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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
QD-KH-7D-9D-5S
(QD, KH, 7D, 9D, 5S)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
QD-KH-7D-9D-5S
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Wausau Pilot & Review
Hiya, I’m Tractor! I’m a handsome guy that was surrendered to the Humane Society of Marathon County after my owner could no longer care for me. I’m a friendly guy that would be a great fit in just about any home! If you think a sweet boy like me could be the one for you come visit me soon. I’d love to go home with you!
Editor’s note: Pet of the week is a weekly feature, sponsored by S.C. Swiderski, profiling pets at the Humane Society of Marathon County in need of a home.
To find out more about this week’s pet and the adoption process, visit the HSMC website here. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/06/14/pet-of-the-week-tractor/ | 2023-06-14 14:46:05 | 0 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/06/14/pet-of-the-week-tractor/ |
Jacklyn "Jackie" Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was already a tough-minded “firecracker” always looking to help people in need, her father said. Jackie and her second cousin, Annabell Rodriguez, were especially tight with three other classmates at Robb Elementary School.
“They are all gone now,” Javier Cazares said. "All her little best friends were killed too.”
The girls were among 19 students killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom Tuesday at the school in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde and began to kill. Their families can only cling to memories, and each other.
Jackie would have turned 10 on June 10. Despite her young age, she was equal parts tough-minded and compassionate.
“She had a voice,” her father said. “She didn’t like bullies, she didn’t like kids being picked on. All in all, full of love. She had a big heart."
“She was a character – a little firecracker.”
Cazares drove his daughter to school Tuesday — she had an awards ceremony that morning. About 90 minutes later, the family got a call: An active shooter was in the school.
“I drove like a bat out of hell," he said. "My baby was in trouble.”
“There was more than 100 people out there waiting, it was chaotic,” he said of the scene at the school. He grew impatient with how the police were responding and even raised the idea of rushing into the school with several other bystanders.
Cazares said his niece followed an ambulance to the hospital and saw Jackie taken inside. The entire family soon joined and pressed hospital officials for information for nearly three hours. They begged, cried and showed them photos of their daughter. Finally, a pastor, police officer and a doctor met with them.
“My wife asked the question, ‘Is she alive or is she passed?’” Cazares said. “They were like, ‘No, she’s gone.’”
Cazares fought back tears as he pondered how long his daughter was in the classroom with the gunman before she was killed. He finds some solace in believing that in her final moments, Jackie was doing what came naturally to her — helping her fellow students.
“It kind of comforts our hearts that she would be one of the ones that was brave and tried to help as much as she could,” he said.
Ryan Ramirez also rushed to Robb Elementary when he heard about the shooting, hoping to find his daughter, Alithia, and take her home. But Alithia, too, was among the victims.
Ramirez’s Facebook page includes a photo, now shown around the world, of the little girl wearing the multi-colored T-shirt that announced she was out of “single digits” after turning 10 years old. The same photo was posted again Wednesday with no words, but with Alithia wearing angel wings.
Carmelo Quiroz's grandson, Jayce Luevanos, 10, had begged to go along with his grandmother on Tuesday as she accompanied her great-granddaughter’s kindergarten class to the San Antonio Zoo. But, he said, the family told Jayce it didn’t make sense to skip school so close to the end of the year. Besides, Jayce liked school.
“That’s why my wife is hurting so much, because he wanted to go to San Antonio,” Quiroz told USA Today. “He was so sad he couldn’t go. Maybe if he would have gone, he’d be here.”
Another victim who also was reluctant to go to school that day was Jayce's cousin, 10-year-old Jailah Nicole Silguero. Jailah's mother, Veronica Luevanos, tearfully told Univision that Jailah seemed to sense something bad was going to happen.
Jailah’s friend, Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, also was killed and her aunt noted Naveah’s first name is Heaven spelled backward. In a Facebook posting, Yvonne White described Nevaeh and Jailah as “Our Angels.”
Two men who responded to the shooting discovered their own children among the victims.
Uvalde County Sheriff’s Deputy Felix Rubio and his wife had been at the school Tuesday morning to celebrate with their daughter, 10-year-old Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah, since the fourth-grader had made honor roll with all A's and received a good citizen award.
In a Facebook post, Kimberly Rubio wrote, “We told her we loved her and would pick her up after school. We had no idea this was goodbye.”
Medical assistant Angel Garza also hurried to the school and immediately found a girl covered in blood among the terrified children streaming out of the building.
“I’m not hurt. He shot my best friend,” the girl told Garza when he offered help. “She’s not breathing. She was just trying to call the cops.”
Her friend was Amerie Jo Garza — Angel Garza’s stepdaughter.
Amerie was a happy child who made the honor roll and loved to paint, draw and work in clay. “She was very creative,” said her grandmother Dora Mendoza. “She was my baby. Whenever she saw flowers she would draw them.”
Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, which is across the street from Robb Elementary, began posting brief obituaries of some of the victims. It was assisting families of the shooting victims with no cost for funerals. GoFundMe pages were set up for many of the victims, including one on behalf of all victims that has raised more than $3 million.
More Uvalde School Shooting Coverage
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/she-was-a-character-texas-shooting-victim-just-weeks-away-from-10th-birthday-dad-says/3253314/ | 2022-05-26 23:16:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/she-was-a-character-texas-shooting-victim-just-weeks-away-from-10th-birthday-dad-says/3253314/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A golfer was stopped dead in his tracks when a dinosaur-like gator made an appearance at a course in Sebring, Florida, earlier this month.
Rich Louty was playing a game at the Spring Lake Club when he encountered the monster gator and took a photo. He didn’t want to get too close, but said it look at least 10 feet long from where he was standing.
“She’s a big one. The locals know she’s a mama gator because they’ve seen her babies over the years,” Louty said. “The guys in the cart shop will steer her toward the water if they have to but they rarely do that. Everybody does their best to leave her be.”
“Welcome to Florida, home to Jurassic Park,” wrote WINK meteorologist Matt Devitt, who shared the photo on Facebook.
“I have lived in Florida all my life. That is the biggest one I have seen,” one person commented.
It’s not unusual to see alligators on Florida golf courses. The reptiles are often drawn to the their ponds, lakes and other water hazards.
As temperatures rise, so do the chances of seeing gators in public. The animals are most active during their courtship process, which begins in early April, and during the official mating season, which occurs in the months of May and June. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/behemoth-gator-spotted-on-florida-golf-course/ | 2023-02-26 17:41:46 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/behemoth-gator-spotted-on-florida-golf-course/ |
George Weyerhaeuser Sr., the fourth-generation timber family scion who ran one of America’s largest forestry firms and was briefly one of America’s most famous kidnapping victims, died Saturday, June 11, his family confirmed Monday. He was 95.
Weyerhaeuser, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather also led the timber company that carries the family name, served as CEO from 1966 to 1991 and board chair until 1999.
Over that period, the Weyerhaeuser company became famous for a technology-driven “high-yield forestry” model that boosted output and transformed the industry, but which also earned the enmity of many environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.
Yet George Weyerhaeuser Sr. is perhaps more famous for another role: As an 8-year-old in 1935, he was kidnapped in broad daylight off a Tacoma street, kept in a pit in the woods and released only his family paid a ransom of $200,000 in unmarked bills.
He would later downplay the impacts of the abduction and frenzied aftermath. But his daughter, Leilee Weyerhaeuser, said the experience deeply affected his outlook on life.
“I think that incident forced him to reckon with who he really was at a very young age, and he realized how he could get through it,” Leilee Weyerhaeuser said Monday.
That lesson certainly applied to his own life.
On top of his nearly six decades with the timber firm, George Weyerhaeuser also found time to serve on boards at Boeing, Safeco, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Rand Corporation, and Chevron, among others. He was also a key supporter for Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, which was a central venue in the 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games.
George Hunt Weyerhaeuser was born July 8, 1926, in Seattle, to Helen (Walker) Weyerhaeuser and John Philip “J.P.” Weyerhaeuser Jr., grandson of company co-founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser.
Twenty six years earlier, Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners had paid $5.4 million to the Northern Pacific Railway for just over 1,400 square miles of forestland in Washington state. The deal was “the largest private land transaction in American history to that time,” according to the company.
By the mid-1920s, the company operated 22 mills, a lumber distribution center and a steamship company.
In May 1935, when George Weyerhaeuser was 8, his grandfather John P. Weyerhaeuser Sr. died. It was his obituary, which detailed the family’s timber wealth, that reportedly inspired the kidnapping plot by William Dainard, 33, Harmon Metz Waley, 23, and Margaret Eldora Thulin, 19.
On the afternoon of May 24, George was on his way home from Lowell Elementary School in Tacoma when he was snatched by two men in a 1927 Buick. The kidnappers drove George to a secluded woods and put him in a freshly dug pit where he was held in handcuffs.
Young Weyerhaeuser’s family soon received a ransom demand for $200,000 in old $20, $10 and $5 bills. Once the money had been gathered, George’s father was instructed to run a personal ad in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that read, “We are ready. Percy Minnie.”
On June 1, after eight days imprisonment in earthen pits, car trunks, closets and even a Uneeda cracker carton, George Weyerhaeuser was left on the side of a forest road near Issaquah with two blankets and a dollar.
After walking to a farmhouse where a family was sitting down to breakfast, George was reunited with his family.
But the ordeal wasn’t over. The kidnapping had made the national news, thanks to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter who maneuvered to interview George even before he returned to his family, and the result was a “media frenzy,” said Leilee Weyerhaeuser
“He had told us that for him, the worst trauma came from being encircled by reporters with cameras and questions and microphones,” she said. “As a little boy, trying to face that kind of media presence was really difficult.”
George Weyerhaeuser himself played the stoic. During a 1969 interview with Sports Illustrated, he suggested that the kidnapping had a bigger effect on his family than it had on him.
“A [young} boy is a pretty adaptable organism,” he said. “He can adjust himself to conditions in a way no adult could. It didn’t affect me personally as much as anyone looking back on it might think.”
But Leilee Weyerhaeuser thinks the incident taught her father to be forward-looking. Challenges that “would be discouraging to some people, he would be looking for the way to go into the future and have it be better,” she said.
That applied to people, too. When one of the kidnappers was released from prison, George Weyerhaeuser hired the man.
“He did me no harm,” Weyerhaeuser said of the man during a 2016 interview with radio station KUOW. “And he was only in his 20s.”
In his teen years, George Weyerhaeuser spent summers working for his family company, often as a manual laborer in the woods and mills. He served in the Navy in World War II and, after graduating from Yale University, continued working his way up through the timber business.
In 1948, George Weyerhaeuser married Wendy Wagner, whose family had been in the timber business, and the couple had six children: Leilee, George Jr., Sue, Phyllis, David and Merrill. George Jr. died of a heart attack in 2013. Wendy Weyerhaeuser died in 2014.
In 1957, George Weyerhaeuser Sr. entered the executive ranks at company headquarters in downtown Tacoma, as an assistant to the executive vice president, but quickly moved up. He was a vice president by 1958, executive vice president by 1961, and on the board of directors by 1960. In 1966, at age 39, he became CEO and president.
During his tenure, the company launched several major initiatives.
In 1967, Weyerhaeuser rolled out its high-yield forestry strategy — essentially, a continuous process of logging and regeneration that included replanting clear-cuts within a year of harvest; fertilizers and herbicides; thinning; and breeding more productive, faster-growing seedlings.
By the 1990s, Weyerhaeuser operations in the Pacific Northwest were producing twice the timber volumes of their natural counterparts, according to a 1997 report by the World Resources Institute. Internally, high-yield forestry was referred to as a “Wall of Wood.”
He was also heavily involved in the design of the company’s 425-acre corporate campus in Federal Way, which opened in 1971 to international acclaim as one of the first suburban headquarters.
Weyerhaeuser’s executive career was also marked by major challenges and controversy. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens eruption flattened 68,000 acres of timber land and forced a massive salvage operation. Environmental activists pressured the company to end or limit logging on some of its millions of acres of forest as a way to protect wildlife habitat.
Weyerhaeuser, who was succeeded by Jack Creighton in 1991, is believed to be the last family member to serve in company management.
In 2021, the company reported net earnings of $2.6 billion on sales of $10.2 billion.
Weyerhaeuser wasn’t entirely satisfied with the direction of the company or the industry after he stepped down.
He was unhappy with the company’s decision to sell the Federal Way campus and move its current location to Seattle’s Pioneer Square, in 2016. “He thought it was terrible,” Leilee Weyerhaeuser said.
Weyerhaeuser also questioned the industry’s growing focus on Wall Street, share price and short-term results, which he saw as ill-suited in a business whose products took decades to mature. As someone who had worked in the mills and forests, “he was never thinking that Wall Street knew how businesses should be run.”
A memorial service is being planned. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/george-weyerhaeuser-sr-great-grandson-of-timber-company-founder-and-childhood-kidnap-victim-dies-at-95/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-06-14 03:28:55 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/george-weyerhaeuser-sr-great-grandson-of-timber-company-founder-and-childhood-kidnap-victim-dies-at-95/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Acquisition Expands OneMagnify's Data Science, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Offerings
DETROIT, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OneMagnify, a global leader in marketing and data-driven solutions backed by leading private equity firm Crestview Partners, today announced its strategic acquisition of RXA, a data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) company. Financial details were not disclosed.
OneMagnify is a market-leading provider of data-driven and integrated marketing, analytics and technology solutions to blue-chip clients across a diverse set of industrial and consumer end-markets. The company partners with clients to design, implement and manage marketing and communications strategies, leveraging analytical and predictive data models that provide value-added customer insights to develop individually targeted marketing efforts that drive higher levels of sales conversion. Within its comprehensive offering, OneMagnify's team of data scientists leverage advanced algorithms and predictive modeling to transform data and unlock competitive insights, radically improving client decision-making at scale.
Founded in 2016 and based in Ann Arbor, MI, RXA is a leading provider of business data analytics and AI solutions, employing machine learning, advanced algorithms, and generative AI to enable its clients to make better decisions. RXA's advanced technology and skilled team are poised to augment OneMagnify's successful analytics and insights capabilities, accelerate its growth, and expand its market opportunity. The integration of OneMagnify and RXA's combined capabilities will enhance existing service offerings, drive innovation, and provide exceptional value to clients. RXA employees, including the leadership team, will join OneMagnify's existing teams and work collaboratively to provide comprehensive client support.
Mark Petroff, CEO of OneMagnify, stated, "We welcome RXA and its impressive team to OneMagnify. The combination of our marketing and data-driven solutions with RXA's AI technology and talent will help to accelerate our growth and allow us to deliver an expanded suite of data science services to our clients."
"Joining forces with OneMagnify will enable us to broaden our expertise, offer a wider range of solutions to our clients, and create new career opportunities for our team," said Jason Harper, CEO of RXA. "We are excited to become part of OneMagnify and look forward to a future of growth and innovation together."
For more information visit https://onemagnify.com/.
About OneMagnify
Originally founded in 1967, OneMagnify has evolved to become a full-service, global marketing company that combines compelling brand communications with technology solutions and actionable analytics to deliver measurable results. Through creativity and problem solving, our team powers business performance with actionable analytics and data; compelling marketing communications through brand strategy; and technology solutions. Applied individually—or fully integrated for greater impact—these three core services can amplify clients' businesses, deliver real-time results, and separate them from competitors. OneMagnify offices are located in Detroit, MI; Wilmington, DE; Charlotte, NC; Shanghai, China; Cologne, Germany, and Chennai, India.
About RXA
RXA is a leading provider of data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions that help businesses unlock the true potential of their data. With a focus on machine learning, advanced algorithms, and generative AI, RXA transforms complex data sets into actionable insights, enabling companies to make smarter decisions, optimize operations, and accelerate growth. As a leader in Domo consulting, RXA was named the Domo Partner of the Year in 2022, further demonstrating their expertise and commitment to delivering top-notch solutions for their clients. RXA is also proud to be an award-winning partner to additional leading technology providers including DataRobot, Alteryx, Tableau and AWS.
About Crestview Partners
Founded in 2004, Crestview is a value-oriented private equity firm focused on the middle market. The firm is based in New York and manages funds with approximately $10 billion of aggregate capital commitments. The firm is led by a group of partners who have complementary experience and distinguished backgrounds in private equity, finance, operations and management. Crestview has senior investment professionals focused on sourcing and managing investments in each of the specialty areas of the firm: industrials, media and financial services. For more information, please visit www.crestview.com.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 23, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
522 PM CDT Mon May 23 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Lampasas and southeastern Mills Counties through 545 PM CDT...
At 521 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles north of Bend, or 10 miles east of San Saba, moving northeast
at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Lometa.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3128 9860 3141 9839 3125 9819 3114 9853
3115 9853 3116 9851 3117 9851 3118 9854
3119 9854 3120 9857 3124 9856 3127 9859
3125 9860 3128 9863
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 244DEG 25KT 3122 9854
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northwestern Lampasas County in central Texas...
Southeastern Mills County in central Texas...
* Until 615 PM CDT.
* At 524 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 8 miles north of Bend, or 13 miles east of San Saba,
moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northwestern Lampasas and southeastern Mills Counties, including
the following locations... Lometa.
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile
home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and
protect yourself from flying debris.
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A FLASH FLOOD WARNING...
The threat of flooding continues and a Flash Flood Warning is now in
effect. Please refer to that bulletin for more information.
The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southwestern Dimmit County in south central Texas...
Southeastern Maverick County in south central Texas...
* Until 815 PM CDT.
* At 525 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 4 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Gilson Groves.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
01-02-04-05-07-10-13-15-16-18-21
(one, two, four, five, seven, ten, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
01-02-04-05-07-10-13-15-16-18-21
(one, two, four, five, seven, ten, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17421162.php | 2022-09-06 04:10:50 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17421162.php |
Even with a curious dog or cat in your home, it’s still possible to parent both pets and houseplants simultaneously. It just requires a little extra research.
The best houseplants to buy if you have pets
From orchids to palms, plant pros share their favorite options for homes with dogs or cats
True lilies (which include leopard lilies) are especially dangerous to cats. “It only takes a bite of leaf or grooming of pollen off the hair coat to cause kidney failure,” she says.
Still, there is a world of safe houseplant options for the conscientious pet owner. We asked plant experts to recommend their favorites.
Succulents
Succulents are relatively easy to care for, and many varieties are harmless to dogs and cats. Echeverias, a broad, low succulent, and burro’s tail, a trailing succulent perfect for hanging planters, are both nontoxic options that thrive in high light. Haworthias, which come in a range of shapes and sizes, are another great pick. They do best in sunny conditions but can also thrive in partial shade.
Tom Knight, founder of OurHousePlants.com, recommends Christmas cactuses for their pink flowers. Plus, unlike many other varieties of cactus, they do not have sharp spines. Knight advises pet parents to always take into consideration “does the plant have physical characteristics like thorns that could hurt my pet?”
Ferns
In general, most ferns — all of which prefer humidity and plenty of water — will probably be a good fit for a pet-friendly home. Mike Davison, general manager of Platt Hill Nursery in Bloomingdale, Ill., recommends holly ferns, which are more tolerant of lower humidity than other varieties, and silver lace or silver table ferns, which have thick silver stripes along their foliage. If you have a smaller space, Boston ferns remain more compact, he says.
One type of fern that should be off-limits for homes with animals: Asparagus ferns, also known as emerald ferns or lace ferns, whose berries contain a toxic steroid that can cause gastrointestinal issues in dogs and cats.
Palms
Like ferns, most palms are a good bet. Among Davison’s favorites is the bamboo palm, a leafy, low-maintenance plant that tolerates low light and can grow up to six feet tall indoors. The parlor palm and lady palm similarly do well in lowlight spaces, while the phoenix palm thrives in medium light.
Because they’re tropical plants, many palms are sensitive to dry air and prefer moist soil. An exception is the areca, or butterfly palm, which Christopher Griffin, known on Instagram as @plantkween, recommends for its “long, graceful feather-shaped fronds.”
This palm prefers bright, natural light and “thrives in humid environments, but I have found that mine is adaptable and doing well with well-drained soil [and] a standard humidifier,” Griffin says via email. “She prefers her soil dry in between waterings.”
Flowering plants
While flowering plants are generally more likely to be toxic, there are nonetheless plenty of pet-safe options that showcase beautiful blooms. Gerbera daisies, star jasmine and Madagascar jasmine are nontoxic to cats and dogs, as are most orchids — including the popular tiger orchid, pansy orchid and tailed orchid. For orchid novices, moth orchids can be a great place to start, as they’re easy to find and difficult to kill, Davison says.
Goldfish plants are another pet-safe way to brighten up a space. In spring and summer, they feature dozens of orange and yellow flowers that look like tiny goldfish suspended in the air. Unlike other perennials that need to be in direct sun for much of the day, goldfish plants can do well with any bright light source and can survive with indoor lights alone during darker months.
Davison also suggests Zebra plants, or Aphelandra — which grow bright yellow flowers and have white stripes on their foliage — and hoyas, which feature clusters of small, porcelain-like flowers. (In both plants, however, flowers can be rare or short-lived.)
Davison favors brightly colored guzmanias — a type of bromeliad — for their widespread availability, ease of care and tolerance for low light.
“It’s pretty much my favorite bromeliad,” he says.
Other favorites
The peperomia plant family, also called radiator plants, includes a wide range of leaf shapes, colors and care needs. Some are vining, others grow upright, and all are relatively low-maintenance and safe for animals.
“They’re really tough plants: easy to grow and hard to kill, unless you overwater,” Davison says.
Spider plants are another resilient, nontoxic option. They prefer well-drained soil; bright, indirect light; and don’t mind becoming a bit root-bound, says Griffin, “so it is recommended to repot her only when she has visibly outgrown her planter.”
Griffin also recommends rattlesnake plants, whose long, wavy leaves sport dark green dots and deep purple undersides. They like warmth, humidity and bright, indirect light. Peacock plants and nerve plants, two more of Davison’s favorites, similarly bring color to a pet-safe plant collection. The leaves of nerve plants feature a tangle of pink, white or red stripes. Peacock plants flaunt purple and dark-green details, although their finicky humidity needs can make them difficult to maintain.
Keep in mind
Even nontoxic plants, especially when consumed in large quantities, can make your pet sick because they’re hard to digest.
“Eating any plant material can cause stomach upset, including vomiting and diarrhea,” Wismer says.
So, if you know your pet likes to chow down on foliage, it’s best to keep all house plants out of reach. Placing them on shelves, inside terrariums or in hanging planters are all possible solutions.
If you’re unsure about the safety of a specific plant, Knight recommends visiting your local nursery or garden store to talk to an expert in-person. “The owners are typically very knowledgeable and happy to assist,” he says.
Pet owners can also turn to the ASPCA’s database of toxic and nontoxic plants for additional information. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/07/20/safe-pet-friendly-houseplants/ | 2023-07-20 11:07:51 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/07/20/safe-pet-friendly-houseplants/ |
It was three years ago this month that California documented its first known victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the pandemic’s toll has breached a once-unthinkable level, with more than 100,000 deaths reported statewide, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Unlike the first-known victim — whose tragic brush with the coronavirus was recounted in detail during the pandemic’s early days — we may never know the identity of the individual who represents the latest grim milestone in an era marked with them.
“The heartache of having so many people die weighs heavily on all of us here at public health,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. “I think it weighs equally heavily on everybody who lives in our county, in our state and our country and the world. Nobody, I think, anticipated this toll. None of us wanted this to lead to so many people losing their lives, and it creates great sadness. It’s hard for our community to recover.”
Even in a time of plentiful vaccines and therapeutics, when COVID-19 has been pushed to the back of many a mind, California is still tallying more than 20 deaths every day, on average.
And as the state enters what officials characterize as a new phase of the pandemic, the virus’ cumulative devastation remains hard to comprehend while its day-to-day effects are, for many, increasingly easy to ignore.
“Some people say it’s nothing, ‘Why are you bothering us with this pandemic? We should be back to normal now,'” Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of epidemic and pandemic prevention and preparedness at the World Health Organization, said during a recent webinar. “And others say it’s catastrophic: ‘My neighbor died yesterday. And last month it was my great-uncle who died.’
“Who is right?” she said. “Both perspectives are understandable because the risk of getting sick, the risk of having severe disease, is variable.”
California, the nation’s most populous state, has reported more COVID-19 deaths than any other. Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania are the next closest, according to data compiled by The Times.
For perspective, California’s cumulative death toll is roughly equivalent to the population of cities such as Hesperia in San Bernardino County or Vista in San Diego County.
“This milestone is a tragic reminder of the very real toll the pandemic has taken on Californians,” the state Department of Public Health wrote in a statement to The Times. “Our focus remains on the steps we can continue taking to limit further loss of life due to COVID-19.”
L.A. County, the nation’s most populous county, has reported more than 35,000 COVID-19 deaths.
“Just the magnitude of that is unimaginable, except for the people who have to live with it,” Ferrer said. “And for them, we continue to keep you in our prayers and our thoughts.”
Despite the massive tally, the Golden State has the 11th-lowest death rate among states when accounting for population, 255.3 per 100,000 residents, according to data compiled by The Times.
By comparison, 10 states — Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, New Mexico, Alabama, Michigan and Florida — have cumulative death rates of at least 416 per 100,000 residents.
For many now, life in California goes on much as it did pre-pandemic. Businesses are open, concerts and sporting events are packed and masks are increasingly a relic of the past.
“With this last surge this past winter, the numbers were much, much lower than in prior surges as far as hospitalizations, ICU and deaths,” said California state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan.
Still, the virus has already killed more than 2,200 Californians this year, with an average of 22 deaths per day tallied over the latest reporting period, state data show.
And even during this winter, easily the mildest of the pandemic era, the peak per-capita death rate for COVID-19 has been “still much, much higher than a serious flu season,” Pan said during an online forum last week.
The virus’ potency has been lessened through widespread immunity, either from vaccines, prior infection or a combination of the two. The availability of therapeutics and well-known health measures to tamp down transmission — including regular hand washing, testing and, in certain situations, masking — also have played a role in curbing COVID-19, officials and experts say.
But the danger is not the same for everyone. According to health officials, older adults, people with chronic health conditions and those who are unvaccinated are among the individuals who remain at increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness and death.
In December, unvaccinated Californians were 2.4 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than those who had received at least their primary vaccine series, state health data show. Unvaccinated residents were also 2.6 times more likely to be hospitalized and three times more likely to die from the disease.
“We know from our information, from the data we’ve been collecting, who’s at higher risk,” Ferrer said. “Our job is to make sure that, collectively, we recognize that there are some people that have much higher risk, and we do our very best together to try to enhance their protection.”
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STORMER, Helen
Our Grammy died early Thursday afternoon, (July 28, 2022) surrounded by my sisters, mother and I at Legacy of the Northwoods. We sang and kissed her head and held her hand and she laughed. It was beautiful. She was beautiful.
She was born Helen Thompson, married her true love Fred Stormer, and lived until she was 90 years old. Her and Fred ("Pop" to all of us) met working at the Pontiac Motors plant and were married until his passing in 1994. It broke our hearts; hers the most. He lived vividly through her the rest of the way.
Her parents were William and Edith (nee Courtemanche) Thompson. Survivors include her 4 children who continue to love her: David (Traci) Stormer, Susan (William) Hall, Riki Stormer and Chad Stormer. She will be missed profoundly by her 13 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, last surviving brother Tracy Thompson and many loving and devoted nieces and nephews.
She taught us about grace, endurance, empathy, love, and the meaning of many Kenny Rogers' songs. She was that and much more to many others. We will miss her very much.
Private family services were held.
In lieu of flowers or other gifts, we encourage you to send a donation to Legacy of the Northwoods at PO Box 2678, Eagle River, WI 54521.
Arrangements by Gaffney-Busha Funeral Home, Eagle River. Online condolences may be expressed at gaffney-busha.com.
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HONOLULU (KHON) – Are you visiting Hawaii this summer? If you are, you may want to be careful when you go swimming.
Health officials are warning about leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that impacts humans and animals in Hawaii and other warm-climate areas throughout the world.
You can get leptospirosis by swimming or wading in freshwater puddles, ponds or streams contaminated with animal urine or by coming into contact with wet soil or plants contaminated with animal urine. After a hurricane or heavy rain, floodwaters may be contaminated as well.
The bacteria will enter the body through broken skin or through the soft tissues of the inside of the mouth, nose or eyes. Leptospirosis is not spread from person to person, the Hawaii Department of Health explains.
Symptoms of leptospirosis include fever, chills, headache, muscle pain, sweating, vomiting, and pain behind the eyes. These symptoms may last from a few days to several weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although most cases are mild, some can be severe, causing acute liver and kidney failure.
While hiking to waterfalls in Hawaii, for example, you may notice signs warning people about this disease.
According to Hawaii Department of Health, between 100 and 200 cases of Leptospirosis are identified annually in the United States, with approximately 50% of these cases occurring in Hawaii.
If you have symptoms of leptospirosis and were exposed to infected water, it’s best to call your healthcare provider and ask for a blood test to determine if you have been infected. Leptospirosis can be treated with antibiotics, the CDC says.
If your pet begins experiencing symptoms — fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, refusing to eat, weakness and depression, stiffness, muscle pain, or inability to have puppies — after a possible exposure, the CDC encourages taking the animal to a veterinarian. As it is in humans, leptospirosis in animals can be treated with antibiotics if caught early.
You can avoid getting leptospirosis by staying out of fresh water, ponds or streams in Hawaii, especially if they have leptospirosis signs nearby, or when you have an open cut or sores. Hawaii’s Department of Health says swimming with your head underwater may also increase your risk of infection via your eyes, nose or mouth.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prince Joachim of Denmark is moving to the United States to take up the post of defense industry attache at the Danish embassy in Washington starting in September, the Danish defense ministry said on Friday.
“I am proud that I still get the opportunity to represent Denmark internationally in the area of security and defence” the 53-year-old prince said in a statement. “Transatlantic cooperation is a high-priority area, and I am honored that they have found me qualified for the task.”
Prince Joachim is the younger son of Queen Margrethe II, and is the sixth in the line of succession to the Danish throne. He has an extensive military background with the Danish Armed Forces and elsewhere starting from 1987.
The prince has held a similar position at the Danish embassy in Paris since 2020 but announced in November that he would leave the position this summer.
Last year, a split arose between him and the Danish royal house when Queen Margrethe decided that the prince’s four children should lose their titles as prince and princess.
Denmark’s popular long-serving monarch later apologized for upsetting members of her family with the decision, but has refused to change her mind.
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It is President’s Day and Donnie Baker talks about the elections that set off his mom Phyllis.
It is President’s Day and Donnie Baker talks about the elections that set off his mom Phyllis.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the nation into uncharted waters of school violence, with many in the Virginia shipbuilding city where it happened demanding metal detectors in every school.
But experts warn there are no easy solutions when it comes to preventing gun violence in schools.
“This is a real game changer,” said Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, which trains law enforcement members who work in schools.
“How do we begin to approach the idea of protecting students and staff from an armed 6-year-old?” he said of the attack Friday in Newport News.
American educators have long been trying to create safe spaces that feel less like prisons and more like schools. If anything, Friday’s shooting fuels a debate over the effectiveness of metal detectors — which are still relatively rare in schools — and other safety measures.
“Metal detectors and clear backpacks are more likely to cause young children to be fearful and feel criminalized,” said Amanda Nickerson, a school psychology professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
“Many of the strategies being suggested do not have any research evidence, and they may actually erode a healthy school climate,” she said — one where students and staff feel free to share concerns about possible threats, which has been shown to prevent shootings.
A more effective approach fosters “positive social, emotional, behavioral and academic success,” Nickerson said.
Ron Avi Astor, a professor of social welfare and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, said “it’s really the gun owners who need to be held responsible.”
Police in Newport News say the 6-year-old brought his mother’s gun, which had been purchased legally, to school, though it’s unclear how he gained access to it. A Virginia law prohibits leaving a loaded gun where it is accessible to a child under 14, a misdemeanor crime punishable with a maximum one-year prison sentence and $2,500 fine. No charges have been brought against the mother so far.
Astor said that a public health approach to reducing gun violence in schools is needed, as well as gun licensing.
“Let’s all agree that gun education is really important, particularly around gun safety and accidents and kids getting access to guns,” Astor said. “Let’s make that part of health class. Let’s make sure every kid, parent and educator goes through education and hazardous materials safety training in every school in the United States.”
“Gun safety education … is something that most Americans agree on, based on national polls. That’s a great place to start saving lives and reducing injury or death,” Astor said.
The shooting Friday occurred as Abigail Zwerner taught her first-grade class at Richneck Elementary. There was no warning and no struggle before the 6-year-old pointed the gun at Zwerner and fired one round.
The bullet pierced Zwerner’s hand and struck her chest. The 25-year-old hustled her students out of the classroom before being rushed to the hospital. She has improved and was listed in stable condition Monday, authorities said.
Police Chief Steve Drew described the shooting as “intentional.” A judge will determine what’s next for the child, who is being held at a medical facility following an emergency custody order.
Meanwhile, the superintendent of Newport News Public Schools said the shooting “will cause us to rethink how we handle our youngest children.”
City schools rely on metal detectors and random searches in high schools and middle schools, but not for elementary buildings, Superintendent George Parker III said at a Monday news conference.
“I hate to be at this point where I’m considering this, but we have to start relying on those types of deterrents at the elementary level as well,” Parker said.
James Graves, president of the Newport News Education Association, said the teachers union would ask the school board for metal detectors in every school.
“If a metal detector in every school is going to allow our kids to be safe, so be it,” he told The Associated Press.
The union will also propose that students be required to carry only clear backpacks so the contents can be easily seen, Graves said.
Eric Billet, whose three children attend Newport News public schools, said he supports more security measures, like metal detectors, bag searches and a security officer at every school. But he would also like more behavioral specialists and counselors working with students.
Two of Billet’s children go to Richneck, including his fourth-grade daughter who’s endured nightmares following the shooting.
“The more challenging piece is the culture change,” he said.
“I know some teachers have had trouble controlling classrooms since COVID,” Billet added. “I do not know all of the reasons, whether it’s parenting at home or other influences, or a lack of authority and discipline at school. I definitely do not blame the teachers for this.”
Rick Fogle, whose grandson is in second grade at Richneck, supports increased use of metal detectors. But he also said schools need to be more willing to search backpacks, pockets and desks if kids are suspected of having a gun.
“They’ve got to overcome social pressure to respect people’s rights and realize that the rights of those who could be injured need to be considered,” Fogle said.
Researcher David Riedman, founder of a database that tracks U.S. school shootings dating back to 1970, said he’s only aware of three other shootings involving 6-year-olds in that time period — and only one other case of a student younger than that.
At the same time, people are shot or guns are taken away at schools almost every day, Riedman said. There were 302 shootings on school property last year. And since 1970, more than 250 teachers, principals and other school staff have been shot.
Still, he questioned how realistic it is for schools to ramp up use of metal detectors.
“Schools are already struggling with adequate resources — finding bus drivers, finding enough teachers,” Riedman said. “To have comprehensive school security with 100% weapons detection essentially requires a TSA-style agency that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to implement across the country. And that’s not viable.”
The use of metal detectors in schools, particularly elementary schools, is still rare, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
During the 2019-2020 school year, less than 2% of public elementary schools performed random metal detector checks on students. It was 10% for middle schools and 14.8% for high schools.
About 2% of elementary schools required backpacks to be clear while just over 9% of middle schools and 7% of high schools imposed that requirement, the center said. About 54.6% of elementary schools had security staff present at least once a week; at middle schools it was 81.5% and at high schools 84.4%.
Canady said equipping schools with metal detectors requires a lot of training and maintenance — and can provide a false sense of security if they’re not operated correctly.
A relationship-based policing approach can better help avert school violence, he said. “Every student in a school environment should have at least one trusted adult that they can connect with,” Canady said.
Krista Arnold, executive director of the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals, agreed. She worked as an elementary school principal for 18 years in Virginia Beach before retiring in 2021.
“I had a couple of knives brought to school during my 18 years, and (the students) usually sing like canaries and tell somebody,” Arnold said. “And that usually got to the front office pretty quickly.”
Arnold said she’s not a proponent of turning schools into fortresses. Instead, she supports teaching empathy and other behavioral skills.
“My experience is when you build that community and you explicitly teach social, emotional skills — and you talk about how it makes the other person feel if you’ve hurt them … you build that good citizenship and you reduce the amount of discipline and aggression in the school,” she said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/shooting-fallout-should-elementary-schools-have-metal-detectors/ | 2023-01-12 11:42:11 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/shooting-fallout-should-elementary-schools-have-metal-detectors/ |
Nothing activates Washington's party scene like some truly excellent gossip. And the days leading up to this year's White House correspondents' dinner were full of it: Don Lemon, fired. Tucker Carlson, fired. The Dominion settlement. The Clarence Thomas misconduct investigation. Anticipation ran wild, with jokes all week about the night's entertainers - President Biden and "Daily Show" comedian Roy Wood Jr. - having to throw out their scripts and start from scratch to incorporate the bounty of new material that had been dropped into their laps.
"Correspondents dinner convo about to be *lit*," tweeted model Chrissy Teigen, a guest of NBC News with her husband, singer John Legend.
Saturday's parties certainly delivered on at least some of that hype, with the busiest party circuit D.C. has seen since before the Trump administration and the pandemic put a damper on the annual correspondents' weekend festivities. And there was certainly some Carlson schadenfreude in the room, as well as some grumblings about Lemon from the many CNN staffers in attendance. But the hottest topic seemed to be one that didn't originate in Washington at all. Behold: "Scandoval," the cheating scandal that has shaken the very foundation of the reality-show juggernaut "Vanderpump Rules."
Members of the cast, including Lisa Vanderpump herself and the show's betrayed girlfriend, Ariana Madix, who was allegedly cheated on by castmate Tom Sandoval, were the most desirable party guests of the weekend. Washington is a city with a C-SPAN head and a Bravo heart.
"I tweeted about how I wanted to meet them and I'm so excited they're here!" Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), told us Friday night after she caught a glimpse of Madix and castmate Lala Kent at the United Talent Agency party at Fiola Mare.
Naomi Biden claimed she was in her pajamas at home, then heard the "Vanderpump" cast was out and about, and rushed over with her husband. "I'm a huge Bravo-head," said the newlywed. Journalists and administration folks, including deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh and CNN's Kaitlan Collins, took selfies.
They even made it into comedian Wood's set at the dinner.
"Tucker got caught up. Got caught up like that dude from 'Vanderpump Rules,'" the comedian joked as the cameras cut to Madix at the Daily Mail's table, where the champagne had been upgraded from the Washington Hilton's plebeian swill to Veuve Clicquot.
And so, there we were again, drifting through that bloated, four-day corporate-sponsored party agenda, which kicked off in earnest Thursday night. Parties were hosted by talent agencies, networks and publications, in the luxe environs of ambassadorial residences and velvet-roped nightclubs. Step-and-repeats. Espresso martinis were everywhere.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Rice, Gisele Fetterman and "Uncut Gems" actress Julia Fox were among the guests spotted party-hopping all weekend long, but the scene's undisputed winner, if you can call it that, was Semafor's Steve Clemons. How many parties would he attend before the weekend was over? "Seventeen, if you count the Sunday brunches," he told us, taking a swig of champagne at a CBS event. Congrats?
At Thursday's British Embassy party thrown by Politico - a mock Oxford debate that most of the crowd politely ignored - Playbook reporter Ryan Lizza got everyone's attention briefly with a line that drew some gasps. In the United Kingdom, he explained, they think it's ridiculous that their prime minister was outlasted by a head of lettuce, but in the United States in 2020, "we actually elected a vegetable president of the United States."
Lizza ended his remarks: "In conclusion: George f---ing Santos." (The Washington Post did not see Santos at any of the weekend's events. "Can't wait to hear the jokes at my expense tonight," he tweeted Saturday night.)
One staffer parted the sea of people at Elle Magazine's Friday event, saying, "Make way for my boss," who was Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), clad in black ankle boots and a floral dress. This was merely a preview.
"Move to the side. Clear a path. Clear. A. Path," commanded the coterie of Secret Service agents as they whisked first lady Jill Biden from the elevator and through the tightly packed crowd. Biden was there to support daughter Ashley Biden, one of the night's honorees.
Julia Fox was there, too, flitting through Friday's events in a corseted white dress with her face painted white, looking like a Victorian ghost. To be absolutely clear: We mean this as a compliment. It was weird! The correspondents' dinner, a sea of boringly tasteful fit-and-flare dresses, needs more weird! She had discovered that she wasn't allowed to bring her vape into the Elle event, because it was on the Secret Service's list of prohibited items. "I actually followed the rules for once," she said.
But Fox was excited to be in Washington for the first time since she walked in the 2017 Women's March, and she was eager to talk to lawmakers about feminist causes. She did her own makeup, inspired by the fashion of our founding fathers. "I was like, Washington, George Washington, I know they powdered their faces, so I wanted to do something like that." ("His real complexion was described by his contemporaries as sallow," according to a medical historian.)
"Excuse me, who's that actress with the white face?" another party guest asked us, politely.
Over at a CAA party at the Henri, a Scandoval star in the wild: We spotted Kent in a plunging blue jumpsuit. "I figured I can't take the boobs out tomorrow, so I let them out tonight," she said.
And at an intimate dinner for VIPs of the Elle Magazine party at Heist nightclub, model Winnie Harlow demurred when asked which political figures she'd most like to meet. "I'm Canadian, so I don't know about a lot of politics, but you know, I am in D.C. to learn."
About any issues in particular, Winnie? She smiled blankly at us and beelined for the exit.
At the celebrity petting zoo that is the Washington Hilton's predinner party scene Saturday, Caitlyn Jenner, in a black dress with crystal-beaded sleeves, was wandering around unescorted.
"Are you lost?" she asked us. "I am."
Disney CEO Bob Iger walked into the cramped ABC reception room that "Everything Everywhere All At Once" star Ke Huy Quan had just exited, and began to chat up Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has just posed for a photo with Fox, in her second day of white makeup and in a ball gown that appeared to be made of either long, shaggy fur or human hair. ("It's synthetic," she later clarified for us. Again, weird! Again, we love it!) There were the Property Brothers and Jen Psaki and Billy Eichner and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.). There were Teigen and Legend, sneaking in at the last minute. Brittney Griner and her wife. Bradley Whitford mugging for photos with everyone.
And Anthony S. Fauci, flanked by bodyguards, walking briskly by. He skipped the event in 2022, because he suspected, correctly, that it would be a superspreader. This year, he was maskless.
Outside the ABC party was former "Bachelorette" star Rachel Lindsay, a guest of the Los Angeles Times, and whatshisname, her husband, whom she met on the show. (Bryan Abasolo.) She was swathed in baby blue and beads, and thrilled to be at her first correspondents' dinner. She was excited to meet the president. She did not yet realize that only the people sitting on the dais get to meet the president. She's also a big fan of journalism. "I read The Post," she said. "I read the Times - New York Times and L.A. Times - and I watch 'Morning Joe,' and that's how I start off my day," she says. (Sign her up; she's our kind of geek.)
Gisele Fetterman is a longtime thrift shopper, and she tried to find her Saturday dress secondhand, "but gala is harder," she said. Instead, the taupe, ruffled ball gown "was a $14 rental on Nuuly." Her husband, John Fetterman, walked the red carpet with her in a tux and leather sneakers.
"There's Bill Barr!" said one guest, with the same enthusiasm other guests greeted the evening's reality stars. "I've got to say hello to Bill Barr." Other guests lined the hallways, eyeing the people who walked by: Are they famous? They seem too good-looking to be from here.
"It's a fun time," Kellyanne Conway told us at a reception before the dinner. "Celebrating the First Amendment. Making new friendships."
She was here to sit at the Fox News table, and, apparently, we were the first ones to ask her about Tucker Carlson. "Tucker has always been talented, brilliant, kind, generous, professional, and I wish him the best," she said. And, she wants us to know, "I'm proud to be a Fox contributor."
Lest you think it's all a bunch of frothy fun, there were serious people in attendance, too. People who had no idea what Scandoval is, or why anyone cares about it.
"This is crazy," said Dasha Navalnaya, daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. "I was just doing a CNN interview and I couldn't hear anything. I feel very weird. We're all in dresses having dinner, and there's a protest outside. It's strange, but we are doing the best we can." (A raucous climate protest in front of the Hilton, briefly joined by reinstated Tennessee lawmakers Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, attempted to bar government officials from entry. It did not succeed.)
Most attendees' goals for the evening were to get slightly buzzed and to get a photo with one or both Property Brothers. "My goal tonight is to talk to as many representatives as I can to get my dad out of prison and get Putin out of power," Navalnaya said - the kind of quote that makes you look around at all these dresses and espresso martinis and think: What the hell are we doing here, exactly?
On that note: On to the afterparties!
Wood got a hero's welcome at the CBS party at the French ambassador's residence: applause, cameras going off, everyone crowding around to give their reviews. Actress Zooey Deschanel embraced Wood and lavished praise on him.
How was Wood feeling after all of this? "Relieved!" he said. Bon Jovi's "Livin' On a Prayer" was blasting in the next room and people sang as another New Jersey native, Conway, joined the scrum to tell Wood just "how great" he was.
Meanwhile, Diana Ross was supposed to take the stage at theGrio's party at the National Museum of African American History and Culture just after 11 p.m. It was midnight before Ross, 79 and every inch the icon, floated onto the stage in a frothy orange organza gown singing her 1980 hit "I'm Coming Out." The voice! The hair! The sequins! Ross gave the crowd an hour-long set, cycling through her catalogue, making Gayle King, who had been waiting patiently to receive the Journalist Icon Award at the event before heading to another engagement at CBS, very, very late.
It was indeed getting late. Over at the Swiss ambassador's residence, at Time magazine's soiree, a DJ played house and disco beats, and the sharp aroma of a raclette station drifted over the patio. Miss District of Columbia made the scene in her sash and tiara. Fox changed from her hair skirt into leather pants, and her reapplied white makeup had survived a sprinkling of rain. "Pose" star Angelica Ross, guest of the San Francisco Chronicle, chatted with Justin Jones and twirled in her white cape, outstretched to an impressive wingspan. Not too far away, things got sloppy: We watched security guards escort out a very drunk man. ("He tried to fight somebody. He needs to drink some water," said the muscle.)
The review of Biden's speech, from celebrities and journalists: He was strong and better than expected. Overhearing this, one Biden White House aide standing by a hot-dog bar chimed in: "That's such a D.C. narrative."
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Helena Andrews-Dyer, Amy Argetsinger, Jeremy Barr, Elahe Izadi, Roxanne Roberts, Jesús Rodríguez and Kara Voght contributed to this report. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/at-correspondents-dinner-scene-vanderpump-rules-too-bad-tucker/article_a7ae8271-c9fd-5c01-85ea-42fdf31a46c0.html | 2023-05-01 09:28:31 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/at-correspondents-dinner-scene-vanderpump-rules-too-bad-tucker/article_a7ae8271-c9fd-5c01-85ea-42fdf31a46c0.html |
British minister tells gay World Cup fans to ‘be respectful’
LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is facing criticism after telling gay soccer fans heading to the World Cup in Qatar that they should show some “compromise” and “be respectful of the host nation.” The comments were quickly disavowed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office. A senior figure in the opposition Labour party called them “shockingly tone deaf.” Homosexuality is criminalized in Qatar and Cleverly was asked about the issue in the wake of a British activist holding a one-man protest accusing the country of jailing members of the LGBTQ community. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/26/british-minister-tells-gay-world-cup-fans-to-be-respectful/ | 2022-10-27 09:45:45 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/26/british-minister-tells-gay-world-cup-fans-to-be-respectful/ |
I would like to acknowledge the dedication of all the volunteers and organizers that created Community Players 100 years ago on March 6, 1923.
The original president, Carl Vrooman, said he foresaw a future including a new performing arts organization that would grow and flourish in the Bloomington-Normal community. It has, and it’s lasting effect on this community and all the volunteers, performers, and audience members who return year after year.
Members from Community Players have started other theatrical programs in other venues throughout the area. Some of these include Playcrafters, Heartland Theatre Company, different groups of the Illinois Consortium, and the Coalescence Theater Project.
Thank you, President Vrooman, The Women's Club, and the four women who appeared in the production of "Overtones" that night, Winifred Kate James, Grace Kessler Green, Edith Elliot Kuhn, and Lucy Park Williams.
Thank you for starting an organization that has endured for over 100 years.
Thank you to the current cast and staff getting ready to open "Cinderella."
Thank you to all of the audiences and volunteers over the years.
Thank you, Bloomington-Normal, for repeatedly embracing the performing arts in this community.
Kathy Parrish,
Past President, Board of Governors,
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday blamed the power former President Trump exerted in GOP primaries for the “candidate quality” issues his party struggled with in key races.
Speaking to reporters a week after Republicans lost the Senate runoff in Georgia, which expanded the Senate Democratic majority to 51 seats, McConnell said his party was hampered by weak candidates in several battleground states.
“I never said there was a red wave, I said we had a bunch of close races,” McConnell told reporters, citing the caution flags he raised in August when some Republicans were predicting big GOP gains in Congress.
“We ended up having a candidate quality [issue,]” McConnell said. “Look at Arizona, look at New Hampshire, there was a challenging situation in Georgia as well.”
McConnell noted that his affiliated super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, did intervene in two primaries in Alabama and Missouri, but he argued there was little Senate GOP leaders could do in races where Trump endorsed MAGA-style candidates or Republicans who claimed the 2020 election was stolen.
“Our ability to control primary outcomes was quite limited in ’22 because the support of the former president proved to be very decisive in these primaries so my view was do the best with the cards you’re dealt,” he said of the Senate GOP strategy of coalescing behind weak candidates who had Trump’s support, such as Herschel Walker, who lost last week to Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).
McConnell said that some Republicans has forgotten the lessons of the 2010 and 2012 elections, when the GOP fumbled good opportunities to win races in Delaware, Indiana and Missouri because extreme or controversial Republican candidates won those years’ primaries.
“I do think we had the opportunity to relearn one more time you have to have quality candidates to win competitive senate races,” he said. “We went through this in 2010, 2012.”
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(NEXSTAR) – A once-expansive retailer is preparing to close dozens of its locations.
At least 71 Sears Hometown stores will be shutting their doors for good in the coming weeks, according to a report from Axios. A list of closing locations was posted on a message board, TheLayoff.com, and many stores have taken to Facebook to inform customers of their impending closure.
Sears Holding, which also owned Kmart, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2018 but avoided liquidation when Transformco acquired both retailers.
As of publication time, Transformco had not responded to Nexstar’s request for comment regarding the store closures.
“Unfortunately we must announce the closing of our Sears Hometown Store,” reads a post on the Facebook page for the Sears Hometown in Luling, Louisiana. “It is not a decision that we have made lightly.”
That store will officially close on June 23.
Other locations posting similar messages include Grass Valley, California; Fort Stockton, Texas; Arcadia, Florida; and Oklahoma City.
The stores whose Facebook pages advertise liquidation sales ahead of closing up for good include:
- Alice, Texas
- Arcadia, Florida
- Arlington, Texas
- Batesville, Arkansas
- Cambridge, Minnesota
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Cleveland, Mississippi
- Cleveland, Texas
- Cody, Wyoming
- Colby, Kansas
- Cypress, Texas
- Derby Center, Vermont
- Edenton, North Carolina
- Elizabeth City, North Carolina
- Englewood, Florida
- Escanaba, Michigan
- Fallon, Nevada
- Farmington, Missouri
- Fort Stockton, Texas
- Friday Harbor, Washington
- Gallipolis, Ohio
- Georgetown, South Carolina
- Grass Valley, California
- Greenfield, Indiana
- Green Valley, Arizona
- Gunnison, Colorado
- Hamilton, Montana
- Helena, Montana
- Henderson, North Carolina
- Houghton, Michigan
- Ionia, Michigan
- Jesup, Georgia
- Keokuk, Iowa
- Kerrville, Texas
- Kilmarnock, Virginia
- Kingman, Arizona
- Knox, Indiana
- La Grande, Oregon
- Lake City, South Carolina
- Lakeport, California
- League City, Texas
- Litchfield, Minnesota
- Logan, Ohio
- Luling, Louisiana
- Marshall, Minnesota
- Mineola, Texas
- Moses Lake, Washington
- Niceville, Florida
- Newton, Kansas
- Oklahoma City
- Pampa, Texas
- Paris, Tennessee
- Paris, Texas
- Parker, Arizona
- Pasadena, Texas
- Plymouth, Indiana
- Popular Bluff, Missouri
- Potsdam, New York
- River Falls, Wisconsin
- Robinson, Illinois
- San Marcos, Texas
- Shawnee, Oklahoma
- St. Mary’s, Georgia
- Sunnyside, Washington
- Taos, New Mexico
- Tomah, Wisconsin
- Truckee, California
- Victoria, Texas
- Washington, Missouri
- Waterloo, Illinois
- Waynesboro, Mississippi
The liquidation sales, which advertise discounts up to 60% off, are set to run through June 2, according to the Facebook posts. Several stores contacted by Nexstar said their final day of business would be on June 23 or near the end of June.
Sears was founded in 1892 – 130 years ago – in Chicago.
Sears Hometown Stores spun off as its own company in 2012, reported the Tri-County Times. Sears Hometown locations became more focused on appliances and tools, the newspaper wrote, while Sears stores were more focused on a traditional mix of department store offerings like clothing and home goods. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/71-sears-stores-to-close-permanently-nationwide/ | 2022-05-29 23:37:59 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/71-sears-stores-to-close-permanently-nationwide/ |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Maxen, an associate strength coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, has become the first male coach in a major U.S.-based professional league to come out as gay.
Maxen spoke about his sexual orientation in an interview published Thursday by Outsports.
“I don’t want to feel like I have to think about it anymore,” Maxen said. “I don’t want to feel like I have to lie about who I am seeing, or why I am living with someone else.
“I want to be vocal in support of people living how they want to live, but I also want to just live and not feel fear about how people will react.”
While Maxen’s announcement is a first for a male coach, NFL players have come out previously. Michael Sam became the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Louis Rams selected him in 2014. In 2021, Carl Nassib, then with the Las Vegas Raiders, became the first active NFL player to come out publicly. Nassib played for Tampa Bay last season.
A few female coaches in U.S.-based leagues have come out publicly, including Katie Sowers, a former assistant with the San Francisco 49ers.
Maxen said he no longer felt comfortable hiding his sexuality or his boyfriend of two years.
“You have other coaches who have significant others, and they’re talking about their significant others,” Maxen said. “And I felt guilty that I couldn’t do the same thing, that I was letting myself down.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed an executive order meant to protect the state's abortion services from laws in neighboring states, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision ending constitutional protections for the procedure.
Walz said his action should help shield people seeking or providing abortions in Minnesota from facing legal consequences in other states. The Supreme Court's opinion to reverse Roe v. Wade immediately halted most abortions in South Dakota and Wisconsin and enacted a trigger law to end abortions in North Dakota after 30 days.
Abortion remains legal in Minnesota. Walz has vowed to reject requests to extradite individuals who are accused of committing acts related to reproductive health care that are not criminal offenses in Minnesota.
“My office has been and will continue to be a firewall against legislation that would reverse reproductive freedom,” Walz said.
The Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo, which is North Dakota's sole abortion provider, plans to move across the river to Minnesota, clinic owner Tammi Kromenaker said Saturday. She said she has secured a location in Moorhead but gave no further details. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Walz-signs-order-to-help-shield-abortion-17265452.php | 2022-06-25 17:20:38 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Walz-signs-order-to-help-shield-abortion-17265452.php |
North Texas will honor former UNT running back Michael Hickmon, who was killed in a shooting at a youth football game earlier this year on Saturday when the Mean Green face Florida Atlantic.
North Texas will recognize one of the great teams in the history of its football program on Saturday without one of the key players who helped make that milestone possible.
It’s been 20 years since UNT won the second of four straight Sun Belt Conference titles. The 2002 team stands out because it went on to beat Cincinnati in the New Orleans Bowl.
UNT has won just three bowl games in its history and will honor the players who made that milestone possible during its game against Florida Atlantic.
They’ll do so with heavy hearts after Michael Hickmon died in a shooting at his son’s youth football game earlier this year.
Hickmon was 43.
UNT officials will honor Hickmon and his family at halftime.
The former Mean Green running back played a key role in the Mean Green’s run to an 8-5 season and that win over Cincinnati in 2002.
Hickmon rushed for 718 yards and five touchdowns in five seasons at UNT and posted his best game in 2002 when he scored three touchdowns in a 38-27 win over New Mexico State. That victory clinched UNT’s second Sun Belt title.
“Mike was a mentor for the younger guys,” former UNT quarterback Scott Hall said of Hickmon shortly after his death. “He was an old soul. Even in his 20s, he was very wise. He was calm, laid-back and had wise words for us, whether it was before or after a game.”
Those traits helped Hickmon when he became a youth football coach.
Mike Hickmon II, 9, played for the DEA Dragons youth football team his father coached.
Honoring Michael Hickmon will be the highlight of what is expected to be a memorable weekend for UNT athletics.
UNT will also induct its 2022 Hall of Fame Class that will include two members of the 2002 team during its annual ceremony. Defensive end Adrian Awasom and offensive lineman Nick Zuniga are in the class and played on UNT’s New Orleans Bowl championship team.
The class also includes wide receiver Brelan Chancellor, Rachel Holden (soccer), Jessica Hulsebosch (volleyball) and Rives McBee (men’s golf).
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Epson's Mike Pruitt to Present During Label Academy Master Class: Digital Embellishment
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson today announced it will be exhibiting at Labelexpo Americas, North America's largest event for the label, product demonstration, web printing, and converting industries. Epson will be showcasing its labeling solutions – including the new SurePress® digital label presses and ColorWorks® on-demand label printers – as well as SureColor® wide-format printers. Epson's solutions and demonstrations will be on display from Sept. 13-15 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago, Ill. in booth #5821.
During the show, Epson's Mike Pruitt, senior product manager, Industrial Labels, will participate in the Label Academy Master Class on Digital Embellishment on Wed., Sept. 14. Organized by the Label Academy, this five-hour master class offers the necessary technical knowledge and expert guidance that label converters are likely to require when considering a move into the fast-growing field of digital embellishment. Epson's booth is part of the Digital Embellishment Trail, which showcases the latest developments in digital decoration technology.
"Businesses are looking to optimize materials and human resources, making this an ideal time to look at solutions like the SurePress that delivers value with automation by saving substrates and reducing operator press input," said Pruitt. "Labelexpo provides a great opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of Epson's solutions and allow visitors to view in-person demos, see the output quality in person, and talk with product experts."
Epson invites Labelexpo attendees to experience the following innovative solutions at its booth:
- SurePress Prime Label Digital Presses: Epson will be debuting the new UV inkjet digital label press, the SurePress L-6534VW with Orange Ink, and the new L-4733AW water-based resin ink digital label press. The highly automated SurePress L-6534VW, available with Orange Ink or Digital Varnish, enables reliable and repeatable high-speed printing of up to 2 million square feet per month. The SurePress L-4733AW water-based resin ink digital label press is primed for unattended printing and delivers accurate spot colors and gradients required for brand-quality color prime labels and packaging. The new SurePress line offers high levels of print quality, expanded color gamut, consistency, flexibility, and value for label converters, specialty printers and vertical manufacturers. All SurePress models are PANTONE® certified.
- ColorWorks On-Demand Color Label Printers: Designed to give flexibility of printing one or thousands of labels at a time, Epson's ColorWorks portfolio of on-demand, high-quality color label solutions help maximize efficiency and reduce obsolete inventory costs. Epson's newest ColorWorks C4000 compact printer, the eight-inch CW-C6500A and the C7500 for high-speed production environments will be on display in the booth.
- SureColor Resin Printer: The 64-inch SureColor R5070 roll-to-roll printer with water-based resin inks consistently provide professional-quality, short-run labels, decals and traditional signage at remarkable speeds.
- SureColor Solvent Printer: The 10-color 64-inch SureColor S80600 with White and Metallic Silver inks combines with GMG ColorProof and GMG OpenColor software to deliver precise, repeatable color, up to 98.2% PANTONE coverage, and exceptional productivity to the package proofing market.
- SureColor Proofing Printer: The 17-inch SureColor P5000 Commercial Edition includes a Violet ink to deliver an industry-best 99% PANTONE PLUS FORMULA GUIDE solid-coated color matching,1 ideal for commercial and flexographic proofing applications.
For additional information about Epson's professional printing solutions, visit www.epson.com/label-printers or www.epson.com/proimaging.
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
A remote vacation rental. A group of friends. A weekend getaway. A murderous psychopath.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BLACKENING")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Pick a card.
YVONNE ORJI: (As Morgan) OK. Calm down, I just did.
JAY PHAROAH: (As Shawn) Yeah, and you better watch how you talking to my lady, OK?
ORJI: (As Morgan) OK.
PHAROAH: (As Shawn) What you got?
ORJI: (As Morgan) You are a Black character in a horror movie. Prove that you can stay alive. Name one Black character that survived a horror movie. You must answer correctly or you die.
PHAROAH: (As Shawn) Oh, so this is just an aggressively themed trivia game.
MARTIN: Imagine a version where all the main characters are Black people and it's Juneteenth weekend. Director Tim Story brings us "The Blackening," a horror comedy billed on the fact that, until now, that's never really been done before. And Tim Story is with us now to tell us more about it. Welcome. Thanks for joining us.
TIM STORY: Oh, thank you for having me.
MARTIN: Can you just talk a little bit about, like, how the whole idea got started?
STORY: Yeah. No. Kind of the - how it originated, Dewayne Perkins by himself created this six or seven-minute short. And Tracy, Tracy Oliver, saw this short. A friend of hers called and said, you got to check out this short. It's so much like your kind of humor. She watched it and said she just laughed. And she literally tracked Dewayne down and said, I think this can be a movie. And Dewayne kind of just said, yes, I'll do it. And so they came up with kind of an idea. Then I was approached. I was only supposed to be a producer. I read it. I laughed out loud. And I kind of raised my hand and said, what if I would direct it? And everybody said OK, and off we went.
MARTIN: I read where you told an interviewer that one reason you wanted to direct the film was the sense that you wanted to kind of protect Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins' script from the - what some people seem to feel is, like, the inevitable watering down that comes when projects are developed by Black people but then get to the studio setting, and some of the - sort of the edge is taken off. Is that right?
STORY: I read it, and the first thing was, oh, my God. This is amazing. I get it. I got to do this. And then the second part was, the reason why I want to do it is to protect the voice, to protect us not having to second-guess ourselves. So much of this art is on instinct and just going for it. And sometimes you don't have an amazing reason for it. It just feels good. Or it just - it's true. It's authentic. And so I wanted to just be sure this project had that. And because I have to sometimes censor those cultural references so often in my work, just because not everybody gets it, this film felt like kind of a therapeutic thing for me. And I wanted to be sure it did not ever question itself.
MARTIN: That's so interesting, to hear you say that, because you obviously - you've had a very distinguished career in Hollywood. I mean, you've been playing with different genres your whole career. I'm talking about "Shaft."
STORY: Yeah (laughter).
MARTIN: Sorry, I've just always wanted to say that. (Laughter) And you took on a genre classic, and then "Ride Along," the odd couple buddy movie - "Think Like A Man," which is kind of a screwball romantic comedy. So it's interesting to hear you say that this project was kind of therapeutic for you because a lot of your movies have been kind of, you know, in the Black space. But do you think that this represents kind of a moment in time for you? Or do you think it represents a moment in Hollywood where people can finally start saying what they really want to say?
STORY: Oh, gosh, I want to say it's a little bit of both. I'd like to put a lot on Hollywood and being able to - I'd love to think that is the case. But I do believe myself, as well as many other filmmakers out there, have to constantly fight for what's kind of true because you do come up against, well, I don't understand that. And sometimes you have to fight for, well, put it in front of the audience. And so often with my work, I've made executives watch it with a hundred people, for who the movie was made for. And the ones that I've had great experiences with see that and go, ah, I get it.
MARTIN: OK, here's something sticky I want to ask you about, though, in comedy, OK? It seems really throughout the movies is that Blackness has been used as a trope. I mean, you're - in this film, you're interrogating the idea of kind of the trope of, like, the Black friend - in fact, lots of tropes, right? The Black friend. The Black gay friend.
STORY: Sure. Yeah.
MARTIN: And you're kind of flipping a lot of those on their heads. And so it's always been true. Like, Blackness has been used as a trope, I mean, from, like, the earliest days, like, to exemplify, you know, stupidity or vulgarity or - you know, all the things, right? You know, what about the tropes that center people of color that are made by people of color? To be fair, aren't there some of these tropes that people of color kind of amplify on themselves?
STORY: Sure, sure.
MARTIN: You know? What's that about? And what do you think about that? And did you think about that in the course of making this film?
STORY: Well, yeah. You know, as I try to bring these characters to the screen, I'm always asking those questions because I'm conscious of what society - quote-unquote, "this world" - has seen of Black characters. If I am going to give you something that most consider stereotypical, I try to give them the reason for it. Most of the time when we have these stereotypical characters, they just show up and they're that way. And what I love in the work that I've been able to do is give you more of the information. Sure, if it feels stereotypical, OK. But listen closer or look closer. Or me and the actor are going to give you a reason why - oh, you thought it was because of this. But here's why that character is this way. I don't shy away from any character that might seem stereotypical because they're going to be more than that. Hopefully, I answered the question. It's a passionate thing I've had to deal with pretty much all my career and continue to.
MARTIN: So let's loop back to where we started. You said that this in some ways was kind of healing for you, which is interesting to hear after all the success you've had with so many different types of films. And I'm just wondering, can you say a little bit more about that?
STORY: When I say therapeutic, this was therapeutic in the sense that - I get back to this thing of instinct where art doesn't have brakes. There's something amazing when you're in a room and you have an idea and you can say it, and everybody, first of all, understands where it's coming from. You don't have to explain to somebody why it's important. That's a space that just brings with it humor and just kind of magic. And that's what I think "The Blackening" is. It's - if you have a good time laughing, it's that we're - if you know the culture, you're going to be starting from where we are. And now we're taking it a little bit further. In my opinion, when it comes to representing Black culture, that's where the magic happens.
MARTIN: Tim Story, thank you so much for talking with us today.
STORY: Thank you so much. This was awesome.
(SOUNDBITE OF BADBADNOTGOOD AND GHOSTFACE KILLAH SONG, "SOUR SOUL")
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
"The Blackening" opens in theaters today, just in time for Juneteenth weekend.
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HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — The investigation into a barn fire that killed nine horses in Hanover County concluded an accidental electrical fire sparked the fire. No additional details about the cause of the fire were initially released.
Hanover Fire crews were called to Cedar Knoll Farm, on Stone Horse Creek Road, at about 2:49 p.m. on Friday, September 9.
"Crews arrived to find a barn fully-involved with fire," a Hanover Fire spokesperson wrote in an email. "Bystanders reported multiple horses trapped inside, and one had escaped with minor burns, which were treated. Unfortunately, 9 horses are deceased as a result of the fire."
Caryn Molands, who established a GoFundMe for the farm, said the farm's owner "risked his own life to fight the flames and was able to rescue six of the horses."
"Many clients lost their treasured horse [and] invaluable schooling horses were killed," Molands wrote on the GoFundMe page. "None of these beloved animals can be replaced but Cedar Knoll Farm will recover with our help. The barn, most of the horse tack and accessories are all lost. Thankfully horses survived and with your support will continue to thrive."
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn — The Mall of America in Bloomington is currently on lockdown following reports of a possible shooting inside the building.
A post from the Mall of America Twitter account said people inside the mall should remain where they are until the lockdown is lifted.
The tweet was a reply to a person who said they were safe and hiding in a backroom after hearing reports of a shooting.
Bloomington Police confirmed just before 5 p.m. that the department has "numerous officers" on scene "working an active incident" inside the mall.
Ava Malloy, an employee at Air Traffic Toys in the Mall of America, spoke to KARE 11 over the phone while in lockdown. "I turned off the lights and everyone's huddled behind something," Ava said.
"We were working with customers and then all of a sudden there were people running in the store. There was probably about 25 to 30 people and we looked and thought they were kids just goofing around," Macy's employee Brenda Wachello said via phone while taking cover inside the store. "And then people were saying 'There's a shooter."
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HERSHEY, Pa. - Singer, songwriter, and actress Lady Gaga will perform at Hersheypark Stadium.
The first-time performance at Hersheypark was announced Monday.
The Chromatica Ball Tour will make a stop at Hersheypark Stadium on Sunday, August 28. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m.
This is the first time Lady Gaga will perform in Hershey.
Tickets are available at www.Ticketmaster.com and www.HersheyEntertainment.com.
The Chromatica Ball Tour promises to be a full-scale Lady Gaga pop show featuring fan-favorite hits and the first-ever public live performances from the no. 1 selling, critically-acclaimed and GRAMMY-winning 2020 album “Chromatica.” | https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-announces-first-time-performance-at-hersheypark-stadium/article_ca786062-d522-11ec-888c-c3e7f1e381da.html | 2022-05-16 16:05:37 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-announces-first-time-performance-at-hersheypark-stadium/article_ca786062-d522-11ec-888c-c3e7f1e381da.html |
Survey Finds Private Company Boards Lagging Behind on ESG
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, today released findings from its 2022 NACD Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey report.
Despite the conflict in Ukraine, a supply chain crunch, inflation, an ongoing pandemic, skepticism towards globalization, and other issues, the increased competition for talent remains the chief concern for private company directors, with 77 percent of survey respondents placing it among the five issues most likely to affect their company in the coming year.
By comparison, 69 percent of respondents in NACD's 2022 Public Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey, released in June, listed competition for talent as a top-five concern. Inflation is also a growing concern to private company directors, trending upward on respondents' lists for two years in a row.
"We're proud to share the results of our latest Board Practices and Oversight Survey for private companies, which provide tangible, real-time benefits to directors throughout the country," said NACD president and CEO Peter Gleason. "Beyond current trends and statistics, the report offers insights into board dynamics and other areas that are critical for boards to succeed in today's rapidly changing and often tumultuous business environment."
The results outlined below present an overview of boardroom activities and trends in several key areas—including ESG, climate change, cybersecurity, and more—and provide directors with pertinent information to help them meaningfully lead their boards in 2023 and beyond.
Other Key Trends from the 2022 Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey:
- ESG practices have not matured to the extent seen in public company boardrooms.
- Cybersecurity threats are being met by boards adopting best practices in greater numbers.
- Human capital oversight practices like talent development strategies and metrics reporting are increasing.
- Board dynamics are improving, owing in part to better and more frequent reporting from management.
- Climate discussions lack priority compared to public company boards.
- DE&I practices have increased, but overall board understanding of issues has slowed.
Read the full report released by NACD.
About the Survey Data Collection
Leveraging its proprietary member database as a sample frame, NACD sent email invitations to directors and others who serve on boards asking them to participate in the 2022 Board Practices & Oversight survey. The survey was in the field from March 28 to April 21, 2022, and the questionnaire was administered electronically. Respondents were instructed to respond on behalf of one of the boards on which they serve.
Analysis
Percentages are based on the total number of responses specific to each question. For example, if a question received responses from only 100 out of 168 total respondents, and 75 respondents answered "yes" while 25 answered "no," the result is reported as 75 percent affirmative. In some cases, survey responses totaling fewer than 5 percent are not represented in graphs for the sake of clarity.
About NACD
For more than 40 years, NACD has been on the leading edge of corporate governance, setting standards of excellence that have elevated board performance. NACD arms today's directors with insights and education that drive their mission forward, while preparing a new generation of boardroom leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. NACD is a community of more than 23,000 directors driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in businesses and in the communities they serve. To learn more about NACD, visit nacdonline.org.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened Friday to take “unprecedently” strong action against its rivals, soon after South Korea announced a series of planned military drills with the United States to hone their joint response to the North’s increasing nuclear threats.
North Korea has halted weapons testing activities since its short-range missile firing on Jan. 1, though it launched more than 70 missiles in 2022 — a record number for a single year. Friday’s warning suggests the North's testing could resume soon over its rivals’ military training, which it views as an invasion rehearsal.
“In case the U.S. and South Korea carry into practice their already announced plan for military drills that (North Korea), with just apprehension and reason, regards as preparations for an aggression war, they will face unprecedentedly persistent and strong counteractions,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
The statement accused South Korea and the United States of planning more than 20 rounds of military drills, including their largest-ever field exercises. It called South Korea and the United States “the arch-criminals deliberately disrupting” regional peace and stability.
“This predicts that the situation in the Korean Peninsula and the region will be again plunged into the grave vortex of escalating tension,” the statement said.
It didn’t specify which U.S.-South Korean military trainings it was referring to. But North Korea has typically slammed all major regular military drills between Washington and Seoul as a practice to launch an invasion and responded with its own weapons tests.
Some experts say North Korea has used various South Korea-U.S. drills as a chance to test and perfect its weapons systems. They say North Korea would eventually aim to use its enlarged nuclear arsenal to win international recognition as a legitimate nuclear state and win sanctions relief and other concessions.
Seoul and Washington have said their training is defensive in nature.
Earlier Friday, Heo Tae-keun, South Korea’s deputy minister of national defense policy, told lawmakers that Seoul and Washington will hold an annual computer-simulated combined training in mid-March. Heo said the 11-day training would reflect North Korea’s nuclear threats, as well as unspecified lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War.
Heo said the two countries will also conduct joint field exercises in mid-March that would be bigger than those held in the past few years.
The allies had downsized or canceled some of their regular drills in recent years to guard against the COVID-19 pandemic and support now-dormant diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program.
Earlier Friday, Seoul officials said that South Korea and the U.S. will hold a one-day tabletop exercise next week at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, to sharpen a response to a potential use of nuclear weapons by North Korea. The exercise, scheduled for Wednesday, would set up possible scenarios where North Korea uses nuclear weapons, explore how to cope with them militarily and formulate crisis management plans, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Seoul's security concerns about North Korea’s nuclear program deepened after Pyongyang last year adopted a law that authorizes the preemptive use of nuclear weapons, and tested nuclear-capable missiles that put South Korea within striking distance.
In response to the intensifying North Korean threats, South Korea and the United States have expanded their joint military drills and stepped up pressure on the North to abandon its nuclear program. In January, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. would also increase its deployment of advanced weapons such as fighter jets and bombers to the Korean Peninsula.
During their annual meeting in November, Austin and South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup agreed to conduct tabletop exercises annually and further strengthen the alliance’s information sharing, joint planning and execution. Austin reiterated a warning that any nuclear attack against the U.S. or its allies would result in the end of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's regime. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/north-korea-response-to-south-us-drill/507-c87379d0-e707-47d2-bffb-98dcb8c83954 | 2023-02-17 14:55:05 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/north-korea-response-to-south-us-drill/507-c87379d0-e707-47d2-bffb-98dcb8c83954 |
Lawton police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing person believed to be the victim of a Sunday morning shooting on the city’s northwest side.
According to police, Michael Leray Conner is believed to be the victim of a shooting that happened between 1:45 a.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday near Northwest Arrowhead Drive and Cheyenne Avenue. No other information regarding the incident has been released. | https://www.swoknews.com/news/potential-shooting-victim-missing-in-lawton/article_d83a5090-c157-5c55-afad-5e9da7e8792d.html | 2023-02-09 10:22:17 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/news/potential-shooting-victim-missing-in-lawton/article_d83a5090-c157-5c55-afad-5e9da7e8792d.html |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The ESOP Association (TEA), the national trade association representing companies with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and ESOP professionals, today exercised rights under the Administrative Procedure Act to petition the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to undertake a long-delayed rulemaking essential to the formation and ongoing operation of ESOPs. Since 1974, the Department of Labor has steadfastly refused to fulfill requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in violation of Congressional direction and stakeholders' rights under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
"The Department of Labor has flouted Congress' mandate within ERISA for nearly five decades. On behalf of the millions of Americans with ownership in an ESOP, we have filed this petition to compel Secretary Walsh to undertake the rulemaking Congress directed in 1974, which was nearly completed in 1988 but has been mothballed ever since," said James Bonham, President and CEO of The ESOP Association. "The Labor Department has failed to follow Congress' requirements, and the regulatory vacuum has created a chilling effect on ESOP formation and operation that has effectively denied millions of Americans the opportunity for a better retirement and ownership in the place where they work."
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) were created by Congress to provide a vehicle by which a company's employees could obtain an ownership stake in their employer through a Qualified Retirement Plan (QRP). Today, more than 6,247 companies are fully or partially owned by more than 10 million employees through an ESOP1. However, because ESOPs are stuck in a regulatory no-man's land, countless businesses have turned away from an ESOP due to the DOL's failure to provide clear regulation and guidance as Congress directed. Instead, DOL has pursued a strategy of "regulation by litigation", undertaking thousands of investigations and filing lawsuits against ESOP trustees and founders.
The APA was enacted to specifically prevent government agencies from regulatory abuses like the DOL's approach to regulating ESOPs. Accordingly, The ESOP Association has formally registered an APA petition with U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is required to provide a formal, written response to the petition. Should the DOL respond that it will not enter a formal notice and comment rulemaking process, a court may force the Department to fulfill its responsibilities.
In its petition, The ESOP Association stated "The Department's unchecked, ex post facto approach to regulation has been devastating: it has sown confusion, emboldened and expanded an opportunistic class action plaintiffs' bar, driven up insurance costs, and pushed insurers out of the market. At bottom, the Department's policies have discouraged companies from establishing new ESOPs, driven others to dissolve their ESOPs, and prevented innumerable American workers from building wealth through equity as Congress intended. Employers, ESOP fiduciaries, and, most importantly, current and future ESOP participants, need the Department to regulate as Congress directed 50 years ago—transparently, prospectively, and with stakeholder input—so that American workers can reap the rewards that ESOPs provide."
In a recent example of DOL's abusive regulatory tactics, DOL investigated Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., an architectural and engineering firm based in Hawaii, alleging the ESOP acquired its employer's stock for more than fair market value. Bowers + Kubota's founders refused to cave to DOL pressure, and after several years prevailed on every argument advanced by DOL in federal court. In fact, the federal judge presiding over the bench trial resoundingly struck down each of the government's arguments and ruled that the defendants "did not violate any provision of ERISA with respect to the sale of the Company to the Company's ESOP."
The ESOP Association has joined the company through an amicus brief seeking to recover defendant's legal fees from the government.
"Governing by threats, harassment, and the arbitrary whim of bureaucrats should not be standard procedure," said Brian Bowers, President of Bowers + Kubota. "Although we won our case against the DOL, it took years of effort and millions of dollars in legal fees and the fight continues as we attempt to recover our costs based on the legal concept of loser pays. No business should endure what we did, especially when trying to secure employees' financial futures. We urge the Department to work with the ESOP community and develop appropriate regulations so ESOPs can go about their business of empowering and enriching employee owners' lives and not be subject to attack whenever the government decides to move the goalposts."
As with all qualified employee benefit plans, ESOPs are governed by ERISA. Congress designed ERISA to allow ESOPs to buy employer stock using funds borrowed from the ESOP's sponsoring company itself – employees almost never contribute any of their own funds for an ESOP's acquisition – so long as the ESOP pays no more than "adequate consideration." Virtually all ESOPs are established via this legal standard, known as the "Adequate Consideration Exemption."
When ERISA was passed in 1974, Congress directed the DOL to issue regulations outlining more specifically how parties to ESOP transactions could satisfy the Adequate Consideration Exemption. The Department itself has long recognized that such a regulation is crucial to eliminate confusion surrounding the vaguely written standard and to protect ESOPs and their participants from potential abuse. To issue a regulation, the Department would need to engage with interested stakeholders in the notice-and-comment rule-making process required by the APA. Unfortunately, the Department has ignored Congress's directive and circumvented the APA's requirements using a procedurally improper tactic of "regulation by litigation."
Fleshing out the definition of the Adequate Consideration Exemption would create a uniform, transparent standard governing the process by which parties to ESOP transactions can establish a company's fair market value, which is crucial to ensure that ESOPs do not overpay for employer stock.
Bonham added: "When Labor Secretary Marty Walsh was mayor of Boston, he was a champion of employee ownership and ESOPs. On behalf of more than 10 million employee owners, we stand ready to work with Secretary Walsh to help the Department formulate a clear and fair rule that will eliminate uncertainty and help more Americans realize the dream and benefits of employee ownership. Failure to issue a rule will continue the chilling effect on ESOP formation at a time when our government is trying to promote retirement security and address the massive wealth and income gap plaguing our economy."
The ESOP Association's full petition to the DOL via the APA can be found here. For a Fact Sheet on the petition and issues, click here. For the amicus brief in support of Bowers + Kubota Consulting's appeal to receive reimbursement of its legal fees, click here. For more information on the APA, click here.
About the ESOP Association
The ESOP Association is the largest organization in the world supporting employee-owned companies, the more than 10 million U.S. employees who participate in an ESOP, and the professionals who provide services to them. Headquartered at the International Employee Ownership Center in Washington, DC and operating as a 501(c)6 organization with the affiliated Employee Ownership Foundation, The ESOP Association conducts and funds academic research, provides more than 160 annual conferences and events attended by nearly 15,000 individuals, and advocates on behalf of employee owners and their businesses to federal and state lawmakers.
1 According to publicly available data included in most recent U.S. Department of Labor form 5500 from 2019
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ÖSTERSUND, Sweden, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a contract with Ruskeasuon Varikkokiinteistö Oy, a subsidiary of City Transport Ltd, to build a tram and bus depot in Helsinki, Finland. The contract is worth EUR 101M, about SEK 1.1 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the second quarter of 2022.
The depot is designed for 100 trams, and it has space for their daily maintenance, cleaning and repair work. The parking area for 200 buses and their maintenance building will be located on the roof of the depot. The building also has office space and a room where the drivers and personnel can rest.
The project has high environmental ambitions. The aim for the depot building is to be certified according to BREEAM level "Excellent". The certification system sets goals for example for waste management, energy and resource efficiency and natural values. The depot will be in use round the clock, which enables recycling of energy within the building.
The construction began in the fourth quarter of 2021 with the development phase and is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
For further information please contact:
Petri Mälkiä, Project Director, Skanska Finland, tel +358 503 704 728
Pilvimaari Heikkinen, Communications Manager, Skanska Finland, tel +358 405 194 787
Andreas Joons, Press Officer, Skanska AB, tel +46 (0)10 449 04 94
Direct line for media, tel +46 (0)10 448 88 99
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Some kids in Fort Worth may still be talking about their big weekend of fishing. It brought something good for them and the volunteers who made it happen.
Greenbriar Lake at Greenbriar Park, 5200 Hemphill Street, was the place to be for an annual youth fishing tournament.
Texas Parks and Wildlife stocks the lake with catfish, and kids aged three to 16 reel 'em in. The Osprey Bass Anglers of South Fort Worth provides the rods, reels, bait and the prizes like the $100 a little girl got for catching an albino catfish.
The fishing club started back in 1991. And, with the help of sponsors and volunteers, it hosted its 31st fishing tournament for kids this past Saturday.
For four hours, kids put away devices, got outdoors and connected with family and new friends. And, they may have learned what so many anglers know: "A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/something-good/fort-worth-kids-spend-the-day-fishing-for-fun/2997701/ | 2022-06-22 14:47:39 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/something-good/fort-worth-kids-spend-the-day-fishing-for-fun/2997701/ |
Margaret “Peggy” Lavan Krutski, 84, a lifelong resident of Wilkes-Barre Twp., peacefully passed away Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
She will always be remembered for being a loving Nana. She considered her grandchildren and great-grandchildren to be her biggest accomplishment in her life.
Peggy was born Oct. 24, 1938, in Wilkes-Barre Twp., the daughter of the late Charles and Maria Lyall Lavan.
She attended Wilkes-Barre Twp. High School.
Peggy retired from Valley Crest Nursing home after more than 20 years of dedicated service. She thoroughly enjoyed her job as a nurse’s aide in caring for the elderly.
Her true passion for work was as a bar owner and bartender. She continued to bartend long after her retirement. She left countless impressions and made just as many friends and memories.
Peggy had many great titles. She was a Mom, Aunt Peg and a friend, but her greatest joy was as a Nana and Great-Nana. She especially loved cooking for her grandchildren. She cherished every second she had with her grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. They adored Nana and Nana adored them more.
Whether it was a meal, a poured drink or a conversation Peggy loved giving to others. She left her family and friends with memories we will cherish forever.
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She had a deep love for her parents and each and every one of her siblings. Her family finds comfort in knowing that in her passing she will be reunited with her mother, father, six brothers and two sisters in heaven.
Peggy was preceded in death by her brothers, John Lavan Sr., Charles Lavan, Gerald Lavan, James Lavan, William Lavan Sr., Thomas Lavan; sisters, Mary Dugan and Regina Dotzel; sisters-in-law, Elia Lavan, Mary Ann Lavan, Madeline Lavan, Marilyn Lavanl; and brother-in-law, Fred Dotzel.
She is survived by her son Carl and wife, Karen; daughter, Kati Arnone and husband, Charlie; grandchildren, Kimberly Machlus and husband, Josh; Jessica Krutski; Kasey Krutski; Todd Eagleton and wife, Kelly; Nick Eagleton; and Grace Arnone; great-grandchildren, Zahir, Adhon, Marilyn, Jovanie, Hudson, Arden, Harper and Luke’ sisters-in-law, Anna Mae Lavan and Jane Lavan; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
The family would like to thank the staff at Smith Healthcare for their care and compassion for Peggy in her final chapter of life.
At Peggy’s request, there will be no calling hours. Private services will be held at convenience of her family.
Condolences may be sent by visiting Peggy’s obituary at www.natandgawlas.com.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/obituaries/margaret-peggy-lavan-krutski/article_755ed97e-0715-5157-a2d1-949fa4f2adef.html | 2023-05-14 02:46:41 | 0 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/obituaries/margaret-peggy-lavan-krutski/article_755ed97e-0715-5157-a2d1-949fa4f2adef.html |
SAN MATEO, Calif, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Superb AI announced today the initial closing of its Series B investment round with $16M, led by Korea Development Bank (KDB) and Series A investor Premier Partners, with additional investments from seed investors like Duke University and KT Investment. Superb AI's newest investors include Halla Group, the parent company of Tier 1 automotive parts maker Mando.
"We believe Superb AI's unique approach accelerates computer vision projects by automating data preparation to faster and more predictably leverage AI and machine learning," said Hyun Kim, co-founder and CEO of Superb AI. "We are thankful for our investors who have supported us on this journey and this investment will allow us to build out our team and technology to bring more useful AI and computer vision capabilities to organizations worldwide."
Since the start, Superb AI's core mission has been to lower the barriers to entry for developing production-grade AI and to deliver the fastest and most trusted data management platform for computer vision applications.
"We strongly believe in Superb AI's team and mission as they are producing a product that all can use," said Hayoung Yun, Director at Premier Partners. "Computer vision is a new but promising technology and this platform that has been created has wide applications across industries. We are excited to see the future of Superb AI."
The growing adoption of machine learning technology across industries shows no signs of slowing down, and Superb AI understands the underlying need for a smarter and more automated way to continuously deliver high-quality training data.
"We invested in Superb AI for three main reasons: the company's world-class talent, the novelty and differentiation of its data training automation platform, and the value it provides to its customers," said Kurt Schmidt, Managing Director of Duke Angel Network. "We believe Superb AI's platform has the potential to democratize the use of machine learning for many types of organizations worldwide. We look forward to continuing to expand our partnership with Superb AI and we are excited to see what they accomplish next."
Superb AI is an end-to-end training data platform that automates data preparation at scale to make building and iterating on datasets quick, systematic, and repeatable. Founded in 2018 by data scientists, academics, and ML engineers, the team has decades of experience and academic research in computer vision and deep learning, including 25+ publications, 7,300+ citations, and 100+ patents. Superb AI empowers companies at all stages to build and deploy computer vision applications significantly faster. For more information, visit www.superb-ai.com.
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Acquisition Further Expands and Differentiates Micross' High-Reliability Product Manufacturing Capabilities
MELVILLE, N.Y., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Micross Components, Inc. ("Micross" or the "Company"), a leading provider of high-reliability microelectronic product and service solutions for aerospace, defense, space, medical and industrial applications and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, today announced the acquisition of the High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies business of Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms.
Headquartered in Reynosa, Mexico, the business provides semiconductor solutions, including Qualified Product List ("QPL") and non-QPL diodes, rectifiers and transient voltage suppression products to aerospace, defense, medical and other high-reliability customers. The business manufactures products designed to operate across a wide range of temperatures, vibrations and other harsh environments.
Micross' acquisition – the fifth under Behrman Capital's ownership and first since consummating a continuation fund transaction in February of 2022 – addresses a number of strategic priorities for the Company. The addition of Semtech's High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies Product portfolio provides Micross with power management components that are supported by a high degree of intellectual property. The acquisition also expands Micross' footprint with a manufacturing presence in Mexico, offering a new beachhead for future growth and expansion opportunities.
Simon Lonergan, Managing Partner of Behrman Capital, said, "This acquisition represents an extremely strong strategic fit for Micross, as the Company continues to build out its product portfolio to better serve its customer base. Adding Semtech's high-reliability discrete products to Micross' platform further differentiates the Company's leading position as a one-stop source of supply for high-reliability electronic products and services. We look forward to continuing to work with management to identify additional opportunities to drive growth at Micross."
Vince Buffa, Chairman and CEO of Micross, said, "We are delighted to partner with this team through the acquisition, to further expands Micross' capabilities. With the addition of significant manufacturing capacity, we will be better positioned to produce an even wider range of high-quality products for our customers. Together, we plan to pursue a number of compelling opportunities to further realize our exciting growth prospects, all while upholding excellent quality and service to our customers."
About Micross
Micross (https://www.micross.com) is a leading global provider of mission-critical microelectronic components and services for high-reliability markets. Micross provides a wide range of product and service solutions to customers, including Die & Wafer services, Advanced Interconnect Technology, Custom Packaging & Assembly, Component Modification Services, Electrical & Environmental Testing and other high-reliability products and services. In business for more than 40 years, Micross' extensive high-reliability capabilities serve the Aerospace & Defense, Space, Medical and Industrial markets, among others. Micross possesses the sourcing, packaging, assembly, engineering, test and logistics expertise needed to support applications throughout their entire program life cycles. For more information about Micross, please visit www.micross.com.
About Behrman Capital
Based in New York City, Behrman Capital was founded in 1991 by Grant G. and Darryl G. Behrman. The firm invests in management buyouts, leveraged buildups and recapitalizations of established growth businesses. The company's investments are focused in three industries: defense and aerospace, healthcare services, and specialty manufacturing and distribution. Since its inception, the firm has raised $4.0 billion and is currently investing out of its sixth fund.
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading global supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for infrastructure, high-end consumer and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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US diplomatic convoy attacked in Sudan amid new truce appeal
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Washington’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a U.S. Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan and denounced “indiscriminate military operations” as the country’s armed forces and a powerful rival unleashed heavy weapons in urban areas for a fourth day.
The convoy of clearly marked embassy vehicles was attacked on Monday, and preliminary reports link the assailants to the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling Sudan’s military, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters. Everyone in the convoy was safe, Blinken said.
The Sudanese military said the attack took place in Sudan’s restive Darfur region.
The convoy attack, along with earlier assaults on aid workers and the EU envoy’s residence in the capital of Khartoum, signaled further descent into chaos since the battle by two rival generals for control of Africa’s third-largest country erupted over the weekend.
More than 185 people have been killed and more than 1,800 wounded, according to U.N. figures. The death toll could be much higher because there are many bodies in the streets in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, especially around the city center, that no one can reach because of the clashes.
The two sides have been using tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons in densely populated areas. Late Monday, fighter jets swooped overhead and anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies as darkness fell. Fighting resumed early Tuesday around each side’s main bases and at strategic government buildings — all of which are in residential areas.
The turmoil comes just days before Sudanese were to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press showed the extent of the destruction from days of fighting. At Khartoum International Airport, which also has a military side, the AP counted some 20 damaged aircraft in an image taken early Monday afternoon. Some had been completely destroyed, with one still belching smoke. At the El Obeid and Merowe air bases, north and south of Khartoum, several fighter jets were among the destroyed aircraft.
Top diplomats have urged the two rival generals — armed forces chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and RSF leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo — to halt fighting, so far to no avail.
The Sudanese military said Tuesday that more troops would join the battle and that it would “widen the scope of its operations” against the RSF.
The State Department said late Monday that Blinken spoke by phone separately with the two generals.
“I made very clear (in my calls) that any attacks or threats or dangers posed to our diplomats were totally unacceptable,” Blinken told reporters at the Group of Seven wealthy nations meeting in Japan on Tuesday,
He appealed for an immediate 24-hour cease-fire, as a foundation for a longer truce and a return to negotiations. “Indiscriminate military operations have resulted in significant deaths and injuries, recklessly endangering civilians, diplomats, including U.S. personnel, and humanitarian personnel,” he said.
Burhan and Dagalo, former allies who jointly orchestrated an October 2021 coup, have dug in, demanding the other’s surrender. The violence has raised the specter of civil war just as Sudanese were trying to revive the drive for a democratic, civilian government after decades of military rule.
The Sudanese military blamed the RSF, which grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias in Sudan’s Darfur region, for the attack on the U.S. convoy and an earlier assault on the home of the EU envoy in Khartoum. The military said the convoy was attacked in al-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur province.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell tweeted Monday that the EU ambassador to Sudan “was assaulted in his own residency,” without providing further details.
The RSF denied involvement in the attack on the ambassador’s home, instead blaming the military. However, a Western diplomat in Cairo said the residence was ransacked by armed men in RSF uniforms. No one was hurt but the armed men stole several items, said the diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to media.
Under international pressure, Burhan and Dagalo had recently agreed to a framework agreement with political parties and pro-democracy groups, but the signing was repeatedly delayed as tensions rose over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces and the future chain of command.
Both generals have a long history of human rights abuses and their forces have cracked down on pro-democracy activists.
Only four years ago, Sudan inspired hope after a popular uprising helped depose long-time autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir.
But the turmoil since, especially the 2021 coup, has frustrated the democracy drive and wrecked the economy. A third of the population — around 16 million people — now depends on humanitarian assistance in the resource-rich nation.
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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Matthew Lee in Karuizawa, Japan, contributed to this report.
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HAIKOU, China, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the second China International Consumer Products Expo ("CICPE" or "Hainan Expo") welcomes 2,800 boutique brands from 61 countries and regions, Sanya, the popular resort city on Hainan Island's southern tip, showcased the city's possibilities and potential as a tourism destination combined with fashionable elements through its theme day on July 28 at the largest consumer boutique exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Sanya Day event was organized by the Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Economic Development (Hainan IEDB) and co-organized by the Sanya Tourism Promotion Board (STPB). It aimed to cultivate new businesses and promote culture exchange for tourism consumption while encouraging international partners to explore the potential of this "tourism + culture" destination in China.
Fashion show brings Hong Kong designer brands to a top tourist destination
Hainan Expo provides unlimited business opportunities for international brands to explore the Chinese market, while introducing China's fashionable products to consumers across the globe. The Sanya Day event, which was an important part of the Hainan Expo Fashion Week, featured three debut shows from Hong Kong boutique and pioneering designer brands, including Ribyeung, BronzeLucia, and KINGWEN, with elements covering leisure, vacation, youth, and nature.
The cooperation with the Hong Kong designers echoes Sanya's commitment to expanding this business and establishing a long-term collaboration mechanism with international premium and emerging brands with the ambition of bringing travelers more fashion experiences.
While promoting Sanya as a fashionable and trendy tourism option, the show also presented Sanya as an open and diverse international destination and called for mutual cooperation with Hong Kong and the international community.
Fashion as a new approach to discovering the best of Sanya
At the event, STPB and Hainan IEDB signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the fashion sector, leveraging resources to land brand debuts and introduce the fashion cluster to Sanya. The signings will explore opportunities in Sanya's tourism market and future development opportunities in supporting future brand debuts and designer events as well as launching premium conferences and exhibitions.
An internationally renowned tourist destination, Sanya is undoubtedly the best medium for brands to enter the Chinese market given its diversified customer base. It is also an ideal option for travelers who would like to add more fashion-related experiences to their business or leisure trips, as Sanya keeps enhancing its competitiveness against the backdrop of the integrated free trade port policy and the popularity of tourism and leisure consumption scenarios.
"Sanya has been committed to developing partnerships and enriching its offering to serve the demands of various visitors. The idea of achieving win-win cooperation and deepening mutual exchange is the original intention of our participation in the Hainan Expo, as we hope to extend more possibilities of Sanya," said Albert Yip, director general of the STPB. "Building on the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Hainan Free Trade Port and taking the second Hainan Expo as an opportunity, we would like to extend an invitation to visitors from Hong Kong and other places across the world to explore the enormous potential in Sanya, to enjoy the unique experience here with a fashionable taste."
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It is with profound sadness that I write to the Ithaca Times. Last Sunday, while walking with friends on the Ithaca Commons, I was appalled to see the window display of Zaza’s Exotic Market and Smoke Shop. The display had 3 hookahs (water pipes) in the shape of machine guns, studded with rhinestones.
At a time when Ithaca and the USA witnesses too many incidences of gunfire, it seems horrifying that a shop, which is on the corner of the Commons, on the Cayuga Street end, would think it was a good idea to have a prominent window display which shows gun-like objects. The Commons is like an urban park, for families, students, and the public. They should not have to witness this callous tacky presentation.
I am hoping that the publication of this letter with my photo, will cause the owners of Zaza’s Exotics (a franchise I think) to rethink their window dressing. | https://www.ithaca.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/zaza-s-window-display/article_10af93b6-9cd3-11ed-b01b-9791582de045.html | 2023-01-26 00:50:24 | 1 | https://www.ithaca.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/zaza-s-window-display/article_10af93b6-9cd3-11ed-b01b-9791582de045.html |
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Range, the all-in-one AI WealthTech platform, announced it had raised $12m in funding led by Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund. The round also included Expa (founded by Garrett Camp, former Chairman and Co-founder of Uber), Red Sea Ventures, 8-bit Capital, and individuals Randy Reddig (co-founder, Square), Adrian Aoun (CEO & founder at Forward Health), Severin Hacker (co-founder & CTO of Duolingo), and Dan Lewis (co-founder & CEO of Convoy).
"We started this company to help families better manage their wealth," said Fahad Hassan, co-founder and CEO of Range. "With our new investors and their experience in AI, we believe this partnership and financing will allow us to assist families during unprecedented times of economic change and uncertainty. Our products will allow everyone to access the advice and tools typically only available to the wealthy."
The funding will be used primarily to grow the product and engineering teams to accelerate offerings to Range's customers. Range plans to integrate their wealth management tools with various AI technologies to automate aspects of wealth and tax planning.
"Understanding your current wealth and where your family can develop new opportunities for wealth creation is on the minds of everyone. The team at Range is determined to leverage new technologies, specifically AI and large-language models, to give families more control and visibility into their financial future," said Darian Shirazi, General Partner at Gradient Ventures, who also joins Range's board of directors. "We're thrilled to partner with Fahad, David, and the entire Range team as they pursue their noble vision to improve the financial lives of families globally. "
Range was founded in 2021 by Fahad Hassan and David Cusatis. An all-in-one wealth management tool to make financial planning accessible to everyone, Range has in-house financial advisers to optimize investment services, tax planning, estate planning, retirement planning and insurance needs.
ABOUT RANGE
Range puts wealth management into the hands of everyone with a platform aimed at simplifying and democratizing access. The all-in-one tools are powered by proprietary AI technology and aided by a team of world class licensed financial advisors. With no minimums required, personalized guidance, financial tools, machine-learning insights, and 24/7 support, Range is revolutionizing the wealth management industry. For more information, visit www.range.com.
ABOUT GRADIENT VENTURES
Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, helps founders build transformational companies. The fund focuses on helping founders navigate the challenges in developing new technology products, using the latest best practices in recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering so that great ideas can come to life. Gradient was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.gradient.com.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican legislators over the wishes of the Democratic governor.
The Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto in three years of a bill to ban transgender athletes, and came a day after state lawmakers passed a broad bathroom bill. Nineteen other states have imposed restrictions on transgender athletes, most recently Wyoming.
The Kansas law takes effect July 1 and is among several hundred proposals that Republican lawmakers across the U.S. have pursued this year to push back on LGBTQ rights. Kansas lawmakers who back the ban are also pursuing proposals to end gender-affirming care for minors and restrict restroom use.
The measure approved by Kansas lawmakers Tuesday would prevent transgender people from using public restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities associated with their gender identities, and bars them from changing their name or gender on their driver’s licenses. Kelly is expected to veto that.
“It’s a scary time to be raising a trans child in Kansas,” said Cat Poland, a lifelong Kansas resident and mother of three who coordinates a Gay-Straight Alliance at her 13-year-old trans son’s school about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of Wichita. “We may face the very real threat of having to move, and it’s heartbreaking.”
The ban demonstrates the clout of religious conservatives, reflected in the 2022 platform of the Kansas Republican Party — “We believe God created man and woman” — and echoes many Republicans’ beliefs that their constituents don’t like any cultural shift toward acceptance.
“I wish it was 1960, and, you know, little Johnny’s a boy and Mary’s a girl, and that’s how it is, period,” Republican state Rep. John Eplee, a 70-year-old doctor, said during a committee discussion of the bathroom bill.
LGBTQ-rights advocates say its part of a national campaign from right-wing traditionalists to erase transgender, non-binary, gender-queer and gender-fluid people from American society.
Alex Poland, an eighth-grade cross-country runner who hopes to play baseball next year, said legislators are pursuing “bills against children” who “haven’t done anything to harm anyone.”
Alex, who lobbied for trans rights with his mother at the Statehouse last week, said it’s good for trans kids’ mental health to play on teams associated with their gender identities, and that most other kids just don’t care.
It’s largely adults who “care so much about what the trans kids are doing,” Alex said.
Kelly told reporters in the Kansas City area that she believes legislators eventually will regret voting for “this really awful bill.”
“It breaks my heart and certainly is disappointing,” Kelly said.
The first state law on transgender athletes, in Idaho in 2020, came after conservatives retrenched from the national backlash over a short-lived 2016 bathroom law in North Carolina. In Kansas, conservatives’ biggest obstacle has been Kelly, who narrowly won reelection last year after pitching herself as a political centrist.
Conservative Republicans in Kansas fell short of the two-thirds majorities in both legislative chambers needed to override Kelly’s vetoes of the transgender athlete bills in 2021 and 2022. But this year, the House voted 84-40 to override her veto, exactly the two-thirds majority needed. The vote was 28-12 in the Senate, one more than a two-thirds majority.
Supporters of the ban could not have overriden Kelly’s veto this year but for the only Democrat to side with them against the governor. Rep. Marvin Robinson, of Kansas City, told reporters that he had wanted to “meet in the middle” but found the debate “all or none out there.” He said he prayed for guidance before the vote.
Two LGBTQ Democratic lawmakers from the Kansas City area were especially upset because they believed Republicans were gloating over the House vote.
Rep. Heather Meyer stood up, opened her jacket and displayed a “Protect Trans Youth” T-shirt before making a rude gesture as she left the chamber. Rep. Susan Ruiz yelled at GOP members, briefly cursing at them before being told she was out of order.
“We’re tired of putting up with it, and I’m tired of putting up with it,” she said later. “There needs to be some respect.”
Across the U.S., supporters of such bans argue that they keep competition fair. Track and field last month barred transgender athletes from international competition, adopting the same rules that swimming did last year.
Supporters argue that they’re also making sure cisgendered girls and women don’t lose the scholarships and other opportunities that didn’t exist for them decades ago.
“Over the past 50 years, females have finally been able to celebrate our differences and create a division that enabled us to achieve athletic endeavors similar to our male counterparts,” Caroline Bruce McAndrew, a former Olympic swimmer and member from the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame from Wichita, testified to lawmakers.
LGBTQ-rights advocates acknowledge that arguments about competition resonate outside Republicans’ conservative base because of the longstanding assumption that men and boys are naturally stronger than women and girls.
They’re also frustrated that the debate often focuses on whether transgender athletes have or can win championships.
Hudson Taylor, a three-time All-American collegiate wrestler said youth sports should be about learning discipline, “healthy habits,” and having fun in a supportive environment. He founded and leads the pro-LGBTQ group Athlete Ally.
“There’s been a professionalization of youth sports over the last 40 years,” Taylor said. “So often, the legislators and people who oppose trans-athlete inclusion really go directly to the most elite, top talent, Olympic-hopeful athletes.”
The Kansas measure bans transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ teams starting in kindergarten, even though sports and other extra-curricular activities aren’t overseen by the Kansas State High School Activities Association until the seventh grade.
That’s one reason LGBTQ-rights advocates are skeptical that the true issue is fair competition. Another is the scarcity of transgender female athletes.
The state association said three transgender girls competed in sports in grades 7-12 this year, two of them seniors. Taylor said transgender athletes in college likely number fewer than 500. The NCAA says about 219,000 women play collegiate sports.
The international track and field ban doesn’t affect a single transgender female athlete.
Cat Poland, the Kansas mother with a trans son, said: “They just keep taking the next, the next step, the next step, until where are trans people supposed to go? Where can they can exist to be safe and live happy and fulfilling lives?”
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As people and businesses begin picking up the pieces following Hurricane Ian, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a request for firearms dealers.
The agency wants the dealers to contact them if they experience theft, loss or damage to their inventory.
The ATF is assisting with storm damage across the region.
Special agents with the Tampa Field Division posted an image on Twitter of them removing debris in Sarasota, Florida.
Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida after making landfall last week.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said on Sunday that 58 people died from Hurricane Ian. A majority of those deaths, 42, were in hard-hit Lee County.
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Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal judge to block a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a signature policy of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as he nears his presidential campaign.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Friday heard arguments from an attorney representing the three families in a case that argues they are being stripped of the right to make medical decisions for their children.
DeSantis has curtailed transgender medical treatments for minors in the state — often describing the issue in terms that are at odds with the nation’s major medical associations — as he leans into cultural divides that animate the Republican base ahead of his anticipated presidential run.
Florida’s law, signed this week by DeSantis, prohibits the prescription of puberty-blocking, hormone and hormone antagonist therapies to treat gender dysphoria in minors. It also bans gender-affirming medical procedures or surgeries for minors.
The law also bans the use of state money for gender-affirming care and places new restrictions on adults seeking treatment. Among those restrictions are a requirement that people meet face to face with a doctor — not a nurse or nurse practitioner — and not through telemedicine. Private organizations that provide such care could be risking any state funding they receive.
Transgender medical treatment for children and teenagers has increasingly been subject to restrictions or outright bans from Republicans across the country.
At least 17 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, including Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Federal judges have blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it. Several other states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care.
The treatments have been available in the United States for more than a decade and are endorsed by major medical associations as appropriate care for people diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Guidelines say surgery generally should be reserved for those ages 18 and older.
Treatment typically begins with an evaluation for the distress caused when gender identity doesn’t match a person’s assigned sex. With parental consent, persistent dysphoria can be treated with hormones, but typically not until age 16.
The parents did not appear in court Friday. It is unclear when the judge could issue a ruling on their request to block the law. Attorney Jennifer Levi, said the law is discriminatory against transgender people and hopes the judge moves quickly.
“My hope is that what it means for these adolescents is that they will very quickly be able to be moving forward in getting the care that they need, but the judge is going to set the timeframe for that,” Levi said.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese court has rejected an appeal by prominent journalist and democracy activist Pham Doan Trang, who had been sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state,” state media said.
The Hanoi Supreme Court upheld the sentence that was handed down to the 44-year-old in December, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. During the court hearing on Thursday, the judge said Trang’s activities “brought danger to the society,” “violated the stability" of the government and that her sentence was justified, the newspaper said.
Trang, who denied the charges, is known for her outspokenness on topics including gender equality, human rights and democracy.
For her activism, Trang was granted the 2022 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.
“Trang’s continued detention is the latest instance in an alarming pattern of arrests and sentencing of individuals in Vietnam for peacefully expressing their opinions,” said Ned Price, spokesperson for the U.S State Department.
“We call for the Vietnamese government to release Trang and to allow all individuals in Vietnam to exercise their right to freedom of expression, without fear of retaliation, consistent with the human rights provisions in Vietnam’s constitution and Vietnam’s international obligations and commitments,” Price said in a statement. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Vietnam-court-upholds-9-year-prison-sentence-for-17399372.php | 2022-08-26 05:50:06 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Vietnam-court-upholds-9-year-prison-sentence-for-17399372.php |
BEIJING, July 29 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NaaS Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: NAAS, "NaaS" or the "Company"), a leading electric vehicle ("EV") charging service provider in China, and Li Auto Inc. ("Li Auto"), a leader in China's new energy vehicle market, recently reached an agreement whereby both parties will utilize their respective capabilities to launch a new smart charging navigation system, enabling EV owners to more easily find chargers and recharge their EVs. The service is scheduled to become available in the third quarter of this year.
"Being digital and intelligent makes it possible to quickly improve the charging experience for EV drivers," says Liang Xing, Vice President of Operations, NaaS. "NaaS empowers its partners with strong digital capabilities and a comprehensive network, in order to build the charging service ecosystem of the future, and allowing the entire industry value chain to run more efficiently, while creating a more convenient and better EV charging experience for drivers."
Under the agreement, NaaS will connect its nationwide digital charging network to Li Auto's charging navigation system, enabling L9 drivers to use in-vehicle maps or the Li Auto APP to locate partner charging stations. Energy delivery is now one of the most pressing issues for EV drivers, and the cooperation provides an excellent complement to Li Auto's energy supply services.
As China's EV market continues on its accelerated growth path, Li Auto has evolved into one of the leading domestic carmakers with a focus on technical innovation. On June 1, the company announced that it had delivered 11,496 Li ONE units in May, a year on year increase of 165.9%. On June 21, the carmaker released its new smart flagship SUV for families, the Li L9, joining the 5-display 3D era with touch screens capable of interacting with smart phones, computers, televisions, tablets and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
Chargers are an integral part of the support structure for the EV sector, and the charging experience is a major consideration for drivers contemplating purchasing an EV. As of the end of 2021, NaaS had connected 290,000 charging piles in 288 cities across the country, further enhancing the charging network for OEMs and optimizing the charging experience.
As one of the largest and fastest-growing renewable energy service providers in China, NaaS provides a wide range of one-stop solutions to charger manufacturers, operators, EV OEMs, and other industry players to make energy delivery more efficient, via the deployment of digital technologies across the entirety of the industry chain.
In 2021, NaaS had delivered 55 million charges, with a total of 1,233 Gigawatt hours charged through NaaS' network, accounting for 18% of the Chinese public charging market for the year. On June 13, NaaS was listed on the Nasdaq, becoming China's first publicly-listed charging services provider.
About NaaS Technology Inc.
NaaS Technology Inc. ("NaaS" or the "Company") is one of the largest and fastest growing electric vehicle ("EV") charging service providers in China. The firm is a subsidiary of NewLink, a leading energy digitalization group in China. NaaS offers a comprehensive one-stop shop to charger manufacturers and operators, OEMs, in-house delivery fleets as well as fleet operators, with online, offline, and non-electric services covering the entire EV industry value chain. As of the end of 2021, NaaS had connected over 290,000 charging piles. In 2021, a total of 1,233 Gigawatt hours were charged through NaaS' network, accounting for approximately 18% of China's public charging market and reducing carbon emissions by 900,000 tons On June 13, 2022, NaaS Technology Inc. was officially listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker NAAS.
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NEW YORK -- This Buddy Holly no longer has to sigh, "That'll be the day."
A petit basset griffon Vendéen named for the late rock 'n' roll legend won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday night, a first for the rabbit-hunting breed. Buddy Holly bested six other finalists to garner the most prestigious dog show award in the United States.
"I never thought a PBGV would do this," handler and co-owner Janice Hayes said. "Buddy Holly is the epitome of a show dog. Nothing bothers him."
Indeed, his white-tipped tail didn't stop wagging while he competed in the stadium where the U.S. Open tennis tournament's top matches are played. Not even while he posed for countless pictures after a win that Hayes called "so surreal."
"We're so proud of him," she said.
His competitors included Rummie, a Pekingese that came in second after aiming to bring home the third trophy in 11 years for his small-but-regal breed - and for handler, owner and breeder David Fitzpatrick. He guided Pekes Malachy and Wasabi to Westminster wins in 2012 and 2021, respectively.
Rummie is "true to Pekingese type, lots of carriage, presence - everything in one, here," he said Monday.
Winston the French bulldog was gunning for the title after coming oh-so-close last year. An Australian shepherd named Ribbon, an English setter called Cider, a giant schnauzer named Monty and an American Staffordshire terrier called Trouble also were in the pack of contenders.
If Buddy Holly was feeling the pressure, he wasn't letting it show ahead of the finals. Instead, he seemed more concerned late Tuesday afternoon with playing with his people and rejecting the notion of a nap in his crate.
"He just screams PBGV," Hayes said. "They're just very independent but very charming and just silly. Their goal is to make you laugh every day."
Originally from France, the small hounds are the 154th most prevalent purebreds in the country, according to recent American Kennel Club rankings. (Their name means "low-lying, wire-haired dog from the Vendée region" and is pronounced peh-TEE' bah-SAY' grihf-FAHN' vahn-DAY'-ahn.)
Buddy Holly - so named because "he's a buddy," breeder Gavin Robertson explained - has also lived and competed in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia.
About 2,500 dogs of 210 breeds and varieties vied for the trophy. Among them: the newly eligible bracco Italiano breed, won by a dog co-owned by country music star Tim McGraw.
Besides the chosen finalists, there were other fan favorites, too.
There was the bloodhound that bowed deeply before a judge, the golden retriever cheered by the breed's many fans, and the spunky German shorthaired pointer that did a few leaps before its lap around the ring. Spectators applauded 10-year-old handler Audra Maes and her shiba inu, and breeder/owner/handler Alexandria Mitchell and her Ibizan hound. They made the judge's first cut, an accomplishment at a show where many exhibitors handle other people's dogs as a career.
The Westminster show, held this year at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, also includes obedience and agility competitions that are open to mixed-breed dogs.
And what was next for Buddy Holly? A good night's sleep, "upside down, rolling in pillows," Hayes said.
"He just gets to go back to being a dog." | https://abc11.com/westminster-kennel-club-best-in-show-buddy-holly-petit-basset-griffon-venden/13230033/ | 2023-05-10 11:19:27 | 0 | https://abc11.com/westminster-kennel-club-best-in-show-buddy-holly-petit-basset-griffon-venden/13230033/ |
Nunez header sees Liverpool edge West Ham
Nunez initially struggled following his move from Benfica at the end of last season for a reported initial fee of £64million (€73.5m) that could rise to £85m (€97.6m).
However, an all-action performance from the 23-year-old against the Hammers saw him score the only goal of the game with a header from a Kostas Tsimikas cross, while also forcing Lukasz Fabianski into a fine save and hitting the post among his six efforts on total from 56 minutes on the pitch, before being substituted as a precaution.
Nunez now has five goals in 12 games (six starts), and has netted three times in his last four appearances in all competitions.
"It is important. He has scored now a couple of times in the last few games. He arrived 100 per cent, now even with numbers, which is fine," Klopp said.
"He felt a little bit the muscles at half-time but it was all fine and after five minutes [of the second half] I was just a bit concerned about long sprints for him and balls where he stretches his legs. I thought, 'Come on, we cannot take that risk' and that's why we changed."
Despite having a number of chances to score again after Nunez's 22nd-minute goal, Liverpool came under pressure as David Moyes' men grew into the game, with Alisson having to save a penalty from Jarrod Bowen after the forward was brought down by Joe Gomez just before half-time.
The Reds held on the for their second 1-0 win in a week, having beaten Manchester City by the same score on Sunday, and Klopp conceded it had been another tough three points to claim.
"It is a Premier League game and I cannot remember an easy game in all of the seven years and few days, and that was for sure not easy tonight," he said. "But we played well enough – and in moments, really good. In the end, altogether, well enough to deserve three points.
"It's the second 1-0 in a row which is absolutely fine. It's a brilliant result... that we have space for improvement I think is clear, it was always the case and is tonight the case.
"But in this moment, we have three points more than before and that feels massive." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/video/klopp-declares-match-winner-nunez-has-arrived/1971776 | 2022-10-20 05:09:23 | 0 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/video/klopp-declares-match-winner-nunez-has-arrived/1971776 |
Shipping companies reach $97M California oil spill agreement
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Shipping companies will pay nearly $97 million to settle a lawsuit with a pipeline operator over a 2021 oil spill off the coast of Southern California, the pipeline company said Wednesday.
Amplify Energy, the Houston-based company that operates the pipeline, said in a statement that companies associated with the M/V Danit and M/V Beijing agreed to the payments. Amplify accused the vessels of dragging anchors in the waters off California and striking the pipeline during a January 2021 storm, which months later led to the spill of 25,000 gallons (94,600 liters) of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean.
Once the payments are made, Amplify said it would drop its claims against the shipping companies.
“The resolution of Amplify’s claims against the vessels and their affiliated entities concludes our involvement in the litigation related to the 2021 pipeline incident,” Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president and chief executive, said in the statement.
Messages seeking comment were sent to lawyers for the shipping companies.
While less severe than initially feared, the oil spill sent blobs of crude washing ashore, shuttered beaches for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened area wetlands.
Southern California fishermen, tourism companies and property owners sued Amplify and the shipping vessels seeking compensation for their losses. Amplify agreed to pay $50 million and the vessels agreed to pay $45 million to settle those lawsuits.
Amplify, which reached a plea deal with federal authorities for negligently discharging crude, sued the vessels and the Marine Exchange, an organization that helps oversee marine traffic.
The Marine Exchange has also agreed to a non-monetary settlement with Amplify, the statement said. No details of this settlement were immediately released. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/01/shipping-companies-reach-97m-california-oil-spill-agreement-3/ | 2023-03-01 19:29:38 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/01/shipping-companies-reach-97m-california-oil-spill-agreement-3/ |
The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life-story reads like an action movie hero.
The USS Chancelorsville is now called the USS Robert Smalls, the man who stole a Confederate steamer loaded with guns and delivered it to the Union Navy, delivering himself and 16 other crew and their families from slavery.
"It is a move much more consistent with the Navy's values," said Capt. Edward Angelinas, who commands the ship. "Going from a Confederate victory to this incredible story of a former slave, who commandeered a Confederate ship and turned it over to the Union Navy."
Rebel generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson won a decisive victory over the U.S. military at Chancelorsville, Va., in 1863. As recently as 1989 the U.S. Navy saw fit to name a warship for that battle. Just seven years ago there was still a portrait of Lee and Jackson displayed in the ship's wardroom.
The U.S. military is in the process of renaming all the bases and warships that honor the Confederacy, including civil war generals who enslaved people and fought against the U.S. military. The newly christened USS Robert Smalls may be the most direct repudiation of that legacy.
Born into slavery in Beaufort, S.C., Robert Smalls was already such a skilled mariner by his 20s that his enslaver rented him out as a pilot in Charleston harbor.
In May 1862, that meant ferrying munitions on a 150 foot side-wheel steamer called the Planter. The white officers on board trusted Smalls so much, or were so blinded to his capabilities, that they often left the ship to go home to their families at night. But Smalls was thinking about his own family.
"He was married, he had two children, among them my great-grandmother Elizabeth," said Michael Moore, and South Carolina businessman.
"He knew in slavery that his family could be separated from him in an instant. To make a long story short, he knew that there was a (Union Navy) blockade just outside the mouth of Charleston River," said Moore.
On May 12, Smalls enlisted the rest of the enslaved crew and sailed away. They made an audacious stop to collect their families, and then one more ruse de guerre –- he disguised himself as the captain.
"He donned a straw hat and long sort of top coat that the Confederate captain wore, and in the middle of night and at distance, he rang the various pass-codes to be allowed to pass by about five forts in Charleston Harbor and sailed passed them all into freedom," said Moore.
The risk was absolute. Smalls and probably the entire crew would have been made gory examples if they'd been caught.
"They would've been killed in a very public way to deter other enslaved African Americans from trying such a heist," said Robin Moore, also a great-great grandchild.
Smalls and his shipmates knew it was freedom or death. Some accounts say they rigged the boat with explosives in case they were caught.
Once they slipped past Confederate lines, the danger wasn't over. Seeing a southern ship heading directly at them, the Union sailors prepared their cannons. The dawn's early light revealed a white flag just in time, sewn by Smalls' wife from bedsheets.
Smalls handed over an entire steamship loaded with Confederate guns.
"Robert got a reward for delivering the boat to the United States. And he actually could have lived a very comfortable, happy life, perhaps up in the north where he was received as a real hero," said Michael Moore.
Instead, Smalls returned to war. He first piloted the same ship he'd taken from the Confederates, and later took command of a Union ship under fire in an attack on Charleston, becoming the first African American to command a U.S. Navy vessel.
After the war he kept serving — in the South Carolina legislature and then the U.S. House of Representatives. He promoted equality and public education, and made sure his own children were educated, said Robin Moore.
"His commitment to education was passed along to his daughter Elizabeth, who was that four-year old on that ship. All of Elizabeth's children went to college," she said.
His list of accomplishments is almost unbelievable. On a Philadelphia streetcar he was asked to give up his seat to a white man. He started a boycott that led to integration. He served as brigadier general in the South Carolina militia. He bought his former enslaver's house. And he started a school, published a newspaper and founded a railroad.
Suffice to say, there's plenty for the sailors aboard the USS Robert Smalls to take pride in today, said Capt. Angelinas. He spoke with NPR while sailing off the coast of Japan. The first time he walked aboard and was announced as the captain of the USS Robert Smalls, the crew started cheering.
"They certainly weren't cheering for me or my arrival - they were cheering for the namesake. And that's the first time I've seen that in three command tours and 27 years in the Navy," he said.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - On October 21st, 2022, Alliance Freeze Dry Group (AFD Group) achieved a new milestone by hosting the groundbreaking ceremony of AFD Group's third freeze-dried pet food factory in the City of Lynden, Washington State, USA. Participating in the ceremony were officials from the City of Lynden and the port of Bellingham, as well as Washington State, AFD Group's major client representatives, local business leaders, engineering professionals, and the general contractor. This new plant is not only the AFD Group's largest facility expansion to-date, but also one of the largest freeze-dried pet food factories in North America. The 200,000-square-foot building features a freezer, a pre-processing area, a freeze-drying section, a packaging area, and an automated storage and retrieval system warehouse. The new plant will adopt advanced processing technologies and fully automated production lines, which will make it a highly efficient and flexible digital plant, ready for future intelligent manufacturing. The new factory is planned to be operational in 2024 and will provide 4,000 metric tons of annual production capacity. The new factory is named "Canature Kitchen Lynden" and will create 74 new job opportunities.
Founded in Langley in British Columbia, Canada, in 2010, AFD Group, along with its subsidiary Canature Processing Ltd, upholds the mission of "Healthier Pets and Happier Lives" through creating natural, fresh, healthy, and convenient freeze-dried pet foods and treats. AFD Group and Canature not only manufacture under major private-label brands, but also under self-owned brands. AFD Group and Canature's products have been sold globally and are popular among pet owners and their pets.
According to Mr. Gary Xu, the founder and president of Alliance Freeze Dry Group, "Freeze-dried meals and treats preserve the natural flavor and form, as well as the nutrition, of the raw food, and are easily rehydrated and absorbed. Hence, freeze-dried products have become more and more popular and are increasingly acclaimed as superstars in the natural and healthy pet food sector. With our strong technological advantage, AFD Group will continually innovate its products, processes and equipment to satisfy changing market demands. At the same time, while we are growing rapidly, we emphasize environmental protection and sustainability, for we only have one shared Earth."
"The City of Lynden is proud to welcome another state-of-the-art industrial facility," said the Mayor of City of Lynden, Scott Korthuis, "we appreciate the investment that the Alliance Freeze Dry Group is making in our city, knowing that it represents both job opportunities and regional economic benefit. Lynden has found a supportive partner in the Alliance Group. They have contributed to public infrastructure improvements and designed a striking Canature Kitchen facility that we can all be proud of. It's clear that Alliance doesn't simply want to conduct business in the city, but that they are a stakeholder, keen to become an integral part of the Lynden business community."
Food Facility Engineering (FFE) is the architectural and engineering firm who is leading the design of this facility. Dave Franklin, the principal of FFE, states that "we are very pleased to work with AFD Group's experienced factory experts who have demonstrated a solid understanding of freeze-drying technologies. Combined with our over 70 years of expertise specializing in food facility building design, we will bring to life a large-scale, highly efficient, flexible and environmentally friendly freeze-dried pet food facility which is GMP compliant."
The new Canature Kitchen facility will be constructed by the Fisher Construction Group. "Fisher is proud to be Alliance's construction partner in bringing their vision to life," said Chris Lang, Vice President of Fisher Construction Group, "We will focus on quality, safety, punctuality and environmental protection in completing this iconic factory."
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After the new plant starts operation, AFD Group/Canature will continue to provide a wide variety of pet meals and pet treats, packed with the highest nutrition for a great value.
Alliance Freeze Dry Group (AFD Group) was established in the city of Langley, British Columbia, Canada, in 2010. Over the past 10 years, AFD Group has become one of the largest freeze-dried pet food and pet treat manufacturers in North America. Today, they possess 3,000 metric tons of freeze-dried production capacity and are building two new factories for an additional 6,000 metric tons of production capacity in the US.
Canature, AFD Group's operating subsidiary, is manufacturing and marketing both a house-brand and private-label freeze-dried pet food and treats. With a strong research and development team, coupled with an innovative engineering team, AFD Group and Canature are able to develop and manufacture full meals, treats, and toppers in various kinds of formats (diced, extruded, formed, powdered, etc.) and in a wide array of packages under Canature's own brands, or under a client's private labels.
AFD Group and Canature's own NutriBites brand freeze-dried pet products have been sold across the US and Canada through major channels such as Costco.
Quality is the key. AFD Group and Canature implement a comprehensive quality management system and follow GMP- and HACCP-based food safety plans. AFD Group's factories are SQF Level 3 certified.
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The man convicted of stabbing and shooting four people to death at a Mandan rental property management company in 2021 died while in prison by hanging himself, according to a report from the state medical examiner’s office.
Chad Isaak, 48, was pronounced dead July 31 at a Bismarck hospital emergency room, the report states.
Authorities responded to a call of inmate self-harm at the North Dakota State Penitentiary about 5:40 p.m. that day. Isaak was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m.
A judge in December sentenced Isaak to life in prison with no chance of parole. A jury in August 2021 convicted him on four counts of murder and other charges in the April 1, 2019, deaths of RJR Maintenance and Management co-owner Robert Fakler, 52; and employees Adam Fuehrer, 42; and married couple Bill Cobb, 50, and Lois Cobb, 45.
Isaak was in the process of appealing his conviction. His death has raised questions about his verdict because all of his defense options had not been exhausted. The North Dakota Supreme Court has asked attorneys for written arguments on whether the appeal is moot or the verdict should be set aside. Those arguments are due Aug. 30.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 31, 2022
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FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Eureka CA
935 AM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...The Flood Watch continues for the following rivers in
California...
Russian River near Hopland affecting Southeastern Mendocino
Interior zone.
For the Russian River...including Hopland...flooding is possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay tuned to further developments by listening to your local radio,
television, or NOAA Weather Radio for further information.
If you are in the watch area, remain alert to possible flooding.
Residents and those with interests near the river should monitor
rising water levels and be prepared for possible flood warnings.
Additional information is available at weather.gov/eka.
The next statement will be issued this afternoon at 545 PM PST.
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT TO TOMORROW
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding is possible.
* WHERE...Russian River near Hopland.
* WHEN...From late tonight to tomorrow afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 15.0 feet, Flooding of Highway 175 is expected at the
approaches to the Russian River bridge. Expect flooding of
cropland on the right bank of river.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:45 PM PST Thursday the stage was 3.5 feet.
- Forecast...Flood stage may be reached late tomorrow morning.
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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B22 Fit offering Grant Parish students a place to go on Mondays during the upcoming school year
GRANT PARISH, La. (KALB) - Earlier this year, the Grant Parish School Board voted to transition to a four-day school week, causing many parents to worry about finding childcare on the extra day off. B22 Fit, a gym in Grant Parish, is answering the call and offering families a little support on those free Mondays.
Gym owner Bonita Armour decided to slide into action. ‘Out of School Camp’ will offer a camp for second-grade through fifth-grade students, which includes sports, life skills programming and free literacy tutoring.
B22 Fit has even partnered with the Food Bank of Central Louisiana to provide meals and snacks.
Armour said she wants to provide more than a childcare service.
“The response has been ‘thank you’,” said Armour. “Thank you for providing a service to us so that we can go to work on Mondays and that we know we will have a safe place for our kids to be able to go.”
Now there are only 50 slots open, so availability is limited. For more information on the program, click here.
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Partnerships Support Almost 62,000 Medicare Beneficiaries Living with Kidney Disease
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Interwell Health, a physician-centered organization dedicated to reimagining kidney care, announces a significant expansion of its work in a government value-based care model that aims to improve the lives of people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), with almost 62,000 Medicare beneficiaries now under management through partnerships with more than 1,300 nephrology providers in 26 states.
These partnerships comprise 24 Kidney Contracting Entities (KCEs) within the Kidney Care Choices model, a program developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and first launched at the start of 2022.
"We strongly believe that earlier education, care coordination, and support from dedicated teams can slow progression of kidney disease and increase the number of people receiving transplants," said Bobby Sepucha, CEO of Interwell Health. "Our innovative solutions and close partnerships with physicians are reimagining kidney care and helping patients live their best lives."
In order to improve kidney care, Interwell Health supports physician practices by providing personalized patient education, predictive models, customized electronic health record technology, and support from dietitians and social workers. Care coordination services help better manage often complex and chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, and behavioral health.
"This program is helping drive earlier interventions as patients with kidney disease are too often rushed to the hospital with an urgent need for dialysis," said Dr. George Hart, Chief Medical Officer for Interwell Health. "We provide physicians with all the resources needed to better support their patients and achieve the goals of this important government initiative."
This government value-based care model rewards physicians when they successfully slow disease progression, help patients seek a pre-emptive transplant, choose home dialysis, or at least have a planned start to dialysis and avoid urgent hospitalizations.
Interwell Health is a kidney care management company that partners with physicians on its mission to reimagine healthcare – with the expertise, compassion, and vision to set the standard for the industry and help patients live their best lives. The company is differentiated by its ability to deliver improved clinical outcomes and better quality of life for patients, reduce the total cost of care for payer partners, and provide the resources physicians need to thrive in a value-based world – all at scale. To learn more, visit interwellhealth.com.
The statements contained in this press release are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of CMS. The authors assume responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the information contained in this document.
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Brad Puffer
Corporate Communications
Interwell Health
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Rep. Schrier says Dem spending 'rescued our economy,' despite inflation reaching 40-year high
Hannity said the Democrats spending is 'making everything more expensive than ever.'
Vulnerable midterm candidate Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wa., claimed that after the COVID-19 pandemic, "Democrat spending rescued our economy," despite inflation hitting a 40-year-high in June.
"Democratic spending rescued our economy and kept families afloat, kept small businesses afloat, and were key to our country's economic recovery and rebound which was faster than virtually any other country in the world," Schrier told the Wall Street Journal's "What's News" podcast.
In late January 2021, right after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, the national debt stood at nearly $28 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury's Fiscal Data. As of October 2022, the total public debt stands at $31,123,887,781,401 — which is approximately $94,000 per American.
After the inflation report revealed the year-over-year inflation rate rose to 8.3% in August, Fox News' Sean Hannity criticized spending and said Democrats' spending is only making inflation worse.
INFLATION WILL PICK MIDTERM ELECTION WINNER IN NOVEMBER
"Democrats have lost all touch with reality," Hannity said during his Sept. 14 show. "Inflation went up. Core inflation went up. Food, rent, energy all way up. The stock market, meanwhile, plummeted. It tanked. It dropped significantly, the biggest drop since the height of the pandemic."
"Now this. But one month after the Democrats passed their so-called Inflation Reduction Act, or, as I call it, the tax the poor, middle class and people on fixed income Act of 2022. It doesn't actually do anything to reduce inflation. It will increase inflation. It is just a massive Green New Deal spending bill that, as predicted, is making inflation far worse, making everything more expensive than ever."
VULNERABLE DEMOCRATS WON'T SAY WHEN INFLATION REDUCTION ACT WILL REDUCE INFLATION
In August, the Democrats passed various bills into law, including the CHIPS and Science Act, the PACT Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a reconstructed version of the failed Build Back Better legislation.
Despite claims that the Manchin-Schumer climate bill, labeled the Inflation Reduction Act would combat rising prices and the tanking economy, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania Penn Wharton found that the legislation would only reduce annual inflation by 0.1 percentage point over the next five years.
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) reported that middle-class earners would see an increase in their taxes as a result of the bill. Reporting from the committee revealed that taxpayers making less than $200,000 per year would have their taxes increased cumulatively by $16.7 billion and for those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 annually, the bill would increase taxes by $14.1 billion.
Along with signing the recent packages into law, Biden announced a student loan handout that according to The Penn Wharton Budget Model, "will cost between $300 billion and $980 billion over the 10-year budget window."
Inflation hit a 40-year-high of 9.1% in June and the gross domestic product (GDP) from April-June decreased for a second consecutive quarter, sending the economy into a technical recession.
Schrier is running in one of the tightest elections this cycle as she fights for her seat in Washington's 8th Congressional District against GOP opponent Matt Larkin. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-schrier-dem-spending-rescued-economy-despite-inflation-40-year-high | 2022-10-05 05:51:08 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-schrier-dem-spending-rescued-economy-despite-inflation-40-year-high |
LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WMBB) — Sheriff Tommy Ford has responded after the agency accidentally caused an explosion at a bonfire during Mosley High School’s homecoming.
“Tonight, there was an incident at Mosley High School where the annual homecoming bonfire exploded. This has been a tradition at Mosley started by a previous school resource deputy and was without incident until tonight,” Ford said in a statement. “The deputy that set up the bonfire has done so at Mosley for the last 7 years. We are not sure yet what caused the explosion, but take responsibility for the incident.”
Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident.
“Safety precautions were in place, to include the fire department on site and the students positioned at a safe distance behind a fence, that prevented injury or fire but it still should not have happened,” Ford said. “We apologize for any distress this has caused and I assure you that we are officially out of the bonfire business.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/explosion-at-florida-high-school/ | 2022-10-06 20:38:05 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/explosion-at-florida-high-school/ |
DETROIT — Owners of new Ford vehicles will be able to tune in to AM radio in their cars, trucks and SUVs after all.
CEO Jim Farley wrote in social media postings Tuesday that the company is reversing a decision to scrub the band after speaking with government policy leaders who are concerned about keeping emergency alerts that often are sounded on AM stations.
"We've decided to include it on all 2024 Ford and Lincoln vehicles," Farley wrote on Twitter and LinkedIn. "For any owners of Ford's EVs without AM broadcast capability, we'll offer a software update" to restore it, Farley wrote.
The move comes after a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced a bill calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require AM in new vehicles at no additional cost.
Sponsors of the "AM for Every Vehicle Act" cited public safety concerns, noting AM's historic role in transmitting vital information during emergencies, such as natural disasters, especially to rural areas.
Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., one of the bill's sponsors, has said eight of 20 major automakers including Ford, BMW and Tesla have pulled the band from new vehicles.
"Ford's reversal reflects an overdue realization about the importance of AM radio, but too many automakers are still going the wrong direction," Markey said in a written statement Tuesday. He said Congress should still pass the bill to keep access to the band.
Ford removed AM from the 2023 Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning electric pickups after data collected from vehicles showed that less than 5% of customers listened to it, spokesman Alan Hall said. Electrical interference and reducing cost and manufacturing complexity also played a role.
The company also took it out of the 2024 gasoline-powered Mustang, but will add it back in before any of the muscle cars are delivered, Hall said.
The EVs will get an online software update to put AM back into the vehicles, and Ford will keep including it in future vehicles as it looks at innovative ways to deliver emergency alerts, Hall said.
Ford and others also suggested that internet radio or other communication tools could replace AM radio. But Markey and others pointed to situations where drivers might not have internet access.
The Federal Communications Commission and National Association of Broadcasters praised the legislation, which is also backed by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Rep. Tom Kean, Jr., R-N.J., Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., among others.
But the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a U.S. trade group that represents major automakers including Ford and BMW, criticized the bill, calling the AM radio mandate unnecessary.
The trade group pointed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Public Alerts and Warning System, which can distribute safety warnings across AM, FM, internet-based and satellite radios — as well as over cellular networks.
The alliance said the bill gives preference to a technology that's competing with other communications options.
BMW said in a statement that if the bill is approved, the automaker will review the language and decide what to do next. Messages were left seeking comment from Tesla.
According to the National Association of Broadcasters and Nielsen data, more than 80 million people in the U.S. listen to AM radio every month.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phyllis Fong, Inspector General (IG), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), will be the featured guest on the August 29 broadcast of "The Search for Accountability," airing at 2:00 p.m. ET on Federal News Network 1500 AM, hosted by Michael Binder, Director of Graduate School USA's Government Audit Training Institute.
To listen to this broadcast live, visit: https://live.federalnewsnetwork.com/listen/ or tune in to 1500 AM radio at 2:00 p.m. on August 29.
"USDA plays an enormous role in the health of every American – especially helping to protect the safety and availability of food and agricultural products domestically and abroad as a driver of commerce, humanitarian assistance and diplomacy," said Binder. "We expect a lively discussion with Ms. Fong about the accountability and monitoring challenges associated with food and nutrition, agricultural research and rural development. We will also discuss the great work that federal inspectors general do in pursuing integrity and public trust in government operations."
Ms. Fong was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Inspector General of USDA in December 2002, providing leadership and expertise in oversight of the vast portfolio of the USDA's services and programs. She leads the USDA Office of Inspector General's independent and objective audits, inspections and investigations of efficiency and effectiveness, plus efforts to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. She was elected by the IG community as the first Chairwoman of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), serving three terms in that role.
Prior to being the USDA's IG, Ms. Fong was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the Inspector General of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1999.
Ms. Fong has a bachelor's degree from Pomona College and a Juris Doctor Degree from Vanderbilt University Law School. She is a member of the Tennessee and District of Columbia Bars.
"The Search for Accountability" features insightful conversations with key government oversight officials including inspectors general and the Comptroller General of the United States. This series, which airs most Mondays at 2:00 p.m. ET., is produced in a partnership between Graduate School USA and Federal News Network. Recordings of past programs are available here.
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BEIJING (AP) — China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space station Monday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months.
The Wentian laboratory was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island province of Hainan on Sunday with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching.
After 13 hours of flight, it successfully docked with the Tianhe living area of the Tiangong space station at 3:13 a.m. Monday (1913 GMT), according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Photos distributed by Xinhua News Agency later showed the three astronauts inside the expanded space station.
The 23-ton Wentian laboratory is designed for science and biology experiments and is heavier than any other single-module spacecraft currently in space, according to the state-owned Global Times.
Three astronauts who started their six-month mission aboard the space station last month oversaw the Wentian’s arrival and docking.
A second laboratory segment, the Mengtian, is due to be launched in October and will complete the space station.
A Long March 5B-Y3 rocket, China’s most powerful, carried the laboratory module in the third such launch since the Chinese space station entered its construction phase. It was preceded by the Tianzhou-class cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft.
China’s space program is run by the ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, and has largely proceeded with the Tiangong program without other nations’ assistance. The U.S. excluded China from the International Space Station because of its military ties.
China launched its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, making it only the third country to do so on its own after the former Soviet Union and the U.S. Its space program has landed robot rovers on the moon and placed one on Mars last year. China has also returned lunar samples and officials have discussed a possible crewed mission to the moon. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/china-adds-science-lab-to-its-orbiting-space-station/ | 2022-07-25 17:41:10 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/china-adds-science-lab-to-its-orbiting-space-station/ |
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus man is under arrest after allegedly stealing an air conditioning unit in Columbus Saturday afternoon.
Columbus Police Department officers were dispatched to a Walmart located at 735 Whitfield Drive in response to a theft.
CPD said security at the Walmart told responding officers a man had reportedly stolen an air conditioning unit and had last been seen boarding a city bus.
Officers quickly found the bus the suspect was on near Indiana Avenue and Ross Street, CPD said. Cameron Sampson, 31, was subsequently arrested after CPD officers reportedly discovered a large white box with an air conditioner inside.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
715 PM PDT Wed Aug 24 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
The Flood Advisory has expired for a portion of southern California,
including the following county, Riverside.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR RIVERSIDE COUNTY...
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 100 AM PDT for portions of
southwest Arizona and California.
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO
COUNTY...
The heavy rain has ended. Please continue to heed remaining road
closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM PDT Thursday for a
portion of Southwest California.
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ST. JOHN, IN - Robert Bodak age 73, of St. John, IN, passed away on December 20, 2022. He is survived by his wife, Janice (Farcus) of 46 years. Born in Gary, IN to John Bodak and Mary (Voytila) who preceded him in death. He is survived by many cousins. Bob graduated from Bishop Noll High School and attended Morris College and Indiana University. He worked for Methodist Hospital as an Occupational Therapist Assistant for 44 years. Per Bob's wishes, services were held privately for the family. Inurnment St. Michael the Archangel Church Cemetery, Schererville, IN. Arrangements entrusted to ELMWOOD FUNERAL CHAPEL, St. John. For more information 219-365-3474. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-bodak/article_a8dba492-c4bd-5ea2-9159-cc1bef60836f.html | 2023-01-08 18:50:59 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-bodak/article_a8dba492-c4bd-5ea2-9159-cc1bef60836f.html |
By The Associated Press
Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California said Tuesday she will seek the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and the oldest member of the chamber.
“Especially in times like these, California needs a warrior in Washington,” Porter said in a video posted on Twitter. “That’s exactly why I’m announcing my candidacy for the United States Senate in 2024.”
Porter, who was first elected to Congress in 2018, said she has “challenged the status quo” in Washington, taking on “big banks,” Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry. She wants to ban members of Congress from stock trading.
“To win these fights, it’s time for new leadership in the U.S. Senate,” she said.
Feinstein, 89, has faced questions about her age and health and whether she will seek another term. She has not announced whether she will seek reelection in 2024.
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Preliminary fourth quarter highlights:
- Expected total fourth quarter revenue, excluding COVID-19 testing, increased 28% compared to the fourth quarter 2021, with Screening revenue of $401.8-$402.8 million and Precision Oncology revenue of $142.9-$143.9 million
- Expected total 2022 revenue, excluding COVID-19 testing, increased 25% compared to 2021, with Screening revenue of $1,423.0-$1,424.0 million and Precision Oncology revenue of $601.0-$602.0 million
- Adjusted EBITDA profitability now expected for the fourth quarter 2022 and full year 2023, ahead of previous target of third quarter 2023
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced that the company expects to report revenue between $550.7 million and $552.7 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2022.
"Exact Sciences' fourth quarter results show the strength of our business and the momentum building behind the best brands in cancer diagnostics, Cologuard® and Oncotype DX®," said Kevin Conroy, chairman and CEO. "The foundation supporting Cologuard and Oncotype DX will fuel consistent revenue growth and profitability, putting Exact Sciences in a leading position to deliver the next wave of innovation in cancer diagnostics to patients, health systems, and health care providers globally."
Preliminary, Unaudited Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Results
For the three-month period ended Dec. 31, 2022, as compared to the same period of 2021:
- Total revenue between $550.7 million and $552.7 million, an increase of 16 percent, or 28 percent excluding COVID-19 testing
- Screening revenue between $401.8 million and $402.8 million, an increase of 45 percent, or 41 percent excluding the PreventionGenetics acquisition
- Precision Oncology revenue between $142.9 million and $143.9 million, a decrease of 4 percent, or an increase of 1 percent excluding the divested Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score test and the impact of foreign currency exchange rates
- COVID-19 testing revenue of approximately $5.9 million, a decrease of 87 percent
Preliminary, Unaudited 2022 Financial Results
For the twelve-month period ended Dec. 31, 2022, as compared to the same period of 2021:
- Total revenue between $2,082.0 million and $2,084.0 million, an increase of 18 percent, or 25 percent excluding COVID-19 testing
- Screening revenue between $1,423.0 million and $1,424.0 million, an increase of 34 percent, or 30 percent excluding the PreventionGenetics acquisition
- Precision Oncology revenue between $601.0 million and $602.0 million, an increase of 7 percent, or 11 percent excluding the divested Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score test and the impact of foreign currency exchange rates
- COVID-19 testing revenue of approximately $58.0 million, a decrease of 59 percent
Screening includes laboratory service revenue from Cologuard tests, PreventionGenetics, and immaterial revenue from Biomatrica and Oncoguard® Liver products. Precision Oncology includes laboratory service revenue from global Oncotype DX products and therapy selection products.
Exact Sciences has not completed preparation of its financial statements for the fourth quarter or full year of 2022. The revenue ranges presented in this news release for the fourth quarter of 2022 and for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022 are preliminary and unaudited and are thus inherently uncertain and subject to change as we complete our financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022. Exact Sciences is in the process of completing its customary year-end close and review procedures as of and for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022, and there can be no assurance that final results for this period will not differ from these estimates. During the course of the preparation of Exact Sciences' consolidated financial statements and related notes as of and for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022, the company's independent registered public accountants may identify items that could cause final reported results to be materially different from the preliminary financial estimates presented herein.
Exact Sciences plans to report 2022 financial results during its February 2023 earnings call.
About Cologuard
The Cologuard® test was approved by the FDA in August 2014, and results from Exact Sciences' prospective 90-site, point-in-time, 10,000-patient pivotal trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March 2014. The Cologuard test is included in the American Cancer Society's (2018) colorectal cancer screening guidelines and the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2021) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (2016). The Cologuard test is indicated to screen adults 45 years of age and older who are at average risk for colorectal cancer by detecting certain DNA markers and blood in the stool. Do not use the Cologuard test if you have had precancer, have inflammatory bowel disease and certain hereditary syndromes, or have a personal or family history of colorectal cancer. The Cologuard test is not a replacement for colonoscopy in high risk patients. The Cologuard test performance in adults ages 45-49 is estimated based on a large clinical study of patients 50 and older. The Cologuard test performance in repeat testing has not been evaluated.
The Cologuard test result should be interpreted with caution. A positive test result does not confirm the presence of cancer. Patients with a positive test result should be referred for diagnostic colonoscopy. A negative test result does not confirm the absence of cancer. Patients with a negative test result should discuss with their doctor when they need to be tested again. Medicare and most major insurers cover the Cologuard test. For more information about the Cologuard test, visit cologuard.com. Rx only.
About Exact Sciences' Precision Oncology portfolio
Exact Sciences' Precision Oncology portfolio delivers actionable genomic insights to inform prognosis and cancer treatment after a diagnosis. In breast cancer, the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score® test is the only test shown to predict the likelihood of chemotherapy benefit as well as recurrence in invasive breast cancer. The Oncotype DX® test is recognized as the standard of care and is included in all major breast cancer treatment guidelines. The Oncomap™ ExTra test applies comprehensive tumor profiling, utilizing whole exome and whole transcriptome sequencing, to aid in therapy selection for patients with advanced, metastatic, refractory, relapsed, or recurrent cancer. With an extensive panel of approximately 20,000 genes and 169 introns, the Oncomap ExTra test is one of the most comprehensive genomic (DNA) and transcriptomic (RNA) panels available today. Exact Sciences enables patients to take a more active role in their cancer care and makes it easy for providers to order tests, interpret results, and personalize medicine by applying real-world evidence and guideline recommendations. To learn more, visit precisiononcology.exactsciences.com.
About PreventionGenetics
Founded in 2004 and located in Marshfield, Wisconsin, PreventionGenetics is a CLIA and ISO 15189:2012 accredited laboratory. PreventionGenetics delivers clinical genetic testing of the highest quality at fair prices with exemplary service to people around the world. PreventionGenetics has 25 PhD geneticists on staff and provides tests for nearly all clinically relevant genes including the powerful and comprehensive germline whole genome sequencing test, PGnome® and whole exome sequencing test, PGxome®. PreventionGenetics was acquired by Exact Sciences in December 2021.
About Exact Sciences Corp.
A leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, Exact Sciences relentlessly pursues smarter solutions providing the clarity to take life-changing action, earlier. Building on the success of Cologuard and Oncotype DX tests, Exact Sciences is investing in its product pipeline to support patients before and throughout their cancer diagnosis and treatment. Exact Sciences unites visionary collaborators to help advance the fight against cancer. For more information, please visit the company's website at exactsciences.com, follow Exact Sciences on Twitter @ExactSciences, or find Exact Sciences on Facebook.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements concerning our expectations, anticipations, intentions, beliefs or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that we have made as of the date hereof and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, conditions and events to differ materially from those anticipated. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding expected future operating results; our strategies, positioning, resources, capabilities and expectations for future events or performance; and the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, including estimated synergies and other financial impacts.
Important factors that could cause actual results, conditions and events to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: uncertainties associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, including its possible effects on our operations, including our supply chain and clinical studies, and the demand for our products and services; our ability to efficiently and flexibly manage our business amid uncertainties related to COVID-19; our ability to meet our payment obligations under our indebtedness; our ability to raise additional capital in amounts and on terms satisfactory to us, if at all; our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover our products and services and adequately reimburse us for such products and services; the amount and nature of competition for our products and services; the effects of any judicial, executive or legislative action affecting us or the healthcare system; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services and assess potential market opportunities; our ability to effectively enter into and utilize strategic partnerships and acquisitions; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; our ability to manage an international business and our expectations regarding our international expansion and opportunities; the potential effects of changing macroeconomic conditions, including the effects of inflation and interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and any such efforts to hedge such effects; the possibility that the anticipated benefits from our business acquisitions will not be realized in full or at all or may take longer to realize than expected; the possibility that costs or difficulties related to the integration of acquired businesses' operations or divestiture of business operations will be greater than expected and the possibility that integration or divestiture efforts will disrupt our business and strain management time and resources; the outcome of any litigation, government investigations, enforcement actions or other legal proceedings; our ability to retain and hire key personnel. The risks included above are not exhaustive. Other important risks and uncertainties are described in the Risk Factors sections of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Exact Sciences Corp.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 15, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
401 PM CDT Thu Sep 15 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of eastern Armstrong,
southeastern Carson, southwestern Gray and Donley Counties through
430 PM CDT...
At 400 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 5 miles north of Howardwick to Hedley. Movement
was northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Clarendon, Groom, Howardwick, Hedley, Lelia Lake, Lake Mcclellan,
Greenbelt Lake and Goodnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3521 10120 3532 10108 3529 10081 3489 10054
3482 10054 3475 10115 3475 10119
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 246DEG 9KT 3511 10093 3486 10067
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Lipscomb,
northeastern Roberts and southeastern Ochiltree Counties through 430
PM CDT...
At 402 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles south of Wolf Creek Park, or 20 miles northwest of Canadian,
moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Penny size hail.
Lipscomb, Darrouzett and Wolf Creek Park.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
LAT...LON 3605 10046 3606 10054 3601 10054 3598 10061
3605 10076 3615 10081 3650 10045 3650 10031
3649 10024 3625 10007
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 228DEG 17KT 3613 10061
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
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The airline manufacturer delivered its last 747 jumbo jet on Tuesday after a production run of more than five decades. Current and former workers said farewell to the "Queen of the Skies" with pride.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Brendan Wenzel scored 20 points off of the bench to help lead Wyoming over Nicholls State 79-68 on Thursday.
Wenzel was 6-of-12 shooting, including 5 for 10 from distance, and went 3 for 3 from the line for the Cowboys (2-0). Hunter Maldonado scored 12 points while going 3 of 5 and 6 of 8 from the free throw line, and added six rebounds and six assists. Agbonkpolo shot 3 for 7 (1 for 4 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free throw line to finish with 11 points, while adding eight rebounds.
The Colonels (0-2) were led by Micah Thomas, who recorded 22 points. Marek Nelson added 18 points, four steals and two blocks for Nicholls State. In addition, Emanuel Littles finished with 10 points and nine rebounds.
Wyoming led Nicholls State at the half, 36-28, with Wenzel (12 points) their high scorer before the break. Wyoming outscored Nicholls State in the second half by three points, with Maldonado scoring a team-high nine points after halftime.
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Congress is inching closer toward repealing two Iraq war authorizations decades after their enactment, with bipartisan support emerging to reassert congressional authority, protect against a potential misuse of military force and send a message of support to Iraq, now a strategic U.S. ally.
The Senate is considering legislation to repeal Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs) for the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq after a strong 68-27 bipartisan procedural vote on March 16 to advance the bill.
And House Republicans appear ready for a debate on the Iraq war authorizations, should similar legislation move to the floor in the lower chamber.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) signaled his support for repealing authorizations for both wars, saying he was “into it.”
“I don’t have a problem with that,” McCarthy said at a Republican retreat in Orlando, Fla., last week. “I was not here to vote on either of the creation of those, but you’re 20 years into this now.”
McCarthy emphasized he would not support a repeal of another AUMF passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack to fight against global terrorism, which has been used to authorize a number of military actions across the world. The 2001 AUMF is not included in the House or Senate legislation.
The House Speaker is not the only Republican signaling support for the Iraq war repeals in the GOP-controlled House. Both Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) are co-sponsors of the House legislation introduced this year to repeal the Iraq war AUMFs.
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was seeing “positive” signals in the GOP conference for a discussion on the legislation.
“I believe it’s time for us to have the debate both in the House and Senate,” Bergman told The Hill. “Because you can have a debate, and then you could look at it and say, ‘Well, we’re not going to repeal it, but maybe we’re going to do something different.’
“You consider what kind of powers the president should have,” Bergman added, “which could mean repealing it.”
The 1991 Gulf War, supported by an AUMF passed that same year, involved a brief campaign as U.S. forces quickly and successfully repelled an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
An AUMF passed in 2002 supported an invasion of Iraq the following year.
Former President George W. Bush ordered military force after making the case Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hosting weapons of mass destruction and had supported Al-Qaeda. A United Nations task force later failed to find nuclear weapons in Iraq and no evidence ever emerged of Hussein’s ties with the terrorist group.
Hussein was ousted from power within two months after U.S. forces captured the capital of Baghdad. Bush quickly declared victory and said the major campaign was over.
U.S. troops remained in the country until 2011, when former President Obama pulled them out after years of fighting insurgent groups. American forces returned a few years later, at the request of the Iraqi government, with some 2,500 troops remaining there today.
Congress has tried for several years to repeal the AUMFs. This year’s effort comes as the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq passed on Monday, a day that was marked by the solemn remembrance of one of America’s most unpopular wars.
Khury Petersen-Smith, a Middle East fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a progressive think tank, said consideration of the repeals during the 20th anniversary of the war was fueling discourse and potentially setting the U.S. on the path to passage.
“The fact that is the context in which this vote is coming up lends itself to passing,” he said. “I think there is a very limited, but no less important, reflection on the 2003 invasion of Iraq that is if not critical, then a bit regretful.”
However, there remains some opposition to repealing the authorizations over concerns it would create a vacuum and give rise to U.S.-designated terrorist groups such as ISIS.
While a repeal would not force American soldiers to withdraw from Iraq, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on the Senate floor last week the U.S. needs the authorizations “to make sure ISIS doesn’t come back.”
“When they had a foothold in Iraq and Syria … all hell broke loose,” Graham said. “In 2023, Americans are serving in Iraq, and we owe it to them to make sure we can use whatever military force necessary to protect them.”
Petersen-Smith from IPS said there may also be opposition to repealing the wars because the 1991, 2001 and 2002 AUMFs have institutionalized open-ended wars.
He also argued that opponents may see a repeal of the Iraq AUMFs as “acknowledging the U.S. is guilty of horrendous human rights abuses.”
Leading the effort to repeal the AUMFs on Capitol Hill are Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), who have repeatedly warned that a sitting president can technically misuse the war authorizations if they remain on the books. Former President Trump justified a 2020 strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad by citing the 2002 Iraq war AUMF.
The senators have also pushed for the AUMF repeals to relay a symbolic show of support to Iraq — a key partner for the U.S. in the Middle East — and to send a message to foreign adversaries that Washington can turn enemies into friends.
For veterans of the Iraq war, repealing the AUMFs would also serve as closure. The U.S. invasion cost the lives of more than 4,000 American troops.
Several organizations representing veterans and servicemembers have expressed clear support for the legislation, including the American Legion.
Sarah Streyder, the executive director of the Secure Families Initiative, a nonpartisan group that represents military spouses, family members and veterans, said she “strongly supports repealing the dangerous, outdated Iraq war authorizations.”
“Occasions like the recent 20th anniversary of the Iraq war are solemn reminders that we need so much more than casual platitudes from our non-military neighbors — we need tangible policy action,” Streyder said in a statement. “We need voters and policymakers to show that they’ve learned from the mistakes of the last 20 years to avoid suffering the same loss and sacrifice in the next 20.”
Veterans of the Iraq war who are now in Congress could be among those who move the legislation forward. In his comments last week, McCarthy said lawmakers who served deserved a chance to weigh in on the AUMFs.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), an Army veteran who served for seven years in Iraq and was injured twice by explosive devices, said the AUMFs were “being purposely misused for what was not their intended purpose.”
“It is also a direct abdication of our roles and responsibilities,” Mills said, referring to Congress. “I can tell you right now that I’ll be happy” upon repeal.
Meanwhile, the Senate considered and proposed several amendments to the legislation.
Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said a final vote could come early this week and passage was a “matter of when, not if.”
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Series A will help LAND scale production in the Midwest to meet customer orders across the U.S.
CLEVELAND, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland-based electric mobility and portable battery manufacturer LAND announces it is ramping up production of its flagship two-wheel electric vehicle, The District, thanks to new Series A funding. The round allows LAND to expand its production team as well as hand build the electric vehicles at its newly renovated 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
"This is a significant milestone for us as we shift from the pilot run to producing a higher volume of e-bikes for customers," LAND CEO and Founder Scott Colosimo says. "Our goal is to replace CO2 emissions from the millions of motorcycles on the road with electric mobility. But at LAND, the bike is just the beginning to a more energy efficient world."
Founded in 2020, LAND is comprised of an experienced team of designers, engineers and software developers who have a passion for mobility and sustainability. They have personally designed The District and the portable power platform (CORE) from the ground up to be compact, lightweight, and versatile to meet the needs of a range of riders, from beginners to experienced motorcyclists. Featuring four speed settings, from e-bike (27 mph) to e-motorcycle (over 70 mph), The District can legally be taken on and off road to offer users an electrifying experience.
While the round helps LAND complete and ship customer orders, the funding also supports the continued development of The District's platform and portable battery pack, which is a connected power source that can be used by businesses and consumers to reduce their carbon footprint.
The Series A round was led by Ancora, with participation from several other investors across the United States.
"We are very excited to get in the driver's seat and support a Northeast Ohio company that is accelerating energy independence," Ancora Chairman and CEO Fred DiSanto says.
For more information, visit landmoto.io.
About LAND
Founded in 2020 by Scott Colosimo in Cleveland, Ohio, LAND is based on the principle that energy continuity and mobility are essential to modern life. LAND provides a transitional eMoto ecosystem with a portable power platform (CORE), a game-changing approach in the light electric vehicle industry. With products proudly manufactured in Cleveland, LAND is unwavering in its belief in American ingenuity and world-class craftsmanship. As a design-forward company, LAND is dedicated to constantly evolving to meet the needs of their customers, everyday consumers and businesses looking for energy efficiency.
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SAN DIEGO, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage cell and gene therapy company advancing a new class of treatments for patients with cancer and rare diseases, today announced that the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors granted an inducement award to Kristin Yarema, the Company's new President, Cell Therapy. This grant is made pursuant to the Company's 2022 Inducement Plan as an inducement material to Ms. Yarema entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The inducement award is comprised of (i) a stock option to purchase 498,325 shares of the Company's common stock with a per share exercise price equal to the fair market value of the Company's common stock on the grant date and will be subject to vesting over four years, with 12.5% of the shares vesting on the six-month anniversary of the grant date, and the remainder vesting monthly over the following forty-two (42) months, subject to Ms. Yarema's continued employment and the terms and conditions of the stock option agreement; and (ii) a restricted stock unit award covering 356,836 shares of the Company's common stock and will be subject to vesting over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the one year anniversary of the grant date, and the remainder vesting in a series of three equal successive annual installments on the second, third, and fourth anniversaries of the grant date, subject to Ms. Yarema's continued employment and the terms and conditions of the restricted stock unit award agreement.
Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing differentiated cell and gene therapies with the capacity to cure certain cancers and rare diseases. The Company's pipeline includes allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy product candidates for both solid and liquid tumors as well as in vivo gene therapy product candidates that address patient populations with high unmet medical need. The Company's approach to cell and gene therapies is based on its proprietary genetic editing platforms, including its non-viral piggyBac® DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER™ Site-Specific Gene Editing System and nanoparticle and hybrid gene delivery technologies. The Company has formed global strategic collaborations with Roche and Takeda to unlock the promise of cell and gene therapies for patients. Learn more at www.poseida.com and connect with Poseida on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates' company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend," Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company's chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Among them, there's a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry's trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there's a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That's enough of a boost that it's highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It's not just nuclear, it's not just solar, it's all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit's work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S. Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he'd be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S. The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.”
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Images from the Non-Select Division I championship game between Ruston and Destrehan, the Division II game between North DeSoto and Lutcher and the Division III game between Union Parish and Many at the Caesars Superdome. Photos by Robert Summerlin (robertsummerlin@yahoo.com). | https://bossierpress.com/photo-gallery-non-select-division-i-ii-and-iii-championship-games/ | 2022-12-13 15:19:03 | 1 | https://bossierpress.com/photo-gallery-non-select-division-i-ii-and-iii-championship-games/ |
Zoom Taps Leading Third-Party Risk Data Provider to Validate Its Security and Privacy Controls
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TruSight, the financial industry's leading provider of validated third-party risk data, today announced the completion of its latest risk assessment of Zoom Video Communications, Inc. This is the third consecutive year that Zoom has undergone the rigorous TruSight assessment, which validates that the company's controls align with the financial industry's security and privacy standards.
Zoom continues to enhance the security of its communication platform to support the growing needs of its global customers. Aligning with the financial services industry's third-party standards is integral to that effort. Completing the TruSight risk assessment demonstrates Zoom's commitment to achieving the compliance, privacy, safety, and security requirements of its customers in this industry.
TruSight's data platform facilitates the efficient exchange of fully validated risk data between service providers and their customers. The risk assessments are performed once and shared by many, reducing the time and effort spent by both financial service institutions and their vendors. Leveraging TruSight's control validation process can provide the vast majority of due diligence responses for assessments of vendor risk.
For Zoom, completing the TruSight assessment each year removes the need for them to be subjected to multiple bilateral assessments, which in turn accelerates the due diligence process. In addition, it allows Zoom to increase customer assurance. For Zoom's customers, the universally adopted TruSight methodology enables them to gain greater visibility into supply chain risk. By utilizing TruSight's methodology and Zoom's Customer Security Assurance Package (CSAP), a customer can absorb and review Zoom's ever-evolving security posture quickly and efficiently.
"Security and privacy are paramount at Zoom, and inform all our activities and innovations," said Sandra McLeod, Head of Security Assurance at Zoom. "We want users to trust our platform, and having TruSight's risk assessment of security controls enable our customers to gain greater visibility into their use of Zoom."
"Zoom is a leader in the industry, and their commitment to delivering a high level of security for their users is admirable," said Patrick Eannotti, Director of Third Party Engagement at TruSight. "We are thrilled that they continue to partner each year with TruSight to assess their risk level, making it easier for them to meet customer expectations and win customer trust."
To obtain the Zoom assessment, email info@trusightsolutions.com.
TruSight, an industry-initiated utility, is the leading provider of comprehensive, validated third-party risk assessments. Developed and backed by five of the largest global financial institutions, including American Express, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon, and Wells Fargo, the TruSight methodology combines best practices and standardization to deliver the highest quality data, enabling businesses to gain greater visibility into supply chain resilience.
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ION Commodities was named CTRM Software House of the Year amid 14 other top firms in the industry.
LONDON, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ION Commodities, a global leader in energy and commodity management solutions, has been named Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) Software House of the Year by Risk.net.
Each year, Risk.net - the world's leading source of in-depth news and analysis on complex markets – hosts the Energy Risk Awards to recognize excellence in risk management across the financial and commodities sectors. The Energy Risk Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious awards for firms and individuals involved in risk transfer markets and in risk management.
ION Commodities was named CTRM Software House of the Year amid 14 other top firms in the industry. The nominees were judged on their risk management capabilities, innovation, technology, and achievements in 2021. ION Commodities offers a comprehensive portfolio of trading, risk management, and innovative decision support solutions that use data for unique business insights and supply chain optimization in complex and volatile markets.
"This year, ION Commodities stood out in the energy space for the breadth and depth of its capabilities and its innovative forward-looking approach to the market, helping businesses navigate both the energy transition and evolving markets" said Stella Farrington, Energy Risk at Risk.net.
As the world transitions to net zero emissions, ION Commodities strives to be organizations' partner of choice by delivering best-in-class trading and risk solutions across the energy and commodity value chain. In 2021, ION Commodities launched 15 new major product offerings to help businesses navigate energy transition and evolving commodity markets. These innovations include trading and risk management for the liquefaction and regasification of liquefied natural gas, algo trading support, predictive pathing using machine learning for natural gas, tools for managing power purchase agreements and carbon credit trading. With over 50% of its workforce dedicated to research and development, ION Commodities continues to invest substantially in innovation to support businesses on their digital transformation journeys.
"We thank Risk.net for recognizing our leading role in connecting the industry and engaging with our over 30,000 end users to shape the future of energy and commodities management. This award demonstrates our clients' trust in our ability to innovate as markets evolve," says Richard Grossi, Chief Executive Officer at ION Corporates.
About Energy Risk Awards
The annual Energy Risk awards, recognize excellence in financial risk management across the commodities sector. The awards are open to energy and commodities producers, traders and consumers, and all firms in between that facilitate risk management. Corporates, financial players, technology and data firms, consultancies, brokers and exchanges submit entries each year. Hosted by Risk.Net, the Energy Risk Awards focus on prudent energy risk management; innovation in trading and risk management; and expertise in, and insight into, energy derivatives and other risk management tools.
About ION
ION provides mission-critical trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates. Our solutions and services simplify complex processes, boost efficiency, and enable better decision-making. We build long-term partnerships with our clients, helping transform their business for sustained success through continuous innovation. For more information, visit https://iongroup.com/.
About ION Commodities
ION Commodities delivers data-driven energy and commodities trading and risk management solutions across the supply chain. Our scalable ETRM and CTRM solutions equip clients to use real-time risk analytics and reporting, minimize supply chain risks, automate critical business processes, and make faster, more informed decisions. We provide full support and transparency for procurement, supply, and trading to a global community of over 1,200 clients. For more information, visit https://iongroup.com/commodities/.
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It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot reset again after someone won a record $2.04 billion in the November 7 drawing. Is this your lucky night?
Here are Saturday’s winning lottery numbers:
16-20-44-57-58, Powerball: 6, Power Play: 4X
The estimated Powerball jackpot is $47 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $23 million.
The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held following the regular drawing and has a top cash prize of $10 million.
Powerball is held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Double Play add-on feature is available for purchase in 13 lottery jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
A $2 ticket gives you a one in 292.2 million chance at joining the hall of Powerball jackpot champions.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for pathogens that affect the brain and cause aggressive behavior, officials said Monday.
Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen, a state wildlife veterinarian, collected and examined samples from the bear’s head the day after the attack, when weather conditions allowed her and an Alaska State Trooper to fly to the village.
The results of her analysis, which were released Monday but initially were dated Feb. 3, indicates the bear was an adult male, probably older and in poor physical health. Officials sent a tooth to a lab to determine the bear’s age, but those results won’t be known for months.
Standard tests conducted on available tissues for pathogens were negative for rabies, toxoplasmosis, distemper and avian influenza.
“There is no definitive explanation as to why the bear was in poor body condition,” the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a joint statement.
Summer Myomick and her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, were mauled to death Jan. 17 as they left the school in Wales, Alaska, for a short walk of about 150 yards (137 meters) to the town’s medical clinic.
School employees attempted to stop the attack by hitting the bear with shovels, but it turned on them and chased as they went back inside for safety. The principal slammed the door to keep the bear out of the school, which was in session.
A village resident later arrived with a gun and killed the animal.
It was the first fatal polar bear attack in Alaska in three decades.
Polar bears are the largest bear species, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Males typically weigh 600 to 1,200 pounds (270 to 540 kilograms) but can be more than 1,700 pounds (770 kilograms) and reach up to 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Females weigh 400 to 700 pounds (180 to 320 kilograms). Polar bears generally feed on seals but also prey on walruses and beluga whales.
They were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2008 and are also protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Both laws prohibit harming the bears without authorization unless necessary for human safety.
Wales, a whaling village of about 160 people, is located about 640 miles (1,300 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage and is accessible by plane or boat. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/polar-bear-in-fatal-alaska-attack-was-in-poor-health/ | 2023-02-07 04:40:12 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/polar-bear-in-fatal-alaska-attack-was-in-poor-health/ |
CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southern Oregon and Northern California
National Weather Service Medford, OR
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
CAZ080-281200-
Western Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely
late this evening, then slight chance of rain and snow showers
well after midnight. Snow level 3000 feet. New snow accumulation
of 1 to 2 inches. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Snow level 3000 feet in the morning. Highs in the
lower 30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with rain and snow. Snow level
3000 feet rising to 3500 feet after midnight. Snow accumulation
of 3 to 5 inches. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. South winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 4000 feet. Highs in the mid
30s to mid 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Snow level 5500 feet rising to 6000 feet
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. South winds
15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Lows in the mid 30s
to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Colder. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain and snow likely. Lows in
the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
CAZ081-281200-
Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered rain and snow
showers. Snow level 3100 feet. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 10 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow level
2900 feet. Snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Lows in the lower
to mid 30s. Breezy. In the shasta valley, south winds 10 to
15 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph late in the evening and
overnight. Elsewhere, south winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow level 3500 feet. Highs in
the mid 30s to mid 40s. Breezy. South winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance
of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Snow level 4500 feet rising to 5500 feet
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Breezy. South winds 15 to
25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph late in the evening and
overnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain in the morning, then chance of rain and snow in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening. Lows around 30.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely after midnight. Lows
in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s.
$$
CAZ082-281200-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow
showers late this evening, then slight chance of snow showers
well after midnight. Snow level 3000 feet. Lows in the lower 20s
to lower 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy
with a 10 percent chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow in the evening, then rain and
snow after midnight. Snow level 2900 feet. Snow accumulation of
2 to 4 inches. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. South winds
15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 3100 feet. Highs in the
lower 30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 3500 feet rising to
4500 feet after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Lows in the lower to
mid 30s. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then slight chance of snow after midnight. Colder. Lows
in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming
partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid
20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then rain
and snow likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s to lower
40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
CAZ083-281200-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Isolated rain and snow showers
late this evening, then slight chance of snow showers after
midnight. Snow level 3000 feet. Lows in the lower 20s to lower
30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then snow
after midnight. Snow accumulation of 2 to 3 inches. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s. Windy. South winds 10 to 15 mph increasing
to southwest 20 to 30 mph after midnight. Chance of snow
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 3000 feet rising to
3500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
Windy. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 3500 feet rising to
4500 feet after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Breezy.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s to lower
40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Highs in the lower to
mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
CAZ084-281200-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated snow showers. Lows
in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of snow showers
in the morning. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening,
then snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
Breezy. South winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph after
midnight. Chance of snow 10 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 3000 feet rising to
4000 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 4000 feet rising to
4500 feet after midnight. Lows around 30. Breezy. South winds
15 to 25 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph late in the evening and
overnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Highs around 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the
mid 20s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow after midnight.
Colder. Lows 15 to 20.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid
30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening,
then snow likely after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow likely
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
CAZ085-281200-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
1152 PM PST Tue Dec 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered snow showers late
this evening, then slight chance of snow showers well after
midnight. New snow accumulation up to 1 inch except 1 to 2 inches
in the Warner Mountains. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of snow showers
in the morning. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening,
then snow after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Lows in
the lower to mid 20s. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of snow
80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow in the morning, then rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level 3600 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts
up to 40 mph until early afternoon. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 3800 feet rising to
4400 feet after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then slight chance of snow after midnight. Colder. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s.
.NEW YEARS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow after midnight.
Lows 15 to 20.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Highs in the mid 30s.
Lows 15 to 25.
.TUESDAY...Snow likely. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
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Frances G. Clayton Muchler, 84, of Hanover Twp., passed away Sunday, May 29, 2022, at Guardian Healthcare, Nanticoke.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Nov. 16, 1937, she was the daughter of the late George and Arline Vandermark Clayton Didwalis.
Frances was a 1956 Graduate of GAR High School. She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre, where she had served on church council and Christian education committee. She was also head of the nursery department.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Bernard J. Poepperling Sr., Charles T. Eckhart Sr. and Robert C. Muchler.
Left to cherish her memory are daughters, Connie Lee Kopp, Middletown; Charline J. Eckhart; and Rebekah S. Muchler, Hanover Twp.; sons, Jerry Poepperling, Mountain Top; Dwayne Poepperling, Shavertown; Bernard J. Poepperling Jr., Scranton; stepsons, Stanley and Charles Eckhart Jr., Hanover Twp.; Jamie Muchler Brennan, Sweet Valley; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren; and a niece and a nephew.
A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Friday from Kniffen O’Malley Leffler Funeral & Cremation Services Inc., 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call from 5 p.m. until the time of services.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Frances’ name to any of the following, which were her favorite causes: The American Lung Association, The Arthritis foundation, Ruth’s place and The Breast cancer Foundation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Igor Levit arrives at Carnegie Hall changed by the pandemic.
“We are not on our way back to normal. I don’t think we should be on our way back to anything. There is no normal out there,” the 35-year-old pianist says, citing uncertainty around the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, energy shortages and climate change. “It’s not like we’re going through normal. So I find traveling and playing both very intense and yet incredibly rewarding. I cherish every concert I play in a way maybe I was a little bit less aware of pre-pandemic.”
At Carnegie on Tuesday night, he plays Shostakovich’s 24 “Preludes and Fugues,” part of a quick U.S. tour that takes him to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Thursday and Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, on Sunday.
His new recording “Tristan” was released by Sony Classical on Sept. 9 and his book “House Concert,” written with Florian Zinnecker, is being published in English by Polity in January.
Levit’s playing has a bravura intensity and an elegance, connecting emotionally and intellectually. Outspoken on social media, he is self-described as “Citizen. European. Pianist.”
On March 10, 2020, his 33rd birthday, he played two Beethoven piano concertos at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Two days later, after COVID-19 shutdowns began, he started what turned into 52 streamed concerts from his Berlin apartment. He did not resume public performances before an audience until the spring of 2021.
“I had about 2.3 million people in my living room,” he said. “It was not like I was playing for my phone. I was playing for real people. Emotionally there was no difference. So I knew that there are people and I better treat them with respect and I better try hard and I better play well, because these people gift me with their time, which is the most precious thing they have.”
Levit called his first piano “Lulu” after the title character in Berg’s opera and his second “Monk” after Thelonious. He now uses a 1923 Steinway once owned by the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer.
He most memorably performed Erik Satie’s “Vexations” on May 30, 2020, a theme and two variations repeated 840 times and stretching for about 20 hours. He paused only for only short breaks for water and bathroom trips, and about 800,000 people listened.
“There was actually only one moment where I thought, why am I doing this? Because I was playing for 4 hours and there was still this pile of papers. I thought, like, there was no progress being made at all. But that lasted for 20, 25 minutes,” he recalled. “It was big fun to do. Then the following day, I was totally high. It was fantastic. I would better not recapitulate how much I drank that day. And then the day after, that’s when I kind of crashed and felt a little drained.”
His only uncomfortable performances during the shutdown were in empty concert halls for a camera.
“These spaces were not meant for that. It feels like a lie,” he said. “That’s not what it should be about.”
“Tristan,” largely recorded in the Berlin Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Hall in September 2020, features Zoltán Kocsis’ arrangement of the opera’s prelude, a follow-up to Liszt’s arrangement of the “Liebestod (Love death)” featured on Levit’s 2018 recording “Life.” The two-CD set, released by Sony Classical on Sept. 9, opens with Liszt’s “Liebestraum (Love dream) No. 3″ and is followed by Hans Werner Henze’s nearly 50-minute “Tristan,” preludes for piano, electronic tapes and orchestra. The second disc opens with the Wagner transcription and includes Ronald Stevenson’s arrangement of the adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony and Liszt’s “Harmonies du Soir,” his Transcendental Étude No. 11.
After appearing in Europe from December through February, Levit goes to Boston, La Jolla, California, and Los Angeles in March, then returns to Europe briefly before three concerts in Pittsburgh in May followed by a two-week residency in San Francisco.
“I just want to play the music I want to play,” he said. “And very often I find myself having the desire to play music which was not written for the piano. But then my desire to play is way greater than the fact that it hasn’t been written for the piano. So in the end I just make it happen, period, be it Wagner, be it Mahler, be it whatever comes into my mind.”
When Levit first considers a work he never has played before, he thinks his way through before putting fingers to keys.
“I gives me the chance to know the piece before I touch it, before I touch the piano,” he said. “I start imagining how it could sound like, what it should sound like, what I want it to sound like. It’s the most joyful thing to do for me.”
His book recounts his youth through the pandemic. His family left Russia when he was young and moved to Hanover, Germany.
“There’s a lot of pain because what sounds like an anecdote to you and to the reader, well, let me tell you the fact that a 9-year-old child had to make phone calls for his parents, is very painful for the parents, and we should never leave that out of our perspective,” he said.
“There’s beauty to it and there’s pain to it. And I think that every child who grew up as a migrant and in a new country has very, very similar experiences, seeing your parents struggle, seeing your classmates not really accepting you. Thinking back includes beauty and mostly, let’s face it, pain and in a way sadness.” | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-igor-levit-back-on-road-but-post-pandemic-far-from-normal/ | 2022-10-17 19:36:19 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-igor-levit-back-on-road-but-post-pandemic-far-from-normal/ |
Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico. She covers Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and on NPR.org. | https://www.wdiy.org/2022-12-09/croatia-beats-brazil-in-the-world-cup-kicking-the-country-out-of-the-competition | 2022-12-09 22:38:06 | 1 | https://www.wdiy.org/2022-12-09/croatia-beats-brazil-in-the-world-cup-kicking-the-country-out-of-the-competition |
Gangsta Boo, a former member of Three 6 Mafia, dies at 43
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gangsta Boo, a Southern rapper who was a former member of the hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, has died. She was 43. Lola “Gangsta Boo” Mitchell was found dead Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, her hometown. She launched her rap career at age of 14 when she was noticed by DJ Paul, a founding member of Three 6 Mafia. By 15, she joined the rap collective, which also included notable members Juicy J, Crunchy Black and Lord Infamous. The rapper’s mother Veronica Mitchell and family thanked “everyone for their condolences,” in a statement issued Monday. The cause of death has not been released.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gangsta Boo, a Southern rapper who was a former member of the hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, has died. She was 43.
Lola “Gangsta Boo” Mitchell was found dead Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, her hometown. The cause of death has not been released.
“The Mitchell family would like to thank everyone for their condolences regarding the untimely death of Lola ‘Gangsta Boo’ Mitchell,” said the rapper’s mother Veronica Mitchell and family in a statement issued Monday. “The family is asking for your continued prayers and privacy as we process the loss of our loved one.”
The rapper launched her career at age of 14 when she was noticed by DJ Paul, a founding member of Three 6 Mafia. By 15, she joined the rap collective, which included notable members DJ Paul, Juicy J, Crunchy Black and Lord Infamous.
Gangsta Boo gained instant notoriety with her shoot-from-the-hip, rapid-fire rap flow on Three 6 Mafia’s 1995 debut album “Mystic Stylez,” which became a cult classic. She appeared on five more of the group’s albums, including “Chapter 2: World Domination” and the platinum-selling “When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1.”
In 1998, she branched out with her debut solo album “Enquiring Minds.” The album was highlighted by “Where Dem Dollas At,” featuring Juicy J and DJ Paul.
After Three 6 Mafia released “Choices: The Album” in 2001, she left the group to focus on her solo career. She dropped her sophomore album, “Both Worlds (asterisk)69,” which reached No. 29 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her third album, “Enquiring Minds II: The Soap Opera,” was released in 2003.
During her career, Gangsta Boo collaborated with popular artists including OutKast, Eminem, Gucci Mane, Lil Jon, E-40 and T.I. This year, she appeared on Latto’s “FTCU” that also included GloRilla.
Last month, Gangsta Boo said she was on the verge of releasing her fourth studio album “The BooPrint,” this year. Last week, she filmed an unreleased video, “Imma Mack,” with producer Drumma Boy.
“Gangsta Boo was like a sister to me and told the world about me the way my blood brother did,” Drumma Boy said in a statement. “We both are Leos and share the same energy towards unity and seeing people happy! This is just such a devastating loss cuz she always wanted to see others win! RIP to the Queen Of Memphis, forever my sister.”
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By KATE BRUMBACK (Associated Press)
ATLANTA (AP) — Parents of four transgender children have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law set to take effect Saturday that bans most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18.
The law passed along party lines this year by the Republican-majority General Assembly and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was hotly contested, with Democrats, parents and medical providers making impassioned arguments against it. Georgia is one of at least 20 states that have enacted laws that restrict or ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, with most currently facing lawsuits.
The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday night, asks a judge to permanently block the law. U.S. District Judge Sarah Geraghty set a hearing for Wednesday on an accompanying motion to prevent the law’s enforcement while the legal challenge plays out.
The Georgia law, Senate Bill 140, does allow doctors to prescribe puberty-blocking medications, and it allows minors who are already receiving hormone therapy to continue.
Supporters argue the law will prevent children from making decisions they could later regret.
But opponents say it will have devastating effects on young people, who are making decisions under parental and medical supervision. They argue the law further marginalizes people who are already prone to taking their own lives at disturbingly high rates.
The federal lawsuit was filed by the parents of four transgender girls and by TransParent, an organization that supports parents and caregivers of transgender children. The suit was filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
They argue the law “violates the fundamental rights of parents to make medical decisions to ensure the health and well-being of their children” and “violates the guarantees of equal protection by denying transgender youth essential, and often lifesaving, medical treatment based on their sex and on their transgender status.”
The lawsuit names state health officials as defendants.
Kara Richardson, a spokesperson for Attorney General Chris Carr, said Friday morning that they hadn’t received the suit yet.
“That said, the Attorney General will do his job, which includes defending laws passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor,” she wrote in an email.
Puberty blockers are only intended to be used for a few years. Delaying puberty for longer carries risks, including keeping their bodies from developing bone density which generally happens during puberty, the suit says.
If the law goes into effect, young people already on puberty blockers will not be able to proceed to hormone therapy. That means they will have to choose between the negative consequences of prolonged use of that medication or stopping the medication and going through puberty to develop secondary sex characteristics that do not match their gender identity, the lawsuit says.
For those not already on puberty-blocking medication, the law discourages doctors from prescribing it at all because allowing a young person to take such medication until they turn 18 “is not a viable option under the appropriate standards of care,” the lawsuit says.
“Prohibiting access to necessary medical care is just cruel,” Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Beth Littrell said in a statement. “Laws like this are predicated on prejudice, misinformation, and manufactured fears, and they are as indefensible as they are unconstitutional.”
The families who sued have asked the court to let them proceed under pseudonyms because of concerns about their privacy and safety.
Some families said the law would force them to make the disruptive choice to uproot their families to move to a state that allows their children to receive the health care they believe is necessary for them to live happily and thrive.
“Gender-affirming health care is best-practice, evidence-based medical treatment that is necessary for the health and happiness of many transgender youth,” said ACLU of Georgia legal director Cory Isaacson.
The lawsuit is the latest to target bans on gender-affirming care, after a wave of legislation passed in conservative-led states.
A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional, and federal judges have temporarily blocked bans in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it. A federal judge has blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on three children who have challenged the law.
The states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, South Dakota and West Virginia. | https://www.twincities.com/2023/06/30/parents-of-transgender-youth-are-suing-to-block-georgias-gender-affirming-care-ban/ | 2023-06-30 19:39:02 | 0 | https://www.twincities.com/2023/06/30/parents-of-transgender-youth-are-suing-to-block-georgias-gender-affirming-care-ban/ |
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By JEFF ROWE
“Rikers: An Oral History,” by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House)
In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about everyone interviewed for this book concurs on the thesis: the New York City jails on Rikers Island stand as a failure in every way.
For inmates, a stay at Rikers can be harrowing. Inmate-on-inmate attacks are common — a “buck fifty” in Rikers parlance is a razor slash that requires 150 stitches to close.
How do blades get in? The same way drugs, phones and weapons infiltrate — visitors, incoming inmates and friendly guards. Gangs often emerge as the governance inside.
Rats, mice and roaches infest the place. The smells of vomit, body odor, urine and feces are pervasive. Medical care is uneven at best.
The mentally ill — estimated to be 40 percent of the jail population — suffer the most, preyed on by the stronger inmates and often relegated to solitary confinement.
This book presents the experiences of inmates, staff, lawyers and groups who work with those incarcerated at Rikers. Some held there plead guilty, even if they are innocent, just to get out of the nightmare, said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families for Justice.
Staff, up to and including wardens, offer some of the most compelling critiques.
A corrections officer — the authors say those staffers hate the term “guard” — said he beat an inmate for an hour, including flushing the toilet while holding the inmate’s head in the bowl — all because the inmate “disrespected” him.
At 425 pages, the sheer number of voices in the book sometimes become repetitive and the speakers sometimes are incoherent. Nonetheless, the assembly of testimony presents a powerful portrait of a failed institution. The city had said it plans to close the facility by 2027.
Will the book foster some original thinking on what to do with people arrested, awaiting trial, unable to raise bail, serving sentences for relatively minor crimes or convicted of serious crimes and not yet transferred to state prison?
Political will certainly seems missing in action.
Perhaps the most telling conclusion, and call to action, comes early on in the book: No one comes out of Rikers better than they entered.
“You internalize the dehumanization (and) that’s how you treat other people,“ said Eddie Rosario, who spent part of 1990 at Rikers. “You’re never the same person again.” | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1596875/review-oral-history-of-rikers-island-reveals-citys-failure | 2023-01-17 17:40:22 | 1 | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1596875/review-oral-history-of-rikers-island-reveals-citys-failure |
Sinéad O’Connor, gifted and provocative Irish singer, dies at 56
LONDON (AP) — Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” the singer’s family said in a statement reported Wednesday by the BBC and RTE. No cause was disclosed.
She was public about her mental illness, saying that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. O’Connor posted a Facebook video in 2017 from a New Jersey motel where she had been living, saying that she was staying alive for the sake of others and that if it were up to her, she’d be “gone.” When her teenage son Shane died by suicide in 2022, O’Connor tweeted there was “no point living without him” and was soon hospitalized.
Recognizable by her shaved head and elfin features, O’Connor began her career singing on the streets of Dublin and soon rose to international fame. She was a star from her 1987 debut album “The Lion and the Cobra” and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia and was heightened by a promotional video featuring the gray-eyed O’Connor in intense close-up.
She was a lifelong non-conformist — she would say that she shaved her head in response to record executives pressuring her to be conventionally glamorous — but her political and cultural stances and troubled private life often overshadowed her music.
A critic of the Catholic Church well before allegations sexual abuse were widely reported, O’Connor made headlines in October 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while appearing live on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and denounced the church as the enemy. The next week, Joe Pesci hosted “Saturday Night Live,” held up a repaired photo of the Pope and said that if he had been on the show with O’Connor he “would have gave her such a smack.” Days later, she appeared at an all-star tribute for Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden and was immediately booed. She was supposed to sing Dylan’s “I Believe in You,” but switched to an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War,” which she had sung on “Saturday Night Live.”
Although consoled and encouraged on stage by her friend Kris Kristofferson, she left and broke down, and her performance was kept off the concert CD. (Years later, Kristofferson recorded “Sister Sinead,” for which he wrote “And maybe she’s crazy and maybe she ain’t/But so was Picasso and so were the saints.”)
She also feuded with Frank Sinatra over her refusal to allow the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at one of her shows and accused Prince of physically threatening her. In 1989 she declared her support for the Irish Republican Army, a statement she retracted a year later. Around the same time, she skipped the Grammy ceremony, saying it was too commercialized.
In 1999, O’Connor caused uproar in Ireland when she became a priestess of the breakaway Latin Tridentine Church — a position that was not recognized by the mainstream Catholic Church. For many years, she called for a full investigation into the extent of the church’s role in concealing child abuse by clergy. In 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI apologized to Ireland to atone for decades of abuse, O’Connor condemned the apology for not going far enough and called for Catholics to boycott Mass until there was a full investigation into the Vatican’s role, which by 2018 was making international headlines.
“People assumed I didn’t believe in God. That’s not the case at all. I’m Catholic by birth and culture and would be the first at the church door if the Vatican offered sincere reconciliation,” she wrote in the Washington Post in 2010.
O’Connor announced in 2018 that she had converted to Islam and would be adopting the name Shuhada’ Davitt, later Shuhada Sadaqat — although she continued to use Sinéad O’Connor professionally.
“Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare,” Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said in a statement on social media.
O’Connor was born on Dec. 8, 1966. She had a difficult childhood, with a mother whom she alleged was abusive and encouraged her to shoplift. As a teenager she spent time in a church-sponsored institution for girls, where she said she washed priests’ clothes for no wages. But a nun gave O’Connor her first guitar, and soon she sang and performed on the streets of Dublin, her influences ranging from Dylan to Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Her performance with a local band caught the eye of a small record label, and, in 1987, O’Connor released “The Lion and the Cobra,” which sold hundreds of thousands of copies and featured the hit “Mandinka,” driven by a hard rock guitar riff and O’Connor’s piercing vocals. O’Connor, 20 years old and pregnant while making “Lion and the Cobra,” co-produced the album.
“I suppose I’ve got to say that music saved me,” she said in an interview with the Independent newspaper in 2013. “I didn’t have any other abilities, and there was no learning support for girls like me, not in Ireland at that time. It was either jail or music. I got lucky.”
“Nothing Compares 2 U” received three Grammy nominations and was the featured track off her acclaimed album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” which helped lead Rolling Stone to name her Artist of the Year in 1991.
“She proved that a recording artist could refuse to compromise and still connect with millions of listeners hungry for music of substance,” the magazine declared.
O’Connor’s other musical credits included the albums “Universal Mother” and “Faith and Courage,” a cover of Cole Porter’s “You Do Something to Me” from the AIDS fundraising album “Red Hot + Blue” and backing vocals on Peter Gabriel’s “Blood of Eden.” She received eight Grammy nominations overall and in 1991 won for best alternative musical performance.
O’Connor announced she was retiring from music in 2003, but she continued to record new material. Her most recent album was “ I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss,” released in 2014 and she sang the theme song for Season 7 of “Outlander.”
The singer married four times; her union to drug counsellor Barry Herridge, in 2011, lasted just 16 days. O’Connor had four children: Jake, with her first husband John Reynolds; Roisin, with John Waters; Shane, with Donal Lunny; and Yeshua Bonadio, with Frank Bonadio.
In 2014, she said she was joining the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party and called for its leaders to step aside so that a younger generation of activists could take over. She later withdrew her application.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) is pleased to introduce two new members to the Board: Tara McClary and Ryan McIntosh. Both Tara and Ryan bring a wealth of experience to strengthen our organization and their unique backgrounds make them a great asset to NASP's Board and to the Association in furthering the mission. Their two-year term will begin January 1, 2023.
Tara and Ryan are valuable, active members of NASP, and we look forward to their continued strategic leadership. Sheila Dye, NASP Board President
MEET OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
Tara McClary
Tara is currently a Sr. Assistant Vice President of Amica Mutual Insurance Company and has more than 18 years of insurance and subrogation experience. She also sits on the Board of Sojourner House, serving as Chair of Governance and Strategic Finance Committees.
Tara will also join NASP's Finance Committee.
Ryan McIntosh
Ryan McIntosh has been an insurance claims professional for more than 20 years and currently serves as the National Recovery Director at WR Berkley. He has held several board positions throughout his career including his current appointments to Simpson College's Alumni Board and the Executive Committee for Black Excellence.
Ryan will also join NASP's Compensation Committee.
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NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of VBit Technologies Corp., VBit Mining LLC (Collectively, "VBit") securities, which were unregistered in the form of investment contracts, between January 1, 2019 and February 13, 2023, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important April 17, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased VBit securities, which were in the form of investment contracts, 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 VBit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12202 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 April 17, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by making false and misleading statements and omitting material information concerning VBit's mining operations. The lawsuit also alleges that defendants violated the Securities Act by offering, selling and soliciting unregistered securities.
To join the VBit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12202 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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PHOENIX — Editor's note: The above video is from Feb. 6.
Donna Kelce brought cookies to Super Bowl opening night.
The mother of All-Pros Travis and Jason Kelce surprised her sons during an interview with NFL Network's Michael Irvin with two batches of cookies — one for each.
"It's just been amazing that they've both been able to get to this point in their careers and both enjoy the Super Bowl together," Donna Kelce said. “It's just so amazing.”
The Kelces are the first brothers to face each other in the Super Bowl, Travis as a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, Jason as a center for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Donna and her husband, Ed, have mostly kept private over the years, but she's become a minor celebrity as she crisscrosses the country to watch her boys — often in a jersey with Travis’ front stitched to Jason’s back.
More than 150,000 fans signed a petition for the NFL to have her do the Super Bowl coin toss, but she said in a social media post that the NFL already had someone in place. | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/donna-kelce-brings-cookies-for-sons-super-bowl-opener/521-a31edf8d-2d65-4116-a85f-dd98422d0947 | 2023-02-07 11:57:01 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/donna-kelce-brings-cookies-for-sons-super-bowl-opener/521-a31edf8d-2d65-4116-a85f-dd98422d0947 |
DOVER, Del., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) will host a conference call on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. ET to discuss the Company's financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. The earnings press release will be issued on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, after market close.
To participate in this call, dial 877.224.1468 and reference Chesapeake Utilities Corporation's 2022 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call.
To access the replay recording of this call, please visit the Events & Presentations section of the Investors page on www.chpk.com.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is not affiliated with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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PARIS (AP) — It all used to come so easily for Dominic Thiem on a tennis court — his powerful forehand, his elegant backhand, his hit-which-shot-when calculations, all fine-tuned to the point of a title at the U.S. Open and three other Grand Slam final appearances, including two at Roland Garros.
Nowadays, even though the pain from last year’s torn tendon in his right wrist is no longer there, the strokes and, most disconcertingly, the wherewithal, are not what they once were, to the extent that his first-round exit at the French Open on Sunday was his 10th consecutive loss.
The situation has become dire enough that Thiem, a 28-year-old Austrian once ranked No. 3 but now No. 194, acknowledged after being beaten 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 by Hugo Dellien that perhaps it’s time for him to head to the lower-level Challenger Tour to get a win and gain some confidence.
After lamenting his forehand, his backhand and a too-low first-serve percentage, Thiem got to the bigger issue: “Sometimes, I do really stupid decisions during the rally, drop shots or down-the-line (groundstrokes) at the wrong moment. (In) match match situations, I’m not playing well. … Then, for example, there was one game today where I did four or five forehand return mistakes in a row, where I’m thinking, ‘What the heck is happening?’”
His quick departure was not the only noteworthy development on a cloudy, occasionally drizzly Day 1 at the year’s second major tennis tournament, which welcomed back pre-pandemic sights and sounds of full attendance and no masks in the stands.
Carlos Alcaraz, the 19-year-old from Spain who is seeded No. 6 and a popular pick to win his first Grand Slam trophy, advanced just as cleanly and quickly as expected against “lucky loser” Juan Ignacio Londero 6-4, 6-2, 6-0 in the day’s last match at Court Philippe Chatrier. Another teen, 18-year-old American Coco Gauff, also moved on, beating Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino 7-5, 6-0.
Given Thiem’s troubles — sure, he was the runner-up to Rafael Nadal in Paris in 2018 and 2019, and to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in 2020, but his last victory came in May 2021 — there were other results that probably were more surprising.
Chiefly in that category would be No. 6 seed Ons Jabeur’s 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 loss to 56th-ranked Magda Linette of Poland.
Jabeur, a Tunisian who is the first Arab woman to win a WTA title and first to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal, acknowledged: “I was expecting myself to go far in this tournament.”
As were others. That’s because Jabeur began the day with a tour-leading 17 wins on clay this season, including taking the title at the Madrid Open and reaching the final of the Italian Open.
Another top-10 women’s seed — and the 2016 champion at the place — was sent home when Garbiñe Muguruza was defeated 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 by 46th-ranked Kaia Kanepi of Estonia. Muguruza beat Serena Williams in the final at Roland Garros six years ago and Venus Williams in the final at Wimbledon in 2017, but she now has lost her opening match in Paris two straight years.
Avoiding that sort of result was the men’s No. 9 seed, Felix Auger-Aliassime, who took care of two missing items on his resume in one afternoon: He picked up a French Open victory for the first time in three tries and he won a match after dropping the opening two sets.
The 20-year-old Canadian came back to eliminate Juan Pablo Varillas, a qualifier from Peru making his Grand Slam debut, by a score of 2-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.
Other winners included 2017 U.S. Open champion and 2018 French Open runner-up Sloane Stephens, No. 23 Jil Teichmann and No. 26 Sorana Cirstea among the women; No. 3 Alexander Zverev, No. 18 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 23 John Isner and No. 26 Botic Van de Zandschulp among the men.
Dellien, a Bolivian ranked 87th, entered his contest against Thiem with a 2-7 career record in Grand Slam matches. But from the get-go, he was able to hold his own in lengthy baseline exchanges.
On the very first point, which lasted 24 strokes, Thiem landed a backhand passing shot in the net and shook his head. On the next, he tried a drop shot that floated wide. Not really close at all. Again, a head shake. On the sixth point, a forehand return sailed well long. That initial set ended with Thiem putting a forehand into the net, followed by a backhand into the net.
“Today, he wasn’t at his top level of the past, but I still needed to beat him,” Dellien said. “It’s an important step in my career.”
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SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as ‘La Barbie,’ is no longer listed as being held by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Valdez was extradited to Georgia from Mexico seven years ago and had received a 49-year prison term after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and launder money.
He was also ordered to pay $192 million in restitution to the U.S. Government.
According to his sentencing documents, Valdez’s release date was set for July 27, 2057.
But inexplicably, he is no longer being held and is listed as “Not in BOP custody” in the Bureau of Prisons database.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons listing for Edgar Valdez-Villarreal shows he is not being in custody.
Valdez was serving time at a maximum security federal prison in Florida.
His whereabouts are now unknown.
Initially, Valdez is said to have been part of the Sinaloa Cartel working with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera.
According to prosecutors, Valdez was shipping up to 180 kilos of cocaine per month to cities such as New Orleans, Atlanta and Memphis with the drugs coming from Colombia through Mexico on speedboats and airplanes.
In 2008, according to prosecutors, Valdez broke off from the Sinaloa Cartel and aligned himself with the Arturo Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking organization where he also led a group of assassins responsible for a majority of the killings committed by the group.
He was born in Laredo, Texas in 1973.
Valdez was said to be a popular high school football player in his hometown where his coach nicknamed him “La Barbie” because of his pale skin, blue eyes and facial features that compared to the Ken doll.
According to the Reforma, Valdez agreed to become a cooperating witness for U.S. prosecutors six years ago. | https://cw33.com/news/border-report-news/texas-born-drug-lord-la-barbie-no-longer-in-u-s-custody-his-whereabouts-unknown/ | 2022-11-30 15:50:45 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/border-report-news/texas-born-drug-lord-la-barbie-no-longer-in-u-s-custody-his-whereabouts-unknown/ |
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northpoint Roofing Systems, a prestigious Top 1% Roofing Contractor in the United States, announces a significant expansion of its business by opening its fourth location outside of Georgia and into Chattanooga, Tennessee. Northpoint Roofing Systems is no stranger to delivering unparalleled quality and dedication to its customers. Their commitment to customer satisfaction has earned them a reputation as one of the best roofers in the industry. Now, they are ready to extend their exceptional services to the welcoming community of Chattanooga.
Keith Priddy, CRO at Northpoint Roofing Systems, emphasizes the company's unwavering commitment to client satisfaction, stating, "Our customers know that they can rely on Northpoint to provide the solutions they need with the utmost commitment to their satisfaction."
One of the highlights of Northpoint Roofing Systems' arrival in Chattanooga is the introduction of FREE Drone Roof Inspections. Utilizing state-of-the-art drone and AI technology, these inspections provide homeowners with a detailed assessment of their roofs, offering valuable insights into their condition. Northpoint Roofing Systems has taken the hassle out of roof assessments, making it easier than ever for residents to ensure the safety and longevity of their homes.
To commence operations in their new Chattanooga location, the team at Northpoint will offer a diverse array of services catering to residential and commercial customers. These services include roof repair and replacement, gutter repair and replacement, commercial roofing solutions that ensure optimal performance for businesses large and small, and the new Timberline Solar shingle by GAF.
Patrick Maginn, CEO of Northpoint Roofing Systems, expresses his enthusiasm for this new chapter in the company's history: "We are excited to open a new full-service office in the growing city of Chattanooga. Tennessee is an exciting new market for Northpoint and a logical progression for our organic growth in the southeast."
Northpoint Roofing Systems understands that a new roof or roof repairs can be a significant investment. They're offering financing options to help homeowners find the best roofing solutions. With over 100 years of combined experience in the industry, Northpoint sets the standard for all roofing requirements. Whether customers seek shingles, metal roofing, gutters, or solar solutions, Northpoint Roofing Systems has them covered.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene hostile in testimony over eligibility
Published 5:32 pm Friday, April 22, 2022
ATLANTA — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was hostile during testimony Friday in a hearing on her eligibility to run for reelection, saying she did not remember liking and making various social media posts surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year and accusing an opposing lawyer of using chopped videos and twisting her words.
Voters in the Georgia congresswoman’s district have said Greene helped facilitate the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that disrupted certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, making her ineligible for reelection under a rarely cited section of the 14th Amendment dealing with “insurrection or rebellion.”
But Greene — who, the day before the Capitol riot, proclaimed on TV that this is “our 1776 moment” — testified that she’s never endorsed violence.
Greene is set to appear on the Republican ballot for Georgia’s May 24 primary and has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. The administrative law judge who oversaw the hearing must present his findings to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who will then make the ultimate determination over whether Greene is qualified.
Greene has repeatedly denied aiding or engaging in an insurrection and has filed a lawsuit alleging that the law the voters are using to challenge her eligibility is itself unconstitutional.
But Ron Fein, a lawyer for the voters who filed the challenge, said Greene took an oath and then broke it by engaging in an insurrection. While Greene wasn’t on the steps of the Capitol, she nevertheless played an important role in stoking Republican fury ahead of the attack, Fein said.
Unlike the Civil War and other insurrections that involved military uniforms and tactics, he said, “The leaders of this insurrection were among us, on Facebook, on Twitter, on corners of social media that would make your stomach hurt.”
Andrew Celli, a lawyer for the voters, questioned Greene about posts on her social media accounts. She repeatedly responded, “I don’t recall,” or “I don’t remember.”
When asked about the fact that her Facebook account had, in 2019, “liked” a post calling for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be shot in the head, Greene said she had no memory of that and said someone else could have been responsible.
Whenever Celli suggested that she’d endorsed the use of violence to interrupt the certification of the electoral votes, Greene asserted she doesn’t support violence and was encouraging peaceful protest.
Celli played a clip of an interview Greene did Jan. 5, 2021, in which she said this is “our 1776 moment.” When Celli asked if she was aware some Trump supporters used that reference as a call to violence, Greene said that wasn’t her intention and that she was talking about her plans to object to the certification of electoral votes.
“I was talking about the courage to object,” she said.
Celli appeared to grow frustrated at times when she didn’t directly answer his questions and accused him of was speculating.
“Ms. Greene, I’m just asking questions,” he said.
“I’m just answering,” she responded.
Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot sometimes seemed exasperated by repeated rephrasing of questions and at times told Celli to move on. He also repeatedly admonished Greene supporters for clapping or cheering during the proceedings.
James Bopp, a lawyer for Greene, said his client “did not engage in the attack on the Capitol,” and the challengers are making a very serious charge with significant ramifications.
“They want to deny the right to vote to the thousands of people living in the 14th District of Georgia by removing Greene from the ballot,” he said.
At the time of the riot, Greene was in a dark hallway at the Capitol urging people via social media to be safe and remain calm, he said.
“Rep. Greene was a victim of this attack,” Bopp said, adding that she believed her life could be in danger.
Bopp said that Greene was engaging in protected political speech. He also argued that the administrative hearing process is meant to address basic qualification questions, not to evaluate major constitutional and federal claims.
Dozens of Greene supporters attended the hearing, including U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican and staunch Greene ally.
The challenge to Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection was filed by five voters who live in her district, and the procedure for such a challenge is outlined in Georgia law.
The law says any voter who’s eligible to vote for a candidate can challenge that candidate’s qualifications by filing a written complaint. The secretary of state then has to request a hearing before an administrative law judge.
Beaudrot asked both sides to submit briefs by midnight Thursday, and said he would try to make a decision within a week after that.
Once he submits findings, Raffensperger will be tasked with deciding the eligibility of Greene, a Trump loyalist, as he faces a tough primary challenge from a Trump-endorsed candidate. Raffensperger attracted Trump’s wrath shortly after the 2020 election when he refused to take steps to overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
The 14th Amendment says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it aimed to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg in Atlanta on Monday declined a request from Greene to halt the challenge process. Greene is appealing that ruling.
The Georgia complaint was filed on the voters’ behalf by Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group.
The group filed similar challenges on behalf of voters in Arizona, where a judge on Friday ruled to keep three Republicans on the ballot, and in North Carolina against Republican U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who spoke at the rally that preceded the riot.
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