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STUART, Fla., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Cell Engineering (ACE) announced that it has retained Societe Generale (SG), one of the world's leading financial services groups, as its exclusive financial advisor. ACE, a Florida-based developer and licensor of next-generation battery cell technology for electric vehicles, is bringing to market cost-effective battery chemistries and cell formats that extend vehicle range while maintaining the highest safety standards.
William Turlington, Head of Mining, Metals and Industries Finance, Americas for Societe Generale, said, "We have long recognized the role battery technology and electric vehicles will play as a key driver in our decarbonisation and sustainability efforts and we feel ACE's technology will be a game-changer. We are very proud that Advanced Cell Engineering has put their trust in Societe Generale to advise it in the next phase in the company's growth."
Societe Generale has been at the forefront of sustainable finance for over 20 years and has embedded positive impact solutions across all of its advisory, financing and investment activities. Societe Generale was recently named "Bank of the Year for Sustainability" by the International Financing Review (IFR) for its leading role in financing the energy transition.
"In searching for a financial advisor, we wanted a firm deeply experienced within the battery and electric vehicle industries and with a proven track record of success. Societe Generale checks all of those boxes and we are excited to work with them," said John Kaufman, founder and chairman of Advanced Cell Engineering. "Our technology represents a substantial leap forward in battery chemistry, and in a deeply competitive battery and EV marketplace, partners like Societe Generale help us validate and accelerate our path to market."
About Advanced Cell Engineering:
Advanced Cell Engineering develops and licenses advanced lithium-ion battery cell technologies for the electric vehicle industry. The higher energy density of ACE's Advanced LFP battery technology will transform the EV industry by offering significantly longer range in a safe, cost-effective cell. ACE's team leverages unparalleled experience in developing and commercializing innovative battery technologies. For more information visit https://www.advancedcellengineering.com/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden rattled off policy proposals in this year's State of the Union address, he hit an emotional note when talking about veterans who suffer from cancer after serving on military bases where toxic smoke billowed from burning trash.
“One of those soldiers was my son Maj. Beau Biden,” he said.
The president was careful to avoid drawing a direct line between the burn pits and his son's fatal cancer, but he left no doubt that he believes there's a connection. The tragic death from seven years ago makes a ceremony Wednesday, when Biden plans to sign legislation expanding federal health care for veterans, among the most personal moments for him since taking office.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who chairs the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said Biden was a driving force behind the measure, which passed last week.
“He was continually pushing because whether Beau died of this or not, I think Joe thinks that it had some impact, and so he wanted this fixed,” Tester said. "And because he thinks it was the right thing to do. So different president, different set of priorities, this would have probably never happened.”
Burn pits were used in Iraq and Afghanistan to dispose of chemicals, cans, tires, plastics, medical equipment and human waste. However, 70% of disability claims involving exposure to the pits were denied by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The legislation will direct officials to assume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pit exposure, helping veterans get disability payments without having to prove the illness was the result of their service.
“Veterans who have been sickened to the point of being unable to work, unable to take care of their families, won’t have to spend that time fighting the government to get the healthcare they earned," said Jeremy Butler, head of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "This is monumental.”
Although the provision involving burn pits has garnered the most attention, other health care services will be expanded as well.
Veterans who have served since the Sept. 11 attacks will have a decade to sign up for VA health care, double the current five years.
And there's more help for veterans from the Vietnam War. The legislation adds hypertension to list of ailments that are presumed to be caused by exposure to Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the U.S. military to clear vegetation.
In addition, veterans who served during the war in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Guam, American Samoa and Johnston Atoll will also be considered to have been exposed to the chemical.
The legislation is considered to be the largest expansion of veterans health care in more than three decades, but it became an unlikely political football shortly before it passed.
On the day that the Senate was expected to grant it final approval, Republicans unexpectedly blocked it. Veterans who had traveled to Washington for a moment of triumph were devastated.
“All the veterans were down there because they were expecting to celebrate," Butler said. “And then they were absolutely stabbed in the back.”
Republicans said they were concerned about technical changes to how the legislation was funded. Democrats accused them of throwing a fit because they were unhappy about a separate deal to advance Biden's domestic agenda on climate change, taxes and prescription drugs.
Instead of going home, some veterans began holding what they called a “fire watch” outside the Capitol, an impromptu vigil to keep public pressure on the Senate.
They stayed around the clock, despite the stifling summer heat and torrential thunderstorms. Jon Stewart, the comedian who has advocated for veterans, joined them as well. Biden wanted to go but couldn't because he was isolating with a coronavirus infection, so he spoke to the demonstrators in a video call when VA Secretary Denis McDonough dropped off pizza.
Days after the demonstration began, the Senate held another vote, and the measure passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.
Veterans were in the gallery watching the vote take place.
“Every single person I was with was bawling. Just bawling," said Matt Zeller, a former Army captain who was among the demonstrators. "I cried for a solid five minutes.”
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Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Veterans-health-bill-marks-a-personal-victory-for-17363458.php | 2022-08-10 05:30:14 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Veterans-health-bill-marks-a-personal-victory-for-17363458.php |
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CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov site showed parts of Illinois, lower Michigan and southern Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon, and Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee had air quality categorized as “very unhealthy.”
In Minnesota, a record 23rd air quality alert was issued Tuesday through late Wednesday night across much of the state, as smoky skies obscure the skylines of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued an air quality alert for the entire state. Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources also issued an air quality advisory for the state.
In Chicago, officials urged young people, older adults and residents with health issues to spend more time indoors.
“Just driving into the zoo … you could just see around the buildings, kind of just haze,” said Shelly Woinowski, who was visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Some day care centers in the Chicago area have told parents that their children will remain indoors Tuesday due to the poor air quality, while one youth sports club says it adjusted its activities to add more time indoors.
“As these unsafe conditions continue, the city will continue to provide updates and take swift action to ensure that vulnerable individuals have the resources they need to protect themselves and their families,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a release.
In the Milwaukee area, Flight for Life Wisconsin was unable to respond to a motorcycle-van crash because the Federal Aviation Administration requires 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) visibility, and the visibility was reduced to three-quarters to 1.5 miles (1.2-2.4 kilometers) because of the hazy skies, Executive Director Leif Erickson said.
Fires in northern Quebec and low pressure over the eastern Great Lakes are sending smoke through northern Michigan, and across southern Wisconsin and Chicago, said Bryan Jackson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Jackson added that a north wind would push the smoke further south, moving into Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky later Tuesday and overnight.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported Monday that 76,129 square kilometers (29,393 square miles) of land including forests has burned across Canada since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometers (29,187 square miles), according to the National Forestry Database.
Nationally, there are currently 490 fires burning, with 255 of them considered to be out of control.
Even recent rainfall in Quebec likely won’t be enough to extinguish the wildfires ravaging the northern part of that province, but the wet weather could give firefighters a chance to get ahead of the flames, officials said Tuesday.
Nearly a quarter of the fires burning in Canada are in Quebec. Environment Canada meteorologist Simon Legault said he expects rain to stop falling by Wednesday morning in the regions most affected by forest fires.
Earlier this month, massive fires burning stretches of Canadian forests blanketed the northeastern United States and the Great Lakes region, turning the air yellowish gray, and prompting warnings for people to stay inside and keep windows closed.
The small particles in wildfire smoke can irritate the eyes, nose and throat, and can affect the heart and lungs, making it harder to breathe. Health officials say it’s important to limit outdoor activities as much as possible to avoid breathing in these particles.
“Until the fires are out, there’s a risk,” Jackson said. “If there’s any north component to the wind, there’s a chance it’ll be smoky.”
In early June, U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement that hundreds of American firefighters and support personnel have been in Canada since May, and called attention to the fires as a reminder of the impacts of climate change.
The warming planet will produce hotter and longer heat waves, making for bigger, smokier fires, according to Joel Thornton, professor and chair of the department of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.
Priti Marwah, who was beginning a run along the city’s lakefront, describes the haze in Chicago Tuesday as “bad.”
“Like, you can smell it bad,” she said. “I run a hundred miles a week, so this is going to be dangerous today. You can feel it … just even parking right there and coming out, I can feel it in my lungs.”
Smoke from the wildfires moved into Minnesota late Monday, and ground-level smoke is expected to linger across southern, east-central and northeastern Minnesota. That includes the Twin Cities area, up to the northeast corner of the state and down to the southwest and southeast corners.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency tweeted that Tuesday marked the 23rd air quality alert in Minnesota this year, breaking the previous record of 21 in 2021. Minnesota usually averages two or three alerts in a season.
St. Paul recorded the worst air quality in the United States two weeks ago due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. As of midday Tuesday, the air quality was rated “unhealthy” across eastern Minnesota from the Canadian border to the Iowa border.
The MPCA said a cold front will move across Minnesota on Wednesday, bringing cleaner air from the west across the region by early Thursday.
But on Tuesday, the coming respite meant little to Dan Daley, a resident of St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
“It’s kind of miserable some days because you can’t spend a lot of time outside,” he said.
Daley said he smelled – and tasted – smoke in the air when he left the house this morning. He saw a hazy sky and wondered if that will be the norm for future summers in the area. When the air quality makes it unhealthy to be outside, Daley struggles to do the things he enjoys like hiking, camping and walking around town.
He worries that people in other parts of the country who haven’t experienced days of bad air quality will think it’s not a big deal. “If they think the smoke’s not that bad, they should come up here and see it for themselves” Daley said.
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Ahmed reported from Minneapolis. AP reporter Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis, Corey Williams in Detroit and Ken Kusmer in Indianapolis contributed to the story. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/canadian-wildfires-are-causing-unhealthy-air-quality-again-in-chicago-and-other-parts-of-the-us/ | 2023-06-28 12:12:04 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/canadian-wildfires-are-causing-unhealthy-air-quality-again-in-chicago-and-other-parts-of-the-us/ |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — ‘Twas two nights before Christmas and up and down the Las Vegas Strip, people looked up and thought they saw a spaceship.
Spoiler alert: It was probably just a weather phenomenon, though a rare one for the Las Vegas valley.
Workers at the Sapphire Gentleman’s Club on Sammy Davis Jr. Drive posted the first videos of the phenomenon early on the morning of Friday, Dec. 23. From the parking lot, they filmed what appeared to be groups of red and white lights shining in the clouds.
“Honestly, this is really strange,” a voice can be heard remarking of the lights. “I mean, we’re here every night. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
The people recording the event speculated that it was a UFO hovering above the club, and they weren’t alone. Nexstar’s KLAS heard from a worker at a nearby marijuana-growing business who also saw the lights, claiming they stayed in place for more than an hour.
But the night was relatively cool with low clouds in the sky, leading to speculation it was just reflections from the lights along the Las Vegas Strip. This is probably correct, experts suggest, though it only happens during very specific weather events.
A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Las Vegas told KLAS that since the lights in clouds did not appear to move, and the temperature in the clouds was cold enough, there’s a good chance what people saw this night was a phenomenon known as “light pillars.”
According to one National Weather Service, light pillars are described as the following:
Long pillars of multicolored light streaking the sky seem like the perfect backdrop for impending alien invasion, but in reality, light pillars are a common effect that can be found all over the world.
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They do come from above — not extraterrestrials, but tiny crystals of ice hanging in the atmosphere. Ice is very thin, shaped like plates with hexagonal faces. When ice drifts down through the air, it falls close to horizontally. At the top and bottom are the faces with more area. Ice is very reflective, so when light hits those wider faces, it bounces around and reflects off more ice crystals.
That means we get these vertically stacked mirrors floating in the atmosphere. The light hitting it gets reflected up and up (or down and down, depending on the source), and becomes a radiant column in the sky.
Light can come from the sun, moon, cities, street lights — any strong light source.
Other people online have even matched up the lights to some of the large hotel casinos along the strip. The red lights could be from Resorts world, and the other white lights from the Wynn, Encore, Strat, and Palace Station. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/ufo-over-the-las-vegas-strip-more-likely-a-rare-weather-phenomenon/ | 2022-12-28 18:42:49 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/ufo-over-the-las-vegas-strip-more-likely-a-rare-weather-phenomenon/ |
Sabally, Howard and Ogunbowale each score at least 25, Wings beat Sparks 98-84
Arike Ogunbowale scored 12 of her 25 points in the third quarter as Dallas pulled away from the Los Angeles Sparks and the Wings won 98-84 for their fifth victory in a row
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale scored 12 of her 25 points in the third quarter as Dallas pulled away from the Los Angeles Sparks and the Wings won 98-84 Saturday night for their fifth victory in a row.
Satou Sabally added 26 points, 11 rebounds and six assists while Natasha Howard had 28 points and 11 rebounds. She also had four steals for the Wings (13-9), who have won seven of their last eight games.
Los Angeles (7-15) has lost a franchise record eight consecutive games since back-to-back wins over the Wings on June 23 and 25. The Sparks lost their first seven games, and 12 of 14, to open the 2015 season before eventually making the playoffs.
The Wings shot a season-high 53.9% (41 of 76) from the field and scored 26 points off 12 Los Angeles turnovers.
Los Angeles took a 57-56 lead when Ogwumike hit a wide-open 3-pointer almost three minutes into the third quarter but Ogunbowale answered with a step-back 3 as the shot clock expired to spark a 12-3 run that gave Dallas the lead for good.
Ogunbowale assisted on a jumper by Howard and then scored three consecutive baskets to cap the spurt and make it 67-59 with 4:01 left in the third.
Dearica Hamby led Los Angeles with 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting and Jordin Canada added 16 points and seven assists. Nneka Ogwumike also scored 16 and Azurá Stevens 12.
Sabally had 20 points in the first half and Howard had 16 for the Wings, who led 52-48 at the break.
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HOT SPRINGS -- Lest the home city think itself overlooked on the local racing schedule, the Hot Springs Stakes is back at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort. And on this April 1, that is no joke.
One of three stakes on today's 13-race card before the Grade I $1.25 million Arkansas Derby, the Spa City is honored with a streamlined edition of an event dating to 1945. If anything, track officials may have made it Whitmore-proof, restricting it to 3-year-olds and lengthening the distance from six furlongs to a mile.
They quickly renamed the Hot Springs after champion Whitmore's 2021 retirement at age 8, also naming a barn in his honor. The previous race, for older sprinters and boosted to Grade II, recently had its second running, and the horse holds court at Oaklawn for nearby owners Ron Moquett (his trainer and co-owner) and wife Laura.
The Hot Springs Stakes retains the $200,000 purse for which it was last run. Besides the Derby, it joins Grade III runnings of the $600,000 Fantasy and $400,000 Oaklawn Mile on the Derby undercard.
The Hot Springs brings together five meet winners out of the seven horses entered. All race without Lasix bleeder medication and all but two-time meet winner Cactus is nominated to the Triple Crown, for which late entries were accepted this week.
Steve Asmussen-trained Gun Pilot and Powerful were seventh and ninth, respectively, in the Grade II $1 million Rebel Stakes on Feb. 25 at Oaklawn, from which runner-up Red Route One returns in the Arkansas Derby with a stablemate. A maiden winner at Churchill Downs, Gun Pilot (by supersire Gun Runner) won an Oaklawn allowance Feb. 4 by two lengths over Arkansas Derby starter Bourbon Bash. Ricardo Santana Jr. keeps the mount, unable to do much with a ground-saving trip in the Rebel.
Frosted Departure was one of trainer Ken McPeek's four winners on the track's first all-juvenile card Dec 31. Powerful beat him at 61/2 furlongs in the Ed Brown at Churchill before Frosted's son ran in the first of his four Oaklawn stakes, then beating Arkansas Derby starters Two Eagles River and Bourbon Bash going six furlongs in the Renaissance.
Bob Baffert sends out Carmel Road, a Del Mar maiden winner and runner-up in December's Grade IILos Alamitos Futurity. Eighth last time in a roughly run Grade II Gotham, Quality Road's son has a Santa Anita workout since racing in New York.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas owns and trains Oaklawn winner Rocking Rocket, bred by Arkansan Frank Fletcher and sired by American Pharoah.
Carded as race 8 and at 4:18 p.m., the Hot Springs looms as a possible prep for the May 20 Preakness and other spring stakes for 3-year-olds.
Rick Lee's analysis and selections
8 The Hot Springs. Purse $200,000, 1 mile, 3-year-olds
CACTUS** is unbeaten in a two-race sprint career, and the determined colt is bred to be more effective around two turns. GUN PILOT was a clear allowance winner at this distance two races back, and he may have been overmatched when seventh-best on a sloppy track in the GII Rebel. EYEING CLOVER dominated entry-level allowance sprinters at Fair Grounds, and he is having blinkers removed after being too close to a fast pace in the GIII Gotham at Aqueduct.
PP HORSEJOCKEYTRAINERODDS
4 CactusBejaranoMorse8-1
3 Gun PilotSantanaAsmussen7-2
2 Eyeing CloverGerouxCox5-2
6 Carmel RoadVelazquezBaffert3-1
5 Frosted DeparturePratMcPeek9-2
7 Rocking RocketGutierrezLukas12-1
1 PowerfulGaffalioneAsmussen12-1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/01/hot-springs-stakes-carries-new-terms/ | 2023-04-01 07:36:58 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/01/hot-springs-stakes-carries-new-terms/ |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Track and field’s governing body is facing renewed criticism for a proposal to allow transgender athletes to continue competing in top female events, although with stricter rules.
World Athletics has sent a proposal for new regulations governing transgender athletes — and the separate issue of athletes with differences in sex development like two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya — to national track federations for their feedback.
The governing body’s “preferred option,” it said in a statement this week, is for transgender athletes and those with sex development differences to still be allowed to compete in female events if they reduce their testosterone levels further, to below 2.5 nanomoles per liter of blood.
They would have to keep their testosterone below that level for at least two years before being allowed to compete, according to World Athletics’ proposal.
Transgender athletes are currently clear to enter elite female events if they have kept their testosterone levels below 5 nanomoles for at least a year. Athletes with sex development differences who also have testosterone levels higher than the typical female range have to be below 5 nanomoles for six months before competing.
Although WA is proposing to tighten its regulations, it had been expected to consider a complete ban for transgender athletes in female events following swimming’s decision to do that last year.
World swimming body FINA’s decision, which bans transgender athletes who have experienced any part of male puberty from competing against women, was supported at the time by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe.
Track’s proposal to still allow transgender athletes was criticized by some, including British shot putter Amelia Strickler, who said transgender athletes had a clear advantage in her event.
“The fact that World Athletics, one of the biggest, has not (put) its foot down, I think it is really, really upsetting,” Strickler told The Telegraph newspaper. “I am genuinely worried. This is my career. … I think these rules really could open the floodgates. If I get social media backlash, I don’t really care.”
Some British athletes supported Strickler on social media.
Others have argued that sports needs to find a way to include transgender athletes. There are currently no openly transgender athletes in either elite track and field or swimming.
The inclusion of transgender athletes and those with sex development differences is one of sport’s most contentious and emotive topics, and track and field has been wrestling with how to formally deal with it for more than a decade.
The new rule proposals have been sent to WA’s member federations but that didn’t mean they would definitely be adopted, WA said.
Athletes with sex development differences, like Semenya of South Africa and Olympic silver medalist sprinter Christine Mboma of Namibia, are not transgender, although the two issues do share similarities when it comes to sport.
Such athletes were legally identified as female at birth but have a medical condition that leads to some male traits, including high levels of testosterone that WA argues gives them the same kind of unfair advantage as transgender athletes.
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Brewers vs. Reds: Odds, spread, over/under - July 25
On Tuesday, July 25 at 8:10 PM ET, the Milwaukee Brewers (56-45) host the Cincinnati Reds (55-47) at American Family Field. Corbin Burnes will get the ball for the Brewers, while Andrew Abbott will take the hill for the Reds.
The Brewers have been listed as -150 moneyline favorites in this matchup against the Reds (+125). The total is 8 runs for this game (with -105 odds on the over and -115 odds on the under).
Brewers vs. Reds Time and TV Channel
- Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
- Time: 8:10 PM ET
- TV: BSWI
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue: American Family Field
- Probable Pitchers: Burnes - MIL (9-5, 3.49 ERA) vs Abbott - CIN (5-2, 2.10 ERA)
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- The Brewers have been favorites in 47 games this season and won 28 (59.6%) of those contests.
- The Brewers have gone 9-9 (winning 50% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -150 or shorter.
- The sportsbooks' moneyline implies a 60% chance of a victory for Milwaukee.
- The Brewers were named the moneyline favorite by oddsmakers only twice in the last 10 games, and won both matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Milwaukee and its opponents combined to go over the run total one time.
- The Reds have been chosen as underdogs in 71 games this year and have walked away with the win 34 times (47.9%) in those games.
- This season, the Reds have come away with a win 16 times in 34 chances when named as an underdog of at least +125 or longer on the moneyline.
- In five games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the Reds have a record of 2-3.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Cincinnati and its opponents have failed to hit the over eight times.
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JASPER, Ind. (AP) _ German American Bancorp Inc. (GABC) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $23.7 million.
The Jasper, Indiana-based bank said it had earnings of 81 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 71 cents per share.
The financial services holding company posted revenue of $67.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $64.8 million, also topping Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $62.7 million.
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Chevy Bolt EV is returning to market
(CNN) - General Motors is bringing one of its electric vehicles back to the market.
On Tuesday, the automaker announced plans to introduce a model of the Chevrolet Bolt EV, but GM did not share a timeline for the new release and left out specific details about the next-generation Bolt.
The company said the new electric vehicle model will feature the latest in GM’s flexible electric vehicle architecture called Ultium.
GM has said that the Ultium battery technology will be the basis of its future vehicles.
This announcement comes a few months after GM decided it would end production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
At the time, the carmaker noted the popular EV model did not use the Ultium platform, unlike its other newer EV vehicles.
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MADRID (AP) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez started Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union with a lightning visit to Kyiv on Saturday to underline the bloc’s support of Ukraine in the face of the invasion by Russia.
Sánchez arrived in the Ukrainian capital by train from Poland.
The Spanish government said he would address Ukraine’s parliament at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT) and then meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The two will give a news conference around 1030 GMT (6:30 a.m. EDT).
Zelenskyy announced the visit Thursday in an address to European leaders gathered for a summit in Brussels. He highlighted the symbolism of the visit and the importance of the next six months for Europe. He added that it was the moment to begin negotiations for Ukraine’s entry into the EU.
Speaking Friday in Brussels, Sánchez said, “The war in Ukraine will be one of the great priorities of our presidency, with the focus being on guaranteeing the unity (on the issue) among all member states.”
This was Sánchez’s third time in Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Sánchez will return to Madrid by Sunday, when he meets with the European Council President Charles Michel, a day before the arrival of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the college of EU commissioners.
Besides Ukraine, Spain hopes to make progress on several major EU issues during its presidency, which ends on Dec. 31.
Sánchez believes that the EU will finalize a controversial pact on migration despite lingering differences within the 27-nation group with Poland and Hungary still evident on Friday.
Earlier this month, EU countries a breakthrough on asylum law reform, sealing an agreement on a plan to share responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization. Only Poland and Hungary voted against.
EU lawmakers have warned that this may be the last chance to solve the issue before EU-wide elections in a year’s time, when migration is likely to be a hot-button issue once again.
The rotating presidency comes as Spain faces an early general election on July 23, which polls shows could oust Sánchez’s leftist coalition government and replace it with a conservative administration, or even a coalition with the extreme right, and follow a trend happening in much of Europe.
Sánchez has said that he wants to focus on rebuilding intra-European supply chains to avoid shortages and guarantee energy sovereignty. This would include establishing European dominance in the fields of artificial intelligence and digital security.
Spain also hopes the EU-Latin America summit set for July 17-18 in Brussels, the first in eight years, will represent “a qualitative leap” in relations between the two regions and will lead to a powerful investment agenda with Latin American and Caribbean nations.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Even when keeping No. 11 Oregon out of the end zone in a dominant opening win, No. 3 Georgia proved its offense is ready to lead.
Last week’s 49-3 rout of Oregon was a showcase for the Bulldogs’ depth — and its new attacking, pass-first style.
No one seems certain whether the opener was an indicator of what to expect in 2022, including in Saturday’s home game against Samford.
“We’re still trying to find our identity,” wide receiver Kearis Jackson said Monday. “That was just the first game. … It’s just one game. We just have to be able to be consistent. If we can keep being consistent, then maybe that will be our identity.”
Oregon was held to only a field goal, though Georgia allowed 21 first downs and 313 yards. The defense, which must replace five first-round picks from this year’s NFL draft, can’t be expected to dominate as it did during the national title run last season.
But a deep offense showed it can take some pressure off the defense during the transition. Georgia showed impressive depth at running back, wide receiver and tight end while quarterback Stetson Bennett accounted for three touchdowns.
For one game, at least, Georgia was content to rely on its passing game. Bennett completed 25 of 31 passes for a career-high 368 yards and two touchdowns. Backup Carson Beck also was efficient, passing for 71 yards with a score.
The Bulldogs passed for 439 yards and rushed for only 132.
“Who’s to say we don’t run it 40 times next week?” Bennett asked after the game.
Running back Kenny McIntosh was the team’s leading receiver with nine catches for 117 yards. He ran for only 18 yards but enjoyed being able to run after his catches.
“It was real fun,” McIntosh said. “I love catching the ball, not only running the ball but catching the ball. … It was real fun to be able to run with the ball in my hand like a receiver, a lot of fun.”
Kendall Milton led Georgia with 50 yards rushing. Daijun Edwards and freshman Branson Robinson also played behind McIntosh.
Georgia scored touchdowns on its first seven possessions and averaged 9.2 yards per play. The impressive win caused some to wonder if the Bulldogs should have been ranked higher in the preseason Top 25.
It was no surprise that coach Kirby Smart offered words of restraint Monday.
“You go to the tape to watch it and you think you played really good, and you see glaring mistakes and errors that you made that you got away with,” Smart said. “It brings you back to reality really quick on Saturday night and Sunday morning when you watch that tape.”
Smart and offensive coordinator Todd Monken will be challenged each week to use the depth chart at tight end. Starter Brock Bowers, who had a 29-yard gain on one of his two catches, is regarded as one of the nation’s top tight ends.
Massive Darnell Washington (6-foot-7, 270 pounds) showed his athleticism when he jumped over an Oregon defender following of his two catches. LSU transfer Arik Gilbert and freshman Oscar Delp also played behind Bowers.
“Certainly, they’ve got two good players playing in front of them,” Smart said when asked about Gilbert and Delp. “We think the sky’s the limit for both those guys.”
Seven players had two or more catches. Ladd McConkey and Adonai Mitchell combined for nine catches for 138 yards and two touchdowns.
“Having Stetson Bennett as our quarterback the whole fall camp really gave us confidence as a receiver group,” Jackson said. “Those two guys were able to showcase their abilities and especially how they make plays.”
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BRANDON, Fla. (WFLA) — An alligator residing in a Florida neighborhood has had its mouth taped shut since December, according to one resident.
Lumsden Reserve resident Amber Lock, who shared photos of the alligator with Nexstar’s WFLA, called the actions “inhumane.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, Lock said, nobody had visited her neighborhood’s retention pond to capture the reptile and relieve it of the conditions.
Lock said she believes the animal’s mouth was taped shut when a trapper attempted to remove the alligator, but it’s unclear why the animal was left there.
A spokesperson with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission explained that the delay was due to “confusion caused by two different permit requests made to two different trappers by members of the public.”
She said a trapper went to the location on Feb. 11 and saw the gator, but it disappeared from view anytime anyone came close to the water.
A new permit was issued on Feb. 12. The spokeswoman said the agency planned to send a contracted nuisance alligator trapper to the location to remove it from the area.
But how is the animal surviving?
According to the FWC, alligators are “opportunistic feeders,” meaning they will eat nearly anything they can capture. However, being that gators are cold-blooded, they do not need to eat often: They typically eat once a week, but can survive up to two to three years without food. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/alligators-mouth-taped-shut-since-december-says-florida-resident/ | 2023-02-14 22:46:23 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/alligators-mouth-taped-shut-since-december-says-florida-resident/ |
DANVERS, Mass., Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Janczy comes to NewFed Mortgage as an industry-recognized leader with a career that spans over the past 25 years. He will be responsible for Sales and Marketing. Jim started off working in the mortgage industry as a loan officer with Bay Bank in Boston then founded South Coast Financial Group in 1996 as CEO. More recently, Jim worked with Home Point Financial, Wells Fargo, and Envoy Mortgage. He is recognized among his colleagues for his consistent success in startups with building territories, exceptional client service, persistence and long-lasting relationships with his clients that have put their trust in him. Jim has been the recipient of numerous "Top Producer" awards and has earned an impressive loyal following of clients along with a vast network of professional relationships.
Jim was born in New Jersey but grew up and currently resides in Southeastern Massachusetts. He attended Bridgewater State University with a degree in Management.
President and CEO Brian D'Amico commented, "We are extremely excited to have Jim as part of our company growth initiative. Jim brings knowledge and experience to our executive table from many channels in the mortgage industry. We are very fortunate to have him as part of our team."
NewFed Mortgage, locally based in Massachusetts, has specialized in residential retail mortgage lending since 2001. An approved Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seller servicer lender licensed in 19 states, NewFed offers a multitude of mortgage programs, including Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Jumbo, Various State Housing Programs along with access to various portfolio products including Non-QM products.
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BOSTON (AP) _ Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IRWD) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $50.3 million.
The Boston-based company said it had net income of 28 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 27 cents per share.
The drugmaker posted revenue of $108.6 million in the period, which fell short of Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $111.5 million.
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Making Friends in Adulthood, Rip Currents at the Shore, The Country’s First Bank
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–Signed 22 Health Insurance Carriers in 2022–
–Provides Concierge Teletherapy Mental Health Services to Healthcare Professionals in Need–
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvin (the "Company"), the market leader in behavioral health services for healthcare professionals, announced today that it will exit 2022 with approximately 17 million lives under coverage, which is defined as the total number of healthcare professionals with access to its mental health program. To ensure the services it provides to healthcare professionals are covered by insurance, Marvin successfully signed contracts with 22 health insurance carriers in 2022.
Marvin is the first mental health program designed specifically to support physicians, nurses and other medical professionals. Marvin partners with hospital systems and residency programs to offer professionals access to its concierge mental health program. The Company works with these health systems to help evaluate system-wide burnout and to recommend changes to address the underlying drivers of mental health issues. Patients receive support from licensed therapists and all interactions are confidential and HIPAA-compliant.
"The tremendous growth we achieved over the past year is a clear indication of the unmet need amongst healthcare workers for mental health services and support. Over the past year, it has become evident that access to effective mental health services is key to reducing high turnover, absenteeism and burnout of healthcare professionals," said John Bracaglia, co-founder and CEO of Marvin. "Marvin is committed to working with health systems and insurance payers to ensure that health system partners offer coverage of these vital services for their employees. Our goal is for all medical professionals to have not only the right coverage, but access to Marvin therapists who have the cultural competency and full understanding of the life of a healthcare professional."
Unlike traditional mental health providers, Marvin is available 24 hours a day to accommodate healthcare professionals' long hours and varying schedules. Partnering with Dr. Mickey Trockel, Director of Evidence Based Innovation for the Stanford University School of Medicine WellMD Center, Marvin has integrated cutting-edge research in clinician behavioral health into its offering, resulting in a highly-tailored clinical model to support this unique population of professionals. Partnering with self-insured health systems and insurance payers, Marvin offers a value-based care (VBC) model that focuses on clinical outcomes.
This focus has resulted in the number of new insurance contracts signed. These insurance companies include:
- United Healthcare / Optum (national)
- Aetna (national)
- Cigna (national)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Anthem Blue Cross of California
- Anthem Blue Cross of Georgia
- Geisinger Health Plan of Pennsylvania
- Magellan
- Beacon Health Options
- Allways Health Plan (national)
- Kaiser Permanente of Washington
- Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania
- Capital Blue Cross of Pennsylvania
- Highmark Blue Cross of Pennsylvania
- Horizon Blue Cross of New Jersey
- Health Net of California
- MHN of California
- Harvard Pilgrim Health (national)
- Oscar Health (national)
- Priority Health of Michigan
- Western Health Advantage (national)
- AmeriHealth (national)
Bracaglia concluded, "Our core value is that Marvin helps patients develop mental health skills relevant to their unique lifestyle and career. These improvements aren't just in the workplace, but also to support their lives at home."
Marvin is a personalized behavioral health service for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers. Its concierge-level mental health program is developed in partnership with integrated health systems and provides 24/7 care, including 1:1 teletherapy, meditations and community programming, all specifically oriented towards each patient and their needs. Patients receive support from top licensed therapists. All interactions are confidential, HIPAA-compliant and end-to-end encrypted. For more information on Marvin, please visit www.meetmarvin.com.
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Warmer temperatures return Tuesday
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - High pressure in the region will move to the south and east of Nebraska during the day Tuesday. This means a southerly breeze will develop along with warmer temperatures. Wednesday will be warmer and continued breezy with more clouds. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday night into Thursday. More chances of rain on Friday and Saturday.
Mainly sunny, breezy and warmer Tuesday afternoon in Lincoln. Highs in the lower 70s with a south wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon.
Mostly clear to partly cloudy with lows around 50 degrees for Tuesday night.
Partly sunny, breezy and warm for Wednesday. High temperature around 80 degrees with a south wind 15 to 25 mph and gusts to around 30 mph. Slight chance for an evening shower or thunderstorm.
Cooler temperatures expected by the end of the week and for the weekend as well. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible Thursday through at least Saturday. At this time, the best chance of rain will be Friday night and Saturday.
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This week on The Children’s Hour:
This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about climate change from Dr. David Gutzler, professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department with a specialization in climate science.
We learn what causes climate change, and what we can expect in the future if we make no changes. It is especially concerning to children that many adults are not taking the actions needed to stop catastrophes. Dr. Gutzler helps us understand why changing behavior and technologies to address the warming planet is so difficult for many to adopt.
The Kids Crew wanted to know how they can help save animals from extinction due to climate change, and how they can get global decision-makers to address the crisis of their lifetimes. We also find out about melting ice sheets, and how the added water to our oceans will impact communities worldwide.
Kids are leaders in the climate change movement today. We hear music honoring our beautiful planet and from the activists who are standing up for future generations.
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Speedee Labs Will Focus on Innovation, Driving the Customer and Restaurant Team Experience Forward
CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, McDonald's Corporation is announcing the establishment of a new facility, Speedee Labs, which will be focused on driving the customer experience and supporting restaurant teams through innovation, at its global headquarters (MHQ) located at 110 N. Carpenter Street in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. An example of McDonald's commitment to the city of Chicago, this new facility will bring teams from McDonald's corporate office and the existing Innovation Center (IC) in Romeoville, IL together in a new innovative environment creating more opportunities for collaboration and end-to-end development of restaurant solutions and technologies.
Introduced in 1948, McDonald's Speedee Service System revolutionized the way a restaurant could operate. New kitchen processes streamlined crew responsibilities, making it easier than ever to serve customers efficiently. Now, through Speedee Labs, McDonald's will continue to define tomorrow's restaurant solutions.
"Our customers' and restaurant teams' needs are changing, and meeting their expectations requires us to work together in new ways," said Manu Steijaert, McDonald's Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer. "Just as the creation of McDonald's Customer Experience team brought key aspects of our business strategy together, the creation of Speedee Labs will enable more of our customers, restaurant teams, markets and global teams to contribute to our innovation, while driving growth and creating more seamless and memorable McDonald's experiences."
The new facility will utilize a combination of McDonald's existing footprint as well as an additional 15,000 square feet in leased space within the same building as MHQ, furthering McDonald's innovation strategy and delivering solutions for a new generation of customers. Speedee Labs is expecting a phased opening to begin in the second half of 2023, which is when teams currently operating services out of the IC will relocate to MHQ.
McDonald's moved its headquarters from Oak Brook, IL to Chicago's West Loop in 2018. In the 12 months ending June 30, 2022, MHQ saw more than 11,000 visitors to the building - a figure expected to increase with the creation of Speedee Labs. Additionally, in that same time span, McDonald's System had a total impact of approximately $2B on the economy of Cook County.
"I am thrilled that McDonald's is continuing to bet on Chicago by adding Speedee Labs to their global headquarters," said Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot. "This new addition will draw even more visitors from around the world to our city, and I look forward to welcoming them as they come to collaborate and innovate with this iconic brand."
Since opening in 1995, McDonald's IC has offered live restaurant testing – and more recently remote, and simulation-based training – to help the global McDonald's System refine operations and develop new solutions to improve experiences for customers and restaurant teams in nearly 40,000 restaurants around the world. The IC has long been a hub for collaboration among the company, suppliers and franchisees on customer-facing solutions and driving innovation within the System. Many strategic initiatives for the McDonald's System, including streamlined kitchen processes, updated cooking methods, McDelivery and Mobile Order and Pay, were developed or tested at the Innovation Center.
McDonald's plans to relocate all jobs from its Innovation Center in Romeoville to MHQ's Speedee Labs, adding to its Cook County workforce. In total, in the 12 months ending June 30, 2022, the McDonald's System supported more than 14,000 jobs in Cook County.
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The Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, says a suspect has been arrested over the kidnapping of four Americans — two of whom were found dead on Tuesday.
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The Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, says a suspect has been arrested over the kidnapping of four Americans — two of whom were found dead on Tuesday.
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INDIANAPOLIS — As a controversial bill that would ban gender affirming care for minors works its way through the Indiana Statehouse, Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking questions to several medical facilities in Indiana.
Senate Bill 480 would prohibit physicians or practitioners from knowingly providing gender transition procedures to a minor. It also prohibits them from referring minors to other practitioners for those procedures.
Physicians may continue to prescribe testosterone or estrogen on June 30 as part of a gender transition procedure until Dec. 31. This portion of the bill expires Jan. 1, 2024.
Rokita is asking the facilities about "possible sterilization procedures performed on vulnerable children in order to “transition” them to a gender other than their biological sex."
"Doctors, clinics and hospitals are increasingly prescribing puberty blockers, sex hormones, and even surgeries to minor children without disclosing the known risks (including sterilization) and the many unknown risks," the letter reads.
"We all love our children and want nothing more than to keep them healthy and safe,” Attorney General Rokita said in a statement. “But every parent knows that our kids’ brains are not fully developed until adulthood, and they can change their moods and their minds daily.”
Rokita has not disclosed which facilities he sent the letter to.
You can read the full letter here.
ACLU of Indiana Legal Director, Ken Falk, issued the following statement in response:
“These clinics provide medically necessary care to their patients and have no greater obligation to answer these inquiries than if they had been made by any other person in Indiana. We are very concerned about the Constitutional implications of gender affirming care restrictions moving through the Indiana General Assembly, and the letter that the Attorney General distributed to Indiana clinics attempts to validate this unjustified discriminatory legislation.” | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/ag-rokita-asking-medical-facilities-for-info-on-possible-sterilization-procedures | 2023-03-08 03:09:48 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/ag-rokita-asking-medical-facilities-for-info-on-possible-sterilization-procedures |
CUMBERLAND, Maine — Cooper Wright first started building with LEGOS when he was three or four.
His parents had gifted him the Star Wars "Death Star" LEGO set for Christmas, and by the time he finished putting it together, he was hooked.
"We had to help him sometimes," Cooper's father, Craig Wright said. "If he put together the wrong piece we'd have to help him get it apart but he built the thing pretty much by himself."
"I remember putting it together with my parents on the dinner table," Cooper said. "The aspect of putting it together was really fun."
Over the years, Cooper's love for and collection of LEGOs has grown. A number of different models he has built can be found all around his home in Cumberland. His parents have even started to build him a LEGO room in their basement and the walls are lined with shelves full of Cooper's creations. They range from small, intricate designs to large castles and stadiums.
"I like collecting things a lot and also the building part of it is very fun," Cooper said. "I like having the collection of like trying to get all the Star Wars stuff or all the Harry Potter."
Cooper, who is 13, recently took on his biggest LEGO challenge yet, completing the LEGO World Map for a Guinness World Record. It has 11,695 pieces and isn't a typical, 3-D model but instead a flat mosaic spread. The time to beat was 12 hours. Cooper completed the map in 9 hours, 14 minutes and 49 seconds.
"I think that was probably harder than any other one I've done," Cooper said. "It's not like this where they're like in all different ways and shapes, it's one board and you put them in like pegs. So, it's different."
He thinks he might have been able to complete it even faster had his table not partially collapsed during his build. Cooper was more than halfway through the map when he said one of the legs of the table gave out and sent his bowls of pieces spilling to the ground.
"I was a little nervous, I thought I wasn't going to be able to beat it," Cooper said. "I wasn't really looking at the timer because I was scared."
Still, under 10 hours is just as impressive. Cooper said he completed the map while watching Marvel movies and Star Wars. He took a couple breaks here and there for snacks and said he only stopped to use the restroom once.
"My strategy was just build it as fast as I could," Cooper said. "It was fun but it was very long and tedious to do."
Cooper got the official word from Guinness in December that he had the record of 'Fastest Time to Complete the LEGO World Map'.
"I was so happy," Cooper said. "I was jumping up and down."
"He told me he would do it in under 10 hours," Craig Wright said. "It's pretty cool that a 13-year-old broke a world record. I don't know anyone else with a Guinness Book of World Record."
So, what's next? Cooper said he already has his sights on beating the record for the "fastest time" to complete the LEGO Eiffel Tower.
"I just finished building it and it took about maybe nine hours to do in total, I didn't do it in one straight thing I did it within a couple days," Cooper said. "But yeah, I could probably break the record for that one, I think." | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/lego-world-record-maine-teen-breaks-guinness-world-record-completes-lego-map-in-under-10-hours/97-6b08ea4c-f417-42a5-b2e1-9b248fdd2581 | 2023-01-16 20:48:06 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/lego-world-record-maine-teen-breaks-guinness-world-record-completes-lego-map-in-under-10-hours/97-6b08ea4c-f417-42a5-b2e1-9b248fdd2581 |
The House passed a resolution on Wednesday that condemns attacks on antiabortion facilities and groups, which reportedly increased in number after the draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked.
The measure passed in a 222-219 vote, with three Democrats voting for the bill.
The text specifically “condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups and churches” and “calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.”
A draft of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in May, sparking a number of attacks on pro-life groups and resource centers, according to The Washington Post. In June, before the bench issued the highly anticipated opinion, the Department of Homeland Security warned that individuals on both sides of the issues have “encouraged violence” against the government and religious and reproductive healthcare personnel and facilities.
The resolution approved on Wednesday listed a number of attacks against pro-life institutions that occurred from when the decision leaked to the day the court published its opinion — including episodes of vandalism, igniting and throwing molotov cocktails and setting an antiabortion nonprofit center on fire.
During debate on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) called attention to the incidents.
“There have been now nearly 100 recorded acts of violence and intimidation against pro-life individuals and organizations by radical, pro-abortion activists since the initial leak of the draft Supreme Court Dobbs opinion,” she said.
“Following the leak and issuance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, anti-life fanatics have targeted, destroyed, or vandalized, as I said, over 100 pro-life facilities, groups, and churches to further their radical cause,” she added. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/house-passes-resolution-condemning-attacks-on-antiabortion-facilities-groups/ | 2023-01-11 22:28:33 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/house-passes-resolution-condemning-attacks-on-antiabortion-facilities-groups/ |
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Rivian has filed a patent application for an in-bed storage system for its electric trucks.
In a patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on April 6 (and originally filed Oct. 5, 2021) Rivian details storage bins built into the sides of a pickup’s bed. The system is similar to the Ram Box system offered on Ram trucks for several years now and slated for the 2025 Ram 1500 REV, the brand’s first all-electric model.
Ram Boxes are literal boxes built into the bed sides, but Rivian is going for something a bit more elaborate. The patent application describes entire outside bed panels that fold down, which, in one configuration, reveals multiple storage compartments. Accompanying drawings also show cutouts on either side of the bed for longer items, like an uncovered version of the Gear Tunnel storage compartment located behind the cab in Rivian R1T pickups.
This setup could be used for more than storage, the application suggests. The fold-out panels could serve as seating, just as tailgates do when camping or partying in a stadium parking lot. A fold-out table could also be included, Rivian suggests in the application, which seems like a good addition to the slide-out camp kitchen the company has shown for the R1T.
Rivian has floated a few other ideas for wringing more utility out of its electric trucks. Previous patent applications showed telescoping and folding tailgates, as well as a tailgate step. General Motors, meanwhile, recently filed a trademark application for a Multistow tailgate, hinting that it’s planning to incorporate some storage into the tailgate as well. Ram seems content with its Ram Boxes, which were shown in pretty-much-unchanged form on the Ram 1500 REV at the 2023 New York auto show.
If Rivian decides to put its own bed storage system into production, it’s unclear if it will be incorporated into the current R1T or next-generation vehicles based on the company’s R2 platform, which is expected to launch in 2026.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
17-20-26-27-38
(seventeen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $120,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
17-20-26-27-38
(seventeen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-eight)
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple way to sit and wash the feet, trim toenails or paint toenails while in the bathroom," said an inventor, from Phoenix, Ariz., "so I invented the PEDI- COMFORT. My design eliminates the need to bend and strain and it offers an alternative to asking for assistance."
The patent-pending invention provides a specially designed chair that can be used while caring for the feet. In doing so, it can be used for cleaning the feet as well as painting and trimming toenails. As a result, it increases comfort and safety and it saves time and effort. The invention features an adjustable and lightweight design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households, hospitals, nursing homes, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-PBT-260, 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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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Formula One’s governing body ordered Red Bull to pay a $7 million fine and forfeit wind tunnel time as punishment for overspending the 2021 cost cap by $1.8 million during Max Verstappen’s first championship season.
The penalties announced Friday at the Mexico City Grand Prix are unlikely to satisfy Red Bull rivals, many of whom called for harsh penalties ranging from stripping Verstappen of last year’s title, a reduction in future Red Bull spending, and any punishment that would hurt the team competitively.
Red Bull has already wrapped up both a second F1 title with Verstappen and the constructors' championship with three races remaining this season.
“They are sore anyway, so it doesn’t matter what you do,” Verstappen said of those who called for his championship to be stripped.
Instead, the FIA and Red Bull came to terms on a monetary fine and a reduction of only 10% of its allotted time in the wind tunnel in 2023. Red Bull has 30 days to pay the $7 million fine and a year to spread out its reduction of wind tunnel time.
Red Bull must also pay the costs incurred in the investigation.
Red Bull accepted guilt in the FIA penalty notice, but the governing body noted "there is no accusation or evidence that RBR has sought at any time to act in bad faith, dishonestly or in a fraudulent manner, nor has it wilfully concealed any information from the Cost Cap Administration.”
Red Bull, though, explained it as a clerical error and misinterpretation of how to apply the costs in certain areas, among them: catering services, social security contributions, travel costs and how they handled unused parts.
The cost cap was put in place as a competition equalizer to prevent the larger, heavily-funded teams from outspending the smaller organizations struggling to keep up.
Rival team Mercedes has argued that a monetary penalty will only encourage others to also overspend and pay the fine as punishment. McLaren chief executive Zak Brown even wrote a letter to the FIA demanding stiff punishment for an offense he likened to cheating.
Brown said any team found guilty of overspending should be penalized that same amount and face an equal reduction the next season, and violating teams should suffer in competitive areas.
“The bottom line,” Brown wrote, “is any team who has overspent has gained an unfair advantage both in the current and following year’s car development.”
Brown's letter incensed Red Bull principal Christian Horner, who has maintained the spending violation was minor but had erupted into scandal.
“Suddenly we are tried and subjected to three weeks of effective abuse. And then to be seeing a letter accusing us of cheating and being fraudulent, it is just not right, and this has to stop,” Horner said last week. “It is tremendously disappointing for a fellow competitor to be accusing you of cheating, to accuse you of fraudulent activity is shocking."
As to those who have called for Verstappen's 2021 title to be stripped, he said there are many who will never accept his first championship. Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton in a controversial finish created when the since-fired race director made a late race change in protocol during the season finale that allowed Verstappen to pass Hamilton for the win and the championship.
“From my side I can (accept it), probably they can’t and will never be able to and that’s a problem for them to deal with,” Verstappen said.
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ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — Though KFC just added a spin on their previously-popular Twister Wrap to their menus for a limited time, the fast food chain is preparing to remove some fan favorites from their lineup.
KFC says it’s simplifying its menu to make ordering easier and create a more efficient kitchen for the staff. According to an annual drive-thru study conducted by Intouch Insight released last fall, KFC had the fastest total drive-thru time, meaning customers spent the least amount of time between ordering and receiving their food compared to customers at other major chains like McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.
The chicken chain also hopes the menu change will make room for new products, a spokesperson told Yahoo Finance last week. That could include the KFC Wraps they launched earlier this month, which are available nationwide for a limited time.
Regardless, here’s what KFC is kicking off the menu:
- Kentucky Fried Chicken Wings
- Popcorn Chicken
- Nashville Hot Sauce
- Strawberry Lemonade
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
“We took a deep look at the mix of the menu to see where consolidation would make sense, and we rolled out new menu boards in November 2022,” said Brittany Wilson, director of KFC U.S. “Though we are removing a few items, it will allow us to make room for some new, exciting additions to the menu in 2023.”
While pot pies and tenders look set to remain a staple at KFC, many believe the removal of the popcorn chicken will also mean no more KFC Famous Bowls which consisted of popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and shredded cheese. Nexstar’s WTAJ reached out to KFC and asked if this would affect the bowls or if they had other plans — such as cutting up chicken fingers — but the company didn’t immediately respond.
Even though some favorites may soon disappear from your local KFC, the company said they are looking at some exciting new additions to the menu in 2023.
There was no definitive date for the change. Instead, the company only said the new menu is “currently being rolled out nationwide”
Since we’ve already burst your bubble — sorry — we should remind you that the new chicken wraps are only around for a limited time. You might want to enjoy them while you can. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/kfc-removes-wings-popcorn-chicken-and-more-from-menus-nationwide/ | 2023-02-15 01:14:29 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/kfc-removes-wings-popcorn-chicken-and-more-from-menus-nationwide/ |
Ala. state rep. files bill to combat street racing, exhibition driving in Jefferson Co.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama State Representative Juandalynn Givan has officially taken steps to fight exhibition driving in Jefferson County.
Doing donuts and street racing have become a major issue in Birmingham and Jefferson County.
Multiple incidents recently have resulted in people going to the hospital and at least one person dead.
Representative Givan filed HB107 in the Alabama 2023 Regular Session prohibit certain forms of street racing and exhibition driving to include; a motor vehicle speed contest, a motor vehicle exhibition of speed, a motor vehicle sideshow, and a motor vehicle burnout, motor vehicle donut, or other reckless driving maneuver.
The bill would only be applicable in Jefferson County.
Penalties would include motor vehicle operated in violation to be towed and impounded at the registered owner’s expense as follows; (1) first violation, for a period of 10 days, (2) second violation, for a period of 20 days, and (3) third or subsequent violation, for a period of 30 days.
Representative Givan told WBRC back in January that she thinks the legislation would send a stern message to people responsible.
The bill has gotten bipartisan support.
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Cam Jurgens could eat and lift weights non-stop from now until the Eagles’ opener on Sept. 10 and he’s still not going to be Landon Dickerson.
That’s OK.
As Jurgens makes the transition from center to guard — the right guard spot appears to be his to lose — he knows he’s not going to play the position like a prototypical, big-bodied mauler.
“I’m not quite the 350-pound Landon,” Jurgens said, “so I handle things differently.”
When Jurgens spoke to reporters earlier this week, he said he weighed 305 pounds but hopes to report to training camp this summer at around 310-315. Last year, Jurgens said he was able to maintain his weight throughout the season so he doesn’t think he’ll have to pack on extra pounds expecting to lose it. If he gets to 310, he’ll be happy.
Even at 310 pounds, Jurgens will be an undersized guard. Dickerson on the other side of the center is listed at 332 pounds, which feels like a flatteringly slim number. Dickerson is more of the prototype but the Eagles don’t think prototypes matter as much as the player.
And Jurgens knows it would be foolish to try to play like Dickerson.
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“I think we’re still playing the game of football, hitting people,” Jurgens said. “So just trying to go to my strengths. I want to be an athlete in any spot I am. I don’t want to fit a pizza cutter mold of whatever a right guard is supposed to be. I just want to be out there and be a good O-lineman.”
Jurgens, 23, won’t be able to overpower everyone. He’ll have to win with athleticism, footwork and leverage.
Isaac Seumalo, who held down the right guard spot last year for the Eagles, was listed at 303 pounds but he looked much thicker than that. Still, Seumalo is probably a better comparison for Jurgens as a slightly undersized but athletic guard with a center background.
Jurgens said there are a lot of guards around the league he enjoys watching and Seumalo — the guy he’s about to replace — is one of them. The Eagles have plenty of Seumalo tape already in the building.
“He’s very athletic, does a lot of really great things with his feet, he’s really quick in how he moves,” Jurgens said. “I’ve been watching him a lot.”
There are plenty of similarities between Jurgens and Seumalo. One of them is that they both played center in college and were drafted to replace Jason Kelce as the Eagles’ future center. Seumalo was drafted in the third round in 2016 and spent seven years in Philly; Kelce outlasted him.
It seems pretty unlikely Kelce will be able to outlast Jurgens too. The Eagles used a second-round pick on Jurgens out of Nebraska last season for a reason.
In fact, it seems very possible the 2023 season could be Kelce’s last in the NFL, which means he’s probably going to play this season next to his eventual replacement.
“When we’re doing combo blocks, [Kelce] knows what it’s supposed to be like and feel like,” Jurgens said. “Big thing is just he’s going to show me how he’s going to hit the block and how he expects the presence of a guard right next to him.”
There are some things Jurgens will take from his career as a center that will translate to playing guard. A big difference is that the communication changes a bit. As a center, it’s your job to make sure everyone is on the same page. As a guard, it’s your job to feed information to the people making the calls.
Jurgens was supposed to start cross-training at guard last summer but Kelce suffered a minor elbow injury, which pushed Jurgens up the depth chart at center. Even though those first-team reps at center last training camp were valuable, it put him a bit behind on the cross-training. But Jurgens did eventually get some walkthrough reps at guard in 2022.
The transition from center to guard isn’t easy … but the good news is that it’s easier than the one Jurgens went through early in his time at Nebraska.
“It’s not as challenging as going from tight end to center,” Jurgens said. “So that helps. It’s been fun.” | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/jurgens-wants-to-bring-his-own-style-to-right-guard-position/414104/ | 2023-06-07 09:21:11 | 0 | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/jurgens-wants-to-bring-his-own-style-to-right-guard-position/414104/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people associated with the Oath Keepers were convicted on Monday of conspiracy and obstruction charges stemming from the attack on the U.S. Capitol in the latest trial involving members of the far-right antigovernment extremist group.
A Washington D.C. jury found Sandra Parker, of Morrow, Ohio, Laura Steele, of Thomasville, North Carolina, William Isaacs, of Kissimmee, Florida, and Connie Meggs, of Dunnellon, Florida, guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and other felony charges.
In a rare loss for prosecutors, Sandra Parker’s husband, Bennie Parker, was acquitted of obstruction as well as one conspiracy charge, and a sixth defendant — Michael Greene, of Indianapolis — was acquitted of two conspiracy charges.
Jurors said they couldn’t reach a verdict on another conspiracy charge for Bennie Parker and the obstruction charge for Greene, so the judge instructed them to keep deliberating. All six defendants were convicted of a misdemeanor trespassing offense.
Conspiracy to obstruct Congress and obstruction of Congress both carry a sentence of up to 20 years behind bars.
They were the third group of Oath Keepers members and associates to be tried on serious charges in the riot that temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and left dozens of police officers injured. Unlike other Oath Keepers, they were not charged with seditious conspiracy — the most serious offense prosecutors have levied so far in the attack.
The verdict comes as the prosecution on Monday rested its case in another high-profile Capitol riot trial against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants who are charged with seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors say was a plot to forcibly overturn Biden’s election victory.
In November, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs — who led the Oath Keepers’ Florida chapter — were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Three other Oath Keepers were cleared of the charge in that case but were found guilty of other serious crimes. After a second trial, four additional Oath Keepers were convicted of seditious conspiracy in January. Seditious conspiracy calls for up to 20 years in prison. None of the Oath Keepers have been sentenced yet.
Connie Meggs is the wife of Kelly Meggs.
Authorities alleged Oath Keepers prepared for weeks leading up to Jan. 6, attended training sessions and recruited others to come to Washington. Authorities have said the extremist group stashed weapons at a Virginia hotel in case they were needed, donned tactical vests and helmets and moved in an organized fashion as they advanced on the Capitol.
The Oath Keepers have denied there was any plot to storm the Capitol or stop the certification. Defense lawyers have argued that their clients came to Washington only to watch then-President Donald Trump speak or provide security for speakers at events prior to the riot, and that those who entered the Capitol did so spontaneously.
Greene took the witness stand for the defense at Rhodes’ trial in November and told jurors that he never heard anyone discussing plans to storm the Capitol. Rhodes told jurors during that case that he tapped Greene as an “operation leader” for Jan. 6 after meeting Greene in 2017, when they helped with disaster relief after Hurricane Harvey.
Greene said he wasn’t a dues-paying member of the Oath Keepers but worked essentially as a contractor, providing security services, and was asked to come to Washington to help with security operations for events around the Capitol before the riot.
Authorities said Sandra Parker, Connie Meggs, Issacs and Steele were part of the group of Oath Keepers who stormed into the Capitol after marching in military-style “stack” formation up the steps of the building.
Bennie Parker, who didn’t go inside, told a reporter: “We had just had a presidential election and it’s been stolen from us … all of these people out here are patriots. And if we need to, it’ll come to a civil war, and a lot of people are willing to take up their arms,” according to the indictment.
Bennie Parker’s attorney, Stephen Brennwald, said after the verdict that his client would rather have been convicted of the serious charges than his wife, saying “it’s tearing him up.”
Attorneys for the other defendants either declined to comment or didn’t immediately respond to emails on Monday.
More than half of the roughly 1,000 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes have pleaded guilty, including more than 130 who pleaded guilty to felony crimes. Of the 400 who have been sentenced, more than half have gotten terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years, according to an Associated Press tally.
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President Biden said Thursday he will visit East Palestine, Ohio, “at some point” in the wake of a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals into the community.
“I’ve spoken with every official in Ohio, Democrat and Republican, on a continuing basis, as in Pennsylvania,” Biden told reporters after leaving a lunch at the Capitol with Senate Democrats.
“We will be implementing an awful lot through the legislation here, and I will be out there at some point,” Biden added.
When asked about Biden’s comments, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later added that she had no new travel to announce for the president.
Biden has faced a steady stream of criticism from Republicans over his decision so far not to visit East Palestine, where a Norfolk Southern train derailed in early February. Former President Trump traveled to East Palestine last month to bring supplies and offer support for the community, which the White House and Democrats called a political ploy.
Biden administration officials have repeatedly noted that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives were in East Palestine within hours of the Feb. 3 derailment, and that the agency is taking the lead on the federal response. Biden has been briefed on the situation regularly, officials said, and he has spoken with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), among others.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan has made multiple trips to the area, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited East Palestine last Thursday to meet with local leaders and community members.
The White House has gone on offense against Republicans in recent days, arguing that GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration fought to relax regulations on railways and on environmental standards.
But the administration has been under fire for not sending top officials including Regan and Buttigieg to the site sooner, putting political pressure on Biden over the fallout — including Republicans who criticized the president for making an overseas trip to Ukraine before he visited the impacted Ohio community. | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/biden-says-he-will-visit-east-palestine-at-some-point/ | 2023-03-02 22:23:04 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/biden-says-he-will-visit-east-palestine-at-some-point/ |
Which one to save and splurge among these popular electronics?
When it comes to tech, there are no all-encompassing rules about name-brand quality. In some cases, going with a big brand is well worth the expense — for example, Apple’s iPod Touch is still the king of portable music players — but in others, an less-popular version will work just as well.
Knowing which to go with is a case-by-case situation, and making the wrong choice means either overspending or ending up with a subpar gadget.
Truly wireless headphones
Apple AirPods Pro instantly became a bestseller based on their sound quality and ease of use. But like all Apple products, they’re expensive, so naturally, competitors have since come out with more affordable alternatives.
When you search for truly wireless headphones, you’ll find three general categories: unknown brands under $50 with decent audio quality (like SoundPeat True Wireless Earbuds), reliable brands around $100 that offer impressive sound (like Aukey’s Series T10s), and those like Apple’s Airpods around $150 that include high-end features such as access to your phone’s digital assistant.
The verdict: You truly get what you pay for when it comes to Apple AirPods Pro. They sound incredible, have great battery life, and even include a wireless charging case so you never have to worry about running out of power.
If you’re an Android user, we recommend Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, which sound just as good and are slightly more affordable. Unless you really don’t care about audio quality and usability, do not purchase fake AirPods.
TVs
In the world of high-definition TVs, there are the big four — LG, Samsung, Sony and Vizio — and then there’s everyone else.
Getting the best possible deal on a TV boils down to the screen size and features you want. Traditional HDTV sets 32-50 inches are usually $400 or less (we especially like Samsung 32-Inch 1080p TV). Newer 4K TVs, which offer four times the screen resolution, are usually between $1,000 and $1,200 and get as large as 65 inches (like Vizio 65-Inch M-Series 4K TV). Sets with high-end features like High Dynamic Range or OLED panels cost $1,200-$3,000 (like LG B2 series 65-Inch OLED 4K TV).
The verdict: While it’s true that name-brand TV makers are pushing new technologies as far as they can go, other brands are catching up quickly, and even a “basic” TV by today’s standards still looks and sounds incredible. For the best of both worlds, check out TCL 65-Inch 4K TV, which has plenty of high-end features with a decidedly low-end price tag.
Tablets
In the early days of tablets, the name brands were all that existed. Users had to choose between Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Amazon Fire HD tablets. But in the years following, smaller manufacturers caught up, and now it’s easy to find tablets from hundreds of different brands.
When tablet shopping, consider which platform you want to use. If you’re familiar with Apple’s ecosystem, the iPad is your best bet, or if you need a smaller screen, consider an iPad Mini. If you’re an Android user, you’ll feel more at home with a Galaxy Tab. If you mostly plan on using your tablet for streaming content and shopping, your best bet is a Fire HD tablet. Off-brand tablets run their own variations of Android, which are often customized with unique apps or features.
The verdict: While it can be tempting to save a few bucks, off-brand tablets simply don’t deliver the same experience as their brand-name counterparts. Their batteries don’t last as long, they often compromise on overall speed, and they’re pretty fragile. When it comes to tablets, stick with the names you know. Our favorite tablet for getting things done is the iPad Pro.
Smart home assistants
It’s no secret that big tech is working hard to get a smart home assistant in your home — whether it’s putting Google Assistant in a smart alarm clock, adding Siri access to Apple AirPods Pro or inserting Alexa in technology you wouldn’t expect (like the Fire TV Stick). It’s sometimes hard to find a gadget that doesn’t have a smart home assistant built-in.
But not all smart home assistants are the same. Alexa works with more devices than any other assistant and is the biggest brand in the industry; Google Assistant is fully integrated with Google’s suite of services; Siri has access to Apple-exclusive services like Apple Music. Do you go for Amazon’s ultra-affordable Alexa devices like the Echo or the Echo Dot, or do you spring for Google’s or Apple’s pricier offerings?
The verdict: While no one thinks of Amazon’s Alexa smart home devices as “off-brand,” they’re definitely less expensive than anything offered by Apple or Google, and a much better value. If you’re looking for the best audio quality available, try the Amazon Echo Studio.
Robot vacuums
Just like Band-Aids and Kleenex, the Roomba name has become a shorthand for the product itself. But it’s been years since the first Roomba and in the meantime, dozens of competitors have cropped up with versions that are hundreds of dollars cheaper.
Robot vacuums are all circular, about the size of a birthday cake, typically with a big button on top that you press to get them started. The similarities end there, however. Some more advanced models, like the Roomba j7+, include entire self-cleaning systems (so you don’t have to empty them out very often) and advanced software that maps out your home to make sure it covers every last square foot.
Midrange robot vacuums, like Ecovacs Deebot N8 Pro Robot Vacuum and Mop, offer support for voice commands with Amazon’s Alexa and are more affordable, although their batteries don’t typically last as long. Budget robot vacuums stick to vacuuming and don’t offer much past that.
The verdict: Roomba is a reliable brand, but its vacuums are often hundreds of dollars more than competitors with near-identical feature sets. Reliable, affordable options like Ecovac’s DEEBOT do just as good a job at a fraction of the cost.
Fitness trackers
It’s hard to shop for a fitness tracker without being inundated with options from the biggest name in the business: FitBit. Although there are plenty of challenges in the arena, FitBit is the far-and-away favorite, as they’ve captivated users with their combination of comfortable wearable tech and ultra-simple app design.
Fitness trackers can be tough to shop for because smartwatches have started to encroach on fitness trackers’ territory, and that means two things: the market is more competitive than ever,and fitness tracker prices have steadily decreased. As a result, you can find name-brand options like the Fitbit Inspire 2 for around $100.
The verdict: The more expensive fitness trackers duplicate a lot of smartwatch functionality, like text message notifications and calendar updates, so if you have those already, don’t pay for them twice. If you don’t have a smartwatch, splurge. In many cases, a high-end fitness tracker will bring you the best parts of owning a smartwatch, so it’s the perfect way to compromise between the two. Our favorite fitness tracker that treads into smartwatch territory is the Fitbit Versa 3.
Action cameras
Action cameras are small, portable video cameras designed to withstand ultra-rugged conditions while capturing high-quality video. You may know them by the most popular brand’s name: GoPro.
GoPro cameras set the standard for capturing 4K video on the go with its high-level GoPro Hero 11 Black and the midrange Hero 7 Black model. They’re easy to use, they capture gorgeous video and audio, and they travel well. They’re also incredibly expensive, which can make looking into other brands a tempting option.
There are dozens of competitor options. Up-and-coming brands from all over the world have been racing to offer affordable alternatives to GoPro cameras, and some are as affordable as $25. Although other brands tend to skip features like 60 fps video and Wi-Fi support, they can be an easy way to capture 4K video at a fraction of the cost of a GoPro.
The verdict: Get a GoPro. While its cameras are the most expensive around, the cost is more than justified based on the video quality. Off-brand action cameras are OK in a pinch, but if you’re serious about capturing video that looks good or if you need a camera that can survive a camping trip or three, you’ll need to invest in a GoPro.
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JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Monday released his response to a congressional investigation of the crisis that left 150,000 people in the state's capital city without running water for several days in late summer.
Reeves said Jackson has received a disproportionate amount of funding for its water system based on the city's size. He also said local officials only have themselves to blame for the water woes.
“(M)y administration is deeply committed to ensuring that all federal funds received by Mississippi for drinking water systems upgrades have been in the past and will continue to be in the future made available and distributed among Mississippi’s more than 1,100 water systems on an objective and race-neutral basis,” Republican Reeves said in a letter dated Oct. 31 and addressed to Reps. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Carolyn Maloney of New York.
The two Democrats sent Reeves an Oct. 17 letter requesting details of where Mississippi sent money from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including “the racial demographics and population sizes of each” community that received aid. They also requested information on whether Jackson, which is 80% Black, has faced “burdensome hurdles” to receive additional federal funds.
Comparing census data against the recipients of state water loans, Reeves wrote “there is no factual basis whatsoever to suggest that there has been an ‘underinvestment’ in the city or that it has received disproportionately less than any other area of the state.” In 2021, Jackson accounted for 68% of all loans dispersed, Reeves wrote.
Mississippi received about $1.8 billion in ARPA money, and the Legislature put $750 million of that toward competitive grants for Mississippi’s water systems. Officials announced last week that they approved Jackson’s request for $35.6 million in federal funds to help pay for seven water and sewer projects.
Thompson and Maloney said in a joint statement Monday that recent federal aid to Jackson can be traced to more federal involvement. They said they received the governor's letter Monday.
“The Governor’s response to our letter is a clear acknowledgment that the City of Jackson, and its water systems, are in desperate need of resources to supply clear water to the city’s residents," Thompson and Maloney said. “Democrats have passed infrastructure funding for this exact purpose, and the Biden Administration has orders in place to maximize the delivery of these resources to communities of greatest need — including Jackson — to overcome generational disinvestment in communities of color from every level of government.”
They also pointed to an ongoing EPA civil rights investigation into whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against Jackson in the distribution of water infrastructure funds.
Reeves wrote that Jackson tax collections increased from 2003 to 2020, but numbers cited by the governor did not account for the decreased buying power because of inflation. Reeves wrote that Jackson’s property tax collections were about $60 million in 2003 and $79 million in 2020. An inflation calculator shows that $60 million in 2003 would be worth about $84 million in 2020 — so, although the numbers were up, the buying power was down.
Reeves also wrote that Jackson sales tax collections increased during those years, but he did not mention that part of the increase was because Jackson residents voted in 2014 to approve an additional 1% sales tax to help pay for infrastructure improvements.
"Enforcement efforts” against Jackson by federal regulators are proof of city mismanagement, he said. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice in January that Jackson’s water system violated the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
In September, federal attorneys threatened legal action if the city did not agree to negotiations related to its water system. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said last week that negotiations are continuing. While the EPA said current samples indicate Jackson’s water quality meets federal standards, testing continues and legal action against the city is still a possibility.
Through a spokesperson, Lumumba declined to comment on the governor's letter Monday.
Jackson has had water problems for years, and the latest troubles began in late August after heavy rainfall exacerbated problems in the main treatment plant, leaving many customers without running water. Jackson had already been under a boil-water notice since late July because the state health department found cloudy water that could make people ill.
Reeves said the city has been unable to run its billing system and hire enough skilled personnel to manage the system.
Running water was restored within days, and a boil-water notice was lifted in mid-September, but Thompson and Maloney's letter to Reeves said “water plant infrastructure in the city remains precarious, and risks to Jackson’s residents persist.”
Thompson and Maloney said their letter marked “the start of a joint investigation” by the House Homeland Security and the Oversight and Reform committees into the water crisis. If Democrats lose their majority in the midterm elections, it is unlikely the probe would continue without bipartisan interest.
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Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg. Follow Emily Wagster Pettus on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EWagsterPettus. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Mississippi-governor-responds-to-probe-of-Jackson-17565854.php | 2022-11-08 00:53:35 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Mississippi-governor-responds-to-probe-of-Jackson-17565854.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday — the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder — vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn a new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability.
The law was part of a push to reform policing nationwide and passed in the wake of the police killing of Floyd in 2020 in Minneapolis. Biden has said he supported many parts of the law, including the banning of chokeholds, limiting use of deadly force, improving access to body cameras and requiring training for officers to de-escalate tense situations.
“I believe we have an obligation to make sure that all our people are safe and that public safety depends on public trust,” Biden said in a statement to Congress vetoing the effort. “It is a core policy of my administration to provide law enforcement with the resources they need for effective, accountable community policing.”
The veto comes as Democrats in Congress have twice this year joined with Republicans to try to block a crime and policing law in the district. The first effort Biden supported — overturning changes to the district’s criminal code.
Washington is not a state; and it lacks the same rights that states have to make and amend laws. While Congress has allowed the city’s residents some powers of “home rule,” it has retained the power to overturn district government actions. District residents also do not have voting members of Congress.
Still, Congress has not regularly used its power to repeal — until this year. Biden’s signature two months ago marked the first time in more than three decades that Congress nullified the capital city’s laws through the disapproval process — and reflected a shift in the long-held Democratic position that the federal government should let D.C. govern itself.
The earlier bill was an overhaul to the District of Columbia’s criminal code. It hasn’t been updated substantially since it was first drafted in 1901 — though Black people have been disproportionately affected by the criminal laws, similar to many other cities.
The revisions would have redefined some crimes, changed criminal justice policies and reworked how sentences should be handed down after convictions. It also would have done away with mandatory minimum sentences for many crimes and would have reduced the maximum penalties for burglary, carjacking and robbery.
The Senate approved the House bill that sought to overturn the criminal code changes. Biden signed that resolution, ultimately blocking the D.C. law. The president and members of both parties expressed concern about rising violent crime rates in cities nationwide and said the revisions could lead to rising crime.
In D.C., homicides in the city had risen for four years straight before they dropped around 10% in 2022. The 2021 murder count of 227 was the highest since 2003.
The Senate also voted to overturn the District of Columbia law enacted last year to improve police accountability, after six Democrats voted for the GOP-led resolution. But this time, Biden wasn’t on board.
“The Congress should respect the District of Columbia’s right to pass measures that improve public safety and public trust. I continue to call on the Congress to pass commonsense police reform legislation,” Biden said.
And the president, in a separate missive, also offered condolences to the family of George Floyd, whose death sparked anew protests over police killings of Black people, and calls to reform law enforcement nationwide.
“George Floyd’s murder exposed for many what Black and brown communities have long known and experienced — that we must make a whole of society commitment to ensure that our nation lives up to its founding promise of fair and impartial justice for all under the law,” he said. | https://pix11.com/ap-political/ap-on-3rd-anniversary-of-george-floyds-death-biden-stops-gop-led-effort-to-block-dc-police-reform-law/ | 2023-05-26 14:39:38 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-political/ap-on-3rd-anniversary-of-george-floyds-death-biden-stops-gop-led-effort-to-block-dc-police-reform-law/ |
Republican bills push cash bail, subvert Democratic changes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Just two days before he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six people and injuring more than 60, Darrell Brooks Jr. had posted bail for charges of domestic violence.
He had been accused of using his SUV to run over the mother of his child, and a pretrial assessment found Brooks was at high risk of reoffending. But a court official set that bail at a mere $1,000 cash at the request of prosecutors, who later called their recommendation a mistake. For the parade killings, Brooks was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brooks quickly became the poster child for a Republican-backed push to enact tougher bail policies. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is asking voters to ratify a constitutional amendment that would make it harder for violent criminals to get out of jail on bail.
GOP lawmakers in other states also are scrambling to make it harder for defendants to get out of jail before trial after branding themselves as tough on crime in the 2022 midterm elections. Their efforts have led to a fierce fight with Democrats over public safety and the rights of criminal defendants.
Recent Democratic overhaul measures in states such as Illinois and New York have sought to eliminate cash bail and lessen pretrial detention on the premise they do more harm than good, especially to marginalized groups.
But Republican lawmakers in at least 14 states have introduced some 20 bills so far this year to do just the opposite. Their proposals include increasing the number of non-bailable offenses, requiring more people to pay cash bail and encouraging or requiring judges to consider a defendant’s criminal record when setting bail.
Criminal justice experts and advocacy groups warn the Republican-backed measures aren’t supported by research and could worsen crime rates and disparities between rich and poor. Bail is meant to ensure a defendant returns to court and isn’t supposed to be a punishment, since the defendant hasn’t yet been convicted.
“Cash bail is not a benefit to defendants or to public safety,” said Shima Baradaran Baughman, a law professor at the University of Utah who studies bail.
“When people are detained before trial even for a few days, they are dramatically more likely to reoffend later,” Baughman said. “In other words, it is much safer to the public to release most people before trial than to detain them.”
Defendants jailed before trial are much more likely to plead guilty to charges — often accepting deals that sentence them to time already served that end their detainment, researchers from Harvard, Stanford and Princeton found in a 2018 study. The same study found higher unemployment rates for pretrial detainees after they’re released. It’s not uncommon for defendants who can’t make bail to lose their jobs and even their homes while in jail awaiting trial.
While Republicans seeking to widen the use of bail acknowledge people are legally presumed innocent before trial, some say they believe most defendants are ultimately guilty and that society would be safer if more are locked up.
Georgia Sen. Randy Robertson, a longtime sheriff’s deputy and former state president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he is “extremely confident” that most arrestees are guilty.
In February, the GOP-led Georgia state Senate passed a Robertson proposal that would add 53 offenses to a current list of just seven charges that always require cash or property bail. The new offenses include passing a bad check, which can be a misdemeanor or a felony, and such misdemeanors as reckless driving or fighting in public. Robertson argues that victims feel the justice system doesn’t care about them when suspects are released without cash bail.
The measure requires three-time felons to post cash or property bail, as well as those with felony convictions in the past seven years. It also says any defendant can’t be released without posting bail unless they appear before a judge.
The measures in Georgia, Wisconsin and elsewhere worry Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute for Justice. “When you are setting money bail on all kinds of offenses and judges can’t release people, you are absolutely treading on presumption of innocence,” she said.
Rahman, a former public defender who helped design bail laws in New York and other states, said the best research supports ending cash bail and offering personalized release conditions for most defendants. People who pose a “clear and immediate” threat to public safety are the exception, she said, and should be detained until trial.
“All money bail does is privilege the amount of money someone has in their pocket, not public safety,” Rahman said.
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Van Wanggard, a former police officer who sponsored the constitutional amendment that gained traction after the Waukesha parade killings, said he doesn’t believe imposing cash bail on more people or requiring higher bail violates the presumption of innocence.
“If someone is a repetitive criminal, I surely would rather have that individual locked up than out committing another crime,” Wanggaard said.
If ratified by Wisconsin voters on April 4, the amendment would let judges setting bail consider the criminal history of someone accused of a violent crime. Wisconsin judges currently can only set bail as a means to ensure someone returns to court. The measure also would require judges to publicly lay out their reasoning for the bail amounts they set.
Opponents criticize as overbroad the expanded list of crimes under the amendment, including watching a dog fight, violating a court order against contacting criminal gang members and negligently leaving a firearm where a child gains access to it.
Ohio voters passed a similar amendment in November, requiring judges to consider a suspect’s threat to public safety when setting bail. Bills in Indiana and Missouri would likewise give judges more latitude to consider public safety and criminal histories.
In New York, bail has been a polarizing issue since majority Democrats passed a 2019 law abolishing pretrial incarceration for most nonviolent offenses. Many prosecutors, police officials, Republicans and even some moderate Democrats argued the changes threatened public safety.
Republican candidates running against crime saw big gains in New York City’s suburbs in 2022. And Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, under pressure from voters, has said she wants to revisit bail laws this year to give judges more leeway when setting bail.
Democratic bail changes in Illinois ran into roadblocks when the state Supreme Court halted a new law that would have eliminated cash bail beginning Jan. 1. Prosecutors and sheriffs from 64 counties had sued, challenging the measure. The Supreme Court heard arguments on the lawsuit last week.
Baughman, the Utah law professor, said the Illinois law would likely both release more people before trial and improve public safety.
“We are the only country in the world that forces defendants to pay money to obtain a constitutional right of release before trial,” she said. “Poor defendants and people of color are most harmed when cash bail becomes the norm in a jurisdiction.”
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Associated Press writer Jeff Amy contributed from Atlanta and writer Michael Hill contributed from Albany, New York.
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Harm Venhuizen is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Harm on Twitter.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Getting to No. 1 in the world is difficult enough. Staying there for an entire year is even tougher.
Except for Tiger Woods.
Scottie Scheffler won the WM Phoenix Open on Sunday to replace Rory McIlroy at No. 1 in the world, keeping alive a remarkable trend. Not since Woods in 2009 has a player started the year at No. 1 and stayed on top all the way through the end of December.
Woods also did that in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Before that, he was No. 1 for all of 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
The only others to be No. 1 for an entire calendar year since the ranking began in 1986 were Nick Faldo (1993) and Greg Norman (1996).
That speaks to either the utter dominance of Woods (probably) or the increasing depth of top talent (possibly).
Dustin Johnson stayed at No. 1 for 64 weeks from February 2017 until May 2018. That’s the longest stretch by anyone since Woods (281 weeks).
Scheffler, McIlroy and Jon Rahm each have a chance to reach No. 1 at Riviera this week.
The way golf is going, it’s more likely to see a year like 2020 when five players reached No. 1 at some point during the year.
TWICE AS NICE
Stacy Lewis will return as Solheim Cup captain in 2024 while still waiting to make her debut in the role in September.
Lewis is the U.S. captain for the matches in Spain this September. The Solheim Cup is returning to being played in even-numbered years once the Ryder Cup moved back to odd-numbered years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Receiving the first call was one of the highest points of my career, and I am truly grateful to add this second opportunity,” Lewis said. “To have the chance to lead our country’s best players twice, and especially in 2024 outside our nation’s capital, is a true privilege.”
The 2024 matches will be at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.
Lewis will be the fifth American to be captain at least twice in the Solheim Cup. Juli Inkster was captain three times.
SCOTT’S ELECTION
The PGA Tour went more than 50 years without having an international player on its policy board, and now it will have two in the span of three years.
Adam Scott has been elected chairman of the 16-member Player Advisory Council, which advises the player directors on various PGA Tour issues. As chairman, the Australian will take a seat on the board for a three-year term that starts in 2024.
Scott’s election comes two years after Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland became the first international player to be elected PAC chairman. McIlroy now is on the board.
Scott has spent nearly two decades on the PGA Tour without ever having interest in being a PAC member, which is not to suggest he didn’t have his share of opinions. Only a year ago, he spoke openly about the appeal of LIV Golf.
But while he was looked upon as a prime candidate, Scott never pursued it. He said at the Sony Open he wanted to join the PAC because of changes ahead for the PGA Tour, not anything to do with LIV.
“I’m more interested in what the tour is planning on doing with the tour, not how we’re fighting a lawsuit, because I couldn’t care less about that,” Scott said in Hawaii. “I’m more interested in what the future of the tour looks like.”
GOLDEN MOMENT
Two global golf events are scheduled to end on Oct. 1, and they have nothing in common except for an extraordinary amount of pressure.
One is the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone in Italy. The Europeans have not lost on home soil in 30 years and, given the beating two years ago in Whistling Straits, they are desperate to regain the cup.
The other is more personal, at least to South Koreans. The Asian Games, postponed a year because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, are scheduled for Sept. 28-Oct. 1 in Hangzhou, China.
The Korea Golf Association has adopted new criteria that will allow for two professionals. The Asian Games previously allowed only amateurs.
Sungjae Im and Sony Open winner Si Woo Kim both have said they hope to be there.
At stake for them is a chance to avoid mandatory military service. South Korean men are exempt from military service if they win a medal in the Olympics, or if they win a gold medal in the Asian Games.
Kim turns 28 in June, so this might be his last chance. Im, who turns 25 in March, would likely get another shot at the Olympics in Paris if he doesn’t win gold in the Asian Games.
SWEDISH DUO
Maja Stark and Linn Grant finished 1-2 in the Lalla Meryem Cup on the Ladies European Tour last week, and it should be no surprise the Swedish duo are 1-2 in the Solheim Cup standings for Europe.
Both are 23 and turned pro in August 2021, Grant having playing at Arizona State and Stark at Oklahoma State.
Grant has four wins on the LET, one of them a mixed event that was co-sanctioned by the European tour. She is No. 23 in the world.
Stark’s victory Sunday in Morocco was her fifth on the LET, to go along with a victory in the ISPS Handa World Invitational that was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the LET. She is at No. 32 in the world. In 39 events worldwide, Stark has 23 finishes in the top 10 dating to the summer of 2021.
DIVOTS
Jon Rahm crossed the $40 million mark in PGA Tour career earnings in his 131st start. … Texas Tech senior Jack Wall shot 71 and won the Collegiate Showcase at Riviera on the second playoff hole to earn a spot in the Genesis Invitational. … The USGA is using three courses to host final U.S. Open qualifying for the first time: Old Chatham in Durham, North Carolina; Hillcrest in Los Angeles; and Pine Tree in Boynton Beach, Florida. It will be the first time since 1979 a final 36-hole qualifier will be in North Carolina. … Dru Love, the son of Davis Love III, makes his Asian Tour debut this week in the International Series Qatar. Love earned his card through the qualifying tournament but received a sponsor exemption to play in Qatar. … LIV Golf has 20 players from the top 100 in the world ranking, but only six of them are among the top 50. Dustin Johnson fell out of the top 50 this week for the first time in 13 years. He has not received world ranking points since his tie for sixth in the British Open. … Barracuda Networks has extended its title sponsorship on the PGA Tour through 2025. The Barracuda Championship, held opposite the British Open, is the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring.
STAT OF THE WEEK
Nick Taylor made $2.18 million for his runner-up finish in the WM Phoenix Open, more than he had made in any of his previous eight seasons on the PGA Tour.
FINAL WORD
“Typically when I’m in the mix on Sundays I get no sleep that night. I miss that. I’ve been sleeping quite nicely over the last two years.” — Jason Day, who is coming up on five years since his last victory.
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The Pony Express may be coming through your town with mail.
According to the National Pony Express Association, its annual re-ride kicked off this week.
It will take riders from Sacramento, California, to St. Louis, Missouri.
"The Pony Riders will travel day and night to make the 10-day trip," the association said.
The riders provide continuous updates throughout their trip.
On Friday morning, they said, "After a rough night working around flooded areas, the Pony passed just south of Sand Springs, NV, heading east, running about 45 minutes behind."
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The original Pony Express was formed in 1860. Everything from letters to newspapers was carried from Missouri to California.
The service only lasted 18 months as advancements in electronic communication gained traction.
However, the legend of the Pony Express lives on in the West. That's why the National Pony Express Association hosts the yearly ride.
The association says 650 riders take part every year. They can be as young as 14 years old.
Unlike in 1860, people can track the riders' progress. They are equipped with GPS devices. Click here to see where the riders are now.
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US probes crash involving Tesla that hit student leaving bus
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Updated: 3:31 PM EDT Apr 7, 2023
-: Tesla's one manufacturer that's leading the full self-driving arms race, which remains blockaded by legal red tape. So, it's no surprise that these driverless systems have taken the automotive industry by storm, but how much can we trust them? Elon Musk announced just last year that Tesla would make its full self-driving Beta available to all paying customers. And that's a claim he's been making since 2015. Drivers are able to gain access by either paying a $15,000 lump sum or a subscription fee of $199 a month. And that's not to forget that Tesla has continually struggled with quality control issues. One of the most recent issues involved their steering wheel falling off. That being said, it's important to note that Tesla isn't the only auto maker that's been promising self-driving is just around the corner. Most of these driverless systems are classified as level two, meaning the technology still relies on the driver to intervene when necessary. Level three self-driving is a target that many auto makers are looking to implement, but this level of autonomous driving isn't currently legal in the United States. -: The problem with the lifeguarding moment in cars versus planes is, look, very little goes wrong in seconds on planes. Even if you have a wing fall off the aircraft, you have minutes to figure this out. Unfortunately, in cars, just with the proximity of other cars and the speeds at which you're going, you just have seconds. And the real problem with autonomy in cars today is, especially if you're relying on the human to do any kind of lifeguarding is, we get distracted easily, we love our phones, we love to do anything else but drive, especially during long-distance trips, and we're not gonna pay attention. And the instant we are not paying attention and we're just gonna divert our attention, "Ah, I just wanna get something in the back seat," that's the moment that Tesla Autopilot or BlueCruise or Super Cruise decides, "Oh, I can't handle this situation. I'm gonna give you back control. It's time for your lifeguarding moment." And you're like, "What, what, where am I?" And that's why we see a lot of crashes in these modes. -: While full autonomy on the freeway sounds great, driving in the city presents a much bigger challenge, with pedestrians and particularly cyclists, whose unpredictability makes them the kryptonite of these driverless systems. -: So this is the problem with naming systems like full self-driving when they don't actually do anything even remotely close to full self-driving is that it does make people overconfident in what a system can do. And you know, just a brief perusal on YouTube will show you just how bad full self-driving is in an urban environment. People have an expectation that these cars can, if at least not fully drive themselves, that mostly drive themselves, and, "I have time to, I just dropped a French fry on the floor. I'm just gonna reach down and get that French fry that just fell under the seat and I'll have time to do that." And you know, if everything is going right, you do have time to do that. But if everything is going wrong and you're approaching a curve in the road, and the autonomy predicts that it can't negotiate that curve and it's been programmed to then alert you right then that you need to take over, you can see how people's complacency kind of leads them down this primrose path and then they're off the road and in a car crash, if not killed. -: From July of 2021 to October of 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported 605 crashes that involved vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems. 474 of those crashes were committed by Teslas, and just last year, a Tesla Model S caused a massive pileup on the San Francisco Bay Bridge after abruptly changing lanes and stopping in the middle of a busy highway. It raises the question that maybe drivers are becoming too reliant on these systems. -: That is just a good example of, there is brittleness inside the system that not only do we not know where it is, but we don't know when it's going to pop up. And this is the problem with phantom braking. We do not know why the computer vision systems detect obstacles that the human eye cannot see. Sometimes people think it's shadows. But that's not the only reason. That's the problem with machine learning. When you take a machine learning algorithm and you apply it to a million images, it's looking for pixelated statistical correlations between those pixels in this image. And you don't actually really know, do those pixels for sure follow the shape of a stop sign or are they finding some other statistical pattern that we don't know that could just be some random correlation, and then the system learns that and then sees that as a stop sign or a police car or whatever? -: It raises the question that maybe drivers are becoming too reliant on these systems. These issues like phantom braking are a big deal for self-driving systems, as we don't really know why they happen. Some manufacturers have turned to LiDAR as the solution, but it's important to note that it's not a magic fix-all. LiDAR works in a similar fashion to radar, but instead of using radio waves, it uses a pulse laser to detect nearby objects. According to Cummings, it will improve the phantom braking issue, but it won't necessarily eradicate it. -: Turns out, they don't really work very well with moisture in the air. Rain, even misty rain is a problem. Even after it rains and there are puddles on the road, they can kinda create this sheen. LiDAR systems don't know if a puddle is one-inch deep or a mile deep, you know, if you're about to hit the ocean. They are surmountable or at least, we can mitigate them if we had this additional data. But I just think there's still a lot of work to be done in the research community to figure out, you know, can we integrate LiDAR in a way that improves these vehicles to potentially reduce the uncertainty in the environment to get it down to something that would reasonably be at least a little better than your average human driver? So we hear this a lot, like, you know, "All you have to do is be better than a human driver." If you wanna be better than your average driver, you also need to be able to understand when you come up to an intersection, you being the autonomy, if you've got a police officer doing some kinda hand gestures, the cars have got to be able to understand that. -: Testing is a crucial part in the development of autonomous vehicles. However, Tesla's method of real-world testing on public roads has long been controversial. And that's not to say that BlueCruise and Super Cruise haven't been logging data of their own, but those systems can only be engaged on the public highway. So, why do we keep seeing accidents like these happen over and over again? -: I think simulation is important and critical in early development of a self-driving car. But in the end, simulation cannot be a substitute for the real world. Because the real world has something in it that, for example, in these neural nets, the systems are learning that we don't yet know and they're not going to be uncovered until it drives enough times, as well as all the potential problems in the environment, like LiDAR not being able to see across the sheen of the road, right? So there's just some things. And I think companies are finding out the hard way what the aviation industry knows is, (laughing) testing is hard and expensive and slows you way down. -: There's no denying that these self-driving systems are incredible, but there's currently a big disconnect between the OEMs and startups. While each party wants their own piece of the pie, Cummings says that it would be much more beneficial for everyone to just work together. -: I also think one of the big things that needs to change, especially for the Silicon Valley self-driving car world, is they just need to get better about embracing what it means to have a real safety culture. I think, because of the "move fast and break things" ethos, that the idea that you're gonna take time and really dive in deep with safety is kinda antithetical to that crowd. There's a tendency for the new players that are Silicon Valley-based to deride or poke fun or look down at the traditional OEMs for doing things the old way. I do think probably there are some ways to update the old ways. So, neither one of the companies has the right answer, but you know, they kinda need to come together, although I think that the Silicon Valley startups really need to merge. They need to start understanding what those mature safety practices look like and understand like, that's gonna hurt your bottom line. Like you're gonna have to have a safety program. If you're gonna keep doing this, if you keep killing people, then regulators are gonna step in and you know, then you'll have an even bigger problem on your hands. The regulators are also not evil. Like you know, NHTSA does not exist to see companies go out of business. That's not, there's never a conversation I was privy to where somebody said, "You know, that company needs to be shut down." I mean, this just isn't happening. Even for companies that are struggling, for every recall that comes out, NHTSA is, you know, first and foremost, thinking about public safety but also trying to say, "Look, you know, we are interested in keeping our American innovation spirit alive. So we wanna work with companies to help them through a bad time." Of course, it's easy for me as an academic to say it would be better for us to work together, but I think there are ways we can work together. There are ways you can work together without giving away what your source code of your stack is. But for right now, it's a perceived race to get the first self-driving robo taxi out. (light music continues)
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US probes crash involving Tesla that hit student leaving bus
U.S. road safety regulators have sent a team to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that may have been operating on a partially automated driving system when it struck a student who had just exited a school bus.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that it will probe the March 15 crash in Halifax County, North Carolina, that injured a 17-year-old student. The State Highway Patrol said the driver of the 2022 Tesla Model Y, a 51-year-old male, failed to stop for the bus, which was displaying all of its activated warning devices.Sending special investigation teams to crashes means that the agency suspects the Teslas were operating systems that can handle some aspects of driving, including Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving." Despite the names, Tesla says these are driver-assist systems and that drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.A message was left Friday seeking comment from Tesla.Tillman Mitchell, a student at the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School in Hollister, had just exited the bus and was walking across the street to his house when he was hit, according to the Highway Patrol.He was flown to a hospital with life-threatening injuries but was listed in good condition two days after the crash.NHTSA has sent investigative teams to more than 30 crashes since 2016 in which Teslas suspected of operating on Autopilot or "Full Self-Driving" have struck pedestrians, motorcyclists, semitrailers and parked emergency vehicles. At least 14 people were killed in the crashes.In March the agency sent a team to a Feb. 18 crash in which a Tesla Model S hit a fire department ladder truck in Contra Costa County, California. The Tesla driver was killed, a passenger was seriously hurt, and four firefighters suffered minor injuries.Authorities said the California firetruck had its lights on and was parked diagonally on a highway to protect responders to an earlier accident that did not result in injuries.The probes are part of a larger investigation by NHTSA into multiple instances of Teslas using Autopilot crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes. NHTSA has become more aggressive in pursuing safety problems with Teslas in the past year, announcing multiple recalls and investigations.NHTSA is investigating how the Autopilot system detects and responds to emergency vehicles parked on highways.The agency wouldn't comment on open investigations, but it has been scrutinizing Teslas more intensely in the past year, seeking several recalls.Tesla and NHTSA need to determine why the vehicles don’t seem to see flashing lights on school buses and emergency vehicles and make sure the problem is fixed, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington.“I’ve been saying probably for a couple of years now, they need to figure out why these vehicles aren’t recognizing flashing lights for a big starter,” Brooks said. "NHTSA needs to step in and get them to do a recall because that’s a serious safety issue."Earlier this month the agency revealed an investigation of steering wheels that can detach from the steering column on as many as 120,000 Model Y SUVs. It's also investigating seat belts that may not be anchored securely in some Teslas.NHTSA also has opened investigations during the past three years into Teslas braking suddenly for no reason, suspension problems and other issues.In February, NHTSA pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with "Full Self-Driving" software because the system can break traffic laws. The problem was to be fixed with an online software update.The system is being tested on public roads by as many as 400,000 Tesla owners. But NHTSA said in documents that it can make unsafe actions such as traveling straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane, going through a yellow traffic light without proper caution or failing to respond to speed limit changes.The U.S. Justice Department also has asked Tesla for documents from Tesla about "Full Self-Driving" and Autopilot.
U.S. road safety regulators have sent a team to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that may have been operating on a partially automated driving system when it struck a student who had just exited a school bus.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that it will probe the March 15 crash in Halifax County, North Carolina, that injured a 17-year-old student. The State Highway Patrol said the driver of the 2022 Tesla Model Y, a 51-year-old male, failed to stop for the bus, which was displaying all of its activated warning devices.
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Sending special investigation teams to crashes means that the agency suspects the Teslas were operating systems that can handle some aspects of driving, including Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving." Despite the names, Tesla says these are driver-assist systems and that drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.
A message was left Friday seeking comment from Tesla.
Tillman Mitchell, a student at the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School in Hollister, had just exited the bus and was walking across the street to his house when he was hit, according to the Highway Patrol.
He was flown to a hospital with life-threatening injuries but was listed in good condition two days after the crash.
NHTSA has sent investigative teams to more than 30 crashes since 2016 in which Teslas suspected of operating on Autopilot or "Full Self-Driving" have struck pedestrians, motorcyclists, semitrailers and parked emergency vehicles. At least 14 people were killed in the crashes.
In March the agency sent a team to a Feb. 18 crash in which a Tesla Model S hit a fire department ladder truck in Contra Costa County, California. The Tesla driver was killed, a passenger was seriously hurt, and four firefighters suffered minor injuries.
Authorities said the California firetruck had its lights on and was parked diagonally on a highway to protect responders to an earlier accident that did not result in injuries.
The probes are part of a larger investigation by NHTSA into multiple instances of Teslas using Autopilot crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes. NHTSA has become more aggressive in pursuing safety problems with Teslas in the past year, announcing multiple recalls and investigations.
NHTSA is investigating how the Autopilot system detects and responds to emergency vehicles parked on highways.
The agency wouldn't comment on open investigations, but it has been scrutinizing Teslas more intensely in the past year, seeking several recalls.
Tesla and NHTSA need to determine why the vehicles don’t seem to see flashing lights on school buses and emergency vehicles and make sure the problem is fixed, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington.
“I’ve been saying probably for a couple of years now, they need to figure out why these vehicles aren’t recognizing flashing lights for a big starter,” Brooks said. "NHTSA needs to step in and get them to do a recall because that’s a serious safety issue."
Earlier this month the agency revealed an investigation of steering wheels that can detach from the steering column on as many as 120,000 Model Y SUVs. It's also investigating seat belts that may not be anchored securely in some Teslas.
NHTSA also has opened investigations during the past three years into Teslas braking suddenly for no reason, suspension problems and other issues.
In February, NHTSA pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with "Full Self-Driving" software because the system can break traffic laws. The problem was to be fixed with an online software update.
The system is being tested on public roads by as many as 400,000 Tesla owners. But NHTSA said in documents that it can make unsafe actions such as traveling straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane, going through a yellow traffic light without proper caution or failing to respond to speed limit changes.
The U.S. Justice Department also has asked Tesla for documents from Tesla about "Full Self-Driving" and Autopilot. | https://www.wmur.com/article/tesla-hit-student-leaving-bus-probe/43541665 | 2023-04-07 21:28:29 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/tesla-hit-student-leaving-bus-probe/43541665 |
America's favorite big, fat Greek family is finding itself trying move on, two years after losing its beloved patriarch, Kostas "Gus" Portokalos, the Windex bottle-toting character who was portrayed by Reading native Michael Constantine in the popular film series, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Now, fans of the first two movies have been given their first look at the series' latest installment, which pays tribute to Constantine's character. Focus Features, a division of Philadelphia-based Comcast, has released the trailer for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3."
"A lot has happened since my big, fat Greek wedding," Gus' daughter, Toula, portrayed by Nia Vardalos, says in introducing the new movie. "My father passed away, and his last wish was for us to visit his childhood village and reconnect with our roots. So, we're having a reunion."
The whole family — from brother Nikos to Aunt Voula — then boards a plane and sets off for Greece in search of Gus' best friends.
"This is one reunion we'll never forget," Vardalos' character says.
The third movie comes 21 years after the series began with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." The sequel was released in 2016. At the time, Constantine sat down for an interview with 69 News in Reading to talk about the films' success and the fun he had working with the other actors.
Constantine said there was a lot of himself in the character he portrayed, and he used an accent he learned from his mother.
"That's exactly the way my mom talked," he said. "There is so much of me in Gus Portokalos, obviously, or I wouldn't be able to play him. He just functions out of love for his daughter and his family, and I was happy with that."
Constantine died Aug. 31, 2021, at his home in Reading. He was 94. In addition to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," he was also known for his role as high school principal Seymour Kaufman on ABC's "Room 222," for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series in 1970.
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" is set to debut in theaters on Sept. 8. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/trailer-offers-first-look-at-my-big-fat-greek-wedding-3/article_b03af38a-f0ed-11ed-b6f4-e735154aaa3a.html | 2023-05-12 20:07:57 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/trailer-offers-first-look-at-my-big-fat-greek-wedding-3/article_b03af38a-f0ed-11ed-b6f4-e735154aaa3a.html |
(The Hill) — More than 700,000 people have signed a petition calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The petition, made by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn, was created after the Supreme Court overturned Roe in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and while controversy swirls around his wife, Ginni Thomas’s, political activism.
It has more than 786,000 signatures as of Friday evening.
The petition noted that Thomas was among the majority of justices who ruled that there was not a constitutional right to an abortion and alluded to his concurring opinion in that case, in which he suggested the Supreme Court should revisit cases that established the right to contraceptive access and same-sex marriage.
The petition also blasted Thomas for not recusing himself in cases relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot after news reports surfaced that Ginni Thomas had reached out to Arizona state lawmakers urging them to reject the 2020 election results and had contacted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows over rejecting the last election’s outcome.
“Thomas’ failure to recuse himself warrants immediate investigation and heightened alarm. And it’s only the latest in a long history of conflicts of interest in the service of a right-wing agenda and mixing his powerful role with his conservative political activism,” a statement on the petition page reads.
“He has shown he cannot be an impartial justice and is more concerned with covering up his wife’s coup attempts than the health of the Supreme Court. He must resign—or Congress must immediately investigate and impeach.”
Some lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), have said that Supreme Court justices should be impeached if they were misleading on their answers on Roe v. Wade during their confirmation hearings.
“If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue — without basis, if you read these opinions — rulings that deeply undermine the human civil rights of the majority of Americans, we must see that through,” Ocasio-Cortez said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last month. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/more-than-700k-sign-petition-calling-for-clarence-thomas-to-be-impeached/ | 2022-07-02 05:01:47 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/more-than-700k-sign-petition-calling-for-clarence-thomas-to-be-impeached/ |
Beneufit Inc., a Digital Health company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent for its smartphone-based symptom measurement technology.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The USPTO has issued U.S. Patent No. US11,266,341 entitled "Measuring Dynamic Body Movement" for their innovative Tracer™ technology that measures and scores movement disorder symptoms objectively with smartphone video and machine learning techniques. The aim of the technology is to empower patients and caregivers to measure disease state objectively from the comfort of their own home.
Currently the gold standard of measuring disease state in movement disorders is through assessment surveys administered by clinicians who rate the patient's presentation of motor symptoms. These surveys have limited sensitivity because judging motor performance is often subjective and patient scores can vary depending on the clinician administering them. "The reliability of clinical assessments vary considerably with inter-rater variability, which can adversely affect the outcomes in clinical trials. Using technology which can measure even the smallest clinical benefits not noticeable by clinical raters can make the difference in a medication or medical device getting FDA approval. By using Tracer™ we mitigate the risk of bias, variability and human error in clinical trials and evaluating the benefit from medical treatment," says movement disorder specialist and patent co-author Jerome Lisk, MD.
The original proof of concept was built to measure and score Parkinson's disease dyskinesia, a condition that is a side effect of medication and potentially involves all parts of the body. The advantages Tracer™ has over existing wearable sensor systems is that it does not require any devices to be worn by the patient, and it is able to detect motor movement across the patient's entire body. Existing technologies require a sensor to be placed on the part of the body being measured. Motor symptoms such as dyskinesia involve involuntary gross movements that are hard to detect with individual sensors without the context of how other parts of the body are moving that Tracer™ captures by design.
"We're extremely proud of this innovation and excited about how it will help so many in medical research and industry," explained CEO Jeff Broderick. "And we're grateful for the people at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) who have encouraged us to deliver Tracer™ clinical outcome assessments (COA) to the drug development ecosystem. Our vision aligns perfectly with the FDA's 21st Century Cures Act which seeks to modernize clinical trial design and include the use of patient-generated COAs."
The technology is currently utilized by two organizations to improve treatment plans for their respective patient populations. One organization, who remains confidential, seeks to reduce infant suffering. An app enables parents to get an instant analysis of their baby's movement, with accompanying data which can be shared with their pediatrician.
In another project, Tracer™ is being used by the TESS Research Foundation to find a biomarker for SLC13A5 Epilepsy. In addition, Tracer™ will generate digital assets that will be used to quantify assessment of body movement. "One symptom of SLC13A5 Epilepsy is a movement disorder that significantly affects the health and quality of life of our affected families. We are hopeful that Tracer will help accelerate drug discovery for our SLC13A5 community by providing an objective and reliable metric for movement disorder biomarkers," says Kimberly Nye, Founder and Executive Director of the foundation.
About Beneufit, Inc.
Beneufit provides innovative digital health solutions to organizations using patient-generated data to advance research, improve outcomes and increase efficiencies.
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Jeff Broderick
About TESS Research Foundation
TESS Research Foundation is driving research to cure SLC13A5 Epilepsy. To achieve our goals, TESS funds cutting-edge research, provides support to families affected by SLC13A5 Epilepsy, and increases awareness about this severe neurological disorder.
Contact:
Lindsay Okamoto
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Jeff Broderick, Beneufit, Inc., 1 (415) 741-1660, info@beneufit.com
SOURCE Beneufit, Inc. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_health/beneufit-announces-patent-issued-for-smartphone-powered-system-for-objectively-measuring-movement-disorder-symptoms/article_dd8bb0b6-1cf9-50e3-b41b-92c1b821fbf7.html | 2022-04-21 09:13:02 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_health/beneufit-announces-patent-issued-for-smartphone-powered-system-for-objectively-measuring-movement-disorder-symptoms/article_dd8bb0b6-1cf9-50e3-b41b-92c1b821fbf7.html |
Global subscriber survey by Recurly defines consumer preferences and expectations; what consumers want for a great subscriber experience.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recurly, a leading subscription management and billing platform, today announced the release of their report, State of Subscriptions: What Consumers Want, revealing the subscription experience preferences of more than 6,000 global respondents. The results identify the most effective tactics and incentives toward driving subscription behaviors—from acquisition to retention—while also quantifying consumer subscription spend and trends.
"The expectations of subscriptions have dramatically increased. Consumers today have many options, are facing economic uncertainty and have very high expectations of where they spend their time and money," said Theresa McEndree, CMO at Recurly. "Our mission is to build lasting subscriber relationships; and understanding the subscriber mindset is key. Top trends for today's subscriber are personalization, flexible subscription experiences, paired with recognition and rewards for their continued loyalty."
Key findings include:
- Consumers want loyalty incentives. Four-in-five (82%) respondents stated that they would remain subscribed if there were loyalty incentives (such as points, discounts or gifts), proving that rewarding subscription loyalty is crucial toward enhancing the subscriber experience and driving long-term relationships.
- Flexibility is a powerful tool. Subscriptions must be flexible. In fact, if there's an option to pause, consumers stated that they would be 71% more inclined to subscribe, and 65% would be more likely to change their mind about cancellation. Additionally, 77% are more likely to subscribe if it is easy to cancel the subscription.
- Personalization for the win. Subscribers have shown that they both want and expect personalized subscription experiences. Three-in-four (78%) respondents stated that "upgrading or downgrading my subscription as needed" is important, and 74% stated that "adding items/services to subscriptions whenever I want" is also important when it comes to creating a great subscriber experience overall. Furthermore, 61% showed a greater likelihood of subscribing when they're able to select their own payment date.
- Consumers want free trials and extra value. Subscribers are increasingly interested in trying out a product or service before committing to a subscription. Three-in-four (75%) stated they would be more likely to start a subscription when a free trial is offered. Furthermore, when adding value such as a free gift or exclusive product, respondents stated that they would be 65% and 62% more likely to subscribe, respectively.
- "More" communication is not better. Lastly, survey respondents were absolutely clear—not only do they not want constant communication, but their preferred method of communication is email (45%). When asked about the communication subject and frequency, 26% of respondents stated that they only want to receive communications once a month and another 16% only want communications as needed.
More broadly, the report highlights the critical roles personalization, flexibility and incentives play in creating what consumers perceive as an ideal subscriber experience.
"As consumers seek greater influence over their subscriptions, businesses in all industries must adapt to meet these expectations," McEndree added. "Recurly customers leverage a number of these solutions, like ramp pricing, to offer subscribers flexible, personalized plans."
For more information, or to download the report, visit Recurly.
*Findings based on an internet-based survey conducted by Censuswide, May 2023. The sample size included 6,408 global respondents, 18+ years or over, that currently subscribe to two or more subscriptions.
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Thousands of innovative companies across digital media, streaming, publishing, SaaS, education, consumer goods, and professional services industries rely on Recurly to unlock transformational growth using subscriptions. Recurly's all-in-one, integrated platform removes the complexities of automating subscription billing at scale by enabling teams to manage and optimize their subscriber lifecycles with ease. Category-defining companies including Sling, Twitch, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Paramount, Lucid, and Sprout Social have chosen Recurly to manage billions of dollars in recurring revenues, future-proof their recurring billing and revenue management, and recover billions of dollars in lost revenue due to churn. Founded in 2009, Recurly is based in San Francisco, with offices in Boulder and London. For more information, visit https://recurly.com.
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PHOENIX , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluum, North America's leading education technology solutions provider, today announced that it recently received the honor of being Verkada's large partner segment MVP. Bluum earned the award after securing more net sales in less than a year in education than any other provider.
"It is an honor that Verkada, an industry leader in the physical security space, named Bluum its large partner segment MVP," Bluum Senior Vice President, Product Strategy Andre Vashilko said. "Bluum has expanded its suite of products and services to physical security at schools, so it was only natural that Bluum partnered with Verkada, which is on the cutting edge of that vertical. Verkada's turnkey solutions benefit schools because their products are simple, plug-and-play devices ready to go out of the box and accommodate novice users."
Based on a 2019 National Center of Education Statistics data collection, nearly 71 percent of public schools experienced at least one violent incident, and 65 percent recorded at least one nonviolent incident, which is when a campus reports a theft or possession of a firearm or explosive. According to the Centers for Disease Control statistics, one in five high school students reported being bullied on school property last year. Also, two million U.S. middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes in 2021, the most commonly used tobacco product in schools.
With such demands for physical security at schools escalating, Verkada's easy-to-use systems that manage devices on a secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure can help to improve physical security across sites. The centralized platform can empower users to scale massively and quickly, increase bandwidth efficiency, decrease incident response time, reduce vape use and enable remote access to sites from any browser or device without in-depth technical training.
"The health and safety of students, teachers, and administrators are paramount," Verkada National Channel Sales Manager Zach Smith said. "Partnering with a leading education technology organization like Bluum to deliver and assist schools in deploying our products is an ideal match. Bluum's ability to consult and provide their customers with the best technology, services and funding options has made the company an invaluable partner to Verkada."
In addition to being trusted by Verkada's customers in education, Bluum will also market Verkada's solutions to its municipalities and corporate customers. Bluum featured Verkada's next-generation solutions on its nationwide Tech Tour, which is an opportunity for schools around the country to sample the latest technology before they invest thousands of dollars.
To learn more about how Bluum and Verkada can provide your security needs, visit https://www.bluum.com/.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic-funded candidate in Wisconsin's pivotal state Supreme Court contest has raised more than five times as much money as her Republican-backed opponent ahead of the April 4 election.
Liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz raised nearly $12.4 million in the final campaign finance reporting period between Feb. 7 and March 20, reports filed late Monday show. Her conservative opponent, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, raised $2.2 million during the same period.
The winner of the country's most expensive state Supreme Court race to date will determine majority control of Wisconsin's high court with issues such as abortion access, legislative redistricting, union rights and election laws at stake. The race has garnered national attention, given Wisconsin's importance as a presidential swing state.
The state Supreme Court came within a vote of overturning President Joe Biden's victory in 2020. Conservatives have controlled the court for 15 years, but the winner will determine majority control for at least the next two years, including before and immediately after the 2024 presidential race.
Since launching their campaigns, Protasiewicz has raised $14.5 million, more than $8.8 million of it coming from the state Democratic Party. Kelly has raised more than $2.7 million. He received nearly half-a-million dollars' worth of in-kind contributions from the state Republican Party and nearly $50,000 in donations from county Republican parties and the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee.
Protasiewicz's fundraising advantage allowed her to get TV ads on the air weeks before Kelly and his conservative backers could counter. As of March 22, her campaign had bought or reserved more than $10.1 million in ads, while Kelly had spent about $460,000, according to a tally by the Brennan Center for Justice.
Over the most recent six-week reporting period, Protasiewicz spent more than $8.3 million on ads compared with roughly $364,000 by Kelly. Third-party groups have helped Kelly narrow the gap, but Protasiewicz's side still had spent more on TV and radio ads, based on tallies by the Brennan Center and others.
All of the spending, estimated at more than $30 million and climbing, has made the race the most expensive for a court seat in U.S. history. The prior record high was $15.4 million spent on an Illinois Supreme Court race in 2004.
Protasiewicz has made her support for abortion rights a central focus of her ads and campaign. She has also attacked Kelly for his past work for Republicans and Wisconsin Right to Life, an anti-abortion group.
Kelly has tried to paint Protasiewicz as weak on crime, citing numerous cases where he alleges she handed soft sentences to criminals — some of whom went on to reoffend.
Protasiewicz reported 28 donors over the most recent reporting period who gave the maximum of $20,000 allowed, including Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker. He made the donation the day after the Feb. 21 primary. Only three of her maximum donors came from Wisconsin, including former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.
The number of out-of-state donations points to the national spotlight on this race, which has become a frontline battle over abortion access. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to decide a pending lawsuit challenging the state's 1849 near-total ban on abortion.
Kelly reported 19 donations at the maximum of $20,000 this period, including from Beloit billionaire and GOP mega-donor Diane Hendricks. Unlike his opponent, all of his top donors came from Wisconsin except for three.
Protasiewicz ended the reporting period with just over $2 million cash on hand, compared with about $395,000 for Kelly. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/liberal-outraises-conservative-in-wisconsin-court-17864482.php | 2023-03-28 15:58:35 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/liberal-outraises-conservative-in-wisconsin-court-17864482.php |
STUART, Fla. — Heading into one of the busiest weekends of the year for boaters, state officials want to make sure boaters are taking the proper precautions to keep everyone safe on the water.
WPTV tagged along with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Friday as they patrolled the Stuart Causeway.
Officers said they will be vigilant Memorial Day weekend.
"If you're going to have alcohol out on the water, we know you will, make sure you identify a designated driver at the beginning of the day. We have far too many boating fatalities throughout the state each year due to boating under the influence with alcohol and drugs," Maj. Dustin Bonds said. "This is something we can avoid, we're going to be all hands on deck for Memorial Day weekend and throughout the year. If our officers see an impaired operator on the water, they will go to jail."
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — United States State Secretary Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a multinational force is needed to help Haiti’s National Police restore order, echoing recent appeals made by United Nations officials who warn that the country’s insecurity is worsening.
Blinken briefly spoke about Haiti and other issues during a one-day trip to Trinidad and Tobago, which hosted a three-day conference held by the 15-member Caribbean trade bloc known as Caricom.
Caribbean leaders have been meeting regularly about the situation in Haiti. Caricom Chair and Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit noted that the group supports Haitian-led solutions but he also called on the U.S. for help.
“It’s no secret, Mr. Secretary, that the United States will have to play a very crucial role,” he said as he introduced Blinken on the conference’s final day.
Blinken spoke one day before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and talk about Haiti amid mounting pressure on the international community to deploy a foreign armed force that Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry requested in October.
So far, the council only has approved sanctions on gang members and high-profile figures believed to support gangs that now control an estimated 80% of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where killings, rapes and kidnappings have soared.
Haiti’s National Police is underfunded and lacks resources to fight the surge in violence, with only an estimated 13,000 active-duty officers serving a country of more than 11 million people. Some Haitians, tired and frustrated of the violence, have embraced a violent uprising aimed at killing suspected gang members.
The country’s understaffed police force desperately needs between 1,000 and 2,000 international police experts trained to combat armed gangs, U.N. independent expert for Haiti William O’Neill said Wednesday.
O’Neill, who has been working on Haiti for over 30 years, told a news conference: “I have never seen the situation as bad as it is now.”
During a 10-day trip to the impoverished Caribbean nation that concluded last week, he met with senior Haitian National Police leaders, including the inspector general, who told him 80 officers have been suspended and are under investigation for misconduct or criminal activity.
He also described as “horrific” conditions at the national penitentiary in the capital, pointing to squalid, hot and overcrowded cells where detainees are kept for hours at a time with no water or toilet facilities. O’Neill stressed that over 80% of those in detention have never been tried, saying he talked to a man accused of a petty theft who had been in prison for seven years awaiting trial.
O’Neill said Haitians he talked to from all walks of life want outside help, but are very clear they don’t want another U.N. peacekeeping force. He said they do want expertise in tackling gang violence to support the police.
Blinken said he supports calls for a multinational force to restore security: “This is an area of intense focus for us.”
He also promised to keep pushing financial institutions to defer debt payments in the case of natural disasters, with the Caribbean region battered by storms that have become increasingly stronger.
In addition, Blinken pledged nearly $5.5 million to help small farmers increase their productivity and access technology as the region fights climate change.
“One in two people in the Caribbean cannot afford a healthy diet,” he noted.
Accompanying Blinken was U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat who said the U.S. and the Caribbean have mutual security concerns and common economic interests.
“Caricom nations are not an afterthought,” he said. “A lot has been accomplished by Caricom in the past 50 years, but we know there’s still a lot of work to do.”
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This story has been corrected to show Blinken pledged nearly $5.5 million.
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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer contributed from the United Nations. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-blinken-says-a-multinational-force-is-needed-to-help-haitis-national-police-restore-order/ | 2023-07-06 16:23:43 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-blinken-says-a-multinational-force-is-needed-to-help-haitis-national-police-restore-order/ |
GRAYSON COUNTY, Va. – Students in the Builds and Trade program have recently completed setting up posts for a new structure at the GC Recreational Park Softball Fields.
Grayson County Schools Superintendent Kelly Wilmore shares how the Career and Technical Education Center is helping students become productive citizens. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/01/22/grayson-county-schools-superintendent-talks-about-cate-program/ | 2023-01-22 15:05:27 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/01/22/grayson-county-schools-superintendent-talks-about-cate-program/ |
'The Little Mermaid' latest teaser gives us our first glimpse of Ursula
Melissa McCarthy is finally ready to unfurl her tentacles as Ursula the sea witch.
Disney unveiled a new teaser for the live-action "The Little Mermaid" on Wednesday, and McCarthy's character can be seen at the very end in villainous-looking makeup as she peers over one of her dark octopus legs.
McCarthy is only heard cackling for a brief moment in the teaser. Though she treated us to a rendition of her vocal skills in a musical Super Bowl ad last week, we'll have to wait a little longer to hear her sing "Poor Unfortunate Souls."
The "Mermaid" teaser also gives us a deeper glimpse into Ariel's (Halle Bailey) world, including a brief scene showing other mermaids, most likely her sisters.
One other reveal in the clip is actor Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, who is seen leaning in for a kiss with Bailey's Ariel in a moment that appears to be from the song "Kiss the Girl."
The live-action "Little Mermaid" is a reimagining of Disney's animated classic of the same name, from 1989.
That film won two Oscars, for best music, original song (for "Under the Sea") and for best original score.
"The Little Mermaid" swims into theaters on May 26. | https://www.wesh.com/article/the-little-mermaid-new-teaser/42924080 | 2023-02-15 22:54:26 | 1 | https://www.wesh.com/article/the-little-mermaid-new-teaser/42924080 |
ATLANTA, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With rampant inflation consumers are citing price and value as the top reasons why they are either switching the grocery store they shop at or splitting their business between multiple grocery stores. Sensitivity to pricing is a major factor in consumers' purchasing decisions and it is common for consumers to split their spending across 3 or more grocery providers.
According to consumers Walmart is the winner in terms of wallet share, Kroger, and ALDI rank 2nd and 3rd, although there is a considerable gap with Walmart leading by a factor of almost 2x over Kroger. This margin has widened since 2017 when Walmart's lead was at 1.75x vs. Kroger demonstrating Walmart's continued market penetration over the past 5 years.
Of Note H-E-B shoppers noted that they spent 78% of their grocery dollars with the brand making H-E-B a clear leader in terms of their ability to capture wallet share vs their local competitors. From a value perspective our winner was ALDI with a top box score of 90%.
Of the key decision criteria that drive consumers to choose a grocery store 'Convenience' ranks at number one and was selected by 62% of respondents. 'Value' was the second most chosen factor at 53% and 'Good sales and Promotions' was selected 44% of the time. Clearly Economic factors are important as consumers consider where they shop.
The Impact of In-Store Execution
You might think that grocery customers are solely influenced by price, but you'd be wrong. Given relatively similar pricing, grocery customers' satisfaction and behavior (in terms of the brands they shop regularly) is really dictated by the brand's ability to facilitate a problem free experience. This experience is generally characterized by the availability of a large assortment of products, having a clean store and enabling a fast checkout. Pretty simple?
Even with that relatively simple formula, there are some real winners and losers who are well positioned to win share of wallet, drive customer loyalty and build trust over time. These standout brands include Trader Joe's, Smiths, and Wegmans. Large, established brands that have established trust with customers include H-E-B, Publix, and Trader Joe's.
COVID's waning has corresponded with a slowing in the growth of customers opting for grocery delivery (down from a high of 27% during the height of COVID, to about 10% today). But, technology is definitely still on the rise with more customers now using an App to order groceries for pick-up at curbside or a store designated pick up area. Our study sees this fulfillment method increasing from 16% to 23% of grocery customers. Over two-thirds (68%) of these customers are very satisfied with this alternate method of shopping for groceries. As technology continues to be applied to the grocery shopping experience, we forecast continued growth in these newer shopping and fulfillment channels.
The Top Performing Grocery Brands
This year's top brands who scored best on the customer loyalty index (CLI), a blended score combining 'satisfaction with the most recent' visit with 'likelihood to recommend' was Trader Joe's with a CLI of 84%. H-E-B came in second with a score of 83% and Woodman's Market came in third with a score of 81%.
We also asked customers if they perceive their grocer of choice to be 'best in class'. For this accolade two brands stand out above the rest. Wegman's came in first with 76% agreement, and H-E-B was a close second at 73% agreement.
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The 46 brands featured in the study include: ACME Markets, Albertson's, ALDI, Amazon Fresh, BJ's, Costco, Dillons, Food Lion, Fred Meyer, Fry's, Giant Eagle, Giant Food Stores, Grocery Outlet, H-E-B, Hannaford Supermarkets, Harris Teeter, Hy-Vee, Food Stores, Ingles Markets, Jewel Osco, King Soopers, Kroger, Label, Lidl, Market Basket, Meijer, Price Chopper, Publix Super Markets, Ralph's, Safeway, Sam's Club, Schnuck Markets, Shaw's, ShopRite, Smith's, Sprouts Farmers Markets, Stop & Shop, Target, Trader Joe's Market, Vons, Walmart, Wegmans, Weis Markets, Whole Foods Market, WinCo Foods, Winn-Dixie Stores, Woodman's Markets
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Which Finding Nemo posters are best?
“Finding Nemo” is a well-loved film from Pixar, and for that reason, a number of posters depicting characters from the film can be found for major fans. While the best Finding Nemo poster will largely depend on a person’s preferences, you can find a number of decorative posters depicting characters from the movie that are likely to suit your needs or those of the person you’re giving it to.
Out of several Finding Nemo poster options, this Uhohmate Vincent Van Gogh Style Canvas Finding Nemo Poster is a great pick for those that love art, combining the movie with the Impressionist style of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting.
What to know before you buy a Finding Nemo poster
The recipient
The margin for error in choosing Finding Nemo posters is probably pretty low, but it’s worth considering who you plan to give the poster to if you want to make sure they like what they end up with. While the best poster frames might not be so personal, choosing a Finding Nemo poster that the recipient likes can help give them something to look forward to every day, so it’s worthwhile to pick out the poster you think they’ll like best.
Posters vs. prints and other options
You can find a number of Finding Nemo posters available from multiple retailers, but another option worth considering is Finding Nemo prints. These may simply be smaller versions of full-size posters, but you can also find a wide range of unique designs in print form that may not be available as a poster. Still, you may also find Finding Nemo decorations on canvas or other materials that your Finding Nemo fan will love.
Poster sizes
Similar to considering prints, Finding Nemo posters may come in a variety of different standard and non-standard sizes. If you plan to mount your poster directly to the wall, it might not matter what size you get, but those hoping to frame their Finding Nemo posters might consider sticking to standard poster sizes like 27 by 40 inches, 24 by 36 inches or 18 by 24 inches.
What to look for in a quality Finding Nemo poster
Preferred characters
It may be a good idea to pick a poster that has your recipient’s favorite characters from the movie on them, since different poster designs may include different characters. Because of the premise of the movie, it can also be tricky to find Finding Nemo posters that include Nemo at times, so if that’s important to the person who’s getting the poster, you’ll want to find a design that does include Nemo.
Frame bundle or poster only
Most posters are fairly easy to hang, whether they’re hung straight on the wall or include a frame. You can find some Finding Nemo posters that can be purchased in a bundle with a frame, though you may also benefit from finding a frame separately from the poster, or you may not want to get a frame at all.
Design
Like choosing a Finding Nemo poster with the right characters, certain poster designs may be more enticing to certain people. If you have an idea of the tastes of the person you’re giving the poster to, you might also consider what other images, designs and posters they have chosen for their room to help inform your decision.
How much you can expect to spend on a Finding Nemo poster
Posters can vary in price, largely depending on the overall size, style and design. You can typically find cheap Finding Nemo posters for around $10, while more expensive and larger models will usually cost between $12-$45.
Finding Nemo poster FAQ
Can you frame a Finding Nemo poster?
A. You can frame a Finding Nemo poster, especially if it’s one of the standard poster sizes like 24 by 30 inches, 8 by 10 inches or something similarly sized and shaped. While custom frames are an option for irregular sizes, you can also purchase the frame with a number of posters as a part of a bundle.
Do most Finding Nemo posters have Bruce the shark on them?
A. One of the classic designs found on Finding Nemo posters includes Bruce the shark towering over Marlin and Dory, though you can also find a number of other posters that include Bruce, as well as a handful of other Finding Nemo characters.
What’s the best Finding Nemo poster to buy?
Top Finding Nemo poster
Uhohmate Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: While it isn’t exactly a poster, this Finding Nemo canvas is done in the classic Impressionist style of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting, and it features Marlin, Nemo and Dory on a nice painted backdrop.
What you’ll love: Art enthusiasts will love this canvas, which can also be ordered in six different sizes ranging from 5 by 7 inches to 24 by 30 inches.
What you should consider: This Finding Nemo canvas isn’t paper like most posters, and many found it more expensive than what they were willing to pay.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Finding Nemo poster for the money
Trends International Bruce the Shark Characters and Cast Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: For a more affordable price than most, this Finding Nemo poster features nearly every character in the movie with the exception of Nemo himself.
What you’ll love: This mostly blue poster features Bruce the shark, as well as Marlin and Dory front-and-center. And in true spoiler-free fashion, Nemo is nowhere to be found in the image, though it includes other movie favorites like Crush, Gill and Mr. Ray.
What you should consider: This poster is a slightly irregular size, so it may be best to purchase it with a bundled frame if you plan to frame it one day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Crush The Turtle Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: For some, the surfer accent of Crush the turtle in Finding Nemo is one of the most memorable parts of the film, making this poster featuring Crush, Marlin and Dory a great pick for those that love him.
What you’ll love: This poster comes at a reasonable price, despite having the classic large poster dimensions of 24 by 36 inches. The image features Crush, Marlin and Dory, as well as a handful of other sea turtles in the background.
What you should consider: This poster doesn’t include Nemo or some of the other favorite characters captured in other posters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Stacy Brooks Whatley Joins ACA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Counseling Association (ACA) has named Stacy Brooks Whatley as chief communications and marketing officer (CCMO) effective Feb. 13.
An award-winning communications, marketing and content strategist, Brooks Whatley has more than 20 years of experience in association communications. As a member of the Executive team, Brooks Whatley will join in the ongoing work to strengthen the organization's value proposition.
"I look forward to working with Stacy in building critical communications and marketing strategies to advance ACA's mission and purpose," said CEO Shawn Boynes. "Her well-rounded expertise will contribute to elevating ACA's profile as well as more effectively position professional counselors to address the global mental health crisis."
"I am thrilled to join ACA at a time when the public conversation around mental health continues to gain momentum," said Brooks Whatley. "As a society, we're putting a new focus on facing our challenges — uncertainty, stress, trauma, loss — both collectively and as individuals. The perspective of professional counselors can inform discussions around how we confront these challenges and improve our mental health and well-being."
Brooks Whatley added that she looks forward to working with ACA members and leadership to ensure that the voice of the counseling profession is present and heard, that counselors are recognized for the critical role they play as part of the health care team, and that all in need of professional counseling have access to it "without stigma and red tape."
ACA's new CCMO most recently served as the director of marketing and communications for the American Physiological Society, overseeing strategic marketing, media relations, social media, website content strategy and overall communications outreach. Prior to that time, she worked for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and at Ogilvy Public Relations.
She also brings to ACA her experience as the editor in chief of a member-focused magazine and helping researchers better communicate their work to the media, the public and other researchers. She currently serves as president of Associations, Media and Publishing Network's Associations Council – a key membership organization for association publishers and content creators.
About ACA
Founded in 1952 and based in Alexandria, Virginia, the American Counseling Association is the largest member organization of counseling professionals in the world. Our 54,000 plus members work in various settings, such as private practice, schools and universities, community clinics and government agencies. Our mission is to promote the professional development of counselors, to advocate for counselors, and to ensure that ethical and culturally inclusive practices protect our members' clients and all people who seek counseling services. We work to raise awareness about the myriad benefits provided by counseling and counseling professionals, such as marriage and family counseling, career counseling, addiction counseling and support for individuals who are facing mental health struggles and the challenges posed by everyday life in our fast-paced and sometimes stressful society. We believe everyone can benefit from the power of counseling.
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Wendy Williams leaves wellness facility, feeling 'better than ever'
Williams’ talk show officially ended in June after the host had taken a several-month hiatus due to her ongoing health issues
Wendy Williams has left a wellness facility and told fans this week she is feeling "better than ever."
"We are happy to report that Wendy Williams is home and healing after being in a wellness facility since August," her publicist Shawn Zanotti told Fox News Digital. "Wendy is excited about the road ahead and looking forward to releasing her many projects."
Zanotti passed along a message from Williams saying, "Thank you to my fans for your love, support and many prayers, I am back and better than ever."
‘THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW’ OFFICIALLY ENDING ON FRIDAY
In September, Zanotti said that Williams was "taking some time to focus on her health and wellness as she prepares for a major comeback for the next level in her career with ‘The Wendy Experience' podcast. Ms. Williams is being treated by a team of some of the best doctors in the world. We ask for your prayers and well wishes during this time."
Williams’ talk show officially ended in June after the host had taken a several-month hiatus due to her ongoing health issues, which include Graves’ disease, lymphedema and vertigo.
It had been on the air since 2008.
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The show had mainly been guest-hosted by Sherri Shepherd, who inherited her time slot last summer, since September 2021 when Williams took a leave of absence.
Shepherd now hosts "Sherri" on weekdays.
"We hope to be able to work with Wendy again in the future, and continue to wish her a speedy and full recovery," producer and distributor Debmar-Mercury co-presidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein said at the time. They also expressed their "great love and affinity for Wendy" and admiration for her success.
In March, Williams told "Good Morning America" she planned to come back to the show.
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"My partners with the show, everybody's ready. Give me about three months. There are private things that I have to deal with, and then I'll be ready to come back and be free and ready to do my thing," she said. "This is what I would love to say to my Wendy watchers: Keep watching, because I'm going to be back on the Wendy show bigger and brighter than ever." | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wendy-williams-leaves-wellness-facility-feeling-better-than-ever | 2022-10-28 11:39:07 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wendy-williams-leaves-wellness-facility-feeling-better-than-ever |
CHICAGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Democrats for the Illinois House, the official political arm of the Illinois House Democratic Caucus, announces Executive Director Lizbeth Ramirez will be departing to pursue other opportunities. Speaker Welch thanks Ramirez for her hard work and efforts to help the House Democratic Caucus.
Speaker Welch said, "Lizbeth stepped up and helped pull together a new political organization for the House Democrats. She committed to assisting with our efforts through the primary election, and I am incredibly appreciative for all that she accomplished. The caucus owes her a debt of gratitude for all of her hard work."
The organization's Chief Communications Officer, TaQuoya McConnico, will take the reins as Executive Director through the upcoming general election.
TaQuoya McConnico, a United States Air Force Veteran, is an award-winning communications and marketing professional and former WVON News Director. She also served as a Vice President at Teneo Strategy, a global CEO consulting and advisory firm founded. TaQuoya has received numerous awards for her work, including Verizon Wireless HQ Communications Improvement Recognition, President Obama's Call to Service Award, and The Village of Maywood Helping Hand Award. She was also named one of Chicago's Top Professionals Under the Age of 40 to watch by the Chicago Defender.
"Since joining the team early this year, TaQuoya has been an integral part of the growth and the development of Democrats for the Illinois House," said speaker Welch. "I look forward to the leadership she brings in helping us continue to grow and elevate our practices, build the culture for this new and vibrant organization, and incorporate old proven methodologies with the more modern and digital era."
McConnico led efforts to further build Democrats for the Illinois House including moving them further into social media and digital marketing.
"I am excited to continue to serve the Democratic Caucus in this more expanded role," said McConnico. "I care about each and every one of our legislators, their successes, and the success of our Caucus and communities. I couldn't be more excited to help Speaker Welch in continuing to forge a new era for House Democrats."
About Democrats for the Illinois House: Democrats for the Illinois House is the official political arm of the Illinois House Democratic Caucus. We support Democrats for the Illinois House in fighting for equality, justice, and opportunity for all. Under the leadership of House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, Democrats for Illinois House (DIH) is dedicated to promoting the excellent work of the caucus, protecting incumbents, winning competitive races, and serving Illinoisans with integrity. The Illinois House Democratic Caucus is one of the most diverse in the nation representing African-American (22), Latinx (10), Asian American (4), Women (39) and LGBTQ+ (4) members. DIH is committed to creating an environment across the state that is inclusive and welcoming to all people.
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Peacock hopes to capitalize on subscribers with World Cup
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
Since its launch in 2020, NBCUniversal has had its share of big events to showcase its Peacock Streaming Service. It gets another one this month with the FIFA Men’s World Cup.
With Telemundo as the official Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, Peacock will simulcast the games and have them available on-demand and other ancillary programming.
Rick Cordella, the president of programming for NBC Sports and Peacock Sports, said NBCUniversal was a bit behind its competitors when rolling out a streaming service, but he feels they have closed the gap.
He hopes the World Cup is another event that will drive more viewers to the platform.
“We’ve seen sports has been the catalyst to get people in the door. They seek it out, they find it, and then they’re exposed to all the entertainment options we have,” he said. “It just gives you a reason to open up our app every week if you’re a fan of a certain sport.”
Peacock reported it had 15 million paid subscribers and 30 million monthly active accounts last month.
Before moving back to NBC Sports, Cordella was Peacock’s chief commercial officer and instrumental in its launch.
Before Peacock’s launch, NBC’s streaming offerings were spread out among its Olympic site and the various NBC Sports Gold packages for Premier League soccer, rugby, motorsports, and the Tour de France. Peacock helped put them under one roof and one price.
Over the past couple of months, Peacock has touted its advantage of having the most varied live sports package. Besides the Olympics and World Cup, it also has NFL “Sunday Night Football,” the Premier League, “Sunday Morning Baseball,” Notre Dame football and hockey, NASCAR, and golf, among others. It will add Big Ten football and basketball next season.
As the World Cup draws near, those promotions have ramped up over the past month.
Peacock has also benefitted from adding WWE in the spring of 2021, including its 12 premium live events.
“The model we put together for WWE was very much a sports model of how many people show up for that live event on Saturday or Sunday night, how long will they stay around, or how much other content they have,” Cordella said. “There’s not a lot of difference between the passion you see for Premier League and the passion you see for WWE events.”
Cordella also noted that fans are tuning in for more than one sport. Premier League fans will stream sports, as will WWE fans.
Like the Olympics, Cordella hopes that the World Cup is another vehicle to draw subscribers and keep them.
The World Cup is also beneficial when it comes to streaming. According to a study from Tremor International, a video-first ad tech platform, 38% of fans ages 25-34 prefer to watch games on streaming compared to 33% on broadcast or cable television.
“I think one of the advantages we have in this particular property is that if you’re outside the pay-TV ecosystem, you don’t have a slot to watch it outside. You can come to Peacock for the tournament,” Cordella said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Statement attributable to:
Shannon Haymond, PhD
President, American Association for Clinical Chemistry
"AACC applauds the decision of the United States Congress to exclude the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act from its end of year omnibus bill. We are grateful that Congress listened to the united voices of the more than 100 medical and patient groups that joined AACC in opposing the bill. The fact that such a large number of different organizations had concerns about the VALID Act underscores that it was a deeply problematic piece of legislation that would cause significant patient harm.
"We continue to advocate for the modernization of how laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) are regulated—discussing whether additional LDT oversight is necessary and, if so, what that level of regulation should be to maintain clinical testing quality without limiting patient access or innovation. We urge the FDA and those who supported the VALID Act to join with us to make any necessary changes."
To speak to Dr. Haymond about this issue, please contact Molly Polen, AACC Senior Director of Communications & PR, at mpolen@aacc.org or 202-420-7612.
About AACC
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
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'They were there for me': Sacramento police surprise elderly man after his bike was stolen
74-year-old Cecil Quillan said his bike was stolen after he locked it outside a local CVS store
74-year-old Cecil Quillan said his bike was stolen after he locked it outside a local CVS store
74-year-old Cecil Quillan said his bike was stolen after he locked it outside a local CVS store
An elderly Sacramento man is back to cycling across the city after his bike was stolen a few weeks ago.
Cecil Quillan, 74, bikes everywhere, and it is his only way of getting around since he has a hard time walking. One day in early March, Quillan went to the CVS at 17th and K streets to pick up a few groceries, but when he came back outside, his locked bike was nowhere to be found.
"I was only in there a couple of minutes. I went out and they had snapped the cable with the bolt cutters," Quillan said.
Sacramento police officers Joey Schock, Ken Napper and Pedro Vazquez were inside the CVS at the same time Quillan was, so Quillan asked them for help.
"We took a bike theft report for him. We viewed some camera footage to see if we could get any clues of what happened. We checked the area for the bike. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate it," Schock said.
Schock and the other officers drove Quillan home so he could put his groceries away. Quillan said what happened next was a huge surprise: They brought him a brand-new bike.
"I couldn’t even believe that. That was really nice," Quillan said.
Schock said he and the other officers contacted the Sacramento Police Department's outreach team in order to get Quillan a new bike.
Police told KCRA 3 that in 2019, the department was awarded a $15,000 grant through the Union Pacific Railroad and a $10,000 grant through the Sacramento County District Attorney's office, and those funds went toward purchasing approximately 150 bicycles, locks and helmets per year, which are given directly to community members in need.
In this case, Quillan was a community member in need.
"They were able to provide a bike for Cecil, so once we got all that situated, we went and picked it up and brought it back to him and were able to get him back something that he could use for transportation. It’s the right thing to do," Schock said. "It was nice seeing how excited he was, because I know it was hard for him to get around."
Now, Quillan is back on two wheels, and he is beyond thankful for the help he received.
"I can't thank them enough. They were there for me," Quillan said. | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-police-give-man-bike-his-was-stolen/43525060 | 2023-04-06 07:07:11 | 0 | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-police-give-man-bike-his-was-stolen/43525060 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Reinstated Black Democratic lawmaker Justin Pearson sworn back in to Tennessee House 1 week after his expulsion.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and the Westinghouse Electric Company signed a deal Wednesday for pre-design cooperation on the central European nation’s first nuclear power plant using the American company’s technology.
Poland’s minister for climate and environment, Anna Moskwa, and U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski signed the deal in Warsaw during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden. Brzezinski stressed that energy is crucial for economic development.
Moskwa said construction of the plant is expected to begin in 2026. The facility is expected to start supplying Poland’s power grid in 2032, she said.
Poland is taking strides in embracing renewable energy, but gets almost 70% of its energy from black and brown coal.
The cooperation agreement signed Wednesday involves Poland’s nuclear energy development company, PEJ, Westinghouse Electric Company and Westinghouse Electric Poland.
Additional contracts are expected to be signed later this year, Moskwa said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-poland-to-develop-1st-nuclear-power-plant-with-westinghouse/ | 2023-02-22 18:55:52 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-poland-to-develop-1st-nuclear-power-plant-with-westinghouse/ |
- Company heightens vegetation management practices to protect endangered wildflower, threatened lizard in Marion County
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to support the vitality of a healthy ecosystem, Duke Energy Florida has aligned efforts with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), among other agencies, to protect a population of federally endangered wildflowers in central Florida.
Earlier this spring, Duke Energy environmental scientists joined various agencies and stakeholders to maximize the preservation and protection of the federally endangered clasping warea (Warea amplexifolia) and the federally threatened sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) found in an unincorporated community in Marion County, near Ocklawaha.
The annual wildflower occurs nowhere else in the world other than the central ridges in Florida, with the Ocklawaha population being among one of the largest of identified populations. By protecting the plant's habitat, the team is supporting other species that depend on it, like the sand skink.
"Powering the lives of our communities extends far beyond keeping the lights on for our customers," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president. "Duke Energy is proud to work alongside our community allies to protect Florida's most-treasured species and the habitats they depend on."
A first for Duke Energy in Florida, the company is installing "sensitive habitat" management signage within its rights-of-way corridors to alert contractors and crews working in these areas. The company has also shifted its vegetation management practices to limit mowing and lower the volume of herbicide used in targeted areas to help the plants grow and flourish.
"Duke Energy Florida's willingness to support management of the endangered clasping warea on its lands alongside the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program speaks volumes," said USFWS' Partners for Fish and Wildlife/Coastal Program Coordinator Chad Allison. "The cooperation inspires and engages a network of state and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and private landowners alike proving conservation and industry can not only coexist but can ultimately thrive."
The collaboration furthers Duke Energy and Duke Energy Foundation's commitment to environmental stewardship and community engagement. Since 2015, the Duke Energy Foundation has provided more than $188,000 in grants to the Rare Plant Conservation program at Bok Tower Gardens to establish new populations of the clasping warea through seed preservation, habitat quality improvements, biological research and increasing plant numbers in the wild.
Among the project team leading these efforts are Duke Energy Florida, USFWS, Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS), Bok Tower Gardens, FNPS-Marion Big Scrub Chapter, Putnam Land Conservancy, as well as volunteers and private landowners.
The team will continue to engage landowners in the area, bringing awareness to the ways they can support and protect the species now and in the future.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. For more information on our work and the people who make it happen, visit fws.gov. Connect with our Facebook page at facebook.com/usfwssoutheast, follow our tweets at twitter.com/usfwssoutheast, watch our YouTube channel at youtube.com/usfws, and download photos from our Flickr page at flickr.com/photos/usfwssoutheast.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in Florida.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Duke Energy media contact: Audrey Stasko
Cell: 315.877.3031
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Phone: 352.451.8126
Email: renee_bodine@fws.gov
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The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this week to its highest level in five weeks, bad news for home shoppers heading into the spring buying season.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate rose to 6.32% from 6.12% last week. The average rate a year ago was 3.92%.
The average long-term rate reached a two-decade high of 7.08% in the fall as the Federal Reserve continued to raise its key lending rate in a bid to cool the economy and and bring down stubborn, four-decade high inflation.
At its first meeting of 2023 earlier this month, the Fed raised its benchmark lending rate by another 25 basis points, its eighth increase in less than a year. That pushed the central bank’s key rate to a range of 4.5% to 4.75%, its highest level in 15 years.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted that some measures of inflation have eased, but he appeared to suggest that he foresees two additional quarter-point rate hikes this year.
Though those rate hikes do impact borrowing rates across the board for businesses and families, rates on 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 rise in mortgage rates during the past year has clobbered the housing market, with sales of existing homes falling for 11 straight months to the lowest level in more than a decade. Higher rates can add hundreds of a dollars a month in costs for homebuyers, on top of already high home prices.
The National Association of Realtors reported earlier this month that existing U.S. home sales totaled 5.03 million last year, a 17.8% decline from 2021. That is the weakest year for home sales since 2014 and the biggest annual decline since 2008, during the housing crisis of the late 2000s.
The rate for a 15-year mortgage, popular with those refinancing their homes, climbed this week to 5.51%, from 5.25% last week. It was 3.15% one year ago. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-average-long-term-us-mortgage-rate-jumps-to-6-32-this-week/ | 2023-02-17 00:09:39 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-average-long-term-us-mortgage-rate-jumps-to-6-32-this-week/ |
2 women killed in suspected street takeover crash near LA
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Two women were killed in a weekend crash during what authorities are investigating as a possible street takeover in Compton.
The women were in a red Honda sedan that collided with an SUV at an intersection around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
One woman was ejected from the car, officials said.
Approximately 200 people had gathered in the area before the collision to watch the illegal street takeover, in which drivers perform dangerous stunts in their vehicles, according to KTLA-TV.
Investigators didn’t immediately know if the Honda was part of the takeover.
The driver of the SUV, Treyshawn Cooley, said he had a green light when he crossed the intersection.
“I’m coming straight, and they come out and I hit them,” Cooley told KABC-TV. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2022/06/13/2-women-killed-in-suspected-street-takeover-crash-near-la/ | 2022-06-13 20:05:44 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2022/06/13/2-women-killed-in-suspected-street-takeover-crash-near-la/ |
Human Factors Validation Study demonstrated that adolescents and adults could follow the instructions to correctly administer NaxSwab™ OTC in a simulated emergency environment
BETHESDA, Md., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pocket Naloxone Corp., a startup pharmaceutical company with the vision of enhancing naloxone delivery, announced results from a human factors validation study, using the intend-to-market packaging and labeling, demonstrated that laypersons of varied ages and reading comprehension levels and HCPs (healthcare professionals) were successfully able to administer its novel naloxone nasal swab NaxSwab™ in a simulated emergency rescue environment to potentially revive someone from an opioid overdose. The study enrolled sixty participants in four 15-member cohorts, pre-defined by the FDA, encompassing Naïve Passersby, Adult Patients and Lay Caregivers, Adolescents with ages 10-17 years and a mix of HCPs comprising paramedics, pharmacists and nurses.
The study was conducted by Eurofins Human Factors MD. Participants were asked to use the product in a home setting while exposed to stressors, to render aid to a manikin lying prone on the floor. They were not allowed to read the packaging or instructions ahead of time and at least about 30 percent of subjects in each non-HCP cohort had low literacy rates. Results showed that almost all (41 of 45) lay participants and all 15 HCP participants were able to administer an initial dose, call for emergency help, and administer a second dose when symptoms persisted or returned. Very few issues that could have impacted dosing were identified, all of which were observed in lay participants with 4th-8th grade reading levels. The FDA had requested that efforts be made to obtain an improved success rate relative to FDA's CONFER LCS study for the 'Call 911' step and with appropriate label enhancements, a 100% success rate was achieved in the company's current study.
Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that acts by blocking the effects of opioids at the opioid receptors. Clinical practitioners believe that faster naloxone absorption into the bloodstream could provide an advantage to help revive someone in the presence of highly potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Previously, the company reported that for the critical early exposure period, in the PK study, NaxSwab™ OTC was associated with a 10-fold higher naloxone exposure (i.e., AUC or area under the curve) at 2.5 minutes post dose and more than a 3-fold higher naloxone exposure at 5 minutes post dose compared to the 0.4 mg IM naloxone reference product. NaxSwab™ OTC was associated with a 74% higher naloxone exposure at 2.5 minutes post-dose and 19% higher naloxone exposure at 5 minutes post-dose compared to 4 mg naloxone spray.
"We noted the Advisory Committee's unanimous vote to approve OTC naloxone nasal spray in February of this year. It's critical to make naloxone more accessible to the community. Our company's mission has always been to develop a low-priced naloxone product to be truly affordable and accessible that at the same time demonstrates faster early absorption into the bloodstream to meet this moment with fentanyl and is easy to use," commented Ashanthi Mathai, CEO and Co-founder of Pocket Naloxone Corp. "To that point, we are pleased that our human factors validation study results show that our simple, ready-to-use naloxone nasal swab can be correctly administered by children and adults."
About Pocket Naloxone Corp.
Pocket Naloxone Corp.'s vision is to help in facilitating a world free of opioid overdose deaths and its mission is to meet the FDA's unprecedented call for an OTC naloxone product. The company's goal is to make its NaxSwab™ naloxone nasal swab available at a low, affordable cost once approved to be accessible regardless of insurance coverage and other factors. The company has other pipeline assets in development utilizing the same nasal swab applicator delivery platform. www.pocketnaloxone.com.
About Eurofins Human Factors MD
Eurofins Human Factors MD, LLC is one of the preeminent leaders in the human factors industry who have played a critical role in many successful regulatory submissions, several of which are emergency-use products. The company's mission is to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies develop products that are both usable and accessible by developing and executing upon rigorous human factors tests to ensure this is the case.
Media Contact:
Rebecca Hall
rebecca@tcmgroupinc.com
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PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) — As nine leaders of Paterson’s finest were sworn to higher offices on Wednesday, one also made history.
After 27 years of service, Lt. Karen Rayfield became the department’s second-ever Black female lieutenant.
“It’s humbling. It’s deeply humbling,” said Rayfield. “It was always about helping people. That was my main concern, always helping anyone that I came across, and I found I met so many people who helped me.”
Like her fellow officers who also received promotions, Rayfield has had an illustrious career in policing. She and two others who bumped up to lieutenant are now tasked with being a parental figure to sergeants, who are directly in charge of officers. Her hope is to help restore trust with the public.
“To encourage people, to ensure people that things can get better before they get worse,” said Rayfield.
Rayfield is preceded in history by Lt. Sharon Easton, who became the department’s first Black female lieutenant in 2016.
“Proudness,” said Easton when asked about Rayfield’s promotion. “We have 52 women now with our department, and any achievement and any growth and rank for policewomen, I’m always super proud.”
Hoping to build on this progress, Easton said the department is looking to start a “30 by ’30” program, which has the goal of increasing the number of female officers by 30 percent by 2030.
“Now we love our men as officers, but we do want to see a little more representation from female officers,” said Easton. “So that’s my hope, just, we’ll start with 30 percent.”
For Rayfield, she hopes to inspire little girls in Paterson to one day join her in blue.
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The maker of iconic board games like Scrabble and The Game of Life is retooling these classic games so that aging doesn't get in the way of older adults continuing to enjoy them.
Hasbro, in partnership with Ageless Innovation (a licensee of Hasbro brands), on Thursday unveiled new versions of Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and The Game of Life. Each game has been reimagined to make the play experience more appealing and easier for seniors.
Tweaks to the board games feature several age-inclusive components, said Ted Fischer, co-founder and CEO of Ageless Innovation, which specializes in developing toys for elderly consumers.
Changes include bigger play pieces that are easier to grasp, larger wording on the boards and refreshed content that is more relatable to an older demographic.
The new Scrabble Bingo 3-in-1 edition (priced at $40) has three games — the classic word game of Scrabble, Scrabble Bingo and Scrabble Pass. All three games have bigger letter tiles to hold and larger lettering for players to see. Scrabble Pass incorporates a 30-second sand timer to make it more challenging.
The popular trivia game Trivial Pursuit has been reimagined with generation-specific trivia. Called Trivial Pursuit Generations (priced at $45), this version still features the six traditional subject categories — geography, entertainment, history, art and literature, science and nature, and sports and leisure — but 1,500 new questions are segmented by generational relevance. Those segments include the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and Generation Z, said Fischer.
Fischer said an additional deck of blank cards is included in the game, on which players can add their own personal trivia.
"For example, one question to put on the card could be, '[Blank] was his nickname when grandpa was younger," said Fischer, adding that the latest versions of the games are meant to encourage intergenerational play among families and friends.
In The Game of Life Generations edition (priced at $40), players have to pick a generation before the game begins. It also segments play by age and players then travel through life events specific to each generation.
One example, when a Gen Z or Millennial player passes Pay Day on the board they must pay $10,000 because they might have college debt — while the Baby Boomer players pays nothing because they most likely don't have college debt.
Seniors are a rapidly growing market
About 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the United States, according to the AARP, a nonprofit interest group for aging Americans.
"Today, there are over 50 million people in America over the age of 65 and it could double by 2050," said Fischer.
The AARP estimates the number of older adults will more than double over the next several decades to top 88 million people and represent over 20% of the population by 2050.
As the population ages, it's also presenting companies with a rapidly expanding market for all kinds of services and products, including toys.
Hasbro spotted that opportunity several years ago, said Fischer, who previously was part of a team at Hasbro tasked with finding new markets and channels for growth.
"We looked at the health and wellness space and recognized that there was a void of products that would bring fun and play for older adults," he said.
The team launched the Joy for All brand at Hasbro in 2015 to develop products for elderly consumers and launched the first one — the robotic Companion Pet Cat — in 2015, followed by the Companion Pet Pup in 2016.
"Our insights from older adults told us that game and age-inclusive toys help foster fun and joy and meaningful connections and help to combat loneliness and isolation, which we know was a problem during the pandemic," said Fischer. "We saw this during the pandemic when families were isolating together and needed something to do, board games spiked in popularity."
The Joy for All brand spun off from Hasbro in 2018 and founded its parent company Ageless Innovation. Fischer said Hasbro reached out last year with the idea to adapt the three board games.
Jess Richardson, Hasbro's vice president of licensed consumer products, said the toymaker was cognizant of the resurgence of the popularity of board games across all ages during the pandemic and the opportunity to market them to seniors.
The new games, which launch in June, will also be marketed differently, he said.
"We're excited to enter a new distribution channel in the health care space with the games," he said. While they will be sold at most major retailers, shoppers might find them in the health and wellness section instead of the toy aisle.
"They will also be available to Ageless Innovation's health care customers, including senior living communities and state units on aging," he said.
Toy industry expert Jim Silver said age-inclusive Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and The Game of Life games make sense.
"The pandemic showed everyone likes to play good old-fashioned games," said Silver, who is CEO of Toys, Tots, Pets & More, an industry review website.
"It's a no-brainer. Scrabble is abundantly found in senior living centers and it's great to make it easier now for the elderly to play it. I'm interested to see if Hasbro adds other board games, like Monopoly, to this effort," he said.
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A Michigan judge threw out felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires’ disease.
The dismissal was significant but not a complete surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court in June said a different judge acting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments.
Judge Elizabeth Kelly rejected efforts by the attorney general’s office to just send the cases to Flint District Court and turn them into criminal complaints, a typical path to filing felony charges in Michigan. It was a last-gasp effort to keep things afloat.
“Anything arising out of the invalid indictments are irreconcilably tainted from inception. … Simply put, there are no valid charges,” Kelly said.
Kelly’s decision doesn’t affect former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. That’s only because he was charged with two misdemeanors — willful neglect of duty — and his case is being handled by another judge. But he, too, was indicted in a process declared invalid by the Supreme Court. His next hearing is Oct. 26.
In 2014, Flint managers appointed by Snyder took the city out of a regional water system and began using the Flint River to save money while a new pipeline to Lake Huron was being built. But the river water wasn’t treated to reduce its corrosive qualities. Lead broke off from old pipes and contaminated the system for more than a year.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a white, prosperous community.
The attorney general’s office lashed out at the courts after its latest defeat, declaring that “well-connected, wealthy individuals with political power and influence” had prevailed over Flint residents.
“There are not adequate words to express the anger and disappointment felt by our team, who have spent years on this case only to see it thwarted based upon a new interpretation of a nearly century-old law,” the statement said.
Prosecutors, however, didn’t mention that the Supreme Court’s summer opinion was unanimous. The attorney general’s office didn’t indicate what’s next, only that it will “continue its pursuit of justice for Flint.”
Besides lead contamination, the Flint River water was blamed for an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which typically spreads through cooling systems.
Former state health director Nick Lyon and former chief medical executive Eden Wells were charged with involuntary manslaughter in nine deaths linked to Legionnaires’. They were accused of failing to timely warn the Flint area about the outbreak.
Lyon’s attorneys praised Kelly’s decision and urged the attorney general’s office to close a “misguided prosecution.”
“This misuse of the criminal justice system has to stop,” Chip Chamberlain and Ron DeWaard said. “Misleading statements about what Director Lyon did or didn’t do contribute nothing to a constructive public dialogue and do not represent justice for anyone.”
Besides Lyon and Wells, charges were dismissed against Snyder’s longtime fixer in state government, Rich Baird; former senior aide Jarrod Agen; former Flint managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; and Nancy Peeler, a former health department manager.
Michigan’s six-year statute of limitations could be a problem in some cases if the attorney general’s office wants to file charges again. The deadline, however, would be longer for charges faced by Lyon and Wells.
Prosecutors in Michigan typically file felony charges in District Court after a police investigation. A one-judge grand jury was extremely rare and had mostly been used in Detroit and Flint to protect witnesses, especially in violent crimes, who could testify in private.
Prosecutors Fadwa Hammoud and Kym Worthy chose that path in the Flint water probe to hear evidence in secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.
But the state Supreme Court said Michigan law is clear: A one-judge grand jury can’t issue indictments. The process apparently had never been challenged.
Chief Justice Bridget McCormack called it a “Star Chamber comeback,” a pejorative reference to an oppressive, closed-door style of justice in England in the 17th century.
An effort to hold people criminally responsible for Flint’s lead-in-water disaster has lasted years and produced little.
Before leaving office in 2019, then-Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, had pledged to put people in prison. But the results were different: Seven people pleaded no contest to misdemeanors that were eventually scrubbed from their records.
After Dana Nessel, a Democrat, was elected, she got rid of special counsel Todd Flood and put Hammoud, the state’s solicitor general, and Worthy, the respected Wayne County prosecutor, in charge.
Flint activist Melissa Mays said residents have been let down.
“This team of people who promised justice for Flint didn’t file the right paperwork,” she said. “It’s not like they went to trial and lost; we never even had a chance to get that far. … The attorney general’s team owes us to try again and do it right, but in my gut it’s going to go nowhere. It was just a show.”
Flint was poisoned, Mays said, “but not one person is behind bars.”
There is no dispute that lead affects the brain and nervous system, especially in children. Experts have not identified a safe lead level in kids.
Facing a wave of lawsuits, the state agreed to pay $600 million as part of a $626 million settlement with Flint residents and property owners who were harmed by lead-tainted water. Most of the money is going to children.
Flint in 2015 returned to a water system based in southeastern Michigan. Meanwhile, roughly 10,100 lead or steel water lines had been replaced at homes by last December.
The city had 100,000 residents in 2010, but the population fell roughly 20% to 81,000 by the 2020 census, following the water crisis, according to the government.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NWEA – a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students – announced today a new research project funded by Reading Reimagined, an Inclusive R&D program, housed within the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund. The award will test a new protocol for middle- and high-school teachers to use during classroom instruction to improve fluency outcomes for students from historically marginalized populations (e.g., Black, Latinx) who are striving to read on grade level and beyond. Based on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, only about 31% of eighth-grade students performed at or above proficient in reading, with historically marginalized student groups faring even worse, and research indicates that fluency is a key contributing variable to overall reading proficiency.
NWEA's research project will focus on empowering middle and secondary educators with an easily administered protocol to address fluency with simple instructional techniques that do not require expertise in teaching foundational skills in reading, while engaging the student as a partner in the work. Free to teachers, the protocol will add simple and scalable strategies around word recognition and language comprehension to existing lesson plans. In addition, the protocol will support student engagement by cultivating a growth mindset with purpose and relevance for fluency learning.
"We are intentionally focusing on secondary students because formal reading instruction tends to wane off by the end of fifth grade," said Dr. Miah Daughtery, Vice President of Academic Services, Literacy, at NWEA. "What happens to middle school students who are not reading fluently? We have stopped assuming that the English teacher in middle school has been prepared to teach reading, and our research project will provide secondary teachers with tools and professional learning to help students continue to grow as readers."
The project will be conducted over the next academic year with a final report produced late next summer. For more information about the project, visit https://aerdf.org/programs/reading-reimagined/eflr/
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.
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U.S. consumer confidence declined in July to the lowest level since February 2021 on dimmer views of the economy amid persistent inflation.
The Conference Board's index decreased for a third month to 95.7 from a downwardly revised 98.4 reading in June, data Tuesday showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a decline to 97.
The steady weakening in sentiment risks causing consumers to cut back on discretionary purchases at a time when the economy is struggling for momentum. Inflation has dented confidence and forced the Federal Reserve to pursue aggressive interest-rate hikes geared at curbing demand.
The group's gauge of current conditions dropped to the lowest level since April 2021. A measure of expectations -- which reflects consumers' six-month outlook -- ticked down to 65.3, the lowest since 2013, and reflected more pessimistic views of their financial prospects.
The report reinforces recent commentary from companies like Walmart and McDonald's that show consumers dedicating much of their budget to essentials, leaving little leftover for other purchases.
"Concerns about inflation -- rising gas and food prices, in particular -- continued to weigh on consumers," Lynn Franco, senior director of economic indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.
"Looking ahead, inflation and additional rate hikes are likely to continue posing strong headwinds for consumer spending and economic growth over the next six months," she said.
Current labor market indicators in the report deteriorated in July. The share of consumers who said jobs were "plentiful" fell to just over 50%, the lowest in over a year. Those saying jobs were hard to get also increased.
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In addition to the uMR® Jupiter 5T, the 12-year old company will exhibit its uAIFi artificial intelligence technology platform and translational medical research systems, and present an open MR development platform that includes AI-empowered reconstruction.
HOUSTON, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- United Imaging, a global leader in manufacturing advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment, is a Silver sponsor at this year's ISMRM meeting, where it will show its full range of advanced preclinical and clinical MRI technology for the first time.
United Imaging will also host a Symposium at ISMRM, on Sunday, June 4th at 12 noon moderated by Dr. Abram Voorhees, about the role of 5T in expanding access to ultra-high-field MRI ("Introducing uMR Jupiter 5T: An Entirely New Species"). United Imaging introduced the 5T Jupiter, a whole-body 5 Tesla magnet designed to open access to ultra-high-field MRI, at ECR in Vienna earlier this year; it is not commercially available for clinical use in the U.S. The Symposium will also cover the Application Developing Environment and Programming Tools - ADEPT, a comprehensive open MR development platform including pulse sequence design and AI-empowered reconstruction – also not commercially available for clinical use in the U.S. United Imaging will be located at booth #G29.
"We've been supporting ISMRM and engaging with the community for many years," said Abram Voorhees, Ph.D., Vice President of the MR business in the United States, "and the time is right for United Imaging to exhibit at this important meeting. The conversations we hope to engage in are about MRI innovations that expand accessibility of the technology – for research and clinical application – to put new and powerful tools in the hands of those that can advance the science and serve the patients in their communities – that is what our mission of Equal Healthcare for All™ is about."
Jeffrey M. Bundy, Ph.D., CEO of United Imaging Healthcare Solutions, echoed the importance of the company's mission. "A lot of the industry talks about "access" – it's a very common term. In our mission, which we pursue every day, the emphasis is on "equal." It's not enough to provide access to MRI – we believe people should have access to exams of similar quality whoever they are and wherever they live. Our role in that as a manufacturer should be to develop technology that can be made accessible seamlessly across our systems, and to any type of facility, not just those which are well funded or in an academic institution. We challenge ourselves and the rest of the manufacturing community to innovate that way, in technology and in business models, to bring the imaging technologies to market in novel ways to all communities."
Delivering on that promise of equal access, United Imaging is also pleased to announce newly FDA cleared 1.5T and 3T system releases including uMR® 680 and uMR OMEGA® with detachable tables, SuperFlex coils, and device-less respiratory gating -- and a new software release that will bring the latest software baseline to all United Imaging MR systems. To continuously increase equal access for patients, the company's latest innovations will be delivered to the United Imaging installed base as part of the company's Software Upgrades for Life™ program. Thanks to this program, existing customers will receive more than 20 software features and applications, along with training, at no additional charge.
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Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa Maria, California, suspected the ethidium bromide she was using in the lab for molecular cloning could put her and her baby at risk.
She wasn’t sure what to do; she was only a few weeks into her pregnancy and didn’t know how it would affect her career.
“Women are taught: You aren’t supposed to tell people until after the first trimester,” she said. “But that’s actually a really delicate stage for the formation of the baby.”
Langness did some research online but couldn’t find much information on what kind of extra precautions she should take because of her pregnancy. Without realizing it, she had stumbled upon an often overlooked area of science and medicine: the occupational health of pregnant workers. Those who are pregnant often face hazardous circumstances doing jobs in which they must lift heavy objects, stand for long periods, or, like Langness, work with chemicals.
At the end of last year, Congress approved the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a law that requires employers to provide “reasonable accommodations” to those who are pregnant. But the new law, which took effect June 27, has a big hole in it: Public health experts say not nearly enough is known about which work circumstances are dangerous for pregnancies, especially when chemical exposures are involved. That’s because occupational health studies overwhelmingly have been centered on men, and so have the health and safety standards based on those studies.
“A pregnant person’s physiology is very different from a nonpregnant person,” said Carissa Rocheleau, an epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “A lot of our existing permissible exposure limits date back to 1970. In the studies they based the limits on, there were very few women in general and even fewer pregnant women, if any.”
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ guidance for employment considerations during pregnancy says that very few chemical compounds “have been sufficiently studied to draw conclusions about potential reproductive harms.”
Even though the data is sparse, several physiological factors suggest pregnant workers face higher health risks from chemical exposures than other adults, said Julia Varshavsky, a Northeastern University environmental health scientist focused on maternal and child health. And chemical exposures during pregnancy can be dangerous not just for the prospective parent, but also for the fetus, which can absorb toxins through the placenta.
For one thing, blood volume increases during pregnancy because the body is working overtime to supply the fetus with the oxygen and nutrients it needs to develop. Such blood-flow expansion can make those who are pregnant susceptible to developing high blood pressure. Some studies also suggest a link between exposure to lead during pregnancy and high blood pressure.
Pregnancy also considerably alters a person’s metabolism; the body prioritizes breaking down fats instead of sugars to preserve the sugar for the developing fetus. Especially after the first trimester, those who are pregnant have high blood sugar and must double their insulin production to keep it under control. It’s risky for them to be exposed to chemicals such as PFAS that have been linked to insulin resistance, a condition in which cells don’t respond to insulin anymore.
Finally, those who are pregnant are also especially susceptible to a category of chemicals known as endocrine disruptors. Estrogen is the hormone responsible for promoting the body’s changes during pregnancy. When endocrine disruptors enter the body, they mimic those hormones and can increase the risk of certain pregnancy-related health conditions, such as preeclampsia.
But despite these known risks, the occupational health of pregnant women has often been understudied, especially as women have entered more diverse areas of work.
“Occupational health really assumes a neutral body worker,” said Swati Rayasam, a public health scientist at the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California-San Francisco. By concentrating on this “neutral body worker,” occupational health as a field has overlooked the other stressors workers can face, either internal stressors, such as pregnancy, or external stressors, such as psychosocial stress due to racism or food insecurity, Rayasam said.
It also is tough to study those who are pregnant. It is unethical to expose them to even the slightest amount of chemicals, so research protocols are highly restricted. And very few occupational health surveys include enough pregnant workers to draw reliable conclusions about the unique risks they face.
Langness, the biomedical researcher in California, had a miscarriage while working in the lab. She later decided to change jobs, although she doesn’t know if the chemicals had anything to do with the loss of the baby.
The lack of research doesn’t affect only current pregnancies but also leaves women who have already been exposed with lots of questions. They include Leticia Mendoza, a 38-year-old woman who lives in Oakland, California. She said she was exposed to pesticides when she worked pruning strawberries while pregnant. When her baby was born, he did not crawl until he was 1 year old and started walking after he turned 2.
“I thought he was going to start talking when he was 3, but he still doesn’t, and he is 5,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza’s child has been diagnosed with autism.
Although researchers have studied potential links between pesticide exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders, the evidence is not conclusive, which complicates proving in a court what caused the harm, said Sharon Sagiv, an associate adjunct professor in environmental epidemiology at the University of California-Berkeley.
Advocates hope the new federal law will give workers a little more leverage when they raise concerns about risks on the job. “We really just want them to be able to have a conversation with their employer without facing retaliation or being forced on unpaid leave,” said Kameron Dawson, a senior staff attorney for A Better Balance, a workers’ advocacy organization that pushed for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act for over a decade.
But although some of the regulations might lead to better accommodations for pregnant workers, that depends partly on the employer or a union knowing what can represent a risk. “It’s not rocket science, but it does take effort on the employer’s side to understand what in their workplace could be hazardous,” said Gillian Thomas, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
In the past, women have sometimes been forbidden from working while pregnant, so a delicate balance must be struck between protecting them and their pregnancies and not removing them from the workforce. “It’s tricky because, for many women, this is their livelihood,” said Sagiv.
Some researchers believe studying the enhanced risks faced in pregnancy may result in more protective regulations that would help the wider public.
“If we really try to protect the most vulnerable workers in the workplace, we’re protecting everybody,” Rocheleau said.
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PUNT RETURNS_Kansas City, Toney 1-5. Las Vegas, Renfrow 2-8.
KICKOFF RETURNS_Kansas City, None. Las Vegas, Abdullah 1-25.
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS_Kansas City, Bolton 8-8-0, McDuffie 6-1-0, Reid 5-1-1, Thornhill 4-3-0, Chenal 4-0-0, C.Jones 3-2-2.5, Gay 3-2-0, Danna 2-1-2, Karlaftis 2-1-.5, Sneed 2-1-0, Saunders 1-1-0, Clark 1-0-0, Cook 1-0-0, Ja.Watson 1-0-0, Harris 0-1-0. Las Vegas, Masterson 6-3-0, Harmon 6-1-0, Teamer 4-1-0, Crosby 3-1-1, Robertson 3-0-0, S.Jones 2-2-0, Moehrig 2-2-0, Billings 2-0-0, Langi 2-0-0, Pola-Mao 2-0-0, Ferrell 1-2-1, Hall 1-1-0, Bars 1-0-0, Hobbs 1-0-0, Tillery 1-0-0, Nichols 0-4-0.
INTERCEPTIONS_Kansas City, Thornhill 1-0. Las Vegas, None.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
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Kohl’s shareholders reject board nominees pushed by activist
Kohl’s shareholders rejected all 10 board nominees pushed by activist investor Macellum Advisors and instead voted in support of the existing board
NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s shareholders rejected all 10 board nominees pushed by activist investor Macellum Advisors and instead voted in support of the existing board.
The department store said Wednesday that shareholders have voted to re-elect all 13 of its director nominees, according to a preliminary tally at its shareholders' meeting. Kohl's did not disclose the tally.
Kohl's has faced increasing pressure from activist hedge fund Macellum Advisors, which has urged the chain to explore strategic options, including a sale, if the chain didn't take action to improve its business and increase its stock price. Macellum Advisors, which owns 5% of Kohl's shares, had put up its own slate of board nominees.
Like many department stores, Kohl's had struggled before the pandemic, but the health crisis wielded a big blow to sales. The company's business is rebounding as customers are going out to social events and buying dressier clothes. Shares were down 89 cents, or nearly 2%, to $48.50 in late morning trading on Wednesday, hovering close to its level at the beginning of the year.
Kohl’s has received multiple buyout offers in recent months. The company has said it is reviewing them.
“While we have had differences with Macellum, this board is committed to serving the interests of all our shareholders," said Peter Boneparth, chairman of the board. “The board remains focused on running a robust and intentional review of strategic alternatives while executing our strategy to drive shareholder value."
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66% of Generation Z Live Paycheck to Paycheck, Up Eight Percentage Points Year-Over-Year
Report Reveals Significant Generational Differences in How the Rising Cost of Living Impacts Consumers' Financial Lifestyles
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America's leading digital marketplace bank, today released findings from the 21st edition of the New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck research series, conducted in partnership with PYMNTS. The Generational Deep Dive Edition examines why U.S. consumers across all generations are living paycheck to paycheck and identifies the financial stressors they face due to ongoing inflation.
Today's Paycheck to Paycheck Landscape
Sixty percent of consumers lived paycheck to paycheck as of March 2023, with less than one-third of these consumers struggling to pay their monthly bills. This represents a drop from 62% in February 2023, and from 64% at this time last year, suggesting that consumers continue to find ways to adapt to ongoing inflationary pressures.
Fewer paycheck-to-paycheck consumers report struggling to pay bills: 18% of paycheck-to-paycheck consumers reported struggling to pay bills in March 2023, and this share represents drops of 6 percentage points from last year and 9 percentage points since 2020. Meanwhile, the share of consumers living paycheck to paycheck without issues paying bills sat at 43% as of March 2023, up from 40% last year. This relative success is not limited to paycheck-to-paycheck living, as the share of consumers not living paycheck-to-paycheck also increased from 36% in March 2022 to 40% this year.
Furthermore, significantly fewer low-income consumers report they live paycheck to paycheck compared to last year, but the share among higher income brackets remains relatively steady. For example, lower-income consumers (those earning less than $50,000 annually) dropped from 82% in March 2022 to 75% as of March 2023, middle-income consumers (those earning between $50,000 and $100,000) increased from 63% in March 2022 to 65% in March 2023, and high-income consumers (those earning more than $100,000 annually) remained steady at 49% year-over-year.
Different Financial Stressors Across Generations
Similarly with income brackets, there are significant differences in financial lifestyle among various age groups, suggesting that stage of life influences consumers living paycheck to paycheck. Millennials are the generation most likely to live paycheck to paycheck, with 73% doing so this year and last, but a growing share of Generation Z are struggling financially.
Millennials tend to be mid-career and the most prevalent reasons for their financial distress are expenses related to dependent family members and debt. Meanwhile, as of March 2023, 66% of Generation Z lived paycheck to paycheck — an increase of 8 percentage points since March 2022. Many of these consumers are still establishing their careers, which can mean lower wages, are more apt to be single, live with their parents or siblings and may be more likely to spend on discretionary categories like dining out, entertainment, clothing and electronics while living paycheck to paycheck. Additionally, 50% of baby boomers and seniors lived paycheck to paycheck in March 2023, down from 54% this time last year. This suggests that this age group, many of whom are retired and live on a fixed income, have adjusted their spending to cope with inflation.
While older generations face fewer financial stressors due to the absence of life-cycle frictions, 62% of all consumers experienced a financially distressing event in the last three years. In fact, 74% of Generation Z and 72% of millennials report experiencing at least one financially distressing event. Life-altering events, which are sudden and disruptive and include failed investments or a job loss, are equally as likely to occur as life-cycle events, such as marriage or relocation. For example, Generation Z are the most likely to have experienced a job loss personally or within the household, while millennials are more likely to experience family changes or relocation.
"The oldest millennials are in their forties now and often managing expenses for not just their kids but also aging parents. It's no wonder that almost three quarters of them are living paycheck to paycheck," said Anuj Nayar, Financial Health Officer at LendingClub. "Generation Z are more apt to face financially life-altering events such as job loss, making them more financially vulnerable than any other generation. That said, with over half living with their parents or siblings, they can hopefully better absorb shocks to any temporary disruption in income. The data also indicate that Gen Z are often not saddled with the financial obligations of older generations, and it shows in the way they manage their money to clearly prioritize living in the moment."
Generational Differences in Credit Product Usage
Four out of 10 millennials and Generation Z are paying off their credit card balances with an installment payment plan, compared to one-tenth of baby boomers and seniors. In fact, Generation Z credit cardholders are nearly five times more likely than baby boomers and seniors to have credit card installment plans to pay off their outstanding balances.
Mortgages and auto loans have the highest usage among Generation X, at 43% and 39% respectively. Personal loans and buy now, pay later plans are most popular among millennials, with approximately 20% having payments related to these credit products in the last three months, while Generation Z are more apt to use credit cards than any other credit products.
"While consumers continue to find ways to cope with inflation, the ongoing rise in the cost of living and financial distress from life-altering and life-cycle events continue to make it difficult for all income brackets to make ends meet," continued Nayar. "All generations that live paycheck to paycheck are learning to better manage their finances through recessions, financial crises and unexpected life events such as job losses."
To view the full report, visit: https://www.pymnts.com/study/reality-check-paycheck-to-paycheck-generational-differences-credit-products/
Methodology
New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report — The Generational Deep Dive Edition is based on a census-balanced survey of 3,363 U.S. consumers conducted from March 8 to March 17, as well as analysis of other economic data. The Paycheck-to-Paycheck series expands on existing data published by government agencies, such as the Federal Reserve System and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to provide a deep look into the core elements of American consumers' financial wellness: income, savings, debt and spending choices. Our sample was balanced to match the U.S. adult population in a set of key demographic variables: 51% of respondents identified as female, 31% were college-educated and 36% declared incomes of more than $100,000 per year.
About LendingClub
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank, National Association, Member FDIC. LendingClub Bank is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S., where members can access a broad range of financial products and services designed to help them pay less when borrowing and earn more when saving. Based on more than 150 billion cells of data and over $85 billion in loans, our advanced credit decisioning and machine-learning models are used across the customer lifecycle to expand seamless access to credit for our members, while generating compelling risk-adjusted returns for our loan investors. Since 2007, more than 4.7 million members have joined the Club to help reach their financial goals. For more information about LendingClub, visit https://www.lendingclub.com.
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Ricky Martin can now personally clear his name. His recent incest case has been dismissed and he has finally spoken about the situation.
As spotted on Page Six the former boy band member is now talking about some very vulgar accusations made against him. Earlier this month his 21-year-old nephew Dennis Yadiel Sanchez alleged the two were in a seven-month romantic secret relationship. He also charged the pop star stalked him after he called things off. Naturally the story quickly went viral but Ricky never responded. On Thursday, July 21 Sanchez formally withdrew the claim at his order of protection hearing.
In a new video Martin explained why he didn’t comment on the matter. “For two weeks, I was not allowed to defend myself because I was following procedure, where the law, obligated me not to talk until I was in front of the judge,” he said in the clip. “I wish him the best and I wish he finds the help so he can start a new life filled with love and truth and joy and he doesn’t hurt anybody else,” he added.
The “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer went to express his gratitude and reveals how traumatic the entire ordeal was. “Thank God these claims were proven to be false, but I’m going to tell you the truth, it has been so painful and devastating for me, for my family for my friends,” he said. “I don’t wish this upon anybody.” His attorney also gave a statement to the celebrity gossip site making it clear Sanchez “confirmed to the court that his decision to dismiss the matter was his alone, without any outside influence or pressure, and the accuser confirmed he was satisfied with his legal representation in the matter.”
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The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has lost a third of its value, public-offering volume has plummeted over 90%, and the majority of last year’s IPO crop is underwater. All the signs are there for any right-minded chief executive to hold off on a share sale. Yet Intel Corp. is bringing Mobileye Global Inc. to market, making CEO Pat Gelsinger look desperate.
Five years after buying and delisting the company for $15.3 billion, Intel is putting it up for sale again with a price tag of $16 billion. That’s an embarrassing discount to the $50 billion value that had once been floated, and little more than half the $30 billion that was being discussed just a month ago.
In normal times, an offering for the Israeli developer of self-driving technology would be highly sought after. Electric vehicles and driverless cars are expected to be the technology industry’s growth driver for the next decade. Mobileye, which makes software and designs chips, is at the center of that boom with a lucrative business model.
Rather than jump into making cars alongside a growing list of new entrants — like Lordstown Motors Corp. and Rivian Automotive Inc. — Mobileye can minimize its capital costs while building a competitive moat. An early pioneer of advanced driver assistance systems, which help avoid collisions and boost safety, the Jerusalem-based business is now found in more than 125 million vehicles globally, and expects to double that by 2030.
That makes its approach similar to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows in the PC era and Alphabet Inc.’s Android for mobile phones — handle the core software so the branded hardware clients can focus on building the end product. To be sure, there’s plenty of competitors including Nvidia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH and Denso Corp. But the pie is growing, and so is Mobileye’s revenue — up 43% last year.
With such hot prospects, and the knowledge that bear markets don’t last forever, Gelsinger would be wise to hold off until the weather clears. Yet he’s intent on sailing through the storm, with his investors strapped to the mast.
“Given the way their own business is currently trending,” Intel likely needs the money it will receive from the deal, analysts at Bernstein wrote. The company has committed to spending record amounts of money — including $23 billion this year alone — to build new chip factories in order to catch up with rivals Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co., yet its PC business is in a funk and layoffs may be on the cards.
Gelsinger has previously said that Intel doesn’t need the money that the IPO would generate, which is a good thing because the offering of a 5.8% stake will raise around $800 to $900 million — equivalent to about two weeks of capital expenditure.
Instead, among the reasons for proceeding are giving the company a higher profile and attracting more business. That’s a bizarre explanation given that Intel spends $1 billion a year on advertising,(1)almost as much as Mobileye creates in revenue. If it wanted to help boost Mobileye’s profile, Intel could throw just a little cash its way.
One argument to be made for proceeding is to give Mobileye investors an upside — take a punt now, and you’ll be richly rewarded when the market turns around. And if that’s the case, then it’s worth remembering that while Mobileye is selling 46 million class A shares, Intel is holding onto all of its Class B shares, which amounts to 99.4% of the voting power of common stock and 94.2% of total shares. So perhaps the strategy is to dole out a little to the market in bad times, and then follow up with a more fruitful secondary offering sometime later.
Whatever the reason, Intel is giving off vibes of desperation. Its investors may be willing to cop the discount, but they’d be wise to remember that the company is leaving money on the table at a time when the payoff from their big chip plans is in doubt.
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The invention provides an effective way to secure a putty knife to a paint brush. In doing so, it ensures that a putty knife is readily available while painting. As a result, it increases convenience and it eliminates the need to switch back and forth between a paint brush and a putty knife. The invention features a simple and universal design that is easy to attach and use so it is ideal for contractors, painters, do-it-yourselfers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony Wednesday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, with one recalling how a boy in her Holocaust studies class correctly answered a question seconds before he became one of 17 people murdered during the school shooter's rampage four years ago.
Ivy Schamis, then a teacher at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was leading students through a discussion about the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany when star swimmer Nick Dworet correctly responded that Adolf Dassler founded the Adidas shoe company. He then added that Dassler's brother founded the rival Puma brand.
It was then that they heard the first gunshots in the hallway, and Cruz began firing his semi-automatic rifle through the glass on her classroom door.
“It was really seconds later that the barrel of that AR—15 just ambushed our classroom," Schamis testified, wiping her eyes with a tissue. “It came right through that glass panel and was just shooting everywhere. It was very loud. Very frightening. I kept thinking about these kids who should not be experiencing this at all.”
She said the students scrambled to find safety behind furniture, but didn't panic and acted with bravery and maturity as they waited to be rescued. Three students were wounded in her class and two were killed: Dworet and Helena Ramsay, both 17.
When shown their portraits, she began to weep.
“That’s my girl, Helena Ramsay,” she said. “Nicholas Dworet, handsome boy.”
Dworet's brother Alexander was grazed by a bullet in a classroom across the hall, where three students were killed and several more wounded.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder for the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre. The jury must decide if the former Stoneman Douglas student should be sentenced to death or life without parole for the nation’s deadliest mass shooting to go before a jury. The trial is expected to last through at least October.
Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
Schamis' testimony was followed by that of Ronit Reoven, who was lecturing her advanced psychology class about Sigmund Freud when Cruz started firing into her neighboring classroom, also through the door's window.
“There were multiple gunshots," she said. "They were incredibly loud. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! I froze for a moment and the students jumped out of their seats. Of course, they were startled and scared."
Reoven said she and the students crouched on the floor around her desk and wounded students were moaning and crying. She used a blanket that normally covered her coffee machine as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding from a boy's arm. Another boy used a jacket to stanch the bleeding from a girl's chest. A girl shot in the knee appeared to be stable. But 16-year-old Carmen Schentrup was lying facedown in a pool of blood.
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They earned it Tuesday night, beating the Miami Marlins 2-1 to take their fifth straight NL East title and finish the first leg of a trek they hope leads them to another crown.
Afterward, they popped Champagne and puffed cigars, basking in their accomplishment.
“It’s hard to win one,” manager Brian Snitker said. “To win five is pretty special. It’s a credit to our organization.”
William Contreras drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the fifth, and the Atlanta pitching staff turned in a solid performance.
With the win, Atlanta earned a first-round bye as the No. 2 seed in the NL, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Braves were 10 1/2 games behind the New York Mets at the start of June and lost four of five to New York in early August. But they were in familiar territory. Atlanta was 30-35 at one point last season before winning the World Series.
“To keep plugging along and the consistency that these guys showed throughout the whole year,” Snitker said. “Coming to work every day and worrying about today. They didn’t get caught up that we were behind.”
Acuña, whose 2021 season ended when he tore his ACL in this same ballpark, hit a two-out single in the second, scoring Orlando Arcia and giving the Braves a 1-0 lead.
“I am feeling so much happiness and joy,” Acuña said. He couldn’t get through his postgame interview without teammates dousing him in champagne. “Last year, I couldn’t experience this because of my injury. I am so happy to be a part of this club.”
The Braves swept the Mets over the weekend to take the division lead and entered the Marlins series needing a win or a Mets loss to clinch the division crown.
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Kenley Jansen recorded his 41st save, working a perfect ninth to seal the win.
Starter Jake Odorizzi (6-6), who joined the team at the trade deadline, allowed one run in five innings. He struck out six, and gave up only two hits, including a home run by Jesús Sánchez in the fourth.
“It’s great to be a part of this,’ he said. “Every one of these is special. I was only here for two months of it but it doesn’t make it less special. It’s pretty fantastic.”
Reliever A.J. Minter escaped Miami’s threat in the eighth. Jon Berti hit a one-out double and stole his 41st base of the season. Bryan De La Cruz and Avisaíl García walked to load the bases. But Nick Fortes, pinch-hitting for Sánchez, popped out to end the inning.
“We tried to throw our best guys out there today and extend this thing,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “We got out of some jams and stayed in the game. We just weren’t able to get that last hit.”
The Braves did not take advantage of many chances at the plate to stretch their lead, but their pitchers held the Marlins to four hits.
Collin McHugh and Raisel Iglesias pitched scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh in relief of Odorizzi.
In the fourth, Sánchez hit Odorizzi’s first pitch over the right field wall to tie the game.
Miami starter Braxton Garrett (3-7) was pulled in the fifth after Contreras hit a two-out infield single, which scored Travis d’Arnaud and allowed Atlanta to retake the lead.
Contreras had two hits and an RBI.
Garrett allowed six hits, two runs, walked five and struck out seven.
The Braves, one year after winning their first World Series title since 1995, are playoff-bound without All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman, who signed with the Dodgers in March as a free agent.
Atlanta also has 100 wins for the first time since 2003 (101-61). The Braves finished 88-73 in the regular season last year.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Michael Harris II notched Atlanta’s first sacrifice bunt of the season in the fourth inning to advance Arcia to second and Contreras to third.
As 160 games went by, it looked like the Braves might be the first team in MLB history to complete a full season without bunting.
The Braves did not score off it, even after the Marlins intentionally walked Acuña in the next at bat to load the bases. Dansby Swanson struck out to end the inning.
ALCANTARA WINS MARLINS MVP
Pitcher Sandy Alcantara was named Miami’s Most Valuable Player, as voted by members of the South Florida chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Alcantara, who has been in Cy Young contention all season, leads the majors with 228 2/3 innings and has pitched six complete games.
BRAVE OF THE YEAR
Third baseman Austin Riley is the repeat winner of Brave of the Year in voting by the Atlanta Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, edging out Swanson and Harris.
Riley is the eighth player to be named Brave of the Year in consecutive seasons since the team moved to Atlanta in 1966. The others are Phil Niekro, Dale Murphy, Terry Pendleton, Greg Maddux, Chipper Jones, Craig Kimbrel and Freeman.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: Placed RHP Edward Cabrera on the 15-day IL with a right ankle sprain.
UP NEXT
RHP Elieser Hernández (3-6, 6.33) will pitch for the Marlins in Wednesday’s regular-season finale. The Braves haven’t announced their starter.
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Trending paint colors for summer 2023
Deciding what color to paint your home is a big deal. Redecorating is something that most people only do occasionally, so pick the wrong paint and you could be stuck with a shade that you don’t love for the next five years or more.
So, before you pick up your roller and get stuck, why not investigate the paint color trends of summer 2023? These hot colors will stay looking fresh for years to come.
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Summer 2023 paint color trends
These are some of the top paint color trends for 2023, based on paint manufacturers’ colors of the year and expert opinions.
Spanish Moss by Krylon
Spanish Moss is a deep, rich green that works with both warm and cool accents. Krylon picked it as its color of the year for 2023. Ashley Banbury, the senior color designer for Krylon and Dutch Boy Paints, says on the brand’s website, “This midnight green has a strong connection with the richness of nature, dense forests and mossy terrains.” It’s an ideal hue for anyone looking for inspiration from nature while experimenting with dark hues.
Terra Rosa by Dunn-Edwards
A dusky pink with a hint of terra cotta, Terra Rosa was named Dunn-Edwards’ 2023 paint color of the year. It has a grounding feel to it and works as a neutral for those sick of beiges, grays and off-whites. Dunn-Edwards notes that “the cinnamon rose hue is positive and joyful, reflecting confidence, creativity and coziness.”
Rustic Greige by Dutch Boy
If you’re looking for a medium-toned neutral, you should consider Rustic Greige by Dutch Boy Paints. “The beautiful, versatile Rustic Greige is all about the need to escape, relax and recharge. It’s about retreating to a calmer, simpler lifestyle inspired by the peace and clarity of tones derived from nature,” Banbury explains in a press release.
Vining Ivy by Glidden
Vining Ivy is Glidden’s 2023 color of the year. Its deep blue-green is refined and looks contemporary but with a nod to tradition. In a press release from Glidden, its color expert, Ashley McCollum, notes that consumers are looking to embrace serenity and little moments. “Vining Ivy embodies this vibe perfectly,” she says. “It is energizing yet grounding, and it works in literally any space”
Southern Road by Valspar
Southern Road is one of 12 Valspar colors of the year. It evokes the desert heat, making it a great choice for summer. Sue Kim, Valspar’s color marketing manager, describes it as “a muted clay with a brown undertone that offers a feeling of contentment as we seek to slow down and enjoy the everyday.”
Harbor Blue by Krylon
Evoking images of quaint harbors and seaside towns, Harbor Blue is a perfect color to add to your home this year. In a report from Real Simple, Banbury says, “Krylon’s Harbor Blue elevates the home as a rad pop of color while maintaining a sense of serenity.”
What you need to paint your home
A paint roller is absolutely essential for anyone painting their walls, delivering a smooth, even coat of paint. These 9-inch paint roller covers fit over the frame and have a 1/2-inch nap for smooth and semi-smooth surfaces. They don’t shed and are washable so you can reuse them.
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This frame gives all 9-inch roller covers — like the one above — a snug fit with minimal slippage. The smooth rolling internal bearings help provide even coverage, while the quick-release spring is great for removing the cover speedily and easily.
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While you could get up on a step ladder, this 3-foot extension pole makes it easier to paint ceilings and the tops of walls. It has a universal thread to fit a wide range of roller frames. It’s telescoping, letting you adjust it between 1.3 feet and 3 feet for better control.
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Mister Rui Foam Paint Roller Kit
If you’re looking to paint more than just your walls, you might find this foam paint roller kit handy. It provides a smooth, even finish on flat surfaces, such as doors, cabinets and wooden furniture. The kit contains a tray, a frame and five roller covers.
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In addition to a roller, you’ll need paint brushes for cutting in around the corners and baseboards and other more intricate work. This pack of four paint brushes inches sides between 1.5 inches and 3 inches.
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This paint tray holds up to a gallon of paint and has a deep-well design to help prevent spilling. The sloped, textured area lets you get rid of excess paint on your roller to avoid drips. It has a handle on each end so you can move it more steadily.
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Green Lifestyle All Purpose Canvas Drop Cloth
Even if you tell yourself that you’ll be meticulously careful this time, you’re always going to cause some drips and splashes as you paint. That’s why it’s important to cover floors and furniture with drop cloths, such as this one made from heavy-duty canvas. It comes in 10 sizes up to 20 feet by 20 feet to suit most spaces.
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Scotch Contractor Grade Masking Tape
Masking tape or painter’s tape helps keep your work as neat as possible, keeping paint off your baseboards, door frames and window frames. This stuff is contractor grade so you can rely on it to do its job. It sticks for up to three days and doesn’t damage paint or leave a residue.
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Amazon Basics 5-Gallon Pouring Spout
If you’re sick of making a mess when you pour paint from the can into a tray, you need a paint-pouring spout. This one fits can standard 5-gallon paint can, whether metal or plastic.
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Colbent Multi-Angle Paintbrush Extender
We’ve all seen roller extenders, but what about paintbrush extenders? This handy device holds a paintbrush and fits on the same extender pole as a roller frame does. It’s perfect for cutting where the wall meets the ceiling and other hard-to-reach places.
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ASHBURN, Va., June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced that it has expanded its established strategic cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) partnership with Oracle to deliver new application services powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
A leader in the enterprise application services market, DXC delivers application transformation and modernization to its customers, helping them drive business agility and global scalability, while also reimagining their business through digital innovation. DXC's flexible offerings allow customers to transform their businesses at their desired speed and target their desired outcomes.
Offering both Oracle and non-Oracle application services running on OCI will enable DXC to provide transformation solutions faster, cheaper, and with lower risk. The expanded partnership builds upon DXC's multiyear participation as an Oracle Managed Service Provider (MSP) including validation by independent audit over the last five consecutive years.
"DXC is committed to delivering innovative application services that help our customers accelerate their business transformation," said Brian Miller, Global Lead, Applications, DXC Technology. "As a strategic cloud managed service provider, we can now offer OCI's price performance advantage to our customers while modernizing and transforming their businesses and reducing their cloud platform costs."
DXC has been delivering to customers the full suite of Oracle Cloud solutions and services across Oracle's integrated suite of native cloud applications, platform services, infrastructure, and engineered systems, building on 35-plus years of Oracle experience. Adding application services powered by OCI to DXC's existing Offerings will enable DXC to reframe customer conversations to generate new application services, which are economically difficult to deliver on other cloud platforms.
"DXC is a valued, long-standing partner and we are pleased to deepen our collaboration to provide a comprehensive range of application services and solutions to customers," said Ross Brown, senior vice president, NACI Cloud Partner, Oracle. "The strategic managed service provider partnership will enable DXC to deliver new application solutions and innovations powered by OCI, helping customers achieve their transformation objectives."
To learn more about DXC's Enterprise Applications and Software as a Service (SaaS) with Oracle, please visit https://dxc.com/us/en/services/applications/eas-oracle.
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DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla, announcing investigations into steering wheels coming off some SUVs and a fatal crash involving a Tesla suspected of using an automated driving system when it ran into a parked firetruck in California.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it is launching a special crash-investigation team to probe the Feb. 18 crash involving a Tesla Model S and a ladder truck from the Contra Costa County fire department.
The firetruck probe is part of a larger investigation by the agency into multiple instances of Teslas using the automaker’s Autopilot system crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes. NHTSA has become more aggressive in pursuing safety problems with Teslas in the past year, announcing multiple recalls and investigations.
The driver of the 2014 Tesla Model S was killed in the crash and a passenger critically injured. Four firefighters were treated for minor injuries, and the $1.4 million ladder truck was damaged.
NHTSA is investigating how the Autopilot system detects and responds to emergency vehicles parked on highways. At least 14 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles nationwide while using the system.
Automated driving systems aren't always involved in the crashes that NHTSA sends investigators to. For instance, the Ohio State Highway Patrol determined that a Tesla that hit one of its patrol cars in November was not operating on "any type of autonomous mode.”
Authorities said the California firetruck had its lights on and was parked diagonally on a highway to protect responders to an earlier accident that did not result in injuries.
Lewis Broschard III, chief of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, said his department is concerned about the risks that inattentive drivers pose to themselves, passengers and first responders.
“These unnecessary deaths, injuries, risks to firefighters, and loss of valuable equipment are all preventable," he said, urging drivers to slow down and move over for emergency vehicles.
A NHTSA spokeswoman said she couldn't comment on an open investigation when asked if the Teslas are posing a danger to emergency workers.
NHTSA has been scrutinizing Teslas more intensely in the past year, seeking several recalls and opening investigations.
Earlier Wednesday, the agency posted documents revealing that it's investigating steering wheels that can detach from the steering column on as many as 120,000 Model Y SUVs.
The agency said it received two complaints in which 2023 Model Ys were delivered to customers with a missing bolt holding the wheel to the steering column. A friction fit held the steering wheels on, but they separated when force was exerted while the SUVs were being driven.
The agency says in documents posted on its website Wednesday that both incidents happened while the SUVs had low mileage on them.
In one complaint filed with NHTSA, an owner said he was driving with his family in Woodbridge, New Jersey, when the steering wheel suddenly came off on Jan. 29, five days after the vehicle was purchased. The owner wrote that there were no cars behind him, and he was able to pull toward the road divider. There were no injuries.
It was a "horrible experience," the car's owner, Prerak Patel, told The Associated Press. He said he was in the freeway's left lane when the steering wheel came off and was lucky the road was straight and he was able to stop the car at the divider.
Messages were left seeking comment from Tesla, which is based in Austin, Texas, and has disbanded its media relations department.
At first a Tesla service center gave Patel a cost estimate of $103.96 to repair the problem. The service center apologized in what appear to be text messages posted on Twitter.
When Patel wrote that he had lost faith in Tesla and asked for a refund, the service center removed the charge.
Patel was later given the option of keeping the car or getting it replaced with a new one. Patel said he chose a replacement.
Patel said he's a fan of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and has invested a large chunk of his savings in the company's stock, which closed Wednesday down 3%.
“My kids were a little scared to ride in a loaner Tesla and, as a parent, we are able to restore their confidence,” Patel said. He said he hopes Tesla will investigate and improve its quality control.
Detached steering wheels are rare in the industry, but not unprecedented. In February, Nissan recalled about 1,000 Ariya electric vehicles because the steering wheels could come off due to a loose bolt.
In addition to the Autopilot investigation, NHTSA has opened investigations during the past three years into Teslas braking suddenly for no reason, suspension problems and other issues.
In February, NHTSA pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with “Full Self-Driving” software because the system can break traffic laws. The system is being tested on public roads by as many as 400,000 Tesla owners. But NHTSA said in documents that it can make unsafe actions such as traveling straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane, going through a yellow traffic light without proper caution or failing to respond to speed limit changes.
The U.S. Justice Department also has asked Tesla for documents from Tesla about “Full Self-Driving” and Autopilot.
Tesla says in its owners manual that neither Autopilot nor “Full Self-Driving” can drive themselves, and that owners must be ready to intervene at all times.
NHTSA has sent investigators to 35 Tesla crashes in which automated systems are suspected of being used. Nineteen people have died in those crashes, including two motorcyclists.
Since January of 2022, Tesla has issued 20 recalls, including several that were required by NHTSA.
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Five hopefuls aim to fill Fayetteville District 3 seat on City Council
After a shocking resignation last year, five individuals, including the appointee, are hoping to win enough votes to secure the District 3 position on Fayetteville City Council.
Councilwoman Tisha Waddell resigned from the District 3 seat in November, alleging unethical behavior by several members of City Council.
The City Council appointed Antonio Jones in a 6-3 vote to fill her vacated seat in December. He is running to keep his position.
New City Council member:Newest Fayetteville City Council member Antonio B. Jones officially sworn in
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Newcomers Bill Ayerbe, Mario Benavente, Kurin Keys and John Zimmerman are also running.
The 2021 municipal elections were delayed due to a postponement in the U.S. Census results, which are necessary for redistricting. The May 17 election will be for the 2022-2023 term.
District 3 includes the Hillendale, Lakecrest, Holly Springs, Kornbow, Cottonade and parts of Shaw.
Bill Ayerbe
Ayerbe is a musician, who has been inducted in Fayetteville Music Hall of Fame, and a veteran, who stayed in Fayetteville after being stationed at Fort Bragg.
He decided to run after seeing Waddell resign. “I think they need a non-divisible voice on the council. I’m coming in unbiased to city politics,” he said. “I think I would be a calm, focused voice on the council.”
Ayerbe considers public safety a top priority. He said he sees traffic, accidents and “lots of road rage incidents” near I-295. He also said there is too little police presence due to a lack of officer recruitment.
Ayerbe also said he sees a need for housing, especially due to the upcoming arrival of Amazon. He said he wanted to dive into the causes of homelessness, including mental health and drug addiction, through community outreach “to see if they want help.”
Ayerbe also supports city beautification and workforce training.
He said that he is a more “worldly” candidate than the others, since he has traveled a lot for his job as a musician. “I believe that I can look at all sides of an issue fairly and honestly,” he said. “I’m brutally honest.”
Mario Benavente
Benavente is a lifelong resident of District 3 who is finishing up law school at North Carolina Central University.
He said he is running for City Council to give back. “I feel like I have a duty to my community because they’ve really set me up for success,” he said.
Benavente helped found the Fayetteville Millennial Advisory Commission to keep younger generations in the city. He said that they are leaving because of high childcare costs, lack of affordable housing and low paying jobs. “Why would they stick around if it’s unaffordable here?” he said. “Unless we address those barriers, we will continue to lose our best and brightest.”
Benavente said that he wants to support all residents, not just millennials. “People in District 3 need reinforcements to see their visions through,” he said. “We need to be going out of our way to give folks the tools and pathways.”
Benavente also said that in the first 100 days of office he would put a resolution on the agenda that asks the General Assembly to grant Fayetteville the power to implement independent civilian oversight over the police department. He has spoken at several City Council meetings about Jason Walker, who was killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy several months ago.
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He is also concerned about the oversight of the recently passed microgrants program, which will provide residents with a stipend to implement crime reduction ideas. The City Council had not decided who would approve those grants earlier this month.
Benavente supports reducing crime through proactive and restorative justice practices.
Antonio Jones
Jones is a veteran, broker, military relocation professional realtor, certified public manager, business owner, pastor and published author. "I'm very active in the community in different ways," he said.
Jones has served on the City Council for less than six months upon his appointment to fill Waddell’s vacated seat in December. He called this "getting in the game at the fourth quarter," but added that he had taken the time to learn the position.
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Now, Jones is running to keep his seat because he has the time and desire to lead the city beyond the coronavirus pandemic. "We have access to resources that we've never had before," he said. "In order to keep moving Fayetteville forward, we have to have a very solid team."
Jones called himself a "team player" and a "servant leader" that has taken the time to learn the processes of government, which he wants to share with the public. "I believe I can restore that hope back in Council," he said.
Jones stands for adding workplace and affordable housing, partnering with other organizations to address issues like homelessness, engaging the community to enhance public safety through community watchdog groups and microgrants, and pushing to construct a dam at Rose Lake to combat flooding.
"When I represent District 3, I understand that I'm representing the city," Jones said. "I'm just in the people serving business."
Kurin Keys
Keys is the owner of Need T-Shirts Printed, which prints apparel for schools, churches, families, businesses and sports teams.
Keys decided to run for District 3 because "City Council was in need of help, and my skill set matched the need," he said. "The council needs someone that understands the job description."
He said that he plans to bring unity and balance because "A united Council will make Fayetteville more attractive and progress."
He also said that he wants to make the community aware of the resources available to it. "I plan to get the community involved with everything from the festivities of the downtown sector to the business grants and loans available," he said.
Keys supports enhancing public safety. "We can scream to the mountain tops about economic development, but a fully stocked and staffed store is fruitless if the patrons are scared to come out and shop," he said.
He said he is the best candidate because of the relationships, resources and problem-solving knowledge he has.
John Zimmerman
Zimmerman has worked in the military, fire department and his own business. Now, as a part-time employee at a car dealership, he wants to turn his focus to City Council.
“The more City Council meetings I watched, the less I liked,” he said. “They’ve done some great things, but there seems to be a whole lot of fighting.”
If elected, Zimmerman wants to look beyond public safety. “Everybody’s beating that horse to death,” he said. “There are other issues that are just as important.”
He is especially passionate about sidewalks. He said some have not been paved because the state had run out of funds before completing the project.
Zimmerman stands for beautification outside of downtown, instituting term limits, changing paid parking from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., fixing potholes, and instituting speed bumps in neighborhoods.
“I don’t know it all, so I want to go back to the people,” he said. “This isn’t just what I want. This is what we in our neighborhood want.”
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At least 24 people are dead after a Russian rocket destroyed an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar Saturday, according to the latest tally by Ukrainian authorities.
Rescue and recovery efforts are underway for people still trapped in the rubble.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with The Washington Post’s Steve Hendrix.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Adrian Dickey, an Iowa state senator, says he's "absolutely innocent," and his attorney said Dickey was just participating in a bike ride when a sheriff's deputy asked him to move and he "advised that he was not going to move" and "to arrest him," which the deputy did.
Kristin Harila of Norway and her Nepali Sherpa guide reportedly obliterated the record by scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just 92 days after a Pakistani mountaineering official said they had conquered K2, ranked among the most dangerous peaks.
Mark Fox remained on the run several days after breaking out of Bent County jail in Colorado with three other inmates by forcing their way through drywall in the ceiling of a cell, with two recaptured and one dead of a suspected drug overdose.
Martin Estrada, a U.S. attorney, said their "days of terrorizing ... stop" with the arrests of six people linked to the Quiet Village street gang in California's San Gabriel Valley on counts of conspiracy, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, and drug and gun charges.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, of Green Bay, Wis., was convicted of strangling an ex-boyfriend, dismembering his body and scattering the parts in a case the defense called "puzzling" as the district attorney countered, "This is strange, this is unnatural, but in no way is it unclear."
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, was joined by his rat czar as he celebrated a 20% decrease in complaints, saying, "Every food scrap that we keep out of the trash and every black bag that we keep off the street is a meal that we're taking out of a hungry rodent's stomach."
Mark Keith Smith, 26, of Burien, Wash., faces bail of $1 million in a road-rage shooting and pleaded innocent to murder as the charge was upgraded with the death of the 68-year-old victim, who allegedly wielded a bat.
Ashley Miller of the Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce in Georgia hailed the Big Peanut, which "represents home," as the Interstate 75 landmark was rededicated five years after an earlier version was felled by Hurricane Michael.
Kristy Lynn Felkins of Fallon, Nev., was sentenced to five years in prison in a plea deal, admitting she hired a hitman on a bogus dark-web internet site for $5,000 in bitcoin to kill her ex-husband "and make it look like an accident," offering an extra $4,000 to speed things up. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/28/in-the-news/ | 2023-07-28 09:02:51 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/28/in-the-news/ |
The work of a renowned Harvard University professor who researches dishonesty has been under fire since she was accused of fabricating data in at least four academic papers.
The allegations against Francesca Gino, who has also co-written dozens of other papers published in top peer-reviewed journals, have been detailed in recent reports, raising fears in academia that the alleged data tampering may involve a larger body of scholarship.
Two of the articles were retracted earlier this month from the journal that published them and a third is slated to be retracted in September. The fourth, a study about discouraging dishonesty, was retracted in 2021.
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Gino, a leading behavioral scientist whose research primarily examines the psychology of workplace decision-making and has often focused on honesty, has been a professor of business administration at Harvard since 2014. She has written books including the 2018 “Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life” and provided speaking and consulting services to powerful corporations. Her work has been featured by many media outlets, including The Boston Globe.
Gino is on administrative leave, according to her Harvard faculty webpage, which no longer mentions the title she held as the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration. No explanation was given.
The annual Oslo Business Forum in Norway — whose lineup of conference speakers this fall includes business magnate Richard Branson and activist Malala Yousafzai — removed Gino from its agenda in June, citing the fraud allegations.
Gino did not respond to questions about the allegations in an email to the Globe, instead referring to a LinkedIn statement. In the post, Gino responded to “recent reports concerning my work.”
“As I continue to evaluate these allegations and assess my options, I am limited into what I can say publicly,” she wrote. “I want to assure you that I take them seriously and they will be addressed.”
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Harvard Business School declined to comment.
Michael Kalichman, a University of California, San Diego professor emeritus and founding director of its Research Ethics Program, cautioned that it’s not yet clear who was responsible for the data issues.
“I’m not prepared — and I don’t think anybody should be prepared — to say that Francesca Gino has fabricated data. What we know so far is that some of the data that came out of her research group has raised questions and can’t be trusted,” Kalichman said. “But where the fault lies is not yet known.”
Kalichman said researchers have incentive to cut corners, driven by a pervasive “publish or perish” mentality in academia that sees success as a measure of how many papers they get published. That pressure can lead some to overlook their errors or even rationalize wrongdoing, he said.
Ivan Oransky, co-founder of the blog Retraction Watch, said retractions are “quite routine” and there are thousands a year.
Getting work published sets in motion a critical snowball effect, he said, positioning scholars to receive desirable professional opportunities: jobs, promotions, grants, and speaking engagements.
“It’s actually, frankly, surprising that more people don’t fudge data,” Oransky said.
High-profile cases involving accusations of academic fraud are nothing new.
In 2011, Diederik Stapel, a prominent Dutch social psychologist, was accused of research fraud and has had more than 50 articles retracted — a watershed case that spurred academics to take action against issues of misconduct, replication, and reproducibility. Earlier this month, neuroscientist and president of Stanford University Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned after an external review found manipulated data in several of his studies, though it did not find evidence that he had tampered with the data himself.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in June about concerns surrounding an influential 2012 paper about honesty authored by Gino and four other researchers. The paper found that signing an honesty pledge at the beginning of a written form rather than at the end reduced dishonest behavior.
Harvard notified Max H. Bazerman, one of the paper’s other authors, that month that it believed one of the experiments involved had used fraudulent data, Bazerman told The Chronicle. The university said an internal analysis concluded that someone had added and changed data in the study, the article reported.
Bazerman, a Harvard Business School professor, told The Chronicle that he took no part in the alleged fabrication.
A day after The Chronicle’s report, three behavioral scientists posted on their investigative research blog, Data Colada, that data in that same study had been manipulated to help produce desirable results.
That blog post on Data Colada, which is run by Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, and Joseph Simmons, professors at Esade Business School in Spain, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, was the first of four focusing on four papers co-written by Gino alleged to contain fraudulent data.
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Last month’s reports of academic fraud added the latest layer of controversy to the 2012 paper. Researchers including the paper’s original authors failed to replicate its findings in 2020, and a year later, Data Colada alleged to have uncovered evidence of fraud in another one of the paper’s experiments, which used data provided by a vehicle insurance company.
In September 2021, the paper was retracted from the journal that published it — the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On Friday, NPR reported that the insurance company that provided data for the 2012 study said its own review found that the data had been “manipulated inappropriately” after it was handed over and before the paper was published. Gino’s co-author and Duke University professor Dan Ariely, who acquired that data, according to the NPR report, denied falsifying it.
“To be explicitly clear, I have never manipulated or misrepresented data in any of my work and have never knowingly participated in any project where the data or conclusions were manipulated or mispresented,” Ariely said Friday in a statement to the Globe.
Concerns about Gino’s scholarship grew as Data Colada’s writers continued publishing their four-part series.
Their second and third posts alleged data fabrication in two papers Gino worked on that were published in the journal Psychological Science: a 2015 study finding that experiencing inauthenticity leads people to feel more “immoral and impure” and a 2014 article entitled, “Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity.”
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Patricia J. Bauer, editor in chief of Psychological Science, said earlier this month that the journal retracted both articles on July 6 after Harvard Business School told her an investigation by an independent forensic firm had “revealed discrepancies” between the published data and original data.
In the final post of their blog series, Data Colada’s professors reported evidence of data tampering in a 2020 article about how specific mindsets affect people’s feelings about networking co-authored by Gino and published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Rose Sokol, the publisher of journals and books at the American Psychological Association, wrote in an emailed statement that a retraction of the 2020 article is “slated to be published in the September issue” of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
“At this time, we believe this to be an isolated incident,” Sokol wrote. “However, we continue to be in touch with the institution and if we have reason to consider retracting other articles, we will take appropriate steps.”
Oransky, of Retraction Watch, lauded Data Colada’s authors for their efforts to uncover research fraud, adding that “established players” in academia historically have neglected to and even actively fought against such initiatives.
“The world needs to pay more attention to, and frankly appreciate more, the sleuths,” he said, “who are really doing the work to clean up science.”
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Employee Engagement Mobile App Now Offers In-App Thread Commenting, @Mentions, and Searchable Hashtags to Increase Social Engagement and Create a Better Employee Experience
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- theEMPLOYEEapp, provider of award-winning mobile applications designed for engaging with frontline workers, today announced new social capabilities that improve engagement for frontline workers. These new features offer a similar user experience to leading social media platforms that employees are already comfortable using and give internal communications teams more ways to create more bottom-up and two-way communication.
"In the early days, our employee app focused on improving top-down communication between leadership and frontline workers," said Amy Jenkins, Director of Client Strategy and Success at theEMPLOYEEapp. "However, client feedback and our own research show that employee expectations from internal comms are constantly evolving. With these new product enhancements, theEMPLOYEEapp is delivering an intuitive, middle-out, bottom-up engagement tool built on familiar technology used by the leading social media platforms. Frontline workers can join conversations with their managers and peers using their smartphones from anywhere, while internal comms teams can monitor the community, boost employee recognition, and much more."
The latest version of theEMPLOYEEapp includes:
- Thread Commenting: Enabling app users and administrators to respond to an individual comment. This is a popular feature with consumer apps like Instagram and Twitter, as well as employee collaboration tools like Slack, and helps users participate more easily in conversations on a specific subject or post.
- @Mentions: This feature works just like mentions on social media. Users now can @mention users in a post caption or comment, which sends the tagged user a notification. This feature is perfect for giving employee recognition or amplifying an employee post.
- Hashtags: Like social media platforms, this feature allows any content creator to add a hashtag to a post caption or comment. These hashtags are then stored in our Content Management System (CMS) to be reused. They are also searchable, making it easier for end-users to find content. This feature will also allow administrators to track their campaigns and gauge success.
For more information about how the new social capabilities improve communication with frontline workers, go to https://www.theemployeeapp.com/deskless-internal-communication-solution/.
theEMPLOYEEapp is a customized mobile application created to help corporate communicators and HR leaders connect to their frontline and office workers. theEMPLOYEEapp's mobile solution allows organizations across every industry sector to achieve their employee engagement objectives, reduce employee turnover, and create a more inclusive culture for all workers, including the estimated 2.7 billion workers worldwide who are deskless and do not use a corporate email address. For more information, visit https://www.theemployeeapp.com/ or follow us on LinkedIn.
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The US is home to more immigrants than any other country -- more than 45 million people, according to the latest Census estimates.
That's 13.6% of the US population, about the same as it was a century ago. But over the years, we've seen significant shifts in where immigrants to the US come from, and where they end up once they get here.
Here's a look at these key immigration trends and how they've changed over time.
For decades one country has topped the list
Mexicans represent the largest group of immigrants living in the United States. That's been true since 1980, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. And the Mexico-US route is the largest migration corridor in the world.
But the total number of Mexican immigrants living in the US has been on the decline for more than a decade.
An estimated 10.7 million Mexican immigrants lived in the US in 2021, roughly 1 million fewer than the number a decade earlier.
Meanwhile, immigration from other countries, including India and China, has been on the rise, according to MPI.
As one expert told CNN last year, the range of reasons why people move to the US from different parts of the world is as varied as the list of countries these immigrants once called home. Some are seeking economic opportunities. Others are fleeing violence, persecution or climate disasters. And others are hoping to reunite with family members who are already here.
According to an analysis of Census data from MPI, the top 10 countries of origin for immigrants in the United States are all in Latin America and Asia.
These statistics include both immigrants who came to the United States legally and those who are living in the country without authorization.
Looking only at the population of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, the list of the top countries of origin shifts slightly. A Department of Homeland Security report in 2021 estimated that the top six countries of origin for undocumented immigrants were Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Honduras and China.
But most immigrants who live in the United States aren't undocumented.
The Pew Research Center's latest estimates indicate about 10.5 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. That means the vast majority of foreign-born people living in the United States (77%) are here legally.
Rewinding to the 1960s reveals a different picture
Mexico hasn't always topped the list. Back in 1960, for example, the portrait of US immigrants was dramatically different.
At that time, according to the Migration Policy Institute, the largest group of immigrants were Italians, followed by Germans and Canadians.
Why did things change so significantly? For decades a national original quota system passed by Congress in 1924 favored migrants from northern and western Europe and excluded Asians. In 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act created a new system that prioritized highly skilled immigrants and those who already had family living in the country. That paved the way for millions of non-European immigrants to come to the United States.
"It fundamentally changed the demographics of the country," Pawan Dhingra, a professor of American Studies at Amherst College, told CNN in 2020.
For decades, the immigrant population in the United States had been decreasing. But the new law also sparked a dramatic increase in immigration in the decades that followed, fueled largely by family reunification.
In 1965, 9.6 million immigrants living in the US comprised just 5% of the population, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Now more than 45 million immigrants make up nearly 14% of the country.
While the total number of immigrants has reached a historic high, immigrants made up a greater share of the US population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most states have seen their immigrant populations grow
The makeup of who's coming to the United States isn't the only thing that's changed. There have also been notable shifts in where those immigrants end up.
Arriving immigrants often settled in historic immigrant gateways in major metropolitan areas, such as New York City, Chicago and Boston. But for more than a decade, a much broader swath of locations in the United States have become gateways that are home to growing immigrant populations.
Today, California, Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey are home to the largest numbers of immigrants.
But looking at the total number of immigrants in each state only tells part of the story. Some states have larger numbers of immigrants relative to their total populations. In Hawaii, for example, immigrants make up nearly 19% of the state's population.
A recent study by the Bush Institute found that many immigrants eventually move from traditional gateway cities to other areas of the country.
"Immigrants making secondary moves within the United States are disproportionately choosing the same places as native-born people -- metros with relatively affordable housing and growth-friendly business and tax policies," the study says. "Once there, they gravitate toward fast-growing suburban counties."
For many years, the majority of immigrants lived in the Northeast and Midwest. But now, according to the Pew Research Center's latest analysis, about two-thirds of immigrants live in the West and South.
And in recent years, some states have seen their immigrant populations grow at a faster rate.
As the Bush Institute study notes, job opportunities, affordable housing, family connections and immigrant-friendly policies are among the factors that immigrants consider when deciding where to move.
If current trends continue, experts say in the coming years we could see immigrants make up a historically high share of the US population.
But with geopolitical turmoil around the world and ongoing divisive debates over immigration in Washington, it's hard to predict where future groups of immigrants may come from, or how quickly that milestone will be reached.
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Dog abandoned at the front door of animal care center is up for adoption: Meet Laa-Laa
One-year-old pit bull mix in North Carolina has a sweet disposition and needs a good home
A one-year-old dog was left at the doorstep of a local animal care and control center — and is now looking for a forever home.
Laa-Laa is a pit bull mix who was abandoned at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care & Control center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The 50-pound dog was brought inside the center as she cowered and trembled, according to the center.
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The center told Fox News Digital that the team quickly tried to make Laa-Laa feel comfortable by giving her treats and affection.
But nothing seemed to work.
The center speculates that she had very little socialization during her first year of life.
Due to this, Laa-Laa continues to be a nervous dog and is seeking a caring and loving home — one that will be patient with her as she opens up and develops.
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Laa-Laa is making progress, and the staff has seen her personality start to shine through when she's given affection and socialization with others.
The young dog likes to take slow walks and will sniff everything in sight, the organization said.
She can also be coaxed into giving a bit of a tail wag if she's spoken to kindly.
The staff at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care & Control told Fox News Digital that with a loving and patient home, Laa-Laa will be a loyal companion.
Laa-Laa can also be coaxed into giving a tail wag if she's spoken to kindly.
The Animal Care and Control center (ACC) is part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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It's dedicated to helping pets and people with medical and support services, according to the ACC’s website.
The shelter, with a space of over 45,000 square feet, houses approximately 165 dog runs and 220 cages — and has more than 185 dogs currently up for adoption.
Interested in adopting Laa-Laa?
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For more information, visit the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care & Control center or call the center at 704-336-7600.
Want to read about other pets up for adoption? Check out this recent article from Fox News Digital: Salt Lake City-based Carrot, a ‘beauty,’ is looking for a calm new home
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IRS raises contribution limits for retirement savings plans
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
Americans will be allowed to contribute more of their money to 401(k) and similar retirement saving plans next year. The IRS said Friday that savers with 401(K) and similar plans will be able to contribute up to $22,500 next year. That’s up from $20,500 this year. People aged 50 and over, which have the option to make additional “catch-up” contributions to 401(k) and similar plans, will be able to contribute up to $30,000 in 2023. The IRS also raised the annual contribution limits on individual retirement arrangements, or IRAs, by $500 to $6,500. The changes make it easier for retirement savers to set aside more of their income toward building their nest egg. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/10/21/irs-raises-contribution-limits-for-retirement-savings-plans/ | 2022-10-21 19:28:36 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/10/21/irs-raises-contribution-limits-for-retirement-savings-plans/ |
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