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BALTIMORE, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- InVita Healthcare Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for healthcare, blood centers, public health, and public safety organizations, announces today the live deployment of PharmaDefense, the industry's first purpose-built software solution for counterfeit drug testing at a leading pharmaceutical company.
With counterfeit drugs costing the pharmaceutical industry more than $75 billion per year and putting consumers at risk by introducing potentially dangerous or ineffective drugs, leading pharmaceutical companies are investing in laboratory testing programs that sample drugs from pharmacies, police investigations, and customer complaints to minimize this risk. Despite this, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) aren't designed to capture all the necessary data and maintain a complete digital record of the chain of custody to build legally defensible cases against counterfeit drug manufacturing and distribution.
The implementation of PharmaDefense will enable them to build legally defensible cases, support discovery requests, and share data across all testing laboratories worldwide to identify illegal manufacturers. "We are proud to help one of the world's most innovative pharmaceutical companies combat counterfeit drugs and support global initiatives aimed at protecting patients who depend on life-saving medicines," said Todd Collins, President & CEO of InVita.
PharmaDefense's cloud-hosted application leverages InVita's expertise in forensic software and laboratory management and provides lab operations with an effective and efficient means to manage their workflows and create audit trails for all laboratory activities. This system will ensure product integrity and quality control, while also increasing the effectiveness of counterfeit drug detection programs.
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InVita provides chain of custody software technologies for complex medical, forensic and community care environments. InVita's solutions optimize supply chains, sample tracking, and visibility across blood and plasma operations, the tissue and implant lifecycle, and environments spanning DNA and forensics. InVita's solutions support increased compliance and cost control, reduced risk, and improved patient and public safety outcomes.
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The Ramaco Foundation will partner with and provide grants to charitable organizations in West Virginia, Virginia, and Wyoming
LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --America's coal-producing communities are fundamental to the growth and success of the country, but are too often overlooked for the support they need. For this reason, Ramaco Resources, Inc. (Ramaco) (NASDAQ: METC) today announced the formation of the Ramaco Foundation, a philanthropic organization that will invest in the regions where its employees work in West Virginia, Virginia and Wyoming through grant-making and partnerships with local nonprofit organizations.
As part of its launch, the Foundation has awarded grants worth $100,000 to organizations fighting childhood hunger in Wyoming, and supporting education and workforce development in West Virginia.
"The regions where our staff and their families live are the backbone of this country, and deserve far, far more investment and attention than they receive," said Randall Atkins, chairman and CEO of Ramaco, who also serves as the chairman of the Foundation's board of directors. "We are proud to be a member of these communities, and for this opportunity to give back and support their success."
The Foundation's activities will be focused on southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and Sheridan County, Wyoming, where the company has operations. Its first major donations are a $50,000 grant to The Food Group Wyoming, which fights childhood hunger in Sheridan County, and a $50,000 grant to Jobs for West Virginia's Graduates, which provides professional development and educational support to high school students.
Both organizations will receive $25,000 in 2022 and another $25,000 in 2023. The grants will benefit the organizations' operating funds, program development and other identified needs.
"The Ramaco Foundation is dedicated to building meaningful philanthropic relationships in these regions, and strengthening the local social and economic fabric," said Evan Jenkins, president of The Ramaco Foundation and a member of its board of directors. Jenkins was formerly both the U.S. Congressman from Southern West Virginia and the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. "The organizations receiving these grants are results-driven and have proven records of success, and we look forward to partnering with them and expanding their very valuable work."
In addition to Atkins and Jenkins, the Foundation's board of directors includes two other members: Patrick Graney III, the founder and president of PCG Inc. of Charleston, West Virginia and a long time civic leader in the state, and Debra Wendtland, a prominent Sheridan, Wyoming based attorney and one of the nation's leading adoption specialists.
The Foundation is organized as a public benefit corporation under the Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act and is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
About Ramaco Resources, Inc.
Ramaco Resources, Inc. is an operator and developer of high-quality, low-cost metallurgical coal in southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Its executive offices are in Lexington, Kentucky, with operational offices in Charleston, West Virginia, and Sheridan, Wyoming. The company currently has three active mining complexes in Central Appalachia and one mine not yet in production near Sheridan. Contiguous to the Wyoming mine, it operates a research and pilot facility focused on the production of advanced carbon products and materials from coal. In connection with these activities, it holds a body of roughly 50 intellectual property patents, pending applications, exclusive licensing agreements and various trademarks. For more information, please visit www.ramacoresources.com.
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The NCAA women’s basketball title game will be broadcast this season on ABC for the first time.
The championship game, which usually airs in prime time, will be played at 3 p.m. Eastern on April 2. The women’s Final Four is in Dallas this year.
“Scheduling the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship on ABC has been a goal for quite some time in our ongoing efforts to maximize the exposure of women’s sports in collaboration with the NCAA,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN’S president for programming and original content. “Women’s NCAA Championships continue to generate strong audiences across the ABC/ESPN networks and this move represents yet another unique opportunity to showcase this marquee event and the student-athletes who are competing for a national championship.”
ESPN said it will have the 2023 and 2024 championship games on ABC and would look at moving the game back to prime time in the future but currently has commitments to entertainment shows the night of the game. Back in the 1980s when the women’s tournament first started, the Final Four and championship games aired in the afternoon on CBS. ESPN took over the entire tournament in 1996 and the title game aired in the evenings every since.
Last season’s championship game, in which South Carolina beat UConn, was the most viewed women’s title game in nearly two decades, drawing 4.85 million viewers. The national semifinals averaged 2.7 million viewers, up 21% year over year, and was the most viewed semifinals in a decade. The full tournament averaged 634,000 viewers, up 16% from the previous year’s coverage.
ESPN has the rights to broadcast the women’s tournament through 2024 as part of the NCAA championships package. The network has aired NCAA women’s tournament games on ABC for the past two seasons but not the title game.
“It’s a benchmark announcement for women’s basketball in being able to showcase the national championship game in Dallas for an expanded audience on ABC for the first time in 2023,” said Beth Goetz, chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee and athletic director at Ball State. “We are grateful to ABC/ESPN for the partnership in the continued growth of the game and championship.”
The NCAA Tournament expanded to 68 games last season and this season will have its regionals in two sites, with eight teams playing in Greenville, South Carolina, and the other eight in Seattle. The tournament will follow this format through 2027.
The Division II and Division III championship games also will take place in Dallas on the same weekend as the Division I Final Four. It’s the first time that the three championships have been played in the same city since 2016.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Twelfth-seeded Petra Kvitova won the Miami Open in her 13th appearance, beating seventh-seeded Elena Rybakina with a marathon tiebreaker in a 7-6 (14), 6-2 victory Saturday.
The 33-year-old Kvitova, 10 years older than her opponent, snapped Rybakina’s 13-match winning streak and halted her bid to win the Sunshine Double (Indian Wells and Miami Open).
In winning with will, stalwart defense and one sensational forehand winner on the dead run that electrified the crowd in the second set, the lefty Kvitova captured her 30th WTA singles title and first one since 2018 in Madrid.
After Rybakina hit a forehand long on match point, Kvitova raised her arms and put her hands to her head. She was broken just once in the match. It was her 41st career WTA Finals appearance but first final in Miami. She also will vault into the Top 10.
“I take it as a positive I can still play with the best,’’ said Kvitova who earned a $1.26 million first prize. “I take pride, even at my age, I could win big tournaments.’’
Kvitova, who is from the Czech Republic, disagreed with the announcement Wimbledon would accept Russian players this year. Rybakina, the reigning Wimbledon champion, is from Moscow but represents Kazakhstan.
A past Wimbledon champion, the 6-foot Kvitova won the first-set epic tiebreaker 16-14 on her fifth set point. A suddenly shaky Rybakina hit a forehand long to end the 22-minute tiebreaker; she had been undefeated at 7-0 in tiebreakers in 2023.
“The tiebreaker was going to decide the whole match,’’ Kvitova said. “The tiebreaker — oh, by God — was the longest in my career. I won the tiebreaker so emotionally I was on the better side. You could see the balls after the tiebreak. They were big fluffy balls.″
Rybakina, who won at Indian Wells, admitted to fatigue after the tiebreaker from the travel. The women’s tour will shortly head to Europe for the claycourt season.
“The second set I think overall it was not easy after the first set,’’ Rybakina said. “I think the second she was also more free to hit, to maybe risk a bit more. I think that in the second I just didn’t stay disciplined and was a bit rushing.’’
The set lasted 66 minutes during which each player held serve until 4-4 then exchanged service breaks. Rybakina finished with 10 aces for the first set while setting the record for most aces in a WTA Tournament, smashing Madison Keys’ mark. Rybakina, who had 12 aces total for the match, finished the tournament with 69 for the tournament.
Kvitova broke Rybakina in second game of the second set with a backhand winner on the service return to go up 2-0 and the streak was soon over for Rybakina.
“Maybe if the first set had gone my way it would’ve been different,’’ Rybakina said. “Because I was physically tired and that’s why I didn’t have discipline.
The men’s singles final is Sunday and pits Jannik Sinner, coming off his semifinal upset of defending Miami Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, against Daniil Medvedev.
Medvedev has won 23 of 24 matches and beat Sinner in the Finals last month in Rotterdam. Sinner, the 10th seed from Italy, is 0-5 against Medvedev and coming off a physical, three-set, three-hour war with Alcaraz that ended late Friday night.
In the men’s doubles final, Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin beat Austin Krajicek and Nicolas Mahut 7-6 (4), 7-5.
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Biden pardons 6 convicted of murder, drug, alcohol crimes
KINGSHILL, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who have served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of killing her abusive husband about a half-century ago and a man who pleaded guilty to using a telephone for a cocaine transaction in the 1970s.
The pardons, announced Friday, mean the criminal record of the crimes is now purged. They come a few months after the Democratic president pardoned thousands of people convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law. He also pardoned three people earlier this year and has commuted the sentences of 75 others.
Biden’s stance on low-level crimes, particularly low-level drug possession, and how those crimes can impact families and communities for decades to come has evolved over his 50 years in public service. In the 1990s, he supported crime legislation that increased arrest and incarceration rates for drug crimes, particularly for Black and Latino people. Biden has said people are right to question his stance on the bill, but he also has encouraged them to look at what he’s doing now on crime.
The pardons were announced while the president was spending time with his family on St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The White House said those pardoned are people who went on to serve their communities. It said the pardons reflect Biden’s view people deserve a second chance.
Those granted pardons are:
— Beverly Ann Ibn-Tamas, 80, of Columbus, Ohio. At age 33, Ibn-Tamas was convicted of killing her husband. She testified that her husband beat her, verbally abused her and threatened her. She told jurors that she shot him moments after he had assaulted her, while she was pregnant. The judge refused to allow expert testimony on battered woman syndrome, a psychological condition that can develop among victims of domestic violence. Ibn-Tamas got one to five years of incarceration with credit for time served. Her appeal was among the first by someone with battered woman syndrome, and her case has been studied by academics.
— Charles Byrnes-Jackson, 77, of Swansea, South Carolina. Byrnes-Jackson pleaded guilty to possession and sale of spirits without tax stamps when he was 18, and it involved a single illegal whiskey transaction. He tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected because of the conviction.
— John Dix Nock III, 72, of St. Augustine, Florida. Nock pleaded guilty to using his property as a grow-house for marijuana 27 years ago. He didn’t cultivate the plants, but he got six months of community confinement. He now operates a general contracting business.
— Gary Parks Davis, 66, of Yuma, Arizona. When Davis was 22, he admitted using a telephone for a cocaine transaction. He served a six-month sentence on nights and weekends in a county jail and completed probation in 1981. After the offense, the White House says, Davis earned a college degree and worked steadily, including owning a landscaping business and managing construction projects. He has volunteered at his children’s high school and in his community.
— Edward Lincoln De Coito III, 50, of Dublin, California. De Coito pleaded guilty at age 23 to being involved in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy. He was released from prison in December 2000 after serving nearly two years. Before the offense, De Coito had served honorably in the U.S. Army and the Army Reserves and had received numerous awards.
— Vincente Ray Flores, 37, of Winters, California. As a 19-year-old, Flores consumed ecstasy and alcohol while serving in the Air Force, later pleading guilty at a special court-martial. He was sentenced to four months of confinement, loss of $2,800 in pay and a reduction in rank. Flores participated in a six-month rehab program that gives select enlisted offenders a chance to return to duty after therapy and education. His reduction in rank was amended, and he remains on active duty, earning medals and other awards for his service.
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Earnings to be announced by the Company before the market opens on August 29, 2022
TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Think Research Corporation (TSXV: THNK) (OTC: THKKF) ("Think" or the "Company"), a company focused on transforming healthcare through digital health software solutions, today announced that it will release its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022 before the market opens on August 29, 2022.
Think's financial statements and Management Discussion and Analysis will be available under the Company's profile on SEDAR and on the Company's website as of 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Management will hold a conference call on August 29, 2022 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time hosted by CEO Sachin Aggarwal and interim CFO John Hayes with a Q & A session to follow.
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A transcript of the call will be posted on the Company's website at www.thinkresearch.com within 48 hours of the call.
Think Research Corporation is an industry leader in delivering knowledge-based digital health software solutions. The Company's focused mission is to organize the world's health knowledge so everyone gets the best care. Its evidence-based healthcare technology solutions support the clinical decision-making process, standardize care, to facilitate better health care outcomes. The Company gathers, develops, and delivers knowledge-based solutions globally to enterprise clients including hospitals, health regions, health care professionals, and / or governments. Think licenses its solutions to over 13,000 facilities for over 300,000 primary care, acute care, and long-term care doctors, nurses and pharmacists that rely on the content and data provided by Think to support their practices. Millions of patients and residents annually receive better care due to the essential data that Think produces, manages and delivers. Visit www.thinkresearch.com
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ATLANTA, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An all-star lineup of gospel music's biggest names will be in concert on Saturday, August 13, 2022 at the State Farm Arena. The list of artists set to perform include Yolanda Adams, Erica Campbell, Jekalyn Carr, Marvin Sapp, Keke Wyatt, Fred Hammond, Tye Tribbett, Travis Greene, Le'Andria Johnson, Keyondra Lockett, Bishop Cortez Vaughn and more! There will also be a special appearance by Pastor Jamal Bryant. The show will be hosted by social media influencers Lexi Allen and Anna C. Douglas. The show will be filled with laughs, worship, and many of the industry's top hits that will be sure to have the stadium dancing in their seats!
This year has been an exciting year for many of these artists! Yolanda Adams has a starring role in the BET hit series, "Kingdom Business", and both Marvin Sapp and Fred Hammond were nominees at the year's 2022 BET Awards. Both Erica Campbell and Jekalyn Carr have successful radio shows with our media partners, Radio One. Le'Andria Johnson recently graced the stage of the 'Martin: The Reunion' and Tye Tribbett has recently released a new album entitled, "All Things New".
The executive team of the Super Friends Praise Fest say, "We are excited to bring gospel music to the State Farm Arena! The last few years have been rough for so many, but we are excited to bring people back together with one of the best lineups we've seen in years! We want people to bring their families and friends out for a night of great gospel music that they'll continue to talk about months later."
Tickets are now available at superfriendspraisefest.com and is sure to sell out quickly!
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QUZHOU, China, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China.org.cn
Quzhou, a city in eastern China, is offering generous rewards to lure top enterprises and high-quality talent in order to increase its competitiveness in various fields.
The city has set three tiers of rewards with respective cash prizes of 6 million yuan ($850,872), 4 million yuan, and 2 million yuan to high-tech enterprises and projects.
Senior executives and key R&D staff at Fortune 500 companies and multinational corporations which utilize more than $10 million of foreign capital in Quzhou or introduce more than 500 million yuan of fixed assets to the city are eligible for governmental incentives based on a recommendation mechanism.
Adjacent to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yiwu, and other Chinese metropolises, the 1,800-year-old city is well served by a transportation network integrating high-speed railways, expressways, air transportation, and shipping.
In recent years, Quzhou has developed rapidly, creating six major industrial chains in new materials, new energy, integrated circuits, intelligent equipment, life and health, and special paper. It has also built four industrial parks, namely the Intelligent Manufacturing New City, the Smart New City, the Airport New City, and the Quzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Platform. In addition, Quzhou has partnered with Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou in a new "R&D plus manufacturing" mode.
Chinese city lures talent and firms with lavish perks
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds sellers of the stock of Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA) between April 11, 2016 and February 22, 2019, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the October 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the lawsuit against 1Globe Capital LLC and certain of its officers.
SO WHAT: If you sold Sinovac 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 Sinovac class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8179 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 October 17, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants' intentionally false statements and omissions concerning the true nature of 1Globe, a family investment office that is owned and controlled by defendant Jiaqiang Li, and Li's ownership of Sinovac stock caused the exchange, under the Rights Agreement of March 28, 2016 which included a "poison pill" limiting the number of Sinovac shares that a shareholder could acquire, to be delayed by several years. If Li had fully disclosed his ownership of Sinovac stock, as he was required to do under Section 13(d), it would have been clear that the Rights Agreement was triggered by May 2016, at the latest. While Sinovac knew enough information starting in 2016, largely based on private correspondence, to determine that 1Globe and Li triggered the Rights Agreement, defendants hid the full extent of their ownership of Sinovac stock and their agreements in connection with the battle for control of the Company. Defendants therefore also tortiously interfered with Sinovac's contractual obligations to its shareholders under the Rights Agreement.
Also according to the lawsuit, if 1Globe's and Li's actions were disclosed publicly, as they were required to be under Section 13(d), shareholders' rights would have been exercisable based on that public disclosure, and an exchange would have occurred based on that date. By misrepresenting the true nature of their ownership of Sinovac stock, defendants caused that date to be delayed almost three years, until February 22, 2019, resulting in the class losing their rights to acquire additional shares of Sinovac stock for all of their shares that they sold in the interim. While Sinovac should have implemented the Rights Agreement in 2016 based on the information available to it at the time, 1Globe and Li exacerbated the problem by violating their disclosure obligations under Section 13(d). Moreover, defendants caused the value of Sinovac stock to be artificially depressed by preventing the public from accounting for the value of defendants' stake in Sinovac and their efforts to take control of the Company.
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When it comes to pumpkins, stay out of Willy’s way.
The 1,400-pound male bison is the undisputed patriarch of a small northern Maine bison herd and he loves few things more than noshing on fall gourds.
Luckily for Willy — and countless other farm animals around Maine — this is the time of year when their love of pumpkins coincides with homeowners disposing of pumpkin decorations.
Donating old pumpkins to livestock is just one of the ways you can get rid of old pumpkins instead of throwing them out and adding them to the wastestream. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins end up in landfills across the country.
Pumpkins contain between 10 and 14 percent crude protein, making them a nutritious snack for livestock and poultry, according to Colt Knight, livestock expert with University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
“Generally speaking, pigs and chickens love pumpkins,” Knight said. “Ruminants like cattle, sheep and goats vary from farm to farm with their preference to eat pumpkins.”
Regardless of how much a farm animal likes to eat pumpkins, Knight said the gourd should never be their major food source. Rather, it should be offered as a treat.
He also said to avoid feeding rotten pumpkins to animals or birds as they present health hazards due to the bacteria they contain. And always contact the farmer ahead of time to see if they want your pumpkins.
Equally important is making sure the pumpkin has not been treated with anything that could be toxic like bleach, which is a popular method to keep jack-o’-lanterns orange and shiny throughout the season.
Instead of bleach, you can add a cup of vinegar to a full kitchen sink or basin of water. Put the pumpkin in the solution and let it soak for 10 minutes on each side. Then rinse it off, dry it and it’s ready for a fall display that will last all season.
You can also cover any scrapes or cuts in the gourd’s skin with petroleum jelly to keep bugs and bacteria from getting in and creating areas of rot.
Not only is this a more environmentally friendly way to preserve a pumpkin, it will then be safe for animals to eat.
Up at Tatonka Spirit Ranch in Smyrna, Linda White will only feed Willy and her other 25 bison organic pumpkins.
“When we first got the bison we were told they liked pumpkins,” White said. “We will take them from people, but we need to be sure they are safe for them to eat.”
Once pumpkins are in the bisons’ pasture, White said Willy gets first pick, and has been known to muscle other bison out of his way to get to the best gourds.
For the last three years Helen York has not only accepted pumpkins for her critters, she has actively sought out old pumpkins.
“One of our neighbors here in Ellsworth asked us if we would like their old pumpkins [because] they were eager to get rid of them,” York said. “It occurred to us then that people might like to have their fall decorative displays cleaned up without the hassle and expense of sending it all to the landfill.”
York printed up cards she hands out to residents and businesses letting them know she will pick up used pumpkins once they are done with them.
“Every year our pumpkin pick-up is more productive,” York said. “Some people are done with the festive fall look as soon as Halloween is over while others like to wait until around Thanksgiving to switch to a winter holiday theme.”
York said her small mixed herd of sheep and cattle and mixed poultry flock are delighted when it’s pumpkin season.
“The sheep and cattle like it best if you break [the pumpkins] open,” York said. “But the chickens will peck their way in to get to the yummy stuff and it’s very strange to see a bird with its head entirely inside a hole in the side of a pumpkin.”
Contrary to popular belief, neither pumpkins nor their seeds are natural animal dewormers, according to Knight.
“The seeds contain cucurbitacin that makes the seeds bitter,” Knight said. “There are a lot of internet claims saying that the compound is a dewormer, but it is ineffective at controlling any internal parasites.”
If there are no nearby farms interested in your old pumpkins, you can compost them.
The simplest way is to place them out of the way on your property where the winter’s natural freeze-thaw cycle will render it into mush as it decomposes. Or you can bury the pumpkin so it naturally decomposes in the ground. As an added bonus you may find pumpkins growing in that spot next year.
If you are already composting, chop up your old pumpkins and mix them into your compost where they will quickly break down into organic matter for next year’s garden. The heat generated by the composting process will prevent the seeds from sprouting.
Regardless of what you do with your pumpkin, York said the important thing is to do something.
“Please don’t send them to the landfill,” she said. “Think of all the time and care some pumpkin farmer spent growing those beautiful pumpkins. Don’t put all their efforts to waste.” | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/10/26/homestead/dont-throw-away-pumpkins-n6hjn1me0n/ | 2022-10-26 22:38:55 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/10/26/homestead/dont-throw-away-pumpkins-n6hjn1me0n/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-5-7, Fireball: 7
(eight, five, seven; Fireball: seven)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-5-7, Fireball: 7
(eight, five, seven; Fireball: seven) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17281799.php | 2022-07-03 02:49:27 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17281799.php |
Bedford apartment offers help to paralyzed tenant after elevator issues
BEDFORD, Ohio (WOIO) - After a 30-year-old man who is paralyzed and wheelchair bound told 19 News he was unable to return to his apartment due to broken elevators, Southgate Towers on Northfield Road offered him assistance.
Carnell Tyus said he slept in his car for three nights, but he started having health issues, so he went to MetroHealth Cleveland Heights Medical Center.
“I had like leg spasms. I am prone to getting pressure sores. I was sitting up for four days straight without being able to lay down, that’s why I came here and plus I had no help,” said Tyus.
Tyus claims he called the leasing office the day after the elevators broke down.
“All she said was that the emergency maintenance people were checking on the elevator, and she is not sure when she is going to have the issue resolved,” said Tyus. “I was asking, ‘Are there any accommodations? Because I don’t have no place to go,’ and she said management is the people you would have to speak to about that.”
Tyus said the leasing agent told him managers were on vacation. He told 19 News he never got a call back, so he posted his story to social media.
Fred Carmen, General Counsel for Southgate Towers Apartments, saw the social media video and called Tyus.
Tyus said Carmen told him to pay for a hotel and he would be reimbursed.
However, Tyus didn’t feel comfortable because he only had rent money.
“I can do that, but the money I have is for my rent... I don’t want to take that risk and get an eviction notice. And what if I run out of funds?” Tyus questioned.
Carmen told 19 News he addressed all of Tyus’ concerns.
“I said, ‘That’s not a problem. We will reimburse you immediately upon giving us the bill,’” Carmen recalled of his talk with Tyus. “He said, ‘What happens if I can’t pay my rent?’ I said, ‘That’s not a problem either. We will waive any late fees there may be.’ He said, ‘What if I get evicted?’ I said, ‘You didn’t have to worry about getting evicted. This is an issue we will work with you on.’”
Carmen said he apologized to Tyus due to no one calling him back after he reached out to the company, and he is willing to accommodate other tenants who may be experiencing similar issues.
According to a notice put up by building management, a water main break on May 23 damaged certain electrical components in both elevators.
“We apologize for any inconvenience you experience while the elevators are out of service and trust you understand we are doing everything possible to make the elevators operational as soon as possible,” posted management in the notice.
Carmen said he is unsure when the elevators will be operable again, and they are working with a company to get the parts needed.
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 6, 2023, Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) and its subsidiary Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) released trading volume statistics for 2022.
Highlights:
Total trading volume for SHFE reached 1,823,278 thousand lots in 2022. Total trading days stood at 242.
- Copper annual total trading volume stood at 46,497 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 313 thousand lots. The November average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 461 thousand lots.
- Aluminum annual total trading volume stood at 99,975 thousand lots, while the February average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 529 thousand lots. The January average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 494 thousand lots.
- Silver annual total trading volume stood at 188,771 thousand lots, while both December average daily trading volume and open interest reached 2022 peak of 1,309 thousand lots and 1,023 thousand lots, respectively.
- Fuel oil annual total trading volume stood at 210,455 thousand lots, while the September average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 1,202 thousand lots. The October average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 750 thousand lots.
- Steel rebar annual total trading volume stood at 525,178 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 2,737 thousand lots. The August average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 3,057 thousand lots.
- Natural rubber annual total trading volume stood at 79,639 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 423 thousand lots. The February average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 355 thousand lots.
- Wood pulp fuel oil annual total trading volume stood at 81,158 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 464 thousand lots. The January average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 390 thousand lots.
Rebar and silver options were listed for trading on SHFE at 9 am on December 26, 2022. On the first day of trading, the trading volume of rebar options stood at 26,872 lots with turnover of 21.771 million yuan, while the trading volume of silver options reached 3,796 lots with turnover of 5.6626 million yuan.
For more detailed data, please visit SHFE's website: http://www.shfe.com.cn/en/MarketData/
Total trading volume for INE reached 120,166 thousand lots in 2022. Total trading days stood at 242.
- Crude oil annual total trading volume stood at 53,581 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 316 thousand lots. The July average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 82 thousand lots
- LSFO annual total trading volume stood at 40,842 thousand lots, while both the July average daily trading volume and open interest reached 2022 peak of 300 thousand lots and 147 thousand lots, respectively
- Copper annual total trading volume stood at 5,551 thousand lots, while both the July average daily trading volume and open interest reached 2022 peak of 35 thousand lots and 26 thousand lots, respectively
- TSR 20 annual total trading volume stood at 13,592 thousand lots, while the July average daily trading volume reached 2022 peak of 75 thousand lots. The September average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 97 thousand lots
- Crude oil options annual total trading volume stood at 6,601 thousand lots, while the December average daily trading volume reached 45 thousand lots. The December average daily open interest reached 2022 peak of 34 thousand lots
For more detailed data, please visit INE's website: http://www.ine.cn/en/statements/
About SHFE
With the ultimate goal of serving the real economy, Shanghai Futures Exchange ("SHFE") is under the uniform regulation of the China Securities Regulatory Commission ("CSRC") and organizes the futures trading approved by CSRC in accordance with the principles of openness, impartiality, fairness and integrity. Currently there are 20 futures contracts and 8 commodity options available for trading on SHFE.
About INE
Registered in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in 2013, Shanghai International Energy Exchange ("INE") operates the listing, clearing, settlement and delivery of futures, options and other derivatives, formulates business rules, implements self-regulation, publishes market information, and provides technology, venue and facility services.
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Lawmakers in the Arizona Senate have advanced a bill that would allow law enforcement to charge fentanyl dealers with first-degree murder. It comes amid a continued opioid epidemic in the state and nationwide.
Under the proposal those who supply, transport or sell fentanyl could face life in prison or the death penalty in Arizona. The harsher punishments would come into play if a drug-user buys the synthetic opioid and then dies from an overdose.
The text of the bill introduced by Glendale Republican Anthony Kern groups fatal fentanyl sales with other crimes like drive-by shootings and arson. Selling fentanyl to those who die of an overdose is currently punishable by jail time.
Critics of the bill say it would target drug users themselves and won’t address the roots causes of overdoses.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 80% of fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. involve synthetic drugs like fentanyl.
Arizona Department of Health Services data shows more than 1,600 people in the state died from opioid overdoses last year.
Twenty-five were in Coconino County and 50 were in Yavapai County. | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2023-02-09/under-arizona-bill-fentanyl-dealers-could-face-life-in-prison-or-the-death-penalty | 2023-02-09 22:29:52 | 0 | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2023-02-09/under-arizona-bill-fentanyl-dealers-could-face-life-in-prison-or-the-death-penalty |
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese factory activity rebounded in January from three months of contraction, adding to signs the world’s second-largest economy might be recovering from a painful slump, an official survey showed Tuesday.
A monthly purchasing managers’ index issued by the Chinese statistics agency and an industry group rose to 50.1 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 show activity growing. That was an unusually large gain of 3.1 points from December’s 47.
China’s economic growth sank to 2.9% over a year earlier in the final three months of 2022, but economists point to increased investment and improved consumer spending as signs activity is recovering.
Manufacturers have been hurt by lackluster U.S. and European demand for exports after central banks raised interest rates to fight inflation. Chinese consumer demand weakened following COVID-19 outbreaks and a downturn in the real estate industry.
New orders, new export orders, factory activity and employment improved in January, the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported.
That shows “economic recovery momentum is relatively strong,” economist Zhang Liqun said in a statement issued by the two groups. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/chinese-factory-activity-rebounds-adding-to-recovery-signs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-01-31 06:01:57 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/chinese-factory-activity-rebounds-adding-to-recovery-signs/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
(The Hill) — R&B singer Solange Knowles has become the first Black woman to compose a score for the New York City Ballet.
In a news release on Monday, the famed company announced that the “Cranes in the Sky” singer has written a score for work from choreographer Gianna Reisen that will premiere at the company’s fall fashion gala next month.
The New York Times reported that Knowles’s score was written for a chamber ensemble made up of some of the artist’s music collaborators and members of the company’s orchestra.
“Very excited to announce i’ve composed an original score for the New York City Ballet choreography by Gianna Reisen , score performed by the City Ballet Orchestra + soloist from my ensemble,” the 36-year-old singer wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.
Knowles also shared in her tweet that the production of her show will be staged on Oct. 1, 8, 11 and 16, as well as on May 2, 11, 13, 17 and 18 of next year at the city’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Singer-songwriter Anita Baker was among those who praised the news on social media, writing, “Like we Always say… create. Create! CREATE,” while adding how proud she was.
Knowles, the younger sister of pop star Beyoncé, has established herself as an innovative interdisciplinary artist in the past years, drawing acclaim for albums including 2016’s “Seat at the Table” and 2019’s “When I Get Home.”
The Houston, Texas, native also uses her platform to amplify societal issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement.
NYC Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala, which began in 2012 and plans to honor ballet vice chair and actress Sarah Jessica Parker and designers and choreographers who unveiled their creations at the annual event, is set for Sept. 28 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/solange-knowles-becomes-first-black-woman-to-compose-score-for-nyc-ballet/ | 2022-08-17 17:21:59 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/solange-knowles-becomes-first-black-woman-to-compose-score-for-nyc-ballet/ |
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A judge in Malta sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison each after they abruptly reversed course and pleaded guilty Friday to the car-bomb murder of an anti-corruption journalist, which had shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in Malta.
Hours earlier, at the start of the trial in a Valletta courthouse, George Degiorgio, 59, and Alfred Degiorgio, 57, had entered not-guilty pleas over the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia in the blast as she drove near her home on Oct. 16, 2017.
Caruana Galizia investigated suspected corruption among political and business circles in the tiny European Union nation, which is a financial haven in the Mediterranean.
“This is an important step forward, to deliver justice in a case that represents a dark chapter in Malta’s history,” a statement from the office of Prime Minister Robert Abela’s government said shortly after the sentencing.
One of her sons, Matthew Caruana Galizia, told reporters: “I’m relieved that they have been convicted and sentenced. Now it’s about the remaining cases,” he said, referring to prosecution of other defendants.
But he said the five years it took to reach this stage of justice for his mother was “far too long.”
The trial judge, Edwina Grima, retired to chambers after the change of plea before announcing the sentences an hour later.
The two defendants were also ordered to pay 50,000 euros apiece from the money they received as a result of the crime as well as court costs.
They could have faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Prosecutors alleged that the brothers were hired by a top Maltese businessman with government ties. That businessman has been charged and will be tried separately.
Bringing the trial to an abrupt close, the Degiorgio brothers entered guilty pleas to all of the following charges: willful homicide; causing an explosion which resulted in the death of a person; illicit possession of explosives; criminal conspiracy; promoting, constituting, organizing or financing an organization with a view to commit criminal offenses, and active participation in a conspiracy.
In the run-up to the trial, the Degiorgio brothers had denied the charges. A third suspect, Vincent Muscat, avoided a trial after earlier changing his plea to guilty. Muscat is serving a 15-year sentence.
But at Friday’s start of the trial Alfred Degiorgio pleaded not guilty while his brother declared that he had nothing to say which the court interpreted as a not-guilty plea.
It wasn’t immediately clear why the defendants abruptly reversed themselves.
During the prosecution’s opening arguments, the state argued they had evidence involving cell phones that would link the defendants to the bombing.
The brothers had unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a pardon in exchange for naming bigger alleged conspirators, including a former minister whose identity hasn’t been revealed.
The bomb had been placed under the driver’s seat and the explosion was powerful enough to send the car’s wreckage flying over a wall and into a field.
A top Maltese investigative journalist, Caruana Galizia, 53, had written extensively on her website “Running Commentary” about suspected corruption in political and business circles in the Mediterranean island nation, an attractive financial haven.
Among her targets were people in then-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle whom she accused of having offshore companies in tax havens disclosed in the Panama Papers leak. But she also targeted the opposition. When she was killed she was facing more than 40 libel suits.
The arrest of a top businessman with connections to senior government officials two years after the murder sparked a series of mass protests in the country, forcing Muscat to resign.
Yorgen Fenech was arrested in 2019 and indicted in 2021 for alleged complicity in the slaying, by either ordering or instigating the commission of the crime, inciting another to commit the crime or by promising to give a reward after the fact. He was also indicted for conspiracy to commit murder. Fenech has entered not-guilty pleas to all charges.
No date has been set for his trial.
A self-confessed middleman, taxi driver Melvin Theuma, was granted a presidential pardon in 2019 in exchange for testimony against Fenech and the other alleged plotters. Two men, Jamie Vella and Robert Agius, have been charged with supplying the bomb, but their trial has not yet begun.
In the morning session before a lunch break, Deputy Attorney General Philip Galea Farrugia told the court that Theuma was asked by an unnamed person to find someone to kill Caruana Galizia. Theuma allegedly approached one of the Degiorgio brothers and a payment of 150,000 euros ($146,500) was negotiated, said Galea Farrugia.
Galea Farrugia also said that a rifle was initially selected as the murder weapon, but that was later switched to a bomb. Prosecutors also said that a cell phone — one of three that George Degiorgio had with him on a cabin cruiser in Malta’s Grand Harbor — had triggered the explosion.
A 2021 public inquiry report found that the Maltese state “has to bear responsibility” for Caruana Galizia’s murder because of the culture of impunity that emanated from the highest levels of government.
The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Dunja Mijatović, has decried the “lack of effective results in establishing accountability five years later.”
In a letter to Prime Minister Abela, the commissioner expressed the need for urgency in protecting journalists in Malta and cited defamation cases that are still ongoing posthumously against Caruana-Galizia’s heirs.
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Frances D’Emilio contributed from Rome. | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-brothers-reverse-plea-to-guilty-in-car-bomb-murder-trial/ | 2022-10-15 12:33:31 | 0 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-brothers-reverse-plea-to-guilty-in-car-bomb-murder-trial/ |
Report: Lillard signs two-year, $122 million extension with Blazers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
Damian Lillard isn’t running from the grind, and he most certainly isn’t running from the bag.
The six-time All-Star signed to a two-year, $122 million contract extension with the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks.
The extension will keep him under contract through the 2026-27 season. Marks reported that the final season of the deal includes a player option for Lillard.
Lillard is coming off the first season of a supermax extension he signed with Portland back in 2019. He is on track to earn over $42 million in 2022-23, over $45 million in 2023-24 and over $48 million in 2024-25 before collecting an annual average of over $60 million in 2025-26 and 2026-27.
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Portland drafted Lillard with the No. 6 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft and he has spent his entire career with the organization. Lillard helped lead the team to eight straight playoff berths from 2014 through 2021, including a Western Conference Finals appearance in 2019.
An abdominal injury limited Lillard to just 29 games last season. The team threw the rest of the season away and landed the No. 7 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, which they used on Kentucky’s Shaedon Sharpe.
Lillard’s extension adds to a busy offseason for the Blazers. Along with the draft, the team traded for Pistons forward Jerami Grant in June and handed rising guard Anfernee Simons a four-year, $100 million extension shortly after free agency opened.
With Lillard back in the mix – and a whole lot of money in his pocket – the Blazers are poised to make a run at another postseason appearance next season. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/report-damian-lillard-signs-two-year-122-million-extension-with-trail-blazers/3767116/ | 2022-07-08 22:58:41 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/report-damian-lillard-signs-two-year-122-million-extension-with-trail-blazers/3767116/ |
LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) – Law enforcement officers have expressed frustrations about “catch and release,” when criminals are let out of jail shortly after they’re booked. But in this case, a suspect in New Mexico was able to slip away from custody on his own, escaping from a police station — and it was captured on video.
Video from New Mexico State Police officers shows an encounter with a man accused of driving a stolen truck last month.
Jesus Jimenez told NMSP officers his wife’s car broke down, so he borrowed the truck from a friend.
“My wife’s vehicle that we drove broke,” Jimenez told officers.
When the officer checked the VIN number on the truck, dispatch informed him the truck was reported stolen. Jimenez had his wife and kids in the truck.
When his wife was asked where the truck came from, she told the officers on the scene it belonged to “one of [Jimenez’s] friends in Albuquerque. I don’t know the friend.”
The officer’s report shows the ignition on the stolen truck was tampered with. Jimenez said he didn’t have text messages with his friend, or any other evidence to support his story that the truck was loaned to him.
The truck was towed. Jimenez was arrested and transported to the New Mexico State Police station in Los Lunas for booking.
An officer placed Jimenez in a holding cell and left the room to start the paperwork. In the officer’s body-cam video, you can hear the door latch and see the officer’s hand closing the door. Then the video clip ends.
KRQE pieced together other surveillance camera angles obtained through a public records request. The videos show Jimenez, at one point, no longer in the holding cell, but standing in a doorway at the police station. He is then seen slowly inching out of the police station.
One angle shows that Jimenez’s left hand is already slipping through the handcuffs as he approaches an exit. He checks to see if anyone is outside through a window on the exit door, then pops it open. Within two minutes, Jimenez had let himself out of the police station.
Outside, he calmly walks toward the street. He’s also seen sliding his left hand completely out of the handcuffs.
Ten minutes after the escape, surveillance video shows the booking officer noticing Jimenez’s disappearance.
“It appears that the lock on the door malfunctioned and Jimenez was able to open it and leave the office undetected,” New Mexico State Police spokesperson Ray Wilson said in a statement to KRQE. “An internal investigation was launched to determine why the lock malfunctioned and if there were any violations of policy and procedures.”
State Police put out an alert following Jimenez’s escape. Four hours later, he was spotted and arrested at a home in Los Chavez, New Mexico. Wilson said he was not wearing handcuffs at the time.
“Where the cuffs at?” an officer asked Jimenez, who replied, “I don’t have them, man.” Wilson said the handcuffs were later recovered.
This time, officers made sure Jimenez was tightly handcuffed before placing him in a patrol car.
Jimenez’s wife said she’d gotten a call from him asking for a ride home. She told police officers, “He didn’t really explain too much with me. He didn’t have handcuffs on him when me and my mom picked him up.”
The officers left her with a warning. “Never get into a vehicle with somebody where the ignition’s all jacked up. He’s going to jail for a while,” an officer said.
Court records show Jimenez was released from jail two weeks later. He has a hearing scheduled at the end of the month. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/video-suspect-escapes-police-custody-in-handcuffs/ | 2022-09-09 16:30:07 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/video-suspect-escapes-police-custody-in-handcuffs/ |
HOUSTON, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has been awarded a $156.7 million task order to support capabilities assessment and enhancements for the U.S. Army's Utility Helicopter 60 Variant (UH-60V) fleet, providing technologically superior and cost-effective helicopters for U.S. and Allied Forces. KBR was awarded this contract under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center's (DoD IAC) multiple-award contract (MAC) vehicle. These DoD IAC MAC task orders are awarded by the U.S. Air Force's 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron to develop and create new knowledge for the enhancement of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) repository and the research and development and science and technology community.
Under the terms of the contract with Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation, Utility Helicopter Project Office (UHPO), KBR and key teammate Northrop Grumman Corporation will develop recommendations and technical solutions for the UHPO and its international partners to increase availability, improve reliability, and reduce the support costs for the UH-60V.
"KBR is excited to support PEO aviation as they advance Black Hawk technology to better support the U.S. military with this critical asset," said Stuart Bradie, President and CEO of KBR. "KBR and Northrop Grumman bring the experience and expertise to deliver solutions to maintain Army aviation technological superiority and reduce costs."
This work is expected to be performed over five years, with KBR performing Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI), logistics and testing, program management, and validation, prototyping, lifecycle analyses, and sustainability improvement. Work is expected to take place at KBR and partner facilities in Huntsville, Alabama.
According to the U.S. Army, the UH-60V helicopter, known as the Victor, "was developed to overhaul the aging UH-60A and L fleets. The new model has several technological advancements that make it easier to operate than older variants, including an upgraded digital glass cockpit, certified GPS RNAV database and advanced flight planning and mission capability." Planned upgrades and improvements to the UH-60V encompass the avionics architecture, flight controls, fuel system, electrical system, airframe, drive train, and a newly developed rotor system.
KBR is proud to be a leader in advancing air, space, cyber, and defense systems for the U.S. military. KBR offers full lifecycle support for hardware including design, obsolesce management, prototyping, and full integrated logistics support. KBR has been supporting PEO Aviation and UHPO since 1988, providing critical support and analysis through decades of program evolution, sustainability, and technology transitions. Northrop Grumman provides the Integrated Avionics Suite for the UH-60V. This transformational approach to avionics modernizes the U.S. Army's UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters with a glass cockpit, including an integrated computational system, visual display system and Control Display Units. This replaces the analog gauges in UH-60L helicopters with an integrated system that provides one of the most advanced avionics systems in the U.S. Army.
The DoD IAC, sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center, provides technical data management and research support for DoD and federal government users. Established in 1946, the IAC program serves the DoD science & technology (S&T) and acquisition communities to drive innovation and technological developments by enhancing collaboration through integrated scientific and technical information development and dissemination for the DoD and broader S&T community.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
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BRG Communications recognized by Public Relations Society of America
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BRG Communications (BRG) was recently recognized by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) with a Silver Anvil for Best Boutique Agency. Earlier this spring, BRG was shortlisted as one of three outstanding PR agencies of its size, and the award was announced on May 19, 2022, at PRSA's annual ceremony.
The Silver Anvil for Best Boutique Agency comes on the heels of BRG being certified as a Great Place to Work™ and BRG's 20th anniversary in late 2021, marking a strong period of celebration for the firm, proving its track record for client service, commitment to employees and successful longevity as an agency leader.
"Earning the Silver Anvil for Best Boutique Agency is a tremendous recognition and a testament to our agency's unwavering commitment to our work, our clients, and our profession," said Jane Barwis, BRG President and Founder. "For more than two decades, BRG has been devoted to our platform, Communications for Better Living, which has put intent, meaning and purpose behind the work we do every day. It is with great satisfaction and honor to see those principals carry us to be named the very best in our category."
For more than 75 years, PRSA's Anvil Awards have served as important benchmarks for outstanding work in the public relations profession. This year, agency awards were judged based on key offerings, agency accomplishments, and examples of recent campaigns. BRG's tremendous growth, client retention, and long track record of providing outstanding results factored heavily into the firm's recognition this year.
Of note, BRG's recent client wins in the healthcare communications space include efforts to fight misinformation around vaccines, educate and bring greater awareness around safety and cleanliness, and promote critical data at medical meetings, both virtually and in person. These efforts have led to a period of outstanding growth, in terms of both revenue and staffing, with no sign of slowing down.
Also, contributing to BRG's Silver Anvil win was the agency's commitment to invest in the future of the PRprofession with the announcement of the BRG Better Living Scholarship Fund. The scholarship announced, as part of BRG's 20th anniversary celebration, designated an initial $20,000.00 for George Mason University undergraduates seeking a degree in communications with financial support needs.
In addition to the Silver Anvil for Best Boutique Agency, this year BRG was also recognized as an Elite 100 Agency by PR News, and Founder and President, Jane Barwis, was included in PR News' Top Women in PR list.
BRG Communications is a nationally recognized, award-winning public relations agency. Founded in 2001, the firm is built on flexibility, functionality, and uncommon performance. We produce success for clients by forming creative strategies and solid execution plans that ignite the passion of target audiences and drive results. We support corporations, non-profits and associations that address safety, health, wellness, and social impact. As BRG celebrates its 20th anniversary, the agency continues to stay focused on building a legacy of Communications for Better Living™.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls remain hopeful All-Star guard Zach LaVine will choose to re-sign with them rather than join another team as an unrestricted free agent.
Executive vice president Arturas Karnisovas has been consistent in saying publicly the organization wants to keep LaVine. And he did it again on Monday.
“We hope Zach is here for a long time, and nothing changed,” Karnisovas said at a news conference to introduce first-round draft pick Dalen Terry.
LaVine’s situation is obviously the biggest story hovering over the Bulls, with the free-agent negotiating period opening Thursday evening.
Karnisovas wants to keep intact a core that helped Chicago reach the playoffs for the first time in five years.
LaVine averaged 24.4 points and made his second straight All-Star team last year. It ended with his first trip to the playoffs in his eighth year as a pro. The Bulls lost in the first round to Milwaukee in five games.
LaVine’s four-year, $78 million contract is up and he said after the season that he plans to explore the market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career after five years in Chicago. He did not rule out returning to the Bulls, who can offer a max contract worth about $212 million. The most he can get from another team is approximately $157 million over four years.
How comfortable the Bulls are about offering a five-year deal is another question. Karnisovas played it coy when asked.
“I’m confident. I’m confident in approaching this free agency the next couple days, sitting down with our group, looking at a lot of things,” he said.
The past season wasn’t exactly an easy one for LaVine. He dealt with a thumb injury early and was in and out of the lineup the final few months because of a left knee injury.
LaVine had platelet-rich plasma therapy, a cortisone injection and fluid drained from his knee in Los Angeles before the All-Star break. He had arthroscopic surgery on it last month.
“I think he’s gonna be healthy,” Karnisovas said. “I think he’s now progressing great.”
The Bulls went 46-36 and made the playoffs for the first time since 2017 following a major makeover, with DeMar DeRozan and LaVine leading the way. Chicago got off to a big start and finished with its best record since the 2014-15 team went 50-32 in former coach Tom Thibodeau’s final season.
The Bulls also went from leading the Eastern Conference to finishing sixth, losing 15 of their final 22 regular-season games. They dealt with a long list of injuries, making it tough for them to develop continuity and compete with the best teams.
“This group has been here only since October,” Karnisovas said. “We’re still trying to get used to how to play with each other.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyus Jones had a career-high 28 points and 10 assists to lead the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies a 101-93 victory over Miami Heat on Monday night.
Santi Aldama added 18 points and Dillon Brooks finished with 17 for Memphis, which played without leading scorer Ja Morant and several other key players.
Tyler Herro led the Heat with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Jimmy Butler, who had only one field goal in the first half, scored 18, and Caleb Martin finished with 16 for the Heat.
Both teams entered the game having won four of their previous five games, and that included a Memphis win over Detroit on Sunday. But playing the second night of a back-to-back meant several Grizzlies, in addition to Morant, were unavailable. Three of the five most recent starters — Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr. and John Konchar — were out, leaving a load of minutes for reserves and two-way players.
Meanwhile, most of the Heat players who were listed as questionable or probable on the injury report were available.
Miami opened with accurate shooting and built an early advantage, but Memphis stayed close and took the lead in the second quarter when the Heat’s shooting touch cooled. Miami shot 25% in the second, and Memphis used a 31-19 scoring edge in the period for a 58-51 halftime lead.
The Grizzlies held an 82-77 lead after three quarters and pushed that advantage to 89-79 with 10 minutes to play.
TIP-INS:
Heat: Made six of their first seven 3-point attempts. … Adebayo has 38 straight games in which he has scored in double figures. … Erik Spoelstra successfully challenged a foul on Kyle Lowry in the fourth quarter. Spoelstra is now 7-1 in coach’s challenges this season.
Grizzlies: The game was the first of a five-game homestand, the team’s longest of the season. … G Desmond Bane missed his 11th game with a right big toe sprain. With Bane and John Konchar unavailable, rookie David Roddy, out of Colorado State, got his first professional start. … Grizzlies, who defeated Detroit on Sunday, are 1-2 in the second game of a back-to-back.
MAN DOWN
A two-official crew – Scott Foster and JB DeRosa – had to call the game after Marat Kogut, the third member, was a late scratch due to non-COVID related illness.
UP NEXT:
Heat: Host Detroit on Tuesday.
Grizzlies: Host Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This past July, The African Centered Cooperative Research Project was announced as a new initiative to identify ways in which African-centered organizations are practicing collectivism and to find ways to enhance the practices of shared wealth and shared assets in the City of Pittsburgh. The project will soon be entering its second phase, which includes hosting Sankofa Circles over the next few months. These Sankofa Circles will be held via Zoom and will be focused on different topics found in the survey responses. (It will provide an opportunity for dialogue on topics related to Cooperative Economics.) The African Centered Cooperative Research Project is a cooperative effort between Ujamaa Collective, Cocoapreneur LLC and Sankofa Research Institute.
"There has been a legacy of cooperative efforts between Black businesses here in Pittsburgh. The value of 'we are who we seek to serve', has shown up in the efforts of our collective ancestor Ella Baker, who contributed to the Young Negro's Cooperative League (they held their first meeting in Pittsburgh) along with several other organizations, and is present in Ujamaa Collective's value system today, says LaKeisha Wolf, Executive Director of Ujamaa Collective.
"Black cooperation is about protecting the Black community and its future," says Assata Richards, Director of Sankofa Research Institute. "We want to engage Black people who are already participating in Black cooperation, keep the conversation going, and awaken others to this concept."
As the organizers move into the Focus Group Phase of the project, the Survey Links will continue to be open to gather as much input from the community as possible.
Survey participants will be included in a raffle for gift certificates to various local Black businesses, with a grand prize of a $250 gift certificate from Ujamaa Collective in each survey pool. The deadline for the next raffle is Saturday, October 1st, 2022.
Black and Africana-centered organizations and individuals can select the appropriate survey link below:
Survey for Groups – businesses & organizations who can inform on state of cooperation and join a focus group:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BetterCommunities.
Survey for Individuals – to inform community Sankofa conversations to build knowledge and context for cooperation:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BlkPASankofa
The African-centered Cooperative Research Project has been made possible through support from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation.
Ujamaa Collective is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded with a social mission to act as a catalyst to advance Africana Women by providing a fair-trade marketplace for cultural, artistic and entrepreneurial exchange through cooperative economics in the Historic Hill District and beyond. "We lift as we climb." The concept of Ujamaa has roots in Tanzania and is borrowed from the fourth principle of the holiday Kwanzaa, meaning "cooperative economics: to build and maintain our own shops, stores and other businesses and to profit from them together." In 2008, the founders of Ujamaa Collective used this concept to put forth a call to action for Black women to come to the table and share ideas about business and community development, which heavily included Africana examples of financial exchange.
Cocoaprenuer Pgh, LLC was founded in February 2018. The mission of Cocoapreneur is to foster an environment of economic prosperity to ensure more sustainable neighborhoods for the historically African American communities and neighborhoods around Pittsburgh, PA. Through support to businesses via advertising, marketing and consulting, Cocoapreneur aims to normalize the idea of entrepreneurship. We want to make becoming a business owner a more feasible and attainable goal for African Americans in the greater Pittsburgh area.
Using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Sankofa Research Institute unites professional researchers, local community stakeholders and leaders in their goals. Through Training, Mentoring and Collaborative Dialogues, SRI prepares community members to partner in research with academics and stakeholders. We work as a partner and catalyst within the community during the research development and implementation process. The resulting evidence-based research establishes credibility for the community in their search for resources to mobilize the changes that will provide residents with dignity and opportunities to live more meaningful lives.
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LA VILLA, Italy (AP) — Looking to restore order after an uncharacteristic third-place finish a day earlier on the same course, Olympic champion Marco Odermatt led the opening run of another giant slalom in Alta Badia on Monday.
Odermatt, the overall World Cup leader, was 0.60 seconds ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen and 1.10 ahead of Swiss teammate Loic Meillard.
Lucas Braathen, the Norwegian who won Sunday’s race, lost control on the upper section of the Gran Risa course, got twisted around and ended up careening through a gate backward.
“That’s how it is. Day and night, such a contrast,” Braathen said. “That error just came out of nowhere. So I was a bit surprised, and even more surprised that I couldn’t save it. But that’s racing, it’s on the limit. And today I was on the wrong side of it.”
Fatigued after two downhill races in nearby Val Gardena, Odermatt struggled into ninth in Sunday’s opening run before charging onto the podium in the second leg.
“It was a big improvement to yesterday. I was awake today,” Odermatt said. “I knew with bib No. 2 it was a big advantage today and I had to use it.”
Odermatt won the opening two giant slaloms this season and has been on the podium in 11 consecutive races in the discipline.
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Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno
(THE CONVERSATION) Movie legend has it that the identity of Luke Skywalker’s father was always hiding in plain sight – well, at least through a subtle naming clue. “Darth Vader” does, after all, have a distinct paternal ring to it linguistically. Indeed, had the big reveal been “I am your fader” it would have made a nice play on the heavy-breathing villain’s name with a nod to an old Dutch term for “father.”
The true origin story of Vader’s moniker is not as cool as the myth. But as someone who studies the origins of words, I see the story providing an example of something that is real: the universality of the names used for fathers across all languages.
Considering that dads played a key part in populating the dawn of civilization, it is perhaps not that surprising that a label for the dude we call “dad” would emerge early in the development of languages. But, whether it’s “papa,” “dada” or “vater,” what is striking is the cross-cultural bias in the words used to describe him – and how the same names have stuck around over millennia.
Why ‘pater’ is familiar
Tracking the linguistic evolution of modern “father,” we find it as far back as written English goes – with references to “feadur” or “fadur” or “fædor” in Old English texts from the seventh to 11th centuries. In Old Dutch there was “fader”; in Old Icelandic we find “faðir”; in Old High German, a precursor to modern German, it was “fater” – now “vater”; and, finally, in Old Danish, “fathær.”
This uniformity strongly suggests this word was found in the languages’ early Germanic parent – that is, the source language from which all these Germanic languages descended.
But the similarity in terms used for “father” doesn’t stop with this Germanic forefather. Related words are found across the entire Indo-European language tree – a large group of distantly related languages that stretches over most of Europe and a good bit of Asia. For instance, we find closely matching terms in Latin with “pater,” Sanskrit’s “pitar” and in Greek with “patér” – all older languages that developed separately from the Germanic line.
This means that the word “father” likely came from a long-dead source language, estimated to date back some 6,000 years. This single parent language – known as Proto Indo-European – spawned all these later languages and their shared word for paters.
But how did the “p” in “pater” morph into the “f” found in all the Germanic “father” words"?
Historical linguists have reconstructed the most likely sounds that were used in this hypothesized parent language. Since Ancient Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all have “p,” “t” and “k” sounds, their Indo-European source also probably had these, or closely related, sounds.
But as Germanic languages formed their own branch of the family tree, this “p” turned into an “f.” This explains why there is a “p” in Latin-based words like “Pisces,” “podiatry” and “patriarchy,” but “f” in the Germanic descended equivalents like “fish,” “foot” and father.“ This sound change was not random but followed what came to be called Grimm’s law, named for the very same brother Grimm who brought us "Hansel and Gretel.”
Grimm noted a pattern of sound correspondences across Indo-European languages that suggested a series of regular changes must have occurred as Indo-European split into daughter languages. These changes likely started out as dialect variants that became more distinct as groups of speakers were separated and new languages evolved – with the shifted sounds.
The ‘babas’ and the ‘papas’
One might expect closely related languages to share words for fathers, but even across languages in which there is no known evidence of a common ancestry the words for “dad” sound strikingly familiar.
Languages as distinct as Sino-Tibetan Chinese and Native American Washo use “baba.” In Nilo-Saharan Maasai, spoken in Kenya and Tanzania, it’s “papa,” and, in the Semitic language Hebrew, “abba.”
A similar bent is found in English, where children use the more intimate “papa,” “dad” or sometimes “daddy” as an alternative to the more formal “father,” especially when in trouble or getting bailed out of jail.
‘Dad’ and ‘Daddy’ have grown in popular usage in recent decades:
This tendency toward similar vocabulary words suggests that something pretty universal must be driving it. And though at first “d” and “p” and “b” might not seem to be all that similar sounding, they are all part of a class of what are called “stop consonants” in linguistics. Stop consonants are sounds made with a short but complete obstruction of air flow through the mouth during their articulation.
Why does this matter to pops everywhere? Because stop sounds, along with vowels, are the earliest and most frequent sounds babies tend to babble – which means “pa,” “ta,” “ba” and “da” are all early infant vocalizations.
Also, repetition is a feature of both baby babble and what parents babble back. As a result, this specific babbling bent makes “dadas,” “babas” and “papas” – along with “apas” and “abas” – very popular things for little Carlos or Keisha to say while hanging out in the crib.
So, when dad happens by and hears what he interprets as his call sign, a celebratory first word commemoration commences, regardless of whether Junior actually intended it that way or not.
A universal papa
And this circles back to the origin story for the word “father.”
Linguists theorize that, at some early point in the development of the Indo-European language, the sound sequence “pa” – babbled in early speech and wishfully interpreted as referring to good ol’ dad – was combined with a suffix such as “ter,” possibly denoting a kinship relationship.
Looking at the evolution of language more generally, linguists can’t say with certainty whether modern languages inherited the word from an undiscovered original early human language – likely African – or if this process occurred several times over the course of language history.
But what it does suggest is that dads have clearly been important enough throughout the history of humankind to merit special designation. And, unlike so many other words that have been shifted and reshaped or replaced over time by inherent linguistic pressures and language contact, the fondness for “dadas,” “dads,” “fathers” and “papas” seems to be unusually resistant to change.
So, whether you call him your papa, your baba or your abba, just be sure to call him, and let him know how well he, and his title, have stood the test of time.
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US Open spotlight shines on Serena Williams as career nears end
They came to the U.S. Open on Monday from far and wide for Serena — no last name required, befitting someone as much an icon as superstar athlete — eager to see her play or, if not lucky enough to hold the right ticket, hoping for an autograph, a glance at her practicing or merely the chance to breathe the same Flushing Meadows air as her.
As thousands waited in lines to enter the tournament grounds hours before her match, then headed to smaller courts for earlier action or simply around, waiting and wading in the palpable excitement, no one present could know for sure how many more opportunities there will be for any of it. Folks were there to watch, or just think about watching, Serena Williams swing her racket the way she did to 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other person in the professional era of tennis that began in 1968, because she has said she is ready to move on from her playing days.
And they were there to honor her and show appreciation for what she's done on the court and off.
Williams was scheduled to play her first-round match in Arthur Ashe Stadium against Danka Kovinic, slated to start sometime shortly after 7 p.m.
She means a lot to a lot of people. As a tennis player. As a woman. As an African American. As a mother. As a businesswoman.
FILE - A tennis fan takes her picture in front of a likeness of Serena Williams during the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2022, in the Queens borough of New York City. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
"When she started out, female athletes weren't getting recognized. She's done so much," said Quintella Thorn, a 68-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, making her eighth trip to the U.S. Open. "And now, she's ..."
"Evolving," chimed in Thorn's friend, Cora Monroe, 72, of Shreveport, Louisiana, which she noted is where Richard Williams — the father of Serena and sister Venus, and the central figure in the Oscar-winning film "King Richard" — is from, too.
That word, "evolving," is the one Williams said she preferred to the more commonly used "retirement" when she wrote in an essay for Vogue released about three weeks ago that she was ready to concentrate on having a second child (her daughter, Olympia, turns 5 on Thursday) and her venture capital firm.
While Williams did not exactly declare that the U.S. Open definitively would be her last tournament — she also is entered in doubles with Venus, who is 42 and a seven-time major singles champ herself — she has made it sound as if it will be.
"Once Serena announced she would play the U.S. Open, we sold out in a nanosecond for Monday night and Tuesday night. You can see on the secondary market, the get-in price is $230. I saw $5,800 for a courtside seat this evening. Look, this is a historic moment for the Williams family, for Serena and our sport," said Stacey Allaster, the tournament director of the American Grand Slam event. "It is so difficult to really capture what Serena and Venus have done for the sport of tennis. They have transformed our sport. They’ve made us more inclusive. And they’ve transcended sports."
Which is why Monday mattered more than the usual Day 1 at a major tournament. And why the daily program did not make mention of any other of the dozens of athletes in action, showing instead a montage of six images of Williams holding her six U.S. Open trophies above the title: "Serena Williams, A Legacy of Greatness." And why there was a sense of less importance for matches involving other elite players such as past U.S. Open champions Bianca Andreescu, Andy Murray, Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem, or French Open finalist Coco Gauff, an 18-year-old American.
Kriti Kamath, a 9-year-old from Boston, toted an oversized yellow tennis ball in hopes of gathering some signatures — perhaps even after Williams' planned pre-match hitting session in the evening, before her contest — as she walked outside Ashe with her mother, Neethor Shenoy.
FILE - Serena Williams practices in preparation for the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2022, in the Queens borough of New York City. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Shenoy has told her daughter, who plays tennis, about Williams' significance.
"She's very motivated. She's very driven. And she's an inspiration to all women; all colored women, particularly," Shenoy said. "She's giving a kids a positive path to follow."
Mom said she's been traveling from Boston to New York for the U.S. Open since 2004; this was Kriti's first day of competition, but they were on site earlier in the week for "Fan Week." The U.S. Tennis Association said more than 90,000 free online passes were downloaded for that run-up to the main-draw action, an increase of more than 35% from the last pre-pandemic tournament in 2019.
The USTA said it sold more than 16,500 tickets for the tournament on the day Williams revealed her intentions, more than in the previous seven days combined. That included more than 4,600 for Monday night alone, making it a sellout.
Monroe and Thorn said they have tickets for both the daytime and nighttime sessions, which are sold separately, for each of the tournament’s initial three days.
On Monday, both were wearing blue T-shirts: Monroe’s was emblazoned with "Serena" four times in different shades of purple; Thorn’s carried a black-and-white photo of Williams beside the words "Greatest Female Athlete" — with "Female" crossed out.
Monroe said she admires the Williams sisters "just for how they have carried themselves; they are an inspiration," and that she and Thorn couldn't wait to be in the stadium for Williams vs. Kovinic.
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CINCINNATI, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIVO), a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, today provided preliminary results for its third quarter of fiscal 2022.
For the third quarter of fiscal 2022, preliminary unaudited net revenues are expected to be between $66 million and $69 million. The Diagnostics segment net revenues are expected to be between $41 million and $43 million. The Life Science segment net revenues are expected to be between $25 million and $26 million, of which sales of immunological reagents accounted for approximately 69% and molecular reagents contributed approximately 31%.
Meridian has not yet completed preparation of its interim financial statements for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and the information presented herein is a preliminary estimate, subject to change.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor from civil litigation for forward-looking statements accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements. Except for historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which may be identified by words such as "continues", "estimates", "anticipates", "projects", "plans", "seeks", "may", "will", "expects", "intends", "believes", "signals", "should", "can", "guidance" and similar expressions or the negative versions thereof and which also may be identified by their context. All statements that address operating performance or events or developments that Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or "the Company") expects or anticipates will occur in the future, including, but not limited to, statements relating to per share diluted net earnings, sales, product demand, net revenues, operating margin, other guidance and the impact of COVID-19 on its business and prospects, are forward-looking statements. Such statements, whether expressed or implied, are based upon current expectations of the Company and speak only as of the date made. Specifically, Meridian's forward-looking statements are, and will be, based on management's then-current views and assumptions regarding future events and operating performance. Meridian assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized. These statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation, the following:
Meridian's operating results, financial condition and continued growth depends, in part, on its ability to introduce into the marketplace enhancements of existing products or new products that incorporate technological advances, meet customer requirements and respond to products developed by Meridian's competition, its ability to effectively sell such products and its ability to successfully expand and effectively manage increased sales and marketing operations. While Meridian has introduced a number of internally developed products and acquired products, there can be no assurance that it will be successful in the future in introducing such products on a timely basis or in protecting its intellectual property, and unexpected or costly manufacturing costs associated with its introduction of new products or acquired products could cause actual results to differ from expectations. Meridian relies on proprietary, patented and licensed technologies. As such, the Company's ability to protect its intellectual property rights, as well as the potential for intellectual property litigation, would impact its results. Ongoing consolidations of reference laboratories and formation of multi-hospital alliances may cause adverse changes to pricing and distribution. Recessionary pressures on the economy and the markets in which the Company's customers operate, as well as adverse trends in buying patterns from customers, can change expected results. Costs and difficulties in complying with laws and regulations, including those administered by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and in complying with the ongoing investigation of the Department of Justice described in Meridian's reports filed with the SEC, can result in unanticipated expenses and delays and interruptions to the sale of new and existing products, as can the uncertainty of regulatory approvals and the regulatory process. The international scope of Meridian's operations, including changes in the relative strength or weakness of the U.S. dollar and general economic conditions in foreign countries, can impact results and make them difficult to predict. One of Meridian's growth strategies is the acquisition of companies and product lines. There can be no assurance that additional acquisitions will be consummated or that, if consummated, will be successful and that the acquired businesses will be successfully integrated into Meridian's operations.
There may be risks that acquisitions may disrupt operations and may pose potential difficulties in employee retention, and there may be additional risks with respect to Meridian's ability to recognize the benefits of acquisitions, including potential synergies and cost savings or the failure of acquisitions to achieve their plans and objectives. Meridian cannot predict the outcome of future goodwill impairment testing and the impact of possible goodwill impairments on Meridian's earnings and financial results. Meridian cannot predict the possible impact of any modification or repeal of any of the provisions of current U.S. health care legislation, and any similar initiatives in other countries on Meridian's results of operations. Efforts to reduce the U.S. federal deficit, breaches of Meridian's information technology systems, trade wars, increased tariffs, and natural disasters and other events could have a materially adverse effect on Meridian's results of operations and net revenues. The Company can make no assurances that a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting will not be identified in the future, which if identified and not properly corrected, could materially and adversely affect its operations and result in material misstatements in its consolidated financial statements. Meridian also is subject to risks and uncertainties related to disruptions to or reductions in business operations or prospects due to pandemics, epidemics, widespread health emergencies, or outbreaks of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, including, without limitation, related supply chain interruptions. In addition to the factors described in this paragraph, as well as those factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Part I, Item 1A Risk Factors of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K contains a list and description of uncertainties, risks and other matters that may affect the Company. Readers should carefully review these forward-looking statements and risk factors, and not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
About Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Meridian is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy, and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. Through discovery and development, we provide critical life science raw materials used in immunological and molecular tests for human, animal, plant, and environmental applications. Through diagnosis, we provide diagnostic solutions in areas including gastrointestinal and upper respiratory infections and blood lead level testing. We build relationships and provide solutions to hospitals, reference laboratories, research centers, veterinary testing centers, physician offices, diagnostics manufacturers, and biotech companies in more than 70 countries around the world.
Meridian's shares are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, symbol VIVO. Meridian's website address is www.meridianbioscience.com.
Investor Contact:
Charlie Wood
Vice President – Investor Relations
Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Phone: +1 513.271.3700
Email: mbi@meridianbioscience.com
Media Contact:
Bryan Locke / Monique Sidhom
FGS Global
Email: MeridianBioscience-FGS@sardverb.com
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The Premier Industry Event, Formally Known as Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America's Convention & Exposition, Will Be Held April 2–5 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, FL
Suppliers, Wholesalers, Importers, Exporters, Service Providers and Retailers to Attend and Exhibit
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Registration is now open for the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America's (WSWA's) 2023 Access LIVE, formally WSWA's Convention & Exposition. Access LIVE is the industry's leading event, bringing together wholesalers, suppliers, retailers, service providers, importers and exporters all under one roof. The reinvented, redesigned and reimagined, can't-miss beverage alcohol industry event will be held April 2–5, 2023, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, FL.
Taking advantage of early-bird registration rates requires those attending to register by Friday, December 16, 2022. To register, visit accesslive.wswa.org.
Access LIVE is the premier industry event for access and discovery. Don't miss out on two and a half days of unrivaled relationship building, deal making, interactive experiences, content-producing opportunities and hot topic panel discussions!
For the first time, retailers are invited to attend and will be a pivotal piece of the programming. This marks the reimagined trade show as the premier American wine and spirits industry gathering, showcasing and recognizing all three tiers of the U.S. beverage alcohol system — the global standard of safety, diversity and innovation.
WSWA's highly anticipated Brand Battle will return in 2023, with a virtual tournament leading up to a championship held on the Access LIVE stage in April. Brand Battle is WSWA's version of Shark Tank, where brand representatives pitch to a panel of industry experts and influencers. Past Brand Battle winners include Gray Whale Gin, Bedlam Vodka, Boukman Rhum, Seaside Grown, and most recently, Campesino Rum. WSWA's annual event served as a springboard for these brands, exposing them to immediate distribution deals, positive media buzz and other brand-development opportunities. Holding the tournament's preliminary rounds prior to Access LIVE will allow for more brands to participate and share their brand stories with wholesaler panels. To learn more about Brand Battle and to register for the competition, visit accesslive.wswa.org/brand-battle.
The exposition's Wine and Spirits Tasting Competition, sponsored by The Tasting Panel Magazine and The Somm Journal, will take place on Sunday, April 1, ahead of the show's official start. This will allow for brands to earn bragging rights throughout the entire Access LIVE journey. This blind competition rewards excellence in taste and provides opportunities for new and existing brands to receive recognition that boosts their profile during the show and lends credibility to their products for years to come.
At 2023 Access LIVE, there will be more media and influencers in attendance than ever before. The show is an ideal environment for those ready to engage with trade press, social media influencers and tastemakers. Media in attendance will actively engage attendees, seeking out newsworthy personalities and products. If you are interested in learning more about media opportunities at Access LIVE, visit accesslive.wswa.org/media.
New to the show will be Access HQ, a reimagined exhibit hall experience featuring over 300 exhibit booths and 20 suites — all on one easily accessible level. There will no longer be suites in isolated hotel rooms; instead the reimagined event will feature built-in suites around the perimeter of Access HQ. The new exhibit floor will also feature the LIVE Stage where TED-style sessions will take place. The Hub, a new media training and creation workplace, will feature a content lab, mixology workshop, Brand Building Bar and media lounge.
Access LIVE will feature a Main Stage with keynote speakers, general sessions and award ceremonies. There will also be Roundtable Hot Topic sessions that require registration prior to the show. Topics include an Update & Trends Analysis from WSWA's SipSource, a wholesaler-only roundtable, and a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) luncheon discussing the results of Deloitte's Raising the Bar Study sponsored by Women of the Vine & Spirits.
The General Sessions will showcase remarks from industry members, brand owners and celebrities, plus a welcome from WSWA's new President and CEO Francis Creighton.
"Access LIVE will be the industry event connecting all three tiers under one roof — something that has never happened before," said Creighton. "If you are looking to access new wholesaler partners, exciting brands, members of the media, deals and deal-making, or educational insights, Access LIVE is where you want to be."
The Main Stage will also feature award ceremonies. 2023 Access LIVE awards include:
- Lifetime Leadership Award
- Ray Herrmann HERO Award
- Industry Icon Award
- Hot! New! Now! Supplier Award
- Wholesaler Rising Stars Award
- Sustainability Awards
- M. Shanken Hot Brands Awards
2023 Access LIVE will also feature new sustainability efforts as well as a focus on health and wellness, modern technology, spontaneous networking and more!
To register, find exhibit information, enter Brand Battle, learn about sponsorship opportunities, or view the schedule, please visit accesslive.wswa.org or contact the WSWA Convention hotline at 202-371-5682.
WSWA's Access LIVE, formally known as the WSWA Annual Convention & Exposition, is the largest U.S. event uniting all tiers of the beverage alcohol industry. Featuring buy-sell engagements, high-level information panels, wine and spirits competitions, and C-suite-level networking, this event has been a premier destination for beverage alcohol wholesalers, suppliers and now retailers since its inception in 1943. Distributor attendees represent more than 80% of all wine and spirits sold at wholesale in the United States, and exhibitors are comprised of some of the most exciting established and up-and-coming brands in the marketplace. There is no other event in the industry that rallies so much expertise and networking and so many solutions and opportunities under one roof.
To learn more, please visit accesslive.wswa.org or connect with us across our social platforms on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube or follow us at #AccessLIVE.
WSWA is the national trade association representing the distribution tier of the wine and spirits industry, dedicated to advancing the interests and independence of distributors and brokers of wine and spirits. Founded in 1943, WSWA has more than 380 member companies in 50 states and the District of Columbia, and its members distribute more than 80% of all wine and spirits sold at wholesale in the United States.
To learn more, please visit www.wswa.org or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications & Marketing
michael@wswa.org | (202) 716-4805
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SANFORD, Fla., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone (NYSE: WOW), a leading broadband services provider, today announced the company has made a $45,000 donation to the Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School Kids Space Center in Sanford, Florida to update the technology and simulation software for the students. The donation is just one way WOW! intends to invest in the community leading up to the official launch of its services to residents and businesses in Central Florida.
WOW! awarded the donation to Goldsboro Elementary's Principal, Dr. Chris Mulholland during a news conference held today at the school's Space Center. In addition to students and faculty, attendees at the event included Serita Beamon, superintendent of Seminole County Public Schools, and Grant Spellmeyer, president and CEO, ACA Connects: America's Communications Association. The Space Center provides STEM education opportunities for students to explore space through a variety of simulations and experiments. The money will be used to update its mission control center, experiment bays and lunar landing testing technology as well as its simulation software.
"As a school that embraces a rich educational experience, it's imperative that we have the necessary resources to deliver upon this mission," said Mulholland. "We are grateful to WOW! for their generous donation to help us update our Space Center and continue to inspire the next generation of astronauts."
WOW! announced Seminole County and Orange County as its first Greenfield market expansions earlier this year, highlighting both counties' potential for growth and need for additional choices in broadband providers. WOW!'s innovative technology and robust product suite provides choice, reliability, speed and value. Both residents and businesses will benefit from WOW!'s latest state-of-the-art network and fastest speeds delivered over a reliable fiber connection with symmetrical speeds up to 5 Gig.
"We are pleased to make this donation to Goldsboro Elementary to help update the Space Center's technology and support the STEM curriculum for these students," said Teresa Elder, CEO of WOW!. "In a thriving community, everyone plays a role in public education. We take seriously our role in building community connections by providing fast, reliable access to technology and solutions that matter most to our customers."
In addition to the donation, a representative from WOW! has joined the Crooms Academy of Information Technology's Business Advisory Council to support and mentor students, connect them to the business community and prepare them for successful careers.
For more information on WOW! and to find out if its services are available in your area, please visit www.wowway.com.
WOW! is one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers. WOW! provides services in 14 markets, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast, including Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. With an expansive portfolio of advanced services, including high-speed Internet services, cable TV, phone, business data, voice, and cloud services, the company is dedicated to providing outstanding service at affordable prices. WOW! also serves as a leader in exceptional human resources practices, having been recognized eight times by the National Association for Business Resources as a Best & Brightest Company to Work For, winning the award for the last four consecutive years. Visit wowway.com for more information.
Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School began its rich tradition in 1916. It is the oldest school in Seminole County and has continued as an elementary Magnet School since 1996. The academic program is driven by problem-solving, discovery, and exploratory learning through integrated STEM experiences. Students engage in learning within unique lab spaces including The Kids Space Center, Bio Science Lab, Robotics and Computer Coding Lab, Mathematics Lab, Virtual Reality Lab, and Maker Space to stretch their imagination and work collaboratively to solve problems through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff's officials in central California released photos of a possible suspect in the kidnapping of four members of a family, including an 8-month-old child.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said the child's mother, father and uncle were taken against their will at gunpoint from a business in the city of Merced on Monday.
Sheriff Vern Warnke said the kidnapper has made no ransom demands or contact of any kind.
“We have no motivation behind it. We just know that they are gone,” Warnke said in a briefing posted on the department's Facebook page.
Deputies are searching Merced and surrounding areas for the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39.
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The sheriff's department released two still images from surveillance footage of a possible suspect and asked for the public's help in identifying the man. He's seen wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, dark shorts and a light blue disposable face mask.
The sheriff said detectives believe the suspect destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
Merced is a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley.
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What a difference a year can make.
Joe Stewart thought his baseball career was over after four years at Michigan State, but he decided to play one more season and transfer to Michigan for the 2022 campaign.
The move paid off. The 6-foot-4, 207-pound outfielder was selected in the ninth round (No. 268 overall) by the Los Angeles Angels on Monday during the 2022 MLB draft.
Stewart, a Portage Central High graduate who hit a team-high .349 in 2022 while adding 13 home runs, 56 RBIs and 23 stolen bases in 62 games, wasn’t the only Michigan player taken in day two of the MLB draft.
Junior right-handed pitcher Cameron Weston was drafted in the eighth round (No. 227 overall) by the Baltimore Orioles. Junior outfielder Clark Elliott was the first Wolverine off the board, heading to the Oakland Athletics with the No. 69 overall pick on Sunday night. The draft concludes Tuesday with rounds 11-20, and Michigan already has had three players selected for an eighth straight year.
Although Western posted a career-high, 4.74 ERA in 2022, he was one of Michigan’s top strikeout pitchers, fanning 92 in 81 2/3 innings. The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder appeared in 20 games and started 11.
As a freshman in 2020, Weston allowed just one earned run in 10 innings during the pandemic-shortened season before emerging as one of Michigan’s top starters in 2021. He finished 7-4 and posted a 2.81 ERA in 83 1/3 innings, striking out 69.
At MSU, Stewart had just three hits in 19 at-bats during his first two seasons and then redshirted in 2020. He earned a starting role in 2021 and batted .276 with 15 extra-base hits in 40 games.
Stewart was slated to start a job with AT&T in Dallas after he graduated from MSU last summer, but he felt his best baseball was still ahead of him and transferred to Michigan.
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Erik Bakich, the Wolverines’ head coach for 10 seasons before getting hired by Clemson last month, was ecstatic to land Stewart.
“Explosive, awesome,” Bakich said of Stewart in April. “All the adjectives for awesome. If you looked up synonyms for awesome, he would be all of them. He has been a huge spark. He has jumped into this thing and hit the ground running. Knows a lot of our guys anyways and is friends with a lot of them from growing up. Obviously has been on the other side of the rivalry but is thriving here. He is playing with a smile on his face and he’s having fun playing baseball.”
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 22, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
813 AM CDT Mon Aug 22 2022
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Texas...
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
.Thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall over the past few
days in Mexico over the Rio Conchos basin. As a result, very high
flows have been observed along the Rio Grande at Presidio. The
river has crested and begun to recede. However, additional rainfall
over the next few days could result in additional rises and/or
flooding.
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 AM CDT Monday the stage was 13.1 feet (4.0 meters).
- Forecast...The river will fall to 12.9 feet (3.9 meters) this
afternoon.It will fall to 12.0 feet (3.7 meters) early
tomorrow afternoon.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Mon Mon Tue Tue
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1pm 7pm 1am 7am
Rio Grande
Presidio Internation 15.5 13.1 Mon 7am 12.9 13.8 13.4 12.2
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio Internation 4.7 4.0 Mon 7am 3.9 4.2 4.1 3.7
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Tarrant County in north central Texas...
* Until 1115 AM CDT.
* At 817 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 2 inches of rain have
fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Euless,
Bedford, Grapevine, Haltom City, Keller, Coppell, Hurst, Burleson,
Southlake, Watauga, Colleyville, Benbrook, Saginaw, White
Settlement and Crowley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Shubham Chandra knows how dangerous the coronavirus can be: He lost his dad during the pandemic. So when he cleared customs at Newark Liberty International Airport and saw people offering anonymous COVID-19 testing, he was happy to volunteer.
“It’s a minimum amount of effort to help a lot of people,” said the 27-year-old New York City man, who had just stepped off a plane from Cancun, Mexico.
The airport testing is part of the government’s early warning system for detecting new variants, which began expanding recently in the wake of a COVID-19 surge in China.
With the addition of Los Angeles and Seattle, there are now seven airports where arriving passengers can volunteer for COVID-19 tests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program now covers about 500 flights from at least 30 countries, including more than half from China and surrounding areas.
As of Thursday, the CDC is also requiring travelers to the U.S. from China, Hong Kong and Macao to take a COVID-19 test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative result before boarding a flight.
And down the road, some scientists are calling for wider use of an additional strategy: screening wastewater from toilet tanks on arriving airplanes.
“Without surveillance, it’s very hard to know what’s going on,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. “Hopefully, with more sampling, we will get more information about what’s circulating.”
Some scientists are worried the COVID-19 surge in China could unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world, since every infection is another chance for the virus to change. There’s no sign of a new variant from China at this point. But one reason for new testing requirements, according to the CDC, is a lack of adequate and transparent information from China on viral strains infecting people there.
“We have very little control over what happens elsewhere,” said epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina, a consultant to the CDC. “What we can control is what’s happening in the United States.”
The airport program is based on an unfortunate reality: “Travelers … go across the globe quickly and they can get and spread infectious diseases really fast,” said Dr. Cindy Friedman, chief of CDC’s travelers’ health branch.
Friedman said the program is a partnership with two companies that take care of the testing and lab work — XpresCheck and Concentric by Ginkgo. A pilot program was expanded around the time the first omicron variant emerged in the U.S. more than a year ago. Besides Newark, Seattle and Los Angeles, the program includes New York’s Kennedy, Washington’s Dulles and airports in Atlanta and San Francisco.
The latest expansion of the traveler surveillance program aims to capture more flights from China. But on Wednesday in Newark, some of the targeted planes arrived from Mexico, France and Belgium. After clearing customs, travelers could stop at a table, swab their noses and fill out a form. Chandra said it took about a minute.
Like other travelers, he won’t get the results. But he tests for COVID-19 when he flies to Ohio every other month to see his mom, he said, since “the last thing I want to do is bring (the virus) home to her.”
About 10% of people on targeted flights volunteer. Their samples are pooled and PCR tested. Positive ones are genetically sequenced. Volunteers get free home COVID-19 tests.
Over time, Friedman expects the program to grow and potentially go global. It’s already shown it can spot coronavirus variants early — detecting omicron variants BA.2 and BA.3 and reporting them to a global database weeks before others did.
But Jetelina said a surveillance program at seven airports is “just not that big” so trying to spot variants might be like “looking for a needle in the haystack.”
To aid the search, experts suggest taking more samples from airplane bathrooms.
“It’s a little gross when you start thinking about it,” Jetelina said. “But these are really long flights and we would expect the majority of people would go to the bathroom.”
The CDC, which monitors wastewater in municipal systems, ran a pilot program last summer testing airplane wastewater at Kennedy airport. Friedman said the agency is working to expand this type of surveillance.
Such testing has been used elsewhere. A study last year in the journal Environment International looked at wastewater testing from 37 flights chartered to bring Australians home earlier in the pandemic, concluding that the practice “can provide an additional and effective tool” for monitoring the virus coming into a country. Recently, Canada announced an expanded wastewater pilot program and Belgium said it would test wastewater from airplanes coming from China.
As surveillance continues, scientists believe that the omicron variant BF.7, which is extremely adept at evading immunity, is driving China’s current surge. CDC data shows BF.7 is already in the U.S., and currently accounts for about 2% of COVID-19 cases. The most prevalent mutant in the U.S. is XBB.1.5, another variant responsible for 41% of U.S. cases. Ray said this one attaches more tightly than its competitors to a receptor that allows viruses to enter a cell.
Scientists said the virus will surely keep evolving — which is why they need to keep searching for new variants. The coronavirus is like a predator stalking humanity, Ray said, and “the predator adapts to the prey.”
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Ungar reported from Louisville, Kentucky.
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US changes names of places with racist term for Native women
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere.
New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word “squaw” include the mundane (Echo Peak, Texas), peculiar (No Name Island, Maine) and Indigenous terms (Nammi’I Naokwaide, Idaho) whose meaning at a glance will elude those unfamiliar with Native languages.
Nammi’I Naokwaide, located in traditional lands of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes in southern Idaho, means “Young Sister Creek.” The tribes proposed the new name.
“I feel a deep obligation to use my platform to ensure that our public lands and waters are accessible and welcoming. That starts with removing racist and derogatory names that have graced federal locations for far too long,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
The changes announced Thursday capped an almost yearlong process that began after Haaland, the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency, took office in 2021. Haaland is from Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico.
The Native American Rights Fund, a nonprofit legal organization, welcomed the changes.
“Federal lands should be welcoming spaces for all citizens,” deputy director Matthew Campbell said in a statement. “It is well past time for derogatory names to be removed and tribes to be included in the conversation.”
Haaland in November declared the term derogatory and ordered members of the Board on Geographic Names, the Interior Department panel that oversees uniform naming of places in the U.S., and others to come up with alternatives.
Haaland meanwhile created a panel that will take suggestions from the public on changing other places named with derogatory terms.
Other places renamed include Colorado’s Mestaa’ėhehe (pronounced “mess-taw-HAY”) Pass near Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Denver. The new name honors an influential translator, Owl Woman, who mediated between Native Americans and white traders and soldiers in what is now southern Colorado.
The Board on Geographic Names approved changing the mountain’s name in December.
While the offensive term in question, identified as “sq___” by the Interior Department on Thursday, has met wide scorn in the U.S. only somewhat recently, changing place names in response to broadening opposition to racism has long precedent.
The department ordered the renaming of places carrying a derogatory term for Black people in 1962 and those with a derogatory term for Japanese people in 1974.
The private sector in some cases has taken the lead in changing the offensive term for Native women. Last year, a California ski resort changed its name to Palisades Tahoe.
A Maine ski area also committed in 2021 to changing its name, two decades after that state removed the slur from names of communities and landmarks, though it has yet to do so.
The term originated in the Algonquin language and may have once simply meant “woman.” But over time, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women, experts say.
California, meanwhile, has taken its own steps to remove the word from place names. The state Legislature in August passed a bill that would remove the word from more than 100 places beginning in 2025.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has until the end of September to decide whether to sign the bill into law.
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Adam Beam in Sacramento, California, contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats displayed a newfound sense of optimism about the election-year political climate Wednesday after voters in traditionally conservative Kansas overwhelmingly backed a measure protecting abortion rights.
At the White House, President Joe Biden hailed the vote in Kansas as the direct result of outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision in June to repeal a woman’s constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
Republicans and the high court “don’t have a clue about the power of American women,” Biden said. “Last night in Kansas, they found out.”
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., boasted of the political winds “blowing at Democrats.”
“Last night in the American heartland, the people of Kansas sent an unmistakable message to the Republican extremists,” he said. “If it’s going to happen in Kansas, it’s going to happen in a whole lot of states.”
With three months until the November election, the optimism may be premature. But it represents a much-needed break for a party that has spent the better part of the past year reeling from crisis to crisis, including the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and rising prices for gasoline and other goods. Those developments have contributed to Biden’s low approval ratings, leaving Democrats without a unifying leader in a position to rally voters before the election, with control of Congress at stake.
The Kansas vote, however, suggests that threats to abortion rights may energize Democrats in a way few political leaders can. And it comes at a moment when the party is gaining momentum on other fronts, including a legislative package to reduce prescription drug prices, combat climate change and raise taxes on corporations.
The challenge for Democrats will be to maintain the energy for several more months and defy trends that typically trip up the party in power.
In recent history, the party controlling the White House almost always suffers deep losses in the first midterm election of a new presidency. Also, an overwhelming majority of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction amid inflation and other economic concerns.
Even with abortion-related momentum, many Democratic strategists privately expect to lose the House majority and believe the Senate is essentially a coin flip.
The day after the Kansas vote, Democratic strategists on the front lines of key midterm contests described a complicated political reality on abortion.
Abortion rights supporters surged to the polls in Kansas, where abortion was quite literally on the ballot. By a roughly 20-percentage point margin, they rejected a measure that would have changed the state constitution to allow state lawmakers to impose restrictions on abortion — or even a ban. The early August primary turnout was on par with a governor’s general election contest.
But few elections this fall will feature such clear stakes for abortion rights. Just four states — California, Michigan, Vermont and Kentucky — are expected to feature a Kansas-style abortion referendum on the November ballot, according to the pro-Democratic group EMILY’s List.
In the majority of states, Democrats must convince voters they can protect abortion access only by defeating anti-abortion Republican candidates at the state and federal level. While that is true in most cases, it’s much more complicated to run against a candidate than a single-issue ballot measure, according to Democratic pollster Molly Murphy.
“The optimist would say, when voters know that abortion is on the ballot, they are motivated to turn out,” Murphy said. “That’s the messaging challenge that we are going to face. Will voters believe that a legal right to abortion is at stake here in this country in their vote for Congress, Senate, governor, state house — all of those things — and be as motivated to show up to vote?”
“Republicans are going to do everything they can to deflect and not engage on this,” she added, noting the GOP’s heavy focus on inflation, gas prices and immigration.
Indeed, as Democrats celebrated on Wednesday, the Republican reaction to the abortion vote was decidedly muted.
The Kansas vote was “a huge disappointment for pro-life Kansans and Americans nationwide,” said Mallory Carroll, of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Republican strategist Christine Matthews warned that the Kansas vote could have “an energizing effect for abortion rights supporters.”
“Success breeds success,” she said. “It will encourage the belief that turning out and activating can make a difference and that is particularly important with younger voters and those less inclined to participate. It’s a momentum-shifter.”
Democrats have long tried without much success to energize supporters by focusing on abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision clarified the stakes as never before. Absent a new federal law, abortion rights now fall to the states, and in 12 states led by Republicans, abortion has already been banned or heavily restricted. Many more are expected to follow.
Republican strategists acknowledge that swing state candidates will have to tread carefully on the issue.
In Georgia, GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker, for example, worried some Washington Republicans by quickly declaring his opposition to abortion rights even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother. Such a position, thought to be extreme in past years, is somewhat common among Republican candidates in 2022.
Republicans in other states have largely sought to avoid clarifying their position.
The Senate Democrats campaign arm recently established a website, GOPOnAbortion.com, to highlight Republican candidates’ outspoken opposition to abortion rights. While Democratic candidates from New York to Washington state are already running ads on abortion, the issue is expected to play a bigger role in some races than others.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who leads the group dedicated to protecting the Senate’s Democratic majority, predicted that abortion would likely matter most as a political issue in Senate races in Nevada, New Hampshire and Arizona — all states in which polling suggests strong support for abortion rights. Suburban women and younger voters are most likely to be motivated by the issue.
“There’s a great deal of anger,” Peters said of the backlash against the Roe reversal. “There’s an energy I haven’t seen before.”
The Kansas vote suggests that such energy could extend well beyond a handful of states.
Polling shows that relatively few Americans wanted to see Roe overturned.
More Americans disapprove than approve of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 53% to 30%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from July conducted about three weeks after the ruling. Just over half of those surveyed said they felt angry or sad about the ruling, the poll found.
In Wisconsin, the leading Democratic Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, noted that the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe was the biggest fundraising day of his entire campaign.
“People are motivated and energetic in ways that I’ve never seen before,” he said in an interview. “I can only assume that that intensity will increase all the way to November.”
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Chris Megerian in Washington and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Woman gets 18-60 years in prison for repeated rape of 6-year-old boy, DA says
LOCK HAVEN, Penn. (Gray News) – A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to 18 to 60 years in prison for the repeated rape of a 6-year-old boy.
According to the Clinton County District Attorney’s Office, 38-year-old Tonya Krout was sentenced this week following her arrest in 2021.
The DA’s office said Krout admitted to Judge J. Michael Salisbury that she repeatedly raped the victim between 2010 and 2015, starting when the boy was 6 years old.
Salisbury sentenced Krout to a minimum of 18 years in prison to a maximum of 60 years. Krout will be eligible for parole after serving the first 18 years when she is 56 years old.
Salisbury said he believes Krout is “absolutely likely to re-offend if given the opportunity to abuse another child” and insisted that she stay in prison for a long time in order to protect other children who she might otherwise encounter.
According to the DA’s office, Krout was previously convicted in New York in 2016 for a separate sexual abuse case involving a 4-year-old child.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa formally opted out of his contract to become a free agent, the MLB Players’ Association announced Monday.
Correa was one of nine major leaguers who exercised options to join the pool of players eligible to sign this offseason with any team.
The decision was widely expected since the day Correa surprised the baseball world by signing with the Twins coming out of the lockout, in lieu of the longer-term deal he’d been seeking. Correa made $35.1 million in 2022, the highest annual average salary for an infielder in Major League Baseball history.
The Twins also announced Monday they will decline contract options on starting pitchers Chris Archer ($10 million) and Dylan Bundy ($11 million) and first baseman Miguel Sanó ($14 million). They have the following buyouts: $750,000 for Archer, $1 million for Bundy and $2.75 million for Sanó.
Right-hander Sonny Gray will be back in Minnesota’s rotation. His $12.7 million option was exercised Monday — his 33rd birthday — for 2023. Gray had a 3.08 ERA in 24 starts after arriving in a trade with Cincinnati that sent 2021 first-round draft pick Chase Petty to the Reds. Gray had 117 strikeouts in 119 2/3 innings.
Joining Correa, Archer, Bundy and Sanó on the open market after the expiration of their contracts with the Twins are relief pitcher Michael Fulmer, outfielder Billy Hamilton, catchers Sandy Léon and Gary Sánchez and starting pitcher Aaron Sanchez.
Correa strongly hinted over the final weeks of the season he would opt out. He first revealed his decision in an interview the El Nuevo Día, a newspaper in his native Puerto Rico, published Oct. 12. But the move could not actually be made until one day after completion of the World Series, which was won Saturday by the Houston Astros, Correa’s former team.
Correa, a multiskilled player at a premium position in his prime at age 28, will hit the open market for a second consecutive winter. His positive impact with the Twins on and off the field was clear, though a star player can only go so far.
After spending 108 of the 182 days in the regular season in first place, the Twins tumbled out of the AL Central lead and finished 78-84. Correa batted .291 with 22 homers and had an .834 OPS while contributing his customary strong defense.
The desire to keep Correa in Minnesota long term is clearly mutual. He raved about the organization and how comfortable his family felt in the community. The middle-market Twins will have to get creative with agent Scott Boras, though, to make it happen. Correa will draw wide interest, and the bigger-spending clubs are certain to drive up the price.
The 29-year-old Sanó faded hard into a quiet and disappointing ending with the Twins, who signed him at age 16 out of the Dominican Republic in 2009. Since his debut in 2015, no major league player struck out more than Sanó, with 1,042 in 694 games.
After making the All-Star team in 2017, Sanó batted just .217 over the last five seasons. He had trouble staying healthy throughout his tenure with the Twins, including a knee injury this year that limited him to 20 games. He had five hits in 60 at-bats.
Bundy led the Twins with 29 starts, posting a 4.89 ERA over 140 innings. Archer had a 4.56 ERA in 102 2/3 innings, making 25 starts for his most since 2018 after thoracic outlet syndrome wrecked his previous two seasons.
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AUBURN, Ala. — Veteran quarterback Cam Newton attended Auburn's pro day, throwing over 30 passes in front of NFL scouts on Tuesday.
It wasn't just a way to get more scouts in the building to watch Auburn's draft hopefuls, as Newton showed he still has plenty left in the tank despite not playing at all in 2022 and only seeing the field sparingly in 2021.
The 33-year-old is adamant he is still among the 32 best quarterbacks in the NFL, but his injury history, limited fit with the majority of current NFL offenses, and concerns about his attitude and willingness to be a backup are contributing factors to his current status as a free agent.
Matt Williamson and Brian Peacock of the Peacock and Williamson NFL show discussed Newton's tricky situation as he tries to get back onto an NFL field this season.
"It's hard to find the fit," Peacock said. "Is he willing to be Josh McCown where he's a journeyman backup? Or does he envision himself as a starter and wants starter money? He's going to be 34 years old [and] the biggest thing about his style of play is that he's not as athletic as he once was."
Newton didn't exactly do himself any favors with his play in 2021. Filling in as an emergency starter following Sam Darnold's shoulder injury, Newton went 0-5 while completing 66 passes for 676 yards - along with three touchdowns and five interceptions.
Newton's bruising style as a runner and limitations as a passer (he has a sub-60% completion rate) make him a tough fit for most NFL offenses, and unless he is willing to sign as a backup and prepare to fill in if necessary it might be hard for him to find himself back in the league in 2023. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/peacock-williamson-nfl-show/does-cam-newton-deserve-a-starting-job-in-the-nfl-peacock-and-williamson-nfl-show/535-0201a8ed-c4d6-45ae-816a-23c5f4536bdc | 2023-03-25 14:29:14 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/peacock-williamson-nfl-show/does-cam-newton-deserve-a-starting-job-in-the-nfl-peacock-and-williamson-nfl-show/535-0201a8ed-c4d6-45ae-816a-23c5f4536bdc |
JAMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) – It’s been a dream of Kathryn Miller’s to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point practically her whole life.
In 2010, the then-five-year-old child ran onto the field at the West Point graduation ceremony as cadets tossed their caps into the air. As is tradition, the children who catch a hat get to keep it, along with any money or messages left inside.
“I remember feeling so encouraged, surrounded by the cadets, even at that young age I could see myself – this is something I want to do,” Miller told WAVY.
Her whole life has been connected to the military.
Her Mom and Dad met in the Army. Dad, Col. Jake Miller, graduated West Point and taught there when Kathryn was in preschool.
“I was three years old telling people that in 2040 I’m running for president,” she said.
She started running toward her goals early, which isn’t easy when the Army moves your family every couple of years. Jamestown High School was her eighth school and the one she attended the longest. In three years there, she lettered in four varsity sports, including track, cross country swim and soccer. She also served as president of several clubs and built a strong academic resume.
“If I look at what I’ve done working really hard, what she’s done has managed to crush anything that I ever achieved,” said her dad, Jake Miller.
Kathryn’s hard work paid off Saturday when she walked across the stage to receive her diploma.
She was also offered a full ROTC scholarship. She applied to and was accepted at all of the military academies.
Of course she chose her dream school, which made Dad happy.
“It means that I won’t have to cheer against her for the next four years,” he said.
Kathryn now looks toward the future with a nod to the past, and that hat she picked up all those years ago with a note from a cadet named Brittany who she never met, but who is still inspiring Kathryn to believe and achieve.
In two weeks Miller will report to cadet training and begin her college career, and what she plans to be a life of service.
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Man pleads not guilty in brother’s murder
Published: Jan. 5, 2023 at 4:40 PM EST|Updated: 54 minutes ago
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the shooting death of his brother nearly two years ago, according to information from Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Joanna Tabit’s office.
Holdon Burdette, 25, faces a murder charge in connection with the shooting of his brother Joshua Burdette, who was 31.
The suspect appeared Thursday in a hearing before Judge Tabit who found him competent to stand trial.
The incident happened in March 2021 along White Tail Road in Sissonville.
Bond was denied, meaning Holdon Burdette will remain in the South Central Regional Jail until his trial.
A trial date has been set for May 1.
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Man charged with shooting, killing brother
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MENLO PARK, Calif., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, One Concern, a climate resilience technology company, announced the appointment of Nnenna Nnoli as Chief Financial Officer. Nnoli is an experienced finance executive in the banking and technology sectors.
"We have hired one of the most talented finance leaders who will help us through the next phase of our growth," said Ahmad Wani, CEO and Co-Founder, One Concern. "Her proven track record of building strategic finance organizations and navigating the capital markets will strengthen our company. Nnenna's addition to our leadership team marks an opportunity for One Concern to extend our lead in the global resilience market."
Nnoli joins One Concern from Spotify, where she served as Vice President, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. She started her finance career at JPMorgan Chase, where she worked for more than twelve years in strategic and operating roles, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer for Chase Merchant Services – Enterprise and Middle Market business, and previously in investment banking, where she worked on numerous capital raising and M&A transactions. She graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in Economics and earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
"This is an exciting period to join One Concern, at a time when the SEC's proposed climate reporting is driving high demand for the company's climate analytics products and solutions," said Nnenna Nnoli, CFO, One Concern. "The innovation emerging from One Concern is distinctive and aims to disrupt the traditional ways we think about and adapt to the impacts of climate change on society, the environment and global financial markets. I am looking forward to helping One Concern scale and thrive in the climate intelligence marketplace."
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse, who voted to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection, appeared well positioned Friday to advance to the general election in his Washington state primary, while fellow Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who took the same vote, fought to hold off a Trump-backed opponent.
Democrat Marie Perez was the top vote getter in the 3rd Congressional District in southwestern Washington, with 31% of the vote. Herrera Beutler, who had about 24% on Tuesday night, dropped to just over 23% by Thursday night, less than 2,000 votes ahead of Joe Kent – a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
Updated vote tallies were expected late Friday afternoon in the 3rd District’s largest county, Clark, which had an estimated 45,000 votes left to count. Counties have until Aug. 16 to finish their count and for canvassing boards to certify the results, followed by certification by the secretary of state by Aug. 19.
A mandatory recount would occur if the margin of votes between the No. 2 and No. 3 candidates is less than half of 1% and closer than 2,000 votes.
Under Washington’s primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote getters in each of Tuesday’s races advance to the November election, regardless of party.
Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary Tuesday by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
Newhouse, the four-term incumbent in the 4th Congressional District in central Washington, had about 26% of the vote , followed by Democrat Doug White, who had just over 25%. Loren Culp, a Trump-endorsed former small town police chief who lost the 2020 governor’s race to Democrat Jay Inslee, was at about 21 21%.
In another key match in the 8th Congressional District, incumbent Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier advanced to the November ballot with more than 47% of the vote, and will face former state attorney general candidate Matt Larkin in November.
With more than 17% of the vote, Larkin edged out King County Council Member Reagan Dunn, a former federal prosecutor whose mother once held the seat. Dunn conceded the race Thursday. The district is a key target of GOP efforts to retake control of the House. | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-backed-challenger-gains-in-washington-u-s-house-count/ | 2022-08-05 20:33:26 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-backed-challenger-gains-in-washington-u-s-house-count/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem — in their case, the mental health crisis among youth.
But the new lawsuits — one by the public school district in Seattle last week, with a second filed by a suburban district on Monday and almost certainly more to come — face an uncertain legal road.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month over the extent to which federal law protects the tech industry from such claims when social media algorithms push potentially harmful content.
Even if the high court were to clear the way for lawsuits like Seattle’s, the district has a daunting challenge in proving the industry’s liability.
And the tech industry insists there are many ways social media’s effects on teen mental health differ from, say, big pharma’s role in pushing opioid addiction.
“The underlying argument is that the tech industry is to blame for the emotional state of teenagers, because they made recommendations on content that has caused emotional harm,” said Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel of the tech industry trade association NetChoice. “It would be absurd to sue Barnes & Noble because an employee recommended a book that caused emotional harm or made a teenager feel bad. But that’s exactly what this lawsuit is doing.”
Seattle Public Schools on Friday sued the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, alleging they have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children. The Kent School District south of Seattle followed suit on Monday.
The districts blame the companies for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media and providing additional training to teachers.
“Our students — and young people everywhere — face unprecedented learning and life struggles that are amplified by the negative impacts of increased screen time, unfiltered content, and potentially addictive properties of social media,” Seattle Superintendent Brent Jones said in an emailed statement Tuesday. “We are confident and hopeful that this lawsuit is a significant step toward reversing this trend for our students.”
Federal law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 — helps protect online companies from liability arising from what third-party users post on their platforms. But the lawsuits argue the provision, which predates all the social media platforms, does not protect the tech giants’ behavior in this case, where their own algorithms promote harmful content.
That’s also the issue in Gonzalez v. Google, the parent company of YouTube, set for argument at the Supreme Court on Feb. 21. In that case, the family of an American woman killed in an Islamic State group attack in Paris in 2015 alleges that YouTube’s algorithms aided the terror group’s recruitment.
If the high court’s decision makes clear that tech companies can be held liable in such cases, the school districts will still have to show that social media was in fact to blame. Seattle’s lawsuit says that from 2009 to 2019, there was on average a 30% increase in the number of its students who reported feeling “so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row” that they stopped doing some typical activities.
But Szabo pointed out that Seattle’s graduation rates have been on the rise since 2019, during a time when many kids relied on social media to keep in touch with their friends throughout the pandemic. If social media were truly so harmful to the district’s educational efforts, the graduation rate wouldn’t be rising, he suggested.
“The complaint focuses on only how social media harms kids, and there might be evidence of that,” said Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law in Silicon Valley. “But there’s also a lot of evidence that social media benefits teenagers and other kids. What we don’t know is what the distress rate would look like without social media. It’s possible the distress rate would be higher, not lower.”
The companies have insisted that they take the safety of their users, especially kids, seriously, and they have introduced tools to make it easier for parents to know whom their children are contacting; made mental health resources, including the new 988 crisis hotline, more prominent; and improved age verification and screen time limits.
“We automatically set teens’ accounts to private when they join Instagram, and we send notifications encouraging them to take regular breaks,” Anitigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, said in an emailed statement. “We don’t allow content that promotes suicide, self-harm or eating disorders, and of the content we remove or take action on, we identify over 99% of it before it’s reported to us.”
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed internal studies in 2021 showing the company knew Instagram negatively affected teenagers by harming their body images and worsening eating disorders and suicidal thoughts. She alleged the platform prioritized profits over safety and hid its research from investors and the public.
Even if social media benefits some students, that doesn’t erase the serious harm to many others, said Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay for Kids, a nonprofit working to insulate children from commercialization and marketing.
“The mental health costs to students, the amount of time schools have to spend monitoring and responding to social media drama, is exorbitant,” Golin said. “It is ridiculous that schools are responsible for the damages caused by these social media platforms to young people. Nobody is seeing the kinds of cumulative effects that social media is causing to the extent school districts are.”
Both cases were filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, but they are based on state public nuisance law — a broad, vaguely defined legal concept whose origins date back at least to 13th century England. In Washington, public nuisance is defined, in part, as “every act unlawfully done and every omission to perform a duty” which “shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of persons.”
Most famously, public nuisance claims helped prompt the tobacco industry’s $246 billion, 25-year settlement with the states in 1998. But public nuisance law also has been at least part of the basis for litigation by state, city, county or tribal governments seeking to hold oil companies responsible for climate change, the gun industry for gun violence, the pharmaceutical industry for the opioid crisis and vaping companies like Juul for teen vaping.
Much of the litigation is ongoing. Juul Labs last month agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits — including 1,400 from school districts, cities and counties — for a reported $1.2 billion.
The Seattle litigation has the potential to enact massive change, prompting questions about the appropriateness of addressing big societal issues in court rather than through lawmaking. Yet there is little risk to the school district because a private law firm filed the complaint on a contingency basis in which the firm is paid only if the case succeeds.
Jolina Cuaresma, senior counsel for privacy and tech policy at Common Sense Media, which aims to make media safer for children, said she was thrilled to see a school district make a public nuisance claim against the tech companies.
“Folks have become tired waiting for Congress to do something,” she said. | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-school-lawsuits-over-social-media-harm-face-tough-legal-road/ | 2023-01-11 12:07:22 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-school-lawsuits-over-social-media-harm-face-tough-legal-road/ |
Which air fryers or Instant Pots are best?
If you want to cook food quickly, you might be looking for a cooking device, like an air fryer or an Instant Pot, to speed up the cooking process. It’s important to understand the benefits and disadvantages of these cooking tools as well as the best models of each device.
Air fryers
Air fryers use superheated air to allow food to cook evenly and thoroughly. It’s important to find easy-to-clean air fryers that are big enough to suit your particular situation and needs, include intuitive controls and provide the option of cooking several different foods simultaneously. Air fryers can serve multiple purposes, including baking brownies and cupcakes, steaming vegetables and creating a less oily version of your favorite fried foods.
Air fryers usually range in price from about $100-$250. However, high-end air fryers make up for their price with easy cleanup and more efficient frying.
Air fryer pros
Cooking with an air fryer has a few benefits. For example, air fryers are usually clean and easier to maintain than traditional deep fryers since the air fryer’s cooking basket can easily be washed in a dishwasher or by hand between each use. Also, air fryers are able to give you moist and crisp food without the huge amounts of oil that traditional deep fryers require, so the food you get from cooking with an air fryer is usually healthier.
Air fryer cons
Conversely, there are a couple of drawbacks to cooking with an air fryer. First, the cooking times in an air fryer can be much longer than the time it takes to cook with a traditional deep fryer. Furthermore, the flow of superheated and dry air around the food in the air fryer can strip the food of moisture, making the food taste dry and flavorless in some cases.
The best air fryers
Philips Premium Digital Air Fryer with Fat Removal Technology
This Philips air fryer is top of the line with a user-friendly design, fast performance and state-of-the-art technology. The air fryer’s fat removal technology extracts and collects extra fat for healthier food.
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Dash Tasti Crisp Electric Air Fryer
This affordable 2.6-quart Dash air fryer gives you the best bang for your buck and is an excellent option for small households, couples and singles. The air fryer also features a vivid temperature indicator, fast-heating hot air technology and simple dial control.
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This four-quart air fryer accommodates up to three pounds of food, delivers 1,550 watts of power, and heats up and cooks food quickly. The spacious air fryer also features a ceramic-coated crisper plate to give your food more of a crunch.
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Cosori CP158-AF Max XL Air Fryer
This award-winning air fryer features a 5.8-quart design that complements many kitchens, easy presets and a removable nonstick basket that is safe for dishwashers and free of PFOA and BPA.
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De’Longhi Livenza Air Fry Digital Convection Oven
Considered one of the most user-friendly air fryers on the market, this De’Longhi model provides nine presets for precision cooking, a unique heat lock system, an LCD screen with digital controls, an internal light and a glass door for improved visibility.
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Instant Pots
The Instant Pot performs a wide range of cooking tasks, including slow cooking a roast, sauteing vegetables, cooking rice and making yogurt. Therefore, it’s crucial to select the right size Instant Pot for your household situation and needs. You also need to figure out how much programming control you desire and how many functions you want your Instant Pot to perform. Instant Pots range in price from $50-$200, depending on the size and model.
Instant Pot pros
Many people select the Instant Pot over other multi-cooker options since the cooking pot is 100 percent stainless steel. Stainless steel is considered durable and long-lasting, and there are no potential health dangers. Instant Pots are also easy to use and offer excellent results.
Instant Pot cons
That being said, there are a couple of drawbacks to using an Instant Pot. For example, the Instant Pot is not truly instant. It does take time to build the pressure and properly cook your food. Instant Pots can also take up some of your kitchen real estate since they are large and bulky. They can also be difficult to clean.
The best Instant Pots
Instant Pot Duo Crisp and Air Fryer
Considered the best of the best, this large Instant Pot has all of the features of the base models but with an air fryer function for more convenience and versatility. This 8-quart Instant Pot is perfect for families.
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This popular Instant Pot model is an excellent option for mid-sized households and provides plenty of bang for your buck. The Instant Pot comes with a one-year warranty, multiple preset temperatures, 14 smart programs and a 6- or 8-quart capacity.
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The Instant Pot Duo Nova is the perfect model for beginners with the ability to cook food quickly, the functionality of several different appliances and 14 food presets. The Instant Pot also comes with a safety lock and nine other built-in safety features.
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Being a great choice for large households, this Instant Pot model doesn’t work as a pressure cooker, but it is perfect for low temperature and slow cooking. The slow cooker comes with keep-warm, multigrain, rice, yogurt, roast, sous vide, stew, steam, sear and saute, slow cook and bake functions.
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The Instant Pot Pro can perform a number of different functions, including making yogurt and sauteing. Moreover, the multi-purpose pressure cooker comes with multiple safety features, including overheat protection and a safe locking lid.
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Should you get an air fryer or an Instant Pot?
Overall, the Instant Pot cooks your food fairly quickly and offers a wide range of different functions and features. On the other hand, air fryers provide fewer functions than Instant Pots and can often strip your food of moisture.
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RISING STAR, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Roughly a month after a Texas third-grade student found a gun belonging to a superintendent in a school bathroom, parents expressed their concerns that they weren’t notified sooner by school officials.
In January, the Rising Star Elementary student found the gun and immediately notified a teacher without touching the weapon, superintendent Robby Stuteville told Nexstar’s KTAB. The gun belonged to Stuteville, who said he and the school’s principal open carry on campus.
Stuteville explained that he took off the gun and placed it in a stall while using the restroom. The firearm remained in the bathroom unattended for about 15 minutes before it was found.
“There was never a danger other than the obvious,” Stuteville claimed last week. He then went on to say he was “proud” of the student and commended their behavior after finding the firearm. Speaking with KTAB on Thursday, Stuteville said he was no longer bringing his weapon to school.
Local law enforcement told KTAB they weren’t made aware of the incident until recently, despite the incident happening last month. Rising Star Police Chief Don Braly confirmed there is an active investigation that began Wednesday.
“When that investigation is concluded the information and the facts, not rumors, will be turned over to the district attorney’s office,” Braly said.
Some parents say they were also left in the dark about the incident.
Nearly 30 parents showed up to an emergency meeting Thursday night. Their general consensus was that they did not feel Stuteville was acting “maliciously,” as one parent said, but that they were not happy being kept in the dark for so long.
“Why, we as parents, had to find out about it through the news…It only makes the school seem like they have something to hide,” one parent stated.
This is an excerpt from Rising Star ISD Emergency Operations Plan:
According to the Rising Star ISD Emergency Operations Plan, firearms are considered an emergency response situation. Response protocol requiring prompt notification of parents and law enforcement to be carried out by the Superintendent or Business manager.
Other parents say they felt the issue was being over-emphasized, even addressing their crowd of fellow parents to reprimand.
“How many of your kids have access to guns in your own home? A bunch of you, including mine. I think it’s a mistake and I think that you pointing fingers at him for doing something like this is wrong,” a parent said to the crowd.
KTAB spoke with Giovanni Mata, a gun owner and the father of a third-grader involved in the incident, on Friday. According to Mata, a teacher sent his son to check on the gun after another student reported it.
“So the teacher asked another kid, my son… ‘Can you go see if it’s a real gun?’ Why would you send a kid? Why not send someone else?” Mata, who recently moved to the area from Uvalde, said.
“Be put in my shoes. Three minutes for that guy to kill all those people in just 3 minutes,” Mata explained, reflecting on last year’s deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. “And [this] gun was left unattended for 15 minutes. At one point I just wanted to say hey, this wasn’t your kid in here. If this was your kid in that situation, I’m sure you would act completely different. You can’t say that was a mistake to leave a gun there. You can’t mistake a life.” | https://www.wane.com/news/texas-3rd-grader-finds-superintendents-gun-in-school-bathroom-parents-voice-concerns/ | 2023-02-20 02:30:59 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/texas-3rd-grader-finds-superintendents-gun-in-school-bathroom-parents-voice-concerns/ |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, May 11, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Panola County in northeastern Texas...
Southeastern Rusk County in northeastern Texas...
Northeastern Nacogdoches County in eastern Texas...
Northwestern Shelby County in eastern Texas...
* Until 600 AM CDT.
* At 510 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Garrison, or
20 miles north of Nacogdoches, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Carthage, Tenaha, Timpson, Garrison, Mount Enterprise, Gary City,
Dotson, Woods, Lawsonville and Paxton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Sandy Wynn-Stelt had thought her Michigan home was across the street from a Christmas tree farm, but she said in a lawsuit settled earlier this year that it was actually a toxic dump that contaminated her water.
In 2017, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality came to Wynn-Stelt’s house to test her water, a test she believed at the time to be random. The test, however, turned up high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals” because they tend to linger in the environment and human bodies instead of breaking down.
The class of chemicals, of which there are thousands, have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, as well as thyroid disease.
When Wynn-Stelt was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last year, she said she had already known she had high levels of PFAS in her blood.
“Was I surprised in the moment? Yes. Was I surprised overall that I developed cancer from drinking Scotchgard from the tap, no,” she said, referencing the name of a stain-repellant product made with PFAS.
However, at least Wynn-Stelt was able to get testing and stopped drinking the contaminated water. She fears that other people may be in a similar situation and not even know it.
“I’d still be drinking Scotchgard from the tap if somebody hadn’t tested,” Wynn-Stelt told The Hill in an interview.
“I’m afraid there’s more places like us that have these places where industry dumped … and people are still drinking contaminated water with absolutely no idea of it,” she added.
Research shows that people all around the country are being impacted by PFAS contamination and may not even know it.
The PFAS Project Lab, an organization that researches the chemicals, has identified nearly 1,800 “known” sites of confirmed PFAS contamination.
But a recent study affiliated with the lab found more than 30 times as many sites — 57,000 of them — that are presumably contaminated but haven’t been officially identified.
Study author Alissa Cordner said that the large disparity between sites that have been officially identified and those that have not means that a significant number of communities are probably completely unaware of the effects the chemicals are having on their lives.
“There absolutely are more Parkersburgs out there,” Cordner said, referring to a community in West Virginia infamous for contamination coming from a local Teflon factory.
“There are more places that have decades of accumulated contamination that we just don’t know about because the testing hasn’t been conducted,” she added.
The study, from Cordner and her colleagues, shows a myriad of locations around the country with few to no officially known PFAS sites — but many suspected or presumed ones.
That includes major cities, such as New York, which doesn’t appear to have any known sites of PFAS contamination, but dozens of sites that can be reasonably expected to be contaminated.
The same is true of more rural areas. States including Idaho and Utah only have two or three known PFAS sites apiece, but dozens of presumed or suspected ones, including airports, industrial facilities, military installations and wastewater treatment plants.
David Andrews, a senior scientist at the Environmental Working Group, which does research and advocacy on PFAS, said that people who drink water from wells, as well as those who live in smaller communities, are more likely to be vulnerable, as their water is likely to come under less scrutiny.
“The place that is most susceptible is actually smaller communities and those on well water, places where there hasn’t been any testing to date” Andrews said.
Ayesha Khan, co-founder of the Nantucket PFAS Action Group, similarly raised concerns about small islands like hers, where many people drink well water.
The Massachusetts island’s airport has been identified as a “known” PFAS source, but Khan worries about other, nearby small communities where small wells may not get testing.
“These islands have a lot of wells … and next to those private wells, they do have airports, they do have landfills, they do have wastewater treatment facilities, and those private well homeowners have no resources, they have no access to this information and they’re not being told to test their waters,” she said.
And while testing in many regions is lacking, those who have invested in PFAS testing have often turned up a great deal of it.
While many states on the latest map have just a handful of known PFAS sites, New Hampshire has 469. Cordner said this is more because the state has a robust testing program than a particular abundance of chemicals.
Nationally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it would require public drinking water systems to monitor for 29 types of PFAS. But there are thousands of types of the chemicals, and not everyone gets their water from public systems.
The EPA also has some reporting requirements that Andrews said are expected to at least improve upon the information that the government currently has.
“I think within a few years we’ll have a much clearer understanding of the extent of contamination and what are the significant sources into the environment,” he said.
The EPA did not respond to questions from The Hill. | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/lack-of-forever-chemicals-testing-could-be-leaving-most-victims-in-the-dark/ | 2022-10-19 12:16:56 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/lack-of-forever-chemicals-testing-could-be-leaving-most-victims-in-the-dark/ |
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations on Tuesday approved fresh aid for Ukraine as the country faces growing economic damage from Russia’s invasion.
Finance ministers from the 27-nation EU gave the go-ahead on Tuesday to 1 billion euros ($1 billion) in loans to the Ukrainian government.
The sum brings to 2.2 billion euros the total amount of EU macro-financial assistance to Kyiv this year. An initial 1.2 billion-euro EU loan package got the green light from the bloc’s finance chiefs days before Russia’s full-scale Feb. 24 attack.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, in mid-May proposed extra assistance of up to 9 billion euros to Ukraine. The planned 1 billion-euro payout is part of this initiative, which comes as Russia makes advances in eastern Ukraine and casualties mount on both sides.
“This will give Ukraine the necessary funds to cover urgent needs and ensure the operation of critical infrastructure,” said Zbynek Stanjura, finance minister of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, in a statement.
Ukraine said last week that its post-war reconstruction would cost $750 billion. Meanwhile, the government in Kyiv is estimated to need around 5 billion euros a month to keep the economy afloat.
Group of Seven countries, including the United States, have pledged to help Ukraine meet its short-term financing requirements in addition to providing military aid to Kyiv and imposing wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia.
The five-month-old war is having worldwide economic and social reverberations, ranging from possible food shortages in Africa to energy-supply disruptions in the EU. These in turn are raising the risk of a global recession.
The EU on Thursday is expected to lower its forecast of bloc-wide economic growth in 2022 for the third time this year.
In May, the European Commission projected that EU gross domestic product would expand 2.7% in 2022, downgrading a forecast made in February of 4% growth. The February outlook was itself weaker than a November projection of 4.3% EU GDP growth this year.
Over the past two months, Russia has cut off or reduced natural gas deliveries to more than 10 EU countries and inflation in Europe has continued to surge. In June, inflation in the 19 countries that share the euro currency reached a record 8.6%. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ukraine-granted-extra-eu-aid-of-1-billion-euros/ | 2022-07-12 14:44:36 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ukraine-granted-extra-eu-aid-of-1-billion-euros/ |
Kingston law firm finishes upgrades to office building
Selingo Guagliardo LLC, a local law firm, announced the completion of its 15th-anniversary green upgrades to its office building at 345 Market St., Kingston. The original construction in 2008 included solar panels, window coatings, recyclable materials and a white roof to reflect heat. To celebrate the anniversary, the firm has completed several upgrades to improve the building’s sustainability and functionality.
The interior core now contains a collaborative workspace, providing a more efficient and productive work environment for employees. The firm replaced the original solar panels with 134 dual-sided solar panels that collect energy from both sides. The downward-facing side collects reflected light energy, making the panels more efficient. In addition, the firm has installed two publicly accessible electric-vehicle charging stations, which are available for use by employees, clients and the public.
Luzerne-based Cresci Corporation performed the interior design/build. The metal furniture was made locally by Dallas-based Hanover Ornamental Ironworks. Wilkes Barre-based Endless Energy Services completed the exterior design/build.
Geisinger Health Plan ranked again among Pa.’s best
For the fourth year in a row, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) ranked best among commercial health plans in Pennsylvania for member satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.
The study examines several key factors. GHP ranked No. 1 in cost, coverage and benefits, customer service, and information and communication. It is the only health plan in Pennsylvania ever to receive the award four years in a row. Notably, GHP is also the commonwealth’s only health plan to win seven times since the award’s inception in 2008.
The 2023 study was conducted among commercial HMO, PPO and POS health plan members drawn from online panels. Results are based on responses across 147 health plans in 22 market-based U.S. regions as identified in the 2023 study. Of the 147 plans evaluated, 139 are eligible for ranking.
As part of one of the country’s most well-established integrated health systems, GHP maintains a provider network of more than 29,000 doctors and 200 hospitals across Pennsylvania. More than half a million members trust GHP for their health care coverage.
Medical office becomes Third Avenue Health
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A community that Saber Healthcare serves in Kingston recently changed its name from Kingston Healthcare to Third Avenue Health and Rehab.
Third Avenue Health and Rehab hosted a community event and ribbon-cutting attended by representatives from the offices of U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright and state Sen. Lisa Baker.
The event took place in the front lawn of Third Avenue Health and Rehab. Its dietary department provided burgers, hot dogs, walking tacos and ice cream. There were also raffles, basket giveaways and live music and games.
Manufacturing company makes changes
Diamond Manufacturing Co. announced the launch of its new website, diamondman.com — a comprehensive resource for original equipment manufacturers, fabricators, service centers and distributors looking to obtain precision-perforated metal products and value-added, installation-ready, custom-perforated fabrication.
The full-service metal perforator’s new website coincided with the celebration of the expansion of the company’s headquarters and included a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Mayor Randy Colarusso of West Wyoming.
Diamond Manufacturing redesigned its website to be a more organized destination equipped with information on the company’s materials, patterns, perforating capabilities, value-added services, machinery, tolerances, options and finishing applications.
Built into the pattern library page is an interactive tool designed exclusively for customers to utilize when planning a project. Users can filter patterns by open area percentage, hole type and pattern layout. The user may then download a pattern as a PDF that includes information on maximum material thicknesses (for carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum) and maximum width, or as a DXF for use in CAD.
The expansion of the Wyoming facility, which includes a 30,000-square-foot addition, was officially recognized in April. It is a testament to Diamond Manufacturing’s continued commitment to the countless industries it serves including agriculture, oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, architecture, industrial and medical. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/business/business-buzz-6-18-23/article_b3b1ac30-e1f0-5999-9c4e-78a77b65bcfd.html | 2023-06-18 05:49:36 | 0 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/business/business-buzz-6-18-23/article_b3b1ac30-e1f0-5999-9c4e-78a77b65bcfd.html |
If you're looking to switch to a cheaper internet plan, now you can get online with affordable prepaid service from Straight Talk, which uses Verizon's 5G and 4G LTE network.
Straight Talk Home Internet offers modest speeds for the cheapest fixed wireless access internet on the market right now: for $45 a month, you're getting unlimited data at a maximum of 100 Mbps on 5G or 50 Mbps on 4G LTE. You'll need to pay $99 up front for the router, which supports Wi-Fi 6, but service is prepaid monthly and doesn't require a contract.
Those speeds are lower than the 300 Mbps max speed for the $50 monthly Verizon 5G Home and far below the 1 Gbps maximum download for $70 monthly Verizon 5G Home Plus, neither of which require a contract, either. (Both are half-off for subscribers of certain Verizon 5G mobile plans.)
But Straight Talk, which uses the same network as Verizon 5G Home, can be even cheaper since it works with the Federal Communications Commission's Affordable Connectivity Program, which gives qualifying individuals $30 per month for internet or up to $75 per month for households on Tribal lands. That makes it the most affordable way to get 5G home internet without needing to sign up for a phone plan and potentially the cheapest way to get online in areas that don't have competitive internet providers.
5G home internet has matured over the last few years as carriers build out their 5G networks, offering it in more areas and at rates that compete with wired internet from local service providers. In addition to Verizon, T-Mobile offers 5G home internet for $50 per month (or $30 for subscribers of its Magenta MAX mobile tier) and also doesn't have a data cap or require a contract. AT&T offers 5G home internet in very limited areas where it doesn't provide wired internet, so it's not really competing with the other two big carriers.
For individuals and families on a budget, Straight Talk Home Internet could be the cheapest FWA option. You can sign up for it at over 2,000 Walmart stores across the US or online Walmart's or Straight Talk's websites. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/cheap-prepaid-5g-home-internet-is-coming-on-verizons-network/ | 2022-10-17 13:48:43 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/cheap-prepaid-5g-home-internet-is-coming-on-verizons-network/ |
30 years for New Jersey man who killed ex, drove son with body in trunk
ELIZABETH, N.J. - A New Jersey man who killed his ex-girlfriend and drove their toddler son to Tennessee with her body in the trunk last July has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Tyler Rios pleaded guilty in April to aggravated manslaughter and desecrating human remains in the death of 24-year-old Yasemin Uyar.
The Union County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey says Rios killed Uyar in her Rahway home, then fled with their 2-year-old son.
The boy eventually was found unharmed at a hotel in Monterey, Tennessee.
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Uyar's body was found nearby in a wooded area off Interstate 40. | https://www.fox29.com/news/30-years-for-new-jersey-man-who-killed-ex-drove-son-with-body-in-trunk | 2022-06-15 12:01:01 | 0 | https://www.fox29.com/news/30-years-for-new-jersey-man-who-killed-ex-drove-son-with-body-in-trunk |
BEIJING, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 31st PT Expo China (hereinafter referred to as "PTEXPO"), hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and organized by Postal & Telecommunications Appliances Co., Ltd., will be held at the Beijing National Convention Center on June 4-6, 2023. The year 2023 marks the fourth anniversary of the official commercialization of China's 5G technology. By the end of 2022, China had built the world's largest 5G network with 2.312 million 5G base stations, and had 561 million 5G users, which accounted for over 60% of the world's total 5G users. On the occasion of this important milestone for industry development, the PTEXPO will showcase the achievements of the ICT industry with the theme "Build an Information Artery, Co-create a New Era of Digital Intelligence". The event highlights progress in areas such as the innovation and evolution of 5G technology, R&D of key and core technologies, broadband network construction, digital industrialization, and digital transformation of industries. Renowned companies from the upstream and downstream industrial chains of the ICT industry will gather here with their latest technologies, products, and cutting-edge viewpoints, presenting an exciting and professional feast for the industry.
This year, the exhibition area has been upgraded to over 40,000 square meters, featuring 6 major exhibition sessions, 9 special exhibition areas, more than 40 industrial summits, and the release of multiple industrial reports and white papers. The scale of the exhibition will reach a new high, including dedicated exhibition areas for 5G security, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, digital healthcare, etc.
This year, the ICT China • High-level Forum will continue the "2+10+N" model, that is, to organize 2 high-level forums, 10 theme forums, N thematic forums as well as self-organized activities by enterprises. The forum will consist of a series of activities such as technical seminars, solicitation and selection, new product releases, government-enterprise exchange, investment and financing, etc. The Computing Power Innovation Forum, AI-Driven Future Conference, Quantum Computing Forum, and Future City Gigabit Optical Network Development Forum will be held, along with additional forums such as 2023 Anti-telecom Fraud Forum, 5G Security Forum, and Cloud Native Development Forum, to empower the digital transformation of all sectors of society.
The organizer of the exhibition highlighted that PTEXPO, as a national ICT industry feast, will play a crucial role in empowering vertical sectors, boosting confidence and building a consensus on industry development. We are delighted to announce that the invitation for exhibition visitors has started, and we warmly welcome you to attend and participate in the exhibition. Click here to learn more.
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Middle School student told to change clothes to return to class
MAUMEE, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) – A middle school student in Ohio was told to change her clothes after being accused of violating the school’s dress code.
According to WTVG, Logan Gray, 12, was wearing a short-sleeved collared dress over white tights with brown leather boots.
“My mom bought me a new dress and it was really pretty, so I decided I was going to wear it to school the next day,” Logan said. “I was very excited and ready to show it off to all my friends.”
Her mother, Francheska Gill, said it was an outfit her daughter would wear to church.
Logan said she was asked to go to the office within 30 minutes of her first class of the day.
“They said they had to measure it with a ruler, and that it was above the dress code, even though it was only a half-inch over,” Logan said.
Gill said the school notified her around 8:30 a.m. that her daughter had violated the dress code policy and was not allowed to return to class until she had a change of clothes.
“Her dad had to drive up to the school and bring a different change of clothes,” Gill said. “I was extremely upset. I was just like, why? I called the school and wanted to know why she was dress coded? Why she had to change?”
According to the Maumee City School District’s dress policy dresses, skirts and shorts must be no more than four inches above the knee cap.
Students are also not permitted to dress in a manner that would distract from or disrupt the education process.
The policy adds that “determination of appropriateness lies solely at the discretion of the building administration or his/her designee.”
“I don’t think that’s right. I don’t think that’s fair,” Gill said. “I think that is a terrible dress code rule or regulation.”
Gill posted a photo of her daughter in the outfit she wore to school on Facebook. Many people had commented in support of her statement.
Logan said she feels unfairly targeted due to her body type.
“It kind of made me feel really bad because there was a lot of other people who were wearing stuff above the dress code,” she said.
“She even made the comment that she was going to work really hard this summer to lose a bunch of weight just so next year when she goes to school, she won’t have these issues,” her mother added.
In response, Maumee City School District shared the following statement:
The Maumee City Schools board of education has approved a dress code policy that applies to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students are not sent home from school for dress code violations, rather they are provided with options: (1) change into something that is laundered and provided to them by the school and continue the school day or (2) the office contacts a parent or family member who brings something to school so the student can change and continue the school day.
The dress code policy is included in all student handbooks and discussed with students by staff members throughout the school year. In addition, the dress code policy is reviewed every few years by a group of students, parents, and staff members.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal.
Sarah Peet, 23, was attacked by three or four Australian native dogs on Monday as she jogged along a beach at Queensland state's K'gari, the world's largest sand island formerly known as Fraser Island.
The Brisbane resident was flown by helicopter to a mainland hospital in a stable condition. The health department refused to provide an update on her condition Thursday, citing patient confidentiality.
Wildlife rangers captured and humanely euthanized the leader of the pack on Wednesday, the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service said.
"Euthanizing a high-risk dingo is always a last resort and the tough decision by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service was supported by the island's traditional owners, the Butchulla people," a service statement said.
The dingo was the second on the island in recent weeks to be killed for biting and threatening behavior. Authorities blame dingoes' increasing fearlessness on tourists who ignore rules by feeding them or encouraging them to approach in order to post social media images.
Wary young dingoes avoided humans when pandemic travel restrictions were first eased in late 2021. But their dangerous human interactions are increasing with tourists' encouragement as visitor numbers rise.
Peet did not deliberately encourage dingoes to approach her. But visitors to the World Heritage-listed Great Sandy National Park are warned against running or jogging outside fenced areas because of the risk that dingoes will chase them.
The dingoes forced Peet into the surf, deploying the same hunting strategy that rangers say they use against large prey such as kangaroos and wallabies.
Tourists Shane and Sarah Moffat were driving along the beach in their SUV when they saw Peet being attacked.
"We've seen two dingoes hanging off the side of her," Shane Moffat told Nine News television.
"She was walking towards me with a hand up yelling out, 'Help, help,'" Moffat said. "I could see fear in her face, that she wasn't in a good way."
Moffat said he ran to Peet, forcing himself between her and the pack leader. Moffat bloodied his fingers on the dingo's fangs as he punched it.
Moffat said Peet's injuries included a chunk of flesh missing from her right upper-arm and bite marks to her legs.
He doubted she would have survived if he had arrived at the scene any later.
The pack leader was one of three dingoes on the island fitted with tracking collars because of their high-risk behavior.
When he was collared in April, he was around 2-year-old and weighed 17 kilograms (37 pounds) which was heavy for a dingo and indicated he had been fed by humans, authorities said.
The dingo killed by authorities in June after separate attacks on a 7-year-old boy a 42-year-old French woman was the first to be destroyed on the island since 2019.
Rangers said that dingo was the offspring of a collared mother that had taught her pups their dangerous ways.
K'gari is home to some of Australia's purest dingoes because domestic dogs have long been banned. Dingoes are a protected species and authorities are considering how they can more safely coexist with humans on the island.
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CHICAGO (AP) — As the new school year swings into gear, some students carry heavier worries than keeping up with homework: Demand has been growing steadily for children’s books that address traumatic events such as school shootings.
Sales of books for young readers on violence, grief, and emotions have increased for nine straight years, with nearly six million copies sold in 2021 — more than double the amount in 2012, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks U.S. retail sales of print books.
As anxiety and depression rates have soared among young Americans, educators and advocates say children’s books can play a role in helping them cope.
“While it might be second nature to try to shield kids from the harsher realities of life and scary news, it’s proving difficult to avoid big society issues,” said Kristine Enderle, editorial director at Magination Press, the children’s publishing arm of the American Psychology Association. “Kids face these issues and challenges in their day-to-day life.”
One book, “I’m Not Scared … I’m Prepared,” was reprinted several times to meet demand after the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, according to the National Center for Youth Issues, the nonprofit group that published the book. The story, first published in 2014, features a teacher who shows children what to do when a “dangerous someone” is in their school.
Bookstores around the country see interest in titles from the genre rise and fall depending on local and national headlines, according to bookseller Barnes & Noble.
Some newer titles engage directly with real-world gun violence.
In “Numb to This,” a graphic novel released this month, author Kindra Neely details the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, which she survived, and the aftermath as she tries to heal amid repeated shootings elsewhere. Initially, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers editorial director Andrea Colvin said she was shocked when Keely pitched the idea.
“I had to remember that, yes, this is what our stories are like now. This is what young people have experienced,” Colvin said.
Michele Gay, whose 7-year-old daughter Josephine was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, turned to children’s books herself to help her two surviving daughters. One picture book she read to them was “The Ant Hill Disaster,” about a boy ant who is afraid to go back to school after it is destroyed.
“It was one of many books that was of comfort to them and gave them a little bit of confidence to just face one more day, one more minute, because we can do it together,” said Gay, who advocates for improved security in schools through a nonprofit she co-founded, Safe and Sound Schools.
Parents should make sure books addressing trauma are age-appropriate and backed by psychologists, experts say.
It’s important to be aware of whether children are aware of or feeling stress about frightening things in the news, said Aryeh Sova, a Chicago psychologist who works with children who attended the July 4 parade in suburban Highland Park, Illinois, where seven people were killed in a shooting. A child asking lots of questions about an event may signify that they are anxious or fixated on it, he said.
“If it’s coming from the kid’s need, then books could be a great way for kids to learn and to read together with their parents and to review it on their own and to process it at their own speed, at their own pace,” Sova said.
But bringing up violence when a child isn’t worried about it could increase their anxiety unnecessarily, Sova said.
Some young children experience gun violence at alarmingly high rates, particularly in communities of color.
For them, it is important to start early to address the effects, said Ian Ellis James, an Emmy award-winning Sesame Street writer known by his stage name William Electric Black. He is the author of the illustrated children’s book “ A Gun Is Not Fun.” He said young children in areas afflicted by gun violence are more aware of it than parents may think.
“They know about flowers and candles and cards in the street. They walk by them every day,” he said.
Through children’s literature and theater, Black works to reduce urban gun violence. “If you start when they’re 5, and you go back when you’re 6, 7, 8, 9, you’re going to change the behavior,” he said.
In the spring, he will collaborate with New York public school P.S. 155 in East Harlem with a series of gun violence awareness and prevention workshops for early readers, using puppets, storytelling and repetition.
“They won’t even get rid of assault weapons here in this country. So my thing is, we have to go in and we’ve got to help them help themselves save themselves,” Black said. “We’re really kind of failing at that.”
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Watch: Two stolen French Bulldogs reunited with owner
A Wisconsin woman has her dogs back after they were stolen in November
A Wisconsin woman has her dogs back after they were stolen in November
A Wisconsin woman has her dogs back after they were stolen in November
The nightmare is finally over for a Wisconsin woman after thieves stole her two French bulldogs from her home.
Those dogs are home safe and sound.
"The last six weeks have been literal hell," Jenna Hayes said.
Almost two months after her two French Bulldogs were stolen from her Milwaukee home, Hayes finally got her Stella back.
"I'm still trying to soak it in. It's almost a balance between, it didn't feel real, and she never left," Hayes said.
Thieves took the dogs, which can sell for up to $5,000, back in November. One of the dogs was returned that same day. As time went on, Hayes started to lose hope.
"You might not ever see her again, and that was my biggest worry," she said.
She says police told her Wednesday they had a few leads, then, she got a call that changed everything.
"I got a call from somebody. It was a younger guy, saying him and his dad bought a dog for $3,000. They saw my Facebook post and thought it was the same dog."
Milwaukee police say they had located that man prior to his call to the dog owner and requested assistance from the Waukesha Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies checked out the home in Waukesha, scanned the dog's microchip, and confirmed it was, indeed, Stella.
Hayes is beyond overjoyed and credits social media for her pups' return.
"The support in the community has been huge, and it's taught me there are a lot more good people than bad in the world."
Milwaukee police said the people who had Stella will not face any charges. As for whoever sold the stolen dog, and how it ended up in Hartland, police would not comment. | https://www.kcra.com/article/watch-two-stolen-french-bulldogs-reunited-with-owner/42412908 | 2023-01-06 04:34:57 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/watch-two-stolen-french-bulldogs-reunited-with-owner/42412908 |
Finally! NJ Passes New Law To Prevent Catalytic Converter Thefts
If you've been a victim of a catalytic converter theft in New Jersey, this might give you a sigh of relief.
Catalytic converter thefts have been running rampant in New Jersey and all over the country for several months. Thieves have been targeting them to resell them at junk yards for hundreds - even thousands of dollars. But now a new New Jersey law has been passed to help curb the thefts.
But first, let's get the basics down first.
What is a catalytic converter?
Cars.com says: "A catalytic converter is part of your car’s exhaust system that converts harmful engine-exhaust pollutants into something less harmful to the environment through a chemical reaction." They look something like this:
Why are thieves stealing them?
Catalytic converters are made from three valuable metals: Platinum, palladium and rhodium. They help create the chemical reaction that makes your car's exhaust fumes less toxic. They can be worth thousands of dollars at metal scrap yards.
What's being done to prevent catalytic converter thefts in New Jersey?
New Jersey just passed a new law that will require "core recyclers" (junk yards and scrap metal businesses) to collect vehicle identification and proper documentation before buying a used catalytic converter.
The new law passed by Gov. Murphy states that the seller must provide "certificate of title, certificate of registration, a receipt from a transaction of repair, or a bill of sale for the motor vehicle from which the catalytic converter was taken."
So, if a seller attempts to sell a detached catalytic converter, they can't do so without providing proper documentation. And if they're stolen, they won't be able to profit from it. If this new law is violated, fines will be imposed.
It's part of a larger, four-step plan to prevent the larger issue of auto thefts in the state, according to Philly Voice.
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Organize your home with these tips and products
So you’re ready to give your home an organizational overhaul: now what?
It’s a matter of taking a systematic approach to areas that need tidying, organizing or decluttering.
Let’s face it: Some areas are easier to tackle and quicker to finish, whereas others will prove challenging and time-consuming. Ensure your home organization project continues without hiccups by investing in products that optimize space or make life easier.
To point you in the right direction, we’re sharing these tips with a few of our favorite organization products.
How to start an organization project
Make an organization list
Organizing your home can be overwhelming, especially if you attempt to do it without a plan.
Begin your project with mindfulness: take a step back, think and then make a list. Determine which areas in your home need the most attention and prioritize them.
The kitchen pantry, for example, is a high-priority area since you access it several times a day. Knowing your pantry inventory can save you money, too, since you won’t keep buying duplicate items because you can’t find them.
A smaller area, such as a medicine cabinet or a makeup drawer, may fall lower on your list since these spaces have fewer items. These organization projects can be done in a few hours, so there’s a good chance you can tackle more than one in a day.
Once you have a definitive list, it’s much easier to plan and schedule your projects. If members of your household are helping with these projects, a list makes delegation much more manageable.
Prepare to clean
You may not like cleaning, but it’s an essential piece to the organizational puzzle.
All nooks and crannies should be dusted, wiped, vacuumed or disinfected, including drawers, bookcases and even closet floors. Otherwise, no matter how great your organization project is, you’re simply placing clean items on top of soiled surfaces.
Donate what you don’t need or use
Organizing a home often involves decluttering, in which you donate what you no longer need or use.
While you can toss some things, you can donate gently-loved items to local charities, soup kitchens or food banks. Some organizations even offer doorstep pickups to save you a trip. Others offer itemized lists of your donations for tax purposes.
Essential organization products for every room
Wondering where to begin? We’re sharing our favorite organization tips and products for every space in your home to get you started.
Kitchen
If your kitchen drawers are jam-packed with utensils and silverware, it’s high time to place them in dedicated compartments. Expandable drawer organizers provide plenty of space for large and small utensils, while stacking drawer organizers for silverware optimize space vertically.
An oft-forgotten area in need of organization is under the sink. A simple multi-tier organizer expands this usable space to store a modest collection of cleaning supplies or tools.
Bathroom
Space can be hard to find in a bathroom, so many consumers seek vertical storage and organization options. A slender shelving unit or an over-toilet cabinet are ideal for storing toiletries and towels while keeping them accessible.
Bedroom
Organizing a bedroom often revolves around effectively managing your wardrobe. Storing offseason clothes in under-the-bed storage bins, for example, is one way to free up closet and dresser space.
Closets may benefit from a total overhaul. You change its entire configuration to make clothing more visible and accessible. A closet organizer kit can add additional rungs or cubbies and may double or triple a closet’s available space.
Dividing drawers into smaller spaces help keep them tidy. An underwear organizer, for example, is ideal for keeping socks paired. It also prevents delicate clothing from getting crushed by other items in the drawer.
Living room
Living rooms are some of the largest spaces in households, so it comes as no surprise they often end up cluttered.
If you can’t relocate items in the living room, be it video game controllers or pet toys, store them inside versatile baskets. The baskets can remain on the floor, or you can slide them inside bookshelves for a streamlined, tidy appearance.
Concealed storage is another option to keep items out of the way. Storage benches, for example, have spacious interiors that you can use to store board games or blankets. They blend in well with most living room décor and double as seating.
Toy room
Children with an extensive collection of toys can stay organized when you invest in a few child-friendly storage pieces.
You can store stuffed animals and other soft toys in soft rope baskets and smaller toys like dolls or building blocks in a plastic bin system. These organization options free up valuable floor space while keeping toys accessible for your child.
Home office
Whether you have a dedicated home office or work from home in a mixed-use space, keeping your professional area tidy may lower stress levels and boost productivity.
A simple desk organizer, for example, is one way to keep office supplies organized. If you deal with a large amount of paperwork, an expandable file organizer is a space-savvy alternative to a bulky file cabinet.
Remote learning space
Children benefit from having an organized, distraction-free learning space. Organizing this space is often at the top of most parents’ lists.
A school supply carousel is a popular choice to hold pens, pencils and art supplies. Younger children can store their soft-cover workbooks in a hanging storage rack, while older kids benefit from using a cubby system for books and binders.
Laundry room
Laundry rooms are often small, oddly-shaped spaces that can go from tidy to messy after a few laundry loads. That’s why it’s essential to leverage every inch of space you have there.
Believe it or not, there are quite a few options for laundry room storage. Mounted organizers are ideal for holding mops, dusters and other cleaning accessories.
There’s valuable space beneath washers and dryers, too. A pedestal storage unit can hold laundry and clothing care products. As a bonus, it raises machines and makes them more accessible with less bending.
Line dry clothing can take up a lot of space, which is why it’s wise to invest in a retractable clothes rack. These nifty accessories only require overhead space, whereas floor-based drying racks have rather large footprints and tend to get in the way.
Attics and basements
If you have an attic or basement, you have a wealth of storage space waiting to be utilized. You can store less frequently used items in these areas, such as holiday decorations or offseason clothing.
Air-tight storage bins are recommended over cardboard boxes, which are more susceptible to damage or insect infestations. Choose mid-sized storage bins, which are easier to carry up and down a flight of stairs.
Garage
If you’re a passionate gardener or craftsperson, then organizing a garage should be a high-priority area, too.
Do-it-yourself and home improvement projects that require large workspaces are best served by workbenches. These have sprawling tabletops as well as a series of drawers or compartments to store tools and supplies.
For those with a wealth of full-size garden tools, a pegboard tool rack keeps them organized and off the floor. You can change figurations on the pegboard as you see fit or connect additional pegboards to maximize wall-mounted storage options.
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Leading children's apparel retailer and football icon come together to champion a day of football, fun and philanthropy
SECAUCUS, N.J., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, March 3rd, The Children's Place, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCE), the largest pure-play children's specialty retailer in North America, and former football champion, Eli Manning, treated hundreds of children and family members to a day of football, fun and philanthropy. The Children's Place and Eli Manning began their day with a visit to the Children's Cancer Institute at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, located at Hackensack University Medical Center. They teamed up to support Tackle Kids Cancer in their dedication to finding a cure for pediatric cancer. Following this visit, The Children's Place and Eli Manning hosted 300+ children and family members at Superdome Sports in Waldwick, NJ.
"Children are at the heart of everything we do at The Children's Place, and to have the opportunity to give back and bring smiles to the hundreds of children and families was incredibly meaningful," said Maegan Markee, Senior Vice President, Marketing at The Children's Place. "Eli is not only an incredible football champion, but also an amazing father and philanthropist. He embodies the winning spirit we hope to instill in every child. We are thrilled to have continued our partnership with Eli on this special day in giving back to our community, together."
Carrying out the brand's commitment in giving back to children and families, Eli Manning and The Children's Place celebrated the start of the Easter season by hand-delivering filled-to-the-brim Easter baskets to the children of Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, plus a special surprise for 7-year old patient and football super-fan, Shane McCooe.
Local New Jersey resident, Shane, currently in the first-grade, a chicken nugget connoisseur, lover of all things monster trucks, and perhaps most notably, an obsessed football fan, shared a heartwarming moment with Eli discussing their love of football and challenged each other to a fun game of trivia.
"It is so meaningful to be able to give back to the kids of Tackle Kids Cancer, and I'm honored to be able to do so alongside a brand like The Children's Place that values community efforts," said Eli Manning. "Seeing the kids today truly made my day, and getting the chance to see Shane and hear his story was really special. I'm thrilled to have partnered with The Children's Place to have made this all possible."
To support the organization's mission, The Children's Place has provided clothing and monetary donations, and will match all associate-made donations to Tackle Kids Cancer through the end of March 2023.
"Pediatric cancer is the number one cause of death by disease in children, yet is highly underrepresented when it comes to government funding," said Alfred P. Gillio, M.D., Director of the Hackensack Meridian Children's Cancer Institute. "We are so proud of our longstanding partnership with Eli Manning, our Tackle Kids Cancer captain, and our newly formed partnership with The Children's Place and Eli Manning to continue our efforts to raise awareness and donations for pediatric cancer research."
Following the morning, The Children's Place and Eli joined forces with former teammate, Shaun O'Hara, to host an afternoon of fun and football at Superdome Sports in Waldwick, NJ.
The players reunited to huddle together on the football field once again, where they played games with 300+ local New Jersey children. The event included fun activities like personalizing graphic tee's from The Children's Place Spring 2023 Collection, a competitive obstacle course, football target practice, a thrilling Easter egg hunt, and more.
"We're so grateful to The Children's Place for giving us this incredible community event and the opportunity to combine our passions – football, giving back to our community and family-time," said Shaun O'Hara.
The Children's Place Spring 2023 Collection includes a wide selection of quality, trend-right products to outfit the entire family in colors that bring the season to life. Available in newborn sizes to adult XXXL, and made with quality fabrics, these vibrant matching family styles are available at affordable prices, from $5.99-$49, making The Children's Place the go-to destination for all Easter and spring moments.
The Children's Place Spring 2023 Collection is available for purchase on www.childrensplace.com, in The Children's Place stores nationwide and in Canada, and on The Children's Place Amazon storefront at www.Amazon.com/TheChildrensPlace.
For further information on The Children's Place, philanthropic efforts, partnerships, and to purchase all of your outfitting needs, please visit www.childrensplace.com and follow @ChildrensPlace on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube.
About The Children's Place
The Children's Place is the largest pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America. The Company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell fashionable, high-quality merchandise predominantly at value prices, primarily under the proprietary "The Children's Place", "Place", "Baby Place", "Gymboree", "Sugar & Jade" and "PJ Place" brand names. The Company has online stores at www.childrensplace.com, www.gymboree.com and www.sugarandjade.com and www.pjplace.com and, as of October 29, 2022, the Company had 658 stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and the Company's five international franchise partners had 213 international points of distribution in 16 countries.
About Tackle Kids Cancer
Tackle Kids Cancer is a philanthropic initiative of Hackensack Meridian Children's Health to raise money for pediatric cancer research and patient care programs at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital and K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital. Donations made to Tackle Kids Cancer directly benefit the essential clinical care, unique support services and groundbreaking cancer research needed to find a cure. Since its launch in September 2015, Tackle Kids Cancer has raised more than $20 million in funds. Visit www.tacklekidscancer.org for more information about Tackle Kids Cancer.
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A college in upheaval: War on 'woke' sparks fear in Florida
By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Professors at the New College of Florida are using personal email because they’re afraid of being subpoenaed.
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Students are concerned, too. Some fear for their physical safety. Many worry their teachers will be fired en masse and their courses and books will be policed. It’s increasingly hard to focus on their studies.
For years, students have come to this public liberal arts college on the western coast of Florida because they were self-described free thinkers. Now they find themselves caught in the crosshairs of America’s culture war.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has targeted the tiny school on the shores of Sarasota Bay as a staging ground for his war on “woke.” The governor and his allies say New College, a progressive school with a prominent LGBTQ+ community, is indoctrinating students with leftist ideology and should be revamped into a more conservative institution.
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Students and faculty say America should take note because the transformation at New College could become a blueprint with national implications as DeSantis gears up for a likely presidential bid.
“I’m sorry, but this isn’t an indoctrination facility. This isn’t a factory that pumps out, you know, non-binary communists,” says Viv Cargille, 20, a marine biology major from Miami.
In January, DeSantis and his allies overhauled the 13-member Board of Trustees and installed a majority of conservative figures. The new trustees promptly fired the college president and replaced her with a Republican politician. Next, they dismantled the office of diversity and equity.
Changes so far have come in tandem with a new bill DeSantis unveiled Jan. 31 aimed at overhauling higher education in Florida. The bill would ban gender studies majors and minors, eliminate diversity programs and any hiring based on diversity, weaken tenure protections and put all hiring decisions in the hands of each university’s board of trustees.
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The effect at New College has been chilling and disruptive. Students and faculty compare the upheaval to a “hostile takeover." It feels even more jarring because the school is for many students a haven of open-mindedness and acceptance in a place of idyllic beauty, with palm-tree-lined paths along a stretch of white-sand coast.
“It felt very much like New College was a little bubble in Florida,” said Willem Aspinall, 19, an environmental studies major who grew up in a Chicago suburb. “Now it feels like that has kind of been burst. The campus feels a lot less safe now.”
One of the new trustees is Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and architect of the right-wing outrage against critical race theory, a legal term that has come to represent teaching about the effects of slavery. Rufo actively posts on social media about his vision for the future of New College, often in militaristic terms. He has referred to new trustees at the public institution as the “landing team,” saying, “We got over the wall,” and talking of an operation to “recapture” the college.
New College has its problems. Enrollment was declining until last year. Students complain of mold in dorms, broken elevators and other delayed maintenance. Some students say they would welcome more conservative students. DeSantis and the new trustees cite the challenges as justification for the state intervention.
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Some students are fleeing, for schools that feel safer. Several professors who asked not to be named are sending out resumes.
New College has long been an anomaly in a state filled with large public universities. It has barely 700 students, no fraternities or sororities, and no football team. The average class size is 11 students. There are no letter grades; students get detailed “narrative evaluations” as part of a pass-fail system.
The academic freedom is mirrored by a student body that feels free to express itself, say students and faculty, who describe New College as a haven for brainy kids who are high-achieving and intellectually curious. Some were the quiet kids in high school, or were bullied for being queer or different, or struggled socially because of autism or other disabilities. They arrived at New College and felt welcome in a way they never had before.
“It is one of the most unique places I think that exists in American higher education,” says Elizabeth C. Leininger, a neuroscientist and associate biology professor, who knows all her students by name. She compares an education at New College to small, private liberal arts schools at a fraction of the cost. In-state tuition at New College is $7,000 and out-of-state is $30,000, but many students get scholarships that cut tuition by at least half.
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Students and faculty are noticing new restrictions they worry are aimed at curtailing freedom of expression. Faculty received a memo recently with new recommended guidelines for email signatures. They say the signature “should only include” name, title, college address and phone number, which faculty see as a ruling that disallows pronouns. An event known as V.I.P. Weekend that was organized by the diversity and equity office to host prospective students was abruptly canceled. And maintenance crews were recently instructed to wash away chalk drawings and messages that covered a campus overpass. Many of the chalk messages voiced outrage at DeSantis and the new trustees or carried messages of support, such as: “Diversity is our strength.”
Faculty are advising students to concentrate on schoolwork and block out the noise, but it’s hard to shake the feeling the worst is yet to come, said Aspinall, the environmental studies major.
“I’m concerned they’re going to take a school that does not indoctrinate students and turn it into a school that does.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kawhi Leonard scored a season-high 31 points and the Los Angeles Clippers rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Washington 102-93 on Saturday, extending the Wizards’ skid to a season-worst nine games.
Luke Kennard added a season-high 20 points off the bench, tying his season high with four 3-pointers.
Kristaps Porzingis led the Wizards with 19 points. Kyle Kuzma added 17 points and Deni Avdija had 10 rebounds. The Wizards, who were without Bradley Beal, have lost 12 of 13.
Leonard carried the offensive load on a day when Paul George, Ivica Zubac, Reggie Jackson and Norman Powell were sidelined. That left the Clippers without nearly 61 combined points on average.
But they fought back in the fourth. Brandon Boston Jr. came off the bench for a steal and score, tying it at 78. The Clippers went up 81-78 on Amir Coffey's layup and Kennard's free throw after the Wizards' delay of game technical.
Washington ran off seven in a row and the Clippers answered with six straight. Porzingis' basket drew the Wizards into a tie at 87-all.
Kennard passed to Nicolas Batum for a 3-pointer that put the Clippers in front by three.
Then Leonard got going. He scored eight in a row and only missed a free throw that would have capped a three-point play as the Clippers led 98-89 and closed out their fourth win in five games.
The Clippers were down 15 points in the second quarter, but Leonard took over starting in the third. He scored eight of their first nine points to pull the Clippers into a tie at 59-all.
From there, the Wizards outscored the Clippers 16-13 to lead 75-72 heading into the fourth. Avdija had six points, punctuated by a one-handed slam, and Kuzma and two-way player Jordan Goodwin had five each as Leonard sat down with 3 1/2 minutes left.
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Wizards: Beal (right hamstring strain) sat out his sixth straight game.
Clippers: George has a sore left knee, Zubac has a left knee contusion, Jackson has left Achilles inflammation and Powell has a left groin strain. ... The teams played a week ago and the Clippers won by 10 points on the road.
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Clippers guard John Wall hit a 3-pointer in the game's opening moments against his former team that pushed him over 12,000 career points. He's one of nine active players with at least 12,000 points, 5,500 assists and 1,000 steals. He finished with nine points, six assists and three rebounds.
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Wizards: Stay in Los Angeles to visit the Lakers on Sunday.
Clippers: Host Charlotte on Wednesday to end a five-game homestand.
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Counties.
Black River at Black River Falls affecting Jackson County.
.Recent heavy rain plus additional rain tonight has led to flooding
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...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE SUNDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and forecast.
* WHERE...Black River Near Galesville.
* WHEN...Until late Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet, Flooding mainly impacts wild lands and
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again. It will then fall below flood stage late Saturday
evening.
- Flood stage is 12.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
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(NEXSTAR) – El Niño has arrived.
The Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday that El Niño conditions were present and expected to grow stronger in the coming months. Forecasters give it a 56% chance of developing into a strong El Niño, and an 84% chance of topping “moderate” strength.
This year’s El Niño has shown up ahead of the typical schedule. In the past decade, El Niños have started in late summer or early fall. Its early appearance “gives it room to grow,” Climate Prediction Center meteorologist Michelle L’Heureux, told the Associated Press.
This year’s El Niño is expected to keep building and remain strong through the 2023-2024 winter.
This year is predicted to be the inverse of what we’ve seen the last three years, in which we have had back-to-back La Niña seasons.
El Niño typically brings cold, wet winters to the Southern U.S. A strong El Niño, in particular, is associated with lots of rain for the Southwest and California — though California already saw a cold, wet winter this year, even without El Niño in control.
On the other hand, El Niño usually means a warm, dry winter for the Pacific Northwest, Ohio Valley, northern Rockies, and parts of the Midwest. Hawaii also often sees below-average rain during an El Niño fall, winter, and spring season.
While El Niño can strengthen hurricane season in the central and eastern Pacific, it tends to contribute to weaker hurricanes forming in the Atlantic basin.
Even a strong El Niño isn’t a guarantee those exact scenarios will play out, NOAA warns.
“‘Associated with’ doesn’t mean that all of these impacts happen during every El Niño episode. However, they happen more often during El Niño than you’d expect by chance, and many of them have occurred during many El Niño events,” the agency writes.
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Ahead of season 5’s debut on Nov. 9, Netflix finally debuted a fiery trailer for the new episodes of The Crown, giving audiences an extended look at “a house divided” as Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s divorce takes center stage on creator Peter Morgan’s historical drama about the royal family. Picking up in the early 1990s, the series will focus on the “most visual” era of the royals as they navigated newfound attention surrounding the Palace, which included many headline-grabbing events and scandals of the time.
“That's the amazing thing about playing these people at this time, because in the journey of The Crown so far out of all the seasons, this is the most visual content we have of the royal family,” said Elizabeth Debicki, who makes a stunning transformation into Diana as the trailer shows her struggling in her marriage to Charles, which many have said always included a third person, Camilla Parker-Bowles.
As per tradition of the Emmy-winning series, a new cast has taken over the key roles, with Debicki now portraying the late princess after Emma Corrin originated the role in season 4 and Dominic West following in Julian Baring and Josh O’Connor’s footsteps as Charles, who was recently named king following his mother’s death in September.
Joining them is Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Claudia Harrison as Princess Anne, Olivia Williams as Charles’ longtime friend and eventual second wife as well as Jonny Lee Miller as John Major, Salim Daw as Mohamed Al Fayed and Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed.
The trailer, set to a haunting version The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony,” also teases other notable moments from the early ‘90s, including Diana’s “revenge dress” to her controversial, sit-down interview with reporter Martin Bashir to the fire that broke out in Windsor Castle, which offers a fitting allegory to what is happening with the family at that time.
While Charles and Camilla’s “tampongate” was not seen here, it is another wild moment that West confirmed would be depicted in season 5. “I remember thinking it was something so sordid and deeply, deeply embarrassing [at the time],” he shared in a recent interview.
“Looking back on it, and having to play it, what you're conscious of is that the blame was not with these two people, two lovers, who were having a private conversation,” he continued. “What's really [clear now] is how invasive and disgusting was the press's attention to it, that they printed it out verbatim and you could call a number and listen to the actual tape. I think it made me extremely sympathetic towards the two of them and what they'd gone through.”
Echoing that sentiment about the press, Debicki has said that “in the ‘90s everything had started to be filmed and also it was the birth of the 24-hour news cycle, so there's just this incredible amount of content that we have access to.” And as a result, “Diana was the most photographed person in the world at that time.”
Of course, no matter how much Diana and Charles’ marriage is depicted this season, there’s no forgetting that this series is always about the queen, and how she managed to maintain her reign and family’s place in the ever-evolving British consciousness.
Following Emmy-winning turns by Claire Foy and Olivia Colman, Staunton is tasked with portraying Her Majesty in her later years until the series closes out with season 6. “I’m greatly honored,” Staunton previously told ET about being approached by creator Peter Morgan and his team to complete “the last lap” and finish out what the other two actresses started before her. “I don’t want to let the air go out of the balloon and I really have to bring it home. I would love to do that for all the people who have gone before me.”
In a later interview, she acknowledged the fans who were excited to see her join the franchise, saying, “Let’s just hope that works out for them because I've done it. Nothing I can do about it now!”
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Doctor says 'better than expected' on Vitale's second vocal cord surgery
The 82-year-old Lakewood Ranch resident and ESPN college basketball analyst said his doctor is optimistic he'll be able to return to doing games.
SARASOTA — Borrowing one of his signature catch phrases, Dick Vitale is feeling "Awesome, Baby!"
Following his second surgery on his vocal cords in four months on Thursday, the Lakewood Ranch resident and ESPN college basketball analyst said his doctor, Dr. Steven Zeitels of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, told him the procedure went "better than expected."
Vitale had his first surgery in February to treat dysplasia, which are pre-cancerous growths on the vocal cords. Thursday's procedure was to ensure the lesions hadn't returned. He was discharged after the surgery and will return to Lakewood Ranch around noon Friday.
"I must be on voice rest for two weeks and then do a follow-up examination," Vitale texted, "but (Zeitels) is very optimistic that I will return to doing what I love, calling college hoops games on ESPN. That is the best medicine I can receive."
Following the surgery, Vitale will have to return to Massachusetts General only for the occasional checkup. In the past nine months, the 82-year-old has overcome melanoma and lymphoma.
"It's also great news that I can return to making calls for the V Foundation for kids battling cancer," Vitale texted. "Yes, as many of you know, I am obsessed with raising dollars for pediatric cancer research."
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The Sanderson sisters are flying back onto screens after nearly 30 years -- but when it came to making Hocus Pocus 2, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker felt like no time had passed at all!
"As soon as we walked on the set, the dynamic between the three of us was exactly the same as it was 30 years ago," Midler says in ET's exclusive look at a featurette for the upcoming film. "It was like these characters lived with us for the last 30 years... It was a real thrill."
"It was not a difficult transition to step back into those boots," Najimy agrees.
Set 29 years after the events of the first film, Hocus Pocus 2 will give fans a look at the backstory of the trio's Sanderson sisters -- which includes an ominous birthday present from an elder witch, played by Ted Lasso Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham.
"It's very special to be a part of something that has become so meaningful in people's lives," Parker notes of returning to the cinematic universe.
The sequel also sees the 17th-century sisters resurrected in the present day after high school friends in Salem -- played by Whitney Peak, Lilia Buckingham and Belissa Escobedo -- relight the Black Flame Candle and spark a whole new adventure.
The Hocus Pocus 2 cast also includes Sam Richardson, Tony Hale, Juju Brener, Froy Gutierrez, Taylor Paige Henderson and Nina Kitchen.
ET spoke to Richardson at the Independent Spirit Awards in March, where he gushed over the "surreal experience" of joining some of the original cast for the film's second installment.
"It was incredible. All the ladies are back for Hocus Pocus 2," the actor teased. "They truly haven't missed a step. And it was so incredible to be in the movie and watch them putting the old hats back on and being those old characters, the sisters. It was so much fun."
A self-proclaimed true fan of the original, Richardson said he "grew up watching [Hocus Pocus]."
"I'm a true fan of that movie," the Ted Lasso star gushed. "Being in it, now being a part of that movie, [is] another one of those surreal moments."
Hocus Pocus 2 flies onto Disney+ Sept. 30.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Three current and former former executives of a shipbuilder that constructs vessels for the U.S. Navy have been indicted on accounting fraud charges accusing them of falsely inflating the company’s reported earnings, federal prosecutors said.
Craig Perciavalle, 52, Joseph Runkel, 54, and William Adams, 63, all of Mobile, Alabama, where Austal USA LLC is based, are accused of misleading shareholders and investors. They are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, five counts of wire fraud, and two counts of wire fraud affecting a financial institution, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Friday.
Court records were not immediately available to show if the men had attorneys to comment on their behalf.
Austal USA LLC is a subsidiary of Australia-based Austal Limited and builds littoral combat ships for the Navy. The ships are designed to operate in shallow coastal waters.
Perciavalle resigned as Austal USA’s president in 2021 following an investigation by federal and Australian authorities into practices dating back more than four years, the company said at the time. Adams is the former director of the littoral combat ships program, according to the SEC. Runkel is the director of financial analysis.
Prosecutors alleged the three men manipulated an accounting metric to hide growing costs in order to maintain and increase the share price of Austal Limited’s stock, hurt U.S. investors.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a news release that the three “engaged in a scheme to artificially reduce the cost estimates to complete certain shipbuilding projects for the U.S. Navy by tens of millions of dollars.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/shipbuilder-austal-executives-accused-of-inflating-earnings/ | 2023-04-01 15:41:19 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/shipbuilder-austal-executives-accused-of-inflating-earnings/ |
President Biden tours storm damage in California Published January 20, 2023 at 3:11 AM MST Facebook Twitter Email Listen • 2:00 A series of storms battered the state earlier this month, affecting 41 of the state's 58 counties. Estimates put damage at over $1 billion. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2023-01-20/president-biden-tours-storm-damage-in-california | 2023-01-20 11:50:00 | 1 | https://www.kunm.org/2023-01-20/president-biden-tours-storm-damage-in-california |
More than 1 million T-shirts sold to date, over $2.4 million donated to UNHCR, Save the Children, and Plan International
NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today launches five new T-shirts for the ongoing PEACE FOR ALL charity project. The latest collection features new graphics designed especially for this project by collaborators including tennis legend Roger Federer, as well as artwork from Miffy creator, the late Dick Bruna.
Since the launch of the project in June 2022, a total of more than 1 million PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts have been sold worldwide. 100% of profits from the sale of these T-shirts are donated to international aid organizations that assist people impacted by poverty, discrimination, violence, and conflict around the world, including UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), Save the Children, and Plan International. So far, over $2.4 million* has been donated as part of the project. (*when calculated using the April 3, 2023 exchange rate of $1 = 132.96 yen)
Activities supported by PEACE FOR ALL donations include the self-reliance projects for Rohingya women refugees in Bangladesh, educational support for displaced Syrian children and vulnerable Lebanese children in North Lebanon, and a campaign to eliminate child marriage in Vietnam.
The PEACE FOR ALL charity project was founded on the concept that a T-shirt can help make the world a better place. In addition to the donations generated by the project, UNIQLO believes that T-shirts have the power to express the ideas of the wearer, as well as elicit empathy and spread messages broadly.
Overview of the New PEACE FOR ALL Designs
- Product name: PEACE FOR ALL
- Launch date: Thursday, April 20th, 2023
- Price: $24.90
- Sizes: XXS-3XL (Sizes available in stores are XS-XL)
- Availability: UNIQLO stores and online
- Special website: https://www.uniqlo.com/peace-for-all/
- Collaborators: Roger Federer (Professional Tennis Player), Dick Bruna (Picture Book Author, Graphic Designer), Cristina de Middel (Magnum Photos' President), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist) + Christopher Makos (Photographer), Akamai Technologies (Cloud Company)
For media queries, please contact: uniqlo@nikecomm.com.
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BRIDGEWATER — It’s only natural that on a loaded Somerset squad headlined by top Yankees prospects Jasson Dominguez, Austin Wells and Everson Pereira, the team leader in home runs through seven weeks would be none of the above.
Enter Tyler Hardman.
The 24-year-old third baseman is riding a torrid stretch in May, as he entered Saturday with a .633 slugging percentage this month. He has seven home runs and 13 extra-base hits in 119 plate appearances overall including a scintillating performance Thursday against Reading where he had a career-high five RBI with a three-run double and a two-run homer.
“The biggest thing with Ty is that he is that natural power hitter,” hitting coach Jake Hirst said. “He hits the ball the other way really, really well. So I think it’s trying to maintain that while also getting more true bull’s eye power. He has a tendency to kind of go on top of stuff with top spin — things pull-side — so it’s really just kind of keeping him inside the ball a little bit longer.”
For Hardman, the offseason adjustments after getting his first taste of Double-A last September were mostly related to his mental approach. Mechanically, that entails making sure his eyes are in the right spot to be able to read the ball better in batting practice and translate that to games.
“My biggest problem in my career has always swing decisions: swinging at good pitches, swinging at bad pitches, so that’s all I worked on in the offseason. More than anything, more than mechanics, was just swing decisions and trying to give myself a better chance to put the ball in play,” Hardman said. “I like to be an aggressive hitter, and sometimes I just get going too much. I’ve just got to reel that in and make sure I go up there with a goal in mind.”
Ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Yankees’ No. 18 prospect, Hardman possesses a 6-foot-2, 204-pound frame that generates power to all parts of the field with a quick right-handed swing.
Hardman is in his third year in the system after being the Yankees’ fifth-round pick from Oklahoma in 2021. That year was a whirlwind for Hardman, who went from batting .397 in his final season with the Sooners to playing for the Yankees’ Rookie Ball affiliate and then Low-A Tampa, quickly learning that pro ball was not the Big 12 Conference.
“It’s hard because as a baseball player and a competitor you just want to say, ‘Hey, it’s the same game. Just do the same thing,’ and pro ball is just different. You’re playing more, everybody there has something, a little quality that somebody in college didn’t,” Hardman said. “It’s always mental at the end of the day. The hardest thing in baseball is consistency because the ups and downs are so drastic. Just playing more and stuff like that, you just have to find a way to keep yourself under control.”
So far, he has taken a step forward in 2023 with the Patriots. His walks and flyballs are up, while his strikeouts and groundballs are down. With a steady approach, he aims to get his .223 batting average up soon to complement his .806 OPS. He also wants to get his total of 22 home runs from last year closer to 30 this year, and he is on pace to do so.
“I just try to be as simple as possible,” Hardman said. “I’m going up there just trying to hit the ball hard. I want to get a good pitch, see something in my zone and if I hit the ball hard and they catch it, which is how I felt basically all of last month — that’s what I felt like I was doing — if that’s how it happens, that’s how I get out, that’s fine. Just controlling what I can.”
Hirst can see Hardman putting that to action in the film room and in the batting cage.
“He has a really, really good game plan and is cerebral at the plate, so he takes a lot of that advanced information really well, does a great job with condensing that into just a basic approach,” Hirst said. “He does a good job of not getting distracted by a lot of the information that we give these guys. He does a great job just condensing it. It’s one thing to make a game plan and (another to) have a good idea of what you need to do to go execute that, and I think that’s where he’s at. He’s starting to see these Double-A pitchers that have a little bit better stuff, a little bit more command … and he’s just working to continue to execute game plans.”
Defensively, Hardman feels comfortable at third base after moving to that spot full-time last year. He was a first baseman at Oklahoma, but he practiced at third base in college and played the left side of the infield at Temescal Canyon High School.
The California native also flashes a bit of speed with 22 stolen bases in 174 minor-league games.
“I think it’s a wide enough variety of tools where I could really play anywhere in the field and just get in the lineup,” Hardman said.
But where he stands out the most organizationally right now is his raw power as a corner infielder — a trait that Hardman has taken pride in since he was young.
He played in travel leagues throughout his youth, consistently playing on teams with older players until he was about 11 years old. His performance at a tournament in Arizona as a high school senior put him on the map to be drafted as an 18-year-old by the Reds, but he opted to mature in college and now is on a path to impacting the Yankees one day.
“From a young age I just focused on using my lower body a lot and trying to create power without changing other parts to my mechanics,” Hardman said. “I’m someone that’s able to really use their hips well and create the power.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/05/20/yankees-third-base-prospect-tyler-hardman-having-power-surge-in-somerset/ | 2023-05-20 21:03:24 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/05/20/yankees-third-base-prospect-tyler-hardman-having-power-surge-in-somerset/ |
Devils vs. Hurricanes: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 4
The New Jersey Devils and Carolina Hurricanes play in Game 4 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round at Prudential Center on Tuesday, May 9, starting at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS. The Hurricanes are up 2-1. Oddsmakers list the Hurricanes as the underdog in this matchup, with +130 odds on the moneyline against the Devils (-150).
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Devils vs. Hurricanes Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS
- Where: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey
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Devils Betting Insights
- The Devils have gone 40-23 when listed as a moneyline favorite this season.
- When playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -150 or shorter, New Jersey has a 27-10 record (winning 73.0% of its games).
- The Devils have an implied moneyline win probability of 60.0% in this contest.
Hurricanes Betting Insights
- This season the Hurricanes have been an underdog 15 times, and won seven, or 46.7%, of those games.
- Carolina has played as a moneyline underdog of +130 or longer twice so far this season. They lost both games.
- The implied probability of a win by the Hurricanes, based on the moneyline, is 43.5%.
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Devils Advanced Stats
- New Jersey has not hit the over in its past 10 games.
- During their last 10 games, the Devils' goals per game average is 2.2 lower than their season-long average.
- The Devils create the fourth-most goals in the league, averaging 3.5 per game for a total of 289 this season.
- The Devils are ranked eighth in league action for the fewest goals against this season, having allowed 222 total goals (2.7 per game).
- The team's goal differential is third-best in the league at +67.
Hurricanes Advanced Stats
- The Hurricanes and their opponents hit the total on just one occasion over Carolina's most recent 10 contests.
- During the last 10 games, Hurricanes' games average 8.9 goals, 0.5 goals higher than their season-long per-game average.
- The Hurricanes have the NHL's 15th-ranked scoring offense (262 total goals, 3.2 per game).
- The Hurricanes are one of the toughest defensive units in the NHL this season, allowing 210 goals (2.6 per game) to rank second.
- Their +52 goal differential is seventh-best in the league.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - A bipartisan bill proposed by Pennsylvania state senators would crack down on distracted driving.
The bill would curtail how cell phones can be used while driving.
Phones would have to be stashed or in a docking station while in use. Drivers would not be able to hold them.
Monroe County Republican state Sen. Rosemary Brown is one of the sponsors.
She talked about the proposal Tuesday morning, flanked by people who lost loved ones in distracted driving crashes.
"This is not an effort to punish drivers. We are simply working to change behavior, build responsible driving, and, of course, public safety," Brown said.
Right now in Pennsylvania, "distracted driving" is classified as wearing or using headphones, or reading, writing, or sending a text while driving. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/pa-state-senators-announce-bill-that-would-crack-down-on-distracted-driving/article_56f50d52-b7bc-11ed-b2c4-933ff56e3b6d.html | 2023-03-01 00:31:19 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/pa-state-senators-announce-bill-that-would-crack-down-on-distracted-driving/article_56f50d52-b7bc-11ed-b2c4-933ff56e3b6d.html |
WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AccessLex Institute®, the largest nonprofit in legal education, is pleased to introduce the newest offering in its suite of Helix Bar Review by AccessLexSM no-profit bar prep resources, Helix Florida. The introduction of Helix Florida is a continuation of Helix Bar Review's line of state-specific options beginning with Helix California, which debuted last year.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks in separate operations by the Taliban security forces, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday.
Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional IS intelligence and operations chief, during a raid in Kabul over the weekend, Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman for the Taliban government, said in a statement.
A news outlet allied with the Islamic State group on Tuesday posted confirmation of Fateh’s death on an IS-run Telegram chat.
Earlier this month in a separate operation in Kabul, three IS members — including senior IS leader Ijaz Amin Ahingar — were killed.
Mujahid said that a number of other IS members, including foreign nationals planning deadly attacks, also have been detained in recent days.
The regional affiliate of the Islamic State group — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — is a key rival of the Taliban. The militant group has increased its attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021. Targets have included Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority.
In January, eight IS militants were killed and nine others arrested in a series of raids targeting key figures.
The raids in the capital city and western Nimroz province targeted IS militants who organized attacks on Kabul’s Longan Hotel, Pakistan embassy and the military airport.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing near a checkpoint at the Afghan capital’s military airport. IS said that attack was carried out by the same militant who took part in the Longan Hotel assault in mid-December.
IS claimed the attack on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul, causing China to advise its citizens to leave Afghanistan “as soon as possible.”
Earlier, the IS also claimed a shooting attack targeting the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul. Shots were fired at the embassy from a nearby building, triggering anger in Pakistan and raising tensions between the two South Asian neighbors.
Pakistan’s top diplomat in Kabul was walking across the lawn inside the embassy compound at the time of the attack. He was unharmed, but one of his Pakistani guards was wounded.
The Taliban swept across the country in mid-August 2021, seizing power as U.S. and NATO forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
The international community has not recognized the Taliban government, wary of the harsh measures they have imposed since their takeover — including restricting rights and freedoms, especially for of women and minorities. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-taliban-2-senior-is-members-killed-in-afghanistan/ | 2023-02-28 11:48:13 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-taliban-2-senior-is-members-killed-in-afghanistan/ |
Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
The White House is expanding a pandemic-era program allowing the administration to quickly expel people from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally cross into the country from Mexico.
A divided Congress presents fresh complications for President Biden's agenda. House Republicans meanwhile will likely turn their attention towards investigating the president's son Hunter. | https://www.wunc.org/2023-01-05/biden-shares-his-border-security-plan-ahead-of-trip-to-mexico | 2023-01-06 00:28:58 | 0 | https://www.wunc.org/2023-01-05/biden-shares-his-border-security-plan-ahead-of-trip-to-mexico |
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) _ Northfield Bancorp Inc. (NFBK) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $15.9 million.
The Woodbridge, New Jersey-based company said it had net income of 34 cents per share.
The holding company for Northfield Bank posted revenue of $44.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $40.9 million.
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FAYETTEVILLE — The fireworks heard on Monday night were coming from Tulsa (Okla.) when Booker T. Washington four-star wide receiver Micah Tease committed to Arkansas over Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma and others.
Tease, 5-11, 180, took official visits to Arkansas, Notre Dame and USC. He was at Arkansas the June 24-26 weekend. Tease has 27 offers, but it was Kenny Guiton and the Hogs getting his pledge. Following his official visit Tease knew Arkansas was where he belonged.
“I learned how I would fit in the offensive system,” Tease said. “We sat down and we had a meeting. We did a little slide show of how I would fit into the system and what I could do in the system. That’s pretty much what we learned new.
“I definitely got to see how I would thrive in the system and really it’s just a good spot man. It’s just a good spot. It’s not far from home. I like the campus. I like the people around me, the coaches. So it’s a good fit overall.”
As a junior, Tease played both ways for his school. On offense, Tease caught 31 passes for 618 yards and nine touchdowns. On defense, Tease had 25 tackles, four for loss, three interceptions, a forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and blocked a punt.
He ran one track meet as a junior and timed 11.05 in the 100-meter dash. In 2019 and 2020, Tease combined to catch 31 passes for 543 yards and five touchdowns.
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Arkansas’ Commitments:
Malachai Singleton, QB, 6-1, 220, Kennesaw North Cobb, Ga.
Isaiah Augustave, RB, 6-2, 190, Naples, Fla.
Micah Tease, WR, 5-11, 180, Tulsa Booker T. Washington, Okla.
Shamar Easter, TE, 6-5, 225, Ashdown
Luke Hasz, TE, 6-3, 225, Bixby, Okla.
Jaden Hamm, TE, 6-6, 225, Eudora, Kan.
Joey Sua, OL, 6-5, 315, Bentonville
Luke Brown OL, 6-5, 300, Paris Henry County, Tenn.
Paris Patterson, OL, 6-6, 345, East St. Louis, Ill.
Kaleb James, DL, 6-5, 265, Mansfiled, Texas
Quincy Rhodes, DL, 6-6, 253, North Little Rock
Ian Geffrard, DL, 6-6, 350, Mableton Whitefield Academy, Ga.
Stephen Johnson, DL, 6-4, 310, Fayetteville Whitewater, Ga.
Carson Dean, LB, 6-4, 235, Carrollton Hebron, Texas
Alex Sanford, LB, 6-3, 240, Oxford, Miss.
Dallas Young, CB, 6-1, 180, Gardendale, Ala.
RJ Johnson, CB, 6-3, 180, McDonough Eagles Landing Christian Academy, Ga.
Christian Ford, S, 6-0, 187, McKinney, Texas
TJ Metcalf, S, 6-1, 185, Pinson Valley, Ala.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Tyler Thomas scored 28 points as Hofstra beat UNC Wilmington 70-46 on Thursday night.
Maleeck Harden-Hayes led the Seahawks (15-6, 5-3) in scoring, finishing with 13 points. Donovan Newby added eight points for UNC Wilmington.
Hofstra got a team-high nine points across the first half from Thomas, but it was only enough to head to the locker room with the score tied at the half 30-30. Hofstra took the lead for what would be the final time on Estrada’s layup with 19:02 left in the contest. His team would outscore UNC Wilmington by 24 points in the final half.
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Up next for Hofstra is a Thursday matchup with Elon on the road, while UNC Wilmington visits Stony Brook on Saturday.
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Idaho police still seek car seen near slain students’ home
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Police investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students say they're working with law enforcement in Eugene, Oregon, to determine if a white sedan that was found on the side of the road there is related to the Idaho case.
Relatively few details have been released about the homicides of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The four friends' bodies were found Nov. 13 at a rental home across the street from the university campus, and the killings have left the small town of Moscow, Idaho deeply shaken.
The Moscow Police Department is working through nearly 12,000 email and phone tips, the department said in a press release Tuesday, as well as more than 4,500 digital media submissions including surveillance camera footage. Investigators are also still looking for any information about a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was seen near the rental home around the time the students were killed.
“Investigators believe the occupant(s) may have critical information to share regarding this case and have identified over 22,000 vehicles,” the department wrote in the news release. “If you know of, or own, a vehicle matching this description, or know of anyone who may have been driving this specific vehicle on the days preceding or the day of the murders, please forward that information to the Tip Line.”
The case has drawn massive interest from true crime aficionados and online would-be sleuths, and in recent days many online forums dedicated to the case have focused on images of a Hyundai Elantra found abandoned on the side of the road in Eugene, Oregon, after a collision.
On Tuesday, the Moscow Police Department confirmed that investigators were aware of the car and were “working with the local jurisdiction to determine if the vehicle is related to our case.”
Melinda McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Eugene Police Department, wrote in a text message that somebody called 911 on Dec. 17 to report that a person was sleeping inside a Hyundai Elantra.
Officers responded and made contact with the person, and no further report was made, McLaughlin wrote. The vehicle had been there since Dec. 15 when it was left after an injury crash.
“We have no information to indicate it is related to the Moscow, Idaho case,” McLaughlin wrote. “However, they were sent the vehicle information so they have it to review.” | https://localnews8.com/news/crime-tracker/2022/12/20/idaho-police-still-seek-car-seen-near-slain-students-home/ | 2022-12-20 23:33:17 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/crime-tracker/2022/12/20/idaho-police-still-seek-car-seen-near-slain-students-home/ |
(NewsNation) — Alabama Pastor Michael Jennings was asked by his neighbor to water their flowers while they were away from their home. Jennings was doing just that when police arrested him.
Police can be seen on body camera footage approaching Jennings in late May while he was watering the flowers, telling him he “wasn’t supposed to be” there, then placing him under arrest in an incident Jennings told NewsNation he knows was racial profiling by the Childersburg, Alabama, police.
Police said they were responding to a report of a “suspicious vehicle.” Jennings did not have his ID but did tell the officers who he was and why he was there, he told Nexstar’s WIAT in the days after the incident.
The original neighbor who called police told officers that she made a mistake and begged them not to arrest Jennings once she realized it was her friend and neighbor. The woman’s account is detailed in the incident report.
Jennings was arrested for obstruction.
According to the police incident report obtained by WIAT, officers claimed Jennings was belligerent and walking away from police and threatened a lawsuit for racial profiling. The longtime clergy leader admitted he was not happy, but said none of his actions warranted an arrest.
“It’s outrage, it’s shame,” Jennings said on “NewsNation Prime.” “I felt dehumanized with what happened to me. It’s embarrassing, humiliating and everything else because of what they did.”
Jennings had an idea the police were going to approach him when he saw their car driving very slowly on a road behind the house.
“I don’t think they were trying to stop anything, they were trying to catch something,” Jennings said. “When they approached me and started talking to me, it seemed surreal. … Is this really going to happen over flowers?”
Charges against Jennings were dropped a week later. Still, the incident left Jennings hurt.
“As a person, it hurt my feelings, it was an insult to me, it dehumanized me,” Jennings said. “I would like for people just to be aware of the society and the state of mind that people are in now. Racism is at its highest. It is just ludicrous and ridiculous the way people are treating other people for no reason.”
Jennings is still considering a racial-discrimination lawsuit against Childersburg Police. He told NewsNation Prime that he is seeking justice.
WIAT’s Drew Taylor and Michael Clark contributed to this report. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/alabama-pastor-calls-arrest-while-watering-flowers-racial-profiling/ | 2022-08-30 00:04:42 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/alabama-pastor-calls-arrest-while-watering-flowers-racial-profiling/ |
Burkholder Insurance, Inc. in Mobile, AL, Joins the Large Growing National Independent Insurance Firm
FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burkholder Insurance, Inc., an independent broker of commercial and personal property/casualty insurance and bonds, is the second agency in Mobile, AL, to join Higginbotham, an insurance, financial and HR services firm ranked as one of the largest independent brokers in the U.S. The deal gives Burkholder Insurance, Inc. broader service capacity, including employee benefits and HR consulting and outsourcing.
Higginbotham is strategically growing to expand its footprint and increase its service capability by selectively partnering with other independent agencies that have strong reputations in their local markets, a desire to keep growing by tapping into its single source solution and a strong cultural match. The firm entered Alabama in December 2021 to widen its network of community-based insurance partners. Combined, it has 47 employees in Mobile supported by a team of more than 2,000 risk specialists and service associates nationwide.
"People like working with their community agency over a giant corporation," stated Josh Smith, managing partner for Higginbotham's Alabama region. "Partnering with likeminded agencies allows people to have direct access to Higginbotham and the caliber of services we can provide as a large firm. Our partnership with Burkholder Insurance will increase their service ability and further strengthen the Higginbotham name in Mobile and throughout Alabama."
Burkholder Insurance, Inc.'s primary market is small to mid-size businesses in southern Alabama with a large practice in the contractor industry. Paul Burkholder Sr. opened the agency in 1951 after first selling insurance door-to-door. At one point in time, the family-run business included Paul's son Paul Jr. and grandsons, and Paul III and Chris.
Burkholder Insurance, Inc. President Paul Burkholder III said, "Higginbotham's people-centric culture aligns with ours. Like us, they began as a small operation and grew one customer at a time because of their humility and sincere concern for the wellbeing of employees and customers. We fully trust our future growth and the care of our people to their leadership."
Higginbotham named Paul Burkholder III a managing director, and he will continue overseeing Burkholder Insurance, Inc.'s operations.
Burkholder Insurance, Inc. is a third-generation family-owned property/casualty insurance agency that serves customers in South Alabama and adjoining states. The agency provides business and personal risk solutions and customized care backed by 71 years of experience. Burkholder Insurance, Inc. is a five-time Frankenmuth Diamond Achiever in Alabama and an Auto-Owners Sapphire Agency. Visit burkholderins.com for more information.
Employee owned and customer inspired, Higginbotham is a single source solution for insurance, financial and HR services. The firm was established in 1948 and ranks by revenue as the nation's 21st largest independent insurance firm. Serving thousands of businesses and individuals through locations coast-to-coast, Higginbotham's approach to finding insurance, employee benefit and risk management solutions is more individual and less institutional. By understanding customer priorities, eliminating inefficiencies and committing to transparency, Higginbotham is a place that leads with values so value leads. Visit higginbotham.com for more information.
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Jay Z has 88 nominations. He set the record last year with 83, and he got five more on Tuesday. His wife Beyoncé got nine nominations on Tuesday, which means her total also jumped to 88.
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Jay Z has 88 nominations. He set the record last year with 83, and he got five more on Tuesday. His wife Beyoncé got nine nominations on Tuesday, which means her total also jumped to 88.
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WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst rapid growth and expansion, RiversEdge Advisors is proud to announce Steve Hutchison has been added to lead its business planning team.
A large portion of RiversEdge's client base consists of professionals who are actively building businesses, having the majority of their net worth encapsulated in the venture. RiversEdge possesses a deep understanding of the unique challenges and concerns these individuals face. Its process is centered on building a complete client picture – mapping both personal and professional dimensions of life. It then creates strategies that address the full client picture, including ongoing measurement and reporting, using industry leading tools.
Steve brings over 19 years of industry experience, specializing in advising and valuing businesses throughout the spectrum of growth. He has worked closely with RiversEdge for many years, collaborating on numerous shared client relationships. He was excited to join the team as he knew the chemistry aligned both functionally and culturally. RiversEdge is eager to enhance its services and delivery through Steve's expertise.
Co-founder, Brian Carney includes, "Steve's work speaks for itself. He's a pleasure to work with and we've delighted many clients together over the years. Adding him to the team was simple math. He will add value for both the RiversEdge team and our clients."
Steve notes, "There is nothing more fulfilling than having a positive impact in my relationships and community. Business owners juggle far too many things – it's the rule not the exception. I'm passionate about helping leaders develop an accurate understanding of financial position and establish both near and long-term goals. I then overlap these with the existing strengths, devising innovative solutions, whether human, technological, or both, to bridge any gaps that exist. My aim is to dramatically increase effectiveness and success while freeing up the only non-renewable resource… Time."
RiversEdge Advisors was founded in 2013 to provide fee-based wealth management solutions to business owners and their families both locally in Wilmington, DE and virtually all over the country. The advisors at this firm serve as the personal CFOs for busy, high-income business owners looking to simplify their personal and professional finances and build substantial wealth for the future. The firm also provides 401K Plan Services for business owners with 1-1000 employees looking to develop the most efficient plans and education programs for their business. For more information on RiversEdge Advisors, please visit www.riversedgeadvisors.com.
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Hundreds rally for 'March for Life' in Concord
Hundreds rallied outside the State House Saturday for what they called a "March for Life," organized by the group New Hampshire Right to Life.
Organizers said this is the first year the rally has been "joyous" and a celebration, since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer.
People held signs, heard from speakers and held a conference at Christ the King Parish.
While abortions are still legal and accessible here in the Granite State, counter-protestors told News 9 they're still working to fight for a woman's right to choose.
"We're New Hampshire, we're the freedom state. I don't know what's going on here," a counter-protestor said.
The Rev. Christian Tutor, executive director, educational trust for New Hampshire Right to Life said, "Our state of New Hampshire, which is a Live Free or Die state, is still abortion accessible. So we're here today to show that there is another way that one can have one's child and one can keep one's child and that we have options,"
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TikToker Katie Sigmond has pulled stunts including bowling with a pumpkin and throwing a fake cinder block at cars. But one of the social media star's recent exploits got her in trouble.
"Do we really need to say, 'don't hit golf balls into the Grand Canyon?' " officials with the national park wrote on Facebook last week, attaching a screenshot of the young woman apparently hitting a ball over the rim of the geologic wonder - and losing part of her club in the process. "Throwing objects over the rim of the canyon is not only illegal but can also endanger hikers and wildlife who may be below."
Sigmond is now facing charges for the stunt. The influencer, who did not immediately respond to The Washington Post's request for comment, has three pending misdemeanor counts related to littering, creating a hazardous condition and throwing objects over the canyon rim, park spokeswoman Joelle Baird said.
At Grand Canyon National Park, she added, "we do take incidents like this really seriously."
The video was posted to the social media celebrity's account on Oct. 26, according to the park. In it, she stands before the national landmark's iconic layered red rocks and takes a swing at a ball. Her club breaks in two, with part flying into the canyon. She spins to face the camera, her mouth agape.
"How did that happen," reads text on the clip, along with a crying-face emoji.
It was no longer on her accounts as of this week. But someone shared a screen recording on Reddit, where comments poured in blasting the woman and calling for her to be banned from the Grand Canyon.
Park officials had "a number of people reporting this incident," Baird said. Members of the public helped point to the woman in the video. Within a couple of days of the video being uploaded, Grand Canyon law enforcement had tracked her down.
The perpetrator was not named in the park's Facebook post, but Baird identified her as Sigmond. She said a citation was filed with the U.S. District Court in Flagstaff, Ariz., where the influencer will have a mandatory court appearance. The date was not immediately available. Baird said the misdemeanor counts each carry the potential of up to six months in jail and $1,000 in fines.
Sigmond, who has 6.9 million followers on TikTok and 2.9 million on Instagram, does not appear to have addressed the incident publicly, though she has continued posting to her social media accounts.
The golfing video is not without precedent. In October 2021, the national park asked for the public's help in finding a man who hit a baseball over the rim. Officials ultimately made contact with him, but it's unclear if charges were filed.
A Massachusetts comedian, Jake Adams, also faced charges after hitting biodegradable golf balls into Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. He later apologized, CBS News reported.
Baird said Grand Canyon National Park authorities have been dismayed to see such incidents unfold "on a fairly regular basis."
"This is not something that we want to encourage in any way," she said, "and in fact it's really dangerous and harmful to Grand Canyon and the people who visit." | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/a-tiktoker-hit-a-golf-ball-into-the-grand-canyon-she-now-faces-charges/article_52a59b5d-4da9-5cf6-880a-f94fbe34689b.html | 2022-11-03 14:25:48 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/a-tiktoker-hit-a-golf-ball-into-the-grand-canyon-she-now-faces-charges/article_52a59b5d-4da9-5cf6-880a-f94fbe34689b.html |
NWS: EF-1 tornado ripped through Wellington with 90 mph winds
An EF-1 tornado with winds of 90 mph tore through Wellington and parts of Loxahatchee on Tuesday night, the National Weather Service said.
Officials said Thursday that the storm, which was 150 yards wide, cut an 8.3-mile path through Palm Beach County.
At about 9:27 pm, the tornado spun up over or very near the Wanderers Club golf course. The storm was part of an outer rain band from Hurricane Ian.
RELATED: Tornado damages neighborhood in Wellington
The first identifiable EF-1 damage was reported at a neighborhood adjacent to the golf course. This included roof damage to several houses and many broken tree branches.
RELATED: Kings Point tornado near Delray Beach had peak winds of 125 mph
The report said that the tornado proceeded to move northeast, crossing Flying Cow Ranch Road and Southern Boulevard into Loxahatchee.
The National Weather Service said the tornado then caused abundant tree branch damage in the area where Hanover Circle meets Buck Ridge trail.
The last reported damage was at Capet Creek Court where a barn lost half of its roof.
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Energy Vault (NRGV) Securities Fraud Investigation
NEWPORT, Calif., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
SECURITIES FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE:
- On October 28, 2021, Energy Vault announced DG Fuels Sales Agreement:
a. Energy Vault (NRGV) Public Announcement - On October 29, 2021, Energy Vault paid DG Fuels $1 million dollars according to Energy Vault's May 3, 2022 SEC public disclosure statement:
a. SEC Public Disclosure Statement - In November 2021, prior to Energy Vault's public listing, the DG Fuels Sales Agreement in part was used by Energy Vault to project $148 million in 2022 revenues alone (note: Energy Vault's historical revenue is $0):
a. Investor Presentation Page 42 - Additionally, Energy Vault failed to disclose that DG Fuels is a non-operating company based in Washington DC with zero revenues, calling into question DG Fuels' ability to pay.
- Lastly, misrepresentation and omission of material facts, including with regard to the DG Fuels Sales Agreement, may have falsely portrayed Energy Vault's true ability to generate revenues, and consequently, may have inflicted harm on retail investors and be a violation of Securities Law.
SO, WHAT:
If you purchased Energy Vault stock (NRGV, NRGV-WT), 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 prospective class action, see prior press releases about the Energy Vault Securities Fraud Investigation:
Energy Vault (NRGV) Securities Fraud Investigation
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NEW YORK (AP) — Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist signed autographs and took selfies with adoring young fans for about 30 minutes after helping her No. 14 Wildcats beat St. John’s this week, a sign of the increased attention she’s been getting on and off the court.
She leads the nation in scoring with an average of 29.4 points per game (last year, she was No. 2 behind Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, averaging about four points less), and set Big East and school records this season.
“You can just see that transformation of Maddy’s game,” Villanova coach Denise Dillon said. “I think the schedule we put together where we played some of the national contenders helped.”
Siegrist scored a career-best 50 points against Seton Hall on Feb. 11 — the game before the St. John’s win — to set the single-game and career scoring record in the conference. But she’s quick to deflect talk of where she fits in with the best players in the country, focusing more on how she can help Villanova (23-4) keep winning.
“You’re aware of it,” Siegrist said. “Honestly, you want to do whatever you have to do for your team to win. Sometimes it’s scoring.”
The team has won 14 of its last 15 games with the lone loss coming against UConn — a five-point defeat — and its best ranking since 2003,
Villanova has a chance to move into a first-place tie in the Big East with a victory over No. 6 UConn on Saturday. The game will played on national television in a sold-out arena, the second time that’s ever happened.
“It’s awesome. It’s so exciting to see all the attention our program has gotten over the last month,” Siegrist said. “We’re not doing anything different than we’ve been doing.”
Siegrist is a huge reason why. Her efforts have impressed Villanova alums, including Knicks star Jalen Brunson, who had his jersey retired earlier this month.
“Maddy? She’s unbelievable. She’s unbelievable. She had 50 points,” the former Wildcats guard said. “I think she’s the all-time leading scorer, men’s and women’s, so she’s unbelievable. And, just wow. As soon as her last game ends, they should just hang (her jersey) up right there. As soon as she’s done, just hang it up.”
When she was in New York, Siegrist’s family hosted their annual dinner for the team. Her mom grew up near St. John’s and the family spent summers in the area. She became friends with the community youth teams and many of them came out to support her against St. John’s, wearing shirts with Siegrist’s name and number on the back.
“Looking back to when I was a little kid, you tried to get a pamphlet signed by a player and hang it in your room,” Siegrist said. “Now I want to take the time and sign all the autographs and take all the pictures I can.”
Her fans weren’t disappointed in the game: Siegrist scored 39 points against the Red Storm, including 19 in the third quarter. That scoring effort put her atop the Philadelphia record books as the city’s all-time women’s Division I leading scorer.
“For what she’s done for the league and for them, she’ll be remembered for a long time. I don’t know if we’ll see another one like her,” St. John’s coach Joe Tartamella said. “I’ve been in the league 20 years and I’ve watched (Diana) Taurasi, Maya (Moore), (Breanna) Stewart and all those guys at Connecticut. They are all different and difficult to stop and she is as difficult as anyone I’ve seen in my time here.”
Siegrist still has another year of eligibility left at Villanova because of the pandemic, but won’t decide until after the season whether she’ll come back.
“I kind of am going in that this might be it,” she said. “I kind of had that mentality all year. I’ll sit with my parents and decide. My time at Villanova has been great; if it’s time for me to move on, I’ll know.”
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AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney contributed to this report.
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MELBOURNE, Australia and INDIANAPOLIS, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) is pleased to announce that its prostate cancer imaging agent, Illuccix® (kit for preparation of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide), is now available at selected pharmacies in the Jubilant Radiopharma network. Illuccix is now available to order from 139 pharmacy sites across the United States, ensuring scheduling flexibility and patient access to advanced prostate cancer imaging.
The expansion of the distribution network facilitates broader patient access to Illuccix across the country, expanding availability into new regional markets that to date have had limited access to PSMA PET imaging.
Dr. Christian Behrenbruch, Telix Group CEO and Managing Director said, "A key feature of Illuccix is its flexibility and availability for physicians and patients alike. Our goal is to ensure broad access to PSMA PET imaging from the largest metropolitan cities to regional areas and the expansion of the distribution network to include Jubilant Radiopharma puts an Illuccix scan within reach of even more patients in need."
"We are pleased to be able to expand our range and service to include Illuccix, and offer our customers the added convenience of PSMA PET imaging with Illuccix," says Renato Leite, President, Jubilant Radiopharmacies Division.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic products using Molecularly Targeted Radiation (MTR). Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX). For more information visit www.telixpharma.com and follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
About Illuccix® (kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide injection)
Telix's lead product, Illuccix® (kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide injection), also known as 68Ga PSMA-11 injection, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[1] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).[2] Telix is also progressing marketing authorisation applications for this investigational candidate in Europe[3] and Canada.[4] Illuccix is currently being investigated in combination with BgRT treatment.
Illuccix®, after radiolabeling with Ga 68, is a radioactive diagnostic agent indicated for positron emission tomography (PET) of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positive lesions in men with prostate cancer:
- with suspected metastasis who are candidates for initial definitive therapy
- with suspected recurrence based on elevated serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Risk for Misdiagnosis
Image interpretation errors can occur with gallium Ga 68 gozetotide PET. A negative image does not rule out the presence of prostate cancer and a positive image does not confirm the presence of prostate cancer. The performance of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide for imaging of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer seems to be affected by serum PSA levels and by site of disease. The performance of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide for imaging of metastatic pelvic lymph nodes prior to initial definitive therapy seems to be affected by Gleason score. Gallium Ga 68 gozetotide uptake is not specific for prostate cancer and may occur with other types of cancer as well as non-malignant processes such as Paget's disease, fibrous dysplasia, and osteophytosis. Clinical correlation, which may include histopathological evaluation of the suspected prostate cancer site, is recommended.
Radiation Risks
Gallium Ga 68 gozetotide contributes to a patient's overall long-term cumulative radiation exposure. Long-term cumulative radiation exposure is associated with an increased risk for cancer. Ensure safe handling to minimize radiation exposure to the patient and health care workers. Advise patients to hydrate before and after administration and to void frequently after administration.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
The safety of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide was evaluated in 960 patients, each receiving one dose of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide. The average injected activity was 188.7 ± 40.7 MBq (5.1 ± 1.1 mCi). No serious adverse reactions were attributed to gallium Ga 68 gozetotide. The most commonly reported adverse reactions were nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness, occurring at a rate of < 1%.
DRUG INTERACTIONS
Androgen deprivation therapy and other therapies targeting the androgen pathway
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and other therapies targeting the androgen pathway, such as androgen receptor antagonists, can result in changes in uptake of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide in prostate cancer. The effect of these therapies on performance of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide PET has not been established.
You are encouraged to report suspected adverse reactions of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088. You may also report adverse reactions to Telix by calling 1-844-455-8638 or via email to pharmacovigilance@telixpharma.com.
Please note this information is not comprehensive. Please see full Prescribing Information at www.illuccix.com/pi.
[2] ASX disclosure 2 November 2021.
[3] ASX disclosure 10 December 2021.
[4] ASX disclosure 16 December 2020.
Telix Investor Relations
Ms. Kyahn Williamson
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Email: kyahn.williamson@telixpharma.com
This announcement has been authorised for release by Dr. Christian Behrenbruch, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer.
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Companies initially focused on introducing an eco-friendly alternative to traditional fossil fuel-powered vehicles for the last mile delivery industry.
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogoro Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today announced a strategic partnership in the Philippines with Globe's 917Ventures and Ayala Corporation. The companies are initially focused on introducing an eco-friendly alternative to traditional fossil fuel-powered vehicles for the last mile delivery industry.
"Gogoro is honored to have the support of the Philippine's Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to kick start this new smart mobility movement in Manila that utilizes Gogoro's intelligent battery swapping, a new generation of EV refueling," said Horace Luke, founder, and CEO of Gogoro. "Through our collaboration with Globe, 917Ventures and Ayala Corporation, we plan to unlock incredible environmental and sustainability benefits and introduce new smart mobility efficiencies for businesses by improving how they manage their fleets and deliveries."
The companies will be launching a two-wheel battery swapping pilot in Manila using Gogoro's industry leading battery swapping and Smartscooters. The Smartscooters are powered by Gogoro's Swap & Go battery swapping platform that uses distributed battery-swapping stations to enable convenient swapping of used batteries for new ones that deliver riders full-power in just seconds. The Smartscooters will serve as an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel-powered vehicles currently used by the logistics industry. This is expected to launch in Q1 2023.
"We are committed to helping solve the climate crisis by introducing Gogoro to logistics businesses, helping them in their sustainability efforts. In addition, the Swap & Go technology will enable riders to be fully charged in just seconds and therefore eliminate the need for parking spots. Hopefully, this technology will encourage more Filipinos to switch to EV," said Vince Yamat, Managing Director of 917Ventures.
The Philippines Department of Energy's, Energy Utilization Management Bureau
"More than 25% of Taiwan's quick commerce deliveries and almost all of their electric deliveries are powered by Gogoro's battery-swapping technology, and we see this solution being most beneficial to a densely populated region like Metro Manila, which is also the hub of business districts," said Patrick Aquino, Director of the Department of Energy's Energy Utilization Management Bureau in the Philippines. "The success of this pilot will pave the way for a new sustainable business model in other cities in the country as well. Philippines can learn from Taiwan's experience."
The Philippines Department of Trade and Industry
"Our country needs innovative tech-led projects that support climate action. I commend 917Ventures, Globe and the Ayala Corporation for always being at the forefront of change-making initiatives that aim to improve the lives of Filipinos while helping protect the environment," said Rafaelita Aldaba, Undersecretary of the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry.
Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs
"Gogoro's leadership in battery swapping, vehicle design, and innovation has transformed two-wheel mobility in Taiwan and fostered a new smart mobility industry of eco-friendly businesses and end-users," said Chuan-Neng Lin, vice minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. "We look forward to businesses and riders in the Philippines experiencing the benefits of Gogoro's smart mobility like we have in Taiwan. Together, with Gogoro, we can all reach our net-zero carbon emissions goals."
Empowering the Transition of Businesses to Smart Mobility
The Gogoro ecosystem offers businesses a path forward that is safe, sustainable, proven and easily scalable. Last mile delivery fleets require a sustainable solution that not only achieves the best alternative to gas-powered vehicles but is well suited to the specific segment needs of the delivery industry. The Gogoro platform delivers a sophisticated two-wheel battery swapping system that enables delivery operators to manage their fleets and deliveries more efficiently and sustainably.
Gogoro Network
At the heart of Gogoro's ecosystem is the Gogoro Network, an open and interoperable battery swapping platform that was recognized in 2021 by Guidehouse Insights as the leading battery swapping platform for lightweight urban vehicles in the world. Gogoro Network is a new generation of swappable battery refueling that is smart, safe and continually optimizing itself to be dynamic and versatile for riders, business, and communities. With more than 520,000 riders and nearly 11,000 battery swapping GoStations at over 2,260 locations, Gogoro Network hosts more than 370,000 daily battery swaps with more than 360 million total battery swaps to date.
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Gogoro's battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery availability and safety. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. For more information, visit www.gogoro.com/news and follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.
917Ventures is the largest corporate venture builder in the Philippines that ideates, launches, and accelerates new business ideas that uplift the lives of Filipinos. We have a total of 12 companies and act like a startup factory and have teams, frameworks, infrastructures and strategies already in place, proven, tested and backed by Globe, Ayala and partner networks, to accelerate the growth of our ventures. We create solutions that can deliver indelible value to the Philippines and the APAC region, leveraging on the rich asset base of Globe, the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. To know more about 917Ventures, visit https://917ventures.com.
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Russia extends detention of US journalist Evan Gershkovich
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday extended the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months, Russian news agencies reported.
Gershkovich, an American citizen, was ordered held until Aug. 30. He had been arrested in March on espionage charges on a reporting trip in Russia. He, his employer and the U.S. government have denied the charges.
Tuesday’s court hearing wasn’t announced in advance, and the entire case has been wrapped in secrecy.
Russian authorities haven’t detailed what — if any — evidence they have gathered to support the espionage charges. Various legal proceedings have been closed to the media, and no details immediately emerged about whether Gershkovich or U.S. Embassy representatives attended Tuesday’s hearing or what was said. Tass said the session was closed because the reporter was accused of possession of “secret materials.”
Gershkovich is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying charges, and his arrest rattled journalists in the country and drew outrage in the West.
The U.S. government has declared Gershkovich to be “wrongfully detained” and demanded his immediate release. He’s being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. U.S. Embassy officials were allowed at least one prison visit to Gershkovich since his arrest in Yekaterinburg on March 29, but Russian authorities have denied permission for other visits.
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DALLAS, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DealerBuilt, a leading provider of dealer management system (DMS) software, acquires Oplogic, a comprehensive CRM solution provider for dealerships. The acquisition enhances DealerBuilt's suite of solutions to include Oplogic's intuitive tools for desking and digital retailing, lead management, call recording, equity mining, and compliance services.
"DealerBuilt is excited to partner with the Oplogic team to expand our comprehensive dealer solutions, taking us one step closer to our vision of a single integrated platform," said Max Longin, CEO of DealerBuilt. "By integrating Oplogic CRM's innovative technology, we empower customers with an unmatched suite of tools to optimize operations, elevate customer experiences, and drive business growth. This acquisition demonstrates DealerBuilt's dedication to innovation and relentless pursuit of delivering excellence in dealership management software."
Oplogic has a proven track record of success for delivering comprehensive solutions for many years, becoming a trusted partner with its intuitive tools, extensive technical support, and compliance services for dealerships across the country.
"We are thrilled to be joining forces with DealerBuilt," said John Parent, CEO of Oplogic. "We believe that our comprehensive solutions, when combined with DealerBuilt's DMS software, will provide a powerful and unique offering for dealerships. We are excited to continue working with our customers and to help them to be more successful in their businesses."
With this acquisition, DealerBuilt is well-positioned to continue its growth and provide dealerships with the most comprehensive suite of solutions in the industry. The company remains committed to investing in its products and services, ensuring that its customers have access to the latest and greatest technology that empowers their businesses to thrive and prosper.
About DealerBuilt:
DealerBuilt is a leading provider of dealer management system (DMS) software for the automotive industry, best known as a strong dealer advocate. DealerBuilt's DMS software helps dealerships to streamline their operations and increase efficiency while providing a powerful platform for managing every aspect of their business. For more information about DealerBuilt, visit https://dealerbuilt.com/.
About Oplogic:
Oplogic is a comprehensive solution provider for dealerships, providing intuitive tools for desking and digital retailing, lead management, call recording, equity mining, and compliance services. Oplogic's tools standardize and streamline processes to enhance efficiency while building revenue and increasing profit margins for some of the largest dealer groups in the country. Learn more about Oplogic at https://oplogic.com/.
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