text string | url string | crawl_date string | label int64 | id string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Marinus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (MRNS) on Tuesday reported a loss of $34.3 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based company said it had a loss of 76 cents.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 91 cents per share.
The epilepsy drug developer posted revenue of $7.2 million in the period, which fell short of Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $13.3 million.
For the year, the company reported that its loss narrowed to $19.8 million, or 51 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $25.5 million.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on MRNS at https://www.zacks.com/ap/MRNS | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/marinus-pharmaceuticals-q4-earnings-snapshot-17825442.php | 2023-03-07 21:32:30 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/marinus-pharmaceuticals-q4-earnings-snapshot-17825442.php |
HONOLULU (AP) — A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris, scientists said Thursday, highlighting the threat to wildlife from the millions of tons of plastic that ends up in oceans every year.
The body of the 56-foot (17-meter) long, 120,000-pound (54,431-kilogram) animal was first noticed on a reef off Kauai on Friday. High tide brought it ashore on Saturday.
Kristi West, the director of the University of Hawaii’s Health and Stranding Lab, said there were enough foreign objects in the opening of the whale’s intestinal tract to block food.
“The presence of undigested fish and squid lends further evidence of a blockage,” she said in a news release from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources.
The whale’s stomach contained six hagfish traps, seven types of fishing net, two types of plastic bags, a light protector, fishing line and a float from a net. Researchers also found squid beaks, fish skeleton and remains of other prey in the whale’s stomach.
It’s the first known case of a sperm whale in Hawaii waters ingesting discarded fishing gear, West said.
The whale’s stomach was so large West’s team wasn’t able to examine it completely. They suspect there was more material they weren’t able to recover.
Researchers found nothing wrong with other organs they examined. They collected samples to screen for disease and conduct other follow-up tests.
Sperm whales travel across thousands of miles in the ocean so it’s not clear where the debris came from.
Scientists say that more than 35 million tons (31.9 million metric tons) of plastic pollution is produced around Earth each year and about a quarter of that ends up around the water.
Marine debris harms numerous species.
Seabirds can ingest as much as 8% of their body weight in plastic. Endangered Hawaiian monk seals and green sea turtles can get caught in plastic nets and die. Sharks and other apex predators eat smaller fish that feed on microplastic, which can then endanger their own health.
In addition to eating plastics, large whales are harmed when they become entangled in fishing gear or other ropes in the ocean. The drag from debris can force whales to use more energy to swim and make it harder for them to eat, causing starvation.
On Tuesday, marine mammal responders freed a humpback whale that was caught in rope, a bundle of gear and two buoys off the Big Island.
Sperm whales are an endangered species found in deep oceans across the world. A 2021 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated there were about 4,500 sperm whales in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands, from the Big Island in the south to Kure Atoll in the north. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-hawaii-whale-dies-with-fishing-nets-plastic-bags-in-stomach/ | 2023-02-02 20:05:33 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-hawaii-whale-dies-with-fishing-nets-plastic-bags-in-stomach/ |
Short-Term Open RAN and vRAN Forecast Revised Upward
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries, preliminary findings suggest total Open RAN revenues, including O-RAN and OpenRAN radio and baseband, surged in the first quarter, propelling Open RAN to reach new record levels.
"The migration towards new architectures, including Open RAN and vRAN, continued to move in the right direction in the first quarter, bolstering the narrative that the shift toward open interfaces is here to stay," said Stefan Pongratz, Vice President and analyst with the Dell'Oro Group. "The surge in the first quarter taken together with impending portfolio advancements form the basis for the more favorable short-term outlook," continued Pongratz.
Additional Open RAN highlights from the Dell'Oro Group 1Q 2022 RAN Report:
- Open RAN revenues more than doubled in the first quarter, supported by strong growth in both the Asia Pacific and North America.
- The positive momentum that characterized the vRAN market in the second half of 2021 extended into the first quarter, spurring vRAN revenues to nearly quadrupled in the first quarter.
- Global Open RAN and vRAN projections have been revised upward, to reflect the strong showing in the first quarter.
- Total Open RAN revenues are now expected to account for 3 percent to 5 percent of the global 2022 RAN market.
About the Report
Dell'Oro Group's RAN Quarterly Report offers a complete overview of the RAN industry, with tables covering manufacturers' and market revenue for multiple RAN segments including 5G NR Sub-6 GHz, 5G NR mmWave, LTE, macro base stations and radios, small cells, Massive MIMO, Open RAN, and vRAN. The report also tracks the RAN market by region and includes a four-quarter outlook. To purchase this report, please contact us by email at dgsales@delloro.com.
About Dell'Oro Group
Dell'Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, networks, data center infrastructure, and network security markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis to facilitate critical, fact-based business decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.delloro.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Dell'Oro Group | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/05/20/open-ran-revenue-surged-1q-2022-according-delloro-group/ | 2022-05-20 12:50:48 | 1 | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/05/20/open-ran-revenue-surged-1q-2022-according-delloro-group/ |
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASSA ABLOY has acquired Janam, a leading provider of handheld mobile computers and readers, based in the US. This acquisition enhances HID's event access portfolio to now also include handheld readers for scanning tickets using barcode and RFID technology, including NFC.
"I am very pleased to welcome Janam into the ASSA ABLOY Group. Janam is a strategic technological addition to the ASSA ABLOY Group and reinforces our current RFID offering and provides complementary growth opportunities," says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.
"We welcome Janam to the HID family and look forward to leveraging their mobile reader technology to improve the event experience for millions of spectators around the world," says Björn Lidefelt, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Technologies business unit HID Global.
Janam was founded in 2006 and has some 20 employees. Based in New York, it will be part of HID's Identification Technologies Business Area.
Sales in 2021 amounted to about MUSD 21 (approx. MSEK 200) with a good EBIT margin and the acquisition will be accretive to EPS from start.
For more information, please contact:
Nico Delvaux, President and CEO, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 82
Erik Pieder, CFO and Executive Vice President, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 72
Björn Tibell, Head of Investor Relations, tel. no: +46 70 275 67 68, e-mail: bjorn.tibell@assaabloy.com
About ASSA ABLOY
The ASSA ABLOY Group is the global leader in access solutions. The Group operates worldwide with 51,000 employees and sales of SEK 95 billion. The Group has leading positions in areas such as efficient door openings, trusted identities and entrance automation. ASSA ABLOY's innovations enable safe, secure and convenient access to physical and digital places. Every day, we help billions of people experience a more open world.
The following files are available for download:
View original content:
SOURCE ASSA ABLOY | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/12/27/assa-abloy-acquires-janam-technologies-us/ | 2022-12-27 08:53:41 | 1 | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/12/27/assa-abloy-acquires-janam-technologies-us/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Itiquira Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ITQ) (the "Company") announced today that, because the Company will not consummate an initial business combination within the time period required by its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the "Amended Memorandum and Articles"), the Company intends to dissolve and liquidate in accordance with the provisions of the Amended Memorandum and Articles and will redeem all of the outstanding Class A ordinary shares that were included in the units issued in its initial public offering (the "Public Shares"), at an estimated per-share redemption price of approximately $10.17.
The Company stated that despite significant efforts to identify business combination partners and negotiate initial business combination terms, it was unable to reach a deal that would bring clear value to the Company's shareholders, considering the current adverse market conditions both in the US as well as in Brazil. During the past two years, the Company met with over 85 potential targets, signed NDAs and exchanged information with 50 potential targets and ultimately sent 13 LOIs. However, satisfactory terms were not reached with any of these potential targets. Therefore, in the best interest of the Company's shareholders, the Company's Board of Directors decided to return the capital held in the trust account.
As of the close of business on February 15, 2023, the Public Shares will be deemed cancelled and will represent only the right to receive the redemption amount.
In order to provide for the disbursement of funds from the trust account, the Company will instruct the trustee of the trust account to take all necessary actions to liquidate the securities held in the trust account. The proceeds of the trust account will be held in a non-interest bearing account while awaiting disbursement to the holders of the Public Shares. Record holders will receive their pro rata portion of the proceeds of the trust account by delivering their Public Shares to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Company's transfer agent. Beneficial owners of Public Shares held in "street name," however, will not need to take any action in order to receive the redemption amount. The redemption of the Public Shares is expected to be completed by February 15, 2023.
The Company's sponsor has agreed to waive its redemption rights with respect to its outstanding Class B ordinary shares issued prior to the Company's initial public offering. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company's warrants, which will expire worthless.
The Company expects that The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC will file a Form 25 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") to delist the Company's securities. The Company thereafter expects to file a Form 15 with the Commission to terminate the registration of its securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company anticipates that the Public Shares will cease trading as of the close of business on February 14, 2023.
Itiquira Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company organized for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, with an initial focus on targets located in Brazil in sectors with strong growth potential, high correlation to Brazil growth, resilient business models, in non-cyclical industries and favorable secular trends, including those that have been historically underserviced by the government (including, but not limited to, technology, healthcare, pharma, education and consumer services).
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's registration statement and prospectus for the Company's initial public offering filed with the Commission, and subsequent reports filed with the Commission, as amended from time to time. Copies of these documents are available on the Commission's website, at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Itiquira Acquisition Corp | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/02/02/itiquira-acquisition-corp-announces-it-will-redeem-its-public-shares-will-not-consummate-an-initial-business-combination/ | 2023-02-02 12:43:06 | 0 | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/02/02/itiquira-acquisition-corp-announces-it-will-redeem-its-public-shares-will-not-consummate-an-initial-business-combination/ |
(NewsNation) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation Monday that would put a freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns, while its neighboring nation gears up for an intense debate over its own gun laws.
The announcement came on the heels of the deadly mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, and as the debate over U.S. gun laws is intensifying. If passed, the legislation would mark Canada’s strongest gun control measures in more than 40 years.
Any changes to U.S. gun laws aren’t likely to be as stringent as Canada’s, said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University and the director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
CANADA’S PROPOSED CHANGES
Trudeau’s plan includes freezing handgun sales nationwide, removing firearm licenses from people involved in domestic violence or criminal harassment, and requiring people who are considered dangerous to surrender their firearms to law enforcement.
A new “red flag” law would allow courts to require that people considered a danger to themselves or others surrender their firearms. According to the Canadian government, the measure would guard the safety of those applying through the process, often women in danger of domestic abuse, by protecting their identities.
In addition to the new legislation, long-gun magazines will need to be permanently altered so they can hold no more than five rounds at a time. The Canadian government will also ban the sale and transfer of large-capacity magazines.
CURRENT CANADIAN LAW
Canada already has plans to ban 1,500 types of military-style firearms and offer a mandatory buyback program that will begin at the end of the year. Anyone set on keeping their assault weapon will have to make them completely inoperable, Trudeau said.
Last year’s budget provided more than $312 million in new funding for increased firearm tracing capacity and stronger border patrol measures to fight gun smuggling.
The Canadian government says agencies seized more than twice the number of firearms at the border in 2021, compared to 2020, which is also the highest number of firearms seized in recent years.
WHAT ABOUT THE U.S.?
The U.S. isn’t likely to see such strict gun laws take effect, NewsNation senior contributor George Will said.
A 2010 Supreme Court decision that established for the first time an individual right to own a gun noted that basic to the Second Amendment is the right to own a gun for self-defense.
“So no, given our Constitution, we could not do what he is proposing in Canada,” Will said.
Beyond the right to bear arms is a sentiment toward gun ownership that is unique to the U.S., Reeher said.
“Whether you’re looking at Western movies or the story of the frontier or the Revolutionary War, where you had civilians who are armed joining up in militias to fight the British — it’s just part of the American story in a way that … is not part of the Canadian story,” Reeher said. “And I think that has political resonance.”
To that end, the nations’ political climates vary.
“Canada is more like a European country in its orientation toward acceptance of the authority of the state, and the scope of the authority of the state and the government,” Reeher said.
There are, however, similarities between the U.S. and Canada’s efforts to curb gun crime. The U.S. has hosted its own gun buyback programs, including a recent event in New York City. The buyback netted dozens of weapons dropped off at a Brooklyn church, no questions asked.
In exchange, people received $200 gift cards—paid for with drug and gambling forfeiture—and iPads donated by the owner of the iconic cheesecake maker Junior’s restaurant.
“One thing to bear in mind is that there’s a little bit of a misnomer in calling what Canada is doing a buyback program,” Reeher said. “What it is, more aptly termed, is compensated confiscation … That’s different from a lot of the buyback programs that you see in the United States.”
The House Judiciary Committee is holding an emergency meeting this week to discuss a gun reform package, but any potential movement in Washington isn’t likely, Will said. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/canadas-gun-reform-laws-would-they-work-in-the-us/ | 2022-06-02 20:23:25 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/canadas-gun-reform-laws-would-they-work-in-the-us/ |
Former Vice President Mike Pence formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, releasing a video that made the broad case for his candidacy amid an increasingly crowded Republican primary field.
In a nearly-three minute video, titled “Best Days,” Pence made no direct mention of former President Trump, nor is the former president featured on screen.
Instead, the former vice president narrates a video that offers a brief personal history of his family and government service and argues that the country should turn the page on President Biden without returning to Trump.
“We can turn this country around. But different times call for different leadership. Today, our party and our country need a leader who will appeal, as Lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature,” Pence said in the video.
“I have long believed to whom much is given much will be required. My family and I have been blessed beyond measure with opportunities to serve this nation. And it would be easy to stay on the sidelines,” he continued. “But that’s not how I was raised. That’s why today, before God and my family, I’m announcing I’m running for president of the United States.”
Pence in the video said he’ll “always be proud of the progress we made together for a stronger, more prosperous America,” a reference to his four years as vice president. He then cited a litany of areas where he argued the country has gone backward under the Biden administration, including inflation, border security and foreign policy.
“And worse still, timeless American values are under assault as never before,” Pence says in the video, as news chyrons about transgender athletes, drag queens and critical race theory are shown.
The video includes numerous images from his time as vice president, as well as older footage of a young Pence meeting former President Ronald Reagan. It is largely in line with Pence’s rhetoric in recent months, where he has tried to bridge the gap between carrying on Trump’s policies while presenting a forward-looking conservative vision for the nation.
“We can bring this country back. We can defend our nation and secure our border. We can revive our economy and put our nation back on a path to a balanced budget. Defend our liberties and give America a new beginning for life,” Pence says in the video, the latter a nod to his support for anti-abortion measures.
“I believe in the American people, and I have faith,” Pence said. “God is not done with America yet. And together we can bring this country back and the best days for the greatest nation on earth are yet to come.”
Wednesday’s video launch comes two days after Pence officially filed paperwork to run for president in 2024. The former vice president is set to hold an event in Iowa on Wednesday afternoon, followed in the evening by a CNN town hall event in Des Moines.
Those events, as well as some of the religious rhetoric and agricultural imagery featured in Wednesday’s video, underscore how Pence’s path to the nomination will rely heavily on a strong finish in Iowa, where the former vice president is hoping to connect with the state’s large evangelical population.
Pence has built strong relationships over the years with evangelical voters, speaking frequently about his faith and issues that resonate with that bloc such as abortion, school choice and religious freedom.
Ultimately, though, it remains to be seen whether there is an appetite among GOP primary voters for a Pence candidacy. A section of primary voters who still back Trump view Pence as a traitor because he did not reject the 2020 election results when he oversaw Congress’ official electoral count as vice president and instead insisted on abiding by the Constitution. And those looking for an alternative may be more drawn to candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Pence is consistently polling behind Trump and DeSantis in national surveys of Republican primary voters.
A CNN poll released in late May found Pence was the first choice of 6 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning primary voters, trailing Trump, who was the first choice of 53 percent of voters, and DeSantis (R), who was the first choice of 26 percent.
The poll also found 54 percent of those surveyed said they support or would consider supporting Pence. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/pence-calls-for-different-leadership-in-2024-launch-video/ | 2023-06-07 13:33:00 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/pence-calls-for-different-leadership-in-2024-launch-video/ |
Ivelisse Rodriguez Simon
Managing Partner
Avante Capital Partners
Ivelisse Rodriguez Simon co-founded Avante Capital Partners, where she is a managing partner responsible for identifying, executing and managing investment opportunities. She currently manages the fund’s portfolio and new deal activities. Simon is also a longtime advocate and champion for women, minorities, and the underserved and underrepresented. She holds leadership roles in several local and national nonprofit organizations. Along with the whole Avante Capital team, Simon also started the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) through a program offered by the Small Business Administration (SBA). | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/ivelisse-rodriguez-simon | 2022-11-18 18:49:54 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/ivelisse-rodriguez-simon |
NEW YORK (AP) — An inmate who jumped into the East River from a New York City jail barge has died, the city Department of Correction announced Wednesday.
Gregory Acevedo, 48, was pronounced dead at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, 11 hours after he climbed a fence at the Vernon C. Bain Center and jumped into the water, officials said.
“Mr. Acevedo’s tragic passing is an immense loss," Correction Commissioner Louis A. Molina said in a statement. "We are conducting a preliminary investigation of this incident. Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones at this difficult time.”
Acevedo had been in custody on a robbery charge since Feb. 27. Police officers pulled him from the water after his jump Tuesday and took to a hospital, where efforts to revive him failed. He was the 15th person to die this year who was a New York City jail inmate or who had just been released.
“Once again, their system failed,” Acevedo's attorney, Warren Silverman, told the New York Post. "I mean, he shouldn’t have been able to get to any position where he could have harmed himself, and clearly they dropped the ball, as usual.”
The New York state attorney general's office and the city Department of Investigation conduct separate investigations into the death. The city medical examiner's office will determine the cause.
The Vernon C. Bain Center is a a 625-foot (190-meter) barge that opened as a jail in 1992. It is docked in the East River off hte Bronx. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Inmate-dies-after-jumping-from-New-York-City-jail-17456946.php | 2022-09-21 17:14:03 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Inmate-dies-after-jumping-from-New-York-City-jail-17456946.php |
President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that the West has unleashed “a real war” against Russia, reprising a familiar refrain at scaled-down Victory Day celebrations that may reflect the toll the Ukraine conflict is taking on his forces.
Putin’s remarks came just hours after Moscow fired its latest barrage of cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than 14 months ago. Ukrainian authorities said air defenses destroyed 23 of 25 missiles launched.
The Russian leader has repeatedly sought to paint his invasion of Ukraine as necessary to defend against a Western threat. Kyiv and its Western allies say they pose no such threat and that Moscow’s war is meant to deter Western influence in a country that Russia considers part of its sphere of influence.
“Today civilization is once again at a decisive turning point,” Putin said at the annual commemorations celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. “A real war has been unleashed against our motherland.”
Putin has often used patriotic rhetoric that harkens back to the earlier war in an effort to rally his citizens and forces — and May 9 is one of the most important dates in the Russian political calendar. But this year’s celebrations were markedly smaller, at least partially because of security concerns after several drone attacks have been reported inside Russia.
Some 8,000 troops took part in the parade in Moscow’s Red Square on Tuesday — the lowest number since 2008. Even the procession in 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, featured some 13,000 soldiers, and last year, 11,000 troops took part. There was no fly-over of military jets, and the event lasted less than the usual hour.
“This is weak. There are no tanks,” said Yelena Orlova, watching the vehicles rumble down Moscow’s Novy Arbat avenue after leaving Red Square. “We’re upset, but that’s all right; it will be better in the future.”
The Kremlin’s forces deployed in Ukraine are defending a front line stretching more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), presumably thinning the ranks of troops available for such displays.
“This is supposed to be a showpiece for Russian military might. But so much of that military might has already been mauled in Ukraine that Russia has very little to show on its parade in Red Square,” said Keir Giles, a Russia expert at London’s Chatham House think tank.
Meanwhile, the traditional Immortal Regiment processions, in which crowds take to the streets holding portraits of relatives who died or served in World War II — a pillar of the holiday — were canceled in multiple cities.
“That seems to be for fear that those people who have lost their relatives in this current war on Ukraine might actually join the processions and show just the scale of the casualties that Russia has suffered in its current war,” Giles said.
Russian media counted 24 cities that also scrapped military parades — another staple of the celebrations — for the first time in years. Regional officials blamed unspecified “security concerns” or vaguely referred to “the current situation” for the restrictions and cancelations. It wasn’t clear whether their decisions were taken in coordination with the Kremlin.
Last week, Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin that it called an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied involvement.
There was no independent verification of the purported attack, which Russia authorities said occurred overnight but presented no evidence to support it.
On a tribune in Red Square, Putin praised soldiers taking part in the war in Ukraine and urged Russians to stand together.
“Our heroic ancestors proved that there is nothing stronger, more powerful and more reliable than our unity. There is nothing in the world stronger than our love for the motherland,” Putin said.
The guest list was also light amid Putin’s broad diplomatic isolation over the war. Initially, only one foreign leader was expected to attend this year’s parade — Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov. That was one more foreign guest than last year, when no leaders went.
At the last minute on Monday, officials announced that the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan would head to Moscow as well.
As the celebrations unfolded, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner, said his fighters had yet to receive ammunition promised to them by the military — but that they would continue to fight in the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut despite earlier threatening to withdraw them.
In a video published on Telegram, Prigozhin claimed that Russian army units had fled their positions in the city due to the “stupidity of their leadership” — a reference to the Defense Ministry — and that it threatened to charge Wagner troops with treason if they, too, pulled out.
Prigozhin’s allegations could not be independently verified, and the Russian military has not commented on them.
The threat of departure marked another flare-up in Prigozhin’s long-running dispute with Russia’s military brass over credit and tactics in the war.
On Tuesday, he contrasted the pomp of the May 9 celebrations, broadcast across Russia, with the reality on the ground.
“Victory Day marks the victory of our grandfathers; we did not deserve a single bit of this victory. The counteroffensive will be on the ground, not on television,” Prigozhin warned, adding that the Russian state is “unable to defend the country.”
Prigozhin has become known for such inflammatory, headline-grabbing statements, particularly at key moments when attention is focused elsewhere — but issuing them on Victory Day was remarkably bold.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian air force said in a Telegram post that eight Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from carriers in the Black Sea toward the east and 17 from strategic aircraft.
The missiles came hours before European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Union’s executive branch, arrived in Kyiv.
Von der Leyen urged EU member nations to take measures to prevent countries from helping Russia to circumvent the bloc’s sanctions. The EU has noticed that certain products that have been banned to undermine Russia’s war effort are still getting through, she said.
Von der Leyen did not name the countries.
Ukraine is keen to join the EU, but membership is still a long way off. Ukraine is also hoping to join NATO, after moving close to the Western military alliance during the war.
In the latest help from a NATO member, the U.S. was expected to announce Tuesday that it will provide $1.2 billion more in long-term military aid to Ukraine to further bolster its air defenses.
___
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/russia-set-for-wwii-tributes-rains-missiles-on-ukraine/ | 2023-05-09 19:02:57 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/russia-set-for-wwii-tributes-rains-missiles-on-ukraine/ |
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Besides maintaining as the top supplier of domestic soymilk, Vinasoy continues to gain new achievements in the export segment thanks to its active expansion of potential international markets.
The pride of Vietnamese soy milk on the journey of reaching out to the 'big sea'
Vinasoy has been a part of Vietnamese consumers' nutritional lives since 1997, and the brand has also maintained the leading position in the instant soy milk industry for many consecutive years. According to Nielsen, in August 2021, Vinasoy accounted for 92.2% market share of paper-packed soy milk nationwide. Also, as stated by the global data analysis firm GlobalData UK, Vinasoy was named as the first and the only Vietnamese enterprise in the top 5 largest soy milk companies in the world for three years in a row, from 2018 – to 2021.
Recently, Vinasoy has continued to mark the 'made in Vietnam' soy milk on major and promising markets by putting the products on shelves, making Vinasoy more and more boldly on the world dairy map. Vinasoy products now can be found in nearly 200 Asian stores in the United States, the Vietnamese convenience stores in Seoul and Ansan in Korea, 400 more Don Quijote stores in Japan, 10 stores of Stop Mart convenience store chain in Yangon – Myanmar's capital, and 2 traditional markets in Bago.
Previously, Vinasoy's milestone of reaching out to the world began in 2020, with the products launching on 11 leading Chinese e-commerce platforms. In 2021, Vinasoy's products had been officially available in Chinese and Japanese supermarkets. Moreover, Vinasoy has effectively covered the majority of Japan, with approximately 1,000 Asian stores and supermarkets spreading along 45/47 provinces.
The strength and vision of the dairy industry's 'giant'
The United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Myanmar are core markets with huge consumption. Yet, there are hurdles which are challenges related to product quality and severe inspection criteria of many countries, as well as tough competition from both domestic and global companies. Particularly, in the last two years, the COVID-19 outbreak has caused the production-supply chain to massive break down, making it more difficult for many businesses; and the conquering of other international markets of Vinasoy has shown persistent efforts of the No.1 Vietnamese soy milk manufacturer.
After a quarter of a century, Vinasoy has still maintained the image of an enterprise that is always moving forward and transforming for new opportunities. From its core product, which is soy milk, Vinasoy has developed the plant-based nutrition business lately, by launching the very first plant-based yogurt drink in Vietnam called VEYO Yogurt. This is considered a positive step toward consumers' green food preferences in the post-COVID-19 event.
With 25-year of experience and achievements focusing on soybean product research and development, with full and thorough preparation investment in human resources, equipment, and raw materials, which are a solid premise for Vinasoy to enter a bigger market, explore more values, and expand further in this potential industry.
With the strength and position that has been confirmed, along with the spirit of 'always in the state of a start-up', Vinasoy's soy milk and other high-nutritious products will undoubtedly reach consumers not only in Vietnam but also in other countries, uplifting the pride of Vietnamese brands in the world map.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Vinasoy | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/vinasoy-its-new-marks-international-dairy-map/ | 2022-08-25 14:36:16 | 1 | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/vinasoy-its-new-marks-international-dairy-map/ |
(NEXSTAR) – From New York City bus service to fast food chain apps, problems affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) upended normal operations for scores of businesses and other groups Tuesday.
“Many AWS services are now fully recovered and marked Resolved on this event,” AWS said on its health dashboard at 5:00 p.m. ET. “We are continuing to work to fully recover all services.”
A number of errors started happening at 2:49 p.m. ET, AWS said, and businesses big and small blamed the issues for their own outages.
Website Down Detector showed simultaneous reports of outages affecting McDonald’s, Delta, Ally, Roku, Southwest, Nike, Hinge, EA Sports and others.
AWS is the leader when it comes to cloud infrastructure and provides numerous services ranging from storage to mobile development and security.
“Service status info on our website and MYmta app is temporarily unavailable because of an Amazon Web Services outage,” New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority warned riders.
The outage kicked in at an especially inopportune time for The Associated Press, which lost the ability to operate its sites just as former President Trump appeared in federal court. The AP resorted to sharing updates on Twitter.
Online marketplace StockX notified users of the outage, tweeting, “You may be having a hard time accessing StockX right now due to an Amazon Web Services outage affecting several platforms.”
National businesses and government entities weren’t the only ones affected, either.
“Looks like Amazon Web Services are taking a siesta nationwide, causing tech issues for everyone,” Steve’s Hot Dogs in St. Louis tweeted. “Our restaurants are feeling the effects taking payments Cash is king until the issue is resolved, so leave your plastic at home and bring your green. Thanks for understanding!” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/amazon-web-services-outage-reportedly-disrupting-services-across-us/ | 2023-06-13 21:45:10 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/amazon-web-services-outage-reportedly-disrupting-services-across-us/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York office of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) continues to educate American trade and consumers on Italian Spirits partnering with the 11 Italian brands involved in the third edition of the PR Campaign (MeMento, Ditta Silvio Meletti, Strega Alberti Benevento, Distilleria Varnelli, Giulio Cocchi Spumanti, Luxardo, Toschi Vignola, Montenegro, Lucano 1894, Andrea da Ponte, Italspirits).
Last month, Antonino Laspina, Trade Commissioner and Executive Director for the USA, together with award-winning Mixologist Valentino Longo and Chef Michele Casadei Massari from Lucciola Restaurant, led a successful tasting event for some of the most influential media editors, spirits writers, and content creators, taking them on an immersive journey that combined iconic Italian spirits with ingredients of a prime quality, offering the perfect pairing. "The world of spirits is on the rise in the US and with unique and interactive events like these we can properly display the versatility of Italian spirits in combination with authentic ingredients in dishes, enhancing flavors mutually," said Mr. Laspina, expressing the ITA NY mission to promote Italian Spirits as a whole.
Whether you're a traditionalist or are after an alternative twist for your tipple, ITA's master mixologist and speaker of the current promotional campaign, Valentino Longo wants to share his top tips for food pairings this holiday season.
For many, festive get-togethers aren't right without a selection of good cocktails, and with a whole range of spirits available, the flavors of the holidays may be shifting towards a whole new tasting experience.
Here are some unconventional spirits options according to Mr. Longo:
- A smoked salmon starter paired with a 50-50 Martini with equal parts of Italicus, Americano Cocchi, and Luxardo Gin, delicate enough to match and not mask the fish's flavor.
- Roast turkey with all the trimmings paired with Negroni utilizing equal parts of Bitter Meletti, Amaro Lucano, and Gin. It's just the right amount of acidity to pleasingly cut through the fattier meat and potatoes!
- Christmas pudding goes well with an Amaro Punch with 60 ml of amaro Montenegro, 30 ml of memento, 20 ml Lemon Juice and 15 ml Millefiori honey, finished with 40 ml ginger beer. A rounded spirit mix with enough body and a dash of sweetness to complement Christmas pudding beautifully.
- A Charcuterie Board with a good palate cleanser such as a Bam Bou cocktail: equal part of Dry Sherry, Cocchi Dry, and a dash of Varnelli Secco.
Cin cin!
About the Italian Trade Agency
Since 1926, the Italian Trade Commission, with 79 offices worldwide, has been the Italian government agency entrusted with the mission of promoting trade between Italian companies and foreign markets. The Food and Wine department, based in New York City, works on increasing the awareness of Italian products in the U.S. by being the point of reference for trade and press and promoting Wine & Spirits through educational events, informational materials, special events, and promotions.
Press Contacts:
Giulia Perovich giulia.perovich@arnaldnyc.com
View original content:
SOURCE Italian Trade Agency New York Office | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/11/24/italian-trade-agency-keeps-expanding-knowledge-italian-spirits-through-experiential-dinners-pros-tips-upcoming-holiday-season/ | 2022-11-25 09:32:19 | 0 | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/11/24/italian-trade-agency-keeps-expanding-knowledge-italian-spirits-through-experiential-dinners-pros-tips-upcoming-holiday-season/ |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed sale of ironSource Ltd. (NYSE: IS) to Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of ironSource will receive 0.1089 shares of Unity for each share of ironSource that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the consideration undervalues the Company.
If you believe that this transaction undervalues the Company and/or if you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-is/ to learn more.
To learn more about KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General, visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/ironsource-investor-alert-by-former-attorney-general-louisiana-kahn-swick-amp-foti-llc-investigates-adequacy-price-process-proposed-sale-ironsource-ltd-is/ | 2022-08-10 22:15:57 | 0 | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/ironsource-investor-alert-by-former-attorney-general-louisiana-kahn-swick-amp-foti-llc-investigates-adequacy-price-process-proposed-sale-ironsource-ltd-is/ |
CVS lowers price on tampons, other menstrual products, pays 'pink tax' in 12 states
CVS Health will lower the price of its store-branded menstrual products in stores and pay the sales tax on those products in 12 U.S. states, the chain announced this week.
Beginning Thursday, CVS is dropping prices by 25% on CVS Health and Live Better brand menstrual products, which include tampons, menstrual pads, liners, and cups, the company said. This applies to the regular retail price at "core CVS Pharmacy locations."
On Oct. 5, CVS also began paying sales tax on period products for customers in 12 states — Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
Currently, 22 states charge sales tax on period products at a rate from 4% to 7%, according to the Alliance for Period Supplies, an initiative that collects and distributes menstrual supplies in local communities. Period products are often taxed as luxury items at a similar rate to things like decor, electronics, makeup, and toys, according to the alliance.
Some states have laws preventing third parties from paying taxes on behalf of customers, while other states don’t have statewide sales tax or do not tax period products.
"We are committed to ending gender-based price discrimination in our stores by eliminating the ‘pink tax,’ an increased price for personal care products marketed specifically to women compared to similar products for men," Dr. Joanne Armstrong, CVS Health’s vice president and chief medical officer for women’s health and genomics, along with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, CVS’ vice president and chief health equity officer, wrote in an article published Tuesday on Fortune.com.
"These are just a few of the steps we are taking to ensure women’s health care needs are met. If we want to achieve health equity for all communities, we must work together to fight period stigma and eliminate the economic and mental well-being burden of menstruation," they added.
Period costs, stigma in America
It’s estimated that the average woman menstruates 3,500 days during their lifetime or about 10 years, according to the American Medical Association. This equates to about 17,000 tampons or pads used in total and an average lifetime cost in the U.S. of about $1,800, the AMA said.
But despite the normalcy of periods, it remains highly stigmatized. A 2017 survey from OnePoll and Thinx found that 58% of women felt embarrassment from being on their period, and 42% had experienced period shaming.
Another survey of 1,000 American teens between ages 13 and 19 found that 64% believed society teaches people to be ashamed of their periods, and 66% said they did not want to be at school when they were on their period. The majority (51%) of students said they felt like their school did not care about them if they did not provide free period products in the bathrooms.
The same survey of U.S. teens reported that two-thirds had felt stress due to a lack of access to period products, and 20% had struggled to afford period products or were not able to purchase them at all. Roughly 61% had worn a tampon or pad for more than four hours because they did not have enough access to period products — putting them at risk of infection and toxic shock syndrome (TSS).
"It’s time that we prioritize women’s holistic health by putting an end to menstrual stigma, putting a dent in period poverty, and addressing gendered product pricing inequities," the CVS Health officials wrote.
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/cvs-lowers-price-tampons-menstrual-products-pays-pink-tax-12-us-states | 2022-10-13 14:17:01 | 1 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/cvs-lowers-price-tampons-menstrual-products-pays-pink-tax-12-us-states |
WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 23, 2023
_____
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
941 PM PST Tue Jan 17 2023
...KING TIDES WILL CAUSE MINOR COASTAL FLOODING FOR LOW LYING
AREAS THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
.The highest astronomical tides of the year, commonly referred to
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
as the King Tides, continue to impact the coast and Bay shoreline
from January 19th through the 23rd and have historically resulted
in the localized flooding of specific low lying areas each year.
In addition, the lowest low tides of the event will be observed
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
during the early evening hours which may lead to trouble for
mariners navigating shallow waterways.
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO 3 PM
PST MONDAY...
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
* WHAT...Minor coastal flooding expected at prone low lying
coastal locations across the coast and the San Francisco Bay
shoreline during peak high tide from Thursday morning until
Monday afternoon.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
* WHERE...San Francisco, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes
National Seashore, North Bay Interior Valleys, San Francisco
Bay Shoreline, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern
Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
* WHEN...From 6 AM Thursday to 3 PM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of areas previously impacted by King Tide
events is expected, including low lying lots, parks, and roads
along the coast and around the San Francisco Bay Shoreline with
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
the highest high tides. Difficulty navigating shallow bay
waters during the lowest low tides.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Tidal levels will also rise along the
Pacific coast but impacts will be more localized to areas such
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
as Elkhorn Slough near Moss Landing. Tide poolers and
beachgoers should be familiar with the times and heights of
local tidal levels to avoid hazards that may arise from
rapidly shifting water levels.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be
closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of
unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
property.
Tide poolers should also be aware that there could be occasional
waves running farther up the beach than normal. Do not turn your
back to the ocean.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
_____
Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-SAN-FRANCISCO-BAY-AREA-Warnings-Watches-17724568.php | 2023-01-18 06:10:42 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-SAN-FRANCISCO-BAY-AREA-Warnings-Watches-17724568.php |
ARLINGTON, Va., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the Flexible Vinyl Alliance's (FVA) petition to abandon the use of 25 ortho-phthalate substances. These substances are no longer used in the manufacture of food packaging and other food-contact applications in the U.S. FDA's granting of FVA's petition will update the food additive regulations to remove unnecessary listings for chemicals no longer used in these applications.
FVA is a coalition of trade organizations, materials suppliers, compounders, formulators, molders, and fabricators of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). FVA provides messaging and information on the proven safety, economy, and utility of flexible PVC, a material used in a wide range of health care, recreational, military, wire and cable, automotive, building, flooring, construction, and packaging applications. FVA is an affiliate of the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA). FVA submitted its petition to remove these substances from the list of food additive clearances in November of 2018.
FVA members requested that FDA remove these substances because they are "simply no longer employed in food contact or packaging applications," said Kevin Ott, FVA's Executive Director. To succeed with this petition, FVA demonstrated a long history of non-use of all 25 phthalates in food packaging by working with FVA members and other industry organizations to survey real-life use of phthalates in food packaging. The removal of these phthalates from the regulations will help to assure consumers that unnecessary chemicals are no longer used in contact with food.
A key role of FDA's food additive regulations is to provide specific safety standards for substances used in food packaging. FDA recognizes the importance of maintaining an accurate and effective regulatory framework, and through the petition process updates its regulations to reflect the economic realities of US food packaging. Where substances are permanently abandoned for use in food packaging, i.e., they are no longer manufactured or imported for use in food-contact applications, FDA may remove those substances from the regulations in response to petitions to do so.
"We are pleased that FDA has decided to update the food additive regulations to reflect real-life uses of phthalates in food packaging," said Ott. "Beginning many years ago, industry permanently moved on to manufacturing next generation substances for food packaging that are supported by science demonstrating safety."
In a second filing released today, FDA denied a food additive petition submitted by several NGOs requesting removal of all clearances for phthalates used in food contact applications. After a careful review of the data provided by the NGOs in their petition, FDA determined that the petition provided an insufficient basis for changing the current clearances. FDA specifically stated in their response that they believe current dietary exposures to phthalates are safe.
"We are pleased that FDA has relied on the most up-to-date data on these substances, including data provided by FVA members, in their evaluation of these substances," said Ott. "We will continue to ensure the safe use of these materials in accordance with FDA's food contact regulations."
View original content:
SOURCE Flexible Vinyl Alliance | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/05/20/fda-grants-fva-petition-remove-25-phthalates-no-longer-used-finds-current-exposure-phthalates-food-contact-applications-be-safe/ | 2022-05-20 16:06:04 | 0 | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/05/20/fda-grants-fva-petition-remove-25-phthalates-no-longer-used-finds-current-exposure-phthalates-food-contact-applications-be-safe/ |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Pima County Sheriff Department is in search of a missing vulnerable 66-year-old man.
The man is identified as Leigh St. Martin.
He was last seen on July 19 around 11 a.m. near the 5400 block of South Hildreth Avenue wearing a white t-shirt and blue shorts.
Martin is described as having brown eyes, gray hair and stands 5'2".
If located, please call 911.
——-
Bivian Contreras is a real-time editor for KGUN 9. Bivian graduated from the University of Arizona School of Journalism with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Broadcast and is currently pursuing a degree in Broadcast Operational Meteorology. Share your story ideas and important issues with Bivian by emailing bivian.contreras@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/missing-vulnerable-66-year-old-man | 2022-07-19 22:08:04 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/missing-vulnerable-66-year-old-man |
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The Tops grocery store on Buffalo's East Side is as much a community center as a place to buy milk and bread. So when Eva Doyle wanted to promote her new book in February, she set up a table in front of that store to autograph copies. It was a collection of columns she'd written for The Criterion, one of the city's Black-run newspapers. Of course, just a week ago at that same store, a white man killed 10 Black people. Eva Doyle, columnist, historian and retired public schoolteacher, joins us from Buffalo. Dr. Doyle, thanks so much for making time for us.
EVA DOYLE: Yes, and thank you, sir.
SIMON: Can I get you to talk about Katherine Massey, who died in the attack? She was a friend of yours.
DOYLE: The way I describe her is she was a fellow writer, very well known in our community for speaking out and writing some very prolific articles dealing with a lot of the issues that we face here, especially on the East Side of Buffalo, which is mostly an African American community. As a matter of fact, the last time I saw her, we were both on our way to an anti-violence rally, which was actually being held on Jefferson Avenue, not far from Tops. And people knew her. They knew her voice. She was a powerful voice in this community.
SIMON: Yeah. I gather you were almost at Tops a week ago.
DOYLE: Yes, I was a regular shopper at Tops supermarket, and this past Saturday, when the shooting happened, I would have been walking out of Tops with a basket full of groceries and going to my car just about the time this shooter started shooting. But I made a decision. I said, well, I won't go to Tops today. I'll go to the cleaners. And my grandchildren - they were calling, and they were shouting, and they were screaming, where are you? And I said, what do you mean, where am I? I'm going to the cleaners. And they said, there's a shooting at Tops. I'm going to tell you I was in disbelief.
SIMON: Dr. Doyle, what - can we begin to understand what this last week has been like for you and other people on the East Side of Buffalo?
DOYLE: Our community has been under a great cloud of sadness and pain for this entire week. These were grandmothers, fathers and mothers, missionaries, community volunteers and supporters of our beloved supermarket, the only supermarket on the East Side of Buffalo. You know, yesterday - I got to share this short story. It's only going to take me a minute to share.
SIMON: Yeah. Please.
DOYLE: Yesterday, I was going to make some spaghetti. And so as I was getting prepared to make the spaghetti, I said, oh, oh, I got to run to Tops and get some meatballs 'cause I always love turkey meatballs. I got to go to - and I caught myself. I said, I can't go to Tops. And it hit me. That's a simple thing of getting ready to prepare some dinner. And I just can imagine so many people just in a split second say, I can't go there. It's going to take a long time for us to get over this - going to take a long time.
SIMON: I think a lot of Americans are wondering, what do we do about this stain of racism...
DOYLE: Yes.
SIMON: ...In America?
DOYLE: You know, I'm an educator. I want to put this in the atmosphere.
SIMON: Please.
DOYLE: I'm going to ask our good white friends across America to sit down at the dinner table and have a talk with your family. You know, Black people - we call it the talk. We have that talk with our children, and we talk about racism. We tell them what they're going to face. We tell them, you know, you - somebody is going to call you the N-word. I'm asking white America, talk to your family. Talk to your children. And they're not going to be easy conversations. They're going to be tough because you know what? We don't know each other. We don't know each other in this country.
SIMON: How do you hope the world - Buffalo - will be better for your great-grandchildren?
DOYLE: You know what? I'm real concerned about what's going on in this country. But it's going to take all of us. It can't just be an Eva Doyle or just a few people on the East Side of Buffalo. It's going to take people living all over and in the suburbs and everywhere else. Come together and say, we will not tolerate this racism and killing and mowing down innocent people like they are animals. We will not tolerate this.
SIMON: Eva Doyle, historian and longtime columnist at The Criterion newspaper in Buffalo, thank you so much for speaking with us.
DOYLE: I really appreciate it very much. And whenever I get a chance to talk to people and let them know - yes, we're upset. We're crying. We have pain. But we're going to be all right. I really believe that. Thank you very much.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-05-21/historian-and-columnist-in-buffalo-n-y-reflects-on-race-in-her-community | 2022-05-24 11:17:56 | 1 | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-05-21/historian-and-columnist-in-buffalo-n-y-reflects-on-race-in-her-community |
(BCN) — As the record amounts of rain and snow from more than a dozen atmospheric river storms have pulled most areas of California out of the drought during the last three months — including most regions of the San Francisco Bay Area — water officials in the Santa Clara Valley are re-evaluating their drought emergency condition.
On Tuesday, the Board of Directors of Valley Water — which manages water for Santa Clara County’s nearly two million residents — will consider at its afternoon board meeting recommendations to be discussed, one of which is to rescind the agency’s water shortage emergency condition. Another recommendation is to ease associated mandatory water use restrictions.
Agency officials said Monday that the National Drought Monitor shows Santa Clara County is now designated “free of drought” for the first time in three years.
The heavy storms of the last three months have also improved Valley Water’s imported water allocations from the State Water Project and the Central Valley Water Project.
Tuesday’s board meeting begins at 1 p.m. It will be held in person at Valley Water headquarters, 5700 Almaden Expwy., San Jose. It can also be viewed virtually on Zoom at: https://valleywater.zoom.us/j/84454515597.
Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/south-bay-water-agency-considers-rescinding-water-shortage-emergency-condition/ | 2023-04-11 13:47:20 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/south-bay-water-agency-considers-rescinding-water-shortage-emergency-condition/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is a foodie heaven with plenty of Michelin-starred restaurants. And San Franciscans love dogs. So it might come as no surprise that an entrepreneur has decided to combine the two passions, creating what’s believed to be the first restaurant exclusively for man’s best friend.
Dogue, which rhymes with vogue, opened last month in the city’s trendy Mission District.
For $75 dollars per pup, doggie diners get a multiple-course “bone appetite” meal featuring dishes like chicken skin waffles and filet mignon steak tartare with quail egg.
It also includes a mimosa and a baked treat for the pup’s human.
Rahmi Massarweh, a dog owner and classically trained chef, decided to leave his stressful job running a fine dining restaurant to focus on his new canine cafe.
Some critics have expressed online outrage over the price point for the pampered pets, pointing out income inequality, gentrification and homelessness in the city. For the cost of the tasting menu, you could buy at least five big burritos at one of the many nearby taquerias in the Mission neighborhood.
But Massarweh says that since opening a month ago, he’s received overwhelming support from his customers who appreciate having a place to pamper their pups.
On a recent Sunday, Dogue hosted three fur baby birthday parties simultaneously.
“I wanted to celebrate him. He is so special to me. He’s my four-legged child and this is the perfect place to do a really nice celebration,” Gledy Espinoza said, as her 11-year-old miniature dachshund Mason enjoyed a bowl of mushroom soup with slices of chicken breast. “We’re foodies. I guess he is too, now.”
Massarweh spends hours cooking and prepping for his service and says a similar menu for people could cost up to $500 in the expensive city and the ingredients he uses are not cheap. Everything is human-grade, although if you took a bite, you’d probably find the doggie dishes to be a bit bland for the human palate.
“When we make our food, it is a process. It is very time-consuming. There is a lot of technique. There’s a lot of method and detail to what we do,” he said. “Our pastries, for example, take about two days on average to make. I know they’re going to be eaten in two seconds.”
Massarweh said the real goal of Dogue is to raise awareness about feeding your dog fresh, healthy, natural ingredients which some research shows can be easier on your pup’s stomach than mass-produced dog food and make dog parents happy.
“I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and it’s rare when as a chef, I walk into the dining room to touch tables and every single guest has a smile on their face,” Massarweh said. “There’s something very unique and satisfying about that.” | https://www.wric.com/news/weird-news/ap-at-san-francisco-restaurant-pups-chow-on-filet-mignon/ | 2022-10-28 00:28:56 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/weird-news/ap-at-san-francisco-restaurant-pups-chow-on-filet-mignon/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares retreated in Asia on Friday after a mixed day on Wall Street as optimism over signs the Federal Reserve may temper its aggressive interest rate hikes was replaced by worries the economy might be headed for a recession.
A U.S. measure of inflation that’s closely watched by the Federal Reserve eased in October, raising questions over the central bank’s determination to keep raising interest rates to tame price increases.
And activity in American manufacturing contracted in November for the first time since May 2020, according to the Institute for Supply Management. The report also showed that prices are falling.
Slower growth due to tighter monetary policies has slowed new orders and order backlogs, “which saw manufacturing conditions contracting for the first time since June 2020," Jun Rong Yeap of IG said in a report. That may suggest that with “inflation risks behind us now, ‘bad news’ in economic data may not be ‘good news’ for markets as recession fears could be brewing," he said.
Signs of weakening trade, especially for export dependent economies in Asia, have deepened worries over slowing growth in China and its implications for the global economy.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index lost 1.6% to 27,777.90 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong edged down 0.1% to 18,717.28. The Kospi in Seoul shed 1.8% to 2,434.33.
The Shanghai Composite index gave up 0.3% to 3,156.14 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.7% to 7,301.50.
Bangkok's SET index lost 0.3% and the Sensex in Mumbai was down 0.8%.
The declines followed a 0.1% retreat in the benchmark S&P 500, which closed at 4,076.57 on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% to 34,395.01, while the Nasdaq edged 0.1% higher to 11,482.45.
The Russell 2000 index of small companies also took a step back, falling 0.3% to close at 1,881.68.
Action was muted as traders awaited a closely watched monthly report on jobs due out Friday that will show how the labor market is holding up, which may influence what the Fed does next in its bid to cool inflation.
Banks and household goods providers were among the biggest drags on the benchmark S&P 500. Bank of America fell 2.9% and Costco slid 6.6%.
Gains in health care companies, communications services stocks and elsewhere in the market helped keep the losses in check. Drugmaker Pfizer rose 1.9% and Netflix climbed 3.7%.
Salesforce slumped 8.3% for the biggest drop in the S&P 500 after Bret Taylor said he would resign as co-CEO of the customer-management software developer.
Markets rallied Wednesday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell the central bank could begin moderating its pace of rate hikes at its next meeting in mid-December. The Fed, though, has been very clear about its intent to continue raising interest rates until it is sure that inflation is cooling.
The Fed has raised its benchmark rate six times since March, driving it to a range of 3.75% to 4%, the highest in 15 years. Wall Street expects the benchmark rate to reach a peak range of 5% to 5.25% by the middle of 2023.
A big concern for Wall Street has been whether the Fed can tame rates without sending the economy into a recession as it hits the brakes on growth. Businesses are seeing demand fall for a wide range of goods as inflation squeezes wallets. Analysts generally expect the U.S. to dip into a recession, even if it is mild and short, at some point in 2023.
Also Friday, U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 13 cents to $81.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It gained 67 cents to $81.22 per barrel on Thursday.
Brent crude oil, the standard for pricing oil for international trading, added 10 cents to $86.98 a barrel.
The U.S. dollar slipped to 134.62 Japanese yen from 135.31 yen late Thursday. The euro rose to $1.0540 from $1.0522. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Asian-shares-sink-on-revived-worries-over-17625901.php | 2022-12-02 09:08:01 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Asian-shares-sink-on-revived-worries-over-17625901.php |
ANKARA, Turkey — The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to at least 40 people Saturday, officials said.
Desperate relatives had waited all night in the cold outside the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, hoping for news. There were 110 miners working in the shaft when the explosion occurred Friday evening.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Saturday that 40 miners were confirmed dead. Eleven were injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed. The status of one remaining miner was unclear.
Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said rescue efforts were almost complete. Earlier he had said that a fire was still burning in the mine's gallery where more than a dozen miners had been trapped. Work to isolate and cool the fire continued, he said.
Preliminary assessments indicated that the explosion was likely caused by firedamp, which is a reference to flammable gases found in coal mines, Donmez said overnight. Three prosecutors were investigating the blast.
A miner who works the day shift said he saw the news and hurried to the site to help with the rescue. “We saw a frightful scene, it cannot be described, it's very sad,” said Celal Kara, 40. “They're all my friends... they all had dreams," the miner of 14 years said after exiting the mine, his face covered in soot.
Ambulances were on standby at the site. Rescue teams were dispatched to the area, including from neighboring provinces, Turkey’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to visit Amasra on Saturday. He tweeted that any neglect would punished.
Separately, the Turkish police headquarters said in a statement that legal action would be taken against 12 online users who allegedly shared provocative content about the mine explosion to incite hate on social media.
Turkey’s worst mine disaster was in 2014, when 301 miners died after a fire erupted inside a coal mine in the town of Soma, in the west of the country. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/officials-25-dead-in-turkish-coal-mine-blast/507-b65cbdb8-c767-48c2-8c14-85bf5fb01cd8 | 2022-10-15 13:11:01 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/officials-25-dead-in-turkish-coal-mine-blast/507-b65cbdb8-c767-48c2-8c14-85bf5fb01cd8 |
American police see Uvalde as a lesson in what not to do. Trainers say police need to make sure they have the skills and emotional commitment to risk their lives to stop a killer.
Copyright 2023 NPR
American police see Uvalde as a lesson in what not to do. Trainers say police need to make sure they have the skills and emotional commitment to risk their lives to stop a killer.
Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-05-25/uvalde-massacre-prompted-a-texas-law-requiring-more-training-for-police | 2023-05-25 21:35:10 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-05-25/uvalde-massacre-prompted-a-texas-law-requiring-more-training-for-police |
BOSTON, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Valo Health, Inc. ("Valo"), the technology company using human-centric data and artificial intelligence (AI) powered computation to transform the drug discovery and development process, today announced that it will participate in the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, January 9th – 12th.
David Berry, M.D. PhD, Valo's CEO and founder, is scheduled to present on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 2:30 PM PT (5:30 PM ET) in the Golden Gate Room (31st Fl) at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.
Valo's management, investor relations and business development leadership will be attending and available throughout the conference for meetings.
Valo Health, Inc ("Valo") is a technology company built to transform the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-driven computation. As a digitally native company, Valo aims to fully integrate human-centric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing drugs while simultaneously reducing costs, time, and failure rates. The company's Opal Computational Platform™ is an integrated set of capabilities designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs across cardiovascular metabolic renal, oncology, and neurodegenerative disease. Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Boston, MA, Valo also has offices in Lexington, MA, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit www.valohealth.com.
Contacts:
Investors: Graeme Bell, Chief Financial Officer gbell@ valohealth.com
Media: Jennifer Hanley Jhanley@valohealth.com
View original content:
SOURCE Valo Health LLC | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/valo-health-present-41st-annual-jp-morgan-healthcare-conference/ | 2023-01-03 13:32:59 | 0 | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/valo-health-present-41st-annual-jp-morgan-healthcare-conference/ |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the riverfront fountain, the upscale shopping district — is another side of the city.
Here, neighborhood roads are pitted with potholes and sometimes unpaved. Weeds swallow abandoned cars in empty lots. Grocery stores are sparse.
The people who live in this other Jacksonville are mostly Black, and many of them lay blame for their neighborhoods’ lack of services on the city’s politics. They point to a lack of representation resulting in part from the way the districts have been drawn for the city council, the decision-making body for Jacksonville’s 950,000 residents.
“It’s about diluting Black representation, Black power and change that needs to happen in the Black community,” said Moné Holder, a city resident who holds a leadership role at Florida Rising, a local voting rights group that focuses on communities of color. “Others may tell a different story as to why it is, but we see it in the lack of resources that go into those communities.”
A group of Jacksonville residents and local civil rights organizations sued the city last year, alleging that the council’s redistricting maps packed Black communities into four of the 19 council districts, five of which are at-large.
A U.S. district court judge last fall ruled in their favor and ordered the maps redrawn. Advocates said the city returned with more of the same, and in December the same court ordered that a map proposed by the advocates be used for Jacksonville’s elections this spring.
“There’s just naturally an incentive to keep things the same, and that’s what you saw in the Jacksonville process,” said Nick Warren, staff attorney with the ACLU of Florida.
The council argued in its court filings that the advocates’ latest plan would be the third council map in less than a year and would “cause voter confusion and undermine voter confidence.” The court rejected the appeal in early January, so voters will be casting ballots in new council districts for the city’s March elections.
The fight over how Jacksonville’s districts are drawn reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Redistricting for congressional and state legislative boundaries captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years, as the two major political parties seek mapmaking advantages that will help them retain or regain power at the federal or state level — a process known as gerrymandering.
No less fierce are the battles over the way voting lines are drawn in local governments, for city councils, county commissions and even school boards.
Conflicts over local redistricting erupted into public view late last year when a leaked audiotape revealed how Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council were plotting to gerrymander council districts in a way that would boost political power for their community at the expense of traditionally Black ones.
The exchange was punctuated with racist and graphic language and has widened racial fissures within the city, led the state Department of Justice to announce an investigation and prompted a legislative effort to remove the council’s redistricting power.
“Self-interest should not be the deciding factor,” said the bill’s sponsor, Democratic state Sen. María Elena Durazo. “It should be the Voting Rights Act, the California Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.”
When the city was going through the redistricting process, Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson recalled bringing up topics important to his constituents related to what he termed the “One Black district” but said he was ignored.
“Now I understand that that was on purpose,” he said.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling a decade ago gutting a section of the federal Voting Rights Act gave state and local governments tremendous freedom to change voting procedures and to redraw political boundaries, even if redistricting was done in a way that diluted the voting power of minority communities. Previously, some states and local governments were required to get approval from the Justice Department before making significant voting-related changes.
The gerrymandering for local government bodies receives far less attention than congressional or state legislative gerrymandering, in part because few local groups have the money and expertise to bring lawsuits against what they perceive as unfair maps.
Jacksonville is an exception. Local branches of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union teamed up with community civil rights groups to challenge the maps the City Council approved in March 2022.
Some community activists trace the city’s redistricting problems to a 1968 consolidation with Duval County, which allowed the city to grow but also changed its racial dynamics. At the time, it was hoped that a mix of predominantly Black council districts and at-large council positions would help boost Black representation.
Yet in the more than half-century since the merger, just six Black residents have served in the at-large positions, which are elected on a citywide basis, and just two of those were Democrats, according to research by Marcella Washington, a retired Florida State College at Jacksonville political science professor who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Black residents made up at least 40% of Jacksonville’s total population at the time of the consolidation, and today they account for a little over 30%.
While seven members of today’s Jacksonville council are Black, Washington said they don’t always vote in the interest of the Black community. As one example, she cited contentious votes over whether to remove Confederate monuments across the city. Other residents noted additional concerns in predominantly Black areas of Jacksonville they feel the council does not prioritize — city properties that are overgrown, problems with water and sewer service, inadequate services for homeless people.
Councilman Rory Diamond was the lone vote against the council’s original map, saying it was designed to protect incumbents. But he also is critical of the redrawn map to be used in the upcoming elections because he believes it could have the unintended consequence of “destroying African-American representation on the City Council.” Other council members declined to comment, citing the litigation.
Local activists say forcing Black residents into a handful of council districts has led to a sense in those communities that their voice doesn’t matter. That has made it difficult to get them engaged politically, said Rosemary McCoy, a plaintiff in the lawsuit and CEO of the Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters, a nonprofit that registers new voters.
“We understand that when you pack a group of people together, then these people don’t have a say. Their vote happens to be wasted,” McCoy said. “I ask people to sign petitions to put things on the ballot … and many times they’re telling us, ‘My vote don’t matter. My vote don’t count. Why should I vote? Nothing’s going to change’”
Ben Frazier, another plaintiff in the case and CEO of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, which focuses on injustice, said he would like the court fight in Jacksonville to inspire other groups around the country to challenge local redistricting maps when they appear to be drawn unfairly.
“I’m hopeful that there will be other cities and other states who look at Jacksonville and say Jacksonville moved against them, and maybe we should, too,” he said.
___
Associated Press coverage of race and voting receives support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-florida-city-highlights-conflicts-over-local-gerrymandering/ | 2023-02-02 16:44:11 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-florida-city-highlights-conflicts-over-local-gerrymandering/ |
Bond has been set for “Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle on charges he laundered more than half a million dollars, money federal prosecutors have said that he believed to be the proceeds of an operation to smuggle people across the Mexican border into the United States.
A federal judge in Florence, South Carolina, on Monday set a $250,000 secured bond for Antle, who was still listed as being held in jail as of Monday evening. Federal prosecutors said it would take a day to process his release, after which Antle will be confined to his 50-acre (20-hectare) wildlife tropical preserve in Socastee, outside Myrtle Beach.
Prosecutors had argued in court filings that Antle should remain in custody prior to his trial because he is a flight risk, noting his “significant financial resources” and “contacts that know how to make false identification documents.”
Arguing for his release, Antle’s attorneys said the 62-year-old has no prior convictions and suffers from an irregular heartbeat and high blood pressure, “which can exacerbate the symptoms of COVID-19 should Antle contract the disease while he is incarcerated.”
Charges against Antle and Andrew Jon Sawyer, one of Antle’s employees at Myrtle Beach Safari, were revealed during a federal court hearing earlier this month.
According to federal prosecutors, Antle and Sawyer laundered $505,000 over a four-month period by doling out checks from businesses they controlled, receiving a 15% fee of the money that passed through their hands.
The checks, prosecutors allege, falsely purported to be payment for construction work at Myrtle Beach Safari but were in reality intended to serve as evidence that the recipients had legitimate income.
According to a federal complaint, Antle discussed his plan to conceal the cash he received by inflating tourist numbers at his wildlife preserve. Prosecutors also said he had previously used bulk cash receipts to purchase animals for which he could not use checks.
According to authorities, Antle and Sawyer each face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison if convicted. Sawyer was released earlier this month on $100,000 bond, according to court records.
Antle is featured prominently in “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” a 2020 Netflix documentary miniseries that focused on tiger breeders and private zoo operators in the U.S. The series focused heavily on Oklahoma zoo operator Joe Exotic, who also was targeted for animal mistreatment and was convicted in a plot to kill a rival, Carole Baskin.
Animal rights advocates have accused Antle of mistreating lions and other wildlife. He faces multiple charges in Virginia, including animal cruelty, wildlife trafficking and 13 misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to violate the Endangered Species Act.
Federal prosecutors said Antle was on bond for those state charges when he committed his alleged crimes in South Carolina.
In May, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the IRS to probe Antle’s Rare Species Fund, a nonprofit raising money for wildlife conservation. PETA alleges he uses some of the fund’s money to subsidize his safari site.
In a statement Monday, Michelle Sinnott, associate director of PETA’s Captive Animal Law Enforcement Division, said that a federal agent who testified at Antle’s detention hearing “made it clear that additional federal charges are expected within the month.”
Antle has a history of recorded violations, going as far back as 1989, when he was fined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for abandoning deer and peacocks at his zoo in Virginia. Over the years, he has had more than 35 USDA violations for mistreating animals.
___
Meg Kinnard can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-set-to-be-released-on-bond/ | 2022-06-28 18:49:33 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-set-to-be-released-on-bond/ |
HIGH SCHOOL
Jennings County drums Bloomington South with resounding beat
Indy Star Sports
Indianapolis Star
The force was strong for Jennings County as it pierced Bloomington South during Saturday's 76-50 thumping in Indiana boys basketball on Feb. 18.
In recent action on Feb. 10, Bloomington South faced off against Columbus North . For results, click here. Jennings County took on Jeffersonville on Feb. 11 at Jeffersonville High School. For more, click here.
You're reading a news brief powered by ScoreStream, the world leader in fan-driven sports results and conversation. To see more game results from your favorite team, download the ScoreStream app and join over 10 million users nationwide who share the scores of their favorite teams with one another in real-time. | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/02/18/jennings-county-drums-bloomington-south-with-resounding-beat/69919599007/ | 2023-02-19 04:38:21 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/02/18/jennings-county-drums-bloomington-south-with-resounding-beat/69919599007/ |
- Zerenia™ Clinics UK, wholly owned by Khiron, succeeds at having the NHS reimbursing both the cost of cannabis-based treatment and clinic fees to its first patient
- Khiron trains doctors and nurses at an NHS- funded hospital on how to integrate CBMPs (cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans) to treatment options
- Khiron will be presenting its new real-world clinical evidence at the upcoming International Congress on Clinical Trials on Cannabis in London (February 15th-16th).
TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Khiron Life Sciences Corp. ("Khiron" or the "Company") (TSXV: KHRN) (OTCQX: KHRNF) (Frankfurt: A2JMZC), continues to spearhead the medical cannabis market in the United Kingdom by successfully attaining, for the first time, full reimbursement by the NHS of costs associated to cannabis-based medication and clinic fees for a patient enrolled in Zerenia™ Clinics UK. The patient was referred to the team at Zerenia™ Clinics UK for assistance with evaluation and advice on cannabis-based treatment options.
This ground-breaking step validates Khiron's scientific and data-driven approach to demonstrate the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of CBMPs on the management of chronic conditions such as pain and anxiety. The Company, who continues to train doctors on the prescription of CBMPs, will be presenting its real-world evidence (RWE) at the upcoming International Congress on Clinical Trials on Cannabis to an international audience of medical doctors in London's Canary Wharf on mid-February.
Franziska Katterbach, President of Khiron Europe, comments: "There is huge demand for medicinal cannabis in the UK. More than 1.4 million British self-medicate illegally with cannabis, half of whom medicate every day, with a total spend on illicit cannabis is an estimated £2.6 billion every year. On top of that, the estimated wait times for NHS specialist consultations range drastically, but in certain areas can be up to nine months. We are prepared to work with the NHS and provide our outstanding clinical resources, medical cannabis products and certified training tools to decrease wait times for patients and ensure access to life changing medication. Having a route for patient reimbursement for cannabis-based medicinal products is an important pillar of our global strategy which we just finally achieved with mandatory reimbursement in Colombia."
Khiron is a leading global medical cannabis company with core operations in Latin America and Europe. Leveraging wholly owned medical health clinics and proprietary telemedicine platforms, Khiron combines a patient-oriented approach, physician education programs, scientific expertise, product innovation, and focus on creating access to drive prescriptions and brand loyalty with patients worldwide. The Company has a sales presence in Colombia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Peru, and Brazil. The Company is led by its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alvaro Torres, together with an experienced and diverse executive team and board of directors.
Visit Khiron online at https://investors.khiron.ca.
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/khiron-life-sciences-corp/
This press release may contain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. All information contained herein that is not historical in nature constitutes forward-looking information. Forward-looking information contained in this news release may include statements pertaining to the expected synergies and benefits to the Company from the acquisition of the Target as well as statements as to business strategy. Forward-looking information and statements contained in this news release reflect management's current beliefs and is based on information currently available and on assumptions that management believes to be reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, the expected benefits to be realized by Khiron's business as a result of the acquisition of the Target, and assumptions regarding market opportunities in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates and where it seeks to operate.
Although management believes that its expectations and assumptions to be reasonable, forward-looking information is always subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of management, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the following: general economic conditions, adverse conditions in capital markets, political uncertainties, counterparty risk, failing to obtain required regulatory requirements and approvals, failure to maintain required permits and licences, business integration risks, as well as those other risk factors discussed in Khiron's most recent annual information form which is available on Khiron's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
As a result of the foregoing and other risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained in this press release. Readers are further cautioned that the foregoing risks and uncertainties is not exhaustive, and there may be other risks and uncertainties, presently unknown to management of the Company, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements contained in this press release. The forward-looking information contained in this press release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Khiron disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information disclosed herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE, NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE), ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS PRESS RELEASE
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Khiron Life Sciences Corp. | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/01/16/nhs-reimburses-cost-cannabis-treatment-first-zerenia-clinics-uk-patient/ | 2023-01-16 13:35:07 | 0 | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/01/16/nhs-reimburses-cost-cannabis-treatment-first-zerenia-clinics-uk-patient/ |
Which dog shampoos for dry skin are best?
If your dog has dry skin, you might be wondering what shampoo you can use without exacerbating the issue or if there’s a shampoo that would help. The best dog shampoo for dry skin is one that’s gentle with moisturizing properties.
It’s important to choose carefully so that you don’t make your dog’s skin worse. Rocco & Roxie Soothe Dog Shampoo is a gentle, nourishing shampoo formulated for dogs with dry skin.
What to know before you buy dog shampoo for dry skin
Moisturizing ingredients
Look for moisturizing ingredients in dog shampoo for your dry-skinned pooch. Any oils or plant butter, such as olive oil, almond oil, shea butter or cocoa butter, are all excellent ingredients for nourishing dry skin. Oatmeal dog shampoos are often great for dogs with dry skin, especially if they’re also suffering from some itchiness because colloidal oatmeal soothes and nourishes skin. Other moisturizing ingredients include aloe vera, hyaluronic acid, glycerin, lecithin and honey.
Gentle formula
Canine dry skin can be caused by skin irritation. Harsh formulas can worsen this and end up drying out the skin even more. Look for gentle formulas that are made without drying alcohols, parabens and other ingredients that might irritate the skin. Shampoos designed for sensitive skin are a safe bet, as are those specifically designed for dry or irritated skin. Some itchy skin formulas are fine, but others are medicated and contain ingredients that will ultimately dry out your dog’s skin even more.
Scent
Let’s face it, dogs can be stinky. It’s natural to want a shampoo that will leave your dog smelling fragrant. However, overly fragranced shampoos are sometimes harsh on the skin and can lead to even more drying. Instead, select canine shampoos that are lightly fragranced or that only have scents that come from the natural ingredients in them rather than added synthetic fragrances. For dogs with exceptionally sensitive skin, it’s even better to choose a fragrance-free formula.
What to look for in quality dog shampoo for dry skin
Added conditioner
Some dog shampoos have 2-in-1 formulas with added conditioner. While the conditioner element is primarily designed to soften the coat, it may contain extra moisturizing ingredients that nourish the skin. While there’s no need to seek out a dog shampoo with added conditioner for your dog with dry skin, it shouldn’t hurt.
Hypoallergenic
If your canine companion has sensitive skin, hypoallergenic shampoo is less likely to dry out their skin even more.
Natural ingredients
Good dog shampoo for dry skin will contain a range of natural ingredients with moisturizing properties. While it doesn’t have to be made from 100% natural ingredients, those that contain a greater proportion of plant ingredients are generally milder and won’t exacerbate your dog’s dry skin.
How much you can expect to spend on dog shampoo for dry skin
An average bottle of dog shampoo costs $5-$20. You’re more likely to find natural formulas at the higher end of the price spectrum.
Dog shampoo for dry skin FAQ
What can I bathe my dog with to tackle dry skin?
A. To take on your canine companion’s dry skin, try bathing them with an oatmeal shampoo or a shampoo with other moisturizing ingredients, such as coconut oil, aloe vera and almond oil. Shampoos designed specifically for dogs with dry or itchy skin are good choices.
How often should you bathe a dog with dry skin?
A. In some cases, bathing a dog can help its dry skin, particularly if you use shampoo with moisturizing ingredients. However, bathing dogs can strip their coats and skin of their natural oils, leading to dry skin. If you bathe your dog more than once every few months, try giving them a break from their bathing schedule, as it could be causing more harm than good.
Dogs don’t need a huge amount of bathing, so dogs with dry skin only need to be bathed once every three to six months. If in doubt, ask your dog’s veterinarian whether you should bathe them more or less frequently.
What’s the best dog shampoo for dry skin to buy?
Top dog shampoo for dry skin
Rocco & Roxie Soothe Dog Shampoo
What you need to know: Fortified with a range of soothing and moisturizing ingredients, it’s perfect for dogs with dry skin.
What you’ll love: Ingredients such as oatmeal, aloe, shea butter and olive oil work together to nourish dry skin. Argan oil leaves dogs’ coats soft and shiny. It’s also free from parabens and alcohol, which can dry the skin.
What you should consider: Some users wish it had a stronger scent.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top dog shampoo for dry skin for the money
Burt’s Bees for Dogs Hypoallergenic Dog Shampoo
What you need to know: The hypoallergenic formula won’t more aggravate dry skin.
What you’ll love: This shampoo offers excellent value for money, containing 99.7% natural ingredients but at a low price. The added shea butter is deeply moisturizing, while honey can soothe skin irritation.
What you should consider: You need to use quite a lot of it, as the consistency is thin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Natural Dog Company Sensitive Skin Shampoo
What you need to know: This shampoo gently nourishes dogs’ skin and won’t cause more dryness to sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: It contains an array of moisturizing and soothing ingredients, including aloe vera, chamomile, argan oil and colloidal oatmeal. It’s free from sulfates and parabens. Thanks to its natural deodorizing properties, it will leave your dog smelling fresh.
What you should consider: It’s on the pricey side, but it’s thick and goes a long way.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Lauren Corona writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | https://www.qcnews.com/reviews/br/pets-br/dog-health-br/best-dog-shampoo-for-dry-skin/ | 2023-02-19 11:49:25 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/reviews/br/pets-br/dog-health-br/best-dog-shampoo-for-dry-skin/ |
At least 30 cars damaged in explosive fire at Phoenix propane business
PHOENIX (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) — Dozens of cars are damaged and hundreds of propane tanks are scattered around a neighborhood near Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport after an explosive fire at a nearby propane business on Thursday afternoon.
Fire crews were called out to Bill’s Propane Service around 5 p.m. When they got there, flames were shooting out of the business and propane tanks were being shot into the air.
“They literally become missiles,” Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade said. “Very dangerous situation.”
More than 150 firefighters battled the flames at the height of the fire, which burned through at least 30 vehicles.
Firefighters cleared a mile radius around the business. Homes northeast of the business were told to evacuate. After a couple of hours, they were allowed to return.
However, businesses were advised to remain evacuated.
The Arizona Animal Welfare League has its main shelter nearby. Firefighters say it was evacuated and didn’t catch fire. A nearby community college was also evacuated.
Aerial video showed rows of cars damaged at Sundance Airport Parking.
When the fire first started, an Arizona Department of Transportation camera showed flames shooting out of the business and thick black smoke could be seen for miles.
Flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport weren’t impacted. Valley Metro said light rail trains would not go past the stops near the area.
It’s unclear what started the fire.
McDade said this type of fire is harder to fight compared to a typical building on fire. They have to surround it, cool the area down and then turn off the gas.
Copyright 2023 KTVK/KPHO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/07/21/least-30-cars-damaged-explosive-fire-phoenix-propane-business/ | 2023-07-21 17:10:30 | 1 | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/07/21/least-30-cars-damaged-explosive-fire-phoenix-propane-business/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy leaders have disciplined more than 20 senior officers and sailors in connection with widespread leadership and other failures that contributed to the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard.
The most significant actions were taken against members of the ship’s leadership team, including letters of reprimand and pay cuts for the former commander and executive officer. And Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro issued a letter of censure to retired Vice Adm. Richard Brown, who was the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet at the time of the fire.
The ship was undergoing a two-year, $250 million upgrade pierside in San Diego when the fire broke out. About 115 sailors were on board, and nearly 60 were treated for heat exhaustion, smoke inhalation and minor injuries. The failure to extinguish or contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas, melting sections of the ship into molten metal that flowed into other parts of the ship.
A Navy report last year concluded that the massive five-day blaze was preventable and unacceptable, and that there were lapses in training, coordination, communications, fire preparedness, equipmentment maintenance and overall command and control. And, while one sailor — Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays — has been charged with setting the fire, the report found that failings by about three dozen officers and sailors either directly led to the ship’s loss or contributed to it.
“When leaders’ actions or inactions result in the loss of life or capital resources, the senior leadership of the Department of the Navy has a responsibility to determine the root cause and hold those accountable,” Del Toro said in a message sent to the Department of the Navy on June 2. “This fire could have been prevented with adequate oversight into the ship’s material condition and the crew’s readiness to combat a fire.”
The Navy on Friday laid out the disciplinary actions taken by Adm. Samuel Paparo, current commander of Pacific Fleet. In most cases, Paparo issued letters in the sailors’ personnel files that ranged in severity. In many cases a disciplinary letter can be career-ending.
According to the Navy, Paparo gave punitive letters of reprimand and pay forfeitures to Capt. Gregory Scott Thoroman, the ship’s former commanding officer, and to Capt. Michael Ray, the former executive officer. Former Command Master Chief Jose Hernandez was given a punitive letter of reprimand.
Others who received letters in their files were Rear Adm. Scott Brown, who was director of fleet maintenance, and Rear Adm. Eric Ver Hage, commander of the Navy Regional Maintenance Center.
Mays is facing a court martial, and was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel. He has denied setting the fire. Mays set the fire because he was disgruntled after dropping out of Navy SEAL training, prosecutors said. His defense lawyers said there was no physical evidence connecting him to the blaze.
The Navy report on the fire issued last year spread blame across a wide range of ranks and responsibilities, from Brown to senior commanders, lower ranking sailors and civilian program managers. It cited 17 for failures that “directly” led to the loss of the ship, while 17 others “contributed” to the loss of the ship. Two other sailors were faulted for not effectively helping the fire response. Of the 36, nine were civilians.
The report directly faulted the ship’s three top officers — Thoroman, Ray and Hernandez — for not effectively ensuring the readiness and condition of the ship. And it said that the failures of Vice Adm. Brown; Rear Adm. Scott Brown and Ver Hage all “contributed to the loss of the ship.”
The fire marked one of the worst noncombat warship disasters in recent memory and the vessel had to be scrapped. It would cost an estimated $4 billion to replace.
The report described a ship in disarray, with combustible materials scattered and stored improperly. It said maintenance reports were falsified, and that 87% of the fire stations on board had equipment problems or had not been inspected.
It also found that crew members didn’t ring the bells to alert sailors of a fire until 10 minutes after it was discovered. Those crucial minutes, the report said, caused delays in crews donning fire gear, assembling hose teams and responding to the fire.
Sailors also failed to push the button and activate the firefighting foam system, even though it was accessible and could have slowed the fire’s progress. “No member of the crew interviewed considered this action or had specific knowledge as to the location of the button or its function,” the report said.
More broadly, the crew was slammed for “a pattern of failed drills, minimal crew participation, an absence of basic knowledge on firefighting” and an inability to coordinate with civilian firefighters. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/navy-disciplines-officers-in-massive-ship-fire/ | 2022-07-16 16:23:19 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/navy-disciplines-officers-in-massive-ship-fire/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-09-10-14-38
(three, nine, ten, fourteen, thirty-eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-09-10-14-38
(three, nine, ten, fourteen, thirty-eight) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17152431.php | 2022-05-06 00:51:12 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17152431.php |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Tuesday insisted he is an innocent man as he addressed a panel of international judges hearing his trial on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
At the end of his lawyers’ opening statement to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, Thaci stood up, buttoned up his gray pinstripe suit jacket and told black-robed judges that he expects evidence to lead to his acquittal saying that “victims do not obtain justice when the innocent are pursued.”
Thaci was a student who came out of what he described as political exile in Switzerland to join Kosovo’s struggle for independence from Serbia. He was embraced by Western leaders who invited him to 1999 peace talks in France in his role as political director of the Kosovo Liberation Army and was seen as a leader who could guide the country toward independence.
Thaci said he regretted that late U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other international diplomats who have died in the nearly quarter of a century since the war could not speak on his behalf.
“They would have testified on my part about what I have said and what I did during that very important time in Kosovo’s history,” he said. “I’m happy that many others like them have come forward to testify about my innocence.”
But prosecutors paint a different picture, alleging Thaci and three other former senior leaders of the KLA on trial with him were responsible for murders and the illegal detention and abuse of people they considered traitors or collaborators with Serb forces.
“I’m innocent of all these allegations,” Thaci said. “However, I’m ready to face this new challenge and succeed for my family, my people and my country.”
Defense lawyer Gregory Kehoe told judges that Thaci had no “effective command and control” over the KLA at the time international prosecutors hold him responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the guerilla force in Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.
The issue of how much control Thaci and three other former high-ranking KLA leaders on trial with him had over KLA fighters will be key in the trial that opened Monday and is expected to last many months.
Thaci and his fellow accused, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi are each charged with offenses including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed across Kosovo and northern Albania from 1998 to September 1999, during and after the war.
Kehoe’s opening statement aimed to counter prosecutors’ assertions on the trial’s opening day that Thaci and three-co-defendants who were all members of the KLA general staff who pursued a policy of targeting civilians perceived as collaborators and traitors.
Prosecution lawyer Matt Halling told judges Monday: “Each of the four accused wielded power, authority and influence” which enabled them enact the policy.
The trial is being held at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a branch of the Kosovo legal system that was established in The Hague in part due to fears about witness safety and security.
Most of the 13,000 people who died in the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo were ethnic Albanians. A 78-day campaign of NATO air strikes against Serbian forces ended the fighting. About 1 million ethnic Albanian Kosovars were driven from their homes.
The trial triggered a large demonstration in Kosovo on Sunday in support of the four defendants and another protest on Monday in The Hague by hundreds of Kosovars who waved flags and banners, including one that proclaimed: “KLA fought for freedom.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/international/ex-kosovo-president-tells-international-judges-hes-innocent/ | 2023-04-05 10:52:21 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/international/ex-kosovo-president-tells-international-judges-hes-innocent/ |
MOST Leads TTA Startups in VivaTech 2022
TAIPEI, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VivaTech 2022 has made a highlight for the global startup ecosystem, with more than 60 thousand participants. Numerous startup challenges were also held during the event, where over 39 nations were involved and competed. Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) presence were strong, leading 33 startups (27 onsite) to showcase Taiwan's innovation. Among these startups, 6 startups, including iStaging, FaceHeart, PanelSemi, Mindtronic AI, ible Technology, and AiSeed Tech, made it to the final of "Coup de Coeur". In addition to that, 3 Taiwanese startups were selected in the Innovation Challenge final, including iStaging, FaceHeart and E-Kids.
TTA Startups: FaceHeart, ible Technology, iStaging Won Judge's Favorites in Coup de Coeur
TTA startups have drawn attention from investors at the final of Coup de Coeur, where FaceHeart, ible Technology, and iStaging won "Judge's Favorites". Faceheart's solution is packed into FH Vitals™ SDK, allowing seamless integrations into a variety of settings to remotely measure key vital signs. It helps to improve human health by transforming the healthcare, home automation, and insurance industries through its proprietary video-based rPPG technology. On the other hand, ible Technology has the smallest wearable air purifier, Airvida, in world. The device removes PM2.5, virus and etc., which has been tested and verified by authoritative laboratories. Last but not least, iStaging is a SaaS provider of out-of-the-box Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions for Business. It aims to help companies and brands transcend physical spaces and products, by crafting immersive solutions that empower visualization and live interaction. Beside Coup de Coeur, iStaging was also shortlisted for the LVMH Selection, and is expected to have further cooperation.
TTA Startups Earned a Big Success
During VivaTech 2022, MOST forms TTA pavilion to showcase innovation in diverse industries. TTA startups have great success at VivaTech 2022; corporations, investors and media were interested in TTA startups, and 3 fine startups won Judge's Favorites in Coup de Coeur. TTA looks forward to further cooperation with the world and will continuously help Taiwan startups connect with global industries and further enhance domestic development of startups and innovation.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Taiwan Tech Arena | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/tta-startups-faceheart-istaging-ible-technology-win-global-challenge-coup-de-coeur-vivatech-2022/ | 2022-06-22 05:06:16 | 1 | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/tta-startups-faceheart-istaging-ible-technology-win-global-challenge-coup-de-coeur-vivatech-2022/ |
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marshall Inu has announced the creation of the Marshall Fighting Championship: MFC. Dave Leduc, the Lethwei superstar, has taken the role of President of the MFC and will be at the helm of its development as MRI seeks to further its goal of "Fighting for Fighters."
The inaugural event of MFC is slated to take place in Bojnice Castle in Brezno, Slovakia towards the end of October.
There is a promising card of fighters preparing themselves for the event. The entire fight weekend will be documented with fresh and innovative approaches to its presentation and program. It will be a 100% community-based league with unique modes of interaction for fighters and fans alike.
As part of the Marshall Inu ecosystem, MRI will be the utility token of the MFC and its native sportsbook which is presently being prepared for a synchronous launch with the MFC.
The MFC will be a multi-disciplinary championship - not unlike the ONE FC model. MRI will have MMA, Muay Thai, Lethwei, Kickboxing, Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Judo and more. The Marshall Inu team is not looking to be a one-trick pony; rather, the opposite in order to align with their mission to support athletes at grassroot-levels worldwide.
There will be multiple MFC events worldwide with MFC #2 and MFC #3 penciled in for Medellin, Columbia in December and Buenos Aires, Argentina in Q1 2023!
Marshall Inu was designed to help MMA fighters succeed with an extra source of income. As a passionate group of MMA enthusiasts, the Marshall Inu team is on a mission to merge the worlds of MMA and meme coins. This will enable the team to do something good within the Marshall Inu community. Marshall Inu has sponsored and donated to over 500 MMA fighters. In addition, they have gifted over $5 million to fighters, coaches, gyms and grassroots combat federations on five continents to date!
Connect With Marshall Inu!
Twitter | Telegram | Website
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Marshall Inu | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/09/28/marshall-inu-presents-mfc-worlds-first-decentralized-mma-championship/ | 2022-09-28 12:48:23 | 1 | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/09/28/marshall-inu-presents-mfc-worlds-first-decentralized-mma-championship/ |
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) will broadcast its quarterly conference call with shareholders and the financial community over the Internet on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The Company will release its third quarter earnings report for 2022, which ended September 30, 2022, after the close of markets on Tuesday, November 8.
The conference call will be open to listeners who log in through the Company's website, www.centrusenergy.com. A link to the call will be located in the Investor Relations section of the website, and a webcast replay will be available through November 19, 2022.
Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry. Centrus provides value to its utility customers through the reliability and diversity of its supply sources – helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon-free electricity. Since 1998, the Company has provided its utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal. With world-class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is also advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capability in the future. Find out more at www.centrusenergy.com.
Contact:
Lindsey Geisler (301) 564-3392 or GeislerLR@centrusenergy.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Centrus Energy Corp. | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/04/centrus-webcast-conference-call-november-9-830-am-et/ | 2022-11-05 23:27:43 | 0 | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/04/centrus-webcast-conference-call-november-9-830-am-et/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for AXSM, FL, MNMD, DMS, and PRVB.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- AXSM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=AXSM&prnumber=081920221
- FL: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=FL&prnumber=081920221
- MNMD: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=MNMD&prnumber=081920221
- DMS: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=DMS&prnumber=081920221
- PRVB: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=PRVB&prnumber=081920221
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/thinking-about-buying-stock-axsome-therapeutics-foot-locker-mind-medicine-digital-media-solutions-or-provention-bio/ | 2022-08-19 13:56:45 | 0 | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/thinking-about-buying-stock-axsome-therapeutics-foot-locker-mind-medicine-digital-media-solutions-or-provention-bio/ |
CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
_____
102 FPUS51 KALY 101045
ZFPALY
FPUS51 KALY 100727
ZFPALY
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
327 AM EDT Wed Aug 10 2022
CTZ001-102000-
Northern Litchfield-
Including the city of Torrington
327 AM EDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as warm with highs around 80. North winds
around 5 mph this morning, becoming light and variable.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Light and variable winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. Lows
in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
CTZ013-102000-
Southern Litchfield-
Including the cities of Oakville, New Milford, Terryville,
and Woodbury
327 AM EDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers after midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 60s.
South winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Humid with highs in
the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest around
5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. Lows
in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CT-Albany-NY-Zone-Forecast-17363808.php | 2022-08-10 11:13:47 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CT-Albany-NY-Zone-Forecast-17363808.php |
The program supports the growth of up-and-coming brands and emphasizes BIPOC voices
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Saks, the premier digital platform for luxury fashion, has launched the second year of its emerging designer accelerator program, The New Wave, presented by Mastercard. This year's program features eight new-to-Saks brands, including Claude Kameni, KEEYAHRI, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Nalebe, SUNNI SUNNI, Undra Celeste, Who Decides War and Zeynep Arcay. To celebrate the program, Saks will feature participating designers in a robust marketing campaign across its digital channels and in a special window installation at the Saks Fifth Avenue New York flagship on display now through Tuesday, October 11.
The New Wave program develops and supports high-potential independent brands in accelerating their growth at Saks, and ultimately across the greater fashion industry. This year, participating designers were sourced from all categories, including women's, men's and gender-fluid ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories. Participants were identified by the Saks leadership team as brands that possess significant growth potential and would benefit from additional support to scale their businesses.
The program also aims to amplify BIPOC voices and furthers Saks' commitment to increasing representation in its merchandise assortment. This year, six of the eight participating brands are Black-owned businesses, and Saks has ensured that at least half of the program participants will be BIPOC brands each year.
"We are excited to continue using our platform to uplift emerging brands and support BIPOC designers," noted Tracy Margolies, Chief Merchandising Officer, Saks. "This incredible program provides a unique opportunity for up-and-coming designers to accelerate their growth at Saks and across the fashion industry. At the same time, it furthers our commitment to increasing representation in our assortment and delivering fresh, compelling fashion to our customers."
2022 PROGRAM OVERVIEW
This year's New Wave program includes:
- Onboarding bootcamp at Saks' corporate headquarters in New York City.
- Cross-functional advisory sessions with leaders from key areas across the Saks business, including merchandising, marketing, public relations and business operations.
- Mentoring sessions with industry experts, including designer Joseph Altuzarra, Harlem's Fashion Row's Founder and CEO Brandice Daniel, and Executive Vice President at Purple PR, Andrew Lister.
- Roundtable discussion with NBA All-Star, entrepreneur, investor and Saks board member James Harden on entrepreneurship and style.
- Small business workshops and consulting led by program partners including Launch Collective, NuORDER by Lightspeed and SKYPAD.
- Deskside meetings with Vogue editors and access to professional development through the CFDA.
- Opportunity to receive a $10,000 grant to support business operations and growth.
2022 PROGRAM PARTNERS
For the second year in a row, Mastercard is the presenting sponsor of The New Wave program. Mastercard will provide participating designers with Digital Doors® Toolkits, including exclusive tools and resources to help small businesses digitally transform, as well as one-on-one mentorship on digital enablement. This partnership builds on Mastercard's sustained commitment to build a more inclusive digital economy and to help close the racial wealth and opportunity gap for Black communities.
This year, United Airlines is also taking part in The New Wave program. United hosted a competition for this year's participants to design the refreshed Saks Fifth Avenue day blanket that will appear on board United flights in United premium cabins from April 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. Following review by leadership teams at Saks and United, Claude Kameni was selected as the winner of the design competition. In addition to her design being featured on board United flights, Claude will receive a $10,000 travel grant and a $10,000 monetary grant for design services from United.
ASSETS
Click here to download images assets
ABOUT THE DESIGNERS
CLAUDE KAMENI
Claude Kameni is a contemporary fashion designer who sees her namesake label as a bridge between her culture and the global fashion industry. The colorful prints, bold patterns and unique designs found within Claude's work are inspired by her West African heritage in Yaoundé, Cameroon. As a child, she was extremely creative with a sharp eye for silhouettes and colors. Following her relocation to the United States at the age of 8, she was able to take her first fashion class in high school which sparked her design journey. Since then, Claude has studied patterns extensively to where she can manipulate them to create extremely eye-catching garments, which have caught the attention of celebrities such as Janet Jackson and Viola Davis. A master in African design, Claude Kameni also works on taking traditional rigid African print fabric and transforming it into an array of breathable pieces meant for any and every body.
KEEYAHRI
Feathers, faux fur, pops of color, curious shapes, architectural concepts and innovative designs. KEEYAHRI is a shoe label focused on building up the confidence of the shoe wearer along every step of the way. Founder and Artistic Director Keya Martin swapped out her corporate career for a more rewarding one in fashion with emphasis on luxury footwear for the confident woman. Her journey has pushed her to embrace the shoemaking process while rewriting and redefining the rules of shoe design. After establishing a name for herself within the United States, KEEYAHRI's contemporary designs are now sailing across the Atlantic.
LUDOVIC DE SAINT SERNIN
Ludovic de Saint Sernin represents a return to beauty, seen via the lens of sensuality and sexuality, with an exacting approach to design. Ludovic is a French designer who graduated in Fashion Design from ESAA Duperré and worked in a number of French fashion houses before launching his own label in 2018. Ludovic de Saint Sernin is for guys and girls, with many pieces designed without one gender in mind. Ludovic has shown his collection on both the men's and women's official Fashion Week calendar in Paris. The label is known for its underwear, forming a new product category of luxury underwear for men, with the eyelet brief being the brand's signature item. The majority of Ludovic's clothes and accessories are made in France and sustainable practices are always closely followed, consciously shortening the supply chain and maintaining a close relationship with all ateliers.
NALEBE
Nalebe was founded by Amina Means with the goal of providing sustainable and comfortable shoes. Made In Italy, the global lifestyle shoe brand was founded after Amina Means sprained her ankle and decided to create shoes that were not only birthed on classic design with artisanal craftsmanship, but also focused on creating comfort while infusing stylish details. Amina's brand personifies her love for sustainability in which she chooses to produce within a zero-waste production cycle and uses recyclable packaging. Her romantic sensibility, artistic indulgence, and exquisite innovations have become a must-have for celebrities, fashion influencers and women making their mark on the world.
SUNNI SUNNI
SUNNI SUNNI is a conceptual footwear brand formed in July 2020 by the self-taught footwear designer Sunni Dixon. The label is artful and cultured with stimulating inventive concepts that are sophisticated and simple, yet street smart. Born and raised in Washington, DC formerly known as Chocolate City, much of Sunni's inspiration is rooted in black culture. Consciousness runs deep in everything produced and SUNNI SUNNI plans to make the most ethical choices when designing its footwear and creating its stories.
UNDRA CELESTE
Undra Celeste as a designer is the modern multicultural women's designer. Undra designs clothes that evoke confidence and an unapologetic presence. The brand is the perfect mix of professional and statement dressing. Undra's goal is to empower multicultural women to show up to work feeling like their authentic selves, exuding confidence by providing modern, fun and bold workwear.
WHO DECIDES WAR
In 2019, Artistic Director Ev Bravado and his creative partner Tela D'Amore presented their first full-scale collection in Paris for Who Decides War. Widely recognized for newfound signature denim silhouettes, Who Decides War hones in on carefully crafted pieces, expert garment distressing, recycling, reworking and multi-phase hand-dyeing, all with incomparable and meticulous attention to appliqué detailing. These key factors are what continue to set this creative team apart. As Who Decides War continues to grow exponentially, its in-house team retains the same grounded outlook and mission statement of instilling faith, culture and a handmade touch into each garment created.
ZEYNEP ARCAY
Zeynep Arçay spent most of her career as an executive in the tech industry before switching gears to follow her passion for design and launch her namesake label in 2016. Best known for unconventional leather fabrications and innovative craftsmanship, the brand's sophisticated dresses and tailoring strike the perfect balance between modern and classic.
ABOUT SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
Saks Fifth Avenue is the leading name in luxury shopping. Since 1924, the brand has maintained a reputation for delivering an expertly curated assortment of fashion and highly personalized service. The Saks Fifth Avenue experience offers seamless all-channel shopping through an elevated digital platform and in-person services provided by an extraordinary network of 40 Saks Fifth Avenue stores across North America.
Shop on Saks.com and the Saks app, or visit Saks.com to find a Saks Fifth Avenue store location near you.
Follow @saks on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter, @thesaksman on Instagram and Saks Fifth Avenue on LinkedIn.
Contact: Emma Reese, emma.reese@saks.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Saks | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/21/saks-launches-second-year-emerging-designer-accelerator-program-new-wave/ | 2022-09-21 14:00:37 | 0 | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/21/saks-launches-second-year-emerging-designer-accelerator-program-new-wave/ |
It's a genre of music that's making history.
In May, for the first time ever, two songs from the Mexican Regional genre made their way into the Billboard Hot 100 Top Five: Grupo Frontera's collaboration with Bad Bunny, titled "Un Porciento" (or One Percent), and Peso Pluma's "Ella Baila Sola" (She Dances Alone).
For Grupo Frontera, social media has served as the driving force behind their rise in profile, in large part thanks to TikTok.
But in the case of Peso Pluma, it's the song content that's been catching the most attention. While his song that cracked the Top 100 is about love at first sight, some of his other work is much darker. One of his newer songs titled after the cartel-troubled Mexican state of Tamaulipas has the following lyrics: "They see us pass through Tamaulipas, all of us ready and well-equipped in case we have to fight."
While Peso Pluma is charting under the Mexican Regional genre, it's this style of music—Corridos Tumbados—that has brought him the most attention. Corridos Tumbados, an extension of Narcocorridos, takes on the genre's principles with an influence of rap and trap, touching on topics like drug violence, social issues, and sexualization. And according to Chartmetric Data, the 2nd and 3rd most followed playlists of Mexican music fall under the Corridos Tumbados genre.
SEE MORE: Shakira breaks 14 Guinness World Records with her Bizarrap collab
"As we speak right now at this very moment, there's got to be a number of Corridos being uploaded onto YouTube and some other platforms," Dr. Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta said.
"Corridos" themselves are a centuries-old form of storytelling with deep roots in Mexico, serving as a way to preserve history and celebrate the accomplishments of "folk heroes."
"The notion of heroism has changed over time. Corridos in general did not used to be so much about criminals or traffickers as they are today," Ramírez-Pimienta said.
Dr. Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta is a professor of Border and Mexican studies at the Imperial Valley Campus of San Diego State University. For years, he has been studying the evolution of Corridos and Narcocorridos, specifically from the 1930s onward to what is now being streamed today. He says one of the key factors driving the popularity of this genre has been economics.
"Since the 1970s, with the devaluation of the peso and the economic problems in Mexico, these types of songs reemerged. And to me, that is not coincidence," Ramírez-Pimienta said. "If somebody is providing the jobs, people tend to not forget but perhaps overlook certain moral or criminal characteristics of the provider."
And while some may not agree with the violence in these songs, Ramírez-Pimienta says it's easy to see how the songs can be a source of empowerment.
"Most of the listeners of these songs are the Mexican population in the United States," Ramírez-Pimienta said. "For that person going to work back and forth for half an hour, it's dangerous because he or she would know that if he gets stopped over because of a light or any little thing, it could not only mean a ticket but deportation and the end of their family. So, for a person under those circumstances, sometimes a fantasy of powerful Mexicans, a musical fantasy, could be intoxicating."
Part of what makes Narcocorridos so unique is how the songs are created.
SEE MORE: Why did concert tickets get so expensive?
"A lot of the real-life drug runners would be commissioning Corridos for themselves. And these Corridos would be sort of propaganda for their organizations," Rafael Acosta Morales said.
Rafael Acosta Morales is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas. He says while some artists choose to write about drug trafficking on their own accord, it's actually quite common for them to be written as a request, with the artist being hired to pay homage to groups like the Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Gulf cartels. Some songs reportedly celebrate the battles of specific drug traffickers with authorities, often with other competing cartels.
"Some music producers and some of the interpreters and composers, they are relatives of drug dealers," Acosta Morales said.
With some artists more open than others about the inspiration behind the songs.
"Just about every performer will have different takes. On how that relationship works," Acosta Morales said.
For example, in May, Peso Pluma hung up on a reporter during an interview with the L.A. Times when he was asked about some of his songs, some of which have left Mexican media questioning his connections to drug organizations.
The rise of this genre hasn't come without backlash.
"There have been several attempts to ban public performances," Acosta Morales said. "They were banned from the radio. They were banned from being sold in music stores."
In recent decades, lawmakers in Mexico have made multiple attempts to block Narcocorridos from being performed or even played, with legal battles being fought in the country's Supreme Court and Mexican states and cities issuing fines for brands that perform the music.
In 2017, the band Los Tigres Del Norte were fined $25,000 for playing songs considered Narcocorridos during a concert in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
SEE MORE: What are the impacts of Mexican cartels on the US?
The concern is that this kind of music promotes violence and cartel activity, and not just in Mexico. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, cartels dominate the U.S. market for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, feeding an appetite estimated to be more than $150 billion annually.
But would there be a potential crackdown on Narcocorridos being played in the U.S.?
"There has never been much crackdown on Corridos in the U.S. Mostly because the people doing the crackdowns don't speak Spanish," Elijah Wald said.
Elijah Wald is a journalist and author of the book The Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas.
"They want to be able to play you a track of gangster rap or a track of punk rock that parents will go, 'Oh my God, my kids are listening to that.' And if the lyrics are in Spanish, they're not going to get that reaction," Wald said.
Wald says those looking to curb the influence of drugs and violence will need to look beyond Narcocorridos if they are to ultimately find success.
"Particularly if you go into the rooms of the teenage boys who are listening to this, the poster on the wall is likely to be Al Pacino in Scarface. And nobody ever asks Al Pacino, or Martin Scorsese, or Francis Ford Coppola whether they don't feel bad about encouraging violence and making it look romantic and exciting. And God knows they have done so much more to do that than all the Corridos on Earth," Wald said.
As for the future of Narcocorridos, the clicks, downloads, and ticket sales don't appear to be slowing down. And as for the source of inspiration for so many of these songs...
"A lot of the conversation about the dangers of this stuff acts as if this is a problem coming from Mexico to the U.S. And I just think it's really important to point out that this whole drug world is a problem the U.S. has created for Mexico," Wald said.
For now, artists like Peso Pluma, Natanael Cano, and others create and cash in.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | https://www.kxlf.com/why-are-mexican-corridos-gaining-popularity-on-the-music-charts | 2023-06-18 02:02:49 | 1 | https://www.kxlf.com/why-are-mexican-corridos-gaining-popularity-on-the-music-charts |
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2023. There are 332 days left in the year.
Today’s birthdays: Composer-conductor John Williams is 91. Broadcast journalist Ted Koppel is 83. Actor Nick Nolte is 82. Comedian Robert Klein is 81. Actor-rock musician Creed Bratton is 80. Singer Ron Tyson is 75. Actor Brooke Adams is 74. Actor Mary Steenburgen is 70. Author John Grisham is 68. Retired NBA All-Star and College Basketball Hall of Famer Marques Johnson is 67. Actor Henry Czerny is 64. Rock singer Vince Neil (Motley Crue) is 62. Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson is 61. Movie producer Toby Emmerich is 60. Actor Missy Yager is 55. Actor Mary McCormack is 54. Basketball Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning is 53. Actor Susan Misner is 52. Actor Seth Green is 49. Rock musician Phoenix (Linkin Park) is 46. Actor William Jackson Harper is 43. Folk singer-musician Joey Ryan (Milk Carton Kids) is 41. Actor-comedian Cecily Strong is 39. NBA star Klay Thompson is 33. Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton is 33.
Advertisement
In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the Virginia Colony.
In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
In 1922, President Harding had a radio installed in the White House.
In 1924, the first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death.
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI.
Advertisement
In 1960, work began on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles.
In 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed shortly after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board were killed. The Supremes’ record “Stop! In the Name of Love!” was released by Motown.
In 1968, three Black students were killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and highway patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley.
In 1971, NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, held its first trading day.
In 1973, Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal, including its chairman, Democrat Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina.
In 2007, model, actor and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died in Hollywood, Fla., at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose.
In 2013, a massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions began sweeping through the Northeast, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to more than a half a million customers.
In 2018, the federal government stumbled into a shutdown that would end by morning, its second in less than a month, as rogue Senate Republicans blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal. For the second time in a week, the Dow Jones industrials plunged by more than 1,000 points as a sell-off in the stock market deepened. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets of Philadelphia as the Eagles celebrated their Super Bowl victory with a parade.
Advertisement
In 2020, the US Embassy in Beijing said a 60-year-old US citizen who’d been diagnosed with the coronavirus had died on Feb. 5 in Wuhan; it was apparently the first American fatality from the virus.
Last year, retired Pope Benedict XVI asked forgiveness for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticized his actions in four cases while he was archbishop of Munich, Germany. “The Power of the Dog” topped the 2022 Oscar nominations with 10. (It would go on to win just one, best director for Jane Campion.) | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/08/metro/today-history-feb-8-mary-queen-scots-beheaded/ | 2023-02-08 05:20:01 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/08/metro/today-history-feb-8-mary-queen-scots-beheaded/ |
Amazon delivery driver helps family escape burning home
SYOSSET, N.Y. (WCBS) – An Amazon delivery driver in New York rushed into a burning home to save a family Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters arrived at the home just four minutes after the 911 call and found a family outside, thanks to the help of Kevin Rivera.
“I just saw the fire getting bigger and bigger. That’s when I rushed in,” Rivera said. “Everyone is calling me a hero.”
The Amazon driver said he was finishing his route when he saw the flames near the front of the home.
He said he saw several people inside through an open front door, including a woman and a baby who were apparently unaware of the fire.
“I just rushed in. I didn’t want anyone to die in that house,” Rivera said.
Rivera said he told the six or seven people inside about the flames, but a language barrier made it difficult for them to understand at first.
He urged them to leave through the back door, away from the flames.
Eventually, they did and then saw the house in flames.
“They just started crying,” Rivera said. “They just got emotional.”
A neighbor captured video of the fire and said it could have been a lot worse. When she heard about Rivera’s actions, she posted his story on social media to praise the driver.
“I thought it was great,” Amanda Johnson said.
Now, the neighborhood that normally thanks him for his deliveries is thanking him for much more.
“To be honest, I just feel great that I did something,” Rivera said.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.
Copyright 2022 WCBS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/09/12/amazon-delivery-driver-helps-family-escape-burning-home/ | 2022-09-12 18:05:49 | 1 | https://www.wibw.com/2022/09/12/amazon-delivery-driver-helps-family-escape-burning-home/ |
Giants 2, Royals 1 (OT)
First Period
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
No Scoring.
Penalties — Lipinski Van (high sticking) 7:42; Palmieri Van, Newman Vic (roughing) 16:43.
Second Period
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
1. Victoria, Patton 12 (Sapousek, Misskey) 15:01.
Penalties — Almquist Vic (boarding) 8:04; Edwards Vic (hooking) 17:43.
Third Period
2. Vancouver, May 1 (Cull, Anderson) 2:55.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Penalties — Lipinski Van (tripping) 7:32; Langkow Van (hooking) 12:34.
Overtime
No Scoring.
Penalties — None.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Shots on goal by
Goal — Vancouver: Vikman (W, ). Victoria: Holt (22 shots, 20 saves).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-2; Victoria: 0-3.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Referees — Jeff Ingram, Jake Podann. Linesmen — Liam Reid, Nathan Van Oosten.
Attendance — 5,186 at Victoria. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-vancouver-victoria-17778141.php | 2023-02-11 06:38:16 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-vancouver-victoria-17778141.php |
Suspect arrested in Osceola man’s murder
OSCEOLA, Ark. (KAIT) - An Osceola man is being held on a $750,000 bond after a judge found probable cause to charge him with first-degree murder.
Investigators arrested 26-year-old Qurdell Coleman on Tuesday, June 7, in connection with the May 31 shooting death of Regginald Thomas.
According to court documents, police officers found Thomas lying on the ground in front of a home on North Pearl Street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and leg.
An ambulance took Thomas to a hospital where he later died.
A witness at the scene described what happened and identified Coleman as the suspect, the affidavit said.
On Monday, June 6, detectives interviewed Coleman who “admitted to shooting Mr. Thomas.”
After reviewing the case, a judge found probable cause to charge Coleman with first-degree murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and criminal mischief.
Copyright 2022 KAIT. All rights reserved. | https://www.kait8.com/2022/06/13/suspect-arrested-osceola-mans-murder/ | 2022-06-13 15:33:39 | 0 | https://www.kait8.com/2022/06/13/suspect-arrested-osceola-mans-murder/ |
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WDAF) – It has been two decades since Pitt State head men’s basketball coach Jeff Boschee put on the crimson and blue for the Kansas Jayhawks, but on Thursday, he leads the Gorillas into Allen Fieldhouse for an exhibition game against his alma mater.
Boschee was hired as the Gorillas’ head coach in March of this year after serving in the same capacity at Missouri Southern State for eight seasons.
From 1998 to 2002, Boschee was a four-year starter under then-head coach Roy Williams at Kansas. He helped the Jayhawks to Big 12 Conference and Tournament titles and a berth in the 2002 NCAA Final Four.
Boschee won several honors during his time at KU, including the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and the 1999 Big 12 Tournament MVP award. He also held the record for the most three-pointers in a Big 12 career with 338 until A.J. Abrams broke the record in 2009 with Texas.
The Pitt State Gorillas and Kansas Jayhawks tip off at 7 p.m. from Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence.
Be the first to know with KSN News in the palm of your hand
Stay up-to-date on Wichita news and weather. KSN News is available to you anytime on the KSN News app. For the latest KSN radar in the palm of your hand, download the KSN Weather App. Get breaking news and a daily rundown of the news that’s important to you by signing up for our newsletters. | https://www.ksn.com/sports/jayhawks/former-ku-guard-leads-pitt-state-into-match-up-with-kansas-jayhawks/ | 2022-11-03 19:46:07 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/sports/jayhawks/former-ku-guard-leads-pitt-state-into-match-up-with-kansas-jayhawks/ |
- Golden Ray Shipwreck is largest salvage operation since Exxon-Valdez Alaska Oil Spill
- Albert Dai's surviving dependents file wrongful death lawsuit against salvage operators, T&T Salvage, LLC and Teichman Group, LLC
- Lawsuit claims T&T Salvage won bid to salvage Golden Ray in Georgia based on reckless plan, resulting in millions of dollars in excess cost, delays, environmental damage, and the death of Albert Dai, Plaintiff
AUSTIN, Texas , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harris-county family represented by law firm Muery & Farrell has filed a lawsuit against Galveston-based T&T Salvage for the death of employee Albert Dai, husband and father. Teichman Group, LLC is also named as a defendant.
Wenijan (Albert) Dai had been employed by T&T Salvage as a specialized naval architect and salvage engineer from 2012 until his death. In 2019, Defendant bid on a complex salvage project off the coast of Georgia, following the capsize of the Golden Ray.
The Golden Ray shipwreck is the largest salvage operation in the history of the United States. The lawsuit claims Dai, who had over two decades of experience in marine salvage, warned T&T Salvage that its salvage plan was "not achievable" and posed "significant risks".
T&T Salvage won the bid, causing an extraordinary workload on Dai, including during the first half of 2020 as COVID-19 caused global lockdowns. His widow, Yuan Zhou, claims that Dai worked "around the clock" under extraordinary pressure. He died on June 29, 2020, and Plaintiffs make claims for gross negligence.
The Golden Ray salvage incident was, according to one U.S. Coast Guard Commander, the "largest wreck removal in U.S. history." T&T Salvage is also named as a defendant in a lawsuit by Glynn County, Georgia, where the capsize took place, which alleges that negligent salvage operations caused environmental damage, including several fires, oil spills, and allowed "debris and hazardous fluids to get into the sound, estuary and marshlands."
Maureen Farrell, Counsel for Plaintiffs, "T&T Salvage ignored warnings, and pursued a reckless salvage plan that cost about $800 million, caused environmental destruction to the Georgia coast, and cost Albert Dai his life. Companies should not work employees to death in pursuit of profits at any price."
The lawsuit is ongoing. Houston-based firm Nguyen & Chen is serving as plaintiffs' co-counsel in the case.
Media Inquiries
Christine Haas, Haas Communications
Christine@christinehaas.com
(512) 751-1592
View original content:
SOURCE Muery & Farrell, P.C. | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/06/06/wrongful-death-suit-filed-connection-with-golden-ray-shipwreck-against-galveston-salvage-company/ | 2022-06-06 20:42:18 | 1 | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/06/06/wrongful-death-suit-filed-connection-with-golden-ray-shipwreck-against-galveston-salvage-company/ |
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A former Louisiana college student says she was forced to drop out of school after her service dog, Cookie, was denied access to the UL-Lafayette campus after a recent classroom incident.
Alexandra Dondeville, who was a freshman majoring in psychology and liberal arts, is now living with a family member and trying to figure out the next steps in her life that will include Cookie.
“I can’t be on campus without my service dog,” Dondeville said. “I need her to survive every day to go through life. I can’t function without her at this time, and as soon as she wasn’t allowed on campus anymore, that basically said, I can’t go to class. I can’t stay in my own dorm. I had to pick up my entire life and leave it.”
She says an alleged incident with Cookie in her biology classroom derailed her college career. Dondeville’s biology professor claimed Cookie bit him during class, according to Nexstar’s KLFY, but she said that’s not what happened. Dondeville remembered the professor stepping on Cookie’s head, and Cookie yelping in pain, but there was never any bite.
“Alex has some special needs,” said Suzanne Gainer, Dondeville’s mother. “She’s dyslexic, she has ADHD, you know, so it’s scary for a parent, and it’s incredibly upsetting to know that we put her in their arms and they just wronged her so badly without really a full explanation.”
A petition aimed at bringing Dondeville and Cookie back on campus and back to class has gained over one thousand signatures.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, service animals are allowed to enter all public spaces that a human would be allowed to enter, and it’s illegal for a business to deny them access. Interfering with the work of a service animal is a class A misdemeanor and requesting that the service animal leave the premises is legal only if the animal is not behaving well.
UL Lafayette Public Information Officer Eric Maron responded to KLFY’s request for comment on the incident with the following statement:
“The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is dedicated to creating a campus culture that is safe and accessible for all students, faculty and staff members. The University allows trained service and emotional support animals on campus to assist individuals who may need them. The University’s Animal Policy, which was adopted in 2019, and applicable laws provide guidelines that both the animals and their handlers must follow. The policy requires that:
• Service and emotional support animals be personally supervised by the handler, and the handler must retain full control of the animal at all times while on University property;
• No service or emotional support animals disrupt or interfere with University activities, including teaching, research or service; and
• If improper behavior happens more than once, the handler may be prohibited from bringing the animal onto University property.
If a service or emotional support animal is prohibited from campus, the University encourages students to contact the Office of Disability Services to determine alternative reasonable accommodations.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/louisiana-student-quits-after-she-says-school-barred-service-dog-for-classroom-incident/ | 2023-02-08 02:13:45 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/louisiana-student-quits-after-she-says-school-barred-service-dog-for-classroom-incident/ |
SAN DIEGO — Brandon Drury hit a go-ahead, two-run single during a five-run rally in the fifth inning and the San Diego Padres stunned Aaron Nola and the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5 on Wednesday to tie their all-wild card NL Championship Series at one game apiece.
The outburst started with Padres catcher Austin Nola hitting an RBI single off his younger brother that brought the sellout, rally towel-twirling crowd of 44,607 at Petco Park to life. Three innings earlier, the Phillies had taken a 4-0 lead with a rally that included bloop hits, a sun-aided double on a gorgeous, 92-degree afternoon and some shoddy Padres defense.
But just as they did Saturday night in eliminating the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres were spurred by the bottom of their lineup in a big comeback.
Drury and Josh Bell hit back-to-back homers for the Padres, and Manny Machado went deep late.
The series shifts to Philadelphia for three games starting with Game 3 on Friday night. The Phillies, trying to reach their first World Series since 2009, outscored Atlanta 17-4 in two home Division Series games last weekend to eliminate the defending World Series champion Braves.
Blake Snell got the win and Josh Hader the save after striking out the side in the ninth to send the crowd into a frenzy. Aaron Nola, in the playoffs for the first time in his career and off to a brilliant start, took the loss.
The Padres, playing in their first NLCS since 1998, appeared to be in deep trouble after Snell threw 37 pitches in the Phillies’ four-run second.
San Diego began its comeback with homers on consecutive pitches by Drury and Bell to open the bottom of the inning. Drury lined a shot to left field and Bell lifted a fly ball deep to right that stayed just fair.
Bell and Juan Soto, who had an RBI double in the fifth, were obtained in a blockbuster trade with Washington on Aug. 2, the same day the Padres got Drury from Cincinnati.
()
Join the Conversation
We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/10/19/drury-padres-rally-to-beat-nola-phillies-8-5-tie-nlcs-1-1/ | 2022-10-20 01:22:00 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/10/19/drury-padres-rally-to-beat-nola-phillies-8-5-tie-nlcs-1-1/ |
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chardan, a global investment bank, has announced the launch of its Chardan Equity Facility (ChEF) product, an innovative financing solution used to support the unique needs of its clients. The ChEF enables companies to raise equity on a periodic basis after becoming public, outside the context of a traditional underwritten follow-on offering.
Companies that have recently announced ChEFs include Senti Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNTI), a synthetic biology platform company, that has entered into a $50 million ChEF, and Dragonfly Energy (Nasdaq:CNTQ), an energy-storage solutions company, which has announced an agreement to enter into a $150 million ChEF.
"The ChEF is ideal for newly public or soon-to-be public companies (i.e., de-SPACs) currently facing a challenging and uncertain capital markets environment who want the flexibility to raise capital quickly and efficiently. Chardan's transactional expertise and success raising billions of dollars for innovators worldwide over the past two decades enables us to be an ideal partner with the ChEF," said Jonas Grossman, Chardan's President and Managing Partner.
The recently announced ChEFs further demonstrate Chardan's commitment to creative solutions for companies seeking access to capital. Since 2002, Chardan has raised more than $30 billion for companies, including nearly $10 billion for healthcare companies. Additionally, Chardan is a leading sponsor, underwriter and adviser of SPAC transactions, having advised or underwritten nearly 150 SPAC transactions.
About Chardan
Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (Chardan) is an independent global investment bank specializing in healthcare, disruptive technologies, and SPACs. Our range of services include capital raising, merger and acquisition advisory, strategic advisory, equity research, corporate access, and institutional trading. Headquartered in New York City, Chardan is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: FINRA, SIPC, NASDAQ and the NYSE Arca, Inc.
Learn more about Chardan at www.chardan.com
This press release is and the information contained therein are not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, sell or solicit any securities or any proxy, vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities of any particular company (including the referenced companies) in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be deemed to be made except by means of an applicable prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption therefrom. In addition, the availability of the proceeds of any ChEF to a company is subject to entering into the related documentation and the terms and conditions of such documentation and market and other conditions.
Media Inquiries:
Emily Levine, Chardan
elevine@chardan.com (646) 465-9018
Margaret Gaenzle, Prosek Partners
mgaenzle@prosek.com (804) 714-8848
View original content:
SOURCE Chardan | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/chardan-announces-launch-chef-chardan-equity-facility/ | 2022-09-01 16:46:11 | 0 | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/chardan-announces-launch-chef-chardan-equity-facility/ |
MATTHEWS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – A natural gas leak is causing problems near downtown Matthews Saturday morning.
Matthews Police said around 6 a.m. that Trade St. and Fullwood Lane were experiencing traffic delays due to the leak.
Highway 51 and E. John St. are to be used as alternate routes.
BE THE FIRST TO KNOW: Sign up here for QC News Alerts and get breaking news sent straight to your in
Piedmont Gas was in the area and working on fixing the issue. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/matthews/natural-gas-leak-in-matthews/ | 2022-12-10 17:15:01 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/matthews/natural-gas-leak-in-matthews/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Sam Bankman-Fried signaled Thursday that the onetime cryptocurrency darling is challenging the validity of new charges added to an indictment after he agreed to be brought to the United States in December from the Bahamas rather than fight extradition.
Attorney Mark Cohen told a Manhattan federal court judge that his 31-year-old client, a founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was pleading not guilty to new charges lodged against him in recent weeks in what a prosecutor has labeled as one of the biggest frauds in American history.
But Cohen quickly added that although he was pleading not guilty to the new charges, Bankman-Fried was not acknowledging that he can be tried on them. He didn’t elaborate and left the courthouse quickly just before his client was ushered to a waiting vehicle.
Earlier this week, a rewritten indictment charged Bankman-Fried with a new conspiracy count, alleging that he violated the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by directing the payment of $40 million in bribes to a Chinese official or officials to free up $1 billion in cryptocurrency that was frozen in early 2021.
FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when the global exchange ran out of money after the equivalent of a bank run. He has remained free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond that requires him to stay with his parents in Palo Alto, California. His trial is tentatively set to begin in the fall.
Bankman-Fried previously pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that he cheated investors out of billions of dollars before his business collapsed.
In late February, a rewritten indictment brought new fraud charges against him and raised the maximum prison time he could face if convicted from 115 years to 155 years.
His not guilty plea entered through Cohen on Thursday also applied to those new charges. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/lawyer-ftx-founder-likely-challenging-new-crypto-charges/ | 2023-03-31 10:57:14 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/lawyer-ftx-founder-likely-challenging-new-crypto-charges/ |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Greek shipping company has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $2.25 million for violations of environmental laws that were carried out by the captain and chief engineer of one of its oil tankers, federal prosecutors said.
The Galissas, owned by Zeus Lines Management S.A., discharged nearly 10,000 gallons (about 37,000 liters) of oily bilge water directly into the ocean and failed to report a hazardous condition in the vessel’s cargo tanks to the U.S. Coast Guard last year, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Providence announced Wednesday.
The violations took place when the tanker was transporting a cargo of diesel from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to Rhode Island, prosecutors said.
The vessel’s captain pleaded guilty to failing to report a hazardous condition in the vessel’s cargo tanks to the Coast Guard prior to the tanker entering the port of Newport, Rhode Island.
The vessel’s chief engineer pleaded guilty to knowingly discharging untreated oily bilge water directly from the tanker into the sea during the voyage.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Zeus' $2.25 million penalty includes a fine of $1,687,500 and $562,500 for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to fund projects that benefit marine and coastal natural resources in Rhode Island.
Zeus will also be required to implement a robust environmental compliance plan when any of its vessels enter a U.S. port.
“This prosecution demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the health and safety of the marine environment,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said in a statement. “The reckless actions of these defendants not only threatened the marine environment, but also the safety of this coastal community."
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/shipping-company-to-pay-2-25m-for-environmental-18078965.php | 2023-05-04 18:22:37 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/shipping-company-to-pay-2-25m-for-environmental-18078965.php |
Doctors perform brain surgery on baby in utero
BOSTON (CNN) - Doctors in Boston performed a procedure first of its kind last month when they successfully performed brain surgery on a baby while in utero.
The baby had a rare condition with a 40% mortality rate.
Doctors thought fixing the problem before the baby was born might save her.
“On September 14, we were able to have our first ultrasound. We saw baby, were extremely excited,” Kenyatta Coleman said.
This was Coleman and her husband Derek Coleman’s fourth baby, a girl named Denver, and they were excited.
However, during their routine 30-week ultrasound, a nightmare began.
“Saw my doctor and, you know, we sat down. And then she shared with me that something wasn’t right, in terms of the baby’s brain. And also her heart was enlarged,” Coleman said.
The concern was what is known as a vein of Galen malformation, that shouldn’t exist. Essentially, a vein in Denver’s brain was getting too much blood too quickly.
“Ironically, despite all of this blood going to the brain, it’s not supplying brain tissue, it’s just going through the malformation like a short circuit right back to the heart,” said Dr. Darren Orbach, a radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Orbach typically treats these rare malformations right after a baby is born, but that often can be too late.
“Fifty to 60% of all babies with this condition will get very sick immediately,” he said. “For those, it looks like there’s about a 40% mortality.”
So Orbach and his team offered the Colemans something new, a chance to treat Denver in a clinical trial in utero before she was born.
In-utero surgery meant they had to take two patients to the operating room instead of one. And they had to carefully thread a catheter into the middle of that gigantic blood vessel inside a tiny baby brain.
Orbach said the biggest risk he was concerned about was the fear of injury to the brain.
“We are accessing the head through the skull and through the dura and back into the big collecting vein,” he said.
In order to accomplish this, Coleman was taken to the operating room and given an epidural. And then Denver was rotated into the right position and then given anesthesia to keep her from moving.
“So, after learning that she was in an ideal position, that was more confirmation for me,” Coleman said. “Like there’s no backing out of this.”
When the baby is in utero, the baby is flipped so that the back of the head is towards the abdominal wall. The needle would then go through the abdominal wall of the mother and then through the baby’s occipital bone.
“And at that point, we introduced the microcatheter through the needle and went up through the sinus to get to the big vein,” Orbach said.
Through that needle, tiny little coils were used to fill up the vein.
The actual procedure itself took about 20 minutes. And just two days later, Denver was born.
The baby and her family are now happy and healthy.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/05/04/doctors-perform-brain-surgery-baby-utero/ | 2023-05-04 15:09:34 | 0 | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/05/04/doctors-perform-brain-surgery-baby-utero/ |
Tiger Woods’ former girlfriend wants to nullify a nondisclosure agreement she signed with golf’s biggest star in a legal dispute that involves allegations of an abrupt breakup after six years together.
The court documents have come to light a month before Woods, whose comeback from injuries has restored his popularity, returns to Augusta National to play in the Masters.
Attorneys for Woods’ ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, are asking for clarity on what she can and cannot say, according to documents filed in Martin County Circuit Court in south Florida.
Woods lives in Hobe Sound in Martin County, north of West Palm Beach, and the complaint said Woods and Herman had been living together.
According to the complaint, a trust controlled by Woods is trying to silence Herman with an NDA she signed while involved in a “personal and professional relationship” with Woods.
The complaint argues it should be nullified under the “Speak Out Act,” which became federal law in December and prohibits an NDA from being enforced when sexual assault or sexual harassment is involved.
Herman has not specifically accused Woods of sexual abuse; the civil cover sheet indicates the case involves sexual abuse.
Herman filed a separate complaint on Oct. 26 accusing the trust established by Woods — the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust — of violating the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act.
She alleges they had an 11-year oral tenancy agreement, and that five years remained on it when she was removed from the property through what she described in the complaint as “trickery.”
Herman, who once worked at his Jupiter Woods restaurant, alleges Woods’ agents persuaded her to pack for a short vacation. She claims when she arrived at the airport, they told her she had been locked out of the house and was not to return.
She also alleges the agents “attempted to justify their illegal conduct” by paying for a hotel room and certain expenses for a short period of time. The complaint says the agents removed her belongings and misappropriated $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, “making scurrilous and defamatory allegations about how she obtained the money.”
Woods’ agent at Excel Sports Management, Mark Steinberg, has not responded to a phone call and a text message seeking comment.
Woods and his wife divorced in 2010, some nine months after he was caught in a series of extramarital affairs that cost him blue-chip corporate sponsors and tarnished an image that been largely impeccable.
Since then, he has had a series of injuries and surgeries, including fusion surgery on his lower back in 2017, and shattered bones in his right leg from a February 2021 crash in Los Angeles when he drove his SUV off a coastal road while driving about 85 mph.
He returned from four back surgeries to win the 2019 Masters for his first major in 11 years and his 15th career Grand Slam title. Equally remarkable was coming back from the car crash that he said nearly led to amputation of his right leg, playing in the Masters — and making the cut — just over a year later.
Woods is able to play only a limited schedule because of his injuries, and people continue to follow his every move. In Los Angeles three weeks ago, fans stood two-deep along just about every fairway for a glimpse of him.
Woods chose to sit out The Players Championship this week, instead resting for the Masters on April 6-9. He needs one more PGA Tour victory to set the career record he shares with Sam Snead at 82.
He was first seen in public with Herman at the Presidents Cup in late September 2017, and she had been a steady presence at the larger events, such as the 2019 Masters. But she was not with him at his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas the first week in December, nor at the Genesis Invitational he hosted at Riviera in California three weeks ago.
The complaint filed Monday on the NDA doesn’t provide details about what information Herman might want to disclose or make specific allegations against Woods.
The complaint says because of “aggressive use” of the NDA, Herman is unsure whether she can disclose “facts giving rise to various legal claims she believes she has.” It also says she is unsure what other information about her own life she can discuss and with whom.
___
AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://who13.com/sports/ap-sports/woods-facing-legal-clash-with-ex-girlfriend-as-masters-nears/ | 2023-03-10 00:01:13 | 1 | https://who13.com/sports/ap-sports/woods-facing-legal-clash-with-ex-girlfriend-as-masters-nears/ |
BOSTON (AP) — A former eBay Inc. executive pleaded guilty Thursday to participating in a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included the delivery of live spiders and other disturbing items to their home.
David Harville, eBay’s former director of global resiliency, is the final onetime eBay employee charged in the case to plead guilty. Six others have admitted to their roles in the harassment campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple who publish the newsletter EcommerceBytes, which eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.
The scheme included sending items like a box of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, and books about surviving the loss of a spouse to the couple’s home with the hopes of getting them to stop publishing negative articles about the company, prosecutors say. eBay employees also set up fake social media accounts to send threatening messages to the couple and posted the couple’s home address online.
Harville and others were charged in June 2020 over the plot, which authorities say was orchestrated by members of eBay’s executive leadership team after the newsletter published an article about a lawsuit filed by eBay accusing Amazon of poaching its sellers, authorities said.
Another former executive who pleaded guilty last month, James Baugh, held meetings to coordinate the harassment campaign and directed Harville to go with him to Boston to spy on the couple, prosecutors say.
Harville flew to Boston from California and bought tools with a plan to break into the couple’s garage and install a GPS tracker on their car, prosecutors say. Over dinner in Boston, he and Baugh joked about what could be left on the couple’s porch, including a bag of human feces, Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Kosto said.
Harville pleaded guilty during a hearing held via videoconference before a Boston federal court judge. An email seeking comment was sent to his lawyers on Thursday.
The couple, Ina and David Steiner, sued eBay and several employees including former CEO Devin Wenig last summer over what they described as a conspiracy to “intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them” in order to “stifle their reporting on eBay.”
Wenig was not criminally charged, has denied any knowledge of the harassment campaign, and his lawyers have asked that the Steiners’ claims against him be dismissed. He stepped down as CEO of eBay in 2019. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/weird/final-ex-ebay-employee-in-cyberstalking-case-pleads-guilty/ | 2022-05-13 01:08:42 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/weird/final-ex-ebay-employee-in-cyberstalking-case-pleads-guilty/ |
The products and services mentioned below were selected independent of sales and advertising. However, Don't Waste Your Money may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website.
July might be nearly half over, but you can still get a deal on cold beverages from Starbucks if you act quickly. Thanks to the coffeehouse chain’s Summer TuesYays program, Starbucks Rewards members can enjoy 50% off delicious cold drinks every Tuesday in July.
But don’t drop in or drive-through and expect to grab this great deal instantly. Instead, you will have to use the Starbucks app to place your order and get the discount.
First, make sure you are signed up for Starbucks Rewards. Then, log in to the mobile app with the same username and password associated with your Rewards account.
Tap the Offers button in the lower-right corner of the main screen to access your Starbucks Rewards offers. Your Summer TuesYays coupon for 50% off will appear, provided you checked on a Tuesday in July before the coupon expires.
Of course, there are some caveats. The Summer TuesYays offer is only available at participating stores. According to a tweet by Starbucks, the discount is available at company-owned and licensed stores in the US.
In addition, the 50% off deal is only good on handcrafted drinks, such as cold brew coffees, iced teas, Refreshers and Frappuccinos. Ready to drink, bottled beverages are excluded. In addition, you won’t be able to combine this offer with other discounts or use it on delivery orders. The deal is limited to one per person, as well.
If you miss a Tuesday special or want more great Starbucks deals, hang on until Thursday. From 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at participating stores on select Thursdays every month, you can enjoy Happy Hour at Starbucks. Starbucks Rewards members can enjoy two beverages for the price of one.
Buy one grande or larger handcrafted drink, hot or cold, and get the second one of equal or lesser value free. Plus, you can BOGO as many qualifying drinks as you want on a single order.
Check the Starbucks app for more details and rewards.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | https://www.kgun9.com/you-can-get-50-off-cold-drinks-at-starbucks-on-tuesdays-in-july | 2022-07-12 21:04:36 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/you-can-get-50-off-cold-drinks-at-starbucks-on-tuesdays-in-july |
More than 70 residents currently reside at the 230-unit luxury resort community
GEORGETOWN, Texas, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hacienda at Georgetown opened its doors to independent living residents in February 2023 and celebrated its official grand opening on April 15, with a soft opening of the public-facing Alma by Stephan Pyles restaurant and a ribbon cutting ceremony for The Hacienda attended by residents, prospects, and the public. "We expect full licensure in our assisted living and memory care programs in the coming weeks and have quite a few residents waiting to move in," said Michael Graham, Partner at MedCore. Located on 13 acres at the south entrance to Sun City Georgetown, The Hacienda at Georgetown offers an unmatched lifestyle for sophisticated seniors desiring catered living and amenities.
Alma by Stephan Pyles, which was creatively inspired by James Beard award-winning chef Stephan Pyles, is scheduled to open to the public on May 1 and is currently serving residents of The Hacienda. Chef Pyles is working directly with the culinary team at Watermark Retirement Communities, the manager for The Hacienda at Georgetown, to oversee the operations of five different dining venues on the campus. Alma will serve residents of The Hacienda, Georgetown, and the entire hill country region.
In addition to The Hacienda at Georgetown's extensive culinary offerings, the community will offer a robust suite of programs and amenities including a specially designed outdoor amphitheater and a fully equipped wellness center with a salon, spa, club rooms, fitness center, theater, meditation garden and a luxury resort-like pool with cabanas and outdoor cantina.
"We have been fortunate to receive an outpouring of interest in The Hacienda from citizens of Georgetown as well as others from around the region and state," added Annika DiNovi, Executive Director for The Hacienda. "Our forward-thinking programs and amenities complement the already intriguing architectural design for seniors who desire enhanced lifestyle options." Residents of The Hacienda can enjoy oversized patios, a dog park, putting greens, garage and carport parking, on-site physician, health and wellness instruction, virtual reality programs, a second-floor entertainment space overlooking the resort pool, palm-scanning access control, hearing aid loops, and many other next-generation features.
The Hacienda at Georgetown was developed by MedCore Partners, a Dallas-based healthcare real estate group, The National Realty Group, a Houston-based full-service commercial and industrial real estate company, and Houston-based Asaz, Limited. Tulsa-based ACRON USA provided LP Equity for the project, with bank financing from the Seniors Housing Division of BOK Financial. The development team anticipates a second phase independent living expansion in the future.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE MedCore Partners | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/04/25/medcore-partners-announces-grand-opening-hacienda-georgetown/ | 2023-04-25 14:46:07 | 1 | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/04/25/medcore-partners-announces-grand-opening-hacienda-georgetown/ |
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (EGLE) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $23.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of $1.50. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and asset impairment costs, were $2.28 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.71 per share.
The shipping company posted revenue of $151.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $108.8 million, also missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $116.1 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $248 million, or $15.57 per share. Revenue was reported as $556.5 million.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on EGLE at https://www.zacks.com/ap/EGLE | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/eagle-bulk-shipping-q4-earnings-snapshot-17816708.php | 2023-03-02 23:47:03 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/eagle-bulk-shipping-q4-earnings-snapshot-17816708.php |
US sanctions IS-Somalia weapons traffickers, al-Shabab
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
The move to freeze and block any potential transactions with U.S. entities comes after two car bombings at a busy junction in Somalia’s capital on Saturday killed more than 120 people.
Al-Shabab, which often targets the capital, Mogadishu, and controls large parts of the country, claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack, saying its objective was to hit the education ministry.
These are the first sanctions on Somalia’s Islamic State group network from Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The State Department designated IS-Somalia in 2018 as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
On Oct. 17, the U.S. imposed financial penalties on more than a dozen people from Somalia and Yemen who it said were involved in al-Shabab’s financing operations, which use those funds to help in weapons procurement and recruitment activities.
The Treasury Department said the sanctions further target the “network of weapons traffickers, their associates, and an affiliated business that have facilitated weapons transfers to multiple terrorist groups.”
Violent acts have increased in recent months. Islamic extremist fighters early this month targeted a Somali government headquarters in the Hiran region, leaving at least 20 people dead and 36 wounded in a town at the center of a recent mobilization against the extremists.
Saturday’s bombing in Mogadishu injured more than 320 people, and many were still missing.
“We extend our heartfelt condolences to all who lost loved ones and were injured in Saturday’s horrific attack and strongly condemn this indefensible act of terrorism,” Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said. “Today, we take direct aim at the networks funding and supplying both ISIS-Somalia and al-Shabaab that support their violent acts.”
The Islamic State group sometimes is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
___
Follow the AP’s coverage of the Islamic State group at https://apnews.com/hub/islamic-state-group and al-Shabab at https://apnews.com/hub/al-shabab.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/11/01/us-sanctions-is-somalia-weapons-traffickers-al-shabab/ | 2022-11-01 16:40:43 | 0 | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/11/01/us-sanctions-is-somalia-weapons-traffickers-al-shabab/ |
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — "Another unit of the 12th New York National Guard is guarding the Statue of Liberty Bridge Northern Central in Marysville, and the one member in that unit is Boston Corbett, who kills John Wilkes Booth," said Jim Schmick as he walked around his Mechanicsburg store, Civil War and More.
It doesn't take long to see why if you ask the state museum or any local historical societies on the West Shore about their region in the days leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, they point you in the direction of Schmick.
"So Harrisburg, a town of 14,000, ends up having over 500,000 troops come through it," recalled Schmick, talking about Harrisburg's past as a main training center and transportation hub during the Civil War.
Schmick knows the Confederates' hopes to take Harrisburg didn't end with the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge.
Almost a week before any shots were fired in Gettysburg, Rebels covered the Cumberland Valley.
"Every time the militia—remember, these guys never fought in their life—every time they saw the Rebs they hightailed it back to the Lemoyne bottleneck," said Schmick. "So they were confident that Harrisburg wouldn't be a problem to take."
Any opportunity to take Harrisburg could have also solved another problem that plagued the Confederacy for the length of the war: the Union blockade.
"Stonewall's map maker Jed Hotchkiss was a teacher in the coal mines in Lykens, which were the best and the biggest at the time of the Civil War," recalled Schmick. "Twice, they come up here to torch the coal mines that are supplying the United States Navy with their fuel to blockade southern ports from getting stuff in from Europe."
An extended interview with Jim Schmick can be found in the video above.
While inexperienced, the Union was able to build up some defenses around the capital city with the arrival of Darius Couch, who took command of the new Department of the Susquehanna.
"Fort Washington was the Lemoyne bottleneck. Now, Lemoyne was only 12 homes back then, down to the red light near Dunkin' Donuts. That's all Lemoyne was, called 'Bridgeport.' So that hill from Duke's and Dockside Willies is just a forest, so they had to cut all that down. And they started building Fort Washington when they got there," said Schmick from his years of research. "He (Couch) says there's better ground west of here and that's why there's Fort Couch. Negly Park was Camp Couch. If you don't dig dirt you're a camp. If you dig dirt, you're a fort."
Mechanicsburg joined York as cities that surrendered to the Confederates. Mechanicsburg was the northernmost city to do that in the Civil War.
The two sides would skirmish at Oyster Point—or as it's known today, Camp Hill—but on June 30 they met again, as Confederate General Richard Ewell received word that he must bring his troops to Gettysburg.
"He forgets to tell the guys waiting for him to get out," added Schmick. "So you have 800 behind the Wegmans and Target by the creek looting farms, waiting for Ewell, who is not coming. You have 300 at Denny's, which was Gleim's Woods, and 15 in a barn behind Carpet Mart. The base of it is still there."
Depending on who you talk to, another Battle or Skirmish of Sporting Hill was about to begin. New York Militia General John Ewen froze when shots were fired at his men from what was then called the Eberly Barn. Rufus King Jr. not only saved this group from being surrounded by Confederates, but when the Union battery showed up, he corrected the green soldiers' procedure to load the guns and helped them hit the barn square, killing almost a dozen Confederates inside.
"So the Union National Guard out of New York lined up from Gilligan's down to Dunkin' Donuts there, and they had experienced officers help them with their cannons," said Schmick. "They did a good job getting the Confederates out of here and then they found out they were supposed to be in Gettysburg. They didn't realize it at the time because they weren't told."
You can find more information on the Battle of Sporting Hill and Cumberland County during the Civil War at the following resources:
- Visiting Jim Schmick's store Civil War and More
- Visiting the Camp Curtin Historical Society | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/history/battle-of-sporting-hill-civil-war-harrisburg-cumberland-county-beyond-gettysburg/521-8d04c142-7566-4bd3-90fd-a52c8426914d | 2023-06-28 11:50:33 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/history/battle-of-sporting-hill-civil-war-harrisburg-cumberland-county-beyond-gettysburg/521-8d04c142-7566-4bd3-90fd-a52c8426914d |
6-year-old recovering in ICU after being run over by bulldozer
FRANKLIN, Texas (KBTX/Gray News) – A 6-year-old boy in Texas is recovering in the intensive care unit after he was run over by a bulldozer last week.
The accident happened July 27 when Bodie Boring was on a job site with his dad, according to his mom Samantha Boring.
Boring said her son’s injuries include fractures in his pelvis, two bruised lungs, a skull fracture, a blood clot in his brain and a brain bleed.
To make matters worse, Bodie tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday while in the hospital. Boring said her son had a 103-degree fever, but that has now broken, and he is feeling better.
Before coming down with COVID, Bodie began walking again on Sunday. His mom said Bodie’s journey to recovery would be long, but she’s confident he will conquer it.
“He has amazed me so much,” Boring said. “His spirit has been so positive this whole time. Even in his worst pain, he’s just been amazing.”
Boring has documented her son’s journey on Facebook, and his cousin Magen Boring started a GoFundMe to help cover medical costs.
“He’s just also been really amazed to see everybody who cares about him and how many people are praying for him,” Magen Boring said.
Copyright 2022 KBTX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.1011now.com/2022/08/03/6-year-old-recovering-icu-after-being-run-over-by-bulldozer/ | 2022-08-03 20:37:39 | 1 | https://www.1011now.com/2022/08/03/6-year-old-recovering-icu-after-being-run-over-by-bulldozer/ |
(WKBN)- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that several baked snack products were recalled this week.
The FDA announced that Enjoy Life Natural Brands LLC has recalled several of its snacks, including cookies, chewy bars, breakfast ovals and brownies. The recall is due to the potential presence of hard plastic pieces.
The following items have been recalled:
The FDA said consumers who have this product should not eat it and should throw away any product they may have but should keep any available packaging and contact the company at 1-855-543-5335, 24 hours a day to get more information about the recall and how to receive a refund. Consumer relations specialists are available Monday-Friday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST.
The announcement states that there have been no reports of injury or illness received by Enjoy Life Foods to date.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are conducting the recall. | https://www.wane.com/news/soft-baked-cookies-brownie-bites-recalled/ | 2022-07-14 15:05:16 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/soft-baked-cookies-brownie-bites-recalled/ |
GREATER LAFAYETTE LOW TUESDAY MORNING: 28
GREATER LAFAYETTE HIGH TUESDAY: 37
VIEWING AREA LOWS TUESDAY MORNING: 26-31
VIEWING AREA HIGHS TUESDAY: 35-38
Snow Tuesday will change to rain/snow & drizzle with some fog before changing back to some snow Tuesday evening. Minor accumulations of snowfall are expected in the morning & a bit in the evening, but it should melt away in the afternoon. | https://www.wlfi.com/weather/storm-team-18-forecast/article_da25cc0a-646c-11ed-848c-d3b7195f0b26.html | 2022-11-15 00:37:36 | 0 | https://www.wlfi.com/weather/storm-team-18-forecast/article_da25cc0a-646c-11ed-848c-d3b7195f0b26.html |
Dhar Mann is all about fostering an online circle of support.
As the YouTube star—known to his over 17 million subscribers for his inspirational videos of stories with positive messages—recently shared, he was motivated to build his own community based on his own childhood experience.
"Growing up, I just wanted to have friends and like a lot of young people, I struggled with that throughout middle school, throughout high school," he exclusively told E! News at the Dec. 18 screening for his film, An Unforgettable Christmas. "And because I never really felt comfortable building friendships in the real world, I kind of turned to social media as a way to build a community."
And as Dhar noted, though people may think content creators "are really outgoing and have these big personalities," a lot of those leading way are in, fact, introverts—which he sees as more than encouraging.
"I think it's really inspiring to say, 'Hey, even if you don't have an over-the-top personality, and even if you are that quiet, shy kid," the 38-year-old added. "'You can still build a community of millions of people through social media.'"
And though his work today consists of films such as his latest, An Unforgettable Christmas—a few years ago, a project of this length would be seen as almost impossible to the entrepreneur.
"What's especially exciting about this is that our first video ever that we put out, less than four years ago, was three minutes and ten seconds long," he noted. "And at that time, that felt long for us. So, for now, a few years later, to be able to put out an hour and forty-five minute length feature film that I really think is just gonna blow everyone away—it just goes to show as to what's possible and how far you've come if you dream big."
As for the "core essence" of the holiday film itself? Well, ‘tis the season for such a message.
"It's a really special film, it's four different videos combined into one," Dhar explained. "Holidays have become so much about gift-giving and materialistic things, this film is such a great reminder that the things that matter most are the people that are next to us and that we love." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1358942/youtube-star-dhar-mann-shares-inspiring-message-about-online-community | 2022-12-20 18:25:39 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1358942/youtube-star-dhar-mann-shares-inspiring-message-about-online-community |
Charlotte-based Jenkins Electric acquires the experienced team and equipment to add sleeve and fluid film bearing manufacturing expertise.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jenkins Electric, an electromechanical service and parts provider specializing in electric motor repair and test products, as well as a variety of distribution parts, has acquired Wheeler, a sleeve and fluid film bearing manufacturer based in North Charleston, South Carolina.
"This acquisition expands our capabilities and offerings in the industrial motor parts and service industry," said Iain Jenkins, Jenkins President. "From the North Charleston location, Jenkins will continue the Wheeler tradition of precision manufacturing. We've built a company and culture that we're proud of and retaining the technical and customer service team at Wheeler only enhances our offering and dedication to customer success."
Wheeler Bearing Company serves a variety of OEM customers around the world. With deep experience and strict adherence to ISO Certified manufacturing practices, Wheeler manufactures babbitt-lined bearings, aluminum alloy bearings and labyrinth seals. In addition to offering rebabbitting services on motor, turbine, fan and gearbox bearings.
With a commitment to meeting deadlines, exceeding quality expectations and expanding the ability to serve customers, Wheeler Bearing Company, Powered by Jenkins will be led by General Manager, Ryan Ossmann. The experienced technical and customer service team, formerly of Wheeler Industries, will remain in North Charleston under Ryan's leadership.
This acquisition further expands the distribution business offered by Jenkins, which now includes sleeve and fluid film bearings, motor cooling fans, winding protection and motor parts in addition to serving as the exclusive US distributor of Axalta resin.
"Jenkins has a long history of being a locally owned family business with a dedication to supporting fellow motor shops across the Southeast and the entire country. One of the ways we continue to lend support is by offering same day shipping and no minimums on the critical replacement parts we know other shops rely on daily. If it's available in our online store, it's been Jenkins tested and approved", said Iain Jenkins.
About Jenkins Electric Company: Jenkins Electric is a Charlotte, NC-based industrial, electromechanical repair, test and manufacturing company. Their manufactured test systems and replacement products support repair facilities and maintenance departments throughout the world, while their repair services keep OEM's and utilities across the southeast running. Learn more at JenkinsElectric.com.
About Wheeler Bearing Company: Since 1919, Wheeler has manufactured and repaired industrial babbitt, bronze and aluminum bearings, oil rings, and deflectors. The 17,000 square foot manufacturing site houses an in-house babbitt and aluminum foundry, technology, and equipment, 20,000+ OEM drawings, and a large inventory of replacement motor parts. Wheeler, an ISO 9001-2008 Certified Supplier, provides precision CNC machining, EDM services, rebabbitting services and design assistance. Learn more at WheelerBearing.com.
If you would like more information, please contact Crystal Bristow at 704-969-8332 or cbristow@jenkins.com.
Crystal Bristow
Jenkins Electric Company
cbristow@jenkins.com
(704) 969-8332
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Jenkins Electric | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/10/05/jenkins-acquires-sleeve-fluid-film-bearing-manufacturer/ | 2022-10-05 14:43:50 | 1 | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/10/05/jenkins-acquires-sleeve-fluid-film-bearing-manufacturer/ |
(Motor Authority) — The Cadillac Lyriq was a new addition to the lineup for 2023, and for its second year on the market, the breakthrough mid-size electric SUV gives buyers more options and a lower starting price.
New for 2024 are Tech and Sport grades that sandwich the existing Luxury grade. The Tech grade, despite being the entry-level option, still comes well-equipped with items like a 33.0-inch display integrating the instrument cluster and infotainment system, as well as wireless phone charging, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a glass roof with a power sunshade, and 20-inch wheels all standard.
Upgrading to the Luxury grade adds a nappa leather package, front seats with cooling and massage functions, second-row heated seats, and a black-painted roof. A panoramic power-operated sunroof is available. Also available is a 19-speaker AKG Studio premium audio system.
The Sport grade builds on the Luxury by adding additional design details such as body-colored door handles, a unique front grille, and dark accents. It also has its own wheel patterns.
Five new colors are available: Argent Silver Metallic, Radiant Red Tintcoat, Celestial Metallic, Nimbus Metallic, and Emerald Lake Metallic.
The 2024 Lyriq starts from $58,590, including a $1,395 destination charge, which compares to the 2023 model’s starting price of $59,990. The starting price is for a Lyriq Tech with rear-wheel drive. Add all-wheel drive and the starting price increases to $62,090.
The Lyriq’s rear-wheel-drive powertrain consists of a single motor at the rear rated at 340 hp. The all-wheel-drive setup swaps in a dual-motor system good for 500 hp.
Related Articles
- Porsche reveals revised logo ready for digital age
- Faraday Future FF91 to launch with $309,000 flagship
- Bugatti Bolide hypercar tests ahead of deliveries in 2024
- Ferrari SF90 LM (Versione Speciale) spy shots
- 2025 BMW X3 spy shots and video
All 2024 Lyriqs come with a 102-kwh battery, which Cadillac estimates will deliver a range of 308 miles with rear-wheel drive and 307 miles if all four wheels are driven. The battery supports charging at up to 190 kw using a DC fast charger, in which case Cadillac estimates about 77 miles can be added in 10 minutes. | https://phl17.com/automotive/2024-cadillac-lyriq-gets-more-features-lower-starting-price/ | 2023-06-04 18:05:45 | 1 | https://phl17.com/automotive/2024-cadillac-lyriq-gets-more-features-lower-starting-price/ |
Heart + Paw has implemented the GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant platform in their veterinary hospitals to streamline pet travel appointments
AMES, Iowa, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heart + Paw has partnered with GlobalVetLink to implement the GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant in their veterinary hospitals across the Northeast. The GVL Compliance Assistant is a comprehensive SaaS platform designed to streamline animal health compliance for all veterinary practices. Adding the GlobalVetLink platform to a veterinary hospital's suite of tools allows for seamless compliance and increased efficiency for veterinarians and hospital staff.
"Enabling our team with the GVL software was integral in our continued focus to bring innovative solutions into our Heart + Paw practices,"said Dr. George Melillo, Co-Founder and Chief Veterinary Officer at Heart + Paw. "As our pet parents significantly increased the demand for travel we needed to streamline our process with GlobalVetLink. GlobalVetLink is the only solution in the market to truly tackle a demanding and necessary service for the industry."
The GlobalVetLink Compliance Assistant platform is used by over 10,000 veterinary practices for creation and electronic submission of compliant health records for companion, production, and equine focused practices. The GVL Pet TravelPass automates regulatory research with built-in intelligent rule checking to streamline International and Hawaii pet travel. This replaces time consuming manual research processes and eliminates mistakes that prevent many veterinary practices from offering pet travel documentation services.
"We are thrilled to partner with Heart + Paw to bring our technology to their practices and their teams," said Daniel Levine, Chief Revenue Officer at GlobalVetLink. "Being able to streamline the workflow for the practices allows the team to truly focus on health outcomes. As veterinary practices are faced with challenges from staff shortages, increased demand for pet travel, and continued demand for services, we are looking forward to assisting more practices who need to streamline their health certificate process."
GlobalVetLink is the leading digital animal health company. Over 180 million animals per year in the pet travel, equine, and production animal sectors utilize GlobalVetLink's health records for state, federal, and international animal health compliance. Learn more at globalvetlink.com.
GlobalVetLink empowers and supports people to provide the best in animal care and safety. The GVL Compliance Assistant is a comprehensive SaaS platform designed to streamline animal health compliance for all veterinary practices. The Certificate Creator is the core of the platform and is managed by an intelligent Compliance Engine that verifies all certificates are compliant with state, federal and international rules and regulations. The GVL Health Record stores data for easy repeat certificate creation and ensures streamlined access to completed certificates. The Compliance Assistant platform automatically submits key animal health certificates to all 50 state animal health offices, and streamlines the submission to USDA-APHIS for international pet travel. Learn more at globalvetlink.com.
Media Inquires: Rebecca Haugland, 515-817-5075, rhaugland@globalvetlink.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE GlobalVetLINK | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/globalvetlink-heart-paw-announces-partnership-streamline-clinic-processes/ | 2022-09-01 15:10:22 | 1 | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/globalvetlink-heart-paw-announces-partnership-streamline-clinic-processes/ |
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – With Memorial Day coming up and summer quickly approaching, now is the time to start creating the perfect backyard oasis!
Charles Gamarekian with Cambridge Pavers explained that a good place to start is by deciding how much you’re willing to invest.
He said even if you can’t execute the whole project all at once, just know that in time and with proper planning you will accomplish your end goal!
Your contractor can work with you to create your ideal backyard in phases to fit your budget, which will make the whole process less overwhelming.
*This segment Sponsored by Cambridge Pavers* | https://www.wdtn.com/living-dayton/a-planning-guide-to-your-dream-outdoor-space/ | 2023-05-26 19:36:18 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/living-dayton/a-planning-guide-to-your-dream-outdoor-space/ |
Local Restaurateurs Bet Big on Recession-Resilience by Investing in Top Battery Retailer
LONG ISLAND, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Batteries Plus, the nation's leading franchise retailer for batteries, light bulbs, key fobs and phone repair services, recently welcomed their newest signed agreement for the development of 3 new units in Long Island, New York. This deal will not only expand the presence of the franchise within the region as a whole, but will establish the brand in a territory that's just become active for the company this year.
Dominick and Joe Loccisano, brothers and business partners, invested in Batteries Plus after having spent 17-years working alongside one another in the restaurant industry. In that time, they've been able to establish a variety of local namesakes, including Villaggio Bistro, Sangrias Latin Restaurant, Sangaritas Tapas Restaurant, and more.
As the pandemic cast a spotlight on the economic fragility of the restaurant sector, the brothers were compelled to rethink the diversity of their investments and long-term viability of the market. In search of business opportunities with a proven track record of recession-resilience and sustained year-over-year growth, they then discovered, researched, met with and signed on the dotted line to become a part of the fastest-growing battery supplies franchise in the country.
"The restaurant business has the tendency to consume your entire life. Coupled with the skyrocketing cost of labor and overhead, it's just become a difficult beast to manage and constantly adapt with," said Dominick Loccisano. "That's largely why the blueprint of a franchise business model – particularly Batteries Plus - appealed to us so much."
As individuals and businesses become increasingly dependent on battery power, it's important to provide communities with ready access to the batteries they rely on. And that's the role the Loccisano's are looking to fill, providing for the energy needs of Long Island residents and businesses.
"We're in the early stages of searching out the best real estate for our first location and are already envisioning what the brand's footprint in the area will look like over the next 5 years," said Joe Loccisano. "There's plenty of work ahead and lessons to be learned, but I feel this most recent deal is just the start of what our involvement with Batteries Plus will entail as we continue to move forward."
Batteries Plus was ranked on Franchise Times Top 400 list, coming in at #130. And for the 29th year in a row, the brand made Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 list, climbing 69 spots over last year's rank. To learn more about Batteries Plus, including information on franchise opportunities or to tour a store virtually, visit batteriesplusfranchise.com.
ABOUT BATTERIES PLUS:
Batteries Plus, founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hartland, WI, is a leading omnichannel retailer of batteries, specialty light bulbs and phone repair services for the direct-to-consumer and commercial channels. The retailer also offers key programming, replacement and cutting services. Through a nationwide network of stores, the company offers a differentiated value proposition of unrivaled product selection, in-stock availability and customer service. Batteries Plus is owned by Freeman Spogli, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles and New York City. To learn more about one of Forbes®' Best Franchises to Buy in America, visit https://www.batteriesplusfranchise.com.
MEDIA CONTACT: Conner Gossel, Fishman Public Relations, cgossel@fishmanpr.com or 937-545-9812
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Batteries Plus | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/22/batteries-plus-finalizes-3-unit-franchise-agreement-long-island-expansion/ | 2022-09-22 14:16:00 | 0 | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/22/batteries-plus-finalizes-3-unit-franchise-agreement-long-island-expansion/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is asking the owners of 350,000 vehicles to take them to dealers for repairs in three recalls, including about 39,000 that should be parked outdoors because the engines can catch fire.
Ford said in U.S. government documents posted Thursday that it doesn’t know what’s causing fires in some 2021 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
But the company said fires can happen even while the engines are off. It’s recommending that the SUVs be parked away from buildings.
The automaker also is recalling about 310,000 heavy-duty trucks because the driver’s air bag may not inflate in a crash.
Covered are certain 2016 F-250, 350, 450 and 550 trucks. And Ford is recalling 464 electric Mustang Mach-E SUVs from 2021.
A software problem can cause unintended acceleration. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/park-outside-ford-recalls-suvs-because-engines-can-catch-fire/ | 2022-05-19 12:54:07 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/park-outside-ford-recalls-suvs-because-engines-can-catch-fire/ |
Republican Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), whose relationship with former President Trump has frayed after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said Thursday he won’t be backing the former president’s bid to return to the White House, one day after Trump’s controversial CNN town hall.
“I don’t intend to support him for the Republican nomination,” Young told reporters Thursday.
The senator dinged Trump for his comments on the war in Ukraine during the town hall, with the former president declining even to say whether he wanted Ukraine or Russia to win the war. Instead, he said he just wanted the conflict to be settled.
“I think President Trump’s judgment is wrong in this case,” the Indiana Republican said. “President [Vladimir] Putin and his government have been engaged in war crimes. I don’t believe that’s disputed.”
When asked what his reason was for refusing to endorse Trump, who has a commanding lead in GOP primary polls, Young replied, “Where do I begin?”
Young did not pick up an endorsement from Trump in his 2022 reelection campaign after the lawmaker said the former president bore responsibility for what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump has picked up the official support of at least nine Republican senators, including Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and JD Vance (Ohio). No other sitting senator has come out to endorse a candidate other than Trump.
Young did not say which candidate he planned to support in lieu of Trump. | https://who13.com/hill-politics/gop-senator-says-he-wont-support-trump-in-2024-where-do-i-begin/ | 2023-05-11 17:59:49 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/gop-senator-says-he-wont-support-trump-in-2024-where-do-i-begin/ |
BOSTON (AP)All-Star Alek Manoah pitched six sharp innings as the Toronto Blue Jays relied more on his arm than their bats to keep up their season-long dominance of the Red Sox, beating Boston 4-1 Saturday.
A day after Toronto set a team record for runs – and posted the most ever scored against the Red Sox – in a 28-5 romp, Manoah set the tone.
”When he’s on the mound, we know we have a chance to win,” Toronto interim manager John Schneider said. ”It’s easy to get up for a game when he’s on the mound.”
Boston lost for the eighth time in nine games. Red Sox fans were sure to get a cheer on Sunday, however, when former slugger David Ortiz was inducted into the Hall of Fame – plenty of them headed to Cooperstown, New York, to see Big Papi enshrined.
”It’s very challenging and tough, but no one will feel sorry for you, especially the opposing team. They feel it’s a perfect situation for them,” Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts said. ”We need to go out with the team and the lineup we have. We’re all here for a reason. We can play.”
Manoah (11-4) allowed one run, on a homer by Bobby Dalbec that cleared everything in left field in the second, and seven hits. He walked none, struck out seven and lowered his ERA to 2.24.
”My competitiveness is something that I know I can control,” Manoah said. ”Having that will to win and expecting nothing less is what I’m trying to do every day.”
The animated Manoah barked at the Boston bench after ending his outing with three straight strikeouts. He fanned fellow All-Star Bogaerts to start that late flourish.
”He’s an emotional guy and that’s what makes him elite – the way he competes,” Schneider said. ”Just make sure your emotions don’t get the best of you and show up your opponent, but you couldn’t ask much more from him out of that inning.”
Jordan Romano pitched a scoreless ninth for his league-leading 21st save.
Toronto got seven hits a day after pounding out 29, and improved to 9-3 against the Red Sox this year. The Blue Jays are 3 1/2 games ahead of Boston for the AL’s final wild card spot.
Toronto pieced together a three-run third off rookie Kutter Crawford (2-3). Santiago Espinal and George Springer hit RBI singles and Alejandro Kirk had a sacrifice fly.
DEVERS OUT
The Red Sox put All-Star third baseman Rafael Devers on the 10-day injured list because of right hamstring inflammation, making the move one day after his early exit in the fifth inning.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Yusei Kikuchi (neck strain) delivered five innings of two-hit shutout ball in a rehab start for Triple-A Buffalo on Friday. The lefty finished with four strikeouts and three walks while throwing 43 of his 77 pitches for strikes. Interim manager John Schneider said the next 72 hours will be key before plotting the next course of action for a pitcher who has posted a 5.12 ERA in 16 starts before getting placed on the 15-day injured list earlier this month.
Red Sox: Back spasms kept All-Star DH J.D. Martinez out of the lineup for the second straight game. ”He doesn’t feel great,” manager Alex Cora said. ”Hopefully by tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday, he’ll be back in the lineup.” . Rich Hill (left knee sprain) has a bullpen session scheduled for Sunday. The lefty pitcher has been on the IL since July 2. . Cora says RHP Matt Barnes (shoulder inflammation) was in good spirits following Friday’s rehab appearance with Worcester. He is scheduled to throw an inning for the WooSox on Sunday. . INF/OF Kike Hernandez (hip flexor strain) was transferred to the 60-day IL. …. 2B Trevor Story (bruised right hand) is throwing but still hasn’t swung a bat since landing on the injured list on July 16.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: Ross Stripling (5-3, 3.03) will look to continue to build on what’s been a strong July. The right-hander has posted a 2.70 ERA in his previous three starts this month.
Red Sox: Top pitching prospect Brayan Bello (0-1, 10.13 ERA) makes his third start on Sunday. The 23-year-old is still searching for his first MLB win and will be looking to pitch into the fifth inning – something he didn’t do in each of his first two starts with Boston.
—
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/blue-jays-ride-manoahs-arm-more-than-their-bats-beat-bosox/ | 2022-07-24 20:25:34 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/blue-jays-ride-manoahs-arm-more-than-their-bats-beat-bosox/ |
How to know if you require computer glasses or not?
According to Nielsen, Americans spend more than half of their day in front of a screen. This behavior can lead to eye damage, back pain and low-quality sleep. Computer reading glasses can reduce blue light and glare, improving your comfort level when you’re in front of a screen.
We’ll break down what to look for when selecting a pair of computer glasses and then share a few of our favorites at the end. We found that the Prospek Blue Light Blocking Glasses are a great option, combining standard features with a sleek, lightweight and straightforward design.
What to know before you buy computer reading glasses
If several hours in front of the computer screen leave you with tired eyes, blurred vision, headaches or neck and shoulder pain, you may be experiencing eye strain. Computer reading glasses might help reduce some of your symptoms.
Eye strain and blue light protection
Blue light is simply a part of the visible light spectrum; however, excess exposure to blue light can damage the retina. Blue light is present in natural light, but you put your eyes at risk of fatigue and permanent damage when you spend too much time near your screens. Blue light can also inhibit your natural melatonin levels, which your body uses to ease you into sleep. Most computer reading glasses filter out blue light.
Prescription and magnification
If you find yourself squinting and having difficulty reading your screen, you should consider talking to an ophthalmologist or optometrist about your vision. While everyone’s eyes are different, prescription glasses can change the game for people straining to see their screens. There are computer reading glasses designed to not only negate harsh blue light but also modestly adjust the diopter — a term that measures the magnification power of a lens.
If you already wear prescription glasses and are considering computer reading glasses, you have several options. Additionally, there are clip-on glasses that snap on and accommodate your current frames at a reasonable price point.
Comfort and style
Finding a comfortable fit can be a complex process. We recommend opting for lightweight glasses, which puts less strain on the bridge of your nose. The more comfortable the glasses, the less frequently you have to adjust them.
What to look for in quality computer reading glasses
Minimal tint, glare prevention and accessories like cases are all good signals of quality. If you wear readers, glasses with magnification options are something to consider.
Yellow tint
Many computer reading glasses have a distinct yellow or orange tint. While this tint is there to filter blue light, it may be noticeable and irritating to some. This trend is more prevalent in low-quality models and varies in intensity. We prefer glasses that don’t have a noticeable tint because they tend to be more attractive and less distracting.
Anti-glare
Some lenses may reflect ambient light into your eyes, which can be distracting and irritating. The inside of the lens catches the sun, particularly if you are sitting by a window. Look for lenses that use an anti-glare coating to counteract and mitigate this effect.
Accessories
It’s a nice perk to receive a sturdy case and cleaning cloth with your glasses. Plus, if you treat your computer glasses with care, they’ll last longer.
How much can you expect to spend?
You can expect glasses with minimal magnification to cost from $10-$30. Frame quality improves near the $30-$50 range. The $50-$120 range offers more durable lenses and frames, prescription options and included accessories like glasses cases and carbon fiber cloths.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many on-screen hours are too many?
A. Answers vary. But the consensus is that any amount of screen time that is uncomfortable is too much. Doctors encourage breaks every 20-30 minutes.
Do they make computer reading glasses in children’s sizes?
A. Yes! Top brands include a range of glasses to accommodate different head sizes.
What are the best computer reading glasses to buy?
Top Computer Reading Glasses Overall
Prospek Blue Light and Glare Blocking (+0.00)
What you need to know: Prospek delivers a straight-forward, sleek and slender pair of glasses that reduce strain and perform well across the board.
What you’ll love: The affordable price point is hard to pass up, particularly with the included protective case and cleaning cloth.
What you should consider: Some users reported issues with smudging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Computer Reading Glasses for the Money
Gamma Ray Slim Anti-Reflective Anti-Glare Anti-Eyestrain
What you need to know: These glasses offer functionalities seen in higher-end models while coming in at an affordable price point.
What you’ll love: Effective at reducing strain and minimal tint.
What you should consider: The frames are fragile and can arrive misaligned. Some users detected mild distortion.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth Checking Out
What you need to know: Popular among gamers, these glasses are popular among gamers.
What you’ll love: Sleep improvements detected. Three sizes available.
What you should consider: The orange tint is very noticeable, and ambient light catches on both sides of the lens.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Chad Vickers writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | https://www.pahomepage.com/reviews/br/electronics-br/computer-accessories-peripherals-br/the-best-computer-reading-glasses/ | 2022-07-11 22:10:36 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/reviews/br/electronics-br/computer-accessories-peripherals-br/the-best-computer-reading-glasses/ |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 15, 2022
_____
AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1203 PM CDT Fri Jul 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south Texas, including the following
counties, Goliad and Victoria.
* WHEN...Until 200 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1203 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Victoria, Guadalupe, Ball Airport Area, Victoria Detar
Hospital North, Victoria Riverside Park, Downtown Victoria,
Victoria Mall, Saxet Lakes, Victoria College, Victoria Colony
Creek Country Club, Nursery, Brentwood Subdivision, Victoria
Regional Airport, Telferner, Mission Valley and Wood Hi.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-CORPUS-CHRISTI-Warnings-Watches-and-17307780.php | 2022-07-15 17:56:48 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-CORPUS-CHRISTI-Warnings-Watches-and-17307780.php |
‘New normal’ for 8-year-old twin wounded in July 4 shooting
(AP) - Sports-loving Cooper Roberts and his 8-year-old twin brother, Luke, loved the Fourth of July parade in their bucolic Chicago suburb.
But now the family is envisioning a “new normal” for Cooper who was struck in the chest in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead when a gunman opened fire on the parade in Highland Park, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson, during a Zoom call with reporters Thursday.
Luke and the boys’ mother, Keely Roberts, who is the superintendent of the 2,300-student Zion Elementary School District, also were hurt but not as seriously. Only the boys’ father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
Already, Cooper has undergone several surgeries, and is on a ventilator at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, his spine severed and his condition critical. He is unconscious and unable to speak to his family, Loizzi said.
“It sounds as if that he’ll have significant issues moving forward,” he explained. The family later confirmed that Cooper was paralyzed from the waist down.
Luke, who was struck by shrapnel, is home. But some of the shards remain in his body because removing them would cause too much damage, Loizzi said. The twins are the youngest of six, and their four older sisters — ages 18 to 26 — are doting on Luke while Cooper is hospitalized.
Meanwhile, the boy’s mother, who was shot twice in the foot and leg area, has undergone two surgeries and may need a third, Loizzi said.
“Quite frankly, she probably should not have been discharged,” Loizzi said. But when she found out Cooper was on a ventilator, she “told her doctors and nurses that they should either discharge or she’d walk out on her own because she needed to be with her son,” Loizzi said.
He said the school district where she works is getting offers of support from superintendents around the state, some of them retired. He said they want to help so she can heal and focus on her family.
“They’re devastated,” he said of the family, “but they’re focusing all of their energy right now on Cooper. It’s been a very emotional time for everybody in their circle. And if you know Keely, she’s just a fighter. And it sounds like Cooper got that part of her in him because he’s fighting as hard as he can.”
Loizzi had few details about the shooting itself. He said he didn’t know where the family was standing along the parade route when shots rang out or who helped them.
“To be honest, I have not had that conversation with Keely,” he said. “I have tried not to focus on what exactly happened, and have really kept the focus on what we’re doing to help her and her son.”
Loizzi described the boy as having a “passion” for sports and the Milwaukee Brewers.
“Every time I talk to his mom about him, he’s always very active,” he added.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family with what Loizzi described as “the obvious ongoing treatment and therapy that Cooper will need.” He said that Keely Roberts is a devoted school leader, who works tirelessly for her students and often sends emails in the wee hours of the morning.
“Now,” he said, “she and her family need our support. So we just ask you to please continue to keep the Roberts family and all of those impacted by this tragedy in your thoughts and prayers.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.1011now.com/2022/07/08/new-normal-8-year-old-twin-wounded-july-4-shooting/ | 2022-07-08 02:54:36 | 0 | https://www.1011now.com/2022/07/08/new-normal-8-year-old-twin-wounded-july-4-shooting/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper stepped off the team bus after it pulled up outside Citizens Bank Park and posed with fans for selfies — including a little kid who dressed like the Phillies slugger — and waved goodbye to the small party of fans.
With that, Harper walked away and into the offseason, one that could include surgery.
Harper’s need to address a balky right elbow that turned the right fielder into a designated hitter this season is one of the top priorities for the National League champions.
Trying to figure out if the Phillies’ scintillating postseason run, which ultimately fizzled against Houston in the World Series, marked the start of a sustained championship window or was simply a one-off is the other.
In one sense, the Phillies ended the season pretty much where they expected to land when spring training opened with championship aspirations.
Philadelphia spent $179 million on Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos as big-bat, free-agent additions to a lineup that needed power to compete with Atlanta and the New York Mets in the NL East.
A veteran manager had been hired with the lone goal of winning a World Series. The Phillies had the reigning NL MVP in Harper and the Cy Young Award runner-up in Zack Wheeler. Owner John Middleton spent more than $230 million on a payroll of players he thought was strong enough to win the World Series. This was a team expected on opening day to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2011.
But somewhere along the way, the team turned into plucky underdogs that shocked the baseball world. The Phillies were 23-29 and 5 1/2 games out of the final NL wild-card spot in early June when they fired manager Joe Girardi and decided to ride with Philly Rob. Former bench coach Rob Thomson made all the right moves along the way — until he didn’t, perhaps lifting Wheeler too soon in a Game 6 loss that ended the World Series — and earned an extension that gives the Phillies stability in the dugout. He’s now charged with winning that first World Series title since 2008.
And no upbeat anthem will dull the pain if they miss out next season.
A look at what’s ahead for the Phillies:
HARPER’S FUTURE
It might be hard to remember based on Harper’s postseason for the ages — which saw him hit six homers and earn NLCS MVP honors — but the 30-year-old slugger played this season with a small tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his throwing elbow. He last played the field at Miami on April 16 and could need surgery to fix the tear. Should Harper need any kind of reconstruction on his elbow, odds are he won’t be ready for the start of next season. He did have a platelet-rich plasma injection in his elbow and perhaps more rest could solve the issue naturally.
FREE AGENCY
Starting pitcher Aaron Nola had his team-friendly $16 million option picked up Monday night. First baseman Rhys Hoskins — who often fields the position with the ease of kids playing a game of hot potato — could hit the trade market. He batted .120 in the World Series and struck out 10 times. Hoskins had his moments — his bat spike will live in Philly sports lore — but hit .159 overall in Red October.
The Phillies declined the $17 million option on aging second baseman Jean Segura, and right-hander Zach Eflin declined his side of a mutual option and is now a free agent. The Phillies have Kyle Gibson, Brad Hand, Corey Knebel, David Robertson and Noah Syndergaard among their free agents, most of whom have played their last game for the team.
Throw in some expiring contracts that also come off the books, such as the since-departed Odubel Herrera and Didi Gregorius, and roughly $75 million in payroll is shed this winter.
Which means? Spend some stupid money, as Middleton once promised to do.
Philadelphia is sure to be aggressive this winter and could spend that cash on free agents such as Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts, Dansby Swanson and Carlos Correa. The Phillies were strikeout- and home run-heavy in the lineup and any one of those shortstops could bring contact to the batting order.
“This is going to be the same team next year with a couple of more pieces I’d imagine,” Harper said. “(Team President) Dave Dombrowski is our guy. John Middleton understands we want to win and he wants to win right now, too. I’d imagine that we’re going to be the same team but with some more pieces to make us that much better.”
HISTORY SAYS
The reality is, the Braves and Mets won 101 games apiece and the Dodgers won 111. The Phillies (87-75) can’t count on getting hot in October as the pitch for their fans at winning a World Series.
Cheap, homegrown help could be on the way. Andrew Painter, Mick Abel and Griff McGarry are among the top minor league pitching prospects in the game and could be counted on at some point next season to strengthen the rotation.
“This is sustainable, this type of winning atmosphere and winning team,” Thomson said. “This is a good taste to get these guys here in this moment, all these young players. We’ve got a good group of veteran guys, and our system is starting to get loaded up with good arms at the upper end of the minor league system. I think this run has the potential to be very sustainable.”
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/ap-phillies-try-to-show-run-to-world-series-was-just-a-start/ | 2022-11-08 13:15:28 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/ap-phillies-try-to-show-run-to-world-series-was-just-a-start/ |
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker
- Nespresso Vertuo Next Espresso Machine By Breville
- OXO Good Grips 32-Ounce Cold Brew Coffee Maker
For some, a cup of coffee is the only way to start the day, but when temperatures rise, a hot beverage doesn’t always cut it. Luckily, there are numerous ways to enjoy coffee cold.
Learning to make cold coffee at home is more economical than buying it from a coffee shop every morning. Knowing which products are best for making it is helpful if you want to make top-notch cold coffee at home.
Sparkling Americano
Americano is a mixture of espresso and water served hot or with ice. Substituting the water with sparkling water gives it a carbonated twist you don’t usually find in a coffee beverage. The drink was trending on TikTok earlier this year, and for good reason — it’s delicious.
Although you may not associate coffee with citrus, sparkling Americano pairs well with orange zest. Many also serve the drink with a basil leaf.
Sparkling Americano is best when you brew fresh espresso. Making your own seltzer water at home is another excellent way to ensure your sparkling drink is made just the way you like it.
Pour-over iced coffee
Drip coffee makers are convenient but don’t always produce the best brew. Many swear by pour-over coffee makers due to their simplicity and the robust flavor of the coffee. Most only cost around $30 and include sleek glass carafes you can place in your fridge.
Pour-over coffee makers have a slight learning curve, as you must pour the water just right to get a consistent flavor. Still, the tradeoff of having more control over your brew can be worth it.
When deciding which one to buy, it’s essential to consider its size and the type of filter it uses. Larger models let you brew between two and eight cups at a time. Those with paper filters are generally the easiest to clean, but they create more waste, and the coffee isn’t as flavorful. Metal filters are typically preferred since they’re easy to clean and allow the delicious oils of the grounds to pass through.
Cold brew coffee
Cold brew’s distinctive flavor sets it apart from other cold coffee drinks. Rather than brewing the coffee hot, cold brew is made by steeping coffee grounds for 12 to 24 hours. The brewing process may take a while, but the reward is coffee that’s less bitter and acidic.
Cold brew generally has a sweet taste, as the cold brew process brings out more of the slight chocolate flavor found in coffee beans. Additionally, cold brew has more caffeine than traditional coffee. Cold brew coffee makers produce a coffee concentrate you need to combine with water before drinking.
When choosing a cold brew coffee maker, consider its size and material. Some cold brew makers resemble small pitchers and don’t take up much fridge space, while others require a considerable amount of space.
Some are plastic, and others are glass. Plastic is generally more durable, but some prefer the attractive look of a glass pitcher. Cleanup can be cumbersome, so buying a dishwasher-safe model is a good idea.
What you need to make cold brew at home
SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker
This lets you make sparkling water at home quickly and easily. It’s compatible with all SodaStream flavors and most SodaStream bottles. Many say the fizziness of their drinks is more impressive than La Croix and other canned options. It features a modern design.
Sold by Amazon, Macy’s and Kohl’s
Nespresso Vertuo Next Espresso Machine By Breville
This machine has an internal barcode scanner that recognizes your coffee pod and adjusts its parameters accordingly. It features a stylish, space-saving design. It’s controlled by a single button, making it easier to use than most espresso machines. It brews espresso quickly and is 54% recycled plastic.
This affordable coffee maker features a low-profile design. It’s available in numerous sizes and colors. It’s compact, and the mesh filter does an excellent job of filtering grounds without impacting the flavor. It’s dishwasher-safe.
Sold by Amazon
OXO Good Grips 32-Ounce Cold Brew Coffee Maker
Unlike other cold brew coffee makers, this evenly distributes the water over the grounds. The stand is sturdy, and the valve lets you dispense coffee without a mess. It’s easy to set up, dishwasher-safe and brews excellent coffee.
Sold by Amazon
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Cody Stewart writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | https://who13.com/reviews/br/kitchen-br/coffee-accessories-br/stay-cool-and-caffeinated-with-these-cold-coffee-tips/ | 2023-05-29 20:14:39 | 1 | https://who13.com/reviews/br/kitchen-br/coffee-accessories-br/stay-cool-and-caffeinated-with-these-cold-coffee-tips/ |
The certified minority- and women-owned business founded and led by industry veteran Shawna O. Menifee will be a Savills strategic alliance affiliate
NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Savills today announced that it entered into a strategic alliance with Integrative Partners (IP), a certified minority- and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) and commercial real estate services firm founded and led by Shawna O. Menifee, a 25-year industry veteran.
The alliance with Savills will allow IP to benefit from Savills global platform and, in turn, will enable Savills to leverage IP's wide-ranging relationships with its national network of minority and women-owned suppliers.
"We are thrilled to form this strategic alliance with Integrative Partners, an organization we hold in high regard. The alliance assists Savills in accomplishing its longstanding goal of bolstering its network of M/WBE-owned third-party vendors and suppliers," said Janet Woods, vice chairman, Northeast region lead at Savills. "We look forward to supporting Shawna and IP by providing the company access to our global platform and deep bench of talented professionals."
Menifee, a widely respected and accomplished industry New York City-based executive, founded IP in 2005 to address supplier diversity initiatives on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, government entities, city agencies, and institutional owners across the country.
Since its founding, IP has built a national network of certified minority and women-owned commercial real estate-centric businesses: a collection that includes top-brokerage professionals, architects, engineers, and legal counsel. IP provides a single source for companies seeking diverse real estate service providers for multimarket initiatives and acts as the liaison and trusted advisor on every transaction.
"I'm extremely excited to be collaborating with Savills and especially motivated by its leadership, the company's global platform, and our like-minded moral compass. The strategic alliance will add extraordinary value for our clients through our impactful synergy," said Menifee.
Menifee has worked with a notable list of organizations, including Coca-Cola, Walmart, Ariel Investments, Uniworld Group, Radio One, FedEx, Skanska, TIAA, Black Enterprise, and Con Edison. Menifee has also worked closely with organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Samaritan Daytop Village, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, New York City Housing Authority, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and US Fund for UNICEF.
IP has longstanding relationships with the Women Business Enterprise National Council, NYC Department of Small Business Services, the National Minority Business Council, Women Presidents' Education Organization, National Minority Supplier Development Council, and Empire State Development. IP was selected and participated with EY's prestigious Entrepreneurs Assess Network, an elite network of entrepreneurs from the Black and Latino high-growth leaders.
About Savills Inc.
Savills helps organizations find the right solutions that ensure employee success. Sharply skilled and fiercely dedicated, the firm's integrated teams of consultants and brokers are experts in better real estate. With services in tenant representation, workforce and incentives strategy, workplace strategy and occupant experience, project management, and capital markets, Savills has elevated the potential of workplaces around the corner, and around the world, for 160 years and counting.
For more information, please visit Savills.us and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Savills | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/savills-forms-strategic-alliance-with-integrative-partners/ | 2022-08-10 20:46:05 | 1 | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/savills-forms-strategic-alliance-with-integrative-partners/ |
SHARON, WV (WOWK) — Metro 911 says all southbound lanes of Interstate 77/64 are closed at Mile Marker 77.5 near Sharon, West Virginia.
A flatbed truck hauling steel crashed around 5 p.m. on I-77S/64E, also known as the West Virginia Turnpike.
The southbound lanes of the interstate are shut down for cleanup, according to Metro. Dispatchers do not know how long the shutdown will be.
West Virginia 511 traffic data shows heavy traffic in the area. Drivers should find an alternate route if possible.
West Virginia State Police (WVSP) are handling this crash. 13 News has reached out to them for more information.
There is no other information at this time. Stick with 13 News for updates. | https://www.wowktv.com/traffic/i-77-southbound-lanes-closed-after-flatbed-truck-crash/ | 2022-08-01 00:36:33 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/traffic/i-77-southbound-lanes-closed-after-flatbed-truck-crash/ |
Insurrectionist Guy Reffitt has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for leading a mob to the Capitol doors, carrying a weapon and threatening family members. Divisions in his family reflect divisions in the country now.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the podcast “Will Be Wild.”
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nepm.org/2022-08-02/insurrectionist-guy-reffitt-faces-the-longest-sentence-given-so-far-for-storming-the-capitol | 2022-08-02 18:39:28 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/2022-08-02/insurrectionist-guy-reffitt-faces-the-longest-sentence-given-so-far-for-storming-the-capitol |
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) ("Rock Tech" or the "Company") announces that it has granted an aggregate of 150,000 stock options to the Company's Chief Financial Officer.
The Board of Directors has granted an aggregate of 150,000 stock options to Mrs. Sonja Rossteuscher, Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The stock options were granted effective December 15, 2022 and have a term of 6 years from the date of grant with 25% vesting after one year of grant date and the remainder vesting in equal monthly installments over a 36-month period following the date of grant. The stock options may be exercised at a price of CAD 2.5 per share, being the closing price of the Company's common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange on December 15, 2022.
The stock options were granted pursuant to the stock option plan of the Company dated April 9, 2020, as most recently approved by the shareholders of the Company on June 30, 2022.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman
ABOUT ROCK TECH INC.
Rock Tech is a cleantech company on a mission to produce lithium hydroxide for EV batteries. The Company plans to build lithium converters at the door-step of its customers, to guarantee supply-chain transparency and just-in-time delivery. To close the most pressing gap in the clean mobility story, Rock Tech has gathered one of the strongest teams in the industry. The Company has adopted strict ESG standards and is developing a proprietary refining process aimed at further increasing efficiency and sustainability. Rock Tech plans to source raw material from its own mineral project in Canada as well as procuring it from other responsibly producing mines. In the years to come, the Company expects to also source raw material from discarded batteries. Rock Tech's goal: to create a closed-loop lithium production system. www.rocktechlithium.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
CAUTIONARY NOTE CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
The following cautionary statements are in addition to all other cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or referenced by, this press release. Certain information set forth in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which information is based on Rock Tech's current expectations, estimates, and assumptions in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends. All statements other than statements of historical facts may constitute forward-looking information. Often, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and all other indications of future tense. All forward-looking information set forth in this press release is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements referred to in this section.
In particular, forward-looking information in this press release includes, but is not limited to: the Company's proposed lithium converters, including the Company's intentions with respect to the development and timing thereof; statements regarding Rock Tech's future plans and expectations, including the anticipated production of lithium hydroxide and its sustainability objectives; Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations regarding the Company's business strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects; and plans and objectives of management for the Company's operations and properties.
Forward-looking information contained in this press release is based on certain assumptions, estimates, expectations, analysis and opinions of the Company and in certain cases, third party experts, that are believed by management of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made. Such assumptions, estimates and other factors include, among other things: that the Company's converter projects will be developed on-time and on budget in accordance with current expectations; the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, feedstock and intermediate and final lithium products; expected growth, performance and business operations; future commodity prices and exchange rates; prospects, growth opportunities and financing available to the Company; general business and economic conditions; the costs and results of development and exploration activities; and Rock Tech's ability to procure spodumene concentrate, supplies and other equipment necessary for its business. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all assumptions which may have been used in developing the forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these assumptions, estimates and factors to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially different from that which is expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially include: the Company's ability to access funding required to invest in available opportunities and projects and on satisfactory terms; the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical hostilities; the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due; changes in commodity and other prices; Rock Tech's ability to attract and retain skilled staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers; unanticipated events and other difficulties related to the construction, development and operation of the Company's proposed lithium hydroxide converters; the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations; title defects; competition from existing and new competitors; changes in currency and/or exchange rates and the market prices of Rock Tech's securities; Rock Tech's history of losses; adverse impacts of climate change; and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Rock Tech's public disclosure documents available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, including those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis and Annual Information Form, respectively. Such risks and uncertainties do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially from the forward-looking information.
No assurance is provided that actual events, results, performance and/or achievements will be consistent with the forward-looking information and management's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information reflects Rock Tech management's views as at the date the information is created. Except as may be required by law, Rock Tech undertakes no obligation and expressly disclaims any responsibility, obligation or undertaking to update or to revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect any change in Rock Tech's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such information is based.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to rely on the forward-looking information set forth in this press release.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Rock Tech Lithium Inc. | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/19/rock-tech-announces-grant-stock-options/ | 2022-12-19 07:12:32 | 0 | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/19/rock-tech-announces-grant-stock-options/ |
YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – As snowmelt continues in the higher elevations, that water is starting to flow into Yosemite National Park. Officials say that water is tumbling over cliffs and cutting through canyons.
Park officials describe the floodwater as “blissfully unconcerned with human inventions like roads and campgrounds” and continues to impact visitor facilities.
Areas affected include:
- Minor flooding in Yosemite Valley: water levels are forecast to peak over the next few nights and forecasts show cooler weather and decreased flooding starting mid-week. Additional flooding is anticipated off and on until early July.
- Housekeeping Camp, Lower Pines Campground, and North Pines Campground: the sites remain closed at least through Tuesday night (but no additional closures are planned at this time)
Park officials add that any visitors to Yosemite may find water on the roads, especially in the morning and evening. Drivers are also warned not to attempt to cross bridges with water flowing over them.
Visitors are also asked to keep their distance from rivers, creeks, and waterfalls due to the danger associated with fast-moving water.
Additionally, park officials say visitors should not try to wade, swim, or float on any rivers or creeks because Yosemite waters are completely closed to rafting and other recreation.
Park officials explain that rivers are icy, cold, incredibly powerful, and extremely hazardous. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/yosemite-is-flooding-the-areas-you-need-to-avoid/ | 2023-05-22 19:32:58 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/yosemite-is-flooding-the-areas-you-need-to-avoid/ |
SAN ANTONIO (AP)Zion Williamson scored 30 points and matched a career high with 15 rebounds, and the New Orleans Pelicans rolled to a 117-99 victory Friday night over the San Antonio Spurs, who were without coach Gregg Popovich.
The Spurs had a plan to defend Williamson, but stopping the 6-foot-6, 285-pound forward is another story.
”I was on the free throw line and one of the guys on the Spurs was telling another guy, `Don’t let him go left,”’ New Orleans wing Trey Murphy III said. ”The dude was like, `Bro, I’m trying. Like, it ain’t that easy.’ I told him, `Yeah, he’s a big dude, bro. I’m sorry.`”
Jonas Valanciunas added 21 points and 11 rebounds for New Orleans, which has won three straight and eight of 10 to remain atop the Southwest Division ahead of Memphis.
San Antonio has lost 10 straight, matching the franchise’s second-longest losing streak set in 1987. The Spurs’ longest skid was 13 straight in 1989.
Popovich was at the AT&T Center but missed the game due to a minor medical procedure, according to the Spurs. He will also miss Sunday’s home game against Phoenix.
Former Philadelphia coach Brett Brown coached the Spurs in Popovich’s absence.
Popovich joined San Antonio’s growing injury report.
The Spurs were without starters Jakob Poeltl and Jeremy Sochan as well as key reserves Doug McDermott and Josh Richardson.
Despite that, the Spurs played the Pelicans close for the first 34 minutes until Williamson took over again.
Williamson had a then season-high 32 points against San Antonio on Nov. 23 in a 129-110.
”He is such a powerful man and such an incredible athlete,” Brown said. ”I’ve been in the league a long time. Zion’s power and his strength . whatever you do, you better come quick. If there is one hint of indecision, it’s too late.”
New Orleans closed the third quarter on a 13-2 run and bridged the quarters with a 19-5 advantage.
Coming off a season-high 33 points in Wednesday’s victory over Toronto, Williamson was 9 for 14 from the field against San Antonio. He had 15 points in the third quarter.
Valanciunas added six points and four rebounds in the third as the Pelicans outscored the Spurs 32-19 in the third. Williamson and Valanciunas combined to shoot 8 for 9 from the field in the third quarter.
”JV is a phenomenal player. I think I’m an OK player,” Williamson said with a smile. ”I think we are both just smart players. I’ve been saying since the beginning of the year, it’s just going to take time. The more we play on the court with each other, the better our chemistry is.”
Devin Vassell scored 25 points and Keldon Johnson had 15 for San Antonio.
TIP-INS
Pelicans: Herbert Jones missed the game with a sprained left ankle.. . Rookie Dyson Daniels made his first start in place of Jones. Daniels finished with four points, five rebounds and three assists in 31 minutes. . New Orleans is 6-5 on the road after losing three straight to open November.
Spurs: San Antonio’s previous 10-game skid ended with a 123-112 victory over Portland on April 14, 1987. The Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 106-98 on Nov. 3, 1989, to end a nine-game skid. . Alize Johnson became the 50th player called up from San Antonio’s G League franchise in Austin.
UP NEXT
Pelicans: Host Denver on Sunday.
Spurs: Host Phoenix on Sunday.
WNBA FAN
Murphy wore the No. 10 jersey of Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum to the post-game press conference.
Plum began her WNBA career in San Antonio with the Stars, who relocated to Las Vegas in 2018.
Murphy said he wants to use the spotlight he receives as an NBA player to help the WNBA.
”It’s super important,” Murphy said. ”They are in a sense co-workers with us. There is a lot of time people are overlooking what they are doing. Those girls are very skilled. In all honesty, there is a lot of girls that have more skills than some NBA players, but they don’t get the recognition they deserve.” | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/williamson-powers-pelicans-past-popovich-less-spurs-117-99/ | 2022-12-03 19:57:55 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/williamson-powers-pelicans-past-popovich-less-spurs-117-99/ |
Strategic integrations enable users across hundreds of wallets, as well as a growing number of blockchains and protocols, to leverage a single application for DeFi management
DENVER, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ShapeShift DAO, a decentralized, non-custodial cryptocurrency platform and community, announced today that their open-source web app is now integrated with the WalletConnect v1.0 protocol as well as Keplr, XDEFI Wallet and Tally Ho wallets. These integrations potentially represent over a million qualified new users: WalletConnect provides a gateway to hundreds of ETH and EVM-compatible wallets and DApps and is chain agnostic; Keplr is the trusted wallet of the Cosmos ecosystem; XDEFI Wallet supports over 10,000 assets/DApps across 11 blockchains; and Tally Ho is a free, open-source, community-built Web3 wallet. Combined with ShapeShift's current wallet and chain support, app.shapeshift.com users can more easily manage all of their DeFi activities non-custodially and without fees. ShapeShift already supports more wallets, chains and protocols than any other free, community-owned crypto application.
"ShapeShift DAO is working hard to build the best interface to the decentralized universe: a single app where users can seamlessly interact with aggregated DeFi protocols across chains," said Willy Ogorzaly, Head of Decentralization for ShapeShift DAO. "At our core, we believe the ultimate interface should be open-source, community-owned, decentralized and free. This needs to exist but doesn't yet, so that's what we're building. We also believe the ultimate interface to the decentralized universe should support many wallets, and we're excited to finally welcome the 1M+ users of WalletConnect, Keplr, XDEFI Wallet and Tally Ho to ShapeShift."
WalletConnect is an open-source Web3 communications protocol connecting wallets and DApps. Its decentralized messaging backend enables a wallet to connect and interact with another wallet or DApp using a QR code or deep link. Because of its encrypted security, convenience and ease of use, WalletConnect is built into over a hundred leading wallets as well as hundreds of DApps. In this first integration, ShapeShift's application will support WalletConnect v1.0's ecosystem of wallets—in an upcoming release, WalletConnect support will expand to enable ShapeShift users to connect to any DApp that supports WalletConnect and execute transactions from any wallet supported by app.shapeshift.com.
"WalletConnect is thrilled to provide the infrastructure support enabling ShapeShift to connect with a growing ecosystem of wallets and users," said Pedro Gomes, CEO of WalletConnect. "Our protocol enables any wallet and any DApp to connect with one another in a secure and seamless experience. We are excited to welcome ShapeShift as a partner and look forward to building the future of Web3, together."
Keplr is an open-source browser extension wallet for the Cosmos interchain ecosystem, also recently available for mobile devices. It provides the most flexible and versatile account management and wallet functionalities for all Cosmos SDK-based blockchains and is the preferred and most widely used wallet for Cosmos users. ShapeShift announced native wallet support for Cosmos functionality in April; supporting Keplr is an extension of the DAO's commitment to the Cosmos community.
XDEFI Wallet is a non-custodial, multi-chain wallet that allows you to securely store, swap and send crypto and NFTs across 11 blockchains. XDEFI Wallet is trusted by more than 80,000 users and has a five-star rating after 180 reviews in the Google Chrome store. Its native integration with THORChain as well as other leading DEXs and bridges means users can seamlessly swap and bridge across chains from a single wallet.
Tally Ho is an open-source and community-owned wallet built to support decentralized communities. Paralleling ShapeShift's core ethos and principles, Tally Ho is built on openness through its product, culture, code and community. The Tally community is also aligned with ShapeShift's vision for a multi-chain future, and we look forward to enabling Tally for other chains that ShapeShift supports as soon as Tally supports them.
Since 2014, ShapeShift has been pioneering self-custody for digital asset trading. Today's ShapeShift DAO is an engaged community of builders working to advance the state of crypto trading, investing and access to open, decentralized financial systems. Our web and mobile platforms empower users to safely buy, hold, trade, invest and interact with thousands of digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmos.
All Chains, All Protocols, All Wallets. Share Our Vision at app.shapeshift.com.
Learn more at ShapeShift.com
Media Contact:
Lindsay Smith
Lindsay@foxfoundation.io
View original content:
SOURCE ShapeShift DAO | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/shapeshift-integrates-walletconnect-v10-keplr-xdefi-tally-ho-wallets-expanding-app-access-potential-million-new-users/ | 2022-07-28 17:52:28 | 0 | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/shapeshift-integrates-walletconnect-v10-keplr-xdefi-tally-ho-wallets-expanding-app-access-potential-million-new-users/ |
The 2017-2022 Tesla Model 3 compact electric sedan is being recalled for rear seat belt anchors that may have been improperly reattached after service, the NHTSA disclosed Friday.
The issue applies to the rear seat belt buckle on the driver’s side, and the rear center seat belt anchor. The loose anchor can increase the risk of injury to rear seat occupants in the event of a crash. The anchor may have been disassembled for service to other areas of the car, then reassembled improperly.
More than 24,000 Model 3 cars from the 2017-2022 model year are included in the recall. Tesla cited 105 service repairs and warranty claims related to the issue, but the U.S. automaker said it wasn’t aware of any crashes or injuries related to the issue.
Tesla has faced increased scrutiny from safety regulators and federal agencies for a host of concerns, but the technology company’s claims of self-driving features have been foremost in the eyes of U.S. regulators. The company is facing Department of Justice (DOJ) and SEC scrutiny over self-driving claims; the DOJ has launched a criminal investigation over the functionality and marketing of Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance system in the wake of several high-profile crashes that occurred while the system was active. Autopilot has moved closer to a safety recall since June, having been put under a safety probe and engineering analysis, for vehicles across Tesla’s model lineup.
The scrutiny comes as Tesla continues to promise upgraded versions of its Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software that claims to enable point-to-point autonomous driving.
The seat belt recall is the eighth recall of the Tesla Model 3 this year, though most of the issues have been minor tech compliance concerns remedied by over-the-air updates. This fix requires a trip to a Tesla store or service center.
Tesla technicians will inspect the reassembly of the rear seat belt anchor and fasten the bolt to the correct specification, if necessary. The work will be done free of charge and owners who have had the work done previously should be eligible for reimbursement.
Owners can expect notification by mail as early as Dec. 20. For more information, contact Tesla customer service at 1-877-798-3752 or visit the company’s recall site.
Related Articles
- Genesis GV60 earns top safety rating, brand sweeps TSP+ honors
- Older Kia Sportage recalled for engine fire risk, again
- 2022-2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe recalled for battery power failure
- Jeep Wrangler, Gladiator, Ram 1500 diesels in recall for stall
- Test drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning marks the turning point | https://www.pahomepage.com/automotive/internet-brands/tesla-model-3-recalled-for-faulty-seat-belts/ | 2022-10-29 03:14:09 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/automotive/internet-brands/tesla-model-3-recalled-for-faulty-seat-belts/ |
As the Midwest region's largest Web3 event, Global VC Firm Decasonic Convenes Top Institutional Investors and Innovators to Chicago
CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Decasonic, a global venture and digital assets fund, today welcomed over 300 registered participants for their inaugural Web3 Investor Day in Chicago. The single day conference on July 28, 2022 includes a series of panels with industry thought leaders from both web3 native and traditional institutions. The full day's agenda including speaker bios can be found at https://linktr.ee/web3id.
"There should be no doubt that Chicago is a top-tier Web3 innovation hub," said Paul Hsu, Founder and CEO of Decasonic, the organizer of the Web3 Investor Day. "And our sold-out inaugural summit includes the best founders, innovators, and investors to explore the next frontier of innovation which will be transformational for the future of our economy and global startup ecosystem."
Speakers include Deputy Mayor for Economic & Neighborhood Development Samir Mayekar of the City of Chicago, Sam Yagan of Corazon Capital, Rumi Morales of Digital Currency Group, Jason Pritzker of The Pritzker Organization, Ben Weiss of CoinFlip, Brett Harrison of FTX U.S., Paul Hsu of Decasonic, and others who are headlining the inaugural Web3 flagship event in an effort to bring together institutional investors and web3 founders to learn about this technology's constant innovations, as well as to promote mainstream web3 adoption.
There are over 300 registered participants, over 160 of which are institutional investors, and over 50 are founders of web3 companies. The day's scheduled content includes 33 speakers, 10 of which are female leaders in web3.
Top technology talent is choosing to build in the city of Chicago. Currently many top tier innovators are headquartered in the technology centers around Fulton Market and River North. City developers are working on creating and defining a fresh epicenter of excellence surrounding this new wave of technology innovation.
Coming in summer of 2024, the Sterling Bay-developed Lincoln Yards is set to be the city's most metaverse-ready neighborhood. This innovation will cater to the use cases among the diverse set of industries that call Chicago their world headquarters, including healthcare, biotech, quantum technology, logistics, food and beverage, and financial services.
Web3 Investor Day is honored by the strong and diverse demand for attendance, as well as the support of our sponsors who made the conference possible. Presenting sponsors include Decasonic, Bridge Alternatives, Sterling Bay, and World Business Chicago.
You can follow the latest from the inaugural event via Twitter: @Web3InvestorDay or #Web3InvestorDay
Decasonic is the venture and digital assets fund building blockchain and web3 innovation. They draw on decades of experience as tech investors and operators to help founders in blockchain accelerate product-market fit and scale growth. As believers, builders, and investors in blockchain since 2013, they've engineered a systematic approach to iconic growth – with people, data, and relationships as the north stars of the fund. Visit
www.decasonic.com to learn more.
Bridge Alternative Investment Solutions continues to provide virtually every function that an in-house CFO, COO and/or Controller would provide, including books and records management, cash movements and controls, fee calculations and billing, audit management and coordination, tax compliance and coordination and service provider oversight and relationship management. For further information, please visit www.bridgealternatives.com.
Sterling Bay is a national real estate company that boldly transforms spaces, industries, and communities across the country, sparking growth and opportunity at every turn. Known for creating innovative urban headquarters for world-class companies such as Google, McDonald's, WPP, Pinterest, Dyson and Tyson Foods, Sterling Bay is consistently recognized for award-winning projects that strengthen a company's culture and brand. Sterling Bay's team of more than 185 professionals is responsible for a portfolio of creative office, multifamily, life sciences and industrial assets exceeding $20 billion. For more information, visit www.sterlingbay.com.
World Business Chicago serves a critical role in driving inclusive and equitable recovery throughout the city's 77 neighborhoods, focused on high growth sectors: transportation, distribution, & logistics; manufacturing; healthcare & life sciences, and our local innovation, startup, & venture ecosystem. As the City of Chicago's economic development agency, World Business Chicago leads corporate attraction & retention, workforce & talent, community impact, and promotion of Chicago as a leading global city. Supported by a council of 300+ local leaders, World Business Chicago's portfolio of innovation & venture programs include: the Chicago Venture Summit series, Startup Chicago, ThinkChicago, and Venture Engine with the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC). Follow World Business Chicago on LinkedIn and Twitter for daily news and announcements on company relocation and expansion; industry and ecosystem growth, U.S. and world rankings, and more about Chicago's economic progress. More information can be found at www.worldbusinesschicago.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE World Business Chicago | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/inaugural-web3-investor-day-launches-chicago/ | 2022-07-28 11:36:10 | 0 | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/inaugural-web3-investor-day-launches-chicago/ |
BOSTON, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Capstone Partners, a leading middle market investment banking firm, released its Q1 2023 Capital Market Update, reporting that total middle market merger and acquisition (M&A) volume declined 14.3% year-over-year (YOY) in Q1 2023 as macroeconomic headwinds caused a slowdown in dealmaking. However, middle market deal volume continued to outperform the broader M&A market, as total M&A volume declined 25.2% YOY in Q1. While buyers have demonstrated increased selectivity, quality companies with strong margin profiles have continued to command M&A interest at premium valuations. The Federal Reserve's ability to navigate a soft landing will likely prove consequential for middle market M&A throughout 2023.
Uncertainty is seldom received favorably by capital markets and the lack of economic visibility has caused angst among many market participants. The Federal Reserve has yet to settle on a terminal interest rate, with the continued strength of the labor market complicating the task of whether to hike or pause. Recent turmoil among regional banks has contributed to the tightening of the U.S. economy—an element that may be difficult to quantify in basis points. As the U.S. navigates a higher-for-longer rate environment to quell stubborn inflationary headwinds, confidence in a smooth recovery has often fluctuated with equity market swings, leaving many to wonder when the U.S. will enter a recession, or if the economy is already in the midst of one. As the economy eyes an emergence from monetary tightening, there is hope that the M&A market may have reached a modest trough—presenting a strong backdrop for a recovery in middle market dealmaking.
Inflation and elevated interest rates have continued to pressure M&A valuations in the middle market. However, there has been evidence of some upward pricing momentum in early 2023. The average EBITDA multiple amounted to 9.1x in Q1, following a drastic decline to 7.2x in Q4 2022. Interestingly, it is the large-scale transactions that have seen the most significant pullback in pricing. The core middle market ($100-$250 in enterprise value) has continued to be the bellwether of middle market pricing. Valuations at this range have held steady at 10.9x EV/EBITDA, nearly mirroring the prior year's average of 11.1x EV/EBITDA.
Business owners, dealmakers, and lenders will be closely monitoring the monetary policy environment and its reverberations on the broader economy. If the U.S. has reached, or is approaching, its trough in the M&A market, there is a precedent for what is to come. Sellers can expect an exuberant interest from buyers looking to reengage in inorganic growth upon a market recovery. Timing and asset position will be key as a substantial level of pent-up demand can be expected to create healthy levels of competition in the middle market.
"As has traditionally been the case, M&A market valuations and activity levels are driven more by credit trends than by equity market levels. Tightened credit conditions have decreased the amount of debt available for transactions as well as increasing the cost of that debt. With higher required equity contributions and more expensive debt, valuations have adjusted downward to maintain returns. Further, the natural flight to quality in times of uncertainty has further reduced supply in the short term. We look forward to the inevitable rebound in activity as conditions stabilize," said Phil Seefried, Executive Advisor at Capstone Partners.
Also included in this report:
- Key considerations for middle market business owners regarding dry powder levels, buyer appetite, lending conditions, and M&A pricing trends.
- Commentary on the primary drivers of transaction volume and valuations through Q1 2023.
- A breakdown of private equity dealmaking activity and data on dry powder reserves.
- How to create an evidence-based post-acquisition strategy, featuring Capstone's Financial Advisory Services group.
To access to full report, click here.
ABOUT CAPSTONE PARTNERS
For over 20 years, the firm has been a trusted advisor to leading middle market companies, offering a fully integrated range of investment banking and financial advisory services uniquely tailored to help owners, investors, and creditors through each stage of the company's lifecycle. Capstone's services include M&A advisory, debt and equity placement, corporate restructuring, special situations, valuation and fairness opinions and financial advisory services. Headquartered in Boston, the firm has 175+ professionals in multiple offices across the U.S. With 12 dedicated industry groups, Capstone delivers sector-specific expertise through large, cross-functional teams. Capstone is a subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ:HBAN). For more information, visit www.capstonepartners.com.
For More Information Contact:
Rebecca Levesque
Director of Marketing
617-619-3318
rlevesque@capstonepartners.com
View original content:
SOURCE Capstone Partners | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/capstone-partners-reports-middle-market-mampa-persists-amid-volatile-conditions/ | 2023-06-20 15:19:13 | 1 | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/capstone-partners-reports-middle-market-mampa-persists-amid-volatile-conditions/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Salesforce is being criticized for telling San Franciscans to “power down” while the building showed it kept most of its lights on throughout the night.
A video was posted on Reddit showing several buildings in San Francisco with lights on amid the ongoing Flex Alert.
This incident allegedly occurred during a relentless heat wave sending energy use soaring in the state. On Tuesday temperatures in San Francisco were in the 90s.
To avoid blackouts, California Independent System Operator issued a Flex Alert to call on residents and businesses to voluntarily conserve energy. People took to social media to weigh in on the Salesforce Tower.
KRON On is streaming news live now
One post read:
“Flex alert on Salesforce tower tonight. Have you tried turning the lights off in empty office buildings?”
Another reads:
“A classic Salesforce tower reminder to turn off the power while using…a bunch of power.”
Surrounding high-rise buildings could also be seen with lights on. KRON4 reached out to Cal ISO about saving energy during flex alerts in high-rise buildings.
A spokesperson said flex alerts are voluntary. CALISO’s Flex Alert website gives tips for office and commercial buildings that include:
- Turning off unnecessary office lights
- Setting the thermostat to 78 degrees or higher
- Turning off any office equipment that is not currently in use
- Looking for sleep or power-saving modes in between uses during the day
KRON4 reached out to Salesforce for comment about their lights but has not yet heard back. | https://www.kron4.com/news/salesforce-criticized-for-leaving-lights-on-during-flex-alert/ | 2022-09-08 04:31:24 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/salesforce-criticized-for-leaving-lights-on-during-flex-alert/ |
CHEVY CHASE, Md., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FCP® welcomes Eric Mathias as Vice President for Commercial Investments, a new position that will provide a dedicated professional to source and execute FCP's commercial investments and developments throughout the Southwest U.S. FCP's current projects in these markets include several adaptive reuse and development assets in Dallas' burgeoning Design District submarket, including 1333 Oak Lawn, as well as CoRE, a purpose-built life science asset located outside Boulder, CO; mixed-use project Heritage Park in Gilbert, AZ, and Southbridge in Scottsdale, AZ.
"We are thrilled to welcome Eric to FCP where he will leverage his existing relationships and execution experience to oversee our growing portfolio in major Southwest markets," said FCP Principal, Erik Weinberg. "The S.W. region is an area of focus and growth for FCP across all our sectors due to our belief that current demographic and job-growth trends will continue to benefit these markets."
"I'm excited to join FCP and to grow the firm's commercial portfolio in the Southwest," said Eric Mathias. "The firm has been active in the region for several years so I believe we are well-positioned to execute on new opportunities with our existing partners and to establish new partnerships with best-in-class regional operators and developers."
Prior to joining FCP, Mr. Mathias was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs based in New York focused on investing in real estate secondaries and co-investments. Mr. Mathias began his career on the real estate debt capital markets team at Goldman Sachs, where he was primarily responsible for sourcing and structuring financing for principal real estate investments. Mr. Mathias graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Wagner College.
FCP® is a privately held real estate investment company that has invested in or financed more than $9.3 billion in assets since its founding in 1999. FCP invests directly and with operating partners in commercial and residential assets. The firm makes equity and mezzanine investments in income-producing and development properties. Based in Chevy Chase, MD, FCP invests both its commingled, discretionary funds and separate accounts targeted at major real estate markets in the United States. For further information on FCP, please visit www.fcpdc.com.
Media Contact: Karen Widmayer
KW Communications, LLC
karenwidmayerpr@gmail.com
301-661-1448
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE FCP | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/10/13/fcp-welcomes-eric-mathias-vp-commercial-investments/ | 2022-10-13 13:34:12 | 1 | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/10/13/fcp-welcomes-eric-mathias-vp-commercial-investments/ |
SHANGHAI, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambilight Inc, a pioneer in flexible electrochromic technology, recently unveiled the world's first black-gray EC dimming product for Vehicles at the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition. This revolutionary product provides a comprehensive solution for vehicle thermal management and represents a significant technological breakthrough and product definition within the entire dimming industry. The product launch was met with great enthusiasm from car manufacturers, partners, and customers at the auto show.
Among the vehicle products launched by Ambilight Inc at the exhibition were the EC dimming sunroof, EC sidelite, and solid-state EC auto dimming rearview mirror. The EC projection combined with side window projection technology was also introduced to enhance the in-car viewing experience. These products are intelligently designed to adjust light, regulate temperature, and maintain privacy, thereby improving driving comfort and safety and enhancing the quality and technological feel of the vehicle.
As an expert in vehicle light and heat control, Ambilight Inc's EC dimming products have extensive domestic and international market prospects. The intelligent development of the automotive industry has made the design of vehicle cabins tend toward tech and multifunctionality. As a part of cabin design, the dimming function not only improves driving comfort and safety but also helps enhance the quality and technological feel of the vehicle. Ambilight Inc is currently the only company globally that can achieve mass production of dimming products on curved surfaces, making its all-in-one dimming products, EC dimming insulation canopy, and EC dimming sidelite highly sought-after in the market.
According to relevant surveys, the market demand for dimming products is expected to witness an increasing trend over the next few years. Ambilight Inc's EC dimming products, based on flexible electrochromic technology, are poised to occupy a significant market share, having already been installed in vehicles from brands such as NIO, BYD, and ZEEKR.
Looking to the future, Ambilight Inc plans to further improve technology research and development, product quality, and create a globally leading brand with core competitive advantages, becoming a crucial leading entity in industry development.
CONTACT: info@ambilightinc.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Ambilight | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/05/18/ambilight-inc-unveils-worlds-first-black-gray-ec-dimming-product-vehicles-shanghai-auto-expo/ | 2023-05-18 09:43:50 | 0 | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/05/18/ambilight-inc-unveils-worlds-first-black-gray-ec-dimming-product-vehicles-shanghai-auto-expo/ |
Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida
Jul 21, 2023, 6:42 AM | Updated: 7:20 am
(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defense lawyers to schedule it after the 2024 presidential election.
If the date holds, it would follow close on the heels of a separate New York trial for Trump on dozens of state charges of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money payment to a porn actor. It also means the trial will not start until deep into the presidential nominating calendar and probably well after the Republican nominee is clear — though before that person is officially nominated at the Republican National Convention.
In pushing back the trial from the Dec. 11 start date that the Justice Department had asked for, Cannon wrote that “the Government’s proposed schedule is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial.” She agreed with defense lawyers that the amount of evidence that would need to be sifted through before the trial, including classified information, was “voluminous.”
“The Court finds that the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial,” Cannon wrote.
Trump could yet face additional trials in the coming year. He revealed this week that he had received a letter informing him that he was a target of a separate Justice Department investigation into efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election, and prosecutors in Georgia plan to announce charging decisions within weeks in an investigation into attempts by Trump and his allies to subvert the vote there.
_____
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report. | https://mynorthwest.com/3911678/judge-sets-a-trial-date-for-next-may-in-trumps-classified-documents-case-in-florida/ | 2023-07-21 14:39:04 | 0 | https://mynorthwest.com/3911678/judge-sets-a-trial-date-for-next-may-in-trumps-classified-documents-case-in-florida/ |
Country
United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's Socialist Republic of Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of American Samoa Andorra, Principality of Angola, Republic of Anguilla Antarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina, Argentine Republic Armenia Aruba Australia, Commonwealth of Austria, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bangladesh, People's Republic of Barbados Belarus Belgium, Kingdom of Belize Benin, People's Republic of Bermuda Bhutan, Kingdom of Bolivia, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana, Republic of Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya) Brazil, Federative Republic of British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria, People's Republic of Burkina Faso Burundi, Republic of Cambodia, Kingdom of Cameroon, United Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad, Republic of Chile, Republic of China, People's Republic of Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia, Republic of Comoros, Union of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, People's Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica, Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Republic of the Cyprus, Republic of Czech Republic Denmark, Kingdom of Djibouti, Republic of Dominica, Commonwealth of Ecuador, Republic of Egypt, Arab Republic of El Salvador, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands Finland, Republic of France, French Republic French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon, Gabonese Republic Gambia, Republic of the Georgia Germany Ghana, Republic of Gibraltar Greece, Hellenic Republic Greenland Grenada Guadaloupe Guam Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Revolutionary
People's Rep'c of Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guyana, Republic of Heard and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras, Republic of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China Hrvatska (Croatia) Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic Iceland, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Republic of Ireland Israel, State of Italy, Italian Republic Japan Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Kuwait, State of Kyrgyz Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon, Lebanese Republic Lesotho, Kingdom of Liberia, Republic of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein, Principality of Lithuania Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Macao, Special Administrative Region of China Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Malaysia Maldives, Republic of Mali, Republic of Malta, Republic of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritius Mayotte Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of Monaco, Principality of Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic Montserrat Morocco, Kingdom of Mozambique, People's Republic of Myanmar Namibia Nauru, Republic of Nepal, Kingdom of Netherlands Antilles Netherlands, Kingdom of the New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua, Republic of Niger, Republic of the Nigeria, Federal Republic of Niue, Republic of Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway, Kingdom of Oman, Sultanate of Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied Panama, Republic of Papua New Guinea Paraguay, Republic of Peru, Republic of Philippines, Republic of the Pitcairn Island Poland, Polish People's Republic Portugal, Portuguese Republic Puerto Rico Qatar, State of Reunion Romania, Socialist Republic of Russian Federation Rwanda, Rwandese Republic Samoa, Independent State of San Marino, Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal, Republic of Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles, Republic of Sierra Leone, Republic of Singapore, Republic of Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia, Somali Republic South Africa, Republic of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain, Spanish State Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of St. Helena St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre and Miquelon St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Suriname, Republic of Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan, Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Thailand, Kingdom of Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of Togo, Togolese Republic Tokelau (Tokelau Islands) Tonga, Kingdom of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda, Republic of Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland Uruguay, Eastern Republic of Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia, Republic of Zimbabwe | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/agencies-form-joint-partnership-to-prevent-worker-injuries-on-interstate-projects/article_1e02c984-1433-11ee-8511-e378eb6207a5.html | 2023-06-26 16:12:12 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/agencies-form-joint-partnership-to-prevent-worker-injuries-on-interstate-projects/article_1e02c984-1433-11ee-8511-e378eb6207a5.html |
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. , June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- David Charles Grush, a decorated USAF veteran of Afghanistan who served in the National Reconnaissance Office Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has filed a whistleblower complaint to Congress regarding classified information about recovered UFO's of exotic (non-human) origin, including crashed alien vehicles with dead pilots. One purpose of these ultrasecret legacy programs has been to retrieve these UFO's for material exploitation and reverse engineering to gain national defense advantages.
With the new movie "Oppenheimer" highlighting the Manhattan Project (the race to become the first nation with the atomic bomb) opening in July 2023, along with Grush's new claims, Schewe's historical fiction premises are colliding with reality. In book/screenplay one, "Bad Love Strikes," Schewe reasserts that President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) was concerned Hitler's Nazi Germany could win the race to become the first nation with an atomic bomb. FDR commissions Albert Einstein to build a functional time-travel machine called the White Hole Project as a back-up plan to the Manhattan Project – only to be used for the extreme case to foil Hitler's plans in the event Germany wins the race. Einstein requires exotic matter to make time-travel possible. FDR has the answer: exotic matter has been discovered at Area-51.
While Schewe and Grusch have yet to meet, their stories are strangely connected. In book/screenplay two, Bad Love Tigers, the misfit group of young adventurers from the 1970s who discover the White Hole Project, come of age as they use the time-travel machine to travel back to the World War II era, meet with FDR and embark on a perilous secret mission to protect an alien spaceship and keep America's most important and deepest national secrets safe at Area-51. The Bad Love Tigers screenplay is an international success, having won over 350 film festival awards, including Cannes World Film Festival, Rome International Movie Awards, New York International Film Awards, The Los Angeles Movie Awards, Vegas Movie Awards, The London Classic Film Festival, The Barcelona International Film Festival, and many more.
About: Kevin L. Schewe, MD, FACRO, is a board-certified cancer specialist who has been in the private practice of radiation oncology for 35 years. Visit Schewe on Instagram @realkevinschewe and KevinSchewe.com and watch the book trailer here. Bad Love Tigers is available on Amazon.
Media Contact: Scott Lorenz of Westwind Book Marketing at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or 734-667-2090.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Westwind Communications | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2023/06/07/whistleblower-alleges-secret-ufo-legacy-programs-dating-back-80-years-eerily-consistent-with-kevin-schewes-bad-love-book-screenplay-series/ | 2023-06-07 14:58:38 | 1 | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2023/06/07/whistleblower-alleges-secret-ufo-legacy-programs-dating-back-80-years-eerily-consistent-with-kevin-schewes-bad-love-book-screenplay-series/ |
45 bags with human remains found by Mexican authorities on outskirts of Guadalajara
MEXICO CITY - Authorities in northern Mexico have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there.
The bags found at a forest overlook contained remains of men and women, the state prosecutor's office in the western state of Jalisco said in a statement Wednesday night. Firefighters and civil defense worked with a helicopter to recover remains from the gorge and planned to continue during the coming days.
Authorities had been looking for seven young people who had been reported missing last week when they found the site, but it was still unknown if they were among the remains found. The state prosecutor’s office said it investigated the site after receiving a report of possible body parts there.
There are more than 110,000 missing people in Mexico, and Jalisco is the state with the highest number, at 15,000, according to federal government data. There are also thousands of unidentified remains in morgues and cemeteries. | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/45-bags-with-human-remains-found-by-mexican-authorities-on-outskirts-of-guadalajara | 2023-06-02 03:38:50 | 1 | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/45-bags-with-human-remains-found-by-mexican-authorities-on-outskirts-of-guadalajara |
The Wyoming project submitted its application for a Final License Application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a milestone reached by only a handful of pumped storage projects in the last 20 years.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- rPlus Hydro, LLLP, a national leader in the development of large-scale pumped storage hydro projects, announced the submission of a Final License Application (also referred to as a License for Major Unconstructed Project) to FERC for its 900-megawatt (MW) Seminoe Pumped Storage project located in Carbon County, Wyoming. This is a milestone that only six pumped storage projects have reached in the United States since the year 2000.
The Seminoe Pumped Storage project, which is expected to provide 10 hours of full-output energy storage capacity, represents a substantial benefit and investment in Wyoming's energy infrastructure. The project is also a crucial component to the reliability and dependability of the regional transmission grid as it moves towards greater reliance on renewable energy sources like solar and wind. With an estimated construction cost of approximately $2.5 billion, the project expects to create up to 500 highly-skilled construction jobs in Carbon County over four to six years. Once operational, the project will provide an estimated 35 full-time skilled positions to the area and generate approximately $9 million in additional annual tax revenue for state and local governments.
"Seminoe Pumped Storage will be an ideal match for Wyoming's excellent wind energy resource, and will support Wyoming's role as an energy leader," notes Matthew Shapiro, rPlus Hydro CEO. "It can also help ensure efficient utilization of new transmission lines that are, or will soon be, under construction, such as the Gateway lines and TransWest Express."
rPlus Hydro's submission of its Final License Application is the culmination of a multi-year study and approval process which includes in-depth engineering designs, environmental assessments, and community engagement. The filing of this application will kick off a robust environmental review and licensing process with local, state, and federal agencies.
Pumped storage can be thought of as a large battery that moves water back and forth between two reservoirs at different elevations to store energy and generate power. This cycle is repeated as needed for electric power reliability and grid stability. Pumped storage enhances the grid through accepting, storing, and dispatching energy from intermittent and variable renewable sources and is a proven and tested energy storage technology, with 43 such projects currently operating across the country.
The submission of the Final License Application is the first of several major milestones for rPlus Hydro coming in 2023. The company expects to submit a Final License Application for its White Pine Pumped Storage project, a 1,000 MW project located in White Pine County, Nevada in the coming months.
Members of the public may review a hard copy of the license application for the Seminoe Pumped Storage project at the Carbon County Library in Rawlins, Wyoming. Additionally, a digital copy of the license application is available online at https://www.seminoepumpedstorage.com
About rPlus Hydro and Black Canyon Hydro
rPlus Hydro, LLLP is a Utah company focused on developing, designing, and constructing large-scale pumped hydroelectric energy storage projects in the United States. Black Canyon Hydro, LLC is an Idaho company that is the license applicant for the Seminoe Pumped Storage project. Black Canyon Hydro, LLC is a subsidiary of rPlus Hydro, which is a subsidiary of rPlus Energies. Learn more at www.rplushydro.com.
About rPlus Energies
rPlus Energies develops modern power plants to contribute to the rebuilding of America's energy infrastructure. rPlus works with the private sector, municipalities, and utilities to access a region's best mix of renewable resources to enable a more dispatchable and reliable power supply. rPlus Energies has over 30 projects across 15 market areas in the U.S. in active development including solar, wind, pumped storage hydro, and solar plus battery. Across all technologies, the portfolio represents over 12 GWs of power output and over 7.5 GWs and 60 GWh of storage capacity. rPlus Energies is a subsidiary of the Gardner Group, family owned and operated since 1976, which is dedicated to building better communities through thoughtful, sustainable practices in developing and managing real estate, renewable energy, and technology, and providing results-oriented philanthropy. Learn more at www.rplusenergies.com.
For More Information on rPlus Energies:
Maile Resta
Communications Associate, rPlus Energies
707-776-7773
mresta@rplusenergies.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE rPlus Hydro | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2023/01/26/rplus-hydro-reaches-major-milestone-its-900-megawatt-seminoe-pumped-storage-project/ | 2023-01-26 16:25:21 | 1 | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2023/01/26/rplus-hydro-reaches-major-milestone-its-900-megawatt-seminoe-pumped-storage-project/ |
Skip to content
Main Navigation
Search
Search for:
Weather
Local
Sports
Entertainment
Investigators
Videos
Newsletters
Live TV
Share
Close
Trending
Watch NBC10 24/7 on Roku, Peacock
2023 Philly Mayoral Race
Sixers Playoffs
Phillies Baseball
Expand
Seeking Peace in Philly
Searching for solutions to Philadelphia's gun violence crisis
Close Menu
Search for:
Local
U.S. and World
Politics
Weather
Weather Alerts
School Closings
See It, Share It
Sports
Phillies
Eagles
Sixers
Flyers
NBC Sports Philadelphia
Investigators
NBC10 Responds
Submit a tip
Watch The Lineup
Philly Live
Entertainment
Wawa Welcome America
About NBC10 Philadelphia
Our News Standards
Share a News Tip or Feedback
Share a Consumer Complaint
Share Photos and Video
Our Apps
Newsletters
Cozi TV
Follow Us
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Contact Us | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/seeking-peace-in-philly/philly-parents-and-police-keep-their-focus-on-childrens-safety-this-summer/3566997/ | 2023-05-16 06:51:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/seeking-peace-in-philly/philly-parents-and-police-keep-their-focus-on-childrens-safety-this-summer/3566997/ |
Teonna Woolford has always said that when it came time to build a family, her ideal would be to have six kids.
Why six?
"I don't know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn't enough," says Woolford, a Baltimore resident. "Six is a good number."
Woolford, 31, was born with sickle cell disease. The genetic disorder affects patients' blood cells. They become misshapen, which makes it harder for the blood to carry oxygen and flow throughout the body. This can cause strokes, organ damage and frequent bouts of excruciating pain.
Sickle cell disease affects an estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. and the vast majority of them are Black. Federal and charitable dollars dedicated to sickle cell pale in comparison to other less common diseases that affect a majority white patients.
Physicians and researchers say the disease is a stark example of the health inequities which pervade the U.S. health system. A poignant expression of this, patient advocates say, is the silence around the impact on fertility, and lack of reproductive and sexual health care for the young people living with this complex disease.
Crushing hopes for fertility
Woolford has lived through the entire gamut of sickle cell complications. By 15, her hip joints had become so damaged that she had to have both hips replaced. She was dependent on frequent blood transfusions to reduce pain episodes and vascular damage, and her liver was failing.
"So many complications, infections, hospitalizations, and so by the time I graduated high school, I just felt defeated [and] depressed," says Woolford, who first spoke with an NPR reporter from a hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland. She'd experienced a sickle cell pain crisis a few days earlier, and was still receiving pain medication and intravenous fluids.
In her late teens Woolford sought out a bone marrow transplant: a treatment that enables sickled cells in the patient's body to be replaced with healthy cells from a stem cell donor. The procedure comes with risks, and not everyone is eligible. It also relies on finding a compatible donor match. But if it works, it can free a person from sickle cell disease forever.
Woolford couldn't find a perfect match, so she enrolled in a clinical trial where doctors could use even a half-matched donor.
As part of the bone marrow transplant, patients are first exposed to chemotherapy, which can impair or eliminate fertility.
Woolford hesitated. After all, her ideal family included six children.
When she told her doctor about her worry, his response crushed her. "This doctor, he looked at me and he was like, 'Well, I'll be honest, with all the complications you've already had from sickle cell, I don't know why you're even worried about this process making you infertile because you're probably already infertile.'"
Even without a transplant, sickle cell disease can damage patients' bodies in ways that can affect their ability to have children, according to Dr. Leena Nahata, a pediatric endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio.
For women, chronic inflammation and sickling of blood cells in the ovaries can make it harder to get pregnant. For men, sickled blood can jam inside the blood vessels of the penis, and that can cause painful, unwanted erections which last for hours. This condition, called priapism, can damage sexual function and decrease sperm count.
And it's not just the disease. Researchers are evaluating how some widely-used treatments may affect fertility — for example by decreasing sperm count.
"It remains unclear how that translates directly to fertility outcomes, but at least raises the concern that this may be an issue," Nahata says.
Even more concerning to Nahata were the results of a small study she co-authored that showed some patients are unaware of the many fertility risks related to sickle cell disease.
Would hope for a cure mean giving up on fertility?
Woolford was only 19 when her doctor shocked her by telling her she was probably already infertile. But no one could be sure, so she held out hope that she might still undergo a procedure to preserve her fertility, before undergoing the chemotherapy required for the bone marrow transplant.
After extensive research, she learned egg freezing could cost more than $10,000, her insurance wouldn't cover it, and she couldn't afford that on her own.
Woolford wondered if maybe she could find another way to pay for egg freezing. "So I started looking into financial resources. And I saw all these foundations [that] give away grants. But you had to have a diagnosis of cancer," she says.
"So long story short, I went through with a [bone marrow] transplant, kind of feeling like if I was going to be cured from sickle cell, it'd be a fair tradeoff to give up my dream of biological children."
Unfortunately, the partial-match transplant did not work. Woolford's body rejected it.
"So, here I am. I am 30, still have sickle cell disease and I'm infertile," she says.
A grim thought still sometimes pops up in Woolford's mind: Maybe if she had cancer instead of sickle cell, her dreams of having biological children could still have come true.
How systemic racism affects access to care
The first description of sickle cell disease in medical literature was published over a century ago. Because the vast majority of sickle cell patients in the U.S. were Black, it quickly became labeled as a "Black disease," and with that came a legacy of systemic racism that still affects patients today.
Black patients tend to have less social capital and fewer resources, according to Dr. Lydia Pecker, a sickle cell disease researcher and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Pecker has studied fertility in sickle cell disease, and says there's a stark contrast between resources available to cancer patients versus sickle cell patients, when it comes to fertility treatment.
"There are any number of foundations, large and small, that help support and pay for fertility preservation for people with cancer," Pecker says. "Those foundations actually work with fertility preservation centers to negotiate lower rates for affected people."
There are clear clinical guidelines stating children with cancer going through chemotherapy should be referred for fertility preservation.
Children with sickle cell disease going through transplants are exposed to chemotherapy too, "but we don't really have guidelines like that yet for people with sickle cell disease," Pecker says.
It's not a perfect comparison, she adds, because the kinds of chemotherapy drugs used in pediatric cancer are different from the chemotherapies used in sickle cell treatment. But fertility preservation can be crucial when there is any risk of treatment-associated fertility impairment. Without clear and widely adopted clinical guidelines, sickle cell patients may not get referred to appropriate care.
Pecker says current medical practice forces sickle-cell patients to make a difficult choice: "Like, you can have treatment or you can have fertility. But what we say in cancer care is you can have treatment and you can have fertility."
Expensive treatment and fighting for access
In the U.S., health insurance coverage for fertility preservation and treatment is not guaranteed and varies from state to state. Only eleven states have laws that mandate coverage for fertility preservation for patients who undergo treatments that could imperil their ability to have biological children – usually referred to as iatrogenic treatments – like chemotherapy or radiation.
But even those laws don't always help, says Dr. Irene Su, an OB-GYN at the University of California San Francisco, who researches fertility preservation policies.
Su says these laws are usually very vague in terms of who qualifies: "If you give insurers room to interpret, it's possible that they can be very broad, or they can be very narrow."
This means that many sickle cell disease patients who don't have this coverage are forced to pay out of pocket.
Phillip Sanders of Arkansas was a sophomore in college when his sickle cell disease complications ramped up.
"By 2016, that whole year, I spent 60 percent of my life in the hospital," he says.
Not long after, he married his college sweetheart. They wanted to have children, but were unable to get pregnant. A doctor then told them their best bet was to undergo intrauterine insemination, a fertility treatment where the highest-quality sperm is selected and inserted directly into the uterus.
Sanders' wife got pregnant after four attempts, but none were covered by insurance.
"It's so expensive. You're talking about thousands of dollars each try," Sanders says. "I mean, we had to, of course, borrow money. Because, you know, at the same time, I was going through school, opening a business, and I was in the hospital, always. So it was extremely tough."
Like Woolford, Sanders enrolled in a clinical trial for a bone marrow transplant, and it was a success.
He is now 31, is sickle cell disease free and has a son, Phillip, Jr.
Teonna Woolford for her part, has had to focus on other goals. After her transplant failed, the ongoing toll of the disease on her body continued. She has had to come to terms with the impossibility of her ever having a biological child of her own.
Woolford launched a new nonprofit, The Sickle Cell Reproductive Health Education Directive, to raise awareness of fertility issues at medical conferences and among patients. A future goal for the organization is to provide financial grants to sickle cell patients struggling to pay for fertility preservation and treatments.
Most days, Woolford finds the work empowering. On other days, she admits it reminds her of the bleak personal reality that she will probably never conceive a child.
"It's really hard, because I don't think a lot of people realize that I'm fighting for something that I didn't have access to," she says.
At this point, she said, it's no longer a medical justice fight. It's a reproductive justice one.
Reporting for this story was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems. It was produced in partnership with Side Effects Public Media, WFYI and KHN (Kaiser Health News).
Copyright 2022 WFYI Public Media | https://www.knkx.org/2022-12-05/for-patients-with-sickle-cell-disease-fertility-care-is-about-reproductive-justice | 2022-12-05 13:01:34 | 1 | https://www.knkx.org/2022-12-05/for-patients-with-sickle-cell-disease-fertility-care-is-about-reproductive-justice |
NPR Breaking News Bedbugs are found in hotels but the vast majority of them are in apartments Published June 12, 2023 at 5:02 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Some travelers take precautions to avoid bed bugs, but hotel-goers aren't the most at risk. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2023-06-12/bedbugs-are-found-in-hotels-but-the-vast-majority-of-them-are-in-apartments | 2023-06-12 09:23:37 | 0 | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2023-06-12/bedbugs-are-found-in-hotels-but-the-vast-majority-of-them-are-in-apartments |
Healthcare veteran to drive continued growth for company's patient movement platform
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Motient, a pioneer in patient movement solutions, announced that healthcare veteran Brian Miller has joined its executive team as vice president of Business Development. In this role, Miller will be responsible for furthering the company's sales performance momentum for its web-based Mission Control platform, which helps hospitals and health systems establish universal workflows for emergent patient movement, smoothing interfacility communication and ensuring efficient, high-quality care throughout patient transfers.
"As a seasoned business development executive with a deep understanding of complex software, services, and consulting solutions in the healthcare space, Brian is a natural fit for Motient," said Dallan Huff, president of Motient. "His track record of building high-performing sales teams will be instrumental in helping Motient expand its client base. Brian's expertise in guiding health systems through complex value-based care initiatives will also be beneficial for our customers as they leverage patient movement data to identify new revenue streams. We are pleased to welcome Brian to the team."
Miller joins Motient with more than 36 years of experience in healthcare sales and business development. Most recently, Miller served in sales leadership roles for Signify Health, a healthcare technology company focused on value-based care programs, and Waystar, a revenue cycle management company. Miller previously spent 23 years at 3M HIS, with responsibilities spanning software sales, implementation, and consulting for health systems across the Midwest and Southeast. He has also served in a variety of clinical finance and Health Information Management positions at hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout his career.
"I was drawn to Motient's commitment to ensuring quality care throughout the patient transfer process," said Miller. "Given all the tumult of the past few years, it's refreshing to find a company dedicated to relieving the administrative burden on clinicians by driving standardized, patient-centered transitions in care. I'm honored to join Motient's executive team and look forward to sharing the power of our solutions with new customers."
Miller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Records Administration from Illinois State University and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana Wesleyan University.
About Motient
Motient, a pioneer in patient movement solutions, equips hospitals, hospital systems, healthcare networks, and ACOs with the tools and data required to ensure quality care and value in patient transfers. Led by seasoned healthcare experts and emergency physicians, our team understands the patient transfer pain points, enabling Motient to transform information into relevant insights, actionable data, and enhanced workflows. For more information, visit motient.io. Follow us on LinkedIn.
Media Contact
Katlyn Nesvold, knesvold@acmarketingpr.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Motient | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/motient-appoints-brian-miller-new-vice-president-business-development/ | 2022-08-09 13:39:53 | 0 | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/motient-appoints-brian-miller-new-vice-president-business-development/ |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.