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NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, December 10, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
NYZ009-112100-
Northern Oneida-
Including the city of Boonville
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a slight chance
of snow showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to
6 inches. Lows in the mid 20s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
snow 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 10 TO 15. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 TO 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 30.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ015-112100-
Yates-
Including the city of Penn Yan
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow and rain. Total snow accumulation around an inch.
Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of rain in the evening. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning.
Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ016-112100-
Seneca-
Including the city of Seneca Falls
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow and rain. Total snow accumulation around an inch.
Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the evening,
then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows around 30. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows around 30. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ017-112100-
Southern Cayuga-
Including the city of Auburn
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely with a chance of rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight.
Additional snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Lows in the upper 20s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest around 5 mph after
midnight. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 TO 20. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ018-112100-
Onondaga-
Including the city of Syracuse
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a slight chance
of snow showers after midnight. Additional snow accumulation up to
1 inch. Lows in the upper 20s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
north after midnight. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 TO 20. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
around 40. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the lower 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs around 40. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ022-112100-
Steuben-
Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation around an
inch. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southwest 5 to 10 mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow and rain in the evening,
then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ023-112100-
Schuyler-
Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation around an
inch. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow and rain in the evening,
then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 20s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning.
Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 TO 20. North winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows around 30. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ024-112100-
Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation around an
inch. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of rain in the evening. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 TO 20. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ025-112100-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow. Rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely with a chance of rain showers
in the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight. Total
snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning.
Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 TO 20. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows around 30. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ036-112100-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a chance of snow
showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches.
Lows in the mid 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast
after midnight. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 TO 15. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 30.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ037-112100-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a slight chance
of snow showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to
6 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
snow 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 15. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows around 30. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs around 40. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ044-112100-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a slight chance
of snow showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to
6 inches. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 TO 15. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ045-112100-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a chance of snow
showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to 6 inches.
Lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after
midnight. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 TO 15. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 30.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ046-112100-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a chance of snow
showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches.
Lows in the mid 20s. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 10. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 TO 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ055-112100-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
.TODAY...Snow this morning, then snow and rain this afternoon. Total
snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows
in the upper 20s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest after
midnight. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 15. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs around 40. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ056-112100-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs in the
lower 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of snow near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a chance of snow
showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches.
Lows in the upper 20s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 15. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows around 30. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance
of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and rain.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ057-112100-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
.TODAY...Snow. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Highs around 30.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow
near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow in the evening, then a chance of snow
showers after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 4 to 6 inches.
Lows in the mid 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast
after midnight. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 10. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 TO 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 30.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain likely. Lows in the mid 20s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
$$
NYZ062-112100-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
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- Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for its rock carvings which reflect daily life in the Dadanite Kingdom
- AlUla's Jabal Ikmah contains the largest concentration of Dadanitic inscriptions in the world
ALULA, Saudi Arabia, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)'s efforts to conserve the region's documentary heritage have been acknowledged with the listing of Jabal Ikmah on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
The spectacular mountain and its sandstone canyons feature more than 300 historically significant carved inscriptions, most of which date from the second half of the first millennium BCE. The site features the largest collection of inscriptions recording the ancient Dadanite Kingdom's religious rituals, daily activities, and relations with neighboring peoples.
As part of its role in delivering Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, RCU is heavily investing in the study and conservation of sites such as Jabal Ikmah, an open-air library situated in the world's largest living museum. These efforts to enhance the world's understanding of Jabal Ikmah, while improving visitors' access in a sustainable way, have contributed to this public affirmation by UNESCO of the magnitude and international significance of AlUla's documentary heritage.
José Ignacio Gallego Revilla, Executive Director of the Kingdoms Institute, Archaeology, Heritage Research, and Conservation Department at the Royal Commission for AlUla, said: "The significance of Jabal Ikmah's inscriptions transcends regional boundaries to reach the level of global relevance, in particular as part of the evolution of Old Arabic languages and dialects. Their authenticity and integrity, both for the information preserved about ancient societies as well as the conservation of the site, bring together the essentials that make this place unique for the Memory of the World as the chronicle of a lost time through the largest number of inscriptions in an Ancient North Arabian script."
As a crossroads on the incense and pilgrimage routes, the AlUla oasis was a hub of commercial and cultural exchange. It hosted merchants of myrrh, frankincense, and other precious commodities. This cultural richness propelled the growth of settlements, including Dadan. The Dadanite Kingdom flourished and developed its own alphabet form of the South Semitic writing system. The Dadanites then recorded their history through petroglyphs carved into the sloping red and yellow sandstone rocks of AlUla. The greatest concentration of inscriptions is sheltered in the gorge of Jabal Ikmah, which is characteristic of AlUla's jagged landscape formed by tectonic movements that date to the opening of the Red Sea 30 million years ago.
Many of Jabal Ikmah's inscriptions reflect a variety of subjects such as rituals, kings, animals and agriculture, key to the story of AlUla's past. Conservation of such landmarks is central to RCU's vision for the future of AlUla, which emphasizes the region's cultural heritage as both a beacon for tourism and a springboard for innovation and economic benefits that raise the quality of life for the community.
The listing builds on RCU's existing partnership with UNESCO. RCU's global network of partners for culture, which also includes ICOMOS, the Louvre Museum and the French Agency for the Development of AlUla (Afalula), plays a vital role in the regeneration of AlUla County as a leading global destination for cultural and natural heritage.
RCU is establishing the Kingdoms Institute as a global hub for archaeology, heritage research and conservation. Currently active as a research organisation, the institute will have a permanent base in the Dadan district of AlUla, a site that by 2035 is expected to be a prime destination for two million visitors a year attracted largely by its rich heritage.
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It is always AlUla / not Al-Ula
About the Royal Commission for AlUla
The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) was established by royal decree in July 2017 to preserve and develop AlUla, a region of outstanding natural and cultural significance in north-west Saudi Arabia. RCU's long-term plan outlines a responsible, sustainable, and sensitive approach to urban and economic development that preserves the area's natural and historic heritage while establishing AlUla as a desirable location to live, work, and visit. This encompasses a broad range of initiatives across archaeology, tourism, culture, education, and the arts, reflecting a commitment to meeting the economic diversification, local community empowerment, and heritage preservation priorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 programme.
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- Autel Energy to share charging technologies that advance EV fleet operations
- EV charging brand offers sustainable and reliable fleet transportation
- Charging solutions address EV operating concerns, such as range anxiety and cost
- California fleets are encouraged to explore Autel Energy's charging opportunities
ANAHEIM, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For businesses transitioning to or starting an all-electric fleet lineup, social and environmental sustainability goals can be achieved; however, this may lead to range anxiety and delivery reliability hesitation. Autel Energy, the leading provider of residential and commercial electric vehicle chargers, is solving these dilemmas with its innovative charging technologies and dependable energy resources. To highlight its EV infrastructure solutions for commercial fleets, Autel Energy will showcase its products at the 2023 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Anaheim, California.
Fleet operators and managers attending the ACT Expo presented at the Anaheim Convention Center from May 1-4 are invited to visit Autel Energy at Booth 7603. The brand will display its suite of chargers, including the recently unveiled Autel MaxiCharger DC Compact Mobile, which debuted at the 2023 New York International Auto Show in April. Autel Energy will be available to present its EV solutions for fleets and supply resources to streamline the transition to electric vehicle mobility.
"As we focus on improving the charging infrastructure for everyday consumers, we must not overlook the use and advancement of EVs in business settings, particularly within fleet operations. Portable chargers are convenient, allow for greater flexibility, and can be used in a variety of locations to ensure commercial fleets are meeting deadlines and advancing clean and sustainable transportation. With portable chargers, fleet operators can provide customers with the same service level they expect from traditional mobility options," said John Thomas, chief operating officer at Autel Energy.
Autel Energy makes it easy for businesses to take advantage of electric vehicle commercial transportation, providing a reliable and efficient way to charge fleets with portable chargers. These chargers are designed to curb EV charging complications, allowing operators to confidently deploy electric fleet vehicles and promote a greener mode of transportation. The technology by Autel Energy reduces operational costs, lowers vehicle carbon footprints and optimizes efficiency through innovative energy management.
Autel Energy offers a wide selection of products to satisfy any charging requirement, ranging from AC (Level 2) residential and commercial chargers to bi-directional DC vehicle-to-everything (V2X) home charging, DC fast charging (Level 3), and digital energy management tools like ChargeCloud, the only comprehensive charging cloud solution available. These solutions are designed to guarantee dependability, quality, and improved EV experiences while supporting grid stability and pushing the boundaries of EV mobility.
More information about Autel Energy is available at https://autelenergy.us/.
About Autel Energy
Autel Energy's vision is to create a seamless customer experience that enables the deployment of technology and smart infrastructure that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles and energy management solutions worldwide. Autel Energy makes the most advanced products accessible and convenient for residential and commercial users offering hardware, software, apps, and cloud-based solutions to cover almost every use case and application. This includes world-class charging hardware for AC (Level 2) home and commercial, DC Bi-directional V2X power management, and DC (Level 3) fast charging from 40kW to 720kW with innovative configurability and modularity.
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9th grader sues over Pledge of Allegiance confrontation
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for quietly walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.
Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall.
Barnwell was then sent to the principal’s office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal promised to look at the video of the encounter and sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.
“I was completely and utterly disrespected,” Barnwell, 15, said at a news conference Thursday, according to The State newspaper. “No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. ... The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.”
Barnwell’s parents are suing the River Bluff High School teacher, the principal, Lexington School District 1, and the South Carolina Education Department in federal court, saying they violated the girl’s civil rights and her First Amendment rights to both free speech or not to speak at all.
A state law passed more than 30 years ago requires public schools to play the Pledge of Allegiance at a specific time every day.
But that law also prohibits punishing anyone who refuses to recite the pledge as long as they are not disruptive or infringe on others.
“The thing that’s beautiful about America is we have freedoms,” said Tyler Bailey, the family’s lawyer. “Students in our schools should feel safe, they should not be feel threatened for exercising their constitutional rights.”
Barnwell said she called her parents in tears and they said the teacher, principal or district never responded.
Lexington School District 1 said its attorney is working on a response to the lawsuit and didn’t have any additional comment. River Bluff High School’s website indicates the teacher and principal are still working at the school.
Barnwell’s family also released the school surveillance video of the encounter that shows the teacher confront the teen.
“I was just in disbelief,” Barnwell said, adding that she told the teacher, “Get your hands off of me.”
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WACO (NewsNation) — Record-breaking heat is bearing down on America’s farmland.
NewsNation went to scorching hot Texas to take a look at the heat’s impact on farms and produce.
Currently in the middle of one of the hottest U.S. summers on record, the southwest region of the country has seen little to no rain — a combination of unfortunate events that has left behind scorched earth and struggling crops.
From Texas watermelons and Arkansas blueberries to grapes in California wine country, all sorts of crops have been feeling the stress. Even Tennessee corn is measuring about 18 inches shorter than usual this season.
“Because of the inadequate moisture we’ve had, it’s causing the plant to prematurely die because it’s not uptaking the nutrients that it needs to be able to survive and continue to grow,” Dr. Juan Anciso, a Texas A&M University vegetable specialist, said during Tuesday’s edition of NewsNation’s “Rush Hour.”
At a hydroponic farm in Waco, Texas, for example, the electronic watering and shade systems aren’t enough to keep greens at consistent temperatures. This causes their butter lettuce to grow vertically instead of horizontally, resulting in a bitter taste instead of a sweet one.
“This prolonged drought in the southwestern United States is a very serious matter,” Anciso said. He also said current conditions are bad but experts are even more concerned about fall crops, as they could threaten food supply.
“We’re very concerned going into this fall that we won’t have enough water in the sense of growing the normal amount of acreage we normally do, especially for vegetables,” he continued.
“We often here in central Texas go through many dry periods,” said Sean Kelly, a meteorologist at KXAN news. ”So this is kind of typical, but for this to coincide with this extreme heat … that’s when it becomes unprecedented.”
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, almost 45% of the United States is in drought. That includes more than half of the 48 continental states. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/record-heat-affecting-food-causing-concern-for-fall-yields/ | 2022-07-20 15:24:28 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/record-heat-affecting-food-causing-concern-for-fall-yields/ |
Chicago has both public safety and public perception problems. Many Americans equate the Windy City with gun violence, gang activity and violent crime. The city must improve its national reputation to attract tourists, new businesses and residents. Unfortunately, locals are not confident that public safety will improve anytime soon.
Four in five (77%) Chicago-area residents see public safety as a public health concern afflicting Chicago. When asked to judge the safety in their neighborhood, the average score was 5.02 (out of 10) for city residents—an unacceptably low number for a world-class city. This low rating is hardly surprising. Even Chicago’s historically low-crime North Side neighborhoods have experienced a spree of shootings, armed robberies, theft and muggings in recent months. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-safer-chicago/chicago-homicide-stats-obscure-deeper-safety-crisis | 2022-10-24 13:59:24 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-safer-chicago/chicago-homicide-stats-obscure-deeper-safety-crisis |
Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.
Cook had Parkinson's disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. He died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida, said Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
Tributes poured in from country stars, including Travis Tritt who called Cook “a great guy and one heckuva bass fisherman,” and Jason Aldean, who tweeted: “ I got a chance to perform with him multiple times over the years and I will never forget it.” Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, added: "Everything he did was rooted in his deep love of music, a love he shared with millions.”
As a guitarist, fiddle player and vocalist, Cook — alongside cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry — landed eight No. 1 songs on the country charts between spring 1980 and summer 1982, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That run included the pop crossover hits “Love In The First Degree” and “Feels So Right,” as well as “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”
“Jeff Cook, and all of the guys in Alabama, were so generous with wisdom and fun when I got to tour with them as a young artist,” Kenny Chesney said in a statement. “They showed a kid in a T-shirt that country music could be rock, could be real, could be someone who looked like me. Growing up in East Tennessee, that gave me the heart to chase this dream.”
The band had a three-year run as CMA Entertainer of the Year from 1982-1985 and earned five ACM Award Entertainer of the Year trophies from 1981-1985. He stopped touring with Alabama in 2018.
Cook released a handful of solo projects and toured with his Allstar Goodtime Band. He also released collaborations with Charlie Daniels and “Star Trek” star William Shatner. He entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of Alabama.
A song he co-wrote in 2015, “No Bad Days,” took on new meaning after his diagnosis. “After I got the Parkinson’s diagnosis, people would quote the song to me and say, ‘No bad days,’” Cook told The Tennessean in 2019. “They write me letters, notes and emails and they sign ‘No Bad Days.’ I know the support is there."
Survivors include his wife, Lisa. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/jeff-cook-co-founder-of-country-band-alabama-dies-at-73 | 2022-11-09 01:19:01 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/jeff-cook-co-founder-of-country-band-alabama-dies-at-73 |
RICHARDSON, Texas — The sign at the front door welcomes you with a greeting left to your imagination: “Feeling Good A.F.”
“It could mean 'alcohol-free,'” said Julie Robinson. “It could be something else too. Whoops!”
Fortunately, there’s no mistaking what you’ll find once you walk through the door of Beyond the Bar in Richardson, the first alcohol-free bottle shop in North Texas.
Beyond the Bar offers all sorts of zero-proof drinks: beer, vodka, rum, wine and much more.
“What does this alcohol-free spirit taste like?” asked Robinson, co-founder of Beyond the Bar. “Exactly like the alcohol version.”
Robinson says alcohol-free drinks are growing in popularity, but she and her husband, Reed, had trouble finding them in North Texas.
“We went to see a show and all my husband could get was a Diet Pepsi,” Robinson said.
Robinson said there just weren’t many options for people who didn’t drink alcohol.
Not anymore.
Whatever the drink, chances are they’ve got a non-alcoholic version to match. Anyone who’s skeptical can visit Beyond the Bar’s tasting room to try them.
“And believe me, it’s amazing,” Robinson said.
Robinson says people have many reasons for not drinking alcohol, but they’ve rarely had many options.
Until now.
That’s good news because a night on the town shouldn’t make you the odd one out.
“Just because you don’t drink doesn’t mean you’re not fun anymore,” Robinson said.
In fact, you’ll have such a great time, you’ll be feeling good A.F., meaning alcohol-free, of course. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/features/alcohol-free-bar-bottle-north-texas-richardson-zero-proof-drinks/287-3fcad37f-b731-4a11-a373-b7938ff62a5a | 2023-05-15 19:35:39 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/features/alcohol-free-bar-bottle-north-texas-richardson-zero-proof-drinks/287-3fcad37f-b731-4a11-a373-b7938ff62a5a |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Razorback freshman Kendall Diggs stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with two runners on base in a 3-3 game.
In the post-game broadcast on ESPN2, Diggs said he told himself "positive things only, especially in that situation."
And positive things did happen.
Diggs destroyed a three-run, walk-off home run into the Saturday night sky and off the Hunt Center in right field, sending the capacity crowd at Baum-Walker Stadium into a frenzy and lifting No. 5 Arkansas to the 6-3 win over Ole Miss.
The win ties up the series for the Hogs after they dropped Friday night's game 4-2.
Diggs' walk-off homer was the Razorbacks' third home run of the game, the method through which they scored all of their runs on the night.
Brady Slavens opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with a solo home run to put the Hogs up 1-0.
But from there, Ole Miss responded with solo home runs of their own in the following two innings by TJ McCants and Tim Elko to take a 2-1 lead.
Arkansas retook the lead in the sixth inning when Braydon Webb launched a two-run homerun into the Hog Pen in left field to put the Razorbacks up 3-2.
Hagen Smith exited after six full innings, settling in after allowing the two home runs to give Arkansas a quality start while striking out seven batters in the process.
Ole Miss was able to get runners on third and second with no outs in the 7th, but Evan Taylor entered in relief and got Arkansas out of the jam.
Another jam ensued in the 8th, as the Rebels loaded the bases with no outs. Brady Tygart entered to sort things out, and got the Hogs out of it mostly unscathed, but Ole Miss pushed across the tying run on a double play.
That set the stage then for someone to be the hero on the night in the ninth inning, and that's when Diggs stepped up in the clutch for the Hogs.
The freshman forced a full count, before sending the seventh pitch he saw over the right field wall for the walk-off no doubter.
Sunday's rubber match is set for 12 pm on ESPN. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/ncaa/university-of-arkansas/razorback-baseball/kendall-diggs-walk-off-homer-lifts-no-5-arkansas-over-ole-miss-6-3/527-56df437a-2879-41ae-8eec-24d0c9bf8694 | 2022-05-01 06:26:23 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/ncaa/university-of-arkansas/razorback-baseball/kendall-diggs-walk-off-homer-lifts-no-5-arkansas-over-ole-miss-6-3/527-56df437a-2879-41ae-8eec-24d0c9bf8694 |
- Strategic round of funding accelerates industry leadership in fast growing warehouse automation space
- New board members Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners to support Locus's next phase of growth
WILMINGTON, Mass., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment and distribution warehouses, today announced more than $117 million in Series F funding, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners. As part of the financing, Mark Midle, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, and Zach Barasz, Partner, G2 Venture Partners, will join the Locus Board of Directors, bringing their unique industry perspectives and insights to further guide Locus's next stage of growth and global expansion.
"Locus has established itself as an innovative, high-quality market leader for flexible automation in the massive warehouse fulfillment and distribution market," said Mark Midle of Goldman Sachs. "Our investment reflects our view that Locus has the product offering and the operational excellence required to meet and exceed the market challenges posed by today's dynamic economic environment."
"This new round of funding marks an important inflection point for Locus Robotics as we look toward our next stage of growth, and we strategically chose to bring in investors with a wealth of experience in both public and private markets to advise us as we continue our journey," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. "As the rapid digital transformation of the supply chain continues, warehouses increasingly seek flexible, intelligent robotics automation to improve productivity and grow their operations, despite ongoing labor shortages and exploding order volumes."
The Locus warehouse execution platform disrupts large-scale warehouse fulfillment and distribution with an industry-leading, intelligent, and dynamically scalable robotics-driven solution. Locus delivers 2X-3X productivity by seamlessly coordinating both human labor and AMRs to dramatically improve order fulfillment efficiency and workplace ergonomics, while lowering operational costs.
"Locus is clearly a winner in the flexible warehouse robotics space, and the consistency with which the Locus team has executed is extraordinary," said Zach Barasz of G2 Venture Partners. "We are thrilled to be investors in Locus Robotics, and to partner with the leading warehouse execution company in making global supply chains faster, more cost-effective, and more resilient and sustainable."
With more than 230 sites under contract around the world – some having as many as 500 LocusBots per site – the Locus solution efficiently and seamlessly orchestrates the operation and management of multiple robot form factors, and provides forward-looking, real-time business intelligence, critical for optimizing productivity, proactively managing labor, and managing costs.
"By 2026, 75% of large enterprises in product-centric businesses will have adopted some form of intralogistics robots in their warehouse operations," said Dwight Klappich, Analyst, Gartner. "The lower price of entry and faster time to value of robotics opens the market to more companies that can justify automation … as companies adopt robotics, most organizations will expand and scale their use of robotics within the enterprise, leading to fleet growth."
"As order volumes continue to increase and labor shortages persist worldwide, robotics automation is now a must-have for warehouse operators," said Ash Sharma, Managing Director, Interact Analysis. "Locus is uniquely positioned as a leader in digital transformation in this enormous global market as warehouse operators increasingly focus on scalability, fast ROI, and ease of deployment."
Locus partners with the world's leading warehouse operators to create a powerful synergy that speeds deployment and delivers powerful, actionable business intelligence to optimize warehouse productivity, cost management, and labor management.
"Our 5-year partnership with Locus has enabled DHL to deliver more resilient, flexible, and scalable supply chain solutions to our customers to support faster delivery, improve operational efficiency, and reduce employee workloads," said Sally Miller, CIO of DHL Supply Chain North America. "In that time, Locus's ability to integrate groundbreaking technologies into our operations seamlessly and in a targeted way has been a tremendous success for our customers' supply chains."
In September 2022, Locus reached a major milestone with its industry-first 1 billionth pick. It took Locus 1,542 days to pick its first 100 million units and just 40 days for the last 100 million picks. Locus robots now average more than three million picks per day around the world.
Locus counts more than 90 customers worldwide, including CEVA Logistics, DHL, Material Bank, Boots UK, GEODIS, Ryder, Verst Logistics, Radial, and others, who are consistently doubling and tripling their fulfillment productivity, with near-100% accuracy, using the Locus solution.
Also participating in the Series F round were Stack Capital Group, Next47, Stafford Capital Partners, HESTA, Newton Investment Management North America, Gray's Creek Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Hercules Capital, Inc., BOND, and Scale Venture Partners.
Locus Robotics' revolutionary, multi-bot solution incorporates powerful and intelligent autonomous mobile robots that operate collaboratively with human workers to dramatically improve piece‐handling, case-handling, and pallet-moving productivity 2X–3X, while optimizing labor and making efficient use of warehouse space. Locus helps retailers, 3PLs, and specialty warehouses efficiently meet and exceed the increasingly complex and demanding requirements of fulfillment environments. Easily integrating into large-scale new and existing warehouse infrastructures without disrupting workflows, Locus transforms productivity without transforming the warehouse.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Locus's EMEA presence is centrally located in Amsterdam, with APAC presence located in Singapore.
In 2022 alone, Locus Robotics has won more than 17 industry awards, including being named to the Inc. 500 for the second year in a row and a 2022 IFOY Award for its Autonomous Mobile Robot Solution in the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV/AMR) category.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Old Republic International Corporation (NYSE: ORI) today reported pretax income, excluding investment gains (losses), of $300.6 for the quarter and $1,058.6 for the full year 2022. Results are within our expectations, with General Insurance pretax operating income rising 34.6% for the quarter, while the effect of increasing mortgage interest rates contributed to a reduction in Title Insurance pretax operating income of 67.2%. Solid underwriting results drove a consolidated combined ratio of 89.6% for the quarter and 91.0% for the full year 2022.
Consolidated net premiums and fees earned were down 13.7% for the quarter, with Title Insurance net premiums and fees earned dropping 29.4% as a result of lower revenues in both direct and agency operations, while General Insurance net premiums earned grew 6.5%. For the year, consolidated net premiums and fees earned declined 4.1%, reflecting a decrease in Title Insurance of 13.0%, offset by growth in General Insurance of 7.1%. Net investment income increased in both 2022 periods. The increase for the quarter was primarily driven by higher investment yields earned, while the increase for the year reflects growth in the invested asset base and higher investment yields earned.
During the quarter, the Company returned total capital to shareholders of $243.7, comprised of $67.2 in dividends, and $176.4 of share repurchases (7.7 million shares at an average price of $22.70 per share). For the year, this results in total capital returned of $862.0, including $580.7 in dividends and $281.2 of share repurchases (12.6 million shares at an average price of $22.23 per share), leaving approximately $169 remaining under the current repurchase authorization as of December 31, 2022.
Book value per share was $21.05 as of December 31, 2022, reflecting declining fair market values in both the fixed income and equity portfolios during the year, partially offset by strong operating earnings. With the addition of dividends declared during the year, this was an increase of 0.9% over year-end 2021. During the quarter, fair market value appreciation within both portfolios and strong operating earnings drove a comparable increase of 12.5%.
Old Republic's business is managed for the long run. In this context management's key objectives are to achieve highly profitable operating results over the long term, and to ensure balance sheet strength for the primary needs of the insurance subsidiaries' underwriting and related services business. In this view, the evaluation of periodic and long-term results excludes consideration of all investment gains (losses). Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), however, net income, inclusive of investment gains (losses), is the measure of total profitability.
In management's opinion, the focus on income excluding investment gains (losses), also described herein as segment pretax operating income, provides a better way to analyze, evaluate, and establish accountability for the results of the insurance operations. The inclusion of realized investment gains (losses) in net income can mask trends in operating results, because such realizations are often highly discretionary. Similarly, the inclusion of unrealized investment gains (losses) in equity securities can further distort such operating results with significant period-to-period fluctuations.
We believe the information presented in the following table highlights the most meaningful indicators of ORI's segmented and consolidated financial performance. The information underscores the performance of our underwriting operations, as well as our sound investment of the capital and underwriting cash flows from these operations.
General Insurance net premiums earned increased 6.5% and 7.1% for the quarter and full year, respectively, driven by growth in most lines of coverage, in particular commercial auto. Premium rate increases for most lines of coverage, high renewal retention ratios, and new business production all contributed. Net investment income increased in the quarter, reflecting higher investment yields earned and to a lesser extent, growth in the invested asset base.
The reported loss ratio for General Insurance improved in the quarter, inclusive of favorable reserve development from prior periods and lower current period loss costs. Favorable development of 10.2% in the quarter came predominantly from the commercial auto and workers' compensation lines of coverage. The current period loss costs reflect several years of premium rate increases, underwriting actions, and a shift in the line of coverage mix.
The fourth quarter and full year expense ratios generally reflect the shift in line of coverage mix. Investments in new products and geographies in recent years have diversified the General Insurance business, resulting in shifts in the lines of coverage mix toward lines with higher expense ratios and lower current period loss ratios. The fourth quarter of 2021 included certain operating expense charges that did not occur in 2022.
Together, these factors produced highly profitable combined ratios and greater pretax operating income for the periods reported. For General Insurance, we target combined ratios between 90% and 95% over a full underwriting cycle, recognizing that quarterly and annual ratios and trends may deviate from this range, particularly given the long claim payment patterns associated with the business.
The following table shows recent annual and interim periods' loss ratios and the effects of loss development trends:
Title Insurance net premiums and fees earned declined by 29.4% and 13.0% for the fourth quarter and full year, respectively. Both directly produced and agency produced revenues declined, and we remain of the view that such revenues will continue to face headwinds into 2023. The main driver of these trends is increasing mortgage interest rates which continue to drive a steep reduction in refinance activity and to a lesser extent, purchase activity. An uptick in commercial transaction activity resulted in commercial premium growth during the quarter and full year. Net investment income increased for the year, reflecting growth in the invested asset base and higher investment yields earned, while growth in the quarter was primarily attributable to higher investment yields earned.
Title Insurance loss ratios decreased slightly for the quarter and full year due predominantly to higher levels of favorable development as a percentage of premium. The fourth quarter and full year expense ratios were elevated compared to the same periods last year, generally reflecting the combination of lower directly produced revenues that carry higher fixed expenses, and to a lesser extent, a greater proportion of agency produced revenues that have a higher overall expense ratio. The fourth quarter and full year expense ratios also reflect the impact of a fourth quarter state sales tax assessment payment of $17.2 (2.1 and 0.5 percentage points, respectively) for which the Company is currently pursuing recovery.
Together, these factors produced profitable combined ratios albeit lower pretax operating income for the periods reported.
The following table shows recent annual and interim periods' loss ratios and the effects of loss development trends:
Pretax operating results of RFIG Run-off reflect the continuing drop in net earned premiums in line with the declining risk in force. This quarter, higher current year loss costs and lower favorable reserve development from prior years resulted from moderation in cure trends and increasing claim severity. For the year, favorable reserve development was the primary driver of the reduction in loss costs. Net investment income decreased in both 2022 periods, reflecting a declining invested asset base, driven by the payment of extraordinary dividends of $35.0 and $140.0 to the parent company during the fourth quarter and full year, respectively, and lower investment yields earned.
The following table shows recent annual and interim periods' loss ratios and the effects of loss development trends:
This segment includes a small life and accident insurance business and the net costs associated with the parent holding company and several internal corporate services subsidiaries. The segment tends to produce highly variable results stemming from volatility inherent from the lack of scale. For the quarter, net investment income increased due to a higher investment yield earned on a slightly lower invested asset base attributable to the return of capital to shareholders. For the full year, interest expense increased due to the issuance of $650 million of debt late in the second quarter of 2021, partially offset by net investment income from a higher invested asset base and higher investment yields earned.
Old Republic's invested assets portfolio is directed in consideration of enterprise-wide risk management objectives. Most importantly, these are intended to ensure solid funding of the insurance subsidiaries' long-term claim payment obligations to policyholders and their beneficiaries, as well as the long-term stability of the subsidiaries' capital base. For these reasons, the investment portfolio does not contain high risk or illiquid asset classes and has zero or extremely limited exposure to, collateralized debt obligations (CDO's), credit default and interest rate swaps, hybrid securities, asset-backed securities (ABS), guaranteed investment contracts (GIC), structured investment vehicles (SIV), auction rate variable short-term securities, limited partnerships, derivatives, hedge funds or private equity investments. Moreover, the Company does not engage in hedging or securities lending transactions, nor does it invest in securities whose values are predicated on non-regulated financial instruments exhibiting amorphous or unfunded counter-party risk attributes.
As of December 31, 2022, the consolidated investment portfolio reflected an allocation of approximately 80% to fixed income (bonds and notes) and short-term investments, and 20% to equity securities (common stock). The fixed income portfolio continues to be the anchor for the insurance underwriting subsidiaries' obligations. The maturities of our fixed income assets are matched to the expected liabilities for claim payment obligations to policyholders and their beneficiaries. The quality of the investment portfolio remains at high levels.
A significant portion of our investable funds have been directed toward high-quality common stocks of U.S. companies. We favor those with long-term records of reasonable earnings growth and steadily increasing dividends. Pursuant to our enterprise risk management guidelines and controls, we perform regular stress tests of the equity portfolio to gain reasonable assurance that periodic downdrafts in market prices would not seriously undermine our financial strength and the long-term continuity and prospects of our insurance underwriting business.
Changes in shareholders' equity per share are reflected in the following table. As shown, these resulted mostly from net income excluding net investment gains (losses), realized and unrealized investment gains (losses), and dividend payments to shareholders.
Managing Old Republic's Insurance Business for the Long-Run
The insurance business is distinguished from most others in that the prices (premiums) charged for most products are set without knowing what the ultimate loss costs will be. We also can't know exactly when claims will be paid, which may be many years after a policy was issued or expired. This casts Old Republic as a risk-taking enterprise managed for the long run. Old Republic therefore conducts the business with a primary focus on achieving favorable underwriting results over cycles, and on maintaining a sound financial condition to support our subsidiaries' long-term obligations to policyholders and their beneficiaries.
The Company is managed for the long run and with little regard for quarterly or even annual reporting periods. These time frames are too short. Management believes results are best evaluated by looking at underwriting and overall operating performance trends over 10-year intervals. These likely include one or two economic and/or underwriting cycles. This provides enough time for these cycles to run their course, for underwriting and premium rate changes to appear in financial results, and for reserved loss costs to be quantified with greater certainty.
Accompanying Financial Data and Other Information:
- About Old Republic
- Conference Call Information
- Safe Harbor Statement
Financial Supplement:
- A financial supplement to this news release is available on the Company's website: www.oldrepublic.com
About Old Republic
Chicago-based Old Republic International Corporation is one of the nation's 50 largest shareholder-owned insurance businesses. It is a member of the Fortune 500 listing of America's largest companies. The Company is organized as an insurance holding company whose subsidiaries actively market, underwrite, and provide risk management services for a wide variety of coverages mostly in the general and title insurance fields. Old Republic's general insurance business ranks among the nation's 50 largest, while its title insurance business is the third largest in its industry.
Conference Call Information
Old Republic has scheduled a conference call at 3:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. CT) today to discuss its fourth quarter 2022 performance and to review major operating trends and business developments. The call can be accessed live on Old Republic's website at www.oldrepublic.com or by dialing 1-888-510-2411, passcode 4060501. Interested parties may also listen to a replay of the call through February 2, 2023 by dialing 1-800-770-2030, passcode 4060501, or by accessing it on Old Republic International's website.
Safe Harbor Statement
Historical data pertaining to the operating results, liquidity, and other performance indicators applicable to an insurance enterprise such as Old Republic are not necessarily indicative of results to be achieved in succeeding years. In addition to the factors cited below, the long-term nature of the insurance business, seasonal and annual patterns in premium production and incidence of claims, changes in yields obtained on invested assets, changes in government policies and free markets affecting inflation rates and general economic conditions, and changes in legal precedents or the application of law affecting the settlement of disputed and other claims can have a bearing on period-to-period comparisons and future operating results.
Some of the oral or written statements made in the Company's reports, press releases, and conference calls following earnings releases, can constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, uncertainties, and risks that may affect the Company's future performance. With regard to Old Republic's General Insurance segment, its results can be particularly affected by the level of market competition, which is typically a function of available capital and expected returns on such capital among competitors, the levels of investment yields and inflation rates, and periodic changes in claim frequency and severity patterns caused by natural disasters, weather conditions, accidents, illnesses, work-related injuries, and unanticipated external events. Title Insurance and RFIG Run-off results can be affected by similar factors, and by changes in national and regional housing demand and values, the availability and cost of mortgage loans, employment trends, and default rates on mortgage loans. Life and accident insurance earnings can be affected by the levels of employment and consumer spending, changes in mortality and health trends, and alterations in policy lapsation rates. At the parent holding company level, operating earnings or losses are generally reflective of the amount of debt outstanding and its cost, interest income on temporary holdings of short-term investments, and period-to-period variations in the costs of administering the Company's widespread operations.
General Insurance, Title Insurance, Corporate & Other, and RFIG Run-off maintain customer information and rely upon technology platforms to conduct their business. As a result, each of them and the Company are exposed to cyber risk. Many of the Company's operating subsidiaries maintain separate IT systems which are deemed to reduce enterprise-wide risks of potential cybersecurity incidents. However, given the potential magnitude of a significant breach, the Company continually evaluates on an enterprise-wide basis its IT hardware, security infrastructure and business practices to respond to these risks and to detect and remediate in a timely manner significant cybersecurity incidents or business process interruptions.
A more detailed listing and discussion of the risks and other factors which affect the Company's risk-taking insurance business are included in Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors, of the Company's 2021 Form 10-K Annual Report filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is specifically incorporated herein by reference.
Any forward-looking statements or commentaries speak only as of their dates. Old Republic undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any and all such comments, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, and accordingly they may not be unduly relied upon.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Thursday denied bond — again — for Atlanta rapper Young Thug, one of nearly 30 people charged in a 65-count indictment alleging he is the leader of a criminal street gang.
Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville heard a slew of outstanding motions in the case against the musician, whose real name is Jeffery Williams. Rapper Gunna, whose legal name is Sergio Kitchens, is also charged in the racketeering and gang case. Both men have been in jail since their May arrests.
The musicians are accused of conspiring to violate Georgia’s criminal racketeering law, but the indictment outlines more serious crimes allegedly carried out by “Young Slime Life” associates ranging from drug possession to murder.
Of the 28 people charged, three remain at large, while at least eight who are in custody still don’t have attorneys, prosecutors told the judge, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
So far, Glanville has not granted bond to any of the defendants, citing concerns about witness intimidation and the possibility that additional felonies may be committed ahead of January’s trial. Williams’ attorneys have repeatedly asked that their client be given an ankle monitor and allowed to await trial on house arrest.
Appearing via video conferencing from the Cobb County jail, Williams smiled and blew kisses at relatives gathered in the courtroom during breaks in Thursday’s proceedings.
“Mr. Williams is an artist, a role model, a father and a son,” attorney Brian Steel told the judge, urging the rapper be released.
But his request was denied for the third time when Glanville sided with prosecutors to keep the musician behind bars.
The decision came after Glanville heard of at least one associate planning to testify against Williams being placed in protective custody after a document posted online showed his willingness to cooperate.
Fulton County prosecutor Don Geary asked the judge to further restrict the disclosure of certain evidence ahead of trial, saying a page from discovery that was recently shared online jeopardizes the witness’ safety.
“We found a lot of information concerning one of our witnesses on basically a (celebrity news) outlet,” Geary told Glanville.
Defense attorneys contend that YSL, or Young Stoner Life, is simply the name of Young Thug’s record label, not a violent Atlanta street gang as prosecutors allege.
Thursday’s hearing wasn’t the first time prosecutors have raised concerns about the safety of state’s witnesses. Glanville previously issued a temporary order instructing defense attorneys to withhold witness contact information from their clients.
But Kristen Novay, one of Kitchens’ attorneys, asked prosecutors for proof that potential witnesses are actually being threatened.
“We want to know what specific threats there are,” Novay said. “There have been many allegations that there are threats to witnesses, and to date we have received no discovery, not a single shred of evidence from a witness who was actually threatened.”
In June, an 18-year-old relative of one of the defendants was arrested after allegedly threatening to kill the Fulton County sheriff and his wife unless Williams were released, authorities said, the newspaper reported. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/atlanta-rapper-young-thug-again-denied-bond-in-criminal-case/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-19 00:17:51 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/atlanta-rapper-young-thug-again-denied-bond-in-criminal-case/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves reinstated left-hander A.J. Minter from the 15-day injured list on Monday and optioned right-hander AJ Smith-Shawver to Triple-A Gwinnett.
Minter is 3-5 with a 4.91 ERA and 10 saves.
Smith-Shawver, a 20-year-old rookie, allowed three runs in five innings and did not receive a decision in Sunday’s 8-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. He is 1-0 with a 4.56 ERA in five games, including four starts.
Smith-Shawver’s spot in the rotation could be filled by the expected return of left-hander Max Fried from the injured list. Fried has been out since May 6 with a strained left forearm.
Also, infielder Charlie Culberson was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for infielder Nicky Lopez, who was acquired from the Kansas City Royals in a trade for left-hander Taylor Hearn on Sunday.
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Republicans are wrestling with whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the likely 2024 presidential hopeful, should — or even can — soften his staunchly conservative brand enough to win a national election.
DeSantis built a reputation as a relentless political firebrand who was willing to push a long list of policies that endeared himself to conservatives nationwide. And as he prepares for a likely presidential bid, he’s not showing any signs of dialing it down.
But while that may help him stand out in a Republican primary that will be decided by the GOP’s most conservative and loyal voters, some in the party are unsure if his views will appeal to a broader swath of the electorate in a 2024 general election.
“It’s a legitimate concern that’s going to have to be dealt with at some point,” said Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist who served as a senior aide to Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential run, while noting that DeSantis’s top priority right now is winning the primary against former President Trump. “Right now, his focus on cultural issues doesn’t really play as cleanly in the areas of the country that really matter in a general election, which are the suburban areas around the United States.”
Florida’s annual legislative session is set to begin on Tuesday, and state Republican lawmakers are poised to hand DeSantis a new round of victories on a number of his policy priorities. Among them are proposals to allow Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit, ban diversity and equity programs at public colleges and universities and weaken state laws that protect the news media from lawsuits.
The session could also eventually include an effort to further restrict abortion in the state. While DeSantis signed a 15-week ban on the procedure into law last year, he has faced pressure from anti-abortion groups to go further, though he has not said exactly what restrictions he would support.
The expected policy victories could help give DeSantis a jolt of momentum heading into a presidential campaign. While he’s said little about his 2024 intentions, DeSantis is widely expected to announce a White House bid sometime after the state legislature wraps up its session in May.
He also recently ramped up his public appearances and travel schedule, making stops in Texas and California over the weekend. He’s also set to make his debut appearance in Iowa on Friday.
Of course, he’ll still have to win the GOP nomination before he can begin worrying about a general election campaign, and early polling shows him running in second place behind Trump in a hypothetical primary that could include more than a dozen candidates.
But DeSantis’s hard-right agenda has already made him a target of Democrats as they gear up for a potential face-off with the Florida governor in 2024.
President Biden tweaked DeSantis over his refusal to expand Medicaid in Florida during a visit to Tampa last month, while the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has put out a steady stream of talking points labeling him as an extremist and successor to Trump’s “MAGA agenda.”
Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist, said that DeSantis’s ultra-conservative persona would be a “tremendous liability” in a national general election campaign, adding that the “further he goes not just to the right, but really to the farthest realms of the radical right, it’ll be harder and harder for him to tack back to the center.”
“DeSantis has basically tailored his entire campaign and persona specifically to cater to a hard-right audience and build a hard-right agenda,” Reinish said. “That’s beyond a tough sell, even to a center right Republican, much less to a moderate Democrat.”
Democrats also say that they have a long list of material to work with: his lax approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, a state law that bans instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools from kindergarten to third grade and his openness to signing further abortion restrictions — an issue that hobbled Republicans in other parts of the country in last year’s midterm elections.
But DeSantis’s allies say there’s little reason for him to soften his approach, noting that he won reelection last year in a 19-point landslide despite Democratic efforts to cast him as a far-right ideologue.
Instead, they argue that DeSantis’s core message — that his “anti-woke” policies are simply intended to remove politics from daily life — has resonance with independent voters and even some moderate Democrats.
“If you’re running for president, I think you’re always going to have to ask how to make your message palatable to the most people possible,” one Republican consultant said. “But this whole idea that you should be able to teach third graders about gender identity at school? I think there’s a lot of Americans out there who are going to look at the governor and believe that he’s doing the right thing.”
Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist and former congressional candidate, put it bluntly: “There is going to be no moderation” if DeSantis makes it to the general election.
“There’s always one or two issues that you can say Republicans are pushing the envelope on. But when it comes to school curriculum, illegal immigration, non-citizens voting in elections, sexual identity curriculum, are they really pushing the envelope?” he said.
“A lot of the issues that DeSantis fights back on loudly are the issues that the small 10 percent of persuadable voters actually agree with him on.”
But DeSantis is still untested on the national stage, having never run for office outside of his home state. Democrats say he’s liable to run into tougher resistance nationally than he ever has in Florida, where a lack of Democratic organization and infrastructure has hobbled the party’s ability to rally opposition to DeSantis.
“He rushes straight in on identity politics and culture war stuff, and I think a lot of that has to do with Florida Democrats not being able to counter that,” Thomas Kennedy, a Democratic National Committee member from Florida, said. “But the rest of the country isn’t Florida and a general election isn’t a Republican primary.” | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/desantis-faces-2024-dilemma-over-his-conservative-brand/ | 2023-03-07 12:06:44 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/desantis-faces-2024-dilemma-over-his-conservative-brand/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Legislature passes six-week abortion ban, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis expected to sign it.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Legislature passes six-week abortion ban, with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis expected to sign it. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/alert-florida-legislature-passes-six-week-17896080.php | 2023-04-13 20:56:56 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/alert-florida-legislature-passes-six-week-17896080.php |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Mary Bassett said in a statement Friday that she was “leaving now so the next commissioner can have the chance to lead this great department for a full 4-year term under the leadership of Gov. Hochul.”
“This was a very difficult decision,” Bassett said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, won her first full term in the November election, after having taken the office in 2021 following the resignation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Hochul said in a statement that Bassett led the Department of Health during “one of the most challenging public health eras of our lifetimes,” battling the coronavirus, mpox and polio outbreaks. She thanked Bassett for her service.
Mpox is a virus previously known as monkeypox, because it was first seen in research monkeys. The World Health Organization changed the name to mpox last month, saying the original name could be construed as stigmatizing and racist.
Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner, became the state health commissioner on Dec. 1, 2021, taking over for Howard Zucker.
Zucker resigned after facing backlash for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including the Cuomo administration’s decision to downplay the extent of how many people were dying of COVID-19, particularly in nursing homes.
Before becoming state health commissioner, Bassett worked at Harvard, where she was director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a professor at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-ny-state-health-commissioner-resigning-to-return-to-harvard/ | 2022-12-03 21:12:27 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-ny-state-health-commissioner-resigning-to-return-to-harvard/ |
KFC employee used customers’ card info to make thousands of dollars worth of purchases, deputies say
STARKE, Fla. (Gray News) – An employee at a KFC in Florida was arrested after police said she was taking photos of customers’ credit and debit cards and then using the information to make online purchases.
According to the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office, the incidents occurred at a KFC location in Starke, about 50 miles southwest of Jacksonville.
The sheriff’s office said Markquerva Lumar, 19, was arrested April 21.
Deputies said investigation revealed that when customers would hand Lumar their credit or debit cards in the drive-thru window, she would take photos of the front and back of the cards with her personal cell phone. Deputies said Lumar would then use the card information to make online orders in the victims’ names.
According to the sheriff’s office, they have located “many” victims of Lumar, totaling thousands of dollars in online purchases.
Deputies said they want to stress that these crimes “in no way reflects on the business or the rest of the employees who work hard and do the right thing every day.” Other employees at the location have cooperated with law enforcement and have helped locate victims.
Detectives are still seeking additional victims and ask them to call 904-966-6370.
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Microsoft will cut 10,000 workers over the next few months, CEO Satya Nadella announced in a statement released on Wednesday.
Layoffs will begin immediately, according to the statement.
The cuts, which affect less than 5% of the company's workforce, come as Microsoft customers pull back on spending, Nadella said. He added that the company is also looking to expand in new areas, including artificial intelligence.
"[T]he next major wave of computing is being born with advances in AI," he said.
Microsoft is reportedly set to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the parent behind popular AI writing tool ChatGPT, according to Semafor.
The cuts at Microsoft follow a wave of reductions across the tech industry.
Amazon announced it would lay off 18,000 workers, or about 1% of corporate jobs, earlier this month, citing an uncertain economy.
That same day, Salesforce announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs, or about 10% of its workforce.
As corporate leaders brace for a recession this year, companies around the world are planning to shrink their workforce.
Tech, health care, banking and finance are likely to see the biggest job cuts in 2023, according to Sarah Rodehorst, CEO and co-founder of Onwards HR, which helps companies carry out layoffs. She previously spoke with NPR.
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs said it was planning to lay off about 3,200 employees in one of the biggest cuts since the 2008 financial crisis.
On Wednesday, Microsoft said it will continue hiring in some "key strategic areas."
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The first thing Veronica Mata sees when she wakes up each day is her 10-year-old daughter, Tess, smiling down at her from a photo perched on her bedside table.
Speaking to the silent image of the child she lost in one of the United States’ most notorious mass shootings, Mata asks for the fortitude to go on and to be a good teacher.
“I just look at it and I just tell her, ‘Tess, give me the strength, baby girl. Help me get up.’”
Throughout the day, every day, Mata carries her daughter with her: “Tess 10″ is written on her license plate. Dangling from the silver bracelet she wears on her left wrist is a charm that reads, “Uvalde Strong.” The slogan, adopted by other U.S. cities after mass killings, became the mantra of her town after Tess, 18 other fourth-grade students and their two teachers were gunned down at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022.
In a decade replete with mass killings, many of them involving shootings, Uvalde stands out — both for the young age of most of its victims and the abysmal law enforcement response. Nearly 400 heavily armed officials rushed to the school but waited more than an hour before one of them confronted and killed the shooter. Outraged families of children slain have demanded answers and accountability. One year after the killings, they haven’t gotten much of either.
Yet, like the survivors and relatives of victims struck down in previous mass shootings, the people of Uvalde must find ways to keep going, even as they stop to commemorate the tragedy’s first anniversary.
Mata finds it helps to have a daily routine: During her short commute to her job at Dalton Elementary School, she listens to Olivia Rodrigo, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift, artists featured in a playlist that Tess put together just weeks before her death.
Mata drives through the middle of town: past the Civic Center where she found out Tess had been killed, and through the town square, where crosses memorialize all 21 lives lost. Then a couple of blocks behind the square to visit a colorful mural honoring her daughter’s life.
The lifelike painted portrait — one of numerous murals gracing the sides of buildings throughout Uvalde in honor of each of the victims — shows a smiling Tess making the peace sign with her right hand. Just behind her is the image of one of the players from her beloved Houston Astros baseball team and of herself in uniform, holding a bat. “I can’t, I have softball,” proclaims a large emblem pasted next to it. A painted version of her beloved cat Oliver ambles along the wall toward her. A TikTok logo on the mural is a reminder of how Tess loved to imitate viral dances — her renditions still exist on her mother’s phone.
Mata parks, says good morning, and then drives away.
TEACHING THROUGH GRIEF
Mata, a kindergarten teacher at Dalton Elementary School, returned to the classroom at the start of the 2022-2023 school year for her 12th year.
She wonders how she would keep her students safe if a shooter were to enter her classroom at a time when mass killings across the country are surpassing record levels.
“Where am I going to hide 20 students?” she remembers asking her husband when she cleaned out the room last summer.
She has since reorganized her cabinets so that they can be hidden behind and cleaned out closets to create potential hiding places.
THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING
It was late on the morning of May 24, 2022, when Mata was told that both Tess’ school, Robb Elementary, and then her own were on lockdown. In and of itself, that wasn’t terribly alarming; schools often took such action, she said, in response to frequent police chases involving people trying to illegally cross the Texas-Mexico border just an hour away.
But when other teachers began receiving calls that there was a shooter inside Robb, her heart began to hammer in her chest. She called her husband, Jerry, who was already driving toward the school, and stayed on the phone with him as he moved onto streets overflowing with police and first responders.
Then, she heard gunfire. The shots, her husband told her, had come from the side of the building housing their daughter’s fourth-grade wing. He said he had to go and hung up. Mata tried contacting Tess’ teachers, who were usually quick to respond to texts and emails. No answer.
After getting permission from her own principal to leave, Mata raced to the town’s Civic Center, where buses were dropping off Robb students, and anxiously eyed a list of classrooms that had been safely evacuated. Tess’ was not one of them.
She and her husband were rerouted to the hospital, but were told nobody matching Tess’ description had been admitted. An official told her she could get more information by returning to the Civic Center. There, at 11:30 p.m., she said she and her husband experienced “what no mother and father should have to go through:” the news that Tess had been killed.
IT’S NOT THE SAME TOWN ANYMORE
Uvalde — its landscape and its aura — have been forever changed by the killings. Visitors who once passed through on their way to the Frio River now slow down to view crosses set up at the entrance to the small town; the “Uvalde Strong” written in chipped paint on storefronts; and the abandoned Robb Elementary School building, which remains shuttered and guarded daily by state troopers.
School lockdowns and drills are commonplace as tensions rise along the nearby international border.
“Kids who I know that were in Tess’ classroom … they are scared to death every day,” Mata said. “No amount of drills, no amount of training can ever prepare you for a type of war like that.”
On Tuesdays, Mata and other victims’ families make the three-hour trek to the capital of Austin to advocate for gun safety legislation in the nation’s largest red state. Attempts to raise the minimum buying age for semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 were shut down in both GOP-led legislative chambers, despite a few Republican votes in support.
AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING GRIEF
Memories of May 24 haunt Mata and her husband. There are days, she says, when she needs to step outside her classroom to collect herself or talk out her grief.
That’s when she turns to a fellow teacher who she says was “the last one to ever give my baby a hug,” following an awards ceremony at Robb Elementary.
The friend told her: “She picked up her glasses, like she always does, and runs, and I give her the biggest hug ever and she says, ‘Tell my mom I say hi and I love her.’”
TRYING TO SAY GOODBYE
Recently, Veronica and Jerry celebrated their eldest daughter, Faith’s, graduation from Texas State University. Tess had been learning to swim so that she could join her sister in the tradition of jumping in the nearby river after commencement.
This summer, the family plans to put everything in Tess’ bedroom back to the way she left it before flooding forced them to move some of her belongings. Gifts they have received from people in her memory — preserved roses, knickknacks, art, a signed Astros jersey — cover every spot in the room except one, on the bed, where Oliver the cat patiently awaits her return.
A DAILY VISIT
When the school day is over, Mata goes home, has dinner with her husband, then takes a trip to the cemetery.
She carefully cleans her daughter’s grave, a polished gray granite headstone embellished with Tess’ photo, then sits in front of it on a black marble bench decorated with butterflies in Tess’ favorite lavender and teal colors. She tells Tess about her day, of her conversations with Faith, and how things went in Austin that week. And she asks her daughter for advice on the best path forward, for strength to carry on another day.
“All right, baby, I will see you later. I love you,” Mata says, walking away.
She’ll be back tomorrow. | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-uvalde-victims-mother-perseveres-through-teaching-connecting-with-daughters-memory/ | 2023-05-25 04:20:05 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-uvalde-victims-mother-perseveres-through-teaching-connecting-with-daughters-memory/ |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man visiting a patient at a Little Rock-area hospital was shot dead Wednesday by a person he knew, and the suspect was arrested about an hour later at a gas station, police said.
Sherwood Police Chief Jeff Hagar said police found 21-year-old Leighton Whitfield dead on the fourth floor of CHI St. Vincent North in Sherwood, which was on lockdown as authorities responded to reports of the shooting
A little over an hour after the shooting, 24-year-old Raymond Lovett was taken into custody by Little Rock police at an Exxon station about 15 miles from the hospital. Charges had not been filed yet against Lovett, Hagar said Wednesday afternoon.
“It appears to be an isolated event that just happened to take place in a public facility,” Hagar said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
A hospital spokesman said the hospital’s lockdown had been lifted early Wednesday afternoon.
Sherwood is a city of about 33,000 people located northeast of Little Rock.
Hospital workers could be seen meeting colleagues and loved ones in the parking lot of an Academy Sports store near the medical center. Law enforcement from multiple agencies responded.
The shooting occurred months after four people were shot dead at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital by a gunman who also killed himself. Police said the gunman in that shooting blamed the doctor, who was one of the four victims, for his continuing pain after a recent back operation and bought an AR-style rifle just hours before the rampage.
Experts said that shooting and other incidents highlight the vulnerabilities of health care facilities.
CHI St. Vincent North opened in 1999, and more than 200 physicians and staff work at the facility, according to the hospital’s website.
CHI St. Vincent Chief Executive Officer Chad Aduddell said the hospital will debrief and review its security protocols following the incident. He praised police for their quick response to the shooting and the hospital’s physicians and employees for their work during it.
“I can’t express in words how brave they were,” he said. “In the face of the unknown, they didn’t yield, they were still there to take care of their patients, they didn’t know what was going on but nonetheless were willing and ready to take care of their patients.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-1-person-shot-dead-at-arkansas-hospital-1-in-custody/ | 2022-09-29 03:59:22 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-1-person-shot-dead-at-arkansas-hospital-1-in-custody/ |
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa’s climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday.
The DRC government will auction 30 oil and gas blocks in the Cuvette-Centrale Peatlands in the Congo Basin forest — the world’s largest tropical peatland. Peatland soils are known as ‘carbon sinks’ because packed into them are immense stores of carbon that get released into the atmosphere when the ecosystem is disturbed.
Some of the areas, or blocs, marked for oil leasing lie within Africa’s iconic first conservation area, the Virunga National Park, created in 1925 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to the last bastion of mountain gorillas.
The Congo basin covers 530 million hectares (1.3 billion acres) in central Africa and represents 70% of the continent’s forested land. It hosts over a thousand bird species and more primates than any other place in the world, including the great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees and Bonobos.
People are at risk, too. Members of the Mbuti and Baka people could be displaced or evicted.
The move by the Congo-Kinshasa Ministry of Hydrocarbons has angered environmentalists and climate activists who say that oil drilling will pose significant risks to a continent already inundated by harsh climate effects. The Centre for International Forest Research puts the massive Cuvette-Centrale carbon sink at 145,000 square kilometers (56,000 square miles) and said it stores up to 20 years’ equivalent of the carbon emissions emitted by the United States.
Other blocs the DRC plans to auction include some located on Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, and one in a coastal region alongside the Albertine-Grabben region, the western side of the Eastern African Rift Valley system.
“These are the last refuges of nature biodiversity,” and our last carbon sinks, said Ken Mwathe, of BirdLife International in Africa. “We must not sacrifice these valuable natural assets for damaging development.”
The auction of part of the Congo Basin rainforest, which represents 5% of the global tropical forests, comes barely a week after the International Union for the Conservation of Nature hosted the inaugural Africa Protected Areas Congress in Kigali, Rwanda. There, attendees resolved to strengthen protection of Africa’s key biodiversity hotspots.
The DRC is one of 17 nations in the world classified as “megadiverse.” In September last year, at the World Conservation Congress meeting in France, 137 resolutions dubbed the “Marseille Manifesto” highlighted the significant role the Congo Basin is expected to play in the global commitment to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030.
Last year at the U.N. climate conference COP26, a dozen donors dubbed the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, pledged some $1.5 billion “to working collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.”
The Democratic Republic’s carbon sponge is also at risk from large-scale logging, expansion of agriculture and the planned diversion of the Congo River’s waters into the shrinking Lake Chad.
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The Jan. 6 committee is holding what is expected to be its hearing. It will focus on the 187 minutes between when former President Donald Trump's Ellipse speech on Jan. 6 ended and his prerecorded video asking protesters to go home posted to Twitter later that afternoon.
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The service advertised by Care Net of Puget Sound might seem startling to those unfamiliar with crisis pregnancy centers.
“Reverse Your Abortion,” the organization’s website proclaims. If you’ve started a medical abortion, taking only the first of two drugs, “you can still change your mind.”
The proposed solution: a highly controversial treatment known as “abortion pill reversal.”
Care Net, a multisite organization that says it offers Biblical truth alongside ultrasounds and other support during pregnancy — but not abortions or birth control — directs those interested to an international reversal hotline that works with 27 Washington providers, according to Christa Brown, who oversees the ’round-the-clock hotline.
Backers say the weekslong treatment, designed to counter the first abortion pill, gives patients who regret their decision to have an abortion a likely way of continuing their pregnancies and having healthy babies.
“Everyone deserves a second chance,” Care Net medical director Dr. Bob Snyder tells patients referred to him by the hotline.
Critics, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, call the treatment unproven, unethical and possibly dangerous.
Abortion opponents nevertheless increasingly promote it as more and more people choose to end their pregnancies by medication. Abortion pills now account for roughly half of U.S. abortions, and that number is expected to go up in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. Because the pills can be discreetly mailed, some are using them to get around state restrictions.
The corresponding touting of reversal treatment has yielded one more flash point in the fever-pitched abortion debate, a quagmire now largely left to state law.
Eight states require medical professionals to provide information about reversal treatment before administering medication abortions, and a dozen more are considering similar laws, according to Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
The sprawling Seattle-based Planned Parenthood affiliate, which serves Idaho and Kentucky, complies with laws in those states by giving out “very basic information” about reversal treatment, according to spokesperson Katie Rodihan.
Still, abortion reversal does not appear to be widely sought.
“There just aren’t that many people who change their minds,” said Sarah Prager, a University of Washington professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
Only a handful of Prager’s abortion patients have expressed regret to her in 29 years, she said. A study of 667 American women who had abortions found 99% said it was the right decision five years later, according to a paper Prager co-authored.
Brown, a nurse with the anti-abortion group Heartbeat International, which runs the reversal hotline, said successful treatments have resulted in 3,500 babies born around the world over the past decade. She declined to share a comparable figure for Washington but said 14 women here started the process last year.
Snyder estimated he’s administered the treatment at least 20 times in four years and has had a success rate of about two-thirds. He said he doesn’t track precise numbers of reversal patients, or outcomes, because the patients come from all over Western Washington and often follow up with doctors closer to home.
“I just kind of get things started,” he said.
Parking-lot calls
The 68-year-old physician’s route to reversal treatment wasn’t a straight path.
He said there was an abortion in his life many years ago, declining to elaborate, and that he performed the procedure as a young doctor. He stopped when moving to a community that frowned on abortions, he said, and declined even to refer patients to other abortion providers after being challenged by his church group.
About 16 years ago, Snyder recalled, he started a part-time role at Care Net, which serves 10 locations in the Puget Sound region, including Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue. After learning more about reversal treatment, he joined Heartbeat’s network of providers.
Snyder said he understands how people could choose an abortion, given his personal experience, and tries to be empathetic with women seeking reversals. Sometimes, he said, loved ones pressure them to end their pregnancies, and they realize that’s not what they want.
It’s almost always a quick change of heart. Patients usually call within a couple days of taking the first abortion drug, mifepristone, which deprives a fetus of the progesterone needed to develop, and before taking the second drug, misoprostol, which causes contractions that expel the fetus.
Patients sometimes call the reversal hotline from abortion-clinic parking lots or while they’re driving home, according to Brown.
“They realize they made a mistake,” he said. “They’re asking us: Is there anything they can do differently?”
Snyder said immediately, before seeing a patient, he prescribes a course of progesterone, a drug more commonly used in birth control and hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. The drug is intended to counter the effect of the progesterone-blocking first abortion pill, and the sooner patients start taking it, the more likely it will be effective, Snyder said.
He’ll schedule an ultrasound for a day or two later to find out if the pregnancy is still viable, seeing patients in his office by St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way, where he mainly practices. If the pregnancy remains viable, he’ll have the patient continue taking progesterone until completing the 13th week of pregnancy. (The reversal protocol has varied over time and now involves at least two weeks of daily progesterone after a twice-a-day regimen for the first three days, Brown said.)
“I’ve seen that it works,” Snyder said of the treatment, adding that he’s stayed in touch with two women who had the treatment and went on to have babies. He said he’s aware of no complications after administering the treatment.
Skepticism, however, abounds.
‘Zero science behind it.’
In 2018, Dr. George Delgado, a family medicine doctor who works at a faith-based clinic in California, co-authored a study of 754 patients who attempted abortion pill reversal through a variety of progesterone doses and methods of receiving it. The most effective protocols resulted in continued pregnancies between 64% and 68% of the time — more than twice the rate than if patients had taken only the first abortion drug but not the second, according to the study.
That comparison could be misleading. Averaging the results of different studies, Prager puts the rate of continued pregnancies with just the first abortion drug at 50%.
But that’s just the start of many criticisms of Delgado’s work and a few smaller, similar studies. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, though not specifically naming the report on 754 patients, says that studies supporting abortion reversal “have had… no ethics approval, no control group, under-reporting of data, and no reported safety outcomes.”
“There is zero science behind it,” said Dr. Mitchell Creinin, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of California, Davis. In particular, Creinin said, Delgado and his co-authors didn’t report what happened to the women who didn’t keep their pregnancies.
“Maybe they all died. Maybe they all hemorrhaged. We don’t know,” Creinin said.
Delgado said he didn’t receive reports of hospitalizations or other adverse effects among the study’s participants, but he also acknowledged a limited ability to track patients whose pregnancies didn’t continue. They wanted to get on with their lives, he said.
“We knew that it wasn’t going to be a final study,” Delgado said. “When you have a new concept, you have studies that build upon each other, and the earliest studies are not as comprehensive as the later studies.”
Creinin embarked on his own study in 2019, working with a Planned Parenthood provider and other colleagues. They planned to enroll 40 patients but stopped the study after 12 because three people experienced severe hemorrhaging, one requiring a transfusion.
Two of the three had taken a placebo, and the heavily bleeding patient who had taken progesterone required no intervention at the hospital.
While Delgado claimed that study supported the safety of abortion pill reversal, Creinin and other medical providers drew a different conclusion: There’s a risk to taking mifepristone on its own, not in combination with the second abortion drug.
It’s immaterial whether the patients took progesterone or a placebo, as Creinin sees it.
The Federal Drug Administration said in a statement that it has not approved progesterone for abortion reversal treatment, but unapproved, “off-label” use of a drug is acceptable when providers “judge that it is medically appropriate.”
Meanwhile, reversal proponents and critics say the debate is as much political as scientific. Proponents allege those in the “pro-choice” movement are actually trying to limit the choices of pregnant patients, while critics contend the treatment is being hyped to falsely suggest that people often regret abortions.
Heather Vasquez, executive director of Next Step Pregnancy Services in Lynnwood, said reversal treatment may not become prevalent until more research is done and more people know about it.
“Not everybody thinks it’s a real thing,” she said.
Like Snyder, though, Vasquez said she’s talked to women who have had babies because of the reversal procedure. So in addition to offering pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a baby boutique and opportunities to talk about post-abortion emotions, Next Step plans to offer abortion pill reversal as soon as it can find a provider. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/can-you-reverse-abortions-some-say-yes-others-call-the-treatment-unethical-possibly-dangerous/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-08-15 14:11:49 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/can-you-reverse-abortions-some-say-yes-others-call-the-treatment-unethical-possibly-dangerous/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 17, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
751 PM EDT Sun Jul 17 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern Schuyler
and southern Steuben Counties through 845 PM EDT...
At 750 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near West Cameron to near Troupsburg. Movement
was east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Corning, Bath, Campbell, Caton, Lindley, Painted Post, Addison,
Woodhull, Hornby and Tyrone.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 86/Route 17 between 36 and 47.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4238 7750 4245 7692 4229 7695 4228 7697
4200 7701 4200 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 260DEG 23KT 4230 7746 4203 7760
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Netflix has had a tough couple years.
After a streaming boom early in the pandemic, the company's stock price sank as consumers began leaving their houses again. Backlash over decisions regarding controversial comic Dave Chappelle furthered the narrative that the TV giant was on the wrong side of the cultural conversation.
Declining subscriber numbers, a few rounds of layoffs and a sublease of its offices in the Bay Area implied that the streaming service was truly on the ropes.
The current solution seems to be stopping your parents (or adult kids, or ex-boyfriend, or college roommate from 10 years ago) from logging into your Netflix account.
In what looks like an effort to drum up more revenue, Netflix is now policing the sharing of account passwords, a practice that reportedly applies to 100 million users. Essentially, users must log in to their account once a month from their primary residence. It began testing the policy in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru to widespread criticism (including from SFGATE politics reporter Alec Regimbal).
On Wednesday, Netflix released a blog post announcing that the new policy is spreading faster than the zombie plague in "The Last of Us." The new sharing rules now apply in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. The move has been hedged with the option to add a "sub account," essentially allowing people outside of a household to use the same account. Fees for sub accounts amount to roughly to $5 to $6 in U.S. currency, a few bucks cheaper than Netflix's basic $9.99 plan. It is unclear how these sub accounts will clash with Netflix's rules on simultaneous streaming. Currently on its basic plans, only one device can stream Netflix at a time, whereas the standard plan allows two concurrent streams from separate locations, and premium members get four streams.
For now, there's no word on when the policy will spread to the United States (despite an "accidental" posting of the policy stateside), but don't expect that borrowed Netflix password to last forever.
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Hulu's 'The Dropout' reveals a new side of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes | https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/netflix-password-sharing-policy-spread-17772604.php | 2023-02-09 00:41:50 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/netflix-password-sharing-policy-spread-17772604.php |
(KTLA) — Actress Anne Heche likely died as a result of the fire that broke out after her car crashed into a home earlier this month, authorities say.
Her death about a week after the fiery wreck in Mar Vista was due to smoke inhalation and “thermal injuries,” the Los Angeles County Coroner announced Wednesday. The coroner added that the manner of death was an “accident,” and that Heche suffered a “sternal fracture due to blunt trauma.”
Witnesses recorded video of Heche speeding through city streets before crashing into the two-story home and sparking a fire on August 5. A Venice salon owner spoke with Nexstar’s KTLA, saying Heche had visited his store minutes before the crash.
Authorities believe Heche was under the influence of cocaine and possibly other drugs at the time of the crash, TMZ reported over the weekend.
Heche was removed from life support on Sunday after her organs were harvested for donation. She was 53.
The Ohio native, who won an Emmy Award for the NBC soap opera “Another World,” was also known for roles in the movies “Donnie Brasco” and “Six Days, Seven Nights,” as well as her high-profile relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
After her split from DeGeneres, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California. Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented, and spoke incoherently to the residents.
In her memoir “Call Me Crazy,” Heche talked about her lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse.
Over the past two decades, Heche’s career pivoted several times. In 2017, she hosted a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Jason Ellis called “Love and Heche.”
In 2020, Heche made her way into the podcast world. She launched “Better Together” which she cohosted alongside Heather Duffy Boylston. The show was described as a way to celebrate friendship.
She also worked in smaller films, on Broadway, and on TV shows. She recently had recurring roles on the network series “Chicago P.D.,” “All Rise,” and was a contestant on Season 29 of “Dancing With the Stars.”
Heche was married to camera operator Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009. The two had a son, Homer, together. She had another son, named Atlas, during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series “Men In Trees.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/anne-heches-cause-of-death-revealed/ | 2022-08-18 02:12:25 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/anne-heches-cause-of-death-revealed/ |
Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members – even if they’re dead.
The capability, unveiled at Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of provided recording.
Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa, said at the event Wednesday that the desire behind the feature was to build greater trust in the interactions users have with Alexa by putting more “human attributes of empathy and affect.”
“These attributes have become even more important during the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost ones that we love,” Prasad said. “While AI can’t eliminate that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last.”
In a video played by Amazon at the event, a young child asks “Alexa, can Grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?” Alexa then acknowledges the request, and switches to another voice mimicking the child’s grandmother. The voice assistant then continues to read the book in that same voice.
To create the feature, Prasad said the company had to learn how to make a “high-quality voice” with a shorter recording, opposed to hours of recording in a studio. Amazon did not provide further details about the feature, which is bound to spark more privacy concerns and ethical questions about consent.
Amazon’s push comes as competitor Microsoft earlier this week said it was scaling back its synthetic voice offerings and setting stricter guidelines to “ensure the active participation of the speaker” whose voice is recreated. Microsoft said Tuesday it is limiting which customers get to use the service — while also continuing to highlight acceptable uses such as an interactive Bugs Bunny character at AT&T stores.
“This technology has exciting potential in education, accessibility, and entertainment, and yet it is also easy to imagine how it could be used to inappropriately impersonate speakers and deceive listeners,” said a blog post from Natasha Crampton, who heads Microsoft’s AI ethics division. | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/amazons-alexa-could-soon-mimic-voice-of-dead-relatives/ | 2022-06-23 18:47:26 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/amazons-alexa-could-soon-mimic-voice-of-dead-relatives/ |
From paint to portable grills, Lowe's now offering nearly 30,000 items for delivery straight to your door – in as fast as an hour via Instacart
MOORESVILLE, N.C. and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the seasons change and homeowners gear up to begin tackling fall projects to get their homes ready for guests, Lowe's is making it easier for everyone to enjoy the holidays. Lowe's and Instacart today announced that same-day delivery is now available from more than 1,700 Lowe's stores nationwide.
Nearly 30,000 items can be ordered for delivery in as fast as an hour, freeing up customers to spend more time sprucing up, decorating and making holiday memories this fall. Lowe's is one of the first retailers on the Instacart App to roll out same-day and scheduled delivery for large items, up to 3x3x5 feet and 60 pounds. Without ever having to leave the yard, customers can order small Halloween inflatables, fire pit essentials and even small portable grills to be delivered from the store to their door.
Customers can also purchase those just-right holiday gifts such as smart home products, hand tools and electronics, along with fall accessories like pillows, blankets and outdoor string lights, all available for delivery in as fast as an hour from their local store.
"Lowe's knows how much this time of year means to our customers. Whether they are rounding out their Halloween decorating or getting started on holiday prep and gifting, we're able to offer more products, more convenience and more value for customers as we continue to improve the shopping experience in-store and online," said Mike Shady, Lowe's senior vice president of online. "We're excited to open up this new fulfillment offering across the U.S. for customers to shop for all of their project needs."
Lowe's piloted same-day delivery via Instacart in select markets in February and is Instacart's leading national home improvement partner. Lowe's now offers same-day delivery from stores across all 50 states and Washington D.C. In addition to the expanded assortment of household and home and garden essentials, from grass seed to garden hoses, Lowe's is one of the only retailers today that sells non-mixed paint on the Instacart App, offering non-tinted paint and assorted paint supplies for customers.
"As the seasons change, we know customers are thinking about how to get their homes ready for fall," said Chris Rogers, chief business officer at Instacart. "We're excited to offer Lowe's wide variety of home improvement essentials for delivery across the country so customers can get exactly what they need, seamlessly. Connecting customers to their favorite retailers is at the core of what we do, and we're proud to help Lowe's expand their e-commerce offering to serve their customers in a new way."
To begin shopping from Lowe's for same-day delivery via Instacart, customers can visit www.instacart.com/lowes-home-improvement or select the Lowe's storefront on the Instacart App. For all orders, an Instacart shopper will pick and deliver items within the customer's chosen delivery timeframe. Customers can follow along and live chat with their shopper in real time as needed.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customer transactions a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
About Instacart
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 900 national, regional, and local retail brands to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 75,000 stores across more than 13,000 cities in North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of busy people and families to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for more than 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders for customers on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company, and to start shopping, visit www.instacart.com. For anyone interested in becoming an Instacart shopper, visit https://shoppers.instacart.com/.
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DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court said Friday it wants more information from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about her request to erase a state abortion ban from decades ago.
The court wants five points addressed, including whether it needs to immediately get involved, especially after a judge at the Court of Claims this week froze the dormant law with an injunction.
“We direct the governor to file a brief with this court within 14 days of the date of this order, providing a further and better statement of the questions and the facts,” the court said.
The U.S. Supreme Court could be on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. If that happens, abortion would be an issue for states.
Whitmer wants the Michigan Supreme Court to declare that a 1931 ban on abortion is illegal under the state constitution. What's unusual is she wants the court to reach over lower courts and settle it quickly.
“Michigan’s Due Process Clause provides rights to privacy and bodily autonomy,” Whitmer said in her April 7 letter to the Supreme Court.
Separately, Planned Parenthood of Michigan won a decision Tuesday from Judge Elizabeth Gleicher at the Court of Claims, who said the law likely is unconstitutional. She suspended the law with a preliminary injunction while the case proceeds.
The Supreme Court could wait to get involved until that case bubbles up as a possible appeal.
Abortion opponents are urging the court to deny Whitmer's request. Right to Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference said there is no controversy since abortion remains legal in Michigan and elsewhere.
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The following is a statement being issued by Eneas Mares, general manager of Enfasis Corporativo, strategic corporate consulting firm specialized in the tourism, banking and finance, and commercial sectors in Latin America, in response to repeal of laws 122 and 314 of tourist incentives in Panama.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Panama's President Laurentino Cortizo ordered the repeal of laws 122 and 314 both tourism based incentives laws that seek foreign investment.
"These laws were approved twice over the last 2 years by an overwhelming majority at the National Assembly and, each time, they were signed off by the President and members of his cabinet; these laws have created much interest, incentivizing developers and investors from the United States and other countries to invest millions of dollars which now may be at risk.
"During the more than two years that the Law 122 'The tourism investment law' has been in place, the tourism authority did road shows not just in the United States but other countries, catching the attention of the international investment community; foreign investors from all over have dedicated, in good faith, enormous time and economic resources to participate in this investment opportunity that promises to position Panama as one of the top tourism destinations in the region.
"This investment law has caught so much attention that it is currently referenced in Panama's Investment Climate Report issued by the U.S. State Department; Panama's legacy as a country where the security of the law is respected has always differentiated it from the rest and has made it one of the safest places in Latin America for foreigners to invest in.
"As a result, less than two months ago, the original Law 122 was modified in the National Assembly by the new Law 314, which lowered fiscal incentives to almost half and further regulated the legislation.
"The country is expected to gain a complete tourism offering, where it is needed the most, positioning Panama among the top touristic destinations in the region. The consulting firm Virtú Atelier Legal explained in one of its reports that, under law 122, investors would be granted with tax credit equaling to 100% of their investment. This incentive would be granted to the natural person or legal entity, who, at the Panamanian Stock Market, is the first purchaser of the securities issued by the tourism company or real estate investment company; the first acquirer must submit a sworn statement certifying that, immediately before acquiring the securities, neither he nor his directors, officers, shareholders or beneficial owners were directors, officers, shareholders or beneficial owners of the tourism company or investment company, real estate, nor any subsidiaries of the tourist projects in which they invested; furthermore, other restrictions are in place to ensure that there are no links with the developer of the project".
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About the Law 122:
Law 122 was approved by the National Assembly and sanctioned by President Cortizo on December 31, 2019. Later was fully regulated under decree 364 in July 2020, signed again by President Cortizo and Minister of Finance Hector Alexander. Recently, Law 122 was modified onto Law 314 by National Assembly and signed again by President Cortizo and Minister of Finance Hector Alexander on June 21, 2022. The world keeps a close eye on the important work of Panama's National Assembly where the faith of Panama's promising tourism future and Foreign Investment Climate will be defined.
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(The Conversation) – Manhattan may be the scene of the perp walk of the century on April 4, 2023, when former President Donald Trump answers to his recent indictment and turns himself in to authorities in court.
Trump has reportedly told his aides that he has no desire to hide from the cameras and is ready for a perp walk through a crowd of photographers, police and other onlookers to create a “spectacle.”
It is not yet clear how Trump will actually enter the courthouse, given security concerns that could lead to a quiet surrender. Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina has said that Trump will not be handcuffed when he enters the courthouse and appears before a judge.
Some of Trump’s detractors have hoped for a public moment of reckoning for alleged crimes for years, but Trump – and his supporters – are not likely to treat it as a walk of shame. Indeed, a high-profile event like a perp walk could further fuel Trump’s run for presidency.
I have studied perp walks for more than 10 years, and I am anxious to see how court officials, the New York Police Department and the Secret Service will handle Trump’s arrival at the New York courthouse on April 4.
Normally perp walks are seen as their own kind of punishment – a media ritual that puts an alleged criminal on display for all to see. But Trump is a master showman and will be the ultimate ringmaster of his indictment. I believe that he clearly wants to – and will be able to – spin the event to his favor.
A relatively recent trend
As I described in my 2021 book, “Seeing Justice,” perp walks have been part of visual news for decades. But the term became common in popular culture relatively recently.
A search of The New York Times archives found it used for the first time in 1994 as part of a feature on the jargon of tabloid journalism. Since then, the term spread from the occupational lingo of police and journalists into the public sphere.
A perp walk happens when police officers bring a person arrested in a crime through a public area so he or she can be photographed by the media.
During a perp walk, defendants may be handcuffed or wearing prison clothing, accompanied by officers, or they might be photographed as they freely walk into court. Sometimes they run, and sometimes they put jackets over their heads.
In unusual cases, defendants try to trick the press to avoid being photographed. Former Pennsylvania State Attorney General Kathleen Kane had her twin sister Ellen Granahan Goffer act as a decoy and walk to court in her place after Kane was arrested on charge of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2015.
Photographers recorded Goffer walking by, and some of them were unable to recover and capture the moment when Kane herself walked by shortly thereafter.
A point of shame
Perp walks are often a way to shame a criminal, even though they usually occur before a person is found guilty.
For many criminals, this ritual is a moment of shame and embarrassment. In my previous career as a TV journalist, I covered quite a few walks when the person accused did everything they could to avoid the cameras. It is the scarlet letter of the digital age, which is why many of Trump’s critics on social media want one so badly they’ve been photo-editing fake ones for years.
Perp walks are productions put on by the press and law enforcement. Some result simply from a tip by police officers about where and when a person will appear. In some cases, as when Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was arrested in 2018, perp walks are scheduled in advance with careful security plans for where photographers may or may not stand.
High-profile defendants are scrutinized for the way they walk, dress and face the cameras. In Weinstein’s case, for instance, his humble blue sweater made headlines.
Perp walks rarely occur spontaneously. They are usually tightly controlled and produced by the judicial system as a form of public relations for the criminal justice system. In 2000, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that this procedure is a legitimate way of informing the press and public of police activity. In this case, a New York doorman arrested for alleged theft of an apartment tenant’s belongings sued New York City and the police department after he was forced to do a perp walk. He said it violated his rights.
Orchestrating a perp walk for the former president, however, is not likely to satisfy the yearnings of those who want so badly to see him punished for his alleged crime.
Trump knows how to play to the camera and create his own media events. This is why he is prepared to appear in New York as a show of defiance against criminal charges stemming from his alleged hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
A positive spin
In 2014, I researched the way then-Gov. Rick Perry of Texas handled his perp walk and mug shot in Travis County. Perry was charged with overstepping his powers by defunding an integrity unit.
Perry held a rally outside the courthouse before walking in and shaking hands with onlookers en route to the booking room. He then flashed an ironic smile for his mug shot. Not only did Perry not shrink from the ritual, he won the visual moment in the court of public opinion. All charges against him were eventually dismissed.
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Multiple Intercepts of High-Grade Copper, Zinc and Silver Mineralization, including 9.63 Meters with a Copper Equivalent Grade of 6.78% and 5.55 Meters with a Copper Equivalent Grade of 7.81%
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the first set of drilling results from the 2022 summer field season at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") located in northwestern Alaska. The UKMP includes the Arctic (volcanogenic massive sulphide, or "VMS") deposit ("Arctic"), the Bornite (carbonate-hosted copper, or "CHC") deposit ("Bornite"), and prospective mining claims in the surrounding area. The drill program was completed by Ambler Metals LLC ("Ambler Metals"), the joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Limited (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32; ADR: SOUHY) ("South32").
The 2022 field program included 10,738 meters of diamond drilling, of which 8,376 meters was drilled at Arctic, the most ever drilled at Arctic in a single field season, while the remainder of the meterage was used on regional targets in the Ambler VMS Belt and near Bornite. The 2022 field program prioritized advancing Arctic with additional infill drilling to further improve the confidence in the resource and for geotechnical studies to further de-risk the project.
Drilling Highlights
Drill holes AR22-0192 and AR22-0195 were drilled as part of the 2022 Arctic infill program designed to increase confidence from Indicated to Measured in areas of the mineral resource block model that would be mined during the first four years of production, based on Trilogy's 2020 Arctic feasibility study† mine plan and with the highest estimated metal value.
Significant zones of high-grade copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver mineralization were intersected, including:
- AR22-0192 intersected four mineralized intervals, including 9.63 meters of 3.58% copper, 5.89% zinc, 1.07% lead, 0.32 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 53.52 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 6.78%.
- AR22-0195 intersected five mineralized intervals, including of 5.55 meters of 3.84% copper, 7.40% zinc, 1.37% lead, 0.36 g/t gold and 63.70 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 7.81%.
Tony Giardini, President and CEO of Trilogy, commented, "We are pleased to collaborate with Ambler Metals, South32 and NANA on the largest exploration program in the history of the Arctic deposit, and to continue unlocking its world-class mining district potential as a critical source of green metals for the US economy, in line with President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act."
The drill results contained in this news release are from the first seven drill holes of the 2022 Arctic drill program, AR22-0191 through to AR22-0197, which include four infill holes and three geotechnical holes (AR22-0194, 0196 and 0197). All drill holes are sized HQ3 (63.5 mm diameter). Within the Arctic deposit, mineralization occurs as stratiform semi-massive sulphide to massive sulphide beds within primarily graphitic to chloritic schists and fine-grained quartz schists. Sulphide mineralogy is similar for all intercepts: chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena. Results indicate mineralization is reasonably continuous, especially in Zone 5 which is typically the highest grade and thickest zone at Arctic.
The results of the remaining holes are expected to be announced in the coming months. For full details of the 2022 drill program, see Trilogy's news release dated June 8, 2022.
As part of the goal of de-risking Arctic, the geotechnical holes were planned to further define the talc horizons in the pit design as outlined in the 2020 Feasibility Study. The holes were drilled at or beyond the edges of the resource and as expected, drill holes AR22-0194 and 0196 did not intersect mineralization while hole AR22-0197 intersected a narrow zone of weak mineralization as shown in Table 1. Trilogy anticipates that the results may impact engineering of the Arctic open-pit design by pushing back the pit slope in the northeast corner which may increase the strip ratio, improve mine life and slightly reduce reserve grade. The Company intends to prepare a technical study on Arctic effective this fiscal year-end to comply with SEC mining disclosure regulations under SK-1300, and an updated National Instrument 43-101 feasibility study.
Exploration outside of the Arctic deposit focused on discovering copper-rich satellite deposits near Arctic, and in the Cosmos Hills (see Figure 1). As part of the regional program, two VMS targets in the Ambler Belt, 98-9 and East Dead Creek, and two CHC targets near Bornite were drill tested (assays pending). In addition, an area covering more than 50km2 was mapped and prospected, and over 3,900 soil samples were collected.
Richard Gosse, Vice President, Exploration at Trilogy, stated, "We are encouraged by the results of this first set of holes, received from a record total number of meters drilled at Arctic (8,376 meters) in one season, in addition to seven regional drill holes, and extensive geological mapping and soil sampling at several other VMS prospects in the belt, including Ambler, Dead Creek, Sunshine and COU. We look forward to announcing more results from this comprehensive program in the next few months, with a view of upgrading the Indicated Resources at Arctic to Measured."
Mineralized intervals of high-grade mineralization at a cut-off of 0.5% copper equivalent are reported in Table 1. The locations of the holes are shown in Figure 2 and Table 2.
Table 1. Drill Intercepts from the 2022 Arctic Infill Drilling Program
Notes:
- Copper equivalent (CuEq) calculations use metal prices assumptions of $3.00/lb for copper, $1.10/lb for zinc, $1.00/lb for lead, $1,300/oz for gold, and $18.00/oz for silver.
- Results are core intervals and not true thickness; true widths have not been determined for the above intercepts but are believed to be within 80% of actual drill thicknesses.
- Cut-off grade of 0.5% CuEq.
- Internal dilution up to three meters of <0.5% CuEq.
- Core recovery averaged 94%.
- Within mineralized zones the minimum sample length was 0.14m, maximum sample length was 2.81m, and the average sample length was 1.49m.
- Some rounding errors may occur.
Drill holes AR22-0191, 0192, 0193 and 0195 which are sized HQ3 (63.5 mm diameter), were drilled as part of the 2022 Arctic infill program to increase confidence from Indicated to Measured in areas of the mineral resource block model that would be mined during the first four years of production, based on Trilogy's 2020 Feasibility Study mine plan and with the highest estimated value (see Figure 2). The holes, as seen in Figures 3 and 4, indicate mineralization is reasonably continuous, especially in Zone 5 which is typically the highest grade and thickest zone at Arctic. Sulphide mineralogy is similar for all intercepts: chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena.
Table 2. Drill Hole Locations at the Arctic Project
QA/QC Program
The drilling program, sampling and assaying protocol, and data verification were managed by qualified persons (QPs) employed by Ambler Metals. The diamond drill holes were completed using HQ3 diameter core, and recoveries averaged 94%. Drill core was cut lengthwise into halves using a diamond saw, and one-half was cut lengthwise to provide quarter core for sampling. The remainder of the core was retained in core boxes and archived at site.
Samples were collected through mineralized zones using a 0.14 m minimum length and 2.81 m maximum length; average sample length is 1.49 m. Weights of the drill core samples range from 0.81 to 11.94 kg, depending on the size of core, rock type, and recovery.
Each core sample was placed into a bag with a numbered tag and quality control samples were inserted between core samples using the same numbering sequence. Then, samples were grouped into batches for shipping and laboratory submissions. Each batch of 20 samples contains quality control (QC) samples that comprise one certified reference material (CRM), one core blank (BLK), and one crushed or pulp duplicate (DUP). In addition, 1 core duplicate was taken within mineralized intervals for every 20 samples. Chain of custody records are maintained for sample shipments and the custody is transferred from Ambler Metals expeditor to the laboratory upon delivery.
Samples were shipped to ALS Minerals laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, for sample submission. ALS Minerals Fairbanks is a satellite sample preparation facility accredited under ALS Minerals. The ALS Minerals Fairbanks shipped the samples to ALS Minerals in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for sample preparation and analysis. ALS Minerals North Vancouver is an independent laboratory certified under ISO 9001:2008 and accredited under ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Standards Council of Canada. Selected sample batches were sent to ALS Minerals laboratory in Vientiane, Laos for fire assay. ALS Minerals includes its own internal quality control samples comprising certified reference materials, blanks, and pulp duplicates.
Drill core samples were weighed (WEI-21), dried if excessively wet (DRY-21), coarse jaw crushed to 70% passing 6 mm (CRU-21), fine jaw crushed to 70% passing 2 mm (CRU-31), riffle split to 250 g subsamples (SPL-21) and pulverized to 85% passing 75 μm (PUL-31). Crushed duplicates were created by riffle splitting crushed samples into two parts.
Gold analyses were completed using a 30 g lead fire assay and AAS finish (Au-AA23). Multi-element analyses for 48 elements were completed using a geochemical four acid digestion and ICP-ES/MS finish (ME-MS61). Over-range assays for Ag, Cu, Zn, and S were completed using an ore grade four-acid digestion and ICP-ES finish (ME-OG62). Additional analyses were completed for Ba and Hg.
Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn assays for QC samples were reviewed to ensure that CRMs are within tolerance limits specified on supplier certificates, BLKs are below acceptable thresholds, and DUPs display statistical patterns normally expected for sample types, methods, and elements. CRMs that returned assays outside of tolerance limits and BLKs with assays above thresholds were deemed to have failed. Sample batches containing failed QC samples were re-assayed to ensure that the QC samples returned acceptable results before release. All QC monitoring data are reviewed and signed off by an independent QA/QC geologist.
There is no known relationship between core sample recoveries and assay grades. Ambler Metals will submit 5% of the assay intervals from prospective lithologies to a laboratory independent of ALS Minerals for check assaying.
Qualified Persons
Richard Gosse, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration for Trilogy, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Gosse has reviewed the scientific and technical information in this news release and approves the disclosure contained herein.
About Trilogy Metals
Trilogy Metals Inc. is a metal exploration and development company that holds a 50 percent interest in Ambler Metals LLC which has a 100 percent interest in the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwestern Alaska. On December 19, 2019, South32, a globally diversified mining and metals company, exercised its option to form a 50/50 joint venture with Trilogy. The UKMP is located within the Ambler Mining District, one of the richest and most-prospective known copper-dominant districts in the world. It hosts world-class polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits that contain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, and carbonate replacement deposits that have been found to host high-grade copper and cobalt mineralization. Exploration efforts have been focused on two deposits in the Ambler Mining District – the Arctic VMS deposit and the Bornite carbonate replacement deposit. Both deposits are located within a land package that spans approximately 181,387 hectares. Ambler Metals has an agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation that provides a framework for the exploration and potential development of the Ambler Mining District in cooperation with local communities. Trilogy's vision is to develop the Ambler Mining District into a premier North American copper producer while protecting and respecting subsistence livelihoods.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including, without limitation, statements relating to interpretation of drill results; the Company's beliefs regarding the potential of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects; the Company's expectation that the drill program may impact engineering of the Arctic open-pit design; the anticipated timing of an updated feasibility study on Arctic; and the Company's expectations regarding de-risking of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", or "should" occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include the uncertainties involving success of exploration, permitting timelines, requirements for additional capital, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, unanticipated reclamation expenses, supplies and services the interpretation of drill results, the need for additional financing to explore and develop properties and availability of financing in the debt and capital markets; uncertainties involved in the interpretation of drilling results and geological tests; the need for cooperation of government agencies and native groups in the development and operation of properties; the need to obtain permits and governmental approvals; unanticipated variation in geological structures, metal grades or recovery rates; unexpected cost increases, which could include significant increases in estimated capital and operating costs; fluctuations in metal prices and currency exchange rates and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2021 filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and in other Company reports and documents filed with applicable securities regulatory authorities from time to time. The Company's forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
06-10-23-24-32-42
(six, ten, twenty-three, twenty-four, thirty-two, forty-two)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
06-10-23-24-32-42
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The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Chris Perkins and David Furones discuss if the Miami Dolphins defense is now solidified behind the additions of defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and star cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
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The South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Chris Perkins and David Furones discuss if the Miami Dolphins defense is now solidified behind the additions of defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and star cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
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EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMTA believes the current disciplinary action against Deshaun Watson for his predatory behavior in violation of the League's personal conduct policy doesn't go far enough. We strongly feel that any client- including professional athlete - who steps over the line to inappropriate touch should face serious legal consequences. This type of inaction by the NFL further perpetuates misconduct and abuse by athletes in the League.
Creating a safe workplace for all massage therapists and other professionals who are part of the athletes' care teams should be a priority for the NFL. Yet, the NFL continues to send the wrong message by not adhering to higher standards and professionalism. Inappropriate behavior without serious consequences creates real danger for professional massage therapists. Furthermore, 86% of licensed massage therapists are female and this level of inaction shows a profound lack of respect towards women and their safety.
Licensed massage therapists deserve more – they should feel respected and safe in their professional environment. AMTA had previously reached out to Roger Goodell asking for his support to help facilitate an environment where licensed massage therapists can practice massage therapy safely and professionally as part of the care team for NFL athletes across the League. We were greatly disappointed not to receive a direct response.
Massage therapy is an important recovery tool for NFL athletes, and science and research show that it can help with accelerating the healing and recovery process, preventing re-injury and long-term complications, along with reducing stress and pain. The blatant disregard for the trained licensed massage therapy professionals who are contributing to the success of athletes in the League is appalling.
Additionally, irresponsible remarks made by lawyers or in the media coverage put professional, licensed massage therapists at risk by condoning inappropriate conduct in a massage environment. It's dangerous to speak so cavalierly about massage therapy, and can give the wrong impression on what one should expect during a massage session.
AMTA strongly believes massage therapists deserve mutual respect, courtesy and professionalism at all times. And, massage therapists should never have to tolerate conduct outside the bounds of therapeutic massage therapy. We will continue to advocate for all massage therapists to receive a higher level of respect and support from the NFL to ensure that they can practice massage therapy in the safe, professional environment that they rightfully deserve.
"The NFL needs to take a more serious approach to protecting massage therapists who are an important part of athletes' care teams. Abuse and inappropriate conduct are never okay and we are very disappointed that the League has not made the safety of massage therapists who provide care for athletes a stronger priority." Michaele Colizza, National President of AMTA
The American Massage Therapy Association, the most trusted name in massage therapy, is the largest non-profit, professional association serving massage therapists, massage students and massage schools. The association is directed by volunteer leadership and fosters ongoing, direct member-involvement through its 51 chapters. AMTA works to advance the profession through ethics and standards, the promotion of fair and consistent licensing of massage therapists in all states, and public education on the benefits of massage. To find a qualified massage therapist in your area, please visit AMTA's Find a Massage Therapist Locator Service™.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In an interview this week, Twitter owner Elon Musk said users making false claims of stolen elections “will be corrected” on the platform.
Prompted by a CNBC reporter for extra assurance that would happen, Musk responded, “Oh yeah, 100%.”
Yet many such claims have thrived on Twitter in the week since former President Donald Trump spent much of a CNN town hall digging in on his lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him. Twitter posts that amplified those false claims have thousands of shares with no visible enforcement, a review of posts on the platform shows.
The contrast between Musk’s promise and the extent the claims are spreading on Twitter underscores a major challenge for social media companies trying to call out election conspiracy theories and falsehoods that Trump and his supporters continue to promote. That will only grow as the nation prepares for a presidential election next year in which Trump is again vying to be the Republican nominee.
It’s unclear whether Musk and his newly hired chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, are planning any changes to Twitter to crack down on the misinformation, which election experts and tech accountability advocates say heightens risks to election officials and erodes trust in democracy.
“Talk is cheap,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer who now leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research. “It’s good that he acknowledges that it’s important for Twitter to act responsibly. … But then we have to see this action actually taken, because it’s happening right now.”
An analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs on behalf of The Associated Press surfaced the 10 most widely shared tweets promoting a “rigged election” narrative in the five days following Trump’s town hall.
While Twitter has a system in place for users to add context to misleading tweets, the 10 posts, which collectively amassed more than 43,000 retweets, had no such notes attached.
The most widely shared tweets included false claims from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Kari Lake, a Republican who lost her bid for Arizona governor last year.
Twitter’s policy on civic integrity and misleading information says it “may” label or remove “unverified information about election rigging,” but the 10 tweets and dozens of others claiming a “stolen” or “rigged” election in 2020 or 2022 in recent days remained live and unlabeled on the platform as of Thursday, an AP search found.
In January 2022, months before Musk took over the platform that October, Twitter had already confirmed to CNN that it had stopped taking action against 2020 election misinformation, saying its policy was meant for use during an election cycle, not long after one.
False claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate have continued to gain traction on the platform and across social media since then, propelled by Trump, whose recent media appearances show he is making them a core talking point of his campaign for the GOP nomination.
Tech accountability advocates said it’s difficult to monitor content on a scale as large as Twitter and they note that Twitter is not the only platform where election misinformation surfaces. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites also play a role in spreading falsehoods.
But since he took over, Musk has reinstated notorious election deniers, overhauled Twitter’s verification system and gutted much of the staff that had been responsible for moderating posts. Those choices have allowed falsehoods to flourish, said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a nonprofit watchdog group.
“I think they already had inadequate resources … but there’s no doubt that he’s making it worse,” Lehrich said. “And he’s effectively fired everyone responsible for trust and safety at Twitter, so at this point, they couldn’t enforce their own civic integrity policies if they tried.”
Twitter sent an automated reply when the AP asked for comment, as Twitter does to most media inquiries, and did not provide a response to the continued spread of election misinformation.
In an ideal world, platforms would help reduce the spread of false claims online with policies such as blocking known misinformation sources, labeling it, adopting community enforcement standards and deprioritizing misinformation in trending topics, said Anjana Susarla, a social media researcher and professor at Michigan State University.
Complicating Twitter’s response to the misinformation is Musk’s own use of the platform. He has used his Twitter account to amplify election-related conspiracy theories.
Last week, he tweeted a reply to a false claim that a conference hosted by the Center for Election Innovation and Research was “secret” and “HYPER PARTISAN.”
In the message broadcast to his nearly 140 million followers, Musk called the session “far left” and said it was strange that officials from “pivotal regions” would attend. In fact, the conference had its own public web page with links to its agenda, a list of speakers that included Republicans and Democrats, and a livestream that allowed anyone interested to watch the sessions.
Musk’s post drove other Twitter users to see the original tweet and pile on with stolen-election claims.
“He gets it … he knows the elections were stolen massively,” one Twitter user replied.
“Exactly. They’re coordinating the steal for 2024,” wrote another.
Becker, the center’s executive director, said when prominent Twitter users amplify falsehoods about election officials, “threats increase to their safety, to their offices, to their staff.”
“That makes democracy more vulnerable and puts stresses on them as human beings,” he said.
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Herschel Walker sticks to abortion claim denial, pivots blame to Dems
WADLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker remained defiant Thursday after successive reports alleging that he encouraged and paid for a woman’s 2009 abortion and later fathered a child with her.
Digging in on his denials of reporting by The Daily Beast, Walker, a football icon turned celebrity politician and staunch abortion foe, blamed the stories on Democrats and their “desperation” — a defensive tactic that Walker’s friend and ally, former President Donald Trump, used to weather myriad controversies on his way to the White House.
“I know why you’re here. I do,” he told reporters after his first public campaign speech since The Daily Beast’s initial report Monday. “You’re here because the Democrats are desperate to hold on to this seat here, and they’re desperate to make this race about my family.”
He went on to repeat: “This abortion thing is false. It’s a lie.”
Walker promised in the hours after the initial report to sue the news outlet, but has not followed up with an announcement that he has done so.
The allegations, along with statements from Walker’s adult son blasting his father as a liar, have rocked one of the nation’s most important Senate contests. Walker is locked in a tight race against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, with the outcome potentially determining which party controls the Senate for the final two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
Walker’s stop Thursday, his first public appearance of the week after a series of conservative media interviews and closed events, marked his latest attempt to navigate his rocky past and reconcile the allegations with his support for an absolute national ban on abortions. He has previously confronted stories revealing additional children he had not publicly acknowledged and detailing his exaggerations of business achievements.
None of that has shaken public support for Walker among Republicans in Washington, but the abortion allegations have rattled some party faithful in Georgia.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t getting calls from Republicans who are very concerned and struggling with what they’re going to do in the voting booth,” Martha Zoller, a popular radio host in north Georgia and one-time congressional candidate, said in an interview.
The Daily Beast, which first reported Monday on the abortion, said it had agreed not to reveal details of the woman’s identity to protect her privacy.
The outlet’s initial report included paper evidence the woman provided. Those records include what appears to be a $575 receipt for an abortion procedure, a get-well card signed by Walker and a bank deposit receipt showing a $700 personal check from Walker, dated five days after the abortion receipt.
In that story, The Daily Beast described the woman only as someone who was dating Walker in 2009, at the time of the abortion. Walker responded with flat denials, including interviews during which he claimed to have no idea who could be making the allegation. In its Wednesday story, The Daily Beast revealed that the woman — who remains unnamed — was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child years after the abortion. She decided to continue on with the later pregnancy, though she noted that Walker, as he had during the earlier pregnancy, expressed that it wasn’t a convenient time for him, the outlet reported.
Prior to his Senate bid, Walker had publicly acknowledged only his son, Christian Walker, whose mother was Walker’s first wife. Earlier this year, after another story by The Daily Beast, Walker he acknowledged the existence of three additional children he had not previously talked about publicly.
Christian Walker, a high-profile social media commentator, has issued several comments and video statements since the first report, accusing his father of lying about his past and being an absent father. Asked about the son on Thursday, he said simply that “I love my son so much. He’s a great little man. I love him to death. I will always love him no matter what.”
The Daily Beast said the Walker campaign declined to comment on Wednesday’s story, and he had little to say on details Thursday during his five-minute exchange with reporters in south Georgia.
During the Republican Senate primary, Walker openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health being at risk — particularly notable at a time when the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent had been overturned and Democrats in Congress had been discussing codifying abortion rights into federal law.
“I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. When asked whether he’d allow for any exceptions, he has said there are “no excuses” for the procedure.
As the Republican nominee, Walker has sometimes sidestepped questions about his earlier support for an absolute ban, a tacit nod to the fact that most voters, including many Republicans, want at least some legal access to abortion.
Warnock was in his hometown of Savannah on Thursday for a ceremony naming a street after him, attending the event with his two young children. The senator declined to address directly the allegations against Walker.
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Associated Press reporter Russ Bynum contributed from Savannah, Georgia.
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SUZHOU, China, and ROCKVILLE, MD, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK), a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B (CHB), and age-related diseases, today announced that it has released the results from its Phase I first-in-human (FIH) study of the company's novel FAK inhibitor and third-generation ALK/ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) APG-2449 in patients with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1+ non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or mesothelioma in a Poster Presentation at the 58th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. APG-2449 is the first China-developed third-generation ALK inhibitor entering clinical studies.
Entering the fifth consecutive year in which its abstracts were selected for presentations by the ASCO Annual Meeting, Ascentage Pharma showcased results from multiple clinical trials of its five drug candidates, including the first-time results of APG-2449 highlighting the company's promising pipeline in solid tumors. APG-2449 demonstrated preliminary efficacy in TKI-naïve patients or those whose disease was resistant to second-generation TKIs, with 4 partial responses (PRs) observed in the 14 patients with second-generation-TKI resistant and ALK-positive NSCLC. In the 10 TKI-naïve ALK/ROS1+ patients, the objective response rate (ORR) was 80%, and the disease control rate (DCR) was 100%.
Discovered and developed by Ascentage Pharma, APG-2449 is a novel, orally-available FAK/ALK/ROS1 inhibitor and the first China-developed third-generation ALK inhibitor entering clinical studies.
Prof. Hongyun Zhao of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, who is the principal investigator of this study, said, "APG-2449 is a potent FAK/ALK/ROS1 inhibitor that can address drug resistance to second-generation ALK TKIs. In this FIH study, APG-2449 demonstrated favorable safety and antitumor activity in patients with advanced NSCLC, and showed on-target pharmacodynamic effects. Building on results from this Phase I study, we look forward to further evaluate APG-2449's efficacy in advanced NSCLC patients resistant to second-generation ALK inhibitor.
Dr. Yifan Zhai, Chief Medical Officer of Ascentage Pharma, commented, "APG-2449 is one of our key drug candidates, outside our pipeline of apoptosis-targeting assets. The data presented at this year's ASCO Annual Meeting demonstrated APG-2449's therapeutic potential in patients with advanced NSCLC and are indicative of our progress in the field of solid tumors. We will continue to take firm steps to advance this clinical development program. Furthermore, we are proud to be able to present clinical development progress for a number of Ascentage Pharma's drug candidates at this year's ASCO Annual Meeting, which highlight our capabilities in global innovation. Honoring our mission of addressing unmet clinical needs in China and around the world, we are now accelerating our clinical programs to bring more safe and effective therapeutics to patients in need."
The highlights of this abstract on APG-2449 are as follows:
First-in-human phase I results of APG-2449, a novel FAK and third-generation ALK/ ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in patients (pts) with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or mesothelioma.
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- This dose-escalation and dose-expansion study was designed to assess the safety, tolerability, recommended Phase II dose (RP2D), pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and efficacy of APG-2449 in patients with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1+ NSCLC or mesothelioma.
- As of December 30, 2021, 84 Chinese patients with NSCLC or mesothelioma enrolled were treated with APG-2449 at doses ranging from 150 to 1,500 mg. APG-2449 was administered orally once daily on a 28-day cycle using a "3+3" dose escalation design.
- 4 PRs were observed in 14 ALK+ patients resistant to second-generation TKIs treated at the RP2D. Among 8 patients with brain metastases, 1 complete response (CR) and 3 PRs were observed intracranially. In 10 TKI-naïve patients, the ORR was 80% (ALK+, 6/8; ROS1+, 2/2) and the DCR was 100%.
- In addition, AGP-2449 demonstrated a favorable safety profile. The preliminary biomarker data showed decreased FAK phosphorylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and increased IFN-γ levels in serum after multiple doses of APG-2449.
- Conclusions: APG-2449 has a favorable safety and PK profile. Preliminary efficacy was observed in patients whose disease was resistant to second-generation or TKI-naïve. Biomarker data indicated potential target engagement on FAK and the immunomodulatory effects of APG-2449.
Appendix: A list of Ascentage Pharma's abstracts selected by this year's ASCO Annual Meeting
About Ascentage Pharma
Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK) is a globally focused biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B, and age-related diseases. On October 28, 2019, Ascentage Pharma was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code 6855.HK.
Ascentage Pharma focuses on developing therapeutics that inhibit protein-protein interactions to restore apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The company has built a pipeline of eight clinical drug candidates, including novel, highly potent Bcl-2, and dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitors, as well as candidates aimed at IAP and MDM2-p53 pathways, and next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Ascentage Pharma is also the only company in the world with active clinical programs targeting all three known classes of key apoptosis regulators. The company is conducting more than 50 Phase I/II clinical trials in the US, Australia, Europe, and China. Olverembatinib, the company's core drug candidate developed for the treatment of drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), was granted Priority Review status and a Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and is already approved for the indication. In addition, olverembatinib was also granted an Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) and a Fast Track Designation (FTD) by the US FDA, and an Orphan Designation by the EU. To date, Ascentage Pharma has obtained a total of 15 ODDs, 2 FTDs, and 2 Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) designations from the FDA and 1 ODD from the EU for four of the company's investigational drug candidates. Ascentage Pharma has been designated for multiple Major National R&D Projects, including 5 National Major New Drug Discovery and Manufacturing projects, 1 New Drug Incubator status, 4 Innovative Drug Programs, and 1 Major Project for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.
Leveraging its robust R&D capabilities, Ascentage Pharma has built a portfolio of global intellectual property rights and entered into global partnerships with numerous renowned biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and research institutes such as UNITY Biotechnology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Merck, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer. The company has built a talented team with global experience in discovering, developing, launching, and commercializing innovative drugs and is setting up world-class commercial manufacturing and Sales & Marketing teams. One pivotal aim of Ascentage Pharma is to continuously strengthen its R&D capabilities and accelerate its clinical development programs, in order to fulfil its mission of addressing unmet clinical needs in China and around the world for the benefit of more patients.
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LANDIS, CARL LAROY
CARL LAROY LANDIS, age 91, of Winchester, Tenn., departed this life on Sunday, April 9, 2023, at his residence following an extended illness. Mr. Landis was born on July 17, 1931, to the late Carl LaVerne Landis and Viola Bower Landis in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Landis was veteran of the U.S. Army serving his country during the Korean War. Mr. Landis was of the Catholic Faith. He was proud to have been a Fire Fighter for the Dayton Fire Dept. for approximately 23 years and left as a Dayton Fire Lieutenant. He then was employed as a bookkeeper and was a "math whiz", numbers and accounting came easy for him. Numerous candy jars occupy his house and, along with his drink of preference, Coca-Cola, he lived his life sugar-induced. He never knew a stranger. He could and WOULD strike up a conversation with anyone and everyone. He will be remembered for being a loving husband, father, son, brother and family man.
He is survived by his wife, Julia "Judy" Landis of Winchester, Sons; Carl M. Landis of Sound Beach, NY, Craig M. Landis and wife, Shelly of Pelham Tenn., Teri Landis Grismer and husband, Steve of Dayton, Ohio and David M. Landis of Florida. Grandchildren; Jacob Landis of Pelham, and Kennedy Landis of Cookeville, Tenn. brother, Don Landis of Lebanon, Ohio and sister, Karen Hayes of Cincinnati, Ohio. Many nieces and nephews.
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LAKELAND, Fla., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WellDyneRx, LLC ("WellDyne") is providing notice of an incident that could affect the privacy of information of certain individuals for whom it provided pharmacy benefit related services. While WellDyne is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of individually-identifiable information, WellDyne takes this incident very seriously and is providing information about the incident, our response to it, and resources available to individuals to help protect their information, should they feel it appropriate to do so.
What Happened? On December 2, 2021, WellDyne became aware of suspicious activity related to a WellDyne email account. In response, we began an investigation of the activity with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators to determine the nature and scope of the incident. We determined that there was unauthorized access to the account between October 30, 2021, and November 11, 2021. Although there is no evidence that individually-identifiable information contained within the email account was accessed or taken by an unauthorized party, WellDyne cannot rule out this possibility. In response, WellDyne undertook a comprehensive and time-consuming programmatic and manual review of the contents of the email account to determine the type of information stored therein, and to whom the information pertained. On March 11, 2022, we completed this extensive review process, and identified the scope of the information at risk and the population who may be affected. We have worked diligently since this time to confirm the contact information for the individuals who may be impacted and the types of information at issue for each individual, in order to provide an accurate notification.
What Information Was Involved? We conducted a thorough review of the relevant WellDyne email account to identify the types of information stored therein and to whom it related. Although there is no evidence that individually-identifiable information contained within the email account was accessed or taken by an unauthorized party, we cannot rule out this possibility. While the specific data elements vary for each potentially affected individual, the scope of information potentially involved includes: name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number, treatment information, health insurance information, contact information, prescription information, and other medical/health information.
How Will Individuals Know If They Are Affected By This Incident? WellDyne will be mailing notice letters to the individuals identified as impacted. If an individual does not receive a letter but would like to know if they are affected, they may call WellDyne's dedicated assistance line, detailed below.
What WellDyne is Doing. The confidentiality, privacy, and security of personal information within our care is among our highest priorities. Upon learning of the event, we secured the compromised account and investigated to identify any individuals that were affected. We have taken additional steps to improve security and better protect against similar incidents in the future. We are also notifying applicable regulators, including the Department of Health and Human Services.
Whom Should Individuals Contact For More Information? If individuals have questions or would like additional information, they may call WellDyne's dedicated assistance line at (877) 389-2455 between the hours of 9am-9pm Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
What You Can Do. WellDyne encourages individuals to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing your account statements, explanation of benefits forms, and monitoring your free credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect errors over the next 12 to 24 months. Under U.S. law individuals are entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus. To order a free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. Individuals may also contact the three major credit bureaus directly to request a free copy of their credit report, place a fraud alert, or a security freeze. Contact information for the credit bureaus is below:
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a security freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
Additional Information
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
8:55 p.m.
Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka have begun their match that will determine the second women’s finalist.
The top-ranked Swiatek is hoping to add a U.S. Open title to her two French Open championships. The No. 6-seeded Sabalenka has never played for a Grand Slam title, losing in the U.S. Open semifinals last year.
The winner will play No. 5 seed Ons Jabeur on Saturday.
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8:25 p.m.
Ons Jabeur dominantly advanced to her second straight Grand Slam final, beating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3.
The No. 5 seed from Tunisia will play top-seeded Iga Swiatek or No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday.
Jabeur lost in a bid for her first major title at Wimbledon, where she was beaten by Elena Rybakina in three sets in the final.
Garcia, the No 17 seed from France, had won 13 straight matches and hadn’t dropped a set at the U.S. Open.
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8 p.m.
Ben Bartram has become the first player to win a junior wheelchair match at a Grand Slam tournament.
The 17-year-old from Britain, who is the No. 1 seed in the boys’ wheelchair singles division, beat 15-year-old Ivar van Rijt 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday.
The U.S. Open this year became the first of the four major tournaments to have a junior wheelchair division.
The men’s and women’s fields were also expanded to 16 players. Top seeds Diede de Groot and Shingo Kunieda won their quarterfinal matches Thursday in those events.
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7:45 p.m.
Ons Jabeur has raced to a surprisingly easy 6-1 lead over Caroline Garcia in the women’s semifinals.
Garcia has won 13 straight matches and hadn’t dropped more than four games in any set during her first five matches in Flushing Meadows.
But the No. 17 seed from France looked overwhelmed in her first Grand Slam semifinal, making 14 unforced errors while winning only 13 points in the 23-minute set.
Jabeur, the No. 5 seed from Tunisia, is bidding for her second straight major final.
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7:20 p.m.
Ons Jabeur and Caroline Garcia are on the court in the opening match of the women’s semifinals.
The fifth-seeded Jabeur is trying to reach her second straight Grand Slam final. Garcia, seeded 17th, is in a major semifinal for the first time.
That match was preceded by a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
The winner will face either top-ranked Iga Swiatek or No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka for the title.
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6 p.m.
Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury will play for a second straight U.S. Open men’s doubles title after fighting off the Colombian team of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah.
The top seeds won 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (6) in a match that lasted 3 hours, 12 minutes.
That put the American Ram and Britain’s Salisbury a win away from joining only Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde as teams to defend a U.S. Open men’s doubles title in the professional era, dating to 1968. The Hall of Famers from Australia won in 1995 and 1996.
In Friday’s final, Ram and Salisbury will meet the No. 2-seeded team of Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski, who downed the third-seeded duo of Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer 6-4, 7-5.
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5:30 p.m.
The women’s semifinals take place under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium, with Ons Jabeur facing Caroline Garcia in the opening match before top-ranked Iga Swiatek meets Aryna Sabalenka.
Swiatek is the only major champion left, having won her second French Open title this summer. She also reached the Australian Open semifinals and is 19-2 in Grand Slam tournaments this year.
The No. 6-seeded Sabalenka lost last year in the U.S. Open semifinals, which remains her best performance in a major.
Jabeur is bidding for a second straight major final, having made her deepest run yet at Wimbledon. The No. 5 from Tunisia is 5-0 in semifinal matches this season.
In the surging Garcia, she meets a player who has won 13 straight matches. Seeded 17th, the Frenchwoman’s first career Grand Slam appearance will send her back into the top 10 next week.
The U.S. Tennis Association announced there would be a moment of silence before the first semifinal match “to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.”
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Beginning in 2024, Boston Athletic Association and Bank of America will partner on all B.A.A. events and programming, marking next great era of running
BOSTON, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced today Bank of America will be the presenting partner of the Boston Marathon® beginning in 2024. The world's oldest annual and most historic marathon has teamed up with one of the world's leading financial institutions on a decade-long agreement, which will extend far beyond the finish line of the annual Patriots' Day event.
"We embark on the next great era for running in Boston and around the world with Bank of America as our partner in all that we do, most notably the Boston Marathon.
"With alignment in values and commitment to both communities and leadership, we'll work together to enhance one of the world's great participatory sporting events. Bank of America will partner with us at every stage to grow, broaden and innovate new pathways in running," said Jack Fleming, President and CEO of the B.A.A.
"We are privileged and honored to partner with the B.A.A on this next leg of the journey for the historic Boston Marathon," said David Tyrie, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for Bank of America. "Through this partnership, we will broaden our ability to help communities around the world thrive, creating positive impact for small businesses, charities, runners, and teammates on race weekend and throughout the year."
Central to Bank of America's presenting partnership of the Boston Marathon are its four core values: deliver together; act responsibly; realize the power of its people; and trust the team. The B.A.A. shares these principles in its mission of promoting a healthy lifestyle through sports, especially running, and focuses on connecting with participants, volunteers, community members, and supporters throughout the year. As a running and community leader, the B.A.A. will work hand in hand with Bank of America to bring the Boston Marathon's impact and reach to new heights—both on a national and global scale—in the years ahead.
"The Boston Marathon is one of the most iconic and beloved events our City holds all year, bringing tens of thousands of people together to enjoy Boston," said Mayor Michelle Wu. "We as a City are grateful to John Hancock for their many years of support, and look forward to building a new partnership with Bank of America and the Boston Athletic Association to elevate this historic event and welcome more people into our community."
Bank of America is also the title sponsor of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, where millions of visitors contribute more than $386 million to local economy, providing the equivalent of more than 2,800 jobs at a time of year when tourism in the city would otherwise experience a seasonal decline. In addition to the economic impact, runners make a meaningful charitable impact, totaling more than $246 million from 148,000 runners since 2002 going directly to nonprofits in Chicago, across the U.S and around the world.
Together, the B.A.A. and Bank of America will strive to make running more accessible and broaden its impact. Bank of America is committed to growing the Boston Marathon's non-profit, engagement and philanthropic initiatives, and extending the event's presence through the hundreds of qualifying races in the bank's nearly 100 markets across United States and communities around the world.
In recognition of the Boston Marathon's 127-year heritage and iconic stature, Bank of America has elected that the organization's name will appear after the words "Boston Marathon" in the event's new official title, beginning in 2024: The Boston Marathon® presented by Bank of America.
Fleming added, "Together, the B.A.A. and Bank of America will keep Boston front and center to ensure the Marathon remains a source of pride and passion for so many. Through this new partnership with Bank of America, we will expand social, economic and inclusive programs for local residents, businesses, neighborhoods and communities."
In celebration of the announcement, City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Bank of America, and Boston Athletic Association gathered at Bank of America's office at 100 Federal Street in Boston for a ceremonial start to the partnership.
Read more at https://bstnmar.org/BAABoA24
About The Boston Athletic Association
Established in 1887, the Boston Athletic Association is a non-profit organization with a mission of promoting a healthy lifestyle through sports, especially running. The B.A.A. manages the Boston Marathon, and supports comprehensive charity, youth, and year-round programming. The Boston Marathon is part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, along with international marathons in Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. Beginning in 2024, Bank of America will serve as the Presenting Partner of the Boston Marathon. The 127th Boston Marathon is scheduled to take place on Monday, April 17, 2023. For more information on the B.A.A., please visit www.baa.org.
Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 67 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 3,900 retail financial centers, approximately 16,000 ATM and award-winning digital banking with approximately 56 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and approximately 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Tech industry employment up 20,700, while tech unemployment rate remains in low territory
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech industry companies maintained a steady pace of hiring, according to the latest "Tech Jobs Report" released today by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the technology industry and workforce.
CompTIA's analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics #JobsReport reveals that tech companies added 20,700 workers in October, the 23rd straight month of job growth. Industry employment has increased by 193,900 in 2022, 28% higher than the same period last year.
After a five-month slide, employer job postings for new tech hiring rebounded in October, with nearly 317,000 openings, an increase of more than 10,000 from September.
Across the entire economy, tech occupation jobs declined by 116,000 but remain in solidly positive territory for the year. 1 The unemployment rate for tech occupations increased a tenth of a point to 2.2%, paralleling the increase of the national unemployment rate.
"The data is roughly in line with expectations," said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA. "Tech hiring activity remains steady, but there are undoubtedly concerns of a slowing economy."
Within the tech industry the bulk of new hiring occurred in three sector categories – IT services and custom software development (+8,800), other information services, including search engines (+6,800) and computer and electronic products manufacturing (+5,400). Tech manufacturing employment is up 43% compared to the same period last year.
Remote work hiring trends upward
Remote work shows no signs of slowing down. Employer job postings for tech positions that specify remote work or work from home options continue to increase, with a year-to-date rate of 34% compared to 27% in 2021 and 22% in 2020.
Major tech hubs saw significant month-over-month increases in tech jobs postings, including Boston (+2,732), New York City (+1,459), San Francisco (+884) and San Jose (+864). The top industries for tech job postings were professional, scientific and technical services (50,688), finance and insurance (35,500) and manufacturing (34,488).
Positions for software developers and engineers led the October job postings (85,796). There is also strong demand for IT support specialists, IT project managers, systems engineers and network engineers.
The "CompTIA Tech Jobs Report" is available at https://www.comptia.org/content/tech-jobs-report. For more analysis and perspective visit the CompTIA Tech Job Report video series at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqIJd7KnBU_nZd2oXEwa0I5X7Vt124eM.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world's economy. Through education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for unlocking the potential of the tech industry and its workforce. https://www.comptia.org/
1 Monthly occupation level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tends to experience higher levels of variance and volatility. Labor market data from the BLS and employer job posting data from Lightcast may be subject to backward revisions.
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Armed and dangerous: 3 inmates on run after cutting through jail ceiling, officials say
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KYTV) - The U.S. Marshals have taken on the search for three escaped inmates out of Missouri.
Officials said Lance Justin Stephens, Matthew Allen Crawford, and Christopher Allen Blevins escaped June 2 during the evening from jail in Barry County.
According to authorities, the three men cut a hole in the ceiling, entered a water heater storage area, and then broke an exit door.
The Barry County Sheriff’s Office said jail workers didn’t realize the three men were gone until the following morning.
The escaped inmates are considered armed and dangerous.
Officials in Barry County said the U.S. Marshals are better equipped to handle the manhunt.
Investigators believe the trio is currently in Kansas.
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One of North America's Largest Early Education Providers Takes a Big Step Forward in Montessori Education with Latest Acquisitions
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Education, LLC ("Cadence Education"), one of the largest providers of early childhood education in North America, is thrilled to announce its acquisition of both The Suzuki School and the Montessori Teacher Education Institute (MTEI) in Atlanta, Georgia. This acquisition will significantly boost Cadence Education's presence in the Southeast, adding three new campus locations in the Buckhead, Northside Drive, and Ponce City Market neighborhoods of Atlanta to its portfolio. The Montessori Teacher Education Institute (MTEI) will complement Cadence Education's offering, providing essential training to support the growth and development of Montessori early childhood educators.
The Suzuki School, established in Atlanta in 1976, has an outstanding reputation for its commitment to providing high-quality Montessori education to children. With this acquisition, Cadence Education is expanding its national footprint and reinforcing its commitment to providing children with an exceptional education while honoring each child's natural talent and ability.
MTEI will serve as a hub for Cadence Education's Montessori teacher training and certification programs, providing early educators with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in the Montessori classroom. The Montessori Teacher Education Institute of Atlanta is affiliated with the American Montessori Society and accredited by MACTE (Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education.), offering quality educational programming with highly experienced faculty. MTEI will continue to deliver teacher training in Infant & Toddler, Early Childhood, and Elementary programs to adult learners, both from Cadence schools and other quality Early Childhood Education providers, seeking credentials to become qualified Montessori educators.
"We are delighted to announce the acquisition of The Suzuki School and the Montessori Teacher Education Institute of Atlanta, as they both become part of the Cadence Education family," said Leigh-Ellen Louie, CEO of Cadence Education. "This acquisition demonstrates our unwavering commitment to high-quality Montessori education, expands our offerings in Atlanta, and reinforces our dedication to diversity and inclusion with a brand that prioritizes culturally responsive teaching practices. We look forward to serving the families in this community and providing a first-class early childhood education experience for their children."
Cadence Education boasts a portfolio of nearly 300 premium preschools and elementary schools, spanning 40 diverse brands across the United States. In the past two years, the company has increased its commitment to Montessori-based education through the acquisition of 14 additional Montessori schools, bringing the total number of Montessori schools under its umbrella to 22. This substantial growth highlights Cadence Education's dedication to providing top-quality early learning experiences to families across the nation.
Paula Charles, President and CEO of The Suzuki School, said: "I was attracted to Cadence Education because of its commitment to quality education and high standards. I knew it would continue the legacy that started in collaboration with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki in 1976 when the school was founded, and work to strengthen the Montessori program while offering new opportunities for our highly committed employees. Over the last five decades we have diligently worked to build an outstanding reputation, and we are confident that Cadence Education will continue to enhance its programming and offerings to the Atlanta community. We are thankful to SchoolWise Partners, who acted as our exclusive advisor to The Suzuki School and its shareholders on the transaction."
About Cadence Education
Cadence Education is one of the premier early childhood educators in the United States, operating more than 300 private preschools across the country. With more than 29 years in business, Cadence Education has developed an unparalleled expertise in preparing students to thrive in the next step of their childhood. For additional information about Cadence Education, please visit www.cadence-education.com.
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Raising money to end Alzheimer’s
Published 9:00 am Monday, September 19, 2022
By Marissa Hanson
People gathered at Frank Hall Park Saturday for the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which aims to raise funds to care for and support people living with Alzheimer’s disease and further research of the disease.
The Albert Lea/Austin walk is organized by a group of people dedicated to fighting Alzheimer’s. The first year they had a walk in Albert Lea was 2018 and they “raised over $60,000 that first year,” said Amanda Irvine, who helped organize the walk that year.
She said Thorne Crest is a big reason the walk came to Albert Lea.
“In 2017 I was walking with my family in Owatonna in memory of my grandpa who passed away back in 2005,” Irvine said. “He was only 68 years old. We as a family went to Owatonna because it was the closest walk at the time to Albert Lea.”
Thorne Crest had been bringing a lot of residents to the Owatonna walk as well, to the point where Irvine noticed.
“While at that walk and walking I noticed Thorne Crest nursing home had a bus of people walking at the walk that morning,” she said.
It was then that she knew she wanted to do something.
“I recognized Catherine Buboltz (with Thorne Crest) and decided to talk to her and gave her my idea of bringing a walk to Albert Lea,” she said. “From there we worked with the Alzheimer’s Association to work on bringing a walk to town. That next fall we accomplished just that.”
Thorne Crest’s team the Thorne Crest Team Tangles has been at the top of the teams chart for the Albert Lea/Austin walk for a number of years. This year they reached and even surpassed their goal of $4,000 in donations.
The morning started before 9 a.m. with the volunteers and committee members setting up the event. At 9 a.m. registration and money turn-in started and lasted until 10 a.m. The event officially started at 10 a.m. with the opening ceremony. Both the one-mile and three-mile walk option followed the ceremony. The event finished up at 11:30 a.m. with the closing ceremony, with awards given to teams for their fundraising efforts.
Jaclyn Bird, chairwoman of the walk committee, thanked the top fundraisers.
Wendy Bidne was the top individual fundraiser, and Edward Jones who was the top company team. Thorne Crest was the top facilities team, and Etta’s Legacy was the top friends and family team.
St. John’s Lutheran Community chaplain Don Malinsky said like the rest of the speakers, he, too, had lost someone to Alzheimer’s. He gave the caregivers recognition for all the work they do.
“Only another caregiver can appreciate and understand your experience,” Malinsky said. “I appreciate and understand that you have completed a labor of love, the most wonderful gift you could ever give to a loved one.”
During the event there were snacks and drinks provided, as well as a kiddie area with games and face paint.
During the walk the participants carried wind flowers. The different colors of the flowers signified different ways people are affected with Alzheimer’s.
A purple flower represented the person carrying it had lost someone to Alzheimer’s. A yellow flower meant the person was a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer’s. A blue flower was for someone living with Alzheimer’s, and an orange flower meant the person supported the Alzheimer’s Association. They hope to eventually add another color — white — that will represent someone who has survived Alzheimer’s. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/09/raising-money-to-end-alzheimers/ | 2022-09-20 01:27:29 | 1 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/09/raising-money-to-end-alzheimers/ |
Rising MMA star Victoria Lee dead at 18, family says
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – Rising mixed martial arts star Victoria Lee has died at the age of 18, according to her family.
Lee came from a family with a rich history of MMA – her sister Angela Lee and brother Christian Lee are both ONE MMA world champions.
In an Instagram post, Angela Lee confirmed her sister’s death, saying Victoria Lee died on Dec. 26.
“We miss her. More than anything in this world. Our family will never be the same. Life will never be the same,” Angela Lee wrote in her post.
A cause of death has not been given.
Angela Lee ended the post, writing, “And please, check on your loved ones. Keep checking on them. Give them hugs and tell them how much they mean to you. You just never know.”
Victoria Lee, who is from Hawaii, made her professional MMA debut in February 2021 with a submission win over Sunisa Srisen and went on to gain more wins in July and September of that year.
Like her older siblings, Victoria Lee was also signed to ONE Championships.
Before turning pro, Victoria Lee was an accomplished martial artist at the junior level. She was a two-time Hawaiian pankration junior world champion, a Hawaii State wrestling champion and an IMMAF junior world champion.
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Why Alec Baldwin was charged over 'Rust' shooting, according to Santa Fe district attorney
Actor Alec Baldwin will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie "Rust," as will the armorer who oversaw all weapons used in the production.
Video above: Santa Fe County District Attorney speaks on charges filed in 'Rust' movie shooting
Baldwin, who has maintained he was not aware the gun he fired contained a live round, called the New Mexico prosecutors' decision "a terrible miscarriage of justice," according to his attorney, Luke Nikas, who vowed to fight the charges.
Jason Bowles, an attorney for the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, said a jury will find his client not guilty because she has "committed no crime."
Hutchins was struck and killed in 2021 by a live round of ammunition fired from a prop gun being held by Baldwin, who maintains he did not pull the gun's trigger. Director Joel Souza was injured. Charges will not be filed against Souza, prosecutors said.
The cause of death is listed as "gunshot wound of chest," and the manner of death as an "accident."
"It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law," said a statement from attorney Brian J. Panish, on behalf of the Hutchins family.
Here is why New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, who spoke with CNN on Thursday, said she decided to file charges:
'An actor does not get a free pass'
Other actors — including "A-list" celebrities — consulted by prosecutors said they "always check their guns or have someone check it in front of them," Carmack-Altwies told CNN shortly after announcing her intention to file involuntary manslaughter charges.
"Every person that handles a gun has a duty to make sure that if they're going to handle that gun, point it at someone and pull the trigger, that it is not going to fire a projectile and kill someone," she said.
She added, "An actor does not get a free pass just because they are an actor. That is what is so important. We are saying here in New Mexico, that everyone is equal under the law."
'There was such a lack of safety' on set
Live rounds were mixed in with dummy rounds on the set, and crews were not checking ammunition regularly, Carmack-Altwies said.
"There was such a lack of safety and safety standards on that set... There were live rounds on set," she added.
"Nobody was checking those or at least they weren't checking them consistently. And then they somehow got loaded into a gun handed off to Alec Baldwin. He didn't check it. He didn't do any of the things that he was supposed to do to make sure that he was safe or that anyone around him was safe. And then he pointed the gun at Halyna Hutchins and he pulled the trigger."
Carmack-Altwies described the production as "a really fast and loose set" when it came to safety and said "nobody was doing their job."
'Accident doesn't mean that it's not criminal'
The summary of the postmortem investigation into Hutchins' death — which was formally signed by the New Mexico chief medical investigator — said "law enforcement reports showed no compelling demonstration that the firearm was intentionally loaded with live ammunition."
"Based on all available information, including the absence of obvious intent to cause harm or death, the manner of death is best classified as accident," the report concluded.
Carmack-Altwies said "just because it's an accident doesn't mean that it's not criminal."
"Our involuntary manslaughter statute covers unintentional killings," she said.
"Unintentional, that means they didn't mean to do it. They didn't have the intent to kill. But it happened anyway, and it happened because of more than mere negligence... They didn't exercise due caution or circumspection and that's what happened here."
Carmack-Altwies said there is "more than enough" evidence to support the charges and bring the case to trial.
'The trigger had to have been pulled'
An FBI forensics report said the weapon could not be fired during FBI testing of its normal functioning without pulling the trigger while the gun was cocked.
The report also noted the gun eventually malfunctioned during testing after internal parts fractured, which caused the gun to go off in the cocked position without pulling the trigger.
The prop gun was being held by Baldwin, who has maintained he did not pull the trigger.
"The FBI lab is one of the best in the world," Carmack-Altwies told CNN. "And we absolutely believe that the trigger had to have been pulled in order for that gun to go off."
Baldwin faces culpability as actor and producer
Baldwin was playing the lead role in "Rust" and was taking a producer credit on the film.
"He was the actor that pulled the trigger so certainly he's charged as an actor but also as a producer," Carmack-Altwies said.
"He also had a duty to make sure that the set was safe and we know from our investigation that there had been accidental misfires prior to this."
The prosecutor said investigators discovered "there were people complaining about safety on set." Baldwin, she added, "should have been aware that safety was an issue ... And then, as an actor that day, he should have checked that gun, checked those projectiles."
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said he was stunned by the decision to charge Baldwin both as actor and producer -- which are "completely different factual and legal scenarios."
"The question about a producer — that gets into the questions of what exactly was Alec Baldwin's job, what were his responsibilities," Honig said. "And look, sometimes people are producers in name ... but are not actually in charge of things in a hands-on way."
Honig said criminal proceedings place "the highest burden in our legal system on prosecutors" to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. "It's never easy," he said.
The case will rely heavily on the expertise of prop masters who will have different views on the obligations of actors and crew members, Honig said.
"You need all 12 jurors to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," he added. "So I'm not saying that there's no chance here, but this is a really difficult case for the prosecution."
How live rounds got on set is 'a red herring'
Carmack-Altwies said prosecutors might never know how live rounds made it onto the movie set.
"And I do believe that's a bit of a red herring," she added. "The point is live rounds were there and they weren't checked. They should have been caught."
Honig said "a major factual issue" will be how the live rounds got onto the set.
"The defense lawyer is going to stand in front of a jury someday and say, 'They want you to convict my client and they can't even tell you how those live rounds got there,'" Honig said.
Carmack-Altwies told CNN the charges will send a clear message about safety at future productions in the state.
"In New Mexico, we want you to come here," she said. "We want you to film movies but we want you to do it safely. And we certainly want to get justice for anyone that is a victim... We want to get justice for Halyna Hutchins." | https://www.wtae.com/article/alec-baldwin-rust-charges-why/42581449 | 2023-01-20 03:24:46 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/alec-baldwin-rust-charges-why/42581449 |
It’s been a busy week for KX. Between an influx of traffic accidents, jarring reveals in auditing and criminal business, both the newsroom and digital teams have been swamped. Thankfully, we’re still able to compress the week’s biggest stories of every category into our weekly In Case You Missed It.
#1: Report faults prison guards, checks in Chad Isaak suicide
An investigation into the prison suicide of Chad Isaak found that he had covered his cell window with cardboard and a guard failed to follow proper procedures in conducting required checks. The investigation report from the state Highway Patrol said Isaak was found hanging in his cell July 31. He was rushed to a Bismarck hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
#2: Three tornadoes confirmed by weather service in Ruso area August 15
The National Weather Service says a total of three tornadoes touched down in the Ruso area Monday evening, with one being rated as an EF-2. In a report issued late Wednesday, the service outlined the chronology of the roughly hour-long outbreak and the damage caused by the twisters.
#3: Human Services audit turns up investigative failures, more than $650 million in financial errors
The North Dakota Department of Human Services is being faulted in a recent audit for not following its own investigative policies in a timely manner and for a wide variety of financial errors totaling more than $650 million. In particular, the State Auditor’s report notes some of the investigative issues with Human Services go back six years.
#4: Burgum calls for Pledge of Allegiance opportunities, display of the American flag
The Pledge of Allegiance is something normally recited at the beginning of school and government meetings, but the Fargo School Board voted to stop reciting the Pledge at their meetings, citing diversity concerns and the phrase ‘under God.’ The decision made national headlines. The school board later reversed its decision. Governor Doug Burgum released a statement calling for public schools and elected government groups to administer the Pledge of Allegiance.
#5: McKenzie River closes due to staffing issue
The pizza restaurant and pub, a Bismarck staple for nine years, announced that it was temporarily closing its doors due to a lack of employees. According to the restaurant’s Facebook page, they lost two long-time workers recently, and have struggled to bounce back, citing a lack of available workers. It is unclear when the restaurant will reopen, but people are encouraged to watch their Facebook page for future updates.
#6: Tasting newsroom dreams (and nightmares) with Coca-Cola Dreamworld
As the newest entry into the Coca-Cola family — particularly its new gallery of mystery flavors — Coke Dreamworld claims to be dream-flavored. But what do dreams actually taste like? To get to the bottom of the mystery, we talked some of KX’s finest investigative journalists into having a little taste test.
We’ll finish this week with a few photos of the fog on Strawberry Lake in Ruso, sent to us by Vickie Anfinson!
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Arlington Heights St. Viator charged Chicago Hope and collected a 63-47 victory in an Illinois girls basketball matchup on December 10.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program that incentivizes West Virginia families to pull their children out of K-12 public schools by offering them state-funded scholarships will be able to resume, after the state Supreme Court issued an order Thursday reversing a lower court’s ruling.
The Hope Scholarship Program, which was scheduled to commence this school year and is one of the most far-reaching school choice programs in the country, was blocked by a Charleston-area judge in July after she ruled that the program violates the state’s constitutional mandate to provide “a thorough and efficient system of free schools.”
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals order overruling that decision comes just two days after attorneys presented their oral arguments in court. Justices said they were “acting without undue delay given the nature of the constitutional matters at issue.” They did not provide their reasoning for their decision but said a more detailed opinion will follow.
State Treasurer Riley Moore, who serves as Chairman of the Hope Scholarship Board, praised the decision, calling it a victory for families over “out-of-state trial lawyers and liberal activists who are trying to block educational freedom and school choice.”
“The Hope Scholarship will provide families — particularly those with low incomes — the ability to pursue educational opportunities that best suit their children,” he said.
He said “effective immediately, this program is back up and running,” and that the scholarship board will meet as soon as possible to iron out the logistics of getting money to families.
Passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year, the law that created the Hope Scholarship Program allows families to apply for state funding to support private school tuition, homeschooling fees and a wide range of other expenses. More than 3,000 students were approved to receive around $4,300 each during the program’s inaugural cycle, according to the West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office. The first payments were supposed to go out in August but were put on hold while the lower court’s block on the program was in place.
Families can’t receive the money if their children were already homeschooled or attending private school. To qualify, students have to have been enrolled in a West Virginia public school last year or had to be set to begin kindergarten this school year.
In January, three parents of special education students sued the state, saying the scholarship program takes money away from already underfunded public schools. The lawsuit was supported by the West Virginia Board of Education. One family later withdrew from the case.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, whose office led the appeal of the July ruling, said the state Supreme Court’s decision “will make an incredible difference for thousands of families across the state.”
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LONDON (AP) — Energy giant Shell reported record first-quarter earnings after a surge in oil prices, fueling calls for the British government to impose a tax on energy companies’ windfall earnings to help consumers struggling with the soaring cost of living.
London-based Shell said adjusted earnings — which exclude one-time items and fluctuations in the value of inventories — rose to $9.1 billion from $3.2 billion in the same period last year. That beat analyst expectations of $8.2 billion.
High oil and gas prices, partly due to uncertainty about supplies from Russia, are boosting the profits of major energy companies and feeding inflation around the world. In Britain, where households face the biggest drop in living standards on record, that has triggered demands for a special tax on energy company earnings to help consumers.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday rejected calls for a windfall profits tax, saying it would reduce investment in Britain just as the country is trying to diversify its energy industry and increase production from renewable sources. But opposition parties stepped up pressure after Shell’s earnings report.
The government’s “refusal to tax the super-profits of energy companies is completely unforgivable when people are too terrified to heat their homes,” said Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats. “This one-off levy would raise billions of pounds that could help vulnerable families with their energy bills now. It is a no-brainer.”
Brent crude, a benchmark for global oil prices, averaged $102.23 a barrel during the first quarter, 67% higher than during the same period last year.
The British media is filled with stories about people forced to skip meals or go into debt as they struggle to heat their homes after a 54% increase in household energy prices took effect April 1. Even before those increases, inflation accelerated to a 30-year high of 7% in March.
Shell rival BP on Tuesday reported its highest quarterly profit in more than a decade. The London-based company said adjusted earnings rose to $6.2 billion in the first quarter, from $2.6 billion in the same period last year.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, criticized politicians for “grandstanding” with calls for a windfall profits tax, pointing out that Shell last month announced plans to invest 25 billion pounds ($31 billion) in renewable energy in the U.K. BP made a commitment to invest 18 billion pounds in U.K. energy this week.
“That’s a lot more than a windfall tax would raise and would probably be better spent,” Hewson said.
Shell said Thursday that it would take a $3.9 billion charge to cover the cost of exiting investments in Russia, which it pledged to do after the invasion of Ukraine.
First-quarter net income, which includes such one-time items, rose to $7.3 billion from $5.8 billion in the same period last year.
“The war in Ukraine is first and foremost a human tragedy, but it has also caused significant disruption to global energy markets and has shown that secure, reliable and affordable energy simply cannot be taken for granted,” CEO Ben van Beurden said in a statement. “We have been engaging with governments, our customers and suppliers to work through the challenging implications and provide support and solutions where we can.” | https://www.wane.com/news/shell-reports-record-1st-quarter-earnings-as-oil-prices-soar/ | 2022-05-05 21:41:14 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/shell-reports-record-1st-quarter-earnings-as-oil-prices-soar/ |
How to Watch the Giants vs. Pirates Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 14
Blake Sabol and the San Francisco Giants take the field on Friday at PNC Park against Rich Hill, who is starting for the Pittsburgh Pirates. First pitch is set for 7:05 PM ET for the first game of a three-game series.
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- Date: Friday, July 14, 2023
- Time: 7:05 PM ET
- TV Channel: Apple TV+
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Venue: PNC Park
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Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants average 1.2 home runs per game to rank 13th in MLB action with 106 total home runs.
- San Francisco is 14th in baseball, slugging .407.
- The Giants have the 16th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- San Francisco has the No. 11 offense in MLB action, scoring 4.6 runs per game (416 total runs).
- The Giants rank 14th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .323.
- The Giants strike out 9.4 times per game, the fourth-worst average in baseball.
- The pitching staff for San Francisco has a collective 8.9 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- San Francisco's 3.95 team ERA ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Giants average baseball's 11th-ranked WHIP (1.256).
Pirates Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Pirates rank 26th in Major League Baseball with just 81 home runs as a team.
- Pittsburgh ranks 25th in the majors with a .386 team slugging percentage.
- The Pirates have a team batting average of .238 this season, which ranks 21st among MLB teams.
- Pittsburgh has scored 379 runs (4.2 per game) this season, which ranks 25th in MLB.
- The Pirates have the 20th-ranked on-base percentage in MLB this season (.315).
- The Pirates rank 14th with an average of 8.6 strikeouts per game.
- Pittsburgh has an 8.5 K/9 rate this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 18th in the majors.
- Pittsburgh has the 18th-ranked ERA (4.36) in the majors this season.
- The Pirates have a combined WHIP of 1.385 as a pitching staff, which ranks 24th in MLB.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ross Stripling (0-2) to the mound to make his eighth start of the season. He is 0-2 with a 6.37 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 41 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Saturday, the right-hander threw 3 2/3 innings against the Colorado Rockies, allowing two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- So far this year, Stripling has not registered a quality start.
- Stripling is looking to collect his fourth start of five or more innings this year in this outing.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 outings this season.
Pirates Probable Starting Pitcher
- Hill (7-9) will take to the mound for the Pirates and make his 19th start of the season.
- The left-hander gave up five earned runs and allowed seven hits in four innings pitched against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday.
- In 18 starts this season, he's earned six quality starts.
- Hill has made 15 starts of five or more innings in 18 chances this season, and averages 5.4 frames when he pitches.
- He has one appearance this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 18 chances this season.
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Which Bissell vacuums are best?
Clean floors make your house feel more like home. Vacuums are an essential tool for those wanting spotless floors, but some don’t clean your carpet on the first go.
Bissell is known for producing high-quality vacuums in a variety of styles. If you’re thinking of buying a Bissell vacuum, it’s important to become familiarized with what the company has to offer in order to make your shopping experience as smooth as possible.
What to know before you buy a Bissell vacuum
Bagged vs. bagless Bissell vacuum
One of the most important considerations when choosing a vacuum is whether you want a bagged or bagless one. Bagless vacuums save you money in the long run, as they don’t have disposable containers that must be replaced. Still, most bagless vacuums have filters you must change periodically.
Bagged vacuums are easier to empty than bagless ones — those without bags tend to release dust particles into the air as you dump them. Still, bagless vacuums usually hold more dust and need to be dumped less often.
Types of Bissell vacuums
- Stick vacuum: These are ideal for people with compact homes or apartments. They are light and easier to move than most vacuums — many are even cordless. Stick vacuums usually have to be emptied more often than other vacuums.
- Canister vacuum: These are similar to stick vacuums but have a canister you pull behind you as you clean. Canister vacuums are ideal for upholstery and hardwood floors. They’re more powerful than stick vacuums but harder to maneuver.
- Upright vacuum: These are the most common and versatile. They’re often relatively affordable and effective but noisy. Upright vacuums are ideal for carpeted floors.
- Robot vacuum: Robot vacuums are convenient, as they do most of the work for you. Still, their suction power isn’t as good as other vacuums, and many have to be emptied often.
Bissell vacuums for pet owners
Many Bissell vacuums are designed with features ideal for pet owners. Some include accessories made for brushing furniture and removing pet hair from it. Those with various bristles and brush rolls are excellent at removing pet hair from carpets.
Additionally, Bissell’s Pet Foundation uses some of the proceeds from every purchase to help pets find homes.
What to look for in a quality Bissell vacuum
Multisurface cleaning
Some vacuums are better used on certain surfaces, but many are designed for both carpets and hard floors. Choosing a vacuum with multisurface cleaning abilities prevents you from switching to a broom and dust pan when cleaning your kitchen floors.
Long-lasting design
Vacuums aren’t the type of thing you want to replace annually. Most Bissell vacuums are built to last many years before needing to be replaced. Still, reviewing the vacuum’s warranty can be helpful if you aren’t sure how long the manufacturer believes it will last. Those with three- and five-year warranties tend to last longer than those with shorter ones.
Bissell vacuum accessories
Accessories are ideal for cleaning tough-to-reach spaces and various surfaces. Bissell vacuums often include fewer accessories than others, but a few are worth considering.
- Brush attachment: These are ideal for car seats and compact spaces. They are lightweight and usually attach to the end of the cleaning wand.
- Mop attachment: These let you clean hard floors. They save space by eliminating the need to keep a mop on hand.
- Crevice attachment: These have an angled design that lets you clean corners and tight spaces.
Bissell vacuum power
Buying a powerful vacuum ensures you’ll clean your floors in a single pass. Many Bissell vacuums have around 9 amperes of power, although some are as high as 12. Stick and robot vacuums tend to be the least powerful, while canister and upright vacuums offer more.
Bissell vacuum FAQ
Why are Bissell vacuums so cheap?
A. Many of the pieces in them are plastic. This keeps them affordable and light, although it may affect their durability.
Do Bissell robot vacuums fall down stairs?
A. They have a cliff-detection feature that prevents them from falling down stairs and other ledges.
Which vacuums produce the least noise?
A. Canister vacuums produce less noise than upright vacuums. Still, if you’re looking for the quietest one you can buy, it may be best to choose a stick vacuum.
Best Bissell vacuums
Bissell CleanView Swivel Upright Bagless Vacuum
Although the brush gets clogged with pet hair quickly, it’s excellent at cleaning it from your floors. The swivel-steering feature makes this vacuum easier to maneuver than most. The canister is easy to empty, and it includes numerous accessories. Sold by Amazon
Bissell CleanView Bagless Vacuum
This is affordable, lightweight and ideal for various types of surfaces. It features a large dirt canister that’s easy to empty. The brush effectively picks up dirt, debris and pet hair. Sold by Amazon
Bissell SpinWave Robot Two-in-One Mop and Vacuum
It’s versatile, convenient and ideal for multiple types of surfaces. Some reviewers said the vacuum didn’t effectively connect to the dock. Still, it’s convenient when connected to your phone and practical if the dock is in a good spot. Sold by Amazon
Some customers said this vacuum was heavy and difficult to maneuver. Still, it effectively cleans pet hair, and its brush prevents hair from getting tangled. It has 8.5 amps of power and an 8-foot hose. Sold by Amazon
It’s affordable and lightweight. It comes with or without a bag and is available in three colors: green, maroon and purple. Many said this did an excellent job cleaning hardwood floors, despite numerous complaints about the attachments falling off while in use. Sold by Amazon
Bissell CrossWave Floor and Area Rug Cleaner
This can switch between vacuum and mop abilities. It is simple to use and works on various surfaces. Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
Bissell Featherweight Stick Lightweight Bagless Vacuum
It’s lightweight and easy to maneuver, and it includes a crevice tool that is ideal for corners and tight spaces. It is affordable and comes in four colors: lime, blue, black and purple. Sold by Amazon
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Animal shelter sees increase in animals coming in over July 4th holiday
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Fourth of July is one of the busiest times of year for animal shelters.
Helping Hands Humane Society has nearly 480 animals living at its Topeka shelter and more than 50 in foster homes.
Emi Griess with the shelter said, “It has been a busy week as usual. Tons of strays coming in, our staff is working really hard trying to get them back home, and trying to care for them while they are with us.”
She said pets tend to run away from home this time of year frightened by fireworks.
“Luckily, the number of adult stray dogs coming in is down a bit,” Griess continued saying, “The three weeks leading up to Fourth of July we had 120 come in last year and we have had 95 come in, which may not sound like a huge difference, but those 25 dogs - that is 25 less kennels we need this year.”
As the number of animals coming into the shelter continues to rise, Griess said the amount of pets being reclaimed is not as high.
“If a pet comes in with a microchip that is up to date, that usually is when the owners can come in the fastest because that means we call them immediately when the pet enters the shelter,” she added, “If they do not have a microchip, you may not know right away that your pet is even missing or where to look. Some people still do not realize that Helping Hands is the first place they should call.”
Griess said if you have a lost pet, or know someone with a lost pet, call 785-233-7325 or visit the shelter to check and see if the animal is already there. Helping Hands is located at SW 21st and Belle Ave.
The shelter also asks the community for help reuniting pets with their owners.
“The advice that we are giving right now, because the shelter is already packed at capacity is, if it is possible and it is a nice friendly animal, hang onto it for at least a day or two and ask your neighbors, check those lost and found groups on Facebook, and see if you can find the owner personally and get that pet back to them.” Griess adds, “That is a huge help to us because we are already so full.”
Helping Hands has created the Facebook page, HHHS Lost & Found Pets, where they share photos of stray animals and where they were found. The shelter is also continuing its adoption special with all dogs, except those that are high profile, are $25 and cats and kittens are half-off.
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At least 78 migrants dead and dozens feared missing after fishing vessel sinks off Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least 78 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank, authorities said Wednesday.
A large search and rescue operation was launched in the area. Authorities said 104 people have been rescued so far following the nighttime incident some 75 kilometers (46 miles) southwest of Greece’s southern Peloponnese region.
Four of the survivors were hospitalized with symptoms of hypothermia. It was unclear how many passengers might remain missing at sea after the Greek coast guard reported 78 dead.
Six coast guard vessels, a navy frigate, a military transport plane, an air force helicopter, several private vessels and a drone from the European Union border protection agency, Frontex, were taking part in the ongoing search.
The Italy-bound boat is believed to have sailed from the Tobruk area in eastern Libya. The Italian coast guard first alerted Greek authorities and Frontex about the approaching vessel on Tuesday.
At the southern port of Kalamata, dozens of rescued migrants were taken to sheltered areas set up by the ambulance services and the United Nations Refugee Agency to receive dry clothes and medical attention.
Libyan authorities have launched a major crackdown on migrants earlier this month across eastern Libya. Activists have said several thousand migrants, including Egyptians, Syrians, Sudanese and Pakistanis, have been detained. Libyan authorities deported many Egyptians to their home country through a land crossing point.
In western Libya, authorities have raided migrant hubs in the capital, Tripoli, and other towns over the past few weeks. At least 1,800 migrants were detained and taken to government-run detention centers, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
Mediterranean smugglers are increasingly taking larger boats into international waters off the Greek mainland to try to avoid local coast guard patrols.
On Sunday, 90 migrants on a U.S.-flagged yacht were rescued in the area after they made a distress call.
Separately Wednesday, a yacht with 81 migrants on board was towed to a port on the south coast of Greece’s island of Crete after authorities received a distress call.
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Investigators expect Fitness Factor suspect to have mental evaluation
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Dozens of law enforcement could be seen around the Towne Square shopping center.
Officers negotiated with Dan Waldrop, eventually forcing his surrender.
Now that Waldrop is in custody, investigators expect him to have a mental evaluation before being charged.
Law enforcement believed he was experiencing some type of medical issue but could not elaborate.
During a press conference, police did dispel some rumors about what actually happened inside the business.
“The people inside the business were able to get out and there were no hostages held at gunpoint that we are aware of at this point,” said Columbus Police Chief Joseph Daughtry.
“At this point, we don’t know of any shots that were fired. We do know there was a gun displayed. We do have the gun in our possession. We have the suspect in custody. There is no danger to the public and everything is under control,” said Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins.
As of late Tuesday afternoon, no official charges had been filed against Waldrop.
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Witness Films Dallas ATM Heist Going Down in Broad Daylight
Can you believe these guys did this in the middle of the day?
You would think with all the crazy stuff that’s on the internet, nothing would shock me anymore. But you would be wrong.
I mean, it blows my mind that anyone would steal an ATM. Usually, when I read about it happening, the thieves hit it in the middle of the night.
But I guess the guys who robbed the ATM at the Chase Bank located at I-30 and Sylvan in Dallas figured it was now or never when they decided to do their thing in the middle of the day – in July, nonetheless, while wearing hoodies.
I don’t know what I would do if I rolled up on something like that going down. I would probably be shocked at what I was witnessing, but I would also be a little ticked off.
Because there’s nothing that grinds my gears like waiting in line behind someone taking forever at an ATM.
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Independent Bookstore Day will be celebrated at local bookstores throughout the city all day long on Saturday, April 29.
Both Writer's Block Bookstore locations — in Winter Park and Winter Garden — will host special events. Expect exclusive Indie Bookstore Day merch (tote bags, people!), deals and more. As well, shoppers who come dressed as their favorite character will also get a 20% discount. So, expect to see some Harry Potters, Junie B. Joneses and Katniss Everdeens.
Spiral Circle Bookstore will host "Spring Awakening: Book & Psychic Fair" the same day, starting at 1 p.m. The event features attractions like personalized palm or tarot card readings, a banned books table, a mobile bookstore and meets-and-greets with local authors.
In addition, both Park Ave CDs in Audubon Park and Blackbird Comics in Maitland will also be stocking some of the Indie Bookstore Day exclusives, if you're looking to wander a little further afield. Happy hunting (and reading).
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Several hundred juveniles caused chaos in Center City around the area of the Fashion District mall Wednesday night before they were finally dispersed by police.
Police officials offered conflicting versions of the level of disorder and whether rocks were thrown at cops.
A Philadelphia officer suffered a knee injury chasing after a suspect but no other injuries were reported.
Four teenagers were issued citations as result of the incident.
Police said around 500 teenagers caused several disturbances along Market Street. Videos obtained by NBC10 show teens rushing toward police officers at various locations throughout Center City, including near City Hall, Dilworth Plaza and the Fashion District. Witnesses told police some teens threw rocks at the officers and gathered in large crowds, but that has not been officially confirmed.
Mayor Jim Kenney issued a statement vowing that this “dangerous behavior will not be tolerated.”
Kenney continued on Twitter: “I’m saddened when young people engage in behavior that endangers themselves and others, especially because it is not representative of the majority of our city’s youth, who are positively engaged in their communities. We all must work together to support our young people.”
What is missing from Kenney’s late-night statement on Twitter is how city officials will ensure that the chaos in Center City will not be tolerated and how it will be prevented from happening again.
Police must investigate what role if any did social media play in causing the disturbance. Social media often provides too many ways for young people to announce a gathering that could quickly ignite.
How did an alleged fight between teens escalate to such a disturbance?
It is not known if the disturbances were part of a flash mob.
In September 2011, the problem of violent “flash mobs” of young people gathering in Center City causing chaos was abated when Mayor Michael Nutter called for stricter enforcement of the city’s curfew laws and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey re-deployed hundreds of police officers to stand watch in Center City.
The violent disturbance occurred while many schools, including the Philadelphia School District, were on spring break this past week.
Fortunately the chaos in Center City did not lead to loss of life. The next such incident could be far worse.
In two months thousands of young people will be out on summer vacation. Many of them will have no job or anything constructive to do.
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Phoenix police officer resigns after being arrested on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution
A Phoenix police officer resigned on Tuesday after being arrested on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution.
Michael Martinez, 30, was arrested early Sunday morning, according to Phoenix police spokesperson Sgt. Phil Krynsky. Martinez has since been released from jail.
Court documents obtained by The Arizona Republic state Martinez engaged in sexual conduct under a fee arrangement at a motel on Sept. 16. Martinez asked a woman from a website, whom he had met before, to help him meet with one of her friends he had seen in a picture.
In an interview with police, Martinez admitted he paid $100 to the woman before engaging in sexual intercourse with the friend. He said he felt he was meeting with an escort, "which he viewed as different than a prostitute," court documents say.
Martinez acknowledged to police that when he paid, he believed sexual intercourse would happen. Court documents state he also admitted that what had happened between him and the friend fell under the Arizona Revised Statutes' definition of prostitution.
Krynsky said Martinez resigned as of Tuesday.
The Police Department didn't have evidence that suggested any sex act occurred while Martinez was on duty or in a police vehicle, according to Krynsky.
Phoenix police did not provide additional information as the investigation was ongoing.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — That hurdle over a defender in the open field was just an instinctive move for Jake Ferguson. That unique celebration with the other three Dallas Cowboys tight ends after a touchdown a few plays later was a scheme he had come up with in advance.
And it was Ferguson who got bopped on the head in a live-version Whac-A-Mole celebration in the Cowboys’ 28-20 win on Thanksgiving Day, in another knock for the New York Giants in a once-promising season that seems to be unraveling with three losses in the last four games.
After rookie Peyton Hendershot scored on a 2-yard sweep, cutting in behind the blocks of two other tight ends to get into the end zone, he immediately motioned the rest of his group toward one of the oversized Salvation Army red kettles in the back of the end zone.
“We just saw the kettle and we were just brainstorming in the tight end room, like what can we do,” Ferguson said. “What about if all three of us in there, and we just play Whac-A-Mole. Because we knew Peyton had that play in for a couple of weeks, and we knew he was going to get into there and we’d have an opportunity.”
Dalton Schultz, Sean McKeon and Ferguson all jumped into kettle, then started popping up and down before Hendershot used the football like a mallet, holding it with both hands whacking Ferguson on top of the head.
“If all four tight ends are in there, we’re going to score a touchdown, we’ve got to do something special,” Hendershot said. “When they called (the play), we knew it was time to go.”
Schultz said he honestly didn’t know if three tight ends would fit in the kettle together.
“I didn’t know that it was squishy either, so I was a little happy about that,” Schultz said.
That was the last score for the Cowboys in their annual Thanksgiving game that also serves as the kickoff for the Salvation Army’s holiday fundraiser.
While the tight ends weren’t the first ones to use the kettles as part of a touchdown celebration, they did it as a group. Running back Ezekiel Elliott once dropped money and himself in the big red bucket, and another time picked up Dak Prescott and put the quarterback in one.
“They topped me. They topped my kettle celebrations,” Elliott said. “I’m a little jealous. You know they didn’t let me in on it, but love those tight ends.”
It was a celebration that wouldn’t have even happened if the Cowboys had won their challenge of the previous play, when CeeDee Lamb made an incredible catch in the back of the end zone. Coach Mike McCarthy challenged after Lamb was ruled out of bounds, and that call was upheld after replay review.
A few plays before that, Ferguson leaped into the air to make a two-handed catch on what turned into a 30-yard gain to the Giants 24. After the open-field catch near the 45, he took off and went hurdling over 6-foot safety Jason Pinnock close to the 30, then got a few more yards before lowering his shoulder into cornerback Rodarius Williams.
“Cleared somebody? Never,” Ferguson said about the hurdle. “That probably will be the last time I jump this year because now guys will be going high, sets them up a little bit. But yeah, I don’t really know how to explain that one.”
As for putting his head down, and bulling into Williams, Ferguson said, “My legs might have been a little tired.”
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Partnership Spans Attack Surface Management (ASM) Technology, Security Testing, and Reconnaissance Training
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Hat USA 2022 – Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security artificial intelligence (AI), and HackerOne, the leader in Attack Resistance Management, have partnered to combine Darktrace PREVENT/Attack Surface Management™ technology with the continuous security assessment capabilities of the HackerOne platform. The partnership expands HackerOne's OpenASM initiative and delivers on a shared vision with Darktrace to help organizations secure their digital estate through leading technology and a community of ethical hackers.
HackerOne recognized the need for an ASM partner that could enhance the asset discovery and reconnaissance efforts of HackerOne's community of hackers. After an extensive technology evaluation, it selected PREVENT/ASM™, a set of AI-powered capabilities that perform reconnaissance on a target attack surface simply by knowing the name of an organization or brand and identifying threats external to that target. The combination of AI and security expertise will deliver continuous insight and help organizations find and eliminate blind spots across their digital landscape before attackers can exploit them. To assure ongoing security improvement, Darktrace and HackerOne will collaborate to train hackers on ASM best practices as they find, enrich, and risk rank assets.
The Darktrace and HackerOne partnership helps organizations close their security gap. Organizations face challenges with an attack resistance gap between known digital assets and those they need to protect. According to The 2022 Attack Resistance Management Report, one-third of organizations said they monitor less than 75% of their attack surface, and almost 20% believe that over half of their attack surface is unknown or not observable. In June, HackerOne launched OpenASM, an initiative that empowers organizations to combine external scan data from ASM products with HackerOne's proactive security testing capabilities to gain a comprehensive understanding of attack surface risks. As an early champion of OpenASM, Darktrace assures that customers can quickly gain visibility of their external assets, while hacker expertise provides targeted testing and data enrichment to address the most critical risks to their organization.
"Our partnership with Darktrace enhances HackerOne's ability to close customers' security gaps," said Ashish Warty, SVP of Engineering at HackerOne. "We are partnering with Darktrace because of their leadership in security, global coverage, and the flexibility of their asset discovery product to protect organizations of every type and size. The innovation and quality of their AI technology combined with the HackerOne Attack Resistance Management platform will improve the effectiveness of vulnerability discovery and provide the foundation for jointly developed security solutions that combine the best of human and machine intelligence."
"We are delighted to announce our partnership with HackerOne, a company which aligns closely with our vision of ridding the world of cyber-disruption," added Pieter Jansen, SVP Cyber Innovation at Darktrace. "We have always embraced the hacker community, but with this partnership, we are making that more visible to the outside world. By providing ASM data to HackerOne programs, participating hackers become more efficient at finding vulnerabilities and spend less time on reconnaissance. We are proud HackerOne has selected PREVENT/ASM™ as the leading platform to accelerate HackerOne's Attack Resistance Management strategy."
Are you heading to the Black Hat USA conference on August 10-11 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas? Stop by Darktrace's Booth #1132 or HackerOne's Booth #2520 to see a demonstration of Darktrace and HackerOne's products working together.
About Darktrace
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security artificial intelligence, is on a mission to free the world of cyber disruption. Breakthrough innovations in our Cyber AI Research Centre in Cambridge, UK have resulted in over 100 patent applications filed and research published to contribute to the cyber security community. Rather than study attacks, our technology continuously learns and updates its knowledge of 'you' and applies that understanding to optimize your state of optimal cyber security. We are delivering the first ever Cyber AI Loop, fueling a continuous end-to-end security capability that can autonomously spot and respond to novel in-progress threats within seconds. Darktrace employs over 2,000 people around the world and protects over 7,400 customers globally from advanced cyber threats. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine's 'Most Influential Companies' in 2021. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.
About HackerOne
HackerOne closes the security gap between what organizations own and what they can protect. HackerOne's Attack Resistance Management blends the security expertise of ethical hackers with asset discovery, continuous assessment, and process enhancement to find and close gaps in the ever-evolving digital attack surface. This approach enables organizations to transform their business while staying ahead of threats. Customers include The U.S. Department of Defense, Dropbox, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hyatt, Lufthansa, Microsoft, MINDEF Singapore, Nintendo, PayPal, Slack, Starbucks, Twitter, and Yahoo. In 2021, HackerOne was named as a 'brand that matters' by Fast Company.To learn more, visit http://www.hackerone.com.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — What was once routine for Damar Hamlin, such as pulling on a helmet and heading out to practice, has become something the Buffalo Bills safety celebrated with a phone call to his parents.
That was the case last week, general manager Brandon Beane said on Tuesday, after Hamlin participated fully in practice for the first time in the six months since having a near-death experience during a game at Cincinnati.
“Just so proud of him and thrilled for where he’s at in his journey,” Beane said.
“He’s still got more milestones to hit. But to think back, we’re just at the beginning of June, and that was the beginning of January, and we were just hoping he’d live,” he added. “Now he’s not only got a normal life, but we’re talking about playing not just any football, but NFL football.”
The Bills practice on Tuesday was the first in which reporters were allowed to see Hamlin don his helmet and take part in various team drills. Beane said, Hamlin enjoyed his first full session on May 31, in a practice that was closed to reporters, after which the player called his parents in Pittsburgh.
Hamlin had previously been limited to taking part in individual drills and the stretching portions of practice since the Bills’ series of spring voluntary sessions opened on May 22. The 25-year-old has made it his objective to resume his football career after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field after making what appeared to be a routine tackle during a game against the Bengals on Jan. 2.
The frightening collapse led to the game being eventually canceled by the NFL, and had Hamlin spending 10 days recovering and being monitored in hospitals in Cincinnati and Buffalo. The third-year player was fully cleared to resume playing in April, and has spent much of the past two months working out at the team’s facility.
On Tuesday, Hamlin appeared upbeat by happily waving to the cameras pointed at him during pre-practice stretching drills.
Soon after, he served as a punt protector in several special team periods and then took the field with the defense, in which he made a touch tackle in what are non-contact sessions.
At one point, Hamlin fell to the field while attempting to make a play on the ball, and stayed down for a moment, while trainers tended to his right shoulder. Hamlin eventually resumed practicing.
“I’m good,” Hamlin told The Associated Press as he walked off the field.
“It’s an amazing story,” Beane said.
With Buffalo completing its spring practices with a three-day mandatory minicamp next week, the next step in Hamlin’s comeback won’t come until the Bills begin practicing in pads during full-contact sessions in training camp, which is set to open in late July.
“He’s worked really hard on the mental side of this. Physically, he’s all cleared. But this is a real deal from a mental standpoint after you’ve been to where he was,” Beane said. “We’ll continue to ramp him up with helmets on, but that’ll probably be the next big hurdle for him, tackling.”
He added Hamlin is working in consultation with team trainers in determining when to ramp up his practice routine.
“This is a two-way communication. This is not us saying, ‘You’ve got to do this,’” Beane said.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the leading not-for-profit organization that oversees U.S. physician certification, will host ABMS Conference 2022 in-person at the Loews O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. and online September 21-23. Conference sessions will explore critical topics such as patient safety, health equity, and the spread of medical misinformation.
ABMS Conference 2022 is the premier conference on the certification of health care professionals with a focus on assessment, improvement, professionalism, and professional development. Participants will share innovative collaborations, evidence-based research, and best practices that accelerate the transformation of certification and the delivery of high-quality care.
The conference program was created for health care professionals and leaders from ABMS Member Boards, medical and professional societies, hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, quality and practice improvement sectors, and continuing medical education and professional development communities.
ABMS Conference 2022 will feature two and a half days of sessions, including 34 concurrent break sessions, two plenaries, 29 posters, 18 exhibitors, and many networking opportunities.
ABMS Conference 2022 highlights include:
Opening Plenary—Misinformation in Health Care: The Implications for Professionalism and the Public Trust (September 21)
- Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor School of Medicine
- Humayun Chaudhry, DO, MACP, President and CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards
- Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FAEMS, President, Board of Directors, American Board of Emergency Medicine; Medical Director, Los Angeles County EMS Agency; Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Clinical Faculty, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics and Investigator, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA
The Lois Margaret Nora Endowed Lecture Plenary—Competency Based Medical Education: The Future for Specialty Training (September 22)
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- Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP, FACS, Associate Designated Institutional Official for the Clinical Learning Environment, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Program Director, Endocrine Surgery Fellowship and Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education
For the in-person event, ABMS will follow all COVID-19 mitigation protocols per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department guidelines. More than half of the in-person conference sessions also will be available via livestream, including both plenary panel discussions. All participants also will have access to all recorded sessions following the conference.
The ABMS 2022 Conference Premier Sponsor is AMA Ed Hub, with other supporters including Alpine Testing Solutions, Certification Management Services, Data Recognition Corporation, Intealth, and ROC-P.
About ABMS
Established in 1933, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is responsible for the creation of standards overseeing physician certification in the United States. Dedicated to improving the quality of care to the patients, families and communities they serve, the 24 ABMS Member Boards develop educational and professional standards and programs of assessment to certify physicians and medical specialists. More than 940,000 physicians and medical specialists are certified by one or more of the ABMS Member Boards in one or more of 40 specialties and 88 subspecialties. For more information about ABMS, visit abms.org or call (312) 436-2600.
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NEW YORK — The euro has fallen below parity with the dollar, diving to its lowest level in 20 years and ending a one-to-one exchange rate with the U.S. currency.
It's a psychological barrier in the markets. But psychology is important, and the euro's slide underlines the foreboding in the 19 European countries using the currency as they struggle with an energy crisis caused by Russia's war in Ukraine.
Here's why the euro's slide is happening and what impact it could have:
WHAT DOES EURO AND DOLLAR PARITY MEAN?
It means the European and American currencies are worth the same amount. While constantly changing, the euro has dropped just below a value of $1 this week.
A currency's exchange rate can be a verdict on economic prospects, and Europe's have been fading. Expectations that the economy would see a rebound after turning the corner from the COVID-19 pandemic have been replaced by recession predictions.
More than anything, high energy prices and record inflation are to blame. Europe is far more dependent on Russian oil and natural gas than the U.S. to keep industry humming and generate electricity. Fears that the war in Ukraine will lead to a loss of Russian oil on global markets have pushed oil prices higher. And Russia has been cutting back natural gas supplies to the European Union, which EU leaders described as retaliation for sanctions and weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
Energy prices have driven euro-area inflation to a record 8.9% in July, making everything from groceries to utility bills more expensive. They also have raised fears about governments needing to ration natural gas to industries like steel, glassmaking and agriculture if Russia further reduces or shuts off the gas taps completely.
The sense of doom increased as Russia reduced the flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity and said it would shut it down for three days next week for “routine maintenance” at a compressor station.
Natural gas prices on Europe’s TTF benchmark have soared to record highs amid dwindling supplies, fears of further cutoffs and strong demand.
“If you think Euro at parity is cheap, think again," Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance banking trade group, tweeted Monday. “German manufacturing lost access to cheap Russian energy & thus its competitive edge."
“Global recession is coming," he said in a second tweet.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE EURO WAS EQUAL TO THE DOLLAR?
The euro was last valued below $1 on July 15, 2002.
The European currency hit its all-time high of $1.18 shortly after its launch on Jan. 1, 1999, but then began a long slide, falling through the $1 mark in February 2000 and hitting a record low of 82.30 cents in October 2000. It rose above parity in 2002 as large trade deficits and accounting scandals on Wall Street weighed on the dollar.
Then as now, what appears to be a euro story is also in many ways a dollar story. That’s because the U.S. dollar is still the world’s dominant currency for trade and central bank reserves. And the dollar has been hitting 20-year highs against the currencies of its major trading partners, not just the euro.
The dollar is also benefiting from its status as a safe haven for investors in times of uncertainty.
WHY IS THE EURO FALLING?
Many analysts attribute the euro's slide to expectations for rapid interest rate increases by the U.S. Federal Reserve to combat inflation at close to 40-year highs.
As the Fed raises interest rates, the rates on interest-bearing investments tend to rise as well. If the Fed raises rates more than the European Central Bank, higher interest returns will attract investor money from euros into dollar-denominated investments. Those investors will have to sell euros and buy dollars to buy those holdings. That drives the euro down and the dollar up.
Last month, the ECB raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years by a larger-than-expected half-percentage point. It is expected to add another increase in September. But if the economy sinks into recession, that could halt the ECB's series of rate increases.
Meanwhile, the U.S. economy looks more robust, meaning the Fed could go on tightening — and widen the rate gap.
WHO WINS?
American tourists in Europe will find cheaper hotel and restaurant bills and admission tickets. The weaker euro could make European export goods more competitive on price in the United States. The U.S. and the EU are major trade partners, so the exchange rate shift will get noticed.
In the U.S., a stronger dollar means lower prices on imported goods — from cars and computers to toys and medical equipment — which could help moderate inflation.
WHO LOSES?
American companies that do a lot of business in Europe will see the revenue from those businesses shrink when and if they bring those earnings back to the U.S. If euro earnings remain in Europe to cover costs there, the exchange rate becomes less of an issue.
A key worry for the U.S. is that a stronger dollar makes U.S.-made products more expensive in overseas markets, widening the trade deficit and reducing economic output, while giving foreign products a price edge in the United States.
A weaker euro can be a headache for the European Central Bank because it can mean higher prices for imported goods, particularly oil, which is priced in dollars. The ECB is already being pulled in different directions: It is raising interest rates, the typical medicine for inflation, but higher rates also can slow economic growth. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/euro-dollar/507-aa0f6dca-6ed8-4316-8640-78a465bdbc7f | 2022-08-23 14:53:51 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/euro-dollar/507-aa0f6dca-6ed8-4316-8640-78a465bdbc7f |
Second season of hit animated series ‘Road Stories’ premieres Friday on Circle
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News) - The second season of Circle’s hit animated series “Road Stories” is set to premiere on Friday.
The television program is hosted by country music artist and radio personality Chuck Wicks, and it features animated stories from country music legends and newcomers, including Jimmie Allen, Lauren Alaina, Lee Brice and Tracy Lawrence.
Through the lens of their animated self, each artist will tell their funniest, craziest, most exciting stories from the road – ranging from their most memorable performances to their most unique stories from the tour bus and beyond.
Don’t miss Lauren Alaina discussing a pre-concert wardrobe malfunction, Bill Cody’s retelling of a prank Marty Stuart played on Chuck Wicks at the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Allen not getting recognized at his own concert, and more.
“Being able to give our viewers an inside look at the lives of their favorite country stars is what makes us unique here at Circle Network,” said Circle’s General Manager, Drew Reifenberger. “‘Road Stories’ brings touring tales to life through the animated minds of country’s biggest stars, so I’m thrilled to have it back for another season. Where else can you hear about Tracy Lawrence putting chickens on stage with Kenny Chesney and pigs on his tour bus?!”
The season premiere of “Road Stories with Chuck Wicks” airs Friday at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT on Circle featuring Grammy-award-winning artist Jimmie Allen.
To find out how to watch Circle, click here.
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Top ways to tackle higher education costs
Experts recommend opening a savings account as early as possible
(InvestigateTV) — The average yearly cost of a public 4-year college last year was more than $10,000 for in-state tuition and fees, according to the College Board, making it essential for families and students to plan ahead.
Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor, says he believes a lot of families really do want to help their children save for college and avoid student loan debt.
“The cost of college can be scary, especially when you see it rising. But I think it’s important for families to remember that you don’t have to save 100% of the cost of college,” Farrington explained. “Anything helps. And there is a lot of ways to pay for college as well.”
The College Investor has several guides to help save and pay for college. Here are a few of their top suggestions:
Start a college savings account as early as possible: 529 plans, Uniform Gift/Transfer to Minor Accounts, and Roth IRAs are three popular accounts to open.
Search for scholarships and grants: Here are 10 sites you can use to search for scholarships, including Scholarships.com and Bold.org.
Apply for Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): In 2021, students missed out on an estimated $3.75 billion in grants simply because they did not fill out the FAFSA form, according to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN).
Lastly, Farrington said we don’t know what the cost of college will be like in the future, but any little bit you set aside will ultimately help.
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Former President Trump and members of his family failed to disclose more than 100 gifts worth nearly $300,000 that they received from foreign governments during his presidency, according to a report House Oversight and Accountability Committee Democrats released on Friday.
The report, based on White House records that the committee requested from the National Archives last June, identified 117 undisclosed foreign gifts received by the former president, former first lady Melania Trump, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump.
Trump’s youngest son Barron Trump and the Kushner children were also listed as recipients of some of the undisclosed gifts.
The president and his family are not allowed to personally keep gifts worth more than $415 from foreign governments and instead must accept them on behalf of the United States. The gifts, which must be publicly disclosed, are then turned over to the National Archives.
After Trump left office, the State Department reported that it was “missing items of a significant value”, finding that a “lack of accurate recordkeeping and appropriate physical security controls contributed to the loss of the gifts.” A later report also said that the president’s office had failed to provide a foreign gift listing for 2020.
Friday’s report from the Oversight Committee noted that the undisclosed gifts create concerns about “potential undue influence,” highlighting that the Trump family failed to report $45,000 worth of gifts from Saudi Arabia, $47,000 worth of gifts from India and $3,400 worth of gifts from China.
The previously undisclosed gifts included, among other things, a “larger-than-life sized painting” of Trump from the president of El Salvador and a $3,755 gold golf driver from the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Man arrested after teenage girl hit by propeller after going overboard on boat
Published: Jul. 5, 2022 at 10:14 AM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – A teenage girl was killed Monday after falling off a pontoon boat into the Blind River.
According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Madison Bradley, 17, and another male passenger were riding on the bow of the boat in front of the protective rail when they hit a wake from a passing vessel.
Both Bradley and the man were knocked into the water.
Authorities say Bradley did not resurface and suffered severe propeller strikes.
The man had minor injuries and should be OK.
The boat operator was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, driving a vessel while impaired and reckless operation of a vessel.
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Man arrested for starting a wildfire told authorities he was trying to burn a spider with a lighter
Video above: Rural California town nearly wiped out by wildfire
A 26-year-old man who was arrested for starting a wildfire told Utah authorities he had been attempting to kill a spider with a lighter when he started the blaze, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded Monday to the Bonneville Shoreline area near Springville for a fire that was quickly spreading up a mountain, according to a probable cause statement from the sheriff's office.
When they arrived, fire personnel informed them they had encountered a man who told them he had started the fire, according to the statement. The man, who identified himself as Cory Allan Martin, said he had found a spider on the mountain and was trying to burn it with a lighter when a nearby brush ignited and flames began spreading, according to the sheriff's office.
"He was placed in custody for the reckless burning and was placed in the back of the patrol vehicle," the probable cause statement said. "While searching Cory's belongings, a jar of marijuana and paraphernalia was found."
Martin was taken to the Utah County Jail for reckless burning, possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia, according to the statement.
It is unclear if Martin has an attorney. He was released Monday night, according to jail records.
The blaze scorched land from the base of a mountain all the way to the top, the probable cause statement said, and required a response from multiple fire agencies, including helicopter units.
It was about 90% contained Wednesday morning and had burned about 60 acres, fire officials said on Twitter. | https://www.wisn.com/article/utah-man-arrested-starting-wildfire-trying-to-burn-a-spider-with-lighter/40800997 | 2022-08-04 11:30:04 | 0 | https://www.wisn.com/article/utah-man-arrested-starting-wildfire-trying-to-burn-a-spider-with-lighter/40800997 |
Ukraine relies on billions of dollars in aid from the U.S. to keep services running during the war. The way Ukraine spends the money is strictly monitored. The U.S. wants to bolster that transparency.
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Ukraine relies on billions of dollars in aid from the U.S. to keep services running during the war. The way Ukraine spends the money is strictly monitored. The U.S. wants to bolster that transparency.
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Montana man charged for threats to Sen. Jon Tester
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been charged with threatening the life of Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester via voicemails left at his Kalispell office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Kevin Patrick Smith, 45, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two felony counts of threats to injure and murder a U.S. Senator during a hearing in Missoula. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen DeSoto ordered Smith held in federal custody at least until a detention hearing set for Monday.
Smith’s public defender, Andy Nelson, said Smith is presumed innocent.
The first count refers to calls made Jan. 30 and the second is for messages left Feb. 10, after the FBI had warned Smith against making any more threats.
The voicemails included threats to “rip your head off” and were laced with profanity. The caller acknowledged in a recording that he was threatening Tester “on purpose,” court records said.
“I would love to see your FBI at the door,” one message said.
The FBI met with Smith on Feb. 1 and told him to stop threatening physical violence toward Tester or any elected official.
However, an initial complaint said threatening voice messages were left at Tester’s office on Feb. 10, 11 and 13 from Smith’s number in which the caller talks about not pulling a gun’s trigger until he knows what he’s aiming at.
“I know who you are,” the caller says.
The criminal complaint, which was later replaced by an indictment, said calls from Smith’s phone number to Tester’s office in Kalispell began in late 2022.
Tester this week announced he was going to seek a fourth term in the U.S. Senate. A third-generation farmer and former music teacher, Tester has leaned on a folksy speaking style and populist-themed messages to overcome Republican opponents in each of his last three elections.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Mason Gillis had 20 points on 7-for-8 shooting, and No. 5 Purdue held off Rutgers for a rugged 70-65 victory in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
With Zach Edey drawing his usual attention inside, the top-seeded Boilermakers (27-5) got a big lift from Gillis and reserve guard David Jenkins Jr. Gillis grabbed nine rebounds and Porter had a season-high 12 points.
The 7-foot-4 Edey finished with 16 points and 11 boards. The Big Ten Player of the Year averaged 21.9 points and 12.8 rebounds during the regular season.
Next up for Purdue is the winner of the second quarterfinal between Ohio State and Michigan State. The Boilermakers are looking for the school’s second Big Ten Tournament title and a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA tourney.
Derek Simpson scored 18 points for Rutgers (19-14), which advanced with a 62-50 win against Michigan on Thursday. Cam Spencer had 13 points, and Clifford Omoruyi finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.
The Scarlet Knights had won five of their last six meetings with the Boilermakers, including a 65-64 victory at Purdue on Jan. 2. But they struggled to score down the stretch, shooting 40% (14 for 35) from the field in the second half.
After Simpson’s 3-pointer trimmed Purdue’s lead to 50-49 with 8:29 left, Ethan Morton responded with two foul shots for the Boilermakers. Edey then dunked off a pass from Morton and Braden Smith made a jumper to make it 56-49 with 5:40 to go.
Edey added two more free throws and a jumper that lifted Purdue to a 60-52 lead with 3:21 to go.
Bothered by Rutgers’ swarming defense, Purdue got off to a shaky start. The Boilermakers trailed by as many as 12 in the first half before rallying behind Edey and Gillis.
Edey converted two three-point plays — including a vicious jam inside — and Gillis made a 3-pointer in the final seconds, lifting Purdue to a 29-28 halftime lead. Gillis had 10 points at the break on 4-for-4 shooting.
The Scarlet Knights made just four field goals in the last 9:40 of the first half. Paul Mulcahy had a team-high eight points at halftime.
BIG PICTURE
Rutgers fought hard all the way to the very end, but couldn’t catch the experienced Boilermakers.
Purdue struggled down the stretch, splitting its last eight games of the regular season. It’s looking to become the first No. 1 seed to win the Big Ten tourney since 2019.
UP NEXT
Rutgers is on the bubble when it comes to an at-large bid for the NCAA Tournament, but it should have the opportunity to play in the postseason.
Purdue swept each of its two games against Michigan State and Ohio State this season.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
5-1-8-3, Fireball: 1
(five, one, eight, three; Fireball: one)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
5-1-8-3, Fireball: 1
(five, one, eight, three; Fireball: one) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17489051.php | 2022-10-05 18:52:25 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17489051.php |
Dobbins sat out due to deal, but lacks leverage
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Mike Florio and Myles Simmons try to make sense of J.K. Dobbins’ decision to sit out over the lack of a new deal, but explain why the RB position just doesn’t have the same pull as other positions. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/inside-saints-chances-to-make-nfl-playoffs | 2023-06-28 09:09:55 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/inside-saints-chances-to-make-nfl-playoffs |
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie Konnor Pilkington struck out eight in five innings for his first major league win and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 4-0 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
Pilkington, making his third career start and sixth appearance, worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the fourth. The left-hander is taking the rotation spot of injured Aaron Civale.
José Ramírez had a run-scoring groundout in the fifth for his major league leading 52nd RBI. Amed Rosario, Andrés Giménez and Richie Palacios also drove in runs for Cleveland.
Kansas City has dropped 11 of 13 and has the worst record in the majors at 16-33.
Brad Keller (1-6) allowed four runs and six hits in six innings.
Pilkington (1-0) struck out his first four hitters. He stranded two in the second and one in the third before dodging major trouble in the fourth.
The inning began when Salvador Perez walked and MJ Melendez singled. Pilkington struck out Hunter Dozier, but Carlos Santana’s sharply hit single to right loaded the bases.
Pitching coach Carl Willis visited Pilkington on the mound to help him regroup. Emmanuel Rivera struck out and Nicky Lopez grounded out to end the inning.
Pilkington began the season in Cleveland’s bullpen amid expanded rosters. He started in a doubleheader and was sent to Triple-A Columbus and was recalled when Civale was injured on May 20.
The Royals, who have a day off Thursday, completed a stretch of 26 games in 25 days.
STREAKS
Andrew Benintendi had three hits and has reached base in 23 straight games. ... Cleveland rookie Oscar Gonzalez was 0 for 4 after hitting safely in his first five major league games. His streak ended with a deep fly out to right with the bases loaded in the seventh.
SEE YOU LATER
The Royals don’t return to Cleveland until late September for a stretch of six days. The teams complete the regular season with six games from Sept. 30-Oct. 5. Kansas City was scheduled to play three games in Cleveland to begin the season but those had to be rescheduled because of the lockout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: C Cam Gallagher (left hamstring strain) caught five innings in his first game on a rehab assignment at Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday and was hitless in two at-bats. He has missed 28 games.
Guardians: RHP James Karinchak (strained shoulder) was scheduled to begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday night. He was injured during spring training.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Brady Singer (2-0, 2.49 ERA), coming off a win over Minnesota in his last start, will open a three-game home series against Houston on Friday night.
Guardians: RHP Shane Bieber (12-3, 3.19 ERA) will pitch the opener of a three-game series in Baltimore on Friday night. The 2020 AL Cy Young winner allowed one run in eight innings Detroit in his last start.
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Surprise enters new chapter with city-owned libraries
Surprise public libraries — Surprise Regional, Asante and Hollyhock — are now city-owned after having been managed by Maricopa County.
The transition from Maricopa County to city management began this March with library staffing and programs moving under the city’s purview, according to a news release.
Kelsey Lamphier, Surprise’s Arts, Culture, and Library Department director, explained why the changes were deemed necessary.
Among the list of reasons was that at nearly 150,000 residents, the city has grown to the point where it now has the ability to bring oversight of the library system in-house.
“Bringing oversight in-house gives us the opportunity to customize the programming and materials to our community’s desires,” Lamphier said.
This concept of customization comes in opposition to the idea that the Maricopa County Library District accommodates a wide range of communities encompassing libraries from Gilbert to Sun City.
Thus, having city-provided library services opens the door to integrate more community input and interests.
“We are able to create more synergies with other city programs and events, creating additional opportunities to engage with library services,” Lamphier added.
With the new change in management also comes changes in service. The three libraries now live under the Public Library System. Aside from the logo, naming update, and only a few weeks of management under its belt, the city has already introduced a number of services and amenities.
What’s new?
- Interactive website: The new library website features a roll-up catalog search, making the search process more accessible. The new site will also allow users to register for programs, access digital resources, view suggested readings, and reserve library spaces.
- Collection development: The current Surprise Public Library collection includes 106,000 books, one-third of the county’s collection. The books are now assigned to the Surprise libraries only, meaning a person must have a Surprise Public Library card to access them. Additionally, the collection is fully managed by the city. If residents have items they would like to see in the collection, they can contact the library at library@surpriseaz.gov.
- Decreased printing fees: Surprise Public Library is committed to being revenue driven. Each month, the first 20 black and white prints are free. Printing fees overall were reduced to 10 cents per black and white copy and 25 cents per color copy.
- Mobile app: The library launched a mobile app on July 1. Through the app, you can search the catalog, view the program catalog, and even check out materials.
- Increased access to Libby Library: Surprise Public Library has its own Libby Library, which means an increased access to digital content like eBooks and audiobooks.
- Curbside pickup: Pickup was reinstated in all three libraries. Once you arrive, pull into a designated space and call the phone number on the sign.
- Holiday hours expanded: The libraries will now be open on most holidays to provide a space for friends and family to gather. Themed programming and special events will add to the celebrations.
In addition to the changes detailed above, library-goers can expect increased programming, a request that was highly made, according to Lamphier.
On the way:Surprise shopping center expected in late 2024
“One of our most popular new programs is Pajama Storytime ― kids can wear their pajamas and bring a stuffed animal to the library for bedtime stories, rhymes and songs to wind down for the evening,” Lamphier said.
“We’re also planning to bring back book clubs and increase the programming for teens,” she added. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/surprise/2023/07/21/surprise-enters-new-chapter-with-city-owned-libraries/70440914007/ | 2023-07-21 16:06:21 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/surprise/2023/07/21/surprise-enters-new-chapter-with-city-owned-libraries/70440914007/ |
HONG KONG, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2nd World Maritime Merchants Forum, an annual event in the global shipping community, got under way in Hong Kong, China, on Nov. 15, 2022. The event was co-organized by China Merchants Group, the Transport and Logistics Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the Hong Kong Shipowners Association (HKSOA). Leung Chun-ying, Vice-Chairman of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC); John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive of Hong Kong S.A.R. Government of the People's Republic of China; Dai Dongchang, Vice Minister, Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China; and Yin Zonghua, Deputy Director of Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong S.A.R., delivered speeches.
The 2nd World Maritime Merchants Forum, themed "Together for a brighter future", focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing the shipping industry during a period characterized by immense change. The forum aims to integrate resources from both within and outside of the shipping industry, and explore how to learn from each other's experiences, leverage complementary advantages, promote mutually beneficial cooperation and create a new global shipping ecosystem supported by an upgraded industry chain. Some 120 industry organizations and companies from more than 50 countries and regions spanning the shipping, ports, logistics, trade, shipbuilding and finance sectors participated in the event.
Guests representing organizations and companies from the upstream and downstream of the industry chain delivered speeches in person or virtually, leading to meaningful and in-depth communication and exchanges.
The participants focused on such hot topics as "Breaking and re-establishing -- restructuring of the global shipping industry in the post-pandemic era" and "Green eco-friendly models and digital intelligence accelerate the transformation of the shipping industry", enhancing communication and mutual understanding, forming a collective of industry wisdom and further supporting Hong Kong in its quest to consolidate its status as an international shipping hub.
At the event, the Declaration-"Call to Action on Green Marine Fuel", which was initiated by China Merchants Energy Shipping Co., Ltd. (CMES Shipping) and signed by 40 companies and organizations with key roles within the industry, was formally released. The declaration calls out to all parties on shipping's green energy industry chain to join hands in providing the shipping industry with infrastructure that can be powered by renewables and accelerating the process of switching to environmentally responsible fuels, with the goal of achieving a demonstrable move towards a low-carbon ecosystem and reduction in emissions.
The 2nd World Maritime Merchants Forum features four parallel sub-forums on the Shipping Market, Ports, Logistics, and Ship Building and Repair, as well as more than 50 live-streaming panel discussions on special topics, to dissect, analyze and review new models for industry integration and cooperation from multiple perspectives, in an effort to break information silos and data barriers, stimulate market potential, and truly form a new ecosystem where information is shared openly and transparently and which benefits all stakeholders.
The planning, operation and management of the forum is jointly undertaken by the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association and Hong Kong Shipping Circles Association Limited. CMES Shipping is the host. For more information, please visit www.wmmhk.com.
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Multivitamins may be linked to better cognition in older adults, study says
(CNN) - A new study shows taking a daily multivitamin might help with brain function.
Over the course of three years, scientists talked to thousands of people 65 years old and older, and the ones who took a multivitamin slowed down cognitive aging by 60%, or nearly two years.
What’s more, there were even more benefits for people who had a history of heart disease.
Now scientists are questioning why multivitamins help.
They don’t have a clear answer yet. But it may be because multivitamins help out people who don’t have enough micronutrients, like vitamin C or magnesium, and that gets worse as people age.
Researchers said they’re not telling older adults to start taking multivitamins right away and recommended they talk to their doctor first.
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Aaron Rodgers is perhaps the best quarterback in the history of the Green Bay Packers, but it seems that they are just about done with him.
Despite four MVPs to his name, Rodgers trade rumors are hot and heavy.
And it seems the Packers would like to see Rodgers traded.
When asked if there is a scenario where Rodgers remains in Green Bay, Packers CEO Mark Murphy had quite a response.
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"Yeah, I mean unless, if things don't work out the way we want them, yeah, we would. He is obviously a great player," Murphy said, via WBAY.
The Packers have quarterback Jordan Love waiting in the wings, and it's been reported the Packers are ready to pass the torch to him.
"They are done with Rodgers," former Packers beat writer Bob McGinn said last month. "He’s not coming back. I mean, they’re disgusted with him, and they’re done with him. And they’re moving on."
Green Bay selected Love in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft as Rodgers' replacement. Then, Rodgers won back-to-back MVPs. It was a good problem to have, but it definitely altered plans.
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Murphy added the Packers will trade Rodgers if he requests one and confirmed they gave permission to the Jets to speak with the quarterback. Murphy also said there should be a resolution by the time free agency begins next week.
Murphy all but confirmed that a trade to New York is in the works.
"It’s a situation where I think we wanted to help Aaron achieve what he wanted, as well as the Packers," Murphy told WBAY when asked about giving the Jets permission to speak with the quarterback. "Hopefully, it’ll create a situation where it’s a win for both sides."
Jets owner Woody Johnson, general manager Joe Douglas, head coach Robert Saleh and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, who once had that same role with Green Bay for Rodgers, visited Rodgers at his California home earlier this week. The owner was reportedly "excited and satisfied" with the meeting.
And Jets players, notably Sauce Gardner, have been trying to recruit the 2011 Super Bowl champion. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/packers-ceo-says-aaron-rodgers-will-only-stay-in-green-bay-if-things-dont-work/article_b6daadc9-f90d-542f-9626-c89cc43f4a17.html | 2023-03-11 00:26:30 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/packers-ceo-says-aaron-rodgers-will-only-stay-in-green-bay-if-things-dont-work/article_b6daadc9-f90d-542f-9626-c89cc43f4a17.html |
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JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A loggerhead sea turtle named Rocky paused briefly on the sand Wednesday morning before slowly crawling into the Atlantic Ocean after spending six weeks rehabbing at Florida's Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
Turtle hospital staff and volunteers cheered as the turtle made its way down the beach, which is directly across the street from the center. Rocky was equipped with a blue tracking device on its back, which allows the staff to continue monitoring the large turtle.
Rocky, a 220-pound (100-kilograms) female turtle, was found floating off North Hutchinson Island on Dec. 29 with a tear in the lung caused by a boat strike, Andy Dehart, the center's president and CEO, said Wednesday.
The turtle “had a perforation in the lung, so was trapping air in the body cavity, which was making it essentially be what’s called a floater,” Dehart said. “It couldn’t dive. It couldn’t get underwater."
The center's goal is to rehab the turtles and get them back into their natural habitat.
“So, every one of these animals that goes back is critical to the survival of the sea turtle populations, especially a large breeding female like Rocky," he said. “Seeing that return to nature is truly something magical."
Juno Beach is north of West Palm Beach on Florida's Atlantic Coast.
Last year, the center monitored some 18,000 turtle nests along a 10-mile (16-kilometer) stretch of beach. Most of the nests were comprised of leatherback turtles, which are the most endangered, along with loggerhead and green sea turtles. Nesting season runs from March 1 to the end of October.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEDG) between August 6, 2020 and October 19, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased SolarEdge securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the SolarEdge class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9565 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the designs of the power optimizers, inverters, and components thereof used to develop SolarEdge's products potentially originated with and were misappropriated from Ampt LLC ("Ampt"); (2) Ampt made claims against SolarEdge for misappropriating Ampt's patented technology; (3) evidentiary support existed for the allegations that SolarEdge misappropriated certain patents relating to the design and development of the Company's power optimizers and inverters; (4) as a result, SolarEdge faced a threat of regulatory and/or court action, which could prohibit the import, marketing, and sale of its power optimizers and inverters, including solar energy systems that contain such products; (5) which in turn seriously threatened SolarEdge's ability to monetize on their solar energy systems that contain the power optimizers and inverters in the United States and generate revenue; and (6) certain revenues generated from the sale of power optimizers and inverters were potentially based on SolarEdge's unlawful activities, including the misappropriation of patented designs by Ampt. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the SolarEdge class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9565 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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(NewsNation) — A large-scale clinical trial comparing four common drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes found that two of the drugs performed “modestly better” than the others, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported Wednesday.
Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and launched in 2013 by the Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness Study (GRADE), researchers found that glargine and liraglutide outperformed glimepiride and sitagliptin at helping people maintain their blood glucose levels.
The study, which examined 5,047 people with Type 2 diabetes from diverse racial and ethnic groups at 36 U.S. study centers, is especially important, as 90% to 95% of the 37 million Americans living with diabetes have Type 2.
“Knowing that we are fighting an obesity epidemic and that Type 2 diabetes trends are going up, even in pediatric patients, this gives more tools to health care providers to help achieve (blood glucose) control,” said Dr. Ilan Shapiro, chief health correspondent and medical affairs officer at AltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles, said to the NIH.
Unlike Type 1, patients with Type 2 diabetes typically require more than one medication to control blood sugar levels over time and are more likely to develop complications such as nerve, kidney, and eye diseases.
While there is a unified school of thought on how to treat diabetes in its early stages — metformin combined with diet and exercise — there is no one true approach on how to scale high blood glucose back.
“This study was designed to provide health care providers with important information on how to guide the long-term management of Type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Henry Burch, NIDDK’s project scientist for GRADE, in a statement to the NIH. “This is an integral step toward precision medicine for diabetes care, as these results can now be used in the decision-making process for each individual patient in light of their levels of glucose control, how well the medications are tolerated, and the person’s other health considerations.”
The study found, however, that no one drug dramatically overperformed the others, as nearly three-fourths of the participants were unable to maintain the blood glucose target over the span of the study.
“GRADE effectively shows which drugs worked best at achieving and maintaining blood glucose targets over time, but we need to establish even more effective strategies for the long-term maintenance of acceptable glucose levels,” GRADE study chair Dr. David M. Nathan said to NIH. “We still have more work to do, such as evaluating other interventions and treatment combinations to help people with Type 2 diabetes achieve long-term glucose control.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/new-diabetes-study-shows-two-drugs-outperforming-others/ | 2022-09-25 20:07:44 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/new-diabetes-study-shows-two-drugs-outperforming-others/ |
NASA released a sound from the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. What you'll hear is pressure waves emitted from the black hole causing ripples in the star cluster's hot gas.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Longy School of Music of Bard College student, pianist, and composer Arson Fahim has curated a concert in celebration of Afghanistan's rich musical legacy. Presented by Longy, "Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians" will take place in person at Cambridge First Church on March 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ET—the eve of Nowruz, the Persian New Year—and will be free and open to the public.
Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Arson, 22, is a citizen of Afghanistan. He arrived in the US just two weeks before the Taliban took control of Kabul in the summer of 2021. He has organized this concert to raise awareness for musicians in Afghanistan who have suffered or are suffering inhumane Taliban persecution.
Says Arson: "Musicians in Afghanistan have lost everything. They're not allowed to play music. They're not allowed to work. That shouldn't be acceptable to anyone, anywhere—especially to artists of those countries with the ability to raise their voice."
"My brave colleagues in Afghanistan who risk their lives to be musicians are the essence of what it means to be an artist. They fight extremists and fundamentalists like the Taliban with their instruments. Their music is a symbol of hope, change and love."
"Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians" will feature arrangements of traditional Afghan music as well as music by Afghan composers, including original compositions by Arson and Longy classmate Qudrat Wasefi. Arson has also invited The Oxford University Orchestra (OUO), who will be on tour in the United States, to join the performance. The concert will feature both small-ensemble and full-orchestra performances with the OUO, including music played on the traditional Afghan rubab as well as the commonly used tabla.
Since arriving, Arson has continually used his platform in the Longy community to raise awareness for Afghan artists. His original composition "Journey to the Sea" was recently featured by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) as part of their A Place to Call Home series, a season-long exploration of music by displaced composers. "Journey to the Sea" was Arson's final composition before leaving Kabul.
A Place to Call Home features the music of exiled composers across the world, exploring what "home" means through the music of those whose lives have been uprooted. "I don't think we believe that great art can improve or change people's attitudes," said LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets to The Sunday Times. "But what music can do is help us engage emotionally with these issues."
Taking place at London's Royal Festival Hall, the November 26 production featured performances by the LPO and young musicians from their Foyle Future Firsts development program. This comes one month after the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed Longy Composition student Hsiu-Ping (Patrick) Wu's orchestral work "Whispers of Jukai." Both Wu and Fahim are recipients of Equity Scholarships at Longy.
"We at Longy are immensely proud of Arson's work, his drive and his empathy. It is an honor for us to provide a platform for his imperative message and to aid him in delivering it to the world," says Karen Zorn, President of Longy School of Music. "Arson represents the best of Longy: a community of determined citizen-musicians using their artistry to make a difference in the world."
Longy School of Music of Bard College has reimagined conservatory education.
The school is leading the seismic shift to center music as social change, expanding the world's understanding of what a life in music can mean. Longy prepares students to engage audiences; teach anyone, anywhere; and make a difference with their music.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will remain free through the Memorial Day weekend before surrendering to authorities on May 30 to begin her more than 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in a blood-testing scam.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila set Holmes’ revised prison-reporting date after her lawyers proposed it in a Wednesday filing. It came after a federal appeals court late Tuesday rejected Holmes’ bid to remain out of prison while she attempts to overturn her January 2022 conviction on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy.
The punishment also includes a $452 million restitution bill that Davila ordered Holmes to pay in a separate ruling issued late Tuesday.
Holmes’ lawyers asked Davila to approve the May 30 prison reporting time to her two weeks to sort out several issues, including child care for her 1-year-old son William and 3-month-old daughter Invicta. Holmes had originally been ordered to begin her prison sentence on April 27, but won a reprieve with a last-minute legal maneuver that gave her more time with her children.
Holmes, 39, became pregnant with William shortly before the start of her high-profile trial in September 2021 and became pregnant with Invicta shortly after she was convicted of crimes that could have resulted in a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
The father of both children is William “Billy” Evans, whom she met after breaking up with her former romantic and business partner, Ramesh “Sunny,” Balwani, who began serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence last month in Southern California. Balwani, 57, was convicted for 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy committed while he was Theranos’ chief operating officer and living with Holmes.
In Wednesday’s filing, Holmes’ lawyers didn’t disclose the location of the prison that she has been assigned to serve her sentence. But they noted she has to prepare to travel outside of California, where she has been living in the San Diego area while free on bail. Davila has recommended that Holmes be imprisoned in Bryan, Texas.
When Holmes is finally incarcerated, it will bring down the curtain on a saga that cast a bright light on a dark chapter in Silicon Valley that brought her fame and fortune before her scandalous downfall.
After dropping out of Stanford University in 2003 to found Theranos while still a teenager, Holmes promised to revolutionize healthcare with a technology that she promised would be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other potential problems with just a few drops of blood. The idea helped her raising nearly $1 billion from sophisticated investors that included Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is owed $125 million under the restitution order.
But Theranos’ blood tests never came close to working the way Holmes had boasted with the support of Balwani, resulting in the company’s collapse and a tale that has been the subject of a book, “Bad Blood,” an HBO documentary, “The Inventor,” and a Hulu mini-series, ”The Dropout,” which won Amanda Seyfried an Emmy in the starring role. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/elizabeth-holmes-will-start-11-year-prison-sentence-on-may-30-after-losing-her-bid-to-remain-free/ | 2023-05-17 23:25:43 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/elizabeth-holmes-will-start-11-year-prison-sentence-on-may-30-after-losing-her-bid-to-remain-free/ |
Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in the wild for nearly two decades.
Scientists also hope to get two sites in the state declared as “critical habitat” for the snail in hopes that it can one day be reintroduced to the wild.
The “magnificent ramshorn snail,” larger and more rare than the common ramshorn snail, is only known to exist now in captivity, in three places:
At N.C. State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh.
At a hatchery operated by the state Wildlife Commission in Marion.
At a private residence near the coast.
Between them, the three sites have a total of about 1,000 of the snails, which are North America’s largest air-breathing freshwater snails.
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Originally in two ponds
All those snails are descended from populations originally found at two ponds in Brunswick County. But they haven’t been found at those or the two other ponds, all within the Cape Fear River Basin, where the snails are known to have existed, since 2004.
In a news release about the effort to get the snails declared endangered, the Fish & Wildlife Service said having the snails in captivity doesn’t necessarily guarantee the species’ survival.
“A catastrophic event, such as a severe storm, disease, or predator infestation, affecting the captive populations could result in the near extinction of the species,” agency said in the release.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that the four sites where the magnificent ramshorn snail were originally found likely were ponds created by old mill dams. They made the perfect habitat for a creature with an inch-and-a-half shell that can’t tolerate salt, needs a diverse and abundant plant diet, and can’t survive in flowing water.
Wildlife experts say the magnificent ramshorn likely was once found throughout the lower Cape Fear River basin, when most of the river was shallow and fresh, and would have been especially prevalent in rice plantations. When the river was dredged in the 1930s to allow cargo ships to come in, it caused tidal fluctuations to increase, sending salt water further inland.
Over time, according to a Fish and Wildlife report, the snails’ habitat changed further and could no longer support them. Scientists say global warming and sea level rise have increased saltwater intrusion into freshwater bodies, including through flooding resulting from hurricanes. The elimination of beaver dams through much of the river basin also has eliminated ponds that could have supported the snail, researchers say.
Changes in water chemistry resulting from land development and pest control likely damaged the snails’ habitat as well, according to the report.
The magnificent ramshorn already is listed by the state as an endangered species, but the designation doesn’t offer protection from incidental harm, injury or death, and doesn’t protect the animals’ habitat except on state-owned land.
What federal endangered status would mean
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BENTON, Ark. — Officers with the Benton Police Department responded to a call in reference to an unattended death around 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 5 on the railroad tracks behind the Saline County Sheriff’s Office on S. Neeley Street.
Upon arrival, officers located a deceased male, who was later identified as 36-year-old Anthony Page.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Page's injuries were consistent with being struck by a train, however, the investigation is still ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding this incident has been asked to contact the BNPD Criminal Investigations Division at (501) 776-5947 or (501) 778-1171. Tips can also be called in at 501-315-TIPS or sent via anonymous text to 847411 with the keyword BENTONPD.
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Other tasks to add to your spring cleaning checklist
Do you feel pretty good about your home after hours of spring cleaning? Your place may look sparkling clean, but there are small spaces and out-of-the-way areas that you might have missed. However, there’s no reason to stress about hidden dirt and grime because cleaning expert Ketia Daniel has tips and tricks to help you find and eliminate it.
As the founder of BHM Cleaning Co. in Birmingham, Alabama, and an experienced cleaning influencer, Daniel knows what it takes to organize any home and make it sparkle as well the products you’ll need to get the job done. We asked her advice about finding and cleaning those unexpected locations in a home to complete your spring cleaning goals.
Declutter
Whether you have already done most of your spring cleaning or are just getting started, it’s important to remember that dirt tends to build up under items, and clutter can be a problem in any room.
“When it comes to cleaning, if I want to get started in my kitchen, I’m gonna go through my pantry and my refrigerator and clean out anything that’s expired,” Daniel said. “And when I remove stuff, I see dirt. I’ve decluttered everything — now it has to be clean.”
Cleaning missed areas
Once the unnecessary stuff is cleared away, then it’s time to go room to room, cleaning spots you missed. Having a few cleaning essentials on hand will simplify your tasks.
Daniel recommends an extendible Swiffer for removing dust from high areas, multipurpose Clorox wipes for numerous surfaces, a garden pad for kneeling on when cleaning low areas and an O-Cedar mop that simplifies various cleaning jobs. “Because it can turn in so many different ways. I can essentially mop the baseboard, and it cleans up just fine. You don’t have to bend down for that,” she explained.
Kitchen
Floors, cabinets and countertops are just the beginning when it comes to cleaning the kitchen. Daniel said that there are numerous places where grime may be lurking, including the fridge vent, the fridge and stove hood filters. Additionally, the areas under objects, such as the coffee maker, microwave, garbage cans and major appliances, can always use a good spring cleaning.
“Cleaning up under your appliances. Nobody ever thinks to clean up under their stove. There’s usually a gap between your counter space and your stove, and when you’re cooking, stuff drops down in those corners,” she said. Dawn dish liquid and a vinegar-based cleaner are good options for cleaning many of these areas.
Living spaces
From the ceilings to the floors, there are ample spaces for dirt to hide in common living spaces. Daniel advised that a three-step ladder and Swiffer duster will come in handy for cleaning ceiling fans, blinds and chandeliers, while Clorox wipes are ideal for wiping away dirt from surfaces, doors and hinges. Attention should also be paid to curtains, mirrors, lampshades and light bulbs that tend to gather dust.
Don’t forget dust and dirt that gathers under large pieces of furniture, such as couches, Daniel added. “Especially those with hardwood floors, dust and things get up under those. Not everybody can move a couch, but one thing I do recommend is getting a Bona mop or dry mop under there and getting that dust and that dirt that’s up under there.”
Bedroom
When it comes to areas that might be missed in the bedroom, Daniel said windows, window sills and the flooring under the bed are often neglected. When throw rugs are used, they should be lifted while the flooring beneath is vacuumed. Bookshelves and their contents also need a thorough cleaning. “I know a lot of people dust around books, but at least once a year, remove all those books, dust them off and still clean where the books will go,” Daniel said.
Bathroom
Cabinetry, bath mats, the sides of the toilet and the area behind the toilet are often overlooked in the bathroom. Don’t forget the showerhead, which Daniel said can get clogged with mineral deposits from water. “Mineral deposits are super easy to fix. You just get a cup of cleaning vinegar, put it in a Ziploc bag, then pull the bag over the showerhead and tie it with a rubber band. Keep it on your showerhead overnight. It’ll clean all that mineral deposit off,” she said.
Laundry room
“Of course, that’s an entire room that everybody forgets about. It’s probably the dustiest part of the house,” Daniel said of the laundry room. She recommends pulling the washer and dryer away from the wall to thoroughly sweep, dust and mop behind them. A lint trap cleaning kit will remove built-up lint from the trap, while a washing machine cleaner will keep the interior of the washing machine clean. Items in the laundry room, such as detergents and softeners, also gather dirt and lint and should be wiped clean as well.
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O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop
The EasyWring mop’s ergonomic design is perfect for hard-to-reach areas, such as corners. It comes with a bucket system with a built-in wringer so you don’t have to touch the mop head.
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Dawn Ultra is a top-selling dish liquid for the powerful formula that removes grease with ease. A little goes a long way, as the soap is highly concentrated.
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Swiffer Duster Heavy Duty Extender Starter Kit
Removing dust from high areas is no problem for this Swiffer, which boasts a handle that can extend up to 3 feet. The kit comes with 12 duster refills.
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This vinegar-based cleaner is made without harsh chemicals yet is effective at removing tough grease and dirt. It’s scented with natural essential oils.
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HBTower 3-Step Ladder with Handrails
With a durable steel frame and sturdy handrails, this three-step ladder is constructed for tasks around the house that require an extended reach. It accommodates up to 500 pounds and folds for storage.
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Bear spotted in downtown Eau Claire Wednesday
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - According to a Facebook post via the Eau Claire Police Department Facebook Page, a bear was spotted in downtown Eau Claire Wednesday.
The Facebook post, that includes video of the bear, states, “Yes you’re seeing this correctly. This morning a friendly bear made his way through downtown Eau Claire. He promptly threw 2 interceptions, fumbled a snap and continued on his way north.”
According to information from the Eau Claire Police Department, the bear was spotted in the 600 block of Water Street. Police say they received several calls regarding it. The first call was at 8:17 a.m. Wednesday morning and the video was shortly thereafter.
Police added the DNR is aware of it. If people spot the bear, they should just keep its distance as it makes its way home.
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Judgment includes finding that Charter committed felony forgery in effort to avoid accountability
DALLAS, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Dallas judge has entered a final judgment awarding more than $1.147 billion to the family of an 83-year-old North Texas grandmother, Betty Thomas, who was robbed and stabbed to death in her home by Charter Spectrum cable field technician Roy Holden.
The judgment signed September 19 by Dallas County Court at Law Judge Juan Renteria includes a finding that Charter "knowingly and intentionally committed forgery with the intent to defraud or harm Plaintiffs" with a forged arbitration agreement.
"We are grateful that, after careful consideration and review of the law and trial record, the Court entered judgment ordering Charter to pay more than $1 billion in total damages to the victim's family. The final judgment includes findings that Charter further committed felony forgery in causing harm to the plaintiffs, which properly eliminates the cap on punitive damages under Texas law," said lead trial lawyer Chris Hamilton of Dallas-based Hamilton Wingo.
Trial testimony revealed that Charter Spectrum ignored countless red flags from the date of Holden's hire until the date when he murdered Ms. Thomas in her home with his Charter Spectrum knife. Jurors found that Charter Spectrum forged a service agreement, claiming Ms. Thomas agreed to it, after her death in an attempt to force the lawsuit into arbitration, where results are secret, and the damages would have been limited to less than $200.
The judgment awards the full $1.147 billion sought by the Hamilton Wingo team.
"The victim's family voluntarily 'remitted' the initial $7 billion punitive damages award to an amount equal to two times the compensatory damages in requesting entry of judgment. This conservative damages multiplier will make the judgment exceedingly unlikely to be overturned on appeal given the criminal forgery findings against Charter and established Supreme Court precedent," said Mr. Hamilton.
The case is William Goff et al. v. Roy James Holden, Jr. and Charter Communications, Cause No. CC-20-01579.
The trial lawyers at Hamilton Wingo, LLP, are devoted to representing individuals in high-stakes, complex litigation on a contingent fee basis. They have obtained billions in verdicts and settlements for clients. For more information, visit hamiltonwingo.com/.
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Eight years ago, State & Liberty was selling dress shirts out of the trunk of a car. Now, it outfits more than 60% of the NHL, including almost all of James van Riemsdyk’s Flyers teammates.
Lee Moffie, State & Liberty’s founder, grew up in the same hockey circuit as van Riemsdyk. With Moffie playing in Connecticut and van Riemsdyk playing in New Jersey, the two knew of each other growing up. Eventually, they both signed with the same agency and became friendly.
While van Riemsdyk’s NHL career took off, the younger Moffie played four years at the University of Michigan before trying to establish a professional career. As Moffie bounced between the AHL and ECHL and van Riemsdyk moved from the Flyers to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the two stayed in touch.
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In 2014, Moffie checked in with more than just a hockey update. He had an idea he wanted to share. Inspired by his experiences trying to find suits for away games, Moffie wanted to create dress clothes better suited for athletes. He’d always had trouble finding suits that fit him off the rack and was getting frustrated with having to take them to a tailor. Even worse, he and some of his teammates were accidentally destroying suits that didn’t fit right.
“Two main things that stick out to me are guys just blowing right through the seat of their pants on road trips, like, all the time,” Moffie said. “And then one thing I didn’t even know about is a lot of finance guys that wear a dress shirt at a desk blow right through the elbows of their dress shirts.”
Inspired by Lululemon and Hugo Boss, Moffie found a way to create a more comfortable, better-fitted shirt. Van Riemsdyk was intrigued. He, too, knew the horror stories that came with ill-fitted suits. So many fellow athletes had trouble with dress shirts (normal shirts were too narrow in the shoulders, wider shirts were too boxy in the waist) and the tighter styles of dress pants.
Luckily for Moffie, his idea came at the perfect stage in van Riemsdyk’s life. In his sixth NHL season and his third season as a Maple Leaf, van Riemsdyk was starting to invest in companies and brands. Pushed by some of his fashionable Maple Leaf teammates like Joffrey Lupul and Dion Phaneuf, van Riemsdyk found his fashion sense was also starting to evolve.
“I went there having maybe two or three suits,” said van Riemsdyk, now 33. “When I left Toronto ... between all the new ones from now, all the different colors I have from here, I probably have maybe 50 or so. So [I’ve] definitely gotten super into it.”
Van Riemsdyk wasn’t just sold on the product. He also felt like Moffie would be a good person to support because he trusted his work ethic. Moffie proved him right.
Traveling salesman
For the first few years, Moffie would pack up his dress shirts and drive to hotels where hockey teams were staying. He’d reach out to players he knew to ask for a connection (van Riemsdyk remembers those calls), and then he’d work out of the lobby. Since he was based in Detroit, he often went down to the Red Wings facilities.
“That was just a really fun, crazy time,” Moffie said.
Moffie estimates he sold tens of thousands of shirts out of his trunk before finding a storefront.
Meanwhile, van Riemsdyk quietly became one of State & Liberty’s biggest assets. As an investor, he financially backed the company, but he did so much more than give money — he spread the word. He wore its suits and encouraged others to do so as well. And people listened.
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“Whenever he’s on a team, that team becomes one of the best ‘State & Liberty teams,’ if you will,” Moffie said.
Moffie has had other friends, like Detroit Red Wings star Dylan Larkin, as well as players he doesn’t even know that well, like the recently-retired Ryan Getzlaf, promote the brand, helping it reach the point where every team has someone who wears State & Liberty clothes. However, Moffie and his business partner, Steven Fisher, knew they had to appeal to more than just hockey players.
Word of mouth as well as advertising the athletic fit has helped State & Liberty expand into the NFL, MLB, and MLS, with the NBA slowly following. But they needed to reach beyond the athletic world. They got a boost from an unexpected place — the pandemic. With everyone working at home, people started to place an emphasis on comfort, and when they returned to the office, they didn’t want to let that go.
Comfort is State & Liberty’s No. 1 goal. The company prioritizes it to the point that it often limited the options it was able to offer because it is so picky about fabric quality, Moffie said.
Slowly and intentionally, State & Liberty expanded its offerings. It branched out from dress shirts to polos to slacks to suits. Now, it’s offering tuxedos. It also has gone beyond the basic blues, blacks, and whites with an array of colors and patterns. There are enough choices now that teammates don’t have to worry as much about showing up in the same thing, van Riemsdyk said.
State & Liberty’s push into color reflects a trend throughout the sports world as athletes have started to focus on their personal brands. Game-day outfits are posted on both personal and team social media accounts and draft suits are custom-made well ahead of the day itself.
Hockey and style
The NHL has long trailed behind the sports fashion movement, but it’s making its way there. Stars, both young and old, like Toronto’s Auston Matthews and Boston’s David Pastrňák have been challenging the norm of basic suits in blacks and blues, introducing colors, patterns, and streetwear styles.
“[Now] you notice some cool stuff that people will try and wear and push the envelope a little bit,” van Riemsdyk said. “So it’s fun to see. I think it’s good for sports. … It brings attention to the game. It’s supposed to be entertainment; it’s supposed to be fun, so I think it’s fun when guys can show some personality.”
It helps that one of the league’s favorite outfitters is making it easier by presenting options and making them comfortable to wear. Joel Farabee, one of van Riemsdyk’s younger teammates, raved about how the dress pants feel like sweats.
Van Riemsdyk, who has 15 points in 18 games this season, is by far the most adventurous Flyer, although he’s been pushing his teammates further into the fashion world. He helps by providing a “JVR discount” for fellow Flyers and friends. He also put up State & Liberty suits “on the board” as an incentive before a game one year and ended up outfitting the whole team in black suits with a Flyers soccer-style patch for the 2019 Stadium Series game at Lincoln Financial Field.
Once State & Liberty started offering orange, van Riemsdyk ordered an orange suit to recognize the Flyers’ primary color. And he only keeps getting more adventurous. After initially sticking to shades of blue, van Riemsdyk now wears maroon, orange — and green velvet.
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State & Liberty decided to venture into tuxedos and into velvet. As soon as van Riemsdyk saw there was green, he thought “That has my name written all over it.”
On opening night, van Riemsdyk walked into the season with style, rocking his boldest outfit yet — a green velvet tuxedo with a black dress shirt and black Gucci tie. The outfit he wore with pride is a sign of how far both his fashion sense and State & Liberty’s offerings have come. Van Riemsdyk is no longer rotating two suits, and Moffie is offering an array of outfits through gleaming store windows rather than selling white shirts out of the trunk of his car. | https://www.inquirer.com/flyers/flyers-james-van-riemsdyk-state-liberty-fashion-20230105.html | 2023-01-05 11:13:03 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/flyers/flyers-james-van-riemsdyk-state-liberty-fashion-20230105.html |
SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bosonic, a decentralized Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI) business has today announced the formation and launch of the Bosonic Cross-Custodian Net Settlement (CCNS) Working Group with several of the industry's leading digital asset custodians, exchanges and banks.
The industry group will be spearheaded by Bosonic and will include a worldwide network of digital asset custodians such as First Digital in Hong Kong, Tetra Trust in Canada and Vast Bank in the United States, with other custodian banks as well as major financial institutions and exchanges participating and soon to be announced.
This is an industry first to include a range of institutional custodians from around the world undertaking net settlements and payments for digital assets and fiat via a layer-2 blockchain. The Working Group will help establish the protocol and best practice between custodians around the world on the Bosonic Network™ as part of the launch of Bosonic's Cross-Custodian Net Settlement platform, which has been developed to:
- Support institutional cross-custodian trading and payments with net settlement calculations and movements
- Atomic burn and reallocation of netted quantities on Layer-2 blockchain together with physical movement of residual quantities for digital assets and fiat currencies on Layer-1 Smart Contracts
- Assess benefits of interoperability with relevant stablecoins for the fiat residuals
Rosario Ingargiola, Bosonic CEO said, "As an industry first, and as the only custodian-agnostic payment versus payment settlement network on a working layer-2 blockchain, we are excited to further collaborate with a growing network of partners and clients across the world as we roll-out Cross-Custodian Net Settlement. The adoption of the Bosonic Network™ continues to go from strength to strength as the industry looks to eliminate counterparty credit and settlement risk."
Vincent Chok, CEO of First Digital responded, "We're pleased to announce our collaboration with Bosonic as we work together to break down silos and enhance coordination with institutional-grade partners across regions. We're looking forward to working together to further develop the strength, quality and robustness of digital asset infrastructure as we help bridge the worlds of traditional and digital finance."
"One of our core promises to customers is that we are embracing constant change, and the establishment of this group signifies that we are building on that commitment to innovation," said Brad Scrivener, CEO of Vast Bank. "We're proud to be supporting institutions by working to increase liquidity, standardization, and security with digital assets."
The Bosonic Network™ is a best-in-class and unique infrastructure for institutional clients, connecting to exchanges and market makers, and enabling a payment versus payment atomic swap for instantaneous settlement on a layer-2 blockchain operated by digital asset custodians.
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About Bosonic
Founded in 2016, Bosonic is a leading decentralized financial market infrastructure "dFMI" company with offices in San Francisco, New York and London providing best-in-class infrastructure that eliminates counterparty credit and settlement risk in Digital Asset markets. The Bosonic Network™ provides institutional clients with a patented solution that is custodian-agnostic, enables tokenization of assets and collateral, provides liquidity aggregation and DMA to the best Exchanges and Market-Makers, and at the core, runs real-time payment vs payment (PvP) atomic execution and settlement, with cross-margining, cross-custodian net settlement and payments. The Bosonic Network™ is delivering infrastructure that's reshaping the future of Digital Asset markets by eliminating risk and maximizing capital efficiency for hedge funds, family offices, banks, brokers, asset managers and other market participants.
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The Brewers traded all-star closer Josh Hader to San Diego. Here's how Twitter reacted.
The Brewers made a splash a day before the Major League Baseball trade deadline by sending three-time National League reliever of the year Josh Hader to San Diego in exchange for reliever Taylor Rogers, pitcher Dinelson Lamet, and prospects Esteury Ruiz and Robert Gasser.
It's a move that sent shock waves through Milwaukee.
We asked Brewers fans for their reactions to the trade on social media ...
... and let's just say the reactions were, well, mixed.
Some like the move and the Brewers' return
With Hader likely gone after the 2023 season as a free agent, some fans like that the Brewers got something in return for him, including a ready-now high-leverage reliever in Rogers and a high-ceiling prospect in Ruiz.
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... and the other end of the spectrum
There are those who scoff at the Brewers, in the middle of a playoff race, losing arguably the best closer in baseball over the past four years. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2022/08/01/milwaukee-brewers-trade-josh-hader-san-diego-padres-social-media-reacts/10204786002/ | 2022-08-01 22:07:58 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2022/08/01/milwaukee-brewers-trade-josh-hader-san-diego-padres-social-media-reacts/10204786002/ |
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A woman who was arrested for feeding homeless people in northwest Arizona is suing over a local ordinance that regulates food-sharing events in public parks.
Norma Thornton, 78, became the first person arrested under Bullhead City’s ordinance in March for distributing prepared food from a van at Bullhead Community Park. Her lawyer said the lawsuit, filed Tuesday, is part of a nationwide effort to let people feed those in need.
Criminal charges against Thornton were eventually dropped, but she’s seeking an injunction to stop the city from enforcing the ordinance that took effect in May 2021.
“Bullhead City has criminalized kindness,” Thornton’s attorney Suranjan San told Phoenix TV station KPHO. “The City Council passed an ordinance that makes it a crime punishable by four months imprisonment to share food in public parks for charitable purposes.”
Bullhead City Mayor Tom Brady said the ordinance applies only to public parks. He said churches, clubs and private properties are free to serve food to the homeless without a permit.
Thornton owned a restaurant for many years before retiring in Arizona and said she wanted to use her cooking skills to help the less fortunate.
“I have always believed that when you have plenty, you should share,” Thornton said.
According to the Mohave Valley Daily News, Thornton said she has continued to feed people in need from private property not far from Community Park. | https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/ap-woman-sues-over-ban-on-feeding-homeless-people-in-parks/ | 2022-10-27 22:35:04 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/ap-woman-sues-over-ban-on-feeding-homeless-people-in-parks/ |
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