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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — FIFA president Gianni Infantino downplayed Qatar's last minute ban on the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums as nothing more than a brief inconvenience to spectators.
“If this is the biggest problem we have, I’ll sign that (agreement),” Infantino said Saturday, a day after the conservative Muslim emirate did an about-face on the deal it had made to secure the soccer tournament.
Infantino blamed “crowd flows” in Doha for the decision, though it appeared to be a ruling by Qatar’s autocratic government to placate its conservative Wahhabi citizens who already have been angered by some events around the tournament they view as Western excesses.
Infantino said the beer ban at stadiums was made jointly by Qatar officials and FIFA.
"We tried until the end to see whether it was possible," Infantino said of allowing alcohol sales. "If for 3 hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive. Maybe there is a reason why in France, in Spain, in Scotland, alcohol is banned in stadiums. Maybe they are more intelligent us, having thought maybe we should be doing that.”
Spectators can drink alcoholic beer in the evenings in “the FIFA Fan Festival,” a designated party area that also offers live music and activities. Qatar puts strict limits on the purchase and consumption of alcohol, though its sale has been permitted in hotel bars for years outside of the tournament-run areas.
The World Cup begins Sunday with an opening match between host country Qatar and Ecuador, and when Qatar made its pitch to host the tournament, the country agreed to FIFA’s requirements of selling alcohol in stadiums. The alcohol plans were only released 11 weeks before kickoff and then changed on Friday.
FIFA says non-alcoholic beer will still be sold at the eight stadiums, while champagne, wine, whiskey and other alcohol will be served in the luxury hospitality areas of the arenas.
Previous World Cup hosts have been asked to make concessions. For the 2014 tournament, Brazil was forced to change a law to allow alcohol sales in stadiums — but the same cultural issues were not at play.
AB InBev’s deal with FIFA was renewed in 2011, after Qatar was picked as host. However, the Belgium-based brewer has faced uncertainty in recent months on the exact details of where it can serve and sell beer in Qatar.
Infantio denied that the ban of beer sales has harmed FIFA's relationship with Budweiser, it's official beer sponsor.
“We are partners for some decades, and we look forward to partner for the future,” he said. “This particular situation has brought us even closer together."
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The Northern Arizona women’s basketball team advanced to the Big Sky Conference Women’s Basketball Championships semifinals with a 64-48 win over Northern Colorado in the first round Sunday in Boise, Idaho.
Entering as the tournament’s top seed, the Lumberjacks had a day off before their first game. They utilized the rest to come out fast.
“I felt like we were a little bit worried that we were going to have to weather the storm for the first couple minutes of the game, having not played yet. But they came out confident, and it was really good to see their energy from the get-go,” coach Loree Payne said.
The No. 1 Lumberjacks (20-12, 14-5 Big Sky) played solid defensively, holding the No. 9 Bears to just 30.2% from the field and 25% from 3-point range. The Lumberjacks, perhaps shaking some nerves in their first postseason game, shot just 34.8% from the floor themselves, and 27.6% from behind the arc, but their defense allowed them to stay ahead the whole way.
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Northern Colorado also turned the ball over 19 times. The Lumberjacks capitalized with 22 points off turnovers.
“Our transition game is really our best game. So I think we really applied that right when we went in,” Schenck said.
Nyah Moran and Regan Schenck led the Lumberjacks offensively, each scoring 15 points. Schenck also added seven assists in the first game of her final conference tournament, and scored eight of her points in the fourth quarter to help put the game away. Olivia Moran also chipped in 11 points, adding four rebounds and four assists.
Go ahead and step back then, @ReganSchenck!#RaiseTheFlag | #BigSkyWBB pic.twitter.com/VkjOAJOjXk
— NAU Women's Basketball (@NAUWomensHoops) March 5, 2023
The Lumberjacks pulled ahead early, starting on a 7-0 run as the Bears went 0 for 3 with three turnovers on their first six possessions.
Northern Arizona kept the defensive pressure up in the first period, finishing the quarter up 16-4. The Bears committed more than double the turnovers (6) as they had made shots (2) in the period.
The Lumberjacks continued to apply pressure defensively, but their offense began to slide in the second quarter. Northern Arizona missed each of their last eight shots to end the half -- going on a scoring drought that lasted 4:45 -- but still led 25-17 at the break.
Lumberjacks head into the locker room up by eight!#RaiseTheFlag | #BigSkyWBB pic.twitter.com/gxWnBSU3C2
— NAU Women's Basketball (@NAUWomensHoops) March 5, 2023
Then, when the third quarter began, the Lumberjacks got on an offensive roll. Emily Rodabaugh hit two consecutive 3s and Olivia Moran made a layup to give the Lumberjacks an 8-2 lead to start the half.
Beautiful ball movement leads to an @emily_rodabaugh three to start the half!#RaiseTheFlag | #BigSkyWBB pic.twitter.com/ASlDRyMQxd
— NAU Women's Basketball (@NAUWomensHoops) March 5, 2023
“My teammates were finding the hot hand. I appreciate that and I feed off it,” Nyah Moran said.
Northern Colorado cut the deficit to just eight points early in the fourth quarter. But a 5-0 run on a pair of baskets by the Moran sisters extended the advantage to 13 points with 5:55 left to play.
The Lumberjacks held strong from there, and Fatoumata Jaiteh hit an and-one layup with 2:34 remaining that took the wind out of the game.
AND-ONE! Three-point play for @Fa2mata45!#RaiseTheFlag | #BigSkyWBB pic.twitter.com/sl8X1xeibb
— NAU Women's Basketball (@NAUWomensHoops) March 5, 2023
Northern Arizona will have a day off before playing Tuesday against the winner of Eastern Washington and Montana's game Monday. A day of rest following the first round was a goal in getting to Boise.
“We wanted that 1 or 2-seed, just because it sets you up for a position that is very advantageous,” Payne said. “But you still have to show up and do the work. Today I think we did that.” | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-womens-basketball-rolls-past-northern-colorado-to-open-tournament-play/article_47f36140-bb9b-11ed-a7ea-4b4cd8e19a39.html | 2023-03-05 23:50:31 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-womens-basketball-rolls-past-northern-colorado-to-open-tournament-play/article_47f36140-bb9b-11ed-a7ea-4b4cd8e19a39.html |
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A pair of previously undefeated Grand Rapids-area high school basketball teams endured their first loss on Friday, with one squad seeing a win slip away in heartbreaking fashion.
Forest Hills Eastern’s boys hoops team held a 37-33 lead over South Christian heading into the fourth quarter, but the Sailors stormed back and got a 3-pointer from Jake Vermaas in the final minute to escape with a 45-44 win over the previously undefeated Hawks. | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/south-christians-thrilling-comeback-headlines-fridays-grand-rapids-prep-hoops-action.html | 2023-01-07 06:33:50 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/south-christians-thrilling-comeback-headlines-fridays-grand-rapids-prep-hoops-action.html |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
338 PM PDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
A new severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for the
thunderstorm near Daggett. Please refer to the latest warning for
the latest thunderstorm threats.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM PDT
FOR WEST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY...
At 338 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles north of
Newberry Springs, or 14 miles northeast of Daggett, moving northeast
at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated. 60 mph gusts and dime size hail have been
reported with this storm.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Daggett and Yermo.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 15 in California between mile markers 81 and 105.
Interstate 40 in California between mile markers 6 and 19.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Will Howard could have sulked when he lost the starting quarterback job at Kansas State to Adrian Martinez, the transfer from Nebraska who had never thrown a pass for the Wildcats. Howard could have put his name in the transfer portal and looked for playing time at another school.
But then he wouldn’t have found himself in the unlikeliest of spots last Saturday night, getting carried off the field by delirious teammates and fans after a 48-0 rout of then-No. 9 Oklahoma State.
Howard threw for 296 yards and four touchdowns without an interception, sending the No. 13 Wildcats (6-2, 3-2) soaring up the AP poll and keeping them a game back of TCU in the Big 12 title race.
“Football is a game, it’s truly all up here,” Howard said, pointing at his head, “especially at the quarterback position. I’ve learned a lot of things — what to do, what not to do. And all the other games I played in 2020 and 2021, all those struggles and hardships I had, helped this to happen and helped the success we’re having right now.”
It’s created a predicament at Kansas State, though. Martinez was only ruled out against Oklahoma State about 30 minutes before kickoff, and there’s a chance he could be recovered enough from a knee injury to play against Texas on Saturday.
Do the Wildcats go back to their starter or keep riding Howard’s hot hand against the Longhorns?
“We’ll find out how the week goes,” Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said Tuesday. “I don’t have the answer.”
The Longhorns (5-3, 3-2), meanwhile, are coming off their bye with some quarterback issues of their own.
Quinn Ewers was just 19 of 49 for 319 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions against the Cowboys two weeks ago, badly overthrowing wide receivers while Texas was blowing the lead in a 41-34 loss. Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said he never considered pulling Ewers for Hudson Card, but another poor performance could change his mind.
“Sometimes you have to learn it the hard way, playing quarterback: When we win, you probably get too much credit, and when we lose, you probably get too much blame, and you have to be careful to ride that emotional rollercoaster,” Sarkisian said. “Keep the noise quiet and know that myself, the coaching staff, the team is in the foxhole with him, and we’ll go to battle with him every day, and I think that’s the approach he’s had and will continue to have.”
TO REDSHIRT OR NOT
One factor in whether Howard or Martinez will play going forward is the redshirt status of Howard, who has now played in two of the four games he would be allowed while maintaining his year of eligibility.
“That’s definitely a consideration,” Howard said. “It’s something we still need to talk about, something we’re still deciding on, but you know, obviously the mission is the mission: focus on winning and going as far as we can this year.”
PLAYOFF PICTURE
Kansas State debuted at No. 13 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings, the first time the Wildcats have been in the poll since Week 11 of the 2019 season. Texas came in at 24th.
BACKFIELD BUDDIES
Texas running back Bijan Robinson leads the Big 12 with 920 yards rushing, and Kansas State counterpart Deuce Vaughn is second with 902. And wouldn’t you know it? The two have become good friends away from the field.
“I actually talked to him this past weekend. He wished me luck against Oklahoma state, we texted after the game,” Vaughn said. “This is already Year 3 that we’re playing. It’s going to be fun to compete against each other one more time.”
SPEAKING OF BACKFIELD
The Wildcats are averaging 228 yards rushing per game, putting them just outside of the top 10 nationally. But they’ll be facing one of the best run defenses in the nation in Texas, which is holding opponents to 3.32 yards per carry.
MEMORY LANE
Sarkisian was recruited to Kansas State by Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder out of El Camino College, but he ultimately went to BYU. Coincidentally, the Cougars played the Wildcats in the Cotton Bowl in his final game as their quarterback.
“I went back there as a coach with USC. I’ve been there a couple of times,” Sarkisian said. “Great environment.”
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(NEXSTAR) — One lucky winner in Washington just scored a $747 million Powerball jackpot, but an even bigger winner in California is still out there.
It’s been three months since lottery officials announced a Powerball ticket worth $2.04 billion had been sold at a convenience store in Altadena. California lottery officials have yet to confirm a winner has claimed the prize.
The Powerball jackpot reached the world record-setting size in November after 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner (and a suspenseful drawing-night delay prompted by technical issues).
While the owner of the Altadena convenience store has already received his $1 million prize for selling the ticket, it’s unclear if the ticketholder has claimed their winnings.
Didn’t win the jackpot? You may still have won money
In California, as in most states, a lottery jackpot winner has a year to claim their prize. That means the winner of the $2.04 billion jackpot – with a cash value of $997.6 million – still has roughly 270 days to come forward.
Even if the winner came forward today, it could still be a while before the winner is minted.
But if the jackpot remains unclaimed until November, participating lotteries will receive their portion of the prize’s cash value built by their ticket sales, according to the game’s website. Jurisdictions then distribute the funds based on local rules or laws.
In California, for example, funds would support public schools and colleges, according to Carolyn Becker, deputy director of public affairs and communications for the state lottery. Schools already received $156.3 million from ticket sales while the jackpot was building, making it the largest contribution to education generated from one rolling sequence in the California Lottery’s history.
Where are jackpots most frequently won?
If the Powerball jackpot were to go unclaimed, it would go from the largest U.S. lottery prize to the largest unclaimed U.S. lottery prize, a list the record-setting $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot hit in Illinois last summer nearly joined.
The $2.04 billion jackpot may also stand as the only Powerball jackpot to be hit on Election Day as drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/record-2-04b-powerball-jackpot-remains-unclaimed-what-if-the-winner-never-comes-forward/ | 2023-02-11 15:55:45 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/record-2-04b-powerball-jackpot-remains-unclaimed-what-if-the-winner-never-comes-forward/ |
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said a Jordanian lawmaker has been arrested by Israel on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank.
The ministry’s spokesman, Sinan Majali, said Jordanian officials are following the case “to find out the merits of the situation and address it as soon as possible.” The lawmaker was identified as Imad Al-Adwan and said to have been arrested crossing the border into the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry declined comment.
The incident threatens to further strain what already are tense relations between Jordan and its neighbor Israel.
The West Bank has seen a surge in violence over the past year. Israel says the area has been flooded with illegal weapons, including guns smuggled from neighboring Jordan.
Over 90 Palestinians and 18 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year. Israel says most of the Palestinians were wanted militants, but stone-throwing youths protesting army incursions and people not involved in confrontations have also been killed. All but one of the Israelis killed were civilians.
Since Israel’s hard-line government took office, relations with Jordan have deteriorated over Israeli settlement construction, violence in the West Bank and policies over holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Jordan controlled the West Bank and east Jerusalem before Israel captured the areas in the 1967 Mideast war, but the kingdom retains custodianship of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Muslim holy sites in the Old City. | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/jordan-israel-arrested-lawmaker-on-arms-smuggling-charges/ | 2023-04-24 22:08:39 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/jordan-israel-arrested-lawmaker-on-arms-smuggling-charges/ |
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's electoral authority: Leftist Lula da Silva has won presidential election, defeating incumbent Bolsonaro.
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Why Steve Martin’s career is worth celebrating
Steve Martin has been an entertainer for over 60 years. As he was getting ready to wind down his multifaceted career, “Only Murders in the Building” became Hulu’s most-watched original comedy. Then came a tour and a new book and an upcoming documentary. Martin seems to be busier than ever.
But in a recent interview, the comedic legend commented that it might be time to let his career slow down naturally. With the last episode of Season 2 of “Only Murders in the Building” airing on Aug. 23, now is the perfect time for a Steve Martin-themed watch party.
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Why Steve Martin is an entertainment icon
Martin began his career as a magician
In 1960, Steve Martin worked at Disney’s famed Magic Shop. This early training set the groundwork for bits he would later incorporate into his stand-up routine. During his stint, he learned how to perform magic, how to juggle and how to create balloon animals.
He wrote for some of the best shows on TV
From 1967 to 1973, Martin was a comedy writer. During that time, he wrote for some of the biggest television shows, including “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour” and “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Martin has appeared as a guest on numerous TV shows
Besides working behind the scenes, Martin forged an unforgettable identity as an outrageous performer. Back when careers were made with guest appearances, he was on such notable shows as “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” “Saturday Night Live” and “The Muppet show.”
He incorporated simple props into his stand-up act
From very early in his career, Steve Martin was a master at incorporating simple props into his stand-up routine. One of his earliest and most memorable bits included struggling to make an unrecognizable puppy out of balloons. But inflatable creatures weren’t his only go-to sight gags. Martin also wore a fake arrow through his head and played a banjo between jokes.
Martin understood the importance of a great catchphrase
Throughout his career, Steve Martin has created countless phrases that have become part of pop culture. Arguably, his biggest was an exaggerated “Well, excuse me!” Another unforgettable phrase came from when Martin played one of the Festrunk brothers on “Saturday Night Live” with Dan Aykroyd where he would proclaim, “We’re two wild and crazy guys!”
His humor was rooted in philosophy
Martin’s twisted take on humor reportedly originated when he was studying philosophy in college. He realized the absurdity of non sequiturs. The more he built up a punchline, the harder he would turn away from what was expected. Getting rid of logic opened the doors to allow him to let his jokes land anywhere, keeping the audience off balance.
Martin utilizes all of his tools and skills
Besides taking balloon animals and making them part of his stand-up act, Martin incorporated other skills he learned into various aspects of his impressive career. For instance, in his breakout movie, “The Jerk,” Martin’s character is asked to help put an end to the inhumane act of cat juggling. And during one of his many appearances on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” he performed one of the most comically absurd magic acts ever seen on television. Martin appeared as The Great Flydini, a magician who had the uncanny ability to make anything appear out of the fly in his pants.
He is serious about his comedy
The illusion of being exceptionally skilled is you make it look effortless, and Steve Martin makes what he does seem like second nature. He understands his job and how important it is to be prepared. Martin reportedly spends months working up material for a brief live appearance, just to make sure he can give his best performance.
Martin is an accomplished musician (with five Grammy awards)
While Martin has released several noteworthy comedy albums, such as the platinum-selling, award-winning “Let’s Get Small,” and his Billboard Top-20 hit “King Tut,” the prolific recording artist has won more Grammy awards for his serious music in country, bluegrass and American roots genres.
He writes more than comedy
Although he is known for his comedy writing, Martin has also had success as a screenwriter, a playwright, penned notable essays, collaborated with “New Yorker” cartoonists and written such acclaimed novellas as “The Pleasure of My Company” and “Shopgirl.”
At 77, Martin is still writing relatable and wildly entertaining material
In this age of fleeting attention spans, it’s hard to keep a career going for a few years, let alone several decades. Steve Martin’s expansive repertoire of work remains engaging, relevant and entertaining.
What you need to throw a Steve Martin-themed watch party
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gypsum Association (GA) has translated two code referenced publications into French and Spanish. GA-216-2021 Application and Finishing of Gypsum Panel Products is referenced in the International Building Code as an appropriate standard for the application and installation of gypsum boards and panels. Another code referenced specification, GA-253-2021 Application of Gypsum Sheathing, is essential when installing the increasingly popular exterior glass mat gypsum substrate.
GA-216 Application and Finishing of Gypsum Panel Products is colloquially known as the "Drywall Hanger's Bible." This document provides detailed information on hanging interior gypsum panels of every type and under a wide variety of circumstances commonly encountered in the field. Where other GA publications provide greater detail or clarity on the issue, GA-216 directs readers to those publications, many of which are free to the public. Offered as a complimentary download, GA-253-2021 describes the minimum requirements for application of gypsum sheathing for use as a substrate as well as appropriate methods of handling and storage. Useful tables include one listing minimum fastener lengths and one devoted to shear values.
Growing the number of technical publications available in languages other than English is a goal of the Association, which represents gypsum panel manufacturers in the United States and Canada. "The Gypsum Association makes a concerted effort to offer these documents in French and Spanish to serve important constituencies across North America," said Executive Director Stephen Meima, APR, LEED Green Assoc. All GA publications are available through the Association's bookstore at www.gypsum.org.
The Gypsum Association is in its 92nd year of service as the technical, promotion, and information center of the gypsum industry. Representing companies located throughout the United States and Canada, the Association is based in Silver Spring, MD.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 52% jump in its first-quarter profits, helped by higher interest rates, which allowed the bank to charge customers more for loans. The bank saw deposits grow noticeably, as business and customers flocked to the banking titan after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month.
With JPMorgan’s strong results, as well as solid results from Citigroup and Wells Fargo on Friday, there seem to be few signs of potential trouble in the banking system — at least among the nation’s biggest, most complex financial institutions.
“These were the most watched bank earnings announcements in over a decade, with market participants scouring the results looking for signs of cracks in the US banking sector. Those analysts looking for signs of the banking crisis were greatly relieved to not find any,” said Octavio Marenzi, CEO of the consulting firm Opimas LLC, in an email.
JPMorgan, the nation’s biggest bank by assets posted a profit of $12.62 billion, compared to a profit of $8.28 billion in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the bank earned $4.10 a share, up from $2.63 a share a year ago, beating analysts’ expectations.
Most of the profit growth came from higher interest rates. The bank’s net interest income was $20.8 billion in the quarter, up 49% from last year.
JPMorgan grew deposits by $37 billion during the quarter, up to $2.4 trillion. Deposits at big banks had been falling for several quarters as consumers spent down their pandemic savings and businesses tapped into their stored cash to pay bills. But with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, businesses have been withdrawing their funds from smaller banks and moving them into the larger banks, which are considered “too big to fail” and have an implicit government backstop.
In a call with reporters, JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum said most of the new deposits flowed into new business and company bank accounts opened in the past month. The new deposits reversed the flow of deposits exiting the bank for several quarters.
“What crisis?,” analysts at UBS titled their report after JPMorgan, Wells and PNC reported their results.
JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon have been the industry’s go-to problem solvers for banking issues for years now. After the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, JPMorgan helped put together a consortium of other big banks to keep First Republic Bank from being next to fail. The group of banks put $30 billion in uninsured deposits into First Republic, which appears to have at least bought the midsize bank some time to repair its balance sheet and maybe find a buyer.
“The U.S. economy continues to be on generally healthy footings — consumers are still spending and have strong balance sheets, and businesses are in good shape. However, the storm clouds that we have been monitoring for the past year remain on the horizon, and the banking industry turmoil adds to these risks,” Dimon said in a statement.
JPMorgan continued to benefit from consumers switching from saving to spending. Credit card spending rose 13% from a year earlier, and more customers are now keeping a balance instead of paying off their credit cards, so the bank is making money from processing the transactions as well as the interest off the balances.
Meanwhile business in the bank’s corporate and investment bank remains relatively quiet, as many businesses and investors are holding off making big decisions amid high inflation. Revenue from advisory fees were flat, while revenue from trading stocks and bonds were flat to down.
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Bracalente Manufacturing Group Buys Millennium Manufacturing, Strengthens US Footprint
QUAKERTOWN, Pa., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bracalente Manufacturing Group announced today the purchase of Millennium Manufacturing Inc. at their US Headquarters in Trumbauersville, PA. The acquisition of Millennium helps bolster the groups already robust specialized CNC milling, turning, multi-spindle manufacturing capabilities and complements their highly skilled workforce as it expands footprint in aerospace, EV, electromechanical automation and tactical markets.
Bracalente Manufacturing Group is a privately-owned third-generation manufacturing company that has grown significantly over the past few years, increasing capacity and sales by more than 50%. The Millennium deal is an extension of that growth, ensuring the increased customer demand is backed by the rigorous quality standards in their specialty component manufacturing.
"The acquisition of Millennium Manufacturing is part of our growth plan. We are excited to bring the unique capabilities of the Millennium team to our group." stated Ron Bracalente, CEO and President of Bracalente Manufacturing Group. "We've increased our capacity to meet the demand of our customers. This deal strengthens our US presence with additional talent that specializes in our unique manufacturing offerings. It's a win for us."
The undisclosed financial deal is part of the Bracalente expansion initiative, with the addition of several multi-million-dollar automated machining cells, an expanded sales team and a culture of continuous learning and cross-training for the more than 130 employees stateside.
Started in 1950 as a simple screw machine shop in the family's garage, today Bracalente is a global manufacturer producing specialty components for some of the largest global brands.
Bracalente serves its customers utilizing several resources: a global supply chain with sourcing offices in India, Vietnam and China as well as an expanded, climate-controlled WOFE factory in China. These resources coupled with our headquarters and newly acquired factory outside of Philadelphia, PA places our company in a great position to grow with our existing customers and develop new relationships. All our facilities are ISO 9001 certified, including AS9100D in the US and IATF16949 in China. The US facility holds an ITAR registration and works with national defense, tactical and aerospace customers and suppliers.
Dave Fricke, owner of Millennium Manufacturing, said "The Bracalente name is synonymous with quality in our industry. Ron has continually invested in his people, equipment, and the trade. Deciding to be part of that legacy for our team, allows them the opportunity to thrive."
Bracalente is committed to not only grow their manufacturing footprint but also expand their impact through purpose-driven partnerships and opportunities in the Lehigh Valley. Manufacturing represents 18% of the Lehigh Valley's economic output, a larger percentage of GDP than the U.S. economy (12%). Bracalente has committed monies, resources, and time to attract, teach and hire new manufacturing talent.
"Over the last decade, we've donated more than $250k to our local trade schools, through our foundation, the Silvene Bracalente Memorial Foundation. We partner with the schools to help improve the image of manufacturing, attract new talent and work with our trade organizations and other manufacturers to ensure the pipeline of students coming into our trade is continuous," remarked Dave Borish, VP of Operations, Bracalente Manufacturing Group.
Bracalente Manufacturing Group
For more than three generations, Bracalente Manufacturing Group has been providing precision manufacturing solutions for a global market. From prototype to production, and with locations in the US, China, Vietnam and India, BMG delivers quality, on-time components for aerospace, agriculture, automotive, electronics, industrial, medical, oil & gas, recreational and tactical. For more information visit www.bracalente.com.
Current certifications
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Millennium Manufacturing, Inc.
For 25 years, MM has focused on Swiss & Mill/Turn CNC machining, Multi-spindle Machining and value-added assembly. Specializing in the production and design of high precision and quality components used in the electronics, medical, capital goods, instrumentation, and aerospace markets. Certified ISO 9001 2015.
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Carjacking crisis overwhelms police nationwide: See where your state ranks
Carjackings are skyrocketing in many parts of the country, overwhelming police and terrifying drivers.
In New York City, car thefts jumped by 37% last month, according to recent crime and insurance reports. In the nation’s capital, there have been more than 200 carjackings so far this year. About three-quarters of them involved guns, compared to the national average of 40%, and only a small percentage have been solved, Fox News reports.
"What changes within the ecosystem need to happen so that we ensure that that's not your mother, your father, your sister, your brother?" DC Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III asked at a recent news briefing.
DC and New York are part of a nationwide trend. Vehicle thefts had gone down for decades until the pandemic.
READ MORE: How to Survive: Police chases
The National Insurance Crime Bureau showed a 7% increase in vehicle theft nationwide from 2021-2022, with more than 250,000 thefts reported in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone.
If you zero in on 30 cities, it’s a much larger jump. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, vehicle thefts and carjackings in those cities jumped an average of 59% from 2019-2022.
California and Texas led the nation with the most reported stolen vehicles in 2022, and Illinois had the largest increase of any top 10 state, with thefts going up roughly 35% between 2021 and 2022. In Washington state, vehicle thefts were up 31% from 2021 to 2022.
It’s so bad in NYC, Mayor Eric Adams recently handed out 500 airtags to New Yorkers to hide in their vehicles so they can track them if they’re stolen.
Top 10 states with the most vehicle thefts
Here are the 10 states with the highest number of carjackings in 2022, according to the NICB:
- California: 202,685, up 1%
- Texas: 105,015, up 10%
- Washington: 46,939, up 31%
- Florida: 45,973, up 6%
- Colorado: 42,237, up 10%
- Illinois: 38,649, up 35%
- Ohio: 29,913, up 6%
- Missouri: 29,345, up 10%
- New York: 28,292, up 23%
- Georgia: 26,529, up 1%
Click here to see how many carjackings and vehicle thefts were reported in each state in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.
Top 10 most stolen vehicles
According to the Insurance Information Institute, here are the vehicles reported stolen the most in 2021, the latest year for which data is available:
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- Chevrolet full-size pickup
- Ford full-size pickup
- Honda Civic
- Honda Accord
- Toyota Camry
- GMC full-size pickup
- Nissan Altima
- Honda CR-V
- Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee
- Toyota Corolla
How to protect yourself
When it comes to victims, women are just as likely as men to be carjacked. More than a quarter of victims are injured and only 56% will ever see that car again.
So, what do you do if someone is trying to carjack you?
READ MORE: Car thefts in US top 1 million for first time since 2008
"Give them the vehicle," former DC police detective Ted Williams says. "Nobody’s life is worth fighting over a carjacker."
Experts say have your keys in hand as you approach the car to lower your chances of getting carjacked. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
Here are some safety tips you can follow to decrease your chances of getting carjacked, according to local and federal government websites:
- Walk with purpose and always be aware of your surroundings.
- Have your keys in hand as you approach the car. Look around and inside the car before getting in.
- Be careful of people loitering in the area.
- Keep your doors locked and windows rolled up when possible.
- Be especially vigilant when stopped at intersections, gas stations and ATMs.
- When braking, leave enough room to maneuver around other vehicles. Rule of thumb: Make sure you can see the rear tires of the car ahead of you.
- Avoid driving alone, especially at night.
- Do not stop to assist a stranger with a disabled vehicle. You can call police to help instead.
- Keep your cell phone in your pocket.
- Park in well-lit areas, near sidewalks or walkways. Don’t park near dumpsters, woods, large vans or trucks, or anything else that limits your visibility.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Avengers” star Jeremy Renner is being treated for serious injuries that happened while he was plowing snow, the actor’s representative said.
Renner, 51, is in critical condition although he is stable, the actor’s representative said Sunday. No further details on the extent of Renner’s injuries were available.
The actor has a home in Nevada. The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Renner was injured in Reno and was flown to a hospital. He was the only person involved, and the sheriff’s office is investigating, according to the release.
Renner plays Hawkeye, a sharp-shooting member of the superhero Avengers squad in Marvel’s sprawling movie and television universe.
He is a two-time acting Oscar nominee, scoring back-to-back nods for “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town.” Renner’s portrayal of a bomb disposal specialist in Iraq in 2008’s “The Hurt Locker” helped turn him into a household name.
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WASHINGTON — Ola Kamara scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time and D.C. United rallied for a 2-2 draw with the Columbus Crew on Wednesday night.
United outshot the Crew 19-6 with a 5-3 edge in shots on goal.
Eloy Room had two saves for Columbus. Rafael Romo made one save for United.
United announced before the match that the team promoted defender Sami Guediri after Brad Smith suffered a torn ACL last weekend. Guediri, 24, has played in three games this season on short-term loans from United affiliate Loudoun United FC. Guediri played in 10 games for Inter Miami CF last season with two starts.
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- BCG Estimates That Quantum Computing Could Create From $450 to $850 Billion of Value in Next 15 to 30 Years
- Europe Is Currently Among Leaders Globally in Terms of Public Support and Fundamental Research, but Lacks Member State Coordination, Sufficient Private Capital, and a Talent Pipeline to Capitalize On
- Lessons From the Semiconductor Industry Need to Be Learned to Scale Capability and Protect European Quantum Sovereignty
PARIS, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investments in quantum reached all-time record highs in 2021 and are predicted to continue rising significantly, with multiple existing industries set to benefit and new industries likely to be created. Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, today published new research highlighting the scale and pace of global quantum computing, titled, Can Europe Catch Up With the US (and China) in Quantum Computing?
While the US is a clear frontrunner on quantum computing patents, venture capital, and volume of talent, the BCG report finds that the EU currently leads the way in terms of public investment. However, the EU lacks a coherent plan of action to coordinate individual Member State activities, has an underdeveloped private capital market prepared to invest in late-stage quantum businesses, and is not developing sufficient quantum computing talent to meet anticipated demand. BCG's report highlights that the US currently has between two and three times more quantum talent in the business world than does the EU.
Without urgent action, the report shows, the EU risks repeating mistakes made in the semiconductor industry. Europe, together with the UK and China, is currently well-positioned in a trio of pursuers that are chasing the US (see exhibit). The EU is among leaders in public action in quantum and has put in place plans such as the Quantum Flagship, coordinating research efforts across multiple industries, and running pilot educational projects to give a direction to the developing ecosystem.
So what does the EU need to do to avoid repeating the mistakes it made more than a decade ago in failing to scale a continental semiconductor industry?
"The EU has all the ingredients needed to succeed in the quantum race but needs to rapidly develop and deliver a comprehensive plan to turn potential into action," says François Candelon, a managing director and senior partner at BCG, and coauthor of the report. "Europe's history when dealing with tech revolutions has too often been characterized by early promise, failure to scale at critical moments, and then an expensive attempt to catch up. Policymakers need to learn those lessons fast. The good news is that the window is still open to create and execute a European strategy, building public and private capital powerhouses to invest in and scale European universities' ability to train the next generation of quantum experts."
BCG's report maps an action plan for Europe to maintain quantum sovereignty:
- First, create an integrated EU-wide action plan that aligns Member State programs and strategies.
- Second, close the European investment gap, particularly for late-stage funding, to allow European start-ups to scale quickly.
- Third, build an end-to-end talent pipeline from high school to post-graduate to create enough talent to meet surging business demand.
The COVID-19 crisis highlighted Europe's capability to design and manufacture at scale new vaccines that proved essential to controlling the impact of the pandemic on the continent. Conversely, the lack of in-house European manufacturing capabilities for advanced semiconductors showed its dependence on a global supply chain. According to BCG estimates, the chip crisis prevented the production of around 10 million vehicles, which was particularly impactful for Europe, home to major automobile manufacturers.
Quantum will impact multiple industries central to a country's competitiveness and sovereignty such as aerospace, defense, pharma, and chemicals. If Europe wants to maintain its global relevance as well as self-sufficiency in key economic areas, it must ensure access and master quantum capabilities in all stages of the supply chain, from R&D to manufacturing and end applications.
Download the publication here: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/can-europe-catch-up-in-quantum-computer-race
For more information, please contact Brian Bannister at +44 7919 393753 or bannister.brian@bcg.com.
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Jackson mayor stands behind comments on water; doesn’t apologize for providing filters to residents
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Jackson’s mayor was on the hot seat Wednesday, answering to claims the comments he made at a recent press conference were eroding public confidence in the city’s water system.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate on Wednesday to offer clarity on statements he made at a June 14 media briefing announcing a partnership with United Healthcare to distribute water filters to vulnerable residents.
The mayor told reporters the filters were needed to help protect pregnant women and young children as the city worked to implement new corrosion control measures at the city’s water treatment plants.
Wingate called the hearing after Interim Third-Party Administrator Ted Henifin raised concerns the mayor intimated the water wasn’t safe to drink.
Wingate said the mayor urged Henifin to call off the hearing, but the judge would not.
“We have to worry about instilling confidence in the public that the water is safe,” Wingate said. “Otherwise, we will have a public which is duly suspicious of its own water.”
He asked if before the city hosted press conferences on water there should be a “clearing committee to be sure we don’t have to have these all the time.”
Lumumba said he wouldn’t prescribe to such a committee, but would, as a “matter of professional courtesy, speak to Mr. Henifin” on matters where there are overlapping responsibilities.
The proceedings lasted for nearly three hours, broken up by a 15-minute recess. Wingate played the entire press conference for the court prior to questioning the mayor and the third-party manager.
For his part, Henifin says the mayor’s comments likely were not ill-intended but made it more challenging for him and his staff to restore confidence in the city’s water system.
Henifin was put in charge of Jackson’s water system last November, as part of a court order handed down by Wingate. To help implement that order, Henifin formed a company called JXN Water.
“When you have a figure, the mayor by position is someone people look to for guidance,” Henifin said. “Everything he says carries a lot more weight.”
Henifin questioned the need for the filters, saying the city’s water is safe to drink and that it meets all Safe Drinking Water Act standards.
However, Henifin did waiver when pressed by the judge, saying that the water was safe “for everyone” unless their healthcare provider says they shouldn’t be drinking it.
Lumumba said the city has been working to obtain the filters for months, prior to Henifin becoming third-party manager, and said that the filters are recommended for use by pregnant women and young children due to previous lead exceedances in the city’s water.
[READ: Suit filed against Jackson, MSDH over lead in drinking water]
He said the recommendations were found on the Mississippi State Department of Health’s website. He also pointed to a notification that the city must send to customers monthly because of those previous exceedances.
Henifin also was concerned with Lumumba’s response to a reporter’s question regarding the implementation of corrosion control measures at the city’s water treatment plants.
He said it appeared that the mayor intimated the water would not be safe until those measures were put in place.
“If the press conference had stopped... before he took the last question, we wouldn’t be here today,” Henifin said. “The mayor chose to address the technology, saying it’s months away, implying it’s months away from safe drinking water.”
Lumumba refuted Henifin’s claims, saying he never said the water was unsafe.
“At no time in this press conference, at no time in history have I said I believe the water is unsafe,” he told Wingate. “Chokwe Lumumba believes our water is safe. Chokwe Lumumba does not believe the water is dangerous to children under five. Chokwe Lumumba does not believe the water is dangerous to pregnant women.”
To back up his point, the mayor pointed to a clarification he made in response to remarks made by a medical doctor at his June 14 press conference.
According to a transcript submitted to the court, the doctor told reporters that if the water is not filtered, “then we run into the problem of having disease... not only with our mothers who are expecting but just with [the] patient population in general.”
Immediately following those remarks, the mayor told those in attendance that “it hasn’t been demonstrated that our water is in fact dangerous.”
Henifin also had concerns with the filters themselves, telling Wingate they only last four months and cost $50 to replace.
He also says that if the filters are not changed out, bacteria could build up making the water they’re designed to clean unsafe to drink.
Lumumba agreed the replacement cost was high, but said many customers already spend that amount or more on bottled water each month.
“How much [of an] expense are they bearing over the four-month period of time buying cases of water, as opposed to having a filtration device they can use to avoid that?” he asked.
He went on to say that customers participating in the distribution receive two filters, as well as instructions telling them how often the filters must be changed.
As for eroding the public trust, Lumumba told Wingate that by providing filters, customers’ confidence in the city’s water system could actually go up.
“[They] were an effort to assist our residents, an effort to show our residents that we care, and we are concerned,” the mayor said. “Judge, I do not... Respectfully, I do not apologize for providing a service to my residents by providing these water filters.”
Henifin and Lumumba refused to comment after the hearing, but later JXN Water and the city released a joint statement. It is posted below.
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A petition has been filed asking for the suspension of a commonwealth’s attorney after allegations that he offered favors to a criminal defendant in exchange for nude photographs and videos from her.
Citing a recent report by the Courier-Journal outlining the allegations, the Kentucky Bar Association filed a petition last week to the Kentucky Supreme Court asking that Commonwealth’s Attorney Ronnie Goldy be temporarily suspended.
Goldy serves Montgomery, Bath, Menifee, and Rowan Counties.
The Inquiry Commission authorized the petition, which states that Goldy “poses a substantial threat of harm to his clients or the public.” The petition asks that the court issue an order “as soon as possible.”
Additionally, the petition states that the Inquiry Commission has initiated its own disciplinary proceedings against Goldy.
“He has abused his office (an office which he could not have held if he were not an attorney), abused the trust of the public, and brought the legal system of Kentucky into serious disrepute,” the petition states. “His conduct shows a clear lack of fitness to practice law in Kentucky, much less represent the Commonwealth in serious criminal matters.”
The petition goes on to say that Goldy should be temporarily suspended even if he resigns his office in light of the allegations.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has not yet issued an order in response to the petition.
The allegations against Goldy surfaced as part of a criminal case against former Circuit Court Judge Beth Maze, who served in the same circuit as Goldy for years. The attorney for Maze, Thomas Clay, released to LEX 18 the screenshots of the alleged messages between Goldy and the woman.
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The Braves’ roster provides a glimpse of what kind of impact talent can be acquired beyond the first two rounds of the MLB Draft.
Reigning National League Rookie of the Year Michael Harris II was selected in the third round in 2019. Spencer Strider was taken in the fourth round in ‘20, and fellow All-Star Bryce Elder was picked in the fifth round the same year.
So while the Braves are excited about what they may have gained by drafting college pitchers Hurston Waldrep, Drue Hackenberg and Cade Kuehler during the first two rounds on Sunday, they are also anxious to see the development of some of the players they gained during Rounds 3-10 on Monday.
Round 3, 94th overall: Sabin Ceballos, SS, Oregon
It’s too early to know how Ceballos might fit defensively, but his power potential and recently improved plate discipline create excitement for his future. The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Puerto Rico native hit .333 with 18 homers and a 1.069 OPS while helping Oregon win the Pac-12 Conference tournament championship this year. There have been questions about his glove, but he was awarded a Rawlings Gold Glove after showing improvement as a third baseman this year. The Braves’ decision to announce him as a shortstop indicates they believe the 20-year-old has room to grow defensively.
“He’s got tools,” Braves assistant director of scouting Ronit Shah said. “He’s got a good arm and can really pick it at third. He’s shown us a lot more power than we’ve seen in past years, and he’s controlling the zone, taking his walks and making a lot of contact. We thought that was a pretty strong package.”
Round 4, 126th overall: Garrett Baumann, LHP, Hagerty (Fla.) HS
Baumann commands attention when he steps on the mound with his 6-foot-8, 245-pound frame. The big left-hander’s heavy fastball sits around 93 mph, but it has touched 98 mph. He has shown a good feel for his changeup, but like many high school products, his slider has been inconsistent. The Braves will likely have to go over-slot to sign this high-upside pitcher, who committed to Central Florida. Baumann comes from the same high school that produced Vaughn Grissom and the Tigers’ Riley Greene.
Round 5, 162th overall: Isaiah Drake, OF, North Atlanta HS
Looking to extend the organization’s success with hometown talent, the Braves selected Drake, who has run the 60-yard dash in 6.15 seconds. The 17-year-old outfielder possesses plus speed and plus power from the left side. He committed to Georgia Tech, but this selection indicates the Braves believe he’ll choose the hometown pro team over the hometown college team. Drake is the brother of NFL running back Kenyan Drake.
“Drake has shown more power than we’ve seen in the past,” Shah said. “He went to the Combine and went to the Draft League. Clearly, he loves to play. We’re really excited about his power and speed combination.”
Round 6, 189th overall: Lucas Braun, RHP, Cal State Northridge
Braun had some success while primarily being used out of the bullpen during his first three collegiate seasons. He struck out 25.6 percent of the batters faced in 2022 and had a 25 percent strikeout rate this year. But his ERA rose from 2.91 in 74 1/3 innings to 4.83 over 91 1/3 innings. Braun is the first college senior selected by the Braves in 2023. These selections are usually made to create a chance to give an over-slot bonus to another one of the players taken within the first 10 rounds.
Round 7, 219th overall: Justin Long, RHP, Rice
Long began his collegiate career as a catcher, then began pitching this year. The 21-year-old hurler posted a 4.93 ERA in 45 2/3 innings for the Owls, never pitching more than 4 2/3 innings in any appearance. He struck out 18.9 percent of the batters he faced but showed improvement during his first year on the mound.
“He really came on as the year went on,” Shah said. “His velocity kept climbing and his breaking ball kept getting better. We’re excited to hopefully see him continue the trend line here.”
Round 8, 249th overall: Cory Wall, RHP, William & Mary
Wall is a fifth-year college senior who posted a 3.98 ERA over 52 innings for the Tribe this year. The 23-year-old hurler spent his first four collegiate years at Fordham. Wall struck out seven while working a season-high 5 2/3 innings against the College of Charleston in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament on May 25.
Round 9, 279th overall: Riley Gowens, RHP, Illinois
Gowens, a fifth-year senior, posted a 6.30 ERA while totaling 60 innings over 12 starts for the Illini this year. The 23-year-old has touched 96 mph with his fastball and shown an above-average breaking ball. The Braves have already gained value from Dylan Dodd, who was a fifth-year senior when he was drafted in 2021, so you never know what you might get from guys like Gowens, Wall and Braun.
Round 10, 309th overall: Pier-Olivier Boucher, OF, Southern Illinois
Boucher earned second-team All Missouri Valley Conference honors after hitting .331 with 16 homers and a 1.026 OPS for the Salukis this year. The 23-year-old outfielder was successful in 29 of 34 stolen-base attempts over the past two seasons. He was born and raised in Quebec, where he spent nine years playing hockey. He played baseball during his final two years of high school. | https://www.albanyherald.com/sports/slugging-shortstop-atlanta-prep-outfielder-among-braves-day-2-selections/article_e8b37680-1ff8-11ee-ad57-6fa5af01d8d5.html | 2023-07-11 16:01:13 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/sports/slugging-shortstop-atlanta-prep-outfielder-among-braves-day-2-selections/article_e8b37680-1ff8-11ee-ad57-6fa5af01d8d5.html |
GM has filed a trademark application for the name Sidewinder, possibly for a new steering system to be used on future vehicles.
Filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Oct. 5, the application covers “electronic controllers for steering systems for land motor vehicles.” An patent application for such hardware did not accompany the filing, but it would make sense for GM to develop a new steering system to keep pace with rivals.
GM started the trend of trick steering features with the GMC Hummer EV pickup’s Crab Walk, which allows the hulking electric truck to drive on a diagonal at low speeds. Other automakers have come up with their own steering gimmicks for electric vehicles.
Rivian has shown that its R1S SUV and R1T pickup can perform tank turns, allowing them to turn within their own lengths like the eponymous tracked military vehicle, although the feature doesn’t appear to have been added to production vehicles yet. Mercedes-Benz has also promised a tank-turn feature for its EQG electric G-Wagen, which is expected to arrive in 2024.
Ford has filed at least two patent applications for a tank-turn feature. One version described using an EV’s motors to drive the front and rear wheels in opposite directions, while another version brought four-wheel steering into play as well, using it to turn the front and rear wheels in opposite directions.
All of these ideas have been applied to EVs because the precise control afforded by electric motors makes them possible. And something like a tank turn will likely be easiest on loose surfaces like dirt, hence the focus on off-road applications. GM may be planning its own version of the tank turn for a future update of the Hummer EV, or for the upcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra Denali EV pickups.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s airport authority Infraero said Friday it has notified the Federal Police over an apparent hack into electronic displays at an airport in Rio de Janeiro. Instead of advertisements and flight information, travelers were shown pornographic movies.
Video clips on social media showed travelers in the Santos Dumont airport laughing at the displays, hiding them from their kids or just stunned.
The airport authority’s statement said that its information services are outsourced to another company, which it has also notified.
“We stress that the content shown in our media screens is a responsibility of the companies who have advertisement rights,” said Infraero. It said its partners use their own systems of publication, which have no connection with Infraero’s flight information system.
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Grizzly bears lived throughout California until the 1920s. And now, the California Grizzly Research Network out of UC Santa Barbara is studying not only the history of this iconic bear but its future, including a potential comeback.
UCSB environmental historian and grizzly researcher Dr. Peter Alagona said we don’t have grizzlies in California anymore, even though the bear was once so common it’s on our state flag.
“On the eve of the Gold Rush, there was about one grizzly for every 11 people in California, if you can believe that,” Alagona said.
Alagona said about 10,000 grizzlies lived in the state before the Gold Rush. The last credible sighting of a grizzly bear in California was in 1924 in Sequoia National Park. He said the bears were eliminated, not by habitat loss or food scarcity, but by humans.
“They were really driven out of California primarily by persecution, so hunting, poisoning, and trapping during a period prior to the passage of laws that would have protected them,” he said.
Alagona has studied grizzly bears — also called brown bears — for seven years. In 2016, a group of researchers from UCSB started the California Grizzly Research Network to answer questions about the history and the future of grizzly bears.
Alagona said there’s a debate brewing among conservationists, ecologists, and historians about whether to reintroduce grizzly bears to California.
“For a lot of people, I think even talking about the idea of bringing grizzly bears back to California can sound crazy, and I was actually one of those people once upon a time,” he said.
Over the years, he said his thinking evolved from a purely academic pursuit to more of a mission. One that’s not necessarily about reintroducing grizzlies, but about coexistence in general.
“The mission is to get people thinking about what it would be like to fully restore ecosystems, to imagine a world in which our ecological environment isn’t just declining, in which it’s regenerating, in which we’re rehabilitating it and restoring it,” he said.
Alagona recognizes that people have strong reactions of fascination and fear when it comes to grizzly bears. He said even though bear attacks are extremely rare, when they do happen, they get a lot of press.
“Historically, if you look throughout North America, I think over the last century, there's an average of about one bear-related fatality in North America every decade, overall. One,” he said.
In 1975 grizzly bears were added to the endangered species list as threatened. At that time, the grizzly population had dwindled to 1,000 in the lower 48 states. Alagona said with protections in place, some states are now seeing those numbers grow.
“In the 48 lower U.S. states, there are bears in four areas but they’re all in the northern Rockies or north Cascades, so Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Washington State,” Alagona said.
California has had success with other species recovery programs like the California condor, beavers, and Tule elk, however, Alagona said reintroducing grizzlies to California would be difficult and require an extended period of planning.
“It would require a lot of steps. It would require action by the federal and state governments, and it would require buy-in from a lot of people, particularly people who live in local communities near where animals could be reintroduced, but it’s not impossible,” he said.
To follow the debate and learn more about California grizzly bears, go to the UCSB CA Grizzly Research Network. | https://www.kcbx.org/environment-and-energy/2022-11-04/could-california-bring-back-grizzly-bears-ucsb-researcher-says-its-not-impossible | 2022-11-04 10:08:16 | 1 | https://www.kcbx.org/environment-and-energy/2022-11-04/could-california-bring-back-grizzly-bears-ucsb-researcher-says-its-not-impossible |
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Rockies right-hander Ryan Feltner is slowly recovering from a concussion and fractured skull. He doesn’t know if he can pitch again this year, but he hasn’t ruled it out.
Feltner spoke publicly for the first time Friday since getting hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos on May 13. Feltner spent a night in the hospital and has lingering concussion symptoms, as well as right ear pain.
“A lot of fractures symptoms, just a headache from the concussion, dizziness, but today there’s no pain,” he said while sitting in the home dugout at Coors Field. “I’m sleeping well, and day-to day stuff has become a lot easier. So the feel is that I’m in a really good spot compared to where it could be.”
Feltner was injured when Castellanos lined an 92.7 mph slider up the middle. Feltner turned away, the ball hit him in the back right portion of his head and he immediately collapsed on the mound.
“I didn’t really lose consciousness or anything. Everybody got out there pretty quick to check on me, so just kind of getting my bearings,” he said. “I was just glad I was able to walk off. I knew right away what was going on.”
Castellanos was visibly shaken as he crouched at first base and expressed remorse after the game. Feltner said he received a letter and a small gift from Castellanos.
“I felt bad for him because I saw how upset he was, but it’s part of the game,” Feltner said.
Feltner started balancing exercises Thursday and faces a long road to recovery. He can’t sit in the dugout for games, he can read and watch TV in short spurts and he said he is most comfortable outside, where he can focus on things at a distance.
“There isn’t a set program like a Tommy John program,” Rockies assistant athletic trainer Scott Murayama said. “It’s take steps to make sure that these symptoms resolve make sure the fracture heals, and then slowly starting back into activities.
“His balance has actually has been very good, but with the concussion and ear injury he can have balance issues. So it’s retraining the body to be aware of where its at.”
The 26-year-old Feltner is in his third season with Colorado and second year as part of the rotation. He is 2-3 with a 5.86 ERA in eight starts, and hopes he can return this year.
“I don’t want to rule it out. The desire on my end is there. I’m putting my trust in the team, the professionals that know more than I do about the issues. We’re in this process together, but I will pitch again at some point, I don’t know if will be this year this year.”
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Hearing-impaired woman may sue after Texas airport arrest, breaking arm in jail
AUSTIN, Texas (KEYE) - A hearing-impaired woman may be suing the city of Austin, Texas, and the Travis County Sheriff’s office.
She said her arrest last year led to her breaking her arm.
The 71-year-old Florida woman was at the Austin airport waiting for her connecting flight, but she didn’t hear that the gate had changed and missed it.
Her attorneys said she was later charged with criminal trespass and broke her arm during the booking process.
The incident happened on Sept. 13 at the airport when Karen McGee was waiting for her connecting flight to Seattle.
She waited at the gate but later learned the gate changed, and her flight left but she couldn’t hear when they paged her.
“She controls her hearing aids through an app on her phone, but at the time the event took place she didn’t know that her hearing aids were actually on a preset setting that didn’t fully cover the sounds that she was missing,” said Makenzie Stuard of the University of Texas Law School Civil Rights Clinic.
McGee was issued a new ticket on Alaska Airlines.
She learned her cousin was on the earlier flight that was delayed, so she asked to get on that one.
“It was a like complete coincidence that she was rebooked on Alaska by Delta and that her cousin was literally sitting at that gate on a plane,” said Rebecca Webber, a civil rights attorney.
McGee’s attorneys said she was trying to communicate with the gate agents, but they were being dismissive.
The agents called security, and McGee grew frustrated and confused, so she sat down.
That’s when Austin police showed up for a disturbance call.
Officers said they tried to deescalate the situation and explained she could either rebook the flight or be arrested for criminal trespass.
“I noticed that you have some hearing aids, OK. I just want to make sure, are you hard of hearing?” an officer is seen on video saying.
An Austin airport employee then reads the criminal trespass charge, but her attorneys say she didn’t know she was given a notice of arrest.
“In this case, the need was for someone to get down and speak slowly and not like huddle around her and intimidate her,” Webber said.
McGee was wheeled out of the airport in a wheelchair and booked into the Travis County Jail where, attorneys say, McGee was shoved against a wall by an officer and her handcuffs twisted with extreme force, causing her to break her arm.
She was booked for three days and only given an Aleve and Advil for the pain.
In a statement, Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez said, “Oour agency takes the health and safety of the individuals in our facilities very seriously and takes appropriate steps to maintain their safety.”
“They knew she was hearing impaired; they document it in the records,” Webber said.
McGee’s attorneys said the criminal trespass charges have been dropped. They are working to schedule a meeting on Friday with Travis County attorneys.
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WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) — Chris Manon and Keller Boothby each scored 12 points to help Cornell defeat Monmouth 81-63 on Friday.
Manon also contributed three steals for the Big Red (5-1). Boothby shot 4 for 7 from beyond the arc. Nazir Williams recorded 11 points and shot 4 for 8, including 2 for 5 from beyond the arc.
The Hawks (0-6) were led by Jack Collins, who posted 17 points and four steals. Klemen Vuga added 15 points and three steals for Monmouth. Tahron Allen also had 15 points. The loss is the sixth straight for the Hawks.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece ordered an Emirates flight to New York to return to Athens international airport and grounded a second airliner over security concerns, state television reported late Thursday.
Public ERT television said the decision was taken following a request by United States authorities. Greek police officials did not immediately confirm the source of the request when asked by The Associated Press.
Officials at Athens airport said flight 209 to Newark Airport had returned to Athens and landed safely. Other details were not immediately available.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The global manhunt for al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader had taken 18 months. But America’s attempt to bring him to justice, in a legal sense, has taken much, much longer. Critics say it has become one of the war on terror’s greatest failures.
As Sunday’s 21st anniversary of the terror attacks approaches, Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.
The latest setback came last month when pretrial hearings scheduled for early fall were canceled. The delay was one more in a string of disappointments for relatives of the nearly 3,000 victims of the attack. They’ve long hoped that a trial would bring closure and perhaps resolve unanswered questions.
“Now, I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” said Gordon Haberman, whose 25-year-old daughter Andrea died after a hijacked plane crashed into the the World Trade Center, a floor above her office.
He’s traveled to Guantanamo four times from his home in West Bend, Wisconsin, to watch the legal proceedings in person, only to leave frustrated.
“It’s important to me that America finally gets to the truth about what happened, how it was done,” said Haberman. “I personally want to see this go to trial.”
If convicted at trial, Mohammed could face the death penalty.
When asked about the case, James Connell, an attorney for one of Mohammed’s co-defendants — one accused of transferring money to 9/11 attackers — confirmed reports both sides are still “attempting to reach a pretrial agreement” that could still avoid a trial and result in lesser but still lengthy sentences.
David Kelley, a former U.S. attorney in New York who co-chaired the Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the attacks, called the delays and failure to prosecute “an awful tragedy for the families of the victims.”
He called the effort to put Mohammed on trial before a military tribunal, rather than in the regular U.S. court system, “a tremendous failure” that was “as offensive to our Constitution as to our rule of law.”
“It’s a tremendous blemish on the country’s history,” he said.
The difficulty in holding a trial for Mohammed and other Guantanamo prisoners is partly rooted in what the U.S. did with him after his 2003 capture.
Mohammed and his co-defendants were initially held in secret prisons abroad. Hungry for information that might lead to the capture of other al-Qaida figures, CIA operatives subjected them to enhanced interrogation techniques that were tantamount to torture, human rights groups say. Mohammed was waterboarded — made to feel that he was drowning — 183 times.
A Senate investigation later concluded the interrogations didn’t lead to any valuable intelligence. But it has sparked endless pretrial litigation over whether FBI reports on their statements can be used against them — a process not subject to speedy trial rules used in civilian courts.
The torture allegations led to concerns that the U.S. might have ruined its chance to put Mohammed on trial in a civilian court.
But in 2009, President Barack Obama’s administration decided to try, announcing that Mohammed would be transferred to New York City and put on trial at a federal court in Manhattan.
“Failure is not an option,” Obama said.
But New York City balked at the cost of security and the move never came. Eventually, it was announced Mohammed would face a military tribunal. And then over a dozen years passed.
Kelley said talk of military tribunals two decades ago surprised many in the legal community who had been successfully prosecuting terrorism cases in the decade before. The concept of a tribunal, he said, “came out of the blue. Nobody knew it was coming.”
Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was not in favor of tribunals and had been supportive of the Manhattan federal terrorism prosecutions, he said.
Now, Kelley said, with the passage of time it will be much more difficult to prosecute Mohammed in a tribunal, much less a courtroom. “Evidence goes stale, witness memories fail.”
The passage of time hasn’t dulled the memories of the victims’ families or dampened their interest in witnessing justice.
Eddie Bracken’s sister Lucy Fishman was killed at the trade center. The New Yorker opposed Obama’s proposal to move the trial to federal court — Mohammed is charged with “a military act,” and should be tried by the military, he reasoned. And while he is somewhat frustrated by the delays, he understands them.
“The whole world is looking at us and saying, ‘What are they doing after all this time?’” he said. But he realizes the case is “a process that the world is seeing, that needs to be done under a microscope. … It’s up to the United States to do their due diligence, make sure it’s done right.”
“The wheels of justice turn. They turn slowly, but they turn. And when the time comes, and it’s said and done, the world will know what happened,” he adds.
While Mohammed has lingered at Guantanamo, the U.S. killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid and deputy-turned-successor Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike just this August.
Investigators with the military commission at Guantanamo Bay said he plotted the 9/11 attacks for three years. They cited a computer hard drive seized at his arrest which they said contained photographs of the 19 hijackers, three letters from bin Laden and information about some hijackers.
Mohammed, at his tribunal hearing, conceded in a written statement that he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden, that he was on al-Qaida’s council and that he served as operational director for bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up and execution of the Sept. 11 plot “from A to Z.”
According to the statement, he also took credit for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; an attempt to down U.S. jetliners using bombs hidden in shoes; the bombing of a nightclub in Indonesia; and plans for a second wave of attacks after the 2001 attacks targeting landmarks like the Sears Tower in Chicago and Manhattan’s Empire State Building.
He also claimed credit for other planned attacks, including assassination attempts against then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 or 1995 and an assassination plot against Pope John Paul II at about the same time, the statement said.
Mohammed’s nearly two decades in legal limbo differs from the fate of his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people, injured 1,000 others and left a crater in the parking garage beneath the twin towers.
Yousef is serving life in prison after being convicted at two separate civilian trials. He was also captured in Pakistan, in 1995, but was brought to the United States for trial.
At the time, Yousef said his right to kill people was comparable to the U.S. decision to drop a nuclear bomb in World War II. Mohammed has offered a similar justification, saying through an interpreter at a Guantanamo proceeding that killing people was the “language of any war.”
Bracken traveled to Guantanamo in 2012 to watch one hearing for Mohammed and his co-defendants, and would probably go again if a trial ever happened.
“I don’t know if I want to go there again to bring back all the hurt and pain. But if I’m allowed to go, then I guess I would go. Yeah. My sister would do that for me.”
“She’s that type of a woman,” he added. Then he corrected himself: “She was that type of a woman.”
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Antlfinger reported from West Bend, Wisconsin. Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington and Tom Hays in New York contributed to this story. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/ap-2-decades-later-9-11-self-professed-mastermind-awaits-trial/ | 2022-09-09 20:43:47 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/ap-2-decades-later-9-11-self-professed-mastermind-awaits-trial/ |
Philadelphia Union (3-4-2, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Red Bulls (1-3-6, 11th in the Eastern Conference)
Harrison, New Jersey; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: New York +110, Philadelphia +242, Draw +235; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Mikael Uhre leads the Philadelphia Union into a matchup with the New York Red Bulls after a three-goal showing against Toronto.
The Red Bulls are 1-3-2 in conference play. The Red Bulls are eighth in the league drawing 48 corner kicks, averaging 4.8 per game.
The Union are 3-4-1 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Union rank eighth in the league with 47 shots on goal, averaging 5.2 per game.
Saturday's game is the first meeting between these teams this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Cory Burke has one goal for the Red Bulls. Luquinhas has one goal.
Uhre has scored five goals for the Union. Daniel Gazdag has three goals and four assists.
SEASON SO FAR: Red Bulls: Averaging 0.7 goals, 4.5 shots on goal and 4.8 corner kicks through 10 games while allowing 1.0 goal per game.
Union: Averaging 1.6 goals, 5.2 shots on goal and 4.2 corner kicks through nine games while allowing 1.4 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Red Bulls: Matthew Nocita (injured), Serge Ngoma (injured), Steven Sserwadda (injured), Frankie Amaya (injured), Luquinhas (injured), Dante Vanzeir (injured), Lewis Morgan (injured).
Union: Damion Onandi Lowe (injured).
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BOTHELL, Wash., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLFS) ("BioLife" or the "Company"), a leading developer and supplier of class-defining bioproduction products and services for the cell and gene therapy (CGT) and the broader biopharma markets, today announced the dates of its 2023 analyst day and upcoming investor conferences where management will be presenting and meeting with current and prospective investors.
2023 Analyst Day – March 23, 2023 – SciSafe Biorepository, Billerica, MA
BioLife's leadership team and board members will be hosting sell-side and buy-side analysts and shareholders at its SciSafe biostorage facility on March 23rd. The Analyst Day will provide an opportunity for investors and analysts to hear from members of BioLife's executive team as they discuss updates and progress across its products and services portfolio and also review financial performance. In-person attendees will also be able to view the Company's bioprocessing tools and services and tour BioLife's state-of-the-art biorepository.
In-person event attendance is by invitation only and space is limited. To inquire about receiving an invitation, please email Jody Cain at LHA Investor Relations at jcain@lhai.com.
To join virtually, please register by visiting the Investor Relations section of the BioLife Solutions website at https://investors.biolifesolutions.com/welcome beginning March 1, 2023. A replay of the presentation slides will be available on the company's website after the event.
Upcoming Investor Conferences
- Cowen 43rd Annual Health Care Conference
- Oppenheimer 33rd Annual Healthcare Conference
- KeyBanc Capital Markets Life Sciences & MedTech Investor Forum
- B. Riley Securities 23rd Annual Institutional Investor Conference
BioLife Solutions is a leading supplier of class-defining bioproduction tools and services for the cell and gene therapy and broader biopharma markets. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary CryoStor® and HypoThermosol® biopreservation media for shipping and storage, the ThawSTAR® family of automated, water-free thawing products, evo® cold chain management system, high capacity cryogenic storage freezers, Stirling Ultracold mechanical freezers, SciSafe biologic storage services, and Sexton Biotechnologies cell processing tools. For more information, please visit www.biolifesolutions.com, www.scisafe.com, www.stirlingultracold.com, or www.sextonbio.com and follow BioLife on Twitter.
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Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Flavin seemingly spotted having tense moment after calling off divorce
The 'Rocky' star and wife Jennifer Flavin appeared to be arguing as they left a drug store in Beverly Hills on Tuesday
Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin were recently spotted leaving a Rite Aid in Beverly Hills, and it appears the couple was caught in a tense moment.
The pair seemed to be in the middle of an argument during the outing as Flavin, 54, walked slightly ahead of Stallone, 76. Flavin — who has been married to the "Rocky" star for 25 years — wore a white top paired with jeans, and was seen carrying a "Just for Men" hair coloring kit. Stallone also opted for a casual look with jeans and a T-shirt.
The couple’s rocky drug store run on Tuesday comes after Stallone and Flavin called off their divorce in September.
Flavin initially filed for divorce in August, accusing Stallone of "intentional dissipation, depletion and/or waste of marital assets which has had an adverse economic impact on the marital estate," meaning she thought he had mishandled their finances.
When news of the divorce broke, Stallone confirmed the split to Fox News Digital by saying, "I love my family. We are amicably and privately addressing these personal issues."
Last month, a Florida judge signed an order temporarily suspending the divorce proceedings, giving the couple time to reach a resolution on their own terms.
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Although Flavin was spotted after the filing without her ring, reconciliation rumors began swirling when Stallone posted a throwback photo of himself with his three daughters and his wife and a picture of him and Flavin walking hand-in-hand.
He captioned the photo with a simple white heart emoji.
The Stallone family, which includes their three daughters, are preparing to take on the world of reality television. The news was announced in August that the family will have their own television show on Paramount+. They are currently filming.
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Earlier this month, the Stallone family attended the Ralph Lauren Runway show in Los Angeles.
Stallone and Flavin were accompanied by two of their daughters, Sophia, 26, and Sistine, 24, as they all wore corresponding neutral tones to the show held at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the group allegedly harassed a pod of wild dolphins in waters off the Big Island.
It’s against federal law to swim within 50 yards (45 meters) of spinner dolphins in Hawaii’s nearshore waters. The prohibition went into effect in 2021 amid concerns that so many tourists were swimming with dolphins that the nocturnal animals weren’t getting the rest they need during the day to be able to forage for food at night.
The rule applies to areas within 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) of the Hawaiian Islands and in designated waters surrounded by the islands of Lanai, Maui and Kahoolawe.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said in a news release that its enforcement officers came upon the 33 swimmers in Honaunau Bay on Sunday during a routine patrol.
Aerial footage shot by drone shows snorkelers following dolphins as they swim away. The department said its video and photos showed swimmers “who appear to be aggressively pursuing, corralling and harassing the pod.”
Enforcement officers contacted the group while they were in the water, and told them about the violation. Uniformed officers met the swimmers on land where state and federal officials launched a joint investigation.
Hawaii’s spinner dolphins feast on fish and small crustaceans that surface from the ocean’s depths at night. When the sun rises, they head for shallow bays to hide from tiger sharks and other predators.
To the untrained eye, the dolphins appear to be awake during the day because they’re swimming.
But because they sleep by resting half of their brains and keeping the other half awake to surface and breathe, they may be sleeping even when they’re maneuvering through the water. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/watch-33-swimmers-were-harassing-dolphins-hawaii-authorities-say/ | 2023-03-29 12:17:26 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/watch-33-swimmers-were-harassing-dolphins-hawaii-authorities-say/ |
KUTZTOWN, Pa. – NASA is celebrating history once again after its spacecraft called Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, slammed into an asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour, trying to alter the asteroid's orbit. The mission was carried out in case an asteroid ever poses a threat to Earth.
"It is absolutely wonderful to do something this amazing, and we are so excited to be done," said Elena Adams, DART mission system engineer.
It was a sight NASA officials and people around the world watched through a live camera from 7 million miles away.
"We don't currently have any known asteroids that will impact Earth, at least in any of our lifetimes," said Phillip Reed, an astronomy and physics professor at Kutztown University.
Reed, standing in Kutztown University's observatory, said the binary asteroid used in the mission had a small moon around 500 feet.
"This is the first mission that I know of that's actually attempting to go out and redirect an asteroid," Reed said before the big event.
NASA officials said more than 1,000 people worked on the mission that was being developed for at least seven years. It said the mission was straight down the middle of what their expectations were.
According to NASA, it may take a couple months until it has all the answers about whether DART was able to alter the asteroids course. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/nasas-dart-mission-begs-question-will-an-asteroid-actually-hit-earth/article_3d4e3df8-3e2a-11ed-b5c1-17a8441d1d6b.html | 2022-09-27 07:41:13 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/nasas-dart-mission-begs-question-will-an-asteroid-actually-hit-earth/article_3d4e3df8-3e2a-11ed-b5c1-17a8441d1d6b.html |
LONDON (AP) — Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday.
The EU figures were published as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms’ compliance with the 27-nation bloc’s code of conduct on disinformation.
Twitter wasn’t alone — most other tech companies signed up to the voluntary code also scored worse. But the figures could foreshadow trouble for Twitter in complying with the EU’s tough new online rules after owner Elon Musk fired many of the platform’s 7,500 full-time workers and an untold number of contractors responsible for content moderation and other crucial tasks.
The EU report, carried out over six weeks in the spring, found Twitter assessed just over half of the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, down from 82% in 2021.
In comparison, the amount of flagged material Facebook reviewed within 24 hours fell to 64%, Instagram slipped to 56.9% and YouTube dipped to 83.3%. TikTok came in at 92%, the only company to improve.
The amount of hate speech Twitter removed after it was flagged up slipped to 45.4% from 49.8% the year before. TikTok’s removal rate fell by a quarter to 60%, while Facebook and Instagram only saw minor declines. Only YouTube’s takedown rate increased, surging to 90%.
“It’s worrying to see a downward trend in reviewing notifications related to illegal hate speech by social media platforms,” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova tweeted. “Online hate speech is a scourge of a digital age and platforms need to live up to their commitments.”
Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment. Emails to several staff on the company’s European communications team bounced back as undeliverable.
Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last month fanned widespread concern that purveyors of lies and misinformation would be allowed to flourish on the site. The billionaire Tesla CEO, who has frequently expressed his belief that Twitter had become too restrictive, has been reinstating suspended accounts, including former President Donald Trump’s.
Twitter faces more scrutiny in Europe by the middle of next year, when new EU rules aimed at protecting internet users’ online safety will start applying to the biggest online platforms. Violations could result in huge fines of up to 6% of a company’s annual global revenue.
France’s online regulator Arcom said it received a reply from Twitter after writing to the company earlier this week to say it was concerned about the effect that staff departures would have on Twitter’s “ability maintain a safe environment for its users.”
Arcom also asked the company to confirm it can meet its “legal obligations” in fighting online hate speech and that it is committed to implementing the new EU online rules. Arcom said it received a response from Twitter and that it will “study their response,” without giving more details.
Tech companies that signed up to the EU’s disinformation code agree to commit to measures aimed at reducing disinformation and file regular reports on whether they’re living up to their promises, though there’s little in the way of punishment. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-twitter-others-slip-on-removing-hate-speech-eu-review-says/ | 2022-11-24 22:37:25 | 1 | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-twitter-others-slip-on-removing-hate-speech-eu-review-says/ |
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COOS BAY, Ore. — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three people from the ocean Monday morning after their 17-foot fishing boat sunk near Cape Arago, about 15 miles southwest of Coos Bay, on the Oregon coast, the Coast Guard reported.
The first report came in around 8 a.m. Monday that the boat was taking on water. A 47-foot motor lifeboat left the Coast Guard station in Coos Bay and arrived at the scene within 10 minutes. A rescue helicopter launched at the same time from the air station in North Bend and arrived shortly after.
When the Coast Guard arrived, they rescued three people from the water. All three were wearing life jackets. They showed signs of hypothermia and were transferred to emergency medical services.
The Coast Guard tried to recover the boat but by that time it was fully submerged in the ocean. The Coast Guard said there was no visible threat of pollution from the sunken boat.
“We are thankful that these individuals are alive and wearing life jackets,” the Coast Guard tweeted. “Please remember to be safe today and we wish a speedy recovery for the three.”
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LONDON (AP) — Britain announced Monday it is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Mali, saying the West African country’s growing reliance on Russian mercenaries is undermining stability.
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said the 300-strong British force that has been stationed in Mali since 2020 as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission will leave earlier than planned. He did not give a timeline.
Heappey told lawmakers in the House of Commons that “responsibility for all of this sits in Bamako,” Mali’s capital. “Two coups in three years have undermined international efforts to advance peace.”
Tensions have grown between Mali, its African neighbors and the West after Mali’s government allowed Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group to deploy on its territory.
Heappey called Wagner’s forces “a bunch of murderous, human rights-abusing thugs.”
“The Wagner Group is linked to mass human rights abuses and the Malian government’s partnership with the Wagner Group is counterproductive to lasting stability and security in their region,” he said.
France announced earlier this year it was withdrawing its own, much larger force from Mali after relations deteriorated with a junta that seized power in 2020. France, the former colonial power in Mali, led a nine-year mission and had at its peak 5,500 troops in the country to combat Islamic militants.
Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising when mutinous soldiers overthrew the president. The power vacuum that resulted ultimately led to a jihadist insurgency and a French-led war that ousted the jihadists from power in 2013.
Insurgents remain active in Mali and extremist groups affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have moved from the arid north to more populated central Mali since 2015, stoking animosity and violence between ethnic groups in the region.
Heappey said Britain remained committed to Mali and the wider Sahel region, and he would meet colleagues from across Europe and West Africa in Ghana next week “to coordinate our renewed response to instability in the Sahel.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-uk-withdrawing-troops-from-mali-peacekeeping-mission/ | 2022-11-15 04:52:54 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-uk-withdrawing-troops-from-mali-peacekeeping-mission/ |
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers remain unsure about the status of their top two offensive linemen for their Sept. 11 season opener against the Minnesota Vikings.
David Bakhtiari and Elgton Jenkins were both removed from the physically unable to perform list over the past two weeks as they recover from knee injuries. Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Saturday he still doesn’t know whether either will play at Minnesota.
“We have no idea,” LaFleur said. “I mean it’s hard to project that without being through practice, see how they respond and getting into team reps.”
Bakhtiari has played in only one game since tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament on Dec. 31, 2020. He returned for the Packers’ 2021 regular-season finale, but had a setback and wasn’t available for their NFC divisional playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Jenkins hasn’t played since tearing his left ACL on Nov. 21 at Minnesota.
Bakhtiari was an All-Pro left tackle in 2018 and 2020. Jenkins, a Pro Bowl guard in 2020, filled in for Bakhtiari at left tackle last season before suffering his own injury.
With Bakhtiari and Jenkins unavailable, the Packers’ starting offensive line for their preseason games included Yosh Nijman at left tackle, Jon Runyan Jr. at left guard, Josh Myers at center, Jake Hanson at right guard and Royce Newman at right tackle.
LaFleur said the Packers also haven’t decided on whether to remove kicker Mason Crosby from the PUP list before the start of the season. Crosby has said he underwent a “minor scope” on his knee during the offseason, but has expressed optimism he would be ready for the start of the season.
Crosby has never missed a game since beginning his NFL career in 2007.
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SHENZHEN, China , May 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinno Technology Group Co., Ltd. ("Tinno"), an innovative provider of mobile communication products and services, has announced the latest upgrade to its satellite communication solutions for mobile devices. Following its clients' product launch in early 2023, Tinno has also implemented the 3GPP R17 NTN development standard. This enables the company to provide a comprehensive, integrated satellite communication module solution that can be efficiently applied to a diverse range of equipment, including mobile phones, laptops, tablets, vehicles, IoT devices, and even phone cases.
Developed based on the MTK chip, the latest solution from Tinno is an intelligent multimode terminal that can connect with different networks to achieve seamless handoff between the satellite network and 5G SA/NSA, 4G TDD/FDD, UMTS, GSM, and Wi-Fi.
Currently, the global mobile communication network covers only 20 percent of land, 6 percent of the earth's surface area, and even with a significantly large number of base stations in China, the network coverage is less than 40 percent, and the vast areas of ocean, desert, and forest are "information wasteland" that even the strongest cellular signal cannot enable calling or texting.
"As 2023MWC exhibition highlights satellite communication technology as a hot topic and "never losing connection" is now a must for everyone, it is anchored as the next big breakthrough in the high-end mobile phone market following the technology development trends of image upgrade, foldable screen, self-developed chips and more, and Tinno is committed to accelerate and lead the development of the technology together with our partners, leveraging our advantages and R&D strengths to create greater commercial values for our clients," said David Guan, Sale VP of Tinno.
The Tinno Advantages
Tinno is devoted to aligning well the upstream and downstream satellite supply chain, getting through the satellite operators to chipset manufacturers, and providing customers with complete software and hardware end-to-end solutions based on MTK advanced satellite chipset!
It has debuted the world's first Android phone supporting two-way satellite communication which realizes shorter transmission time and broader signal coverage that plays vital roles especially in search and rescue missions.
Tinno's extensive global network partners with the world's leading clients and brands to customize solutions following the specific requirements, while it's also capable of delivering products of excellent quality.
Looking forward, Tinno will continue to work with partners to lead the development of future mobile satellite communication technology, promote the advancement of 6G communication networks, and create more extensive commercial value for customers.
About Tinno
Established in 2005, Tinno Technology Group Co., Ltd. is an ODM and innovative provider specializing in mobile communication products, devices, and solutions including smart phones, tablets, computers, AIoT, 5G millimeter-wave equipment as well as vehicle electronics. Its products and services are now supporting top clients across more than 80 countries and regions worldwide, including AT&T, T-Mobile,Motorola, Bullitt, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Walmart, , China Telecom and more. Tinno is No.1 in China's domestic overseas mobile phone ODM shipment and ranks top four worldwide.
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — Around two dozen juvenile inmates at a troubled Louisiana detention center won’t be moved to the notorious state penitentiary at Angola until at least the middle of next month, as a legal battle over their transfer plays out, officials said Tuesday.
The juveniles are currently being held at the Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish. Officials have long acknowledged issues at the center, which wasn't designed to house certain high-risk inmates. There have been at least four escapes this year, as well as a riot in which 20 juveniles took over parts of the complex.
But the plan to move them to Angola has been sharply criticized by criminal justice advocates, former officials and parents of children currently held at the center, The Times-Picayune/The News Orleans Advocate reported.
A federal lawsuit to block the state from moving forward with the transfer was filed Friday on behalf of a teenager currently held in Bridge City who is set to be transferred to Angola, the newspaper reported.
The defendants in the case — which include Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Office of Juvenile Justice — and their attorneys said Tuesday they would not transfer any of the inmates until at least Sept. 15. A preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled for Sept. 6.
The governor's office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday. The ages of the juvenile inmates have not been released.
The timing was spelled out in court documents from Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, and the plaintiff’s attorney confirmed it during a press conference Tuesday.
“Listen, under no circumstance, regardless of what these children may have been accused of, should it be OK for them to be housed at an adult facility,” said the plaintiff's attorney, Ron Haley.
The governor told reporters in July that the youths “will not, under any circumstances, have contact with adult inmates.”
But Haley questioned the governor’s statement, specifically asking whether a juvenile inmate who needed medical care would be taken to the prison's nearby infirmary, which houses adults, or to a hospital 30 miles (50 kilometers) away.
The Angola building that the governor said would be used to house the youths once held the adult prison’s death row. Most recently, it housed female inmates relocated after a state women’s prison suffered damage in 2016 flooding.
But Angola is only a short-term solution. Edwards said the juveniles will be transferred to the Jetson Center for Youth in Baker once renovations there are complete. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-Teen-inmates-won-t-go-to-adult-prison-17393711.php | 2022-08-24 01:40:59 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-Teen-inmates-won-t-go-to-adult-prison-17393711.php |
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A Demanding Sport in Which American Women Have Excelled
PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of women and their advancement in the sport of competitive rowing, the U.S. Postal Service issued a pane of 20 Women's Rowing Forever stamps today. The dedication took place at the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club on the bank of the Schuylkill River. The rowing club is the oldest women owned and operated in the United States. It was founded in 1938.
"The images on these stamps capture only part of the true picture of competitive rowing as a synchronized, graceful and demanding sport," said Cara M. Greene, the Postal Service's controller and vice president, who served as the stamp ceremony's dedicating official. "Women's competitive rowing requires strength, endurance and determination, and we hope these new stamps inspire you to push yourself harder to reach your goals and succeed at anything — keep rowing."
American women have excelled in rowing. The first time they competed in the Olympics, in 1976, the eight-person team won bronze. The women's eight went on to win gold in 1984, the next games in which the United States participated.
The sports world largely excluded women until the social movements of the 1960s opened the door for dramatic change. In 1972, Congress amended federal education law by adding Title IX, which prohibited gender-based discrimination in federally funded education, including athletics. Although some colleges and universities reacted slowly, women pressed them into opening up varsity sports and disbursing funding equitably.
Almost overnight, American women drew international attention: the celebrated "Red Rose Crew" won silver in the 1975 World Rowing Championship. The 1975 and 1976 champion teams both drew heavily from Ivy League schools with long-time men's rowing programs, but also from the University of Wisconsin as well as from California.
Wisconsin's Badger women had rowed since the late 19th century but were first allowed to participate in intercollegiate competitions post-Title IX. In 1975, the Wisconsin women's varsity eight team won the National Collegiate Rowing Championship.
The more traditional Ivy Leagues, some of which were just opening their enrollments to women, took longer to adapt to the new mandates. The men's teams at Harvard and Yale had been racing each other since the 1850s, and some university administrators could not fathom women in such a strenuous and macho sport — until they started winning big.
In eight-person "sweep" rowing, the rowers sit on sliding seats, facing the stern, or rear, of the "shell" (boat), and each crew member wields one oar for four per side. In the stern sits a ninth person, the coxswain, who steers the shell with a rudder and, as the only person facing forward, serves as the crew's eyes, shouting commands and encouragement.
Sitting directly across from the coxswain, and facing her, is the "stroke," the crew's leader. She sets the pace, combining ferocious strength with a fine sense of rhythm. As one, the eight lean forward to dip their oars (the "catch"), straighten their legs and push back as they pull the oars through the water (the "drive"), raise the oars from the water (the "release"), and turn them parallel to the water to maneuver them back for the next catch (the "feather"), over and over like a machine.
Competitive rowing also includes "sculling," in which the rowers — one, two or four in a shell — use two oars, as well as two- and four-person sweep teams. Since 1984, women have brought home gold, silver or bronze medals in at least one of the rowing categories at each Olympics — except 2021. The eight-woman sweep team began a glorious second winning streak in 2004, attaining silver that year and gold in 2008, 2012, and 2016. The Postal Service is proud to honor these athletes and their sport with these Forever stamps.
"Rowing makes a positive impact, physically and mentally, on women and girls of all ages and Title IX opened the opportunity for women and girls to grow and grow," said Sophie Socha, president of the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club, who spoke at the ceremony. "These stamps are timely, and a much-appreciated tribute to this achievement."
Other participants at the stamp ceremony were Amanda Kraus, CEO of the United States Rowing Association; Carol Bower, Olympic gold medalist and Bryn Mawr College head rowing coach; Elizabeth Milroy, professor emerita of art history, Wesleyan University; Brannon Johnson, founder and head coach, BLJ Community Rowing; Ann O'Keefe, member of the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club; Ashley Keough, who sang the national anthem; and Ethel Kessler, the art director for the stamps.
Nancy Stahl designed and illustrated the stamps and pane.
The Women's Rowing Forever stamps are being sold in panes of 20 stamps. Four different stamp designs are featured and arranged as five staggered rows of four. News of the Women's Rowing stamps is being shared with the hashtag #WomensRowingStamps.
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Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1‑ounce price.
A feature story about the stamp will be available at facebook.com/usps following the ceremony. Information for ordering first-day-of-issue postmarks and covers is at usps.com/shop.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A violent weekend in the Philadelphia area resulted in several shootings that left many people injured, including two small children.
Investigators are now busy tracking down those responsible for the weekend gunfire.
Nearly a dozen people were shot in three different shootings across multiple neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
Police discovered on Sunday that another victim was injured in a case where five people were shot on Ringgold Street in the Point Breeze neighborhood.
READ | 5th victim identified after 4-year-old boy, others injured in Philadelphia shooting
The victims ranged in age from 4 years old to 58 years old.
Authorities believe there were at least two shooters involved and three of the victims were innocent bystanders, including the young child, who was shot in the chest while playing outside.
"I heard people screaming, I looked out the window and saw one of the guys on the ground. He was saying he got hit," said Monica Green, a neighborhood resident.
Green's car was also hit with bullets multiple times in the crossfire.
She says the ongoing violence in the city is deeply unsettling.
"The whole thing is frustrating. Our community really needs to dig deep," said Green.
Just a few hours later, police say three people were shot outside on the 600 block of Franklin Place in the city's Poplar area.
SEE ALSO | 3 people shot, injured in Philadelphia shooting; 2 victims arrive at hospital in stolen car
A 25-year-old man was shot in the stomach, a 22-year-old woman was shot in her right leg, and a 31-year-old man was shot in his leg.
No arrests were made and no weapons were recovered in that shooting.
The gun violence was not just in the city, however, but also in the suburbs.
READ | 5-year-old boy, man shot during custody exchange in Lower Merion
Lower Merion police are also investigating a shooting that left two people, including a 5-year-old boy, injured on Sunday morning.
"The child was shot once, the adult male was shot several times," said Detective Sergeant Michael J. Keenan, with the Lower Merion Police Department.
The gunfire erupted just after 8 a.m. at the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center parking lot on City Avenue.
"It appears to be something that happened during a custody exchange this morning, the person alleged to have done the shooting is in police custody," said Keenan.
Keenan says this is the third shooting in Lower Merion Township in five days.
It's something Keenan says is not typical for the area.
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Report: Pistons give Monty Williams huge deal to become head coach originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Monty Williams has landed on his feet.
Weeks after being fired by the Phoenix Suns, Williams has agreed to become the next head coach of the Detroit Pistons, The Athletic's Shams Charania and James L. Edwards III reported, citing sources, on Wednesday.
The Pistons reportedly are making a substantial commitment to the 2021-22 NBA Coach of the Year as well, giving him a six-year deal worth a staggering $72 million.
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JIUQUAN, China, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qilian International Holding Group Ltd (the "Company" or Nasdaq: QLI), a China-based pharmaceutical and chemical products manufacturer, announced today that the Company has declared a special one-time cash dividend of $0.05 per ordinary share, payable in cash on or about March 6, 2023, to shareholders of record on February 28, 2023.
"Despite the impacts of COVID-19 on us in our last fiscal year, the Company maintained decent operating results and healthy cash flow. We expect better financial results as China announced a rollback of its anti-COVID measures." said Mr. Zhanchang Xin, CEO of the Company.
About Qilian International Holding Group Ltd
Qilian International Holding Group Ltd, headquartered in Gansu, China, is a pharmaceutical and chemical products manufacturer in China. It focuses on the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of licorice products, oxytetracycline products, traditional Chinese medicine derivatives product, heparin product, sausage casings, and fertilizers. The Company's products are sold in more than 20 provinces in China. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://ir.qlsyy.net.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as "may, "will, "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development; products demand and acceptance; changes in technology; economic conditions; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China; the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on our operations and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.
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President Biden on Friday greeted the United Kingdom’s Prince William in Boston, where the president is attending a fundraiser and the prince was in town for a ceremony focused on climate change.
The two men spoke briefly outside of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum before going inside for a private conversation.
“Where’s your top coat?” Biden asked as William approached without a jacket on a windy and chilly day.
William commented on the “spectacular setting” as the library overlooked the bay, but the two otherwise spoke out of earshot of reporters.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she expected that Biden and the royal couple would discuss “their shared climate goals, prioritization of mental health issues and decreasing the burden of the disease.”
Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, arrived in Boston on Wednesday for a three-day visit to the U.S. to attend the 2022 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. William founded the Earthshot Prize, which rewards solutions to climate issues.
Prior to meeting with Biden, the royal couple had met with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) on Wednesday and attended a Boston Celtics game. The two also met at the JFK Library with Caroline Kennedy, the former president’s daughter and the U.S. ambassador to Australia. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/biden-greets-prince-william-at-jfk-library-in-boston/ | 2022-12-02 22:23:41 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/biden-greets-prince-william-at-jfk-library-in-boston/ |
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhongchao Inc. (NASDAQ: ZCMD) ("Zhongchao" or the "Company"), a platform-based internet technology company offering services to patients with oncology and other major diseases, today announced that after three years of preparation, the Company's MDMOOC platform has established a "Surgical-Interventional-Drug" ("SID") platform for liver cancer comprehensive-disciplinary physician education ("SID Platform"), providing physicians with knowledge and techniques in comprehensive-disciplinary comprehensive management of patients with liver cancer.
According to The Global Cancer Observatory, there were around 400,000 new liver cancer cases in 2020 in China. In the context of the increasing number of liver cancer patients in China, the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China has promulgated authoritative liver cancer diagnosis and treatment guiding documents, such as the "Standardization of Diagnosis and Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma," "Expert Consensus on Conversion Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma" and "Expert Guidance on the Comprehensive Management of Liver Cancer Patients during the Covid-19 Pandemic" to guide the clinical treatment of liver cancer. In recent years, significant progress has been made in the surgical, interventional, pharmacological and radiological treatment of liver cancer in China.
The SID Platform created by Zhongchao targets physicians from different levels and covers comprehensive disciplines of liver cancer treatment: hepatobiliary surgery, interventional and medical oncology. Led by the Key Opinion Leaders ("KOL") of liver cancer disciplines, the SID Platform designs and provides clinical diagnosis and treatment education courses in liver cancer and provides a technical platform for clinicians to share experiences and discuss clinical challenges. As of today, the courses on the SID Platform were taken approximately 290,000 times by liver cancer physicians. Zhongchao believes that its SID Platform provides a platform for liver cancer physicians, especially for junior and intermediate physicians to present themselves, learn knowledge and techniques, and communicate with peers, which promotes new liver cancer treatment concepts such as conversion therapy, comprehensive patient management and standardized interventional treatments. Zhongchao expects its SID Platform to serve as a new model of promotion and education platform, contribute to the lifelong learning and professional development of liver cancer physicians, and eventually benefit liver cancer patients.
About Zhongchao Inc.
Zhongchao Inc. is an offshore holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. It conducts operations in China through the contractual arrangements between its wholly owned subsidiary and PRC operating entities. Zhongchao Inc. is a platform-based internet technology company offering services to patients with oncology and other major diseases. The PRC operating entities provide online healthcare information, professional training and educational services to healthcare professionals under their "MDMOOC" platform (www.mdmooc.org), offer patient management services in the professional field of tumor and rare diseases through Zhongxin, offer internet healthcare services through Zhixun Internet Hospital, and pharmaceutical services through Xinjiang Medical and operate an online information platform, Sunshine Health Forums, to general public. More information about the Company can be found at its investor relations website at http://izcmd.com.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani health authorities on Friday confirmed the seventh case of polio so far this year, saying it was registered in the country’s former Taliban stronghold in the northwest, a region bordering Afghanistan.
All seven cases have been reported in North Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where the government has launched an investigating into the outbreak. Parents in the region often refuse to get their children inoculated.
Pakistan’s Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel issued a statement Friday, saying authorities were taking steps to protect the gains made by the government’s polio eradication program in recent years. He urged parents to get their children vaccinated.
Pakistan’s anti-polio campaigns are regularly marked by violence. Islamic militants often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
North Waziristan, a former tribal region, was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban until recently, when the military claimed to have cleared the region of militants following several widescale operations there. However, attacks still persist.
Pakistan has for the past 25 years carried out regular inoculation campaigns in which health workers go door-to-door to give polio drops to children. Most of the workers are women, as they can get better access to mothers and children. The anti-polio teams are often escorted by security forces.
So far this year, the government carried out three nationwide anti-polio drives — in January, March and in May. During the March campaign, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home after a day of vaccinations. And in January, gunmen shot and killed a police officer providing security for polio vaccination workers, also in the country’s northwest.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic. In 2021, Pakistan reported only one case, raising hopes it was close to eradicating polio. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-reports-7th-polio-case-of-this-year-amid-outbreak/2022/06/03/1854b3d4-e361-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html | 2022-06-03 18:22:16 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-reports-7th-polio-case-of-this-year-amid-outbreak/2022/06/03/1854b3d4-e361-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html |
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Milwaukee high schoolers build playhouses featured at Home Show
The MBA Home Building and Remodeling Show returns to Milwaukee with a brand new feature.
The MBA Home Building and Remodeling Show returns to Milwaukee with a brand new feature.
The MBA Home Building and Remodeling Show returns to Milwaukee with a brand new feature.
The 2023 MBA Home Building & Remodeling Show returns to the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds this weekend, with a new program featuring local high schoolers' talents.
This year the show has a 'Parade of Play Homes' section. The 11 playhouses were constructed by several southeast Wisconsin high school shop classes.
"It's been a project with a lot of depth," Sarajane Trier, of Bell Bank Mortgage, said. "It was really fun to go to the schools, drop off the sponsored checks, meet the students who were building them, get pictures from them, and hear their stories. It's really been rewarding and a lot of fun."
Bell Bank Mortgage sponsored the event and got construction companies to donate the supplies – worth about $1,000 a house.
"There is a need for students to choose the building trades as their career," Trier said. "We just feel very passionate about that and thought, here's an opportunity to bring people together, bring in schools and get them a project."
What makes the playhouses even more impressive is to know the students really only had a month to build them. They got the supplies in November and got to work, even despite two holiday breaks sprinkled in.
While the houses are worth at least a thousand dollars, you could get one for just five bucks. They're being raffled off at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Home Show.
"The proceeds go to the Home Building Trades Foundation for the MBA, and then from there, they'll be arranging scholarships for students who are interested in the building trades," Trier said.
The MBA Home Building & Remodeling Show starts Friday at noon at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in Milwaukee.
It runs Friday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For tickets and more information, click here. | https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-high-schoolers-build-playhouses-featured-at-home-show/42473181 | 2023-01-12 20:29:16 | 1 | https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-high-schoolers-build-playhouses-featured-at-home-show/42473181 |
Outreach program bringing those in need to Brownsville shelter
The Good Neighbor Settlement House is working overtime to help bring people in need of a warm place to stay during the cold weather.
Members of the organization's Street Outreach Program are driving around Brownsville, hoping to convince anyone they see living on the streets to go to their facility.
The outreach usually occurs on Mondays and Wednesdays, but because of the cold weather, they went out on Tuesday.
Among those the program reached was Juan Manuel Jasso, who has been living on the streets for more than a year. Despite the cold weather, Jasso said he will be sleeping in his 'usual spot.'
"By the pawn shop right here, in front of International (Boulevard). I stay right there," Jasso said.
The Good Neighbor Settlement House said it isn't easy convincing people to seek shelter, which is why they had blankets, hand warmers and a hot meal to pass out.
"A lot of them are used to hanging around here. And they already have their little groups that they hang with each other, so they do go maybe for breakfast, but then they head back the same day," Alejandra Mederos — the organization's client services coordinator — said.
Belinda Brandford, the shelter's assistant director, said the Street Outreach Program was able to help more than 3,200 people in 2022. Their efforts don't stop when the cold weather moves out.
"It's been pretty prevalent. The growing homelessness in our Valley, and it's like ok and a lot of has to do with inflation and higher cost of rent," Brandford said.
Brandford said it's an everyday mission.
The Good Neighbor Settlement House is asking for donations, whether it's clothes, hand warmers or blankets.
Items can be dropped off in person or donated online. | https://www.krgv.com/news/outreach-program-bringing-those-in-need-to-brownsville-shelter | 2023-02-01 10:25:09 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/outreach-program-bringing-those-in-need-to-brownsville-shelter |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the streets of Kyiv, Fyodor Dostoevsky is on the way out. Andy Warhol is on the way in.
Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor its own artists, poets, soldiers, independence leaders and others — including heroes of this year’s war.
Following Moscow’s invasion on Feb. 24 that has killed or injured untold numbers of civilians and soldiers and pummeled buildings and infrastructure, Ukraine’s leaders have shifted a campaign that once focused on dismantling its Communist past into one of “de-Russification.”
Streets that honored revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin or the Bolshevik Revolution were largely already gone; now Russia, not Soviet legacy, is the enemy.
It’s part punishment for crimes meted out by Russia, and part affirmation of a national identity by honoring Ukrainian notables who have been mostly overlooked.
Russia, through the Soviet Union, is seen by many in Ukraine as having stamped its domination of its smaller southwestern neighbor for generations, consigning its artists, poets and military heroes to relative obscurity, compared with more famous Russians.
If victors write history, as some say, Ukrainians are doing some rewriting of their own — even as their fate hangs in the balance. Their national identity is having what may be an unprecedented surge, in ways large and small.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken to wearing a black T-shirt that says: “I’m Ukrainian.”
He is among the many Ukrainians who were born speaking Russian as a first language. Now, they shun it — or at least limit their use of it. Russian has traditionally been spoken more in the eastern and southern parts of the country. Western Ukraine, farther away from Russia, was quicker to shed Russian and Soviet imagery.
Other parts of the country are now catching up. The eastern city of Dnipro on Friday pulled down a bust of Alexander Pushkin — like Dostoevsky, a giant of 19th century Russian literature. A strap from a crane was unceremoniously looped under the statue’s chin.
This month, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced about 30 more streets in the capital will be rechristened.
Volodymyr Prokopiv, deputy head of the Kyiv City Council, said Ukraine’s “de-Communization” policy since 2015 had been applied in a “soft” way so as not to offend sensitivities among the country’s Russian-speaking and even pro-Moscow population.
“With the war, everything changed. Now the Russian lobby is now powerless – in fact, it doesn’t exist,” Prokopiv said in an interview with The Associated Press in his office overlooking Khreschatik Street, the capital’s main thoroughfare. “Renaming these streets is like erasing the propaganda that the Soviet Union imposed on Ukraine.”
During the war, the Russians have also sought to stamp their culture and domination in areas they have occupied.
Andrew Wilson, a professor at University College London, cautioned about “the dangers in rewriting the periods in history where Ukrainians and Russians did cooperate and build things together: I think the whole point about de-imperializing Russian culture should be to specify where we have previously been blind — often in the West.”
Wilson noted that the Ukrainians “are taking a pretty broad-brush approach.”
He cited Pushkin, the 19th century Russian writer, who might understandably rankle some Ukrainians.
To them, for example, the Cossacks — a Slavic people in eastern Europe — “mean freedom, whereas Pushkin depicts them as cruel, barbarous, antiquated. And in need of Russian civilization,” said Wilson, whose book “The Ukrainians” was recently published in its fifth edition.
In its program, Kyiv conducted an online survey, and received 280,000 suggestions in a single day, Prokopiv said. Then, an expert group sifted through the responses, and municipal officials and street residents give a final stamp of approval.
Under the “de-Communization” program, about 200 streets were renamed in Kyiv before this year. In 2022 alone, that same number of streets have been renamed and another 100 are scheduled to get renamed soon, Prokopiv said.
A street named for philosopher Friedrich Engels will honor Ukrainian avant-garde poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych. A boulevard whose name translates as “Friendship of Peoples” — an allusion to the diverse ethnicities under the USSR – will honor Mykola Mikhnovsky, an early proponent of Ukrainian independence.
Another street recognizes the “Heroes of Mariupol” — fighters who held out for months against a devastating Russian campaign in that Sea of Azov port city that eventually fell. A street named for the Russian city of Volgograd is now called Roman Ratushnyi Street in honor of a 24-year-old civic and environmental activist who was killed in the war.
A small street in northern Kyiv still bears Dostoevsky’s name but soon will be named for Warhol, the late Pop Art visionary from the United States whose parents had family roots in Slovakia, across Ukraine’s western border.
Valeriy Sholomitsky, who has lived on Dostoevsky Street for nearly 40 years, said he could go either way.
“We have under 20 houses here. That’s very few,” Sholomitsky said as he shoveled snow off the street in front of a fading address sign bearing the name of the Russian writer. He said Warhol was “our artist” — with heritage in eastern Europe:
Now, “it will be even better,” he said.
“Maybe it is right that we are changing many streets now, because we used to name them incorrectly,” he added.
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Vasilisa Stepanenko and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv contributed. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-wartime-ukraine-erasing-russian-past-from-public-spaces/ | 2022-12-20 23:12:45 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-wartime-ukraine-erasing-russian-past-from-public-spaces/ |
TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SWITLIK Survival Products, is excited to announce that they have officially broke ground on what will be an expansion to their manufacturing facilities. The expansion consists of the addition of a new 20,000 sf building on their 1325 East State St. property in Trenton. This project is testament to the growth Switlik has been experiencing over the years as well as a commitment to keeping their business local.
Switlik's new building would not be possible without the cooperation between the City of Trenton and the Township of Hamilton. Mayors Reed Gusciora, of Trenton and Jeff Martin, of Hamilton along with Trenton City Councilman Joe Harrison, were an integral component for making this project a reality due to Switlik's unique location; the new building will sit directly on top of both city/township lines.
"I am so excited for Switlik to now expand on their continuing operations here from Hamilton into Trenton, family business that started over 100 years ago continuing on and building towards the next generation It's a great thing for the township of Hamilton, great thing for City of Trenton, great for the Switlik family and our entire Mercer County that rely on them each and every day." – Mayor Jeff Martin.
Switlik has proudly manufactured out of Trenton since 1920, and has been employing both Trenton and Hamilton residents for over 100 years. Switlik is investing in the community and the future of its employees as this new addition is laying the foundation for the next generation of Switlik employees.
So, what does this new building mean for the city of Trenton and township of Hamilton? It means continuous growth for current Switlik employees, and the opportunity for more local residents to obtain employment.
"Wonderful day. It's a collaboration between Hamilton and Trenton; it's giving out jobs but also moving the city and Hamilton in a positive direction." Said Councilman Harrison.
Switlik Survival Products: Looking forward with confidence.
What does this mean for Switlik? This new addition is providing Switlik the much-needed space to expand their product offerings and bring on new innovative ideas. The diversification of their products and markets, and their continued willingness to change with the times, will ensure Switlik maintains in its position as an industry leading American manufacturer.
"I would like to express my gratitude to both municipalities for coming together and aiding us in this project which will ultimately provide the residents of Trenton and Hamilton with new job opportunities and help those employed continue succeeding. For 102 years Switlik's saving lives worldwide, providing jobs locally." – Stanley Switlik II, CEO.
This project has been made possible with contributions from Scozzari Builders, Inc. for construction, ACT Engineers performing site work and design, Clarke Caton Hintz Architecture for creating the building design and Fox Rothschild LLP for land use and municipal legal efforts.
About Switlik: Quality, Performance, Innovation
Established in 1920, Switlik Survival Products has been owned and operated by the Switlik family for four generations, and is known worldwide as a manufacturer of the highest quality sewn and heat-sealed inflatable safety and survival products for the aviation, marine, and military markets.
Their current product mix consists of anti-exposure suits, airline life vests, constant wear vests, man overboard and water rescue platforms, life rafts, and military based products outfitting the US Coast Guard, US Army, US Navy as well as the US Air Force.
Switlik products are consistently at the forefront in design, performance and quality of manufacture. Switlik is proud of their long-standing reputation for quality, performance and innovation, having put their family name on their products for over 100 years.
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BARCELONA, Spain, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Poly (NYSE: POLY) today published a new report titled The Journey to Hybrid Working: Twelve Considerations, in partnership with workplace research platform WORKTECH Academy. The new report explores twelve considerations for companies to navigate hybrid working, and identifies the key challenges around people, technology, and spaces that employers face.
Hybrid working is here to stay as an increasingly permanent fixture, not a short-term fad, but many organizations are struggling to make the new model a success. The report looks at the differences between in-person and virtual presence in the workplace, and the need to create meeting equality irrespective of where employees are located, utilizing the right tools and technologies.
Key areas that Poly and WORKTECH Academy explore are:
- Balancing always-on culture against employee overwork: Organizations must clearly outline expectations around etiquette in a world where time and place is becoming increasingly blurred
- Redrawing the rules of informal and formal collaboration for a hybrid workforce: Organizations must know their workforce to understand behaviors and preferences
- Weighing up the benefits of personalized versus standardized approaches to hybrid working: Organizations should balance being prescriptive, and allowing employees choice and personalization on how they work and collaborate
- Moving physical comfort for people to psychological comfort: Hybrid work environments will need the right technology investment to extend employees sense of purpose and belonging outside the office
- Creating workplaces that are diverse and inclusive: Equality of experience will be at the heart of inclusive organizations that allow everyone to feel involved regardless of their location and individual characteristics
Poly is working with the research team at WORKTECH Academy on a rolling program to create new thinking, define the main challenges and explore emerging opportunities around hybrid working. The report identifies key themes that will be addressed in subsequent research and analysis.
Jeremy Myerson, Director at WORKTECH Academy, says, "For organizations to seize the opportunities created by hybrid working, first they have to understand the complex contours of the model and recognize some inherent dichotomies. Our first report with Poly sets out some of the key debates around hybrid working and an agenda for employees to equip themselves to face a flexible future with confidence."
John Goodwin, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Poly, comments, "Hybrid working is here to stay, but there are significant hurdles to overcome before organizations can call it a success. By identifying the 12 considerations of hybrid working, Poly is outlining some of the key themes and challenges organizations will face in the future as they start to implement hybrid working models. Our data found that, within the organizations we surveyed, 48 per cent have already adopted a hybrid approach. The same survey found that 37 per cent of decision makers said they are prepared for hybrid working in the short-term, but they haven't thought about their long-term plans. Key to this will be understanding how to make the most of your spaces, how best your people work, and where to best invest your money in technologies that will enable a seamless hybrid experience. Identifying the challenges and opportunities in hybrid working now, will pave the way for organizations to plot successful hybrid working strategies."
The Journey to Hybrid Working: Twelve Considerations report highlights the latest research and workplace surveys in the field, including Poly's own study of more than 2,500 decision makers from firms with over 100 employees, and is available to download here.
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Poly (NYSE: POLY) creates premium audio and video products so you can have your best meeting -- anywhere, anytime, every time. Our headsets, video and audio-conferencing products, desk phones, analytics software and services are beautifully designed and engineered to connect people with incredible clarity. They're pro-grade, easy to use and work seamlessly with all the best video and audio-conferencing services. Poly MeetingAI delivers a broadcast quality video conferencing experience with Poly DirectorAI technology which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver real-time automatic transitions, framing and tracking, while NoiseBlockAI and Acoustic Fence technologies block-out unwanted background noise. With Poly (Plantronics, Inc. – formerly Plantronics and Polycom), you'll do more than just show up, you'll stand out. For more information visit www.Poly.com.
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Man says workers mistakenly tore down his childhood home
BATON ROUGE, La. (WBRZ) – A homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana said he is devastated after the City-Parish tore down his home.
The man said the whole thing was a mistake.
“I had got a call from a neighbor that said, ‘You know your house is being torn down?’ Which I didn’t know, I was at work. So, I was like, ‘No I don’t know,’” Tony Wallace recalled.
Wallace received a notice from the City-Parish in April 2022 that listed code violations. He said some that were listed were simply not true.
“You said the roof was collapsing, 50% of the roof was demolished. If the roof was demolishing, there would be a hole in the roof or something, which it wasn’t,” Wallace said.
Wallace said when he appeared before the Metro Council, they told him to tear down the back porch and the house would be up to code.
“I sent them pictures of what we did,” Wallace said. “That’s when they told me that once I paid the fine it was going to be rescinded off the demolished list.”
According to documents, the property was taken off the condemnation list in August 2022, but Wallace now has an empty lot where his childhood home once stood.
The City-Parish has urged Wallace to file a claim with the parish attorney’s office.
A spokesperson said they are examining their process to try to keep this from happening again.
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JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State's Jana McGinnis said she figures that if Emma Jones gets on base for the Gamecocks, they've got about a 90 percent chance of winning.
That certainly proved true Saturday as Jones showed again what a troublemaker she can be for opposing defenses when she's at the plate.
In a 9-1 home win over Western Michigan, she went 3-for-4, hit two singles and a double, stole a base, scored two runs and drove in one. Not a bad night for the former White Plains all-state shortstop.
In Saturday's first game, however, she was 0-for-3 as the Gamecocks’ bats were silenced in a 7-1 loss to in-state rival Samford.
"After the first game, Coach challenged us to step up to the occasion and rise and bow up and show what we got," said Jones, a junior. "I wanted to dig down, and I wanted everyone to jump on my back from the get-go. I think we really executed our plan but stayed true to who we were."
Jones spent the past two years at Appalachian State, starting all 73 games in which she appeared. Last year, she hit .232 but reached base in 41 percent of her plate appearances, which was second on the team.
This year, she has entrenched herself as the starting shortstop, and when she's not in the lineup there, she shifts to second base. Jones, first baseman Lindsey Richardson and center fielder Lauren Hunt are the only ones to start every game this season.
She's batting only .234 this season, but she's second on the team in walks with nine and first in getting hit by pitches with two. She also is by far the team leader in stolen bases with 12.
In the third inning, JSU got a good look at what she can mean to the offense. With the Gamecocks up 3-0 and teammate Ashley Phillips of Alexandria on second base, Jones laid down a bunt and beat it out for a single. She then stole second base, and she and Phillips scored when Richardson followed with a single up the middle.
"I trust myself on speed," Jones said. "I think I've got a good chance to face up on any catcher. So that gives me confidence because I know if I get a single, I may have a double. I think I can help set up hitters for a better at-bat because they know I'll be in scoring position."
The Gamecocks recruited Jones out of White Plains, where Jones played for Rachel Ford, a former player of McGinnis’ at JSU. McGinnis had a scholarship crunch at the time, and while she struggled to work it out, Jones got a great offer from Appalachian State in North Carolina.
In the end, however, Jones wanted to play closer to home, and McGinnis was all too happy to add her to the team.
"Emma brings so many different facets to her game," McGinnis said. "She brings speed and power. She brings the short game. She brings the arm and range on defense. She just really elevates us."
Jones said the most meaningful part of playing softball at JSU is the culture and family of the Gamecocks.
"This is a different team," she said. "Yeah, we may get knocked down a few times, but we always learn from it, and we always get back up. No matter what, we are one. Some people can say that, but we actually feel that.
"I mean, I just love these girls. I would go to war with these girls. No doubt, I would pick all these girls to be by my side. That's just a great feeling. I'm happy. I'm happy and content. I just love the place where I'm at right now in life, and I'm trying to enjoy it."
What to know
—JSU had only three hits against Samford ace McKenzie Newcomb, and Lindsey Richardson had two of them. She also went 2-for-4 with four RBIs in the second game. A preseason All-ASUN pick, Richardson is living up to it. She leads the team in hits (21), RBIs (20) and walks (13) and is tied for the team lead in homers (three) with freshman Linley Tubbs.
—Tubbs hit a solo homer in the first game against Samford and then went 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI in the second game.
—Phillips was 2-for-4 in the second game while starting at second base.
—Senior infielder Holly Stewart was 2-for-3 with her second homer of the season, which was a solo shot.
—Freshman catcher Makalyn Kyser went 2-for-3 and hit a two-run homer, which is the first of her collegiate career.
—Sarah Currie (3-2) got the win against Western Michigan as she worked six innings and allowed eight hits. She walked one and struck out two in her most consistent performance since the second week of the season.
—Kat Carter (4-3) got the loss in the first game after allowing five runs (all earned) in 1 1/3 innings. She struggled with a strike zone that had JSU coaches arguing more than once with the home plate umpire. Jordan Eslinger pitched four innings and gave up two runs, and Hannah Brown worked the final 1 2/3 innings, allowing one hit and no runs.
Who said
—Jones on her final hit of the night, which appeared to be a homer before the ball bounced off the right field fence: "I was hoping. Hey, I just threw my head down and started taking off running. But, I barely missed it."
—McGinnis on the performance of Currie and the team in the second game: "What was good to see in the second game was Sarah. She has not been pitching her game the last few outings, but I thought Sarah was in total control, very confident, and challenging hitters with her strengths. Then the hitters picked it up."
Next up
—JSU (12-9) is scheduled to host Samford on Sunday at 1 p.m., if the weather allows it. | https://www.annistonstar.com/free/speed-racer-with-her-bat-glove-and-fleet-feet-jones-shows-shes-a-big-asset/article_90d052ec-c07d-11ed-bf50-8327399c39cb.html | 2023-03-12 03:55:44 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/free/speed-racer-with-her-bat-glove-and-fleet-feet-jones-shows-shes-a-big-asset/article_90d052ec-c07d-11ed-bf50-8327399c39cb.html |
By The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual high-level meeting (all times EDT):
3:50 p.m.
Leaders from Europe, the Americas and Africa called for urgent action and funding to ease a burgeoning global food security crisis that has been exacerbated by Russia’s war with Ukraine and threatens to get worse in coming years due to climate change.
Speaking Tuesday at a Global Food Security Summit on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly, the leaders demanded an end to the war, with each calling it a needless “aggression.” Spain’s prime minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to “blackmail” the world with hunger by causing severe disruptions in the export of Ukrainian grain.
Last week, the U.N. food chief warned the world is facing a global emergency, with up to 345 million people headed toward starvation — and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the numbers “staggering” and said that President Joe Biden would be announcing additional U.S. contributions to fighting the crisis on Wednesday. Blinken called on other countries to follow suit.
2:15 p.m.
Finland’s president is decrying the conflict in Ukraine as “brutal” and says Russia’s aggression can’t be accepted.
Addressing the United Nations at its General Assembly on Tuesday, President Sauli Niinisto said the international community “can’t accept, condone or normalize” aggression by Russia he called “cruel and unprovoked.”
Finland stirred Russian ire earlier this year after seeking to join NATO alongside Sweden. NATO rules require all 30 current member countries to approve of the additions; 27 have so far given their official support.
Niinisto said “ordinary people bear the brunt” of geopolitical tensions and called on the U.N.’s members to ask if more can be done.
1:50 p.m.
Qatar’s ruling emir vowed before the world’s eyes at the U.N. General Assembly to welcome all World Cup fans without discrimination for the global soccer tournament.
Fueled by energy exports, the tiny nation has spent an eye-popping $200 billion on infrastructure and related World Cup projects since winning the bid to host the five-week-long tournament. Some $6.5 billion of that was spent to build eight stadiums for the World Cup, which kicks off in November.
Qatar is hoping the event will draw billions in tourism dollars. Leaders also hope people will shed misconceptions they may have about Qatar.
Qatar is a conservative Muslim society, but will allow soccer fans to consume alcohol in designated areas at the tournament beyond existing hotel bars. It also insists that homosexual couples will be welcomed.
In his remarks at the United Nations, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thaniv cited a verse in the Holy Quran that states God created people as races and tribes to know one another.
Millions of South Asian migrant workers have worked to build the roads, transit system, high-rise towers and stadiums for the tournament. Some workers have died. Qatar has made significant reforms to its labor laws in recent years, but advocacy groups say authorities have arrested and deported workers who’ve protested delayed salaries.
1:10 p.m.
Colombia President Gustavo Petro has called for an end of the war on drugs, calling it “irrational.
The leftist president who took office last month urged world leaders to “Think of less profit and more love.”
As a major drug production country, Colombia has been ravaged by drug-related violence.
Petro also made a proposal to the U.N. General Assembly to forgive countries’ debt in exchange for their conservation of forests.
1 p.m.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is the conflict in the ex-Soviet sphere that has absorbed most of the world’s attention.
But a recent flare-up on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan briefly took centerstage at the United Nations on Tuesday.
Sadyr Zhaparov, the president of Kyrgyzstan, was the seventh world leader to speak on the first day of the general debate. He used his allotted time at the dais to describe the territorial disputes engendered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The fighting has killed at least two dozen people.
The clashes began last week, with each side trading blame while the genesis of the conflict remained unclear. Last year, at least 55 people were killed near the border following a dispute over water rights and Tajikistan’s installation of surveillance cameras.
Zhaparov identified Tajikistan as the instigator, saying his country was “deeply saddened by the unjustified armed aggressions” and willing to negotiate without ceding a “centimeter of its land.”
Tajik authorities have in turn accused Kyrgyzstan of aggression, including the destruction of a mosque and targeting of school. Late last week, the leaders of both countries met at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan and agreed to work to stop the fighting.
A minister from Tajikistan will speak toward the end of the summit.
Kyrgyzstan is a close ally of Russia, which Zhaparov described as “our biggest strategic ally” in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year. Zhaparov did not mention the Ukraine invasion during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
12:20 p.m.
NEW YORK — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says she wants to work more closely with U.K. allies as the world enters a “more insecure era.”
Truss, who took office just two weeks ago, is meeting fellow leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in New York before making a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. The gathering was dominated by talk of the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis it has spawned.
Truss said Tuesday with an increasingly aggressive Russia and an assertive China, “We need to work more closely with our allies.”
But the new British leader has to build bridges with key allies left alienated by Britain’s handling of its departure from the European Union. Biden has expressed concerns that Brexit could destabilize peace in Northern Ireland, and EU leaders are angry at the U.K. government’s combative approach in post-Brexit trade talks.
12:15 p.m.
Ukraine is the chief topic on the first day of the U.N.’s general assembly meeting in New York.
World leaders responded to news that four leaders of Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine plan to hold referendums for the territories to become part of Russia.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters that “sham referendums” on joining Russia in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine are unacceptable.
Scholz told reporters in New York on Tuesday that “Ukraine has every right to defend the integrity and sovereignty of the country and its own democracy.”
Scholz’s office said that he reiterated that stance in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting. He said the referendum results won’t be recognized.
Erdogan said Turkey will continue efforts to end the war, to find a diplomatic solution that allow sides emerge from the war in an “honorable way.”
11 a.m.
Senegalese President Macky Sall has told the U.N. General Assembly that Africa must play a larger role in international decision-making.
Sall said Tuesday that Africa has suffered enough of the burden of history, and wants to be a pole of stability and opportunity. Sall, the current chairperson of the African Union, called for the continent to have a seat in the influential G20 group of nations.
In his comments to the U.N., Sall also pressed for a “fair and equitable energy transition,” emphasizing that more than 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity on a continent of 1.4 billion.
10:45 a.m.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking reelection next month, used his speech at the U.N. General Assembly to promote the merits of his administration.
Bolsonaro’s speech Tuesday focused heavily on the economy, starting with the welfare program distributed to millions of Brazilians during the pandemic. The program was recently renewed until December. Bolsonaro also stressed a falling unemployment rate and disinflation in Latin America’s largest nation.
He also took a dig at his main rival, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who leads all polls to return to the presidency he held between 2003 and 2010. Bolsanaro pointed to da Silva’s conviction on money laundering and corruption charges.
The far-right leader also defended Brazil’s willingness to negotiate over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling for a ceasefire but renouncing sanctions and economic isolation.
Bolsonaro was the first world leader to speak during debate on the first day of the U.N. General Assembly’s meeting. U.S. President Joe Biden would traditionally speak second, but his time was pushed to Wednesday because of the funeral of England’s queen.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s new ambassador to the U.S. is taking office amid disputes over trade, access to computer chips and Washington’s support for self-governing Taiwan.
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Xie Feng arrived in New York on Tuesday and told reporters at JFK Airport that relations between the world’s two largest economies face “serious difficulties and challenges.”
“We hope that the United States will work together with China to increase dialogue, to manage differences and also to expand our cooperation, so that our relationship will be back to the right track,” Xie said in remarks delivered in English.
The “Taiwan question” would be among the sensitive issues at the top of his agenda, Xie said.
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Exchanges took a downturn after the Trump administration raised tariffs on key Chinese imports that President Jospeh Biden has since maintained, while blocking Chinese companies from accessing the most cutting-edge computer chip technology.
China has meanwhile raised its threats to attack Taiwan with regular incursions by ships and fighter jets into airspace and waters near the island that have drawn concerns about a crisis imperiling the global economy.
Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. is the island's main source of defense cooperation and political support, drawing frequent protests from Beijing. A visit last August by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prompted Beijing to fire missiles into the Pacific and stage send its forces into a rehearsal of a blockade in the Taiwan Strait.
Large-scale exercises were also launched after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited the U.S. in April, during which she met with Pelosi's successor, Kevin McCarthy.
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The shootdown in February of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the U.S. led to the U.S. canceling a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, pushing back a resumption of visits interrupted by China's strict COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Dialogue has been maintained on neutral territory, however, with top Communist Party diplomat Wang Yi holding talks with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Vienna earlier this month.
Economic and person-to-person ties also remain robust, with bilateral trade last year also topped $690 billion, while an estimated 295,000 Chinese students are enrolled in American colleges and universities. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/new-chinese-ambassador-to-us-taking-office-amid-18116011.php | 2023-05-24 07:17:41 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/new-chinese-ambassador-to-us-taking-office-amid-18116011.php |
Medicaid: What to Watch in 2023
As 2023 kicks off, a number of issues are at play that could affect coverage and financing under Medicaid, the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care coverage to low-income Americans. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, passed in December 2022, ends the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision on March 31, 2023 with a phase-down in enhanced federal matching funds. The unwinding of this provision, as well as the trajectory of the pandemic and the economy, will have implications for Medicaid enrollees, providers, managed care plans, and the states that operate these programs. A divided Congress will make it difficult to pass federal legislation, and while the Administration is expected to continue to use existing authority to improve coverage, access, and health equity, limited action at the federal level will push even more policy focus to the states. The first glimpse of state policy priorities will be revealed in Governors’ state of the state addresses and proposed budgets. Within this context, this issue brief examines key issues to watch in Medicaid in 2023.
Medicaid Coverage and Financing
The Medicaid continuous enrollment provision in place during the pandemic has increased enrollment and reduced the uninsured rate, but will end in March 2023. Provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) required states to ensure continuous enrollment in Medicaid in exchange for enhanced federal matching funds during the Public Health Emergency (PHE). Largely due to these policies, enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) grew to 91 million in September 2022, an increase of 27.9% from February 2020 (prior to the pandemic). KFF estimates that through federal fiscal year 2022, states received more than double the amount in federal fiscal relief relative to the costs of enrollment due to the continuous enrollment provision, with some variation across states. The Consolidated Appropriations Act ends the continuous enrollment provision on March 31, 2023, and phases down the enhanced federal Medicaid matching funds through December 2023. States can resume disenrollments beginning April 1 but must meet certain eligibility and reporting requirements to continue to be eligible for enhanced funding. An estimated 5 to 15 million people could lose Medicaid coverage during unwinding and how states manage the process could affect how many people are able to maintain coverage.
Debate about Medicaid expansion will shift back to the states. Democrats in Congress last year discussed a federal option to fill in the Medicaid coverage gap but ultimately did not pass it, and such an approach is now highly unlikely with divided control in Washington. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) included a two-year fiscal incentive to encourage remaining “non-expansion” states to newly adopt the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Over 2 million individuals living in the 11 states that have not adopted the (ACA Medicaid expansion fall into the “coverage gap”). These individuals do not qualify for Medicaid (as their income exceeds Medicaid eligibility limits in their respective states) but have incomes below poverty, making them ineligible for premium subsidies in the ACA Marketplace. A KFF analysis shows that all non-expansion states would see a net fiscal benefit from the ARPA incentive for two years if they adopt the expansion. The ARPA federal incentive reignited discussion around Medicaid expansion in a few non-expansion states during the last state legislative session. Notably, every state that has adopted expansion since 2019 has done so not through legislative or executive processes, but as a result of a successful ballot initiative. Most recently, South Dakota became the 40th state to expand Medicaid after voters approved a ballot question in November 2022. Although expansion ballot initiatives have been successful in all seven states where they have gone to voters (Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Utah), most of the remaining non-expansion states do not have ballot initiative processes. North Carolina may be the state most likely to expand Medicaid next given how far efforts advanced last year, with active efforts in Kansas and Wyoming as well.
Some states and the Administration are expected to continue to implement incremental policies to expand coverage. ARPA included an option, made permanent in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, to allow states to extend postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months. Under current law, after the 60 days of postpartum coverage, many people who qualify for pregnancy-related Medicaid lose that coverage because Medicaid eligibility levels for parents are much lower than for pregnant people in most states, and especially in non-expansion states. As of January 2023, more than two-thirds of the states have taken steps to extend postpartum coverage. The Consolidated Appropriations Act also included a requirement for all states to implement 12 months of continuous coverage for children. In addition, Oregon received waiver approval to provide continuous eligibility for children from birth to age 6 and 2 years of continuous eligibility for all enrollees ages 6 and up, including adults; other states are seeking similar waivers for multi-year continuous eligibility. KFF analysis shows that for children, continuous eligibility policies help to provide coverage stability. Finally, the Administration released a proposed regulation designed to make it easier for individuals to obtain and retain coverage.
New state and federal attention to Medicaid financing could emerge in 2023. Medicaid financing is shared by the federal government and the states. Consequently, economic factors that affect state revenues including inflation, supply chain issues, and declining labor force participation rates, along with phase-down of the enhanced FMAP tied to the end of the continuous enrollment provision will have fiscal implications for states. In our annual state survey, states noted that inflation and workforce shortages were driving higher labor costs and pressure from providers for rate increases. Many states use reimbursement methodologies for some provider types, such as nursing facilities, that may automatically adjust for inflation. In addition, at the federal level the House of Representatives is likely to focus on measures to reduce the federal deficit and, while unlikely to pass in the Senate, proposals to limit federal spending for Medicaid could be debated again in Congress.
What to Watch:
- What will happen to Medicaid enrollment during the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision? How will changes vary across states? How many people losing Medicaid coverage will transition to other sources of insurance like the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and what will happen to the number of uninsured?
- Will any additional states implement Medicaid expansion or other coverage expansions like 12-month postpartum coverage?
- How will administrative actions, including oversight of the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision, waiver approvals, and new regulations contribute to changes in coverage?
- How will broader economic factors, like inflation, affect state financing of Medicaid and will Congress debate broader proposals to cap federal Medicaid spending?
Access and Health Equity
Capitated managed care remains the predominant delivery system for Medicaid in most states. More than three-quarters of states that contract with MCOs (35 of 41) reported that 75% or more of their Medicaid beneficiaries were enrolled in MCOs as of July 1, 2022. Several states have recently implemented Medicaid managed care programs. Beginning July 1, 2021, North Carolina implemented its first MCO program, enrolling more than 1.8 million Medicaid beneficiaries in MCOs as of December 2022. Missouri implemented the ACA Medicaid expansion in October 2021, enrolling all expansion adults in Medicaid MCOs, and Oklahoma expects to implement capitated, comprehensive Medicaid managed care in October 2023. State managed care contracts vary widely in the populations required to enroll, the services covered, and the quality and performance incentives and penalties employed. Five multi-state, for-profit “parent” firms – Centene, UnitedHealth Group, Anthem, Aetna/CVS, and Molina – each have Medicaid MCOs in 12 or more states and account for half of all Medicaid MCO enrollment. MCOs are expected to play a large role in helping enrollees maintain coverage during the unwinding of the continuous enrollment provision. The Administration is expected to release revised regulations about Medicaid managed care and assuring access in Medicaid in the Spring of 2023.
In response to the pandemic, all states took action to expand coverage and access to telehealth in Medicaid, particularly for behavioral health services. In particular, nearly all states added or expanded audio-only telehealth coverage. These policy changes contributed to high telehealth utilization by Medicaid enrollees during the pandemic, overall and especially for behavioral health services. The rapid expansion of Medicaid telehealth policies and utilization has prompted state and federal questions about the quality of services delivered via telehealth. Most states have implemented or are planning initiatives to assess telehealth quality, though many states report ongoing considerations and uncertainty over how to effectively evaluate quality. States also report actions to address other telehealth challenges, including access to technology and broadband, program integrity, outreach and education, and equity. Most states have or plan to adopt permanent Medicaid telehealth expansions that will remain in place after the pandemic, including expansions of allowable modalities, services, and providers. At the same time, some states are considering guardrails on such policies, particularly for audio-only telehealth.
Beyond telehealth, many states are taking steps to expand access to behavioral health services as the pandemic has heightened demand for these services. Nine in ten Americans believe the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis. Behavioral health conditions (i.e., mental health and substance use disorders) are more prevalent in Medicaid enrollees compared to people with other coverage, with data from 2020 showing that approximately 39% of Medicaid enrollees were living with a mental health or substance use disorder. States have been expanding behavioral health benefits and access to care, including by adopting strategies to bolster the behavioral health workforce. These state efforts track with continued activity at the federal level: the Consolidated Appropriations Act and the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act included an array of provisions to expand access and funding for behavioral health, such as provisions to require guidance on expanding Medicaid-covered mental health services in schools, expand Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC), fund new psychiatry residency positions, and eliminate administrative requirements to prescribe buprenorphine.
States and the Administration have identified advancing health equity as an important priority for the Medicaid program. The pandemic exacerbated longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. Medicaid policies that could help address health equity include closing the “coverage gap” for adults in non-expansion states; increasing coverage among those eligible but not enrolled; and expanding benefits such as pregnancy and postpartum services, housing and housing-related supports, and community health worker services. High-quality, comprehensive data are essential for identifying and addressing health disparities and measuring progress over time and the majority of states are implementing strategies to improve race, ethnicity, and language (REL) data completeness. States are also using MCO financial quality incentives (e.g., performance bonuses, withholds) tied to health equity-related performance goals and other MCO contract requirements to advance health equity. Other reported state Medicaid initiatives to reduce racial health disparities include outreach to underserved populations, increasing cultural competency, and establishing departments and dedicated staff positions focused on promoting equity. In addition, states have received or are seeking Section 1115 waivers that aim to advance equity.
States and the Administration are implementing strategies to leverage Medicaid to address social determinants of health (SDOH) through managed care and Section 1115 waivers. The Biden Administration has encouraged states to propose waivers that expand coverage, reduce health disparities, and/or advance “whole-person care,” including by addressing health-related social needs (HRSN). Recent waivers approved in four states (AR, AZ, MA, and OR) include HRSN services to address food insecurity and/or housing instability for targeted populations. Additionally, following the approval of a California proposal to use “in lieu of” services (ILOS) to offer a menu of health-related services through managed care authority, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released additional guidance on the use of in lieu of services and settings in Medicaid managed care to reduce health disparities and address unmet HRSN (such as housing instability and nutrition insecurity).
What to watch?
- How effective will state and administration efforts to leverage Medicaid be in addressing SDOH and reducing health disparities? How will states use authorities including Section 1115 and managed care to pursue these goals?
- What kinds of permanent telehealth expansions and/or guardrails will state Medicaid agencies adopt, and how will these policy changes be informed by data analyses, federal guidance, and cost concerns?
- Will the Administration release new guidance in 2023 to address access to care and what provisions will be included in the anticipated access and revised managed care regulations?
- Will Congress pass additional legislation and / or will states take additional actions to improve access to and funding for behavioral health services?
Enrollment and Access Among People Eligible for Medicaid through Age or Disability
The new proposed rule on eligibility and enrollment could increase enrollment among all Medicaid eligibility groups, but especially among seniors and people with disabilities. A proposed rule designed to make it easier for people to obtain and maintain coverage in Medicaid and CHIP includes provisions to simplify the enrollment and renewal processes for seniors and people with disabilities by applying many of the ACA’s simplified eligibility processes for children and other adult eligibility groups to these groups. There would also be simplified enrollment procedures for people who receive supplemental security income and people who are enrolled in Medicare but eligible for Medicaid coverage of Medicare premiums. KFF analysis finds that over one-third of Medicare-Medicaid enrollees lose Medicaid coverage within one year of their initial enrollment, which is one of the reasons for the proposed changes. CMS expects that the rule would increase Medicaid enrollment by nearly 3 million full-year equivalents, with seniors and people with disabilities accounting for over half of that total.
Staff and residents at long-term care facilities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Over one-fifth of all deaths from COVID-19 were among residents and staff in long-term care facilities as of June 12, 2022. Although initial vaccination rates were high and the death rate among nursing facility residents and staff dropped, take-up of boosters and of the new bivalent booster has been much lower. Going into the 2022-2023 winter period, fewer than half of residents and one quarter of staff were up-to-date with their vaccinations, which may result in higher death rates moving forward. Compounding the challenges with COVID-19 illness is the ongoing workforce shortage for long-term care facilities. Whereas employment in most health care sectors has rebounded from the sharp drop in March 2020, employment in long-term care facilities remains well-below pre-pandemic levels.
The pandemic also highlighted workforce shortages and unmet need among people who use long-term services and supports (LTSS) delivered in home and community settings (HCBS). In a KFF survey of HCBS programs, nearly all states reported that workforce shortages were the number one impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HCBS services and 44 states reported that at least one HCBS provider permanently closed. Virtually all states increased payment rates in response, but some of those increases are temporary rather than permanent. Many changes to HCBS programs relied on temporary funding through the ARPA or temporary authorities available during the PHE. Policymakers of both parties have called for additional and longer-term changes to HCBS including eliminating waiting lists for services, increasing opportunities for family members to be paid caregivers, enabling more people to live in their homes as they age, and permanently increasing wages for all HCBS providers.
There is bipartisan interest in improving the coordination for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees (also known as “dual eligibles”). People who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid tend to have significant health and functional needs and higher health care spending than people with only Medicare or Medicaid. Policymakers have expressed interest in improving the coordination between Medicare and Medicaid with the goals of improved health outcomes and, possibly, reduced health care spending. Most recently, a bipartisan group of senators released a request for information, soliciting input from patients, providers, payors, and other stakeholders.
What to Watch:
- How will the final eligibility and enrollment rule increase enrollment for seniors and people with disabilities?
- Will nursing facility residents and staff be at increased risk of death as the virus evolves and immunity wanes among people who are vaccinated but not up to date? What efforts will emerge to improve rates of booster take-up?
- How will the end of ARPA funding and PHE authorities affect access to HCBS?
- Will bipartisan interest in improving the coordination between Medicare and Medicaid result in new legislation addressing Medicare-Medicare enrollees and their access to care? | https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-what-to-watch-in-2023/ | 2023-01-25 09:15:21 | 1 | https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-what-to-watch-in-2023/ |
Max Kepler Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Rays - June 8
Published: Jun. 8, 2023 at 4:23 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Thursday, Max Kepler (.152 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 115 points below season-long percentage) and the Minnesota Twins face the Tampa Bay Rays, whose starting pitcher will be Tyler Glasnow. First pitch is at 1:10 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit performance (1-for-3) against the Rays.
Max Kepler Game Info & Props vs. the Rays
- Game Day: Thursday, June 8, 2023
- Game Time: 1:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Tropicana Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rays Starter: Tyler Glasnow
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +165)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Max Kepler At The Plate
- Kepler is batting .192 with five doubles, six home runs and 11 walks.
- In 18 of 36 games this season (50.0%) Kepler has had a hit, and in six of those games he had more than one (16.7%).
- He has hit a long ball in 16.7% of his games in 2023, and 4.1% of his trips to the plate.
- In 12 games this year (33.3%), Kepler has picked up an RBI, and in three of those games (8.3%) he had two or more.
- He has scored in 13 of 36 games this year, and more than once 4 times.
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Rays Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Rays has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 19th in MLB.
- The Rays have a 3.56 team ERA that ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
- Rays pitchers combine to surrender the sixth-fewest home runs in baseball (61 total, one per game).
- Glasnow (0-0) pitches for the Rays to make his third start of the season.
- In his most recent appearance on Saturday, the right-hander threw 5 1/3 innings against the Boston Red Sox, allowing one earned run while surrendering four hits.
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We’re on a hunt for the best roadhouses in North Texas. Hence the headline on this post, “We Are Looking for the Best Roadhouses in North Texas.” We’ve got a working list, but we’re asking for your help in casting this net. In an upcoming issue of D Magazine, we’ll blow your mind with our (and your?) findings.
What is a roadhouse? Strictly speaking, it’s an inn or tavern, generally outside of major city limits, providing liquor, meals, and/or dancing. That image at the top of this post? That’s a stock image of a roadhouse. It should have a certain patina, let’s say. It should have a bartender with a name like Billy Ray or Billy Bob or Billie Bye-Bye. It should have a bathroom you’d prefer not to visit. It should have a dog sitting out front, unleashed, with three legs. It should be on a road someplace between Frognot and New Hope. Or between Cash and Cumby. Point is: it’s out there, away from the big box stores and leaf blowers. It should not have Apple Pay.
You know what else it should not have? Any resemblance to the Texas Roadhouse chain.
Maybe this is the simplest way to explain it: have you see the 1989 Patrick Swayze documentary called Road House? That right there is a roadhouse.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. government won't bail out Silicon Valley Bank as it did with other financial institutions during the 2008 financial crisis, but she noted that regulators are working to ensure people and businesses with money in the failed bank would be made whole.
"The reforms that have been put in place means that we're not going to do that again," Yellen said when asked about a bailout during a Sunday appearance on CBS's Face the Nation.
"But we are concerned about depositors and are focused on trying to meet their needs," she added.
The fate of Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB, and its customers had been up in the air over the weekend, days after federal regulators took control of the institution following a "run" on the bank by depositors.
Customers had been flooding the bank with requests to withdraw their money, and earlier last week SVB said it had to sell bonds at a steep loss in order to meet those requests. That announcement worsened the panic over SVB's financial situation and led to even more withdrawal attempts until regulators stepped in.
The collapse of SVB marks one of the largest failures of an American bank since the 2008 global financial crisis.
SVB had carved out a niche in the banking sector by lending to tech startups, but the recent financial problems facing the tech industry put a strain on the bank, and caused its stock price to tank.
Yellen said that, despite the collapse of SVB, she believes the overall American banking system "is really safe and well-capitalized" and "resilient."
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said on Friday that all insured depositors would have full access to their insured funds no later than Monday morning. The agency also said it would pay uninsured depositors an "advance dividend" in the next week, and that depositors would be sent a "receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds."
An independent federal agency, the FDIC doesn't use taxpayer money to insure deposits, but rather is funded through premiums paid by member banks and savings associations.
Regulators in the United Kingdom were also working on a plan to ensure that customers of SVB's UK branch were paid.
The bank's collapse has left tech companies and other SVB customers in limbo, and it's even caused headaches for others not directly connected to the bank, such as Etsy sellers who were told they may see delays in receiving payments because the online marketplace uses SVB to make some payments.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mixed martial arts fighter Nate Diaz turned himself in to police in New Orleans on Thursday to face a battery charge arising from a weekend street brawl.
Police said the fight happened early Saturday outside a pizza restaurant and left a man unconscious.
Diaz went to police with his attorney Thursday and turned himself in, a police news release said. His attorney has told New Orleans news outlets Diaz acted in self-defense.
Diaz posted bond and was cleared to return home to Stockton, California, Zach Rosenfield, Diaz’s public relations representative, said.
“We appreciate how we were treated by the New Orleans Police Department, the court and their staff,” Rosenfield said in an email.
Diaz, 38, has been one of the most popular fighters in MMA since 2016, when he split two entertaining bouts with Conor McGregor.
Diaz and his older brother, former Strikeforce champion Nick Diaz, are well-known for their brash fighting style, their strict training standards, their embrace of marijuana culture and an overall anti-authoritarian attitude that appeals greatly to MMA fans.
Nate Diaz has fought for the UFC since 2007, but he is a promotional free agent after completing his UFC contract last year with a submission of Tony Ferguson. Diaz has said he would be open to returning to the UFC in the future, but he also launched his own combat sports promotion, Real Fight Inc., last year.
Diaz is also following the path of many MMA stars by moving to the boxing ring, where paydays are often larger than in the UFC. He is scheduled to fight YouTube star Jake Paul in August in an eight-round boxing match in Dallas. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/nate-diaz-surrenders-after-brawl-lawyer-says-self-defense/ | 2023-04-27 17:34:56 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/nate-diaz-surrenders-after-brawl-lawyer-says-self-defense/ |
MADRID (AP) — Archaeologists in the southern Spanish town of Utrera confirmed on Tuesday they had uncovered a 14th-century synagogue hidden within a building that was later converted into a church, hospital and most recently a bar.
Archaeologist Miguel Ángel de Dios told journalists that “the first thing to confirm is the presence of the prayer room” following years of analysis of the building’s walls and floor.
“The fundamental elements of the synagogue, such as the entrance hall,” he said, “or the perimeter benches that have emerged in this survey, now confirm that we are indeed in the prayer hall.”
The only hint of the Jewish temple’s existence came from a priest and historian, Rodrigo Caro, who wrote in 1604 that a hospital now stood on a site where Jews used to pray. There are a tiny handful of medieval synagogues surviving in Spain, including in the cities of Toledo and Cordoba.
The Utrera synagogue was converted into a church in the 16th century, de Dios added, when all traces of its Jewish past were erased. His team now hopes to identify the pulpit and a bath used for rituals.
“We now have the scientific certainty that we are standing in a medieval synagogue,” Utrera mayor José María Villalobos said. “The state of conservation of the synagogue, being partial, is nevertheless exceptional,” he added.
Attracting tourists interested in Spain’s Jewish past has become a key focus for towns with historic traces in recent years.
In 1492, Spain’s Catholic monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, decreed that Spain’s 200,000-strong Jewish population convert to Christianity or be expelled.
Spain has attempted in recent years to make amends for what the government termed this “historic mistake.” In 2015, the Spanish government allowed the descendants of exiled Sephardic Jews to apply for Spanish citizenship, with 132,226 people doing so. | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-archaeologists-uncover-rare-14th-century-spanish-synagogue/ | 2023-02-07 22:30:39 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-archaeologists-uncover-rare-14th-century-spanish-synagogue/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Joshua Duggar’s release date from federal prison has been pushed back.
According to the Bureau of Prisons website, the release date for Duggar, 35, has been changed to October 2, 2032. His original release date was listed as August 12, 2032.
Duggar, a former reality TV personality and used car salesman, was found guilty on a pair of child pornography charges in the Western District of Arkansas federal court in Fayetteville on December 9, 2021. He was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release with a host of special conditions attached.
Nexstar’s KNWA/FOX24 reached out to the Bureau of Prisons seeking information about the reason for the change in Duggar’s release date, but a Freedom of Information Act request was denied in full.
“To the extent non-public responsive records exist, without consent, proof of death, or an
overriding public interest, disclosure of records would invade another individual’s
personal privacy,” the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons wrote in its response. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/josh-duggars-prison-release-date-pushed-back/ | 2023-03-18 00:39:32 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/josh-duggars-prison-release-date-pushed-back/ |
Enjoy life’s journey – even if it’s not always a scintillating trip | Suzy Fleming Leonard
When I started my journey into journalism filled with the wide-eyed wonder of a college sophomore, my dream was to write a weekly column.
By junior year, I had a column in the Auburn Plainsman, opining on topics ranging from the slog of visiting the laundromat to rebutting another editor's opinion that majorette costumes were too risqué and no girlfriend of his would ever wear one.
A few decades later, I'm still excited to write a weekly column. We live in a community filled with fun events and engaging people, so most weeks the column almost writes itself. Still there are times when I stare at the blinking curser on my screen trying to summon a trace of wisdom, humor or adventure.
Sometimes the best I can do is come up with a few random rants and insights that I hope you find relatable.
Here goes:
Don't plan to make a dish with a new-to-you ingredient for dinner tonight unless you already have it in your pantry. Despite what the recipe said, pomegranate molasses are not easy to find.
I wish I was the person I thought I was this morning when I put on white jeans.
I've checked in, signed all the paperwork, uploaded my insurance and paid my co-pay online ahead of time. So no, I won't show up 15 minutes before for my doctor's appointment. If you want me to be there at 2:45, schedule me for 2:45. Otherwise, I'm gliding into the waiting room at 2:58 p.m. and calling it early.
How did I get that bruise?
If anything's going to drive me to cut the cable cord and embrace streaming, it will be those horrible Poise commercials. Most women over 50 know what happens when a sneeze takes us by surprise. But just in case, here's a hint: We don't turn into fish flopping on the floor. And don't get me started on the "all women poop" commercials.
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I know those links to 30+ design trends that will age poorly, the worst and most hilarious makeup fails on the internet and fashion mistakes that are making you look old are Facebook click bait. But I still click, just to find out how horrible my fashion and design tastes are.
And speaking of Facebook, how many bras, comfortable shoes, exercise skorts and tubes of mascara do its advertising algorithms think I need?
While thinking about cutting the cable cord, maybe I should consider cutting the Facebook cord, too. But then how would I know what everyone's doing and what imagined injustice is making everyone mad?
Life would be simpler if I could think like my dogs, finding joy in routine and excitement in simple things like going for a walk, dinner time and dad coming home from the office.
I wish I could nap as often as my dogs do.
If I slept as much as my dogs, my back would always hurt.
Maybe life experience has made me a little less lost in the wonder of it all, but I wouldn't time-travel back, even if I could. Hanging out at home in my wine-stained white jeans sipping wine with my husband and watching the dogs tussle is exciting enough.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to lie down on the floor and nap with my fluffy pups. Wish me luck getting back up.
Suzy Fleming Leonard is a features journalist with more than three decades of experience. Reach her at sleonard@floridatoday.com. Find her on Facebook: @SuzyFlemingLeonard or on Instagram: @SuzyLeonard. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/style/suzy-leonard/2023/06/09/its-the-little-things-in-life-that-bug-the-devil-out-of-me-and-make-smile/70293214007/ | 2023-06-09 15:58:36 | 1 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/style/suzy-leonard/2023/06/09/its-the-little-things-in-life-that-bug-the-devil-out-of-me-and-make-smile/70293214007/ |
Mayor responds to questions regarding solicitations at busy intersections in College Station
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Residents in College Station say they have seen an increase in the number of people standing alongside busy intersections soliciting.
Complaints of soliciting were brought to Councilwoman Elizabeth Cunha’s attention and were discussed at the Jan. 12 city council meeting.
“The residents that spoke to me just wanted more information about soliciting,” said Cunha. “When you go door to door in a neighborhood you do need a permit. So I was following up on those residents’ concerns.”
Soliciting is protected by the first amendment. Solicitors can stand on the sides of busy streets as long as they are not harming others.
In an interview, Mayor John Nichols stated he thought most of the soliciting in the city was illegal. The city of College Station has no city ordinance against solicitors.
“While it appears unsafe and it may well be, its not something that the city is in a position to regulate,” said Nichols
The city of College Station says anyone that may need help is encouraged to call 2-1-1.
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XPRIZE, PG&E, Federal and State Leaders Kick Off Global $11 Million Incentive Competition
OAKLAND, Calif. and WASHINGTON, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Detect and suppress a high-risk wildfire in 10 minutes or less. Pinpoint all fire ignitions across multiple states or countries from space in 60 seconds. These are the challenges for innovators of XPRIZE Wildfire, a four-year, $11 million competition to develop and demonstrate fully autonomous capabilities to detect and extinguish wildfires.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today joined XPRIZE, California State Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, along with federal and international leaders, technology innovators and philanthropists to launch XPRIZE Wildfire, which aims to develop new technologies that will improve detection and swift suppression of potentially destructive wildfires, ultimately ending catastrophic wildfires.
Recently, the United Nations, the White House and Congress have prioritized destructive wildfires as a major economic, environmental and safety threat. XPRIZE Wildfire kicks off during Earth Week 2023 following a series of U.S Fire Administration (USFA) news conferences focused on America's wildfire challenge.
"At PG&E, we have taken a stand that catastrophic wildfires shall stop, and we want to partner with the best and the brightest to help further bring that stand to life," said Patti Poppe, Chief Executive Officer, PG&E Corporation. "Today's launch of XPRIZE Wildfire is a call-to-action to entrepreneurs, roboticists, artificial-intelligence experts, scientists, and innovators from across the globe to revolutionize wildfire detection and suppression."
XPRIZE Wildfire seeks teams from around the world to innovate across a wide range of firefighting technologies in two complementary tracks designed to transform how fires are detected, managed and suppressed.
- In the Autonomous Wildfire Response track, teams will need to monitor at least 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles), and autonomously suppress a wildfire within 10 minutes of detection.
- In the Space-Based Wildfire Detection & Intelligence track, teams will have one minute to accurately detect all fires across a landscape larger than entire states or countries, and 10 minutes to precisely characterize and report data with the least false positives to two ground stations.
XPRIZE Wildfire is offered in partnership with Co-Title Sponsors PG&E and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Presenting Sponsor Minderoo Foundation, Bonus Prize Sponsor Lockheed Martin and Supporting Sponsors Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and benefactors Nichola Eliovits and Michael Antonov.
Tune into the livestream of the launch event at approximately 8 a.m. Pacific Time/11 a.m. Eastern Time today at https://www.xprize.org/prizes/wildfire#livestream.
For more information, to get involved, or to register a team to compete, visit xprize.org/wildfire.
Ongoing PG&E Wildfire Mitigation and Resiliency Efforts
In addition to supporting XPRIZE Wildfire, PG&E's ongoing safety work to enhance grid resilience and address the growing threat of severe weather and wildfires continues on a risk-informed and data-driven basis, as outlined in PG&E's 2023-2025 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP). This work includes:
- Undergrounding 10,000 miles of overhead powerlines in high wildfire-risk areas in what is considered one of the largest programs of its kind in the U.S.
- System hardening by installing stronger poles, covered power lines, and wider crossarms.
- Implementing Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings to automatically turn off power flowing through powerlines within one-tenth of a second when an object strikes a line or a fault occurs.
- Making situational awareness improvements such as enabling artificial intelligence to process wildfire camera data and provide automated wildfire notifications. PG&E will continue using state-of-the-art weather forecasting and a comprehensive monitoring and data collection network that uses high-definition wildfire cameras and weather stations to help detect, prevent, and respond to the risk of wildfires.
Learn more about PG&E's wildfire safety efforts by visiting pge.com/wildfiresafety.
About PG&E
PG&E, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
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Molly Shannon lends a hand in bringing clarity to an increasingly complex financial world
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its first celebrity-led marketing campaign in the company's 26-year history, LendingTree is leveraging the power of humor to deliver a simple message: LendingTree makes it easy to win financially. As debt increases and interest rates rise, consumers can quickly and easily save tens of thousands of dollars on their loans, they just need to know that they have options. Comedic actress, best-selling author, and SNL alum Molly Shannon stars in the new campaign that shows how easy it is to find a "lenda" with LendingTree.
"LendingTree takes the guesswork out of confusing financial decisions like getting a mortgage, insurance policy or a personal loan, making it easy to win financially and save real money," says Molly Shannon, comedian, actress and New York Times Bestselling Author. Shannon plays the character of Linda, an outspoken, unpretentious, no-nonsense woman with good intentions and a full serving of opinions. While Linda encourages friends and family to connect with a LendingTree "lenda", viewers can relate to this memorable and lovable new character. "Getting to work with the LendingTree team to bring this character to life has been a fun experience and it's even more meaningful that the message will help Americans discover there are more financial options available than they may realize and LendingTree makes it easy to find the best options for their needs."
LendingTree Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, Shiv Singh, who joined LendingTree in late January 2022, is leading the brand's efforts to rebuild its connection with consumers and re-acquaint Americans with LendingTree's time and money-saving services at a time when they're needed most. "At LendingTree, we realize that money isn't always the easiest or most comfortable topic to talk about but we're on a mission to change that narrative and help Americans feel more confident when making important financial decisions. In tandem with LendingTree's re-imagined customer experience, this campaign will re-introduce LendingTree as the leading brand committed to giving power to consumers to win financially."
In partnership with Mekanism, an award-winning creative agency that intersects technology, design, culture, and brand stories, this campaign will be LendingTree's first return to long-form video and television in more than three years and is set to run on linear TV and cable beginning today, July 11, 2022. LendingTree, one of the largest individual brand display and search advertisers in the country, will also be updating creative across all marketing channels to reflect the new campaign and new brand positioning.
"Our first work with LendingTree stars Molly Shannon and uses humor to demystify complex financial decisions for everyday Americans," said Jason Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Mekanism. "This new campaign features a more ambitious brand voice than customers might expect to hear from this storied fintech company but bringing the soul of the brand to life in this way will help LendingTree build trust with a new generation of consumers."
Whether you are looking for a "lenda" for a new home, auto, business, or personal loan, LendingTree is your champion of choice. LendingTree. You Win.
Click here to watch Linda find a home loan lender, or here for Linda's advice on personal loans.
LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE) is the nation's largest, most experienced online marketplace, created to give power to consumers so more people can win financially. LendingTree provides consumers with easy access to the best offers on home loans, personal loans, credit cards, student loans, business loans, home equity loans/lines of credit, auto loans and more, through its network of over 700 partners. Founded in 1996 and launched nationally in 1998, LendingTree has helped over 111 million customers obtain financing, save money, and improve their financial and credit health with transparency, education and support throughout their financial journey.
LendingTree, Inc. is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. For more information, please visit www.lendingtree.com
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Arts & Culture Bozoma Saint John writes of love, loss and survival in 'The Urgent Life' Published February 16, 2023 at 4:08 AM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Bozoma Saint John about her memoir: The Urgent Life. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kasu.org/arts-culture/arts-culture/2023-02-16/bozoma-saint-john-writes-of-love-loss-and-survival-in-the-urgent-life | 2023-02-16 10:47:52 | 1 | https://www.kasu.org/arts-culture/arts-culture/2023-02-16/bozoma-saint-john-writes-of-love-loss-and-survival-in-the-urgent-life |
Gas prices continue to rise, with AAA saying they do not see an end in sight. If you're looking for ways you can save some gas money, you'll want to consider keeping your tires properly inflated.
The U.S. Department of Energy says keeping your tires inflated can save you about two cents aper gallon.
Under-inflated tires also make your brakes less effective, according to AAA. They also say "low pressures allow tire sidewalls to flex excessively, which generates heat. While moderate heat simply accelerates tire tread wear; high heat can lead to loss of tread segments or even blowouts."
How to check your tire pressure
Open your driver-side door and check to the left of the driver's seat. There, you should see a paper that shows you the correct PSI (pounds per square inch) your tires should measure while cold.
Cold isn't talking about ambient temperature—instead, it means you haven't driven your car warming up the tires.
This is important because temperature will constantly shift your tire pressure about 1 PSI per 10 degrees. The best time to accurately measure your tire pressure is in the morning before you drive your car.
Remove the tire valve cap if there is one, and push your tire pressure gauge head-on into the valve until the air stops. If you try to push the gauge in at an angle, you will let out air instead of properly measuring the pressure. Depending on your gauge, you may be able to release the valve immediately, and read the pressure card that pushed out on the bottom.
If you need to check your tire pressure after you've been driving, an increase of around 2-6 PSI from your cold level is normal.
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State senators have unanimously approved an amended budget bill for the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office that includes an interim study of the State Crime Lab.
Senate Bill 2003 was passed Monday and now goes to the House.
Attorney General Drew Wrigley before the session put forth a budget proposal of $110 million, about 29% or $24.6 million higher than his office's budget for the current biennium. He asked for 26 additional full-time employees, and additional space and equipment at the Crime Lab. The bill that passed the Senate includes 15 additional full-time employees and has a bottom line of $105.9 million, a 24% increase.
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The proposed interim study would examine whether the Crime Lab should be kept administratively separate from the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation. It also would look at the lab’s staffing and equipment needs, and specifically references scientists with training in fingerprint and firearms analysis. It would address the feasibility of remodeling current facilities, acquiring other vacant lab facilities in the state and operating additional lab facilities. The study also would include what services the lab should provide to support the state’s law enforcement entities.
Senators last week killed a bill that initially would have enabled the attorney general to place the lab under the administrative oversight of BCI, another division of the Attorney General's Office. A rewrite of that bill would have created a managerial position, allowing the lab director to focus on the science of the lab. Senate Bill 2131 failed in a 2-44 vote.
The budget version passed by the Senate on Monday would add two attorneys in the office's civil division, three cybercrime investigators, three BCI investigators to be stationed near American Indian reservations in the state, and three full-time employees in the Medicaid fraud unit.
The bill creates a new section of the Century Code outlining the use of opioid settlement funds, establishes fees for criminal history record checks, and raises the attorney general’s salary from $165,845 to $175,928 through June 30, 2024, and then to $182,965.
The amended budget also includes:
- $5 million for the statewide litigation funding pool. About $442,000 of that would come from the gambling and excise tax allocation fund and be transferred by the Attorney General’s Office to state agencies. The money is used to pay attorneys hired on a per-case basis to represent state agencies.
- $3.5 million for the Back the Blue grant program for recruitment and retention efforts by local law enforcement agencies. Of that, $1.5 million is earmarked for local law enforcement agencies with 10 or fewer employees. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/north-dakota-senate-passes-budget-bill-that-boosts-ags-office-calls-for-state-crime-lab/article_e7994b8a-b167-11ed-b705-eb0c22e44533.html | 2023-02-21 23:31:00 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/north-dakota-senate-passes-budget-bill-that-boosts-ags-office-calls-for-state-crime-lab/article_e7994b8a-b167-11ed-b705-eb0c22e44533.html |
RADNOR, Pa., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantor, Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced technologies and applied materials industries, today announced that R. Brent Jones will join the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective August 7, 2023.
Over a nearly 30-year career, Mr. Jones has served as chief financial officer for several public and private life sciences companies and, previously, as a senior investment banker. He is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at LifeScan Global Corporation, a global leader in blood glucose monitoring and digital health technology, where he is responsible for all aspects of LifeScan's global finance and operations functions.
"Brent distinguished himself in our search as an innovative thinker and dynamic operator who will be an exceptional partner to our businesses and Executive Leadership Team as we advance our growth plan," said Michael Stubblefield, President and CEO. "Brent has a strong track record of disciplined execution and transformation, honed over many years of leading and advising finance organizations in the life sciences industry. I look forward to welcoming him to Avantor and working together to ensure the continued execution of our strategy."
As Chief Financial Officer and a member of Avantor's Executive Leadership Team, Mr. Jones will lead Avantor's global finance organization and financial activities including accounting and controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, investor relations, internal audit, and treasury.
"Avantor has an attractive market position, powerful fundamental drivers, and a solid platform for long-term growth," said Mr. Jones. "I am excited to join Avantor during this important period in the company's trajectory and will be partnering closely with the leadership team and finance organization to harness Avantor's unique value proposition, execute its growth strategy, and create shareholder value."
Thomas A. Szlosek, Avantor's current Chief Financial Officer will serve in such position through August 4, 2023, at which time he will begin a new role outside the life sciences industry.
"As we welcome Brent to the team, I want to reiterate my appreciation to Tom for his many contributions to Avantor and his support to ensure a seamless transition," Stubblefield added.
About R. Brent Jones
Mr. Jones brings to Avantor significant experience enhancing operational and financial results, building efficient and effective teams, and leading strategic and financing transactions. Since 2020, Mr. Jones has served as CFO of LifeScan, where he oversees key areas including commercial finance, corporate reporting, FP&A, investor relations, operations finance, tax, and treasury. He was promoted to Chief Financial and Operating Officer in 2023.
Prior to LifeScan, Mr. Jones was CFO at Klöckner Pentaplast Group, a global provider of packaging products for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage and other consumer end markets. He was previously the interim CFO of Pall Corporation, where he led the company's sale to Danaher for $13.8 billion in 2015. He spent the first 15 years of his career in investment banking with several firms including Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and corporate law with Cravath, Swaine, & Moore. Mr. Jones holds an A.B. in Biochemistry and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
About Avantor
Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve. Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 300,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries. We set science in motion to create a better world. For more information, visit avantorsciences.com and find us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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PARIS (AP) — The French government on Tuesday approved a key budget bill presented as the country's biggest military spending spree in more than 50 years, underscoring the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The bill foresees 413 billion euros ($450 billion) in military spending or the period covering 2024-2030 - up by more than a third relative to the previous timeframe.
Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said bill's political, budgetary, military and technological drive is comparable to the huge push in the 1960s that saw France develop nuclear weapons, making the country one of the world's major military powers.
Championed by French President Emmanuel Macron, the bill would notably modernize France’s nuclear arsenal, boost intelligence spending by 60%, double the number of military reservists, reinforce cyberdefense and develop more remote-controlled weapons.
It would also boost the arms industry's production capacity in order to provide assistance to Ukraine and adequately supply the French military.
“An issue we unfortunately rediscovered with the war in Ukraine is the issue of the ammunition stocks … We will need a ten-year period of time to upgrade all infrastructures and equipment of our military,” Lecornu said.
Lecornu also pointed to the need for anti-drone technology and equipment as being at the heart of the government’s concerns ahead of the Paris Olympics next year and other major events. He warned against a “terrorist threat” but also the potential “misuse” of small, civilian drones.
The budget bill will be debated in parliament in May-June with the aim of entering into force by mid-July, Lecornu said.
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It's always rewarding to buy someone else the perfect gift for the holidays, but not if it means tacking on more debt, especially this year.
That's because credit card rates are now at a 30-year high, which cam make those holiday purchases very expensive.
Jeannie and Kayla Metcalfe were grabbing some of Target’s Black Friday deals, but watching their spending.
"I do not want a big bill, and I do not want to go into debt," Jenna Metcalfe said.
With no stimulus checks, no more child tax credits, and higher prices everywhere this year, they don't want to run up any debt.
"I am definitely going to try to watch the spending this year, especially with the economy," Kayla said. "Everything between groceries and gas is so expensive."
Think about how you will pay for every purchase
The holidays should be about cheer, not about debt. So while you are out shopping you shouldn't just be thinking about what you are buying, but how you'll be paying for it.
With average credit card rates now above 21 percent according to WalletHub, Nathan Grant of MoneyTips says the first rule of thumb is not relying on credit cards if you don't have the cash to pay off the balance.
"Don't look at your credit card as extra money," he warned. "Look at it as just a different way to pay for things that you can afford already."
Grant says retailers' credit cards are great for rewards and discounts, but only sign up for cards that fit your budget.
"Even though the interest rates on retailer store cards are usually even higher," he said, "If you're paying it off every month, that interest rate isn't even gonna be a factor."
He says when setting your holiday budget, don't forget about adding in food and travel costs.
And he says compare your budget to last year’s, when prices were lower and your checking account may have been flush with stimulus payments.
To avoid over-spending on gifts, Grant said:
- Split the cost with someone else, for instance a brother or sister.
- Give a DIY present, such as something you made yourself, or a service that you can perform, such as painting or yard clean-up.
- Use your unused gift cards to purchase gifts for other people (but be careful re-gifting gift cards, as you may be giving it back to the person who first gifted it to you).
Nathan Grant's last tip for credit cards is to look for other cost-saving perks, like price protection if prices drop later.
With price protection, he said, "then the credit cards are less of a worry and more of a tool that you can use this season."
Jeannie and Kayla Metcalfe hope to avoid credit card debt entirely.
"No debt in January, hopefully," Kayla said.
That way you don't waste your money.
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CRANBURY, N.J., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Visionet Systems, the leader of digitally enabled solutions that innovate, design, and deliver products and services in the cloud, announced today that its AtClose title production system has launched a new consumer portal aimed at empowering title companies to deliver an exceptional client experience by significantly reducing the closing time.
"AtClose is proven to successfully enhance the internal processes for title companies to enable faster closings and improved partner communications," said Adeel Ahmad, Senior Vice President and Head of AtClose at Visionet Systems. "We're now harnessing that success by launching a portal that benefits the consumer. The primary purpose of this portal is to ensure seamless communication between all parties involved and to keep them updated on the status of applications and other documents so that closings can be executed faster, and borrowers have an enhanced experience."
The new consumer portal enables real-time collaboration and visibility between the borrower and all major parties involved in the transaction, resulting in a faster, more seamless closing experience. The secure, digital workspace allows title companies, sellers, borrowers and real estate agents to manage the process by quickly sending, signing, and storing documents, contracts, and other agreements as well as obtaining information online through secured portal thereby reducing paperwork. AtClose also provides each of the involved parties with a real time status of the transaction.
AtClose is a fully secured, scalable, cloud-based title production system that streamlines operations through robust integrations and automation. For over two decades, Visionet has served the nation's top title and settlement organizations in identifying and innovating optimal solutions for long-term success.
For more information about AtClose and its all-new consumer portal, visit https://info.visionet.com/atclose_consumer_portal_2022.
AtClose, a wholly owned subsidiary of Visionet Systems, Inc., supports the nation's top title and settlement organizations. Meet the future of title technology with AtClose – scalable, configurable & driving automation. AtClose is an end-to-end cloud-based solution for facilitating title and settlement processing.
Visionet is a premier digital technology solutions company and for over 27 years, our innovation-centric approach has unlocked digital-driven success for hundreds of clients. Our strategic technological alliances with Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, and AWS, as well as accolades like Microsoft Partner of the Year 2021 and 2022 are a testament to our expertise in delivering seamless digital transition.
To learn more, visit www.AtClose.com.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Justin Herbert threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Austin Ekeler with 15 seconds left, then hit Gerald Everett for a 2-point conversion to give the Los Angeles Chargers a 25-24 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Ekeler just got into the end zone for the TD that moved the Chargers within one, capping a seven-play, 38-yard drive that lasted 1:33. The ball hit the pylon as he dived toward the corner.
That set up a bold call by coach Brandon Staley, who opted for the winning 2-pointer instead of a tying extra point. Herbert hit Everett for a clean catch despite plenty of traffic near the goal line.
Herbert completed 35 of 47 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns for the Chargers (6-5), who snapped a two-game skid while staying in the thick of the AFC playoff race. Arizona (4-8) has lost four of five, leaving it with almost no shot at making the NFC playoff field.
The Cardinals took a 24-17 lead early in the fourth quarter when Kyler Murray threw a short pass to James Conner for a 6-yard touchdown. The veteran running back had 25 carries for 120 yards, his first 100-yard rushing game in two seasons with the Cardinals.
Murray threw for 191 yards, two touchdowns and an interception and ran for a score after missing the previous two games with a hamstring injury.
Arizona got some big defensive stops in the fourth quarter but the offense couldn't run out the clock. The Cardinals got the ball back with 2:19 left, but went three-and-out while running just 31 seconds off the clock.
DeAndre Carter had a 20-yard punt return, and a 5-yard penalty set up the Chargers deep in Cardinals territory for the winning drive.
Arizona took a 17-14 lead into halftime when Murray ran for a 5-yard touchdown just before the break, capping a 14-play, 75-yard drive.
The Cardinals had their top two receivers, DeAndre Hopkins and Marquise Brown, on the field for the first time this season. Arizona jumped to a 7-0 lead late in the first quarter when Murray threw a pass over the middle to Hopkins, who spun out of a tackle and sprinted to the end zone for a 33-yard touchdown.
Matt Prater's 43-yard field goal on the Cardinals' next drive made it 10-0.
The Chargers quickly cut that margin midway through the second when Herbert threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Keenan Allen.
After Murray was intercepted, Herbert found Carter for a 33-yard touchdown and a 14-10 lead. Carter finished with seven catches for 73 yards along with the key punt return.
INJURIES
Chargers: WR Mike Williams (ankle) was inactive. ... RT Trey Pipkins III (knee) and C Corey Linsley (concussion) left the game in the second quarter.
Cardinals: WR Greg Dortch (thumb), WR Rondale Moore (groin) and CB Byron Murphy Jr. (back) were inactive. ... Arizona was missing four out its five starting offensive linemen. Left tackle D.J. Humphries (back) was put on injured reserve earlier this week.
UP NEXT
Chargers: At Las Vegas next Sunday.
Cardinals: After a bye, host New England on Monday, Dec. 12.
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Braves third. Ozzie Albies walks. Eddie Rosario called out on strikes. Ronald Acuna Jr. homers to center field. Ozzie Albies scores. Dansby Swanson singles to shallow left field. Austin Riley singles to center field. Dansby Swanson to third. Matt Olson strikes out swinging. Travis d'Arnaud walks. Austin Riley to second. Michael Harris II flies out to center field to Brandon Marsh.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Braves 2, Phillies 0.
Braves fourth. William Contreras singles to center field. Ozzie Albies singles to left field. William Contreras to second. Eddie Rosario flies out to deep right field to Matt Vierling. Ozzie Albies to second. William Contreras to third. Ronald Acuna Jr. doubles to deep left field. Ozzie Albies scores. William Contreras scores. Dansby Swanson grounds out to shortstop, Bryson Stott to Alec Bohm. Ronald Acuna Jr. to third. Austin Riley grounds out to shortstop, Bryson Stott to Alec Bohm.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Braves 4, Phillies 0.
Phillies fifth. Jean Segura grounds out to shortstop, Austin Riley to Matt Olson. Bryson Stott walks. Nick Maton singles to right field. Bryson Stott to third. Matt Vierling out on a sacrifice fly to deep right field to Ronald Acuna Jr.. Bryson Stott scores. Kyle Schwarber singles to right center field. Nick Maton to third. Alec Bohm walks. Kyle Schwarber to second. Bryce Harper lines out to right field to Ronald Acuna Jr..
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Braves 4, Phillies 1.
Phillies seventh. Bryson Stott singles to left field. Nick Maton strikes out swinging. Matt Vierling doubles to deep left field. Bryson Stott scores. Kyle Schwarber flies out to deep right center field to Michael Harris II. Alec Bohm grounds out to second base, Vaughn Grissom to Matt Olson.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Braves 4, Phillies 2.
Phillies eighth. Bryce Harper doubles to deep center field. J.T. Realmuto flies out to deep left field to Eddie Rosario. Brandon Marsh singles to right center field. Bryce Harper to third. Jean Segura strikes out swinging. Bryson Stott singles to center field. Brandon Marsh to second. Bryce Harper scores. Nick Maton pops out to Matt Olson.
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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 merger of Silverback Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company") (NasdaqGM: SBTX) with ARS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. pursuant to which Silverback shareholders will end up owning just approximately 37% of the combined company, subject to certain adjustments. KSF is seeking to determine whether the merger and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the merger 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/nasdaqgm-sbtx/ to learn more.
To learn more about KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General, visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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For patients diagnosed with cancer, is there one diet that is better than another? Dr. Dawn Mussallem, an integrative health specialist at Mayo Clinic, says it’s not about one food or diet, but rather a dietary pattern that emphasizes a predominant plant-based diet that is high in fiber. And, Dr. Mussallem says, 97% of Americans aren’t getting enough fiber.
“It’s the dietary pattern that the organizations, such as the American Institute for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Society, recommend is a plant-predominant diet that has an emphasis on whole foods,” says Dr. Mussallem.
That includes a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds,
“It’s good to have whole grains, not processed grains, but whole grains,” she says.
Skip ultraprocessed foods. Limit or avoid red and processed meats. The American Cancer Society says it’s unknown if there is a safe level of consumption for either red or processed meats.
“Processed meat is considered a carcinogen. And to replace some of that red meat component where folks get protein, you want to lean in on consumption of pulses,” says Dr. Mussallem.
Pulses include legumes, or beans, lentils and peas. You’ll add protein — and fiber.
“The American Institute for Cancer Research shows that for every 10-gram increase in fiber in the diet, you improve survival after cancer diagnosis by 13%,” she says.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The technical fouls were piling high in the third quarter. So was Devin Booker’s point total and the Phoenix Suns’ lead.
By the time the whistles finally stopped, the Suns were well on their way to 134-105 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night in a game that featured Klay Thompson’s first career ejection and seven technical fouls.
Booker scored 34 points and Deandre Ayton added 16 points and 14 rebounds.
“I thought emotionally, we kept it together when it was starting to get a little squirrelly,” Suns coach Monty Williams said. “We were able to make enough plays during that time where we could get back to solid.”
Both teams lost their cool at various times during the third quarter, with all of the technical fouls called in less than six minutes. Thompson received two quick technicals and was ejected after having words with Booker, who also received a technical because of the exchange.
At one point during the argument, Thompson held up four fingers to signify the four championships the Warriors have won over the past decade. Those rings didn’t help on Tuesday. The veteran guard finished with two points on 1-for-8 shooting, including 0 of 5 from 3-point range.
It was the five-time All-Star’s first career ejection in 651 regular season games.
“I love Klay Thompson, I have for a really long time,” Booker said. “But that doesn’t excuse us from being competitive and talking to each other. I’ve always admired his game, how he plays on both sides of the ball, and obviously the rings speak for themselves.
“But I’m going to bring it every time.”
Golden State’s Draymond Green and coach Steve Kerr, along with Phoenix players Chris Paul and Ayton also were whistled for technicals for various outbursts in the third, with most of that ire directed at the officials.
Said Green: “I’m not one to get into what guys are taking about on the floor. There was chirping on both ends.”
Thompson didn’t speak with the media following the game.
In the midst of the third-quarter chaos, the Suns were playing well and their lead which grew to 19 points by the end of the quarter. Without Thompson, the defending NBA champs were never able to mount a rally and the Suns kept a comfortable lead throughout the fourth.
Booker shot 10 of 19 from the field and 11 of 14 on free throws. The two-time All-Star added seven assists.
Steph Curry led the Warriors with 21 points. Jordan Poole scored 17 off the bench. Green added 14 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Kerr said Thompson simply got frustrated, which led to the ejection.
“His shot wasn’t going,” Kerr said. “Some decent looks early didn’t go and I thought he got a little frustrated. I love the competitiveness. Obviously, he took it too far with the ejection, but I love the fire. Klay is an incredible competitor. We need his energy.”
Phoenix used a 13-0 run midway through the first to take a 37-29 lead by the end of the quarter. Paul made a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to give the Suns a 72-66 lead at the break.
Booker scored 16 points in the first half while Ayton had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Poole led the Warriors with 14 first-half points.
The Suns improved to 3-1 for the season while the Warriors fell to 2-2.
“Once we got down, I thought we started jacking shots,” Kerr said. “We stopped moving the ball in the second half. Same thing happened against Sacramento the other night. We kind of lost our way.”
REUNION TIME
Suns backup guard Damion Lee played the Warriors for the first time since he signed with Phoenix during the offseason.
Lee played the previous four seasons with the Warriors, helping them win the title last season. He’s already made a mark with his new team, sinking the game-winning jumper in the season opener against the Mavericks.
Lee finished with five points in 15 minutes on Tuesday.
TIP-INS
Warriors: G Donte DiVincenzo (left hamstring) was not available. He’s averaging five points per game.
Suns: Forwards Ish Wainright (low back pain) and Jae Crowder (not with team) weren’t available. … Shot 60% (9 of 15) from 3-point range during the first half. … Backup center Jock Landale added 17 points on his 27th birthday.
UP NEXT
Warriors: Return home to host the Heat on Thursday.
Suns: Host the Pelicans on Friday.
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Program more critical than ever after new solar panel removal service offered
SAINT PAUL, Minn., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- All Energy Solar, a multi-state solar installation leader based in Minnesota, tackles waste from old or damaged solar panels with a recycling program that supports the company's green energy focus. Working with several providers, this commitment to recycling is uniquely important now that the company has launched a solar panel removal and reinstallation service in the Saint Paul area.
Solar panels are guaranteed to generate energy for 25 to 30 years; systems installed in the early 2000s are reaching the end of their warranty period in increasing numbers. Most of their components are steel, copper, aluminum, silicon, and other non-toxic materials that could potentially be reused, repurposed, or recycled.
"As a green energy company with a goal of reducing environmental harm, working with recyclers seemed like a natural choice," said Michael Allen, All Energy Solar's co-founder and chief executive officer. "Solar panel component recycling is relatively new, but it's vital to support as part of the solar energy industry. New technologies are being developed every day to make it more efficient and widely available."
Additional reasons why panels may require removal include storms, hail, wind, and other weather events that damage both solar panels and the structures on which they are installed. Sometimes just one solar panel must be replaced, while other times the whole system may need to come down to make way for a new roof before it can be reinstalled.
"We work closely with our customers who endure bad weather events impacting their solar panels. We're experienced in coordinating with insurance companies to make sure removal and replacements go seamlessly," said Jeff Blackwell, Vice President of Operations at All Energy Solar. "When it's time for them to be put back in place, it's a good opportunity for customers to consider upgrading to newer, higher-output products. Having reliable vendors to take care of the recyclable materials after project completion is an important part of that process while supporting our focus on clean, green energy through solar."
Agencies have recommended that Minnesota and other states adopt official collection and recycling programs for solar panels. Some e-waste recyclers accept them, but there isn't currently a program aimed at helping residents and companies know what to do with solar panels after they've reached the end of their warranty period.
"This is our part of closing the loop on the end-of-life considerations of solar energy, and we hope that others follow suit to support the advancement and expansion of e-waste recycling services," Allen noted.
All Energy Solar provides a full-service solar energy integration experience for residential, commercial, agricultural, and government customers seeking to make the transition to solar energy. With industry-leading certifications and full electrical and building licenses, All Energy Solar installs quality solar power systems at competitive prices and monitors and maintains the systems after installation. www.allenergysolar.com.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 2, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
308 PM CST Mon Jan 2 2023
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest and
western Texas.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING...
* WHERE...Portions of southwest and western Texas.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM CST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST /5 AM MST/
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Today, west winds 35 to 50 mph with gusts up to 70 mph
expected. Tuesday, west winds 45 to 65 mph with gusts up to 85
mph expected.
* WHERE...Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM CST /5 AM MST/ Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile
vehicles. Severe turbulence near the mountains will be hazardous
for low flying light aircraft.
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive.
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Southeastern De Soto Parish in northwestern Louisiana...
Northwestern Sabine Parish in northwestern Louisiana...
Southeastern Shelby County in eastern Texas...
Northwestern Sabine County in eastern Texas...
* Until 400 PM CST.
* At 311 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 8 miles northwest of Milam, or 23 miles southeast of
Center, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Converse around 340 PM CST.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Huxley, Pelican, Sexton, Toledo Bend Reservoir North, Oak Grove,
South Mansfield and Noble.
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
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PARKER, Colo. (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it’s monitoring a deer with a plastic pumpkin stuck on its head in Parker, Colorado. Wildlife officers were first called to the Parker Vista area earlier this week after someone noticed the odd sight.
“It can see and it can breathe,” wildlife officer Katie Doyle said. “But it can’t eat or drink.”
Doyle said wildlife officers are considering multiple options, including tranquilizing the deer to remove the object.
“The problem is it’s still mobile. So it’s hard for us to keep up with it and get it in a situation where we can safely remove it,” she said.
Are your holiday decorations safe for wildlife?
Doyle said it’s a good reminder to be mindful of holiday decorations. She recommended hanging holiday lights and other decorations that could get tangled in antlers at least 8 feet off the ground.
She said fake cobwebs and other Halloween decorations should be placed in areas where animals couldn’t unknowingly walk through.
“It’s really important that people are aware that if they live around wildlife that they have objects taken inside or not put in places where wildlife will get into it,” she said. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/colorado-deer-gets-plastic-pumpkin-stuck-over-its-snout/ | 2022-10-30 00:20:04 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/colorado-deer-gets-plastic-pumpkin-stuck-over-its-snout/ |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office has released a one-stop website for Arkansas tornado disaster recovery information.
HelpArkansas.com lists federal, statewide, regional and local supporting organizations and agencies. It also lists volunteer and charity opportunities in response to the March 31 tornadoes.
The website includes contact information and tips from Attorney General Tim Griffin for anyone who is a victim of scams related to relief efforts. The AG also lists contact information for scams related to FEMA relief.
The website will continue to be updated. | https://www.fox16.com/severe-weather-coverage/arkansas-opens-tornado-disaster-recovery-resource-website/ | 2023-04-03 18:16:36 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/severe-weather-coverage/arkansas-opens-tornado-disaster-recovery-resource-website/ |
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday said it has reached a verdict in Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who testified that Depp physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions.
The jury also has reached a verdict regarding a $100 million counterclaim Heard filed against Depp. Heard said she was defamed when Depp’s lawyer called her abuse allegations a hoax.
The verdicts were expected to be read inside the Virginia court at 3 p.m. Wednesday, but the judge sent the jury back because it had not completely filled out the verdict form. The seven-person civil jury had to come to a unanimous decision to reach each verdict. They deliberated for about 12 hours over three days.
Depp is suing his ex-wife for $50 million, accusing her of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim against the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax. Each accuses the other of destroying their career.
Testimony during the six-week trial has included lurid details of their short and volatile marriage. Heard testified that Depp physically or sexually assaulted her more than a dozen times. Depp said he never struck Heard, that she concocted the abuse allegations, and that she was the one who physically attacked him, multiple times.
Jurors must decide both claims based on whether or not the statements were made with “actual malice,” meaning they knew what they were saying was false, or were acting with a reckless disregard for the truth.
During closing arguments, both sides told the jury that a verdict in their favor would give their clients their lives back.
Depp hasn’t been waiting in Virginia for the decision. He’s spent the last few days on stage, singing and playing guitar with Jeff Beck in the United Kingdom. | https://www.koin.com/news/jury-reaches-verdict-in-johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-trial/ | 2022-06-01 19:23:40 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/jury-reaches-verdict-in-johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-trial/ |
It's a baby girl for Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers Hammer!
The Lone Ranger actor, 28, and his wife, 32, welcomed their daughter on Monday, Dec. 1, Hammer's rep confirms to E! News.
The rep first told People, "Both mom and baby are doing great!" the rep tells the mag. Additionally, a source close to the couple said that the proud new parents are "over the moon in love" with their bundle of joy and are looking forward to introducing her to family and friends.
Chambers was slightly overdue when her little girl arrived, as she'd recently told her Instagram followers that she was "#severaldayslate." She also posted an adorable photo of their puppy swaddled in a blanket to show that Hammer was practicing for the baby. "In the absence of baby, husband has taken to swaddling the Arch. Practice makes perfect," she wrote.
Hammer and Chambers were introduced through the actor's friend, artist Tyler Ramsey. "When we finally got together, Armie really wanted to get married," Chambers told Town & Country in 2012.
"He sat me down and said, 'Look, we don't have to do this. We could just go our own ways, and then one day you'll be 40 and divorced and we'll run into each other, and we'll laugh and go out to dinner and have this same connection, and we'll wonder why we wasted all of that time. Or we could just do it now and enjoy the ride.'" They didn't wait until their 40s, though, and the couple got married on May 22, 2010.
Chambers announced her pregnancy in June 2014. The couple spent the summer traveling across the U.S., making stops in Florida, New Mexico and Texas (where they live part-time). During a trip to Europe, they toured London and Barcelona. The actor also shot a new movie, Mine, in Corralejo, Fuerteventura.
The new parents are used to spending time apart, though they always make time for each other. "In L.A., my life centers around television, and in San Antonio, I focus on my bakery. Splitting my time between my two cities definitely requires a lot of travel and compartmentalization," Chambers, a co-owner of Bird Bakery and a chief correspondent for the Human Rights Foundation, told Haute Living. "My husband and I spend as much time together as possible, and he comes along to San Antonio as often as he can. We have a five-day rule that we try not to break, and FaceTime always makes things better!"
Hammer next appears in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., co-starring Henry Cavill.
Congratulations to the happy family! | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/602760/armie-hammer-and-elizabeth-chambers-welcome-a-baby-girl | 2022-09-02 21:38:37 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/602760/armie-hammer-and-elizabeth-chambers-welcome-a-baby-girl |
The subject of the majority of the questions at Thursday’s press conference with Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and General Manager Eric DeCosta was quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Jackson’s future with the team after playing out the final year of his rookie deal was one big topic and the knee injury that kept him out of the final six games of this season was another leading one. The combination of the two things led to some speculation that Jackson’s absence was tied to his injury, but Harbaugh said on Thursday that Jackson was close to returning and suggested the quarterback could have been in the mix for this week if the Ravens had advanced.
General Manager Eric DeCosta was asked directly about a link between the contract situation and Jackson’s absence. He said his “feeling is no” correlation between the two because Jackson was injured.
DeCosta also said he saw no reason why Jackson would not be ready to be the Ravens’ quarterback for Week One next season and Harbaugh said he didn’t think the injuries that ended Jackson’s last two seasons were a reason to be concerned about his availability in the future, but that’s one of many questions about the future in Baltimore that will be best answered by seeing Jackson back on the field after his extended absence. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/john-harbaugh-lamar-jackson-was-close-to-returning | 2023-06-30 11:05:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/john-harbaugh-lamar-jackson-was-close-to-returning |
DALLAS (KXAN) — The end of this month can’t come soon enough for Paul Lewis. He’ll get to hand over the keys to his house in a Dallas suburb and start a long drive north, where he’ll become the latest LGBTQ+ Texan to leave the state in hopes of finding a friendlier place to call home.
“Part of me hates the fact that I’m leaving Texas, the home I’ve always known,” Lewis said. “But part of me is also excited by the fact that I get to start a new chapter.”
The lifelong Texan committed in January to begin looking for somewhere else to move. He explained how two factors ultimately solidified that decision, pointing to the growing number of LGBTQ+ restrictions introduced this legislative session as well as the frequency of deadly mass shootings happening in the state. He noted his home in Carrollton is 20 minutes from the Allen Premium Outlets, where a gunman killed eight people in May. Plus, the governor recently signed a bill into law that would ban transgender minors from receiving certain health care options to help in their transition.
“I don’t feel like Texas is my home anymore,” Lewis said simply.
He ended up selling his home through a real estate service launched last summer by the Dallas-based broker, Bob McCranie, who sought to help LGBTQ+ people list their homes in Texas and then connect them with an agent in another state or even a different country where they’d like to go next. McCranie initially called it “Flee Texas,” but soon changed the name to reflect a broader group of people expressing interest in the service.
“What we discovered was we got so much response from other states that we decided to expand and become ‘Flee Red States,'” McCranie said Tuesday. “We’ve helped 27 groups of people so far get out.”
When someone goes to the website FleeRedStates.com, a message reads, “As LGBTQIA+ citizens in Red States, many of us feel at risk. Current laws are highly discriminatory against trans youth and their families. Our marriages, our families, and even our safety are at risk. If you feel the need to leave the jurisdiction of a Red State, let us help you sell your property here and connect with you an LGBTQIA+ or ally agent in a better location of your choice. We are licensed in Texas and we have affiliates in all 50 states and several countries.” People can share their contact information to create an account and start the process of connecting with a real estate expert.
“We’re calling it kind of the ‘rainbow Underground Railroad,'” McCranie said. “We’re trying to get people out quietly and get them to someplace where they feel safer.”
Gov. Abbott response
The governor held an event Thursday to sign a bill that will bar transgender women from playing on female sports teams at the collegiate level, which expands upon a law passed two years ago in Texas. KXAN asked Abbott to address its reporting that dozens of people are leaving the state because they said lawmakers keep pursuing these kinds of laws. He responded to a question about what he would say to LGBTQ+ Texans who assert they no longer feel welcome here anymore.
“Texas of course is a very welcoming state, and we want everybody to be here,” Abbott said. “So much so because the policies we promote, Texas over the past decade has been the leading state in the United States of America people choose to move to for our policies, and we will continue to advance policies that protect children, that protect women in sports but protect all Texans and their freedoms.”
After working in Texas real estate for more than 20 years, McCranie called it a “sad thing” to change his business to now help people leave the state rather than put down roots here. However, he said he has no plans to stop it anytime soon because he still worries which LGBTQ+ restrictions the state’s Republican leaders will pursue next.
“What we all want as human beings is to feel a level of safety, and if your state is making you feel unsafe, there’s no reason to stay,” McCranie said. “I can’t believe somebody could look at, let’s say, California or New York versus Texas and Florida and say that LGBTQ people feel more welcome in Florida and Texas. Do you think that’s a reasonable presumption? Of course not.”
Where to next
A woman who sold her home recently in the Austin area now resides in New Zealand, where she traveled to last week to reunite with her transgender son who’s in nursing school there. They decided to go somewhere overseas rather than another state because they’re concerned about a possible shift in the national political rhetoric against transgender rights.
McCranie told KXAN some of the people whom he helped through the Flee Red States service now live internationally, too, in places like Portugal, Mexico and Ireland. However, many of his clients moved somewhere else in the U.S.
When Lewis leaves the Dallas area at the end of the month, he’ll be bound for Michigan. He said it’s not only closer to some of his family, but state leaders there also worked to codify protections for the LGBTQ+ community. For example, earlier this year, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a law that expanded the state’s anti-discrimination policies to include sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Under Texas state law, those remain unprotected classes despite efforts to change that by mostly Democratic state lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advocates.
As he spends the next two weeks packing up his belongings, Lewis shared what he hopes Texas leaders will take from hearing how their policies are making him and other LGBTQ+ people flee the state.
“You should honestly be ashamed with the amount of injustice that you’re bringing into the state of Texas because that’s not my Texas. That’s not the Texas I grew up in,” Lewis said. “My Texas was you are proud to be from here. You helped your neighbor. You were loving and kind, and you’re turning into something else because my Texas doesn’t feel that way anymore. I feel more hate brewing in the state than I have my entire life, and your decisions are making it worse.”
It remains unclear whether legal challenges will emerge to some of the laws that Gov. Abbott signed this year. Several legal advocacy groups, though, already announced they planned to file a joint lawsuit against the state soon over the law that will ban gender-affirming care options for transgender minors. They argue it stops young people from accessing “medically necessary care.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/realtor-helps-lgbtq-texans-leave-state-through-rainbow-underground-railroad/ | 2023-06-16 00:02:52 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/realtor-helps-lgbtq-texans-leave-state-through-rainbow-underground-railroad/ |
MONTICELLO, Ind. (AP) — The state Department of Homeland Security says the cause of a northern Indiana house fire that killed a state trooper and her daughte r has been ruled undetermined.
Trooper Stephanie Thompson and Mya Thompson died Feb. 17 after a fire fully engulfed their Monticello home.
The scene was examined by department investigators as well as investigators and engineers from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the agency said.
"Due to the house being a total loss no definitive origin and cause could be identified,” the department told WRTV-TV in a statement Thursday.
Sgt. Thompson was a 23-year veteran of the State Police and the wife of White Circuit Judge Jason Thompson.
Monticello police and several fire departments responded to the fire about 2 a.m. Thursday and arrived to find the home fully engulfed in flames, State Police said.
The home is located near Lake Shafer in Monticello, about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) north of Lafayette.
State police and the Indiana Fire Marshal’s office are investigating the cause of the fire. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Cause-not-found-for-house-fire-that-killed-17575955.php | 2022-11-11 02:14:32 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Cause-not-found-for-house-fire-that-killed-17575955.php |
BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career.
Back again and with a 3-2 series lead on the Celtics, Curry says he’ll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night.
“You just understand what the nerves are like,” Curry said. “At the end of the day, once you get out there, you just have to be in the moment. You got to be present as much as possible, not worry about the consequences of a win or a loss. The only opportunity you have is that 48 minutes.”
The Warriors’ core of Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green is still around from the 2015 championship run. They’re on the verge of capturing their fourth title in eight seasons with new additions to the floor — like Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole — who have never been in this position.
Curry’s advice to them: Lie to yourself a little bit.
“The more you can trick your mind into being in the moment and staying there, that’s the best advice I can give anybody in that situation,” he said. “Because it’s going to be the hardest game you probably ever played in your career because of what the stakes are.”
The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who let the turnover demons that have haunted them at times throughout the postseason prevent them from seizing a commanding 3-1 series lead.
Boston limited Curry to his lowest scoring output of the finals in Game 5, but couldn’t overcome 18 turnovers. The Celtics dropped to 1-7 this postseason when committing 16 turnovers or more — and lost consecutive games for the first time since the end of March.
But they have a chance to force Game 7 — and the chance is coming at the Garden, where they are 6-5 in the playoffs.
The mood at the close of Wednesday’s practice session was loose, with players smiling and joking while getting up some shots. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said the optimism comes from the team’s extremely recent playoff history.
Boston’s path to the finals has included Game 7 victories over Milwaukee in the second round and Miami in the conference finals. The Celtics entered the finals as only the 12th team in league history to win back-to-back Game 7s in the preceding rounds.
“In those moments, we just responded. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I think just our will to want to win, just trying to figure it out,” Tatum said. “I think my thought process, as it was in that game, Game 7 against the Heat, it was just do whatever it takes to win.”
That, and reminding himself and teammates of the fact that there is still basketball left to play.
“It’s the first to four. It’s not over with,” Tatum said. “So as long as it’s not over with, you got a chance.”
MY BALL
Tatum and Green had one of the more memorable moments in Game 5, when Tatum refused to let Green take the ball from him as he walked to the bench during timeout.
The play was an example of the head games Green has tried to play against a young Celtics team throughout the finals.
On Wednesday, Tatum clutched a basketball throughout his news conference. He was asked by a reporter if he was still keeping it away from Green.
“Oh, like the other day?” Tatum asked. “Yeah, It’s my ball.”
ENOUGH TALK
One thing Celtics coach Ime Udoka wants to eliminate heading into Game 6 is his team complaining to referees about calls.
Boston picked up a pair of technical fouls in the loss — one in the first quarter by Udoka and another by Marcus Smart early in the fourth. Smart’s technical was followed immediately by an offensive foul call against him, which led to a 3-pointer by Golden State.
“I think in general just too many conversations being had at times. Feels like after foul calls or dead balls, free throws, timeouts, there’s somebody talking to a ref,” Udoka said. “We’ve got to spend our energy on the game, and everything else going in between, other than the referees.”
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As night falls on Baghdad, Iraqi forces set fire to oil-filled trenches in an effort to shield the capital city in smoke. Iraqis brace for a new aerial onslaught following sporadic daylight bombing. Images of Saddam Hussein fill Iraqi television, but officials reject questions about the Iraqi leader's status or whereabouts. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.
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Man exhibiting mental crisis charged in unprovoked shooting of pregnant woman in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — A man who police say was exhibiting signs of a mental health crisis after he shot and killed a pregnant restaurant owner in her car in downtown Seattle this week was charged Friday with first-degree murder in her death, and prosecutors said they are seeing whether they can also charge him for the death of the baby girl the woman was carrying.
Cordell M. Goosby, 30, was arrested Tuesday soon after witnesses said he ran up to a car occupied by Eina Kwon, 34, and her husband, Sung Kwon, 37, the owners of a sushi restaurant near the city’s famed Pike Place Market, and started firing a stolen gun into the vehicle without provocation.
Eina Kwon, who was eight months pregnant, was killed. Sung Kwon suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the fetus died soon after emergency delivery. The King County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday that state law allows murder charges to be brought if the victim was “born alive”; it is reviewing medical records to determine whether a murder charge is warranted for the baby’s death.
The prosecutor’s office sought that Goosby be held on $10 million bail. It was not immediately clear if Goosby had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Goosby is also charged with attempted murder in the attack on Sung Kwon.
“The defendant’s actions left a family and community shattered,” senior deputy prosecutor Aubony G. Burns wrote in charging papers. “Victim S. Kwon and his family lost not just a wife, a mother, and a daughter when the defendant killed E. Kwon, but they lost an innocent baby girl.”
The couple was stopped at an intersection on their way to work at their restaurant, Aburiya Bento House, when Goosby ran up to them and started shooting, authorities said. He emptied the 9 mm handgun into the car and took off, throwing the gun down. When officers found him nearby, he put his hands up and said, “I did it, I did it,” police said.
In an interview following his arrest, police reported, Goosby told detectives that he had a history of mental health care and that he was being harassed by strangers who were spreading rumors about his sexuality and saying that he had done something to his caseworker.
“He did appear to Detectives to be in some form of crisis whether genuine or knowingly performed,” police wrote in a probable cause statement.
Goosby had no criminal history in Washington state, police said, but according to charging papers, he said he was wanted out of Indiana for a 2020 domestic battery case and has felony convictions from Illinois for drug possession and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Prosecutors said they were trying to confirm that information before adding a charge of unlawful possession of a weapon.
The gun had been reported stolen to the Lakewood Police Department, south of Seattle, authorities said.
It was not clear how long Goosby had been living in Washington, but he had a driver’s license from Washington state. Police said his last known address was an apartment building near downtown Seattle.
His arraignment is set for next Thursday, when the court will formally inform his attorneys he has been charged. But as is routine, Goosby is not expected to appear in court, according to Casey McNerthney, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. Goosby waived his appearance at an initial hearing earlier this week.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said Thursday that he had spoken with Sung Kwon.
“Eina was a leader in our community and business owner, running Aburiya Bento House with her family,” Harrell said. “What was supposed to be a joyful time for the Kwon family has turned into an unimaginable nightmare caused by senseless gun violence.”
The shooting has led to an outpouring of grief for the Kwons, who also have a toddler.
A crowdfunding campaign to support the family and bring relatives from Korea to the funeral has raised more than $160,000.
Mourners have placed flowers and other remembrances at their now-shuttered restaurant, including Eunji Seo, the consulate general for the Republic of Korea in Seattle.
The Kwons opened Aburiya, which serves traditional and fusion sushi, in 2018. The restaurant is popular with tourists and downtown workers seeking lunch deals.
Michael Bufano, part owner of Mack Gallery, an art gallery next to the restaurant, said Eina Kwon would greet him with a smile in the mornings and bring him lunch if he was too busy — “the kind of people everybody wants to have as part of your community and as friends.”
For random violence to strike two people who seemed to have everything going for them was tough to stomach — especially as the neighborhood seemed to feel safer recently, with the city taking steps to address mental health issues and drug addiction, he said.
“I think we’re on the right track and that’s why this hit so hard, I think,” Bufano said.
Eina Sung’s death marked the 29th homicide investigated by Seattle police so far this year, according to The Seattle Times. Seattle police investigated 55 killings last year, up from 41 the year before that.
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Associated Press videographer Manuel Valdes contributed.
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Pregnant woman describes catching toddler who fell from window
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – A 2-year-old boy is safe thanks to his pregnant neighbor’s quick reaction as he fell from a second-story window, according to police in Des Moines.
Kyrie Jones was walking her dog when she noticed the toddler had popped out the screen and was hanging out the window.
“I noticed the little boy was bending over the edge of the window, and he was throwing things out the window,” Jones said. “I went to the neighbor’s and knocked and rang the doorbell.”
Jones said the toddler’s mother never answered the front door, so she called police and ran back to keep an eye on the window.
“When I came back out, the baby was holding on the ledge, hanging,” Jones said.
She stood underneath him just in case he fell and started yelling for help, hoping someone inside might hear her.
There was no response from the child’s mother as he dangled from the window and then lost his grip.
“It looks like the baby fell out the window, but the caller caught the child,” police scanner audio said.
“I think the adrenaline kicked in and I didn’t feel anything,” Jones said. “His Pamper fell off so I wrapped him up in my house coat and within two minutes, two or three minutes, the cops showed up.”
At 33 weeks pregnant, Jones saved the child’s life.
“I am just glad I was there at the right time,” Jones said through tears. “I can’t imagine what it would have been like to walk out a couple of minutes later and see a baby on the concrete.”
Police said detectives and social services are following up. It is unclear if the child’s mother will face any charges.
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JENNINGS, Mo. (KTVI) – Delivering a baby is not for everyone, but do not tell that to 10-year-old Miracle Moore.
Miracle lived up to her name and helped her mom, Viola Fair, deliver her baby sister, Jayla, with the help of a 911 dispatcher.
“She did awesome,” said Scott Stranghoener. “Couldn’t ask for anything better.”
Stranghoener was on the phone with Miracle for 10 1/2 minutes, walking her through the delivery on Oct. 22.
Miracle’s mom went into labor at their Jennings, Missouri, home. There was not enough time to get to the hospital, so Miracle dialed 911 and walked her mom through the delivery of her baby sister.
Miracle was awarded a certificate from county dispatch Wednesday for her bravery and courage during the delivery. She said her favorite part of the delivery was being the first person to see Jayla.
Stranghoener said Miracle was calm and collected during the phone call. At one point, she could be heard telling her mom to lie down with a firm tone, maybe the only time she will ever boss around her mom.
“Miracle said if you don’t want to lay down, I can help you lay down,” Fair said. “I really appreciate that, but I couldn’t get down there until it was time to deliver the baby.”
The experience has given Miracle a story that is already shaping her aspirations as an adult.
“I want to be a doctor,” she said. “I want to be that kind of doctor,” she said, pointing at the emergency medical technicians. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/a-miracle-delivery-10-year-old-helps-deliver-baby-sister/ | 2022-11-17 17:09:27 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/a-miracle-delivery-10-year-old-helps-deliver-baby-sister/ |
The 2023 Fisker Ocean electric crossover finally entered production this month at contractor Magna Steyr’s factory in Graz, Austria. Now Fisker has released a short time-lapse video of the process.
The roughly three-minute video shows a pretty typical automotive assembly process. Robots weld and bond pieces of metal to form a body shell, which is then carried to different stations for painting and fitment of different components until it can roll off the assembly line as a finished vehicle.
Robots handle a significant amount of this assembly work, including installation of the Ocean’s glass roof and battery pack, but human workers also do a lot—including installing much of the interior.
Going with contract manufacturing allowed Fisker to avoid the expense of building its own factory, as well as the headaches that EV firms like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid have experienced in ramping up production of their first models. Even established automakers sometimes outsource production of certain models. The same Austrian factory that builds the Ocean also assembled the Jaguar I-Pace.
Magna also supplied the platform for the Ocean, which is married to a Fisker-designed body first shown in concept form at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Novel features include a California Mode that drops the side windows and rear tailgate window simultaneously, and a Limo Mode that allows rear-seat passengers to control temperature and audio.
Fisker showed the production-intent version at the 2021 Los Angeles auto show, quoting a $37,499 base price for the entry-level Sport version. That nets a single-motor front-wheel-drive powertrain with 275 hp, a 0-60 mph time in 6.9 seconds, and an estimated 250-mile range.
Fisker also plans to offer mid-level Ultra and range-topping Extreme versions. The latter’s dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain is rated at 550 hp, enabling 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds, Fisker says. Fisker also previously quoted a 350-mile range and $68,999 base price for this model.
The first 5,000 Oceans will be Ocean One special editions based on the Extreme trim level, but with unique styling features like 22-inch F3 SlipStream wheels and Big Sur Blue paint. All 5,000 sold out in 30 days, with customers putting down $5,000 deposits to secure one. Fisker claims to have more than 63,000 Ocean reservations in total, and is reportedly considering expanding production, possibly with a second manufacturing site in the U.S.
This wouldn’t be the first Fisker EV slated for U.S. production. The company has tapped Foxconn to build a more affordable model code-named Project Pear in Ohio starting in 2024, at the same factory slated to build the Lordstown Endurance electric pickup truck.
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(The Hill) — New England is bracing for “generational” cold weather over the weekend, as an intense Arctic front is expected to bring “bitter wind chills” to the region through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
“This is an epic, generational Arctic outbreak,” a branch of NWS in Caribou, Maine, said, per CNN. “The air mass descending on the area Friday into Friday night is the coldest air currently in the Northern Hemisphere.”
The cold blast is expected to produce wind chills of -50 degrees Fahrenheit and colder, as well as temperatures 15 to 35 degrees below average in the upper Midwest and Northeast, according to NWS’s Weather Prediction Center.
NWS Caribou warned on Twitter that between -50 and -60 degrees can cause frostbite to bare skin in just two to five minutes.
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University of Florida officials have no ‘standing’ to review Ladapo’s COVID vaccine guidance
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A group of University of Florida medical-school faculty members challenged controversial guidance by state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccinations, but a university official said Wednesday the guidance is outside the scope of Ladapo’s work with the school.
Ladapo, who holds a faculty position in the UF College of Medicine, was tapped in September 2021 by Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve as surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health. Ladapo has become a controversial national figure because of his positions on issues such as COVID-19 vaccines and mask requirements.
In October, Ladapo issued guidance advising males ages 18 through 39 to avoid getting shots with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. The Department of Health published an analysis that showed an increase “in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death” among males in that age group roughly a month after receiving the shots.
The report by the UF College of Medicine’s Faculty Council Committee, first reported by The Washington Post, was shared with medical-school faculty Tuesday. It outlined seven “major critiques” of Ladapo’s vaccine guidance.
Among the critiques was an assertion that Ladapo’s analysis committed “reporting bias by cherry-picking results; focusing only on evidence that supports his stance, ignoring contradicting evidence, and failing to appropriately acknowledge the limitations of his own data set.”
The committee said it has “concerns” that Ladapo violated UF’s research integrity policy and that the issue had been referred to the school’s research integrity officer. But David Norton, vice president for research at the university, said in a statement Wednesday that UF’s research integrity office has “no standing” to look into the committee’s accusations.
“As this work was done by the Dr. Joseph Ladapo in his role as the state of Florida Surgeon General and not in his role as a UF faculty member, the UF Office of Research Integrity, Security and Compliance has no standing to consider the allegations or concerns regarding research integrity set forth in the Faculty Council task force report,” Norton said.
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HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Sure, it’s been a wild NASCAR Cup season, with seemingly everyone in the field capable of taking the checkered flag.
Through all the chaos, one driver has emerged as the clear favorite.
Chase Elliott is the guy everyone else is chasing.
The 26-year-old became the first three-time winner in the Cup series with a thrilling victory at his home track Sunday, making a timely block on the final lap to fend off Corey LaJoie’s bid to become the most unlikely winner yet in a year filled with surprises.
Elliott checked off another box on his increasingly impressive resume with the win at Atlanta Motor Speedway, joining his father Bill as the only Georgia-born drivers to take first at the historic track.
That made for a raucous celebration in front of the main grandstand, where Elliott celebrated with a crowd that cheered every move by the No. 9 Chevrolet.
But setting emotions aside, it was another masterful performance by NASCAR’s steadiest driver — the kind that have become the norm rather than the exception.
“I just saw a look in his eye all day,” said four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon, now the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. “You could hear it in his voice over the radio. He was just very focused and determined.”
Elliott won the first two stages of the Atlanta race. He led 96 of the 260 laps, more than twice as many as anyone else on the treacherous, high-banked track. And at the end, after surging by LaJoie with just under two laps to go and taking the white flag still out front, he aggressively slid up the track going into Turn 1 to prevent LaJoie from pulling off the same move.
LaJoie, with only one top-five finish in his career, stayed on the gas, ran out of room and smacked the wall. Elliott sped away unscathed, his victory assured as soon as the yellow flag came out.
“Just a lot of motivation behind it and confidence coming into it,” Gordon said. “And now the confidence is only going to build along with the team. That’s a great combination to have at this point in the season.”
Elliott was a bit apologetic about his closing move, but LaJoie had no complaints.
It was just good, hard racing — and Elliott is as good as anyone in that department.
“I hate to throw a megablock like that,” he said. “But, heck, we’re on the last lap. … The guy is coming with a massive run. Am I taking a chance of crashing when I threw it up in front of him? Absolutely. But I didn’t think I was going to get another shot at him if I let him grab the lead right there.”
In addition to his wins at Dover, Nashville and Atlanta, Elliott has a runner-up finish at Road America, a fourth-place showing at Circuit of the Americas and a fifth-place result from Darlington.
He has seven other top-10 finishes and just missed another with an 11th at Phoenix. He has only placed outside the top 20 four times in 19 races.
What makes Elliott’s performance even more impressive is that it’s come in a season with 13 different winners already, including five drivers claiming their first career victory.
“There have been a lot of winners,” Kurt Busch said, “but Chase Elliott has been that consistent rock.”
With a comfortable lead in the point standings and a playoff spot all locked up, Elliott surely has his sights on a second Cup championship to add to the one he captured in 2020.
But crew chief Alan Gustafson said it’s far too soon to start looking ahead. There’s still seven races to go in the regular season, beginning with next weekend’s event on the 1.058-mile oval at Loudon.
“A lot of things can happen,” Gustafson said. “Just focus on trying to improve. There’s still things we can do better.”
Elliott has never won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, managing one top-five showing in eight Cup appearances.
Of course, the Dawsonville native had a similar record on his home track before Sunday’s victory.
Sporting a mustache that appears modeled after Atlanta Braves rookie pitcher Spencer Strider, Elliott hopes to carry on what’s been a winning run for sports in his home state.
The Braves are the reigning World Series champions. The Georgia Bulldogs won college football’s national title in January.
A few weeks ago, Elliott made a promotional appearance in Atlanta with both teams’ championship trophies, along with the Cup he won two years ago.
“The way the fans, the way the Atlanta Braves organization and the University of Georgia have all just kept me as part of the family is really special and meaningful to me,” Elliott said. “Ultimately, I’m just a fan of them. I’ve grown up watching them. I think it was really cool to include me and my team.”
Actually, he fits right in.
Who knows? Elliott may have another trophy to display before the year is done.
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, announced it has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with SAP, enabling UST to integrate SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) into its Cogniphi AI Vision platform, which will be subsequently marketed as UST Sentry Vision AI. The offering will help build predictive, contextual and analytical capabilities into retail and manufacturing operations through advanced video analytics, as an SaaS-based packaged solution that can easily be integrated with SAP S/4HANA® and RISE with SAP.
UST Sentry Vision AI is a cutting-edge, vision-based artificial intelligence solution that can be applied to build predictable patterns that help reduce operational wastage, monitor performance, identify revenue leakage and automate complex business processes. With UST Sentry Vision AI, businesses can leverage digital vision data and video analytics to help build a competitive edge. Integrated with SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud, UST's artificial intelligence-based vision platform can enable and accelerate the intelligent digital enterprise.
Chris Botha, Senior Vice President, SAP Practice, UST, said, "We are excited to take our partnership with SAP to the next level and we are committed to providing our clients with a transformational offering. UST Sentry Vision AI will enable them to embrace the Industry 4.0 movement and make their factories smarter and transform retail into a touch-free experience."
Rohith Raveendranath, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cogniphi Technologies, said, "This partnership, which allows us to integrate SAP BTP into our Cogniphi AI Vision platform (marketed as UST Sentry Vision AI), will strengthen the offering and provide the power of vision intelligence to companies in various sectors like manufacturing, retail, and healthcare, among others."
Chris Ritterhern from the Center of Excellence, SAP Business Technology Platform, said, "It's exciting to have UST embark on this OEM agreement with SAP. The company's experience in supply chain and focus on Industry 4.0 – along with its innovative understanding of robotic technology as woven into business processes for SAP technologies – is a great foundation to bring new solutions to our customers."
Leveraging its partnership with SAP, UST is working to bring about the business transformation customers need to achieve greater speed, agility, and integration.
Integrating with SAP BTP, UST Sentry Vision AI helps businesses:
- Enable faster and more accurate yield reporting in real-time
- Reduce reliance on trained eyes to detect defects, providing flexibility to the operations team to use a low-skilled workforce
- Drive accurate work-in-progress inventory reporting and compliance to targets
- Measure and track how customers interact with the aisle in a showroom
- Detect and automate the replenishment of store shelf space
Read for more information on UST-Sentry-Vision-AI and SAP services from UST.
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