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Still believe in democracy? Voting for Arizona Democrats is the only way to fight back
Opinion: No election denier is fit to hold office. The best way to counter them is to vote for Arizona Democrats Adrian Fontes, Mark Kelly and Kris Mayes.
In less than 20 days, the whole thing will be over. Will democracy prevail, or will Arizona and the country descend into the depths of authoritarianism?
The threat of losing America’s democracy is real – tangible.
We’ve seen it play out with the never-ending fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election results because Trump wanted to remain in power through whatever means necessary, including violently attacking the U.S. Capitol.
The coup failed only because America still has some brave men and women willing to fight back, and some institutions such as the judiciary remain strong despite all MAGA efforts to destroy them.
Yet the MAGA movement has caught steam. Proof of that is the fact that Trump’s slate of candidates for statewide office – Republicans Kari Lake, Blake Masters, Mark Finchem and Abe Hamadeh – breezed through the primary and now are one step away from controlling Arizona government.
Lake will only certify election results she likes
That would be a calamity. And this is why: None of them are committing to accept the results of the Nov. 8 vote.
Lake, the former news anchor leading the Arizona MAGA pack, has repeatedly stated that she’d only accept the results if she wins. This woman as governor would be in charge of certifying the results of the 2024 vote.
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She’s already telling us she won’t if she doesn’t like the results. Imagine for a second that Trump is on the 2024 ballot and loses again. She’s essentially telling us she’d throw out the results, which would trigger a constitutional crisis at best or turn into a de-facto dictatorship at worst.
Finchem actively fought the 2020 results
Same goes for Finchem and election denier like Hamadeh, who as secretary of state and attorney general respectively, would decide whether to stamp the vote results.
Finchem helped organize the rally turned riot that ended with the storming of the U.S. Capitol, according to Ali Alexander, the architect of the Jan. 6, 2021, event.
Finchem says he would not have certified the 2020 presidential election results, as required by law. He also was among the group of GOP lawmakers who signed and sent a letter to then-Vice President Mike Pence asking that an alternate slate of electors for Trump be accepted instead of the official ones.
All of those things are disqualifying. He is unfit to serve at any capacity, much less as the elections chief.
Hamadeh and Masters bought into the Big Lie
Hamadeh also insists that the 2020 election was rigged, even though the outlandish claims used to back the assertion have been repeatedly debunked. As state attorney general, he says, he would prosecute those he believes were responsible for the 2020 election results.
And then there is Blake Masters, who’s seeking to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. He also is in lockstep with the lies of a rigged election.
There’s a lot more not to like about Trump’s MAGA candidates. But believe them when they essentially tell us that they stand ready to stick a knife through the heart of democratic norms.
Their Democrat opponents would respect your vote
The only way to fight back is to vote for Democrats – the ones who will respect the will of the people, like Adrian Fontes, who in 2020 accepted defeat against Republican Stephen Richer in the Maricopa County recorder race.
Fontes is running against Finchem. He would certify the results of the 2024 election regardless of who wins. That’s because he has actual experience overseeing elections and knows the numerous checks that are in place to ensure votes are properly counted and logged.
Kris Mayes, the Democrat facing Hamadeh in the attorney general’s race, is smart and has years of government experience – eight of them as a corporation commissioner overseeing regulation of the state’s utilities.
And how about Mark Kelly? Nobody with a brain can dispute his tenacity defending democracy and the U.S. Constitution.
Why our democracy is worth fighting for
There are many things I don’t particularly like about the Democrats, such as Kelly’s tepid work toward passing immigration reform and Fontes’ often arrogant style.
None of that is important when the future of Arizona and the United States is at stake. It is time to choose.
As a registered independent voter, I choose these Democrats because I want to preserve democracy in the country that embraces immigrants like me, who ask nothing more than just the opportunity to work.
A country that despite all its faults remains a beacon of hope around the world and whose democratic values keep inspiring so many people.
Elvia Díaz is the editorial page editor for The Republic and azcentral. Reach her at 602-444-8606 or elvia.diaz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter, @elviadiaz1.
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Blackfoot state champion runner Matt Thomas signs NLI with Oklahoma State
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (KIFI) - The 2022 4A boys individual cross country state champion is heading to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Blackfoot's Matt Thomas signed his letter of intent Tuesday to run for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Thomas also won the 4A state title with his team in 2021, and he is the boys all-area runner of the year this season.
Matt will run for an Oklahoma State team that finished 2nd in the NCAA men's cross country championships this year just behind Northern Arizona.
Congratulations to Matt, and good luck at Oklahoma State!
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KWC will serve more patients than any other ketamine therapy provider with addition of Medicare, cements status as nation's largest ketamine clinic network in the U.S.
Medicare coverage will be available for patients in eight cities with more to come
GILBERT, Ariz., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ketamine Wellness Centers (KWC), the largest ketamine therapy provider in the U.S. and a subsidiary of Delic Holdings Corp ("Delic" or the "Company") (CSE: DELC) (OTCQB: DELCF) (FRA: 6X0), has become one of a few ketamine therapy providers in the U.S. to offer Medicare coverage to patients at eight KWC clinics across the country — Chicago, Denver, Houston, Jacksonville, Minneapolis, Tucson, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
KWC is currently one of a handful of clinics in the country to accept any major insurance plans. Under Medicare, KWC is accepting a limited number of patients for ketamine infusion therapy at the eight clinics and the FDA-approved SPRAVATO® esketamine treatment at the Houston, Jacksonville and Seattle locations if they meet the criteria for insurance coverage. The coverage will also be dependent on their individual plan.
Patients navigating the complexities of healthcare coverage will have access to the company's experienced team of insurance experts who will assist as Medicare coverage is introduced.
"At Ketamine Wellness Centers it has been our mission from day one to make these life-changing therapies more accessible and affordable, which is why we are very focused on securing major insurers such as Medicare," said Kevin Nicholson, CEO of Delic and KWC. "Many insurance organizations around the country continue to classify ketamine as 'experimental' allowing them to resist covering patients of many other ketamine clinics who, unlike KWC, do not have specialized in-house insurance teams. This has left tens of millions of Americans to suffer needlessly, and often dangerously, from mental health conditions and pain with no access to affordable effective treatments. KWC's introduction of Medicare and other major insurance plan coverage overcomes a huge obstacle to the majority of mental health and pain patients previously forced to forego this safe, effective treatment because they cannot afford to pay out of pocket. Our team is working hard to bring Medicare and other insurance coverage to the rest of our clinics across the country so more people can access the quality care they need."
To learn more about the insurance options, visit ketaminewellnesscenters.com/insurance/. For more information about Ketamine Wellness Centers' locations, services and hours of operation, visit https://www.ketaminewellnesscenters.com/locations/.
Ketamine Wellness Centers (KWC) is the largest ketamine therapy provider in the United States with 13 clinic locations serving communities across nine states. Since 2011 KWC has been a trusted leader in bringing IV ketamine therapy into mainstream health care. KWC is approaching 100,000 treatments to clinically eligible patients, from young adults to seniors, in addition to developing specialized programs for veterans and first responders. The KWC team, including a core group of physicians, psychologists, clinicians, and executives, is dedicated to providing value-based, personalized, clinically controlled ketamine infusion care for people suffering from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD and chronic pain. KWC's scalable business and treatment model is designed for further rapid expansion along with breakthrough innovations in effective therapies and services.
Delic is a leader in new medicines and treatments for a modern world, improving access to health benefits across the country and reframing the conversation on psychedelics. The company owns and operates an umbrella of related businesses, including the largest chain of psychedelic wellness clinics in the country, Ketamine Wellness Centers; the only licensed entity by Health Canada to exclusively focus on research and development of psilocybin vaporization technology, Delic Labs; the premier psychedelic wellness event, Meet Delic; and trusted media and e-commerce platforms Reality Sandwich and Delic Radio. Delic is backed by a team of industry and cannabis veterans and a diverse network, whose mission is to provide education, research, high-quality products, and effective treatment options.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to elevate items on grass to prevent water or soil-based damage while also protecting the grass," said an inventor, from Cassopolis, Mich., "so I invented the SHORE STATION AERATOR PLATE / STORAGE. My design would allow rainwater and sun to reach the lawn and it would prevent water from sitting idle and causing damage to the stored items."
The invention provides an effective device for elevating items stored on grass. In doing so, it helps to protect stored items against water damage or ground rot. It also prevents the underlying lawn areas from being killed due to lack of water and sunlight. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for homeowners, landscapers, lake homeowners, businesses, etc.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-JMT-165, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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DENVER, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- redT Homes, the leading developer of sustainably built and attainably priced homes in Colorado, proudly welcomes Vincent Deorio as their new Chief Executive Officer.
redT's new CEO is an experienced executive with a proven track record of scaling real estate and technology businesses. Deorio, having spearheaded numerous mergers and acquisitions, fundraising efforts, and with ample experience penetrating new markets, is exactly what redT needs as it advances at the forefront of green building in Colorado.
A Denver native, Deorio is a driven, accomplished entrepreneur and thought leader in real estate and PropTech circles. He comes to redT by way of Atlas Real Estate, where he served as a Senior Executive overseeing all growth and corporate development, and Mynd a tech enabled real estate company.
Deorio has extensive experience in real estate acquisitions and development, with a unique perspective on combining technology and traditional real estate practices. His tech savvy, outside-the-box-thinking, coupled with prior successes in market expansion and fundraising, will assist redT as they continue to bolster their business footprint and fulfill their mission of Building A Greener Colorado.
Highlights of Deorio's career successes include the deployment of more than $2 billion for private and institutional investors in the Single Family Rental market, the generation of more than $1 billion in fundraising, having scaled PropTech companies from $0–$50M ARR, penetration into 25+ new markets, and the handling of more than 40 M&A transactions.
In his new role, Deorio will oversee all verticals of redT's business endeavors and will implement a scalable model for rapid growth in the green building market.
"I can see that redT is poised to step into the spotlight as the leading green developer in residential real estate. redT's innovations in their LiteHomes product and the overall mission are very intriguing to me. I am excited by the opportunity to join a company on the cutting edge of the real estate industry. redT is a mission and values driven company making a positive difference in people's lives and in our built environment," Deorio said.
For the announcement, owner and founder of redT, Nathan Adams, shared his enthusiasm for the shift in the company's leadership structure. "After 16 years of successful development in the Denver Metro area, I feel redT is positioned for significant growth, and if there is one thing I have come to understand during my tenure as CEO, it's that flexibility has been key to our continued success. I've developed a keen sense of when we need to pivot as a company to maximize our growth potential, and this is one of those times. The addition of Vincent adds a new and very impressive dynamic to our team." Adams said.
Deorio will be joining the team as a partner in redT, with Adams retaining majority ownership. Adams' new role will be Chief Acquisitions Officer. "The change will allow me to focus on acquisitions, a real passion of mine. From the narrowed focus of my new seat, I will be able to find more opportunities to drive growth for our communities and our company. The more opportunities I identify, the more options we have to continue to develop healthier, more attainably priced housing—something the region desperately needs," he shared.
Driven by his deep passion for collaborating with like-minded entrepreneurs in a niche category, Deorio aims to blaze a trail forward that will enable redT to fulfill its mission, growth, and financial potential.
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Time to get that Green Jacket dry cleaned.
The Masters, considered by many to be golf’s signature tournament, is set to tee off next week.
Past champions will don their iconic green jackets at Augusta National Golf Club. After four rounds of golf, the weekend will end with last year's winner helping to place a new jacket on this year's champion, officially inducting the newest member into one of golf's most exclusive clubs.
Who might that new champion be?
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Here's everything you need to know about the 2023 Masters.
When is the 2023 Masters?
The 2023 Masters will begin on Thursday, April 6, with honorary starters teeing off at 7:45 a.m. ET, and run through Sunday, April 9.
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Where is the 2023 Masters?
The Masters is held each year at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. The famed course, which has been extended to 7,545 yards, is a par 72.
How do you qualify for the Masters?
The Masters is by invitation only, meaning there are no qualifying tournaments. In order to qualify for invitation, players must meet one of the following 19 criteria, with occasional exceptions, per the Masters website.
1. Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
2. US Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
3. The Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
4. PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
5. Winners of The Players Championship (Three years)
6. Current Olympic Gold Medalist (One year)
7. Current US Amateur Champion (7-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year) and the runner-up (7-B) to the current US Amateur Champion
8. Current The Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)
9. Current Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion (One year)
10. Current Latin America Amateur Champion (One year)
11. Current US Mid-Amateur Champion (One year)
12. The first 12 players, including ties, in the previous year's Masters Tournament
13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s US Open
14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s The Open Championship
15. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s PGA Championship
16. Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters
17. Those qualifying for the previous year's season-ending Tour Championship
18. The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year
19. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament
Is Tiger Woods playing in this year’s Masters?
Yes. Winning the Masters once means a lifetime invitation to the tournament. Woods has won it five times.
Woods, who won his first Green Jacket in 1997 at 21 years old, has never missed the Masters cut in 22 starts as a professional. In last year’s tournament, Woods overcame serious leg injuries sustained during a February 2021 car crash to make the cut. He finished tied for 47th at 13-over, the worst score of his professional career at the Masters.
Who won the 2022 Masters?
Scottie Scheffler won his first career major after shooting a 10-under in last year’s tournament. Scheffler held off Rory Mcllroy, who matched a Masters final-round record of 64 to finish 7-under.
Who is the favorite to win the 2023 Masters?
Scottie Scheffler is listed as the favorite to win the 2023 Masters at +700, per PointsBet, NBC's official betting partner.
He is followed by Rory Mcllroy at +750, Jon Rahm at +850, Jordan Spieth at +1600 and Cameron Smith and Patrick Cantlay at +1800.
Other notable past Masters winners include Dustin Johnson at +2800, Tiger Woods at +5500 and Phil Mickelson at +25000.
Has the Masters ever been on Easter?
The Masters is played during the first full week of April each year, which means the final round occasionally falls on Easter Sunday.
That will be the case this year. The 2023 Masters champion will be crowned on Easter for the 18th time overall, and first since 2012 when Bubba Watson won in a playoff.
Here are the Masters Easter Sunday winners, per The Augusta Chronicle.
1947 - Jimmy Demaret
1950 - Jimmy Demaret
1955 - Cary Middlecoff
1958 - Arnold Palmer
1966 - Jack Nicklaus
1968 - Bob Goalby
1971 - Charles Coody
1974 - Gary Player
1977 - Tom Watson
1979 - Fuzzy Zoeller
1982 - Craig Stadler
1993 - Bernhard Langer
1998 - Mark O’Meara
2004 - Phil Mickelson
2007 – Zach Johnson
2009 – Angel Cabrera
2012 – Bubba Watson
The final round of the 2020 Masters was scheduled to be played on Easter Sunday, but the tournament was postponed to November due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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– Five posters will showcase progress with multiple preclinical and clinical programs, including the clinical results of ATG-008 (mTORC1/2 inhibitor) and preclinical data of ATG-031 (anti-CD24 monoclonal antibody), ATG-037 (small molecule CD73 inhibitor), ATG-017 (ERK1/2 inhibitor), and ATG-034 (LILRB4 antagonist antibody)
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene" SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative, global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and/or best-in-class medicines for cancer, today announced the publication of abstracts for five posters that will be presented during the upcoming 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR 2023), taking place from April 14th to 19th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, the United States.
"We are honored to have the opportunity to present the latest results from our in-house discovery and clinical programs at AACR 2023. This year, we have five abstracts selected for presentations at the AACR Annual Meeting. These results underscore our focus on the tumor microenvironment and the unique role that immunology plays in cancer, including our expertise in discovering and developing small molecule and unique antibody drugs," said Dr. Bo Shan, Antengene's Chief Scientific Officer. "Building these progress, we will continue to accelerate our preclinical and clinical programs in efforts to bring more innovative treatment options to patients as soon as possible."
Details of the posters and corresponding abstracts are shown below:
ATG-008 (mTORC1/2 inhibitor)
Title: Result of an open-label phase 2 trial of dual TORC1/TORC2 inhibitor onatasertib(ATG-008) in HBV+ advanced hepatocelllular carcinoma(HCC) subjects who have received at least one prior line of systemic therapy(TORCH)
Abstract: CT150
Session: Phase II Clinical Trials 1
Date: April 17, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Eastern Time)
1:30 AM - 5:00 AM, April 18, 2023 (Beijing Time)
Location: Poster Section 47
ATG-031 (anti-CD24 monoclonal antibody)
Title: ATG-031, a first-in-class humanized anti-CD24 antibody, demonstrates potent in vivo efficacy and repolarizes tumor-associated macrophages in the TME
Abstract: 6641
Session: Immune Checkpoints
Date: April 19, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Eastern Time)
9:00 PM April 19 - 12:30 AM April 20, 2023 (Beijing Time)
Location: Poster Section 38
ATG-037 (small molecule CD73 inhibitor)
Title: Targeting CD73-Adenosine Axis for the treatment of multiple myeloma
Abstract: 496
Session: Novel Antitumor Agents 1
Date: April 16, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Eastern Time)
1:30 AM - 5:00 AM, April 17, 2023 (Beijing Time)
Location: Poster Section 17
ATG-017 (ERK1/2 inhibitor)
Title: Synergistic effects of the combination of ERK1/2 with EGFR, KRASG12C, CDK4/6, and PD-L1 inhibition for cancer treatment
Abstract: 5499
Session: Combination Therapies for Cancer
Date: April 18, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Eastern Time)
1:30 AM - 5:00 AM, April 19, 2023 (Beijing Time)
Location: Poster Section 38
ATG-034 (LILRB4 antagonist antibody)
Title: ATG-034, an LILRB4 antagonist antibody, reinvigorates dendritic cells and prevents tumor progression
Abstract: 6384
Session: Immune Checkpoints
Date: April 19, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Eastern Time)
9:00 PM April 19 - 12:30 AM April 20, 2023 (Beijing Time)
Location: Poster Section 23
About Antengene
Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK) is a leading commercial-stage R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative first-in-class/best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, in realizing its vision of "Treating Patients Beyond Borders".
Since 2017, Antengene has built a broad and expanding pipeline of 13 clinical and preclinical assets, of which 10 are global rights assets, and 3 came with rights for Asia Pacific markets including the Greater China region. To date, Antengene has obtained 28 investigational new drug (IND) approvals in the U.S. and Asia, and submitted 9 new drug applications (NDAs) in multiple Asia Pacific markets, with the NDA for XPOVIO® (selinexor) already approved in Mainland of China, Taiwan,China, South Korea, Singapore and Australia.
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Jefferson jeremiad
In his last book, "Where Do We Go From Here" (1968), Dr. King wrote: "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him."
Dr. King also wrote: "White liberals must be prepared to accept a transformation of their role. Whereas it was once a primary and spokesman role, it must now become a secondary and supportive role."
The Fayetteville school board recently accepted a bid to buy the old Jefferson Elementary building--located in the historically Black part of town, just south of MLK Boulevard--from Potter's House. In saying "yes" to Potter's House--a white-led nonprofit who offered $1.865 million--the school board said "no" to NWA Black Heritage, a Black-led nonprofit who offered $1.
I lament the school board's decision not because I believe the white leaders of Potter's House are bad people (I know them to be good and kind), but because I believe our majority-white community--represented by a 100 percent white school board--missed an opportunity to practice what Dr. King preached.
Selling Jefferson to NWA Black Heritage for $1 was an opportunity for us--as a community that has done something special against Black people for hundreds of years--to do something special for Black people and to accept a transformation of our roles as white people.
May we not miss the next opportunity.
LOWELL TAYLOR
Springdale
Retirement deserved
Congratulations on the well-deserved and earned retirement of the honorable prosecuting attorney of the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas, my friend, the Honorable Larry Jegley.
Now is the time for you to take care of yourself and enjoy your retirement with your family and friends. You have done an outstanding and exemplary job as prosecutor. I know that all do not appreciate the work that you've done, but at the end of the day I salute you. I, like many others, may not agree with everything that you've done, but I can attest to the fact that you've been a friend through it all, and for that, I thank God for our relationship and friendship.
Again, congratulations, my good friend, the Honorable Larry Jegley.
FRANKLIN FURLOUGH
Little Rock
Aid to citizen in need
A very unsafe place to be stranded, on a chilly, dark night after having a tire blow out, is the Interstate 30 bridge heading south. Calls to roadside assistance had no results. However, after calling 911, a police officer showed up quickly, asked about the problem, retrieved a jack from his vehicle, changed the tire with little effort, and assured us a safe passage home.
I am so glad our police who put their lives on the line every day are willing to take care of a citizen in need. I sent a check to the Arkansas police fund. How about you?
LINDA BELL
Little Rock
Defense missed mark
Perhaps Bryan Hendricks should work on his aim because his biblical defense of hunting misses the mark. The only question here is: Are so-called "Christian hunters" really emulating Christ as they shoot, drag, hang, and slice open gentle animals who didn't want to die?
How could the God of Hosea, who made a pact with the animals to give them safety from being hunted, bless such willful violence? He declares: "And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety." Clearly the Lord desires harmony, not hunting, between humans and the rest of his creation.
How could the God of Luke, who loves even the smallest of animals, approve of needless suffering? He declares: "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God." Jesus teaches that our heavenly father cares for "the least of these." He honors the innocence, meekness, and docility of his animals and calls us to show them love, mercy, and compassion.
Content in his smug retorts, Hendricks misses the fact that hunting flies in the face of the Bible's overarching message of love. The idea of walking beside our creator--scripture in one hand and loaded weapon in the other--to track and murder an animal he tenderly created is cause for pause and prayer.
FELICIA TIDY-COYLE
Bentonville
Questions about guns
Regarding your recent editorial about President Biden's ignorance about gun terminology, I have a couple of questions for you.
First, do you have statistics to support your claim that the ban on assault weapons was ineffective? Please provide the statistics prior to the ban, during the ban, and after the ban and let us judge for ourselves if the ban was ineffective. If you don't have the statistics, then what is the basis for the claim? Are you just repeating what the NRA says, with no proof?
Second, how many of those deer hunters who hunt with AR-15s would quit hunting if it were banned? The right to bear arms doesn't mean that you always have the right to use any weapon you want. That's why bazookas aren't legal to own.
Just because we get some of the terminology wrong doesn't mean our arguments don't have merit.
DOUG BARBER
Wooster
He's swiftly sinking
It appears as if The Donald has stepped in quicksand. How much longer before the only thing visible will be that hairdo?
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Wrapping up a campaign-style rally for his tax cuts with a bit of basketball in the Weinstein Jewish Community Center gym, Gov. Glenn Youngkin stuck to a role as cheerleader for the dozen kids trying to make baskets.
The main event Monday evening was cheerleading for his $1 billion tax relief program as it faces stiffening Democratic resistance in a General Assembly where his GOP allies control the House of Delegates and Democrats have a state Senate majority.
But it was in a gym and there were basketballs.
"Oh almost," he said, as the children missed the basket. One toddler who threw his red plastic ball up and backward got an "almost," too.
Then, stepping farther away from the basket than the kids had taken their shots, the former Norfolk Academy hoops standout and Rice University Owl showed them how it was done - getting a swish on his fifth try.
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"Yes, I'm out of practice," he laughed.
The event itself had plenty of cheerleading to encourage supporters - many with signs saying "Compete to Win" paid by the governor's Spirit of Virginia political action committee - to keep pressing the assembly to approve his $1 billion tax relief program.
"Taxes, talent, sites - when we do these, we will compete to win," said Youngkin, referring to his push to boost workforce development and to prepare sites that are ready for businesses to occupy.
Youngkin told the rally that he wants to press on, even as some urge him to compromise.
Later, he told reporters that he expects some movement on both sides of the tax debate.
"People always go to their corners at the start," he said.
But movement on both sides is what happened last year, resulting in the $4 billion of tax relief that was $1 billion less than Youngkin sought.
"I got most of what I wanted," he said.
He said the rate cuts he has proposed - cutting the top individual income rate from 5.75% to 5.5% and the corporate income tax rate from 6% to 5% - are the core of his relief package.
Youngkin's tax relief also includes an increase in the standard deduction from $8,000 to $9,000 for single filers and from $16,000 to $18,000 for joint returns.
He also wants a new 10% tax credit to small businesses, such as limited liability companies and S-corporations, that report income through their owners' individual tax returns.
In the House on Monday, Democrats launched the first of a planned two-day floor fight over Youngkin’s proposal, but in an initial test, their challenge failed on a 51-48, party-line vote.
Del. Vivian Watts, D-Fairfax, proposed an alternative to Youngkin’s individual income tax cuts that would boost the standard deduction from $8,000 for single filers and $16,000 for joint returns to $10,000 and $20,000, respectively.
Her proposal also called for a fully refundable earned income tax credit for households with incomes below the federal poverty line – a proposal that died earlier Monday in the House tax credits subcommittee.
But it dropped Youngkin’s proposal to lower the top tax rate from 5.75% to 5.5%.
Watts said that for more than half of taxpayers, the rate cut would mean roughly $50 in savings, while the top 1% would see $1,400 to $1,500 in savings.
She said her proposed standard deduction increase would mean $230 in savings for taxpayers who claimed that while, overall, her bill would reduce state tax revenues by roughly half the estimated $900 million tab for Youngkin’s proposal.
The Democrats’ main attack on Tuesday will focus on unmet spending needs, such as the $1 billion gap between what the state spends on K-12 education versus what state-set standards for schools suggest is needed, said Del. Jeff Bourne, D-Richmond.
“We have so many unmet needs,” said Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville. “And if students’ parents get $50 back, are they supposed to take that into school and say: ‘teach me to read’?”
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(WHTM) – While Democrat John Fetterman holds a strong lead over Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, the Pennsylvania Governor race is much closer in the early days of the race.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee, holds only a 4-point lead over his far-right Republican rival, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, with just under 13 percent of voters remaining undecided in the race.
That puts Shapiro’s advantage over Mastriano within the poll’s 4.4% margin of error.
Mastriano is also entering the general election campaign with stronger support among GOP voters than Oz. Eighty-three percent of Republicans say they are backing him, while nearly as many Democrats – 82 percent – are supporting Shapiro.
Nearly half of Shapiro’s supporters (48.6%) have a college degree or a higher education degree, but Mastriano’s support was broadly spread out with 20.89% having just a high school degree, 22.3% having some college experience, and 23.88% being college graduates.
More than 56% of Mastriano’s supporters are men and the same percentage of women support Shapiro.
Thirty-seven percent of voters were unfavorable of Mastriano and 36% were favorable, while the remaining 27% either never heard of him or were undecided.
Opinions of the candidates are diverse across the commonwealth with Shapiro having majority support in Philadelphia and the southwest while Mastriano has a strong lead in central Pennsylvania. Support is within the margin of error in the northwest and northeast.
Shapiro has a commanding lead among the 18-35-year-old voters with 60% support to Mastriano’s 21%, while Mastriano leads Among the 45-54-year-old voters.
Mastriano has only 5% support from African-American voters to Shapiro’s 68%, and Mastriano has just a three-point lead among white voters.
Fifty-eight percent of Mastriano supporters say the economy and corruption are the most important issues in the Governor race, while Shapiro’s supporters believe gun control and abortion are the most important issues.
The USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll surveyed 500 likely general election voters in Pennsylvania from June 10-13. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana lawmakers want high school students to learn financial literacy.
Under Senate Bill 35, it would become a graduation requirement for students in public and charter high schools.
State Sen. Mike Gaskill (R-Pendleton), the bill’s author, works in financial services outside his role in the Indiana General Assembly. He has encountered many young people who don’t know much about how to manage their money, he said.
“It makes it much harder for them become homeowners,” Gaskill said. “It makes people in a position where they end up having to live check to check. They don’t understand the consequences of how to properly use credit.”
The curriculum would cover several skills.
“It would cover banking, insurance, simple contracts, state and federal income tax preparation,” Gaskill said.
But Gaskill and others raised concerns about an amendment approved by the House education committee Wednesday that made several changes to the bill. Among them: private schools would be excluded from the financial literacy requirement. The bill previously required all Hoosier high school students to take a course on the subject.
“We need to fix this problem, and then we’re going to say we’re going to carve out 70,000 students, it’s not a problem for them,” said Chris Lagoni, executive director of the Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association.
State Rep. Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis), who chairs the House education committee, said the amendment was meant to match the legislation in another bill the House passed earlier this session.
“Trying to continue to add more regulations to nonpublic schools was something the committee chose not to do, and that’s why the language is drafted the way it is,” Behning said.
The amendment also allows schools to teach financial literacy classes within another subject instead of requiring a standalone course.
Gaskill said he’s hoping to get those changes removed as the session progresses.
The bill passed in the Senate on a 47-2 vote. After receiving unanimous approval by the House education committee, it heads to the House floor.
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What you need to know: The Dodgers make their way to Cincinnati to open a three-game series against the Reds on Tuesday night at Great American Ballpark.
Right-hander Tony Gonsolin (3-1, 1.77 earned-run average), who is 3-0 in his last four starts, will take the mound for the Dodgers against Reds right-hander Luke Weaver (1-2, 5.36 ERA).
Cincinnati avoided being swept by Milwaukee on Wednesday when the Reds beat the Brewers 2-0 behind a one-hit. Left-hander Andrew Abbott, 24, threw six scoreless innings in his major league debut. The Reds are in third place in the National League Central Division (27-33, .450) 5½ games behind Pittsburgh.
Despite losing two of three games to the New York Yankees last weekend, the Dodgers (35-25, .583) kept pace with Arizona by staying in a first-place tie with the Diamondbacks in the NL West.
After their visit with the Reds concludes Thursday, the Dodgers head to Philadelphia for a three-game weekend series against the Phillies.
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SURREY, British Columbia (AP) _ Kelso Technologies Inc. (KIQ) on Thursday reported a loss of $519,000 in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Surrey, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent.
The railroad equipment supplier posted revenue of $2.9 million in the period.
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Jocelyn Baker, Huntington High, was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
ABOVE: Madison McCallister of Barboursville Middle School was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
Pippa Oxley of Meadows Elementary was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
left: Nevaeh Farmer of Barboursville Middle School was a runner-up in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
Jocelyn Baker, Huntington High, was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
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ABOVE: Madison McCallister of Barboursville Middle School was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
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Pippa Oxley of Meadows Elementary was a first-place winner in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
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left: Nevaeh Farmer of Barboursville Middle School was a runner-up in the 2023 K-12 Black History Poster Competition sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University.
HUNTINGTON — The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University kicked off Black History Month 2023 Tuesday, unveiling the 2023 Official Black History Poster and honoring the Marshall University and K-12 student winners of the Black History Poster Competition and their teachers. The event featured keynote speaker Dr. Leonard White, physician, and associate dean for diversity at Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
This year’s theme is “Black Contributions in American Life and History.” The winning poster was created by Marshall University senior Gracie Stephens, who is from Willow Wood, Ohio, and is working on a bachelor of fine arts degree with an emphasis on printmaking. A merit award was presented to Cassandra Bhagroo from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. She is also a Marshall senior and is studying toward a B.F.A. with an emphasis on graphic design.
The K-12 students whose posters were recognized include:
Pippa Oxley of Meadows Elementary, first place, whose art teacher is Charity Baker
Madison McCallister of Barboursville Middle School, first place, whose art teacher is Jessica Minnix
Nevaeh Farmer of Barboursville Middle, runner-up, whose art teacher also is Minnix
Jocelyn Baker of Huntington High, first place, whose art teacher is Marisa Main
The Carter G. Woodson Lyceum has been helping educators integrate Black history into school curricula since 2016 and serves as a forum that provides opportunities to address this and other education issues. Woodson was a Huntington educator and West Virginia coal miner who is recognized as the Father of Black History. The lyceum is a resource for the region on the observance of Black history and Woodson’s teachings about improving education.
The Black History Month schedule of events for February was also shared during the event. The remaining activities include:
Friday Feb. 17 and 24, 6 p.m. — “Food for the Soul: A Cooking Show,” MarshallU YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/@HerdVideo. Easy-to-follow cooking demonstrations for tasty, traditional African and African American foods. Sponsored by the Center for African American Students. Contact: Shaunte Polk, polk4@marshall.edu.
Monday, Feb. 13, 4 p.m., Memorial Student Center, Shawkey Room. Dr. Karsonya Whitehead, associate professor, communication and African and African American studies, Loyola University, Maryland. Topic: “Black Resistance: Centering Voices From Within the Veil,” addressing the National Black History theme. Contact: Burnis Morris, morrisb@marshall.edu.
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 4:30 p.m., Memorial Student Center, Shawkey Room— Drinko Academy’s Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture. Presented by Dr. Ericke S. Cage, president, West Virginia State University, “The Future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” Co-sponsored by the Woodson Lyceum. Contact: Burnis Morris, morrisb@marshall.edu.
Thursday, Feb. 16, 4-6 p.m., Memorial Student Center — “From the Valley to the Mountaintop: Hip-Hop Appalachia.” A panel discussion and performance around hip-hop, Black culture and Appalachian identity. Contact: Dr. Cicero M. Fain, III, fainc@marshall.edu; phone: 304-696-3347.
Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30 p.m., documentary screening; 7:30 p.m., blues concert, Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center — Documentary: “Those Who Came Before” celebrates the history and culture of Black music in West Virginia. Performer Lady D is known as West Virginia’s “First Lady of Soul,” and her song “Go Higher” won the national competition for best Obama Inaugural song. Free tickets for Marshall students.
Monday, Feb. 20, 6 p.m., Memorial Student Center, Shawkey Dining Room — “My Beautiful Black Hair,” presentation with author St. Clair Deitrick-Jules, award-winning documentarian and photographer, in a powerful discussion exploring the deep, complex relationships across generations between Black women and their hair. Sponsored by the Center for African American Students. Contact: Shaunte Polk, polk4@marshall.edu.
Monday, Feb. 27, 6 p.m., Memorial Student Center, Shawkey Dining Room — “Am I Black Enough: Growing Up Biracial/Multiracial,” a panel discussion. Sponsored by the Center for African American Students. Contact: Shaunte Polk, polk4@marshall.edu.
For more information, contact Burnis R. Morris, director of the Carter G. Woodson Lyceum, by e-mail at morrisb@marshall.edu.
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Hero Collective Collaborates with Purpose Driven Brands To Launch Disruptive Initiatives That Are Culturally and Socially Impactful
This Culture-Obsessed and Digital First Company Fuels Business Growth By Acting As A Strategic Think Tank, Creative Studio, and Venture Lab For Its Innovators
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgo PR, a New York based agency that creates campaigns that draw attention and attracts audiences, has been appointed to work with Hero Collective as the agency continues to expand its clientele. Hero Collective is a powerhouse when it comes to turning brands into heroes, making it one of the fastest-growing black-owned social media marketing agencies in America. Virgo has already placed stories for Hero in Digiday, AdAge, Campaign US along with executing a media event at Cannes Lions.
The company breaks through the mold of a typical creative partner by focusing its approach on the "power of UN." The unexpected, uncompromising, and unforgettable aspects of their campaigns leave an underlying, yet lingering, call to action for change. Its emphasis on igniting cultural and social change, while simultaneously driving business growth and revenue, has given the agency a competitive edge in the advertising space.
"Joe and his team have done extraordinary things for not only their clients but the industry overall," said Mike Paffmann, CEO of Virgo PR. "We're going to keep highlighting in the media all the innovative work Hero is doing alongside being a driver of change in the space."
For more information on the partnership or to see more of Virgo PR's work, please visit https://virgo-pr.com/.
About Hero Collective
Hero Collective is 100% black-owned, digital-first, creative and social media marketing company focused on turning brands into heroes.
About Virgo PR
Virgo PR offers its clients many services to drive growth, engagement, sales, and increase lead generation and conversions. Our team of professionals in all things PR and marketing can support brands in developing different strategies and campaigns that allow them to better understand their brand and industry and provide various services that drive knowledge through our expertise. We're able to execute worldwide integrated campaigns for our clients' brands by playing on the strengths and constraints of any niche.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 13, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
West central Clay County in northern Texas...
Northeastern Archer County in northern Texas...
Southeastern Wichita County in northern Texas...
* Until 845 PM CDT.
* At 806 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles south of
Wichita Falls, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Southern Wichita Falls, Jolly, Lake Arrowhead and Lakeside City.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
South central Cotton County in southwestern Oklahoma...
Northwestern Clay County in northern Texas...
East central Wichita County in northern Texas...
* At 807 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles northeast
of Sheppard AFB, moving southeast at 15 mph.
Petrolia, Byers, Dean, Jolly, Sheppard AFB, Taylor, Charlie and
Cashion.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Tom
Green, northwestern Menard and southwestern Concho Counties through
900 PM CDT...
At 810 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles south of Vancourt, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 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...
Eden, Live Oak and Us-83 Near The Menard-Concho County Line.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3107 10011 3109 10012 3109 10025 3126 10026
3132 9980 3104 9979
TIME...MOT...LOC 0110Z 267DEG 24KT 3118 10017
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Street Cats Club hosts street party in Emporia
EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Street Cats Club hosted a street party Saturday in hopes to improving the lives of stray cats.
The party was named Lolapalooza, in honor of Lola Walker, the first contributor to the club. The club offers free spay and neuter services for cat owners who are experiencing economic hardship, in an attempt to limit stray cats.
“It is wonderful that somebody would think of you to go through all this trouble to have something like this for you,” said Walker. “It’s a lot of work and they are all pretty busy people anyways.”
The party took place on Commercial Street in downtown Emporia and brought out many community members and sponsors. The get together had many fun activities including dunk tanks, food trucks, games and shaved ice. Despite the windy and chilly conditions, the community came out in support.
“We were having people show up about 15 minutes before the event started. It’s been pretty steady ever since,” said Ryann Brooks, one of the coordinators for event planning. “I had high hopes for this event and we are over the moon on the turnout today.”
The group plans to make this street party an annual occasion in Emporia with more games and more fun next year.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
8-9-6, WB: 2
(eight, nine, six; WB: two)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
8-9-6, WB: 2
(eight, nine, six; WB: two)
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Advancing Justice – AAJC Commissions First of Its Kind Survey To Include Voter and Non-Voter Asian American Respondents
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC's (Advancing Justice – AAJC) latest poll breaks new ground and builds on previous polls of Asian American voters by getting at the heart of what motivates Asian Americans to vote—and what prevents some Asian Americans from voting.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9165851-asian-americans-advancing-justice-aajc-2022-national-poll/
The 2022 National Poll of Asian American Non-Voters and Voters released today finds that one-in-six Asian American voters described feeling threatened when they went to the polls in 2022, though most Asian American voters generally found the voting process easy. When asked, non-voters reported that better candidates and more information on candidates might entice them to vote in future elections.
"Asian Americans are the fastest growing electorate in the United States with more than 8.4 million who are registered to vote," said Terry Ao Minnis, Senior Director of Census and Voting Programs at Advancing Justice – AAJC. "This survey represents a unique study of Asian Americans' experiences with voting and insight into why approximately 5.2 million Asian Americans have yet to register to vote."
The 2022 National Poll of Asian American Non-Voters and Voters was conducted by BSP Research in the weeks following the 2022 midterm elections. The survey interviewed 2,100 Asian American voters and 700 non-voters about their views and experiences during the election.
"More than one-in-two voters reported encountering what they thought to be election-related misinformation at least 'somewhat often'," said Taeku Lee, lead researcher. "This suggests that more research is needed to understand the relationship between misinformation and voters' experiences. Moreover, additional research should examine whether this relationship holds true across subgroups and for specific demographics (like Limited English Proficient Asian Americans)."
Key findings from Asian American non-voters:
- Non-voters relied on a variety of mainstream and social media sources for their news but had less confidence and trust in election news coverage.
- Many non-voters reported likely encountering misinformation in the 2022 elections.
- Non-voters were less likely to be contacted about the election than voters, especially from campaigns and parties.
Key findings of Asian American voters:
- Asian Americans who voted in 2022 overwhelmingly felt confident that votes were properly counted, believed that the elections were well run, and reported that voting was easy.
- About 80% of voters trusted the mainstream and social media sources they relied on at least "a fair amount."
- Two-in-three Asian Americans chose to vote absentee or early. The most common reasons cited for voting absentee or early were long lines and limited hours on Election Day, COVID concerns, the convenience of absentee or early voting, and scheduling conflicts.
- Two-in-five voters were contacted by parties and campaigns and one-in-four were contacted by non-partisan community-based organizations.
Read the full survey report here.
About Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC
Advancing Justice – AAJC is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1991 in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to advance the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican legislators in Kansas are focusing on helping conservative parents remove their children from public schools over what’s taught about gender and sexuality rather than pursuing a version of what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.
A proposal to allow parents to use state tax dollars to pay for private or home schooling was available online Tuesday, a day after a committee on K-12 spending introduced the measure in the House.
The introduction comes as funding and lesson plans for public schools have become hot button issues for conservative politicians nationwide. Lawmakers in Iowa approved a similar law last week and at least a dozen states are considering similar legislation.
Funneling public funds toward private schools is not a new idea, but it picked up fresh steam following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic partly because of parents’ concerns over masks and vaccines. The issue also has been driven by opposition to how some schools conduct lessons about topics such as gender, sexuality and race.
Critics of the bills say they siphon much-needed money away from public schools.
When Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature opened its annual session earlier this month, GOP leaders planned to tackle what Senate President Ty Masterson called “the sexualized woke agenda” in how public schools discuss sexuality and gender identity.
Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, said he wanted to pursue a measure that would spell out what schools could teach or discuss on those topics by grade level, much like the Florida law enacted last year.
But last week when he was asked about such a measure, Masterson appeared to shift direction: “We’re talking about school choice.” He told The Associated Press on Monday: “Probably the only way to ultimately handle it, right, is to have choices for parents.”
The proposal introduced in the House is the brainchild of its K-12 spending committee chair, state Rep. Kristey Williams, another Wichita-area Republican. She said she hopes to hold hearings next week.
Her bill would allow parents to apply to set up a state-sponsored education savings account for each of their children, with the state setting aside the current amount of its base aid per student for public schools. That’s $5,103 for the 2023-24 school year, an amount that would increase as the state boosts its aid. Parents would receive 95% and the state would use the rest to cover administrative costs.
Kansas already grants income tax credits for donations to funds providing scholarships so academically at-risk students can attend private schools, which is a program Republican lawmakers want to expand. But across the U.S., conservative lawmakers argue tax dollars should be tied to students, not “systems.”
Williams also called her plan “the perfect answer” for parents frustrated over what public schools teach about gender, sexuality or the influence of racism in U.S. history. Currently, she said, parents can’t change schools unless they can afford the extra costs.
“But with choice, it gives freedom to choose the best and most appropriate education, the best and most appropriate type of environment,” she said.
Public education groups and Democratic lawmakers argue that such proposals will take money away from the state’s K-12 schools for the benefit of private and home schools. They reject Masterson’s characterization of public schools as becoming “factories for a radical social agenda,” and argue that GOP conservatives are trying to dismantle public education.
State Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Kansas City-area Democrat whose wife serves on a local school board, said public schools help build communities.
“That’s the fabric of our nation,” Ousley said.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly strongly opposes a plan such as the one introduced in the House. Her big education initiative is phasing in a 61% increase over five years in spending on public K-12 programs for students with special needs.
Republicans have legislative supermajorities that would allow them to override a Kelly veto, though GOP leaders have found it difficult to keep Republicans united on education issues.
Meanwhile, advocates of private and home schooling argue that parents want more choices because they have been unhappy with remote schooling during the coronavirus pandemic.
Fallon Love, a Wichita resident who handles finances for restaurants in multiple states, has enrolled her 7-year-old son as a second grader at the Urban Preparatory Academy, run by the non-denominational Christian Faith Center in Wichita.
Love said she likes the academy’s “intimate” learning environment and feels her son is learning positive character traits while getting opportunities like a trip last week to the Statehouse for a school choice rally.
“There are a lot of parents that aren’t fortunate to be able to decide where their kids go,” she said after that rally. “Everybody should have the right to decide where they want their child to go to get the best education.”
Wade Moore, one of the church’s bishops, told the crowd at the rally that a school-choice law like the one in Iowa allows parents to avoid “crazy stuff” in public schools. After the rally, he said he meant both violence, such as fighting, and issues such as which bathrooms and locker rooms transgender students can use.
“A lot of these things are being forced upon children, upon families,” he said after the rally.
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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise M8 DeskPhone: more than a phone
SHANGHAI, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ALE China Co., Ltd, a leader in audio technology for the global landline phone market, trading under the name of ALE Device, is introducing a high-end SIP DeskPhone under its Myriad series – Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise M8. The new phone represents a major milestone in ALE Devices made for the open SIP market and is designed help business people stay connected and productive anywhere, anytime.
The M8 DeskPhone was built for new ways of working and living. It has a wealth of connectivity options enabling it to synchronise with multi-media devices. Freed from the confines of a fixed workstation, it can meet the needs of dynamic business connections. Its industry-leading audio and newly adopted technologies guarantee a new experience in audio, design, speed and performance for the end user.
Key features
- 5 inch In-Plane Switching (IPS) display
- New architecture for super speed
- Built-in 2.5G/5G Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0, USB A & C
- Super wideband audio and 360-degree audio tuning
- 12-way local conferencing
- Touch-sensitive keys with LED
- Smart wheel with LED lighting for navigation and volume control
- Elegant fabric design inspired by a household speaker
The M8 DeskPhone is flexible enough to keep up with users in dynamic working scenarios, including in an open-plan office, meeting room or at home. It can be used as a conventional DeskPhone, delivering up-to-the-minute audio, or it can replace a suite of conferencing equipment and operate as a conference phone or speaker in a meeting room. People can even use it to listen to music during their downtime.
Visit the website to find out more about the M8 DeskPhone.
About ALE Device
ALE China Co., Ltd, operating under the "ALE Device" trade name, is an audio technology expert in the global DeskPhone market designing and marketing communication devices for enterprises. The company focuses on innovative technologies to develop a wide range of enterprise communication devices such as SIP phones, headsets, audio and video equipment for Unified Communications. These products can be integrated into a variety of solutions with simple provisioning tools, in a cost-effective, secure and flexible manner.
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ROME (AP) — Hundreds of remnants of ancient Roman life — including colored dice, rain gutter decorations depicting mythological figures, and burial offerings 3,000 years old — have long been hidden from public sight. Until now.
For the next few months, a limited number of visitors to the Roman Forum, Colosseum or Palatine Hill can view a tantalizing display of ancient statuettes, urns, even the remarkably well-preserved skeleton of a man who lived in the 10th-century B.C. All the exhibits have been plucked from storerooms in the heart of the Italian capital.
Indeed, so many artifacts are kept in storerooms that “you could open 100 museums,'' said Fulvio Coletti, an archaeologist with the Colosseum archaeological park. On Wednesday, Coletti stood at the entrance to a "taberna,'' a cavernous space which had served commercial purposes in ancient Roman times and belonged to the palace complex of the 1st-century Emperor Tiberius.
Three such “tabernae” now double as exhibition rooms for once-hidden antiquities. To give an idea of just how many more artifacts are still not on display, curators stacked enormous see-through plastic tubs, chockful of discoveries from some 2,000 years ago and bearing minimalist labels like “Ancient Well B Area of Vesta,” a reference to the temple in the Forum erected to the goddess of the hearth.
One display holds row after row of ancient colored dice — 351 in all — that in the 6th century B.C. were tossed into wells as part of rituals. Also in the exhibit is a decoration from a temple rain-gutter depicting a bearded Silenus, a mythological creature associated with Dionysus, the wine god.
Some artifacts are displayed in showcases custom-made by archaeologist Giacomo Boni, whose excavations in the first years of the 20th century revealed dozens of tombs, including many of children. Some of the tombs dated from as far back as the 10 century B.C., centuries before the construction of the Roman Forum, the center of the city's political and commercial life, when the city's inhabitants dwelt in a swampy expanse near the River Tiber.
In one display case is the largely intact skeleton of a man who was a good 1.6 meters tall (about 5-foot-4 inches), on the taller side for his time, in the 10th century B.C. He was buried with some kind of belt, whose bronze clasp survived. Found in his tomb and on display are a scattering of grains, remnants of funeral rites. Layers of mud, formed in Rome's early days, helped preserve the remains.
The director of the Colosseum's Archaeological Park said staff were working to make an inventory of artifacts kept in more than 100 storerooms, whose contents up to now have been accessible to academics but few others.
“We want in some way to make objects come to light that otherwise would be invisible to the great public,'' Alfonsina Russo, the director, told The Associated Press.
"We're talking of objects that tell a story, not a big story, but a daily story, a story of daily life,'' Russo said.
Every Friday through July, visitors can admire the antiquities pulled out of the storerooms during 90-minute guided tours. The “tabernae” are small exhibition spaces, so only eight visitors can enter during each tour. Reservations are required, and visitors must buy an entrance ticket to the archaeological park. Park officials indicated they hope the initiative can be extended or renewed.
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CHICAGO, IL (October 7, 2022) – Last night’s debate between the major party candidates running for Governor of Illinois, Democrat J. B. Pritzker and Republican Darren Bailey, was a ratings winner for WGN-TV. The first debate, “YOUR LOCAL ELECTION HEADQUARTERS: ILLINOIS GOVERNOR’S DEBATE,” took place on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. CT, at the Illinois State University campus in Normal, IL.
The debate reached over 240,000 total viewers, finishing #1 in the time period. It also finished #1 in the key Adults 25-54 demographic.
The second debate will originate from the studios of WGN-TV in Chicago on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. CT, and will be moderated by WGN-TV News anchors Micah Materre and Tahman Bradley. The moderators will pose questions to each candidate, including several submitted from voters in advance, focused on topics important to viewers at home.
Last night’s debate and the October 18 debate will air on local Nexstar television stations in eight markets serving Illinois, including WGN-TV in Chicago, WHBF-TV in Moline, WQRF-TV in Rockford, WMBD-TV in Peoria, WCIA-TV in Champaign, KPLR-TV in St. Louis (MO), WTWO-TV in Terre Haute (IN), and WEHT-TV in Evansville (IN). Nexstar is partnering with Gray Television’s WGEM-TV in Quincy and Allen Media’s WSIL-TV in Carterville to make the debate available in all Illinois television markets. In addition, radio stations throughout the state will be provided free access to the debate. WGLT (89.1 FM) in Normal and WCBU (89.9 FM) in Peoria intend to carry the debates in their respective markets. WGN Radio (720 AM) in Chicago will carry the October 18 debate.
The election for Illinois Governor will take place on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Voters must register to vote by Tuesday, October 11, by mail and Sunday, October 23, online. To register to vote, please visit: https://ova.elections.il.gov . For more information regarding the upcoming elections, including early voting dates, polling locations and voter identification requirements please visit: https://www.elections.il.gov/.
About WGN-TV
WGN-TV is Chicago’s Very Own source for news and entertainment and is owned and operated by Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. WGN News programs more local news than any other Chicago TV station and can be seen on WGN-TV; the WGN9+ app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV; online at WGNTV.com/Live and the WGN News mobile app. In-depth local weather coverage is available on all newscasts, WGNTV.com/Weather and the WGN Weather mobile app. WGN 9.2 is the Chicago affiliate for Nexstar Media Inc.’s 1950s – 1970s classic TV network Antenna TV, WGN 9.3 is the Chicago affiliate for Grit, WGN 9.4 is the Chicago affiliate for Nexstar Media Inc.’s 1980s – 2000s retro TV network Rewind TV, and WGN 9.5 is the Chicago affiliate for TBD. For more information on Chicago’s Very Own WGN-TV, go to WGNTV.com
About Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across television, streaming and digital platforms, including almost 300,000 hours of original video content each year. Nexstar owns America’s largest local broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 212 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing national news and entertainment cable network reaching 70 million television homes, popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including The Hill and BestReviews, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. In addition to delivering exceptional content and service to our communities, Nexstar provides premium multiplatform and video-on-demand advertising opportunities at scale for businesses and brands seeking to leverage the strong consumer engagement of our compelling content offering. For more information, please visit Nexstar.tv.
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The Sanderson sisters are back and bewitching as ever in Hocus Pocus 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic.
Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker reprise their roles as Winnifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson, respectively, in the new film, which finds the trio resurrected once again by a group of teen friends -- Becca (Whitney Peak), Cassie (Lilia Buckingham), and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) -- who light a new version of the infamous Black Flame Candle.
However, when they return to wreak havoc on Salem -- this time seeking revenge on the town's mayor, a descendant of the puritanical reverend who originally exiled them (both played by Tony Hale) -- they find that a few things have changed.
For one, the Sanderson Witch Museum has been reopened as a magic shop, run by a man named Gilbert (Sam Richardson), who claims to have witnessed the witches' first night of mayhem back in the '90s. But that's far from the only callback to the original Hocus Pocus. Here's a look at some of the other Easter eggs and fun scenes for devoted fans of the first film.
Classic Lines
From Sarah's "Amok, amok, amok!" to Mary's "Buh bye!" to Winnifred's "Boooooook!" the sequel is full of fun callback lines that will hearken fans right back the original. There's also a passing reference to the sisters' bus ride from the first film, when Mary refers to a car as a "very small bus."
The new film also ties up a few loose threads in regards to Billy Butcherson's (Doug Jones) story, revealing that he and Winnifred weren't actually in a relationship, per se, they simply shared one kiss. Gilbert promises to help set the legend straight after he and Billy team up to try and stop the sisters from wreaking havoc on the town.
Jones told ET at the Hocus Pocus 2 premiere that he's always wanted to revisit his character from the original film. "I've been asked many times what character have you played in your 30-something years that you want to see again or visit again. Billy has been my answer, because there are layers to him that I wanted to find out more about -- and with the sequel coming, its like, now I get to... The fan excitement for this has been unlike anything I have done before in my life."
Making Magic
Hocus Pocus 2 begins with a flashback to the Sanderson sisters' childhood days in Salem, where we see the origins of a few of their classic mannerisms. Mary suggests the trio do a "calming circle" when faced with the reverend's wrath, a technique she attempts in the first film.
We also see that Sarah's "Come Little Children" song, which she uses in the original Hocus Pocus to enrapture the kids of Salem, was first sung to the sisters by Hannah Waddingham's Witch Mother, who bestows the beloved spell book to Winnifred on her 16th birthday. (Additionally, the book is shown to include a "cat transformation" spell, which would one day be used on Thackery Binx!)
Hidden Tributes
Just like Allison in the original film, the teens in the sequel know to use salt to defend against the sisters' magic. However, their salt circle is hilariously thwarted in one scene by the pair of Roombas that Mary has been riding around town as a makeshift broom -- another callback to the original, where the trio had to ride a broom, a mop and a vacuum.
Hocus Pocus 2 also pays tribute to Garry and Penny Marshall's original Hocus Pocus cameos by showing a pair of Salem residents watching their scene on TV. There are also two Salem residents dressed as their characters, the devil and "Medusa," for Halloween.
Plus, that final scene of Becca, Cassie and Izzy doing the Sandersons' iconic walk proves that they're the new coven in town!
Feline Friends
The introduction of a new black cat, Cobweb, who lives with Gilbert at the magic shop, likely will leave viewers wondering if he too is a trapped spirit, like Thackery Binx was in the first film. While we don't get that answer in Hocus Pocus 2, a post-credits scene featuring Cobweb reveals that on the shelf of the magic shop, there is yet another Black Flame Candle. Could there be more sequels to come?
Executive producer Adam Shankman told ET at the sequel's premiere that nothing is out of the question. "If the right script is presented and the women were into it," he shared of a possible third film. "I mean, we've got to be able to do it quick, I think."
Original Cast
Despite all the reference to the first film, Midler, Najimy, Parker and Jones are the only original cast members to appear in the sequel, with Thora Birch admitting to ET that she was a bit "dismayed" she wasn't asked to reprise her role as meddling younger sister Dani.
"There were three options we had for how to bring Dani back, all of which I was excited by," the actress told ET this week, on the red carpet at the Variety Power of Women event. However, “by the time they got around to filming, I was already on something else,” she added, explaining that she was working on another project.
That said, there seems to be no ill will, with Birch revealing that she plans to stream the new film. “Oh, absolutely. I’m excited for the fans who have been begging for Hocus Pocus 2 for years,” she shared. “So yeah, I’ll be watching along with everybody else.”
Hocus Pocus 2 is now streaming on Disney+.
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- Restaurant Noma will operate an exclusive three-night dinner series in Los Angeles, July 19-21
- Audi to bring renowned MAD Monday speaker series to Los Angeles on July 18; tickets available to the public on June 13
- Audi to provide funding for six scholarship recipients from the LA hospitality community to attend groundbreaking MAD Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark
LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Audi of America announced today a collaboration with the Copenhagen-based Restaurant Noma – named #1 in the world by the prestigious World's 50 Best Restaurants organization in 2021, and with the food and hospitality nonprofit MAD, reinforcing a shared passion for innovation, focus on sustainability and commitment to driving positive change.
The partnership includes bringing a three-night noma dinner series to Los Angeles this July, hosting the first ever MAD Monday event in LA and providing funding for six scholarship recipients to attend the MAD Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark.
noma
Three-Michelin-star Restaurant Noma and its founder, Danish chef René Redzepi, are known for a focus on foraging, innovation and a unique interpretation of New Nordic Cuisine. From sourcing local ingredients to reducing food waste, noma seeks to be an inspiration for other organizations around the world to embrace the opportunity for a more sustainable business model.
As part of the partnership with Audi, René and his team from Copenhagen will curate an exclusive invite-only three-night dinner series in Los Angeles from July 19-21. The menu for the dinner series will be a multi-course tasting menu of classic noma dishes inspired by their seasonal menus with a wine pairing selected by the noma team.
"I believe that organizations should continually innovate. At noma, we are constantly building things up to break them down, and then start over again—it's at the core of everything we do," said René Redzepi. "We should all take a step back into nature to find inspiration to reinvigorate the process of innovation."
Collaborating with noma strengthens Audi's mission to work with like-minded organizations that stand for living progress and creating a more sustainable future. Audi and noma share a commitment to sustainability and inclusion through actions grounded in purpose and a focus on creating a positive impact for individual and society as a whole.
"When you collaborate with like-minded people and companies you not only grow as an individual, but as an organization, too. I find Audi to be a forward-looking company with a strong focus on innovation; creating the ultimate design and experience to develop more sustainable solutions," said Peter Kreiner, noma CEO and co-owner.
MAD and The LA Scholars Award presented by Audi
MAD (Danish for "food") was established by Redzepi in 2011 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating sustainable change in restaurants and communities around the world. Launched in 2019, MAD Academy is an educational initiative based in Copenhagen that invites hospitality professionals to attend five-day intensive programs to gain the expertise, practical tools and inspiration they need to generate positive change in their workplaces, their communities, and the world at large.
Melina Shannon-DiPietro, executive director of MAD, says, "At MAD Academy, we ask ourselves: How might we build a restaurant industry with better working conditions and a more inclusive kitchen environment? How do we create an industry that contributes solutions to climate, environment, and biodiversity, while preserving the deliciousness and pleasure of the restaurant experience?"
As a long-time supporter of the culinary industry, Audi is announcing a pivotal scholarship program that will provide a remarkable opportunity for individuals from the Los Angeles hospitality community to attend the innovative MAD Academy in Copenhagen and learn how to adopt more sustainable practices that can impact and inspire others when they return home. The LA Scholars Award, MAD's most comprehensive scholarship to date, will provide funding for six recipients to attend their choice of MAD Academy program, including airfare, lodging, meals and all programmatic costs.
"Audi is honored to partner with MAD as our goals to drive change around diversity, equity and inclusion are very aligned," said Tara Rush, chief marketing officer, Audi of America. "With the LA Scholars Award, we're underscoring our mission to build a more sustainable and inclusive tomorrow, for automotive, culinary and beyond."
Individuals who reside and work in the greater Los Angeles area and who are interested in applying for the LA Scholars Award presented by Audi can find more information here: https://madacademy.dk/la-scholars/
MAD Monday
As part of its work to transform the hospitality industry, MAD hosts an ongoing series of public talks in local communities that are open to everyone with an interest in food and have an appetite for change. MAD Mondays began as a way to gather food fans and restaurant and hospitality workers on their traditional day off, Monday, to join in meaningful conversations with the goal of ultimately driving positive change in their industries.
MAD Monday LA, presented by Audi and MAD on July 18, will be the first MAD Monday event to be held this year and the first ever to be held in Los Angeles. Built on MAD and Audi's shared values of innovation and a commitment to sustainability, MAD Monday LA will be an evening of inspiration, learning, and community. The event, which will take place at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, will include a thought-provoking lecture and practical skill-building exercise designed to empower and inspire attendees.
The featured speaker will be Douglas McMaster, chef and owner of Silo. McMaster has been a lecturer for MAD Academy, inspiring the next generation of leaders to think differently about food systems, waste, and the industry at large. Doug is known as an influential speaker in Europe and MAD Monday LA will mark the first time he is presenting in the U.S.
The skill-building exercise will be a Planning Change Workshop – facilitated by renowned chef and MAD Academy director, Magnus Nilsson and program manager, Jack Muirhead. This workshop is a way for MAD Monday guests to get an exclusive peek into some of the transformative exercises that are typically reserved for students attending MAD's five-day Academy programs.
"Both Audi and MAD believe in spreading the power of positive impact—supporting talented individuals as they take their learnings from MAD back to their own communities to create long-lasting change," says Shannon-DiPietro.
Following the event, a reception featuring some of LA's diverse food offerings will allow the attendees, community members, young apprentices and luminaries the chance to network and connect.
To reserve tickets to attend MAD Monday LA, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mad-monday-la-presented-by-audi-registration-342884164767 There is no cost to attend and tickets will open to the general public on Monday, June 13.
noma
Led by its founder and head chef René Redzepi, the three Michelin starred Restaurant Noma, five times recognized as the World's Best, works with an intimate network of purveyors to develop a cuisine that expresses its region's culture and seasons. In February 2017, noma closed at the harbor side warehouse that it called home for fourteen years. Twelve months later, the restaurant reopened in a new location and with a new philosophy focused on the region's three distinct seasons and myriad micro-seasons.
Beyond Copenhagen, and driven by a continued desire to learn, experience and expand their creativity and tastes, noma has also undertaken three international residencies including Japan (2015), Australia (2016) and Mexico (2017).
René Redzepi
René Redzepi is the founder, head chef and co-owner of noma. René Redzepi is the founder of MAD, a nonprofit that aims to build a community of cooks, purveyors, thinkers and enthusiasts, with an appetite for knowledge, a passion for food, and a desire to improve the world around it. In March 2021, he founded Noma Projects, an initiative that aims to transform the restaurant's collective knowledge, craft, and spirit into an engine for creative output and positive change.
Redzepi is the author of Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, A Work in Progress, and the New York Times bestseller Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide To Fermentation. He is married to Nadine Levy Redzepi, and together they have three daughters: Arwen, Genta and Ro.
MAD
MAD (Danish for food) is a nonprofit organization that empowers the global hospitality community with the tools, inspiration, and knowledge to make a difference in their restaurants and the world. MAD was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011 by René Redzepi, chef and owner of restaurant noma, with the ambition of transforming hospitality and driving change in food systems.
Since the very beginning, MAD has led important conversations about how the restaurant community can contribute to the health of the planet and positively contribute to the lives of those working in food. MAD's programs include a Symposium; a series of public talks in major cities around the globe; media shared through books, publications, and online videos; and VILD MAD, free resources to explore nature through foraging. In 2019, MAD launched its most ambitious project yet: an Academy supporting the food and hospitality industry with tools and knowledge for change makers.
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These new products from the leading insulated cooler company round out a year of high-performance introductions including waterproof welded coolers, next generation hard coolers and lunch packs with fridge cold technology
TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arctic Zone™, a global insulated cooler and lunch pack leader, is introducing new Temperature Controlled Heatable Seats and drinkware with lids protected by Microban in time for the gift-giving season. These products round out a year of high-performance product rollouts including waterproof welded coolers, next generation hard coolers and lunch packs with fridge cold technology.
The new Arctic Zone™ Temperature Controlled Heatable Seat is perfect for sporting events, tailgating, camping, fishing, hunting and more. It features a rechargeable battery pack/power bank placed inside the seat cover to keep it warm for up to seven hours. The seat has high, medium and low settings and is comprised of a cozy, fleece seat top, four layers of cushioning and a water-resistant base.
Titan by Arctic Zone™ drinkware offers long-lasting hot/cold beverage temperature retention and is the only drinkware with a Microban® infused lid to protect against bacterial odors and stains. The collection includes 20 and 30 oz. tumblers, 20 oz. mugs and 20 oz. bottles, all available in a variety of contemporary colors. The drinkware is BPA and condensation free and has triple layered construction with a copper plated interior layer, 18/8 stainless steel and high pressure, vacuum sealed insulation.
Additional products launched in 2022 include:
- Titan by Arctic Zone™ waterproof welded 36 can cooler and 24 can backpack cooler. These rugged coolers feature multi-layered Deep Freeze™ insulation with radiant heat barrier to keep contents cold for multiple days. Both have leak proof, easy to clean interior linings with Microban® antimicrobial protection,
- Enhanced Titan by Arctic Zone™ hard coolers with a new cam latch function for easier opening and closing and a super tight seal. Available in Glacier White or Deep Dive Blue, the unibody roto molded coolers with a premium blend of thick polyurethane insulation keep ice up to eight days for the 55 qt cooler (holds up to 84 cans) and up to four days for the 20 qt (holds up to 30 cans). These coolers have Microban® antimicrobial protection built into them to protect against bacterial odors and stains and make them easier to clean, and
- A new line of lunch packs that keep food and beverages fridge cold (40°F /4.4°C) up to six hours. The lunch packs feature high performance Ice Walls® that, in combination with SuperFoam® insulation, Therma-Flect® radiant barrier and leak proof lining, provide long-lasting mini-frig-like cooling.
Visit arcticzone.com for more information and product purchases.
Arctic Zone from California Innovations was launched more than 35 years ago and today is one of the world's leading brands of soft sided coolers and insulated lunch packs. Titan by Arctic Zone™ is the company's high-performance brand designed for outdoor adventurers. Arctic Zone™ products are built by our passion for innovations that go beyond the ordinary. The brand has a long history of firsts that have enriched the category including Zipperless™ coolers with hard liners, collapsible coolers, hard coolers with Microban® protection, and lunch bags with fridge cold technology. Arctic Zone enjoys vast penetration across North American and international retail channels ranging from Costco, Target and Walmart to Kroger, Walgreens, Carrefour, Big W and ASDA. California Innovations is headquartered in Toronto, and has offices in Montréal, Chicago and Shenzhen.
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Leading Home Service Franchise Group Achieved Strong Development in 2022, Acquiring Four New Home Service Brands and Experiencing a 15% Increase in System-Wide Revenue
COLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Authority Brands announced today that it achieved significant success in 2022, acquiring four strong home-service brands and experiencing a jump in year-over-year growth across its entire brand portfolio. With the addition of Woofie's, DRYmedic Restoration Services, The Junkluggers, and Color World Painting, Authority Brands celebrated its fifth year in business by continuing to build a portfolio of brands that perfectly complement each other and are committed to being the best in their industry.
"At Authority Brands we firmly believe in supporting each franchisee's growth. We offer unparalleled marketing programs and support, top-of-the-line technology in each brand's respective industry; playbooks and formulas for operational and financial success and other resources aimed at driving strong returns for our franchisees. Our success in 2022 is a strong testament to these efforts," said Craig Donaldson, Chief Executive Officer of Authority Brands. "Our team is looking forward to building on this incredible momentum as we venture through 2023. We have big plans that include looking for new opportunities that will expand our footprint with up-and-coming home service brands."
Highlights of the success and milestones these brands achieved include:
- America's Swimming Pool opened 12 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 13% YoY growth
- Benjamin Franklin Plumbing opened 8 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 8% YoY growth
- The Cleaning Authority opened 14 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 16% YoY growth
- Color World Paining opened 10 new franchises and broke previous same store revenue records with 8% YoY growth
- Homewatch CareGivers opened 10 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 10% YoY growth
- The Junkluggers opened 16 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 14% YoY growth
- Mister Sparky opened 8 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 21% YoY growth
- Monster Tree Service opened 6 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 19% YoY growth
- Mosquito Squad opened 4 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 13% YoY growth
- One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning opened 14 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 16% YoY growth
- STOP Restoration broke previous revenue records with 16% YoY growth
- Woofie's opened 10 new franchises and broke previous revenue records with 40% YoY growth
Combined, the Authority Brands franchise brands operate more than 2,000 locations with an expansive network of more than 1,000 franchise owners. Authority Brands' family of franchise companies include leading home service brands America's Swimming Pool Company, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, The Cleaning Authority, Color World Painting, DoodyCalls, DRYmedic Restoration Services, Homewatch CareGivers, The Junkluggers, Mister Sparky, Monster Tree Service, Mosquito Squad, One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning, Screenmobile, STOP Restoration, and Woofie's.
Authority Brands is looking to expand with qualified franchisees across the United States. To learn more about franchising opportunities within the Authority Brands portfolio, please visit: https://www.authoritybrands.com/franchising/.
About Authority Brands
Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Authority Brands' companies include 14 leading home service franchise brands: America's Swimming Pool Company, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, The Cleaning Authority, Color World Painting, DoodyCalls, DRYmedic Restoration Services, Homewatch CareGivers, The Junkluggers, Mister Sparky, Monster Tree Service, Mosquito Squad, One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning, Screenmobile, STOP Restoration, and Woofie's. Together, these brands provide home services through more than 2,000 territories operated by more than 1,000 franchise owners. Authority Brands is dedicated to supporting individual franchise owner growth by providing strong marketing, technology, and operational support. See www.authoritybrands.com for more information.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to weapons-grade material.
The acknowledgement by a news website linked to the highest reaches of Iran’s theocracy renews pressure on the West to address Tehran’s program, which had been contained by the 2015 nuclear deal that America unilaterally withdrew from in 2018. Years of attacks across the Middle East have followed.
Already Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently regained his country’s premiership, is threatening to take military action similar to when Israel previously bombed nuclear programs in Iraq and Syria. But while those attacks saw no war erupt, Iran has an arsenal of ballistic missiles, drones and other weaponry it and its allies already have used in the region.
The acknowledgment Thursday came from Iran’s Nour News, a website linked to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nour News separately is sanctioned by Canada for having “participated in gross and systematic human rights violations and perpetuated disinformation activities to justify the Iranian regime’s repression and persecution of its citizens” amid nationwide protests there.
The comments by Nour News follow days of muddled comments by Iran not directly acknowledging the accusation by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran had enriched up to 84%.
Bloomberg first reported Sunday that inspectors had detected uranium particles enriched up to 84%. The IAEA, a United Nations agency based in Vienna, has not denied the report, saying only “that the IAEA is discussing with Iran the results of recent agency verification activities.”
In its comments Thursday, Nour News urged the IAEA to “not fall prey to the seduction of Western countries” and declare that Iran’s nuclear program was “completely peaceful.”
“It will be clear soon that the IAEA surprising report of discovering 84% enriched uranium particles in Iran’s enrichment facilities was an inspector’s error or was a deliberate action to create political atmospheres against Iran on the eve of the meeting of” its board, Nour News said on Twitter. The board, a group of nations that oversees the IAEA, will meet beginning March 6 in Vienna.
The IAEA did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday over Nour News’ remarks.
It wasn’t immediately clear where the 84% enrichment allegedly took place, though the IAEA has said it found two cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges at Iran’s underground Fordo facility “interconnected in a way that was substantially different from the mode of operation declared by Iran to the agency in November last year.” Iran is known to have been enriching uranium at Fordo up to 60% purity — at level which nonproliferation experts already say has no civilian use for Tehran.
Iran also enriches uranium at its Natanz nuclear site.
Weapons-grade uranium is enriched up to 90%. While the IAEA’s director-general has warned Iran now has enough uranium to produce “several” nuclear bombs if it chooses, it likely would take months more to build a weapon and potentially miniaturize it to put on a missile.
The new tensions over Iran’s program also take place against the backdrop of a shadow war between Iran and Israel that has spilled out across the wider Middle East. Netanyahu, who long has advocated military action against Iran, mentioned it again in a talk this week.
“How do you stop a rogue nation from acquiring nuclear weapons?” Netanyahu rhetorically asked. “You had one that’s called Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It was stopped by military force, ours. You had a second one that is called Syria that tried to develop nuclear weapons. And it was stopped by a military action, ours.”
He added: “A necessary condition, and an often sufficient condition, is credible military action. The longer you wait, the harder that becomes. We’ve waited very long.”
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DoorDash accused in lawsuit of charging iPhone users more for delivery
DoorDash is facing a lawsuit over allegations that the company charges iPhone users more than Android users for food deliveries.
The lawsuit filed by Maryland resident Ross Hecox and his minor children seeks financial damages of no less than $1 billion for "all consumers who fell prey to DoorDash’s illegal pricing scheme over the past four years."
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DoorDash allegedly tacked on an extended range fee to the total of DashPass subscribers as a way "to subsidize lost revenues from discounted fees," according to the lawsuit.
Engadget, a technology blog, noted that DashPass is the company's $10-a-month subscription service that delivers orders over $12 for free.
In a statement from DoorDash provided to FOX Television Stations, the food delivery titan denies the allegations stating:
"The claims put forward in the amended complaint are baseless and simply without merit. Our priority is to provide the best service possible and ensure there is clarity for consumers that allows them to make informed decisions. We ensure fees are disclosed throughout the customer experience, including on each restaurant storepage and before checkout. Building this trust is essential, and it’s why the majority of delivery orders on our platform are placed by return customers. We will continue to strive to make our platform work even better for customers, and will vigorously fight these allegations."
The San Francisco-based company added that the claims that there are different prices for Android vs iOS users are "flatly wrong" explaining that they don’t charge different prices based on the type of phone a customer uses to place an order.
Citing the lawsuit, SFGate.com noted the claims that subscribers of DoorDash’s premium DashPass service are charged the "expanded range fee" more often than standard users despite promising "reduced service fees" and that the "express delivery" upcharge does nothing to expedite deliveries.
DoorDash says it typically charges a delivery fee and a service fee, in addition to the cost of food and beverages ordered by the consumer, offering that these fees help them cover the cost of delivery drivers, technology, and marketing.
In recent years, DoorDash has expanded its delivery service beyond restaurant takeout to include groceries, beauty products, homeware products, gifts, and even COVID-19 test kits.
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Which toddler trampoline is best?
If you’re tired of telling your little one not to bounce on the bed and the couch, it might be time to invest in a toddler trampoline. Trampolines are loads of fun for toddlers, and they can also help their motor skills and are great for channeling all the excess energy.
However, it’s important to choose a trampoline that’s safe and appropriate for a toddler. If you’re looking for something versatile, consider the convertible SmarTrike Toddler Trampoline with Ball Pit.
What to know before you buy a toddler trampoline
Size
Most toddler trampolines range from around 3-7 feet in diameter. The right option for you and your child depends on how much space you have for a trampoline, the age of your toddler and how they want to bounce.
- 3 to 4 feet: These compact trampolines are great for basic solo bouncing, ideally with a handlebar for toddlers to hold on to so they don’t go over the edge.
- 5 feet and up: Bigger trampolines are better for older toddlers or for two toddlers to play on together. They usually have enclosures, so there’s no need for a handle, giving kids more freedom to bounce in different ways. They’re ideal for outdoor use or if you have plenty of indoor space.
Enclosure
Trampolines for kids often come with net enclosures for safety. They keep little ones from accidentally jumping off the trampoline’s edge, which could lead to an injury. These safety enclosures are even more important for toddlers and little kids, who are more likely to misjudge a bounce or lose control of their motion.
Age range
All trampolines have a recommended age range that you should check out before buying. Some are suitable for young toddlers 12 months and up, while others have a minimum age of 24 or 36 months. An upper age limit isn’t always defined, but kids grow out of smaller trampolines quicker than they do bigger ones. However, there’s usually a maximum weight limit, so you can tell when your child can no longer safely use their trampoline.
What to look for in a quality toddler trampoline
Play accessories
Some toddler trampolines come with accessories to make playtime even more fun. For instance, you can find options with slides or basketball hoops attached.
Color or design
While most toddlers won’t mind how their new toy looks, some manufacturers offer a range of color options. Some also feature more elaborate designs aimed at kids, such as those featuring rainforest animals or unicorns.
Padding
The springs should always be covered and ideally padded. This way, if your child misjudges and lands on the springs, it won’t hurt badly. It also keeps little fingers from getting caught in the springs while climbing on and off.
Handlebar
Small trampolines for young toddlers often have handlebars to help keep kids safe in one spot while they bounce. In most cases, these bars are removable, so you can take them off when toddlers are old enough not to need them.
How much you can expect to spend on a toddler trampoline
You can find small ones for around $50 to $100, while larger trampolines with enclosures and accessories can cost $100 to $300.
Toddler trampoline FAQ
Is jumping on a trampoline good for toddlers?
A. Jumping on a trampoline can help build toddlers’ motor skills, coordination and balance, all while having fun. Moreover, it’s a great form of active play and can help burn off some of that seemingly endless toddler energy.
That said, toddlers’ bones are more fragile than those of older children and adults, so there’s an increased risk of injury. You should always supervise your toddler when using a trampoline and keep trampolining sessions reasonably short.
Are toddler trampolines for indoor or outdoor use?
A. That depends. You can find some models that are meant for indoor use only, some for outdoor use only and others that are suitable for indoor or outdoor use. You can decide on the best option for your child and your home setup. If you choose an outdoor trampoline, make sure to set it up on a level but relatively soft surface, such as grass or bark chips.
What’s the best toddler trampoline to buy?
Top toddler trampoline
SmarTrike Toddler Trampoline with Ball Pit
What you need to know: Transforming from a trampoline to a ball pit, this is a wonderfully versatile piece of play equipment.
What you’ll love: It comes with a handlebar for safety, which is removable as your child grows and no longer needs it. The padding around the edges and the springless design minimize the chance of injury. It comes with 100 ball pit balls.
What you should consider: Switching between trampoline and ball pit modes is a bit of a pain.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top toddler trampoline for the money
Asee’m 60-Inch Trampoline for Kids with Net
What you need to know: This 5-foot trampoline is suitable for toddlers of 12 months and up but is large enough to accommodate bigger kids.
What you’ll love: Since it’s low to the ground, toddlers can get on and off more easily than on a taller trampoline. It has a safety enclosure, so little ones can’t accidentally jump off the edge.
What you should consider: It’s somewhat tricky to assemble, and the instructions could be more precise.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Little Tikes 7-Foot Climb ‘N Slide Trampoline
What you need to know: Part trampoline, part slide, it’s great fun for older toddlers and little kids of 36 months and up.
What you’ll love: Kids can enjoy climbing up the ladder, sliding down the slide and bouncing on the trampoline in between. It measures 7 feet in diameter, so it’s large enough for a couple of kids to play together. It has a safety enclosure.
What you should consider: Some buyers found it didn’t remain sturdy over time when exposed to the elements.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ARLINGTON, Texas — A woman has been arrested after driving the wrong way along Highway 360 on Saturday evening, according to Arlington police.
The department identified the suspect as 30-year-old Cherish Butler.
They told WFAA that they got two calls at around 7 p.m. about a "small white car or SUV" that was driving the wrong way. They said Butler was driving south in the northbound lanes of Highway 360 near Carrier Parkway.
They later confirmed that officers found the vehicle in the 600 block of N Hwy 360 and got it to stop safely.
According to the police department, Butler was "found to be intoxicated and was arrested." They said she's been charged with DWI and unlawful carrying of a weapon.
Police said the vehicle was damaged, but the department couldn't connect it to any reported crashes nearby.
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Firm to Remain a Minority Investor
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, today announced the closing of the merger of its portfolio company, Altima Dental, with 123Dentist, a leading dental support organization ("DSO") based in Vancouver, to create one of the largest DSOs in Canada. The transaction was financed through equity capital provided by 123Dentist's existing private equity sponsor, Peloton Capital Management, and new investors KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Heartland Dental, a KKR portfolio company and the leading dental support organization in the U.S. Sentinel will retain a minority equity stake in the combined company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Altima Dental, headquartered in Toronto, was Sentinel's fifth investment in the dental sector at the time of the closing in 2016. In 2019, Altima merged with Quebec-based Lapointe Group, creating a leading DSO with offices in six provinces across Canada. In July 2022, Altima Dental and 123Dentist announced the plan to merge all three entities to create one of the largest DSOs in Canada with a network of 350 clinics servicing the entire country with a presence in every major metropolitan market. The merger creates a business with a national footprint across Canada and supports dental practices that provide a wide range of dental care to more than 800,000 patients, with more than 2.5 million patient visits annually.
"We expect this merger to benefit Canadian dentists, dental professionals, and patients alike, and will greatly expand support services for an already thriving dentist community that focuses on delivering exceptional care, improved access to high quality dentistry services, and greater opportunities for career advancement and mentorship for our team members," said Dr. Amin Shivji, CEO of 123Dentist.
"As a dentist-led organization for nearly 30 years, we have focused on bringing to patient care a dentist perspective as we built Altima Dental. Because 123Dentist has a similar focus, this combination will enable our supported dentists to continue to deliver an exceptional patient experience to Canadians," said Dr. George Christodoulou and Dr. Sven Grail, co-Founders and co-CEOs of Altima Dental. "Now, as part of the 123Dentist family, we are incredibly well-positioned to further develop our capabilities as one of the leading dental support organizations in Canada."
"We are grateful for the strong partnership we have had with the founders and management teams at Altima Dental and Lapointe Group," said Paul Murphy, Partner at Sentinel Capital Partners. "As an ongoing investor in the merger, we are looking forward to supporting Dr. Amin Shivji and the combined 123Dentist team as they continue to build a leading dentist-centric organization."
Sentinel has established a strong long-term record of investing in the dental sector dating back to its first platform investment in 2003. Besides Altima Dental, Sentinel's other dental investments include MB2 Dental, a dental partnership organization with a unique doctor-centric ownership model; Castle Dental and Metro Dentalcare, each a leading regional dental service provider; Northeast Dental Management, a leading dental service provider in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic; and ReachOut Healthcare America, a leader in mobile dentistry.
Sentinel specializes in buying and building midmarket businesses in the United States and Canada in partnership with management. Sentinel targets aerospace and defense, business services, consumer, distribution, food and restaurants, franchising, healthcare, and industrial businesses. Sentinel invests in management buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, going-private transactions, and structured equity investments of established businesses with EBITDA of up to $80 million. Sentinel also invests in special situations, including balance sheet restructurings, operational turnarounds, and minority junior capital solutions. For more information, please visit: sentinelpartners.com.
Altima Dental is one of Canada's longest-standing premier dental support organizations, founded and led by dentists, Dr. George Christodoulou and Dr. Sven Grail, who recognize the aspiration of providing exceptional healthcare and achieving personal and professional advancement. Altima Dental focuses on supporting superior patient care, best clinical practices, and true partnership with dentists. Altima Dental was named 2021 Best Workplaces in Health Care. For more information, please visit: altimadentalpartners.com.
Founded in 1987 by Larry and Yves Lapointe, Lapointe Group has been serving professionals and patients for 35 years. The Lapointe Group joined Altima Dental in 2019 and operates the Lapointe Dental Centres, a 100% Quebec banner of the Lapointe Group, with over 35 dental practices that provide the infrastructure for the practice of dental health professionals, offering a wide range of integrated services that enable dentists and denturists to optimize their practice and direct their full focus on patient care. The Lapointe Group also operates a high-tech integrated dental lab, Summum Dental Laboratory, including over 80 dental technicians, and expertise in all types of dental prosthetics. For more information, please visit: centreslapointe.com.
123Dentist is a leading dental support organization in Canada. It has grown from a single practice in Vancouver, owned by CEO Dr. Amin Shivji and two partners, to more than 250 supported practices and 3,500 team members. 123Dentist was founded on two key principles: putting patients above all else; and that supported dentists and staff are the most important factors in keeping patients happy. 123Dentist's vision is to be the dental support community all Canadian dentists and dental professionals want to belong to. 123Dentist offers alternative partnership models to meet the needs of each individual dentist, including the opportunity to retain ownership of the clinic. This unique model enables supported dentists to focus on providing optimal care to patients, while an experienced team provides a wide range of support services. For more information, please visit: 123dentist.com.
Contact: Roland Tomforde
Broadgate Consultants
212-232-2222
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BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – A home has been completely destroyed in Bristol, Virginia following an explosion.
According to Bristol Virginia Fire Chief Mike Armstrong, no one was inside the house on Booher Springs Road when the explosion occurred.
Armstrong said the call came in around 9:45 a.m. when people reported that they heard the explosion as far away as Euclid Avenue, and neighbors reported that the blast shook their houses.
Photos show debris spread across the area. Crews are now in the process of cleaning up and putting out hot spots, which required an excavator.
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Armstrong said that crews will remain at the scene for at least a few more hours to ensure the scene is under control and continue investigating the incident. The cause of the fire is still unknown at this time.
“We’re starting the investigation,” Armstrong said. “There were reports that it could be propane, so we’re looking at that to see if that could be involved. Right now, we just don’t know. Once we get the heavy equipment in here and start digging through the pile and moving some of the debris around, we can get in there and try to piece it together.”
The Bristol Tennessee Fire Department, Bristol Virginia Fire Department, Bristol Virginia Police and Bristol Virginia life-saving crew responded to the incident.
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women’s rights, dies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died Monday night. She was 82.
Schroeder’s former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, the city where she had been residing in recent years.
Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
Her unorthodox methods cost her important committee posts, but Schroeder said she wasn’t willing to join what she called “the good old boys’ club” just to score political points. Unafraid of embarrassing her congressional colleagues in public, she became an icon for the feminist movement.
Schroeder was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and became one of its most influential Democrats as she won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver. Despite her seniority, she was never appointed to head a committee.
Schroeder helped forge several Democratic majorities before deciding in 1997 it was time to leave. Her parting shot in 1998 was a book titled “24 Years of Housework ... and the Place is Still a Mess. My Life in Politics,” which chronicled her frustration with male domination and the slow pace of change in federal institutions.
In 1987, Schroeder tested the waters for the presidency, mounting a fundraising drive after fellow Coloradan Gary Hart pulled out of the race. She announced three months later that she would not run and said her “tears signify compassion, not weakness.” Her heart was not in it, she said, and she thought fundraising was demeaning.
She was the first woman on the House Armed Services Committee but was forced to share a chair with U.S. Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., the first African American, when committee chairman F. Edward Hebert, D-La., organized the panel. Schroeder said Hebert thought the committee was no place for a woman or an African American and they were each worth only half a seat.
Republicans were livid after Schroeder and others filed an ethics complaint over House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s televised college lecture series, charging that free cable time he received amounted to an illegal gift under House rules. Gingrich became the first speaker reprimanded by Congress. Gingrich said later he regretted not taking Schroeder and her colleagues more seriously.
Earlier, she had blasted Gingrich for suggesting women shouldn’t serve in combat because they could get infections from being in a ditch for 30 days. According to her official House biography, she once told Pentagon officials that if they were women, they would always be pregnant because they never said “no.”
Asked by one congressman how she could be a mother of two small children and a member of Congress at the same time, she replied, “I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.”
It was Schroeder who branded President Ronald Reagan the “Teflon” president for his ability to avoid blame for major policy decisions, and the name stuck.
One of Schroeder’s biggest victories was the signing of a family-leave bill in 1993, providing job protection for care of a newborn, a sick child or a parent.
“Pat Schroeder blazed the trail. Every woman in this house is walking in her footsteps,” said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who took over from Schroeder as Democratic chair of the bipartisan congressional caucus on women’s issues.
Schroeder said legislators spent too much attention on contributors and special interests. When House Republicans gathered on the U.S. Capitol steps to celebrate their first 100 days in power in 1994, she and several aides clambered to the building’s dome and hung a 15-foot red banner reading, “Sold.”
A pilot, Schroeder earned her way through Harvard Law School with her own flying service. Schroeder became a professor at Princeton University after leaving Congress, but said politics was in her blood and she would continue working for candidates she supported.
For a while, she taught a graduate-level course titled “The Politics of Poverty.” She also headed the Association of American Publishers.
She later moved to Florida, where she continued to dabble in politics. Among other activities she served on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation.
Schroeder was born in Portland, Oregon, on July 30, 1940. She was a pilot who paid for college tuition with her own flying service. She graduated from the University of Minnesota before earning her law degree in 1964. From 1964 to 1966, she was a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.
She is survived by her husband, James W. Schroeder, whom she married in 1962. Also surviving are their two children, Scott and Jamie.
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Former Associated Press writer Steven K. Paulson contributed to this report.
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Evercore Selected the ANS/CMS Partnership to Ensure Firm Compliance
NEW YORK, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abel Noser Solutions, a leader in trade analytics and compliance solutions to financial institutions globally, jointly with Capital Market Solutions LLC (CMS), the leading Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and compliance consultation provider has been selected by Evercore to provide a complete FINRA Reg. BI Market Integrity oversight and reporting solution set. The combination of services is designed to cover all required best execution, trade surveillance and regulatory compliance (SEC Rule 606 and CAT/CAIS) needs while enabling clients to leverage the combined expertise of both companies.
Brett MacLeod, Head of Abel Noser Solutions' Sell Side Division remarked, "Our goal has always been to maximize our clients' ability to maintain oversight and analyze their trading flows by providing them with compliance and analytics services of the highest quality. We're thrilled that Evercore, our longstanding and influential client, would seek to extend the relationship to our partner in Capital Market Solutions to take advantage of our combined solution set."
"We are pleased to have selected the Abel Noser/CMS offering to help us meet our SEC and FINRA obligations," said Matthew Fallon, Head of Equities Sales & Trading Compliance at Evercore. "The Abel Noser/CMS solutions have been key in providing an assessment framework that enables us to not only comply but to stay ahead of the regulatory curve. Specifically, we found that the CAT/CAIS solution via the CATalyst and CAT Recon modules provide excellent oversight and surveillance capabilities on CAT reported data."
Joseph Chafatinos, Partner, Capital Market Solutions added, "Our partnership with Abel Noser has provided mutual clients like Evercore with a multi-faceted regulatory governance and analytics solution that is unique to the market. This regulatory compliance platform in conjunction with our Regulatory Surveillance & Monitoring System (RSMS) delivers a complete and comprehensive reporting solution specifically designed for SEC and FINRA rule mandates. As such, it is consistently being updated to reflect the everchanging regulatory landscape."
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Abel Noser Solutions has long been respected as a leader in the campaign to lower the costs and risks associated with trading. With hundreds of clients worldwide, Abel Noser Solutions offers software products along with consultative and bespoke services in the areas of trade analytics, compliance, and trade surveillance. The firm continues to hold its place as the leading innovator in TCA, compliance software, and service solutions. Learn more at www.abelnoser.com.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zach Wilson is moving up on the New York Jets’ quarterback depth chart this week.
Coach Robert Saleh announced Wednesday the benched former starter is being promoted from No. 3 to the backup behind Mike White, who is dealing with a rib injury but is expected to make his fourth straight start on Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
“Zach’s been doing a great job,” Saleh said. “He has been deliberate in his approach over the last three weeks. He’s been holding himself accountable with regards to how he wants to attack practice, how he’s been performing in practice going against our defense — which I think is a pretty good defense to go against — and working on all the different things we’ve been asking him to accomplish.”
Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s draft, said he was excited by the promotion and acknowledged the biggest challenge for him the past several weeks was “finding the fun in football” again.
“I love this game and it definitely wasn’t lost,” he said. “But I think you guys felt the frustrations over some of those rough games.”
Wilson said he’s ready to take the field again, and hopes to this season — “but that’s not up to me.”
Entering this year, the focus for the Jets was Wilson’s continued progress and development as their quarterback of the present — and future. And he still thinks he can be.
“Yeah, I definitely believe in myself,” Wilson said. “Of course, I have all the confidence in the world, and I think that’s how it should be. But you’ve got to be able to prove that. That goes back to just attacking every single day.”
Wilson missed the first three games while recovering from a knee injury. He started the next seven and the Jets went 5-2 in those games, but his play was mostly shaky. Wilson had four touchdown passes and five interceptions and had a 55.6 completion percentage as New York’s offense struggled to produce points.
After Wilson went just 9 of 22 for 77 yards in a 10-3 loss at New England in Week 11, the Jets elevated White to starter.
Meanwhile, Wilson was inactive the last three games, not even dressed in uniform on the sideline.
“I mean, it’s frustrating and you would like to be out there,” Wilson said. “But you’ve got to control what you can control. Right now, it’s how can I just do everything I can to put myself in the best position to help this organization and this team?”
Under White, the Jets (7-6) are 1-2 but have been better offensively as they try to make a playoff push and end an 11-year playoff drought — the longest active skid in the NFL.
White was limited at practice Wednesday after twice being forced out of New York’s 20-12 loss at Buffalo last Sunday after taking big hits to his midsection. He returned both times but was sent to the hospital after the game to be examined further.
White told The Associated Press at a charity event Tuesday night his “ribs are good” and was waiting to get clearance from doctors.
“We’re still working as if he’s playing this week,” Saleh said, adding that Wilson’s promotion was just “a coincidence” in timing.
Joe Flacco, who started the first three games this season, will be the No. 3 quarterback.
The Jets wanted Wilson to sit as part of a mental and physical “reset” to focus on fundamentals such as extending the pocket, moving the football and getting his footwork corrected.
“He’s been good,” Saleh said. “Obviously, it’s not over. Continue working and understanding you’re the next man up.”
Saleh reiterated his stance that the plan is to have Wilson back on the field and playing again at some point.
“I’m still in that same mindset, guys, with regards to Zach,” the coach said. “He’s a very talented young man — very talented young man. We’re in the business of developing guys and I’ve said it before: This is Mike White’s opportunity and he’s attacking the heck out of the opportunity and is doing a great job with it.
“But at the same time, we’ve still got to make sure we’re doing everything we can to develop Zach to the spot we know he’s capable of getting to.”
NOTES: DL Quinnen Williams (calf), DL John Franklin-Myers (flu), CB Brandin Echols (quadriceps), WR Corey Davis (concussion protocol) and S Will Parks (not injury related) didn’t practice Wednesday. Saleh said Williams, who has a career-high 11 sacks, remains “50-50” to play. … OTs George Fant (knee) and Duane Brown (shoulder) were limited, as was DE Micheal Clemons (knee). … The Jets signed OL Eric Smith to the practice squad. It’s the third stint with New York for Smith, who was most recently with Tennessee.
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NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) — Coastal communities around the world are adding a tropical twist to shoreline protection, courtesy of the humble coconut.
From the sands of the Jersey Shore to the islands of Indonesia, strands of coconut husk, known as coir, are being incorporated into shoreline protection projects.
Often used in conjunction with other measures, the coconut material is seen as a cost-effective, readily available and sustainable option. This is particularly true in developing countries. But the material is also popular in wealthy nations, where it’s seen as an important part of so-called “living shorelines” that use natural elements rather than hard barriers of wood, steel or concrete.
One such project is being installed along a section of eroded river bank in Neptune, New Jersey, about a mile from the ocean on the Shark River. Using a mix of a federal grant and local funds, the American Littoral Society, a coastal conservation group, is carrying out the $1.3 million project that has already added significantly to what was previously a severely eroded shoreline in an area that was pummeled by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
“We’re always trying to reduce wave energy while shielding the shoreline, and whenever we can, we like to employ nature-based solutions,” said Tim Dillingham, the group’s executive director. “This material is readily available, particularly in developing countries and it’s relatively inexpensive compared with harder materials.”
Coir is made of the stringy fibers of coconut shells, and spun into mats or logs, often held together with netting. In developing areas, discarded or ripped fishing nets can be incorporated.
Its flexibility allows it to be molded and contoured as needed on uneven areas of shoreline, held in place by wooden stakes.
The coconut-based material biodegrades over time, by design. But before it does, it is sometimes pre-seeded with shoreline plants and grasses, or those plants are placed in holes that can be punched into the coir logs.
The logs hold the plants in place as they take root and grow, eventually breaking down and leaving the established plants and sediment around them in place to stabilize the shoreline.
Coconut-based materials are being used around the world for erosion control projects.
One of them is in Boston, where Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is using coconut fibers, wood chips and other material to create floating mats to blunt the force of waves, and encourage growth of aquatic vegetation. A pilot project has four such mats in waterways around Boston. Hopkins envisions a network of hundreds or even thousands of mats linked together to protect wider areas.
She’s pleased with what she’s seen so far.
“Coconut fiber is organic material, it’s relatively cheap and it’s a discard,” she said. “It’s actually recycling something that was going to be discarded.”
Two projects in East Providence, Rhode Island, used coconut logs in 2020, and 2,400 feet (731 meters) of shoreline in New York’s Jamaica Bay that were eroded during Superstorm Sandy were stabilized in 2021 by a project that also included coconut coir logs.
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, did a similar project last year, and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is offering funding to help landowners, homeowner associations and others install living shorelines made of materials that can include coconut fibers.
A project in Austin, Texas, stabilized part of the Lake Austin shoreline; monitoring from 2009 to 2014 showed decreased erosion and the healthy growth of native plants at the water’s edge.
Indonesia is the world’s largest coconut producer, with more than 17 million metric tons in 2021. Scientists from the Oceanography Program of Bandung Institute of Technology used coconut husk material to help build a sea wall in the Karangjaladri village of Pangandaran Regency in 2018.
Residents of Diogue Island in Senegal are using wooden structures and coconut fronds and sticks to reclaim eroded sections of beach.
It doesn’t always work, however.
In 2016, the Felix Neck Wildlife Refuge in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha’s Vineyard installed it at the Sengekontacket Pond, where a salt marsh had eroded by several feet in previous years. While it did help reduce erosion for a while, the husks did not last long due to strong wave action.
“It got blown out multiple times,” said Suzan Bellincampi, the sanctuary’s director. “We had it in place for a few years and we decided not to reinstall it.
“The project was really interesting in terms of what we wanted to do and how we adapted it,” she said. “It’s not for every site; it has to be site-specific. It works in some places; it doesn’t work in all places.”
Similarly, coconut fiber mats and logs were used recently on Chapel Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, but they were damaged by bad weather.
Another Canadian site, Lac des Battures, a lake on Montreal’s Nuns’ Island, uses coconut mats to control the growth of invasive reeds along the shoreline.
At the New Jersey site, a few miles south of the musical hotbed of Asbury Park, trucked-in sand has joined with sediment accruing from the tides to create a beach that is noticeably wider than what used to be there.
“Underneath your feet right now are hibernating fiddler crabs,” said Capt. Al Modjeski, a restoration specialist with the Littoral Society. “They’ll be excited about this new habitat.”
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Kings Island implements chaperone policy starting this weekend
WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - Kings Island is implementing a chaperone policy starting April 22, according to the amusement park’s Facebook.
Officials say that there has been an increasing number of incidents involving “unruly” and “inappropriate behavior” over the past two years, not only at Kings Island but at other entertainment parks as well.
The latest incident occurred on April 15 when a teenager allegedly brought a gun to the park on its first opening day of the season.
MORE: “Police: At least 1 stabbed at Kings Island Camp Cedar” | “Police: 2 teens facing assault charges after fight broke out at Kings Island Saturday night”
Under the new policy, all guests 15 years old and younger will be required to have a chaperone who is at least 21 years old after 4 p.m.
One chaperone may accompany up to 10 guests that are 15 years old or younger per day. If these guests are found inside the park after 4 p.m. without a chaperone, they could be forced to leave.
“We believe these changes will help ensure that Kings Island continues to have a positive atmosphere where generations of families and friends can gather for a day of safe fun and good food. Millions of guests have counted on us for exactly that, and we will continue to deliver on that promise for generations to come,” park officials wrote.
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SnapAway Makes Using Tub Butter Easy by Keeping the Knife with the Butter
LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kitchen Concepts Unlimited, LLC the makers of Butterie, the world's only flip-top butter dish, has launched a new product designed especially for tub butter users. SnapAway is a patent-pending tub butter knife that makes it easy to store the knife with your tub butter, eliminating the need to get a new knife every time you use the butter.
"What makes SnapAway unique is the bend in the blade," states Kitchen Concepts president and inventor Joelle Mertzel. The indentation in the blade snaps perfectly onto the lip of any disposable tub butter container. Once the knife is attached, the container lid fits directly over the knife. "Fold the handle down and store it in the fridge with the knife attached," continues Mertzel.
SnapAway works with rectangular and round butter tubs, such as Country Crock and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. SnapAway works for other food products as well, such as cream cheese, sour cream, hummus, and other spreadable foods. SnapAway is dishwasher safe and the wide paddle-style, stainless steel knife features a serrated edge which is useful for cutting toast.
SnapAway is sold in a shelf-ready display and features peg-able packaging. MSRP is $8-10. SnapAway is in stock and ready to ship.
About Kitchen Concepts Unlimited, LLC
Kitchen Concepts is a housewares company based in Northridge, CA. Since its inception in 2016, Kitchen Concepts' mission has been to eliminate consumer confusion about keeping butter on the counter and to educate America that butter does not need to be refrigerated. Kitchen Concepts manufactures, sells, and distributes a variety of innovative household products including IncrediBulb, a flexible, silicone, 100% shatterproof LED light bulb; SnapAway, a patent-pending tub butter knife, and of course, Butterie, a flip-top butter dish. For more information, visit kcunlimited.com
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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.
In Denmark, which has a constitutional monarchy, the heir to the throne is Crown Prince Frederik, Joachim’s older brother.
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DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks fans on Twitter have been debating what they think about a potential new team jersey that was linked online.
The Mavs wear many different jerseys every season that includes a City Edition, an Icon Edition and a Hardwood Classic Edition.
Tuesday morning, a photo of a potential new team jersey started causing speculation that the Mavs will be wearing it next season.
The white font on the jersey has a retro, cursive look with green trim. The main color of the jersey is royal blue.
The team has yet to make any official announcement or social media post in regard to this jersey.
Dallas Mavericks fan account Mavs Film Room tweeted, "This might be the best uniform in team history."
Mavs Moneyball contributor Matthew Phillips tweeted, "I'm in the minority but this is the worst of the last three seasons."
Twitter user Buffalo Black tweeted, "They really should have left the v-neck collar on the cutting room floor, other than that. These are the best looking jerseys the Mavs have right now."
The Mavs are also hosting an exhibit at the Hall of State at this year's State Fair of Texas, titled "Mavs Vault," which includes a display of the different jerseys the team has worn during the franchise's 42 years of existence.
The Mavs Vault exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and run through Oct. 23. Admission to the exhibit is free with paid entry to the State Fair of Texas.
The Mavericks will start the upcoming 2022-2023 season on Wednesday, Oct. 19 against the Phoenix Suns at Footprint Center.
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FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (AP) — Barely a week after floodwaters swept downtown and left a foot of mud and twisted, gutted buildings along Main Street, an incongruous sight appeared: A flashing sign declaring JR’s Barber Shop “OPEN.”
As National Guard troops patrolled outside and volunteers on backhoes mounded up debris, J.R. Collins stood behind his barber chair, giving a touchup to one of his regulars. Like most in Fleming-Neon, Collins comes from a family built on mining — both his grandfathers worked in coal — and he has stayed in the close-knit town even as the industry shrank and others fled. Those who remain are determined to prove their community is about more than coal.
And they’ve come together to make sure Collins’ barber shop and other businesses reopen amid the devastating floods that have killed more than three dozen in eastern Kentucky.
“They were there with shovels and squeegees and water, and people packing, and kids helping,” Collins said above the din of air conditioning and a dehumidifier in his shop. “It’s good, hard-working people that like to help people out and got each other’s back.”
Fleming-Neon was once two towns: Fleming, a company town founded in the early 1900s by the Elkhorn Coal Corp. for the sole purpose of mining, and Neon, a former logging camp.
Fleming was run by Elkhorn and named for one of its executives. The company issued its own money, and workers used it for rent on company-owned homes and goods at the company store or local businesses. Neon was independent, a free town where U.S. government greenbacks, not company scrip, was legal tender — but it thrived off the glow of coal nearby.
Fleming and Neon prospered along with the company and industry. Dates still seen today on brick storefronts chronicle the boom years.
“We had department stores, we had grocery stores, we had restaurants, we had dry cleaners. We had a theater,” said Susan Polis, Fleming-Neon’s 73-year-old mayor. “You did not have to leave here to have, to get anything.”
But as the mines mechanized, the population shrank in Fleming as well as Neon. In the late 1970s, the former rival towns merged under one government in an effort to pool resources, but the bleeding continued.
Today, only about 500 people remain. And on July 28, the waters of Wright Fork rose, threatening further devastation for this valley of people who long extracted riches from the earth. But there’s a spark in Fleming-Neon that, so far, has refused to be extinguished.
A multipurpose center was set to open in a former car dealership about two weeks after the storm hit. Jeff Hawkins, a longtime educator who’s lived here since he was a teenager, said the project, dubbed Neon Lights, would include a performing arts studio, an internet cafe, event space, and an innovation incubator.
“We wanted a space for kids to be able to do physical activity, to dance, to sing, whatever it may be,” he said. “Upstairs, we would put a robotics lab and a computer coding lab.”
That dream is not dead, just deferred. For now, the cleaned-up space serves as an emergency supply distribution center.
The rains came again this past weekend, prompting a brief evacuation Friday evening. But while some dreaded it, Emory Lee Mullins chose to see it as a blessing.
“It’s washing it off pretty good,” Mullins said, using a push broom to sweep the last of the creek silt into the gutter outside his flower shop. “Every little sweep gets it, don’t it?”
Five feet of water had all but gutted the Letcher Flower Shop, which Mullins bought 25 years ago. But as the rain fell, he ripped out sodden walls, confident he will reopen in a couple of weeks.
“Because flowers makes people feel good,” he said. “They’re going to need flowers.”
It’s been hard to break coal’s grip on these mountains, said Hawkins, describing a corporate strategy to “make as much money as you can and move on.”
“For decades, money left here and was not reinvested here,” he said. “And that’s what we’ve been left with.”
But Fleming-Neon has also been left with a toughness. And for every story of tragedy, Hawkins said, there are six more of goodness and grace.
“The folks here, they persevere. They are resilient. They have grit,” he said.
The volunteers who’ve come from other states see that spirit, too. Ken Cagle, of North Carolina, said it makes him consider retiring here: “It’s just unbelievable, the people here, how they just want to help other people.”
And Hawkins intends to stay among them in these hills. He sees the flooding disaster as an opportunity to reinvent Fleming-Neon and eastern Kentucky.
“How do we reimagine what we can be?” he said. “And in a way that we’re not just surviving, but we’re moving to a point of thriving.”
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Company outlines its planet, people and performance initiatives, helping make a positive impact on the world
HUDSON, Ohio , Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a global leader in automating, digitizing and transforming the way people bank and shop, today issued its 2021 environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, which can be found at the company's newly updated ESG website at www.dieboldnixdorf.com/en-us/about-us/esg.
Prepared within the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards Framework, the 2021 Diebold Nixdorf ESG report highlights the strides the company made throughout the year in environmental stewardship, global citizenship and corporate governance. Diebold Nixdorf's ESG program is a key foundational element of the company's global operational structure and helps define its culture by encompassing three main components:
- Planet, focusing on key environmental areas, including climate change, sustainable products, sustainable field operations, materials used, waste produced and resource management. In 2021, we promoted recycling, focused on using environmentally sustainable materials in our products and solutions, and worked to reduce our carbon footprint, use of energy and other resources.
- People, prioritizing social imperatives, including diversity and inclusion, our continued COVID-19 response, global citizenship, financial inclusion, human rights, and health and safety. In 2021, we continued to build upon our employee-focused initiatives, commitment to corporate giving, and diversity and inclusion initiatives, while also providing needed support within communities where we operate.
- Performance, maintaining best practices in corporate governance at the board of directors and leadership levels, as well as across our code of business ethics, enterprise risk management, and cybersecurity and data privacy. In 2021, we introduced a Global Sustainability Council to oversee our sustainability and ESG strategies, policies and programs, and report progress on KPIs and other developments.
Octavio Marquez, Diebold Nixdorf president and chief executive officer, said: "A key component of our mission as a company is to work as a caring and kind corporate citizen that recognizes how an organization touches and impacts the world around it. In 2021, our company continued to build its ESG program and made solid progress, especially against the backdrop of a challenging macro environment. We are very proud of our accomplishments into 2022, and we continue to do our work the right way, adhering to our highest values with great care for our people, partners, stakeholders and the world around us."
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a world leader in enabling connected commerce. We automate, digitize and transform the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world's top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.
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DUBLIN, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Education ERP Market Size, Share & Industry Trends Analysis Report By Component, By Application, By Deployment Model, By End User (Higher Education and K-12), By Regional Outlook and Forecast, 2022-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Global Education ERP Market size is expected to reach $32.3 billion by 2028, rising at a market growth of 14.2% CAGR during the forecast period.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a process management software that allows enterprises to combine business management with a variety of automated operations. The education ERP aids in the automation of admissions, the reduction of back-office processes and time spent on the admissions process. Education ERP's main advantages include increased efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and data security.
It automates the fee collecting process by automatically categorizing the money collected and keeping track records of all cost structure aspects, such as amounts paid for entry, tuition, books, labs, and so on, to keep students completely informed and up to date about their fee status. Additionally, the technology solution aids in the generation of automated notifications ensure that kids or their parents are notified on time, utilizing the most appropriate forms of communication.
Installing an ERP system for an educational institution is cost-effective. The feature-rich application assists in minimizing manual activities associated with critical methods of school administration, such as payroll, admission, fee collections, and others, in order to reduce the number of man-hours and save money. The money spent might be put towards important educational aims.
There are numerous ERP modules for educational institutions depending on their distinct demands, it provides personalized portals so that all stakeholders may access the notifications, information, and updates that are important to them. Students can use these portals to check uploaded assignments, upload completed work, see class schedules or timetables, test timetables, pay fees or bills for other activities, fill out forms or submit requested details, and anything else that is needed.
COVID-19 Impact Analysis
The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a negative impact on several industries in the last five months. Students, professors, and staff have been affected by the closing of educational institutions, which has had societal and economic ramifications. Higher education and its students will be the hardest hit by these events, given their key career decisions are based on what they learn in higher education classes. Automated institute management systems, such as student information systems and learning management systems, will be required tools for institutions to prepare for any circumstances in the coming years.
Market Growth Factors
Presence of cloud based ERP solutions
ERP technologies have increased the operational effectiveness of numerous academic institutions, giving them a competitive advantage. Traditional data management approaches and processes are being replaced by cloud-based ERP solutions. The scalability, privacy, and control of data are all improved with a cloud-based ERP solution. It also provides administrators with real-time access, it allows them to make quick and well-informed decisions. Academic institutions face problems from rising operational complexity and quick changes in business strategies. As a result, ERP solutions were adopted in a variety of academic institutions, reducing the stress on administrators by allowing them to effectively synchronize and manage numerous business activities.
Efficiency Due to Automation & Streamlining of Recruitment Process
Automation features in the education ERP package also minimize the amount of human labor required for routine operations, such as pulling data from many systems utilized by different departments. All school departments, such as administrative, infrastructure, finance, academics, and communication, are connected through ERP software. It secures information exchange between departments and ensures that all data is collected in a centralized computer that can be accessed at any time. Certain organizations are also required to provide detailed reports to regulating authorities, which are generally done manually and take time.
Market Restraining Factors
Lack of Awareness about Education ERP and its High Costs
Most educational establishments and faculties across the world have obstacles in implementing ERP approaches in their educational systems. The public in various developing nations is still unaware of the benefits of using education ERP solutions. Several academic institutions are still unaware of how education ERP systems can help them handle data safely and with maximum flexibility, limiting the Market 's growth. Furthermore, the expensive cost of implementing ERP solutions is a key stumbling block to Market expansion. Some school systems are aware of ERP technology, but due to the high cost of ERP, they are finding it difficult to apply these solutions.
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1. Market Scope & Methodology
Chapter 2. Market Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Overview
2.1.1.1 Market Composition and Scenario
2.2 Key Factors Impacting the Market
2.2.1 Market Drivers
2.2.2 Market Restraints
Chapter 3. Competition Analysis - Global
3.1 Cardinal Matrix
3.2 Recent Industry Wide Strategic Developments
3.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements
3.2.2 Product Launches and Product Expansions
3.2.3 Acquisition and Mergers
3.2.4 Geographical Expansions
3.3 Top Winning Strategies
3.3.1 Key Leading Strategies: Percentage Distribution (2018-2022)
3.3.2 Key Strategic Move: (Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements: 2018, Jan - 2021, Oct) Leading Players
Chapter 4. Global Education ERP Market by Component
4.1 Global Software Market by Region
4.2 Global Services Market by Region
Chapter 5. Global Education ERP Market by Application
5.1 Global Student Management Market by Region
5.2 Global Academic Management Market by Region
5.3 Global Human Resource Management Market by Region
5.4 Global Finance & Accounting Management Market by Region
5.5 Global Stores, Procurement Management & Others Market by Region
Chapter 6. Global Education ERP Market by Deployment Model
6.1 Global On-premise Market by Region
6.2 Global Cloud Market by Region
Chapter 7. Global Education ERP Market by End User
7.1 Global Higher Education Market by Region
7.2 Global K-12 Market by Region
Chapter 8. Global Education ERP Market by Region
Chapter 9. Company Profiles
9.1 Microsoft Corporation
9.1.1 Company Overview
9.1.2 Financial Analysis
9.1.3 Segmental and Regional Analysis
9.1.4 Research & Development Expenses
9.1.5 Recent strategies and developments:
9.1.5.1 Partnerships, Collaborations, and Agreements:
9.1.5.2 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
9.2 Oracle Corporation
9.2.1 Company Overview
9.2.2 Financial Analysis
9.2.3 Segmental and Regional Analysis
9.2.4 Research & Development Expense
9.2.5 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.2.5.1 Acquisitions and Mergers:
9.2.5.2 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
9.2.6 SWOT Analysis
9.3 SAP SE
9.3.1 Company Overview
9.3.2 Financial Analysis
9.3.3 Segmental and Regional Analysis
9.3.4 Research & Development Expense
9.3.5 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.3.5.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.3.5.2 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
9.3.6 SWOT Analysis
9.4 Workday, Inc.
9.4.1 Company Overview
9.4.2 Financial Analysis
9.4.3 Regional Analysis
9.4.1 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.4.1.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.4.1.2 Acquisitions and Merger:
9.5 Infor, Inc. (Koch Industries)
9.5.1 Company Overview
9.5.2 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.5.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.6 Brainvire Infotech, Inc.
9.6.1 Company Overview
9.6.2 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.6.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.6.2.2 Geographical Expansions:
9.7 Serosoft Solutions Pvt Ltd. (The Hindustan Group)
9.7.1 Company Overview
9.8 Unit4 N.V. (Advent International)
9.8.1 Company Overview
9.8.2 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.8.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.8.2.2 Acquisitions and Mergers:
9.8.2.3 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
9.9 Ellucian Company L.P.
9.9.1 Company Overview
9.9.2 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.9.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.9.2.2 Acquisitions and Mergers:
9.9.2.3 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
9.10. Jenzabar, Inc.
9.10.1 Company Overview
9.10.2 Recent Strategies and developments:
9.10.2.1 Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:
9.10.2.2 Product Launches and Product Expansions:
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NASSAU, Bahamas, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- There's no better time to visit The Bahamas than during the winter. As temperatures drop in much of the world, the sun keeps shining brightly on the archipelago. And throughout 2023, travellers can join in on celebrations marking 50 years of Independence, complete with larger-than-life Junkanoo festivities, special hotel deals and endless opportunities to explore the sun, sand and sea.
Junkanoo Celebrations Returned to Nassau — After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, The Bahamas' cultural festival made its highly anticipated return to Nassau's Bay Street in December, selling more than 2,500 tickets for its Boxing Day (26 Dec.) and New Year's (2 Jan.) celebrations. Events will continue throughout the Out Islands in January with Junkanoo festivals in The Exumas (6 Jan.) and on Cat Island (10 Jan.).
Hidden Worlds and The Bahamas Debut an Immersive Miami Dining Experience — Hidden Worlds, a company known for its immersive events, returns to Miami in partnership with The Islands of The Bahamas to host a 13-day dining pop-up that merges art, entertainment and conservation efforts. Tickets for "Our Ocean, Our World," which takes place from 15 Feb. to 4 Mar. 2023, are now available for purchase. Part of the proceeds of the event, which is meant to increase awareness for ocean conservation, will benefit Beneath the Waves, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the ocean's ecosystems.
JetBlue to Launch Daily Flights from New York City to Nassau — Beginning in spring 2023, New Yorkers will be able to quickly and easily reach the white sand beaches of The Bahamas with nonstop daily flights on JetBlue from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA).
A New International Airport Opened on The Berry Islands — On 16 Dec., The Bahamas officially opened its newest international airport, Great Harbour Cay Airport on The Berry Islands. Air carriers Aztec Airways, Tropic Ocean Airways and Makers Air all offer flights from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Bahamas Recognized Across USA TODAY 10Best Reader's Choice Awards 2023 — The Islands of The Bahamas scored nine accolades in USA TODAY 10Best Reader's Choice Awards 2023. Honours include "Best Caribbean Attraction" and "Best Caribbean Beach" which were designated to Lucayan National Park (#7) and Tropic of Cancer Beach (#5), respectively.
Four of The Bahamas' Digital Campaigns Win Platinum Viddy Awards — The Bahamas won Platinum Viddy Awards for the following four digital tourism campaigns: Lady of the Pineapple Fields, Fly Away, Secrets of the West End, and Welcome to Cat Island.
For a complete list of deals and discounted packages in The Bahamas, visit www.bahamas.com/deals-packages.
Bundle Up Savings This Winter With Flight and Accommodation Deals From Vacation Express — In partnership with Vacation Express, travellers flying from Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island (FPO) this January, can book a three-night vacation package starting at $699. The package includes round-trip airfare and accommodations at the all-inclusive Lighthouse Pointe at Grand Lucayan.
Winter Deal from the U.S. and Canada only for U.S. and Canada Residents Travelling to the Out Islands — Pre-book a 4-night or longer stay at a participating Out Islands property and receive a $250 air credit. The promotion is available to book now through 31 Jan. 2023 for travel until 31 Aug. 2023. Blackout dates and terms apply.
Celebrate The Ocean Club's 60th Anniversary in Style — The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas, is commemorating its 60th anniversary from 10 – 12 Feb. 2023. To join in on the celebrations, guests can book the "Diamond Anniversary Celebration Package," which includes one night at the resort as well as tickets to the "Diamonds are Forever" dinner reception, themed after the resort's 007 James Bond legacy. For pricing and more information, guests can reach out to the reservations team at reservations.oceanclub@fourseasons.com
Join Atlantis Paradise Island's 25-Year Celebrations for a 25% Discount — In celebration of Atlantis Paradise Island's 25th anniversary, the resort is offering guests at The Coral, The Royal, and The Reef up to 25% off a 5+ night stay. The booking window is from 1 – 25 Jan. 2023 for travel through 15 Dec. 2023.
The Bahamas has over 700 islands and cays, as well as 16 unique island destinations. Located only 50 miles off the coast of Florida, it offers a quick and easy way for travellers to escape their everyday. The island nation also boasts world-class fishing, diving, boating and thousands of miles of the Earth's most spectacular beaches for families, couples and adventurers to explore. See why It's Better in The Bahamas at www.bahamas.com or on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram.
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The Commerce Department is tightening export controls to limit China's ability to get advanced computing chips, develop and maintain supercomputers, and make advanced semiconductors.
The department said Friday that its updated export controls are focusing on these areas because China can use the chips, supercomputers and semiconductors to create advanced military systems including weapons of mass destruction; commit human rights abuses and improve the speed and accuracy of its military decision making, planning, and logistics.
Commerce said the updates are part of ongoing efforts to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
“The threat environment is always changing, and we are updating our policies today to make sure we’re addressing the challenges posed by (China) while we continue our outreach and coordination with allies and partners,” Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez said in a statement.
Commerce said it consulted with close allies and partners on its control efforts.
Thursday, at an event in upstate New York, President Biden predicted a $20 billion investment by IBM in New York’s Hudson River Valley will help give the United States a technological edge against China. The investment is spurred by this summer’s passage of a $280 billion measure intended to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research. That legislation was needed for national and economic security, Biden said in Poughkeepsie, adding that “the Chinese Communist Party actively lobbied against” it.
Tensions have been rising between the U.S. and China over technology and security. Last month the Chinese government called on Washington to repeal its technology export curbs after California-based chip designer Nvidia said a new product might be delayed and some work might be moved out of China.
Washington has tightened controls and lobbied allies to limit Chinese access to the most advanced chips and tools to develop its own. China is spending heavily to develop its fledgling producers but so far cannot make high-end chips used in the most advanced smartphones and other devices.
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April 17, 1943-October 11, 2022
WAVERLY-Gary Donald Duneman of Waverly, Iowa died on October 11, 2022 of complications from cancer. Gary was born April 17, 1943 in Cresco, Iowa and raised on a farm by parents Donald and Ruth (Aberg) Duneman along with siblings LaVonne, Dennis, and Duane. He graduated from Crestwood High in 1961 and Iowa State University in 1965.
After graduation, Gary joined the US Navy as an Ensign and was assigned to the USS Biddle. He was honorably discharged in 1967. While in the Navy he met his future wife, Nancy Lamontagne, a nursing student from Brownville Junction, Maine.
Gary began his teaching career in New Hampshire and on April 20, 1968 he was married to Nancy. They had three children Eric, Jeff, and Kevin and in 1973 moved to Waverly where he taught for 29 years, retiring in 2002.
Gary loved travel, hiking, and philosophical conversations. He visited numerous countries and took dozens of trips across the United States, instilling that sense of adventure in his children.
Gary is survived by his wife, three sons and their partners, and five grandchildren. A memorial service will take place next year. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa or your favorite charity.
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Norfolk Southern sued by widow of conductor trainee killed in Alabama railway accident
The wife of a Norfolk Southern employee killed late last year in a railway accident in Bessemer, Alabama, has sued the embattled rail giant for negligence that resulted in his wrongful death.
Walter James Griffin III, 43, was working as a conductor trainee along with a conductor inside the cab of a Norfolk Southern train on Dec. 13, 2022, when a metal beam protruding from the car of another train crashed through the window, striking them both. Griffin was killed while the conductor was seriously injured.
A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the train on which Griffin and the conductor were traveling passed a stationary train on an adjacent track, and an angle iron that had been welded to a gondola car hooked to the other train had broken loose. The hanging, broken angle iron pierced the left front-door window of the train in which Griffin was riding.
Griffin's widow, Sherita Fields, filed suit in Alabama against Norfolk Southern, along with U.S. Pipe Fabrication LLC and one of U.S. Pipe's employees. According to the lawsuit, Griffin was his family's primary wage earner, and he leaves behind one child who is a minor.
Norfolk Southern did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment on the lawsuit, but it said in an earlier statement following Griffin's death that the company was "grieving the loss of a member of our team" and "our hearts go out to his loved ones during this extremely difficult time."
The lawsuit adds to Norfolk Southern's mounting legal troubles.
The rail freight behemoth has been hit with multiple class-action lawsuits from residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed on Feb. 3 in the town, causing untold environmental damage.
More than 1,000 people were evacuated immediately following the spill, with many reporting health concerns.
On Tuesday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the East Palestine derailment, looking to hold the railway company responsible for the disaster.
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Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw has apologized for the derailment and vowed to make things right with the community, pledging that the company – which has set up a family assistance center in East Palestine to help families affected by the disaster – is committed to cleaning up the area affected by the spill.
So far, Norfolk Southern has paid out more than $20 million in reimbursements and investments for residents, Shaw told a Senate committee last week, calling the payouts a "down payment."
In response to Yost's lawsuit, Norfolk Southern issued a statement that addressed several of the concerns in his complaint and noted that company officials had met with the attorney general this week "to discuss three additional programs we plan to develop in conjunction with his office and other community leaders and stakeholders."
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In the statement, Norfolk Southern committed to setting up a long-term medical compensation fund for East Palestine residents, making investments to bolster the local economy and "provide tailored protection for home sellers if their property loses value due to the impact of the derailment" and take action to protect the area's drinking water over the long term.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador Wednesday after Moscow’s diplomatic mission in Stockholm said the Scandinavian country would become a “legitimate target for Russia’s retaliatory measures” if it joined NATO.
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström called the statement posted on the Russian Embassy’s website an ”obvious attempt at influence.” Sweden’s security policy is determined by its government and no one else, he told Swedish news agency TT.
It’s unclear if or when the Russian ambassador will appear at the Foreign Ministry.
Sweden and neighboring Finland jointly applied for NATO membership in May 2022, abandoning decades of non-alignment in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Approval of Sweden’s bid has stalled due to opposition from Turkey and Hungary.
The Turkish government has accused Sweden of being too soft on groups that it deems to be terror organizations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara needs further assurances before it will give its final approval.
Asked about Sweden’s NATO membership on Wednesday, Erdogan told reporters: “There are certain things we expect of them. They must be fulfilled first.”
On Monday, Hungarian lawmakers ratified Finland’s request to join NATO, but it remained unclear when they ratify Sweden’s accession to the Western military alliance.
Members of Hungary’s governing party said they would wait for the government in Stockholm to clear up lingering disagreements before scheduling a vote in parliament.
The Hungarian government alleges that some Swedish politicians have made derisive statements about the condition of Hungary’s democracy and played an active role in ensuring that billions in European Union funds were frozen over alleged rule-of-law and democracy violations.
Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson said it was up to Hungary and Turkey to make their decisions.
“We think it would make sense to have us in the alliance because we think we have assets and capabilities to make NATO stronger,” Jonson said at a London news conference with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
NATO requires the unanimous approval of its 30 existing members to take in new countries.
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The field of declared and prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidates on Thursday decried the indictment of former President Donald Trump on criminal charges for his alleged role in organizing hush money payments made to an adult film star during his 2016 campaign.
Trump is one of a handful of declared GOP candidates running for the White House in 2024, with several others mulling a bid of their own.
Here’s what those other Republicans had to say about Trump’s indictment.
Ron DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, perhaps Trump’s most formidable possible challenger in the 2024 race, called Trump’s indictment “un-American” and said the state would not assist in any extradition request. He did not mention Trump by name.
The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis, who is seen as Trump’s top rival in a potential 2024 GOP primary, tweeted after news of the indictment broke.
“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent,” DeSantis continued, adding that Florida would not assist in an extradition request “given the questionable circumstances at issue.”
Trump is a Florida resident, but his attorneys have indicated he will turn himself in. He is scheduled to be arraigned next week.
DeSantis has not declared his candidacy, but is expected to do so in the coming months.
A Fox News poll published Wednesday showed Trump drawing 54 percent in a GOP primary field, with DeSantis next closest at 24 percent.
Nikki Haley
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has declared her 2024 candidacy, posted on Twitter that the case is “more about revenge than it is about justice,” linking back to a Fox News interview she conducted last week.
“From everything I’ve seen from this New York district attorney, this is something he’d be doing for political points,” Haley said in the clip. “And I think what we know is when you get into political prosecutions like this it’s more about revenge than it is about justice, and I think the country would be better off talking about things the American public cares about.”
Haley also previously served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.
She launched her campaign in February and has focused largely on what she says is the need for a new generation of leadership in the Republican Party.
Mike Pence
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called a Manhattan grand jury’s decision to indict former President Trump an “outrage.”
“The unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage,” Pence said on CNN. “And it appears to millions of Americans to be nothing more than a political prosecution that’s driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president.”
Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether Trump should be disqualified from being the 2024 presidential nominee or drop out of the race, Pence said “it’s a long way to that decision.”
“I promise to answer that question if that approaches,” Pence said, adding that he did not want to talk about “hypotheticals.”
Sen. Tim Scott
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who’s also been widely been floated as a 2024 challenger, slammed Trump’s indictment in a statement saying, “this pro-criminal New York DA has failed to uphold the law for violent criminals, yet weaponized the law against political enemies.”
“This is a travesty and it should not be happening in the greatest country on Earth. The presumption of innocence is central to our legal system, yet is selectively discarded by those on the far left today,” he said. “As I travel the country, I hear from families starving for truth. They’re starving for hope.”
“They want the rules to apply to everyone,” the South Carolina Republican added.
Asa Hutchinson
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R ) urged caution in reacting to the news, but called it a “dark day” for the country.
“It is a dark day for America when a former President is indicted on criminal charges. While the grand jury found credible facts to support the charges, it is important that the presumption of innocence follows Mr. Trump,” Hutchinson said in a statement.
“We need to wait on the facts and for our American system of justice to work like it does for thousands of Americans every day,” he continued “Finally, it is essential that the decision on America’s next President be made at the ballot box and not in the court system. Donald Trump should not be the next President, but that should be decided by the voters.”
Hutchinson has been critical of the former president in the past, calling a Trump 2024 bid a “worst case scenario.”
Glenn Youngkin
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R ) echoed many of his fellow Republicans in reacting to the news, calling the move to indict Trump politicized.
“It is beyond belief that District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted a former President and current presidential candidate for pure political gain. Arresting a presidential candidate on a manufactured basis should not happen in America,” Youngkin wrote on Twitter.
“The left’s continued attempts to weaponize our judicial system erode people’s faith in the American justice system and it needs to stop,” he added.
It is unclear whether Youngkin will launch a presidential bid, however he has been floated by many in the GOP as a potential contender.
Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former secretary of State and CIA director, who has traveled to early primary states as he mulls a 2024 bid, did not mention the former president at all in his statement, instead focusing his ire on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The Manhattan DA is undermining America’s confidence in our legal system,” Pompeo posted on Twitter. “Bragg is the same Soros-funded prosecutor who refuses to prosecute violent crimes and who has downgraded more than half of all felonies to misdemeanors.”
“Prosecuting serious crimes keeps Americans safe, but political prosecutions put the American legal system at risk of being viewed as a tool for abuse,” Pompeo continued. “DA Bragg – spend taxpayers’ money and your energy protecting law-abiding citizens. Not playing politics.”
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and declared 2024 candidate, called the charges against Trump “politically motivated” and warned it could accelerate political polarization across the country.
“This is wrong. This is dangerous. We’re skating on thin ice as a country right now. I think we may be headed on our way to a national divorce,” Ramaswamy said in a video posted on social media.
He suggested that competitors in the 2024 GOP primary field should come together and make it clear that it should be up to the voters to decide who the party’s nominee is in 2024.
Ramaswamy called on those who may want to protest to “do it peacefully and do it lawfully.” The comments came after Trump earlier this month urged supporters to protest a potential indictment and later warned if charges were filed, it would bring “death and destruction.”
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Right to Work Proposal Attacks Workers, State Constitution
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With one week to go until Election Day, Teamsters across Tennessee are ferociously opposing Amendment 1, which would enshrine so-called "right to work" into the state constitution.
"The more people learn about Amendment 1 and what it actually means, the more uncomfortable they are with it," said Wes Trotterchaud, President of Teamsters Local 519 in Knoxville. "Our members, whether Republican or Democrat, are turned off by what the General Assembly tried to do in referring Amendment 1 to the ballot."
As Teamsters and labor allies make their final pitch to voters on why Amendment 1 needs to be rejected, there are recent signs that support for Amendment 1 may be faltering among registered voters. A January poll had support for Amendment 1 at 64 percent, followed by an early October poll with support at 58 percent. Finally, a recent poll showed support falling to 44 percent. The trend line across the surveys shows that the number of undecided voters on the issue has increased from 18 percent in January to 38 percent in late October.
In addition to the proposed amendment being harmful to workers, its recent drop in support coincides with Brian Kelsey, the lead sponsor of the amendment referral in the Tennessee Legislature, pleading guilty to multiple campaign finance-related crimes.
"Workers are paid less, receive fewer benefits on the job, and suffer much higher risk of workplace death in states that have laws like Amendment 1 — that's a fact," said Lendon Grisham, President of Teamsters Local 480 and Teamsters Joint Council 87 in Nashville. "Working people have had enough and are standing up to say, 'Keep your damn hands off our constitution!'"
Tennessee has been a right-to-work state since 1947. While defeating Amendment 1 would not change any existing law in the state, the Teamsters are using this opportunity to educate union members and the general public about the ugly history of right to work.
"The architect of right to work, Vance Muse, was a famous segregationist," said James E. Jones, President of Teamsters Local 667 in Memphis. "Throughout the 1940s, he presented right to work as a way to keep white and black workers out of the same organization. With our local union based in the city where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, we are constantly reminded of Dr. King's opposition to right to work and his support for Memphis and Tennessee's workers."
Pathetically, Amendment 1 is being backed by the current Tennessee governor, both of the state's sitting U.S. senators, and most of the Tennessee political establishment. But the Teamsters and labor allies are relentlessly traveling the entire state to properly educate union and non-union workers and their families about the true dangers of Amendment 1. Teamster volunteers are making phone calls, visiting worksites, sending text messages, and speaking one-on-one with voters.
"We've got an uphill battle, but so what? That's the story of the entire American labor movement," said Joe Bennett, President of Teamsters Local 327 in Nashville. "Win or lose, Tennessee Teamsters will never stop fighting to protect workers. We have to take it to the streets, stay organized, and remain energized. That's how we all win together in the end."
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LAS VEGAS — Police in Las Vegas said Monday they’re investigating allegations that a fan in the stands struck Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray amid celebrations of Arizona’s 29-23 overtime victory over the Raiders.
Murray was high-fiving front-row spectators at Allegiant Stadium following Byron Murphy Jr.’s game-ending fumble return on Sunday when a man appeared to reach out and smack Murray in the face with an open hand.
Video showed Murray appear stunned, but not injured, then attempted to identify the attacker in the mostly happy crowd.
Officer Larry Hadfield, a Las Vegas police spokesman, confirmed that a battery complaint was made about 6:30 p.m. at the stadium. The report was not immediately available.
Hadfield did not name Murray as the reporting person, but confirmed the allegation was that “a spectator at the stadium struck a professional football player.”
Hadfield said a suspect was not immediately identified and an investigation was ongoing.
Cardinals spokesman Mark Dalton declined to comment Monday.
Murray had an outstanding game, leading the Cardinals (1-1) to two touchdowns and two 2-point conversions in the final 8:13 of regulation to force overtime.
The victory was Arizona’s first since Murray agreed to a $230.5 million, five-year contract extension. He was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft after winning the Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma in 2018.
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SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday, including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended monthslong stay.
The Falcon rocket bolted from Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight, illuminating the night sky as it headed up the East Coast.
Nearly 80 spectators from the United Arab Emirates watched from the launch site as astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi — only the second Emirati to fly to space — blasted off on his six-month mission.
Half a world away in Dubai and elsewhere across the UAE, schools and offices planned to broadcast the launch live.
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Also riding the Dragon capsule that's due at the space station on Friday: NASA’s Stephen Bowen, a retired Navy submariner who logged three space shuttle flights, and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, a former research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and space newbie, and Andrei Fedyaev, a space rookie who’s retired from the Russian Air Force.
“Welcome to orbit,” SpaceX Launch Control radioed, noting liftoff occurred four years to the day after the capsule's first orbital test flight. “If you enjoyed your ride, please don't forget to give us five stars."
The first attempt to launch them was called off Monday at the last minute because of a clogged filter in the engine ignition system.
“It may have taken two times, but it was worth the trip,” Bowen said.
They will replace a U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew that has been up there since October. The other station residents are two Russians and an American whose six-month stay was doubled, until September, after their Soyuz capsule sprang a leak. A replacement Soyuz arrived last weekend.
Al-Neyadi, a communications engineer, served as backup for the first Emirati astronaut, Hazzaa al-Mansoori, who rode a Russian rocket to the space station in 2019 for a weeklong visit. The oil-rich federation paid for al-Neyadi's seat on the SpaceX flight.
He thanked everyone in Arabic and then English once reaching orbit. “Launch was incredible. Amazing,” he said.
The UAE’s minister for public education and advanced technology, Sarah al-Amiri, said the long mission “provides us a new venue for science and scientific discovery for the country.”
“We don’t want to just go to space and then not have much to do there or not have impact," said the director general of the UAE's space center in Dubai, Salem al-Marri.
The Emirates already have a spacecraft orbiting Mars, and a mini rover is hitching a ride to the moon on a Japanese lander. Two new UAE astronauts are training with NASA's latest astronaut picks in Houston.
Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman was the first Arab in space, launching aboard shuttle Discovery in 1985. He was followed two years later by Syrian astronaut Muhammed Faris, launched by Russia. Both were in space for about a week.
Al-Neyadi will be joined this spring by two Saudi astronauts going to the space station on a short private SpaceX flight paid by their government.
“It’s going to be really exciting, really interesting” to have three Arabs in space at once, he said last week. “Our region is also thirsty to learn more.”
He’s taking up lots of dates to share with his crewmates, especially during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month which begins this month. As for observing Ramadan in orbit, he said fasting isn’t compulsory since it could make him weak and jeopardize his mission.
Bowen, the crew's leader, said the four have jelled well as a team despite differences between their countries. Even with the tension over the war in Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia have continued to work together on the space station and trade seats on rides there.
“It's just tremendous to have the opportunity to fly with these guys," Bowen said.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pope Francis plunged into both sides of Russia's war with Ukraine on Saturday, greeting some of the 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled across the border to Hungary during a public prayer service and then meeting privately with an envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church that has strongly supported the war.
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Francis maintained the Vatican's tradition of diplomatic neutrality during his second day in Budapest, where he's on a weekend visit to minister to Hungary's Catholic faithful.
Starting the day, he thanked Hungarians for welcoming Ukrainian refugees and urged them to help anyone in need. He called for a culture of charity in a country where the prime minister has justified firm anti-immigration policies with fears that migration threatens Europe’s Christian culture.
Speaking in the white-brick St. Elizabeth's church, named for a princess who renounced her wealth to care for the poor, Francis recalled that the Gospel instructs Christians to show love and compassion to all, especially those experiencing poverty and “even those who are not believers.”
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“The love that Jesus gives us and commands us to practice can help to uproot the evils of indifference and selfishness from society, from our cities and the places where we live — indifference is a plague —- and to rekindle hope for a new, more just and fraternal world, where all can feel at home,” he said.
Hungary’s nationalist government has implemented firm anti-immigration policies and refused to accept many asylum-seekers trying to enter the country through its southern border, leading to prolonged legal disputes with the European Union.
The conservative populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said that migration threatens to replace Europe’s Christian culture. Orbán, who has held office since 2010, has hinged multiple election campaigns on the threats he alleges that migrants and refugees pose to Hungarians.
While Orbán's government has consistently rejected asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Africa, around 2.5 million Ukrainians fleeing war in their country found open doors. Around 35,000 of the refugees remain in Hungary and have registered for temporary protection there, according to the U.N.
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One who has chosen to stay was Olesia Misiats, a nurse who worked in a Kyiv COVID-19 hospital when she fled with her mother and two daughters on Feb. 24, 2022 — the day Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
First she went to the Netherlands, but high costs compelled her to move to Hungary, where she said she has found an apartment and given birth to her third daughter, Mila, who was in the pews Saturday with her mother and sister.
“Here it's safe,” Misiats said of her new life. She said that she hopes to return to Kyiv one day, but for now she and her children are adapting. “I want to go back home. There it’s my life — it was my life,” she said. “But the war changed my life.”
Immediately after greeting and encouraging the refugees, Francis visited the Greek Catholic church next door, which has been providing aid to refugees. And then he met with the Russian Orthodox Church’s representative in Hungary, Metropolitan Hilarion, who developed close relations with the Vatican during his years as the Russian church's foreign minister. The Vatican said the 20-minute meeting at the Holy See’s embassy in Budapest was “cordial.”
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The Russian church’s strong support for the Kremlin’s war has rankled the Vatican and prevented a second papal meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Francis and Kirill had a 2016 encounter in Cuba that marked the first between a pope and the head of the Russian church. They had planned a second one in June, but the meeting has been indefinitely postponed over Kirill's support for the war.
In a statement, Hilarion's office said that he briefed Francis on the social and educational activities of the Russian church in Hungary and its relations with the Catholic Church here. He said that he gave the pope an Italian translation of a six-volume opus on the life of Christ.
Francis' visit to Hungary, his second in as many years, is bringing him as close as he's come to the front lines of the war. Upon arriving in Budapest on Friday, he denounced the “adolescent belligerence” that had brought war back to European soil and demanded the EU recover its values of peaceful unity to end it.
There were conspicuously few people of color in the pews of St. Elizabeth's church. Among them was artist and filmmaker Abouzar Soltani, a refugee from Iran who spent 553 days in one of Hungary’s transit zones with his 10-year-old son, Armin, after Hungarian authorities rejected their asylum claims in 2018.
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Soltani later said of their 18 months staying in container shelters that they felt like “fish in an aquarium.” When a European court decision closed the transit zones, Soltani opted to remain in Hungary, where he still lives.
At the end of the event, a band of Hungarian Roma musicians serenaded the pontiff, drawing a standing ovation and cheers from the crowd and a thumbs-up from Francis.
Francis started his Saturday visiting with children who have visual and physical disabilities. In the afternoon, he had his first big public event in Hungary, a youth rally at the city’s sports stadium where he was given a singularly Hungarian gift: A Rubik's Cube, the colorful puzzle invented by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik.
In an event staged like a rock concert, Francis jazzed up the crowd riding around in a mini golf cart-like vehicle. And he repeated his frequent appeal to young people to put aside their cellphones and get back to socializing face-to-face: “Please don't virtualize your lives,” he said to laughs.
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Francis wraps up his visit with an open-air Mass on Sunday and speech at Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monkeypox is an increasing worldwide problem recently declared a public health emergency in the United States. Among classical symptoms that include fever, muscle aches, lymph node swelling and rash are oral lesions present in up to 70% of cases.
"This disease is not as easily transmitted as COVID 19," said Dr. Jeffrey Jahre, St. Luke's senior vice president of Medical and Academic Affairs and section chief emeritus of Infectious Diseases. "Early recognition by all healthcare providers including dentists can potentially bring the spread of this disease to a halt."
Dr. Jahre said St. Luke's is calling on the dental community to be alert for monkeypox because Network doctors have begun seeing oral monkeypox symptoms.
The American Dental Association has said that the standard infection control precautions used by dentists for decades, including the enhanced protocols that have been implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to keep both patients and staff safe during the monkeypox emergency.
Monkeypox is transmitted most commonly through direct contact with body fluids or lesions of the body of someone who has the disease. Less commonly it can also spread through materials that have touched these skin lesions or sores. Close contact with respiratory droplet secretions may be another uncommon mode of spread though the exact frequency is unknown.
"It is very important at this time that oral care programs, such those that train dental hygienists and other dental professionals, are aware of and alert to oral monkeypox symptomology and understand how to handle cases," said Dr. Wayne Saunders, DMD, Chief of St. Luke's Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.
The facial lesions can vary in number and location including lips and can be papules, pustules, clear vesicles, or open sores with or without scab formation. The intraoral lesions are equally diverse and could be present anywhere in the mouth including gums, tongue, cheeks, palate and throat. These lesions can resemble other well-known conditions such as cold sores (herpes simplex), canker sores, lesions of hand-foot-mouth disease, or trauma.
A search of a Google images of monkeypox facial and oral lesions can provide a useful guide.
The importance of taking into consideration patients' medical history to try and ascertain the etiology cannot be over emphasized. Currently more than 95% of the monkeypox cases involve men who have sexual relations with men who have multiple sexual partners. However, the disease is expanding beyond this group, so symptoms in others cannot be ignored.
When suspicious lesions are present, the patient can be referred to primary care providers or urgent care centers for conclusive testing, advised Dr. Saunders.
Founded in 1872, St. Luke's University Health Network is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 18,000 employees providing services at 14 campuses and 300+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $3 billion, the Network's service area includes 11 counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke's is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.
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A bill in Idaho would make it a crime for an adult to aid a minor in undergoing an abortion or obtaining abortion pills across state lines with the intent to conceal their purpose from the minor’s parents or legal guardian.
Idaho House Bill 242 calls the crime “abortion trafficking,” and adults convicted of obtaining abortion pills or of “recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor” for a procedure across state lines and without parental consent would face up to five years in prison, according to the bill text.
Idaho borders several states where abortion is legal, including Oregon, Washington, Montana and California. Oregon’s Department of Justice launched a legal helpline for abortion access earlier this year, which the state’s Attorney General noted as important “because we share a border with Idaho, which has a near-total abortion ban.”
The proposal passed the Idaho House and is now before the state Senate. If it passes the GOP-majority chamber, it would head to Republican Gov. Brad Little’s desk for signature.
The bill would add to Idaho’s abortion laws, already some of the most restrictive in the country.
It’s among a number of states that moved to ramp up abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last summer, turning the regulation of abortion over to the states. Earlier this year, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld several abortion restrictions, green-lighting a near-total abortion ban, a bar against abortions after the detection of electrical activity and a provision allowing family members of the fetus to sue for damages.
“Imagine receiving a prison sentence for helping a young family member in need travel out of state to get an abortion. Anti-abortion politicians in ID are about to make this a reality,” Planned Parenthood Action said on Twitter Wednesday, urging opposition to the bill.
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OPELOUSAS, La., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This Mardi Gras season, swap out sweet for savory with this king cake. Tony Chachere's Boudin King Cake is filled with juicy pork and topped with a creamy and cheesy crawfish sauce.
BOUDIN KING CAKE
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INGREDIENTS
1 Pound Pork Shoulder, Cut into 2-Inch Chunks
¼ Pound Liver, Skinned and Deveined
½ Onion, Chopped
½ Bell Pepper, Chopped
1 Celery Rib, Chopped
1 Jalapeño Pepper, Chopped
8 Cloves Garlic, Chopped
Water, Enough to Cover Ingredients
1 Cup Green Onion, Chopped
1 Box Tony's Dirty Rice Dinner Mix
3 Tablespoons Tony's More Spice Seasoning
1 Tablespoon Tony's Pepper Sauce (Optional)
Cheese Sauce Topping:
10 Ounces Queso Dip
2 Sweet Red Peppers, Chopped
2 Cloves Garlic, Minced
6 Ounces Crawfish Tails, Peeled and Deveined
4 Slices Bacon
Tony's More Spice Seasoning, to Taste
Additional Ingredients:
1 Package Grand Crescent Rolls
5 Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks
Green Onion for Garnish
PREPARATION
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 90 Minutes
Serves: 5-6
- In a pressure cooker, add onions, bell peppers, celery, jalapeños, garlic, pork shoulder, liver, Tony's More Spice Seasoning and water. Pressure cook on high for 1 hour then remove the meat from the pot and strain the liquid. Place all aside.
- In the empty pressure cooker, add Tony's Dirty Rice Dinner Mix. Pour 2 ¼ cups of the reserved liquid into the pot and pressure cook the rice according to your specific cooker.
- Chop or grind the meat and vegetables until fine. Add to a large bowl along with the rice mix, green onions, pepper sauce (optional), and 1 ½ cups of the reserved liquid. Mix with your hands until well combined and allow to cool for a few minutes to soak everything up.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lay out the crescent roll dough in an overlapping circle and place the filling around the top with the pepper jack cheese sticks in a circle.
- Fold the crescent rolls inwards to form the king cake and bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.
- Create your cheese sauce topping in a saucepan by cooking bacon until crispy. Remove, crumble and set aside.
- Leaving about 1 tablespoon of bacon fat in the pan, add in the sweet red peppers and sauté for 3 minutes.
- Add in the garlic and cook for another 30 seconds.
- Add in the crawfish tails, season to taste with Tony's More Spice, and then add in the queso dip.
- Once melted, pour the cheese sauce directly on top of the cake and sprinkle it with bacon crumbles and green onions. Enjoy!
About Tony Chachere's®
For more than 50 years, Tony Chachere's® Famous Creole Cuisine has been bringing flavor to tables across the country and the world. Established in 1972 by Tony Chachere, the "Ole Master" of Creole cooking, Tony's remains family-owned and operated in Opelousas, Louisiana. Employing more than 100 people, the family maintains a tradition of Creole authenticity in its comprehensive line of seasonings, dinner mixes, marinades, salad dressings and more.
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(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has just survived his biggest ever challenge – but has largely remained out of the spotlight since then.
The long-time Russian leader has not addressed his country since delivering a somber speech on Saturday morning, at the height of an insurrection led by his former ally and owner of Wagner paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Prigozhin was also nowhere to be seen. The head of the private military group was last seen leaving the southern city of Rostov-on-Don late on Saturday, after abruptly calling off his troops’ march on Moscow.
Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov insisted on Saturday that the president was “working at the Kremlin,” but there’s been no clear information about his whereabouts since then.
A pre-recorded video of Putin addressing the “International Youth Industrial Forum” from behind a nondescript desk flanked by Russian flags was released by the Kremlin on Monday, but there was no information about when or where the clip was filmed. In the short video, Putin doesn’t make any mention of the events of the past weekend, focusing instead on the forum.
The Kremlin also released two statements saying Putin held phone calls on Monday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. The statements didn’t specify Putin’s location. Iran and Qatar both separately confirmed the phone calls.
The press service of Prigozhin’s Concord management company said on Sunday the Wagner chief “sends his regards to everyone and will answer questions when he has proper communication.”
The Kremlin has claimed that Prigozhin agreed to leave Russia under a Minsk-brokered deal that would reportedly see him enter into exile in Belarus without facing criminal charges for the rebellion.
Prigozhin, however, has not acknowledged or commented on the reported deal. Announcing the decision to turn his forces around, Prigozhin simply said he did it to “avoid bloodshed.”
Russian state news agency TASS reported Monday that the investigation into the criminal case involving Prigozhin and his alleged involvement in organizing an armed mutiny was still active, citing a source close to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Red lines crossed
The crisis was the culmination of Prigozhin’s very public and months-long feud with Russia’s military leadership.
He had previously accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, of not giving his forces ammunition and was critical of their handling of the conflict, but he always defended the reasoning for the military campaign and steered clear of criticizing Putin himself.
But he crossed these red lines over the weekend. Late on Friday, Prigozhin accused Russia’s military leadership of killing his fighters during a strike on a Wagner camp, which the Russian Defense Ministry has denied.
Prigozhin demanded Gerasimov and Shoigu meet him in Rostov-on-Don, a key military base for Russia’s war in Ukraine. His forces then took control of military facilities in two Russian cities and began advancing towards Moscow on Saturday before turning back later in the day.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin acknowledged on Monday that the country faced a “challenge” to its internal stability.
“These days the country faced an obvious challenge, an attempt was made to destabilize the internal situation in Russia,” Mishustin said in a video meeting with cabinet members. Mishustin added that mebers of the Russian government were “at their workplaces” and commended them for their response to the threat.
“Under the leadership of the President, they acted clearly, in a coordinated manner, and maintained the stability of the situation at all levels in order to prevent the situation from worsening and protect citizens from all possible threats that might arise,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that Shoigu visited Russian troops involved in the military operation in Ukraine, although neither the ministry nor state media said when the visit took place.
Fighting continues in Ukraine
The impact of the insurrection on Russia’s war on Ukraine remains unclear – although Kyiv insisted the latest events point to Putin’s growing weakness.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Putin had his own actions to blame for the situation. “He knows what he is afraid of because he himself created this threat. All evil, all losses, all hatred – he himself who spreads it.”
Zelensky added that he had spoken with US President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Polish President Andrzej Duda.
“We have exchanged our assessments of what is happening in Russia. We see the situation in the same way and know how to respond,” Zelensky said, adding: “Russian aggression is gradually returning to its home harbor.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the events that unfolded in Russia over the weekend demonstrate that Putin made a “big strategic mistake” by launching a war on Ukraine. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the brief and chaotic insurrection showed “cracks” in Putin’s role as leader of the country.
“This is just an added chapter to a very, very bad book that Putin has written for Russia. But what’s so striking about it is, it’s internal,” Blinken told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” describing the situation as “extraordinary.”
The Ukrainian military said that fighting continued in the eastern Ukraine Donetsk region, along the front lines around Lyman, Mariinka and Bakhmut. It said the fighting was characterized by heavy exchanges of indirect fire but little movement. It also said Russian air attacks continued throughout the weekend and into Monday.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday it had intercepted 13 air attacks overnight.
However, the Ukrainians said they were on the front foot around Bakhmut, with the spokesperson for the Eastern Grouping of the Armed Forces, Serhii Cherevatyi, saying Ukrainian troops “hold the initiative, continue assault operations and push the enemy back.”
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky said the agency did not properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and vowed to make changes.
According to the New York Times, a CDC report found that the agency’s COVID-19 guidance was considered “confusing and overwhelming.”
“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” Walensky said in a statement to the New York Times. “My goal is a new, public health, action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness.”
Walensky’s statement comes less than a week after the CDC issued new COVID-19 guidance, which still emphasizes mask-wearing in areas of high COVID-19 spread. But the new guidance now recommends that those who are a direct contact of someone with COVID-19 simply wear a mask in public for 10 days instead of quarantining.
Walensky’s organization is also encountering increasing monkeypox cases and the possible reemergence of polio in the New York City area.
The U.S. ranks among the worst countries for COVID-19 deaths with 315 coronavirus deaths per 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Canada had 113 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people and Mexico had 257 deaths per 100,000.
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — An investigation by Brigham Young University into allegations that fans engaged in racial heckling and uttered racial slurs at a Duke volleyball player last month found no evidence to support the claim.
BYU issued the results of its investigation into the Aug. 26 match on Friday, reiterating it will not tolerate conduct threatening any student-athlete.
The school said it reached out to more than 50 people who attended the event, including athletic department personnel and student-athletes from both schools, event security and management and fans who were in the arena. It also reviewed audio and video recordings and raw footage from the match.
As a result of the investigation, the university said it has lifted a ban on a fan who was identified as directing racial slurs toward Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson during the match. It also apologized to the fan for any hardship the ban caused.
Duke athletic director Nina King issued a statement standing by Richardson and the rest of her team.
“The 18 members of the Duke University volleyball team are exceptionally strong women who represent themselves, their families, and Duke University with the utmost integrity,” she said Friday after BYU issued its statement. “We unequivocally stand with and champion them, especially when their character is called into question. Duke Athletics believes in respect, equality and inclusiveness, and we do not tolerate hate and bias.”
In the aftermath of the Aug. 26 match, South Carolina women’s basketball program canceled a home-and-home series with BYU. Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley said she did not want to put her players in the situation that she said Richardson had experienced.
The Gamecocks were scheduled to start the season at home against BYU on Nov. 7, then play at the Utah campus during the 2023-24 season.
Staley released a statement through the school Friday, standing by her earlier decision to cancel the series.
“After my personal research, I made a decision for the well-being of my team,” Staley said. “I regret that my university, my athletics director Ray Tanner and others got drawn into the criticism of a choice that I made.”
BYU said it remains committed to rooting out racism wherever it is found. The school also said it understands some will criticize their investigation as being selective in its review.
“To the contrary, we have tried to be as thorough as possible in our investigation, and we renew our invitation for anyone with evidence contrary to our findings to come forward and share it,” the school said.
Lesa Pamplin, Richardson’s godmother who initially tweeted about the claim that the player was called a racial slur, did not immediately respond Friday to an email seeking comment about BYU’s findings.
BYU is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. Race relations is one of the most sensitive issues for a faith that until 1978 banned Black church members serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples.
The Salt Lake City-based religion has worked to improve race relations, including calling out white supremacy and launching a formal alliance with the NAACP, but some Black church members and scholars say discriminatory opinions linger from a ban rooted in a belief that black skin was a curse.
The number of Black church members has increased but still only accounts for small portion of the 16 million worldwide members. Not one serves in the highest levels of global leadership.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
8-2-4-3
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Industry backs California Energy Commission targets of 2-5 GW by 2030, 25 GW by 2045 to drive economies of scale
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Energy Commission (CEC) today approved a bold set of offshore wind planning goals, as directed by the state's AB 525 law, putting California on a path to responsibly develop up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of floating offshore wind power by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045. These goals, which expand targets in an earlier report, send an important signal to industry and other state and federal agencies that California is committed to being a leader on offshore wind and moving expeditiously to strengthen and diversify its clean power portfolio.
"These goals set an ambitious course and show that California is very serious about 'going big' on floating offshore wind, to drive economies of scale and generate the very substantial clean power, climate, and jobs benefits this renewable energy resource can deliver for our state," said Adam Stern, Executive Director of Offshore Wind California (OWC), a trade group that represents the state's offshore wind industry. "Achieving 5 GW of offshore wind by 2030 will position the state to meet and even exceed its 25 GW goal by 2045. For California and offshore wind, going bigger is better."
"California is home to one of the world's best offshore wind resources in the world and I am confident that this clean, domestic source of electricity can play an important role in meeting our state's growing need for clean energy," said Governor Gavin Newsom, in remarks cited in a presentation on the offshore wind planning goals at the CEC's August 10 Business Meeting. Last month, Newsom called on the CEC to raise its offshore wind target to at least 20 GW by 2045.
"This is a moment for boldness," said David Hochschild, CEC Chair, who led the hearing in Sacramento where the CEC unanimously approved the expanded goals in the state's revised offshore wind report. "What we do here matters far more than we realize. We have a great track record of starting big things in California, of pushing the envelope and that spreading. What we're doing today on offshore wind is it yet another step in that proud journey. I fully support it."
Last September, Newsom signed the AB 525 law that directs the CEC to establish planning targets for this clean energy technology. By June 30, 2023, AB 525 also directs the CEC to work with other agencies and stakeholders to prepare a comprehensive strategic plan for offshore wind development, including transmission, port infrastructure, procurement, additional call areas, workforce development, and a sustainable supply chain. Later this fall, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) expects to begin leasing at the state's Morro Bay and Humboldt Wind Energy Areas (WEAs).
"I applaud these proposed goals of 2-5 GW by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045, which are the largest of any state in our country," said David Chiu, who was lead author of AB 525 in the State Assembly and is currently City Attorney of San Francisco. "Now is exactly the time for us to be bold and visionary and to lead. We will look back to this moment as you adopt this report with its recommended goals as a critical milestone in our efforts to combat climate change."
"The ultimate goal is to develop a thriving, world-leading floating wind industry," said Paula Major, Vice President, U.S. Offshore Wind, Mainstream Renewable Power and Board Chair, OWC. "This shows California is committed to 'going big' and moving forward—now. We're determined as an industry to work closely with state and federal agencies and other stakeholders to reach the high end of these goals, and help make California a global leader in floating offshore wind."
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimates California's technical offshore wind potential at 200 GW, with more than 20 GW in BOEM's two designated WEAs and three wind study areas. Deep West Coast waters require floating technologies already being deployed in other world markets. NREL reports developing California offshore wind at this scale would support tens of thousands of jobs, supply over 15 percent of its current electricity needs, generate enough competitively priced power for at least 7 million homes, and produce tens of billion of dollars in GDP for the state by 2050.
California's 2021 joint agency report concluded that to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2045, the state needs a diverse renewables portfolio including offshore wind. The report's 'SB 100 Core Scenario' said 10 GW of offshore wind would save ratepayers $1 billion or more in installed clean power capacity by 2045 and complement other renewables on the grid.
Offshore Wind California's board member companies include Aker Offshore Wind, BP, Equinor, Hexicon, Magellan Wind, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ørsted, Pacific Ocean Energy Trust, Principle Power, RWE, Shell and SSE Renewables.
About OWC − Offshore Wind California is a coalition of industry partners with a shared interest in promoting policies and public support for responsible development of offshore wind power in California. Its members are dedicated to providing an independent voice and industry expertise to facilitate offshore wind deployment off California's coast. OWC undertakes public education and advocacy of this renewable resource as part of a comprehensive solution to California's energy needs. OWC is a nonprofit, 501(c)(6) organization. For more information, please go to www.offshorewindCA.org. Follow us @offshorewindCA.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Tre Richardson hit two grand slams among his three home runs and tied an NCAA postseason record with 11 RBIs to lead TCU to a 20-5 rout of Arkansas on Sunday in a winner’s bracket game of the Fayetteville Regional.
Richardson hit a grand slam in the first inning and another in the second. His third home run was a two-run shot in the sixth and he added an RBI single in the ninth. He had five hits in six at-bats.
Richardson entered the game with only two home runs in his first 60 games for TCU after going deep seven times in 115 games over three seasons at Baylor.
The Horned Frogs had one other home run, a three-run shot by Brayden Taylor in the third inning.
Tavian Josenberger hit two home runs and had three RBIs for Arkansas.
The game was rescheduled from Saturday, when it was not able to start before 11 p.m. There were two lightning delays, for a total of nearly two hours, during Sunday’s game.
TCU advanced to the championship round of the regional on Monday and awaits the winner of a later matchup between Arkansas and Santa Clara.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D., director of the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture (IHA), has been named the 2023 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer in recognition of his outstanding contributions to nutrition research.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) established the Atwater Lecture as a tribute to Wilbur Olin Atwater, an influential figure in modern nutrition research and education. It goes to scientists who have made exceptional efforts in improving the diet and nutrition of people around the globe.
The prestigious award represents the latest acknowledgement of the IHA's contributions advancing research in responsive agriculture and precision nutrition and promoting a healthy diet and lifestyles.
"Dr. Stover is leading a charge toward positive impacts of nutrition and how people of the United States – and the world – consume food," said Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp. "We are proud to have him on our team at Texas A&M, in conjunction with our partnerships with the USDA-ARS, and look forward to continuing to support his vision."
His lecture, "Enhancing the Purpose of Food," will focus on agriculture, food and nutrition as a solution to challenges facing society. It will be presented at Nutrition 2023, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, July 22-25 in Boston. Past recipients have included prominent research scientists and academics.
Stover, an international leader in biochemistry, agriculture and nutrition, is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"Being named an Atwater Memorial Lecturer is so humbling, given the legacy of Dr. Atwater and those who have previously been recognized, and highlights the critical importance of the work we are doing at the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture," Stover said.
"Our research strives to create meaningful connections in agriculture, food and human health through impactful fundamental and translational research. The research holds the key to mitigating the prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases while also considering the broader environmental and economic impacts of our food systems," he said.
Stover, a former president of the American Society for Nutrition, has served two terms on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
"This award recognizes global leaders who work to improve human health through food systems. Dr. Stover's visionary creation of the IHA will advance our ability to improve health and reduce chronic disease through collaborations of responsive agriculture, precision nutrition and social and behavioral research," said Regan Bailey, Ph.D., IHA associate director for Precision Nutrition. "The IHA is the first of its kind to have such a multidisciplinary focus, and our partnerships with USDA would make Dr. Atwater proud."
Stover has more than 23 years of academic leadership experience, serving as vice chancellor and dean for agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M AgriLife, director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and director the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Saint Joseph's University, a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia and completed his postdoctoral studies in nutritional sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contact: Kendall Bassett, kendall.bassett@ag.tamu.edu, 979-314-3415
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The top-selling solar generator brand and the adventure athlete Tristan Hamm delivered a Black Series trailer to the winner of a November giveaway just in time for the holidays
FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar power product leader Jackery has made one customer's dream come true this holiday season. The company partnered with adventure athlete @Tristanhamm to deliver a state-of-the-art Black Series travel trailer with Christmas decorations to Crazy Monday Giveaway winner Sierra @drapers_est_2019.
To thank their customers for ten years of growth and success as a company, Jackery teamed up with Black Series and hosted a massive giveaway this November. One winner, in particular, captured the company's heart. The Jackery team decided to support Tristan in his journey to deliver the trailer from California to Utah so the winner could give her husband a huge surprise.
A Worthy Winner
During the giveaway event, winner Sierra @drapers_est_2019 shared her story with Tristan Hamm and the Jackery team. She wanted to gift the trailer to her husband, who is a veteran with a 100% disability rating. "He has been struggling so much," her comment read. "Knowing that he could have a place to make memories with those closest to him, out on the land, would be phenomenal."
The winning couple had planned to purchase a trailer the previous year, but a tragic job loss and a medical issue prevented them from doing so. Jackery was thrilled to be able to make their Christmas one to remember with the best gift ever.
Monumental Prizes
Jackery's customers were thrilled by the results of the live giveaway. In total, the company gave away prizes totaling $250,000 in value. Along with Sierra @drapers_est_2019, another winner took home a Black Series travel trailer. These two trailers were worth approximately $100,000 each and were equipped with everything needed to enjoy the great outdoors including a kitchen, a full washroom, and even a washing machine.
The company also awarded cashback on 10 orders, 200 gift cards, 20 membership cards, and 10 of their bestselling Explorer 300 solar generators. In total 242 customers took home one of the amazing prizes.
A Company That Gives Back
Although the giveaway seems extraordinary, Jackery has a long-established reputation as a company that shows appreciation to its customers. The record-breaking sales the company experienced during this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday events highlight the impacts of its commitment to reciprocity and gratitude.
This dedication to customer care is a key reason why the company has emerged as a global leading solar generator brand over the past decade.
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RENO, Nev., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMERCO (Nasdaq: UHAL), the parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, announced that "when-issued" trading of its new series of Series N Non-Voting Common Stock will begin tomorrow, November 9, 2022.
On October 24, 2022, the Company announced various actions effectuated by an Independent Special Committee of its Board of Directors including the creation of the new series of Series N Non-Voting Common Stock, the issuance of shares through a stock dividend on a 9-for-1 basis to all existing holders of the Company's Voting Common Stock, and a corporate name change to U-Haul Holding Company by the end of calendar year 2022.
The shares of Non-Voting Common Stock (Nasdaq: UHALB) will be distributed after the close of trading on, or about, November 9, 2022, to stockholders of record of Voting Common Stock (Nasdaq: UHAL) at the close of business on November 3, 2022. The Company anticipates trading of the 176,470,092 shares of Non-Voting Common Stock to begin on November 10, 2022.
Subsequent to the actions taken by the Independent Special Committee, the Board of Directors announced a regular dividend policy for the new class of shares of $0.04 per share per quarter.
AMERCO is the parent company of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company. U-Haul is in the shared use business and was founded on the fundamental philosophy that the division of use and specialization of ownership is good for both U-Haul customers and the environment.
AMERCO will change its name to U-Haul Holding Company by the end of calendar year 2022.
Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 offers secure access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the customer dispatch option on their smartphones and our proprietary Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 895,000 rentable storage units and 76.6 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. U-Haul has been recognized repeatedly as a leading "Best for Vets" employer and was recently named one of the 15 Healthiest Workplaces in America.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — RENO, Nev. (AP) — Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (CZR) on Tuesday reported a loss of $148 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Reno, Nevada-based company said it had a loss of 70 cents. Losses, adjusted for asset impairment costs and to extinguish debt, were 11 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 18 cents per share.
The casino and resort operator posted revenue of $2.82 billion in the period, meeting Street forecasts.
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KENNESAW, Ga., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2018, Sanho Corporation ("Sanho") began a lawsuit against KaiJet Technology International Limited, Inc. ("KaiJet"), a United States distributor of j5create® branded electronic devices. For nearly six years, KaiJet has vigorously defended itself against not only legal attacks but also Sanho's baseless social media post defaming KaiJet and the j5create® brand.
Sanho's lawsuit includes a claim that KaiJet has infringed U.S. Patent No. 10,572,429 (the "'429 Patent"). In April 2021, KaiJet filed an inter partes review petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office contesting the validity of all the '429 Patent claims that Sanho asserted against KaiJet.
KaiJet is pleased to announce that in October 2022, the Patent Office issued a final decision in the IPR finding that that KaiJet demonstrated all claims asserted against KaiJet to be invalid. Furthermore, a central argument to Sanho's defense of the '429 Patent was that its own Hyperdrive product practiced the '429 Patent, as claimed on its website (https://www.hypershop.com/pages/hyper-patents). But after careful analysis of the evidence, the Patent Office determined that Sanho "has not shown that the Hyperdrive is the invention claimed in the '429 Patent." This ruling confirmed what KaiJet has illustrated from the inception of Sanho's lawsuit—that neither Sanho's Hyperdrive nor the accused KaiJet products embody the '429 Patent claims.
Even with the PTAB's ruling, Sanho has refused to withdraw the '429 Patent from its litigation against KaiJet. In December 2022, KaiJet moved for Summary Judgment on, among other issues, Sanho's claim that KaiJet infringed the '429 Patent. KaiJet will continue to defend itself against Sanho's spurious allegations.
In May 2021, Sanho was acquired by Targus International LLC ("Targus"). Sanho has listed Targus as a real party-in-interest in its appeal of the PTAB's final written decision.
About KaiJet
KaiJet is dedicated to providing superior quality products in a simple, yet sleek design. We use only the latest technology to provide ease of use to our customers, to simplify everyday tasks and also to provide a more efficient computer experience. Our product line includes smarter KM solutions utilizing Wormhole technology that not only replaces old clunky KVM switches, but also provides a simple and efficient method to transfer files between PCs and Macs or even Mac to PC. Our external display adapters solve the need for users to add additional display monitors without the need for complicated hardware installation and comes in HDMI, DVI or VGA interfaces. KaiJet's Android accessories allow users to unleash their Android devices on their PCs. KaiJet's line of docking stations turns any laptop, MacBook® or iPad into a full-fledged workstation including adding various additional ports, a second display, and simple file transfer to other connected devices. KaiJet is dedicated to simplifying and integrating your Mac and PC experience to its fullest potential without the technological complications of cross platform computing.
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(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump widened his lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a hypothetical Republican primary matchup to 33 points, according to a new poll.
A Morning Consult poll found Trump with 56 percent of the vote among a group of current and potential GOP challengers for the nomination, with DeSantis in second with 23 percent. This marks Trump’s widest lead in the poll since Morning Consult started tracking the hypothetical primary in December.
The most recent poll found Vice President Pence came in third with 7 percent, followed by former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley with 4 percent and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) with 3 percent.
Almost half of respondents who said they supported Trump would support DeSantis as their second choice, while 41 percent of those who prefer DeSantis said they would support Trump as their second option.
Pollsters found Trump and DeSantis performing similarly in a hypothetical matchup against President Biden, with Trump trailing by 1 point and DeSantis behind by 2 points.
Trump and DeSantis are both viewed overwhelmingly favorably among Republicans, with 78 percent of potential GOP primary voters viewing Trump positively and 69 percent viewing DeSantis positively. Pollsters have also found no increase in negative feelings toward Trump since he was indicted on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in New York.
Trump is one of a few candidates in the race, while DeSantis has not announced whether he will run but is rumored to be planning to.
The poll also found that the announcement from former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) last week that he would join the race does not appear to have had a major effect on the polling. Almost seven in 10 potential Republican primary voters said they did not hear much about the announcement, and only 1 percent said they would support him.
The poll was conducted from April 7-9 among 3,608 potential Republican primary voters. The margin of error was 2 points.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JVM Realty Corp., a leading vertically integrated multifamily real estate investment and property management firm, announced today it has acquired The Bevy, a 175-unit luxury apartment community in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer.
"We are honored to add another acclaimed luxury multifamily community to our growing portfolio," said Jay Madary, president and CEO of JVM Realty Corp. "The Brown Deer area is undergoing major transformations that will bring increased market interest, and we expect The Bevy's top-notch amenities and location in a charming, pedestrian-friendly village will position it as a perennial favorite for renters."
Located at 8600 N. Deerwood Drive in a historic section of Brown Deer, The Bevy offers layouts ranging from studios to 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhomes with a den. Apartments are in elevator-serviced buildings with underground parking and the townhomes offer direct access two-car garages. In-unit amenities are on par with single-family homes and include stainless steel appliances, granite or quartz countertops, luxurious bathrooms with cultured marble counters, spacious walk-in closets, full-size washer and dryers, a smart home thermostat and private patios or balconies.
Built in 2021, the 4.75-acre community provides residents with a host of community activities including a 24-hour fitness center, clubhouse, outdoor terrace with grilling stations, 24-hour package room, storage lockers, a dog park and a pet spa. A new community-oriented gathering space will soon be completed across the street that features a beer garden, the Village Square, Farmer's Market, and direct access to Oak Leaf Trail system, a 135-mile biking and hiking trail at least a quarter of which hugs the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.
The property is 15 minutes north of downtown Milwaukee and provides residents with convenient access to the area's award-winning healthcare providers and major employers including 14 Fortune 1000 manufacturers, banks and service organizations. The area is currently undergoing a $19 million road improvement project that will enhance traffic circulation in the immediate area.
With this latest acquisition, JVM now owns and manages two apartment communities in Wisconsin, and 21 communities throughout the Midwest.
About JVM Realty Corp.
JVM Realty Corporation is a respected name in the Midwest as a leader in multifamily real estate investment and property management. Since 1975, JVM has been committed to excellence and integrity and strives to be the preferred choice for its investors, residents, and associates. Based in Oak Brook, Illinois, JVM operates a $1.4 billion multifamily portfolio in the Greater Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin. For more information, please visit www.jvmrealty.com.
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LONDON, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresha, the leading marketplace platform for beauty and wellness, has cemented its global standing by debuting on the a16z Top 100 Global Marketplaces list.
Securing the 59th spot, Fresha outperforms competitors in the global hair, beauty, and wellness market, reinforcing its position as the world's top-ranking and fastest-growing marketplace platform.
The California-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz compiles the Marketplace100, assessing companies based on comprehensive marketplace activity scores. These criteria include annual gross merchandise volume (GMV) from Bloomberg, app performance data from Apptopia, and SimilarWeb.
Fresha's founder and CEO, William Zeqiri, attributes the company's ranking to its substantial global impact and market leadership. "This milestone demonstrates our partners' adoption of our technology to manage their businesses and emphasizes Fresha's customer-centric approach, which perfectly aligns with consumers' preferences for discovering, booking, and paying for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses."
Fresha's customer-focused philosophy, competitive edge, and product quality have propelled its success. The platform enables businesses to streamline their operations, promote their services, implement marketing campaigns, sell products online, and safeguard against no-shows and last-minute cancellations. The platform offers merchants a comprehensive suite of tools for seamless business operations, including appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty programs, beauty product inventory, and team management. Fresha's consumer marketplace bolsters partner businesses' revenue potential by leveraging the consumer marketplace, online bookings, automated marketing through mobile apps, and advanced integrations with major tech brands such as Instagram, Facebook, and Google.
Fresha has built an extensive network of approximately 90,000 merchant venues worldwide, predominantly located in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Customers book tens of millions of appointments on the platform each month, processing over $10 billion in annual gross merchandise volume (GMV). Supported by New York-based equity firm General Atlantic and other investors like global beauty entrepreneur Huda Kattan, Fresha's valuation surpasses $640 million valuation with its Series C investment round in 2022.
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* Mark Pundt, M.D. former President of ConvenientMD, joins as CEO
JUNO BEACH, Fla., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beach House Behavioral Health, Inc. ("Beach House" or the "Company"), a portfolio company of BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC ("BelHealth"), a Fort Lauderdale-based healthcare private equity firm, announced the appointment of Mark Pundt, M.D., as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO").
For over 30 years, Dr. Pundt has had the responsibilities of leading, operating, managing, consulting, and working as a clinician for medical practices and businesses. He has led six medical companies as the CEO and/or President with reporting responsibilities to the Board of Directors. He has also led the medical team and providers as the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) with the responsibility of managing the medical providers and ensuring that the highest level of medical care was provided to his patients. He has been directly involved in managing the operations of the businesses including managing the clinical team members and providers, overseeing the Human Resources team, sales team and medical and business compliance.
Dr. Pundt stated "I am excited to step into the CEO role at Beach House and be part of the team to advance our strategy and deliver shareholder value. In my previous roles I have successfully blended my clinical background with business initiatives. Behavioral health and addiction treatment protocols must be customized for each individual and Beach House has created the necessary clinical and medical infrastructure to address these needs. I am looking forward to working closely with the team and BelHealth to drive growth and profitability."
Inder Tallur, Managing Partner of BelHealth and Board Member of Beach House, added "We are delighted to welcome Mark to the Beach House leadership team. His extensive experience in healthcare leadership and strong strategic vision will serve Beach House well. The board of directors looks forward to working closely with him."
About Beach House
Founded in 2014, Beach House Center for Recovery is a nationally recognized drug and alcohol treatment provider, offering a full continuum of medically and clinically integrated care to people with substance use and co-occurring disorders. The state-of-the-art treatment facility is located on a beautiful, self-contained, five-acre recovery campus in the coastal town of Juno Beach. With client outcomes that outperform the industry average, Beach House is known as a trusted provider of evidence-based, outcome-informed addiction treatment and a center for clinical excellence.
About BelHealth Investment Partners
BelHealth Investment Partners, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a healthcare private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies. BelHealth has a unique combination of investing, executive management, and entrepreneurial experience. BelHealth acquires majority positions in entrepreneur-owned companies that it believes will benefit from its extensive operating and private equity investment expertise.
For further information, please visit:
BelHealth Investment Partners: www.belhealth.com
Beach House Center for Recovery: www.beachhouserehabcenter.com
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This is a tale of two meals and two men named Lam. It begins with a joke and ends with a prison sentence.
Two years ago, one of Vietnam’s most powerful officials ate a steak encrusted with 24-karat gold during a trip to London. It didn’t go over well at home — a one-party state that is still, despite its freewheeling capitalism and rising inequality, ruled by a Communist Party and officially called a socialist republic.
The official, Gen. To Lam, who runs the powerful Ministry of Public Security, faced criticism and ridicule online. A Vietnamese activist who also runs a noodle stand spoofed the gilded meal by making a video that showed him theatrically sprinkling scallions onto a bowl of noodles.
On Thursday, the activist, Bui Tuan Lam, was convicted of conducting propaganda against the state and sentenced to more than five years in prison. Authorities in Danang, the central Vietnamese city where he lives, said he was guilty of “making, storing, distributing or disseminating” anti-state information and materials.
Lam has denied the charges. His wife, Le Thanh Lam, said in an interview Friday that they were “completely untrue.”
“I do not see how my husband committed any crime or wrongdoing, or infringed upon anyone’s interests,” she said. “He is only exercising freedom of speech and other rights that are clearly stated in the constitution and laws of Vietnam.”
Ngo Tuan, one of Bui Tuan Lam’s lawyers, said the judge in the case had forced him to leave the courtroom before he could finish defending his client. “It seems that some people think that whatever they do to political prisoners is acceptable,” Tuan said.
Reached by phone Friday, the judge in the case, Ngo Ha Nam, declined to comment on the sentence.
The general’s gilded steak, and Bui Tuan Lam’s parody of his over-the-top meal, were unusual. But the conviction is consistent with the usual approach to stifling dissent in one of the world’s few remaining communist dictatorships: Bui Tuan Lam, 39, was convicted under a catchall offense that has ensnared many other Vietnamese activists over the years.
One is Pham Doan Trang, a journalist and activist who was sentenced in 2021 to nine years after a conviction for similar charges that Bui Tuan Lam faced.
Bui Tuan Lam’s parody video, filmed at the noodle stall that he owns in Danang, was not his first foray into activism. Over the years, he has joined a number of protests over both Vietnamese government policies and China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. Bui Tuan Lam, who also goes by the name Peter Lam Bui, has also posted videos that criticized Vietnamese officials.
But poking fun at the general was especially risky.
The general would certainly not have expected footage of his gilded steak to circulate on social media — particularly not when many Vietnamese were tiring of lockdowns and strict rules on masking, quarantines and contact tracing.
Public displays of wealth by Vietnamese officials are also sensitive, in part because the Communist Party’s general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, has been waging a yearslong anti-corruption crackdown that has ensnared some top brass.
The 2021 parody video mocked an earlier one that had been posted, and later removed, from the TikTok account of Nusret Gokce, a Turkish restaurateur and social media star who goes by the nom de cuisine Salt Bae.
In the TikTok video, Salt Bae carries what appear to be two gold tomahawk steaks to the general’s table at his London restaurant. Then he feeds the communist official a morsel from the tip of a carving knife, earning a thumbs-up.
The general had traveled to Britain for a global summit on climate change. Aside from the trip to Salt Bae’s restaurant, he also visited the grave of Karl Marx, a 19th-century philosopher who railed against the concentration of wealth.
In the parody, Bui Tuan Lam appears to mimic Salt Bae’s flamboyant style as he slices meat and drops scallions into a bowl of bun noodles at his stall. He said at the time that he had made the video purely for fun, and to help drum up business.
Before he was sentenced this week, Bui Tuan Lam wrote a poem for his wife and three children that she later posted on social media. In it, he said he was undaunted by the prospect of a long spell in prison:
Though my body may bear the weight of responsibility
My spirit remains steadfast as a mountain
Walking upright on this chosen path
For the sake of Vietnam, I am committed.
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TOKYO – People in Tokyo are sweating it out as the government warns of possible power shortages and urges greater efforts to conserve energy while Japan endures unseasonably hot temperatures.
Weather officials announced the earliest end to the annual summer rainy season since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records in 1951. The rains usually temper the summer heat, often well into July.
The sultry temperatures would be considered mild compared to some South and Southeast Asian countries. But they are adding to worries over power shortages over the summer. Some coal-fired plants serving the region were taken offline for repairs after a strong earthquake in mid-March. The government warned of potential problems in late March, though no actual outages occurred.
The economy and industry ministry urged people living in the region serviced by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. to conserve power in the afternoons, especially when demand peaks at 4-5 p.m.
Kaname Ogawa, director of electricity supply policy at the ministry, said electicity demand Monday was bigger than expected because the temperature exceeded Sunday’s forecast. A similar warning was issued for Tuesday.
“We are struck by unusual heat for the season,” Ogawa said. “Please cooperate and save as much power as possible.”
Ogawa, however, said people should use air conditioning appropriately and take precautions against heat stroke.
Heat stroke is a big concern since many older Japanese tend to avoid using air-conditioning, partly out of habit and partly to avoid running up big electricity bills. Older Japanese homes also tend to lack insulation and are stifling hot in the summer and very cold in the winter.
TEPCO said it was expecting contributions from the Tohoku Electric Power Co., which serves Japan's northern prefectures, to help ease the crunch.
The Japanese archipelago has seen record high temperatures for June in some areas. In Isezaki, north of Tokyo, the temperature rose to 40.2 Centigrade (104.4 Fahrenheit) on Saturday, the highest ever for June. Temperature in downtown Tokyo rose to nearly 35C (95F) on Monday , higher than the forecast Sunday of 34C (93F).
With humidity at about 44%, temperatures felt still warmer.
With hot air coming from a powerful high atmospheric pressure system stalled over the Pacific Ocean, high temperatures were expected through early July, the meteorological agency said.
More than 250 people were taken to hospitals in Tokyo over the weekend for treatment of heat stroke, according to the Mainichi newspaper.
The power supply is relatively tight after Japan idled most of its nuclear reactors after 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Japan. It also has been closing down old coal plants to meet promises for reducing carbon emissions.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government has been pushing to restart more nuclear reactors that have passed upgraded safety standards.
Japan also faces a potential shortage of fossil fuel imports amid sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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Chick-fil-A urges customers to take action, investigates 'fraudulent activity' on mobile app accounts
Chick-fil-A, Inc. informed customers of suspected "fraudulent activity" on some customers' mobile app accounts and has announced an investigation to determine the source.
"Chick-fil-A is aware of suspicious activity on some of our customers' Chick-fil-A One accounts," the company said in a statement Thursday. "While we are still investigating what happened and how certain customers became subject to this fraudulent activity, this is not due to a compromise of Chick-fil-A Inc.'s internal systems."
The beloved chicken sandwich retailer emphasized that its internal systems have not been compromised and said the company has taken steps to secure affected accounts and enhance its security protocols.
"Chick-fil-A is committed to protecting our customer's data and we are working quickly to resolve the issue. Please reach out to Chick-fil-A CARES online or by calling 1-866-232-2040 to report any suspicious account activity," the statement read.
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In a message to app users, Chick-fil-A advised customers to change their account passwords.
"We have already taken precautions to further secure the affected member accounts and are continuing to review the situation and enhance our security protocols where appropriate. This activity is not the result of any compromise to Chick-fil-A's internal systems," an email sent to customers on Friday states.
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"Chick‑fil‑A is committed to protecting our customer’s data and we are working quickly to resolve the issue for any impacted customers. We understand and take seriously the trust you place in us to ensure your personal information is secure, and we apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced," the company said.
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Forbes Human Resources Council is an Invitation-Only Community for HR Executives Across All Industries
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cally Stanphill, Director of Talent Acquisition at PainTEQ, has been accepted into Forbes Human Resources Council, an invitation-only community for HR executives across all industries.
Cally Stanphill was vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and diversity of her experience. Criteria for acceptance include a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors.
Fully embodying Forbes Human Resources Council criteria, Cally has a successful track record in revolutionizing recruitment strategies. In her current role, she has aided in creating the groundwork for PainTEQ's growth as they scale to achieve its mission to pioneer world-class data-driven medical solutions.
She has spearheaded wellness initiatives and a nationwide volunteer time off program, but her greatest success has been creating an engaging environment and an award-winning culture for all PainTEQ teammates.
Cally has a bachelor's in international business and is certified in diversity, equity, and inclusion from USF.
"We are honored to welcome Cally Stanphill into the community," said Scott Gerber, founder of Forbes Councils, the collective that includes Forbes Human Resources Council. "Our mission with Forbes Councils is to bring together proven leaders from every industry, creating a curated, social capital-driven network that helps every member grow professionally and make an even greater impact on the business world."
As an accepted member of the Council, Cally Stanphill has access to a variety of exclusive opportunities designed to help her reach peak professional influence. She will connect and collaborate with other respected local leaders in a private forum. Cally will also be invited to work with a professional editorial team to share her expert insights in original business articles on Forbes.com and to contribute to published Q&A panels alongside other experts.
Finally, Cally will benefit from exclusive access to vetted business service partners, membership-branded marketing collateral, and the high-touch support of the Forbes Councils' member concierge team.
"I am humbled and elated to be welcomed into the Forbes Human Resources Council," Cally stated. "Serving as a Forbes HR Council Member will allow me an opportunity to share my Talent Acquisition expertise with HR leaders on a global scale, while simultaneously networking with like-minded professionals. I am thankful to PainTEQ's Executive team for encouraging me to embark on this challenge, and for trusting me to continuously build and shape our people operations."
Forbes Councils is a collective of invitation-only communities created in partnership with Forbes and the expert community builders who founded Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). In Forbes Councils, exceptional business owners and leaders come together with the people and resources that can help them thrive.
For more information about Forbes Human Resources Council, visit forbeshrcouncil.com. To learn more about Forbes Councils, visit forbescouncils.com.
About PainTEQ: PainTEQ was built to bring interventional procedures to the market. Working with pain management specialists to help reduce and eliminate SI joint dysfunction, PainTEQ's LinQ implant aims to immediately provide clinical benefits to individuals living with incapacitating lower back pain through a minimally invasive outpatient procedure. For more information, visit www.painteq.com.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Wednesday criticized the Federal Reserve for issuing another interest rate hike, warning that the move will have a “direct and harmful impact” on working families.
The labor leader’s remarks come after Fed officials raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, the sixth rate hike since the Fed ramped up its efforts to slow the economy and tame inflation in March.
“The Fed seems determined to raise interest rates, though it openly admits those rates could ruin our current economy as unemployment remains low and people are able to find jobs,” Shuler said in a statement.
“The Fed’s actions will not address the underlying causes of inflation — the war in Ukraine, climate change’s effect on harvests and corporate profits, and an increase in the chances that the United States enters a recession.”
Labor unions and progressive groups have condemned the Fed’s approach to taming inflation, which is focused on slowing wage growth to bring down demand, and thus prices.
They argue that corporate greed is a primary driver behind persistent price hikes, pointing to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing that U.S. corporate profits reached an all-time high in the second quarter of 2022.
The White House has taken a similar approach, this week threatening energy companies to increase production or face a new windfall tax. Six of the largest oil and gas firms together raked in nearly $60 billion in third-quarter profits, led by ExxonMobil’s $19.7 billion haul, as consumers faced higher energy costs.
“Working people should not be the target of lowering inflation — it should be corporations that are earning record profits,” Shuler said.
Even as supply chain issues improved and demand for products have dipped, inflation remains stubbornly high, with prices rising 8.2 percent over the last year ending in September, according to Labor Department data.
The Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement Wednesday that “ongoing increases” to interest rates may be needed to get annual inflation down to its 2 percent target.
The committee said that it will factor in “the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments.”
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Announcement Comes as Inclusion-Focused Consultancy Enters its 4th year
OAKLAND, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accordant Advisors announced today that they have named Stephane Sandberg Managing Partner. Ms. Sandberg joined the group – which focuses on creating inclusive workplaces – in the spring of 2021 and became Partner earlier this year.
Accordant Advisors co-founder and former Vice President, Global Diversity for Chevron Shariq Yosufzai says, "Stephanie has had a profound impact on our work since the day she joined, from helping us articulate what we do to quickly becoming an integral part of assignments, as both team member and engagement lead."
Co-founder, philanthropist and former senior retail executive (Weston/Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart) Andrew Faas adds, "Stephanie is the right leader at the right time for Accordant Advisors – her skills and experience will bring our unique tools and applications around Emotional Intelligence and Stakeholder Engagement to the next level."
"This group of supremely talented professionals bring extraordinary discipline and passion to creating welcoming work cultures," says Sandberg; "I'm thrilled to lead the team, and continuing to learn from them, every day."
Stephanie was previously Executive Director of political action committee LPAC; Managing Director of DEI consultancy Out Leadership; Executive Publisher of Columbia Journalism Review and President & Publisher of The New Republic, among a host of leadership positions in media. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey with her wife, with whom she has two daughters.
Accordant Advisors helps organizations identify and tackle cultural gaps through evidence-based, practical solutions, which create and nurture diverse, inclusive, and emotionally-intelligent workspaces. Its mission is to create organizational cultures that value each individual and are psychologically safe, allowing people to be more engaged, respected and effective.
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Nielsen Norman Group announces the winners of its 21st annual intranet design contest and shares design trends from the leading intranets.
FREMONT, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking the 22nd anniversary of its annual intranet design contest, user experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the 2022 world's 10 best intranets. The 540-page report Intranet Design Annual 2022: The Year's 10 Best Intranets shares design trends, 184 images, and detailed case studies of the 10 winners:
- Banner Health (US)
- BNY Mellon (US)
- DBS Bank (Singapore)
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (US)
- International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) (US)
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) (US)
- Princeton University (US)
- Publicis Sapient (US)
- Sorigué (Spain)
- Webuild S.p.A. (Italy)
"Intranets unify corporate offices, teams, and individuals," said UX pioneer and expert Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group.
Some common themes among this year's designs are:
- Accessibility and Inclusive Design: focus on the needs of people with disabilities; plus background, race, gender, sexual identity, mental health, and wealth of employees
- Sustainability: campaigns related various environmental concerns
- Measuring Success at All Project Phases: quantitative and qualitative methods to track and measure ROI
- Continued Rapid Development: teams took between six and 45 months to create their intranets, average time at 22.7 months
- Eight Industries Represented: consumer packaged goods, education, engineering and construction, finance, insurance, nonprofit, professional services, and technology
- Still a Strong Microsoft Presence: half of the winners primarily used Microsoft applications (SharePoint and Office 356)
Nielsen Norman Group's Intranet Design Annual 2022: The Year's 10 Best Intranets, co-authored by Maria Rosala, Anna Kaley, Patty Caya, and Kara Pernice is available to download for $268 (group license $528) from Nielsen Norman Group's website: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet-design-annual/
About Nielsen Norman Group
Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com) in an evidence-based user experience, training and consulting firm that advises companies on how to improve the bottom line through human-centered design of products and services. NN/g founders Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are world-renowned user experience experts who were advocating for human-centered design and user experience long before it became popular to do so. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, NN/g evaluates interfaces of all kinds and guides the critical design decisions that make websites, applications, intranets, and other enterprise apps and products achieve their full potential for businesses and their users.
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Which is the best 12V ride-on toy?
Twelve-volt ride-on toys are battery-powered miniature versions of full-size vehicles for kids to ride on. They have metal frames and plastic bodies and are offered in your choice of luxury cars, off road vehicles, ATVs, quads, trucks, Jeeps, tractors and more. Most 12V ride-on toys are made for one, but some are built for a driver and passenger to ride side-by-side.
If you are looking for a side-by-side ride-on toy with a 130-pound carrying capacity, take a look at the Peg Perego Polaris RZR 900 Camo. Parents love the top speed lockout that limits the vehicle’s speed until kids have learned to operate it safely.
What to know before you buy a 12V ride-on toy
The V stands for volts, a measure of a battery’s electric power. Batteries drive the motors in kids’ ride-on cars and come in one of three strengths. The greater the number of volts, the faster the electric car will go and the longer the battery will hold a charge.
Volts
6V batteries are able to drive kids’ ride-on vehicles at speeds of 2-3 miles per hour. Ride-on toys powered by 6V batteries do not have enough power to handle hills and slopes and so are best for use indoors by children ages 1-3.
12V batteries have more power and are able to propel ride-on toys at speeds of 4 or 5 mph. Cars powered by 12V batteries are excellent choices for outdoor use and well suited for kids from 3-6 years old.
24V batteries are the largest that come in kids’ ride-on toys. With their greater power and higher speeds, 24V ride-on toys are the choice for kids ages 6 or older.
Run time
Manufacturers will tell you how long your ride-on toy can run on a single battery charge. A fully charged 12V battery will power your ride-on toy for anywhere from one to two hours, depending on the quality of your battery and how you use your ride-on toy. That time, called the operating range, is affected by how much power you use. When you operate a ride-on toy that has lights, a horn, engine sounds and even radios and MPs players, your battery will drain more quickly and your drive time will be greatly reduced.
Charging time
Before you use your 12V ride-on toy for the first time, you will need to charge the battery fully. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions, which will tell you how long you need to charge your battery the first time. This will typically be between 12-24 hours.
What to look for in a quality 12V ride-on toy
Safety
Most ride-on toys are built with child safety in mind. Look for ride-on toys that have adjustable seat belts and automatic brakes.
Speed
Most small-sized ride-on toys have the ability to go from 2 to 5 miles per hour. Look for ride-on toys that have adjustable speeds and speed limiters that can be set by parents.
How much you can expect to spend on 12V ride-on toy
Basic single-seat 12V ride-on toys start at around $200. Side-by-sides start at around $300 and go as high as $500 for licensed products with all the bells and whistles.
12V ride-on toy FAQ
Which kind of 12V is best for off-roading?
A. Ride-on toys are not made for off-roading in the traditional sense, because they don’t have the power or the ruggedness required for dealing with ruts, rocks and steep trails. If you want a ride-on toy that can operate as easily on the grass or dirt as on pavement, choose one that has a real suspension and knobby tires.
How long can you leave the 12V charger plugged in?
A. Never leave your 12V battery connected to a charger for more than 24 hours, because it will reduce your ride-on toy’s performance and can lead to permanent damage.
What’s the best 12V ride-on toy to buy?
Top 12V ride-on toy
Peg Perego Polaris RZR 900 Camo
What you need to know: Kids ages 3-8 love this side-by-side camo ride-on with a 130-pound carrying capacity.
What you’ll love: Parents love the top speed lockout that safely limits the speeds of beginning drivers to 2.5 mph from its top speed of 5 mph. Adults also love how as soon as kids take their foot off the brake, the vehicle automatically stops. The cargo bed has tie-down anchors for hauling toys. The seats on this ride-on car adjust to accommodate your growing child.
What you should consider: The seat belts are for appearance only and not designed for safety purposes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 12V ride-on toy for the money
Best Choice Products 12V Kids Ride-on Electric 4-Wheel ATV
What you need to know: This off-road 4-wheeler for riders up to 66 pounds is built to be tough.
What you’ll love: The four-wheel suspension and rugged knobby tires allow riders to take this ride-on toy off-road on grass and dirt. This ride-on toy has two speeds forward and two speeds in reverse, with a top speed of 3.7 mph. It comes with LED headlights, horn and built-in outlet so kids can listen to their favorite music as they drive. This ride-on toy has a run time of 1.5 hours.
What you should consider: When you climb hills, this ride-on toy uses more power and drains the battery more quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Uenjoy 12V Licensed Bugatti Chiron Kids Ride-On Car
What you need to know: This miniature version of a real Bugatti Chiron has two powerful 12V motors and rechargeable batteries.
What you’ll love: This ride-on toy’s safety features include a seat belt, lockable doors and a park button for the emergency brake. Parents can operate this car via remote control for little kids who think they are driving it themselves. This ride-on toy also has a manual mode where older kids can control it with the steering wheel and accelerator pedal. This Bugatti has LED lights, horn and ports for connecting USB music devices.
What you should consider: The instructions that come with this ride-on toy could have been written more clearly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Central Bank is expected Thursday to end a key economic stimulus program and map out its plan to raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade as it seeks to join the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in tackling high inflation. But it’s a delicate balance to not further slow economic growth.
Markets will parse remarks from President Christine Lagarde for clues about how far the bank will go in making credit more expensive in the 19 countries using the euro currency. That is because the meeting likely also will lay out a sharp downgrade to the bank’s forecasts for economic growth as Russia’s war in Ukraine sends shock waves through the global economy.
Some bank officials have called for more drastic rate hikes of a half-percentage point instead of the more usual quarter-point, as the Federal Reserve did last month. Lagarde has stressed that bringing interest rates to more normal levels after the recession from the COVID-19 pandemic must be done gradually, with Europe more exposed to the fallout from the war in Ukraine.
Lagarde and other top officials have been unusually explicit about the bank’s plans. They have indicated in blog posts and interviews that Thursday’s meeting in Amsterdam will put an end to the bank’s remaining bond purchases, which propped up the economy during the pandemic and aimed to raise years of abnormally low inflation, as well as set up the bank’s first rate increases in 11 years at its July and September meetings.
Carsten Brzeski, global head of Macro at ING bank, called those remarks a “de facto pre-announcement.”
A rate increase as soon as Thursday isn’t impossible but would upend the bank’s promise that it would first end bond purchases, which drive down the cost of longer-term government borrowing, and only then turn to raising interest rates.
The ECB trails other central banks worldwide that have used rate hikes to target surging consumer prices following the rebound from the pandemic and worsened as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove up food and energy prices. The Fed raised rates in May for the first time since 2000, and the Bank of England has approved hikes four times since December.
Higher rates are the usual tool to combat inflation, which hit 8.1% in the eurozone in May, the highest since statistics started in 1997. By raising its benchmarks, the central bank can influence what financial institutions, companies, consumers and governments have to pay to borrow the money they need. So higher rates can help cool off an overheating economy.
But higher rates can also weigh on growth. That makes the ECB’s job a delicate balance between snuffing out inflation and blunting economic activity. The bank’s goal is to keep inflation at 2%, the rate considered best for the economy.
The World Bank on Tuesday cut its outlook for global economic growth this year to 2.9% from 4.1% predicted in January. For the eurozone, it downgraded expected growth to 2.5% from 4.2%.
Low interest rates were aimed at raising protracted low rates of inflation that bank officials attributed to multiple factors such aging populations, the pressure on wages from company’s ability to move jobs to cheaper countries and even online shopping that enables more price comparison. Those concerns seem like ancient history as high oil and natural gas prices fed by Russia’s invasion have sent inflation rates drastically higher.
An ECB move to attack on inflation has raised concerns about the impact of higher interest rates on heavily indebted governments, most notably Italy. Market watchers have speculated that the bank may announce a new bond purchase program that it could hold in reserve to prevent borrowing costs from spiking in any one EU country.
A rate hike in July would be the first in 11 years and signal the end of an extended period of extremely low rates that started during the global financial crisis in 2009.
The bank’s expected increases would start from record lows of zero for its lending rate to banks and minus 0.5% on overnight deposits from banks.
The European Central Bank is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, but holds occasional meetings in other EU capitals to underline its status as a pan-European institution.
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TOKYO — Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan's biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted pleated pieces as well as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' black turtlenecks, has died. He was 84.
Miyake died Aug. 5 of liver cancer, Miyake Design Office said Tuesday.
Miyake defined an era in Japan's modern history, reaching stardom in the 1970s among a generation of designers and artists who reached global fame by defining a Japanese vision that was unique from the West.
Miyake's origami-like pleats transformed usually crass polyester into chic. He also used computer technology in weaving to create apparel. His down-to-earth clothing was meant to celebrate the human body regardless of race, build, size or age.
Miyake even detested being called a fashion designer, choosing not to identify with what he saw as a frivolous, trend-watching, conspicuous consumption.
Again and again, Miyake returned to his basic concept of starting with a single piece of cloth — be it draped, folded, cut or wrapped.
Over the years, he took inspiration from a variety of cultures and societal motifs, as well as everyday items — plastic, rattan, "washi" paper, jute, horsehair, foil, yarn, batik, indigo dyes and wiring.
He sometimes evoked images of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or collaborated with Japanese painter Tadanori Yokoo in images of monkeys and foliage in vibrant, psychedelic hues.
He also collaborated with furniture and interior designer Shiro Kuramata, photographer Irving Penn, choreographer and director Maurice Bejart, pottery maker Lucie Rie and Ballet Frankfurt.
In 1992, Miyake was commissioned to design the official Olympic uniform for Lithuania, which had just gained independence from the Soviet Union.
Born in Hiroshima in 1938, Miyake was a star as soon as he hit the European runways. His brown top, which combined the Japanese sewn fabric "sashiko" with raw silk knit, was splashed on the cover of the September 1973 issue of Elle magazine.
Miyake was also a pioneer in gender roles, asking feminist Fusae Ichikawa in the 1970s — when she was in her 80s — to be his model, sending the message that garments must be comfortable and express the natural beauty of real people.
Although he made clothes that went beyond the mundane, appearing to reach for the spiritual, he made a point to never get pretentious, always approving of the T-shirt-and-jeans look.
"Designing is like a living organism in that it pursues what matters for its well-being and continuity," Miyake once wrote in his book.
His office confirmed a private funeral had already been held and other ceremonies will not be held in accordance with Miyake's wishes. Miyake kept his family life private, and survivors are not known.
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APYX) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Apyx securities between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/apyx.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws.
That Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) consequently, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/apyx or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Apyx you have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Chesterfield County Police searching for a 35-year-old female
According to authorities, Funderburk has red hair, brown eyes, is five foot and six inches tall, and weighs 110 pounds.
Published: Oct. 8, 2022 at 12:56 AM EDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (WBTV) - The Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office is seeking public help in locating Britney Funderburk, 35 years old.
Funderburk last spoke to her family on September 19, 2022.
According to authorities, Funderburk has red hair, brown eyes, is five foot and six inches tall, and weighs 110 pounds.
She was at her home on Highway 207, in the Pageland area of Chesterfield County, SC.
If you have seen her, please call the tip line at 843-287-0235 or Crime Stoppers at 888-284-6372.
Related: Lincoln County deputies searching for missing man
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This story is part of NPR's Main Character of the Day series, where we spotlight the people and things worth talking about — and the stories behind them.
For the first time in its 21-year run, ABC's The Bachelor is looking to find love in his golden years. In a recent announcement, 71-year-old Gerry Turner was named the new leading man of the reality dating show franchise. This is new territory for the program, and could introduce audiences to what senior dating looks like.
Who is he? Turner — aka the "golden" bachelor — is the latest lead in the show that follows a pretty simple formula.
What's the big deal? The Bachelor/ette is one of the most recognized dating franchises on TV.
What are people saying?
Tom Blake runs a website called Finding Love After 50 and told NPR his advice for newly-single seniors is to start slowly but seize the moment when you feel a spark with someone:
For seniors who become single — maybe through a divorce, could be through a death — it's a whole new ballgame. It's a whole new challenge and they need to know what to avoid and how to start ... You just don't have that many opportunities, so be assertive.
Journalist Francine Russo is the author of Love After 50 and says senior dating has its perks, especially when it comes to learning from past relationships:
For most people, there's not a lot of playing around or playing games. They're serious. This is what they want.
Russo suggests writing down a checklist of what you're looking for in a partner, and to not be afraid of rejection:
Anybody your age — who's been widowed or divorced or lost a person you love — you've survived far worse than having somebody just dumped you after two dates.
For Blake, he and his readers — champs, as he likes to call them — would like to see something that resembles what dating is actually like outside of the reality TV space:
They want to know, 'Hey, what happens when you get dumped? What happens when you get ghosted?' Stuff like that. Real personal stuff around [Turner] that we all can learn from and not just be entertained by.
And for Russo, The Golden Bachelor can both send potentially the right and wrong message about what it is like to date past 50:
This picture of this guy, who's incredibly hunky and has perfect hair might reinforce the beliefs ... that you need to find a person like this to be happy, whereas most people don't look like this.
But I do hope that it indicates to people that at 71, you're available! You have what it takes.
So, what now?
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — After fighting in Afghanistan, former U.S. Army soldier Mauricio Hernandez Mata returned home with post traumatic stress, which he says eventually led to getting in trouble with the law and getting deported to Mexico, a country he had not lived in since he was a boy.
On Wednesday, he and another deported veteran were sworn in as U.S. citizens at a special naturalization ceremony in San Diego.
The two veterans were among 65 who have been allowed back into the United States over the past year ago as part of a growing effort by the Biden administration called the Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiative to make amends with immigrants who served in the U.S. military only to wind up deported. Hundreds of U.S. military veterans have been deported over the years in what immigration advocates and others have called an unfair punishment to those who took up arms in the name of the United States. Many are still struggling to find legal help to return, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
“After my deportation, yeah, I never thought this day would come,” said Hernandez, 41, dressed in a black suit and tie after being presented his U.S. citizenship certificate. “It’s definitely been a long road. I’m glad that we were given a second chance as anybody that is either American-born or fought for America should have.”
Leonel Contreras, 63, who joined the U.S. Army at the age of 17 and served for a year in 1976, also was sworn in at the ceremony.
“I feel very blessed,” said Contreras, who was allowed back into the United States about four months ago. “I feel very happy to be back on American soil.”
Both men spent the past decade living in the border city of Tijuana.
Contreras was whisked away by U.S. immigration authorities who walked into the barbershop where he worked in National City, south of San Diego, placed into immigration detention and deported. His life forever changed.
He continued to work in Tijuana as a barber and found work because of his English at call centers helping answer questions from customers of U.S. companies. But it was not easy.
During that time his two sons grew up, and he now is a grandfather. With his U.S. citizenship in hand, he said he is not looking back.
“I just want to go to all the places I’ve dreamed of seeing, like the Grand Canyon and possibly Mount Rushmore,” he said.
Hernandez said his deportation came after unspecified “irreverent actions and mistakes I made due to my PTSD.” He declined to give more details. But he said after he was allowed back into the country a year ago, he was determined to get his U.S. citizenship to be able to go to the grocery store and not feel “terrified” of being picked up and sent back to Mexico.
His 7-year-old daughter hugged him after he was sworn in amid cheers from a crowd that included more than a dozen veterans from various branches. Then he turned and kissed his wife.
“I’ve always been an American, the difference is now I’m an American citizen and I have all the rights that any American born citizen has,” Hernandez said. “And it was important to me to have those rights just to prove the point, the point being that anybody that’s willing to lay down their life, their sanity, and give everything that they hold dear for American freedom should be eventually at one point in their lives considered a U.S. citizen.”
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sustained firing broke out in the Sudanese capital Saturday amid simmering tensions between the military and the country’s powerful paramilitary forces.
The sounds of heavy firing could be heard in a number of areas, including central Khartoum and the neighbourhood of Bahri.
In a series of statements, the Rapid Support Forces militia accused the army of attacking its forces at one of its bases in south Khartoum and claimed they had seized the city’s airport and “completely controlled” Khartoum’s Republican Palace, the seat of the country’s presidency. The group also said it seized an airport and airbase in the northern city of Marawi, some 350 kilometers (215 miles) northwest of Khartoum. The Associated Press was unable to verify those claims.
In a separate statement Saturday, the Sudanese Army said the fighting broke out after RSF troops tried to attack its forces in the southern part of the capital. In a later statement, the military declared the RSF a “rebel force,” describing the paramilitary’s statements as “lies.”
The clashes came as tensions between the military and the RSF have escalated in recent months, forcing a delay in the signing of an internationally backed deal with political parties to revive the country’s democratic transition.
Commercial aircraft trying to land at Khartoum International Airport began turning around to head back to their originating airport. Flights from Saudi Arabia turned back after nearly landing at Khartoum International Airport, flight tracking data showed Saturday.
Tensions between the army and the paramilitary stem from a disagreement over how the RSF, headed by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, should be integrated into the military and what authority should oversee the process. The merger is a key condition of Sudan’s unsigned transition agreement.
However, the army-RSF rivalry dates back to the rule of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in 2019. Under the former president, the paramilitary force grew out of former militias known as the janjaweed that carried out a brutal crackdown in Sudan’s Darfur region during the decades of conflict there.
In a rare televised speech Thursday, a top army general warned of potential clashes with paramilitary forces, accusing it of deploying forces in Khartoum and other areas of Sudan without the army’s consent. The RSF defended the presence of its forces in an earlier statement.
The RSF recently deployed troops near the northern Sudanese town of Merowe. Also, videos circulating on social media Thursday show what appear to be RSF-armed vehicles being transported into Khartoum, farther to the south.
The U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, wrote online that he was “currently sheltering in place with the Embassy team, as Sudanese throughout Khartoum and elsewhere are doing.”
“Escalation of tensions within the military component to direct fighting is extremely dangerous,” Godfrey wrote. “I urgently call on senior military leaders to stop the fighting.”
In Saturday’s statement, the RSF said it was contacted by three former rebel leaders who hold government positions in an apparent bid to de-escalate the conflict.
Sudan has been married in turmoil since October 2021 Western-backed, power-sharing administration and dashed Sudanese aspirations for democratic rule after three decades of autocracy and repression under Islamist ruler Omar al-Bashir
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KHAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists.
The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban — a close ally of Afghanistan's Taliban government — before the Pakistani army drove the militants out of the area. Supporters of hardline Pakistani cleric and political party leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam generally supports regional Islamists, were meeting in Bajur in a hall close to a market outside the district capital. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally but organizers added tents because so many supporters showed up, and party volunteers with batons were helping control the crowd.
Officials were announcing the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party, when the bomb went off in one of Pakistan's bloodiest attacks in recent years.
Provincial police said in a statement that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives vest close to the stage where several senior leaders of the party were sitting. It said initial investigations suggested the Islamic State group — which operates in Afghanistan and is an enemy of the Afghan Taliban — could be behind the attack, and officers were still investigating.
"There was dust and smoke around, and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs," said Adam Khan, 45, who was knocked to the ground by the blast around 4 p.m. and hit by splinters in his leg and both hands.
The Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press that the bombing was aimed at setting Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that "such crimes cannot be justified in any way."
The Afghan Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government in November, and have stepped up attacks across the country.
The bombing came hours before the arrival of Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Islamabad, where he was to participate in an event to mark a decade of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, a sprawling package under which Beijing has invested billions of dollars in Pakistan.
In recent months, China has helped Pakistan avoid a default on sovereign payments. However, some Chinese nationals have also been targeted by militants in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere.
Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 44 people had been "martyred" and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
The bombing was one of the four worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar. In January, 74 people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Peshawar. n February, more than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at a mosque inside a high-security compound housing Peshawar police headquarters.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families. Sharif later, in a phone call to Rehman, the head of the JUI, conveyed his condolences to him and assured him that those who orchestrated the attack would be punished.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad also condemned the attack. In a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, it expressed its condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims killed in the attack..
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman's party, was among the dead. JUI leaders Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin were also on the stage but escaped unhurt.
Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the attack was an attempt to remove JUI from the field before parliamentary elections in November, but he said such tactics would not work. The bombing drew nationwide condemnation, with the ruling and opposition parties extending condolences to the families of those who died in the attack.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the upcoming elections.
"Many of our fellows lost their lives and many more wounded in this incident. I will ask the federal and provincial administrations to fully investigate this incident and provide due compensation and medical facilities to the affected ones," Rasheed said.
Mohammad Wali, another attendant at the rally, said he was listening to a speaker address the crowd when the huge explosion temporarily deafened him.
"I was near the water dispenser to fetch a glass of water when the bomb exploded, throwing me to the ground," he said. "We came to the meeting with enthusiasm but ended up at the hospital seeing crying, wounded people and sobbing relatives taking the bodies of their loved ones."
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The Red River Rivalry is heading to the biggest stage in college softball.
Oklahoma and Texas are the last two teams standing in the 2022 Women’s College World Series. Though the schools are commonly linked, the two sides took completely different paths to get to the championship series.
The Sooners came into the year as the defending champions and looked like a team primed to repeat. They pummeled their way to a 57-3 record behind some historic star power. Redshirt senior Jocelyn Alo, the 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, set an NCAA record for career home runs during the season while also hitting for an astonishing .509 batting average.
The Longhorns, meanwhile, made history of their own. They became the first unseeded team to ever advance to the championship series and are in the finals for the first time in program history. The team also fell behind 5-0 against Oklahoma State in a deciding game that determined who would play Oklahoma before tallying six unanswered runs to punch their ticket to the championship series.
Can Texas make history once again by winning its first championship? Or will Oklahoma go back-to-back and win its sixth title?
Here’s everything to know before the first pitch between Oklahoma and Texas:
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Where is the 2022 Women’s College World Series?
Oklahoma and Texas fans won’t have to travel far to watch their teams play. The championship series will take place at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City.
When is the 2022 Women’s College World Series?
The best-of-three series begins Wednesday night.
Here is the full schedule for the series, along with TV info for each game:
- Game 1: Wednesday, June 8, at 8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
- Game 2: Thursday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2
- Game 3 (if necessary): Friday, June 10, at 8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
All games can be streamed on Watch ESPN and the ESPN app.
Oklahoma will be the home team for Games 1 and 3, while Texas will get the distinction in Game 2.
Who won the season series between Oklahoma and Texas?
Oklahoma won the season series, but one of its three losses of the year came against Texas.
The Sooners won the first two games of their three-game set in Texas in mid-April. Texas avoided a sweep and handed then-undefeated Oklahoma its first defeat of the season in a 4-2 final. Prior to that, Oklahoma was in the midst of the greatest start in Division I softball history at 38-0.
The two sides also met just four days ago in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma advanced to the WCWS semifinals with a 7-2 win behind multi-RBI games from Alo and second baseman Tiare Jennings.
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The business case for FedRAMP just got better
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023, taking a giant step forward in securing the federal government's cloud-first mission. The FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) Authorization Act, outlined in section 5921 of the NDAA, formalizes the cybersecurity certification that cloud service providers (CSPs) must obtain before working with the U.S. government.
Global cybersecurity pioneer Coalfire today released guidance for CSPs, government agencies, and commercial businesses on how to interpret the bill and essential key steps to ensure successful deployment and maximize protection for the cloud-first mission.
"The federal government is sending a bold message to agencies and commercial businesses that FedRAMP is here to stay," said Tom McAndrew, chief executive officer of Coalfire, the most experienced FedRAMP assessment and advisory firm working in partnership with all major cloud service providers, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. "The passage of the FedRAMP Authorization Act will stimulate innovation and drive agencies to seek 'cloud-first' technology solutions, making for a safer, more security-conscious country."
The codified FedRAMP imperative will make it easier for commercial cloud and software providers to access multiple agencies across the federal marketplace. The law's most important feature is the concept of "reciprocity," which enables CSPs to authorize once and then re-use their already-certified FedRAMP status across other agencies. By formalizing reciprocity and the "presumption of adequacy" for government contractors, agencies can more easily certify vendors and access more cyber-secure services.
"With the addition of reciprocity alone, the core business case for gaining FedRAMP authorization just got a lot better," said McAndrew. "Now, commercial cloud and software providers have easier access to multiple agencies across the federal marketplace."
From FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) in 2002 to the original FedRAMP in 2011, the FedRAMP Authorization Act accelerates secure cloud adoption for federal agencies. Today's long-awaited FedRAMP reform is expected to spread into state and local governments and have a major impact on security standards across the commercial economy.
The world's leading organizations – the top 5 cloud service providers; 8 of the top 10 SaaS businesses; and 3 of the top 5 in financial services, healthcare, and retail – trust Coalfire to elevate their cyber programs and secure the future of their business. As the largest global firm dedicated to cybersecurity, Coalfire delivers a full lifecycle of solutions through professional services, managed services, and technology platforms to help our clients solve their toughest cyber challenges. With more than 20 years of proven cybersecurity leadership, Coalfire combines extensive cloud expertise, industry knowledge, and innovative approaches to fuel success.
For more information, visit Coalfire.com.
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Ricardo Juarez and Stephani Ramona Gutierrez decided to tag along with friends to the Dodgers’ Opening Day game Thursday, March 30.
But Juarez, who lives in Riverside, Calif., didn’t just take his Mookie Betts jersey and Dodgers cap.
The 35-year-old sushi chef at Oishii Sushi & Teriyaki in neighboring Moreno Valley also took an engagement ring. He planned to propose to then-girlfriend Gutierrez, 33, who uses the name Ramona Saavedra on social media.
But what Juarez thought would be a proposal shown on the jumbotron ended with him being tackled by security guards on the field — and with him as the star of a viral video.
“I wanted it to be special,” Juarez said Monday, April 3. “I didn’t want to be simple.”
During the seventh-inning stretch of the Dodgers game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Juarez decided to run onto the field from their seats in the left-field pavilion, fall to one knee and propose to Gutierrez, who was in the stands. But a Dodger Stadium security guard sped toward him, tackled him to the ground and handcuffed him. Juarez was escorted off the field as the crowd cheered him on.
Proposal gone wrong at Dodger Stadium 💀 pic.twitter.com/qankLwE5sW
— maze (@Mazeaveli) March 31, 2023
Juarez bought the ring two weeks ago and planned something special to show his love for Gutierrez.
“I just wanted to go the baseball game and come out on screen,” he said. “I never imagined it being this big.”
Gutierrez, who lives in Beaumont, said Juarez was extremely excited but he “jumped the gun” with his spur-of-the-moment decision to propose from the field instead of in the stands.
“I was coming back from the bathroom,” Gutierrez said. “I almost missed the whole thing.”
Though Gutierrez, a respiratory student at American Career College in Ontario, said yes to Juarez, there were consequences to his bravery.
“They gave him a citation, they gave him the ring back and they banned him for a year,” she said.
After the tackle, Juarez went to Riverside University Health System Medical Center in Moreno Valley and got a shot for his pain, Gutierrez said.
Juarez said his spine and neck hurt after the tackle, which sent his Dodgers cap and the ring flying. Doctors told Juarez it was normal to feel pain after the impact of such a hit.
A Los Angeles Dodgers spokesperson declined to comment on the incident Friday, March 31.
The couple met when a mutual friend introduced them at Lake Perris about three years ago. They started going on hikes at Mount Rubidoux in Riverside and hit if off, Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez and Juarez have a child, 1, together and Gutierrez has three from two previous relationships.
Planning for the wedding wasn’t the first thing on Gutierrez’s mind when he proposed.
“I was so shocked,” Gutierrez said. “And I was scared. I thought he was gonna go to jail and I thought I wasn’t going to see him anymore.”
While being interviewed on a Spanish-language radio show, “El Show de Piolín” on 107.1 FM, hosted by Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, pushed the couple to set a wedding date and created a GoFundMe page to help pay for the nuptials. As of Monday evening, $583 of the $20,000 goal had been raised.
Though the couple was apprehensive about a fundraiser, Gutierrez said, “let’s just do it and see what happens.”
As for the wedding, “we’re shooting for Aug. 5,” she said.
So what happened after Juarez was released?
Juarez was dropped off by security on Sunset Boulevard, near a stadium entrance. Still, he had one more trick up his sleeve.
“He gets on one knee and he proposes again, as soon as I see him,” she said.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA), a statewide organization representing Maryland's lawyers, providing member services, and promoting professionalism, diversity in the legal profession, access to justice, service to the public, and respect for the rule of law, announced today that Victor L. Velazquez, MSBA Executive Director, will depart the MSBA at the end of October 2022. Over the past five years Velazquez successfully led a transformation campaign that has benefitted members, the legal profession, and the public interest at large. Powered by 'Foundational Recommendations' presented to, and unanimously approved by, the MSBA Board of Governors in 2017, and subsequently guided by long term Strategic Priorities & Objectives established in 2018, the MSBA has been a leader amongst peer entities in the US.
Velazquez is departing the MSBA having achieved significant increases in the association's Net Promoter Scores (NPS) in all member segments, more than a five fold increase in member's perceived value of the association, the successful rollout of numerous digital products and a new, digital-centric experience, and garnering national accolades for advocacy on behalf of the legal profession. Velazquez is leaving the MSBA to join a large publicly traded company unrelated to the legal sector. In his new role he will serve as a senior executive leading a variety of strategic transformation initiatives building on his twenty plus year track record of doing so in a variety of industries.
"When Vic was brought on board he was tasked with modernizing our then 120-year old organization, to enhance its relevance to the profession, and to make it more resilient in responding to the challenges and opportunities of the future," shared the Honorable Harry Storm, Associate Judge, Montgomery County Circuit Court, and MSBA President in 2017 when Velazquez was brought on board. Judge Storm added that "Vic achieved the goals set out for him and delivered on both relevancy and resilience. Members were able to consume thousands of hours of content during the pandemic, and the MSBA's member retention rates over the last several challenging years have been industry-leading, outpacing other voluntary state bar associations. Notwithstanding daunting challenges, Vic's tenure was incredibly successful. He should be proud of a job well done."
Current MSBA President David P. Shapiro states, "We owe a debt of gratitude to Vic, not only for the results he has helped this association to achieve, often with significant headwinds, but also for the manner in how he has helped the MSBA to interpret and realized upon the Strategic Priorities & Objectives dictated by our members. Vic has demonstrated true leadership, not only in how he has helped to navigate the MSBA over the past five years, but also by building an extraordinary MSBA staff comprised of smart, dedicated, hard-working, mission focused teammates. It's not surprising that the MSBA now also is certified as a Great Place to Work Ⓡ. As we move ahead, we look forward to continuing upon our defined strategic path and to building upon the fundamentals that have helped us reach this sound footing over the past several years."
"Vic understood that, in addition to being a zealous advocate on behalf of the noble legal profession, the MSBA had an opportunity to serve tens of thousands of Marylanders who are most vulnerable, '' said Ward Coe, Chair of the Maryland Access to Justice Commission. "When he, along with then MSBA President, Mark Scurti, architected bringing the Maryland Access to Justice Commission into the MSBA, he enabled a fruitful partnership whose trajectory of achievements has included raising tens of millions of dollars to ensure access to justice in Maryland. We at the Commission will be ever grateful for Vic's support of our mission and efforts."
Per President Shapiro, the MSBA will constitute an Executive Director Transition Committee focused on identifying the guiding principles and core competencies to be upheld as the MSBA transitions beyond Velazquez's tenure at the association. MSBA Chief Operating Officer, Anna Sholl, Esq., will serve as Acting Executive Director following Velazquez's departure and until a permanent replacement is named by the MSBA Board of Governors.
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HOUSTON, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- capSpire is pleased to announce the addition of Cathy Hughes as their new Managing Partner, North America. As part of a capSpire global team, Cathy will manage capSpire's Advisory and Consulting practices across North America.
Aligning with the capSpire's mission to meet their clients' challenges with industry experts, Cathy brings over 29 years of energy technology experience in professional services and operational leadership. Her background in various services leadership roles will be invaluable to capSpire's consulting, implementation, and operations and support teams.
"capSpire is so fortunate to be joined by such a well-known industry expert as Cathy Hughes. Her history and experience in our industry and client set are unmatched," stated Jim Kiser, Global CEO of capSpire.
capSpire has already felt her impact, as her leadership philosophy is a perfect fit with capSpire's view on internal and client relations, confirming that collaboration and personal development are a beacon for success at every step. Cathy excels at nurturing her team's expanding skill set and supporting clients through her own deep industry knowledge. Her rich network is filled with decades-long relationships with colleagues and clients around the world.
To further strengthen capSpire's global leadership team, capSpire Founder Jeff Hardcastle will transition into the role of Global Chief Operating Officer and focus on bringing global processes and continuity to our clients. capSpire will give clients access to skilled resources and trading systems expertise in every major trading hub, fostering synergy across teams and further establishing capSpire as a global authority in the technology consulting space.
About capSpire
capSpire is a global consulting and solutions firm focused on driving growth for energy and commodity businesses at every stage of the value chain. capSpire provides customized services that start with technology consulting and guide their clients through software implementation, operations and support, and long-term strategy development through collaborative, integrated processes.
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The electric Ford F-150 Lightning will remain quicker than the rest of the F-150 lineup for the near future.
At the 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R launch, Ford Performance boss Carl Widmann didn’t mince words: Electrification, be it hybridization or all-electric, isn’t in the Raptor lineup’s cards.
Raptor sticking with the ICE
The reason? Widmann said the internal-combustion engine is “the best tech to operate at full power in deep sand, bar none.”
“The truck (the Raptor) brings that engine to life. You can do things so rapidly,” Widmann said. He noted that it’s not hard to turn off the Raptor R’s traction control system and shoot a rooster tail with a jab of the right foot.
The Raptor R’s supercharged V-8 adds about 100 lb total to the pickup over a turbocharged V-6-powered Raptor while adding 250 hp and 130 lb-ft of torque.
The silver-haired performance enthusiast, who’s responsible for ridiculous machines including the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor, and the third-generation Ford F-150 Raptor, said his team has driven the GMC Hummer EV. “They are good for a shot, but not something you would run at Baja.” Widmann laughed while noting the Hummer weighs in at more than 9,000 lb.
Widmann said electric vehicles (specifically referring to off-road-capable trucks) aren’t as nimble as a V-8-powered vehicle due to all the extra weight of the batteries.
As for hybridization, the change would need to add benefit to the customers. “What is the benefit as it comes to weight?” Widmann asked, adding there’s simply no way around the added weight from the battery and electric motor, which reduces agility.
No Godzilla
When the 2020 Ford F-250 Super Duty lineup was introduced in 2019 it brought forth a clean-sheet 7.3-liter V-8 dubbed Godzilla. Ford rated the Super Duty’s 7.3-liter V-8’s output at 430 hp and 475 lb-ft of torque.
When it was revealed, Ford spokesperson Mike Levine confirmed to Motor Authority the Godzilla engine would technically fit in both the F-150 Raptor and Mustang engine bays—though Levine noted that the large engine was designed for trucks and features a heavy iron block. But there was a question as to whether it would end up in the Raptor.
Standing next to the Raptor R, Widmann pointed to the supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 and said, “this is the most power you can pack for the power into the truck’s front end,” noting that Godzilla is simply too heavy.
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Social Security could be delayed due to debt impasse
(CNN) - If President Joe Biden and House Republicans can’t agree to lift the debt ceiling, senior citizens could be among the first to feel the impact.
The U.S. Treasury Department says if it can’t borrow more money, it won’t be able to pay the nation’s bills as soon as June 1.
The batch of Social Security payments scheduled to be sent out on June 2 goes to the oldest and most vulnerable recipients.
People who enrolled more recently get their payments later in the month.
About 40% of recipients rely almost entirely on Social Security payments for food, housing and essentials.
Federal workers and military members’ paychecks could be impacted as well.
It is unknown how the Treasury Department would prioritize payments.
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Nashville Walgreens worker shoots pregnant woman accused of shoplifting, police say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Metro Nashville Police are investigating a shooting of a pregnant woman accused of shoplifting at an East Nashville drug store Wednesday night.
Homicide detectives are investigating the self-defense claim of a Walgreens team leader, 21-year-old Mitarius Boyd, who shot the suspected shoplifter in the store parking lot on Gallatin Avenue just before 8 p.m., according to police.
Police say the woman, 34-year-old Travonsha Ferguson, was seven months pregnant and is in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center.
An emergency cesarian section was performed to deliver the child, who was not injured by the gunfire and is also in critical but stable condition, according to police.
Police said their investigation shows that Boyd was told by another employee that two women were stealing items from the store. He claimed he saw the women placing items into a store cart and into a large over-the-shoulder bag.
He then began recording the women with his cell phone and followed them as they exited the store without paying for the items, according to police. Boyd said the women started putting the items into the trunk of their car, and he approached the rear side of the vehicle.
He said that one of the women sprayed him with a can of Mace, and that’s when Boyd said he pulled out his gun and began shooting.
He said he was in fear and didn’t know if they were armed, police said. The women fled the scene in their car. Boyd then went back into the store and called 911.
The other women took Ferguson to General Hospital and drove away. Ferguson had multiple gunshot wounds and was taken by ambulance to Vanderbilt Medical Center.
Police said Boyd cooperated with police, and his gun and cell phone were seized.
Once the investigation is complete, detectives will take their findings to the District Attorney’s Office for a determination as to whether Boyd will face charges.
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