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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — If you have these Foster Farms mini corn dog products in your freezer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants you to throw them out.
Officials say around 76,961 pounds of mini corn dog products sold by Foster Farms are being recalled because they are “unfit for human consumption” after the FSIS said it received some complaints of “an odor, off appearance, and unpleasant taste.”
According to the FSIS, the affected products are 1.83-pound resealable bags of “Foster Farms Mini Corn Dogs Bite-Sized Chicken Franks Dipped in Batter Honey Crunchy Flavor.”
The corn dogs were produced on April 24, 2023, and were shipped to retailers across the country. They have lot codes 123114 and 223114 and a “best if used by date” of April 23, 2024. There is also an establishment number “P- 9136” printed on the package.
While there haven’t been reports of anyone getting sick or injured from the products, officials are urging anyone who has the affected products in their freezers to throw them away or return them to where they were purchased.
If you have questions, call Dave Witter, House of Raeford Corporate Communications Manager, at 910-282-7179 or email here.
You can also contact reach out to the USDA’s Meat and Poultry Hotline at 888-MPHotline (888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Consumers can also browse food safety messages at Ask USDA or send a question by email here.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Enochian Biosciences, Inc. ("Enochian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ENOB).
Class Period: January 17, 2018 – June 27, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 26, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that co-founder and inventor Gumrukcu was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) that Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to the Company lacked a reasonable basis; (4) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company had overstated its commercial prospects; (5) that Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (6) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for stronger effort to overcome hardships and challenges facing his country as he opened a key political meeting after carrying out a record number of missile tests this year.
A plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party was convened in Pyongyang on Monday to review past projects and discuss next year’s work plans, the official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.
Kim will likely use the meeting to reaffirm his resolve to expand his nuclear arsenal and introduce high-tech weapons targeting the U.S. and South Korea while laying out projects to revive pandemic-battered public livelihoods, some experts say.
In his opening comments, Kim compared hardships and challenges since a bigger party meeting in early 2021 to “the ten-year struggle of the revolution.” But he claimed North Korea has reported some successes “in the arduous course” and that his country’s power has “remarkably” increased in political, military, economic and cultural areas.
“He stressed the need to lay out strategies to launch more exciting and confident struggles based on valuable facts that the country has achieved practical advance after enduring all difficulties," the official Korean Central News Agency said. It said Kim reviewed the “splendid” achievement made this year and clarified “the strategic and tactical” tasks to achieve North Korean-style socialism.
KCNA didn’t elaborate on the achievement Kim claimed and the tasks he set, and his claims of achievement couldn’t be independently confirmed.
Kim may need such propaganda-driven claims to draw greater public loyalty to push difficult projects to bolster his weapons arsenal and address economic woes while facing U.S.-led sanctions and pressure campaigns to curb his nuclear ambitions, some observers say.
The Workers’ Party meeting is expected to last several days, and Kim will likely address issues such as his arms buildup, relations with the United States and the economy in later sessions.
This year, Kim's military test-launched a record number of missiles, many of them nuclear-capable weapons capable of reaching the U.S. mainland and its allies South Korea and Japan. He’s said he won’t return to talks with the United States unless it withdraws its hostile policies, in an apparent reference to U.S.-led sanctions and its regular military drills with South Korea.
On Monday, animosities on the Korean Peninsula rose further after South Korea accused North Korea of flying drones across their tense border for the first time in five years and responded by firing warning shots and scrambling warplanes.
It wasn’t known if any of the North Korean drones were shot down.
South Korea said it also sent its own surveillance assets, in an apparent reference to unmanned drones, across the border.
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The new off-price home store offers high-quality furnishings and home accessories for an extraordinary value.
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Homesense, the latest retail experience from the HomeGoods family, will open its newest location in Newport News, Virginia on November 17. The store is located in the Tech Center at 12080 Jefferson Avenue.
Homesense features a wide array of furniture, a rug emporium, a wall art and mirror gallery, an extensive lighting department that includes hanging chandeliers, and a "work from home" section with everything one could possibly need for the home office of today. Customers can also shop for seasonal items, including holiday décor and entertaining essentials, all at prices 20-50% less than full-price retailers, including department and specialty stores.
With new merchandise shipments arriving every week, customers will always see an exciting assortment of quality merchandise at can't miss prices. Shoppers can expect to be inspired by bold, statement-making pieces, without breaking the bank.
"Homesense brings customers even more of what we know they love – beautiful, quality home merchandise at incredible values," said John Ricciuti, President of HomeGoods and Homesense in the U.S. "We are thrilled that Homesense brings a vast and unique selection for customers to discover and curate the homes of their dreams and can't wait to bring this extraordinary shopping experience to the Newport News community."
GRAND OPENING:
Local shoppers can enjoy the newest Homesense store opening on November 17 at 8:00 a.m. EST. All stores, including the newest openings, have updated health and wellness practices to help protect the health and well-being of customers and Associates. To learn more, visit: https://us.homesense.com/customer-info
STORE FACTS & FEATURES
- Location: Tech Center, Suite 700C at 12080 Jefferson Avenue
- Regular hours: Mon-Sat 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m., Sun 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST. Store hours may shift. For more up to date hours and additional Homesense locations, please visit us.homesense.com/locator.
Homesense operates more than 40 stores in the U.S. and is the newest retail banner of The TJX Companies, Inc., the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. As of February 23, 2022, The TJX Companies operated over 4,600 stores including T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, and Homesense stores as well as tjmaxx.com, marshalls.com, homegoods.com and sierra.com, in the United States; Winners, HomeSense, and Marshalls stores in Canada; T.K. Maxx and Homesense stores, as well as tkmaxx.com in Europe; and T.K. Maxx stores in Australia. For a look inside Homesense, please visit https://us.homesense.com/360. For store locations and additional information, please visit www.homesense.com and www.tjx.com.
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SAN ANTONIO, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fina Biosolutions has selected Scorpius BioManufacturing, a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), for the production of an E.coli-expressed CRM197 conjugate vaccine carrier protein.
The partnership includes recovery and downstream process optimization, analytical method implementation and phase-appropriate validation, scale-up, and cGMP bulk drug substance manufacturing of CRM197, a genetically detoxified diphtheria toxin widely used in conjugate vaccines. FinaBio markets their CRM197 under the tradename EcoCRM®.
"Fina Biosolutions is an innovative biotech company that deserves the responsiveness traditional CDMOs often fail to provide to smaller, more nimble clients. They are exactly the type of partner we envisioned supporting when we founded Scorpius in 2020," said Jeff Wolf, Scorpius' Founder and Executive Chairman. "Our team is honored to work with Dr. Lees and the FinaBio team to improve patients' lives through their novel and affordable conjugate vaccines."
EcoCRM® is produced in FinaBio's FinaXpress platform, a highly efficient E. coli expression system that, along with a simple purification method, can significantly reduce the cost of this vaccine component. Fina Biosolutions founder Dr. Andrew Lees said, "As a company focused on promoting affordable conjugate vaccines, it was important for us to find a flexible CDMO partner who aligned with our mission to make this technology accessible to patients globally without sacrificing quality." Lees has licensed conjugation chemistry to GlaxoSmithKline and the Serum Institute of India for use in their pneumococcal and meningococcal vaccines.
"The most successful CDMO partnerships are rooted in cultural fit," said Steve Lavezoli, VP of Business Development at Scorpius. "From a cultural standpoint, the leadership teams at Scorpius and FinaBio have a shared passion for quality, continuous improvement, and making scientific innovations more accessible to patients. We look forward to a long-term manufacturing partnership with FinaBio."
To learn more about Scorpius' facilities and services, visit ScorpiusBiologics.com.
To learn more about Fina Biosolutions' conjugate vaccine technology and services, visit FinaBio.net.
About Fina Biosolutions
Fina Biosolutions provides laboratory services, conjugation technology and consulting in the field of conjugate vaccines and conjugation chemistry. FinaBio was founded in 2006 by Dr. Andrew Lees, the inventor on over 25 patents with 75 peer-reviewed publications. In addition, the company serves as a strategic R&D partner and licenses its technology to companies globally.
About Scorpius BioManufacturing
Scorpius BioManufacturing is a biologics CDMO that provides manufacturing, analytical and process development services. The company's first facility in San Antonio, TX, prioritizes American-made equipment, reagents, and materials. By integrating analytical methods development, process development, cGMP manufacturing product characterization, and QC release testing, Scorpius can efficiently develop a client-specific clinical manufacturing solution that enables a faster path to product commercialization. For more information, visit ScorpiusBiologics.com and follow Scorpius on LinkedIn.
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QNX technologies support futuristic AR, AI and hologram capabilities that combine to deliver immersive and personalized in-car experience for Chinese and European consumers
WATERLOO, ON and SHANGHAI, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and BDStar Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. (BICV) today announced that BlackBerry® QNX® technology has been selected to power BICV's next-generation intelligent cockpit, currently deployed by Renault Jiangling in their first fully electric sedan – 'Yi'. Leveraging the QNX® Neutrino® Realtime Operating System (RTOS) and QNX® Hypervisor, this leading-edge system provides an engaging and immersive driving experience, underpinned by a safe, secure and reliable software foundation.
The China-built EV is also being exported to Europe, where it will be used by Renault Group's subscription-based Mobilize business unit as the go-to vehicle for people working in mobility services – taxis, ride-hailing, private vehicle hires and more.
Taking intelligence, safety and enjoyment to the next level, the Yi's futuristic-looking digital cockpit features a dual-linked screen design with full LCD instrumentation and spacious central console, providing a variety of functions including In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), Voice and Gesture Recognition, along with a Head-Up Display (HUD). The cockpit also boasts augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and hologram functions, as well as controls for ambient lights and intelligent seats, providing users with a comprehensive ecosystem of in-vehicle services that allow for a significant degree of personalization for both drivers and passengers alike.
"With cutting edge technology from BlackBerry and BICV, the Renault Jiangling Yi's intuitive in-car experience is a joy for drivers and passengers alike and will no doubt earn a high reputation among Chinese consumers," said Chen Liwei, Director of Intelligent Connectivity at Renault Jiangling Group. "In the second half of 2022, the model will be transformed into 'Limo', the flagship product of the Renault Group's mobility brand Mobilize, to offer travel services throughout Europe and we're confident that it will be equally embraced by commercial users whose livelihood depends on providing a reliable and pleasant journey to keep customers coming back."
"We are pleased to collaborate with BICV to develop this new generation of innovative intelligent cockpits, enabling it to be deployed in more mass-produced vehicles by leveraging the latest BlackBerry QNX technologies," said John Wall, SVP and Head, BlackBerry Technology Solutions." BlackBerry has deep expertise and a strong track record providing leading edge software platform solutions, while our heritage of innovation in functional safety, cybersecurity and reliability has made us a trusted partner for the automotive industry."
"BlackBerry QNX's operating system is one of the world's most popular automotive real-time operating systems thanks to its high security, exceptional stability and rapid running speed," said Xu Linhao, Chairman of BICV. "As one China's leadings Tier 1s, BICV aims to empower car intelligence and continuously provide automakers with cutting-edge connectivity solutions that improve both the driving and in-car experience. We look forward to building on our shared successes, providing localized support and working with BlackBerry QNX to better serve the automotive market through the creation of safer and smarter in-vehicle technology."
BICV's advanced intelligent cockpit is built on the highly reliable QNX Neutrino RTOS and features the QNX Hypervisor for design flexibility and scalability, allowing for the consolidation of multiple systems with mixed criticality and different operating environments onto a single hardware platform. This has effectively reduced both the model's initial development expenses as well as the long-term costs of ownership, while still ensuring industry-leading safety and security.
Since 2017, BICV and BlackBerry have worked together as part of a number of co-development projects, with BICV equipping many of its products with BlackBerry's QNX technologies, including intelligent cockpits, full LCD instrumentation panels, and air conditioning controls for windscreens.
For additional information about the BlackBerry QNX platform and why it is the most advanced embedded software platform on the vehicle market, please visit www.blackberry.com/qnx.
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety, and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry.
Trademarks, including but not limited to BLACKBERRY and EMBLEM Design are the trademarks or registered trademarks of BlackBerry Limited, and the exclusive rights to such trademarks are expressly reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. BlackBerry is not responsible for any third-party products or services.
BDStar Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. (BICV) is a subsidiary of Beijing BDStar Navigation Co.，Ltd. (stock code: 002151). The company's main business includes vehicle cockpit electronics (IVI/DA, Instrument cluster, smart e-cockpit, T-BOX, vehicle antennas, etc.), engineering services (hardware or software components development, etc.), and LOV, which intends to provide customers with a complete car intelligent network connection overall solution to help the industry to be upgraded.
The company is headquartered in Chongqing, and has R & D institutions in Chongqing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Beijing, Suqian, Munich, Silicon Valley and other places. The R & Most core members in R & D center has years of working experience in Global enterprise (tier1). With complete R&D and plant infrastructure, BICV has mature DA, IVI, TBOX, LCD Instrumentation, domain controller, V2X, smart antenna, TSP, mobile APP, cockpit products professional development and mass production capabilities. The company has passed CMMI-3 certification. Development and project management capability has reached the international advanced level and is able to undertake high-level automotive software engineering development projects. The company has two major production bases in Suqian and Chongqing, with a plant area of 32000 square meters, more than 1600 employees, and annual production capacity of 2.6 million intelligent cockpits, 13 Siemens/ Panasonic full-automatic high-speed SMT patch lines, 20 assembly production lines based on lean manufacturing and high-standard automatic production and testing equipment, which can realize the whole process intelligent production scheduling and intelligent traceability, and meet the requirements of large-scale and high-quality standard production of the main engine factory. The company's customers include Volkswagen, Skoda, Changan, Geely, GM Wuling, FAW Hongqi, Chery, BAIC, Jiangling and other domestic and foreign mainstream automotive companies. BICV will closely focuses on customer needs and continuously provides customers with satisfactory automotive intelligent networking solutions and is committed to becoming a leading company for intelligent networking product, technology and service provider.
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Which body moisturizer is best?
Anything from taking a bath to using harsh soaps to cold weather or exposure to UV rays can leave your skin feeling itchy, tight and dry. That’s where a body moisturizer comes into play. Applying a body moisturizer daily can give your skin what it needs for regeneration and nourishment. For a top choice that is non-greasy, vegan and cruelty free, try the Osea Undaria Algae Body Oil.
What to know before you buy a body moisturizer
Choose a body moisturizer with antioxidants
Antioxidants can help nourish your dry and aging skin by targeting the free radicals that lead to skin cell deterioration and lipid oxidation. These antioxidants can help improve the ability of your skin to stimulate collagen production and regenerate skin cells.
Some of the most popular antioxidants in body moisturizers include grape seed extract, licorice root, soy extract, selenium or glutathione, green tea, vitamin A or beta-carotene, vitamin C or ascorbic acid and vitamin E or tocopherols.
Select the best body moisturizer for your skin type
It’s crucial to understand your skin type and what your skin needs when choosing a body moisturizer. For example, if you have normal skin, you can use any lightweight body moisturizer with a blend of soothing scents, emollients and humectants.
But if you have dry skin, you need a thicker body moisturizer with ingredients like silicone derivatives, mineral oils, lanolin and petrolatum. And if you have oily skin, you need a lightweight, oil-free body moisturizer with humectants like hyaluronic acid and propylene glycol.
Find a body moisturizer with anti-irritants.
Anti-irritants can help decrease inflammation and boost the healing process for your skin. There are several anti-irritant ingredients out there that can reduce inflammation, including chamomile, calendula, licorice root, green tea, allantoin and aloe.
What to look for in a quality body moisturizer
Feels lightweight
The best body moisturizers feel lightweight. Moisturizers have a higher water-to-oil ratio, so they have a thin consistency that is simple to spread and doesn’t leave your skin feeling too oily or greasy. Most body moisturizers work well in warm climates and absorb quickly.
Offers sensory indulgence
Applying a high-quality body moisturizer is an excellent chance to do some self-pampering. You should use a circular motion to rub in your body moisturizer to help stimulate your blood circulation and soothe and relax your muscles. Look for body moisturizers that are lightly scented with essential oils like ylang-ylang, chamomile and lavender, which can act as relaxing aromatherapy.
Replenishes moisture
You should also look for a body moisturizer that actually replenishes moisture in your skin. Applying this type of body moisturizer daily can keep your skin healthy and hydrated. Also, search for a formula that nourishes trouble spots like your heels, knees and elbows. You can regularly use a nourishing body moisturizer to smooth and hydrate these dry and rough areas.
How much you can expect to spend on a body moisturizer
You can typically expect to spend anywhere from $5 for a basic body moisturizer to $40 for a high-end body moisturizer. Premium body moisturizers usually range in price from $15 to $40 for 8 ounces, while basic body moisturizers cost between $5 and $15 for 10 ounces.
Body moisturizer FAQ
Can you use body moisturizer on your face?
A. Keep in mind that the skin on your face is more sensitive and delicate than the skin on your body, so if you use a regular body moisturizer, it could lead to a breakout on your face. That being said, you can usually apply a lightweight and unscented body moisturizer to your face without causing harm or a breakout.
How often should you use body moisturizer?
A. Personal and environmental criteria factor into how often you should personally apply a body moisturizer. That being said, you should probably apply body moisturizer at least once per day, if not more.
When is the best time to apply body moisturizer?
A. It’s important to apply a layer of body moisturizer after you take a bath or shower since the moisturizer will help your skin retain the water. Your pores are also ready and open to receive nutrients after a bath or shower. That being said, you should use body moisturizer any time you think your skin needs some extra hydration.
What are the best body moisturizers to buy?
Top body moisturizer
What you need to know: This algae oil moisturizing offers impressive hydration for all skin types.
What you’ll love: This daily body moisturizer oil smooths and hydrates skin and absorbs quickly without leaving any residue. It firms skin while softening and nourishing it.
What you should consider: It’s expensive considering the price of the bottle.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Top body moisturizer for the money
NIVEA Essentially Enriched Body Lotion
What you need to know: This simple and affordable body moisturizer soothes sensitive and dry skin with a lightweight formula with almond oil.
What you’ll love: This budget-friendly body moisturizer is best for dry or very dry skin, and one application will hydrate for 48 hours. It absorbs quickly, despite being a hydrating formula.
What you should consider: This body moisturizer is not fragrance-free, which could be a deal-breaker for those with sensitive skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This popular body moisturizer from CeraVe hydrates the skin well and comes with a rich formula full of good-for-you ingredients.
What you’ll love: This rich body moisturizer spreads on the skin easily and moisturizes the skin without leaving any film or residue. It contains three essential ceramides and hyaluronic acid to help restore your skin barrier.
What you should consider: Some customers claimed to have received spoiled or bad-smelling bottles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for HLBZ, VZ, RIVN, WISA, and LYFT.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- HLBZ: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=HLBZ&prnumber=012420234
- VZ: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=VZ&prnumber=012420234
- RIVN: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=RIVN&prnumber=012420234
- WISA: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=WISA&prnumber=012420234
- LYFT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=LYFT&prnumber=012420234
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InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
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NEW YORK, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's most popular games is getting a delicious real-life twist in Flushing, Queens. The retail café, named iSwii by Angry Birds Retail Cafe, will feature playful desserts, trendy bubble teas, gaming stations, a retail section, and unique interactive activities for the whole family to enjoy.
iSwii by Angry Birds Retail Cafe – the world's first Angry Birds-themed retail café – is set to open on Saturday the 8th of July, in Flushing's latest family-friendly destination spot the Food Court area within Tangram's new 275,000 square-foot, multi-level retail center, in the heart of the revitalized Queens-Flushing International Market District. The new interactive café and retail destination combines in-person and on-screen thrills, making for a unique adventure.
In a deal facilitated by Angry Birds' global licensing agency IMG, Angry Birds' creator Rovio Entertainment partnered with SCG America, a leading construction conglomerate, to build a one-of-a-kind retail café for Angry Birds fans to visit.
Designed for individuals and families alike, the 3,300-square-foot iSwii by Angry Birds is adorned with modern décor and features a collection of Instagrammable NYC-themed statue installations outside the entrance, an eye-catching bright mural ceiling with Angry Birds graphics, a vibrant terrazzo counter, and flooring resembling dessert sprinkles. Additional unique Angry Birds-themed elements include nest-like wicker and hanging chairs, bird paradise graphic wall coverings, and tropical plants on the shelving units where hatchlings, the baby birds wander around. Other fun interactive features include a glass-partitioned exhibition display with chef's custom-decorated yummy seasonal holiday cakes & pastries, all of which collectively create the most fun retail and cafe experience anyone can imagine. Interior Designs were by Tina Wu, Head of Interior Design, SCG America.
iSwii by Angry Birds experience is also available for private parties & events in private "nests" - rooms that will offer Angry Birds VR games & treats, including customizable Angry Birds-themed gift bags for party-goers.
"Launching iSwii by Angry Birds is a perfect way to bring locals and Angry Birds fans back to fun in-person experiences," said Executive Director of Asset Management of SCG America, Robert Leck. "This unique concept will feature endless culinary treats, bright visuals, newest Angry Birds Games and interactive technology, and the coolest-ever themed shopping experience. Angry Birds as a global brand was a perfect fit for this location with its appeal to a wide age range, gender-neutral audience and touch points in all entertainment forms. The fans will now be able to enjoy and engage with the brand in a completely new way, the location truly is an exciting first for New York and North America."
"We are always delighted to find forums for Angry Birds fans to interact with the brand in new and fun ways. This unique establishment goes beyond the screen, offering an immersive experience where fans and customers can delight in tantalizing foods and drinks as well as engage in gaming and capture extraordinary moments in our exclusive photo opportunities. The United States is a key market for the Angry Birds brand and we're excited to open this venue in one of the greatest cities of the world, New York", says Katri Chacona, Director, Brand Licensing at Rovio.
Over five billion downloads, 25+ million social media followers, and 96% brand awareness make Angry Birds a timeless favorite for fans. Launched in 2009 as a popular mobile game, the brand has since evolved into a globally-recognized media franchise, spanning various entertainment and consumer products, two feature films, a long-form Netflix series, and location-based entertainment. In the USA, the Angry Birds can also be experienced in interactive experiences through partners such as Topgolf and Immersive Gamebox.
About SCG America
SCG AMERICA
Shanghai Construction Group (SCG) is one of the leading construction conglomerates in China and a pioneer in the development of modern cities, with work spanning decades. Publicly listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 1997, with footprints in more than 30 countries and regions, SCG was ranked the 7th largest Global Contractor by Engineering News-Record in 2022 and 321st in 2022 Global 500. SCG America (SCGA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SCG headquartered in New York City, has three decades of experience and currently has billions invested in real estate in the United States. Their services range from general contracting, construction management, real estate development, and real estate fund management. As highly sought-after builders and developers, SCGA strives for professional excellence and technological innovation that creates enduring value for partners and customers alike.
上海建工（SCG）是中国领先的建筑集团，躬耕几十载，是现代城市开发的先行者。上海建工于1997年在上海证券交易所上市，足迹遍布30多个国家和地区，2022年在"工程新闻记录（ENR）全球最大承包商"中排名第七，《财富》世界500 强第321 位。上海建工美洲公司（SCGA）是上海建工的全资子公司，总部位于美国纽约市，拥有30年行业经验，目前在美国房地产项目投资超过数十亿美元。业务涵盖总承包、建筑管理、房地产开发和房地产基金管理。作为广受欢迎的建造者和开发商，上海建工美洲公司致力于专业卓越与技术创新，为合作伙伴和客户持续创造价值。
About Tangram
Tangram is a mixed-use development project located in the heart of Downtown Flushing, Queens. Tangram is elevating Flushing through its groundbreaking vision of immersive retail, residential, office, and hotel space, featuring 275,000 square feet of high-end curated retail in a multi-level space alongside a sweeping, sky-lit atrium. A joint development between F&T Group and SCG America - developers of the highly successful One Fulton Square mixed-use project, also in Flushing - Tangram offers 1.2 million square feet including retail, residential, office, and hotel space. This New York destination includes a four-star, 208-key Renaissance New York Flushing Hotel, a state-of-the-art 4DX movie theater from Regal Cinemas, Orangetheory Fitness, premier learn-to-swim facility Goldfish Swim School and the neighborhood's first beer garden. Tangram also features a 24,000-square-foot food hall, a foodie's paradise with international eats. Eateries include Beijing-based Ju Qi, Taiwanese dessert bar Meet Fresh, and one of the largest and most popular hot pot chains in China, Xiao Long Kan Hot Pot. Designed by New York-based Margulies Hoelzli Architecture, with retail interiors by BHDM, Tangram is designed to become a global destination, marking a new chapter for entertainment and experience in NYC. Tangram is slated to open in spring 2022. For more information visit www.tangramnyc.com.
About Rovio
Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal, and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company's shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO.
About IMG
IMG is a global leader in sports, fashion, events, and media. The company manages some of the world's greatest athletes and fashion icons; owns and operates hundreds of live events annually; and is a leading independent producer and distributor of sports and entertainment media. IMG also specializes in licensing, sports training and league development. IMG is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company.
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Police: Tennessee teen arrested after stealing, driving school bus
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A teenager in Tennessee has been arrested for stealing a school bus and driving it onto the highway, according to Metro Police.
WSMV reports that Metro Police said a 14-year-old boy took the bus from Kipp College Prep on Murfreesboro Pike on Saturday afternoon and “recklessly” drove into West Nashville and onto I-40 West before being arrested.
The teen hit the diesel fuel pump at Casey’s Market on Centennial Boulevard just before 4 p.m. and allegedly attempted to run over a person at the market, police said.
After going to Casey’s Market, the teen drove onto Briley Parkway and onto I-40 West, hitting another car in the process.
Officers chased the bus and deployed a spike strip near the McCrory Lane exit. The teen evidently saw the spike strip, slowed the bus and then attempted to turn around in the middle of the westbound lanes.
Officers went up to the bus when it was stopped, broke the glass doors and windows and used a taser on the teen as he was allegedly attempting to continue operating the bus.
The teen was arrested on the scene.
The teen was taken to juvenile court where he faces charges of vehicle theft, aggravated assault, evading arrest, reckless driving, driving without a license, leaving the scene of a crash and failure to report a crash.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, June 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
901 PM CDT Fri Jun 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Reeves,
northwestern Ward, northeastern Culberson and southwestern Loving
Counties through 945 PM CDT...
At 901 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Orla, or 19 miles west of Mentone, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Mentone, Orla, Red Bluff Reservoir, Slash Ranch and Red Bluff.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 33 and 34.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
western and southwestern Texas.
LAT...LON 3194 10409 3182 10348 3165 10353 3165 10361
3163 10358 3164 10353 3137 10361 3165 10417
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 291DEG 25KT 3174 10394
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Pecos,
southern Reeves, northeastern Jeff Davis, eastern Ward and
northwestern Crane Counties through 945 PM CDT...
At 901 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Thorntonville to 22 miles northwest of
Fort Stockton to Balmorhea State Park. Movement was east at 10 mph.
Monahans, Balmorhea, Thorntonville, Grandfalls, Balmorhea Lake,
Balmorhea State Park, Saragosa, Coyanosa, Imperial Reservoir, Roy
Hurd Memorial Airport, Royalty, Verhalen, B F Goodrich Testing Track,
Toyahvale, Firestone Test Track, Imperial and Monahans Sandhills
State Park.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 between mile markers 190 and 245.
Interstate 20 between mile markers 75 and 86.
LAT...LON 3106 10409 3119 10352 3139 10320 3165 10288
3153 10256 3108 10265 3073 10360
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 288DEG 9KT 3154 10291 3112 10317 3096 10378
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Limestone County through 930 PM CDT...
At 900 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Coolidge, or 15 miles west of Mexia, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
unsecured objects.
This strong winds will be near...
Coolidge around 910 PM CDT.
Fort Parker State Park around 930 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3171 9693 3181 9672 3180 9651 3179 9649
3169 9642 3144 9675
TIME...MOT...LOC 0200Z 310DEG 14KT 3173 9675
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL MIDLAND AND SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTIES...
At 902 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles southwest
of Lenorah, or 14 miles north of Midland, moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Midland, Greenwood, Stanton, Tarzan, Courtney and Stanton Municipal
Aiport.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 140 and 161.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
TX
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ANDREWS BAILEY CASTRO
COCHRAN CULBERSON DALLAM
DEAF SMITH ECTOR GAINES
HARTLEY HOCKLEY LAMB
LOVING MOORE OLDHAM
PARMER POTTER RANDALL
REEVES SHERMAN TERRY
WARD WINKLER YOAKUM
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Volkswagen Group is in the process of reviving the Scout nameplate for a new off-road brand offering electric SUVs and pickup trucks.
The first of the modern Scouts will be revealed in 2024 and enter production two years later, at a plant to be constructed near Columbia, South Carolina.
To build up to the reveal, VW Group’s recently established Scout Motors division will back a team racing an original International Harvester Scout, in this case a 1976 Scout Terra, in the 2023 NORRA Mexican 1000.
The pickup truck will be fielded by the Anything Scout Vintage Racing Team, run by Sean Barber, the owner of Anything Scout, a company specializing in Scout restomods.
The team’s Scout Terra will be entered in the Mexican 1000’s Legends Era 4×4 class, and feature only a few mods needed to survive the rough conditions of Mexico’s Baja peninsula. Among the mods will be Dana 44 axles and General Grabber X3 off-road tires.
VW Group is no stranger to the Mexican 1000. In 2021, it fielded a modified Volkswagen ID.4 with Rhys Millen Racing in the event.
This year’s race starts on April 30 and runs over five days, between Ensenada and San José del Cabo.
The last time a factory-sponsored Scout ran at Baja was in 1982, when Sherman Balch and James Acker took class wins in nearly every event on the peninsula, including the Baja 1000.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EIGR) between March 10, 2021 and October 4, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 9, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Eiger 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 Eiger class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9654 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 January 9, 2023. 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, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants overstated Eiger's clinical and regulatory drug development expertise; (2) defendants failed to properly assess, and/or ignored issues with, the design of the TOGETHER study and its ability to support the peginterferon lambda Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (3) there were issues with the conduct of the TOGETHER study and/or the TOGETHER study was not properly designed for the peginterferon lambda EUA in the current context of the pandemic; (4) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the submission of a peginterferon lambda EUA; (5) as a result of all the foregoing, peginterferon lambda's regulatory and commercial prospects for the treatment of COVID-19 were overstated; and (6) as a result, Eiger's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Eiger class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9654 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.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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New York, NY 10016
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Hanford CA
124 PM PST Mon Jan 9 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY FOR A RELEASE AT FRIANT DAM IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM
PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by upstream dam release is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
counties, Fresno and Madera.
* WHEN...Until 130 AM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. River or stream
flows are elevated.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 123 PM PST, An upstream floodgate release is expected to
cause minor flooding in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Fresno and Friant.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 10 PM PST
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 5 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Coastal Areas.
* WHEN...From 6 AM Tuesday to 10 PM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and
localized beach erosion.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Surf will be 6 to 10 feet in San Diego
County, with highest waves south of Del Mar. Surf will be 5 to 8
feet in Orange County. Highest surf will be Wednesday.
Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to
dangerous surf conditions.
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...A portion of Southwest California, including the following
areas, Orange County Coastal Areas, Orange County Inland Areas,
Riverside County Mountains, San Bernardino County Mountains, San
Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire, San
Gorgonio Pass Near Banning and Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills.
* WHEN...From late tonight through Tuesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Flooding in and near burn scars, creeks, normally dry
stream beds, poorly drained intersections and urban areas.
- A strong Pacific storm will bring an extended period of
moderate to locally heavy rainfall. Excessive rainfall rates
are likely over the San Bernardino County mountains where
flooding and debris flows are most likely late tonight
through Tuesday.
- https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of east central California, including the
following county, Mono.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM PST Monday.
Rises in small streams and normally dry creeks. Overflowing poor
drainage areas.
- At 125 PM PST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain. This is
causing urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 1.5
inches of rain have fallen in the past few hours.
US-6 between Bishop and the NV stateline, Chalfant Valley,
and US-395 south of Crowley Lake.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to safely wear a face mask without the general discomfort caused by the straps or ear loops," said an inventor, from Matteson, Ill., "so I invented the MASK HOOK. My design would provide added comfort for mask wearers."
The invention provides a more comfortable way to utilize a face mask with ear loops. In doing so, it helps to relieve the pressure and irritation caused by the ear loops. As a result, it eliminates the need to continually adjust the straps and it provides added comfort and peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CLR-123, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The Detroit Red Wings look for some post-holiday magic against one of the hottest teams in the NHL, as they head to the Steel City for a clash with Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- Watch the Detroit Red Wings on DirecTV Stream
Detroit was moving through the month of December on a bit of a downer. The team lost six-straight games heading toward Christmas, but found some light in their most recent game, taking down the three-time defending Eastern Conference Tampa Bay Lightning for the second time this month. The Red Wings showed their youthful exuberance in the win last Wednesday, and though their scheduled contest with the Ottawa Senators last Friday was postponed, they are hoping they built enough momentum in their victory to carry through the Christmas break and into the New Year. They are currently fourth in the Atlantic Division with 35 points, eight back of a Wild Card spot, but six back of the Lightning for third in the division.
One team that is comfortably in a postseason position is the Pittsburgh Penguins. Following their loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday, the Penguins are fourth in the Metropolitan Division, holding the top Wild Card spot, with 43 points, nine back of the division-leading Carolina Hurricanes. After a sluggish start, Pittsburgh went into the break as one of the hottest teams in the NHL, winning eight of their last 10 games, with just one loss in regulation.
Wednesday night will be the first of three meetings this season between the former postseason rivals. In 2021-22, the Pens won two of the three matchups, though the Wings pulled out a shootout win on the road in January.
Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLive
What: NHL Hockey
Who: Detroit Red Wings (14-11-7) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (19-10-5)
When: Wednesday, December 28
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: PPG Paints Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Channel: Bally Sports Detroit Extra
Stream: DirecTV Stream, FuboTV (Free trial)
Check out the NHL standings and results on NHL.com
- Buy Red Wings gear: Fanatics, Amazon, Lids
- Buy Red Wings tickets: StubHub, SeatGeek, Ticketmaster
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Pete Golding rebuilding Alabama players' trust in aftermath of DUI arrest | Goodbread
There's something a little impersonal about it all, this frenzied interest in college football.
This guy's looked good. That guy needs to improve, and this other guy is out with an injury. The hardcore fan eats up every detail available from the practice field, while the casual fan might identify a player better by a jersey number than his actual name. Both see players through the same gridiron lens. It's about the scoreboard, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Fan is short for fanatic for a reason.
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OUT FOR NOW:Alabama football tight end Cameron Latu out at start of preseason practices
On Sunday, Alabama coaches Nick Saban, offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien and defensive coordinator Pete Golding took rapid-fire questions about all the depth-chart nuts and bolts that have nothing to do with what players think and feel, until Golding was asked about his February DUI arrest.
Then, things got personal.
He emphasized the trust that was broken between a leader and the young men he guides. The awkwardness that fills the void trust leaves behind when an adult who reminds them to make the right decisions off the field fails to do so himself.
Golding had to reach the names, not the jerseys.
The hearts and minds, not the X's and O's.
The arrest came the morning following National Signing Day in February. It was 1 a.m., a one-hour violation of the nothing-good-happens-after-midnight-rule that Golding's, boss, Saban, has been known to utter from time to time. How did it change, if at all, the opinions of seniors who'd known Golding since their arrival on campus, or the incoming freshmen whose ink was barely dry on scholarship papers? Youngsters tend to be forgiving, and for many players, Golding likely received an immediate show of support. For others, perhaps for any whose families have been DUI-impacted, it might come slower.
That's what Golding, or anyone in the position of setting a constant example for others, must assess.
"Anytime you're in a leadership role in anything you do, you've got a responsibility. Every day we talk to our kids about making good decisions, that there are consequences for making bad decisions. And I made a very poor decision that affected a lot of other people than just myself. And it was selfish," Golding said. "And it opened up a lot of emotions for a lot of people, because people can be affected by making that decision. And I was wrong, and I've got to suffer the consequences for it."
Golding met with the team the following day, and began trying to rebuild the bridge.
A coach's job is to get the very best out of each player, but the most sacrifice comes from the player's end -- in effort, in discipline, in every sprint and rep and demand that comes under 100-degree August heat. Most players will do it all and more for a coach they trust; not so much for one they don't.
Golding's challenge this offseason has, by necessity, been as much about regaining the respect of the players he leads as watching any film or shoring up personnel packages.
It's not easy, nor should it be.
Golding displayed a keen understanding of that on Sunday.
"I've done a lot of things in my life, obviously, to adjust what I do to become a better person for it, as a father, a husband and a coach. When I told the team, I met with them that next day. I said, 'Look, man, I can tell you anything I want, but I've got to show you,' " Golding said.
Entering his fifth season on Alabama's staff, Golding has plenty of competition to evaluate on the field – at cornerback, and inside linebacker, and elsewhere. None of that matters more, however, than his efforts to reach past what's on the field. Past the jersey numbers and the depth chart, and into the dynamics of his relationship with the players.
Reach Chase Goodbread at cgoodbread@gannett.com. Follow on Twitter @chasegoodbread
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Urbint, the leading AI platform for predicting and stopping threats to critical infrastructure and workers, has hired Jaylene Kunze as Chief Financial Officer. Kunze was previously CFO at Uplight, which provides software solutions to 80+ electric and gas utilities, and sold for $1.5 billion in 2021. Jaylene will lead the scaling of Urbint's finance and operations systems amid the company's rapid growth.
"Jaylene is one of the energy tech industry's top CFOs, having built the framework for growth that built one of the most successful verticalized software companies in our sector," said Corey Capasso, Founder and CEO of Urbint. "Her experience and knowledge of the industry will be transformative for Urbint as we build the operational risk platform of the future."
"Urbint has the right technology at the right time to make a major impact over the coming years," said Jaylene Kunze. "The energy industry is recognizing the need to manage operational risk through new technology, and legislative tailwinds are only accelerating adoption. I'm very excited about where Urbint is today, and where we're going to go."
Kunze led Tendril's growth as CFO for three years, and spearheaded its merger with Simple Energy to form Uplight. Prior to that, Kunze held financial leadership roles at engineering firm MWH Global, and other companies.
Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen. Leveraging real-world data and artificial intelligence, Urbint's software delivers a clear picture of risk up to a week in advance, and enables decision makers to take action in the right place, at the right time, before an incident occurs. Many of the largest energy and infrastructure companies in North America trust Urbint to protect their workers, assets, and the communities they serve. Learn more at urbint.com.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Saturday lifted a state of emergency he'd imposed in six provinces amid an Indigenous-led strike, a surprise move that came as lawmakers in the National Assembly heard an opposition petition to remove him from office.
The decision to end the state of emergency followed an initial meeting between government officials and Ecuador's largest Indigenous organization, which began the strike two weeks ago to demand gasoline prices be cut, price controls be imposed on agricultural products and a larger budget be set for education. Lasso had accused the Indigenous leader heading the at-times violent strike of seeking to stage a coup.
After Saturday's meeting, National Assembly President Virgilio Saquicela said a commission would be formed to facilitate dialogue to end the strike.
"The national government ratifies the willingness to guarantee the creation of spaces for peace, in which Ecuadorians can gradually resume their activities,” said a statement announcing the decree to end the state of emergency.
The meeting was held in the Basilica church in the colonial center of Quito and was attended by the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, Leonidas Iza, other social leaders, Government Minister Francisco Jiménez and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín, among others.
“There has been no commitment, but simply a decision by the (Indigenous confederation) ... to consult its bases on the designation of a commission to start this dialogue,” Saquicela said, adding that “the government has made the corresponding opening.”
Iza said the strike would not be ended until their demands had been met. "Instead of making us more afraid, they have raised our rebellion, dignity,” he said.
Iza said strikers will rest for the weekend and asked that corridors be opened in the interprovincial border areas to allow food to pass through and supply Quito, which faces the shortage of farm products.
Meanwhile, in a virtual legislative session the opposition Union for Hope party, which is linked to former President Rafael Correa, requested the removal of Lasso. The request was based on the state of emergency declared over “grave internal commotions,” which now has been lifted.
It would take the votes of at least 92 lawmakers to remove Lasso, while the Union for Hope has only 47 seats.
On Thursday, the Indigenous confederation said a demonstrator died of pellet wounds in the chest and abdomen while protesting near the National Assembly in Quito, where about 100 other people suffered a variety of injuries. Police tweeted that officers were also injured by pellets.
In Quito, protesters blocking roads have brought the city to a near halt and people are experiencing food and fuel shortages. Groups of protesters have roamed the city attacking vehicles and civilians and forcing the closure of businesses, some of which were looted.
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Jan. 6 panel pushes Trump’s prosecution in forceful finish
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, with lawmakers expected to cap one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory with an extraordinary recommendation: The Justice Department should consider criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
At a final meeting on Monday, the panel’s seven Democrats and two Republicans are poised to recommend criminal charges against Trump and potentially against associates and staff who helped him launch a multifaceted pressure campaign to try to overturn the 2020 election.
While a criminal referral is mostly symbolic, with the Justice Department ultimately deciding whether to prosecute Trump or others, it is a decisive end to a probe that had an almost singular focus from the start.
“I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws and I think you have to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is you have to be prosecuted,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the panel, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The panel, which will dissolve on Jan. 3 with the new Republican-led House, has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, held 10 well-watched public hearings and collected more than a million documents since it launched in July 2021. As it has gathered the massive trove of evidence, the members have become emboldened in declaring that Trump is to blame for the violent attack on the Capitol by his supporters almost two years ago.
After beating their way past police, injuring many of them, the Jan. 6 rioters stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s win, echoing Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud and sending lawmakers and others running for their lives.
The attack came after weeks of Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat — a campaign that was extensively detailed by the committee in its multiple public hearings. Many of Trump’s former aides testified about his unprecedented pressure on states, federal officials and on Vice President Mike Pence to find a way to thwart the popular will.
“This is someone who in multiple ways tried to pressure state officials to find votes that didn’t exist, this is someone who tried to interfere with a joint session, even inciting a mob to attack the Capitol,” Schiff said. “If that’s not criminal, then I don’t know what it is.”
Members of the committee have said that the referrals for other individuals may also include ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations. Lawmakers have suggested in particular that their recommended charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and insurrection.
On insurrection, Schiff said Sunday that “if you look at Donald Trump’s acts and you match them up against the statute, it’s a pretty good match.” He said that the committee will focus on those individuals — presumably Trump — for whom they believe there is the strongest evidence.
While a so-called criminal referral has no real legal standing, it is a forceful statement by the committee and adds to political pressure already on Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel Jack Smith, who is conducting an investigation into Jan. 6 and Trump’s actions.
The committee is also expected at the hearing to preview its massive final report, which will include findings, interview transcripts and legislative recommendations. Lawmaker have said that report will be released Monday.
“We obviously want to complete the story for the American people,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., another member of the committee. “Everybody has come on a journey with us and we want a satisfactory conclusion, such that people feel that Congress has done its job.”
The panel was formed in the summer of 2021 after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of what would have been a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the insurrection. That opposition spurred the Democratic-controlled House to form a committee of its own. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California, a Trump ally, decided not to participate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected some of his appointments. That left an opening for two anti-Trump Republicans in the House — Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — to join the seven Democrats serving on the committee.
While the committee’s mission was to take a comprehensive accounting of the insurrection and educate the public about what happened, they’ve also aimed their work at an audience of one: the attorney general. Lawmakers on the panel have openly pressured Garland to investigate Trump’s actions, and last month he appointed a special counsel, Smith, to oversee several probes related to Trump, including those related to the insurrection.
In court documents earlier this year, the committee suggested criminal charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress.
In a “conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee argues that evidence supports an inference that Trump and his allies “entered into an agreement to defraud the United States” when they disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort. Trump still says he won the election to this day.
The panel also asserts that Trump obstructed an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress in which the Electoral College votes are certified. The committee said Trump either attempted or succeeded at obstructing, influencing or impeding the ceremonial process on Jan. 6 and “did so corruptly” by pressuring Pence to try to overturn the results as he presided over the session. Pence declined to do so.
The committee may make ethics referrals for five House Republicans — including McCarthy — who ignored congressional subpoenas from the panel. Those referrals are unlikely to result in punishment since Republicans are set to take over the House majority in January.
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This is the first Black History Month in a time in which lynching is a federal crime and Juneteenth is a national holiday. Last March, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act — only three Republicans voted against the measure in the House, and the Senate passed it by unanimous consent. The preceding summer, the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act became law, when it, too, passed with the Senate’s unanimous consent and just 14 House Republicans opposing it.
And yet, shortly before this Black History Month began, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blocked an Advanced Placement African American Studies course from being offered in his state’s high schools. His decision flowed from more than two years of manufactured outrage on the right over structural racism and elements of Black history. Critical race theory was anthropomorphized into an anti-American boogeyman lurking in our schools and libraries. The term “woke” was transformed into a catchall pejorative used to condemn a range of nonspecific critiques, including disdain for the comprehensive accounting of our nation’s history on race.
This Republican two-step, already spreading from Florida to Virginia and beyond, proclaims Black History Month with one hand while furiously erasing the ability to teach that history with the other. The result is a politics that honors Black achievement but recoils from a deeper exploration of that which makes such progress nothing short of a national miracle.
It celebrates Juneteenth while glossing over the horrors of chattel slavery. It takes pride in criminalizing lynching (after nearly 250 attempts across more than a century of trying), yet discourages discussions that touch on the terroristic intent of this often-communal violence. It quotes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrates the “colorblindness” of Frederick Douglass while ignoring their social and policy critiques that would have them labeled as disciples of wokeism today.
These politics reflect a central feature of Trumpism: uncritical patriotism. In the “America First” worldview, there is room to valorize the overcoming of a hardship, but vanishingly little space to discuss the hardship itself.
Confronted with the idea that such unwillingness to reckon fully with the nation’s history on race is itself a form of intolerance, these two-steppers hide behind the feel-good legislation and the occasional Black Republican candidate. We do not have to guess at this — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) went into a verbal crouch at a rally last year on behalf of the party’s Black senatorial nominee in Georgia: “If Herschel Walker wins, that means we’re not racist.”
Like many issues that seem at first to be solely about race relations, these double-dealing policies are evidence of our atrophying democratic culture. Uncritical patriotism is not just a disposition that demonizes those who chastise our country for its racial inequality and for not living up to its professed ideals. It’s a pollutant that sullies the nation’s fabric and toxifies our interactions with one another.
More than this, it becomes a weapon to be wielded against whomever dissents from the pristine view of America. Historian Pauline Maier noted that overzealous displays of empty patriotism driven by political expedience are as old as the nation itself. In the “bitter partisan politics” of the 1790s, Republicans excoriated Federalists for not reading the Declaration of Independence aloud at every Fourth of July celebration. In this regard, today’s Republicans come by this proclivity honestly.
Uncritical patriotism fosters an American exceptionalism that obsesses over the things the nation has gotten right, while suggesting that there is no bad side for the camera to capture. Perfunctory nods to the nation’s symbols become more important than living out the nation’s values. It robs us of the one thing that could make us genuinely exceptional: the relentless journey of a large and diverse republic from an oppressive society to a more equal and inclusive one.
The Republican Party has increasingly been commandeered by a cohort wedded to this unnuanced and fractious nation-worship. Though the views of these right-wing extremists might not be grounded in racial hatred — many can certainly point to interracial friendships and instances when they have celebrated Black Americans. The problem is political, not interpersonal. Honest critique of our country and demands for reckoning with our past are as unwelcome to them as the White Lion in Wakanda.
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the ingenuity and perseverance of a people who are as central to the nation’s story as any other group. It is a distinctive marker of the nation’s progress — precisely because of (not in spite of) the inhumanity that greeted the formation of Black America. To recognize only the achievements of Black Americans, without duly honoring their struggle, is to deprive a people and a nation of the thing that actually makes it great. Juneteenth is special because the nation is celebrating the end of the shameful hypocrisy of slavery after rationalizing it for centuries. Historic anti-lynching legislation is more meaningful when it is correctly understood as an overcoming of domestic terrorism that the United States tolerated, and even fostered, for decades.
The beauty of America is not that it was born great and has remained so, but that it was deeply flawed and has been made by countless Americans — particularly those excluded and oppressed — a little more perfect over time.
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MIAMI — Tropical Storm Danielle strengthened into a hurricane Friday morning — the first of an unusually quiet storm season.
The storm is not currently a threat to any land.
The storm's maximum sustained winds were clocked at 75 mph (120 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
The storm is centered about 885 miles (1,425 kilometers) west of the Azores and is drifting west at about 1 mph (about 2 kph). The hurricane center said the storm is expected to meander in the Atlantic over the next few days.
The tropical storm comes amid what had been a calm hurricane season. It is the first time since 1941 that the Atlantic has gone from July 3 to the end of August with no named storm, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach had told The Associated Press earlier.
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
In the north Pacific, Tropical Storm Javier formed overnight. Forecasters said that late Thursday it was 210 miles (338 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph).
Javier is moving northwest at 9 mph (about 14 kph).
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
Last year's hurricane season, by contrast, was an incredibly busy one for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Meteorologists tracking the tropics noted 2021 as the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 21 named storms. Seven of those became hurricanes, including the deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Ida.
Ida, the most destructive tropical cyclone of the season, struck southeastern Louisiana in late August, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina decimated the same region.
Meteorologists predicted the 2022 season would be an above-average year for hurricanes, but so far has been one of the quietest on record — a contrast with the seven years previously, which had above-average numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
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- Company representatives attend inauguration ceremony in Seoul, South Korea to launch program
- Expansion of joint research and development could lead to system improvements, new policies to vitalize eco-friendly material industry
WOBURN, Mass., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CJ Biomaterials, a division of South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang and leading producer of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), announced today that it has partnered with the South Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the Korea Innovation Foundation (INNOPOLIS) to actively promote the eco-friendly materials industry, including PHA technology. CJ Biomaterials' PHA product, known as PHACT™, is a 100% bio-based polyester produced by fermentation. It is an eco-friendly material that will help address the challenge of plastic waste, which is capable of all modes of biodegradability and compostability, including marine, soil, home and industrial.
CJ Biomaterials will participate in the Bioplastic Future Tech Forum for Special R&D Zone hosted by the MSIT and INNOPOLIS. This is an industry-university research consultative body based in South Korea that welcomes participation from domestic and foreign companies. Organizations involved in the Foundation work together to accelerate the development of low carbon, bio-based materials like PHACT through expanded research and development and product demonstration. The inauguration ceremony for the Foundation was held in Seoul, South Korea on November 29. Representatives from CJ Biomaterials and other Korean-based companies including SKC, HDC Hyundai EP, and BGF Eco-Bio were in attendance. Global organizations were also present, including PLA manufacturer TotalEnergies Corbion and our collaboration partner NatureWorks.
Before the launch of this consultancy organization, it was difficult to verify the compostability of biodegradable materials, due to the need for separate plastic discharge and recycling systems. CJ Biomaterials and other organizations working with the Foundation can now test their bio-based materials in food waste treatment facilities, check how effectively they are composting, and receive certification from the Foundation, based on the results. Through the affiliation with the MSIT, participants can also experiment with the methane gas that is generated when their eco-friendly materials decompose, possibly creating a value chain by collecting waste from restaurants, coffee shops, and movie theaters, processing it into methane gas, and selling the gas to facilities that need it. In this program, the gas will be used by a dormitory at Incheon University. Based on the data that will be obtained through various R&D and verification processes, the Foundation may also recommend related system improvements and policy proposals to accelerate the adoption and use of eco-friendly materials.
"This year, we are working with global companies such as NatureWorks, Yuhan-Kimberly, the Accor hotel chain, and makeup brand 'BANILACO' to expand the adoption of eco-friendly materials," says Seung-Jin Lee, Head of the Biomaterials Business for CJ CheilJedang. "Through this partnership with the Ministry of Science and ICT and our participation in the Korea Innovation Foundation, we will work to expand the range of eco-friendly materials used in daily life by continuing to collaborate with our industry partners and developing a variety of products that can satisfy consumer demand for more eco-friendly products."
Earlier this year, CJ Biomaterials announced commercial-scale production of PHA following the inauguration of its production facility in Pasuruan, Indonesia. Today, CJ Biomaterials is the only company in the world producing amorphous PHA (aPHA), including the first product under its new PHACT brand, named PHACT A1000P. Amorphous PHA is a softer, more rubbery version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of PHA. It is TUV certified marine and soil biodegradable and home and industrial compostable. Modifying polymers and other biopolymers, such as polylactic acid (PLA) with amorphous PHA leads to improvements in mechanical properties, such as toughness, and ductility, while maintaining clarity. Last month, CJ Biomaterials announced that it had signed a Master Collaboration Agreement (MCA) with NatureWorks that calls for the two organizations to work together to develop sustainable materials solutions based on CJ Biomaterials' PHACT Biodegradable Polymers and NatureWorks Ingeo™ biopolymers. The two companies will develop high-performance biopolymer solutions that will replace fossil-fuel based plastics in applications ranging from compostable food packaging and food serviceware to personal care, films, and other end products.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of the only U.S. drug intended to prevent premature births is making a last-ditch effort this week to keep its medication on the market, even as health regulators insist that it doesn’t work.
A Food and Drug Administration meeting that opened Monday comes more than two years after the agency declared the drug ineffective and called for its removal. Drugmaker Covis Pharma has challenged the agency’s conclusion, setting up the highly unusual three-day public hearing.
The meeting underscores the limits of FDA’s authority and the long, onerous process to remove a drug on the rare occasion when a company won’t do so voluntarily at the agency’s request.
The hearing will resemble a courtroom trial, with FDA staff and company scientists presenting arguments for and against the drug Makena, followed by a vote Wednesday by a panel of outside experts. FDA leaders will ultimately make the final decision whether to order a withdrawal.
About 10% of U.S. births come too early — before 37 weeks, raising the risk of serious health problems and even death in infants. Complicating the Makena debate is support from the leading U.S. obstetrics group to keep the decade-old drug available while more research is done.
“The need for an effective treatment for preterm birth is great,” the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says. “Makena and its associated generics represent the only treatment currently available to obstetrician-gynecologists to help prevent this condition.”
But the FDA says existing data shows weekly injections of the drug don’t help prevent a repeat preterm birth.
“Based on the evidence shown today, Makena is not shown to be effective,” said FDA’s drug chief, Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, in opening remarks Monday. “Its benefit and risk profile is unfavorable and it should be withdrawn from the market.”
The dispute is likely to increase scrutiny of the agency’s so-called accelerated approval program, which allows drugs like Makena to launch based on promising early results while additional, usually larger, studies are conducted.
“Makena is being used as an example of the many different criticisms of this program,” said Rachel Sachs, a food and drug law specialist at Washington University of St. Louis. “That may not be fair to the other drugs, other diseases, other patients groups, but we’re forced to respond to the situation it presents.”
At its best, the accelerated approval program is credited with speeding the availability of breakthrough therapies for HIV and cancer. But in the last decade, the FDA has been increasingly criticized for failing to follow up on expedited drugs with incomplete or unconvincing confirmatory data, including a large number of expensive cancer medications on the market.
In recent years, the FDA’s cancer division has begun prodding companies to stop selling their drugs for uses granted under these so-called “dangling approvals.”
The FDA approved Makena in 2011 based on a small study suggesting it reduced rates of premature birth in women with a history of early deliveries. Makena consists of a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, which helps the uterus grow and maintain a pregnancy. Women can start the shots after 16 weeks of pregnancy.
Accelerated approval was granted on the condition that Makena’s original developer, Hologic, conduct a follow-up study confirming the drug resulted in lower rates of disability and death among newborns.
But results from an international study of 1,700 women released in 2019 showed the drug neither reduced premature births — as originally thought — nor resulted in healthier outcomes for babies, while increasing the risk of blood clots, depression and other side effects in mothers.
In briefing documents released this month, the FDA said leaving Makena on the market “incurs false hopes, the risks associated with treatment, and other burdens” like excess medical spending. According to a recent federal report, the U.S. has spent $700 million on Makena since 2018 through various government programs, like Medicaid and Veterans Affairs.
The FDA opinion also applies to several generic versions of the shot.
Drugmaker Covis argues that Makena is effective and that flaws in the 2019 study obscured its benefit. The Luxembourg-based company points out that Black women are at higher risk for preterm birth, but made up just 7% of women in the international study, compared with 59% in the original U.S. study used for approval. It wants time to do another study in higher risk patients, particularly Black Americans.
A patient group set up with funding by Covis, the Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance, has made similar arguments in letters to the FDA.
“We believe there is no sound public health reason to deprive” patients and physicians of access to Makena, the company said in an emailed statement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s education secretary has tested positive for COVID-19.
Miguel Cardona, who has been vaccinated and boosted against the virus, tested positive Tuesday and has mild symptoms, the Education Department said in a statement.
He tested positive the morning after he attended Halloween festivities at the White House. Biden and his wife, Jill, hosted a trick-or-treat event at the White House on Monday, but the Education Department said they are not close contacts of Cardona, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cardona, 47, separately welcomed elementary school trick-or-treaters to the Education Department on Monday and later spoke at the Association of Art Museum Directors’ annual meeting.
The education chief will continue attending meetings and performing his duties while working remotely and in isolation, his agency said. He will return to in-person meetings when he tests negative.
Cardona is among several Biden administration officials who have gotten COVID-19, including CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra.
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Going into the Thanksgiving holiday, the CDC reported 35 states experienced high or very high numbers of respiratory illnesses. Now there are signs those family gatherings are helping to spread the sickness around.
Susan Post says her family was eager to get together, but now they're paying a price.
"We were all fine Thanksgiving Day, and then the next day, my sister called and told us that my niece was really sick, and then my sister got sick," Post said.
Medical experts had already warned of a "tripledemic" – high numbers of cases of COVID, the flu and RSV happening at once. The holiday travel and large gatherings are expected to make things worse.
So far this season, the CDC estimates there have been at least 6.2 million illnesses, 53,000 hospitalizations and nearly 3,000 deaths from the flu.
In Wisconsin, the latest rate of flu cases doubled from seven to 14%.
"We're going to be at high activity in about a week, so we're anticipating things are going to get worse before they get better," said Thomas Haupt, an epidemiologist at the Wisconsin Department of Health.
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A higher demand for medicine earlier in the season is creating shortages for drugs like Tamiflu or amoxicillin. Stocks of over-the-counter remedies are also low, with it expected to get somewhat worse after the holidays.
"We can't keep them full; plus our warehouse is out of stock, and that holds us back a lot from filling the shelves," an employee at Point Loma Shelter Island Drug in San Diego said.
"I think after Thanksgiving a lot of people are calling asking about if we have over-the-counter medication or the doctor sent them prescription medication for the flu," pharmacist Dr. Hala Jolagh said.
The CDC says RSV numbers are starting to go down, but the cases of flu are expected to keep rising in the coming weeks.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, continues to urge people to get vaccinations and boosters for COVID and flu shots. He also advises wearing masks in some situations.
"We're not talking about mandating anything; we're talking about good common sense in making a decision to put a mask on when you're in an indoor congregate setting," Dr. Fauci said.
Experts say preventive measures are key to keeping the number of illnesses down.
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Kevin Costner leaves ‘Yellowstone’ fans distraught with latest announcement
'Yellowstone' is ending after the second half of season five
Kevin Costner is breaking the hearts of "Yellowstone" fans everywhere.
The 68-year-old made an announcement in a recent Instagram post, noting that he's looking forward to making new music soon, but made no mention of the hit show.
Costner shared a photo of himself on stage holding a guitar writing, "We’re coming up on the 3rd anniversary of our #TalesFromYellowstone album. The band and I had so much fun making and playing this project for you guys."
His caption continued, "I’m in movie mode right now, but look forward to getting the band back together for more music soon!"
The movie he's most likely referring to is "Horizon," the Western that's become his passion project.
While a lot of the comments on his social media post were positive, with fans writing they can't wait to see him back on stage and are looking forward to his upcoming projects, many were disappointed that Costner didn't acknowledge his hit show "Yellowstone."
One user wrote how good the album was and wished the actor luck on "Horizon," but also added a final note.
"P.S. We obviously want John Dutton back, just to close out our favorite show and do him justice. Please give it some consideration"
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Another user commented, "Can you go back to being in Yellowstone mode please?"
"Please return to Yellowstone," another fan begged. "Best show and you are amazing on it. There’s gonna be a little hole in my heart when it’s over."
The pleas kept coming with yet another user writing, "PLEASE Kevin please, find it in your heart to finish filming Season 5 episodes for your devoted fans"
One fan even gave Costner a bit of a guilt trip commenting, "Finish what you started with Yellowstone. You have a lot of disappointed fans waiting for the conclusion"
Last month, it was announced that the Costner-led Western will air the second half of its fifth and final season in November before rolling out an unnamed sequel series in December.
"'Yellowstone' has been the cornerstone on which we have launched an entire universe of global hits – from ‘1883’ to ‘Tulsa King,’ and I am confident our ‘Yellowstone’ sequel will be another big hit, thanks to the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and our incredible casts who bring these shows to life," Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of MTV Entertainment Studios, the company that produces the show, said in a statement.
David Glasser, the CEO of 101, another studio that produces the beloved series, said, "The Dutton story continues, picking up where ‘Yellowstone’ leaves off in another epic tale. We are thrilled to bring this new journey to audiences around the world."
Many believe the sequel in the works will be a spinoff starring Matthew McConaughey.
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Details about the show are still scarce, but during a recent appearance on the "Lex Fridman Podcast," McConaughey spoke about the appeal of "Yellowstone."
"I admire the simplicity of it. One way you could explain ‘Yellowstone’ and Costner’s role is, what will men do to protect land and family in a world that is trying to encroach?" he said.
When discussing that moral code, Fridman noted that it doesn’t always abide by the law, and McConaughey responded, "No, it’s above the law."
He continued, "It’s a little bit of, ‘If the law ain’t handling this, I am.’ And then it is, ‘The law’s not going to handle it, therefore I am.’ Then it’s, ‘I’m handling this. The law? Talk to them when you get to them. I’m handling this.'"
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There is still no word on when the final episodes of "Yellowstone" will be filmed.
Paramount and reps for Costner did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed into law Friday a bill that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine after lawmakers acted to avert a partial government shutdown set to begin after midnight.
The bill passed the House by a vote of 230-201 earlier in the day. Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the measure. Some wanted to extend government funding into January when, based on the results of the midterm elections, it's possible they'll have more leverage over setting federal spending for the full fiscal year. Others argued the measure needed to do more to address border security.
Democrats said passing the bill was important to helping Ukraine as well as victims of recent natural disasters in the U.S., including Hurricane Ian, as it provides a Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster fund with a year's worth of money up front rather than for two-and-a-half months.
"Turn on the news. Look what's happening in Florida right now. Look at what happened to Puerto Rico. Look at what's happening in Alaska. I mean, people need help," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "And look at what's happening in Ukraine. Do we support helping preserve democracy in Ukraine or not? That's what's at stake here."
But Republicans complained the bill brought to the floor was not subject to bipartisan negotiations in the House and didn't reflect their priorities.
"We know we have a crisis on the southern border. You can turn on the television every night. You can look at the fentanyl pouring into the country, You can see the tragedy of human trafficking. Is there anything in this bill that asks us to do anything different, anything new?" said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. "No, you just ask, 'please allow us to continue the current state of affairs on the southern border.' That is a travesty."
In the end, support for the bill was unanimous among Democratic lawmakers. Only 10 Republican lawmakers joined them in voting yes.
Later Friday, former President Donald Trump responded to the bill’s passage with a racist message on his social media platform attacking Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and his Asian American wife, who also served in Trump's administration as a Cabinet secretary. Trump ominously wrote that McConnell has a “death wish.”
The bill finances the federal government through Dec. 16 and buys lawmakers more time to agree on legislation setting spending levels for the 2023 fiscal year. The bill generally keeps spending at current levels, though it does provide more than $12.3 billion in Ukraine-related aid. The money will go to provide training, equipment and logistics support for the Ukraine military, help Ukraine’s government provide basic services to its citizens and replenish U.S. weapons systems and munitions.
“This contribution ensures we continue upholding our moral responsibility to support the people of Ukraine in the face of a vicious invasion that continues to demand decisive action by us," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the Democratic chair of the House Appropriations Committee.
Disaster assistance was also attached to the stopgap bill, including $2.5 billion to help New Mexico communities recover from the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, the largest wildfire in the state's history; $2 billion for a block grant program that aids the economic recovery of communities impacted by recent disasters; and $20 million for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements previously authorized for Jackson, Mississippi.
“We cannot leave communities behind that are still picking up the pieces from disastrous floods, wildfires and hurricane, and even basic water system failures," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
The bill would provide an additional $1 billion for a program that helps low-income households heat their homes. And it would transfer $3 billion from a Pentagon aid program to the State Department for continued Afghan resettlement operations.
Lawmakers also included a reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration’s user fee agreements for five years, which ensures the agency can continue critical product safety reviews and won’t need to issue pink slips for thousands of employees working on drug and medical device applications.
One thing missing from the bill is the billions of dollars in additional funding that Biden sought to aid the response to COVID-19 and monkeypox. Republicans criticized the health spending as unnecessary. The White House said the money would have been used to accelerate the research and development of vaccines and therapeutics, prepare for future COVID variants and support the global response.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jordan King scored 23 points, Chloe Marotta had 12 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists and No. 24 Marquette beat Georgetown 78-57 on Friday in a Big East Conference opener.
Marquette has won 11 straight in the series and 14 of the past 15, including a 68-32 victory last season. Georgetown trails the series 25-4, with its last victory coming at home on Jan. 18, 2018.
Liza Karlen added 15 points, 12 rebounds, four assists and three blocks for Marquette (7-1).
Marotta scored 10 points in the first 10 minutes as Marquette led 22-13. King scored eight points in the opening five minutes of the fourth quarter, with her 3-pointer giving the Golden Eagles a 65-53 lead.
Marquette closed the game on a 16-4 run as Georgetown was just 3-of-10 shooting in the fourth.
Kristina Moore scored 19 points and Kennedy Fauntleroy added 11 points for Georgetown (4-3). The Hoyas were held to 22-of-60 shooting (37%) with 17 turnovers.
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In addition to expansion of Popular Flex Play Option, DFS operator now allows members to build lineups of more than fifteen players
ATLANTA, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PrizePicks, the largest privately-held daily fantasy sports operator in North America, today announced the rollout of two exciting additions to its platform - the "6-Pick Flex Play" and "Stat Combos," introducing both new intricacies and insurance to challenge the skills of the PrizePicks player base.
The 6-Pick Flex is the latest iteration of the PrizePicks Flex Play, which was originally pioneered in 2019 and introduced the concept of insurance to the fantasy industry. With the ability to select six players, PrizePicks members have the opportunity to win up to 25 times their initial entry. The introduction of 6-Pick Flex comes after PrizePicks analyzed more than 10,000 combinations to ensure its variable payouts would function properly.
Another layer of "insurance" for PrizePicks members comes in the form of statistical combinations of players in a given entry and building bigger lineups in the process. For example, in an NFL game, "Stat Combos" would allow a player to predict whether the combination of Kansas City's Travis Kelce & Mecole Hardman and San Diego's Austin Ekeler will score more than 1.5 touchdowns combined in this weekend's upcoming game. If a PrizePicks member submits an entry made up of six touchdown combinations - which would actually utilize both the 6-Pick Flex and Stat Combo features - a roster could include up to 18 players.
"We are focused on creating products which drive added fan engagement for the live sports viewing experience for our members, and a big part of that notion is diversifying away from the binary play outcomes which are part of traditional fantasy leagues," said PrizePicks CEO Adam Wexler. "When our members do their research and place their entries with a little flexibility and insurance, a fully entertaining night can now be considered nailing four out of six PrizePicks."
The Flex Play has since grown to become one of the company's most popular entry formats by giving its members the ability to earn partial wins even if their roster constructions are not perfect. Since its introduction, nearly 90% of PrizePicks members have won a Flex Entry. The format rewards its members for varying levels of skills, with nearly half of the total Flex Plays made on PrizePicks having resulted in members walking away with a win.
"We have been successfully experimenting with statistical combinations across a variety of sports," Wexler added. "We look forward to adding more prediction games during the current NBA season and for soccer ahead of this month's World Cup, among others."
PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2022 Inc. 5000 rankings and the largest independent daily fantasy sports operator (DFS) in North America. The company was recently recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association and as the Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America. Founded and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, PrizePicks is the most fun, fast and simple version of daily fantasy sports, covering a wide variety of sports leagues from the NFL and NBA to esports titles League of Legends & Counter-Strike. Centered around selecting a fantasy roster of athletes, PrizePicks allows sports fans to pit their skills against the numbers rather than against a pool of thousands of other players. PrizePicks is currently available in the majority of the United States including top 10 markets like California, Texas, Florida & Georgia. With an existing digital footprint covering more than two-thirds of the U.S. population, PrizePicks is the most accessible type of game for the masses and has proudly paid out over $500 million in winnings during its lifetime. PrizePicks is available in the App Store and Google Play or at prizepicks.com.
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United States’ southernmost spot of land, became a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II on Friday when city workers installed a British flag and royal purple banner at the much-photographed site beside the Atlantic Ocean.
The tribute was particularly fitting because the long-reigning monarch, who died Sept. 8 at age 96, visited the Florida Keys in 1991.
“We do have a connection with the queen; we had the privilege of actually having her visit us,” Key West Mayor Teri Johnston said.
“We join the world today in mourning the loss of such an incredible human being,” Johnston said.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stopped at Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson, 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, on the royal yacht. They were welcomed by then-Florida Keys Mayor Wilhelmina Harvey, who presented them with a conch shell, an enduring symbol of the island chain.
The red, yellow, black and white Southernmost Point marker, a 20-ton concrete monument that resembles a giant marine navigational buoy, was installed in 1983 and has become a popular photo stop for travelers.
Plans call for the memorial to Queen Elizabeth to stay in place through her funeral on Monday,.
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To the Editor:
Sunday July 9, at 2 p.m., I attended an event at the Dekalb County Courthouse and left full of hope at what the future holds for DeKalb County. The event was put on by ROI, a new group in DeKalb, that stands for Republicans with Other Ideas. I am a member of this group and it was created because some things need to change in this county.
ROI, and the people who are a part of it, are focused on providing a voice for the residents of DeKalb County. A voice to present new ideas and show their support for conservative values within our local cities, towns, and county governments.
Council Member and 2024 candidate, Amy Prosser, gave a very inspirational speech where she mentioned that transparency is not putting a camera in a room. Transparency needs to come with clarity so citizens fully understand what is being discussed. She also mentioned that citizens need a platform where they can be heard and spoken to in a respectful manner. 2024 Commissioner candidate, Andrew Provines, stated that “ROI is a group and it is open to everybody. We want everybody involved.” He also said “that it was once mentioned that we exist because state and federal allow it. I think that state and federal only exist because we allow it. The veil of local government needs to be lifted and people need complete transparency and clarity into what is happening in government.”
Amy and Andrew were joined by 2024 Commissioner candidate Kellen Dooley, 2024 County Council Member candidate Dave Holt, and a large crowd of citizens who are craving change in DeKalb County. Citizens have witnessed some elected officials be dismissive, condescending, and secretive and they are tired of it. ROI and the four candidates want to create an environment that amplifies the citizens voices.
As Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address “we the People tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. We the People are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast.” I believe that Amy, Dave, Andrew, and Kellen are the exact people to put control back in the hands of the DeKalb County citizens.
Jessica Shull
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(The Hill) — Uber received 3,824 sexual assault reports from its U.S. rides in 2019-20, a decline of 38 percent from the previous two years, according to a safety report the company released Thursday.
The company said the decline could be in part related to the impacts of the pandemic, citing a drop from 2.3 billion rides in 2017-18 to 2.1 billion rides in 2019-20, but also hailed its recent safety investments and strengthened background check requirements.
“We’re constantly innovating and investing in the safety of our platform,” the company said in the report. “We’ve prioritized robust screening processes and technology, built new safety features and invested in providing riders and drivers with support in times of need.”
Uber said riders were the accused party in 43 percent of sexual assault reports in 2019-20, which it noted was on par with previous years.
The report further broke down five categories of sexual assault, saying a majority of the reports involved non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.
Instances of each of the five offense types, which range from non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part to non-consensual sexual penetration, all declined from 2017-18.
But even with dampening demand for Uber rides during the pandemic, the company reported 141 instances of non-consensual sexual penetration, or rape, in 2020. Uber said rape was reported for roughly 1 in every 5 million Uber rides.
“Each reported incident represents a harrowing lived experience for the survivor,” the company said. “Even one report is one report too many.”
Meanwhile, the number of motor vehicle fatalities during U.S. Uber rides increased in its most recent report. Uber reported 0.62 fatalities for every 100 million miles driven in 2019-20, about a 7 percent increase from its previous report but only about half the national average.
The company attributed the rise to “drastic changes” in the driving environment, noting a simultaneous increase in driving fatalities nationwide.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration attributed the nationwide jump in driving fatalities in large part to alcohol impairment, people not wearing seatbelts and speeding. The agency also detailed changes in driving patterns when people remained home during the pandemic.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National estate dispute law firm, RMO LLP, announced its expansion into northern California with the opening of its Walnut Creek, California office. Led by Founding Partner Scott Rahn and Senior Attorney Valerie Kraml, the firm's first Bay Area office will provide the same "better results sooner for less legal spend" for which the firm is known to beneficiaries, heirs, executors, trustees and families embroiled in probate and estate conflicts.
"We have long-standing, strong local ties in Northern California and have been looking for some time for the right person and opportunity to be able to serve the Bay Area, and now with Valerie and a Walnut Creek office we look forward to being able to help even more people find relief from their estate dispute in ways that not only add to their bottom line but to their peace of mind," said Rahn.
Having worked as both a volunteer attorney and investigator for the Marin County Public Defender's office, Kraml brings extensive litigation prowess and trial experience to her probate litigation practice, which focuses on representing beneficiaries, and professional and corporate fiduciaries in contested trust, estate, and conservatorship matters. Kraml attended Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, where she who awarded the Pro Bono Public Service Award for Outstanding Achievement. While at Hastings, she served as the development editor for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.
This year Rahn again was ranked by Chambers and Partners and recognized as a "Trailblazer" by the American Lawyer, in addition to be named by the Los Angeles Times as a "Legal Visionary" and a "Top Litigator" by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Rahn earned his JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Driven by a commitment to provide relief to people, RMO collaborates closely with clients to help them resolve their estate disputes and contested conservatorships so they can move on with their lives, whether pursuing or defending claims involving incapacity, incompetence, undue influence, breach of fiduciary duty, and other similar areas of dispute. Their advice and counsel includes prevention and remediation of financial elder abuse. Known for in-depth financial investigations and deftly handling intra-family dynamics and decades-long family friction, RMO has extensive experience in courts, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution forums across California as well as in key retirement centers in the United States and through strategic partnerships in international locations.
RMO LLP provides personal, cost-effective inheritance dispute services to individual and institutional clients. The firm's attorneys focus on probate litigation involving contested trust, estate, probate, and conservatorship matters. RMO has offices serving clients with probate disputes throughout California, Florida, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. For more information, please visit https://rmolawyers.com/
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Dads shoot at each other in traffic, injuring each other’s daughters
Two men are facing attempted murder charges after an apparent road rage incident ended with a shootout.
The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, have both been charged after the road rage incident on Saturday, Oct. 8, which lasted for "several miles" and spanned two counties.
Sheriff Bill Leeper said authorities began receiving calls that day a little after 6 p.m. with reports of people being shot at.
One witness told deputies he called 911 after seeing two drivers, one in a black Dodge Ram and the other in a gray Nissan Murano, drive so erratically that he thought something bad was going to happen. He described the drivers’ behavior as a "cat and mouse game."
Leeper said Hale, who is from Georgia, was driving the pick-up truck and Allison, who is from Florida, was driving the sedan. Both drivers were speeding, driving erratically, and "brake checking" each other — "that’s getting in front of each other and applying the brakes," Leeper explained.
At one point, the vehicles were alongside each other and Leeper said someone in the truck rolled down a window and began shouting at the Nissan to pull over. A passenger in the Nissan then flicked off the people in the truck.
Then, someone in the truck threw a plastic water bottle into an open window of the Nissan.
That’s when, according to Leeper, Allison grabbed his gun and fired one shot at the truck before speeding off. Leeper said Allison told police the reason he fired his gun was to get out of the whole situation.
The bullet from Allison’s gun hit a 5-year-old girl in the leg, and, when Hale realized his daughter had been shot, he began speeding again to catch back up with the Nissan.
Hale also pulled out a gun and fired seven or eight rounds in the direction of the Nissan. Leeper said three of the bullets hit the car, with one hitting a 14-year-old girl in the backseat. The bullet hit her in the back, causing a collapsed lung.
Leeper said the incident eventually came to an end when the two drivers came across a patrol car and pulled over. The men got out and started arguing with each other and the deputy broke up the fight.
The two girls were taken to the hospital and both injuries were not life-threatening, Leeper said.
Allison and Hale were both arrested and charged with attempted murder. Leeper said they’ve both been released on bail.
"What is scarier than one crazy driver with a gun? Two crazy drivers with a gun," he ** said as he turned over the drivers’ respective booking photos.
"Thankfully, no one was killed in this incident but it could’ve very easily turned out that way because two people were acting stupid and let their tempers get the best of them. It could’ve been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men."
This story was reported from Detroit.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
949 AM PST Wed Jan 11 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
EVENING ABOVE 4500 FEET...
* WHAT...Wet snow above 4500 feet. Additional snow accumulations
of up to 13 inches. Additional snow accumulations of up to 7
inches at Scott Mountain Summit. Winds gusting as high as 55
mph.
* WHERE...Northern Trinity County.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible over
Scott Mtn Summit. Gusty winds could bring down tree branches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state of California can be
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, lost another court battle Wednesday in his effort to push back against the Kremlin’s widening crackdown on him and other dissenters.
Russian news agencies reported that a court rejected the latest in a series of lawsuits that Navalny has brought against prison authorities regarding his confinement. The 46-year-old politician and activist is serving a nine-year sentence in the maximum security IK-6 prison in the Vladimir region village of Melekhovo, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) east of Moscow.
Video of a hearing showed Navalny addressing the court remotely from a small room in the prison, standing, gesturing with his hands and speaking in an animated tone to protest authorities’ decision to put him in a punishment cell, in solitary confinement.
“I’m considered the worst offender and I am in solitary confinement because of systematic fabrication of ridiculous violations,” Navalny told the judge in the Vladimir regional city of Kovrov.
Earlier this year, prison authorities sent Navalny to a punishment cell for five days for calling an officer by his name, and again for seven days for walking three seconds in that cell without keeping his hands behind his back, in violation of prison rules. In Wednesday’s hearing, Navalny complained about unfair treatment.
“There are people in cell-type rooms, but there is no one in a punishment cell but me. In fact, any convicted person should be placed in a punishment cell, because there are not more imaginable insignificant violations than one called ‘two seconds (without) hands behind back,’” Navalny said.
Reacting to Wednesday’s decision, a vice president of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation said it again shows authorities are “trying to break him.” Anna Veduta told The Associated Press from her Washington, DC, office: “All the actions taken against him are absolutely illegal.”
Navalny was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin. He received a 2½-year sentence for allegedly violating the conditions of his parole while outside Russia.
In March, Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court, allegations he rejected as a politically motivated attempt by Russian authorities to keep him behind bars for as long as possible.
Navalny’s close associates have faced criminal charges and many have left Russia. Russian authorities shut down his group’s political infrastructure — an anti-corruption foundation and a nationwide network of offices — by labeling it as an extremist organization.
In another case, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska won a lawsuit against Navalny, two associates and publications, Russia’s Tass news agency reported Wednesday. The agency said a Moscow court approved Deripaska’s demand that the accused refute information Deripaska “considers (as) discrediting his honor and dignity.” At issue is a video on Navalny’s YouTube channel called “Yachts, bribes and a mistress.” Navalny’s activism has included exposes of corruption among Russian officials and businesspeople.
Last month, U.S. federal officials charged Deripaska and three associates with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and plotting to ensure his child was born in the United States. The U.S. Treasury Department put Deripaska, whose major business is aluminum production and distribution, under economic sanctions in 2018.
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PHARR, Texas (Border Report) — An American man has been arrested for trying to smuggle an undocumented child into South Texas on Father’s Day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
The 49-year-old U.S. citizen tried to enter the United States with a young girl via the Pharr International Bridge on Sunday. He presented a birth certificate and said she was his daughter, but CBP officers said the birth certificate, while legitimate, did not belong to her and that she was not a U.S. citizen, nor did she have valid entry documents.
The man was taken into custody on charges of violating federal immigration laws, CBP officials said.
“Our CBP officers thwarted this alleged child smuggling attempt thanks to their experience and excellent interviewing skills,” said Carlos Rodriguez, port director for Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Ports of Entry. “This apprehension is testament to the notion that violation of immigration law will not be tolerated, carries tangible legal consequences and will be prosecuted to the highest extent allowed by federal law.”
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Smile Train and The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation analyze the devastating impact of orofacial clefts over two decades (2000 - 2020)
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new report released today, World Smile Day, Smile Train and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington's School of Medicine find that nearly half of cleft-related malnutrition deaths globally in children under 5 could be prevented with access to adequate nutrition and surgical treatment.
The report provides a first-of-its-kind look at the devastating impact of orofacial clefts over two decades, 2000 to 2020. Clefts occur when certain body parts and structures do not fuse together during fetal development and can cause difficulties eating, breathing, hearing, and speaking. The report synthesized two sets of data, one from Smile Train Express and the other IHME's Global Burden of Disease Modeling demographic group. After pairing and modifying the datasets for alignment, researchers used two meta-regression models to calculate results.
Key findings include:
- If children with clefts did not experience higher rates of undernutrition, as many as 21,000 deaths worldwide could be averted with intervention.
- Over the past 20 years, the number of children born with clefts under the age of 5 has failed to decline significantly.
- Deaths in children with clefts as well as malnutrition-related deaths in those with clefts have declined since 2000, but that progress has been markedly slower and lagged behind the declines in malnutrition-related mortality and child mortality overall in the same time period.
- Compared to underweight children, underweight children living with clefts endure a heavier burden of poor nutrition. They face a higher risk of undernutrition and other potentially life-threatening conditions.
- In 2020, the highest cleft prevalence rates were observed in the countries of north Africa and the Middle East, extending into central Asia and south Asia.
"By combining the forces of Smile Train's more than 1.5 million surgical records in the Smile Train Express database, including a wealth of nutrition data, and IHME's comprehensive set of health estimates, we now know more about clefts than ever before," says Nicholas Kassebaum, MD, an associate professor at the IHME and a lead author of the study. "We hope that this is a call to action for global health leaders to take further action against undernutrition in children with clefts."
"Clefts are not a cosmetic issue, and this data serves as both a warning and a roadmap," Susannah Schaefer, President and CEO of Smile Train, adds. "It shows us at Smile Train that we're on the right track with expanding our nutrition programs, but that we need to do more. When the scale of an issue is this large, and when lives are at stake, you have to act and you have to act together. Smile Train is proud to have made a 5-year commitment to scale investment in nutrition, but we need to call on governments and other organizations to do the same."
Further findings are available, and you can read the report here.
About the methodology: Smile Train and IHME are dedicated to data transparency, with full details for this report's methodology available online, and a summarized methodology available to reporters upon request.
About Smile Train: Smile Train empowers local medical professionals with training, funding, and resources to provide free cleft surgery and comprehensive cleft care to children globally. We advance a sustainable solution and scalable global health model for cleft treatment, drastically improving children's lives, including their ability to eat, breathe, speak, and ultimately thrive. To learn more about how Smile Train's sustainable approach means donations have both an immediate and long-term impact, please visit smiletrain.org.
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World's Largest Smoothie Brand Signs Development Agreements to Expand Across Greater Cleveland
DALLAS, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smoothie King, the world's largest smoothie chain and the first health and fitness QSR brand of its kind, today announced the signing of multi-unit development agreements to bring 15 locations to Greater Cleveland. With more than 1,400 locations globally, Smoothie King is now prioritizing development in Ohio with seasoned multi-unit operators and has plans to open in surrounding cities including Ashland, North Olmsted, Medina, Akron, Beachwood, Avon, Euclid among others.
"We're excited to expand our brand in the Cleveland metropolitan area. We've seen the demand for convenient, on-the-go meal options grow in Cleveland and surrounding suburban areas, which makes us confident in our expansion plans," said Chris Bremer, Chief Development Officer at Smoothie King. "Greater Cleveland's suburbs are also growing faster than the country's average, which presents a unique opportunity for our brand. We're looking forward to growing our presence throughout Northeast Ohio with experienced operators who share our commitment to become an integral part of every health and fitness journey."
Smoothie King's Cleveland expansion comes on the heels of recent development nationwide. Since the beginning of the year, Smoothie King has added more than 160 commitments to its robust development pipeline in key markets within Ohio, Colorado, and Texas, as well as the Upper Midwest and the Southeast regions.
To help ensure the right model is selected for each respective site and that are operators are positioned for success, Smoothie King offers a variety of prototypes for franchisees to consider when building out their portfolio, including a drive-thru-only prototype. The new format features a convenient front-facing pickup window that allows guests to have their customized smoothie hand delivered as well as a lane dedicated to online ordering and third-party delivery. These key differentiators further drive the brand's goal to make Smoothie King more accessible to meet the needs of its guests and optimize off-premise channels to best support franchisees and drive profitability.
To accelerate development in key growth markets, Smoothie King continues to seek experienced operators interested in growing their portfolio with a brand committed to providing products that inspire people to live a healthy and active lifestyle. Single- and multi-unit development opportunities are available, as well as incentives for active-duty U.S. military or veterans and for first responders, including law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians. Additionally, the brand has rolled out new incentive programs for existing franchisees and qualified store team members looking for the opportunity to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams with Smoothie King. The programs are open to any franchisee looking to grow their portfolio.
Smoothie King has repeatedly been recognized as a top franchise opportunity, most recently ranking on QSR Magazine's "Best Franchise Deals" for their unique ability to innovate and maintain low overhead, and was listed number 51 in Nation's Restaurant News' "Top 500 Restaurants", moving up from number 82 in 2021. This list recognizes the largest restaurant chains in the country ranked by sales performance and total number of units. The brand was also named "Top Brand to Buy" in the beverage category of Franchise Times' 2022 Zor Awards and Franchise Times' "Top 400 Franchises" list. Furthermore, Smoothie King received the "Top Franchises Satisfaction Award" for 2022 from Franchise Business Review based on the brand's high franchisee satisfaction.
For more information about franchise opportunities with Smoothie King, please visit www.smoothiekingfranchise.com.
Smoothie King Franchises, Inc., the original U.S. smoothie franchise, is a privately held, Dallas-based franchise company with over 1,400 locations worldwide, including in the United States, Korea, Grand Cayman, and Trinidad. Founded in 1973, Smoothie King has made it its mission to inspire people to live a healthy and active lifestyle. By blending each smoothie with a purpose, Smoothie King makes it simple and enjoyable for guests to achieve their individual health and fitness goals. Smoothie King has been recognized No. 13 overall on Entrepreneur's prestigious Franchise 500 list in 2022 and ranked one of the "Fastest Growing Franchises." For more information about franchising with Smoothie King, visit SmoothieKingFranchise.com or follow the brand on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Erin Jacobs
Fish Consulting
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Slurpee Day is back: 7-Eleven celebrates 95th birthday with drink giveaway, $1 snacks
7-Eleven is celebrating its 95th birthday with the return of Slurpee Day on Monday, July 11, 2022. This year, you can get a free Slurpee at all Speedway and Stripes stores, too.
The free small Slurpee is available through the 7Rewards loyalty program on the 7-Eleven app.
For the past two years, the convenience store chain celebrated Slurpee Day all month long because of the pandemic to avoid large crowds flocking to their stores. This year, the deal runs July 1 - July 11.
"We're thrilled to be celebrating Slurpee Day for the first time across all of our banners, so we can spread the Slurpee drink birthday love even further," Marissa Jarratt, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at 7-Eleven, said in a prepared statement.
RELATED: Amazon Prime Days: A primer and a warning
This year, the store is offering a mystery Slurpee flavor — "What the Fanta" — as part of the fun, and roller grill items, pizza slices, and other snacks for $1.
Photo credit: 7-Eleven
People who want to score the free frozen drink but are not yet rewards members can download the 7-Eleven app for free or visit the 7-Eleven website for more information.
7-Eleven, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, operates some 60,000 stores worldwide.
RELATED: Krispy Kreme celebrates 85th birthday by giving away free doughnuts for a year
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kors channeled classic ‘70s style for his latest collection, drawing inspiration from powerful women of the era like Tina Turner, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and even his mother.
Steinem sat front row Wednesday during Kors’ New York Fashion Week show, which featured models sporting a variety of classic New York looks from the decade, including overcoats and thick leather belts and bell sleeves and dramatic bell bottom trousers, oversized sunglasses, suede boots and fringe.
“They never gave up on looking fabulous,” the designer said of his mother and Steinem. “That’s timeless.”
The show was packed with elite guests: actors Mindy Kaling, Katie Holmes, Kate Hudson sat front row, as did New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Vogue Magazine Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour.
“West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler said the show’s appeal was obvious because “nobody dresses women like Michael Kors.”
Keeping with his love of New York city style, Kors relied on neutral colors while still incorporating his signature black and adding brown tones.
Fringe was woven throughout the pieces onto scarfs, clutches and mini dresses. Kors also drew inspiration from Greenwich Village and what the designer called its “blend of the urban and bohemian.
“There is this polish that is a very big city but then definitely a warmth and earthiness,” he said.
Kors’ looks weren’t just on the runway. Actor and dancer Maddie Ziegler wore a Kors suit – one of several stars wearing Kors pieces — and said the designer had knack for designing a power suit tailor made for women.
“It’s so sexy when a woman wears a suit,” she said.
This collection, Kors took a twist with the women’s blazer adding slits to the sides of each arm, giving the jacket sleeves more movement.
Kors didn’t shy away from adding sparkle despite the neutral tones throughout the collection. He balanced a sparkly silver bell bottom jumpsuit with a grey overcoat that hung off the shoulders.
The designer closed the show with an eye-catching shimmering black cape which actor Molly Ringwald adored. Ringwald said she appreciated how Kors’ clothes could be worn by any body type.
“I really feel like it’s really classic American in the best way,” she said of his collection.
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WHITESBORO, N.Y. -- A man taking pictures of trains in Whitesboro was struck and killed on the tracks near Redfield Avenue Thursday evening.
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office says the man in his late 20s or early 30s did not have any identification. He was wearing a blue shirt and shorts and a light blue baseball cap.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oneida County Sheriff's Office at 315-765-2226.
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MONETT, Mo., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® (NASDAQ:JKHY) is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry. The company announced today they will have executives presenting at several investor conferences in June.
David Foss, Board Chair & CEO, will present at the following conferences:
- Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference on June 13, 2022. The presentation takes place at 10:15 am ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible at https://cc.webcasts.com/morg007/061322a_js/?entity=21_LOJ4VRI.
- 2022 RBC Capital Markets FinTech Conference on June 14, 2022. The presentation takes place at 11:20 am ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/rbc/fintech2022/428L9V.cfm.
Kevin Williams, CFO , will present at the following conference:
- Nasdaq 46th Investor Conference in London on June 14, 2022. The presentation takes place at 4:00 am ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/gvzkwtyx.
Replays of all events will be available on ir.jackhenry.com following the live presentation.
Jack Henry (NASDAQ: JKHY) is a leading SaaS provider primarily for the financial services industry. We are a S&P 500 company that serves more than 8,000 clients nationwide and goes to market through three distinct brands: Jack Henry Banking® provides innovative solutions to community and regional banks; Symitar® provides industry-leading solutions to credit unions of all sizes; and ProfitStars® offers highly specialized solutions to financial institutions of every asset size, as well as diverse corporate entities outside of the financial services industry. With a heritage that has been dedicated to openness, partnership, and user centricity for more than 40 years, we are well-positioned as a driving market force in cloud-based digital solutions and payment processing services. We empower our clients and consumers with the human-centered, tech-forward, and insights-driven solutions that will get them where they want to go. Are you future ready? Additional information is available at https://www.jackhenry.com/pages/default.aspx.
Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements." Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading "Risk Factors." Any forward-looking statement made in this news release speaks only as of the date of the news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Which laptop with Intel Core i5 is best?
The latest offering of Intel’s 11th Generation Core Processor offers users significant benefits to both CPU speed and built-in graphics performance. When it comes to buying a top-of-the-line laptop with a cutting-edge processor, the Intel Core i5 is often overlooked in favor of the i7, but there are many PCs with Intel Core i5 processors incorporated that will more than meet your needs. With a robust and versatile laptop like the ASUS VivoBook S13 Thin and Light Laptop at your fingertips, you’ll be able to see just what the Intel Core i5 is capable of.
What to know before you buy a laptop with Intel Core i5
Intel Generations
For those who may be unfamiliar with more PC industry insider terms such as Ice Lake, Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake, figuring out just what distinguishes an Intel Core i5 from its two siblings can be difficult. To clarify, Intel Core Processors are currently producing their 11th Generation which includes the i3, the i5 and the coveted i7, each more powerful and capable than the last. However, with great computing power comes great expenditure, and given the increasing cost and scarcity of computer chips, an Intel Core i5 processor will be more than enough for the average consumer.
Save for upgrades
If it wasn’t already apparent by the difference in their numbers, an Intel Core i5 processor does represent something of a step-down from the i7 both in terms of overall performance and specific programs that require a considerable amount of computing power to effectively use. However, unless you specifically need to make a living by using the strength and versatility of your laptop, you will likely be more than happy with an i5 processor.
You only need an i7 if you regularly create or edit media content, use programs like AutoCAD and the Adobe Creative Suite or need the ability to seriously multitask for a demanding job. In addition, the same laptop with an Intel Core i5 versus an Intel i7 Core will be significantly cheaper when compared side by side.
What to look for in a quality laptop with Intel Core i5
Options and peripherals
One great thing about shopping for a laptop based solely on the quality of its processor is that it leaves you free to purchase the PC that best meets your specific hardware needs. Depending on if you need to do the majority of your computing on the go or simply prefer to write and draw with a stylus, you can ensure that whatever computer you pick will fulfill its purpose. Whether you are interested in a traditional laptop or would prefer a two-in-one convertible laptop to tablet PC, there are several options to choose from that fit a wide range of tastes and preferences.
Battery life and weight
Regardless of what kind of Intel Core i5 laptop you end up purchasing, you probably won’t want to lug around a massively heavy laptop or a laptop that needs to be plugged in every few hours to stay charged. Many laptops sporting an Intel Core i5 boast an exceptional battery life, are lightweight and come with useful features like Quick Charge. After all, while you might not need the ability to go from a dead battery to 80% charged after about an hour of charging, it sure would be useful to have.
Screen resolution and graphics
Now that you’ve decided to purchase a laptop with an Intel Core i5 processor, you should also figure out what kind of screen size, resolution and graphics cards will fit your budget and needs. However, depending on your personal preferences and nature of your profession, purchasing an Intel Core i5-equipped laptop with features such as biometric fingerprint scanners and facial recognition at no additional cost can be well worth it. Furthermore, you always want to make sure that your new laptop is fully capable of connecting to both wired and wireless internet. Decide if you need a disc drive and have a wide array of ports for connecting your PC to other devices.
How much you can expect to spend on a laptop with Intel Core i5
Depending on your desired features and any budget constraints, a quality laptop with Intel Core i5 can cost anywhere from $540-$1,300, and sometimes more.
Best laptop with Intel Core i5 FAQ
Is a laptop with an Intel Core i5 good for everyday usage?
A. Absolutely. Any laptop with an Intel Core i5 will serve the average PC user well for gaming, editing and other tasks.
Should I spend the extra money on an Intel Core i7?
A. Unless you regularly engage in tasks that would make an ordinary computer glitch and stutter, there’s a fair chance that you will be just fine with an Intel Core i5.
What’s the best laptop with Intel Core i5 to buy?
Top laptop with Intel Core i5
ASUS VivoBook S13 Thin and Light Laptop
What you need to know: This ergonomically designed laptop is great for professionals who are always in motion.
What you’ll love: This unit offers ASUS AI Noise-Canceling Technology to eliminate unwanted interference, a 13.3-inch FHD NanoEdge bezel display with an 88% screen-to-body ratio, 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD and comes with Windows 10 Home included.
What you should consider: Some users have reported issues with sound quality as well as the backlit computer being hard to see in the dark.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top laptop with Intel Core i5 for the money
What you need to know: An affordable laptop for the student or young professional on a budget.
What you’ll love: This unit features a 15.6-inch FHD display with micro-edge, anti-glare display, IPS, a 6.5-millimeter micro-edge bezel display, 82% screen-to-body ratio, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD Storage, Intel Iris Xe Graphics and HP Fast Charge.
What you should consider: Some users have reported issues with the trackpad as well as the internal camera and microphone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ 12.3-inch Tablet
What you need to know: This luxurious two-in-one touchscreen laptop/tablet will fulfill your needs in style.
What you’ll love: This unit features a 12.3-inch PixelSense 2736 x 1824 (267 PPI) display with a 3:2 aspect ratio and 10-point multi-touch capabilities, as well as 8GB LPDDR4x RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Graphics and Fast Charging of 80% battery in one hour.
What you should consider: Users have complained of there only being two ports and no support for Thunderbolt cables.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, National Grid Renewables announced its pledge to donate over $500,000 to the New Underwood, South Dakota School District, sourced from its 128 megawatt (MW) Wild Springs Solar Project (Wild Springs or the project) located in Pennington County, South Dakota. The new Wild Springs Education Fund will be administered by the New Underwood Area Community Foundation, a local fund governed by the South Dakota Community Foundation.
"The New Underwood School District appreciates the pledge of $25,000 per year for 20 years provided by the Wild Springs Education Fund," said Katie Albers, Superintendent of the New Underwood School District. "The district will use these funds in a variety of ways to benefit our students, school and community."
National Grid Renewables initiates charitable funds for each of its large-scale renewable energy projects and commences funding of its pledge once the project achieves commercial operation. These charitable funds are intended to provide additional assistance to community activities and opportunities within the local host communities. These gifts donated by the charitable funds are above and beyond any tax revenue delivered by National Grid Renewables' projects.
"We are incredibly proud of the local community benefits resulting from these charitable funds," said Joe Ibrahim, Vice President of Construction and Engineering at National Grid Renewables. "When we construct a clean energy project, we are laying down roots in a community – and we take our role as a good neighbor seriously. We have the opportunity and the responsibility to give back and be a positive impact on both the residents and the local economy."
Wild Springs announced construction in early 2023 and is projected to be the largest solar energy project in the state to-date. Once operational, Wild Springs is anticipated to avoid 190,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually – the equivalent to removing roughly 42,000 cars from the road for one year. The project also expects to produce nearly $12 million in new tax revenue throughout the first 20 years of operation.
About National Grid Renewables
National Grid Renewables develops and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind, and energy storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables repowers America's electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables supports National Grid's vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.
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A place for everything
Bookshelves are an essential piece of furniture for anyone who loves to read. They provide a practical and stylish way to organize books and other items while also displaying them for easy access.
However, traditional bookshelves can be bulky and difficult to move around. Enter the folding bookshelf, a versatile and practical solution perfect for anyone who needs a little flexibility in their home decor.
Shop this article: Winsome Wood Foldable Four-tier Shelf, Casual Home Three-shelf Folding Stackable Bookcase and Stony Edge Four-shelf Folding Bookcase
What is a folding bookshelf and how does it work?
A folding bookshelf can be collapsed and folded easily for convenient storage or transportation. These bookshelves typically have a hinged design, which allows them to be folded flat when not in use and then easily expanded and locked into place when needed.
Most folding bookshelves are made from lightweight materials such as wood, bamboo or metal. They often have multiple shelves for books, decorative items or other household items. Floating bookshelves may also feature adjustable shelves, which can be moved up or down to accommodate different sizes of things.
To use a folding bookshelf, you unlock the hinges and pull the shelves out until they click into place. Once the bookshelf is set up, it can be used just like any other bookshelf. When you’re finished using it, you can simply fold it flat and store it away until you need it again.
Why buy a folding bookshelf?
Folding bookshelves are designed to be easily collapsed and stored away when not in use. This makes them ideal for people living in small spaces, such as apartments or studios, or those who like to move furniture around regularly.
In addition to their practicality, folding bookshelves are also available in various styles and materials. From sleek and modern designs made from metal or glass to more traditional wooden bookshelves, there is a folding bookshelf for every taste. Some models even come in fun and colorful designs for children’s rooms or other playful spaces.
One of the great things about folding bookshelves is that they can be used in various ways. Of course, they make a great storage solution for books and magazines, but they can also be used to display decorative objects, houseplants and other items. Because they can be easily moved around, you can experiment with different configurations to find the perfect setup for your space.
Another advantage of folding bookshelves is that they are often very affordable. While traditional bookshelves can be expensive, folding models are often more budget-friendly.
What to consider before buying folding bookshelves for your space
When shopping for a folding bookshelf, there are a few things to keep in mind.
First, consider the size and weight of the books or other items you plan to store on the shelves. Make sure the shelves are sturdy enough to support the weight and that they are the right size to accommodate your items.
You should also think about the bookshelf’s overall style and design to ensure it fits in with your existing decor.
Best folding bookshelves to buy
Winsome Wood Foldable Four-tier Shelf
Crafted from solid beechwood with a natural finish, the four roomy shelves of this foldable bookshelf provide ample space. Its lightweight design and easy portability make it a breeze to move and store. The mission-style slatted sides and open back lend a light, airy look that complements any decor.
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Casual Home Three-shelf Folding Stackable Bookcase
With its solid wood construction and rich espresso finish, this unit can support your belongings on its three sturdy shelves. Multiple shelves can easily be stacked up to two units high, and no assembly is required.
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Stony Edge Four-tier Folding Bookcase
This sturdy and well-balanced foldable bookshelf can hold heavy items while still being light enough to move around easily. Made from high-grade natural wood, this foldable bookcase’s four shelves offer ample storage space.
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Convenience Concepts Extra Storage Three-tier Folding Metal Shelf
The foldable bookshelf made of powder-coated metal is a versatile and convenient storage solution for any room in the house. With its easy-to-use swing-out design, you can quickly drop shelves into place and move the bookshelf around effortlessly, making it ideal for holding anything from books to collectibles.
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Regency Flip-Flop High Folding Bookcase
The flip-down mechanism on the shelves makes assembling this 67-inch tall foldable bookcase very simple. The solid wood frame and medium oak finish make it a durable piece of furniture that looks great with almost any decor.
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Winsome Wood Four-tier Folding Terry Shelving
This narrow but tall folding bookshelf is great for slotting into the corner of a small space. It’s made from solid wood with a walnut finish, giving it a premium, antique look.
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Casual Home Montego Three-shelf Folding Bookcase
These shelves offer a hassle-free storage solution with their lightweight, 22-pound construction and stackable design. They’re made from solid wood with cross-patterned siding on the shelves to prevent books and other items from falling off.
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Convenience Concepts Five-tier Folding Metal Corner Shelf
The assembly of these folding corner bookshelves is as simple as swinging out the sides and dropping each shelf into place. They are easy to use, store and move around, making them a practical and versatile storage solution.
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Regency Flip Flop Folding Bookcase
With three flip-down shelves and one fixed top shelf, this solid hardwood frame bookcase is easy to assemble without tools. It features a classy white hand-rubbed veneer finish, perfect for homes, offices and dorm rooms.
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2023 CES® Innovation Awards Honoree
FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HYPER, the creator of the world's most crowdfunded USB-C ® hubs for MacBook®, and the number one docking station brand in the USA¹, today announced the crowdfunding campaign launch for its CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree, HyperPack Pro.
The HyperPack Pro backpack enhances the mobile tech experience in four key areas: security, device protection, charging enabling, and travel convenience.
"HyperPack Pro is the creative professional's ideal mobile tool kit, engineered down to the last detail to protect and enhance your gear during travel or commuting." - Barry Miller, VP of Sales and Marketing, HYPER.
The built-in Hyper Location Module with Apple Find My network compatibility allows you to track HyperPack Pro and its contents from anywhere, while a weather-resistant, ultra-durable 1260D Cordura® exterior and suspended interior laptop pocket protect your devices from scratches and drops. Strategically placed charging pass-throughs in the interior pockets allow you to use a portable battery pack to power your devices on-the-go, and numerous thoughtful design details make HyperPack Pro a seamless travel companion.
Additional security features include an RFID protective pocket, interlocking zippers, and a hidden lumbar pocket to keep your valuables and important documents safe on-the-go.
This 22L backpack easily stores a 16" laptop, tablet, phone, and additional gear with room to spare for personal items like gym clothes or extra layers. An interior 1L water bottle pocket, microfiber-lined sunglasses pouch, and exterior carry-on luggage sleeve are just a few of the design details that elevate HyperPack Pro above other tech backpacks.
Hyper is launching HyperPack Pro via an Indiegogo campaign starting today (12/5/2022) and ending on 01/05/2023. Indiegogo Early Bird Backers can secure HyperPack Pro for 50% off the MSRP of $199.99.
HyperPack Pro Key Features:
Apple Find My Compatible Location Module
Built-in Hyper Location Module with Find My network compatibility, sound alert, and replaceable battery.
Abrasion & Water-Resistant Exterior
Water-resistant 1260D Cordura, weather-resistant YKK® AquaGuard® zippers, and a suspended, felt-lined laptop pocket to keep gear safe and dry.
Anti-Theft Security
RFID protective pocket, interlocking zippers, and hidden back pocket, protect tech and valuables from theft.
Triple Padded Back & Luggage Pass-through
Three layers of breathable foam reinforce the back of HyperPack Pro for all-day carrying comfort, while a built-in luggage pass-through provides a seamless travel experience.
Limited Lifetime Warranty
HyperPack Pro's Limited Lifetime Warranty protects you against manufacturing defects in materials and workmanship for the practical lifetime of the product. 2-year limited warranty for the location module.
Specifications:
Model: HP20P-BK
Dimensions: 31x 13x 48.5 cm / 12.2 x 5.12 x 19.09 in
Weight: 1.36 kg / 2.99 lbs
Capacity: 22L / 5.8 gal.
Available December 5, 2022 via Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/1c46f1d5
MSRP: $199.99
Early Backer Sale Price: $99.99 (50% Off MSRP)
About HYPER
Celebrating its 17th year in business, HYPER, a subsidiary of Targus, is a dynamic team headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. We specialize in delivering award-winning, cutting-edge IT and mobile accessories with a focus on Apple, portable power & connectivity products.
¹The NPD Group/Retail Tracking Service, U.S., Annual 2021.
* Hyper and HyperPack are trademarks or registered trademarks of Targus International LLC in the U.S. and in certain other countries. Find My, MacBook, iPad, AirPods, and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. USB Type-C and USB-C are registered trademarks of USB Implementers. YKK and AquaGuard are registered trademarks of YKK Corporation. CORDURA is a trademark of INVISTA. All logos and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Red Anchor Seafood, which opened about two years ago near the Acadiana Mall, has closed.
It’s unknown exactly when the restaurant at 5621 Johnston St. closed. It last posted to social media was over a month ago.
The eatery was in the space that formerly housed Sunny’s Rice & Noodles, Acme Taco & Burger Bar and Shanghai Moon, reports indicate.
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Since its inception in 2015, people from SaddleBrooke, members of the Oracle Schools Foundation Board, in addition to administrators and teachers in the Oracle schools, have worked in tandem in order to ensure that the fund-raising mission of the Foundation is on-going. This includes two major fund-raising activities—the annual Spring Fling Gala, a lovely evening event that features live and silent auctions, in addition to fixed price events. The 2024 Gala will be held on Sunday, March 10. And our second fundraiser, a benefit concert, will feature The Tributaries on Wednesday, April 10.
Why is the Spring Fling Gala essential to the Oracle Schools Foundation? According to Ann Vernon, Fundraising Chairperson for the Foundation Board, “The money raised from the Gala and concert will help support preschool. In Arizona, preschool is not funded by the state, so the monies we raise help support this very important cause, and other educational programs. The 2023 Spring Fling Gala and concert raised over $58,000!”
There are three events that were offered at the March Gala that still have some openings. Consider going!
A Tequila-TastingTequila is unique to one country in the world: Mexico. Tequila has many levels of taste, aging, complexity and cost. At this tequila-tasting party you will get a historical and cultural overview about the manufacturing of tequila, from Mark Goodrich, a world traveler and frequent visitor to Mexico. You will also taste several categories of tequila, some tequila-enhancing appetizers and sample some ‘Tequila relatives.” As you drink tequila out of an interesting tasting glass (yours to keep), you will participate in an interactive review and discussion as you rate your tastings. At the end of the party, you will have an opportunity to bid on a bottle of tequila. Price is $50 per person.
When? Thursday, November 8, 5:30 p.m., at the home of Ken and Mary Riemersma (Donors), 65272 E. Rocky Mesa Drive.
For more information, call (619) 851-6645 or email maryriemersma@gmail.com. Also Donors: Mark and Judy Goodrich.
Starry, Starry NightThe evening begins with hors d’oeuvres, accompanied by your choice of wine or beer. As the sky darkens, you will be enlightened with a short preview of the stars, constellations, or formations in the heavens. Our accomplished, amateur astronomers of the SaddleBrooke Skygazers will take you to the planets, stars and beyond. Through the use of telescopes and binoculars, you will view the wonders of the night sky. The evening will be focused toward giving anyone who has a curiosity about “what’s up there” some thoughtful answers. Price is $50 per person.
When? Thursday, November 16, 5:30 p.m., at the home of Barry and Mary Jo Swartzberg (Donors), 36719 Stoney Flower Drive. For more information, call (520) 825-0463 or email mjbswartzberg@gmail.com.
A House ConcertEnjoy an evening of music, storytelling and comedy paired with gourmet hors d’oeuvres and wine in a private SaddleBrooke home. The talented entertainer, J.D. Loveland, won his first talent contest at the age of 13. Now, over 50-years later, his performances are seasoned with a repertoire that includes original compositions to classical hits that cover over a half-century of Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Country and Gospel. You will laugh, cry, sing along and absolutely enjoy the evening. Price is $50 per person.
When? Friday, October 6, 4:30 p.m., at the home of John and Joyce Faulkner (Donors), 62063 East Northwood Drive. For more information, call (520) 981-0437 or email rockymonty52@gmail.com.
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Last week we went to the orchard to pick grapes. All the households in our family went along, and our driver pulled an enclosed trailer so we could all get our grapes home.
We take along 5-gallon buckets, and that is counted as a half-bushel. Some picked Niagara grapes, which make a light-colored juice. I prefer the Concord, so that was what we picked for us. Daughter Susan mixes the Niagara and Concord for her juice. The Niagara grapes were easy picking, but the Concord were more of a challenge and time-consuming, because of wet weather and hail earlier this year.
Friday we canned grape juice using steamers. I helped daughter Loretta with hers. We also brought cider home from the orchard, so we are enjoying that with popcorn and apples (we also bought those at the orchard). The orchard is a 30-minute drive away with a vehicle, so that’s why we all go at the same time.
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While filling the jars from the hose of the steamer, I had an accident. The hose slipped from the jar and the boiling grape juice went over my hand. I have a pretty big burn from it. It is sore, but I get relief when I put a burdock leaf on it along with B&W salve. It’s just unhandy, since it’s my right hand and I’m right-handed. It hurts to write, and I feel sorry for my editor that has to try to read my handwriting. I need to get after my daughters to see if they will take a turn writing again. It’s a busy time of the year for the young mothers.
We also canned hot peppers, and I’ll share my recipe this week. We like the Serrano peppers. They seem to stay crisper after canned.
We also like to grow the sweet banana peppers to stuff with cream cheese and shredded cheese then wrap with bacon, using round toothpicks to hold it on. We put them on the grill until the bacon is cooked. I don’t can those peppers but like to keep some for as long as I can after the frost. We pick them and keep them in our back porch where it’s cool on days like this. Some places have had a frost, but my garden plants still didn’t get frosted.
Brother Albert and Sarah Irene’s 36th anniversary was Oct. 2. I was 15 when they were married. Alberts are hosting our family gathering on Oct. 15. Our family is almost to the 200 count when we are all together. One of the siblings hosts the family each year. They furnish the hot food and everything else is brought in. It accumulates to quite a bit of food.
Daughter Loretta and Dustin’s first anniversary was Oct. 1 and )ct. 4 was sister Liz and Levi’s 30th anniversary. They were married the year before Joe and I, so next year will be Joe and my 30th anniversary—Lord willing!
We wish all three couples many more happy and healthy years together and God’s blessings always!
Also, congratulations to niece Rosemary and Josiah as they were united in marriage on Oct. 1. May God bless them through their married life together.
And as I bring this to a close, I want to sign off wishing you much good health and happiness as we travel into the unknown future. God bless!
Pickled Hot Peppers
Hot peppers, sliced
3 cups vinegar (white)
3 cups water
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup salt
DIRECTIONS: Fill jars with sliced hot peppers. Heat vinegar and water, bringing to a boil. Add sugar and salt, stirring until dissolved. Pour brine over peppers and seal jars. Process in a boiling-water bath canner according to USDA guidelines suggested by your local extension office or the National Center for Home Preservation website. Makes enough brine for 5–6 pints.
Lovina’s Amish Kitchen is written by Lovina Eicher, Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife, and mother of eight. Her newest cookbook, "Amish Family Recipes," is available wherever books are sold. Readers can write to Eicher at Lovina’s Amish Kitchen, PO Box 234, Sturgis, MI 49091 (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply); or email LovinasAmishKitchen@MennoMedia.org and your message will be passed on to her to read. She does not personally respond to emails.
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Man injured after shooting in Barberton on Sunday evening, police say
Published: May. 15, 2023 at 6:45 PM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
BARBERTON, Ohio (WOIO) - A man was injured after a Sunday evening shooting, according to the Barberton Police Department.
Police say officers responded to the area of Fifth Street Northeast and Jefferson Avenue for a report of gunshots.
Officers located a man who has been shot, police say.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police say.
This is an active and ongoing investigation by Barberton Detectives and no further information is available at this time.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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Hearings for Bernheim Forest, LG&E pipeline case begins
BULLITT COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – LG and E announced its pipeline project for Bullitt County back in 2019 with approval by the Kentucky Public Service Commission.
But, the project was delayed after pushback by landowners and a complaint filed by Bernheim Forest which was later rejected.
LG&E then decided to sue those landowners and Bernheim Forest.
Four years later LG&E is getting its day in court in an effort to condemn the lands it needs to move forward with the project.
Bernheim Forest is challenging that, saying the pipeline would cut through its Cedar Grove Wildlife Center and would destroy rare and endangered species habitats, pollute streams and springs, and further depress the wildlife population.
Mark Wourms, the Executive Director of Bernheim says protecting the land is much bigger than just Bernheim.
“It is about us holding big energy companies accountable for their actions. It is about setting a vision for a future that’s clean sustainable and vibrant and that’s what we want everybody to do. We love the communities we work in, we support community growth, and we want it to be sustainable and vibrant” said Wourms.
However, LG&E argues only a small portion of the pipeline, around 4,000 feet would run thru the Bernheim property.
Saying ” The pipeline route is completely disconnected from Bernheim’s recreational areas that are open to the public and only make .03% of Bernheim’s total footprint.”
LG&E also argues the pipeline is needed to better serve Bullitt County customers.
The trial between LG&E and Bernheim forest is expected to last several days.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The head of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice resigned Friday, amid a deepening crisis inside the state’s youth detention facilities, including escapes, riots, a controversial relocation and capacity challenges.
Deputy Secretary William “Bill” Sommers has led the agency since 2020. The agency's assistant secretary, Otha “Curtis” Nelson, Jr., will serve as the interim deputy secretary.
“I am grateful to Bill for his service to our state,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a written statement, in which he announced the resignation. “He joined us during one of the most difficult periods in Louisiana’s history, leading OJJ through the COVID-19 pandemic and devastating natural disasters.”
Sommers’ departure follows months of significant ongoing issues facing juvenile detention centers in the state. Most recently, the agency said in a letter that there was no more room in the state’s juvenile lockups and asked judges to help by releasing some low-risk teen offenders back to their communities, The Advocate reported Wednesday.
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ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – On April 20, the City of Española declared a state of emergency as Santa Cruz Lake started overflowing. It comes due to a strong monsoon season and snowmelt.
Española City Manager Jordan Yutzy said a local trailer park has started flooding. Combined with soft soil and running water, the city worries about the homeowners living there and fears nearby neighborhoods could also be hit.
They said the situation is difficult because the land the Rio Santa Cruz River runs through isn’t owned by the city.
“The river is actually owned between Pueblo property and private property, but the flooding is affecting our residents, and if the snowmelt gets worse down the river, then you could see a lot more water coming that way which is going to affect a lot more homes,” said Yutzy.
The city started holding back the water by creating runoffs and using sandbags, but it’s not enough.
Española Emergency Manager Jeff Sargent mentioned the area normally doesn’t worry about flooding until monsoon season. The city hopes the state will come to the rescue as they continue to keep an eye on flood waters.
“That’s the purpose of emergency management, and you have the Army Corps of engineers, and they have the equipment to be able to help us get what we need to help mitigate it,” said Sargent.
According to the city manager, by declaring the situation a disaster, the next step will be for the county to declare a disaster to help get assistance. Due to warm weather coming up this week, the city expects things to get worse.
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STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the victims’ families but also vowed to support him and promote “his presumption of innocence.”
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is eager to be exonerated and plans to tell a judge Tuesday in Pennsylvania that he will not fight extradition to Idaho, said his public defender, Jason LaBar.
Moscow, Idaho, police Capt. Anthony Dahlinger said that would speed up the process of bringing Kohberger to Idaho to face charges, but that he wasn’t sure yet when that might happen.
Kohberger, a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was taken into custody early Friday by state police at his parents’ home in Chestnuthill Township in eastern Pennsylvania, authorities said.
His parents, Michael and Maryann, and his two older sisters, Amanda and Melissa, said in a statement released Sunday by his attorney that they “care deeply for the four families who have lost their precious children. There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel, and we pray each day for them.”
The family said that relatives will continue to let the legal process unfold, and that “as a family we will love and support our son and brother.” They say they have fully cooperated with law enforcement to try to to “seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”
LaBar, the public defender in Monroe County, Idaho, urged people not to pass judgment until a fair trial has been held.
“Mr. Kohberger has been accused of very serious crimes, but the American justice system cloaks him in a veil of innocence,” LaBar said in a statement. “He should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise — not tried in the court of public opinion.”
Capt. Dahlinger told The Associated Press on Saturday that authorities believe Kohberger was responsible for all four murders. “We believe we’ve got our man,” he said.
Bill Thompson, a prosecutor in Latah County, Idaho, said during a news conference Friday that investigators believe Kohberger broke into the University of Idaho students’ home near campus “with the intent to commit murder.” The bodies of the victims were found Nov. 13, several hours after investigators believe they died.
The students — Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington — were members of the university’s Greek system and close friends. Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle lived in the three-story rental home with two other roommates. Kernodle and Chapin were dating, and he was visiting the house that night.
Autopsies showed all four were likely asleep when they were attacked. Some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times. There was no sign of sexual assault, police said.
Christina Teves, a spokesperson for the Chapin family, declined to comment Monday on the Kohberger family’s statement. Shanon Gray, a lawyer for the Goncalves family, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Latah County prosecutors have said the affidavit for four charges of first-degree murder in Idaho will remain sealed until he is returned. He is also charged with felony burglary in Idaho. Many details of the case are expected to be released after Kohberger’s first appearance in an Idaho courtroom, Dahlinger said.
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MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — Several animals were killed in a fire at the Alligator & Wildlife Discovery Center at John’s Pass Village & Boardwalk early Thursday.
Madiera Beach Fire Department Fire Chief Clint Belk said crews were met with heavy fire and smoke conditions at the front of the building.
Belk said he is not sure how many animals died in the fire but the building was severely damaged.
“Unforntualy it does appear to be a large loss of animal life involved. It’s definitely unfortunate,” Belk said.
Belk said a former mayor of Madiera Beach owned the property.
“This affects us greatly. The owner of this was a former mayor of Madiera Beach. He’s been a huge supporter for the fire department. It does hurt. Being a small-knit community, we know these people with a first-name basis,” Belk sad.
The cause of the fire is not known at this time. The State Fire Marshal and Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Arson Unit will investigate the fire.
The Madiera Beach Fire Department Fire will remain at the scene for several more hours.
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JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Aid agencies and governments stepped up efforts Tuesday to get help to earthquake-devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, but a week after the disaster many of those left homeless were still struggling to meet basic needs, like finding shelter from the bitter cold.
The situation was particularly desperate in Syria, where a 12-year civil war has complicated relief efforts and meant days of wrangling over how to even move aid into the country, let alone distribute it. Some people there said they have received nothing. In Turkey, meanwhile, families huddled in train cars.
On Tuesday, the United Nations launched a $397 million appeal to provide “desperately needed, life-saving relief for nearly 5 million Syrians” for three months. It came a day after the global body announced a deal with Damascus to deliver U.N. aid through two more border crossings from Turkey to rebel-held areas of northwest Syria — but the needs remained enormous.
Ahmed Ismail Suleiman set up a shelter of blankets outside his damaged house in the town of Jinderis, one of the worst-hit communities in northwest Syria. He was afraid to move his family back into a house that might not be structurally sound, so 18 people slept outside under the makeshift tent.
“We sit but can’t sleep lying down here," he said. “We are waiting for a proper tent.”
Mahmoud Haffar, head of the town council, said residents have been able to scrounge up about 2,500 tents so far, but some 1,500 families still remain without shelter — as nighttime temperatures fall to around minus 4 degrees Celsius (26 degrees Fahrenheit).
“We are on day nine and we are still hearing the question of when will aid get in,” said Haffar.
While tents have been in short supply, one women said the town had a surplus of donated bread and water.
To the southwest, in government-held Latakia, Raeefa Breemo said only those packing into shelters seemed to be getting aid.
“We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to survive. Our jobs, our lives, everything have stopped," Breemo said.
Offers of help — from rescue crews and doctors to generators and food — have come from around the world, but the needs remain immense after the magnitude 7.8 quake and powerful aftershocks toppled or damaged tens of thousands of buildings, destroyed roads and closed airports for a time. The quake affected 10 provinces in Turkey that are home to some 13.5 million people, as well as a large area in northwest Syria that is home to millions.
Much of the water system in the quake-hit region was not working, and Turkey’s health minister said samples from dozens of points of the system showed the water was unsuitable to drink.
In the Turkish port city of Iskenderun, displaced families have sheltered in train carriages since last week.
While many have left in recent days for nearby camps or other parts of Turkey, dozens of people were still living in the trains on Tuesday.
“The wagons have become our home,” 50-year-old Nida Karahan told Anadolu Agency.
While a first Saudi aid plane, carrying 35 tons of food, landed in Syrian government-held Aleppo on Tuesday, getting aid to the country's rebel-held Idlib has been especially complicated.
Until Monday’s deal between the U.N. and the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad, the global body had only been allowed to deliver aid to the area through a single border crossing with Turkey, or via government territory.
The newly opened crossings at Bab al-Salameh and Al Raée are to function for an initial period of three months. Russia bristled at suggestions that the opening of the crossings might be made permanent, and its Foreign Ministry accused the West of trying to get aid “exclusively” to areas not controlled by the Syrian government.
Major humanitarian organizations welcomed the development but cautioned that logistical problems remain, even as the first U.N. aid convoy with 11 trucks entered northwestern Syria through Bab al-Salameh Tuesday.
“This is a constant back and forth in negotiations,” said World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier. “Every party has to agree to receive convoys.”
Meanwhile, the death toll surpassed 35,500 — nearly 32,000 of those in Turkey. In Syria, the toll in the northwestern rebel-held region has passed 2,200, according to the rescue group known as the White Helmets. Over 1,400 people have died in government-held areas, according to the Syrian Health Ministry.
The toll is nearly certain to rise as search teams turn up more bodies — and the window for finding survivors was closing.
Nevertheless, more than 200 hours after the quake struck, teacher Emine Akgul was pulled from an apartment building in Antakya by a mining search and rescue team, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
In Adiyaman province, rescuers reached 18-year-old Muhammed Cafer Cetin, and medics gave him an IV with fluids before attempting a dangerous extraction from a building that crumbled further as rescuers were working. Medics fitted him with a neck brace and he was carted away on a stretcher with an oxygen mask, Turkish TV showed.
Many in Turkey have blamed faulty construction for the vast devastation, and authorities continued targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed. Turkey has introduced construction codes that meet earthquake-engineering standards, but experts say the codes are rarely enforced.
At a temporary shelter in a sports center in Afrin in northwest Syria, 190 families were sleeping on the floor of a basketball court, lying on mats typically used for training. The families attempted to create a semblance of privacy by hanging blankets on columns or sports bars.
Sabah el Khodr said she and her two toddlers have been sick for the last nine days. The children were wrapped in blankets and sleeping on the floor of the court.
Local officials said the shelter is temporary, until new tents are secured.
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Bilginsoy reported from Istanbul, Armangue from Antakya, Turkey; Andrew Wilks in Istanbul, Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, and Edith M. Lederer in New York contributed to this report.
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WOODINVILLE, Wash., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, Woodinville Whiskey will release its Special Limited Release Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon in 23 markets (MSRP $99.99 per bottle). At the time of its distillery-only release last fall, the Woodinville 2021 Harvest Release was the first Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon in the American Whiskey category. The whiskey was introduced exclusively at the Distillery Tasting Room in Washington state last September.
Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon is Woodinville's fully mature, Flagship Straight Bourbon Whiskey transferred into 10-year-old, 200-gallon Moscatel de Setúbal barrels for "finishing". Moscatel de Setúbal is a rare, fortified wine produced on the Setúbal Peninsula of Portugal, a region known for its ideal climate for producing these wines. This "finishing" process adds notes of dried apricot and orange peel, with a honey and toffee sweetness. Candied nuts and a hint of fennel greet you for a lingering finish.
As the 2021 Washington state Harvest Release, Woodinville Moscatel Finished Straight Bourbon was named one of the "Best New American Double-Barrel Whiskies of 2021" by Nicolas Stecher in Maxim. For Uproxx's "Best Bourbon Whiskey Blind Taste Test" in February, Zach Johnston of Uproxx wrote, "Tasting Notes: There's a mix of chocolate powder, apricots, and orange that's tempered by five spice and a hint of wet reeds. Sweet and floral honey opens the palate up to Almond Roca (gotcha!) and peach pits. Ripe plums with more of those wet reeds drive the finish towards soft leather, more stone fruit, and a slightly spicy tobacco chew. My Guess: This is a Woodinville bourbon… that Almond Roca flavor note is very Seattle and gives it away instantly."
Woodinville's online Product Locator will assist in locating bottles of this Special Limited Release: https://www.woodinvillewhiskeyco.com/product-locator/ .
Woodinville Whiskey Company (www.woodinvillewhiskeyco.com) is a craft distillery founded by two longtime friends and residents of the Woodinville area, Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile under the mentorship of an industry icon, the late David Pickerell, former Master Distiller for Maker's Mark. Woodinville is Washington state's largest craft distillery, handcrafting all of its products from 100% locally sourced grains from the Omlin Family Farm in Quincy, Washington.
Their single farm, flagship products, Woodinville Straight Bourbon Whiskey, and Woodinville Straight 100% Rye Whiskey were both awarded "Craft Whiskey of the Year" in their respective categories by the American Distilling Institute in 2016 and 2017, a national competition with over 500 spirits entries from around the country. In March of 2020, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition also gave the competition's highest honors to Woodinville's Flagship Bourbon Whiskey with a Double Gold medal and the title of "Best Straight Bourbon Whiskey of 2020". In addition, it performed incredibly in Fred Minnick's "Pappy vs. the Field" blind tasting and Minnick also named it "Best Bourbon Outside Kentucky" in 2019. Last year Forbes reported that Woodinville "may just be the best craft whiskey in America." And in May, Woodinville Flagship Straight 100% Rye Whiskey earned Double Platinum honors in the American Spirits Council of Tasters 2022 ASCOT Awards.
In 2017 Woodinville joined Moët Hennessy, the wine and spirits division of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), the world's leading luxury goods company, with Orlin and Brett still at the helm. Woodinville Whiskey is available in Washington state, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, DC metro, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. The state-of-the-art distillery and tasting room in Woodinville, completed in 2014, is home to exclusive new launches like its annual Harvest Release in the fall. Private tours led by a distiller are available, when scheduled in advance. The distillery is open 7 days a week. Woodinville PR: Kat Spellman, (206)755-2341, spellman@woodinvillewhiskeyco.com.
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Good morning, Early Birds! Welcome to the unofficial start of summer. And welcome back Theo, who returns to work married and (hopefully) rested. 💍 Congrats again Theo! Tips? earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us.
On the Hill
One way Senate Democrats can act on guns despite Republican opposition
Regardless of whether there are enough Republicans willing to cut a deal on new gun restrictions (more on that below), there is one thing Senate Democrats can do on their own to impact the nation's gun laws: confirm a permanent director to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
President Biden has tapped Steve Dettelbach to lead ATF, the federal agency tasked with enforcing gun laws and prosecuting illicit activity, including gun trafficking. His confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee was last week and he is gaining support among Democrats critical to his quest for confirmation.
Biden's first nominee, David Chipman, had his nomination pulled in September after moderate Democrats signaled they were unlikely to vote for him, tanking his nomination because all Republicans opposed the nomination.
But Dettelbach is securing key votes. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who didn't back Chipman, announced last week he's likely to support him. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), told The Early last week that he met with Dettelbach and is “considering” backing him.
All Republicans are expected to oppose Dettelbach with the agency serving as a boogeyman on the right and a director nomination as a litmus test among conservatives for where you stand on gun laws.
But with 50 votes and control of the Senate, Democrats have the ability to confirm Dettlebach and a failure to do so would send a stark message to the country that not even the party in favor of gun control measures can muster the votes to act in response to the latest mass shootings that have shaken the country.
The Judiciary Committee must move him out of committee before his nomination can come to the floor for a vote and no timeline has been announced.
Dettelbach's confirmation comes at a time when law enforcement agencies and the nation's gun laws are under scrutiny and so too is the beleaguered agency that has been underfunded, is outdated and has had only one confirmed director — Todd Jones in 2015 — since the position became a presidential appointee in 2006.
The ATF is mandated, in part, to disrupt gun violence and illegal gun purchases and sales. But its effectiveness has been weakened for the past twenty years by Congress, which advocates say is why the bureau needs a Senate-confirmed director who can operate with more authority than someone filling the role in an acting capacity.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called a Senate-confirmed appointee to the agency “vital.”
“They advocate to Congress,” Booker said. “They engage in ways that not having a leader really undermines.” The president needs a partner “that can help with strategic initiatives that are really important right now,” Booker added.
The agency has been in decline for years.
For instance, a 2019 report from the gun control group Giffords, run by former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D) who was shot in the head at a campaign event, found that ATF had fewer employees in 2017 than it did in 2002. Its annual budget has increased at a far slower rate than other government agencies.
The agency's challenges began in 2003, when Congress included an amendment authored under then-Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) in an annual spending bill that prohibited ATF from releasing gun tracing data, which can be a tool to solve gun crimes.
Furthermore, gun dealers don't have to turn over gun sale information and gun inventory to the government. That same amendment, which has been included every year since, mandates the FBI to destroy every background check that has been approved within 24 hours. It also prohibits ATF from digitizing gun records. Gun license records are stored in boxes in a massive warehouse in Martinsburg, W.Va. The floor recently collapsed under the weight of the paper records.
The National Rifle Association has long worked to weaken the agency and gun control groups say the Tiahrt amendment has made it difficult for ATF to enforce current gun laws.
“I think that shows how deliberate and intentional the gun lobby has been to try to make ATF ineffective,” T. Christian Heyne, vice president of policy at the Brady Campaign, told The Early.
It's up to Congress to repeal the Tiahrt amendment, which doesn't appear on the table at the moment due to GOP opposition, but gun control advocates said a permanent director would be better position to lobby for changes to this and other constraints on ATF.
“Having a director in place that can forcefully tell Congress where they are tying their hands — where they're making ATF job impossible — you need a strong permanent and firm director to be able to stand up and advocate for that agency,” Heyne said.
The latest on Senate gun bill discussions
A bipartisan group of senators will continue to work on compromise gun legislation this week even as the Senate is out of Washington for the Memorial Day recess. The talks are wide ranging — red flag laws, background checks, mental health assessments, safe firearm storage and school safety measures. But the talks are limited, too. For instance, there is no discussion of banning assault style weapons.
Perhaps the group will reach agreement to hold a vote as early as next week. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has been working on gun legislation since the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012 and over the weekend he told ABC's “This Week” that the talks are “encouraging.” Biden said this weekend that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a “rational Republican.” But as our colleagues Ashley Parker and Michael Sherer wrote over the weekend, McConnell has spent his career blocking gun legislation.
At the White House
His brother’s (and nephew’s) keeper: “James Biden took out his iPhone early one morning in September 2017 and tapped a quick message to his nephew Hunter,” our colleague Matt Viser writes. “It was, as usual, filled with typos. It was also, as usual, filled with exclamation points meant to convey his exuberance.”
- “Hunter, we are cut from the same cloth,” James Biden wrote. “… You are a fine and yes, a gentle person. Believe it or not, I know you. Sounds corney,but we both deserve to enjoy the moment. Concentrate on the good in our lives and try to step out of all the bullshit you deal with on a minute to minute basis.”
- “James and Hunter Biden were in the midst of a lucrative deal with Chinese executives at the time, while Joe Biden was out of public service for the first time in nearly a half-century, having left the vice presidency a few months earlier,” per Viser. “Hunter Biden was also wrestling with drug addiction, financial problems and a relationship with his late brother Beau’s widow that had become public. Amid all that, Hunter Biden turned to his uncle, at least as much as to his famous father, for emotional support.”
“James Biden has in many ways always been the protector in the Biden family, the one who made sure the machinery ran while his brother soared; President Biden as recently as late last year referred to him as ‘my brother Jimmy, who fixes everything.’”
- “He has been there for the bad times, comforting family members in distress, visiting the bedside of loved ones, getting them into rehab when needed. He was by his brother’s side at his first wedding, was at the hospital when Beau died, found a neurosurgeon when Joe had a brain aneurysm.”
- “He even helped paint Hunter’s law school apartment. When Joe Biden became president, his brother was tasked with redecorating the Oval Office.”
- “Yet from the start of Joe Biden’s political career, James, who is seven years younger, has also walked up to ethical lines his brother has avoided, leaving a complicated trail of business dealings and angry lawsuits.”
In the agencies
Biden struggles to rebuild the EPA, without the money to do it
‘It’s not a good idea to starve the agency’: “After years of neglect, President Biden promised to reinvigorate the [Environmental Protection Agency] as part of his push to tackle climate change and ease the pollution burden placed on poor and minority communities,” our colleague Dino Grandoni reports. “But the agency’s budgetary woes are preventing the nation’s top pollution regulator from doing its job, in ways large and small.”
- “The agency’s funding has remained stagnant since his inauguration. Its work is hamstrung by low staffing levels not seen since Ronald Reagan left office.”
- “The lack of resources and workers has undercut its ability to inspect facilities, measure contamination, punish violators and write new rules to stem pollution and climate change at a time when scientists say the world needs to act faster to stop runaway global warming.”
- “At the beginning of his term, Biden asked Congress for a big boost to the EPA’s budget, from $9.2 billion to $11.2 billion. But the agency ended up getting only a fifth of that additional $2 billion requested by Biden, an increase that does not keep pace with the rapid rate of inflation. That means the EPA actually has less spending power since Democrats took full control of the executive and legislative branches, even as its responsibilities grow.”
The Data
The demographics of student loan borrowers, visualized: “Soaring college costs, higher enrollment, changes to the federal lending system, labor market demand for credentials and paltry wage growth have all contributed to the $1.6 trillion in outstanding federal student debt,” our colleagues Alyssa Fowers and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel report. “About 1 in 5 Americans hold student loans.”
- “Student debt is most prevalent among Americans aged 25 to 34 … Among the fastest-growing categories of student loan borrowers over the past two decades are Black students and people ages 50 and older, according to the most recent Federal Reserve data.”
- Washington, D.C. has the highest concentration of student loan borrowers, per our colleagues, “with the average federal student debt per borrower at $55,000.”
The Media
Early reeeads 🐦 📖
Here’s the latest from our colleagues on the Uvalde school shooting:
- Biden vows to ‘continue to push’ for gun laws after visiting Uvalde. By The Post’s Ellen Nakashima and Paulina Villegas.
- Rosaries, bouquets and tiny caskets: Uvalde begins to bury its dead. By The Post’s Annie Gowen and Teo Armus.
More reeeads:
- ICYMI: U.S. marks Memorial Day weekend with at least 11 mass shootings. By The Post’s Annabelle Timsit.
- Some Democrats voting in GOP contests to block Trump picks. By AP News’ StevePeoples and Aaron Kessler.
- Maloney vs. Nadler? New York must pick a side (east or west). By the New York Times’ Nicholas Fandos.
- Former Trump aide Navarro says he has received a grand jury subpoena related to Jan. 6. By Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu.
- Biden pledges to back Fed in effort to combat high inflation. By the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Timiraos.
Viral
We're joining other newsrooms in Texas — including @dallasnews, @statesman and @HoustonChron — in 21 minutes of silence in remembrance of the 21 killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 30, 2022
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NEW YORK — After holding it in limbo following Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March, Apple will release the actor’s next big project, “Emancipation,” this December.
Nevertheless, Apple TV+ said Monday that it will debut “Emancipation” on Dec. 2 in theaters and begin streaming it Dec. 9.
Over the weekend, Apple and the NAACP held the first screening of the film in Washington, D.C., as part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Legislative Conference. Smith attended the screening and spoke on stage.
The release of “Emancipation” will pose the biggest test yet of how eager moviegoers are for a movie headlined by Smith, an actor who has generated more than $6.5 billion in worldwide box office. Still, the brief exclusive run in theaters will also mean “Emancipation,” like Apple's best picture-winning “CODA,” will be seen primarily in homes.
Regardless, the streamer isn’t shying away from its star. A black-and-white profile of Smith’s face, with a chain around his neck, adorns the movie poster.
In the film, Smith plays a man named Peter who escapes from slavery in Louisiana. It was inspired by the 1863 photos of a man known as “Whipped Peter” that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly showing a Union Army medical exam of a mutilated man. The film had originally been planned to shoot in Georgia before Fuqua and Smith moved the production to New Orleans in response to Georgia’s then-newly enacted laws restricting voting access.
“Emancipation” was shot in the summer of 2021. Until the slap, its release had been expected in 2022.
Before Smith was banned by the motion picture academy, the actor resigned his membership, saying, “My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable.”
Since then, Smith has largely stayed out the public eye. In late July, he gave his most extensive comments about the incident in a video posted to social media in which he apologized to Rock, who had made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, Smith’s wife.
Smith remains eligible for an Oscar nomination.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to end the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion has catapulted businesses of all types into the most divisive corner of politics.
Some companies that stayed silent last month — when a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico — spoke up for the first time Friday, including The Walt Disney Company, which said it will reimburse employees who must travel out of state to get an abortion.
Facebook parent Meta, American Express, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs also said they would cover employee travel costs while others like Apple, Starbucks, Lyft and Yelp reiterated previous announcements taking similar action. Outdoor clothing maker Patagonia went so far as to post on LinkedIn Friday that it would provide “training and bail for those who peacefully protest for reproductive justice” and time off to vote.
But of the dozens of big businesses that The Associated Press reached out to Friday, many like McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Tyson and Marriott did not respond. Arkansas-based Walmart — the nation’s largest employer with a good portion of its stores in states that will immediately trigger abortion bans following the Friday’s Supreme Court ruling — also kept quiet.
Meanwhile, the Business Roundtable, an organization that represents some of the nation’s most powerful companies, said it “does not have a position on the merits of the case.”
A lot is at stake for companies, many of which have publicly pledged to promote women’s equality and advancement in the workplace. For those in states with restrictive abortion laws, they could now face big challenges in attracting college-educated workers who can easily move around.
Luis von Ahn, the CEO of the language app Duolingo, sent a tweet Friday aimed at lawmakers in Pennsylvania, where the company is headquartered: “If PA makes abortion illegal, we won’t be able to attract talent and we’ll have to grow our offices elsewhere.”
The ruling and the coming patchwork of abortion bans also threatens the technology boom in places like Austin, Texas as companies like Dell — which was already becoming more flexible to remote work because of the tight labor market — struggle to recruit newly minted tech graduates to their corporate hubs, said Steven Pedigo, a professor who studies economic development at the University of Texas at Austin.
“Rather than stay in Austin, do you go to New York or Seattle or the Bay Area? I think that’s a real possibility,” Pedigo said. “It becomes much more challenging, particularly when you’re looking at a young, progressive workforce, which is what technology workers tend to be.”
Emily M. Dickens, chief of staff and head of government affairs for the Society for Human Resource Management, said in a statement that nearly a quarter of organizations in a recent poll agreed that offering a health savings account to cover travel for reproductive care in another state will enhance their ability to compete for talent.
“But how these policies interact with state laws is unclear, and employers should be aware of the legal risks involved,” she said.
Dickens noted that companies that use third-party administrator to process claims on their behalf — typically big employers — are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act rather than state law. But companies that have to buy their own health insurance for their employees — typically small businesses — are subject to state regulations and have less flexibility in designing benefits.
Offering to cover travel expenses could also make companies a target for anti-abortion lawmakers. In March, Texas State Representative Briscoe Cain, a Republican, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Citigroup, saying he would propose legislation barring localities in the state from doing business with any company that provides travel benefits for employees seeking abortions.
In his concurring opinion released Friday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested it would be unconstitutional for a state to bar residents from traveling to another state to get an abortion.
“In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel,” Kavanaugh wrote.
But a corporation’s right to fund what would be an illegal act in another state is still questionable, argues Teresa Collett, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas.
“That’s not an interstate commerce question, per se,” she said. “So you’d need the right plaintiff.”
Meanwhile, tech companies are facing tough questions about what they’ll do if some of their millions of customers in the U.S. are prosecuted for having an abortion. Services like Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft routinely hand over digital data sought by law enforcement agencies pursuing criminal investigations. That’s raised concerns from privacy advocates about enforcers of abortion laws tapping into period apps, phone location data and other sensitive online health information.
A letter Friday from four Democrats in Congress called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the phone-tracking practices of Google and Apple, warning that location identifiers used for advertising could fall into the hands of prosecutors or bounty hunters looking “to hunt down women who have obtained or are seeking an abortion.”
The Supreme Court ruling comes at a time when companies have become increasingly reliant on women to fill jobs, and especially as they face a nationwide labor shortage. Women now account for nearly 50% of the U.S. workforce, up dramatically from 37.5% in 1970 — three years before the Supreme Court ruled abortions to be legal in Roe vs. Wade — according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Denied access to abortion could hit low-income workers the hardest because they’re typically in jobs with fewer protections and that are also demanding, from loading groceries onto store shelves to working as a health aide.
“As a direct result of this ruling, more women will be forced to choose between paying their rent or traveling long distances to receive safe abortion care,” said Mary Kay Henry, international president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents nearly 2 million janitors, health care workers and teachers in the U.S. “Working women are already struggling in poverty-wage jobs without paid leave and many are also shouldering the caregiving responsibilities for their families, typically unpaid.”
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants told The Associated Press that the ruling was “devastating.”
“It cuts to the core of all the work that our union has done for 75 years,” she said. “This decision is not about whether or not someone supports abortion. That’s the distraction … This is about whether or not we respect the rights of women to determine their own future.”
Maurice Schweitzer, a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, said the handful of companies are taking a stand on the court’s ruling because their customers and employees are expecting them to speak out.
“We’re in this moment in time where we’re expecting corporate leaders to also be leaders in the political sphere,” he said. “A lot of employees expect to work in companies that not only pay them well, but whose values are aligned with theirs.”
But the vast majority of executives will likely avoid the thorny topic and focus on things like inflation or supply chain disruptions, he said.
That, too, comes with risks.
“They can either support travel for out-of-state care and risk lawsuits and the ire of local politicians, or they can not include this coverage and risk the ire of employees,” Schweitzer said.
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AP business writers Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island; Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit; Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco; David Koenig in Dallas and Ken Sweet in New York contributed to the story.
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MANOR, Texas, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hellas Construction is giving Manor ISD sports a much-needed renovation to keep up with the district's rapid growth. Located six miles Northeast of Austin, the population in Manor has risen 20 percent in the last five years.
To help the district provide competitive and safe sports facilities that meet demands of growth, Manor ISD brought Hellas on board to install new turf at both the baseball and softball fields at Manor New Tech. In addition to the Major Play® Matrix® Helix turf systems at these fields.
Hellas added shade structures, backstop padding, fencing, scoreboards, concession stands, restrooms, and refreshed the dugouts and press box with paint.
Hellas also installed four long jump and triple jump runways along with pole vault and high jump areas near the recently renovated Manor ISD football stadium. Hellas will also install 8 post-tension TPS® tennis courts and LED lighting at Manor Senior High School, along with Major Play Matrix Helix turf at both of their baseball and softball facilities.
Manufactured by Hellas, the Major Play Matrix Helix synthetic turf system was created specifically for baseball and softball. Major Play Matrix Helix delivers consistent and predictable ball response and a shock-absorbent field of play. Helix Technology used when manufacturing the turf adds shape memory and strength to the monofilament fibers, allowing them to spring back quickly after use. "This Matrix Helix turf is really smooth," says Manor New Tech Head Coach Zach Potts, "our players are loving it."
Hellas is the only sports surfacing contractor with a dedicated lighting division that installed retrofitted LED lighting at Manor ISD's baseball and softball fields. Hellas handled all of the athletic venues' electrical needs.
The eight tennis courts installed by Hellas have a TPS 5000 coating system with post-tensioned slabs for extreme durability. The court system resists cracking, has no intervening joints, and has better surface uniformity and predictability of play.
Hellas is a choice provider of synthetic turf fields, tracks, and tennis courts for K-12 schools across the nation with operational hubs in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Wichita, and Miami to serve regional markets.
About Hellas Construction Inc. – Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Hellas Construction is America's largest sports contractor specializing in the manufacturing, construction, and installation of sports surfaces and amenities. Hellas manufactures its own products, as well as owns and operates its own heavy construction equipment making the company a true one-stop-shop for turf, tracks, courts, and sports lighting projects. In addition to hundreds of K-12 sports surfacing projects, Hellas has built NFL practice and playing fields for the Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, and Green Bay Packers. For more information visit www.hellasconstruction.com
About Manor Independent School District is a public school district based in Manor, Texas. Collectively, as a community, Manor ISD provides equitable resources, a safe learning environment, and high-quality educational services for all scholars to successfully achieve and reach their full potential. For more information visit www.manorisd.net
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- Collaboration between Korea's top-notch tech companies expected to bolster Korea's edge in AI competitiveness
- NAVER to provide its expertise in software, including hyperscale AI and compression algorithms, for developing a semiconductor solution for AI
- HyperCLOVA to be used from the initial stages of development to develop and verify solutions that address the actual needs that arise from using hyperscale AI
- Samsung Electronics to develop semiconductor solutions that can solve bottlenecks in large-scale data processing
SEONGNAM, South Korea, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVER's scope of hyperscale AI technology will be expanded to the semiconductor industry as a result of the company's collaboration with Samsung Electronics.
NAVER Corporation (CEO Choi Soo-yeon) and Samsung Electronics (CEO Jong-Hee Han, Kye Hyun Kyung) have signed an MOU for collaboration on developing semiconductor solutions for AI, and formed a working-level task force.
The two companies stated that the mutual collaboration between NAVER, a global internet company with top-notch AI technology, and Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, will bring Korea's AI technology to the next level with the development of new semiconductor solutions that will help transform AI-enabled businesses of the future.
Developing semiconductor solutions for AI technology requires a convergence of competencies in not just hyperscale AI, but also software, service, and hardware. NAVER and Samsung Electronics, both leading companies in their respective areas of expertise, will join hands to develop new semiconductor solutions capable of addressing bottlenecks in the current AI system and maximizing efficiency in power consumption in consideration of the actual hyperscale AI environment.
NAVER boasts the software expertise required for developing semiconductor solutions for AI, with its world-class hyperscale AI based on the company's own supercomputer infrastructure, along with experience and know-how of applying such technology to NAVER's services used by over 36 million users daily. NAVER also has expertise in compression algorithms that boasts performance that is 2 to 3 times fast as that of existing models even on GPU.
Samsung Electronics, as a world leader in semiconductors, has vast experience and competitive technologies in not only developing and manufacturing semiconductors but also next-generation memory technologies such as computational storage, processing-in-memory (PIM) and processing-near-memory (PNM), as well as Compute Express Link (CXL), for addressing bottlenecks in large-scale AI systems.
NAVER and Samsung Electronics will first embark on the development and technology verification of a compression solution critical to the application and expansion of hyperscale AI models. The two companies also plan to continue their collaboration on next-generation memory solutions that support high-performance computing, such as SmartSSD, HBM-PIM and CXL.
In particular, as NAVER already operates services embedded with hyperscale AI, the two companies are expected to create semiconductor solutions that address the actual needs of the end-users starting from the initial stages of development while enabling optimization at the system level.
"Combining our acquired knowledge and know-how from HyperCLOVA with Samsung's semiconductor manufacturing prowess, we believe we can create an entirely new class of solutions that can better tackle the challenges of today's AI technologies," said Suk Geun Chung, Head of NAVER's CLOVA CIC. "We look forward to broadening our AI capabilities and bolstering our edge in AI competitiveness through this strategic partnership."
"Through our collaboration with NAVER, we will develop cutting-edge semiconductor solutions to solve the memory bottleneck in large-scale AI systems," said Jinman Han, Executive Vice President of Memory Global Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics. "With tailored solutions that reflect the most pressing needs of AI service providers and users, we are committed to broadening our market-leading memory lineup including computational storage, PIM and more, to fully accommodate the ever-increasing scale of data."
About NAVER
Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea's largest Internet company with more than 700 million users worldwide. It operates No.1 search engine in Korea 'NAVER' and the nation's No.1 e-commerce platform, as well as other global online services such as LINE mobile messenger, Webtoon and Webnovel publishing, SNOW video camera app and ZEPETO metaverse platform. In addition to its own offerings, NAVER is building a strong global business portfolio through partnerships with industry-leading companies, including Softbank, Poshmark, Wattpad and Hybe. NAVER recorded sales of KRW 6.8 trillion (USD 5.6 billion) in 2021. The company invests approximately 25% of its annual sales on R&D projects, pursuing innovation through continuous research and development of future technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics and mobility. To learn more, visit www.navercorp.com/en
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — President Joe Biden said GOP lawmakers could put millions of people’s health care at risk as he honed his message Tuesday before the release of his budget plan next week and with Republicans pushing him to negotiate over spending levels.
The Democratic president spoke at a recreation center in Virginia Beach, Va. His remarks were part of a broader effort this week to contrast his administration’s priorities with those of Republicans who have yet to spell out their budget cuts.
Using past proposals, Biden said the GOP could try to slash Medicaid and Obamacare benefits, as well as Social Security and Medicare.
“What are they going to cut?” Biden said Tuesday. “For millions of Americans, health care hangs in the balance.” Biden said many Republicans are “really good.” But, he said, the GOP lawmakers who are part of the “Make America Great Again” movement started by former President Donald Trump have shown a willingness to cut funding for health care and allow the federal government to default on its financial obligations.
House Speaker Kevin Mc-Carthy, R-Calif., has called for the government to be on a path toward a balanced budget, but he has yet to offer an outline of which spending he would cut. The president has been using the absence of a GOP plan against them, choosing to highlight past proposals.
Biden is expected to build on that message today in a meeting with House Democrats in Baltimore and Thursday before Senate Democrats.
Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., said Biden came to spread “partisan rumors,” since Republican lawmakers have already ruled out cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
“The president has shown that his talk of bipartisanship is simply political theater,” said Kiggans, who has worked as a geriatric nurse. “Health care should never be used as a partisan publicity stunt.” The president is scheduled to release his budget plan March 9, promising to trim the national debt by $2 trillion over 10 years. He’s pledged to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid and defend Social Security from reductions in spending, saying his goal is to bring down medical costs for families “so you have a little bit of breathing room.” “That’s what all Americans deserve: peace of mind,” Biden said. “That comes from knowing that an illness if it strikes or an accident occurs, you can get quality medical care and recover and heal.” In the absence of a specific GOP plan, Biden administration officials are sketching worst-case scenarios for what Republicans might do, based on past statements, including what the White House warns could be deep cuts to Medicaid, which covers roughly 84 million people and has grown by 20 million since January 2020, just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Administration officials also said potential cuts to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act could jeopardize coverage for more than 100 million people with preexisting medical conditions, imperil free preventative care and cut back prescription drug coverage.
However, with Democrats controlling the Senate and Biden in the White House, there is virtually no chance of major GOP health care legislation being enacted. The greater challenge is whether lawmakers can find common ground, because the government needs to raise its legal borrowing authority by this summer in order to keep operating.
Biden has said the debt limit should be raised without conditions because it reflects previous spending commitments while McCarthy is pushing for negotiations on the debt that would include spending cuts.
White House officials are trying to draw attention to the lack of an overall blueprint from the GOP.
Republican leaders kept their distance from an earlier proposal by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., that would have left Social Security and Medicare up for renewal every five years, along with other federal programs. Scott has now revised his plan to exempt Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits and other essential services.
There are some Republican lawmakers who want to repeal Biden’s 2022 climate change and health care law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act. The law capped insulin costs at $35 per month for older adults on Medicare and enabled the government insurance program to negotiate on prescription drug prices. It also added funding for the IRS and created incentives to move away from fossil fuels.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A woman has been arrested in northern Greece after her 11-month-old daughter was found dead in an irrigation dam, police said Monday.
The 29-year-old suspect, whose name wasn’t provided by authorities, is due to appear before a public prosecutor later Monday to face murder charges. Police rescuers found the baby’s body in the Aliakmonas Dam, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Athens.
Police said the suspect had received psychiatric treatment at a public hospital in the past and that the girl’s disappearance had been reported by relatives.
The woman, who lives with her mother and grandfather in a village near the northern city of Veroia, was last seen with her child on New Year’s Eve and left the home after ordering a taxi.
She told police during questioning that she had left her daughter at the viewing area of the dam, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from her home, authorities said.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ropes & Gray, named both the "2022 Law Firm of the Year" and the number one firm on the 2022 A-List by The American Lawyer (in the U.S. and U.K.), today announced that Jessica Murray has joined the firm as a partner in the firm's global private equity practice. She is based in Ropes & Gray's 500-lawyer New York office.
Jessica brings extensive experience advising market-leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in all aspects of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, strategic investments, joint ventures, and divestitures. She has guided private equity investments across industries, including in financial services, health care, business services, asset management and consumer products.
"Jessica excels at orchestrating clients' most complex and ambitious deals," said Julie Jones, chair. "She has a terrific track record of steering large- and mid-cap transactions, delivering great service to clients in high-stakes situations."
"Jessica is a smart and creative adviser and a great complement to our other market-leading deal lawyers in New York and around the globe," said David Djaha, managing partner.
Ropes & Gray's 400-lawyer private equity transactions and private funds teams have received the industry's top accolades over many decades. Law360 named Ropes & Gray "Private Equity Group of the Year" for five straight years and has also garnered the publication's "Fund Formation Group of the Year" award.
"Jessica is a skilled private equity lawyer with a strong client focus. She has a record of building deep client relationships by delivering value and the ability to navigate complex transactions," said David Blittner, New York-based partner and chair of Ropes & Gray's private equity group.
"Ropes & Gray is a top firm for private equity investors seeking creative and strategic guidance," said Jessica. "I look forward to advising financial sponsors and their portfolio companies alongside some of the industry's best transaction lawyers."
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AP source: Jets agree on deal to acquire Aaron Rodgers
(AP) - After six weeks of waiting, Aaron Rodgers is leaving behind his brilliant legacy in Green Bay and heading to the bright lights — and massive expectations — of the Big Apple.
The New York Jets agreed on a deal Monday to acquire the four-time NFL MVP from the Packers, according to a person with knowledge of the trade.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the teams have not officially announced the deal.
The Jets will receive Rodgers, the No. 15 overall pick and a fifth-rounder this year from the Packers, according to another person with knowledge of the trade. In exchange, Green Bay will get the 13th overall selection, a sixth-rounder and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that can become a first-rounder if Rodgers plays 65% of plays for New York next season.
The 39-year-old Rodgers spent a few days in February contemplating his life and playing future during an isolation retreat in Oregon – while fans and media speculated about what he would decide.
He emerged and deliberated some more before deciding on March 10 he intended to play again — and for the Jets.
And then he and the sports world waited — and waited — for the Packers and Jets to finally complete a deal.
“I’ve made it clear that my intention was to play and my intention was to play for the New York Jets,” Rodgers said during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and Sirius XM on March 15.
The Jets sent a contingent that included owner Woody Johnson, coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas to Rodgers’ home in Southern California in early March. A few days later, Rodgers decided he wanted to continue his playing career by joining the Jets.
Several weeks of negotiations appeared to be stalled at times, with fans — and the teams — wondering when or if the trade would be completed.
“We’re anxious,” Johnson told reporters at the league’s annual meetings on March 28. “I guess, as we look forward, we’re optimistic. But we have a plan, so we’re willing to stick with our plan. And I don’t think anybody is hyperventilating at this point.”
It took a while, but the sides were finally able to agree on compensation. And the deal puts the one-time Super Bowl champion in New York after Zach Wilson, the No. 2 overall draft pick in 2021, struggled mightily in his first two seasons.
New York was 7-10 last season, finishing on a six-game losing streak that extended the NFL’s longest active playoff drought to a franchise-record 12 straight years.
With the Jets, Rodgers reunites with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett to try to jumpstart an offense that was among the NFL’s worst under coordinator Mike LaFleur, the younger brother of Matt, Rodgers’ coach in Green Bay the past four years. Rodgers joins some promising young playmakers on offense, such as wide receiver Garrett Wilson, the AP offensive rookie of the year, and running back Breece Hall.
“There’s a lot of reasons why the Jets are attractive,” Rodgers said during his appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “But there’s one coach that has meant as much to me as any coach I’ve ever had. And he happens to be the coordinator there.”
Saleh acknowledged a few times this offseason that the Jets were looking for a veteran quarterback to add to a team that features a top-five defense. And Johnson said he was “absolutely” on board with paying an established signal caller — “the missing piece,” he called it — if Douglas could get him.
They ended up getting one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks.
Rodgers said shortly after the season ended that he was making up his mind on whether he wanted to return to the Packers for a 19th season, retire or request a trade. Meanwhile, the Jets explored a few quarterback options, including meeting with free agent Derek Carr at their facility and then again at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.
But after Carr agreed to terms to sign with New Orleans, it became even more apparent that New York would be all in on Rodgers — as long as he wanted to play there.
It’s reminiscent of the stunning trade the Jets made in 2008, when they acquired Brett Favre — who also turned 39 a few months later — from the Packers. And, coincidentally, clearing the way for Rodgers to start in Green Bay.
Rodgers was the league MVP in 2020 and 2021, but didn’t perform as well last season while playing with a broken right thumb and dealing with the absence of star wideout Davante Adams, who was traded to Las Vegas. He had his lowest passer rating as a starter (91.1) and threw 12 interceptions, his highest total since 2008. The Packers went 8-9 and missed the playoffs to end a string of three straight NFC North titles.
Rodgers led the Packers to their last Super Bowl title in the 2010 season. Rodgers never got the Packers back to the Super Bowl, but he helped make them annual contenders. The Packers have lost in the NFC championship game four of the last nine seasons.
“I’ve got nothing but love and appreciation for what Aaron has done for so many in our organization,” Matt LaFleur said last month during the NFL meetings in Phoenix.
Rodgers’ departure marks a sea of change for the Packers after they’ve had about three decades of Hall of Fame-level quarterback production in Favre and Rodgers. Next in line is Jordan Love, a 2020 first-round pick who has made only one career start.
Rodgers acknowledged the move caught him by surprise. He skipped the Packers’ 2021 mandatory minicamp in a standoff with team management before reporting to camp and producing a second straight MVP season. (He also won the award for 2011 and 2014.) But the sides had patched things up afterward.
When he was asked last June at the Packers’ mandatory minicamp whether he expected to finish his career in Green Bay, Rodgers replied: “Yes. Definitely.”
Then came a 2022 season that didn’t go according to plan.
Rodgers now will be tasked with leading a franchise that hasn’t been in the Super Bowl since Joe Namath led the franchise to a victory in its only appearance in January 1969.
And quarterback issues have often been among the key culprits in the struggles since. That has especially been the case during the Jets’ current playoff drought.
Saleh said the Jets remain committed to developing Wilson, the second overall pick in 2021. But the 23-year-old will do so as a backup to Rodgers, who was Wilson’s idol while growing up in Utah.
Wilson joked the day after the season ended that he’d welcome a veteran starter coming in to claim his job and said he plans to “make that dude’s life hell in practice every day.”
Little did he know then “that dude” would be the quarterback he tried to emulate as a youngster — who’ll now be in New York trying bring the Jets to another long-awaited Super Bowl.
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On Thursday night at Cameron Stadium the Lawton High Wolverines put on a clinic in a 58-0 shutout victory over the Capitol Hill Redwolves to finish off the regular season.
Capitol Hill was outmatched from the beginning as they came into the game missing 17 players on both sides of the ball.
Lawton High came out playing tough on the defensive front early holding Capitol Hill to a negative yardage total throughout the game. After less than a minute of play the Wolverines forced a safety to take an early 2-0 lead then wasted no time scoring a 32 yard touchdown on a pass from Devarius Hardy caught by Pene Vaisagote to put them up 9-0 after two minutes.
A fumble on the next Redwolves drive gave Lawton the opportunity for Nate Jones to make a 14 yard touchdown run. The Wolverines scored once again immediately after this time, another pass from Hardy taken for five yards by Perry Graves.
Lawton would score three more times in the first quarter with Jones getting a second scoring run. Next came the first showing of the night from Tyron Amacker as Hardy found him wide open on a 44 yard touchdown pass. With only one second left on the clock for the first quarter, Frank Rowe entered the game with a 46 yard touchdown run to make it a 44-0 game at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter brought on a lot less scoring then the first, the only scoring play coming off a 50 yard punt return taken back for a touchdown by Vaisagote to give the Wolverines a 51-0 lead going into the locker rooms.
The second half brought on the backups for Lawton High and with them a lot less action. The Redwolves came out with a bit of trickery securing a rare onside kick to start it off but ultimately fizzling out on offense for the rest of the game.
The next Capitol Hill highlight for the game came when it was able to secure an interception in the end zone for a touchback to take us to the fourth.
One more Lawton High touchdown would put a bow on the blowout win, this time coming from Leonard McDaniel on a five yard run.
Next week the Wolverines will be hosting the winner of Bartlesville vs Talaquah, after the game Head Coach Ryan Breeze discussed what his team is going to need to bring to the table to get the job done in the playoffs.
“We gotta dominate the line of scrimmage on both sides,” Breeze said. “We’re gonna get put in some one on one situations where we’re gonna have to tackle, we’ve gotta find a way to get some pressure on the quarterback. If we can do that I think that will be the key for us.”
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The Gold-Tier NFTs, now 'souped up' into FEATs, will drop at Mint.Big3.com
Additional benefits and utility have been added to maximize experiential value
LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced that the first-ever landmark Forever Experience Action Token (FEAT) providing the holder with benefits and exclusive access to the BIG3 for the duration of the league's life, will drop at 11 AM ET on Friday, June 10th, 2022 at Mint.Big3.com. This is the first time that FEATs will be available to the public via 375 Gold editions per team priced at $4,500 each. Following the sellout of those 375 editions, the league will drop 100-200 editions at a time for a total of 975 editions for each of the league's 12 teams. Once that inventory is exhausted, FEATS for these 12 teams will never be sold again by BIG3 regardless of how many years or decades the league thrives. Greater BIG3 success and longevity means more years of experiences and action provided by the FEAT NFT regardless of crypto volatility.
In addition to the benefits offered in the previously announced Gold-Tier, FEATs will also include several new and unique utilities including:
- Revealed sale – Buyers select which of 12 teams they purchase and which communities they want to join
- Limited supply – Only 375 Gold editions will be released, additional tokens will be available once sold out but once 975 have been sold per team, no more will ever be minted
- Content generation –BIG3 highlights, interviews, footage, images, IP, and other content will be serviced to FEAT holders license-free, enabling owners to create content of their own
- Brush Fire – Five Golds can be converted into a 'Brush Fire' FEAT and receive most benefits of the Fire-Tier
- Lottery – 25 Fire Tiers will be dispersed among the FEATs, 1 in 75 Golds will receive a Championship ring if their team wins, and each year, 1 in 100 Golds will get a personal one-hour zoom with founders and/or players
"The BIG3 is once again changing the game," said BIG3 Co-founder, Ice Cube. "We are moving beyond NFTs, we are offering experiences and utilities that will live on as long as the BIG3 does, which could be forever. FEATs are the next big thing in the crypto space and our league is blazing the path forward and providing our fans with unprecedented value. This is the first step in the future of our league and I can't wait to meet all of our FEAT owners this summer."
This announcement follows the sale of multiple $25,000 Fire-Tier NFTs to renowned Crypto leaders and communities, including DeGods, Bill Lee and MyDoge/DogeCoin, Snoop Dogg and Ken Howery, Gary Vaynerchuk of VeeFriends, Krause House DAO, Sunny Madra, Kevin Rose and MOONBIRDS, King of Midtown, along with a team led by Wave Financial and their Bored Ape. These purchases are part of the league's offering of decentralized team ownership via blockchain technology. Current Gold-Tier owners will be upgraded to the FEAT and receive the same benefits as the tokens dropping on June 10th. They will be able to select their teams before the public drop.
"FEATs are the new wave," said BIG3 Co-founder, Jeff Kwatinetz. "Access and utility are changing the NFT landscape and ushering in the next frontier of what value blockchain technology can deliver. This is the next stage of BIG3 leading sports into the future."
BIG3 is returning for its fifth season on June 18th for 11 weeks of FIREBALL3 action across 29 hours of live games on CBS and Paramount+. For more information about the FEAT, the upcoming public drop, and the league's fifth season, join the Discord here, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is where FIREBALL3 superstars play. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular, and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor, and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
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LONDON (AP) — The U.K. economy grew unexpectedly in November as the tight job market increased demand for employment services and soccer’s World Cup boosted hospitality.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased 0.1% from the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. That beat the expectations of economists, who had forecast a 0.2% contraction.
Despite the better-than-expected figures, the ONS says monthly GDP estimates should be treated with caution because they are more volatile than quarterly data.
Economists are waiting for the release of fourth-quarter GDP data next month, which will show whether the British economy shrank from a second consecutive quarter in the three months through December. Two quarters of negative growth is one definition of a recession.
November’s expansion was driven by a 2% growth in administrative and support activities, with employment services growing 2.1%, the ONS said. Overall, service industries account for about 80% of the British economy.
Consumer-facing activities expanded 0.4% led by a 2.2% jump in food and beverage services as the soccer World Cup got underway.
Growth in the service sector offset a 0.2% decline in the output of production industries, the ONS said.
Manufacturing declined 0.5% in November and construction activity stagnated in the month.
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The most exciting event to happen at the Oakland Coliseum in recent memory took place Wednesday.
Crowds squealing in excitement. Mobs pressing, with cameras upheld, for a view. Chants of “MVP! MVP!” ringing through the corridors.
True star power — superstar power — in the old building. And it didn’t have much to do with baseball.
Stephen Curry was back in Oakland.
Curry and his wife, Ayesha, came to the Oakland Athletics’ game to celebrate the third anniversary of their foundation, Eat. Learn. Play. They brought more than 1,000 Oakland children enrolled in city camps along with them. And they turned the usually lifeless Coliseum into an exciting, inspiring place for an afternoon.
“I haven’t been here, inside the Coliseum, in about six years,” the Golden State Warriors’ guard said. “But I was next door for a J. Cole concert last fall.”
That was at Curry’s former office, what is now known as Oakland Arena. And though he now plies his trade, and has won another championship, across the bay, Curry remains committed to Oakland. Rooted in Oakland, to borrow an otherwise trite phrase.
Eat. Learn. Play. is a nonprofit committed to improving the lives of underserved children in Oakland. The three pillars of the foundation are nutrition, education and physical activity. The Currys have committed a seven-figure annual donation to cover administration and expenses, and ensure that all funds raised go directly to programs serving children.
“It’s been such a whirlwind,” Ayesha Curry said. “Things have happened so fast, we haven’t really had time to plant our feet. There’s just so much to be done.”
Three years ago, when the Currys launched the foundation, they saw a huge need in Oakland and had big goals about how to meet it. But seven months after their launch, the pandemic hit and, suddenly, the need grew exponentially.
The foundation scaled up quickly, learning as it went, helping to serve millions of meals to children who were left without the safety net of school meals, working with local food banks to provide food to families, and working with World Central Kitchen to get workers back in restaurants before they serve the community.
Recently, the foundation has been focused on the “learn” pillar. The Currys are trying to address the literacy gap in Oakland — only 15.4% of Black and 12.5% of Latino students are reading at grade level — that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
“We’re trying to make a dent there,” Curry said.
They have built over 150 “Little Town Libraries” — tiny free libraries that have been placed around Oakland. They launched a $1 million challenge for Oakland teachers: The foundation has funded more than 800 literacy projects to the tune of $850,000. They created an ELP bus that comes to events, promoting reading, along with nutrition and fitness.
When they unveiled the bus, which has a basketball hoop on the side, Ayesha was concerned that the kids would think only about basketball. But when the sides of the bus were rolled up revealing hundreds of books, the response was overwhelming enthusiasm.
“The kids were so excited to see the books, and to find out they could take them home,” Ayesha said. “That proved the model right there.”
Though it seems impossible, three years ago, Stephen Curry was not as famous as he is now. Now, after a fourth championship, more awards, and a fleet of national advertisements, he is one of the most famous humans on the planet.
One Wednesday, he was hosting the ESPY awards. A week later, he was high-fiving elementary school kids at an A’s game.
Curry doesn’t talk much about his fame, but Chris Helfrich, the CEO of Eat. Learn. Play., recognizes it.
“He hasn’t changed one bit through all of the wonderful madness that’s happened over the last several months,” Helfrich said. “But from where I sit, there certainly is wind in our sails.
“The amount of partners or individuals who want to get involved with us is noticeably growing.”
The Currys might be the hook, but the reward is making a difference in children’s lives.
“Our donors and sponsors genuinely care,” Ayesha Curry said. “They are boots on the ground. They really care about what we’re doing.”
Wednesday’s game was a way to celebrate what has been accomplished in the past three years and point toward the future.
Curry last played baseball when he was 13, before having to choose which sport he would concentrate in high school. On Wednesday, he took batting practice, with A’s manager Mark Kotsay throwing to him. Curry was wearing a customized A’s Jersey with Eat Learn Play on the back (underneath he wore his own customized “night night” T shirt).
“My hands are stinging from that wood bat,” he said.
He chatted with former Giants manager Dusty Baker, in town with the Houston Astros. Stephen and Ayesha threw out the first pitches (Stephen was trolled online for his form by ex-teammate Juan Toscano-Anderson). Curry was supposed to lead the fans in singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” but the game was going too fast, and he was in the midst of media interviews when the seventh-inning stretch took place.
Instead, he wandered through the seats where campers were sitting, fist-bumping, posing for selfies and almost causing a riot.
At the end of the afternoon, the campers all got to run the bases. And as they left, each camper received a backpack full of goodies from Eat. Learn. Play.
But they walked out of the Coliseum with something even better: a lesson about a sports superstar who can do amazing things on the basketball court.
And even cooler things off of it.
Ann Killion is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Email: akillion@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @annkillion
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INDIANAPOLIS — As the special session continues at the Indiana Statehouse, Senate lawmakers will take up the House’s inflation relief plan.
The Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee will discuss House Bill 1001 during a Wednesday hearing. The House measure includes a $225 automatic taxpayer refund, the key component of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s economic relief plan.
Holcomb called the special session primarily so lawmakers could focus on the proposal, although the abortion measure has taken center stage.
HB 1001, which passed 93-2 on its third reading in the House last week, includes the governor’s taxpayer refund. However, lawmakers passed six amendments, most of which involved family planning. The measure would also eliminate the sales tax on diapers.
The Senate’s key inflation relief proposal includes a six-month suspension on the utility sales tax and a cap on the gas sales tax. The House has yet to discuss that piece of legislation.
During a committee session Tuesday, House lawmakers amended a separate Senate bill (SB2) to strip the creation of the Hoosier Families First Fund and essentially replaced it with HB 1001.
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Last week T-Mobile took some shots at AT&T's and Verizon's respective offerings to those aged 55 or above, and now AT&T is firing back. On Tuesday the nation's third-largest wireless carrier announced that it filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile in Texas federal court.
"T-Mobile's claims are outright dishonest and completely false. It is not the first time they have spread misleading information," Fletcher Cook, AT&T's vice president of corporate communications, said in a statement accompanying the filing.
Cook's statement adds that AT&T "offers wireless discounts to people of all ages, including seniors in all 50 states. The only way to stop the un-truthful carrier is apparently in a court of law, and that's where we are."
At issue is a marketing campaign T-Mobile launched on Aug. 30 to tout its senior plans relative to those of its rivals, each of which has specific plans available for those who live in Florida. T-Mobile offered a number of options in the press release including the idea of creating a virtual mailbox in Florida via its "BannedSeniors.com" website or connecting with an actual real estate agent to buy land in the state. It also plugged its Essentials, Magenta and Magenta Max 55 Plus plans, which it noted are available nationwide.
AT&T seems to have taken issue with the stunt, noting in the filing that it has a partnership with the AARP to offer a discount in all 50 states to the group's "nearly 38 million members."
In the lawsuit, AT&T says that T-Mobile's "false and misleading descriptions and representations of fact have deceived and are likely to deceive consumers into, among other things, purchasing services from T-Mobile instead of AT&T, unfairly and unlawfully shifting income and profit from AT&T to T-Mobile."
It adds that T-Mobile's "false and misleading statements about its own and AT&T's goods, services, and commercial activities have damaged AT&T's goodwill and reputation and are likely to impact AT&T's sales."
AT&T has called for a jury trial and is seeking unspecified damages and "preliminary and permanent injunctive relief prohibiting T-Mobile's ongoing false and misleading advertising."
CNET has reached out to T-Mobile for comment and will update if they respond.
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The XAV-AX6000 and XAV-AX4000 offer enhanced connectivity and sound customization
SAN DIEGO, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics Inc. today announced the newest additions to its line of car AV receivers, including the XAV-AX6000 and the XAV-AX4000. Both AV receivers now include new key features such as fully wireless smartphone conversion, so drivers can use voice control for navigation or playing music on the road even with their device in their pocket.
"We are excited to add these products to our lineup, offering more options to consumers looking for better ways to enhance their driving experience," said Tyler Ishida, President of the Consumer Business Group, Sony Electronics Inc. "With new features including iDatalink® Maestro® compatible, sound customization, and clean interface design, these new receivers allow for better focus on the road, while making drive-time more enjoyable."
- Fully Wireless Smartphone Conversion: Thanks to a Wi-Fi1 connection from the user's smartphone, together with the supplied GPS antenna, voice control can be used to navigate, communicate and play music on the road even if the device is in a pocket.
- Apple CarPlay: Apple CarPlay2 integrates iPhone with the car audio's display and controls, enabling users to make phone calls, access music, send and receive messages, get directions optimized for traffic and more while the driver stays focused on the road. Supporting third-party navigation apps, Apple CarPlay provides even more choices to get to the destination.
- Android Auto™: Designed with safety and convenience in mind, Android Auto3 is a simpler way to use a smartphone with the car audio's display. Drivers can talk to Google on Android Auto and stay connected, entertained and informed while keeping their eyes on the road. Just say "Hey Google" or press the dedicated voice control button to get started.
- iDatalink® Maestro® Compatible: iDatalink® Maestro®4 connects the vehicle's onboard computer with car audio, making it work as a customized display for their car's factory-equipped functions and features. It provides a seamless interface with factory infotainment and vehicle information such as air conditioning, performance and safety. Simply connect an iDatalink® Maestro® RR / RR2 by Automotive Data Solutions. It's a new way to connect car audio to a vehicle while retaining and improving the functions of the original equipment.
- 6.95-inch Bezel-less Flush Surface Display with Capacitive Touch Screen (XAV-AX6000 only): Adopting a flush mount capacitive touch screen realized an astonishingly flat, bezel-less and beautiful display that elegantly matches with the user's car interiors.
- 6.95-inch Anti-glare Sleek Touch Screen (XAV-AX4000 only): The anti-glare 17.6cm (6.95") touchscreen and clean interface design ensure a stylish and efficient user experience.
- HDMI Connectivity (XAV-AX6000 only): HDMI connectivity allows the user to hook up an external audio and visual source device, for viewing while parked.
- LDAC for Exceptional Sound Quality: Enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth® wireless audio and exceptional sound quality thanks to LDAC. Connect compatible devices to stream audio at 96 kHz / 24-bit sampling with bitrates up to 3x higher (990 kbps) than conventional Bluetooth®.
- FLAC Audio File Compatible: FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning audio signals are compressed without any loss in quality. Now the user can play back FLAC files with up to 24-bit depth and sampling frequency at 384 kHz.5
- Sound Customization: The built-in DSP offers sound processing and time alignment - down to a remarkable 1cm for each of the 5 addressable channels (4 speakers + subwoofer via pre-out). A 14-band EQ lets the users adjust the overall sound to their music or taste. Together with the 3-zone crossover, they can dial in the perfect match of front, rear and subwoofers.
- Quick Wake Up: With the Quick Wake Up6 feature, users are ready to go right after turning on the ignition.
- Rear View Camera Ready with Adjustable Parking Guidelines: Users can see the image of a connected rear view camera when shifting the vehicle's transmission lever to the R(Reverse) position or tap the Rear Camera icon in the home screen.
- Simple Button Controls with Improved Design: The new button design features large keys to seamlessly fit with the sleek display. Access volume, source, sound settings and voice control, for safe and easy operation on the road.
- Customizable Wallpaper: Allows changing its wallpaper to the preset color choices or user's favorite JPEG image saved in a USB device.
- USB Type-C® Compatible: USB Type-C® (Hi-speed)7 compatible reversible connection interface ensures safe and easy plug in, while it can carry 5V 3.0A maximum current for updated smartphone connectivity.
- Gold-plated 3-preout Terminals for Future Systems: For future expandability, the 3-pre out connectivity allows the user to build a full acoustic system, for instance including a subwoofer, a mono amplifier and 4- channel amplifier for even louder and powerful sound reproduction. The connection plugs are gold-plated to prevent aging and signal degradation.
- 5V High Voltage Pre-out (XAV-AX6000 only): Sony's head unit with high voltage pre-out provides a 5-volt signal, offering clearer sound with less distortion.
- Space Saving Installation with Single DIN Rear Chassis: The rear chassis is designed with single-DIN dimensions that gives enough room under the radio for cable harnesses, steering wheel control and integration boxes, etc. This also provides the ability to install the radio in vehicles that may have obstructions behind the radio mounting area.
The XAV-AX6000 will have a suggested retail price of $699.99 and is available for purchase September 2022 at authorized dealers. For a full list of specs and information, please visit: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/car-marine-audio/receiver-players/p/xavax6000
The XAV-AX4000 will have a suggested retail price of $599.99 and is available for purchase August 2022 at authorized dealers. For a full list of specs and information, please visit: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/car-marine-audio/receiver-players/p/xavax4000
Sony Electronics is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America and an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world, with a portfolio that encompasses electronics, music, motion pictures, mobile, gaming, robotics and financial services. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Sony Electronics is a leader in electronics for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, engineering, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Sony Electronics creates products that innovate and inspire generations, such as the award-winning Alpha Interchangeable Lens Cameras and revolutionary high-resolution audio products. Sony is also a leading manufacturer of end-to-end solutions from 4K professional broadcast and A/V equipment to industry leading 4K and 8K Ultra HD TVs. Visit http://www.sony.com/news for more information.
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A UPS strike could be just around the corner. Here’s what you need to know
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking. As the deadline to reach a new contract nears, a potential UPS strike feels closer than ever.
Negotiations broke down earlier this month and unionized workers have been holding rallies and practice pickets across the country. The Teamsters, which represent more than half of the company’s workforce, will resume talks with UPS on Tuesday.
That leaves less than a week to come to an agreement before the current contract expires at the end of the day on Monday. The union has authorized a strike and Sean M. O’Brien, a fiery leader elected last year to lead the union, has vowed to do so if the union’s demands aren’t met.
“We’re sending a message… all 340,000 of our members are united and ready to fight,” O’Brien told The Associated Press at a practice picket Friday in Atlanta, where UPS is based.
UPS’s unionized workers still seethe about a contract they feel was forced on them in 2018, and say that the company delivers millions more packages every day than it did just five years ago. The Teamsters are calling for better pay, particularly for part-time employees, and improved working conditions.
UPS has maintained that it already offers “industry-leading pay and benefits,” but says it’s prepared to increase that compensation. In a Friday update, the company said it aimed “quickly to finalize a fair deal that provides certainty for our customers, our employees, and businesses across the country.”
If negotiations are unsuccessful the deliveries that Americans have come to rely on, particularly since the pandemic began in 2020, could be vastly disrupted. Such an impasse hasn’t been seen since 1997, well before delivery of everyday items from dog food to prescription drugs became the norm when a walkout by 185,000 workers crippled UPS. Here’s what you need to know.
WHAT ARE THE TEAMSTERS ASKING FOR?
Much of the union’s demands come down to better pay and improved working conditions.
Annual profits at UPS in the past two years are close to three times what they were before the pandemic. The company returned about $8.6 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock buybacks in 2022, and forecast another $8.4 billion for shareholders this year.
The Teamsters say frontline UPS workers deserve some of that windfall. A sticking point in negotiations has been wage increases for part-time workers, who make a minimum of $16.20 an hour.
“People wanted their packages yesterday with the emergence of e-commerce. So it’s a very demanding job,” O’Brien said, pushing back on the salary statistics that UPS shares. “Everybody doesn’t realize what it takes to get these packages on the truck. And a lot of our part-timers… work for poverty wages.”
In addition to addressing part-time pay, the union wants to eliminate a contract provision that created two separate hierarchies of workers with different pay scales, hours, and benefits. Driver safety, particularly the lack of air conditioning in delivery trucks, is also in the mix.
HAS UPS AGREED TO ANY DEMANDS?
Before contract talks broke down on July 5, with both sides blaming each other for walking away from the bargaining table, tentative agreements were made on several issues — including installing air conditioning in more trucks. UPS said it would add air conditioning to U.S. small delivery vehicles purchased after January 1, 2024. Existing vehicles wouldn’t get that upgrade, but the union said they will have other additions like fans and air vents.
The union also said it has reached tentative agreements to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a full holiday for the first time, end unwanted overtime on drivers’ days off, and get rid of the two-tier wage system for drivers who work weekends and earn less money.
COULD A STRIKE BE AVOIDED? CAN THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENE?
The strike can be avoided if UPS and the Teamsters agreed to a new contract before the July 31 deadline. There’s also a possibility of government intervention.
O’Brien said Sunday that he has asked the White House on numerous occasions not to intervene if workers end up going on strike. Last year, President Joe Biden intervened to avert a railroad strike to avoid disrupting the nation’s supply chain, and workers had accepted an agreement that wasn’t broadly supported by union members.
WHAT IMPACT WOULD A STRIKE HAVE?
The 24 million packages UPS ships on an average day amounts to about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. As UPS puts it, that’s the equivalent of about 6% of the nation’s gross domestic product.
Higher prices and long wait times are all but certain if there is an impasse. A strike also threatens to extend lingering supply chain troubles.
“Something’s got to give,” Thomas Goldsby, logistics chairman in the Supply Chain Management Department at the University of Tennessee, told The Associated Press. “The python can’t swallow the alligator, and that’s going to be felt by all of us.”
UPS said this month that it will temporarily begin training nonunion employees in the U.S. to step in should there be a strike.
Beyond shipping and supply implications, a union win at UPS could have significance for organized labor across industries. UPS’s contract talks arrive amid other prominent labor campaigns at Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and other companies — as well as the current writers’ and actors’ strikes seen in Hollywood.
WILL IT COST MORE TO HAVE THINGS SHIPPED?
If a strike does occur, experts say it’s likely that shippers will raise prices to keep up with the influx of demand that’ll be coming their way. Businesses may pass some of those costs to consumers who want items delivered to their doors.
“The e-commerce part of the pain will be felt immediately,” said Medini Singh, a senior lecturer at Columbia Business School, adding that customers who order online might face more shipping fees and get fewer free shipping offers from companies.
It’s also likely that carriers such as FedEx will prioritize shipping higher value items that make them more money, like healthcare equipment and luxury products, Singh said.
“Availability of all items doesn’t get affected in the same way, things with higher margins can afford the increased shipping costs,” he said.
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Videojournalist Sharon Johnson contributed from Atlanta
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A large-scale refurbishment of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is underway following an allotment of $80 billion to the agency in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act passed last year.
The Treasury Department released an operating plan Thursday for its new budget, which will be spent over the course of the next decade and involve hiring tens of thousands of new employees, upgrading technology, and expanding its data and analytics capabilities.
Restoring a depleted IRS staff
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said that the agency had already hired 5,000 service representatives who had answered 1 million more calls than last filing season and reduced average wait times by about four minutes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Most of those new hires will be taxpayer service workers to help answer the phone and auditors to collect money from taxpayers and businesses that underreport their income.
The IRS expects to hire more than 7,000 service reps and 1,500 auditors this year with the new money, according to the plan.
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said Thursday on a call with reporters that the agency had already hired 5,000 service representatives who had answered 1 million more calls than last filing season and reduced average wait times by about four minutes.
In the first half of the IRS’s 10-year plan, taxpayers will be able to file documents and respond to notices online as well as download their account information, the Treasury said.
“For the first time, the IRS will also help taxpayers identify potential mistakes before filing, quickly fix errors that delay their refunds, and more easily claim the credits and deductions they are eligible for,” the Treasury said.
Next year, the agency expects to hire 6,400 service representatives, 7,200 auditors, 3,800 operations staff and 200 technology specialists. When the Treasury asked for the $80 billion in 2021, it projected the total number of new hires at the IRS to be around 87,000.
Currently, IRS staffing levels are 20 percent lower than they were in 2010.
Cracking down on tax evasion
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the swearing-in ceremony of Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
Werfel repeated a pledge from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that new auditors and enforcement initiatives at the IRS would be focused “exclusively” on wealthy people, partnerships and corporations, though he said this would be true in the “initial” phase of implementation.
Yellen ordered the IRS not to increase audit rates for taxpayers earning less than $400,000 a year, though that requirement was not expressly included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
“It makes sense to focus our initial Inflation Reduction Act implementation efforts exclusively on increasing our capacity to assess compliance of high-income and high-wealth individuals, complex partnerships and large corporations,” Werfel said.
“During this time, the audit rate for average taxpayers will not be increasing and as a result we will not come close to hitting or exceeding any historic average rate. People who get W2s or Social Security payments or have a small business should not be worried about some new wave of IRS audits,” he said.
Some tax pros wonder whether the Biden administration will be able to deliver on these promises for administrative reasons.
“That’s a real challenge — first to determine who is safe from the pledge without actually doing an audit to determine if their true (actual) income is below $400,000 and then second, to determine the appropriate ‘historical’ audit rate to apply to taxpayers with income below $400,000. Treasury and the IRS say that a plan for implementation of that enforcement plan will be provided ‘soon’ without defining ‘soon,’” Janet Holtzblatt of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center wrote in an analysis.
Closing the tax gap
The IRS isn’t able to collect about $600 billion in taxes that are owed to it every year, an amount known as the “tax gap.” The tax gap was roughly equal to 2.8 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, according to a calculation by The Hill.
The last time it was definitively measured for the years 2014 to 2016, the largest chunk of the tax gap was in individual business income, representing $130 billion or about 30 percent of the total amount of uncollected tax. Those businesses usually have legal designations as partnerships, LLCs or S-corporations.
Wages and workers are fully taxed in the U.S. at 99 percent compliance, according to the Treasury, while other sources of income typically earned by rich people and business owners are far less compliant.
The IRS is able to collect due taxes on 82 percent of capitol gains incomes, 43 percent of nonfarm business income and 36 percent of farm income. This distinction between how the government treats workers and business owners has been coined by Secretary Yellen as the “two-tiered tax system,” which she has described as unfair.
Boosting data and analysis
Another aspect of the plan spells out new data and analytics capabilities for the IRS that will put taxpayer information into a more centralized and easily accessible system for tax authorities. Werfel’s background as a consultant and business operations specialist plays into this broad structural redesign of IRS operations, tax experts have noted.
The plan will “establish a centralized function for compliance planning and strategy [and] create a centralized compliance-planning function to set strategic compliance priorities and route select cases for compliance treatments.”
Rather than relying on historical informational structures at the IRS, the agency will “build a unified compliance organization that enhances centralized case-planning and strategy and enables us to refine business processes.”
Some voices in the tax world are worried about how much more power over taxpayers the new data and analytics systems could give the IRS.
“The service needs to proceed deliberately but very carefully in terms of the data analytics, because it has now a great deal of information already on Americans and American businesses, but it’s not collected and used together in a way that makes it as useful as it might be,” former IRS commissioner and Alliant Group tax consultant Mark Everson said in an interview with The Hill.
“What this initiative will do over the coming years is make that analysis much more sophisticated. You’ve got to be careful,” Everson said.
One way such a power could be abused is by treating certain segments of the population differently from others along racial or gender lines in terms of tax administration. A recent Stanford University study found that Black Americans can be 4.7 times more likely to be audited than non-Black people, a disparity associated with claiming the earned income tax credit (EITC) for low earners.
“Behind the people doing the audits are people who have unconscious bias, so we have to wake people up,” Alice Thomas, an associate professor of law at Howard University, told The Hill in an interview.
“Do you understand that it causes depression? That it has a psychological impact, mania, physical ailments? Black people are physically ill and mentally ill as a result of unconscious bias and racism,” she said.
Werfel noted on Thursday that spirits at the IRS are high now and that the agency is excited to put its new funding to use. Many in the tax world say the stakes for both for Werfel and the country are high.
“This is the only thing in our entire system that every single one of us has to deal with every year. We can’t fire them, we can’t opt out, we can’t hire somebody else,” former IRS commissioner and tax attorney Fred Goldberg said in an interview.
“Please make it work right,” he said.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
7-8-8-3, FIREBALL: 8
(seven, eight, eight, three; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
7-8-8-3, FIREBALL: 8
(seven, eight, eight, three; FIREBALL: eight)
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Each week two ACBL-sanctioned duplicate bridge games are played in Racine - at 12:15 p.m. Monday and Friday at The Lanes, 6501 Washington Ave., Mount Pleasant. People must have proof of COVID-19 vaccination to play.
Call Henry Kensler, club manager, at 262-652-6173 for reservations. Recent winners are:
Nov. 4 (299er game): Jean Myrvold – Denise Anastasio, first place; Roseanne Worrell – Vic Melby, second place; Daniele Langer – Peggy Crane, third place.
Nov. 4 (open game): Donald Urquhart – Mark Langer, first place; George Urquhart – Janet Urquhart, second place; Mary Matthews – Marilyn Wescott, third place.
Nov. 7: George Urquhart – Janet Urquhart, first place; Mary Matthews – Donald Urquhart, second place; Annie Krause – Anita Brothers, third place.
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Officials air findings in Nevada shooting that left 4 dead
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities aired the results Monday of the investigation of an Election Day 2020 police shooting that killed a man in a vehicle after the man killed two women, wounded a teenage girl and abducted a 12-year-old boy who died when he was shot as police approached.
The hearing about the Henderson police shooting of Jason Neo Bourne, a 38-year-old who changed his name because he admired a movie character, suggested that Bourne shot the boy several times, including in the head, after police opened fire into the boy’s family’s Cadillac Escalade.
Bourne, sitting in the driver’s seat, fired seven shots with a .40 caliber handgun, according to evidence presented by Henderson police Detective Richard Christopher, the only investigator questioned during the hearing dubbed a public fact-finding review.
The proceeding, overseen by an attorney former state Assembly member and presented by a county prosecutor, did not conclusively answer whether one or more of the 27 shots fired by police struck the boy sitting in the passenger seat next to Bourne — who continued talking with a 911 dispatcher until gunfire erupted and was heard exclaiming “Yeah,” as officers began a second volley of fire.
However, “We believe Jason Bourne was responsible for the boy’s wounds,” Christopher said after summarizing results of autopsies of the four people who died that day.
Killed were Dianne Hawatmeh, 38, the boy’s mother; family housekeeper Veronica Muniz, 33, of Las Vegas; and the boy, Joseph Hawatmeh. The boy’s 16-year-old sister was shot several times and remains a paraplegic, family attorney Roger Croteau said Monday.
“We’re not making a statement one way or another who shot Joseph,” Croteau said following the emotional four-hour proceeding at the Clark County Commission auditorium.
Croteau is handling a federal lawsuit that the boy’s father, Iehab Hawatmeh filed in October in Las Vegas against Henderson police, departmental supervisors and the seven officers who fired shots that day.
“We do know that (police) took the first shot,” the attorney said. “One second later, the car was lit up with … contagion firing. They rushed the vehicle and didn’t wait for SWAT or a negotiator to arrive.”
Bourne was armed with a .40-caliber handgun, and police used 9mm handguns and .223-caliber tactical rifles. Medical examiners did not retrieve identifiable bullets from the boy’s body, according to the investigation.
The non-judicial public review is provided by Clark County law instead of a coroner’s inquest following a police-involved death if the district attorney makes a preliminary finding that involved officers will not face criminal prosecution. The officers themselves do not take part.
Police body-worn camera video and 911 audio aired Monday offered a heart-wrenching and dramatic account of 30 minutes of confusion that officials said may have stemmed from Bourne’s anger about a noise complaint that his downstairs neighbors made days before the shooting.
It also highlighted apparent delusions and ramblings of a man who called police 911 from the Escalade, changed the pitch of his voice several times, identified himself variously as a character from the future, “not from this planet” and the super villain Bane from the movie, “Batman,” and demanded that police provide him with a helicopter within minutes.
Joseph Hawatmeh could be heard in the background as Bourne abruptly interrupted apparent train-of-thought comments to the 911 dispatcher several times, uttering the phrase, “XM Satellite Radio 1.1 Gigawatts.”
Bourne had no criminal history and legally purchased his gun before he legally changed his name in 2014 from Christopher Curry, said Christopher, the police detective.
Bourne served nearly 15 years in the U.S. Air Force in various countries before being honorably discharged in 2017, Christopher said. He was a disabled veteran whose roommate, a retired Air Force member, told police was writing a book, regularly used marijuana and sometimes covered apartment windows fearing that others could see in.
The police detective said Bourne’s computer files showed he “strongly believed in QAnon theories,” including “that celebrities wear lifelike masks but are actually politicians that were part of a secret pedophile society that controlled the world.”
Among Bourne’s handwritten notes, Christopher found references to Bourne calling himself a superhero saving the world.
Iehab Hawatmeh dabbed his eyes several times as he sat through the four-hour proceeding with Croteau with three other family members.
Croteau later said they were not surprised by the material presented to the public. He said he believed the family has a strong wrongful death, negligence and civil rights case against police in federal court.
Attorneys representing Henderson have filed documents seeking the dismissal of the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified unspecified monetary damages. Court hearings have not been scheduled.
“As difficult as the situation was, my client believes the death of his boy wasn’t necessary,” Croteau said. “His family has suffered badly.”
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian businessman who made a daring escape from house arrest in Italy where he was nabbed on a U.S. warrant for breaching Western sanctions surfaced in Russia on Tuesday, saying he fled because Italian courts would have given in to American pressure to extradite him.
Artyom Uss, the 40-year-old son of the governor of Russia's vast Krasnoyarsk region in eastern Siberia, was arrested in Italy in October on a U.S. warrant. The U.S. has sought Uss' extradition on charges of smuggling Western technologies in violation of Western sanctions and money laundering. He was transferred from jail to house arrest at a compound on the outskirts of Milan in December.
Last month, Uss fled after an Italian court ruled to extradite him to the U.S. His location was unknown until Tuesday, when he told the state RIA Novosti news agency that he was back in Russia.
Uss argued he had to flee because the Italian court had “demonstrated its clear political bias” and was likely to “cave in under the U.S. authorities' pressure” amid Russia-West tensions over fighting in Ukraine.
“In today's international environment when they play against us ‘without rules,’ my return home, even though it happened in a ‘non-standard’ way, is a victory,” Uss told RIA Novosti.
He didn't offer any details of his escape, but thanked “strong and reliable people who were next to me during those dramatic days.”
The Italian media have claimed that Russian intelligence agencies have been involved in arranging Uss' escape. After removing his electronic bracelet, he was reportedly driven out of the country on a fake passport before taking a private jet back to Russia.
Russian officials haven't commented on the media reports.
The Moscow City Court issued a ruling in December seeking Uss' arrest in an apparent maneuver to set the stage for his extradition back home. The Russian Interior Ministry on Tuesday revoked its warrant for Uss' arrest after he responded to investigators' questions related to his case, Uss' lawyer Alexei Tikhomirov told the Interfax news agency. He said investigators asked him not to leave Moscow.
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Geotab's Integration with Cummins Connected Software Updates Saves Users Time and Optimizes Fleet Operations
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Geotab Inc. ("Geotab"), a global leader in connected transportation solutions, and Cummins Inc., a global power technology leader, announced an upcoming integration that will enable Over-the-Air (OTA) connectivity for Cummins Engine Control Units (ECUs) through Geotab's GO9 device – today at Connect 2023, Geotab's premier annual event.
OTA software updates will be sent directly to Cummins ECUs through Geotab's GO9 device, providing multiple benefits for fleet customers and OEMs:
- Optimal Engine Efficiency and Performance: OTA software updates provide access to the latest Cummins software allowing customers to ensure their vehicle's ECU is running at peak performance.
- Less downtime waiting for updates: Connected Software Updates can update engine software in less than five minutes. OTA software updates eliminate the need to perform calibration updates at service locations allowing users to update software when and where it is most convenient.
- Safe and Secure: OTA engine software updates utilize a two-step approval process ensuring safe and secure installation.
"The Geotab and Cummins integration for over-the-air connectivity can save fleets time and money, while affirming uncompromised performance and security," said Scott Sutarik, VP Enterprise Solutions at Geotab. "Connected Software Updates ensure that our customers with Cummins engines are taking advantage of the latest genuine Cummins firmware, ensuring peak performance and innovation."
"This is a great next step in our growing relationship with Geotab to deliver the latest technology and capabilities to our common customers," said José Samperio, Executive Director, North America On-Highway at Cummins. "It offers scalability and convenience, allowing fleets the option to automatically deploy updates to their entire fleet in an efficient manner."
Geotab's Integration with Cummins Connected Software Updates will soon be available for select Geotab devices and compatible Cummins engines. Additional availability will be offered later this year.
Learn more about Cummins Inc.'s applications available from Geotab: www.geotab.com/cummins.
Cummins Inc., a global power technology leader, is a corporation of complementary business segments that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions. The company's products range from internal combustion, electric and hybrid integrated power solutions and components including filtration, aftertreatment, turbochargers, fuel systems, controls systems, air handling systems, automated transmissions, electric power generation systems, microgrid controls, batteries, electrolyzers and fuel cell products. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 59,900 people committed to powering a more prosperous world through three global corporate responsibility priorities critical to healthy communities: education, environment and equality of opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online, through a network of company-owned and independent distributor locations, and through thousands of dealer locations worldwide and earned about $2.1 billion on sales of $24 billion in 2021.
Geotab is a global leader in connected transportation solutions. We provide telematics — vehicle and asset tracking — solutions to over forty thousand customers in 150 countries. For more than 20 years, we have invested in ground-breaking data research and innovation to enable partners and customers, including Fortune 500 and public sector organizations, to transform their fleets and operations. We connect to over 3.2 million vehicles and process more than 55 billion data points a day so that customers can make better decisions, increase productivity, have safer fleets, and achieve their sustainability goals. Geotab's open platform and Marketplace, offers hundreds of third-party solution options. Backed by a team of industry leading data scientists and AI experts, Geotab is unlocking the power of data to understand real-time and predictive analytics — solving for today's challenges and tomorrow's world. To learn more, visit www.geotab.com, follow @GEOTAB on Twitter and LinkedIn or visit the Geotab Blog.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 6, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1244 PM CDT Thu Apr 6 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 1245 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 1245 PM CDT this afternoon for a
portion of southeast Texas, including the following counties,
Grimes, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker and Waller.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Airline fares have jumped 47% since January and remain higher than they were before the pandemic, which could be leading to a slowdown in the number of seats airlines can sell.
Bookings for flights within the United States fell 2.3% in May compared with April, research firm Adobe Digital Insights said Tuesday. The value of those sales rose 6%, however, to $8.3 billion, because of price increases.
Prices for U.S. flights in May were 30% higher than the same month in 2019 – the fourth straight month in which fares topped pre-pandemic levels. May prices were up 6% over April, according to Adobe, which based numbers on transactions at six of the largest 10 U.S. airlines.
“While some consumers have been able to stomach the higher fares, especially for those who delayed travel plans during the pandemic, the dip in bookings shows that some are rethinking their appetite for getting on a plane,” said Vivek Pandya, lead analyst for Adobe.
Airfares are among many factors contributing to the highest inflation rate that Americans have seen in 40 years.
Airline officials say demand for travel is strong after two years of the pandemic. As for the prices, they say they need to raise fares to cover surging jet fuel prices.
The number of air travelers in the U.S. has rebounded to nearly 90% of 2019 levels, according to government figures. International travel has lagged domestic travel, but it could get a boost from the Biden administration’s decision to end the requirement to show a negative test for COVID-19 before flying to the U.S.
United Airlines said Monday that searches for international trips increased 7% in the three days after the administration announced it would drop the testing requirement. The airline said many of the searches were for summer travel to Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean.
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NEW YORK — Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82.
Weil's daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple's only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music's most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan's Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest singles of the '60s and beyond.
“I grew up around a lot of music and two incredible, brilliant, creative geniuses,” Jenn Mann said. “My parents inspired each other to write great songs. My mom always said that when things were good they had each other, and when things weren’t as good they had their music.”
Weil and Mann were key collaborators with producer Phil Spector on songs for the Ronettes ("Walking in the Rain"), the Crystals ("He's Sure the Boy I Love") and other performers, and also provided hits for everyone from Dolly Parton to Hanson. “Somewhere Out There,” a collaboration with James Horner for the soundtrack of “An American Tail,” won Grammys in 1987 for best song and best song for a movie or television, and was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. “Don’t Know Much,” a Linda Ronstadt-Aaron Neville duet they helped write, was a top 5 hit that won a best pop performance Grammy in 1990.
Their most famous song, a work of history overall, was "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," an anthem of "blue-eyed soul" produced by Spector as if scoring a tragedy and sung with desperate fury by the Righteous Brothers. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" topped the charts in 1965 and was covered by numerous other artists. According to Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), no other song was played more on radio and television in the 20th century.
But when Weil and Mann first played "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" for the Righteous Brothers, the response from singers Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield was "dead silence."
"Bill said, 'Sounds good for The Everly Brothers not the Righteous Brothers,'" she told Parade magazine in 2015. "We thought 'Oh, God.' Then Bobby said, 'What am I supposed to do while the big guy's singing?' and Phil (Spector) said "You can go to the bank.'"
While many of Weil's peers struggled once the Beatles caught on in the mid-1960s, she continued to make hits, sometimes with Mann, or with such partners as Michael Masser, David Foster and John Williams, with whom she wrote “For Always” for the soundtrack to Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence.” Weil helped write Parton's pop breakthrough "Here You Come Again"; the Peabo Bryson ballad "If Ever You're In My Arms Again"; James Ingram's "Just Once"; the Pointer Sisters' "He's So Shy"; and Lionel Richie's "Running With the Night." In 1997, she was in the top 10 again with Hanson's "I Will Come to You."
"When they are successful, songs are like little novels. They have a beginning, a middle and an end. You feel what the person is feeling who's singing it and it paints a picture of the human condition," Weil, who eventually published the novel "I'm Glad I Did," told Parade.
Her talents reached well beyond love ballads. She and Mann wrote one of rock's first anti-drug songs, "Kicks," a hit for Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966. She also had a knack for lyrics about ambition and aspiration, such as "On Broadway" and its unforgettable opening line, "They say the neon lights are bright/on Broadway." The Animals had a hit with her tale of working class frustration, "We've Got to Get Out of This Place." The Crystals' "Uptown" was a 1961 hit that touched upon race and class in ways not often heard in rock's early years.
Downtown he's just one of a million guys
He don't get no breaks
And he takes all they got to give
'Cause he's got to live
But then he comes uptown
Where he can hold his head up high
Uptown he knows that I am standing by
Weil and Mann were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, with King introducing them at the Rock Hall ceremony. Mann and Weil were supporting characters in the hit Broadway musical about King, "Beautiful," which opened in 2013 and documented the intense friendship and rivalry between the two married couples. Mann and Weil's musical "They Wrote That?" had a brief run in 2004.
“Cynthia’s high professional standard made us all better songwriters. My favorite Cynthia lyric is, “Just a little lovin’ early in the mornin’ beats a cup of coffee for startin’ out the day,‘” King wrote on her social media accounts Friday, quoting from the Mann-Weil ballad “Just a Little Lovin,‘” covered by Dusty Springfield among others.
“If we’re lucky, we know this is true, but she wrote it — and then she rhymed ‘mornin’’ with ‘yawnin’’ in the next verse. May the legacy of lyrics by Cynthia Weil continue to speak to and for generations to come.”
Weil, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, was born in New York City and studied piano and ballet as a child. She majored in theater at Sarah Lawrence College, but was encouraged by an agent to try songwriting. By age 20, she was working for the publishing company of "Guys and Dolls" composer Frank Loesser, and would soon meet her future husband.
"I was writing with a young Italian boy singer, the Frankie Avalon of his day, named Teddy Randazzo, when Barry came in to play him a song," she told the Los Angeles Times in 2016. "I asked the receptionist, 'Who is this guy? Does he have a girlfriend?' She said, 'He's signed to a friend of mine, Don Kirshner, and if I call Donny, maybe you can go up there to show him your lyrics and meet Barry again.' So that's what she did. And that's what I did. He didn't have a chance."
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of County Veteran Service Officers (NACVSO) and the law firm of Ashcraft & Gerel LLP have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement whereby Ashcraft & Gerel LLP has agreed to review, at no cost or obligation, any potential claims under the newly enacted Camp Lejeune Justice Act for clients of NACVSO's member Veteran Service Officers.
The mission of NACVSO is to provide education, training, certification, and support of its member Veteran Service Officers so veterans and their dependents nationwide can receive the benefits which they have deservedly earned. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act created an avenue whereby veterans and their dependents can seek compensation from illness and death caused by the toxic water the United States Government provided to Marines and their families for over thirty years.
Ashcraft & Gerel LLP will provide an objective review of the facts and circumstances of the individual case and provide a consultation with a firm attorney about the matter. The veteran or dependent has no obligation to the firm and is free to engage Ashcraft & Gerel LLP or any attorney of their own choosing should they decide to pursue a claim.
Since its founding in 1953, Ashcraft & Gerel LLP has established itself as one of the nation's leading personal injury and mass tort firms. The firm has developed a reputation of excellence in complex litigation and has recovered over $1 billion for its clients. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia and represents clients nationwide. The firm's attorneys have tried and argued appellate cases throughout the country before state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Numerous courts have appointed Ashcraft & Gerel to leadership positions in multi-district litigation (MDL) and the firm's attorneys are among a select group of attorneys who have tried to verdict numerous MDL cases. Examples of the firm's leadership appointments include serving as Co-Lead Counsel in In re: Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2738 (D.N.J.), which is one of the largest pending mass tort litigations in the country. The firm has significant experience working with experts to establish causation in drug and chemical exposure cases and is routinely contacted by other law firms to assist in complex cases involving cancer and other diseases. Ashcraft & Gerel has a long history of representing veterans and their families. Among other actions, the firm represented veterans in the In re Agent Orange Products Liability Litigation and engaged in extensive litigation against seven chemical companies and the federal government. Ashcraft & Gerel has a team of lawyers and paralegals focused on representing clients pursuing claims under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act.
For more information go to Ashcraft & Gerel LLP website at https://www.ashcraftandgerel.com/veterans
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Dear EarthTalk: What are the most recent projections about sea level rise around the world as a result of climate change? And is there any hope of turning back the tide if we rein in emissions as planned under the current iteration of the Paris agreement?
-- M. Frey, Milford, CT
As temperatures rise around the world, frozen glaciers and sea ice in the poles are melting at unprecedented rates, inundating the world’s oceans with more water. The result has been some sea level rise but watch out as more is still to come. In fact, the global mean sea level, defined as the average height of the entire ocean surface, has risen 8 to 9 inches since 1880. Most of that rise took place in the 150 years. At current rates of emissions, the global mean sea level could rise another 12 inches by 2050.
This amount of sea level rise could be catastrophic in low-lying coastal areas around the world. Bangladesh, and island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati are already facing the brunt of rising sea levels as flooding engulfs villages with little government funding to recover from repeated catastrophes.
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Here in the U.S., Florida will likely be hardest hit by sea level rise, but the Gulf Coast and New York/New Jersey — where coastline industrial waste sites could be submerged and expose millions of people to decades worth of stored pollution — also face potentially catastrophic flooding. The Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York, has already released some of its polluted contents in the latest series of storms. Hawaii and far-flung U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam are also at risk.
All U.S. coastal areas will undoubtedly experience some loss of coastal land. Just how much property loss takes place is partly a function of how prepared any given region is for what’s inevitably coming.
World leaders have only recently resolved to face down sea level rise and climate-change-related threats through concerted action. In particular, the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, nixed by Donald Trump and then revived by Joe Biden, held international governments accountable to lower emissions, collectively limiting global warming processes to 1.5 Celsius. However, the “locked in” sea level rises, which will occur regardless of whether or not temperatures rise above 1.5 Celsius, are estimated to be a quarter to a half meter of sea level rise. Yet, action is still necessary to avoid greater sea level rise.
We can all do our part by cutting back on our own emissions, especially by flying and driving less. Indeed, our dependence on fossil fuels has gained new poignancy recently with defiant Russia using its clout to threaten the rest of Europe with cutting off gas pipelines. Another to help is to take an active role in countering misinformation and pushing for scientifically driven solutions. Consider signing up for text banking at Greenpeace or spreading the word by distributing the documentary Paris to Pittsburgh, which highlights the importance of the accord, to educate your friends and neighbors.
The Paris climate agreement and its promises are more vital than ever. While individual citizen actions may appear small in the face of such insurmountable odds, don’t forget that it’s committed and engaged fighters against climate change who motivate world leaders to act in the first place.
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Jan. 13, 1923: Washington, D.C., Jan. 13 — Representative Nestor Montoya, of New Mexico, died suddenly at his home here today. He was stricken while shaving and died within a short time.
He had been ill for two days but his condition this morning showed so much improvement that he decided to return to his duties at the capitol. He was stricken immediately after he left his bed. Mr. Montoya, a Republican, was serving his first term in congress. He was 60 years old, was a newspaper publisher and had served as speaker of the New Mexico house of representatives. He was married and had five children.
Jan. 13, 1948: Clint Anderson, the insurance-selling, Senate-baiting, charm exuding, Holstein-farming, secretary of agriculture led all the rest in insurance ales to the state during the last six months of 1947.
Our Clint, who is likened unto a bathing beauty in the syndicated Washington Daybook release for Jan. 12, sold the state $24,211.81 worth of insurance during the period July 1 to Jan. 1, to lead the state bureau of revenue commissioner by a cool $10,000. Revenue Commissioner Victor Salazar's sales totaled $13,944.02, almost all of it accounted for before the first of September.
Jan. 13, 1973: Gov. Gary Johnson Monday unveiled his proposed state government budget for 1998-99, promising to cut personal income taxes in New Mexico by $20 million and to increase spending for public education by $80 million.
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Vaccines will no longer be required in Canada for domestic travelers, transportation workers or employees of the federal government, as the country's vaccination rate is at about 80%.
The number of cases and rates of hospitalization and death have been decreasing in the country, Canada's Treasury Board said Tuesday.
But vaccines are still required for people crossing into the Canadian border, as well as cruise ship travelers. Masks are also still required on planes, trains and ships.
"While the suspension of vaccine mandates reflects an improved public health situation in Canada, the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve and circulate in Canada and globally," the department said in a statement. "Given this context, and because vaccination rates and virus control in other countries varies significantly, current vaccination requirements at the border will remain in effect."
The changes take effect June 20.
Canada has had about 2.4 million cases of COVID-19 since December 2020. About 85% of the population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while about 82% has gotten two doses, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Real estate drives Florida's economy, and having a look into what may lie ahead in a still uncertain 2023 is key for policymakers, residents and Realtors. As part of this year's Florida Real Estate Trends summit, Florida Realtors® Chief Economist Dr. Brad O'Connor will share his outlook for Florida's economy and housing market in the months to come.
A highlight of Florida Realtors 2023 Mid-Winter Business Meetings, the Real Estate Trends summit takes place Jan. 19 from 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Renaissance SeaWorld Orlando. Box lunches will be available for purchase near the session room. The agenda includes the economic outlook for the U.S. and Florida; the state's housing market outlook; migration trends for Florida; and also consumer motivations and expectations.
"Elevated mortgage interest rates and the economic well-being of consumers are two of the biggest stories going into 2023's housing market," says Dr. O'Connor. "At this year's Florida Real Estate Trends event, we'll be walking everyone through the current state of the market and where we expect to go from here. Inflation finally seems to be slowing, which is good news, but a lot still needs to happen before we're going to see interest rates recede significantly.
"We'll also have Morning Consult Chief Economist John Leer on hand to give a comprehensive breakdown of how consumers – including potential homebuyers – are feeling as they continue to wrestle with these higher rates, as well as inflation and the widely perceived sense that the U.S. economy is slowing. 2023 is likely to be a bumpy ride but there is at least some light at the end of the tunnel, so be sure to join us to get a head start on this year's Florida housing market."
Morning Consult uses its high-frequency survey data to capture unique insights to keep a constant pulse on consumer sentiment, according to company officials.
There are two ways to attend the 2023 Real Estate Trends event on Jan. 19, either in person during Florida Realtors 2023 Mid-Winter Business Meetings or virtually. For more information, go to 2023 Real Estate Trends on Florida Realtors' member website.
Florida Realtors® serves as the voice for real estate in Florida. It provides programs, services, continuing education, research and legislative representation to more than 238,000 members in 51 boards/associations. Florida Realtors® Newsroom website is available at http://floridarealtors.org/newsroom.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Block, Inc. ("Block" or the "Company") (NYSE: SQ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Block and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On April 4, 2022, Block announced that a former employee had improperly downloaded certain reports of the Company's subsidiary, Cash App Investing, on December 10, 2021. The information in the reports included full customer names and brokerage account numbers, as well as brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity. As many as 8.2 million Cash App Investing customers were affected.
On this news, Block's stock price fell $9.27 per share, or 6.4%, to close at $135.92 per share on April 5, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Police: 72-year-old woman dies, 2 others injured after Denny’s sign falls on car
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - Authorities in Kentucky say a woman has died and two others injured after a restaurant sign fell on their car.
According to the Elizabethtown Police Department, a Denny’s restaurant sign hit a car that was occupied by three people in a parking lot Thursday afternoon.
Witnesses told WAVE that the wind appeared to knock the sign from its post before it struck the vehicle.
Authorities said three adults were inside the car when the sign fell, including a 72-year-old woman. She was transported to the hospital but later died.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Elizabethtown police spokesperson Chris Denham said. “It’s certainly very windy and I’m certain that was a factor and involved in this.”
According to police, all of the occupants of the car needed to be extracted from the vehicle by first responders and taken to the hospital.
Authorities did not immediately release the condition of the other two victims or identify the woman killed in the incident.
Elizabethtown police said their investigation remains ongoing.
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Novel RF structures for Defense Systems designed for and built via 3D printing
BOSTON, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify, provider of advanced composite-photopolymer printers, announced today that IERUS Technologies received a FLUX CORE 3D printer and Flux Developer materials onboarding software for design and engineering of Defense Systems. The 3D printer will be used to realize complex RF (radio frequency) applications.
"Placing a printer at the IERUS Technologies headquarters provides a critical resource to support the growing need for additive manufacturing solutions in electromagnetics for Defense," said Eric Versluys, Director of Defense Programs at Fortify. "Fortify's printers are uniquely positioned to print low-loss 3D printing materials, enabling performance advantages where traditional manufacturing falls short (due to machining, weight, and size)."
IERUS Technologies, a provider of engineering and design solutions for Defense and commercial customers, such as sensors and strategic systems, is designing novel RF structures such as Graded Refractive Index (GRIN) lenses leveraging Fortify's FLUX CORE system. The Flux Core system enables companies like IERUS to take advantage of the design freedoms enabled by RadixTM, a 3D printable low-loss material developed by Rogers Corporation.
"The Fortify 3D printer line will enable IERUS Technologies to develop complex RF structures that push the limits of traditional RF architectures with novel electromagnetic phenomenologies," states Jason Keen, CEO of IERUS Technologies.
This announcement comes a few months after Fortify's strategic investment from In-Q-Tel and the development of a portfolio of electronic 3D printing materials. IERUS will leverage the FLUX Developer toolkit, an open platform for the development of viscous and filled resins, to optimize printing of RF devices.
Fortify will be showcasing 3D printed RF structures printed on the FLUX CORE 3D printer at Array 2022 October 11 - 14 in Waltham, MA.
Fortify is transforming the 3D printing industry with its patented DCM (Digital Composite Manufacturing) platform. DCM delivers new levels of additively manufactured part performance by introducing functional additives to photopolymers. By combining a deep understanding of material science with high performance mixing, magnetics, and polymer physics, Fortify is able to produce custom microstructures in high-resolution 3D printed parts. The company is currently focused on applications ranging from injection mold tooling to high performance end-use parts with unique mechanical and electromagnetic properties. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Fortify4 technology enables material properties and components unattainable using other additive or traditional manufacturing processes. For more information, visit www.3dfortify.com.
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By THALIA BEATY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Big Brothers Big Sisters America CEO Artis Stevens says the 119-year-old nonprofit long known for mentoring schoolchildren is now diversifying its programming.
Stevens, who took over the organization two years ago, said the fastest growing demand for its services is among young adults, ages 18-25, and he wants to expand its offerings to meet the changing availability of mentors and needs and interests of mentees.
“A lot of kids we have been serving are raising their hand and saying, ‘What’s next? How do I navigate?’,” he told The Associated Press.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is now offering group mentoring — gathering together multiple adults, known as Bigs, with multiple young people, called Littles — as well as a greater focus on career development and mental health.
Data released last week from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps found that the number of Americans volunteering through a formal program dropped 7% from 2019 to 2021, which corresponds with the profound social disruptions the pandemic caused.
“When we’re in a moment when kids are experiencing senses of isolation and struggling socially,” said Nancy Deutsch, a professor of education at the University of Virginia. “Mentoring is the kind of intervention that I think is really important.”
Stevens said he hopes to address the chronic shortage of Bigs for interested Littles by recruiting mentors from the organization’s 20 million alumni.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
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Q: What should people know about the children you serve?
A: We were born as an alternative innovation to the juvenile justice system. So our mandate was always focused around young people at the time who were immigrants, who were in street gangs, who were homeless, who had the greatest challenges. The idea was: Instead of putting kids into the juvenile justice system, can we connect them with positive people in their community?
We know the resilience that these kids have, but we also know the power when they’re matched with a positive relationship with an adult, what that can do to help them thrive, what it can do to help them grow.
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Q: Who can be mentors? Do you have to have it all figured out?
One of our most common expressions is, “You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to be present.” So if you look at our mentors, they come from all walks of life. They’re all backgrounds, all ages, all demographics. But the commonality they all have is they believe in showing up for kids.
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Q: How are you recruiting volunteers, especially after a drop in formal volunteering during the pandemic?
A: It’s incredibly, incredibly challenging for most organizations right now. So we have implemented a technology platform that’s allowing us to do what we call “technology enabled mentoring” much more effectively.
Our biggest challenge in attracting volunteers is accessibility. Finding ways that they can plug in, ways that we can create proximity to the communities that they live in and making sure there is a value in the impact in the young person’s life and for the person who gets involved.
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Q: You came to lead Big Brothers Big Sisters America during the pandemic and after the killings of George Floyd and others by police. Would you speak about how you’re coming to this job as a Black man?
A: I take great responsibility. I take great pride. When I became the CEO, of course, I was the first Black CEO in our 119-year history, and that means a lot to me. It’s significant certainly in the recognition of it. But it’s more significant in the representation it means for other kids, other communities to say, “If he can do it, I can do it or I can exceed it.”
The first thing that I did was created a national Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) advisory council. This group was essential for helping us to get outside of our inside thinking. We’ve been around for over a century and we had issues that we needed to look at, just like the country does.
Then, so much happens at the board level of local and national nonprofit organizations. A staff person can believe certain things, but if your board isn’t commitment, it’s hard to truly implement those things. So we’re doing a lot of board training and coaching.
The last thing I’ll say is, we are not a political organization. We don’t want to be a political organization. What we believe is in youth empowerment, and we believe that every single young person should have access to opportunity.
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Q: MacKenzie Scott gave your organization more than $122 million. Has that donation cooled interest from other donors?
A: It hasn’t. You know, $122 million, that’s a lot of money, right? It allowed us to talk about an investment as an invitation for more people to come and join and be part of this community. We decided to create a fund that our local organizations who received funding can contribute to that would help the other 200 organizations that didn’t receive funding. We call it the Bigger Together Fund. For us, if we’re going to take this investment, it had to be invested in every community, not just the 38 that were funded.
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Q: What’s next for Big Brothers Big Sisters America?
A: We are really focused on our 20 million alumni and champions who have been part of our program. Our goal is to bring those alumni back into the fold, to bring them in to volunteer more effectively, to help us to fundraise, to help us to spread the word is going to be core to what we do. We hope that more people would hopefully join us, raise their hand and come back and support and be a mentor.
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HOYLAKE, England — Brian Harman turned back every challenge in the British Open, from big names to bad weather, and took his place among major champions Sunday with a victory that was never seriously in doubt at Royal Liverpool.
At age 36, he is the oldest first-time major winner since Sergio Garcia was 37 when he won the Masters in 2017.
Harman had gone 167 tournaments over six years since his last win in the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship. This is only his third title in his 12 years on the PGA Tour.
Masters champion Jon Rahm birdied his last hole for a 70 to make it a four-way tie for second place with Tom Kim (67), Sepp Straka (69) and Jason Day (69).
Harman took the lead on Friday morning with the second of four straight birdies early in the second round. He never trailed over the final 51 holes, leading by five shots after the second round and five shots after the third round.
He started the round in the rain with a smattering of boos from the grandstand. But he walked up toward the 18th green to a standing ovation, and tapped his hand to his heart to acknowledge the fans as he walked off the green. All that remained was signing his card — a 13-under 271 — and return to collect the silver claret jug, the oldest trophy in golf.
PGA TOUR AND EUROPEAN TOUR
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Akshay Bhatia birdied the closing hole in regulation, then capitalized in sudden death when Patrick Rodgers found a divot in the fairway to win his first PGA Tour title at the Barracuda Championship on Sunday.
The 21-year-old Bhatia, who turned pro at 17, earned full status on tour and a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs. He had been playing under special temporary membership since his runner-up finish at the Puerto Rico Open in March.
Bhatia converted a birdie from about 15 feet on the par-4 18th hole at Tahoe Mountain Club to finish with 40 points under the modified Stableford scoring system that awards five points for eagle and two for birdie while deducting a point for bogey and three for double bogey. The slender left-hander had nine points on Sunday.
That was good enough to match Rodgers, who scored six points in the final round.
In the playoff, Rodgers’ tee shot on the 18th settled in a divot and he chunked his approach. His pitch was well short and he two-putted for bogey. Bhatia left his birdie putt just short and tapped in for the victory.
Rodgers remains winless in 246 PGA Tour starts. The 31-year-old former Stanford star failed to convert a 54-hole lead for the fifth time.
Two European tour players tied for third in the co-sanctioned event. Julien Guerrier scored 20 points on Sunday to finish with 37 alongside Jens Dantorp, who had 15 points in the final round.
LPGA TOUR
MIDLAND, Mich. — Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol held off Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan by a stroke Saturday to win the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event.
Knight and Szokol closed with a 5-under 65 in better-ball play at Midland Country Club, waiting out a delay of 1 hour, 40 minutes because of lightning while they were on the 13th hole.
The 29-year-old Szokol took her first LPGA Tour title, while the 26-year-old Knight also won the 2019 Ascendant LPGA. The U.S. duo tied for fourth last year after missing the cut in 2021.
They finished at 23 under, following a better-ball 61 in the second round Thursday with an alternate-shot 62 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round.
Castren and Tan shot a 63. They also finished second last year.
The teams of Celine Boutier-Yuka Saso (62), Jodi Ewart Shadoff-Emma Talley (63) and Celine Borge-Polly Mack (63) tied for third at 20 under. Stacy Lewis and Maria Fassi had a 63 to finish sixth at 19 under.
KORN FERRY TOUR
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Pierceson Coody won for the third time in 13 months on the Korn Ferry Tour, closing with a 5-under 67 on Sunday for a two-shot victory over four players including his twin brother, Parker, in the Price Cutter Charity Championship.
The 23-year-old who starred in college at Texas moved to fourth in the points standings and assured himself of earning a PGA Tour card for next season. He won in Maine last year in his third Korn Ferry start and won again in Panama in February.
Pierceson and Parker are grandsons of 1971 Masters champion Charles Coody.
Pierceson finished at 25-under 263 at Highland Springs. Parker shot 66 and was 23 under alongside Ben Silverman (62), Thomas Walsh (69) and Chandler Phillips (69). Silverman has a victory and two runner-ups this season and has secured his PGA Tour card for 2024.
OTHER TOURS
Kiara Romero won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship on Saturday, outlasting Rianne Malixi 1-up with a 7-foot par putt on the 36th and final hole at the U.S. Air Force Academy Eisenhower Golf Club. ... Jenny Bae closed with a 2-over 73 on Sunday but won the Twin Bridges Championship in a playoff over Natasha Andrea Oon on the Epson Tour. ... Nuria Iturrioz of Spain won for the fourth time on the Ladies European Tour, closing with a 5-under 67 and beating Laura Fuenfstueck on the second playoff hole. ... Francesco Laporta closed with an even-par 72 for a one-shot victory over four players in the Big Green Egg German Challenge on the Challenge Tour. ... Stuart Macdonald of Canada birdied the par-5 18th hole at Eagle Creek for the fourth time Sunday to beat Devon Bling and Luke Schneiderjans in a playoff in the Commissionaires Ottawa Open on the PGA Tour Canada. Macdonald birdied the 18th to get into the playoff and three more times in sudden death, winning on the fourth playoff hole when Bling made par. ... CJ du Plessis went eagle-par-birdie over his final three holes for a 6-under 64 and one-shot victory in the SunBet Challenge-Wild Coast on the Sunshine Tour. ... Mio Kotaki won the Daito Kentaku Eheyanet Ladies on the Japan LPGA, which was shortened to 54 holes.
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More than 150 Michigan Republicans launched a new campaign effort to boost the reelection prospects of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) against GOP opponent Tudor Dixon, who is backed by former President Trump.
Republicans for Whitmer is led by a leadership council of 35 Republicans from Michigan, including business leaders, former lawmakers and staff who served under former state GOP Govs. John Engler and Rick Snyder.
Bill Parfet, the chairman and CEO of commercial real estate company Northwood Group, said he was supporting Whitmer because she was seeking to build a common bridge between Democrats and Republicans.
“No more fighting,” Parfet said in a statement. ““Among those running for election in November, there exists a group of individuals — some Democrats, some Republicans — that are willing to work together to find a common middle-ground where progress can be made. … The best person to lead that effort is Governor Gretchen Whitmer.”
Whitmer, who has served as Michigan’s governor since 2019, appears to be gaining ground in her reelection bid against Dixon.
In a Detroit News-WDIV-TV poll published last week, Whitmer enjoyed a 13-point lead over Dixon, while 54 percent of respondents said they approve of Whitmer’s governorship.
Dixon is a former customer service agent and sales rep for her father’s Michigan Steel foundry who also describes herself as a “working mom” now fighting for Michiganders.
The GOP candidate has faced some criticism for her hardline anti-abortion positions, a hot-button issue in the midterm elections this year that is increasingly giving momentum to Democrats.
In July, Dixon said she would not support abortion in any case except to save the life of the mother, even when asked if that would apply to a 14-year-old rape victim.
Judy Frey, a moderate Republican from Grand Rapids who joined the Republicans for Whitmer group, said she backs the governor because of her support for a ballot question that will be included in the November election. The question will allow voters to decide if they want to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution.
Whitmer “knows how to govern. She’s done it, she’s experienced, she uses compromise, she uses empathy,” Frey said in a promotional video for the new group. “She gets my vote this year.”
The Republicans for Whitmer effort marks something of a shift in Michigan politics, which recently saw a foiled far-right attempt to kidnap the governor for her pandemic policies.
The state is also divided between Republican control of the state legislature and Whitmer’s Democratic executive branch, which have feuded over abortion laws after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion.
Still, Joe Schwarz, a former Republican U.S. congressman from Michigan, said “Whitmer has proven herself as a strong leader who is fighting to make Michigan a better place for everyone — regardless of your party affiliation.”
“During her time as governor, she has focused on growing our economy with major investments, strengthening our skilled workforce, investing in the education of our children, and making government work for us,” Schwarz said in a statement. “I know she will continue to advocate on behalf of hardworking Michiganders and that’s why I’m proud to support her for re-election this fall.”
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