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Leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and other proprietary technologies to analyze video and page content
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Connatix, the leading video technology company for publishers and advertisers today officially introduces a first of its kind contextual offering named Deep Contextual.
Deep Contextual is the most intuitive contextual targeting offering on the market that leverages AI-powered deep learning, advanced computer vision, natural language processing and other proprietary technologies to analyze video and page content, providing deeper insights and contextual categories for smarter and more effective targeting. Connatix has continued to test its contextual targeting offerings with a select group of advertisers since 2020, and today announced that Deep Contextual is officially available to all advertising partners.
"Deep Contextual is not just a cookieless solution or something that will replace behavioral targeting," said David Kashak, CEO and co-founder of Connatix. "We believe that the future will be contextual and behavioral targeting working together for maximum impact. Deep Contextual will provide deeper insights about video and page content to give advertisers the tools they need to make smarter decisions about what is suitable for individual brand and campaign goals. We aren't marketing this as a brand safety solution, but rather a tech-driven tool in the brand suitability decision making process."
As the video player technology for 4000+ leading publishers including The Associated Press, Accuweather, McClatchy and Reuters, Connatix offers unique, proprietary inventory and engaged audiences that advertisers would not be able to target without leveraging Connatix's technology. This gives advertisers more control over exactly where their ads are running to ensure brand and content alignment when scaling campaigns.
"We partnered with Connatix on an advanced conquesting campaign for a national, leading automotive company. Leveraging Deep Contextual, we targeted competitive brand content online to ensure that the brand's video ads appeared alongside relevant automotive content, reaching the audiences that were researching vehicles in our competitive category," said Jessica Griffith, Media Solutions Manager at Goodway Group. "We see a great deal of opportunity with contextual targeting in the future, especially with the help of tech-driven tools like Connatix's Deep Contextual that allow our teams to make smarter decisions that maximize budgets and exceed campaign goals. We saw some of our highest video performance (78% for both VCR and viewability) against our Connatix contextual conquesting tactic, indicating that the relevant environments were driving better engagement with our message."
Connatix Deep Contextual uses AI (including deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision) to analyze audio, text, metadata, and videos in real time. After extracting multimedia data points, a knowledge graph contextualizes and classifies the outputs using a real-world understanding of media content, trends and connections between topics to derive insights about notable brands, celebrities, language sentiment, and content categories/subcategories that are either mentioned or seen. The end result is a contextual solution smart enough to know when a video about Elon Musk should also be tagged as Tesla, and when it should be categorized as business vs. green technology, for example.
So far, the Deep Contextual technology has resulted in 100+ contextual categories for advertisers to target. As of May 2022, Connatix had over 1.77B+ ad impressions with a contextual category, and on average, campaigns using Deep Contextual saw increases across metrics including viewability, VCR, interaction rate and CTR when compared to campaigns with no contextual targeting applied. The success of contextual targeting has also led Connatix's advertising business to see a 327% YOY increase in ad spend from deals compared to the first half of 2021. Additionally, Connatix was honored in the 2022 AdExchanger's Top 50 Programmatic Player awards for its Deep Contextual offering and ability to trailblaze a new generation of video experiences that are optimized for advertiser success.
Connatix is a video technology company for publishers and advertisers. We believe in the power of engaging content and are on a mission to help publishers and advertisers deliver successful videos without compromise. With a cutting-edge video player, optimization engine, and suite of turn-key video monetization formats, publishers can amplify video revenue while delivering engaging experiences. With first-to-market video capabilities, Connatix sits at the forefront of content innovation and is building a new generation of video experiences that are optimized for publisher and advertiser success. Connatix works with over 500 publishers across 4,000 sites and 1,000+ advertisers worldwide and was named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Company, a finalist in the Digiday Media Awards for Best Contextual Offering, one of the fastest growing companies on the Inc. 5000 list, and has been recognized as an AdExchanger Programmatic Player for two consecutive years. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Miami, Florida, and Chicago, Illinois.
Media Contact: Mariah Stein, mariah.stein@connatix.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City-owned golf course managed by former President Donald Trump’s business is expected to host a Saudi Arabia-supported women’s tournament in October, city officials said Friday.
The plan to host the Aramco Team Series at the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx comes after New York City’s attempt to cancel Trump’s contract to run the course was thrown out by a judge in April.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio said shortly after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that he was canceling Trump’s contracts to run the golf course and several Central Park concessions. The Democratic mayor said the city had the legal right terminate a contract with a company whose leaders are engaged in criminal activity such as inciting an insurrection.
Manhattan state court Judge Debra James ruled that city’s claim that the Trump Organization had breached the contracts lacked any legal foundation.
The Aramco Team Series, first played in 2020 as the Saudi Ladies Team International, is financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The Saudi fund is also backing the LIV Golf tour, set up as a rival to the PGA Tour, which played a tournament at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey course last month.
Some family members of Sept. 11 victims who blame Saudi Arabia for the 2001 terror attacks criticized Trump for hosting the Saudi-backed tour.
The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the attacks.
Messages seeking comment about Aramco’s Oct. 13-15 tournament in New York City were sent to the Trump Organization and the Aramco Team Series.
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Expands Liberty's Multifamily Real Estate Workforce Solutions Offering into Michigan
HOUSTON, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Liberty Group ("Liberty" or "the Company"), a leading provider of specialty temporary staffing, executive search, and employee screening services to the multifamily residential real estate industry, announced today that it has acquired the multifamily-focused temporary staffing and direct hire placement services division of Full House Marketing, Inc. of Michigan ("Full House Michigan"). Full House Michigan, led by Leah Brewer, will retain and continue to offer its training, consulting, mystery shopping, and lease-up services targeting the multifamily industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Liberty is a portfolio company of The Halifax Group ("Halifax"), a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm that partners with management to invest in lower middle-market businesses.
This acquisition expands Liberty's market-leading service offering into Michigan, a new geographic territory for the Company. Full House Michigan's temporary staffing and direct hire services team members, led by Chris King-Dye, have joined Liberty and will lead its Michigan operations under The Liberty Group brand on a go-forward basis.
"We are thrilled to expand our service offering into the key market of Detroit as well as the greater Michigan area," said Matthew Smith, CEO of Liberty. "Full House Michigan has provided its multifamily clients with hands-on, customized service for over twenty-five years, and we're excited to partner with its temporary staffing and direct hire services team at Liberty to continue to offer mission critical staffing solutions to multifamily clients in the region."
"We are delighted to support Liberty as the Company executes on its strategic growth plan, and we remain committed to expanding Liberty's geographic service offering to better serve national and local clients," said Davis Hostetter, Principal at Halifax.
About The Liberty Group
The Liberty Group provides temporary staffing, executive search, and employee screening services to clients in the multifamily residential real estate industry. The Company, which was founded in 1977 and is based in Houston Texas, currently operates in 34 markets across 27 states. For more information, visit www.thelibertygroup.com.
About The Halifax Group
Founded in 1999, The Halifax Group is a private equity firm that partners with managers and entrepreneurs to recapitalize and invest in lower middle-market businesses with total enterprise values generally between $100 million and $300 million. Halifax specializes in equity recapitalizations, corporate carve-outs, and management buyouts and invests across a variety of industries, including health and wellness, outsourced business services, and franchising. The firm is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and maintains an office in Raleigh, NC. For more information, please visit www.thehalifaxgroup.com.
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HOUSTON (AP)For years, as Dusty Baker chased his first World Series title as a manager, the former big league outfielder would always say if he won one he’d like to win two.
Baker will get a chance to do just that after he agreed to a one-year contract with the Houston Astros.
”How many times in your life do you say something and then have the opportunity to fulfill it,” Baker said Wednesday. ”I wasn’t just talking. I meant what I said. I love keeping my word. So, hey man we’ve got a chance to win back to back and this is what I’d like to do.”
The 73-year-old Baker earned his first World Series championship as a manager in his 25th season as a skipper when the Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games Saturday. The days since then have been a ”whirlwind” for Baker, who has been packing to head home to California and said he has about 1,500 texts and countless emails he hasn’t had a chance to read.
With everything he has going on, it was good that it didn’t take long for Baker and team owner Jim Crane to agree to a new contract. Crane said the discussion was a quick one, lasting only about 15 minutes.
”He wanted another year so that’s what we gave him,” Crane said. ”He’s a legend and he’s really done a lot for the team.”
Things aren’t so straightforward for general manager James Click, whose contract also expired at the end of the season. Click said Tuesday night at the general managers’ meetings in Las Vegas that he was having discussions about his future with Crane.
”We’re in discussions and when he gets back, we’ll complete those discussions,” Crane said.
Baker also won the World Series as a player on the 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers. Although he always said he wanted to win more than one title as a manager once he won one, he did take a little time to reflect after Saturday’s win and make sure he wanted to return for another season.
”I’d be going against what I was destined to do if I did anything else at this point in time,” he said. ”I prayed on it and my answer was: `Hey man, get your butt back out there and manage again.”’
Click and Baker both joined the team in 2020 to replace general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch, who were fired in the aftermath of Houston’s sign-stealing scandal.
Crane raved about Baker’s strong presence in leading the team and trying to rebuild the image of the franchise after the cheating scandal.
”The day he walked in the door, he was very calm and certainly has a ton of experience,” Crane said. ”And he did a great job in kind of settling things down, getting everybody focused on playing baseball and winning games.”
Baker took over for the COVID-19-shortened season. The Astros squeaked into the postseason as an AL wild card before heating up in the playoffs and coming one win shy of reaching the World Series.
The Astros won 95 games in 2021 and Baker made his first trip to the Series since 2002 with the Giants but came up short again as Houston fell to Atlanta in six games.
This season Houston won 106 games for the second-best record in franchise history. It captured its second World Series title and first since the scandal-tainted 2017 championship.
Along with the contracts of Click and Baker, the Astros also are dealing with several player contracts. They declined a $10 million option on first baseman Trey Mancini in favor of a $250,000 buyout and declined a $13 million option on reliever Will Smith in favor of a $1 million buyout.
Ace Justin Verlander is expected to decline his $25 million player option for next season and become a free agent Thursday.
”We’ve been talking to him and we’re working on it,” Crane said. ”We’re going to do our best to try to keep him.”
Baker is 230-154 in his three regular seasons in Houston. He is 28-14 in the postseason with the Astros, tying Hinch (28-20) for most playoff wins in franchise history.
Baker, who turns 74 in June, is the oldest manager to win a World Series. Despite his age, he’s not ready to say next season will be his last.
”I’ve got work to do,” he said. ”You can’t be satisfied with where you are or else you’ll never get past where you are right now. My thing is to win this pennant again next year and then I’ll tell you where I am next year at this point in time.”
Whenever he does hang it up, he has a strong case for the Hall of Fame. Baker is the 12th manager in major league history to reach 2,000 wins and the first Black man to do it. Ten of the 11 other managers who have accumulated at least 2,000 wins are in the Hall of Fame. Bruce Bochy (2,003), who isn’t yet eligible, is the only exception.
Baker said he isn’t thinking about that possibility yet with so much work to be done.
”I love winning,” he said. ”I’m just telling you, I love winning probably more than anything else. I’m spoiled by winning. And so that’s what I plan on doing – doing some more winning.”
He was, however, tickled to learn that some of his toothpicks are already headed to the Hall of Fame along with his Game 2 jersey and Game 6 wristbands as artifacts from the World Series.
But he joked that the fact that his affinity for chewing toothpicks during games had become so well-known that the Hall of Fame wanted some didn’t take away the sting from another incident with his toothpicks.
”My agent, a few years ago contacted them to see if I get a toothpick endorsement,” he said. ”And they told me they don’t need me to sell toothpicks because they’re going to sell them anyway. So that was very humbling.”
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AP Baseball Writer Ron Blum contributed to this report.
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Where the NBA free-agent list stands:
Best available: Miles Bridges (R), Colin Sexton (R), Montrzel Harrell, Dennis Schroder, Eric Bledsoe, Hassan Whiteside, Rodney Hood, Carmelo Anthony, Rajon Rondo, Dwight Howard, Markieff Morris, Elfrid Payton, Paul Millsap, Wayne Ellington, Blake Griffin, Tristan Thompson, Kemba Walker, LaMarcus Aldridge Isaiah Thomas.
Agreed to terms: Kyle Anderson (Timberwolves), Deandre Ayton (Suns), Marvin Bagley III (Pistons), Mo Bamba (Magic), Nicolas Batum (Clippers), Kent Bazemore (Kings), Bradley Beal (Wizards), Nemanja Bjelica (Turkey), Bismack Biyombo (Suns), Bol Bol (Magic), Bruce Brown (Nuggets), Charlie Brown Jr. (76ers), Moses Brown (Clippers), Troy Brown Jr. (Lakers), Jalen Brunson (Knicks), Thomas Bryant (Lakers), Chris Boucher (Raptors), Ignas Brazdeikis (Lithuania), Vlatko Cancar (Nuggets), Javon Carter (Bucks), Willie Cauley-Stein (Rockets), Justin Champagnie (Raptors), Nicolas Claxton (Nets), Amir Coffey (Clippers), Norris Cole (Puerto Rico), Sharife Cooper (Hawks), Dewayne Dedmon (Heat), Matthew Dellavedova (Kings), Gorgui Dieng (Spurs), Donte DiVencenzo (Warriors), Lu Dort (Thunder), Goran Dragic (Bulls), Aaron Holiday (Hawks), Andre Drummond (Bulls), Carsen Edwards (Turkey), Kessler Edwards (Nets), CJ Elleby(Trail Blazers), Drew Eubanks (Trail Blazers), Bruno Fernando (Rockets), Malik Fitts (Celtics), Bryn Forbes (Timberwolves), Trent Forrest (Hawks), Danilo Gallinari (Celtics), Taj Gibson (Wizards), Anthony Gill (Wizards), JaMychal Green (Warriors), Gary Harris (Magic), James Harden (76ers), Isaiah Hartenstein (Knicks), Sam Hauser (Celtics), Juancho Herangomez (Raptors), Danuel House (76ers), Markus Howard (Spain), Sergei Ibaka (Bucks), Joe Ingles (Bucks), Damian Jones (Lakers), Derrick Jones Jr. (Bulls), Tyus Jones (Grizzlies), DeAndre Jordan (Nuggets), Frank Kaminsky (Hawks), Nathan Knight (Timberwolves), Luke Kornet (Celtics), Kevin Knox II (Pistons), Zach LaVine (Bulls), Damion Lee (Suns), Robin Lopez (Cavaliers), Kevon Looney (Warriors), Caleb Martin (Heat), Cody Martin (Hornets), Wesley Matthews (Bucks), JaVale McGee (Mavericks), Rodney McGruder (Pistons), Sam Merrill (Kings), Patty Mills (Nets), Malik Monk (Kings), Mike Muscala (Thunder), RJ Nembhard (Cavaliers), Raul Neto (Cavaliers), Jusuf Nurkic (Trail Blazers), Josh Okogie (Suns), Semi Ojeleye (Italy), Victor Oladipo (Heat), Eric Paschall (Timbertwolves), Gary Payton II (Trail Blazers), Theo Pinson (Mavericks), Yves Pons (France), Otto Porter Jr. (Raptors), Bobby Portis (Bucks), Myles Powell (China). Trevelin Queen (76ers), Neemias Queta (Kings), Davon Reed (Nuggets), Austin Rivers (Timberwolves). Mitchell Robinson (Knicks), Ricky Rubio (Cavaliers), Tomas Satoransky (Spain), Admiral Schofield (Magic), Jay Scrubb (Clippers), Anfernee Simons (Trail Blazers), Jalen Smith (Pacers), Edmond Sumner (Nets), Juan Toscano-Anderson (Lakers), P.J. Tucker (76ers), Rayjon Tucker (Australia), Luca Vildoza (Bucks), Noah Vonleh (Celtics), Ish Wainright (Suns), Lonnie Walker IV (Lakers), John Wall Clippers), T.J. Warren (Nets), Duane Washington Jr. (Suns), Yuta Watanabe (Japan), Quinndary Weatherspoon (Warriors), Lindell Wigginton (Bucks), Cassius Winston (Germany), Delon Wright (Wizards), Thaddeus Young (Raptors).
Atlanta Hawks: Sharife Cooper, Gorgui Dieng (Spurs), Kevin Knox II (Pistons), Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Skylar Mays, Lou Williams, Delon Wright (Wizards).
Boston Celtics: Malik Fitts (Celtics), Sam Hauser (Celtics), Luke Kornet (Celtics), Brodric Thomas (R)
Brooklyn Nets: LaMarcus Aldridge, Bruce Brown (Nuggets), Nicolas Claxton (Nets), Goran Dragic (Bulls), Andre Drummond (Bulls), David Duke Jr. (R), Kessler Edwards (Nets), Blake Griffin, Patty Mills (Nets).
Charlotte Hornets: Miles Bridges (R), Montrezl Harrell, Arnoldas Kulboka, Scottie Lewis, Cody Martin (Hornets).
Chicago Bulls: Troy Brown Jr. (Lakers), Tyler Cook, Malcolm Hill (R), Derrick Jones Jr. (Bulls), Zach LaVine (Bulls), Matt Thomas, Tristan Thompson.
Cleveland Cavaliers: Moses Brown (Clippers), Ed Davis, Brandon Goodwin, RJ Nembhard (Cavaliers), Rajon Rondo, Collin Sexton (R).
Dallas Mavericks: Jalen Brunson (Knicks), Theo Pinson (Mavericks).
Denver Nuggets: Facundo Campazzo, Vlatko Cancar (Nuggets), DeMarcus Cousins, Bryn Forbes (Timberwolves), Markus Howard (Spain), Davon Reed (Nuggets), Austin Rivers (Timberwolves).
Detroit Pistons: Marvin Bagley III (Pistons), Carsen Edwards (Turkey), Luka Garza, Frank Jackson, Rodney McGruder (Pistons), Jamorko Pickett,, Kemba Walker.
Golden State Warriors: Nemanja Bjelica (Turkey), Chris Chiozza, Andre Iguodala, Damion Lee (Suns), Kevon Looney (Warriors), Nico Mannion (R), Gary Payton II (Trail Blazers), Otto Porter Jr. (Raptors), Juan Toscano-Anderson (Lakers), Quinndary Weatherspoon (Warriors).
Houston Rockets: Bruno Fernando (Rockets), Trevelin Queen (76ers), Dennis Schroder, John Wall (Clippers).
Indiana Pacers: Ricky Rubio (Cavaliers), Jalen Smith (Pacers), Terry Taylor, T.J. Warren (Nets), Duane Washington Jr. (Suns).
Los Angeles Clippers: Nicolas Batum (Clippers), Amir Coffey (Clippers), Isaiah Hartenstein (Knicks), Rodney Hood, Semi Ojeleye (Italy), Jay Scrubb.
Los Angeles Lakers: Carmelo Anthony, Trevor Ariza, Kent Bazemore (Kings), Wayne Ellington, Dwight Howard, Malik Monk (Kings).
Memphis Grizzlies: Kyle Anderson (Timberwolves), Jarrett Culver, Tyus Jones (Grizzlies), Yves Pons (France), Tyrell Terry.
MIAMI HEAT: Dewayne Dedmon (Heat), Udonis Haslem, Caleb Martin (Heat), Markieff Morris, Victor Oladipo (Heat), P.J. Tucker (76ers).
Milwaukee Bucks: Javon Carter (Bucks), Serge Ibaka (Bucks), Wesley Matthews (Bucks), Jordan Nwora (R), Bobby Portis (Bucks), Rayjon
(Bucks), Luca Vildoza (Bucks), Lindell Wigginton (Bucks).
Minnesota Timberwolves: Jake Layman, Nathan Knight (Timberwolves), Josh Okogie (Suns), McKinley Wright IV.
New Orleans Pelicans: Gary Clark, Tony Snell.
New York Knicks: Solomon Hill, Taj Gibson (Wizards), Mitchell Robinson (Knicks).
Oklahoma City Thunder: Lu Dort (Thunder), JaMychal Green (Warriors), Niko Mannion, Mike Muscala (Thunder), Paul Watson.
Orlando Magic: Mo Bamba (Magic), Bol Bol (Magic), Ignas Brazdeikis (Lithuania), Gary Harris (Magic), Robin Lopez (Cavaliers), Admiral Schofield (Magic).
Philadelphia 76ers: Charlie Brown Jr. (76ers), James Harden (76ers), DeAndre Jordan (Nuggets), Paul Millsap, Myles Powell (China).
Phoenix Suns: Deandre Ayton (Suns), Bismack Biyombo (Suns), Aaron Holiday (Hawks), JaVale McGee (Mavericks), Abdel Nader, Elfrid Payton, Ish Wainright (Suns).
Portland Trail Blazers: Eric Bledsoe, Keljin Blevins, CJ Elleby(Trail Blazers), Drew Eubanks (Trail Blazers), Joe Ingles (Bucks), Anfernee Simons (Trail Blazers), Ben McLemore, Jusuf Nurkic (Trail Blazers), Dennis Smith Jr., Trendon Watford.
Sacramento Kings: Donte DiVencenzo (Warriors), Josh Jackson, Damian Jones (Lakers), Louis King, Jeremy Lamb, Neemias Queta (Kings).
San Antonio Spurs: Devontae Cacok (R), Danilo Gallinari (Celtics), Lonnie Walker IV (Lakers), Joe Wieskamp (R).
Toronto Raptors: Isaac Bonga, Chris Boucher (Raptors), Armoni Brooks, Justin Champagnie (Raptors), Nando De Colo (R), David Johnson (R), Yuta Watanabe (Japan), Thaddeus Young (Raptors).
Utah Jazz: Trent Forrest (Hawks), Juancho Herangomez (Raptors), Danuel House (76ers), Elijah Hughes, Eric Paschall (Timbertwolves), Hassan Whiteside.
Washington Wizards: Joel Ayayi (R), Bradley Beal (Wizards), Thomas Bryant (Lakers), Anthony Gill (Wizards), Raul Neto (Cavaliers), Tomas Satoransky (Spain), Cassius Winston (Germany).
KEY: (R) – restricted free agent, team has right to match outside offers.
(As reported by Sun Sentinel, ESPN, The Athletic, The Associated Press and other NBA media outlets.)
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MD summer camp fire is put out by local firefighters, no injuries were reported
About 100 Maryland firefighters responded to the scene
Crews battled a fire at an overnight summer camp in western Maryland on Wednesday morning, but no injuries were reported, officials said.
Firefighters were initially dispatched around 7:30 a.m. for a report of a fire in a building at Camp Airy for Boys in Thurmont, Frederick County Division of Fire & Rescue Services spokesperson Sarah Campbell said.
When units arrived on scene, they found smoke showing through the roof and a second alarm was initiated, Campbell said. About 100 firefighters from Maryland and Pennsylvania were on the scene working to extinguish the blaze, she said.
In a Facebook post, the camp said the fire happened in the dining hall.
The building was empty when the fire broke out and no injuries have been reported, Campbell said. Residents and campers were not in the area of the fire, she said.
In the Facebook post, the camp said it was too early to know the extent of the damage, but everyone is safe and accounted for. The dining hall is a hub of activity, so they are relocating many activities, the camp said.
MARYLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT, 13, ARRESTED FOR BRINGING LOADED GHOST GUN TO CLASSROOM, POLICE SAY
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The warming climate has increased the number of winter ticks in Maine's north woods. Biologists are tracking calf mortality.
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The warming climate has increased the number of winter ticks in Maine's north woods. Biologists are tracking calf mortality.
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Chargers head coach Brandon Staley said at a Wednesday press conference that he thinks the team’s offensive coordinator vacancy is “one of the top jobs in the league” and it’s no secret why he would feel that way.
The presence of quarterback Justin Herbert makes the Chargers job more appealing than a lot of the other offensive coordinator openings around the league. Given Herbert’s role in attracting potential coaches, Staley was asked if the quarterback would have a voice in who gets the job in Los Angeles.
Staley didn’t answer that directly, but said that anything the team does will be designed to maximize Herbert’s contributions in the years to come.
“Everything that we do in the program, we try to communicate with our players,” Staley said. “Just like when I first got here, shaping your offense, it’s going to go through him. When I talk about him being the system, I mean it. He has, now, three years of NFL experience to bank on. There are a lot of plays. As the head coach here for two years, we’re going to try and keep a lot of that consistent for him where we can, and that’s what I mean. As a head coach with an offensive background — that’s the position that I played — what we’re going to do, throughout the course of his career, is do that for him so that we can maximize him as a player. That’s what these moves are about, maximizing him as a player and continuing to challenge and grow his game with his teammates, and, ultimately, forming a team that can consistently compete for world championships.”
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Class action suit filed against Silicon Valley Bank parent
(AP) - A class action lawsuit is being filed against the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, its CEO and its chief financial officer, saying that company didn’t disclose the risks that future interest rate increases would have on its business.
The lawsuit against SVB Financial Group, CEO Greg Becker and CFO Daniel Beck was filed in the U.S. district court for the Northern district of California. It is looking for unspecified damages to be awarded to those who invested in SVB between June 16, 2021 and March 10, 2023.
The lawsuit from shareholders led by Chandra Vanipenta says some quarterly and annual financial reports from SVB didn’t fully account for warnings from the Federal Reserve about interest rate hikes.
In particular, the lawsuit said that annual reports for 2020 through 2022, “understated the risks posed to the company by not disclosing that likely interest rate hikes, as outlined by the Fed, had the potential to cause irrevocable damage to the company,” the lawsuit stated.
It also claims that the company “failed to disclose that, if its investments were negatively affected by rising interest rates, it was particularly susceptible to a bank run.”
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has shaken the technology industry and worried small businesses and individuals with deposits at the financial institution. The Biden administration’s move guaranteeing all Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits above the insured limit of $250,000 per account has brought relief to some.
Silicon Valley quickly established itself as the “go-to” spot for venture capitalists looking for financial partners more open to unconventional business proposals than its bigger, more established peers who still didn’t have a good grasp of technology.
Venture capitalists set up their accounts at Silicon Valley Bank just as the tech industry started its boom and then advised the entrepreneurs that they funded to do the same.
That cozy relationship came to an end when the bank disclosed a $1.8 billion loss on low-yielding bonds that were purchased before interest rates began to spike last year, raising alarms among its financially savvy customer base who used the fruits of technology to spread warnings that turned into a calamitous run on deposits.
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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ opens with $38.5M, takes down John Wick
NEW YORK (AP) — Riding terrific reviews and a strong word-of-mouth, the role playing game adaptation “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” opened with $38.5 million in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, stealing the top box-office perch from “John Wick: Chapter 4.”
The Paramount Pictures and eOne release appealed to more moviegoers than many expected a film based on a notoriously niche table top game to interest. “Game Night” directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley turned in a rollicking comic action-adventure, with a cast including Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant, that’s bringing in ticket buyers less familiar with “D&D.” Audiences gave “Honor Among Thieves,” which launched with a raucous opening-night premiere at SXSW, an A- CinemaScore. It scored 91% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
“We know how good our movie is,” said Chris Aronson, distribution chief for Paramount. “I know it’s been said before, but I think opening to $38-39 million is just the start. These kind of exits polls translate to playability.”
“Dungeons & Dragons” was also a big roll of the dice. The film, co-produced and co-financed by Paramount with eOne, which is owned by Hasbro, cost $150 million to make. With a production cost like that, “Dungeons & Dragons” will be looking for sustained sales through April and similar success overseas to potentially kickstart a new franchise. It launched internationally with $33 million.
“The challenge with this film is convincing everyone that this film is for you,” said Aronson. “Jonathan and John, these guys are really talented and great collaborators. We’re going to work more with them. Hopefully, this will be the start of a franchise.”
“John Wick: Chapter 4,” which launched last weekend with a franchise-best $73.5 million, slid to second place in its second weekend with $28.2 million. While a sizeable dip, the assassin action film, starring Keanu Reeves, has already accrued $122.8 million domestically and, after adding another $35 million internationally over the weekend, $245 million worldwide. Lionsgate has no shortage of plans for further expansion in the franchise.
Along with “John Wick: Chapter 4,” “Creed III” and “Scream VI,” “Dungeons & Dragons” adds to a string of well-received March releases that have surpassed box-office expectations and scored well with audiences. It’s a streak that Universal Pictures’ “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” will look to continue next weekend.
“While it may not be the highest grossing March ever, this is one of the best months of March for the industry in its history, coming off of three years of a pandemic-challenged marketplace,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore. “March is not the summer, but it’s sure felt like the summer, with hit after hit.”
Those film have helped push the 2023 box office well ahead of last year’s pace, up 28.7%, according to David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research. Still, overall ticket sales aren’t yet up to pre-pandemic levels, trailing the 2017-2019 average by 28.8%.
Games and toys are also proving to be dependable big-screen resources. “Dungeons & Dragons” will be followed this year by Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and a new “Transformers” movie. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is expected to extend a rising trend for the once-derided video game adaptation.
“Dungeons & Dragons” had little competition from new releases. The Christian drama “His Only Son” debuted with $5.3 million. A.V. Rockwell’s Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner “A Thousand and One,” about a mother (Teyana Taylor) who kidnaps her son from foster care, opened with $1.8 million at 926 theaters for Focus Features.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1.”Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” $38.5 million.
2. “John Wick, Chapter 4,” $28.2 million.
3. “Scream VI,” $5.3 million. (Tie)
3. “His Only Son,” $5.3 million. (Tie)
5. “Creed III,” $5 million.
6. “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” $4.7 million.
7. “A Thousand and One,” $1.8 million.
8. “65,” $1.6 million.
9. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” $1.2 million.
10. “Jesus Revolution,” $1 million.
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(WHTM) – If you haven’t already ordered your three rounds of free COVID tests from the federal government, now is the time – the test kit ordering program is set to expire soon.
According to COVID.gov, ordering through the program will be suspended on September 2 “because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests.”
Through the program, U.S. households are able to order 16 free rapid antigen COVID-19 test kits that are shipped through the United States Postal Service. Three rounds of free COVID-19 test kits have been offered through the program: the first in January offering four test kits, the second offering another four in March, and the final round in May with eight.
The tests available are rapid antigen at-home tests, not PCR tests, that can be taken anywhere with results available in 30 minutes. These tests from various companies can also be used whether or not you have COVID-19 symptoms or are vaccinated against COVID.
Nexstar’s WHTM has reached out to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment on the pending suspension of the program.
If you haven’t claimed all 16 of the COVID tests you’re eligible for, you have less than a week to request them.
To order your tests, go to COVIDtests.gov and select “Order Free At-Home Tests.” You’ll be taken to a form where you can enter your name and residential address. (If you’re having trouble getting the website to recognize your address, check here for common issues.)
Once you’ve completed the form, and as long as you provided your email address, you’ll receive two confirmation emails from USPS, one for each of your packages. Delivery updates will later be sent to your email.
More than 20,000 no-cost antigen and PCR COVID-19 testing sites are available to everyone in the U.S., including the uninsured, at more than 20,000 sites nationwide.
If you decide to purchase an at-home test from a pharmacy, your insurance may cover up to eight tests each month.
Find more information on free COVID testing resources by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489).
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Joe Mersa Marley, Bob Marley’s grandson, dies at 31
MIAMI (AP) — Reggae musician Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley, Bob Marley’s grandson and Stephen Marley’s son, has died at 31.
His representative confirmed his death to Rolling Stone on Tuesday, but a cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Miami, Marley followed in his family’s musical footsteps, taking the stage with his family’s band, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He began writing music when in middle school and made his musical debut in 2010 with the release of the single “My Girl,” on which he collaborated with his cousin Daniel Bambaata Marley. In 2016, he collaborated on a song with his father for the latter’s album “Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of Life.”
Marley grew up with his musician father and surrounded by Bob Marley’s other children, including uncle Ziggy and aunts Sharon and Cadella.
Jo Mersa Marley spoke of how music enveloped his upbringing in a previous interview with Rolling Stone.
“I would come home and try to do homework, but I’d end up getting distracted and go peek in the studio. You would always want to run in and run out to see what was going on,” he said.
He was intent on creating his own path, and released his own debut album “Eternal” in 2021. He had studied studio engineering at Miami Dade College.
“I am one of the new generation of Marleys, but I am still experimenting at the same time,” he had told Rolling Stone. “My plan is to do something new with my roots.”
News of Marley’s death elicited mourning on social media, including a post from Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
“My heartfelt sympathies to Joseph’s friends and associates and to the Reggae music fraternity and fans everywhere,” Holness tweeted Tuesday. “His untimely passing at the young age of 31y.o. is a huge loss to the music as we look to the next generation.”
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Mainstreet of the Northwest: Story of the Northern Pacific
Thursday, June 01 at 8pm – Tune in or stream with the PBS app and online at video.lptv.org.
The Northern Pacific Railway, one of the great US transcontinental railroads, was once headquartered in Brainerd, Minnesota. The NP ran from Ashland, Wisconsin, to Seattle, Washington, and St. Paul to Winnipeg, Manitoba. In many ways, the story of the Northern Pacific Railway is the story of America’s transformation into the modern era. | https://lptv.org/mainstreet-of-the-northwest-story-of-the-northern-pacific/ | 2023-05-26 20:44:03 | 1 | https://lptv.org/mainstreet-of-the-northwest-story-of-the-northern-pacific/ |
New network deployments and enterprise momentum expected to spark growth and double 5G connections by 2025
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New figures from GSMA Intelligence show 5G connections are expected to double over the next two years, expedited by technological innovations and new 5G network deployments in more than 30 countries in 2023 alone. Of the new networks to be deployed in 2023, it is expected that 15 will be 5G Standalone networks.
The forecasts from GSMA Intelligence, announced during MWC Barcelona 2023, point to a significant period of growth in terms of mobile subscribers and enterprise adoption. Consumer connections surpassed one billion at the end of 2022 and will increase to around 1.5 billion this year – before reaching two billion by the end 2025. This momentum confirms 5G as the fastest generational roll-out, when compared to 3G and 4G.
As of January 2023, there were 229 commercial 5G networks globally and over 700 5G smartphone models available to users.
Opening up in emerging markets
Growth will also come from key markets within APAC and LATAM, such as Brazil and India, which have recently launched 5G networks. India will be especially significant, with the expansion of services from Airtel and Jio in 2023 expected to be pivotal to the region's ongoing adoption. GSMA Intelligence predicts there will be four 5G networks in India by the end of 2025, accounting for 145 million additional users.
Many of the new 5G markets scheduled to launch networks in 2023 are in developing regions across Africa – including Ethiopia and Ghana – and Asia. Today, 5G adoption in the sub-Saharan region sits below 1% but will reach over 4% by 2025 and 16% in 2030, largely thanks to a concerted effort from industry and government organisations to provide connectivity to citizens.
"Until now, 5G adoption has been driven by relatively mature markets and consumer use cases like enhanced mobile broadband, but that's changing. We're now entering a second wave for 5G that will see the technology engage a diverse set of new markets and audiences," said Peter Jarich, Head of GSMA Intelligence. "The extension to new use cases and markets will challenge the mobile ecosystem to prove that 5G truly is flexible enough to meet these diverse demands in a way that's both inclusive and innovative."
The Rise of 5G FWA
As of January 2023, more than 90 fixed broadband service providers (the vast majority of which are mobile operators) had launched commercial 5G-based fixed wireless services across over 48 countries. This means around 40% of 5G commercial mobile launches worldwide currently include an FWA offering.
In the US, T-Mobile added over half a million 5G FWA customers in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 combined. By 2025, it expects to have eight million FWA subscribers, while Verizon is targeting five million FWA subscribers for the same period. And, with operators such as Jio announcing ambitions to connect as many as 100 million homes across India to its 5G FWA network, the number of FWA users looks likely to grow substantially over the next few years.
While the majority of current 5G FWA deployments focus on the 3.5–3.8 GHz bands, several operators around the world are already using 5G mmWave spectrum as a capacity and performance booster to complement coverage provided by lower bands.
Only 7% of 5G launches have been in 5G mmWave spectrum so far but this looks set to change given 27% of spectrum allocations and 35% of trials are already using 5G mmWave bands. Furthermore, in 2023 alone, the industry will see ten more countries assigned 5G mmWave spectrum for use – a significant increase from the 22 countries who have been assigned it to date. Spain received the first European 5G mmWave spectrum allocation this year, resulting in Telefónica, Ericsson and Qualcomm launching its first commercial 5G mmWave network at MWC Barcelona 2023.
Enterprise IoT Driving Growth
The figures from GSMA Intelligence also suggest that, for operators, the enterprise market will be the main driver of 5G revenue growth over the next decade. Revenues from business customers already represent around 30% of total revenues on average for major operators, with further potential as enterprise digitisation scales. Edge computing and IoT technology presents further opportunities for 5G, with 12% of operators having already launched private wireless solutions – a figure that will grow with a wider range of expected IoT deployments in 2023.
Another major development for the enterprise will be the commercial availability of 5G Advanced in 2025. Focusing on uplink technology, 5G Advanced will improve speed, coverage, mobility and power efficiency – and support a new wave of business opportunities. GSMA's Network Transformation survey showed half of operators expect to support 5G Advanced commercial networks within two years of its launch. While this is likely optimistic, it presents the ecosystem with a clear opportunity to execute on.
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Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere — is becoming exponentially more pressing, with the language of scientists, officials and activists becoming more serious with every passing year.
The most recent report by the world’s top body of climate scientists gave a damning assessment of where the world is headed if more isn’t done to curb global warming. Already, more extreme weather events are happening across the globe, from longer, more intense and more frequent droughts and heat waves to devastating floods and wetter hurricanes, attributed at least in part to climate change.
How the planet got here, the current and future effects of climate change, and what to do next, are all questions that experts have been researching for decades.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series answering some of the most fundamental questions around climate change, the science behind it, the effects of a warming planet and how the world is addressing it.
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There may be an uptick in climate-related policy, discussions and activism, but the science isn’t all that new.
Scientists in the early 1800s began to recognize that some gasses and water vapor could trap heat in the atmosphere. And for the last sixty years, researchers could definitively measure that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were rising, thanks to a CO2-monitoring station at Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
Meteorologists in the middle of the twentieth century also started to understand the climate as a “system that is dynamic, constantly changing, and perhaps also vulnerable to external forcing and alteration,” said Martin Mahony, a lecturer of human geography at the University of East Anglia who studies the history of climate science and its interactions with politics.
Add to that the knowledge that CO2 levels were going up and scientists started realizing that this could be a major issue.
“In the 1960s, you start getting conferences and workshops on ‘the CO2 problem’ … bringing meteorologists together with the geophysicists and other folks to think through the implications of this in very abstract, theoretical terms,” Mahony said.
But it wasn’t long before this theoretical puzzle became a serious concern.
By the late eighties, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up to assess how much the climate is warming and if humans have anything to do with it.
Ever since its first report in 1990, the link between fossil fuels and global warming was clear. Coal, oil and natural gas for electricity, heating, transport, industries like steel and cement-making, and the gasses from agriculture and refrigerants, are burning up the planet.
Scientists say that average global temperatures have gone up by around 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the middle of the nineteenth century, causing hotter temperature extremes, rising seas and weather disasters, with experts warning that more catastrophic climate events are on the way as the world warms up further.
“It’s not just going to be heatwaves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes. It’s going to be water resources, it’s going to be food supplies … it’s going to be national security concerns that are going to be more apparent than they are right now,” said Brown University climate scientist Kim Cobb.
Those living in the least developed nations or in poorer communities are often the most vulnerable to climate change. Many have called for rich, high-polluting countries, like the U.S. and much of Europe, to pay their share so that developing countries are more resilient to weather extremes and can curb their use of fossil fuels. Known as “loss and damage” in climate negotiations, it’s an area that nations have struggled to agree on in recent years.
In a somewhat rare moment of agreement between rich nations and more climate-vulnerable, low-emitting ones, countries at the U.N.’s annual climate conference in Paris in 2015 did agree to limit warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, with the aim of capping the average global temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).
Alternatives to fossil fuels, like solar and wind energy, need to be scaled up dramatically if the Paris climate goals are to be met, experts say. Newer technologies, like carbon capture or green hydrogen, which are currently too expensive, untested at scale or both, will also have to be deployed to limit warming. Changes in people’s personal lives can also make a difference, although the large reductions come from government policies and choices made by giant corporations, rather than individuals.
Although some effects of global warming are locked in, many scientists believe that curbing warming to just a few more tenths of a degree is achievable, but only if drastic action is taken very quickly.
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SAGINAW COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The state has released data showing absentee ballot requests are way up this year, when compared to 2018 for the last gubernatorial election.
But those statistics also show the rate of returning those ballots is down when compared to 2018.
Still, the trend of voting by absentee ballot instead of waiting in polling lines is becoming more popular.
That's the case in Saginaw County, where the clerk's office says the number of absentee ballots requested has more than doubled compared to four years ago.
"It's a significant change, a significant increase," says Saginaw County Clerk Vanessa Guerra.
She said that a lot more people are choosing voting by absentee ballot.
In 2018, the last off-year election, Saginaw County had more than 8000 absentee ballots requested. But this year, that number is more than 19,000 and growing.
"I think a lot of folks thought that A-V ballots had increased mainly because of COVID, folks wanting to stay at home, not go to their polling location, but we can see based on the numbers, its a trend that is sticking around," says Guerra.
Since Michigan election law does not allow absentee ballots to be tabulated until the polls open at 7:00 a.m. on August 2, deputy clerk Kyle Bostwick says people will have to patient as results might not come in for several hours after the polls close.
"We want accuracy so we are not striving for speed here, we want to make sure the votes are tabulated accurately," says Bostwick.
Clerk's offices across the area are busy training election workers and continue to field phone calls and emails about absentee ballots and other voting concerns.
"How the tabulators work, and who is working at the polling locations, and what goes into the security and preparation of the election," Bostwick said.
More people have returned absentee ballots in the county so far for this election than were even requested in 2018, but Guerra has this advice for those who have yet to send them through the mail.
"You are strongly encouraged to return it via a drop box or in person at your clerks office to avoid any postal delays," she said
And while the request for absentee ballots in the state is up by a big margin over 2018, the Secretary of State's statistics show the percentage of people returning those ballots is lower than at this time four years ago. | https://www.abc12.com/news/saginaw-county-reporting-a-huge-increase-in-absentee-ballot-requests-for-primary-election/article_af0d6c66-086f-11ed-b16f-170cc629ca00.html | 2022-07-20 23:04:38 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/saginaw-county-reporting-a-huge-increase-in-absentee-ballot-requests-for-primary-election/article_af0d6c66-086f-11ed-b16f-170cc629ca00.html |
An Islamic State militant who was one of the ringleaders torturing international hostages, demanding ransom payments from their families and broadcasting videotaped executions to the world was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
U.S. prosecutors said El Shafee Elsheikh was one of the three "ISIS Beatles," a group of masked terrorists known for their British accents and brutal executions of journalists and humanitarian-relief workers during the Islamic State's rise in Syria. The Justice Department described Elsheikh as "the most notorious ISIS member to face a jury trial in the United States."
A jury convicted Elsheikh, now 34, in April of conspiracy charges in the kidnapping and murder of American journalists James Foley of New Hampshire and Steven Sotloff and humanitarian workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller, as well as terrorism charges in the deaths of British and Japanese hostages.
Alexanda Kotey, another member of the group who was captured with Elsheikh in 2018, pleaded guilty in 2021 and was sentenced this year to life in prison. The third member of the "Beatles," Mohammed Emwazi, who was the masked executioner on the Islamic State's brutal propaganda videos, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2015.
At trial, Elsheikh's defense team had denied that he was a member of the "Beatles" or that he had any role in the torture and execution of hostages, calling him a "simple ISIS fighter." But Elsheikh had given a series of interviews to journalists detailing his role in seeking ransoms from the families of Western hostages captured during the Syrian civil war, beating the prisoners and demanding personal information.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis called Elsheikh's and Kotey's conduct "horrific, barbaric, brutal, callous -- and of course, criminal." He sentenced Elsheikh to eight concurrent life sentences.
Defense attorneys called Elsheikh a "model prisoner" since he was taken into U.S. custody and requested that the judge recommend against placing him in the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado, where inmates are held in isolation and allowed only one hour of activity per day. The judge declined and said the Federal Bureau of Prisons would decide where to place Elsheikh.
Foley's mother, Diane Foley, told Elsheikh at the hearing, "James would want you to know that you did not win."
Noting that it was the eighth anniversary of her son's beheading, Diane Foley said through tears that her son's example of service and compassion lived on in his family and supporters worldwide.
Manchester's school superintendent, Jennifer Gillis, will ask the Board of School Committee to start paying all full-time school staff at least $15 per hour.
NEW YORK -- Under the watch of counterterrorism officers and police in tactical gear, hundreds of people gathered in front of the New York Public Library on Friday to show support for Salman Rushdie, the author stabbed multiple times at a literary event a week ago.
A study published this week in the Lancet Psychiatry showed increased risks of some brain disorders two years after infection with the coronavirus, shedding new light on the long-term neurological and psychiatric aspects of the virus.
The Federal Reserve consistently says its actions are data dependent. “Data dependence is, and always has been, at the heart of policymaking at the Federal Reserve,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in a 2019 speech.
The U.S. mortgage industry is seeing its first lenders go out of business after a sudden spike in lending rates, and the wave of failures that’s coming could be the worst since the housing bubble burst about 15 years ago.
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has ordered the release of a secret Justice Department memo discussing whether President Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. | https://www.unionleader.com/life-sentence-for-isis-member-responsible-for-james-foleys-death/article_63698331-b179-57ac-a37d-6c7ceaf19565.html | 2022-08-19 23:46:44 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/life-sentence-for-isis-member-responsible-for-james-foleys-death/article_63698331-b179-57ac-a37d-6c7ceaf19565.html |
Recalling Benedict’s grace but also the storms of his papacy
ROME (AP) — Flying back to Rome from Beirut in September 2012, I was escorted down the aisle to the first-class section of the papal plane and seated beside Pope Benedict XVI.
The pope, then 85, looked and sounded weary. He had just completed a delicate, two-day visit to Lebanon as civil war raged in neighboring Syria.
It was my 92nd such trip: The first was with Pope John Paul II, the master of papal globe-trotting, and then over the past eight years with Benedict.
Because I was planning to retire, Benedict’s trip to Beirut was to be my last, and Vatican officials thought I should share the moment with him.
What I didn’t know at the time was that it was to be his last trip, too. In a few months, he would become the first pope to resign in 600 years.
On that flight, Benedict was clearly tired, but he remained as congenial as always.
“Congratulations on your retirement,’’ he said in a soft voice, speaking in his German-accented Italian that often made Italians chuckle.
When I told him that I had covered the Vatican for more than 30 years, he looked surprised. He sounded wistful as he said my retirement “is much deserved.”
I have always wondered whether our encounter led him to think about any plans of his own that he had not yet revealed to the world. The retirement date that he announced later was Feb. 28 — the exact date that I had chosen to retire.
On the plane, Benedict appeared pleased with our chat and seemed to be in no rush to end it — it was his aides who motioned to me that it was time to return to my seat.
“Gracious” is always a word I associate with Benedict, who was perpetually ready to shake hands and say something appropriate for the occasion.
In the Netflix drama “The Two Popes,” Benedict, as played by Anthony Hopkins, is depicted as uncompromising in his belief that the survival of the Roman Catholic Church can only be ensured by a return to its core principles.
Yet in his own way, Benedict was a revolutionary.
He was one to stand his ground and not back down, whatever outside pressures he came under. But he also seemed almost oblivious to the storms he would create.
When the inevitable questions arose about his past in Nazi Germany, he could point out he had covered that territory in several interviews done years before becoming pope: his mandatory membership in the Hitler Youth as a teenager; being drafted into the military near the end of the war; his desertion and surrender to the Americans.
He thus avoided controversies faced by others who were less honest about their histories. That certainly smoothed the way for his papal visits to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, to Israel and to synagogues in Rome and New York.
It was fascinating to hear him chat in German with Rabbi Arthur Schneirer, the Vienna-born rabbi, during a stop at New York’s Park East Synagogue. They sounded like two old friends.
In one of the major crises of his papacy, a speech aimed at promoting tolerance among religions ended up provoking anger — and even some violence — in the Islamic community.
In a 2006 speech at Regensburg University in Germany, where he once served as a professor of theology, Benedict quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who called Islam “evil and inhumane, such as his (the Prophet Muhammad’s) command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
The remarks drew swift condemnation in the Muslim world, but Benedict appeared surprised that what he saw as a scholarly discourse could create such rancor.
He said he “deeply regretted” that some took offense, but that he needed to insist that religion can never be a motivation for violence.
Years later, his former spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Benedict knew exactly what he meant with his remark.
When Benedict made his first trip to Africa, a French reporter asked in a news conference aboard the flight to Cameroon in 2009 whether condoms could play a role in fighting HIV.
“On the contrary, it (condom use) increases the problem,” he said.
Journalists and others on the plane were baffled by the response, which contradicted the views of health workers and many of his own priests battling the disease on the continent.
He backtracked a bit a year later, saying that condom use could be a first step toward a more moral behavior to prevent the spread of HIV.
It was the kind of clarification that was a sign of the lingering confusion and Vatican infighting that marked Benedict’s papacy.
In the years after his resignation, Benedict turned increasingly fragile and remained out of public view in a monastery inside the walls of Vatican City. He mainly devoted himself to prayer.
But his contributions to the church, which included opening the way for Pope Francis, were not forgotten by his Argentine successor. In 2021, when Benedict was 94, Francis issued a public thank you to the German on the 70th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
“To you Benedict, dear father and brother, goes our affection, our gratitude and our closeness,” Francis said.
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Victor L. Simpson covered the Vatican for The Associated Press from his arrival as a correspondent in Rome in 1972 to his retirement as Italy bureau chief in 2013. During that period, he covered the final months of Pope Paul VI, the 33-day tenure of Pope John Paul I, and the papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, including 92 of their trips abroad.
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GoFundMe Set Up to Help BSU Football TE Bryce Duffy with Medical Costs After Spinal Injury
The Bemidji State football program and Bemidji State athletics are helping Bryce Duffy in his recovery from a spinal contusion injury.
In the 2nd quarter of a game at Minnesota State-Moorhead on Oct. 15, Duffy, a senior tight end/fullback on the Bemidji State football team, collided with a defender and offensive lineman. He was carted off the field on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to the Sanford Health Trauma Center in Fargo.
Since then, Duffy has regained movement in his extremities and slowly, but surely, began the rehabilitation process. On Friday, Oct. 28, Duffy was able to return back to Bemidji.
According to Duffy’s family, he is expected to make a full recovery, but will undergo a long road ahead that will require out-patient rehabilitation. A GoFundMe page has been set up to assist Duffy with the medical expenses. As of Monday night, over $8,700 has been raised. For more information on Duffy’s recovery, or to make a donation, click here. | https://lptv.org/gofundme-set-up-to-help-bsu-football-te-bryce-duffy-with-medical-costs-after-spinal-injury/ | 2022-11-01 06:30:50 | 1 | https://lptv.org/gofundme-set-up-to-help-bsu-football-te-bryce-duffy-with-medical-costs-after-spinal-injury/ |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An investigation has been launched after a person believed to be an Anchorage, Alaska, police officer was shown in a photo with a woman in town for a Donald Trump rally flashing a novelty “White Privilege card.”
The social media post caused concerns about racial equality in Alaska's largest city.
Mimi Israelah claimed in a Facebook post that she was pulled over for weaving at 3:43 a.m. while driving to a pizzeria in Anchorage after arriving on an early-morning flight from California for Trump’s rally Saturday to support local Republican candidates he’s backed.
“Officer Bo” asked for her driver’s license but she couldn’t find it, she wrote on Facebook.
“When I saw my White Privilege card, I gave to him if it’s ok,” she wrote. “He laughed and called his partner. It’s their first time to see a White Privileged (sic) card,” she said.
The top of the novelty card reads: “White Privilege Card Trumps Everything.”
Israelah in her Twitter biography describes herself as Pinay, or a woman of Filipino origin.
A video apparently taken by Israelah of the encounter has been reposted on Twitter. Two officers are seen standing outside her car window. She asks one, “You like my White Privilege card?” The unidentified officer says, "That’s hilarious.”
In the Facebook comments shown at the end of the video, someone asks if she received a ticket. She replied, “nope.”
The original Facebook post has been deleted but screenshots and the video appear on social media.
It was not immediately clear if disciplinary action would be taken against officers involved or if a citation was actually issued to Israelah.
“Per the municipal attorney’s office we are unable to answer these questions as the incident is currently under investigation and it relates to personnel matters,” Anchorage police spokesperson Sunny Guerin said in an email to The Associated Press.
Attempts to reach Israelah through her Facebook page were not immediately successful.
Police Chief Michael Kerle on Tuesday posted a message on the department’s website.
“Our mission is to protect and serve our community in the most professional and compassionate manner possible,” he wrote. “Our vision is to create an environment where everyone matters.”
Celeste Hodge Growden, president of the Alaska Black Caucus, an advocacy group for Black people and Indigenous people of color, said: “When you’re not able to recognize Black lives, you just don’t get to all lives.”
Hodge Growden said she was disappointed by the picture. She also wants to know what the consequences were for Israelah if she didn’t have her driver’s license and was weaving while driving.
“I know that there are people of color that weave and they get ticketed,” she said. “They don’t have that white privilege, get-out-of-a-citation card.”
Anchorage Police Sgt. Jeremy Conkling, president of the Anchorage police union, said the officers involved have been served with a notice of investigation.
Conkling told the Anchorage Daily News he knew little about the situation and couldn’t say how many officers were being investigated.
“There’s always more to the story than a photograph tells,” said Conkling, who didn’t immediately return a message from the AP.
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American-Made Particleboard and Thermally Fused Laminate Now More Sustainable
LEXINGTON, N.C., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With its new recycling center fully operational, EGGER Wood Products, a leading manufacturer of wood-based materials, is further demonstrating its commitment to producing sustainable materials for interior design and furniture applications. This investment offers architects, designers and millworkers an option for U.S.-made thermally fused laminate (TFL) and particleboard, made with up to 15 percent post-consumer recycled wood.
EGGER Wood Products and its parent company, the EGGER Group, strongly promote the responsible use of wood as a valuable natural resource. By implementing cascading use principals, the usable life of wood can be extended, resulting in less waste and enhanced carbon sequestration capacity. The addition of post-consumer recycled wood in the company's raw material supply chain further supports these sustainability goals.
"We are happy to say that most of the wood material in our U.S.-produced boards is waste wood from sawmill residues and pre-consumer recycled material," says Markus Frevert, plant manager for production at EGGER Wood Products. "With the addition of our $41 million recycling center, up to 15 percent of the wood chips used are post-consumer recycled material. Only about seven percent comes from harvested timber, sourced from sustainably managed forests."
In January, EGGER Group acquired the business and assets of Novem Industries, located in Charlotte, N.C. The acquisition, via EGGER's wholly-owned subsidiary, Timberpak, LLC, serves as a collection and preparation site that accepts construction and demolition waste wood and packaging waste—primarily used and broken pallets. The wood is ground into pieces about one foot in length before delivery to EGGER's Lexington production plant. The majority of EGGER's post-consumer recycled wood is sourced through Timberpak.
EGGER strives to operate as sustainably as possible throughout its production and logistics processes, looking for ways to maximize efficiency and minimize its carbon footprint at every opportunity. Approximately 90% of the wood supply for the Lexington plant originates within a 100-mile radius to reduce carbon impact from transport. Transportation impact is further reduced with the use of rail cars to deliver finished products to customers when possible.
About EGGER
Founded in 1961 in St. Johann in Tyrol, Austria, EGGER Group is a more than $4.3 billion privately-held, family-owned company that employs more than 11,100 associates. EGGER is a global leader in the manufacturing of wood-based materials for the furniture and interior design, flooring and building products industries. The company's extensive, value-added product range includes thermally fused laminate (TFL), laminates, edge banding, raw particleboard, medium density fiberboard (MDF) and MDF Mouldings. EGGER operates 21 plants globally, including EGGER Wood Products LLC in Lexington, N.C., the company's first production facility in North America. The state-of-the-art particleboard manufacturing plant, with TFL lamination capacity, started production in September 2020. The total investment of the project, once completed, will be more than $700 million and will create an estimated 770 direct jobs. For more information about EGGER, visit www.egger.com.
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Virginia convicted felon buys gun on street, gets additional prison time
Richmond man admitted he was selling drugs in addition to illegal gun purchase
A Richmond man who was released from prison three years ago after serving 23 years for a federal drug trafficking conspiracy is going back behind bars for having a gun he bought on the street.
Following a hearing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Keith L. Hopkins Jr., 54, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his earlier guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Hopkins also admitted he was selling drugs again.
VIRGINIA FLOODING: DOZENS OF PEOPLE STILL MISSING, AUTHORITIES SAY
VIRGINIA MAN CATCHES 66-POUND BLUE CATFISH, BREAKS STATE RECORD
Richmond police caught Hopkins with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol on Oct. 27 as they were executing an arrest warrant on another person at a convenience store. Officers observed Hopkins reach into his waistband, pull out a holstered gun and discard it in a vehicle with two people in it, according to the government’s case.
Hopkins subsequently told police that he purchased the gun "off the street" for $325. He "further stated that he sells illegal narcotics and makes approximately $500-$600 per day doing so."
VIRGINIA GOV. YOUNGKIN, A RISING GOP STAR, READY TO HIT CAMPAIGN TRAIL SUPPORTING FELLOW REPUBLICANS
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North Dakota State vs. Omaha Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 9
Published: Feb. 9, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST|Updated: 3 hours ago
Thursday's contest features the North Dakota State Bison (14-8) and the Omaha Mavericks (11-13) facing off at Baxter Arena in what should be a competitive matchup, with a projected 64-62 victory for North Dakota State according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 8:05 PM ET on February 9.
The Bison fell in their last matchup 82-54 against South Dakota State on Saturday.
North Dakota State vs. Omaha Game Info
- When: Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 8:05 PM ET
- Where: Baxter Arena in Omaha, Nebraska
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North Dakota State vs. Omaha Score Prediction
- Prediction: North Dakota State 64, Omaha 63
North Dakota State Schedule Analysis
- The Bison picked up their best win of the season on February 2 by claiming an 86-82 victory over the South Dakota Coyotes, a top 50 team in our computer rankings.
North Dakota State 2022-23 Best Wins
- 79-76 on the road over South Dakota (No. 17) on January 7
- 71-65 at home over Minnesota (No. 93) on November 17
- 75-66 on the road over UMKC (No. 118) on January 21
- 65-63 on the road over Montana (No. 144) on November 7
- 73-68 on the road over Nevada (No. 158) on November 27
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North Dakota State Performance Insights
- The Bison have a +60 scoring differential, topping opponents by 2.8 points per game. They're putting up 70.9 points per game, 79th in college basketball, and are allowing 68.1 per contest to rank 276th in college basketball.
- In 2022-23, North Dakota State has scored 73.0 points per game in Summit action, and 70.9 overall.
- In 2022-23 the Bison are averaging 11.1 more points per game at home (76.8) than away (65.7).
- North Dakota State is conceding fewer points at home (63.4 per game) than on the road (73.8).
- While the Bison are putting up 70.9 points per game in 2022-23, they have bettered that mark over their previous 10 games, amassing 71.8 a contest.
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DALLAS, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) ("SUN") announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial and operating results before the market opens on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Management will hold a conference call that same day at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to discuss SUN's results.
About Sunoco LP
Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) is a master limited partnership with core operations that include the distribution of motor fuel to approximately 10,000 convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers and distributors located in more than 40 U.S. states and territories as well as refined product transportation and terminalling assets. SUN's general partner is owned by Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).
Contacts
Scott Grischow
Treasurer, Vice President – Investor Relations and Mergers & Acquisitions
(214) 840-5660, scott.grischow@sunoco.com
James Heckler
Director – Investor Relations and Corporate Finance
(214) 840-5415, james.heckler@sunoco.com
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By SAM METZ and COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press
ENOCH, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and wife and then killed himself removed guns owned by himself and his wife days before the murder-suicide, leaving the family “vulnerable,” a relative said Friday.
The wife, Tausha Haight, told her extended family that her husband, Mike Haight, took the guns from the family’s home this week, just two weeks after she had filed for divorce, sister-in-law Jennie Earl told The Associated Press.
She said she did not know how Tausha Haight felt about the removal but said it “left the family vulnerable,” noting that both Tausha and her mother, Gail Earl, were trained in gun safety and personal protection. Jennie Earl’s comments came after the Earl family issued a statement lamenting the tragedy and revealing that guns had been removed.
“Protective arms were purposely removed from the home prior to the incident because all adults were properly trained to protect human life,” the Earl family said in a statement. “This is the type of loss that will continue to occur in families, communities and this nation when protective arms are no longer accessible.”
Enoch city manager Rob Dotson said local law enforcement were not involved, saying in an emailed statement that police “has never had reason and has never had to remove firearms.”
The revelation provides more insight into what happened in the days leading up to a shooting in a southern Utah home that occurred after Tausha Haight had filed for divorce on Dec. 21 from her husband of 19 years.
The victims were found Wednesday when police did a welfare check at the residence, according city officials in Enoch, a small town of about 8,000 people located 245 miles (394 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City.
Without knowing the details about how the shootings unfolded it is not clear whether having those firearms in the home could have helped stop the bloodshed, Jennie Earl said. However, if either Tausha Haight or Gail Earl had a chance to defend their family, they would have been able to use the guns, she said.
“They would have because they had the skills to do it,” she said.
Matt Munson, the attorney representing Mr. Haight’s family, did not immediately respond to questions about the firearms in the home.
The family revealed the information about the guns being removed in a statement issued Friday that also lamented the “unthinkable tragedy” and called on the media and public to refrain from using the shooting for any “advocacy of political agendas.”
“We would encourage reporting about the value of all human life, the great works of God that can render a forgiving heart, how religion can heal and enlarge our capacity for love, and a return to foundational principles of peace within our nation,” the Earl family wrote.
Enoch officials have said they are aware of the divorce filing but don’t know if that was the motive in the killings.
Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames also said this week that officers investigated the 42-year-old man and his family a “couple of years prior,” suggesting possible earlier problems inside the household, but he would not elaborate.
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Slevin reported from Denver.
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PARIS (AP) — Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republicans party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party to vote to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
Eric Ciotti tweeted a photo of his office in the French Riviera city with shattered windows, after a paving stone was thrown at it overnight into Sunday. The vandals also scrawled the words “the motion or the stone” — in reference to the motions of censure against the pension reform that will be voted on Monday in the National Assembly in Paris.
Amid weeks of mass protests over Macron's plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, Macron last week ordered Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to invoke a special constitutional power to skirt a vote in the lower chamber of parliament. In response, lawmakers at both ends of the political spectrum filed no-confidence motions against her Cabinet on Friday.
Ciotti had announced his party would not vote for either of the two motions of censure — meaning there would not be enough votes to stop the law.
Reacting to the vandals, Ciotti tweeted: “I will never give in to the new disciples of terror.”
Getting a no-confidence motion to pass will be challenging — none has succeeded since 1962, and Macron’s centrist alliance still has the most seats in the National Assembly. A minority of conservatives could stray from the Republicans party line, but it remains to be seen whether they’re willing to bring down Macron’s government. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/vandals-attack-french-politicians-office-over-pensions-row/Y3JUMT6PGBHR3BU6GRGIX6VEYY/ | 2023-03-19 12:39:31 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/vandals-attack-french-politicians-office-over-pensions-row/Y3JUMT6PGBHR3BU6GRGIX6VEYY/ |
KEATCHIE, La. (AP) — About 130 people in north Louisiana are under a mandatory evacuation Saturday after a train derailed and at least two of the cars involved began leaking hazardous products, state police said.
The Union Pacific Railroad train derailment happened about 10:30 p.m. Friday in the town of Keatchie in DeSoto Parish, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana State Police Trooper Jonathan Odom said.
“The initial investigation revealed that approximately 16 cars derailed, which caused the release of a corrosive liquid,” Odom said. “In the best interest of public safety, a mandatory evacuation for everyone in a 1.5-mile radius was issued.”
Preliminary inspection showed that 16 cars derailed and at least two are leaking “an acid-related” product, the DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office told KTBS-TV.
Robyn Tysver, a spokesperson for Union Pacific, said two rail cars spilled propinoic acid, which is used as a preservative, fungicide, and antimicrobial agent, and acetic anhydride, which is used in making plastics, drugs, dyes, perfumes, explosives and aspirin but there’s “no known impact to waterways at this time.”
Hazardous material crews are on site coordinating remediation and cleanup, she said.
Odom said there were no reports of injuries or fatalities but Tysver said three crew members were transported to area hospital as a precaution and have been released.
There’s no immediate word on when the evacuation order will be lifted, Odom said.
Both he and Tysver said what caused the derailment remains under investigation. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/north-louisiana-families-evacuated-after-train-17748611.php | 2023-01-28 23:02:22 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/north-louisiana-families-evacuated-after-train-17748611.php |
Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Irish & American Cultures Will Unite for Ukraine on August 27-28
CHICAGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been and continues to be a very difficult time in Ukraine due to the unprovoked and devastatingly violent war that Russia has unleashed on it. While Chicago's Ukrainian Village Fest is an annual celebration of Ukraine's vibrant and energetic culture, this year, we are dedicating our fest to raising funds for the brave Ukrainian men and women who fight for Ukraine's freedom every day. All proceeds from the fest will be donated to Help Heroes of Ukraine 501(c)(3) charitable organization to support them in their efforts to keep Ukraine a free and democratic nation.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world has united with Ukraine against Putin's totalitarian regime. With thousands of impassioned marches, rallies, and protests across the world, coupled with significant military assistance from its allies, Ukraine has felt greatly supported in its fight for freedom. As such, this year we have given our festival a theme that acts as a rally cry for all attendees, performers, volunteers and sponsors: Uniting for Ukraine. In addition to Ukraine's rich culture being on full display as always, this year, the cultures of Ukraine's supportive friends, neighbors and allies will also be celebrated on the main stage throughout the weekend, including Polish, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Irish, and, of course, American! World-renown performance groups such as Ensemble Español, Trinity Irish Dance Company, Suktinis Lithuanian Folk Dance Group, and Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, along with many other musicians and vocalists, will surely leave festival attendees begging for more!
The 2022 Ukrainian Village Fest will be held on the 2200 block of W. Superior St. in the heart of Chicago's Ukrainian Village from 4-10pm on Saturday, August 27th, and 1-9pm on Sunday, August 28th. A suggested donation of $10 will serve as the daily entrance fee. Join us to enjoy delicious ethnic food, imported beer, vibrant arts & crafts, and high-energy performances throughout the weekend!
Learn more about the 2022 Ukrainian Village Fest lineup of performances on Facebook @ukrainianvillagefest and on Instagram @ukrainianvillagefestival. To donate to the fest's fundraising efforts for Help Heroes of Ukraine, please click here.
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Allianz Partners USA Reveals Top 2023 Summer Travel Destinations, Top Days for Travel
RICHMOND, Va., May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With the summer travel rush about to begin, Allianz Partners' Top 10 Summer Travel Destinations review reveals where Americans are escaping to, with Orlando and Cancun once again topping sun-worshippers' must-visit lists.
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The travel insurance and assistance company analyzed more than 1.6 million flight itineraries* between five and eight days in length for travel booked between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day and found that 73% of the itineraries reviewed were for U.S. domestic trips and 27% of travelers are headed abroad.
Following Orlando's #1 ranking, destinations in the Hawaiian islands (Honolulu, Oahu #3 and Kahului, Maui, #5) and Pacific Northwest (Seattle, #2, Portland #10) will welcome visitors this summer, along with major metropolitan cities Boston (#4), New York (#6) and Los Angeles (#7). Travelers are also trying their luck in Las Vegas this year (#8), and Miami (#9) also returns to the Top 10, knocking out Denver, Colorado.
Beach breezes and Caribbean vibes set the mood for this summer's international travel radar – closely aligning with Allianz Partners' Spring Break review, Cancun enjoys the top international hotspot designation alongside Mexican destinations San Jose del Cabo (#2) and Puerto Vallarta (#7). Destinations in Aruba (#4), Jamaica (#5), and Bahamas (#6) have us humming popular refrains and dreaming of ways to "get there fast and then take it slow" in true Beach Boys style.
Turks & Caicos, which dropped its COVID vaccine mandate on April 1, joins the list this year at #9 along with the US Virgin Islands (#10). London, the only European destination featured in 2023's review, chuffs across at #8 likely spurred by King Charles III's coronation festivities.
The survey revealed that for international trips, the trip length favored by a majority of travelers (59%) is seven days, and the highest volume of travelers departs on Saturdays, May 27, June 10 and June 17. Domestically, trip lengths of six (49%) and seven (48%) days split the schedule, with Saturday, July 1st as the most popular departure date ahead of the nation's Independence Day holiday.
"Claiming their seventh consecutive year atop our summer travel rosters, Orlando and Cancun are tried, and true destinations trusted to deliver some of the most-memorable vacations," said Daniel Durazo, director of external communications at Allianz Partners USA. "But even the best-laid plans can go awry, and travelers who cover their trip investment with a travel insurance policy can protect against the cost of covered unexpected delays and cancellations that may derail their trip."
Allianz Partners offers travel insurance through most major U.S. airlines, leading travel agents, online travel agencies, hotel companies, cruise lines and directly to consumers. For more information on Allianz and available travel policies, please visit http://www.allianztravelinsurance.com/.
*Methodology: The data of U.S. travelers' 2023 Summer Travel plans was gathered by analyzing the number of customers that went through the online booking process of airfare and package paths for partners offering Allianz Global Assistance travel insurance, to generate itineraries for roundtrip flights departing from U.S. airports during the Summer Travel season from 5/26/2023 – 9/5/2023 for trips between 5-8 days in length. In total, 1.6 million itineraries were analyzed using this methodology.
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In the United States, Allianz Partners USA (AGA Service Company) offers Allianz Travel-branded travel protection plans and serves millions of customers each year. In addition to travel protection, the company offers event ticket protection, registration protection for endurance events and unique travel assistance services such as international medical assistance and concierge services. AGA Service Company is doing business as Allianz Global Assistance Insurance Agency in California (License # 0B01400) and Massachusetts. Allianz Partners USA is part of the Allianz Partners group. Allianz Partners is a world leader in B2B2C insurance and assistance, offering global solutions that span international health and life, travel insurance, mobility and assistance. Customer driven, our innovative experts are redefining insurance services by delivering future-ready, high-tech, high-touch products and solutions that go beyond traditional insurance. Present in over 75 countries, our 19,400 employees speak 70 languages, handle over 58 million cases each year, and are motivated to go the extra mile to offer peace of mind to our customers around the world.
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Multicultural books recommended by Love for Literacy's founder, Dr. Kelly Byrd, as well as her children's book, Like Sunshine on an Otherwise Miserable Day, were donated to these schools to help promote more literary diversity and representation in libraries and classrooms. Dr. Byrd also provided family literacy activities and online resource recommendations for students, parents and caregivers, and school professionals.
SHC's Schools division selected school districts that primarily serve disadvantaged and marginalized students. Through continued philanthropic events and partnerships, SHC strives to make a difference in both education and healthcare to ensure a more equitable future for all.
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Seeking a rebound, CNN turns to Charles Barkley, Gayle King
NEW YORK (AP) — TV personalities Gayle King and Charles Barkley will headline a new prime-time weekly CNN show, “King Charles,” debuting in the fall, the network announced Saturday as it tries to engineer a turnaround amid tumbling ratings.
CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht said in a statement that the show “will be an exciting new way we are delivering culturally relevant programming and unique perspectives to our audience, from two incredibly dynamic personalities.”
Licht said King will continue to anchor “CBS Mornings,” and former NBA star Barkley will continue his current role at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports.
Appearing on TNT to discuss the new show, King said she hadn’t been looking for an additional job but relished the chance to work with Barkley.
“What I think is so great for the both of us is that it’s live TV,” she said. “To me, live TV is like working without a net. So whatever happens, happens. I like that.”
The duo said they’d talk about politics but that the show would not be political.
“We don’t want to say, ‘We’re a liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat,’” Barkley said. “That’s one of the things that’s already ruined television in general.”
Cable news ratings are down across the board compared to 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was fresh in the news. CNN’s dip has been most dramatic — 61% in prime time in March.
CNN is a year into new corporate management with Warner Bros. Discovery, which hired ex-CBS producer Licht to run the network.
Licht’s revamp of “CNN This Morning” last fall was plagued with bad publicity in the wake of co-host Don Lemon’s ill-advised reference to a woman’s “prime” years, which offended many.
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If you look at the campaign ads for this year’s Senate races, the message is clear: Real men live in Missouri. In the heart of America. On the ruby red plains, where the pickups are large and the flags fly high.
Greitens is, of course, taking cues from the elder Donald Trump, who gave us all a master class in unbridled machismo. Trump said of the Islamic State, “I’m gonna bomb the s--- out of them,” and when football player Colin Kaepernick took a knee, Trump pronounced, “Wouldn’t you like to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b---- off the field right now, out? He’s fired.’ ”
American politicians have almost always been obliged to display manliness to win elections, but our 45th president heightened masculinity to absurd, comic-book levels. Many have posited that Trump was old-school, taking us back to the days of John Wayne and guys-only steak dinners, but cultural critic Susan Faludi — author of “Stiffed,” “Backlash” and other books on gender — argued persuasively in a 2020 New York Times opinion piece that, no, Trump introduced us to a new, Internet-age masculinity, a “Potemkin patriarchy” specially tailored for “an image-based, sensation-saturated and very modern entertainment economy. … Contemporary manliness is increasingly defined by display — in Mr. Trump’s case, a pantomime of aggrieved aggression: the curled lip, the exaggerated snarl.”
In political races nationwide this year, Republicans are clamoring to get the snarl and the swagger just right as they seek to out-Trump one another. During the Super Bowl, Senate candidate Jim Lamon of Arizona ran an ad that was styled to look like an old western movie and starred himself as a gun-twirling sheriff firing at a sheepish actor dressed to resemble Joe Biden. In Georgia, Mike Collins, a Republican in a U.S. House race, trundled a wheelbarrow full of paper into the forest, then shot at it as viewers realized he was turning “Nancy Pelosi’s Plan for America” into a cloud of confetti and smoke.
The Senate race in Missouri has arguably emerged as ground zero for the manliness question — and Greitens isn’t the only candidate shilling his virility. Do you remember Mark McCloskey, that vigilante in St. Louis who brandished an AR-15 military-style rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters? He’s now seeking the GOP nomination for Senate, too — touring Missouri in a custom campaign vehicle, an SUV appointed with a giant photo that captures his gun-toting moment of fame. “Never back down!” reads the adjacent text.
Nationwide, all of this GOP chest-beating appears to be working, as Democrats seem poised for a thrashing in the midterms. In Missouri, though, one Democrat volleyed back early, serving up his own brand of manhood. Last June, Lucas Kunce released a Senate campaign video that showed him locking and loading an AR-15. In the ad, Kunce bends over the gun’s sight. He squints. Will he shoot?
No. Instead, Kunce smirks and says, “Forget it. ... Stunts like that? Those are for those clowns on the other side. Like that mansion man Mark McCloskey.” There’s a bounce in his voice; Kunce, who’s 39, is enjoying this caper. And he speaks with a certain authority: The guy is shredded. His pecs bulge beneath his blue T-shirt, and his implicit message — that he’s a real man and McCloskey’s a dingleberry — gains steam when we learn that Kunce is a 13-year Marine veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kunce’s campaign isn’t about masculinity, but it certainly invokes the theme. “All they care about,” he told me, referring to Greitens and McCloskey, “is looking tough, looking strong. For me, masculinity is taking care of people — your family, your community — and making sure that you actually stand for something.”
What Kunce stands for is radical economic change. He’s a self-described populist, and for him, re-creating America is a military mission. “I’m a grenade,” he told an audience not long ago. “Pull the pin on me and throw me into the U.S. Senate so I can change things.”
There are other Democratic Senate candidates who exude some of Kunce’s brawn: for instance, John Fetterman, the 6-foot-8, heavily tattooed Pennsylvania lieutenant governor who favors hoodies over business suits. But Jackson Katz, creator of the 2020 documentary “The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics From Nixon to Trump,” is particularly excited about Kunce. “For decades,” says Katz, “the Democrats have been seen as the non-masculine party, and they’ve done nothing about it. They’ve been clueless. And now here’s a guy who can’t be written off physically or personally as soft.”
Can Kunce actually win? Can a political novice sell a revised, anti-Trump version of manhood in a once-centrist state that, in the past six presidential elections, has consistently voted Republican? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for one, is worried that the race “could end up being competitive,” as he told CNN in April, before advising Missouri Republicans: “You better nominate a fully capable, credible nominee or you’re in trouble.”
But perhaps the bigger question about the rise of an ultra-macho style in Missouri’s — and America’s — politics isn’t whether it’s effective; it’s what it all means. If this new exaggerated masculinity proves consistently appealing to voters on both the right and the left, then what does that suggest about the kinds of candidates who can, and cannot, realistically seek office in the future? About what types of issues we can debate and on what terms? About what kind of people we want to lead us — and what kind of country we want to be?
Lucas Kunce is 6-foot-2, and he wears his clothes tight, so that even in repose, he seems athletic, his muscles hardened by a regimen that involves running, swimming and weightlifting. His automobile is less impressive. It is a well-loved 2013 Ford Focus. The paint is chipped; the passenger-side front door sticks a little and sometimes needs a special shove.
For three days this May, I plied the campaign trail with Kunce. We moved — the candidate, his press officer and I — west to east across Missouri, from Kansas City to St. Louis, the three of us passing innumerable highway signs for adult bookstores and fundamentalist churches, on a trip that seemed loose-limbed, unofficial. There’s a boyish abandon about Kunce. The onetime Marine major is half-inclined to address every audience he encounters as though it were made up of leathernecks convoying with him through Fallujah. “Lucas has no filter,” his press officer, Connor Lounsbury, will tell me. “None. I can’t tell him how to act. He’s just Lucas.”
Sometimes the no-filter approach works its intended magic. Like when we travel to a school for apprentice ironworkers in North Kansas City. When Kunce enters the classroom, he finds 30 apprentices, all male, in grimy orange and yellow T-shirts. They are sinewy and bearded, and they slump in their chairs, their arms crossed as their helmets, plastered with stickers, sit before them on tables, bearing slogans such as “Rat Poison Ironworkers. Local Union #10.”
“I’m a grenade,” Lucas Kunce told an audience not long ago. “Pull the pin on me and throw me into the U.S. Senate so I can change things.”
For most politicians, it’d be a hard room, but Kunce begins with, “We got any veterans in here?” Soon, he’s talking about how, when he was growing up in Jefferson City, in the ’90s, his family was so broke that his mom “begged the grocery store manager not to cash the check until the end of the month.” The manager complied. “People cared for each other,” Kunce says, “but today that grocery store is owned by some private equity a--hole, and if you don’t have money, you’ve got to go down to payday loans. That’s f---ed up, right?”
The ironworkers nod. They snicker knowingly. They’re listening, and Kunce continues, now talking about how the United States has spent $6.4 trillion on wars since 2001. “The thing that p---es me off,” he says, “is how they spent almost nothing for the communities of the people who served in those wars. The first house I ever lived in was bulldozed. The house I joined the Marine Corps from is boarded up.” The problem, Kunce says, is “politicians who make decisions based on their stock portfolios. I want to take power back in this country. I want every damned one of you to have power.”
Eventually, the apprentices begin moving toward a practice construction site. In the corridor, Kunce’s aides hand them a new helmet sticker, a piece of campaign propaganda that reads, “Make S--- in America Again!” Thirty-year-old Matthew Luckey tells me, “I’m going to clean my helmet off so this sticker will stay on there.” A father of four who voted for Trump in 2020, Luckey says of Kunce, “He seems like a pretty down-to-earth guy.”
Outside, the apprentices are building the iron bones of a three-story building. The instructor takes Kunce aside to teach him how to tie rebar with wire — a step in the manufacture of concrete — and as Kunce bends over the rebar, he is intently focused.
But then there’s a distraction. Off in the corner of the job site, one by one, apprentices are roping into harnesses to pull their way up a 35-foot-high iron beam. It’s a challenge that involves hugging the beam close and angling your feet just so into a 12-inch-wide gap. One guy struggles his way to the top and triumphantly rings the bell there. Another makes it only 10 feet up, then falls. I hear the grisly sound of the man’s feet slapping the pavement. There’s a collective sigh of relief (he’s all right), and then there’s a hush. And I realize that the plan, all along, has been to give Major Kunce a crack at the beam.
Kunce climbs into the harness. Then everyone waits for a boom lift to maneuver into place, to save the candidate if he gets stuck. No one else got such backup, and the machine ups the ante: Either Kunce will prove himself a hero here, or he’ll leave known as the weenie who needed the boom. No one is working now. The apprentices are all gathered at the base of the beam, making sardonic jokes and spitting chewing tobacco.
When Kunce starts out, his grip is firm, but his hips are canted back, too far from the beam, and his feet slip in the slot. About a dozen feet up, though, he finds his groove, and then he’s just flying, hand over hand, toward the top. He’s moving more quickly than anyone else will all day, and the assembled ironworkers are loving it.
“Hell, yeah!” someone yells.
“Don’t look down. Keep going up!” shouts another apprentice.
Kunce reaches the top; he smacks the bell.
“Yes,” one ironworker cries from below. “That’s my senator!”
This nation was founded on great acts of brawn. George Washington stood in a boat, crossing the Delaware, towering and mighty in his rough-hewn breeches, his broad chest to the wind. He was strong enough to hurl a silver coin across the Potomac, and he once broke up a brawl between soldiers by seizing both combatants by the throat.
Or so the story goes. In his forthcoming book, “First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity,” Maurizio Valsania, a history professor at the University of Turin in Italy, writes that our first president was in fact not a hulk, but rather a “coifed” upper-class gentleman who wore a corset to ensure that his back was, per the fashion of the day, ramrod straight, like a ballet dancer’s.
Valsania doesn’t gloss over the ruggedness of Washington’s life — he did cut down trees; he did fight in wars — but the professor stresses that Washington, who was potbellied, with a concave chest, only became a he-man in the American imagination decades after his death, when Andrew Jackson made pushing west and fighting Native Americans the national mission. “As the symbolic father of a nation prizing strength and territorial expansion,” Valsania writes, “Washington must by necessity remain the tallest, strongest, most athletic, and most virile of men.” For the actual Washington, however, the highest values were “self-effacement and making sacrifices for the common good,” Valsania told me. “He was a communitarian.” Valsania says all of our early leaders were.
Jackson was a radical departure. A loudmouth who liked to brag about his brawls and his duels, he brought to the White House a bumptiousness that spoke to an ambitious, rising middle class. He was an individualist and, ever since his early-19th-century presidency, Valsania says, “there’s been a tension between two American masculinities, between the individualist and the communitarian.”
America’s consummate communitarian, probably, was Franklin Roosevelt, who in one 1932 speech tried to convince his audience that the time for burly Jacksonian individualism had passed. “The man of ruthless force had his place in developing a pioneer country,” Roosevelt said, but his modern equivalent — “the lone wolf, the unethical competitor, the reckless promoter” — threatened to drag our nation “back to a state of anarchy.”
As a refined aristocrat, Roosevelt wasn’t inclined to drive his point home with muscular heft, but there have been communitarians who’ve done so, the prime example being President Lyndon Baines Johnson. LBJ pushed through his Great Society agenda partly via the “Johnson Treatment,” which saw the beefy 6-foot-4 Texan lobbying congressmen by jabbing his finger at them, grabbing at their lapels and leaning threateningly into their personal space.
Since Johnson, though, Republicans have largely been able to castigate Democrats as weak. In his film “The Man Card,” Jackson Katz argues that this winning strategy took root in the 1968 presidential election when Richard Nixon media adviser Roger Ailes, who would go on to found Fox News, first tapped the “fear, anxiety and anger of the White middle class.” Ailes helped land Nixon the “hard-hat vote” — the support of the White working class — and thereby aligned Republicans inextricably with White male virility.
In the years since, Democratic candidates have tried to project strength, but the efforts have largely fallen flat. Think of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis riding around in a military tank, looking like a little boy in an oversized soldier’s costume, or of Barack Obama deciding, in 2013, that it was a good idea to release photos of himself shooting skeets.
Even when Democrats seem poised to win the manliness game, they lose. In the 2004 presidential election, their candidate, John F. Kerry, was a decorated Vietnam War veteran, his military credentials far stronger than those of incumbent George W. Bush, who’d dodged the draft and instead joined Texas’s Air National Guard. Still, some 200 former naval men emerged to form Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, which sought to poke holes in Kerry’s naval résumé. We winced at footage of Kerry windsurfing while Bush repeatedly got himself photographed cutting brush at his Texas ranch; it was Bush who managed to establish himself as the “real man” in the race.
Joe Biden has tried to be manly, certainly. In the run-up to the 2020 election, he released a video called “That’s a President,” which starts by telling us that being commander in chief is “about protecting Americans.” A medley of tough guy pics ensue — Biden convening with camo-clad soldiers, Biden playing Joe Cool in dark sunglasses — as a deep male voice extols the Democrat’s virtues: “Strength. Courage. Compassion. Resilience.”
But none of that has stopped Republicans from trying to portray him as unmanly. In March, after Biden decided not to risk establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) went on Fox News and told Sean Hannity that the president’s Ukraine policy constituted a “wimp fest.” Hannity heartily agreed. “We saw Donald Trump using modern warfare,” he said, now focused on Afghanistan, “to kick the living Adam Schiff out of that caliphate and [fiefdom] that was grown under Obama and Biden.” No shortage of testosterone in that sentence!
It would be impossible to call Lucas Kunce a wimp, or to tar him with the label “elitist” — another, related slur beloved by Republicans. As the candidate tells us in “Home,” a two-minute campaign ad thick with tear-jerking violins, he grew up on “an old cracked street in Jeff City, Missouri.” His father was an IT specialist for the Missouri Department of Conservation. His mother was a teacher. Or, rather, she was until Kunce, the oldest of four children, was 8. Kunce’s sister was born then, with cardiac issues that required three open-heart surgeries. His mother had to stop working to care for the girl. Medical bills piled up, and in 1990 his parents filed for bankruptcy.
But the family patched through. “Our neighbors and friends lifted us up,” Kunce says in the ad. “They gave me the chance to make something of myself.” Slowly, lovingly the camera zeroes in on Kunce, standing in profile on a gritty street. “So I did,” Kunce continues. “I went to Yale and became a U.S. Marine to honor those who had given me so much.” Kunce goes on to lament that, once he came home from Iraq and Afghanistan, he found “the community I had loved had been hollowed out … the wealth of our state sucked dry.”
For anyone who missed the video’s masculine motifs, “Home” soon delivers a hopeful medley of macho visuals as Kunce promises to “Marshall Plan the Midwest.” We see an auto garage where wrenches hang gleaming on a pegboard. We visit a boxing gym and hang out for a second or two of sparring, and we follow a young bro shouldering a load of lumber out to his pickup while Kunce enthuses about investing “in the heartland, where we’ve been making things for generations.”
As Kunce and I cross Missouri, I ask him how he took the unusual path from Yale to the Marines. He tells me that after finishing college and attending law school at the University of Missouri, he returned to Jeff City and found a mentor in Al Mueller, a Marine and Vietnam vet who ran the soup kitchen that Kunce’s parents launched in the late 1980s, in the basement of their Catholic church. “Al,” he says, “always put others before himself. He thought the Vietnam War was a mess, but he enlisted. He decided, ‘If it’s not me, it’s going to be somebody else.’ ”
In 2007, when Kunce was 24, Mueller took him several times to the Marine Corps League, a sort of VFW hall, in the community of Apache Flats, just outside Jeff City. A singer-songwriter named Ron Saucier was often on hand, warbling patriotic songs playing tribute to soldiers. “There were World War II veterans there, and Korean War vets,” Kunce remembers, “and they told me their stories.” Like Mueller, these older men seemed noble to Kunce. “I already knew that I wanted to do public service,” Kunce says, “but that’s when I decided how I would serve.” Here was a communitarian alpha male in the LBJ tradition — and he was jumping into the fray.
Kunce has been on Fox News numerous times, and also on MSNBC and Bloomberg Television. He’s out-fundraising all other candidates for the Senate seat, including Republicans, bringing in $3.3 million as of March 31, the last time such figures were available. Most of his donations have come from outside the state — from Democrats hoping for a ray of sunshine in the midterms. Ninety-eight percent of the gifts have been for less than $200 — a stat that puts him in the same league as John Fetterman, widely regarded as a grass-roots folk icon. Still, it’s not a sure bet that Kunce will win the primary. His opponent, beer heiress and nurse Trudy Busch Valentine, 65, has made very few political appearances, but in recent polls she was just behind Kunce in a race that still isn’t on many Missourians’ radar screen.
What’s clear is that if Kunce does face Greitens in November, he’ll be up against someone who trumpets his own intense machismo. Before he was governor, Greitens, now 48, was an intelligence officer in the Navy SEALs. He has published four books about his SEAL experience, among them “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life.” In appearing on TV to promote these brisk sellers, he has reflected on questions such as, “How do people deal with hardship and become heroic?” In his winning 2016 gubernatorial campaign, he worked the SEAL motif relentlessly, even going so far as to sell bumper stickers that read, “ISIS Hunting Permit.” Not everyone appreciated his virile strutting: That same year, 16 of his fellow SEALs joined forces to produce a sharply critical video that accused Greitens of “stealing the valor and sacrifice of our brothers who actually fought, died, and dedicated their lives to taking the fight to our nation’s enemies.”
Greitens is, like Kunce, a toned physical specimen. He has run a marathon in under three hours and has an impressive boxing résumé. But he has faced a welter of ethical issues. In 2018, he stepped down as governor, accused of violating campaign finance laws — a charge that was deemed unfounded in a 2022 Missouri Ethics Commission ruling. In 2018 he was also accused of terrorizing his hairdresser. He allegedly tied her up, blindfolded her, stripped her, forced her to have oral sex, took photographs and then threatened to distribute them if she ever spoke publicly of the episode. More recently, his ex-wife has accused him of knocking her down and smacking the couple’s young son so hard the boy’s tooth jiggled loose.
In 2018, Greitens was indicted on one felony count for invading the privacy of the hairdresser. The charge was later dropped, though, and the Missouri Supreme Court is now looking at claims that the prosecutor in the case, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, withheld evidence. In a March statement, Greitens called his ex-wife’s allegations “completely fabricated” and “baseless.”
I sought an in-person interview with Greitens; for weeks, he did not reply to my emails. Eventually, though, his campaign sent me a written statement attributed to the former governor. “I fight for what I believe in and I stand on principles,” the statement read. “Far too often, especially in politics, we see weak-kneed politicians who are afraid to stand up and do the most difficult things. When I am U.S. Senator, my sole purpose will be to defend this country from all threats, domestic and abroad, just like the oath I took when I first enlisted with the Navy.”
The rhetoric was manly, no doubt, but I’d eventually discover that, in the Senate race in Missouri, you don’t have to be a man to talk like a honcho. One evening, while visiting the St. Joseph Country Club for a Republican fundraiser, I speak to U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, who was polling in third place in her party’s crowded primary, behind Greitens and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. She offers me a solution to the use of drones for carrying drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. “In Missouri,” she tells me, “there’s a lot of gun owners. We do a lot of target practice. I know we could shoot them down.”
Nearby, hunkered over a white tablecloth, is the figure who first got me thinking about Missouri and manhood: Mark McCloskey. McCloskey is, okay, polling in fifth place among Missouri’s 21 Republican Senate candidates, but there’s something archetypal about this personal injury lawyer who, in 2020, patrolled his lawn with an AR-15 as his wife, Patricia, stood beside him waggling a smaller, more ladylike Bryco .380-caliber pistol at Black Lives Matter protesters.
McCloskey is the aggrieved White male, so one afternoon I meet up with him and Patricia at a bar in St. Joseph to ask what compelled him to brandish his gun. Like many conservatives, McCloskey sees our nation as an impending catastrophe in need of hard male energy. He tells me that the Black Lives Matter protesters were “screaming death threats and arson threats.” Audio recordings of the incident don’t support this claim — their wording is hard to decipher — but McCloskey says that the activists pointed and told him, “That’s where I’m going to have my breakfast after we kill you and take the house.”
What McCloskey perceived as a Black Lives Matter siege on his home was just another chapter in a long-running siege on American liberty that “goes back to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1905. The forces that created the Soviet Union and Red China,” he tells me, “have a program of trying to undermine free society.” Today, he says, “the CDC is using our phones to track us. There are people sitting in holes in D.C. with no hope of a trial” — Jan. 6 protesters, he means. “This country has the smallest remnants of freedom left,” he continues, “and my campaign is a movement to restore freedom, to restore individuals as the masters of their own lives.”
McCloskey tells me that the impulse to “stand up for God and country” resides in his DNA — and for a moment he transports me to long-ago Fort Dodge, Iowa, where, one day, his elderly great-grandfather was crossing a “bridge over a creek. Some young punks were coming the other direction saying, ‘Out of my way, old man,’ ” McCloskey recounts, “and he just knocked them off the bridge, into the water.”
Mark McCloskey says his “campaign is a movement to restore freedom, to restore individuals as the masters of their own lives.”
As I sit there listening, I marvel at how different the raw streets of Fort Dodge were from McCloskey’s manicured lawn — and how the myth of frontier masculinity keeps enduring in America, no matter the context. But we’re an hour into the interview now, and I’m cognizant of Patricia, who’s been sitting silently by her husband’s side the entire time. I look over to her, finally, and note that she’s a lawyer too; she also patrolled the lawn that day in 2020. Why isn’t she the one running for Senate? “I wouldn’t think about running,” she says. “He’s the dude.”
A couple of hours after scaling the iron beam, Kunce is slated to meet the photographer for this story. The plan is to take pictures of the candidate in Independence, where he lives within sight of the house that Harry Truman called home for over 50 years. Lounsbury, the press officer, thought Kunce was going to shower and change for the shoot. But when we meet him, Kunce has done neither.
We shoot the photos. We get on Interstate 70 and press east. Just outside of St. Louis, in well-heeled Chesterfield, Kunce meets 60 or so local Democrats gathered in a large gazebo set in a sumptuous grassy park.
When Kunce speaks, his arm gestures are coiled, taut, emphatic. He talks about onerous student loans, which, he says, obliged his law school classmates to abandon their save-the-world ideals and work instead for those “white-shoe law firms that help payday loans squeeze more money out of us.” Then he skewers the politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, who perpetrated the war in Afghanistan. “They lied to our faces,” he says. “They told us, ‘Give us your sons and daughters. Give us your trillions of dollars. We’re building something real and lasting in Afghanistan.’ And it all fell apart in 11 days.”
Afterward, Kathy Coe, an IT specialist, stands up to tell Kunce, “I love that you have fight in you. My huge frustration with the Democrats is that we’ve been too polite. Right now, we’re bringing a knife to a gunfight.”
Eventually, I’ll speak to Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a history and gender studies professor at Calvin University in Michigan, and learn that she too appreciates Kunce’s force. “He’s exactly the sort of candidate the Democrats should be running right now,” says Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” “He’s a strong, ripped White male who knows how to use a gun. Who better to reveal how much of the right wing’s masculinity is performative?”
Du Mez adds, “There can be other real-deal candidates capable of subversion: strong women of color, for example. But right now, when masculinity is the motif of the season, Kunce seems right. It’s going to be hard for the Republicans to say he’s not a real man.” Still, she continues, “Kunce is a test case. Republican masculinity is about defending White Christian nationalism. Think of Mark McCloskey on his lawn. Kunce is doing the muscle thing, but he’s extricating the Christian nationalism. We’ll have to see if it works.”
It’s likely to be an uphill battle. The Cook Political Report has rated the Missouri Senate race as “solid Republican,” and Terry Smith, a political scientist at Missouri’s Columbia College, isn’t inclined to doubt that prediction. Smith sees Greitens as the man to beat in Missouri. “In 2016, I learned my lesson on writing certain kinds of candidates off,” Smith says, alluding to Trump’s shocker victory. “I would never count Eric Greitens out. He’s a bad boy, and that resonates with voters. And he has access to a lot of money.” Billionaire shipping magnate Richard Uihlein last year gave $2.5 million to a super PAC supporting Greitens. “Kunce has a long way to go,” Smith tells me.
Kunce doesn’t deny that opposing Greitens would be tough, but he’d relish the challenge. “If it’s me against Greitens, it’s going to be bloody,” Kunce says. “It’s going to be a very bloody, nasty fight.”
Politics as slugfest is exciting, and it makes for killer tweets. But what if we lived in a world where bravado and masculinity weren’t the prime criteria for political success? Kelly Dittmar, a political science professor and the director of research for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, argues that we should strive for such a world by reimagining political campaigns. “We should expand the credentials we seek, value, and reward among candidates and officeholders,” Dittmar wrote in 2020 on the center’s blog. “Disrupting the gender power imbalance in U.S. politics requires not only shifting power away from men but also from masculinity.”
Dittmar doesn’t just disdain macho saber rattlers like Greitens and McCloskey. She gives low marks to all politicians, male and female, who drench their rhetoric in machismo, for this, she argues, “only maintains power in those credentials.” She laments how, in 2016, presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told Trump to “man up,” and she even takes a swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who decried Trump’s boorish treatment of Fiorina by calling him “a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.”
Is Kunce just another politician misguidedly using tough-guy rhetoric to take down Trump and his heirs? The answer is complicated. Kunce is a lot more than a gunslinger. When I think of him now, I place him back at Apache Flats, at the Marine Corps League, mixing with the sort of World War II vets that ’40s-era correspondent Ernie Pyle valorized when he savored the communitarian spirit those soldiers shared in combat. “We are all men of new professions,” Pyle wrote, “out in some strange night caring for each other.”
With the rise of ultramasculine candidates in this election cycle, the tone of menace underlying American politics is getting more pronounced.
But then there’s Kunce’s tight T-shirts, the easy and knowing way that he handles a gun for the camera, his happy embrace of the f-bomb as a go-to campaign trail adjective. With his arrival — and with the rise of other ultramasculine candidates in this election cycle — the tone of menace underlying American politics is getting more pronounced.
I could feel this as we crossed Missouri on I-70. One afternoon, as we were driving east in the Focus, Kunce told me about his last military posting, in which he was on staff at the Pentagon, leading arms negotiations between NATO and Russia — and growing increasingly tired of how the Russians violated treaties. He said, “Power and coercion is the only language they understand. If you talk about hugs and kisses, you’re just going to get abused.”
Then, abruptly, he shifted topics, now zeroing on his Senate race. “Eric Greitens, Mark McCloskey,” he said, “all these fake populists on the right, these guys who oppose unions and higher wages, who don’t actually want to end corporate control in our country? They are the Russians, and you’ve got to fight them with firepower.”
Bill Donahue has written for Men’s Journal, GQ and Outside. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/06/20/he-man-politics/ | 2022-06-20 14:34:11 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/06/20/he-man-politics/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Viral researchers believe someone in central Ohio has been infected with COVID-19 for at least two years, and they’re hoping to find that person.
While the researchers believe there is no threat to public health, they hope this case holds much-needed answers to treating long COVID.
Molecular virologist Dr. Marc Johnson, a microbiology professor at the University of Missouri’s medical school, spent much of his career studying HIV.
That changed in early 2020 when Missouri health officials asked him to lead the state’s wastewater sampling program to help track COVID outbreaks. At the time, Johnson said there was not much data available on the genetic material of the virus.
“There was no protocol established at that point for sequencing SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater, so I developed my own,” Johnson said.
As the virus evolved into different variants, like Delta and Omicron, sequencing its genetic material helped identify which strains were more prevalent in different areas. That’s when Johnson discovered what he calls “cryptic” strains, or “cryptics.”
“(Cryptics) have certain patterns; there are certain mutations that they regularly accumulate that are not in a circulating lineage,” Johnson said.
Johnson found that these unique versions of the virus would linger in one wastewater system for a period of time and suddenly disappear. At first, he could not understand why these mutated sequences weren’t spreading, even in densely populated areas like New York City.
“I thought it was coming from the rats, simply because I couldn’t think of anything else that…had enough mass in the sewer shed that wouldn’t move around,” Johnson said. “We’ve tested more rat feces than I care to remember.”
The rat fecal tests were negative.
As sequencing became more common in sewer systems across the United States, Johnson started looking at publicly available data. A cryptic in Wisconsin led to Johnson’s next discovery: these sequences might be linked to just one person.
“We started tracking it,” Johnson said. “So, we started from the main treatment plant of over 100,000 people, and sort of like checked all the lines. And all of them, only one of the lines had the lineage. And so we would just keep going, checking… all of the pieces of the web, figuring out, following it up, up the line until we got to a single manhole. That manhole actually only got waste from one place, which was a company (that) had about 30 employees.”
Johnson said the trail went cold after two-thirds of the employees at the Wisconsin company agreed to be tested for COVID with nasal swabs, and all of the tests came back negative. While he and his colleagues spent months studying the cryptic strain and gaining approval to collect stool samples from the employees, the strain vanished.
“We don’t know why,” Johnson said. “Either they left the job, or got better, or is in remission – we don’t know. But we’re still monitoring it. And we’ve actually now gotten started collecting stool samples from the company.”
This spring, Johnson found another cryptic in Columbus’s sewer shed. He said the same sequence appeared in Washington Court House and has a lineage that pre-dates the Delta variant, the strain most prevalent in the summer of 2021.
Johnson believes this indicates that someone has been carrying and shedding the COVID virus for more than two years. He went as far as to predict that this person lives in Columbus and commutes to Washington Court House for work.
“I just know that they regularly shed into both sewer sheds often on the same day,” Johnson said.
The researcher hopes that by sharing this story, that person will come forward to help him answer a lot of important questions.
“How many cases are there like this? What are their symptoms? Is this related to long COVID?” Johnson said. “There are a lot of people who got COVID and never really got over it, and we don’t know why. It’s probable most of them are not chronic infections, but some of them might be, which would actually be good, because that’s theoretically treatable, and they actually get better.”
Johnson stressed that this is not a threat to public health, explaining that the virus is inactive once it passes through the gastrointestinal tract.
If you frequently commute between Columbus and Washington Court House, you can email Johnson at marcjohnson@missouri.edu.
A spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Health said health officials are not fully convinced that the cryptic strain is linked to only one person, and they are not investigating it because it poses no threat to public health. | https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus/ohio-resident-sought-by-scientists-may-have-had-cryptic-covid-strain-for-2-years/ | 2023-06-07 00:05:26 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus/ohio-resident-sought-by-scientists-may-have-had-cryptic-covid-strain-for-2-years/ |
SEOUL – An activist said Monday he has again flown huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items and an anti-North Korea placard across the tense inter-Korean border, despite the North’s recent warning of a deadly attack over his activities.
Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector-turned-activist, said the 20 balloons launched from a South Korean border town on Sunday carried 20,000 masks and tens of thousands of Tylenol and Vitamin C tablets.
He said one of the balloons carried a placard with a message that reads “Let’s eradicate Kim Jong Un and (his sister) Kim Yo Jong," along with their photos. He said no other propaganda statements were carried by the balloons.
For years, Park has floated helium-filled balloons with numerous, small anti-Pyongyang leaflets with harsh criticism of the Kim family’s authoritarian rule in North Korea. But he’s recently changed his cargo to masks and other health products amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Korea is deeply angered by such activism and has made the highly questionable claim that leaflets, banknotes and booklets flown from South Korea caused the country’s COVID-19 outbreak this year. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the country's leader, said last month that North Korea would respond by “wiping out the South Korean authorities” if “rubbish” continued to be flown from South Korea.
Days after Kim Yo Jong’s warning, a man wielding a steel pipe attacked Park at a rally in Seoul, breaking the activist's arm.
Police said Monday the attacker was detained but didn’t immediately provide further details. Park said he believes North Korea has ordered pro-Pyongyang forces in South Korea to attack his group, a claim that cannot be independently confirmed.
In a failed assassination attempt in 2011, South Korean authorities captured a North Korean agent who tried to kill Park with a pen equipped with a poison needle.
North Korea is extremely sensitive to leafleting campaigns and other outside attempts to criticize the Kim family’s authoritarian rule of its people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. In 2014, North Korea fired at balloons flying toward its territory, and in 2020 it destroyed an empty South Korean-built liaison office in the North to express its anger over leafleting.
Last year, South Korea, under its previous liberal government that sought to improve ties with North Korea, enforced a contentious new law criminalizing civilian leafleting campaigns. Park still kept launching propaganda balloons, becoming the first person to be indicted over the law that punishes flying leaflets, USB drives or money into North Korea with up to three years in prison.
But Park’s trial has virtually been suspended after he filed a petition requesting the Constitutional Court to rule whether the new law is unconstitutional, according to Park’s lawyer, Lee Hun.
Opponents of the law say it’s sacrificing South Korea's freedom of speech to seek improved ties with North Korea. But supporters say the law is aimed at avoiding unnecessarily provoking North Korea and promoting the safety of front-line South Korean residents.
Park faced separate police questioning over his balloon flights conducted before the law’s enforcement.
In March, he was handed a suspended fine of 3 million won ($2,190) for violating the law on donations. Prosecutors, citing a lack of evidence, had earlier decided not to indict him over other charges including an alleged violation of a law on inter-Korean cooperation. The suspended fine means Park doesn’t need to pay penalty unless he breaks law again and receives a prison sentence or bigger punishment during the one-year period, according to Lee, the lawyer.
Sunday’s balloon launches were Park’s fourth campaign to scatter medical relief items to North Korea. After his third launch in July, South Korean police said they were investigating his activities. On Monday, police weren’t immediately available for comment and Park said he hasn’t been contacted by police. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/09/05/activist-floats-balloons-again-despite-north-koreas-warning/ | 2022-09-05 08:24:16 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/09/05/activist-floats-balloons-again-despite-north-koreas-warning/ |
REIFFTON, Pa. - Exeter used a big second quarter to seize control in a 57-50 win over Muhlenberg on Monday at Exeter High School.
The Eagles received balanced scoring led by Zyion Paschall with 17 points, Reece Garvin with 13 and Teddy Snyder with 12. Josh Alcantara paced the Muhls with 15 points.
Exeter improved to 8-4 and will host Gov. Mifflin on Friday. Muhlenberg, who host Twin Valley on Thursday, fall to 8-6 on the season. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/exeter-boys-knock-off-muhlenberg-for-third-win-in-the-last-four-games/article_3d820a02-9613-11ed-a22a-576e81c286c4.html | 2023-01-17 04:31:35 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/exeter-boys-knock-off-muhlenberg-for-third-win-in-the-last-four-games/article_3d820a02-9613-11ed-a22a-576e81c286c4.html |
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INDIANAPOLIS (Inside INdiana Business) — Several Indiana-based breweries took home medals at this year’s World Beer Cup Competition. The event featured more than 10,000 entries from nearly 2,500 breweries around the world.
Sun King Brewery and Metazoa Brewing Co., both in Indianapolis, received three medals each. Sun King’s wins include:
- Gold – Churrolicious – Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer category
- Silver – Soul Shakedown Party – Experimental Wood-Aged Beer category
- Silver – Sunlight Cream Ale – Golden or Blonde Ale category
“We are honored to have won three World Beer Cup awards this year for our delicious craft beers,” Dave Colt, co-founder of Sun King Brewery, said in written remarks. “Our entire team works tirelessly to create unique core, seasonal and specialty beers that we are very proud of, and that craft beer fans across the U.S. love.”
Metazoa Brewing’s medals include:
- Silver – Ruh Roh – Extra Special Bitter category
- Bronze – Klipspringer – American-Belgo-Style Ale category
- Bronze – Irish Setter – Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout category
Additionally, Moontown Brewing Co. in Whitestown won a Gold medal in the German-Style Maerzen or Franconian-Style Rotbier category for its Follow the Lederhosen beer.
ZwanzigZ Brewing in Columbus also won a Gold medal in the American-Style Imperial Stout category for its Fulcrum Imperial Stout.
You can view the full list of winners by clicking here. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/inside-indiana-business/hoosier-breweries-win-medals-at-world-beer-cup/ | 2022-05-10 18:26:30 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/inside-indiana-business/hoosier-breweries-win-medals-at-world-beer-cup/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Hillary Bello, owner of the now-shuttered Cox Pools of the Gulf Coast, was taken into custody by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday.
The sheriff’s office charged Bello with one count of contractor fraud. According to the sheriff’s office, a victim paid more than $54,000 for a pool that wasn’t finished.
Customers of Cox Pools of the Gulf Coast turned to Better Call Behnken for help earlier this year. In February, Hillsborough County officials suspended the company’s permitting privileges. Bello told Behnken at the time that she had finished all 50 pools in Hillsborough County.
Then, in September, the company’s phone was disconnected and the website was taken down.
Back then, both the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Attorney General’s Office said they were looking into customer complaints.
Bello was released hours after her arrest. Her bond was listed at $7,500. | https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/better-call-behnken/owner-of-defunct-florida-pool-company-arrested-on-fraud-charge/ | 2022-12-14 23:20:55 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/better-call-behnken/owner-of-defunct-florida-pool-company-arrested-on-fraud-charge/ |
As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on, former Soviet Republics like Latvia plan to destroy Soviet-era monuments. Some believe they should remain as tributes to the fight against Nazis in World War II.
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As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on, former Soviet Republics like Latvia plan to destroy Soviet-era monuments. Some believe they should remain as tributes to the fight against Nazis in World War II.
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The European Union said Monday that it canceled a diplomatic reception to prevent a radical ultranationalist Israeli minister from attending.
The act of protest by the EU's delegation to Israel against a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, the most religious and ultranationalist in the country's history, could cause a diplomatic spat between Israel and the EU.
Relations already have been strained over Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank.
HOLY LAND FIGHT: ISRAELI LAWMAKERS CONDEMN EU'S 'ILLEGAL' ACTIONS ON BIBLICAL LAND
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power faction, serves as the national security minister and was assigned to represent the Israeli government at the EU's Europe Day event on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said Sunday in a Kan radio interview that Ben-Gvir had been assigned by the government secretary to attend "not as a representative of the Jewish Power party ... but to represent the government of Israel."
The EU said that it decided "to cancel the diplomatic reception, as we do not want to offer a platform to someone whose views contradict the values the European Union stands for." The remainder of the public event would take place as scheduled.
NETANYAHU VICTORY IN ISRAELI ELECTION PRESENTS 'STARK CHALLENGE' FOR US MIDDLE EAST POLICY
Ben-Gvir is a former far-right activist and hard-line West Bank settler who has been convicted of incitement and support for a Jewish terror group. As the government’s representative at the Europe Day event, Ben-Gvir would have addressed attendees.
"It’s a shame that the EU, which pretends to represent democratic values and multiculturalism, behaves with undiplomatic gagging," Ben-Gvir said.
Netanyahu returned to office in December at the head of a coalition that includes ultra-Orthodox parties and religious ultranationalists, including Ben-Gvir's small Jewish Power faction. The government has put expansion of West Bank settlements as a top priority. The EU, along with most of the international community, considers Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem illegal under international law and obstacles to peace with the Palestinians.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek all three areas for a future independent state. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/european-union-cancels-diplomatic-reception-to-prevent-israeli-minister-from-attending/article_9ba4cd71-66db-568f-a1ee-dc8df7b9242b.html | 2023-05-08 17:56:59 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/european-union-cancels-diplomatic-reception-to-prevent-israeli-minister-from-attending/article_9ba4cd71-66db-568f-a1ee-dc8df7b9242b.html |
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HOUSTON — Anthony DeSclafani is whirring along with such assurance that even with minimal backing and few strikeouts, the San Francisco Giants starter all but handcuffed the defending-champion Astros.
DeSclafani induced only six swings and misses Tuesday but he gave up just three hits — one an infield roller — in working eight scoreless innings to help the Giants beat Houston 2-0, snapping their four-game losing streak.
Camilo Doval finished up, with second baseman Brett Wisely making a nice diving stop on a rocket by Mauricio Dubón to start the inning; Dubón, who had three hits Monday, was 0-for-4 Tuesday.
An ankle injury that dated to the end of the 2021 season rendered DeSclafani less effective last season and he finally needed surgery to create a groove for his ankle tendon last July.
That did the trick. From the start of spring training, DeSclafani has said he feels like his old self, and coaches and teammates have done nothing but rave about him. And given Logan Webb’s slightly underwhelming start to the season, DeSclafani and Alex Cobb (2.43 ERA) have picked up the pace in leading the rotation.
Since DeSclafani first came to the Giants in 2021 hoping to rejuvenate his career, the team is 28-14 in his starts, and the team has won 12 of his past 17 outings.
Some keys to his success: Opposing leadoff hitters are 1-for-17 against him with 15 strikeouts; Tuesday, that meant that Dubón, who was 0-for-3 with a strikeout against him. With men in scoring position, opponents are 3-for-21 this season.
More good stuff: DeSclafani is walking less than a batter per nine innings, with just three walks over 38 innings, and entering the game, his groundball percentage was 52.9, the best of his career by far; his previous high was 45.1 in 2015. Tuesday was a little backward in that regard: DeSclafani had just six groundball outs and he struck out only three, his lowest total of the season.
He didn’t have a lot of room to maneuver Tuesday. The Giants got a run via Thairo Estrada’s legs in the first; he singled, stole second and blazed home on Joc Pederson’s single to left off Hunter Brown.
In the fourth, Pederson and Michael Conforto walked and with two outs, rookie Blake Sabol cracked a double to left to score one.
The Giants had plenty of other chances to score, stranding 16 runners. One impediment: Astros catcher Yainer Díaz, who got Estrada on his second steal attempt Tuesday and Austin Slater trying to take second in the eighth. Estrada entered the day 30-for-37 in his Giants career, Slater 44-for-48.
Just as the team was a little limited in the bullpen the night before after many of the relievers worked back-to-back days in Mexico City, on Tuesday San Francisco was light on right-handed hitters thanks to a stomach bug that was making the rounds of the clubhouse.
Webb will go in the rubber match Wednesday to conclude the only series of the season between the teams.
Reach Susan Slusser: sslusser@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @susanslusser | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/giants-astros-2-0-behind-anthony-desclafani-s-18074413.php | 2023-05-03 03:46:22 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/giants-astros-2-0-behind-anthony-desclafani-s-18074413.php |
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Term Labs, Inc., a blockchain R&D company, today announced it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Electric Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Robot Ventures, MEXC Ventures, and with angel investment from DeFi founders from Aura, Balancer, Hashlow and Llama.
The funds raised will be used to develop Term Finance (termfinance.io), a decentralized lending protocol that utilizes a unique auction model to support scalable fixed-rate/fixed-term lending, a first in DeFi. Term Finance will bring transparent, low-cost, and crypto-native solutions for borrowers and lenders at an institutional scale when it launches on Ethereum.
Centralized crypto lenders providing fixed rate loans to institutions and other large crypto investors have mostly shut down and existing DeFi protocols have not created scalable models to serve these users. Term Labs is developing solutions to fill the market gap.
"We are thrilled to have such strong support from our partners," said Dion Chu, CEO of Term Labs. "This funding allows us to develop a decentralized solution for the crypto lending market that saw over $80 billion in originations a quarter at its peak. Recent failures of centralized institutions in the crypto lending market highlights an urgent need for the market to move towards scalable on-chain solutions."
Ken Deeter, partner at Electric Capital, added, "We believe Term Labs has the potential to bring a much-needed solution to the market with its decentralized lending protocol. Term's unique auction model originates loans at scale without slippage, bid-offer spread or other hidden transaction costs seen in other variable and fixed rate lending protocols."
About Term Labs
Term Labs is a blockchain research and development company founded by a team with deep traditional finance, big tech, and decentralized finance experience. Term Labs is dedicated to the development of robust, transparent, and scalable fixed-rate lending on blockchains.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a convenient accessory to protect ratchet winch and straps to keep them clean," said an inventor, from Ponca City, Okla., "so I invented the CUVER IT. My design prevents dirt, road grime, snow and ice from accumulating on straps and strap winch."
The invention provides an effective way to protect straps and strap winch while in use or not in use. In doing so, it protects against damage caused by dirt, road grime, snow, and ice. As a result, it could help to prolong the life of the equipment and it provides added peace of mind. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for trucking companies and truckers who use various kinds of flatbed trailers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-RKH-445, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Diamondbacks vs. Giants: Odds, spread, over/under - May 11
Thairo Estrada and the San Francisco Giants (16-20) will square off with Christian Walker and the Arizona Diamondbacks (20-17) at Chase Field on Thursday, May 11. First pitch is scheduled for 9:40 PM ET.
The Diamondbacks are +120 moneyline underdogs in this matchup with the Giants (-145). The total is 9.5 runs for the game (with -105 odds to hit the over and -115 odds on the under).
Diamondbacks vs. Giants Time and TV Channel
- Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
- Time: 9:40 PM ET
- TV: BSAZ
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Venue: Chase Field
- Probable Pitchers: Alex Cobb - SF (2-1, 2.01 ERA) vs Tommy Henry - ARI (1-0, 5.17 ERA)
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Diamondbacks vs. Giants Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Giants have won five out of the 14 games, or 35.7%, in which they've been favored.
- The Giants have gone 3-7 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter (30% winning percentage).
- The implied probability of a win from San Francisco, based on the moneyline, is 59.2%.
- The Giants went 2-3 across the five games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups (all had set totals), San Francisco combined with its opponents to hit the over on the run total four times.
- The Diamondbacks have won in 12, or 52.2%, of the 23 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This year, the Diamondbacks have won six of 12 games when listed as at least +120 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Diamondbacks have been underdogs twice in the last 10 games and won both contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Arizona and its opponents are 7-3-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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The 21-year-old charged with killing seven people at a July 4th parade outside Chicago was able to buy guns even though he had been flagged by police, raising questions about the laws' effectiveness.
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CARBON COUNTY, Pa. — The popularity of e-bikes is growing, giving riders an extra boost out on the trails.
"As we get older, these legs can't do these hills," said Joe Miller. "We retired to the Pocono area and it's a little hilly up here. The e-bikes afford us the opportunity to get back out on the trail and help us up the hill."
But the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) says, "Not so fast."
The state agency is looking to put some regulations on the use of e-bikes throughout all of its 121 parks.
We found people biking in the Lehigh Gorge State Park near Jim Thorpe who say they welcome the idea.
"It depends on how high-speed they are. It's like you're competing with a motorcycle out on the trail or a like a small motorcycle on the trail, and I don't own an e-bike, but it could be a concern if they are going too fast," said William Richards of Summit Hill.
DCNR will allow e-bikes on trails already open to bicycles as long as users follow some guidelines:
- E-bikes can't go faster than 20 miles per hour.
- The motor can't be more than 750 watts and must have working pedals.
- If the trail says no bikes, that means no e-bikes either.
"A lot of the stuff is common sense, but when you have a lot of people, you have to regulate common sense it seems," said Joe Miller.
Others just want families to be safe along the way, whether they're walking or biking the trails.
"If they overtake you on a curve or something like that, or if they're not paying attention to you on the path, they could knock you right off your bike."
DCNR has a full draft of its proposed regulations, and they want to hear from you
Written comments on the draft e-bike policy also are welcome and can be submitted to RA-NR_PolicyOffice@pa.gov. The deadline to submit comments is August 31.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Who has scored the most goals in international football? The internet will generally tell you it's Cristiano Ronaldo, when it's actually women's footballer, Christine Sinclair. The inconsistency of searchable facts that disadvantages sportswomen is behind a global campaign launching Saturday (21 January 2023). Correct The Internet is the collective work of an international group of like-minded people that seeks to highlight and correct inaccuracies in internet search results and make sportswomen more visible as a result. One of its founding partners is Rebecca Sowden, former New Zealand Football Fern and owner of international women's sports marketing and sponsorship consultancy, Team Heroine, which is a member of the United Nations' Football for the Goals*.
Rebecca Sowden says she is passionate about helping the world recognize all sporting heroes and empower the next generation of sportswomen. "Many of the world's leading athletes are women. Many of the world's sporting records are held by women. But when people search online for factual sporting information about athletes, the results favor the sportsmen, even when the sportswomen have greater statistics," Sowden says.
Paul Spain, Gorilla Technology's Futurist and CEO says: "Search engine algorithms draw on human created content, designed to give us what we are looking for, instantly. Because search engines take so much notice of what is made popular by major publishers, social media platforms and content creators, search results will reflect certain peoples or organizations inherent preferences. This can lead to biased search results that include information that is not factually correct."
The campaign has also garnered the support of many well-known athletes and high-profile sporting organizations including English rugby's Red Roses' player, Shaunagh Brown, and Football Fern Meikayla Moore, and is supported by Women in Sport Aotearoa, Ngā Wāhine Hākinakina o Aotearoa (WISPA), Women Sport Australia and New Zealand Football.
Shaunagh Brown said "The only way to correct the algorithm is through the power of the people and Correct The Internet wants to empower people to help ensure accurate information is delivered to all of us. Let's do this for future sports people everywhere."
It's a view echoed by Meikayla Moore: "This campaign is prefaced on not continuing to pitch women against men, but to correct and highlight incorrect searchable facts that have lacked consistency and accuracy leading to disadvantages for sportswomen across the globe.
"I feel it's important for those that have achieved these amazing statistics but also for all those witnessing such brilliance. Women are heroes, let's recognize them for it and remove learnt bias, empowering and inspiring the next generation," she added.
With its aim to empower women through the power of sport, Correct The Internet has garnered the support of Football for the Goals (FFTG), a United Nations initiative that provides a platform for the global football community to engage with and advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Goal 5 of which aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division of the UN's Department of Global Communications, says "With growing reliance on internet search engines to find information, algorithms assume that human biases, conscious and unconscious, are the natural order of things and elevate results that conform with that. Gender equality starts with recognizing the biases and challenges faced by women and girls and campaigns like Correct The Internet are a great way to unmask how the same biases have entered the virtual world."
Women in Sport Aotearoa has also got behind the cause. Acting Chief Executive, Nicky van den Bos said: "There couldn't be a better time for this campaign, with women's sport in the spotlight more than ever before. The 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup and the Black Ferns performance in the Rugby World Cup last year, and this year's FIFA Football Women's World Cup in New Zealand means internet searches may just be at an all-time high. Let's ensure the results reflect the facts, not historic biases." Rebecca Sowden said, "Because the internet has learnt our bias many of its search engine results are inconsistent, often favoring men, and change depending on who is searching.
Our goal is to empower the next generation of sportswomen by ensuring that when women are the best in the world, the internet reflects that." There's no easy way to correct the inconsistencies in search results. However, if people report these issues using each search engine's inbuilt feedback function, they can be logged and fixed. The problem is, most people aren't familiar with the feedback function, and recent design changes on some of the larger search engines make it harder to find.
The team behind Correct The Internet has already identified numerous factual inconsistencies and has created a tool that makes sending feedback easy for anyone to execute with just a couple of clicks.
The tool is hosted on www.correcttheinternet.com. The public can visit the site to send a feedback message to search engines notifying them of their incorrect search results and provide the correct information. Over time, the aim is to find and correct as many incorrect search results as possible using this tool and the collective power of the people.
Some of the incorrect facts:
Q: Who has scored the most goals in international football?
A: The internet says Cristiano Ronaldo with 118 goals
The stats say: CHRISTINE SINCLAIR with 190 (Canada)
Q: Which tennis player has spent the longest time ranked number 1?
A: The internet says Novak Djokovic with 373 weeks
The stats say: STEFFI GRAF with 377 (Germany)
Q: Which team has won the most Basketball World Cup titles?
A: The internet says United States/Yugoslavia with 5 titles each
The stats say: THE USA WOMEN'S TEAM with 11 (US)
Q: Who has scored the most tries in rugby world cups?
A: The internet says BRYAN HABANA and JONAH LOMU with 15 tries each
The stats say: PORTIA WOODMAN (NZ) with 20 tries
Q: Who has won the most cricket world cup titles?
A: The internet says THE AUSTRALIAN MEN'S TEAM 5 titles
The stats say: THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S TEAM with 6 titles
Q: Which New Zealand golfer has won the most majors?
A: The internet says MICHAEL CAMPBELL and BOB CHARLES with 1 major each
The stats say: LYDIA KO with 2 majors
Q: Which footballer has scored the most goals for USA?
A: The internet says CLINT DEMPSEY and LANDON DONOVAN with 57 goals each
The stats say: ABBY WAMBACH with 184 goals
Q: Who is the youngest footballer to play in a world cup final?
A: The internet says PELÉ 17yrs, 249 days
The stats say: BIRGIT PRINZ: 17yrs, 239 days
Disclaimer: The above reflects search engine results as of the date of this media release, however, as mentioned, internet results are inconsistent and can change depending on who is searching.
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A woman told police Tuesday that an unknown person began shooting foam balls from a Nerf gun at her vehicle while driving, according to a police report.
At about 4:09 p.m., officers responded to a reckless driving call at West University Drive and Malone Street. The caller said she could no longer see the vehicle in the area upon their arrival.
The woman told officers that a vehicle began driving alongside her and the driver pointed a Nerf gun at her and began shooting at her vehicle. She slowed down to create some distance between herself and the other vehicle, and said that the male did not say anything to her and was laughing while committing the act.
The incident will be under investigation.
Other reports
2800 block of West University Drive — A 38-year-old woman was arrested after being caught shoplifting at Walmart while having a trespass warning, according to a police report.
At about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a shoplifting call from an employee who said he confronted someone who had been taking items out of packages and placing them in her bag.
Employees said she was seen on security cameras taking multiple items out of packages and placing them in her personal property.
Officers confirmed that the woman had been issued a trespass warning in February. She said she did not remember signing it, but officers were able to find the original notice copy that had her name and signature.
Employees said she had been in the store for several hours.
The woman was placed under arrest and charged with criminal trespass.
200 block of West Hickory Street — At about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a call regarding a welfare concern after the caller said she could hear a female yelling outside for 20 minutes.
When the officers arrived, the woman began screaming at them and throwing her belongings at them, according to the police report.
The woman continued to scream and curse after being placed in handcuffs. Officers said she was speaking to people who were not there and having auditory and visual hallucinations. They believe her behavior was consistent with stimulant use.
She continued to scream at an unreasonable volume near the Campus Theatre off the Denton Square, and was placed under arrest for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Roundup
From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the Denton Police Department handled 333 service and officer-initiated calls and made 12 arrests. | https://dentonrc.com/news/crime/blotter/driver-shoots-nerf-gun-at-moving-vehicle/article_6923fc3a-9155-55fb-b95a-4c286c4be921.html | 2022-06-16 03:11:04 | 0 | https://dentonrc.com/news/crime/blotter/driver-shoots-nerf-gun-at-moving-vehicle/article_6923fc3a-9155-55fb-b95a-4c286c4be921.html |
Changes to duck hunting season leads to scheduling troubles for lodges
OTWELL, Ark. (KAIT) - The sound of duck calls is a familiar sound in northeast Arkansas and one that people will hear a little earlier this year.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission unanimously approved a change to the 2023-2024 duck season dates, moving back to the traditional opener the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Many hunters are excited about duck hunting season being moved to around Thanksgiving, but the change does cause some headaches for lodges.
Zach Fahlberg is the co-owner of Duxmen Arkansas Hunting Lodge and Guides, he said he had a feeling the change was coming but that didn’t really prepare them, saying they are already fully booked for next year which means they had to change schedules.
“The headaches are really moving people that have already made plans several months ago to come to hunt with us that have already done deposits, so we have the task now of moving over 150 duck hunters the first 10 days of the season to earlier start dates,” Fahlberg said.
He said that is due to the large amount of out of state hunters they see. That being said, he understands why people want to jump on the opportunity to get out first, saying opening weekend is like Christmas morning for hunters.
“Everybody wants that opening weekend because there is no pressure,” Fahlberg said. “Opening weekend is usually a slam dunk when it comes to getting your harvest and getting back early.”
While the change creates scheduling issues, he does understand why it was made.
The lodge owner of 22 years said he thinks now it will stay here.
“From just a hunter standpoint, I think it makes pretty good sense,” Fahlberg added. “I think it’s probably where it needs to stay barring some changes in bird population or whatnot.”
The start of duck season is set for November 18, 2023.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - Fourth of July weekend is filled with friends, food, fireworks and fun! However, the booms and bright lights are not fun for everyone.
Health experts said people should be mindful of those living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) this time of year.
"I think knowing if you have family members or even a neighbor, if you know a neighbor has shared that they have PTSD," Clinical Therapist with Mayo Clinic Health System Jackie Richter said. "Then do things as simple as letting them know you'll be shooting off some fireworks and showing that compassion."
For those struggling with PTSD, Richter recommends trying breathing exercises, positive self-talk and grounding.
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(NerdWallet) – From rain gardens to xeriscaping, the environmental benefits of resilient landscaping are well documented. Replacing grass with lawn alternatives can save water, attract pollinators and reduce the need for harsh fertilizers and pesticides.
But if you’re eventually planning to sell your home, what will potential buyers think?
Thankfully, you don’t have to choose between landscaping that’s good for the environment and resale value. Here’s how to ditch your grass thoughtfully.
Do: Consider curb appeal
First impressions matter. More than 90% of Realtors recommend that sellers boost their home’s curb appeal before listing, according to a 2023 joint report from the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
Whether you’re moving now or in the future, landscaping projects remain a surefire way to produce a positive return on investment. Homeowners can recoup the full value of an overall landscape upgrade, according to the report.
For maximum curb appeal, natural landscaping should have tidy borders around walkways and avoid obstructing windows or doors.
“Something that complements the house that’s low-maintenance — shrubbery or bright flowering bushes — tends to be the most favorable,” says Diane Bostrom, a real estate agent with Joan Herlong & Associates Sotheby’s International Realty in Clemson, South Carolina.
Do: Go low-maintenance
High-maintenance landscapes are like skinny jeans: Some younger consumers are losing interest in favor of a more practical, laid-back look.
“It’s just going out of fashion,” says Jeff Lorenz, founder of Refugia, an ecologically conscious landscaping firm in Narberth, Pennsylvania. “And it’s also a generational thing. You don’t see too many people in their 20s and 30s that are interested in pruning U-hedges and having these perfect privet borders between properties.”
A traditional grass lawn is time- and resource-intensive, requiring frequent mowing and watering. Then there’s the seasonal fertilizing and weed control. And young folks aren’t the only ones eager for an alternative: Some older adults are also tired of the maintenance required to keep a traditional lawn — or the cost of paying someone else to do it.
Bostrom has worked with many near-retirees buying homes in the Palmetto state.
“Low-maintenance is absolutely becoming the most popular,” she says. “It allows people to be with their family, their friends, play golf … whatever the activity is.”
Don’t: Feel obligated to go completely grass-free
Retaining a small patch of grass can be practical when designing an alternative lawn, especially if you want an area for kids or pets to use.
“Turf grass is the means by which you access your landscape, visually and on foot,” says Bob Mann, senior director of technical and regulatory affairs at the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
While many types of ground cover can replace grass, some might not withstand foot traffic as hardily as turf. Others take longer to get established.
“It’s a balance of finding the right utility in a space,” Mann says.
Do: Mix it up with native plants
Unlike needy turf grass, native plants tend to be more hands-off while providing many additional benefits to your landscape.
With deeper roots than commercial turf grasses, many native plants absorb and filter stormwater more effectively. If your backyard gets waterlogged after heavy rain, that can be a significant turnoff for potential buyers. Consider creating a rain garden with native plants in low-lying areas to help manage stormwater naturally.
Native plants also provide food and habitat for pollinators such as birds and butterflies. And plants indigenous to an area usually require less fertilizer while being more likely to thrive in local rainfall and weather conditions. (Think coastal prickly pear cactus in dry Southern California or water-loving marsh marigold for a rain garden in Maine.)
A landscape designer can recommend a mix of indigenous grasses, flowers, shrubs and trees to provide year-round color, texture and curb appeal.
Don’t: Blindly jump on a trend
To design a reduced-grass landscape with staying power, consult an expert instead of trusting whatever’s trending on your news feed.
Clover lawns had its moment in the spotlight on TikTok last fall, for example, but they have drawbacks.
“They sound cooler than they are,” Lorenz says. “They still have issues. Any type of monoculture isn’t great, whether it’s turf grass or clover. A mix of the two is better.”
The “No Mow May” trend, which encourages a pause in lawn mowing to provide food for pollinators, is also under scrutiny. A paper published by PeerJ, a peer-reviewed journal, in 2020 claimed bee populations rose when local homeowners didn’t mow their lawns for a month, but that study has since been retracted because of issues with the data and research methods.
“We really need to look at some solid science on this issue and not just accept anything that is coming over the wire as possible,” Mann says.
Do: Be a good neighbor
Despite their benefits, rain and pollinator gardens have been dismissed by critics as ugly and unkempt. Some homeowners associations have even attempted to ban them.
Before you rip out your sod, familiarize yourself with HOA rules or local ordinances that might prohibit you from doing so. If the rules don’t allow it, you’re not alone if you want to challenge them.
Finally: While you might not need your neighbors’ explicit permission, be prepared to address curious questions and concerns. Neighbors might have misconceptions that natural landscapes attract pests such as mosquitoes or rats — but thoughtfully designed native landscapes can help keep these populations at bay.
If allergies are a concern, your local agriculture extension can recommend native plants without wind-borne pollen, which may trigger hay fever. And in wildfire-prone areas, you can reduce fire risk by keeping plantings a few feet from your home or selecting fireproof materials such as rocks and gravel.
Don’t: Miss out on state or local incentives
If you live in a drought-prone area, check whether local authorities offer a rebate program that pays homeowners to ditch their grass. For example, the Southern Nevada Water Authority offers a rebate of $3 per square foot for homeowners who remove turf grass to install desert landscaping. Los Angeles upped its rebate from $3 to $5 per square foot late last year — and in California, cash from local turf replacement rebates is now exempt from income tax statewide.
In non-desert areas, see whether your state’s department of natural resources has a lawn conversion program. State or local partners might have funding for eligible projects, such as meadow installation. Even if they don’t offer cash, they might have a list of qualified landscaping contractors to make your vision come to life. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/how-to-break-up-with-your-lawn-and-boost-your-homes-resale-value/ | 2023-04-22 18:42:31 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/how-to-break-up-with-your-lawn-and-boost-your-homes-resale-value/ |
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SUNRISE, Fla. — Sidney Crosby got dunked into a tank of water, Nick Suzuki holed a golf ball with a hockey stick and the NHL made hockey an outdoor sport for its skills showcase in South Florida.
Two new events outside in the sun highlighted the league’s annual skills competition at All-Star Weekend, with a handful of players taking turns hitting golf and hockey shots on a par-4 course and others shooting pucks at foam surfboards to dunk opponents with the beach in the background.
Inside the Florida Panthers’ home arena Friday night, Connor McDavid reminded fans and the other top players in the world why he leads the NHL in goals and is on pace to score more than 60. McDavid went 8-for-8 in the accuracy shooting competition, which was won by Brock Nelson of the New York Islanders.
“I wanted to show that I can do some other things,” McDavid said. “I wanted to do something to show I can shoot the puck a little bit.”
What: NHL All-Star Game
When: Noon
TV: Channel 7Channel 10
One of the biggest stars of the night was Alex Ovechkin’s 4-year-old son, Sergei, who joined his father and dad’s longtime rival Crosby to score in the breakaway challenge against Hall of Fame goaltender Roberto Luongo, the only player to have his number retired by the Panthers.
Montreal captain Nick Suzuki won the “Pitch ’n’ Puck” golf event in nearby Plantation, beating Arizona’s Clayton Keller, Dallas’ Jason Robertson and Columbus’ Johnny Gaudreau by draining a birdie putt with his hockey stick.
“It’s my first birdie of the year, so I’ll take that,” Suzuki said.
Seven months after winning the Stanley Cup together, Colorado’s Cale Makar and Mikko Rantanen won the “Splash Shot” event that featured plenty of pucks sailing into the ocean off Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Coming off winning the Norris Trophy as top defenseman and the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP, Makar joked: “This one just tops it all, I feel like.”
Rantanen dunked Crosby, the three-time Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins captain who volunteered to take the plunge into the 5-foot tank and came up with the idea to do the event with good friend and fellow Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, native Nathan MacKinnon.
Canada women’s hockey star Sarah Nurse provided one of the top on-ice moments of the night by scoring on reigning New York Rangers Vezina Trophy-winner Igor Shesterkin.
Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov won the fastest skater competition with a lap of 13.69 seconds. The biggest moment of the event wasn’t Svechnikov winning but rather Makar wiping out while trying to skate around the net.
Nashville’s Juuse Saros and Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck won the new “Tendy Tandem” event in which goaltenders from the same division alternated shooting for the net from the other end of the rink and trying to make saves.
Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson won the hardest shot competition at 103.2 mph, giving the Canucks a rare victory in a tough season that has included them firing their coach and losing 29 of their first 49 games. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/nhl-takes-skills-showcase-outside-mcdavid-shines-17763240.php | 2023-02-04 05:17:13 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/nhl-takes-skills-showcase-outside-mcdavid-shines-17763240.php |
By PAT EATON-ROBB
AP Sports Writer
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — St. John’s did something Sunday it had not done in 35 years — beat UConn in Hartford.
Joel Soriano scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the Red Storm (13-6, 3-5 Big East) over the No. 6 Huskies (15-4, 4-4), who have lost four of five after starting the season with 14 straight wins.
St. John’s scored 22 points off 21 UConn turnovers and outscored the Huskies 44-28 in the paint.
The double-double was the 16th of the season for Soriano. AJ Storr and Posh Alexander each added 14 points for the Red Storm, which has won two in a row after a five-game losing streak.
“This game proves a lot,” Soriano said. “It shows what we can do when we’re together, when we’re connected. It just shows that when we’ve got our hats on, we do good.”
Dylan Addae-Wusu and Rafael Pinzon added 12 points each for St. John’s and and Andre Curbelo had 10.
Jordan Hawkins led all scorers with a career-high 31 for UConn, but 20 of those came in the first half. Alex Karaban had 16 points and Adama Sanogo added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Huskies.
The game was tied at the half, but St. John’s scored the first two baskets after intermission and led the entire second half.
The Red Storm went up 68-60 on a break-away dunk by AJ Storr after UConn missed four shots that could have cut the lead to four points. That was part of a 9-0 run that put the Red Storm up by 13. They led by as many as 16 points with 2 minutes left.
“It’s a good day to be a Johnnie,” coach Mike Anderson said. “I thought our guys had been trending in the right direction and today, we put 40 minutes together.”
The Huskies were up by as many as eight points in the first half before St. John’s fought its way back and after a 12-2 run went up 27-22. The teams traded leads the rest of the half and went into intermission tied at 38.
“Their program was a lot tougher than our program today and I didn’t see it coming.” UConn coach Dan Hurley said. “We looked weak and unprepared. They were just way tougher.”
BIG PICTURE
St. John’s: The Red Storm won at what is now the XL Center for the first time since Feb. 29, 1988 (77-62). The program earned its first road win over a top-10 opponent since knocking off Marquette 70-69 on Feb. 5, 2019.
UConn: The Huskies had won their first 10 home games and came into Sunday on a 15-game home winning streak. UConn, which had been ranked as high as No. 2 after its hot start, could tumble out of the top 10 with this loss.
“To be where we were a couple weeks ago and to be where we are today, there’s just a lot of frustration,” Hurley said.
CHIPPY CONTEST
The game was extremely physical, with 51 fouls called, 30 on UConn.
UConn’s Donovan Clingan and David Jones of St. John’s each picked up a flagrant foul for exchanging elbows after Clingan grabbed a rebound in the first half. St. John’s Posh Alexander and UConn’s Hassan Diarra chirped at each other later in the half, with each picking up technical fouls.
Sanogo got thrown out of the game for saying something to an official with less than a minute to go and Curbelo was tossed a few seconds later. Anderson said he did not get an explanation as to why.
UP NEXT
St. John’s: The Red Storm host Villanova at Madison Square Garden on Friday.
UConn: The Huskies travel to New Jersey to face Seton Hall on Wednesday.
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If you’re looking for a seat with a relaxed vibe, a bean bag chair is the obvious choice. These chairs are great for dens, kids’ rooms and extra seating in living rooms. They can look like giant sacks or be structured more like armchairs.
Large ones can be pricey, so it’s worth making sure you are getting good value and the chair of your choice is worth buying. All of these are comfortable bean bag chairs that are great for relaxing at home.
In this article: Ultimate Sack Bean Bag Chair, CordaRoy’s Corduroy Convertible Bean Bag Chair and Moon Pod Bean Bag Chair.
Types of bean bag chairs
Perhaps the first thing to decide is what type of chair you want. These are some of the most common options.
- Kids bean bag chairs: Smaller in size than average bean bag chairs, these ones are made to fit kids. Bean bag chairs for kids are great for children to sit on in their bedrooms while they read or play. Additionally, they can be used as extra seating in the living room when the grown-ups are taking up all the couch space.
- Sack bean bag chairs: Shaped like big round or oval sacks, these don’t have much support until you sink into them and create a niche for yourself.
- Structured bean bag chairs: These chairs have been tailored with arms and backs for support. If you don’t find standard bean bag chairs comfortable, you may prefer these, but they lose some of the versatility of unstructured alternatives.
Bean bag chair fillings
Although bean bags were initially filled with dried beans, they’re not all that comfortable to sit on. Now, most are filled with either polystyrene beads or memory foam shreds.
- Polystyrene beads: These small beans are moderately soft but hold their shape. If you’re looking for something with a traditional bean bag chair feel, choose one with polystyrene beads.
- Memory foam shreds: In recent years, bags filled with shredded memory foam have become more common. It’s more supportive than polystyrene beads, and it lasts longer. It has a softer and squishier feel than polystyrene, which some people like and some don’t.
What to look for in a bean bag chair
Before buying a bean bag chair, here’s what else you might want to consider.
- Size: Bean bags range from compact, child-sized versions to ones that exceed 7 feet in length or diameter and are large enough to accommodate several adults.
- Exterior fabric: Some chairs feature extra-durable outer material, such as corduroy, or extra-soft fabric, such as chenille.
- Removable cover: Your bean bag should have a removable and machine-washable cover, especially if you have pets or kids that use it. However, some people may be happy to spot-clean their chairs.
- Comfort: Some chairs are more comfortable than others. Some people find those filled with memory foam more comfortable, but it’s subjective. Generally speaking, cheap chairs are unlikely to be supportive and comfy.
- Handles: Your chair may have one or more handles to make it easier to move around your home.
Best bean bag chairs
You can choose from sizes ranging from a petite kids version or compact 3-foot offering up to a giant 6-foot sack. It is filled with shredded memory foam for comfort and support and comes in 25 colors, including navy, gray and hunter green.
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CordaRoy’s Corduroy Convertible Bean Bag Chair
Unzip this bean bag chair, and it turns into a handy guest bed with full, queen and king options available. It’s multifunctional and fantastic for anyone who might want a spare bed for kids’ sleepovers or occasional guests but has no place to store one.
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Amazon Basics Memory Foam Filled Bean Bag Chair
Available in chair and lounger styles between 3 feet and 7 feet wide, you have plenty of options with this bean bag. It is filled with shredded memory foam and comes in six hues, including red, black and navy.
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Posh Creations Structured Comfy Seat for Kids
Thanks to its compact design, this structured bean bag chair is perfect for children. It has a handle, making it easy to transport from the bedroom for reading to the playroom or living room to watch movies with the rest of the household.
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Big Joe Fuf XL Foam Bean Bag Chair
This giant bean bag chair comes in 61-inch and 71-inch lounger versions that are great for reclining or multiple people to use. It also comes in a more compact 38-inch model. It’s strong and filled with comfortable shredded foam, and it has easy-grab handles for transportation.
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With its structured design, this is an excellent option for anyone who likes the idea of a bean bag chair but needs more support. It is soft to the touch and comes in fawn, dark cocoa plush, caribou and black plush colors.
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Chill Sack 5-foot Bean Bag Chair
Measuring 5 feet in diameter, this chair is big enough for some serious lounging and relaxing, but it’s not so huge that it overwhelms your space. The cover is removable and machine-washable and comes in more than 30 color and fabric options, including navy microsuede and charcoal faux fur.
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Chill Sack 7-foot Bean Bag Chair
If a small option won’t pass muster, this 7-foot bean bag chair might be what you need. It’s perfect for stretching out or fitting several people. The cover is made from a micro suede material, while the inside is stuffed with shredded foam.
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The next-generation bean bag chair has a curved design. It’s packed with high-friction micro-beads that mold to your body, so you will feel like you’re floating, not sinking in. It’s supportive and highly comfortable, mimicking the feeling of flotation therapy without having to get wet or leave the house.
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Lumaland Luxurious Bean Bag Chair
You can choose from sizes between 3 and 7 feet with this bean bag chair, so there’s an option to suit most buyers. The microsuede cover is machine-washable and comes in eight colors, including black, dark gray and purple.
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“Herbert” by Ab-Soul (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Ab-Soul’s “Herbert" is peppered with messages — a voicemail from his praying grandma, snippets of encouragement from his inner circle and so on. But it’s the rapper’s reflections on himself and his life that define his latest project, making it the lauded lyricist’s most beautifully vulnerable set yet.
“Herbert” is named for the man behind the Ab-Soul rap persona, born Herbert Anthony Stevens IV. The music finds Ab-Soul looking back, all the way to childhood, like on the Kal Banx-produced “Hollandaise,” in which he recounts memorizing songs from '90s duo Kriss Kross and typing “freestyles” for an Internet audience via AOL dial-up.
Now with his fifth album release, the 35-year-old finds the music just as all-consuming, and yet never enough. “Gotta go hard in the paint/ Gotta night-ride when they call it a day/ All work, no play, crank up the ball and the chain,” he raps.
On title track “Herbert,” Ab-Soul continues to delve, examining his burdens — from developing the rare and painful Stevens-Johnson syndrome at age 10 to dealing with complications now, decades later. “Eye doc said I need new corneas/ I rather need those than a coroner,” he raps in celebration of his survival.
And perhaps that’s what stands out about this Ab-Soul album. For all its darkness — depression, death and more — Ab-Soul finds reasons to live, like on the mantra-like “Do Better,” featuring singer Zacari.
Guest Jhené Aiko brings her ethereal energy, singing alongside Ab-Soul as he bares his soul on “The Wild Side.” Other guests include Big Sean, who comes with a notable verse on “Go Off,” and Joey Bada$$ appears on the lyrically enjoyable “Moonshooter.”
Ab-Soul says “they’ll never understand Herbert Anthony,” but his latest release certainly brings fans closer.
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Ford has revolutionized the pickup truck—by making a fully electric version of its top-selling vehicle, the F-150.
While doing that, and seemingly changing as little as possible about all that already makes the F-150 so desirable, it’s created a better vehicle. That’s why even though the F-150 Lightning isn’t the first mass-produced fully electric pickup, it’s our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023.
The Ford F-150 Lightning looks like a gasoline F-150 in all but front and rear styling cues (and corresponding lighting), but it turns out a whole lot about the electric truck is different underneath. It gets a new frame—somewhat wider to fit the battery pack suspended between it, with thicker cross members. Steering and braking are reengineered for the Lightning, which also gets an independent rear suspension with coil-over springs.
What results is a truck that rides and handles better than the gasoline F-150 in most conditions, with unparalleled quiet and refinement. Plus, in washboard gravel, off-road trails, or snow-slicked roads, the virtually instantaneous traction systems working with the electric motors show their strength and allow you to pull up that boat ramp—or over that wet log—without upsetting the tires’ footing. Pop the hood, and you get something the gasoline truck doesn’t have: a vast frunk that offers power plugs and can hold up to 400 pounds. How ‘bout some frunkgating?
All versions of the F-150 Lightning are built with front and rear permanent-magnet motors providing all-wheel drive, with a crew-cab layout and the same bed length. There are essentially two tech specs: Versions with the 98-kwh standard range battery pack make 452 hp and 775 lb-ft, while those with the 131-kwh extended range pack make 580 hp and 775 lb-ft. EPA driving range for the Lightning stands at 240 miles and 320 miles, respectively.
Unladen, the Lightning leaps forward, with enough of a shriek of the tires to let you know it’s using every bit of available traction. Ford has cited a 0-60 mph acceleration time of under four seconds and, seated from high up, with a body that squats and dives a fair amount, it’s as much a fun-park ride inside as it must appear from outside—truer to the Lightning label than the gasoline truck that used to bear the name.
It offers more payload capability than many of its gasoline counterparts. And at up to 10,000 pounds, it will out-tow much of the gasoline-truck lineup. Just don’t plan to pull that trailer very far.
The F-150 Lightning doesn’t charge quickly if you think in road-trip terms. Ford says that it will charge at up to 150 kw, or from 15-80% in less than 45 minutes, but those are both best-case-scenarios from what we’ve seen at typical U.S. Electrify America hardware.
If you happen to have 100 amps free for its own circuit, install the 80-amp Charge Station Pro and charge times for a full charge drop to about 8 hours on 240 volts—or about 30 miles per hour. That unit forms the basis for where the Lightning truly becomes an EV trendsetter: Add the $3,895 Home Integration System, and with Ford’s app the Lightning can become its own power ecosystem—helping juggle solar, or acting just as a portable generator (minus the hum and diesel odor) when the power goes out.
That system and its inclusion under warranty go a long way toward convincing us that Ford sees a big picture that others haven’t. So does the company’s Ford Pro fleet-software push, and its strategy not to make electric vehicles a niche sub-brand but actual vehicles that compete on nearly every level—even outshine—the gasoline versions of F-150, Transit, and Mustang.
The F-150 Lightning has some undeniable strengths versus any of our other finalists for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023—most notably, that it feels fully baked, is available in all 50 states, and doesn’t feel like it was held back somewhere along the way.
The Cadillac Lyriq signals the start of a generation of Ultium-platform vehicles, and it’s impressive in many respects, like styling, ride, and handling. But what we’ve seen so far hasn’t quite delivered on the interface or charging side. Its efficiency deserves a longer look, too—one we haven’t yet been able to take. We love the no-holds-barred attitude behind the Genesis GV60, and how it takes personal luxury into a new space—with a line-green “boost” button and crystal-ball shifter—though at the end of the day we just can’t give top props to a model that’s offered only in a portion of the U.S. The Kia EV6 wins if style were the main criteria, and it offers speedy charging and an impressive interface, but in dropping base versions the brand seems to be playing a niche game rather than taking advantage of all the capital in that design. The Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV builds on the impressive efficiency of the EQS hatchback, adding three rows of seating and trail ability, plus U.S. assembly, but it simply doesn’t push the bar higher.
The biggest Lightning strike-outs so far have been its unavailability and repeated price hikes. Ford hadn’t even been accepting reservations for some of the past year; just nine months since first deliveries, the standard range base 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Pro starts at $57,869 (including a hiked $1,895 destination fee)—up nearly 40% from the original $41,669, including destination, for the 2022 model year.
Part of that stems from an earlier, stunning underestimation of Lightning demand. It’s managed to bump Lightning production from an original 20,000 annually up to 150,000.
Why all this interest, again? The F-150 Lightning hits on a point that jumps past the technology early adopters that have often served as a sort of Achilles’ heel for actual widespread EV adoption. Yes, there’s plenty of room for reinventing the car (or truck), making our roads safer, and perhaps relying less on vehicles in the first place, but in this moment, showing people how the familiar can be made better as an EV is the most powerful statement of all.
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A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that killed at least two people and hospitalized a dozen children marks the 27th school shooting this year. Local police said the shooter behind Tuesday's incident is in custody.
This comes just 10 days after a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. that took the lives of 10 people.
Education Week has been tracking school shootings since 2018. According to its database, there have been 118 such incidents since they began their database.
The incident at Uvalde is still developing, and Education Week only includes details of the 26 shootings that occurred prior to Tuesday's tragedy.
Of the 26 school shootings with injuries or deaths:
The organization tracks shootings where a firearm was discharged, and where any person (other than the suspect) has a bullet wound resulting from the incident. Education Week also only includes incidents that happen on a kindergarten through 12th grade school property or on a school bus, and that occur when school is in session or during a school-sponsored event.
They don't track cases in which the only shots fired were from a school resource officer or police officer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department spokesman Ned Price is stepping down from his job as the daily face of U.S. foreign policy.
Price will take a job working directly with Secretary of State Antony Blinken later this month, the State Department said Tuesday, and will be replaced in the interim by his deputy, Vedant Patel, until a successor is named.
“For people in America and around the world, Ned Price has often been a face and voice of U.S. foreign policy,” Blinken said in a statement. “He’s performed with extraordinary professionalism and integrity.”
Price is the longest-serving federal agency spokesman in the Biden administration, having started on Jan. 20, 2021, and outlasted Jen Psaki at the White House podium.
Former Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, now with the National Security Council, is now dean of the administration’s communications team.
In his statement, Blinken credited Price with resuming the daily press briefings that had been sporadic during the Trump administration and for having a firm grasp of the administration’s policy priorities.
Price, a CIA and National Security Council staffer during the Obama administration, publicly resigned from government in February 2017, saying he could not in good conscience serve then-President Donald Trump because of his criticism of the intelligence community.
“Ned has helped the U.S. government defend and promote press freedom around the globe and modeled the transparency and openness we advocate for in other countries,” Blinken said. “His contributions will benefit the department long after his service.” | https://who13.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-state-department-spokesman-ned-price-to-step-down/ | 2023-03-07 23:51:25 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-state-department-spokesman-ned-price-to-step-down/ |
Israel: Fresh violence threatens to derail peace efforts
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Soccer's top athlete propels international excitement to DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Fort Lauderdale is thrilled to welcome Major League Soccer's Lionel Messi to his new home at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. The journey to attracting such a world-class athlete to our booming metropolis began with a public-private partnership between Fort Lauderdale and Inter Miami CF. The ongoing relationship continues to propel international interest in all we have to offer our residents, businesses and visitors.
"This is a shining example of what collaboration between government and private enterprise can accomplish. Here in Fort Lauderdale, we continue to build strong partnerships with outstanding organizations to strengthen our economy and create a world-class community. We are extremely excited to have Messi call Fort Lauderdale home and welcome him with open arms," said Mayor Dean Trantalis.
"We are excited to have another wonderful opportunity to share our City with the world. Fort Lauderdale is not just a tourist destination, but a leader among multiple industries from international business to real estate and beyond," said City Manager Greg Chavarria.
A recent report shows the strength of Fort Lauderdale's economy as a world-class City offering an outstanding quality of life and successful business ecosystem.
Our Businesses
- The City has recently welcomed major companies including the Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, West Marine, the Allied Marine/Ferretti Group and many others.
- We support our longtime employers including Citrix, Microsoft Latin America and Auto Nation.
- Fort Lauderdale was named 2nd best business climate in the country by Business Facilities Magazine in 2021, 2022, 2023.
Beaches and Attractions
- Fort Lauderdale Beach was placed top 3 in the nation for bluest water in the country, only behind New Mexico and Alaska.
- Our waterfront Aquatic Center is home to the tallest dive tower in the Western Hemisphere and has attracted divers and swimmers from all over the world.
Hotel Demand
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale hotel inventory has grown by 290% in the last 5 years.
- The Q1 occupancy rate for all Fort Lauderdale hotels was 86%. This outpaces the national average by 23 points.
Sports Impact
- The Panthers will be investing $65M+ to bring their practice facility to Downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Where Visitors Are Coming From
- The New York City metro area, with 19% of all trips to Downtown Fort Lauderdale, was the top point of origin for out-of-town visitors in 2022, followed by Chicago and Detroit.
- Tourists spend more time in Downtown Fort Lauderdale than ever, with 36% of all visits extending between 3 and 7 days, a 9-point increase from 2018.
To see the history of our public-private partnership with Inter Miami CF, check out this video, and for more information on other public-private partnerships in Fort Lauderdale, as well as major projects, go to this link.
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Sony Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate new technology for the first time in North America at the 2023 TinyML Summit
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) today announced the launch of a new subscription service offering on its edge AI sensing platform AITRIOS™ in the U.S., as part of AITRIOS's global expansion. The service, Console Developer Edition, is designed for developers to streamline the development and implementation of sensing solutions using edge devices such as AI cameras, and will be demonstrated at this year's TinyML Summit in Burlingame, California on March 27-29, 2023.
AITRIOS provides partners and customers with the tools, SDKs (Software Development Kits) and development environment that can lower cost, reduce complexity, improve time-to-market and increase measurable ROI, all while providing advanced privacy controls.
"The Console Developer Edition available on the AITRIOS platform is designed to democratize visual AI for developers beyond expensive and impractical lofty projects, and we look forward to increasing availability of our solutions for this community," said Mark Hanson, Vice President, Technology and Business Innovation, Head of Marketing, System Solution Business Development, Sony Semiconductors Solutions America. "This continued momentum will accelerate the age of visual AI and bring practical solutions to market faster."
Console Developer Edition is provided via SSS's cloud infrastructure to various entities engaged in developing applications and AI models, such as startups and academic research institutions. Adopting the service will eliminate the need for developers to build the infrastructure themselves, making it easy for them to build an environment where they can easily set up edge devices, connect to the cloud, develop applications and AI models, and run solutions.
Console Developer Edition joins Console Enterprise Edition in the AITRIOS platform. Console Enterprise Edition was unveiled at NRF in January 2023 and is designed to support system integrator companies build enterprise customer systems, leading to a range of advantages in terms of system customization, flexibility, and security being deployed on customer's Azure subscription. Console Enterprise Edition is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
SSS plans to use full-scale operation of these services — while also planning to expand other new AITRIOS services to meet the needs of various partners — as an opportunity to accelerate the social implementation of sensing solutions in collaboration with partner companies. Through SSS's collaboration with Microsoft, developers can access video demos on the AI Co-Innovation Lab or experience live product demonstrations onsite at the TinyML Summit from March 27-29 in Burlingame, California.
For more information on Console Developer Edition, visit the AITRIOS Developer Site.
About Sony Semiconductor Solutions
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation and the global leader in image sensors. We strive to provide advanced imaging technologies that bring greater convenience and joy to people's lives. In addition, we also work to develop and bring to market new kinds of sensing technologies with the aim of offering various solutions that will take the visual and recognition capabilities of both human and machines to greater heights. Visit us at: https://www.sony-semicon.co.jp/e/
Corporate slogan "Sense the Wonder": https://www.sony-semicon.co.jp/e/company/vision
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ImpediMed Limited (ASX: IPD) reached a milestone of 500,000 patient tests performed with the SOZO® Digital Health Platform. With over 1,100 devices in use globally, the pace of patient testing has accelerated with 100,000 patient tests performed in just the past six months. Product improvements, new clinical evidence, and comprehensive programs, such as the Lymphedema Prevention Program, have all contributed to increased utilization of SOZO by clinicians for the benefit of patients.
"Every time a patient is measured using SOZO, our bioimpedance spectroscopy technology delivers condition-specific metrics that inform medical decisions at the point-of-care," stated Dave Anderson, Interim CEO and Director of ImpediMed. "Reaching 500,000 patient tests is an important milestone and positive indicator of the future health of our business. I want to thank our team, our customers, our partners, and, most importantly, patients for their dedication to the advancement and adoption of SOZO to improve patient care."
The SOZO Digital Health Platform launched in 2017 and improvements delivered with four generations of software advancements have led to increased adoption and utilization every year. The launch of SOZO's cloud-based platform in 2019 was a major transition that dramatically reduced the customer requirements for implementation leading to faster on-boarding and broader adoption. Since then, substantial software improvements including new assessment types such as heart failure and Segmental BodyComp™ Analysis, an intuitive redesign of the software interface, enhanced privacy and security features, electronic health record (EHR) interface, and data analytics continue to drive increasing adoption and utilization of SOZO worldwide.
The increase in clinical evidence supporting the use of SOZO to proactively manage chronic and complex conditions has also driven an increase in patient testing. Studies evaluating the use of SOZO to monitor fluid volumes in heart failure patients led to the launch of SOZO's HF-Dex™ Heart Failure Analysis and ImpediMed's first heart failure customers in 2020. In oncology, the body of evidence supporting the use of SOZO's L-Dex® Analysis for Lymphedema has grown dramatically with eight publications from ImpediMed's PREVENT trial alone.
In 2019, ImpediMed launched its comprehensive Lymphedema Prevention Program, with the goal of ending cancer-related lymphedema. Since its launch, ImpediMed has announced multiple partnerships with leading institutions globally. Publication of ImpediMed's PREVENT Trial statistically significant three-year primary endpoint results, which demonstrated that routine monitoring with L-Dex combined with at-home intervention resulted in a 92% reduction in lymphedema progression, also contributed to further adoption of SOZO for lymphedema prevention.
SOZO, the world's most advanced, noninvasive bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) device, delivers a precise snapshot of fluid status and tissue composition in less than 30 seconds. Using ImpediMed's BIS technology, SOZO measures 256 unique data points over a wide spectrum of frequencies from 3 kHz to 1000 kHz. Results are available immediately online for easy data access and sharing across an entire healthcare system. The FDA-cleared, CE-marked and ARTG-listed digital health platform aids in the early detection of secondary lymphedema, provides fluid status for patients living with heart failure, and can be used to monitor and maintain overall health – all on a single platform.
For more information, visit https://www.impedimed.com/products/sozo/
Founded and headquartered in Brisbane, Australia with US and European operations, ImpediMed is a medical software technology company that non-invasively measures, monitors, and manages fluid status and tissue composition using bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS). ImpediMed produces a family of FDA cleared and CE Marked medical devices, including the SOZO® Digital Health Platform for multiple indications including heart failure, protein calorie malnutrition and lymphedema, sold in select markets globally.
For more information, visit https://www.impedimed.com
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Noah Thompson Named Winner of ‘American Idol’ Season 20
The winner of American Idol has officially been named! Country singer and fan-favorite Noah Thompson was crowned the Season 20 champion during Sunday night's (May 22) three-hour star-studded grand finale, which aired live coast-to-coast on ABC.
The highly anticipated announcement came mere seconds before the nail-biting episode came to a close. Thompson, who was presented with the title by long-running host Ryan Seacrest, beat out fellow contenders HunterGirl and Leah Marlene. Marlene learned hours before that she had placed third overall in the competition.
"What?" Thompson said, stunned by the news of his win. "My heart is beating out of my chest. This is crazy."
During the epic broadcast, each Top 3 finalist competed for America's votes one final time, facing off with not only solo performances of their debut singles, but also separate takes on Bruce Springsteen hits. For those moments, Thompson performed his original song, “One Day Tonight,” and “I’m on Fire,” from Springsteen’s extensive award-winning catalog. Later in the show, Thompson also did a duet of "I'm the Only One" with Melissa Etheridge before reviving a song that he sang previously in the season.
Thompson has had an interesting run since beginning his Idol journey. A former construction worker from Louisa, Ky., he auditioned in front of judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan with Kameron Marlowe’s “Giving You Up.” But that audition may have never taken place had it not been for his good buddy and former co-worker Arthur, who believed in him from the get-go and urged him to try out for the popular reality singing competition.
“Noah’s just got pure, raw talent, man,” Arthur told viewers of Thompson early on in the season. “It’s just something he was born with ... I think this is his time, man.”
After impressing judges with his initial audition, Thompson continued to fight for America’s votes in hopes to give his young son, Walker, a better life. Throughout his run on the show, he has successfully performed songs like Jason Isbell’s “Cover Me Up” (later made famous by Morgan Wallen), Rihanna’s “Stay,” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” showing fans that he has cross-genre appeal. The fan-favorite and Season 20 frontrunner also celebrated his 20th birthday on the series, when he received an extra birthday surprise: Landing in the Top 10.
At one point in the competition, Thompson ran into a hiccup after learning that he had tested positive for COVID-19 — but that didn’t stop him from outperforming some of his peers. Singing in isolation in a hotel room via video stream, with just an acoustic guitar in hand, he proved to judges that he had what it took to eventually win it all.
“I don’t know what you found between those two ferns for a whole week, but it was good. I have never seen you move from that stage to this stage," Perry told him after he broke out of isolation and delivered a memorable take on Carrie Underwood’s "So Small."
Now, Thompson is taking the next step in his music career as the new American Idol winner, and it will be interesting to see his star grow from here on out. Thompson’s win, which includes a recording contract with Hollywood Records/19 Recordings and $250,000, follows fellow country singer Chayce Beckham, who won Season 19. | https://wpst.com/noah-thompson-american-idol-season-20-winner/ | 2022-05-25 10:01:23 | 0 | https://wpst.com/noah-thompson-american-idol-season-20-winner/ |
DALLAS, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wingstop (Nasdaq: WING) – the rapidly-growing and technology-forward fast casual wing restaurant – today announced an agreement for the development rights for South Korea, contributing to its robust international expansion pipeline. The agreement outlines an initial commitment of 60 restaurants over a ten-year period, with the potential for 200-250 total restaurants in the country, the first expected to open in early 2023.
Korea is a key growth market outlined in Wingstop's strategic roadmap to becoming a Top 10 Global Restaurant Brand. This expansion follows the brand's proven strategy that has been formative and successful in other international markets. Wingstop's industry-leading digital business will reach the masses through use of its sophisticated tech stack – for both in-restaurant and off-premise occasions – playing to Korea's highly-digitized economy and widespread adoption of food delivery.
"The established demand for western brands and a tech-savvy, delivery-centric consumer base in Korea is expected to prime Wingstop's success," said Nicolas Boudet, Wingstop's President of International. "This agreement demonstrates the brand's strong global expansion momentum, on the heels of development milestones in Canada and Indonesia. In partnership with an established operator in the region, we look forward to bringing our craveable flavor experience to Korea – a vibrant market that is influential in the Asia-Pacific region and a key growth lever for our business."
The first of 100 planned restaurants in Canada will open next month and an expanded development agreement in Indonesia was recently executed, taking the market from 50 to 120 anticipated restaurants. Wingstop believes that it can achieve 7,000-plus global restaurants – over 3,000 of which are expected to be outside of the U.S.
About Wingstop
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Dallas, TX, Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ: WING) operates and franchises more than 1,700 locations worldwide. The Wing Experts are dedicated to Serving the World Flavor through an unparalleled guest experience and use of a best-in-class technology platform, all while offering classic and boneless wings, tenders, and thigh bites, always cooked to order and hand sauced-and-tossed in fans' choice of 11 bold, distinctive flavors. Wingstop's menu also features signature sides including fresh-cut, seasoned fries and freshly-made ranch and bleu cheese dips.
In fiscal year 2021, Wingstop's system-wide sales increased 20.2% year-over-year to approximately $2.3 billion, marking the 18th consecutive year of same store sales growth. With a vision of becoming a Top 10 Global Restaurant Brand, our system is comprised of independent franchisees, or brand partners, who account for approximately 98% of Wingstop's total restaurant count of 1,791 as of March 26, 2022. During the fiscal quarter ended March 26, 2022, Wingstop opened 60 net new restaurants, an increase of 13.4%, and announced domestic same-store sales increased 1.2%. During the fiscal quarter ended March 26, 2022, Wingstop generated 62.3% of sales via digital channels including Wingstop.com and the Wingstop app. Over the next three years, Wingstop intends to increase digital sales through continued investments in its technology platform and scaling its platform globally.
A key to this business success and consumer fandom stems from The Wingstop Way, which includes a core value system of being Authentic, Entrepreneurial, Service-minded, and Fun. The Wingstop Way extends to the brand's environmental, social and governance platform as Wingstop seeks to provide value to all stakeholders.
Rounding out a strong year in 2021, the Company was ranked #1 on Technomic 500's "Fastest Growing Franchise" and #22 on Entrepreneur Magazine's "Franchise 500," maintained its certification as a Great Place to Work, was named as a finalist for The Innovation SABRE Award's Best New Product/Brand Launch category for its Thighstop campaign, and named to Fast Company's "The World's Most Innovative Companies" list ranking #4 in the dining category.
For more information visit www.wingstop.com or www.wingstop.com/own-a-wingstop and follow @Wingstop on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Learn more about Wingstop's involvement in its local communities at www.wingstopcharities.org.
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TAIPEI, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiomtek - a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted to the research, development, and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to announce the iNA200, a DIN-rail cybersecurity gateway for operational technology (OT) network security. The iNA200 is powered by the Intel Atom® x6212RE or x6414RE processor (Elkhart Lake) and has one DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM for up to 32GB of system memory. For demanding rugged environments, this fanless IIoT edge gateway comes with a wide operating temperature range of -40°C to 70°C and supports wide power input of 9 to 36 VDC with dual power input. The iNA200 also has two 2.5G LAN ports, sufficient storage, and high expandability for various industrial application needs.
"OT cybersecurity is essential for Industry 4.0. Axiomtek's iNA200 is designed to safeguard your OT assets and avoid network threats for critical infrastructure," said Kevin Hsiao, a product manager of Network Computing Platform Division at Axiomtek. "Additionally, our iNA200 features an M.2 Key B slot to enable 5G connectivity for next-generation industrial use cases. With the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) support, this cybersecurity gateway increases security offering hardware-level protection against malware and sophisticated cyber-attacks."
The iNA200 edge gateway ensures continued operations and public safety to meet the changing demands of diverse industrial IoT applications. It has one 2.5" SATA 3.0 SSD and eMMC onboard (optional) for storage. It also supports one full-size PCIe Mini Card slot (USB + SATA interface) and one M.2 Key B 3042/3052 slot (PCIe + USB interface) for wireless modules. For the network interfaces, the iNA200 provides two GbE LAN ports with LAN Bypass, two 2.5G LAN ports with LAN Bypass and TSN function, and two 1G SFP (Intel® I210-IS) ports. More I/O options include one HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports, one COM port (RS-232/422/485) with DB9 type, one COM port (RS-485) with 3 pin terminal block, one tact switch, four antenna holes, one power input connector, and one console port (RJ-45). In addition, the DIN-rail cybersecurity gateway runs well with Windows® 10 and Linux operating systems.
Axiomtek's iNA200 will be available in December 2022. For more product information or pricing, please visit our global website at www.axiomtek.com or contact one of the sales representatives at info@axiomtek.com.tw.
Advanced Features:
- Intel Atom® x6212RE/x6414RE processor (codename: Elkhart Lake)
- DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM, up to 32GB
- Two GbE LAN, two 2.5GbE LAN, and two SFP
- Wide operating temperature from -40°C to 70°C
- Wide power input of 9 to 36 VDC with dual power input
- Supports 5G with M.2 Key B 3042/3052
- Supports TPM 2.0
- Ideal for OT field site cybersecurity and secured edge
About Axiomtek Co., Ltd
Axiomtek has experienced extraordinary growth in the past 30 years because of our people, our years of learning which resulted in our tremendous industry experience, and our desire to deliver well-rounded, easy-to-integrate solutions to our customers. These factors have influenced us to invest in a growing team of engineers including software, hardware, firmware and application engineers. For the next few decades, our success will be determined by our ability to lead with unique technologies for AIoT and serve our key markets with innovatively-designed solution packages of hardware and software – coupled with unmatched engineering and value-added services that will help lessen the challenges faced by our systems integrator, OEM and ODM customers and prospects alike. We will continue to enlist more technology partners and increase collaborations with our growing ecosystem who are leaders in their fields. With such alliances, we will create synergy and better deliver solutions, value and the expertise our customers need.
As an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, Axiomtek continuously develops and delivers cutting edge solutions based on the latest Intel® platforms.
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- DRX IP to onboard WEMIX and expand its ecosystem
- Both parties to cooperate for the advancement of eSports culture
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade announced a strategic investment in DRX. The companies will join forces in leading eSports fan culture and integrate it with the WEMIX platform for ecosystem expansion.
Founded in 2012, DRX is a Korean eSports company whose eSports teams include games such as League of Legend, Warcraft 3, Tekken 7 and more.
DRX's League of Legend team recently won the 2022 LoL World Championship, and Valorant team recorded 103 wins and 4 draws during a year and a half since its debut. With 22 championships under its belt, the team is considered to be the strongest in Asia.
Wemade plans to reach out to 3.7M DRX fans worldwide by onboarding DRX's excellent IP.
"eSports is a perfect fit for blockchain, since it has been evolving futuristically through repeated technical innovations," said Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade. "Through NILE, the DAO & NFT platform of WEMIX, we will complete a digital economy that connects gaming, entertainment, sports, art, and finance."
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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is speaking out once again in regard to the fatal Rust shooting. Through her lawyer, Jason Bowles, the Rust armorer told ET in a statement that she has "long sought this answer and will not give up in pursuing the truth to find it."
During the October on-set incident, Alec Baldwin held the gun that discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
"The primary question in this case from the beginning has been where did the live rounds that ended up on the Rust set come from?" the statement read, before claiming that "the Sheriff’s office made a conscious decision not to pursue this question at all by refusing to ask the FBI to test any of the rounds for fingerprints or DNA."
In addition to the statement, Guitierrez-Reed's attorney provided emails that he says were between him and Detective Alexandria Hancock of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
In the emails, Bowles questioned why the FBI didn't pursue DNA testing on the rounds, he claims Hancock replied that "given the fact the items were from movie sets, which had been handled over and over and over, it didn’t make sense" to do so.
Bowles asked follow-up questions in subsequent emails, though he claims Hancock wrote back "we are done with testing at this time."
"I’ve never heard of an agency declining to pursue DNA evidence on the possible murder instrument or weapon," Bowles wrote in the final email he provided to ET. "I urge you to reconsider this. This will be a very significant issue at trial, if we get there."
Guitierrez-Reed's statement concluded, "We now know for certain there were live rounds on set. It is inconceivable that the Sheriff would not seek answers to this fundamental question and it raises a serious problem with the entire investigation."
Guitierrez-Reed's most recent statement came the same week that the FBI released its forensic report into the fatal incident. In the report, which ET obtained, the FBI concluded after testing that the gun used in the shooting couldn't have gone off without the trigger being pulled. Meanwhile, a postmortem report obtained by ABC News classified Hutchins' death as an accident. Baldwin has denied pulling the trigger.
"The critical report is the one from the medical examiner, who concluded that this was a tragic accident. This is the third time the New Mexico authorities have found that Alec Baldwin had no authority or knowledge of the allegedly unsafe conditions on the set, that he was told by the person in charge of safety on the set that the gun was 'cold,' and believed the gun was safe," Baldwin's lawyer, Luke Nikas, told ET in a statement after the report was released. "The FBI report is being misconstrued. The gun fired in testing only one time --without having to pull the trigger -- when the hammer was pulled back and the gun broke in two different places. The FBI was unable to fire the gun in any prior test, even when pulling the trigger, because it was in such poor condition."
Meanwhile, in a statement to ET, Guitierrez-Reed, through her attorney, said in part, "These new filings demonstrate various production members’ attempts from the very beginning to shirk responsibility and scapegoat Hannah, a 24-year-old armorer, for this tragedy."
"Hannah was tasked with doing two jobs including props assistant and the very important job as armorer but not given adequate time and training days to do so despite repeated requests or the respect required of the armorer’s position and responsibilities," her statement read. "This included Baldwin in particular who ignored Hannah’s requests to do specific cross draw training which would include never having his finger on the trigger during the cross draw and never pointing the weapon at anyone."
ET has reached out to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office for a statement.
Baldwin also spoke out on The Chris Cuomo Project and offered an explanation for how the gun could've fired without the trigger being pulled. The interview was filmed ahead of the report's release, but made available online after the FBI's findings were made public.
"If you pull the hammer back, and you don’t lock the hammer; if you pull the hammer back pretty far -- in old Western movies you’d see someone fan the hammer of the gun -- the hammer didn’t lock; you pulled it back to an extent where it would fire the bullet without you pulling the trigger, without you locking the hammer," he said. "The man who's the principal safety officer on the set of the film declared that the gun was safe when he handed it to me... He explained it to me, effectively, exactly what can happen if you pull the hammer back and let it go if there’s a live round. See, there’s only one question to ask here -- who put a live round in the gun? That’s it. There is no other question to ask."
The First Judicial District Attorney's Office in New Mexico has not filed any charges in Hutchins' death. The Sheriff's Office said detectives from the Suffolk County Police Department in New York are actively assisting its office and the D.A.'s Office in obtaining, processing, and disclosing Baldwin's phone records. Once those and other reports are reviewed, the final Sheriff's Office investigative case file will be forwarded to the District Attorney for review and final charging decisions.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student who went on a field trip to see a play with classmates is the one suspected of opening fire inside the bus they were riding in when the group returned to campus, a university spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
Spokesperson Brian Coy said the suspect in the shooting, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, joined what was previously described as a group of about two dozen others who traveled about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from the campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Washington for the field trip Sunday. Police said Jones, a former member of the school’s football team, shot and killed three current team members and wounded two other students, at least one of them also a football player.
The shooting set off panic and a 12-hour lockdown of the campus until the suspect was captured Monday just outside Richmond.
University President Jim Ryan said at a news conference Monday that authorities did not have a “full understanding” of the motive or circumstances of the shooting. Authorities said it was unclear how Jones was able to flee the shooting scene.
Charging documents had not been filed in the matter as of Tuesday afternoon, and it wasn’t immediately clear when Jones — who remained in custody — would make his first court appearance. It also was not clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
UVA canceled classes and other academic activities Tuesday and made counselors and therapy dogs available to the university community.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered flags around the state lowered to half-staff and he also made an unannounced visit to the campus. Speaking to reporters near a memorial at the football stadium after he left flowers, he said he came to pay “deep respects and hopefully take a moment to support these families.”
“It’s beyond anything any parent can possibly imagine. And the first lady and I, our hearts are just broken for these families,” said Youngkin, who also thanked the first responders and said he was praying for the injured students.
The university has identified the three slain students as Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry. Head football coach Tony Elliott said they were all “incredible young men with huge aspirations and extremely bright futures.”
Jones, a member of the school’s football team during the 2018 season, faces three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, university police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. said Monday.
Jones’, father, Chris Jones Sr., told Richmond TV station WTVR he was in disbelief after getting a call from police Monday.
“My heart goes out to their families. I don’t know what to say, except I’m sorry, on his behalf, and I apologize,” he said.
Jones’ mother, Margo Ellis, declined to be interviewed when reached by The Associated Press on Tuesday. “There’s so much going on,” she said.
Jones came to the attention of the university’s threat-assessment team this fall in the context of a review of a “potential hazing issue,” the university said in a statement provided to the AP on Tuesday.
During that review, university officials heard from a student that Jones made a comment about having a gun. That student did not report Jones making any threat, according to the statement. University officials investigated and subsequently discovered Jones had previously been tried and convicted of a misdemeanor concealed weapons violation in 2021.
“Throughout the investigation, Mr. Jones repeatedly refused to cooperate with University officials who were seeking additional information about the claims that he had a firearm and about his failure to disclose the previous misdemeanor conviction. Accordingly, on October 27, the Threat Assessment Team escalated his case for disciplinary action,” the statement said.
The killings happened as the nation is on edge from a string of mass shootings during the last six months. Among them were an attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas; a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people and wounded more than 30; and a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people and wounded three.
UVA, the state’s flagship public university, has endured numerous high-profile tragedies over the past decade, including the 2014 disappearance and murder of a student. It was also the site of some of the violence inflicted by white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville for the “Unite the Right” events in 2017.
“I think UVA has weathered a lot in the past. And I think we are an incredibly resilient community,” said Ellie Wilkie, a 21-year-old student who sheltered in her room on the historic Lawn at the center of campus during the lockdown.
But she added that she hoped students would have time to grieve the lives lost and that the university would consider whether systemic changes could be made to prevent something similar from happening again.
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Associated Press journalists Nathan Ellgren in Charlottesville; Denise Lavoie in Richmond, Virginia; Michael Kunzelman and Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland; and Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed to this report. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-u-va-shooting-suspect-part-of-field-trip-school-confirms/ | 2022-11-15 18:48:46 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-u-va-shooting-suspect-part-of-field-trip-school-confirms/ |
Adam Larsson Player Prop Bets: Kraken vs. Stars - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 5
Adam Larsson will be on the ice Thursday when his Seattle Kraken face the Dallas Stars in Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round at American Airlines Center. Looking to bet on Larsson's props versus the Stars? Scroll down for stats and information.
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Adam Larsson vs. Stars Game Info & Odds
- When: Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Points Prop: 0.5 points (Over odds: +195)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 assists (Over odds: +250)
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Larsson Season Stats Insights
- In 82 games this season, Larsson has a plus-minus of +27, while averaging 23:38 on the ice per game.
- Larsson has a goal in eight games this year through 82 games played, but has not had multiple goals in any of those games.
- Larsson has a point in 30 of 82 games this season, with multiple points in three of them.
- Larsson has an assist in 23 of 82 games so far this season, with multiple assists in two of them.
- Larsson's implied probability to go over his point total is 33.9% based on the odds.
- There is an implied probability of 28.6% of Larsson going over his assist prop bet, considering the moneyline odds.
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Larsson Stats vs. the Stars
- On defense, the Stars have been one of the stingiest squads in the NHL, giving up 215 goals in total (2.6 per game) which ranks third.
- The team has the NHL's fourth-best goal differential at +66.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TaxConnex, Inc. today announces the completion of their third annual sales tax survey. This year's results reveal a perfect storm is brewing for financial leaders who continue to depend on internal resources even though expertise and bandwidth is lacking while companies struggle with the current economic climate, rising inflation, and a tight job market.
The nationwide survey, conducted by In90Group in October of 2022, is composed of responses from 100 top finance professionals in a variety of industries regarding their thoughts and experiences in managing sales tax.
"This is our third year conducting this survey and the results continue to surprise us," explained Brian Greer, CRO of TaxConnex™. "Many of the top worries and obstacles remain the same yet leaders don't seem to be making the adjustments needed to give relief to team members and the business itself."
Survey highlights include:
- Financial leaders remain relatively unhappy with their approach to managing sales tax, with 52% reporting to be less than satisfied.
- Top worries remain around keeping up with changing nexus rules, understanding taxability and being audited, yet specific industries sway from this a bit and add filing returns on time and charging the correct sales tax rate to the list.
- More businesses seem to be bringing the sales tax function in-house than previous years, but top barriers of managing sales tax remain at Not Enough Time/Bandwidth (38%) and Lack of Internal Knowledge (28%).
The survey this year had a special focus on multi-channel selling and different avenues for managing the tax that comes with it. TaxConnex is presenting a webinar on January 24 at 3 pm EST to share further results of the survey. Sign up here: https://www.taxconnex.com/webinar-third-annual-survey-results
TaxConnex™ is a technology-enabled sales and use tax provider, focused on delivering an outsourced sales tax service to businesses and corporations that have a multi-state sales tax responsibility and lack the sales tax knowledge and capability to manage it on their own. Learn more at: www.taxconnex.com
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The Twitter hashtag “Civil War” was trending s people reacted to a tweet from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In the tweet posted to her personal page, Greene took Presidents Day to call for a “national divorce” among red and blue states, citing irreconcilable differences.
“We need a national divorce,” she wrote. “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
Many on Twitter likened the message to a call for a second Civil War.
“Just a highly influential Republican Congresswoman calling for a second Civil War on Presidents Day,” responded CNN political commentator and former NY-17 representative Mondaire Jones, adding that Greene was seen here “failing that mental competency test Nikki Haley only wants to impose on those 75 and up.”
“That’s called secession,” added another user. “Southern states already tried that and it caused a civil war that killed 600,000 people.”
Greene went on to tweet about the “January 6th tapes,” which were recently subpoenaed by the House panel in their ongoing investigation into Trump’s involvement with the insurrection 2021.
“We are releasing the J6 tapes and not one single lying grifter on social media had anything to do with it,” Greene tweeted. “Get ready for the truth from J6 because the video tapes are coming!” she continued.
Greene has also been in the news recently as rumors swirled that she may be seeking the vice presidential nomination from former President Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential bid.
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- WCD (WEMIX Crypto Dollar) issuance service based on collateral assets
- Offering high usability and reliability as a means of exchange and store of value between various assets
- Increased synergy with other DeFi services supported on major multi-chains including Wemix 3.0, Ethereum and Klaytn
SEOUL, South Korea, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade Co., Ltd. has announced the upcoming launch of Kurrency, a new Defi (decentralized finance) service designed to offer greater ease-of-use, transparency and reliability.
Kurrency is a service that issues cryptodollars through a collateralized debt position. Users can entrust the virtual assets supported by the service as collateral and issue WCD (WEMIX Crypto Dollar). WCD is a cryptocurrency that minimizes price fluctuations and is issued through the method in which the value of the deposited collateral is greater than the total amount of 'excess-collateralized' loans issued. This is similar to the process by which MakerDAO generates Dai, the world's first unbiased currency. By adopting this method, it will play a complementary role with WEMIX Dollar, which is 100% USDC fully collateralized.
Kurrency has been designed for ease of use, with easy-to-understand terms, intuitive on-screen interface and detailed tutorial videos that make it simple for even users new to DeFi to get started.
In addition, Kurrency offers key features that guarantee greater transparency and reliability without compromising security. This includes a dashboard where you can see the investment status at a glance, contract audits conducted by reputable professional blockchain audit companies, and monthly service trend reports published in official social media channels.
Wemade wants to make WCD the most reliable and widely used crypto dollar and currency service across major blockchains including Klaytn, Ethereum and Wemix 3.0. WCD will organically connect Wemade's KLEVA protocol, Wemade DeFi services such as DEX (scheduled to be released during 1H 2023) and various other DeFi services on multi-chains. This will enhance the capital efficiency and interconnectivity between services and produce stronger synergistic effects within the ecosystem. Kurrency not only creates synergy between its services by managing the collateral deposited by users in KLEVA, but also has the function of minimizing the user's fees according to the operating profit .
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security has uncovered 20 instances of voter fraud since its establishment on July 1.
“The Office of Election Crimes and Security, in conjunction with the Attorney General’s office and FDLE of the state of Florida, has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud,” DeSantis said.
The governor claimed that the 20 individuals from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties voted despite being disqualified due to previous convictions of either murder or sexual assault.
The state of Florida does not allow convicts of serious crimes including homicide and sexual assault to retain voting rights.
The 20 being charged with voter fraud face up to five years in prison in addition to a $5,000 fine for the third-degree felony, according to DeSantis.
DeSantis added that Florida’s election security office will continue to review the 2020 election in search of fraud, as well as monitor upcoming elections.
“One of the things that we did in the most recent legislative session, though, is recognize, yes, you can have all these great policy reforms, and it’s important to do it, but if it’s not actually enforced then what difference is it going to make at the end of the day?” DeSantis said in support of the election security office and its work.
The Office of Election Crimes and Security was proposed in a voting bill passed by the Florida House in March. DeSantis named lawyer Peter Antonacci director of the office on July 6, shortly after its establishment as part of the Florida State Department. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/desantis-announces-20-charges-of-voter-fraud-by-new-election-security-office/ | 2022-08-18 21:37:13 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/desantis-announces-20-charges-of-voter-fraud-by-new-election-security-office/ |
Clients continue to select Anthology technology to meet organization needs and drive better learning outcomes
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthology, a leading provider of education solutions that support the entire learner lifecycle, today announced that more than 200 higher education institutions, K-12 school districts, and business and government organizations have deepened their partnerships with Anthology since the company merged with Blackboard last October. These clients had existing relationships with the business prior to its growth and selected new solutions, tools and services from Anthology's expanded product suite to create operational efficiencies and continue to improve experiences for students using technology.
"Just nine months after the merger, we've already seen the impact that our combined solutions can have not only on the full learner lifecycle, but also on the day-to-day lives of faculty and staff," said Jim Milton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Anthology. "The holistic approach that's enabled by our technology is critical to the future of education, and we have the opportunity to help our clients get ahead of shifting learner needs as we look to shape that future together."
Key products impacting client success include Anthology Student, Anthology's learner-centric student information system that helps students stay on track while creating operational efficiency for institutions, and Blackboard Learn, the company's flagship learning management system designed to support the student experience while enabling pedagogical best practices for faculty.
"Anthology Student and Anthology Reach have made a tremendous impact on our ability to keep students on the path to graduation while also making life easier for our administrators by giving them access to critical workflows," said Julian Aiken, Vice President of Technology Services at ECPI University. "We see Anthology as a long-term partner because they understand our institution's mission and have the right technology to help us prepare to meet learner expectations in the future."
"The partnership between Youngstown State University and Anthology has continued to strengthen," said Jim Yukech, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Youngstown State University. "The modern, student-centric design of Learn Ultra along with quickly certifying over 160 faculty positioned us to fast-track faculty adoption when we transitioned to primarily online learning during the Spring of 2020. Blackboard, now Anthology, was also the first of our technology partners to actively engage in the start-up of our workforce development program and we are embarking on a new strategic analytics project in the months ahead."
This news comes as education leaders from around the world converge at Anthology Together, the company's first combined user conference with Blackboard. Read more about how institutions like Post University and the University of Mindanao are advancing learning with Anthology.
About Anthology
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale for education, recently combining with Blackboard to support more than 150 million users in 80 countries. With a mission to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community, Anthology helps learners, leaders and educators achieve their goals through over 60 SaaS products and services designed to advance learning. Discover more about how we are fulfilling our mission for K-12, higher education, business and government institutions at www.anthology.com.
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(WKRN) — Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been diagnosed with dementia, according to her family.
The Carter Center released a statement May 30 sharing the news of her diagnosis.
She continues to live at home with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, the statement went on to say.
Over the years, Carter had worked to break down the stigma surrounding mental health and has been an advocate for patients and caregivers to get more support.
“We hope sharing our family’s news will increase important conversations at kitchen tables and in doctor’s offices around the country,” the family said.
One in 10 older Americans has dementia, a condition that affects overall mental health, the family stated.
The statement continued: “As the founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, Mrs. Carter often noted that there are only four kinds of people in this world: those who have been caregivers; those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.” | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-diagnosed-with-dementia-2/ | 2023-05-30 18:59:31 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-diagnosed-with-dementia-2/ |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s first space tourist wants to go back — only this time, he’s signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship.
For Dennis Tito, 82, it’s a chance to relive the joy of his trip to the International Space Station, now that he’s retired with time on his hands. He isn’t interested in hopping on a 10-minute flight to the edge of space or repeating what he did 21 years ago. “Been there, done that.”
His weeklong moonshot — its date to be determined and years in the future — will bring him within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of the lunar far side. He’ll have company: his wife, Akiko, and 10 others willing to shell out big bucks for the ride.
Tito won’t say how much he’s paying; his Russian station flight cost $20 million.
The couple recognize there’s a lot of testing and development still ahead for Starship, a shiny, bullet-shaped behemoth that’s yet to even attempt to reach space.
“We have to keep healthy for as many years as it’s going to take for SpaceX to complete this vehicle,” Tito said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. “I might be sitting in a rocking chair, not doing any good exercise, if it wasn’t for this mission.”
Tito is actually the second billionaire to make a Starship reservation for a flight around the moon. Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa announced in 2018 he was buying an entire flight so he could take eight or so others with him, preferably artists. The two men both flew to the space station, from Kazakhstan atop Russian rockets, 20 years apart.
Tito kicked off space tourism in 2001, becoming the first person to pay his own way to space and antagonizing NASA in the process. The U.S. space agency didn’t want a sightseer hanging around while the station was being built. But the Russian Space Agency needed the cash and, with the help of U.S.-based Space Adventures, launched a string of wealthy clients to the station through the 2000s and, just a year ago, Maezawa.
Well-heeled customers are sampling briefer tastes of space with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic expects to take paying passengers next year.
Starship has yet to launch atop a Super Heavy booster from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. At 394 feet (120 meters) and 17 million pounds (7.7 million kilograms) of liftoff thrust, it’s the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. NASA already has contracted for a Starship to land its astronauts on the moon in 2025 or so, in the first lunar touchdown since Apollo.
Tito said the couple’s contract with SpaceX, signed in August 2021 and announced Wednesday, includes an option for a flight within five years from now. Tito would be 87 by then and he wanted an out in case his health falters.
“But if I stayed in good health, I’d wait 10 years,” he said.
Tito’s wife, 57, said she needed no persuading. The Los Angeles residents are both pilots and understand the risks. They share Musk’s vision of a spacefaring future and believe a married couple flying together to the moon will inspire others to do the same.
Tito, who sold his investment company Wilshire Associates almost two years ago, said he doesn’t feel guilty splurging on spaceflight versus spending the money here on Earth.
“We’re retired and now it’s time to reap the rewards of all the hard work,” he said.
Tito expects he’ll also shatter preconceived notions about age, much as John Glenn’s space shuttle flight did in 1998. The first American to orbit the Earth still holds the record as the oldest person in orbit.
“He was only 77. He was just a young man,” Tito said. “I might end up being 10 years older than him,” | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/worlds-1st-space-tourist-signs-up-for-another-flight-this-time-around-the-moon/ | 2022-10-12 19:18:30 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/worlds-1st-space-tourist-signs-up-for-another-flight-this-time-around-the-moon/ |
California sheriff’s deputy in custody after double slaying
San Francisco – A Northern California sheriff’s deputy turned himself in to law enforcement hours after he was accused in the fatal slayings of a husband and wife in their home early Wednesday, authorities said.
Devin Williams Jr., a deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, called authorities after he fled the shooting and said he wanted to turn himself in, officials said.
Police stayed on the phone with him until the off-duty deputy was taken into custody by the California Highway Patrol in a rural, desolate area near the Central Valley city of Coalinga, about 160 miles (258 kilometers) south of the crime scene.
Police had earlier launched a manhunt for Williams, 24, and warned he was considered armed and dangerous.
“It’s a great loss for our community and it’s even more disheartening to find out that it was one of our own that was the trigger-person behind this tragic incident,” said Dublin Police Chief Garrett Holmes, who is also a commander in the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said Williams was in a mental health crisis and Holmes personally spent 45 minutes on the phone talking with the deputy to convince him to surrender.
Police were called to a home in Dublin – a city in the East Bay about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from downtown San Francisco – around 12:45 a.m. The 911 caller said an intruder had come into the home brandishing a gun and shot two people before fleeing in a vehicle, Holmes said at a news conference.
Witnesses identified the gunman as Williams.
Police said Williams used his service weapon in the shooting and threw it out his car window as he fled. Detectives were still searching for the gun.
Both victims, a 42-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man whose names were not immediately released, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Williams knew the couple but investigators were still trying “to fine-tune their connection” and determine the motive, according to Alameda County sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Ray Kelly.
The couple have an adolescent child who was in the home at the time of the slayings, Kelly said. Also in the home was a male relative of the couple who was visiting.
He was unhurt and was talking to detectives about what occurred, Kelly said.
“This was not a random crime,” Kelly said. This is a very bizarre chain of events that unfolded,” he added.
Kelly said Williams went through “some significant events” in his life in the last few months that led to the killings but did not specify what had happened.
“A lot of those events went undiscovered and undisclosed and we’re going to be looking into that. There’s a lot of questions that need to be answered,” he said.
Kelly said Williams had been with the sheriff’s office since September 2021 and was still on probation. He had been assigned to the Oakland courthouse and there were no concerns about his job performance.
“This is a tragedy. We’re all in shock here,” Kelly said.
Wednesday was Williams’ one-year anniversary with the sheriff’s office and the agency’s investigators were spending it trying to figure out what prompted the violence.
“He grew up in a very affluent home, well-loved, graduated from college with honors, was really a remarkable young person. How we got here today, it will be part of our investigation and something we’re looking at,” Kelly said.
Williams, who is from Stockton, briefly worked with the Stockton Police Department, where he completed their police academy but was ultimately let go after he failed their field training program, Kelly said.
Stockton Police spokesperson Officer Joseph Silva said he could not discuss why Williams left the department because it is a “personnel matter.” He confirmed Williams worked for the Stockton Police Department from January 2020 to January 2021.
The Deputy Sheriffs’ Association of Alameda County, the union that represents rank-and-file deputies, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Dazio reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/07/california-sheriffs-deputy-custody-after-double-slaying/8016294001/ | 2022-09-07 22:05:37 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/07/california-sheriffs-deputy-custody-after-double-slaying/8016294001/ |
BRYAN, Texas — Several students from Johnson Elementary School have won first and second place in Bryan FD's fire prevention poster contest.
Each year the department receives roughly 30 pieces of art, but this year, it had over a hundred submissions.
“How we're gonna get out if there's a fire, how to recognize there's a fire in the house, and where we're gonna go if there's a fire," Gerald Burnett, the Assistant Fire Marshal said.
Those are some things to keep in mind when planning your escape— the theme for this year's fire prevention poster contest.
One young artist said she wanted to combine her love for animals with what she sees when she watches the news.
“You always need to know how to get out if there's a fire in the house," 4th Grader, Arielle Cooper said.
"I thought maybe the news can be fun cause the news is always telling you like important stuff you need to know,
Another young artist in Ms. Hancock's art class won first place, and she's in kindergarten!
She said she based her artwork off of a book named 'The Dog Sparky' since she knows fires have sparks.
“Kids were going to school and there was a dog that would always follow them and wait for them outside and then one night they had a fire and the dog saw the fire and told the firefighters by barking,” Wallace said.
Camila Martinez, the 2nd Grade winner, said it's important to know what to do if there's a fire in your home and her artwork shows you how to safely exit from a house fire.
“In the kitchen, there's a fire and then this leads the person to the meeting spot, where she can get away from the fire and she's safe," she said.
Henery Essler won second place for 3rd Grade entries and said he was inspired by his love for movies when making his artwork.
He also said he was so excited when he found out he got second place since its the first time he's been selected as one of the winners in the poster contest.
“My favorite part about making this art was my creativity on it because I never made this tall of art," he said.
Burnett said it's fun to look at all the submissions, but it's great knowing all ages are aware of fire prevention safety and can share what they learn with friends and family.
The contest is open to Pre-K through high school seniors, including home-schooled students.
If you know someone that wants to enter next year, submissions must be original and the dimensions of the artwork should be 14X22 inches. | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/bryan-fire-department-announces-winners-of-poster-contest | 2023-02-21 20:05:12 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/bryan-fire-department-announces-winners-of-poster-contest |
NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW, CENH, CENHU, CENHW): (i) between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) all holders of Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger") and entitled to vote on the Merger, of the important July 5, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Arqit securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Arqit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5481 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period and in the Proxy Statement issued in connection to the Merger made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Arqit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5481 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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COLQUITT, Ga. (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp has suspended a Georgia sheriff facing charges of sexual battery and violating his oath of office.
Kemp signed an executive order Monday suspending Miller County Sheriff Richard Morgan for 60 days. Kemp acted on a recommendation by state Attorney General Chris Carr and two other Georgia sheriffs who reviewed the case.
Miller was arrested Aug. 10 by Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents who had been asked to look into sexual misconduct allegations involving the sheriff. The agency has said the charges stem from “an incident that took place while on a 911 call,” but has given no further details.
An attorney for Morgan, Thomas V. Duck III, did not immediately return a phone message Wednesday.
The order calls for the chief judge of the Pataula Judicial Circuit in rural southwest Georgia to appoint an interim sheriff to serve in Morgan’s absence.
Morgan ran against the incumbent sheriff in 2020 and ended up with the job despite losing the election. That’s because then-Sheriff Scott Worsley died from cancer the week before Election Day. Even after his death, Worsley carried the race with 52% of the vote. As the runner-up, Morgan became the new sheriff. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Kemp-suspends-Georgia-sheriff-charged-with-sexual-17409931.php | 2022-08-31 15:44:18 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Kemp-suspends-Georgia-sheriff-charged-with-sexual-17409931.php |
Sports Memories: Albert Lea state champion signs with Gophers
Published 8:52 pm Friday, May 12, 2023
Sports Memories by Tom Jones
15 years
- Carlos Gomez became the first Minnesota Twin to hit for the cycle in 22 years as the Twins defeated the Chicago White Sox 13-1.
- The Albert Lea girls’ track and field team took seventh place at the True Team section meet held in Faribault. The 4×800 meter team of Sarah Wenum, Brittini Lair, Alex Ciota and Alyssa Sager took first for the Tigers.
- Robert Peterson shot a career best 76 at Green Lea Golf Course as the Albert Lea Tigers boys’ golf team defeated Blue Earth 323-348.
- The Albert Lea ninth-grade baseball team swept a doubleheader against Owatonna, winning 1-0 and 5-1. In game one, Cole Sorenson picked up the win, throwing a one-hit complete game.
20 years
- Coach Bill Trygstad was looking for players to play for the Albert Lea Colonels adult amateur baseball team in the upcoming season.
- Amber Weber and Jessica Boyum each shot a 53 to lead the Glenville-Emmons girls’ golf team to a 219-285 win over Mabel-Canton in a match played at the Northwood Country Club.
- The Albert Lea boys’ tennis team lost to Winona 6-1 in a dual played at the Southwest Middle School courts. The No. 1 singles team of Stephen Thorn and Greg Peterson picked up the lone win for the Tigers.
- The Albert Lea girls’ track and field team placed eighth at the True Team section meet in Red Wing. Emily Bartusek picked up the lone first-place finish for the Tigers in the 800-meter run.
50 years
- Wally Johnson, University of Minnesota wrestling coach, announced that Albert Lea state champion Jim Lunde had signed to wrestle with the Gophers.
One season after he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for wide receiver John Gilliam, former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Gary Cuozzo announced his retirement from professional football to pursue a career as an orthodontist. - Coach Howard Mellom was recruiting boys and girls ages 10 through 17 to compete with the Albert Lea Track and Field Club which was scheduled to have four home meets.
- Bruce Davidson had two hits and Gay Iverson picked up the win in relief as the Emmons Eagles baseball team defeated Rake, IA 7-3.
- Ron Mathison logged 80 miles in a month to lead the 25 riders participating in the YM-YWCA stationary bike club.
- John Dziura pitched seven innings to pick up the win as the Albert Lea B-squad baseball team defeated Rochester John Marshall 9-3.
- Dick Humphrey, a 1969 graduate of Albert Lea High School was leading hitter on the St. John’s collegiate baseball team with a .383 average.
2023 collegiate signings
Albert Lea three-sport athlete Dakota Jahnke has signed a tender to continue his hockey career as a member of the Badlands Sabres of the North American 3 Hockey League. The team is based in Rapid City, South Dakota. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/05/sports-memories-albert-lea-state-champion-signs-with-gophers/ | 2023-05-13 08:16:33 | 0 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/05/sports-memories-albert-lea-state-champion-signs-with-gophers/ |
SALEM — On Jan. 31, Oregon’s public university presidents stressed the proposed public university funding and financial aid levels in Gov. Tina Kotek’s recommended 2023-2025 state budget will result in lost opportunities for Oregon’s students and workforce.
Oregon currently ranks 45th in the nation for per-student state funding of public universities and invests less than half the national average in financial aid per public university student, said a press release. University leaders encourage legislative support for current and future students by passing a stabilizing Public University Support Fund budget of $1.05 billion and increasing the Oregon Opportunity Grant. Without sustainable funding for Oregon’s public university system, Oregon’s students, particularly those from underserved and BIPOC communities, will be deprived of opportunities to access essential student services, including financial aid, academic support, career development, and support for other basic needs pushing us further behind other states.
“We thank the governor for supporting record investments in the Oregon Opportunity Grant and other student-aid programs,” said Nagi Naganathan, president of the Oregon Institute of Technology and chair of the Oregon Council of Presidents. “Oregon trails far behind the rest of the nation in public university funding. It is important that our legislative leaders deliver investments that will make higher education attainable for every aspiring student. Oregon’s public universities require greater state support today than ever before to maintain essential programs and wraparound services for an increasingly diverse student body and soften the impact of inflation on students and their families and assuring them a higher standard of living immediately after graduation.”
As a state, Oregon continues to face workforce shortages in key sectors, including semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, health care, behavioral health, and education. As the recent Oregon Higher Education Landscape Study from the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) reported, Oregon’s colleges and universities are well-positioned to grow Oregon’s economy and expand and modernize the state’s workforce, but require bold investments from the state to do so.
“We recognize that, amid high inflation and a potential recession, state leaders face tough choices as they craft the state budget for the next two years and we are grateful to Gov. Kotek for her continued investment in Future Ready Oregon,” said Naganathan. “However, bolstering Oregon’s economy and its working families against economic downturns will require greater investment in higher education. Investments in higher education are investments in vital infrastructure, that lead to greater social mobility and help to produce the diverse workforce that will move Oregon forward.” | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/free_news/oregon-public-universities-respond-to-gov-kotek-s-recommended-budget/article_c7b8e7e6-a675-11ed-8a79-d7aa5725726f.html | 2023-02-08 16:01:03 | 0 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/free_news/oregon-public-universities-respond-to-gov-kotek-s-recommended-budget/article_c7b8e7e6-a675-11ed-8a79-d7aa5725726f.html |
Little Free Pantry opens 43rd pantry across from Pius X High School
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -It’s outside the parking lot of the Unitarian Church across from Pius X High School at 6300 A Street, and it’s fighting food hunger in Lincoln.
This new free pantry contains all the basics, like food and hygiene products, and it’s the 43rd pantry to go up that’s associated with the Little Free Pantries across the city.
The rules for using it are simple, take what you need and leave what you can. The man who put the pantry up said it’s all about being compassionate.
“It’s about being kind to one another,” said Michael Reinmiller, Little Free Pantry. “I use the term aggressively compassionate. We need a little more of that.”
Keeping these pantries stocked is really up to the public. Reinmiller said work groups, churches and even individuals will come out and stuff pantries. He said even if you can’t fill the pantry, donating one item makes a difference.
Find more about the pantries on their Facebook page: Little Free Pantries LNK NE
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NAPA, Calif. (KRON) — A police report acquired by KRON4 from the night of Paul Pelosi’s arrest revealed that Pelosi needed help walking before he was taken into custody. Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was arrested on May 28 for driving under the influence.
Pelosi, 82, was driving on Highway 29 near Oakville Cross Road when his Porsche collided with a Jeep. He was sentenced on Tuesday to five days in jail.
Pelosi originally told police that he had just one glass of wine before driving, according to the police report. Officer Jesus Perez Ramirez, who arrested Pelosi, smelled alcohol on his breath and observed that he was unsteady on his feet.
Pelosi agreed to answer some questions and take voluntary tests. When asked again how much he drank, Pelosi again answered that he had one glass of wine, before dinner, police said.
Ramirez asked what type of wine he drank, and Pelosi altered his answer to say he had a glass of champagne before dinner and a glass of wine at dinner, according to the police report. He also said he started drinking at 7:00 p.m. and finished by 8:00 p.m. CHP was dispatched to the crash at 10:28 p.m., the police report said.
Pelosi told police that he had the drinks at a friend’s house on Walnut Drive, which is near the site of the crash. He also said he did not feel the effects of what he drank, but Ramirez disagreed.
“Throughout my conversation with Pelosi, I observed the following signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication: both of his eyes were red/watery, his speech was slurred, he had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person, and he failed to provide logical answers to multiple questions I asked,” Ramirez said in the police report.
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Ramirez asked Pelosi to walk to his police vehicle before taking field sobriety tests. Ramirez wrote in the police report that he was afraid Pelosi would fall, so he suggested Pelosi grab onto his shoulder. Pelosi used Ramirez’s shoulder for support as he walked over.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Talk about going bananas: There was an unusual show of sportsmanship at the Australian Open on Saturday, when one player, Dan Evans, offered a piece of fruit to his opponent, Andrey Rublev.
And the fifth-seeded Rublev joked after his 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 victory put him in the fourth round at Melbourne Park: "He helped me with the energy.”
Rublev, a six-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, compiled a whopping 60 winners in the match, with nary a slip-up.
But let's peel back what happened in the most interesting sequence at Margaret Court Arena.
The snack-sharing came at a changeover late in the first set, with Rublev leading 5-4. The 25-year-old Russian wanted a little sustenance — tennis players often will munch on bananas during breaks in matches because they are a healthy, fat-free source of carbohydrates and potassium — but he realized the courtside allotment was gone.
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Evans, a 32-year-old from Britain who was seeded 25th in the year's first Grand Slam tournament, had just been handed a pair of bananas by a ball kid.
So Evans flung one of the yellow fruits from where he was sitting on the sideline with his left hand, and it traveled past the chair umpire's stand and over toward the other bench, where Rublev grabbed it out of the air with his left hand. Both men are righties.
The seemingly effortless throw and one-handed catch were both impressive.
“I quite like him, so I shared with him,” Evans said. “That was about it.”
Asked whether he would have provided the bit of food to someone he doesn't like, Evans, in perhaps typical British fashion, replied simply, “No.”
Rublev, who will face Holger Rune of Denmark on Monday for a spot in the quarterfinals, laughed about the whole thing when asked about it at his news conference.
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He said he's handed bottles of water out of a sideline refrigerator to foes in the past, but he couldn't recall ever participating in an exchange of fruit.
“Just a nice and fun moment between us,” Rublev said. “We have a great relationship between each other.”
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TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - According to Hazelview Investments' 2023 Global Public Real Estate Outlook Report (the "Report"), after an exceptionally harsh year, global real estate investment trusts ("REITs") are currently trading at significant discounts, with tailwinds that could materialize in 2023 to offer significant positive mean reversion.
"Fundamentals went out the door in 2022 as markets focused on high-inflation and hawkish monetary policy," says Corrado Russo, Senior Managing Director, Investments & Head of Public Real Estate Investments. "And, while this can be frustrating for us as active managers, we know this can present exceptional opportunities in 2023 which we believe will be more about weaker growth, moderating inflation, and an end to rate hikes or a partial reversal. The best long-term returns are generated when buying at discounts to intrinsic value and investor sentiment is at its lowest, both of which are true today."
The Opportunity
This year (2022) is on pace to be the second worst performance year ever, since the start of the global REIT era over 30 years ago. Only the global financial crisis in 2008 was worse, and only four times (1990, 1992, 1994 and 2008) have global REITs declined by more than 10 per cent. REIT valuations currently sit at significant discounts to private real estate benchmarks (-26 per cent) and below their pre-COVID trading levels (-14 per cent) which is a stark comparison to global equities that trade 9 per cent above their February 2020 high.
Relative performance by company property type has been even more unusual, according to the Report. The top performers (companies with strong balance sheets, best in class real estate portfolios, superior earnings potential and high-quality cycle tested management teams) and property types that are structured to benefit from rising inflation (apartments, single family rentals and self-storage) performed the worst. In other words, REITs are exceptionally cheap right now, especially the higher quality companies.
What Shifts the Valuation Paradigm?
Potential tailwinds in 2023 that could help REITs close the current valuation discount include a slowing pace of interest rate increases, corporate earnings that exceed market expectations and the possibility that mergers and acquisitions could provide a floor for valuations.
Interest Rates – Stabilization in the cost of capital will provide more clarity for the markets and benefit valuations. The report points to the REIT rally this fall, that was triggered by the first sign that the pace of inflation may be slowing, and rate hikes could begin to moderate, as proof.
"It's the anticipation of rate hikes that hurts REITs most. With uncertainty around the cost of borrowing, it is very difficult for markets to assess the value of the underlying real estate owned by REITs," said Samuel Sahn, Portfolio Manager, Public Real Estate Investments. "Rates hikes don't necessarily even need to reverse to shift the valuation paradigm, they just need to moderate or stop going up and be more predictable."
The report explains that with clarity around interest rates, fundamentals should drive share price performance and the best-in-class portfolios that have been unjustly punished should start to separate themselves from the pack once again.
Corporate Earnings – Although economic growth is expected to slow in 2023, Hazelview believes REIT earnings will hold up. They point to contractual leases with embedded lease bumps, and/or the ability to mark-to-market upon expiry, as strong support for earnings relative to other industries.
As a yield-oriented investment product, the prospect of lower earnings sends fear into the market that companies may need to cut their dividends. Payout ratios for global REITs are sitting at approximately 65 per cent today which implies earnings can decline by over 20 per cent before dividends are at risk.
Mergers and Acquisitions – In the real estate industry, private investors dwarf the size of the public market, making it ripe for M&A activity. These private investors often look to acquire REITs as a way to access larger portfolios. Historically, these acquisitions transact at or around net asset value ("NAV"), which is why public real estate typically trades in-line with private real estate values. The current dislocation in the market presents an even more attractive opportunity where these private investors can take advantage of large discounts to portfolio value while still offering premiums to share price.
"Even more than other markets, the private real estate investor pool in Europe far exceeds the European REIT market and a spread in valuations frequently results in M&A activity," says Claudia Reich Floyd, Portfolio Manager, Public Real Estate Investments. "We believe the current market discrepancy will lead to continuous M&A transactions in Europe in 2023 providing a floor to valuations."
How Can Investors Capitalize on this Opportunity?
While the variability of outcomes entering 2023 are as wide as Hazelview has seen in nearly 20 years of managing REITs, the key to outperforming in 2023 will be to identify which REITs can close their embedded valuation discount through company specific initiatives, rather than relying on overall market appreciation.
"Cheaper valuations due to this year's poor performance is a big part of the REIT story entering 2023," says Russo. "We believe, through active management, we can position our portfolios to take advantage of the downdraft in share prices this year and aim to concentrate our portfolios in companies that trade at larger discounts than the overall market."
Hazelview Investments has been an active investor, owner, and manager of global real estate investments since 1999 and remains committed to creating value for people and places. The company employs a global investment and asset management team of more than 80 people in its offices in Toronto, New York, Hong Kong, and Hamburg and manages 11.6 billion (CAD) in real estate assets. To learn more visit hazelview.com.
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OWASSO, Okla. , April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- coreNOC, Inc., a leader in 5G telecommunications equipment deployment, announced they have entered into a Strategic Consulting Agreement with the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida). coreNOC, Inc., a Native American owned business, understands the challenges and struggles Indian tribes across North America face due to the existing digital divide.
Earlier this year, Tlingit and Haida gathered responses from two broadband surveys that underscored the critical need for better broadband in rural Southeast Alaska communities. Many communities still lack the connectivity needed to access healthcare, education, remote employment opportunities and business resources.
Since 2019, Tlingit and Haida have been working with Southeast Alaska village tribes to secure the mid-band spectrum licenses. They created a comprehensive plan to offer broadband services to 10,000 people in Southeast Alaska who currently have limited or no access in their area. Recently, the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) issued the broadband license for deployment. Funding has been secured for a pilot project in Wrangell, Alaska, to be completed under their new Tidal Network department that will focus on extending fixed wireless internet service to provide broadband services to the community.
"The bottom line and sole focus of the work we are doing under Tidal Network is to ensure reliable internet to our underserved rural communities in Southeast Alaska," said Chief Development Officer Will Ware.
"We are committed to helping our communities secure the high-speed internet access they deserve," said President Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson. "The disparity and lack of reliable internet in our rural communities is apparent and it's critical our villages are not left behind in this digital age. I want to thank Second Vice President Will Micklin for his many years of advocacy and work to get better broadband access to our people and communities."
"coreNOC, Inc is honored to be selected as a strategic consulting partner to help deploy a state-of-the-art broadband network. Our years of experience with launching new telecommunication markets is a perfect fit for our new partners. We will leverage our industry expertise to bring broadband services to those who currently have limited or no broadband options." Stated Johnie Johnson, CEO, coreNOC, Inc.
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SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — J.T. Poston made up for two back-nine bogeys with an eagle on the par-5 17th, shooting a 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the John Deere Classic.
Trying to complete a wire-to-wire victory after tying for second last week in the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Poston made a 13 1/2-foot eagle putt on 17.
“That was huge kind of going into tomorrow,” Poston said about the eagle. “I wasn’t quite as sharp today off the tee and had to play a little defensive into some of the greens. Nice to put two good swings on there and make that putt to kind of capitalize and get some ground back that I had lost.”
He had a 19-under 194 total at TPC Deere Run.
Playing partner Denny McCarthy birdied the final two holes for a 66 to join Scott Stallings (64) and Emiliano Grillo (65) at 16 under.
“Was nice to finish that way,” McCarthy said. “Nice to make a putt on 18. Nice to see something go in going into tomorrow. It’s a good feeling to kind of feel like I got something out of round, birdieing the last two.”
Poston opened with rounds of 62 and 65 to take a four-stroke lead, then played the front nine in 3 under Saturday with birdies on Nos. 2, 5 and 8. He dropped a stroke on the par-3 12th, birdied the par-4 14th and bogeyed the par-4 15th before making the big putt on 17.
From Hickory, North Carolina, the 29-year-old Poston won the 2019 Wyndham Championship for his lone PGA Tour title.
“Just trying to stay patient and composed,” Poston said. “I’m not trying to get too ahead of myself. Just trying to take it one hole at a time. Being in this position, I’m trying to focus especially on the shot in front of me and do the best I can and go from there.”
Stalling birdied Nos. 15-17.
“Look forward to the opportunity.” Stallings said. “Today was a big step in the right direction to tomorrow.”
Grillo birdied four of the last five.
“Everybody is in the same situation,” Grillo said. “Everybody wants to win. Everybody wants to make the most out of it. Definitely going to be a tough battle tomorrow.”
Iowa native Zach Johnson, the 2012 winner, was 8 under after a 67 in his 20th consecutive start in the event. He also eagled 17. | https://www.wane.com/sports/ap-sports/poston-eagles-17th-takes-3-shot-lead-in-john-deere-classic/ | 2022-07-03 19:30:51 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/sports/ap-sports/poston-eagles-17th-takes-3-shot-lead-in-john-deere-classic/ |
Logistics Workers Secure Representation at DHL's Largest Hub in North America
HEBRON, Ky., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a massive organizing victory today for more than 1,100 DHL Express workers at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Ramp and tug workers voted to join Teamsters Local 100 in Cincinnati after a yearlong campaign for representation.
"This was a long time coming!" said Steve Fightmaster, a ramp lead and DHL Workers United for Change committee member. "We stood strong to become Teamsters and changed over 1,000 people's lives for the better."
"This victory is a testament to what can be achieved when workers are united for a better future," said Bill Hamilton, Director of the Teamsters Express Division. "These workers overcame a tough anti-union campaign and fought hard against the retaliation and misinformation from management. Ultimately, they prevailed because they were determined to bring real change to their workplace."
Negotiations will begin for a first Teamster contract for DHL-CVG workers following certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board.
"We are thrilled that more DHL Express workers have successfully fought to join our union," said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. "Our entire union stands with these workers, ready to keep holding DHL Express accountable."
"Today, DHL Express workers made the decision to join the most powerful union in the world. These new Teamsters showed courage and conviction in their organizing drive and we couldn't be more honored to welcome and protect them," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Whether it's at DHL, Amazon, or UPS, Teamsters never stop in our fight to hold corporations accountable and to get the best contracts for our members."
Throughout their organizing campaign, DHL-CVG workers were fiercely supported by existing DHL Teamsters around the country. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 6,000 members at DHL in the U.S.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-2-7-2, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, two, seven, two; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-2-7-2, FIREBALL: 7
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President Joe Biden tests negative for COVID-19 following rebound case
President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 but will remain in isolation pending a second test, his physician announced in a letter Saturday.
"The President continues to feel very well," Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote. "Given his rebound positivity which we reported last Saturday, we have continued daily monitoring. This morning, his SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing was negative. In an abundance of caution, the President will continue his strict isolation measures pending a second negative test as previously described."
Biden has not left the White House for 17 days, after initially testing positive for COVID-19 on July 21. After taking a five-day course of Pfizer's antiviral drug, Paxlovid, Biden tested positive for a rebound case of COVID-19 last Saturday and resumed isolation. There are currently no events on his public schedule for the weekend.
During isolation, the president has participated virtually in public events from the White House residence. On two occasions, he delivered socially distanced remarks to a restricted pool from the Blue Room balcony, announcing a successful strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Monday and signing two bills cracking down on COVID-19 relief fraud Friday.
The president and First Lady Jill Biden are scheduled to travel on Monday to visit Kentucky after deadly floods in the eastern part of the state killed dozens of people and devastated the area.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "People with recurrence of COVID-19 symptoms or a new positive viral test after having tested negative should restart isolation and isolate again for at least 5 days."During Biden's first bout with the disease, he experienced mild symptoms, including runny nose, fatigue, high temperature and a cough, according to his doctor. The five-day course of Paxlovid the President completed requires a doctor's prescription and is available via emergency use authorization from the U.S.8u Food and Drug Administration for treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in people 12 and older who are at high risk of severe illness.
The CDC issued a health alert to doctors on May 24 advising that COVID-19 symptoms sometimes come back, and that may just be how the infection plays out in some people, regardless of whether they're vaccinated or treated with medications such as Paxlovid. The CDC said that most rebound cases involve mild disease and that there have been no reports of serious illness.
Biden is fully vaccinated and received two booster shots. He received his first two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ahead of his inauguration in January 2021, his first booster shot in September and his second booster vaccination in March.
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BLOOMINGTON — The last time Illinois Wesleyan's defense faced one of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin's top teams, things did not go well for the Titans.
Heading into Saturday's 1 p.m. CCIW game against undefeated Washington University-St. Louis at Francis Olympic Field, IWU's leading tackler believes a repeat of Wheaton won't happen.
"We've just got to not beat ourselves. That's the main thing. A lot of them were blown coverages, missed assignments and things like that," said IWU junior linebacker Joshua Klein. "We should have been there and for one reason or another we weren't. If we eliminate those we're a pretty good defense. We've shown that."
IWU comes in with a 3-1 overall record and 2-1 CCIW mark. WashU has cruised to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the league, averaging 51.8 points and 502.5 yards per game.
"We talked to our players after the Carroll game about having a turning-point game. It was a turning-point game because it developed a lot of character in our football team," said IWU head coach Norm Eash of rallying from a 21-0 halftime deficit to beat Carroll, 26-21, on Sept. 24.
"But we're looking to have this breakout game. The way you have a breakout game is to go against someone who is ahead of you in the standings and that's undefeated. We stressing to our players what a great opportunity it is we get to play this game this week."
The Bears are led by Matt Rush. The junior quarterback from Hinsdale is the CCIW's No. 1 passer, completing 72.4% of his attempts for 1,098 yards and 16 touchdowns.
IWU responded to a season-ending knee injury to standout defensive tackle Conor Murphy by allowing 153 yards in last week's 38-24 victory against Millikin.
Sophomore Josh Hlavacek led a fierce pass rush that recorded seven sacks. Hlavacek had 2.5 sacks and was named CCIW Defensive Player of the Week.
Helping make up for Murphy's absence was sophomore Owen Phaby along with senior Nick Deaner and junior Matthew Morrow.
"The rotation was the biggest thing. It wasn't just one guy filling in," said Klein. "It's a team effort."
Klein played mostly on special teams his first two seasons. The Edwardsville product figured out he needed to add some weight and added 20 pounds since last fall.
Playing next to senior Fernando Chavez, Klein has notched 30 tackles in the first four games, including 4.5 for loss and two sacks.
"I came into camp hoping to earn my spot and not have it handed to me, which I think I did a pretty good job of and helping guys around me," said Klein.
"At the beginning I was just starting and just had to worry about my job. (Chavez) was the signal caller and I could focus on reading my keys and making a play. It's more split now. I'm helping out the guys in front of me and directly behind me while he's got his side of the field."
IWU will be looking to snap a six-game road losing streak. The Titans' last road win came at Augustana in the COVID-shortened 2021 spring season, with a 12-0 shutout.
"I always say when you go on the road you have to be a road warrior and take care of details and respond, get in and get out," said Eash. "I would like to say I'm going to St. Louis to see my son, and I have relatives down there. But we're going to St. Louis to play a football game and win a football game."
Photos: Titans survived four turnovers to beat the Big Blue, 38-24.
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PHOENIX (AP)J.D. Davis had the go-ahead RBI double in the ninth, Shelby Miller pitched 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in his season debut and the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 on Friday night.
The Giants rallied with two outs in the ninth off reliever Caleb Smith (1-3), who gave up the unearned run. Mike Yastrzemski started with a line-drive single and Evan Longoria reached on a fielder’s choice after Arizona third baseman Sergio Alcantara made a bad throw to second that bounced and ended up in the outfield.
Davis followed with a double down the left field line, scoring Yastrzemski. Camilo Doval worked the ninth for his 25th save in 28 opportunities.
The Giants had the opportunity to win thanks to Miller’s extended effort in relief.
The right-hander – who was a promising pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals back in the early 2010s before bouncing around the league – said his outing went even better than he could have hoped. He struck out seven.
”I felt like I commanded my fastball really well, slider was definitely working,” Miller said. ”That was the game plan going in – if you can get ahead of these guys, you’re going to have success. That’s what I did.”
The Diamondbacks fell to 70-82, which guarantees a losing season for the third straight year.
”This is one of those games that we’ve got to find a way to make plays, get the job done and execute,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. ”Doesn’t matter if it’s in the first inning or the ninth inning.”
The Giants have won five straight.
The D-backs nearly broke the 5-all tie in the eighth. Ketel Marte hit a two-out double and Daulton Varsho followed with what looked like another extra-base hit, but LaMonte Wade Jr. made a difficult catch in deep right while sprinting back towards the wall.
The Giants built an early 2-0 lead after solo homers from Brandon Crawford and Austin Wynns. The D-backs bounced back in the third when Stone Garrett’s two-run homer just cleared the left-center wall.
San Francisco pushed ahead again on David Villar’s two-run homer and Evan Longoria’s RBI single for a 5-2 lead. The D-backs rallied for three runs in the fifth on Emmanuel Rivera’s two-run double and Jordan Luplow’s RBI single.
San Francisco left hander Carlos Rodon gave up four runs on four hits and three walks over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out seven.
Rodon’s been a bright spot in San Francisco’s disappointing season with a 13-8 record and 2.98 ERA, but he failed to throw at least five innings for just the second time since the All-Star break. Alex Young (1-1) got the win in relief.
D-backs left-hander Tommy Henry gave up five runs over 4 2/3 innings in his first start since being recalled from Triple-A.
700 ON THE BIG SCREEN
In between innings, the D-backs showed a replay of Cardinals star Albert Pujols hitting his 700th career homer against the Dodgers. The crowd of more than 25,000 responded with arguably its biggest cheer of the night.
MILLER IN ’22
The 31-year-old Miller was once a coveted prospect and won 15 games for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2013. He’s hasn’t achieved the same success since that point, though, and spent most of this season in Triple-A.
”It was nice to see him come through like that,” San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler said. ”He’s been waiting a long time for this opportunity, came into the game and did exactly what we were looking for. He delivered a ton of strikes, worked fast and forced the action.”
Miller has a not-so-great spot in D-backs lore: He was acquired in a trade that sent Dansby Swanson and Ender Inciarte back to the Braves. Miller spent three mostly ineffective seasons in Arizona.
Miller is the 64th player the Giants have used this season, which ties a franchise record set in 2019.
HEAT
Doval threw a sinker 104 mph during the ninth. It was a ball.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Diamondbacks: Placed OF Jake McCarthy on the bereavement list. Optioned LHP Tyler Holton to Triple-A Reno. Called up Henry and OF/INF Pavin Smith.
UP NEXT
The teams continue their series on Saturday night. The D-backs will send RHP Merrill Kelly (12-7, 3.15 ERA) to the mound. The Giants will counter with RHP Alex Cobb (6-6, 3.48).
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Plan aims to reduce restoration costs and accelerate recovery following major storms
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy Louisiana has filed its proposed Phase I Entergy Future Ready resilience plan with the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Phase I seeks approval of the first five years of a 10-year resilience plan that would aim to accelerate the restoration of power and reduce the costs associated with doing so following major storms.
The filing proposes a comprehensive set of grid-hardening investments for the Commission to consider along with enhanced vegetation management and alternative technologies. To identify projects that would have the greatest impact and deliver significant benefits to customers at the lowest reasonable cost, the company used a data-driven approach that evaluated thousands of potential storm scenarios.
In its totality, the resilience projects are estimated to cost approximately $9.6 billion over 10 years. It calls for 9,600 distribution and transmission projects that would strengthen more than 269,000 structures over 11,000 miles of powerlines. As proposed, the plan would take place in two, five-year phases, from 2024 to 2033. The company is seeking approval of the first phase which encompasses approximately $5 billion worth of projects and is estimated to reduce customer interruptions by over 34 billion minutes over the next 50 years.
Although the company has successfully invested in its electric system for years, it is important to review the pace at which these efforts occur because the threat of weather events has increased at a time when the demand for power is expected to grow significantly to decarbonize the local economy and create a more sustainable future. In addition to filing its resilience plan, Entergy Louisiana is continuing to advocate for federal funding and work to secure grants that could mitigate the costs to customers.
"Louisiana has a chance to lead the way in terms of energy, resilience and sustainability, but we must be ready and that's exactly what this plan intends to do," said Phillip May, Entergy Louisiana president and CEO. "Our Entergy Future Ready resilience plan is about making sure we're not only meeting the daily power needs of residents, small businesses and industries, among many other stakeholders, but also meeting their needs in the toughest of times."
He added, "We look forward to working with the Commission and our communities to meet the needs of our customers across Louisiana."
Major hurricanes and other significant weather events are increasing in intensity and frequency. In the past 50 years, nine major hurricanes (categories 4 and 5) have hit the U.S. Six of them made landfall within the last five years, with two (hurricanes Laura and Ida) hitting Louisiana directly.
The Entergy Future Ready plan for Louisiana aims to reduce the cost of restoring the electric system following major events as well as reduce the number and duration of outages associated with those events. The plan builds upon previous investments in the grid such as the upgrade of approximately seven miles of transmission lines in the Bayou Region, upgrades to overhead infrastructure and undergrounding work performed along the coast and the completion of a new Mississippi River transmission crossing from Avondale to Harahan.
Separately, Entergy New Orleans, another subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, recently made a resiliency filing of its own recently with the New Orleans City Council. That plan calls for $1.5 billion in projects over 10 years.
To learn more about Entergy's resilient solutions for a sustainable tomorrow, visit entergy.com/future.
Entergy Louisiana, LLC provides electric service to more than 1 million customers in 58 parishes and natural gas service to more than 94,000 customers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Entergy Louisiana is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), an integrated energy company engaged in electric power production, transmission and retail distribution operations. Entergy delivers electricity to 3 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy owns and operates one of the cleanest large-scale U.S. power generating fleets with approximately 24,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including 5,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, Entergy has annual revenues of $10 billion and approximately 12,000 employees.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz begins Monday with the jury hearing opening statements and then the first evidence about the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The seven-man, five-woman panel, backed up by 10 alternates, will hear from lead prosecutor Mike Satz, who is expected to highlight Cruz’s brutality as he stalked a three-story classroom building, firing his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle down hallways and into classrooms. Cruz sometimes walked back to wounded victims and killed them with a second volley of shots.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder; the only thing he’s contesting is the death penalty sentence that prosecutors are seeking. The jurors can only sentence him to death or life without the possibility of parole for the Feb. 14, 2018, shootings. The trial for the former Stoneman Douglas student, expected to last about four months, was supposed to begin in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic and legal fights delayed it.
The defense lawyers won’t say when they will deliver their opening statements: at the start of the trial or when they begin presenting their case weeks from now. The latter strategy would be rare and risky because it would give the prosecution the only say before jurors examine grisly evidence and hear heartrending testimony from shooting survivors and the victims’ parents and spouses.
If lead defender Melisa McNeill gives her statement, she will likely emphasize that Cruz is a young adult with lifelong emotional and psychological problems who allegedly suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome and abuse. The goal would be to temper the jurors’ emotions as they hear the prosecution’s case, making them more open to considering the defense’s arguments later.
The Parkland shooting is the deadliest to reach trial in U.S. history. Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart is awaiting trial.
After openings, which are limited to 90 minutes each, the prosecutors’ first witness will be called. They have not said who that will be.
When the jury eventually gets the case this fall, it will vote 17 times on the question of whether to recommend the death penalty: once for each of the victims.
Every vote must be unanimous; a nonunanimous vote for any one of the victims means Cruz’s sentence for that person would be life in prison. The jurors are told that to vote for the death penalty, the aggravating circumstances the prosecution has presented for the victim in question must, in their judgment, “outweigh” mitigating factors presented by the defense.
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Lead gift will name Jacksonville cancer center
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhett was 5 years old when he found out "Stanley" was back. It was during a checkup at Nemours Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders that his oncologist delivered the news. Stanley, the name he gave his tumor, was growing again in his brain stem.
Rhett and his family had recently relocated to Jacksonville, a decision that was two-fold: A move to Jacksonville meant they would be closer to family, and Rhett could receive care at Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville. "When Rhett was treated in Washington, D.C. we just felt like a number," said Rhett's father, John Fischer. "I knew Nemours was a place that not only would treat my son, but where we would be treated like family."
It is children like Rhett that drove the decision for THE PLAYERS to pledge to match donations, dollar for dollar, up to $2 million to the Nemours Children's Hand in Hand capital campaign. The campaign is funding the complete redesign and expansion of Nemours cancer and blood disorder center, creating a world-class destination for families seeking care in Northeast Florida. In recognition of THE PLAYERS lead gift, the new facility will be named THE PLAYERS Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
"THE PLAYERS' generous commitment to wholly reimagine the spaces where children receive life-saving treatments is truly remarkable," said Dr. Larry Moss, President & CEO of Nemours Children's Health. "We are profoundly grateful for their ongoing partnership, enduring generosity, and commitment to our community's children."
With the number of oncology patients seen at Nemours Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders doubling in the last 10 years, the center had to evolve to meet the growing needs of the community. The $11.3 million renovation and expansion project will ensure that the patient and family experience matches the world-class care and research for which Nemours Children's is known.
"We all know families who have had to endure the uncertainty and emotional difficulties associated with childhood cancer, and our hope is that this pledge will help to continue the incredible work being done at Nemours Children's Health for kids from all over," said THE PLAYERS Championship Executive Director, Jared Rice. "Listening to this community and responding in areas where these funds are needed most has been a core value of THE PLAYERS since day one, and we are honored to take part in today's announcement."
With THE PLAYERS gift and the support of generous donors, the campaign has raised more than $9 million to date, and fundraising continues. The renovation and expansion project includes:
- Designated isolation waiting room and clinic areas for severely immunocomprised post-bone marrow transplant patients.
- Waiting rooms and play areas to meet the drastically different needs of teen and toddler patients.
- Comprehensive clinic capacity with room to provide multiple services that rotate efficiently.
- Dedicated lab space for point-of-care testing and efficient one-stop service.
- Specialized rooms for in-person consults, education, telehealth consultations, psychology testing and therapy.
Construction is now underway and expected to be complete by summer 2023. For those interested in participating in THE PLAYERS' matching gift campaign, please visit the Hand in Hand campaign website.
For more information, visit the Nemours media room.
Nemours Children's Health is one of the nation's largest multistate pediatric health systems, which includes two free-standing children's hospitals and a network of more than 70 primary and specialty care practices. Nemours Children's seeks to transform the health of children by adopting a holistic health model that utilizes innovative, safe, and high-quality care, while also caring for the health of the whole child beyond medicine. Nemours Children's also powers the world's most-visited website for information on the health of children and teens, Nemours KidsHealth.org.
The Nemours Foundation, established through the legacy and philanthropy of Alfred I. duPont, provides pediatric clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention programs to the children, families and communities it serves. For more information, visit Nemours.org.
THE PLAYERS Championship annually combines the strongest field in golf with the world-class venue that is THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Morgan Stanley, Grant Thornton LLP and Optum® are the exclusive Proud Partners of THE PLAYERS. Proceeds from THE PLAYERS benefit Northeast Florida charities and have totaled more than $100 million since it began in 1974 and moved to Ponte Vedra Beach in 1977. For more on THE PLAYERS, visit THEPLAYERS.com. For more on the surrounding areas, visit floridashistoriccoast.com or visitjacksonville.com.
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