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TikTok real estate agent Farkakte Apartments announces first-ever crummy New York City apartment for sale in the metaverse.
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly listed New York City apartment includes everything one has come to expect from New York real estate, including empty pizza boxes, a shower in the kitchen, moldy walls, and rats. But there is one catch to the listing; it's in the metaverse.
The apartment is listed by Coinage, a new community-owned talk show focused on big-picture crypto coverage. Farkakte Apartment's Stephanie Turk is the broker of the first ever New York City metaverse apartment for sale.
"I have lived in some pretty terrible New York apartments, featuring mice, leaky ceilings, and a shower in the kitchen," said Coinage Host Zack Guzmán. "If that can sell in New York, we wanted to see if it would sell in the metaverse."
The property is a two-bedroom inconveniently located in the Decentraland metaverse. It's listed for sale at $528,000. For listing details, contact Stephanie Turk from Farkakte Apartments or the Coinage community.
"I don't know why anyone is shopping for a virtual apartment, but what I know for sure is that this is a piece of pop art," said Turk.
Coinage is the first crypto show telling the whole story of crypto, not just the headline. We make it fun and easy to be in the know with a critical eye and clever angle, all with a guiding mission to level the playing field in crypto. Watch the new crypto news series, now streaming on YouTube.
To learn more about how to get involved with Coinage, visit https://www.coinage.media/
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New Bedford is Ascend's First Outlet Dispensary in the State, Following the Successful Opening of Two Outlets in Pennsylvania
NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. ("AWH" or the "Company") (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH), a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator focused on bettering lives through cannabis, announced the grand opening of its Ascend New Bedford adult-use cannabis outlet dispensary, located at 115 Coggeshall St.
Ascend New Bedford, which features 5,200 square feet of floor space, will exclusively sell adult-use cannabis, offering Ascend's full menu of flower, edibles, vapes and concentrates, including a variety of household brands such as Simply Herb, Ozone, and AIRO. Pop-ups in collaboration with other brands, including AWH's own Ozone, will also be available at the grand opening.
Notably, Ascend New Bedford is the Company's first outlet dispensary in Massachusetts and its third overall, following the successful launch of two outlet locations in Pennsylvania. Ascend outlet locations allow customers to purchase the same high-quality products at an everyday low price, making Ascend's top-tier brands accessible to all consumers. Located approximately 15 miles east of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border, Ascend New Bedford can conveniently serve residents from both states, and summertime visitors to Cape Cod.
"Since the opening of our first retail dispensary, Ascend has learned that consumers are willing to travel for the chance to purchase high-caliber products at everyday affordable prices," said Frank Perullo, president, co-founder and interim co-CEO of Ascend Wellness Holdings. "Ascend New Bedford is ideally positioned just off I-95 to provide customers from Massachusetts and Rhode Island with convenient access to our full range of products to improve their daily lives."
Ascend New Bedford is open from 10 am to 7 pm daily.
AWH is a vertically integrated operator with assets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. AWH owns and operates state-of-the-art cultivation facilities, growing award-winning strains and producing a curated selection of products. AWH produces and distributes its in-house Ozone, Ozone Reserve, and Simply Herb branded products. For more information, visit www.awholdings.com.
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Hormel Foods team members commemorate MLK Day and Black History Month with an essay competition for elementary and middle school students from across the country
AUSTIN, Minn., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Three winners of the 12th annual Hormel Foods MLK essay contest visited the company's World Headquarters today to read their winning essays to Hormel Foods team members. The students – Ava Pigrum from Sacramento, Calif., Andre Smith from Minneapolis, Minn., and Michael Htoo from Willmar, Minn. – claimed the top honors among hundreds of entries from 12 schools this year.
The Hormel Foods Black Leaders & Allies Advancing Cultural Knowledge (BLAACK) business resource group sponsors the essay competition for elementary and middle school students across the United States. Contestants are asked to write an essay with the theme, "What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Means to Me."
"BLAACK is excited to bring our annual MLK Essay Contest back to our World Headquarters after several years of a hybrid format," said Cedric Moore, BLAACK president and senior customer executive for Retail sales at Hormel Foods. "The goal of this event is to promote the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by having the top three students from across the country share what Dr. King's legacy means to them. One of my favorite quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is, 'No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.' Today, these students are displaying the excellence of Dr. King's legacy by sharing their stories."
The nationwide competition promotes the value and importance of cultural differences and provides a platform for celebrating diversity. The goals of the program are to promote Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, encourage children to aim high, give them exposure to minority professionals in business and create a lasting partnership between Hormel Foods and local schools.
These three students honored Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy by putting into words what he means to them.
"I thank my ancestors who pushed through," said winner Andre Smith in his essay. "I thank Dr. King because he gave me and everyone the faith to become a leader and take the next step to keep his dream alive. There is still not justice for all, if it wasn't for Dr. King we would not know how to fix today's problems."
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Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, WHOLLY®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com and http://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
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The Republican Party and conservative media have made it abundantly clear that transgender issues will play a central role in their efforts to mobilize the base for the foreseeable future.
Polling on transgender issues is relatively new, leaving little in the way of historical comparisons. But perhaps the best gauge is perceptions of society’s treatment of transgender people.
In Pew Research Center polling in 2017, 57 percent of Republicans said society had gone “too far.” In 2020, KFF polling showed that number at 30 percent. In August 2021, NBC News polling showed it at 46 percent. (Each of these polls, while from different pollsters, asked the same question.)
But more recent polling indicates a significant rise in the percentage of Republicans who say that there is too much acceptance of transgender people. In May 2022, NBC showed those saying we had gone “too far” rising to 56 percent, and Pew showed it up to 66 percent. In March of this year, Wall Street Journal-NORC polling pegged it at 75 percent. And this weekend, an NBC poll showed 79 percent of Republicans saying that society had gone “too far” in accepting transgender people — 30 points higher than NBC’s poll just two years earlier.
Democrats have also seen a slight increase in views that society has gone “too far” — but not as much. While the 2017 and 2020 polls showed about 1 in 10 Democrats said society had gone too far, that number was almost 2 in 10 in the most recent NBC poll.
Polls also suggest that Republicans are increasingly concerned about schools going too far to accommodate transgender students — though the movement hasn’t been as significant. Fox News polling in October 2021 showed that 62 percent of Republicans said “overly accommodating transgender policies” was a major problem; by last week, that was up to 72 percent.
A logical question from there is whether this is responsive to actual changes in society. Transgender people are increasingly visible on social media, in pop culture and in marketing campaigns, for example, and some blue states have moved to expand protections for transgender people. But other polls suggest it’s not just that.
As GOP legislatures across the country have increasingly moved toward restrictions, polls also suggest that Republicans have moved substantially on key issues of transgender rights and identity.
An April 2021 poll from NPR, PBS and Marist College showed that Republicans opposed criminalizing gender transition-related care for minors, 55 percent to 38 percent. But in March of this year, that ratio flipped: Just 35 percent opposed criminalization, while 63 percent supported it. Another March poll showed Republicans saying 68 percent to 28 percent that transition-related care should be banned.
Republicans have also moved in favor of restricting transgender people to bathrooms for the gender they were assigned at birth. Polling from the Public Religion Research Institute showed 44 percent favored this in 2016, compared to 74 percent last year. In both polls, around 3 in 10 Democrats favored this.
Last, perhaps the most fundamental shift of all: While polls show that Democrats have moved toward thinking that someone can be a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth, Republicans have moved in the opposite direction. In the 2017 Pew poll, Republicans said gender is determined by sex at birth rather than that it can be different by a 61-point margin; that rose to a 73-point margin last year.
The fact that this question has been as lopsided on the right for as long as it has speaks to how receptive an audience there was for this political strategy. If you don’t think someone can be a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth, it’s not that difficult to talk you into opposing transition-related medical care and bathroom restrictions.
And as a spotlight has been cast on these issues, Republicans have indeed moved in that direction. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/01/republicans-transgender-rights-polls/ | 2023-05-01 20:10:33 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/01/republicans-transgender-rights-polls/ |
Posted: Sep 14, 2022 / 09:09 AM EDT Updated: Sep 14, 2022 / 09:09 AM EDT SHARE (WSYR-TV)– Ryan Dean brings you all of this morning’s top stories in News on the go. | https://www.localsyr.com/news-on-the-go/news-on-the-go-september-14-2022/ | 2022-09-14 14:54:36 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news-on-the-go/news-on-the-go-september-14-2022/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-5-7, FIREBALL:
(nine, eight, five, seven; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-5-7, FIREBALL:
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the JYNNEOS vaccine to allow healthcare providers to use the vaccine by intradermal injection for individuals 18 years of age and older who are determined to be at high risk for monkeypox infection. This will increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold. The EUA also allows for use of the vaccine in individuals younger than 18 years of age determined to be at high risk of monkeypox infection; in these individuals JYNNEOS is administered by subcutaneous injection.
"In recent weeks the monkeypox virus has continued to spread at a rate that has made it clear our current vaccine supply will not meet the current demand," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "The FDA quickly explored other scientifically appropriate options to facilitate access to the vaccine for all impacted individuals. By increasing the number of available doses, more individuals who want to be vaccinated against monkeypox will now have the opportunity to do so."
JYNNEOS, the Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vaccine, was approved in 2019 for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults 18 years of age and older determined to be at high risk for smallpox or monkeypox infection. JYNNEOS is administered beneath the skin (subcutaneously) as two doses, four weeks (28 days) apart. For individuals 18 years of age and older determined to be at high risk of monkeypox infection, the EUA now allows for a fraction of the JYNNEOS dose to be administered between the layers of the skin (intradermally). Two doses of the vaccine given four weeks (28 days) apart will still be needed. There are no data available to indicate that one dose of JYNNEOS will provide long-lasting protection, which will be needed to control the current monkeypox outbreak.
Data from a 2015 clinical study of the MVA vaccine evaluated a two-dose series given intradermally compared to subcutaneously. Individuals who received the vaccine intradermally received a lower volume (one fifth) than individuals who received the vaccine subcutaneously. The results of this study demonstrated that intradermal administration produced a similar immune response to subcutaneous administration, meaning individuals in both groups responded to vaccination in a similar way. Administration by the intradermal route resulted in more redness, firmness, itchiness and swelling at the injection site, but less pain, and these side effects were manageable. The FDA has determined that the known and potential benefits of JYNNEOS outweigh the known and potential risks for the authorized uses.
To support the FDA's authorization of two doses of JYNNEOS administered by the subcutaneous route of administration in individuals younger than 18 years of age, the FDA considered the available JYNNEOS safety and immune response data in adults as well as the historical data with use of live vaccinia virus smallpox vaccine in pediatric populations.
JYNNEOS has been tested in individuals with immunocompromising conditions and has been found to be safe and effective in the trials that were performed to support approval. It was initially developed specifically as an alternative for use in immunocompromised individuals in the event of a smallpox outbreak.
On the basis of the determination by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Aug. 9, 2022, that there is a public health emergency, or the significant potential for a public health emergency, that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad, and the declaration on Aug. 9, 2022, that circumstances exist justifying the emergency use of vaccines, the FDA may issue an EUA to allow emergency use of unapproved vaccines or unapproved uses of approved vaccines.
The FDA will provide updates as developments occur and will continue to work with federal public health partners and industry to ensure timely access to all available medical countermeasures. More information can be found on the agency's monkeypox webpage.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute today issued a call for motor carriers and drivers to participate in a new ATRI data collection on the impact of predatory towing in the trucking industry.
Predatory towing is any incident in which a tow truck operator egregiously overcharges, illegally seizes, damages by use of improper equipment, or withholds release of a truck and/or cargo. Recognizing its persistent negative impact on the industry, ATRI's Research Advisory Committee (RAC) identified the need to better understand this problem as a top research priority earlier this year.
The short survey asks fleets to share which types of predatory towing they deal with most frequently, what fees or delays they consider predatory, and in which states they have encountered predatory tows. It also seeks participants for a second round of more detailed data collection that will allow ATRI to quantify the frequency and operational impact of each type of predatory event. All data collected will be kept completely confidential.
"We all know that predatory towing is an issue, yet until now there has been no robust analysis on how, when, and where it happens or the impact of legislation designed to regulate these predatory practices," said Shawn R. Brown, Cargo Transporters Vice President of Safety. "By participating in ATRI's data-driven research, carriers will be helping to answer these questions and outline solutions."
Motor carriers and drivers are encouraged to complete the survey by clicking here.
ATRI is the trucking industry's 501c3 not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation's essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)DaJuan Gordon scored 15 points and New Mexico State ended its nine-game losing streak beating Stephen F. Austin 73-67 on Wednesday.
Gordon also had five rebounds for the Aggies (8-14, 1-9 Western Athletic Conference). Deshawndre Washington scored 13 points and added five rebounds. Issa Muhammad finished 6 of 9 from the floor to finish with 12 points.
Sadaidriene Hall scored 14 points, had seven rebounds and two steals for Stephen F. Austin (15-8, 7-3). Latrell Jossell added 14 points and Jaylin Jackson-Posey 11.
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Both teams next play Saturday. New Mexico State hosts Seattle U and SFA visits Grand Canyon.
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17 states weigh adopting California’s electric car mandate
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035.
Under the Clean Air Act, states must abide by the federal government’s standard vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially opt to follow California’s stricter requirements.
Among them, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Vermont are expected to adopt California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won’t. The legal ground is a bit murkier in Minnesota, where the state’s “Clean Cars” rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia.
The Minnesota Auto Dealers Association says its reading of state and federal law is that the new California rules kick in automatically in the state, and it’s making that case in court as it tries to block them.
“The technology is such that the vehicles just don’t perform that well in cold weather,” said Scott Lambert, the trade group’s president. “We don’t all live in southern California.”
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials say the state would have to launch an entirely new rulemaking process to adopt California’s changes. And in court filings and legislative hearings, they’ve said they are not planning to do that now.
“We are not California. Minnesota has its own plan,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement. He called Minnesota’s program “a smart way to increase, rather than decrease, options for consumers. Our priority is to lower costs and increase choices so Minnesotans can drive whatever vehicle suits them.”
Oregon regulators are taking public comments through Sept. 7 on whether to adopt the new California standards. Colorado regulators, who adopted California’s older rules, won’t follow California’s new ones, the administration of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said.
“While the governor shares the goal of rapidly moving towards electric vehicles, he is skeptical about requiring 100% of cars sold to be electric by a certain date as technology is rapidly changing,” the Colorado Energy Office said in a statement.
Regulators in Pennsylvania, which only partially adopted California’s older standards, said they won’t automatically follow its new rules. Under Democratic Governor Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania started the regulatory process last year to fully conform with California’s rules, but abandoned it.
Virginia had been on a path to adopting California’s rules under legislation that passed last year when Democrats were in full control of Virginia’s government. But Republicans who control the House of Delegates and GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin say they’ll push to unlink their state.
Minnesota’s auto dealers are trying to make their state’s current rules — and the possibility that they could tighten to incorporate California’s new restrictions — an issue for the fall elections. Control of the Legislature and governor’s office are up for grabs, and the dealers hope to persuade the 2023 Legislature to roll back the regulations unless they win in court first, Lambert said.
The MPCA, with Walz’s support, adopted California’s existing standards through administrative rulemaking last year amid a bitter fight with Republican lawmakers who were upset that the Legislature was cut out of the decision. Legislators even tried unsuccessfully to withhold funding from Minnesota’s environmental agencies. One casualty was Laura Bishop, who resigned as MPCA commissioner after it became apparent that she lacked the votes in the GOP-controlled Senate to win confirmation.
Walz and his administration have framed Minnesota’s Clean Cars rule as a fairly painless way to increase the availability of electric vehicles and help the state meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The rule seeks to increase the offerings of battery-powered and hybrid vehicles starting with the 2025 model year by requiring manufacturers to comply with California standards currently in force for low- and zero-emission vehicles.
Lambert said the state’s auto dealers don’t oppose electric vehicles. They currently make up 2.3% of new vehicle sales in Minnesota and he expects consumer interest to continue to grow. But the reduced range of battery-powered vehicles in cold weather makes them less attractive in northern tier states, he said. Minnesota’s rules already threaten to saddle dealers with more electric vehicles than their customers will buy, he said, and adopting the California ban would make things worse.
Under federal law, by Lambert’s reading, states have to either adopt California’s rules in full or follow less stringent federal emission standards. He said they can’t pick and choose from parts of each. And that effectively means there’s a “ban on the books” in Minnesota for sales of new conventionally fueled vehicles starting with the 2035 model year, he said.
Lambert’s association was already fighting Minnesota’s existing Clean Car rules in the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and its petition foresaw that California would make the changes it announced late last month. A key issue in whether “any future amendments to the incorporated California regulations automatically become part of Minnesota rules,” as the dealers argue.
The MPCA’s attorneys assert that they don’t, and have asked the court to dismiss the challenge. MPCA Commissioner Katrina Kessler has made similar arguments for months, including before a skeptical state Senate committee last March.
Aaron Klemz, chief strategy officer for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, which will be filing its own arguments against the dealers in court, acknowledged that the legal landscape is confusing. And he said it’s not clear whether his group will eventually call for Minnesota to follow California’s new ban.
“We haven’t done enough analysis of the California rule to know if we’re going to push for its adoption in Minnesota,” Klemz said. He noted that other issues are coming into play, including incentives for electric vehicles in the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden recently signed, and the stated intentions by some of the major automakers to go all-electric.
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Associated Press reporters Jim Anderson in Denver; Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon; and Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this story.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) reported today its consolidated occupancy for June 2022.
- Increased sequential weighted average occupancy by 60 bps and month end occupancy by 40 bps.
- Second quarter year over year weighted average occupancy increased 410 bps.
- Highest second quarter sequential weighted average occupancy growth in more than ten years.
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is the nation's premier operator of senior living communities. The Company is committed to its mission of enriching the lives of the people it serves with compassion, respect, excellence and integrity. The Company operates independent living, assisted living, memory care, and continuing care retirement communities. Through its comprehensive network, Brookdale helps to provide seniors with care and services in an environment that feels like home. The Company's expertise in healthcare, hospitality and real estate provides residents with opportunities to improve wellness, pursue passions and stay connected with friends and loved ones. Brookdale operates and manages 674 communities in 41 states as of June 30, 2022, with the ability to serve more than 60,000 residents. Brookdale's stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BKD. For more information, visit brookdale.com or connect with Brookdale on Facebook or Twitter.
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Warning: This story includes spoilers for Stranger Things season four, volume two.
Vecna may've been knocked down, but he's sure to come back swinging in season five.
Episode nine of season four had Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) being severely injured thanks to the efforts of Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke). However, when the trio went to confirm that Vecna (a.k.a. Henry and 001) really died, the monster had vanished into thin air.
Will (Noah Schnapp), who was lost in the Upside Down in season one and had been possessed by Vecna's Mind Flayer in season two, eventually confirms the villain is still very much alive as he can feel him. Well, that's concerning to say the least.
On how this might come into play come season five, E! News turned to Jamie for answers.
"We all know by now that Vecna and Will have history," Jamie told E! News. "So it would be a joy to to get back in there as I'll gently put it."
#ProtectWill, anyone?
Though the season four villain wouldn't confirm whether Vecna and Will would share any screen time in future episodes, he did reveal that he'd like to see his character interact with one specific member of the group: Will's brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton).
"I'd love to work with that character," he shared. "I'd like to be able to get into anyone's brain on this."
And Stranger Things co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer have certainly set the stage for an action-packed final season. The volume two episodes claimed the lives of Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) and Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), left Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) in a coma and had the town of Hawkins ripped into pieces thanks to new gateways into the Upside Down opening.
Regarding Vecna's plans for the town and his rival Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Jamie diplomatically answered, "My lips are sealed. You'll have to wait and see. I think Matt and Ross got something beautiful cooking and they'll let us know in good time."
We'll be feeling upside down until we get another season five update, that's for sure.
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AMERICUS - Monroe's Justin Burns (5) puts in two points against Dougherty during Wednesday's contest at Sumter County's summer basketball event. The Dougherty bus was a few minutes late getting to the gym and Monroe jumped out to a 7-0 lead but the Trojans came back and tied the game 11-11 on a nifty shot from Dougherty's Ja'ion Burns. The Trojans led 17-15 at the half but the Golden Tornadoes took control in the second half and won 51-44.
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The House select committee on January 6 holds its first hearing on Thursday, in prime time at 8 p.m. EST, promising to weave together a narrative from the findings of its year-long probe with "previously unseen material" about the attack on the Capitol.
Some committee members have teased that there will be "bombshells" and that the public will be surprised by what is revealed.
Pressed about the risk of overhyping the news, given that many details have already leaked out, committee member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told reporters this week: "We're not in the business of entertainment. We're in the business of trying to communicate to the American people the gravity and the immensity of these events."
The majority-Democrat committee, charged with investigating the insurrection that pro-Trump extremists hoped would help overturn the 2020 election, has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including members of former President Donald Trump's family and administration, as well as law enforcement officials and aides who were under siege for hours on Jan. 6, 2021.
Thursday's hearing, the first of six, will feature two live witnesses — Caroline Edwards, a U.S. Capitol police officer and the first law enforcement member injured by rioters on the West Front plaza, and Nick Quested, a filmmaker who accompanied those who breached the building and captured the chaotic scene. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wy., will make opening statements and the panel will also show videotaped depositions from senior Trump White House, campaign, and administration officials.
The committee is expected to issue a voluminous report with recommendations in September. Some members have already indicated they back changes to the Electoral Count Act, the law governing the process for Congress to count and certify electoral votes. While the committee has the power to make legislative recommendations, it cannot bring any criminal charges and can only make a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
Here are key areas the committee will discuss during the hearings.
What were President Trump, his friends, staff, and family members doing?
Cheney has repeatedly raised questions about the lack of information about what President Trump was doing at the White House when violent protestors breached the Capitol. The rioters threatened lawmakers, and the vice president, chanting to "hang Mike Pence," and there was a period of time with no response from Trump. Hours earlier he told his supporters on the Ellipse outside the White House "we fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." Trump suggested he would walk with his supporters to the Capitol but instead returned to the White House.
Several committee members point to 187 minutes that afternoon where it's unclear what the president was doing as a key focus of their investigation. They have worked to fill in the gap through interviews with multiple witnesses, including Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. They've also subpoenaed documents, including the president's daily schedule and phone log.
According to select committee aides, Thursday's hearing will feature testimony from those inside the White House and the Trump campaign, including family members. These will be video clips of taped depositions.
What is the "fake electors" scheme?
The committee issued at least 20 publicly announced subpoenas tied to a wide-ranging scheme across several states to submit a slate of fake electors to Congress as a way of altering the results of the 2020 presidential election in the hopes of keeping Trump office.
The subpoenas included Kelli Ward, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party, in addition to two GOP political candidates in swing states. Committee demands for testimony and records were also issued to the Republican nominee to be Pennsylvania's next governor, Doug Mastriano, and the GOP candidate Mark Finchem, who is running to be the next secretary of state in Arizona.
In some cases, state officials helped organized events where members of Trump's legal team and others shared false claims of voter fraud. The effort continued up to the day of the attack. For example, Finchem said he had to deliver "evidence" to then-Vice President Mike Pence to postpone the certification of the election results.
The committee also obtained details that then-Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani pressured state lawmakers to reject election results in Michigan. Giuliani also has testified before the committee.
The efforts have also drawn the attention of prosecutors in multiple states.
Where did the money come from and where did it go?
What the committee has learned about the financial story behind the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has remained one of the most closely held parts of the probe. However, it has shared some clues through publicly announced subpoenas and court filings.
For example, a Republican National Committee lawsuit revealed the panel was looking into a push by former President Donald Trump for donations after he lost his 2020 bid for reelection.
The committee's Feb. 23 subpoena of RNC vendor Salesforce said the company hosted Trump emails asking for new donations that included false claims of election fraud.
It was part of a central question the panel hoped to answer: Did Trump find new ways after his loss to keep the money coming by shifting to a "Stop the Steal" effort?
The panel has also issued subpoenas for banking records and shared in letters to certain subpoenaed witnesses that it's trying to track down appearance fees for the Jan. 6 rally — that is, whether any of the speakers collected payment that day.
A combination of dark-money groups, nonprofits and super PACs funded the rally before the attack, but the panel has also probed whether any of that money help aid the insurrection.
Who were the armed and violent groups storming into the Capitol?
The committee has also taken strong interest in the extreme right-wing groups that breached the Capitol. Among their publicly announced subpoenas, the panel last year demanded testimony and documents from the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
It also demanded testimony for Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, who on Jan. 6 was chairman of the Proud Boys; Elmer Stewart Rhodes, president of the Oath Keepers; and Robert Patrick Lewis, chairman of 1st Amendment Praetorian, a less well-known group that provided security at multiple rallies leading up to Jan. 6.
The groups were part of a larger organized network that helped launch the attack on the Capitol, the committee's members have said.
The interest in the groups and their leaders has also escalated in recent months in the criminal probe led by the Justice Department. Several members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have also been charged with seditious conspiracy, and some have led to convictions with guilty pleas.
Who cooperated with the committee — and who didn't?
Select committee aides emphasize the "vast majority" of witnesses have cooperated and helped the committee amass "a mountain of new evidence."
But some senior former officials in the Trump administration and House of Representatives refused to appear or provide documents. Former advisor Steve Bannon refused to cooperate and was ultimately charged with contempt of Congress by the Justice Department last November. His trial is slated for this summer. Last week Peter Navarro, former trade adviser, faced a similar charge.
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows initially cooperated and turned over a trove of emails and text messages, but then reversed course and refused to a closed-door interview and to turn over remaining materials the panel requested. Meadows sued the panel, and his attorney raised concerns about executive privilege, even though the Biden White House has waived any claims to that protection.
Former senior aide Dan Scavino also defied a subpoena. The House referred the refusals from both him and Meadows to the Justice Department, which informed the committee last week they would not pursue contempt charges against them — news the panel criticized, arguing they had central information to provide in the investigation.
In a rare move, five sitting House Republicans were also subpoenaed for testimony and documents. Most notably, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who publicly talked about his phone conversation with Trump on the day of the attack, was asked to appear voluntarily and then given a subpoena. McCarthy, along with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Penn., Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz, have all pushed back against the subpoenas and demanding details about evidence and questions they would face — making it all but certain they will not participate in any fashion. It's unclear whether the panel would vote to hold any in criminal contempt, and if it did that dispute could end up in court.
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The Gophers were set to leave for Evanston, Ill., on Friday night with the wind to their backs after a 95-92 victory over Nebraska on Wednesday.
The win snapped a six-game losing streak but was equally important for how Minnesota won. With a season-low nine turnovers, the Gophers (10-16 overall, 3-12 Big Ten) got their offense chugging in the second period, and it never really stopped humming.
Next up, last-place Northwestern (8-18, 1-14) Saturday in a 2 p.m. tipoff at Welsh-Ryan Arena. After that, the Gophers finish the regular season with games Wednesday at Michigan State and Feb. 26 at home against Purdue.
Mara Braun scored a team-high 28 points against Nebraska, but the bench kicked in with a combined 37, including two big fourth-quarter buckets from center Angelina Hammond, the winning 3-pointer from guard Isabelle Gradwell — and 15 points, six assists and zero turnovers from point guard Katie Borowicz.
“They’ve been great,” Gophers coach Lindsay Whalen said of her bench. “I talked to a few of them leading up to the game and they really came through.”
During their six-game skid, the Gophers had been outscored off turnovers 140-46, an average of 23 points a game. Wednesday’s victory over a Nebraska team still holding on to NCAA tournament hopes was an about-face, the first time Minnesota had finished a game with less than 10 turnovers.
“When we get attempts, we have good players who are good shooters, so I feel good about that, obviously,” Whalen said. “It’s something that we want to carry over to play tomorrow.”
Why not?
It’s been a long trip back home for Hammond, who graduated from Hopkins in 2018 with a scholarship to Siena in Albany, N.Y. But she tore an ACL and sat out her only season there.
Hammond transferred to Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla., and suffered two more ACL tears, one in each knee, and played only 21 total games. Then it was off to Miami Dade Junior College, where she finally played a full season, averaging 7.8 points and 6.5 rebounds.
Energized, Hammond contacted Minnesota to see if they were interested in her walking on. They were, she did and she has since earned a scholarship — and real playing time. She had season highs of 12 points and five rebounds in a season-high 16 minutes against Nebraska.
It’s a little more impressive when you consider Hammond, listed as a 5-foot-11 guard, was playing center.
“It was just how the team was playing in the heat of the moment,” Hammond said. “We had synergy.”
Asked if she expected Hammond would play that kind of role for the Gophers this season, Whalen said, “If you asked me this summer? I don’t know. I mean, if you asked me this fall, hard to say.”
“But,” the coach added, “if you asked me this month? For sure. I knew a game like this was coming because of the work that she’s put in, and that’s really fun to see.”
A graduate student playing her final year of NCAA eligibility, Hammond plans to pursue basketball for the foreseeable future.
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions, overruling nearly half a century of precedents and depriving many universities of a tool they say is essential for keeping their campuses diverse.
But there was at least one glimmer of hope for advocates of diversity and inclusion on college campuses: the ruling decision leaves intact an approach known as holistic college admissions, which is the review process most selective colleges use to consider applicants’ unique lives and personal experiences beyond academic achievements.
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COPENHAGEN (AP) — A 14-year-old girl died Thursday at a popular amusement park in northern Denmark, police said, reportedly when the rear part of a roller-coaster ride came off the rails.
A 13 year-old boy suffered injuries to one hand, police said.
Henrik Ragborg Olsen, manager of the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, told local newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende that “the rear two seats” of the Cobraen roller-coaster were hanging “under the wagon train.”
Police said they got a call at 12:50 p.m. that a car was stuck in a ride in Tivoli Friheden and several people were stuck. Two people were sitting on the rear seats and were taken by emergency workers, the newspaper reported. Ragborg Olsen told the Ekstra Bladet daily that the two had been seriously injured and were taken to the hospital.
The accident occurred on the Cobraen roller-coaster and the park has been shut down, police said.
An investigation has been launched into what caused the accident with police questioning witnesses.
The roller-coaster is 25 meters (82 feet) tall and the wagons have a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour (44 mph), according to the Tivoli Friheden Website.
The amusement park sits in the southern part of Aarhus, 156 kilometers (97 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.
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PHILADELPHIA — The question is no longer asked if the Eagles’ best record in the NFL makes them the favorite out of the NFC to reach the Super Bowl, because at this point and this deep into the season, they clearly are.
No one has to wonder if Jalen Hurts is the MVP front-runner, because he is.
The most interesting discussion point after a win over the Giants moved the Eagles to the only 12-1 team in the NFL is this: Will Hurts and these Eagles go down as the greatest team in franchise history?
The Eagles certainly are trending that way, and while winning the Super Bowl will decide the final answer, of course, this team has been downright dominant on the way to the playoffs — yes, a spot in the postseason already has been clinched.
The Eagles potentially could lock up the No. 1 seed in the NFC by the end of the month.
“I guess it is nice that you don’t have to sit there and wait to see, ‘Hey, am I getting in?’ But we know our goals are higher,” coach Nick Sirianni said.
Remember, the Eagles started 2-5 last season before they rallied to win seven of the next nine to secure a playoff berth. However, all of Philadelphia’s wins in 2021, except one over New Orleans, came against teams with losing records. The Eagles finished 0-7 vs. playoff teams.
Now?
They join the 2004 team that lost in the Super Bowl as the only teams in franchise history that started 12-1. The Eagles have won consecutive games by at least 25 points and it’s hard to find a flaw on any side of the ball.Brandon Graham had three sacks Sunday against the Giants. Hurts became the first QB in NFL history to rush for at least 10 touchdowns in consecutive seasons. Miles Sanders ran for 144 yards and two touchdowns. Jake Elliott filled in nicely as an emergency punter.
They’ve scored at least 35 points in three straight games. Only three times have they allowed 30 points.
The Eagles are doing what the great teams do — play their best in December.
“If anything, that’s when you want to get hot,” Graham said. “You want to get hot toward the end so you can carry over to the playoffs. Things are coming together.”
Here’s one more sparkling milestone for the Eagles: The last time they clinched a playoff spot as early as Week 14, they won the Super Bowl.
WHAT’S WORKING
Offense? Defense? Special teams? The answer is D, all of the above.
Led by Graham, the Eagles did have six sacks. Josh Sweat got one and tied his single-season career high with 7 1/2. Haason Reddick got his 10th sack of the season and became the first Eagle to reach 10 or more sacks since Fletcher Cox in 2018 (10 1/2).
The Eagles had consecutive games of six sacks for the first time since 1998.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The Eagles signed 36-year-old veteran Brett Kern, who was not playing this season, as a temporary replacement for second-year punter Arryn Siposs. He is out indefinitely because of a severe ankle injury. After he was forced to leave the game, placekicker Elliott punted once for 35 yards.
Special teams has improved the last two weeks, but a significant absence by Siposs could derail those efforts.
STOCK UP
At 34 years, 252 days old, Graham became the oldest NFL player to total three sacks since Dwight Freeney in 2015 (35 years, 311 days).
Graham also became the oldest player to record a three-sack game on the road since Michael Strahan in 2007 (35 years, 362 days). He’s the second-oldest player in Eagles history with a three-sack game, behind only William Fuller in 1996 (34 years, 289 days).
STOCK DOWN
On their best games, the Eagles have made it really hard to find a flaw. Siposs did have a punt blocked on the play where he was injured, but otherwise the Eagles steamrolled the Giants from the jump.
INJURED
Siposs left the locker room using crutches and a walking boot. Safety Reed Blankenship (knee) also left the game. Offensive tackle Lane Johnson left late with an abdominal injury. After the game, he said he tweaked a muscle.
KEY NUMBER
1,000 — Sanders topped 1,000 yards rushing for the first time in his career (1,068) and is the first Eagles running back to hit that mark since LeSean McCoy finished with 1,319 in 2014. A.J. Brown finished with four catches for 70 yards and one TD, moving his season totals to 65 catches for 1,020 yards and 10 TDs. Brown is the first Eagle to record 1,000 or more receiving yards since Zach Ertz in 2018 (1,163). He is the first Eagles wide receiver to do so since Jeremy Maclin in 2014 (1,318).
NEXT UP
The Eagles head into their second of three straight road games Sunday at Chicago.
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Dear Abby: My boyfriend of two years works for a company with 160 employees, 95 miles from our town. He held a party at a restaurant located near the company. I knew no one and doubt very much I will ever run into these people again.
While I was at the party, I met a young woman who, like myself, was there with her boyfriend and didn’t know anyone. We chatted for half an hour about the holidays and made general conversation. When she mentioned she had been recently diagnosed with a condition I have, too, I gave her some websites to check out for information and told her not to worry. I also told her that if I can be well and deal with this issue, anyone can. Our conversation lasted about 15 minutes, and I asked no personal questions. When I had to leave the party, she remained sitting by herself and started playing with her phone.
The next day, my boyfriend was angry because upon leaving with her boyfriend, the woman told him, “Your girlfriend kept nagging me about my condition and wouldn’t shut up.” I was dumbfounded and hurt. I was trying to be nice. Why did my boyfriend tell me? He said nothing to her to defend me. Even worse, what did he accomplish by repeating what she had said? He knew it would make me feel bad. I’ll never run into these people again. Am I wrong in feeling hurt? — Dumbfounded In The East
Dear Dumbfounded: I am still trying to figure out why someone would tell a stranger at a party her medical status and then take offense if the person tried to be helpful. If what you were saying made her uncomfortable, she should have said it to you, not your boyfriend. You aren’t wrong for feeling hurt. However, you are wrong to blame your boyfriend for telling you something he thought you needed to hear. That’s what people who love each other do.
Dear Abby: What is a proper tip to leave a server at an all-you-can-eat buffet? They bring water and bus the table, but we get our own food and drinks. They certainly don’t work as hard as servers in a sit-down restaurant. — Wondering In The East
Dear Wondering: The employees you describe are also “working hard.” If you’re eating in the restaurant, leave a couple of dollars for the bussers who are clearing the dishes. If you receive service in addition to that, leave 10%.
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Florida 3rd grader wins cheer competition after performing solo when squad doesn't show: 'Mommy, I did it'
Peyton Thorsby, 8, of New Port Richey, Florida, snagged a trophy in the most surprising way, her mom revealed to Fox News Digital
An 8-year-old girl who's grabbing America's attention for performing solo at a Florida cheer competition ended up taking home a first-place win after her fellow squad members didn't show.
"It was a light-switch moment," mom Nichole Thorsby told Fox News Digital. "She said, ‘No, I’m going out there. I want to do it. I want to perform.' And she did it."
When Peyton Thorsby of New Port Richey arrived at the Showcase of Champions cheer competition at the Florida State Fairgrounds, she and her family realized the girl was the only cheerleader from her squad who was present.
Thorsby said other members of the team were out due to illness and prior commitments, but she was unaware her daughter would be the lone representative of the "Fly" squad from the K-Tech Krakens youth cheerleading organization on competition day.
"Now, we’re just focused on the positivity of an 8-year-old girl," Thorsby said, adding that the other squad members were contacted as time ticked away.
Young Peyton was waiting in the back, along with her coaches. When no one else arrived, it was "go" time.
"Her coaches, Leah Mason and Nikki Melucci, called me [from backstage] and explained they were standing there, talking to Peyton," Thorsby said. "She's looking at them like, ‘I don't think I can do this.’"
But then, something changed the first-year competitor’s mind.
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"I didn't really want my team to be disappointed in me for not going out there and not showing up for them, and so I made my decision," the young cheerleader told Fox 13.
"I wanted to go out there, and I wanted to make my family proud and all my friends proud for myself," she added.
Thorsby said she broke down in tears when she learned her daughter was going to go for it.
"I have goosebumps thinking about it now," Thorsby told Fox News Digital. "My husband obviously was there, and we just looked at each other. I started crying. It was excitement for her. Of course, I was nervous for her, too. It was shock and excitement. It was emotional."
What was supposed to be a routine full of group stunts — with young Peyton was the flyer — was instantly revamped. Yet Thorsby said she had no doubt her daughter could pull it off.
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"She's just a performer," Thorsby said. "She's just her own person. That's who Peyton is. She's just herself."
Coach Leah Mason agreed.
"Peyton’s definitely a firecracker for sure," Mason told Fox News Digital. "She’s one of those cheerleaders who is always going for broke. She’s all in and is always very excited to be there. We’re so happy with how she comes out and practices and performs."
Thorsby said, "[The coaches] told her, at that point, just to go out there and do whatever it was that she wanted to do. So she goes right to her spot and starts the cheer."
The coaches believe Peyton Thorsby won first place after she "maxed out" her tumbling points.
The girl performed every move on cue; and in the moments when the squad as a group would have been doing a stunt, young Peyton threw in a one-handed cartwheel or a forward roll, did the splits or bounced her knee to the beat and waved her hands in the air.
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Thorsby watched from the sidelines as her third-grader wowed the crowd.
"I just cried and cried," Thorsby said. "And then she got off the stage, and then there was just all kinds of crying."
When she finished, the look on the girl's face said it all, Thorsby revealed.
"The smile couldn't get any bigger," she said.
"I'm sure her cheeks were just hurting. She's like, ‘Mommy, I did it. I can't believe I did [it].' She was just shocked that she just went out there and killed it. Came up with stuff on her own. She definitely was proud of herself."
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Not only did Peyton Thorsby perform alone — she took first place out of three teams.
"I watch the video to this day and I cry."
"Not that I didn’t expect a trophy, but she got first place and she didn’t do half of what the others did because it was just her," Coach Nikki Melucci told Fox News Digital.
She added that the girl's first-place win was likely due to her maxing out her tumbling points.
Thorsby said she credits her daughter's coaches for preparing her for a moment like this — and in other areas of her life as well.
"Cheer has brought a lot out of Peyton this year," Thorsby said. "School has always been difficult because when she was starting school, COVID was going on. So, unfortunately, she’s behind."
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Teachers are now "ranting and raving" over the girl's performance in the classroom, Thorsby said.
"She works hard at school and right now it's like she's really getting it," Thorsby said. "I think it's the confidence that she's getting from cheer that's really helping her to have that mindset [of], 'It's OK if I make a mistake.'"
Coach Melucci said she is grateful to have been a part of the experience — and of young Peyton’s first year of participating in cheer.
"This is my first year coaching and this is a very proud moment for me," Melucci said. "I watch the video to this day and I cry."
When she’s not cheering, the girl loves playing with her two "mansion doll houses" and she loves to dance.
Peyton Thorsby mentioned her faith when talking with Fox 13 Tampa Bay, saying, "Jesus tells me to be brave, so I just went out there and was brave."
"Anything positive, Peyton takes and she soaks it [in]," Thorsby told Fox News Digital.
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"Obviously Jesus is one of the most positive things. That's something she believes in."
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Reception for the latest episode of many people's favorite comfort show was sour yesterday, when The Great British Bake Off aired a "Mexican week" episode that some viewers say was anything but sweet.
The British baking competition series pits amateur bakers against one another to impress two judges, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood. Their most recent episode had contestants tackle Mexican staples such as pan dulce, tacos, and a tres leches cake. While the episode has not yet aired in the U.S., people on social media were already skeptical when Leith promoted the episode's title on Twitter.
We're about to witness the most BRUTAL acts against the Spanish language to have ever been perpetrated. https://t.co/UCvOvGfdyQ
— Felipe Torres Medina (@felipetmedinaa) October 4, 2022
The episode began with hosts Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding wearing sombreros and sarapes. In the scene, Fielding tells Lucas, "I don't feel like we should make Mexican jokes, because people will get upset." Lucas then responds with, "Not even Juan?" The joke, which was shared by the show's own Twitter account, was not received well on social media.
I had a moment where I wanted to watch this episode just to see how bad it was. That moment has passed. I'm so incensed that they don't realize how vile and racist this crap is. #GBBO https://t.co/kc8XZls2S1
— Tom Vásquez (@TVasquez) October 5, 2022
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, a professor of Mexican cultural studies at Washington University in St. Louis, told NPR via email that while he's yet to view the episode, its social media campaign is not surprising
"The fundamental issue is that the episode and its campaign follow a script on Mexican culture that us Mexicans, from either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, see very frequently," he said. "The use of cartoonish sarapes and sombreros as props and disguises, the misidentification of Mexican food with the stuff sold in Taco Bell, the borrowing of beloved dishes like tres leches to make versions that have little recognizability to Mexicans, this is something that we see every Cinco de Mayo and every Hispanic Heritage Month."
Apart from the show's social media campaign, the episode itself also contained various Spanish mispronunciations, maraca-playing, conversations about tequila and a cake donning a mustache. And although the word "bake" is in the title, the episode's taco-making challenge threw viewers for a loop since it involves cooking.
Am I the only one getting sick of there being more cooking on BAKE off then baking? #GBBO
— cerys hughes (@ceryshu67648227) October 4, 2022
"British viewers, from what I have seen online, appear to be puzzled by the fact of having a taco challenge, which in fact has nothing to do with baking," Sánchez Prado said. "That is pure laziness. What if they have instead looked into wedding cookies? Or empanadas? Or made something with bolillos and teleras?"
Sánchez Prado said the episode was ultimately a missed opportunity for the show to do its due diligence and explore some of the the intersections between European and Mexican baking traditions, such as pastes Hidalguenses.
"It would have been deeply meaningful if they had actually done work in researching actual Mexican baking traditions...Instead, they have incensed Mexicans, because once again a major global outlet insults us by reiterating stereotypes and reductions against which we fight."
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Odd spiral appears amid northern lights in Alaska night sky
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern light enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes.
The cause early Saturday morning was a little more mundane than an alien invasion or the appearance of a portal to the far reaches of the universe. It was simply excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours before the spiral appeared.
Sometimes rockets have fuel that needs to be jettisoned, said space physicist Don Hampton, a research associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.
“When they do that at high altitudes, that fuel turns into ice,” he said. “And if it happens to be in the sunlight, when you’re in the darkness on the ground, you can see it as a sort of big cloud, and sometimes it’s swirly.”
While not a common sight, Hampton said he’s seen such occurrences about three times.
The appearance of the swirl was caught in time-lapse on the Geophysical Institute’s all-sky camera and shared widely. “It created a bit of an Internet storm with that spiral,” Hampton said.
Photographers out for the northern lights show also posted their photos on social media.
The rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday night with about 25 satellites as its payload.
It was a polar launch, which made it visible over a large swath of Alaska.
The timing of the fuel dump was timed correctly for visibility over Alaska. “And we got that really cool looking spiral thing,” he said.
While it looked like a galaxy going over Alaska, he assures it wasn’t.
“I can tell you it’s not a galaxy,” he said. “It’s just water vapor reflecting sunlight.”
In January, another spiral was seen, this time over Hawaii’s Big Island. A camera at the summit of Mauna Kea, outside the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru telescope, captured a spiral swirling through the night sky.
Researchers have said it was from the launch of a military GPS satellite that lifted off earlier on a SpaceX rocket in Florida.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia and China will conduct naval drills in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa next month in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa's most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty.
The South African armed forces said Thursday that they and the Russian and Chinese navies will engage in “a multinational maritime exercise” from Feb. 17-27 off South Africa's east coast near the cities of Durban and Richards Bay.
The drills will happen around the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 and will bring more focus on the refusal of South Africa — a leading voice on its continent — to side with the West and condemn Russia's actions.
The announcement also comes days before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to visit South Africa and hold talks with South African counterpart Naledi Pandor.
The South African government said last year that it had adopted a neutral stance over Ukraine and called for dialogue and diplomacy, but the upcoming naval drills have led the country's main opposition party to accuse the government of effectively siding with Russia.
The South African government denies it has taken sides and has called for the end of the war in Ukraine.
But the South African National Defense Force, which incorporates all of its armed forces, said next month's naval exercise would “strengthen the already flourishing relations between South Africa, Russia and China.” The aim of the drills was “sharing operational skills and knowledge,” the SANDF said.
The three countries also conducted a similar naval exercise in 2019 in Cape Town, while Russia and China held joint naval drills in the East China Sea last month.
South Africa, a key Western partner, was one of several African countries that abstained in a United Nations vote last year condemning Russia's invasion. The United States and the European Union had hoped that South Africa would support the international condemnation of Russia and act as a leader for other nations in Africa.
President Joe Biden hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House in September, when a key talking point was their differences over the war in Ukraine. U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken visited South Africa last year.
Experts have warned of Russia's increased military influence in Africa since it first annexed parts of Ukraine in 2014, while the Biden administration also recognizes the importance of strengthening relations on the continent after China has spent decades entrenching itself in Africa's natural resources markets. Improving relations with South Africa is central to the U.S. effort of limiting Russian and Chinese influence.
The South African government drew more attention over its stance regarding Russia in October when it said it would allow a superyacht linked to Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov to dock in Cape Town despite him being under U.S. and EU sanctions.
The South African government has also been accused of allowing another sanctioned Russian vessel to dock at a naval base near Cape Town in December.
South Africa's relationship with Russia is largely because of the support the Soviet Union gave to Ramaphosa's now-ruling African National Congress party in its fight to bring down apartheid, the regime of repression against the country's Black majority. Apartheid ended in 1994 when the ANC won the first democratic elections in South Africa and Nelson Mandela became president.
South Africa is also a member of BRICS, a bloc of emerging economies, alongside Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Three Oakland teenagers led police on a high-speed chase on I-80 on Saturday that exceeded 115 mph, the Fairfield Police Department said.
A Fairfield officer was patrolling near the interchange of I-680 at 9:24 p.m. when he saw the car speeding, Fairfield PD said. The officer checked the car and found that it was involved in a suspected carjacking in Oakland.
Fairfield Police Department officers, joined by California Highway Patrol Air support, attempted to stop the vehicle after learning it was possibly involved in a crime. When the driver did not stop, a pursuit ensued.
Officers continued to trail the vehicle until it reached “unsafe speeds in excess of 115 mph” Fairfield PD said, at which point they “terminated” the chase but “continued to trail the vehicle” both on the roads and with support from a CHP helicopter.
About 15 minutes after the Fairfield officer spotted the speeding car, CHP officers on the ground deployed spikes near the Red Top Road exit, Jennifer Brantley, a public information officer for the Fairfield Police Department, told SFGATE.
The driver was apprehended a short while later, per Fairfield police, and found to be a 17-year-old Oakland resident. The two other passengers in the car were also from Oakland and apprehended, police said. Brantley said one passenger was 17 and the other was 18.
Brantley said a loaded handgun was thrown out of the car window near where the spikes were deployed. Officers recovered the weapon and informed the Oakland Police Department, Fairfield PD said. The three teenagers were taken into custody. | https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-teenagers-arrested-high-speed-chase-17876837.php | 2023-04-04 02:09:42 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-teenagers-arrested-high-speed-chase-17876837.php |
WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
841 PM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Windham, Tolland,
east central Hartford, south central Worcester and western Providence
Counties through 945 PM EDT...
At 839 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Eastford, or 12 miles northeast of Mansfield, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches.
Locations impacted include...
Cranston, Manchester, Glastonbury, Vernon, Johnston, Mansfield, South
Windsor, Windham, Plainfield, Willimantic, Killingly, Webster,
Southbridge, Burrillville, Northbridge, Ellington, Tolland, Oxford,
Uxbridge and Charlton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
LAT...LON 4218 7173 4177 7154 4169 7222 4171 7224
4169 7228 4166 7251 4188 7255
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 248DEG 109KT 4191 7206
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solomon Page has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for Health Care Staffing Services Certification by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization's commitment to providing safe and quality patient care.
Solomon Page Healthcare Staffing specializes in placing travel nurses and locum tenens at hospitals and long-term care facilities. The Health Care Staffing Services Certification demonstrates Solomon Page's efforts to address how the qualifications and competencies of staff are determined and how their performance is monitored.
Solomon Page underwent a rigorous review the week of December 5th, 2022. During the visit, a Joint Commission reviewer evaluated certification standards including compliance, credentialing, onboarding, and training of the company's healthcare staff. JCAHO standards are developed in consultation with healthcare experts and providers, measurement experts, and patients. The reviewers also conducted onsite observations and interviews.
"Health Care Staffing Services Certification recognizes health care staffing firms committed to fostering continuous quality improvement in patient safety and quality of care," says Mark Pelletier, RN, MS, chief operating officer, Accreditation and Certification Operations, and chief nursing executive, The Joint Commission. "We commend Solomon Page for using certification to strengthen its program structure and management framework, as well as to enhance its staff recruitment and development processes."
"This certification represents a major achievement for Solomon Page and represents our commitment to quality and continuous improvement as we provide service to both our clients and candidates alike," says Kathy Brown, Chief Human Resources Officer, Solomon Page. "We are thrilled to be recognized in this way by the Joint Commission."
The team at Solomon Page prepared for the certification process by holding compliance calls and establishing new training and onboarding procedures for consultants. Ensuring Solomon Page upholds standard levels of service, multiple process improvement plans and new initiatives were implemented.
For more information, visit The Joint Commission website and the Solomon Page website.
Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a leading staffing firm across a wide array of functions and industries. Acting as a strategic partner to clients and candidates, the company focuses on offering customized solutions and building long-term relationships based on trust, respect, and the consistent delivery of excellent results.
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SPARTA, Mich., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ChoiceOne Financial Services, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock of $0.26 per share. The cash dividend is payable to shareholders of record as of June 15, 2023 and will be paid on June 30, 2023. The dividend declared for the second quarter of 2023 is equal to the dividend paid in the first quarter of 2023 and $0.01 higher than the dividend paid in the second quarter of 2022.
ChoiceOne Financial Services, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Sparta, Michigan and the parent corporation of ChoiceOne Bank, Member FDIC. ChoiceOne Bank operates 36 offices in parts of Kent, Lapeer, Macomb, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa, and St. Clair Counties in Michigan. ChoiceOne Bank offers insurance and investment products through its subsidiary, ChoiceOne Insurance Agencies, Inc. ChoiceOne Financial Services, Inc. common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "COFS." For more information, please visit Investor Relations at ChoiceOne's website at www.choiceone.com.
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Humpback whales are dying in greater numbers along the Atlantic Coast, apparently as they follow their food closer to shore in the warming ocean waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The number of humpback whales getting stranded along the entire East Coast has risen since January 2016, with 178 dying in what NOAA calls “unusual mortality events.” That’s defined as a significant die-off of a marine mammal species for unknown causes.
Partial or full necropsies — or autopsies for animals — on about half of the whales found that 40% had evidence of being struck by ships or had gotten entangled in fishing nets.
Of importance for offshore wind installations, there is no scientific information to connect the whale deaths to equipment used to exploration and development.
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The population of humpback whales has increased, said to Kimberly Damon-Randall, director of NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources. They eat small fish called menhaden, which are closer to shore this year than they normally are, possibly because climate change.
“That draws the whales closer in, following their prey, where there is a significant amount of vessel traffic,” she said.
Since Dec. 1, there have been 22 standings of large whales, including humpback whales and others, according to Damon-Randall.
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Especially concerning has been the deaths of two North Atlantic Right Whales, which are endangered. There are fewer that 350 left.
NOAA says the best thing boaters can do is to slow down. Boaters should travel no faster than 10 knots so that they can slow down if they see a whale. If a strike is unavoidable it is less likely to be lethal to the whale. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/climate-change-could-be-culprit-in-deaths-of-humpback-whales/4120006/ | 2023-02-23 21:32:53 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/climate-change-could-be-culprit-in-deaths-of-humpback-whales/4120006/ |
Treese brings track record of proven revenue growth in the eDiscovery and governance space with corporate, legal and government customers
- IPRO anticipates Treese will help company build on three consecutive years of revenue growth
- Addition of Treese is part of a continued talent expansion as IPRO also welcomes Sebastian Sutherland as VP of Sales, Corporate Markets
- Treese to replace Mike Segal who is retiring after helping to lead IPRO through a historic expansion period
TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IPRO, a legal technology, eDiscovery and data governance company, announced today that Ethan Treese has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer in a move that sets IPRO up to continue aggressively growing market share through the development of industry-leading products and services.
Before joining IPRO, Treese served as Executive Vice President, Americas for Nuix where he led the North American market through a period of rapid sales and market share growth. Previously, he held a number of executive roles at Dun & Bradstreet where he worked closely with executives and policy makers across large enterprises and government. Treese will report to IPRO CEO Dean Brown.
"Ethan is a highly accomplished industry leader with global experience. He led the work behind Nuix's revenue and market growth in North America and played a key role in the company's successful initial public offering," IPRO CEO Dean Brown said. "In addition, he brings a lot of experience driving rapid sales growth at two major companies and has earned respect for his leadership wherever he has been. I am confident his collaborative leadership style will be an instant fit at IPRO."
Treese is starting at IPRO as the company is entering a new phase of global growth. In the past 18 months alone, more than 125 customers have adopted Live EDA – IPRO's artificial intelligence powered, live in-place search software – an area of growth that builds on the company's existing base of more than 350 eDiscovery and Information Governance customers in North America and Europe. Additionally, IDC MarketScape recently placed IPRO in the Leaders category for eDiscovery Early Case Assessment software.
"I could not be joining IPRO at a better time. The company is growing, has some of the best products and innovations the industry can offer and has a talented management team with an exciting vision for the future," Treese said. "IPRO has proven it has a deep understanding of its customers' and partners' needs and a solid reputation as an industry leader."
IPRO also recently hired Sebastian Sutherland as Vice President of Sales, Corporate Markets. Previously, Sutherland was a Regional Sales Director at DISCO and before that he was Director of Solution Sales at Knowable. Sutherland will report to Treese.
Treese replaces Mike Segal, who is retiring after three years at IPRO as Chief Revenue Officer and has been instrumental in IPRO's recent growth. IPRO's revenue has doubled, and the company has completed two acquisitions under his leadership.
"Mike has helped lead IPRO through a period of rapid transition that has included the launch of several new products across our traditional and emerging customer bases, as well as the acquisition and integration of ZyLAB and NetGovern," Brown said. "We deeply appreciate Mike's contribution to IPRO and are thankful he will remain with us through the end of the year to help ensure a smooth transition."
IPRO is a global leader in the development of advanced eDiscovery software and information governance for law firms, corporations, governmental agencies, healthcare organizations and legal service providers. Founded in 1989 and based in Tempe, Arizona, IPRO is known for its best-in-class solutions (Live EDA, OPEN DISCOVERY, ZyLAB ONE and Legal Hold) that deliver early data assessment (EDA) as well as real-time, hold-in-place data preservation. When IPRO's products combine, there isn't a legal discovery challenge they can't handle.
To learn more visit www.ipro.com.
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UConn vs. Vermont Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 16, 2023 at 2:40 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Saturday's game that pits the UConn Huskies (29-5) against the Vermont Catamounts (25-6) at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion should be a one-sided matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 78-47 in favor of UConn, who is big favorites by our model. Tipoff is at 3:00 PM ET on March 18.
The Huskies took care of business in their last game 67-56 against Villanova on Monday.
UConn vs. Vermont Game Info
- When: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
- Where: Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut
- How to Watch on TV: ABC
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UConn vs. Vermont Score Prediction
- Prediction: UConn 78, Vermont 47
UConn Schedule Analysis
- On November 27, the Huskies picked up their signature win of the season, an 86-79 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes, who rank No. 3 in the AP's Top 25.
- The Huskies have 15 wins over Quadrant 1 opponents, the most in the country.
- Against Quadrant 2 teams, UConn is 6-1 (.857%) -- tied for the 21st-most wins.
- The Huskies have tied for the 44th-most Quadrant 3 victories in the nation (seven).
UConn 2022-23 Best Wins
- 86-79 over Iowa (No. 3/AP Poll) on November 27
- 83-76 at home over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on November 14
- 63-58 at home over Villanova (No. 10/AP Poll) on January 29
- 67-56 over Villanova (No. 10/AP Poll) on March 6
- 60-51 on the road over Villanova (No. 10/AP Poll) on February 18
Vermont Schedule Analysis
- The Catamounts' best win this season came in a 64-34 victory against the Holy Cross Crusaders on December 20.
- When facing Quadrant 3 teams (according to the RPI), the Huskies are 7-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 44th-most wins.
- Vermont has tied for the third-most Quadrant 4 wins in the country (22).
Vermont 2022-23 Best Wins
- 64-34 on the road over Holy Cross (No. 151) on December 20
- 53-49 at home over Albany (No. 196) on February 4
- 38-36 at home over Albany (No. 196) on March 10
- 68-60 at home over Maine (No. 199) on February 8
- 61-52 on the road over Maine (No. 199) on January 18
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UConn Performance Insights
- The Huskies average 75.7 points per game (29th in college basketball) while allowing 58.6 per contest (45th in college basketball). They have a +582 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 17.1 points per game.
- In conference contests, UConn averages fewer points per game (73.5) than its season average (75.7).
- The Huskies average 77.5 points per game in home games, compared to 72.8 points per game when playing on the road, a difference of 4.7 points per contest.
- UConn surrenders 58.7 points per game when playing at home, compared to 58.4 in away games.
- The Huskies' offense has been much less effective over their last 10 games, racking up 65.4 points a contest compared to the 75.7 they've averaged this season.
Vermont Performance Insights
- The Catamounts' +272 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 8.8 points per game) is a result of putting up 61.6 points per game (248th in college basketball) while allowing 52.8 per outing (eighth in college basketball).
- Vermont has averaged 0.6 fewer points in America East play (61) than overall (61.6).
- At home, the Catamounts score 62.5 points per game. Away, they average 60.5.
- In 2022-23 Vermont is conceding 2.7 fewer points per game at home (51.6) than on the road (54.3).
- The Catamounts have performed worse offensively in their past 10 games, averaging 60.7 points per contest, 0.9 fewer points their than season average of 61.6.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors ("Board") of Diamond Hill Investment Group Inc. (NASDAQ: DHIL) ("Diamond Hill") today announced the appointment of Mark Zinkula, CFA, as Director, effective immediately. Mr. Zinkula will serve on the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Mr. Zinkula previously held various positions at Legal & General Investment Management ("LGIM"), most recently serving as CEO from 2011 until his retirement in 2019. Under his leadership, LGIM's assets under management tripled to more than $1.5 trillion. Mr. Zinkula also held various roles at Aegon Asset Management from 1991 to 2006, including serving as Global Head of Fixed Income and as a Senior Portfolio Manager. In addition to his more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Zinkula has served on boards and councils of several industry and non-profit organizations, including currently serving on the board of Smart USA Co.
"Mark's experience as both an investor and CEO in the industry make him a valuable addition as we continue our focus on delivering excellent outcomes for our clients and shareholders," said Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill CEO and President. "We are pleased to have Mark join the Board and look forward to working with him."
"I am impressed by Diamond Hill's commitment to investor outcomes," said Zinkula. "I look forward to working with a group whose client-first mentality aligns well with mine."
The members of the Board of Directors now include Brilliant as well as independent directors James Laird (the Board Chair), Zinkula, Scott Cooley, Randolph Fortener, Paula Meyer, Nicole St. Pierre and L'Quentus Thomas.
"The robust experiences of our directors position the Board well to continue to provide guidance and oversight to Diamond Hill in all market environments," said James Laird, Board Chair. "We are confident Mark will be a strong addition to the group."
Mr. Zinkula holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Central College and both Master of Arts and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Iowa.
About Diamond Hill
Diamond Hill invests on behalf of clients through a shared commitment to its valuation-driven investment principles, long-term perspective, capacity discipline and client alignment. An independent active asset manager with significant employee ownership, Diamond Hill's investment strategies include differentiated US and international equity, alternative long-short equity and fixed income. As of January 31, 2023, Diamond Hill has $26.4 billion in assets under management. For more information, visit www.diamond-hill.com.
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Exclusive: Tenants fume as broken boiler creates various issues at NYCHA building in Manhattan
By NATALIE DUDDRIDGE
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NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Dozens of people who live at a Lower East Side NYCHA complex are fuming over a broken boiler. They say it is creating all kinds of issues, from lack of heat to mold.
Tenants told CBS2 on Tuesday they are at their breaking point.
Jose Sierra showed his crumbling walls and the overall state of disrepair inside his apartment, part of the Baruch Houses on Baruch Drive.
The latest problem is no hot water.
“I have to take water from the kitchen to take a shower,” the 82-year-old said.
“We had no heat or hot water for three weeks,” resident Dorothy Anderson said.
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Tenants blame a broken boiler that is letting off so much steam, it is decaying the outside and inside the building.
“You can really see how the wall ceilings are peeling. It is creating mildew,” resident Amber Griffith said. “People are actually inhaling that because their windows is open. It’s blowing into their apartment.”
“It is leakage and a bad odor from the hallways coming into the building from the outside, which I think is toxic sometimes. I feel sick about it,” a resident named Hector added.
A hallway is extremely humid. You can actually feel the heat coming off of one utility closet, and see the water dripping down the door onto the floor. A nearby garbage disposal is out of service, and then you can see how the steam is destroying the walls.
Tenants said they have filed dozens of complaints about all kinds of issues.
“The past two or three years we have flood in our apartment, lots of flood, toilet water,” a resident said.
While CBS2 was filming, NYCHA workers came to the building. They were asked why the repairs are taking so long, but they said they couldn’t officially comment.
So, CBS2 reached out to NYCHA’s head office. In a statement, the agency said it is working to repair a coil leak affecting hot water service to one building and also that the heating system is undergoing renovations as part of NYCHA’s Superstorm Sandy recovery program.
“They are doing the outside, but how about the inside?” Hector said.
Some tenants said they are fed up and are asking for transfers to other NYCHA buildings.
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Beautiful spring weather has finally arrived! We reached 62° this afternoon in Albuquerque, marking the first time above 60° in more than 10 days. Santa Fe climbed to 54°, while Roswell reached 71°. Enjoy the warmth and make plans Sunday since it’ll be even milder. Winds picked up this afternoon compared to Friday, peaking with gusts 35-45 mph near the Continental Divide.
Overnight tonight, clouds increase over the Four Corners. This coupled with some stronger winds east of the mountains mean a milder night. The main concern Sunday will be the windier weather with fire conditions for the eastern plains. Red flag warnings are in effect throughout the day and will likely last into Monday. Repeated high wind gusts, low humidity, and above average temperatures are the main ingredients needed. Otherwise, our temperatures everywhere in the viewing area will climb above average for early March through midweek. We could even reach 70° in Albuquerque and 80° in Roswell Sunday. A very powerful jet stream/storm track continues over the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin. So another storm comes our way Thursday bringing higher winds, colder temps, and mountain snow/valley rain showers to the state. This storm moves out later Friday into next weekend, dropping high temps below average once again. | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/milder-temps-overnight-windy-sunday-ahead/ | 2023-03-05 06:52:21 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/milder-temps-overnight-windy-sunday-ahead/ |
DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Inc. (NYSE American: AINC) ("Ashford" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Ashford plans to issue its earnings release for the third quarter after the market closes on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, and will host a conference call on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. ET. The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (201) 689-8263. A replay of the conference call will be available through Thursday, November 10, 2022, by dialing (412) 317-6671 and entering the confirmation number, 13732688.
The live broadcast of Ashford's quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.ashfordinc.com, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for approximately one year.
Ashford is an alternative asset management company with a portfolio of strategic operating businesses that provides global asset management, investment management and related services to the real estate and hospitality sectors.
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LOS ANGELES — When Katori Hall first pitched the idea to convert her popular play about Black strip club culture into the television series “P-Valley,” the Pulitzer Prize winner was either quickly rejected after meeting with networks or denied before she could fully explain the concept.
Hall struggled to find support from some network executives who thought the concept would be exploitative of Black women, in light of the history of casting them in hypersexualized roles on screen. Hall, who is a Black woman, understood they wanted to avoid any backlash, but her overall vision was focused on humanizing exotic dancers — which Starz heard with “open ears.”
“I felt like there were some strong characters here,” said Hall, who won a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her play “The Hot Wing King.” She serves as the creator, showrunner and executive producer of the drama series “P-Valley,” an adaptation of her 2015 stage play.
“It would be commentary for all women when it came to how we as a gender are really struggling between the spaces of power and liberation in our own lives,” she continued. “Starz was the only one that said ‘yes.’ But I’m a firm believer that all you have to do is take that one ‘yes’ and make something of it.”
“P-Valley” tells a story about several exotic dancers — veteran and newcomers — who are trying to make a name for themselves at a popular Mississippi Delta strip club called The Pynk, which is owned by a nonbinary and gender-fluid character, Uncle Clifford. The series gained popularity over two seasons for exploring the provocative world of Black Southern sex workers while also addressing homosexuality, poverty and mental health.
Sunday’s season finale unveils how the strip club is faced with several obstacles after its grand reopening following pandemic lockdowns. The previous episode — which featured an appearance from Grammy winner Meghan Thee Stallion — touched on the strip club’s influence over the mayoral election.
It’s unclear if “P-Valley” will return for a third season. Starz has not made an official announcement.
Hall knew her series could resonate with viewers, saying strip clubs in the South are more of an intriguing spectacle than taboo. It’s a place where businessmen have closed deals and major rap artists like Drake and Future have broken big records.
“We had to overcome other people’s preconceived notions of the space,” Hall said. “I think we were able to do that through character work and development. I really spent years talking to so many different women and was so inspired by their experiences to create these fictional characters that feel so much like real life.”
While “P-Valley” has been well received by most, it has also been met with tough criticism. Some on social media took aim at the show for featuring gay sex scenes, particularly between Black men.
“What I have found in my experience as a Black man in this country is that I know Black people to love (each other). I know that's not the common narrative,” said Nicco Annan, who plays the flamboyant Uncle Clifford. Annan, an openly gay man, felt immediately drawn to the story when he read the play’s script in 2009.
“I know there’s a lot of combative forces out here like homophobia that exist,” he continued. “But it’s an honor to be a part of a project that holds the banner up for all that we are as a community. This show is successful because it subverts the expectation that you have for all of these characters.”
Brandee Evans, who stars as veteran stripper Mercedes, shares Annan’s sentiments. She said the show explores the different reasons women venture into sex work, such as a financial means to an end or to celebrate the freedom of showing off their body.
“It’s beautiful for the world to see the authenticity of it all,” Evans said. “It’s a lot to take in when you watch it, because it’s the truth.”
Hall understands her show has created some uncomfortable conversations on topics such as queer acceptance and Black empowerment.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Talks to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear accord with world powers in Vienna ended Monday as the parties closed a final text and the Iranian negotiator prepared to return to his capital, diplomats said.
The parties “now need to decide if the draft is acceptable for them,” Ulyanov wrote on Twitter. “In case of no objection the nuclear deal will be restored.”
Iran struck the nuclear deal in 2015 with the U.S., France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China.
Iran’s chief negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, would shortly fly back to Tehran for consultations, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said. At the top of Iran’s theocracy is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who would have the final say on any deal.
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Country music star Jason Aldean ‘s latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town,” lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics.
In the video, Aldean — who has been awarded country music artist of the decade by the Academy of Country Music — performs in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. This is the site of the 1946 Columbia race riot and the 1927 mob lynching of an 18-year-old Black teenager named Henry Choate.
Aldean’s video, which was released last Friday, has received fervent criticism online, with some claiming the visual is a “dog whistle” and others labeling it “pro-lynching.”
Interspersed between performance footage of Aldean are news clips of violent riots and flag burning. A Fox News chyron reads: “State of emergency declared in Georgia.”
“Cuss out a cop, spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up / Yeah, ya think you’re tough,” Aldean, who is from Macon, Georgia, sings. “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck / Try that in a small town.”
“There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far,” Aldean wrote in a tweet posted Tuesday.
The production company behind the video, Tacklebox, said in a statement Wednesday that it picked a ”popular filming location outside of Nashville” that had been used on numerous productions, including holiday films starring Tanya Tucker and one starring Mario Lopez and Jana Kramer.
“Any alternative narrative suggesting the music video’s location decision is false,” the company said, adding that Aldean did not choose the location.
Aldean has long identified as conservative, and has been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. “My political views have never been something I’ve hidden from,” he tweeted Tuesday.
The video and its subsequent removal from CMT quickly blew up into one of the periodic culture war clashes, with several conservative figures speaking out in favor of Aldean — including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.
This isn’t the first time Aldean has been at the center of controversy. In 2015, he made headlines for dressing as rapper Lil Wayne as a Halloween costume, wearing blackface makeup and a wig with dreadlocks.
In 2017, the country singer was on stage at the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Over the years, Aldean has given conflicting statements about his stance on U.S. gun laws, though his music celebrates gun ownership.
“It’s too easy to get guns, first and foremost,” he told The Associated Press after the Las Vegas shooting. “When you can walk in somewhere and you can get one in 5 minutes, do a background check that takes 5 minutes, like how in-depth is that background check? Those are the issues I have. It’s not necessarily the guns themselves or that I don’t think people should have guns. I have a lot of them.”
“In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,” Aldean said on Twitter Tuesday. “These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.”
A CMT spokesperson did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment.
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XIAMEN, China, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 21, Xiamen Airlines and Airbus announced a strategic partnership focused on sustainable development during the Paris Air Show. The partnership aims to enhance collaboration in advancing sustainability within the civil aviation sector. Both parties are committed to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering the long-term growth of the aviation industry.
The partnership was initially discussed at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. During the meeting, Xiamen Airlines chairman Zhao Dong and Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer engaged in discussions leading to the concept of forming the partnership. Subsequently, the two companies signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to solidify their intentions, which had been earlier established at the 14th Airshow China held in Zhuhai in 2022.
The MoC encompasses several areas of collaboration, including the expanded adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) across test, freight, and commercial flights, exploration of innovative solutions and technologies to enhance fleet fuel efficiency, reduction of emissions, and mitigation of noise levels, collaborative implementation of eco-friendly travel initiatives to encourage low-carbon transportation, fulfillment of corporate social responsibilities, nurturing of talent development in emerging technologies and sustainability expertise, and strengthening of cooperation in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) realm.
"Sustainability has not only become a global consensus but has also emerged as a new trend in the aviation industry, presenting both opportunities and challenges for the sector," said Xiamen Airlines chairman Mr. Zhao. "Over the years, Xiamen Airlines has consistently pursued sustainability with a particular focus on green development, social responsibility, and corporate governance. We look forward to deepening our partnership with Airbus to advance the industry's green, low-carbon transition."
"We are thrilled with the prospect of collaborating with Xiamen Airlines in creating a sustainable future for the aviation industry," stated Xu Gang, global executive vice president of Airbus and CEO of Airbus China. "Although the airline just joined the Airbus fleet family earlier this year, we share a vision and ambition for spearheading sustainability in the aviation sector, making us crucial strategic partners."
Xiamen Airlines has consistently demonstrated its active participation in and support of the UN SDGs. The airline's commitment to the SDGs was highlighted when it became the sole Chinese airline to join the UN Global Compact in late 2022. This significant milestone followed an agreement signed with the UN in 2017, affirming their dedication in promoting the SDGs on a global scale. In May 2023, the airline successfully accomplished mainland China's inaugural commercial A321neo flight utilizing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in collaboration with Airbus and China Aviation Oil. The milestone marked an important step towards promoting sustainability within the aviation sector. Building upon this achievement, the company aims to further develop its sustainability alliance, fostering a more environmentally friendly and promising future for the entire industry.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 23, 2023
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Central Nueces County in south central Texas...
South Central San Patricio County in south central Texas...
* Until 130 PM CDT.
* At 1021 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 1 inch of rain has
fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 2 to 4 inches in 1 hour.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Corpus Christi, Robstown, Driscoll, Corpus Christi International
Airport, Clarkwood, Cabaniss Field, Annaville, Cole Park,
Driscoll Childrens Hospital, Downtown Corpus Christi, La Palmera
Mall, Calallen, Kings Crossing Subdivision, and Corpus Christi
North Beach.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 37 between mile markers 1 and 17.
US Highway 181 between mile markers 646 and 648.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 672 and 676.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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NJ weather: Hot Friday, much cooler with rain showers Saturday
The Bottom Line
The grand finale of this week's warming trend is here. In fact, Friday will probably be the hottest day of 2023 so far for much of New Jersey. A great beach day, as inland NJ roasts in the 90s.
However, the summerlike warmth will not last into the first weekend of June. A backdoor cold front will push temperatures about 25 degrees cooler on Saturday.
There will be some rain around too. But not the kind of soaking we really need to quench drought and wildfire concerns. Of course, that also means the weekend will be far from a washout. Just unsettled and cooler.
Friday
It is important to note that this is not "dangerous heat". The morning is cool. Humidity levels are manageable. And the 90s only last one day. Make sure you dress for the weather and stay hydrated. But at least New Jersey won't feel "tropical" yet.
There is an air quality concern though, partially due to the ongoing wildfires in Nova Scotia, Canada and Burlington County, New Jersey. Friday we add ground-level ozone to the mix, due to the heat and stagnant air. An Air Quality Alert Code Orange has been issued for most of the state. That means those especially sensitive to dirty air — the very old, the very young, and those with heart and lung conditions — should limited time outdoors.
Friday's temperatures are pretty remarkable because the afternoon will be 30 to 40 degrees warmer than the morning. That extreme only happens a few times a year.
We are averaging 50s to start this Friday morning. Comfortably cool. There is a bank of stratus clouds and low-hanging fog along the coast. Hopefully that does not last long, allowing for sunshine to dominate the day.
Temps will rise rapidly by mid-morning, peaking around 90 degrees for the interior of New Jersey. The coast will be cooler, thanks to an on-shore breeze. I'm thinking we'll see 70s on barrier islands and near 80 on mainland beaches.
Speaking of the beach, I am happy to pass along that our rip current risk has dropped to Low. Ocean temperatures are still cool, around 63 to 65 degrees. Given the hot weather, it should still be a popular day at the Jersey Shore.
Humidity levels will tick up a bit Friday afternoon, as dew points surge into the 60s. Cloud cover will also start to increase through the afternoon.
And then we will have to watch the sky for a few popup showers and thunderstorms, starting around 3 or 4 o'clock. Isolated pockets of rain seem most likely across the northern third to half of the state.
We should stay on the mild side Friday night, with low temperatures dipping to around 60.
Saturday
Saturday's main weather drive is a "backdoor" cold front. So named because it pushes in from the northeast, from the ocean side. That runs opposite to our usual weather patterns which come through the "front door," rolling from west to east.
Anyway, a backdoor cold front is scheduled to arrive in New Jersey early Saturday morning. That will likely drive in a round of spotty rain showers. And it will send both temperatures and dew points tumbling a bit.
As I mentioned, we will start Saturday morning close to 60 degrees. And then highs will only reach the 60s Saturday afternoon — a far cry from Friday's 90s. It will be breezy too — easterly at 20 mph — making it "feel" even cooler.
Skies will be mostly cloudy. But rain will be limited to the first half of the day. Not everyone in New Jersey will get wet necessarily, and rainfall totals should stay below a quarter-inch. Nowhere near a washout, so there is a good chance your outdoor plans can go on as scheduled.
Sunday
The brighter, better day of the weekend. Although temperatures will still be held below normal for early June.
After a morning in the 50s, we should see pleasant lower 70s Sunday afternoon. For the first time in over a week, our predominant wind direction will turn to come from the land rather than the sea, becoming northwesterly. So even the coast is looking good.
Skies on Sunday will progress from partly sunny to mostly sunny. And I'm keeping a rain-free forecast all day.
Monday & Beyond
As usual, the medium-range forecast becomes less clear. Monday has flipped from unsettled to fine. Look for a mix of clouds and sun, with highs in the mid 70s.
We may push closer to 80 degrees on Tuesday. Then another cold front (a "regular" one this time) could introduce minimal showers and cooler air for Wednesday.
One more item we are watching: Tropical Depression 2 has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. It is drifting south toward the west coast of Cuba, and is not expected to intensify into a tropical storm.
We will see where that tropical moisture travels in the atmosphere in the coming week and weeks. Atlantic hurricane season officially started June 1st.
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TORONTO (AP) — TORONTO (AP) — Loncor Gold Inc. (LONCF) on Friday reported a loss of $369,000 in its fourth quarter.
The Toronto-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent on a per-share basis.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $2.9 million, or 2 cents per share.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years killed at least six people, dumped a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroyed roads and felled power lines on Tuesday. The death toll could have been higher if not for proactive evacuations and school closures, officials said.
There was also greater public awareness about the storm and its risks. Typhoon Hinnamnor made impact just weeks after heavy rain around the capital, Seoul, caused flooding that killed at least 14 people.
Government officials put the nation on high alert for days as Hinnamnor approached, warning of potentially historic destruction and putting in motion life-saving measures.
After grazing the resort island of Jeju and hitting the mainland near the port city of Busan, Hinnamnor weakened as it blew into waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
South Korea’s weather agency said Hinnamnor was over the open sea 400 kilometers (248 miles) northwest of the northern Japanese city of Sapporo as of 9 p.m. and had weakened to a tropical storm.
However, the damage was still severe in the southern city of Pohang, where five people were found dead and at least five others were missing after the storm submerged roads and buildings, triggered landslides and flooded a shopping mall.
Cars with smashed windows and trunks open lay scattered on roads like garbage. An entire two-story pool villa was uprooted from the ground and swept away by flash floods. Troops were deployed to assist with rescue and restoration efforts, moving in armored vehicles through streets turned into chocolate-colored rivers.
Firefighters navigated flooded neighborhoods in rubber boats, rescuing people and their pets. Merchants scrambled to salvage furniture and other belongings at the famous Guryongpo outdoor market, where workers deployed excavators to clear huge piles of debris.
The rain and flooding eroded the foundations of bridges and motorways, which were often broken in chunks or blocked by fallen trees and electricity poles. Factory buildings were tilted, while a shipping container blew away and landed above cars in a parking lot.
“I woke up at 5 a.m. at because of the explosive rain, and I got really concerned because the water rose right up to my doorway,” Kim Seong-chang, a Pohang resident, said in an interview with JTBC. “The water was still thigh-high at 7 a.m. and those who parked their cars in the streets were in panic because their vehicles were submerged. … Other residents were bucketing out water from their homes.”
The storm dumped more than 105 centimeters (41 inches) of rain in central Jeju since Sunday, where winds peaked at 155 kph (96 mph). Southern and eastern mainland regions also had damage — knocked-off signboards and roofing, toppled trees and traffic signs, and destroyed roads.
In Pohang, a woman in her 70s died after being swept away in flash floods, while four others were found dead in a submerged basement parking lot, where the search was continuing for five people.
Wading in the parking lot’s neck-high waters with ropes tied to their bodies, emergency workers on Tuesday night managed to pull out two people who had been trapped. President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a congratulatory message after the first survivor’s rescue, calling it a “miracle.”
In the neighboring city of Gyeongju, a woman in her 80s died after her home was buried in a landslide. In Ulsan, another southern city, a 25-year-old man was unaccounted for after falling into a rain-swollen stream, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
Also in Pohang, firefighters extinguished flames that damaged at least three facilities at a major steel plant operated by POSCO. A presidential official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in a background briefing, said officials were investigating the cause of the fires.
Local fire officials said the flames destroyed a building housing electricity equipment and damaged a separate office building and a coking factory before being put out.
The Safety Ministry said about 3,700 of 4,700 people who had been forced to evacuate returned home Tuesday afternoon. Thousands of homes, buildings and factories were flooded or destroyed, and hundreds of roads, bridges and facilities were damaged.
More than 600 schools were closed or converted to online classes. Workers had managed to restore electricity to most of the 89,203 households that had lost power.
In North Korea, state media reported “all-out efforts” to minimize damage from flooding and landslides. The state Korean Central News Agency reported that leader Kim Jong Un had issued “detailed tasks” at government meetings to improve the country’s disaster response capacity but didn’t elaborate on the plans.
North Korea sustained serious damage from heavy rains and floods in 2020 that destroyed buildings, roads and crops, hurting the country’s already-crippled economy. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-typhoon-leaves-20000-homes-without-power-in-south-korea/ | 2022-09-06 21:14:47 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-typhoon-leaves-20000-homes-without-power-in-south-korea/ |
(NewsNation) — Utah is seeing a surge in child support payments over the past year, a change that state officials credit in part to a new state law that withholds hunting and fishing licenses to people who fall significantly behind on payments.
“I came up with the idea for the bill, actually, in talking with some of my constituents who had noncustodial partners that were overdue on child support and going out and spending lots and lots of money hunting and fishing,” said state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, who authored and passed the bill enacting the new law two years ago. It went into effect in 2021.
The law blocks anyone from obtaining a hunting or fishing license if they are past due more than $2,500 in child support for a year.
“A lot of people talk about sending people to jail or prison instantly when they hear non-collection of child support, non-payment of child support. But in reality, if they’re going to prison or jail, they’re not working, so that’s not helping solve the problem,” said Utah Office of Recovery Services (ORS) director Liesa Stockdale, whose agency manages child support in the state. “And when they get out they have marks on their record, they have legal marks on their record that could prevent them from getting future employment. So that’s not helping. And then there’s a stigma for the children involved that their parent has had to go to jail or prison. And that’s not helping anything.”
In their conversations, Stockdale encouraged Lisonbee to think about “creative incentives” that are important to the people who owe child support but that wouldn’t impact their ability to support their children.
“I think that hunting and fishing are fairly popular in almost every state,” Lisonbee said.
Some states have embraced the policy, including Pennsylvania. Failure to make child support for three months allows the state to suspend a driver’s or professional license.
In Utah, data provided by Stockdale suggests child support payments have gone up since the law was put into place. On July 1, 2021, they blocked the hunting and fishing licenses of 2,959 individuals.
“Out of those people, when we looked at it again, this year, during the first week of July, 494 of those people had come into compliance with the law at some point during that first year,” she said.
Stockdale acknowledged that the law may not be the only reason the people caught up on child support.
“There’s really no way to 100% say that’s why these people were paying their support, I want to be honest and upfront about that,” she said.
With that context in mind, Stockdale reports an increase in payments by nearly $2 million a year after the new law took effect, specifically coming from the individuals whose licenses were withheld.
Lisonbee also worked with lawmakers to update the law this year to add flexibility to its enforcement. One change she made was to allow individuals to still obtain licenses if they missed one month’s payment because of a transition to a new job.
Ultimately, Stockdale believes that Utah’s experience provides a lesson about how creative solutions can be used to change people’s behavior.
“It’s a matter of finding that right incentive for your community, even for different parents within your community,” she said. “Two-thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine individuals, that’s only a small portion of our parents who owe child support. And we need to continue to be creative to find those little incentive niches that will speak to different parents and will mean something to them.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/in-utah-no-child-support-no-hunting-or-fishing/ | 2022-08-14 22:37:27 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/in-utah-no-child-support-no-hunting-or-fishing/ |
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told reporters Wednesday that he will not resign despite facing a 13-count criminal indictment.
Federal prosecutors charged Santos earlier Wednesday with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, a significant escalation of the months-long controversy surrounding his biography and finances.
Shortly after entering a not guilty plea at a Long Island courthouse — and being released on a $500,000 bond — the congressman delivered a full-throated defense.
“I will not resign,” Santos told reporters outside the courthouse, later adding, “I believe I’m innocent.”
“I’m gonna fight my battle, I’m gonna deliver, I’m gonna fight the witch hunt, I’m gonna take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that,” he said.
Santos has been the subject of scrutiny for months — since before he was sworn into the House — amid questions about his personal and professional background and finances. Lawmakers from both parties have called for Santos to resign or be expelled, but the congressman has remained adamant that he will not step down from his seat.
He reiterated that sentiment Wednesday, noting that he will return to the Capitol on Thursday.
“I’m gonna keep fighting, I’m gonna keep fighting for what I believe in, I’m gonna keep fighting to represent my district, I’m gonna keep fighting to deliver results and now I have to keep fighting to deliver, you know, to defend my innocence and I’m gonna do that,” he said.
While a number of lawmakers have called on Santos to resign, House GOP leadership has stopped short of doing so. On Wednesday, top House Republicans said they would let the legal process surrounding Santos play out.
The charges against Santos do not — by rule — disqualify him from serving in Congress. According to House rules, members charged with criminal conduct as a felony that carries a sentence of two or more years in prison should resign from committees and step aside from party leadership as the legal process plays out. Santos stepped down from his committee assignments in January amid his mounting controversy, and he does not serve in House GOP leadership.
Prosecutors allege Santos directed an unnamed person to connect with potential donors and falsely tell them that their contributions would go toward purchasing television advertisements for the New York Republican’s congressional campaign.
But in actuality, according to the indictment, the contributions were transferred to Santos’s personal bank accounts and subsequently used for personal expenses — including buying designer clothing and discharging his personal debts.
The indictment also accuses Santos of fraudulently receiving more than $24,000 in unemployment benefits after falsely asserting that he was unemployed during parts of the pandemic. Additionally, it alleges that Santos made false statements to the House of Representatives in financial disclosure reports during his congressional campaigns, and that he failed to disclose some income sources.
The top charge Santos faces — wire fraud — carries a maximum jail time of 20 years. If Santos is convicted on multiple counts, a judge will decide whether to make any sentences run concurrently.
Santos told reporters Wednesday that he will continue with his 2024 reelection campaign despite the charges against him. He announced his reelection bid last month.
“Yes I am,” he told reporters when asked if he will run for re-election.
“I will prove myself innocent and then we’ll move from there, and reelection is a very far time away,” he added. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/defiant-santos-says-he-wont-resign-amid-criminal-indictment/ | 2023-05-10 21:20:26 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/defiant-santos-says-he-wont-resign-amid-criminal-indictment/ |
Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network are both allowing parents of children 6 months to 4 years old to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization to the Pfizer vaccine for children under 5, and Moderna for children 17 and under last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave its thumbs-up Saturday. The first doses of the vaccines for young children arrived Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley.
Dr. Jennifer Janco, director of pediatrics for St. Luke’s University Health Network, said opening eligibility to this last age group allows doctors to protect more children.
“With the new variants infecting children of all ages with COVID, vaccinating our younger children is a critical step in protecting them from the disease and its complications, and also in helping them to continue to participate in day care, preschool, and family activities,” Janco said.
Moderna and Pfizer’s vaccines now have emergency use authorization for all age groups, except those under 6 months. The best way to protect those youngest children is for people around them to be vaccinated, Janco said.
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LVHN will hold clinics for children under 5 from 8 a.m. to noon June 25, July 16 and Sept. 10; and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. June 28, July 19 and Sept. 13, at its vaccine clinic, 2633 MacArthur Road, Whitehall Township. Appointments can be scheduled on MyLVHN, the health network’s patient portal, or by calling the network’s COVID-19 Vaccine Hotline at 833-584-6283 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
St. Luke’s will vaccinate children by appointment at St. Luke’s Allentown Pediatrics, St. Luke’s Coopersburg Pediatrics and St. Luke’s Pediatrics-Wind Gap. Parents can schedule vaccines by calling their child’s St. Luke’s pediatrician or primary care provider or by calling 1-866-STLUKES (785-8537), option 7, from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.
Mary Beth Golab, a spokesperson for St. Luke’s, said network providers train to make giving immunizations to young children as easy and comfortable as possible. St. Luke’s also plans to provide “distractions” like starfish-shaped ice packs and “pop-it” toys.
Moderna’s shot follows a two-dose schedule similar to the one in place for adults, with the second administered 28 days after the first. Pfizer is using a three-dose schedule in which the second shot is administered about three weeks after the first one, and the third shot is scheduled about two months after that. Pfizer says it found this approach provided better protection for young children.
Though young children would get the same number of shots or more than adults, they will get less vaccine per dose.
Pfizer’s vaccine for children under 5 uses 3 micrograms per shot, one-tenth of the adult dose. Moderna’s vaccine for children 6 and under has 25 micrograms per shot, a quarter of the dose given to adults.
Side effects are possible, though most are mild and should disappear within two days. According to LVHN, these side effects can include chills, decreased appetite, drowsiness, irritability, fever, headache, muscle aches, nausea or vomiting as well as pain, swelling and redness at the injection site.
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The Milwaukee Brewers take on the St. Louis Cardinals in MLB action at American Family Field on Monday. First pitch is at 8:10 p.m. ET.
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- When: Monday, June 20, 2022
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Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face fresh charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bannon’s state-level charges in New York closely resemble an attempted federal prosecution that ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon on his last day in office. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses. In Bannon’s case, any double jeopardy argument would likely fall flat because his federal case didn’t involve an acquittal or conviction.
Bannon, 68, arrived at the Manhattan district attorney's office shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday. He had acknowledged in a statement Tuesday that he would be charged soon.
Bannon said earlier that District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has now decided to pursue phony charges against me 60 days before the midterm election,” accusing the Democratic prosecutor of targeting him because Bannon and his radio show are popular among Trump’s Republican supporters.
Bannon said federal prosecutors “did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election,” referring to his arrest months before Trump’s reelection loss. “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.”
Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James planned a 1 p.m. news conference to announce charges against Bannon.
Federal agents pulled Bannon from a luxury yacht off the Connecticut coast and arrested him on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in wall donations. Prosecutors alleged thousands of investors were tricked into thinking all of their donations would go toward the border wall project, although Bannon instead paid a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself.
While the wall Bannon’s group proposed was to be built on the U.S. southern border, more than 1,000 miles from the Big Apple, Manhattan prosecutors have jurisdiction to pursue charges against Bannon because some donors to the effort lived in New York.
Federal prosecutors, in the trial of a former Bannon co-defendant, noted that some residents of the New York City area had donated to the wall-building project. One witness that testified was an official with the charities bureau of the New York attorney general’s office who said that a charity backing the wall project had filed paperwork to accept donations in the state. The attorney general’s office is also involved in Bannon’s state criminal case.
Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him.
Two other men involved in the “We Build the Wall” project pleaded guilty in April. They had been scheduled to be sentenced this week, but that was recently postponed to December. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/steve-bannon-surrenders-in-ny-court-in-wall-donor-case | 2022-09-08 14:03:19 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/steve-bannon-surrenders-in-ny-court-in-wall-donor-case |
URI Rams show who's boss in interstate football battle at Bryant
SMITHFIELD --- Bryant has a chance to be a good football team this season. The University of Rhode Island is shaping up to be something more.
The Rams have the makings of a special group. They weren’t all that sharp Saturday night at Beirne Stadium and still posted a relatively comfortable victory over the Bulldogs.
URI scored three touchdowns of 50 yards or more, collected 10 sacks and held Bryant to minus-7 rushing yards. That playmaking ability on both sides of the ball translated to a 35-21 triumph in front of a packed house.
“It’s a W, and for some reason it doesn’t feel like a sweet W,” URI coach Jim Fleming said. “Because I don’t think we played near to what our potential is. Those things can get corrected.”
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The Rams threw an interception, lost a fumble and committed 10 penalties. Past teams in Kingston might have found themselves in serious trouble after making such mistakes. The current version – No. 22 in the latest national polls – simply keeps moving forward.
“We’ve got a group of guys who love each other and want to play for each other,” linebacker Evan Stewart said. “I think that’s the biggest thing.”
Ed Lee and Kahtero Summers turned swing passes to the left flat into sprints down the sideline for scores. Jaylen Smith, the former Shea High star, notched a pair of touchdowns on a dive over the pile at the goal line and a 50-yard dash around right end. URI (2-0) scored 20 unanswered points to erase a 7-0 deficit and squeezed the Bulldogs (0-2) in the second half with its defense.
“They’re a good football team,” Bryant coach Chris Merritt said. “They’re ranked for a reason. If we’re ever going to compete against that quality we can’t make those types of mistakes.”
It won’t be the most enjoyable film session for the Rams at certain points. Joe Andreessen’s interception late in the first half led to an AC White touchdown catch from Zevi Eckhaus. A dropped snap on a punt handed Bryant a chance to escape a 20-14 hole.
What URI has been able to do for the better part of the last two seasons is overcome such difficulties. The Rams closed 7-4 in 2021 and fell just shy of an FCS playoff berth. A win over Delaware next week in a Colonial Athletic Association showdown would go a long way toward preventing another bitter ending in 2022.
“We generally feel like we’re the most prepared team when we come out there every single night,” linebacker A.J. Pena said. “It’s great.”
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Pena wasn’t listed on the pregame two-deep lineup – he enrolled in January after an early graduation from Milford Academy. Collecting three and a half sacks in place of injured veteran Christian Arrington spoke to URI’s superior depth. Six different players caught passes from Kasim Hill, Marques DeShields rushed for 109 yards and 10 different players made at least three tackles.
“They’ve got home run hitters in the backfield, home run hitters on the outside and the quarterback is pretty good, too,” Merritt said. “If you know of a defense that can stop all three I’m sure you could make a lot of money in this business.”
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery rose $4.14 to $83.63 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for December delivery rose $3.72 to $88.86 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for November delivery rose 14 cents to $2.51 a gallon. November heating oil rose 15 cents to $3.37 a gallon. November natural gas fell 30 cents to $6.47 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for December delivery rose $30 to $1,702 an ounce. Silver for December delivery rose $1.55 to $20.59 an ounce and December copper was unchanged at $3.41 a pound.
The dollar fell to 144.76 Japanese yen from 144.78 yen. The euro rose to 98.18 from 98.09 cents. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/10/03/closing-prices-for-crude-oil-gold-and-other-commodities-293/ | 2022-10-03 23:05:24 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/10/03/closing-prices-for-crude-oil-gold-and-other-commodities-293/ |
Two Americans who survived a violent kidnapping in northern Mexico in March recounted the terrifying five-day ordeal in an interview posted online overnight Tuesday.
Family members said the group drove from South Carolina to the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, so McGee could get an abdominoplasty — known as a tummy tuck. The city is known for offering cheap medical services.
The group’s rented minivan had just crossed the border from Brownsville, Tex., on March 3 when McGee said the first sign of trouble came: A car honked its horn. Brown told them not to stop because he saw a gun, she said.
After they turned onto a main street, the shooting started, Williams recounted from a wheelchair. He said their assailants shot Brown and Woodard after they hopped out of the vehicle.
A man with a small gun started rapping on McGee’s window, so Williams said he got out but was shot in both legs.
After being robbed, McGee said the armed men loaded the group of four — all alive at this point — into a truck, footage of which went viral soon after their abduction.
Williams remembered seeing Brown’s back in the truck. “He was hit two times, and big chunks of meat was gone,” he said.
They drove for 10 to 15 minutes, and when they stopped, Williams recounted how Woodard said his final words: “I love y’all. I’m gone.”
Cooper asked McGee if she said anything to Woodard, who was her cousin. “I just told him I was sorry,” she recalled.
After they were forced out of the truck, Williams remembered receiving rudimentary medical treatment: A two-by-four splint around his legs that he said did more harm than good and stitches that quickly came apart.
McGee was in another room with Brown.
“I just told him I’m sorry because I asked him to come with me,” she said. He responded, “It’s okay, I’m your brother. I’m supposed to be there for you. I love you,” McGee recalled.
He died about an hour later, she said.
In a surreal moment, she said one of the guards was watching footage of their kidnapping. She asked to see the video, so the guard turned his phone around and showed her.
“I just started crying,” she said. She said she felt like she would never go home.
“I just didn’t know [if] our families knew anything that happened to us,” McGee said.
After their captors took her and Williams to another location with other kidnapped people, McGee said they received their first sign of hope: A man claiming to be an American who explained why they’d been targeted.
“There’s nothing we can do to bring your two brothers back, but we’re sorry,” McGee remembers the man saying. “Somebody made the wrong call, they was high and drunk.”
She said he told them he was “fighting with my boss for him to give y’all up.”
He came back a day or so later and told them he was freeing them but that he was also joining them. “When I give y’all up, I’m going to leave, too, because they [will] kill me for letting y’all go,” McGee recounted him saying.
The man blindfolded McGee and Williams and loaded them into a vehicle. The bodies of Brown and Woodard were placed on top of Williams to hide him, he said.
They drove for a bit and switched vehicles to avoid authorities or the cartel, McGee said. They stopped driving at about 3 a.m. and were placed in a shack.
Days after the ordeal began, Mexican authorities received a tip and found McGee and Williams along with the bodies of Brown and Woodard.
Days later, The Washington Post reported, police found five men bound with zip ties in a truck near the intersection where the Americans were taken. An accompanying note said the Scorpions faction of the Gulf Cartel wanted to “hand over” those behind the kidnapping.
It isn’t unheard of for cartels to turn over gunmen whose actions have upset Mexican or U.S. officials, The Post reported. The Gulf Cartel is a major crime group that smuggles drugs and migrants and engages in extortion and illegal fuel sales — but the cartel also has a history of giving up members who have caused unnecessary problems for them.
The Post reported that officials at the time had no confirmation that the five men were involved in the kidnapping.
McGee and Williams are still healing from the traumatic event. The group of four grew up together in South Carolina, their family has said.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a unique rule that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill several other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule until May 15 unless she extends it. She also scheduled a May 11 hearing over the lawsuit challenging the rule.
In her ruling, Ribaudo wrote that those suing to block the ruling would “be subjected to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General is permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.”
She wrote that patients “are at high risk of having their medical care interrupted for an unknown length of time; once the Rule goes into effect, they may lose access to medical care through their current providers until such time as the provider can come into compliance with the Rule’s requirements.”
Bailey's office didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
Gillian Wilcox, deputy director of litigation for the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which filed suit on behalf of transgender Missourians, applauded the ruling.
“Today’s ruling marks a win for transgender Missourians over an unprecedented attempt by the Attorney General to unilaterally legislate and harm their right to self-expression, bodily autonomy, and access to lifesaving health care,” Wilcox said in a statement.
Legal experts and transgender advocates say that if the lawsuit ultimately fails and Bailey’s rule takes effect, it would make Missouri the first state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults and the first to enact such restrictions through emergency rule-making instead of through a new law.
Transgender Missourians argue in the lawsuit that the rule is discriminatory, and that Bailey sidestepped the Republican-led Legislature and exceeded his authority by attempting to regulate gender-affirming health care through the state's existing consumer-protection law.
Bailey has touted the rule as a way to shield minors from what he describes as experimental medical treatments, though puberty blockers and sex hormones have been prescribed for decades and the rule would also apply to adults.
The attorney general's office has said there are 12,400 Missourians who identify as transgender, the ruling noted. The office estimated that 600 to 700 Missourians would begin intervention in the next year.
The rule, which was initially set to take effect last Thursday, would require people to have experienced an "intense pattern" of documented gender dysphoria for three years and to have received at least 15 hourly sessions with a therapist over at least 18 months before they could receive puberty blockers, hormones, surgery or other treatment.
Before receiving such care, patients would also have to be screened for autism, and any psychiatric symptoms from mental health issues would have to be treated and resolved. Minors, but not adults, also would have to be screened for “social media addiction” before treatments could begin. Some people would be able to maintain their prescriptions while undergoing required assessments.
But the transgender Missourians and health care providers suing to block it say the rule is discriminatory and illegal.
Tony Rothert, an attorney for the ACLU, told Ribaudo at a hearing Wednesday that the regulations would “cause immediate, severe and potentially irreparable harm” for people who could lose access to medications that include puberty blockers and sex hormones.
“We don’t allow attorneys general to legislate, and we don’t allow them to play doctor,” Rothert said.
He and other attorneys said transgender people who can’t get gender-affirming care are at higher risk of suicide.
Assistant Attorney General Joshua Divine argued that Bailey’s order would not ban gender-affirming care, and instead would provide “basic procedural guardrails.” He cited studies showing that a high percentage of children seeking to transition are dealing with mental health issues. He said that rather than transition they should undergo “talk therapy.”
Bailey issued the restrictions following an investigation he launched in February into the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. The investigation was prompted by a former employee who alleged that the center was providing children with gender-affirming care without informed consent, a sufficient individualized case review and wraparound mental health services. An internal review by the university found no misconduct and determined that the former employee's claims were unsubstantiated.
Some transgender people have been trying to stockpile their prescribed hormones or find alternative ways to get the medications on their own, out of fear they could lose access to the gender-affirming treatments many credit as life-saving. Some are considering leaving Missouri if the emergency rule isn’t blocked in court.
“This feels like the end of Kansas City being my home,” said Stacy Cay, an autistic transgender woman. “It feels like it’s being taken away.”
Missouri's Democratic House minority leader, Crystal Quade, said last week that she asked President Joe Biden and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for an executive order that would extend coverage for Missourians who seek gender-affirming care in other states. She also asked the Democratic governors of Kansas and Illinois if their health care systems would accept Missouri patients for such care.
Bailey's efforts to crack down on gender-affirming health care come as Republicans across the country have proposed hundreds of laws aimed at transgender people. At least 13 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Bailey was appointed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson and took office in January. In a campaign email asking donors for money last week, Bailey said minors are “learning about their genders on TikTok.”
“Think about how frightening that is!” the campaign email said. “And think about how CRAZY it is to expose children to the twisted experiments advocated by extreme transgender activists.”
Brandon Hill, the interim president and CEO of Vivent Health, a health care provider with an LGBTQ+ and HIV focus serving Missouri and other states, questioned Bailey's description of gender-affirming care as “experimental.” Hill said the same hormones used in gender-affirming treatment are used off-label to treat symptoms of menopause and help some cancer survivors.
“If you’re concerned about the drug and its potential effects, you should be concerned about it for everybody,” Hill said.
He said it is “discriminatory if you decide to isolate one group and decide what their treatment looks like, but not others who use the same exact products.”
Meanwhile, Republican state lawmakers are fighting over competing Missouri House and Senate bills that would ban all gender-affirming care for minors. The chambers are split over which version they want to send to Parson, who is threatening to force the Legislature to keep working if nothing is done on the issue by the May 12 end of the legislative session.
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This story was updated to correct that the judge blocked the rule from taking effect until May 15 unless she further extends her order, not until the lawsuit challenging the rule is resolved.
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Associated Press writer Jim Salter in O'Fallon, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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HART COUNTY, Ga. (WSPA) – Recovery crews have been unable to retrieve the body of the pilot who crashed into a lake in Georgia on Saturday, despite knowing exactly where the plane is located.
“We have exhausted all of our local resources within the area,” said Capt. Chris Carroll of the Hart County Sheriff’s Office.
The pilot and the plane, a Beech BEFF aircraft, were “on an IFR flight plan,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meaning the pilot was operating the small plane under instrument flight rules — commonly used when conditions are less than ideal for operating a plane using visual cues.
The plane had departed from Punta Gorda, Florida, on Saturday morning before crashing into Lake Hartwell, on the border of Georgia and South Carolina.
Divers located the plane Saturday afternoon tangled in tree branches 120 feet underwater.
“It just so happened it’s in one of the deepest parts of the lake,” said Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland. “The plane is in the trees. I’ve been told the plane flipped over. The top is on the bottom. The doors to the plane are jammed so we’re not able to retrieve the body out of the plane.”
“Divers were able to go down and sent the ROV [remote-operated vehicle] back down,” added Carroll. “They were able to push the ROV into the rear window of the plane where it can be driven through the front to try to look around in the cockpit area. At that time was when we were able to determine there was a person in the plane.”
Cleveland said the NTSB has given the county permission to lift the plane so they can remove the pilot’s body.
Carroll said the sheriff’s office is considering bringing a crane or air bags to move the aircraft to a more accessible location.
“Once it’s lifted, we’ll have to move it to a shallow area to get the body out of it,” he said.
The NTSB told Nexstar’s WSPA that there is no time frame for the recovery of the aircraft. A spokesperson said the agency “is working with a salvage company and the insurance company on recovery efforts.”
Right now, the investigation is still in the “fact-gathering stage,” the NTSB said. A spokesperson said the typical investigation could take anywhere from 12-24 months to “complete and determine cause.”
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Spokane WA
109 AM PDT Thu Jul 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Adams and
southeastern Grant Counties through 200 AM PDT...
At 109 AM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Othello, or 17 miles south of Moses Lake, moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Moses Lake, Othello, Warden, McDonald, Sieler, Ruff, Schrag and
Wheeler.
This includes Interstate 90 in Washington between mile markers 180
and 205.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 4676 11918 4688 11941 4726 11913 4707 11861
TIME...MOT...LOC 0809Z 216DEG 31KT 4687 11920
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Artio Medical, Inc., a medical device company developing innovative products for the peripheral vascular, neurovascular, and cardiology markets, today announced the appointment of veteran medical device executive Joseph Ingoglia as Chief Commercial Officer. Ingoglia will be responsible for building Artio's sales and marketing teams and driving revenue growth from the commercialization of the Company's broad and deep product pipeline, with an initial focus on the upcoming launch of the Company's first product, the Solus Gold™ Embolization Device.
Ingoglia brings over 30 years of sales and marketing experience to Artio with success building and leading medical device commercial teams. Most recently, Ingoglia served as the Vice President of US Sales for Medtronic's neurovascular business where he was responsible for national accounts, sales operations, and field sales. Prior to Medtronic, Ingoglia co-founded and served as Chief Commercial Officer for Proximo Medical where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, and marketing. Prior to this, Ingoglia had commercial leadership roles with increasing responsibility with several industry-leading medical device companies including Boston Scientific, Guidant, Edwards Life Sciences, and Spectranetics.
"Joe's experience building and leading commercial teams and successfully launching innovative medical devices into competitive markets made him our first choice for Chief Commercial Officer and I am so pleased to welcome him to our senior leadership team," commented F. Nicholas Franano, MD, President and CEO of Artio Medical. "Joe has consistently shown the ability to establish good relationships, work collaboratively with others, and build trust as a leader. Artio will need to recruit, train, and lead sales and marketing teams for the peripheral vascular, neurovascular, and cardiology markets in order to meet our goal of successfully launching several new products each year, and I am confident Joe is the right person to lead Artio's commercial team."
"For me, Artio is a once-in-career opportunity to launch a portfolio of high value, first in class and best in class products that address longstanding unmet medical needs with important clinical outcomes," noted Ingoglia. "As we bring our first product to market, I look forward to building a strong commercial team and establishing a solid foundation for future growth."
Artio Medical is a medical device company committed to developing innovative products for the treatment of peripheral vascular, neurovascular, and cardiovascular diseases. For more information, please visit www.artio.com.
Continued blood flow through damaged or diseased blood vessels can result in life-threatening bleeding and other serious medical conditions. Peripheral vascular embolization is a minimally invasive procedure that blocks or reduces blood flow in blood vessels. The Solus Gold Embolization Device combines a flexible catheter assembly and a non-porous, balloon-like gold implant for easy delivery, precise placement, and immediate vessel occlusion.
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“We had photographers all over the place,” Brown recalled. “I was close enough to touch her, but I didn’t. I also didn’t want to get arrested.”
Brown also photographed the queen, who died Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, when she visited Charlottesville in 1976, during the U.S. Bicentennial celebration. But he said the Capitol visit was especially exciting.
He took the photograph of the queen entering the Capitol with then-Gov. Tim Kaine and Prince Philip behind her, walking past cadets from the Virginia Military Institute and Virginia Tech.
Brown scoped out a spot near the statue of Washington in the Rotunda and saw the civil rights leader Oliver Hill in his wheelchair.
“I said to the British photographer, ‘You’ve got to make her stop and shake hands with him or acknowledge him. This is a civil rights legend here,’” Brown said. “The queen came up and someone jumped right in front of me. But I got the shot of the two of them greeting each other.”
“I was very lucky to be able to record her portrait and history like that,” Brown said.
He also deferred to his fellow photographer Russo who was stationed outside the Capitol. “She got a great shot of Tim Kaine giving a ‘thumbs-up’ to somebody in the crowd.”
Kaine was governor during the queen's 2007 visit to Jamestown and the state Capitol. The queen also toured Jamestown in 1957 and visited Charlottesville for the bicentennial in 1976.
“I was in the risers and there was way more jostling for position than usual,” Russo said. “Usually it’s pretty genteel, but it was a mix of international and local press. The stakes were higher than usual.”
Russo said she remembered how the queen stood out in the crowd.
“She was such a colorful addition with her lavender-and-pink suit," Russo said. "She was so bright and colorful compared to everybody else.”
PHOTOS: Queen Elizabeth II visited Virginia in 1957, 1976 and 2007
Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets (left) and the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (right) salute as Queen Elizabeth II and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine enter the Virginia Capitol. They are followed by Prince Philip and Virginia First Lady Anne Holton. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA, on Thursday, May 3, 2007. The royal couple spent a short time at the newly renovated state capitol in Richmond. The queen addressed the state's General Assembly before traveling to Williamsburg, VA, about 45 miles away.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, governor Timothy M. Kaine and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, undertake a walkabout on Capitol Square, from the executive mansion to the South portico of the capitol in Richmond on Thursday, May 3, 2007. The walkabout was lined by extraordinary Virginians who have made great contributions to the Commonwealth. The 54 people who won the Royal Walkabout Lottery also lined the queen's path. | https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/richmond-times-dispatch-photographers-remember-queen-elizabeths-visit-to-the-state-capitol/article_c8fc034e-3ea7-5411-bc23-8f4d9943d380.html | 2022-09-08 20:52:06 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/richmond-times-dispatch-photographers-remember-queen-elizabeths-visit-to-the-state-capitol/article_c8fc034e-3ea7-5411-bc23-8f4d9943d380.html |
by: Austin Franklin Posted: May 12, 2022 / 06:25 AM CDT Updated: May 12, 2022 / 06:25 AM CDT SHARE BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — CEO of Sozo Children Suzanne Owens joined CBS 42 News at Noon to discuss the Sozo Children’s Choir. Watch the full interview in the video player above. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/sozo-children-ceo-discusses-upcoming-choir-performance/ | 2022-05-12 12:06:15 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/sozo-children-ceo-discusses-upcoming-choir-performance/ |
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and then later released in connection with an investigation into the Scottish National Party's finances.
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By CARA ANNA
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia has not yet fallen into famine but several parts of the country are in danger of it in the coming months, according to a new food security report on the Horn of Africa’s worst drought in decades.
The report released Tuesday by United Nations and other experts says more than 8 million people are badly food insecure as Somalia faces “an unprecedented level of need” after five consecutive failed rainy seasons and “exceptionally high” food prices. Thousands of people have died.
The report warns that famine is projected between April and June of next year in two parts of Somalia’s southwestern Bay region and among displaced people in the town of Baidoa and the capital, Mogadishu. It says the “most likely scenario” will see more than 700,000 people in those areas in famine.
The report says several other parts of central and southern Somalia also will see an increased risk of famine if a sixth straight rainy season fails early next year.
The food security experts earlier this year warned of famine in parts of Somalia by the end of this year without an increase in international humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian workers say the war in Ukraine has diverted the funding of some key donors.
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NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. (NYSE: FHS).
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According to a filed complaint, First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the new rules, regulations and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to the Company and its business; (b) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on FHS's enrollment and growth; and (c) as a result, representations made in connection with the Company's initial public offering regarding FHS's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
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Survey finds 95% of health system executives desire more automation and less reliance on manual OR processes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasing surgical services revenue is a top priority for healthcare systems, with automation seen as a way to accomplish it, according to a new survey of healthcare executives conducted by The Health Management Academy.
Seventy-six percent of respondents named increasing surgical services revenue as a top priority, while half the health systems represented said they plan to increase investments across their surgical services in the next two years.
The survey, which was conducted in August 2022 in partnership with Qventus, the leading provider of AI-based software for care operations automation, was completed by 21 executives whose titles include chief medical officer, chief operating officer, VP of perioperative services, VP of operations, VP of surgical specialties, surgical chair, clinical enterprise lead and business operations director for surgical services. The responding executives represent 19 health systems with an average total operating revenue of $6.3 billion.
Key findings include:
- Increasing surgical services revenue is a top priority for the majority (76%) of executives. About half (52%) of health systems are planning to increase investments across the surgical service line in the next two years.
- Health system executives are focused on end-to-end growth strategies. Top strategies to increase surgical revenue growth include: improving operating room (OR) scheduling and access (81%), growing case volumes (71%), and increasing surgical referrals to reduce patient leakage (57%).
- The majority (71%) of executives report 11% to 30% of their health system's OR time is not optimally used.
- Nearly all (95%) of surveyed healthcare systems are looking to automate OR scheduling more and rely less on manual processes.
- All (100%) executives agree there is opportunity to improve surgeon satisfaction rates. Their strategies for improving satisfaction include addressing burnout, streamlining internal processes and using technology to augment manual tasks.
"This data confirms what we hear from our leading health system members: executives know their financial recovery from the pandemic depends on growing surgical revenue, and that requires driving integrated strategies that optimize access, case volumes and mix, as well as market share. Leaders recognize that manual processes are holding them back, and they view automation as an essential capability to grow their surgical services revenue," said Brian Contos, SVP of Research & Member Insights at The Health Management Academy.
The crisis in surgical revenue has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages, which have cut into hospital operating margins. As a result, healthcare systems are looking for technology that will allow them to maximize their existing capacity without adding resources.
"The survey findings validate what we've been hearing from our health system partners," said Mudit Garg, Co-founder and CEO of Qventus. "Hospitals are focused on making their perioperative services more productive and efficient, but their existing tools and EHRs are incapable of doing it. To gain a new competitive advantage, they need a new approach and are turning to automation software."
The Qventus Perioperative Solution is the only solution that automates strategic growth of surgical services. By combining AI & machine learning, behavioral science, and comprehensive data, the solution creates new white space on OR and surgical robot calendars, automatically fills open times with strategic cases, and identifies referral and outmigration improvement opportunities — while also giving visibility into OR & surgeon performance. As a result, health systems can unlock over 50% of blocks otherwise unused, increase robotic cases by 33%, and add over 2 cases per OR per month using existing resources.
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Qventus is the leading provider of AI-based software for care operations automation. Integrating with EHRs, the Qventus platform uses AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to power best-practice solutions for inpatient, perioperative, emergency department, and command center settings. As a partner to leading health systems and hospitals across the country, including Boston Medical Center, HonorHealth, M Health Fairview, Saint Luke's Health System, and ThedaCare, Qventus delivers proven outcomes, including over 2 new surgical cases added per operating room per month, 30-50% fewer excess days, and 1 full day reduction in length of stay. For more, visit https://qventus.com/.
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday said it is canceling or suspending dialogue with the United States on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The measures, which come amid cratering relations between Beijing and Washington, are the latest in a promised series of steps intended to punish the U.S. for allowing the visit to the island it claims as its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary. China on Thursday launched threatening military exercises in six zones just off Taiwan's coasts that it says will run through Sunday.
Missiles have also been fired over Taiwan, defense officials told state media. China routinely opposes the self-governing island having its own contacts with foreign governments, but its response to the Pelosi visit has been unusually vociferous.
The Foreign Ministry said dialogue between U.S. and Chinese regional commanders and defense department heads would be canceled, along with talks on military maritime safety.
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Cooperation on returning illegal immigrants, criminal investigations, transnational crime, illegal drugs and climate change will be suspended, the ministry said.
The actions were taken because Pelosi visited Taiwan “in disregard of China’s strong opposition and serious representations," the ministry said in a statement.
China has accused the Biden administration of an attack on Chinese sovereignty, although Pelosi is head of the legislative branch of government and Biden had no authority to prevent her visit.
China's actions come ahead of a key congress of the ruling Communist Party later this year at which President Xi Jinping is expected to obtain a third five-year term as party leader. With the economy stumbling, the party has stoked nationalism and issued near-daily attacks on the government of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, which refuses to recognize Taiwan as part of China, in order to solidify its support among the public.
China said Friday that more than 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire military drills surrounding Taiwan over the past two days, while announcing mainly symbolic sanctions against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her family over her visit to Taiwan earlier this week.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Friday that fighters, bombers, destroyers and frigates were all used in what it called “joint blockage operations."
The military’s Eastern Theater Command also fired new versions of missiles it said hit unidentified targets in the Taiwan Strait “with precision.”
The Rocket Force also fired projectiles over Taiwan into the Pacific, military officers told state media, in a major ratcheting up of China’s threats to attack and invade the island.
The drills, which Xinhua described as being held on an “unprecedented scale," are China's most strident response to Pelosi's visit. The speaker is the highest-ranking U.S. politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years.
Dialogue and exchanges between China and the U.S., particularly on military matters and economic exchanges, have generally been halting at best. Climate change and fighting trade in illegal drugs such as fentanyl were, however, areas where they had found common cause, and Beijing's suspension of cooperation could have significant implications for efforts to achieve progress in those issues.
China and the United States are the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 climate polluters, together producing nearly 40% of all fossil-fuel emissions. Their top climate diplomats, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, maintained a cordial relationship that dated back to the Paris climate accord, which was made possible by a breakthrough negotiated among the two and others.
China under Kerry’s prodding committed at last year’s U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow to working with the U.S. “with urgency” to cut climate-wrecking emissions, but Kerry was unable to persuade it to significantly speed up China’s move away from coal.
On the Chinese coast across from Taiwan, tourists gathered Friday to try to catch a glimpse of any military aircraft heading toward the exercise area.
Fighter jets could be heard flying overhead and tourists taking photos chanted, “Let’s take Taiwan back," looking out into the blue waters of the Taiwan Strait from Pingtan island, a popular scenic spot in Fujian province.
Pelosi's visit stirred emotions among the Chinese public, and the government's response “makes us feel our motherland is very powerful and gives us confidence that the return of Taiwan is the irresistible trend,” said Wang Lu, a tourist from neighboring Zhejiang province.
China is a “powerful country and it will not allow anyone to offend its own territory,” said Liu Bolin, a high school student visiting the island.
His mother, Zheng Zhidan, was somewhat more circumspect.
“We are compatriots and we hope to live in peace,” Zheng said. “We should live peacefully with each other.”
China's insistence that Taiwan is its territory and its threat to use force to bring it under its control have featured highly in ruling Communist Party propaganda, the education system and the entirely state-controlled media for more than seven decades since the sides were divided amid civil war in 1949.
Taiwan residents overwhelmingly favor maintaining the status quo of de facto independence and reject China's demands that the island unify with the mainland under Communist control.
On Friday morning, China sent military ships and war planes across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said, crossing what had for decades been an unofficial buffer zone between China and Taiwan.
Five of the missiles fired by China since the military exercises began Thursday landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missile landings to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety of the Japanese people.”
Japan's Defense Ministry later said they believe four other missiles fired from China’s southeastern coast of Fujian flew over Taiwan.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that China’s military exercises aimed at Taiwan represent a “grave problem” that threatens regional peace and security.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said China's actions were in line with “international law and international practices," though she provided no evidence.
“As for the Exclusive Economic Zone, China and Japan have not carried out maritime delimitation in relevant waters, so there is no such thing as an EEZ of Japan," Hua told reporters at a daily briefing.
In Tokyo, where Pelosi is winding up her Asia trip, she said China cannot stop U.S. officials from visiting Taiwan. Kishida, speaking after breakfast with Pelosi and her congressional delegation, said the missile launches need to be “stopped immediately.”
China said it summoned European diplomats in the country to protest statements issued by the Group of Seven industrialized nations and the European Union criticizing the Chinese military exercises surrounding Taiwan.
Its Foreign Ministry on Friday said Vice Minister Deng Li made “solemn representations” over what he called “wanton interference in China’s internal affairs.”
Deng said China would “prevent the country from splitting with the strongest determination, using all means and at any cost.”
The ministry said the meeting was held Thursday night but gave no information on which countries participated. Earlier Thursday, China canceled a foreign ministers’ meeting with Japan to protest the G-7 statement that there was no justification for the exercises.
Both ministers were attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia.
China has promoted the overseas support it has received for its response to Pelosi’s visit, mainly from fellow authoritarian states such as Russia, Syria and North Korea.
China had earlier summoned U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns to protest Pelosi's visit. The speaker left Taiwan on Wednesday after meeting Tsai and holding other public events. She traveled on to South Korea and then Japan. Both countries host U.S. military bases and could be drawn into a conflict involving Taiwan.
The Chinese exercises involve troops from the navy, air force, rocket force, strategic support force and logistic support force, according to Xinhua.
They are believed to be the largest held near Taiwan in geographical terms and the closest in proximity — within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the island.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called the drills a “significant escalation” and said he has urged Beijing to back down.
U.S. law requires the government to treat threats to Taiwan, including blockades, as matters of “grave concern.”
The drills are an echo of the last major Chinese military drills aimed at intimidating Taiwan’s leaders and voters in 1995 and 1996.
Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, but the overall mood remained calm on Friday. Flights have been canceled or diverted and fishermen have remained in port to avoid the Chinese drills.
In the northern port of Keelung, Lu Chuan-hsiong, 63, was enjoying his morning swim Thursday, saying he wasn’t worried.
“Everyone should want money, not bullets,” Lu said.
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Friday, Aug. 5
Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, 3 p.m.
England Championship
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Friday, July 29
Huddersfield vs. Burnley, 3 p.m.
England League One
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Saturday, July 30
Accrington Stanley vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
England League Two
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Saturday, July 30
AFC Wimbledon vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
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Banking breakup between Ye, JPMorgan planned for weeks
By KEN SWEET
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West are ending their business relationship, but the breakup is not a result of the controversy over the hip-hop star’s recent antisemitic comments.
The letter ending West’s relationship with JPMorgan was tweeted Wednesday by conservative activist Candice Owens, who has been seen publicly at events with the rapper, who is now legally known as Ye.
While Owens claimed that JPMorgan did not disclose the reason for severing ties, the letter was sent to West on Sept. 20, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak about it publicly. The decision was made after Ye publicly said he was going to cut off ties with the bank. JPMorgan is giving West 60 days from the date of the letter to find a new banking relationship.
West told Bloomberg News on Sept 12 that he planned on cutting much of its corporate ties, saying he “It’s time for me to go it alone.” In that interview, he also criticized JPMorgan for not giving Ye access to Jamie Dimon, the bank’s CEO and chairman.
While Ye is wealthy from his hip-hop career, he also controls a popular fashion and shoe line under Yeezy Brands. In that interview with Bloomberg, he said he also planned to cut relationships with his corporate suppliers as well.
Social media giants Twitter and Instagram have blocked Ye’s accounts from posting in recent days due to his antisemitic comments. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/13/kanye-west-jpmorgan-banking-breakup-planned-for-weeks-2/ | 2022-10-14 00:42:57 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/13/kanye-west-jpmorgan-banking-breakup-planned-for-weeks-2/ |
Moderna submitted its application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of its updated Covid-19 vaccine booster for use in people age 18 and older the company said in a news release on Tuesday.
This updated formulation is a bivalent vaccine that will combine the original vaccine with one that targets Omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5, and would be administered as a 50 microgram dose.
The company says a phase 2/3 clinical trial on these boosters is now underway. The data they have submitted to the FDA comes from experiments in mice as well as data from humans using a different booster which was updated to protect against the BA.1 strain of Omicron.
"We have worked closely with the FDA to ensure that Americans will have access to Moderna's updated, bivalent booster, which, if authorized, may offer higher, broader, and more durable protection against Covid-19 compared ot the currently authorized booster," said Stephane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna.
The announcement comes one day after Pfizer and BioNTech said they submitted their application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent Covid-19 booster for use in people age 12 and older.
When could shots be available?
White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said recently the updated boosters should be available to the public early- to mid-September, but it is ultimately up to the FDA as to when the shot will get the greenlight.
"FDA will be using the totality of the available evidence to authorize the fall bivalent boosters," FDA spokesperson Abigail Capobianco said in a statement emailed to CNN last week. "There are data on many millions of individuals who have received the prototype component as a booster. As for the BA.4/5 component, a combination of nonclinical data obtained in mice, data from prior variant vaccines (including those to beta, delta, and omicron BA.1), along with our extensive knowledge of the safety and efficacy of the mRNA platforms will be used for this decision-making."
The booster dose "elicited potent neutralizing antibody responses against the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in all participants regardless of prior infection," according to data previously released by Moderna in June.
The FDA will now evaluate Moderna's data, but hasn't said whether it will convene its vaccine advisers before making a decision on authorization. Such a step could push back when shots can be administered.
Production of the updated shots is already underway. The US government has purchased 105 million bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster doses from Pfizer, and another 66 million updated shots from Moderna.
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25 years ago, Britain handed Hong Kong back to China By A Martínez, John Ruwitch Published July 1, 2022 at 3:07 AM MDT Facebook Twitter Email At the time, the city was promised "a high degree of autonomy" for 50 years. Half way into the promise, where do things stand? Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2022-07-01/25-years-ago-britain-handed-hong-kong-back-to-china | 2022-07-01 09:42:38 | 1 | https://www.kunm.org/2022-07-01/25-years-ago-britain-handed-hong-kong-back-to-china |
Nebraska, Platte River facing worst drought in a decade
By Web staff
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NEBRASKA (KETV) — New video shows the extent of the drought on the Platte River.
The National Drought Center says the river is almost entirely dry downstream of Kearney.
Jeremy Gehle, the division head of water planning at the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, briefed KETV on the situation.
“100 % of the state of Nebraska is in some form of drought, and a good portion of it is in the most severe category of drought. And a lot of that focus is out West,” Gehle said.
He says that the last time Nebraska saw a drought of this nature was 2012, and with that, bad news for farmers.
“The drought we’re experiencing has a lot of negative effects with crop yields,” he said.
Platte River local David Lastovica shares the sentiment.
“I mean, I feel horrible for the farmers. I mean, if you don’t have an irrigated crop, I drive around the country, and the gravel roads and they’re all burned up,” Lastovica said.
As someone who lives and fishes on the river, he says this drought is different.
“And I’ve been out at my cabin since I was 12 weeks old, and I’m 58 and never seen it like this,” he said.
Gehle says that this fall, things could get better.
“Probably by mid-November, there’s a fair chance we start seeing the rivers return to a somewhat more normal state, we hope.”
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PARD USA (or "the Company"), a night vision and thermal imaging specialist, announced that the Company is set to present at the 45th Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show®) where its full range of night vision and thermal imaging optics and scopes will be on display. Optimax Technology LLC is the sponsor of Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show. From January 17 through 20, hunters and sport shooting enthusiasts can come to booth #43123 to get their hands on PARD's products from the Night Vision Scope with Rangefinder series, the Night Vision Clip-on Scope series, the Thermal Imaging Monocular Series, Thermal Imaging Scope with Laser Rangefinder series, as well as PARD's two latest offerings – Dual-spectra imaging scope and multi-purpose thermal Imaging scope.
Owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the SHOT show, the world's largest trade show for target shooting, hunting, outdoor and law enforcement products, is slated to be held in Las Vegas, offering a platform for tens of thousands of professionals from the firearms and outdoor industry to demonstrate their latest innovations each year. The 2023 edition of the SHOT show will expand the exhibit space to over 800,000 net square feet, capable of accommodating over 2,000 exhibitors from around the world.
"The annual SHOT Show 2023 offers us a unique opportunity to meet our existing customers and develop commercial relationships with potential distributors and peers. We are excited to come to his spectacular event where we can show to the world our newest products equipped with state-of-the-art features and market-leading craftsmanship, as well as the technological expertise that allows us to create solutions addressing the needs of hunters and sporting enthusiasts and offer them professional and accurate shooting experiences", said Max Wang, CEO of PARD.
Taking the central stage at PARD's booth will be its SA32 thermal scope with laser rangefinder (SA32/62LRF), one of the most popular products developed by PARD that has received exceptionally high ratings from US customers. Compact and lightweight, the infrared thermal imager for rifles retains PARD's leading image quality, durability, and performance, equipped with ease of use and powerful functions engineered to help users to adapt to various weather conditions while ensuring precise long-range shooting.
The eyepiece of SA32/62-LRF features an OLED display with 1024x768 resolution, backed up by a 384x288 thermal sensor that allows users to spot targets at a distance of up to 7,550ft (2,300m). The sensitivity of the device is boosted by the next-generation vanadium oxide IR detector pixelization of 12μm(micrometers) and a Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference (NETD) of ≤ 25mK, allowing for high detail recognition even when thermal contrast is low.
The SA32 series also offers five thermal display colors for viewing in different conditions, coupled with a 50HZ refresh rate that ensures strong dynamic capture ability. The scope combines high performance and long battery life, powered by a 18650 removable/rechargeable battery that lasts for 5 hours and safeguarded the IP67 weatherproof design that maintains optimal operation in wet weathers and temperatures between - 4° F and 122° F.
For greater versatility and precision targeting, it comes with a ballistics calculator, One-Shot Zero, PIP mode, Blind Pixel supplementation correction, Time/Date image stamp, Auto Hot target-tracking, Wi-Fi connectivity, video recording, and an SD card slot that supports 128GB of external storage.
About PARD
With more than 10 years of experience in the field, PARD is a night vision and thermal imaging specialist who pioneers microlight night vision and infrared imaging technology to provide long-range, high-definition, and high-precision hunting gears. With a dedicated team of engineers who are experts in PARD's entire line-up, its product categories now cover night vision and thermal scope, monocular, and accessories. PARD is committed to addressing the pain point of hunting by improving the versatility and performance of its products, delivering unmatched user experience to its customer.
For more information, please visit https://pard.com/, or follow PARD on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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As more states make recreational marijuana legal, there is evidence that legalization leads to more usage.
According to a study released last week in the journal Addiction, people born in states where cannabis was made legal were 24% more likely to use cannabis after legalization.
The study also examined 111 sets of identical twins. Most sets of twins included one person who lived in a state where cannabis is legal and the other twin living somewhere it is not. The study found that an identical twin who lived in a state with legalized marijuana was 20% more likely to use it.
While the study gives strong evidence that legalization leads to higher usage, there might be some caveats.
“One potential alternative explanation for increases in use associated with legalization could be that it instead reflects an increased openness to report activities that are no longer illegal. We cannot determine whether this is the case, but we note that we also saw increases in reported cannabis use by residents of illegal states,” the authors wrote.
Although marijuana possession is now legal in states such as Colorado, it remains a crime at the federal level. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/legalizing-cannabis-appears-to-increase-usage-study-finds | 2022-08-30 19:14:55 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/legalizing-cannabis-appears-to-increase-usage-study-finds |
Test MCIO-based high-speed interfaces for PCIe®, NVMe®, or CXL™ up to 32GT/s
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced availability of a PCI Express 5.0 Mini Cool Edge IO (MCIO) interposer that works in combination with Teledyne LeCroy's Summit™ family of PCI Express 5.0 protocol analyzers. The new interposer enables engineers to test products that incorporate card edge connectors or cabled connector assemblies that utilize the MCIO mechanical connector with PCIe 5.0, NVM Express® (NVMe) or Compute Express Link™ (CXL) technologies. The PCIe 5.0 MCIO Interposer joins the list of CrossSync™ PHY enabled interposers, allowing users to debug enhanced power management and link training equalization through correlated and time aligned physical and protocol layer views. No other solution gives this type of insight into link behavior.
The Mini Cool Edge IO™ connector is a flexible, robust, and cost-effective connector and cable assembly that helps equipment designers offer flexibility, reduce overall space requirements, and extend the reach for high data rate signals. MCIO connectors and cabled connector assemblies are used extensively in server/storage devices, high performance computers (HPC), switches/routers, and other data center equipment. Now, design and test engineers can test, identify issues, and optimize MCIO connector/cable designs using the Teledyne LeCroy PCIe 5.0 MCIO interposer in combination with one of the Summit PCIe 5.0 protocol analyzers, at data rates of 2.5 GT/s, 5.0 GT/s, 8.0 GT/s, 16.0 GT/s, and 32GT/s in standard or multiport configurations. The Interposer provides probing capability of up to 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 traffic on multiple x8 (74 pin) MCIO connections, based on the SFF- TA-1016 specification.
A CrossSync PHY-capable interposer probes a PCI Express link for simultaneous capture of both oscilloscope and protocol analyzer traces, providing insight into protocol-directed electrical behaviors to design and validation engineers. The CrossSync PHY software option for Teledyne LeCroy LabMaster™ and WaveMaster® oscilloscopes enables the oscilloscope's MAUI® user interface to be viewed directly alongside the industry-standard Teledyne LeCroy CATC® protocol trace. The combination of the interposer and the software option permits the oscilloscope and protocol analyzer traces to be viewed, navigated, and analyzed in a time-correlated way unique to Teledyne LeCroy.
The PCIe 5.0 MCIO Cable Interposer, which can be optionally upgraded with CrossSync PHY support, has been added to the Teledyne LeCroy PCI Express test solutions product line with the product codes of
G5 MCIO Cable Interposer (74 Pin Connectors) PE249UIA-X
The CrossSync PHY software option is supported with LeCroy LabMaster or WaveMaster oscilloscopes.
All products are available for immediate order. For more information on PCIe 5.0 MCIO interposer, please contact Teledyne LeCroy at +1 (800) 909-7211 or visit our Interposers and Probes landing page. For more information on CrossSync PHY support, visit: http://teledynelecroy.com/cross-sync-phy.
Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance "Time-to-Insight". Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.
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Deadly storms in the past two weeks have unleashed dozens of tornadoes in the United States, mainly in the South and Midwest, killing at least 63 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes.
This year’s early severe weather, especially in the Midwest, is part of a trend seen over the past few years, according to Bill Bunting, chief of forecast operations at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
“We are entering the time of the year where the potential for severe weather increases and much more of the U.S. becomes at risk,” Bunting said this week in an email.
An average of 1,200 tornadoes hit the country yearly, and the United States will probably get more killer supercells spawning tornadoes and hail as the world warms, according to a recent study.
That study also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in populous Southern states like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. But tornadoes can happen any time of year and have been reported in all 50 states, according to NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory.
What should you do if your home is destroyed or severely damaged, once you are safe?
FOCUS ON YOUR SAFETY
The word people most commonly use to describe their mindset after a natural disaster is “overwhelmed,” according to United Policyholders, a nonprofit that advocates for insurance consumers.
“Our basic guidance is to first focus on you and your family’s safety,” said Amy Bach, United Policyholders’ executive director.
Next, if possible, she recommends photographing and documenting damaged and destroyed property — without entering severely damaged buildings — and determining whether further damage can be prevented through the use of tarps, fans or other methods.
Finding safe and comfortable temporary shelter and getting a copy of your current insurance policy are important next steps. When you’re safe, have shelter, and have an idea of the extent of your home’s damage, be sure to notify your insurance company.
HOW’S YOUR INSURANCE?
Tornado damage is generally covered under homeowner’s and renter’s insurance policies. But you’ll want to read your insurance policy to know your deductible costs and what is covered, Bach said. If damage is minor to moderate, it might not cost as much to repair as the deductible in your policy.
“We tell people not to rush and to instead take stock and get situated before making any decisions,” she said. “Know that you’ll get solicited (by contractors), and in the first 48 hours, the shock and the trauma generally means you’re not in your best decision-making mode.”
For temporary, immediate housing, people often turn to a shelter opened by a local government, the American Red Cross or other organizations.
In addition to providing a place to sleep, water and meals, Red Cross services — all of which are free — can sometimes also include child care, information about disaster-related resources in the community, and access to case workers to help with disaster recovery.
People also may need to access insurance to cover longer-term housing, to rebuild a home and/or replace belongings, including vehicles.
Keep receipts for hotel bills, clothing and meals while displaced, and take notes on the calls you make to insurance companies, including the numbers you call, the people spoken to, dates and times, and what was said.
KEEP UP PAYMENTS
If your residence is temporarily uninhabitable or destroyed, the Red Cross recommends notifying utility companies and other services so they can stop billing you immediately. Paying insurance premiums and rent or mortgage should be your highest priority, according to the Red Cross.
Call any creditors and ask for more time to pay. Most creditors will be willing to work with you, especially if you notify them before a payment is due, the Red Cross said.
Overall, most people have a very steep learning curve after a tornado or other natural disaster because people think they’ll be OK if they have insurance.
“But for many people, that’s just one piece of getting back as close to where you were,” Bach said. “Losing a home is very much like a death in the family.”
The Red Cross also has a section on its website dedicated to recovering emotionally after a disaster.
“Try to accept whatever reactions you may have,” the organization advises. “Look for ways to take one step at a time and focus on taking care of your disaster-related needs and those of your family.” | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/was-your-home-damaged-in-a-tornado-heres-what-to-do-next/ | 2023-04-07 12:55:54 | 1 | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/was-your-home-damaged-in-a-tornado-heres-what-to-do-next/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he will give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime, becoming the latest billionaire to pledge to donate much of his vast fortune.
Bezos, whose “real-time” worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $124.1 billion, made the announcement in a joint CNN interview with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez that was released on Monday. The billionaire didn’t specify how – or to whom – he will give away the money, but said the couple were building the “capacity” to do it.
“The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way,” Bezos said during the interview. “It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work and very smart teammates. And I’m finding – and Lauren’s finding – that philanthropy is very similar. It’s not easy. It’s really hard.”
Previously, Bezos has been criticized for not signing the Giving Pledge, the campaign launched by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffet to encourage billionaires to donate the majority of their wealth through philanthropy.
The billionaire stepped down as Amazon CEO last year to devote more time to philanthropy and other projects. He’s pledged $10 billion to fight climate change as part of his Bezos Earth Fund initiative. And according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, he gave $510.7 million to nonprofits last year.
On Saturday, Bezos and Sanchez also announced a no-strings-attached $100 million grant to singer Dolly Parton, who’s been praised for her philanthropic work that helped create the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19. Bezos had given a similar grant to chef José Andrés and CNN commentator Van Jones last year. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-jeff-bezos-says-he-will-give-away-most-of-his-fortune/ | 2022-11-15 06:03:26 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-jeff-bezos-says-he-will-give-away-most-of-his-fortune/ |
NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- H&M USA and Buy From A Black Woman kicked off the start of the non-profit's 2022 Inspire Tour in New Orleans with a celebratory dinner hosted by artist, poet, activist, and author Cleo Wade. Preceded by a special screening of BFABW's new documentary, "The Story Behind A Black Woman", the dinner was followed the next day by the tour's first pop up at H&M's French Quarter location, which highlighted Black Woman owned businesses from all over the country.
On June 30th, H&M and non-profit Buy From a Black Woman celebrated the start of their 2022 Inspire Tour ,now in its second year, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The evening began with a special screening of the non-profit's new documentary "The Story Behind a Black Woman" at New Orleans' WB Collective in the heart of the Warehouse Arts District. The film examines Founder Nikki Porcher, the background of her creation of the non-profit as well as its incredible effect on Black Woman business owners operating in a world where they may not always be seen. Following the screening, guests were led by a classic New Orleans brass band to a dinner at Calcasieu, hosted by Cleo Wade, in celebration of the start of the Inspire Tour the following day in H&M's French Quarter location at 418 N Peters St.
"As a New Orleans native, its so special to me to be supporting Buy From a Black Woman and the kick off to their Inspire Tour 2022 here in the Crescent City," says Wade. "I'm inspired by the work Nikki Porcher and the organization has done in empowering Black Woman business owners, and I look forward to continuing my work with them this year."
The Buy From a Black Woman Inspire Tour is a series of pop-up shopping events across 12 U.S. cities, highlighting local Black Woman owned businesses and providing them options in a world that limits their voices. July 1st marks the beginning of the Inspire Tour in New Orleans. On July 1st and 2nd, customers are able to shop from vendors such as including Perfectly Cordial, Flyest, Stepstitches, Taupe Coat, Oasis Soul Scent Co., Dirt Don't Hurt, Kindred Paper Company, Kate Lynn & Adwoa, Conditionher, Mlp Media and Lamik Beauty. Products range from skincare, wellness, stationary and more.
"I've often said that Buy From A Black Woman brings Black Women into spaces that we never thought we could imagine, but that is not true," says Nikki Porcher, Founder of Buy From A Black Woman. "The Buy From A Black Woman Inspire Tour has proved that wrong. Black Women do imagine these spaces, we just do not often get the chance that we deserve as there are people who believe Black Women do not belong in certain spaces. That is why this partnership with H&M is such a valuable one. H&M is one of the few companies that continues to stand up and show their support to Black Women Business Owners. H&M gave Black Women space. We live in a country that uses Black Women as examples without ever admitting how inspired they are by the way that we, Black Women, are living. Black Women are the Living Examples and I am excited to travel the country and showcase all the things that we can do."
Events in New Orleans, Dallas, Oakland, Detroit, Milwaukee and Memphis will be hosted in H&M stores where customers can meet and shop from local vendors. A variety of businesses will be featured, ranging from skincare, stationary, to home accessories and more. Many of those featured support additional causes, standing true to Buy From A Black Woman's motto, "When you support a Black Woman Business Owner, you support a whole community."
"We thank Cleo Wade for joining us to host tonight's joyous dinner. We appreciate her taking the time to lend her support and her voice to our celebration of Buy From a Black Woman and the start of the Inspire Tour 2022," says Donna Dozier Gordon, Head of Inclusion and Diversity for H&M Americas. "We continue to be proud of the partnership we've forged with Buy From a Black Woman which exemplifies our commitment to meaningful community engagement."
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The orders came from on high, from Ukraine’s president and one of his ministers: Get trains running again to the latest city newly retaken by our troops.
“So literally: tanks, then trains,” said Ukrainian rail network boss Oleksandr Kamyshin, recalling the presidential instructions he received as the southern city of Kherson was being liberated last week, ending eight months of Russian occupation.
Among bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted.
Except, perhaps, the Ukrzaliznytsia.
The national rail company proudly boasts that 85% of trains ran on schedule last month. Night trains that rattle across the country still welcome customers with hot tea and clean sheets in the sleeping compartments. As well as people, trains carry cargo, aid and gear Ukraine needs to fight. They also are the easiest way for world leaders to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, the capital that in war is unreachable by air.
All this despite thousands of missile, bomb and artillery strikes that have crumpled bridges, blown up tracks and, says Kamyshin, killed nearly 300 rail workers and wounded almost 600 others since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
“We are a machine,” Kamyshin said. “We keep running.”
Kamyshin spoke to The Associated Press in an exclusive interview at Kyiv’s majestic train station, as air raid sirens howled as they so often do over the capital. He paid them no mind. He was just back from Kherson and, in a few hours, was due to head back there again. Sipping from a flask of tea, he showed no fatigue. An imposing, fit-looking bear of a man, his black T-shirt and fatigues were neatly pressed.
“I am about efficiency,” said the 38-year-old CEO. He worked in private enterprise before taking the reins in 2021 of the state-owned rail company, Ukraine’s largest employer, with 231,000 workers and 27,000 kilometers (more than 16,700 miles) of track.
One of his rules, he said, is: “War is not an excuse.”
Another rule is that he won’t send rail workers up against dangers that he’s not prepared to face himself. His dash to Kherson as the first Ukrainian troops were entering the southern city involved considerable risks, with portions driving along dirt tracks that de-miners hadn’t yet cleared, he said. He posted videos and photos of the odyssey on Twitter, showing wrecked and derailed rolling stock, torn up tracks and an impromptu breakfast of eggs fried outdoors with a camping stove. “Boots on the ground is our way,” he wrote.
“When my people see me and my team in Kherson, they know they’re fine to go there themselves,” he told the AP. “It would be strange for me to send them there without being ready to go with them.”
In Kherson, he discovered that residents had already raised the Ukrainian flag on the train station roof. He photographed rail cars that Russian forces vandalized before they retreated, by painting over the rail company’s logo and Ukraine’s coat of arms — a trident — on their sides.
Most of all, he saw pressing needs: the city had no power or water and supplies were short. Clearing and repairing tracks so trains can bring in aid and people, and cargo can travel in and out freely again, was an urgent priority. In other retaken towns, the network has provided buses to carry passengers the last steps of the way when tracks are too damaged to be quickly repaired.
“The whole country should rely on the railways,” Kamyshin said. Passengers will “always be transported and (at) the station they will always get hot tea, medical first aid and all the rest.”
The network is targeted so frequently, with infrastructure damaged daily and thousands of times, that the rail company has largely given up talking publicly about attacks, Kamyshin said.
“We don’t want to be the most boring guy in the party, constantly reporting that we’ve been shelled,” he said. “We just go and fix it.”
Winter’s approach and the extra demands that the cold and dark will place on Ukraine’s war-battered power grid — Russia has repeatedly struck energy plants and facilities — are another challenge for the network that runs both diesel and electric locomotives. But Kamyshin said they’re preparing for that too. He recently posted images of a belching steam locomotive that he said was being looked at as a possible alternative should all else fail.
“We always have Plan B,” he said. “Stations are always supplied with electricity, always light on, always warm, and it will be so even in the winter. That’s my job. That’s our goal. That’s what we fight for.”
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'The Popcorn Guy' gains fame on TikTok By Mia Estrada Published January 15, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email At a theater in Texas, the Popcorn Guy is a new TikTok sensation working behind the counter — making popcorn of a particularly buttery variety. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.nepm.org/2023-01-15/the-popcorn-guy-gains-fame-on-tiktok | 2023-01-15 22:33:58 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/2023-01-15/the-popcorn-guy-gains-fame-on-tiktok |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting executives from Live Nation, Airbnb and other companies at the White House on Thursday to highlight his administration’s push to end so-called junk fees that surprise consumers.
Biden prioritized the effort to combat surprise or undisclosed fees in his State of the Union address and has called for legislation, regulation and private sector action to end them. Biden, at Thursday’s event, was set to announce actions by companies that have eliminated or plan to eliminate those surprise fees.
The consumer advocacy push is part of the Democratic president’s pitch to voters ahead of his 2024 reelection bid that government can help improve their lives in big and small ways.
At the White House, Live Nation, which is based in Beverly Hills, California, is announcing that it will provide customers with upfront all-in pricing — meaning the actual purchase price including service charges and any other fees — for its owned venues by September and that Ticketmaster will give consumers the option to view all-in pricing up front for other venues on the live-entertainment tickets platform. SeatGeek, based in New York, will also unveil features to make it easier to browse for tickets with the true cost displayed.
Airbnb, based in San Francisco, rolled out its all-in pricing tool in December, after Biden first called on companies to stop hiding fees.
“President Biden has been working to lower costs for hardworking families by bringing down inflation, capping insulin prices for seniors, and eliminating hidden junk fees,” National Economic Council director Lael Brainard said in a statement. “More companies are heeding the President’s call so that Americans know what they’re paying for up front and can save money as a result.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/biden-targets-junk-fees-with-executives-from-live-nation-seatgeek-and-airbnb/ | 2023-06-15 14:07:56 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/biden-targets-junk-fees-with-executives-from-live-nation-seatgeek-and-airbnb/ |
Supreme Court climate ruling could impact nuclear waste case
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses, advocates across the political spectrum say.
Two Republican attorneys general — including the West Virginia official who successfully challenged Environmental Protection Agency rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions by power plants — say the Supreme Court ruling applies more broadly to other executive branch actions. And in at least one case, environmental groups appear to agree.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the court’s June 30 ruling, which limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, can be used to block a federal license issued to a private facility to store radioactive waste in his state.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, fresh off a win in the climate case, says he will challenge a proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to report on their climate risks, including those related to the physical impact of storms, drought and higher temperatures caused by global warming.
The court’s 6-3 ruling said EPA violated the “major questions” doctrine in regulating greenhouse gas emissions by power plants. The decision held that Congress must speak with specificity when it wants to give an agency authority to regulate on an issue of major national significance.
Several conservative justices have criticized what they see as the unchecked power of federal agencies.
Some legal experts suggested the Supreme Court ruling also might be cited in challenges to President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that the administration would provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans — and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need.
Jay Duffy, an attorney for the environmental group Clean Air Task Force, said the ruling in the West Virginia case “set an exceptionally high bar’’ for executive-branch agencies to act on a variety of issues without triggering the major questions doctrine.
That’s problematic, Duffy wrote in a blog post, “because Congress generally writes laws in broad terms such that they can be adapted to changing problems and solutions by the technical experts working at agencies to address public health, safety and the environment.’’
In the Texas case, Paxton contended in a court filing soon after the high court ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked specific direction from Congress when it licensed a private company to temporarily store spent, radioactive waste in west Texas near the border with New Mexico.
The ruling in West Virginia v. EPA “confirms that this case implicates the major questions doctrine,” Paxton’s office said in a letter to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing the state’s challenge in the nuclear case.
In a political twist, environmental groups that oppose the waste-storage plan also invoked the West Virginia case.
“No federal agency is above the law,” said Diane Curran, a lawyer for Beyond Nuclear, an advocacy group that opposes nuclear power.
The group argues in a separate case before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that a license issued to Texas-based Interim Storage Partners to store thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear fuel for up to 40 years is invalid because “it ignored the unambiguous mandates of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act” to store nuclear waste at a now-abandoned site at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.
“Only Congress can decide whether to abandon one of its primary strategies for ensuring the completion of a federal repository” for nuclear waste, Curran said.
Like Paxton and Morrisey, Curran said federal agencies appear to be going beyond their authority delegated by Congress.
“I do think there are policy issues here that are enormous,” she said in an interview. “It’s disturbing that the NRC put its oar in on a policy decision that belongs to Congress,” namely, where to store nuclear waste.
Wallace Taylor, a lawyer who represents the Sierra Club on nuclear issues, said he appreciates the irony that environmental groups are siding with staunch conservatives such as Paxton and Morrisey in the nuclear dispute.
“My enemy is my friend” when interests coincide, he said with a chuckle.
“It’s certainly a major question,” Taylor added, referring to nuclear waste storage. “Tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste” must be disposed of “and there’s no authority in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to license interim storage,” he said. “All they can license is a permanent repository” at Yucca Mountain, a project that has been mothballed for more than a decade and faces strong bipartisan opposition.
The NRC, in a legal filing in the 5th Circuit case, said the Texas license is not an example of overreach because the agency has “longstanding” authority on the issue, including in the 1954 Atomic Energy Act.
“The materials license issued here reflects a conventional exercise of NRC’s longstanding and exclusive authority over a matter that lies at the core of its expertise,” the agency wrote.
Congress has “clearly and expressly” granted authority to the NRC to license offsite nuclear fuel storage facilities, including in the 1954 law, the agency added.
Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said Paxton’s argument that the NRC lacks authority to license nuclear waste storage is dangerous. “While we have concerns about consolidated spent fuel storage safety and security, if @NRCgov were stripped of ALL authority to regulate #nuclear waste there would be utter chaos,” Lyman tweeted.
In formal comments filed with the SEC, meanwhile, 21 Republican attorneys general led by Morrisey argue that the securities agency is trying to transform itself from a financial overseer “into the regulator of broader social ills,” including climate change
“The woke left is going full throttle in their mission to change every facet of American life, businesses and erode our democratic institutions to suit their liberal agenda,” Morrisey said. “The Biden administration wants to radically transform the SEC and other agencies run by unelected bureaucrats and make them champions of climate change, regardless of what those agencies’ functions are.”
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December retail sales fall 1.1% after slipping in November
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they’ve done so, underscoring how inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season.
Retail sales fell 1.1% in December, following a revised 1% drop in November, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. In October, retail sales ticked up 1.3%, helped by early holiday shopping.
Auto sales declined as rising interest rates for auto loans crimped demand. That, and falling gas prices, helped to pull overall retail sales lower.
The Fed raised its key interest rate in December for the seventh time in 2022 for exactly that reason as it tries to cool spending and inflation.
Yet even excluding sales auto and gasoline sales, retail sales slipped 0.7%. Retail sales are not adjusted for inflation unlike many other government reports.
Sales fell 1.1% at electronics and appliance stores; furniture and home furnishing stores saw a 2.5% drop. And department stores suffered a 6.6% decline.
Spending has remained resilient despite a spike in inflation that began almost 19 months ago, but the capacity of Americans to continue that spending has ebbed.
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.
Ross, whose credits also include “American Horror Story: 1984,” will start an eight-week run beginning Sept. 12 at the Ambassador Theatre.
She will join a Broadway starting to open its arms to transgender actors. In 2018, “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” star Peppermint became the first openly trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway, starring in the Go-Go’s jukebox musical “Head Over Heels.” This spring, L Morgan Lee made history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated and go on to win a Tony Award for her work as a featured actress in the musical “A Strange Loop.”
Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as “All That Jazz” and “Cell Block Tango.”
It tells the story of Hart, a housewife and dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to leave her. To avoid conviction, she hires Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to help her dupe the public, media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by creating shocking headlines.
Other principal and featured Broadway actors who have identified as trans include Alexandra Billings in “The Nap,” Becca Blackwell in the play “Is This a Room,” and Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe in “Straight White Men.”
The celebrity-craving heroine at the heart of "Chicago'' has been played by dozens of women since the show opened in 1996, including Melanie Griffith, Christie Brinkley, Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields, Lisa Rinna, Gretchen Mol, Ashlee Simpson, Brandy Norwood, Jennifer Nettles and Robin Givens. Pamela Anderson made headlines earlier this year when she played Roxie.
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Former IL health club controller sentenced to 4 years in prison for embezzling over $4 million from facility
IL man would write payroll checks for 4 employees, forge their signatures, keep the money
A judge sentenced a former health club controller to four years in federal prison for embezzling more than $4 million from the facility.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman sentenced 58-year-old Peter Craig Savely on Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Savely pleaded guilty in October to one count of bank fraud. He acknowledged in a plea agreement that he stole $4.1 million from the East Bank Club over a seven-year period beginning in 2013. He would write payroll checks for four employees, forge the workers' signatures to endorse the checks and deposit the money into bank accounts that he controlled, according to the plea agreement.
CHICAGO-AREA BOY, FAMILY REACH $12M SETTLEMENT OVER POLICE SHOOTING
Prosecutors told the judge that Savely engaged in the fraud despite earning a six-figure salary. Guzman said Savely's actions were a "blatant betrayal" of his employer's trust.
"I can only conclude that the motive was greed," the judge said.
CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER ACQUITTED IN SELF-DEFENSE SHOOTING OF UNARMED MAN AT RED LINE STATION
Savely’s attorney, Andrew Porter, asked that his client get 2.5 years because he’s unemployed and deep in debt. Savely apologized to relatives and friends in court before the sentence was handed down and he put his hands to his heart.
"I am not that person," he said to the judge. "I don't want to be that person."
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How to Watch the White Sox vs. Angels Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for May 29
Published: May. 29, 2023 at 2:11 PM EDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
The Chicago White Sox and Gavin Sheets head into the first of a three-game series against Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels on Monday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
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- Date: Monday, May 29, 2023
- Time: 8:10 PM ET
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White Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The White Sox are 20th in MLB play with 55 home runs. They average one per game.
- Chicago is 24th in baseball, slugging .385.
- The White Sox have the 21st-ranked batting average in the league (.238).
- Chicago ranks 19th in runs scored with 235 (4.3 per game).
- The White Sox are 29th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .296.
- The White Sox strike out 8.3 times per game to rank 14th in baseball.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Chicago's pitching staff ranks sixth in the majors.
- Chicago has a 4.84 team ERA that ranks 26th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The White Sox have the 24th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.409).
Angels Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Angels' 69 home runs rank eighth in Major League Baseball.
- Los Angeles is eighth in MLB with a .422 slugging percentage this season.
- The Angels rank ninth in MLB with a .258 team batting average.
- Los Angeles has scored 259 runs this season, which ranks ninth in MLB.
- The Angels have the 11th-ranked on-base percentage in MLB this season (.327).
- The Angels rank 18th in strikeouts per game (8.6) among MLB offenses.
- Los Angeles strikes out 8.8 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 14th in MLB.
- Los Angeles has pitched to a 4.18 ERA this season, which ranks 15th in baseball.
- The Angels have a combined WHIP of 1.320 as a pitching staff, which ranks 19th in MLB.
White Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- The White Sox will send Michael Kopech (3-4) out for his 11th start of the season. He is 3-4 with a 4.24 ERA and 60 strikeouts through 57 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians, when he went seven scoreless innings while giving up two hits.
- Kopech is trying to record his third quality start in a row in this matchup.
- Kopech will look to continue a three-game streak of pitching five or more innings (he's averaging 5.7 innings per appearance).
Angels Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Angels will hand the ball to Griffin Canning (3-2) for his eighth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Wednesday, when he threw seven scoreless innings against the Boston Red Sox while allowing two hits.
- In seven starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Canning has two starts in a row of five innings or more.
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LONDON (AP) — In the end, all of Boris Johnson’s bluster couldn’t hide the facts: He didn’t have the votes to win the Conservative Party leadership contest and stage a political comeback just weeks after being forced out as prime minister.
The former Tory leader raced back from his Caribbean holiday to test the waters and try to garner the support of enough lawmakers to proceed to the next round. But as British media counted the number of declared supporters for Johnson, it cast doubt on whether he could cross the 100-vote threshold.
“Essentially the Boris Johnson bandwagon blew up,’’ said Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London. “He really doesn’t seem to have attracted anything like as much support as he hoped he would.”
The 58-year-old Johnson is one of the most recognized — and divisive — figures in British politics. The self-deprecating court jester of a figure led the Conservative party to a thumping election victory in 2019 with his bombastic speeches and populist policies. But critics were repulsed by what they saw as a penchant for bending the rules and embroiling the party in a series of scandals that torpedoed its standing with voters.
Johnson’s three tumultuous years in Downing Street featured allegations that he gave lucrative government contracts to wealthy supporters, allowed a senior Cabinet minister to bully subordinates and improperly used political donations to redecorate his official residence.
He was finally brought down by suggestions that he mishandled sexual misconduct charges against a party official, which forced him to step aside after more than 50 Cabinet secretaries and lower-level officials resigned from his government.
But Johnson’s downslide was encapsulated in the long-running controversy over Downing Street parties in 2020 and 2021 that violated COVID-19 lockdown rules.
With an investigation into whether Johnson intentionally misled Parliament about those parties to get underway in coming weeks, the scandal hung over Johnson’s bid to return to power like a guillotine. If the inquiry by a committee of lawmakers finds Johnson in contempt of Parliament, he could be suspended from Parliament and face a recall election.
That’s not something Conservative lawmakers want as they try to unite the party, and the nation, behind the spending cuts and tax increases likely needed to restore the nation’s financial credibility after outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss’ failed experiment with trickle-down economics.
“This all started because Boris Johnson was unable to run the government in the right way to keep it together … and to uphold the high standards of conduct that are necessary in the highest offices in the land,” former party leader William Hague told Times Radio on Friday. “So the idea that him returning is the solution — that … could become a death spiral of the Conservative Party.”
Johnson’s supporters tried to shrug off such criticism. Instead they focused on the idea that their man made the right decisions when it mattered — leading Britain out of the European Union, rapidly rolling out vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic and being among the first to send arms to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Just hours before Johnson bowed out, one of his most vocal supporters went on BBC television’s influential Sunday morning political interview show and claimed he already had the support of more than 100 members of Parliament.
“I have been speaking to Boris Johnson and, clearly, he is going to stand,” said Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was a member of Johnson’s Cabinet. “There is a great deal of support for him.”
But media vote counts never supported the bluster.
As the leading candidate, Rishi Sunak, raced past with 150 backers, Johnson’s support stalled at 76, according to the Guido Fawkes website, which focuses on U.K. politics. The BBC counted just 57 Johnson supporters.
Matthew Parris, a columnist for the Times of London, saw the Boris boosterism as a strategy to scare off opposition.
“Momentum is being manufactured through creating an impression that Johnson is already on his way to victory,” Parris wrote Friday. “Mysterious reports on social media suggest he’s surging ahead among those MPs who are declaring — but the identities of some of these are undisclosed. They will (we’re assured) reveal themselves ‘later.’”
Johnson tried another gambit Sunday, trying to persuade Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, the third candidate, to drop out and support him as the only candidate with the broad appeal to unite the party at this difficult time.
Sunak and Mordaunt called his bluff.
“I think he thought the shock and awe campaign might persuade Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt perhaps to surrender to him, to the supposedly inevitable,’’ Bale said. “But they were much cleverer and realized that it wasn’t inevitable at all.’’
Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support. He threw in his cards after Suella Braverman and Steve Baker, who had backed him as leaders of the pro-Brexit European Research Group, gave their support to Sunak.
Alex Crowley, a one-time Johnson aide, said his former boss probably did have enough support to get on the ballot. But that wasn’t enough to overcome questions about whether he was the right person to unite the party months after dozens of lawmakers refused to serve in his government.
“There were lots of influential voices within the party who were saying, ‘actually you know, this isn’t the right time, this isn’t the right call,’” Crowley told the BBC. “And, you know, Boris’ natural instinct is if he can’t win, then he doesn’t want to compete.”
But don’t expect Johnson to fade from the political scene.
When Johnson left office in early September, he suggested he was planning to return to Downing Street.
First he left the House of Commons with the words “hasta la vista, baby,” conjuring images of Arnold Schwarzenegger who famously promised to return as The Terminator. Then he left Downing Street with an allusion to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who laid down his arms and went back to his farm before coming out of retirement to rule Rome again.
On Sunday night, Johnson hinted his return had been delayed, not canceled.
With the next general election expected in late 2024, there’s likely to be another leadership contest in the coming months unless Sunak can quickly unite the Conservatives.
“I believe I am well placed to deliver a Conservative victory in 2024,” Johnson said late Sunday.
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How to Watch the Blue Jackets vs. Blues Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for March 11
Published: Mar. 11, 2023 at 1:18 PM EST|Updated: 10 hours ago
Having lost three in a row, the Columbus Blue Jackets welcome in the St. Louis Blues on Saturday, starting at 7:00 PM ET.
Tune in to see the Blues and Blue Jackets meet on ESPN+, BSOH, and BSMW.
Blues Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN+, BSOH, and BSMW
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Where: Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio
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Blue Jackets vs. Blues Head-to-Head
Blue Jackets Stats & Trends
- The Blue Jackets concede 3.7 goals per game (238 in total), 29th in the NHL.
- The Blue Jackets have 166 goals this season (2.6 per game), 30th in the NHL.
- Over the last 10 games, the Blue Jackets have gone 4-3-3 (55.0% of possible points).
- On the defensive end, the Blue Jackets have allowed 3.1 goals per game (31 total) over those 10 matchups.
- They are scoring at a three goals-per-game average (30 total) during that span.
Blue Jackets Key Players
Blues Stats & Trends
- The Blues rank 28th in goals against, allowing 234 total goals (3.7 per game) in league action.
- The Blues' 194 total goals (3.0 per game) make them the 22nd-ranked scoring team in the NHL.
- Over the past 10 games, the Blues have claimed 50.0% of the possible points with a 2-6-2 record.
- On the defensive side, the Blues have given up 3.9 goals per game (39 total) in those 10 matchups.
- They have averaged 2.5 goals per game (25 total) over that time.
Blues Key Players
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Senate Republicans found themselves shaken and disoriented Thursday after finding out their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was in the hospital after tripping at a private event, raising questions about his health and future leadership of the GOP conference.
McConnell, who in January became the longest serving party leader in Senate history, has led the Senate GOP conference since 2005 and has helped guide his colleagues through some of the biggest moments in recent history — the 2008 financial collapse, the near default of the U.S. government in 2011, the fiscal cliff of 2012, the two impeachment trials of former President Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
McConnell fell after attending a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington and was taken to the hospital by an ambulance and is being treated for a concussion.
The 81-year-old Kentucky senator’s sudden absence came only a day after he helped Republicans achieve a big political victory by stampeding Democrats into voting to block a District of Columbia crime bill. And it left some GOP senators feeling unsettled and worried about the future.
“I am a huge fan of Mitch McConnell. I think he has the ability to lead a very diverse group of individuals in a way that is masterful,” said one GOP senator who requested anonymity to discuss the impact of McConnell’s injury on the Senate GOP conference.
“I think, who would be our next leader and what kind of leader would that person be?” the senator added. “Yeah, I do worry about that.”
“He’s always thinking ahead in terms of initiatives. He’s thinking about how the players on his team can fit. He’s got a knack for that that I don’t think you find in many others,” the lawmaker said.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.), former Senate GOP Whip John Cornyn (Texas) and Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (Wyo.) are viewed as McConnell’s three most likely successors.
But there hasn’t been any serious discussion of a future Senate GOP leadership race among Republican senators themselves because McConnell has a secure grip on the job and hasn’t dropped any hint about planning to retire.
He easily defeated former National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) by a lopsided vote of 37 to 10 when Scott tried to capitalize on Republican disappointment over the 2022 midterm election by challenging McConnell for the top job.
Scott, who has feuded with McConnell over party strategy since that race, tweeted on Thursday that he and his wife are keeping the leader and his family “in our prayers” and wished him “a speedy recovery.”
Senators were in the dark
The news that broke Wednesday night that McConnell had been rushed to the hospital after tripping and falling at a dinner event left Republican senators scrambling the next morning for more information about the severity of his injuries.
Speculation veered in all different directions, and the lack of details from McConnell’s office had lawmakers wondering about how bad the situation was.
McConnell’s top deputies, Thune and Cornyn, didn’t get a chance to talk to their leader before being pressed for details by reporters in the Capitol’s hallways.
Thune, looking somber Thursday morning, only said: “Don’t know a lot yet.”
Thune rushed straight to the floor before taking any other questions to be sure he first addressed his Senate colleagues, telling them that his “thoughts and prayers are with Leader McConnell” as well as “with his family” and “with his team.”
Cornyn was also in the dark.
“I understand that he’s resting up, but I don’t have any details,” he said.
McConnell’s office disclosed at lunchtime on Thursday that he was being treated for a concussion and would remain in the hospital for a few days of observation and treatment.
What exactly happened
As the day went on, a few other details leaked out about the accident.
McConnell was at the Waldorf earlier in the evening to attend a reception for the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC that he is affiliated with and played a major role in the last election by spending $290 million.
The reception was a thank-you event for the super PAC’s supporters, and several GOP senators attended.
“I think it was more of a thank you to the people that had helped with the fund in the last election cycle,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). “It was a pretty good showing of Republican colleagues. I don’t know how many showed up, but it seemed like there was a lot of us.”
McConnell later attended a small, private dinner that a person familiar described as “adjacent” to the reception. He tripped and fell after that dinner.
McConnell’s significant impact
A second Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic said McConnell’s hospitalization raises questions about the future leadership of the Senate GOP conference but emphasized, “It’s not time to be talking about [it].”
“My thoughts and prayers are with Elaine and Mitch and I hope it’s not too serious,” the senator said, referring to McConnell’s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
“I haven’t found anything good about getting old,” the senator quipped.
McConnell has been such a major political force in Republican politics for so long that his GOP colleagues have come to rely on his ability to pump huge sums of money into Senate battleground states and to insulate them from the turbulence in conservative politics that has roiled the House GOP conference.
He leadership is especially valued by mainstream and moderate Republicans such as Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of McConnell’s closest friends in the Senate, because he gives them space to work with Democratic colleagues and practice the style of Republican politics they see as best suited to their home states.
Colleagues also value McConnell’s ability to get their party out of tough political situations.
One example of that came in the fall of 2021, when he rounded up his leadership team and other allies to provide the 11 GOP votes needed to pave the way for Democrats to pass legislation to raise the debt limit.
McConnell took enormous heat from Trump and other critics for the vote, but it took the danger of a federal default off the table.
And McConnell has historically shown a willingness to inject himself in Senate Republican primary politics to pave the way for candidates he views as the most electable in a general election — an approach he adopted after Republicans fumbled away their chances to win seats in Delaware, Nevada, Missouri and Indiana in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Even senators who voted to oust him from his leadership job in November, admit their respect and admiration for his toughness in battle.
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Bret Bielema got the highest-ranked prep recruit of his tenure when Malik Elzy, a four-star receiver from Simeon High School in Chicago, announced his commitment to Illinois on Saturday at the Under Armor All-American Bowl.
Elzy signed with the Illini during the early signing period before announcing his decision during the game Saturday. He’s the 305th overall recruit and 43rd ranked receiver in the 2023 class according to the 247sports composite rankings.
He’s the highest-ranked Illinois recruit since Marquez Beason in the 2019 class. Him and Kaden Feagin, a four-star running back from Arthur, give Illinois two of the top five ranked players in the state of Illinois. This is the first time Illinois has had two players in the top 10 of the state rankings since the 2017 class with Ricky Smalling and Kendrick Green.
The 6-foot-3 receiver had 1,025 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior this season. Illinois now has 26 members of the 2023 signing class, with 22 prep or junior college prospects and four transfers. The overall class is ranked ninth in the Big Ten and 40th in the country. That’s the program’s highest recruiting ranking since it finished 35th in 2019.
Illinois football's 2023 early signing class
Alex Bray
Three-star defensive lineman Alex Bray from Chesterfield, Mo.
"He came to our camp and (defensive line coach Terrance Jamison) came off the field after working with him and was very excited," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Brandon Henderson
Three-star East Saint Louis offensive lineman Brandon Henderson. Henderson flipped from Iowa State to Illinois.
"Plays with really good demeanor," Bielema said. "Couldn't be more excited (about him)."
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Cal Swanson
Three-star quarterback Cal Swanson from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Swanson is the first signee at quarterback under offensive coordinator Barry Lunney Jr.
"Anytime you can make something out of nothing and make plays when things break down for your team it's special and that's what he's got all over him," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Collin Dixon
Three-star receiver Collin Dixon. Dixon originally committed to Wisconsin before flipping to Illinois. He had 37 scores over his last two seasons at Tallmadge High School in Ohio.
"A really dynamic player," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
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Kicker from Naperville David Olano. Bielema said he liked his leg talent and noted multiple of his kickoffs that went through the end zone and through the uprights.
"A very explosive and dynamic kicker," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
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Punter Declan Duley from El Paso, Illinois. Bielema noted Duley was a left-footed punter and said he learned form his time with the New England Patriots that left-footed punters have the ball come off their foot differently for return men.
"(He's) a really dangerous weapon for us to have in our bag of tricks moving forward," Bielema said.
Illinois athletics
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Three-star offensive lineman Dezmond Schuster from Gonzales, Louisiana. Was a first-team all-conference player in the same conference Isaiah Adams played in last season.
"He's very athletic and has tremendous power," Bielema said.
Illinois athletics
Jaheim Clarke
Three-star defensive back Jaheim Clark from Lehigh Acres, Florida. Bielema said defensive coordinator Aaron Henry "fell in love with this young man" quickly during the recruiting process.
"His game kinda reminds you of someone we're losing early this year who will be in the draft," Bielema said in comparing him to former Illini corner Devon Witherspoon.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Jeremiah Warren
Three-star defensive lineman Jeremiah Warren from Belleville, Michigan. Bielema compared his power and get-off to current Illini Johnny Newton.
"This is a 300-pound man that makes chasing down a quarterback look easy," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Jojo Hayden
Jojo Hayden is a four-star linebacker from East Saint Louis. Bielema noted his versatility as an inside linebacker or a player on the edge.
"I really think he brings a lot to the table," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman
Kaden Feagin
Four-star running back Kaden Feagin from Arthur. Feagin was the first four-star recruit of the Bielema era at Illinois.
"One of the first times he came to our camp I actually told him he reminds me a lot of watching (former Steelers running back Franco Harris) run," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Kaleb Patterson
Three-star junior college corner Kaleb Patterson from Jackson, Mississippi. He was an all-conference player for Pearl River Community College.
"Couldn't be more impressed with his ability to cover," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Kenari Wilcher
Three-star wide receiver Kenari Wilcher from Clewiston, Florida who had 15 touchdowns as a senior and plans to major in engineering.
"Really sure-handed and extremely explosive," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Mason Muragin
Three-star edge rusher Mason Muragin from Macomb, Michigan. Muragin had 27 sacks and 61½ tackles for loss over his final two high school seasons where he won a pair of state titles.
"Everything he does is 100 miles an hour," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Nate Guinn
Three-star tight end Nate Guinn from Vero Beach, Florida.
"Very raw and athletic," Bielema said. "He runs extremely well. ... Catches the ball extremely well."
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Pat Farrell
Three-star edge rusher Pat Farrell from St. Rita High School in the Chicago area.
"Plays a lot like our guys," Bielema said. "He plays with really good extension, really good motor and really good hustle."
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Saboor Karriem
Four-star defensive back Saboor Karriem from West Orange, New Jersey.
"This is one we've been excited about for a long time," Bielema said. "... This kid just loves to play the game. Very explosive, dynamic and very long."
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
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Three-star offensive lineman TJ McMillen from Naperville, Illinois. Bielema said he plans to put him at center.
Illinois likes his athleticism and made the decision to offer him a scholarship after watching his film and when offensive line coach Bart Miller saw him run the bases as a high school baseball player.
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Three-star linebacker Trey Smith from Ocoee, Florida. Smith chose Illinois over Arkansas, Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue and Tennessee among others.
He had 19½ sacks as a senior and chose Illinois because of its veterinarian school.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
Zach Aamland
Zach Aamland is a three-star offensive lineman from the Hun School in South Brunswick, New Jersey. Bret Bielema said he likes his flexibility and power for someone with his 6-foot-6 290 pound frame.
Craig Pessman, Illinois Athletics
Zach Tobe
Three-star defensive back Zach Tobe from Ocoee, Florida. Originally committed to North Carolina. Bielema praised his versatility of playing corner and safety and his ball skills.
"I really like the way he fits into our system," Bielema said.
Craig Pessman, Illinois athletics
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Exciting Data from University of Pittsburgh Researchers in Non Human Primates that Underpins Genprex's Gene Therapy Program in Diabetes to be Showcased
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genprex, Inc. ("Genprex" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GNPX), a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes, today announced that its research collaborators at the University of Pittsburgh will present preclinical data highlighting the therapeutic potential of Genprex's gene therapy for Type 1 diabetes at the 16th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD 2023) being held February 22-25 in Berlin, Germany and online.
"ATTD 2023 presents an ideal opportunity for the results of this important study to be presented to the diabetes community. The data further support the potential of Genprex's novel gene therapy being developed for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes to change the trajectory of this devastating disease," said Mark Berger, MD, Genprex's Chief Medical Officer. "Using the expression of Pdx1 and MafA transcription factors, this approach has been shown first in mice and then in non human primate studies to lead to the creation of new beta-like cells that produce insulin and may provide long-term replacement of beta-cells."
The diabetes gene therapy approach is comprised of a novel infusion process that uses endoscopic delivery of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector to bring therapeutic genes directly to the pancreas. In models of Type 1 diabetes, these genes express proteins that transform alpha cells in the pancreas into functional beta-like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct enough from beta cells to evade the body's immune system. In Type 2 diabetes, where autoimmunity is not at play, it is believed that using a similar approach the exhausted beta cells will be rejuvenated and replenished.
Presentation Details:
Abstract Number: 203
Abstract Title: Pancreatic Intraductal Infusion of Adeno-Associated Virus To Treat Non-Human Primates in a Toxin-Induced Diabetes Model
Format: Oral Presentation
Presenter: Ranjeet Kalsi, DO, representing the laboratory of George Gittes, MD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Time/Date: 1:45 pm Central European Standard Time on Saturday, February 25, 2023
The abstract will be made available on the ATTD conference website at https://attd.kenes.com.
Genprex, Inc. is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes. Genprex's technologies are designed to administer disease-fighting genes to provide new therapies for large patient populations with cancer and diabetes who currently have limited treatment options. Genprex works with world-class institutions and collaborators to develop drug candidates to further its pipeline of gene therapies in order to provide novel treatment approaches. Genprex's oncology program utilizes its proprietary, non-viral ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System, which the Company believes is the first systemic gene therapy delivery platform used for cancer in humans. ONCOPREX encapsulates the gene-expressing plasmids using lipid nanoparticles. The resultant product is administered intravenously, where it is then taken up by tumor cells that express tumor suppressor proteins that are deficient in the body. The Company's lead product candidate, REQORSA® (quaratusugene ozeplasmid), is being evaluated as a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (with each of these clinical programs receiving a Fast Track Designation from the Food and Drug Administration) and for small cell lung cancer. Genprex's diabetes gene therapy approach is comprised of a novel infusion process that uses an endoscope and an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector to deliver Pdx1 and MafA genes to the pancreas. In models of Type 1 diabetes, the genes express proteins that transform alpha cells in the pancreas into functional beta-like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct enough from beta cells to evade the body's immune system. In a similar approach used in Type 2 diabetes, where autoimmunity is not at play, it is believed that exhausted beta cells are rejuvenated and replenished.
For more information, please visit the Company's web site at www.genprex.com or follow Genprex on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Former Carroll High School and University of Saint Francis standout David Ejah has found a new home, as the high-flying forward announced he’ll play next season at the University of Indianapolis.
Ejah should have two years of eligibility remaining with the Greyhounds. Last year as a sophomore he was named to the NAIA All-American honorable mention team.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Claflin University announces that Bank of America will invest $500,000 to support the University's Center for Social Justice and the Pathways From Prison Program. The Pathways From Prison Program is a historic collaboration between Claflin and the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) that provides incarcerated individuals in South Carolina access to the University's exceptional academic programs.
Incarcerated individuals that meet Claflin and SCDC requirements can earn a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, psychology, and organizational management. They can also earn minors and certificate credentials.
Bank of America's investment will support student scholarships; enhance technological resources such as laptops, keyboards, printers, routers, and wi-fi hotspots. Funding for the partnership will also be used to increase the number of qualified faculty and staff to ensure incarcerated students receive the same high-quality educational experience that has earned Claflin national recognition as one of the nation's premier liberal arts universities.
"We are extremely grateful for Bank of America's support for our Center for Social Justice and the Pathways From Prison Program. Research indicates a dramatic reduction in recidivism rates for incarcerated individuals who participate in prison education programs," said Claflin President Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack, a 2019 USA Eisenhower Fellow. Warmack's research during his fellowship explored global best practices for reducing mass incarceration through education and rehabilitation.
"Bank of America's reputation as a global leader in banking and finance is widely recognized. This partnership amplifies their commitment to equality, equity, and expanding economic opportunities for diverse populations."
"Education is a gateway to a better life," said Kim Wilkerson, President, Bank of America South Carolina. "We appreciate Claflin University's leadership and recognize the success and progress made through the Pathways From Prison Program. Issues of racial equality and economic opportunity are deeply connected, and it's important to remove the barriers to success and focus on areas where systemic, long-term gaps have existed."
The Pathways From Prison Program was established through the Second Chance Pell Grant Pilot Program, a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) initiative. The grant provides need-based Federal Pell Grants to individuals incarcerated in federal and state prisons. Claflin University was the only historically black college/university (HBCU) in South Carolina among 67 colleges and universities nationwide selected for the program.
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Michigan woman who fled to Thailand after college student's hit-and-run death to be arraigned
The Michigan woman said she thought she was 'about to be robbed'
A Michigan woman accused of fleeing to Thailand after she allegedly was involved in a hit-and-run accident that left a college student dead on New Year's Day will be arraigned on Friday.
Tubtim "Sue" Howson fatally struck Ben Kable, a Michigan State University student with her 2016 BMW 320i on Jan. 1 at 5:49 a.m., according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.
Travel records reviewed by the FBI show that Howson got on a plane on Jan. 3 with stops in Dallas and Helsinki, Finland, arriving in Bangkok, Thailand, as her final destination. Howson is a U.S. citizen and is originally from Thailand. According to FOX 2, she will be arraigned on Friday.
She is being held at an undisclosed location in Michigan for security reasons after U.S. Marshals brought her back to Michigan, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said.
"I greatly appreciate the assistance of the Thailand authorities and our federal partners who worked tirelessly to bring this woman back and to hold her accountable," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
Court documents state that Kable was "in the roadway" when he was struck by the BMW, but officials say that it's not clear if he was "standing or walking in the roadway when he was hit." An accident report obtained by Fox News Digital shows that Kable was suspected to have been under the influence of alcohol, but that it was not a "contributing factor" in the incident.
Howson is being charged with failure to stop at the scene of a crime resulting in serious impairment or death as well as a federal charge for fleeing the country.
When Howson was encouraged by others to turn herself into police, she allegedly said "no cops, no cops," an FBI official wrote in a court document.
Thai deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said during a press conference on Feb. 14 that Howson would return to the United States.
At the request of the FBI, police in Thailand began to track Howson on Jan. 12, and found her on Jan. 14, suggesting that she turn herself in and go back to the United States.
MICHIGAN WOMAN CHARGED IN COLLEGE STUDENT'S DEATH TO RETURN TO US AFTER FLEEING TO THAILAND
Mara Schneider, a spokesperson for FBI's Detroit, Michigan field office, told Fox News Digital that Howson arrived in San Francisco on Feb. 24 and was then taken into federal custody.
"We did not arrest her. After she knew the facts, she showed the intention to accept the punishment in the U.S.," Hakparn said. "This will be a good example for Thai society."
Howson said during the press conference in Thailand that she thought she was going to be robbed before hitting Kable, according to the Bangkok Post.
"I thought I was about to be robbed … I was looking at the car on the roadside. It was dark, and then I hit something in front of me … At first I thought I hit a deer, but later realized I hit a man," Howson said.
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A French town is rattled after protestors attacked its mayor's home By Rebecca Rosman Published July 4, 2023 at 2:08 PM PDT Facebook Flipboard Email It's been a week of fury, violence and grief in France following a young man's fatal shooting by police. We visit one town where the violence was acutely felt. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.knkx.org/2023-07-04/a-french-town-is-rattled-after-protestors-attacked-its-mayors-home | 2023-07-04 21:35:52 | 1 | https://www.knkx.org/2023-07-04/a-french-town-is-rattled-after-protestors-attacked-its-mayors-home |
For the fourth week in a row, Ohio reported fewer than 10,000 COVID-19 cases.
The state added 8,833 cases Thursday, according to the Ohio Department of Health. It was a slight increase from the 8,260 cases reported on Feb. 2 and the 8,155 cases reported on Jan. 26.
Ohio recorded 402 hospitalizations in the last week. On Feb. 2, the state added 387 hospitalizations and 479 on Jan. 26.
As of Thursday, there were 687 people hospitalized with COVID in the state, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
West central Ohio — which is made up of Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties — had 50 inpatients with the virus. It was a 2% decrease from the previous week and a 60% decrease from 60 days ago.
Southwest Ohio had 101 patients with the virus. It was a 42% decrease compared to 60 days ago. The region had the same umber of COVID inpatients last week.
Southwest Ohio consists of Butler, Warren, Hamilton, Adams, Brown, Clermont and Clinton counties.
The state had 96 coronavirus patients it its ICUs Thursday, including 17 in southwest Ohio and one in west central Ohio.
It was a 13% increase in ICU patients with the virus compared to the previous week for southwest Ohio, but a 47% decrease from 60 days ago, according to OHA.
West central Ohio reported a 83% decrease in ICU patients with COVID from last week and a 92% decrease over the last 60 days.
ODH recorded 23 ICU admissions in the last week.
The state added 71 coronavirus deaths Thursday, bringing its total to 41,535, according to the state health department.
More than 64% of Ohioans have started the COVID vaccine, with 60% of the state finished with the primary series.
Approximately 15% of the state’s residents have received the updated booster vaccine, according to ODH.
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Fight menstrual cramps with food. Here’s how
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
About 85% of girls suffer painful bloating, cramps and abdominal pain during their monthly periods — and for some the problems can last for years.
“Since menstrual pain is a leading cause of school absenteeism for adolescent girls, it’s important to explore options that can minimize the pain,” said Dr. Stephanie Faubion, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Women’s Health in Jacksonville, Florida, in a statement. She was not involved in the study.
But there are behavioral adjustments girls and young women can make to reduce pain, according to a new analysis of studies. “Diet modification could be a relatively simple solution that could provide substantial relief for them,” said Faubion, who is also the medical director for The North American Menopausal Society, of the research findings.
The abstract, presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of NAMS, explored the connection between diet and dysmenorrhea, the medical term for painful periods. The lead author, Serah Sannoh, told CNN she became interested in the topic due to her own menstrual pain, which has plagued her since adolescence.
“I found diets high in inflammatory foods such as animal meats, oil, sugars, salts, and coffee contribute to an increased risk of pain during a woman’s period,” said Sannoh, who conducted the research as an intern at Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. She is currently a medical student at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
“A lot of the things that young people like to eat are are highly inflammatory … lunch meats, foods full of sugars and trans fats. But if you go on an anti-inflammatory diet — fruit, vegetables, olive oil, like the Mediterranean diet — you’ll get less cramping,” said NAMS board member Dr. Monica Christmas, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the study.
The scientific evidence has shown eating a healthy diet, getting good sleep and exercising are effective measures in curtailing the duration and severity of cramps, Christmas said. But she noted it’s important women see a health care provider: “Make sure that there’s not some other medical condition that might also be contributing to the symptoms.”
What causes the pain?
As your body prepares to menstruate, endometrial cells that built a lining in the uterus to welcome a fertilized egg begin to break down. As they do, those cells release large amounts of fatty acids called prostaglandins to make the uterine layer contract and expel the unused tissue. The body also releases prostaglandins naturally during labor to open the cervix for birth.
Prostaglandins act like hormones, causing blood vessels and smooth muscles to constrict, resulting in cramping and pain. Researchers have found prostaglandin levels are higher and uterine contractions are stronger and more frequent in women with menstrual pain than women who have little or no pain, according to American Association of Family Physicians.
Eating inflammatory foods only adds to the discomfort, studies have found. Highly processed and high-sugar foods and fatty, greasy foods are common culprits — a 2018 study found college students who ate more snacks had more pain during their periods.
Another 2018 study of Spanish college students found women who drank cola and ate meat were more likely to suffer pain during their cycle than women who ate more vegetables and fruits. In fact, a 2020 study found women who ate fewer than two servings of fruit a day were more likely to suffer pain during their menstrual cycle.
Part of the problem is an imbalance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, Sannoh found. Omega-3 fatty acids — found in foods such as salmon, tuna, sardines, oysters, walnuts, chia and flaxseeds — are anti-inflammatory. Studies have linked them to a reduction in risk for many chronic diseases triggered by inflammation.
Omega-6 fatty acids keep skin, hair and bones healthy and help regulate metabolism, in addition to their role in the reproductive system. But too many of these fatty acids can cause inflammation when the body ultimately breaks them down into arachidonic acid, which lowers the body’s pain threshold.
“From my research, I found out that people with diets high in omega-6 fatty acids, especifically those derived from animal-based products, have a higher presence of arachidonic acid in the body, which increases the amount of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins that help the uterus contract,” Sannoh said.
“When you have a diet that balances omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and you decrease the amount of inflammatory foods that you ingest, that will decrease the painful menstrual experience,” she added.
Two separate studies from 2011 and 2012 revealed women who took omega-3 fatty acid supplements reduced the intensity of menstrual discomfort enough to lower their use of ibuprofen for pain relief. And a 1996 study found a highly significant relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and milder menstrual symptoms in teens.
Other solutions
Changing your diet is not the only way to fight menstrual pain. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, reduce the production of prostaglandins, which is why they are a mainstay of treatment for cramps, Christmas said.
However, these pain medications also have side effects. According to a 2015 Cochrane Library review of evidence, NSAIDs are linked to bloating, diarrhea, dizziness, indigestion, headaches, heartburn, high blood pressure, nausea, vomiting and on rare occasions, raised liver enzymes.
Certain oral birth control pills also lower the production of prostaglandins in the uterine lining, which then reduces both blood flow and cramping. Doses of less than 35 micrograms were “effective and should be the preparation of choice,” according to a 2009 Cochrane Library review.
But if you are not interested in using these methods — or want extra relief — give an anti-inflammatory diet a try. Sannoh put her research into practice by decreasing her intake of red meat and other inflammatory foods such as sugar and coffee, and told CNN that it did decrease her menstrual pain.
There’s an added benefit to adopting an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, Christmas said.
“These diets are also associated with less high blood pressure, less cardiovascular disease, less diabetes, less arthritic issues, decreased morbidity and mortality, especially after menopause,” Christmas said.
“So if you can get people who are young to eat better, exercise, and live a healthier lifestyle, they’re going fare better as they age.”
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC) ("TMHC") today announced that its subsidiary, Taylor Morrison Communities, Inc. (the "Issuer"), has commenced a tender offer (the "Tender Offer") to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 6.625% senior notes due 2027 (the "Notes").
In connection with the Tender Offer, the Issuer is also soliciting (the "Consent Solicitation") from holders of the Notes consents (the "Consents") to proposed amendments to the indenture, dated as of February 10, 2020, by and among the Issuer, the guarantors party thereto (the "guarantors") and U.S. Bank, National Association, as trustee (the "Trustee") (the "Indenture"), to (i) shorten the minimum notice period for optional redemption of the Notes by the Issuer from "at least 15 days but not more than 60 days" to "at least three Business Days and no more than 60 days" and (ii) eliminate certain covenants and events of default (collectively, the "Proposed Amendments"). The terms and conditions of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are described in an Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated June 13, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement"). The following table summarizes the material pricing terms of the Tender Offer.
The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation will expire at Midnight, New York City time, at the end of July 12, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Issuer (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Date"). No tenders submitted after the Expiration Date will be valid. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Tender Offer, holders that validly tender their Notes and validly deliver their Consents and that do not validly withdraw such Notes and Consents on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 27, 2022 (such date and time, as it may be extended, the "Early Tender Deadline") and whose Notes are accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer will be eligible to receive the Total Consideration set forth in the table above, which includes the Early Tender Payment set forth in the table above. Holders that validly tender their Notes and validly deliver their Consents after the Early Tender Deadline and on or prior to the Expiration Date will only be eligible to receive the Tender Offer Consideration set forth in the table above, which is the Total Consideration less the Early Tender Payment.
The consummation of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are subject to, and conditioned upon, the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement.
In addition, holders of all Notes validly tendered along with Consents and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer will receive accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes from the last date on which interest has been paid to, but excluding the applicable settlement date.
In order for the Proposed Amendments to be adopted with respect to the Notes, Consents must be received in respect of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (excluding any Notes owned by the Issuer or any guarantor, or by any person directly or indirectly controlled by the Issuer or any guarantor) (the "Requisite Consents"). Assuming receipt of the Requisite Consents from holders of the Notes, the Issuer and the guarantors expect to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture (the "Supplemental Indenture") to the Indenture to be entered into by and among the Issuer, the guarantors and the Trustee promptly following the receipt of such Requisite Consents. The Supplemental Indenture will become effective upon execution, but will provide that the Proposed Amendments will not become operative until the Issuer accepts for purchase the Notes satisfying the Requisite Consents in the Tender Offer.
Tendered Notes may be withdrawn and Consents may be revoked at any time at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline. Any Notes validly tendered and Consents validly delivered at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline that are not validly withdrawn or validly revoked at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline may not be withdrawn or revoked thereafter, except as required by law. In addition, any Notes validly tendered and Consents validly delivered after the Early Tender Deadline may not be withdrawn or revoked, except as required by law.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. No offer, solicitation, or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful.
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. is the dealer manager and solicitation agent (the "Dealer Manager") in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation. Global Bondholder Services Corporation has been retained to serve as both the depositary and the information agent (the "Depositary and Information Agent") for the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation. Questions regarding the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation should be directed to the Dealer Manager at (800) 558-3745 (toll-free) or (212) 723-6106 (collect). Requests for copies of the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement and other related materials should be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation at (212) 430-3774 or (866) 470-4200 (toll free) or by e-mail at contact@gbsc-usa.com.
None of TMHC, its board of directors, the Issuer, the guarantors, the Trustee, the Dealer Manager or the Depositary and Information Agent, makes any recommendation as to whether holders of the Notes should or should not tender any Notes or deliver Consents in response to the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation. The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are made only by the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement. The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are required to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation will be deemed to be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Dealer Manager or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
About Taylor Morrison
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Taylor Morrison is one of the nation's leading homebuilders and developers. We serve a wide array of consumers from coast to coast, including first-time, move-up, luxury, and 55-plus active lifestyle homebuyers under our family of brands—including Taylor Morrison, Esplanade, Darling Homes Collection by Taylor Morrison, and Christopher Todd Communities built by Taylor Morrison. From 2016-2022, Taylor Morrison has been recognized as America's Most Trusted® Builder by Lifestory Research. Our strong commitment to sustainability, our communities, and our team is highlighted in our latest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report on our website.
For more information about Taylor Morrison, please visit www.taylormorrison.com.
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Georgia asks court to immediately reinstate abortion ban
By SUDHIN THANAWALA
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials have asked a court to immediately block a judge’s ruling striking down the state’s abortion ban and also allowing the procedure to again be performed beyond about six weeks of pregnancy. The state attorney general’s office said in court documents Friday that the decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had no basis in law or common sense. It asked the high court for an order immediately putting McBurney’s decision on hold while the justices take more time to consider an appeal. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/18/georgia-asks-court-to-immediately-reinstate-abortion-ban/ | 2022-11-18 22:27:41 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/18/georgia-asks-court-to-immediately-reinstate-abortion-ban/ |
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China's 'surprising' confusion on spy flight shows 'communication is falling apart' in Beijing, expert says
Former CIA officer and FBI special agent notes China's initial 'regret' is not typical behavior
A former CIA officer and FBI special agent said Wednesday that China's changing rhetoric on the spy flight that dominated headlines last week indicates there's some "confusion" in Beijing and possible "infighting at the top."
"What I didn't expect of their reaction is this the initial feeling of regret," Tracy Walder told "America's Newsroom," noting that China will often portray itself as a "victim." "They sort of now have taken this hardened response, which tells me there's perhaps a bit of confusion in Beijing."
A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson reiterated Saturday the flight was "entirely an unexpected situation caused by force majeure," adding, "We have no intention to violate and has never violated the territory or airspace of any sovereign country."
After the U.S. military shot down the aircraft, however, the Foreign Ministry launched a "stern protest" of the "unacceptable and irresponsible" response and demanded the equipment's return to China.
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"This tells me that this kind of back-and-forth with their Minister of Defense [means] that perhaps he is not communicating with President Xi and perhaps that communication is falling apart," Walder told Fox News' Dana Perino.
Walder said she has "vacillated" on whether the presence of the aircraft was an accident or done on purpose.
"If you remember, on February 2nd, the U.S. signed a military agreement with The Philippines that really expanded our military base capabilities much closer to Taiwan, so I'm certain that China was obviously not pleased with that agreement; however, the fact that it was on the heels of that trip by Secretary Blinken to Beijing indicates to me that this was probably an accident, and they didn't intend to necessarily get caught," she said.
CHINA REFUSED CALL WITH PENTAGON AFTER F-22 SHOT DOWN SPY FLIGHT
Walder believes another visit from Secretary of State Antony Binken to China could be "back on the table" and added that bringing down the temperature between the two countries is one of the top priorities in moving past the spy flight fiasco.
She added that the alleged miscommunication between top Chinese officials not only deviates from the country's norm, but could also signal "discrepancies" at the top of the leadership chain.
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When asked Tuesday for additional information regarding the purpose of the spy flight and reports of similar aircraft making routes through North American and South American airspace, spokesperson Mao Ning declined.
"The Chinese side has given information about the unmanned airship on several occasions. I don’t have anything to add at the moment," she stated.
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The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints revolving around children’s privacy and its payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases, U.S. federal regulators said Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games Inc., which has parlayed Fortnite’s success in the past five years to become a video game powerhouse.
The $520 million covered in the settlement consists of $245 million in customer refunds and a $275 million fine for collecting personal information on Fortnite players under the age of 13 without informing their parents or getting their consent. It’s the biggest penalty ever imposed for breaking an FTC rule.
“Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.
Even before the settlement was announced, Epic said in a statement it had already rolled out a series of changes “to ensure our ecosystem meets the expectations of our players and regulators, which we hope will be a helpful guide for others in our industry.” The Cary, North Carolina, company also asserted that it no longer engages in the practices flagged by the FTC.
The $245 million in customer refunds will go to players who fell victim to so-called “dark patterns” and billing practices. Dark patterns are deceptive online techniques used to nudge users into doing things they didn’t intend to do.
In this case, “Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button,” the FTC said.
Players could, for example, be charged while trying to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing a nearby button when simply trying to preview an item, it said.
“These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers,” the FTC said.
Epic said it agreed to the FTC settlement because it wants “to be at the forefront of consumer protection and provide the best experience for our players.”
“No developer creates a game with the intention of ending up here,” Epic said.
During the past two years, Epic also has been locked in a high-profile legal battle with Apple in an attempt to dismantle the barriers protecting the iPhone app store, which has emerged as one of the world’s biggest e-commerce hubs during the past 14 years. After Epic introduced a different payment system within its Fortnite app in August 2020, Apple ousted the video from the app store, triggering a lawsuit that went to trial last year.
A federal judge ruled largely in Apple’s favor, partly because she embraced the iPhone maker’s contention that its exclusive control of the app store helped protect the security and privacy of consumers. The ruling is currently under appeal, with a decision expected at some point next year. | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-fortnite-maker-epic-games-to-pay-520m-to-settle-ftc-cases/ | 2022-12-20 13:44:34 | 0 | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-fortnite-maker-epic-games-to-pay-520m-to-settle-ftc-cases/ |
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