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Oluchi Okananwa, the top-ranked high school girls’ basketball senior in New England, announced Thursday night that has committed to Duke University.
A 5-foot-9-inch guard at Worcester Academy, Okananwa chose her hometown, Peabody, and the Torigian YMCA to make her decision official. Ranked 27th in ESPN’s recruiting rankings, Okananwa has made a meteoric rise that has included a position change and three different high schools, culminating in the development of a dynamic two-way guard.
Durham what’s good?💙🤍 pic.twitter.com/e6IQuIlw6a
— Oluchi Okananwa (@oluchi_okananwa) November 11, 2022
“When you want to use the cliche [that] hard work, determination and perseverance, and being a positive person with a great attitude pays off — this to me is like the shining moment that is an example of all of that,” Worcester Academy coach Sherry Levin said.
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Okananwa attended Peabody High as a freshman — earning Globe All-Scholastic honors — before reclassifying and playing two seasons at New Hampton (N.H.). She joined Worcester Academy as a hybrid guard/wing, but Levin saw potential for Okananwa to transition into a lead guard.
The playmaker duplicated new moves in workouts and scrimmages, impressing Levin — and college coaches — with her adaptability.
“I think because of her ability to really be receptive to taking on a new focus and really working on that, that’s why I say she’s just going to grow, and grow, and grow,” Levin said.
Okananwa received 19 collegiate offers and had narrowed her finalists to Michigan, Rutgers, TCU, Harvard, and Mississippi State. She joins Bridgewater-Raynham grad Shay Bollin as back-to-back top New England recruits to choose coach Kara Lawson and the Blue Devils.
“[Okananwa is] a very cerebral player, and she’s a very cerebral person,” Levin said. “So she likes to get all the information [and] talk with her family — they’re a close family — and so this was a decision made with a lot of research and a lot of input.”
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She is also the second star from Worcester Academy to commit to Duke this fall, joining boys’ basketball forward TJ Power of Shrewsbury. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/11/sports/peabodys-oluchi-okananwa-is-taking-her-versatile-game-court-duke-university/ | 2022-11-11 06:04:38 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/11/sports/peabodys-oluchi-okananwa-is-taking-her-versatile-game-court-duke-university/ |
MEAD — High on the wall in Jody Weible’s dining room is a small shrine to Dale Earnhardt.
The miniature race cars, mugs and “anything else” dealing with No. 3 has had a place of honor in the ranch-style house for nearly a decade, Weible said, adorning the home alongside family photos, rodeo-themed decor and Bible verses.
Over the years, it’s also gathered dust blown in from the countryside, often outpacing Weible’s desire to remove each of the tchotchkes to clean them.
So last year, when a researcher from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln knocked on her door a little more than a mile north of AltEn asking to sample for pesticides in and around her home, Weible pointed him to the Intimidator.
“He just put an adhesive pad on the glass shelf and lifted it off,” Weible said. “There was a perfectly clean spot where it had been.”
Weible said she nearly forgot about the air and surface sampling. The Environmental Protection Agency conducted air sampling for several compounds -- not pesticides, however -- in September 2021, which eased the concerns of many residents, she said.
“In a million years, I thought I’d be totally fine," Weible said.
On Thursday, as researchers from UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center shared the preliminary results of a 2021 campaign sampling for neonicotinoid pesticides in and around Mead, Weible and others learned pesticides had been discovered in a home.
After a restless night, Weible said she learned her home was the hot spot.
The sample taken from her dining room showed the presence of 11 of the 14 compounds found in high concentrations at AltEn, which processed seeds coated with pesticides into ethanol, leaving behind toxic solid and liquid waste.
Specifically, the sample measured imidacloprid, which is applied to soybeans to protect them from early season pests, according to its seed label registered with the EPA, at 407 parts-per billion.
Clothianidin, another neonicotinoid — a class of pesticides derived from nicotine that overstimulate insects, leading to their death — was also found at 12.3 ppb, according to the university’s findings, as well as a cocktail of other chemicals used in various agricultural applications.
The results were shared anonymously on Thursday. Dr. Eleanor Rogan, who leads UNMC’s environmental health program and is overseeing research into how toxic compounds from AltEn have spread through the environment, said even she didn’t know whose house had been tested.
The researcher who conducted the sampling, Chandran Achutan, left UNMC not long after the research project took off last year when he got a new job.
In addition to being at levels 10 to 100 times lower than the level deemed dangerous by the EPA, Rogan said more study was needed to link the pesticides definitely back to AltEn.
“These chemicals are used on all the farms, so we can’t say for sure they came from AltEn,” Rogan said. “We need to find out if they are present everywhere because you’re in a rural community, or if it’s possible they came from AltEn.”
A day after the results were shared, Weible says she’s certain that the various pesticides found inside and outside her home came from the ethanol plant.
“I’ve been frustrated through this whole deal,” she said, “but I’ve never been scared until now, and now I want to cry because I am terrified.”
Early findings shared
The results shared with about 50 people on Thursday confirmed what many in the Saunders County village have feared for years: That neonicotinoids and fungicides found in high concentrations at AltEn are also ubiquitous in the landscape for miles around the plant.
University researchers said they had located concentrated amounts of pesticides in surface and groundwater, in soil and bee colonies, and anticipated finding products in frogs and bird eggs collected across the area last year.
Judy Wu-Smart, an entomologist who brought attention to AltEn after the bee colonies she managed at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center south of Mead experienced persistent and total die-offs, said the 2021 samples showed some improvement.
While every hive deployed within a few miles of AltEn died in 2019 and 2020, Wu-Smart said the colonies in 2021 fared marginally better, with more than one-fourth surviving until the end of the season, and with fewer bees being found in the traps used to collect the dead.
“I think it has a lot to do with the capping of the pile and making sure none of (pesticides in the wet cake stored at AltEn) is blowing off,” Wu-Smart said, “Or shutting down the plant and making sure nothing is moving in or out of the facility.”
Still, the hives that survived did not thrive, she added. Careful observations showed abnormal behaviors within the colony linked to pesticide exposure, like the colony setting out to forage for pollen and nectar on the landscape sooner than normal.
Wu-Smart also said samples collected from soil that sat underneath where wet cake was delivered to a field two years ago showed high levels of neonicotinoids more than a foot below the surface, demonstrating the chemical’s vertical movement.
An analysis of ground and surface water downstream from AltEn turned up the same list of pesticides, as well as “degradation compounds,” or neonicotinoids that have gone through a transformation in the environment.
Jesse Bell, the director of UNMC’s Water, Climate and Health Program, said the research team has included seven degradation chemicals to the list of 14 “parent compounds” it has typically searched for, and believes more could emerge as the study continues.
“One of the reasons they like to use these pesticides is because they are persistent,” Bell said. “They do break down, but just because they degrade and break down does not mean their toxicity goes away. Those other compounds they break down into can be toxic as well.”
Thirteen of the 21 compounds tested for turned up at Johnson Creek Reservoir, a 56-acre pond that serves as part of a flood control system from the Crystal Creek watershed directly east of AltEn.
The ethanol plant had a permit to discharge stormwater into Johnson Creek north of the reservoir, according to records from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy.
Study could have wide impact
Weible is among the overwhelming majority of residents in the village who told UNMC they are worried about what living in the vicinity of AltEn will mean for their future and their health.
Early results of a survey of perceived health risks show 75% of respondents indicated they are concerned about AltEn’s activities, as well as the ongoing cleanup efforts.
The research team, which came together last year and is now powered by a $1 million appropriation from the Legislature, is sensitive to the gravity of the work before them.
“It’s just terrible what (the people of Mead) are going through,” Bell said.
The scientists, public health professionals, doctors and veterinarians also recognize the opportunity created by the AltEn crisis, which has given them an unprecedented chance to investigate how agricultural chemicals travel through and are changed by the environment.
On Thursday, hours before the university’s presentation began, the EPA released its final biological evaluations for three of the neonicotinoid compounds found in high concentrations at AltEn and the surrounding environment.
The evaluation, which studied the effects of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam on over 1,700 species and 800 habitats, sought to determine “whether they may affect one or more federally listed endangered or threatened (listed) species or their designated habitats.”
The results found clothianidin is likely to adversely affect 67% of endangered species and 56% of critical habitats; imidacloprid was likely to have an adverse effect on 79% of species and 83% of critical habitats; and thiamethoxam was likely to adversely affect 77% of species and 81% of habitats.
The EPA said it plans to work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to develop a “biological opinion” on each chemical, which will then be used to develop mitigation measures to protect those species, likely to be released in 2024.
Khan said the steps being taken by the EPA will likely mean “a lot more scrutiny” and potentially more strict regulations on the class of insecticides plaguing the town and the surrounding area.
“The data you are generously providing as part of this assessment will then be available for EPA as they determine how to protect other communities across America who may find themselves, unfortunately, in this same position,” he told the town hall.
“We’re here to help you and you, in turn, are helping the rest of the U.S.,” Khan added.
Weible, whose tenacity helped bring attention to AltEn, said her concern has become more immediate. Since late 2019, the longtime resident of Mead said she has had sores on her tongue, which five doctors have been unable to explain.
Her neighbors have also developed health problems, as have others living miles away downwind from the plant.
“I’m frustrated and scared silly,” she said. “If it’s in my house, it’s in everybody’s house out here.”
Four minutes after warning residents to stay away from the area near 15th and U streets, the school's police department announced the person was arrested.
Keith Doering had been riding his 2015 Yamaha YZFR6 motorcycle north on 84th Street around 9:50 p.m. Saturday when a southbound Jeep turned left onto Augusta Drive, crossing into Doering's path, the police said in a news release.
There were no immediate reports of damage caused by a tornado, but law enforcement indicated some debris evident along I-80 near the Pleasant Dale exit and campers overturned near Greenwood.
Asked about the ruling, Courtney Lawton said Friday: "I was denied justice and I still believe that my First Amendment right to freedom of expression was violated."
Avid drag racers said they have no place race and are scapegoats for problems on O street, and residents frustrated by the noise and speeding cars expressed their frustrations at a town hall meeting.
The complaint — filed by two shareholders in Superior Court of the State of Washington, where Costco is based — involves an undercover investigation into Lincoln Premium Poultry last year.
As the 5-year-old dog charged officers, knocking one to the ground, a second officer retreated backward and fired his gun, striking the dog, the police department said. The dog, Diva, was ultimately euthanized.
Jody Weible, a former member of Mead’s Village Planning Board, said when AltEn was given a conditional use permit to run its plant, the board wasn't told the plant would use seed corn, rather than the more common field corn, to produce ethanol.
Jody Weible lives less than a mile north of AltEn and has worked stubbornly for years to organize the community to push state lawmakers and government officials to address the environmental and health issues originating at the plant. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/i-am-terrified-alten-study-finds-pesticides-in-mead-womans-home/article_3168cdde-f785-5246-83d3-ee66a91e08c5.html | 2022-06-19 15:08:11 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/i-am-terrified-alten-study-finds-pesticides-in-mead-womans-home/article_3168cdde-f785-5246-83d3-ee66a91e08c5.html |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 23, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
406 AM EDT Sat Jul 23 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 97 expected.
* WHERE...Seneca, Southern Cayuga, Onondaga, Schuyler, Chemung,
Tompkins, Tioga and Broome counties.
* WHEN...From 11 AM this morning to 6 PM EDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The highest heat index values will be in
lower elevation and urban areas. Heat and humidity may last into
Sunday, depending on the timing of expected thunderstorms. Heat
Advisories may need to extended later.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances. Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stormy Daniels’ lawyer said the porn actor met with prosecutors Wednesday as former President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer testified before a grand jury investigating hush money paid to Daniels on Trump’s behalf.
Daniels’ attorney, Clark Brewster, tweeted that Daniels met with and answered questions from Manhattan prosecutors and was willing to be a witness. The news came as Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, was giving his second day of testimony before the grand jury.
Daniels tweeted her thanks to her attorney for “helping me in our continuing fight for truth and justice.”
A message seeking comment was sent to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
“I feel great,” Cohen told reporters as headed into what he expected to be his final day of testimony.
In the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Cohen said he made a $130,000 payment on Trump’s behalf to Daniels, who at the time had been in negotiations to tell her story on television.
Daniels has said she had a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump that she didn’t want, but didn’t say no to. Trump says it never happened. The former president’s lawyer said Trump was invited to testify before the grand jury but has no plans to do so.
Federal prosecutors in 2018 charged Cohen with campaign finance crimes related to the payment, and a similar $150,000 payout he helped arrange to the Playboy model Karen McDougal, arguing that they amounted to impermissible gifts to Trump’s election effort. Trump also denied having an affair with McDougal.
Cohen pleaded guilty. Trump was never charged by federal prosecutors, however. Manhattan prosecutors have been examining whether any state laws were broken in connection with the payments or the way Cohen was paid by the Trump Organization for his work to cover up the alleged affairs.
Cohen and federal prosecutors said the company paid him $420,000 to reimburse him for the payment to Daniels and to cover bonuses and other supposed expenses. The company classified those payments internally as legal expenses.
Falsifying business records can be a misdemeanor under state law, or a felony if the fudging of paperwork is done in connection with a more serious crime.
Trump and his lawyers have said he was extorted into paying the money to Daniels and should be considered the victim in the investigation. Daniels and the lawyers who helped arrange the payment have denied extorting anyone. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/michael-cohen-makes-2nd-appearance-before-trump-grand-jury/ | 2023-03-15 20:19:43 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/michael-cohen-makes-2nd-appearance-before-trump-grand-jury/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Spacey heads to court Thursday to defend himself in a lawsuit filed by Anthony Rapp, the actor who in 2017 made the first in a string of sexual misconduct allegations that left the “House of Cards” star’s theater and filmmaking career in tatters.
The trial, expected to last less than two weeks, will focus on an alleged encounter between the two men in New York City in 1986, when Rapp was a blossoming child actor and Spacey, then 26, was having a breakout moment on Broadway.
Rapp, who was 14 at the time, said the older actor invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment, then tried to seduce him in a bedroom after the other guests had left.
He said a drunk, swaying Spacey swept him up in his arms, like a groom carrying a bride, then laid him on a bed and climbed on top of him. Rapp said he quickly wriggled away and left, then kept quiet about what happened for three decades as both actors saw their careers take off.
When Rapp told his story to Buzzfeed in 2017 as the #MeToo movement began to grip Hollywood, Spacey said he had no recollection of the incident, “but if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
Since then, though, Spacey’s legal team has said the accusation is false. Rapp never attended the party, they said. And even if it had happened as Rapp described, they have argued, it wouldn’t constitute a sexual advance.
Jury selection for the trial begins Thursday, with opening statements to follow. Rapp wants compensation for mental and emotional suffering, medical expenses and loss of work.
The trial comes at a fraught time for Spacey, now 63.
Three months ago he pleaded not guilty in London to charges that he sexually assaulted three men between 2004 and 2015 when he was the artistic director at the Old Vic theater.
A judge in Los Angeles this summer approved an arbitrator’s decision to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of the Netflix show “House of Cards” for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.
Those setbacks followed some victories for Spacey, who has recently been acting in films again.
In 2019, prosecutors in Massachusetts dropped indecent assault and battery charges that had been filed after a man claimed Spacey had groped him at a Nantucket bar. Spacey said he was innocent. His accuser also dropped a civil lawsuit.
Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “American Beauty,” a 1999 film in which he played a frustrated suburban father who lusts after his teenage daughter’s best friend.
Rapp, who as a teenager acted in films including “Adventures in Babysitting,” was part of the original Broadway cast of “Rent,” and is now a regular on “Star Trek: Discovery” on television.
Both Rapp and Spacey are expected to testify at the trial.
Other witnesses will likely include a psychologist who believes Rapp currently experiences post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the encounter with Spacey. | https://wgntv.com/news/trending/kevin-spacey-faces-civil-trial-on-sexual-assault-claims%EF%BF%BC/ | 2022-10-06 14:44:58 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/trending/kevin-spacey-faces-civil-trial-on-sexual-assault-claims%EF%BF%BC/ |
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP:
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You are hereby notified that Levi & Korsinsky, LLP has commenced an investigation into the fairness of the merger of Pzena with and into a newly formed subsidiary of its operating company, Pzena Investment Management, LLC ("PIM"). Under the terms of the deal, holders of Penza Class A common stock will receive just $9.60 per share in cash.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-9-7-6
(zero, nine, seven, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-9-7-6
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Culinary Demonstrations by Mark Bittman, Global Chefs Showcase Ways to Redefine At-Home Cooking Experience
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Signature Kitchen Suite, the fast-growing luxury appliance brand known for driving innovation in the built-in kitchen appliance market, is showcasing its 'True to Food' mantra at KBIS 2023 with several exciting activations and cooking demonstrations with the company's executive chefs alongside bestselling cookbook author and six-time James Beard Foundation award winner Mark Bittman.
At KBIS 2023, Signature Kitchen Suite will debut the next installment in the True to Food film series, titled la Patissière, featuring pastry chef Kaitlin Guerin, owner and operator of Lagniappe Baking in New Orleans. Narrated by Bittman, this series explores the journey food takes from source to plate through conversations with a diverse group of culinary artisans who know food best – from a New York City based butcher educating consumers about the whole-animal craft, to a San Diego fisherman focused on the sustainability of both fisheries and a way of life. Attendees to NKBA's Uncorked event hosted at the Signature Kitchen Suite booth are in for a sweet treat as pastries from Lagniappe Baking will be available, and perfectly preserved and organized thanks to the brand's first-of-its-kind 48-inch French Door Refrigerator, which offers innovative preservation features, ample space for big culinary adventures and a sleek design.
Signature Kitchen Suite provides at home chefs with the necessary tools to prepare foods in the best possible ways by bringing professional-grade equipment to the home kitchens. The company pioneered sous vide technology in the residential kitchens, as the first and only to integrate sous vide capabilities right on the cooking surface, alongside gas burners and induction for the perfect finish. At KBIS 2023, the company will unveil an expanded portfolio of luxury appliance innovations that drive performance, design and precision including a 48-inch French-door refrigerator, available in market now, 36-inch gas cooktop and PowerSteam dishwasher.
Live demonstrations and tastings will be led by Executive Chef Nick Ritchie based at Signature Kitchen Suite's Experience & Design Center in culinary-centric Napa Valley, Calif., and Executive Chef Austin Kang based at the company's global headquarters in Seoul. Attendees will learn how to achieve gourmet cooking results right in the home kitchen, utilizing the company's exclusive and game-changing culinary products, including the versatile 48-inch Dual Fuel Pro Range, the first and only pro range with built-in sous vide, induction and gas, all on the cooking surface, along with an 18-inch steam oven and 30-inch convection oven below. Bittman will also be joining the live sous vide cooking demonstration alongside Chef Ritchie on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Visitors of the show are invited to watch the chefs in action plus tour Signature Kitchen Suite's full line of luxury products at booth #W3045 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.
Tuesday, Jan. 31
- 11 a.m. Culinary Demo with Chef Nick Ritchie and Chef Austin Kang: Korean braised short ribs with sous vide carrots
- 1 p.m. Culinary Demo with Mark Bittman and Chef Nick Ritchie: sous vide spiced chicken breast with steam oven sweet potatoes and yogurt sauce
- 3 p.m. Uncorked (Private NKBA Event), featuring pastries from Lagniappe Baking
Wednesday, Feb. 1
- 11 a.m. Culinary Demo with Chef Nick Ritchie: sous vide seared scallops with truffle potatoes
- 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. Culinary Demo with Chef Austin Kang: kimchi eggs benedicts and gochujang glazed meatballs
Thursday, Feb. 2
- 11 a.m., 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. Culinary Demos with Chef Nick: sous vide poached egg, steamed vegetables in vinaigrette, bacon jam, coffee coriander steak with Diane sauce and croissant bread pudding with sous vide anglaise sauce
For more information on Signature Kitchen Suite's award-winning portfolio of built-in kitchen appliances including pro-ranges and rangetops, wall ovens, microwave drawers, column and undercounter refrigeration and dishwashers, visit www.signaturekitchensuite.com.
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Signature Kitchen Suite delivers innovation in the luxury built-in kitchen appliance market with leading-edge technology that provides more flexibility to prepare food in the best possible way, demonstrating respect for the food at every level. The new luxury brand from global home appliance leader LG Electronics, Signature Kitchen Suite is embracing a new generation of forward-thinking Technicurean™ cooks, combining their passion for food with their appreciation for innovation. From the first-of-its-kind built-in sous vide range to the industry's only built-in French Door refrigerator with a convertible middle drawer, Signature Kitchen Suite's versatile and high-performance appliances deliver the ultimate precision cooking experience. Visit www.signaturekitchensuite.com or follow the brand on social channels @SKSappliances.
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Judge to Trump: Too late to offer DNA to rebut rape claim
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump missed his chance to use his DNA to try to prove he didn’t rape a longtime magazine advice columnist, a federal judge said Wednesday, clearing away a potential roadblock to an April trial.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected the 11th-hour offer by Trump’s legal team to provide a DNA sample to rebut claims E. Jean Carroll first made publicly in a 2019 book.
Kaplan said that lawyers for Trump and Carroll had over three years to make DNA an issue in the case and that both chose not to do so.
He said it would almost surely delay the trial scheduled to start April 25 to reopen the DNA issue four months after the deadline passed to litigate concerns over trial evidence and just weeks before trial.
Trump’s lawyers did not immediately comment on Kaplan’s ruling. Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment.
Carroll’s lawyers have sought Trump’s DNA sample for three years to compare it with stains found on the dress Carroll wore the day she says Trump raped her in an upscale Manhattan department store dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996. An analysis of DNA on the dress concluded it did contain traces of an unknown man’s DNA.
Trump has denied knowing Carroll and said repeatedly, and sometimes angrily, that he never raped Carroll and that she was making the claim to stoke sales of her book.
After refusing to provide Trump’s DNA sample, his lawyers recently switched tactics, saying they would provide his DNA if Carroll’s lawyers turned over the full DNA report on the dress.
Kaplan wrote in an order that Trump had provided no persuasive reason to relieve him of the consequences of his failure to seek the full DNA report in a timely fashion.
And the judge noted that the report did not find evidence of sperm cells and that reopening the dispute would raise a “complicated new subject into this case that both sides elected not to pursue over a period of years.”
He said that a positive match of Trump’s DNA to that on the dress would prove only that there had been an encounter between Trump and Carroll on a day when she wore the dress, but that it would not prove or disprove that a rape occurred and might prove entirely inconclusive.
Kaplan added: “His conditional invitation to open a door that he kept closed for years threatens to change the nature of a trial for which both parties now have been preparing for years. Whether Mr. Trump’s application is intended for a dilatory purpose or not, the potential prejudice to Ms. Carroll is apparent.”
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
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Coming off three straight losses and the possibility of fumbling first place in the Metropolitan Division, it was a must-win game for the Carolina Hurricanes in their final home contest of the regular season against the Detroit Red Wings.
The Hurricanes (51-21-9) got off to a fast start on their way to a win over the Red Wings (35-36-10) at PNC Arena. With the win, the Canes secured home-ice advantage for at least the first round of the playoffs. Additionally, the Canes will have a chance in their final game of the season to crown themselves Metropolitan Division champions.
The Hurricanes secured their 111th point of the season partly thanks to a brisk first period. After three straight games of allowing the first goal of the contest, Carolina flipped the script at home thanks to right wing Stefan Noesen’s wraparound goal. The goal was scored during a 91-second shift in the Detroit end by center Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s line, which seemed to set the tone for the entire period.
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The early goal provided a spark for the entire team in the first frame. Just moments after Noesen’s goal, defenseman Brady Skjei set up left wing Jordan Martinook to give the Canes an early two-goal lead. Carolina goaltender Antii Raanta shut the door on Detroit’s late-period surge in the final minutes of the frame.
Early in the second frame, Detroit defenseman Jordan Oesterle was called for holding on Noesen and gave Carolina an early chance within the frame to put the game away. Similar to how the entire season has gone, Carolina was unable to convert on the power play and only saw a few grade-A chances. Shortly after the unsuccessful power play, defenseman Robert Hagg buried a shot past Raanta’s blocker side to cut Detroit’s deficit in half.
Halfway through the frame, defenseman Brent Burns wristed a shot from just inside the blue line that hit off the backside of Red Wings center Joe Veleno and past goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic, regaining Carolina’s two-goal lead. After 40 minutes of play, the Canes led 3-1 and had 55 seconds to kill off a power play to start the third due to a slashing penalty on Skjei with 1:05 remaining in the second.
Carolina started the frame with a smooth penalty kill, which established play for the remainder of the game. Within the frame, Raanta was steady and made big saves when the team needed him too, and late in the game, Kotkaniemi sealed the deal with a long empty net goal to secure the 4-1 win.
The Canes currently hold a one-point lead on the New Jersey Devils and control their own destiny with just one game remaining. Carolina will look to win the Metropolitan Division with two points on Thursday, April 11 in the Sunshine State against the Florida Panthers at FLA Live Arena. | https://www.technicianonline.com/sports/quick-start-gives-hurricanes-much-needed-win-in-final-home-game-against-detroit/article_4bdef8f0-d8e2-11ed-83a5-2b5643f61d7e.html | 2023-04-12 10:33:36 | 1 | https://www.technicianonline.com/sports/quick-start-gives-hurricanes-much-needed-win-in-final-home-game-against-detroit/article_4bdef8f0-d8e2-11ed-83a5-2b5643f61d7e.html |
Regenerative farm-to-table event co-hosted by NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin and Egg Innovations
LAKEWOOD, Colo., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers® is proud to participate in the upcoming Sustainability Showcase on July 21st, 2022, co-hosted by the National Association for Catering & Events (NACE) - Capital Area of Wisconsin and Egg Innovations. The farm-to-table event will showcase how regenerative agriculture balances nature to create harmony and sustainability for farm and flock.
Set on the pastures of the Teunissen Farm in the Dutch Heritage Acres of Cedar Grove, WI, this special event celebrates how suppliers, retailers and consumers have the power to give back to the planet through the businesses they support.
Attendees' registration includes a property tour of a working regenerative farm, experiential event setup, gourmet hors d'oeuvres, an open bar and an incredible multi-course feast crafted by Nadi Plates, featuring Helpful Hens and Blue Sky Family Farms pasture-raised eggs. After dinner there will be a casual educational program including expert industry panelists.
Natural Grocers' Christie Zimmerman will be joining the panel discussion. "We're thrilled to have Christie join us for this year's Sustainability Showcase," said Sarah Davidson, President of NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin. Davidson continued, "We'll have the best of both worlds for our attendees: they'll not only see (and taste) regenerative farming practices in person, but they'll also have the opportunity to learn and converse with top professionals in the regenerative agriculture space. Sifting through all the information that's out there on this subject can be daunting. This premier event will inform attendees what they need to know both as consumers and as premium food service providers, and show the power of impact that their everyday personal and professional choices have."
The panel, moderated by Sarah Davidson, will include:
- John Brunnquell, Ph.D. Brunnquell, PhD - Founder & CEO, Egg Innovations
- Matthew Teunissen, Owner & Operator, Dutch Heritage Acres
- John H. H., Industry Consultant
- Christie A. Zimmerman, MBA - Product Standards Manager, Natural Grocers
"We're proud to support one of our key laying hen partners at this farm-to-table event. Being able to tour the farm and see the impact the birds have on the land, pollinators and the whole farm ecosystem is a unique opportunity. Natural Grocers is committed to educating the public on the powers of regenerative agriculture as well as the power of their purchase dollars. Bringing people into a closer relationship to where their food comes from matters because it empowers consumers to make better and more informed decisions," said Zimmerman.
Registration for the event closes at 11:59pm Friday, July 15th.
- To register for the upcoming event click here.
- Visit www.naturalgrocers.com/sustainability to learn more about the Natural Grocers' sustainability practices.
- For media requests, or to request a guest speaker from Natural Grocers, contact media@naturalgrocers.com
About Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, safe, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations
About NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin
The National Association for Catering and Events is the premier resource for regional catering and event professionals. NACE meetings are a platform for networking and education that allows members to build valuable relationships and bring their businesses to the next level. Visit www.madisonnace.com for more information.
Egg Innovations
Egg Innovations is proud to be the industry leader in regenerative egg farming, and is on a mission to help chickens, people and the planet lead healthier lives. They aim to combat climate change and improve the ecosystem of the planet through sustainable farming practices.Visit www.egginnovations.com for more information.
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ST. JOHNSBURY, Vermont (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a plan to close a loophole to an immigration agreement that has allowed thousands of asylum-seeking immigrants to move between the two countries along a back road linking New York state to the Canadian province of Quebec.
So many migrants since early 2017 have walked into Canada on Roxham Road outside Champlain, New York, that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police staffed a reception center to process them, less than five miles (8 kilometers) from the official border crossing.
Mounties have warned the migrants at the end of the narrow two-lane road bordered by forests and farm fields that they would be arrested if they crossed the border. But once on Canadian soil, they have been allowed to stay and pursue asylum cases that can take years to resolve.
The new policy says that asylum seekers without U.S. or Canadian citizenship who are caught within 14 days of crossing anywhere along the 3,145-mile (5,061-kilometer) border will be sent back. That includes people walking on Roxham Road.
The deal was set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday — a quick implementation aimed at avoiding a surge of refugee claimants trying to cross, according to Canadian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the deal in advance.
Some of the last migrants to make it through before the Biden-Trudeau announcement were about eight people in two families — one from Haiti, the other from Afghanistan — who arrived at the U.S. end of Roxham Road just after dawn on Friday. Both said they took circuitous routes to get there.
Gerson Solay, 28, carried his daughter Bianca up to the border. He said he didn’t have the proper documents to remain in the United States. “That is why Canada is my last destination,” he said before he was taken into custody for processing.
It’s unclear how Roxham Road became a favorite route, but it’s just a taxi ride from where Interstate 87 approaches the Canadian border, and for southbound migrants, it’s a relatively short distance to New York City.
These migrants have taken advantage of a quirk in a 2002 agreement between the U.S. and Canada that says asylum seekers must apply in the first country they arrive in. Migrants who go to an official Canadian crossing are returned to the U.S. and told to apply there. But those who reach Canadian soil somewhere other than a port of entry — like the center near Roxham Road — are allowed to stay and request protection.
The agreement was immediately criticized by some who feel it could endanger the safety of asylum seekers by preventing them from getting needed support from both governments.
“We urge President Biden to strongly reconsider this deal and to work with Congress to restore access to asylum and support policies that recognize the dignity of all those arriving at our borders,” said Danilo Zak, associate director for policy and advocacy for the humanitarian group CWS, also known as Church World Services. The organization advocates for people across the world who have been forced from their homes.
The agreement comes as the U.S. Border Patrol responds to a steep increase in illegal southbound crossings along the wide-open Canadian border. Nearly all happen in northern New York and Vermont along the stretch of border nearest Canada’s two largest cities, Toronto and Montreal.
While the numbers are still tiny compared to the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s happening so frequently now that the Border Patrol increased its staffing in the region and has begun releasing some migrants into Vermont with a future date to appear before immigration authorities.
As part of the deal, Canada also agreed to allow 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere to seek asylum on a humanitarian basis over the course of the year.
Meanwhile, southbound migrants are straining U.S. border officials.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped migrants entering illegally from Canada 628 times in February, more than five times the same period a year earlier. Those numbers pale compared to migrants entering from Mexico – where they were stopped more than 220,000 times in December alone — but it is still a massive change in percentage terms.
In the Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector, which stretches across New Hampshire, Vermont and a portion of upstate New York, agents stopped migrants 418 times in February, up more than 10 times from a year earlier. About half entering from Canada have been Mexicans, who can fly visa-free to Canada from Mexico.
About an hour south of the border, the police chief in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community’s welcome center. The same thing happened several times before within the last few weeks.
In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the migrants dropped off in St. Johnsbury had been apprehended along the border after entering the U.S. without authorization, and were given a notice to appear for later immigration proceedings.
They were dropped off in St. Johnsbury because it has a station where migrants can take a bus to a larger city.
“In such circumstances, USBP works in tandem with local communities to ensure the safety of all parties—both community members and migrants—and to ensure stability in the community’s resources,” the statement said.
But local officials said they weren’t given time to prepare. State officials are now working to set up a system to provide migrants services they might require.
On Thursday, a Haitian couple and their children, boys aged 17 and 9 and a 15-year-old girl, were dropped off at the welcome center. The family, who did not want to give their names, wanted to take a bus to Miami.
They said they’d been in Canada for two months, but wouldn’t talk about what prompted them to keep moving.
They missed the Thursday bus that would allow them to connect to a bus to Boston, where they could catch another bus to Miami. A team of local volunteers spent the day getting them something to eat, finding them a place to stay the night and arranging for them to take the bus on Friday.
Police chief Tim Page said St. Johnsbury wants to help these migrants, but not on the fly.
“We need to get something down so we know what we are going to do when these families arrive,” he said. “We don’t have a system set yet, so when we do I am sure this will all go a little smoother.”
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Powered by Jellyvision, decision support leverages predictive analytics to help employees make better decisions when enrolling in benefits plans
CARMEL, Ind., July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Optavise, a one-stop-shop for employee benefits programs combining products, technology, and expert guidance, announced today that it is further helping employees to make informed benefits enrollment decisions by enhancing its decision support capabilities within its benefits administration platform.
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Through a partnership with Jellyvision, the Optavise benefits administration platform is expanding its decision support to include the following plan types: dental, vision, dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA), accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and employee-paid short-term disability (STD) benefits. This is in addition to its current decision support offering for medical and health savings accounts (HSA).
"Today's workforce has increasingly diverse needs, allowing employers the exciting, yet challenging task of meeting their various needs through channels that work best for them," said Michael Byers, president, Worksite Division at CNO Financial Group. "If employees prefer a self-serve benefits enrollment option, it's important they are provided with the resources to make informed selections, so that they feel they are able to take ownership of their plans and receive hyper-personalized benefits."
Selecting benefits can often be a confusing and stressful time for employees. According to an Optavise survey of 1,055 U.S. employees with employer-sponsored health plans, more than 60% said they were too confused by the benefits selection process and/or the choices available to them to make a change. Offering decision support allows employees, especially those who are not meeting one-on-one with a benefits educator, to make more informed choices on the benefits that will be most effective for their individual situations.
Jellyvision's benefits engagement platform, ALEX, helps people select the best benefit plan and get the most out of their employer benefits. ALEX's recommendation engine combines data, predictive analytics, and economic models to power the expanded decision support. This seamless integration into Optavise's platform means that employees do not have to leave the platform to receive hyper-personalized benefits decision support and provides transparency into their health choices. It also offers employees a more holistic view that goes beyond medical benefits to also include voluntary benefits. It all takes into consideration risk tolerance, financial circumstances, and individual lifestyles.
"At Jellyvision, our mission is to make complicated ideas simple and help people feel confident about making very complex, yet important financial decisions," said Eric Pumiglia, chief revenue officer of Jellyvision. "Organizations like Optavise are providing unmatched support to employers and their employees. And we're thrilled to join forces with them to continue to make the process of benefits selection easier and more intuitive."
Optavise's enhanced decision support solution is available now. To learn more about Optavise's employer solutions, visit www.optavise.com/employer-solutions.
About Optavise
Optavise provides personalized employee benefits solutions to help employers and their employees optimize their benefits and make better health and financial decisions. Optavise offers a unique combination of innovative technology, flexible voluntary benefits, and experts who educate and communicate with employees about their benefits. A part of the CNO Financial Group (NYSE: CNO) family of brands, Optavise operates through direct sales to employers and a nationwide network of more than 10,000 broker partners and over 600 dedicated agents. We serve nearly 20,000 businesses and employers. For more information, visit Optavise.com.
About CNO Financial Group
CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) secures the future of middle-income America. CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands, including Bankers Life, Colonial Penn, Optavise and Washington National. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.2 million policies and $34 billion in total assets. Our 3,400 associates, 4,300 exclusive agents and 4,000 independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions. For more information, visit CNOinc.com.
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Every state has its hallmark writers. Mississippi has William Faulkner and his incomparable (fictional) Yoknapatawpha County and Missouri can lay claim to Mark Twain. The state of Maine is gifted with Pulitzer winner Richard Russo and horror icon Stephen King. Rural Pennsylvania is the playground of the much-heralded (and occasionally maligned) John Updike, and when many bibliophiles think of New Jersey, they also think of Richard Ford’s series of novels featuring recurring Everyman character Frank Bascombe. Illinois can lay claim to William Maxwell, Sandra Cisneros, and Adam Langer, among numerous others. And what reader can think of Washington State without contending with the sparkle-vampire yarns of Stephanie Meyer?
What makes authors like these inextricably associated with a particular state is not simply the matter of their having been born there or choosing to live there. The connection, from a writerly standpoint, is deeper than that—their work, nearly all of it, is set in “their” state.
Of course, there are certainly exceptions. Whether a writer sets a tale in the town where they went to college or spent part of their childhood—like Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” and its New England arts school setting and the almost-factual small town of Jo Ann Beard’s “In Zanesville,” respectively—or crafts a story that follows a social or political theme to a location they know little about but lay narrative claim to anyway, the world is rife with books known, loved, and respected that also capture the essence of place—books where setting itself is one of the strongest characters.
Stacker compiled a list of books set in North Dakota from Goodreads. Whether you’re looking for a good read set in the state you call home, or you’re looking to expand your curiosity with a writer you’re already familiar with, we’ve got you covered.
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The Beet Queen
– Rating: 3.89 (13,169 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 1986
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literary Fiction
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
– Rating: 4.01 (24,383 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 1984
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Novels
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Paradise Valley (Highway Quartet #4)
– Rating: 4.19 (9,903 ratings)
– Author: C.J. Box
– Published: July 25, 2017
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime
– Read more on Goodreads
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
– Rating: 3.94 (12,171 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 1988
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, School
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Giants in the Earth
– Rating: 4.01 (5,373 ratings)
– Author: O.E. Rølvaag
– Published: January 1, 1925
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature
– Read more on Goodreads
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The Night Watchman
– Rating: 4.13 (52,417 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: March 3, 2020
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction
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The Round House
– Rating: 3.96 (107,786 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: October 2, 2012
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
The Grass Dancer
– Rating: 3.95 (2,827 ratings)
– Author: Susan Power
– Published: January 1, 1994
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
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Jubal Sackett
– Rating: 4.22 (7,405 ratings)
– Author: Louis L’Amour
– Published: May 1, 1985
– Genres: Westerns, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure
– Read more on Goodreads
The Missing Place
– Rating: 3.37 (855 ratings)
– Author: Sophie Littlefield
– Published: September 2, 2014
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Adult
– Read more on Goodreads
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The Watermelon King
– Rating: 3.81 (140 ratings)
– Author: Daniel Royse
– Published: July 20, 2015
– Genres: Fiction, Travel, Africa, Ethiopia
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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown
– Rating: 3.95 (175 ratings)
– Author: Blaire Briody
– Published: September 26, 2017
– Genres: Nonfiction, History, American History, Journalism
– Read more on Goodreads
Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
– Rating: 4.16 (97,108 ratings)
– Author: Lee Child
– Published: May 13, 2002
– Genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime
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Tales of Burning Love
– Rating: 3.87 (2,618 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 1996
– Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature
– Read more on Goodreads
Peace Like a River
– Rating: 3.99 (87,040 ratings)
– Author: Leif Enger
– Published: January 1, 2001
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Literary Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
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The Children’s Blizzard
– Rating: 3.90 (11,269 ratings)
– Author: David Laskin
– Published: November 1, 2004
– Genres: History, Nonfiction, American History, Historical
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Fly Away
– Rating: 3.89 (792 ratings)
– Author: Patricia MacLachlan
– Published: March 1, 2014
– Genres: Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Family, Childrens
– Read more on Goodreads
Oh My Stars
– Rating: 3.90 (6,529 ratings)
– Author: Lorna Landvik
– Published: January 1, 2005
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
– Rating: 4.19 (11,616 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: April 3, 2001
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical
– Read more on Goodreads
Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3)
– Rating: 3.91 (9,043 ratings)
– Author: Nevada Barr
– Published: January 1, 1995
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
– Read more on Goodreads
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Apple in the Middle
– Rating: 3.72 (458 ratings)
– Author: Dawn Quigley
– Published: January 1, 2018
– Genres: Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
The Master Butchers Singing Club
– Rating: 4.06 (23,762 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 2003
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
The Bingo Palace
– Rating: 3.87 (4,536 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: January 1, 1994
– Genres: Fiction, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature
– Read more on Goodreads
Jake’s Orphan
– Rating: 3.82 (207 ratings)
– Author: Peggy Brooke
– Published: March 17, 2000
– Genres: Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens
– Read more on Goodreads
LaRose
– Rating: 3.90 (21,660 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: May 10, 2016
– Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
– Read more on Goodreads
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The Plague of Doves
– Rating: 3.80 (15,771 ratings)
– Author: Louise Erdrich
– Published: April 29, 2008
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
– Rating: 4.18 (195 ratings)
– Author: Larry Woiwode
– Published: September 1, 1975
– Genres: Fiction, Novels, Literature, Contemporary
– Read more on Goodreads
Dakota Born (Dakota, #1)
– Rating: 4.00 (7,888 ratings)
– Author: Debbie Macomber
– Published: January 1, 1999
– Genres: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit
– Read more on Goodreads
The Emigrants
– Rating: 4.02 (57 ratings)
– Author: Johan Bojer
– Published: January 1, 1924
– Genres: Fiction
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Young Pioneers
– Rating: 3.96 (3,536 ratings)
– Author: Rose Wilder Lane
– Published: January 1, 1932
– Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult
– Read more on Goodreads
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Last Child
– Rating: 3.36 (33 ratings)
– Author: Michael Spooner
– Published: January 1, 2005
– Genres: Historical Fiction, Native Americans
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A Promise for Ellie (Daughters of Blessing, #1)
– Rating: 4.17 (3,519 ratings)
– Author: Lauraine Snelling
– Published: January 1, 2006
– Genres: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Romance
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Spring for Susannah
– Rating: 3.88 (780 ratings)
– Author: Catherine Richmond
– Published: June 14, 2011
– Genres: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical
– Read more on Goodreads
Codename Zero (The Codename Conspiracy #1)
– Rating: 4.10 (1,454 ratings)
– Author: Chris Rylander
– Published: February 4, 2014
– Genres: Middle Grade, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction
– Read more on Goodreads
Badlands (Highway Quartet #3)
– Rating: 4.02 (11,972 ratings)
– Author: C.J. Box
– Published: July 28, 2015
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime
– Read more on Goodreads
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Girl Gone Missing
– Rating: 3.98 (1,016 ratings)
– Author: Marcie R. Rendon
– Published: May 14, 2019
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
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Yellow Earth
– Rating: 3.63 (167 ratings)
– Author: John Sayles
– Published: January 7, 2020
– Genres: Fiction
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Naya Nuki: Shoshone Girl Who Ran
– Rating: 4.14 (1,994 ratings)
– Author: Kenneth Thomasma
– Published: January 1, 1983
– Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Childrens
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Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock
– Rating: 4.34 (132 ratings)
– Author: Aslan Tudor
– Published: January 1, 2018
– Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Books, Childrens, History
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The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
– Rating: 3.76 (502 ratings)
– Author: Debra Marquart
– Published: January 1, 2006
– Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Nature
– Read more on Goodreads
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The Fire Duke (Keepers of the Hidden Ways, #1)
– Rating: 3.80 (491 ratings)
– Author: Joel Rosenberg
– Published: May 1, 1995
– Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy
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Downtown Owl
– Rating: 3.56 (12,076 ratings)
– Author: Chuck Klosterman
– Published: September 16, 2008
– Genres: Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Novels
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The Murdered Family
– Rating: 3.43 (216 ratings)
– Author: Vernon Keel
– Published: April 1, 2010
– Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
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The Bones of Plenty
– Rating: 3.98 (150 ratings)
– Author: Lois Phillips Hudson
– Published: March 15, 1984
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical
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The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet #5)
– Rating: 4.05 (11,566 ratings)
– Author: C.J. Box
– Published: August 13, 2019
– Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime
– Read more on Goodreads
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A Fireproof Home for the Bride
– Rating: 3.54 (1,270 ratings)
– Author: Amy Scheibe
– Published: March 10, 2015
– Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adult, Historical
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Sod Houses on the Great Plains
– Rating: 3.58 (26 ratings)
– Author: Glen Rounds
– Published: January 1, 1995
– Genres: History, Picture Books, Nonfiction
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P Is for Peace Garden: A North Dakota Alphabet
– Rating: 3.96 (28 ratings)
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As fossil fuel emissions continue warming Earth’s atmosphere, the Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity.
It’s offering $8 billion to entice the nation’s industries, engineers and planners to figure out how to produce and deliver clean hydrogen. States and businesses are making final pitches Friday as they compete for a new program that will create regional networks, or “hubs,” of hydrogen producers, consumers and infrastructure. The aim is to accelerate the availability and use of the colorless, odorless gas that already powers some vehicles and trains.
How can enough hydrogen be produced to meet demand — in ways that don’t worsen global warming? And how can it be moved efficiently to where users can get it? Such questions will be tackled by the hubs.
Nearly every state has joined at least one proposed hub and many are working together, hoping to reap the economic development and jobs they would bring. The governors of Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma came up with the “HALO Hydrogen Hub” to compete for funding, for example.
Big fossil fuel companies like Chevron and EQT Corporation, renewable energy developers such as Obsidian, and researchers in university and government labs are involved, too.
But only a select few will receive billions in federal funding. Here are some questions and answers about the initiative:
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Q. What is a hydrogen hub?
A. The bipartisan infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden last year included $8 billion for a program to establish six to 10 regional “hydrogen hubs” around the nation. A hub is meant to be a network of companies that produce clean hydrogen and of the industries that use it — heavy transportation, for example — and infrastructure such as pipelines and refueling stations. States and companies have teamed up to create hub proposals. Their final applications are due Friday at the U.S. Department of Energy, which is expected to start awarding money later this year.
Q. Why hydrogen?
Hydrogen can be made in ways that yield little if any planet-warming greenhouse gases. The Energy Department says hydrogen, once produced, can generate power in a fuel cell, emitting only water vapor and warm air. The department says the hubs will produce “clean” hydrogen, although its definition includes hydrogen produced with natural gas. Gas companies have talked about mixing hydrogen at low concentrations with methane for delivery to homes and businesses.
Some consider hydrogen “clean” only if made through electrolysis — splitting water molecules using renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, which also is carbon free, as well as nuclear power. But some oil and gas companies say they can use fossil fuels as feedstocks if they capture the carbon dioxide and keep it out of the atmosphere.
Environmental groups say hydrogen presents its own pollution and climate risks. When emitted into the atmosphere, it boosts volumes of methane and other greenhouse gases, underscoring the need to avoid leaks from hydrogen systems – an issue the hubs should consider, said Nichole Saunders, staff attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund.
Q. Who are the finalists?
The Energy Department asked for detailed plans and received 79. In December, the department encouraged 33 of those with hub proposals to submit a final application, although ones that were discouraged can still apply. The department hasn’t identified the applicants because of sensitive negotiations over where to put the hubs.
The environmental nonprofit Clean Air Task Force has monitored the process and identified 23 finalists on an online map. The Associated Press contacted those groups and received responses from most, confirming that they were encouraged by the DOE to apply by Friday and sharing details of their plans. Among them are energy producers — fossil fuels as well as renewable developers — plus states, universities, national laboratories, utilities and companies that plan to use the hydrogen.
More than 60 public and private entities in the Midwest want a hub in their region, for example. The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen says it would be an “ideal fit,” partly because many large industrial sectors there, including steel, ammonia and refining, rely on “dirty hydrogen consumption” to fuel their operations.
Q. What are they proposing?
A. At least eight plan to source their hydrogen from fossil fuels and produce it using natural gas, in keeping with a provision in the law that at least two hubs should be in areas with the nation’s most abundant gas supplies.
The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub is a partnership involving the state of West Virginia and EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, among others. They say their region has enormous gas resources and could produce hydrogen from methane using heat, steam and pressure while capturing the carbon dioxide it would generate.
At least eight other proposals would generate hydrogen from water through electrolysis, primarily using renewable sources such as wind and solar, although some would power the process with nuclear energy. They are concentrated in coastal and Upper Midwestern states. The Northeast Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub proposal includes seven Northeast states, led by New York, and more than 100 partners who would use hydrogen in transportation and heavy industries, and for long-duration energy storage.
California has a renewables-only plan to use hydrogen to decarbonize transportation, ports and power plants, with its Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems. Washington and Oregon also want to use renewables to produce hydrogen to use for heavy-duty transportation, aviation, maritime and agriculture. The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association says it’s planning projects in those two states, plus Montana.
The Great Lakes Clean Hydrogen Coalition would produce hydrogen at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, through electrolysis and transport it by pipeline and truck for the region’s steelmaking, aviation and glass manufacturing industries.
Some hubs would use both natural gas with carbon capture techniques and renewables, like the HyVelocity proposal in the Gulf region. That hub includes Chevron, Air Liquide, University of Texas, GTI Energy and the Center for Houston’s Future. They say a hub makes sense there because the Texas Gulf Coast already produces 3.5 million metric tons of hydrogen annually, or one-third of all U.S. hydrogen production.
Q. Why is this important?
The United States can’t meet its climate goals relying on a vast buildout of renewables and electrification alone, said Emily Kent, the U.S. director for zero-carbon fuels at the Clean Air Task Force.
But clean hydrogen plays an important role in decarbonizing sectors of the economy that are nearly impossible to electrify, she added. That includes long-haul trucking, marine shipping and aviation, heavy industries including iron and steelmaking, and the existing production and use of hydrogen.
Yet, the United States makes very little hydrogen. Currently it’s produced using natural gas to be used for refining petroleum and producing ammonia for fertilizer.
Joseph Majkut, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said the hubs, along with the tax credits offered for hydrogen production, are the way the U.S. is going to commit significant public spending to jumpstart the industry.
The country wants to make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035, and reach net zero economy-wide by 2050 so the greenhouse gases produced are no more than the amount removed from the atmosphere. The U.S. Department of Energy says hydrogen has great potential for providing power and heat.
“We’ve been producing and using hydrogen for a long time,” Kent said. “We have not been producing it in these ways, with these technologies, and we have not been using it in a lot of these sectors.”
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — General Assembly leaders acknowledged on Tuesday that a compromise for North Carolina to finally embrace Medicaid expansion likely won't come quickly and pinned success for a near-future agreement in part on buy-in from a key health care interest group.
Speaking separately to reporters while the legislature convened this week for no-vote sessions, Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore said top-level discussions have waned since its chief work period for the year ended 3 1/2 weeks ago.
By that time, the Republican-controlled House and Senate had passed different legislation that set the state on the path to accept federal funds to cover 90% of the medical expenses for as many as 600,000 low-income adults who earn too much for traditional Medicaid. North Carolina is one of 12 states that have yet to accept expansion since Congress first offered it over a decade ago.
The Senate proposal championed by Berger accepted expansion, but it also contained additional reforms he said would increase the number of providers and services. They included scaling back “certificate of need” laws that tightly regulate expansion plans by medical providers and allowing highly trained nurses to practice without a doctor's supervision.
The House plan left out those extra reforms, and instead envisioned the legislature returning in mid-December to vote on an expansion plan developed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration that contains several key fiscal and medical benchmarks.
“The bill that the Senate sent over is just a nonstarter,” Moore said. But Berger said his chamber won't settle for a measure that only contains expansion, but rather one that includes some “supply-side increases" for health care providers and medical facilities. Berger placed blame upon the state’s hospitals for failing to accept a significant pull-back of certificate of need laws.
“There remains a window to get something done,” he told reporters. “But quite frankly, as long as the hospitals remain as intransigent as they are, I don’t see that we’re going to make any progress.”
The North Carolina Healthcare Association, which represents for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, said Tuesday it looks forward to continue working with House and Senate leaders on advancing expansion and entry into a program that would let hospitals received higher Medicaid reimbursement rates.
But the group told Berger “elements" of the Senate bill “would be harmful to hospitals and erode the state’s safety net,” NCHA spokesperson Cynthia Charles said in an emailed statement
As a sign of the association's influence, Moore said he would want to be sure that hospitals agreed to certificate of need changes before his chamber voted on them.
“I think we need to be very careful (with) folks trying to blame hospitals,” he said. “These are the facilities that are there on the front lines, taking care of the sickest folks in our state.”
While supporters of certificate of need laws say they prevent the use of expensive medical services from going out of balance with demand, critics say they limit competition, to the financial benefit of current health care providers.
Cooper, a strong supporter of Medicaid expansion and who would be asked to sign any final bill, told reporters earlier this month that he was hopeful for quick agreement on expansion.
Moore said Tuesday there was no need to rush on a solution. The legislature is already scheduled to return monthly for the rest of the year — the next meeting is Aug. 23 — to address other potential topics. So there are opportunities to vote for any expansion agreement that surfaces. Berger expressed pessimism for now on a compromise by the end of the year, after which a new batch of 170 legislators will get sworn in.
An agreement can't come soon enough for participants at a Tuesday morning vigil outside the Legislative Building. They identified by name North Carolina residents whom they say died from severe illness while lacking Medicaid or insurance coverage.
“I am angered, saddened and frustrated that we have to be out here again today doing another vigil and begging the lawmakers to do the right thing and expand Medicaid,” said Rebecca Cerese with the North Carolina Justice Center. “Health care can’t wait. When it does wait — as you heard — people die.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/NC-legislature-idles-for-now-on-Medicaid-17330502.php | 2022-07-26 21:32:15 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/NC-legislature-idles-for-now-on-Medicaid-17330502.php |
When President Biden delivers his State of the Union 2023 address Tuesday evening, he'll have a new person peering over his left shoulder: Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
In a new era of divided government, the two men will be forced to forge deals on a wide range of issues over the coming two years. Most immediately, they'll need to figure out how to deescalate a standoff over the debt ceiling that could crater the economy, if it isn't resolved before the U.S. defaults on its debt.
Biden and McCarthy are both backslapping political lifers –two men who put high priority on the value of personal relationships. So the terse, blunt answers they've recently given about each other speak volumes.
"I think he's the Republican leader, and I haven't had much of an occasion to talk to him," Biden said, before quickly shifting topics, when asked about McCarthy in the immediate wake of November's election.
Ahead of their first Oval Office sit-down last week, McCarthy responded to a similar question with a lengthy verbal shrug.
"We met many times — prior to him being president," he went on to tell reporters. "Not as often, him being president. But I look forward to making this work."
There are several reasons the two didn't talk much the past two years.
Unlike in the Senate, the minority party in the House doesn't hold much leverage. And, especially in the wake of the January 6th attacks, Democratic relationships with House Republicans froze to arctic levels.
Biden has a good working relationship with the top Senate Republican
It's a sharp contrast to Biden's dealings with the other top Republican in Congress — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
When McCarthy was fighting for his job last month in round after round of speaker votes, Biden and McConnell were holding a political event together marking the bipartisan infrastructure law.
"I asked permission if I could say something nice about him," Biden joked as he praised McConnell from the stage. "I said I'd campaign for or against him, whichever helped most. Mitch: it wasn't easy to get this done."
In Biden's final days as vice president, McConnell memorably praised Biden, and moved to rename a piece of legislation after Biden's late son Beau, as Biden presided over the chamber and wiped tears from his eyes.
Here's how Biden and McConnell worked on a debt ceiling deal
Though the two men don't agree on much, Biden and McConnell worked together to cut three major bipartisan deals during the Obama era — including a 2011 agreement when the U.S. was on the brink of defaulting on its debt.
Neither man tried to convert the other during those high-stakes talks.
"Biden would repeatedly say, I won't tell you your politics, you won't tell me mine. If you tell me you can't do something, I take you at your word. If you tell me I can't do something, you take me at my word," said Rohit Kumar, a top McConnell staffer at the time, who now co-leads Pricewaterhouse Cooper's national tax office.
Kumar viewed the 2011 debt standoff as near-identical to how the 2023 negotiations are beginning: House, not Senate, Republicans, leading the charge to force spending cuts, and having more leverage to do so.
Back in 2011, the talks had stalled, and default was looming, by the time Biden and McConnell sat down together.
Kumar recalled the blunt, direct mindset the two men took as they looked for a deal: "Ok. These are the parameters from which we have to operate. We have no choice but to work within these parameters, and we're going to get this done," he said.
There are two main differences in the dynamics for McCarthy
Biden's working relationship with the Senate leader is grounded in two things McConnell has that McCarthy doesn't have: decades of time in the legislative trenches alongside Biden; and perhaps more importantly, a firm grip over the politics of his caucus.
McConnell is the longest-serving Senate leader from either party. McCarthy, on the other hand, needed 15 rounds of voting to win the speakership this year. With the narrow margins his party holds, he's constantly at the mercy of whatever small group of House Republicans who threaten to vote no.
That's a position the White House has been happy to highlight and politically exploit.
Since Republicans have taken control of the House, the Biden administration has tried to frame the GOP as split between two wings: one that is at times willing to help govern and pass bills on a bipartisan basis; the other, an extreme faction still under the sway of former President Donald Trump.
"We understand what the Speaker is going through," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday. "He has a caucus that has put forth some pretty extreme ideas. Some extreme options in front of the American people. Cutting Medicare, cutting Social Security. That is what he's dealing with."
At a New York fundraiser last week, Biden spoke about McCarthy's position with an incredulous tone. "Look at what he had to do" to win the speakership, Biden said. "He had to make commitments that are just absolutely off the wall for a speaker of the House to make, in terms of being able to become the leader."
Biden and McCarthy are both 'hail-fellow-well-met,' says Rep. Cole
Despite their differences, Biden and McCarthy will have to work together. House Republican Tom Cole thinks it's possible.
"I've always thought they could have a good relationship," he said. "I think they are both career public servants. I think they are both extremely political. I think they are both pragmatic. I think they are both 'hail-fellow-well-met.' And I think they can both make a deal."
The first potential deal on their agenda has global stakes: averting the almost-certain instant recession that would come from the federal government defaulting on its debt.
Biden says a congressional debt ceiling vote shouldn't come with any preconditions. McCarthy is refusing to raise it without an agreement to cut spending elsewhere.
Last week, the president and speaker met in the Oval Office for an hour.
"He gave me his perspective. I gave him our perspective," McCarthy said afterwards. "I believe in hearing both perspectives, like anything else, be it business, be it in family, be it in relationships — that you can find common ground."
One thing that's different from those types of relationships: the fate of the entire economy typically doesn't ride on their ability to get on the same page.
NPR's Barbara Sprunt contributed to this report.
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First ever drop in mathematics, largest drop in reading in 30 years
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The reading and mathematics scores of 9-year-old students fell between 2020 and 2022, according to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) long-term trend (LTT) assessment released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
"These are some of the largest declines we have observed in a single assessment cycle in 50 years of the NAEP program," said Acting NCES Associate Commissioner Daniel McGrath. "Students in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago."
The new results represent the first report with a nationally representative sample of students comparing achievement from before the pandemic to now. NCES conducted a special data collection of the long-term trend assessments in early 2022 to measure changes in 9-year-olds' achievement over the first two years of the disruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The prior LTT reading and mathematics assessments were administered in 2020, shortly before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. NCES is releasing these data on an accelerated schedule, just months after the data collection concluded.
Overall, the average mathematics score declined seven points since 2020. The mathematics scores for lower-performing 9-year-old students (students at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined 12 points and 11 points, respectively, over that period. Mathematics scores also declined for students at the 50th (eight points), 75th (five points), and 90th (three points) percentiles.
The average reading score for 9-year-olds declined five points between 2020 and 2022. The reading scores for lower-performing 9-year-old students (students at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined 10 points and 8 points, respectively, over that period. Reading scores also declined for students at the 50th (four points), 75th (three points), and 90th (two points) percentiles.
"During the pandemic, NCES continued and enhanced other data collections on education challenges, and they paint a sobering picture," said NCES Commissioner Peggy G. Carr. "School shootings, violence, and classroom disruptions are up, as are teacher and staff vacancies, absenteeism, cyberbullying, and students' use of mental health services. This information provides some important context for the results we're seeing from the long-term trend assessment."
The 2022 LTT results for 9-year-olds are the only nationally representative data available to measure student achievement pre-pandemic to early 2022, when students returned to in-person learning on a more consistent basis. There will be a deeper and more comprehensive look at student achievement with the release of main NAEP results later this year. Then, NCES will report on mathematics and reading student achievement at grades 4 and 8 for the nation, states, and for 26 urban school districts.
Student group performance and score gap changes since 2020
Scores declined for White, Black, and Hispanic 9-year-olds in both mathematics and reading between 2020 and 2022.
Mathematics scores declined five points for White students, 13 points for Black students, and eight points for Hispanic students. The larger decline for Black students compared to White students increased the score gap by eight points. White, Black, and Hispanic students also showed declines in the 10th, 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles. Black students also showed declines at the 90th percentile in mathematics while Asian students showed a decline at the 10th percentile.
Reading scores declined six points for White, Black, and Hispanic students. In reading, both Black and White lower-performing students declined, while higher-performing students across all racial and ethnic groups showed no change in scores.
The changes in mathematics and reading scores for Asian/Pacific Islander students, American Indian/Alaska Native students, or students who were two or more races were not statistically significant, compared to 2020.
Geographically, mathematics scores declined for students in every region of the country, compared to 2020. Scores fell eight points in the Northeast, nine points in the Midwest, seven points in the South, and five points in the West. Mathematics scores declined nine points for schools located in suburbs, seven points for schools located in towns and cities, and five points for rural schools.
In reading, scores fell seven points in the Northeast, seven points in the Midwest, and six points in the South; the average score was not measurably different in the West when compared to 2020. Reading scores declined eight points for schools located in suburbs and nine points for schools located in towns; scores were not measurably different for city and rural schools. During this time, the score gap between city and suburban schools grew smaller by eight points.
Learning Opportunities During the Pandemic
As part of the special data collection, NCES collected information on how the pandemic affected student learning experiences and opportunities.
- Seventy percent of students recalled learning remotely at some point during the 2020-2021 school year.
- Eighty-two percent of Asian students recalled learning remotely at some point during the 2020-2021 school year. This was higher than the percentage of Black students (72 percent), Hispanic students (67 percent), White students (69 percent), and the percentage of students who are two or more races (72 percent).
- Of those learning remotely:
Results by Subject
Reading
- The average reading score (215) for 9-year-old students was five points lower in 2022 than in 2020, but seven points higher than the average score in 1971.
- Reading scores declined for students at all five selected performance percentiles, compared to 2020.
- Reading scores also declined for several student reporting groups broken down by race/ethnicity compared to 2020:
- Both male and female 9-year-old students scored lower in reading compared to 2020, but scored higher compared to 1971. Reading scores declined by five points for both males and females since 2020.
- Reading scores fell five points for students attending public schools compared to 2020.
- Reading scores fell seven points in the Northeast, seven points in the Midwest, and six points in the South since 2020; scores were not measurably different in the West.
- Reading scores declined eight points for schools located in suburbs and nine points for schools located in towns; scores were not measurably different for city and rural schools.
- Reading scores for all major student groups with reportable results have improved since 1971.
Mathematics
- The average mathematics score (234) for 9-year-old students was seven points lower in 2022 than in 2020, but 15 points higher than the average score in 1978.
- Mathematics scores declined for students at all five selected performance percentiles, compared to 2020.
- Mathematics scores also declined for several student reporting groups broken down by race/ethnicity compared to 2020:
- Both male and female 9-year-old students scored lower in mathematics compared to 2020 but scored higher compared to 1978. Mathematics scores declined eight points for females and seven points for males since 2020.
- Mathematics scores declined eight points for students attending public schools compared to 2020.
- Mathematics scores declined for students in every region of the country. Scores fell eight points in the Northeast, nine points in the Midwest, seven points in the South, and five points in the West since 2020.
- Mathematics scores declined nine points for schools located in suburbs, seven points for schools located in towns and cities, and five points for rural schools.
- Mathematics scores for all major student groups with reportable results have improved since 1978.
How Results Are Reported
Student performance on the LTT assessments is reported in several ways: scale scores, percentile scores, performance levels, student group scores, and score gaps.
Scale scores represent the average performance of students on a scale of 0 to 500. Scores are reported at the national level and for groups of students based on race/ethnicity, gender, and other demographic characteristics.
Performance levels provide another perspective for interpreting LTT results. Changes in the percentages at or above each performance level reflect changes in the proportion of students who demonstrated the knowledge and skills associated with that level in responding to assessment questions. The performance-level descriptions used on the NAEP LTT assessment are different from the achievement-level descriptions in the main NAEP reports.
About the Assessment
Since the 1970s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has monitored student performance in reading and mathematics through the long-term trend (LTT) assessments. These assessments measure students' educational progress over long time periods to look for and monitor trends in performance. The LTT assessment is age-based, rather than grade-based, and assesses 9-year-old, 13-year-old, and 17-year-old students.
The LTT measures basic reading and mathematics skills to gauge how the performance of U.S. students has changed over time. At age 9, reading was first assessed in 1971 and mathematics in 1973. The LTT reading assessment asks students to read short texts and answer mostly multiple-choice questions, though there are a few questions requiring short or extended answers. For mathematics, students are given three 15-minute sections of mostly multiple-choice questions related to basic math facts, computations, formulas, and real-life applications.
The 2022 long-term trend assessments were administered between January and March of 2022. The National Assessment Governing Board amended the long-term trend assessment schedule so NCES could collect, analyze and report on 9-year-old students during the 2021-22 school year, in a special data collection, to begin assessing student achievement since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Visit https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ to view the report.
The National Center for Education Statistics, a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, is the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education and the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a congressionally authorized project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The National Center for Education Statistics, within the Institute of Education Sciences, administers NAEP. The commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics is responsible by law for carrying out the NAEP project. Policy for the NAEP program is set by the National Assessment Governing Board, an independent, bipartisan board whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives and members of the general public.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rory McIlroy got the sort of break most players need to win a U.S. Open. If only he could’ve made a putt or two to go with it.
The golf gods, to say nothing of the golf rulebook, gave McIlroy a chance to save par after his approach on the 14th hole came up short and embedded in the deep grass above a greenside bunker. But McIlroy missed the putt — a common theme on Sunday — and made his only bogey of the day. That single shot cost him in a one-stroke loss to Wyndham Clark.
McIlroy shot even-par 70 — one birdie, 16 pars and that single bogey — to finish his four rounds at Los Angeles Country Club at 9-under 271. His drought in the majors is now at 33 tournaments, a dry spell that is nearing nine full years.
“I think the putter, I’ll rue some of the chances that I missed,” McIlroy said. “It was hard to get the ball really close all day. It was that and that wedge shot on 14, coming up a little short, those are the things I’ll rue today.”
He finished the day with 36 putts over 18 holes — no need for complex math there — and didn’t sink a single putt over 8 feet.
His attempt to tie things on the 18th green looked like most all of the birdie tries he had over a day in which he hit the ball as well as anyone from tee to green. It was a 40 footer that was tracking, but drifted away at the end for a simple tap-in par.
But if there was a single moment that defined the day for McIlroy, it came on the par-5 14th. After driving into the left rough, he punched out to the fairway and had a 125-yard shot into the narrow green.
McIlroy pulled out a sand wedge, but then felt the wind kick up. He went to a choked-down gap wedge instead. The approach came up short. He put both hands on his knees, bent down and stared at his caddie, Harry Diamond, in disbelief.
“I might have just had to wait an extra 15 or 20 seconds to let that little gust settle,” McIlroy said.
Instead, moments later, he was down on his knees near the bunker, desperately trying to find the ball that had disappeared in the gnarly grasses above the sand.
He found the ball embedded in the facing just above the bunker. In the past, an embedded ball that wasn’t in the fairway had to be played as it lied. But after a reworking of the rulebook in 2019, free relief is now granted for any ball plugged in any area other than sand.
McIlroy dropped above the bunker, 40 feet away in a perfectly workable lie. He chipped to 10 feet, but missed the par putt. His only bogey of the day put him three behind Clark.
“I felt like my chance was sort of gone,” McIlroy said.
Clark wobbled with two bogeys down the stretch. But McIlroy, his putter still ice-cold, couldn’t convert birdie tries from 22, 62, 33 or 40 feet over the last four holes.
“I can play free, I think I proved that today,” he said. “Just felt like my speed control was a little off with the putter. That’s probably why I didn’t make a birdie since the first.”
Indeed, the birdie on the short par-5 first was the only time he cashed in on any of the 15 greens he hit in regulation. Those 15 greens tied Jon Rahm for best in the fourth round.
For the week, McIlroy hit 59 greens. That was six more than anyone else in the field. What is often a formula for victory instead resulted in McIlroy’s third runner-up finish at a major. He will go to Hoylake next month for the British Open still without a major title since the 2014 PGA Championship.
This close call felt a little like the last one. Last year at St. Andrews, he shared the lead going into the final round. He made two birdies that day and finished two shots back. This time, he made one birdie and finished one shot back.
Someone asked if these close calls are exhausting for a player who ripped off four major titles in his first 25 appearances, but remains stuck at four despite spending most of the last nine years among the top 10 players in golf.
“It is, but at the same time, when I do finally win this next major, it’s going to be really, really sweet,” he said. “I would go through 100 Sundays like this to get my hands on another major championship.”
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Orlando City hosts the Houston Dynamo in non-conference action
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando City SC (6-5-4, 22 points) and the Houston Dynamo FC (5-6-3, 18 points) square off in non-conference play on Saturday in a home match at Exploria Stadium. In addition to being televised on FOX35 PLUS and LionNation TV, local radio coverage of the match will be available on 96.9 The Game in English and Acción 97.9 in Spanish.
Orlando is 3-4-0 in home games and ranks eighth in the Eastern Conference allowing 21 goals. The Dynamo are 2-4-0 on the road. Darwin Quintero leads the ninth-ranked scoring team in the Western Conference with five goals. The Dynamo have scored 17.
"We have to lay out the plan against Houston [to the players], we already have it," Head Coach Oscar Pareja said. "We will see what players can execute in those roles, the ideas, and the plan. It is a quick turnaround, but I am hoping that this game can give us freedom. Sometimes, when the games come more often, you start to get a rhythm and I think we need it."
This is the only time the two sides will face one another this campaign. The Lions and Dynamo have not played each other since the 2019 regular season when City traveled to PNC Stadium. That match resulted in a 2-1 defeat for Orlando. Saturday will mark the first time the Dynamo have visited Exploria Stadium since Sept. 22, 2018 where the two teams played to a scoreless draw. Current Orlando City goalkeeper Adam Grinwis made his MLS debut in that game making three saves and earning the clean sheet.
Orlando enters the match after picking up a point at Gillette Stadium following a 1-1 draw against the New England Revolution on Wednesday. City defender Robin Jannson scored his first goal of the year at the 35-minute mark after picking up a deflected ball in New England’s box, driving to the endline, and firing a ball in between the sprawling Revolution goalkeeper’s legs and into the back of the net. It was his fifth goal across all competitions while in a Lions jersey.
Jansson’s goal marked the seventh goal by an Orlando City defender during the 2022 MLS regular season. The Swedish international joins João Moutinho and Ruan who both have tallied two goals this season, along with Rodrigo Schlegel and Kyle Smith who each have one under their belts.
City forward Tesho Akindele notched his 100th appearance as a Lion across all competitions after entering the game against the Revolution in stoppage time of the second half. Akindele is the fourth Orlando City player to join the century club, joining Lions Cristian Higuita and Chris Mueller, as well as teammate Robin Jansson.
Houston are coming off of the international break following a 3-0 defeat to Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium. This game will conclude a stretch of four straight road games for the Dynamo dating back to a 3-0 victory over the LA Galaxy on May 22.
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- Wishpond's all-new, marketing-first, Website Builder, makes it easy for small businesses to create high-quality, marketing-optimized websites incorporated with a full suite of marketing tools and integrated with Wishpond's complete software solution.
VANCOUVER, BC,, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wishpond Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: WISH) (OTCQX: WPNDF) ("Wishpond" or the "Company"), a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of an all-new Website Builder product. Every element of this ground-breaking Website Builder has been designed to help businesses generate leads and sales. Unlike other website builders, businesses get access to all of the powerful marketing and lead generation tools they need right out of the box. The Website Builder puts business growth at the forefront, allowing businesses to achieve more from a single platform. The Website Builder is a significant product release for Wishpond as it increases customer retention, reduces churn, and increases customer satisfaction.
Jordan Gutierrez, COO of Wishpond commented, "Wishpond's new Website Builder is not like other comparable products. This is a website builder that is designed from the ground up to help businesses generate leads and sales, as opposed to other tools where those are afterthoughts. With other website builders, you need a ton of work and pay for extra systems to get the marketing functionality that Wishpond offers out of the box. Businesses can now use Wishpond to build their website and manage all of their marketing campaigns, under one roof. "
The Website Builder is equipped and integrated with all of the marketing tools needed to grow a business and increase online sales. This includes lead tracking and segmentation tools, personalization abilities, advanced forms and pop-ups, integration with Wishpond's email marketing tool, referral marketing, calendar functionality, popups, and more. Businesses can use the Website Builder to create social contests or referral campaigns to generate leads, and a convenient appointments widget that connects to Google Calendar makes it easy to schedule meetings.
Thanks to the user-friendly platform, businesses can create and publish powerful, marketing-optimized websites without needing any web design or coding experience. As a developer of cutting-edge online marketing software solutions, the Website Builder integrates with Wishpond's complete software suite to give businesses all the tools they need to develop an impressive online marketing presence through a single platform.
The Website Builder gives users access to pre-built and optimized-for-marketing templates that can be easily customized with a drag-and-drop editor. Each web page is optimized for all devices with just one click. This allows almost anyone to effortlessly build a high-performance website with complete marketing functionality.
Wishpond's payment integration allows users to add a "buy" button to their websites and booking calendars to receive one-time payments or provide subscription-based services. These features all integrate with Wishpond's Leads Database, allowing businesses to track and score all their leads. Businesses can analyze lead behavior, see what users do and where they converted to maximize the value from each visitor. The Website Builder also works with Wishpond's powerful Email Marketing tool to send newsletters or set up sales automation emails and workflows. Businesses get everything they need to build and promote their online presence as they grow, all in one convenient platform.
"Wishpond's Website Builder is incredibly easy to use. We used it to set up our website from scratch, which we could add forms, popups, and more to. We run our email marketing from the same platform. All of the marketing functions included in the Website Builder make it a lot easier to grow our business. Otherwise, we would have had to subscribe to these different tools separately, which would have been expensive and tricky to manage." said a Wishpond user.
Learn more about Wishpond's Website Builder at: https://www.wishpond.com/website-builder/
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Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Wishpond is a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions. Wishpond's vision is to become the leading provider of digital marketing solutions that empower entrepreneurs to achieve success online. The Company offers an "all-in-one" marketing suite that provides companies with marketing, promotion, lead generation, and sales conversion capabilities on one integrated platform. Wishpond replaces disparate marketing solutions with an easy-to-use product, for a fraction of the cost. Wishpond serves over 3,700 customers who are primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a wide variety of industries. The Company has developed cutting-edge marketing technology solutions and continues to add new features and applications with great velocity. The Company employs a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model where substantially all the Company's revenue is subscription-based recurring revenue which provides excellent revenue predictability and cash flow visibility. Wishpond is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker "WISH", and on the OTCQX Best Market under the ticker "WPNDF". For further information, visit: www.wishpond.com.
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WATCH: American Airlines plane catches fire on runway
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) - Passengers on a flight about to take off in North Carolina had a scary view outside their windows as flames shot out from the plane’s wing.
“Ladies and gentlemen, please be calm. Obviously, something happened,” someone can be heard saying over the intercom in Frankie Leggington’s video of the incident.
Leggington was waiting for her flight, American Airlines flight 2288 to Dallas-Fort Worth, to take off on the runway at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport when she heard that sound.
“We were taking off like normal, when the wheels go up, you feel a little bump. Then all of a sudden, you hear an explosion,” Leggington said.
Leggington said the scary sound turned into a frightening sight as flames and smoke came out of the wing of the plane.
She said that was when everyone aboard the flight began to panic.
“Nobody knows what’s happening, so it’s the first instinct is the plane is going to blow,” Leggington said. “So, everyone is grabbing their bags, trying to run up and run in the aisle.”
Leggington said she took out her phone to record the view outside of her window seat near one of the emergency exits.
“Everyone was trying to panic, but it was like we couldn’t go anywhere,” another passenger, Claire Dundon, said. “That was the biggest scare.”
A spokesperson for American Airlines said the plane had experienced a mechanical issue, but it was unclear what caused the fire.
Passengers said they had to stay on the plane until first responders put out the flames.
The pilot was able to taxi the plane back to the gate using the plane’s power.
No injuries were reported.
Dundon said the chaos on board was not how she wanted to start her vacation.
“We’re still trying to get there,” she said. “But it’s been, a day later, a lot of stress and headaches.”
The airline says the plane is out of service for maintenance.
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Days remaining in session: 39
PRC salaries: The salaries of the newly reconfigured Public Regulation Commission would be tied to what state District Court judges earn under a bill the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee unanimously endorsed Monday.
After voters approved a constitutional amendment changing the PRC from a five-member elected body to a three-person panel appointed by the governor, “we found out there is no provision in statute for what the salary should be,” the sponsor of Senate Bill 136, Sen. Steven Neville, R-Aztec, told the committee.
“This would put in statute a provision that they would earn the same thing as a district judge,” he said.
Neville said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized a salary range of $180,000 to $190,000 a year for commissioners.
“Apparently the governor set the salary for the newly appointed officials to be $190,000,” he said. “Reasonable number. I don’t have any problem with that. But again, it’s not in statute.”
The bill would set commissioners' minimum salary at $190,000.
Neville said a “convoluted formula” is used to determine the salaries of District Court judges, who currently earn about $163,000 a year but are poised to be paid more than $190,000 annually
“If this bill passes and the [state] budget goes as proposed, [the new PRC members] will get a small raise,” Neville said.
Legislative letterhead: An informal opinion issued by the New Mexico Ethics Commission to the Legislative Council Service on the use of legislative stationary is generating pushback from Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle.
The opinion by Walker Boyd, the commission's general counsel, states that when a legislator is "acting for the benefit of a constituent," the legislator "may not make reference to his or her legislative capacity outside matters of scheduling" or "communicate on legislative stationary."
Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth of Santa Fe and Minority Leader Greg Baca of Belen wrote a letter last month to commission Chairman William Lang stating they respectfully disagree with Boyd's conclusion. They asked for the commission to review and reverse the opinion.
Wirth said during Monday's floor session the Legislative Council Service director attended Friday's commission meeting and "was waiting to be let in and say a few words" but wasn't allowed to participate in the hearing.
"I think you’ll see a bill move pretty quickly to address that issue, and we’re working with both sides," he said.
Recess requirement: The Senate Education Committee called timeout Monday on a bill to require 30 minutes of supervised but unstructured recess time each school day for students in kindergarten through third grade.
Committee members said they appreciated the intent but tabled Senate Bill 137 over various concerns, including lack of local control.
"This is something we definitely ought to encourage districts to do … but I really believe that it's up to the local body to decide these things and to set their calendar," said Sen. Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho.
Under the bill, the mandatory recess time wouldn't be counted as part of the required hours of education, forcing some schools to increase their instructional day.
"If we look at an average of somewhere around 190 days, that's going to add 95 hours to the totals on that, and that's fairly expensive and needs to be paid for," said committee Chairman Bill Soules, D-Las Cruces.
Soules, a former public school teacher and elementary principal, said "more and more educational leaders" are understanding the importance of recess but mandating it could be problematic.
"If there's a day with an unexpected early release for whatever reason, then the school and teachers are in violation of the law, and that's concerning," he said.
The sponsor, Sen. Steven Neville, R-Aztec, said most school districts provide young pupils at least 30 minutes of recess.
"Not all, and that's the situation we're trying to address," he said.
Senate confirmations: All but one of the five state appointees up for Senate confirmation to various entities received unanimous support Monday.
The Senate also confirmed the appointment of Anne Beckett to the Small Business Investment Corp., but the vote was 33-4.
Four Republicans — Sens. Craig Brandt of Rio Rancho, Greg Baca of Belen, Mark Moores of Albuquerque and Cliff Pirtle of Roswell — cast the dissenting votes.
During an initial hearing before the Senate Rules Committee, Pirtle noted Beckett, who lives in the tiny town of Youngville in Northern New Mexico, had been described as the rural voice of the corporation.
"Do you have any enterprises that include agriculture or rural-type businesses?" he asked.
"I don't have agriculture," responded Beckett, 73. "What I feel like I contribute to my community besides volunteering for this, that and the other thing is hiring local people to work."
No is not enough: Members of the House voted 49-12 to approve House Bill 43, an initiative that would, among other initiatives, set affirmative consent to engage in sexual activity — defined as "affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement" — as a standard in health classes for students in public high schools and middle schools.
"Only yes means yes," said Rep. Elizabeth "Liz" Thomson, D-Albuquerque, in describing the bill's intent. "This will teach high school kids at an early age … that it's OK to say no."
The House's one-hour debate on the bill was often full of emotion as several female lawmakers, including Thomson, told personal stories as they advocated for HB 43. Thomson said of the six sisters in her family, five have been sexually assaulted.
Speaking in a voice that sometimes trembled, Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena, D-Mesilla, said, "Most of the sex that came into my life [as a young woman] was non-consensual."
Some House Republicans said the wording of the bill was vague when it came to just how often "yes" needs to be said if a couple is in an ongoing relationship.
Others asked whether criminal charges could evolve out of the issue if a "yes" turned to a "no" after the fact — which Thomson said would not be the case.
While several Republicans voted for the bill, the 12 lawmakers who voted against it were Republicans. HB 43 will now go to the Senate for consideration.
Quotes of the day: "Thank you, Father Rick, for your words this morning. I will correct you on one thing. We're 20 days in, so we're a third of the way through, not a half — and yes, we are counting. It does seem like forever." — Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, after the Rev. Rick Iannucci, chaplain of the state Senate, guessed during Monday's invocation the Legislature was half-way through the 60-day legislative session.
"We couldn't have zombie bills from 50 years ago ambling around, could we?" — Rep. John Block, R-Alamogordo, referring to a provision in House Joint Resolution 2 that would make every legislative session 60 days long and allow lawmakers to take up unfinished legislation left over from the previous year's session. Rep. Natalie Figueroa, D-Albuquerque, told Block the provision would only be applicable for two years. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/legislative-roundup-feb-7-2023/article_262c0e88-a62c-11ed-9ab2-dfea1ae88feb.html | 2023-02-07 08:02:39 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/legislative-roundup-feb-7-2023/article_262c0e88-a62c-11ed-9ab2-dfea1ae88feb.html |
Austin-based human performance brand signs Daniel Pereira as official brand ambassador, and taps Nick Lima and Kipp Keller to co-host the Austin FC Energy Experience
AUSTIN, Texas, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Austin-based human performance company, Nutrabolt, and its better-for-you energy drink brand, C4 Energy®, the Official Energy Drink of Austin FC, announces the Austin FC Energy Experience presented by C4 Energy to be held on Monday, June 6th, 2022, offering fans the chance to realize their limitless potential while training alongside their favorite players on the pitch at Q2 Stadium. As part of C4 Energy and Austin FC's multi-year partnership, top players Daniel Pereira, Nick Lima, and Kipp Keller are co-hosting the experience, with Daniel Pereira officially joining C4 Energy's growing roster of professional athlete ambassadors as the brands' first signed MLS player.
Pereira, a midfielder originally from Venezuela, is known for his on-field tenacity, both in possession and defense. As a C4 Energy ambassador, he will play a key role in spreading the brands' ethos of maximizing human potential on the pitch and beyond. Lima and Keller will also be bringing this mindset onto the pitch as co-hosts of the Austin FC Energy Experience presented by C4 Energy, leading the immersive event for guests alongside Pereira. Together, they bring a unique background and skillset, making them the ultimate C4 Energy athletes.
"I love C4 Energy's mission to maximize human performance, and I'm all about keeping my fire going on and off the pitch," said Pereira. "At this year's Energy Experience, I can't wait to help power up our amazing local community alongside my teammates and C4 Energy at Q2 Stadium."
On Monday, June 6th, C4 Energy is offering 50 lucky individuals and their guests a chance to ignite their fire at the exclusive Austin FC Energy Experience presented by C4 Energy at Q2 Stadium. Attendees will have a once-in-a-lifetime experience to train in and experience the Stadium just like the pros, courtesy of C4 Energy. Highlights of this C4 Energy experience include:
- VIP Tour: A private tour through the Austin FC locker room, where each attendee will receive limited-edition custom merch from their own lockers.
- A Players Welcome: Guests will be able to run onto the pitch through the famous tunnel all while being streamed on the jumbotron. Each guest will receive video and photo content for their own usage afterwards.
- Enciende Tu Fuego & Train with the Pros: Guests will participate in a 30-minute warmup and HIIT workout, led by Austin FC coaches and trainers, and practice drills led by Pereira, Lima, and Keller.
- Fuel Your Limitless Potential: Guests will have access to C4 Energy on-demand throughout the experience including the limited-edition Mango Lime flavor, featuring Austin FC's signature verde and black colors, team crest, and rallying cry, "Estamos Listos." Guests will also be able to enjoy drinks and small bites post-workout.
- Get Your Austin FC Swag: Exclusive access to the Verde Shop with a $50 gift card.
Starting today, May 19th, 2022, fans will be able to enter for a chance to win one of 15 total tickets to the Energy Experience that are up for grabs, and winners will be randomly selected on May 30th to attend the Energy Experience with a guest. Fans can enter at https://gleam.io/0OMxe/2022-austin-fc-energy-experience-presented-by-c4-energy.
"We are so proud of our hometown team and even more proud of Daniel Pereira in becoming C4 Energy's first MLS ambassador," said Rajaa Grar, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at Nutrabolt. "With the Austin FC Energy Experience presented by C4 Energy, we look forward to hosting our dedicated fans at Q2 Stadium, where they will get to meet and train alongside C4 Energy athletes and some of Austin FC's star players. We are a brand that was built on the vision of maximizing one's human performance and hope this experience will ignite attendees' fire to fuel their limitless potential."
In addition to entering for a chance to win a ticket to the Energy Experience, from May 1st – June 30th, 2022, fans in the Austin area can head to their local H-E-B to scan an in-store QR code to enter for a chance to win tickets to an Austin FC home game and a VIP match day experience at Q2 Stadium's Lexus Club along with a year's supply of C4 Energy.
C4 Energy is available in all 50 states and online at C4Energy.com. The Austin FC exclusive Mango Lime flavor is available at Q2 Stadium and at select Austin-area retailers.
About Austin FC
Austin FC joined Major League Soccer (MLS) as the 27th club in January 2019. Austin FC officially began play in 2021 in the new, 100% privately financed, $260 million, state-of-the-art Q2 Stadium in Austin.
Austin FC operates Austin FC Academy, the fully funded developmental academy representing the highest level of competition for elite youth soccer players in Central Texas, while serving as the exclusive developmental pathway to MLS for the region's most talented young players.
About Nutrabolt
Nutrabolt is a fast-growing, global, active health and wellness company with a portfolio of market leading performance-oriented brands that energize and fuel active lifestyles. The company's disruptive and innovative products compete in the Functional Beverage and Active Nutrition segments, under three consumer-loved brands: C4® (one of the fastest-growing energy drink brands in the United States and the #1 selling global pre-workout brand), XTEND® (the #1 post-workout recovery brand in the United States), and Cellucor® (an award-winning sports nutrition brand created in 2002).
Since its founding 20 years ago, Nutrabolt has set out to meet the discerning needs of performance athletes and fitness enthusiasts, while appealing beyond this core group to include consumers around the globe who are making healthy, active living a daily priority.
Nutrabolt's portfolio, which is distributed in over 125 countries, is sold through company-owned DTC platforms, Amazon, and other third-party e-commerce marketplaces, and is available at leading retailers across the U.S., including Walmart, Target, 7-Eleven, Walgreens, Kroger, H-E-B, Wawa, Publix, GNC, and the Vitamin Shoppe. For more information about Nutrabolt, please visit www.nutrabolt.com and follow Nutrabolt on LinkedIn.
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CHICAGO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report "Medical Image Analysis Software Market by Type (Integrated), Images (2D, 3D, 4D), Modality (CT, MRI, PET, Ultrasound), Application (Orthopedic, Oncology, Neurology, Mammography, Dental), End User (Hospital, Diagnostic Center) - Global Forecasts to 2027", published by MarketsandMarkets™, is projected to reach USD 4.5 billion by 2027 from USD 3.2 billion in 2022, at a CAGR of 7.8%.
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While budgetary constraints are expected to restraint the global medical image analysis software market during the forecast period, increasing government investments in the field, rising chronic disease-ridden population, and advancements in related technologies are some of the factors set to drive the market.
In this report, the medical image analysis software market is classified into six segments—type, image type, modality, application, end user, and region.
"In 2021, the integrated software segment accounted for the largest market share."
The integrated software segment occupied a larger share of 61.8% of the medical image analysis software market in 2021. The segment is expected to exhibit the highest CAGR of 8.6% during the forecast period. The large share of this segment can be attributed to the benefits of integrated software, such as cost-effectiveness, centralized data storage, and access to live data for multiple users to process, are also expected to support the growth of this segment.
"By image type, the 3D imaging segment was the larger market share in 2021."
The 3D imaging segment accounted for the larger share of the medical image analysis software market in 2021. This segment is expected to maintain its leading position throughout the forecast period owing to technological advancements in 3D imaging technology, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, enabling efficient and accurate real-time visualization of the human body, thereby eliminating distortion in procedures.
"The tomography segment accounted for the largest market share in 2021."
The tomography segment accounted for the largest share of 46.5% of the medical image analysis software market in 2021. This segment is projected to reach USD 2,066.7 million by 2027 from USD 1,459.1 billion in 2022, at a CAGR of 7.2% during the forecast period. Technological advancements like 4D imaging systems and software, artificial intelligence, and hybrid imaging modalities; software modifications; and the growing number of CT scanner installations across the globe are expected to drive the tomography segment during the forecast period.
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"In 2021, North America was the region with the largest market share in the medical image analysis software market"
The medical image analysis software market is segmented into five major regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa.
North America accounted for the largest share of the medical image analysis software market in 2021. Favorable government initiatives to support the adoption of healthcare IT, and the presence of key market players are favorable factors for market growth in this region.
Asia Pacific was the fastest growing region, which can be attributed to the growing medical imaging research and increasing adoption of medical image analysis software by healthcare professionals in the region.
Key players offering medical image analysis software products in this market include GE Healthcare (US), Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Netherlands), Siemens Healthineers (Germany), Canon Inc. (Japan), Agfa HealthCare (Belgium), International Business Machines Corporation (US), Carestream Health, Inc. (US), AQUILAB SAS (France), Esaote S.p.A. (Italy), MIM Software, Inc. (US), Image Analysis, Ltd. (UK), and ScienceSoft USA Corporation (US).
These companies adopted strategies such as service launches, business expansions, agreements, partnerships, collaborations, and acquisitions to strengthen their presence in the medical image analysis software market.
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Sheriff’s office: 19-year-old inmate pronounced deceased after collapsing in Starr County Jail
The Texas Rangers are investigating after a 19-year-old inmate from Hidalgo County was pronounced dead after collapsing at the Starr County jail, officials said.
The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office was notified by Starr County Jail officials that one of their inmates who was housed in the facility collapsed in his cell Saturday at around 1:30 a.m., according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office.
The inmate – identified as Brayan Gonzalez – was transported to the Starr County Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced deceased by a justice of the peace.
A social media post from the Starr County Sheriff’s Office said no trauma was noticed on the victim.
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How to Watch the NBA on Thursday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
Published: May. 11, 2023 at 1:36 PM EDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
In a Thursday NBA Playoff slate that has two compelling matchups, the Boston Celtics versus the Philadelphia 76ers is a game to catch.
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Today's NBA Games
The Philadelphia 76ers play host to the Boston Celtics
The Celtics hope to pick up a road win at the 76ers on Thursday at 7:30 PM ET.
How to Watch
Records and Stats
- PHI Record: 54-28
- BOS Record: 57-25
- PHI Stats: 115.2 PPG (14th in NBA), 110.9 Opp. PPG (third)
- BOS Stats: 117.9 PPG (fourth in NBA), 111.4 Opp. PPG (fourth)
Players to Watch
- PHI Key Player: Joel Embiid (33.1 PPG, 10.2 RPG, 4.2 APG)
- BOS Key Player: Jayson Tatum (30.1 PPG, 8.8 RPG, 4.6 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: BOS -2.5
- BOS Odds to Win: -140
- PHI Odds to Win: +119
- Total: 212.5 points
The Phoenix Suns play host to the Denver Nuggets
The Nuggets hit the road the Suns on Thursday at 10:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
Records and Stats
- PHO Record: 45-37
- DEN Record: 53-29
- PHO Stats: 113.6 PPG (17th in NBA), 111.6 Opp. PPG (sixth)
- DEN Stats: 115.8 PPG (12th in NBA), 112.5 Opp. PPG (eighth)
Players to Watch
- PHO Key Player: Deandre Ayton (18.0 PPG, 10.0 RPG, 1.7 APG)
- DEN Key Player: Nikola Jokic (24.5 PPG, 11.8 RPG, 9.8 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: PHO -2.5
- PHO Odds to Win: -140
- DEN Odds to Win: +119
- Total: 226 points
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MELBOURNE, Fla., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CogoBuzz™, a software platform powered by NConnections, announced today the expansion of its revenue-generating hotspot solution to franchisors and franchisees. Franchises now have access to technology that drives significant revenue growth by installing the CogoBuzz Revenue Generating Hotspot™. This marketing management solution grows consumer engagement, captures consumer data and delivers intelligent marketing campaigns that guarantee return on investment. Initially utilized primarily by restaurants and hospitality businesses, the hotspot-driven solution combines all the best features of WiFi, SMS, digital signage, social media and customer loyalty tools to drive repeat business and higher average sales.
The CogoBuzz Revenue-Generating Hotspot™ goes beyond basic guest WiFi and uses integrated technologies to create personalized welcome messages, drive guests to social media platforms, capture customer data and increase guest engagement from an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly platform. The solution can deliver highly targeted and dynamically segmented messaging based on guest preferences, visit history and more.
CogoBuzz™ is uniquely suited for franchises. Utilized at each location, it builds customer profiles with network-wide data sharing powered by an easy-to-install hotspot, allowing franchise owners to collect valuable customer insights across the entire brand, in real time. The CogoBuzz Revenue-Generating Hotspot™ seamlessly integrates with existing CRMs and POS systems as well as legacy marketing and loyalty programs or can be utilized as a stand-alone marketing platform.
A Mellow Mushroom franchise in Central Florida rolled out the solution growing its customer database 35% year over year. "We easily manage promotions and filter data from each location to create unique, automated greetings with a link to that respective Facebook page," said Mellow Mushroom Central Florida Regional Manager Dan Davis. "We customize promotions and messaging by location or across all locations. The automation, coupled with the services, have been a true gamechanger."
"We understand building a business with high-value customers is the difference between success and failure," said CogoBuzz CEO Stephen Gould. "Competition is tough. A repeat sale is 30% of the marketing cost of attracting a new customer, and engaged customers are walking advocates for the brand. CogoBuzz™ transforms traditional guest WiFi into a real competitive advantage, instantly."
Franchises can obtain a demo at up to five locations for just $99 per location with free text messaging services for 30 days by calling (866) 928-7834 or completing the form on the website.
About the CogoBuzz Revenue Generating Hotspot™
CogoBuzz™ is a powerful mobile marketing solution that combines all the best features of WiFi, SMS, digital signage, social media and customer loyalty through CogoWiFi™, CogoText™ & CogoTV™. The platform provides an innovative solution to collecting customer data to deliver personalized messages that drive customer engagement and generate loyalty for independent and franchise concepts. For more information about CogoBuzz™, contact 866-928-7834 or visit www.cogo.buzz.
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VERO BEACH, Fla,, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents, associates and executive leadership gathered this week at Watercrest Spanish Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care to celebrate the team's outstanding achievement of reaching 100% resident occupancy.
Watercrest Spanish Springs is an upscale senior living community located in The Villages of Central Florida. Watercrest Senior Living Group took operational management of the Spanish Springs community in the summer of 2021, implementing Watercrest's signature programming and exceptional quality care and training programs. In just 18 months and in the midst of a global pandemic, the Watercrest Spanish Springs community has achieved a complete turnaround in reaching 100% resident occupancy.
"Our team of associates at Watercrest Spanish Springs has demonstrated excellence in servant leadership, dedication, and pride in their community," says Marc Vorkapich, Principal and CEO of Watercrest Senior Living Group. "Reaching 100% occupancy is a testament to their teamwork and ability to serve each and every resident, family member and associate with joy, compassion, and respect."
Watercrest Spanish Springs is an assisted living and memory care community offering outstanding caregivers and exceptional care, all tailored to individual resident preferences. Seniors enjoy Watercrest's signature Live Exhilarated programming, diverse culinary options and advanced industry training.
"Our success is evident in the smiling faces of our residents, the encouragement from our teammates, and the joyful interactions that make this community feel like a family," says Kathy Wiederhold, Executive Director of Watercrest Spanish Springs. "I am blessed to work with a fabulous team and the outstanding Watercrest organization. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our associates, we celebrate the success of filling our community and creating an exceptional environment for our seniors."
Watercrest Spanish Springs is located in The Villages at 930 Alverez Avenue in Lady Lake, Fla. For information, contact the community 352-604-5140.
Watercrest Senior Living Group was founded to honor our mothers and fathers, aspiring to become a beacon for quality in senior living by surpassing standards of care, service and associate training. Watercrest senior living communities are recognized for their luxury aesthetic, exceptional amenities, world-class care, and innovative memory care programming offering unparalleled service to seniors living with Alzheimer's and dementia. A five-time certified Great Place to Work, Watercrest Senior Living Group specializes in the development and operations management of assisted living and memory care communities and the growth of servant leaders. For information, visit www.watercrestseniorliving.com.
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The hard seltzer brand teams up with the Chicago-based clothing brand for the second time
MODESTO, Calif., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit of Gallo's High Noon, the #1 selling spirit based hard seltzer, announced today a limited line of High Noon swimwear and apparel in collaboration with Chicago-based clothing brand, Tropical Bros. The collaboration is inspired by the new release of the brand's Limited Edition Pool Pack variety pack featuring two new flavors - Guava and Kiwi.
High Noon, made with real vodka and real juice, believes in always living like the sun's out. Whether the High Noon lovers are under the sun on a boat or sitting poolside, High Noon provides fans the opportunity to trade up from their malt-based hard seltzer in favor of a premium, vodka-based option. The brand's partnership with Tropical Bros further enhances the premium summertime experience.
Tropical Bros is the maker of premium, comfortable, stylish clothes that instill happiness, making it the perfect partner for High Noon, the premium, real vodka and real juice hard seltzer.
"Here at High Noon, we want to elevate our fans' entire summertime experience," said Britt West, Vice President & General Manager of Spirit of Gallo. "It started with a premium Hard Seltzer but our fans are eager to embrace the High Noon lifestyle whenever possible, which is why we're excited to partner with Tropical Bros to create fun, yet stylish swimwear and apparel for all High Noon lovers to wear while enjoying the most of their time under the sun."
The High Noon x Tropical Bros collection includes swim trunks [$48.95] and one-piece swimsuits [$52.95], and High Noon-branded Hawaiian shirts [$52.95]. The collection is available as of May 3, 2022 and will be available for purchase while supplies last at https://tropicalbros.com/collections/highnoon-sunsips.
"High Noon is the perfect partner and it's an amazing opportunity for Tropical Bros to expand their brand experience by releasing Pool Pack themed Hawaiian shirts and swimsuits for both males and females," added Joe Maslanka, Founder & CEO of Tropical Bros. "We can't wait to see the upcoming smiles and enjoyment this match will bring."
The collaboration is timed to the much-desired summer season, and as High Noon introduces the Limited Edition Pool Pack, inclusive of fan favorite flavors Lime and Peach, as well as two new flavors to sip poolside - Kiwi and Guava. The Pool Pack variety pack is now available in 8-packs of 355mml cans while supplies last.
About High Noon
High Noon premium Hard Seltzer is made with real vodka and real fruit juice, with no added sugar and gluten free. At only 100 calories per can, High Noon is available in Lime, Peach, Black Cherry, Grapefruit, Pineapple, Mango, Passionfruit and Watermelon. The High Noon flavors are available individually ($2.50 MSRP), in 4-packs ($9.99 MSRP), 8-packs ($18.99 MSRP), and 12-packs ($27.99 MSRP). High Noon is part of Spirit of Gallo, an award-winning spirits portfolio that includes E&J Brandy, New Amsterdam and more.
About Spirit of Gallo
For nearly half a century, the Gallo family has been growing its portfolio of spirits, now enjoyed by people around the world at occasions ranging from a day at the beach to a fine, after-dinner drink. Known best for E&J Brandy, New Amsterdam and the highly acclaimed High Noon Sun Sips, Spirit of Gallo also delivers RumChata, Stratusphere Gin, RumHaven and esteemed partner-owned brands such as The Dalmore, Diplomatico, Don Fulano, and Grupo Montenegro. Spirit of Gallo portfolio is featured on www.spiritofgallo.com
About Tropical Bros
Tropical Bros was founded on the premise to Enjoy Life in Style. Our beach, pool, travel, party ready Hawaiian Shirts, Everyday Polos, and Swimsuits are uniquely crafted with comfort, fun and action in mind. Each design is meticulously created with our customers and their adventures in mind. Come join the Tropical Bros movement and stay tropical!
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FORNEBU, Norway, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement on 27 April 2018 by Akastor ASA (OSE: AKAST) ("Akastor") regarding a preference share investment agreement and a warrant investment agreement with Odfjell Drilling Ltd. (OSE: ODL) ("Odfjell Drilling"). Akastor has recently entered into an agreement to sell the preference shares to Odfjell Drilling, which as of today became firm and unconditional. The closing of the transaction took place today. The preference shares are sold for USD 95.2 million, of which USD 75.2 million was settled in cash at closing with the remaining USD 20 million to be settled pursuant to a seller's credit agreement with maturity date 31 July 2024.
The warrants are not part of the transaction and will remain with Akastor.
"We are very pleased with our investment in Odfjell Drilling, which has given Akastor a solid return since 2018. The realization of the preference shares is driven by capital allocation priorities and will further strengthen our balance sheet. We are happy to maintain exposure towards Odfjell Drilling through the warrant agreement, which we believe is a structure with an interesting upside potential in an improving market," says Karl Erik Kjelstad, CEO of Akastor.
For further information, please contact:
Øyvind Paaske
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Tel: +47 917 59 705
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Akastor is a Norway-based oil-services investment company with a portfolio of industrial holdings and other investments. The company has a flexible mandate for active ownership and long-term value creation.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 5-12 the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to transgender teenagers shares the same campus where West Virginia kids travel to receive treatments for rare cancer, heart surgery and other health care difficult to get anywhere else.
In a rural state purported to have the highest number of transgender youths per capita and some of the nation’s worst health outcomes, West Virginia University Medicine doctors say transgender health care is just as essential as the other lifesaving services they provide.
But it could soon be banned. Ignoring doctors’ pleas, lawmakers are preparing to vote this week on a bill that would outlaw certain health care for transgender minors, including hormone therapy and fully reversible medication that suspends the physical changes of puberty, buying patients and parents time to make future decisions about hormones.
“There’s a lot of anxiety and fear in our exam rooms right now,” said Dr. Kacie Kidd, medical director of WVU Medicine Children’s Adolescent Gender and Sexual Development Clinic.
State lawmakers and West Virginia’s largest health care provider are at odds over how and when to treat adolescents with gender dysphoria — the severe psychological distress experienced by those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth.
WVU’s classification among the highest level of American research universities is often lauded by the same state leaders who have been unwilling to listen to experts when it comes to gender-affirming care. During a meeting last week at which Kidd testified before lawmakers, Senate Finance chair Eric Tarr described the treatments as “child abuse.”
“I was caught off guard to see that WVU Medicine has a clinic to change the sex of children in West Virginia,” the Republican said, leading a charge to reject amendments that would have allowed some care to continue. Two physicians on the committee — both Republicans — expressed concern, saying “medically uneducated” people shouldn’t be making such decisions.
Lawmakers in West Virginia and other states advancing similar legislation often characterize gender-affirming treatments as medically unproven, potentially dangerous in the long term and a symptom of “woke” culture.
Yet every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association, supports gender-affirming care for youths.
The legislation in West Virginia also includes a ban on gender-affirming surgery for minors, something medical professionals emphasize does not happen in the state.
Lia Farrell, a WVU medical student from New York, said it was clear to her that lawmakers have “no idea what providing this care actually entails.”
“It’s really cutting off your nose to spite your face,” she said. “This isn’t going to accomplish anything except harming people and preventing us from doing our jobs.”
Opened in 2021, WVU Medicine Children’s Adolescent Gender and Sexual Development Clinic looks like any other health care setting — animal-shaped stickers cover the walls, examination rooms, machines to check blood pressure and heart rates. But providers wear lanyards with colorful buttons displaying pronouns and jackets decorated with a rainbow heart and stethoscope — something Kidd calls “visible reminders” of support.
Some families travel for hours on mountain roads to meet with providers, including therapists. While they talk, young people draw to calm their nerves. Kidd has several patients’ creations displayed in her workspace, including one favorite, a unicorn.
A West Virginia native, Kidd was training to be a pediatrician at WVU when she began meeting transgender kids hospitalized after suicide attempts.
Patients have described gender dysphoria to her as a profound, deeply rooted frustration — even sometimes anger — that the person in the mirror “isn’t who they are.”
“I’ve had young people tell me that they can’t imagine a future where they can be happy,” she said. “That’s one of the most heartbreaking things I ever hear.”
Dakota Kai, 17, spent childhood in and out of psychiatric care because of depression and anxiety related to gender dysphoria.
Kai said the testosterone gel they apply to their shoulders, which has caused their voice to deepen and facial hair to sprout, has saved their life.
“It’s literally going to kill people if they can’t access this care,” Kai said. “It’s difficult to try to exist in a place where it’s threatening just being yourself.”
Kai is now planning to start college this year and eventually become a cardiovascular surgeon.
Kai’s mother, Sherry, said she was apprehensive at first about hormone therapy. But after conversations with providers, she and her child confidently decided to pursue it and have no regrets. Transgender minors can’t begin medical interventions without parental consent.
“The amount of ignorance about the subject is honestly astounding,” she said. “Watching our society respond with such emotional fervor about something that they obviously logically don’t understand is terrifying.”
She said nothing about the care is pushed on patients, “lightly talked about or treated as if it’s no big deal.”
“They are not trying to play God,” Sherry said. “They’re out there trying to perform a service of helping people, and because of science and because of time and because of studying the concept of being trans are able to say, ‘This is not fictitious or just a whim. This is a scientific, medical fact.’”
As the ban advances through the Legislature, Kidd’s staff works late in the clinic, leaving long after dark to fit in appointments with frantic families.
“It is heartbreaking,” Kidd said, “to have to tell young people and families that we can’t provide the care that they need.”
This week, providers saw a 12-year-old patient, a transgender girl whose relatives said they’d known her identity since she was 3. She expressed distress about her voice deepening or growing hair on her underarms and face — concern about her body betraying her, of not being seen for who she is.
They talked through options, which included puberty-blocking medication lawmakers seek to ban — a fully reversible pause on puberty that provides significant relief for dysphoria.
Another was a 16-year-old patient who was hospitalized for the most recent time last year. When he came in, he couldn’t speak at all. His parents were terrified.
But on this visit, he chattered happily about a new pet and a video game he couldn’t put down.
“It’s such a joy, a year later for this particular patient, for this conversation to be profoundly different,” Kidd said.
Other children talked with therapists about anxiety over a school dance or asked for help on plans to talk to relatives about their gender identity. No medical interventions are provided to patients before the age of puberty.
El Didden, a WVU medical student who worked in the clinic as a researcher, said the providers are role models for “going above and beyond and acting like it’s the bare minimum.”
Didden, who is transgender, started hormone therapy the summer before starting medical school, when only a Planned Parenthood clinic was offering the service in the state. It inspires Didden as a future physician to see compassionate health care for people “who don’t normally get that level of respect and care.”
Kidd’s catchphrase for the clinic is “happy, healthy, thriving.” Didden wishes lawmakers understood.
“They think that in the choice between having a trans kid and having a dead kid, they prefer to have a dead kid,” Didden said, something that is “just existentially horrifying to think about.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/anxiety-fear-fill-west-virginias-transgender-health-clinic/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-03-09 15:31:26 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/anxiety-fear-fill-west-virginias-transgender-health-clinic/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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Company aims to assist districts in planning, funding, product selection and deployment of educational solutions focusing on enhancing student engagement and safety
PHOENIX, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Booth 2750 becomes a hub of excitement and inspiration as Bluum takes the spotlight at the prestigious International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in 2023.
Bluum invites all educational leaders to book a free consultation with their team of strategic advisors and product experts by visiting: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/BluumISTE2023@cdicomputers.com/bookings/
Together, they can develop a customized plan for technology solutions that meet the specific needs of each district.
As one of the world's largest gatherings of educators and technology experts, the conference provides an ideal platform for Bluum to demonstrate its innovative products and services that are revolutionizing learning environments. With a focus on enhancing student engagement and safety, Bluum is at the forefront of educational technology solutions. As a leading reseller in the education sector, Bluum is committed to maximizing the impact of technology by offering a comprehensive suite of services that assist districts in planning, funding, product selection, and deployment. This ensures that districts are fully equipped to derive the maximum benefits from their new technology investments.
Emily Cook, Vice President, Education Services at Bluum: "Over the past three years, we have witnessed a significant increase in the adoption of educational technology in classrooms across our country. With our extensive reach in North America, we are uniquely positioned to make a positive impact on the learning experiences of countless students. We feel a tremendous responsibility to support educators in utilizing this technology to measurably enhance learning outcomes and overall student experiences, including bolstering their sense of safety on campus."
Booth 2750 will highlight three key areas in the modern classroom environment:
- Physical Security
- Cybersecurity
- Esports
Educators at ISTE are invited to visit booth 2750 to participate in a hands-on learning experience, where they can witness firsthand how technology seamlessly integrates into the classroom ecosystem to enhance engagement, foster collaboration, and empower student autonomy.
In these times of economic uncertainty, having a partner who comprehends the unique challenges and priorities of education, and who boasts a proven track record of success, is more crucial than ever. By collaborating with Bluum, educators invest in practical solutions that improve learning outcomes, streamline operations, and stay ahead of the curve in today's rapidly evolving educational landscape.
For more information about Bluum, please visit our website at www.bluum.com.
Emily Cook, emily.cook@bluum.com
Vice President, Education Services
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The Kansas City Chiefs, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, face the Philadelphia Eagles, led by quarterback Jalen Hurts, in the Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023 (2/12/23) at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Fans can watch the game (for free) if they choose a few different streaming services.
Here are the top three Super Bowl LVII streaming options in 2023:
1. fuboTV (FREE TRIAL): fuboTV offers the major football networks at a low cost and also has a free trial. For $69.99 per month, fans can watch games on networks such as ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, FOX, ABC CBS, NBC and USA Network, but it does not carry TBS or TNT. Fans can also watch the ACC Network, Big Ten Network, SEC Network, ESPNU, CBS Sports Network on fuboTV with some additional costs.
WATCH SUPER BOWL LVII VIA FUBOTV HERE
Fans who want to purchase a subscription or sign up for a free trial to fuboTV can do so here.
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A recent NFL story, via the AP:
Donna Kelce is going to have to pull out that now-familiar custom jersey — the one with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s front stitched to Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce’s back — one more time this season.
At least this time, she’ll get to see her boys in person.
For the first time in Super Bowl history, a pair of siblings will play each other on the NFL’s grandest stage. Kelce helped the Chiefs return to their third championship game in four seasons on Sunday night when they beat the Bengals for the AFC title, while Jason has the Eagles back for the second time in six years after their NFC title win over the 49ers.
“Cool scenario to be in, you know?” Travis Kelce said. “My mom can’t lose.”
Or maybe can’t win.
Indeed, there have been plenty of famous NFL siblings over the years, and many had some memorable matchups: Peyton vs. Eli Manning, Tiki vs. Ronde Barber. But they never reached the same Super Bowl, or had to put their dear old mom in such a predicament, where one will be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the other one’s expense.
“It’s going to be an amazing feeling playing against him,” added Travis, whose team has gotten the better of big brother’s Eagles the last three matchups. “I respect everyone over there in the Eagles organization. You won’t see me talk too much trash because of how much I love my brother. But it’s going to be an emotional game, for sure.”
Jason Kelce was even ever-so-briefly a Chiefs fan Sunday night, pulling on a Kansas City sweatshirt for about the three hours between the end of the Eagles’ 31-7 rout of San Francisco and the finish of his little brother’s 23-20 win over Cincinnati.
“That’s it for the rest of the year,” Jason said with a smile. “I am done being a Chiefs fan.”
He’ll leave that to mom and dad.
While her husband, Ed, has mostly kept private over the years, Donna has been a fixture as she crisscrosses the country to watch her boys. During wild-card weekend last year, she started in Tampa Bay watching the Eagles against the Buccaneers, then hopped a plane to Kansas City in time to watch the Chiefs play the Steelers at night.
She already has seen both of her sons win Super Bowls, too: The Eagles beat the Patriots in 2018 in Minneapolis, and the Chiefs rallied to beat the 49ers in Miami two years later.
She hasn’t seen much of them lately, though. The way the playoff schedule worked out for the divisional round and the conference championship games, it was impossible for Donna to make it to see both of her boys in person.
In any case, they’ve come a long way from their solidly middle-class upbringing in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Jason blazed the trail as the star offensive lineman who earned a scholarship to Cincinnati, and Travis soon followed suit. Both caught the eyes of NFL scout during their college careers, and of one coach in particular: Andy Reid.
It was Big Red who, while coaching the Eagles, used a sixth-round pick on Jason during the 2011 draft. And two years later, after Reid had gotten a fresh start in Kansas City, the Chiefs used a third-rounder to bring Travis into the fold.
“Big brother probably protected Travis from doing some crazy things. He probably talked him from dropping off a ladder into raked-up leaves once or twice,” Reid said Monday. “Listen, they’re both at heart very competitive and compassionate, is the biggest thing. They care and they care about people and they care about they’re game.”
They also happen to be very good at it.
Jason has been to six Pro Bowls and was just voted an All-Pro for the fifth time, and he’s emerged as one of the best offensive linemen in Eagles history. Travis has been to eight Pro Bowls, just made a fourth All-Pro team and is second in NFL history to Jerry Rice in playoff catches, yards and touchdowns.
Football’s not the only thing they’re good at, either.
The brothers have new a podcast called “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce,” which takes listeners on a riotous, real-time ride through the NFL season. The weekly shows are recorded on Tuesdays and last between 60 and 90 minutes, the two NFL stars playing off each other as if they were hanging out in mom’s basement.
Special guests have included Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes.
“They have a good mesh there, and a good relationship,” Reid said. “I think Travis has grown up a lot. Jason probably came in a bit more mature — Travis was a little immature. But he’s really grown into a good person.
“I have invested time in both of those two,” Reid added, “so I feel like a part of the family.”
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Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week following a previous spike that many analysts took as a sign that higher interest rates were finally cooling the labor market.
It turns out the recent jump in jobless benefit applications was largely due to fraudulent applications in Massachusetts, where claims fell this week by more than 14,000 from the previous week, analysts said.
U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending May 13 fell by 22,000, to 242,000, from 264,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The weekly claims numbers are broadly as representative of the number of U.S. layoffs.
While news of the fraudulent Massachusetts numbers made the hand-wringing over last week’s jump in claims seem overblown, economists still expect a slow uptick in layoffs in the second half of 2023.
“We expect jobless claims will resume their upward trend as the economy weakens and enters a mild recession in the second half of the year, and as layoffs become more widespread,” wrote Nancy Vanden Houten, economist at Oxford Economics.
The four-week moving average of claims, which flattens some of the week-to-week fluctuations, ticked down by 1,000, to 244,250. Analysts have pointed to a sustained increase in the four-week averages as a sign that layoffs are accelerating, but are reluctant to predict that a spike in layoffs is imminent.
Overall, 1.8 million people were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended April 29, about 8,000 fewer than the previous week.
Since the pandemic purge of millions of jobs three years ago, the U.S. economy has added jobs at a breakneck pace and Americans have enjoyed unusual job security. That’s despite interest rates that have been rising for more than a year and fears of a looming recession.
Early this month, the Fed raised its benchmark lending rate for the 10th time in a row in its bid to cool the economy and bring down four-decade high inflation. Though the labor market still favors workers, there have been some recent indications that the Fed’s policy actions are working.
In April, U.S. employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, matching a 54-year low. But the figures for February and March were revised lower by 149,000 jobs, potentially signaling that the Fed’s rate policy strategy is starting to cool the job market.
The government also recently reported that U.S. job openings fell in March to the lowest level in nearly two years.
The Fed is hoping to achieve a so-called soft landing—lowering growth just enough to bring inflation under control without causing a recession. Economists are skeptical, with many expecting the U.S. to enter a recession later this year.
Last month, the Commerce Department reported that U.S. economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1% annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced inventories.
There have been an increasing number of high-profile layoffs recently, mostly in the technology sector, where companies added jobs at a furious pace during the pandemic. IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, LinkedIn and DoorDash have all announced layoffs in recent months. Amazon and Facebook have each announced two sets of job cuts since November.
But it’s not just the tech sector that’s trimming staff. McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley and 3M also announced layoffs recently.
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New Starbucks headed to our region
Published: Apr. 3, 2023 at 6:52 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Java lovers, take note.
A new Starbucks is on its way to Park Place in South Charleston, according to Mayor Frank Mullens. He confirmed that news Monday.
While Mullens said an opening date is unknown at this time, he said construction is expected to begin soon.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Chez Reavie doubled his lead to six points Saturday in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring event.
A day after a 19-point round, the 40-year-old Reavie scored nine points — making five birdies and a bogey — to reach 37 points on Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood layout.
“I hit the ball really well today for most of the day,” Reavie said. “Didn’t really make many putts, had a lot of good looks and fortunately made a few in the middle. Hit some bad shots coming in and was able to save some pars. Wasn’t quite all together today, but did everything well at different times.”
Players get five points for eagle and two for birdie. A point is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.
Martin Laird of Scotland was second. He birdied the last three holes in a 13-point round.
“Love this tournament,” Laird said. “Always like playing at altitude, love being in the mountains. I live in Denver, so it’s not strange for me with how far the ball goes. I kind of know my numbers at this altitude, which is nice.”
Alex Noren and Cam Davis were nine points back at 28 after 12-point days. Brice Garnett amd Henrik Norlander had 27 points.
Reavie is trying to win for the third time on the PGA Tour, following the 2008 Canadian Open and 2019 Travelers Championship.
He pointed to his solid ball-striking in the first three rounds.
“I’ve given myself a lot of looks every day,” Reavie said. “When I shot 9 under I made a lot of putts. Today, I didn’t quite make as many. The first day I didn’t quite make as many. The first day I made an eagle which kind of saved me, and then I had that chip-in when I shot 9 under, which saved me.”
The Arizona player birdied the par-5 sixth and par-3 seventh on the front nine. He added birdies on the par-4 11th, par-5 12th and par-4 14th, before dropping a point on the par-3 15th with his lone bogey in three rounds.
“Just looking to hit it in the fairways, knock it on the greens and give myself some looks,” Reavie said.
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Focused execution driving continued strong results;
Company raises midpoint of full year 2023 guidance
Second Quarter Highlights
- Delivered sales of $4.2 billion, up 9.0%, or 10.1% on a daily, constant currency basis
- Generated operating earnings of $661 million, up 23.5%, with operating margin of 15.8%, up 190-basis points
- Achieved diluted EPS of $9.28, an increase of 29.1%
- Produced $450 million in operating cash flow and returned $265 million to Grainger shareholders through dividends and share repurchases
- Announced plans to open a new 500,000-square-foot distribution center in Oregon in 2025
- Raising midpoint of full year 2023 total Company revenue and EPS guidance ranges, including daily sales growth of 8.5% to 11% and diluted EPS of $35.00 to $36.75 per share
CHICAGO, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grainger (NYSE: GWW) today reported results for the second quarter of 2023 with sales of $4.2 billion, up 9.0%, or 10.1% on a daily, constant currency basis, and diluted EPS of $9.28, up 29.1% compared to the second quarter of 2022.
"The team delivered another strong quarter of performance, as overall demand remains reasonably steady, and we show up well with our customers. Across the business, we continue to invest in our team members and operations, including the recent announcement of our new Northwest Distribution Center, all while producing great results at the top and bottom line," said D.G. Macpherson, Chairman and CEO. "Given the success of the first half, we are raising the midpoint of our revenue and EPS ranges and expect to continue driving strong execution in the back half of 2023."
2023 Second Quarter Financial Summary
Revenue
Sales in the quarter, on a reported and daily basis, increased 9.0% compared to the second quarter of 2022. Excluding the unfavorable foreign exchange impact of 1.1%, sales on a daily, constant currency basis increased 10.1% compared to the second quarter of 2022.
In the High-Touch Solutions - N.A. segment, daily sales were up 9.9% compared to the second quarter of 2022, primarily due to continued price realization and solid volume growth. In the Endless Assortment segment, daily sales were up 4.5% or 10.1% on a daily, constant currency basis compared to the second quarter of 2022. Revenue growth was driven by new customer acquisition across the segment as well as enterprise customer growth at MonotaRO.
Gross Profit Margin
Gross profit margin for the second quarter of 2023 was 39.3%, a 170-basis point increase compared to the second quarter of 2022. The increase was driven by favorability in both segments.
In the High-Touch Solutions - N.A. segment, gross profit margin expanded by 200-basis points over the second quarter of 2022 primarily due to sustained freight and supply chain efficiencies, as well as continued favorable product mix. In the Endless Assortment segment, gross profit margin expanded by 50-basis points over the second quarter of 2022 driven by strong price realization and continued freight efficiencies at MonotaRO, offsetting unfavorable product mix at Zoro.
Earnings
Operating earnings for the second quarter of 2023 were $661 million, up 23.5% compared to the second quarter of 2022. Operating margin in the quarter was 15.8%, a 190-basis point increase over the second quarter of 2022 driven by expanded gross profit margins in both segments and further aided by SG&A leverage in the High-Touch Solutions - N.A. segment.
Diluted earnings per share of $9.28 in the second quarter of 2023, increased 29.1% compared to the second quarter of 2022 due primarily to the strong operating performance.
Tax Rate
The second quarter 2023 effective tax rate was 24.0%, compared to 24.8% in the second quarter of 2022. The decrease in the effective tax rate was primarily due to increased stock compensation tax benefit.
Cash Flow
During the second quarter of 2023, the Company generated $450 million of cash flow from operating activities, as net earnings were partially offset by a higher accounts receivable balance and tax payments in the period. The Company invested $95 million in capital expenditures, resulting in free cash flow of $355 million. During the quarter, the Company returned $265 million to Grainger shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.
Guidance
Webcast
The Company will conduct a live conference call and webcast at 11:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, July 27, 2023 to discuss the second quarter results. The webcast will be hosted by D.G. Macpherson, Chairman and CEO, and Deidra Merriwether, Senior Vice President and CFO, and can be accessed at invest.grainger.com. For those unable to participate in the live event, a webcast replay will be available for 90 days at invest.grainger.com.
About Grainger
W.W. Grainger, Inc., with 2022 sales of $15.2 billion, is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. Grainger achieves its purpose, We Keep the World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with innovative technology and deep customer relationships. The Company operates two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions - N.A. segment, Grainger offers more than 2 million maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products and several services, such as technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 12 million items, and MonotaRO.com provides more than 20 million items. For more information, visit invest.grainger.com.
Visit invest.grainger.com to view information about the Company, including a supplement regarding 2023 second quarter results. Additional Company information can be found on the Grainger Investor Relations website which includes the Company Snapshot and ESG report.
Safe Harbor Statement
All statements in this communication, other than those relating to historical facts, are "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by their use of terms such as "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "expect," "could," "forecast," "may," "intend," "plan," "predict," "project," "will," or "would," and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future strategic plans and future financial and operating results. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented or implied in the forward-looking statements include, without limitation: inflation, higher product costs or other expenses, including operational and administrative expenses; the impact of macroeconomic pressures and geopolitical trends, changes and events, including the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the global economy, tensions across the Taiwan Straits and in overall relations with China, and the ramifications of these and other events; a major loss of customers; loss or disruption of sources of supply; changes in customer or product mix; increased competitive pricing pressures; changes in third party practices regarding digital advertising; failure to enter into or sustain contractual arrangements on a satisfactory basis with group purchasing organizations; failure to develop, manage or implement new technology initiatives or business strategies, including with respect to the Company's eCommerce platforms; failure to adequately protect intellectual property or successfully defend against infringement claims; fluctuations or declines in the Company's gross profit margin; the Company's responses to market pressures; the outcome of pending and future litigation or governmental or regulatory proceedings, including with respect to wage and hour, anti-bribery and corruption, environmental, regulations related to advertising, marketing and the Internet, consumer protection, pricing (including disaster or emergency declaration pricing statutes), product liability, compliance or safety, trade and export compliance, general commercial disputes, or privacy and cybersecurity matters; investigations, inquiries, audits and changes in laws and regulations; failure to comply with laws, regulations and standards, including new or stricter environmental laws or regulations; government contract matters; disruption or breaches of information technology or data security systems involving the Company or third parties on which the Company depends; general industry, economic, market or political conditions; general global economic conditions including tariffs and trade issues and policies; currency exchange rate fluctuations; market volatility, including price and trading volume volatility or price declines of the Company's common stock; commodity price volatility; facilities disruptions or shutdowns; higher fuel costs or disruptions in transportation services; outbreaks of pandemic disease or viral contagions such as the COVID-19 pandemic; natural or human induced disasters, extreme weather and other catastrophes or conditions; effects of climate change; failure to execute on our efforts and programs related to environmental, social and governance matters; competition for, or failure to attract, retain, train, motivate and develop executives and key employees; loss of key members of management or key employees; changes in effective tax rates; changes in credit ratings or outlook; the Company's incurrence of indebtedness or failure to comply with restrictions and obligations under its debt agreements and instruments and other factors identified in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent periodic reports filed on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, which are available on our Investor Relations website. The preceding list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all of the factors that could impact the Company's forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION - RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP
FINANCIAL MEASURES (Unaudited)
The Company supplements the reporting of financial information determined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) with the non-GAAP financial measures as defined below. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful information to assist investors in understanding financial results and assessing prospects for future performance as they provide a better baseline for analyzing the ongoing performance of its business by excluding items that may not be indicative of core operating results.
Adjusted gross profit, adjusted SG&A, adjusted operating earnings, adjusted net earnings, adjusted diluted EPS
Exclude certain non-recurring items, like restructuring charges, asset impairments, business divestitures and other non-recurring, infrequent or unusual gains and losses (together referred to as "non-GAAP adjustments"), from the Company's most directly comparable reported U.S. GAAP figures (reported gross profit, SG&A, operating earnings, net earnings and EPS).
Free cash flow (FCF)
Calculated using total cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures. The Company believes the presentation of FCF allows investors to evaluate the capacity of the Company's operations to generate free cash flow.
Daily sales
Refers to net sales for the period divided by the number of U.S. selling days for the period.
Daily, constant currency sales
Refers to the daily sales adjusted for changes in foreign exchange.
Daily, constant currency sales in local days
Refers to the daily sales adjusted for changes in foreign exchange and local selling days for the business unit.
Foreign exchange impact
Calculated by dividing current period local currency daily sales by current period average exchange rate and subtracting the current period local currency daily sales divided by the prior period average exchange rate.
U.S. selling days:
2022: Q1-64, Q2-64, Q3-64, Q4-63, FY-255
2023: Q1-64, Q2-64, Q3-63, Q4-63, FY-254
2024: Q1-64, Q2-64, Q3-64, Q4-64, FY-256
Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare these financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names. These adjusted financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for reported results. These non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of operations that, when viewed with GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of the business. The Company strongly encourages investors and shareholders to review Company financial statements and publicly filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.
This press release also includes certain non-GAAP forward-looking information. The Company believes that a quantitative reconciliation of such forward-looking information to the most comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP cannot be made available without unreasonable efforts. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures would require the Company to predict the timing and likelihood of future restructurings, asset impairments, and other charges. Neither of these forward-looking measures, nor their probable significance, can be quantified with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Accordingly, a reconciliation of the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP measures is not provided.
The reconciliation provided below reconciles GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures used in this release: daily sales; daily, constant currency sales; and free cash flow.
Basis of presentation
The Company has a controlling ownership interest in MonotaRO, which is part of our Endless Assortment segment. MonotaRO's results are fully consolidated, reflected in U.S. GAAP, and reported one-month in arrears. Results will differ from MonotaRO's externally reported financials which follow Japanese GAAP.
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Fire departments across the country are using various different tactics to recruit more females.
Efforts are happening at a boot camp in Boise, Idaho, a girl’s summer camp in Charlotte, North Carolina, to recruiting college athletes in Columbus, Ohio, and changing public perception in Lexington, Kentucky.
Fire departments across the country are doing various different events and recruitment strategies to get more women interested in careers in firefighting and EMS.
Longtime female leaders in fire service say it starts with department culture.
“I think that if an organizational culture is not inclusive or is not welcoming and open to everybody, that can make a really tough atmosphere for any outsider to come in,” noted Amy Hanifan, president of the organization Women in Fire.
Women in Fire was designed for inclusion and advocacy. It helps by providing specific training for women and mentorships, while also helping to change department policies.
Hanifan says the organization is also helping to develop best practices and recommendations for women that might become pregnant while working in fire service.
The McMinnville Fire Department in Oregon, where Hanifan is currently the operations chief, boasts about 20% female employment. Nationally, only about 5% of full-time firefighters are women. That’s much lower than other first responder careers and the military. Only about 10% of volunteer firefighters are women.
Hanifan noted that a diverse workforce makes for better public service.
The top federal fire position is held by a woman. Lori Moore-Merrell, Ph.D. was sworn in as the U.S. Fire Administrator in 2021. She said she rose through the ranks with only male mentors and that education made all the difference.
“The big thing for me, and I call it the great equalizer, was that I completed not only an undergraduate degree but a master’s and doctorate,” she said.
Moore-Merrell pointed out that the need for more firefighters is growing with climate change.
Both Moore-Merrell and Hanifan agree that camps, outreach and trade schools are effective ways to connect women to the industry. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/fire-departments-focus-on-female-recruitment | 2022-08-01 15:16:09 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/fire-departments-focus-on-female-recruitment |
Businesses in the Northeast that rely on winter recreation activities are having a bad year. Warm temperatures are keeping snowmobilers and skiers off the trails.
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Businesses in the Northeast that rely on winter recreation activities are having a bad year. Warm temperatures are keeping snowmobilers and skiers off the trails.
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Kathy Shoopman, 74, was the Buckhorn-Bally fire lookout at the Klamath National Forest. She was killed Friday by the McKinney fire — the largest and most deadly wildfire in California this year.
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Kathy Shoopman, 74, was the Buckhorn-Bally fire lookout at the Klamath National Forest. She was killed Friday by the McKinney fire — the largest and most deadly wildfire in California this year.
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ROME (AP) — With the return of calm seas, migrant smugglers launched a score of boats from Tunisia during the weekend and their passengers reached a tiny Italian island by the hundreds. A body was found in one of the boats, Italian news reports said, while survivors of two rescues said 23 persons were missing.
Dozens of the migrants sat Monday morning near Lampedusa’s port awaiting transfer to the island’s overcrowded shelter or eventually to Sicily or the Italian mainland.
Earlier Monday, a fishing boat off Lampedusa aided a distressed migrant boat that contained 34 people and a body, the Italian news agency ANSA said. Survivors reportedly told rescuers that some 20 fellow passengers were missing from the boat, which had set out from a Tunisian port on Saturday night.
A few hours later, the Italian Coast Guard rescued 42 migrants from a boat foundering off Lampedusa after setting out Saturday night from Tunisia, ANSA said. Survivors told rescuers that three men were missing.
The Italian Coast Guard, when contacted by The AP, declined to comment on the reported rescues.
On Sunday, with seas calm after four days of rough conditions, a total of 640 migrants reached Lampedusa, while more than 200 came ashore from several boats on Monday. In many cases, Italian coast guard or other military vessels took on migrants when they approached the island, including transferring the 34 from the fishing boat.
Last week, Italian authorities used commercial ferries and military vessels to transfer some of the migrants who had been rescued earlier from Lampedusa to Sicily or to the Italian mainland. Those transfers finally brought Lampedusa’s migrant center below its approximately 400-person capacity. But with the slew of boats arriving starting on Sunday, the number of migrants there quickly swelled to nearly 1,100, and authorities were scrambling anew to make arrangement for more transfers off the island.
Separately, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said its rescue vessel Geo Barents, came to the aid of 75 migrants in a wooden boat foundering in international waters off Libya on Monday. Among the passengers are 40 minors.
The rescue vessel must now wait for Italian authorities to assign it a port to disembark the migrants. Italy’s right-wing government has been assigning ports in northern Italy, far from the rescue area, to try to limit charity boats’ time at sea. Government officials have contended that the charity boats encourage illegal migration by providing safety to the smugglers’ passengers.
Although far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has led a crackdown both on smugglers and on the charity vessels that frequently rescue passengers from unseaworthy boats launched from Tunisia, Libya and Turkey, migrants keep setting out on the dangerous voyage in the Central Mediterranean in hopes of finding work or relatives in Europe.
According to figures provided by the Italian Interior Ministry, by Monday, more than 36,600 migrants had arrived in Italy since the start of the year. That’s more than four times the number for the same period in each of the two previous years.
Italy denies the asylum bids of most of the migrants because they are fleeing poverty, not war or persecution. But since barely a handful of countries have repatriation accords with Italy, the migrants who lose asylum bids often stay in Italy for years in a kind of legal limbo, or try to make their way to northern European countries.
Italy’s pleas to fellow European Union nations to take on some of the migrants have largely gone unheeded for years now.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --..."I thought there should be a way to lower your mask without taking it off entirely when eating or drinking," said an inventor, from Avondale, Ariz., "so I invented the MASK HOLDER. My design offers a more sanitary alternative to placing your mask on an unsanitary surface or putting it in a pocket or bag."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to secure a face mask below the chin when not in use. In doing so, it eliminates the need to set the mask down or place it within a pocket. As a result, it increases sanitation and convenience and it helps to prevent lost and forgotten masks. The invention features a simple design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PBT-192, 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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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit two three-run homers, including a dramatic tying drive in the bottom of the ninth inning. He drove in a career-high eight runs, the most by a Japanese-born player in major league history.
And somehow, it still was not enough for his Los Angeles Angels to beat the Kansas City Royals.
Whit Merrifield led off the 11th inning with an RBI double, and the Royals overcame Ohtani’s historic performance for a 12-11 victory Tuesday night.
Ohtani crushed a 423-foot homer in the sixth and a tying, 438-foot shot in the ninth, giving him the biggest RBI game of his five-year stateside career. The AL MVP then set the single-game record for RBIs by a Japanese-born player with a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning.
Although he never complains publicly, Ohtani would be perfectly justified in feeling frustrated by his Los Angeles teammates’ tepid pitching performance behind his latest heroics. But the Royals knew they won with some remarkable hitting of their own, including landmark games for both Carlos Santana and rookie Bobby Witt Jr.
“That’s one of the most fun games I’ve ever been a part of,” said Witt, who had his first multi-homer game while driving in a career-high four runs. “Just top to bottom, there was a lot of energy going on. It was a blast. … Every time Ohtani or (Mike) Trout come up to the plate, you hold your breath a little bit out there. It’s fun to watch them play, and hopefully they don’t do as much damage as they did against us (tonight).”
Ohtani’s eighth RBI wasn’t enough, because Merrifield and Kyle Isbel both drove in runs off Jose Quijada (0-2) earlier in the 11th.
Daniel Mengden struck out Trout with two Angels on base before Ohtani’s flyout, and he retired Jared Walsh on a game-ending popup. Mengden earned his first save of the season and the second of his career as Kansas City held on for its fifth victory in six games despite blowing a five-run lead in the sixth and a three-run lead in the ninth.
“Just the energy and the fight, the way we just kept punching,” Kansas City manager Mike Matheny said. “We’d take one, and they kept coming back. That’s what I love to see. … You see a game like that, and it’s one that begins to repeat itself.”
Santana had four hits and drove in a season-high five runs for the Royals, who battered the Angels’ staff despite losing slugger Salvador Perez to a thumb injury in the third inning. Kansas City led 6-1 midway through the sixth before the Angels’ star hitters finally got going.
Along with Ohtani’s excellence, Walsh doubled, tripled and homered while driving in two runs for the Angels. He fell just short of his second cycle in 11 days.
“This one stings,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “That room is hurting in there. You feel like it’s in your grasp a couple of times, and you worked hard to get back in it. We just never quite got the lead, but a lot of great performances. We swung the bats great in some tight spots.”
Ohtani trimmed the Angels’ deficit to 6-4 when he drove his 14th homer to right-center. Royals starter Jonathan Heasley had pitched four-hit ball into the sixth before Ohtani’s shot chased him.
Kansas City then led 10-7 entering the bottom of the ninth after Santana’s late RBI single and Witt’s two-run homer, but Tyler Wade singled and Trout walked before Ohtani drove them home with a no-doubt blast to right.
Dylan Coleman (2-1) stranded two Angels runners in the 10th.
Santana began his monster game with an RBI double and a two-run homer before adding RBI singles in the sixth and eighth. Witt homered in the first inning, added an RBI double off the wall in the seventh and delivered a two-run homer in the ninth.
SHYCYCLE
Walsh got three extra-base hits in four innings midway through the game, but couldn’t get a hit in two additional at-bats. He finished a single shy of matching his first career cycle on June 11 against the Mets.
HISTORIC HITS
Two Japanese players had previously driven in seven runs in a major league game. Tadahito Iguchi did it for the White Sox in 2006, and Hideki Matsui matched it for the Yankees in 2009.
NEVIN TOSSED
Nevin was ejected during a pitching change in the seventh inning after arguing vociferously with the umpiring crew. Nevin was angry about a debatable balk call on Halos reliever Andrew Wantz earlier in the game.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Perez injured his thumb while swinging, but stayed in the game and completed his at-bat. The catcher said he’ll have an MRI exam on his left thumb Wednesday, and he won’t be surprised if he misses a few days. “Hopefully it’s nothing bad,” Perez said. “I’ve just got to wait.”
UP NEXT
Ohtani (5-4, 3.28 ERA) looks to string together three straight mound victories in the series finale against Kansas City’s Daniel Lynch (3-6, 5.19). Ohtani’s only previous pitching start against Kansas City was back in his AL Rookie of the Year season in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Ind. — The Richmond Police Department announced the retirement of the late Ofc. Burton’s K-9 Brev Thursday.
The announcement comes as the Police Department Administration made the decision to remove Officer Brev from active service. He is now in the loving care of Ofc. Burton’s mother and stepmother.
According to RPD, Brev has adjusted well to his new retired life and “is in the best possible place a dog could hope for”.
Vohne Liche Kennels, where Brev came from, has graciously offered RPD to provide its next K9 at no cost. Founder Ken and his team were moved by the loss of Ofc Burton and wanted to give back.
“The quality of their K9’s and training is top notch, and the Richmond Police Department is proud to call Ken and his team not only partners, but friends,” read a release from RPD. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/richmond-police-department-announces-retirement-of-late-ofc-burtons-k-9-partner-brev/ | 2022-10-06 16:04:35 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/richmond-police-department-announces-retirement-of-late-ofc-burtons-k-9-partner-brev/ |
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Seattle Sounders FC (10-11-2, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta United FC (6-9-7, 12th in the Eastern Conference)
Atlanta; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Atlanta United FC -103, Seattle +248, Draw +271; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Sounders visit Atlanta United looking to stop a three-game road losing streak.
United is 5-2-4 in home games. United ranks fourth in the MLS with 114 shots on goal, averaging 5.2 per game.
The Sounders are 3-7-1 in road games. The Sounders have a 4-0-0 record in games they record a pair of goals.
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.
TOP PERFORMERS: Josef Martinez has five goals and four assists for United. Dom Dwyer has two goals over the last 10 games.
Jordan Morris has six goals and one assist for the Sounders. Nicolas Lodeiro has two goals and one assist over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: United: 2-5-3, averaging 1.0 goal, 5.0 shots on goal and 5.6 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.5 goals per game.
Sounders: 4-5-1, averaging 1.1 goals, 3.9 shots on goal and 4.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.1 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: United: Dylan Castanheira (injured), Andrew Gutman (injured), Brooks Lennon (injured), Miles Robinson (injured), Ronald Hernandez (injured), Emerson Hyndman (injured), Osvaldo Alonso (injured), Brad Guzan (injured).
Sounders: Obed Vargas (injured), Joao Paulo (injured).
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Two European and two US-built SAR Satellites grow the world's largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, providing governments and enterprise customers with reliable data and insights for time-critical decision-making.
HELSINKI, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ICEYE, the global leader in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully expanded its constellation with four new synthetic aperture radar ("SAR") satellites on June 12. The launch on SpaceX's Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare mission via Exolaunch was conducted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. Each spacecraft has successfully established communications and are undergoing routine early operations. The next generation ICEYE satellites launched today can image the Earth with a ground range resolution of 50 cm and are accompanied by the release of a new data product named Spot Fine. This new imaging mode is the first of a new class of data offerings enabled by ICEYE's Generation 3 ("Gen3") satellite technology.
The deployed satellites will provide additional capacity to ICEYE's growing constellation and unlock novel SAR collection techniques, including rapid monitoring of small changes on land and at sea thus extending ICEYE's leadership in SAR remote sensing. Two of the launched satellites are manufactured, licensed, and operated by ICEYE US, the company's U.S. subsidiary headquartered in Irvine, California.
"The ICEYE team continues to deliver results for our customers in direct need of reliable, frequent, and high-fidelity data about our world. We are privileged to help solve issues that arise from the lack of actionable information across multiple industries," says Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and Co-founder of ICEYE. "With this launch and beyond, we continue to grow and develop our constellation capabilities to meet the still-emerging needs of our partners."
ICEYE's Gen3 satellite features improvements that will significantly enhance the value of ICEYE's SAR data for various use cases. The Gen3 includes an advanced radar that enables major improvements in image quality, faster downlink speeds to better support agile imagery collections and better integration with ICEYE's global network of ground stations.
SPOT FINE mode represents a significant step forward for SAR imagery and analytic users alike. SAR satellites illuminate the ground with microwaves and create images from the energy that is reflected back to the satellite. SAR is superior to traditional electro-optical imaging for monitoring and search applications because it provides a powerful day/night all-weather imaging capability. With Spot Fine mode, ICEYE satellites can now detect smaller features on the ground, which provides analysts with higher confidence in conclusions drawn from SAR imagery. The benefit of Spot Fine applies both to customers consuming ICEYE imagery data and those acquiring ICEYE satellites.
John Cartwright, Head of Data Product at ICEYE says: "Spot Fine means what it says. Customers can understand their areas of interest with finer detail and therefore extract better, more reliable, more actionable information about what is happening on the ground." "SAR imagery enables precise detections of objects and features on the ground," he adds. "With Spot Fine, the shape, structure, and even changes in these objects and features can be more easily identified and characterized."
Radar satellite imaging technology provides visibility to the surface of the Earth both night and day and even through cloud cover. ICEYE offers a vital source of insights for government and enterprise needs in sectors such as insurance, natural catastrophe response and recovery, maritime, national security, humanitarian relief, and climate change monitoring.
ICEYE has now deployed 27 satellites since 2018, including both commercially available and dedicated customer missions. ICEYE plans to launch four additional SAR satellites in 2023.
About ICEYE
ICEYE delivers unmatched persistent monitoring capabilities for any location on earth. Owning the world's largest synthetic-aperture radar satellite constellation, the company enables objective, data-driven decisions for its customers in sectors such as insurance, natural catastrophe response and recovery, security, maritime monitoring and finance. ICEYE's data can be collected day or night, and even through cloud cover. For more information, please visit www.iceye.com.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is telling senators to expect an initial vote as early as Tuesday on scaled-back legislation that would provide grants, tax credits and other financial incentives for companies that build semiconductor manufacturing plants in the U.S.
Both the House and Senate have passed sweeping bills that included numerous trade provisions, additional dollars for research and called for the development of regional technology hubs across the country. But lawmakers have struggled to reach a final compromise that could generate 60 votes in the Senate, the number needed to overcome procedural hurdles.
Lacking a larger agreement, Schumer, D-N.Y., will move to take up a “limited competition bill” that includes the $52 billion in financial incentives and research that was at the heart of the bills passed in the House and the Senate. It would also include a semiconductor investment tax credit, and additional pieces could be added if they’re ready.
Schumer's plans were described by a person familiar with the private deliberations who was granted anonymity to discuss them.
The Biden administration has ramped up its advocacy for the semi-conductor bill in recent days, calling it essential that lawmakers take action before the August recess.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other administration officials met behind closed doors with senators on Wednesday to discuss the national security ramifications of relying on foreign countries for computer chip production. She held a similar briefing Thursday with House lawmakers. When asked if the administration would push Congress to support the scaled-back package that Schumer plans to put before the Senate next week, she said, “yes."
“We want a robust bill. This is core to national security. Having said that, all options are on the table, because we're out of time," Raimondo said. “This is about: What can we get the votes for? We cannot wait, and if that's what the members in the both the House and Senate feel is possible, well, let's get it done."
Politics
Raimondo said chipmakers are making decisions now about how to meet future demand. They are being offered lucrative incentives from other countries such as South Korea, Japan, France, Germany and Singapore to locate plants there. She cited Monday’s announcement by STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build a semiconductor factory in France as an example of other countries moving faster than the U.S. on the issue.
“If we don't pass this, we're going to wake up, other countries will have these investments, and we will say, ‘why didn't we do this?'" Raimondo said.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said she talked to lawmakers Thursday about the importance of a secure supply chain for national security. She noted that the Javelin missile systems the U.S. has provided to Ukraine relies on more than 200 semiconductor chips.
“Pretty much every major system that the Defense Department uses, just like most major components or systems you all use in daily life, rely on semiconductors and microelectronics," Hicks said. “For the Defense Department, we want to make sure that supply is unfettered, that it doesn't have a risk of being disrupted or denied in some way."
The U.S. is increasingly reliant on foreign manufacturers for the semiconductors used in automobiles, smart phones, computers and other products. The U.S. share of global semiconductor production has fallen from 37% to 12% over the last 30 years. The pandemic has shown why that can be a problem as manufacturers scramble to get the chips they need to make their products.
It's unclear if even the scaled-back measure could gain the Republican support needed to pass the Senate. Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has threatened to derail the semiconductor legislation if Democrats revive their stalled package of energy and economic initiatives and seek to pass them on a party-line basis. Some of the Republicans who voted for the earlier Senate bill have endorsed his approach.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance that, when finalized, will provide the agency's perspective on the ethical considerations for including and protecting children in clinical trials. The draft guidance is intended to assist industry, sponsors and institutional review boards (IRBs) when considering the enrollment of children in clinical investigations of drugs, biological products and medical devices.
"Children need access to safe and effective medical products and health care professionals need data to make evidence-based decisions when treating children. However, children are a vulnerable population who can't provide consent for themselves and are afforded additional safeguards when participating in a clinical investigation," said Dionna Green, M.D., director of the FDA's Office of Pediatric Therapeutics. "The best way to provide children with safe and effective treatment options is by including them in clinical research and providing these additional safeguards to protect them during clinical trials."
Historically, children were not included in clinical trials because of a misperception that excluding them from research was in fact protecting them. This resulted in many FDA-approved, licensed, cleared or authorized drugs, biological products, and medical devices lacking pediatric-specific labeling information. If the medical product was the best available treatment option for the child, doctors were left with no choice but to use a product that had not been reviewed by the FDA for safety and effectiveness in children. It became clear that children can be better protected by including them in clinical research.
The draft guidance, "Ethical Considerations for Clinical Investigations of Medical Products Involving Children," describes the ethical framework for protecting children in clinical research, which includes risk and benefit considerations. The draft guidance outlines and explains fundamental concepts for the ethical framework that IRBs, sponsors and industry should consider when reviewing or conducting clinical trials involving children, including:
- Scientific necessity of conducting a clinical investigation in children
- Risk categories for interventions or procedures that do not offer a prospect of direct benefit to the child
- How to evaluate whether an intervention or procedure offers a prospect of direct benefit to the child
- Assessment of risk for interventions or procedures with a prospect of direct benefit
- Component analysis of the risks of interventions or procedures
- Potential for review, under a regulatory provision, of research that is not otherwise approvable by an IRB
- Parental or guardian permission and child assent
The public can provide comments on the draft guidance. Any comments should be submitted within 90 days to ensure that the agency considers them when finalizing the draft guidance. The FDA remains committed to protecting children in clinical trials and assuring the safety and effectiveness of medical products for children.
The guidance was developed by the FDA's Office of Pediatric Therapeutics with contributions from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once leads the 2023 Academy Award nominees with 11 nominations. The movie stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis, each of whom is Oscar-nominated for their roles in the film. Paul Willistein of the Lehigh Valley Press reviews the science fiction, fantasy, action, adventure comedy.
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Cade Feeney was selected in the 13th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday.
The 2020 Century High grad plans to sign with the Red Sox and potentially begin his pro career as early as this summer.
"I'd definitely like to get back at it," Feeney said. "I've been throwing pens and playing catch, but ideally, I'd like to get going again."
Feeney pitched three seasons at North Dakota State, earning All-Summit League honors the past two seasons.
Feeney was NDSU's Friday night starter, meaning their No. 1 pitcher. He led the Bison in starts (14), wins (6) and innings (80 2/3). He had 78 strikeouts and an earned run average of 4.57.
Feeney finished his NDSU career with 21 victories, third-most in team history.
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Top Warriors vs. Lakers Players to Watch - Western Conference Semifinals Game 2
Jordan Poole and Anthony Davis are two players to watch on Thursday at 9:00 PM ET, when the Golden State Warriors (44-38) match up with the Los Angeles Lakers (43-39) at Chase Center.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to keep your eye on in this matchup, which you can watch on ESPN with a seven-day free trial to Fubo!
How to Watch Warriors vs. Lakers
- Game Day: Thursday, May 4
- Game Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Arena: Chase Center
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Warriors' Last Game
The Lakers defeated the Warriors, 117-112, on Tuesday. Davis scored a team-high 30 points for the Lakers, and Curry had 27 for the Warriors.
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Lakers' Last Game
Warriors vs Lakers Additional Info
Warriors Players to Watch
- Curry posts 29.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists per contest. Defensively, he averages 0.9 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
- Poole posts 20.4 points and 4.5 assists per game -- both team highs. He is also averaging 2.7 rebounds, shooting 43.0% from the field and 33.6% from downtown with 2.6 made 3-pointers per contest.
- Klay Thompson puts up 21.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game, shooting 43.6% from the floor and 41.2% from downtown with 4.4 made 3-pointers per game (first in NBA).
- Draymond Green posts a team-high 6.8 assists per game. He is also putting up 8.5 points and 7.2 rebounds, shooting 52.7% from the floor.
- Kevon Looney posts a team-leading 9.3 rebounds per game. He is also averaging 7.0 points and 2.5 assists, shooting 63.0% from the floor.
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Lakers Players to Watch
- Davis is averaging a team-leading 12.5 rebounds per game. And he is delivering 25.9 points and 2.6 assists, making 56.3% of his shots from the field.
- LeBron James tops the Lakers in scoring (28.9 points per game) and assists (6.8), and puts up 8.3 rebounds. He also averages 0.9 steals and 0.6 blocked shots.
- D'Angelo Russell is averaging a team-leading 6.2 assists per game. And he is delivering 17.8 points and 3.0 rebounds, making 47.0% of his shots from the floor and 39.7% from 3-point range, with 2.7 treys per contest.
- Jarred Vanderbilt is averaging 7.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game, making 54.6% of his shots from the floor.
- The Lakers get 12.7 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game from Malik Beasley.
Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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WASHINGTON — Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country's morality police.
On the U.S. National Mall, thousands of women and men of all ages — wearing green, white and red, the colors of the Iran flag — shouted in rhythm. "Be scared. Be scared. We are one in this," demonstrators yelled, before marching to the White House. "Say her name! Mahsa!"
The demonstrations, put together by grassroots organizers from around the United States, drew Iranians from across the Washington D.C. area, with some traveling down from Toronto to join the crowd.
In Los Angeles, home to the biggest population of Iranians outside of Iran, a throng of protesters formed a slow-moving procession along blocks of a closed downtown street. They chanted for the fall of Iran's government and waved hundreds of Iranian flags that turned the horizon into a undulating wave of red, white and green.
"We want freedom," they thundered.
Shooka Scharm, an attorney who was born in the U.S. after her parents fled the Iranian revolution, was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom" in English and Farsi. In Iran "women are like a second-class citizen and they are sick of it," Scharm said.
Iran's nationwide anti-government protest movement first focused on the country's mandatory hijab covering for women following Amiri's death on Sept. 16. The demonstrations there have since transformed into the greatest challenge to the Islamic Republic since the 2009 Green Movement over disputed elections. In Tehran on Saturday, more antigovernment protests took place at several universities.
Iran's security forces have dispersed gatherings in that country with live ammunition and tear gas, killing over 200 people, including teenage girls, according to rights groups.
The Biden administration has said it condemns the brutality and repression against the citizens of Iran and that it will look for ways to impose more sanctions against the Iranian government if the violence continues.
Between chants, protesters in D.C. broke into song, singing traditional Persian music about life and freedom — all written after the revolution in 1979 brought religious fundamentalists to power in Iran. They sang one in particular in unison — "Baraye," meaning because of, which has become the unofficial anthem of the Iran protests. The artist of that song, Shervin Hajipour, was arrested shortly after posting the song to his Instagram in late September. It accrued more than 40 million views.
"Because of women, life, freedom," protesters sang, echoing a popular protest chant: "Azadi" — Freedom.
The movement in Iran is rooted in the same issues as in the U.S. and around the globe, said protester Samin Aayanifard, 28, who left Iran three years ago. "It's forced hijab in Iran and here in America, after 50 years, women's bodies are under control," said Aayanifard, who drove from East Lansing, Michigan to join the D.C. march. She referred to rollbacks of abortion laws in the United States. "It's about control over women's bodies."
Several weeks of Saturday solidarity rallies in the U.S. capital have drawn growing crowds.
In Berlin, a crowd estimated by German police at several tens of thousands turned out to show solidarity for the women and activists leading the movement for the past few weeks in Iran. The protests in Germany's capital, organized by the Woman(asterisk) Life Freedom Collective, began at the Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten park and continued as a march through central Berlin.
Some demonstrators there said they had come from elsewhere in Germany and other European countries to show their support.
"It is so important for us to be here, to be the voice of the people of Iran, who are killed on the streets," said Shakib Lolo, who is from Iran but lives in the Netherlands. "And this is not a protest anymore, this is a revolution, in Iran. And the people of the world have to see it."
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- Over 50% of respondents believe the current market environment makes factor investing in fixed income more attractive
- 41% of respondents have increased allocations to factor strategies over past 12 months
- Most respondents (55%) are using factor allocations for risk and performance management
- 80% of institutional and retail respondents adjust their factor weights through time based on expected performance of factors at different points of the economic cycle
ATLANTA, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Ltd., a leading global asset management firm, today released the findings of its seventh annual Invesco Global Factor Investing Study. The Study is based on interviews with 151 institutional and retail factor practitioners managing over $25.4 trillion in assets combined.
This year's study found respondents expect factor-based strategies to outperform in an inflationary environment with slow economic growth. Respondents also believe the current market environment makes factor investing in fixed income more attractive as a better way to manage volatility and diversify portfolios.
"Investors are increasing their use of factor-based strategies to navigate market volatility and hedge against inflation, and we believe their commitment to factors will remain strong," said Mo Haghbin, Chief Commercial Officer and COO, Invesco Investment Solutions. "Investors are shifting their philosophy from static allocations to more dynamic approaches to capture upside and position their portfolio across the economic cycle."
The study also noted factor allocations are continuing to rise, with 41% of respondents increasing allocations over the past year and 39% planning an increase in the next year. In 2022, only 3% of respondents indicated they planned to decrease factor allocations in the next 12 months, down from 8% in 2021.
Adoption of a long-term, diversified multi-factor approach has increased in the past 12 months as global market volatility has increased. 80% of respondents now adjust factor weights over time, driven by the varying performance of different factors over the economic cycle and a desire to balance out exposures across the portfolio.
Research also indicates an increased demand for fixed income factors as the 40-year bull run came to a halt. Over 50% of institutional and retail respondents believe the current market environment makes factor investing in fixed income more attractive.
Faith in equity factors rewarded: market turmoil highlights value of factors in managing risk
Over the past 12 months, spiking inflation and rising interest rates have reshaped the investment environment, causing respondents to rethink their factor exposures. 55% of respondents indicated they were using factors for risk and performance management, up from 28% four years ago. A majority of respondents (over 80%) believe their factor allocations have met or exceeded the performance of their fundamental active strategies, while 64% indicated their factor allocations met or exceeded performance verses market-weighted strategies.
As established in last year's study, a multi-factor approach is now the norm for factor implementation; in the next 12 months, nearly 40% of respondents expect to increase their factor allocations in their portfolios.
Respondents looking to fixed income factors for new sources of return potential
Fixed income factors continued their steady increase in acceptance this year. This year, 92% of respondents believe factor-investing can be successfully applied in fixed income, a significant increase from 61% in 2016.
Fixed income returns are closely tied to fundamental macroeconomic variables. Respondents applying a systematic approach to their fixed income portfolios often initially prioritize traditional macro drivers of return, such as inflation and interest rates, before later incorporating investment factors such as value. This year the study found 54% of respondents are using both macro and investment factors, and only a few (14%) are targeting investment factors in isolation.
Within fixed income asset classes, respondents are using factor investing the most in government bonds (76%) and corporate bonds (75%), reflecting both the depth and liquidity of these markets as well as the number of products available. Over the next five years there is anticipation that factor investing will spread to other parts of the fixed income asset class. A majority of respondents (71%) believe they will use high yield bonds as part of their fixed income factor exposure in the next five years.
"Adoption of factor investing in fixed income continues to grow as we shift to a rising interest rate environment, which presents challenges to the long-held orthodoxy of balanced, diversified portfolios," continued Mr. Haghbin. "As we enter a period of tightening monetary policy, higher inflation, and slower potential economic growth, clients are looking to expand the toolkit and find opportunities to generate income while managing interest rate risk with better precision."
Adoption of a long-term diversified multi-factor approach is on the rise
83% of respondents said they adjusted their factor weights based on expected performance of factors at different points of the economic cycle, while nearly 70% did so to balance factor exposures to their overall portfolio.
The frequency of respondents reviewing and changing their factor definitions is changing, as 41% stated they rarely (every 3-5 years) change their factor definitions, which is down from 66% in 2021. Currently, 43% of respondents are changing their factor definitions frequently (every 1-3 years), which is up from 16% in 2021.
Over 75% of respondents cited the need to incorporate the latest data as the most important reason they change their factor definitions, while 61% change their factor definitions to better capture factors, and 36% do so to avoid identified market pitfalls.
50% of respondents are making use of factor ETFs to implement their factor strategies, rising to 66% amongst retail respondents. Most respondents (55%) make use of factor ETFs both strategically and tactically with respondents noting selection decisions for factor products are driven by their use-case.
Factor concentration/purity was ranked the most important criteria at 72% of investor's assessment of selecting a factor product, followed by management team/experience (66%) and outlined methodology and documentation and performance relative to market-cap benchmarks (64%).
"Our clients are increasingly using factor strategies to control exposure to different sources of risk in a challenging and volatile market. It's not a surprise that demand has increased, and we believe investors are going to remain committed to factors in the long term," concluded Mr. Haghbin.
To view Invesco's full seventh annual, 2022 Invesco Global Factor Investing Study please click here.
Sample and Methodology
The fieldwork for this study was conducted by NMG Consulting, a leader in research, analytics and insights for the investment, asset management, wealth management, insurance and reinsurance markets. Invesco chose to engage an independent firm to ensure impartial survey results. Key components of the methodology include:
- A focus on the key decision makers conducting interviews using experienced consultants and offering market insights
- In-depth (typically one hour) face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire to ensure quantitative as well as qualitative analytics were collected
- Results interpreted by NMG's strategy team with relevant consulting experience in the global asset management sector
In 2022, the seventh year of the study, we conducted interviews with 151 different pension funds, insurers, sovereign investors, asset consultants, wealth managers and private banks globally. Together these investors are responsible for managing $25.4 trillion in assets (as of March 31, 2022).
In this year's study, all respondents were 'factor users', defined as any respondent investing in a factor product across their entire portfolio and/or using factors to monitor exposures. We deliberately targeted a mix of investor profiles across multiple markets, with a preference for larger and more experienced factor users. The breakdown of the 2022 interview sample by investor segment and geographic region is displayed in the full study.
Institutional investors are defined as pension funds (both defined benefit and defined contribution), sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments, and foundations.
Retail investors are defined as discretionary managers or model portfolio constructors for pools of aggregated retail investor assets, including discretionary investment teams and fund selectors at private banks and financial advice providers, as well as discretionary fund managers serving those intermediaries.
Invesco is not affiliated with NMG Consulting.
About Invesco
Invesco Ltd. is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco managed $1.5 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide as of June 30, 2021. For more information, visit www.invesco.com.
Important Information
All material presented is compiled from sources believed to be reliable and current, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed. This is not to be construed as an offer to buy or sell any financial instruments and should not be relied upon as the sole factor in an investment making decision. As with all investments there are associated inherent risks. This should not be considered a recommendation to purchase any investment product. This does not constitute a recommendation of any investment strategy for a particular investor. Investors should consult a financial professional before making any investment decisions if they are uncertain whether an investment is suitable for them. Please obtain and review all financial material carefully before investing. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or eliminate the risk of loss. The opinions expressed are those of the author, are based on current market conditions and are subject to change without notice. These opinions may differ from those of other Invesco investment professionals. Invesco Advisers, Inc. is an investment adviser; it provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients and does not sell securities.
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Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Democrats let Kenosha burn two years ago. We cannot forget! When a Wisconsin citizen gives them their vote, it only endorses the Progressive Defund the Police narrative.
Democrat ads now say the opposite. Why, for your vote. Evers and the Democrat machine have failed Kenosha. One only needs to read the crime report to understand what Democrat politicians have done to our city.
Please vote for a safe Kenosha.
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ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said a man who drove around the city shooting at people during an hours-long spree that forced frightened people to shelter in place Wednesday has been arrested.
Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly was taken into custody after 9 p.m. in the Whitehaven neighborhood.
That was about two hours after police sent out an alert saying a man driving a light blue Infiniti was responsible for multiple shootings in the city. Police said he later switched vehicles to a grey Toyota SUV.
It was not immediately known if anyone had been killed. Police said he recorded his actions on Facebook.
The University of Memphis sent a message to students saying a shooting had been reported near the campus. Rhodes College, which in about 4 miles away from the university, advised students on and off campus to shelter in place.
The area where Kelly was arrested was about 11 miles from the University of Memphis and about 12 miles from Rhodes College.
“If you do not have to be out, stay indoors until this is resolved,” Memphis police said on Twitter, before the arrest.
Rudolph told WMC-TV that police did not know of a motive for the shooting.
Anyone with information was asked to call 911.
Memphis recently has been shaken by several high-profile killings in recent weeks, including the shooting of a pastor during a daylight carjacking in her driveway, the shooting of an activist during an argument over money, and the slaying of a woman who was abducted while she was on a pre-dawn run.
Court records show in February of 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a dangerous felony and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. Circumstances of the case were not immediately known.
Records show he pleaded guilty to three years in prison. It was not immediately known how much of the sentence he served.
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Which is the best Bluetooth speaker?
Bluetooth speakers let you stream music straight from your phone, so you have a whole world of music at your fingertips. Considering how most people consume music today, getting one of these speakers is an obvious choice for most households.
So, which speaker is the best one to buy? There are tons of JBL speakers, Bose speakers, JBL speakers and those from other brands. It can be tough to know which speaker to choose when there are so many options on the market. The Denon Home 350 Wireless Speaker is a quality choice overall, thanks to its excellent sound quality and versatility. However, the right speaker for you fits your needs. Here are a few tips and recommendations to help you choose the best one for you.
What to know before you buy a Bluetooth speaker
Wired vs. portable
Bluetooth speakers can either be wired or portable. Wired speakers plug into a standard power outlet designed for indoor use as a modern alternative to a CD stereo system. Because they can be larger, you generally get better sound quality for your money from a wired speaker than a wireless model. Portable speakers have built-in batteries so you can use them anywhere, like your backyard, at the park or on camping trips. They often aren’t as loud as wired speakers, but they’re ideal if you want to listen to music out of the house.
Multi-speaker pairing
Some Bluetooth speakers give you the option to pair more than one speaker of the same type so you can listen to audio in stereo. If you want a setup that will rival your old HiFi or stereo system, multi-speaker pairing is what you need. This will allow you to have a surround sound type of effect without having to rely on bulky cables to connect all the the speakers together.
Other connectivity options
Many Bluetooth speakers give you the option to connect and play music in various ways other than Bluetooth. It’s common for these kinds of speakers to connect to your Wi-Fi, allowing you to play songs from your favorite streaming service without the added step of Bluetooth pairing. If you’re using an Apple iPhone or iPad, you may also be able to use AirPlay to send music from your device to your speaker.
What to look for in a quality Bluetooth speaker
Voice assistant
High-end Bluetooth speakers can have a built-in voice assistant, such as Alexa or Google Assistant. Alternatively, some models pair with your phone in a way that lets you use your phone’s voice assistant to control the speaker. Either way, this allows you to use voice commands to play songs, pause, skip tracks and more. It’s a great way to control your speaker without needing to be right next to it. This can be useful if you’re using your speaker to play music or other audio content while your hands are busy with chores or something else.
Sound quality
Just because you’re buying a speaker that isn’t a stereo speaker doesn’t mean you need to compromise on sound quality. You can find some excellent wireless and wired speakers on the market that sound just as good as stereo speakers. When it comes to sound quality, you’re better off buying from big-name audio brands known for their quality speakers. Buying cheap speakers or unknown brands is a recipe for flat, tinny sound. Make sure to do your research and test out some speakers that you’re interested in so you can ensure that you have some with a great sound capability.
Battery life
The best portable speakers have decent battery lives. You want a speaker that will last a full day at the beach or keep you entertained all evening around a campfire. It’s best to get a speaker with a battery life of at least 8 hours, but some can last more than 15 hours between charges. The last thing you want is for a portable speaker to die out right in the middle of a party or other gathering.
How much you can expect to spend on a Bluetooth speaker
While you can find standard speakers for less than $100, you’ll get far better sound quality in the $100-$200 range. High-end speakers can cost well over $500, but they are often worth the cost.
Bluetooth speaker FAQ
Do you need Wi-Fi for a Bluetooth speaker?
A. Technically speaking, a wireless speaker is a speaker that connects to a Wi-Fi network, while a Bluetooth speaker pairs with your phone over Bluetooth. This allows you to play audio from your phone when you don’t have Wi-Fi, which is excellent for outdoor use. However, many new speakers have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities. They’re both wireless speakers and Bluetooth speakers in one handy package.
Are Bluetooth portable speakers powerful?
A. You might be wondering how powerful Bluetooth portable speakers are and if they’re loud enough for a garden party or other outdoor gathering. This varies between models, so there’s no definitive answer. Cheap portable speakers are often relatively quiet and can sound tinny if you turn the volume up too high. Higher-end portable speakers are more likely to be louder overall and maintain their sound quality when you crank up the volume.
What is a Bluetooth speaker good for?
A. This type of speaker is good for projecting sound throughout your home, especially from mobile devices. It allows you to play music and other sound from these devices without tethering them to a speaker with a cord. Bluetooth speakers are also good for decoration or playing music on the go. Portable speakers, in particular, are great for taking with you to play music while you’re out and about. They don’t take up too much space in a purse or other bag, so they’re easy to transfer from place to place.
What kind of speaker is best for camping trips?
A. When you do outdoor activities like camping, your belongings are likely to get dirty or wet easily. As such, it’s important to look for speakers that are certified waterproof and/or dustproof. You’ll also likely want to find something that is portable, especially if you are hiking to your camping destination. You don’t want to be too encumbered by a bulky speaker that takes up too much space and weight in your hiking backpack. Look for something portable and lightweight, and ideally find something that can hook onto your backpack for convenience.
What are the best speaker brands?
A. The best speakers come from quality brands known for their sound fidelity. These include brands like Bose, Sonos, JBL, Anker and Denon. These brands produce good-quality speakers consistently, so you can rely on them to have good products. Some, like, Bose speakers, can be a little bit expensive, but the quality justifies the price. However, not all portable speakers are expensive. Some, like JBL speakers, are a bit cheaper but are still of a great quality.
Best overall Bluetooth speakers
Top overall Bluetooth speaker
Denon Home 350 Wireless Speaker
What you need to know: With excellent sound quality, this is a top choice for audiophiles.
What you’ll love: It features two tweeters, two woofers and two mid-bass drivers. This option has a built-in Alexa voice assistant and is compatible with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and AirPlay 2.
What you should consider: This option is quite expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top overall Bluetooth speaker for the money
Klipsch Heritage Wireless The One II Tabletop Stereo
What you need to know: Though this portable speaker is small, it produces a lot of good-quality sound for its size.
What you’ll love: It has a stunning mid-century aesthetic that will function well both as a decoration and as a speaker. The controls are straightforward and easy to use. You don’t need any complicated apps to control this speaker, either.
What you should consider: Some customers thought the bass wasn’t very impressive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Bluetooth portable speakers
Top Bluetooth portable speaker
What you need to know: This is a great-sounding Bluetooth portable speaker for those who want to listen anywhere without sacrificing audio quality.
What you’ll love: It offers excellent value for money, a 10-hour battery life and it works with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and AirPlay 2. It’s also waterproof and drop-resistant.
What you should consider: You can find better wired choices for less money if you’ll be using it exclusively in the house.
Where to buy: Sold by Sonos
Top Bluetooth portable speaker for the money
Anker Soundcore Motion+ Bluetooth Speaker
What you need to know: This certified waterproof, budget-friendly speaker produces impressively powerful sound for the price.
What you’ll love: It can produce 30 watts of sound from its pairs of tweeters, woofers and passive radiators. You can also pair it easily with other speakers. It’s also very versatile in that if you don’t have a Bluetooth-enabled device, you can still connect your device to the speaker using either a USB-C cable or an auxiliary cable.
What you should consider: Unfortunately, this speaker is not dustproof, so it’s not ideal for outdoor activities like camping where it can get dirty easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Bluetooth Bose speakers
Top Bluetooth Bose speaker
What you need to know: This portable speaker has the sound quality buyers have come to expect from Bose speakers.
What you’ll love: The 360 speakers sound great from any angle. They’re easy to pair with Bluetooth, are water-resistant and have an impressive 17-hour battery life.
What you should consider: You may prefer if it was waterproof rather than water-resistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Bluetooth Bose speaker for the money
What you need to know: This water-resistant Bose speaker is portable and has a built-in microphone for conference calls.
What you’ll love: This fun portable speaker comes in four colors: aqua blue, citron, polar white and soft black. It has a long battery life and is easy to pair with other Bose speakers and smart products. Though it’s a small portable speaker, it has the same impressive sound that Bose speakers have come to be known for. It’s very durable and water-resistant — perfect for outdoor activities like camping.
What you should consider: Some people had trouble connecting this Bose speaker with the accompanying mobile phone app.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Bluetooth JBL speakers
Top Bluetooth JBL speaker
What you need to know: This high-quality JBL speaker is loud and waterproof enough to use at a pool party.
What you’ll love: This JBL speaker comes from a well-known brand and produces a clear, loud sound. It can double as a portable charger with its USB-A port, too. It’s very durable, so will hold up just fine when used outdoors.
What you should consider: It’s a mono speaker, not a stereo one.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Bluetooth JBL speaker for the money
What you need to know: The dustproof and waterproof nature of this JBL speaker makes it the ultimate portable speaker to take on a camping trip.
What you’ll love: This JBL speaker has a built-in carabiner that makes it perfect for attaching it to a hiking backpack. It’s a compact speaker, yet it produces a powerful sound. It’s completely waterproof and dustproof. It’s perfect for taking on the go, especially for outdoor adventures.
What you should consider: You can’t use it as a speakerphone to make calls. It doesn’t have an internal microphone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Fox News star Sean Hannity – one of former President Donald Trump's strongest allies on the air and one of his closest advisers off it – admitted under oath that he never believed the lie that Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election by a voting tech company.
That stands in contrast to what played out on some of Fox's biggest shows – including Hannity's. On television, Fox News hosts, stars and guests amplified and embraced such wild and false claims, made by Trump, his campaign lawyers and surrogates, presenting them to millions of viewers.
Hannity and a top Fox News executive who oversees prime-time programs told a different story about Trump's false claims of fraud under oath and in front of attorneys, during separate depositions in a $1.6 billion defamation suit. While the depositions happened in August, their statements emerged yesterday in a Delaware Superior Court hearing relating to a series of motions by the two sides in the case.
"I did not believe it for one second," Hannity testified, according to an attorney for Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, who was offering it as a precise quote.
Meade Cooper, Fox News' executive vice president, "confirmed under oath she never believed the lies about Dominion," the Dominion attorney, Stephen Shackelford, Jr., also said.
"Tucker Carlson, he tried to squirm out of it at his deposition," Shackelford added, and then alluded to the Fox News star's texts from November and December 2020, when Judge Eric Davis cut Shackelford off.
Those sworn interviews took place during what's called the discovery phase of the case, in preparation for trial, which is scheduled for April.
Hannity gave airtime to election falsehoods he says he didn't believe
Dominion Voting Systems' suit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp, is roiling the network, the corporation and the Murdoch family that controls them both. Dominion alleges it was unjustly damaged by the false claims that its machines were intentionally rerouting Trump's votes for Joe Biden.
Those claims were broadcast on conservative media, most prominently Fox News, after Election Night. Dominion alleges that was a concerted effort from the top to bottom of Fox to win back viewers after the network was the first to project the key swing state of Arizona for Biden. Trump denounced Fox and millions of his supporters abandoned the network that month. The Murdochs and Fox stood by the call of Arizona.
As NPR first reported, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues "we can't give the crazies an inch."
And yet, Hannity was among those who gave airtime to Trump's claims. On Nov. 30, 2020, for example, he invited Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell on his program for a "one-on-one" interview. By then, she had tied together Trump bogeymen, as the Daily Beast noted in a write-up, including "the dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, liberal philanthropist George Soros, communist Chinese money, and the CIA."
Hannity and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro were among those network stars who gave Powell valuable minutes to allege that the voting machine software was designed to hand over Trump votes to Biden, and affirming her frustration that Democrats would not aid her effort for more information about Dominion's machines.
Fox Business star Maria Bartiromo promoted the lies in an interview with Trump, his first on television after the election. Lou Dobbs returned to the topic repeatedly. Dobbs left Fox Business just after Smartmatic filed its lawsuit.
Insights that could help Dominion build its case against Fox
The brief insights into what those key Fox figures said during recent depositions echoed an earlier disclosure, first reported by NPR: A junior producer had emailed colleagues shortly after the 2020 election begging them to keep Fox star Pirro from repeating lies she had pulled from crackpot conspiracy theory websites.
To win in court, Dominion must build a defamation case showing Fox stars and decision-makers knew these claims of election fraud were lies, but let them be broadcast anyway, or were negligent in disregarding strong warning signs. The remarks by Hannity and Cooper appear to help the voting tech firm's legal team construct its case. Hannity made similar remarks saying Trump had lost in private texts with his final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows; in this instance, however, Hannity has sworn under oath that he never believed any of the former president's claims.
Fox says the allegations were about an inherently newsworthy event–the election–made by an inherently newsworthy source, the sitting president. It argues the case is an affront to free speech principles. And it appears to be readying a defense in part based on convincing a jury that Dominion cannot prove intent on Fox's part or the financial harm to the firm it claims.
Testimony given under oath during this discovery process is not available to the public, including the depositions of top stars, executives and the Murdochs themselves. Rupert Murdoch's deposition, scheduled for two consecutive days earlier this month, was delayed. A new date has not been made public. Fox Corp boss Lachlan Murdoch, his son, already sat for a deposition in Los Angeles.
Other documents are sealed or redacted, which means certain words, sentences and even paragraphs or pages are blacked out and unreadable by the public.
During yesterday's nearly three-hour-long hearing, attorneys also debated whether Smartmatic, another voting tech company and a competitor of Dominion, could intervene in the case. Smartmatic is seeking access some of those heavily redacted or confidential documents for potential use in its own defamation case against Fox, filed in a New York court in 2021. That case is not as far along in the legal process as Dominion's.
Judge Davis dismissed Smartmatic's request, but is still considering whether to combine the two technically separate, but parallel cases Dominion has brought against Fox in Delaware.
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ELLENWOOD, Ga. — High school football teams around the country are starting training this time of year, including the Cedar Grove Saints.
On a hot, humid morning, players were doing drills on the field behind their suburban Atlanta high school as head coach John Adams gave them guidance and encouragement.
This is a good team; they've won four state titles in the past six years, and four former Saints were in the NFL draft this past year – more than any other high school in the country.
So Adams was excited about the upcoming season. But he was also watchful about keeping the athletes safe as they worked out in the Atlanta heat.
"The heat has been to a point where it's hard on anybody," he said. "But I think if you condition consistently in the heat, you kind of get used to it."
He reminds the students to drink enough water even on days they aren't practicing. They take longer breaks. And he said he checks on them during practice, to make sure they're OK.
Football and the dangers of heat
From the pros, to college, to high school, football players start practicing at the hottest time of year, many on turf fields roasting under direct sun. They wear layers of equipment, and many of them – especially the linemen – are big.
That can add up to a dangerous situation.
According to research from the University of Georgia, between 1980 and 2009, 58 football players around the country died from heat-related illness. Most of them were in high school.
The study, published in 2010, found that the number of football players dying from the heat was going up over time. Georgia was one of the worst states, leading the country in high school football player heat-related deaths.
But in the last decade, Georgia has turned things around. Experts say it's bucked the trend of rising numbers of players suffering from heat illness. And the rules put in place here have become a model for other states looking to protect student athletes from the heat.
That's all the more important as climate change drives up temperatures and humidity.
At Cedar Grove's practice, the sideline, which was in the shade, was littered with water bottles. The team took five-minute water breaks together, but Adonijah Green, a 17-year-old defensive end, said athletes can also get a drink whenever they need one.
"We're able to hydrate anytime with no restrictions on the water," he said
And the players weren't wearing their pads yet. In late July, they were getting used to working out in the heat, with limited practices, limited contact – no tackling allowed – and without all their equipment.
"With the pads, it gets hot, it gets heavy," Green said. "It tires you down."
These aren't just policies at Cedar Grove. The Georgia High School Association mandates a five-day ramp-up period without pads as teams begin training.
Athletes have to be allowed to hydrate whenever they need to, and coaches aren't allowed to make them do drills as punishment.
During the hotter part of the year, teams also have to measure the wet bulb globe temperature, which factors in not only heat and humidity, but also sun exposure, before and during practice. Depending on that reading, there are more and longer breaks required, and at high temperatures, teams have to be prepared to immerse a player in an ice bath if needed.
If it gets even hotter, no outside practice is allowed at all. If the wet bulb globe temperature hits 92, no outside practice is allowed at all.
Bud Cooper, a clinical professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia who studies heat illness and athletes, said before the Georgia High School Association adopted those rules about a decade ago, schools could do pretty much whatever they wanted.
After a high-profile heat-related death of a high school football player, though, the association was ready to make a change.
"Clearly, there was a problem," Cooper said.
Protecting student athletes
He and other experts at UGA designed the heat rules based on their research. Cooper said when they presented them to the high school association, he wasn't sure how they'd be received.
"The rules committee was made up of a group of five coaches, all who had individually, probably 35 or 40 years of coaching. So folks that have been around for a long, long time," he said.
But the rules, which cover all high school sports, not just football, were adopted, he said, after relatively little discussion.
Cooper and his colleagues did a follow-up study after the rules had been instituted, to confirm that they worked.
They did.
According to their research, there have been fewer heat illnesses, and, among programs that followed the rules, no heat-related deaths among high school football players in Georgia.
"It's exciting for my part," Cooper said. "There is nothing that's more satisfying than for me to be able to sit here and say, 'I've done some things that have saved lives.' "
And not only in Georgia, according to Becca Stearns, chief operating officer at the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, a program that studies and advocates for athlete safety, named after a Minnesota Vikings player who died from heat stroke.
"Georgia is one of the states that has been so profound in its impact and leadership when it comes to heat safety and the policies enacted within the state," Stearns said.
Science-backed rules
What stands out about Georgia, Stearns said, is that the rules are based on data and research. Other states have been able to adapt Georgia's model to protect their student athletes, too.
According to Stearns, 30 states mandate some kind of policy around heat. A dozen states base their policy on the wet bulb globe temperature.
It's more urgent now, Stearns said, as climate change drives up temperature and humidity.
According to another paper from the UGA researchers, in the future, Atlanta could have four times as many days when it's too hot to exercise outdoors safely. Other cities around the country also see increases.
"It's certainly a very relevant conversation in terms of maybe trying to act now, before it becomes even more intense," Stearns said. "We're seeing an uptick in the cases of heat illness."
Experts underscore, death from heat stroke is preventable, but teams have to be prepared: to be able to recognize its symptoms, and to treat anyone suffering from it as quickly as possible – cooling their bodies down before transporting them anywhere.
For parents of student athletes, Stearns said they should feel comfortable asking what their school's or state's heat policies are.
"The question always comes down to, 'Who is responsible for the health and safety of our high school athletes?' And the sad thing is, it's not always a clear answer," she said. "I would not drop my kids off at the pool without a lifeguard. And it's the same idea with this. You want to make sure those protections are in place before you drop your kid off at sports practice."
Cedar Grove's Coach Adams said to him, the key is to plan ahead, be smart with practices, and always keep the best interests of the students in mind.
"They're kids. So, you know, sometimes kids are just going to try to toughen it out. But you got to be smart," he said. "Life is more important than football."
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BARCELONA, Spain — Two trains collided near Barcelona early Wednesday, injuring 155 people but none seriously, Spanish officials said.
Officials say that the collision occurred on a train line in Montcada i Reixac, a town just north of Barcelona.
Firefighters said that no passengers were trapped.
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TX Norman OK Zone Forecast for Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Oklahoma
National Weather Service Norman OK
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
TXZ086-062100-
Wichita-
Including the cities of Sheppard AFB and Wichita Falls
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ083-062100-
Hardeman-
Including the city of Quanah
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the mid 80s.
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TXZ084-062100-
Foard-
Including the city of Crowell
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 80. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ087-062100-
Knox-
Including the cities of Munday and Knox City
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ085-062100-
Wilbarger-
Including the city of Vernon
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not as cool with highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ088-062100-
Baylor-
Including the city of Seymour
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. A
slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ089-062100-
Archer-
Including the cities of Archer City, Holliday, Lakeside City,
and Scotland
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 60.
.COLUMBUS DAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid 80s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ090-062100-
Clay-
Including the city of Henrietta
321 AM CDT Thu Oct 6 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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SAN FRANCISCO — Nikola Jokic had a triple-double of 26 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists playing with a sore right wrist he had taped, and the Denver Nuggets beat Golden State 128-123 on Friday night in a rematch of the teams’ first-round playoff series won by the Warriors in five games on their way to the title.
Jordan Poole made a backcourt steal from Bones Hyland and scored 14.7 seconds left to get Golden State within 124-123 then Bruce Brown dunked immediately. The Warriors had another chance and Klay Thompson missed a potential tying 3 from the top with 9.3 seconds left.
Jokic secured the rebound then converted two free throws. He also had a three-point play with 4:21 remaining moments after a putback dunk by JaMychal Green, then the Denver bigman made another timely basket at 3:07.
Stephen Curry scored 34 points with five 3-pointers after a second straight slow start shooting and has 30-point performances in his first two games. But the Warriors committed 19 turnovers that led to 30 Denver points.
Brown scored 20 points and Michael Porter Jr. and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 17 apiece for the Nuggets, who handed the Warriors their lone loss in the preseason last Friday night.
Golden State debuted revamped “Run TMC” blue jerseys to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hall of Famer Chris Mullin’s gold medal with The Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics.
Thompson and Draymond Green had 16 and 13 points, respectively, playing increased minutes — 23 for Thompson and 27 for Green, who also had nine assists.
Thompson played nearly 20 minutes and Green almost 25 in a season-opening 123-109 victory against the Lakers on Tuesday night.
Denver has three straight regular-season victories on the Warriors’ home floor, getting in the win column after the Nuggets lost their opener to the Jazz 123-102 at Utah on Wednesday.
The Warriors fell behind 5-0 then roared back, getting Curry’s four-point play at the 9:14 mark of the opening quarter. But Denver shot 59.5% in the first half on the way to a 70-52 lead at the break.
KERR HONORS BROWN
Kerr offered his thoughts to the family of longtime referee Tony Brown, who died Thursday at age 55 from pancreatic cancer.
“He’s a great ref and he made an impact on this league and everybody liked him,” Kerr said. “We’ve missed him the last couple years and the news yesterday it really hit home and hit hard for all of us, the players, coaches, entire organization.”
TIP-INS
Nuggets: G Jamal Murray sat out and won’t play both games of back-to-backs early on as he nurses a left knee injury. “My hope is we can build throughout the year,” coach Michael Malone said. “We want to be smart. ... Hopefully by Christmas, New Year, All-Star break what we’re doing now is not what we’re doing then.”
Warriors: Curry begins his 14th season with the Warriors, surpassing Mullin’s 13 for most in franchise history. ... F Andre Iguodala sat out a second straight game to start the season as the Warriors manage his left hip injury.
UP NEXT
Nuggets: The Nuggets return to Denver during this grueling early stretch of three games in four nights with their home opener Saturday night against the Thunder.
Warriors: Host the Kings and former top assistant Mike Brown, Sacramento’s first-year coach, on Sunday night.
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO), a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help protect people from infectious diseases and treat people with cancer and HPV-associated diseases, today announced the appointment of Dr. Michael Sumner, MB BS, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Sumner will oversee INOVIO's clinical-stage pipeline of DNA medicines, global clinical development, clinical operations and biostatistics efforts, as well as regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance and medical affairs. He will serve on the company's executive leadership team and will report to INOVIO's President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Jacqueline Shea.
INOVIO's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jacqueline Shea, Ph.D., said, "INOVIO is pleased to welcome Dr. Sumner to INOVIO. An industry veteran and a member of the Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Sumner's clinical development and medical affairs expertise and track record of helping guide companies through regulatory approval and commercialization make him an important addition to the INOVIO team."
Dr. Sumner joins INOVIO after serving as CMO of Orexo AB since 2013. He previously held numerous European- and US-based leadership roles at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Aventis Behring, Novo Nordisk and Shire Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sumner brings over 25 years of extensive pharmaceutical, medical and clinical experience driving numerous late-stage product approvals and supporting successful commercial products on a global basis across multiple therapeutic areas.
Dr. Sumner received his medical degree from the University of London, is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and holds a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College, UK.
"I am pleased to join INOVIO as CMO and look forward to working with the team to unlock the power of the DNA Medicines platform to address unmet medical need," said Dr. Sumner.
About INOVIO
INOVIO is a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to potentially treat and protect people from infectious diseases, cancer, and diseases associated with HPV. INOVIO's DNA medicines are delivered using its proprietary smart device to produce a robust and tolerable immune response against targeted pathogens and cancers.
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Thin cuts of steak such as flat iron and hanger are great for weeknight meals because they’re full of flavor and cook up fast. But a flavorful spice rub and quick marinade easily elevate the meat to a meal worthy of a special occasion. Pairing it with a simple side of partially mashed chickpeas will satisfy that meat and potatoes guy in your life for Father’s Day.
For this recipe from our book “Milk Street Tuesday Nights,” which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we took inspiration from Moro, the London restaurant of chefs Sam and Sam Clark. They serve their steak over hummus, but our simpler approach to the chickpeas saves time and effort without sacrificing flavor.
First, we briefly marinate the meat in soy sauce, then pat it dry and coat it with a mixture of coarsely ground cumin and fennel seed, salt and black pepper. When grinding the seeds, be sure to keep them coarse — don’t pulverize them to a powder. This helps to create a crust when searing the meat and helps prevent the spices from burning.
We then partially mash chickpeas and cook them in a skillet with chopped scallions. The warm salad is a perfect foil for the steak, which we sprinkle with a little more of the spice mixture after cooking it to double down on the flavor. A dollop of plain yogurt and warmed pita bread will round out the meal.
Spice-Crusted Steak with Mashed Chickpeas
Start to finish: 45 minutes
Servings: 4
1½ pounds flat iron steak, cut into 3 or 4 pieces
¼ cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons cumin seeds, coarsely ground
2 tablespoons fennel seeds, coarsely ground
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
Two 15½-ounce cans chickpeas, drained
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus extra to serve
1 bunch scallions, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest plus ¼ cup lemon juice, plus lemon wedges to serve
1 cup lightly packed fresh flat-leaf parsley
In a shallow baking dish, combine the steak and soy sauce, turning to coat. Set aside for 15 to 20 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small bowl combine the cumin, fennel and 2 teaspoons each salt and pepper.
Remove the steak from the baking dish pat dry with paper towels. Use all but 1 tablespoon of the seasoning mixture to coat the steak all over. Set aside. In a large bowl, use a potato masher to roughly mash about ¾ of the chickpeas; stir in the remaining whole chickpeas.
In a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil until barely smoking. Add the chickpeas and cook, stirring occasionally, until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in half of the scallions, another 2 tablespoons of the oil and the lemon juice. Off heat, stir in the lemon zest and parsley. Taste and season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a platter, mounding it to one side.
Wipe out the skillet. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium-high until barely smoking. Add the steak and cook until well browned on both sides and 120°F at the center for rare, 125°F for medium-rare, 6 to 10 minutes, flipping halfway through. Transfer to a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet and let rest for 10 minutes.
Thinly slice the steak against the grain, then arrange the slices on the platter next to the mashed chickpeas. Pour over any accumulated juices and sprinkle with the remaining scallions and the reserved spice mixture. Drizzle with oil and serve with lemon wedges.
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LOCKEFORD, Calif. (KTXL) — Amazon announced on Monday that customers in one California city will be the first to receive some shipments via drone later this year.
The drone delivery option is launching in Lockeford, an unincorporated part of San Joaquin County, about 50 miles south of Sacramento. Amazon said it is working to get permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local officials in Lockeford to start the drone deliveries.
“Lockeford residents will soon have access to one of the world’s leading delivery innovations,” said California State Assemblyman Heath Flora. “It’s exciting that Amazon will be listening to the feedback of the San Joaquin County community to inform the future development of this technology.”
Amazon calls its drone delivery service Prime Air and says its drones can carry up to five pounds.
According to Amazon, after a customer has been “onboarded” and orders a package, a delivery drone will fly to their backyard, descend into the yard, drop the package and then fly away.
Amazon’s Prime Air service is one of three drone delivery companies that has earned an FAA air carrier certificate, according to the company. Amazon says it works closely with the FAA and other regulators throughout the country.
“It took years of inventing, testing and improving to develop these breakthrough technologies and we’re excited to use them to make customer deliveries,” Amazon said in a press release.
Lockeford has a history in the aviation industry, as it was the home of pioneer Weldon B. Cooke, who built and flew planes in the early 1900s, according to Amazon. According to Amazon, Lockeford residents will have an “important role in defining the future.”
“Their feedback about Prime Air, which drones delivering packages in their backyards, will help us create a service that will safely scale to meet the needs of customers everywhere — while adding another innovation milestone to the town’s aviation history,” the company said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/amazon-to-begin-prime-air-drone-delivery-in-first-city/ | 2022-06-13 23:04:07 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/amazon-to-begin-prime-air-drone-delivery-in-first-city/ |
The Super Bowl is officially underway after Chris Stapleton hit the stage to sing the national anthem.
The country music star performed a smooth, heartfelt rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" as a huge American flag was unfolded and held by dozens of people in red and blue. Some listeners were visibly tearing up, notably Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and starting center Jason Kelce.
Oscar-winning deaf actor Troy Kotsur, known for his expressive, emotional signing, performed the anthem in American Sign Language.
During the performance, the U.S. Navy conducted a flyover above the stadium to commemorate 50 years of female aviators in the service. According to the NFL, this was the first pregame flyover in Super Bowl history conducted by an all-woman team of aviators.
Stapleton is an eight-time Grammy winner with two dozen Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards to his name.
The "Tennessee Whiskey" singer grew up in Kentucky but got his start as a singer in Nashville. Stapleton has been a solo artist since 2013, but previously lent his voice to bluegrass and Southern rock bands "The SteelDrivers" and "The Jompson Brothers."
Who else is performing at the Super Bowl in 2023?
R&B legend Babyface performed “America the Beautiful," and actor-singer Sheryl Lee Ralph performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Colin Denny signed “America the Beautiful” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was signed by Justina Miles.
Rihanna, of course, is set for a much-anticipated halftime show — her first live event in seven years. The pop star promised earlier in the week that she's been working hard on a "jam-packed show."
“At the end of the day, if it flops or it flies, my name has to stand by that. And so I really get involved with every aspect of anything I do,” she said in a media preview Thursday. | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/chris-stapleton-performs-national-anthem-super-bowl-2023/507-c34bf658-08a5-41ba-95d6-6fa950ea9aec | 2023-02-13 00:54:32 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/chris-stapleton-performs-national-anthem-super-bowl-2023/507-c34bf658-08a5-41ba-95d6-6fa950ea9aec |
Three Jewish congregations, resolute in their defiance of the hatred that tried to destroy them, are still waiting for justice.
But united in their horror and grief, they haven’t been standing still as the criminal case for the massacre that changed everything has crawled through the federal court system.
Four and a half years ago, a gunman invaded the Tree of Life synagogue on a Sabbath morning and killed 11 worshippers from the three congregations that shared the building — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life. The shooting, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood at the heart of Jewish Pittsburgh, was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
On Monday, jury selection is scheduled to begin in the long-delayed trial of the suspect, accused of dozens of charges including hate crimes resulting in death.
The three congregations are wary of what’s to come. Some members may be called to testify, and they’re bracing for graphic evidence and testimony that could revive the traumas of the Oct. 27, 2018, attack — often referred to around here as simply 10/27.
The tension can be felt in private conversations and encounters — the griefs, the anxieties, the feelings of being in a media fishbowl.
But each in their own ways, members are finding renewed purpose in honoring those lost in the attack, in the bold practice of their faith, in activism on issues like gun violence and immigration, in taking a stand against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry.
“We don’t want to be silenced as Jews,” said Rich Weinberg, chair of the social action committee for Dor Hadash. “We want to be active as Jews with an understanding of Jewish values. … We are going to still be here. We will not be intimidated.”
That was evident even in subtle details of a Passover service held earlier this month in New Light’s chapel, joined by some members of Dor Hadash.
Some offering Yizkor, or remembrance, prayers were doing so in honor of slain loved ones. One prayer was read in memory of the “Kedoshim of Pittsburgh, murdered al kiddush Hashem” — holy martyrs, killed while sanctifying God’s name. The prayer, modeled on prayers for Jewish martyrs of medieval Europe, has been woven into the ritual fabric of Jewish Pittsburgh.
One of those leading Passover prayers was Carol Black, who survived the attack that claimed the life of her brother, Richard Gottfried, and two other New Light members, Melvin Wax and Daniel Stein. They had led much of New Light’s ritual worship.
“Rich and Dan and Mel were our religious heart,” said Stephen Cohen, co-president of New Light. “And we had some very big shoes to fill.”
Members such as Black and Bruce Hyde have stepped into them. Hyde said when he once read a passage that had been read by Stein, he felt his presence: “He was up there with me.”
Cohen said the congregation had three priorities after the attack: to memorialize those lost, to continue their ritual life and to further religious education. New Light, like Tree of Life, is part of the moderate Conservative denomination of Judaism.
The congregation dedicated a monument honoring its three martyrs — shaped with images of Torah scrolls and prayer shawls — at its cemetery, where it also created a chapel adorned with stained glass windows and other mementos honoring the victims.
New Light Co-President Barbara Caplan said her dream for the congregation is “that we have many more years of Friday night services, Saturday morning services, holidays together, where we just go on being the family that we are.”
Cohen said the congregation has been overwhelmed by support from Christian, Sikh and other communities and wanted to build on those relationships. It has held Bible studies with local Black churches, and members visited the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, drawing solace from a congregation that lost nine members to a racist gunman in 2015. “I’ve never been part of a group hug of a hundred people,” Cohen recalled.
All three of the modest-sized congregations have been meeting in nearby synagogues since the attack closed the Tree of Life building.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers had been leading Tree of Life Congregation for just over a year when he survived 10/27. He carries the scarred memories of the gunshots that killed seven members: Joyce Fienberg, Rose Mallinger, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon and Irving Younger. Andrea Wedner, Mallinger’s daughter, was wounded in the attack.
Myers continues to speak forcefully against the bigotry behind it.
His mission is “primarily to help my congregation community heal,” Myers said. “But beyond it is to speak up, to be a voice, to say, ‘No, this isn’t okay. It’s not acceptable. It never was. And it can never be.’”
He’d like to think the trial will expose the dangers of rising bigotry, but “it takes a concerted effort to be able to … walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” he said. But it affects more than Jews. ”Someone who is an antisemite is most likely also the possessor of a long laundry list of personal grievances and other groups that that person does not like.”
Members are each recovering in their own ways, congregation president Alan Hausman said.
Each week when he makes announcements, Hausman said he includes this one: “It’s OK not to be OK, and we will get through this together.”
On Sunday, the day before jury selection, the Tree of Life Congregation is having a closure ceremony for its historic building. The congregation and a partner organization plan a major overhaul of the site, which will combine worship space with a memorial and antisemitism education, including about the Holocaust.
“We’re not really leaving, we will be back,” said Hausman.
“Hopefully we’ll be once again a happy, grounded, 160-year-old congregation,” added member Audrey Glickman, a survivor. “Back to being a solid group of people who come together regularly and do our thing.”
Dor Hadash, founded 60 years ago, is Pittsburgh’s only congregation in the progressive Reconstructionist movement of Judaism. Many members are drawn to its interlocking focuses on worship, study and social activism.
It was that activism that appears to have drawn the shooting suspect — who fulminated online against HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement agency — to the address where Dor Hadash met. The congregation was listed on HIAS’ website as a participant in a National Refugee Shabbat, which wove concern for migrants into Sabbath worship.
On 10/27, members Jerry Rabinowitz and Dan Leger were gathering for a Torah study when they heard the gunshots and ran to help. Rabinowitz was killed, and Leger seriously wounded.
But the attack has only emboldened Dor Hadash members.
They were soon organizing what became a separate group, Squirrel Hill Stands Against Gun Violence, advocating for gun safety legislation. And they redoubled their support for immigrants, refugees and their helpers such as HIAS. The congregation has sponsored a refugee family originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And they have taken a strong stand against rising antisemitism and white supremacy.
“I think advocacy has been a huge part of our healing,” said Dana Kellerman, communications chair for Dor Hadash. Advocacy “isn’t just about making myself feel better,” she added. “It is about trying to move the needle so that this doesn’t happen to somebody else.”
The congregation has been growing since the attack, said its president, Jo Recht. The historically lay-led congregation has hired its first staff rabbi, Amy Bardack. Her formal installation is this Sunday — a date that wasn’t specifically chosen in advance of the trial but that provides a welcome occasion of celebration.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media said Tuesday the government has launched a space tug capable of shifting satellites between orbits.
State TV said the Saman test spacecraft was built by the country’s Space Research Center and launched Monday by the Defense Ministry.
Hassan Salarieh, chief of the Islamic Republic’s space agency, told state TV that officials “hope to use and test the main tug in near future.” Iran unveiled the craft in 2017. A space tug can transfer a satellite from one orbit to another.
Iran has long pursued a space program saying it is aimed at peaceful purposes. The country has both a civilian and a military space program, which the U.S. fears could be used to advance its ballistic missile program.
In June Tehran had launched a solid-fuel rocket into space and in August a Russian rocket successfully launched an Iranian Khayyam satellite into orbit. It’s named after Omar Khayyam, a Persian scientist who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries.
However, Iran has seen a series of mishaps and failed satellite launches over recent years
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in April 2020 revealed its own secret space program by successfully launching a satellite into orbit. The Guard operates its own military infrastructure parallel to Iran’s regular armed forces.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 27, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
247 AM CDT Thu Apr 27 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Jefferson and southeastern Hardin Counties through 315 AM CDT...
At 247 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Nome, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea 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...
Beaumont, Sour Lake, Nome, Bevil Oaks and China.
This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 853 and
843.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
southeastern Texas.
LAT...LON 3009 9444 3025 9427 3016 9417 3004 9409
2989 9439 2989 9444
TIME...MOT...LOC 0747Z 232DEG 40KT 2996 9445
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Tyler Norris is over Rachel Recchia. The small business owner was sent home in heartbreaking fashion on Monday night's Hometown episode of The Bachelorette, but, when ET spoke with him at the "Men Tell All" taping, he revealed he's doing better in the weeks since the devastating moment.
While Tyler acknowledged that his relationship with Rachel "didn't end the way I wanted it to," he's come to accept the outcome. "Feelings are gone now," he told ET. "I'm doing good now."
"When you put your whole heart out there for someone and it's not reciprocated [and] things end abruptly, sometimes you have to come to terms with that," Tyler said. "It's not your person and that's how I took it."
Tyler added that he's not going to let this heartbreak prevent him from being vulnerable in the future.
"I put my heart out there, I really fell for someone hard, but I can't stop myself from hopefully opening up from somebody down the line," he said.
Though things didn't work out with Rachel, Tyler has no hard feelings toward the pilot, who ended things with him in his hometown, before he introduced her to his family.
"As a Bachelorette you have the hardest job, being able to navigate all these relationships," he said. "It's not something you do in your everyday life. You're used to dating one person and staying true to that person, but now you have to navigate all these amazing men."
"She's had a lot of ups and a lot of downs. It wasn't easy for her whatsoever, but I think that she wore her heart on her sleeve the entire time," Tyler continued. "All the emotions that she had just show how big of a heart that she has. That's the best quality about her -- being open with people, being able to share how she actually feels."
Tyler concluded of his ex, "I think overall she did an amazing job as the Bachelorette. I was so happy that it was her."
The Bachelorette airs Mondays on ABC. Keep up with the historic season by following along with ET's coverage of the series.
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By SEUNG MIN KIM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland headlined a White House event Friday bringing together pro bono lawyers, bar associations and public interest groups to discuss how best to offer legal services and protections for women seeking abortions.
The effort is part of an executive order signed by President Joe Biden earlier this month aimed at protecting access to abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to the procedure.
Lawyers will work to “encourage robust legal representation of those seeking reproductive care services,” the White House said in announcing the event. Garland was accompanied by White House counsel Stuart Delery and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. A public schedule for second gentleman Doug Emhoff, himself a lawyer, showed he was expected to join the event later.
“It has now been 35 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe and Casey, eliminating a fundamental constitutional right that had been essential to the freedom and equality of women in the United States for half a century,” Garland said. “On that day, I know we all feared what was to come. And what has happened in the days since has confirmed those fears.”
Among the issues that the White House said would be discussed were travel for abortions, what to do when women are denied the procedure and criminalization of the practice.
Biden has said he cannot, on his own, restore access to abortion nationwide. He has called on voters to elect to Congress this fall a sufficient number of Democrats who could then vote to codify the rights of Roe v. Wade. But his administration has come under significant pressure from advocacy groups to use his executive powers, including declaring a public health emergency on abortion.
“The impact of the decision on the live as a people across our country has been immediate, wide-ranging and devastating,” Garland said. “Over the past month, states across our nation have taken steps to impose abortion bans and other restrictions on access. In states with the most severe restrictions. There is no longer a single clinic providing abortions.”
Delery said the session would allow the lawyers to “think seriously” about how they could bring “our unique tools to bear in pursuit of reproductive freedom” in the wake of the high court’s ruling in the Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Before we can fight, we must listen — listen to those who have worked closely with women who have suffered and will suffer because of the Dobbs decision, listen to the medical professionals who provide reproductive care at great personal and professional lives, and listen to the lawyers who’ve already been on the front lines of this battle for decades,” he said.
Also Friday, Biden said he would nominate to a federal appeals court the abortion rights lawyer who argued unsuccessfully for the preservation of Roe at the Supreme Court.
Julie Rikelman, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights, is Biden’s choice to fill a seat on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Harvard-educated Rikelman is a native of Kyiv, Ukraine, from which she emigrated with her family in 1979.
In her presentation at the high court in December, Rikelman told the justices that “eliminating or reducing the right to abortion will propel women backwards. Two generations have now relied on this right, and one out of every four women makes the decision to end a pregnancy.”
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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How to Watch the Dodgers vs. Mets Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 14
Justin Verlander will start for the New York Mets against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Mookie Betts on Friday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Dodgers vs. Mets Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Friday, July 14, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Apple TV+
- Location: Queens, New York
- Venue: Citi Field
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Dodgers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Dodgers are second in MLB action with 149 home runs. They average 1.7 per game.
- Los Angeles is third in MLB with a .456 slugging percentage.
- The Dodgers have the 19th-ranked batting average in the league (.244).
- Los Angeles is the fourth-highest scoring team in baseball, averaging 5.6 runs per game (494 total).
- The Dodgers' .331 on-base percentage is fifth-best in MLB.
- The Dodgers' 8.8 strikeouts per game rank 16th in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Los Angeles has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 15th in the majors.
- Los Angeles has a 4.53 team ERA that ranks 23rd among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers have the 17th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.275).
Mets Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Mets' 114 home runs rank ninth in Major League Baseball.
- New York is 16th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .404 this season.
- The Mets rank 20th in MLB with a .240 team batting average.
- New York has scored the 15th-most runs in the majors this season with 405 (4.5 per game).
- The Mets have an on-base percentage of .320 this season, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Mets rank fifth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 7.9 whiffs per contest.
- New York averages the 13th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the majors this season.
- New York has pitched to a 4.39 ERA this season, which ranks 20th in baseball.
- The Mets rank 21st in MLB with a combined 1.350 WHIP this season.
Dodgers Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Dodgers will send Julio Urias (6-5) to the mound to make his 13th start of the season. He is 6-5 with a 4.76 ERA and 63 strikeouts through 64 1/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last pitched on Friday, July 7 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Urias is looking to record his seventh quality start of the year.
- Urias has nine starts this season in which he pitched five or more innings.
- In one of his 12 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.
Mets Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Mets' Verlander (3-4) will make his 13th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Saturday, when he tossed six innings while giving up two earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the San Diego Padres.
- He's going for his third quality start in a row.
- Verlander has pitched five or more innings in five straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has two appearances with no earned runs allowed in 12 chances this season.
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TDS reports second quarter 2022 results
Published: Aug. 4, 2022 at 4:05 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
2022 guidance reaffirmed
CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
As previously announced, TDS will hold a teleconference on August 5, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. CDT. Listen to the call live via the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com.
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE:TDS) reported total operating revenues of $1,349 million for the second quarter of 2022, versus $1,311 million for the same period one year ago. Net income attributable to TDS common shareholders and related diluted earnings per share were $18 million and $0.15, respectively, for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $20 million and $0.17, respectively, in the same period one year ago.
"The TDS Family of Companies achieved a solid position halfway through the year," said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., TDS President and CEO. "UScellular is vigorously enhancing its network, and TDS Telecom is executing on its strategy to drive residential broadband growth.
"At UScellular, higher ARPU contributed to service revenue growth for the second quarter. We are generating momentum in several of our growth areas, including fixed wireless and our tower portfolio.
"TDS Telecom continues to actively deploy fiber in expansion communities and inside our incumbent markets which, combined with higher revenue per connection, generated strong growth in residential broadband revenue in the quarter."
2022 Estimated Results
TDS' current estimates of full-year 2022 results for UScellular and TDS Telecom are shown below. Such estimates represent management's view as of August 4, 2022 and should not be assumed to be current as of any future date. TDS undertakes no duty to update such estimates, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that final results will not differ materially from estimated results.
The following tables reconcile EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted OIBDA to the corresponding GAAP measures, Net income or Income before income taxes. In providing 2022 estimated results, TDS has not completed the below reconciliation to Net income because it does not provide guidance for income taxes. Although potentially significant, TDS believes that the impact of income taxes cannot be reasonably predicted; therefore, TDS is unable to provide such guidance.
Stock Repurchase
During the second quarter of 2022, TDS repurchased 966,124 of its Common Shares for $16 million and UScellular repurchased 294,721 of its Common Shares for $9 million.
Conference Call Information
TDS will hold a conference call on August 5, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Central Time.
- Access the live call on the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com or at
https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/249925609 - Access the call by phone at (888) 330-2384, conference ID: 1328528.
Before the call, certain financial and statistical information to be discussed during the call will be posted to investors.tdsinc.com. The call will be archived on the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com.
About TDS
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 1000® company, provides wireless; broadband, video and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million connections nationwide through its businesses, UScellular, TDS Telecom, and OneNeck IT Solutions. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, TDS employed approximately 8,900 associates as of June 30, 2022.
Visit investors.tdsinc.com for comprehensive financial information, including earnings releases, quarterly and annual filings, shareholder information and more.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The gas company, Sheetz, announced they are reducing the price of gas for its customers for a limited time.
The price of fuel is dropping is $3.99 a gallon for Unleaded 88 gas. That type of gas is approved by the EPA for use in vehicles for model years 2001 or newer as well as light-duty trucks, SUVs and flex fuel vehicles.
Customers have until July 4 to take advantage of the discount.
Meanwhile gas prices are still dropping. AAA Carolinas says the average in the state is now $4.52 a gallon.
That's down nine cents in a week.
The national average is $4.88 a gallon.
The discount at the pump is due to a recent drop in crude oil and gasoline futures prices.
Even though prices are dropping we are still seeing the highest in history for the Independence Day holiday.
Sheetz announces limited-time discount on gas ahead of July 4 holiday
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The House of Representatives voted 217-215 Wednesday to approve a broad debt ceiling package, moving a contentious compromise bill to its next step in the Senate.
President Joe Biden has threatened to veto the bill, which has been championed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a compromise that makes spending cuts to cover payments for the national debt. McCarthy hopes that uniting GOP support for the bill will push President Biden to the negotiating table.
The White House has called the terms and conditions Republicans have attached to the spending increase "hostage taking."
The House Rules Committee was making final changes to the bill at 2 a.m. on Wednesday. GOP House members kept recently-added biofuels tax credits in place, and added stricter work requirements for food stamp recipients. The bill would end student debt cancellation efforts and expand fossil fuel production.
The bill proposes keeping federal spending rates at 2022 levels, and limits increases to 1% a year for the next decade.
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But Democrats want the debt ceiling and federal spending to be separate issues.
"Discussion of spending cuts belongs in talks about the budget, not for bargaining chips on the debt ceiling. The Speaker should drop the brinkmanship, drop the hostage taking, come to the table with Democrats to pass a clean bill to avoid default," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. "Time is running out."
The bill is not expected to have the support it needs to pass in the Senate.
Funding at the Treasury to pay the national debt will run out this summer, if no bill is agreed upon in Congress.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University has announced a new full scholarship program for 100 Nashville public school graduates to study business, education, engineering and heath sciences.
The Nashville university says the "Trailblazing to TSU” scholarships will begin in the fall 2023 academic year.
The program for graduates of Metro Nashville Public Schools will cover four years of tuition and fees for participants, and includes an assigned mentor for each recipient.
Each of the 100 scholarships at the historically Black public university will be named after a U.S. civil rights leader.
Under the partnership, officials say Tennessee State has already committed 71 scholarships starting this fall for Nashville public school graduates.
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English - News Connect English language videos for Maine Public News Connect. Connect: News from the Week (Ep. 113) 7.14.23 Published July 14, 2023 at 9:07 AM EDT Facebook LinkedIn Email Today is Friday, July 14, and here are the week’s top stories. Presented by Maine Public's Ari Snider. | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-07-14/connect-news-from-the-week-ep-113-7-14-23 | 2023-07-14 13:53:32 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-07-14/connect-news-from-the-week-ep-113-7-14-23 |
One ill-conceived bit of home rule quietly fell 10 days ago with New Jersey’s enactment of uniform, statewide standards for hiring and firing police officers.
The overdue law creating a licensing system for police passed the Legislature with overwhelming support and was signed July 21 by Gov. Phil Murphy. 46 others states already license police for consistency.
Currently police are subject to local systems of oversight and punishment for misconduct. In a year and a half -- the law takes effect Jan. 1, 2024 -- New Jersey will apply standards to all departments and officers. The law specifies infractions for which police can lose the license, including if they are convicted of a crime, convicted of domestic violence, have two or more DUI offenses or exhibit discriminatory behavior online. Officers also will be required to pass psychological exams and take training courses throughout their careers as a condition of licensing. The Police Training Commission will develop standards for existing and newly hired officers, replacing a patchwork of local and state standards.
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Statewide licensing will have many benefits. Police will no longer have the ability, misused by public workers in general, to move to another jurisdiction and leave their misdeeds behind. The possibility of well-connected officers getting favorable treatment will be diminished, increasing public confidence in police oversight. Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin said another will be that good officers will be less likely to “have their reputations unfairly tarnished by the indiscretions of a relative few.”
The law was broadly supported not just by elected representatives and many government agencies, but by activist and interest organizations including police groups such as the state Policemen’s Benevolent Association and the state Fraternal Order of Police.
Police reform advocates welcomed the licensing law but took the occasion to complain about the delay in getting their related goals fulfilled, including strong civilian police review boards, an end to limits on suing police for actions on duty, and making public police misconduct reports. In response to questions after signing the law, Murphy said he would not commit to supporting any of those proposals, not yet anyway. “This one didn’t happen overnight either,” he told NJ Advance Media.
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Officials: 6 shot, 1 fatally, after argument at Atlanta park
ATLANTA (WGCL) - An investigation is underway after authorities say a man died and five other people, including a 6-year-old, were shot at Atlanta’s Dunbar Park.
Deputies responded to the park in southwest Atlanta on Sunday evening to a call of a person shot. Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. says they arrived to find multiple people shot.
Investigators believe there was “some type of dispute” that occurred, WGCL reports.
“There was some type of baseball-softball game going on at the park. There was an argument that ensued, and the next thing you know, there was an exchange in gunfire,” Hampton said.
Hampton says a male in his 30s was rushed to Grady Hospital, where he died.
A 6-year-old child among those injured was rushed to Egleston Hospital. There is no official word on the current extent of the victims’ injuries.
Hampton urged citizens to “find a way to resolve conflict without weapons.”
“We can’t control the actions of others. We hate the actions of a small percentage of people to ruin,” he said.
Authorities urge anyone who was at Dunbar Park or knows any information regarding this shooting to call Crime Stoppers.
This marks the third reported fatal shooting in Atlanta in a three-hour span.
Police are investigating after they say a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed in the backseat of a car on the interstate Sunday evening, and a man has died after being shot in the Bankhead neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an effective way to cleanse and revitalize the skin," said an inventor, from W. Sacramento, Calif., "so I invented the BAKING SODA FACIAL AND BODY BAR. My formula would leave skin feeling non-greasy, soft, and smooth."
The invention provides a specially formulated soap for cleansing the face and body. In doing so, it helps to soften and condition the skin. As a result, it could improve the look, feel, and health of the skin. It also offers a pleasant smell. The invention features a light and non-greasy formula that is easy to use in the shower or sink so it is ideal for the general population, especially individuals with oily skin, dry skin, and combination skin. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Sacramento sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SCO-243, 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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MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) _ Cedar Realty Trust Inc. (CDR) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter.
The real estate investment trust, based in Massapequa, New York, said it had funds from operations of $7.9 million, or 58 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had a loss of $45.3 million, or $3.41 per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $8.5 million in the period.
The company's shares have climbed 16% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $29.03, an increase of 74% in the last 12 months.
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Led by Evok Innovations and BDC Capital Climate Tech Fund, funding advances technology for growing EV market
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Summit Nanotech Corporation ("Summit"), a company sustainably solving lithium supply chain challenges, today announced the closing of a US$50 million Series A2. The Series A2 round was led by Evok Innovations and BDC Capital's Climate Tech Fund alongside participation from previous investors including Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Summit also welcomes a consortium of new climate-focused funds; Volta Energy Technologies, NGP, Helios Climate Ventures, and The Grantham Foundation.
The Series A2 funds will be used to expand the global resource-base and scale Canadian manufacturing capabilities. These funds build on a US$14 million Series A announced in early 2022, bringing the total funding since inception to US$72 million.
"Now that we've successfully piloted, these funds will allow Summit to advance to the next stage of commercialization. Our vision is to build the lithium mine of the future and we're on track to do that," says Amanda Hall, CEO and Founder of Summit Nanotech. "Our world class investors and relentless team of innovators have positioned us to create wins for both lithium mining customers and electric vehicle manufacturers."
Summit currently operates a multi-client pilot project in Chile and is scaling their denaLiTM DLE technology. Sustainable lithium production will be critical to meet electric vehicle demand growth and realize the energy transition for decarbonization.
"Summit's ground
breaking technology addresses the growing global need for lithium with a rapidly scalable, low-cost, and environmentally friendly approach which can unlock value in a wide variety of high-volume brines. Evok is excited to bring our history as company builders across the hard-tech lifecycle to bear as we partner with Summit in scaling its solution internationally," said
, Partner, Evok Innovations.
"Batteries will play an increasingly important role in decarbonizing our economy," said Cheri Corbett, Senior Partner of BDC Capital's Climate Tech Fund. "We believe that Summit has the right technology to ensure that lithium mining is done in both a responsible and sustainable manner. Their team has set the bar high with a technology that enables material greenhouse gas reduction and will help Canada reach its 2030 and 2050 climate targets. "
ABOUT SUMMIT NANOTECH
Summit Nanotech Corporation is a cleantech organization transforming how the world accesses lithium for the global energy transition. Through their patented and sustainable direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, Summit Nanotech is conserving natural resources and optimizing operations for lithium producers in Chile and Argentina.
Established in 2018 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Summit Nanotech has been awarded to the 2022 Future 50 for fastest growing sustainability companies in Canada, the Foresight 50 for most investable cleantech venture, and the Solar Impulse Foundation's Efficient Solutions Label. Learn more at summitnanotech.com.
ABOUT EVOK INNOVATIONS
Founded in 2016, Evok Innovations (Evok) was built around a mission of protecting the environment and strengthening the economy. Driven by global momentum toward a net zero future, Evok has established itself as a leader in industrial innovation and decarbonization, including next-generation sectors such as hydrogen and carbon capture.
Building on our legacy, Evok continues to accelerate the energy transition with our team of technologists, company builders and investors. Please visit evokinnovations.com.
ABOUT BDC CAPITAL
BDC Capital is the investment arm of BDC, Canada's Business Development Bank. With over $6 billion under management, BDC Capital serves as a strategic partner to the country's most innovative firms. It offers businesses a full spectrum of capital, from seed investments to growth equity, supporting Canadian entrepreneurs who have the ambition to stand out on the world stage. Visit bdc.ca/capital.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, has been out of service for several hours Thursday.
Those trying to reach the line for help with suicide, depression or other mental health crises are greeted with a message that says the line is “experiencing a service outage.”
People can still reach a mental health counselor through the lifeline by texting “988” or opening a chat at 988lifeline.org.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw the launch of the three-digit lifeline earlier this year, is in communication with the contractor that supports the line, HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim said in a tweet Thursday.
“We’ve taken immediate action to ensure alternative 988 channels are available to the public,” Lovenheim tweeted. The outage had been ongoing for several hours Thursday, she said.
Veterans who are looking to reach the helpline can call the Veterans Crisis Line directly at 877-267-6030. The outage is also affecting the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Disaster Distress Helpline.
The 988 helpline, launched in July, is a national helpline staffed with mental health counselors around the country that’s designed to be as easy to remember as the emergency line, 911.
Intrado, the telecommunications provider for the service, could not immediately be reached for comment. In a statement on its website, the company said it is “experiencing an incident that is impacting production across numerous systems” and is “working diligently to restore service.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/ap-widespread-outage-shuts-down-988-mental-health-hotline/ | 2022-12-02 16:20:25 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/ap-widespread-outage-shuts-down-988-mental-health-hotline/ |
WASHINGTON – On his first day as attorney general, Merrick Garland pledged a return to what he called the “norms” of the Justice Department and said he would work to eliminate the perception of political interference. But in the two years since he took office, the former federal judge has found himself in the middle of a political firestorm of historic proportions.
The case against Donald Trump — the first former president to face federal criminal charges — brought a crush of protesters to the Miami courthouse last week, as well as a torrent of social media broadsides from Trump and an onslaught of criticism from Republicans.
The decision to charge Trump, who is running for president again, is perhaps the most consequential in the history of the Justice Department. The ultimate call on that came from Garland, whose demeanor leans to the mild.
Even the day when prosecutors informed Trump about the charges was outwardly quiet in the halls of the stately Justice Department headquarters. That stillness carried into the night amid the furor unleashed when the former president broke the news on his social media platform.
It was hardly the first time that Garland had kept a poker face while under a high-profile glare. He had stayed mum when his nomination for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2016 languished long enough to break a century-old record before it expired.
Garland spent two decades as a judge, and that experience seemed to come through in his folded hands and stoic expression when he made his public comments on Wednesday about the charges against Trump. The attorney general stressed that he had followed the rules and regulations for special counsels and he punctuated each word as he defended investigator Jack Smith as a “veteran career prosecutor."
“We live in a democracy. These kind of matters are adjudicated through the judicial system,” Garland said as he took about three minutes worth of questions from two of the gathered reporters at the start of a meeting with U.S. attorneys on violent crime.
That repeated mantra of commitment to the rule of law has not soothed Republicans who are standing by the indicted former president and reframing the charges as an unfair political persecution.
Those close to Garland say he has long had a careful, thoughtful presence and does what is needed, with few outward displays of emption. Still, this moment is likely not an easy one, said friend Robert Post, a professor at Yale Law School who first got to know Garland when they served as clerks together in the late 1970s.
“I’m sure he is saddened by the spectacle of a former president being indicted for the kinds of crimes that we see Trump indicted for,” Post said. “He’s the least partisan person that I know. He cares about the law first and foremost.”
Smith's appointment as special counsel after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign was another effort to uphold Justice Department norms and the principle that the agency follows the facts and the law, not politics, said Anthony Coley, who previously served as Garland's chief spokesman at the department.
“For the attorney general, the rule of law is not just some lawyer's turn of phrase. For him, the rule of law is foundational element of our democracy,” he said.
It was Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, who stood up alone behind a podium the day after the Trump charges became public to declare: “We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.”
That appearance also carried visual cues to the separation between Garland and Smith.
Smith did not speak from the neoclassical headquarters where Garland works, but held his news conference in the sleek building across town where he has been working. The special counsel attended the arraignment where Trump pleaded not guilty to illegally hoarding classified documents. Smith sat in the front row behind his team of prosecutors.
He is empowered to decide whether any charges should be brought, though Garland retains ultimate oversight of his work.
Trump announced on June 8 that he had been indicted, and according to the White House, Biden learned of the 37 felony counts against the former president through news coverage. Biden was asked the next day whether he had talked to Garland about the case. "I have not spoken to him at all,” Biden told reporters. “I’m not going to speak to him.”
Garland was confirmed by the Senate in March 2021 on a bipartisan vote, with both Democrats and Republicans saying he had the right record and temperament for the moment. He was a federal appeals court judge for more than two decades after a stint in the Justice Department where he earned a reputation for meticulous preparation in the prosecution of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
Garland's handling of the release of another special counsel investigation was similarly low key. The review of the origins of the FBI’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, carried out by special counsel John Durham, originally started under Trump. When it was completed under Garland, the report was released with few redactions.
Trump's last attorney general, Bill Barr, took a far different approach with the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and Trump’s campaign. Barr released his own memo on the report and later held a news conference largely favorable to Trump before making the report public. The episode came during tumultuous years as Trump insisted that his attorney general and entire Justice Department be loyal to him personally, undermining its reputation for political independence.
Garland still will have to contend with more special counsel findings to come. Smith is investigating Trump's role involving the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and efforts to undo the 2020 election he lost to Biden.
Garland named a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home and former Washington office that are from his time as vice president.
In announcing that move, Garland used phrasing identical to the Smith appointment, words that he used again in his brief comments after the indictment: “independence and accountability." | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/06/18/attorney-general-garland-keeps-poker-face-as-firestorm-erupts-after-trump-charges/ | 2023-06-18 14:06:07 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/06/18/attorney-general-garland-keeps-poker-face-as-firestorm-erupts-after-trump-charges/ |
According to the annual Women in the Workplace report from LeanIn.org, more female leaders have been leaving their jobs in 2022. It's the highest rate ever.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Authorities said Saturday that three people had died and at least one was missing after record levels of rainfall pounded New Zealand’s largest city, causing widespread disruption.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins flew to Auckland on a military plane after a state of emergency was declared in the region.
“Our priority is to ensure that Aucklanders are safe, that they’re housed and that they have access to the essential services that they need,” Hipkins said.
He said the city was in for a big cleanup and that people should remain indoors if possible. He said a break in the weather could prove temporary, with more heavy rain forecast.
“This is an unprecedented event in recent memory,” Hipkins said.
Friday was the wettest day ever recorded in Auckland, according to weather agencies, as the amount of rain that would typically fall over the entire summer hit in a single day. On Friday evening, more than 15 centimeters (6 inches) of rain fell in just three hours in some places.
The rain closed highways and poured into homes. Hundreds of people were stranded at Auckland Airport overnight after the airport stopped all flights and parts of the terminal were flooded.
Police said they found one man’s body in a flooded culvert and another in a flooded carpark. They said fire and emergency crews found a third body after a landslide brought down a house in the suburb of Remuera. One person remained missing after being swept away by floodwaters, police said.
Hipkins said power had been restored to most places, although about 3,500 homes remained without electricity.
Video posted online showed chest-deep water in some places.
Lawmaker Ricardo Menéndez posted a video of water surging into houses. “We’ve just had to evacuate our home as the water was already rising rapidly and coming in aggressively,” he tweeted.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand said crews had responded to more than 700 incidents across the region and staff had taken more than 2,000 emergency calls.
“We had every available career and volunteer crew on the road responding to the most serious events,” said district manager Brad Mosby.
Mosby said crews had rescued 126 people who were trapped in houses or cars, or who had been involved in vehicle crashes.
Air New Zealand said it resumed domestic flights in and out of Auckland on Saturday afternoon, but wasn’t yet sure when international flights would resume.
“The flooding has had a huge impact our Auckland operations,” said David Morgan, the airline’s chief operational integrity and safety officer. “We’re working on getting customers to their final destinations and getting our crew and aircraft back in the right place. It might take a few days to get everything back on track.”
In a series of updates on Twitter, Auckland Airport said people were able to leave the airport early Saturday for their homes or accommodation after hundreds spent the night in the terminal.
“It’s been a long and challenging night at Auckland Airport, we thank everyone for ongoing patience,” the airport wrote.
“Unfortunately, due to earlier flooding in the baggage hall, we are currently unable to return checked luggage to you,” the airport wrote. “Your airline will make arrangements for its return at a later time.”
The storm also caused an Elton John concert to be canceled just before it was due to start Friday night. A second concert by John that was planned at the stadium on Saturday night was also canceled.
About 40,000 people were expected to attend each concert at Mt Smart Stadium. Thousands were already at the venue Friday night when organizers decided to cancel not long before John was due to take the stage at 7:30 p.m.
Many concertgoers who had braved the conditions were frustrated the decision hadn’t been made hours earlier.
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown defended criticism that his office did not communicate the seriousness of the situation well and held off on declaring an emergency until about 9:30 p.m. Friday.
He said the timing of the emergency declaration was guided by experts.
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A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global environmental guidelines for banks, according to a new nonprofit report Tuesday.
The 897-mile (1443-kilometer) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), planned by French oil giant TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation has been mired in allegations of human rights abuses and environmental hazard. The 230,000 barrels of oil produced daily will emit 34 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to Ugandan nonprofit the Africa Institute for Energy Governance. Construction will take three years, once a final decision has been taken.
At least 20 banks and eight insurers have ruled themselves out of the project, many coming under pressure from environmental groups. South Africa’s Standard Bank and the Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) are financial advisers and lead debt arrangers. The UK’s Standard Chartered bank is also considering financing it.
All three signed up to the benchmark Equator Principles, voluntary environmental and human rights guidelines for financing infrastructure projects. A report by the non-governmental organization Inclusive Development International, shared exclusively with The Associated Press, says the project repeatedly breaches these principles and banks would violate them too if they go ahead. Banks are forbidden from financing non-compliant projects. But the scheme is powerless to eject members that do.
Oil wells will be drilled within Murchison Falls National Park, western Uganda. Here the Nile plummets some 130 feet (40 meters) through a gap just 20 feet (6 meters) wide, the surrounding wilderness home to hippos, egrets, giraffes and antelope. The pipeline would then pass through seven forest reserves and two game parks, running alongside Lake Victoria, a source of fresh water for 40 million people.
“An oil spill could prove disastrous for the millions that rely on the lake’s watershed for drinking water and food production,” the environmental campaign group 350.org has warned.
The report says the risk of oil spills breaches an Equator Principle requiring minimal environmental impact. A review of the plans by the nonprofit E-Tech International, which advises communities affected by infrastructure projects, found best practice was not followed.
“EACOP oil spills will occur over the lifetime of the project,” the review concluded.
The pipeline’s environmental assessment doesn’t contain a robust oil spill plan, the report’s authors contend, a further breach of the Principles. The pipeline will also traverse an earthquake zone — the Great Rift Valley — the Inclusive Development International report warns.
TotalEnergies said the pipeline’s state of the art design will ensure safety for decades.
The oil has a high wax content, solidifying at temperatures below 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) which would stop oil from spreading as liquid, the company said. Emergency plans are being prepared, the company insisted. Summer temperatures can hit 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in Uganda.
Human rights standards have also allegedly been broken, according to the report. At least four letters from UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights, sent to the Ugandan president and TotalEnergies’ CEO Patrick Pouyanné over two years, detail “various acts of harassment and intimidation” against protesting Ugandans. Numerous activists and a journalist have allegedly been intimidated, forced into hiding, arrested and interrogated.
The Equator Principles are “not being met with regard to the risks facing community members that express criticism,” the report finds.
TotalEnergies said it was unaware of threats emanating from its own staff. The company said it is “vocal about the need” for Ugandan security forces to respect human rights, and had written to the Ugandan president to share its concerns.
“TotalEnergies does not tolerate any threats or attacks against those who peacefully defend and promote human rights,” the statement read.
The Principles have also been violated by a lack of community engagement “free of manipulation, interference, or coercion, or intimidation”, according to the analysis.
More than 120,000 people will lose land to make way for the project, an evaluation by environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth found. There must be “free, prior and informed” consultation with people whose lives may be changed, according to the Principles.
But the report found these requirements were not “sufficiently met”.
The project has “systematically failed” to consult and disclose accessible information, it said.
TotalEnergies said only 13,300 people would be economically impacted across Uganda and Tanzania. Since 2017, meetings have reached over 200,000 affected individuals along the route, the oil major said.
Finally, the project violates standards on land acquisition and resettlement, the report finds. Compensation processes “exacerbated, rather than mitigated” negative impacts, impoverishing villagers who lost access to farmland and faced long delays awaiting compensation.
TotalEnergies said it had already begun paying compensation. The process abides by local laws and is in compliance with the Principles, the company insisted.
Equator Principles chair Amit Puri said each member was “individually responsible for its own internal procedures” to comply. He added that The Equator Principles do not have the authority to respond to concerns about breaching them.
Mr Puri is global head of environmental risk at Standard Chartered, one of the banks that the report says would allegedly be breaching the guidelines by financing the pipeline.
Standard Chartered itself and SMBC declined to comment. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation did not respond to numerous requests for a statement.
Standard Bank said its due diligence on funding the project was being assessed, but no final decision has been made. The decision’s subject to a full assessment of climate change strategies, the bank said, while “full compliance” with the Equator Principles was needed to fund the project.
Despite environmental and human rights concerns, the campaign to stop the pipeline is “unrealistic”, said Angelo Izama, of Ugandan think tank Fanaka Kwa Wote.
“Uganda is being thrust into this role as a poster child for climate damage, and it’s really unfair,” he said.
It amounted to a “dismissal of the national interests of Uganda”.
Ugandan oil officials declined to comment.
But President Yoweri Museveni has said oil wealth can lift millions out of poverty, while other government officials hope Uganda can become a middle-income country.
Efforts to stop the pipeline have left some dismayed at what they see as concerted efforts to sabotage the project.
“TotalEnergies and CNOOC … have the financial muscle and technical know-how to deliver a world-class project” wrote Elison Karuhanga, a prominent oil attorney, in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.
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Additional reporting by Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda.
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By ARLEIGH RODGERS and RICK CALLAHAN
Associated Press
DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Authorities on Monday announced an arrest in the unsolved murders of two teenage girls — a drugstore worker who has been living in the same small northern Indiana community where their bodies were found after they went on a hike nearly six years ago.
Richard Matthew Allen, 50, was arrested Friday on two murder counts in the killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, in a case that has haunted the Indiana city of about 3,000 people.
The investigation is “far from complete,” State Police Superintendent Doug Carter said at a news conference on Monday. He encouraged the community to come forward with more information, and said if any other people “had any involvement in these murders in any way, that person or persons will be held accountable.”
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland described Allen’s arrest as “a step in the right direction.”
“It’s concerning that he’s a local guy,” McLeland said.
The evidence against Allen, a licensed pharmacy technician who worked at a local CVS store, has been temporarily sealed to avoid jeopardizing the “integrity” of their investigation, authorities said. “While I know you were all expecting final details today concerning this arrest, today is not that day,” Carter said.
The deaths of Libby and Abby were ruled a double homicide, but police have never disclosed how they died or described what evidence they gathered. A relative had dropped them off at a hiking trail near the Monon High Bridge just outside their hometown of Delphi, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis. Their bodies were found the next day, Feb. 14, 2017, in a rugged, heavily wooded area near the trail.
Libby’s grandmother, Becky Patty, told reporters that Allen once processed photos for the family at the CVS store in Delphi where Allen worked. He didn’t charge them for the photos, she added.
The families always knew that the suspect could have been “living right amongst us, hiding in plain sight,” said Libby’s grandfather, Mike Patty. “That’s why we never stopped searching anywhere, because we didn’t know where he was.”
The Pattys wore gray shirts that read “Today is the Day … Justice will be served for Abby and Libby,” to Monday’s news conference.
A judge found probable cause to arrest Allen, who entered a not-guilty plea at his initial hearing on Friday, authorities said. “All persons arrested are presumed innocent,” Carter said.
Sheriff Bill Brooks in adjacent White County, where Allen is being held without bond, said he did not know whether Allen has an attorney. No murder case was listed Monday afternoon under his name in Indiana’s online court system.
“We haven’t closed the door on the investigation,” McLeland said when asked if authorities were investigating others. “We’re not presuming anything at this point.”
No one answered the door Monday at Allen’s house, on a street of single-family homes where some put “Keep Out” signs in their yards.
Outside the CVS store, just down Main Street from the historic courthouse square where wanted posters still seek information in the murder case, Ralph Barnaby, a Delphi resident who knows the girls’ families, told The Associated Press that he’d “be more comfortable if he’s indicted.”
Within days of the killings, investigators released two grainy photos of a suspect walking on the abandoned railroad bridge the girls had visited, and an audio recording of a man believed to be the suspect saying “down the hill.”
Authorities released an initial sketch of the suspected killer in July 2017, and then another in April 2019 based on video released in April 2019 showing a suspect walking on the abandoned railroad bridge the girls had visited. The images and audio of the suspect came from Libby’s cellphone. Authorities hailed her as a hero for recording potentially crucial evidence before she was killed.
In December 2021, state police announced they were seeking information from people who had contact with someone who used a fictitious online profile to communicate with young girls. State Police said investigators determined the profile “anthony_shots” was used from 2016 to 2017 on Snapchat, Instagram and other social media platforms.
A statement from CVS said the company is “shocked and saddened to learn that one of our store employees was arrested as a suspect in these crimes. We stand ready to cooperate with the police investigation in any way we can.”
“We remain devastated by these murders and our hearts go out to the German and Williams families,” the statement said.
The case has been followed closely over the years by true-crime enthusiasts who have offered plenty of theories, but Carter urged people not to “subjectively interpret” the case while officers continue to gather information. “If you choose to be critical of our silence be critical of me, not the front line,” he said.
Sheryl McCollum, who has appeared on television as a cold case consultant, traveled to the news conference from Atlanta after meeting the Germans at a true-crime convention. She praised the authorities for holding the facts close to their vests.
“I think the integrity of this case, and not telling every single thing they know, I think that’s powerful,” Sheryl said. “If you start showing your hand, you know, you can mess things up and you can tell too much … The investigation does not stop at arrest. It really just begins. So now is when they’re really going to go to work.”
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Callahan reported from Indianapolis.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The lawyer for a Russian soldier who was the first to go on trial for an alleged war crime in Ukraine asked a Kyiv court Friday to acquit his client, who had admitted killing an unarmed Ukrainian civilian during the first days of the war.
Defense attorney Victor Ovsyanikov argued that his client, Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, had been unprepared for the “violent military confrontation” and mass casualties that Russian troops encountered when they first invaded Ukraine.
“It is essential, your honor, in my opinion, to assess Shishimarin’s intentions as to what happened and the reasons he was guided by when he fired,” Ovsyanikov said. “Could any of the people present here understand these circumstances in that situation?”
Shishimarin, a member of a Russian tank unit who was eventually captured, testified Thursday that he shot the civilian from an open car window on orders from two officers. He said one of the officers insisted the man, 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov, could report their location in the northeastern Sumy region to Ukrainian forces.
“Let’s try to put ourselves in the place of at least one of those people in that car, and in general,” Ovsyanikov, a Ukrainian lawyer who was appointed to defend the Russian sargeant, said Friday. “Did they understand that they killed a person at the time, or did they just shoot from a machine gun and go on?”
Prosecutors have contended the directions to fire did not come from Shishimarin’s direct commander and so did not constitute an order.
“The arguments of the defense are, so to speak, relevant to the line of defense, but I believe that this in no way refutes the evidence we have provided,” prosecutor Andriy Synyuk said Friday. “And I believe that they do not deny the guilt of Shishimarin himself in this criminal offense.”
Shishimarin could get life in prison if convicted of shooting the Ukrainian man in the head on Feb. 28, four days into the Russian invasion. Prosecutors continued to present evidence after he pleaded guilty Wednesday.
The judges who heard the case started their deliberations Friday. A verdict is expected Monday, Ovsyanikov said.
“And I would like to note that any verdict is subject to appeal,” the lawyer said.
Shishimarin was prosecuted under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war. As the inaugural war-crimes case in Ukraine, his case was watched closely.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova previously said her office was readying war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offenses that included bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting.
Investigators also are collecting evidence of possible war crimes to bring before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
On Thursday, Shishimarin asked the victim’s widow, who also appeared in the trial, to forgive him for what he did.
“I realize that you can’t forgive me, but I’m pleading you for forgiveness,” he told her.
The woman, Kateryna Shelipova, said she found her husband dead just outside their home after the couple heard gunshots and he went to investigate. “He was all to me. He was my defender,” she said.
Shelipova told the court that Shishimarin deserves a life sentence for killing her husband but added that she wouldn’t mind if he was exchanged as part of a possible prisoner swap with Russia for the surrendered Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Asked about that possibility, defense lawyer Ovsyanikov replied Friday: “There will be interest from the country of which he is a citizen, and our country will confirm this interest, so why not?”
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NEW YORK (AP) —
Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords to new editions of three famed Marvel Comics series.
Penguin Classics is teaming with Marvel on Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, which already includes “Black Panther,” “Captain America” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
Three new books will be out Sept. 12: “The Avengers,” with a foreword by Bardugo; “Fantastic Four,” with a foreword by Craft; and “X-Men,” with a foreword by Rowell.
“These volumes provide unique, single-volume introductions to the first decade of The Avengers, the original X-Men, and the Fantastic Four,” series editor Ben Saunders said in a statement Thursday.
“Like our prior releases in this series, each title also features up-to-date scholarship exploring the creative contexts and cultural significance of these vital works of popular culture.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/ap-penguin-classics-marvel-to-issue-new-editions-of-3-comics/ | 2023-01-19 17:03:37 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/ap-penguin-classics-marvel-to-issue-new-editions-of-3-comics/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida-based Publix grocery store chain is not offering the COVID-19 vaccine to children younger than 5 but has not explained its decision.
The supermarket chain with 1,288 stores in seven Southern states was instrumental in distributing the vaccine when it was initially released. Its website indicates it is currently offering the vaccine to adults and children 5 and older.
The company told the Tampa Bay Times that Publix stores won't offer the vaccine to young children “at this time." It did not explain the decision or return multiple messages or phone calls to The Associated Press on Thursday.
The company's website shows it offers other vaccinations for babies as young as 6 months.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has recommended against vaccinating healthy children, despite U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that recommend the vaccines for everyone 6 months and older.
Florida considers children with underlying conditions that predispose them to severe cases of COVID-19 as candidates for the jabs. Federal policies make no distinction between healthy individuals and those with underlying conditions. The CDC says the vaccines prevent hospitalizations and deaths, and the benefits outweigh any risks.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said last week that the state was not preordering doses of the under-5 vaccine, making Florida the only state in the nation not to do so. Though medical providers and pediatricians can order vaccines directly from the federal government via a state online portal, the White House has said Florida's failure to pre-order could delay delivery to medical providers in the state.
Republican lawmakers elsewhere also have questioned the release of the vaccine for young children.
Parents in Florida must rely on pediatricians, medical clinics, children's hospitals and pharmacies such as Walgreens, CVS and Walmart to get the vaccine. Walmart, CVS and Walgreens are only offering the vaccine to children ages 3 and up.
When the vaccines became available in early 2021, DeSantis made Publix, the state's largest private employer, a major player in the rollout, first for senior citizens and then to the general population.
Publix made six $25,000 donations to DeSantis’ political committee totaling $150,000 between November 2019 and December 2020. But it hasn’t donated since a “60 Minutes” report in April 2021 that suggested DeSantis showed favoritism to the supermarket chain because of its political support.
It remains to be seen what level of demand there will be in Florida for vaccinations for the under-5 age group. The uptake in vaccines has been highest for those 65 and over, at 94%, according the state figures, and it declines with each younger age group tracked by the state. For 12-19, the vaccination rate is 56%, and for 5-11, it is 24%.
Natalie Roseander, an Orlando mother of four whose youngest, Lorelei, is almost 2 years old, says her pediatrician’s office hasn’t received doses for the youngest age group, according to a Florida Democratic Party statement released Thursday.
Roseander said she's tried going through pharmacies, but stores such as Walgreens currently only offer the vaccine to children ages 3 and up.
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ANCONA – Leading her first election campaign rally, Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday slammed the European Union energy’s strategy, saying families and businesses are being “brought to their knees” by soaring prices.
Meloni, who has been buoyed for weeks by opinion polls showing her leading in her quest to become Italy's first female premier and its first far-right government leader, used the evening pep rally in Ancona, an Adriatic port city, to hammer away at long-running themes for her Brothers of Italy party, whose symbol borrows an icon from a neo-fascist party.
She told the crowd of about 1,000 people in a town square there was a reason why she chose Ancona in Italy's east-central Marche region for her inaugural rally for Sept. 25 balloting for Parliament.
“I'm starting in Ancona not by chance,'' Meloni said, saying she did it so she can remind voters that “we have a class of leaders ready to govern the country.”
Introducing Meloni was Marche's governor, Francesco Acquaroli, elected in 2020 on the Brothers of Italy ticket, one of several local or regional elections where her party has gained popularity in the last years, sometimes at the expense of her right-wing ally, anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini.
Meloni's main rival in opinion polls in the last several weeks is Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta, a former center-left premier. But while Meloni has center-right campaign alliances with both Salvini and with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, Letta and his party have failed to forge similarly solid and broad alliances for the center-left.
Salvini, Berlusconi and another populist leader, Giuseppe Conte, the former premier who leads the 5-Star Movement, sunk the national unity government of Premier Mario Draghi last month when they refused to back him in a confidence vote.
Often shouting, Meloni proclaimed that the political right is “ready to give answers to the country that the left hasn't been able to do” for years.
She contended that the European Union had failed to craft policies that would ensure available, affordable energy supplies. Sky-high energy prices “have forced businesses and families down to their knees," Meloni said.
While Salvini and Berlusconi in their campaigns have called for reactivating Italy's long-shuttered nuclear power plants, Meloni at the rally said Italy should exploit gas resources in the Adriatic Sea and not just look to buy gas from countries like Algeria, as Draghi has done, to wean Italians from supplies from Russia, given that country's war against Ukraine.
Meloni has called for naval blockades in the Mediterranean to foil migrant smugglers from launching unseaworthy vessels from Libya toward Italy's shores. Noting most migrants who reach Italy that way aren't eligible for asylum, Meloni said they only wind up being exploited to work for low wages and in poor conditions by profit-hungry corporations — employment conditions “that Italians don't want.”
At other public appearances, Meloni has slammed what she calls the LGBTQ lobby, but she made no mention of that stance at the rally. Still, her past words have alarmed rights advocates in Italy.
Matteo Marchegiani, leader of the Ancona chapter of Arcigay, a nationwide advocacy organization, told The Associated Press that he was very worried Meloni and her party could win a majority. Such an election victory "could lead to the cancellation of the few civil rights that the LGBTQ community as a civil rights movement has obtained after decades of work and great effort” in Italy, he said.
Italy doesn't permit same-sex marriage. Right-wing and pro-Vatican politicians in recent years have thwarted passage of legislation, promoted by the Democrats, for hate crime protection for the LGBTQ community.
A few protesters rallied near the square where Meloni spoke, with one of them holding a sign contending the leader foments hate.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Chicago White Sox placed outfielder Eloy Jiménez on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a right hamstring strain, an injury that is expected to cause him to miss six to eight weeks.
Jiménez was injured Saturday trying to beat out a ground ball.
“I think the big thing is tomorrow when he goes to Chicago and really gets an extensive exam,” manager Tony La Russa said. “We’ll hope for the early indications.”
An update is expected to be provided Tuesday when the White Sox open a seven-game homestand.
“He’ll give us a boost because everybody will want to step up and fill in for him like what we did last year,” La Russa said. “He’s got that kind of presence here. No one wants to let him down.”
A ruptured left pectoral tendon limited the oft-injured Jiménez to 55 games last season. He is hitting .222 through 11 games this season with one home run and seven RBIs.
Chicago has eight players on the injured list: Jiménez, pitchers Ryan Burr (right shoulder strain), Garrett Crochet (Tommy John surgery), Joe Kelly (right biceps nerve), Lance Lynn (right knee tendon tear), Jonathan Stiever (right lat surgery), third baseman Yoan Moncada (right oblique strain) and outfielder Yermin Mercedes (left hand fracture).
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(The Hill) — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced Monday that the company will be laying off another 9,000 employees, marking the second round of significant layoffs this year.
These cuts are in addition to the 18,000 layoffs Jassy announced in January, which had started in November. Jassy said in a memo to employees on Monday that most of the cuts will affect Amazon Web Services, People Experience and Technology Solutions, advertising and Twitch, which is a video livestreaming service.
“For several years leading up to this one, most of our businesses added a significant amount of headcount,” Jassy wrote in a memo to employees. “This made sense given what was happening in our businesses and the economy as a whole.”
“However, given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount,” he added.
Jassy said the company did not announce these layoffs along with the layoffs in January because Amazon’s teams had not completed their analyses last fall. He said that they have announced the decisions as they have made them to get employees the information “as soon as possible.”
He said final decisions about what positions will be impacted are expected to be made by mid- to late April, which is when they will communicate the affected roles to employees.
“To those ultimately impacted by these reductions, I want to thank you for the work you have done on behalf of customers and the company,” he said. “It’s never easy to say goodbye to our teammates, and you will be missed.”
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‘A message of hope’: Reactions to the Pope’s residential school apology
By Michael Lee
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — Indigenous leaders, activists and others are reacting to an apology by Pope Francis on Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system, a moment recognized by some as an historic event, while others continue to urge the pontiff to follow up his words with action.
Pope Francis issued his apology during a visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in Maskwacis, Alta., a journey he is calling his “penitential pilgrimage.”
“I ask forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the church and of religious communities co-operated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools,” he said.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) released a statement calling for continued reconciliation and further investments in Indigenous healing.
“This a significant first step towards reconciliation and acknowledging the intergenerational trauma residential schools have had on Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island,” CAP National Chief Elmer St. Pierre said.
“After failed attempts and a lack of will, it’s time the Catholic Church make the investments needed to help ensure individuals and communities can heal.”
The statement added that the CAP hopes this “historic” apology will encourage Indigenous people to reclaim their rich cultures and traditions.
“The vast majority of Indigenous Peoples now live in urban areas creating the need for more supports and programs off-reserve and in southern cities,” the release says.
“CAP demands the Catholic Church make the reparations necessary to ensure all Indigenous Peoples have access to culturally relevant supports no matter where they live.”
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, responded to the papal visit saying an apology is about “actions.”
“You show that you actually are sorrowful and you’re committed to not making the same mistakes again through your actions. That is what this apology should be judged upon,” she wrote on Twitter.
She highlighted the actions needed to eliminate the physical and sexual abuse of children around the world, the church’s acceptance of responsibility for those abused or who died in its care, reparations and support for victims.
“The most important day of an apology is the day after, and the year after. We all need to be looking at what the Pope does then,” Blackstock said.
In a news release, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the government policy of residential schools, with the participation of churches, “created deep wounds that are not easily or quickly healed.”
“Yet we saw at Maskwacis both the resilience of Indigenous Peoples in preserving their culture, as well as the goodwill of Catholics and other Canadians to both truth and reconciliation,” he said.
In a statement released by his office, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said reconciliation is the “responsibility of all Canadians.”
“It is our responsibility to be open, to listen, and to share. It is our responsibility to see our differences not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity to learn, to better understand one another, and to take action,” Trudeau said.
“No one must ever forget what happened at residential schools across Canada and we must all ensure it never happens again. In the spirit of reconciliation and healing, together we will build a better future — for Indigenous Peoples and all Canadians.”
Lori Idlout, Crown-Indigenous Relations critic for the federal New Democratic Party, said in a statement that the Catholic Church’s role in the “genocide” against Indigenous people still affects families and communities.
Idlout added, “Immediate action is urgently needed to ensure healing from crimes committed against Inuit, First Nations and Métis, at the hands of the churches.”
“The Catholic Church and the government worked together in harms and crimes, and they must work together to ensure that the harm done to Indigenous Peoples is being addressed in meaningful ways. Co-operating with ongoing investigations and making all documents requested by survivors, police and local governments available is the very least that the Church and the federal government can do for Indigenous Peoples,” Idlout said.
“The Pope’s visit is an opportunity to forge a new path toward healing — it must not be symbolic.”
Pope Francis also apologized for being unable to visit other Canadian communities that extended invitations to him, including Winnipeg.
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs acting Grand Chief Cornell McLean said in a statement that the Pope’s apology is a step toward healing for many.
“It has been over a year since discovering over a thousand unmarked graves of children on Indian Residential School grounds, and we are still mourning them. An apology does not ease the pain of lost children who never returned home, or the legacy First Nations carry as the Survivors, their children and their grandchildren,” he said.
“However, we encourage the Church to move forward in the spirit of reconciliation by making concrete commitments and true reparations going forward.”
Here are other reactions to Pope Francis’s apology:
“Pope Francis’s words today and in Rome this spring represent a journey that has taken more than 180 years — from the time the doors of these so-called schools opened to the challenges First Nations people live today,” former Assembly of First Nations chief Phil Fontaine, who attended two Manitoba residential schools, said in a statement. “By apologizing for the abuses of the past, Pope Francis has helped to open the door for survivors and their families to walk together with the church for a present and future of forgiveness and healing. I accept and choose this path.”
“Every survivor will choose how they feel about the apology. We have witnessed the Pope’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 58 — and heard a message of hope to our people, Canadians, and Catholics worldwide: First Nations cultures, languages, and traditions matter. This message will help to guide us all on the path to reconciliation,” AFN Regional Chief Cindy Woodhouse said.
“I believe today was a very good second beginning, because I believe it started long ago when leaders of the day, before I was around, asked for those very same things,” Audrey Poitras, president of the Metis Nation of Alberta, said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.
Cash and investments in marketable securities at December 31, 2022, were approximately $505.0 million as compared to $798.8 million at December 31, 2021.
"We are committed to ensuring that our existing cash can support a runway through at least the middle of 2025," said Howard W. Robin, President and CEO of Nektar. "This will enable us to advance our current pipeline to reach value-enhancing milestones. As a result, and as we stated on our analyst call last week, we will be making additional changes at Nektar to significantly reduce operating costs to meet that commitment."
Summary of Financial Results
Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 was $22.0 million as compared to $25.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $92.1 million as compared to $101.9 million in 2021. Revenue for 2022 was lower compared to 2021, driven by a decrease in non-cash royalty revenue.
Total operating costs and expenses in the fourth quarter of 2022 were $74.5 million as compared to $137.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Total operating costs and expenses for the full year 2022 were $468.2 million as compared to $548.0 million in 2021. Operating costs and expenses for both the fourth quarter and the full year 2022 decreased as compared to 2021 primarily due to the wind down of the bempegaldesleukin program, partially offset by severance expense and non-cash lease and equipment impairment charges.
R&D expense in the fourth quarter of 2022 was $34.7 million as compared to $99.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. R&D expense for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $218.3 million as compared to $400.3 million in 2021. R&D expense decreased for both the fourth quarter and full year 2022 primarily due to the wind down of the bempegaldesleukin program. The clinical trial and related employee compensation costs for the wind down of the bempegaldesleukin program are reported in restructuring, impairment and other costs of terminated program, discussed below.
G&A expense was $21.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and $32.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. G&A expense for the full year 2022 was $92.3 million as compared to $122.8 million in 2021. G&A expense decreased for both the fourth quarter and full year 2022 primarily due to the wind down of the bempegaldesleukin program.
Restructuring, impairment and other costs of the terminated program were $11.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 and $135.9 million in the full year 2022. The full year 2022 amount includes $65.8 million in non-cash lease and equipment impairment charges, $30.9 million in employee severance expense and $31.7 million for clinical trial and related employee compensation costs for the wind down of the bempegaldesleukin program, as well as $7.5 million in other restructuring costs.
Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2022 was $59.7 million or $0.32 basic and diluted loss per share as compared to a net loss of $145.6 million or $0.79 basic and diluted loss per share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $368.2 million or $1.97 basic and diluted loss per share as compared to a net loss of $523.8 million or $2.86 basic and diluted loss per share in 2021.
On February 23, 2023, Nektar announced topline data from a Phase 2 study of rezpegaldesleukin in adults with moderately-to-severely active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (https://ir.nektar.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nektar-therapeutics-announces-phase-2-topline-data) and conducted a call with analysts and investors.
As a result of this call, Nektar will not host its regular quarterly financial results conference call for the fourth quarter and year-end 2022. Nektar's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 was filed on February 28, 2023.
About Nektar Therapeutics
Nektar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company with a robust, wholly owned R&D pipeline of investigational medicines in oncology and immunology as well as a portfolio of approved partnered medicines. Nektar is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional operations in Huntsville, Alabama. Further information about the company and its drug development programs and capabilities may be found online at http://www.nektar.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements which can be identified by words such as: "will," "may," "advance," "support," "develop," "provide" and similar references to future periods. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding the therapeutic potential of, and future development plans for rezpegaldesleukin (formerly NKTR-358), NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates in research programs, the prospects and plans for our collaborations with other companies, the timing of the initiation of clinical studies and the data readouts for our drug candidates, our expectations (including our expected charges and cost savings) following our 2022 corporate restructuring and reorganization plan and workforce reduction, and our expected working capital and cash runway. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Our actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others: (i) our statements regarding the therapeutic potential of rezpegaldesleukin, NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are based on preclinical and clinical findings and observations and are subject to change as research and development continue; (ii) rezpegaldesleukin, NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are investigational agents and continued research and development for these drug candidates is subject to substantial risks, including negative safety and efficacy findings in ongoing clinical studies (notwithstanding positive findings in earlier preclinical and clinical studies); (iii) rezpegaldesleukin, NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are in various stages of clinical development and the risk of failure is high and can unexpectedly occur at any stage prior to regulatory approval; (iv) the timing of the commencement or end of clinical trials and the availability of clinical data may be delayed or unsuccessful due to challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory delays, slower than anticipated patient enrollment, manufacturing challenges, changing standards of care, evolving regulatory requirements, clinical trial design, clinical outcomes, competitive factors, or delay or failure in ultimately obtaining regulatory approval in one or more important markets; (v) we may not achieve the expected cost savings we expect from our 2022 corporate restructuring and reorganization plan and we may undertake additional restructuring and cost-saving activities in the future, (vi) patents may not issue from our patent applications for our drug candidates, patents that have issued may not be enforceable, or additional intellectual property licenses from third parties may be required; and (vii) certain other important risks and uncertainties set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2023. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
Contact:
For Investors:
Vivian Wu of Nektar Therapeutics
628-895-0661
For Media:
David Rosen of Argot Partners
(212) 600-1902
david.rosen@argotpartners.com
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