of the parties) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including Kaleyra's ability to recruit and retain a new CEO, the mix of services utilized by Kaleyra's customers and such customers' needs for these services, including any variability by geography, market acceptance of new service offerings, the ability of Kaleyra to expand what it does for existing customers as well as to add new customers, that Kaleyra will have sufficient capital to operate as anticipated, and the impact that the novel coronavirus and the illness, COVID-19, that it causes, as well as governmental responses to deal with the spread of this illness and the reopening of economies that have been closed as part of these responses, and the impact of other geopolitical and macroeconomic factors such as the war in Ukraine, may have on Kaleyra's operations, the demand for Kaleyra's products, global supply chains and economic activity in general. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions being made prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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DEAR ANNIE: I am a widow with a grown son and daughter. We have always been a close-knit family. However, for the last year, I have only had one visit of two hours from my daughter. The previous year, I saw her a few times. She has grown children and is a grandmother of three. She is divorced due to infidelity on the part of her husband. I have always been there for her and have helped her financially.
I have talked with her about her absence, and she said that I have not done anything to cause any problems between us. My son is the only child who lives in the same town as me. He has been of tremendous help.
I have been depressed about not spending time with her and my grandchildren. I have not seen her children in three years. They work; two are married and have children. I have an almost 2-year-old great-grandchild who I have never seen. At Christmas, I did not hear from any of her four children. Not a card or a call. I have always remembered them at birthdays and Christmas. Her two married daughters are both expecting babies.
In the past, I would visit them. However, I am no longer driving. I recently had hip replacement surgery and have to use a walker. As a result, I am pretty much homebound. I have someone to get my groceries and who takes me to the doctor and beauty shop and who comes to clean.
At first, I was concerned, and then I was angry. I am not angry now; I am sad. I never would have thought she would act this way.
She is seeing someone, and I think she spends a great deal of time with him. They go to church together, to the movies, on bike rides, etc.
He did come with her last year to visit for about two hours with me.
Do you have any suggestions? -- A Mother
DEAR A MOTHER: I applaud your psychological awareness of how your anger turned into sadness. Sometimes, when we are too angry at a family member for not meeting certain expectations that we place on them, it can serve as a larger wedge between the two of you. But to admit that your feelings are hurt and that you are sad is huge. Tell your daughter how you feel. Maybe you could visit her and your grandchildren and great-grandchildren more as your hip heals.
Sit back and try to focus on the positives in your life. Your son sounds very kind and attentive, and you have a GREAT-grandchild. Now just make the effort to go visit.
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I recently returned from a laid-back Las Colonias concert. Picture 2,000 patrons engaged in friendly encounters among themselves and the band. All surrounded by at least 30 law enforcement personnel (on overtime?) to protect all from mayhem and overexuberance. Bear with me and reel back to those 1970s Tom Jones concerts in Las Vegas, and the sole safety issue was to protect the singer from being hurled with panties and room keys. Now turn your attention to the importance of school safety where the ratio is one officer to 500 students. Can you identify where our priorities lie?
I’ve been a little disappointed in the consistency of the Grand Junction city website in putting out the weekly planning commission reports on Fridays. I look forward to see them every week, and they’ve been negligent in being on time. The last update right now is a month ago. I just want to know what’s going on around town.
Why is 27½ Road the highway between Patterson Road and Horizon Drive? Not only is it used for heavy transport, but it has no speeding restrictions! Public commutes are understandable, but it is frequented by motorcyclists and trucks. We are a residential neighborhood and require some respect.
I have been driving over the 29 Road bridge for a long time. I fully understand someone setting up a memorial for a lost loved one. I also believe enough is enough. This memorial is getting bigger and encroaching into the medium with a cross set up on the lane divider post. I truly believe this memorial is becoming a driver distraction. Without causing too much pain, will the correct authorities please have it removed?
Do the developers who intend to pack 257 apartments into the old City Market property understand that might require parking for 500 or more vehicles? Have they thought about RVs, ATVs and motorcycles? Have they looked at the Lowell Townhomes, where there is already spillover parking on the street and in the empty space on the property? Yes, there are garages. I have seen how they are used as storage space for boxes and recreational equipment. Parking is already a big problem downtown. Maybe, instead of packing as many people as possible into a huge development, they should be thinking more about their effect on the neighborhood. Please, City Council, get the DDA out of decisions that impair the livability of the downtown neighborhood and stop subsidizing developers who want to ruin it.
I was driving through Clifton this week and saw someone toss a smoldering cigarette out their car window. Come on people. Let’s not burn the valley down.
It seems way outside the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife mission to be holding military weapons contests. I thought CPW existed to support rifle, muzzle-loading and archery hunting endeavors. Even handgun training and events should be left to private enterprise venues. CPW shouldn’t be in the war or citizen/home defense business.
So some rifle association is going to take its shooting competition somewhere other than Cameo because we ban high-capacity magazines used in so much carnage. Well, as they say, “Don’t let your rifle butt hit you as you leave our state.”
Last Sunday’s Daily Sentinel called out the Democrats for playing dirty pool for their “shenanigans” in the primary elections in Colorado. Maybe the Sentinel should weigh in on the real dirty pool that the Republicans are using across the nation, namely voter suppression.
If a candidate received about three-quarters of their campaign contributions from out of state donors, where is their loyalty? Is it to in-state constituents or to big donors?
Kudos to Colorado Democrats. I didn’t think it was possible, but you have improved on the old joke, “What do you call a person who graduates last in their law school class? Answer: ‘Your Honor.’ ” Good job, when things couldn’t get much worse, you always surprise everyone.
Isn’t it interesting that Republicans never challenge an election that they won?
Taxpayers pay for elections and therefore have the right to vote in every election. The false equivalences being spewed about unaffiliated voters choosing one ballot over another are comical. Not all unaffiliated voters were previously registered as Democrats. Republicans can’t win elections on their own, so they’re trying to disenfranchise the majority of Colorado voters. That’s the real fraud. Go vote! | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/you_said_it/you-said-it-june-26-2022/article_1183e83a-f2fd-11ec-ad55-67309146ba68.html | 2022-06-26 10:59:11 | 0 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/you_said_it/you-said-it-june-26-2022/article_1183e83a-f2fd-11ec-ad55-67309146ba68.html |
Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup has managed to capture a high rate of customers who hadn’t considered an electric vehicle before, with EV newbies making up nearly 80% of reservation-holders. And as Ford CEO Jim Farley underscored this week in a quarterly financial call, there’s room to do that again in the near future with other vehicle types—like with a three-row electric SUV.
“A lot of new customers bought a Lightning that never owned a pickup truck before,” said Farley. “And we intend to do that with a three-row crossover and with a bunch of EV Pro vehicles, which we think will be a huge growth for us.”
Ford might be eyeing the form factor of the Ford Explorer, or former Ford Flex, perhaps. An electric version of the U.S. family mainstay—not to be confused with the VW-based Ford Explorer EV for Europe revealed in March—may keep some existing owners who already have a Mach-E from moving on to another brand for something larger and electric.
“We also found that customers are very loyal to full EV powertrains once they enter, but they are not brand-loyal for their first purchase,” added Farley, noting that over 60% of its customers are new to Ford. “We’re seeing that the second EV purchase is much more loyal to the brand in these developed EV markets.”
Farley emphasized that such future models will amount to tremendous growth, but that growth needs to be managed.
“in the small, medium utility segment, it will be a very saturated two-row EV market,” said Farley. “Against this backdrop to ensure profitable growth, we know we have to have a fresh, compelling offering with the right cost structure—something we continue to improve with the Mustang Mach-E.”
Looking ahead to that three-row, Farley also noted that Ford has reduced the bill of materials for the Mach-E by $5,000 per vehicle. That’s likely one of the factors that enabled significant price cuts for the Mustang Mach-E lineup again earlier this week.
Ford hasn’t yet revealed which of several future EVs will be built at its Canadian plant in Oakville, Ontario, potentially starting in 2025, but that’s one possible manufacturing location for the three-row SUV.
In Ford’s last quarterly call, Farley revealed that future Ford EVs will be “radically simplified,” with fewer body styles and “just a handful of orderable combinations.” He also emphasized that this will mean better quality and lower manufacturing costs.
“We want to have a lot of scale per top hat,” said Farley in this week’s call, again suggesting that the company is aiming to avoid niche models. One such example of this would be the “SUV coupe” body styles that some automakers have introduced to the EV market.
Such an electric SUV wouldn’t be the first with three rows. It would need to rival the Kia EV9 and, upmarket, the Rivian R1S, Tesla Model X, and Volvo EX90, among others. But if it can get out ahead of some other market offerings yet to come—as the Lightning did—Ford might be able to create another hit.
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CONRAD — As expected, the top-ranked Dike-New Hartford volleyball team punched their return ticket to the Class 2A state tournament, Wednesday.
The Wolverines swept the Grand View Christian Thunder, 3-0, in the Class 2A Region 4 Championship in dominating fashion with wins of 25-15, 25-10 and 25-17.
DNH head coach Diane Harms described qualifying for the state tournament as exciting despite the Wolverines history of success with 15 state championships in program history.
“It is always very exciting because we have new faces,” Harms said. “It is one of their goals to get back down to state.”
Junior outside hitter Maryn Bixby said the Thunder presented a challenge because DNH did not face them during the regular season, but added the Wolverines “gave it their all.’
In the first set, the Thunder played DNH tough early as the Wolverines mustered a slim 8-6 lead. However, DNH settled in, made a few adjustments and resumed the strong offensive attack which allowed it to win 42 matches this season.
“They were doing a nice job at the net, blocking,” Harms said. “We just had to adjust the seams of where we were attacking. Once we made some adjustments with that, it was a little better on our side.”
According to Bixby, the adjustments helped the Wolverines find their rhythm and use their defense to transition into their offense.
The Wolverines adjustments allowed them to close out the first set on a 17-9 run and take a 1-0 lead in the match. Bixby stuffed a Thunder kill attempt to seal the 10-point win, 25-15.
“We have been making a lot of them all year with the schedule we play,” Harms said. “So, the girls are aware. We had a game plan where we wanted to attack. They were doing a good job of handling that so we adjusted where we wanted to go. The girls do a nice job with that.”
Riding the momentum of their win in set one, the Wolverines jumped out to an 8-1 lead in the first set. The Thunder recovered to score eight points, but a three point run gave DNH a 20-8 lead and forced a Grand View Christian timeout.
Out of the timeout, the Wolverines surrendered only two points to nab a 25-10 win in set two.
Needing one win to punch their return ticket, the Wolverines spotted the Thunder two points to open the third set before embarking on a 10-1 run to take a commanding 10-3 lead.
DNH traded points with the Thunder for a time before a 6-1 run by Grand View Christian utilized a 6-1 run to cut the Wolverines lead to 17-12. The Wolverines forced a side out and outscored the Thunder 8-5 to earn the 25-17 win.
When DNH heads to Corallville for the state tournament next week, Bixby said the responsibility of the Wolverines is to not look ahead and remained focused on each game as they hit the court.
“Take it game-by-game,” Bixby said. “All of the teams are going to be good. So, make sure we are ready to go. Our energy is good.”
Photos: Dike-New Hartford volleyball vs. Grand View Christian regional championship, Oct. 26
The Raiders were often down, but never out on Wednesday night as they pulled off a 3-1 win against the Beaman Conrad Liscomb Union Whitten Comets in the 1A volleyball regional quarterfinals.
The Dons took Calamus Wheatland 25-20, 25-16 and 25-19, overcoming two eight-point deficits to complete the 1A seminfinals sweep. It's a remarkable turnaround from last year, when they finished with a 15-18 record, but according to head coach Jenni Schares, the talent was always there.
Last year, the Knights finished 20-23 and lost in the first round to Vinton-Shellsburg, after making state in 2019 and 2020. According to head coach Brian Jesse, the team was in a rebuild, but this didn't take away from the disappointment. Coming into 2022, Jesse said they trained as much as possible, while relying on the leadership of seniors like Jaidyn Bush and Aubrey Gates.
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3rd person charged in drive-by shooting that injured 1, killed 2 in Austin
Published 1:36 pm Friday, June 16, 2023
A third person was charged Friday in Mower County District Court in last week’s drive-by shooting in Austin that killed one person and injured two others.
Jenup Stepen Chop, 18, faces one count of second-degree murder with intent, one count of second-degree murder in a drive-by shooting, two counts of attempted murder in a drive-by shooting and one count of dangerous weapons-drive-by shooting toward a person.
District Court Judge Natalie Martinez set Chop’s unconditional bail at $1 million with conditional bail at $750,000.
Court documents state during the investigation into the shooting, law enforcement learned that Chop had been in the Durango with Manamany Omot Abella, 23, and Cham Obang Oman, 28, at the time of the shooting. Abella and Oman were charged on Monday with the same charges Chop faces.
The court complaint stated Chop was known to have two ghost guns that he had built and that on the afternoon prior to the shooting, he was seen with a black ghost gun in his waistband.
Law enforcement also learned that Oman was upset with one of the victims who was injured because he was involved with the mother of Oman’s child and that the two men had fought the weekend before. Chop was also upset with the victim who was killed because he had reportedly stolen or cheated the defendant out of some fentanyl pills.
Court documents state Chop contacted an inmate in the Mower County jail on Sunday and reportedly admitted he was in the Durango with the two men before, during and after the shooting, explaining what had taken place.
He reportedly stated that before the shooting, he, Oman and Abella went to 711 Second St. NW, and when they arrived, he got out of the vehicle and saw the man who was killed walking up to the house.
The man told Chop he might as well “shoot the fade right now,” but Chop told him he didn’t want to fight at that location. After they got back into the vehicle, they made a U-turn, Oman pulled up alongside the other victims’ vehicle and he started hearing “pop pop.” He said he saw the victim swerve before he hit a house.
He told Oman and Abella he wanted to get out of the vehicle but Oman told him they would be wanted by police and needed to leave. They then drove south toward Iowa.
On Sunday, the Lino Lakes Police Department notified law enforcement they had found the Durango in a hotel parking lot, and the vehicle was towed to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension garage in St. Paul. While conducting a search warrant, authorities found Oman’s wallet, multiple documents belonging to Oman and two spent Sig Sauer 9mm shell casings.
In a search of Chop’s house on Tuesday, police found 9mm ammunition and a Sig Sauer ammunition holder in a basement crawl space.
Police also learned that on the day of the shooting, Chop and Oman had gone to Runnings in Austin and purchased a handgun magazine. A third man, believed to be Abella, remained in the vehicle. Store footage and records showed Oman and Chop in the store and showed Oman paying for a Glock 9mm 23-round magazine magazine with cash.
On Wednesday, Freeborn County law enforcement notified Austin police they had recovered a handgun magazine, glove and sanitizer tip near a tree in the city of Albert Lea. The magazine was the same type purchased by Oman and was believed to have been used in the shooting.
Security footage from a city building across the street from where the magazine was located showed the Durango pull up to the location where the magazine was found at 11:45 p.m. June 9.
Three people exited the vehicle and walked across the street. Chop was later seen bending down near the tree and setting something down.
Chop was arrested on Wednesday as he was leaving a residence with an adult female.
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Fargo police arrest man suspected of attempting to break into bank with rocks
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A man was arrested Monday after causing thousands of dollars in damages to a Bell Bank in Fargo.
Just before 8:30 a.m. on May 16, Fargo Police received reports of someone throwing rocks at the windows of Bell Bank at 3100 13th Avenue South.
After responding to the scene, 41-year-old Jeremy Wayne Peterson was arrested. Authorities say Peterson has no permanent address. He was not able to get into the facility, but caused damage estimated to be between $10,000-$15,000.
Peterson was arrested on four counts of terrorizing, one count of criminal mischief, one count of reckless endangerment, one count of attempted robbery and one count of an assault on a security officer.
Peterson was medically-cleared at a local healthcare facility and is being held in the Cass County Jail.
No employees or customers were hurt. Bell Bank’s drive up window is temporarily closed at this location. The incident remains under investigation.
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Celtics vs. Hawks: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Playoffs Game 1
The Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks are doing battle in the opening round of the NBA Playoffs, with Game 1 on tap.
Find odds, spreads, over/unders and more from multiple sportsbooks in this article for the Celtics vs. Hawks matchup.
Celtics vs. Hawks Game Info
- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue: TD Garden
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Celtics vs. Hawks Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Take a look at the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Celtics vs. Hawks Betting Trends
- The Celtics are outscoring opponents by 6.5 points per game with a +535 scoring differential overall. They put up 117.9 points per game (fourth in the NBA) and allow 111.4 per contest (fourth in the league).
- The Hawks score 118.4 points per game (third in NBA) and give up 118.1 (25th in league) for a +24 scoring differential overall.
- These teams rack up a combined 236.3 points per game, 5.8 more points than this matchup's over/under.
- These teams give up a combined 229.5 points per game, one fewer point than this contest's total.
- Boston is 45-34-3 ATS this season.
- Atlanta has compiled a 35-44-3 ATS record so far this season.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotheby's International Realty today announced its expanding presence in Australia with the opening of the Byron Bay office in New South Wales. The addition marks the Sotheby's International Realty brand's 11th affiliated office in Australia.
The office is owned by Michael Pallier who is also managing director for Sydney Sotheby's International Realty. The new location will be led by James McCowan and will operate as Byron Bay Sotheby's International Realty.
"With its stunning natural attractions and eclectic community, Byron Bay has become one of the world's most famous coastal towns," said Philip White, president and CEO, Sotheby's International Realty. "Due to its popularity, we are seeing increased interest from ex-pats and high-net-worth individuals from New Zealand, Australia, and the Asia-Pacific region, and the prices of homes have risen by more than 20%, according to local records. The addition of the Byron Bay office enables the company to further service their clients in New South Wales, and I am thrilled to support their growth."
"We saw an opportunity to break into the rural and lifestyle real estate sector of Byron Bay and its surrounds," said Pallier. "While the real estate market is highly competitive, we understand our clients' properties were once livelihoods or dream homes, and we want to represent that as best as we can. Our company provides solid real estate knowledge, a tailored level of service, and global marketing opportunities through our affiliation with Sotheby's International Realty."
Prior to the opening of the Byron Bay office, Michael and James have had a 25-year history of working together, where they launched Sydney Sotheby's International Realty 10 years ago and have consistently broken sales records for many significant luxury homes and rural properties.
The Sotheby's International Realty® network currently has nearly 26,000 affiliated independent sales associates located in over 1,000 offices in 81 countries and territories worldwide. Byron Bay Sotheby's International Realty listings are marketed on the sothebysrealty.com global website. In addition to the referral opportunities and widened exposure generated from this source, the firm's brokers and clients will benefit from an association with Sotheby's auction house and worldwide Sotheby's International Realty marketing programs. Each office is independently owned and operated.
Sotheby's International Realty
Sotheby's International Realty was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for discerning clients of Sotheby's auction house. Today, the company's global footprint spans more than 1,000 offices located in 81 countries and territories worldwide, including 51 company-owned brokerage offices in key metropolitan and resort markets. In February 2004, Anywhere Real Estate Inc. entered a long-term strategic alliance with Sotheby's, the operator of the auction house. The agreement provided for the licensing of the Sotheby's International Realty name and the development of a franchise system. The franchise system is comprised of an affiliate network, where each office is independently owned and operated. Sotheby's International Realty supports its affiliates and agents with a host of operational, marketing, recruiting, educational and business development resources. Affiliates and agents also benefit from an association with the venerable Sotheby's auction house, established in 1744. For more information, visit www.sothebysrealty.com.
The affiliate network is operated by Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC, and the company owned brokerages are operated by Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. Both entities are subsidiaries of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) a global leader in real estate franchising and provider of real estate brokerage, relocation and settlement services. Both Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC and Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. fully support the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.
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Utah's public flagship university taps national nonprofit InsideTrack to provide one-on-one coaching to first-year students and enhance its holistic student success efforts
SALT LAKE CITY, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Utah (the U), a public flagship research university ranked among the top programs in the nation for value by Times Higher Education and The Wall Street Journal, today announced an ambitious multi-year initiative that will harness the power of one-on-one student success coaching to help more students complete college. In collaboration with student success nonprofit InsideTrack, the institution will deliver one-on-one success coaching for up to 500 first-year, high-financial-need students, helping them to navigate a range of complex challenges facing first-time college students.
"Today's students are facing a broader and more complex range of financial, professional and social-emotional pressures than they have in the past. Colleges have a profound responsibility to help students navigate these myriad factors within and beyond the classroom that influence their academic success," said Dr. Thomas Chase Hagood, senior associate vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Utah. "This is about scaling the personalized, direct support of success coaching to help students achieve their goals in the critical first year of college."
The initiative is part of a university-wide shift to address a broad range of challenges that impede student success, including time and stress management, connecting to school community, and financial wellness. The last decade has seen the U's persistence and graduation rates increase by ten percent. Hagood's arrival in summer 2021 marked the U's recommitment to a student-driven, data-informed approach to providing an Exceptional Educational Experience for and with every student. The efforts to raise first-year persistence is helping to address the ambitious higher education attainment goal set by the Utah Board of Higher Education to increase the percentage of Utah high school graduates enrolling in college within five years to 75% by 2025.
Staff from Utah's Student Success Coaching unit will partner with InsideTrack to build and expand the university's capacity to provide personalized support to all students. Using InsideTrack's proven coaching methodology, Utah will be able to use a single, evidence-based approach to coaching, helping to meet the wide variety of barriers to student success.
In addition to providing direct coaching for first-year students, InsideTrack will also work with the university over the next two years to establish the internal diagnostics, training process, certification and professional development to operate its own coaching program. At the end of this first phase, the university will be able to implement a train-the-trainer model that will enable staff to sustain the program for years to come and replicate and expand the coaching program using completely internal resources.
"While addressing affordability is critical, students from under-resourced backgrounds often face an array of other challenges beyond finances that can impact student success," said Malika Clinkscales, associate vice president of partner success at InsideTrack. "This is about combining financial access with the power of success coaching to ensure that every student has the support they need to thrive and achieve their educational potential."
Over more than two decades, InsideTrack has developed a national reputation for its rigorous student success coaching model, which is proven to enhance student enrollment, persistence, completion, and career readiness. In addition to directly coaching hundreds of thousands of students annually, InsideTrack's seasoned team of professional coaches, trainers, and consultants also supports institutions in implementing changes to improve the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of their own student support services.
About the University of Utah: Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. As a preeminent research and teaching institution, the University cultivates an academic environment in which the highest standards of intellectual integrity and scholarship are practiced–ensuring every Utah student has an exceptional educational experience. To learn more, visit www.utah.edu and follow us on Twitter @UUtah and LinkedIn @UUtah.
About InsideTrack: InsideTrack is passionate about helping all learners achieve their education and career goals through the transformative power of coaching. Since 2001, we've served 2.6 million learners, partnering with more than 250 institutions and organizations to directly improve enrollment, persistence, completion and career readiness. Our coaching methodology is evidence-based and research-confirmed, with proven outcomes for every type of learner — from traditional to adult, part-time to full-time, online to in-person — including first generation students and those who face systemic barriers to postsecondary success. We also work with partners to build internal coaching capacity through staff training and professional services — designed to sustain advances in-house for lasting, scalable impact. InsideTrack is a part of Strada Collaborative, a mission-driven nonprofit. To learn more, visit www.insidetrack.org and follow us on Twitter @InsideTrack and LinkedIn @InsideTrack.
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Nationwide protests
Iran is being rocked by nationwide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested in Tehran last week for the alleged crime of wearing an improper hijab. Amini had been taken into custody by a special police unit that enforces Iran’s obligatory Islamic dress codes. Images of her, bruised and on life support, spread on social media, and her name has become the latest rallying cry against the regime’s repression and misogyny. Women have largely powered the protests.
Unprecedented scenes in Iran: woman sits on top of utility box and cuts her hair in main square in Kerman to protest death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police. People clap their hands and chant “Death to the dictator.” #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/2oyuKV80Ac
— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) September 20, 2022
You know Yalda Moaiery’s most famous image. I know her as a colleague and a friend. Yalda is an accredited photographer with over 20 years experience. She was arrested Friday while doing her job. She was photographing women protesting mandatory hijab in Tehran. #مهسا_امینی #Iran pic.twitter.com/LA9rG7nXV9
— Jason Rezaian (@jrezaian) September 20, 2022
I wrote for @Newsweek on #IranProtests2022
— Arash Azizi 🟣 آرش عزیزی (@arash_tehran) September 21, 2022
Why and how are women leading the protests? And where can they go from here?https://t.co/6y8xRjwYKU
International legal trouble
Iran is also embroiled in some nasty fights at The Hague. Potentially most consequential is the complaint filed at the International Criminal Court by families the 176 people on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down in 2020. Plaintiffs want the incident investigated as a war crime.
The families of the victims of flight #PS752 @ps752justice have now officially submitted a claim to the prosecutors office of the @IntlCrimCourt
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) September 14, 2022
Oct. 4 marks 1000 days since Iran shot down the ✈️ using 2 Russian missiles - killing 176 including dozens of Canadians #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/aozzMLmsDc
.@esmaeilion , noted Iranian novelist who lost his daughter and wife in the shooting down of #PS752 , joins #IranProtests2022, addresses the father of #Mahsa_Amini, calls for a struggle till freedom for #Iran pic.twitter.com/yqnm2ydnf2
— Arash Azizi 🟣 آرش عزیزی (@arash_tehran) September 21, 2022
Nuclear talks
Meanwhile, nuclear negotiations between Tehran and world powers have stalled. Again. With Iran’s economy long sputtering under the weight of sanctions, the value of the rial, Iran’s national currency, along with the nation’s spending power, has nosedived.
When it comes to explaining Iran's negotiating approach, I still think the theory with the most explanatory power is the idea that returning to the "same deal" needs to appear different. If that holds, then the SCO pageantry could provide political cover.https://t.co/FKuyLWQQuc
— Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (@yarbatman) September 15, 2022
Important show of support for the IAEA & demonstration that there is no room to negotiate on the safeguards investigation in talks to restore the JCPOA. Iran must provide credible cooperation & meet its legally required obligations under the NPT. https://t.co/afJ8F0cWmi
— Kelsey Davenport (@KelseyDav) September 14, 2022
Hostages
And we cannot forget the four Americans held hostage in Tehran — and the resulting pressure to release them.
SPOTTED: our @BOFHcampaign sidewalk decal in Times Sq NYC.🍎
— Neda #bringEMADhome #FreeEMAD (@NedaSharghi) September 21, 2022
These are OUR American hostages & wrongful detainees.🇺🇸
These are OUR brothers & sisters, fathers & friends.
These are Our Americans.🇺🇸@POTUS Don't Forget Us #bringthemhome@TheWNBPA @isaacampbellart #UNGA #UNGA77 pic.twitter.com/uKYueWhClT
Raisi in the U.S.
Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is accused of crimes against humanity for overseeing the execution of thousands of dissidents in 1988. His address at the U.N. General Assembly— like his “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday, the first with a major American news program — was predictably tone-deaf. He also reneged on a planned interview with journalist Christiane Amanpour when she declined to wear a headscarf for the questioning.
Hundreds of Iranians protesting in front of UN building in NYC while the #UNGA is underway. Iranian president Raisi spoke today. @AlinejadMasih urges international community to stand with the people of #Iran during #IranianProtests in name of #Mahsa_Amini#مهسا_امینی #UNGA77 pic.twitter.com/9TGYhb99QS
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) September 21, 2022
Iran's President Raisi holds a picture of Qasem Soleimani at the #UNGA: "This is a leader who fought against oppression - the US committed a crime when they killed him" pic.twitter.com/ehDbEeTy86
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 21, 2022
As Raisi held up Qasim Soleimani’s pic in #UNGA people in Soleimani’s own hometown are pulling it down. #Iran #MahsaAminii #مهساامینی #مهسا_امینی
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) September 21, 2022
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While the world is shocked by #Iran regime's brutality in how #Mahsa_Amini was murdered, @60Minutes is giving unwarranted airtime to Raisi (butcher of #1988Massacre).@CBS should echo the voice of the people of Iran, not that of the dictators ruling them. #ProsecuteRaisiNOW pic.twitter.com/Kv6B2OHSOc
— IAC New York (@IAC_NY) September 17, 2022
Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) September 22, 2022
Supreme Leader death watch
Iran has faced crises before — and simultaneous ones. This time, though, the storm comes as Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, Ali Khamenei, appears increasingly frail. Recent reports of his imminent demise may have been premature, but at 83 years old, he likely does not have long to live. Could his regime’s days also be numbered?
“Death to Khamenei!" chant protesters in Orumiyeh, northwest #Iran, who gathered today for the funeral of Farjad Darvishi, “who died in the hands of the security agents, according to the Bazaar Civil Protest Telegram channel, which posted the video. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/Zm8aLRe6pG
— IranHumanRights.org (@ICHRI) September 21, 2022
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has made a public appearance at a mosque event after concerns about his health linger...#Khamenei has led #Iran for three decades, one of the longest serving rulers in the Middle East. His potential successor is unclear. pic.twitter.com/Gmw5A7XNcZ
— HistoryDAO (@History_DAO) September 20, 2022
The deteriorating health of the octogenarian has highlighted the issue of who will succeed the Supreme Leader. @UANI’s resource explores the process of succession & potential candidates, such as #Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi & Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba. https://t.co/zzVKt4SVqX pic.twitter.com/e06telsKKY
— UANI (@UANI) September 19, 2022
More on Iran hostages
Look inside the life of a family whose husband and father is held hostage in Iran. “Bring Them Home,” a Post Opinions short film, shows the ordeal to free him: | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/what-happening-iran-protests-supreme-leader-overview/ | 2022-09-22 21:06:56 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/what-happening-iran-protests-supreme-leader-overview/ |
SUZHOU, China, Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 20, 2023, Porton Advanced Solutions Ltd. (Porton Advanced) and Yinjia (Shanghai) Biosciences Co., Ltd. (Yinjia Biosciences) announced a strategic partnership in developing core protein raw materials for cell and gene therapy (CGT) and test reagent products for quality control and evaluation systems to accelerate the development and commercialization of CGT.
Porton Advanced CDMO offers end-to-end gene and cell therapy services covering plasmids, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic virus, mRNA therapy, and bacterial therapy. Yinjia Biosciences focuses on high-quality core protein raw materials and also offers companion diagnostics products for innovative adjuvant therapies. Yinjia Biosciences will provide Porton Advanced with high-quality core protein raw materials and testing reagent products for quality control and evaluation systems. Porton Advanced will continue to advance its technology and capabilities to accelerate the development of CGT to meet clinical needs and empower global partners.
"We are glad to establish a strategic partnership with Yinjia Biosciences. Yinjia Biosciences has a strong R&D and advanced platform for high-quality protein and rich industrialization experience in core protein raw materials and testing reagents. This strategic partnership will strengthen Porton Advanced's CGT CDMO and accelerate the development of innovative CGT therapeutics to deliver life-changing benefits to patients," said Dr. Wang Yangzhou, CEO of Porton Advanced.
"Porton Advanced has a proven track record in both product quality and market penetration and plays an important role in the CGT space. We are excited to partner with Porton Advanced to apply our products in other areas, and create new possibilities for us to meet more client needs," said Dr. Wu Yifei, Chairman and CEO of Yinjia Biosciences.
About Yinjia Biosciences
Founded in November 2020, Yinjia Biosciences has built R&D and industrialization foundations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Suzhou, and has completed three rounds of financing. Yinjia Biosciences has successfully developed about 100 kinds of high-quality proteins, covering p frontier fields such as cell therapy, mRNA vaccine and closed-loop RNA, new drug R&D, molecular diagnostics, and companion diagnostics for new tumor drugs. Yinjia Biosciences has also developed testing reagents for personalized therapies guidance (companion and auxiliary diagnostics), and quality control.
About Porton Advanced
Founded in 2018 and located in Suzhou, China, Porton Advanced is a subsidiary of the globally recognized CDMO Porton Pharma Solutions Ltd. (SZSE Stock Code 300363). Porton Advanced offers global services, a cGMP-compliant manufacturing platform, plasmids, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic virus, mRNA therapy, and bacterial therapy from pre-clinical to commercialization.
Porton Advanced's "Customer First" approach to Gene and Cell Therapeutics (GCT) manufacturing is anchored by our core principles of "Compliance, Expertise, and Open Collaboration". Operating to rigorous, internationally harmonized Quality Management and IP protection standards, Porton Advanced is bringing innovative manufacturing solutions to the complex challenges in the GCT space.
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Former mortuary worker accused of selling stolen body parts to man she met online
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000.
The April 5 indictment, unsealed Friday in federal court in Little Rock, accuses Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, of setting up the transactions with a man she met through a Facebook group about “oddities.”
Scott, a Little Rock resident, pleaded not guilty to 12 counts, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, and interstate transportation of stolen property.
Scott is jailed, with a hearing on whether she will be released on bail scheduled for Tuesday. A lawyer for Scott did not immediately answer an email seeking comment on Saturday.
The buyer is not identified in the federal indictment, but separate state charges in Pennsylvania name him as Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania.
Scott was employed at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, where part of her job was to transport, cremate and embalm remains. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock has said that’s where the medical school sent remains of cadavers that had been donated for medical students to examine.
The indictment alleges Scott approached Pauley in October 2021 and began offering to sell him remains from the medical school that the mortuary was supposed to cremate and return.
“Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully intact, embalmed brain?” the indictment alleges Scott wrote to Pauley in her first Facebook message.
The indictment alleges that over the next nine months, Scott sold Pauley fetuses, brains, hearts, lungs, genitalia, large pieces of skin and other body parts. At one point, the indictment alleges Scott sold the remains of a fetus at a discount, writing “he’s not in great shape.”
The indictment alleges Scott collected $10,975 in 16 separate PayPal transfers.
Prosecutors argue that Scott should remain jailed until trial, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Jegley telling U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Thomas Ray on Friday that Scott could be motivated to flee by the prospect of a long prison sentence.
“I think that the facts ... underlying the indictment and in the indictment are uniquely egregious and objectionable and we believe there is going to be some significant public outcry as a result of this,” Jegley said.
Ray said the alleged conduct is “shocking and depraved.” But since Scott isn’t alleged to be dangerous, under federal rules, he’s only supposed to order her jailed if she is a flight risk.
Pennsylvania officials discovered the scheme after they got complaints about Pauley last year.
Pauley is charged in Pennsylvania with a misdemeanor count of abuse of a corpse, a felony count of receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, and a felony count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities. Pauley is free on bail. Court records show his preliminary hearing, repeatedly delayed, is currently scheduled for June 7.
Leslie Taylor, a spokeswoman for the medical university, told the Arkansas newspaper Friday that officials are grateful federal authorities charged Scott. Taylor called the people who donate their bodies for medical research “true heroes,” and said they are the largest victims of the crime because of the role the donations play in medical education.
Taylor said the FBI has not told school officials if any of the remains have been identified. She said embalming damages DNA, making identification “extremely difficult.”
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FRUITLAND, Idaho — After more than a week of search efforts in a Fruitland backyard, authorities say they did not find the remains of missing Fruitland boy Michael Vaughan.
Earlier this month, investigators said they were confident Vaughan's remains would be found on the Fruitland property after receiving what they called a "credible tip" from someone who lived in the home.
Fruitland Police Chief J.D. Huff said they now believe Vaughan was abducted, killed, buried on the Redwing St. property, then moved.
Chief Huff said all dogs involved in the search alerted to human remains, but no body parts or bones were discovered in the search.
Huff also shared the images of four individuals who they believe to be involved in Michael's disappearance with knowledge about his death.
Police believe these four people have knowledge of #MichaelVaughan’s death and disappearance. Sarah and Stacey Wondra (left) live at the home that was searched. They say Adrian Lucienne and Brandon Shurtliff were staying at the house at the time. pic.twitter.com/vrItHHivIa
— Karen Lehr (@KarenLehr) December 1, 2022
Sarah and Stacey Wondra (pictured on the left above) live at the home that was searched. Police now say Adrien Lucienne (top right) and Brandon Shurtliff (bottom right) were staying with the Wondras at the time of Vaughan's disappearance.
They believe Lucienne is either in Ohio or California, and believe Shurtliff is currently in North Dakota. They're asking both men to come forward to speak with investigators.
The update comes more than two weeks after investigators began excavating a Fruitland backyard where the Wondras lived just a half mile away from where five-year-old Michael Vaughan was last seen at his family's home on July 27, 2021.
Crews remained on scene for more than a week, digging up the top three to four feet of the entire yard before looking for evidence in the home itself. Authorities on scene said at the time they were confident Vaughan's remains would be found on the property after receiving a "credible tip" from someone who lived in the home.
Sarah Wondra, was taken into custody on Friday, November 11 before search efforts began. She was formally charged and accused of failing to report Vaughan's death. Wondra lives at the home with her husband, Stacey Wondra, who has been in the Washington County Jail since May.
After Wondra's arrest, Chief Huff said they did not believe she was the only person with knowledge of what happened to Vaughan.
Sarah Wondra was arraigned virtually in Payette County on November 14, and later committed to the Department of Health and Welfare after a mental evaluation determined she was unfit to continue with court proceedings.
Wondra's preliminary hearing was pushed back. She's expected in court next December 23.
Chief Huff said Thursday Wondra will remain in custody as they continue investigating. Authorities say they are confident more charges are forthcoming.
A neighbor's yard will also be searched with ground-penetrating radar on Friday. They are cooperating with police and allowing them to search without a warrant. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/police-do-not-find-human-remains-at-fruitland-home-in-search-for-michael-vaughan | 2022-12-01 21:44:04 | 1 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/police-do-not-find-human-remains-at-fruitland-home-in-search-for-michael-vaughan |
Zelenskyy urges African leaders to press Putin on release of political prisoners
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to a group of African leaders to ask his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to free political prisoners from Crimea and beyond — saying it could be an important part of their trip to Russia on Saturday.
Seven African leaders — presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypt’s prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda — visited Ukraine on Friday as part of a self-styled “peace mission” to both Ukraine and Russia to try to help end their nearly 16-month-old war.
The African leaders were traveling to meet with Putin on Saturday in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
The mission to Ukraine, the first of its kind by African leaders, comes in the wake of other peace initiatives such as one by China, and it carried extra importance for the African countries: They rely on food and fertilizer deliveries from Russia and Ukraine, whose war has impeded exports from one of the world’s most important breadbaskets.
“This conflict is affecting Africa negatively,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a news conference alongside Zelenskyy and the four other African heads of state or government, after the leaders met for closed-door talks Friday afternoon.
Ramaphosa and others acknowledged the intensity of the fight and the animosity between Russia and Ukraine, but insisted all wars must come to an end — and that the delegation wants to help expedite that.
“I do believe that Ukrainians feel that they must fight and not give up. The road to peace is very hard,” he said, adding that “there is a need to bring this conflict to an end sooner rather than later.”
The delegation, including Senegal’s President Macky Sall and Presidents Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia, represents a cross-section of African views about the war.
South Africa, Senegal and Uganda have avoided censuring Moscow for the conflict, while Egypt, Zambia and Comoros voted against Russia last year in a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Moscow’s invasion. Many African nations have long had close ties with Moscow, dating back to the Cold War when the Soviet Union supported their anti-colonial struggles.
The tenor of the press conference soured when Comoros President Azali Assoumani floated the idea of a “road map” to peace, prompting questions from Zelenskyy who sought a clarification and insisted he didn’t want “any surprises” from their visit with Putin.
Zelenskyy then urged them to help free political prisoners from Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
“Would you please ask Russia to liberate the political prisoners?” Zelenskyy said. “Maybe this will be an important result of your mission, of your ‘road map’.”
Zelenskyy expressed thinly veiled frustration about their trip, saying they would have “conversations with the terrorists” on Saturday.
International human rights organizations claim Russia has targeted the Crimean Tatar ethnic group with arbitrary detentions and unjustified prosecutions since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Many have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
“The Russian Federation misuses its legislation for political purposes, in particular to suppress the nonviolent struggle of the Crimean Tatars and their protest against the occupation of Crimea,” the Crimean Tatar Resource Center said in a statement last year.
Ramaphosa, who laid out 10 priorities to help pave the way to ending the war, said he planned to have a bilateral meeting with Putin in part to discuss the Russian leader’s possible attendance at a planned August summit, hosted by South Africa, of the so-called “BRICS” countries, which also include Brazil, China and India.
The International Criminal Court in March issued an international arrest warrant against Putin over Russian abductions of Ukrainian children, which could complicate any trip by Putin to South Africa. Ramaphosa said he alone would decide whether to invite the Russian leader, saying it was still “under consideration.”
Before meeting with Zelenskyy, the African leaders went to Bucha, a Kyiv suburb where bodies of civilians lay scattered in the streets last year after Russian troops abandoned a campaign to seize the capital and withdrew from the area.
The delegation’s stop in Bucha was symbolically significant, because the town has come to stand for the brutality of Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The Russian occupation of Bucha left hundreds of civilians dead, with some showing signs of torture.
While in Bucha, the visitors placed commemorative candles at a small memorial outside a church near where a mass grave was unearthed.
On their way back to the capital, air raid sirens went off in Kyiv — prompting them to briefly return to their hotel as a “precautionary measure,” Ramaphosa spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted: “Russian missiles are a message to Africa: Russia wants more war, not peace.”
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down six Russian Kalibr cruise missiles, six Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles and two reconnaissance drones. It gave no details on where they were shot down.
Germany will deliver another 64 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday, to help shield it against Russia’s relentless aerial attacks.
Officials who helped organize the delegation’s talks said the African leaders not only aimed to initiate a peace process but also to assess how Russia, which is under heavy international sanctions, can be paid for fertilizer exports that Africa desperately needs.
They are also set to discuss the related issue of ensuring more grain shipments out of Ukraine, and the possibility of more prisoner swaps.
“Life is universal, and we must protect lives – Ukrainian lives, Russian lives, global lives,” Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema told The Associated Press. “Instability anywhere is instability everywhere.”
The African peace overture comes as Ukraine launches a counteroffensive to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas, using Western-supplied advanced weapons in attacks along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line. Western analysts and military officials have cautioned that the campaign could last a long time.
China presented its own peace proposal at the end of February. Ukraine and its allies largely dismissed the plan, and the warring sides look no closer to a cease-fire.
Ukrainian troops have recorded successes along three stretches of the front line in the south and east, Andriy Kovalev, a spokesman for the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in a statement Friday.
According to Kovalev, Ukrainian forces moved forward south of the town of Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia province, in the direction of the village of Robotyne, as well as around Levadne and Staromaiorske, on the boundary between Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk province further east.
Kovalev said Ukraine’s troops also advanced in some areas around Vuhledar, a mining town in Donetsk that was the site of a key tank battle.
It wasn’t possible to independently verify the claims.
Russian shelling on Thursday and overnight killed two civilians and wounded two others in southern Ukraine’s flood-hit Kherson region, where a major dam was destroyed last week, according to the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin.
Russian forces over the previous day launched 54 strikes across the province, using mortars, artillery, multiple rocket launchers, drones, missiles and aircraft, Prokudin said.
Floodwaters in the Kherson region have continued to recede, with the average level in flood-hit areas standing at 1.67 meters (about 5 feet) — down from 5 meters (16 feet) last Tuesday, the Ukrainian presidential office said. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/zelenskyy-urges-african-leaders-to-press-putin-on-release-of-political-prisoners/ | 2023-06-16 20:40:20 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/zelenskyy-urges-african-leaders-to-press-putin-on-release-of-political-prisoners/ |
- Joining Popular Sports Titles ForeVR Bowl and ForeVR Darts, Backyard Favorite Comes to the Metaverse as Family 'Happy Hour' Gets its Game On
- Now available on Oculus Quest 2, ForeVR Cornhole is available as a one-time purchase of $14.99 USD
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ForeVR Games, the leader in casual virtual reality (VR) gaming founded by Zynga, EA, and Glu veterans, today announced the launch of its third title, ForeVR Cornhole, which brings a new level of creative expression and an immersive VR experience to everybody's favorite backyard game. Joining other family friendly titles, ForeVR Bowl and ForeVR Darts, Cornhole is now available on Oculus Quest 2 for $14.99, complementing the company's growing library of interconnected IRL sports games.
"As we bring the best of casual gaming to VR, we knew we had to incorporate cornhole – the world's greatest backyard game," said Marcus Segal, Co-founder and CEO of ForeVR Games. "Even when you're playing in one of our out-of-this-world environments – say, on the moon – our custom physics make the game feel hyper-realistic. It'll bring out the same friendly competition you'll find at a backyard BBQ or tailgate, and everyone – whether that's your grandma or your old college buddy – will find themselves immersed in a world of fun."
ForeVR games offer immersive experiences mixed with AAA quality that bring the best of IRL games to VR. As with ForeVR's other hit games, Cornhole lets you celebrate wins with high fives and fist bumps and rock out to your favorite jukebox hits, just like you would in the real world.
Features of Cornhole include:
- Highly Customizable
- Better than IRL Immersive Environments
- Tailored Gameplay
ForeVR Cornhole is available in 22 languages, and players of all ages and abilities can participate since the game can be played seated or standing supporting single controller play.
To learn more about ForeVR Games and stay up-to-date on their latest releases, visit: ForeVRGames.com.
Founded by CEO Marcus Segal and CCO Mike Doom in July 2020, ForeVR Games is a global gaming company dedicated to making immersive games and experiences playable by people of all ages and abilities. The 44-strong team at ForeVR is creating category-leading games that bring VR to the masses with next-level social play, offering entertainment for everyone. ForeVR's debut game, ForeVR Bowl, is one of CNET's best Quest 2 games and one of Meta's Best of Quest 2021 in the Family Games and Social Experiences categories.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire investor turned philanthropist George Soros is ceding control of his $25 billion empire to a younger son, Alexander Soros, according to an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal published online Sunday.
Soros’ business holdings include his nonprofit Open Society Foundations, which is active in more than 120 countries around the world and funnels about $1.5 billion annually to groups such as those that back human rights and promote the growth of democracies around the world, according to its website.
The 37-year-old, who goes by Alex, told the Wall Street Journal that he is “more political” than his 92-year-old father, who has been a right-wing target for his backing of liberal causes such as reducing racial bias in the justice system. But he noted that the two “think alike.”
Alex said he was broadening his father’s “liberal aims” and embracing different causes including voting and abortion rights, as well as gender equity. He said he aims to keep using the family’s wealth to back left-leaning U.S. politicians.
Alex told the Wall Street Journal that he recently met with Biden administration officials, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and heads of state, including Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to push for issues related to the family foundation.
In December, the board of Open Society Foundations, known as OSF, elected Alex as its chairman, succeeding his father. The newspaper also reported that Alex now directs political activity as president of Soros’ super PAC.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the younger Soros is the only family member on the investment committee overseeing Soros Fund Management, which manages money for the foundation and the family.
During the interview with the newspaper, Alex expressed concern that former President Donald Trump would return to the White House and hinted that the Soros organization would play a key financial role in the 2024 presidential race.
“As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we will have to do it, too,” he said in the interview that took place at the fund manager’s New York offices.
Alex is the oldest of two sons from George Soros’ marriage with his second wife, Susan Weber, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The appointment passes over George Soros’ elder son Jonathan Soros, 52, a lawyer with a background in finance. He had been believed to be the clear successor until “a falling out and a change of heart,” according to the paper. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/report-billionaire-investor-philanthropist-george-soros-cedes-control-of-empire-to-a-younger-son/ | 2023-06-12 22:59:53 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/report-billionaire-investor-philanthropist-george-soros-cedes-control-of-empire-to-a-younger-son/ |
BERWYN, Pa., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) (the "Company"), a leading provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness, announced today the closing of its offering of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 2.625% convertible notes due 2027 (the "Notes"), which were sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The proceeds include the full exercise of the $75 million option to purchase additional Notes granted by the Company to the initial purchasers.
The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and will be guaranteed on an unsecured basis by Envestnet Asset Management, Inc. (the "Guarantor"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Notes and the Guarantee will be subordinated in right of payment to the Company's and the Guarantor's obligations, respectively, under the Company's revolving credit facility.
The Notes will mature on December 1, 2027, unless earlier purchased, redeemed or converted. Interest accrues on the Notes at a rate of 2.625% per year and is payable semiannually, in arrears, on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2023.
The Notes are convertible at the option of the holders, prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding June 1, 2027 only under certain circumstances and during certain periods, and thereafter, at any time until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. The initial conversion rate for the Notes is 13.6304 shares of the Company's common stock for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $73.37 per share of the Company's common stock). Upon conversion, the Notes may be settled, at the Company's election, in cash, shares of the Company's common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of the Company's common stock.
The Company may redeem all or any portion of the Notes for cash, at its option, on or after December 5, 2025, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the redemption date, if the last reported sale price of the Company's common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, any of the five trading days immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption.
The Company received net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, after deducting initial purchasers' discounts and offering expenses, of approximately $558.4 million. The Company used approximately $494.2 million of the net proceeds plus available cash to repurchase for cash $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's outstanding 1.75% convertible notes due 2023 for an aggregate of approximately $312.4 million in cash and $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's 0.75% convertible notes due 2025 for an aggregate of approximately $181.8 million (plus additional proceeds to pay accrued interest on the repurchased notes). The Company also used approximately $79.4 million of the net proceeds from the offering to pay the cost of entering into the capped call transactions described below. The Company intends to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include selective strategic investments through acquisitions, alliances or other transactions.
In connection with the pricing of the Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions (the "base capped call transactions") with certain of the initial purchasers or affiliates thereof (the "option counterparties"). On November 15, 2022, in connection with the initial purchasers' exercise of their option to purchase additional Notes, the Company entered into additional capped call transactions with the option counterparties (the "additional capped call transactions" and, together with the base capped call transactions, the "capped call transactions"). Collectively, the capped call transactions cover, initially, the number of shares of the Company's common stock underlying the Notes, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Notes. The cost of the capped call transactions was approximately $79.4 million.
The capped call transactions generally are expected to reduce potential dilution to the Company's common stock upon any conversion of the Notes and/or offset any potential cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap based on the cap price of the capped call transactions. The cap price of the capped call transactions initially will be $110.7400 per share of the Company's common stock, which represents a premium of 100% over the last reported sale price of $55.37 on the New York Stock Exchange on November 14, 2022, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the capped call transactions. Under certain circumstances, the options underlying the capped call transactions can, at the Company's option, remain outstanding until December 1, 2027, which is the maturity date for the Notes, even if all or a portion of the Notes are repurchased or redeemed prior to such date.
The Notes were offered to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. Neither the Notes nor the shares of the Company's common stock into which the Notes are convertible have been, or will be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes (or the shares of the Company's common stock into which the Notes are convertible), nor will there be any offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
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You are cautioned not to unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. All information in this release is as of November 14, 2022 and, unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events after the date of this release or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events.
About Envestnet
Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) is transforming the way financial advice and wellness are delivered. Our mission is to empower advisors and financial service providers with innovative technology, solutions and intelligence to make financial wellness a reality for everyone. Nearly 106,000 advisors and approximately 6,900 companies including: 16 of the 20 largest U.S. banks, 47 of the 50 largest wealth management and brokerage firms, over 500 of the largest RIAs and hundreds of FinTech companies, leverage Envestnet technology and services that help drive better outcomes for enterprises, advisors and their clients.
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New data suggests that ≥60% viewability pre-bid segments are marketers' sweet spot to maximize conversions
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality, today released the 17th edition of its Media Quality Report (MQR). Analyzing billions of global data events between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2022, the report provides insights into the performance and quality of digital media worldwide. The results empower ad buyers and sellers with the preeminent industry benchmarks to measure campaign and inventory quality into the next year and beyond.
"Digital media is progressing at an unprecedented rate, and the past several years of unpredictability have altered digital trends," said Yannis Dosios, Global Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at IAS. "The latest edition of the MQR demonstrates IAS's ability to observe global media quality developments in real-time. Through this research we have gleaned key insights into optimal viewability thresholds, recorded an impressive uptick in video ad completion, and gathered data emphasizing the benefit of optimizing campaigns against fraud. By building trust and transparency for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms the MQR continues to help drive actionable next steps and real-world business outcomes."
Several noteworthy trends emerged in the first half of 2022:
Viewability remains the top key performance indicator for understanding, activating, and setting custom standards for ad campaigns across all digital environments. Viewability rates have skyrocketed worldwide in several formats. Remarkably, video ads in mobile web environments surpassed 80% viewability rates in the first half of 2022, while mobile web display ads saw the lowest rates with an average of less than 70% viewability.
Yet the latest MQR, backed by findings from IAS's Insights As A Service (IAAS) team, suggests the achievement of 100% viewability is not the optimal way for marketers to measure success. Targeting higher viewability with pre-bid segments may lead to increased quality impressions, but the report found that marketers pushing for total viewability KPIs can risk compromising scale and elevate cost, thus reducing ROI.
Data showed that reach was highest for pre-bid segments targeting viewability rates between 40%-50%. There was a significant 41% drop in reach for pre-bid segment optimization when viewability targets were set to 70% or higher.
There were limited reductions in reach with trivial CPC increases when viewability targets were set at greater than or equal to 60%, meaning ≥60% viewability pre-bid segments are the most effective way to optimize viewability, keep cost-per-conversion numbers competitive, and effectively boost scale.
Both desktop video and mobile web video saw completion rates increase worldwide when compared to H1 2021, while drop-off rates decreased across both environments. In particular, ad completion rates for mobile web improved twice as much in absolute annual terms when compared to desktop. More than 80% of desktop ads were watched in full worldwide in H1 2022, while that number holds at nearly 74% worldwide for mobile web video ads for the same period.
In the U.S., desktop video ads hit nearly 93% completion through the first quartile, trailing behind Australia, Spain, Italy, and the U.K; while mobile web video surpassed 90% in the U.S. in the first quartile, following Italy, Australia, Canada, and the U.K.
Meanwhile, the average time-in-view for display campaigns continued a long-term downward trajectory, dropping in every environment. The diverging trends in both formats may be indicative of the crucial role video ads increasingly play for advertisers, delivering on the promise of greater engagement over display. Consumers are watching more complete video assets from start to finish than ever before.
The first half of 2022 saw invalid traffic (IVT) increase across all formats and environments. Optimized against ad-fraud (with anti-fraud protection) averages rose worldwide between 0.1 and 0.4 percentage points annually. Campaigns without anti-fraud protection saw fraud rates increase 10-times faster, with a 1.0 percentage point jump for desktop video and a 3.8 percentage point increase for desktop display.
The data from the report found that fraudsters are increasingly active, particularly in lucrative advertising markets with valuable inventory (i.e., high CPMs) and lofty ad spending levels. The impact of ad fraud has been limited on campaigns where protection is present, but campaigns running without anti-fraud protection opened up new opportunities for nefarious actors to increase their fraud efforts.
With third-party cookies being phased out and legislation putting up barriers to target audiences, marketers will have to look for new and better ways to connect with customers without jeopardizing their privacy. The latest MQR predicts that methods such as contextual targeting will be the most privacy-friendly and effective method for advertisers to reach the right audience at the right time to drive desired outcomes.
By using trillions of data points and sophisticated pre-assigned categories to display ads based on a website's content, as opposed to more intrusive methods, marketers can dig into key insights and still create campaigns that resonate with preferred audiences.
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com.
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Alliance increases employer connectivity to a robust provider-led surgical network
NASHVILLE, Tenn. , Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MDsave, the nation's leading online healthcare services platform connecting providers, employers, and patients to transparent, transactable, and quality healthcare, announced today a strategic partnership with Vizient, Inc. MDsave was chosen as the technology platform to power Vizient's High Value Network (HVN), a provider-led surgical care network focused on connecting multi-market, self-insured employers with high-quality health system partners.
"After a thorough 18-month national evaluation process, we are excited to be the chosen technology partner for Vizient to enable health systems participating in its high value network to efficiently and directly contract with employers and health navigators for select surgical bundles," said Paul Ketchel, chief executive officer, MDsave. "We are confident this strategic alliance will increase connectivity between employers and providers within Vizient's HVN."
Vizient's HVN, currently comprised of 14 top-tier health systems, offers bundled pricing to self-insured employers for select surgeries across 17 markets in the U.S. The surgical bundles include spine, joint, bariatric, and cardiovascular procedures and are offered across a combination of inpatient and outpatient delivery sites with at least one site within a two-hour drive for over 40% of the U.S. population.
"We are giving employers a way to contract directly with the best providers in the country in ways that are transparent, predictable and seamless for the patient," said Ben Gazaway, senior director of employer solutions at Vizient. "MDsave's unique bundling and transaction technology is key to this offering."
In addition to technology supporting the HVN, the two organizations have collaborated to offer MDsave's platform to all Vizient members to help them simplify and scale their direct-to-employer and self-pay patient strategies for the communities they serve.
About MDsave
Headquartered in Nashville, TN, MDsave is the nation's leading online medical service marketplace connecting providers, employers, and consumers to affordable, reliable, high-quality healthcare at fair, transparent prices. Through innovative, proprietary technology, MDsave simplifies the healthcare billing process for patients and providers through bundled pricing and upfront payment. MDsave's patented technology also supports employers and payers to deliver more value to employees and policyholders, minimizing out-of-pocket deductible costs. For more information, visit www.mdsave.com.
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc., the nation's largest health care performance improvement company, serves more than 60% of the nation's acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation's academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient's solutions and services improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.
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Newly found footage shows Petito, Laundrie days before her killing
JACKSON, Wyo. (CNN) – Surveillance video just surfaced showing Gabby Petito with Brian Laundrie days before he killed her, according to his own admission.
The footage was captured by surveillance cameras at a Whole Foods in Wyoming on Aug. 27, 2021.
It shows the couple parking, walking inside, shopping for a few minutes and then returning to their vehicle.
Petito was reported missing Sept. 11, 2021. Her body was found near Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park 10 days later.
A medical examiner confirmed Petito was strangled.
The following month, the FBI identified Laundrie’s remains in an environmental park in Florida.
The case came to a close in January when the FBI found a notebook near Laundrie’s remains that contained a written confession, investigators said.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Discover Financial Services ("DFS" or the "Company") (NYSE: DFS).
If you suffered losses exceeding $50,000 investing in DFS stock or options and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/DFS.
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On July 20, 2022, Discover announced that, due to an internal investigation into compliance practices at its student loan servicing business, the Company was suspending its share buyback program.
On this news, Discover's stock fell as much as 10.5% during intraday trading on July 21, 2022, thereby injuring investors.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Golfer Tiger Woods is an icon who changed the game of golf forever. But is his reign over?
It’s apparent that his drive alone is not enough to overcome a surgery he underwent in 2021, according to PIX11 News’ Marc Malusis.
On Friday, Woods removed his cap a few strides from Swilcan Bridge, knowing it might be the last time he crossed over in a British Open at St. Andrews.
“That’s when I started to realize — that’s when I started thinking about — the next time it comes around here, I might not be around,” Woods said.
St. Andrews is where Woods won his first Open in 2000 to become the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam.
“I put my heart and soul into this event over the years,” he said. “And I think the people have appreciated my play.”
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4th death, more vision loss cases linked to tainted eyedrops
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials reported another death and several more cases of vision loss from illnesses linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.
The bacteria has infected 81 people, including four who died and 14 who lost vision, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. That’s up from three deaths and eight cases of vision loss reported in March. The CDC also said four people have undergone surgery to remove an eyeball due to the infections.
The outbreak is considered particularly worrisome because the bacteria driving it — Pseudomonas aeruginosa — is resistant to standard antibiotics.
Investigators say most of the patients had used certain brands of eyedrops, and products from EzriCare and Delsam Pharma were recalled in February. At least seven patients were diagnosed after the recall.
After the recall, U.S. health inspectors visited the plant in India that made the eyedrops and uncovered problems with how the drops were made and tested, including inadequate sterility measures.
Cases have been reported from 18 states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Katrina Kohel was ready to go to a statewide competition when her three teammates quit. Her coach in Morill, Neb., said Kohel could still go to watch, but Instead, she took the floor solo.
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Katrina Kohel was ready to go to a statewide competition when her three teammates quit. Her coach in Morill, Neb., said Kohel could still go to watch, but Instead, she took the floor solo.
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Algoma welcomes cruise ship “Viking Polaris”
ALGOMA, Wis. (WBAY) - On June 16, 2023, the City of Algoma will be considered an international port of entry to the United States as the passenger cruise ship “Viking Polaris” is expected to call port on that day.
Algoma is the only city in Wisconsin to host the “Viking Polaris” on their 15-day cruise touring all five of the Great Lakes, according to a statement issued by the Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce.
Leaders from the city and the chamber will welcome the captain at the Algoma City Marina upon arrival with various items representative of the area.
“Algoma is excited to welcome passengers and crew from the Viking cruise ship as well as visitors from near and far who will come here to see the ship along our shores in Lake Michigan. We are thrilled and honored to be hosting the Viking cruise ships eight times in 2023!”, stated Rosemary Paladini, Executive Director of the Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce has solicited volunteers to staff a pop-up welcome stand near the Algoma City Marina to answer questions and share information about Algoma businesses and attractions.
All volunteers will wear Algona Ambassador t-shirts, making them easily recognizable. The shirts are yellow with “Algoma Ambassador” printed on the front. On the back, they invite visitors to use a QR code which will direct them to an Experience Algoma page where they can locate dining, shopping, arts, entertainment, and special cruise day sales & events.
“If you spot an Algoma Ambassador feel free to chat them up and they will share information about Algoma and all we have to offer to make your stay enjoyable,” Rosemary Paladini added.
Information regarding Algoma and cruise days can be found at https://visitalgomawi.com/experience-algoma-wi/
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High pressure building across the Miami Valley will bring about abundant sunshine today. Temperatures will be near-normal, with highs in the mid 80s expected.
It will be mostly sunny on Thursday, with highs getting slightly warmer. The warming trend will continue into the weekend, as humidity will also be on the rise.
TODAY: Mostly sunny and warm. High 85
TONIGHT: Mostly clear and mild. Low 62
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny and continued warm. High 87
FRIDAY: Partly sunny, warm and humid with a 30% chance of a spotty shower or thunderstorm. High 86
Rain chances return Friday, but coverage does not look great. A few spotty showers or thunderstorms will be possible as a weak cold front moves in. A better chance of rain will develop early next weeek. | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/warm-through-the-weekend/ | 2022-08-24 12:35:24 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/warm-through-the-weekend/ |
NEW YORK , Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is an alternative asset manager and, since 2017, has raised four funds dedicated to Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). As the market leader in monetizing TRAs, Parallaxes is dedicated to increasing the visibility and transparency of TRAs which remain an often overlooked and misunderstood asset class. In the vein of creating greater visibility into the TRA ecosystem, Parallaxes is pleased to highlight a notable development in the market as Ply Gem Holdings, Inc. ("Ply Gem") previously terminated its TRA.
Ply Gem disclosed that, after its merger with NCI Building Systems, Inc., Ply Gem made an aggregate cash payment of approximately $47 million to TRA holders to terminate its TRA. The Ply Gem TRA provided for the payment of 85% of the cash savings realized from certain tax attributes, including savings from (i) net operating loss carryovers ("NOLs"), (ii) deductible expenses attributable to Ply Gem's initial public offering, and (iii) deductions related to imputed interest.
Parallaxes views TRAs, including the Ply Gem TRA, as a valuable tool to reduce certain moral hazard problems and informational asymmetry inherent in a company's public offering. TRAs help ensure that pre-IPO owners are economically aligned with new public shareholders and incentivize pre-IPO owners to pursue an IPO structure that provides the company with ongoing tax benefits. Parallaxes anticipates enhanced awareness and understanding of TRAs will drive increased market adoption.
Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). Parallaxes offers private equity sponsors, co-investors and management team members solutions to achieve liquidity, diversification and optionality from their TRAs. Parallaxes was founded in 2017 and is comprised of experienced investment professionals from leading private equity and growth equity firms. To learn more, please visit www.plxcap.com
This press release should not be regarded as representative of an official position or statement of Parallaxes or any related entity.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Sunrun Inc. ("Sunrun" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RUN). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Sunrun and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 5, 2022, Carson Block, principal of Muddy Waters, asserted in the Financial Times that Sunrun is "an uneconomic business built on three shaky pillars: the equity story of exaggerated 'Subscriber Values' and 'Gross/Net Earning Assets,' funding growth through abusing tax incentives, and issuing ABS that could be exposed to a RUN bankruptcy."
On this news, Sunrun's stock price fell $2.42 per share, or 7.94%, to close at $28.05 per share on October 5, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
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The heavily traveled two-lane Route 125 from Plaistow to Milton is often the scene of serious crashes, including this one that claimed a life in January 2021. Speed and impaired or distracted driving are on the rise statewide safety officials say.
Route 125 courses northward from Haverhill, Mass., through Plaistow, Kingston, Brentwood, Epping, Lee, Barrington, Rochester and Milton, linking locals and commuters to businesses and homes on both sides of the state line while passing through multiple intersections and speed zones.
Over the course of a decade, the undivided straightaway has become a speedway at times -- as well as a hot zone for serious accidents. Between distracted driving, impaired driving and driving 20 mph above the posted limit at any hour, it's a nexus of motor vehicle violations that threaten driver and pedestrian safety, according to state and local law enforcement.
Over the past nine years, 4,898 crashes were recorded on Route 125, many of which resulted in deaths or serious injuries, according to the New Hampshire Department of Safety. That translates to 1.5 crashes a day.
"It's always been dangerous," said Capt. Chris Vetter, commander of the Office of Highway Safety at DOS. New Hampshire State Police have just started a months-long collaboration with municipal police departments along the route to curb aggressive driving, compromised driving, irresponsible driving and excessive speed on a road that was never intended to be an amateur raceway.
"It's not just speed," said Vetter. "It's distraction. It's impairment."
And it's endemic across the state.
As of December 30, 139 people died in 130 crashes statewide in 2022, according to the Department of Safety -- up from 104 in 2020 and 118 in 2021.
As of April 10, 22 people have died in motor vehicle accidents this year, down from 25 this time last year. That includes four pedestrians, up from one a year ago.
"It's a small sample size, but it's significant," Vetter said. The number of traffic deaths "will never be low enough."
High speeds adopted during the pandemic by drivers on less-populated major highways and seemingly sleepier state and local roads persist. If anything, speed has increased on highways, town roads and some rural, curved roads dotted with houses and driveways, according to reports from law enforcement agencies. Distracted driving has also hit the gas pedal.
Eye-popping speeds
On Monday in Peterborough, a motorcycle accelerated to 90 mph on Route 136 -- Greenfield Road -- to pass another vehicle on a corner, crossing a yellow line then crashing a short while later near Gulf Road.
Peterborough Police Captain Ernie Belletete said, "People have been calling requesting patrols for speeding" on routes 101 and 202, which go through town, as well as on local roads. The problems seem to peak in spring and warmer weather.
Late last September, Nashua police, collaborating with state police, stepped up surveillance of drivers on the Everett Turnpike, a sluice for speeders heading to and from Massachusetts. They conducted 1,325 motor vehicle stops, mostly for speed, in a period of three to four weeks.
Speeding "certainly has increased since the pandemic" on all roads, said Sgt. John Cinelli, the Nashua department's public information officer. Currently, the city's two traffic unit officers are patrolling 14 locations within the city where repeated complaints have been received about speeding, aggressive driving and distracted driving -- including cell phone use.
When it comes to extreme speeds, interstates 95 and 93, Route 101 east of Manchester and the Everett Turnpike are in a class of their own. Interstate 89 sometimes joins that lineup.
"It's not unusual for troopers (patrolling those highways) to experience speeds in excess of 100 mph on a daily basis," said Vetter. "Twenty years ago that was not a common occurrence. Now it's an everyday occurrence."
That has translated to more crashes, fatalities and accidents involving pedestrians.
Driving while distracted
Analytics show that driver distractions are up as well. According to Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which tracks driving behavior and technology use, distracted driving spikes at night between 6 and 11 p.m. In 2022, distracted driving defied its seasonal patterns of high in summer and low in winter to become a constant pattern year-round.
Nationwide, drivers were 30% more distracted in February 2022 than they were in February 2020.
"There's certainly more reasons for people to be distracted than in previous years," said Capt, Alan Lowe of the Lebanon Police Department. "Use of electronic devices is more of a distraction now than it ever has been."
Within Lebanon's city limits, accidents rose from 727 in 2021 to 764 in 2022. Citywide, police made 4,963 motor vehicle stops in 2022, up from 3,598 in 2021.
Lowe said there's been a slight increase in accidents on Route 12A, which runs for nearly two miles through the city's primary retail strip and involves stop-and-go traffic. It's a setting for "impatient drivers running red lights and distracted drivers getting into minor fender-benders," Lowe said.
In general, traffic congestion in metropolitan areas across the country has returned to 90% to 110% of pre-COVID levels, according to Bobby Lee, a spokesperson for LYT, a company that uses artificial intelligence to modulate local traffic signals.
Research shows that the "cognitive loads" of distracted driving are intense, Lee said. Even reciting the alphabet or counting backwards from 10 to 1 delays reaction time, he said.
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GENOA, Italy, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RINA, the Inspection, Certification and Engineering consultancy multinational, has announced the acquisition of the entire share capital of Patrick Engineering Ltd., the Chicago-based engineering consultancy company active in Infrastructure, Transport and Renewable Energy. With a turnover of approximately 82 million dollars and 340 employees in 19 offices mainly located in the North-East of the US, Patrick Engineering will be fully integrated into RINA Consulting, the subsidiary of the RINA Group operating in the engineering sector.
The acquisition is aligned with RINA's strategy to grow both organically and via acquisitions and further strengthens the Group's geographic footprint which already has a presence in the largest markets worldwide. As well as adding competencies across the Group, the continued international expansion represents a further step in the implementation of RINA's plan and also positions the Group to better support international and local clients in large overseas projects.
Ugo Salerno, Chairman and CEO at RINA, says: "The acquisition of Patrick Engineering and the combined expertise of the new organization represents a unique opportunity for expansion and growth in the thriving North American Infrastructure market. It establishes an excellent platform not only in this sector, but also to grow all RINA's businesses to make the US one of RINA's main hubs. RINA will gain leverage to export its highly specialized competencies in materials, lab testing and innovative technology."
Daniel Patrick Dietzler, Founder of Patrick Engineering, commented: "Our companies complement one another, and our clients and staff will benefit from this acquisition. We will accelerate our growth in new sectors and broaden our expertise. We have a strong client portfolio split between the government and the private sector including transit agencies in major cities and investor-owned utilities and heavy industries across North America. Through RINA's international network we will gain expertise, particularly in offshore wind, high speed rail and other emerging areas of experience our clients are asking for."
Founded in 1979, Patrick Engineering, which will remain as a brand part of the RINA Group, has a strong local presence, high-quality service portfolio, and respected technical capabilities. It offers a full spectrum of services and competes successfully on its ability to perform work in a timely and efficient manner in the sectors it serves, which include Renewables, Infrastructures and Transport. With the acquisition, the service portfolio as a whole will be stronger and position the company as a significant player in the engineering sector in North America.
Among Patrick Engineering's notable references:
- Program and Construction Manager on the MBTA's (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) Red/Orange Line Transformation Program. The total value of the project is $1.2 Billion.
- Technical consulting and program management services for AEP (American Electric Power) Ohio. The total value of the project is $650 Million.
- Project management, project controls and risk management for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APSU) of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory project which aims to develop the most powerful multi-bending achromat in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex. The total value of the project is $700 Million.
"Patrick Engineering's prominent position in the US energy, infrastructure and transportation sectors, combined with RINA's strong multi-sectorial expertise, particularly in sustainability and energy transition, presents an ideal opportunity to make a significant contribution to projects facilitated by the current bipartisan US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" concludes Salerno.
Global Strategy assisted RINA during all phases of the acquisition as M&A advisor, in collaboration with AMA International of New York. RINA was also supported by PwC Italia, which assisted RINA in the commercial, technological, financial and tax due diligence as well as in the finalization of the deal. Mayer Brown acted as legal counsel to RINA in connection with the transaction.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Dodgers vs. Cardinals on April 28, 2023
Player prop betting options for James Outman, Paul Goldschmidt and others are available in the Los Angeles Dodgers-St. Louis Cardinals matchup at Dodger Stadium on Friday, starting at 10:10 PM ET.
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Dodgers vs. Cardinals Game Info
- When: Friday, April 28, 2023 at 10:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: Apple TV+
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Los Angeles Dodgers
Dustin May Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: -145)
May Stats
- Dustin May (2-1) will take to the mound for the Dodgers and make his sixth start of the season.
- In five starts this season, he's earned two quality starts.
- May will look to finish five or more innings for the sixth start in a row.
- Among qualified major league pitchers this season, the 25-year-old's 3.07 ERA ranks 30th, .920 WHIP ranks 12th, and 5.8 K/9 ranks 78th.
May Recent Games
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James Outman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -130)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +150)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +175)
Outman Stats
- Outman has four doubles, three triples, seven home runs, 10 walks and 19 RBI (25 total hits). He's also stolen two bases.
- He has a slash line of .287/.367/.644 on the season.
Outman Recent Games
Freddie Freeman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -250)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +205)
Freeman Stats
- Freddie Freeman has collected 30 hits with five doubles, four home runs and 14 walks. He has driven in nine runs with one stolen base.
- He has a .297/.379/.465 slash line on the year.
- Freeman heads into this game looking to extend his three-game hit streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .286 with a double, a home run, two walks and two RBI.
Freeman Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: St. Louis Cardinals
Paul Goldschmidt Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -208)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +210)
Goldschmidt Stats
- Goldschmidt has 29 hits with eight doubles, four home runs, 16 walks and 14 RBI. He's also stolen two bases.
- He's slashing .302/.407/.510 so far this season.
Goldschmidt Recent Games
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BIO-CAPSULE™ and MICROBILIZE™ Protect and Position Microbes to Maximize Impact
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meristem announced here today the commercial launch of two patent-pending biological delivery systems – BIO-CAPSULE™ and MICROBILIZE™ – building on their effort to bring real productivity gains to farmers. Both innovative technology systems result from work with leading industry partners and are designed to work seamlessly with farming operations to dramatically increase the performance of a broad range of biologicals.
"A very important piece of our mission at Meristem is opening up a faster pathway to more farmers for new innovative technology," said Mitch Eviston, Meristem Founder and CEO in unveiling the two new patent-pending systems. "We're out to clear any hurdle to using these new beneficial biologicals and with BIO-CAPSULE™ and MICROBILIZE™ we take two more giant steps. This is all about creating greater productivity for American farmers."
The BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY™ Planter Box Delivery System, is a revolutionary packaging system designed to carry, protect, and dispense a multitude of biologicals into a seed lubricant blend plus micronutrients. It will be launched commercially in crop-year 2023 as part the REVLINE HOPPER THROTTLE™ product evolution.
"REVLINE HOPPER THROTTLE Corn, now powered by BIO-CAPSULE, is truly a game changer because the new technology allows for so many proven ingredients to work together effectively as a single product," said Joe Gednalske, Meristem Product Development Lead, who already holds 41 patents on crop inputs and application technology. For crop year 2023, said Gednalske, one of Bio-Capsules will be charged with Terrasym®, an industry leading proprietary bio-stimulant developed by NewLeaf Symbiotics that helps plants increase nutrient uptake to develop a massive root structure. Another BIO-CAPSULE will be charged with a microbial team proven to fix nitrogen and solubilize nutrients. In the base is an 80/20 talc blend with iron and manganese, plus 1.35 pounds of a specially-formulated zinc.
"The BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY enables these microbes to stay separated from talc and zinc to keep their full strength all the way to when they are deployed at planting," explains Gednalske. "That means more vigor and vitality in the furrow."
NewLeaf Technical Product Director, Dr. Allison Jack, says the BIO-CAPSULE system is key to what's next because it delivers live microbes in powder formulation directly to the seed in a way that ensures they only become active during seed germination. "The microbes are protected until they are ready to use. The BIO-CAPSULE will give us the opportunity to show what our new corn rootworm biological can do," she said. "We've just gotten the green light from the EPA and are excited to work with Meristem on demonstrating its efficacy and its convenience, pending state approvals."
MICROBILIZE™ Microbe Technology Delivery System, the second patent-pending product announced, covers a liquid formulation technology that enhances microbe health, increases vigor, and speeds reproduction at the target. MICROBILIZE uses a surfactant system, fulvic acid and other ingredients to increase the shelf life and performance of microbes. The first commercial launch for MICROBILIZE is a new improvement of Meristem's industry leading residue management and nutrient release product --- EXCAVATOR™.
"With MICROBILIZE, the surfactant package penetrates the cuticle for faster breakdown of the residue," said Gednalske. "We've seen a dramatic increase in microbe survivability and productivity." Gednalske worked with researchers at DPH Biologicals™ and others to measure the impact of MICROBILIZE™. Meristem will license the technology to other providers of biologicals with the tagline "Powered by MICROBILIZE Microbe Technology Delivery System." Meristem's EXCAVATOR™ carries a unique collection of six different residue-eating microbes, reaching a total of 700 billion total colony-forming units (CFUs) per gallon.
"As biologicals become more mainstream, it is important for these products to consistently perform to earn grower trust," said Mick Messman, president and CEO of DPH Biologicals. He added that innovations like the MICROBILIZE™ delivery technology paired with DPH Bio's unique biological platform play an important role in generating a new level of consistent performance that will drive rapid adoption. "Trusted biologicals are proving their ROI (return on investment) and we have seen significant growth with our portfolio over the past year. We look forward to continued collaborations with Meristem to develop and introduce new innovative biological solutions."
John Gertz, Meristem's COO, said combining EXCAVATOR™ and REVLINE HOPPER THROTTLE™ can truly be considered the starter system for the next generation. "That's why we focused on getting these new delivery systems right – to bring more real productivity to American farmers." He said BIO-CAPSULE is a step-change innovation enabling a bolt-on of new formulations without the expense of re-registration, which reduces waste. "Simply put, we can help farmers add more bushels and keep more of what they earn from each one."
"We serve farmers best when we can bring them innovation that helps them produce more output for every unit of input," summarizes Rob McClelland, Meristem President and CMO. "But we must make it convenient for them at field-level. And that's what these new delivery systems are about – safeguarding the product and making it easier for farmers to improve crop health, yields and ROI. We're excited for the opportunity this brings our dealer-partners to be market leaders."
Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC (www.meristemag.com) is one of the fastest-growing crop input companies in America. Meristem sources, formulates, licenses, and delivers high- quality crop inputs to farmers at the highest possible value, at substantial savings. Meristem is focused on building a highly efficient channel to bring crop inputs to market so farm businesses can make the most of their infrastructure and intellectual property investments and better compete in the global agricultural market. Meristem's team of experienced ag professionals also works to create real productivity gains for farm businesses through novel biological delivery systems and accelerated access to farm-ready innovations.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
139 PM PDT Sun Jun 12 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to elevated
surf of 6 to 9 feet with local sets to 10 feet expected. Minor
tidal overflow around the time of high tide.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.
* WHEN...From Monday morning through late Wednesday night.
* IMPACTS...There is an increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
nearshore. Minor tidal overflow of exposed parking lots around
the time of high tide.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The highest tide of 7.0 to 7.1 will occur
each evening from Monday through Wednesday evening between 930
pm and 1100 pm PDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
surf of 3 to 6 feet expected. Minor tidal overflow around the
time of high tide.
* WHERE...Ventura County Beaches.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The highest tide of 7.2 to 7.4 feet will
occur each evening from Monday through Wednesday evening between
855 pm and 1045 pm PDT.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH
* WHAT...Minor tidal overflow of beaches and exposed parking lots
around the time of high tide.
* WHERE...Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* WHEN...From Monday evening through late Wednesday night.
nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The highest tide of 7.3 to 7.4 feet will
occur each evening from Monday through Wednesday between 850 pm
and 1030 pm PDT.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa
Barbara County Southeastern Coast.
occur each evening from Monday through Wednesday between 900 pm
and 1045 pm PDT.
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No one knows when a particular emergency can happen to someone. There is no possible way to predict such things, and they come unannounced. Whether the crisis is related to medical bills or your landlord pressing you for rent, arranging money during emergencies can be very hectic. In order to overcome this issue and prevent people from being helpless in times of crisis, various applications and websites introduced emergency loans with bad credit score.
Emergency loans prove to be blessings in disguise for people in need. These loans are processed and provided within 24 hours. With the help of a trusted and known application, you can borrow money up to $5,000 from the emergency loan lenders. However, this does not mean that every online emergency loan provider is 100% legitimate and means well to you. Further, people with bad credit score can find it troublesome to look for a legitimate lender to lend them money.
Why are these lenders lending you their money? How can they be so sure that you will pay it back on time or pay it back at all? These are the questions that you might have thought of. For the lenders to feel safe when lending their money, most of these applications have set labels for good and bad credit history . The main idea is to maintain a good credit score, making it easier for lenders to trust you. However, financial needs are changing as time progresses. The emergency loans online, its process is quite different from what they used to be a few years ago. As a result, people with bad credit scores are now given more chances by payday lenders but with higher interest rates as a drawback also known as payday loans. Check for the best emergency loan providers below.
Top Emergency Loans Bad Credit Companies
We have rated emergency loans with bad credit score and their detailed features, pros, cons, and customer reviews. Here are the top four platforms and their best features:
- MoneyMutual: Overall Best Online Emergency Loans On The Market
- BadCreditLoans: Top Loan Lenders For Quick Loans For Bad Credit
- RedCred– Get Instant Loans Online From Trusted Direct Lenders
- CashUSA: Reputed Brand For Speedy Cash Advance Loan; Instant Approval
- PersonalLoans: Low-Interest Rates For Personal Loans For Bad Credit
#1. MoneyMutual: Overall Best Online Emergency Loans On The Market
MoneyMutual is, without a doubt, one of the top-rated online emergency loan providers for bad credit. It effortlessly connects lenders to borrowers country-wide. This top-rated marketplace lets borrowers acquire short-term loans from legit online lenders. In addition to short-term loans, it also provides installment loans. The most crucial feature of MoneyMutual is that it allows you to qualify for a loan even with a bad credit score. This application aims to help those in need of emergencies, regardless of their credit score.
The overall process for the company to apply for a loan is pretty simple. The company works your application through an online form. The details you enter in the form are then forwarded to the lenders. These lenders can review your offer within a set time, after which those interested parties will process your request.
Moreover, this website itself is not a direct lender; it simply acts as a platform that connects borrowers to lenders. Apart from that, the website does not have any set standards for interest rates as it does not control the amount a lender can provide you.
MoneyMutual is on the top of our list because it fulfills its purpose of providing emergency loans. As soon as you accept an offer from a lender, the money is directly deposited into your bank account. There is no additional waiting period, and you can instantly cash the transferred money.
Another winning factor for MoneyMutual is that it is free of cost, and borrowers can use it without paying any fee. There is no third-party software that will lay its hands on your money. Lenders can have all kinds of terms and conditions, including payments. They tell you everything you need to know before accepting the loan whether that is a secured or an unsecured loan.
Highlights
Free of Cost Platform: As discussed above, MoneyMutual is free of cost. You can sign up on the platform without paying a single dollar. There are no tricks or ads that require you to pay in order to keep on using the website.
Custom Fee Structure: MoneyMutual does not control what the lenders could have as their terms. Some lenders could have their fee structures for their loan offers. The lenders can have different conditions for each borrower according to the situation.
Flexible Interest Rates: The website does not mention a fixed interest rate for the loan amounts. In addition, the lenders can have their interest rates for the amount of money they loan. The interest rates could also increase or decrease according to your credit score. So, if you are looking for an emergency loan with bad credit, do not be alarmed if the interest rate provided by your lender is a bit high.
Loan Limits: The borrowers can borrow money from the lenders ranging from $200 to $5,000. The lenders will not lend you money greater than that range. The website does not limit the users on how many loans they can acquire at a time.
Terms and Conditions: The lenders can have their terms and conditions, and MoneyMutual cannot regulate that. One of the conditions could be not availing of another loan while the previous loan is not paid. Apart from that, the lenders can have multiple conditions restricting you from several things. Mostly, lenders have set strict penalties in case of delays in repayments.
Direct Bank Deposit: The lenders deposit the money into the borrower’s account within 24 hours after the deal is completed between the two. It is the best solution for people who need to arrange funds in little time. It has to be one of the top reasons many people seek the platform. MoneyMutual remains the best emergency loan provider in the market with its large network of lenders.
Pros
- Provides minor and medium amounts of money
- Aims to lend borrowers money with bad credit score
- A fast solution for emergency loans
- Provides short-term loans
- Includes installment loans
Cons
- The website does not have any information about interest rates
- The lenders decide the interest rates
- Lenders can choose who to lend their money to
- Not available in all states (New York)
=> Click here to visit the official website of MoneyMutual
#2. BadCreditLoans: Top Loan Lenders For Quick Loans For Bad Credit
As the name suggests, BadCreditLoans is a platform made for people with bad credit history . This company is not a direct lender; instead, it acts as a medium that connects the borrowers with lenders. BadCreditLoans helps you get in touch with the lenders that offer loans up to $10,000.
Apart from that, the BadCreditLoans website connects lenders to borrowers and cares about your decisions when signing a contract with the lenders. The website has tons of self-help articles with all sorts of information about funds and how to spend them responsibly. It gives you tips on dividing the money from your income to pay back loans. Aside from that, you should carefully review the terms and conditions provided by the lender before accepting any loans. These terms and conditions are essential and followed strictly in case of delayed repayments.
In addition, BadCreditLoans have customer service that is available 24/7. The website has you fill out a form and forward it to lenders. After that, lenders contact you with the approved amount and their conditions. Further, the platform values the privacy of its users, and it uses high-end encryption to protect the information shared between lenders and borrowers. Privacy and security of data should matter to everyone, especially on a finance website. The information exchanged there is sensitive and should be secured.
Highlights
Free of Cost Platform: The fantastic thing about BadCreditLoans is that it is free of cost. You can sign up on the website without any payment plan. There are no tricks or ads on the website that might get you into investing money. It is a genuine website that connects borrowers to lenders.
Flexible Interest Rates: The website does not talk about interest rates. The lenders can have their own set of rules, instructions, and interest rates. The interest rates typically range from 5.99% to 35.99%. In addition, the interest rates decided during the offer are non-negotiable after the borrower accepts the offer.
Loan Range: The loan amount range on the website is between $5,000 and $10,000. BadCreditLoans are the best solution for people with poor credit score looking for loans in higher amounts. But be careful when accepting loans.
Terms and Conditions: Always ask for the terms and conditions of the lenders. Most of the time, the lenders provide their terms before making an offer, but it is always safe to ask if they do not. Apart from that, the terms and conditions are pretty strict, and following them is a must. Not making repayments in time according to the interest rate decided can lead to severe penalties.
Private and Secure: BadCreditLoans is known for its privacy and security features. It has a high-end encryption technology that keeps the conversations between borrowers and lenders completely private. Apart from that, the information provided during the application process is entirely confidential and is only visible to lenders.
Pros
- Best website for people with bad credit history
- The loan amount ranges between $5,000 and $10,000
- No such thing as a minimum credit score
- Reasonable interest rates
- More than one loan option
- 24/7 customer support is available
Cons
- Some lenders have a high-interest rate
=> Click here to visit the official website of BadCreditLoans
#3 RadCred – Get Instant Loans Online From Trusted Direct Lenders
RadCred is a well thought financial company based in the United States. It is one of the oldest companies that helps people meet their appropriate lender for loans making it easier for the people to have more than one lender. The company acts as an intermediary between the lenders and borrowers. They provide an effortless process online for the lenders to choose their borrowers and vice versa.
The company offers various kinds of loans like student loans, personal loans, business loans, etc. and prioritizes your needs to get you loan(s) almost as the same day of applying. The platform even guarantees every user a fast, safe, and secure fund transfer.
Features:
Multiple lenders – One of the most significant parts of the company is that it offers direct lenders to choose and borrow from. This provides the borrower as well and lenders a number of options to make an easier decision.
Security – The main priority when it comes to money is safety. When so many transactions are taking place customers often tend to question the credibility. These kinds of concerns are eliminated when the whole data is encrypted and not shared with anyone.
Late payback – Since there is a middle man involved the likelihood of negotiation increases. The company provides some leniency when the borrower fails to repay the money at the scheduled time.
Pros:
- Crucial data is encrypted
- Provides leniency in repayment
- Provides Direct lenders
- Easy and convenient process for getting online payday loans
Cons:
- Bi-monthly payments
- The amount of loans is dependant on the lender
=> Click here to visit the official website of RedCredit.
#4. CashUSA: Reputed Brand For Speedy Cash Advance Loan; Instant Approval
CashUSA is one of the best online emergency bad credit loan platforms. This platform is best for people that have bad credit score and require money. In addition, the application process is straightforward for CashUSA. All you gotta do is fill out a simple form. With the help of this form, CashUSA then connects the lenders with the borrowers.
Apart from that, CashUSA helps borrowers get short-term and fast personal loans also they aren’t unsecured personal loans . The lenders can lend money to borrowers ranging from $500 to $10,000. Further, the interest rates range between 5.99% and 35.99%.
CashUSA is well known for its eligibility criteria. It is set in place to verify your credibility. Apart from that, the requirements are clearly stated on the website. This criterion applies to every person, whether they have a good or bad credit history . In addition, the criteria involve the borrower’s nationality, legal age, source of income, and credit account. The website uses these criteria to maintain its reputation of being reliable and credible.
Moreover, if any lender does not accept your requirements, the website connects you with an offer for credit repair or debt relief. But this is rarely the case. Most of the time, lenders are willing to help as many borrowers as they can as long as they fit their criteria.
Highlights
Free of Cost Platform: The great thing about CashUSA is that it is a free platform created for people with bad credit. There is no fee for the application process, and the website is entirely free. Like the rest of the best emergency loan providers on this list, CashUSA is very trusted and reliable.
Interest Rates: The interest rates on the website range from 5.99% to 35.99%. This rate can be different for many lenders, but it will stay within the range. Moreover, if you maintain a good credit score, the interest rates will be lesser for you. However, if you have a bad credit score, the interest rates might be considerably higher.
Loan Limits and Range: CashUSA is one of the best emergency loan platforms for bad credit. It allows borrowers to borrow an immense amount of loans. The loan typically ranges between $500 and $10,000. Mostly, this amount is enough to pay off debts or any emergency payments that are due.
Terms and Conditions: Generally, the terms and conditions for every lender are different, and it is advised that you read and understand them. If you find anything unreasonable, try to negotiate it before accepting the loan. Most of the conditions are 100% non-negotiable once accepted.
Eligibility Criteria: CashUSA has eligibility criteria. The form provided by the website also has a bunch of conditions that a borrower must meet to apply for a loan. CashUSA has maintained its credibility and good status in the bad credit industry through these criteria. The eligibility requirements include: the borrower must be over 18, have an income over $1,000 per month, have a checking account, and must be a US citizen.
Pros
- Loans can be received on the first business day
- The range for a loan amount is considerate
- Easy to use and attractive user interface
- Easy and fast application process
Cons
- Borrowers should have a job for 90 days
- Some lenders request income information
=> Click here to visit the official website of CashUSA
#5. PersonalLoans: Low-Interest Rates For Personal Loans For Bad Credit
It would help if you were very careful about accepting loans. When considering borrowing a loan, there are many things you should consider. It is why taking the first offer made to you by a lender is not probably the most intelligent decision. The best thing to do is to wait for more offers. By doing this, you will have more than one option to compare and cross-check each other and then select the one that fits your requirements the most.
You should always consider repayment terms, interest rates, and penalties. For this reason, PersonalLoans is one of the best platforms available for emergency loans. This platform focuses on the borrowers and helps them make the best possible decision. On this platform, you can view the history records of lenders, which makes it easier to determine how your future interactions with the lender will be. Apart from that, PersonalLoans has a lot of lenders that offer reasonable interest rates. This platform helps you make an intelligent decision by providing you with all the necessary information about your lender.
Apart from that, PersonalLoans have a quick application method. The website provides you with a form, and all the potential lenders then receive this form. Third-party networks also obtain your details to check for credibility.
PersonalLoans offer a lot of ease when it comes to making repayments. The website has a lot of lenders that provide you with a waiting period of up to three months minimum. The maximum waiting period is about 72 months. It is the reason why PersonalLoans prove to be useful for people with low income or bad credit score .
Highlights
Free of Cost Platform: The PersonalLoans platform is free to use and does not require any fee for the application process. However, the lenders it might connect you with could have their own fees. The good thing about this platform is that it connects you with multiple lenders, so you can quickly review their offers and select the best option.
Flexible Interest Rates: The interest rates on the website are pretty low as its target audience is people with bad credit history . Lenders may give a higher interest rate if the credit rating is very low or if the borrower requests a higher amount.
Larger Loans: PersonalLoans are the best option for people with bad credit looking for a large sum of loans. It allows funds up to $35,000.
Get a Loan for Any Purpose: You can acquire a loan for any purpose. You do not have to list down genuine emergencies.
Terms and Conditions: Each lender has its terms and conditions. Following them is in your best interest, as the penalties decided before you accept the loan can prove to be burdensome in the future.
Direct Bank Deposit: As soon as you accept a loan offer from a lender, the lender deposits the money in your bank account on the first business day. Moreover, the website is free to use.
Flexibility in Repayments: Another notable feature about this company is that it selects the loan lenders on its platform who allow the repayment of dues in at least three months. The total waiting period can be up to 72 months.
Pros
- Flexible repayment terms
- Borrowers can get loans for any reason
- The lenders directly deposit the money in your bank account
- More than one lender to compare interest rates
Cons
- Credit score matters to lenders
- Does not allow loans under $1,000
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How We Made This List Of Top Loan Companies For Emergency Loans
Are you having a hard time looking for the best emergency loan providers? No worries, we have done all the work for you. We have carefully selected, studied, and tested the best emergency loan providers available in the market. We checked all the features and factors to be noted when engaging with such applications. For instance, is the lender reputable? Is the loan processed fast enough? How long is the application process? Are the interest rates feasible enough? Mostly, the best way to determine all these factors is through overall consumer satisfaction with the brand in question.
We have thoroughly gone through the details, terms and conditions, and other prominent features of these emergency loans with bad credit and reviewed them in order of the best. These platforms are the best in terms of customer satisfaction and quality service in the market. Our main aim is to help you make a more thoughtful and informed decision. In addition to this, you will get a clear picture of what to expect when using such platforms.
What We Looked When Choosing Quick Loans Online
We have narrowed our list based on the following factors, collecting information about each platform.
- Experience: The experience of a particular brand in the industry matters the most. The most trusted brands are known for how long they have been present in the market. For instance, you would like to go for a brand with years of experience rather than investing in a brand that is only a few years old. Similarly, while reviewing the best emergency loan-providing applications, we checked out how experienced a specific platform is. How a particular platform performs a process matters a lot. Today’s best platforms are tested through trial and error to become their best versions. For this very reason, all the best brands discussed here have been present in the industry for a long time and working without any significant problems.
- Customer Satisfaction: Another major factor to consider when engaging with an emergency loan application is how well the customers are satisfied with the service. We thoroughly checked honest reviews about these emergency loan providers and determined which is the best one. Customer satisfaction includes how fast the application process is, how quickly the money is transferred, and how well the lenders and borrowers communicate. Apart from that, customers should be satisfied with the interest rate provided by the lender.
- Encrypted Website: We considered platforms that protect their customers’ data by using a secure system. Though these platforms do not come in between the lender and customer once a contract has been made, we ensured they at least offer protection for their users. Since people share sensitive information regarding their financial status, this information should not be easily obtained by unauthorized people. Moreover, the platform should have the best encryption system that protects them from hackers.
- Extensive Network of Lenders: Platforms with a large number of lenders have an advantage compared to those that have a limited number. Not only can customers choose from the best offers, but they can also choose the lenders that offer the best interest rates. Some lenders state that they have an extensive network but only have the same ten or so lenders under their platform. It limits your choices and makes it hard to find a lender that would accept your proposal. Moreover, since the number of lenders is limited, so would the range of their loan amount. Hence, we only considered platforms with a large network of lenders.
Things to Consider While Getting a Loan if You Have a Bad Credit
When considering a loan, the best thing you can do is explore your options. Apart from that, there are so many factors to consider before you push yourself into the world of debt. Stepping foot in such territory can seem a bit scary, but you can hardly make a wrong decision with the correct information. In short, it is wise to get a basic idea of things and all the factors before you accept a loan.
- Credit Score
The first thing that will affect your capacity to acquire a loan is your credit score. Your credit score is something that holds all the eligibility criteria for you to get a loan. As you know, most online emergency loan providers for bad credit still rely on good credit scores because of the demands from lenders.
Additionally, the interest rates depend a lot on your credit score. Credit scores that the lenders consider good receive lower interest rates. Hence, credit scores that are deemed low receive a higher interest rate. Lenders practice this in order to ensure that their money is repaid on time.
Only a few leading platforms work without a minimum credit score set. These platforms still offer high credit scores, though. It is because most websites define lenders as a range of interest rates. The lenders then choose the highest percentage from that range. Thus, you should focus on maintaining your credit score to get reasonable interest rates in the future. It could save you a lot of trouble and ensure that you get enough choices of lenders in case of emergencies.
- Different Interest Rates
Interest rates are one of the vital features to consider when getting a loan. The interest rate is the reward that the companies expect from you when you loan money from them. Most companies prefer people with high credit scores because they are credible and stable enough to pay back their funds on time.
Apart from that, the companies that allow emergency loans to people with bad credit do it with high-interest rates. Moreover, if you try to avail a loan from the platforms mentioned above, you might see a higher interest rate if you have bad credit. But this should not alarm you. The interest rates may be high, but they are not unreasonable. They are just higher than what you would get with a good credit score.
Additionally, interest rates are not permanently set for bad credit scores. Many lenders offer custom loans with lesser interest rates to people with bad credit scores. For this reason, you must explore your options and compare the interest rates of various lenders. Moreover, if you have already agreed to the interest rate when accepting the loan, it becomes non-negotiable afterward. You cannot change anything from the terms and conditions provided by the lender. Similarly, most platforms have a fixed policy for interest rates.
- Eligibility
Most online emergency loan providers need you to follow eligibility criteria. The websites usually discuss the eligibility factors in detail. Most emergency loan-providing websites take this criterion as a precautionary measure for the lenders before allowing loans to borrowers.
You should also know what you are eligible for when applying for a loan. Nothing is more heartbreaking than finding that one best loan offer from a lender only to find out you do not qualify for the criteria.
Further, most of the companies that take care of providing loans to borrowers focus on the FICO score. FICO score helps the lenders to determine how fast a borrower will repay the loan. All loan-providing companies mention the minimum required FICO score on their websites. Other factors could include your monthly income or the amount of money you request.
Further, having a stable job eliminates most of the issues you may face when meeting the criteria. If you have a steady source of income, the lenders are significantly less likely to worry about you making delays in your repayments. Similarly, the website provides most of the information about loans and lenders. On the other hand, lenders asking for more details when providing a loan is standard practice.
- Terms and Conditions
Terms and conditions are an essential factor in any type of contract. Similarly, the terms and conditions when accepting loans are hardly less critical. Each lender has its terms and conditions apart from the website’s terms and conditions. The primary purpose of these terms and conditions is to help you better understand how your future interaction will be. The terms and conditions mention all of the critical factors to consider.
There could be many things that a borrower needs to consider and understand before they make a decision. Do the terms and conditions provide a bit of flexibility in repayments? How soon are the repayments expected? How many installments per payment? Can I make the repayment all at once? These are only a few of the things that matter when accepting the loan because they can greatly impact you in the future if you fail to stabilize yourself financially.
For example, you might have a lender willing to offer you a small interest rate. To balance things out, the lender adds a strict repayment policy. Understanding the needs of your lenders beforehand can help you communicate and deliver their demands quickly in the future. Further, we advise you thoroughly read and understand the terms and conditions and request changes if you think something is unreasonable. It will help you estimate if you will be able to follow the directions accordingly.
- Additional Charges and Penalties
Lenders mention the additional charges and penalties in the terms and conditions. We are highlighting this factor because it holds notable importance. Additional charges and penalties are for borrowers who cannot make repayments on time.
Naturally, if you break the rules of a contract, there will be consequences. The lenders often impose these penalties on people who do not make repayments, bounced checks, and more.
Further, most lenders need a processing fee, and they mention it when providing the loan. This fee can make up to 6% of the loan, which is considerable. It is an essential factor to consider before accepting the loan. However, the fee can differ depending on the lender. If you fail to make repayments on time, your loan amount can increase to 5%. So, always make sure to pay your dues on time.
- Select the Right Lender
It is probably not something you will have to worry about often, as most websites keep credible lenders on their platforms. But making sure that a lender is not trying to take advantage of your situation by increasing interest rates more than necessary is essential. Apart from that, lenders could also end up changing terms and conditions after you have accepted the loan, which could lead to a ton of problems in the future.
Selecting the right lender also means choosing someone you can put your trust in. Acquiring loans is not all about the money but also about establishing good relations with your lender. It can help you increase your credit score over time. Having a reliable lender also helps overcome emergent situations in the future with ease, and you always have someone to fall back on. Hence, we advise you to check the history of a lender and their interactions with past borrowers before accepting their offer.
FAQs On Same Day Emergency Loans
Q1. How fast can I receive an Emergency Loan?
Many lenders available in the market offer fast funding, especially for borrowers with a good credit score. Personal loan lenders can even deposit the money directly into your bank account when you accept their offer. Apart from that, specific loan lenders can take several days before sending you the funds. There is also a chance that services like a credit union or bank may hold on to your funds for a few days before releasing them.
Q2. What is the minimum credit score according to FICO?
The minimum credit score, according to FICO, would lie between 600 and 650. It is a borderline score, so do not mistake it for a good credit score. If the score falls even a single point below 600, The lenders consider it a bad score. So make sure to maintain your FICO score to avail of reasonable loan offers.
Q3. Can I receive an emergency loan with a low income?
Yes, there are a lot of platforms that allow users to acquire loans with bad credit. However, some websites require you to have a job for a minimum amount of days or have an income within a minimum range. Even so, you are quickly provided loans by lenders on emergency loan websites for bad credit.
Q4. Are online emergency loan providers better than traditional lenders?
People will agree that a time of emergency can overcome anyone, especially when no one expects it. In such times of financial crisis, one cannot wait for weeks to get a loan approved. For this reason, online emergency loan providers are a lot more reliable than in-person loan providers. In-person loan providers require a lot of time to process paperwork and many other things.
Final Thoughts: Get Urgent Loans For Bad Credit From Reliable Loan Places
Emergencies never come announced. For this reason, you should always have a plan for a rainy day. But sometimes, there are some problems that, even with preparation, just require you to seek help. One of these problems could be financial and could have you needing loans. Most of the institutes providing loans take a very long time to process them before granting them to you, defeating the emergency’s purpose. Hence, an online solution exists for all financial problems. Emergency loans can be of various types such as unsecured personal loans, credit card cash advances , payday loans or even pawn shop loans. Also check for origination fee from where you are planning to take loan from.
Emergency loans for bad credit prove to be a blessing for many people in need. We have discussed the best of the best emergency loan providing platforms in this article. Without a doubt, all of the information is based on trusted customer reviews and feedback. So, take your pick of the litter and request your funds accordingly.
MoneyMutual is probably the best emergency loan provider in the industry. It has the most user count, with authentic customer reviews. Its fast application process, quick cash transfer, and easy-to-use interface make it the best emergency loan platform for people with bad credit. So, if you are low on credit score and cannot find a legitimate lender, MoneyMutual has got you covered. | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/best-emergency-loans-for-bad-credit-top-5-loan-companies-for-same-day-loans-and-instant-cash-in-2022/2456661/ | 2022-06-27 21:12:35 | 0 | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/best-emergency-loans-for-bad-credit-top-5-loan-companies-for-same-day-loans-and-instant-cash-in-2022/2456661/ |
MILWAUKEE- The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office says the deaths of two people can be directly tied to this week’s heat wave.
The ME’s office says a 39 year old woman and an 89 year old man were both found dead in their homes on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The 39-year-old woman was found last night near 40th and Mill Street on Milwaukee’s north side. According to the ME’s note the ambient indoor house temperature was 88.2 degrees and her body temperature was 101 degrees.
The 80 year old man was found collapsed in his back yard near 46th and Armour Avenue in Greenfield. His body temperature was 94 degrees.
Milwaukee Health Department Emergency Preparedness Director Dr. Nick Tomaro says heat-related illnesses can occur within minutes of being outside when temperatures are in the mid-90s.
“Signs of heat stress or heat exhaustion include heavy sweating, paleness, muscle cramping, becoming tired or weak, dizziness, certainly headaches and nausea,” Dr. Tomaro said.
If you start feeling symptoms of a heat related illness, Dr. Tomaro says you should find ways to cool off by going inside a home with air conditioning, drinking cold water, placing cold rags on your body and taking a cool shower. | https://wtmj.com/news/2022/06/15/medical-examiner-attributes-two-deaths-to-extreme-heat/ | 2022-06-16 01:02:54 | 1 | https://wtmj.com/news/2022/06/15/medical-examiner-attributes-two-deaths-to-extreme-heat/ |
BOSTON, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eventide Asset Management ("Eventide"), is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris Grogan, CFA, Director of Investment Consulting, into a portfolio management position within the firm. Effective April 1, 2023, Mr. Grogan replaced Dolores Bamford as a Portfolio Manager of the Eventide Limited-Term Bond Fund and the Eventide Core Bond Fund (collectively, the "Funds"). In this role, Mr. Grogan provides oversight for the positioning and implementation of the Funds.
"Communicating our approach to values-based investing requires someone with a deep grasp of Eventide's philosophy and purpose as well as the research and processes that help drive our mission to fruition," Ms. Bamford said of Mr. Grogan's promotion. "Chris has established himself as an excellent leader in managing Eventide's investment consulting efforts. His insights into portfolio construction and positioning, plus his oversight of the Funds, will be of tremendous value both to our investment teams and to our clients."
Eventide CEO Robin John commented, "A central tenet of Eventide's long-term strategy is to hire and mentor highly talented individuals, then empower them with leadership roles that align with their gifts and demonstrated potential. Chris exemplifies our core values of excellence and integrity, and I am delighted to welcome him as an Eventide portfolio manager."
Eventide's relationship with fixed income sub-adviser Boyd Watterson Asset Management, LLC, and Portfolio Manager David Dirk, CFA, is unchanged.
In addition to his new responsibilities, Mr. Grogan will continue as Director of the firm's Investment Consulting Group (ICG). Eventide's ICG helps advisors design portfolio illustrations around values-based criteria and relevant risk and return objectives. In this dual role, Mr. Grogan will collaborate with portfolio management and the sales and distribution teams to develop and promote a high level of understanding about Eventide's investment strategies, both internally and externally.
Prior to joining Eventide in 2019, Mr. Grogan spent five years with Boston Advisors, LLC, most recently as an Associate Portfolio Manager. Before that, he worked as a Financial Planning Analyst with Raymond James.
Mr. Grogan earned a dual BA in Economics and Finance from Gordon College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society Boston and CFA Institute.
Eventide Asset Management, LLC is a Boston-based investment adviser practicing "Investing that makes the world rejoice®." Founded In 2008, Eventide's vision is to serve individuals, financial advisors, and institutions by providing high-performance investments that create compelling value for the global common good.
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Black Professionals in Tech Network Returns to In-person Conferences with a Gathering of 20,000+ Attendees in Toronto for BFUTR 2022
TORONTO, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN), the largest community of Black tech and business professionals in North America, returns to in-person conferences in October 2022 with the launch of The BFUTR Global Tech Summit.
The BFUTR Global Tech Summit, BPTN's annual premier event supported by founding Title partner TD Bank, will be accessible through a hybrid format from October 19, 2022, until October 21, 2022. The first two days of the conference will offer participants the option to engage in a select number of remote and in-person events, while the third day's programming components will only be accessible at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
The summit, the most prominent Black tech conference globally, is known for its innovative tech talks, dynamic networking opportunities, career development seminars and epic after-parties that include some of the music industry's most talented artists.
Participants attending the 2022 hybrid summit experience can purchase a VIP pass ($299) to access the venue, while guests accessing the event remotely can secure a General pass ($0) free of charge. TD Bank being the founding Title partner, we are expecting 20,000+ attendees composed of Black professionals and allies, as well as 60+ influential corporate tech partner such as LinkedIn, Salesforces, BMO, RBC and Intuit, this summit offers opportunities to celebrate accomplishments and reconnect with old friends within the Black tech community while also enjoying conference perks and programming elements like:
- Tech talks led by 100+ industry leaders and change-makers sharing the sector's latest technical advances along with keynote touchpoints delivered by public figures like Comedian and host of the Emmy-Award Winning "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah;
- An after-party with performances by American rapper and six-time Grammy-nominated artist Rick Ross;
- One-on-one networking lounges, product demos, VIP social outings around the city of Toronto, and an array of meet and greets at some of the corporate offices of Big tech industry partners - allowing prospective job candidates to obtain a personalized experience of their company culture;
- And most importantly, a series of dedicated hiring and learning sessions designed to strengthen and build scalable talent recruitment pipelines and sponsorship opportunities with Black professionals in attendance.
Aside from the return of the summit's in-person activities, which were temporarily paused for the last two years due to pandemic restrictions, what's especially notable about this Black-led tech conference is that its core function is to provide pathways for hiring talent and sponsorship of Black professionals in an industry that traditionally excludes them as consumers and viable talent sources.
With the recession's rise, a climate has developed in which Black professionals have frequently been faced with more lay-offs, hiring freezes, reduced sponsorship possibilities, and smaller raises while also experiencing greater unemployment rates and unemployment periods than their White counterparts. For example, while economists maintain that the US labour market has recovered since the pandemic, with overall unemployment decreasing to 3.5%, a 6% boost impacted Black workers (Economic Policy Institute 2021). An outcome which is not surprising given that Black professionals are often the last hired and first fired during times of economic instability.
"The BFUTR Global Tech Summit is where the global Black tech community and its allies come together to celebrate tech, learn about new industry innovations and most importantly, build employment pipelines with tech companies and establish sponsorship opportunities for Black professionals. Unfortunately, Black folks tend to be the hardest hit talent pool during economic downturns or recessions. The best way for any Black professional to find a way forward or recession-proof their careers, for lack of a better term, is to build and strengthen their professional networks- essentially, it's exactly what BFUTR has always aimed to provide to all its attendees year after year." - Lekan Olawoye, CEO & Founder, BPTN.
For media passes, or all other media relations inquiries, please contact Brendan Waller, Director of Product Marketing, BPTN at bwaller@bptn.com.
To learn more about the 2022 BFUTR Global Tech summit and review the agenda, please visit www.Obsidi.com.
Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) is the largest Black community of tech professionals in North America. Founded in 2018, BPTN bridges the network gap in the tech industry by providing Black technical and business professionals with access to senior executive sponsorship, skills building and a strong peer network to level up their careers. BPTN partners with companies to attract, hire and retain Black talent. With more than sixty thousand members and 66 customers, BPTN has launched Obsidi, a multi-sided networking platform for professionals looking to learn, grow and level up their careers.
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Storing your mattress safely
When you know how to store a mattress the right way, you can be sure it will still be good to use when you need it again. Maybe you’re traveling for an extended period or you’re turning your guest room into a gym — whatever the reason, it seems a shame to get rid of a perfectly decent mattress that you might need again in future. Preparing your mattress carefully and storing it correctly can keep it in good shape.
Clean and dry your mattress
The first thing you should do before storing a mattress is clean it. Even if a mattress isn’t visibly dirty, sweat, skin cells and dust build up in it and can lead to mold and mildew if you wrap it up and store it without cleaning it. Remove your sheets and vacuum the surface of your mattress with a handheld vacuum or the upholstery attachment on the hose of a standard vacuum cleaner.
Next, give the surface of your mattress a clean, paying special attention to any stains. You can use a dedicated upholstery cleaner to do this, or work diluted laundry detergent into the surface of your mattress with a sponge. Whatever your method, make sure you only get your mattress slightly damp, not properly wet, as you’ll need to wait for it to dry before storing it.
Once cleaned, leave the sheets off and the windows open (if weather allows) and let the mattress air dry before moving onto the next step.
Cover your mattress
Your mattress will need to be covered while in storage to protect it from dust, damp in the air and anything else that could soil it. The easiest way to cover your mattress is with a mattress storage bag. This is a waterproof bag that fits over mattresses. Some higher-end options are zippered, but others you need to tape closed.
If you don’t want to splash out on a mattress bag, you can wrap your mattress in clean plastic sheeting and tape it up, but if you don’t already own plastic sheeting, it won’t cost any less than a cheap mattress bag. Whatever you choose to use, it should be waterproof and you should check for any holes or tears before storing.
Choose climate-controlled storage
For long-term storage, you’re best off storing your mattress in a climate-controlled facility. Some damp can still seep into a mattress that’s covered in plastic or a mattress bag, and over months and years, this can cause mold and mildew to grow. Once a mattress is moldy, it’s tough to get it completely clean and sleeping on it may be detrimental to your health. If you’re simply storing your mattress at home in a garage or outbuilding, you can make use of a dehumidifier to keep excess moisture out of the air.
Store your mattress flat
Storing your mattress on its side might seem to make sense in terms of saving space, but it can cause mattresses to become misshapen over time. This is especially true of innerspring mattresses, as the pressure of being stored on their sides can shift the springs around and make them extremely uncomfortable and unsupportive to sleep on. Even memory foam mattresses should be stored flat to mimic their natural position and keep them from losing their shape. For more information on different types of mattresses, see the BestReviews mattress buying guide.
Don’t stack items on top of your mattress
When you’re thinking about fitting as much as possible in a storage space, it might be tempting to put other items on top of your mattress. The weight from these items, however, will damage your mattress over time to the point where it’s no longer comfortable or supportive to sleep on. Laying your mattress flat with nothing on top of it might take up more space, but it’s the best way to store your mattress. If you’re pressed for space, it’s better to lay your mattress flat on top of other items (ideally with relatively flat surfaces) than to stack items on top of your mattress.
What you need to buy for storing a mattress
Linenspa Mattress Bag for Moving and Storage
These simple mattress bags are rip-resistant and waterproof, keeping your mattress clean and dry. Simply slip your mattress inside, fold the extra material over and tape it up.
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This spray is great for cleaning the surface of your mattress before you wrap it up and store it. It works well on mattress covers — just don’t soak your mattress with it or it will take a long time to dry.
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- Lineup of Genesis GV70 models to be assembled in the United States starting from 2024 model year.
- Part of an investment of over $300 million to enhance the Montgomery, Alabama facility for future growth.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Genesis announced that its lineup of GV70 SUV models will begin assembly in the United States joining the Electrified GV70 which started production earlier this year. A significant investment of over $300 million has been made to enhance the production facility to accommodate future growth which includes GV70. Warehouse space has been added and modifications to the stamping and weld shops will allow for the creation of the vehicle bodies.
"We are pleased to bring further assembly of Genesis vehicles to the United States, bolstering availability of our products and investing in our communities," said Claudia Marquez, chief operating officer of Genesis Motor North America.
GV70 is currently the best-selling model in the Genesis lineup and the localization of its assembly in the United States is a significant step forward in delivering the highly desired model to American consumers. Starting with the 2024 model year, all GV70 vehicles for the U.S. market will be assembled in Montgomery, Ala.
"Since February, our nearly 4,000 Alabama team members have successfully assembled the Electrified GV70 with the Genesis customer's highest expectations in mind," said Ernie Kim, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA). "Now, they are ready to launch the broader GV70 lineup with the same commitment to safety and quality that has been a mainstay at HMMA since 2005."
GV70 is designed with a strong personality and a driver centric interior. It offers an optimal driving experience by adopting state-of-the-art technology. Every line, shape, and material, both inside and out, have been carefully crafted, honed, and perfected—resulting in a stunning design. Standard equipment includes all-wheel drive, a 14.5-inch HD multimedia display, and a comprehensive suite of driver assistance and safety technologies, including Highway Driving Assist.
The 2023 Genesis GV70 and Electrified GV70 SUVs are currently available at select U.S. retailers. Customers may contact their local retailer and visit www.genesis.com for more details.
Genesis Motor North America
At Genesis, we put the customer at the center of every decision we make. Genesis is a global automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of performance, design, safety, and innovation while looking towards a more sustainable future. Genesis designs customer experiences that go beyond products, embodying audacious, forward-thinking, and distinctly Korean characteristics within its unique Athletic Elegance design identity. With a growing range of award-winning models — including G70, G80, and G90 sedans, along with GV60, GV70, and GV80 SUVs — Genesis aims to lead the age of electrification, starting with its Electrified G80, GV60, and Electrified GV70 models. Genesis has stated its commitment to becoming an all-electric vehicle brand by 2030 and to pursuing carbon neutrality by 2035.
Please visit our media site for the latest news at www.genesisnewsusa.com (United States) and www.genesisnews.ca (Canada).
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Which Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy is best?
Playmobil has a range of themed toys that children enjoy. If your child is a “Scooby-Doo” fan, they’re sure to love a Playmobil toy with a “Scooby-Doo” theme. Like Lego, many Playmobil toys let children build famous scenes from the TV show. For example, the Playmobil Scooby-Doo Adventure in Egypt Playset features Shaggy, Scooby-Doo and Velma in Egyptian-themed attire.
What to know before you buy a Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy
Assembly
Many sets are designed so children can easily put them together. Still, your child may need help. Helping your child assemble a Playmobil toy is an excellent way to spend quality time engaging in their interests.
Safety
Playmobil toys come with a range of small pieces. These toys are often recommended for children ages 5 and older. Still, if your child is known to put things in their mouth, these toy sets may not be ideal. Additionally, the small parts are easy to lose. When buying a Playmobil toy for your child, consider purchasing a small plastic container with a lid to store the pieces.
Characters
Most Playmobil “Scooby-Doo” sets include Scooby-Doo and Shaggy since they’re the most popular characters. A few collections include Velma, Daphne and Fred, although most only have one or two of these additional characters. Many villains follow themes that interest children, such as cowboys, pharaohs and pirates. The monster varies from set to set, allowing you to figure out who your child’s favorite villain is and choose a set accordingly.
What to look for in a quality Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy
Interactivity
Playmobil toys are fun to build, but most are fun to play with as well. Some Playmobil sets have locking doors, characters that you can unmask and other elements that make them more engaging. Buying a Playmobil set with interactive features will make your child more likely to play with it often.
Numerous figures
Of all the pieces included in a Playmobil set, children are most likely to play with the character figures. Buying a set with numerous figures allows your child to act out scenes from the show and create their own scenes. If your child has multiple “Scooby-Doo” sets, they can mix and match characters from various sets.
Durability
Many Playmobil sets have numerous doors and compartments that you can open. Although these added features are fun, they sometimes come at the cost of durability. Small pieces with hinges are known to come apart as children play with them. Try choosing a set with enough additional features to be fun but not so many that it is likely to fall apart.
Accessories
In addition to character figures, many Playmobil sets include several accessories. In many cases, the character figures have removable hats your child can swap with hats from other characters. Many sets also include props like money, vehicles and other pieces that tie the set’s theme together.
How much you can expect to spend on a Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy
You can expect to spend $10-$50, depending on the number of pieces and size of the playset.
Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy FAQ
How many Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ sets are there?
A. Playmobil has a huge selection of “Scooby-Doo” sets. There are over ten sets available with themes such as scuba diving, haunted mansions, cowboys, firefighters and yetis.
Is Playmobil better than Lego?
A. Lego toys tend to offer more variety in terms of what you can build. On the other hand, Playmobil toys usually look more realistic and are more child friendly. Both brands are popular, but Playmobil tends to be better for children that are more interested in playing with the toys after they’re done building them.
How tall are Playmobil figures?
A. Playmobil figures are small enough to fit in your child’s hand but larger than many Lego figures. Most Playmobil character figures stand around 2 to 3 inches tall.
How easy is it to take a Playmobil set apart?
A. Taking a Playmobil set apart is easy enough that most 5- and 6-year-olds can do it themselves. Still, many Playmobil sets don’t include storage containers, making it easy to lose the pieces when they’re taken apart. If you believe your child may lose pieces when breaking down their playset, it may be good to help them when it’s time to put the toy away.
What’s the best Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy to buy?
Top Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy
Playmobil Scooby-Doo Adventure in Egypt Playset
What you need to know: This 71-piece set has numerous features and character figures that make it engaging.
What you’ll love: The mummy characters can be unmasked to reveal their true identities. Shaggy, Scooby-Doo and Velma are included as well. Numerous doors open, shut and lock with the key accessories. The tomb playset features ancient Egyptian designs with a “Scooby-Doo” theme. Additionally, this playset comes with two ghost cards that light up.
What you should consider: The doors often come apart when children open and close them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Playmobil ‘Scooby-Doo’ toy for the money
Playmobil Scooby-Doo Dinner with Shaggy Playset
What you need to know: This set features Scooby-Doo and Shaggy having dinner at a haunted-mansion-themed table.
What you’ll love: The playset includes two character figures and numerous food-themed accessories. Parents love how straightforward it is to assemble. You can hold many food accessories in the character’s hands or Scooby-Doo’s mouth.
What you should consider: Many buyers received sets with damaged boxes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Playmobil Scooby-Doo Adventure in the Wild West Playset
What you need to know: This 70-piece set includes three character figures and three horses.
What you’ll love: The character figures have removable cowboy hats. You can unmask the ghost to reveal their true identity. This playset includes a light-up ghost card. It is relatively easy to assemble.
What you should consider: Guns, money and other small accessories are included in this playset.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The 5-4 Patriots find themselves in an unusual position after 10 weeks of the season: last place in the competitive AFC East. They could move ahead of the Jets and stay in the playoff hunt if they beat the Jets at home on Sunday. With a win, the Pats would earn a season sweep of the Jets and give New England an important tiebreaker for both the division race and Wild Card considerations. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) on CBS.
The game will be shown on CBS across much of the country including the New York/New Jersey and New England areas (according to 506 Sports) on live TV streaming services, but there may be cases where you're blocked because of an internet location glitch or just want an added layer of privacy for streaming. There's an option that won't require you to subscribe to something like NFL Sunday Ticket or NFL Plus, or searching the internet for a sketchy website: a virtual private network, or VPN.
Here's how you can watch the game from anywhere in the US with a VPN.
Read more: NFL 2022: How to Watch, Livestream Every Game Live Without Cable
Patriots game today: When and where?
For Week 11 of the NFL season, the Patriots are hosting the Jets at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) on CBS. The game is set to take place at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, home of the Patriots.
How to watch the Patriots game online from anywhere using a VPN
If you find yourself unable to view the game locally due to incorrectly applied blackout restrictions, you may need a different way to watch the game and that's where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, plus it's a great idea for when you're traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network, and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.
With a VPN, you're able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. So if your internet provider or mobile carrier has stuck you with an IP address that incorrectly shows your location in a blackout zone, a VPN can correct that problem by giving you an IP address in your correct, nonblackout area. Most VPNs, like our Editors' Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.
Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US and Canada, as long as you've got a legitimate subscription to the service you're streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions.
Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.
ExpressVPN is our current best VPN pick for people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It's normally $13 per month, and you can sign up for ExpressVPN and save 49% plus get three months of access for free -- the equivalent of $6.67 per month -- if you get an annual subscription.
Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Livestream the Patriots game in the US
This week's Patriots game against the Jets is on CBS, so in addition to a VPN you'll need a live TV streaming service that carries a local CBS affiliate that's broadcasting the game. The least expensive such service is Paramount Plus. You'll need to be subscribed to Paramount Plus' Essential or Premium plans to be able to watch the game (or an older "limited commercials" plan).
Paramount Plus has two main options: Essential for $5 per month ($50 per year if paying annually) and Premium for $10 per month ($100 per year if paying annually). Both offer live NFL games, though the cheaper Essential option lacks live CBS feeds, ad-free content for on-demand streaming or the ability to download shows to watch offline later.
Since either option works for the NFL games, if all you want is football, the cheaper Essential option would be the way to go.
Numerous other live TV streaming services carry local CBS stations as well, namely YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, DirecTV Stream and FuboTV. They all cost more than Paramount Plus, but they also carry more channels, including football-specific channels like Fox, ESPN, NFL Network and/or RedZone. Check out our live TV streaming channel guide for details.
Quick tips for streaming Patriots game using a VPN
- With four variables at play -- your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN -- experience and success may vary.
- We tested the game successfully using an ExpressVPN server in New York, so that's one location you could choose to watch the game.
- If you don't see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the "search for city or country" option.
- If you're having trouble getting the game after you've turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try for a quick fix. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs -- like Roku -- don't have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you'll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you're using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.
- All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network's sports app, you'll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help, since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.
- And remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you're using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommend Brave.
How we test VPN streaming for Sunday NFL games
For every game we use a combination of ExpressVPN and either Paramount Plus (for CBS games) or Sling TV Blue (for Fox games). Using the maps on 506 Sports, we determine which servers are nearby and connect to one, then launch the streaming service and tune to the local CBS or Fox affiliate. If the channel comes through, it's successful and we report the results above. We also screenshot the relevant program guide listing (see above) on either the local CBS affiliate's website or Sling TV. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/patriots-game-today-how-to-watch-livestream-nfl-week-11/ | 2022-11-20 18:35:56 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/patriots-game-today-how-to-watch-livestream-nfl-week-11/ |
PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Zelenskyy arrives in France on rare wartime trip to seek more European weapons and aid. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/alert-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-arrives-in-17772285.php | 2023-02-08 22:18:49 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/alert-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-arrives-in-17772285.php |
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Four inmates at the Sullivan County Jail were transported to a hospital on Friday afternoon after they all reportedly experienced a medical issue, according to the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO).
SCSO Captain Andy Seabolt told News Channel 11 that “four jail inmates experienced a medical issue that required transporting them to a local medical facility for treatment.” He said the four inmates are now stable and have been returned to the jail.
Seabolt said the incident remains under investigation to determine what exactly occurred. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/4-sullivan-county-jail-inmates-transported-to-hospital-following-medical-issue/ | 2023-07-29 14:03:53 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/4-sullivan-county-jail-inmates-transported-to-hospital-following-medical-issue/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday:
Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc., down 5 cents to 15 cents.
The Richard Branson-backed satellite launch company is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Kirkland’s Inc., up 3 cents to $2.88.
The home decor retailer reported strong fourth-quarter revenue.
Lindsay Corp., down $17.47 to $133.81.
The irrigation equipment supplier reported weak fiscal second-quarter revenue.
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., up 34 cents to $15.15.
The owner of CNN and HBO is reportedly near a deal for a TV series based on Harry Potter.
Acuity Brands Inc., down $20.20 to $163.13.
The lighting maker’s fiscal second-quarter revenue fell short of analysts’ forecasts.
Greenlane Holdings Inc., down 3 cents to 35 cents.
The distributor of vaporizers and smoking accessories reported weak fourth quarter revenue.
Newmont Corp., up $1.88 to $51.35.
The gold miner gained ground along with rising prices for the precious metal.
Freeport McMoRan Inc., down 94 cents to $40.26.
The copper miner slipped along with prices for the base metal. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/virgin-orbit-acuity-fall-newmont-warner-bros-rise/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2023-04-04 21:33:30 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/virgin-orbit-acuity-fall-newmont-warner-bros-rise/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
TriNet Webinar: The Complexity of a Post-Dobbs Workplace-- What SMBs Need to Know
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 11:31 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TriNet Legal and HR Experts to discuss critical considerations for taking control of your business in an unpredictable environment
DUBLIN, Calif., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Here’s a look at the possible weather conditions as we travel around the Great Lakes over the Thanksgiving holiday.
There is a storm system that looks to spread some precipitation into Michigan and the Great Lakes region on Friday after Thanksgiving and Saturday.
At the moment, the first half of the precipitation should occur with temperatures well above freezing. This means rain is the most likely form of precipitation on Thanksgiving. The warmer than freezing temperatures should travel all the way north into the Upper Peninsula. Right now, it doesn’t look like exceptionally heavy rain.
As the storm system moves east of Michigan, somewhat colder air will move into our area and change the rain to snow late Friday or Saturday.
Here is the surface weather pattern from the computer model that should be closest to most accurate. Do remember the weather system we are looking at is five to seven days away. We are in the time of year when the whole hemispheric weather pattern is shifting from fall to winter. So the forecast can shift by Friday, but it would take a lot to change the weather story significantly.
Here’s the forecast at 7 p.m. Thanksgiving. Notice the storm system center in the eastern U.P., which brings mild air into Lower Michigan. Only the western half of the U.P. could be into some snow.
By Friday night we could have rain showers changing over to occasional snow showers across Lower Michigan. Right now it doesn’t look like the snow should mount up to anything really significant.
Temperatures start the holiday travel period mild and gradually turn colder for just Friday and Saturday.
Watch for updates on this Thanksgiving travel period as we head through the week. Find the posts here. Right now it doesn’t look like any dangerous winter travel conditions for most of Michigan through the holiday travel period. | https://www.mlive.com/weather/2022/11/an-early-look-at-thanksgiving-travel-weather-around-michigan-great-lakes-region.html | 2022-11-21 12:23:29 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/weather/2022/11/an-early-look-at-thanksgiving-travel-weather-around-michigan-great-lakes-region.html |
BALTIMORE — The Kinetic Sculpture Race returned for it's 23rd year this weekend...
Hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum, the Kinetic Sculpture Race theme this year was "Everyday People."
Participants created human powered all-terrain sculptures to race over land, water, mud, and sand.
The 23 teams traveled through 156 miles of downtown Baltimore streets, mud and sand pits at Patterson Park, and the Inner Harbor at Canton Waterfront.
Awards for ACE, Best Pit Crew, People's Choice, Worst Honorable Mention, and Spirit of the Glorious Founder were give to participants.
Howard County Public School System Applications & Research Lab. Five Baltimore-area school teams also participated including Jemicy School, Park School, St. Paul's School for Boys, St. Paul's School for girls, and University of Maryland Baltimore County.
To learn more about this years Kinetic Race Sculpture, visit the American Visionary Art Museum HERE | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/american-visionary-museum-host-23rg-kinetic-sculpture-race | 2023-05-06 23:07:34 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/american-visionary-museum-host-23rg-kinetic-sculpture-race |
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake failed to prove her claim that Maricopa County did not verify signatures on mail ballots as required by law.
Lake was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign. She has built a loyal following among Trump supporters and is openly considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kyrsten Sinema, an independent and former Democrat. Lake is also often mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick for Trump.
While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She has touted her legal battle in fundraising appeals and speeches around the country.
Lake did not immediately comment on the ruling.
She filed suit after losing to Hobbs by about 17,000 votes, asking the courts to install her as governor or order a new election. Thompson dismissed the case, but the Arizona Supreme Court revived a claim that challenges how signature verification procedures were used on early ballots in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of the state’s voters. County officials had defended the signature verification efforts and said they had nothing to hide.
Lake’s signature verification claim was the subject of a three-day trial. Her lawyers argued that there was evidence that lower-level screeners who found inconsistencies in signatures ran them up the chain of command, where they were neglected by higher level verifiers.
She did not contest whether voters’ signatures on ballot envelopes matched those in their voting records.
The former TV anchor faced a high bar in proving not only her allegation over signature verification efforts but also that it affected the outcome of her race.
Thompson, who was appointed to the bench by former Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, said she did not meet that high bar.
“The evidence the Court received does not support Plaintiff’s remaining claim,” he wrote.
Earlier in her lawsuit, Lake had focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County. The defective printers produced ballots that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators at polling places. Lines were backed up in some areas amid the confusion. Lake alleged ballot printer problems were the result of intentional misconduct.
County officials say everyone had a chance to vote and all ballots were counted because those affected by the printers were taken to more sophisticated counters at election headquarters.
In mid-February, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lake’s assertions, concluding she presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were unable to vote.
The following month, the state Supreme Court declined to hear nearly all of Lake’s appeal, saying there was no evidence to support her claim that more than 35,000 ballots were added to vote totals.
Earlier this month, the court sanctioned Lake’s lawyers $2,000 for making false statements when saying that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total count. | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-judge-dismisses-kari-lakes-final-claim-in-election-loss-for-arizona-governor/ | 2023-05-23 03:59:23 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-judge-dismisses-kari-lakes-final-claim-in-election-loss-for-arizona-governor/ |
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Google Maps is getting a new augmented reality tool in the coming days that lets you use your phone camera to find out what's around you. The feature, called Search with Live View, is arriving with other features including accessibility icons and a mechanism to find the right kind of EV charger, the company said Thursday.
With Search with Live View, you'll be able to hold up your phone while walking around London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco or Tokyo, and Google Maps will show relevant information about what it's seeing through your camera. That includes landmarks, street names, restaurants, ATMs and hotels. All people have to do is tap on the camera icon next to the microphone in Google Maps.
The change is an example of how Google is trying to transform its services to use modern technology, combining the data-gathering abilities of our phones with the power of its massive databases of information. Typing some text to find out information is useful, but Google's advances here with cameras and AR are geared to make sense of the world around us in a more direct way.
Another notable Google Maps change is for electric vehicle owners who need to charge their cars. The updated Google Maps will let you filter charging station information to find plugs that are compatible with your EV or find fast chargers.
And for those needing some accessibility options, Maps will add wheelchair icons.
Other improvements are coming to Google Search more broadly. Starting Thursday, multisearch is expanding to food-related queries. If you see a dish you'd like to try, you can use the Lens feature in the Google app to snap a picture or take a screenshot and then add the words "near me." This reveal nearby establishments that sell that dish.
The Lens AR translation system also does a better job interpreting signs and more in foreign languages and showing the translation in your language, Google said. This is especially handy when trying to decipher a menu in a foreign language.
Sneakerheads will also be able to use AR to see 3D renderings of shoes they're looking to buy.
Shopping for beauty products will get easier later Thursday, too, by showing how a particular makeup product will look, Google said. A new collection of 148 models offer a variety of skin tones to match yours. When you're shopping for beauty products in Search, Google will display various models with the makeup applied. It'll be possible to compare before and after shots. People can choose the model with the skin tone that best matches their own to make a better-informed decision. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-maps-gets-new-ar-features-accessibility-icons-ev-charging-info/ | 2022-11-17 15:37:13 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-maps-gets-new-ar-features-accessibility-icons-ev-charging-info/ |
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The burning building suffered heavy damage.
In April, the city of Flint announced it's using $1.5 million in federal funds for targeted demolitions of the old Atherton East public housing development.
Flint also received a $30 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2018 to replace Atherton East and relocate residents to more desirable locations. | https://www.abc12.com/news/fire-crews-put-out-blaze-at-old-atherton-east-apartments/article_3f7bbb18-fd52-11ed-8e4d-8f7bb24a1439.html | 2023-05-28 13:30:12 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/fire-crews-put-out-blaze-at-old-atherton-east-apartments/article_3f7bbb18-fd52-11ed-8e4d-8f7bb24a1439.html |
A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee is demanding that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram address allegations of improper hiring and contracting of her past associates.
The request Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa follows an Associated Press investigation finding that a federal watchdog is investigating whether strict federal rules on no-bid contracting and hiring may have been violated to channel DEA work to Milgram’s associates.
“These are serious allegations, and DEA must respond to them and clear the air,” Grassley wrote in a letter sent to Milgram’s office, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.
The scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector Genera comes as the DEA is struggling with repeated revelations of agent misconduct and a fentanyl crisis claiming more than 100,000 overdose deaths a year that Milgram has called the “deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced.”
The DEA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. But Milgram’s boosters inside and outside the agency have defended her actions as part of an ongoing effort to clean house, recruit talented individuals and pursue innovative ways to protect national security and the health of the American people.
Much of Grassley’s five-page letter focuses on a $1.4 million no-bid contract to a Washington law firm for a recent review of the DEA’s scandal-plagued foreign operations that he criticized for giving short shrift to agent misconduct and how to prevent it. That review was co-authored by Boyd Johnson, former right-hand man to one of Milgram’s closest friends, Preet Bharara, when he was U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. Bharara himself landed at the firm, WilmerHale, even as the review was being conducted.
“The report by all measures fell well short of the mark, spending most of its scant 49 pages citing publicly-available sources or the DEA’s operations manuals,” Grassley wrote, demanding that Milgram provide any correspondence with WilmerHale where DEA issued instructions or suggested edits of the report. “Rather than answering the questions we had, this only raises new ones.”
Grassley, who is also co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. said his office had received “multiple credible allegations” from whistleblowers of irregular hiring that point to possible waste of federal resources as well as conflicts of interests among DEA leadership.
Among them, he cites a nearly $400,000 no-bid award for data analytics to Jose Cordero, a former law enforcement official who worked closely with Milgram when she served as New Jersey attorney general more than a decade ago. DEA awarded The Cordero Group a contract within three weeks of Milgram being confirmed by the Senate to head the agency on the basis of Cordero’s record designing public safety strategies with rigorous crime data analysis.
“These do not appear to be skills that are possessed by only one company, which demands explanation of why the contract was awarded outside the normal bidding process required by law,” Grassley wrote.
The Iowa Republican is also looking at whether Milgram or anyone else from the DEA directed contractors to specifically hire specific subcontractors, including a New York City publicist and a former Democratic congressional staffer who Milgram knew from a public safety project she helped run in Indianapolis while teaching at New York University’s law school.
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Goodman reported from Miami, Mustian from New York. Contact AP’s global investigative team at Investigative@ap.org. | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/gop-senator-demands-dea-boss-explain-no-bid-contracts-hires/ | 2023-04-21 09:22:25 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/gop-senator-demands-dea-boss-explain-no-bid-contracts-hires/ |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Natalia Sells has a list of qualities she wants to see in the next Navajo Nation president: Approachable. Adaptable. Inspiring. Someone who upholds traditional values but also is progressive.
She’ll join thousands of other tribal members on Tuesday in casting their vote for one of 15 presidential hopefuls in the nonpartisan race. The field includes incumbent Jonathan Nez, former Navajo Vice President Frank Dayish Jr., former tribal Attorney General Ethel Branch, attorney Justin Jones, and Buu Van Nygren, the vice presidential candidate from 2018.
“I’m trying to go into this with an open mind,” said Sells. “It’s a very hot topic in my family. Everyone is voting differently. I think it’s going to be an interesting election season.”
The Navajo Nation is largest Native American reservation in the U.S., spanning 27,000 square miles (69,930 square kilometers) of high desert, forests, wind-swept mesas and mountains bordering New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Its population of 406,000 is second to only the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which has 420,000 enrolled members.
The top two vote-getters in the Navajo primary will move on to the November general election. More than 122,000 Navajos are registered to vote, and the tribe generally sees around a 50% turnout for the primaries. Polls are open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mountain time.
Nez’s term has been dominated by response to the coronavirus pandemic in which he enacted some of the strictest measures in the U.S. to help slow the virus. The tribe at one point had one of the highest infection rates in the country. A mask mandate on the reservation remains in place.
Nez recently approved legislation to spend more than $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funding to improve water, sanitation, housing and communications infrastructure where many residents live without basic necessities. It came after months of wrangling between the tribe’s executive and legislative branches about what should be prioritized.
“Continuity is very important, I’m sure to our Navajo people, because the learning curve is going to be high,” Nez told The Associated Press. “We offer in our administration, that continuity, no on-the-job training. We are just going to continue to move forward and implement these projects.”
Sells, a law student at Arizona State University, said she’s struggling with experience over change. Whoever wins, she wants to be assured they will find ways to bring the younger generation back to the reservation.
“They want people to come home, but the pay doesn’t always match the skillset,” said Sells, who votes in Teec Nos Pos. “And on top of that, there’s no housing, really.”
Branch is among six candidates hoping to become the first woman to become Navajo Nation president. Only one woman, Lynda Lovejoy, has made it past the tribe’s primary even as some Navajos warned that a woman as president portends an ominous future for the tribe. That notion isn’t as prevalent now, at least not publicly.
Branch has been critical of what she says was the Navajo Nation’s slow response to the pandemic under Nez’s administration. She co-founded a relief fund, raising millions of dollars to provide food, water and other supplies to Navajo and Hopi families.
“There’s a lot of resources that get to Window Rock, there’s a lot of money that gets to Window Rock and it doesn’t make it to the people,” she said at a recent rally in Kayenta.
The other women in the race are: educator Dolly Mason; scholar Leslie Tsosie; Chinle Chapter President Rosanna Jumbo-Fitch; Frankie Davis, who has advocated for extracting natural resources; former New Mexico state legislator Sandra Jeff, and Emily Ellison, who says she will push the federal government to give the Navajo Nation title to its land if elected.
All the candidates speak Navajo but to varying degrees.
Nygren sees himself as a young, energetic diplomat set on running the government more efficiently and partnering with tribal lawmakers on initiatives. He said the Navajo Nation’s internal regulations have stalled economic development, and the tribe hasn’t honed in on tourism as a major revenue source.
“If you come in very hard-headed and ‘my way or the highway,’ the Navajo Nation Council will put you in check just as quick as you can in,” said Nygren who has a background in construction management.
Jones said he already knows what the problems are with the tribal government as an attorney who has sued over elections, the Navajo preference in employment law and other things. He’s staking his platform on supporting small business like vendors at flea markets, janitorial services, waste management companies and contractors.
“Once the Navajo-owned businesses get on their feet, they’re going to start hiring Navajo people,” he said. “That means the Navajo dollar is going to stay around.”
Dayish is one of the only veteran politicians in the group and has work experience in the housing, mining, aeronautical, and health care industries. He ran for president in 2006 but came in third behind Lovejoy. He has set a goal to boost the number of homes with electricity and running water, high school and college graduates and the tribal budget by 5 percentage points.
“At least we have a target,” he said. “Obviously we want to go 100%, but based on all of the regulations, all the funding limitations, that’s what we would be confronted with.”
The other candidates are: Greg Bigman, chairman of the Diné College Board of Regents; Ts’ah Bii Kin Chapter manager Earl Sombrero; and Dineh Benally and Kevin Cody, both of whom sought the tribal presidency in 2018. | https://pix11.com/ap-political/navajos-narrow-list-of-15-presidential-hopefuls-in-primary/ | 2022-07-29 16:20:30 | 0 | https://pix11.com/ap-political/navajos-narrow-list-of-15-presidential-hopefuls-in-primary/ |
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