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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp Wednesday in the wake of a devastating Israeli offensive last week, marking his first visit to the camp since 2005.
The visit came at a time of seething discontentment among Palestinians in the West Bank for Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, the autonomous government which administers parts of the West Bank but whose forces have largely lost control over several militant strongholds in the region — including Jenin.
The 87-year-old president is widely seen as out of touch with the public and rarely ventures outside of his Ramallah headquarters, making Wednesday’s visit notable.
The Palestinian leader’s visit to the Jenin refugee camp came a week after Israel launched a massive two-day military operation there, the largest in the West Bank in nearly two decades, that killed at least 12 Palestinians, forced thousands to flee their homes and left large swaths of the camp in ruins. An Israeli soldier was also killed in the operation, which the Israeli army said was necessary to crack down on Palestinian militant groups following a spate of recent attacks.
Abbas arrived in Jenin aboard a Jordanian helicopter on Wednesday afternoon. Thousands clustered around his heavy security detail, and children chased his motorcade as it moved along the streets. He visited a freshly-dug cemetery, where he laid a wreath at the graves of those killed in last week’s operation, before speaking to a tightly-packed crowd.
Abbas’s leadership has come under criticism over a lack of security coordination, rampant corruption and the lack of any progress toward independence. Just 17% of Palestinians are satisfied with Abbas’ leadership and 80% want him to resign, according to a Palestinian public opinion poll in June.
The Palestinian Authority has long drawn resentment for its security cooperation with Israel, which allows its security forces to crack down on rival militant groups such as Hamas, but the Jenin raid further degraded its reputation among many Palestinians.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview with CNN this week that “the Palestinian Authority has lost its credibility” among Palestinians and has “created a vacuum for extremism” in the West Bank.
Abbas’s visit came after a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s office that his government would take steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, but gave no specifics about what steps it would take.
Since taking office in December, several ultranationalist ministers in Netanyahu’s government have called for the Palestinian Authority to be disbanded.
Netanyahu heads one of the most hard-line governments in Israel’s history, made up of ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox factions along with his ruling Likud party.
Over the last year, Israel has conducted stepped-up raids into Palestinian areas in response to deadly Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis over the past year.
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STANFORD, Calif. and PRINCETON, N.J., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today announced a new partnership designed to radically transform education assessment across the United States. In collaboration with practitioners and policymakers nationwide, the partnership aims to create a robust, scalable suite of assessment and analytic tools that captures the full range of skills required for American students to succeed in K–12, postsecondary education and beyond.
Since 1906, the Carnegie Unit or "credit hour" has served as the bedrock currency of the educational economy. It defines what "counts" as learning, shapes the nature of what is and is not assessed, and determines the basic organization of secondary and postsecondary education. Where seat time has served as the primary function of learning outcomes, it is increasingly clear that the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to succeed in the 21st-century economy are not singularly demonstrated through time on task — whether sitting at a desk or on a digital platform. It is time to fundamentally rethink how learning progressions and mastery are demonstrated, the methods of measurement used and how attainment of skills is communicated throughout a learner's journey. The Carnegie Foundation and ETS are proposing that the new currency of education should be based upon meaningful skills and accomplishments demonstrated through assessment.
"Current assessments fail to capture what we know matters most, and do not provide key stakeholders — students, parents and educators — with the insights they need to accelerate learning," Carnegie Foundation President Timothy F.C. Knowles said. "How we demonstrate progress must become competency-based, and families and educators should be supported by assessments that capture learning whether it occurs in the classroom, after school, on a farm, in the workplace, or in an internship."
"It is time for a seismic shift in education that puts the focus on skills. And not just cognitive skills accounted for in curriculum written for 20th-century skills and work, but the rich tapestry of skills that enable individuals to thrive in the 21st century," said Amit Sevak, President & CEO of ETS. "This is a fundamental paradigm shift from time-based to skill-based units of learning. Smarter assessments are the key to unlock the future."
Together, Carnegie and ETS will design, pilot and distribute a new suite of assessments that measure the essential affective, behavioral and cognitive skills necessary for success in school and the 21st-century economy. The offering will be designed to provide actionable evidence of progress to students, parents, educators and states, and will leverage advances in assessment technology to capture and communicate student skill development, whether it occurs inside or outside the classroom.
"The Carnegie Foundation and ETS are tackling a central issue that is impeding the progress of young people nationwide, one which needs a comprehensive solution," says Ted Mitchell, President of the American Council on Education (ACE). "It is timely that ETS will leverage its technical assessment strength and scalability, while Carnegie will draw on historical contributions to the field to support student, teacher, and family-voice in assessment development, field-testing and implementation. I am thrilled that they have engaged organizations like ACE to ensure we are working together across the education ecosystem to address this critical national challenge."
Carnegie and ETS will design and pilot this offering in close partnership with key stakeholders — including students, parents, teachers, education leaders, civil rights organizations and employers. Stakeholders will be engaged at each step of the process — from development, testing, implementation and determining impact.
"One year ago, we partnered with The Carnegie Foundation to build a new educational architecture of secondary schools," said Russlynn Ali, former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and now CEO of XQ Institute. "Building better assessments that focus on the real skills young people need to thrive in postsecondary school and their career is critical to supporting our economy, democracy and social fabric. That's why XQ is excited to bring our tools, our ideas and our national network of extraordinary educators to support this important work."
About The Carnegie Foundation
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was chartered by an act of Congress in 1906. Since then, it has pioneered a broad range of transformative advancements in K–12 and higher education, including the establishment of TIAA-CREF; the Carnegie Unit; standards for schools of law, medicine, education, and engineering; the GRE; Pell Grants; the Carnegie Classifications; and the use of networked improvement science to develop the educational sector. The Carnegie Foundation's mission is to catalyze transformational change in education so that every student has the opportunity to live a healthy, dignified, and fulfilling life.
About ETS
We believe in the life-changing power of learning. For the last 75 years, we've been driven by a vision of what's possible when all people can improve their lives through education. It's why our uncompromising commitment to equity and fairness is behind everything we do. ETS serves learners, educators and government agencies by providing measurement solutions, and conducting research, analysis and policy studies. ETS develops, administers and scores tens of millions of tests annually — including the TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® tests and The Praxis Series® — in more than 200 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. www.ets.org
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HOUSTON — Why are dating apps leaving some users burnt out and tired of looking for love?
Tinder turns 10 this month and while the dating app has produced plenty of happy couples, more and more singletons are deciding to swipe left on dating apps altogether.
The New York Times reports a growing surge of online dating burnout. Singles Reports, a data analytics company, found that nearly 80% of 18 to 54-year-old users reported emotional fatigue from online dating.
Users also report that it’s not just burnout that’s bothering them. A recent Pew Research survey found that 35% of online daters had received unwanted sexually explicit messages or images, while 37% had people continue to message them even after being told they weren’t interested.
The Times reports there are strategies for dating in the digital age. Recommendations include backing away from the binging.
Once you feel a connection with a handful of people, stop and explore if those connections are real instead of continuing to swipe.
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Acquisition strengthens DCI's service offerings for federal contractors
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DCI Consulting Group (DCI), a Washington, D.C.-based human resources data analytics and consulting firm, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Englishtown, New Jersey-based Glenn Barlett Consulting Services (Glenn Barlett Consulting).
The acquisition further bolsters DCI's expert staff and will help deliver its wide range of service offerings while cementing the company's position as the industry leader in OFCCP compliance and HR analytics. DCI offers a wide range of services including pay equity analyses, diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) metrics, and personnel selection services. Glenn Barlett Consulting specializes in affirmative action compliance.
"Our clients are our top priority at DCI. This acquisition will help us grow as a firm while continuing to offer the highest level of service," said DCI President David Cohen. "Glenn Barlett Consulting brings decades of experience in OFCCP compliance. We are excited to welcome them to our team and look forward to providing their clients with additional resources and top-tier service."
With the acquisition, Glenn Barlett Consulting staff and clients will transition to DCI. The firms will be fully integrated, giving Glenn Barlett Consulting clients access to DCI's extensive service offerings, as well as additional advanced workplace analytics and audit support.
"DCI is a leader in the HR analytics and compliance industry. We're incredibly excited to be a part of their affirmative action and equal employment opportunity practice area," said Vicky Ungvary, Managing Partner at Glenn Barlett Consulting. "Through this acquisition, our clients will continue to receive the same level of care and attention they're used to while having access to DCI's full suite of services."
About DCI
DCI is a human resources risk management consulting firm strategically headquartered in Washington, D.C. Members of DCI's staff are recognized experts in a variety of spaces, including systemic compensation discrimination analyses, affirmative action plan development and implementation, pay equity analyses, DEIA metrics, employee selection and test validation, and OFCCP audit and litigation support. DCI also offers proprietary software and corresponding support to clients.
About Glenn Barlett Consulting
Glenn Barlett Consulting provides a full range of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity professional services. The firm prepares affirmative action plans for numerous public and private sector employers throughout the United States.
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Gibbs passes Larson late, wins Xfinity race at Road America
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Ty Gibbs overtook NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson on the final lap of overtime Saturday at Road America for his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season. The race featured a major wreck that impacted about a third of the 38-car field. Larson, competing in an Xfinity Series event for the first time since 2018, was leading when Cole Custer’s brake failure resulted in a late caution flag that produced overtime. The 19-year-old Gibbs, the grandson of team owner Joe Gibbs, chased Larson for much of the overtime session, passed him early in the final lap and remained in front the rest of the way for his third career road-course win. Gibbs’ winning margin was 0.858 seconds. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/02/gibbs-passes-larson-late-wins-xfinity-race-at-road-america/ | 2022-07-02 22:48:50 | 1 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/02/gibbs-passes-larson-late-wins-xfinity-race-at-road-america/ |
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden is holding an election Sunday to elect lawmakers to the 349-seat Riksdag as well as to local offices across the nation of 10 million people. Early voting began on Aug. 24, so many people will have already cast their ballots by election day. Here are some key things to know about the vote.
WHAT IS AT STAKE?
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is fighting to keep her center-left Social Democrats at the helm of a left-wing coalition but is facing a strong challenge from the right.
Sweden is known for being a cradle-to-grave welfare society and Andersson would like to preserve the social protections that have long defined Sweden, and reverse some of the market-oriented changes by an earlier government. Her party feels that some of the changes, like state subsidies going to private schools, are creating greater inequalities.
The once mighty Social Democrats have been in power since 2014. But as the party’s popularity sinks compared with its heyday in the 20th century, it has been forced it to preside over a weaker government relying more on other parties to pass laws, a situation which has produced political instability over the past eight years.
WHO IS LIKELY TO WIN?
There are two major blocs, with four parties on the left and four on the right. The polls leading up to the election showed the two blocs in a near dead heat, with the outcome impossible to predict.
Under Swedish law, it falls to the party that wins the most seats to form a government. Polls show that this is likely to be Andersson’s party, in which case it would be up to her first to try to form a coalition government with majority support in the legislature.
But if the left as a whole has a poor showing, she might not be able to form a coalition. In that case, the baton would be passed to the second-largest party to try to form a government.
WHICH PARTY IS IN THE NO. 2 SPOT?
In the last election, in 2018, the Moderates led by Ulf Kristersson, a center-right party, won the second highest number of seats. The conservative party promotes a market economy, lower taxes and a smaller role for government in a country with a generous welfare state supported by high taxes.
But like the Social Democrats, and many other mainstream parties across Europe for that matter, the Moderates have also seen their popularity with voters decline amid a populist challenge coming from further right.
WHO ARE THE POPULISTS?
The Sweden Democrats, a populist right-wing party which takes a hard line on immigration and crime, first entered parliament in 2010 and has been growing steadily ever since.
The party won 13% of the vote in 2018, becoming the third-largest force in parliament. Polls show that is likely to improve on that showing on Sunday.
Some Swedes describe the party as Trumpist and feel put off by the fact that it was founded by far-right extremists decades ago, not quite certain whether to trust it in its transformation to a more traditional conservative party.
The party is led by Jimmie Akesson, a 43-year-old former web designer who has been the driving force in trying to moderate the party’s image.
The party has clearly tapped into the social mood, however. Its success can be measured also by the fact that other parties have been moving closer to its positions as many Swedes believe that they can no longer bear the costs of the generous refugee policies of the past, and are seeking a crackdown on crime.
Once treated as a pariah, other conservative parties have grown increasingly willing to deal with the Sweden Democrats.
HOW SERIOUS IS CRIME IN SWEDEN?
Some of the immigrants who have been welcomed in Sweden in past years have had difficulties assimilating into Swedish society, leading to segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates.
Gang violence mostly takes place among criminal networks dealing drugs or involved in other illicit activity. But there have been recent cases of innocent bystanders being hurt. So far this year, 48 people have been killed by firearms in Sweden, three more than in all of 2021.
The fears triggered by constant news of shootings and explosions in disadvantaged neighborhoods have made crime one of the most pressing issues for voters.
“Shootings and explosions of bombs have increased in the last few years and (this violence) is now considered a great social problem. I wouldn’t say that it’s as bad as Mexico, but we are on the way,” said Anders Sannerstedt, a political scientist at Lund University in southern Sweden.
THE GENDER FACTOR
Andersson became Sweden’s first female prime minister less than a year ago — a milestone late in coming for a country that in many ways is an example of gender equality.
“I was really proud,” said Ulrika Hoonk, a 39-year-old who voted early in Stockholm on Friday evening, saying it took “far too long” for that to happen.
Polls show that Andersson’s party is especially popular with women, with men tending to vote more conservative.
Even though Andersson is the first prime minister, there are still many women represented in positions of authority. Four party leaders are women and one party has a woman and a man sharing the leadership. In parliament, the gender balance has long been split roughly 50-50.
Several women interviewed this week said that finally having a woman in the top leadership job was very important for them, and one factor they considered when choosing which party to support.
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Animal rights group threatens to disrupt one of the most watched horse races in the world
By Ben Church, CNN
It’s watched by more than 500 million people from 140 different countries, but the Grand National remains one of the most controversial horse races in the world.
Since it was first run in 1839, the spectacle has become a national institution in the United Kingdom which has transformed into the greatest steeplechase — a race run over fences with a variety of obstacles, including “plain fences, water jumps or open ditches” — on Earth.
However, animal rights groups claim the race represents the “broken relationship” between humans and horses due to the potential dangers the animals face.
The race, which has been modified in recent years to ease safety concerns, sees a field of up to 40 horses galloping 4.3 miles and jumping 30 fences the size of small cars.
The demanding course has resulted in multiple fatalities over the years — two horses died during the 2022 edition — with many others injured and some put down as a result.
“Most people would say they love animals, so why are we OK with this?” Animal Rising, previously called Animal Rebellion, said in a statement sent to CNN Sport.
“Whether it is for food or for sport, our relationship with animals is beyond broken.”
The animal rights group is launching its biggest ever campaign to protect animals this month and has suggested it plans to disrupt this year’s Grand National, which will take place at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, UK, on April 15.
The showpiece event is part of a three-day festival which begins on Thursday.
“This April we are launching the biggest campaign to protect animals and the climate this country has ever seen,” Animal Rising added.
“Already over 500 people are signed up for training to take peaceful action this summer.”
Last month, a reporter from the UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday went undercover to reveal the plans the group had regarding disrupting the race.
The story detailed how the organization was planning to help multiple people break onto the track with the hope of preventing the race from starting.
Animal Rising says the report won’t stop them from finishing their mission of raising awareness of what they claim are unethical practices.
“One undercover Mail on Sunday reporter is not going to stop teachers, nurses, and more from acting for all life and really beginning the crucial conversation about our broken relationship with other animals,” the statement added.
“This conversation is vital if we are to tackle the root causes of our climate and ecological crises.”
The Grand National is no stranger to demonstrators looking to disrupt the race and Merseyside Police say they have a “robust policing plan” in place for this year’s edition.
Local police say they have been working with the race organizer — the Jockey Club — for months in order to ensure the safety of those participating and attending the spectacle.
“We respect the right to peaceful protest and expression of views, but public order or criminal offenses will not be tolerated and will be dealt with robustly,” a police spokesperson said, while also releasing safety advice to racegoers this week.
The Jockey Club referred CNN to the Merseyside Police when asked for comment, while Aintree Racecourse said that horse welfare and safety is “the most important thing to the racecourse.”
Amid the controversy, thousands of attendees are once again set to descend on Aintree on Saturday for a race which animal rights activists hope will never happen.
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Senate confirms new US ambassador to Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to confirm the new U.S. ambassador to Russia.
Hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was expected to arrive in Washington for a historic visit, senators voted to 93-2 to confirm veteran diplomat Lynne M. Tracy as the new ambassador to Russia. Some viewed it as a signal of the American commitment to war-torn Ukraine as it confronts Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened the chamber’s session by saying that Wednesday’s passage of a fresh $45 billion military aid package for Ukraine and confirmation of the new U.S. ambassador to Russia would send a strong signal that Americans stand “unequivocally” with the Ukrainian people.
Tracy, a career member of the Foreign Service who previously served as ambassador to Armenia, “will be tasked with standing up to Putin,” Schumer said. The only two votes against Tracy came from GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky, both of whom have been skeptical of the administration’s support for Ukraine.
Tracy will oversee an embassy in Moscow that has been decimated in terms of staffing as U.S.-Russia ties have plummeted over the war in Ukraine along with several long-standing and unrelated diplomatic disputes over personnel and facilities and compounded by disagreements over arms control.
Tracy, who speaks Russian, previously served as a senior adviser for Russian affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. She also held several posts in Central and South Asia.
The previous U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, left Russia in early September in a departure that had been expected but was accelerated by the failing health of his wife, who died a day after his return to the United States.
Tracy is well-regarded within diplomatic circles and received a State Department heroism award from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009.
While leading the U.S. consulate in Peshawar in Pakistan’s insurgency-ridden border regions, Tracy survived an attack on her by a gunman that left her vehicle riddled with bullets, but insisted on going to work that day and staying on post, even as security concerns compelled the consulate to trim its staff.
Tracy also received the State Department’s distinguished honor award for her work as the embassy deputy in Moscow.
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed.
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DULUTH, Minnesota (AP) — Ohio State defender Sophie Jaques won the Patty Kazmaier Award on Saturday, given to the top player in women’s NCAA Division I hockey.
Jaques, who is from Toronto, is the first Buckeye to win the award and the second-ever defender. She helped Ohio State to a 33-5-2 record and a berth in Sunday’s NCAA national title game against Wisconsin.
Jaques led all NCAA defenders in points (48), goals (24), power-play goals (9) and points per game (1.23) through 40 games. On the Buckeyes’ top defensive pairing, Jaques helped Ohio State hold opponents to 1.75 goals per game and blocked 55 shots this season.
“Receiving this award is something I never even could have imagined was possible,” Jaques said in a statement, adding later, "While this is an individual award, I have been supported by a whole team of people throughout this season and my career at Ohio State, and I owe this all to my coaches and teammates over the last five years.”
The 22-year-old, who was among the three Kazmaier finalists last year, is pursuing a master’s degree in civil engineering.
Danielle Serdachny from Colgate and forward Alina Mueller at Northeastern also were finalists for the award, which was announced during the women’s Frozen Four.
The award is named for Patty Kazmaier, who played for Princeton from 1981 to 1986 and died at the age of 28 of a blood disease. The winner is chosen by a 13-member panel of Division I women’s hockey coaches, media and a member of USA Hockey.
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The United Kingdom is in a period of national mourning until a state funeral, to be held on Sept. 19 at Westminster Abbey. Her final resting place will be in Windsor, next to her husband, Prince Philip, who died in 2021 aged 99.
Two of the queen’s grandsons and their wives visited mourners at Windsor Castle, just outside London, on Saturday. William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, appeared alongside Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, fueling speculation of a rapprochement between the brothers, whose relationship reportedly suffered after Harry and Meghan stepped down from royal duties. In a statement, William thanked his grandmother for “the kindness she showed my family and me” and for her example of public service. “I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real,” he said.
Key developments
- King Charles III, formally proclaimed as the new monarch of the United Kingdom on Saturday, will hold meetings at Buckingham Palace on Sunday and will visit the U.K. Parliament Monday. “I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me,” he said at the official proclamation ceremony. “I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set.”
- The new king and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, will lead a procession with the late queen’s coffin on Monday, down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to St. Giles’ Cathedral, where there will be a service. The public can view her coffin at the cathedral until Tuesday.
- On Tuesday, the queen’s coffin will be flown to London. The next day, she will lie in state at the Palace of Westminster, the seat of Parliament, until her state funeral. President Biden told reporters that he plans to attend.
Happening Today
All times are local, five hours ahead of Eastern time.
- At 10 a.m., the queen’s coffin will depart the Balmoral estate for a six-hour journey to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The hearse will travel through Aberdeen, Dundee and Perth.
- At 1 p.m., flags will return to half-staff for the remainder of the national mourning period, after they were flown at full-staff in recognition of the new monarch.
- In the morning, Charles will meet the Commonwealth Secretary General at Buckingham Palace and then host the Realm High Commissioners and their spouses.
Global reaction
- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared a national day of mourning for the queen. Sept. 22 will be a public holiday in the Commonwealth nation, where Elizabeth was head of state. Her death has spurred fresh debate about becoming a republic — replacing the monarch with a president — after a 1999 referendum saw a majority vote against the change, and brought about a reckoning on her complicated legacy for Indigenous Australians.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country’s Parliament will sit Thursday to allow lawmakers to pay tribute to Elizabeth. The opening of the legislature’s new session will be delayed by a day, to Sept. 20, to accommodate the queen’s state funeral.
- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sent a formal condolence letter to Charles. “As Queen of New Zealand, Her Majesty was loved for her grace, calmness, dedication, and public service. Her affection for New Zealand and its people was clear, and it was an affection that was shared,” she wrote.
Your Royal questions, answered
- When is King Charles’s coronation? There isn’t a known date for Charles’s coronation, but it’s possible that it may not take place anytime soon. Elizabeth waited 16 months after her accession for her coronation.
- Britain has an unproven prime minister and now a new monarch, can its untested leaders confront its problems?
- Camilla is now the queen consort. What does that mean? The key difference between the queen and the queen consort is that the queen is an ascendant to the throne through succession. The queen consort is the wife of the reigning monarch.
- What does the royal line of succession to the British throne look like? Prince William is now the first in line to inherit the throne, followed by his eldest son, Prince George.
From our correspondents
After Elizabeth’s death, Britain’s future is uncertain. The queen’s death marks the end of the nation’s second Elizabethan age, and the beginning of the reign of the longest-ever monarch-in-waiting, Charles, who is less popular than his mother. In addition, regional tensions, higher energy costs and an untested new prime minister come at a time of national introspection. “Changes on the horizon have been brought into focus by the queen’s death. Whether welcome or not, they have created a disquiet in the country she led,” Kevin Sullivan and Anthony Faiola write.
More coverage:
- What kind of monarch will Charles be? Different from his mum, London correspondents William Booth and Karla Adam write. As king, Charles has said he wants to balance tradition and progress. A crusader at heart, Charles has opinions — on climate change, sheep breeds and modern architecture. He may not be able to turn that off.
- During her seven-decade reign, the queen visited more than two dozen cities across the United States. And wherever Britain’s longest-serving monarch went, photographers followed to capture Americans in the throes of royal fever.
- Gift stores are selling out of royal souvenirs after Elizabeth’s death, a rush to buy items with her likeness before they are replaced with products featuring her son. The value of those tchotchkes and rare collectibles of the queen will increase — eventually.
- It was a rare misstep in the queen’s 70-year reign. But it was a big one. Her son’s glamorous ex-wife, Princess Diana, had died tragically in a car accident, leaving two young boys, the heirs to the throne, without a mother. And for nearly a week, Elizabeth said nothing. But on the day of the funeral, as Diana’s funeral cortege passed by, she bowed her head. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-death-king-charles-latest-updates/ | 2022-09-11 06:00:33 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/11/queen-elizabeth-death-king-charles-latest-updates/ |
ST-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Quebec (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” and repudiate the theories that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today.
Right before Mass began, two Indigenous women unfurled a banner at the altar of the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré that read: “Rescind the Doctrine” in bright red and black letters. The protesters were escorted away and the Mass proceeded without incident, though the women later marched the banner out of the basilica and draped it on the railing.
The brief protest underscored one of the issues facing the Holy See following Francis’ historic apology for the Catholic Church’s involvement in Canada’s notorious residential schools, where generations of Indigenous peoples were forcibly removed from their families and cultures to assimilate them into Christian, Canadian society. Francis has spent the week in Canada seeking to atone for the legacy and on Thursday added in another request for forgiveness from victims for the “evil” of clergy sexual abuse.
Beyond the apology, Indigenous peoples have called on Francis to formally rescind the 15th century papal bulls, or decrees, that provided the Portuguese and Spanish kingdoms the religious backing to expand their territories in Africa and the Americas for the sake of spreading Christianity. Those decrees underpin the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S. Supreme Court decision that has come to be understood as meaning that ownership and sovereignty over land passed to Europeans because they “discovered” it. It was cited as recently as a 2005 Supreme Court decision involving the Oneida Indian Nation.
“These colonizing nation states, in particular Canada and the United States, have utilized this doctrine as the basis for their title to land, which ultimately really means the dispossession of land of Indigenous peoples,” said Michelle Schenandoah, a member of the Oneida Nation Wolf Clan. She was in Quebec City with a delegation from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to raise the issue with church leaders.
“It’s been a long genocide over 500 years, and it still is valid law to this day,” she said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited the need for the Holy See to “address the Doctrine of Discovery,” as well as other issues including the return of Indigenous artifacts in the Vatican Museums, in his private talks with Francis on Wednesday, Trudeau’s office said.
Several Christian denominations in recent years have formally repudiated the doctrine. The Canadian bishops did so in 2016 and the umbrella organization of U.S. female Catholic religious orders, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, formally asked Francis to do so in 2014 saying he should repudiate “the period of Christian history that used religion to justify political and personal violence against Indigenous nations and peoples and their cultural, religious, and territorial identities.”
Murray Sinclair, the First Nations chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, cited the doctrine in a statement this week welcoming Francis’ apology but calling on him to take responsibility for the full role of the church in the Canadian residential school system.
“Driven by the Doctrine of Discovery and other church beliefs and doctrines, Catholic leaders not only enabled the government of Canada, but pushed it even further in its work to commit cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples,” Sinclair said.
Church officials have insisted those papal decrees have long since been rescinded or superseded by other ones fully recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples to live on their lands, and say the original bulls have no legal or moral bearing today. During the trip, Francis has reasserted repeatedly those rights and rejected the policies of assimilation that drove the residential school system.
But both the Vatican and Canadian trip organizers have confirmed that a new church statement is being prepared to address demands for a current, formal repudiation, though it is not expected to be released during Francis’ visit.
“We understand the desire to name these texts, acknowledge their impact and renounce the concepts associated with them,” Neil MacCarthy, in charge of communications for the papal visit, told The Associated Press in an email.
Asked about the protest Thursday, MacCarthy said: “We recognize that there are very passionate feelings about a number of issues including the Doctrine of Discovery. The brief peaceful protest did not disrupt the service and the group had a chance to express their concerns.”
The Vatican clearly anticipated that the issue would arise during the trip. In an essay in the current issue of the Vatican-vetted Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, the Rev. Federico Lombardi acknowledged that the issue remains an important one for Indigenous peoples, but stressed that the Holy See’s position in repudiating the discovery doctrine is clear.
Lombardi, the retired Vatican spokesman, cited the subsequent 1538 bull “Sublimis Deus” that asserted that Indigenous peoples cannot be deprived of their freedom or possession of their property “nor should they be in any way enslaved.”
But Philip Arnold, chair of the department of religion at Syracuse University in New York, which sits on Onondaga Nation territory, said the 1538 bull was effectively “a ruse” since it didn’t call for European colonial powers to give back the land they had already claimed, but rather elaborated the “freedom that comes with submission to the Catholic Church and that sponsoring monarch.”
“The Vatican’s role in justifying the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the 15th century is the origin story of transatlantic slave trade, land theft, and a settler-colonial extractive economies throughout Africa and the Americas,” he said.
Felix Hoehn, a property and administrative law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said any repudiation of papal bulls or doctrines would have no legal bearing on land claims today, but would have symbolic value.
“The Vatican doesn’t make Canadian law. Courts aren’t bound by papal bulls or anything of that notion but it would be symbolic,” Hoehn said. “It would add moral pressure.”
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Winfield reported from Quebec City.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerPlant Partners, an emerging growth equity firm investing in disruptive consumer and enablement companies that are better for humanity and the climate, today announced a partnership with SYSTM Brands, a consumer products brand platform, to create SYSTM Foods, a new premium, impact-focused food and beverage (F&B) brand platform. Operated by the SYSTM Brands team, with PowerPlant Partners as the lead investor, SYSTM Foods will seek to acquire and grow leading F&B brands that aim to bring innovative formulations to market in a sustainable, socially conscious manner.
PowerPlant Partners believes that COVID and the global supply chain challenges have created opportunities to acquire strong brands with good long-term potential at rational valuations. To execute such a strategy, PowerPlant partnered with SYSTM Brands, a strong group of operators with deep expertise in buyouts and operations.
SYSTM Brands, founded in 2021, is led by a team of proven executives, experienced operators, and passionate founders who are dedicated to growing brands that deliver truly impactful and innovative products. The group utilizes its collective experience, expertise, and network to create, partner with, and acquire brands with a results-driven approach to product development, and seeks to expand and scale its brands thoughtfully and profitably.
"With this partnership, we will offer impact-driven brands operational excellence to help them grow profitably," said Julianne Hummelberg, Vice President, PowerPlant Partners. "We know the SYSTM Brands team can help elevate these brands to the next level of sustainability while expanding distribution, revenue, and profits."
"The new capital partnership with PowerPlant Partners is a validation of our founding vision, to deliver truly impactive and transformative products while growing brands focused on the next generation," said Julian Cheng, CIO & Founding Partner, SYSTM Brands.
Mark Rampolla, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, PowerPlant Partners added, "These are challenging times, and battled-hardened, experienced operators are more helpful than ever to emerging brands. The SYSTM team brings decades of experience across a variety of industries which we believe will help our current and future portfolio companies successfully navigate these complicated waters."
PowerPlant Partners is a global leader investing in companies that are better for humanity and the climate. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and operating expertise to visionary companies including Beyond Meat, Thrive Market, Ripple, Veggie Grill, Apeel Sciences, Liquid Death, Miyoko's Creamery, Vive Organic, and Partake Brewing.
PowerPlant's leadership team comprises innovators behind leading food brands such as Veggie Grill, the largest plant-centric restaurant company in the U.S.; ZICO Beverages, an early pioneer of today's $8 billion coconut water category acquired by The Coca Cola Company in 2013; and Health Warrior, a superfood company purchased by PepsiCo in 2018.
PowerPlant Partners is located in Los Angeles, CA, and the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information about the fund visit www.PowerPlantPartners.co.
SYSTM Brands is a privately held investment platform managed by a proven group of Consumer Product Industry executives and professionals that bring private equity discipline to venture stage opportunities. The SYSTM team has developed a brand platform to fully leverage their vast experience and expertise in creating, investing, acquiring, and growing leading consumer product brands. They utilize their consumer-focused investment expertise, access to subject matter experts, long-standing relationships with suppliers/manufacturers/service providers, and first-hand experience in multi-brand operations to help emerging businesses scale into successful and resilient consumer brands.
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How to Watch the Nuggets vs. Timberwolves: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NBA Playoffs Game 5
Published: Apr. 25, 2023 at 2:31 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves meet in a decisive Game 5 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs.
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Nuggets vs. Timberwolves Game Info
- When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 9:00 PM ET
- Where: Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado
- TV: NBA TV
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Nuggets Stats Insights
- The Nuggets make 50.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than the Timberwolves have allowed to their opponents (47.1%).
- Denver is 45-15 when it shoots higher than 47.1% from the field.
- The Timberwolves are the 23rd-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Nuggets sit at 18th.
- The 115.8 points per game the Nuggets put up are the same as the Timberwolves allow.
- Denver is 38-4 when scoring more than 115.8 points.
Nuggets Home & Away Comparison
- The Nuggets are scoring 119.4 points per game when playing at home. In away games, they are averaging 112.2 points per contest.
- In home games, Denver is surrendering 5.7 fewer points per game (109.6) than in away games (115.3).
- At home, the Nuggets are sinking 1.1 more treys per game (12.4) than away from home (11.3). They also have a higher three-point percentage at home (39%) compared to on the road (36.7%).
Nuggets Injuries
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley, was remembered during a funeral service Sunday as a loving mother and an “old soul” who endured tragedy but persevered as a dedicated protector of her father’s legacy as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer and pop icon.
More than a thousand people gathered on the front lawn of Graceland on a gray, chilly Memphis morning to mourn the death and remember the life of Lisa Marie Presley, who died Jan, 12 after she was taken to a hospital in California.
Some mourners held flowers as they waited for the service to begin under the tall trees on the lawn of Graceland, the home in Memphis where Lisa Marie lived as a child with her father. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42.
The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. The service began with the singing of “Amazing Grace” by Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir.
“We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the love, compassion and support you have shown our family during this difficult time,” said a message from the Presley family written on the program for the service. “We will always be grateful.”
Among those who spoke during the service were Lisa Marie’s mother, actress Priscilla Presley; Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York; Jerry Schilling, a close friend of Elvis; and former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, who called Lisa Marie’s parents Memphis’ royal couple and a “conduit to the throne, the keeper of the flame.”
In a soft voice, Priscilla Presley read a poem from one of Lisa Marie’s three daughters, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, entitled “The Old Soul,” in which she calls her mother “an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world.”
“In 1968, she entered our world, born tired, fragile, yet strong. She was delicate, but was filled with life,” Priscilla Presley read. “She always knew she wouldn’t be here too long. Childhood passes by, with a glimpse of her green eye. She then grew a family of her own.”
After reading the poem, Priscilla Presley said: “Our heart is broken. Lisa, we all love you.”
Music punctuated the service. Billy Corgan, lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins, played acoustic guitar and sang “To Sheila;” Alanis Morissette sang “Rest;” Axl Rose, of Guns N’ Roses, played piano and sang “November Rain;” and The Blackwood Brothers Quartet performed two songs.
After the service, mourners walked through Graceland’s Meditation Garden, where she was laid to rest in an above-ground grave next to her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, and alongside her grandparents and great grandmother.
Weaths and bouquets of red, white, yellow and pink flowers lined the walk up to the gravesite and the tomb itself. Fans, some teary-eyed, walked slowly by the tomb, pausing to pay their respects.
Jordan Clark, 25, traveled from Mobile, Alabama, to attend the service. She called the ceremony special and heartwarming. Clark said Lisa Marie “went through a lot” in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when “people came from all over.”
“She was born into the public, born into fame. That’s hard for some people,” Clark said. “She handled it like a champ. I think.”
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
After her father died, she became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust, which — along with Elvis Presley Enterprises — managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home.
A representative from Elvis Presley Enterprises has told The Associated Press that the mansion is in a trust that will go to the benefit of her children. Along with Harper, she is survived by two other daughters — Riley Keough and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood.
Riley Keough, an actress, did not speak at the service. Her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, read a statement in which she remembers Lisa Marie taking her for ice cream, bringing her tea sets from Cracker Barrel, and leaving notes in her lunchbox.
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Old satellite falling from sky this weekend poses low threat, NASA says
File video above: Asteroid-exploring spacecraft passes over Earth
A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.
NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive.
The space agency put the odds of injury from falling debris at about 1-in-9,400.
The science satellite is expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours, according to the Defense Department.
The California-based Aerospace Corp., however, is targeting Monday morning, give or take 13 hours, along a track passing over Africa, Asia the Middle East and the westernmost areas of North and South America.
.The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger. Although its expected working lifetime was two years, the satellite kept making ozone and other atmospheric measurements until its retirement in 2005. The satellite studied how Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the sun.
The satellite got a special sendoff from Challenger. America's first woman in space, Sally Ride, released the satellite into orbit using the shuttle's robot arm. That same mission also featured the first spacewalk by a U.S. woman: Kathryn Sullivan. It was the first time two female astronauts flew in space together.
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BERLIN (AP) — Normally when the World Cup comes around, Germans happily wave their country’s flag and enthusiastically back their team.
Not this time.
Anyone walking around Berlin this week will struggle to notice any signs of World Cup fervor. There are no flags, no signs, no public viewing events – no indication that the soccer-mad country’s bid for a fifth world title is about to begin with a game against Japan on Tuesday.
Qatar’s human rights record and treatment of migrant workers have spoiled the party for many.
“We don’t want to enjoy a World Cup like this,” Bernd Beyer of the Boycott Qatar 2022 initiative told The Associated Press. “The fans do not identify with it and are saying they don’t want to have anything to do with it.”
There were widespread protests against the tournament during Bundesliga and second division games over the past few weekends, with fans holding banners blasting the human rights situation in Qatar and recent comments by World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman denouncing homosexuality.
The lack of enthusiasm also has had a commercial impact. Retailers have previously capitalized on the buzz around major tournaments with Germany team-related offers. Former Germany coach Joachim Löw and his players could be seen everywhere promoting various goods and services. This time, the Association of German Sports Retailers says sales of fan articles are way down compared to previous World Cup years.
“So far it’s not even half of what is usually sold in stores at major events of this kind,” the association’s president Stefan Herzog told the RND newspaper group.
Adidas said demand for Germany kits was low and that its biggest seller to date was Mexico’s jersey, considered by some to be among the most stylish of the shirts worn by the 32 World Cup teams.
Sales of TV sets, which generally go up for major sporting events, are also down, RND reported.
Hundreds of bars across the country are refusing to show World Cup games.
Steif Krüger, who runs a bar in Berlin, said Friday he’s boycotting the entire tournament, even if Germany makes it to the final.
“What’s happening at the World Cup is just terrible,” Krüger said. “The people who have always watched soccer with us also know that we won’t show it and are happy to support that.”
Dortmund pub Mit Schmackes, owned by 2014 World Cup winner Kevin Grosskreutz, is also not showing the games.
“We love soccer and we can also say that we live soccer. The reasons are clear – that’s why we will decline to broadcast the World Cup matches in Qatar, even if this results in losses for us,” the pub said in an Instagram post to which Grosskreutz replied with three fire emojis to indicate his approval.
Qatar has repeatedly pushed back against criticism over its human rights record, insisting the country has improved protections for migrant workers.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, said Friday that he wouldn’t rule out Scholz traveling to the final if Germany makes it that far.
“This World Cup was awarded and will now take place under difficult circumstances,” Hebestreit said, referring to fans’ boycott plans. “Everyone is free to decide whether they want to follow this event or not – we live in a free country, that’s how it should be.”
Bundesliga clubs including Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach have criticized the decision to give the World Cup to Qatar and said they will only give it minimum attention on their websites and social media platforms. Another club, Hoffenheim, says it won’t report on the tournament at all.
“There’s just a multitude of things that have happened and are happening there that overshadow the great joy of sporting competition,” Jörg Schmadtke, the sporting director of Bundesliga club Wolfsburg, told the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper last week.
Schmadtke said he didn’t even know if he will watch the games on TV.
“It doesn’t move me like in previous years, when I looked forward to such a tournament,” Schmadtke said.
Qatar Holding LLC holds a 10.5% stake in automobile giant Volkswagen, which owns Wolfsburg.
In contrast to previous tournaments, there will be no major public viewing events due to various factors including the cold weather, complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and the difficulties staging more outdoor parties during the Christmas market season.
The usual massive “fan mile” viewing party at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate was nixed in September, when the organizing company said it wasn’t feasible this year. Around 9 million supporters took part in it when Germany hosted the tournament in 2006.
German fans are not the only ones who appear to be unimpressed by this year’s World Cup. Belgium’s soccer federation this week dropped plans to set up a fan zone for supporters to follow games on big screens citing a lack of demand, and Paris and other French cities also nixed public viewing parties. In Barcelona, mayor Ada Colau said she would not “dedicate public resources nor public spaces for the viewing of a World Cup that is being held in a dictatorship.”
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Roller coaster riders stuck after ride stalls at Ga. theme park
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) - Riders at the Wild Adventures theme park in Georgia experienced a scare when a roller coaster stopped unexpectedly.
A roller coaster called the Boomerang got stuck mid-ride Monday, going forward along the track then backward before stopping, according to a patron of the park.
“I was hearing noises, and I thought it was gonna go down. But when my cousin told me that we were stuck, I got scared, and I had a panic attack,” said Rishon Phillips, a child who was riding the Boomerang when it stalled.
Rishon told WALB his heart was beating fast, and he had to be checked out by medics provided by the park.
“My heart was hurting. I was crying. They put me in a wheelchair to send me to the medic part of the theme park,” he said.
His cousin, Akemia Anderson, was also on the ride when it stalled.
“It was going good when we first got on, but when it was time to drop to go backwards, it got stuck. We didn’t know anything until my cousin walked up and started yelling to us that the ride was stuck,” Anderson said.
A statement released by Wild Adventures said the stop was “triggered by a safety feature activation.” Riders were safely returned to the loading station within about 10 minutes.
“Following a comprehensive inspection, the ride was cleared and resumed operation that same night,” the statement read in part.
While the Wild Adventures website shows an image of the roller coaster going upside down, the ride stopped when it was right side up.
Anderson’s family had four riders, including kids, who were in search of some thrills but got more than they bargained for. The kids recalled their scary experience.
“It got stuck, and we were crying. People were telling us that we could come down, but we didn’t come down, and we were so scared,” said Kennedi Johnson, a Boomerang rider.
“I thought the ride was just going up, and it was going to stay, and I thought it was going down, but I was scared,” said Dearie Jones, another Boomerang rider.
Anderson says she didn’t know what to expect after the ride stopped.
“The adults on there are yelling to calm the kids down. Everybody started panicking. Once we got back down, the people who started the ride, they were laughing like if it was funny,” Anderson said. “Finally, somebody came up the stairs, saying that they were going to release us, knowing that we were still scared, didn’t know if the latches were going to come up. We wasn’t checked again before the ride started.”
According to the parents on the ride, they were upset that the ride continued.
“Instead of them letting them get off the ride while it was stuck, they made us finish the ride out knowing that everybody was scared. So, it was kind of shaky for everybody that was on the ride,” Anderson said.
Wild Adventures says they did what they were supposed to do, and they remain committed to safety and fun. Still, the family says the incident left them badly shaken, and they left the park soon after.
“They didn’t want to do anything else. They didn’t even want to stay and look at animals or nothing like that,” Jaleasha Wing said. “It was just real shaky. My babies, they were just ready to go. They didn’t ask to ride nothing else. We went straight, got ice cream and left.”
A Wild Adventures spokesperson said the park’s “ride inspection practices meet ASTM F24 standards and follow manufacturer inspection requirements.”
“This practice includes daily inspections of ride components before the park opens. Wild Adventures conducts additional supplementary inspections based on each ride’s manufacturer requirements and internal operational standards,” the spokesperson said.
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This story is part of The Price of Plenty, a special project investigating the power of the fertilizer manufacturing industry and its wide-ranging impacts on the environment in places like Florida and the Midwest.This series was created from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and supported by the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative.
Picks and shovels clanked against phosphate rock in pits 30 feet deep. Soaked in sweat, miners toiled in knee-deep slurry for 12-hour shifts. By 1919, they’d had enough of laboring under armed guards on horseback for little more than two dollars a day. They couldn’t stand to watch another co-worker maimed or killed in dynamite accidents. Their strike, in a sleepy Central Florida mining town called Mulberry, put a chokehold on the worldwide fertilizer trade for months.
A century later, Florida’s phosphate miners are highly trained technicians who sit in air-conditioned, 8-million-pound excavators. They unearth some 10 million tons of phosphate rock a year, supplying nearly a quarter of global demand for the “white gold” that helps crops grow.
Florida is home to one of the richest phosphate deposits in the world. For about 140 years, the state has housed a secluded and powerful industry that mines one of three essential nutrients for the global fertilizer market.
Today, wheelbarrows have given way to mammoth machinery. But there are still two sides to the white-gold coin. A century ago, Florida’s phosphate industry sacrificed miners, many of them impoverished men of color. Today, the sacrifices involve the environment, as excess phosphorus runoff causes toxic algae blooms around the world and the industry’s radioactive waste grows in mountains throughout central Florida.
So does Florida phosphate “feed the world,” an industry mantra, or pose serious threats? Throughout history and perhaps into the future, the answer has been both.
When giant sloths walked Florida
About 15 million years ago, all but a small strip of land down the center of what we know today as the Florida peninsula was covered in a warm, shallow sea. Giant sloths, small, three-toed horses and false saber-toothed cats commanded this strip. Underwater, prehistoric sharks and whales glided through the warm depths. Arthropods and mollusks scuttled along the seabed. This shallow sea of the Miocene age built the bed of limestone that the peninsula rests upon today.
Living in food-abundant upwelling areas, these marine creatures left an ancient gift. Their organic matter mineralized into phosphate-rich sediment deposits along interior Florida.
Fast forward millions of years. Early phosphate miners in the late 1800s began to unearth the bones of giant, 4-tusked elephants and fossilized imprints of primeval crabs. The Central Florida region became known as the Bone Valley.
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Today, paleontologists have cataloged over 56,000 fossils from the area, according to Rachel Narducci, vertebrate paleontology collections manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
“These fossils never would have been found if it wasn’t for mining,” Narducci said.
Bone Valley is not a valley at all. In fact, it’s a high point in Florida, according to Narducci, but the deep crevices carved into the ground from mining operations gave it the appearance of something like a ghostly Grand Canyon. About 42 new species were described from its depths.
“It’s filling a gap in the fossil record that we just don’t have anything close to,” Narducci said.
Fossils from 18 million years ago and about 1 million years ago are well studied. Paleontological excavations from mining sites have shed light on the in-between. With so many changes in landmass and sea level during the Miocene age, it is hard to tell what creatures may have roamed the area before mining exhumed their remains.
Discovering P
We owe the discovery of phosphorus to an amateur alchemist and his search for the elusive Philosopher’s Stone — not the death-delaying artifact from the “Harry Potter” series, but a substance capable of turning base metals into gold. Henning Brandt, like many alchemists before him, was obsessed with finding the thing that would not only make its discoverer wildly rich, but cure illnesses and prolong life.
Around 1669, Brandt conducted a series of experiments that involved distilling human urine. He boiled 50 buckets of his own pee until they reduced to a thick syrup, heated that syrup until a red oil could be drawn off, and cooled the concoction until a black spongy top and salty bottom remained. He then discarded the salt, combined the red oil with the black spongy substance and heated it for about 16 hours. What spontaneously flamed into the air and faintly glowed green was a highly reactive, pure form of phosphorus that could be solidified by dunking into cold water.
Brandt had discovered Earth’s 13th element. (While P, also known as “The Devil’s Element,” was discovered 13th, it is No. 15 on the periodic table.)
Phosphorus is distinct from its fellow plant-sustaining nutrients, nitrogen and potassium. It cannot be synthetically produced. Despite its elusive nature, it is part of the basis of life on earth. On a molecular level, phosphate fortifies the links of human DNA and is found in bones and teeth as calcium phosphate salts. Plants rely on phosphorus for cell growth and energy conversion. Too little of it and crop yields suffer. Fruits don’t fully develop.
Until about the 1950s, fertilizer manufacturing operations were relatively small and tailored production to the agricultural needs in a given area, according to the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute. Now, phosphate rock is processed into chemical fertilizer when sulfuric acid is mixed with the rock in a reactor to produce the solid, crystalline compound of phosphoric acid, which is a phosphorus atom bound to five atoms of oxygen.
While most of the world’s supply of phosphate goes toward fertilizer production, it’s also an ingredient in animal feed, toothpaste, insecticides, food preservatives and a number of other common household items.
Rocks in the river, a strike in the mines
In the winter of 1881, engineers with the U.S Army Corps were surveying land for the construction of a possible canal through central Florida to Charlotte Harbor on the southwest coast. Along the Peace River, civil engineer Francis J. LeBaron was excited to discover a waterway with a seemingly endless bounty of fossils. LeBaron sent nine barrels and boxes of samples to professor S. F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, who was so intrigued that he ordered LeBaron to do a complete geological survey of the river. When LeBaron returned to the Peace River in 1886, he dug test pits and analyzed the sample deposits. He realized that the rock pebbles loaded with phosphate he pulled from the water were of immense value.
He turned to Jacksonville and Philadelphia-based capitalists and pressed for them to “buy or bond the entire Peace River Valley,” according to “Discovery of Florida Phosphate.”
Two years later, the first mining operation to extract phosphate from large rock formations popped up near Hawthorne, Florida, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Ground and river pebble mining began five years after that, around 1888.
Conditions at these sites were abysmal. Workers lived in wooden shacks and faced diseases like malaria. While white workers were present, Black miners bore the brunt of the work down in the pits, according to Edward “Ted” Melilo, the Willian R. Kenan Jr. professor of History and Environmental Studies at Amherst College.
Zora Neale Hurston, the preeminent early 20th century writer, documented folk songs and stories from laborers in the 1930s for the U.S. Works Progress Administration, or WPA.
Most famous are her descriptions of turpentine camps, the worksites dedicated to harvesting pine sap and resin for turpentine production. But in her autobiography “Dust Tracks on a Road” she writes of “sweating black bodies, muscled like gods, working to feed the hunger of the great tooth…They go down in the phosphate mines and bring up the wet dust of the bones of prehistoric monsters, to make rich land in far places…”
Hurston visited Polk County’s Mulberry for the WPA.
“The history of Mulberry begins with phosphate,” according to the Greater Mulberry Chamber of Commerce.
A railroad originally built to transport lumber and turpentine ran through the heart of Central Florida. Mid-point along the way, a Mulberry tree became a well-known meeting place and a mining town grew there, taking the tree’s name. The tree, no longer standing, also was the known site of lynchings.
At the turn of the century, tens of thousands of Black workers moved to Polk County seeking jobs in the area’s developing cypress mills, orange groves, turpentine camps and phosphate mines, according to Melilo.
In April of 1919, a group of about 3,000 Black and white union members went on strike against 17 Mulberry-based phosphate mining companies. Their demands followed recommendations by the National War Labor Board. They were asking for a minimum wage of 37 cents an hour and a reduction in work shifts to 8 hours a day. That would’ve doubled their wages and cut their daily work time between two and four hours.
When managers from two different companies refused to adhere to the demands, 1,800 phosphate miners walked off the job. Very little historical research has been done on this strike, according to Melilo. But it’s remarkable for being one of the only examples of successful multi-racial unionism during the First Red Scare, a period marked by widespread labor suppression and racial violence.
“This is a period of intense lynchings in U.S. history and yet, white and Black workers were going out on strike together demanding some pretty basic things,” Melilo says.
By early May, about 1,200 more workers from 14 other regional phosphate companies joined the strikers. Frustrated by the prolonged strike, the U.S. Department of Labor stepped in. The labor department’s mediator, J.W. Bridwell, and his team were unable to negotiate a settlement.
Two months after Bridwell’s efforts, in early August, phosphate mining companies began recruiting Black strikebreakers from Georgia. In one case, 300 laborers left Georgia but along the way, nearly 200 of them deserted after hearing they were headed for a highly contested picket line. Only 50 workers agreed to travel to the mines, escorted by armed sheriff’s deputies.
"They go down in the phosphate mines and bring up the wet dust of the bones of prehistoric monsters, to make rich land in far places…”Zora Neale Hurston
On the edge of a nearby city, Bartow, a group of strikers ambushed the cavalcade, killing one Georgia miner and wounding Deputy Sheriff Gordon Zebendon, a phosphate company guard.
In retaliation, four white company guards drove through the Black neighborhood of Mulberry and shot into homes at random with high-powered rifles.
“This is an incredibly violent affair,” Melilo says. “It was brutal stuff.”
A woman, Lula King, and the two-year-old child she was holding in her arms were shot. The child died. A former mine worker named Sam Benzley was wounded with a buckshot to the chest. The sheriff later caught the four company guards and jailed them in Bartow.
The tragic standoff ended on Dec. 3 when most of the phosphate companies agreed to a wage doubling and a reduction to the workday by at least two hours.
The strike’s consequences reverberated across the globe.
Melilo found that global trade journals covered the year 1919 as one of uncertainty for inadequate supplies and high fertilizer prices. The strike was also felt in the pockets of European farmers. Germany’s Secretary of Agriculture noted in 1920 that they had obtained only about 28% of the phosphoric acid fertilizer supply needed to sustain German farms.
Vanishing water
By the 1920s, technology began to replace physical labor as up to 8-million-pound ground-moving machines called draglines rumbled into Bone Valley. The enormous machines evoke a fantasy novel more than an industrial site. Draglines are mechanized to “walk” with feet across the landscape. Their enormous buckets scrape into Florida’s earth, leaving behind vast moonscapes. They increased mining capabilities by an order of magnitude.
Draglines move about 70 tons of material in each scoop, according to James Briscoe, senior operations manager at The Mosaic Company, one of only two mining companies remaining in Florida today.
“There’s only about 400 (draglines) in the world, and they haven’t built a new one since 1999,” said Briscoe.
Around the turn of the 20th century, mining engineers invented flotation, the now widely used process for extracting minerals by “floating” them away from contaminating ores. Flotation separates phosphate rock from sand by adding a fatty acid that adheres to phosphate, but not sand. Then, tiny air bubbles are injected into the tanks and adhere to the waxy-coated phosphate, causing it to rise.
It makes freshwater one of the most critical elements in phosphate mining. And water represented one of the earliest-seen environmental consequences of the industry. In the early 1950s, residents of Polk County watched Kissengen Spring in the Peace River watershed dry up over the course of a year and a half.
What was once a cool, crystal-clear deep blue spring turned into a stagnant, green mud hole amid intense groundwater pumping of the Floridan Aquifer, largely by phosphate mining companies.
This spring wasn’t just beautiful. It was an integral part of the local economy and community. Young kids and families came to the two-lane bowling alley, for the 75-cent chicken dinners or to take the 17-foot plunge into the springhead’s icy waters.
Native Ben Jackson began going to the spring when he was in diapers. Now 93, he recalls his first memory of Kissengen.
“I was about four or five years old,” Jackson remembers.. “It was so cold, I couldn’t forget it.”
When he was a teenager, during World War II, Jackson worked at the spring’s concession stand. His fondest memories of Kissingen are taking his high school sweetheart to the dancefloor where they’d sway along to “The Gypsy” sung by The Inkspots, their favorite tune.
More than half a century later, “every morning, when I go in to make coffee, I say ‘Alexa! play The Gypsy,’” he says. “It brings back memories.”
The next innovations
Today, profits are huge and demand for fertilizer has kept the industry pushing on in Florida for more than a century. Mining chews up between 3,000 and 6,000 acres of land a year in Florida. About 25% of that is wetlands or other surface water like streams, according to the DEP.
Twelve active phosphate mines are currently authorized in Florida, according to the DEP. Most are controlled by two main companies, Mosaic and Nutrien. They make Florida a key if somewhat hidden force in the global fertilizer market. Canada-based Nutrien (NYSE: NTR) reported net income of $7.7 billion in 2022. Mosaic, (NYSE: MOS), headquartered in Tampa, reported net income of $3.6 billion. Both fertilizer giants saw record profits last year as global fertilizer prices skyrocketed due to supply chain issues and Russian sanctions.
At the biggest mining operation in the Bone Valley, Mosaic’s Four Corners Mine, nine draglines work to strip away overburden and dredge up a matrix of sand, clay and phosphate pebble. The matrix is shot through a series of pipes about 10 to 20 miles long into a washer where the phosphate is screened and pumped into a slurry. Then, the slurry is spun into “hydro-cyclones” at a high G force where coarse sand and phosphate swirl to the bottom and exit. Excess water and clay are stored in settling ponds. The phosphate pebble is then sent to a “hydrosizer” where feed and water are injected into tanks that force fine particles to rise as coarse particles gently fall to the sizer’s underflow. Next, pebble goes through the flotation process before it’s finally ready for shipping to a chemical processing plant.
Mosaic produces about 8 million tons of finished phosphate a year in Florida with the capacity to produce up to 10 million tons, according to Keith Alam, Mosaic’s senior manager in engineering.
The company reports that it pumped an average 34 million gallons of groundwater every day in 2022 to make that product.
Beginning with labor in its early history and water in its modern history, innovations have helped the industry overcome certain sacrifices of the past. But so far, today’s crises associated with the phosphate industry have proved harder to solve.
From the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River, to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and toxic algae in Florida, nutrient pollution running off farms and landscapes is plaguing U.S. waterways and the people who rely on them. Mountains of phosphoric acid’s radioactive waste, known as phosphogypsum stacks, rise alongside Florida’s phosphate operations.
As the industry continues its search for white gold, with possible major expansion into the hunt for rare earth minerals, scientists and Floridians continue to search for solutions.
“It’s a food story, it’s a population story,” said Neil Beckingham, Mosaic's senior advisor for water technology. “And it’s a really complicated story.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On Friday, #4 Arkansas erased a five run deficit but fell to #24 Vanderbilt, 9-6.
The Hogs trailed 5-0 after three innings of play. Connor Noland allowed five earned runs in five innings of work.
Brady Slavens would begin the comeback effort with a solo home run in the fourth. Robert Moore and Slavens would hit back-to-back homers in the fifth to make it a one run ballgame. The Hogs would tie things up in the sixth.
The two teams would need extra innings tied at six. With two runners in scoring position on Enrique Bradfield Jr. hit a three run homer off Brady Tygart to finish off the Hogs.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved system for sanitizing surfaces and enclosed airborne environments," said an inventor, from New York, N.Y., "so I invented the SAFETY ATTENDENT. My design could provide added protection and peace of mind for all occupants or consumers within a space."
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NAPA COUNTY (KRON) – Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol via counsel in a Napa County court Wednesday, according to a press release from the Napa County District Attorney’s office.
The charges stem from a May 28 incident in which prosecutors allege Pelosi drove under the influence and was involved in a car accident. The charges include driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a .08% blood alcohol level or higher.
According to California Penal Code section 977, defendants may appear through their attorney for misdemeanor DUI cases, meaning they don’t need to be present in the courtroom unless a judicial officer orders it. Pelosi was not ordered to appear in court and is being represented by Amanda Bevins.
Bevins entered a not guilty plea on both counts in the courtroom of Judge Monique Langhorne, a press release states. He waived his right to a jury trial, and Langhorne allowed him to remain at liberty on his own recognizance.
Langhorne continued the matter until Aug. 23 at 9 a.m., at which time he may plead guilty or no contest, or the case could be set for trial.
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Industry Coach Tom Ferry Headlines Event
FRISCO, Texas, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JPAR® – Real Estate, America's #1 fastest-growing, 100% commission brokerage, today announced details of its stable growth and profitability initiative focused on providing agents with highly-valued tools and resources to confidently navigate the real estate market over the next 12 months. Tom Ferry showcased, "The Shifting Market Playbook," event and spoke to over 1,000 JPAR® - Real Estate professionals.
"We are very excited to share the playbook and prepare our agents for the year ahead," said Mark Johnson, President, JPAR® – Real Estate. "Our initiative focuses on teaching our agents how they may achieve stable growth and profitability in a changing market. As an independent, privately-owned company, we can make decisions for the long term without the pressures of Wall Street. This financial flexibility enables us to focus on providing the tools, tactics and technology necessary for JPAR® brokers and sales associates to navigate the shifting market while keeping more money in their pockets," stated Johnson.
The coaching and thought leadership event covered essential methods to generate business during a shifting market, including:
- Five (5) slides every agent must have to educate buyers, sellers, and investors
- Seven (7) plays every top agent runs to drive real results
- Eight (8) referral strategies to generate more listings
JPAR® – Real Estate has developed a 'Shifting Market Playbook' space inside of their cloud-based, OneStop HUB, enabling agents with instant, real-time access to highly-valued resources and tools to confidently navigate a shifting real estate market.
"We are hyper-focused on mentoring and empowering our associates to build and sustain their businesses," said Shannon Ashkinos, Vice President of Connections and Career Services. "JPAR® was founded by top producers for top producers. Our goal is to continuously empower JPAR® sales professionals to stay on the leading edge through industry-leading coaching and training.
About JPAR® - Real Estate: JPAR® - Real Estate and JPAR® Franchising is a full-service real estate brokerage and franchise platform offering a highly competitive transaction fee-based model and agent-centric culture. The JPAR® platform provides agents 7 day-per-week broker support, physical office locations, a comprehensive tech stack and open architecture, physical office locations, marketing, lead generation, training, coaching, mentoring and agent health care. The company boasts more than 3,300 agents operating in 65 offices across 26 states and closes more than $8B annually in sales volume.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
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AI-powered experience orchestration leader ranked highest from Frost & Sullivan in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America for Genesys Cloud CX performance, track record and strategy
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesys®, a global cloud leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, has received worldwide recognition as the No. 1 growth leader by Frost & Sullivan in the firm's four regional cloud contact center (CCC) Radars. Genesys earned the top ranking across the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America regional Radars for its global market leadership and for transforming customer experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital advancements.
The Frost & Sullivan CCC Radar series identifies leaders in the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) industry based on their strengths, opportunities and market position. The Growth Index is a measure of a company's growth performance and track record, along with its ability to develop and execute a fully aligned growth strategy and vision; a robust growth pipeline system; and effective market, competitor and end user-focused sales and marketing strategies.
Genesys attributes its leadership to its flagship CCaaS solution, the Genesys Cloud CX™ platform, enabling more than 4,800 organizations worldwide to orchestrate differentiated experiences through AI, digital and workforce engagement management capabilities.
According to the Frost Radar™: Cloud Contact Center Services Asia Pacific, 2023, "Genesys has become the leading cloud-based contact center provider. Its depth and breadth of solutions, packaged use case offerings, expertise, and execution of digital and AI-powered software capabilities complement an unparalleled local presence and support."
"In today's highly competitive business environment, Genesys is uniquely positioned to help organizations drive loyalty through the power of scaling personalized empathetic experiences," said Barbara Holzapfel, chief marketing officer at Genesys. "Recognition by Frost & Sullivan is a testament to our rich ecosystem, global footprint and AI and digital advancements that help organizations deepen customer and employee relationships resulting in long-term business success."
Specific key highlights for Genesys published in The Frost Radar series include:
North America [1]
- Genesys continues to employ AI to improve CX and EX, adding to its already robust capabilities. In 2022, the company added Smart Advisor for agent assistance, increased its knowledge management capabilities, and made advancements in AI-powered forecasting, employee engagement, and predictive engagement with customers.
- Genesys is increasing its developer community with more than 3,700 active developers and a 37% YoY growth. Notably, internal developers use the same APIs as the developer community to drive innovation.
- Maintaining innovation, easy migration programs, competitive go-to market strategies, and licensing all contribute to Genesys strong growth.
Europe [2]
- Genesys has invested heavily in an open innovation platform, enabling rapid innovation for customers. Its AppFoundry marketplace allows for third-party app integration into the open platform, enabling speed to market with CX and EX solutions.
- The Genesys Cloud AI Experience allows companies to more easily deploy AI for conversational AI, agent assistance, predictive routing and predictive engagement, through a single packaged solution.
- Genesys is active with acquisitions that position the company to execute its Experience as a Service strategy. Acquisitions of Bold 360, Pointillist, and Exceed.ai added capabilities in conversational AI and journey analytics across channels.
Asia Pacific [3]
- Genesys has been at the forefront of the industry's move from on-premises to cloud and continues its growth momentum in the cloud-based customer experience (CX) space. The company gained significant traction in its APAC operations and onboarded new customers across industry verticals such as government, finance, telecom, healthcare, retail, and eCommerce.
- Genesys is on a solid path toward demonstrating its Experience as a Service® position, producing myriad customer use cases of improved CX and employee experience (EX) using the Genesys product portfolio.
Latin America [4]
- Genesys leads this year's Frost Radar because of its superb growth pipeline, extensive partner and large-sized customer network, constant enhancement of CX and employee experience tools, and platform orchestration capabilities.
- Genesys leverages advanced analytics and AI to go beyond contact center capabilities and collect customer data across every touchpoint to create context-rich, hyper-personalized experiences and predictive models that help customers empower their CX.
- Genesys counts some of the largest BFSI, retail, BPO, government, education, and healthcare organizations in Latin America among its customers. Its outcome-based sales strategy allowed Genesys to experience year-over-year growth exceeding 90% on new logos and expand its client portfolio.
To learn more about how Genesys is the No.1 Growth Leader worldwide, download the latest cloud contact center reports here:
About Genesys
Every year, Genesys orchestrates billions of remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service®, our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper-personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology into a modern revenue velocity engine, Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. Visit www.genesys.com.
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[1] Frost Radar™: North American Enterprise Cloud Contact Center Market, 2022, published October 28, 2022
[2] Frost Radar™: European Cloud Contact Center Market, 2023, published April 27, 2023
[3] Frost Radar™: Cloud Contact Center Services in Asia-Pacific, 2023, published April 6, 2023
[4] Frost Radar™: Latin American Cloud Contact Centers, 2023, published May 19, 2023
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his teacher had a series of miscarriages and post-partum depression in the year before the shooting, her attorney said Friday, after she was arraigned on charges of child neglect and failing to secure the handgun her son used in the shooting.
Police say the boy fired a single shot at his first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner, on Jan. 6, striking her in the left hand and chest. She spent two weeks in the hospital and has had four surgeries since the shooting.
The Associated Press is not identifying the mother to shield the identity of her son. A grand jury indicted the mother this week, and she was released on a $5,000 bond after turning herself in Thursday.
The 25-year-old woman appeared somber and stood with her hands clasped behind her back as the two charges against her were read in Newport News Circuit Court. She did not speak except to say “no, sir” in response to a question from the judge. After the hearing, she quickly walked away from a scrum of reporters and TV cameras without commenting.
Her attorney, James Ellenson, said his client wants to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors and hopes they will consider what he called “mitigating circumstances.” He cited a number of miscarriages the woman had, including one following an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in a hospital stay in January 2022. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a pregnancy develops outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube. Ellenson said the miscarriages resulted in post-partum depression.
“We’re looking forward to working collaboratively with the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office to resolve the charges,” Ellenson said, adding that he is hoping for “something that is fair, something that is just.”
Ellenson has requested a trial before a judge instead of a jury. A trial date of Aug. 15 has been set.
The felony neglect charge is punishable by up to five years in prison. The misdemeanor charge of recklessly storing a firearm is punishable by up to one year in jail.
Ellenson has said the mother believed her gun, which was legally purchased, was secured on a top shelf in her closet and had a trigger lock. It is unclear how the boy got the gun and was able to take it to school on the day of the shooting.
Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school system last week, accusing school officials of gross negligence and of ignoring multiple warnings from teachers and others in the hours before the shooting that the boy had a gun.
The city prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it is investigating whether the “actions or omissions” of any school employees could lead to criminal charges.
Ellenson said the boy has an “acute disability” and was under a care plan that included his mother, father or grandfather accompanying him to class every day. The week of the shooting was the first when a parent was not in class with him. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/attorney-mom-of-virginia-boy-who-shot-teacher-was-depressed/ | 2023-04-14 17:24:22 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/attorney-mom-of-virginia-boy-who-shot-teacher-was-depressed/ |
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated with a reaction from U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas]
HIDALGO, Texas (Border Report) — Female congressional candidates from across the country learned during a tour of the South Texas border about the horrors that migrants face, including the sexual assault and human trafficking of women and children.
During an outdoor roundtable discussion held just feet from the Rio Grande on Tuesday, the group was told of escalating numbers of rapes and assaults of migrants as they try to cross the border from Mexico.
“It was very sensitive and it was heartbreaking to me as a woman, as a mother to hear of the human trafficking aspect of it and just to hear of the women who are raped and who are trafficked and there is something we can do about it but we’re not,” said Tiffany Smiley, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Washington state, told Border Report.
The candidates were part of the conservative nonprofit Winning for Women border tour on Tuesday. They came from Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, Washington state and included three GOP candidates from South Texas.
“I’m honored to be here with Winning for Women and other congressional candidates throughout the country who care about securing our southern border, so it’s real great for them to be here to see firsthand what is happening, what resources are needed to secure our southern border,” Cassy Garcia, the Republican candidate for Texas’ 28th Congressional District 28, told Border Report.
Monica De La Cruz, who is running for Texas’s 15th Congressional District, said border security is the No. 1 issue in her district, which includes the border city of McAllen.
“I wanted to hear from local leaders and I wanted to hear from local organizations and from the sheriff and DA’s office to find out what they are seeing here along the border,” she said.
Brooks County Sheriff Urbino “Benny” Martinez said he tries to get any information he can from victims, including tattoos, piercings, missing digits or other features that could help law enforcement identify those who sexually assault women and migrants.
Othal Brand Jr., president of the Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No. 3, told the group that Border Patrol agents encounter between 200 and 300 migrants every day in the area they were touring, which the District owns.
He said that “headless bodies” sometimes float on their banks, which he believes are victims of Mexican cartels that operate south of the river.
In July, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector came across migrants crossing the border 35,108 times, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s latest statistics.
U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores, a Republican who represents the border to the Gulf Coast, immigrated from Mexico at age 6. She told Border Report that she feels for the migrants who are victimized as they try to cross the Rio Grande.
“Child sex trafficking is real and we need to put an end to it. And the only way to end child sex trafficking is by securing the borders,” Flores said. “This is a humanitarian crisis. This is why we’re screaming, ‘protect these children.’ I don’t care where they’re from. They’re completely innocent. Can we come together? This shouldn’t be a Democrat or Republican issue. Can’t we come together for these children and bring them safety and peace?”
Flores has called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for creating “open borders” and said it is “a top priority.”
Should House Republicans gain the majority in November, The Hill on Tuesday reported that several Republican members in Congress want to impeach Biden or members of his cabinet.
Mayorkas has said that stopping sex trafficking is an agency priority and the Center for Countering Human Trafficking leverages 16 DHS agencies to stop sex trafficking and forced labor.
“Combating human trafficking is truly a whole of DHS effort,” Mayorkas said earlier this year.
Flores said she doesn’t blame migrants for trying to cross into the United States illegally, but she does blame Democrats, like her opponent, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, for putting in place policies that she says encourage them to cross.
“I’m not blaming the immigrant. I’m blaming the Administration. I’m blaming Vicente Gonzalez for supporting policies that continue to create them to come into the U.S. illegally knowing that they’re going to have to go through hell,” Flores said.
Gonzalez, who currently represents District 15, is running in District 34 after the Texas Legislature redistricted the region and his home moved districts. He told Border Report that he has brought bipartisan congressional groups to tour the South Texas border and has proposed a plan for “safe zones” for migrants in other countries.
“I brought Democrats and Republicans who are actually interested in solutions and not just photo-ops during election season. My office developed the safe zone act, which we have proposed to the administration. This proposal develops safe zones in Central America where migrants can ask for asylum in their home or neighboring countries. This would prevent them from having to make the trek to our southern border to ask for asylum. This would take the pressure off our southern border and remove the cartel element. This is the only real solution to solving what’s happening in South Texas,” Gonzalez said.
Garcia is running against longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in November. She told Border Report that she has received the endorsement of the National Border Patrol Council “because they know I will always have their back and fight for them,” she said.
Cuellar, who is vice chairman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Committee, told Border Report he has always worked to bring additional funds and resources to Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
“I have been dedicated to supporting our border law enforcement personnel with pay raises, healthcare and mental health support, education funding, equipment, technology, uniform allowance, and other resources. My accomplishments as the Vice-Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee speak for themselves and demonstrate my continued commitment to securing our southern border,” Cuellar said. | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/female-candidates-address-migrant-rapes-during-south-texas-border-tour/ | 2022-08-31 15:41:29 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/female-candidates-address-migrant-rapes-during-south-texas-border-tour/ |
After Typhoon Mawar battered Guam, ‘what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks’
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - Guam residents and officials emerged from homes and shelters Thursday to survey the damage done to the U.S. Pacific territory after a long night of hunkering down as Typhoon Mawar’s howling winds shredded trees, flipped vehicles and knocked out utilities.
There were no immediate reports of deaths and injuries but the central and northern parts of the island received more than 2 feet (60 centimeters) of rain as the eyewall passed. The island’s international airport flooded and the swirling typhoon churned up a storm surge and waves that crashed through coastal reefs.
“We are waking up to a rather disturbing scene out there across Guam. We’re looking out our door and what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks — it looks like a scene from the movie ‘Twister,’ with trees just thrashed apart,” said Landon Aydlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
“Most of Guam is dealing with a major mess that’s gonna take weeks to clean up,” he added.
The strongest typhoon to hit the territory of roughly 150,000 people since 2002, Mawar briefly made landfall around 9 p.m. Wednesday as a Category 4 storm at Andersen Air Force Base on the northern tip of the island, weather service officials said.
The scope of the damage was difficult to ascertain early on, with power and internet failures making communication on the far-flung island difficult. Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said in a video message late Thursday morning that roads were passable, but residents should avoid driving and stay home due to ongoing strong winds.
“We have weathered the storm,” Leon Guerrero said, adding that “the worst has gone by.”
As the typhoon crept slowly over the island, it sent solar panels flying and crumbled part of a hotel’s exterior wall to the ground, according to videos posted on social media. At what felt like its peak intensity, the winds screeched and howled like jets, and water swamped some homes.
Leah del Mundo spent the night with her family in their concrete home in Chalan Pago, in central Guam. She told The Associated Press they tried to sleep but were awakened “by violent shaking of the typhoon shutters and the whistling strong winds.”
“It’s not our first rodeo,” she said via text message. “We’ve been through worse. But we brace ourselves for the cleanup, repairs, restoration afterwards.”
Winds peeled back the roof of Enrique Baza’s mother’s house in Yona, allowing water to damage everything inside.
“My mom’s house didn’t escape,” he said, adding that his mother stayed with him in his concrete home during the storm.
He drove around in a pickup truck looking for supplies to repair his mother’s roof, but most stores were without power and only accepting cash. Many wooden or tin homes he passed were badly beaten or collapsed.
“It’s kind of a shock,” he said.
In Tumon, on Guam’s northeastern shore, winds tore a granite countertop from a hotel’s outdoor bar and tossed it into the air. Guests scrambled to stack chairs to brace the doors, and windows buckled and creaked.
“It was like a freight train going on outside,” said Thomas Wooley, who recounted how wind and rain pushed through the aluminum shutters of his family’s concrete home overlooking Tumon Bay. When day broke, he found their outdoor china cabinet toppled and its contents shattered on the ground. A chainsaw-wielding relative helped clear downed branches.
“We’ve got tons of work to do,” Wooley said. “It’s going to take a few days to clean it up.”
Guam’s weather service office in Tiyan said it would shut down operations in the morning for workers to get home to families and assess damage at their homes. Counterparts in the Honolulu office took over their duties.
In a sign of how much help Guam might need, the Navy ordered the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group to head to the island to assist in the recovery effort, according to a U.S. official. The Nimitz, along with the USS Bunker Hill, a cruiser, and the USS Wayne E. Meyer, a destroyer, were south of Japan and expected to arrive in Guam in three or four days, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ship movements not yet made public.
Guam is about 3,800 miles (6,115 kilometers) west of Hawaii and 1,600 miles (1,575 kilometers) east of the Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
By early Thursday, Mawar was centered 75 miles (121 kilometers) northwest of Guam and 85 miles (137 kilometers) west of Rota, Guam’s neighbor to the north, moving west-northwest at 8 mph (13 kph).
Power was also knocked out for all of Rota, the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. said late Wednesday. The island has about 2,500 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The storm strengthened to 150 mph (241 kph) winds Thursday to regain its status as a super typhoon, according to the weather service. Mawar, a Malaysian word that means “rose,” was forecast to intensify further.
After moving away from Guam, the storm is expected to track generally northwest over a large, empty of expanse of ocean for days, and it could threaten Taiwan next week.
Guam is a crucial hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific, with about 6,800 service members assigned to the island, according to the Pentagon. Military officials evacuated personnel, dependents and employees, sent ships out to sea and moved aircraft off the island or secured them in protective hangars.
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Kelleher reported from Honolulu. AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Maryland, and Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor and Sarah Brumfield in Washington, Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska, Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles, and Ed Komenda in Seattle contributed.
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Man fatally shot in New Mexico movie theater over seat dispute
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An argument over seating at an Albuquerque movie theater escalated into a shooting that left a man dead and sent frightened filmgoers scrambling to flee, police said Monday.
Detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department filed charges Monday in Metropolitan Court against 19-year-old Enrique Padilla in connection with the Sunday evening shooting at a cinema complex next to an interstate highway.
Padilla was at a hospital under guard Monday evening while being treated for a gunshot wound, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. It was unclear whether Padilla had a legal representative who could speak on his behalf.
Witnesses told police that a man later identified as Padilla arrived at the theater with his girlfriend and found another couple in at least one of their reserved seats.
Theater staff attempted to help resolve the dispute, but it escalated with a hurled bucket of popcorn, shoving and then gunfire, according to police.
Michael Tenorio, 52, was shot and died at the scene. His wife, Trina Tenorio, said he was unarmed.
The shooter fled, and a wounded Padilla was found hiding behind a bush outside an emergency exit, according to police. A gun was also found outside that was compatible with spent casings from the shooting.
Emergency dispatchers received about 20 calls as other people fled the theater.
A criminal complaint and arrest warrant against Padilla listed open counts of homicide, shooting at an occupied building and tampering with evidence.
The complaint said Padilla was wounded in the abdomen but did not give further explanation.
An off-duty police officer who was at the movie administered emergency aid to Tenorio. The officer witnessed the confrontation but did not see a weapon in the darkened theater, reporting a rapid-fire succession of gunshots before one man in the dispute ran out.
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Warning: This story covers the topic of sexual assault. If you need to talk, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673, or text "HOME" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741.
A disturbing social media trend resurfaced again this year, and it's prompting warnings across the country.
Videos online show people claiming April 24 is "National Rape Day." Fact-checking website Snopes determined this started in 2021 as a "tasteless joke" or "hoax."
Scripps News could not find an instance of a rape being tied to the day, but that hasn't stopped the fear or warnings.
The West Texas A&M Police Department issued a warning on April 19.
"Officers are actively monitoring social media regarding the disturbing hoax around April 24th as ‘National Rape Day’, a trend spreading online warning people to protect themselves.
SEE MORE: Sexual assault reports increase at US military academies
Warnings aren't just being issued in the U.S. Officials in the U.K. said the hoax has picked up steam there as well.
"The trend seems to be gathering momentum in North Yorkshire with a number of professionals hearing about concerns from young people across the county," said the North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.
TikTok appears to have banned searches for "National Rape Day." A search of the topic takes users to a page that provides them with sexual assault resources and a link to contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline. However, users are still able to find videos about the topic by searching for topics like "national rate day" or "national r women day."
Videos on the topic vary from warnings to people letting others know it's a hoax and satirical content. Searching through dozens of videos, there did not appear to be any threatening videos.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 26 men have survived a rape or an attempted rape.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ Tupperware Brands Corp. (TUP) on Wednesday reported net income of $16.8 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Orlando, Florida-based company said it had profit of 38 cents. Earnings, adjusted to account for discontinued operations, came to 14 cents per share.
The direct seller of plastic storage containers and cosmetics posted revenue of $302.8 million in the period.
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CHICAGO, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is to take part in the first-ever Cities Summit of the Americas in Denver to share her digital and automation expertise with city leaders from North and South America.
The Cities Summit of the Americas is a U.S. government-led effort to convene city, state and municipal leaders from throughout the Western Hemisphere to focus on shared challenges and solutions. Speakers include U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Kyiv, Ukraine, Mayor Vitali Klitschko who will appear on a panel about global leadership.
Pappas is to participate in a panel discussion with five mayors from North and South American cities on Thursday, April 27, titled: "Digital tools for improving cities' revenue and public service delivery."
Pappas, whose office collects and distributes $16 billion in property taxes yearly, is to explain how she used technological innovation to increase efficiency and reduce the number of government workers in her office by more than 75% since being elected in 1998.
"Digital transformation was the magic that allowed me to make my office efficient and transparent," Pappas said. "I've hosted officials from more than 100 countries in my office and they need magic, too. They want to see how we do things in Cook County."
The Cities Summit, a localized version of the Summit of the Americas, runs from April 26 – 28. Approximately 250 U.S. and international mayors and more than 3,500 delegates will attend.
Pappas has traveled the globe touting the digital advancements in her office. In 2021 she spoke to forums in Spain and in the Dominican Republic. In 2022 she hosted a property tax summit for representatives from more than a dozen countries from the Organization of American States. The immersive two-day event dove into the mechanics of running the second-largest property tax system in the U.S.
She is to speak before the Greek Parliament this summer.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — El Niño is coming.
It could be quite the storm.
Thursday night at Arizona, Fernando Tatis Jr. will be announced as the leadoff hitter for the San Diego Padres and settle into a big league batter’s box for the first time since the last game of the 2021 season.
One of baseball’s most electrifying players will return from an 80-game PED suspension that shocked and angered his teammates and an entire fan base — and tempered his status as one of the sport's most prominent and likable stars. If a jaw-dropping power display during a rehab stint at Triple-A El Paso is any indication, the Padres will be getting back the player who was an All-Star at shortstop in 2021, when he led the NL with 42 homers.
Perhaps equally important is the energy and swagger the 24-year-old from the Dominican Republic brings every time he steps on the field, whether it’s hitting tape-measure home runs and then dancing in the dugout, or baserunning exploits that sometimes defy physics.
With his troublesome left shoulder surgically repaired during his suspension, Tatis will play right field and could be the spark the Padres desperately need to overcome a slow start for a lineup that includes fellow superstars Manny Machado, Juan Soto and Xander Bogaerts, and has baseball's third-highest payroll.
“It’s big, man,” said Bogaerts, who took Tatis’ spot at shortstop when he signed a $280 million, 11-year free agent contract in December. “Time heals a lot. What I’ve seen so far is someone who wants to come in and show everyone that he’s still the real deal and what he did was a mistake and he wants to show that he’s matured from that.”
Tatis' maturity has been under a microscope since the then-22-year-old signed a $330 million, 14-year contract prior to the 2021 season, starting with an unusual scene that September when Machado screamed at Tatis that “it's not about you!” during a dugout confrontation. He broke his left wrist the next offseason — reportedly in a motorcycle accident in his native Dominican Republic. He was on the cusp of returning from that when his PED suspension was announced on Aug. 12. He blamed his positive test on a cream he said he used for ringworm.
He ended up missing all of San Diego's season, including a stirring run to the NL Championship Series.
Right-hander Joe Musgrove was one of the team leaders who called out Tatis at the time. Musgrove made a rehab start for El Paso last week and said Tatis “looks great. He’s anxious. His energy is really high, he’s being a good teammate down there, he’s engaged, all the things that you want to see from him.
“I know he’s extremely excited to get back and especially with us not coming out of the gates as hot as everyone might have expected, I know he’s itching to get back in there and try to make a difference.”
Tatis sent ripples through baseball when he hit three home runs and had eight RBIs while going 5 for 6 Thursday night for El Paso. He was 17 of 33 with seven homers and 15 RBIs in eight rehab games, slashing .515/.590/1.212.
“For me personally, I’ve been waiting for this Tatis thing for a while,” said second-year manager Bob Melvin. “I’m really looking forward to that. I want to write his name in the lineup card and he wants to get back in the lineup, so it’s exciting.”
Melvin said he learned during spring training that Tatis absolutely belongs in the leadoff spot.
“He’s the type of guy who takes pressure off other guys. He’s a bright-lights guy,” the manager said. “There’s just an energy he brings. I hit him in different spots and then the first day he led off, it was like, there was just something different about it. I can’t explain it.”
Tatis grew up in the game at the feet of his father, who played 11 seasons in the big leagues, and his nickname, “El Niño,” means “little boy” in Spanish. It’s also the name of a weather pattern that brings rain. Tatis was back at Petco Park on Monday, raining long batting practice home runs from left field to straightaway center.
Tatis and his teammates know the superstar will be heckled.
Early in Tatis’ rehab stint, San Francisco Giants minor leaguer Kade McClure called him a “cheater” on Twitter after allowing a mammoth home run to the suspended player.
At FanFest in February, Tatis said he has already dealt with negative fan reaction on the road during his career “and I’m definitely looking forward to that challenge” in what he said would be both a fun and emotional season.
DH Nelson Cruz, 42, a fellow Dominican, has known Tatis since he was a kid. Cruz was suspended 50 games in August 2013 for his connection to the Biogenesis case and knows what Tatis will face.
“We’re here to support him, we’re here to embrace him, we’re going to show our love and we’re going to be behind him no matter what happens,” Cruz said.
Corey Stewart, a Padres fan for 40 years, said he was “shocked and furious” when Tatis was suspended, but has since forgiven the star, which is the overwhelming sentiment in San Diego. “All I want is a ring. I want a World Series and having him back and him being the exciting and insane player he is, will help them get that,” said Stewart, 52.
Owner Peter Seidler made a quick trip to Sacramento during Tatis' rehab stint to have lunch with El Niño and watch him play. Seidler will be in Phoenix on Thursday night.
During spring training, Seidler said he expects “greatness” from Tatis. “I think his trajectory is really positive. I believe in the young man, period. He’s going to be, I think, an even better version of himself. It’s going to be fun."
Bogaerts is looking forward to sharing in Tatis' vibe.
“Give me some. Especially on days that you don’t feel good, I’ll be like, ’Ignite me!” the shortstop said with a smile.
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Philadelphia's iconic snack cake brand is bringing two new treats to stores near you!
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tastykake® brand is pleased to introduce Mini Bundt Cakes to its portfolio of delicious snacking treats. New Tastykake Mini Bundt Cakes come in two flavors – Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Strawberry Flavored – and are available nationwide.
Tastykake Mini Bundt Cakes are sure to delight consumers' tastebuds and elevate everyday snacking occasions. "We're incredibly excited to share these Mini Bundt Cakes with our loving fans," said Ashley Hornsby, Tastykake brand manager. "The unique mini size bundt is perfect for easy traveling and is ideal for little indulgences throughout the day."
Tastykake Mini Bundt Cakes come in a pantry-ready box priced at $5.29 and contain five pouches of four mini bundts – perfect for on-the-go snacking.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with a crash that killed two bicyclists and injured 11 others in a Phoenix suburb, authorities said Sunday.
Goodyear police announced that 26-year-old Pedro Quintana-Lujan is jailed on suspicion of two counts of manslaughter, three counts of aggravated assault, 18 counts of endangerment and two counts of causing serious injury or death by a moving violation.
His hometown wasn’t immediately available and it was unclear Sunday if Quintana-Lujan has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf.
Police said the suspect was driving a pickup truck hauling a trailer when the vehicle crashed into a group of bicyclists about 8 a.m. Saturday on the Cotton Lane Bridge, a busy highway in Goodyear which is located about 19 miles (30 kilometers) west of Phoenix.
Quintana-Lujan stayed at the scene of the crash and was cooperating with authorities in their investigation, according to police spokeswoman Lisa Berry.
Berry said a woman bicyclist died at the scene and another victim died at a hospital. Their names and ages weren’t immediately available Sunday, but Berry said one of the deceased lived in Goodyear while the other was visiting from out of state.
Berry also said of the 11 hurt, one had life-threatening injuries and several others were in serious condition.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden next week is set to attend his first political rally since launching his 2024 reelection bid in April, as he steps up his political activity before the end of the fundraising quarter.
Biden will attend the rally in Philadelphia on June 17, which will be hosted by area unions, campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said, a key constituency in a city and state that are crucial to his 2024 prospects. Biden’s campaign isn’t expected to host its own large-scale rallies until next year, following the timetable followed by former President Barack Obama in 2012.
The event comes as Biden is launching on a flurry of fundraising trips this month ahead of the June 30 second quarter fundraising deadline, with stops in Connecticut, Illinois and California. Biden, who has declined to reveal information on his fundraising haul since launching his candidacy, will report his totals next month to the Federal Election Commission. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/biden-to-attend-first-2024-rally-in-pennsylvania-next-week-as-campaign-plots-flurry-of-fundraising/ | 2023-06-09 22:05:26 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/biden-to-attend-first-2024-rally-in-pennsylvania-next-week-as-campaign-plots-flurry-of-fundraising/ |
Late Dallas billionaire T. Boone Pickens’ sprawling West Texas ranch has sold.
The 64,672-acre Mesa Vista Ranch in the Texas Panhandle had been for sale since 2017 — most recently with a price tag of $170 million.
A group of buyers headed by West Texas oil-and-gas investor Bill Kent completed the purchase of the 36,000-plus-acre western side of the ranch this week, which includes the 25,000-square-foot lodge where Pickens entertained guests.
Cattle rancher Travis Chester bought the 27,700-acre eastern section of Mesa Vista Ranch in September.
Financial terms of the sales were not disclosed, but “proceeds of the two transactions were within about 10% of the $170 million asking price,” according to Jay Rosser, vice president of public affairs at BP Capital and a longtime associate of Pickens.
Pickens died in 2019 at age 91.
He spent decades assembling land and building a the huge home at Mesa Vista Ranch in Roberts County northeast of Amarillo.
Pickens began acquiring the property in 1971 with a 2,926-acre purchase along the south side of the Canadian River.
The 101-square-mile Mesa Vista Ranch includes broad mesas, lakes and rivers and was originally priced at $250 million.
The centerpiece ranch lodge has a large dining room with a massive fireplace, a library with a spiral staircase, a conference room, a 30-seat theater, a wine cellar, an office and a commercial kitchen.
The property includes a tennis court, a shooting range, a small golf course and a two-story pub.
There’s a lakeside chapel and a private “lake house” with 11,500 square feet of living area and 3,800 square feet of porches and patios.
Mesa Vista Ranch has its own lighted runway that can handle jet service.
Real estate brokers Sam Middleton of Chas. S. Middleton and Son and Monte Lyons of Hall and Hall handled the sale.
Buyer Bill Kent is CEO of Midland-based Kent Cos., which operates a growing chain of service station and convenience stores in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina.
The company also provides fuel to retail customers in Louisiana, Texas and Alabama. And Kent Cos. is expanding with the purchase of a Houston signage company, a chain of check cashing outlets, tire stores, car washes and urgent medical care facilities.
The Mesa Vista trade is the latest of several recent big Texas ranch sales.
The 266,254-acre Four Sixes Ranch in West Texas’ King County sold this year to Hollywood screenwriter and producer Taylor Sheridan.
And Dallas-based broker Icon Global is marketing the 80,000-acre Turkey Track Ranch in Texas’ Panhandle. The almost 80,000-acre property is along the Canadian River near the town of Borger.
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11 people suspected of stealing more than 100 vehicles in Colorado to fuel their meth, heroin and fentanyl habits
DENVER (KKTV/Gray News) - Nearly a dozen people are suspected of operating an organized crime ring in Colorado to help fuel their meth, heroin and fentanyl habits.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office announced the indictment of 11 suspects on Thursday. The group is suspected of stealing at least 130 vehicles in the Denver Metro Area. The estimated value of vehicles and property taken is about $3 million.
“The code name for the investigation, was ‘Program’ because the defendants allegedly used electronic key programmers to defeat authorized key fobs which allowed the defendants to substitute after-market key fobs to steal new and high-end cars,” part of a news release reads. “They are also accused of burglarizing auto dealerships and repair shops and then accessing keys to steal vehicles.”
The crime spree reportedly started on Feb. 24, 2021 and continued through May 11 of this year.
All defendants were arrested except for Esequiel Gomez who is presently at-large. The defendants are:
33-year-old Esequiel Gomez
24-year-old Sergio Casimiro-Mejia
23-year-old Susana Garcia
29-year-old Olivia Talamantes
19-year-old Jonathan Valdivia III
28-year-old Fabian Varela-Castillo
29-year-old Jonathan Baeza Delgado
25-year-old Karina Carbajal
19-year-old Dianna Laura Gaucin
34-year-old Felix Lopez
22-year-old Debbie Rachel Valdivia
The 11 defendants are variously charged with violating Colorado’s Organized Crime Control Act, Aggravated Motor Vehicle Theft in the First Degree (F5), Possession of a Weapon by a Previous Offender, Possession with Intent to Manufacture or Distribute a Controlled Substance, Cybercrimes, Identity Theft, Theft, First Degree Assault, Leaving the Scene of an Accident, Vehicular Assault, as well as other charges.
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Doctors ‘concerned’ about Queen Elizabeth II’s health
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace said Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II is under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” as members of her family traveled to be with the 96-year-old monarch in Scotland.
“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” the palace said in a statement that sparked deep concern.
The announcement comes a day after the queen canceled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest. On Tuesday, she presided over the ceremonial handover power to new Prime Minister Liz Truss at her summer residence in Scotland at Balmoral Castle.
The palace says the queen is “comfortable” and remains at Balmoral. Her son, Prince Charles, and grandson Prince William were traveling to be with her, officials said.
Truss — who was briefed on the news as she delivered a statement in the House of Commons — said “the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime.”
“My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time,” she said on Twitter.
Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne this year. She has increasingly handed over duties to her heir, Prince Charles, and other members of the royal family in recent months as she has struggled to get around.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Last July, as Connecticut resident Rachel Clark drove her daughter to gymnastics, she got a notification that two soldiers were at her door.
“That is when they told me that Mike was killed,” Rachel said.
Her husband, Sgt. First Class Michael Clark, died during a 30-day training exercise in Georgia.
“He was struck by lightning and of course, I didn’t believe them,” Rachel said.
And on top of his death, Rachel’s family soon faced another issue: the loss of their healthcare coverage.
“They would increase our monthly payment over 400% or they would drop me,” Rachel said.
Because Michael’s death happened during a training exercise, military policy only allowed 6 months of continuing health coverage, instead of the 3 years offered after the death of an active duty service member. Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) said that needs to change.
“Tragic events really expose weaknesses and gaps in the law,” Courtney said.
He is introducing bipartisan legislation to do just that.
“To create parity for reservists with active duty service members,” Courtney said.
Even though they can’t comment on pending legislation, the National Guard Bureau says they “support efforts to provide better health benefits to our soldiers, Airmen, and their families.”
Rachel and Michael’s father say they’re glad the congressman stepped up.
“And we also want to thank Congressman Courtney for bringing this to everyone’s attention,” Rachel and her father-in-law said.
Courtney is hopeful this could be included in this year’s defense bill. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/washington-dc/bipartisan-bill-looks-to-change-healthcare-coverage-for-guard-and-reserve-personnel/ | 2023-05-05 21:37:24 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/washington-dc/bipartisan-bill-looks-to-change-healthcare-coverage-for-guard-and-reserve-personnel/ |
Return to Seoul is a film that's easy to love: it has a killer soundtrack, a magnetic protagonist, and a gorgeous cinematic backdrop filled with rich colors and empty bottles of Soju. At its core, it tells a coming of age story — one that challenges the confines of "childhood" and "adulthood" and contemplates the impermanence of who we are.
Davy Chou's third feature film revolves around a 25-year-old French adoptee named Frédérique Benoît (Park Ji-Min), Freddie for short, and her quest to track down her biological parents in South Korea. Freddie is impulsive, electric and effortlessly cool; she does what she wants and arrives in Seoul spontaneously with no knowledge of the culture or language. At the hotel, she befriends a young French-speaking Korean woman named Tena (Guka Han), who suggests she pay a visit to the Hammond Adoption Center. Freddie's mother leaves the agency's telegrams unanswered, but Freddie is able to get in touch with her biological father (Oh Kwang-Rok) — a man who is sorrowful, a bit of an alcoholic, and someone who desperately wants to right his wrongs from the last 20 or so years.
Although it is Freddie who initially seeks out her father, their encounter leaves her feeling more disconnected than when she came — and she begins to harbor a quiet resentment that often takes the shape of anger. When he asks her to move to Korea to live with his family, she adamantly says to her English-speaking aunt (Kim Sun-Young), "He has to understand that I'm French now. I have my family and friends over there. I am not going to live in Korea." When Freddie's father drunkenly shows up outside a club, begging for her to talk to him, she screams: "Don't touch me!" He is already on his knees.
The three-part film follows Freddie over the course of eight years; its color tones shift with her evolution — taking on hues of gray, deep reds and warm yellows. Freddie cuts her hair before letting it grow, moves from one lover to the next and pivots careers. But just when Freddie seems to have finally settled into herself, she surprises you. Does one really ever reach a final state of metamorphosis? Or do we just cycle between different versions of ourselves?
How Freddie chooses to exist is often most telling in moments where she thinks no one is looking: Pondering what her life could have been as she idly stares into a refrigerator filled with Korean groceries; manically laughing to herself after opening her father's birthday ecard; throwing her body across the dance floor. Park Ji-Min wields Freddie's expressiveness with such control, it's hard to believe that Return to Seoul is her first feature film.
Throughout the film, music pierces through boundaries of language and time. In one early scene, Freddie explains sight-reading as a skill that requires the musician to analyze a score at a glance, evaluate any potential dangers, and dive right in. It's the way Freddie approaches a new sheet of music and it's the way that she moves through life. Amidst broken translations and tough emotional walls, one of the few times Freddie is able to feel connected to her father is when he plays a song he composed for her.
Though Freddie is well into adulthood, her story is a meditation on reinvention. When Freddie meets her biological father, she is reborn again — to an unfamiliar family, in an unfamiliar place. But coming face to face with a missing piece from her past doesn't make her whole; it just introduces more questions. Return to Seoul is unconcerned with resolutions, and in fact, goes to great lengths to avoid them. Instead, it proposes that in a world full of uncertainty, you must dive right in, over and over — taking with you everything that has been and everything that has yet to come.
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MEDFORD, Ore. —Only on NBC5 news the Coquille Tribe is sharing more about its potential plans to bring a casino to south Medford. The tribe wants to remodel the existing Roxy Ann bowling alley on south Pacific Highway. Currently, it operates the Mill casino in north Bend.
We sat down today for a Five on5 with Judy Farm, the CEO of Tribal One a company owned by the Coquille Tribe. She says the 2.4-acre remodel includes new construction for gaming machines to be added to the existing business.
The Cow Creek Tribe in Douglas County is worried a Medford casino will have an economic impact on their bottom line. Farm says a little competition is a good thing in business and more than 200 jobs will be created in Medford through the project.
“Clearly this is really what this opposition has been all about all along the lack of willingness to compete in the market and owning monopolies, we are not afraid to compete we now have good data on what that impact truly is,” said Farm.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is hosting its 2nd public hearing at 5:30 Tuesday. You can watch the hearing here.
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WATCH: Man cuts grass before stealing lawn mower, police say
Published: May. 6, 2022 at 12:32 PM MST|Updated: 3 hours ago
PORT ARTHUR, Tx. (Gray News) – A man in Texas is accused of stealing a lawn mower but made sure to cut the homeowner’s grass before he left.
The Port Arthur Police Department posted security video of the man taking the lawn mower.
The video shows him cutting the homeowner’s front and back yard before running away when officers arrived.
Police say he dragged the lawn mower as he ran and ultimately left it in an alley to evade an arrest.
Officers are looking for the man for an outstanding warrant for burglary of a building.
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YAVNE, Israel (AP) _ MediWound Ltd. (MDWD) on Tuesday reported a loss of $3.6 million in its first quarter.
The Yavne, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 12 cents per share.
The developer of treatments for burns and hard-to-heal wounds posted revenue of $4.4 million in the period.
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Power Broker, an innovative open API framework, will provide real-time insight into the impact of EV charging on local electric distribution systems and coordinate dialing down EV charging to contribute to overall grid reliability and resiliency.
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EVoke Systems, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, announced today a research project to develop and pilot Power Broker, a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for managing electric vehicle (EV) charging.
To mitigate the impact EV charging growth will have on local electric power demand, the Power Broker API framework uses the concept of energy services contracts to convey energy information exchanges and financial transactions. Real-time pricing adjustments incentivize charge station operators and drivers to reduce demand during extreme weather conditions or other unanticipated grid events, which will contribute to increased reliability and resiliency of the grid.
While the electricity grid can accommodate the increased power demand for EV charging, there are times, locations and events when utilities are challenged to meet peak demand—especially during extreme weather. The expected growth of commercial EV fleets will impact local power demand which can exceed safety limits or result in deterioration of power quality. Managing EV charging in real-time can significantly reduce these risks and contribute to overall grid reliability and resiliency.
"Although our focus is on EV charging, the coordination and control services allow grid operators to dispatch any flexible DER resources into utility planning and operations across a service territory or within a specific section of a local distribution area," said Raymond Kaiser, CIO at EVoke.
EVoke Systems, based in Tampa, FL, offers an open and scalable cloud-based platform for electric vehicle (EV) charging, energy management, and grid interaction. EVoke works with EV charger hardware OEMs and its channel partners to enable real-time, interactive communication, control, and coordination between site hosts, EV charging stations, EV drivers, and grid operators.
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ENDWELL, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Maine-Endwell and Owego Field Hockey played a tight contest all the way through, with the Spartans taking the win 2-1 in a shoot-out.
Saige Limbert opened the scoring for Maine-Endwell with Chelsea Rollison later evening the contest up.
Maine-Endwell won in a shoot-out with Paige Olenski saving all of Owego’s attempts.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: February 21, 2019 to October 11, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 3, 2023
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Enviva Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (ii) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (iii) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that defendants had represented to investors; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Enviva you have until January 3, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Enviva securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the EVA lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/enviva-class-action-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?id=33905&from=4.
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Luzerne County — together with the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — is under a ‘Red Flag Warning’ from the National Weather Service due to heightened fire risks.
The hot, dry conditions also led Nanticoke City to declare a two-week burn ban for its residents, one day after flames destroyed a double-block home and sparked a large brush fire in the Honey Pot section.
A Red Flag Warning means critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now or will shortly.
The NWS Red Flag Warning went into effect at 12 p.m. and will stay in effect until 8 p.m.
According to the NWS, afternoon humidity of 20-30% is expected, as well as wind gusts up to 30 mph.
These conditions, combined with warm temperatures, can contribute to extreme fire behavior. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Recent weather conditions, as well as a series of brush fires over the last few days, led the City of Nanticoke to issue a burn ban effective Wednesday afternoon.
Nanticoke burn ban
According to a post on the Nanticoke Fire Department Facebook page, the burn ban went into effect at 12 p.m. and will stay in effect until April 26.
The post stated that any open burning out of doors, either in a burn barrel or on the ground, is prohibited.
Open burning is defined as the ignition and subsequent burning of any combustible material that includes garbage, grass, twigs, litter, paper and vegetative matter, involved with land clearing or any sort of debris.
The use of propane or gas stoves and charcoal briquette grills is not covered under the burn ban, said the post.
If necessary, the ban will be extended.
Weather outlook
The NWS’ website on Wednesday afternoon showed Fire Weather Watches and Red Flag Warnings for a large crescent of the country, stretching from the Southwest to coastal New England.
According to our partners at Eyewitness News WBRE/WYOU, the elevated risk of wildfires will continue through Thursday evening. Low humidity, gusty winds and a dry ground will contribute to the increased possibility of brush fires across Pennsylvania.
Near-record highs in the middle and upper 80s are likely for Thursday and Friday, Chief Meteorologist Josh Hodell says. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1605577/nws-sets-red-flag-fire-warning-for-all-of-pa-burn-ban-issued-for-nanticoke | 2023-04-12 20:37:59 | 0 | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1605577/nws-sets-red-flag-fire-warning-for-all-of-pa-burn-ban-issued-for-nanticoke |
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Road to Qatar 2022
Costa Rica became the 32nd and final team to qualify for Qatar 2022 following a 1-0 intercontinental play-off win over New Zealand in June 2022. It’s was a hard road to Qatar for the Central American side, who made a slow start to their CONCACAF qualification campaign. Early draws to Jamaica, Panama and Honduras and a defeat to Mexico meant that the five-time visitors to the World Cup were in real danger of missing out in Qatar.
However, Coach Luis Fernando Suárez overhauled the fortunes of Costa Rica at the start of 2022, just when it started to matter. Crucially the introduction of younger attackers such as Jewison Bennette and Anthony Contreras refreshed an ageing side that had previously battled their way to Brazil and Russia.
The youthful injection of talent inspired the Colombian tactician who picked up five wins from their final six qualifiers including a vital 0-0 draw in Mexico to push Costa Rica into the continental play-offs against New Zealand.
It was Costa Rica who got the better of New Zealand in Doha thanks to a third-minute goal from Joel Campbell. Despite New Zealand dominating the contest, Costa Rica held on to secure a famous win, punching their ticket to a sixth World Cup.
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History at the World Cup
1990 – Round of 16
2002 – Group Stage
2006 – Group Stage
2014 – Quarter-finals
2018 – Group Stage
Player to watch
It has to be PSG stopper Keylor Navas, the veteran keeper who has played at Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018 and is looking to seal a hat-trick of tournament appearances in Qatar. He may not be getting regular game-time in Paris this season, but Navas always steps up for Costa Rica when it matters. This was elegantly shown in the intercontinental play-off against New Zealand with Navas pulling off a host of stunning saves to keep his country in the contest.
Costa Rica has traditionally been strong defensively, and with Navas marshalling the troops in goal don’t be surprised if Costa Rica can pull off a real upset in Group E.
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World Cup Fixtures
Spain vs Costa Rica - Al Thumama Stadium – 23rd November - 19:00 pm
Japan vs Costa Rica – Ahmed bin Ali Stadium – 27th November – 1:00 pm
Costa Rica vs Germany – Al Bayt Stadium – 1st December - 10:00 pm
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NASA engineers speak out about a much-discussed e-mail exchange that seemed to anticipate the space shuttle Columbia catastrophe. They tell reporters their comments were seen by the right people and were accorded the weight they deserved. NPR's Richard Harris reports.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly half of America's frontline workers would quit their jobs if they could afford to, citing threats to their personal safety at work, according to the 2023 Verkada Workplace Safety Survey. The study found that 76 percent of employers have experienced a security incident in the last year, and a majority of frontline workers feel that the threat of physical harm is on the rise.
Key findings of the 2023 Verkada Workplace Safety Survey include:
- Frontline workers are on edge about their safety. More than half (58%) of frontline workers feel that the threat of physical harm is on the rise, and 40 percent say they are more concerned about personal safety at work than they were a year ago.
- Violent, aggressive and erratic behavior from customers and visitors is the main cause of distress for workers. Healthcare workers are especially concerned: 69 percent report worries about aggressive or erratic behavior among patients or visitors, and 59 percent regularly worry about being assaulted at work. The two biggest sources of concern for retail workers are erratic or aggressive behavior from customers (58%) and theft (58%), and nearly half (49%) of retail workers say theft and vandalism are on the rise.
- There is a significant divide between employers' perceptions of job safety and the experiences and concerns of their workers. 69 percent of leaders or managers report feeling very safe at work and 67 percent think their direct reports feel equally safe. Yet only about a third of workers (37%) feel safe at their workplace.
- Those differences are also stark across generational lines: Gen Z is consistently two times more concerned about safety than their Boomer counterparts. And these younger workers will take action to prioritize their safety if employers won't. More than 30 percent of Gen Z workers say they have turned down job opportunities or switched jobs because they've felt vulnerable or at an increased level of risk.
- Ensuring workers are physically secure is an urgent business need. More than half of frontline workers who feel that their jobs do not prioritize employees' physical safety have said they plan to leave in the next year if their employer does not act to improve safety. Two in five frontline workers would quit their job due to safety concerns if they could afford to.
"Our research reveals a disconcerting picture for the frontline workforce driving our economy," said Brandon Davito, Senior Vice President of Product and Operations at Verkada. "Our nurses, teachers, cashiers, and so many other workers who serve in critical roles interacting with the public are worried about their safety every time they show up to work. As employers, policy makers, and public safety leaders, we need to address these alarming trends and ensure that the safety of our people is the top priority."
"The reality of living in America in 2023 is that every day, workers are sacrificing their lives and endangering their physical safety and their physical, mental, and emotional health in the workplace–and it needs to stop," said Jeffrey Pfeffer, PhD, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, and author of Dying for a Paycheck. Commenting on the findings of the 2023 Verkada Workplace Safety Survey, and drawing upon his 50+ years of research expertise as a leading theorist on business and the future of work, Pfeffer added: "This new data is a wake-up call that we need to focus on human sustainability. The environment we work in is just as important as the one we live in, and we absolutely must build better, healthier and safer workplaces."
The 2023 Workplace Safety Study is a research study commissioned by Verkada. A nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans who work on-location across critical sectors - including healthcare, retail, consumer banking, hospitality and services - were surveyed online leveraging Cint's global digital insights platform.
In addition to working on-site, all respondents were screened to ensure job responsibilities included regular contact with patients, customers, clients and/or guests, in addition to colleagues. An equal breakdown of employers and employees were surveyed, segmented by job title, level and managerial responsibility. The study examines worker attitudes, priorities, and concerns pertaining to physical safety and security in the workplace. The study was fielded in March 2023, and designed in collaboration with independent market research consultants at Method + Mode.
For more information about the study, please visit www.verkada.com/blog/workplace-safety-survey.
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At the start of Thursday night’s NBA draft, the Golden State Warriors were shouted out by Commissioner Adam Silver for winning yet another championship with a team built largely through the draft. Stephen Curry at No. 7. Klay Thompson at No. 11. Draymond Green at a lowly No. 35.
A few hours later, the Warriors selected 19-year-old forward Patrick Baldwin Jr., from Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with the No. 28 pick.
It was the third time in four years, that the team has had the No. 28 pick. As general manager Bob Myers says, picking that low in the draft, days after an exhausting Finals run, is “a high-class problem.”
Will Baldwin be the next Jordan Poole? The No. 28 pick from 2019 looks like he will be a fixture for years with the Warriors. Or the next Jacob Evans? The No. 28 pick from 2018 played a bit, was traded twice, and last season was on the Santa Cruz Warriors roster.
The Warriors don’t know what Baldwin will do. A player selected deep in the first round has a small chance of making a roster. But the Warriors do know one thing: Their new draftee is joining an organization more prepared to develop and work with a young rookie than it was in the past. Perhaps far more prepared than when the team drafted Evans.
Huh? I can hear you questioning such a claim. After all, this is the organization that has won four championships with its homegrown players. That found the steal of all steals in the second round in Green. That drafted “foundational piece” Kevon Looney at No. 30. Haven’t they always known how to develop rookies?
To hear Myers and head coach Steve Kerr tell it, no they have not. Both say the organization is far better equipped to develop and support rookies than they were.
“If the question is player development, structure, organization, yeah we’re better,” Myers said. “Having to build out an infrastructure to work with 19-year-olds is something that we just assumed would happen before. But we do a much better job now surrounding some of these players with help, with guidance. We should have done a better job back then.”
What specifically has changed in four years since the Warriors, then days after winning their third championship in four years, drafted Evans?
In recent years, partly in response to missing the playoffs two years in a row, the Warriors have built out their player development department. Last offseason, Jama Mahlalela was hired away from Toronto to be director of player development. He now has a large staff.
“We have more development coaches, more people in our training room,” Kerr said. “Each young guy is getting more and more individual attention. So that matters.”
The G League, which changed its name from the NBA Development League in 2017, has become a more robust entity.
“We’re utilizing the G League better,” Myers said, specifically mentioning Mujtaba Elgoodah, the manager of team development and a liaison with the Santa Cruz Warriors.
Kerr also said the strength of the Santa Cruz affiliate is key.
“The connection is so strong between the coaching staffs and the roster,” Kerr said. “We’re monitoring development every single day. We’re running the exact same offense, the same terminology. So, when we send a guy to Santa Cruz and he comes back, he’s got a head start.”
And then having a coach like Kerr, who understands the need to play everyone, from the stars to the rookies to the guys filling out the end of the roster.
“I just think empowering everyone is important,” Kerr said. “Everybody on our roster knows that at some point during the season I’m going to give them a chance, even if they’re rookies.”
Kerr gave Poole the minutes to become a star in 2021-22. He gave the minutes to Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody during the regular season to feel confident in putting the 19-year-olds into key playoff moments.
“That’s empowering,” Kerr said. “And it’s great to have a veteran roster with mentors, guys who are so good with our younger guys.
“The expression it takes a village? It really does. I think we’ve built a really strong organization that has figured out a much better way to develop our young guys.”
And that’s very good news for Baldwin.
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DELPHI, Ind. (WXIN) – A search warrant reveals new details in the investigation into the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi, Indiana.
According to a search warrant obtained by the Murder Sheet Podcast and provided to WXIN, an FBI agent wrote that she had probable cause to search Ron Logan’s property in connection with the murders and believed evidence may have been found there.
The agent wanted to search Logan’s home, outbuildings and vehicle for anything pertaining to the teens’ murders, including forensic evidence, hair, bodily fluids, guns and cutting instruments. The FBI also sought electronic devices and storage media, according to the search warrant.
Logan owned the property where the girls’ bodies were found.
The warrant provides additional details about the investigation, some of which have remained unknown to the public.
On Feb. 13, 2017, Abby Williams and Libby German went for a walk on the Monon High Bridge Trail. A family member was supposed to pick them up in the afternoon. However, they never showed up, setting off a frantic search that ended the next day, when the girls’ bodies were discovered.
Evidence released to the public included a photo of a heavyset suspect in a blue jacket and brief audio of a man’s voice saying, “Down the hill.” The search warrant revealed that the recording from Libby German’s phone lasted 43 seconds, a fraction of which has been made public.
Investigators have long believed the individual in the video participated in the murders.
The girls’ bodies were discovered on property owned by Ron Logan, about 1,400 feet from Logan’s residence. “A large amount of blood was lost by the victims at the crime scene,” according to the search warrant. Because of the amount of blood, investigators believed the perpetrator would have gotten blood on their hands or clothing.
The killer likely took a souvenir from the crime scene, according to the document, and it “appeared the girls’ bodies were moved and staged.” The redacted search warrant didn’t specify what was missing and noted that the “rest of their clothing was recovered.” There were no signs of a “struggle or fight.”
The agent suspected the killer physically removed something or took photos to “memorialize the crime scene.” Crime scene investigators also recovered unknown fibers and unidentified hairs.
The agent wrote that Logan’s physical build appeared to be consistent with that of the man seen on the video. Women interviewed about Logan said he’d been violent with them in the past, with one remarking she was frightened of him. Both women told investigators they thought Logan was the man in the video.
Another key piece of information: Logan’s “voice is not inconsistent with that of the person in the video,” according to the document.
The warrant noted that Logan owned numerous weapons including handguns and knives. Police knew about the items because they’d searched his home as part of an investigation into a probation violation; the search was limited to firearms and only included his main home.
The search warrant revealed that Logan lied about his alibi. According to the document, Logan told investigators a friend had picked him up from home on Feb. 13 between “2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.” so he could go to an aquarium store in Lafayette, Indiana.
He contacted a family member on the morning of Feb. 14 and instructed them to tell police about the trip. He also asked the family member to say they’d returned home between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Investigators did find a receipt from the store dated Feb. 13 with a checkout time of 5:21 p.m. during a March 6, 2017, search related to the probation violation. It would take Logan about 30 minutes to get from the store to his home, putting the 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. return timeline in doubt.
Investigators believe Logan lied about his alibi, making “statements that were found to be factually false and intentionally designed to deceive” law enforcement, according to the search warrant.
The person who Logan said had driven him to the aquarium store confirmed the trip with an investigator during a March 7 interview. Two days later, during an interview with a different investigator, the individual told police he’d lied during the March 7 interview because Logan had asked him to do so. The person said Logan “had never asked [him] to lie in the past.”
Investigators said it appeared Logan asked the family member to lie about the alibi before any crime had been discovered.
Police also learned Logan drove a pickup truck to the transfer station in Delphi to drop off trash on Feb. 13, likely between 11:53 a.m. and 11:58 a.m. The admission led to the investigation into his probation violation, as Logan was prohibited from driving.
Cellphone tower data showed Logan’s cellphone was in Delphi in the area near the Monon High Bridge Trail on the afternoon of Feb. 13, investigators said. A text message sent from his phone at 7:56 p.m. on Feb. 13 indicated the phone was “likely outside of his residence” and “in the proximity” of the murder scene.
Just days after the murders, Logan led reporters on a tour of his property and took them to the crime scene. He said he’d lived on the property for 50 years and couldn’t fathom how the girls could have reached the area where they were found.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") is updating the market capitalization eligibility criteria for additions to the S&P Composite 1500 Indices. Effective July 5, 2023, the size ranges will be updated as follows:
These market capitalization ranges are reviewed at the beginning of every calendar quarter, updated as needed to ensure they reflect current market conditions, and are expressed in dollar ranges. These minimum market capitalization guidelines are designed to capture the three-month average cumulative total any level market capitalization of the S&P Total Market Index ("TMI") universe at approximately the following cumulative percentiles:
- S&P 500 – 85th percentile
- S&P MidCap 400 index – 85th-93rd percentile
- S&P SmallCap 600 index – 93rd-99th percentile
Companies passing the total company-level market capitalization criteria must also have a security level float-adjusted market capitalization (FMC) that is at least 50% of the respective index's total company-level minimum market capitalization threshold.
As a reminder, the market capitalization eligibility criteria are for additions to an index, not for continued membership. As a result, an index constituent that appears to violate criteria for addition to that index is not removed unless ongoing conditions warrant an index change.
A history of market cap ranges dating back to 2007 can be found in Appendix A of the U.S. Indices methodology. The U.S. Indices methodology document will be updated soon to reflect the changes. Please visit our website www.spglobal.com/spdji for further details.
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MONROVIA, Ind. — A statewide Silver Alert has been declared for a missing 16-year-old from Morgan County.
According to police, Zeviah Harwell is a white male who is 6 feet tall and weighs 165 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing a hoodie and shorts.
Harwell was last seen on Thursday at 11:52 a.m., according to police. He may be in extreme danger or require medical assistance.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way to cut the plastic coating from wireline wires," said an inventor, from Graford, Texas, "so I invented the WIRELINE STRIPPER. My design enables you to cut the plastic coating without damaging the remaining exposed metal wire portion."
The invention provides a handheld plastic coating stripper tool for wireline wires. In doing so, it offers a clean-cut edge of the plastic coating. It also ensures that the remainder of the wire coating remains intact. As a result, it increases safety and efficiency. The invention features a lightweight design that is easy to use so it is ideal for tradesmen, contractors, electricians, do-it-yourselfers, etc. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-JMT-188, 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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TOKYO (AP) — Honda’s profit for the fiscal year that ended in March dropped 1.7% as sales took a hit from a semiconductor shortage and restrictions in China related to the coronavirus pandemic.
But the Japanese automaker said Thursday that recovery was on the way, forecasting record sales and operating profitability for the current fiscal year.
Net profit for the fiscal year that just ended totaled 695.2 billion yen ($5.2 billion), as declining auto sales and rising research costs offset the perks of a favorable currency exchange rate.
A cheap yen is a plus for Japanese exporters like Honda because it raises the value of overseas revenue when it is converted into yen.
Sales for the fiscal year grew 16% to 16.9 trillion yen ($126 billion), lifted by healthy motorcycle sales.
Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. projected record sales revenue for the fiscal year ending in March 2024, at 18.2 trillion yen ($136 billion). The 1 trillion yen ($7.5 billion) operating profit projected for the fiscal year, if achieved, would also be a record for the company.
The maker of the Accord sedan and Odyssey minivan is expecting fiscal year net profit to improve to 800 billion yen ($6 billion).
Although auto sales dropped on-year for the fiscal year just ended, they are expected to recover, Chief Operating Officer Shinji Aoyama told reporters.
Also Thursday, Honda announced it has signed a joint venture agreement with GS Yuasa, which makes batteries for cars and motorcycles, to set up a new company to research and develop batteries for electric vehicles.
The company will focus on collaborations in lithium-ion batteries, including coming up with production methods, both sides said. The new company, which is receiving capital of 2 billion yen ($15 million), is 50% owned by Honda and 50% by GS Yuasa.
The move comes as the world’s automakers are scrambling to keep up with a major consumer shift toward EVs, as demand grows especially in China, but also elsewhere like the U.S. and Europe.
“The new company will fully leverage the strengths of the two companies and establish a strong presence in the rapidly expanding battery market,” said Koichi Yamamoto, president of the new company.
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NEW YORK — Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike has arrived at Belmont Park for the final jewel of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown.
With exercise rider Gabriel Lagunes riding, Rick Strike visited Belmont’s training track at 9:30 a.m. accompanied by a pony. They went two laps the wrong way around on the dirt surface.
“He settled down a lot the second time round,” trainer Eric Reed said. “A lot of that was trying to get him used to the pony. You could see the farther he went the better he accepted the pony. I think by the end of the week they’ll be good buddies and on race day he needs a buddy.”
Reed said the colt, who is owned by Rick Dawson’s RED TR-Racing, is tired and will sleep the rest of the day.
Reed said Rich Strike will be schooled in the paddock in the morning before training on the main track.
“He’s so routine oriented,” Reed said. “We’re in a new place, so we can set his routine here and in two days, he’ll be fine,” Reed said.
Rich Strike breezed five-eighths in 59 seconds Monday on the main track at Churchill Downs. Reed said he won’t breeze again ahead of the Belmont.
“We might let him run down the lane Thursday or Friday,” Reed said of next week.
Rich Strike, who made the Kentucky Derby field following the late scratch of Ethereal Road, broke from the outside No. 20 post under Sonny Leon in the 1 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby and rallied from far back to win. The Belmont Stakes is a 1 1/2-mile race.
Reed said the owners decided to skip the Preakness, won by Early Voting on May 21 at Pimlico, to give Rich Strike more time between starts.
It marked the first time a Derby winner skipped the Preakness since 1985, when Spend a Buck collected a $2 million bonus for traveling to Garden State to capture the Jersey Derby.
Reed said if Rich Strike continues to move forward their long-term target would be the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers on Aug. 27 at Saratoga Race Course.
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Motto Franchising, LLC celebrates the network's top business performers and leaders at the annual Motto MILE Summit in Las Vegas
DENVER, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Motto® Mortgage held its sixth annual awards ceremony during its 2023 Motto Mortgage Innovation and Loan Excellence Summit (MILE) at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, February 25. The Motto Mortgage Awards & Recognition Program recognizes outstanding achievements, exceptional service, leadership and collaboration, high productivity and community service.
"2022 was a tough year for mortgage professionals, but the Motto Mortgage franchise network is resilient. I am so proud of everyone's hard work and dedication to providing top tier service for their customers," said Ward Morrison, president and CEO of Motto Franchising, LLC. "From reaching nearly $2.8 billion in closed loan volume to helping over 9,700 individuals and families achieve homeownership last year, the Motto network made a huge impact. Congratulations to all the 2022 award winners!"
"Winning the Broker Owner of the Year award was a really big honor for our team," said Robert Rollings, broker owner of Motto Mortgage Simplified. "We love being a part of the Motto Mortgage franchise network. We couldn't have accomplished all we have today without our rock star team, the tools and resources Motto provides us, the support we receive from Motto HQ and ongoing collaboration with other Motto offices across the country."
A total of 304 awards were presented to the Motto network, including:
- Broker Owner of the Year – Robert Rollings, broker owner, Motto Mortgage Simplified, Aiken, South Carolina
- Rookie of the Year – Lauren Hale, loan originator, Motto Mortgage Turnkey, Statesboro, Georgia
- Outstanding New Office – Mark Davis, broker owner, Motto Mortgage Preferred, White Plains, Maryland
- Motto Mortgage Mission Against Hunger Community Champion – David LaFleur, broker owner, Motto Mortgage Ascent, Strongsville, Ohio
- Diversity and Inclusion – Ashley Sipple, operations manager, Motto Mortgage Lakecrest, Beaverton, Oregon; and Carolyn Phillips, loan originator and operations manager, Motto Mortgage 360, Lynn, Maryland
- Rising Tide – Brigitte Kaliszewski, broker owner and loan originator, Motto Mortgage Consultants, Sterling Heights, Michigan
- Mottovated by Knowledge – Jodie Pearson Beck, loan originator, Motto Mortgage Signature, McKinney, Texas
- Largest Loan Originated – Corey Casper, broker owner and loan originator, Motto Mortgage Home Town, Cedar Park, Texas
- Top Office – Highest Average Transactions per LO – Motto Mortgage Preferred, White Plains, Maryland
- Top Office – Volume AND Total Transactions – Motto Mortgage Plus, Chesterfield, Missouri; Motto Mortgage Advantage Plus, Reynoldsburg, Ohio; and Motto Mortgage Simplified, Aiken, South Carolina
- Greatest Volume Gain – Corey Casper, broker owner and loan originator, Motto Mortgage Home Town, Cedar Park, Texas
- Community Champion Award – Marcy Downey, loan originator, Motto Mortgage Signature Plus, Daytona Beach Shores, Florida
"I am extremely honored to win the inaugural Community Champion Award, which recognizes my efforts to give back to the community. Florida was greatly impacted by the hurricanes last year and we were in a position to help," said Marcy Downey, loan originator for Motto Mortgage Signature Plus. "From supporting Mission Against Hunger efforts, to sponsoring local sports leagues and helping our local schools, Motto provides us with all the tools and resources we need to give back to those in need while also building our brand recognition in our market. I am very grateful to work for a brand that supports my growth professionally and personally and feels as passionately about giving back as I do."
The 2023 MILE awards ceremony was made possible thanks to the evening's sponsor, Total Expert, a leading fintech software company that delivers purpose-built CRM and customer engagement for modern financial institutions. Throughout the three-day event, attendees heard keynotes from industry leaders including former Navy SEAL and Echelon Front Leadership Instructor, Andrew Paul; President and Founder of The Knowledge Coop, Ken Perry; SmallBizLady and America's #1 Small Business Expert, Melinda Emerson; and The Knowledge Coop's trainer and speaker, Scott Genzer.
Motto® Mortgage, a "mortgage brokerage in a box," continues to disrupt the mortgage industry by providing exceptional service, more options, transparency and convenience for consumers. This model not only creates an additional business for current real estate brokerage firms, but also offers opportunities for mortgage professionals seeking to open their own businesses and independent investors interested in financial services.
Each Motto Mortgage franchise is independently owned, operated and licensed.
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The Motto Mortgage network is breaking the mold by giving the power of choice back to consumers with less jargon, more transparency, and even more options to choose from as they shop for the right home loan. With more than 225 offices open in over 40 states, Motto Franchising, LLC's unique national franchise mortgage brokerage model is the first of its kind in the United States. Created to disrupt the mortgage industry, the Motto Mortgage network connects loan originators and real estate agents to provide a seamless, personalized experience and one-stop shop for consumers. Motto Mortgage is the second member of the RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. family of brands. Each Motto Mortgage office is independently owned, operated and licensed. To learn more about Motto Mortgage, or for license information for a Motto Mortgage office, email newsroom@mottomortgage.com, or visit www.mottomortgage.com/offices.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has sued Equifax claiming she was denied a car loan because of a 130-point mistake in her credit report that she says was part of a larger group of credit score errors the ratings agency made this spring due to a coding problem.
The class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Atlanta on behalf of Nydia Jenkins and potentially millions of others who applied for credit during a three-week period earlier this year. The Jacksonville, Florida woman was forced to accept another, less favorable loan that was $150 per month more than the one she was turned down for because of the error, according to the lawsuit.
Credit scores provide lenders with a picture of how a big a risk a borrower is, and they typically range from 300 to 850 points, with a higher score usually resulting in better terms for people applying for mortgages, auto loans or mortgages. The lawsuit says the errors violated federal law that governs credit reporting agencies.
“In the modern economy, millions of Americans rely on credit to make the most important purchases of their lives, from homes to cars to appliances and everything in between,” John Morgan and John Yanchunis, the attorneys representing Jenkins, said in a statement. “We believe that many of the people impacted – some of whom may still be unaware of what happened – suffered severe financial consequences.”
The errors occurred over three weeks from mid-March to early April. An analysis Equifax conducted shows that there was no shift in a majority of credit scores, and for those who did experience a change, only a small number would have received a different credit decision, Equifax said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
“While the score may have shifted, a score shift does not necessarily mean that a consumer’s credit decision was negatively impacted,” the Equifax statement said.
Equifax said in another statement earlier this week that the problems stemmed from a coding issue that “resulted in the potential miscalculation of certain attributes used in model calculations.” In that statement, the firm said less than 300,000 consumers had a score shift of 25 points or more.
“Again, we do not take this issue lightly,” Equifax said.
Besides seeking an undisclosed amount of damages “to the fullest extent allowable by law,” the lawsuit is asking for an audit to identify which customers’ credit scores were affected; money for credit repair services; and the establishment of a fund to reimburse customers for any out-of-pocket expenses they incurred from the errors.
In 2017, hackers broke into Equifax in a breach that exposed the financial information of 147 million Americans. A federal court in 2020 approved a $380 million settlement of class actions lawsuits, with no finding or judgment of wrongdoing made. The settlement required Equifax to invest a minimum $1 billion over five years on data security.
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A California man has been arrested after a 15-year-old girl was caught in suspected crossfire and struck by a stray bullet near a high school last week, authorities said.
Leon Arreguin, 36, was tracked down to the 900 block of Nebraska St., where he was taken into custody on Friday, the Vallejo Police Department said.
Investigators found evidence at the home related to the shooting that unfolded when occupants of two separate vehicles shot at each other around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday near Vallejo High School, police said.
A bullet struck a girl walking nearby, but police said they don’t believe she was the intended target. She reportedly suffered a serious, non-life-threatening injury. No update on her condition was immediately available.
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During an interview with officers after his arrest, Arreguin "confessed to the crime," the department said.
The school had already dismissed students for the day when the shooting occurred, FOX2 KTVU reported, citing officials.
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Arreguin was charged with assault with a firearm, illegal firearm discharge, and inflicting injury on a child.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers and for ultimately leaving people’s lives in legal limbo.
Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government said it would focus on beefing up efforts to help more Afghans get permanent U.S. residency rather than the temporary legal status of humanitarian parole, which allowed them to stay in the country for just two years.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration is adopting a “new model” for Afghans traveling “directly to the communities where they will be moving” instead of having a stopover elsewhere in the country, which was required to get humanitarian parole.
“This is important to us. This has been a priority. And that’s how we’re going to make the process work a little bit better,” she said.
Since the chaotic evacuation of Afghans following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, some 86,000 Afghans have arrived in the United States — nearly all through the humanitarian parole process, which has left their future uncertain.
Thousands more remain in Afghanistan and their lives are at risk for aiding American troops. Some have been killed, advocates say.
Others have made their way to neighboring Pakistan but have been stalled by the backlog to process special immigrant visas for Afghans who supported the U.S. government during the war there. Nearly 75,000 such visas are still in the pipeline.
Humanitarian parole was intended originally to be a fast-track way to pull out Afghans who were unable to leave during the evacuation by the U.S. military a year ago. But it has fallen short, advocates said. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services struggled to keep up with the surge in applicants and address the growing backlog.
Since July 2021, the U.S. government has received nearly 50,000 humanitarian parole requests. But the agency has adjudicated fewer than 10,000, denying approximately 95% of them.
“Far too many of our allies remain in harm’s way, and far too many families remain separated by bureaucratic hurdles,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a refugee resettlement agency, said in a statement.
Jean-Pierre said the government is working on making things faster so Afghans left behind can get out soon.
“We know that many of our allies and Afghans remain under threat in the country,” she said.
Under the new model, dubbed “Operation Enduring Welcome,” Afghans must have immediate family members in the U.S. or have worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan or be identified as being among the most vulnerable applicants to the U.S. refugee program.
The administration said providing more Afghans with permanent residency will make it easier for them to restart their lives in the United States and participate in their new communities.
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GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glaucoma, one of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness, is expected to affect an estimated 120 million by 2040, globally. Treatment options for managing Referable Glaucoma - a stage where immediate treatment improves prognosis, exist, but a simple test to screen has been elusive. Today, the only way to detect is through complex investigations often requiring multiple devices handled by Glaucoma Specialists.
Remidio Inc, alongside Aravind Eye Hospital (AEH), Pondicherry, and Narayana Nethralaya (NN), Bangalore, announced the results of a landmark clinical trial that can help revolutionize the detection of Referable Glaucoma.
The integrated solution provides an instant report in contexts where there are no specialists. It consists of Remidio's Fundus on Phone, an imaging device that captures images of the retina without pupil dilation, and Remidio's Medios Referable Glaucoma AI, an integrated offline AI algorithm that requires no internet for inferencing.
The AI looks beyond the cup-to-disc ratio and detects structural changes in the optic nerve head and surrounding retinal nerve fiber layer, critical regions typically assessed by glaucoma specialists during clinical examination with an expensive device called Optical Coherence Tomography.
This video shows how technology can screen for Referable Glaucoma in 15 seconds.
The diagnostic performance of the AI was validated in a first-ever prospective study conducted simultaneously at a tertiary eye care center, NN, and in last-mile access contexts, Vision Centers (VCs) of AEH.
Among the 237 study subjects at NN, the AI results were compared against the current standard of care, wherein Glaucoma specialists provided the final diagnosis following a comprehensive work-up. The algorithm demonstrated a high sensitivity of 93.5% (95% CI: 87.1-96.8%) to detect Referable Glaucoma with a specificity of 85.4% (95% CI: 78.3-90.4%). The recall for 'no glaucoma' was also high at 94.7% (95% CI: 87.1-97.9%) with a minimal overcall of normal subjects.
Dr. Rohit Shetty, Vice Chairman at NN, said, "Our clinical study at NN shows that AI can bring much-needed objectivity in glaucoma screening, especially in contexts where no specialists are present. We also see the power of AI to be used in applications as diverse as outreach screening to personalized care."
In the multi-center study at AEH, among the 299 subjects evaluated at the VCs by residents, 70 were referred to the base hospital. Early results demonstrated a sensitivity of 91.30% (95% CI: 79.2-97.5%) and specificity of 91.67% (95% CI: 73-98.9%). The AI detected Referable Glaucoma with a higher sensitivity than the residents and reduced the number of over-referrals.
The integrated solution holds promise as an easily deployable tool to detect Referable Glaucoma as the results seen in a tertiary eye care center are also seen in last-mile screening contexts.
Dr. R. Venkatesh, Chief Medical Officer at AEH, said, "AI has helped overcome the challenges often presented with Glaucoma screening in the outreach. The reporting of fundus images has gotten much faster and more reliable with AI. It has great promise in VCs as a clinical decision tool for residents to improve their diagnostic consistency."
Dr. Divya Rao, a Glaucoma specialist and Remidio's Medical Director, said, "Promising results show that our AI can empower healthcare workers and general ophthalmologists to make an objective screening diagnosis, specifically at centers lacking sophisticated diagnostic equipment."
Remidio is an innovative ISO 13485-certified medical device company that seeks to impact preventable blindness by creating accessible technologies that are smart and simple to use. Remidio's CE marked, and FDA 510k registered medical devices have helped screen and impact more than 7.5 million patients in 15 countries globally.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing action that’s expected to expand the sale of gasoline made with higher concentrations of ethanol in eight states near the Midwest.
The move is expected to allow more sales of gasoline with 15 percent concentrations of ethanol, rather than the more common type with 10 percent concentrations of ethanol, in the summer.
It comes after a request from the states’ governors, and is seen as a win for the biofuels industry. However, it is not expected to take effect until 2024.
Brian Jennings, CEO of the American Coalition for Ethanol, told The Hill that in the long-term, the change would be “enormously important” for the industry.
The EPA action is in relation to congressionally-set limits on gasoline’s volatility – a measure of a substance’s ability to evaporate — that include an exemption for some 10 percent ethanol gasoline.
The agency revoked on Wednesday that exemption for gasoline sold in the eight states starting in 2024.
Jennings said that this puts gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol on “equal footing” in those states as fuel refiners would now be expected to make gasoline using different methodology that could also include gasoline with more ethanol.
Broadly, ethanol issues do not fall neatly along partisan lines, as Republicans in corn-producing states tend to take different stances than those who represent oil-refining states.
In Congress, bipartisan senators are attempting to make a similar change nationwide.
“This proposal, while well-intended, still leaves the country with a patchwork of regulations that prevents the nation’s driving public from enjoying the full benefits of biofuels,” Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) said in a written statement.
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President Biden makes an unannounced trip to Ukraine's capital By Leila Fadel, A Martínez, Frank Langfitt Published February 20, 2023 at 4:21 AM MST Twitter LinkedIn Email Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and announced a half a billion dollars of additional assistance to Ukraine. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kanw.com/2023-02-20/president-biden-makes-an-unannounced-trip-to-ukraines-capital | 2023-02-20 11:29:52 | 1 | https://www.kanw.com/2023-02-20/president-biden-makes-an-unannounced-trip-to-ukraines-capital |
Louisiana enacts anti-trans sports ban after its Democratic governor declines to take action
By Devan Cole, CNN
Louisiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at all public and some private elementary and secondary schools and colleges on Monday after the state’s Democratic governor declined to take executive action on the controversial measure.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ decision not to veto or directly approve SB 44 means that his state’s Republican-led legislature succeeded in passing the ban nearly a year after the governor had killed a similar version of the legislation last June, calling it discriminatory. Per state law, the governor needed to take direct action on the legislation before Monday in order to have a say in its fate.
Louisiana now joins a growing list of states that have enacted such bans in recent years, including at least six in 2022 alone. In pushing such measures, conservatives have argued that transgender women and girls have physical advantages over cisgender women and girls in sports, though a 2017 report found “no direct or consistent research” on any such advantage.
Edwards said at a news conference on Monday that he remains opposed to the ban but it was clear to him that lawmakers would move to override his veto if he issued another one this year.
“Whether it’s intended or not, the effect is to tell — send a strong message to at least some of these young people that they shouldn’t be who they think they are, who they believe they are, who they know that they are,” he said. “And I find that very distressing. I do believe that we can be better than that.”
Louisiana’s law, titled the Fairness in Womens Sports Act, is like many of the other bans passed by Republican-led states this year and in 2021. It requires all public schools and some private schools that receive state funding to designate sports teams based on “biological sex,” thus prohibiting trans women and girls from participating on women’s athletic teams.
The law defines “biological sex” as “a statement of a student’s biological sex on the student’s official birth certificate which is entered at or near the time of the student’s birth.”
While sex is a category that refers broadly to physiology, a person’s gender is an innate sense of identity. The factors that go into determining the sex listed on a birth certificate may include anatomy, genetics and hormones, and there is broad natural variation in each of these categories. For this reason, critics have said the language of “biological sex,” as used in this legislation, is overly simplistic and misleading.
The law shields schools, coaches and other school employees enforcing the ban from any legal action and allows cisgender women to take legal action if they claim they were “deprived of an athletic opportunity” because of a violation of the ban.
When Edwards vetoed the ban last year, he said in a statement that “discrimination is not a Louisiana value, and this bill was a solution in search of a problem that simply does not exist in Louisiana.” He also pointed to an announcement by the NCAA that the body doesn’t support such bans and is closely monitoring them to make sure NCAA championships can be held “in ways that are welcoming and respectful of all participants.”
So far this year, other GOP-led states that have enacted such bans include Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Last year, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia enacted similar sports bans, infuriating LGBTQ advocates, who argue that conservatives are creating an issue where there isn’t one.
The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights groups, had urged Edwards to veto SB 44, saying in a statement after the bill cleared the state House last month that the legislation “is a discriminatory attack and further isolates students that are already struggling to live a normal childhood.”
“This false narrative that Louisiana politicians are ‘defending’ women in sports is dangerous and misleading; they have cared about women’s sports for exactly as long as they’ve used it as a reason to attack LGBTQ+ people, and not a second longer,” Cathryn Oakley, the group’s state legislative director and senior counsel, said in a statement in May.
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Team USA has done it — after missing out on the entire World Cup tournament in 2018, the squad not only returned to the competition but was also able to advance out of group play.
Perhaps the Americans’ relative youth (second-youngest team in Qatar) was what was needed to shrug off the geopolitical implications and tensions of needing to win against Iran.
Even longtime watchers and fans of the team have to admit that lively, attacking play and control of the ball haven’t been a strong point of American players in the past few decades. But this isn’t the USMNT of old. These players are a revelation, they’re likely to be even better in 2026, and they’re not done yet.
— Andrea Canales, Inquirer Sports Staff, @phillysport, sports.daily@inquirer.com.
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Some watched the U.S.-Iran game in bars with friends. Some stayed at home. Some watched surreptitiously at work. Some were relatively new to soccer. Some had suffered with the team for years. Whatever degree of fandom involved, there was that bright shining moment when Hershey native Christian Pulisic scored.
To some, the game represented much more than a simple sporting event.
For Pulisic himself, the moment didn’t come without sacrifice.
Now, of course, it remains to be seen how that will affect the team going forward in its upcoming clash of the knockout rounds against the Netherlands.
Next: Follow all of our World Cup coverage.
The Eagles’ Super Bowl hopes took a hit when it was revealed Tuesday that safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson would be sidelined indefinitely with a lacerated kidney.
Gardner-Johnson, who leads the NFL with six interceptions, could still return this season, although the recovery timeline for this injury varies. The Eagles have been mostly fortunate this season when it comes to injuries, although over the last few weeks they have seen a few key players, including tight end Dallas Goedert, land on injured reserve.
Next: The 10-1 Eagles will host Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans (7-4) on Sunday at 1 p.m. (Fox29).
Entering Tuesday, it had been 21 days since the Flyers last won a hockey game. But they finally snapped their 10-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over the New York Islanders. Giana Han has the story from the Wells Fargo Center.
Next: The Flyers host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday (7 p.m., NBCSP).
The 76ers have won seven of their last nine games despite having stars Joel Embiid, James Harden, and Tyrese Maxey out of the lineup for significant portions of that stretch. In their absence, players who had been reduced to smaller roles stepped up, with Shake Milton, Tobias Harris, and others producing when their team needed them most.
Harris explained what has allowed so many Sixers to perform at a high level: “The whole group, the energy, the vibe is extremely positive. And if I’m really being honest, all that is a tribute to, honestly, the way that we’ve been winning and everybody feeling themselves out there.”
Next: The Sixers visit the Cleveland Cavaliers at 7 p.m. Wednesday (NBCSP).
A Palestra tradition resumes Wednesday night with a Big 5 doubleheader as Temple takes on La Salle at 6 and Penn faces St. Joseph’s at 8:30.
“It was a phenomenal experience as a player,” said Fran Dunphy, who played at La Salle and is now the head coach there. “It was a phenomenal experience as a coach just to play your games at the Palestra. It was seldom that it was four Big 5 teams in the doubleheader, but it could have been three. ... I hope that the younger people get a sense of how important it is.”
Penn’s grand old arena opened in 1927 and has produced countless memories. Ed Barkowitz revisits some of them.
If anyone could be considered Mr. Big 5, it’s Fran Dunphy. Mike Jensen explains.
We offer previews of La Salle-Temple and St. Joe’s-Penn.
Test your Big 5 knowledge with our quiz.
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Quakers cruise: Penn tops La Salle, 72-59, in women’s basketball.
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When an organization's workforce is not reflective of the community it serves, it may risk losing the opportunity to hire great employees or tap into new or growing local and global markets
TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Although Black History Month is drawing to a close, it is important to remember that the minority experience is not a monolith. The barriers that Black professionals encounter are not limited to the same barriers as their colleagues. To offer an in-depth, data-backed look into the unique Black experience in the technology industry and to support organizations seeking to improve their intentional DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, Info-Tech Research Group has published its highly anticipated report, The State of Black Professionals in Tech.
"Diversity in tech is not a new topic, and it's not a secret that technology organizations struggle to attract and retain Black employees," share Info-Tech research directors and leads on the report, Allison Straker and Ugbad Farah. "Current events have once again brought diversity to the forefront for many organizations. The pandemic, along with preparations for a recession and talent trends such as 'the great resignation' and 'quiet quitting' have not only impacted diversity at large, but also Black professionals in technology."
While there are a variety of diversity dimensions, the new report emphasizes the importance of understanding what makes up a "multicultural workforce," as there is more to diversity than gender, race, and ethnicity. Organizations need to understand that there is diversity within these groups and that Black professionals have their own unique experience when it comes to entering and navigating the tech industry.
Over 600 individuals were surveyed for the report, the majority of which indicated they were born or are living in the US, Canada, India, Nigeria, or the United Kingdom. Follow-up interviews provided additional insights on the data collected.
The respondents identified several overarching themes and shared experiences when examining the experience of Black professionals in the tech industry. The key themes revealed by the research are as follows:
- Black professionals feel unsatisfied – Only 23% of Black respondents reported feeling very satisfied in their current role, compared to 34% of all other professionals.
- Barriers to career advancement are more likely for Black professionals – 54% of Black respondents reported facing microaggressions in the workplace, followed by 50% reporting racism, 39% reporting gender-based bias, 18% reporting accessibility issues, 13% reporting religion bias, and 14% reporting other discrimination.
- It takes Black professionals longer to find technology jobs – 29% of Black respondents said it took seven months or longer to find their tech job, compared to 19% of all other professionals.
- Advancement opportunities are more difficult to achieve for Black professionals – Black respondents were 55% more likely to report that they had no career advancement or promotion opportunities in their career than all other professionals.
- Many Black professionals feel unable to be their authentic selves – Only 75% of Black respondents reported feeling able to be their authentic selves at work, compared to 86% of all other professionals.
Info-Tech's report highlights good news: there are various actions organizations can take to help address these barriers. One particularly notable takeaway from the firm's research is that Black professionals reported that working from home or remotely has reduced the impact of racial incidents in the workplace, leading to improved mood and sense of safety. Remote work also led to feelings of opportunities for career advancement, an important consideration when many Black professionals report challenges in achieving career advancement or promotions.
Research participants were also asked to distribute points across five potential solutions that could lead to improved job satisfaction. The findings showed that there were common solutions that could be leveraged to support the rectification of the identified issues. These solutions, ranked in order of importance, include:
- Mentorship/sponsorship – While mentorship and sponsorship opportunities are important for all employees, they are especially helpful in closing the job satisfaction gap for Black IT professionals. The percentage of satisfied Black employees almost doubles when they have a mentor or sponsorship, moving the satisfaction rate to closer to all other colleagues.
- Training – Much like mentorship and sponsorship, training is universally beneficial for all employees but was ranked as highly important by Black respondents.
- Employee resource groups (ERGs) – ERGs enable employees to connect in their workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences and generally focus on providing support, enhancing career development, and contributing to personal development in the work environment. Some ERGs provide advice to the organization on how they can support their diverse employees. ERGs were rated significantly higher for Black professionals compared to all other professionals.
- Internal discussions around diversity – Discussions around diversity were ranked higher by other professionals compared to their Black colleagues. This may be because other groups feel a need to learn more about diversity, whereas Black professionals live this experience on a day-to-day basis, so it is not as critical for them.
- External acknowledgment – External acknowledgment was ranked similarly between both Black respondents and all other professionals.
"The report acknowledges that resolving the barriers that Black employees often face is not easy," continue Straker and Farah. "Although senior executives are recognizing that a diverse set of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds is crucial to fostering innovation and competing on the global stage, organizations often don't take the extra step to actively look for racialized talent. Leaders should look at a variety of solutions that can be implemented within the organization, keeping in mind that the experiences of each demographic vary."
In the report, the firm reminds organizational leaders that when implementing measures to support Black professionals within an organization, it is critical to ensure they are not put in place as Band-Aid solutions but are carefully thought-out and layered.
For the full scope of insights, areas of opportunity, and suggested solutions in combatting the unique barriers Black professionals face in the technology industry and workplace, download and read the complete The State of Black Professionals in Tech report.
To learn more about Info-Tech Research Group, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and Twitter.
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President Joe Biden pledged additional help for Canada as wildfires fume, especially in Quebec, causing unhealthy air quality levels throughout much of the Eastern U.S.
In a readout of a call between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the president “directed his team to deploy all available Federal firefighting assets that can rapidly assist in suppressing fires impacting Canadian and American communities.”
The White House said 600 firefighters and support personnel have been sent to Canada.
Vedant Patel, spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said the over 600 personnel came from the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. He said this is in addition to several states sending help to Canada.
“The U.S. is supporting Canada as it faces extreme wildfires, which based on our assessments is on track to be one of the largest natural disasters in Canadian history,” Patel said.
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Trudeau on Wednesday declared the 2023 wildfires the “worst we’ve ever seen.”
"We need to continue to make sure we are doing everything possible to keep Canadians safe when these extreme weather events hit. But also make sure we're doing everything we can to predict, protect and act ahead of more of these events coming,” Trudeau said, suggesting Canada has seen a rise in recent natural disasters.
According to Quebec officials, there were 137 active wildfires in the province as of Thursday morning. To date, there have been 443 fires in Quebec, which is more than double the 10-year average at this time of year.
The effect of Canadian wildfires has been impactful on both sides of the border.
The air quality in much of the Eastern U.S. is considered “unhealthy” as of Thursday morning. In some areas, particularly around New York and Philadelphia, the air quality has been considered “hazardous.” The poor air quality caused several major sporting events to be postponed Wednesday, and some Broadway shows were canceled.
The Environmental Protection Agency forecasts that air quality in Philadelphia and New York will gradually improve through Friday. Meanwhile, forecasters said the air quality will deteriorate in parts of the Southern U.S.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday against Payton Gendron, the white 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket, according to the district attorney's office.
Gendron, who has been in custody since the May 14 shooting, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court.
The charge or charges will not be disclosed until his court appearance, the Erie County District Attorney's office said.
Scripps station WKBW has obtained a copy of the indictment which includes a domestic terrorism charge and 24 other charges:
- Domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree
- 10 counts of murder in the first degree
- 10 counts of murder in the second degree, as a hate crime
- Three counts of attempted murder in the second degree, as a hate crime
- Criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, an armed felony
Gendron had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting, which also injured three people. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors told a judge May 20 the grand jury had voted to indict Gendron but was continuing its investigation. It was unclear whether the finalized indictment contains any new allegations against Gendron.
Federal authorities also are investigating the possibility of hate crime charges against Gendron, who apparently detailed his plans and his racist motivation in hundreds of pages of writings he posted online shortly before the shooting. The attack was livestreamed from a helmet-mounted camera.
Gendron drove about three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, intending to kill as many Black people as possible, investigators have said.
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LUND, Sweden, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Syntach AB ("Syntach") is pleased to announce that the Company's Syntach Cardiac Support system (Syntach CS) has been selected for an oral presentation in the Best Innovation Competition to be held during the CRT 2023 annual meeting taking place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, February 25 - 28, 2023. The Syntach technology also qualifies for the CRT 2023 Top Innovation Award. The winner announcement will be made at the FDA Town Hall Luncheon on Tuesday, February 28th, 2023.
Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) is a leading educational forum on new cardiovascular technology and procedures for physicians and health-care professionals. CRT provides a forum for exemplary education for interventional cardiologists, general cardiologists, cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons, catheterization laboratory managers, nurses and technologists, scientists, and those with an interest in cardiovascular medicine. To join interventional and endovascular specialists at CRT 2023, email info@crtmeeting.org.
Over 64 million people suffer from heart failure, one of the most common causes of death globally. Syntach's Cardiac Support System is a novel device and treatment method designed to enhance the natural movement designed to restore the heart's natural pump by acting on the motion of the mitral valve plane during the cardiac cycle, making each heartbeat more effective. This technology does not require open heart surgery and is powered by an implanted battery, avoiding a drive line through the skin and many of the negative side effects associated with available assist devices.
Monica Tocchi, MD, PhD, and the CEO and Founder of Meditrial USA Inc (Meditrial) will present Syntach's novel Cardiac Support System in a talk titled "Minimally Invasive Fully Implantable Cardiac Support Technology To Restore Cardiac Function In Heart Failure Patients". during the Innovations HUB:
- CRT's Best Innovation Competition session on Monday, February 27th, 2023, at 4:11 PM CET
Syntach and Meditrial recently announced a partnership to support the development of clinical and regulatory strategies for Syntach's innovative minimally invasive cardiac support system.
"We are thrilled to be working with Syntach on this groundbreaking technology," said Dr. Monica Tocchi, cardiologist, and CEO of Meditrial. "Syntach CS is based on recent research and new insights into the importance of mitral valve plane displacement, which accounts for 60% of left ventricular stroke volume. Independent studies have shown correlations of this maker of cardiac dysfunction with reduced survival and major adverse cardiac events in patients with heart failure. Excellent preclinical results have been obtained in animal models of heart failure by restoring the natural motion of the mitral plane. Clinical trials are planned to demonstrate that this device has the potential to enhance cardiac functionality and improve clinical outcomes."
"We are excited that Syntach CS will be featured in this year's Best Innovation Competition," said Patrick NJ Schnegelsberg, CEO of Syntach. " The annual CRT meeting features focused educational and training sessions that discuss new trial data, explore evidence-based research, and feature the most up-to-date techniques that can be directly applied to clinical and academic practices. This is the first time Syntach CS will be presented during a major congress, and I appreciate the recognition of our innovative therapeutic approach to address a critical unmet need for patients suffering from heart failure."
Patrick NJ Schnegelsberg (CEO, Syntach) and Kristian Solem (VP Clinical Affairs & IP, Syntach) will be attending the CRT2023 meeting and can be contacted at info@syntach.com. Dr. Monica Tocchi can be reached at m.tocchi@meditrial.net.
Syntach AB is based in Lund, Sweden and develops innovative cardiac support systems as well as mitral valve intervention systems in cooperation with several academic research centers. Syntach works with the Cardiac MR Group at the Department for Clinical Sciences and Clinical Physiology at Lund University. The academic team at Lund University has pioneered research about the functioning of the heart.
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What are the best athletic shorts?
The best pairs of athletic shorts should fit comfortably, allowing your body to move freely while exercising. Though they can be great for running, training, yoga or team sports, a quality pair of athletic shorts can also be ideal for simply lounging around at home.
Choosing the best style is not always an easy task, considering the overwhelming amount of options available for people. To decide which pair is best for you, there are a few key elements to consider, from material to length to additional features that will help improve your workout.
What to look for in athletic shorts
Material
Almost all athletes will want to opt for lightweight, quick-drying and moisture-wicking materials, such as polyester, nylon and spandex. These matericals allow you to stay cool when performing high-intensity activities or when the mercury rises. Cotton options are also available but tend to be more suited for casual wear.
Length
The inseam length of men’s and women’s athletic shorts can vary drastically. The shortest inseams will start around 3 inches, with the longest options ranging upwards of 12 inches. Shorter inseams are best for running, and mid-length options can serve as good all-purpose workout shorts.
Style
The wearer’s personal preference ultimately determines the best color, design and style. There are endless possibilities and opportunities to customize your look. Some models will be more appealing to more serious athletes, while others are better for recreational and casual wear.
Many women’s athletic shorts tend to be high-waisted compared to similar men’s models. However, there are a few low-cut options available.
Extras
Zip pockets, waistband pockets, reflective detailing, interior lining and drawstring closures are all convenient features that you may want to incorporate into your search for the best pair of athletic shorts. Some people might prefer the ability to carry their phone or wallet while running, while others may consider it unnecessary weight and bulk.
13 best athletic shorts
Best athletic shorts for men
BALEAF Men’s 3 Inches Running Shorts
These polyester athletic shorts are great for runners and joggers as their breezy design, including a short inseam, won’t restrict movement on long routes. The interior pocket is ideal for storing your small essentials.
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New Balance Men’s Accelerate Short
The built-in interior lining of these shorts provides extra support for all types of athletic activity, while the reflective logo makes it safer for those who prefer running at night.
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Nike Men’s Flex Stride 7-inch Shorts
Utilizing a relaxed fit, a mesh lining and Dri-FIT material, this option ensures that you’ll stay cool and dry throughout your workout. Many people will also appreciate the eco-friendly recycled fabric used in the construction of these shorts.
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Champion Men’s 9-inch Jersey Short
You can choose between a full cotton or cotton/polyester blend, depending on the color and style. Whichever you choose, these Champion shorts are a perfect crossover option between technical and casual athletic wear.
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Nike Men’s Dri-FIT Training Shorts 5.0
The Dri-FIT fabric incorporated into these Nike training shorts allows them to manage sweat and wick moisture away from the body, keeping the wearer from overheating. With a 9-inch inseam, this option will rest slightly above the knee for a comfortable fit.
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Under Armour Men’s Raid 10-inch Workout Shorts
Athletes wearing these men’s athletic shorts will benefit from the four-way stretch of the polyester/elastane blend and built-in UPF sun protection. The anti-odor technology will keep you feeling fresh even after working up a sweat.
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Under Armour Women’s Fly By 2.0
With plenty of color options to choose from, these durable running shorts will hold up to strenuous activity as they wick away sweat and moisture to make your exercise routine more enjoyable.
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Nike Women’s Tempo Dry Core 3-inch Running Shorts
Featuring an elastic waistband with included drawstring cord, you can achieve a perfect fit no matter your body type. To increase airflow during workouts, these Nike shorts have included ventilated mesh side panels.
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Adidas Women’s Marathon 20 Shorts
Not too tight and not overly baggy, the Marathon 20 shorts offer a relaxed athletic fit. The featured key pocket is handy for carrying some extra cash, cards or other essential items you need.
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Adidas Women’s Essentials 3-Stripes Shorts
Whether you decide to wear them at the gym, while training outdoors or just relaxing at home, you’ll enjoy the casual appearance of these 3-Stripes shorts. This option uses 92% cotton for an extra-soft feel and 8% elastane to provide stretch.
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With a 7-inch inseam and complete cotton construction, these jersey shorts are perfect for casual wear and low-energy exercises. One of the best aspects of these shorts is their deep side pockets which are roomy enough to fit a phone or wallet.
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BALEAF High Waist Compression Shorts
Sporting a tighter fit than many other options, those looking for a short that you can use for biking, yoga, hiking, fitness classes and more will enjoy this nylon/spandex blend. Featuring both side and hip belt pockets lets you keep your essentials secure and within reach at all times.
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90 Degree by Reflex Soft Comfy Activewear Lounge Shorts
The ribbed elastic waistband and drawstring closure means you’ll always get an ideal fit. With both a lifestyle and activewear appeal, you can wear these stretchy shorts in everyday situations.
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Officer shoots 15-foot pet snake wrapped around owner’s throat, police say
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) - Police say they had to rescue a Pennsylvania man from his 15-foot pet snake.
Officers report they were called to the man’s home on Wednesday and found the snake wrapped around his owner’s neck.
Authorities said the man was lying on the floor unresponsive and the reptile would not let go. So, they shot it.
“At that time, the officers observed the snake, a very large, thick, 15-plus-foot snake. The snake’s midsection was wrapped around the male’s throat on the ground,” said Lt. Peter Nickischer of the Upper Macungie Township Police Department. “Literally, the officer looked into the room and the snake was looking up at him. It was face-to-face, and the officer just did what he had to do.”
According to police, the snake’s owner was not hit with any of the bullets but was taken to the hospital once the snake moved away and died.
Police did not release any further immediate information on the incident.
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Dolly Parton Says ‘I Guess I’m a Rock Star Now’ After Receiving Rock Hall Nod
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame officially announced its class of 2022 inductees yesterday (May 4), and the iconic Dolly Parton was among them. Though she initially tried to decline the nomination, she's changed her sentiments — "I guess I'm a rock star now," she stated in a new interview.
Back in February, Parton admitted that she was "absolutely floored" when she learned she'd been nominated for the Rock Hall, especially because she never considered herself a rock 'n' roll artist. However, she added that if she were to get inducted, she'd make a rock record to commemorate the accolade.
In March, the singer-songwriter attempted to withdraw from the nomination because she didn't feel worthy of the title. Many rock stars praised her efforts, but the Hall declined her request.
"From its inception, Rock and Roll has had deep roots in Rhythm and Blues and Country music. It is not defined by any one genre, rather a sound that moves youth culture," the organization wrote in a statement. "Dolly Parton's music impacted a generation of young fans and influenced countless artists that followed. Her nomination to be considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame followed the same process as all other artists who have been considered."
Parton then decided that she would accept the induction last week, if she were to be chosen. Low and behold, she's now a member of the class of 2022, and explained her sentiments about it to Billboard.
"[My manager] Danny [Nozell] called me from the office and said, 'You’re going to be inducted.' I said, 'Really?' I said, 'Well, I guess I’m a rock star now,' jokingly," Parton recalled.
"I feel great. I feel honored that all the people that voted for me did. And I appreciate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people for staying there with me," she continued. "I never meant to cause trouble or stir up any controversy. It was just always my belief — and I think millions of other people out there, too — always thought the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was just set up for the greatest people in the rock ‘n’ roll business, and I just didn’t feel like I really measured up to that and I don’t want to take anything away from the people that have worked so hard."
Now, she added, she's going to try and "live up to" the title, and noted her admiration for legendary classic rock artists including The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, which she may eventually cover songs by. She especially hopes to get to sing alongside Mick Jagger, backed by the rest of the Stones, on a couple of original songs she plans to write.
"I’d like to get in with some of the great rock groups and do some things, [but] I’ve been working so hard on so many things and I’ve got to overcome this so-called controversy, which I never meant it to be that. So now I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So I’m going to have to do a rock album at some point. … Now I may have to call my album Rock Star!"
Right on, Dolly. You deserve it.
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LONDON, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Central Bank released on 29th September 2022, their latest progress report on the investigation phase of their digital euro project and elaborates on foundational design features approved by the Governing Council. The report highlights key operational transfer mechanism requirements for the digital euro including:
- Online validation by third-parties
- Offline functionality (where payee or payer are not connected to the internet) and peer-to-peer validation
- Privacy level at least equal to current private sector digital solutions
- Compatibility with current regulatory framework
Further detailed information can be found at the following ECB link.
Aureum is Fluency's proprietary blockchain account-based ledger technology designed to enable the implementation and on-going operation of CBDC systems. Specifically, Aureum, with its unique account-based ledger architecture, achieves:
- Peer-to-peer validation;
- Online payments validation by certified third-parties;
- Dual offline functionality (when neither payee or payer has mobile or internet connection);
- Instantaneous and programmable payments; and
- Double spending protection through its ledger stored architecture
Inga Mullins, Fluency's CEO and founder, stated "We are extremely pleased to see that our solution, Aureum, fulfils all foundational design aspects for the digital euro as approved by the ECB's Governing Council, and look forward to continuing our ongoing engagements with the world's major central banks focusing on Central Bank Digital Currency".
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Observing current devices to manage incontinence and its related complications as a nurse, I believed there is a way to help patients reduce incidence of skin irritations and pressure sores."
The invention provides an improved incontinence product that could be employed in transition from a foley catheter. In doing so, it offers a secure fit. It also helps to prevent leaks and skin irritation. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use and change so it is ideal for medical facilities, home health care and hospice patients, individuals with bladder problems, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SDB-1703, 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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The 2007 guidelines for the Lower Basin water shortage for Colorado River communities in the U.S. West are set to expire soon. As leaders prepare for mapping out the next 20 years, public input is a top priority.
While Bureau of Reclamation officials have started planning how they will operate the river and reservoirs for the next 20 years, they are looking to incorporate public opinion.
"This is a vital conversation in determining alternatives to protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River," said Camille Touton, a commissioner with the Bureau of Reclamation.
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In 2007, a 20-year water shortage plan for the Colorado River was put into place due to low water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
"Since that time the system has never recovered to those levels prior to the early 2000s and has generally declined as a result of dry hydrology," said Bureau of Reclamation's Carly Jerla.
Now, 16 years later, the clock is ticking for a new plan on water use. The Colorado River has been impacted a lot since 2007 and during Monday's meeting, three major changes in the basin impacting the river were highlighted. The changes include the Tribal River Engagement, the cooperative process with Mexico, and the ongoing drought.
"The combined storage of Lake Powell and Lake Mead is at 36% capacity or 36% full," Jerla continued. "Through the post 2026 process we will develop successor domestic agreements for the long-term operations and management of the Colorado River system."
The first of several virtual meetings was an opportunity to discuss the timeline and to take comments on what the public thinks should happen.
The first public comment period on the plan ends on Aug.15. Ben Burr, executive director of the Blue Ribbon Coalition, an organization working to protect access to public land and water, said he has been paying close attention to the ongoing concerns on the river.
"This last winter was really good for our snow pack and so it bought us some time but all of the states are still seriously considering how to cut back water use across the basin," he said.
He anticipates states having to adjust water use even more in the future to prepare for possibly worsening conditions.
"We have had a lot of people move in to all the areas that depend on the water and we have also had some years of some pretty serious shortages in the river and so I think those will be the things they will be looking at."
Burr said, "Everyone in the Colorado Basin needs to learn how to do more with less water in the system in case we have years like the last two years have been prior to this really good one we just had."
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HOUSTON (AP) — A chemical company was ordered to pay $16 million and sentenced to two years of probation for its role in a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area plant nearly a decade ago, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
The employees at the now-closed DuPont chemical plant in LaPorte, Texas, died in November 2014 when a chemical used in the manufacturing of insecticide and fungicide, methyl mercaptan, was released.
U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani, who is based in Houston, said the deaths were the result of “DuPont’s criminal negligence.”
“The sentence imposed today sends a clear message of my office’s dedication to holding managers at industrial facilities, and the corporations that own and operate those facilities, accountable for violations of … laws meant to protect the safety of workers and nearby communities,” Hamdani said.
During a court hearing Monday, DuPont, along with Kenneth Sandel, who ran the unit at the plant where the employees who died worked, each pleaded guilty to one count of a negligent release of an extremely hazardous substance.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal ordered DuPont to serve the two years of probation, which means that federal officials will have full access to all of the company’s operating locations. DuPont was also ordered to pay a $12 million criminal penalty and make a $4 million community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Sandel was ordered to serve one year of probation.
In a statement, Corteva, a spinoff from DuPont that took over its agricultural operations, said it “deeply regrets” the deadly gas leak.
“We are committed to the highest safety standards, and safety is a core value,” Indianapolis-based Corteva said in a statement.
In a final report released in 2019 on the deadly gas leak, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board concluded that various safety management system deficiencies, including problems with troubleshooting operations, safe work practices and toxic gas detection contributed to the severity of the incident.
Attorneys for Sandel, 52, did not immediately return emails seeking comment. In court documents, federal prosecutors had requested Sandel be sentenced to eight months in prison.
The chemical began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2014, in a unit at the plant in La Porte, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Houston. Crystle Wise, Wade Baker and brothers Robert and Gilbert Tisnado were killed. A fifth worker was injured.
Sandel and DuPont engineers allegedly devised a plan to divert a large volume of methyl mercaptan gas into a waste gas pipe system during the day before and night of the fatal incident, according to prosecutors and an indictment. However, Sandel failed to implement necessary procedures to evaluate safety aspects of that plan, according to prosecutors.
The unit where the workers died did not have adequate ventilation or air monitoring to ensure employee safety, and procedures weren’t followed that would have restricted worker access into areas where ventilation fans weren’t working, according to the chemical safety board.
In 2016, DuPont permanently shut down the insecticide production plant where the workers died.
Brent Coon, an attorney who represented Wise’s family, said jail time for executives would be more effective in preventing similar tragedies. DuPont settled lawsuits filed by Wise’s family and the families of the other workers who were killed.
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MONTREAL, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The UN climate change conference COP27 in Egypt concluded less than three weeks before the kick-off of the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Montreal. The agendas of the UN treaties on climate change and biodiversity have increasingly intersected. This reflects a growing understanding of the linkages between the two issues and the need for integrated solutions.
The Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University (ICCSD) and Asia Development Bank (ADB) jointly announced to call for good practices on Nature-based Solutions across Asia at CBD COP15.
"The pathway to carbon neutrality is a systematic revolution related to society as a whole, so carbon neutrality is beyond climate change and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) should go beyond carbon sink only", said Dr. WANG Binbin, ICCSD's C+NbS head and Executive Secretary General of Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC) .
Defined at the United Nations Environment Assembly in this March, NbS refers to "Actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems, which address social, economic and environmental challenges effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being, ecosystem services and resilience and biodiversity benefits."
Themed Nature "Innovative Pathway towards the Carbon Neutral Future", the side-event, co-organized by ICCSD and ADB, is to encourage more explorations on the potential of nature, in particular the sustainable use of nature resources from the climate change perspective.
"As an expert on climate, my reflection is that all renewable energy come from nature resources, so if we agree that renewable energy is the solution towards the net-zero future, then they are Nature-based Solutions from this point of view." Dr. WANG highlighted, "We should encourage synergic and integrated perspective."
To tap into nature's strength in addressing climate change, ICCSD has operated the C+NbS platform with more than 400 global partners and carried out a tracing study on global practices since 2019, right after the UN's Climate Action Summit in New York, where China and New Zealand were invited to lead the NbS coalition. The research built a database consisting of 300 global cases and then formulated an evaluation criterion considering the guidance of ecological civilization, UN's Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs), with reference to the IUCN Global Standard.
"We concluded 6 primary screening indicators and 3 deep evaluation dimensions to select out 28 good cases from the database as the recommended ones to be released during the first phase of the CBD COP15 in Kunming," Dr. WANG introduced. "As the following step, the research scope will be narrowed to the regional level, so as to more accurately find the most cutting-edge and exemplary practical cases."
ICCSD further join hands with ADB to establish an Asian NbS database for deeper analysis of such practices across the region. All organizations who have related practices in Asia could submit their cases to iccsd@tsinghua.edu.cn by March 31 2023. The report of the research is planned to be released at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
The side-event signified the beginning of the strategic partnership between ICCSD and ADB. Representatives from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), World Economic Forum, and ClientEarth, together with GAUC's Global Youth Ambassador, exchange research and practical progress in the field during the plenary.
"We have confidence to explore more innovative solutions for the carbon neutral future with the strong support and network of ADB in Asia," said LI Zheng, President of ICCSD.
"Nature is now seen as the key in dealing with acute crises that the Asia and Pacific region is facing, namely, climate change, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity, " said ZHANG Qingfeng, ADB's Chair of the Environment Thematic Committee. According to ZHANG, ADB is also partnering with Stanford University for unlocking the potential of nature.
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Expert tips to protect yourself from online shopping fraud
Shoppers between the ages of 18 to 24 have the highest risk for online shopping fraud
InvestigateTV - A recent online shopping fraud study by the Better Business Bureau(BBB) revealed in 2022 reported losses in the U.S. and Canada are expected to exceed $380 million with the highest risk category of shoppers between the ages of 18 to 24.
Jenni Stolarski purchased several items of clothing from an online retailer that advertised on Instagram. When she received her purchases, the items received were not as described on the website.
She tried to initiate a return and was told she would have to pay for return shipping to Dubai, then the company stopped responding entirely.
Fortunately, Stolarski used a credit card for the purchase and was able to dispute the charge.
However, to get her money back she had to send a thorough letter to her credit card company, including a letter from an expert showing that the material she received was poor quality.
Although it took time, the charge was eventually reversed.
Josh Planos from the BBB said bogus ads, stolen or fake websites, reviews and business locations oftentimes target consumers before, during and after a purchase.
Planos shared several ways you can protect yourself from online shopping fraud:
· Be wary of prices that seem too good to be true
· Beware of recently created websites or sites that have excessively glowing reviews.
· Use a credit card when possible
You can report bogus sites or suspected fraud to the BBB Scam Tracker.
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HOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lopez Negrete Communications and Hyundai Motor America announce first-of-its-kind anthemic brand work aimed at showing that no matter how far apart we might be, how different we may be, where we go or where we came from, it is the miles we spend together that are worth treasuring. The Las Millas que Nos Unen or The Miles that Unite Us campaign was originally created for the Hispanic market, but Hyundai observed its emotional relevance resonating across all audiences and selected it for the general market as well.
"Our first bilingual anthemic brand campaign with Lopez Negrete transcends our vehicles to truly capture Hyundai's perspective on life, that while 'miles' are normally thought of as indicators of geographic separation, they can unite us when they are used to create experiences that bring us together," said Angela Zepeda, CMO, Hyundai Motor America. "We also strongly believe this campaign crosses over cultures and emotionally connects with diverse audiences, so the broadcast and digital campaign will run in both English and Spanish, capturing today's multicultural consumers."
The goal of the campaign was to show the benefits of the brand and to share the role Hyundai plays in their drivers' lives as a partner that brings design, technology, and functionality to spark excitement, comfort, and joy to every step of their journeys.
"The time we spend in our vehicles is, in many cases, quality time we spend with partners, family, friends, or just by ourselves. Within these vehicles, we live moments, sometimes significant and sometimes irrelevant, that stay with us for years, moments we label with miles," adds Executive Creative Director Alex Garcia. "The car becomes then a silent witness, a stage for those fun, loving, memorable miles in the journey of our lives."
The anthem spot was filmed in Los Angeles and brought to life under the direction of Isis Malpica, with Macgregor as director of photography. Hyundai's campaign consists of :15, :30, and :60 TV commercials, :30 radio spots and streaming audio, and digital assets that will be shared nationally in English and Spanish through the end of 2023.
"As Hyundai's Hispanic agency of record, we are proud to represent a brand that is committed to building an authentic relationship with this consumer whether that is in-language or in-culture or both," said Lopez Negrete Communications President and CEO Alex López Negrete. "To see our strategy and final production afforded content for both our market and the mainstream market makes me extraordinarily proud of the work and our shared teams."
Lopez Negrete Communications stands as the largest independent, Hispanic-owned-and-operated, full-service agency in the United States, specializing in providing marketing services to corporations wishing to reach and engage with America's large and influential Hispanic consumer segment. Founded in 1985 by Alex and Cathy López Negrete, the agency offers thought leadership and a full range of marketing, advertising, and communications services, including strategic planning, brand strategy, creative and production, research and consumer insights, media planning and buying, digital/social/mobile marketing services, public relations, and promotions. Award-winning throughout a rich 37-year history, Lopez Negrete counts as clients some of the nation's largest corporations and their prestigious brands, such as Bank of America, Walmart, McDonald's, Hyundai Motor America, Sam's Club, Mattress Firm, Phillips 66 Company, and Motiva Enterprises LLC. With headquarters in Houston, Texas, Lopez Negrete employs over 100 professionals who are dedicated to delivering the promise of Maximum Return On Cultural Intelligence™ and is a founding agency member of both the Hispanic Marketing Council and the ANA's Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM).
Hyundai Motor America focuses on 'Progress for Humanity' and smart mobility solutions. Hyundai offers U.S. consumers a technology-rich lineup of cars, SUVs, and electrified vehicles. Our 830 dealers sold more than 724,000 vehicles in the U.S. in 2022, and nearly half were built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. For more information, visit www.HyundaiNews.com.
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DAYTON, OH (WDTN) – Summer is quickly approaching, so if you’re feeling nervous about sitting poolside, Jiva Med Spa has some ways to increase your confidence.
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Chicago-based firm Power Rogers LLP earned the No. 1 spot in Chicago Lawyer Magazine's annual Settlements Report.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Power Rogers has proven once again why it is one of the most respected personal injury law firms in the country.
For the 12th time in 13 years, Power Rogers earned the No. 1 spot in Chicago Lawyer Magazine's annual Settlement Survey.
Founding Partner Joseph A. Power, Jr., also received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the JVR Awards for Trial Lawyer Excellence.
Each year, Chicago Lawyer publishes an issue featuring its highly anticipated law firm rankings, which are based on settlements reported to the Jury Verdict Reporter during a cycle that runs from August 1st through July 31st. This year's report highlighted a total of 393 settlements valued at $500,000 or more and totaled more than $1.16 billion in recovered compensation.
In the 2022 JVR Settlements Report, Power Rogers was ranked as the No. 1 firm of 101 law firms that made Chicago Lawyer's final cut. Some highlights about this achievement:
- This was the 12th time in 13 years that Power Rogers claimed to No. 1 spot in Chicago Lawyer's annual Settlements Report.
- Power Rogers recovered more than $187 million in compensation for its clients during the 2022 reporting cycle - $77 million more than its closest competitor.
- The firm obtained 32 settlements valued at $500,000 or more during this year's reporting cycle.
- Power Rogers also secured the No. 1 largest settlement in the past year – a $50 million recovery for a plaintiff who sustained severe burns and amputations in a tree-trimming accident.
In addition to the firm's continued recognition as one of Chicago's leading trial practices in most dollars earned, several attorneys at Power Rogers were selected for individual distinction.
This includes Firm Partner and Co-Founder Joseph A. Power Jr., who was awarded the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the annual JVR Awards for Trial Lawyer Excellence. This is one of our legal community's most prestigious accolades and it serves as a testament to Power's exceptional career as a plaintiffs' trial attorney, his unwavering commitment to his clients, and his respect in the legal community at large.
Power Rogers is a nationally recognized Plaintiff's Personal Injury Law Firm with a roster of highly respected and accomplished trial attorneys. In addition to continued recognition in ranking publications such as Chicago Lawyer's Leading Lawyers report, The Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers, several of the firm's attorneys have been inducted into prominent organizations such as the Inner Circle of Advocates, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the Society of Trial Lawyers.
As Chicago's premier personal injury law firm, Power Rogers' track record includes multiple record-setting verdicts and settlements and more than $5 billion in recoveries in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases ranging from trucking accidents to medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, and more. Most recently, the firm was appointed to represent the State of Illinois as Special Assistant Attorneys General in a civil suit against Monsanto over the environmental and health effects associated with its production of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
For more information, visit: www.powerrogers.com.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera has condemned a recent decision by Egyptian authorities to brand some of its journalists as terrorists.
The media outlet, which is owned by the Gulf state of Qatar, said that “a number” of its Egyptian journalists and presenters had been added to a list of alleged terrorists published in an official newspaper earlier this month following a ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court.
“Al Jazeera Media Network strongly denounces the recent move by the Egyptian authorities to reinstate a number of its journalists onto a newly crafted terrorism list,” the network said in a statement Tuesday.
It also called for the release of two reporters — Bahaa Al-Din Ibrahim, who was arrested in February 2020, and Rabee Al-Sheikh, who was arrested in August 2021. Both had traveled back to Egypt from Qatar to visit family, the network said.
Egypt launched a crackdown on Al Jazeera after the 2013 military overthrow of an elected but divisive government dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood group. Egypt considers the Brotherhood a terrorist group and accused both Qatar and Al Jazeera of supporting it.
Egypt revoked Al Jazeera’s media credentials, raided its offices and arrested several reporters. The arrest and trial of three Al Jazeera English journalists — Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed — sparked an international outcry.
The three received 10-year prison sentences, but were later released in 2015.
Egypt and Qatar recently restored ties as part of a wider rapprochement among Arab states, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi visiting the country and meeting with its ruling emir in September. In May, Egypt released an Al Jazeera journalist who had been held since 2019.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many Al Jazeera reporters had been added to Egypt’s terrorism blacklist, which is updated every five years. The broadcaster didn’t provide specifics, and the newly updated list includes dozens of names. There was no comment from Egyptian officials. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-al-jazeera-condemns-egypts-decision-to-add-some-of-its-journalists-to-a-terrorism-blacklist/ | 2023-07-27 06:43:13 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-al-jazeera-condemns-egypts-decision-to-add-some-of-its-journalists-to-a-terrorism-blacklist/ |
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LONDON (AP) — The family of a comatose boy who have fought to prevent doctors from ending his life-support treatment have filed a legal action requesting permission to move their son from a London hospital to a hospice.
Archie Battersbee’s parents announced the move after the European Court of Human Rights late Wednesday rejected a request to intervene in the case following a series of rulings by U.K. courts that backed doctors who said further treatment was not in the 12-year-old’s best interests because he is brain dead.
The family is now seeking permission to move Archie from the Royal London Hospital in east London to a hospice. They say the hospital informed them that life support would be withdrawn at 11 a.m. Thursday unless a legal challenge over the hospice move was submitted by 9 a.m.
“I would like him out of here as quick as possible, really, and in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos,” his mother, Hollie Dance, told the BBC.
The dispute is the latest U.K. case pitting the judgment of doctors against the wishes of families. It is common for British courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on the treatment of a child. In such cases, the best interests of the child take primacy over the parents’ right to decide what they believe is best for their offspring.
Archie was found unconscious at home with a ligature over his head on April 7. His parents believe he may have been taking part in an online challenge that went wrong.
Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said it understands the motivation behind the family’s request but a previous High Court ruling requires that Archie remain in the hospital while his treatment is ended. The boy’s condition is so unstable that moving him would hasten the deterioration of his condition, the trust said.
“As directed by the courts, we will work with the family to prepare for the withdrawal of treatment, but we will make no changes to Archie’s care until the outstanding legal issues are resolved,” Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer of the trust, said in a statement.
Archie’s parents took their campaign to prolong his treatment all the way to the U.K. Supreme Court. After exhausting their legal options in Britain, they asked the European Court of Human Rights to intervene.
The ECHR late Wednesday said it would not “interfere with the decisions of the national courts to allow the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from (Archie) to proceed.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/family-of-comatose-boy-seek-to-have-him-moved-to-hospice/ | 2022-08-04 21:27:00 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/family-of-comatose-boy-seek-to-have-him-moved-to-hospice/ |
MIDLAND, Texas — Sometimes, you just got to let it out.
And now you can do that at the Museum of the Southwest.
"So the scream room is definitely the most popular attraction that we have during this exhibit," Director of the Blakemore Planetarium David Lasater said. "It's a soundproof chamber that you get to test the limits of that soundproofing by screaming as loud as you can inside, and the chamber actually records your decibel levels, how high you're actually screaming. "
The scream chamber has caused all sorts of family feuds.
"So we've had brothers and sisters, we've had moms and dads, we've had families competing against each other seeing how loud they can scream and like having contests, it's been really fun to see," Lasater said.
One of the workers there showed us how it’s done with a staggering 130.9dB
This is among the highest scores so far at this chamber, but being the competitor I am, I’m not one to step away from a challenge…
I only scored 108dB... but I tried.
The room is a part of the planetarium exhibit in the museum as part of the Sonic Sensation, and while the screaming room is a lot of fun, so is the rest of the exhibit. This area teaches all sorts of information about sound.
"So we're in the Brown Science Center of the planetarium where we have our rotating exhibits come in and out," Lasater said. "And we are in 'Sonic Sensation', which is an exhibit from the Science Center in Ithaca, New York, which talks about the science of how sound works, sound waves, frequencies, and other ways music and all kinds of different stuff like that."
If you’re a visual learner, the sound exhibit allows you to see, and hear, how sound works.
"So we have different exhibits around here that show different types of areas of sound," Lasater said. "Whether a sound is a high pitch or a low pitch, allows people to identify different types of sound, whether it's maybe coming from the same source or something different, how the ear works, you can actually see sound waves and how they can actually move objects from like one area to another. And we also have an area of 'Music in Motion' that actually allows kids to walk along musical notes and actually create their own music."
This area is a fun way for kids to learn about sound, something that happens all the time, every day.
"One of the things that I like about this exhibit is it shows the science of things that we take for granted every day," Lasater said. "A clap or a cough or someone yelling across the room to get someone's attention, and just everything that goes- that's involved in that you know, the air leaving your lungs and heading out of your mouth, the ear picking up the screams that travels across the room, and just learning about the science of that. And I think that really makes you feel small in a way, just know that all this stuff is happening around you all the time. And I think this exhibit has really kind of opened people's eyes and ears about that kind of stuff that happens around you every day."
If you ever need to let out some frustration, or just want to see how sound works, you might need to drag yourself to the Museum of the Southwest and participate during "scream season." | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/visit-the-museum-of-the-southwests-scream-chamber-to-prove-it/513-66a33175-06f7-4e9f-af54-8063ca5242e9 | 2022-10-20 22:06:21 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/visit-the-museum-of-the-southwests-scream-chamber-to-prove-it/513-66a33175-06f7-4e9f-af54-8063ca5242e9 |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Here is what’s happening in San Angelo during the week of August 22, 2022, until August 28, 2022.
Monday, August 22
- A Texas Tribute
- Bob and Kelli Phillips of the Texas Country Reporter will be celebrating the Lone Star State with our symphony orchestra. A Texas Tribute is an exclusive event coinciding with the 50th anniversary season of Texas Country Reporter.
Wednesday, August 24
- Therapaws
- Every Wednesday at the Tom Green County Library – Angelo West Branch there will be furry friends to be read to, played with, and talked to, come visit and get to know them.
Thursday, August 25
- Lorrie Morgan performs at the Murphey Performance Hall
- Lorrie Morgan is a country music singer. She charted her first single in 1979. Known for songs such as, “A Picture of Me,” etc.
- Working Dogs Job Fair
- Concho Valley PAWS is hosting an adoption event with free adoptions of featured “working dogs” from the shelter which includes spay or neuter, vaccinations, microchip & registration and collar with an ID tag. The event will be at PAWS from 1 P.M. to 7 P.M.
Friday, August 26
- Kids Night Out – Start school with a splash
- Enjoy an adult night out while the kids have their own fun! Kids will complete a craft, enjoy special activities, have some popcorn, and enjoy a PG movie.
- To register for KNO please contact the Welcome Center at 325.655.9106. Y-Members: $20.00 Non-Members: $25.00. The event is at the San Angelo YMCA from 6 P.M. to 10 P.M.
- Downtown Movie Night
- The movie featured will be Ray and the Last Dragon at 9 P.M. in the parking lot at East Twohig between the Cactus Hotel and Miss Hattie’s Restaurant.
- The Event schedule can be found here.
- ASU Volleyball:
- THINK BIG A Big Dog Adoption Event
- Concho Valley PAWS is hosting an adoption event with free adoptions of featured big dogs from the shelter which includes spay or neuter, vaccinations, microchip & registration and collar with an ID tag. The event will be at PAWS from 1 P.M. to 7 P.M.
Saturday, August 27
- Make A Memory Date Night
- Make a Memory together and build your own keepsake boxes. Learn to use clay slabs to make your own handmade boxes with lids with local artist Michelle Cuevas.
- This event is located at Concho Clay Studios at 6 P.M. and tickets are $90 for 2 spots. Register online here.
- ASU Volleyball:
- LNL Pack Hike
- Join love N’ Leashes on a short family hike with your dog at the San Angelo Nature Trail! There will be vendors in the parking area and Cassie’s Place will also be bringing out some of their adoptable dogs to walk as well.
- This event will take place at 9 A.M. at (7464 Spillway Rd)
- Scout Expo at Fort Concho
- There will be Fort Concho games, food trucks, BB Gun shooting, teepee, pinewood derby, fire safety, dinosaur dig, and so much more all for free from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. at Fort Concho.
- Pittie Party
- Concho Valley PAWS is hosting an adoption event with free adoptions of featured Pit Bulls and Pit Bull Mixes from the shelter which includes spay or neuter, vaccinations, microchip & registration and collar with an ID tag. there will also be free hot dogs, refreshments, and music. The event will be at PAWS from 1 P.M. to 7 P.M.
- Scavenger Hunt at San Angelo State Park
- Join Ranger Tara for a short walk on the Roadrunner trail for a scavenger hunt and learn about the different plants and animals in our park! The hike will be 0.30 miles in length and end at the Bison/Longhorn viewing area. (Entry fees apply) Please bring close-toed shoes, water and sun protection. This event begins at 8:30 AM.
- Get Crafty at the Tom Green County Library
- The event will be in the Sugg Community Room at the downtown Stephens Central Library and will be open for 12 hours of productive, crafty goodness. Bring your unfinished- or not-yet-begun projects and get social from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.
- KARZ N KOFFEE
- Car, Truck, or Bike show at the Idk, WTV Food Truck Park next to Fattys Grill. It will be from 8 A.M. until 11 A.M. however it is recommended to go closer to 8 A.M. for the car show.
- Get Out Alive: Surviving An Active Shooter
- This event was created by U.S Lawshield for participants to receive real-life knowledge from law enforcement professionals trained to handle these life-threatening situations. In addition, our Independent Program Attorneys will provide critical legal insight, so you are prepared for the legal aftermath. This event is free with limited available spots.
- Register here. The event will be from 6 P.M until 8 P.M. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/what-to-do-in-san-angelo-august-22-through-august-28/ | 2022-08-21 21:09:07 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/what-to-do-in-san-angelo-august-22-through-august-28/ |
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — In a new policy plan unveiled Monday, Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis took aim at China with a “Declaration of Economic Independence” that also targets taxes, regulations and “elites” he blames for the nation’s decline.
Speaking in a New Hampshire warehouse, the Florida governor promised to diversify and expand the economy by fighting for the middle class.
“Revitalizing economic freedom and opportunity will require building an economy where the concerns of average citizens are elevated over those deemed too big to fail,” he said at Prep Partners Group, which coordinates warehousing, distribution and other logistics for other companies.
“We are a nation with an economy, not the other way around,” DeSantis said. “We are citizens of a republic. We are not cogs in a global economic empire.”
DeSantis said his top priority would be wresting economic control from China by ending the nation’s preferential trade status, banning imports of goods made from stolen intellectual property and preventing companies from sharing critical technologies with China. Current polices, he said, have created an “abusive relationship” between the two countries.
“The elites sold us a bill of goods when it came to China. They were wrong, and we need to get it right,” he said.
The 10-point economic plan is the third major policy proposal put forth by DeSantis, who remains a distant second to former President Donald Trump in most polls and is fighting for momentum in the midst of a campaign reset. He recently shed more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
But on Monday, his focus was on reckless federal government spending. His plan describes him as a “new sheriff in town” who will veto wasteful spending and mandate work requirements for welfare programs. He also claimed he could achieve 3% annual economic growth by keeping taxes low, eliminating bureaucracy and incentivizing investment.
On the education front, DeSantis said he will stop incentivizing “useless degrees” by making universities responsible for the loans their students accrue.
“It’s wrong to say that a truck driver should have to pay off the debt of somebody who got a degree in gender studies,” he said.
After the speech, in what was billed as a news conference, DeSantis sidestepped a question about Trump’s mounting legal fees. That’s even as the DeSantis campaign has been attacking Trump for devoting much of his political fundraising to his legal entanglements.
“We’re here to talk about restoring this economy. We’re here to talk about uplifting the middle class,” DeSantis said. “To me, if you ask voters, are they more interested in hearing about that or the process stories about politics? I think that they want to hear about the country’s future so that’s what we’re going to talk about.”
A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee said DeSantis should be talking about the economic woes he created in Florida including the rising costs of housing, property insurance and health care.
“It remains a mystery why DeSantis would try to reboot his dumpster fire of a campaign by promising to bring his failures as governor nationwide,” Ammar Moussa said. | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-desantis-unveils-new-economic-policy-that-targets-china-taxes-and-regulations/ | 2023-07-31 20:49:25 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-desantis-unveils-new-economic-policy-that-targets-china-taxes-and-regulations/ |
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Police say no ‘foul play’ suspected in death of missing Georgia man
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - The family of the Georgia man who died during a business trip to Baton Rouge says they have been told he likely died of an accidental overdose.
The family of 42-year-old Nathan Millard said investigators told them Tuesday that an autopsy on Millard showed “no internal or external trauma” to the body.
The Baton Rouge Police Department later confirmed during a news conference that “foul play” is not suspected.
“There doesn’t appear to be any foul play at this point. I know that he was placed there obviously by another individual. We would like to know who and why. But just from the autopsy results that were given by the Coroner’s Office, at this time it doesn’t appear to be any signs of foul play,” said Captain Kevin Heinz.
Millard was on a business trip in Baton Rouge when he was reported missing. His body was found on Monday near a highway, about two weeks after he was reported missing.
Police said they are now looking into how his body got there.
“It does appear that he was left there, that that’s most likely not where he died. I don’t want to go into details on our investigative efforts, but efforts are underway to locate and to talk to whoever may have put him there,” said Heinz.
Investigators said it is possible he was with others when he accidentally overdosed, and they moved his body to another location.
“And look, we’ll ask whoever put him there. If something happened and there was a moment of panic, come forward. We just want to know what happened to him. Our goal is to find out what happened to him,” Heinz said.
Millard was last seen around 11:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at Happy’s Irish Pub on Third Street in the downtown area, officials said.
According to police, surveillance video of Millard at other businesses later in the night showed that he appeared to not be in distress and was there of his own accord.
“He appeared to be at those locations under his own power, and it didn’t appear that there was anything taking place criminally,” Heinz said.
East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark said the final autopsy results are pending further studies, including toxicology testing. He added the cause of death and manner of death are pending the completion of the final autopsy report.
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'It's beating like a new machine': Alaskan man receives new heart in Seattle; grateful for support
SEATTLE - After severe winter storms canceled Patrick Holland's flight to Seattle in December for a life-saving heart transplant, the Alaskan man is now recovering from a new heart he received in March.
Holland has been battling congestive heart failure for years and remembers the devastating day when icy weather made it impossible for him to make it to Seattle in time for a heart transplant.
"It was an earth-shattering feeling, like I had just lost possibly the only opportunity to have a heart transplant," said Holland.
His heartbreaking story gained national attention, as well as heartwarming support from kind strangers in Seattle.
Before he was able to catch a flight to Seattle in January, he says multiple people reached out, offering him a place to stay.
"I wouldn't have been able to get this heart if it hadn't been for the people from Seattle," said Holland.
He underwent a successful heart transplant surgery at UW Medical Center at the end of March and says he's never felt better.
"This heart is not going to be wasted," said Holland "It's going to impact a lot of people in a positive way."
As Holland heals in Seattle, he says he'll return to his family at the end of July and is thinking of starting a non-profit to help seniors.
He encourages others to sign up to be blood and organ donors if they can.
"You may not be helping one person, you may be helping a lot of people," said Holland. | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/its-beating-like-a-new-machine-alaskan-man-receives-new-heart-grateful-for-support-from-seattle | 2023-05-09 08:12:01 | 0 | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/its-beating-like-a-new-machine-alaskan-man-receives-new-heart-grateful-for-support-from-seattle |
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended the authorization of a dengue vaccine made by the Japanese pharmaceutical Takeda that could provide a new tool for millions worldwide against the potentially fatal disease.
The EU regulator said in a statement the vaccine should be cleared for anyone aged four and over, to prevent the four types of dengue. The viral disease causes more than 390 million infections globally every year, including up to 25,000 deaths, mostly in children.
“The benefits and safety of the current vaccine have been evaluated in 19 clinical trials that enrolled more than 27,000 people aged between 15 months and 60 years,” the EMA said. Studies showed Takeda’s vaccine was about 84% effective in preventing people from being hospitalized with dengue and about 61% effective in stopping symptoms four years after getting immunized.
The most commonly reported side effects included headaches and muscle pain.
There is no specific treatment for dengue, which is a leading cause of serious illness and death in roughly 120 Latin American and Asian countries. While about 80% of infections are mild, severe cases of the mosquito-spread disease can lead to internal bleeding, organ damage and death.
The green light for the Takeda vaccine comes after Sanofi Pasteur’s dengue vaccine triggered a public health crisis in the Philippines in 2017. The Dengvaxia shot was found to increase the risk of severe disease in people who had not previously been infected with dengue and was linked to the deaths of more than 100 children.
Critics charged that the Sanofi vaccine was rolled out prematurely to about 800,000 children across the Philippines. Numerous scientists and officials were indicted for introducing the vaccine “with undue haste,” that prosecutors said resulted in homicide.
The World Health Organization had previously concluded the Sanofi Pasteur vaccine was safe, but later said children should only be immunized if they were tested first to ensure they had already had dengue.
The EMA said its endorsement of the Takeda vaccine means that “a global unmet public health need is being addressed,” explaining that countries beyond the EU should have confidence that the shot is safe and effective.
After malaria, dengue is the most diagnosed cause of fever in European travelers returning from developing countries.
In September, Indonesia became the first country to license the Takeda vaccine. | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-eu-regulator-recommends-clearing-takedas-dengue-vaccine/ | 2022-10-14 14:24:09 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-eu-regulator-recommends-clearing-takedas-dengue-vaccine/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Katie Ledecky is having a great time in her first competitive event of the season at this week’s FINA Swimming World Cup.
Ledecky set a world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle on Saturday night at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
“I knew that record was within reach just based on some things I’ve done in training, especially my distance stuff (as it) has felt really good this fall,” Ledecky said. “So I felt locked into the pace.”
The 10-time Olympic medalist — who doesn’t compete in short-course events very often — finished in 15:08.24, taking nearly 10 seconds off the previous record set by Germany’s Sarah Wellbrock (15:18.01) in 2019.
Canada’s Summer McIntosh, who also set a world junior mark when she edged Ledecky in the 400 free on Friday, finished first in the 400 medley in 4:21.49 to lead a Canadian sweep.
“Throughout the entire race I felt really in control and strong so I’m really happy,” she said.
Sydney Pickrem was second in 4:28.45, and Bailey Andison was third in 4:29.36.
McIntosh, a 16-year-old from Toronto, trimmed nearly two seconds off the previous world junior mark set by China’s Shiwen Ye (4:23.33) in 2012.
Ledecky took gold ahead of Beatriz Dizotti of Brazil (15:48.82) and Laila Oravsky of Canada, who was third in 16:16.86.
“It’s just so unreal to be a part of something so amazing,” Oravsky said. “That was the fastest 1,500 that was just swum and I was a part of that. It’s crazy.”
Maggie Mac Neil of Canada improved her national record in the women’s 50-meter butterfly, finishing first in 24.75 seconds. American Beata Nelson won the women’s 100 backstroke, and Shaine Casas of the U.S. finished first in the men’s 200-meter medley.
One of the biggest roars from the near-capacity crowd came at Ledecky’s finish. She splashed the water after looking up at the scoreboard to see her world-record time.
“Honestly most of that emotion was just because it hurt a lot,” she said. “When something hurts that much, you want to see a great result like that. It was just mostly happiness.
“I felt good and I was very pleased with the outcome.”
She returned to the pool a short time later for the 200 free and took silver in 1:52.31 behind Hong Kong’s Siobhan Bernadette Haughey.
“I didn’t have any super type of preparation for this meet,” Ledecky said. “I just wanted to come in and race some international swimmers. These meets (Toronto and next week in Indianapolis) are on North American soil so I just had fun with it.”
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NY Marine Warnings and Forecast for Sunday, January 1, 2023
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service New York NY
359 AM EST Sun Jan 1 2023
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST EARLY THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...For the Dense Fog Advisory, dense fog will reduce
visibility to less than 1 NM. For the Small Craft Advisory,
west winds 10 to 15 kt and seas 3 to 6 feet expected.
* WHERE...Fire Island Inlet NY to Montauk Point NY out 20 nm.
* WHEN...For the Dense Fog Advisory, until 6 AM EST early this
morning. For the Small Craft Advisory, until 7 PM EST this
evening.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. Low
visibility will make navigation difficult.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
If you must navigate, proceed with caution. Use proper fog
signals. Make sure all running lights are on. Remember to use
your radar and compass.
* WHAT...Dense fog will reduce visibility to less than 1 NM.
* WHERE...Long Island Sound, New York Harbor, Peconic and
Gardiners Bays, and South Shore Bays from Jones Inlet through
Shinnecock Bay.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM EST early this morning.
* IMPACTS...Low visibility will make navigation difficult.
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