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Laura Pajor Nov 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 Updated 1 hr ago 💬 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Buy Now Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Laura Pajor, 52, of Lancaster, formerly of Hanover Twp., passed away Monday, Nov. 7, 2022.Born in Wilkes-Barre, she was the daughter of George A. and Gloria J. Poroda Pajor and enjoyed playing games and shopping.She was preceded in death by her sister-in-law, Jenn Pajor; and uncle, Thomas Pajor.In addition to her loving parents, she is survived by her brother, Alan; and niece, Allison Pajor.A funeral service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday from Lehman Family Funeral Service Inc., 689 Hazle Ave., Wilkes-Barre.Friends are invited to join the family from 5 p.m. until service time at the funeral home.For information, visit the funeral home website, www.LehmanFuneralHome.com. Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil. If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted. User Legend: ModeratorTrusted User Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Laura Pajor Jenn Pajor Internet Commerce Gloria J. Poroda Pajor Wilkes-barre Alan Funeral Service Funeral Home Recent Obituaries Ardoline, James P. "Jimmy" Ardoline, James P. "Jimmy" Austin, Elizabeth M. Bonczewski, Mary E. Echalk, Raymond T. "Ray" Egan, Donald G. "Ike" Engler, William W. "Bill" Fisk, Carol Good, Daniel Sterling Ide, Ann M. Knapp, Margaret Knish, Robert Koch, Kyle Joseph Kubasti, Louise B. Lulavage, Florence Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Local Obituaries Each day's obituaries, delivered to your inbox. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/laura-pajor/article_ed9b1356-68e6-536b-a5af-69180cc6fefe.html | 2022-11-09 04:22:09 | 0 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/laura-pajor/article_ed9b1356-68e6-536b-a5af-69180cc6fefe.html |
A teenage boy has died after being shot on Monday night in Millville, New Jersey, officials said.
According to Cumberland County prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae, a 14-year-old boy was shot at about 10:20 p.m. along City Park Drive.
The boy, she said, was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced.
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The prosecutor did not provide the boy's identity, nor any further details on the child's injuries, on Tuesday morning.
According to Webb-McRae, no arrests have been made in this incident, but, "there is no known threat to the public at this time."
She said an investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
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Four alarm fun! Firetruck parade returns to Spencer this weekend
SPENCER, N.C. (WBTV) - It’s a steamy, hot summer week but this weekend things will be even hotter in Rowan County with the return of the largest single-day event of the whole year at the N.C. Transportation Museum.
Visitors to the museum in historic Spencer can enjoy the Fire Truck Festival from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The N.C. Transportation Museum has a strong connection with firefighting. The Spencer Shops Fire Department was founded in the 1920′s to combat any potential fires at the Southern Railway’s shops. The department consisted of three-reel teams of eleven men each, operating 2,000 feet of two and a half inch fire hose.
These men, a team of which would be stationed around the clock, were charged with keeping Spencer Shops safe from fire. But with many of the Southern Railway employees living in the adjacent towns, the Spencer Shops Fire Department’s paid firefighters also responded to the calls of the nearby community, lending a hand to the local fire departments, who relied on volunteers and might not be available to fight fires at all hours of the day.
This way the Spencer Shops Fire Department kept both the Shops and the community safe so that work could continue uninterrupted day in and day out.
In keeping with this legacy of community involvement, the museum welcomes families to come out to enjoy a wide variety of activities throughout the day such as an inflatable safety house and inflatable games, obstacle course, jaws of life demonstrations, a discovery map for children, story time, a firefighter’s water ball competition, a N.C. Forestry Service booth, potential helicopter fly-in, and pumper demonstrations from the Charlotte Fire Department’s 1902 steam pumper.
A plethora of antique and modern day fire trucks will also be on display for kids and families to take advantage of for photo opportunities. Children can participate in the Lil’ Mr. and Ms. Firefighter Costume Contests at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Train rides will be going on throughout the day at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. and can be combined with general admission for $14 for adults, $12 for seniors/military, $10 for children 3-12 years of age, and free for members and children under age 3. General admission without the train ride is half the cost of combination tickets.
There will be a firefighter themed flea market from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. inside the Back Shop. Fire related memorabilia will be available for purchase from collectors and dealers. Admission to the flea market is included with admission to the festival.
The festivities will conclude with the People’s Choice Awards Presentation at 2:30 p.m. and then the popular fire truck parade starting at 3:15 p.m.
For more information about the festival, a complete schedule of events and activities, and to purchase tickets, go www.nctransportationmuseum.org/fire-truck-festival or call the N.C. Transportation Museum at 704-636- 2889.
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LOS GATOS, Calif., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, today announced that Vu Truong, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Aridis Pharmaceuticals, will participate in a virtual fireside chat presented by Maxim Group LLC and hosted by M-Vest on June 7 at 11 a.m. ET. Investors who wish to join the Fireside Chat can register for a free M-Vest membership using the link to the webcast below.
During the fireside chat, moderated by Maxim Group Research Analyst Jason McCarthy, Dr. Truong is expected to provide an overview of Aridis' late-stage development pipeline and anticipated upcoming data readout timelines.
About Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops anti-infectives to be used as first-line treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and viral pandemics. The Company is utilizing its proprietary ʎPEX and MabIgX® technology platforms to rapidly identify rare, potent antibody-producing B-cells from patients who have successfully overcome an infection, and to rapidly manufacture mAbs for therapeutic treatment of critical infections. These mAbs are already of human origin and functionally optimized by the natural human immune system for high potency. Hence, they are already fit-for-purpose and do not require further engineering optimization to achieve full functionality.
The Company has generated multiple clinical stage mAbs targeting bacteria that cause life-threatening infections such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), in addition to preclinical stage antibacterial and antiviral mAbs. The use of mAbs as anti-infective treatments represents an innovative therapeutic approach that harnesses the human immune system to fight infections and is designed to overcome the deficiencies associated with the current standard of care, which is broad spectrum antibiotics. Such deficiencies include, but are not limited to, increasing drug resistance, short duration of efficacy, disruption of the normal flora of the human microbiome and lack of differentiation among current treatments. The mAb portfolio is complemented by a non-antibiotic novel mechanism small molecule anti-infective candidate being developed to treat lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The Company's pipeline is highlighted below:
Aridis' Pipeline
AR-301 (VAP). AR-301 is a fully human IgG1 mAb currently in Phase 3 clinical development targeting gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) alpha-toxin in VAP patients.
AR-320 (nosocomial pneumonia). AR-320 is a fully human mAb targeting S. aureus alpha-toxin for prevention of nosocomial pneumonia. Statistically significant Phase 2 data in the target population of those ≤ 65 years of age was published in the September 2021 Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The Company has completed discussions with the EMA and FDA on study design and expects to launch its Phase 3 study of AR-320 in mid-2022.
AR-101 (HAP). AR-101 is a fully human immunoglobulin M (IgM) mAb in Phase 2 clinical development targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) liposaccharides serotype O11, which accounts for approximately 22% of all P. aeruginosa hospital acquired pneumonia cases worldwide. This program is licensed to the Serum Institute of India and Shenzhen Arimab.
AR-501 (cystic fibrosis). AR-501 is an inhaled formulation of gallium citrate with broad-spectrum anti-infective activity being developed to treat chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. This program is currently in a Phase 2a clinical study in CF patients.
AR-701 (COVID-19). AR-701 is a cocktail of fully human mAbs discovered from convalescent COVID-19 patients that are directed at multiple envelope proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
AR-401 (blood stream infections). AR-401 is a fully human mAb preclinical program aimed at treating infections caused by gram-negative Acinetobacter baumannii.
AR-201 (RSV infection). AR-201 is a fully human IgG1 mAb directed against the F-protein of diverse clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This program is licensed exclusively to the Serum Institute of India.
For additional information on Aridis Pharmaceuticals, please visit https://aridispharma.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimated" and "intend" or other similar terms or expressions that concern Aridis' expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. These forward-looking statements are based on Aridis' current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the need for additional financing, the timing of regulatory submissions, Aridis' ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its existing product candidates and any other product candidates it may develop, approvals for clinical trials may be delayed or withheld by regulatory agencies, risks relating to the timing and costs of clinical trials, risks associated with obtaining funding from third parties, management and employee operations and execution risks, loss of key personnel, competition, risks related to market acceptance of products, intellectual property risks, risks related to business interruptions, including the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which could seriously harm our financial condition and increase our costs and expenses, risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, Aridis' ability to attract collaborators and partners and risks associated with Aridis' reliance on third party organizations. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and the factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Aridis' 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and Aridis' other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Aridis does not undertake any obligation to update publicly such statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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The National Audubon Society announced Wednesday that its board of directors had voted to retain the organization’s name despite pressure to end its association with John James Audubon, the 19th-century naturalist and illustrator who enslaved people, drawing backlash from fellow bird groups that have already changed their names.
The bird conservation group said its decision came after more than a yearlong process that included input from hundreds of its members, volunteers and donors. Despite Audubon’s history as an enslaver with racist views toward Black and Indigenous people, Elizabeth Gray, the CEO of the National Audubon Society, said in a statement Wednesday that the board of directors “decided that the organization transcends one person’s name.”
She added that the name Audubon had “come to symbolize our mission and significant achievements that this organization has made in its long history.”
The decision to keep the name bucks a recent trend of social reckoning that had led to renaming schools and streets, and the removal of statues to sever associations with people with racist histories, including fellow bird conservation groups that have recently dropped Audubon from their names.
The National Audubon Society’s decision faced sharp criticism Wednesday from other birding groups across the country, including its own staff in the Bird Union.
“Their decision to double down on celebrating a white supremacist and to continue to brand our good work with his name actively inflicts harm on marginalized communities,” the Bird Union said in a statement Wednesday.
The Bird Union changed its name last month to drop its association with Audubon, and it called on the National Audubon Society to do the same.
“We will not elevate and celebrate a person who would reject and oppress our union members today,” the Bird Union said when it announced its new name. “Changing our name is a small step to demonstrate our commitment to antiracism.”
A number of local chapters of the National Audubon Society have changed their names over the past couple of years, including in Seattle and Chicago, and other groups across the country.
National Audubon Society, which was founded in 1905, was named after Audubon more than 50 years after his death. Audubon was known for his remarkable illustrations of hundreds of birds.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's Parliament has passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex and applies to citizens and visiting foreigners alike. A parliamentary task force finalized the bill in November and lawmakers unanimously approved it Tuesday.
After ratification, the new criminal code must be signed by the president, according to Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Hiraeij. The criminal code will not apply immediately, but takes a maximum of three years to transition from the old code to the new one.
"That (the new Criminal Code) has a lot of implementing regulations that must be worked out, so it's impossible in one year, but remember the maximum (transition period) is three years," Hiraeij said.
A copy of the amended criminal code obtained by The Associated Press includes several revised articles that make sex outside marriage punishable by a year in jail and cohabitation by six months, but adultery charges must be based on police reports lodged by their spouse, parents or children.
It also says the promotion of contraception and religious blasphemy are illegal, and it restores a ban on insulting a sitting president and vice president, state institutions and national ideology. Insults to a sitting president must be reported by the president and can lead to up to three years in jail.
Hiariej said the government has provided "the strictest possible explanation that distinguishes between insults and criticism."
The code maintains that abortion is a crime, but it adds exceptions for women with life-threatening medical conditions and for rape, provided that the fetus is less than 12 weeks old, in line with what is already regulated in the 2004 Medical Practice Law.
Rights groups criticized some proposed revisions as overly broad or vague and warned that rushing them into the new criminal code could penalize normal activities and threaten freedom of expression and privacy rights.
However, some advocates hailed it as a victory for the country's LGBTQ minority. Lawmakers during a fierce deliberation session eventually agreed to repeal an article proposed by Islamic groups that would have made gay sex illegal.
The code would also preserve the death penalty within the criminal justice system despite calls from the National Commission on Human Rights and other groups to abolish capital punishment, as dozens of other countries have done.
The penal code had languished for decades while legislators in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation struggled with how to adapt its native culture and norms to the criminal code, a living legacy of the Dutch colonial administration.
A previous bill was poised for passage in 2019, but President Joko Widodo urged lawmakers to delay a vote on the bill amid mounting public criticism that led to a nationwide protests when tens of thousands of people took to the streets. Opponents had said it lacked transparency in the law-making process and contained articles that discriminate against minorities. Widodo had instructed Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly to get input from various communities while lawmakers discussed the articles.
The new code says the death penalty is imposed alternatively with a probationary period. This means a judge cannot immediately impose a death sentence. If within a period of 10 years the convict behaves well, then the death penalty is changed to life imprisonment or 20 years' imprisonment.
The code also expands the current Blasphemy Law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia's six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Citizens could face a 10-year sentence under the bill for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism.
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that laws penalizing criticism of public leaders are contrary to international law, and the fact that some forms of expression are considered insulting is not sufficient to justify restrictions or penalties.
"The danger of oppressive laws is not that they'll be broadly applied, it's that they provide avenue for selective enforcement," said Andreas Harsono, a senior Indonesia researcher at the group.
Many hotels, including in tourism areas like Bali and metropolitan Jakarta, will risk to lose their visitors, he added.
"These laws let police extort bribes, let officials jail political foes, for instance, with the blasphemy law," Harsono said.
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and third largest democracy, is an outpost of democracy in a Southeast Asian neighborhood of authoritarian governments.
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Life-impacting organization holds annual fundraiser in Kansas City this month
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keen Wealth Advisors, an independently owned financial advisory firm based in Overland Park, Kansas, will sponsor again this year the Angel Flight Central Gala on Friday, November 18, 2022. The gala, which will be held at the Muehlebach Hotel at Kansas City Marriott Downtown, is expected to raise over $220,000 too support Angel Flight Central's mission. Angel Flight Central (AFC) serves people in need by arranging charitable flights for access to health care or other humanitarian purposes in the Central American states.
Bill Keen, CRPC®, founder and CEO of Keen Wealth Advisors, serves as a volunteer pilot and longtime board member of AFC. As a volunteer, Keen works closely with key personnel in the organization. His wife Carissa Keen also takes a leading role in the organization. This year the couple is serving as co-event committee chairs. Once again this year, Keen Wealth Advisors took a leading role in supporting the gala as the "presenting sponsor." The firm has made a total donation of $100,000 since 2021.
"We are honored to be a part of this wonderful, life-impacting organization," said Keen. "Credit goes to the leadership and many volunteers of Angel Flight Central, as well as my entire team at Keen Wealth Advisors who support me in dedicating time and resources. This is teamwork at its finest in furthering Angel Flight Central's mission to serve people in need by arranging charitable flights for health care or other humanitarian purposes."
A WORTHY CHARITY, SERVING PATIENTS IN NEED
Since 1995, Angel Flight Central has served people in need by arranging charitable flights for health care or other humanitarian purposes with the help of volunteer pilots and donors. Originally known as Wings Over Mid-America, Inc., Angel Flight Central was founded in August 1995 with a handful of passionate volunteer pilots hoping to use their flying talents to help a total of two passengers per month. By the end of 2022, Angel Flight Central will have flown over 31,000 flights covering over 10 million charitable miles, helping passengers in need with a base of 1000 pilots and ground volunteers. During 2022, the organization averaged 213 flights a month.
"Keen Wealth Advisors is proud to align ourselves with the Angel Flight Central organization with our time, talent and resources. The help that this organization provides has alleviated the burden of long-distance medical travel for those who must travel for treatment outside of their home area. In many cases this is lifesaving treatment," said Keen.
"Surprisingly, there is still much more capacity for free flights for those who qualify," Keen said. "AFC and I would like to get the word out to the public: there are volunteer pilots standing by to helped those in need get to the best medical facilities and treatments."
ABOUT KEEN WEALTH ADVISORS
Keen Wealth Advisors is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. CEO Bill Keen is a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor℠ and an independent financial advisor with nearly thirty years of industry experience. As the founder of Keen Wealth Advisors, an SEC registered investment advisory firm, he and his team focus on providing personalized retirement planning designed to help people thrive before and during their retirement years.
With a passion for educating others, Keen co-hosts "Keen on Retirement" – a podcast designed to provide Keen Wealth Advisors' friends and clients with an additional tool to stay informed and educated on key issues related to retirement planning and investing. Furthering his passion for education, Bill authored Keen on Retirement: Engineering the Second Half of Your Life, a book focused on common steps for building a financial plan and the psychological and emotional challenges associated with retirement. The firm also presents retirement planning webinars monthly for employees of major corporations in the Kansas City region, with a unique emphasis in the engineering community. Keen has also previously shared his thoughts with national media outlets such as Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, and Yahoo! Finance, to name a few.
For more information, visit www.KeenWealthAdvisors.com.
Keen Wealth Advisors is an SEC Registered Investment Adviser. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Keen Wealth Advisors and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital. No advice may be rendered by Keen Wealth Advisors unless a client service agreement is in place.
ABOUT ANGEL FLIGHT CENTRAL, INC.
Since 1995, Angel Flight Central has served people in need by arranging charitable flights for health care or other humanitarian purposes with the help of volunteer pilots and donors. The organization has provided help to alleviate the burden of long-distance medical travel for those who must travel for treatment outside of their home area. In many cases this is lifesaving treatment.
In 2018, Angel Flight Central and the other members of the Air Charity Network were inducted into the International Air and Space Hall of Fame in San Diego as a result of Angel Flight Central's live-saving impact on humanity through Charitable Aviation.
For more information, visit www.AngelFlightCentral.org.
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BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai, China's commercial hub, has once again attracted the world's top scientists to its annual science gala – the World Laureates Forum (WLF), as the city underscores science and technology innovation as a key driving force for its high-quality development.
The fifth WLF, one of the world's largest sci-tech gatherings held annually in the metropolitan since 2018, kicked off on Sunday with the theme "Science forward: Create a bright future."
More than 60 top scientists from over 20 countries and regions, including 27 Nobel Prize laureates, attended the two-day event online and offline.
Two scientists won WLA Prize
At the opening ceremony on Sunday, the inaugural World Laureates Association (WLA) Prize, an international science prize established in Shanghai in 2021, was awarded to two scientists.
The 2022 WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine went to German biochemist Dirk Görlich for his key discoveries elucidating the mechanism and selectivity of protein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus, and the 2022 WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics was awarded to American researcher Michael I. Jordan for his fundamental contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its application.
Apart from a medal and certificate, each of them also received a monetary award of 10 million yuan (about $1.39 million).
The WLA Prize, initiated by the WLA and managed by the WLA Foundation, aims to recognize and support eminent researchers worldwide for their contributions to science. The laureates of the inaugural WLA Prize were officially announced on September 29.
Sci-tech for mankind
The WLA was founded with the vision of "science and technology for the common destiny of mankind" and three missions of promoting basic science, advocating international cooperation, and supporting the development of younger generations of scientists, said Roger Kornberg, chairman of the WLA and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2006.
The world is changing, and science can help people deal with the challenges and even completely solve the problems in the future, he noted, adding that the forum provides a unique opportunity for the attendees to communicate with the top experts in the world.
Over the past years, the WLF has become an important channel to connect the world's top scientists and a significant high-level dialogue platform in the global scientific community.
China emphasized expanding international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, said Wan Gang, president of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
"China's sci-tech community will stick to the common value of all humanity and follow the idea of sci-tech for good," he noted.
Shanghai aims to be global sci-tech innovation center
Chen Jining, the secretary of the Party's Shanghai Municipal Committee, said at the opening ceremony that the city has already witnessed great improvement in its sci-tech strength over the past eight years, with sci-tech innovation serving as an important driving force for its continuous development.
In September 2021, the city released its 14th Five-Year (2021-2025) Plan for building itself into a science and technology innovation center with global influence.
According to the plan, Shanghai aims to increase its R&D spending intensity, or the expenditure on R&D as a percentage of its GDP, to around 4.5 percent by 2025. Among it, the proportion of funding to basic research will reach 12 percent.
The city also aims to increase the added value of strategic emerging industries to 20 percent of its GDP by 2025, three percentage points higher than the country's overall target.
By 2025, the city eyes to have over 26,000 high-tech enterprises and 560 foreign-funded R&D centers.
"Cooperation and openness are an unstoppable trend," Chen said, adding that Shanghai will build an innovation platform of better quality, provide convenient services for scientists from around the world, and create a first-class business environment.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A woman accused with her husband of living in Hawaii under the stolen identities of dead babies will remain behind bars pending their trial, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled Wednesday.
According to prosecutors, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison are the real names of the couple who have been fraudulently living for decades under the stolen identities of Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague. Prosecutors say Primrose spent more than 20 years in the Coast Guard as Bobby Fort, where he obtained secret-level security clearance. After retiring in 2016, he used the secret clearance for a job as a U.S. defense contractor, prosecutors said.
There is no indication in court documents why the couple in 1987 assumed the identities of deceased children, who would have been more than a decade younger than them.
Previous rulings have kept them detained.
At a hearing Wednesday asking a judge to release the wife, she identified herself as “Lyn Montague.”
“I understand the court's concern — the allegation is my client has used a false and fraudulent name for almost her entire life and we cannot verify who she is,” her attorney Megan Kau said.
Kau said she is not accused of committing a crime using an allegedly stolen identity.
As Kau's client was led out of the courtroom after U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Mansfield's ruling, she said, “As expected." She referred to the situation as, "this whole idiotic thing.”
A hearing for a similar request by her husband hasn't been scheduled. He has a new attorney who said Tuesday that he won't be ready in time for the couple's May 22 trial date. The newly appointed lawyer, Marc Victor, said he doesn't think he will be ready anytime this year.
Kau said she is contemplating requesting a separate trial from her client's husband.
There was no mention in court Wednesday of Russian spy intrigue prosecutors introduced when the couple were arrested last year.
A search of the couple’s home in Kapolei, a Honolulu suburb, turned up Polaroids of them wearing jackets that appear to be authentic KGB uniforms, an invisible ink kit, documents with coded language and maps showing military bases, prosecutors said at the time.
But prosecutors last month asked that jurors not hear about the uniforms, and a judge last week agreed.
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NEW YORK, July 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Tingo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIO) between December 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tingo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — As migrants, especially Venezuelans, struggle to come to terms with a new U.S. policy discouraging border crossings, one small town in southern Mexico is unexpectedly playing host to thousands of migrants camped far from the U.S. border.
San Pedro Tapanatepec had 7,000 migrants, about 75% Venezuelans, when The Associated Press visited at the beginning of October. By Monday, Mayor Humberto Parrazales estimated the number had grown to 14,000. The AP could not independently verify that figure.
While many Venezuelans had planned to make their way to the U.S. border, the new U.S. policy says only those applying online, and arriving by air, will be admitted. Border crossers will simply be expelled. That leaves many camped out in five large tent shelters wondering what they’ll do next.
They while away the daytime heat with just a few electric fans to keep the temperature down.
San Pedro Tapanatepec is obviously not where they wanted to wind up. The heat-drenched town in Oaxaca state is only about 180 miles (300 kilometers) from the border with Guatemala. Many of the migrants had thought they forever left Guatemala behind on the long trek that took many of them from the Darian Gap in Panama, through Central America, to Mexico.
Since August, the town has served as a way-station, where migrants would wait for a few days while Mexican immigration authorities issued them a sort of transit pass that gave them time to make it to the U.S. border.
But Parrazales said the flow of that paperwork has slowed down, leaving many more migrants waiting here in an impoverished town ill-equipped to play host to so many people.
“I don’t understand anything,” Venezuelan migrant Robinson Rodríguez said by phone from Tapanatepec. “If everything at the border is closed, then they shouldn’t be handing out these (transit) passes. And if you ask (the authorities), they say they don’t know, but they keep handing them out.”
Time is not on the migrants’ side. Rodríguez had actually received a seven-day transit document, which basically required to leave Mexico with a week. But he had to spend time raising the money to pay for transport to the northern border, and by the time he got it, his pass had expired.
Confusion reigns. Nicaraguan migrant Luis Martinica showed a leaflet containing the a web link for Venzuelans to apply, but it was confusing; if he, as a Nicaraguan, showed up at the U.S. border, would he too be expelled?
Mayor Parrazales has his own set of worries. The town’s transformers can no longer handle the electricity needed for the camp, and there have been partial blackouts. Health care, sanitation and water are also a problem.
Still, migrants have to pay for most things, and Parrazales acknowledges the town has seen about $15 million in extra business selling migrants food, places to sleep, medicine, taxi and bus rides. “They have to pay to charge cell phones,” he notes.
Mexico has issued about 77,000 transit passes to Venezuelans so far this year, most of them in the last three months. Like Nicaraguans and Cubans, Venezuelans are hard to deport, both for Mexico and the United States.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute did not respond to requests by the AP about how the camp will be managed after the new U.S. program. In the face of the lack of official information, rumors and tensions run high.
Martinica, the Nicaraguan immigrant, says officials stopped issuing passes for a while “after a dispute in which some Venezuelans offended a police officer.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising consumer prices in the United States moderated again last month, bolstering hopes that inflation’s grip on the economy will continue to ease this year and possibly require less drastic action by the Federal Reserve to control it.
Inflation eased to 6.5% in December compared with 12 months earlier, the government said Thursday. It was the sixth straight year-over-year slowdown. On a monthly basis, prices actually slipped 0.1% from November to December, the first such drop since May 2020.
The softer readings add to growing signs that the worst inflation bout in four decades is gradually waning. Still, the Fed doesn’t expect inflation to slow enough to get close to its 2% target until well into 2024. The central bank is expected to raise its benchmark rate by at least a quarter-point when it next meets at the end of this month.
Even as it gradually slows, inflation remains a painful reality for many Americans, especially with such necessities as food, energy and rents having soared over the past 18 months.
For now, inflation is falling, with the national average price of a gallon of gas declining from a $5 a gallon peak in June to $3.27 a gallon as of Wednesday, according to AAA.
Supply chain snarls that previously inflated the cost of goods have largely unraveled. Consumers have also shifted much of their spending away from physical goods and instead toward services, such as travel and entertainment. As a result, the cost of goods, including used cars, furniture and clothing, has dropped for two straight months.
Last week’s jobs report for December bolstered the possibility that a recession could be avoided. Even after the Fed’s seven rate hikes last year and with inflation still high, employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching the lowest level in 53 years.
At the same time, average hourly pay growth slowed, which should lessen pressure on companies to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs.
Another positive sign for the Fed’s efforts to quell inflation is that Americans overall expect price increases to decline over the next few years. That is important because so-called “inflation expectations” can be self-fulfilling: If people expect prices to keep rising sharply, they will typically take steps, like demanding higher pay, that can perpetuate high inflation.
On Monday, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that consumers now anticipate inflation of 5% over the next year. That’s the lowest such expectation in nearly 18 months. Over the next five years, consumers expect inflation to average 2.4%, only barely above the Fed’s 2% target.
Still, in their remarks in recent weeks, Fed officials have underscored their intent to raise their benchmark short-term rate by an additional three-quarters of a point in the coming months to just above 5%. Such increases would come on top of seven hikes last year, which led mortgage rates to nearly double and made auto loans and business borrowing more expensive.
Futures prices show that investors expect the central bank to be less aggressive and implement just two quarter-point hikes by March, leaving the Fed’s rate just below 5%. Investors also project that the Fed will cut rates in November and December, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has sought to push back against that expectation of fewer hikes this spring and cuts by the end of the year, which can make the Fed’s job harder if investors bid up stock prices and lower bond yields. Both trends can support faster economic growth just when the Fed is trying to cool it down.
The minutes from the Fed’s December meeting noted that none of the 19 policymakers foresee rate cuts this year.
Still, last week James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, expressed some optimism that this year, “actual inflation will likely follow inflation expectations to a lower level,” suggesting 2023 could be a “year of disinflation.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs’ Isiah Pacheco is the poster child for why NFL general managers don’t spend early draft picks on running backs.
“I’ve definitely been going at it every week, getting the feel for different teams, different schemes,” Pacheco said.
“For me, it’s having the same mindset every day I come into the building: going to work, going to the practice field, go 100 percent, so when it gets to game day, go at a high level.”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said this week that it wasn’t by design that Edwards Helaire, their 2020 first-round pick, did not get a carry against Jacksonville, or that his only two targets in the passing game fell incomplete.
At one point, Edwards-Helaire was supposed to be in for an entire series, but the Chiefs went three-and-out.
Still, it’s not difficult to notice that Pacheco has simply been more productive. He has 60 carries for 279 yards, which is more yardage than third-round pick Rachaad White of the Buccaneers on the exact same number of carries. Pacheco’s average of 4.7 yards per attempt is a half-yard more than Edwards-Helaire this season.
Pretty good returns from the 251st player selected in April’s draft.
“He’s learning on the move, but he’s had some good snaps,” Reid said. “It’s worked out well where Clyde’s getting reps and he’s getting reps, and I think that’s healthy. We’re able to throw fastballs at the guys and then (Jerick McKinnon) is getting in there and doing his thing more on third downs.
“We’ll just keep bringing him along,” Reid said, “but I like his progress.”
The fact that Pacheco was the penultimate running back selected in the draft — the last if you consider Zander Horvath of the Chargers a fullback — is a little hard to believe.
Pacheco tested better than nearly every other running back at the NFL scouting combine, tying for the best time in the 40-yard dash at 4.37 seconds despite his 215-pound frame.
Part of that might have to do with his inconsistent use at Rutgers, where Pacheco never got more than 169 carries in any of his four seasons. Some teams may simply not have had enough tape on him to fully realize his potential.
Yet time has proven that where players are drafted — running backs in particular — hardly portends success or failure.
Sure, the league’s leading rusher, Saquon Barkley, was the No. 2 overall pick of the Giants in 2018, and the Titans’ Derrick Henry was a second-round selection two years earlier.
But four of the top 12 running backs by yardage this season went in the fourth round or later, including the Dolphins’ Jeff Wilson, who wasn’t drafted at all.
The top two running backs taken in April, Breece Hall of the Jets and Kenneth Walker III of the Seahawks, were selected in the second round and have had dynamic debuts — though Hall is lost to a season-ending knee injury.
But Pacheco has more yards rushing than 16 running backs that were drafted ahead of him this year.
“I said it all throughout camp, we’re pushing each other to be better,” McKinnon said, “and it’s something that’s continued forward, and I think it’s showing when that person gets their number called, they’ve risen to the occasion.”
Or bounced back from a mistake.
That was the case when Pacheco fumbled early in the Chiefs’ 27-17 win over Jacksonville. Rather than hang his head on the sideline, Pacheco vowed to make up for the gaffe.
And in a sign of how much Reid trusts him, the Chiefs went right back to Pacheco when they got another chance with the ball.
“It just showed me that I can be something in this offense,” Pacheco said. “I just have to continue to put in that work.”
NOTES: WRs JuJu Smith-Schuster (concussion protocol) and Mecole Hardman (abdominal injury) along with WR Chris Lammons (concussion protocol) did not practice Thursday. ... Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub said Kadarius Toney will return punts going forward. “He has to do some things with reads, but that’s part of the learning experience,” Toub said. “He is going to get better, but he’s something with the ball in his hands.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.
It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to enhance the accuracy of posts about U.S. elections and regain trust from lawmakers and the public after their outrage over learning the company had exploited people’s data and allowed falsehoods to overrun its site during the 2016 campaign.
The pivot is raising alarm about Meta’s priorities and about how some might exploit the world’s most popular social media platforms to spread misleading claims, launch fake accounts and rile up partisan extremists.
“They’re not talking about it,” said former Facebook policy director Katie Harbath, now the CEO of the tech and policy firm Anchor Change. “Best case scenario: They’re still doing a lot behind the scenes. Worst case scenario: They pull back, and we don’t know how that’s going to manifest itself for the midterms on the platforms.”
Since last year, Meta has shut down an examination into how falsehoods are amplified in political ads on Facebook by indefinitely banishing the researchers from the site.
CrowdTangle, the online tool that the company offered to hundreds of newsrooms and researchers so they could identify trending posts and misinformation across Facebook or Instagram, is now inoperable on some days.
Public communication about the company’s response to election misinformation has gone decidedly quiet. Between 2018 and 2020, the company released more than 30 statements that laid out specifics about how it would stifle U.S. election misinformation, prevent foreign adversaries from running ads or posts around the vote and subdue divisive hate speech.
Top executives hosted question and answer sessions with reporters about new policies. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facebook posts promising to take down false voting information and authored opinion articles calling for more regulations to tackle foreign interference in U.S. elections via social media.
But this year Meta has only released a one-page document outlining plans for the fall elections, even as potential threats to the vote remain clear. Several Republican candidates are pushing false claims about the U.S. election across social media. In addition, Russia and China continue to wage aggressive social media propaganda campaigns aimed at further political divides among American audiences.
Meta says that elections remain a priority and that policies developed in recent years around election misinformation or foreign interference are now hard-wired into company operations.
“With every election, we incorporate what we’ve learned into new processes and have established channels to share information with the government and our industry partners,” Meta spokesman Tom Reynolds said.
He declined to say how many employees would be on the project to protect U.S. elections full time this year.
During the 2018 election cycle, the company offered tours and photos and produced head counts for its election response war room. But The New York Times reported the number of Meta employees working on this year’s election had been cut from 300 to 60, a figure Meta disputes.
Reynolds said Meta will pull hundreds of employees who work across 40 of the company’s other teams to monitor the upcoming vote alongside the election team, with its unspecified number of workers.
The company is continuing many initiatives it developed to limit election misinformation, such as a fact-checking program started in 2016 that enlists the help of news outlets to investigate the veracity of popular falsehoods spreading on Facebook or Instagram. The Associated Press is part of Meta’s fact-checking program.
This month, Meta also rolled out a new feature for political ads that allows the public to search for details about how advertisers target people based on their interests across Facebook and Instagram.
Yet, Meta has stifled other efforts to identify election misinformation on its sites.
It has stopped making improvements to CrowdTangle, a website it offered to newsrooms around the world that provides insights about trending social media posts. Journalists, fact-checkers and researchers used the website to analyze Facebook content, including tracing popular misinformation and who is responsible for it.
That tool is now “dying,” former CrowdTangle CEO Brandon Silverman, who left Meta last year, told the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring.
Silverman told the AP that CrowdTangle had been working on upgrades that would make it easier to search the text of internet memes, which can often be used to spread half-truths and escape the oversight of fact-checkers, for example.
“There’s no real shortage of ways you can organize this data to make it useful for a lot of different parts of the fact-checking community, newsrooms and broader civil society,” Silverman said.
Not everyone at Meta agreed with that transparent approach, Silverman said. The company has not rolled out any new updates or features to CrowdTangle in more than a year, and it has experienced hourslong outages in recent months.
Meta also shut down efforts to investigate how misinformation travels through political ads.
The company indefinitely revoked access to Facebook for a pair of New York University researchers who they said collected unauthorized data from the platform. The move came hours after NYU professor Laura Edelson said she shared plans with the company to investigate the spread of disinformation on the platform around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which is now the subject of a House investigation.
“What we found, when we looked closely, is that their systems were probably dangerous for a lot of their users,” Edelson said.
Privately, former and current Meta employees say exposing those dangers around the American elections have created public and political backlash for the company.
Republicans routinely accuse Facebook of unfairly censoring conservatives, some of whom have been kicked off for breaking the company’s rules. Democrats, meanwhile, regularly complain the tech company hasn’t gone far enough to curb disinformation.
“It’s something that’s so politically fraught, they’re more trying to shy away from it than jump in head first.” said Harbath, the former Facebook policy director. “They just see it as a big old pile of headaches.”
Meanwhile, the possibility of regulation in the U.S. no longer looms over the company, with lawmakers failing to reach any consensus over what oversight the multibillion-dollar company should be subjected to.
Free from that threat, Meta’s leaders have devoted the company’s time, money and resources to a new project in recent months.
Zuckerberg dived into this massive rebranding and reorganization of Facebook last October, when he changed the company’s name to Meta Platforms Inc. He plans to spend years and billions of dollars evolving his social media platforms into a nascent virtual reality construct called the “metaverse” — sort of like the internet brought to life, rendered in 3D.
His public Facebook page posts now focus on product announcements, hailing artificial intelligence, and photos of him enjoying life. News about election preparedness is announced in company blog posts not written by him.
In one of Zuckerberg’s posts last October, after an ex-Facebook employee leaked internal documents showing how the platform magnifies hate and misinformation, he defended the company. He also reminded his followers that he had pushed Congress to modernize regulations around elections for the digital age.
“I know it’s frustrating to see the good work we do get mischaracterized, especially for those of you who are making important contributions across safety, integrity, research and product,” he wrote on Oct. 5. “But I believe that over the long term if we keep trying to do what’s right and delivering experiences that improve people’s lives, it will be better for our community and our business.”
It was the last time he discussed the Menlo Park, California-based company’s election work in a public Facebook post.
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Associated Press technology writer Barbara Ortutay contributed to this report.
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These cat products are the key to your feline friend’s heart
April 11 is National Pet Day, so it’s the perfect time to spoil your companion animal. If your cat is your number one, there are plenty of great products you can buy, from the practical to the frivolous.
You could use science to find out if your cat loves you, or you could just buy gifts to sweeten the deal and win its affection this National Pet Day.
In this article: Go Pet Club Cat Tree, Yeowww Yellow Banana Catnip Toy and Whole Life Pet Freeze-Dried Chicken Cat Treats.
What to consider when buying cat products
- Functionality: Choose products that serve a purpose and meet your cat’s needs. For example, you could buy a scratching post for cats who like to scratch or a water fountain for cats who prefer to drink running water.
- Living space: The size of your living space also impacts the products you buy. If you live in a small apartment, you may need to choose a more compact cat tree or litter box.
- Age: Cats’ ages can influence the types of products they need. For example, kittens require different food, toys and accessories than senior cats.
- Health: You should also consider your cat’s health when purchasing products. If your cat has a sensitive stomach or food allergies, you may need to buy special food or treats.
- Activity level: Think about your cat’s energy and activity level. High-energy cats are likely to enjoy more interactive toys or larger scratching posts.
- Personality: Each cat has a unique personality, so it’s important to consider your cat’s likes and dislikes. For example, some cats prefer toys that make noise, while others prefer toys they can chase.
Best cat products
If you have the space to spare, this cat tree is the perfect gift to spoil your kitty. It has six platforms, including two covered house areas. It also features integrated scratching posts to keep claws in check. You can choose from blue, beige and leopard print versions.
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While it might not be the most exciting of cat products, National Pet Day is the perfect time to remember your feline friend’s health needs with a dewormer for cats. This formula treats tapeworms and comes in a pack of three tablets.
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Yeowww Yellow Banana Catnip Toy
This big yellow banana kicker cat toy is big enough for cats to wrestle with. It’s made from sturdy cotton twill with an interesting texture that cats like to get their claws into. It’s filled with organic catnip, which some cats go wild for, adding to the interest.
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Whole Life Pet Freeze-Dried Chicken Cat Treats
Pampered cats expect the best, and these cat treats deliver. They’re made from nothing but freeze-dried chicken, so if you have a fussy feline, they might be impressed by these treats. You can choose from three packet sizes containing 1, 4 or 9 ounces.
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The Fat Cat Travel Cat Harness and Leash Set
If your cat never likes to miss out on the action, they might enjoy joining you on walks wearing this cat harness. It’s particularly enriching for indoor kitties. While not all cats take to harnesses, some are happy to wander and sniff around outdoors on the end of a leash.
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PetSafe Butterfly Cat Water Fountain
Some cats hate drinking still water and will often drink from dripping taps. A cat water fountain is a much better solution, such as this one from PetSafe. It filters water as it circulates through the fountain, keeping it fresh and hygienic.
This National Pet Day, give your cat the gift of never having to wait for a meal again. This pet feeder automatically dispenses dry food at set times, so your cat gets the punctual meals it deserves. Although listed as a dog feeder, it works just as well as an automatic cat feeder.
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Trixie Miguel Fold and Store Cat Hammock
Not only does this function as a hammock for your cat to lounge on, but it also features dangling toys, a scratching area and a covered bed. Moreover, it folds flat when not in use, which is perfect for small spaces or transporting it when you travel with your cat.
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Nervous cats who like their privacy can hide away in this covered cat bed. It’s available in corduroy, faux suede or linen — all durable enough to withstand busy claws.
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Earthtone Solutions Wool Felt Ball Toys for Cats
Cats who love to chase and bat small items will love playing with these felt cat balls. The wool felt is durable and dyed in striking rainbow hues. They measure around 1.5 inches across, which is perfect for most cats.
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PetFusion Ultimate Cat Scratcher Lounge
Part cat scratcher, part bed, this is the perfect spot for cats to lounge while also being able to get their claws into it. The durable cardboard lasts longer than many similar options, and it’s reversible, so cats get twice the use out of it.
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This comfy indoor cat house is the perfect alternative to a standard cat bed for felines who like to hide away to snooze. However, it also features an open cat bed up top that’s great for napping or lounging.
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Worth checking out
- The Cat Dancer Products Rainbow Cat Charmer is an excellent choice for active cats, especially if you want to play with your cat.
- If you want to help keep your outdoor cat safe and keep wildlife safe from your outdoor cat, consider the Bemix Pets Reflective Cat Collar with Bell.
- Cats who love to scratch, climb and lounge will be thrilled with the PetFusion Ultimate Cat Climbing Tower and Activity Tree.
- The Petstages Crunchy Pickle Kicker Dental Catnip Cat Toy is stuffed with catnip and is large enough for cats to wrestle and kick.
- If your cat needs to perfect spot to do their business, the Petmate Booda Clean Step Cat Litter Box offers your cat privacy and helps keep your home free from tracked litter.
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The effort to officially celebrate Juneteenth as a paid holiday has faced skepticism inside legislatures that have largely chosen symbolic gestures to recognize the holiday while curtailing certain conversations on race and racism.
Juneteenth honors when enslaved Black people in Texas were freed, representing the end of slavery in the U.S.
Last year, Congress and President Joe Biden moved swiftly to approve June 19 as a national holiday. It was the first time the federal government had designated a new national holiday since approving Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
However, the move didn’t result in an automatic adoption from most states.
Many states consider the day a ceremonial holiday, but not one that prompts the closure of state offices.
Because Juneteenth falls on a Sunday this year, the holiday will be officially observed on Monday. Federal offices, including courts and post offices, will close Monday. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/federal-offices-close-for-juneteenth-some-states-have-yet-to-make-it-a-holiday | 2022-06-16 16:59:34 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/federal-offices-close-for-juneteenth-some-states-have-yet-to-make-it-a-holiday |
A senior from Shawnee reached a significant milestone last week with his 100th career goals while a number of hotshot underclassmen around the state have given early indication that big-number achievements will also be theirs one day.
Most of the honorees in this first installment of NJ.com Player of the Week awards turned in impressive offensive numbers to help their teams launch successful starts, though one exception is a versatile LSM from Morris County who handles himself remarkably well in three phases of the game. Another is a goalie from Somerset county who turned heads with his grit and quickness as a freshman last year, and has raised the level of his game even higher as a sophomore. | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/04/players-of-the-week-in-all-9-nj-boys-lacrosse-conferences-april-3-8.html | 2023-04-11 18:30:43 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/04/players-of-the-week-in-all-9-nj-boys-lacrosse-conferences-april-3-8.html |
TORONTO and GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Converge Technology Solutions Corp. ("Converge" or "the Company") (TSX: CTS) (FSE: 0ZB) (OTCQX: CTSDF) a software-enabled IT & Cloud Solutions provider, is pleased to announce the closing of its previously signed acquisition of Stone Technologies Group Limited ("Stone"). Converge announced the signing of the acquisition of Stone on September 22, 2022.
Stone has served the UK's public and private sectors for over 30 years assisting thousands of organizations to adapt and thrive in a continually changing technology landscape, deploying market leading technologies, delivering personalized services, and providing reliable IT support. The company's vision is to make a true and lasting impact on the way technology is leveraged by their clients, providing a circular procurement cycle that reduces the total cost of ownership, with significant benefits to the environment for generations to come. With a focus on sustainability, Stone has made it easy for organizations to recycle their redundant technology through the innovative Stone 360 App.
Stone Group is the thirty-fifth acquisition announced by Converge or its affiliates since October 2017. Converge's family of companies also includes Corus Group, LLC; Northern Micro, Inc.; 10084182 Canada Inc. operating as Becker-Carroll; Key Information Systems, Inc.; BlueChip Tek, Inc.; Lighthouse Computer Systems, Inc.; Software Information Systems LLC.; Nordisk Systems, Inc.; Essex Technology Group, Inc.; Datatrend Technologies, Inc.; VSS, LLC; Solutions PCD, Inc.; Unique Digital, Inc.; Workgroup Connections, Inc.; Vivvo Application Studios LTD.; Vicom Computer Services, Inc.; CarpeDatum LLC; Accudata Systems, Inc.; Dasher Technologies, Inc.; ExactlyIT, Inc.; REDNET GmbH; Vicom Infinity, Inc.; Infinity Systems Software, Inc.; LPA Software Solutions, LLC; OPIN Digital, Inc; Paragon Development Systems, Inc.; Visucom GmbH; 1CRM Systems Corp.; Interdynamix Systems; Creative Breakthroughs, Inc.; PC Specialists, Inc. d/b/a Technology Integration Group; GfdB, ImfB, and DEQSTER; Notarius; and Newcomp Analytics.
Established in 1991, Stone Group is a leading provider of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Solutions to UK Public Sector and Private Sector organizations of all sizes. Its mission is to improve the education, health, and quality of life of people in the UK through technology services. By taking ownership of its customers' technology, Stone Group enables organizations to concentrate on what they do best – whether that is looking after the citizens of today or tomorrow.
Converge Technology Solutions Corp. is a software-enabled IT & Cloud Solutions provider focused on delivering industry-leading solutions and services. Converge's global solution approach delivers advanced analytics, application modernization, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and digital workplace offerings to clients across various industries. The Company supports these solutions with advisory, implementation, and managed services expertise across all major IT vendors in the marketplace. This multi-faceted approach enables Converge to address the unique business and technology requirements for all clients in the public and private sectors. For more information, visit convergetp.com.
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ATLANTA, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aaron's Company, Inc. (NYSE: AAN), a leading, technology-enabled, omnichannel provider of lease-to-own and retail purchase solutions, will participate in the 44th Annual Institutional Investors Conference sponsored by Raymond James in Orlando, FL on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 9:50 a.m. Eastern Time. The Aaron's Company Chief Executive Officer Douglas A. Lindsay, President Steve Olsen, and Chief Financial Officer C. Kelly Wall will present an update on the Company's business.
A live audio webcast of the presentation and slides may be accessed at https://wsw.com/webcast/rj127/aan/1445984. The event will also be accessible and archived on the Company's investor relations website at investor.aarons.com. There will be no question and answer period during the webcast.
Headquartered in Atlanta, The Aaron's Company, Inc. (NYSE: AAN) is a leading, technology-enabled, omnichannel provider of lease-to-own and retail purchase solutions of appliances, electronics, furniture, and other home goods across its brands: Aaron's, BrandsMart U.S.A., BrandsMart Leasing, and Woodhaven. Aaron's offers a direct-to-consumer lease-to-own solution through its approximately 1,275 Company-operated and franchised stores in 47 states and Canada, as well as its e-commerce platform. BrandsMart U.S.A. is one of the leading appliance retailers in the country with ten retail stores in Florida and Georgia, as well as its e-commerce platform. BrandsMart Leasing offers lease-to-own solutions to customers of BrandsMart U.S.A. Woodhaven is the Company's furniture manufacturing division. For more information, visit investor.aarons.com, aarons.com, and brandsmartusa.com.
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MADRID (AP) — Forty-two families in Spain are pursuing legal action against a nurse whom they allege faked the process of administering routine vaccines to their children, their lawyer said Thursday.
The nurse worked for 18 months at a government clinic in Santurtzi, near the city of Bilbao in the Basque region of northern Spain, according to attorney Aitzol Asla.
The regional health service began an investigation in October after receiving complaints about the health worker’s behavior.
When parents took their children to be vaccinated, Asla said, the nurse would inject them “very secretly, very fast,” and then “threw the vial directly into the garbage can.” Some of the parents “saw (the vial) was still full,” he added.
The nurse, who wasn’t identified, also made frequent comments disparaging vaccines, the lawyer said.
When health officials tested the affected children’s blood, it was discovered that many didn’t have the antibodies that would be expected from receiving the vaccines. The legal case centers on the nurse’s falsification of vaccine records, which showed jabs had been administered when they allegedly hadn’t, and misuse of public funds by throwing away unused medicines.
Beyond the families pursuing legal action, Spanish media reported that up to 400 children could be affected.
Asla is now awaiting court instructions for the families to appear and give testimony after filing the case last month, and said the parents want the nurse to be barred from working in the public health system.
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ABERDEEN, Britain (AP) _ Knot Offshore Partners LP (KNOP) on Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $9.9 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Aberdeen, Britain-based company said it had profit of 29 cents per share.
The tanker company that serves the energy industry posted revenue of $64 million in the period.
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Race Fans and Bacon Lovers Alike Are Invited to Enjoy Better, Bolder Bloody Marys at the Dixie Vodka Fan Zone
SMITHFIELD, Va., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything is better with bacon! That's why this weekend, Smithfield is teaming up with Dixie Vodka to give fans heading to Homestead-Miami Speedway the Best Bacon Bloody Mary Party! Ticketholders of all ages attending race weekend are invited to stop by the Dixie Vodka fan zone, located near the Gate 3 entrance, on Saturday, Oct. 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23 to enjoy the festivities, including fun games and photo opportunities. Guests 21 and older can order the uniquely crafted Bloody Mary featuring Dixie Black Pepper Vodka. And to make their beverage even better and bolder, fans will have the opportunity to add Smithfield's new premium Bacon Lover's Double Thick Double Smoked Bacon to their Bloody Mary – in addition to all of the other traditional fixins' – at the Smithfield Bacon & Garnish Bar.
From 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, guests 21 and older can purchase a delicious Bloody Mary from the full-sized bar at the Dixie Vodka fan zone. And on Sunday, not only will free Bloody Mary samples be available while supplies last, but race car drivers Aric Almirola and Cole Custer will be making an appearance at 11:45 a.m. for a meet and greet and Q&A.
Plus, to add sizzle to the racetrack, the Smithfield No. 10 Ford Mustang, driven by Aric Almirola, will be wrapped in a sleek, new design echoing Smithfield's Premium Bacon theme and brand colors of black, gold and white.
"From the countless laps that the Smithfield No. 10 Ford Mustang has gone around the track, to the thousands of pounds of bacon we've proudly served to race fans, at Smithfield, it's always an honor to be part of race day," said Michael Merritt, senior director of brand marketing at Smithfield Foods. "We couldn't be more excited to partner with Dixie Vodka and bring race fans the Best Bacon Bloody Mary party this weekend."
"As the title sponsor of the Dixie Vodka 400, it was only fitting that we teamed up with a fellow sponsor, Smithfield, and combine our delicious flavors to make our drinks better and bolder with our award winning Black Pepper Vodka and their bacon garnish," said Matti Christian Anttila, founder of Grain & Barrel Spirits, which owns Dixie Vodka. "We're looking forward to raising a glass of the Best Bacon Bloody Mary at this year's race!"
Smithfield's new premium Bacon Lover's Double Thick Double Smoked Bacon is cured to perfection and naturally slow smoked with applewood and hickory chips. It's sliced thicker, making it a bacon lover's dream and the perfect addition to your Bloody Mary. For more recipe inspiration using Smithfield's Bacon Lover's Double Thick Double Smoked Bacon click here and make sure to follow the brand on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
Voted the Best Flavored Vodka in the world in 2018 and 2019, Dixie Black Pepper Vodka is the must-have staple for any Bloody Mary and is flavored with Madagascar peppercorn, a cooked and dried fruit from a flowering vine of the Piperaceae family. The peppers come from a local South Carolina farm to really bring home the flavors of the South. Dixie Vodka is also the official vodka of NASCAR. Check out #41 Cole Custer's Dixie Vodka scheme for the Dixie Vodka 400. Raise a glass to goin' fast with a Speedway, the official cocktail of racing and other Dixie recipes at www.dixievodka.com.
Smithfield encourages drinking responsibly.
About Smithfield
Smithfield® isn't only a leading provider of high-quality pork products. We're a leading provider of the most important part of any meal: premium, high-quality meat. And we take our meat duties seriously. After all, the rest of the meal is just a side dish. Smithfield products were first introduced in 1936 in Smithfield, Virginia, by people who lived for the love of meat. Today, the Smithfield brand stands for craftsmanship, authenticity, and pure passion as we continue to give meat-lovers across the country the deliciousness they crave: our classic bacon, slow-smoked holiday hams, hand-trimmed ribs, marinated fresh pork, smoked meats, and even more meaty magic. All Smithfield products not only meet our customers' high flavor standards but also meet the highest quality and safety standards in the industry. All while being produced right here in the USA. To learn more about the Smithfield portfolio of products, please visit www.Smithfield.com and connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Smithfield® is a brand of Smithfield Foods, Inc.
About Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, since 1936, Smithfield Foods, Inc. is an American food company with agricultural roots and a global reach. With more than 60,000 jobs globally, we are dedicated to producing "Good food. Responsibly.®" and serve as one of the world's leading vertically integrated protein companies. We have pioneered sustainability standards for more than two decades, including our industry-leading commitments to become carbon negative in our U.S. company-owned operations and reduce GHG emissions 30% across our entire U.S. value chain by 2030. We believe in the power of protein to end food insecurity and have donated hundreds of millions of food servings to our communities. Smithfield boasts a portfolio of high-quality iconic brands, such as Smithfield®, Eckrich® and Nathan's Famous®, among many others. For more information, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
About Dixie Vodka
Launched in 2014 and made in Charleston, SC, Dixie Vodka was established with the simple mission of creating an all-American premium craft vodka that represents the best of Southern flavor, craftsmanship and hospitality. These are the traits the South has long been famous for and we continue that tradition with every batch. Featuring five signature flavors – including its flagship Southern Original, Pepper, Citrus, Peach and Honey – Dixie Vodka partners with local farmers across the South to infuse regionally cherished ingredients into its award-winning products, each of which is six-times distilled from American corn. In addition, Dixie Vodka has a line of ready-to-drink canned cocktails in four flavors - including Tony's Tea made in partnership with NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, Southern Mule, Greyhound and Georgia Peach. Dixie Vodka is proud to serve as the Official Vodka of NASCAR, the title sponsor of the Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and the Official Vodka of Stewart-Haas Racing. A core brand within the Grain & Barrel Spirits portfolio – an innovation-driven global spirits portfolio that develops and scales authentic brands led by founder Matti Anttila – Dixie Vodka can be found on Facebook and Instagram, and on shelves in more than 30 states.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — John Kerry, the top U.S. envoy at this year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt, has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson said late Friday night, another potential setback for negotiations that were already going into overtime with no result in sight.
“He is fully vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms. He is working with his negotiations team and foreign counterparts by phone to ensure a successful outcome of COP27,” spokesperson Whitney Smith wrote in a statement late Friday.
Kerry’s illness was sure to add to worries about the negotiations, which had been scheduled to end Friday. A former U.S. senator and secretary of state, Kerry has deep relationships with leaders around the world and carries a lot of weight in international talks. His meetings in Sharm el-Sheikh with China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua were closely watched for signs that the world’s two biggest polluters might agree a deal that would boost the overall talks.
Negotiations, at least those in public, hit a lull Friday afternoon as news conferences and plenaries were postponed or cancelled. Diplomats said they hoped for late night progress and changed airline reservations so talks could continue.
Delegates said there was some headway being made, especially on the most difficult sticking point. That’s the issue of rich industrialized nations providing money to vulnerable countries suffering from ‘loss and damage’ as a result of climate-related disasters.
“I think we’re in for a bit of a long haul,” World Resources Institute international climate director David Waskow said. “Loss and damage sits at the center in terms of what needs to be done to get this over the finish line.”
The United States appeared isolated in opposing a dedicated loss and damage fund after the European Union produced a surprise offer on the issue Thursday. But a State Department official confirmed that negotiations on the issue were ongoing.
A group of developing nations known as G-77 and China have insisted on a fund being established at the meeting and remained outwardly united on the issue late Friday.
Other delegates at the talks expressed hope that a deal might still be possible.
“We are very busy and they’re making some progress and they’ve gotten some clarity on all positions,” Molwyn Joseph, who spoke on behalf of small island states, told The Associated Press.
“There is the possibility that we could get an outcome, but also it could fall over at the last minute,” said New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw. “And I think if that happened, it would be a real shame because this is as close (on loss and damage) as we’ve ever been before.”
Climate activist Nakeeyat Dramani Sam of Ghana chided delegates at this year’s U.N. climate talks, saying they would act faster to rein in global warming if they were her age.
“It is an emergency,” the 10-year-old told negotiators, holding a sign that read “Payment Overdue”. “If all of you were to be young people like me, wouldn’t you have already agreed to do what is needed to save our planet?”
But after receiving a standing ovation, it was back to nations squabbling over several thorny issues, with the Egyptian presidency acknowledging that the talks will go into overtime on Saturday, if not longer.
“Time is not on our side,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. Speaking as the summit’s chair, he pledged to try to find common ground going forward. “The global community is looking to us to be bold and ambitious.”
The EU proposal on ‘loss and damage’ payments Thursday would require emerging economies such as China — the second biggest historic polluter after the U.S. — to contribute to the fund.
“We’re making clear that Europe is on the side of the most vulnerable states,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said. “Others can now show which side they are on.”
The EU proposal would also require stepped up efforts on reducing, or ‘mitigating,’ greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming. It also adopts a call to phase down all fossil fuels — a measure first proposed by India and a dramatic step up from previous commitments to just phase down coal.
Unless emissions are cut more steeply, “no money in the world could pay for the damages and losses of the future,” Baerbock said.
EU climate chief Frans Timmermans said Friday that the bloc’s proposal on funding for loss and damage and mitigation is “a final offer” that seeks to “find a compromise” between countries as negotiators work out a way forward.
The environmental advocacy group Action Aid called the proposal a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” because it doesn’t go far enough.
The EU plan was a counter to a proposal made by the Group of 77 and China, which would create a fund but only require developed nations to contribute, excepting top polluters China and India.
China, which had been quiet during much of the talks, and Saudi Arabia both said the money for a loss and damage fund shouldn’t come from them. Developed countries should foot the bill, China said. Both also insisted that the 2015 Paris Agreement that aims to limit global warming to an ambitious 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) increase should not be altered, which can be interpreted as not strengthening efforts.
A senior official from the Maldives voiced growing frustration at the way vulnerable countries keep getting caught up in battles between more powerful nations at the talks, even as their situation gets increasingly dire due to climate change.
“Small island states have just 86 months and we’re already feeling it,” the official said, referring to scientists’ calculations that greenhouse gas emissions have to be halved by 2030. “We can’t be sandwiched between global powers.”
Friday’s draft of the overarching decision on the outcome of the talks, issued by the Egyptian presidency, includes some vague references to reform to multilateral development banks but did not include or make reference to the detailed Bridgetown Initiative on financial reform from Barbados and its Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
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Samy Magdy, Frank Jordans and Olivia Zhang contributed to this report.
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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — After reading he was the betting favorite for the 3M Open, Tony Finau felt the pressure surprisingly mount in his mind as he sought to extend the momentum he has built this summer.
Playing catch-up proved to be the right formula for his third PGA Tour victory.
Finau shot a 4-under 67 to win the 3M Open by three strokes Sunday, erasing a five-stroke deficit with 11 holes left as Scott Piercy tumbled out of the lead down the stretch at windy TPC Twin Cities.
“I expected myself to contend and win again this year, so to be able to do it this late in the season when you’re running out of tournaments and you put that type of expectation on yourself, it’s so satisfying,” said Finau, who finished at 17-under 267.
Sungjae Im (68) and Emiliano Grillo (71) tied for second place. Piercy followed his tournament-record 54-hole score with a wince-inducing 76 to tie for fourth, four strokes back. James Hahn surged up the board with a 65 to match Piercy and Tom Hoge (70) at 13 under.
Piercy bogeyed four of six holes before a triple-bogey implosion on No. 14, allowing Finau — playing in the preceding trio — to take over for good. Gracefully congratulated by Piercy outside the scoring tent, the 32-year-old Finau recorded the largest winning rally in four editions of this event.
“I’m about as good an example as any of how tough it is to seal the deal,” said Finau, whose prior victories were in 2016 and 2021. He has 10 second-place finishes and three thirds. “Anytime you win one, it’s awesome to get the respect of the guys that you’re playing against.”
The strongest support came, naturally, from his wife and five children. They stayed with him in a rented house next to the course and followed him from tee to green. Fishing expeditions and family meals helped Finau keep his mind off his swing when it didn’t need to be there.
“I’m a husband. I’m a dad. I’m their friend. I try to have a good time with them,” Finau said.
Finau, who tied for third at the 3M Open in 2020, jumped from 30th to 17th in the FedEx Cup race. He entered the week ranked 17th in the world.
Finau made a 31-foot putt for birdie on the 15th green to strengthen his grip on the lead, as he confidently walked the course in his slender 6-foot-4 frame, white hat and aqua-striped polo.
The surest sign this was Finau’s day came on No. 17. His tee shot clanged off the side of the grandstand, ricocheted back onto the green and rolled into the rough — just a few feet from the water. He landed the perfect chip within a foot of the hole to make the par 3, then smiled slightly as he playfully clamped his hand on his chest as if to pretend the sequence gave him heart trouble.
On the daunting par-5 18th, Finau found the water off the tee to face one final challenge. But with Piercy looking on from the fairway, Finau made a 3-footer for bogey to seal it. He pumped his fist several times, took off his cap and walked off to embrace his family.
Piercy shared the first-round lead with Im on Thursday after a 65 and pulled away from the pack Friday with a 64 to take a three-shot edge into the weekend. He stretched his lead to four strokes after enduring the 6 1/2-hour weather delay and a painful heel blister Saturday.
That was nothing compared to the grind he found himself in Sunday. He was at 20-under after six holes. Less than an hour later, Piercy was in trouble. After posting only three bogeys on his first 61 holes, he went over par on seven of his last 11. That included the 7 he turned in on No. 14.
Piercy’s tee shot landed in the fairway bunker, and his sand wedge didn’t get him out of the sand. With a risky, last-ditch approach to get back on track, his next try from the bunker splashed in the water short and left of the green — instead of a safer play to the right. After the drop, Piercy hit into the rough. Then his next attempt stopped 3 inches short of the cup.
This was the fourth time in six tries that Piercy held or shared the three-round lead and failed to win the tournament.
Grillo, the Argentine who tied for second at the John Deere Classic three weeks ago, also had a triple bogey that loomed large in the end, a 7 on No. 7. There were 303 balls in the water this week, the most all season on tour.
“Tony pressed really hard on the gas, and he just made it very hard for everybody,” Grillo said.
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Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair review
For serious players, gaming can be a job. You might sit down to start a session or a livestream and not get up for hours. This means you need a comfortable, ergonomic gaming chair that lets you play at your best for extended periods.
Secretlab specializes in gaming chairs. The company states that “Every detail matters, down to how we stitch individual upholstery panels together.” The brand claims it designs, tests and iterates every aspect of its chairs to ensure they’re “more comfortable and sturdier than ever.”
To see how well its products held up, we tested the Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair with PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops. This is what we found.
Testing the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair
Our tester uses either a desktop computer or a laptop on a desk for at least 10 hours per day. They work, study, browse the internet, watch streaming content and play games with friends. Because our tester isn’t very tall, we needed an adjustable gaming chair. When looking for a model, our tester also paid attention to how comfortable the back was and how supportive the armrests were. To evaluate the Titan Evo, our tester used the chair for roughly eight hours — six hours working and two hours gaming — paying attention to how well it performed in all of the key areas.
What is the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair?
The Titan Evo is an elite gaming chair that combines all the best features of Secretlab’s Omega 2020 and Titan 2020 models. Upon unboxing this high-end product, it was immediately evident that this was a luxury item. The pieces were well-made, and the instructions were easy to follow.
Like most gaming chairs, you can raise or lower the seat to fit your needs. You can also recline when you want to relax. The versatile armrests move just about any way you need: up, down, forward, backward, in, out and twist. We purchased the optional PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops. These add additional support and a comfortable, almost velvet feel, minus the fuzz.
Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair and PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops prices and where to buy
The Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair costs between $519-$619, depending on size and upholstery. A special edition chair that features a particular theme may cost from $624-$674. The Secretlab PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops costs $79.
You can buy the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair at Secretlab and Amazon.
You can buy the Secretlab PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops at Secretlab.
How to use the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair
Unboxing and assembling
A great deal of attention was paid to the packaging of this chair. It was well-protected, organized and came with a thorough set of instructions. All the tools you need to build the chair are included with the purchase. While it was easy to put together, there are times when you’ll benefit from having a helper. We had the chair unboxed and fully assembled in about an hour.
The upgraded armrests were considerately packaged as well. The instructions were clear and concise. We had the new armrests attached within 60 seconds.
Adjusting the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair
Adjusting the Titan Evo was intuitive. When you sit down, the magnetic head pillow can be quickly repositioned to provide maximum support. If you need to raise or lower the seat, lift the lever on the right side and position the chair where you need it to be. The second lever on the right operates the recline function, while the lever on the left opens the seat up to 165 degrees.
As for the armrests, the mechanisms on the outside allow you to raise and lower them, and the buttons on the inside let you slide the armrests in and out. If you need to rotate the armrests, just gently twist them in the direction you want them to move.
Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair benefits
The cushion on this chair is comfortable — especially the pillow. It’s more resilient than memory foam and doesn’t trap heat. This helps you remain cool during long work hours or gaming sessions. It’s adjustable, so you can tailor the Titan Evo to conform to your build. When sitting in this chair, you feel embraced by a sturdy frame. There’s support in every area where it’s needed. The armrests have a pleasing texture and attach securely to provide solid support for your arms. Overall, the chair is heavy and feels durable but is still easy to glide across the floor, giving the user a great balance of rugged build and maneuverability.
Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair drawbacks
The biggest drawback this chair had for our needs was the lumbar support. This was the one area we couldn’t adjust to make it feel just right. Also, the texture of the detachable armrests might be difficult to clean in the future. The other somewhat minor point is that the amount of packaging material seemed a little wasteful. However, since the chair arrived in perfect condition, this might be a necessary evil.
Should you get the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series Gaming Chair?
Make no mistake — the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 Series chair is a high-end gaming chair. It costs more than the typical chairs you find in big box stores. But, if you spend long hours at a desk or gaming, it’s a worthwhile investment. Since it comes in three different sizes and has so many adjustments, you’ll find this chair fits you like a tailored suit.
We recommend spending the extra money on the upgraded PlushCell Memory Foam Armrest Tops to get the full luxury treatment. They make a dramatic difference in comfort that’s worth the extra cost.
Consider these other gaming chairs
Secretlab Omega 2020 Gaming Chair
If you like Secretlab’s Titan Evo gaming chair but were hoping for a lower-priced model, the Omega is a solid option. There are a few drawbacks when compared to the Titan Evo, but when going head to head with other chairs, it’s a game-changer.
X Rocker Pro Series Pedestal 2.1 Video Gaming Chair
The X Rocker Pro series has built-in features such as speakers and vibration motors that create a more immersive gaming experience. This chair offers wired and wireless performance, and it’s compatible with all popular gaming systems.
Staples Emerge Vartan Bonded Leather Gaming Chair
For the budget-minded individual, Staples’ gaming chair is a value-packed option. It has lumbar support and a padded headrest for added comfort. Like other models, it can be raised, lowered and adjusted to fit the user’s needs.
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(NEXSTAR) – Tori Bowie, a U.S. Olympic sprinter, died of complications from childbirth, Florida officials have confirmed.
Bowie, who won three medals during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, died in May. She was 32.
Citing a coroner’s report, TMZ says the runner was found dead in her Florida home on May 2. Her family had reportedly been concerned after not speaking with Bowie for several days.
Bowie’s management company and USA Track and Field confirmed her death the next day.
According to the autopsy results from the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office, Bowie died of complications from childbirth, USA Today and TMZ report. The Olympian was estimated to be eight months pregnant and had been experiencing labor when she died.
Bowie may have suffered respiratory distress or eclampsia, seizures that can occur after a sudden spike in high blood pressure during pregnancy, officials reported wrote. Her death was ruled as natural.
The Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for information.
Growing up in Sandhill, Mississippi, Bowie was coaxed into track as a teenager and quickly rose up the ranks as a sprinter and long jumper. She attended Southern Mississippi, where she swept the long jump NCAA championships at the indoor and outdoor events in 2011.
Bowie turned in an electric performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4×100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
A year later, she won the 100 meters at the 2017 world championships in London.
Bowie was taken in by her grandmother as an infant after she was left at a foster home. She considered herself a basketball player and only reluctantly showed up for track, but Bowie was a fast learner, becoming a state champion in the 100, 200 and long jump before going to college.
Her first major international medal was a 100-meter bronze at worlds in 2015. After winning, she said, “my entire life my grandmother told me I could do whatever I set my mind to.”
In a May post on Twitter, Icon Management included a picture of Bowie holding up her hands in the shape of a heart. The management company wrote: “We’ve lost a client, dear friend, daughter and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of light that shined so bright! We’re truly heartbroken and our prayers are with the family and friends.”
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PLANO, Texas, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ZIPS Car Wash (zipscarwash.com) revealed its Car Wash Convos™ episode featuring sophomore Jonas Aidoo, Tennessee Volunteers® Basketball Forward, today on YouTube. Jonas is interviewed during a car wash at ZIPS in Knoxville by fellow student-athlete Kenzie Couch who is a senior on the UT Cheer Team pursuing a degree in Public Relations. The episode gives fans a glimpse into how Jonas prepares for game day, his ideal car accessory and more.
To celebrate the launch of Jonas' episode, Knoxville ZIPS customers can enjoy a $5 Wash & Dry car wash with Jonas' winning wash code 2002 at any Knoxville ZIPS Car Wash today through March 8th. To find a location near you, visit zipscarwash.com.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity to partner with ZIPS Car Wash to bring Car Wash Convos™ to Vol Nation. This series has been a fun way for Vol fans to get to know me off the court," said Jonas Aidoo.
"Jonas gives off such a fun and relaxed vibe in his episode that we are so excited to share his off-the-court personality with Vol fans," said Mark Youngworth, Chief Marketing Officer, ZIPS Car Wash. "We're grateful for the way that Vol Nation has helped us embrace our partnership with the university and engaged with our team members at more than 30 locations we have across the great state of Tennessee," he added.
Opendorse, the leading NIL marketplace and technology company, is ZIPS' way to connect with student-athletes to leverage its respective university sponsorships secured via LEARFIELD. LEARFIELD Studios is ZIPS' partner for video production of Car Wash Convos™ and the next University of Tennessee episode will feature softball pitcher Karlyn Pickens. ZIPS Car Wash is the Proud Sponsor of the Tennessee Volunteers and owns and operates 20 locations across Knoxville, over 30 locations in Tennessee and over 275 locations across the country.
About ZIPS Car Wash
ZIPS Car Wash, headquartered in Plano, Texas, is the largest privately held car wash operator nationwide, operating more than 275 locations across 24 states under three brands: ZIPS Car Wash, Rocket Express Car Wash, and Jet Brite Car Wash. With nearly 20 years of car washing experience, ZIPS prides itself on providing the highest quality express tunnel car wash in the industry. ZIPS uses the latest industry technology to provide a clean, dry, and shiny vehicle and exceptional customer experiences every day. The ZIPS team aims to positively impact the communities we live and serve in. To learn more visit www.zipscarwash.com.
About LEARFIELD
LEARFIELD, based in Plano, Texas, is a media, data, and technology services leader in intercollegiate athletics. The company unlocks the value of college sports for brands and fans through an omnichannel platform with innovative content and commerce solutions. LEARFIELD services include licensing and collegiate sports properties' multimedia sponsorship management; publishing, audio, digital and social media; data analytics and insights; ticketing software and ticket sales; branding; campus-wide business and sponsorship development. Since 2008, it has served as title sponsor for NACDA's acclaimed LEARFIELD Directors' Cup, recognizing athletic departments across all divisions.
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LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teqball USA, the fastest growing global soccer-based sport, returned to Los Angeles for its fourth US Tournament of the 2023 season. The tournament brought out the best players from across the globe to battle it out to get one step closer to obtain world ranking points, whilst giving fans all over the world a unique sporting experience.
The tournament kicked off on Friday, May 19th, where athletes participated from 15 countries across the globe, including The United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Romania and Uruguay, Athletes competed for the top spots in Women's Doubles (WD), Men's Doubles (MD), and Mixed Doubles (MD). The home team. Greco (Ranked 4th In the world in WD) and Osmundson (Ranked 3rd In the world in WD) took on debutant twosome, Petra Pechy (Hungary; Ranked 14th In the world in WD) and Kinga Barabasi (Romania; Ranked 7thIn the world in WD). Although this was the first time Pechy and Barabasi teamed up, they were able to beat the American Champions in taking home the gold. The lethal combination of Osmundson's incredible defense and Greco's acrobatic smashes forced a game 3, but they came up short losing 2 sets to 1.
Mixed Doubles and Men's Doubles final matches were won by the following top ranked international teams:
- Mixed Doubles finals winner: France, Hugo Rabeux (Ranked 10th In the world in Mixed Doubles) and Amelie Julian (Ranked 7th In the world in Mixed Doubles)
- Men's Doubles finals winner: Hungary, Csaba Banyik (Ranked 3rd In the world in MD) and Balazs Katz (Ranked 5th In the world in MD
"Our fourth USA Teqball tour tournament of 2023, at the iconic Venice Beach was one of our best yet. We are thrilled to see the continued growth and support of the Teqball community in our home city of Los Angeles, and nationally across the globe," said Ajay Nwosu, President of the US National Teqball Federation and CEO of Teqball USA. "We look forward to seeing the growth and continuing to watch the level of athletes and play go from strength to strength."
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The USA Teqball tour will resume in June with the Santa Monica Tournament - June 9-11, 2023. Tune in to watch live on ESPN, For programming details in your area please check FiTEQ.org.
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About Teqball
Teqball, the popular soccer like sport with a presence globally in 150+ countries and with Teqball tables across all 50 states -- has found huge popularity across the United States and among professional and celebrity fans including Messi, Neymar, Ronaldinho, David Beckham, Mauro Icardi, Eden Hazard, Justin Bieber, and Adam Levine.
The soccer-based sport is played on a specially-curved table (the Teq table), and is attracting a new generation of athletes and amateur enthusiasts (teqers). Teqball USA is committed to building a community by using the power of sports to build cultural relevance and creating a movement that brings joy to people's lives daily. Teqball currently has ambitions at becoming an Olympic Sport by LA28.
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An ordinance amending Chapter 28 of the Pine Bluff code of ordinances in reference to sewer service connection and administrative fees will be up for its third and final reading during Monday's city council meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the Pine Bluff Convention Center.
According to the ordinance the service connection and administrative fees for sewer services have not been revised for many years.
The Utility Commission and the director reviews the fees and recommended the following changes for new service connections to the city sanitary sewer system:
• Single-family residence: $400;
• Mobile homes: $400;
• Individual metered multifamily residential: $400;
• Commercial, including restaurants for grease trap installation, industrial, master-metered multifamily and nonresidential: $800;
• Developments outside of city limits: additional cost $160 residential, $320 commercial;
Where a sponsor (individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation) constructs an extension or expansion to the sanitary sewer system with the approval of the Wastewater Utility, and the cost of the extension or expansion is borne entirely by the sponsor, the Wastewater Utility will not charge a service connection fee to anyone who connects to the extension or expansion for a period of three years from the date that the final as-built plans are approved and the system accepted by the Wastewater Commission, according to the ordinance.
After the three-year period, anyone connecting to the extension or expansion will pay a connection fee.
Administrative fees of $160 will also be paid for all service connections.
Building sewers and connections in the ordinance have also been amended to read as follows:
"The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code as well as the Wastewater Utility's regulations. All connections in a street right-of-way or alley must be consistent in service size line from the main to the property line, with a double cleanout plug at the property line.
In subdivisions where sewers are laid in an easement at the rear of the lots, it may be permissible to lay a four-inch line from the residence to the main. Double cleanouts shall be installed at the property line. The property owner must accept all responsibility for maintenance of the service line from the structure to the double clean-out.
"The applicant for the plumbing permit shall notify the inspection department when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made in accordance with the Wastewater Utility's current edition of the Operations, Policies, and Procedure manual.
"The owner or developer shall be responsible for all construction and repairs of building sewers located in street rights-of-way, including the placement of backfill in accordance with city codes and shall meet the requirements of the City of Pine Bluff Street Department."
In other city business, an ordinance to adopt the most recent additions of the international mechanical code, the 2018 Arkansas Fuel Gas Code, the 2018 Arkansas Plumbing Code and the 2014 Arkansas Energy Code will be presented to the full council for review and approval.
Those ordinances contain an emergency clause to have up-to-date codes to protect the property and the loves of the citizens of Pine Bluff with a request to take effect immediately after its passage and approval.
The Pine Bluff Animal Shelter has submitted a resolution for approval that will authorize a grant agreement with Best Friends Animal Society to promote humane care and preservation of animals in the custody of the animal control department.
Best Friends Animal Society is a nonprofit corporation that is dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters. Best Friends would partner with the animal shelter in achieving a minimum of 90% save rate. Best Friends will employ a Provisional Manager with a proposed start date of Aug. 15 to help ensure the sustainability of the program.
Funding totaling $50,000 for six months will be earmarked in the Best Friends budget.
Other resolutions to be discussed including authorizing the mayor to enter into a professional service agreement with Maxie Kizer to recapture the city's expense concerning remediation of public nuisances with the Urban Renewal Area; and authorizing the mayor to convey the property located on the southeast corner of 13th Avenue and Alabama to the southwest corner of 13th and Georgia to Marshall Kelley, who has submitted an offer to purchase the property from the city to develop a single-family home.
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The summer of 2023 got a little crazy for Bryan Adams at his Salt Lake City concert earlier this month, when a fan ambushed the singer and took the stage and microphone by storm.
Adams was performing his smash hit "Summer of '69" when an unruly concertgoer hopped on stage, prompting the Canadian rocker to move away from the microphone.
"Bought it at the five and dime," a man sang commandingly into the microphone, much to Adams' bemusement.
The crasher got to sing a few more lyrics before security men in red shirts rushed on stage and grabbed him on both sides.
TAYLOR SWIFT SCREAMS DURING ERAS TOUR CONCERT FOR SECURITY GUARD TO STOP HARASSING FAN
The man was escorted off-stage, and without missing a beat, Adams was able to hit his cue for the iconic line, "Was the summer of '69."
Adams posted the ordeal to his Instagram – making fun of the bizarre nature of the act. "Sometimes you just gotta laugh…#stagecrasher #summerof69," he wrote in his caption.
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Adams is currently on tour with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and will play in Phoenix next week.
WATCH: BRYAN ADAMS INTERRUPTED BY FAN WHILE PERFORMING ‘SUMMER OF ’69'
The incident at Adams' concert comes amid a slew of bold decisions made at the hands of concertgoers. A troubling trend has seen artists such as Harry Styles, Kelsea Ballerini, Pink and Bebe Rexha being hit with fan-thrown objects while performing.
The issues began last month in New York, when Rexha was hit in the face with a cellphone, resulting in the arrest of a man and the singer getting stitches in New York City.
In London at British Summer Time's Hyde Park Festival at the end of June, Pink was the recipient of a peculiar gift – a bag of human ashes.
While Styles was onstage in Vienna performing his Love on Tour concert, the former One Direction member was hit by an unknown object launched at his eye.
Earlier this month, Ballerini was the victim of a similar incident. The country star was singing her song, "If You Go Down," when she was hit in the eye by a bracelet.
WATCH: KELSEA BALLERINI GETS HIT IN THE FACE WITH OBJECT THROWN BY FAN AT CONCERT
Turning her head and eventually her entire body away from the audience, Ballerini was quickly attended to by one of her band members. After several moments, Ballerini eventually walked off-stage.
Last week, video surfaced of Swift seemingly dodging bracelets thrown at her by a group of fans as she walked backstage, while her security tried to control the situation. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/bryan-adams-ambushed-on-stage-by-unruly-fan-who-gets-tossed-by-security/article_2384a6bb-9801-5524-8a93-27ad33a6827c.html | 2023-07-18 19:22:38 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/bryan-adams-ambushed-on-stage-by-unruly-fan-who-gets-tossed-by-security/article_2384a6bb-9801-5524-8a93-27ad33a6827c.html |
Tropical Smoothie will open two new shops in the Tucson market.
One Ten REI Guadalupe LLC bought a parcel at 3200 E. Valencia Road for $450,000 and a second at 7090 E. Broadway for $830,000 in the former Macayo’s Mexican restaurant.
Both sites will become drive-thru smoothie locations. Tropical Smoothie‘s first local store is in the Houghton Town Center, 10230 E. Old Vail Road.
The Atlanta chain sells smoothies, flatbread, sandwiches and quesadillas.
Jeramy Price, with Volk Co., represented the buyer.
Other local real estate transactions include:
Just Churros leased 1,304 square feet from Dev Properties LLC in Oracle Wetmore Shopping Center, at the southeast corner of Oracle and Wetmore roads. Aaron LaPrise, with Picor, handled the lease.
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The shopping center at 1991 E. Ajo Way, near Kino Parkway, will be getting a new Eegee’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. Terry Dahlstrom, with Volk Co., represented South Gate Partners II LLC in the Eegee’s transaction and Kevin Volk, with Volk Co., represented TMC Dunkin Properties LLC for the doughnut shop. Both sales were for $375,000. Rob Tomlinson and Ron Zimmerman, with Picor, represented the seller.
Hughes Federal Credit Union bought 79,072 square feet of industrial space at 3301-3321 E. Global Loop from Global Loop Tucson LLC, Mercator Properties, LLC, and RSD MT Marathon, LLC for $13.8 million. Jesse Blum and Stephen D. Cohen, with Picor, represented the seller and Brian Harpel, with Velocity Retail Group, represented the buyer.
ZFI LLC and 45th Street Senior Apartments LLC bought the 38-unit Westview Apartments at 219 W. Fort Lowell Road from 219 West Fort Lowell Owner LLC for $2.8 million. Allan Mendelsberg and Conrad Joey Martinez, with Picor, represented both parties.
And Go Concepts LLC, doing business as Salad and Go, signed a 20-year lease with Kolb Slaw LLC and 8195 N. Oracle Road LLC, for 12,300 square feet at 1302 S. Kolb Road, in the Eastpoint Marketplace Shopping Center. Greg Furrier and Dave Hammack, with Picor, handled the lease.
Oak Street Health MSO LLC, leased 10,387 square feet from MROF I SPE I-Rolling Hills LLC at 7036 E. Golf Links Road. Dave Hammack and Greg Furrier, with Picor, represented the landlord in this transaction. Ty Brewster, with LocateAI Realty Inc., represented the tenant.
Louie’s Lounge leased 2,350 square feet at Parkview Place, 8060 E. 22nd St., from 8060 E 22nd St LLC. Greg Furrier, with Picor, represented the landlord and David Dutson, with NAI Horizon, represented the tenant.
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SHELTON, Conn., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Logicbroker, a cloud-based curated marketplace and automated drop ship eCommerce platform provider, is proud to announce the official release of its business-to-business (B2B) product suite. Logicbroker's B2B offerings center around Supply Chain Visibility and B2B marketplace and drop ship capabilities.
Over the last three years, Logicbroker listened closely to its clients, partners, vendors, and industry colleagues on what they'd expect from a comprehensive B2B solution. Logicbroker began piloting new ways to help its B2B customers get products to their warehouses or stores quicker than ever before. After a year of successful execution of this new business model, Logicbroker's B2B offerings are available to the public.
"Logicbroker exists to empower our customers to continue to be innovative. We want to help them develop new business models, generate significant revenue, and continually increase the profitability of their eCommerce solutions. The official release of our B2B drop ship and marketplace solutions is one of the thousands of next steps we will take to help our customers," Peyman Zamani, Logicbroker's CEO, said.
"The Logicbroker platform has been about innovation and bringing automation to the forefront of the industry. With customer experience and business insight as our guiding lights, Logicbroker's new B2B offerings ensure our customers evolve, adapt, and overcome any supply chain, marketplace, or drop ship challenge," Chip Sockwell, Logicbroker's VP of Product Offerings, added.
Digital Commerce 360 predicts B2B eCommerce will more than double by next year and already over 49% of all B2B sales are done online. Logicbroker's B2B Supply Chain Visibility product allows retailers to have visibility across the entire order lifecycle for wholesale orders. Accommodating orders made by all suppliers, regardless of technical capabilities, Logicbroker takes on the burden of acting as the premier connection broker for retailers looking to not only automate their supply chain but also identify supply disruptions before they impact the customer experience.
"Your supply chain is really only as good as your weakest link. Not everyone has the same technical capabilities and the ability to connect to suppliers without EDI capabilities through API's, other file-based exchanges, or through our portal is huge. We can handle these large purchase orders and bring more clarity across transactions with long shipping windows ," Steve Norris, Logicbroker's Director of Sales Engineering, stated during Logicbroker's annual conference, Connected Commerce 2022: Evolution.
To continue providing the ultimate "one-stop-shop" for brands and retailers looking to drop ship, build their own marketplace, or both, Logicbroker's B2B Marketplace and Drop Ship product focuses on the frontend order tracking automation. Insights into inventory availability, price stratification, shipments, vendor performance, and more are handled through Logicbroker's advanced, cloud-based platform.
"We are so excited to officially release our B2B offerings to the world. Internally, we've already begun work with incredible partners like Babylist and Zageno to build and expand their B2B capabilities utilizing our platform. The team at Logicbroker believes no problem is too big to overcome so we've developed a platform that can connect to any platform in the world giving our customers a much-needed reprieve in an ever-expanding eCommerce space," Peyman Zamani, Logicbroker's CEO, said.
For more information about how Logicbroker remains the only provider of both drop ship and marketplace solutions for both D2C and B2B customers, visit our website at www.logicbroker.com.
Logicbroker helps companies launch profitable online drop ship and marketplace programs. Combining the most modern multi-tenant technology with an obsession for stellar customer experience, Logicbroker's powerful platform connects retailers, brands, and suppliers at record speed, empowering them to sell more products, reach more customers, and maintain their edge in an ever-evolving eCommerce universe. With a global footprint and headquartered in the United States, over 4,000 brands including Hasbro, Rite Aid, Verizon, Toys "R" Us, Samsung, M&M Mars, Coca-Cola, Kroger, and Walgreens rely on Logicbroker to manage $6 Billion in Gross Merchandise Value annually. Logicbroker recently received $135M from K1 Investment Management to continue fueling Logicbroker's position as a global category leader.
Contact:
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In reference to the op-ed in the Jan. 1 Richmond Times-Dispatch by Lakesha Roney [“As the mental health crisis worsens, teletherapy is a lifeline”], I have to respectfully disagree.
Telehealth has its place maybe as a follow-up to a previous doctor-patient meeting/discussion, but as far as a first meeting with someone struggling with mental health issues, telehealth does not “cut it.” The medical professional does not really see or know the person, cannot observe body language and really cannot form a doctor-patient relationship with that person.
It’s sad that these patients are suffering because some are concerned about seeing people face to face, or maybe they like this “life” they have built where they don’t have to interface with a human being. This has been my experience trying to find a professional to work with my son, who is autistic and intellectually disabled.
04-29-1978 (cutline): David Yeatman, construction supervisor for Heindl-Evans Inc., looks over plans for renovation of the 96-year-old Zoppa Building in historic Shockoe Slip. The building, at 15 S. 13th St. between Main and Cary Streets is to offer 26,000 square feet of usable space when completed according to the Virginia Housing Development Authority, which happens to move its offices there this summer from its present headquarters at Richmond Plaza Building. Funds for the project, which is expect to cost $690,000 including purchase of the building, were borrowed from local banks, an authority spokesman said.
08-16-1982 (cutline): Sidewalk cafes were open during the Shockoe Slip Summer Jazz Festival, part two. Cool drinks, food and flowers were for sale at the event, which drew hundreds.
09-29-1954 (cutline): Memorial fountain also may go with building.
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02-10-1984 (cutline): The building at 13th and Cary Streets, site of first restaurant in the Slip, now stands vacant.
Masaaki Okada
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02-27-1972 (cutline): Designation as historic landmark clouds development for Shockoe Slip downtown.
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02-11-1989: Shockoe Slip
Bruce Parker
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08-13-1991: Shockoe Slip at night.
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10-29-1984 (cutline): Richmond turned out dressed up yesterday for Shockoe Slip's Great Pumpkin Party.
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06-06-1980: Shockoe Slip
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08-22-1982: Shockoe Slip
Bob Brown
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08-04-1982: Shockoe Slip
Bob Brown
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08-06-1976 (cutline): Shockoe Center at 11 S. 12th St. Mix of Victorian, commercial utility styles.
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04-29-1978 (cutline): David Yeatman, construction supervisor for Heindl-Evans Inc., looks over plans for renovation of the 96-year-old Zoppa Building in historic Shockoe Slip. The building, at 15 S. 13th St. between Main and Cary Streets is to offer 26,000 square feet of usable space when completed according to the Virginia Housing Development Authority, which happens to move its offices there this summer from its present headquarters at Richmond Plaza Building. Funds for the project, which is expect to cost $690,000 including purchase of the building, were borrowed from local banks, an authority spokesman said.
Bill Lane
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08-04-1982: Shockoe Slip
Bob Brown
Shockoe Slip
08-16-1982 (cutline): Sidewalk cafes were open during the Shockoe Slip Summer Jazz Festival, part two. Cool drinks, food and flowers were for sale at the event, which drew hundreds. | https://richmond.com/opinion/letters/letter-for-many-telehealth-doesn-t-cut-it/article_b2955252-906b-11ed-82ae-23a36c9e6598.html | 2023-01-11 02:26:07 | 0 | https://richmond.com/opinion/letters/letter-for-many-telehealth-doesn-t-cut-it/article_b2955252-906b-11ed-82ae-23a36c9e6598.html |
Musical legend Herbie Hancock celebrates his 83rd birthday Wednesday. The pianist, composer and Jazz Master was also friends for decades with fellow jazz icon saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The two lions of jazz played music together and practiced Buddhism together for more than half a century.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Hancock.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Johnny Depp called his ex-wife's accusations of sexual and physical abuse “insane” Wednesday as he returned to the witness stand in his libel suit against Amber Heard.
“Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, cruel, and all false,” Depp said when asked about his reaction to hearing Heard's allegations when she testified earlier in the trial.
Depp was testifying Wednesday as a rebuttal witness — both he and Heard each testified extensively earlier in the trial.
He gave some specific responses to some of the particular allegations levied by Heard and also her sister, Whitney Henriquez, who provided some of Heard's strongest corroborating testimony.
He concluded his testimony with a final denial of the allegations.
“I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things,” he said. “And living with it for six years, and waiting to be able to bring the truth out.”
He said that “no matter what happens I did get here and I did tell the truth and I have spoken up for what I've been carrying on my back, reluctantly, for six years.”
Depp will be cross-examined Wednesday afternoon.
Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Depp has denied he ever struck Heard and says she was the abuser in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate instances of physical abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s hands.
Depp also disputed a claim made by Heard that Depp had nothing to do with getting her a role in the superhero blockbuster “Aquaman.” When Heard testified, she was clearly offended by a question from Depp's lawyers insinuating Depp got her the role.
Depp, though, said that after Heard auditioned for the role, he talked to the studio on her behalf. He was barred from discussing the details of his conversations when Heard's lawyers objected, but said that "ultimately she did get the job, so hopefully, I suppose, I had curbed their worries to some degree.”
Also Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Depp, denied that she had ever been pushed or assaulted by Depp during the course of their relationship.
Moss also testified as a rebuttal witness. Heard, in her testimony, made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down a set of stairs when they dated.
Moss, in testimony provided by video link, said Depp never assaulted her. She said she did once slip down a flight of stairs after a rainstorm at a Jamaican resort, and that Depp came to her aid.
She testified for less than 5 minutes and was not cross-examined.
Depp also addressed the accusation in his testimony, saying it happened just as Moss said. He said he'd told the story about Moss to Heard years ago and “Ms. Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in her mind.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Kate-Moss-denies-Depp-ever-pushed-her-down-17197698.php | 2022-05-25 17:35:11 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Kate-Moss-denies-Depp-ever-pushed-her-down-17197698.php |
POWDERLY, Texas (AP) — Tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Friday, killing at least one person, injuring two dozens others and leaving dozens of homes and buildings in ruins.
Tornadoes hit hard in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, in the southeastern corner of the state. Cody McDaniel, the county's emergency manager, confirmed one death although he didn't immediately provide details.
The small town of Idabel saw a church, medical center and a school torn apart.
"There was total destruction on the south and east sides of Idabel," Steven Carter, an emergency management coordinator for McCurtain County, told the Texarkana Gazette.
Carter told the paper people were still trapped late Friday.
Gov. Kevin Stitt said search-and-rescue teams and generators were being sent to the Idabel area.
“Praying for Oklahomans impacted by today’s tornadoes,” Stitt tweeted.
Keli Cain of the Oklahoma Emergency Management Office said at least three other counties were also hit by storms, with flash flooding in some areas.
The National Weather Service said tornadoes also were reported in Texas and Arkansas and a storm system was heading toward Louisiana.
In Texas, authorities in Lamar County said at least 50 homes were damaged or destroyed and 10 people were treated at one hospital, including two with critical injuries. No deaths were immediately reported.
Judge Brandon Bell, the county’s highest elected official, declared a disaster in the area, a step in getting federal assistance and funding. Bell’s declaration said at least two dozen people were injured across the county.
One community hit hard was Powderly, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Idabel and about 120 miles (193 kilometers) northeast of Dallas. Both Powderly and Idabel are near the Texas-Oklahoma border.
The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Management said the tornado touched down shortly after 4 p.m. and traveled north-northeast through the communities of Hopewell, Caviness, Beaver Creek and Powderly.
Randi Johnson, chief of the Powderly Volunteer Fire Department, told The Paris News newspaper that she wasn't aware anyone had been killed but knew of injuries.
“It’s going to take a long time to get this cleaned up, but the community came together,” Johnson said. “It’s really heartbreaking to see.”
Churches opened their doors to serve as shelters for those whose homes were impacted.
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AirEye Identifies the Issue of the Ever-Increasing Wireless Networks Within the Corporate Vicinity and Provides Control and Protection for the Organizational Network Airspace.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AirEye, the market leader in network airspace control and protection, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor based on the 6 October 2022 report titled, Cool Vendors in Hybrid Work Security by Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, et al., at Gartner. With the vast majority of corporate network traffic being wireless, the report provides the following recommendation for security and risk management leaders responsible for security infrastructure: "Assess wireless access risk to the enterprise separate from wired network security and find vendors that can address the discovery, inventory and security of the wireless access space for your organization."1
"We believe that the fact that Gartner has recognized the corporate network airspace as an increasingly growing cybersecurity gap validates the field's need for such a solution. Cyberattacks such as the recent Wi-Fi cyberattack against an east coast based private equity firm proves that commercial attackers are already leveraging this neglected entry point and are continuously bringing down the cost of such attacks," said Shlomo Touboul, founder and CEO of AirEye. "In the field, we continue to see an increase in shadow networks, such as embedded wireless access points within corporate-owned IoT devices, that fly under the radar of IT and security teams. Furthermore, we see trending network airspace security violations such as corporate devices connecting to mobile hotspots, neighbor's networks and Guest - all assumed behavior of employees bringing their own habits into the organization in a post-COVID world. No other security solution today, apart from AirEye, is able to deliver that type of visibility, control and protection for wireless activity in the corporate vicinity."
The AirEye solution continuously monitors the entire network airspace, including non-owned wireless devices, and identifies legitimate connections versus those that do not comply with the organizational wireless security policy. With AirEye, corporates protect their managed and unmanaged devices from unauthorized connections by actively preventing in real-time unauthorized wireless communications in a laser focused manner.
In the past year, AirEye has also been named a sample vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for OT Security 2022 as well as a representative vendor addressing emerging threats in Gartner's Medical Device Security Solutions 2022.
To learn more about how AirEye provides customers visibility into 100% of their wireless assets, as well as build and enforce their wireless security policy while preventing over-the-air attacks, visit https://www.aireye.tech or register for a free account.
1 Gartner, "Cool Vendors in Hybrid Work Security," Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, Nat Smith, Peter Firstbrook, Paul Webber, 6 October 2022.
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About AirEye
AirEye is the leader in Network Airspace Control and Protection (NACP). The corporate network may be purposefully or unintentionally compromised by Antenna for Hire - any wireless device not under the corporate's control, but within its proximity - resulting in unauthorized network access, device hijacking or data leakage. AirEye enforces wireless security policy and prevents attacks that leverage the Antennae for Hire that are broadcasting in the corporate network airspace.
AirEye's SaaS solution monitors all wireless communications broadcasting in the corporate airspace in real-time, prevents violations of corporate wireless security policy and blocks attacks automatically. Its technology seamlessly complements existing corporate network security infrastructure, without the need for architectural changes or messy integrations.
For more information, visit https://www.aireye.tech.
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MSP investigating Sunday shooting on Southfield Fwy. near Fenkell
Michigan State Police are investigating a possible shooting Sunday night on the Southfield Freeway.
Troopers were called at about 8:10 p.m. about the shooting, which the victim said happened on the Southfield Freeway near Fenkell Avenue. No injuries were reported.
According to a preliminary investigation, the victim entered the northbound lanes of Southfield Freeway from westbound Interstate 96 and was traveling in the left lane. The 36-year-old from Southfield saw a Ford Taurus in the right lane. A passenger leaned out of the window on the Taurus' rear driver's side and started firing a rifle at another vehicle.
Officials said the victim drove away from the scene, arrived home and called the police.
Troopers investigated and found the victim's vehicle had been struck once time near the taillight on the passenger side.
They also searched the scene on the freeway and recovered one shell casing.
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Chickasaw High will have a new head football coach for the 2022 season, but the Chieftains’ goals have not changed.
The school officially named Carl Herring head coach late last week. The former assistant head coach and offensive coordinator was promoted following Ryan Little’s mid-summer departure to T.R. Miller.
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Herring came to Mobile County Media Days on July 15 unsure of exactly what his status with the team would be when fall practice started.
He knows now.
“Nothing has really changed,” Herring said regarding the team’s plans. “We are here. I think they (the players) have responded well to me. They know me. I’m not coach Little. I don’t want to be coach Little. I’m me. Saying that, standards have not changed one bit. We are still moving ahead, looking forward to playing LeFlore in the first game.”
Herring is entering his third year at Chickasaw. He will continue to run the offense. Jarrett Hopson will run the defense.
“We are moving forward,” Herring said. “We think we can have a pretty good year. It’s not going to be about me or coach Hopson or any coaches. It’s going to be about these kids. We’ve set goals. We want to be in the playoffs, and we are going to do our best to get there.”
Chickasaw was competitive during its two-year stay in Class 3A, going 11-9 overall. However, the Chieftains didn’t make the playoffs in either season.
Now back in 2A, Herring’s team is focusing on getting back to the postseason.
“It’s a different team,” Herring said. “We lost some good players off last year’s squad – seniors who did a bunch for us. We hope what we learned in Class 3A will help us. That style of play was really physical. We want to take the lessons we learned in those years and bring them back to 2A.
“Athletically, we are going to be pretty good. We have a good core of seniors (seven). They’ve been in the fire. I feel good about what we are getting out of them.”
Two of those seniors are playmakers Jarius Houston and Jaylen Gates.
The 5-foot-9 Houston rushed for 1,506 yards and 19 touchdowns on 142 carries as a junior. He also caught 13 passes for 133 yards and a score and finished with TDs on a kickoff return and on defense as well. Gates threw for 1,013 yards and 10 TDs.
“Those guys will make it 100 percent easier,” Herring joked. “Having a quarterback like Jaylen who is not only a good passer but is a leader out there is big. They are both special talents and leaders. We are going to go as they go. It’s going to make it really, really easy to call plays.”
Both Houston and Gates have big individual goals. Houston said he wants to set the state rushing record and also intercept eight passes on defense. Gates said he wants to pass for 3,000 yards and 25 TDs.
Herring said, like most 2A teams, depth could be an issue for Chickasaw. He said the Chieftains had 23 players working out in the summer and hoped to have close to 30 before the season starts Aug. 19 against LeFlore.
Since Chickasaw did not have a typical spring practice, they will start fall workouts today. | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/07/new-chickasaw-football-coach-carl-herring-standards-havent-changed-one-bit.html | 2022-07-25 13:06:57 | 0 | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/07/new-chickasaw-football-coach-carl-herring-standards-havent-changed-one-bit.html |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor on Friday said all aggressive incidents stemming from a protest against a private power company that operates the island’s transmission and distribution system will be investigated.
The announcement comes after media organizations denounced police who in one video appear to assault a photojournalist who was covering Wednesday’s protest. Other videos also showed clashes between police and protesters in a fog of tear gas.
The protest is the latest against Luma Energy, which recently pledged to dedicate more crews and resources to reduce the number of power outages and their duration that have angered many in this U.S. territory of 3.2 million people who are demanding that the government cancel its contract.
In a press conference on Thursday, Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Antonio López accused a small group of protesters of attacking officers with rocks and other objects, injuring four of them. He also said the incident involving the photojournalist would be investigated, with the photojournalist publicly thanking López for having called him and apologizing.
“All use of force will be investigated in-depth,” López said. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-puerto-rico-government-to-probe-clashes-at-protest/ | 2022-08-27 12:05:54 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-puerto-rico-government-to-probe-clashes-at-protest/ |
Letter: Everyone in S.C. can get involved to support foster families, children
Today, 3,767 children are in South Carolina’s foster care system. That number seems overwhelming, but we cannot afford to ignore this crisis. You might ask yourself, “What can I do to help?”
Raise awareness about foster care in your community. Many people do not realize that there is a crisis of children needing homes: temporarily in foster care, or forever through adoption, in their own back yard.
Support families who are currently fostering and the children in their homes. Offer encouragement, prayer, and support. Share your time, talent, and resources.
Get involved by becoming a foster parent or guardian ad litem. The South Carolina Department of Social Services estimates that 2,189 more foster placements are needed, specifically families who will welcome teens and siblings.
Children deserve safe, loving, stable homes to heal from trauma as families strive for reunification.
This month, Foster Care Awareness Month, is a reminder, especially on the heels of April's Child Abuse Prevention Month, that all children deserve to be safe, known, and loved.
It takes all of us to create empowered communities in which all people can experience both life and love in abundance.
Not everyone can foster or adopt, but everyone can find a way to support children and families. Learn about what is happening in your community, find ways to support those on the front lines, and determine a way that you can get involved.
Sandra Maylock
The writer is director of Foster Care at Thornwell. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2023/05/21/letter-how-you-can-support-s-c-s-foster-care-system-in-its-work/70227686007/ | 2023-05-21 14:31:51 | 1 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2023/05/21/letter-how-you-can-support-s-c-s-foster-care-system-in-its-work/70227686007/ |
The Patriots are re-signing defensive back Jalen Mills, a source confirmed to the Herald.
According to ESPN, Mills’ new deal is a 1-year pact worth up to $6.1 million. Mills was cut last week in a surprise move that reduced the Pats’ already questionable cornerback depth. However next season, he plans to play safety, per The Score.
Mills enjoyed one of the best seasons of his career playing safety with the Eagles in 2020, his last year before joining the Patriots. He posted a career-high 74 tackles, one interception, a forced fumble and 1.5 sacks. Upon signing Mills as a free agent the spring of 2021, the Pats expected him to continue playing safety in training camp but moved him to corner, a position he played from 2016-2019, to offset the injury loss of top corner Stephon Gilmore.
Last season, Mills recorded 31 tackles, five pass deflections and two interceptions over 10 games. He missed every game after Thanksgiving last season due to a groin injury. Mills also dealt with a hurt hamstring earlier in the season, and his availability factored into the team’s decision to release him, according to a source.
If Mills plays safety, he’ll join Kyle Dugger, Adrian Phillips and Jabrill Peppers atop the depth chart. The Patriots’ most common defensive personnel grouping the last few seasons has been a three-safety nickel package. It’s unknown if the staff envisions any of their top safeties as being capable of filling Devin McCourty’s shoes as a traditional free safety, who coordinates the defense and serves as the last line of defense in single-high coverages.
Mills played free safety in Philadelphia, but served as the Patriots’ No. 2 corner each of the past two years.
The Score first reported Mills’ return to New England. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/22/patriots-reportedly-re-signing-db-jalen-mills-after-release/ | 2023-03-22 15:53:49 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/22/patriots-reportedly-re-signing-db-jalen-mills-after-release/ |
MT. MORRIS, Mich. (WJRT) - Three residents and a firefighter were injured after an apartment building in Mt. Morris caught fire early Friday.
The Mt. Morris City Fire Department responded to Bristol Court Apartments off Saginaw Street around 5:05 a.m. for reports of a fire.
A total of five fire departments from Genesee County responded to the scene for assistance. They remained on the scene for at least three hours dousing hot spots.
Mt. Morris City Fire Chief James Young said three residents and one firefighter sustained undisclosed injuries from the fire. He believes all of the injuries were relatively minor.
There was no immediate word Friday morning about how the fire started or how much damage was caused. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/four-people-injured-after-mt-morris-apartment-building-catches-fire/article_bbdc3bbc-f937-11ec-a863-c7115e605d34.html | 2022-07-01 14:13:59 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/four-people-injured-after-mt-morris-apartment-building-catches-fire/article_bbdc3bbc-f937-11ec-a863-c7115e605d34.html |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of everyday goods and services can present a challenge to many. Are you behind on your home energy bill? Having trouble paying for health care? If you are experiencing financial hardship, federal government benefit programs may be able to help you. See what you and your family could be eligible for, the type of temporary financial support you can receive, and how to apply.
Looking for food assistance? Explore food assistance programs, including searching for a local food bank, finding food and nutrition programs that focus on the needs of older Americans age 60 and over, or applying for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps).
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She's known as one of the greatest women's soccer players in the world. Now Brazilian superstar Marta is playing in her sixth World Cup, hoping to finally win the trophy.
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She's known as one of the greatest women's soccer players in the world. Now Brazilian superstar Marta is playing in her sixth World Cup, hoping to finally win the trophy.
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A look at the science making the rounds in the headlines this week — from a new study on virtual reality sickness to whether there's any science behind the ever-trendy 10,000 step goal and ice baths.
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A look at the science making the rounds in the headlines this week — from a new study on virtual reality sickness to whether there's any science behind the ever-trendy 10,000 step goal and ice baths.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The number of deaths following Hurricane Ian’s rampage in Florida is continuing to rise, according to reports.
Saturday morning, the Associated Press reported that there were 27 deaths after Hurricane Ian, some of them directly caused by the hurricane.
The Florida Medical Examiners Commission told the AP that three new deaths were storm-related.
These included a 62-year-old woman who was hurt and drowned after a tree fell on her mobile home, a 54-year-old man who drowned after being trapped in a window, and a Lee County woman whose body was found tangled in wires under a home.
A 71-year-old man also died after falling off his roof while installing rain shutters Wednesday.
Another death was also reported in the Tampa Bay area after a 22-year-old woman died in an ATV crash caused by a road washout in Manatee County — making 4 storm-related deaths, according to the Associated Press, local officials, and the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Thursday, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office confirmed two storm-related deaths to 8 On Your Side. Friday, FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie said there was a death in Polk County, but Polk County Chief Medical Examiner Stephen Nelson said this was a mistake and that there were no hurricane-related deaths in his jurisdiction.
Nelson said that there was a miscommunication with the state. According to him, the death was reported in Lake County, but it was apparently mistaken for Lakeland in Polk County.
The medical examiner also said there was at least one death in Hardee County involving a road incident and floodwaters. News Channel 8 is working to confirm that death and any others with local authorities.
Guthrie did say there was a case of human remains found in an underwater home in Lee County.
“We do not know exactly how many were in the house,” he said Friday. “The water was up over the rooftop.”
More deaths are expected to be discovered as the floodwaters recede. According to Guthrie, the immediate death tolls after the storm are unreliable due to people dying from non-storm-related causes, so the totals being reported can vary and change as information goes in.
“People die in disasters that have nothing to do with the disaster,” he said. “The medical examiner is the one that makes that determination.”
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said Saturday that there were additional deaths in his jurisdiction, leading to an estimated total of 35 fatalities. However, it is not known how many of those were actually storm-related, which will be determined by a medical examiner. | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/27-dead-in-florida-after-hurricane-ian-report-says/ | 2022-10-01 15:59:20 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/27-dead-in-florida-after-hurricane-ian-report-says/ |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to his nation’s capital Friday following his wartime visit to the United States, saying his forces are “working toward victory” even as Russia warned that there would be no end to the war until it achieved its military aims.
Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram account that he’s in his Kyiv office following his U.S. trip that secured a new $1.8 billion military aid package, and pledged that “we’ll overcome everything.“ Speaking to Ukrainian ambassadors later Friday, Zelenskyy suggested that U.S. lawmakers were preparing another $45 billion financial package “for Ukraine and global security," adding that strategic agreements with Washington would strengthen Kyiv's defense forces in the new year.
He earlier thanked the Netherlands for pledging up to 2.5 billion euros ($2.65 billion) for 2023, to help pay for military equipment and rebuild critical infrastructure.
Zelenksyy’s return comes amid relentless Russian artillery, rocket and mortar fire as well as airstrikes on the eastern and southern fronts and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the war would end at the negotiating table once the “special military operation“ achieves “the goals that the Russian Federation has set,” adding that “a significant headway has been made on demilitarization of Ukraine.”
The Kremlin spokesman said no reported Ukrainian peace plan can succeed without taking into account “the realities of today that can’t be ignored” — a reference to Moscow’s demand that Ukraine recognize Russia’s sovereignty over the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed in 2014, as well as other territorial gains.
At least six civilians were killed and 18 others were wounded in Russian attacks on eight regions in Ukraine's south and east in the past 24 hours, according to Ukrainian officials.
In a regular Telegram update, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko said Russian missiles destroyed a boarding school in the the eastern city of Kramatorsk, home of the Ukrainian army's local headquarters.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired multiple rocket launchers “more than 70 times” across Ukrainian territory overnight, while fierce battles raged around the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Bakhmut and Lyman in the neighboring Luhansk region as well as the front line between the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions bore the brunt of the Russian strikes, but didn't specify to what degree.
As many as 61 Russian rocket, artillery and mortar fire attacks were launched in the Kherson region over the past 24 hours. Kherson regional Gov. Yaroslav Yanushevych posted on Telegram that Russian forces attacked from dug-in positions on the right bank of the Dnieper river, hitting educational institutions, apartment blocks and private homes. Tymoshenko said renewed Russian shelling on Kherson city Friday killed another person.
In the eastern Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Ukraine's military said Russia launched six missile strikes and as many air attacks on civilian targets, while Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground attacks on or near 19 settlements in the north and east.
Russian shelling overnight also struck a district hospital in the northeastern city of Volchansk, Kharkiv region, wounding five people, according to local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov. Syniehubov posted on Telegram that the four men and one woman were all in “moderate condition."
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military said several blasts tore through factory buildings housing Russian troops in the occupied city of Tokmak in the southern Zaporizhzhia region late on Thursday, sparking a fire. The Center for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine didn't immediately report on casualties or who was behind the blasts.
Earlier Friday, the Ukrainian mayor of the southern city of Melitopol said that a car used by Russian occupation forces exploded, although it's unclear if anyone was hurt.
The reports came a day after a car bomb killed the Russia-appointed head of the village of Lyubymivka in the neighboring Kherson region, according to Russian and Ukrainian news reports. Ukrainian guerrillas have for months operated behind Russian lines in Ukraine’s occupied south and east, targeting Kremlin-installed officials, institutions and key infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.
Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged weapons industry executives on Friday to supply the country's soldiers “with all the necessary weapons, equipment, munitions and supplies" as well as upgrading weapons systems “in view of the combat experience" that arms designers and engineers have gleaned from the war in Ukraine.
Putin had chaired the meeting with executives following a visit to an air defense and anti-tank weapons factory in Tula, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Moscow.
Amid the fighting, the funeral of a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier killed during a Dec. 15 combat mission in the Donetsk region served as another poignant reminder of the human cost that the war has wrought.
Shots were fired into the air in a final salute to Dmytro Georgiyovych Kyrychenko, whose Ukrainian flag-draped coffin was placed in a grave alongside other fallen comrades in his hometown of Bucha, on Kyiv's outskirts.
“He was the best son,” Kyrychenko’s tearful mother Ryma said. “I don’t know how I’ll be living on.”
The soldier's sister, Luba Kyrychenko, lamented that almost 10 months into the war, Ukrainian servicemen are still relying on donations from friends and relatives to buy basic protective gear and ammunition, adding that her brother lacked the necessary training and support for combat missions.
“We have a black hole inside our souls. People shouldn’t forget. Europe, the whole world shouldn’t forget about this,” she said following the burial.
Both Russia and Ukraine have kept any military casualty numbers a tightly guarded secret, but tens of thousands are believed to have died on both sides.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious freedom case that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel ruled that the government “failed to demonstrate a compelling state interest” to justify overriding the religious freedom of the Amish families that challenged state regulations governing the disposal of gray water, which is water that’s been used for dishwashing, laundry, and bathing, but not toilet waste.
The Swartzentruber Amish in southeastern Minnesota are among the most traditional Amish groups in the country, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch noted in a 2021 ruling. It sent the case back to Minnesota courts for reconsideration in light of a high court decision a month earlier in a different religious freedom case. That ruling went in favor of a Philadelphia-based Catholic foster care agency that said its religious views prevented it from working with same-sex couples.
A Minnesota district court last September concluded that the government showed that it had a compelling state interest “of the highest order” in requiring the Swartzentruber Amish to use septic tanks to protect groundwater supplies in the area. The families then appealed again. The Court of Appeals sided with them Monday, and sent the case back to the lower court for an order in favor of the Amish.
Fillmore County in 2013 started requiring homes to have modern septic systems to dispose of gray water. The Swartzentruber Amish sought an exemption, saying their religion prohibits that technology. They sued in 2017. For years they had discharged their gray water directly onto the ground. They offered instead to use mulch basins filled with wood chips to filter the water, as allowed in some other states, but the government argued that mulch basins would be ineffective.
The federal religious freedom law that was at issue in the Philadelphia case “prohibits governments from infringing sincerely held religious beliefs and practices except as a last resort,” Gorsuch explained at the time, urging the Minnesota court and local authorities to swiftly resolve the dispute.
“In this country, neither the Amish nor anyone else should have to choose between their farms and their faith,” Gorsuch said.
The Court of Appeals noted that the Swartzentruber Amish use some technology, but don’t own or drive automobiles, and don’t use telephones, electric lights or modern flush toilets. They supply water to their homes from cisterns and have always prohibited septic systems. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/court-sides-with-amish-families-in-case-that-pits-septic-tank-rules-against-religious-beliefs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-11 13:17:15 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/court-sides-with-amish-families-in-case-that-pits-septic-tank-rules-against-religious-beliefs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist town Tuesday, ripping through two-dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee.
Flames as high as 100 feet (30 meters) raced through an area of scattered homes, dry grass and Ponderosa pine trees on the outskirts of Flagstaff as wind gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) pushed the blaze over a major highway.
Coconino County officials said during an evening news conference that 766 homes and 1,000 animals had been evacuated. About 250 structures remained threatened in the area popular with hikers and off-road vehicle users and where astronauts have trained amid volcanic cinder pits.
The county declared an emergency after the wildfire ballooned from 100 acres (40 hectares) Tuesday morning to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) by evening, and ash rained from the sky. The fire was moving northeast away from the more heavily populated areas of Flagstaff, home to Northern Arizona University, and toward Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, said Coconino National Forest spokesman Brady Smith.
“It’s good in that it’s not headed toward a very populated area, and it’s headed toward less fuel,” Smith said. “But depending on the intensity of the fire, fire can still move across cinders.”
Authorities won’t be able to determine whether anyone was injured in the wildfire until the flames subside. Firefighters and law enforcement officers went door to door telling people to evacuate but had to pull out to avoid getting boxed in, said Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll.
He said his office got a call about a man who was trapped inside his house, but firefighters couldn’t get to him.
“We don’t know if he made it out or not,” Driscoll said.
Various organizations worked to set up shelters for evacuees and animals, including goats and horses.
The scene was all too familiar for residents who recalled rushing to pack their bags and flee a dozen years ago when a much larger wildfire burned in the same area.
“This time was different, right there in your backyard,” said Kathy Vollmer, a resident.
She said she and her husband grabbed their three dogs but left a couple of cats behind as they faced what she described as a “wall of fire.”
“We just hope they are going to be OK,” she said.
Earlier in the day, the wildfire shut down U.S. 89, the main route between Flagstaff and far northern Arizona, and communities on the Navajo Nation. The high winds grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant on the blaze.
Arizona Public Service Co., the state’s largest utility, shut off power to about 625 customers to keep firefighters safe, a spokeswoman said.
About 200 firefighters were battling the flames, but more are expected as a top-level national management team takes over later this week.
The fire started Sunday afternoon 14 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of Flagstaff. Investigators don’t know yet what caused it and have yet to corral any part of the blaze.
Ali Taranto rushed to Flagstaff from Winslow, where she works at a hospital, on Tuesday to check on a property she owns that was threatened by the wildfire. She also was getting messages to check on a neighbor who she found didn’t have access to oxygen while the power was out and didn’t have the strength to manually open her garage door to evacuate.
Taranto said the neighbor was “disoriented and gasping for air” when she reached her. Firefighters in the area helped get the garage door open and the neighbor to the hospital, she said. Taranto was looking for a shelter for the neighbor’s two dogs.
By the time Taranto left the area, the highway into Flagstaff was shut down and she had to drive an extra two hours back home. At least two other neighbors didn’t evacuate, she said.
“To see flames several yards away from your property line and to hear the propane tanks bursting in the background, it was very surreal,” Taranto said. “Ash falling down. It was crazy.”
The wind is expected to be a challenge the rest of the week, along with warmer-than-average weather and low humidity, the National Weather Service said.
“I don’t see any significant decreases in wind, I don’t see any big bump ups in humidity and, at this point, we’re not really expecting any precipitation either,” said meteorologist Robert Rickey.
Red flag warnings blanketed much of Arizona and New Mexico on Tuesday, indicating conditions are ripe for wildfires. Residents in northern New Mexico’s Mora and San Miguel counties were warned to be ready to evacuate as wildfires burned there amid dry, warm and windy conditions.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported Tuesday that nearly 2,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel were assigned to more than a dozen large wildfires in the Southwestern, Southern and Rocky Mountain areas. Scientists say climate change has made the U.S. West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Elsewhere in Arizona, firefighters battled a wildfire in a sparsely populated area of the Prescott National Forest about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Prescott.
Cory Carlson, the incident commander with the Prescott National Forest, said late Tuesday afternoon the high winds have been the biggest challenge, sending embers into the air that sparked new spot fires near State Route 261, along with the demand for crews at other fires.
“We do have a lack of resources,” he said. “There’s a lot of fires in the region.”
Some areas were evacuated, and a shelter was set up at Yavapai College. Carlson appealed to residents to abide by evacuation orders.
The cause of the 600-acre (2.4 square-kilometer) wildfire was under investigation.
In southern Arizona, a principal highway route between Bisbee and Sierra Vista reopened Tuesday after being closed for about eight hours due to a brush fire in the hills overlooking Bisbee.
Associated Press writer Paul Davenport in Phoenix, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/wall-of-fire-forces-evacuations-near-arizona-tourist-town/ | 2022-04-20 14:49:36 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/wall-of-fire-forces-evacuations-near-arizona-tourist-town/ |
Mega Millions jackpot up to $565 million, second largest this year
Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot is up to $565 million, the second largest this year.
The cash prize totals $293.6 million, according to the Mega Millions website.
It comes after a $1.34 billion jackpot in July — only the third jackpot to top $1 billion since the lottery began.
That jackpot was claimed by two people on one winning ticket in Des Plaines, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names.
The winners have opted to take the lump sum payment of $780.5 million.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
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Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game is coordinated by state lotteries.
The record jackpot is $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina on October 23, 2018. That prize remains the world’s largest lottery prize ever won on a single ticket.
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Construction of the new Prairieville High School officially kicked off with a groundbreaking on its 85-acre site on Parker Road, property the Ascension Parish School District bought in 1999 knowing it would need it for a new school some day.
"Our board had the wisdom to buy the property then," Superintendent David Alexander told those gathered at the future campus on Wednesday. "And for the past 10 years, we've been growing by 370 new students every year."
"This is a 30-year journey," he said.
The 320,000-square-foot high school will have the capacity to serve approximately 2,000 students, a number that takes into account future growth.
It's expected to open in the fall of 2024 to relieve overcrowding at the three other high schools on the east bank of Ascension Parish: Dutchtown, St. Amant and East Ascension.
With Donaldsonville High school on the west bank, Prairieville High will be the fifth public high school in the parish.
School attendance zones for the new high school are still to be determined and will be drawn up with the input of the public, school officials said.
"What a wonderful day it is when we can get together as a community to celebrate a brand new school," Alexander said.
Students were part of the crowd that gathered Wednesday at the groundbreaking, with cheerleaders from the district's high schools and the St. Amant High Drum Line on hand.
Prairieville High, budgeted at $79.5 million, is the largest of 14 projects made possible when voters passed a $140 million bond proposal in August 2020.
Last summer, after soaring, pandemic-related construction costs drove initial bids for the project to $100 million, the School Board moved to rebid the school as two separate, pared-down construction projects, the academic building in one deal and the site work, which includes the athletic facilities, in another.
This month, the School Board voted to accept the low bid of $69.5 million by Baton Rouge-based Milton J. Womack for construction of the academic building, a roughly two-year project.
The board also accepted the low bid of $21.9 million, again by Womack, for the school's site work, an 18-month project, and will seek other sources of funding for that work.
Architects for the school are Domain Design Architecture and RHH Architects, both of Baton Rouge.
The property where Prairieville High will stand was once a cattle farm and wooded land belonging to the Miller family. Two members of the family were at the groundbreaking, Harriet Babin Miller and her nephew Wayne Martin.
Miller said many of her family members have been involved in education in Ascension Parish over the years and one of her uncles, Larry Babin, was superintendent for the school system for 28 years.
Martin said he used to hunt on the property with his dad and grandfather. At some point, a family home was moved from the land to across the street.
"There are lots of memories here," he said.
It's the place where his mother, Norma Miller Martin, who is now 101, grew up.
"My mom was excited when I told her I was coming out here today," he said. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_61af2528-d54c-11ec-8040-7b2d7b1072a6.html | 2022-05-20 22:06:49 | 1 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_61af2528-d54c-11ec-8040-7b2d7b1072a6.html |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bruce Bochy has won a World Series in Texas, something the Rangers haven’t done. Now he is coming out of a three-year retirement in hopes of getting the home team back there.
Bochy, who won the first of his World Series titles with the San Francisco Giants in the old Rangers ballpark in 2010, was introduced Monday by the Texas general manager who pitched for the manager in San Diego four years before that.
“One of the things I told Boch when we offered him the job. I said, I’m not doing this because I loved you when I played for you. I’m doing this because we believe as an organization, you’re the right person to lead us into the future,” GM Chris Young said. “Boch fit every part of our criteria.”
Bochy hasn’t managed since 2019, when he stepped away after 13 seasons and those World Series titles with the Giants, which followed 12 seasons with the Padres. The top choice in the search, Bochy said he was convinced after extended conversations with Young.
“Some have asked why. Well, the simple answer is, I miss this game,” Bochy said. “We talked many hours about the team and the culture that he wanted to create. And I was in.”
The 67-year-old Bochy got a three-year contract. The former big league catcher, who began his playing career in Houston has 2,002 career wins in 25 seasons as a manager, and also took the Padres to their last World Series in 1998.
The Rangers were 68-94 this season and had 35 one-run losses, a franchise record. It was their sixth consecutive losing season, the longest streak for the franchise in the half-century since moving to Texas in 1972. They haven’t even had a winning record since being 10-9 early in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, and lost 102 games last year.
After clinching the 2010 World Series with a Game 5 victory in Texas, San Francisco added titles in 2012 and 2014. The Rangers returned to the World Series in 2011, and lost in seven games to St. Louis.
“I had a hard time getting over 2010, but then after I got over 2010, I thought was a pretty good idea,” Rangers primary owner Ray Davis said about when Young presented Bochy as his choice before meeting with him. “It took about 10 minutes into the process where I was sold.”
Fourth-year Rangers manager Chris Woodward was fired Aug. 15, two days before the team also let go of president of baseball operations Jon Daniels — who was the GM for their two World Series teams, and division titles in 2015 and 2016.
Bochy takes over a Rangers roster that was bolstered last offseason when a half-billion dollars was committed in free agency to long-term contracts for Corey Seager ($325 million, 10 years) and second baseman Marcus Semien ($175 million, seven years). Top prospect third baseman Josh Jung was among prospects who made their big league debuts.
“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t want to help bring a championship here to Texas,” Bochy said.
Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said Bochy is one of his favorites guys, and one of the best managers around.
“I wish he was in the other division. But I’m glad he’s back. … A great baseball man, baseball mind. One more for the old dudes,” Baker said before the Astros won the AL Championship Series to get to their fourth World Series in six seasons. “I had a feeling he would be back.”
Baker is the oldest manager in the majors at 72, and Bochy will be the next-oldest. They managed in the same division from 1995 to 2002, when Baker was the Giants manager after Bochy got to the Padres.
Tony Beasley served as interim manager for the final 48 games and was interviewed after the season for the job. The beloved Beasley, the Rangers third base coach since 2015, is staying to be a part of Bochy’s staff.
The last three Rangers managers, all hired by Daniels, hadn’t managed in the big league before: Ron Washington, who led their two World Series teams; Jeff Banister, who won two AL West titles; and Woodward. The last manager who had come to Texas with previous experience in that role was Buck Showalter, who was there from 2003-06.
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(KTLA) – Authorities on Wednesday seized about 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that were found packaged in several bags of what appeared to be candy at Los Angeles International Airport.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department narcotics detectives and DEA agents assigned to the airport responded to a TSA screening area around 7:30 a.m. after a person tried to go through with bags of candy and other snacks, officials said in a news release.
Authorities found the pills inside boxes of Sweetarts, Skittles and Whoppers.
The suspected trafficker fled but has been identified, authorities said.
Authorities have recently warned that drug dealers have been disguising fentanyl in candy wrappers and manufacturing them in rainbow colors in order to disguise them from authorities.
In its news release, the LA County Sheriff’s Department warned of the potential for the pills to be confused with candy.
“With Halloween approaching, parents need to make sure they are checking their kids candy and not allowing them to eat anything until it has been inspected by them,” the Sheriff’s Department said.
But despite fears that drug dealers are deliberately pushing fentanyl on trick-or-treaters, many experts argued that there is a very low possibility of any danger in Halloween candy, WVNS reported.
Joel Best, a sociology professor at the University of Delaware, has been researching this exact topic for decades, and has not been presented with any evidence “that any child has ever been killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating,” he told PBS’ The Conversation earlier this month.
There is one standout example, however, of a child dying after ingesting cyanide-laced Pixie Stix, WVSN reported. The child’s father, in that case, was ultimately arrested and charged with his son’s murder.
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Associated Press (AP) — Georgia state lawmakers are pushing back on a state court ruling that forced some of them to testify during an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.
The state House and Senate adopted rules Wednesday that say legislative privilege — a legal concept rooted in the U.S. and Georgia constitutions that says lawmakers shouldn't face questioning for activities relating to making laws — should shield communications with people outside the legislature. Most majority Republicans voted in favor and most Democrats voted against.
Crucially, the language is only part of legislative rules. It’s not clear if it would hold up in court, and judges nationwide have typically limited sweeping claims of legislative privilege.
A Georgia judge ruled last year that lawmakers had to testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta about contact with private citizens on Trump-related matters, even if those communications were part of legislative duties.
“We can’t all be experts on every issue that comes up before us," House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration, a Dacula Republican, said Wednesday during debate. "We rely on others who do have expertise. That communication in order to help us make those determinations would be protected.”
But Democrats question whether Republicans are trying to cover up evidence from the period after the 2020 elections, when some GOP lawmakers showcased Trump's false claims of electoral wrongdoing in Georgia.
“Are we trying to protect that because of some of the issues in elections that came up with elections?" asked Senate Minority Whip Harold Jones II, an Augusta Democrat.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled in July that lawmakers have broad immunity but could be asked about their conversations with people outside the legislature. Lawmakers had argued they should be entirely immune from testifying.
At the time of McBurney’s ruling, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said there was evidence that testimony given before legislative committees in December 2020 by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and others “was part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
Fred Smith, a constitutional law professor at Emory University in Atlanta, said district attorneys have powers that must be respected, too.
“It’s hard to imagine that a state legislative rule could kind of trump a DA’s ability to engage in their own state constitutional responsibilities, up to the line provided for in the Constitution,” Smith said.
McBurney ruled that the grand jury couldn’t ask questions about communications between lawmakers, or with legislative staff members, finding those conversations were immune because of legislative privilege.
But he found that such immunity “ought not to be a shield that benefits those outside individuals or otherwise obscures from the grand jury’s view the full scope of the alleged efforts to subvert Georgia’s elections.”
The special grand jury has since finished its work. McBurney dissolved the panel Monday and has scheduled a Jan. 24 hearing to decide whether all or part of the report should be made public.
Willis now must decide whether she will seek indictments from a regular grand jury against Trump or anyone else. The lengthy investigation has been one of several across the country that threaten legal peril for Trump as he mounts a third bid for the White House.
Democrats this week also questioned a provision that suggests one Georgia lawmaker might be able to block another lawmaker from testifying if the first lawmaker refused to allow colleagues to talk about private conversations.
“If you and your colleague to your right or left are having a conversation about a piece of legislation, you would have immunity as well as the colleague you’re talking to,” Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch, a Dahlonega Republican, said Monday. “And so you would not be able to reveal the conversation that you and she are having without jeopardizing the immunity that that senator also enjoys.”
Because lawmakers are exempt from state open records requirements to produce their own written communications, it's likely that written and oral communications would come out only in litigation. Efstration said written communications with executive branch agencies would still be subject to open records laws.
Both chambers approved the language as part of a larger set of rules routinely adopted at the beginning of each two-year session of the Georgia General Assembly.
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SHANGHAI, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 51job, Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS) ("51job" or the "Company"), a leading provider of integrated human resource services in China, announced today the completion of the merger (the "Merger") with Garnet Faith Limited, an exempted Company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands ("Merger Sub"), pursuant to the previously announced agreement and plan of merger, dated as of June 21, 2021, as amended by amendment No. 1 to agreement and plan of merger, dated as of March 1, 2022 (the "Merger Agreement"), between the Company and Merger Sub, and the plan of merger required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands (the "Plan of Merger"). In the Merger, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving company. As a result of the Merger, the Company has become a privately held company and its ADSs will no longer be listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (the "NASDAQ").
In accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement and the Plan of Merger, which were approved by the Company's shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held on April 27, 2022, each common share, par value US$0.0001 per share, of the Company (each, a "Share") issued, outstanding and not represented by American depositary shares of the Company (each, an "ADS," representing one Share) immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (the "Effective Time"), other than the Excluded Shares, the Continuing Shares and the Dissenting Shares (each as defined in the Merger Agreement), has been cancelled and ceased to exist, in exchange for the right to receive US$61.00 in cash per Share without interest, and each outstanding ADS, other than ADSs representing Excluded Shares and Continuing Shares, together with each Share represented by such ADSs, has been cancelled in exchange for the right to receive US$61.00 in cash per ADS without interest (the "Merger Consideration").
Registered shareholders immediately prior to the Effective Time who are entitled to the Merger Consideration will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration and should wait to receive the letter of transmittal before surrendering their Shares. Payment of the Merger Consideration (less an ADS cancellation fee of US$0.05 per ADS), without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes, will be made to holders of ADSs as soon as practicable after JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the ADS depositary, receives the aggregate Merger Consideration payable to holders of ADSs from the paying agent.
The Company also announced today that it requested that trading of its ADSs on the NASDAQ be suspended as of May 6, 2022. The Company requested that the NASDAQ file a Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") notifying the SEC of the delisting of its ADSs on the NASDAQ and the section 12(b) deregistration of the Company's registered securities. The deregistration will become effective 90 days after the filing of the Form 25 or such shorter period as may be determined by the SEC. The Company intends to suspend its reporting obligations and terminate registration under 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by filing a Form 15 with the SEC as promptly as practicable. The Company's obligation to file with the SEC certain reports and forms, including Form 20-F and Form 6-K, will be suspended immediately as of the filing date of the Form 15 and will cease once the deregistration becomes effective.
In connection with the Merger, Kroll, LLC, operating through its Duff & Phelps Opinions Practice, is serving as financial advisor to the committee of independent and disinterested directors established by the board of directors of the Company (the "Special Committee"); Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is serving as U.S. legal counsel to the Special Committee; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is serving as U.S. legal counsel to the Company; Jun He Law Offices is serving as PRC legal counsel to the Company; and, Maples and Calder LLP is serving as Cayman Islands legal counsel to the Company.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP are serving as international co-counsels to the investor consortium (the "Consortium"); Fangda Partners is serving as PRC legal counsel to the Consortium; and, Ogier and Harney Westwood & Riegels are serving as Cayman Islands legal counsels to the Consortium.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is serving as legal counsel to Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., the Company's largest shareholder ("Recruit"); Conyers Dill & Pearman LLP is serving as Cayman Islands legal counsel to Recruit; Haiwen & Partners is serving as PRC legal counsel to Recruit; and, JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd. is serving as financial advisor to Recruit.
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Brazilian prosecutors request Bolsonaro probe for inciting riot
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian prosecutor-general’s office on Friday asked the Supreme Court to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation’s capital.
As the basis for their request, prosecutors in the recently formed group to combat anti-democratic acts cited a video Bolsonaro posted on Facebook two days after the riot, according to a statement. The video claimed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasn’t voted into office, but rather was chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil’s electoral authority.
Otherwise, Bolsonaro has refrained from commenting on the election since his Oct. 30 defeat. He repeatedly stoked doubt about the reliability of the nation’s electronic voting system in the run-up to the vote, filed a request afterward to annul millions of ballots cast using the machines and never conceded.
Prosecutors argued that, although Bolsonaro posted the video after the riot, its content was sufficient to justify investigating his conduct beforehand. Bolsonaro deleted it the morning after he first posted it.
Authorities are investigating who enabled Bolsonaro’s radical supporters to storm the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace in an attempt to overturn results of the October election. Targets include those who paid to transport rioters to the capital and local security personnel who may have stood aside to let the mayhem occur.
Much of the attention thus far has focused on Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro’s former justice minister, who became the federal district’s security chief on Jan. 2, and was in the U.S. on the day of the riot.
The Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Torres’ arrest this week and has opened an investigation into his actions, which he characterized as “neglect and collusion.” In his decision, which was made public Friday, de Moraes said that Torres fired subordinates and left the country before the riot, an indication that he was deliberately laying the groundwork for the unrest.
The court also issued an arrest warrant for the former security chief, and he must return within three days or Brazil willl request his extradition, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Friday.
“If by next week his appearance hasn’t been confirmed, of course we will use mechansims of international legal cooperation. We will trigger procedures next week to carry out his extradition,” Dino said.
Torres has denied wrongdoing, and said Jan. 10 on Twitter that he would interrupt his vacation to return to Brazil and present his defense. Three days later, that has yet to occur.
The minister pointed to a document that Brazilian federal police found upon searching Torres’ home; a draft decree that would have seized control of Brazil’s electoral authority and potentially overturned the election. The origin and authenticity of the unsigned document are unclear, and it remains unknown if Bolsonaro or his subordinates took any steps to implement the measure that would have been unconstitutional, according to analysts and the Brazilian academy of electoral and political law.
But the document “will figure in the police investigation, because it even more fully reveals the existence of a chain of people responsible for the criminal events,” Dino said, adding that Torres will need to inform police who drafted it.
By failing to initiate a probe against the document’s author or report its existence, Torres at very could be charged with dereliction of duty, said Mario Sérgio Lima, a political analyst at Medley Advisors.
Torres said on Twitter that the document was probably found in a pile along with others intended for shredding, and that it was leaked out of context feed false narratives aimed at discrediting him.
Dino told reporters that no connection has yet been established between the capital riot and Bolsonaro, who has been in Florida since late December.
The federal district’s former governor and former military police chief are also targets of the Supreme Court investigation made public Friday. Both were removed from their positions after the riot.
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AP writer Bridi reported from Brasilia.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The premier of oil-rich Alberta province announced Wednesday that he is stepping down after only narrowly winning a leadership review from his party members.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the 51.4% support he received was not enough to stay on, either as head of the provincial government or as leader of the governing United Conservative Party.
“The result is not what I hoped for or frankly what I expected,” he said to gasps of surprise from a few hundred supporters at an invitation-only event in Calgary. “While 51% of the vote passes the constitutional threshold of a majority, it clearly is not adequate support to continue on as leader.”
Kenney said he asked the party to expedite a vote to select a new leader, who will become Alberta's premier since the United Conservatives have a majority in the province's legislature. He will remain as party leader until an interim leader is chosen.
Legislative elections in Alberta must be held no later than the end of next May.
Kenney has said anger among the party's members and legislators over decisions he made to limit personal liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic led to open criticism of his leadership and ultimately the underwhelming vote of support in the review.
“It’s clear that the past two years were deeply divisive for our province, our party and our caucus, but it is my fervent hope that in the months to come we all move on past the division of COVID,” he said. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Alberta-premier-steps-down-after-weak-showing-in-17183160.php | 2022-05-19 03:22:49 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Alberta-premier-steps-down-after-weak-showing-in-17183160.php |
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Giacomo Vrioni scored two goals a few minutes apart to lead the New England Revolution to a 2-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday.
Vrioni first-timed a cross played by Emmanuel Boateng to open the scoring in the 31st minute and made it 2-0 in the 35th minute with a putback of a missed shot by Carles Gil.
Johnny Russell scored for Sporting KC (0-6-3).
The Revolution outshot Sporting KC 16-8, with nine shots on goal to three for Sporting KC.
Djordje Petrovic had two saves for the Revolution. Tim Melia stopped seven shots for Sporting KC.
Sporting played a man down after Andreu Fontàs was shown a red card for denying an obvious run scoring opportunity in the 61st minute.
Both teams next play Saturday. The Revolution host Cincinnati and Sporting KC hosts Montreal.
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McCray powers Lakewood Ranch softball to regional final
Mustangs recover from an early 2-0 deficit to defeat Windermere, 8-2, behind Sydney McCray's 2-run homer
LAKEWOOD RANCH — In her freshman season, the Lakewood Ranch High softball team lost in the state final.
Her sophomore season was cut short after eight games because of the coronavirus.
Her junior season was derailed after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament in the preseason, a year the Mustangs won the first state title in program history.
In her senior season, Sydney McCray is determined to lead Lakewood Ranch to back-to-back championships.
McCray connected on her first over-the-fence homer of her high school career in the Mustangs’ 8-2 come-from-behind victory over Windermere High in the Class 7A semifinals.
Lakewood Ranch advances to its fifth straight regional final against Newsome, an 8-0 winner over East Lake, tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at the Mustangs field.
The date can change because both schools have graduation ceremonies that night.
McCray dropped her bat head and turned on a two-strike inside pitch. She powered it over the right-center field fence.
“So good,” she said. “It was awesome.”
The two-run homer in a three-run second inning was the accumulation of plenty of hard work.
“That was the at-bat of the night for a lot of different reasons,” Mustangs coach T.J. Goelz said. “She doesn’t always get there on that pitch. It wasn’t about muscle. She got the bat head there on a two-strike pitch that kid comes hard inside with a drop ball and she drops the bat head and hits a home run in the regional semifinal. That’s a big at-bat for a senior who missed last year.”
McCray also scored after being hit with a pitch in the first inning and drawing a walk and stealing two bases in the fourth inning. The 13 stolen bases and flawless play in the outfield are proof she has overcome her devastating injury, even though she still wears the cumbersome-looking brace around her left knee.
“It’s just there for a mindset for comfort,” McCray said.
“She’s having a great playoff session and being a leader for us,” Goelz said. “That’s exactly what we need out of that spot.
“She’s got the fire burning.”
McCray embraces the senior leadership role. “It’s huge. I love it. I can’t even explain how much I want to win this season,” she said. “With all the support we have with each other and the way the energy is flowing between us right now, it just gives you so much extra serotonin on the field. It’s a huge softball high. I love it so much.
“A lot of the girls when I was a freshman here were my idols. I want to be able to relay that same exact experience to the younger girls too. They impacted me in my softball career so much, I want to be able to do the same thing for them.”
For the first time in three years, McCray will get the opportunity to play in a regional final with a trip to the Final 4 on the line.
“It’s great,” she said. “I’m so happy that get to make it there and I get to experience it.”
Lakewood Ranch takeaways
• The Mustangs had to come from behind because Windermere struck for two runs on three hits in the top of the first inning. But that was all the Wolverines got against Ella Dodge. The sophomore right-hander pitched a complete game, allowing four hits after the first inning. She struck out 10 without walking a hitter. “No freebies,” Goelz said. “If they hit and they earn it they earn it. When she hits her spots and gets her spin going, she’s really tough to beat. Early on she was a little amped up for the game and she was throwing through her spins a little bit and missing. Little things we noticed she was missing. She bared back down and became the Ella that we’ve seen all year. She’s a big-game kid. She is who we thought she was. I like our chances with her.”
• Down 2-0 the Mustangs responded with four runs in the bottom of the first inning on two-run singles by Kelsey Vogel and Ella Coiner. Vogel pushed her RBI total to 33. “Kelsey Vogel gets us right back in the game and that’s so important to answer the shaky start we had,” Goelz said. “Kelsey has been consistent with her RBI opportunities all year.”
• Tuesday’s game was quite different from Lakewood Ranch’s 3-1 victory on March 9 at home against Windermere. The Mustangs broke a 1-all tie with two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Dodge recorded a season-high 16 strikeouts in the first game. Wolverines starter Lexi King allowed six hits and three runs. Tuesday, Lakewood Ranch tagged King for seven hits and seven runs in 1 ⅓ innings. “We hit that kid hard this time,” Goelz said of King. “That’s one of the better kids in that class in the state. We did a lot of prep for what she throws. We squared up a lot of balls.”
Class 6A regional semifinals
Land O’Lakes 7, Palmetto 3
Class 3A regional semifinals
Clearwater Calvary Christian 2,
Parrish Community 0
BASEBALL
Class 2A regional final
Out-of-Door 5, Seffner Christian 4
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
1-1-4-7, Fireball: 2
(one, one, four, seven; Fireball: two)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
1-1-4-7, Fireball: 2
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What’s with soaring egg prices? Egg prices increased 134.7% in 2022. In December 2021, the average price of a dozen large white Grade A chicken eggs was $1.79; by December 2022, the average price was $4.25. In comparison, food prices increased 10.4% in 2022, and all consumer goods prices rose 6.5%.
Egg prices increased nearly 13 times faster than food prices in 2022 because a deadly poultry virus killed over 40 million hens. The national stock of hens fell 5% to 6%, though Colorado lost 90% of its hens. Upon exposure to the virus, chickens had a death rate of 100%, wiping the flock out within 48 hours.
Although consumers are understandably upset by the increased cost of eggs, the price mechanism is doing its job. Scarce goods must be rationed among competing users, and markets use prices to ration scarce eggs among competing buyers. The more scarce the eggs, the higher the price. While there have been occasional shortages of eggs in some locations, there has been no systematic nationwide shortage of eggs because egg prices were free to adjust. If the government had capped the retail price of eggs at, say, $2 a dozen, eggs would be unavailable in many, if not most, locations.
Moreover, letting prices increase gives producers both the incentives and the ability to rebuild production capacity, which is starting to cause egg prices to return to normal levels. High prices also cause buyers to look for substitutes, such as plant-based eggs. A California producer that offers a vegetable-based egglike mixture reports its sales are up 24%, and 10% of its sales are from consumers switching from conventional eggs.
Even at current high prices, eggs are a bargain! U.S. Census Bureau data indicate that the average hourly earnings for production workers in manufacturing in 1923 was 52.2 cents per hour. An anecdotal report from Christmas 1922 indicates eggs sold for 35 cents a dozen. In other words, the average production worker needed to work about 40 minutes to earn the 35 cents needed to buy the eggs.
The current average earnings for manufacturing production workers is $25.61 per hour, and the December 2022 price of eggs was $4.25 a dozen. So, even at the highest nominal price of eggs on record, the average production worker needed to work about 10 minutes to buy a dozen eggs. If we paid what our great-grandmothers did, eggs would be $17 a dozen!•
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Why a new Alzheimer’s drug is having a slow US debut
By TOM MURPHY
AP Health Writer
The first drug to show that it slows Alzheimer’s is on sale, but treatment for most patients is still several months away.
Two big factors behind the slow debut, experts say, are scant insurance coverage and a long setup time needed by many health systems.
Patients who surmount those challenges will step to the head of the line for a drug that delivers an uncertain benefit. Here’s a closer look.
THE SITUATION
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Leqembi, from Japanese drugmaker Eisai, in early January. It’s for patients with mild or early cases of dementia tied to Alzheimer’s disease.
Regulators used the FDA’s accelerated pathway, which allows drugs to launch before they’re confirmed to benefit patients. In studies, Leqembi modestly slowed the fatal disease, but doctors aren’t sure yet how that translates into things like greater independence for patients.
Patients get the drug by IV every two weeks. Eisai says the company has shipped Leqembi to U.S. specialty drug distribution centers. From there, it can be delivered overnight to hospitals or medical centers.
Eisai spokeswoman Libby Holman said prescriptions for the drug have been written, and they expect patients to start receiving it “very soon.”
COST AND COVERAGE
A year’s treatment will run about $26,500. Patients who can afford that without insurance will be able to start the treatment if they are deemed a candidate for Leqembi and they find a doctor and health care system prepared to help them.
There are currently few options outside self-pay. Most of the patients who may be candidates for this drug are on Medicare, and the federal program’s coverage is narrow so far. It has said it will cover treatments like Leqembi only for patients enrolled in certain research trials designed to test the drug.
There are no such studies currently accepting new patients.
“There’s a theoretical door (to coverage) that’s completely slammed shut,” said Robert Egge, chief public policy officer for the nonprofit Alzheimer’s Association.
Medicare made that coverage decision last year when another Alzheimer’s drug, Biogen’s Aduhelm, hit the market.
Health insurers, which run Medicare Advantage coverage, have been sticking to that decision, said a spokesman for the trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees Medicare, said after Leqembi’s approval that it may reconsider its coverage stance, something the Alzheimer’s Association has urged it to do.
Coverage also is likely to change if the drug receives full approval from the FDA. That could happen later this year.
In the meantime, Eisai has an assistance program that provides Leqembi for free to some patients, including those on Medicare. It’s based partly on financial need.
DIAGNOSING
It can take anywhere from several months to more than a year for doctors to diagnose a patient and then figure out if that person is a candidate for Leqembi, according to Dr. Sarah Kremen, a neurologist with the Cedars-Sinai health system in Los Angeles.
That can depend on where a patient lives and the physician’s expertise.
First, a doctor must determine whether a patient has mild dementia.
Then the doctor has to decide what caused the condition. It could stem from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, a stroke or a brain injury.
If it’s related to Alzheimer’s disease, doctors must determine whether the patient’s brain has an amyloid protein. The new drug aims to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s by removing that protein.
After all that, some doctors may hesitate to prescribe Leqembi because they don’t have a good idea yet for how the drug will help the patient or affect their everyday life, Kremen said. They have to consider that uncertainty against the brain swelling and bleeding that can develop in patients taking it.
“I think this benefit versus harm issue is going to weigh heavily,” she said.
DELIVERING TREATMENT
Health systems must first develop plans for delivering drugs like Leqembi before they start offering it. That can take months, although some may have started before regulators approved the drug.
This planning might include training nurses on how to give the drug and making sure prescribing doctors know how to recognize candidates for it. Care providers also need a plan for how patients will be monitored once they start taking it.
Patients need repeated brain scans to check for side effects.
Doctors may want to know that such a plan is in place before they feel comfortable writing a prescription, Kremen noted.
Hospital systems also will have to figure out how many patients might come to them for this drug and be able to cover all the costs tied to it. Those might include clinic, nursing, radiologist and pharmacy fees.
“Frankly, the hospital systems are going to have to decide if they want to offer it,” Kremen said. “Is it worth the cost?”
Eisai estimates that about 100,000 people will be diagnosed and eligible to receive Leqembi in the United States by 2026. Representatives of the drugmaker declined to estimate how many people might receive it this year.
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Arraez, McNeil win batting titles, Judge misses Triple Crown
NEW YORK (AP) — Minnesota’s Luis Arraez finished with the lowest average for an American League batting champion since 1968, and the New York Mets’ Jeff McNeil won the National League title.
The New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge missed out on a Triple Crown, edged by Arraez .316 to .311 for the AL title Wednesday after sitting out the final day of the regular season. McNeil made it first-time batting champions in both leagues, his .326 average one point ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman. McNeil sat out until the eighth inning and did not have a plate appearance.
Arraez’s average was the lowest for an AL batting champion since Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski at .301 in 1968. The overall major league batting average of .243 was the lowest since the record bottom of .237 in 1968, the last season before the pitcher’s mound was lowered. MLB will ban defensive shifts shifts starting next year, a move likely to help hitters.
“I couldn’t sleep last night, just thinking and thinking about it,” Arraez said. “I’m living a dream right now. This is amazing for me because I worked hard for this.”
Arraez was given a black Louis Vuitton roller bag by teammate Carlos Correa to celebrate.
In a season that highlighted baseball’s haves and have-nots, four teams finished with 100 wins, tying the record set in 2019: the Dodgers (111), Houston (106), Atlanta and New York Mets (101 each). In addition, the Yankees won 99 before losing their final two.
The Dodgers had the most wins in the NL since the 1906 Chicago Cubs went 116-36.
Four teams had 100 or more losses for only the fourth time after 2002, 2019 and 2021: Washington (107), Oakland (102), Pittsburgh and Cincinnati (100 each).
Judge hit an AL record 62 homers, breaking Roger Maris’ mark from 1961, and Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber topped the NL with 46. The 16-homer gap between first and second in the major leagues was the most since Jimmie Foxx had 17 more than Babe Ruth in 1932.
Judge and the Mets’ Pete Alonso tied for the big league lead in RBIs with 131.
Houston’s Justin Verlander finished with the AL’s lowest ERA at 1.75, adding to the 2011 ERA title he won with Detroit. He became the second pitcher to lead the major leagues at age 39 or older after 42-year-old Roger Clemens in 2005. Verlander also led the AL in wins, going 18-4.
The Dodgers’ Julio Urías topped the NL at 2.16.
Miami’s Sandy Alcantara was second at 2.28 and pitched 228 2/3 innings. That was 23 2/3 innings more than Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola, who was second with 205 — the largest gap between first and second in the majors since Phil Niekro led by 49 2/3 innings in 1979. Alcantara also pitched six of the major leagues’ 36 complete games — the previous low for a full season was 42 in 2018.
Atlanta’s Kyle Wright led the NL with 21 wins.
Shohei Ohtani went 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA for the Los Angeles Angels and 219 strikeouts in 166 innings, and he hit .273 with 34 homers and 95 RBIs. Ohtani became the first player with 10 wins and 30 homers in the same season and also the first to qualify as a hitter and a pitcher since the qualification rule for batters began in 1950.
The Yankees’ Gerrit Cole won his second AL strikeout title with 257, and Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes led the NL with 243.
Miami’s Jon Berti led the NL with 41 steals and Baltimore’s Jorge Mateo topped the AL with 35, one more than teammate Cedric Mullins.
Seattle had 34 one-run wins and became the first team with sole possession of the lead in consecutive years since Cincinnati in 1897-98.
There were was one postponement for COVID-19 reasons, between Cleveland and the Chicago White Sox on May 11, among 2,430 scheduled games. That was down from nine last year and 45 in 2020’s shortened 900-game schedule.
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Alleged church shooter sent diary to newspaper before attack
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The man accused of opening fire on a Southern California church congregation because of his political hatred for Taiwan dubbed himself a “destroying angel” in a seven-volume diary sent to a newspaper before the attack, the paper said Wednesday.
David Chou, 68, spent $16.10 to mail seven thick photocopied volumes of handwritten Chinese text and a flash drive to the World Journal office in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, according to photos published in the Chinese-language paper.
The pages bore the title: “Diary of an Angel Destroying Independence” in an apparent reference to Taiwan’s self-government. The Chinese Communist Party continues to demand Taiwan reunify with China.
The diary pages were received Monday, one day after Chou allegedly opened fire at a lunch gathering of elderly parishioners at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in the community of Laguna Woods.
The newspaper didn’t report the contents of the diaries and nobody there apparently read through them before sending them to the police through the paper’s attorney, said an employee who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak openly.
Investigators were aware of the reports that the journals were sent to the newspaper, according to Orange County sheriff’s spokesperson Carrie Braun. She did not know if the sheriff’s department or FBI had taken possession of them as of Wednesday afternoon.
Chou could face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted of murder and attempted murder. He has not yet entered a plea and remained jailed without bail in Orange County pending a June 10 arraignment.
County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has said Chou was motivated by hatred for Taiwan, where he was born after his family was forced from mainland China when Communists prevailed in a civil war that ended in 1949. He apparently chose the church at random and didn’t know anyone there before he drove to California from Las Vegas on Saturday, authorities said.
Authorities have said Chou sat through a church service before attending the luncheon in honor of a former pastor, where he mingled with the parishioners for about 40 minutes before chaining and nailing shut exit doors and opening fire.
When the gunfire erupted, Dr. John Cheng, 52, charged Chou and was shot but authorities said he disrupted the attack and may have saved dozens of lives.
The former pastor, Billy Chang, then picked up a chair and threw it at Chou, who fell on the floor. Chang said he rushed at Chou and several congregation members held Chou down and tied him up.
Chou was armed with two legally purchased 9 mm handguns and concealed bags holding ammunition and four Molotov cocktail-style devices in the church hall where the luncheon was being held, authorities said.
The wounded ranged in age from 66 to 92 and were expected to survive.
The shooting shook Southern California’s Taiwanese community.
“I am starting to worry about our people,” Dr. Simon Lin, a leader at the Taiwan Center Foundation of Los Angeles, said at a news conference. “The Taiwan Center is very friendly. It’s open to the public. We never check your background.”
The small community center lacks the budget to hire full-time security, he added.
Louis M. Huang, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, said he has confidence in U.S. law enforcement to carry out the investigation and that justice would be served.
He called on Taiwanese Americans to respect differences in opinion but said no one has a right to infringe on other people’s rights or to take someone’s life.
He urged community members to report to the police if they see something that concerns them.
“Don’t keep silent,” he said.
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Associated Press journalists John Antczak in Los Angeles and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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Former Penn State defensive back Joey Porter Jr. is headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The team selected the former Nittany Lion standout with the 32nd overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.
Due to the Miami Dolphins' violations, they forfeited the 21st pick in the first round, making Porter Jr. a second round selection.
Porter Jr., 22, is the son of former Pittsburgh Steelers star linebacker Joey Porter, and was voted Penn State's Most Valuable Defensive Player in 2022, while totaling 27 tackles and 11 pass breakups.
Prior to the draft, there was an expectation that he could've been a first round pick.
At Penn State's Pro Day, Porter Jr. went through drills led by Steelers defensive coordinator Teryl Austin, which, naturally, brought up questions about falling to the Steelers.
"I don't know if I will be there or not. Hopefully I can go as early as possible but to be in Pittsburgh would be a blessing," Porter Jr. said then.
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Leading Companies Share Real Solutions for Software Quality Challenges
MONROVIA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing for over 35 years, today announced the third annual Automated Software Testing and Quality Summit. Industry leaders, including "The Phoenix Project" co-author, Gene Kim, will gather to share their real-life experiences addressing software quality issues and achieving business goals with test automation.
Join the LIVE virtual half-day summit on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET to gain insights on ways to automate and accelerate testing and deliver robust applications that users will love. You'll hear how QA teams across multiple industries are solving DevOps and software quality challenges to make continuous testing a reality.
Gene Kim, DevOps researcher and bestselling author of "The Unicorn Project" and co-author of "The DevOps Handbook," kicks off the virtual summit with an opening keynote about DevOps and test automation challenges and ideals. Industry leaders from Bank of America, CIBC, Northbridge, PSCU, Proximus, and Santander UK carry on the continuous quality conversation. They'll cover a range of software testing topics, including API testing, cloud testing, service virtualization, simulated test environments, and AI integration. Here's a preview:
- A financial services provider discusses leveraging service virtualization to create a dependable and responsive test environment to increase efficiency and manage third-party dependencies.
- A large retail and commercial bank based in the United Kingdom shares how to successfully simulate existing applications to accelerate migrating an application landscape to the cloud.
- An interactive panel of leading financial companies shares their experiences and offers tips about using API testing and service virtualization to reach their quality targets.
"We're excited to bring our annual summit back for the third year. This event focuses on solutions for real business challenges being faced by many software development and QA teams. Our customers have agreed to share their experiences with addressing software quality issues so that others can learn from them," said Arthur Hicken, evangelist at Parasoft.
Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver quality software with its market-proven, integrated suite of automated software testing tools. Supporting the embedded, enterprise, and IoT markets, Parasoft's technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to web UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. Bringing all this together, Parasoft's award-winning reporting and analytics dashboard delivers a centralized view of quality enabling organizations to deliver with confidence and succeed in today's most strategic ecosystems and development initiatives—security, safety-critical, Agile, DevOps, and continuous testing.
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Are Online Canadian Casinos Safe?
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Who knew watching Kim Kardashian get her groove back would be the best rom-com of 2022 so far?
While it may have been titled The Kardashians, the family's new Hulu series easily could've been titled The Komeback Kim as viewers watched the 41-year-old go on a journey of self-empowermentover the course of 10 episodes. Seeing one most famous women in the world as an underdog for a change was captivating to watch, largely due to Kim's willingness to get vulnerable and unmask her insecurities—both professional and personal—in front of the cameras.
Say what you will about the SKIMS founder, but you can't say she doesn't share the good, the bad and the Ye of it all. And the time invested was worth it, with Kim ending the season giddily talking about her vagina with her boyfriend Pete Davidson, enjoying his end of the conversation off-screen at the time. But we'll get to him in a bit.
Back when filming began, Kim was just mbarking on this new chapter of her life as a co-parent to her four children—North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3—with Kanye West, whom she filed for divorce from in February 2021. (They were declared legally single in March.)
After years of being one-half of Kimye, Kim was on her own and the world was watching.
A big storyline in the early episodes was Kim finding her voice, both in her Saturday Night Live monologue—which, it bears repeating, she totally crushed—and through her fashion, with Kim expressing anxiety over having to style herself for the first time in years.
"I got to a point where I would just ask [Kanye] for advice for everything, down to what I wear. Even now I'm having like panic attacks, like, ‘What do I wear?'" she explained. "I've always had Kanye there as this crutch to teach me so much about fashion, and having that not be there as my crutch to guide me has really forced me to figure it out on my own."
While Kim admitted making the sartorial decisions knowing the whole world was watching was taking a toll on her "psychologically," she acknowledged, "I think for so long always depending on someone else, I forgot that I have an opinion too, and I forgot that I can make decisions too."
Not that Kanye wasn't still weighing in on her outfits, calling her after she accepted the Brand Innovator award at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards in November 2021.
"He told me my career is over and then he showed me a picture of Marge Simpson wearing something similar," Kim revealed. But she wasn't going to let his remark get to her.
"I do know what looks good on me and I know exactly what I like and I know exactly what I want," she said. "So sometimes I just have to drown out all of the voices of people telling me what they like or what I should be wearing and just go with what I like."
The cartoon comparison was far from the only time Kim dealt with Kanye drama regarding Kanye on-camera: She also talked about his refusal to sign the divorce papers and shared that he expressed anger over the jokes she made about him in her SNL monologue (which she had sent to him beforehand).
At the same time, Kim was hyper-aware about not bashing her ex.
"I'm always super protective of Kanye and not sharing a lot of the negative things that have happened just because he's not here doing the show," she explained. "Also, if I do something on a reality show, then it's 'how dare she talk about it?' And then he can do it in a song and that's so creative and expressive."
But Kim was willing to express her feelings about their complicated dynamic to her mother Kris Jenner and siblings, admitting in a confessional that she recognized "the impact that my relationship has had" on the entire family. She later apologized to them, saying, "I will never let that happen to you guys again and, like, I feel for once in my life, I feel strong. I'm not going to let anyone treat you guys that way or myself."
In a society that so often loves to tear a confident woman down for simply, you know, expressing that confidence, it's refreshing to see a fortysomething mom fully celebrate and own her victories.
"I feel like the universe is rewarding me and this is the year about me and what I want to do and what makes me happy," Kim said. "It almost feels like all my dreams are coming true."
One of those dreams was passing California's Baby Bar exam on her final attempt after failing three times. (The fact that she received the good news while she was sitting in the parking lot of a Red Lobster just made the moment that much better.)
An advocate for prison reform, Kim burst into tears, saying, "I'm so happy. Like, I literally didn't think I did."
But she did do that and so much more, landing the covers of Vogue (bumping her sister Kendall Jenner!) and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.
"She is the epitome and definition of the modern woman," SI Swimsuit editor-in-chief MJ Day explained on The Kardashians. "She's a boss, she's a babe, she's a mom, she's a friend."
For Kim, landing both covers was "definitely bucket list-type shit" and rather than act cool, even though she had already landed the cover of Vogue two times prior, she was fully basking in the moment.
But it wasn't just the glam moments Kim was indulging in, her reveal in the premiere episode that cleaning out her playroom makes her horny also earning a chorus of "Yes!" from moms across the globe. But a tidy toy area isn't the only surprising turn-on she admitted to having during the season.
"One time, Pete was like, 'Babe, let's go get some ice cream at Thrifty,'" Kim shared in episode eight. "And I was like, 'Oh my God, you are making me so f–king horny.' Rite Aid? Thrifty? It was literally one of the best nights of my life."
She then revealed her own BDE: Big Dibs Energy. While heading off to shoot her SI Swimsuit cover on her private jet (NBD!), the flight attendant delivered a carton of Dibs ice cream bites that Pete sent, much to Kim's delight.
"These are my favorite!" she said. "When we went to the movies in Staten Island, all I wanted was Dibs. I am obsessed with Dibs, but you can only get them at, like, gas stations these days."
Another cute Kete moment came when Kim revealed the pair share a love for all things skincare and the SNL vet once applied pimple cream to her face after she fell asleep before putting it on herself. If that doesn't scream romantic comedy material we don't know what does!
These small gestures from Pete are in stark contrast to the over-the-top, sometimes-ostentatious gifts Kanye had given her over the years—Who can forget when he basically held Kenny G hostage in their home?—so seeing her pure delight over these simple acts is somehow ridiculously endearing. Perhaps because so many times we watched Kim playing defense throughout and after her marriage with Kanye.
In the finale, Kim and Khloe Kardashian had a frank conversation about the public's perception of their respective relationships after Tristan Thompson's paternity lawsuit comes to light.
"If people knew what my relationship was really like, I think they would be like, 'How did this last this long?' Kim said. "But I can live with myself knowing that I tried everything humanly possible to make a situation work, so I could walk away being absolutely guilt-free."
It's Kim's absolute ownership of the decision to end her marriage and focus on herself that makes her new romance with Pete feel so earned. The recent photos of the couple on a Tahitian vacation (and the videos of Pete adorably ribbing Kim while playing Instagram BF) felt similar to seeing a friend who has finally moved on after a bad breakup look so happy and carefree with someone new.
Not that Kim expected her time with the 28-year-old comedian to lead to something serious.
After feeling a "vibe" during their on-screen kiss when she hosted Saturday Night Live, Kim revealed she texted the producers asking for his number.
"I wasn't even thinking, like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be in a relationship with him,'" she admitted. "I was just thinking, 'Heard about this BDE. I need to get out there. I was just basically DTF [down to f--k]."
But Kim quickly learned there was so much more to Pete than the iconic Internet acronym he inspired, gushing, "Pete is such a good, good person. I can't even explain it. He just has the best heart and always thinks of the small things." You know, like Dibs and zit cream.
Still, she kept the romance under wraps, and initially decided not to talk about it on-camera.
"I never want the person that I'm dating to be subjected to public scrutiny just because we're dating," Kim explained. "He knows what he's getting himself into, obviously, but I'm trying to minimize any tabloid drama."
But the relationship with Pete is just icing on the cake (best sex of her life included, BTW), as Kim basks in the feeling of finally coming into her own and doing it in front of millions of people.
"We are some strong biatches," Kim told Khloe in the final episode. "We can deal with a lot and we should be proud."
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The auto industry's switch to electric vehicles is driving up demand and prices for lithium. It's also creating a huge incentive to squeeze more lithium out of any supply available,
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Yankees bring back INF/OF Tyler Wade in deal with Angels
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees acquired utility player Tyler Wade on Thursday from the Los Angeles Angels for a player to be named later or cash.
Wade was assigned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The 27-year-old hit .218 with 22 runs, five doubles, a homer and eight RBIs in 67 games with the Angels this season before being designated for assignment on July 3. He then cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake on July 8.
Wade was acquired by the Angels from the Yankees for a player to be named later or cash on Nov. 22. Over parts of six major league seasons (2017-22), he has a .214 batting average with 24 doubles, two triples, seven homers and 41 RBIs in 331 games bouncing around the infield and outfield.
He was originally selected by the Yankees in the fourth round of the 2013 amateur draft and played his first five big league seasons in New York.
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'Out of our control': California farmers struggle after recent atmospheric rivers
After three years of drought, the skies opened up over California farms, and now crops are under water. One farmer said that he can work around extremes but needs a longer-term solution to the feast and famine.
LOS BANOS, Calif. – California will finally get a break from the parade of atmospheric river storms late week, but it might be too late for some crops. Some farmers are working to deal with the consequences of the excess rain.
"We didn't get all the carrots planted quite where we wanted to," said Derek Azevedo, Executive Vice President of Bowles Farming Company. "We've got a little bit of disruption in onions."
But the executive with the 6th generation farm company in California’s Central Valley didn’t seem too concerned about the weather.
DRAMATIC IMAGES SHOW DEVASTATION FROM ONSLAUGHT OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS SLAMMING CALIFORNIA
"Most farmers in California pay close attention to history. None of us are surprised by this," Azevedo said. "California has a long, deep history of having extended periods of dry times and then extended periods of wet times."
He said that this weather will not be a problem for summer crops like nuts, tomatoes and cotton, which account for most of the farms' output. Water storage does have him concerned, though.
"What the real story here is, whether it's wet or dry, having the ability to store this water for when we need it in the summertime is what's really impactful," said Azevedo of the volume of the storm runoff instead of capture. "You know, there's more water going underneath the Golden Gate Bridge right now than following in the Mississippi River."
"Some of the most important reservoirs for us are only running at 30% capacity right now," he continued. "And I think that's one of the things that, despite the fact that we're seeing all these floods, we're still in a severe drought right here."
FOX News Correspondent William La Jeunesse looked into claims like this one while atmospheric river storms pounded the state in early January. He told FOX Weather that the infrastructure is antiquated and can't deal with changing weather patterns.
"What experts will tell you is we're basically in this transition period. From the thirties to the 1960s, we built Oroville, Shasta, Coolidge Hoover to store all that water," he said, referring to large dams and reservoirs across the West. "But now, because we're not getting the same precipitation with any kind of regularity that isn't working anymore. So they now want to use the aquifer and store that water underground. But we're about 30 years behind schedule."
La Junesse said that about 80% of the rainwater bypasses the reservoirs and drains into the Pacific.
"If we have the ability to manage the water as it flows through reservoirs, flows through those systems. It’s not just for farmers, whether we're managing that for the environment, managing that, or for flood protection," Azevedo explained.
'EXTRA WINTER'S WORTH OF PRECIPITATION' NEEDED TO BUST CALIFORNIA DROUGHT, SCIENTIST SAY
"Any extreme weather is never good for farmers. There are so many things that are already out of our control," continued Azevedo. "So any time we get a chance to manage something, it just helps provide the consistency in the products that our customers are expecting."
The last three years of drought forced Bowles Farms to take some water-needy plants out of production. Instead, Azevedo planted fewer acres of fruits like tomatoes. He told FOX Weather last year that he reduced the crop by about 10%.
HIGH GROCERY BILL? BLAME THE WEATHER
"We’ve adapted the crops we've grown, we've adapted our management practices, and we've adapted the equipment we use continuously over the last 165 years," Azevedo said of himself and the six generations of Bowles family that came before. "You don't get a chance to farm for 165 years without being creative, being nimble and being a problem solver."
The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor still shows 95% of the Golden State in drought. Less than 1% of the state is in severe drought.
"The reservoirs, of course, is the big issue for most of what goes on in most of California, and water management is pretty heavy," Rich Tinker, the U.S. Drought Monitor author with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said. "So, it takes a long time for reservoirs to deplete, and it also takes a while for them to refill. So, we're doing considerably better. We're still not even up to what's normal for this time of year, however."
California water restrictions will stay in place in the meantime.
The Central Valley occupies only 1% of the nation's farmland but produces a quarter of the nation's food, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Over a third of the nation's vegetables and two-thirds of the nation’s fruits and nuts come from California. | https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/california-farm-flood-drought-recoversall-these-floods-were-still-in-a-drought-said-california-farmer | 2023-01-17 05:00:36 | 0 | https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/california-farm-flood-drought-recoversall-these-floods-were-still-in-a-drought-said-california-farmer |
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DES MOINES, IOWA (WHO) — A GoFundMe account created for the 17-year-old Iowa teen who pleaded guilty to killing her rapist has raised more than $200,000 in fewer than 24 hours.
Pieper Lewis was 15 years old when she stabbed and killed 37-year-old Zachary Brooks after, she says, he repeatedly raped her.
She pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. She faced up to 20 years in prison, but a judge on Tuesday handed her a deferred sentence that allows her to serve five years of probation, perform community service and get counseling. If she meets the terms of her probation, she won’t serve another day behind bars.
However, her conviction carries with it an automatic requirement by law that she pay $150,000 in restitution to her victim’s family. Her attorney argued forcefully that it should be considered cruel and unusual punishment to force her to pay her attacker’s family, but the judge said his hands are tied by the law.
Leland Schipper, one of Lewis’ former teachers, launched a GoFundMe account after her sentencing to seek help paying the fee. In fewer than 24 hours, the account exceeded that $150,000 goal. Schipper raised the fundraising goal to $200,000 on Wednesday morning. The account crossed that goal by 12:15 p.m. Wednesday.
“Pieper does not deserve to be finically burdened for the rest of her life because the state of Iowa wrote a law that fails to give judges any discretion as to how it is applied. This law doesn’t make sense in many cases, but in this case, it’s morally unjustifiable,” Schipper wrote on the fundraising page. “A child who was raped, under no circumstances, should owe the rapist’s family money.”
Schipper said in addition to paying the restitution fee, the funds will be used to pay an additonal $4,000 restitution to the state, “remove financial barriers” should Lewis want to go to college or start a business, and also to give her the “financial capacity to explore ways to help other young victims of sex crimes.”
“As the Donations have increased, I am overjoyed with the prospect of removing this burden from Pieper,” Schipper wrote.
As of Thursday morning, the total had reached more than $330,000 with over 8,600 individual donations made to the account. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/fund-for-iowa-teen-who-killed-rapist-raises-200k-in-under-24-hours/ | 2022-09-15 12:30:40 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/fund-for-iowa-teen-who-killed-rapist-raises-200k-in-under-24-hours/ |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – Homeless people living at Columbus Park in San Jose will have more time to stay. A federal judge has blocked the city from removing them.
“It means a lot right now, because really nowhere else to park,” said Cheryl Imus, who lives at Columbus Park.
Imus and six other plaintiffs who live at Columbus Park filed a complaint to stop the destruction of motor homes, and over concerns they’ll have nowhere to go.
Scott Largent, a homeless advocate, lived there too, but now he has permanent housing. He says the city needs a better plan for housing the unhoused.
“There is no room for them, so they have to come back to that area. That’s what I have been noticing is happening, new camps popping up along sidewalks, new people showing up to the ball field there,” he said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alex Wood pitched four-hit ball over six innings for his first win in more than a month, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals 6-2 on Monday night.
Thairo Estrada hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth and Brandon Crawford doubled in two runs, lifting the Giants to their fourth straight win and sixth in eight games. Austin Slater walked twice and scored twice.
The Giants were limited to five hits but drew a season-high nine walks, four of which scored.
“When we’re at our best offensively we’re seeing a lot of pitches,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “I think there were some easier takes for us tonight but I thought we did a nice job of sticking with our game plan and our approach.”
Coming off his best start of the season when he went seven innings against the Rockies, Wood (4-5) had five strikeouts and one walk. The left-hander retired his final 10 batters after Bobby Witt Jr.’s RBI single in the third, ending his night after 80 pitches.
It came less than two weeks after Wood was upset and complained when Kapler removed him in the sixth inning from a game in Miami after throwing 90 pitches. The Giants trailed 1-0 at the time and lost 3-0.
This time Kapler said he made the change because Wood sat for an extended period in the sixth when the Royals made a pitching change mid-inning.
“We just felt like it was the right time to go to a clean inning for our bullpen right there,” Kapler said.
Wood agreed.
“I think it had been 15-20 minutes before they made the pitching change, and I was going to go back out,” Wood said. “I didn’t know much longer that inning was going to go so we just figured give (a reliever) enough time to warm up and get a clean inning and take it down from there. I thought it made sense. Glad it worked out.”
Mauricio Llovera, Jake McGee and Camilo Doval each retired three batters to complete the six-hitter.
Estrada lined a 2-2 pitch from Amir Garrett (1-1) into left-center to drive in Slater. Slater led off the inning with a pinch-hit walk and took second on a wild pitch.
Crawford, who struck out before Estrada’s tiebreaking hit, hit a two-run double off Arodys Vizcaíno in the seventh.
The Giants scored their first two runs after Royals starter Brady Singer lost control and walked four consecutive batters in the third – two with the bases loaded.
“Not a ton of hits but a lot of good at-bats which led to walks and a couple hits at the right time,” Crawford said.
Singer, who had only walked four batters all season, finished with five and allowed two hits over five innings.
The Royals led 2-0 on Whit Merrifield’s sacrifice fly and an infield RBI single by Witt that glanced off Wood’s glove and trickled away.
MOVES
The Giants optioned OF Heliot Ramos to Triple-A Sacramento and recalled Llovera.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: RHP Zack Greinke (right flexor strain) pitched one-hit ball over five innings in his first rehab start for Triple-A Omaha. OF Edward Olivares (right quad strain) had a hit and drew three walks in the same game. ... RHP Joel Payamps was placed on the Injured List with an undisclosed injury. RHP Daniel Mengden was selected from Omaha to replace Payamps.
UP NEXT
Giants RHP Logan Webb (5-2, 3.77 ERA) has one victory over his previous five starts. Royals LHP Kris Bubic (0-3, 9.13) has two wins in 10 interleague starts.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Sammy Rae & the Friends will be performing at Birmingham’s Saturn on Oct. 5, the indie band’s first-ever show in Alabama.
The date is part of Sammy Rae & the Friends’ “If It All Goes South” tour, which includes stops all over the U.S., including Nashville and New Orleans.
Samantha Bowers, known musically as Sammy Rae, is the band’s leader and primary songwriter. Bowers describes her group’s genre of music as “difficult to pinpoint exactly”. She says the answer can even vary depending on which band member you ask.
“Typically, I call us a rock and roll soul band and or funk band,” Bowers said. “I usually say something like a rock and roll funk band with influences in the jazz world and folk music. A little disco in there as well.”
Sammy Rae & the Friends’ diverse style of music is attributed to the seven-person group coming from all ways of life over the U.S., meeting mutually in the New York music scene.
“We come from a couple of different studies of music, and I think we’ve created a cool environment where everybody can share their influences and collaborate in a way that is pretty atypical, interesting and unique,” Rae said.
Alongside the band’s frontman, Sammy Rae’s members include Kellon Reese (alto saxophone), Max Zooi (tenor saxophone), C-bass Chiriboga (drummer and percussionist), Will Leet (lead guitarist), James Quinn (electric bassist) and Debbie Tjong (keyboardist).
While Sammy Rae & the Friends is a diverse bunch within themselves, their fanbase is also made up of people who express themselves in various ways. Bowers says she looking forward to seeing what the band’s audience in Birmingham looks like compared to other parts of the U.S.
“Our audience demographic is pretty young, predominantly creative, predominantly queer. We run into a lot of like small business owners, makers and artists,” Bowers said. “I’m curious to know what that community looks like in Birmingham and how that differs and is similar to the way that our fan community looks in our hometown in Brooklyn or in some East Coast metropolitans like, you know, Philly and Boston and D.C.”
As for hopes and expectations of the upcoming tour, Bowers says the band wants to provide an atmosphere similar to the song itself.
“‘If It All Goes South’ is about living in the moment, being fully satisfied and fully present with the moment, because anything could change at any time,” Bowers said. “I hope that that message rings true by the end of this tour and in every room that we had played: if it all goes south, if it doesn’t work out, at least we had a lot of fun and we had a great time.”
Bowers says she hopes the message of the song and tour can leave audience members with a new sense of confidence as they leave the venue.
“I hope that watching us up there do that and be so authentically ourselves encourages them to do the same as they walk out into their own lives,” Bowers said.
Tickets are for the Birmingham show and others are available on Sammy Rae’s official website. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/sammy-rae-the-friends-to-play-first-al-show-in-birmingham-during-if-it-all-goes-south-tour/ | 2022-09-21 15:52:43 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/sammy-rae-the-friends-to-play-first-al-show-in-birmingham-during-if-it-all-goes-south-tour/ |
MOXEE, Wash. (AP) — Plentiful sunshine, a nudge from the state of Washington, and even a few sheep will help a large solar power farm in eastern Yakima County begin operation sometime in 2024.
Yakima County Hearing Examiner Gary Cuillier has approved a conditional use permit for the Black Rock Solar Energy Project, a photovoltaic solar power facility to be located 20 miles east of Moxee on both sides of State Route 24, the Yakima Herald-Republic reported.
The project will feature 264,000 solar panels spread over a 1,060-acre site north of the Rattlesnake Hills and roughly 8 miles south of the Columbia River as it flows into Benton County and past the former Hanford nuclear reactor site.
Renewable energy developer BayWa.r.e, Solar Projects LLC, based in Irvine, Calif., hopes to begin construction in spring of 2023, said Brandon Reinhardt, director of development. Construction takes 16-18 months. The goal is to have the facility running by the end of 2024.
Reinhardt said the Black Rock project will generate 94 megawatts, capable of powering nearly 20,000 homes annually in the region with clean, reliable solar energy. This will help the state of Washington reach its goal of having utilities produce 100% renewable or zero-carbon energy by 2045. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Permit-approved-for-large-solar-power-farm-in-17197569.php | 2022-05-25 13:25:20 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Permit-approved-for-large-solar-power-farm-in-17197569.php |
(NEXSTAR) – They sure don’t bake ‘em like they used to.
Dunkin’ Donuts has introduced — and discontinued — a wide variety of doughnuts since its first shop opened in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1950. But some customers might be old enough to remember one particularly innovative doughnut that has since gone the way of the dodo: the signature “Dunkin’ Donut,” which included an edible handle.
The original idea for the “Dunkin’ Donut” came about back in the 1950s, according to “Time to Make the Donuts,” a book co-written by Dunkin’ founder Bill Rosenberg. As the story goes, Rosenberg approached his top “donut man” Johnny Spartos with the idea, telling him that a doughnut with a handle would be easier for patrons to dunk in coffee.
“He said, ‘Oh no, no, no Bill. You can’t do that,’” recounted Rosenberg, who claimed that Spartos was worried the doughnuts wouldn’t cook correctly if they weren’t ring-shaped.
“I persisted, of course,” Rosenberg remembered. Sure enough, Spartos relented, and the “Dunkin’ Donut” was added to the menu.
Despite being only arguably better for dunking than a ring-shaped doughnut — and likely not as functional for dunking as a stick-shaped doughnut — the handle-inclusive Dunkin’ Donut remained on the menu in at last some locations through 2003, when it was discontinued nationwide, a representative for Dunkin’ told Nexstar.
“It was unique and fun. It stood out in the back case,” said Ken Kimmel, an executive for Dunkin’s then-parent company in a statement obtained by the Houston Chronicle in 2003. “But over time, with all the different varieties of doughnuts we’ve introduced, it wasn’t as popular as it had been.”
Brand Eating further reported that Dunkin’ phased out its Dunkin’ Donut because they needed to be cut by hand with a special tool, and couldn’t easily be replicated by an automated machine.
Whatever the case, Dunkin’ nixed the Dunkin’ Donut in 2003 and introduced the Old Fashioned Dunkin’ doughnut — which, as Kimmel told the Houston Chronicle, was nearly the same thing without the handle.
Still, Dunkin’ fans have been sharing fond memories of the discontinued doughnut on Twitter as recently as this week, with one calling it a “real treat.” Emily Post, on the other hand, would probably have been happy to see the demise of the Dunkin’ Donut, as she once went on-record with how much she despised the practice of dunking.
“Dipping a great round object into a coffee or teacup and then biting into this sopping object is about as bad an example of table behavior as could be found,” Post wrote in a 1941 newspaper column. “But I can say to those who evidently think a doughnut sopped in coffee tastes better than a dry doughnut, that you could drop a mouthful at a time into the coffee and then lift it to your mouth with the spoon.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/the-original-dunkin-donut-used-to-have-a-handle-for-dunking/ | 2022-07-23 13:37:54 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/the-original-dunkin-donut-used-to-have-a-handle-for-dunking/ |
Company and Academic Collaborators Demonstrate Early Proof-of-Concept that a Patient's Immune System can be "Reprogrammed" to Recognize Their Own Cancer
Data Presented in a Late Breaking Oral Presentation at SITC 2022 and Featured in Peer-Reviewed Paper Published Today in Nature
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PACT Pharma, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing transformational personalized neoantigen-specific and off-the-shelf T cell receptor (TCR)-T cell therapies for the eradication of solid tumors, today reported data from the first clinical study using CRISPR gene editing technology to substitute a gene in patients' immune cells to treat cancer. Results from the study, which was conducted with collaborators at nine academic centers using PACT's proprietary platforms, demonstrated early proof-of-concept that a patient's immune system can be reprogrammed to recognize their own cancer. The study findings were the focus of a late breaking oral presentation at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2022), as well as a peer-reviewed paper in Nature that was published in conjunction with SITC 2022.
Every patient's immune system contains T cells that can utilize specific receptors to find and kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, patients often do not have enough of these T cells to mount a complete and effective attack on their cancer. PACT has developed proprietary technology platforms capable of creating engineered tumor-specific TCR-T cell therapies with the potential to address this unmet treatment need. This is accomplished by isolating TCRs directly from the blood of patients and then using CRISPR gene editing to engineer those isolated TCRs back into the patients' own T cells. Once infused back into the patient, these engineered T cells redirect the patients' immune system to recognize the patient's own cancer.
As part of the oral presentation at SITC, researchers reported findings from a Phase 1 study in which 16 patients with solid tumors including colon, breast and lung cancer, were treated with their redirected T cells. The study involved researchers using patients' blood samples to directly isolate T cells targeting mutations related to each patient's cancer. These T cells were then sequenced, leading to the identification of 175 unique, cancer specific TCRs and up to three TCRs were selected for each patient as a basis for their individual therapy. The selected TCRs were CRISPR engineered to replace the existing TCR with a cancer-specific one. These T cells were expanded to large numbers and then, up to three TCR cell products were infused back into each patient following a course of conditioning chemotherapy.
The gene edited T cells preferentially trafficked to the tumor and could be recovered from post-infusion biopsies in all patients where biopsies were available. Of note, the CRISPR-edited T cells frequently represented the top 2-20% of immune cells in the tumor and led to tumor size reduction in some lesions of a patient with lung cancer. Patients showed expected side effects caused by conditioning chemotherapy and two patients had potential side effects from the gene edited cells, one with fevers and chills and the other with confusion, both recovering promptly. The study findings demonstrated the PACT therapy to be well tolerated while showing encouraging initial signs of clinical activity.
"This study represents a significant leap forward in efforts to develop a personalized treatment for cancer that utilizes isolated immune receptors that can specifically recognize mutations within a patient's own cancer," said Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a corresponding author of the Nature paper. "This important research was only made possible with several next generation technology platforms developed by the PACT team. Particularly critical to this effort was the newly developed ability to use CRISPR to replace immune receptors in clinical grade cell preparations in a single step. The work highlighted at SITC and within the Nature paper paves the way for the continued advancement of research aimed at delivering safe and effective, patient specific TCR T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer."
This groundbreaking clinical study offers early proof-of-concept for several cutting-edge steps of the PACT approach to reprogramming a patient's immune system to recognize and defeat their cancer, including:
- Isolating and cloning multiple TCRs from blood that recognize patient specific mutational neoantigens
- Utilizing single-step, non-viral precision gene editing with CRISPR to simultaneously knock-out endogenous TCRs and knock-in patient-specific TCRs
- Manufacturing clinical grade TCR engineered T cells with a defined composition of up to three TCRs
- Safely infusing up to three different gene edited TCR T cell products
- Demonstrating the ability of the infused transgenic T cell products to traffic to patient tumors
"We are thrilled to share the findings from this first-in-human clinical trial which met its primary endpoints, demonstrating both the tolerability and feasibility of TCR discovery and manufacturing of a multi-TCR product using complete non-viral gene editing and safety of the infusion of a three TCR product," said Stefanie Mandl, Ph.D., chief scientific officer, PACT Pharma. "We look forward to continuing our research and development efforts in this area as we work to make personalized TCR T cell therapies a reality for all cancer patients. A key element to achieving this goal of broad applicability is our proprietary catalogue of 64 human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which cover patients of all ethnicities. This is a key differentiator from most current TCR T cell therapies that are limited to only a single HLA molecule that is common in Caucasians."
It is important to note that previous CRISPR-related clinical trials have involved deleting (knocking-out) specific genes to drive immune system activation against cancer or, more recently, inserting (knocking-in) an artificial receptor to guide cancer cell recognition. However, these studies have not combined knocking-out endogenous genes and replacing them with the insertion (knocking-in) of substitute genes isolated from the same patient. In that regard, this PACT clinical trial represents a first-of-its-kind scientific breakthrough.
A copy of the poster affiliated with the oral presentation at the SITC conference is available on the "Events" page of the PACT Pharma website at: https://www.pactpharma.com/news/?filter=events.
A copy of the newly published Nature article, entitled, "Non-viral precision T cell receptor replacement for personalized cell therapy," can be accessed at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05531-1.
PACT is a privately held biopharmaceutical company pioneering individualized and off-the-shelf, non-viral precision genome engineered, tumor specific TCR T cell therapies for the treatment of patients with solid cancers.
For more information, please visit www.pactpharma.com.
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Barges grounded by low water halt Mississippi River traffic
The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in mud and sand, disrupting river travel for shippers, recreational boaters and even passengers on a cruise line.
Lack of rainfall in recent weeks has left the Mississippi River approaching record low levels in some areas from Missouri south through Louisiana. The U.S. Coast Guard said at least eight “groundings” of barges have been reported in the past week, despite low-water restrictions on barge loads.
One of the groundings happened Friday between Louisiana and Mississippi, near Lake Providence, Louisiana. It halted river traffic in both directions for days “to clear the grounded barges from the channel and to deepen the channel via dredging to prevent future groundings,” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Sabrina Dalton said in an email.
As a result, dozens of tows and barges were lined up in both directions, waiting to get by. The stoppage also brought a halt to a Viking cruise ship with about 350 passengers on board, said R. Thomas Berner, a Penn State professor emeritus of journalism and American studies, and one of the passengers.
The Viking ship was originally supposed to launch from New Orleans on Saturday, but the water there was so low that the launch was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Berner said.
By Tuesday, the ship was halted near Vicksburg, Mississippi, due to the backup caused by the grounding. It wasn’t near a dock so passengers couldn’t leave. The ship’s crew kept people entertained as much as possible with music, games and other activities.
“Some of us are taking naps,” Berner joked.
The stuck barges were freed midday Tuesday. Berner said the cruise ship restarted Tuesday night, but the restart didn’t last long: Viking told passengers in a letter Wednesday that the rest of the scheduled two-week trip was being called off, citing low water problems causing additional closures. Viking made arrangements to get passengers home and the letter said they would get a full refund.
Nearly all of the Mississippi River basin, from Minnesota through Louisiana, has seen below-normal rainfall since late August. The basin from St. Louis south has been largely dry for three months, according to the National Weather Service.
The timing is bad because barges are busy carrying recently harvested corn and soybeans up and down the river.
Lucy Fletcher of the agricultural retailer AGRIServices of Brunswick, who serves on the board for the St. Louis-based trade association Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals, said navigation woes on the Mississippi, Missouri and other major rivers have some shippers looking at other means of transportation.
“Can they divert to rail?” Fletcher asked. “Well, there’s not an abundance of rail availability. And usually people are booking their transportation for fall early in the season. So if they haven’t booked that freight already, you’re going to see people in dire straits.”
Fletcher said that with the supply chain still snagged following the COVID-19 pandemic, trucks also are largely booked and unavailable.
Mike Steenhoek, executive director of Soy Transportation Coalition, said 29% of the nation’s soybean crop is transported by barge. He estimated that barge capacity is down by about one-third this fall because of limits on the tows caused by the low water. That reduced capacity at a time when demand remains high is contributing to a 41% jump in barge shipping prices over the past year.
Matt Ziegler, manager of public policy and regulatory affairs for the National Corn Growers Association, said about 20% of the corn crop is exported, and nearly two-thirds of those exports typically travel down the Mississippi River on barges before being sent out of New Orleans.
“It’s certainly the worst time possible for these bad conditions,” Ziegler said.
To keep river traffic flowing, the Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi at several spots and placed limits on the number of barges each tow can move.
The forecast for much of the Mississippi River basin calls for continued dry weather in the near future. Fletcher is hopeful the winter will bring some relief.
“We need a good year for lots of snow melt,” she said. “The whole system’s just going to need some water.”
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AP journalists Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, and Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee, contributed to this report.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Fans who agree Disneyland is indeed the happiest place on Earth will soon be able to take home more than a souvenir.
A passionate collector has brought Disney magic to a sprawling 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) building in Burbank, California, where fans can hear birds chirping in the Enchanted Tiki Room section or giggle at the animated ghosts from the Haunted Mansion ride as they preview more than 1,500 items up for auction later this month.
Joel Magee has been building his collection of more than 6,000 items — including costumes, rare posters, and life-size vehicles from rides like Dumbo and Peter Pan — for 30 years, and he’s finally ready to share some of it with the public.
“I’m one of those guys — go big or go home. And if you don’t have the biggest, then it ain’t the best,” Magee told The Associated Press in a recent interview, as fans milled about the exhibit. Magee’s is the largest individually owned Disneyland/Disney Park collection in the world.
“It’s really kind of exciting. This is the first time that all of my things have been in the same room at the same time,” he said.
Magee is known in the collectible industry as “the toy scout,” and has amassed a huge collection of toys and Disney items. He says he watched “The Wonderful World of Disney” on TV every week as a kid but had never been to the park and never thought about collecting until he was at a toy show where he met a man selling Disneyland artifacts and got hooked.
“At the time, I couldn’t afford too much. I bought a couple of pieces, but that’s where it all began,” Magee said. “In my travels as ‘the toy scout,’ I meet people all over the country and for the last 25 years, they’ve just been bringing me all their stuff and here it is today.”
The items for sale are as small as a trading card and as large as a 1917 Model T moving van from Disneyland’s original Main Street that Magee says Walt Disney created himself.
Mike Van Eaton is the co-owner of Van Eaton Galleries, which is running the auction. He says among the most sought-after items are those from the Haunted Mansion attraction, including original stretch paintings from the elevator in the iconic ride, and a “doom buggy” — the vehicle guests ride on.
“Joel also has one of the most amazing Disney attraction poster collections in the world. He has every attraction poster ever in the park. And those are also going to do very well,” Van Eaton said.
There are items for every price point, with some starting as low as $50 — but most go way up from there.
“Some of these items, such as the Dumbo ride vehicle, may go for $200,000 to $300,000. We have trash cans from the park that may go for $5,000 or $6,000, and posters that could reach $50,000 to $60,000,” Van Eaton said.
Magee says it’s hard to choose his favorites in such a large collection but he is partial to the static props he’s brought to life.
“The Tiki birds, oh my gosh, they were piles of junk when we got them! They were worn out, pieces were missing,” Magee said. “Some good friends of mine that do a lot of work … in that field brought them all back to life better than you could ever imagine. And … people look at that and you can just see the magic in their eyes when they see them.”
The exhibition is at the Burbank Town Center Mall and runs through July 16. The auction will be held July 17 through 19.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas jury will hear the first testimony Tuesday in a civil lawsuit to decide how much Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.
The trial involving the parents of two Sandy Hook families is only the start for Jones. Damages have yet to be awarded in separate defamation cases for other families of the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The lawsuits do not ask jurors to award a specific dollar amount against Jones, but in questioning the Texas jury pool on Monday, attorneys for the families suggested they could seek $100 million or more in compensatory and punitive damages.
Opening statements and testimony are set for Tuesday. Family members of the shooting victims and Jones were not in the courtroom when a 12-person jury and four alternates were selected Monday from a jury pool of more than 100.
“We’re very glad the day is here,” said Mark Bankston, attorney for the families suing Jones. “We’re looking forward to telling our clients’ story.”
It’s unclear if Jones will attend any of the scheduled two-week trial. His attorney said Jones has a “medical issue” but did not elaborate.
Initial testimony Tuesday is expected to include Daniel Jewiss, who was the Connecticut State Police lead investigator of Sandy Hook, and Daria Karpova, a producer at Infowars.
In questioning the jury pool, Jones’ attorney Andino Reynal acknowledged Jones is a “very polarizing” and “controversial” figure, but also noted he’d ask the jury to cap damages at $1.
During jury selection, most in the jury pool raised their hand when asked if they had heard of Jones, and nearly two dozen agreed when Reynal asked who among them had a “firm negative impression” of him.
“We’re very happy with the jury we’ve seated,” Reynal said. “It’s a very important First Amendment case. On trial right now is not just people’s freedom of speech, but it’s also people’s freedom to listen. To choose what they watch on television, to make those choices for themselves, instead of having a personal injury lawyer make those choices for them.”
Courts in Texas and Connecticut have already found Jones liable for defamation for his portrayal of the Sandy Hook massacre as a hoax involving actors aimed at increasing gun control. In both states, judges have issued default judgements against Jones without trials because he failed to respond to court orders and turn over documents.
The Texas trial begins about two months after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which is about 145 miles (235 kilometers) southwest of Austin. It was the deadliest school shooting in the nearly 10 years since Sandy Hook.
The 2012 Connecticut shooting killed 20 first graders and six educators. Families of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to the school are suing Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.
Jones has since acknowledged that the shooting took place. During a deposition in April, Jones insisted he wasn’t responsible for the suffering that Sandy Hook parents say they have endured because of the hoax conspiracy, including death threats and harassment by Jones’ followers.
Jones claimed in court records last year that he had a negative net worth of $20 million, but attorneys for Sandy Hook families have painted a different financial picture.
Court records show that Jones’ Infowars store, which sells nutritional supplements and survival gear, made more than $165 million between 2015 and 2018. Jones has also urged listeners on his Infowars program to donate money.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
659 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Lewis
County through 730 PM EDT...
At 658 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles northwest of McKeever, or 14 miles west of Old Forge, moving
northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Brantingham and Sperryville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4369 7512 4363 7526 4376 7541 4394 7515
TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 222DEG 16KT 4369 7525
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Trial expected to begin for ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump who faces criminal contempt of Congress charges after refusing for months to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Bannon is charged in Washington’s federal court with defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee that sought his records and testimony. He was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received a congressional referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars.
The trial follows a flurry of activity in the case since July 9. Over a week ago, the former White House strategist notified the committee that he is now willing to testify. His lawyer, Robert Costello, said the change was because Trump has waived his executive privilege claim from preventing the testimony.
Bannon, 68, had been one of the most prominent of the Trump-allied holdouts in refusing to testify before the committee. He has argued that his testimony is protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege.
Trump has repeatedly asserted executive privilege — even as a former president — to try to block witness testimony and the release of White House documents. The Supreme Court in January ruled against Trump's efforts to stop the National Archives from cooperating with the committee after a lower court judge noted, in part, "Presidents are not kings."
The committee has also noted that Trump fired Bannon from the White House in 2017 and Bannon was thus a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined motions to delay the trial in separate hearings last week, including Thursday when Bannon's lawyers raised concerns about a CNN report that has since aired about their client and what they said were prejudicial comments made during a hearing last week held by the House committee investigating the riot.
"I am cognizant of current concerns about publicity and bias and whether we can seat a jury that is going to be appropriate and fair, but as I said before, I believe the appropriate course is to go through the voir dire process," Nichols said Thursday, referring to the questioning of individual jurors before they are selected. The judge said he intended to get a jury that "is going to be appropriate, fair and unbiased."
While the judge allowed the trial to move forward, Nichols left open the possibility that the letters about Trump waiving his privilege and Bannon's offer to cooperate with the committee could be referenced at trial, saying the information was "at least potentially relevant" to Bannon’s defense.
Roscoe Howard Jr., the former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., said the best case for Bannon is if the information on his cooperation offer gets to the jury. Even if it does, claiming that executive privilege stopped him from cooperating earlier will be a hard argument to make because Bannon refused to answer the subpoena, Howard said.
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Officials alarmed after rap video is recorded in prison
LENOX TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A rap video titled “In Dis Cell” appears to be too authentic: It was made inside a Michigan prison, despite a ban on wireless phones.
Two prisoners in the video have been placed in segregation at the Macomb prison in suburban Detroit, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said Tuesday.
The video, posted on YouTube, shows the men, the inside of their cell and prison staff in a corridor. The men appear to have two phones.
Gautz told the Detroit Free Press it’s “incredibly dangerous” to have wireless phones inside a prison “especially with the capability of getting onto the internet.” He said they could be used to arrange escapes or harass crime witnesses.
Smuggling phones, cameras or drugs into prison is a crime.
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It's the beverage backlash rocking the bluegrass state.
"If you're going to make bourbon, you really need to be in Kentucky, and we want you in Kentucky to do that," said Jack Mazurak said.
Mazurak is the director of governmental and regulatory affairs for the Kentucky Distillers' Association.
The point of contention? The end of a barrel tax.
In March, Governor Andy Beshear signed off on a bill outlining the phasing out of the property tax placed on aging barrels of bourbon in the state.
The phase-out, which will begin in 2026, will see that tax reduced by a few percentage points each year, leading to its full elimination by 2043—a move being applauded by the state's roughly $9 billion bourbon industry.
"From an economic development perspective. When you look at a barrel tax, that's a punishment for growth. That's a punishment for success," Mazurak said.
Mazurak says the annual barrel tax was problematic as the demand for bourbon has been growing, leading distillers to produce and store more aging barrels of bourbon and therefore pay more in taxes.
"Last year, we had 12 million barrels aging in the state and paid $40 million in barrel taxes. So, you know, it went from 9.5 million in 2009, 2014 when things really started taking off, it was about $14 million in barrel taxes we paid. But I mean, just the increments that it was jumping each year was incredible. And it's a growing pain," Mazurak said.
Mazurak says the barrel tax only served as a deterrent for new distillers looking to set up shop in the state.
"If you're a startup, if you want to come to Kentucky and start up a small distillery, that's a major disincentive," Mazurak said. "So, you could go to Tennessee; you could go to Ohio, Indiana. You could go anywhere, right? And start up your distillery and not face these costs."
But while distillers are static about the tax break, counties that are home to distillers are now bracing for a financial hit in the coming years. In a state that's estimated to produce95% of the world's bourbon, that's big money.
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"They feel like they haven't been listened to, like they've been thrown under the bus, like they've been abandoned, like they haven't been supported, like they've been very supportive of this industry. I'm not so sure they're going to be in the future," Pam Thomas said.
Pam Thomas is a senior fellow at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.
She says, like anywhere else, property taxes are used to fund local services. In the case of the funds collected from the barrel tax, that money has historically been used to fund schools, emergency services like fire and police, roads, and more in Kentucky.
"The thing about local governments in Kentucky is they do not have a lot of revenue sources. Their biggest revenue source is their property tax," Thomas said. "The thing about local governments in Kentucky is they do not have a lot of revenue sources. Their biggest revenue source is their property tax."
Thomas says overall, many counties are struggling with the bourbon industry's claims that the barrel tax has been a burden on business.
"It's pretty clear, given the growth of the industry, and you can go and look at the press releases from the governor's office, that they're in a boom, that they're in a huge boom, that the boom is already expected to last more than five years. So, the argument that it's making us not competitive, it just really doesn't hold water," Thomas said.
She adds that dropping the tax might end up disconnecting the industry from the communities where it operates as well.
"I just don't think they're going to get the local support that they got before because they do feel like they've been duped. And, you know, I would say that they have," Thomas said.
Thomas says the distillers knew what they were getting into when they opened their doors in Kentucky.
"Every single distillery that's come into Kentucky, and there's like 90 of them now; just a few years ago, there were only 14 or 15. They did a cost-benefit analysis that included the barrel tax, and they decided to come here anyway," Thomas said.
But for Mazurak, there are more important things.
"Bourbon is wonderful to have, the enthusiasm and the tourism, and the demand. But at the end of the day, it's not a grocery item; you know, nobody has to have it. It's not a good tax policy to balance your county budget or to really have it tied in with schools because your kids' education and my kids' education is more important than that," Mazurak said.
Making the bourbon battle a topic of discussion at Kentucky watering holes for years to come.
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PARIS, France — A crane hoisted massive oak trusses from a barge and onto Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in a spectacular operation to rebuild the fire-ravaged monument and bring it back to life by December 2024.
With trusses weighing 7 to 7.5 tons, the delicate operation drew crowds along a bridge over the Seine River and on its banks.
“I think it’s a magical moment for a lot of Parisians this morning,” said Transport Minister Clement Beaune, noting that the Seine will be at the center of the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron to oversee Notre Dame’s reconstruction, said that even the heavy traffic expected during the summer Games won’t stop work on the world-renowned cathedral.
“We will work for the cathedral during the Olympics in order to be ready in December 2024,” he said. “This is our goal."
Notre Dame, which overlooks the historic core of Paris from an island on the Seine, was consumed by flames in 2019. It was decided to rebuild the monument using methods of yore.
Expert carpenters used medieval techniques to construct the trusses, which measure 46 to 52 feet wide and 39 to 43 feet high.
Guided by ropes, the trusses were placed on the roof around the area of the iconic spire, which crumbled in cinders during the fire, and the two arms of the transept, the wooden skeleton of Notre Dame. A statement said the cathedral's silhouette, now enmeshed in scaffolding, should emerge on the skyline as work advances. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/notre-dame-fire-rebuilding-trusses/507-62e550fc-5f8a-4748-9a3b-133fbdceef48 | 2023-07-12 14:29:51 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/notre-dame-fire-rebuilding-trusses/507-62e550fc-5f8a-4748-9a3b-133fbdceef48 |
Renowned immunology expert honored for discovering link between lupus and endogenous retroviruses
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) awarded its 2022 Lupus Insight Prize (LIP) to Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, for her discovery of the link between endogenous retroviruses and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The award was presented to Dr. Iwasaki at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS 2022) by Judith James, MD, PhD, LRA Scientific Advisory Board member and Lou Kerr Chair in Biomedical Research and Chair of the Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The $100,000 award recognizes and honors an outstanding investigator who has, within the past five years, published a novel and important research insight into lupus that advances our understanding of this disease and could open new avenues for lupus diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Iwasaki is the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Iwasaki was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2021, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
"Dr. Iwasaki's research shows that endogenous retroviruses are not just silent inhabitants in the human genome but rather active players able to provoke immune cells to engage in the destruction of the body's own tissues and organs," commented Dr. James. "This finding is highly significant because endogenous retroviruses have been increasingly associated with several chronic diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune rheumatic diseases, though their exact role in human diseases remains poorly understood."
"I am honored to receive this prestigious award, and I sincerely thank the Lupus Research Alliance for recognizing our research. I am eager to use this award to further understand the association between antibodies against the endogenous retroviruses and lupus-like disease in long COVID patients to ultimately improve their disease treatment outcomes," said Dr. Iwasaki.
Dr. Iwasaki's seminal discovery demonstrated that endogenous retroviruses, which are viruses that are a part of our genetic makeup or genome, make immune cells called B cells that produce autoantibodies, i.e., immune proteins that in people with SLE mistakenly target body's own tissues, causing organ damage. Dr. Iwasaki and her team also found that endogenous retroviruses force immune cells called neutrophils to release spiderweb-like structures known as NETs, which have been shown to promote inflammation in SLE. These findings further our understanding of what may cause lupus or worsen its symptoms and suggest that targeting ways that endogenous retroviruses use to fuel inflammation in SLE could provide new therapeutic options for patients with lupus.
Human endogenous retroviruses are genetic segments of retroviral origin that have become a part of the human genetic makeup which have persisted from generation to generation and today constitute approximately eight percent of the human genome. To study the role of endogenous retroviruses in human disease, Dr. Iwasaki and colleagues initially developed the human endogenous retrovirus map, called ERVMap, which included 3,220 pieces (or segments) of different endogenous retroviruses in the human genome to be able to determine which of these genes are expressed by human cells. Among these 3,220 endogenous retroviral segments, Dr. Iwasaki's group found that over 100 segments are strongly elevated in immune cells called peripheral blood mononuclear cells of lupus patients.
The researchers further found that these elevated levels of endogenous retroviral genes are associated with higher amounts of autoantibodies and increased type I interferon levels, which are considered a main driver of lupus. Her team also showed that the immune system of lupus patients produces autoantibodies that interact with a unique endogenous retroviral protein HERV-K102. The autoantibody HERV-K102 complexes stimulate neutrophils to release NETs, which worsens inflammation in SLE. This research was published last year in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Lupus is a chronic, complex autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. More than 90 percent of people with lupus are women; lupus is most often diagnosed during the childbearing years of 15-45. African Americans, Latinx, Asians and Native Americans are two to three times at greater risk than Caucasians. In lupus, the immune system, designed to protect against infection, creates antibodies that can attack any part of the body including the kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, blood, skin, and joints.
The Lupus Research Alliance, the largest nongovernmental, nonprofit research organization dedicated to lupus research worldwide, aims to transform treatment while advancing toward a cure by funding the most innovative lupus research in the world. The organization's stringent peer review grant process fosters diverse scientific talent who are driving discovery toward better diagnostics, improved treatments and ultimately a cure for lupus. Because the Lupus Research Alliance's Board of Directors funds all administrative and fundraising costs, 100 percent of all donations goes to support lupus research programs.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, during the 4th International Tea Day, China, known as the birthplace of tea, joined hands with governments, international organizations, leading tea companies, and industry organizations to organize around 40 tea-themed events worldwide, aiming to deepen the understanding of Chinese tea culture among overseas populations.
As a leading chain brand of Chinese tea established by a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage 'Tie Guan Yin' craftsmanship, Bama Tea Company was invited to represent Chinese tea and made consecutive appearances in promotional events held in China, the United States, Italy, and other countries. It showcased the essence of Chinese tea culture and presented China's unique charm to guests from around the world. Its star products, such as 'Sai Zhen Zhu Tie Guan Yin' and 'The Light of East Lake' series, captivated guests from various countries with their distinctive flavors.
From May 18th to 22nd, Wang Wenli, the Chairman of Bama Tea Company and a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage 'Tie Guan Yin' craftsmanship, was invited to speak as a representative of the Chinese tea industry at the United Nations in the United States, the Chinese Embassy in the United States, and the China General Chamber of Commerce-USA. He shared the stories of China's intangible cultural heritage tea culture with Ambassador Zhang Jun, the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, Consul General Huang Ping of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, as well as representatives of more than 20 countries at the United Nations and tea culture experts, scholars, and enthusiasts from around the world. His presentations showcased China's profound cultural heritage and received praise from the representatives of various countries.
On May 22nd, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, the Anxi Tie Guan Yin Tea Culture System was awarded the certificate of 'Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System'. Bama Tea Company, as the leading brand in Anxi Tie Guan Yin tea sales in China for 14 consecutive years, sent its chief tea fairy, Jiang Yutong, to the event to showcase the exquisite tea art from China to the world.
The exhibition area of Bama Tea Company attracted a large number of visitors who were fascinated by the stories of Chinese tea and the beauty of the East. Accompanied by live tea performances, guests from various countries enjoyed tea tasting while exploring the tea culture exhibition, fully experiencing the charm of Chinese tea culture. The atmosphere was joyful and lively, and the guests were reluctant to leave.
As a benchmark tea company in China, Bama Tea Company will be invited to hold promotional events for Chinese intangible cultural heritage tea culture in countries such as South Africa in the future. By empowering the tea industry with tea culture, it will contribute to international exchanges and cooperation among excellent Chinese tea brands, showcasing the unique charm of Chinese tea culture, and further promoting outstanding traditional culture to go beyond China and spread to the world.
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"Music has always been a tool for me to express feelings I feared would be unacceptable, in a form that's more poetic and palatable for people," says Abby Hwong, the Los Angeles-based artist who performs as NoSo. In their dreamy indie rock songs, Hwong wrestles with what it means to confront those fears and emerges with confidence, becoming accepting of — even proud to share — those feelings. That newfound fortitude is at the heart of their debut album, aptly titled Stay Proud Of Me, which they describe as a labor of love written to their younger self.
Music has been integral to Hwong's life since childhood: Their album's cover art was inspired by the '80s Korean records their parents played for them as a baby; growing up, they would see legends like B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin at the Chicago music festival where their mom worked. Hwong began playing guitar at age 12, but didn't start writing music seriously until moving from the Midwest to Los Angeles at age 16. "That's when I was able to look inward and feel like I had a valid reason to write emotional songs." Hwong explains. "That allowed me to see, going forward, that everything I had repressed, I could write about." They eventually attended the University of Southern California to study popular music.
NPR Music first discovered NoSo when they entered the Tiny Desk Contest in 2019 with a song that showcased their impressive guitar skills, including an earworm riff that still sounds refreshing years later. You can hear Hwong's virtuosic, memorable guitar playing throughout Stay Proud Of Me, which is also elevated by a fuller production of cinematic synths and lush pop sounds; they're especially skilled at packaging heavy subject matter as a catchy hook or chorus without cheapening its sentiment. Hwong is nonbinary, and their songwriting has been a place where they process their evolving gender identity. They wrote the album's opening track while recovering from gender-affirming top surgery: "So lovely to meet you, again / so lovely to be born again," they sing gently as the instrumentation swells, setting a compassionate tone for the album. On songs like "Suburbia" and "David," they reflect on growing up in a nearly all-white Chicago suburb; on "I'm Embarrassed I Still Think Of You" and "Feeling Like a Woman Lately," they reflect on their identity as a queer and trans person. Across the album, they give themselves freedom to explore varying instrumentation, experiment with song structures and play out their daydreams.
Ahead of the album's release, Hwong spoke with NPR Music about the courage and compassion in their music and how Stay Proud Of Me took shape.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
NPR Music: I understand you went to USC's Thornton School of Music, where you were in the popular music program. I read that you had a fear about learning the production side of things until later in college. What was the process like of finding your sound?
Abby Hwong: Most of my academic experiences were focused on guitar and songwriting and composition, and I procrastinated on learning how to produce until my senior year of school. I had so many resources and different classes I could've taken, but I just thought, "I'm not a producer. It's fine." I think [I was dealing with] some kind of internalized misogyny because I could always picture what I wanted the songs to sound like, but I didn't think I could do it myself. I had to have someone else put their stamp on it, otherwise it didn't feel legit. I worked with really great producers — but it was on their timelines, their availability. I had to submit demos for label submissions, and I was like, "God, if I could just do this all myself it would be so much faster!" I wanted to be done quicker, and so that's what pushed me to actually learn.
Vulnerability is a theme that really comes across on the record. How did you learn to be vulnerable both with yourself and others?
I've been pretty reserved since I was a kid because I felt like things I would say would not be acceptable in the homogenous town I was in — especially my thoughts about being trans. When I was young, I didn't really have the vocabulary to articulate how I felt about it. I kind of carried [that] through into my adulthood, until recently. But music has always been a tool for me to express feelings I fear would be unacceptable, in a form that is more poetic and palatable for people. For a long time, I would use convoluted metaphors because I was scared of just being outrightly vulnerable with lyrics. And then as I progressed as a songwriter and realized how cathartic it is to be honest and vulnerable, I got more and more brave.
You've said that your chest is a motif across the album that "represents [your] gender identity, projections and insecurities." What did you mean by that?
I address my chest on "Sorry I Laughed" and "Everything I've Got," which are really vulnerable songs. [I wrote them] prior to me having [top] surgery. "Everything I've Got" is a very emotionally intimate song, and I'm essentially projecting all of my insecurities onto someone else — being like, "It's because I'm trans, that's why we can't work." That probably was not the issue at all, but I was always very embarrassed of my chest because it felt shameful — I was like, "This should just not be on my body." And then "Sorry I Laughed" [is about] laughing when someone is trying to be physically intimate with me because my chest makes me so uncomfortable, and possibly offending that person in the situation. Something that was so uncomfortable for me ended up being a catalyst for making other people feel uncomfortable. Now, post-surgery, I can reflect on those moments and feel empathy toward the people in those situations, but also for myself.
This album feels like a real step forward for you as a musician. Is there a relationship between your gender identity and evolving musical sound?
Yeah, 100%. The reason why this album is sentimental to me is because I started writing it when I was 20 years old and ended it when I was 24. And there were a lot of imperative life changes for me during that period of time regarding my gender. Through the songs, I feel like you can tell that I've become a bit more courageous and kind toward myself in the lyrics. And I still feel like my gender identity is evolving. Past this album and into the future, I think [my songs will] hopefully become more courageous as I become more accepting of my own gender identity.
There are some very cinematic elements to the production on the album, especially on "Honey Understand." It sounds to me like this music creates a space to explore a lot of different narratives or even shapes your life could take. Was that intentional?
I actually wrote, like, 10 seasons of this Korean drama screenplay [during quarantine]. The quality of the writing is questionable, but it was so fun for me to do that because I wasn't having any experiences in the outside world. And I wrote "Honey Understand" from the perspective of the characters in that screenplay. I don't think songwriting has to be intense in order to be valid. Like, Kate Bush wrote Wuthering Heights about the book and sang from the perspective of the character in the book, changed her vocal tone and everything! And so I think there's that element of fantasy and just light-hearted fun that I think is good to explore.
I'm curious how you came up with the album title, Stay Proud Of Me, and what role pride plays in your life these days.
"Stay proud of me" is also a line from the opening track, "Parasites." (It was between that and the line "take off the drag" for the album title.) But I think "Stay Proud of Me" is the overlying theme across all the songs. Most of the songs on the record are within the theme of addressing my younger self. I just want to weep when I see pictures of my younger self. There's such an innocent vulnerability, but also so much pain from when I was a little kid. I always imagine if I were walking across the street and saw little me, I think the younger version of myself would be proud of older me. And also kind of like, "Well, that person's, like, pretty weird." [Laughs.] But also, maybe: "I'll be brave like that."
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — There were times during the slog of a football game Sunday night when Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady looked frustrated. There were other times he looked angry. There were a few times he looked downright old.
But there were also six throws in overtime where Tom Brady looked like Tom Brady. And that’s all the Buccaneers needed.
Brady completed all six of his passes in overtime, helping the Bucs overcome a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and beat the Arizona Cardinals 19-16 to keep a one-game lead in the NFC South.
“If we keep it close in the fourth quarter, we know we’ve got a shot,” Brady said. “I think we’re all comfortable in those situations.”
Ryan Succop hit the decisive 40-yard field goal with 3:41 left in overtime, capping a nine-play, 66-yard drive. Brady wasn’t great for much of the night, but came up big on the decisive drive, completing all six of his passes for 69 yards in a vintage display of precision in clutch moments.
It was Brady’s 57th winning drive.
“That’s just who he is,” Fournette said. “He’s been doing it for years. Guys like myself, Mike (Evans), Julio (Jones), Chris (Godwin), Rachaad (White), everybody, we’re just playing a part in his greatness. Give him what he wants. He wants certain routes run certain ways.
“We’re just here to try and make his job easier.”
The Cardinals got the ball to start overtime but eventually had to punt. Tampa Bay got the big gain it needed when Brady found Russell Gage Jr. for a 23-yard gain.
From there, the Bucs squeezed out a few more yards before Succop made his fourth field goal of the evening.
Arizona (4-11) has lost five straight games, while Tampa Bay snapped a two-game skid. The Bucs (7-8) stayed a game ahead of the Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints in the NFC South. Tampa Bay has a crucial home game against Carolina next weekend.
The 45-year-old Brady made his 331st career start at quarterback, while the Cardinals were down to Trace McSorley in his first start. The former Penn State standout had been the team’s third-string quarterback for much of the season, but made his starting debut after injuries to Kyler Murray and Colt McCoy.
James Conner broke loose for a 22-yard touchdown run with 10:47 left in the fourth quarter to give the Cardinals a 16-6 advantage. But Brady and the Bucs responded with their first touchdown drive on the night, scoring when the quarterback hit Rachaad White on a 3-yard pass, cutting it to 16-13 with 8:03 left.
The Bucs caught a huge break on the ensuing drive when Cardinals rookie Keaontay Ingram fumbled a pitch from McSorley. Tampa Bay’s William Gholston jumped on the loose ball.
Tampa Bay capitalized nine plays later when Succop made a 42-yard field goal for his third field goal of the night, tying it at 16 and forcing overtime.
Brady was 32 of 48 for 281 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. He’s thrown at least two interceptions in three straight games, which ties the longest streak of his career. Fournette ran for 72 yards and caught nine passes for 90 yards.
“It was a total effort today in the second half, especially in the fourth quarter,” Tampa Bay coach Todd Bowles said. “Defense getting stops and the offense cashing in.”
Arizona’s McSorley was 24 of 45 for 217 yards and one interception.
“Our guys played hard, battled,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “I thought the defense played their hearts out and gave us a chance. Just wanted to finish offensively.”
Neither team made it to the end zone in a first half that ended in a 6-6 tie. Cardinals kicker Matt Prater booted field goals from 56 and 53 yards. His second one — just before halftime — bounced off the left upright but still trickled past the crossbar for three points.
Brady was on the offensive early, throwing a deep pass down the right sideline to Julio Jones on the game’s opening play. The pass was incomplete but Cardinals cornerback Antonio Hamilton was called for pass interference, resulting in a 30-yard gain.
But the 23-year veteran was off on several other deep balls. Brady was intercepted during a promising drive in the second quarter when the quarterback was hit on the arm as he tried to throw deep to Evans. The throw was well short and picked off by Cardinals cornerback Marco Wilson Jr.
Wilson intercepted two of Brady’s passes.
INJURIES
Buccaneers: LT Josh Wells (knee) was carted off the field during the second quarter.
Cardinals: QB McCoy (concussion) and DE Zach Allen (hand) were among the team’s inactives. … DT Trysten Hill (knee) was carted off in the second quarter.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: Host Carolina next Sunday.
Cardinals: At Atlanta next Sunday.
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Portland Thorns forward Sophia Smith has been named the 2022 National Women's Soccer League Most Valuable Player.
Smith had 14 goals in 18 matches for the Thorns, setting a team single-season record. She scored on all three of her penalty kick attempts and had four two-goal games.
The 22-year-old Smith, who also plays for the U.S. national team, is the youngest ever recipient of the award.
"I mean it's surreal, it still really hasn't hit me," Smith said. “But it's an honor because I know I was with great company who were up for that award and I think there's so many other players in this league that can also win MVP.”
The Thorns play Saturday night against the Kansas City Current for the league championship at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. The championship game caps the league's 10th season.
The NWSL also announced Thursday that Naomi Girma of the expansion San Diego Wave earned Rookie of the Year and Defender of the Year honors. Wave coach Casey Stoney was named Coach of the Year, Kailen Sheridan was named Goalkeeper of the Year. Wave forward Alex Morgan won the Golden Boot with 15 regular-season goals.
Morgan finished second in MVP voting ahead of North Carolina Courage forward Debinha.
The winners of this season's awards were determined by votes from fans, owners, general managers, coaches, players and the media.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Women who were sexually assaulted by former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar filed a lawsuit Thursday saying school officials made “secret decisions” about releasing documents in the case.
The group of survivors and parents says the lawsuit seeks accountability — not money — from the university. They say the school refused to give the state attorney general’s office more than 6,000 documents for an investigation into how Nassar was allowed to get away with his behavior, and later wouldn't turn over emails about the board of trustees' decision-making. The school has said the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Nassar was sentenced in 2018 to 40 to 175 years in prison after he admitted to molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment. He was accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of women and girls.
Michigan State has been criticized for its handling of the Nassar investigation and its dealings with survivors in the aftermath of his arrest and conviction. The school has settled lawsuits filed by Nassar victims for $500 million.
Mark Bullion, a spokesperson for Michigan State, said Thursday in an email that the school does not comment on pending litigation, and that the school has not seen or been served with the new lawsuit.
The civil suit names the school and its elected trustee board, saying the decisions and “secret votes” by a public body skirted Michigan's open meetings laws and the state Constitution, according to a news release.
“We contend that board members made a behind-closed-doors secret decision not to release the records in blatant violation of the Open Meetings Act,” victims' attorney Azzam Elder said in a release. “They followed that up with violations of the Freedom of Information Act when we requested emails that might show they discussed and made a closed-door decision on the matter in violation of law.”
The suit wants the school to turn over emails and other communications about decisions trustees may have made out of the public eye, to have a court declare that Michigan State violated the Freedom of Information Act and to compel the university to comply with both FOIA and the Open Meetings Act going forward.
Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the school to release the more than 6,000 documents to help shine a light on what the school knew about the abuse. She ended her investigation in 2021 of the school's handling of the Nassar case because the university refused to provide documents related to the scandal.
“This is about who knew what, when at the university,” Nasar victim Melissa Brown Hudecz said prior to Thursday's lawsuit filing. “We can’t heal as a community until we know that everyone who enabled a predator is accountable. By protecting the 6,000 secret documents and anyone named in them, the board is adding to survivors’ trauma with their lack of institutional accountability.”
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WASHINGTON — After its winless streak continued, Powerball's jackpot rose to $526 million.
The prize leapt past the half-billion-dollar mark after Monday's drawing failed to produce a grand winner. Powerball is offering a cash option of $284 million for Wednesday's drawing.
The lottery game has been without a grand prize winner since Nov. 19, the same month Powerball had a record-breaking $2.04 billion jackpot. Although $526 million is a big jackpot, it doesn't rank among the 10 largest lottery prizes in the U.S.
Earlier this month, another popular lottery game had a massive billion-dollar payout. A Mega Millions ticket sold in Maine won $1.35 billion, making it the fourth-largest lottery prize.
Powerball winning numbers for 1/25/23
The winning numbers for Wednesday were 9-17-20-38-40, Powerball 18.
What are the odds of winning the Powerball?
The chances of winning the Powerball jackpot are slim - one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes.
Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to "larger, faster-growing jackpots."
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
$2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
$1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
$1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
$1.35 billion Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
$1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
$1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
$768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
$758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
$731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Like some 260,000 Americans, Sean Saifa Wall was born with significant intersex traits. The sex on the birth certificate was checked “ambiguous” and then crossed out.
Wall was instead labeled female on the document and, at the age of 13, after his mother was inaccurately warned of a cancerous threat, his testes were removed. Doctors told his parents to raise him as a girl, though Wall later developed masculine features and now identifies as a man.
“They literally stopped my development — I was starting to develop as male. And they stopped it right there and changed course. It was a hard left,” says Wall. “It was disappointing and almost devastating that what I wanted could never be achieved. I wanted to pass. I wanted to be read as cis.”
“I had to tap into something else because it was hard being misgendered all the time and people not seeing me the way I saw myself,” Wall adds. “That’s when I was like: I need to really fight back.”
Wall, co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, is one of three intersex activists profiled in the new documentary “Every Body,” by “RBG” filmmaker Julie Cohen. The film, which Focus Features will release in 250 nationwide theaters on June 30, shines a warm spotlight on a much-misunderstood community, and three of its most dauntless champions.
An estimated 1.7% of the U.S. population — or about the same number of red-haired people — have some intersex traits, including genitalia, reproductive organs, chromosomes and/or hormone levels that don’t fit typical definitions for males or females. At a time when gender is an increasingly fraught battleground everywhere from state legislatures to youth sports leagues, those born intersex contradict any strictly binary notion of gender.
“At the core, people are afraid of uncertainty. The thing that trans people and intersex people represent is that gray space,” says actor and filmmaker River Gallo, another subject of the film. “It’s been six years since I came out. I’m still trying to grapple with what it means to exist in between.”
“Every Body,” which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, seeks to be a galvanizing moment in the intersex rights movement, a small but growing advocacy for a sizeable segment of LGBTQIA+ people (the “I” stands for intersex).
Fear of social stigma has often haunted intersex people. But the advocate trio of “Every Body,” gathered for a recent interview in New York, are unashamed, unshakable and forthright about themselves and their experiences — and what they believe needs to change about how intersex children are medically treated.
Alicia Roth Weigel, a political consultant and human rights commissioner for the city of Austin, Texas, was born with male (XY) chromosomes. As an infant, her gonads were removed, which she considers a castration. Years of hormone treatments followed.
“I’ve found so much freedom in realizing that there are so many roles for all of us in the world,” Weigel says. “None of us have to be defined by — set gender aside, set sex aside — the rigid notions of what anyone thinks you should be. My whole thing is just: There’s no should. Just be.”
The United Nations, in a 2013 report on torture, called for an end to “genital-normalizing surgery, involuntary sterilization, unethical experimentation, medical display, ‘reparative therapies’” — procedures which the U.N. said may violate a person’s “right to physical integrity.”
But such surgeries have continued. A stalled bill in California sought to prohibit surgeries until a child is 12, in order to give them time to develop a gender identity and offer consent themselves. At the same time, several states have advanced anti-trans legislation that bans gender-affirming care for those under 18 or older.
“What happened to me shouldn’t happen to anyone,” says the 44-year-old Wall, whose co-stars call the “OG” of the movement. “To me, that was the drive, and it’s still the drive. People ask me, ‘How are you doing all this work after all these years?’ And I’m like, ‘First, I’m a Capricorn.’ But I am determined to fight whoever to stop this. I will not stop until justice is upon us.”
Cohen was first attracted to the subject by the tragic story of David Reimer, a Canadian man who, in an infamous medical experiment overseen by physician Dr. John Money, was raised as a girl for most of his first 14 years of life. Reimer, after speaking out about what happened to him, killed himself in 2004.
For “Every Body,” Cohen wanted people who were comfortable speaking publicly about their experience. The 33-year-old Weigel, whom Cohen first approached, came out while speaking before the Texas Legislature in 2017 about a then-proposed bill regulating bathroom use for transgender Texans. She has an upcoming book titled “Inverse Cowgirl.”
Gallo wrote and stars in the the film “Ponyboi,” a film they expect to release later this year or early next. The Los Angeles-based Gallo, who has found Hollywood less liberal than it often presents itself, is accustomed to performing. But it takes courage.
“I still get really scared every time a camera points at me or I get on a stage,” they say. “I would be better suited to a life that’s smaller. But I know that my experience is one that needs to be shouted from the rooftops because it could save people’s lives.”
Cohen, wanting to foster intimacy, filmed interviews with only herself in the room each subject. But while there are anguished and heart-wrenching aspects of the documentary, “Every Body” is a inspiring and celebratory testimony. It concludes with dancing.
“The center of the whole film is just Saifa, Alicia and River telling their own stories and being their own amazing selves,” says Cohen.
“The intersex rights movement is right in the middle of a lot of national conversations that we’re having right now as some of the country starts to look at gender in a more expansive way,” Cohen says. “But leaving aside the relevance and impact that they might have on trans rights cases and on nonbinary people, intersex people deserve their own lives. They want to be advocated for, too.”
Even among LGBTQ causes, funding for intersex people is a tiny percentage. In national debates over trans rights, they can be forgotten. A bill passed by House Republicans in April that would bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams, advocates say, discriminates against intersex kids, too.
“Every Body,” though, has brought together a dispersed and fledgling movement that’s coalesced largely online. At the Tribeca premiere, many intersex people flocked to the screening and even joined the film team on the red carpet.
“Great films have always brought people together and we’re already seeing that happen on this one,” says Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus. The film, he added, “represents the best of what we do.”
For Weigel, Wall and Gallo, the screening was a deeply moving experience and a rare sense of togetherness. Weigel was there with guests, she says, from throughout her life, from elementary school to her professional career in Texas.
“I felt a little bit vulnerable because I said some stuff that most human beings don’t need to share with the world in the way that we often need to expose ourselves,” Weigel says. “But it also felt very like freeing. Kind of like everyone from my world saw me for the first time.”
In one scene, Wall visits a Berlin art exhibit that paid tribute to him and others and featured nude photographs. At the sight of Wall’s naked body, the crowd cheered.
“For Saifa, Alicia and River to see themselves as kind of works of art verses something that’s freakish and to be kept closeted and buried, I think, felt like a big moment,” Cohen says.
Wall wants the burst of energy prompted by “Every Body” to keep growing.
“I hope that this film creates a wave of people going, ‘Wait, maybe I’m intersex?’” Wall says. “Given the number of intersex people in the world, it can’t be a handful of people in different countries holding up so many millions of people. We need more people. Whatever they do, just be out. Be like: ‘I’m intersex and that’s OK.’”
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/in-every-body-a-galvanizing-moment-and-celebration-for-the-intersex-community/ | 2023-06-23 02:15:15 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/in-every-body-a-galvanizing-moment-and-celebration-for-the-intersex-community/ |
My youngest daughter has called Nashville home for five years. When Marissa moved there right out of college to pursue grad school, my husband and I helped her out by buying a small, one-bedroom condo near campus.
She’s ready to move on. And you know what that means … Call the broker and spiff up the place.
I call Suzanne McMillan, a realtor with Fridrich & Clark Realty of Nashville, the same broker who sold us the property in 2018. Suzanne usually works on “luxury properties,” but, as a mom of five, she formed a kinship with me years ago, one mom helping another find housing for her daughter.
Suzanne revisited the 620-square-foot condo, which is on the ground floor of a 70-year-old building. She was pleased to see the small improvements. We’d painted the dingy beige walls a cool white (Sherwin-Williams Alabaster), added recessed can lights, and refreshed the window treatments.
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Then she and Marissa made a list of what more to do to get a fast sale for the best price.
“Although the rules for staging a 600-square-foot condo to sell aren’t much different from those for a larger home, in some ways they matter more,” she said when we got on the phone to strategize. “In roomier homes, you can afford to waste space. But a small place gives no grace. Every inch must pull its weight.”
Although the condo was already in a desirable neighborhood close to campus, we still wanted to give the place its best shot. Here’s what we did.
1. Fix, patch, repair. Because we needed to catch up on some home maintenance, Suzanne referred us to her handyman. He patched a crack, refreshed some caulking, replaced weatherstripping on the front door, and touched up paint. He also pressure washed the outside, including the front porch and back patio, to wash away winter debris and spring pollen.
2. Clean, clean, clean. Because every part of a small space gets well used, dirt builds quickly. “If everything buyers can see is clean, gleaming and well maintained, they will assume that what they can’t see (the plumbing, the air-systems) is, too,” she said. “They’ll think. This is a person who changes her air filters.”
3. It’s not about you. “I constantly tell sellers we want to show off the property not your life.” Remove personal items that could distract. “We don’t want buyers looking at photos of all your magnificent travels. We want them to look at the floors, closets and light fixtures.”
4. Declutter. In any size home, cutting clutter is critical, but it’s especially important for small spaces. “My rule is one item per surface,” she said. That means, a counter or a table can have one thing on it. The exception can be a working bookshelf, so long as it’s tidy.
5. Organize it. Buyers will know they won’t have much storage space to work with, so the seller’s job is to convey that all the storage spaces are being used in a smart way. Even though Marissa is more minimalist than most, knowing she was going to be moving gave her good reason to thin her clothing and storage closets. Help buyers think: “Okay, this could work.”
6. Create clear living spaces. In small condos, boundaries get blurred as rooms do double and triple duty. Nonetheless, areas need division, Suzanne said. The bedroom needs to feel separate. Buyers also want a place to sit outside the bedroom, and a dedicated corner to work or study. “Show that you don’t have to work on your bed or sofa. You want the place to feel like a home not a dorm.”
7. Come in like a stranger. Buyers walk into prospective properties with their senses on high alert. They take in everything — sounds, sights, smells — and pick up on everything you don’t notice anymore. That first impression is huge. If their first whiff is of your pet or of last night’s Chinese food, or if they see dust lining the baseboards, that could be a deal breaker. While Suzanne and I agree that masking scents with cheap home fragrances is not the way to go, she recommends putting neutral-scented odor absorbers around, particularly in closets, kitchens and baths.
8. Better furnished than not. Unless the furniture looks terrible, or you have renters who don’t care how the place looks (or if it sells), it’s always better to show a small space furnished. “Smaller homes feel smaller when they’re empty, and buyers have a hard time seeing how they will fit in a sofa or bed and still have room to walk around. When they see furniture in place, they get it.”
9. Bring on the light. In a smaller home, you must show it is not a cave, she said. This is especially true in older buildings, which tend to have fewer windows. Bring in all the natural light you can by opening windows and blinds and washing windows and screens. (If you look onto something unattractive, like the trashcan alley, keep the blinds closed.) Then add interior lighting, too.
10. Eliminate friction points. Fix anything that will make a buyer think “that is something I will have to deal with.” We had made do with the porcelain covered cast iron bathtub, which had worn areas showing through, because it worked fine. But because we knew a buyer would likely ding us for this, we paid the $1,000 to have it resurfaced and looking like new. We only wished we’d done it sooner.
P.S. Within 24 hours of the listing the property, we had three offers. Boom!
Marni Jameson is the author of six home and lifestyle books, including "What to Do With Everything You Own to Leave the Legacy You Want," "Downsizing the Family Home – What to Save, What to Let Go," and "Downsizing the Blended Home – When Two Households Become One." You may reach her at www.marnijameson.com. | https://nwitimes.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/at-home-with-marni-jameson-10-tips-to-stage-small-spaces-to-sell-hint-create/article_b18e8fbb-c7bd-5dcc-87c1-8c0061166746.html | 2023-04-24 15:20:24 | 1 | https://nwitimes.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/at-home-with-marni-jameson-10-tips-to-stage-small-spaces-to-sell-hint-create/article_b18e8fbb-c7bd-5dcc-87c1-8c0061166746.html |
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