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Horizon Bank, one of the largest banks headquartered in Northwest Indiana, promoted two vice presidents.
The Michigan City-based bank promoted Lisa Kuehl to Assistant Vice President, Senior Commercial Loan Portfolio Manager.
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Horizon Bank’s Market President for Lake County John Freyek announced her promotion to manage commercial loans out of the Horizon Bank office at 8590 Broadway in Merrillville.
She's been in the banking industry for 15 years and worked for Horizon Bank since 2017. She started in banking as a customer service representative and more recently served as a commercial loan portfolio manager.
She's a board member of Girls on the Run who participates in Northwest Indiana Influential Women.
The bank also promoted Brad Murzyn to Assistant Vice President, Investment Trust Officer
Vice President, Trust Investment Director Paul Fleming announced the promotion of the Purdue University graduate, who is an Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor.
Murzyn has worked in investment and retirement planning for 20 years. He joined Horizon Bank in 2018.
He's served as a relationship manager and been responsible for crafting investment, retirement, estate and financial planning strategies for both individual and institutional clients.
He's also an Indiana DECA mentor and volunteer coach for youth sports.
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Chipotle, Jet's Pizza, Maurice's Signature CheeseCakes, HolmesBoy Hotdogs, Nana's Subs & Salads and Professionally Polished open
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Chipotle is moving out of the Southlake Mall across U.S. 30 so it can have a drive-thru where people can pick up online orders.
The popular purveyor of burritos hand-crafted to order with fresh, natural ingredients has long operated in a strip mall at 1948 Southlake Mall in an outlot on the mall property. It shares the building with Potbelly Sandwich Shop.
The fast-casual restaurant that's spawned countless imitators is building a new standalone restaurant across the street at the site of the former Don Pablo's restaurant next to Chuck E. Cheese in the Crossings at Hobart shopping center.
"This spring, we are relocating our Merrillville restaurant to a location that can accommodate a Chipotlane digital drive-thru pickup lane," spokesperson Annie Gradinger said.
No opening date has been set yet.
Contractor Innovative Construction Solutions built the new 2,333-square-foot restaurant that's now close to completion at 2831 E. 80th Ave., according to the Hobart Building Department. The estimated cost of construction was $523,462.
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Jet's Pizza has brought Detroit-style pizza to Northwest Indiana, a bastion of Chicago-style tavern-cut and deep-dish pizza.
The pizzeria recently opened at 1613 E. 37th Ave. in Hobart.
It specializes in pan-baked, square-cut Detroit-style deep dish, which gains its heft from bread instead of blankets of thick cheese and deep pools of tomato sauce. Flavors include Aloha BBQ Chicken, BBQ Chicken, Buffalo Ranch Chicken, Hawaiian, veggie and Eugene Supreme, which includes Italian sausage, onion, green peppers and mild peppers. It also has thin-crust, hand-tossed and New York-style pies.
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The suburban Detroit-based pizzeria long operated just in the Detroit metro and has taken advantage of the surging popularity of Detroit-style pizza to expand to more than 400 locations in 20 states, including in Chicago and downstate Indiana.
Jet's Pizza is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
For more information, call 219-529-5387.
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Maurice's Signature CheeseCakes is now serving up cheesecakes out of Lincoln Kitchen in Valparaiso, a digital food court at 704 Silhavy that's home to several ghost kitchens where people can order delivery or takeout.
Maurice Holmes started making cheesecakes with his mom's recipe, tinkered with it and came up with different flavors. He opened the business out of his home in Country Club Hills and then moved it to Valparaiso when he learned of the opportunity to operate out of a commercial kitchen there.
He sells both full and personal-sized cheesecakes with toppings like strawberries, sour cream and caramel pecans. The banana pudding cheesecake is the most popular one on the menu.
"One reviewer said they were better than Eli's," Holmes said. "They're distinct. When you have a fresh cheesecake with a crunchy crust and fresh fruit, it's just an amazing experience."
He asks people who want a full cheesecake to order a day in advance so it can sit in a refrigerator overnight before it's topped, which improves the flavor.
"I would definitely say our cheesecake is an experience," he said. "Once you try it, you'll be back."
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People can order cheesecakes for pickup or delivery through DoorDash, UberEats or Lincoln Kitchen's own delivery drivers.
Illinois remains Holmes' strongest area. He's looking to eventually open a brick-and-mortar location, ideally in downtown Lansing or somewhere where he could conveniently serve customers in both the south suburbs and Northwest Indiana.
The Valparaiso kitchen would remain open.
"I could delivery in an eight-mile radius and pick up Munster and Dyer over there," he said. "Over here, I serve not just Valpo but Chesterton and Portage."
For more information, call 219-600-4848, visit www.mauricescheesecake.com or find the business on Facebook or Instagram.
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Lincoln Kitchen owner Eric Berindei advised Holmes on how he could maximize the commercial kitchen space he's renting, so he opened not just one restaurant but three.
He also runs HolmesBoy Hotdogs out of the space in Valparaiso, where it offers delivery and pickup. The menu includes a Chicago dog, a beef Polish, a bacon cheddar dog, a nacho dog with jalapenos and Dorito chips and the HolmesBoy Hookup that's loaded with toppings like onions, tomatoes, sport peppers and relish to the point where one may need a fork.
"We use Nathan's all-beef hot dogs," he said. "There's nothing like a good dog."
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He's looking at adding items like a dog with dried onions, barbecue sauce and coleslaw and Portuguese hot dogs with rice and baked beans.
"At home, I love experimenting with new things like mixing jalapenos with pork and beans," he said. "I think people go to restaurants because they want to try different types of concepts. We'll have some items that set us apart from the bars and hamburger shops. We'll have something for people interested in trying new things."
For more information, visit thelk.menu online.
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The third restaurant Holmes opened in Lincoln Kitchen in Valapraiso is Nana's Subs & Salads.
It's a tribute to Holmes's late mother-in-law, a gifted cook.
"We lost her last year," he said. "She was a sweet person who was always around and watching the kids. Losing her was a devastating blow to the family."
The menu includes turkey subs, ham subs, roast beef subs and grilled chicken subs as well as Buffalo chicken sliders and Dillon sliders with hot capicola, hot pepperoni, pepperjack cheese and garlic spread on a Hawaiian roll.
"With a ghost kitchen, you're already paying for the kitchen so you want to produce as much as you can without losing customer service or quality of product," he said. "We're taking advantage of the space to have three different concepts."
It gets especially busy during the lunch and dinner rush hours.
"It's a way to have a small business without the brick-and-mortar overhead so you're not bleeding out," he said. "We're definitely grateful for the chance to try our concepts. The cheesecakes are the main focus but we're doing pretty well with the other concepts too."
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"We're a green company that uses all-natural cleaning products and no harsh chemicals," she said. "We want to keep chemical-free."
The cleaning service targets anyone who needs help with their home cleaning needs. It works with clients' budgets.
"It might be busy parents. We do a lot with the elderly. A lot of clients don't live in the area but want to maintain their homes," he said. "We serve homes that are medium to large but small as well. We do everything from townhouses to multimillion-dollar homes."
She founded the business after having trouble finding a cleaning service that met her expectations while she was working in the eyecare business.
"I didn't feel like any of them understood my needs or met my standards," she said. "We go through everything so we meet expectations. We have full transparency from beginning to end."
She's looking to expand to other markets like Indianapolis in the future.
"If you've never tried a cleaning service before, give us a shot and you'll wonder how you ever lived without it," she said.
For more information, call 219-779-7664, visit www.professionally-polished.com or find the business on social media.
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Professionally Polished is a new cleaning service near Crown Point that serves residential and commercial clients across Northwest Indiana.
The Lakes of the Four Seasons-based business aspires to be "Crown Point's Premier Cleaning Service." It also serves customers in nearby communities like Valparaiso, Schererville, Highland, Cedar Lake and Hebron.
Professionally Polished is now cleaning 100 homes and a few offices. It employs 13 contractors who provide recurring cleaning services, typically weekly or biweekly.
"We do deep cleanings, move in and move out, and commercial," owner Rachel Slack said. "We do small offices like a State Farm office. We clean everything there, even the toilets in the bathroom. We just do small businesses, nothing like grocery stores or restaurants."
The business offers home-based consultations where it explains the services it offers and learns the homeowner's dos and don'ts, such as if they want the shelves dusted but the cabinets untouched.
"We make sure we're meeting the expectations and following a specific checklist that dictates everything we clean," she said. "You can choose scent options like lemon or lavender and scented toilet paper. We'll spray your signature scent so it's fresh and clean."
Professionally Polished keeps in close contact with clients and keeps notes in its computer system to ensure their needs are being met.
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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – New production cuts from oil-producing countries and uncertainty over federal interest rates spurring change for the oil and gas industry.
James Beauchamp the President of the Midland-Odessa transportation alliance, says increasing U.S. oil production should keep any attempts from OPEC and Russia to drive-up crude oil prices at bay.
Data from 2021 to 2022 shows an increasing oil and gas production trend in the Permian Basin.
“You saw here just in the 12-county central Permian region that oil production went by 72 point eight million barrels per year.”
Midland and Martin counties increased with more than 20 million barrels each.
Reeves and Loving counties also saw increases of 14.6 million and 11.8 million. Meanwhile, Andrews, Crane, and Ector all saw increases of over 3.5 million barrels annually, | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/local-news/increasing-u-s-oil-production-helps-keeps-crude-price-stable/ | 2023-07-14 23:46:23 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/local-news/increasing-u-s-oil-production-helps-keeps-crude-price-stable/ |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SMIL Southwest Medical Imaging, LTD. (SMIL), a radiologist-owned medical imaging provider in the Scottsdale and Phoenix area for over 40 years, is set to expand their practice with five state-of-the-art outpatient medical imaging sites in the Phoenix Metro area effective January 1st, 2023.
A stalwart presence in the Valley since 1980, SMIL is recognized as one of the leading radiology practices in the country. Its 70+ expert radiologists are fellowship-trained with thousands of hours in additional education to specialize in one of 10 imaging modalities. Last year, SMIL invested millions in equipment upgrades benefitting patient safety and comfort, reducing radiation dose, and increasing image quality. SMIL staff conducted hundreds of thousands of exams in 2021 while maintaining a consistent patient satisfaction score of 97%. Guided by its mission to be leaders in medical imaging through Quality, Innovation and Service, SMIL looks to the future with an expansion in 2023.
SMIL's new locations will provide services to central and west Phoenix at Sonoran Crossing, Deer Valley, Sunnyslope, and Desert Ridge. Modalities available at these sites include MRI, CT, 3D Mammography, Ultrasound, DEXA, and X-ray. These new locations will expand SMIL's existing footprint in the Phoenix Metro area.
"We are excited to bring SMIL's high-quality, innovative, and patient-focused services to these new communities in Phoenix," said Michael Douglas, CEO. "Not only will SMIL bring an enhanced level of service, but also high quality and high-value options for referring physicians, employers, and payers to choose for their patients, employees, and members' care. SMIL's plans include significant investments in these new locations to improve and expand upon the existing imaging services provided."
SMIL Southwest Medical Imaging is a physician-owned radiology practice in the Phoenix Metro area, providing patient-centric care to the Valley for over 40 years. Many of our radiologists hold additional academic positions in leading institutions. SMIL is a member of ASU Devil Docs™, an academic club supporting Sun Devil student athletes pursuing medical careers. SMIL is also the proud Survivor Sponsor of the American Cancer Society, and takes the lead in breast cancer with early detection, patient support and our own SMIL Research Institute. Our values of Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Engagement drive our business. To learn more about SMIL, please visit www.esmil.com/locations or call (480) 425-5030.
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Danville man arrested after multi-county pursuit
DANVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Danville man was arrested Thursday after a multi-county pursuit, police say.
Around 2:09 a.m., the Boyle County Sheriff’s Office was notified by the Danville 911 Center of a vehicle pursuit heading into the county from Casey County with a female passenger. Police say they were told the suspected driver was wanted for assaulting his girlfriend and was considered armed and dangerous as well as homicidal and under the influence.
The pursuit continued northbound on 127 into Danville on Hustonville Road. From there, the suspect’s vehicle fled throughout Danville “at various speeds” before turning onto Lebanon Road. He then allegedly turned onto Alum Springs Crosspike.
He drove into Junction City limits then back into Danville. On 127 at Jane Trail, spike strips were deployed and the suspect’s vehicle came to a stop on S. 2nd Street.
Aaron Jackson was arrested, released to the Liberty Police Department in Casey County and is charged with the following:
- Burglary 1st
- Assault 2nd (domestic violence)
- Assault 4th (domestic) 3rd or greater w/in 5yrs
- Parole violation warrant
- Reckless driving
- Operating on a suspended/revoked license
- Operating motor vehicle u/the influence
- Fleeing or evading police 1st degree (motor vehicle)
- Speeding 26mph or > speed limit
Charges are pending in Boyle County. | https://www.wtvq.com/danville-man-arrested-after-multi-county-pursuit/ | 2023-06-22 20:00:55 | 0 | https://www.wtvq.com/danville-man-arrested-after-multi-county-pursuit/ |
Sober October, Abstinent April and Dry July: For one quarter of a year, these campaigns provide a motivation for people to come together and challenge themselves to go without alcohol.
It isn't a surprise to Annie Grace that these periods to reduce alcohol consumption are becoming more popular. The author of "This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol" said she is seeing more and more people evaluate the relationship that alcohol plays in their lives.
How much is too much? The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention classifies moderate drinking as two drinks or less in a day for men and one drink or less for women. But two-thirds of adult drinkers report drinking more than those levels at least once a month, according to the CDC.
And the pandemic didn't help. A December 2020 study found that 60% of respondents increased drinking over the year and more than a third said they engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as five or more drinks on an occasion for men and four for women.
Studies show that alcohol isn't good for healthy living. There is no safe amount when it comes to heart health, according to the World Heart Federation. And even moderate drinking reserved for the weekend can have social, emotional and psychological impacts, according to a 2022 study.
Sober October could be a step to cutting out alcohol entirely, but it doesn't have to be, said biological psychologist Aaron White, senior scientific adviser to the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Whatever your level of drinking, a monthlong sobriety challenge could help you be more mindful about your drinking, White added.
Who benefits?
You may think you might not need a break from drinking because you don't have signs of substance abuse disorder: your drinking causing serious impairment, health problems, disability or issues meeting responsibilities.
But problematic drinking is a spectrum -- not just a binary between addicted and fine, Grace said. You may drink a little but not feel good about why or how you drink. You may drink a lot but feel doing so functions well in your life.
Even people who don't drink heavily may find themselves with less control over when and how much they drink than they would like, Grace said.
She was one of those people. Grace didn't feel she needed treatment programs, but she found that reducing her drinking was a struggle, which to her was a sign that something needed to change.
Taking on a sobriety challenge doesn't mean you have to quit forever, but it can help you be more thoughtful in your decisions around drinking rather than doing it because it's what you usually do, White said.
"It gives somebody a chance to cultivate alternatives," he added.
How does it help?
Even in just a month, there is evidence that reduced alcohol consumption can be good for your physical health.
"Most people who drink excessively have fatty livers," White said. "Even taking a break for a month is enough to just bring your liver enzymes down and for your liver to look healthier."
Some people may find with less or no alcohol they sleep better and make better food choices for themselves, White said.
And for emotional health, a short-term challenge can point out feelings and routines that could be improved, Grace added.
Many of the people she works with -- even moderate drinkers -- describe their relationship with alcohol as something they are not in full control of, she said.
She encourages people who are using a sobriety challenge to take note of when they feel the urge to drink and what purpose it serves. Does it make you feel part of a community to share a drink at a party? Is that glass of wine after a long day a reliable sense of comfort?
Maybe the drink is an easy way -- but not the best -- to get those needs met, Grace said. Taking note and trying to find those things without a drink could open you up to new ways of fulfilling those feelings, White added.
How to be successful
There are a couple of stumbling blocks to plan for during a sober month, Grace said.
One is overcoming the desire to drink, and experts had different approaches to solve that problem.
Reducing drinking can have a similar effect as dieting -- the more you tell yourself you can't have it, the more you want it, said Natalie Mokari, a registered dietitian nutritionist in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She recommends starting with one less drink than you would usually have at each occasion or breaking a daily habit by limiting drinking to certain days. You can also have a sparkling water in between drinks or make weaker cocktails than usual to reduce your alcohol consumption, she said.
White said it is important not to feel shame if you end up drinking during your sobriety challenge. Don't throw out the whole experience by beating yourself up over a glass of wine, he added.
Grace recommended leading with curiosity and information. Learning more about the psychology and biology of alcohol really helped reduce her desire to drink, she said, and approaching her urges with curiosity rather than judgment allowed her to learn more about the role alcohol played in her life.
There is also social pressure to drink. How do you not drink when everyone else is? Especially if friends get uncomfortable when they don't see you with the beer you always have?
The first thing is to remember that people may make you feel bad because they are uncomfortable about their own relationship with drinking, Grace said.
It often helps to have a nonalcoholic drink in your hand at social events, White said, so the offer to have a drink doesn't even come up.
Don't binge on November 1
If you are hoping to curb your habits or boost your health, it is important not to see crossing the finish line as the time to overindulge, Mokari said.
Dramatically reducing your consumption over that time can lower your tolerance, and what was enough for a buzz today could result in a much higher level of intoxication than you expect 30 days later, White said.
You may also be undoing the changes in habit you have been building over the course of the month by going back even harder once it's over, Grace added.
"In our society, even saying 'I want to take a break' is super brave," she said. "If you don't change how you feel about it but white-knuckle it the whole month, it becomes like this forbidden fruit syndrome." | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/you-may-need-a-sober-october-more-than-you-think-experts-explain-how-to-do/article_30f8158a-ff78-51b7-b159-d506c3b0b601.html | 2022-10-04 19:52:30 | 1 | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/you-may-need-a-sober-october-more-than-you-think-experts-explain-how-to-do/article_30f8158a-ff78-51b7-b159-d506c3b0b601.html |
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supernova Partners Acquisition Company III, Ltd. (the "Company") (NYSE: STRE, STRE.U, STRE WS), a special purpose acquisition company, announced that it will redeem all of its outstanding Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 (the "public shares"), effective as of the close of business on March 27, 2023, because the Company will not consummate an initial business combination within the time period required by its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
The per-share redemption price for the public shares will be approximately $10.20 (the "Redemption Amount"). In accordance with the terms of the related trust agreement, the Company expects to retain $100,000 of the interest income from the trust account to pay dissolution expenses.
The Company will delist from the New York Stock Exchange prior to the date of redemption and anticipates that the last day the public shares will trade is March 24, 2023. The Company expects that the New York Stock Exchange will file a Form 25 with the Commission to delist its securities thereafter. As of the close of business on March 27, 2023, the public shares will be deemed cancelled and will represent only the right to receive the Redemption Amount. The Company thereafter expects to file a Form 15 with the Commission to terminate the registration of its securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
The Redemption Amount will be payable to the holders of record of the public shares upon presentation of their respective stock or unit certificates or other delivery of their shares or units to the Company's transfer agent, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company. Beneficial owners of public shares held in "street name," however, will not need to take any action in order to receive the Redemption Amount.
There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company's warrants, which will expire worthless.
The Company's sponsor has waived its redemption rights with respect to the outstanding founder shares.
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CABELL COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – Crews are on the scene of a structure fire in the Milton area of Cabell County.
According to Cabell County 911 dispatchers, the fire is happening at a home in the 9300 block of Cooper Ridge Road. The call for the fire came in around 11:49 a.m. Saturday, March 25, dispatchers say.
Cabell County dispatchers say there is no word at this time if anyone has been injured.
The Milton, Culloden and Ona fire departments are on the scene. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/3-departments-battle-house-fire-in-cabell-county-west-virginia/ | 2023-03-25 17:43:05 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/3-departments-battle-house-fire-in-cabell-county-west-virginia/ |
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Love 4 Viewer Pets: July 13
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s not just canines and felines, it’s a wide array of all of your pets who we are sharing to show our Love 4 Pets.
First, we have Sitka, a beautiful husky with even more beautiful blue eyes. He loves car rides with his owner.
Next is Hashbrown – but he looks more like Skittles! This mini-poodle has some flair.
Meet Oliver. He also goes by the name, Mr. Noodles, and likes to play at the park with his buddies, Jax, Ace and Kita.
Now to our reptile friend, Falcor, the bearded dragon. 80s and 90s kids, you might recognize the name. He’s named after the dragon from A Never Ending Story.
Finally, it’s Two Socks! She’s sweet but you better stay away from her favorite toy.
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JEREMY BILLY DALE MATHIS, 44 of Wheelersburg, Ohio, son of Billy Dale Mathis, died Nov. 3 in the Concord Health & Rehabilitation Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Rollins Funeral Home, Kenova. www.rollinsfh.com.
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By Diane Daily
The special session of the Indiana legislature called by Governor Holcomb has been postponed.
The Governor signed a proclamation calling for lawmakers to return to Indianapolis on July 6 to take up his tax refund proposal. That topic was expected to be debated for a couple of days, but now there is a second matter to consider.
When lawmakers go into session on July 25th they are expected to discuss a widespread revision of the state’s abortion laws.
By law, legislators can take up any subject during a maximum 40-day period. The Associated Press is reporting that most legislators believe the revamped session will last for several weeks.
Just ahead of the long holiday weekend, the Red Cross is making a call for more donors.
Red Cross officials say donations usually drop by more than 20% over the 4th of July.
That’s an especially critical time since fireworks can sometimes result in serious injuries…leading to an increased demand for all blood types.
A local blood drive is scheduled for tomorrow at the Grace Baptist Church. Other blood drives are coming up in Bloomington later in the month. Contact the Monroe County Chapter of the Red Cross for complete details.
The City of Bloomington is partnering with Downtown Bloomington to host the annual Fourth of July Parade.
The festivities will start at 8:30 Monday morning on the County Courthouse Square.
At 9:00, the Monroe County Commissioners will hold a dedication ceremony for the newly renovated Alexander Memorial.
Then at 10:00 the parade will begin at the corner of 10th Street and College Avenue.
This year’s parade will feature a total of 60 entries from local businesses. emergency responders and youth groups. Several marching bands will also be participating.
Jim Inman is the emcee for this year’s celebration. He’ll be on the parade reviewing stand in front of Fountain Square Mall.
Organizers say the parade will go on as scheduled, even it rains.
There is still to attend this year’s Monroe County Fair to view the 4-H exhibits, ride the carnival rides and get some traditional fair food. Highlights this weekend include a Mini Sprints competition at 7:00 tonight and the annual Demolition Derby in the grandstand on Saturday evening, The fair will close on Sunday. | https://www.wgclradio.com/top-story/wgcl-news-the-special-session-of-the-indiana-legislature-called-by-governor-holcomb-has-been-postponed/ | 2022-07-01 18:20:44 | 0 | https://www.wgclradio.com/top-story/wgcl-news-the-special-session-of-the-indiana-legislature-called-by-governor-holcomb-has-been-postponed/ |
Florida police officer drags woman into jail, is fired
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A police officer in Tampa, Florida, who was videotaped dragging a handcuffed woman into jail has been fired, authorities said.
An internal investigation determined that former officer Gregory Damon violated department policies during the Nov. 17 incident, the Tampa Police Department announced Tuesday in a news release.
The woman was being arrested for trespassing, according to the release. A body camera video shows her refusing to leave Damon’s vehicle while parked at the Orient Road Jail and telling the officer, “I want you to drag me.”
Damon then removes the woman from the vehicle and pulls her by the arm across a concrete floor, stopping once to tell her to get up but the woman refuses. Damon drags the woman to a doorway then buzzes for additional officers to assist him before the body camera video released by the Tampa Police Department cuts off.
The agency said it revised policy in 2013 to forbid officers from dragging uncooperative suspects on the ground. Officers should instead seek assistance from jail booking staff or other law enforcement, police said.
Damon had been with the Tampa Police Department since 2016.
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On the Hill
Democrats aren't counting on Jan. 6 committee hearings to help them with voters
The House Jan. 6 committee this week will hold the first of at least six hearings, where the panel will lay out its findings concerning the attack of the Capitol and what led up to that deadly day.
It will generate headlines, dominate prime time cable television and potentially capture the attention of the nation.
But Democrats aren't counting on the panel's work and its focus on the attempt by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election to help them much with voters this fall.
That view was articulated at a recent private meeting with House Democrats where Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a clear message for her conference: Voters will not cast their ballots based on Jan. 6 and the events that led up to that deadly day. While it is the Democratic lawmakers job to serve as protectors of democracy, she told her members, voters will judge the party on the cost of food, gas prices and what the party is doing to help families.
Pelosi’s remarks, described by multiple Democrats who attended the closed-door meeting, underscored the growing belief in the party that views on the insurrection have hardened along party lines like so many issues.
That was hard to imagine in the days following the worst attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812, but it’s a reality many Democrats said they face despite their fears that threats to democracy remain as Trump continues to spread the election falsehoods that inspired the attack.
There is instead a recognition among many Democrats that to avoid defeat in this fall they will need to focus heavily on the type of economic and public safety issues that public opinion polls show concern voters most. Since Pelosi's message to her colleagues in that meeting in late April, a draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked and multiple mass shootings have occurred — two other issues that could play into voters' decisions.
- “We pick up incremental support by prioritizing what I call the “four c’s: costs, crime, commerce and covid,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said in a text message.
Republican interest in investigating the attack didn't last long and they turned on the idea early last year. They now argue that Jan. 6 isn’t an issue for voters. In a March National Republican Congressional Committee survey of likely voters in 77 battleground House districts provided to The Early, just one percent of voters said investigating the attack is the most important issue on which President Biden and congressional Democrats should focus.
Still, Democrats insist the hearings to be held by the Jan. 6 panel, which begin Thursday at 8 p.m., will be critical regardless of the politics.
- “The investigation has never been about politics, and neither will the hearings. We are focused on presenting the American people with the truth about this violent attack on our Democracy and ensuring nothing like it can ever happen again,” Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), who is a member of the committee and also in a swing district, said in a recent email.
Our colleagues Jackie Alemany and Josh Dawsey have a breakdown on what to expect from the hearings, including the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and the possible airing of video recordings of interviews with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Help around the margins
A progressive political consultant who has worked with focus groups and pollsters said that campaigning on Jan. 6 is “a loser,” but he argued the hearings will get attention and voters are paying attention to issues surrounding American democracy.
Recent polling by The Washington Post found a slim majority of voters — 52 percent — want former president Donald Trump charged with a crime for the attack on the Capitol, including 56 percent of independents.
The consultant, who was granted anonymity to detail his private advice to Democrats, said the issue of Jan. 6 can become a critical issue in a campaign if the Republican runs on a platform that the last election was stolen — such as in the case of Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania; J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for an open Senate seat in Ohio; and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who’s running for an open Senate seat in Alabama. Brooks is in a runoff against Katie Britt, a former chief of staff to Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) — and has said Trump “was robbed” in 2020.
- Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Jan. 6 “could play much more of a role than people imagined” in these instances. “People are very concerned about those involved and who supported those involved on January 6,” she said, based on polling she conducted for a consortium of groups.
But even if the hearings provide new revelations, those moments can be fleeting.
Programming note: Check out Leigh Ann's interview with Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) for Washington Post Live today at 11 a.m.
For Democrats, there is so much to do and so little time
It's (unofficially) the summer of an election year. And that means that the number of legislative days between now and Nov. 8 are disappearing faster than a snowball in Washington's heat.
Between now and Election Day, there are just 57 days the Senate is scheduled to be in Washington, but that includes Fridays, when the Senate is rarely in session. Take out Fridays and that's 44 days.
Those recess days are a congressional tradition, especially in election years when members running for reelection want to be home campaigning, talking to constituents, attending ribbon cuttings and, yes, fundraising.
The limitations of the calendar could pose big problems for Democrats' long list of legislative desires that include gun control legislation, new covid funding and a stripped-down version of the no-longer-a-Build-Back-Better bill that revolves around Sen. Joe Manchin III's (D-W.Va.) priorities of addressing inflation, reducing budget deficits, energy production and prescription drug prices.
A small group of Democrats and Republicans are trying to figure out if they can come to an agreement on background check expansion, incentivizing “red flag” laws in states, school safety and mental health funding. Our colleague Mike DeBonis has more on that here.
Democrats are also hoping a conference committee of House and Senate Republicans and Democrats can iron out the differences over the America Competes Act, the bipartisan bill that addresses some supply chain shortfalls and microchip manufacturing.
But the Senate is running out of time to a.) reach agreement on these priorities and to b.) pass them.
What we’re keeping our eye on
This week will be all about whether Senate negotiators can strike a deal on a legislative response to the recent mass shootings.
With the Senate back in town first the first time since before Memorial Day, we are watching what Republican senators who are not directly involved in the negotiations say about the gun talks. Any agreement will almost certainly need 10 GOP votes.
The Republicans involved in the negotiations are: Sens. John Cornyn (Texas), Patrick J. Toomey (Pa.) Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine), Bill Cassidy (La.) and Thom Tillis (N.C.). But It's hard to think of four or five more Republicans who would be inclined to get on board. Perhaps Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who have expressed openness. Maybe Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)? But she's facing a primary challenge from an opponent backed by former president Donald Trump on Aug. 16.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has co-sponsored red flag laws in the past. It's an election year for him, too. Or Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.)? He's up for reelection and his primary has passed. Our out-of-the-box person to watch is Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.).
What else is happening this week:
The Senate will spend much of the week on nominations, while the House is focused on guns and will vote on:
- The Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act: A bill that incentivizes states to strengthen “red flag” laws and creates a national “red flag” law.
- The Protecting Our Kids Act: A package of eight bills that would raise the legal age to buy some semiautomatic rifles to 21, address gun trafficking, institute gun storage requirements as well as ban high capacity magazines, ghost guns and bump stocks. Each measure will be voted on individually “to place Republicans on record” on each issue, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
- A resolution by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) condemning the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which the alleged shooter in Buffalo referenced.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee will hold a hearing on Uvalde. Families of victims will testify, including a 10-year-old girl who covered herself with her friend's blood and played dead.
President Biden, meanwhile, is heading to Los Angeles on Wednesday to host the Summit of the Americas meeting with Latin American leaders. He'll also tape an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that will air Wednesday evening.
At the White House
Americas summit is test for Biden as U.S. influence wanes
Live from the City of Angels: “When Biden and senior members of his administration explore the future of the Americas with other regional leaders this week, the United States will face a somewhat unusual experience: focusing on its neighbors to the south,” our colleagues Missy Ryan, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Mary Beth Sheridan and Karen DeYoung report.
- “The Summit of the Americas scheduled in Los Angeles with leaders of Latin American countries comes as the administration has spent months trying to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion that began in February. The summit has also been attempting to execute a long-delayed pivot to Asia, where China keeps pressing for more influence.”
- “Through the summit, U.S. leaders and others from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean are supposed to explore economic relationships and general goals for the Western Hemisphere. Discussions are expected to cover topics such as democracy, clean energy, politics, migration and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.”
Here’s what to expect:
- It’s official: “The Biden administration has made a final decision against inviting the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua,” Bloomberg’s Eric Martin scooped. The choice “is based on concerns about the lack of democracy and respect for human rights in the three countries.”
- Will he, or won’t he? “A bellwether of the summit’s success will be whether Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, decides to attend,” our colleagues write. “Officials appear to be holding out hope that the Mexican leader, who said he wouldn’t show up unless [the three countries] were invited, will be in Los Angeles for the summit.”
- Promises made, promises broken: Latin American leaders are expected to scrutinize Biden’s track record on covid and immigration. “The Biden administration was slow to match the vaccine diplomacy of Russia and China, although it did eventually provide 70 million doses to the hemisphere,” per AP News’ Elliot Spagat, Joshua Goodman and Chris Megerian. “Biden also maintained the Trump-era restrictions on migration, reinforcing the view that it was neglecting its own neighbors.”
The Media
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- Britain’s Boris Johnson to face no-confidence vote from his party. By The Post's Karla Adam
- A liberal D.A. finds voters’ moods have changed even in San Francisco. By The Post's Scott Wilson.
- How the White House lost Joe Manchin, and its plan to transform America. By The Post’s Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager.
- Five biggest issues to watch at Supreme Court as high-profile term ends. By The Hill’s John Kruzel.
- High California Gas Prices Rattle Democrats Ahead of Midterms. By the Times' Katie Glueck.
- Biden has ‘only bad options’ for bringing down oil prices. By the New York Times’ Clifford Krauss.
- Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump’s. By Politico’s Jonathan Lemire.
- Biden to waive tariffs for 24 months on solar panels hit by probe. By Reuters’ Jeff Mason.
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Got a secret, can you keep it?
The Pretty Little Liars franchise returns with the upcoming HBO Max series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. But in this show, executive produced and written by Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, there's a new group of girls being haunted by a masked Assailant.
It's basically the same premise as the original, but it's set in a different city and sees the girls making up for the sins of their mothers. It also promises to be scarier than its predecessor, with HBO Max describing it as a "dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama."
And they're not kidding. The first trailer for Original Sin teased a character's death at—wait for it—a school dance. "One down," a text to Imogen (Bailee Madison). "Five to go. -A"
Want to watch the madness? Here's what you need to know: The first three episodes premiere Friday, July 28, with the following two released on Aug. 4 and 11. For the grand finale, the last three episodes will drop on Aug. 18.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tony Perkins scored a career-high 22 points on 10-of-13 shooting, Kris Murray made 8 of 15 from the field and finished with 19 points and Iowa won its fourth consecutive game Sunday, shooting a season-high 60% from the field in an 81-67 win over Maryland.
Ahron Ulis hit a jumper to give Iowa (12-6, 4-3 Big Ten) its first lead at 6-4 and the Terrapins trailed the rest of the way. Perkins scored five points and Payton Sandfort added four in a 9-2 spurt that made it 19-10 with 9 minutes left in the first half and the Hawkeyes hit three 3-pointers in a 15-3 run that stretched the lead to 16 about six minutes later.
Iowa is averaging 85.3 points during its win streak that began with a 91-89 victory at No. 15 Indiana — the most points the Hoosiers had allowed since a 112-110 loss to Syracuse on Nov. 30, 2021 — in which the Hawkeyes trailed by 21 points about 7 minutes into the game.
Jahmir Young led Maryland (11-6, 2-4) with 20 points, Donta Scott added 15 and 11 rebounds and Julian Reese scored 10.
Sandfort and Connor McCaffery scored 12 points apiece for Iowa.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a Red Flag
Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM this morning to 8 PM CST
this evening. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.
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* Timing... 10 AM to 8 PM Wednesday.
* Wind...West 20 to 35 mph at the 20 foot level with gusts to 60
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* Humidity...11 to 18 percent.
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* Impacts... Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Updated May 3, 2023 at 11:12 AM ET
The White House organized a belated celebration for Eid al-Fitar earlier this week and invited hundreds of prominent American Muslims. Then, it uninvited one of them: Mohammad Khairullah, the mayor of Prospect Park, N.J. He's the longest serving Muslim mayor in this country, and he was given no explanation as to why.
Khairullah told NPR's Leila Fadel on Morning Edition that he contacted the Council on American Islamic Relations shortly after he was disinvited to the event. The council informed him that he was on a "secret list," which was leaked earlier this year.
"I was added to the list in 2019, which put things together in my mind because all my traveling difficulties started in 2019," Khairullah said. "So it's at this point, for some reason, I am on a secret list that the government is denying exists and it's caused me and my family trouble."
At a White House press briefing this week, when asked about Khairullah being uninvited from the event, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly deferred to the U.S. Secret Service.
For its part, the Secret Service put out a statement from spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi: "While we regret any inconvenience this may have caused, the mayor was not allowed to enter the White House complex this evening. Unfortunately we are not able to comment further on the specific protective means and methods used to conduct our security operations at the White House."
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On what the "secret list" is
Leila Fadel: Now, this secret list you're referring to is a watch list, and the 2019 leaked list you're talking about was a hack. And on that list, the majority of those names are Arab Muslim sounding names based on what was on those hacked list. Do you think this is a situation of profiling?
Mohamed Khairullah: The fact that the list is mostly Arabs and Muslims, the fact that we have no way to address why we are on the list is definitely profiling and a lack of due process. And that's why a federal judge deemed that list to be unlawful. However, our federal government continues to use that list despite the fact that it was deemed unlawful.
Leila Fadel: There will be people listening to you who say these types of lists and this type of secrecy is necessary for the national security of this country, even if it is uncomfortable for you. What do you say to those people?
Mohamed Khairullah: As an elected official, I've been mayor for 17 years. I've been very close to former presidents, elected officials. This is not a very smart list. It's not an intelligent list. It's a dragnet that's not very effective. It uses racial profiling, ethnic profiling. So if the attempt is to prevent me from meeting people, I've met these people plenty of times when the list was not used.
So I think we need a more intelligent way of protecting the nation rather than somebody writing a report about me that I can't know about, or and I'm assuming that's how I got on. And I can't defend myself. I can't defend my name. I think inconvenience has to be justified, not just throw in a dragnet that's going to inconvenience 1.5 million people.
On the White House's response
They have been silent. When asked at the press conference, they referred the matter back to the Secret Service. However, this is a list that was created back in 2003 by President George W. Bush. So it is something that the executive branch can do something about. And we hope that the Biden administration can finally disband this list and correct the course of how things are going and this racial profiling.
On how being on the watch list has affected him
So the first time I started experiencing difficulties was when we were going on a trip to Istanbul, which we didn't think [much] about. But when we returned from Istanbul, at JFK, the agents were there at the door and they still said, "Oh, you are being randomly selected."
So we went with them and I had to end the conversation, because the agent flat out asked me, "Did you meet any terrorists?" As if the answer was going to be yes or no, to which I said, "Listen, at this point I'm ending this conversation, I need a lawyer." And obviously because of that, he said, "Do you understand? I'm going to take your phone. We're going to strip search you." So, I'm like, do what you got to do, but this conversation is over.
On what it's like to be selected for a search at US airports
It's humiliating, to say the least. I mean, I could tell you when I was coming back from Canada in 2021, I was detained and in a glass room and my toddler daughter would stand at the door asking me why she can't be with me. And I'm being held there for about two or three hours. There's no explanation. And how do you explain to a child that your government is detaining your dad for reasons that he can't explain, that the government won't explain? It's just baffling. It's in a country where we have institutions and we have a great constitution that protects the liberties of people to be targeted because of my name, ethnicity and religion is just unbelievable. And that's basically what my crimes are.
To be 100% randomly selected every single time I go to the airport is just not a coincidence.
Miranda Kennedy and Amra Pasic contributed editing. contributed to this story
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Bringing Hyper-automation and IBN to Accelerate the Adoption of SONiC Deployments
RICHARDSON, Texas, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BeyondEdge, a pioneer in software-defined networking management and intent-based networking (IBN), announced today that it has joined the Linux Foundation and its groundbreaking Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project for the advancement of the SONiC networking OS (NOS).
As a leading independent software company with many thousands of switches being actively orchestrated across hundreds of networks worldwide, BeyondEdge knows what it takes, technology and team-wise, to manage complex and highly-available networks to meet the growing digital demands of enterprise organizations. Armed with this knowledge, and the experience gained in working with SONiC, BeyondEdge will provide the Linux Foundation's SONiC project with thought leadership and guidance regarding critical enterprise feature requirements and how to best design and deploy SONiC-powered networks using IBN orchestration and hyperautomation tools.
With a solution that orchestrates both edge and data center environments, BeyondEdge's Verity helps enterprises enhance, simplify, and automate the management of networks with the full support of large ecosystem players like Dell Technologies, Ingram Micro, Corning, and others. These partnerships are key to the proliferation of Linux Foundation offerings like SONiC.
"Joining the Linux Foundation and helping take part in bringing SONiC to the next level of market penetration was a no-brainer for us," said Amir Elbaz, founder and CEO of BeyondEdge. "We have seen the project's accelerated traction since SONiC joined the Linux Foundation last year, and the inclusion of prominent players like Microsoft and Dell within group discussions. This made it clear to us that SONiC, together with a network orchestration technology like ours, is a game-changer in the world of enterprise IT."
"We are pleased to welcome BeyondEdge as a General Member of the SONiC project," said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT, the Linux Foundation. "As a leader in enabling open-source data center NOS deployments, SONiC is expanding its robust community with members like BeyondEdge, who brings expertise in enterprise and IBN. Together, the growing community is strengthening the support model and further enhancing SONiC's scalability and reliability for cloud-native data centers."
According to analysts' reports, the private cloud services market is poised to grow by $276 billion through 2027, accelerating at a CAGR of 26.71 percent during the forecast period. BeyondEdge sees the Linux Foundation's projects playing a key role combined with their own innovative solutions like its IBN orchestration platform, delivering a solid foundation for tremendous growth in the private cloud market.
About BeyondEdge™
BeyondEdge™ is a software-defined, data center, cloud, and edge company focused on advancing the transformation of networks via an open and modular software platform that delivers highly intelligent and fully automated networks for data centers, clouds, buildings, and campus-wide environments. For more information on the company, please visit www.beyondedgenetworks.com.
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B&H Photo marks its 50th Anniversary at Bild Expo on September 6-7 at Javits Center in New York City. Bild is a gathering of creatives featuring presentations from world-class talents like Casey Neistat, Art Wolfe, Jenna Ezarik, and Ami Vitale, hands-on experiences and education, a gear expo from leading brands like Canon, DJI, Nikon, Sony, and much, much more.
NEW YORK, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H Photo, the leading retailer of photo, video, audio, and creative gear, marks its 50th anniversary on September 6-7 with the launch of Bild Expo, a new large-scale educational and inspirational event for the creative community. Bild will celebrate innovation and excellence in the creative technology industries, which B&H has supported since 1973.
Jeff Gerstel, B&H's Chief Marketing Officer, said, "B&H is excited to launch Bild Expo and welcome many thousands of enthusiasts to this incredible celebration of photo, video, and audio creativity. We are proudly marking B&H's 50th anniversary with our biggest event ever, to thank people for allowing us to serve them for many years, and to kick-off the next 50 years."
"Bild" is the Yiddish word for "image" and represents both B&H's 50-year commitment to supporting the creative community and the company's unique heritage as a New York City icon. Bild will inspire through presentations by 60+ world-class speakers, educate through hands-on workshops and one-on-one portfolio and pitch reviews, and excite through creative experiences and contests. Bild's gear expo features 130+ of the world's leading creative brands, as well as emerging newer brands. The event takes place at the Javits Center in New York City on September 6-7. Admission is free with pre-registration at www.bildexpo.com.
B&H is excited to welcome many distinguished speakers to Bild, who will present from four program stages. Confirmed speakers include world-famous photographers, videographers, filmmakers, and social creators. The lineup includes Casey Neistat, Art Wolfe, Dan Winters, Scott Kelby, Jenna Ezarik, Frans Lanting, Flo Ngala, Mark Seliger, Grace Wells, Ami Vitale, and many more. Bild is adding speakers each week to its extensive lineup, featuring presentations to excite a wide range of creatives.
Hands-on experiences will range from a 16mm film workshop, to photo, video, film, and audio demonstrations and activations, to photo walks around New York City and one-on-one coaching through portfolio and pitch reviews.
Bild's Gear Expo features 130+ of the world's leading creative technology brands sharing their latest innovations and offering attendees the opportunity to interact directly with brand representatives. Bild will also welcome several emerging newer brands. Exhibitors include photo leaders Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Leica, and Sigma, video/cine innovators like Arri, Blackmagic Design, DJI, and Red Digital Cinema, audio pacesetters including Sennheiser, Shure, Zoom and Tascam, and lighting brands Profoto, Godox, Matthews, Nanlite, and Westcott.
About B&H Photo
From B&H's humble beginnings in 1973 as a mom-and-pop photo shop near New York's City Hall, to five decades later, the company has grown into the leading online and physical retailer supporting the creative community.
With 50 years of unwavering commitment to quality, innovation, and customer service, B&H has become the trusted, go-to place for photo, video, audio, and other creative gear for professionals and enthusiasts alike. Learn more at the Bild Expo website Bild Expo 2023 and register for free admission. For information about B&H, visit B&H Photo.
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How to Watch the Devils vs. Rangers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs First Round Game 5
Published: Apr. 26, 2023 at 5:12 PM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs First Round on Thursday will see the New Jersey Devils host the New York Rangers, starting at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN2, MSGSN, MSG, TVAS2, and SN360. The series is knotted up 2-2.
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You can see the Rangers-Devils matchup on ESPN2, MSGSN, MSG, TVAS2, and SN360.
Devils Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN2, MSGSN, MSG, TVAS2, and SN360
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- Where: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey
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Devils vs. Rangers Head-to-Head
Devils Stats & Trends
- The Devils have conceded 222 total goals (2.7 per game), the eighth-fewest in NHL action.
- The Devils score the fourth-most goals in the league (289 total, 3.5 per game).
- Over the past 10 games, the Devils have gone 6-4-0 (80.0% of possible points).
- Defensively, the Devils have allowed 27 goals (2.7 per game) in those 10 outings.
- They have scored 33 goals during that stretch.
Devils Key Players
Rangers Stats & Trends
- The Rangers' total of 216 goals given up (2.6 per game) is fourth in the league.
- The Rangers' 273 goals on the season (3.3 per game) rank them 12th in the league.
- In the past 10 contests, the Rangers are 5-2-3 (60.0% of possible points).
- Over on the defensive end, the Rangers have given up 1.9 goals per game (19 total) in those 10 outings.
- They have scored 33 goals over that stretch.
Rangers Key Players
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The Family-Focused Brand Can Now be Found Across the U.S. With Latest Distribution Deal
LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Madison Brown, the family-owned and celebrity-favorite ice cream brand, announces its retail distribution expansion to Publix stores nationwide, bringing their exceptional, delicious flavors to even more customers. The move follows Madison Brown's previous wholesale successes, with the brand rapidly growing its retail footprint to become a staple in freezers across America.
Co-Founded by Jay Jay Brown, son of Roc Nation Co-Founder and Vice Chairman Jay Brown, Madison Brown is focused on establishing a new culture of ice cream around shared laughs and the true happiness that can only be captured with the perfect sweet treat. The brand offers six original premium ice cream flavors ranging from tried-and-true elevated classics to unique and innovative options, truly living up to its "fabulous ice cream" tagline. Flavors: Vanilla, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Mint Chocolate Chip and Red Velvet are now available for purchase at all Publix stores nationwide and priced at $8.99 per pint.
Additionally, Madison Brown partnered with Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) earlier this year to create a new Neapolitan Swirl flavor. Made with high-quality ingredients and maximum creaminess, the Neapolitan Swirl features vanilla and strawberry ice cream with a unique Rihanna twist - a special chocolate crunch ribbon and her signature on the back of each pint. As a commitment to giving back to communities, 100% of proceeds of the Neapolitan Swirl is donated to Rihanna's CLF to support climate justice initiatives in the Caribbean & United States and helps communities prepare for and withstand natural disasters.
"We're excited to be rolling out into Publix stores nationwide," says Jen Francis, Head of Sales at Madison Brown. "Following the success of our limited-edition flavor in collaboration with Rihanna earlier this year, we believe this wholesale expansion will boost our brand exposure and introduce consumers to our quality ice cream, boasting a high inclusion rate of all ingredients in every bite."
Madison Brown's expansion continues, with the brand also available at all Ralph's and Berkeley Bowls, and select BevMo! and GoPuff. The core lineup of Madison Brown flavors include:
- Vanilla: Subtle yet rich creamy vanilla ice cream with just the right amount of sweetness
- Chocolate: Indulgent milk chocolate ice cream with a hint of dark chocolate throughout
- Mint Chocolate Chip: Refreshing peppermint and spearmint extracts blended with bittersweet dark chocolate chunks
- Cookies & Cream: Classic vanilla ice cream blended with generous pieces of chocolate cookies with creme filling
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough: Vanilla-based ice cream with added chunks of buttery soft cookie dough and blended with tiny milk chocolate chips
- Red Velvet: Classic vanilla-based ice cream with delicious pieces of luxurious red velvet cake and decadent swirls of real cream cheese frosting
You can learn more about Madison Brown on Twitter @MadisonBrown, Instagram @MadisonBrownFrozen, and at MadisonBrown.com.
ABOUT MADISON BROWN
Madison Brown is redefining and establishing a new culture of fabulous ice cream. Co-Founded by Jay Jay Brown, son of Roc Nation Co-Founder and Vice Chairman Jay Brown, Madison Brown is a family-focused CPG brand honoring his family. Some of his fondest memories growing up included spending quality time with his family over a bowl of ice cream, so it was natural for Jay Jay Brown to start an ice cream venture together to create the ultimate indulgent experience. Entering the marketplace with six premium flavors, including its signature Red Velvet along with Vanilla, Chocolate, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, aiming to blend the beloved pastime with today's culture.
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By TERRY SPENCER (Associated Press)
Attorneys for golf superstar Tiger Woods are expected to argue Tuesday during a court hearing that his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit against him should be halted because she signed a nondisclosure agreement requiring that any disagreements between them be settled in private by an arbitrator.
Erica Herman, 39, is suing Woods to get out of the agreement, saying she was the victim of his sexual harassment. She has also filed a separate $30 million illegal eviction lawsuit against the trust that owns his $54 million Florida mansion.
Herman, who managed Woods’ Palm Beach County restaurant before and during the first years of their romantic relationship, argues that the nondisclosure agreement is unenforceable under a new federal law that says such contracts can be voided when sexual abuse or sexual harassment occurred. Her attorney, Benjamin Hodas, contends that Woods’ alleged threat to fire her if she didn’t sign the contract was harassment.
“A boss imposing different work conditions on his employee because of their sexual relationship is sexual harassment,” Hodas said.
Woods’ attorney, J.B. Murray, denies that the 47-year-old golfer ever sexually assaulted or harassed Herman, calling her accusations in court documents “utterly meritless.” It is unknown if Woods will attend the hearing before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger, the first in what could be a lengthy court battle.
In Herman’s lawsuit against Woods, she wants Metzger to either void the nondisclosure agreement or at least give her guidance about what she can say publicly. For example, can she discuss events that happened before their agreement or after their breakup? What about information she learned about Woods from others? She is also arguing that the contract covers only her work relationship with Woods, not their personal matters.
In her unlawful eviction lawsuit against the trust, she is basing her $30 million claim on how much it would cost to rent a property like Woods’ beachfront mansion north of Palm Beach for six years of residence she was allegedly promised by the golfer and then denied.
When Hodas filed her lawsuit against the trust in October, he checked a box on a standardized form saying the case did not involve sexual abuse. In Herman’s March lawsuit against Woods, Hodas checked the box saying that case does involve abuse. Hodas has not explained the apparent discrepancy.
Before they dated, Woods hired Herman in 2014 to help develop and then operate the golfer’s The Woods sports bar and restaurant in nearby Jupiter — but they do not agree when their romantic relationship and cohabitation began.
Herman says in her court filings that their romantic relationship began in 2015 and that in late 2016 she moved into Woods’ nearly 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) mansion in the ritzy Hobe Sound community. She says that in 2017, Woods verbally promised she could live there at least 11 more years.
Woods, in his court documents, says their romantic relationship began in 2017, shortly before she moved in with him that August — about the time the nondisclosure agreement was signed. In March 2017, Woods had placed the mansion into the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust, an entity he created that has only himself and his two children as beneficiaries. Forbes Magazine estimates Woods’ net worth at $1.1 billion.
Court documents filed by Woods’ attorneys on Monday include an August 2017 email exchange between Herman and Christopher Hubman, the chief financial officer of Tiger Woods Ventures. Herman says she will sign the nondisclosure agreement, but expresses concern about how her romantic and professional lives are now intertwined.
“My only concern is if by chance TW does something that brings our relationship to an end, do I automatically (lose) my job?” she wrote. “I don’t have any problem with what’s in the document because I wouldn’t go public or use anything I know to hurt him or the kids but with my whole life in his hands now I would want to have some kind of control over my future in the business.
“If something happened 5-10 years down the road I don’t want to be in my 40s, heartbroken and jobless,” she wrote.
Herman says Woods pressured her to quit her job managing his restaurant in 2020, saying he wanted her to spend more time taking care of him and his children.
Herman says Woods evicted her through “trickery.” She says Woods told her they were going on a weekend trip to the Bahamas, so she packed a small bag and he drove her to the airport, where they parked near a private plane.
But instead of boarding, Woods told Herman to talk to his lawyer and left, she says.
“Out of the blue,” the lawyer told her the relationship was over and that she was being evicted, she says. She says she refused to sign another nondisclosure agreement the lawyer tried to force upon her.
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SAO PAULO – Brazilian soccer stars past and present are under fire from fans for skipping Pelé's funeral and opting to pay their respects on social media.
The three-time World Cup champion was buried in his hometown Tuesday after more than 230,000 mourners passed by his casket at Vila Belmiro stadium in Santos. Pelé died last Thursday after a battle with cancer.
Fans expected former Santos players like Neymar, Rodrygo and Giovanni to attend. They also hoped retired greats like Zico, Romario, Ronaldo, Kaká and Ronaldinho Gaucho would show up at the beach city 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of São Paulo.
Their social media accounts were flooded with comments by angry fans after Pelé’s burial.
None of the players from Brazil’s 2002 World Cup winning squad attended. One of them — former star midfielder Kaká — was criticized because he had complained during an interview in December that Brazilians do not honor their sports heroes as much as foreigners.
“You didn’t even show up for the funeral of the man who paved the way for you to have the life that you have,” said Joao Vitor Custodio on Kaká’s Instagram post about Pelé that drew more than 5,000 comments, including many about his decision not to come for the tributes.
In Neymar’s Instagram post mourning Pelé’s death, one fan wrote: “It is easy to say, but you sent your father and did not come.” The Brazi striker later limited comments in that post to people he knows.
No foreign footballers came to Brazil for Pelé’s tributes, funeral and burial.
Former midfielder Mauro Silva was the lone representative of the 1994 team that won the World Cup in the United States. He is currently an executive at the São Paulo state soccer federation.
Some of Pelé's surviving Brazil teammates from the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cup titles were unfit to attend, like 91-year-old Mário Zagallo, and others like Roberto Rivellino were reportedly too upset.
Fans didn’t seem to believe those who said they tried but could not get to Santos in time, like Cafu.
“Unfortunately and with a lot of sorrow I could not attend Pelé’s funeral, I was on the other side of the globe and at work. My flights to return to Brazil started only in the early hours of Wednesday, I can only get to Brazil tomorrow,” he said. “Does that change what I feel for Pelé, or what he represents to me and to soccer in general? Never!”
Rivaldo, who lives in the United States, took a similar path.
“Even if I were in Brazil I am not sure I would have attended the funeral,” Rivaldo said. “I don’t like to pay tributes at that time, I am not against those who do. I met Pelé, I was with him many times and I had the opportunity to honor him during his life.”
Among the distinguished former Brazilian players who did come for the tributes were Bayern Munich's Zé Roberto, Manchester City's Elano and Roma's Paulo Roberto Falcao. Those three have a connection with Santos.
Except for Santos, few active players and executives of Brazilian clubs attended the funeral. All top flight clubs are in pre-season.
To add to the shock of many fans, Flamengo chose to introduce its new coach Vitor Pereira at the same time as the nationally televised procession of Pelé's casket through the city of Santos before the burial.
Local soccer executives did not suspend play of the Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior, a tournament for youngsters that attracts a lot of media attention in the South American nation.
The funeral of two-time World Cup winner Mané Garrincha at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in 1983 was also poorly attended by Brazilian footballers.
Pelé repeatedly said he was too shaken to attend any funeral of family or friends. He was buried in the same cemetery of his father Dondinho and his brother Jair Arantes do Nascimento. The Brazilian soccer great did not attend their funerals either.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer off Nestor Cortes in the first inning and the Tampa Bay staff made it stand up, leading the Rays over the skidding New York Yankees 3-1 Tuesday night.
Starter Jeffrey Springs (5-3) and four relievers combined on a four-hitter, and the crowd of 41,083 at Yankee Stadium booed their AL East leaders at times.
The Yankees have lost 11 of 13 and are 8-17 since reaching the All-Star break at 64-28.
Tampa Bay got only four hits while winning its fourth straight and closing within nine games of the Yankees — New York's smallest margin since also being nine ahead on June 15. The Rays trailed by 15 1/2 games after getting swept at Cincinnati July 8-10.
New York lost its fifth straight series and was held to three runs or less for the seventh straight game.
New York avoided being blanked in three straight games for the first time since 2016 when Andrew Benintendi tripled in the fifth and scored on a fielding error by third baseman Yandy Díaz on a grounder by Miguel Andújar.
Some fans booed when Andújar struck out to end the seventh with Josh Donaldson on third, and there were more when Jose Trevino struck out to end the game.
Díaz and Issac Paredes started the game with singles. One out later, Arozarena gave the Rays a 3-0 lead by lifting a 1-1 fastball into the left field seats for his 16th homer. It was Arrozarena’s fourth homer in five games after the right fielder went homerless in 16 straight games.
Cortes (9-4) allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings. He struck out three, walked none and retired 19 of his final 21 hitters.
Springs (5-3) got 10 outs on the ground and held New York to one run and two hits in five innings.
Pete Fairbanks pitched a perfect sixth, Brooks Raley got the first two outs of the seventh after Donaldson singled and Shawn Armstrong got the next three outs.
Jason Adam needed four pitches to retire major league home run leader Aaron Judge with a runner on to end the eighth.
Adam also fanned two in a perfect ninth for his seventh save.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: SS Wander Franco (right hamate bone) went 0 for 2 as the designated hitter for Triple-A Durham. He was expected to play five innings but was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fourth.
Yankees: INF DJ LeMahieu (right big toe) missed his third straight game. He is day-to-day but a decision on putting him on the injured list could come Wednesday or Thursday. … OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton (Achilles tendon) could begin a rehab assignment in the next few days. … OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) said he is hoping to find out soon if his walking boot can come off.
UP NEXT:
Tampa Bay RHP Corey Kluber (7-7, 4.40 ERA) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (1-2, 4.18) on Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite high expectations of a recession in the next 18 months and declining confidence in cash and liquidity management, C-suite and other executives are turning to cost containment strategies and advanced technologies to ease concerns, according to a recent Deloitte poll.
Three-quarters of polled executives (74.6%) expect a recession in the next 18 months, with 36.3% expecting one inside of six months. At the same time, confidence levels in cash and liquidity management have decreased. While many executives remain confident in their organizations' cash and liquidity management abilities (79.5%), this number is down roughly five points from 84.6% in October 2020.
"Rising inflation, high interest rates and market uncertainty make everything from demand planning to payment term negotiations to forecasting exponentially harder, affecting overall liquidity management confidence levels," said Mike Quails, a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory managing director specializing in value creation strategies for distressed and rapid growth companies, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. "Recognizing these challenges, many leading executives are adopting liquidity planning measures to help increase transparency and free up cash."
Nearly half of respondents (49.8%) say their organizations plan to focus more on liquidity management in the coming 12 months. Executives are most likely to focus related planning on cost containment, including reviewing vendor contracts, staffing costs and spans of control (31.6%). Others will look to manage liquidity via working capital (21.4%; e.g., receivables, inventory, payables) or liquidity risk efforts (16.3%; e.g., more frequent and/or deeper cash-flow forecasting).
Supporting liquidity management with advanced technology on the rise
One-fifth of respondents report using technologies like advanced analytics, AI and machine learning to manage liquidity (20.5%), compared to 13.5% in October 2020. As the number of those using advanced technology for liquidity management climbs, the rate of those with no plans to do so is dropping (34.5% with no plans in 2023; 46.8% had no plans in 2020).
"New technology adoption tends to drop off ahead of expected recessions, as implementation costs and unknowns around impact and ROI can give some organizations cold feet," said Ryan Maupin, a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory managing director and U.S. turnaround and restructuring leader, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. "We're encouraged that so many of our polled executives see that the overall cost savings and operational benefits of adopting next generation liquidity planning solutions typically outweigh the cost of investment, with many organizations achieving cost reductions, labor efficiencies and ultimately, more accurate downturn planning."
About the online poll
Over 590 C-suite and other executives were polled during a recent Deloitte webcast, titled "Cost containment and cash generation downturn planning," on Feb. 2, 2023. A similar online poll was conducted in October 2020. Answer rates differed by question.
About Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 7,000 private companies. Our people come together for the greater good and work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today's marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthier society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte's approximately 415,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.
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ICHRA provides companies with a versatile and potentially more affordable way to sponsor health insurance for workers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading online private health insurance marketplace, is now offering ICHRA health insurance products and services in addition to offering traditional group health insurance plans.
With ICHRA (Individual Health Coverage Reimbursement Arrangement), corporations and business owners make premium contributions toward health plans selected by employees. Employees get to choose the coverage that best matches their health needs from a large selection of available plans. Employers determine their own contribution towards subsidizing employees' costs.
"In regions where we offer both ICHRA and traditional group health insurance products, we'll now be able to help employers understand which may work best for their needs," said eHealth CEO Fran Soistman. "For employers who want to provide health insurance for employees but can't afford a traditional group plan, the ICHRA program presents a good solution. While ICHRA can accommodate groups of any size, it may prove especially attractive to smaller businesses."
Benefits of ICHRA for employers
As an employee benefit offering, ICHRA may help businesses attract and retain workers. It allows employers to define their own contributions, often minimizing risks and controlling costs more effectively than with group health insurance coverage.
Benefits of ICHRA for employees
Employees can select the ACA-compliant health plan that suits them and use disbursements from their employers to reduce their premiums. Premium reimbursements from employers are designed to be tax-free and not reported as taxable income. When leaving a company, employees can take their plan with them.
Learn more about eHealth's ICHRA offerings here.
ICHRA options may vary by geography and other factors. The general information above is not intended to be advice – please consult your legal, tax, benefits, or financial advisors for specific advice for your situation.
About eHealth
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, we have connected more than eight million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. Our proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and other plans from approximately 200 health insurance carriers across fifty states and the District of Columbia.
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EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shootout among multiple gunmen at an East Palo Alto park where dozens of children were playing, police said.
More than 30 shots were fired during the shootout Tuesday at Jack Farrell Park where children ran for their lives screaming for help, East Palo Alto Interim Police Chief Jeff Liu said Wednesday.
There were at least 60 children playing in the park at the time of the shooting, he said.
A girl was recording a video of herself playing a game of tag with other kids in the park when the gun battle broke out. The girl kept recording as she ran across a field and shouted, “Help me!”
Police identified the man who was killed as Ralph Fields Jr., whom they described as the cousin of Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams, KRON-TV reported.
Two more shooting victims fled to a nearby firehouse for help. A fourth victim ran into a house. The three men are expected to survive, Liu said.
The gunmen are still at-large, Liu said.
The City of East Palo Alto is holding a special City Council meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday to discuss the shooting with the community and officials asked anyone with information to contact authorities. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Shootout-at-park-bustling-with-children-leaves-1-17185338.php | 2022-05-19 22:30:48 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Shootout-at-park-bustling-with-children-leaves-1-17185338.php |
Michael Cohen to testify Monday in Trump hush-money probe
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush-money payments made on the former president’s behalf, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. They were not authorized to speak publicly about grand jury proceedings and did so on condition of anonymity.
Cohen is a key witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation and his testimony is coming at a critical time, as prosecutors close in on a decision on whether to seek charges against Trump. Prosecutors sometimes save their most important witnesses until the end stages of a grand jury investigation.
Cohen has been meeting regularly with Manhattan prosecutors in recent weeks, including a day-long session Friday to prepare for his appearance before the grand jury, which has been hearing evidence in the matter since January.
Cohen declined to comment to reporters as he left the meeting, saying he’d be “taking a little bit of time now to stay silent and allow the D.A. build their case.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which thus far has declined to comment on the investigation, also declined to address whether Cohen would testify before the grand jury.
Trump continued to lash out at the probe on social media Friday, calling the case a “Scam, Injustice, Mockery, and Complete and Total Weaponization of Law Enforcement in order to affect a Presidential Election!”
Prosecutors appear to be looking at whether Trump committed crimes in arranging the payments, or in how they were accounted for internally at Trump’s company, the Trump Organization. One possible charge would be falsifying business records, a misdemeanor unless prosecutors could prove it was done to conceal another crime.
No former U.S. president has ever been charged with a crime.
Prosecutors this week invited Trump to testify before the grand jury — another sign that phase of the investigation is winding down. Inviting the subject of an investigation to appear before a grand jury is typically one of the last steps before a potential indictment.
Trump has the right to testify under New York law, though legal experts say he is unlikely to do so because it wouldn’t benefit his defense and he’d have to give up a cloak of immunity that’s automatically granted to grand jury witnesses under state law.
Cohen served prison time after pleading guilty in 2018 to federal charges, including campaign finance violations, for arranging the payouts to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them from going public. Trump has denied the affairs.
Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was then reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as “legal expenses.” McDougal’s $150,000 payment was made through the publisher of the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer, which squelched her story in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
The Trump Organization “grossed up” Cohen’s reimbursement for the Daniels payment for “tax purposes,” according to federal prosecutors who filed criminal charges against the lawyer in connection with the payments in 2018. Cohen got $360,000 plus a $60,000 bonus, for a total of $420,000.
Federal prosecutors said during Cohen’s criminal case that Trump was aware of the payments to the women. The U.S. attorney’s office in New York, however, declined at the time to seek a criminal charge against the then-sitting president.
Cohen, now estranged from Trump, has met with prosecutors 20 times through several iterations of the hush-money probe. In January, he gave his cell phones to Manhattan prosecutors so they could extract evidence, including voice recordings of conversations he had with a lawyer for Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — as well as emails and text messages.
Other members of Trump’s inner circle have met with Manhattan prosecutors in recent weeks, including his former political adviser Kellyanne Conway and former spokesperson Hope Hicks.
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Demonstrates Commitment to Employees, Company Culture
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sbarro, the leading QSR serving the impulse pizza occasion, has earned certification by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors.
This certification recognizes the top companies to work for worldwide based on feedback provided by employees on more than 60 elements of their job experience. Highest scoring categories for Sbarro included: employee pride in the brand, belief that their work makes a difference, employee alignment with and trust in the leadership team, and diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
"Our certification as a Great Place to Work is a testament to our employees and their passion for our brand, our culture, our franchise partners and each other," said Rohan Shearer, Sbarro's Chief Administrative Officer and head of Human Resources. "We're honored to be one of the very few US based QSR brands to have obtained this recognition."
The core of Sbarro's culture is its "People Pledge," an employee engagement program that welcomes, develops, communicates with and cares for each member of the Sbarro family. The People Pledge has created a common language around employee connection and belonging that has led to Sbarro's industry leading management tenure.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "Earning this designation means that Sbarro is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
In 1956, Carmela "Mama" Sbarro and her family opened the doors to their Italian delicatessen in Brooklyn. Their slices of New York-style pizza were so popular that they soon opened a second location at the King's Plaza Mall in New York, focused solely on pizza. More than 65 years later, Sbarro is now the global leader in the impulse pizza category. Sbarro offers our XL Original New York pizza, handmade every day, with freshly prepared and stretched dough, hand-shredded 100% whole milk mozzarella cheese, and San Marzano-style tomatoes in a variety of venues. Our award-winning New York pizzas, strombolis and other offerings can be found in retail spaces such as malls, casinos, airports, universities, convenience stores and travel plazas. To order online, to find a location near you, or for franchising opportunities, visit Sbarro.com. Get social with us on @sbarro on Facebook and Twitter, and @sbarroofficial on Instagram.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with British diver Tom Daley about his new book, "Made with Love," and how he turned knitting and crocheting into a mindfulness practice.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — While it may sound a bit hyperbolic, the dead walk amongst us this fall: zombie trees. It sounds silly, but zombie trees are what arborists call trees that are still standing but aren’t alive. This year’s drought and the 2021 winter storm have caused a horde of zombie trees to swarm central Texas.
Zombie trees can be very dangerous. While they may look healthy, arborists said they could fall or break apart easily. A falling branch could damage people, pets and property.
Identifying these trees isn’t easy. Sadly these trees aren’t saying “brains” every other second. A certified arborist may be needed to diagnose the tree.
Kristen Currie, a meteorologist at Nexstar’s KXAN, spoke with Dave Madden from Davey Tree and Shrub Experts about zombie trees. Madden explained what his team looks for to identify the walking dead and what has to be done if he finds one.
You can read the interview, edited for length and clarity, below.
Kristen Currie, KXAN: Let’s first start with what is a zombie tree?
Dave Madden, Davey Tree Expert Company: Zombie tree is basically like any zombie, it’s the walking dead. You can have dead trees that are zombie trees. A zombie tree [could also be] a living tree that’s got problems that we need to address.
Zombie trees are trees that we need to worry about. Because they can cause catastrophic events to happen if large limbs or entire trees fall and land on houses, cars, people.
Currie: Are you able to tell from the outside if a tree is dead inside?
Madden: There are many signs that we look for when we inspect trees and try to determine hazard potential. Of course, we stand back and look at overall leaf canopy. Then we look at the structure of the tree, the limbs, the branches, the root system, of course, you inspect the root system for signs of fungal decay or a hump rising on one side of the tree.
If a tree has a lean to it, and there’s a hump rising, I’ve kind of always related that to like a lava dome and a volcano. If you see that rising, something’s going to happen — better beware. So get it looked at.
Currie: That’s good to know. Is there anything as homeowners who have trees in their yards that we can do to prevent a zombie tree from happening?
Madden: Especially if you have a mature tree, you want to get them checked on a regular basis. Because they can be problematic and they can be dangerous.
Currie: Are you seeing any more zombie trees this year compared to other years or fewer compared to other years?
Madden: No doubt that there’s been a big problem since that freeze. I guess it’ll be two years ago February, then we didn’t get the year we needed as far as rain and recovery this year. And those trees, they were dropping like flies sadly in August and September and still are. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/zombie-trees-return-to-texas-how-to-identify-the-dangerous-walking-dead/ | 2022-11-14 16:20:07 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/texas/zombie-trees-return-to-texas-how-to-identify-the-dangerous-walking-dead/ |
HOUSTON (KIAH) — At 90 years young, Mr. Pickles is the oldest animal at the Houston Zoo and the newest father after three radiated tortoise eggs hatched. These little Pickles are a big deal (big dill?) for radiated tortoise genetics as their father, Mr. Pickles, is the most genetically valuable radiated tortoise in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP).
Mr. Pickles has been at our local zoo for 36 years and has been with his companion, Mrs. Pickles, since she arrived in 1996. The pair have only had one little Pickle previously in 1997. The new tortoises have been named Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño and will remain behind the scenes in the Reptile & Amphibian House until they are big enough to safely join their parents.
The Houston said the new hatchlings came as a surprise when a herpetology keeper happened upon Mrs. Pickles as the tortoise was laying her eggs at closing time. The animal care team quickly went to work uncovering the eggs and getting them to the safety of the Reptile & Amphibian House. The soil in Houston isn’t hospitable to the Madagascar native tortoises, and it’s unlikely the eggs would have hatched on their own if the keeper hadn’t been in the right place at the right time.
Radiated tortoises are critically endangered from over-collection for the illegal pet trade and are known to produce few offspring. By visiting the Zoo, guests are helping save wild animals in Madagascar. A portion of each Zoo membership and admission goes toward helping the Zoo’s partners in Madagascar replant wildlife habitat to save animals in the wild. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/90-year-old-critically-endangered-houston-zoo-turtle-becomes-first-time-dad/ | 2023-03-22 18:38:18 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/90-year-old-critically-endangered-houston-zoo-turtle-becomes-first-time-dad/ |
The Baltimore County Police Department responded to reports of a bomb threat at Milford Mill Academy on Tuesday morning. BCPD found no evidence to support the threat.
Officers responded to the threat in Windsor Mill after 9 a.m. Baltimore County Public Schools spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala said the school was evacuated as officers investigated the building. Students and staff returned to the school after officers said the building was clear. School activities remain as scheduled.
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Covid-19 inspired me to invent this mask because people are nervous about going out to eat and having to remove their mask completely," said an inventor from Palmdale CA. "My mask fulfills safety when people of all ages are out eating. People can feel some protection while eating out in public."
The patent-pending invention enhances safety and peace of mind while dining out, eating a meal at work or in other public areas. Also helpful when smoking, drinking or eating in social settings. This design may lead to better compliance with Covid-19 rules in restaurants and other public settings. The mask may ease peoples nerves about going out to eat and having to remove their mask in public. Also allows smokers a comfortable alternative then removing their mask when smoking.
The original design was submitted to the Portland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LAX-1416, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Men’s and Women’s Tennis finish with strong showings at ITA Championships
October 20, 2022
Alabama tennis — both the men’s team and the women’s teams — competed in their respective ITA Southern Regional Championships last weekend. While both teams experienced success, the star of the show was sophomore Enzo Aguiard, who won the singles draw championship on the last day of competition.
The University of Alabama hosted the men’s ITA Southern Regional Championship in Tuscaloosa, which began Thursday, Oct. 13.
From day one, the Crimson Tide had an excellent showing. Junior Joao Ferreira competed in the qualifying round of 64 in straight sets against Lillian Dubois of The University of New Orleans, 6-4, 6-4. The second day saw the first doubles play for Alabama, with freshman Roan Jones joining Joao Ferreira against Taras Ignatiuk and Olimjon Nabiev of The University of Southern Mississippi in the doubles round of 64. Ferreira and Jones took the victory, 9-7. Enzo Aguiard played alongside freshman Matias Ponce De Leon against Carles Anton and Nicolas Simkin of Troy University, winning 8-2.
Saturday saw the beginning of the third day of the tournament, with both singles and doubles play. Roan Jones came from down one set, 4-6, against Alabama State’s David Jeanne Grandinot to win in three sets, 6-2, 6-4. Sophomore German Samofalov played in a tough match against The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Michal Lusovsky, finally winning 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Ponce De Leon won his first collegiate singles match against Luka Petrovic of Tulane University, winning 6-3, 6-3.
That same day saw the round of 32 in singles begin, with Jones growing his winning streak to eight matches with a victory against Mississippi State’s Ewen Lumsden 6-3, 7-5. Aguiard, who had a bye in the first round, defeated Mississippi State’s Benito Sanchez Martinez in mirroring 6-3, 6-3 sets. Sophomore Filip Planinsek also had a bye the first round and came from behind to defeat New Orlean’s Karim Al-Amin 6(5)-7, 7-5, 6-0. Samofalov fell to The University of South Alabama’s Sebastien Collard 6-3, 1-6, 1-6. All three of Alabama’s duo squads won their matches 8-6, Aguiard and Ponce De Leon against Beneyto Sanchez and Agustin Cuellar of Jacksonville State University, Planinsek and Samofalov against Patrick Lazo and Seth Richey of Mississippi State, and Ferreira and Jones defeating Ignatiuk and Nabiev of Southern Miss.
The fourth day saw the end of double’s play for Alabama. Jones and Ferreira lost their match to Auburn’s Jan Galka and Alejandro Moreno 8-4, and Aguiard and Ponce De Leon fell 8-4 to Mississippi State’s Nemanja Malesevic and Carles Hernandez. Samofalov and Planinsek won their first doubles match of the day 8-6 before falling to Auburn’s Finn Murgett and Tyler Stice 8-4. The singles round of 16 saw heavy success in singles, with Aguiard upsetting No. 14 Ronnie Hohmann of LSU 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. Jones beat Fynn Kuenkler of Tulane 6-2, 6-2. Planinsek beat Mississippi State’s Gregor Ramskogler 6-2, 6-1. The day continued with Planinsek falling in the quarterfinals to Carles Hernandez of Mississippi State 6-4, 3-6, 5-7. Aguiard and Jones saw so much success that in their semifinal’s match they faced each other, with Aguiard defeating his teammate 6-3, 6-1.
Tuesday, Oct. 18, saw the championship singles match won by Aguiard, defeating Mississippi State’s Nemanja Malesevic 6-4, 6-1. Consequently, Aguiard will be traveling to the ITA National Fall Championships in San Diego in November. At the same time, his teammates will be hosting the SEC-BIG 12 Challenge in Tuscaloosa, while some team members will be competing in the Country Club of Birmingham Collegiate Invite.
While the men’s team competed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama women’s tennis competed in the women’s ITA Southern Regional Championship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Their tournament began with sophomore Ansley Cheshire taking home a singles victory against Mississippi State’s Maddie Bemisderfer 4-6, 6-4, 11-9. She then fell to Samford University’s Samantha Nanere 6-4, 6-3. Freshman Rebeka Kern beat Northwestern State University’s Renske Ubachs 6-2, 2-6, 10-5. Kern then fell to Caraline Scheufler of South Alabama 2-6, 6-2, 13-11.
The singles main draw saw 3 wins for Alabama on the 2nd day of competition: sophomore Loudmilla Bencheikh against Tulane’s Jiayun Zhu 6-3, 7-6 (5), sophomore Petra Sedlackova 6-1, 6-0 against McNeese State University’s Emma-Lou Pommiers, and junior Anna Parkhomenko 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-3. The day continued with doubles play — Parkhomenko and Sedlackova defeated Tulane’s Zhu and Adelaide Lavery 8-3, while Kern and junior Sydney Orefice beat Louisiana Tech’s Valentina Vasquez and Olga Bienzobas 8-6. Crimson Tide sisters Ola and Kasia Pitak also moved on due to Mississippi State’s Bemisderfer and Alessia Tagliente retiring because of an injury. Kern and Orefice then fell to Auburn players 8-4.
Day three of competition was an excellent showing for Alabama. Bencheikh defeated Troy’s Kristina Kukaras 6-2, 6-2 in the round of 32. She then beat Kelsey Mize of Ole Miss 6-2, 7-6(5) in the round of 16. Sedlackova also took 2 wins of the main draw, first defeating Clara Tardivel of Southern Miss 6-2, 6-0, and then Jacksonville State’s Serafima Shastova 7-6(8), 1-6, 7-6(5.) In consolation play, Klara Milicevic defeated Brooke Theis of Tulane 4-6, 6-3, 10-3. In doubles play, the Pitak sisters defeated South Alabama’s Luminita Tutunaru and Elysia Pool 8-5 and Parkhomenko and Sedlackova beat Jacksonville State’s Irene Artigas Taberner and Polina Ramenskaja 8-1.
Day four saw the end of Alabama’s double run; Parkhomenko and Sedlackova fell in the semifinals to LSU’s Maggie Cubitt and Mia Rabinowitz 6-2, 1-6, 6-4, while the Pitaks were defeated by Tulane’s Lahari Yelamanchili and Charlotte Russell 8-3 in the quarterfinals. In singles play, Bencheikh lost in the quarterfinals to Anastasiya Komar of LSU 6-4, 6(3)-7, 5-7. Sedlackova, however, would advance to the semifinals after defeating LSU’s Nikita Vishwase 6-1, 6-4. Eventually, though, on the fifth day of the tournament, Sedlackova would fall in the semifinals in a tiebreaker to Lillian Gabrielsen of Ole Miss, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6.
Next up, Alabama’s women’s tennis will be hosting the Roberta Alison Fall Classic in Tuscaloosa, Oct. 28-29.
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Nearly 350 pairs of shoes given to elementary school students
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – More than 300 elementary school students in Nashville were gifted new shoes Friday.
More than 225 Genesco Inc. employee volunteers set up a mock shoe store at Park Avenue Elementary as part of its Cold Feet, Warm Shoes community event.
Students were fitted with new shoes, socks and hats. The Tennessee Titans cheerleaders and mascot were also there for an extra surprise.
“Students were empowered with a choice of Adidas or Vans shoes coordinated through its Journeys Group,” a Genesco media release said. “The Company volunteers roll out the red carpet for each child so they have the same service and respect they would receive at any of Genesco’s 1,400 Journeys, Johnston & Murphy or Schuh retail locations.”
After a two-year pandemic pause, Genesco employees said they eagerly prepared for this year’s signature event.
“The kids just light up with excitement and big smiles while being fitted with their new shoes, socks and hats, and they look great. We hope the children are standing a little taller and feeling a little more confident coming away from the event,” Genesco President and CEO Mimi Vaughn said.
In addition to the 350 students that received shoes Friday, an extra 100 pairs of shoes along with socks and hats were donated to the school’s resource closet.
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Heading into Year 3, Texas coach Vic Schaefer understands what the expectations are.
Win the Big 12. Reach the Final Four. Return from the national championship game in Dallas with snippets of the net and a long-awaited national championship trophy.
It’s a lot to ask, even of a team with as many rising stars and well-traveled coaches as Texas has in its locker room. And Schaefer understands enormous expectations follow success, which is why the Longhorns are being propped up as a legitimate national title contender with their Nov. 11 season opener against Louisiana nearing.
And with the Big 12's annual basketball media days in Kansas City, Mo., now in the rearview, a look at five questions facing Texas this upcoming season.
Can Texas take the next step?
Texas has reached the Elite Eight in each of Schaefer’s first two seasons. And Schaefer has a personal streak of five straight regional finals appearances dating back to his days at Mississippi State.
After coming so close the past two years, Texas is eager to take the next step. The Longhorns haven’t reached the Final Four since 2003 and haven’t played for a national championship since 1986, when Hall of Famer Jody Conradt’s crew won the program’s only NCAA title.
“The ultimate goal is not just to get to the Final Four. The ultimate goal is to win that last game,” Schaefer this week during a Zoom call from Big 12 media days in Kansas City. “It’s one thing to talk about, it’s another thing to do it. If you wanna talk the talk, you’ve gotta walk the walk. That’s what we’re doing right now, trying to walk the walk and get it done every day. We’ll keep working, but I like our chances.”
What’s next for Rori Harmon and Aaliyah Moore?
Sophomore guard Rori Harmon and forward Aaliyah Moore are two of the biggest reasons Texas is viewed as a bona fide contender.
Harmon was a freshman All-American who spearheaded Texas' offense and locked up the opposing team's top guard. Moore, a five-star recruit, shook off a sluggish, injury-laden start to become a force in the NCAA Tournament, averaging 13.8 points on 60 percent shooting and 5.3 rebounds in just 18.8 minutes per game.
Both are expected to make another significant leap this season.
“We expect so much from Rori and A-Mo, and they’re just 19 years old, they’re just sophomores,” Schaefer said. “With Rori, when the lights come on she’s never ever not been 100 percent ready to just get after it. And (Moore) impacted a lot of games for us and played really well down the stretch.”
Can Shaylee Gonzales spark the offense?
Schaefer restocked his team with veterans via the transfer portal.
Guard Sonya Morris was a three-time All-Big East honoree at DePaul who 17.6 points and 1.4 3s per game last year. Taylor Jones (Oregon State) and Khadija Faye (Texas Tech) both measure in at 6-foot-4, and they'll provide some rugged size inside.
But the signing of BYU star Shaylee Gonzales represented the biggest offseason splash for Texas. Gonzales is a two-time West Coast Conference player of the year who demonstrated an ability to create shots off the dribble both for herself and others after averaging 17.7 points, 4.1 assists and 1.3 3-pointers per game over three seasons at BYU.
Schaefer believes Gonzales can be another ball-handling sparkplug able to take some of the load off Harmon, sophomore guard Kyndall Hunter and Texas’ other initiators.
“We pride ourselves on recruiting to a fit, and they’re really great folks,” Schaefer said of the four transfers. “They’ve helped us change our culture and make it even better.”
How good will this defense be?
Texas led the Big 12 in scoring defense (56.8 per game), steals (9.92), turnover margin (plus-6.81) and opponent 3-point percentage (28.1 percent) last season. But it will have to replace a few of its sturdiest defenders.
Paint anchor Lauren Ebo transferred to Notre Dame. Joanne Allen-Taylor (WNBA draft) and Audrey Warren (transfer to Georgia) — two switchable wings who could stick with fleet-footed guards on the perimeter and wrestle with bigs in the post — are gone, too.
“We’ve got to identify our second-best swing defender,” Scahefer said. “We know Rori is probably going to be pretty good on the ball, but we’ve got to find that Joanne Allen-Taylor type or Audrey Warren type that can go get a big guard and lock them down. So we’re trying to find that person.”
Texas will still trot out a menacing defense, especially with Harmon terrorizing opposing guards and Moore back to her old self. And more mature versions of 6-foot-2 forward DeYona Gaston and 6-foot forward Shay Halle should help the Longhorns in the absence of Ebo, Allen-Taylor and Warren.
Will Texas finally win the Big 12?
The last team outside of Waco to win the Big 12's regular-season championship left the conference behind a decade ago.
Nebraska claimed the league’s championship in 2010, two years before joining the Big Ten. Baylor won the Big 12 in 2011 and has done so every single season since, an extraordinary run of dominance that continued even in the absence of perennial thorn-in-the-side Kim Mulkey, who left to head up LSU’s program and was replaced by Nicki Collen. But that run might finally end this season.
Never count out No. 18 Baylor, of course. No. 15 Oklahoma will be in the mix, too.
But Texas and No. 8 Iowa State appear to be a cut above the rest. Their two meetings — in Austin on Jan. 15 and in Ames, Iowa, on Feb. 13 — will likely determine the outcome of this year's Big 12 title race.
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Polk County man recently mistook some bird poop on his car for white paint and called deputies to report the “crime,” according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
A Winter Haven man called deputies Thursday morning to report that someone had covered his black Jeep Cherokee with white paint, according to the sheriff’s office. But there was only one problem.
Deputies quickly learned that the paint was not actually paint, but instead was bird poop, and that no crime had taken place.
“The culprit was avian, and the substance — well, the substance was what birds tend to do. Or doo, more accurately,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
Deputies couldn’t tell if the “white paint” came from a flock of birds or “one bird who ate a dozen worms that didn’t agree with him.”
The deputies not only told the man that the “white paint” on his car was actually bird poop, they even cleaned the man’s car for him.
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JOHANNESBURG — Thriston Lawrence shot an 8-under 64 to match the course record he set last year and took a one-stroke lead at the South African Open Championship on Thursday.
Lawrence said he had “good fun” playing on the longest course (8,161 yards) used on the European tour.
“I like to play full shots into the greens. It’s a long golf course, but I think it suits me,” said Lawrence, who shot a 64 on the course during a Sunshine Tour event last year.
Matti Schmid, Scott Jamieson and JJ Senekal are all two strokes back after shooting 66s.
Tom McKibbin (67) had a hole-in-one on the par-3 11th. The 19-year-old Northern Irishman, who hails from the same golf club as world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, is tied for seventh.
Dan Bradbury followed up his wire-to-wire victory at the Joburg Open on Sunday with a bogey-free 68.
“(I) didn’t really make many bad swings out there again, just kept the momentum rolling, kept doing what we were doing last week,” the 23-year-old Englishman said.
The tournament is the second of three events in South Africa this month as part of the European tour’s 2023 season.
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PRINCETON, N. J., SHANGHAI and SUZHOU, China, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duality Biotherapeutics, Inc. ("Duality" or "the Company") today announced the appointment of Dr. Pasi A. Jänne as member of SAB. Dr. Jänne will provide strategic advice and guidance for the Company's clinical and translation medicine strategy development to elevate the Company's innovation in the field of Antibody Drug Conjugates (the "ADC"), and support the Company's global development strategy.
Dr. Pasi Jänne is a world renowned translational thoracic medical oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology and the Director of the Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science. Dr. Jänne's research combines laboratory-based study with translational research in clinical trial of novel therapeutic agents in patients with lung cancer. He has made seminal therapeutic discovery including co-discovery of EGFR mutations and has led the development of therapeutic strategies for patients with EGFR mutant lung cancer. Dr. Pasi Jänne's translational research work also led to the successful development of HER3-ADC in NSCLC and combination with Osimertinib to further enhance the potential efficacy of HER3-ADC. Dr. Jänne has received multiple awards for his work including from the AACR, ESMO and ASCO.
Dr. Jänne received his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in medical oncology at DFCI in 2001.
"We welcome Dr. Pasi Jänne to our SAB. His renowned expertise and extensive experience in clinical oncology, with particular emphasis in lung cancer, will be important to the Company's strategy" said Dr. John Zhu, founder, and CEO of Duality.
"Duality has an interesting ADC technology and pipeline. There is great potential developing the next generation ADC molecules for cancer patients who are in need of additional treatments to battle their disease "said Dr. Pasi A. Jänne.
Dr. Yang Qiu, CSO and US GM of Duality, added, "We are very excited Dr. Pasi Jänne joined Duality SAB. Having worked with him in the past, I am inspired by Dr. Jänne's insights in translational research, his humbleness to science and his pragmatic approach in developing novel medicine. We are looking forward to working with Dr. Jänne and the rest of SAB to take our next generation ADC pipeline to global stage"
About DualityBio
"To Translate Novel Modality into Reality". Duality Bio is committed to developing novel modality drugs to fulfill the unmet medical needs for patients worldwide. Focusing on the oncology and autoimmune diseases, the company has built a novel internal pipeline including nearly 10 Best-in-Class and First-in-Class bispecific antibody and Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) drugs, of which several drug candidates gained IND approval in both China and United States, and entered the clinical trial stage. Leveraging on the decades of learning, we have successfully established a number of next-generation Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) technology platforms with global intellectual property rights. These include DITAC (Duality Immune Toxin Antibody Conjugate) with significantly improved therapeutic window and DIMAC (Duality Immune Modulating Antibody Conjugate) with superior efficacy than traditional biologics.
Duality Biologics was founded in January 2020 by Dr. John Zhu, a seasoned entrepreneur in the healthcare industry and led by an experienced management team with proven track record in discovering and developing novel medicines for global market. Duality is currently operating in both China and United States.
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BERLIN — A storm that swept across parts of Germany generated three tornadoes, the country's weather service said Saturday. One of them left a trail of destruction and more than 40 people injured in a western city.
Meteorologists had warned of heavy rainfall, hail and strong gusts of wind in western and central Germany on Friday, and people in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia were advised to stay home. Storms on Thursday had already disrupted traffic, uprooted trees that toppled onto rail tracks and roads, and flooded hundreds of basements in western Germany.
The German Weather Service confirmed three tornadoes in North Rhine-Westphalia — in Paderborn, in nearby Lippstadt, and on the edge of the town of Hoexter, news agency dpa reported.
Forty-three people were injured in Paderborn as the tornado tore across the city's downtown area on Friday afternoon, 13 of them seriously, Mayor Michael Dreier said.
Trees in a park and stop lights "snapped like matches," roofs were ripped off buildings and windows smashed, he told reporters on Saturday, and the storm left a roughly 300 meter (yard) -wide trail of destruction. A tree hit the windshield of a fire truck, but the occupants weren't hurt.
Police urged people to stay home or stay out of the city on Saturday so as not to get in the way of recovery work. They said they still expected possible risks from high wind.
Further south, authorities in Bavaria said 14 people were injured Friday when the wooden hut they were trying to shelter in collapsed during a storm at Lake Brombach, south of Nuremberg.
Extreme weather hits the continent
Elsewhere in Europe, Spain was sweltering Saturday under unusually high temperatures for late spring, with a mass of hot, dry air carrying dust from North Africa.
The mercury rose to 42.3 degrees Celsius (108 Fahrenheit) on Friday afternoon in Andujar, in the southern Andalucia region, after reaching 39.5 degrees Thursday. Two of the region's provincial capitals, Cordoba and Sevilla, also saw similar temperatures.
At least 13 regions were on alert Saturday due to heat, Spain's State Meteorological Agency AEMET said, and the temperatures could provoke storms in five of them. The "unusual and extreme" temperatures are expected to peak Saturday.
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Pet Food Institute partners with veterinarian to share expert advice on keeping pets' weight in-check
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 90 million households in the United States being home to a pet, it's increasingly important to ensure that pet owners are well equipped to provide the best care possible to America's dogs and cats. Committed to helping pets live long and healthy lives, the Pet Food Institute (PFI), the national trade association representing U.S. dog and cat food makers, recently launched a new video series for pet lovers and owners.
Featuring Danielle Conway, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, "Vet Talks" educates consumers on achieving and maintaining an ideal body condition for their dogs and cats through sound nutrition and addresses some of the most common and vital questions surrounding pet food labels, ingredients, nutrients and feeding guidelines.
"One of the most important factors in maintaining optimal health and wellness for pets is controlled by pet owners at home," said Dr. Conway, Rarebreed Veterinary Partners. "By choosing an appropriate, complete and balanced pet food and sticking to recommended feeding guidelines, pet owners are guaranteeing that dogs and cats are getting the more than 40 essential nutrients they need to maintain an ideal weight and live a healthy life."
Research findings show more than half of dogs (56 percent) and cats (60 percent) in the U.S. are overweight or obese, which can lead to serious health risks, including diabetes, respiratory disease or kidney disease. The new PFI video series offers simple tips and adjustments to feeding and treating habits that can help pet owners ensure safe pet care.
"By partnering with their veterinarian, pet owners can make an easy-to-follow plan that will set their pet up for a long and healthy life," said Kelly Kanaras, PFI director of communications. "This video series was developed with consumer questions in mind, and Dr. Conway helps take the complexity out of pet nutrition. We want to empower pet owners to take control of their pet's weight by offering these easy-to-follow videos that are intended to feel like they are at a veterinary visit."
Topics covered in the video series include reading a pet food label, feeding guidelines, pet food ingredients and nutrients, maintaining a healthy body weight and therapeutic versus over-the-counter pet foods. Dr. Conway also demonstrates how to conduct at-home assessments on dogs and cats to determine if they are potentially over or underweight, and shares a resource that pet owners can take to their next veterinary visit to start the conversation about their pet's healthy weight.
In addition to "Vet Talks," PFI has developed comprehensive web content that includes recommendations for feeding and treating practices. This innovative tool joins a library of science-based information on www.petfoodinstitute.org, which explains the importance of pet food nutrition and safety.
The Pet Food Institute (PFI) and our members who make the vast majority of all U.S. pet food and treat products, are committed to helping pets enjoy long and healthy lives. PFI provides factual information about pet food and treat safety nutrition and health to pet owners, and advocates for a transparent, science-based regulatory environment for our members. Visit petfoodinstitute.org to learn more.
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Rangers vs. Devils Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NHL Playoffs First Round Game 4
The New York Rangers host the New Jersey Devils Monday in Game 4 of the NHL Playoffs First Round, starting at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN, SN360, TVAS, MSG, and MSGSN. The Rangers have a 2-1 lead in the series. The Devils are underdogs (+140) against the Rangers (-165).
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Rangers vs. Devils Predictions for Monday
Our computer model for this matchup predicts a final score of Rangers 4, Devils 2.
- Moneyline Pick: Rangers (-165)
- Computer Predicted Total: 6.1
- Computer Predicted Spread: Rangers (-1.4)
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Rangers Splits and Trends
- The Rangers are 47-22-13 overall and 10-14-24 in overtime games.
- New York is 11-9-11 (33 points) in its 31 games decided by one goal.
- In the 12 games this season the Rangers registered just one goal, they went 2-8-2 (six points).
- New York has scored exactly two goals in 22 games this season (4-7-11 record, 19 points).
- The Rangers have scored at least three goals 49 times, and are 43-5-1 in those games (to register 87 points).
- In the 33 games when New York has scored a single power-play goal, it went 23-7-3 to register 49 points.
- When it has outshot its opponent, New York is 28-15-4 (60 points).
- The Rangers have been outshot by opponents in 37 games, going 21-6-10 to register 52 points.
Devils Splits and Trends
- The Devils (52-22-8 overall) have posted a record of 14-8-22 in matchups that have required OT this season.
- New Jersey has earned 42 points (19-6-4) in its 29 games decided by one goal.
- This season the Devils scored just one goal in 13 games and have gone 1-11-1 (three points).
- When New Jersey has scored a pair of goals this season, they've earned 11 points (5-6-1 record).
- The Devils have scored three or more goals 60 times, earning 100 points from those matchups (47-7-6).
- This season, New Jersey has recorded a single power-play goal in 43 games and picked up 64 points with a record of 31-10-2.
- When outshooting its opponent this season, New Jersey is 35-17-6 (76 points).
- The Devils' opponents have had more shots in 26 games. The Devils finished 17-7-2 in those contests (36 points).
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- Where: Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York
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Otherworldly, the Martian, the next Mickey Mantle or simply Mike Trout: These are the designations that were broadcast across the baseball world about Jasson Dominguez when he inked a franchise-record international contract with the Yankees.
In 2019, the Bombers signed Dominguez — who was arguably the highest-touted international prospect in MLB history — to a contract with a $5.1 million signing bonus. Talent evaluators across the baseball industry were bullish on the eye-popping tools of the Dominican native with rankings as high as the No. 32 prospect in the game — according to MLB Pipeline — without even stepping foot on a minor-league diamond.
“I don’t really think [the expectations are] fair.” Kevin Reese told reporters in the Spring of 2021. “It’s hard to help him manage those expectations because he’s not going to show up tomorrow and perform like Mike Trout or Aaron Judge.”
The present-day evaluation has fewer whispers of Mantle and Trout, and Dominguez’s Hall of Fame plaque has been put on hold. Entering the 2023 season, MLB Pipeline has the 19-year-old checked in as the No. 47 prospect in baseball.
Despite the luster of a historically anticipated prospect wearing a bit, there are still plenty of reasons to dream on the tools still in possession of the centerfield prospect.
Dominguez played at three-different minor league levels in 2022 — which was his first full minor league season — and seemingly got better as he climbed up the latter. His slash line between Low-A, High-A and Double-A registered at .273/.376/.461 with 16 homers and 59 RBI in 120 games.
Once he reached Double-A Somerset, the outfielder played just five regular season games before setting the world on fire during the postseason. “The Martian” hit .450/.560/.950 with three homers and 10 RBI in five games including a 3-4 performance with homers from both sides of the plate in the championship game all but ensuring his spot at Double-A to begin 2023.
Dominguez was granted the opportunity to put his talents on display for a national audience as he was named to the MLB Futures Game in 2022 — alongside fellow Yankee farmhand Anthony Volpe who batted fourth for the American League squad — at All-Star weekend in Los Angeles and gave them something worth watching by blasting a 415-foot homer from the right side registering at 107-mph off of the bat.
Despite the flash, there are many elements to his game that still need to be developed including the in-game power which is something that the Bombers are still waiting to shine through on a more consistent bases. The switch-hitter regularly registers exit velocities over 100 mph even reaching as high as 117 mph in a sim game back in 2021 as an 18-year-old which leads to high raw-power grades by evaluators.
A hot topic of discussion is the amount of mass the young outfielder has put on his frame and what that means for his speed and ability to remain in center field long-term. However, Dominguez stole 37 bases in 44 attempts last season indicating that the legs of the young outfielder are still very present — although it is crucial to recognize the organization-wide increase in stolen base attempts and emphasis on baserunning throughout the Yankees system.
Defensively, there are mixed evaluations on whether Dominguez will even be a center fielder when it’s all said and done, as the corner outfield spots may be more suited for his frame.
From MLB pipeline: “His play in center field draws mixed reviews, with some evaluators believing he’ll remain up the middle and others thinking his defensive inconsistencies will drive him to a corner. With his solid-to-plus arm strength and offensive promise, he’d have no problem profiling well in right field.”
As always, time will tell and it’s crucial to consider the timeline when making observations regarding the prospect. Dominguez was the youngest player on Double-A Somerset’s roster by almost two years and has just one full season of professional baseball under his belt where he finished just two steps away from the Bronx.
There are plenty of opportunities for Dominguez to strive for at the major league level. As it stands the Yanks currently do not have a set answer in left field next season or beyond and current center fielder Harrison Bader is a free agent after the 2023 season. Should the switch-hitter move as quickly through the minors this upcoming season as he did last year, the Martian could touch down in the Bronx as soon as 2024. | https://www.mcall.com/sports/yankees/ny-jasson-dominguez-prospect-centerfield-20230129-d2r2skmlr5bu7ow2y6lf543zy4-story.html | 2023-01-29 17:41:07 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/sports/yankees/ny-jasson-dominguez-prospect-centerfield-20230129-d2r2skmlr5bu7ow2y6lf543zy4-story.html |
OSLO, Norway, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG), has signed a head of terms agreement with US based sports betting brand, Crab Sports, to provide its award winning Platform and Sportsbook solution in Maryland. This is the first deal in the US for the new and greatly expanded offering of GiG and Sportnco, and provides an example of the exciting potential of the combined product offering.
Powered by its leading technology and flexible architecture, this turnkey solution includes the technical platform, CMS and the recently acquired Sportnco Sportsbook, all powered by GiG's unique data and GiG Logic rules based solutions.
Crab Sports' excellent leadership team will leverage over 20 years' experience in online gaming to launch and drive their locally focused brand. Utilising their deep understanding of the market, the team intends to build a compelling experience and brand that will resonate strongly with customers in Maryland, US.
It is anticipated that the full contract will be signed in the next few months, with go live projected to be in H2 2022. As a result, GiG expects a positive contribution from Q4 2022 onwards.
Maryland's sports betting market is anticipated to generate $217m of revenue in the first year alone. Both GiG and Crab Sports are excited to enter the market as an aggressive challenger with a differentiated strategy. Combining a strong locally recognized brand with a quality product focused on user experience, conversion, retention, and the highest standards of responsible gaming and customer support, both Crab Sports and GiG are highly optimistic for the future of the partnership.
Richard Brown, CEO of GiG, said: "I am delighted to have partnered with Crab Sports. We see great potential in the Crab Sports excellent team and local approach and we see great potential in Maryland. We look forward to working closely with the Crab Sports team to maximise their potential through a successful launch. This is a proud moment for us and highlights the faith we have in the synergies between GiG and Sportnco. This type of deal is directly in our 'wheelhouse', helping challenger brands drive value and enter newly regulated markets, showcasing our product in the 'soon to be' open Maryland market."
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Richard Brown, CEO GiG, richard.brown@gig.com, +34 661599025
About Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)
Gaming Innovation Group is a leading iGaming technology company, providing solutions, products and services to iGaming Operators. Founded in 2012, Gaming Innovation Group's vision is 'To be the industry-leading platform, sportsbook and media provider delivering world-class solutions to our iGaming partners and their customers. GiG's mission is to drive sustainable growth and profitability of our partners through product innovation, scalable technology and quality of service. Gaming Innovation Group operates out of Malta and is dual-listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GIG and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker symbol GIGSEK. www.gig.com
About Crab Sports
Founded in 2021, Crab Sports is a start-up mobile sportsbook operator which will operate in Maryland, USA. The company's vision is to give its customers in Maryland a differentiated, truly 'local' experience which offers them a compelling value proposition over and above the nationally recognised sportsbooks. Crab Sports' distinctive branding, partnerships with local hero businesses, and 100% in-state operations will ensure that it gives customers the best possible sports betting experience in the market.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lucas Giolito of the Chicago White Sox is pitching a no-hitter through six innings against the New York Yankees.
Giolito has struck out seven, walked three and thrown 100 pitches Tuesday night.
The right-hander is trying for his second career no-hitter. He threw one against the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of an empty stadium in Chicago during the pandemic-shortened season on Aug. 25, 2020.
The White Sox have thrown 20 no-hitters in franchise history. The last was by Carlos Rodón on April 14, 2021, at home against Cleveland.
New York has been no-hit eight times. The most recent was last season on June 25 at home by the Houston trio of Cristian Javier, Hector Neris and Ryan Pressly.
The White Sox hold a 3-0 lead on a solo homer and a two-run shot by catcher Seby Zavala in consecutive at-bats.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR) will release its fourth quarter 2022 earnings on Tuesday, Feb. 7 and host a conference call and webcast at 8 a.m. ET.
The webcast and presentation will be available at ir.carrier.com. To listen to the earnings call by phone, participants must pre-register at Carrier Earnings Call Registration. All registrants will receive dial-in information and a PIN allowing access to the live call. A recording will be archived and available for replay later on the site.
About Carrier
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.corporate.carrier.com or follow us on social media at @Carrier.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials warned Sunday that more flooding was expected as Lake Manchar in southern Pakistan swelled from unprecedented monsoon rains that began in mid-June and have killed nearly 1,300 people.
Meteorologists predicted more rain in the region in the coming days and authorities urged villagers in the Jamshoro and Dadu districts of Sindh province near the lake to evacuate. The rising waters reached dangerous levels and posed a threat to a protective dyke and embankment, they said. The lake, located west of the Indus River, is the largest natural freshwater lake in Pakistan and one of the largest in Asia.
Fariduddin Mustafa, administrator for the Jamshoro district, said Sunday that officials made a cut into the lake's embankment to allow excess water to escape and ultimately flow into the Indus. Still, the water continues to rise, he said.
Parts of Dadu district have already been flooded, officials said.
″After we assessed water levels reached (a) dangerous level ... and there was fear that the embankment of the lake might be caved in at any time, the administration decided to make a cut on the Bagh-e-Yousuf side to avert any uncontrollable flow of water,” he said.
The development comes a day after Pakistan appealed again to the international community for aid to victims of the unprecedented flooding from monsoon rains that have left nearly 1,300 people dead and millions homeless around the country. Planes from multiple countries have been bringing supplies to the impoverished country across a humanitarian air bridge.
Multiple officials and experts have blamed the unusual monsoon rains and flooding on climate change, including U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who last week called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” through the deadly crisis. He will visit Pakistan on Sept. 9 to tour flood-hit areas and meet with officials.
In its latest report, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority put the death toll since mid-June — when monsoon rains started weeks earlier this year — at 1,290 as more fatalities were reported from flood affected areas of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces.
The authority said relief and rescue operations continued Sunday with troops and volunteers using helicopters and boats to get people stranded out of flooded areas to relief camps where they were being provided shelter, food and health care.
Scores of relief camps have been set up in government buildings servicing tens of thousands of people while thousands more have taken shelter on roadsides on higher ground.
According to initial government estimates, the devastation has caused $10 billion in damage but Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said Saturday “the scale of devastation is massive and requires an immense humanitarian response for 33 million people.”
The renewed request for international aid came as Pakistan has received 30 planes load of relief goods from Turkey, China, UAE, France, Uzbekistan and other countries with more planes expected in the coming days.
Two members of Congress, Sheila Jackson and Tom Suzy, were expected to arrive in Pakistan Sunday to visit the flood-affected areas and meet officials.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has claimed the leftist candidate in Colombia’s presidential race faces “a dirty war” by “conservatives,” leading the Colombian government to tell President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Friday to stay out of its domestic politics.
López Obrador makes a big point of saying he doesn’t interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, and has used that as an excuse to avoid criticizing non-democratic regimes like Nicaragua and Cuba.
But on Friday López Obrador blasted the opposition to front-running presidential candidate, the leftist Gustavo Petro. López Obrador claimed Petro faces a scare campaign, trying to depict him as dangerous radical, something similar to a campaign used against López Obrador in a failed presidential bid in 2006.
“I want to say I'm sending a hug to Petro,” López Obrador. “Why a hug? Because he is facing a dirty war of the most cowardly and undignified kind, everything we suffered in Mexico. All the conservatives are united, unethically."
Colombia's foreign relations ministry shot back on its social media accounts, saying the Mexican president's comments were “an offensive interference in our country's internal affairs.”
“We ask him to respect the autonomy of the Colombian people to choose their next president without interferences that try to influence voters,” the ministry wrote.
Last week Colombian voters chose Sen. Petro, a former rebel, to run in a second round against real estate tycoon Rodolfo Hernández, an outsider populist businessman.
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‘Big step forward’: New lab tests may accelerate Parkinson’s diagnosis and research
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
A lab test that can tell doctors if someone has Parkinson’s disease is a long-sought goal of researchers.
Doctors currently diagnose the progressive condition by looking for telltale physical symptoms: tremors, a halting gait, stiffness or trouble balancing. About 90,000 Americans are diagnosed on the basis of these symptoms each year, according to a recent study.
These signs can be subtle at first, and it can be difficult to discriminate Parkinson’s from other disorders until the disease is more advanced and affects more of the brain.
The lack of a lab test that can pick up the disease in its early stages has also stymied the search for new treatments. Studying a group of people with the same movement symptoms could mean inadvertently including those whose condition could be caused by something else.
It also means people are usually studied when the disease process is well under way. Many therapies work best when they’re given at the first sign of symptoms, or even before.
All this may soon change, thanks to new tests that are able to detect traces of a key protein that misfolds and gums up specific areas of the brain, called alpha-synuclein.
One test, SYNTap, which looks for seeds of this misfolded protein in spinal fluid, was just vetted in the Parkinson’s Progression Marker’s Initiative, a large study undertaken by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Several companies are developing versions of this type of test.
It joins another test called Syn-One, which detects traces of the protein in skin. Syn-One has been available since 2019 and is being studied with funding from the National Institutes of Health.
When they return positive results, the new tests don’t diagnose Parkinson’s disease but rather point to a group of disorders caused by abnormal clumping of the alpha-synuclein protein. Those include dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, a rare disorder that causes damage to several areas of the brain. Parkinson’s is the most common of these disorders.
‘A new chapter’ in Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s affects the nervous system and, in addition to movement-related symptoms, can cause problems such as depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, trouble sleeping, hallucinations and loss of smell. It’s not fatal, but it can have serious complications. The exact cause is largely unknown.
The tests usher in “a bit of a new chapter for us in Parkinson’s disease, where we can really focus on biology,” said Dr. Kathleen Poston, a professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, who participated in a study of the SYNTap test.
“I think that will very hasten our engagement and clinical trials and, I hope, allow us to have more successful therapeutic clinical trials in in the next five years,” Poston said.
The test is available to doctors, but it had not been shown to be reliable in a large clinical trial.
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Lancet Neurology, the SYNTap test proved to be accurate when given to 1,100 participants, including people with Parkinson’s, people with genetic or clinical risk factors who had not been diagnosed, and healthy controls. Overall, the test correctly identified people with Parkinson’s disease 88% of the time and correctly ruled it out 96% of the time.
“It shows that this method is fairly accurate for detecting Parkinson’s disease, even in patients who do not yet have symptoms,” said Dr. Andrew Ko, a neurosurgeon at the University of Washington School of Medicine who was not involved in the research. “This is a big step forward showing that this type of test is accurate.”
The test was most accurate in people without any known genetic risks for Parkinson’s disease, who also had loss of their sense of smell. In this group, the test correctly detected the disease 99% of the time. If they didn’t have a loss of smell, the accuracy dropped to 78%.
In people with the most common genetic risk, a mutation in their LRRK2 gene, the test correctly flagged Parkinson’s only about 67% of the time.
That means the test is very good at ruling out Parkinson’s, but it will miss some people who actually do have it.
“If you had this test and it was ‘normal’ or negative … it doesn’t mean you don’t have Parkinson’s disease,” said Dr. Kelly Mills, a neurologist and director of the Movement Disorders Division at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in the research.
For the time being, that means the test itself won’t be so helpful to individual patients.
“I think it’s a big deal for research, which is going to be a huge deal for patients,” Mills said.
New tests could speed research
The study’s authors agree.
“Right now, the test has sort of only a modest utility in routine clinical care,” said study author Dr. Andrew Siderowf, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perlman School of Medicine.
Parkinson’s treatment is based on relieving symptoms, and all the test can do is to help a doctor refine a diagnosis. It won’t change how a patient is treated, but it might bring some people peace of mind that their diagnosis is correct, Siderowf said.
It’s also a very invasive test that requires a painful procedure called a spinal tap, although researchers hope to soon translate their results to other kind of biological samples, such as blood or saliva, that would be easier to collect.
One of the most promising results of the study was in people who had early changes that are known to be strongly tied to the development of Parkinson’s disease. In 18 people who had lost their sense of smell, the test detected alpha-synuclein in 16. In another group of 33 people with REM sleep behavior disorder, which makes people kick, punch or hit in their sleep as they act out their dreams, the test detected alpha-synuclein in 28.
Because this group was so small, the researchers say, those tests will have to be repeated to learn whether it can detect the disease before movement is impaired.
But that is the goal, according to the study’s funders at the Michael J. Fox Foundation, who believe that this test will revolutionize research.
“We have a really robust current pipeline of therapeutics that are looking to interfere with the the biology and the disease,” said Deborah Brooks, CEO of the foundation. “We will continue at a rapid and aggressive pace,” she said.
Brooks said that when they learned the results of the SYNTap tests, she flew out to see actor and philanthropist Fox, who was vacationing with his family, to tell him personally. Fox has been living with Parkinson’s since 1991.
Together, they called one of the foundation’s scientists, Dr. Todd Sherer, a neuroscientist who is also the foundation’s chief mission officer.
“I said, ‘so, you know, Todd’s calling in, but he’s gonna tell you all the details. I’m just gonna give you the headline: We’ve had a breakthrough,’ ” Brooks said.
Fox and Sherer had been searching for a biomarker for the condition for over a decade.
When Sherer finished his presentation, Brooks said, Fox leaned over, picked up the laptop and kissed him on the head.
“This is awesome,” he said.
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CASPER — James Eugene Yurkiewicz, 75, passed away on April 30, 2023. A Funeral Mass will be held at 1:30 PM on Monday, May 8, 2023 at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Casper. Arrangements by Bustard & Jacoby Funeral Home.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles are on the verge of setting a single-season record for sacks thanks largely to Haason Reddick, who figured his football future would be just about anything but rushing the passer.
Happy to be back in the game after a broken leg and torn meniscus blew up his prep career at Haddon Heights High, Reddick embraced the walk-on duties Matt Rhule and the Temple coaching staff gave him in 2013. Those were the days the Owls built the defense around Tyler Matakevich, the relentless tackling machine.
Somewhere between special teams, defensive backs and linebackers meetings, Reddick got together with Owls assistant coach Elijah Robinson before Year 2. The plan was for Reddick to become a Von Miller type of edge rusher, their frames and strengths enough of a match to give it an honest try. Miller, of course, was in the process of becoming one of the most decorated edge rushers in the history of football.
“Elijah Robinson is actually from my hometown,” the Camden-raised Reddick said. “They hired him as our defensive line coach. By this time, I had made the full transition to D-line, and he came in my second year, when I was playing. I just learned so much through him, and he really worked hard. He wanted to see me thrive. He wanted to see me do good. We were watching film relentlessly, learning every aspect, watching tackles’ hands, the way they set, the way they open, what they do well, what they don’t do well. Once I got my first sack, I was like, ‘Man, I want to be the best.’ I kept being a student of the game, a student of the position, and I just kept learning.”
That first sack for Reddick actually came in the final game of a 2-10 Owls season against quarterback Casey Cochran of Connecticut.
The following season Reddick had 2.0 sacks, then 5.0 as a junior and finally 9.5 sacks with 22.5 tackles for loss as a senior. That put Reddick on all draft boards, although he figured he would probably be a second-day selection.
The Reddick story has aged well. The 13th player to come off the board in the 2017 draft held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, he has rushed for double-digits sacks three years in a row with three different teams.
This season only Nick Bosa (17.5) of the 49ers and Matt Judon (15.5) of the Patriots have more sacks than Reddick, now at a career-high 14.0 and counting. With five forced fumbles, Reddick is tied for the league lead.
The Eagles need two sacks Sunday against Saints quarterback Andy Daulton, who moves like a statue bolted to the ground, to break the club record of 62 sacks set by the 1989 team with Clyde Simmons (15.5 sacks) and the late Reggie White (11.0) and Jerome Brown (10.5). That Eagles team went 11-5 but was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
“That’s crazy,” Reddick said. “I’m hoping we break that, too. I’m hoping we get two this game so we can break that and go down as best pass rusher and best D-line that the Eagles have had here, ever.”
Statistically, the Eagles would be the best. But the game has changed significantly since then, the run much more popular than the pass back in those days.
If defensive end Brandon Graham (9.0 sacks) reaches double figures, joining Reddick, Josh Sweat (11.0) and Javon Hargrave (10.0), the Eagles will be the first team with four players with at least 10 sacks in a season since 1982, when the stat became official.
With six sacks Sunday, the Eagles also would pass the Saints, who got 66 sacks during the 2000 season, the most by any team since then.
The league record of 72 sacks set by the Chicago Bears in 1984 isn’t in danger, as the Eagles could be resting players in the next-to-last game.
That said, history is there for the taking. And Reddick is a major part of it.
“Crazy how life’s been working out for me,” Reddick said, “with so many ups and downs.”
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- Merger agreement provides for debt capital to facilitate previously announced acquisitions and additional working capital
- The merger would result in Unique Logistics International becoming a Nasdaq-listed company
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unique Logistics International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: UNQL) ("Unique" or the "Company"), a global logistics and freight forwarding company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger Agreement") with Edify Acquisition Corp. ("Edify") (Nasdaq: EAC), a special purpose acquisition company, for a proposed business combination of the two companies. Under the Merger Agreement, subject to satisfaction of the closing conditions contained therein, Unique will merge with a subsidiary of Edify, and thereby become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edify. Upon completion of the merger, class A common stock of the combined company will be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
In conjunction with entering into the Merger Agreement, the Company entered into a commitment letter relating to the provision to the Company of a senior secured financing facility in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $35,000,000, which the Company intends to use to fund its previously announced pending acquisitions of eight subsidiaries and affiliates of Unique Logistics Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong corporation, pursuant to previously executed stock purchase agreements.
Sunandan Ray, CEO of Unique, said: "We are pleased to enter into this agreement with Edify, which we are confident will position Unique to quickly complete our planned acquisitions in Hong Kong, China, India, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
"We also expect the merger to provide us with additional capital to advance freight forwarding and contract logistics expansion efforts in strategic markets in the United States, helping Unique achieve our goal of rapidly capturing market share across all critical logistics hubs in the country. Combined with our capital efficient model, the transaction has the potential to put Unique's operating platform on the fast track to rollout across most of those critical hubs."
Mr. Ray concluded: "Upon completion, we expect that the merger will result in growth opportunities, including improved access to capital, M&A opportunities and increased liquidity."
ABOUT UNIQUE LOGISTICS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Unique Logistics International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: UNQL), through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, is a global logistics and freight forwarding company providing a range of international logistics services that enable its customers to outsource to the Company sections of their supply chain process. The services provided are seamlessly managed by its network of trained employees and integrated information systems. We enable our customers to share data regarding their international vendors and purchase orders with us, execute the flow of goods and information under their operating instructions, provide visibility to the flow of goods from factory to distribution center or store and when required, update their inventory records.
Additional Information about the Proposed Merger and Where to Find It
This press release relates to a proposed transaction between Unique Logistics International, Inc. and Edify Acquisition Corp. In connection with the transaction described herein, Edify will to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a registration statement on Form S-4 that will include a prospectus with respect to its securities to be issued in connection with the merger, a proxy statement with respect to the stockholder meeting of Edify to vote on the merger, and a consent solicitation statement with respect to the Company's solicitation of its stockholders of their written consent to approve the plan of merger set forth in the Merger Agreement. The proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus will be sent to all Edify shareholders and Company stockholders. In addition, Edify and Unique may file other relevant documents concerning the merger with the SEC. Investors and stockholders of Edify and Unique and other interested persons are urged to read, when available, the registration statement, the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus as well as other relevant documents filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed merger because these documents will contain important information about Edify, Unique, and the merger. Once available, stockholders will also be able to obtain a copy of the Form S-4, including the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus, and other documents filed with the SEC without charge, at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). Security holders of the Company may also obtain free copies of the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus, and any other documents related to the merger that Unique files with the SEC, when they become available, by directing a request by telephone or mail to Unique Logistics International Inc., Attn: Eli Kay, Chief Financial Officer. Security holders of Edify may also obtain free copies of the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus, and any other documents related to the merger that Edify files with the SEC, when they become available, by directing a request to: Edify Acquisition Corp., Attn: Morris Beyda, Chief Financial Officer.
Participants in the Solicitation
Edify, Unique, and their directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Edify shareholders and written consents from Unique's stockholders with respect to the merger.
Information about Edify's directors and executive officers and a description of their interests in Edify and with respect to the merger and any other matters to be acted upon at the Edify stockholder meeting will be included in the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus for the proposed merger and be available at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).
Information about Unique's directors and executive officers is set forth in Unique's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2022, as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2022, and information regarding their interests in Unique and with respect to the merger will be included in the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus in connection with the proposed merger.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is not a proxy statement or consent solicitation statement or solicitation of a proxy, consent, or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed transaction and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Edify, the Company, or any successor entity thereof nor shall there be any offer, solicitation, exchange, or sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, exchange, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains includes a number of forward-looking statements that reflect management's current views with respect to future events. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts, including statements regarding the impact of the proposed merger on, and anticipated future growth (including through the completion of pending acquisitions) and other goals of, the Company; in some cases you can also identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. All forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on Edify, the Company, or any successor entity thereof. Any such forward-looking statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release, are not guarantees of future performance, and involve a number of risks, uncertainties, or other factors that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements included in this press release. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made by Unique and Edify with the SEC; the amount of any redemptions by existing holders of shares of Edify's Class A common stock being greater than expected, which may reduce the cash in trust available to Unique upon the consummation of the merger; the occurrence of any event, change, or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Unique or Edify following announcement of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein; the inability to complete the proposed merger due to, among other things, the failure to obtain Unique stockholder approval or Edify shareholder approval or satisfy the minimum trust account amount following any redemptions by Edify's public shareholders; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the merger on Unique's business relationships, operating results, and business generally; the risk that the announcement and consummation of the proposed merger disrupts Unique's current plans or operations; unexpected costs related to the proposed merger; the risks that the consummation of the proposed merger is substantially delayed or does not occur, including prior to the date on which Edify is required to liquidate under the terms of its charter documents; the risk that Unique may need to raise additional capital to execute its growth plans, which many not be available on acceptable terms or at all; and the risk that the post-merger company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of the S-4 Registration Statement and proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus discussed above and other documents filed or to be filed by Edify, Unique, and/or or any successor entity thereof from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of Unique prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the proposed merger or other matters addressed in this press release and attributable to Unique or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, Unique undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
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At least 6 hurt after shooting near central Phoenix, police say
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) — Several people are in the hospital after a shooting Saturday morning at a business near central Phoenix.
Sgt. Brian Bower with the Phoenix police said at least six men were found shot when officers arrived at 19th Avenue just north of Indian School Road around 4 a.m.
Phoenix fire took some of the victims to hospitals. However, police learned that some victims left the shooting scene and walked to hospitals before officers arrived.
Police are working to confirm the victims’ ages, but their conditions range from life-threatening to non-life-threatening.
Bower said it is not clear if the shooter is among those who are being treated in the hospital or left the scene.
Police are investigating.
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Sales of Livly's innovative multifamily software hit an all-time high of 22,513 apartment units in July 2022, a 70% increase over the previous month.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Livly, the nation's leading enterprise-grade resident experience provider, reported record-breaking sales in July 2022 of 22,513 apartment units nationwide, a 70% increase compared with June 2022's previous all-time high record of over 13,000 units. The innovative proptech company has continued to build momentum in the multifamily market every month in 2022 and its growth is notably driven by its advancement of new apartment app features, services, and resident events that expand the breadth of the Livly Operating System: "LivlyOS".
"Property managers and residents are the foundation of the multifamily industry, and the impressive amount of growth we saw in July goes to show that more and more apartment communities want to use simple, modern technology," said Alex Samoylovich, the Co-CEO and Founder of Livly. "Livly's focus is to set up our property managers for success, especially against rising resident expectations. That's why we provide them with tools, services, and functionality to confidently grow their communities and produce stellar event experiences for their residents. The results from this year thus far propel us forward to keep making apartment living better for everyone."
Livly's best-in-class, unified operating system digitizes property operations for multifamily communities across 137 U.S. cities, including offering an array of AI-powered services like the elegant Livly Resident Mobile App, the online Livly Property Hub, and resident events. By offering modern, simple, and fully-integrated solutions, combined with best-in-class customer service, Livly has created a "one-stop-shop" offering for Property Managers who are looking for a cost-effective way to elevate resident experiences and increase revenue.
Livly's July expansion into over 22K apartment homes was spread across 14 U.S. states and 54 cities. The company's growth strategy has led the company to 38 states this year alone.
"Livly has become the preferred PMS solution by Property Managers," stated Brian Duggan, Co-CEO of Livly. "We don't take that lightly and will continue to evolve and innovate to best serve the needs of multifamily professionals and their residents."
About Livly, Inc.
Livly, Inc. is revolutionizing apartment living and powering communities across the globe. Founded in Chicago in 2017, Livly has built the first unified enterprise-grade operating system tailored specifically for residential properties. The AI-powered Livly operating system serves as the remote control for apartment living, connecting residents, guests, staff, and vendors with state-of-the-art software, access controls, services, and robust data analytics. For more information about Livly, please visit www.livly.io.
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BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — Marine animal welfare officials say the most recent whale found dead on a New Jersey shoreline had apparently been struck by a vessel.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center said Sunday that preliminary results of a necropsy on the humpback whale that washed up Thursday on the North End Natural Area in Brigantine indicates that the animal had “blunt trauma injuries consistent with those from a vessel strike.”
“Injuries and hemorrhaging were observed on the head and thoracic region, as well as along the right side and the pectoral flipper,” the center said in a statement. “These findings will be confirmed through laboratory analysis in the coming weeks."
The whale was a 32-foot, 7-inch female estimated to weigh about 12 tons and was apparently in good condition judging by the thickness of its blubber, the center said.
“The whale’s stomach was full of partially digested fish and there was fecal matter in the intestines, indicating the whale had been actively feeding prior to these injuries,” the center said.
“Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear are the largest known human threats to whales of all species,” the center said. “Although there has been speculation about whether these whale deaths are linked to wind energy development, at this point no whale mortality has been attributed to offshore wind activities."
Brigantine, just north of Atlantic City, has seen two other dead whales on its beaches in recent weeks, among the seven whale deaths in a little over a month in New Jersey and New York.
Some lawmakers have called for a temporary pause in ocean-floor preparation work for offshore wind projects in the two states. New Jersey’s governor said he doesn't agree with that idea. Most of New Jersey’s environmental groups called an association between the deaths and the offshore wind work “unfounded and premature.”
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In adult mice with loss of CHD8 gene function, FDA-approved drug partially restores disrupted brain cell production
CINCINNATI, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Research led by a scientist at Cincinnati Children's who primarily studies brain tumors may open doors for improved treatment of autism.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects about one in 40 children between ages 3 and 17, according to the National Survey of Children's Health. Those affected often experience difficulty socializing, impaired language development, repetitive behaviors, and other symptoms. Of those tested for various genes linked to the condition, nearly everyone with disruptive mutations of the gene CHD8 has autism.
Now a study led by Qing Richard Lu, PhD, Beatrice C. Lampkin Endowed Chair in Cancer Epigenetics and Scientific Director of the Brain Tumor Center at Cincinnati Children's, sheds new light on the role CHD8 plays in brain development—both during embryonic growth and much later during adulthood. The study, published Sept. 23, 2022, in the Journal of Neuroscience, also reports that the FDA-approved antidepressant fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) partially restores lost brain cell production, also known as neurogenesis, in mice lacking CHD8.
"This is an exciting first step, but we need to further confirm these findings with more studies in a variety of mouse models," Lu says. "Longer term, it also would require large scale clinical trials before a treatment could be approved for human use."
Lu is a widely respected brain tumor expert who has devoted years to understanding how the brain forms and how brain development can go wrong. In previous work, his lab team became interested in how malfunctioning CHD8 genes could disrupt formation of myelin sheaths that protect and support rapid signaling between nerve cells in the brain and central nervous system. Then the team began wondering how CHD8 affects how the nerve cells themselves are formed.
Among the many details in the study, the researchers found that the effects caused by disrupted CHD8 function vary considerably depending on when the disruption occurs. In mice, when CHD8 is missing from the start, brain development is deeply affected, especially in the formation of the cortex, the area that controls social behavior, thinking and problem-solving, and the hippocampus, which supports learning and memory. Many embryos with this early-stage gene deletion exhibit severe brain defects. The mice with loss of CHD8 function in the brain develop several classic autistic behaviors, including avoiding others. The effect was striking when mapping the movements of normal control mice and those that had lost CHD8 function as adults.
However, the gene's function also can be disrupted at other points of development, be it during late-term pregnancy, youth, or adulthood. The team found ways to cause these disruptions in mice at different age points, then analyzed the effects. In the adult mice, CHD8 loss also impairs neurogenesis from neural precursor cells.
With Prozac being one of the most widely studied antidepressants, the team already knew that the drug had been found to stimulate nerve cell growth. When they gave the drug to the mice with the CHD8 loss, they found that nerve cell production resumed. The restoration was not complete but was powerful enough that the drug merits closer study as a potential way to augment neurogenesis in CHD8-deficiency, Lu says.
Now Lu's lab is working on expanded research involving multiple lines of mice that have been developed to mimic ASD conditions. They are analyzing changes in behavior against varying doses and timepoints of treatment, and more.
Three members of Lu's lab were co-first authors on this study: Chen Dong, Chuntao Zhao, and Xiang Chen. Several other colleagues from the Divisions of Development Biology and Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology contributed. Collaborators also included scientists with Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and the University of California San Francisco.
This study was funded by Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation award and a National Institutes of Health training grant (2T32CA117846-11A1).
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A row of tightly trimmed ficus trees along a stretch of sidewalk outside Universal Studios has become a hot spot in the face-off between Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters and actors.
Some members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Writers Guild of America unions — along with sympathetic local politicians — think the studio purposely pruned the trees in an effort to remove a source of shade for workers picketing under the hot Southern California sun. They gathered regardless on Wednesday, with one woman wearing a green wreath on her head and holding a sign depicting a full, untrimmed tree under the words “Never Forget.”
“Universal, get your ducks in order. We don’t want to see any more shady nonsense because the people are watching,” said Konstantine Anthony, a SAG-AFTRA member and the Democratic mayor of nearby Burbank.
Burbank’s city limits don’t include the stretch of Barham Boulevard where the trees were trimmed, which is part of Los Angeles. Anthony said he had consulted with Los Angeles political leaders about the trimming.
“We can’t find any work orders done for this particular tree trimming, which is problematic because in Southern California we have a lot of laws governing trees,” he said. “Normally, you don’t trim until October, and in fact, the exact same style and type of tree about 200 feet this way are not trimmed. But those aren’t providing shade to the picketers, are they?”
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman, whose district includes Universal City, said in a statement that no permits had been issued for tree trimming at the site. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said his office was investigating the issue.
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(WSYR-TV) — Congresswoman Liz Cheney will be welcomed to Syracuse University on October 3 to speak with faculty, staff, alumni, and students, thanks to The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Members of the Syracuse University community can register for the event, “Courage in Defense of Democracy: A Conversation with Congresswoman Liz Cheney” here.
Congresswoman Cheney, who is Wyoming’s only representative, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016. Her platform mainly focuses on expanding the energy in America, creating jobs through conservative solutions, cutting taxes, and creating jobs, all while thinking about mining and agricultural industries.
Cheney also sits on the House Armed Services Committee and is the vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate The January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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- Five in Five: Five billion+ transactions and nearly $1.5 trillion have moved across the network since 2017.
- Safe Payments: More than 99.9% of payments are sent without any report of fraud or scams.
- Widespread Adoption by U.S. Financial Institutions: Nearly 1700 banks and credit unions, including minority deposit institutions (MDIs), now offer Zelle® in their apps.
- More than P2P: Disbursements increased 87% quarter-over-quarter; while growth in Zelle® for Small Business resulted in nearly eight million employees, contractors, and customers receiving payments from small businesses.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past five years, consumers and businesses, small and large, have sent more than five billion Zelle® payments, totaling nearly $1.5 trillion, according to Early Warning Services, LLC, the network operator of Zelle®.
Zelle® users have leveraged the convenience and security of Zelle® to gift money, pay rent, reimburse friends and family for shared costs, receive reimbursements, or access money in critical moments, usually within minutes using Zelle®.
"Zelle® has transformed the way more than a hundred million people move money and conduct digital transactions," said Al Ko, Chief Executive Officer at Early Warning. "We are part of consumers' everyday lives and committed to being their trusted source for digital payments that are easy to use and don't require the sharing of any bank account information. Thanks to our financial institution participants, reseller partners, and employees, we continue to innovate and expand adoption while enhancing protection measures."
The network has achieved more than 99.9% of payments sent without any report of fraud or scams. Zelle® and its participating financial institutions are continuously evolving and adapting consumer protection measures to address the dynamic nature of deceptive activities. For instance, real-time safety notifications (within the user experience and payment flow) alert users to only use Zelle® when sending money to people they know and trust.
In addition to the extensive education that financial institution participants deliver to their customers, Zelle® partners with non-profits, consumer safety organizations, influencers, and enterprises. By collaborating with The Cybercrime Support Network, Detroit Pistons, EVERFI, Nev Shulman, The Knoble, and Vox Media, the company continuously educates consumers on how to stay safe when using digital payments such as Zelle®. The recently launched Zelle® Learning Hub is another resource that helps consumers make smart financial decisions that begin with education.
The Zelle Network® is open to any size financial institution that wants to give its customers access to real-time payments. Today, nearly 1700 banks and credit unions, including 100+ MDIs, offer Zelle® in their app. Throughout the past year, the company worked with its resellers on rebate programs for qualifying MDIs that sign up to offer Zelle®, giving their customers equitable access to financial services with additional tools to help meet their financial goals.
Fortune 500 companies, including major online retailers, educational institutions, and national non-profits, are disbursing funds—tuition, rebates, settlements, insurance payments— as a fast and safe alternative to sending checks. In Q2 2022, the Zelle Network® achieved an 87% quarter-over-quarter increase in disbursement transactions. In addition, nearly eight million employees, contractors, and customers received payments from small businesses.
"Increased Zelle® usage by small businesses year over year is impressive," said Erika Bauman, director of commercial banking and payments at Aite-Novarica. "Our research shows that business adoption has more than doubled across the market. The rapid growth of Zelle® is due to greater efficiency, access to funds, and increased recipient satisfaction."
Overall payments in Q2 2022 equated to $155 billion sent through the Zelle Network® on 554 million transactions. Year-over-year payment values increased by 29%, while payment volume increased by 27%.
Brought to you by Early Warning Services, LLC, an innovator in payment and risk management solutions, Zelle® makes it fast, safe, and easy for money to move. The Zelle Network® connects financial institutions of all sizes, enabling consumers and businesses to send fast digital payments to people and businesses they know and trust with a bank account in the U.S. Funds are available directly in bank accounts generally within minutes when the recipient is already enrolled with Zelle®. To learn more about Zelle® and its participating financial institutions, visit www.zellepay.com.
Early Warning Services, LLC is a fintech company owned by seven of the country's largest banks. For almost three decades, our identity, authentication, and payment solutions have been empowering financial institutions to make confident decisions, enable payments and mitigate fraud. Today, Early Warning is best known as the owner and operator of the Zelle Network®, a financial services network focused on transforming payment experiences. The combination of Early Warning's risk and payment solutions enables the financial services industry to move money fast, safe, and easy, so that people can live their best financial lives. To learn more about Early Warning, visit www.earlywarning.com
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- Firm hires Andrew Mutlu, CFP®, APMA® as Wealth Advisor
- Focus will be on providing comprehensive wealth planning and constructing investment strategies tailored to fit the needs of high net worth individuals and families
CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesirow, an independent, employee-owned financial services firm, today announced that Andrew Mutlu has joined Mesirow as a Wealth Advisor, joining the Leibson-Maniscalco Wealth Management team. Andrew will focus on providing comprehensive wealth planning and constructing investment strategies that are tailored to fit the needs of high net worth individuals and families. Mesirow recently ranked 47th in Barron's 2022 list of Top 100 RIA Firms, a ranking based on assets managed, technology spending, staff diversity, succession planning and other key metrics.
"Andrew's commitment to financial education and first-class client service make him a great fit for Mesirow Wealth Management's personal, comprehensive approach to wealth planning and pursuit of excellence within our culture," said Brian Price, Head of Advisory Services.
"Mesirow has a rich, longstanding history of helping wealth clients achieve their financial goals. I am excited to be joining Mesirow Wealth Management and look forward to contributing to the team's ongoing growth," said Andrew Mutlu, Wealth Advisor.
Andrew has seven years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Mesirow, he held roles as a Financial Advisor and an Investment Executive with other wealth management firms. He volunteers at Junior Achievement of Chicago to help educate and inspire youth around financial literacy.
Andrew earned his Bachelor of Science from Ohio University. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) professional and an Accredited Portfolio Management AdvisorSM. He holds the Series 7, 6, 63 and 65 FINRA licenses.
About Mesirow
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. To learn more, visit mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Mesirow was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business and one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions and Investments.
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Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that he would consider putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for the White House as a Democrat, in charge of one of the major federal health agencies.
During an interview with Clay Travis, DeSantis said his views align with Kennedy’s on COVID-19 policies and the “corruption” with federal health officials.
“If you’re president, sic him on the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] if he’d be willing to serve. Or sic him on CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” DeSantis said in response to a question about whether he’d consider making Kennedy his running mate. “But in terms of being veep, there’s 70 percent of the issues that he may be averse to our base on, you know, that just creates an issue.”
Kennedy is a long-shot candidate for president, but he has increasingly been embraced by Republicans, including former President Trump, who amplify his contentious views as a way to try to play spoiler for the Democrats.
At GOP invitation last week, Kennedy spoke before the House Judiciary select subcommittee on the “weaponization” of the federal government, where he was blasted by the Democrats on the panel.
He is a prominent anti-vaccine activist and a vocal critic COVID-19 mitigation measures. He appeals to the libertarian faction of the right that dislikes vaccine mandates and “lockdowns” and raise questions about the safety of vaccines, including the one for COVID-19.
In the past few weeks, he has come under fire from Democrats for suggesting that the coronavirus was engineered to target “Caucasians and Black people” and to be less lethal to Asian and Jewish people.
DeSantis is also a harsh critic of the federal bureaucracy, which he suggests is too “woke.” He previously said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS.
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NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Kubient, Inc. (NASDAQ: KBNT)'s merger with Adomni Inc. Upon closing of the proposed transaction, Kubient shareholders are expected to own approximately 26% of the outstanding common stock of the combined company. If you are a Kubient shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Partners Bancorp (NASDAQ: PTRS)'s sale to LINKBANCORP, Inc. for 1.15 shares of LINKBANCORP stock for each Partners share. If you are a Partners shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR)'s sale to affiliates of Apollo for $36.15 per share in cash. If you are a Univar shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Ranger Oil Corporation (NASDAQ: ROCC)'s sale to Baytex Energy Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, Ranger shareholders will receive 7.49 Baytex shares plus $13.31 in cash, for each Ranger common share. If you are a Ranger shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP)The Atlanta Falcons are planning to have veteran defensive coordinator Dean Pees call the plays in Saturday’s game at Baltimore following his scary pregame collision on the field that forced him to miss last week’s game in New Orleans.
The 73-year-old Pees was on the field for Tuesday’s practice, but is still being monitored by coach Arthur Smith. Pees was knocked to the turf in Sunday’s pregame collision with Saints returner Rashid Shaheed, who was trying to field a punt during warmups.
Pees missed the game after he was placed on a stretcher, carted off the field and taken to University Medical Center in New Orleans. Pees was released from the hospital in time to fly back to Atlanta with the team following the Saints’ 21-18 win on Sunday.
Falcons linebackers coach Frank Bush filled in for Pees as the play-caller against the Saints. Bush said Tuesday he had to overcome the shock of seeing Pees leave the field on a stretcher.
As Pees was carted off the field, Bush said he was approached by Smith, who said ”’I think they’re taking him in and you’re going to have to call it,”’ Bush said. ”I think I went numb a little bit.”
Pees was not available for interviews on Tuesday. Smith said he’ll continue to monitor Pees through the short practice week.
”You have to,” Smith said. ”It puts things back in perspective with health, life. He’s doing better. He’s here, working. So we’ll make sure he’s doing all right and will continue to follow up.”
Bush said Pees ”seems like Dean, back to his normal self.”
”He was able to come back in the office and do the things that we normally do,” Bush said. ”… I’m totally confident he’ll be ready to operate when it’s time to operate.”
Bush is in his second season with the Falcons and his 31st season coaching in the NFL. He said he was not prepared for the scare of seeing Pees knocked to the turf.
”Obviously that scared us all,” Bush said. ”I have such an affinity for the guy. He’s taught me so much football in just this short amount of time we’ve been together and how to see the game and then to have that happen, you get a little bit worried.”
Bush has experience calling plays as the defensive coordinator for the New York Jets at the end of the 2020 season, as well as with the Houston Texans.
Bush said Atlanta’s players were ”side-swiped a little bit” by seeing Pees carted off the field.
The Saints led 14-0 after their first two possessions, but Bush wouldn’t blame the slow start on the pregame scare with Pees.
”You’ve got to give New Orleans credit but ultimately it was different,” Bush said. ”… When you’re not dealing with what is normal … it’s going to be a little bit of consternation involved in that. They did kind of rally and come back and do the things we were asking them to do.”
Pees was hired by Smith as defensive coordinator before the 2021 season. The two also worked together at Tennessee, where Smith was the offensive coordinator and Pees coordinated the defense from 2018-19. Pees also served as defensive coordinator for Baltimore (2012-17) and New England (2006-09).
Pees was Kent State’s head coach from 1998-2003 and also has worked on staffs at Findlay, Miami (Ohio), Navy, Toledo, Notre Dame and Michigan State.
NOTES: The Falcons placed RB Caleb Huntley (Achilles) on injured reserve and signed edge rusher David Anenih off Pittsburgh’s practice squad.
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Company to Report Q4 and Full Year Results on March 22, 2023
MCLEAN, Va., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NextNav (Nasdaq: NN), a leader in next generation GPS, today announced that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022, after the market closes on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 and will host a conference call the same day at 5:00 PM ET to discuss its results.
Registration for the conference call can be completed by visiting the following website prior to, or on the day of, the conference call: https://conferencingportals.com/event/jDTlaQAq. Upon registering, each participant will be provided with call details and a registrant ID. Reminders will also be sent to registered participants via email. Alternatively, the conference call will be available via a live webcast.
To access the live webcast or a replay, visit the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.nextnav.com/.
A replay of the call can also be accessed via phone through March 29, 2023, by dialing (800) 770-2030 from the U.S., or (647) 362-9199 from outside the U.S. The conference I.D. number is 62936.
About NextNav Inc.
NextNav Inc. (Nasdaq: NN) is a leader in next generation GPS, enabling a whole new ecosystem of applications and services that rely upon vertical location and resilient geolocation technology. The company's Pinnacle network delivers highly accurate vertical positioning to transform location services, reflecting the 3D world around us and supporting innovative, new capabilities. NextNav's TerraPoiNT network delivers accurate, reliable, and resilient 3D positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services to support critical infrastructure and other GPS-reliant systems in the absence or failure of GPS.
For more information, please visit https://nextnav.com/ or follow NextNav on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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#3. Honda Accord
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 5,079
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.65
- 2018 Unit Sales: 291,071
It's not all about pickups when it comes to fatal accidents, as the ever-popular Honda Accord ranks as the third-deadliest vehicle on the list and the worst passenger car when it comes to vehicle fatalities. Even though Ford sells about three times more F-Series vehicles than Honda does Accords, the Accord's accident data shows 0.65 occupants are killed in fatal accidents involving this vehicle. That's almost 50% higher than the F-Series. Lastly, the Honda Accord is the deadliest vehicle in six states between 2017-2019, including Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.
#4. Toyota Camry
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 4,734
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.59
- 2018 Unit Sales: 343,439
Toyota takes pride that its midsized Camry sedan outsells archrival Honda's Accord. The automaker is likely happy that crash data shows fewer people (0.59) die in Camry fatal accidents than in Accord (0.65). In 2017-2019, the Camry scored the most fatal accidents in Massachusetts.
#5. RAM Pickup (1500, 2500, and 3500)
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 5,897
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.43
- 2018 Unit Sales: 536,980
While the RAM (formerly Dodge) pickup is involved in a high number of fatal accidents (5.897) during the study period, it has the lowest number of occupant fatalities (0.43) among the most dangerous cars. Based on AutoInsurance.org's study, the Dodge RAM pickup is the most accident-prone in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming.
#6. Honda Civic
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 3,497
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.70
- 2018 Unit Sales: 325,760
The Civic has the dishonor of being the deadliest vehicle on this list of the 10 most dangerous cars. A fatality rate of 0.70 occupants per deadly accident exceeds the RAM pickup by more than 60%; the Ford Mustang only surpasses it at 0.71 occupant deaths. Between 2017-2019, there were more fatal accidents with a Civic in California and Vermont than any other vehicle in that state.
#7. Toyota Corolla
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 3,430
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.64
- 2018 Unit Sales: 303,732
Toyota has sold more than 50,000,000 Corollas globally since the model debuted in 1966. So, given the popularity of this compact car, it's no surprise to find a Corolla on this list—there are so many on the road. And like the Civic, the Corolla has a high fatality rate (0.64), which stems from its smallish size.
#8. Ford Explorer
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 3,332
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.61
- 2018 Unit Sales: 261,571
Despite the abundance of SUVs in the marketplace, there's only one on our list; the Ford Explorer. The vehicle is no stranger to hazardous situations following the Firestone tire debacle from the 1990s that led to more than 1,000 deaths and injuries. Interestingly, despite it being a larger vehicle, the Explorer's fatality rate (0.61) approaches that of smaller cars.
#9. Nissan Altima
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 3,267
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.60
- 2018 Unit Sales: 209,146
The Nissan Altima remains a worthy competitor to the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry with comparable features and equipment. It is also similar to these rivals regarding an occupant fatality rate of 0.60, which slots between the Camry and Accord.
#10. GMC Sierra
- Total Fatal Crashes (2014-2018): 3,245
- Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash: 0.48
- 2018 Unit Sales: 219,554
The final entry on our list of the 10 most dangerous cars caps off with the GMC Sierra pickup, a clone of its corporate cousin, the Chevrolet Silverado. Between 2017-2019, the Sierra used to be responsible for more fatalities in Maine but was recently eclipsed by the Chevy Silverado.
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OneTrust gains momentum in market leadership with its trust intelligence platform ranking among the world's top private cloud companies for the fourth year
ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OneTrust, the market-defining leader for trust intelligence, has been named to the 2022 Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. The list is published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. This year, OneTrust moved up the prestigious list landing at #24 in 2022, up from a placement of #26 in 2021.
"We are thrilled that OneTrust has been once again honored for the fourth consecutive year on the Forbes Cloud 100," said OneTrust CEO Kabir Barday. "This recognition underscores the market opportunity created by trust intelligence and demonstrates the critical role OneTrust plays in giving businesses the only trust intelligence platform to build, understand, and measure trust."
Barday continued, "We also applaud our peers who have been honored this year – cloud companies who are making waves in their industries with a bold approach to innovation. The Forbes Cloud 100 is a powerful recognition since honorees are ranked by the visionary CEOs of today's public cloud companies."
OneTrust recently launched the first Trust Intelligence Platform and ushered in a new category of technology dedicated to solving today's critical business challenges around trust and transparency. The Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust introduces software to help businesses to start and scale trust initiatives. Trust intelligence delivers visibility across trust domain areas, action based on AI and regulatory intelligence, and automation to build trust by design as a reflex in organizations. The platform unifies Privacy & Data Governance, GRC & Security Assurance, Ethics & Compliance, and ESG & Sustainability programs where teams, data, and processes can integrate, giving businesses a centralized understanding of business trust.
"The companies of the Cloud 100 list represent the best and brightest private companies in this fast-growing sector," said Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes. "Every year, it gets more difficult to make this list — meaning even more elite company for those who do. Congratulations to each of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees."
"The public markets may be in turmoil, but the private valuations of the Cloud 100 continue to rise. All of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees, again, have reached the $1 billion valuation milestone, and the average Cloud 100 valuation has skyrocketed to $7.4 billion," said Mary D'Onofrio, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "Despite the market correction in 2022, our confidence in the cloud economy continues to grow—today over 70% of the 2022 Cloud 100 Honorees have reached or exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue making them cloud Centaurs. An additional 10% of the list is expected to hit this milestone by the end of the year, furthering our conviction that this years' honorees truly represent the best cloud companies globally."
"Great companies are born out of all environments, and it's exciting to see the continued momentum in the cloud sector," said Alex Kayyal, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. "The companies on this list have gone through a rigorous selection process, and join an esteemed alumni list of Cloud 100 companies. As the need for digital transformation continues to drive innovation and efficiencies across industries, we can look to these companies as the absolute best in cloud computing."
Today, OneTrust serves more than 12,000 customers, including half of the Fortune Global 500, to help them build trust and demonstrate impact. The OneTrust Trust Intelligence Platform is currently backed by more than 200 patents.
The Forbes 2022 Cloud 100 list is published at www.forbes.com/cloud100.
About OneTrust
As society redefines risk and opportunity, OneTrust empowers tomorrow's leaders to succeed through trust and impact with the Trust Intelligence Platform. The market-defining Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust connects privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes, so all companies can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture by unlocking their value and potential to thrive by doing what's good for people and the planet.
Learn more at OneTrust.com.
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The crowd of more one hundred teens gathered downtown just before 9 p.m. talking, dancing and riding scooters. The group was consolidated near a parking lot on the 300 block of East Pratt Street
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VISTA, Calif. (KSWB) — A Southern California high school has forfeited their football games scheduled for this week amid an assault investigation, it was announced Thursday.
The investigation stems from an incident that occurred inside the Vista High varsity football locker room on August 31 where cellphone video showed a 14-year-old student being assaulted.
Vista High has forfeited the freshman, junior varsity and varsity football games scheduled for this week against Poway High and the games will not be rescheduled, Poway High football head coach Kyle Williams said.
After-school activities were also canceled for the rest of the week, with the district saying the assault investigation is causing disruptions.
Some students feel it is the right thing to do while others don’t agree with the decision.
“I hope the whole season is canceled,” student Johana Farias said.
“Why mess it up for the kids who had absolutely nothing to do with it?” questioned freshman football player Kaleb Zavala.
Rena Marrocco, who is a community member running for school board, says she understands both sides of the issue.
“On the one hand it’s kind of unfair to penalize the entire team and school for the actions of the few, but on the other hand, it does send a message that at least they are hearing that much,” Marrocco said.
Parents, students and community members rallied Wednesday outside of Vista High, demanding justice and accountability against the players suspected of being involved in an attack that was caught on video and spread on social media.
An online petition, calling for suspension or expulsion for the students involved has gathered over 9,000 signatures.
The Vista varsity head football coach has since been placed on leave until the investigation is complete, according to Vista Unified School District. The freshman football coach has been let go and Nexstar’s KSWB was told the boys in the video have all been taken off the team pending the investigation.
The Vista Unified School District and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department are conducting investigations into the incident.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Almost three months after Russia shocked the world by invading Ukraine, its military faced a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and a defending country buoyed by its win in a hugely popular pan-European music competition Sunday.
Finland announced it would apply to join NATO, as top diplomats from the Western alliance, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, gathered Sunday in Berlin to discuss the war. Sweden’s governing party plans to announce its position on seeking NATO membership later Sunday.
The two nonaligned Nordic nations becoming part of the alliance would pose an affront to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cited NATO’s post-Cold War expansion in Eastern Europe as a threat to Russia. NATO says it is a purely defensive alliance.
Ukraine said it was holding off Russian offensives Sunday in the country’s east. Western military officials said the campaign Moscow launched there after its forces failed to seize Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, had slowed to a snail’s pace.
“The brutal invasion (by) Russia is losing momentum,” NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said. “We know that with the bravery of the Ukrainian people and army, and with our help, Ukraine can win this war.”
Ukraine, meanwhile, celebrated a morale-boosting victory in the Eurovision Song Contest. The folk-rap ensemble Kalush Orchestra won the glitzy, televised Eurovision contest with its song “Stefania,” which has become a popular anthem among Ukrainians during the war. Votes from home viewers across Europe cemented the victory.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed his nation would claim the customary winner’s honor of hosting the next annual competition.
“Step by step, we are forcing the occupiers to leave the Ukrainian land,” Zelenskyy said.
Russian and Ukrainian fighters are engaged in a grinding battle for the country’s eastern industrial heartland, the Donbas. Ukraine’s most experienced and best-equipped soldiers are based in eastern Ukraine, where they have fought Moscow-backed separatists for eight years.
The Ukrainian military said Sunday that it had held off a renewed Russian offensive near Bakhmut and Slavyansk, in the eastern Dontesk region. A regional official said Russian troops also made renewed attempts at a breakthrough near the eastern city of Izyum early Sunday, but were held back by Ukrainian forces.
“The enemy is constantly checking the positions of our armed forces, trying to break through them, but has had no success and again suffered heavy human and equipment losses,” Oleh Sinegubov, the governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, wrote in a Telegram post.
His claims could not be independently verified.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update Sunday that the Russian army had lost up to one-third of the combat strength it committed to Ukraine in late February and continued to suffer “consistently high levels of attrition” while failing to gain any substantial territory.
“Under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days,” the ministry said on Twitter.
The assessments of Russia’s war performance by Ukraine’s supporters came as Russian troops retreated from around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, after bombarding it for weeks.
The largely Russian-speaking city with a prewar population of 1.4 million is only 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of the Russian city of Belgorod, and was a key military objective earlier in the war, when Moscow hoped to capture and hold major cities.
Ukraine’s military has said Moscow is focused now instead on guarding supply routes, while launching mortar, artillery and airstrikes in an attempt to deplete Ukrainian forces and destroy fortifications in the country’s east.
Ukrainian troops are clearing villages on the outskirts of Kharkiv after pushing the Russians back, and some residents were returning.
“The war has shifted to a new level of distance artillery fighting — we fire at them, they fire at us,” said a Ukrainian commander who gave only his first name, Serhii.
Russia is also striking railways, factories and other infrastructure across Ukraine. A Russian missile hit “military infrastructure facilities” in the Yavoriv district of western Ukraine, near the border with Poland. early Sunday morning.
There was no immediate information on dead or injured, Lviv Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyy posted on the Telegram messaging app.
Russia has targeted rail facilities and other critical infrastructure in western Ukraine a major gateway for NATO-supplied weapons. Western officials have said despite the attacks there has been no appreciable impact on Ukraine’s ability to resupply its forces.
After failing to capture Kyiv following the Feb. 24 invasion, Putin has shifted his focus eastward to the Donbas, aiming to seize territory not already occupied by the Moscow-backed separatists.
Airstrikes and artillery barrages make it extremely dangerous for journalists to move around in the east, hindering efforts to get a full picture of the fighting. But it appears to be a back-and-forth slog without major breakthroughs on either side.
In his nightly address Saturday, Zelenskyy said “the situation in Donbas remains very difficult” and Russian troops were “still trying to come out at least somewhat victorious.”
In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory.
A convoy of between 500 and 1,000 cars carrying civilians out of Mariupol reportedly was able to reach the Ukrainian-held city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk had said authorities were negotiating the evacuation of 60 severely wounded troops from the steel plant.
Turkey’s presidential spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said the country had offered to evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers and civilians by ship from Azovstal, according to official state broadcaster TRT. Kalin said Russian and Ukrainian officials had not given Turkey a clear answer regarding the evacuation plan, but that it was still on the table.
The invasion of Ukraine has other countries along Russia’s flank worried they could be next. The government of long-neutral Finland, which shares both a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) land border and the Gulf of Finland with Russia, formally announced Sunday that it would apply for NATO membership.
“This is a historic day,” President Sauli Niinistö, announcing Finland’s decision alongside Prime Minister Sanna Marin, said in Helsinki.
Sweden’s governing Social Democratic Party is set to announce its decision on NATO membership Sunday. If it comes out in favor, as is expected, an application to join the Western military alliance could happen within days.
NATO operates by consensus, and the Nordic nations’ potential bids were thrown into question Friday when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country was “not of a favorable opinion.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused the two countries of supporting Kurdish rebel groups but suggested Turkey would not necessarily block them joining NATO.
“These are the issues that we need to talk, of course, with our NATO allies,” he said.
In a phone call Saturday, Putin told the Finnish president that there are no threats to Finland’s security and joining NATO would be an “error” and “negatively affect Russian-Finnish relations.”
Marin, Finland’s prime minister, said joining NATO would help guarantee peace for Finland.
“We have had wars with Russia, and we don’t want that kind of future for ourselves or for our children,” she said.
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McQuillan reported from Lviv. Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov and Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Elena Becatoros in Odesa and other AP staffers around the world contributed to this report.
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The City of Charlotte and the City of Tampa are among the first to test functionality, comparing and evaluating enforcement data
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Passport, the leading mobility software and payments company trusted by cities to manage their parking and mobility infrastructure, announces the launch of its Performance Benchmarking solution. The first-of-its-kind tool provides cities with data-driven points of reference to compare their operations and outcomes against other cities, enabling them to apply those insights for smarter decision making and more effective policy management.
How it works: Cities select who their peers are by viewing a list of verified profiles ("City Profiles") in Passport's system to match themselves with other comparable cities. City Profiles include key data points like population density, as well as operational information, such as the number of enforcement officers, total number of paid parking spaces and more. Once cities select their peers, they are able to view data such as the total number of citations written, citation appeal rate, collection rate and more. The City of Charlotte, N.C. and the City of Tampa, Fla. are among the first cities to test the functionality by comparing their enforcement data.
Parking Division Manager for the City of Tampa, Fed Revolte, recently shared the stage with Passport at IPMI's 2023 annual conference to discuss the future of benchmarking. "We look to our peers, especially those of similar operating scales, to help us overcome challenges and create meaningful change," says Revolte. "Passport's benchmarking tool is helping us take our parking and mobility operations to the next level by providing concrete municipal examples that can be used to effectively communicate with both administrative officials and the public."
"One of the challenges in analyzing benchmarking data is identifying a comparable city," says Allison Naftel, Program Manager for the City of Charlotte. "Passport's matching process reduces the hassle and unlocks the ability to connect more with our peers. We are excited to be a part of the early stages of this innovation and to work with the City of Tampa to make more efficient and effective decisions in our respective operations."
Passport's benchmarking offering will continue to grow, allowing users to access more information from an expanded selection of cities, including parking data, automatic peer recommendations, advanced analytics and more.
"Our clients' needs are always at the forefront of our product enhancements, which is why we created Performance Benchmarking," says Miranda Bradshaw, Senior Product Manager at Passport. "With the introduction of this tool, we can facilitate peer-to-peer collaboration among cities, enabling them to learn from each other and enhance the overall customer experience."
More than 800 cities and private operators in North America trust Passport's platform as the only end-to-end system for managing mobile pay parking, parking enforcement, digital parking and permits. The Performance Benchmarking feature is exclusive to customers in Passport's back office portal. To learn more, visit the company website.
About Passport
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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Petco's holiday collection is bigger than ever before as more pet parents plan to involve pets in holiday gifting, up from last year
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 80% of pet parents plan to include their pets in holiday gifting and the majority continue to be more excited about celebrating the season with their pets than other family members including their parents, siblings and in-laws.* This year, Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: WOOF) is making the holidays even more special for pets and pet parents with the new More & Merrier collection and more convenient ways to shop, experience and give back this season. Petco aims to inspire pet parents to level up their celebrations and "Make More Merry," together, with not only the new collection but also its holiday live social commerce event and first-time participation in the 96th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®.
"Having our pets by our side as we celebrate the holidays is part of what makes this time of year so magical," said Amy College, Chief Merchandising Officer at Petco. "We've expanded our holiday collection yet again this year to offer a greater assortment of gifts for pets of different types and sizes, and celebrations including Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's, so pet parents can find what they're looking for at every price point all season long."
With more than 500 products included, Petco's holiday collection is bigger than ever before and features festive toys and apparel, cozy home décor and seasonal treats. With most items priced under $19.99, pet parents can find the best value for everything on their pets' wish list. And, as preparations for the holidays begin even earlier, Petco makes it easy to include pets in all holiday festivities:
- Gifts and treats for any occasion: Nearly 75% of pet parents say they typically get their pets toys for the holidays.* Start the holiday countdown with advent calendars galore for dogs, cats and small animals. Iconic gifts like a naughty pickle dog toy and elf cat costume are must-haves, while classic, affordable gifts like tennis balls and a puzzle toy have been dressed up for the holidays. Premium gifts such as the teaser cat Santa and nutcracker toy with handcrafted details are perfect for pets that have made the nice list this year. Pet parents can also brighten their pets' Hanukkah with a plush rope menorah and dreidel cat teaser, and celebrate all season long with a Thanksgiving drinks cat toy set and New Year's Eve photobooth kit. Treats inspired by favorite desserts such as holiday munchy donuts, carob truffles and macarons are sure to delight pups' palettes.
- Home for the holidays: Pets and pet parents can cozy up in style with a cabin bed for pets, matching gear like pajamas (for pets and pet parents) and socks, as well as a throw set from Reddy, Petco's premium lifestyle and fashion brand. Customizable ornaments, stockings and cookie-making kits help make for an unforgettable season of bonding with furry family members.
- Reddy for adventure: Getting ready for winter means preparing to snuggle up in style, strut the streets on snow-filled adventures and travel in comfort. The Reddy Fold-Out Carrier is a stylish, lightweight and durable option to secure pets on the go, while the Reddy travel bag has all the road trip essentials from a collapsible bowl to a waste bag rubber portal for seamless pickups. The brand offers winter season necessities including handwarmer leads and PrimaLoft® dog puffer jackets, hats and scarves for humans and seamless boot socks for dogs, as well as festive ornaments and new dog beds and blankets with CBD-infused fabrics launching this month. Additionally, Reddy's first toy assortment features durable, modern designs, such as the twist tug toy and treat-dispensing cone toy.
- Health and happiness, all year long: Celebrate the holiday season with savings, wellness and peace of mind. Petco's Vital Care membership offers monthly Pals Rewards and savings for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles and small pets. Pets can also get ready for a season of fun with a grooming and training session, and it's important to ensure pets are up to date on their vaccinations before traveling.
- Season of giving: While partaking in the joys of the season, join Petco Love in giving back to pets in need. Pet parents who donate $10 or more at checkout to save pet lives will receive a free pack of gift tags featuring portraits of real, adopted pets, and those who donate $20 or more will receive a free pack of greeting cards featuring these portraits.** For more information on how Petco Love is giving back this season and their year-round lifesaving work, visit PetcoLove.org.
"Remembering what matters most during the holiday season is more important than ever," said Katie Nauman, Chief Marketing Officer at Petco. "We're here to help pet lovers bring all the pets in their lives into every bit of the holiday fun, while also helping them get the most value. Petco's one-stop holiday shopping experience across petco.com and our more than 1,500 pet care centers allows us to guide pet parents through all the key moments of the holidays – from feasting and decorating, to finding the perfect gift, navigating the holiday hustle and bustle and even preparing to bring home a new pet."
Pet parents looking for the perfect holiday gifts can tune into Petco's YouTube channel on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. PST for a live social commerce event hosted by celebrities, pet parents and Yummers co-founders Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski. Additionally, for the first time, Petco will join the 96th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will air on NBC and Telemundo and stream on Peacock Thursday, Nov. 24 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST.
Pet parents can shop with ease at Petco, with options including buy online, pick-up in store, curbside pick-up and same-day delivery. Petco's More & Merrier holiday collection is currently available at petco.com/holiday and via the Petco app, rolling out to Petco pet care centers across the country by the beginning of November.
*Statistics from 2022 Petco consumer survey of 1,000 U.S. dog and cat parents.
**Available in-store through February 2023 while supplies last.
About Petco, The Health + Wellness Co.
Founded in 1965, Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and our own Petco partners. We've consistently set new standards in pet care while delivering comprehensive pet wellness products, services and solutions, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. We operate more than 1,500 pet care centers across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, which offer merchandise, companion animals, grooming, training and a growing network of on-site veterinary hospitals and mobile veterinary clinics. Our complete pet health and wellness ecosystem is accessible through our pet care centers and digitally at petco.com and on the Petco app. In tandem with Petco Love (formerly the Petco Foundation), an independent nonprofit organization, we work with and support thousands of local animal welfare groups across the country and, through in-store adoption events, we've helped find homes for more than 6.5 million animals.
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United Nations humanitarian chief says Sudan appears to be in a civil war ‘of the most brutal kind’
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sudan appears to be in a civil war “of the most brutal kind” and the world needs a new forum for talks in pursuit of a cease-fire, the United Nations humanitarian chief told The Associated Press on Monday.
Martin Griffiths spoke as regional leaders met in neighboring Ethiopia following the breakdown of peace talks in Saudi Arabia in June. Egypt says it will host leaders from Sudan’s neighbors on Thursday in search of peace, with few details.
“We don’t have a place, a forum, where the two parties are present … where we can broker the kind of basic agreements that we need to move supplies and people,” Griffiths said. He called Sudan the toughest place in the world for humanitarian workers in terms of access and warned that the crisis will only worsen as the fighting spreads to new areas.
“We have to re-create the architecture that we had for a little while in Jeddah,” he said of the Saudi- and U.S.-mediated talks. He criticized those discussions as “very clunky, very time consuming,” but said at least “it did produce some real movements” in facilitating aid access.
Sudan descended into chaos after fighting broke out between top army Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and his rival, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on April 15.
The army and RSF have agreed to at least 10 temporary cease-fires, but all have failed. Riyadh and Washington, in adjourning negotiations, accused both forces of failing to respect the agreements.
The conflict has killed over 3,000 people and wounded over 6,000 others, Sudan’s Health Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said last month and warned that the true death toll is likely to be far higher. More than 2.9 million people have fled their homes.
“If I were Sudanese, I find it hard to imagine that this isn’t a civil war … of the most brutal kind,” the U.N. humanitarian chief said. “Part of that is it’s not limited to one place, it’s spreading, it’s viral … it’s a threat to the state itself … and if that doesn’t qualify for being a civil war, I don’t know what does.”
Griffiths said there is a pressing need to create a forum to facilitate humanitarian access and local cease-fires so trucks and goods can get into specific areas. Any new forum should have greater representation for humanitarian organizations, he said.
In Sudan’s capital, RSF troops appear to have the upper hand in the streets, having commandeered civilian homes and turned them into operational bases. The army has retaliated with airstrikes that have struck residential areas and sometimes hospitals.
In the western Darfur region, the conflict’s other epicenter, entire villages have been overrun by RSF fighters and their allied militias, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee to neighboring Chad.
In the province of West Darfur, the fighting has morphed into ethnic violence, U.N. officials have said, with the RSF and Arab militias reportedly targeting non-Arab tribes. Activists and tribal leaders from the province say residents have been killed, women and girls raped, and properties looted and burned.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour, a boost that could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches.
Amazon said that beginning in October, warehouse and transportation workers would earn between $16 and $26 an hour, depending on their position and location in the U.S. The minimum wage at the Seattle-based e-commerce company, which employed roughly 1.5 million workers as of the end of June, will remain $15 an hour.
The pay raise follows an announcement from Amazon that it will hold a Prime-Day like holiday shopping event in October, the first time it is having a major sales drive twice in a year, following its Prime Day deals event in July. Target and Walmart also said last week they will offer holiday deals or gift returns in October to accommodate cash-strapped consumers expected to shop earlier and spread out their spending for the holiday season.
The company is also offering the pay bump amid a growing unionization movement inside its warehouses, driven by worker complaints over pay and working conditions. Next month, Amazon warehouse workers in upstate New York will vote in a union election following an organizing drive spearheaded by the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group of former and current Amazon workers who pulled off a union win at a Staten Island warehouse in April. The nascent union then lost a subsequent election at a nearby warehouse.
Amazon had raised its average hourly pay to $18 an hour last year. It said the new raise would cost it $1 billion in the next year.
Separately, the company said its pay access program, Anytime Pay, will also change to allow employees to get paid more than once or twice a month. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/amazon-to-raise-average-hourly-pay-by-1-to-19-in-october/ | 2022-09-29 03:16:02 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/amazon-to-raise-average-hourly-pay-by-1-to-19-in-october/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
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(two, four, five, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-three) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Night-17585241.php | 2022-11-15 06:25:25 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Night-17585241.php |
A former FBI analyst from Kansas was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents related to national defense at her home.
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough sentenced Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, to three years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. Kingsbury pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense.
As an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017, Kingsbury was assigned to a sequence of different FBI squads, each of which had a particular focus, such as illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence.
She held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and had access to national defense and classified information.
HUNTER BIDEN SCHEDULED TO MAKE FIRST COURT APPEARANCE ON FEDERAL TAX CHARGES IN JULY
"The FBI investigated what uses Kingsbury put to the classified documents she illegally removed from the secure workspace, but according to court documents, the investigation revealed more questions and concerns than answers," the FBI said in its press release.
"Investigators reviewed Kingsbury’s telephone records, which revealed a number of suspicious calls. Kingsbury contacted phone numbers associated with subjects of counterterrorism investigations, and these individuals also made telephone calls to Kingsbury," the FBI said. "Investigators have not been able to determine why Kingsbury contacted these individuals, or why these individuals contacted her. Kingsbury declined to provide the government with any further information."
The FBI said Kingsbury admitted to repeatedly removing from the FBI and retaining in her personal residence at that time in North Kansas City, Missouri, an abundance of sensitive government materials, including classified documents related to the national defense, over the course of her employment. In total, the FBI said Kingsbury improperly possessed approximately 386 classified documents at her home.
"Some of the classified documents she unlawfully removed and kept in her home contained extremely sensitive national defense information," the release said. "According to court documents, Kingsbury put national security at risk by retaining classified information in her home that would have, if in the wrong hands, revealed some of the government’s most important and secretive methods of collecting essential national security intelligence."
The documents retained by Kingsbury in her personal residence included documents in electronic format on hard drives, compact discs and other storage media.
HUNTER BIDEN CASE UNCOVERS NEW, UNEQUAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA
The FBI said that the national defense information that Kingsbury unlawfully retained included numerous documents classified at the SECRET level from the FBI that describe intelligence sources and methods related to U.S. government efforts related to counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and defending against cyber threats.
The documents are said to have included details on the FBI’s nationwide objectives and priorities, including specific investigations across multiple field offices that were open at the time Kingsbury unlawfully retained the documents. Kingsbury was also accused of retaining documents relating to sensitive human-source operations in national security investigations, intelligence gaps regarding hostile foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations, and the technical capabilities of the FBI against counterintelligence and counterterrorism targets.
As for the national defense information, Kingsbury is said to have unlawfully retained numerous documents classified at the SECRET level from another government agency that described intelligence sources and methods related to U.S. government efforts to collect intelligence on terrorist groups.
The FBI said those documents included information about al Qaeda members on the African continent, including a suspected associate of Usama bin Laden. The bureau added that there were documents regarding the activities of emerging terrorists and their efforts to establish themselves in support of al Qaeda in Africa.
Kingsbury's sentencing comes amid controversy swirling about classified documents found at the homes of former President Trump and President Biden.
Trump was indicted earlier this month in the Southern District of Florida on 37 felony counts related to the mishandling of classified documents, obstructing justice and making false statements in connection to material found during an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in West Palm Beach.
Classified documents were also found at think tank offices formerly used by Biden, as well as at his Delaware home.
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Claiming only a few materials were discovered, compared to what was uncovered in Trump's case, Biden's attorneys have said they cooperated with the Justice Department to ensure records were returned to the National Archives. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-fbi-analyst-sentenced-for-retaining-classified-documents-with-extremely-sensitive-national-defense-info/article_2cf132b6-f224-59a4-a053-c70b1eb680fd.html | 2023-06-22 15:14:19 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-fbi-analyst-sentenced-for-retaining-classified-documents-with-extremely-sensitive-national-defense-info/article_2cf132b6-f224-59a4-a053-c70b1eb680fd.html |
TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — Three migrants died and seven were injured Wednesday when the vehicle they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said the three dead migrants were from Guatemala and those injured were almost all from Guatemala and El Salvador.
An SUV carrying the migrants rolled over near the Chiapas state capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez, and the driver fled, authorities said.
It was the third accident presumably involving migrant smuggling so far this month in Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. The institute said six people had died and 22 been injured in such crashes in the last week.
The institute said it “condemns the fact that migrant smugglers profit from the vulnerability of men, women and children migrating in Mexico, without regard to their physical safety.”
Three Venezuelan migrants were killed last week in a van accident in another Chiapas town, and the previous day nine Venezuelans were injured in another crash. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-3-migrants-dead-7-injured-in-mexico-highway-accident/ | 2022-10-27 11:18:11 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-3-migrants-dead-7-injured-in-mexico-highway-accident/ |
The leading sales engagement platform, along with Forrester, will host a session at Insurtech Connect 2022, Las Vegas, and present a blueprint of the future sales distribution tech stack, encouraging sellers to look beyond a CRM.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yamini Bhat, Co-Founder & CEO of Vymo - the leading sales engagement platform for global financial services institutions and Kate Legget, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester, will lead a lunch workshop on how carriers and brokers can increase customer engagement to deliver personalized experiences at scale.
The session, 'Sellers Need More Than A CRM,' is curated for insurance leaders attending the upcoming Insurtech Connect event in Las Vegas and is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. PT, Wednesday, September 21.
Armed For The Future Of Insurance
Changing customer outlook, fierce competition from new players, and accelerated digital adoption post-pandemic have altered the insurance industry, questioning decades of business assumptions. Delivering a seamless, delightful customer experience is table stakes. And most business operating models and conventional sales tech stacks are struggling to deliver this kind of experience.
Insurance leaders must re-evaluate their existing sales distribution tech stacks and augment traditional CRMs to scale efforts towards superior customer experience and profitability. How do you build a stack that can deliver:
- Improved sales coverage and visibility for a tangible increase in productivity;
- Real-time capture of complete context on every activity within 30 seconds of an engagement;
- Improved key business metrics in less than eight weeks of deployment?
This workshop will chart the roadmap, and the session is open to all attendees of Insurtech Connect. To register, visit https://info.getvymo.com/en-us/vymo-at-itc
To receive an invite to the InsurTech VIP Happy Hour networking event, please write to marketing@getvymo.com
About the Speakers
Kate Leggett, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester
Kate is a leading expert on customer relationship management (CRM) and customer service strategies, maturity, benchmarking, governance, and ROI. She is an accomplished public speaker and frequently presents at industry events such as CRM Evolution. She has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and industry publications such as CRM Magazine, KM World, and Destination CRM.
Yamini Bhat, Co-founder and CEO, Vymo
Yamini co-founded Vymo with Venkat Malladi in 2013, and under her leadership, Vymo is among the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies in the world. She believes that in a world where it is a convention to fire the bottom 10% of performers and incentivize top performers with increasingly diminishing returns, there is a way to enable sales teams to be their best every step.
About Vymo
Vymo is the Sales Engagement Platform of choice for 65+ global Financial Institutions including Berkshire Hathaway, BNP Paribas, AIA, AXA, Generali, Sunlife and HDFC Bank. Vymo helps improve sales outcomes through bottom-up insights and interventions. Vymo is recognized by Gartner® as a Representative Vendor in the Sales Engagement Market Guide and is funded by Bertelsmann India Investments, Emergence Capital, and Sequoia Capital.
For more information, visit www.vymo.com.
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Nick Bonino makes the first move of Game 2 to give the Predators a 1-0 lead over the Coyotes in Edmonton. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nhl/preds-clear-traffic-to-take-early-lead-vs-coyotes | 2023-06-27 10:00:50 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nhl/preds-clear-traffic-to-take-early-lead-vs-coyotes |
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Police Department is investigating after a helicopter was reportedly found submerged in a body of water near an airport on Davis Islands.
Officers responded to the area of Peter O. Knight Airport on reports of a chopper submerged in water. Once on scene, police say they found the helicopter in the water, approximately 200 yards from shore.
According to the agency, no one was injured and all four people inside were able to reach shore safely.
"The Tampa Police Department is currently coordinating with local and federal agencies regarding the investigation and eventual recovery of the helicopter," the police department said in a statement. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-police-helicopter-found-submerged-peter-o-knight-airport-tampa/67-e21077f8-62ed-4f59-8d39-786220b38fce | 2022-12-30 00:46:20 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-police-helicopter-found-submerged-peter-o-knight-airport-tampa/67-e21077f8-62ed-4f59-8d39-786220b38fce |
Understanding how the Game and Fish Department’s lottery and bonus point system works can help applicants make better decisions based on their expectations.
First, it’s a matter of understanding the lottery system. Terminology is key when you think of a bonus point versus the misnomer of a preference point. There is no preference. Just a bonus.
The license lottery consists of four separate drawings, one for each choice on the application. First, we hold a drawing for the first unit/first deer choice. When those are issued, we draw for the first unit/second deer choice, then the second unit/first deer choice, and finally the second unit/second deer choice.
Next is to keep in mind the bonus points and lottery just impact the first choice.
If you fail to draw your first license choice in any given year, you receive a bonus point. You do not have to apply in the same unit, or for the same deer type each year, to qualify. You get an additional bonus point each year you apply and do not receive your first license choice. You maintain your accumulated bonus points if you apply in the first drawing at least once every two years.
You receive additional chances in the drawing for each bonus point accumulated. For points one through three, you are entered in the drawing two times the number of points you have. So, if you have two points you would get four additional chances to be drawn, compared to a person who got his or her first choice the previous year.
If you’re both competing for the same license, you have five chances, he or she has one.
When you accumulate four or more points, the number of additional chances is determined by cubing your bonus points. So, when you have four points, you will be in the drawing 64 additional times, 125 times if you have five points, and so on.
Bonus points are accumulated as long as you do not draw your first license choice and apply in the first drawing at least every other year. You do not receive bonus points in years you do not apply.
Each drawing is still random, but the more bonus points you have, the better your odds. When you receive your first license choice, you lose your bonus points and start over. Bonus points can only be earned, or used, in the first drawing for each species in each year.
2021 Lottery Stats
Deer
• 79,857 – Number of people – not including 12,113 gratis applicants – who applied for deer gun lottery licenses, down from 79,999 in 2020.
• 52.98 – Percent of successful applicants, excluding gratis and nonresidents, for deer gun and muzzleloader licenses.
• 19 – Maximum number of bonus points for any applicant (nonresident mule deer buck applicants).
• 12,636 – Applicants with four or more bonus points.
• 13.59 – Percent of applicants with four or more bonus points.
• 50.83 – Percent of applicants with four or more bonus points who applied for a muzzleloader buck license.
Drawing a buck license in 2021 was, like most years, not easy. Randy Meissner, Game and Fish Department licensing manager, said after 11,811 resident gratis licenses and 722 nonresident licenses were subtracted from the overall license allocation, just 31,160 buck licenses were available for the 66,591 hunters who applied for them as their first choice in the lottery. | https://www.willistonherald.com/hunting-and-outdoors/understanding-the-game-fish-departments-lottery-system/article_97163ba2-c638-11ec-9e47-fb02a648cefe.html | 2022-04-27 19:29:57 | 0 | https://www.willistonherald.com/hunting-and-outdoors/understanding-the-game-fish-departments-lottery-system/article_97163ba2-c638-11ec-9e47-fb02a648cefe.html |
Free fair to feature face painting, photo booth, scavenger hunt, and more
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh families know it's not too early to think about where they'll send their children next school year. Hundreds of community members will gather to explore local school options at the Pittsburgh School Fair on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
The free community event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., has the dual goal of supporting families in finding the best education option for their child and celebrating the power of learning. Besides spreading information about traditional public, private, public charter, magnet, online, and homeschool options in the area, the event will feature family fun such as face painting, balloon twisting, a photo booth, live music, a scavenger hunt, and free snacks.
The event is planned to coincide with the celebration of National School Choice Week (Jan. 22-28, 2023), which will feature tens of thousands of school choice celebrations across all 50 states, from school fairs to landmark light-ups. In Pittsburgh, the Koppers Building and Rugby's Gulf Tower will be illuminated in red and yellow, the official colors of School Choice Week, to mark the Week.
"As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to find the right school for your child. Families are ever-changing, as are the needs of their children. We want you to have information about education options at your fingertips," said Sharon Sedlar, founder of PA Families for Education Choice. "My goal is to provide families the opportunity to see as many amazing Pittsburgh area education options and child resources as possible. Helping parents find the best educational fit for their family is our top priority."
PA Families for Education Choice is hosting this free community event. PA Families for Education Choice supports parents in the pursuit of all children, regardless of economic status or zip code, having full access to a wealth of quality education options to suit them.
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center is located at 1000 Fr. Duquesne Boulevard.
National School Choice Week (NSCW) informs, inspires, and empowers parents to discover the K-12 education options available for their children, including traditional public, charter, magnet, online, private, and home schooling. Every January, tens of thousands of schools, organizations, and individuals plan unique events and activities to shine a positive spotlight on effective education options in their communities. The Week is a project of the nonpartisan, nonpolitical National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring 36 others, authorities said.
The quake struck before dawn near the southwestern coastal city of Jeremie at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me,” Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jeremie, told The Associated Press by phone.
Two homes collapsed in the quake, and a key route that connects Jeremie and Les Cayes was blocked, according to Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency.
Three of the fatal victims were from the same family and were found under a collapsed house where rescuers were searching for more people, Frankel Maginaire, with Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency in Jeremie told the AP.
He said that several children were hospitalized with injuries they received after they panicked and ran.
A crowd of people gathered around one home that collapsed as they tried to search for survivors in the rubble. They carried out at least one victim wrapped in a sheet.
Mpitabakana said things fell around his house and that he and other colleagues are contemplating sleeping outdoors if there are strong aftershocks.
“There were so many people out on the street, and a lot of panic,” he recalled of the moments after the quake struck.
Claude Prepetit, a geologist and engineer with Haiti’s Bureau of Mines and Energy, told Radio Caraibes that smaller earthquakes that occurred earlier this year in southern Haiti led to the bigger one that struck Tuesday.
The earthquake struck almost two years after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti and killed more than 2,200 people, with Les Cayes sustaining the most damage. Some people who lost their homes last August are still living in camps.
Allen Joseph, a program manager with global aid organization Mercy Corps, said in a phone interview that schools, banks and other institutions in Jeremie remained closed on Tuesday and that rescue teams had been searching for survivors in the rubble earlier.
He said the organization was still evaluating the situation to determine what help might be needed.
“There was a lot of panic,” he said. “Everyone was rushing to get outside…The neighbors were yelling, ‘Go, go, go!’”
Paul Pierre, a driver for a nongovernmental organization based in Jeremie, told the AP in a phone interview that he was barely waking up when he felt the house rocking.
“Everyone ran outside with their children, their babies,” he said. “There were some houses that collapsed.”
Pierre said he remained calm and sought shelter until the earth stopped moving, adding that he’s used to earthquakes.
In 2010, a magnitude 7 quake near the densely populated capital, Port-au-Prince, killed at least 200,000 people and caused widespread devastation to buildings.
Tuesday’s earthquake comes as Haiti struggles to recover from heavy floods over the weekend that killed at least 51 people, injured 140 and flooded nearly 31,600 homes. Prime Minister Ariel Henry has requested international assistance.
“Disasters keep hitting Haiti, left and right,” said Dr. Didinu Tamakloe, Haiti director for Project Hope, a U.S. aid organization. “People have not had sufficient time to recover from previous disasters, only to be hit by flash floods, an earthquake and landslides in a matter of days.” | https://www.koin.com/news/international/4-9-magnitude-quake-strikes-southern-haiti-3-dead-several-injured/ | 2023-06-07 07:17:10 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/4-9-magnitude-quake-strikes-southern-haiti-3-dead-several-injured/ |
A 39-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to federal prison stemming from drug sales to an undercover officer.
U.S. District Judge John Gerrard sentenced Anthony Jackson on Thursday to 15 years and eight months, plus 10 years of supervised release.
Jackson, who had been on parole on methamphetamine charges at the time, faced a 15-year mandatory minimum because of the prior conviction.
Prosecutors say between January and March 2021, Jackson sold an undercover Lincoln Police officer methamphetamine six times, in amounts ranging from an eighth of an ounce to 3 ounces.
On April 8, 2021, police arrested him near 33rd and Y streets and found him with about an ounce of meth, a digital scale and baggies. The meth was at least 90% pure.
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Novak Djokovic back in Australia following high-profile visa ban
By David Close, CNN
Novak Djokovic is back in Australia, according to a spokesperson with Tennis Australia, nearly a year after his high-profile visa ban from the country over his stance on the Covid-19 vaccination.
The 21-time grand slam champion is slated to open his 2023 tennis season next week in Adelaide for the Adelaide International 1. It comes more than a month after Australian officials said that Djokovic’s three-year ban from entering the country would be overturned.
The Serbian was deported from Australia in January after former immigration minister Alex Hawke found the tennis star posed a risk to public health and order because, as a celebrity sportsman who had previously expressed opposition to people being compelled to get the Covid-19 vaccine, he could be seen as an “icon” for anti-vaxxers.
The minister’s decision to deport the former world No. 1 men’s player meant he was initially banned from reentry for three years.
On Monday, Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley said, “We will welcome him back to Australia.”
As for the reception Djokovic should expect to receive from Aussies, Tiley said, “I have a great deal of confidence in the Australian public. I think we have a very well-educated sporting public particularly those that come for tennis. They love their tennis. They love seeing greatness. They love seeing great athleticism, great matches.
“I have a lot of confidence that the fans will react like we hope they would react and have respect for that,” he added.
CNN has reached out to the tennis star for comment.
Djokovic has won nine men’s singles titles at the Australian Open, more than anyone else in history. He is entered to play in the 2023 edition next month.
Australian Open saga
Djokovic’s high-profile visa saga overshadowed the Australian Open earlier this year, pitting one of tennis’ biggest stars against the Australian government and dividing opinion in the country, which had enacted tough pandemic border restrictions.
The government revoked the Serbian’s visa shortly after his arrival in Melbourne on January 5 because he was not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Djokovic said he was under the impression he could enter the country because two independent panels associated with Tennis Australia and the Victorian state government had granted him an exemption on the grounds he had been infected with the virus a few weeks prior to his arrival.
But the federal government argued that was not a valid reason for an exemption under its rules.
A judge later ruled that border officers had been “unreasonable” when they canceled Djokovic’s visa and ordered his release from an immigration detention center.
But his visa was then revoked for a second time and after losing his bid to challenge the decision, the tennis star left Australia.
Despite his return to action in selected tournaments following the ordeal, the player’s Covid-19 vaccination stance restricted his participation in others.
In July, Djokovic won his 21st grand slam title, beating Nick Kyrgios in the final at Wimbledon.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) (Nasdaq: VNDA) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation for VPO-227 for the treatment of cholera.
While the incidence of cholera in the U.S. is low, cholera is a widespread infectious diarrheal disease with estimated 1.4 to 4 million cases worldwide, resulting in 21,000 to 143,000 deaths annually.1 Many of these deaths occur in children, as diarrheal diseases are the second leading cause of death globally among children under 5 years of age.2 Cholera remains a major public health challenge and recognized unmet medical need despite decades-long public health efforts.
"This designation is an important milestone in the development of VPO-227 and highlights the need for potential new treatment options for patients who suffer from cholera and other conditions of water hyper-excretion," said Mihael H. Polymeropoulos, M.D., Vanda's President, CEO and Chairman of the Board.
VPO-227 is a small-molecule with a novel mechanism of action which blocks the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) ion channel. CFTR plays a pivotal role in cholera-induced intestinal fluid loss as it is affected by the cholera toxin. VPO-227, therefore, has the potential to be an orally administered treatment for cholera. In a recent publication in the journal Toxins, the authors showed that oral VPO-227 protects animals from a lethal cholera challenge using two separate cholera strains.3
Orphan Drug Designation is granted by the FDA to investigational therapies addressing rare medical conditions and provides benefits to drug developers, including assistance in the drug development process, tax credits for clinical costs, exemptions from certain FDA fees and the potential for seven years of post-approval marketing exclusivity.
Additionally, in order to incentivize development in tropical diseases, including cholera, the FDA has established the Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher Program, which grants a transferable Priority Review Voucher to sponsors of eligible new drug applications for products treating tropical diseases. Vanda expects to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA for VPO-227 in 2023.
References
- Ali, M., Nelson, A. R., Lopez, A. L., & Sack, D. A. (2015). Updated global burden of cholera in endemic countries. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003832
- Harris, J. B., LaRocque, R. C., Qadri, F., Ryan, E. T., & Calderwood, S. B. (2012). Cholera. The Lancet, 379(9835), 2466–2476. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60436-x
- Rivera-Chávez, F., Meader, B. T., Akosman, S., Koprivica, V, & Mekalanos, J. J. (2022). A potent inhibitor of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator blocks disease and morbidity due to toxigenic vibrio cholerae. Toxins, 14(3), 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins14030225
About Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Vanda is a leading global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies to address high unmet medical needs and improve the lives of patients. For more on Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., please visit www.vandapharma.com and follow us on Twitter @vandapharma.
About VPO-227
VPO-227 (formerly BPO-27) is a small molecule CFTR inhibitor in development for the treatment of secretory disorders, including cholera. Vanda entered into a license agreement with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2017, under which Vanda acquired an exclusive worldwide license from UCSF to develop and commercialize a portfolio of CFTR activators and inhibitors, including the activator VPO-227. CFTR activators and inhibitors may have broad applicability in addressing a number of disorders, including chronic dry eye, constipation, polycystic kidney disease, cholestasis, and secretory diarrheas.
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Various statements in this press release, including, but not limited to statements regarding Vanda's clinical development and regulatory plans and strategies for VPO-227 and the safety and efficacy of VPO-227, are "forward-looking statements" under the securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and assumptions that involve risks, changes in circumstances and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in Vanda's forward-looking statements include, among others, Vanda's ability to complete the IND for VPO-227 and submit it the FDA during 2023, the ability of VPO-227 to safely and effectively treat cholera in humans and Vanda's ability to complete the clinical development of, and obtain regulatory approval for, VPO-227. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the results or developments anticipated by Vanda will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Vanda. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the various risks and uncertainties that affect Vanda's business and market, particularly those identified in the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements", "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Vanda's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as updated by Vanda's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10‑Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov.
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Looking for a hint on how to solve today’s Wordle puzzle? Look no further.
Some Wordle games are really tough, and people seek out hints, so we figured we would lend a hand on how to solve today’s Wordle.
Note: We will give away the answer at the end of this article, so if you don’t want any spoilers, avoid the final sentence of this story.
How to solve Wordle today on June 13
Hint No. 1: There are two vowels, one is used twice.
Hint No. 2: It describes someone who is a giver.
Before we give away the answer to today’s puzzle, here’s some background on the online puzzle craze known as Wordle.
What is Wordle? How do you play?
Wordle is a free online word-guessing game where players have to guess the five-letter word in six tries or fewer.
Here’s how it works:
- If the letter from your guess does not match up to the target word, the letter will turn gray.
- If the letter from your guess is in the word but not in the right position, the letter will turn yellow.
- If the letter is in the word and it is in the right place, it will turn a bright shade of green.
You have six tries to solve the puzzle of the day, and based on anecdotal evidence on Twitter — it is fun, tough and addicting.
What are the best starter words in Wordle?
The best starter words in Wordle, according to multiple sources on the internet, are the following:
- ADIEU
- TEARS
- LARES
How did Wordle become so popular?
Everyone is only allowed to solve one puzzle per day, like a daily crossword or the Sudoku puzzle you would find in a newspaper or magazine.
Only difference is, the puzzle is online and at least thousands of people are guessing the same word every day in competition with each other.
The main reason it rose to popularity on social media is that people could easily share their puzzle results on social media platforms such as Twitter.
In fact, it became so popular that The New York Times bought the game for seven figures. However, according to The Times, the game will remain free for now for new and existing players.
How to play Wordle more than once per day
There is a way to play Wordle more than once per day if you want.
You can try out this Wordle puzzle randomizer, which gives you a new puzzle whenever you want.
The answer to today’s Wordle puzzle, June 13 (Wordle 358)
Still can’t figure out today’s Wordle puzzle?
The answer is: DONOR.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A 17-year-old boy from Honduras died this week in U.S. immigration custody, American and Honduran officials said Friday, underscoring concerns about a strained immigration system as the Biden administration manages the end of asylum restrictions known as Title 42.
The teenager was identified as Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, according to a tweet from Honduran foreign relations minister Enrique Reina. Maradiaga was detained at a facility in Safety Harbor, Florida, Reina said.
He entered the U.S. several weeks ago and died Wednesday, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
No cause of death was immediately available nor were circumstances of any illness or medical treatment.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for the facility where Maradiaga was held, said in a statement that a review of health care records was underway as was an investigation by a medical examiner.
HHS “is deeply saddened by this tragic loss and our heart goes out to the family, with whom we are in touch,” the department’s statement said.
The asylum restrictions under Title 42 expired Thursday with President Joe Biden’s administration announcing new curbs on border crossers that went into effect Friday. Tens of thousands of people tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in the weeks before the expiration of Title 42, under which U.S. officials expelled many people but allowed exemptions for others, including minors crossing the border unaccompanied by a parent.
This was the first known death of an immigrant child in custody during the Biden administration. At least six immigrant children died in U.S. custody during the administration of former President Donald Trump.
HHS operates long-term facilities to hold children who cross the border without a parent until they can be placed with a sponsor. HHS facilities generally have beds and facilities as well as schooling and other activities for minors, unlike Border Patrol stations and detention sites in which detainees sometimes sleep on the floor in cells.
Advocates who oppose the detention of immigrant children say HHS facilities are not suited to hold minors for weeks or months as sometimes happens.
More than 8,600 children are currently in HHS custody. That number may rise sharply in the coming weeks amid the shift in border policies as well as sharply rising trends of migration across the Western Hemisphere and the traditional spike in crossings during spring and summer.
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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/honduran-teen-dies-in-us-immigration-custody-weeks-after-crossing-southern-border/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-05-12 18:24:17 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/honduran-teen-dies-in-us-immigration-custody-weeks-after-crossing-southern-border/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
- Last week, when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, FTX indicated that it had more than 100,000 creditors.
- But in an updated filing Tuesday, lawyers for the company said: "In fact, there could be more than one million creditors in these Chapter 11 Cases."
- Over the past 72 hours, FTX has been in contact with "dozens" of regulators in the U.S. and overseas, the lawyers wrote.
Beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have more than 1 million creditors, according to a new bankruptcy filing, hinting at the huge impact of its collapse on crypto traders.
Last week, when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, FTX indicated that it had more than 100,000 creditors with claims in the case.
But in an updated filing Tuesday, lawyers for the company said: "In fact, there could be more than one million creditors in these Chapter 11 Cases."
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Typically in such cases, debtors are required to provide a list of the names and addresses of the top 20 unsecured creditors, the lawyers said. However, given the scale of its debts, the group instead intends to file a list of the 50 largest creditors on or before Friday.
Five new independent directors have been appointed at each of FTX's main parent companies, according to the filing, including the former Delaware district judge, Joseph J. Farnan, who will serve as lead independent director.
Over the past 72 hours, FTX has been in contact with "dozens" of regulators in the U.S. and overseas, the company's lawyers wrote. These include the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Money Report
This year has seen a spate of crypto firms, including Celsius and Voyager Digital, fail as they contend with a slump in digital asset prices and ensuing liquidity issues.
In earlier bankruptcy cases, traders on these platforms have been designated "unsecured creditors," meaning they'll likely be at the back of a long queue of entities seeking repayment, from suppliers to employees.
Before its collapse, FTX offered amateur and professional traders spot crypto investing as well as more complex derivatives trades. At its peak, the platform was valued by investors at $32 billion and had more than 1 million users. The company's failure has had a chilling effect on the industry, with investors selling their positions and moving funds off exchanges.
On Monday, the CEOs of Binance and Crypto.com sought to reassure investors about their businesses' financial health. Binance's Changpeng Zhao said his exchange had only seen a minor increase in withdrawals, while Crypto.com chief Kris Marszalek said his firm had a "tremendously strong balance sheet."
Commingling of client funds
FTX entered bankruptcy Friday as concerns over its financial health led to a surge in withdrawals and a plunge in the value of its native FTT token. Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX's founder, stepped aside as CEO and was replaced by John J. Ray III.
FTX initially turned to Binance for a rescue deal, but this fell apart when Binance backed out citing reports of mishandled customer funds and alleged U.S. government probes into FTX. Over the weekend, FTX was hit with an apparent cyberattack resulting in the theft of more than $400 million worth of tokens.
"FTX faced a severe liquidity crisis that necessitated the filing of these cases on an emergency basis last Friday," lawyers wrote in the filing Tuesday. "Questions arose about Mr. Bankman-Fried's leadership and the handling of FTX's complex array of assets and businesses under his direction."
CNBC reported Sunday that Alameda Research, FTX's sister company, had borrowed billions in customer funds from the exchange to make risky leveraged trades, leaving FTX caught short when users wanted to withdraw their money.
In general, mixing customer funds with counterparties and trading them without explicit consent is illegal, according to U.S. securities law. It also violates FTX's terms of service.
Bankman-Fried declined to comment on allegations but said the company's recent bankruptcy filing was the result of issues with a leveraged trading position.
"I think it's increasingly clear, even at a basic level, that this kind of intermingling of interests between the market maker and the exchange is highly unethical," Jamie Burke CEO and founder of Web3-focused venture capital firm Outlier Ventures, told CNBC.
"It's a bit frustrating, on the back of everything else that happened with terra and luna earlier in the year, that actually it's some of the same malpractices over overleverage and under reporting effectively."
In a cryptic Twitter thread this week, Bankman-Fried wrote the word "What" followed by the letters "H," "A," "P," "P," "E," "N," "E," "D," in intermittent tweets.
He finished the thread Tuesday with the sentence: "10) [NOT LEGAL ADVICE. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. THIS IS ALL AS I REMEMBER IT, BUT MY MEMORY MIGHT BE FAULTY IN PARTS.]"
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated how Alameda handled the borrowed funds from FTX. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/money-report/ftx-says-it-could-have-over-1-million-creditors-in-new-bankruptcy-filing/3125597/ | 2022-11-19 19:41:09 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/money-report/ftx-says-it-could-have-over-1-million-creditors-in-new-bankruptcy-filing/3125597/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Dougie Hamilton scored 11:36 into overtime and the New Jersey Devils beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Saturday night to cut their series deficit to 2-1.
Jack Hughes scored and Jesper Bratt had two assists for New Jersey, which lost the first two games at home by 5-1 scores. Akira Schmid got the start in goal in place of Vitek Vanecek and finished with 35 saves.
Chris Kreider scored for New York. Igor Shesterkin stopped 26 shots.
In the extra period, Bratt found Hamilton on the right side, and the defenseman skated into the right circle and beat Shesterkin on the glove side.
Game 4 is back at Madison Square Garden on Monday night and Game 5 will be in New Jersey on Thursday night.
Schmid made a left pad save on a shot by Braden Schneider about 1:40 into overtime. Shesterkin denied an attempt on the left side by Timo Meier two minutes later, and then the follow try on the rebound by Bratt. Schmid then gloved a shot by Vladimir Tarasenko six minutes into the extra period.
Bratt had a try from 10 feet away 8:14 into the third but his attempt was turned aside by Shesterkin to keep the score tied.
The Rangers got their fifth power play of the game with six minutes remaining when the Devils’ Ryan Graves was sent off for high-sticking. Artemi Panarin had chance to give the Rangers the lead but his shot from the left circle was wide left of the net 32 seconds into the advantage.
Kreider got the Rangers on the scoreboard first as he got a pass from Mika Zibanejad, skated up the left side and fired a shot past Schmid’s blocker from the left circle at 3:39 of the second period. It came on the Rangers’ first shot of the period and was Kreider’s fifth goal of the series — after the first four came on power plays — and 39th postseason score of his career.
Hamilton fired a shot from the right point that got past Shesterkin but hit the crossbar and deflected up and out of play during a Devils power play 8 1/2 minutes into the middle period. New Jersey didn’t manage a shot on goal during the advantage.
With the Devils on their third power play of the game, Hughes got a pass from Hamilton on the left side, skated into the left circle and fired a shot that beat Shesterkin on the blocker side with 9:23 left in the second. It was Hughes’ second goal of the series — the first came on a penalty shot in the third period of Game 1 — and the New Jersey’s second on a power play.
Each team had 11 shots on goal in a scoreless first period — the first scoreless period in the series.
The Rangers’ Patrick Kane was called for hooking 22 seconds in, putting New Jersey on an early power play. The Devils managed one shot on goal during the advantage. Artemi Panarin had a breakaway with 7 1/2 minutes left in 1st but his shot went wide over Schmid’s glove.
ROOKIE START
The Devils turned to the 22-year-old Schmid after Vanecek gave up nine goals on 52 shots over the first two games. Schmid became the first rookie goalie to start a playoff game for the Devils since Martin Brodeur in 1994. During the regular season, Schmid was 9-5-2 with a 2.13 goals-against average in 18 games.
SETTING A FIRST
Kreider became the first Rangers player to score five goals in the first three playoff games of a postseason.
POWER PLAYS
The Rangers came in 4 for 10 on the power play over the first two games, but went 0 for 5 in Game 3. New Jersey, which was 1 for 8 coming in, was 1 for 3.
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The traffic signals at the intersection of Main Avenue and Fifth Street in downtown Bismarck will be out of service on Monday for repair work.
The intersection will be controlled with stop signs beginning at 8:15 a.m. and continuing likely until 5 p.m., according to the city. No detour will be provided.
Edling Electric will be making repairs to the traffic signal standard in the northeast quadrant of the intersection. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/main-and-fifth-traffic-signal-work-set-monday/article_456ddc56-a986-11ed-a91a-bb5b5bf99015.html | 2023-02-10 22:04:06 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/main-and-fifth-traffic-signal-work-set-monday/article_456ddc56-a986-11ed-a91a-bb5b5bf99015.html |
ASU women's basketball eager to start Pac-12 play at Arizona
For the Arizona State women’s basketball team's preparations ahead of the Pac-12 opener at Arizona, the Sun Devils can draw from its previous experience this season at GCU Arena.
The packed, hostile environment at GCU Arena from late November is the right test when ASU heads to McKale Center. The consistently loud games and heightened communication were put to the test at GCU, but the Sun Devils rallied together with a 35-point quarter in the 80-72 win.
“I was super proud of them because they rose to the challenge. I don’t think they were rattled at all,” ASU head coach Natasha Adair said.
On top of the rivalry, ASU will be facing an Arizona (10-1) team that has climbed into the top 20 after dusting off Baylor on Dec. 18.
The Wildcats have had a balanced scoring attack but it’s the defense that has stood out with Arizona limiting opponents to 58.7 points per game and ranking 13th in the country in scoring margin with 23.9 points.
“We’re preparing for their aggressiveness and what they’re known for,” Adair said. “It’s going to always be about us and how we respond, how we get off to a good start, sustain that intensity and effort for 40 full minutes and not having those letdowns. We’re a team that is going to continue to talk about defense and winning the hustle plays and setting the tone from the tip.”
ASU went into the winter break dealing with injuries and might be still in the same place. As of Tuesday, Adair said that seven players could be available. She also said the ongoing travel issues around the country had two players unable to practice on Tuesday.
Against Arizona, the Sun Devils will be facing a familiar player in last year’s scoring leader, Jade Loville. Since joining the Wildcats, Loville has averaged 12.8 points per game. Arizona’s balanced offense features four players averaging in double figures.
Read more: Arizona, Arizona State men's and women's basketball heading toward first showdown
Although Loville’s exit from ASU could play a role in Thursday’s game with former teammates knowing about her game from last season, Adair doesn’t want that to overshadow the team’s game plan.
“I really want us to be locked into who we are and what we need to do to compete,” Adair said. “There are tips, but I don’t want them to have to worry about those types of game plans. They know her and they know her strengths and weaknesses. I just want us to stay locked into what we need to do, in reference to beating Arizona.”
For ASU, point guard Tyi Skinner is new to the Pac-12, but certainly won’t be to film rooms. The entire team has been preparing for what will likely be double or triple teams against Skinner and how to respond to those situations.
With Jaddan Simmons moving from facilitator to shooting guard, Adair wants to see her continue to develop in her offensive production and increase her 13.7 points per game.
With Pac-12 play set for Thursday, Adair knows the challenges ahead with the conference, but wants her team to remain focused internally.
“For a team that’s growing and learning, I think it’s more about who we are than where we’re going and people we’re going to compete against,” Adair said. “There will be a plan and a strategy, but I still think we’re identifying who we are as a team and building our culture.” | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2022/12/28/asu-womens-basketball-eager-to-start-pac-12-play-against-arizona/69760449007/ | 2022-12-28 18:12:55 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2022/12/28/asu-womens-basketball-eager-to-start-pac-12-play-against-arizona/69760449007/ |
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A memorial to the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting opened to the public Sunday, a month before the 10th anniversary of the massacre.
No ceremony was planned at the site a short distance from the school. It has become a custom in Newtown on anniversaries and other remembrances of the shooting to mark them with quiet reflection.
A small but steady stream of people visited the memorial Sunday, including Kevin and Nora Smith from nearby Monroe.
“It just takes your breath away,” Nora Smith said. “It’s something that you hold close to your heart because you feel so bad for these families.”
Flower bouquets floated counterclockwise in the water feature, which is surrounded by a cobblestone walkway and a few benches.
The new Sandy Hook School, built after the former one was torn down on the same property, can be seen through the woods now that the leaves have fallen.
Some victims’ relatives were given a private tour of the grounds on Saturday.
“I think they deserve not to have the bright lights of the world on them,” said Newtown First Selectman Dan Rosenthal, the town’s top elected official.
The memorial was designed as a peaceful place of contemplation. Paths with a variety of plantings lead to a water feature with a sycamore tree in the middle and the victims’ names engraved on the top of a surrounding supporting wall.
The water flow was engineered so floatable candles, flowers and other objects will move toward the tree and circle around it.
Like some other victims’ relatives, Jennifer Hubbard saw the memorial in a private appointment before this weekend. Her daughter, Catherine Violet Hubbard, 6, was one of the children who died in the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012.
“It took my breath away in the sense that to see Catherine’s name and to see what has been created in honor of those that lost … the families, those that survived — they’ve lost their innocence,” she said. “And the community. We all suffered because of Dec. 14.
“I think that the memorial is so perfectly appointed in honoring and providing a place of contemplation and reflection for a day that really changed the country,” she said.
Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, was killed, took to Twitter on Saturday to thank those who worked on the memorial planning for years.
“Ten years. A lifetime and a blink,” she wrote. “Ana Grace, we used to wait for you to come home. Now you wait for us. Hold on, little one. Hold on.”
Town voters approved $3.7 million for the cost of the memorial last year. Part of the cost was offset when the State Bond Commission approved giving the town $2.5 million for the project.
The project faced several challenges after the town created a special commission to oversee the memorial planning in the fall of 2013. Some proposed sites were rejected, including one near a hunting club where gunshots could be heard, and officials cut the cost of the project down from $10 million because of concerns voters would not approve it. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-sandy-hook-memorial-opens-nearly-10-years-after-26-killed/ | 2022-11-13 19:25:33 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-sandy-hook-memorial-opens-nearly-10-years-after-26-killed/ |
Michael Harris II Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Rockies - June 17
Published: Jun. 17, 2023 at 5:29 AM EDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Michael Harris II and his .737 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, take on starting pitcher Connor Seabold and the Colorado Rockies at Truist Park, Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his last game (1-for-3) against the Rockies.
Michael Harris II Game Info & Props vs. the Rockies
- Game Day: Saturday, June 17, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rockies Starter: Connor Seabold
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -115)
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Michael Harris II At The Plate
- Harris II is batting .224 with seven doubles, five home runs and 12 walks.
- In 54.2% of his 48 games this season, Harris II has picked up at least one hit. He's also had six multi-hit games.
- He has hit a home run in 10.4% of his games in 2023 (five of 48), and 2.8% of his trips to the dish.
- In 18.8% of his games this season, Harris II has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 8.3% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 13 of 48 games this year, he has scored, and five of those games included multiple runs.
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Michael Harris II Home/Away Batting Splits
Rockies Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Rockies has a collective 7.5 K/9, the worst in the league.
- The Rockies have the 29th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (5.23).
- The Rockies give up the fifth-most home runs in baseball (94 total, 1.3 per game).
- Seabold gets the start for the Rockies, his ninth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 4.70 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 53 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last pitched on Monday against the Boston Red Sox, when he tossed six innings, allowing one earned run while giving up six hits.
- In 15 games this season, the 27-year-old has put up a 4.70 ERA and 7 strikeouts per nine innings, while giving up a batting average of .265 to his opponents.
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