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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
1-0-4-3
(one, zero, four, three)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
1-0-4-3
(one, zero, four, three) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17338647.php | 2022-07-29 19:40:00 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17338647.php |
- Every day is World Oceans Day at SeaWorld as a portion of park proceeds goes directly toward animal rescue and conservation all year long
- First 1,000 guests arriving at each U.S. park today will be gifted a free reusable tote bag to help combat single use plastic bag pollution; SeaWorld was the first theme park in the U.S. to eliminate single use plastic straws and bags
- SeaWorld encourages the public to share their favorite SeaWorld animal experience on social media today for a chance to win a free annual pass
ORLANDO, Fla., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today SeaWorld celebrates World Oceans Day with a free gift for parks guests while supplies last and a chance to win a free annual pass. Celebrating at SeaWorld lets guests become part of the cause for marine life conservation as a portion of proceeds from the parks goes toward animal rescue and conservation all year long. To honor the importance of conserving the world's oceans and animals, SeaWorld is offering free reusable tote bags to the first 1,000 guests who enter each of its Orlando, San Antonio, and San Diego parks today. This reusable bag is the latest way guests can join SeaWorld in its continued effort to combat single use plastic pollution. SeaWorld was one of the first theme parks in the U.S. to eliminate single use plastic bags and straws to help keep oceans free of plastic.
"At SeaWorld, every day is World Oceans Day," said Marisa Thalberg, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for SeaWorld. "Today, we honor the spirit of the day by encouraging our guests to keep our oceans free of plastic by reusing their SeaWorld totes instead of single use bags. We know too that SeaWorld has been an icon in celebrating and educating our guests on marine animal life and conservation for generations. We cannot wait to see our fans engage at the parks and through their online communities to learn more about ocean preservation on this important day."
SeaWorld is inviting guests to share a photo on social media today for a chance to win an annual pass to the park. SeaWorld fans are encouraged to post on social media their favorite SeaWorld animal experience photo tagging @SeaWorld and using #WorldOceansDay and #Sweepstakes on social. SeaWorld will surprise three lucky guests with an annual pass enabling them to create more memories and learn more about their favorite marine animals all year long. See here for official rules and details.
A visit to SeaWorld is one way the public can get involved in the conservation of the world's oceans. SeaWorld is one of the largest marine animal rescue organizations in the world and guests can go behind the scenes to learn more about this important work. The parks make it possible for SeaWorld to continue to make meaningful contributions to science through the study of animals in our care and field research. Those efforts have resulted in the publication of more than 400 peer reviewed scientific articles and books. The non-profit SeaWorld Conservation Fund, now in its 20th year, has provided more than $20 million in grants to 1,400 organizations across all seven continents, all focused on marine animal and ecosystem conservation.
To learn more about how you can participate in World Oceans Day at SeaWorld parks and purchase tickets, please visit www.seaworld.com.
About SeaWorld
SeaWorld is a leading marine life theme park and accredited zoo and aquarium that provides experiences that matter while educating and inspiring guests of all ages to care about marine life. Welcoming millions of guests every year, the parks offer fun and enriching experiences from up-close animal encounters and year-round educational programs to award-winning marine-life themed rides and attractions, special events and exciting entertainment. For more than 60 years SeaWorld has advanced the conservation of marine life in and outside its parks through science, education, and exceptional animal care that is Humane Certified by American Humane and accredited by the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. SeaWorld is one of the largest marine animal rescue organizations in the world, helping more than 40,000 animals to date. The SeaWorld Conservation Fund, a non-profit foundation established in 2003, has provided more than $20 million to nearly 1,400 organizations to advance critical research on every continent. A portion of park proceeds goes toward supporting these longstanding conservation commitments. SeaWorld parks are in Orlando, San Antonio, San Diego and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). SeaWorld is part of the SeaWorld Entertainment (NYSE: SEAS) portfolio of theme park brands. For more information, visit us at SeaWorld.com.
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The Operational Analytics Club, a community for data practitioners, will host a two-day, online gathering with technical sessions, sessions on using data to drive business, hackathons, and more for data professionals July 28 & 29
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Census (www.getcensus.com), the operational analytics platform that syncs customer data from your data warehouse to all your key business tools, announced its inaugural community conference, Summer Community Days, for July 28-29. The event is part of the programming The Operational Analytics Club (www.operationalanalytics.club), a dedicated community for modern data professionals, is hosting as part of the Summer of Data '22. Summer Community Days will include industry experts speaking on technical and data-related business topics, as well as in-person happy hours in San Francisco, Calif., Denver, Colo., Chicago, Ill., Los Angeles, Calif., and Brookyln, New York.
Summer Community Days focuses on amplifying the voices of data professionals–including analytics engineers, data analysts, and data-savvy business experts–so they can learn from each other and share their knowledge with the greater data community. Programming features online workshops, lectures, and hackathons across technical and data-driven business topics, including:
- Lane one: Technical deep dives
- Lane two: Driving data in business
Data practitioners can apply to speak at Summer Community Days on any of the topics above until 11:59 pm PT June 30. Accepted submissions will receive additional support from the Operational Analytics Club's community and content team.
"The data industry and community wouldn't be what it is today without the brilliant minds and contributions of data practitioners," said Allie Beazell, director of developer marketing for Census. "Summer Community Days is an opportunity for us to give the mic and stage to those community experts, learn from each other, and grow our collective knowledge around modern data best practices (and meet some new data nerds along the way). Census and The Operational Analytics Club are thrilled to help facilitate this exchange of expertise this summer to help members of our community stand out in their careers."
To learn more about the Summer Community Days event for data practitioners, visit operationalanalytics.club/summer-community-days. To submit a topic for a 30-minute presentation, visit www.operationalanalytics.club/call-for-proposals.
For more information about the Operational Analytics Club, visit www.operationalanalytics.club.
Census turns data warehouses into a hub for business operations, empowering everyone with trustworthy and actionable data. With its reverse ETL (extract, transfer, and load) tool, data teams can validate and publish analytics directly into all their applications in real-time. Hundreds of companies like Canva, Figma, Loom, and Notion use Census to sync billions of records to empower their customer success, sales, and marketing teams. Census is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Sequoia, and Tiger Global. For more information, visit https://www.getcensus.com or follow @census on Twitter.
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Sheriff: Man arrested for assaulting child he met through Snapchat; other victims possible
GENESEE CO., Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) – Michigan authorities said an alleged child predator was arrested after using a popular social media app to meet up with and assault young girls in multiple counties.
During a press conference with Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson, Linden Police Chief Scott Sutter said 28-year-old Bobby Lee McMillan traveled to Linden to meet up with a child and sexually assault her.
McMillan met the victim and proceeded to groom and build an emotional relationship with her using Snapchat, Sutter said.
The victim’s parents came forward with their daughter to tell her story, according to Sutter. She met up with McMillan alone at a park, away from her home, where he assaulted her several times, Sutter said.
Swanson said McMillian is also linked to similar cases in Bay, Mecosta, and Livingston counties.
McMillian is being held in the Genesee County Jail and was charged with four counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, and four counts of accosting a child for immoral purposes.
Swanson said McMillan is a habitual offender. His bond was set at $800,000.
Copyright 2022 WNEM via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/11/17/sheriff-man-arrested-assaulting-child-he-met-through-snapchat-other-victims-possible/ | 2022-11-17 22:58:45 | 1 | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/11/17/sheriff-man-arrested-assaulting-child-he-met-through-snapchat-other-victims-possible/ |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for a group of Navy SEALS and other Navy personnel who oppose a COVID-19 vaccination requirement on religious grounds want a federal appeals court to keep alive their legal fight against the Biden administration, even though the requirement has been lifted.
Congress voted to end the requirement in December. However, vaccine opponents note that commanders can still make decisions on how and whether to deploy unvaccinated troops, under a memo signed last month by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
In a case to be argued Monday afternoon at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, government lawyers say the issue is moot. They want the appeals court to lift injunctions blocking the vaccine requirements, saying they intend to have the whole case dismissed in a lower court.
Attorneys for the unvaccinated Navy personnel argue in briefs to the 5th Circuit that Austin’s memo and other Defense Department actions show that the Navy still intends to treat unvaccinated personnel “like second-class citizens because of their religious beliefs.”
Government lawyers argue the policy is in line with “well-established principles of judicial noninterference with core military decision making,” in their briefs.
The Navy SEALS filed their lawsuit in November of 2021, describing what they saw as a cumbersome 50-step process to apply religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine. Their lawyers have called a “sham” with applications being “categorically denied.”
The Defense Department denied the process was onerous and said the Navy has a compelling interest in requiring vaccinations for personnel who often operate for long periods in “confined spaces that are ripe breeding grounds for respiratory illnesses.”
In January of last year, a federal judge in Texas barred the Navy from taking any action against the Navy plaintiffs for being unvaccinated. A 5th Circuit panel rejected the Biden administration's request to block the judge's order.
But the administration won at least a temporary, partial victory last March when the Supreme Court approved a “partial stay.” The order allowed the Navy to consider the sailors’ vaccination status in making decisions on deployment, assignment and other operational issues while the case plays out. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/vaccine-litigation-lingers-after-lifting-of-17766784.php | 2023-02-06 17:23:35 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/vaccine-litigation-lingers-after-lifting-of-17766784.php |
HOUSTON (WXIN) – Around 14,000 bottles of laundry detergent are being recalled because it may be contaminated with bacteria.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Art of Green Free and Clear laundry detergent and Zen Lavender Garden laundry detergent. The laundry detergent was sold at Save Mart, Lucky and Food Maxx regional stores and online at Amazon.com from April 2022 through October 2022.
The recall was initiated because units from a single batch of the detergents may contain bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This environmental organism is found widely in soil and water.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it can cause infections in the blood, lungs, or other parts of the body. In 2017, it was responsible for 32,600 infections among hospitalized patients and 2,700 estimated deaths in the U.S.
The bacteria can enter the body if inhaled, through the eyes, or through a break in the skin. People with healthy immune systems are usually not affected by this bacteria.
The recalled products were sold in 100-ounce bottles and 33.8-ounce pouches. The UPC can be found near the barcode and the date code is found on the cap. The following products are subject to recall:
Anyone with the recalled laundry detergent should stop using it and contact AlEn USA for a full refund. To get the refund, people should take a photo of the UPC and date code before throwing the product away.
People can contact the company at 800-615-3191 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or email at artofgreen@alenusa.com. There is also a recall website available with frequently asked questions and a link to a form. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/laundry-detergent-recalled-over-possible-bacterial-contamination/ | 2022-12-12 17:27:23 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/laundry-detergent-recalled-over-possible-bacterial-contamination/ |
(The Hill) — A 2007 first-generation iPhone sold for $63,356 at LCG Auctions on Sunday, exceeding expectations of around $50,000.
The original iPhone was sealed in its original packaging and had never been opened, according to LCG Auctions.
Karen Green, the original owner of the phone, went on the talk show “The Doctor & The Diva” to have it appraised in 2019, where experts estimated it was worth about $5,000, largely due to it being in its original packaging and it being an 8GB model. Green said on the show that her friends bought her the phone, but she never bothered to open the package since she had just gotten a new phone.
“I didn’t want to get rid of my new phone, and I figured, ‘It’s an iPhone, so it will never go out of date,” she said in 2019.
Twenty-seven bids were placed on the iPhone between Feb. 2 and Sunday, with the first bid starting at $2,500.
Other first-generation iPhones have recently been auctioned off for about $35,000 in August and over $39,000 in October, according to LCG Auctions.
When the first-generation 8GB iPhone came out in 2007, it cost $599. Now, Apple has just released its latest version of the product in 2022, with the iPhone 14 costing between $799 and $1,199, according to Apple’s website. | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/first-generation-iphone-fetches-63000-at-auction/ | 2023-02-21 16:19:48 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/first-generation-iphone-fetches-63000-at-auction/ |
Alfalfa sprouts being recalled after salmonella outbreak
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska company is recalling alfalfa sprouts sold in three states after 15 cases of salmonella were linked to the food.
SunSprouts said Thursday that its recall covers 808 pounds (366.5 kilograms) of sprouts that it sold to distributors in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas in November and December. Health officials have said they linked the illnesses to alfalfa sprouts eaten at several restaurants and sold at several different grocery chains.
Neither the company nor health officials identified the restaurants and grocers that sold the sprouts that are suspected to be tainted with salmonella.
Nebraska health officials urged people not to eat alfalfa sprouts after they linked the illnesses to them. Most of the cases of salmonella were found in the Omaha area.
So far, no salmonella cases have been confirmed outside of Nebraska, but the Food and Drug Administration said it is conducting a multistate investigation into the outbreak.
Salmonella causes sometimes bloody diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. People with weakened immune systems, the elderly and young children are especially susceptible to developing severe illnesses. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 26,500 people are hospitalized and 450 die from salmonella infections every year. But most people recover from salmonella infections on their own.
The recalled alfalfa sprouts sold under the SunSprouts brand that have expiration dates between Dec. 10 and Dec. 27 and carry lot numbers of either 4211 or 5211.
SunSprouts, which is based in Fremont, Nebraska, said it is investigating how the sprouts were handled after they left the company’s facility.
Company President Mike Rhodes said the recall is being done voluntarily “out of an abundance of caution” to make sure people don’t get sick.
Rhodes said there haven’t been any positive salmonella tests at the company’s plant, which FDA inspectors were visiting Thursday.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.valleynewslive.com/2022/12/29/alfalfa-sprouts-being-recalled-after-salmonella-outbreak/ | 2022-12-29 19:05:09 | 1 | https://www.valleynewslive.com/2022/12/29/alfalfa-sprouts-being-recalled-after-salmonella-outbreak/ |
Showing war’s toll, Ukrainian first lady appeals for more arms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska appealed face to face to U.S. lawmakers Wednesday for more air defense systems to help guard her country’s skies, in an unsparing Capitol address showing the blood-stained baby strollers and small crumpled bodies left by Russian bombardment.
“We want no more airstrikes. No more missile strikes,” Zelenska told Republican and Democratic congressional members in a speech capping a visit to Washington in the stead of her husband, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Is this too much to ask for?”
“This is what I’m asking for and what my husband is asking for,” she said from the stage of the Capitol’s congressional auditorium, showing photos of carnage on an overhead screen that had lawmakers shaking their heads at the scenes. “As parents.”
Zelenska’s Washington meetings with first lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden and other top administration figures have been among her highest-profile events of the war. She spent the first two months after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in late February in seclusion with her two children, for safety.
Her husband has remained in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, through the war. He made a powerful address by video to lawmakers in the same auditorium earlier this year, drawing repeated standing ovations.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content.
Zelenska repeatedly thanked lawmakers and Biden for the billions of dollars in arms and other support the U.S. has delivered to Ukraine to help it battle Russian forces and warplanes. She called for more anti-air defense to help repel what have been unending Russian missile and airstrikes that have killed countless civilians and leveled some Ukrainian cities.
She showed photographs of a smiling, paint-smeared 4-year-old girl, Liza Dmytrieva, whom the first lady had happened to meet before Christmas. The screen next showed an overturned baby carriage with blood caking on the sidewalk beneath it, after an airstrike killed the girl and badly injured her mother last week.
Zelenska showed and told the stories of other Ukrainian children killed or maimed by airstrikes or shot to death as their families tried to flee with them.
“Our family represents the whole world for us, and we do everything to preserve it,” Zelenska said. “We cry when we cannot save it. And we remain completely broken when our world is destroyed by war.”
The speech was an unexpected change in tone for a visit whose previous public moments had included receiving a bouquet from Joe Biden at the White House, an award ceremony, and a visit to a local monument for Ukrainians.
“We’ve seen from Ukrainian leadership their courage but also their no-nonsense direct appeal and laying out the brutal mentality of Mr. Putin,” Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said as lawmakers walked out.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other top leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers listened.
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Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/07/20/showing-wars-toll-ukrainian-first-lady-appeals-more-arms/ | 2022-07-20 17:45:45 | 0 | https://www.kxii.com/2022/07/20/showing-wars-toll-ukrainian-first-lady-appeals-more-arms/ |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Saskatoon 2 Brandon 1 (OT)
Red Deer 6 Regina 5 (OT)
Prince Albert 6 Victoria 3
Seattle 4 Swift Current 2
Wednesday's results
Winnipeg 5 Saskatoon 3
Lethbridge 4 Moose Jaw 1
Regina 6 Calgary 5 (SO)
Prince Albert 4 Vancouver 1
Kamloops 5 Portland 1
Tri-City 6 Swift Current 1
Friday's results
Winnipeg 7 Brandon 6 (OT)
Regina 3 Lethbridge 2
Moose Jaw 4 Edmonton 1
Kamloops 6 Prince Albert 4
Tri-City 6 Portland 1
Prince George 8 Victoria 1
Kelowna 5 Vancouver 4
Swift Current 3 Spokane 1
Seattle 6 Everett 5 (OT)
Saturday's results
Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Winnipeg at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Tri-City at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Prince Albert at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Regina at Medicine Hat, 4 p.m.
Tri-City at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Red Deer at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 5 p.m.
Spokane at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17763384.php | 2023-02-04 07:10:54 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17763384.php |
People were reportedly forced to evacuate after a fire broke out at a high rise in Atlanta on Wednesday.
According to WXIA in Atlanta, the fire was coming from the roof of a student-housing building that's under construction.
Georgia State University tweeted an alert to staff and students, letting them know to avoid the area.
The fire was extinguished within an hour, WXIA reported.
It's unclear what caused the building to catch on fire. No injuries were reported.
According to The Associated Press, the 32-story building was scheduled to be completed by August 2023. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/high-rise-catches-fire-in-atlanta | 2022-08-31 20:08:33 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/high-rise-catches-fire-in-atlanta |
How Monumental Sports investment impacts Mystics
June 23, 2023 04:15 PM
Natalie, Kelsey Nicole Nelson and Subria Whitaker analyze how NBC Sports Washington's rebranding as Monumental Sports Network, plus Monumental Sports & Entertainment's investment into D.C. sports, impacts the Mystics. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/podcasts/brother-from-another/nuggets-jokic-being-overlooked-as-mvp-candidate | 2023-06-27 19:05:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/podcasts/brother-from-another/nuggets-jokic-being-overlooked-as-mvp-candidate |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Thursday that a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico now has a 50% chance of tropical development in the next seven days.
According to hurricane center forecasters, showers and thunderstorms associated with the area of low pressure have increased and become better organized overnight.
They said environmental conditions appear "marginally favorable for additional development in the next day or so, and a short-lived tropical depression or storm could form over that time span as the system meanders over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico."
TRACKING THE TROPICS: Hurricane Center | Hurricane Guide
The good news for South Florida is that conditions become unfavorable for additional development as the system drifts southward, likely remaining offshore.
Still, the system is expected to bring heavy rainfall across the peninsula this weekend.
WATCH: Steve Villanueva has your Thursday morning forecast
If it becomes a tropical storm, it would be called Arlene.
Thursday marks the official start of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. | https://www.wptv.com/weather/tropical-weather/6-1-23 | 2023-06-01 12:52:08 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/weather/tropical-weather/6-1-23 |
How Aerosmith Capped a Tumultuous Period With ‘Nine Lives’
After Aerosmith recorded the song “Nine Lives,” the band decided also to use the phrase as the title of its new album. It was an expression not only of the ups and downs, the second and third chances that the Boston rockers had experienced in their then-25-year career. It also signified the arduous process that it took to complete their latest studio record.
By the mid-’90s, Aerosmith were deep into a mid-career comeback that had begun with 1987’s Permanent Vacation and continued with Pump and Get a Grip, earning the band multi-platinum sales and an armload of U.S. Top 40 hits (11 between the trio of albums). As the boys began to plan their next studio release, frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry decided to work with Glen Ballard – the songwriter-producer who was just coming off a blockbuster success of his own, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill.
The “Toxic Twins” and Ballard teamed up in 1996 in Miami, beginning to write songs such as “Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees),” “Taste of India” and “Pink” (the last one with Richie Supa). Perry and Tyler also wrote with previous collaborators Desmond Child and Mark Hudson, while starting a new partnership with Marti Frederiksen.
Just after the rest of Aerosmith – guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer – came down to start rehearsing the new material, something unexpected happened. Kramer started to feel ill.
“It was a big, blue funk,” Kramer said in an MTV documentary about Nine Lives. “I went into a deep depression. A lot of issues came up for me that I had to deal with on my own. A lot of stuff around my childhood, I had lost my dad a little while back. It was sort of an emergency that came up for me and I had to take care of myself. That was the most important thing at the time.”
Listen to Aerosmith Perform 'Nine Lives'
Joey Kramer was soon on a plane back home, while the other four-fifths of Aerosmith decided how to proceed. They elected to bring on session drummer (and member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) Steve Ferrone to record with the band. The idea was that, if Kramer felt better, he could come back and record his parts in place of Ferrone’s.
The plan didn’t work out too well. Columbia Records, which was to release its first Aerosmith album since 1982, wasn’t pleased with the early tracks, feeling that Ballard had overproduced the Miami sessions, robbing the band of its grit. Tyler and pals weren’t thrilled with the results either, both because of Ballard’s work and Kramer’s absence.
“We worked with another drummer for a while,” Tyler said, “and it just didn’t have the Aerosmith kick-ass ability. So we took the whole process up to New York.”
It wasn’t quite that simple. Columbia, expecting a summer ’96 release, allowed Aerosmith more time to get it right. In the meantime, the band parted ways with its manager Tim Collins. After he saw the group through the most lucrative period of its career, Collins was fired because the band members felt he was playing them off each other. Aerosmith also sacked Ballard, choosing to work with Kevin Shirley. The South African engineer/producer was nicknamed “The Caveman” for his basic approach. It was complete turnaround from Ballard’s meticulousness.
Aerosmith got some happy news when readying to record in New York: Kramer was feeling well enough to join his bandmates in the studio. First, he attempted to replace Ferrone’s performances on the existing tracks. When that didn’t sound right, Aerosmith elected to start all over, playing the Miami material together as a five-piece. Well, sometimes it was more than a quintet, with the band joined on certain songs by strings players, keyboardist John Webster and Indian musician Ramesh Mishra, who played the sarangi on “Taste of India.”
Watch Aerosmith Perform 'Pink'
Nine Lives was “different in the sense that we hit upon a couple of East Indian vibe type-things that Yma Sumac and Donovan were into and the [Rolling] Stones and the Beatles,” Tyler said on Charlie Rose. “And it was something we’d never done together. … One of the things about Aerosmith that is a feather in our cap as far as longevity goes is that we’ve been able to be so different. Go from a song like ‘Nine Lives’ into a song like ‘Pink.’ Completely different.”
“Pink,” with its harmonica-spiked, bluesy feel, would end up becoming the album’s biggest hit – both on radio and MTV, where its computer graphics-enhanced video earned heavy rotation. Though the horn-driven lead single “Falling in Love” and power ballad “Hole in My Soul” also made the charts.
Nine Lives made its debut on March 18, 1997, and found itself atop the Billboard chart the next month. But despite being a No. 1 album, a worldwide hit with a number of singles on the radio, the album seemed like a disappointment. Such were the heights of “Angel,” “Janie’s Got a Gun” and “Cryin’” that anything less than record-setting sales appeared to be a disappointment.
“But that’s what we go through,” Whitford told Songfacts in 2015. “You create this music and you always have high hopes for it and it doesn’t always work out that way.”
Not that Aerosmith had much to worry about. The band soon embarked on a massive tour, netted a Grammy for “Pink” and remained relevant to MTV in middle age. The following year, the band would score its first (and only) No. 1 single with “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”
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An Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed Monday in Missouri, leaving at least three people dead and multiple people injured, authorities said. Seven cars and two locomotives on an Amtrak Southwest Chief train derailed.
According to Amtrak, the train was carrying about 243 passengers and 12 crew members when it collided with a dump truck at around 12:42 p.m. CT near Mendon, Mo., about 100 miles outside of Kansas City.
Two people from the Amtrak train were killed in addition to one person in the dump truck, Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal Justin Dunn told reporters during a news conference Monday afternoon.
Dunn told reporters there were at least 207 passengers and about 14 crew members, but that the totals are preliminary, and differ from the totals previously reported by Amtrak.
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Dunn did not specify an official count of how many others were injured. However, he told reporters that several others were taken to area hospitals.
Three passengers were taken from the scene to University Hospital in Columbia, hospital spokesman Eric Maze told The Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo., Gov. Mike Parson said at an appearance Monday afternoon that officials were closely monitoring the situation, according to NPR member station KCUR.
"We're just getting initial information in like, like most of you here, you know, it's, it's a terrible situation," Parson said. "Anytime you have a derailment of a train and multiple cars, it's not a good day. So, you know, right now our thoughts and prayers are with the people that were on that train the family, the rescue people."
In a statement, Amtrak said its incident response team has been activated, as the railroad service is currently deploying emergency personnel to the scene to help passengers and employees.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in a tweet that it is sending a 14-person team to investigate the incident.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RFI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on September 30, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2011, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
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DALLAS — As an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UT Dallas, Jeremiah Gassensmith has performed plenty of important research.
But few things are as important to Texans as his latest project: barbecue.
“It comes down to understanding the science, so, you can do better at perfecting your technique,” Gassensmith said.
For the good of science, and carnivorous Texans everywhere, last spring Dr. Gassensmith taught an honors class about barbecue and shared the science behind smoking a great brisket.
As meat lovers likely already know, temperature is vital. It’s what will make or break down collagen. Gassensmith said collagen may be the single biggest factor in smoking a quality brisket.
“Collagen can be your friend or your enemy,” Gassensmith said. “Collagen will melt at 160 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Dr. Gassensmith said collagen is not the same as fat. Like collagen, fat breaks down and melts when introduced to heat. However, fat has a lot to do with flavor while collagen controls texture.
Collagen is a protein that’s wound together like strands of yarn.
However, if brisket doesn’t reach 160 degrees the collagen won’t unwind and the brisket will be chewy. If the temperature gets too hot, the collagen will wind tighter and the brisket will be too dry.
That’s why "low and slow" is many a pitmaster’s motto, but temperature isn’t the only thing affecting collagen.
“One of the reasons we put salt on the beef is the salt will start to enter the meat and that high salt content actually helps the collagen unwind a little,” Gassensmith added.
When collagen unwinds, the meat gets moist.
Once collagen is unwound, some of that protein will rise to the surface.
“It actually creates a woven matrix with your spices, like your pepper and stuff, and that actually helps create the bark,” Gassensmith said.
To achieve a bark that’s as good as its bite, just add water. That’s because smoke nanoparticles are too big to penetrate brisket.
Rather, smoke just sticks to the surface. Those smoke particles stick best (i.e. creating a smoke ring) with water-based liquids.
If someone makes it that far, it’s time to wrap it up. Wrapping a brisket in either butcher paper or aluminum foil, sometimes called a "Texas crutch," helps retain moisture while the middle of the brisket finishes cooking.
Gassensmith points out, however, that wrapping a brisket does not help the meat reabsorb any juices.
“If you expect it to reabsorb juices, that’s not gonna happen,” he said. “If you expect it to continue to cook to help melt the collagen and render the fat, that will happen. And that will help.”
Once a brisket has been wrapped, it’s just a matter of waiting until the internal temperature has reached the desired doneness.
Nail the science and perfect brisket is the result every time, right?
“No,” Gassensmith laughed. “I suspect it’ll be forever before I’m actually really good.”
Largely because Gassensmith said smoking meat is a science and an art. It’s one thing to nail the science, but to flawlessly execute every other factor in barbecue is extremely difficult.
“The biggest ingredient is patience,” Gassensmith said. “And being willing to eat a bunch of crap before you get into the good stuff.”
More importantly, Gassensmith said sharing those mistakes with friends and family, on days like July 4, is what makes barbecue a uniquely Texan experience.
“That is my favorite part actually, is the community,” Gassensmith said. “And, of course, eating. Cause I like to eat.” | https://www.kcentv.com/article/features/smoking-a-better-brisket-jeremiah-gassensmith-texas-barbecue-ut-dallas/287-31d93ba2-4c00-40ef-aa14-152668257c27 | 2023-07-05 07:23:35 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/features/smoking-a-better-brisket-jeremiah-gassensmith-texas-barbecue-ut-dallas/287-31d93ba2-4c00-40ef-aa14-152668257c27 |
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph slays on ABC's school sitcom "Abbott Elementary" -- and brings that same energy to the holiday season.
In the same year she won an Emmy for her portrayal of the series' Barbara Howard, Ralph released a Christmas album titled "Sleigh."
In an interview with Rolling Stone, she described the LP as an "edgy and modern take on the holidays" inspired by The Jackson Five, Mariah Carey and Nat King Cole.
The album is produced by Ralph and eight-time Grammy-nominated producer B.Slade.
"It was her idea, from the very beginning, to have an intentional edge so that it would not sound like a traditional holiday album," B.Slade said in a statement from the album's distributor Syntax Creative.
Ralph said she was inspired to create a Christmas album thanks to a young man at 2021's 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia.
"[He] said, 'Miss Sheryl don't let next year come and you don't have a Christmas album, or song to sing in the parade.' He was so serious," she told Rolling Stone.
"I'm always excited when music is involved. I mean, if there is absolutely one universal language, I would have to say if it's going to be music, especially when people love it," she added.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain’s free trade agreements with New Zealand and Australia will come into force by the end of this month, the leaders from the three nations said Friday.
The announcement came while the prime ministers from the two Southern Hemisphere nations are in London for the coronation of King Charles III.
The deals are part of Britain’s efforts to expand its economic ties after it left the European Union. Both deals were first agreed to in 2021.
New Zealand officials say its deal will help boost sales of products like wine, butter, beef and honey, and will increase the size of its economy by up to 1 billion New Zealand dollars ($629 million).
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said it was a gold-standard agreement.
“The market access outcomes are among the very best New Zealand has secured in any trade deal,” Hipkins said in a statement.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the deal with New Zealand reflected the close relationship between the nations.
“This deal will unlock new opportunities for businesses and investors across New Zealand and the United Kingdom, drive growth, boost jobs, and, most importantly, build a more prosperous future for the next generation,” Sunak said in a statement.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it would mean more market access for its exporters.
“So for beef, for our sheep products, for our seafood, for our other products it will mean much greater access to the British market,” Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in an interview.
Albanese said it would also mean greater access for younger Australians to work in Britain and vice versa after the terms of a working holiday arrangement were expanded.
A similar scheme between New Zealand and Britain has also been expanded, increasing the length of working visas from two years to three years and the maximum eligible age from 30 to 35. | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/britain-to-start-free-trade-with-new-zealand-and-australia/ | 2023-05-05 06:37:00 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/britain-to-start-free-trade-with-new-zealand-and-australia/ |
McARTHUR, Ohio (WCMH) – A former fiscal officer in Ohio has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to repay the almost $340,000 he stole from his office and used in part to purchase a wildebeest, owls, hot tubs, a drum set, a gazebo, and a snow cone machine.
According to the Ohio Auditor of State, Cyril “Cy” Vierstra of Wilkesville, stole $339,717.86 in public funds from operations of Vinton Township to buy several exotic animals, and numerous items for his own personal use or for a primate exhibit at his roadside zoo on near the Vinton Furnace State Forest.
In 2017, the Auditor of State’s Special Investigations Unit received a complaint from the Vinton County Auditor’s Office with allegations that Vierstra was misusing township debit and credit cards. The resulting investigation led to a review of band records which uncovered questionable transactions between January 2016 and July 2020 to fund renovations to his residence and for expenses at the Union Ridge Wildlife Center, a nonprofit wildlife refuge Vierstra operated.
The refuge housed animals including tigers, aoudads, capuchins, chimpanzees, lemurs, macaques, spider monkeys, birds of prey and cranes.
Investigators determined Vierstra created fake invoices, billing slips and other fraudulent documents to hide his activities, which included 812 debit card transactions totaling over $127,000 on an online auction website. There, he bought items such as a drone, a video game system, tricycles, telescopes, a dishwasher, custom-built enclosures for his refuge facility, two snow owls from England and a wildebeest.
Auditors also created a breakdown of the various purchases. Using public funds, Vierstra is said to have also obtained five hot tubs, an above-ground pool, a gazebo, outdoor grills, a popcorn cart, a projector screen, kayaks, pressure washers, and a CPR manikin.
Vierstra pleaded guilty in October 2022 to felony counts of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, theft in office, tampering with records and a misdemeanor count of dereliction of duty. He was sentenced to 59 months in prison, plus at least 18 months and up to three years of mandatory post-release control.
In addition, Vierstra was ordered to pay restitution of all funds and ordered to forfeit a 2020 Cushman Hauler 1200x utility vehicle, a 2019 Cub Cadet XT1-LT42 riding lawn mower, a 2006 Chevrolet animal rescue trailer, and six Jeld-Wen Vinyl windows. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/hot-tubs-wildebeest-found-after-340k-in-ohio-public-funds-go-missing/ | 2023-04-19 01:53:51 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/hot-tubs-wildebeest-found-after-340k-in-ohio-public-funds-go-missing/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-8-1
(six, eight, one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-8-1
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8-part series explores the inhibitors to growth and the opportunities for all
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AOTMP® announced its agenda for an eight-part article series to bring awareness to telecom expense management (TEM) industry growth opportunities and to offer a prescriptive action plan to affect positive change. $4+ trillion is being spent globally on telecom, mobility, and IT products, services, and solutions each year, yet growth in the telecom expense management (TEM) segment of the industry is stagnate and fraught with customer satisfaction conflict. Only a handful of TEM vendors have revenue over $50 million and growth is largely achieved through customer churn. Customers seek new levels of performance, yet they base success on a decades-old value proposition of cost savings dependent on recurring invoicing errors.
"Addressing the supply and demand sides of the industry, this article series challenges the status quo for the industry and charts a clear path forward with benefits for all," said Timothy C. Colwell, AOTMP® Executive Vice President
The series overview is available now with articles publishing through December as follows:
- Part 1 – The Industry (September 2022)
- Part 2 – Value Beyond Cost Savings (September 2022)
- Part 3 – The Buy and Sell Process (October 2022)
- Part 4 – The Dichotomy of Savings (October 2022)
- Part 5 – The Buyer and Seller Relationship (November 2022)
- Part 6 – Building a Center of Excellence (November 2022)
- Part 7 – Message to the Buyers (December 2022)
- Part 8 – Message to the Sellers (December 2022)
The series is supported by AOTMP® Industry Growth Partners committed to:
- Improving the buy-sell process
- Developing stronger vendor-customer partnerships
- Focusing on creating or realizing value beyond cost savings
- Partnering with their vendors or with their business customers to build a world-class telecom and mobility management environment
- Identifying buyer and seller improvement and growth opportunities for each other
Significant opportunity is right in front of us if the industry works together to affect change. It starts with one vendor and one buyer, then two vendors and two buyers, and builds from there.
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Camden County marks Mental Health Awareness Month
In its second year, Camden’s mental health awareness walk connects residents with resources in the community.
The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, in conjunction with county agencies, hosted a mental health awareness walk on Saturday at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.
“The pandemic, if anything, exacerbated people who either were predisposed to having a mental health issue or condition, and then it was compounded,” Camden County Prosecutor Grace MacAuly said.
MacAuly also said the purpose is to connect residents who may be going through a tough time with resources through a fun community event. She adds that over the last decade, she has seen that the prevalence of untreated mental health issues can lead to incarceration.
“We see people coming into the criminal justice system that really would never be in that situation in the first place, but for either an undiagnosed mental health issue or disorder, or one that’s diagnosed but maybe not properly treated,” MacAuly said.
Several county agencies took part in the event, including the Office of Mental Health and Addiction and Youth Advocate Programs. Other organizations were present as well, including Princeton House, Rutgers Behavioral Health, and Sunrise Detox.
MacAuly said that within the prosecutor’s office, maintaining mental wellness is a priority. Investigators and staff members often work on difficult cases that can be taxing, so the office has initiatives that create opportunities for employees to care for themselves, like a wellness room with a vitamin D lamp and relaxing music.
“Anyone at any time can just go in there and take a break,” she said. “You can read a book…do a little workout. We have a yoga mat. You can practice meditation.”
There is also a psychologist available and “holistic wellness dogs.”
Additionally, there is a unit within the prosecutor’s office that assists crime victims and their families, as well as any witnesses. They refer people to “any service that they need, no matter what.”
“Whether it’s substance abuse, whether they need help with relocation or housing, or a certain type of doctor or a therapy…[we] connect them to the appropriate services,” said MacAuly.
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Golden Knights take 2-0 lead in Stanley Cup Final with 7-2 win over Panthers
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jonathan Marchessault scored twice and started an early blitz that chased the NHL’s hottest postseason goalie, and the Vegas Golden Knights seized control of the Stanley Cup Final with a 7-2 victory over the Florida Panthers in Game 2 on Monday night.
Adin Hill continued his stellar play in net with 29 saves for the Golden Knights, who grabbed a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
“We finished some plays,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “It’s a good performance for us. Our guys were ready to play.”
Marchessault also had an assist to finish with three points. His 12 postseason goals set a Golden Knights record, with all coming after the first round.
Brett Howden scored twice for the Knights, who also got goals from Alec Martinez, Nicolas Roy and Michael Amadio. Six players had at least two points for Vegas, all 18 Knights skaters were on the ice for even-strength goals and their nine goal scorers through the first two games are a Stanley Cup Final record. The Knights’ seven goals tied a franchise mark for a playoff game.
It was too much for Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was removed 7:10 into the second period down 4-0. It was the fifth time in 12 games the Knights have chased the opposing goalie.
“We can be a little better in front of our goaltender,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “I got him out to keep him rested.”
Matthew Tkachuk and Anton Lundell scored for Florida.
Teams that take a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup Final are 31-3 in the expansion era. The Panthers will try to buck history beginning with Game 3 on Thursday in Sunrise, Florida.
Hill once again brought his feistiness as well as his A-game. He stopped Carter Verhaeghe on a breakaway in the first, and later that period hit Tkachuk, who was in his net, with his blocker and then slashed him with his stick.
“He’s been unreal for us,” Vegas forward William Carrier said. “He’s been unbelievable.”
The Knights were dominant early, taking a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals from Marchessault and Martinez. It was Vegas’ third game in a row with a power-play goal, its first such stretch since Christmas week.
The Panthers lost their biggest, toughest defenseman early in the game when Radko Gudas was injured on a hit by Vegas forward Ivan Barbashev. Gudas left 6:39 in and did not return.
That was one of several big hits by Barbashev, the Golden Knights’ biggest trade-deadline acquisition, a Stanley Cup champion with St. Louis in 2019. Barbashev broke the sternum of Colorado defenseman Samuel Girard during the playoffs last year, also on a clean hit.
Vegas had its own scare late in the second period when Jack Eichel was nailed in the right shoulder by Tkachuk. Eichel returned in the third and set up Marchessault’s second goal for his second assist of the game.
“We did a good job managing momentum tonight,” Eichel said. “And we got some timely goals.”
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When Pam Knox walked into the peach orchard at the University of Georgia horticulture farm this spring, there was nothing on the trees except leaves and a couple of brown fruits -- the result of one of the state's warmest winters ever followed by two nights of freezing temperatures in March.
"It's just really odd, because over the course of one night, they lost their entire crop and their entire production here," said Knox, an agricultural climatologist with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, which shares research and expertise with farmers and others. Commercial peach farmers in the state lost as much as 95% of their yield, she estimated.
Georgia, with its iconic peaches, isn't the only place in the south where farmers have had to deal with changing conditions. Arkansas' peach crop was damaged last winter by sub-freezing temperatures, but Houston, Tupelo and Atlanta all had one of their top five warmest winters on record, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. Farmers are contending with those warming winters by using new or improved agricultural techniques, trying out new crop varieties and even growing crops that were previously less common in their regions.
"Winter is the season in Georgia that is warming the most quickly," Knox said, affirming a trend that includes most of the United States. "We don't have any reason to think that that trend is going to change, so we will continue to expect more warmer winters."
Cody Mills, an extension agent and Chickasaw County coordinator at Mississippi State University, said a warmer and wetter winter delayed some farmers from planting corn and some soybeans because they had to wait for drier days. A couple weeks might not seem like a long time, he said, but that can set back cutting and harvesting later.
Cattle ranchers have been affected, too. Mills said that the pathogens associated with a wet winter -- as well as the mud -- took a toll on some cows. Wetter, warmer weather creates better conditions for the pathogens and parasites that cause cows to develop conditions such as foot rot, pinkeye and diarrhea, said Russ Daly, an extension veterinarian with South Dakota State University.
In Texas, the warm weather presented more of a mixed bag for cattle farmers, said David Anderson, a professor and extension economist at Texas A&M University. He said drought conditions have meant higher hay costs, but farmers have needed less of it since cows eat less in hotter weather.
Farmers have always adapted to changing weather. Now they're adapting to climate change.
For example, some fruit growers in Georgia are planting earlier-blooming peach varieties that don't require as much cold weather, Knox said. But it's not an easy calculation, because some of those earlier varieties may also be more susceptible to frost.
Farmers may also diversify their crops. Knox said some farmers in recent years have begun trying citrus and olives that are more often grown in climates with milder winters than Georgia's.
In Mississippi, some farmers have turned to corn varieties with a shorter growing season, Mills said. And researchers are working to improve vaccines against livestock conditions that can be made worse by a warming environment.
Taking good care of animals regardless of the changing conditions is paramount, said Brandi Karisch, an extension beef cattle specialist for Mississippi State University.
"'We've always done it that way' is usually the death of a business, and you can see the same thing in the cattle world," Karisch said. "We have to adapt to what the animals are telling us that they need and what we're seeing from a climate and a system standpoint."
As they work to ensure the health of their crops and animals, farmers also "have to make sure that they make money, and you're not going to invest in a crop that's not going to succeed," Knox said. But she doesn't see the end of Georgia peaches anytime soon. Instead, she sees farmers considering which peach varieties they'll be able to grow going forward and what other crops they can add to the mix.
"I think the farmers see the temperatures get[ting] warmer as an opportunity to increase the diversity of what they can grow," Knox said. "They're trying to figure out ways to respond to that and to take advantage of it." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jun/09/farmers-adapt-to-warmer-winters/ | 2023-06-09 07:43:42 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jun/09/farmers-adapt-to-warmer-winters/ |
Marly Rivera is out at ESPN after she called another MLB reporter who attempted to interview New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge a "f---ing c--t."
Rivera, who covered the Yankees but was also a part of ESPN's national baseball broadcasts, uttered the derogatory term toward Ivón Gaete last week at Yankee Stadium.
While the Yankees were hosting the Los Angeles Angels, Rivera was interviewing Judge at a set-up time, according to the New York Post. Gaete, who was reporting for Tokyo Broadcasting with Shohei Ohtani in the Bronx, was also trying to interview Judge, ignoring Rivera's plea that her interview had been previously scheduled.
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Rivera's comment toward Gaete, who is the wife of MLB Vice President of Communications John Blundell, was caught on video.
ESPN released the following statement to Fox News Digital: "She no longer works here."
"I fully accept responsibility for what I said, which I should not have," Rivera told the Post. "There were extenuating circumstances, but that in no way is an excuse for my actions."
Rivera did note, however, that she feels she is being "singled out" by a rival.
"I am a professional with a sterling reputation across baseball, and I do believe that I am being singled out by a group of individuals with whom I have a long history of professional disagreements."
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One of Rivera's interviews with Judge last year went viral after she asked a rather uncomfortable question regarding Judge's impending free agency (he ultimately re-signed with the Yankees).
Rivera told Judge a story about a friend who has a son named Jacob who was upset over the rumors that Judge may have been leaving the Bronx at the end of last season, so Rivera gave Judge a chance to make him less nervous.
"Jacob, buddy, we got a lot of great Yankees on this team. There are a lot of great Yankees that’ll be here for a long time, so, you know, don’t be upset," he said. "Hopefully, you’ll be a Judge fan for life."
Rivera had been with ESPN for 13 years.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on June 8 in a case dealing with federal agents allegedly violating the constitutional rights of citizens.
Following the ruling, numerous tweets went viral claiming the court had just given U.S. Border Patrol agents authority to search homes without warrants, as long as those homes are within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
“The Supreme Court just ruled that Border Patrol can enter any home without a warrant and assault you, within 100 miles of the border,” read one tweet.
“The border… is a Constitution-free zone,” said another.
The claims often point out that the vast majority of Americans live within that 100-mile zone.
THE QUESTION
Can Border Patrol agents legally search your house without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of the U.S. border?
THE SOURCES
U.S. Supreme Court, Egbert v. Boule ruling
Howard Wasserman, Professor of Law at Florida International University
THE ANSWER
No, Border Patrol agents cannot legally search homes without a warrant simply because they’re within 100 miles of the border. A recent Supreme Court opinion did, however, limit citizens’ ability to seek damages if their constitutional rights are violated.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Supreme Court ruling that prompted the viral tweets doesn’t change what federal agents can and can’t do when it comes to searching private property. It does, however, change what citizens can do if their rights are violated by such agents.
So first, let’s break down what those rights are, and where the “100-mile zone” claims come from.
100-MILE ZONE
In most cases, law enforcement cannot stop or search you without probable cause, a search warrant, or your permission.
This is because of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which states that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated… but upon probable cause.”
However, a 1952 federal law carved out something of an exception for border security. The Immigration and Nationality Act states that agents can, “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States,” without a warrant, “board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle.”
It defines “reasonable distance” as “100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States ” and the border as “land boundaries and the territorial sea of the United States extending 12 nautical miles from the baselines of the United States.”
In other words, within 100 miles of the border – a huge swath of the country – agents can pull over cars or buses and ask for identification papers, and don’t need a warrant, probable cause, or permission to do so. They do, however, need one of those justifications to legally do more than that – for instance, searching the vehicle for contraband.
This 100-mile zone applies to vehicles, but not to buildings, meaning agents still need legal justification such as a warrant to enter a home or business.
However, closer to the border, the law does give agents some additional access. It says “within a distance of twenty-five miles from any such external boundary [they may] have access to private lands, but not dwellings, for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.”
The law explicitly states homes are off limits, meaning even within a 25-mile zone, Border Patrol agents cannot enter your home without permission, a warrant, or probable cause.
WHAT CITIZENS CAN DO
The ACLU claims “in practice, Border Patrol agents routinely ignore or misunderstand the limits of their legal authority in the course of individual stops, resulting in violations of the constitutional rights of innocent people.”
Legally, citizens can take the following actions if they believe any federal agent has violated their rights.
For one, if an agent obtains evidence against you in an unconstitutional search, it may be possible to have that evidence excluded from any court proceedings.
Secondly, you can sue for injunctive relief. That essentially means a court would order the agency not to engage in the conduct that violated your rights again.
Third, you can file an administrative complaint with the pertinent agency. The agency would then conduct an internal investigation, and potentially take action against the agent involved.
Fourth, if you’re looking to receive monetary damages, or for an external review of the agency’s conduct, you can file your complaint in federal court under the Federal Tort Claims Act. To do so you must first file an FTCA claim with the pertinent agency. After the agency conducts its review, it may decide to settle with you and provide damages. If it rejects your claim or fails to consider it within a certain time frame, then you can take it to court and sue for damages.
Fifth and finally, there is another, more rare measure you can take called a Bivens action, named after the 1972 Supreme Court case Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents. That case established a precedent for suing individual federal agents in court for constitutional violations, and obtaining more extensive damages. And that’s what the recent Supreme Court ruling addressed.
THE RECENT SUPREME COURT RULING
The circumstances in which citizens could sue agents under a Bivens action were already limited; the new ruling made them even more so.
The June 8, 2022 decision – Egbert v. Boule – dealt with a man named Robert Boule, who alleged that border agent Erik Egbert violated his Fourth Amendment rights by coming onto his property without permission, and then attacking him when he protested.
Boule sued Egbert in a Bivens action seeking damages for use of excessive force and violations of his constitutional rights. A district court sided with Egbert, but an appeals court sided with Boule.
The original Bivens case laid out a narrow framework for the circumstances under which such suits can be won, and later Supreme Court rulings narrowed that framework even further.
The 6-3 conservative majority ruled that Boule’s claim did not fall within that framework, thus further narrowing it to the point where winning a Bivens action is almost impossible. This was intentional; the justices said it should be up to Congress, not the courts, to decide whether citizens should be able to sue individual federal agents for damages.
The case does not deal with the Immigration and Nationality Act or the actual rules governing search and seizure near the U.S. border in any substantial way. However, by severely limiting the power of Bivens actions, the court did restrict options for recourse for citizens who believe federal agents violated their constitutional rights.
“The court did not explicitly say that the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to Customs and Border Patrol officials,” said Howard Wasserman, a professor of law at Florida International University who also wrote about the Egbert case for SCOTUSblog. “It didn't say that they can just go into your house without a warrant, it didn't say that they can use excessive force whenever they want to. What it said was, if that happens… you don't have this one particular remedy when they do that.”
“Now, that's no small thing,” he said. “That particular remedy potentially has a very strong deterrent effect. And so if you take away remedies, then rights start to become kind of meaningless… if there's no mechanism to hold the officer accountable, and to obtain a remedy, then the right doesn't do a whole lot.”
VERIFY contacted U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for comment; the agency did not provide one as of Thursday night. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/courts/no-warrantless-home-searches-not-legal-within-100-miles-of-us-border/536-666dd49d-b4d7-47f3-bf96-cbdfde085693 | 2022-06-17 16:17:05 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/courts/no-warrantless-home-searches-not-legal-within-100-miles-of-us-border/536-666dd49d-b4d7-47f3-bf96-cbdfde085693 |
Zebra dies after running into fence post at zoo
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A zebra has died after running into a containment fence post in his enclosure at a zoo in Milwaukee.
The zebra, named Stuart, was in the Impala Plains habitat at the Milwaukee County Zoo “exploring, running and chasing the impalas in the yard” Wednesday when he struck the fence post surrounding the habitat, the zoo said Thursday in a statement.
Tim Wild, the zoo’s curator of large mammals, said a necropsy will be done to determine why the zebra’s injuries were fatal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
“This tragic accident is a heartbreaking loss for the animal care team, and for everyone who cares about the zoo’s animals,” the zoo said on its website. “The focus now is on the wellbeing of the impalas and the ostriches who share the habitat. The impalas were brought inside for the remainder of the day, and the ostriches returned to the yard.”
Stuart was born in 2018 at a zoo in Minnesota and had been at the Milwaukee County Zoo since 2019.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VinFast announced it will start delivery of VF 8 City Edition vehicles to US customers beginning March 1, 2023. The delivery event will be held at the VinFast's store in California, marking VinFast's new journey in the international market.
These initial deliveries are from the first shipment of 999 City Edition vehicles, which were shipped to the US in December 2022. The VF 8 City Edition comes in both Eco and Plus trim with an EPA-rated range of 207 miles and 191 miles respectively.
The VF 8 City Edition customer delivery event will be held on March 1st at the VinFast store in California and, for those customers unable to attend the event, beginning on March 2nd, customers can have their vehicles delivered at home or they may schedule a pickup at a VinFast store. VinFast also announced multiple test drive events throughout California for customers to best experience VinFast's EVs.
Madam Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vice Chair of Vingroup and Chairwoman of VinFast Holdings shared: "Our team worked tirelessly to ensure VinFast vehicles meet the highest standards of quality, fit and finish our customers expect. The presence of VinFast electric cars on US streets in the coming days is an important milestone, accelerating VinFast's journey to compete in the US and abroad. Following deliveries in the US market, VinFast expects to deliver EVs in Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands."
The VF 8 City Edition offers many smart technology features such as Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and Smart Services to become a mobile platform that connects all aspects of life. These features will be enhanced regularly using over-the-air (FOTA) updates to improve vehicle functionality and customer experience.
Several leading insurance companies in the US have confirmed that they will provide vehicle insurance for VinFast owners. VinFast also offers an impressive 10-year warranty for their vehicles and batteries, as well as mobile repair services, and 24/7 roadside assistance.
About VinFast
VinFast - a member of Vingroup – envisioned to drive the movement of global smart electric vehicle revolution. Established in 2017, VinFast owns a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing complex with globally leading scalability that boasts up to 90% automation in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Strongly committed to the mission for a sustainable future for everyone, VinFast constantly innovates to bring high-quality products, advanced smart services, seamless customer experiences, and pricing strategy to inspire global customers to jointly create a future of smart mobility and a sustainable planet. Learn more at: https://vinfastauto.us/.
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Police: 2 killed, 16 injured after stolen car crashes
CHICAGO (WBBM) - A driver in a speeding stolen car crashed into several other vehicles in Chicago, resulting in the deaths of two people.
Police say the driver of a stolen black Dodge Charger was going the wrong way and speeding at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. Witnesses say speeds reached nearly 100 miles per hour before the Charger slammed into seven cars and caught fire.
The impact was so strong that at least one of the other cars involved flipped and landed on top of another. Multiple cars could be seen in the middle of the street with severe damage, and several emergency vehicles responded.
The two people in the Charger died.
The crash left others trapped in their vehicles. Police say seven children and nine adults were hospitalized.
Police say the Charger was reported stolen earlier Wednesday out of south suburban Markham. A long rifle was found in the car.
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Paul's three iconic solo albums (McCartney, McCartney II, and McCartney III) available together for the first time as a limited-edition box set – August 5th, 2022
LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Written, performed, and produced entirely by Paul McCartney, his three eponymous career-spanning solo albums (1970's McCartney, 1980's McCartney II, and 2020's McCartney III) will now be packaged together and available in one special boxset for the first time.
McCartney I II III box set will be available in three different formats – Limited Edition Color Vinyl, Black Vinyl Edition, and CD – each including three special photo prints with notes from Paul about each album. The newly created boxset cover art and typography for the slipcase are by Ed Ruscha. To pre-order McCartney I II III, please click HERE.
Bookending 50 years of unparalleled work, each album demonstrates Paul McCartney's restless creativity and adventurous artistic spirit. McCartney, the Number One Album was Paul's first solo album released in 1970 and features timeless tracks "Every Night" and "Junk," along with the immortal classic "Maybe I'm Amazed." This album saw a global music superstar pioneer a novel homespun approach to recording that would, in time, become a sought-after sound and the highly influential precursor to the "lo-fi" alternative genre.
Just as McCartney marked the end of an era with Paul's first release after leaving the biggest band in history, Paul did it again in 1980, this time signaling the end of 70s rock giants Wings. Taking a fresh approach to things, Paul wrote, performed, and produced the avant-garde masterpiece McCartney II, which reached Number One in the UK, and Number 3 in the US, producing such classics as "Coming Up," "Waterfalls," and "Temporary Secretary."
With McCartney III, Paul went back to basics again to create some of his most revealing work to date. Released in December 2020, just two years after Paul's Billboard-topping Egypt Station album, "Rockdown," saw Paul turn unexpected time on his hands into an opportunity to get into the studio on his own. An intimate and loose record featuring "Find My Way" and the now live favorite "Women and Wives," McCartney III features Paul's melodic gift at its forefront throughout. Upon release, McCartney III charted at Number One on the UK's Official Album Charts and Number One on Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart.
In an unrivaled career, Paul has always been willing to take risks and have fun along the way – his musical projects have included classical albums, electronic albums, ballet scores, writing for video games, and left-field collaborations — along the way, breaking chart records, box office records, winning countless awards and remaining one of the world's most influential and revered artists of all time. McCartney, McCartney II, and McCartney III captured and documented landmark moments of his singular career, each offering a personal snapshot of a unique artist at a particular moment in time.
Paul will headline the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, June 25th.
1) Slipcase cover art and typography by Ed Ruscha (all formats)
- Limited Edition Colour Vinyl
- Three-disc 180g audiophile vinyl set (McCartney - clear, McCartney II -white, and McCartney III - creamy white vinyl)
- Three x 8 x 10" photo prints with introductions from Paul
2) Limited Edition Black Vinyl Edition
- 180g audiophile vinyl set
- Three x 8 x 10" photo prints with introductions from Paul
3) CD
- Limited Edition three-disc set
- Three photo prints with introductions from Paul
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Join an archery league
The Quiver Archery Range at Osage Park in Bentonville begins fall archery leagues Friday. Shooting will be from 5 to 7 p.m. each Friday through Oct. 2. Cost for the season is $50 for range members and $150 for nonmembers.
Visit thequiver archery.com to register or for more information.
Fly tyers share technique
A free fly tying demonstration is set for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center in Springdale.
Twelve fly tyers from Bella Vista Fly Tyers and Trout Unlimited will demonstrate how to tie various fishing flies to catch trout and other fish. People may drop in at any time from 10 a.m. to noon to see the program.
Cleanup set at Lee Creek
The annual Lee Creek Cleanup hosted by Devil's Den State Park will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 10. Volunteers should meet at the horse camp pavilion on Arkansas 220 on the west end of the park.
Cleanup area is from the park to the Arkansas 220 bridge. Lunch will be provided from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the horse camp pavilion. Prize drawings will be from noon to 1 p.m.
Contact Terry Anderson, park interpreter, 479-761-3823, terry.anderson@arkansas.gov for more information.
Go fishing in Centerton
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will host a fall family fishing derby from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 24 at Centerton Lake in Centerton.
Game and Fish will stock the lake with channel catfish. Fishing is open to all ages. Anglers should provide their own tackle, bait and container to take their fish home.
Tagged stripers worth reward
Tagged striped bass have been released into Beaver Lake as part of an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission striped bass study. Anglers catching a tagged striper may redeem the tag for a $100 reward.
Clip the tag off close to the fish and call (479) 295-3765 and report the tag number, whether the fish was harvested or released, date caught, length of the fish and where in the lake it was caught. Tags can be mailed or returned to the Game and Fish Northwest Arkansas fisheries office, 2805 W. Oak St., Rogers, Ark. 72758. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/09/nwa-outdoor-briefs/ | 2022-08-09 11:44:26 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/09/nwa-outdoor-briefs/ |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials are preparing for as many as 80,000 residents who could no longer qualify for Medicaid coverage this spring, as the federal government reinstates a requirement that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic for states to verify the eligibility of recipients.
Michele Eberle, the executive director of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, said that beginning in May, the state can start ending Medicaid coverage for people who no longer qualify. Maryland, she added, is in a better position to reach people than many other states to either continue Medicaid coverage or move them into other health plans.
“We are working through all of those numbers right now, but we believe it’s around 80,000," Eberle told a panel of lawmakers last month. "There’s different little discrepancies of those numbers. The numbers we’ve come up with is about 80,000 that would roll off, people that we’ll have to make sure we’ve got them covered.”
Medicaid enrollment ballooned during the pandemic, in part because the federal government prohibited states from removing people from the program during the public health emergency once they had enrolled.
The program offers health care coverage to roughly 90 million children and adults — or 1 out of every 4 Americans.
Late last year, Congress told states they could start removing ineligible people in April. Millions of people are expected to lose their coverage, either because they now make too much money to qualify for Medicare or they’ve moved. Many are expected to be eligible for low-cost insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s private marketplace or their employer.
“We’ve had the largest number of folks put into Medicaid during this COVID (pandemic)," Eberle told Maryland Senate’s Finance Committee. “We ran a COVID special enrollment period over 2020 and 2021, and our numbers have just skyrocketed in Medicaid, and we don’t want to lose those people, so we’re working very closely with our department of health.”
Maryland will be reaching out to consumers to make sure if they are eligible for Medicaid that their coverage will be renewed. If they are no longer eligible, the state will help get them into qualified health plans, Eberle said. If they age out of Medicaid and are eligible for Medicare, the exchange will help get them on that pathway.
The Maryland Department of Health will be partnering with Maryland Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, the health exchange, the Maryland Department of Human Services and the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients.
“The communications campaign will include paid media, social media messaging, and other advertising and digital campaigns, in addition to targeted outreach by the MCOs,” the health department said in an email.
Eberle said Maryland is in a better position than a lot of states, because of its health care exchange. Maryland has an integrated system between Medicaid and qualified health insurance plans, and the state has not stopped doing redeterminations about qualifications, she said, while other states have not done them for three years.
“We’ve continued to do those redeterminations every single month," Eberle said. "Now what that means is we didn’t terminate anyone, but we sent them notices. We said if you have a new email address, a new phone, come back, update us, so we’re better off in that we have current information.”
Still, some are concerned by the sheer number of people who could be affected.
State Sen. Clarence Lam, a Howard County Democrat who also is a physician at Johns Hopkins, noted that it's a huge number of people who could suddenly lose health insurance. He said he believes “the jury is out,” on how the change will be handled.
“We are very concerned," Lam said in a recent interview. "We made a lot of strides during the pandemic. We don’t want the post-pandemic period to be a period where we see the greatest number of Marylanders thrown off our health insurance rolls.”
Suzanne Schlattman, a consumer healthcare advocate in Maryland, said she has been impressed by the level of collaboration between state agencies to address the matter.
Schlattman, who is the deputy director of development and community outreach for Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, said the biggest challenge will be in reaching people who got enrolled in Medicaid for the very first time during the pandemic, which marked a unique period when they did not have to update their information.
Maryland has about 1.7 million people in Medicaid, Schlattman said, the highest number she has seen. In that context, 80,000 doesn't seem so high, especially compared to what some other states are facing, she said.
“Other states are looking at a much larger shift and a much bigger bottleneck in getting people enrolled," Schlattman said. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/80-000-marylanders-could-lose-medicaid-eligibility | 2023-02-06 12:48:49 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/80-000-marylanders-could-lose-medicaid-eligibility |
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek will be sworn in as Oregon's new governor on Monday, ascending to the state's highest office after serving a record nine years as state House speaker and becoming one of the first openly elected lesbian governors in the country.
In her inaugural address at the state Capitol in Salem, Kotek is expected to pledge to unite Oregonians after a bitterly fought gubernatorial race — the tightest in a decade — in which Republicans sought to break Democrats' dominance of the state.
Kotek has said her top priorities will be housing and homelessness, mental health and addiction treatment, and education.
Oregon has struggled for years to address a housing shortage and interwoven homelessness, addiction and mental health crises. Its homeless population has increased by more than 22% since 2020, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It also has the highest drug addiction rate of any state and ranks last in access to mental health treatment, according to federal data from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Kotek will be replacing term-limited Democrat Kate Brown, whose strict coronavirus pandemic measures made her a polarizing figure. The two worked together for years as respective speaker and governor, and they have similar profiles as progressives and open members of the LGBTQ community. But Kotek sought to distance herself from Brown — and her low approval ratings — toward the end of the gubernatorial campaign, casting her predecessor as ineffective on homelessness.
Kotek won Oregon's three-way race for governor in November after fending off a stiff challenge from a fellow former state representative, Republican Christine Drazan, defeating her by less than four percentage points.
Kotek was a state representative from 2006 until 2022, when she resigned to run for governor. During her time in the Legislature, she became the longest-serving speaker in Oregon history after nine years in the role and cemented her status as a key player in state politics, earning a reputation for cutting deals and muscling bills through the state House.
As speaker, Kotek spearheaded and passed liberal agendas made possible by Democratic supermajorities, including the nation’s first statewide rent control law. She also helped push through gun storage laws, criminal justice reform and paid family leave, among other measures.
Lawmakers also will be sworn in on Monday. Democrats still control both chambers of the Legislature, but they lost their three-fifths supermajority in November's election.
Kotek joins Maura Healey of Massachusetts as the first openly lesbian elected governors in the country.
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SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Salina Police Department is investigating after someone fired shots into a home Friday night, putting the lives of five people in danger.
Police say the shooter fired at least 14 shots into a house in the 400 block of Phillips Street around 10:30 p.m.
A mother and father and their three children were in the home but were not hit, even though at least two of the bullets went through the bedroom where the children were sleeping.
Police say the gun was a 9mm.
If you have information that could help solve the crime, call the SPD at 785-826-7210. If you prefer to remain anonymous, call CrimeStoppers at 785-825-8477 or click here to submit a tip online.
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It’s been almost a year since the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 was revealed, but new information is still coming to light about the car.
The latest tidbit is the car’s top speed, which has been confirmed as 195 mph by Tadge Juechter, executive chief engineer for the Corvette line.
Juechter made the announcement while speaking during last month’s 2022 Corvettes at Carlisle, albeit with the disclaimer he and his team haven’t actually arrived at an official top speed for the car, Corvette Blogger reported.
There have been faster Corvettes before, like the 755-hp C7 ZR1 which was clocked at 212 mph, and Juechter acknowledged this with the comment the C8 Z06 isn’t a “numbers car,” and that the focus of development was on delivering a car that is the “most pure expression of track and driver capability.”
Separately, Josh Holder, chief engineer for the Corvette, told Corvette Blogger at the same event the Z06’s top speed would be reduced to 189 mph if fitted with the car’s available Z07 high-downforce package that adds a huge rear wing. The result: 734 lb of downforce at 186 mph and up to 1.22 g on the skid pad. More than likely, Chevy will add the package if it plans to set official lap times for popular racetracks, such as Germany’s Nürburgring.
The Z06’s 0-60-mph time is 2.6 seconds and the quarter-mile ET is 10.6 seconds at 130 mph.
The Z06 is powered by a unique 5.5-liter V-8 that boasts a flat-plane crank design, dual overhead cams, dry-sump lubrication, and an output of 670 hp and 460 lb-ft of torque, or the highest output of any production naturally aspirated V-8. The engine is mated to the same 8-speed dual-clutch automatic found in the Corvette Stingray, but with a shorter 5.56 final drive ratio for improved acceleration. Power goes only to the rear wheels.
Order books opened in July, at which time prices were set at $106,395 for the coupe and $113,895 for the convertible. The Z07 package will cost an additional $8,995.
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The Marvel Studios' Superhero and UNICEF Canada Ambassador Will Appear as a Special Guest at Blackbaud's Tech Conference for Good
CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, today announced that Simu Liu will join the mainstage at bbcon 2022 Virtual, the tech conference for good. Liu will participate in a keynote conversation at the conference, which is taking place Oct. 17–18 as a free, virtual event.
"Simu Liu is an inspiring actor and author. His captivating performances onscreen and voice for representation offscreen have catapulted him onto the global stage," said Catherine LaCour, chief marketing officer, Blackbaud. "We're excited for Simu to share his insight, encouragement and advice with our bbcon audience as they consider ways to carve their own paths as professionals and shape enduring organizations."
Simu Liu made his feature debut as the title hero in Marvel Studios' "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," which broke box office records on its release and became the second-highest grossing film of the pandemic era. Liu won the People's Choice Award for Action Movie Star of 2021 and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor in a Superhero Movie. In addition, Liu was named to Time Magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People of 2022.
Liu is also well known for his role on the CBC/Netflix family sitcom "Kim's Convenience" and recently completed production on eOne's "Arthur the King" and "One True Loves." He is currently in production on Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie, starring alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
As a writer, Liu has contributed to publications such as Variety, Character Magazine, USA Today and Macleans. His memoir "We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story," detailing his family's journey from Harbin, China, to Hollywood, California, was released worldwide in May.
In addition to his film, television and writing career, Liu is a UNICEF Canada Ambassador working to impact global change by shedding a light on children in need both in Canada and around the world.
Blackbaud recently announced that bestselling author and activist Glennon Doyle will also be joining the bbcon mainstage. The conference is designed to make social good organizations, their teams, and their missions stronger and more resilient. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn actionable strategies and gain insights into trends from leading experts; get a sneak peek of upcoming Blackbaud product innovation and enhancements; discover new ways to extend and enhance their tech investment with services and solutions from Blackbaud partners; learn from some of the world's leading voices on how diversity, empathy and authenticity can create stronger, more engaged leaders; and connect with like-minded professionals to build their network.
In conjunction with bbcon, the Blackbaud Product Update Briefings will be held virtually Oct. 19–20. Get more information about bbcon 2022 Virtual and register for free here.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Treadwell Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel, small molecule therapeutics for highly aggressive cancers, today announced a presentation for the Company's CFI-400945 program, a first in class inhibitor of Polo-like Kinase 4 (PLK4) a critical regulator of centriole duplication, at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition being held from December 10-13, 2022. The poster presentation described the preliminary results from the monotherapy dose optimization portion of the TWT-202 in advanced leukemias.
"CFI-400945 had previously shown single agent complete remissions in refractory high risk AML. As we optimize dose for the agent in unselected leukemia patients in study TWT-202, we are encouraged by the continued signs of safety and tolerability with this oral dosing regimen," said Principal Investigator, Dr. Gautam Borthukar, MD, Professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center.
"We look forward to dose selection for CFI-400945, and expansion into populations of interest, including patients with TP53 mutations, where there is substantial unmet need," said Dr. Michael Tusche, Co-CEO at Treadwell Therapeutics.
2022 ASH Poster Presentations and Details:
Preliminary Results from a Phase 2 Open-Label, Multicenter, Dose Optimization Clinical Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic (PD) Profiles of CFI-400945 As a Single Agent or in Combination with Azacitidine or Decitabine in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome or Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (TWT-202)
Publication Number: 4087
Session: 616; Poster III
Date and Time: December 12th, 2022, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Data presented on CFI-400945, an oral, first-in-class PLK4 inhbitor, showed a tolerable safety profile at the 32, 48 and 64 mg cohorts (N=12), with exposures being approximately dose linear. No dose limiting toxicities have been observed to date, suggesting further dose optimization is required. Five cases of stable disease have been observed - 3 per ELN with 1 at 48 mg, and 2 at 64 mg, as well as 2 at 48 mg per IWG. Adverse events (AEs) for CFI-400945 in this study were in line with those observed in previous studies in similar patient populations. Main AEs (any grade) were hematologic, gastrointestinal and metabolism/nutritional disorders. Most predominant severe AE was febrile neutropenia. No treatment emergent adverse events led to study drug discontinuation.
About Treadwell Therapeutics
Treadwell Therapeutics is a science driven, clinical-stage, multi-modality biotechnology company developing first-in-class and best-in-class medicines to address unmet needs in patients with cancer. The Company's internally developed clinical pipeline includes CFI-400945, CFI-402257 (TTK inhibitor) and CFI-402411 (HPK1 inhibitor). The company is also advancing a pre-clinical pipeline of first-in-class antibody and TCR-based cell therapy assets. For more information, please visit www.treadwelltx.com.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Henry Saenz remembers when he first learned what even the tiniest bit of asbestos could do to his body. He was working at a chemical plant where employees used the mineral to make chlorine, and his coworkers warned him about what could happen each time he took a breath: Tiny fibers, invisible to the eye, could enter his nose and mouth and settle into his lungs, his abdomen, the lining of his heart.
They could linger there for decades. Then, one day, he might develop asbestosis, a chronic disease that makes the lungs harden, or mesothelioma, a vicious cancer that ends the lives of most who have it within a few years.
By then, in the early 1990s, the dangers of asbestos were already irrefutable. The United States had prohibited its use in pipe insulation and branded it so risky that remediators had to wear hazmat suits to remove it. But unlike dozens of other countries that banned the potent carcinogen outright, the United States never did.
To this day, the U.S. allows hundreds of tons of asbestos to flow in each year from Brazil, primarily for the benefit of two major chemical companies, OxyChem and Olin Corp. The companies say asbestos is integral to chlorine production at several aging plants and have made a compelling argument to keep it legal: Unlike in the horrific tales of the past, their current protocols for handling asbestos are so stringent that workers face little threat of exposure.
But at OxyChem's plant in Niagara Falls, New York, where Saenz worked for nearly three decades, the reality was far different, more than a dozen former workers told ProPublica. There, they said, asbestos dust hung in the air, collected on the beams and light fixtures and built up until it was inches thick. Workers tramped in and out of it all day, often without protective suits or masks, and carried it around on their coveralls and boots.
They implored the plant's managers to address the conditions, they said, but the dangers remained until the plant closed in late 2021 for unrelated reasons.
It was hard for Saenz to reconcile the science that he understood — and that he believed OxyChem and government leaders understood — with what he saw at the plant every day. He did his best not to inhale the asbestos, but after a short time, he came to believe there was no way the killer substance was not already inside him, waiting, perhaps 30 or 40 or even 50 years, to strike.
Now, too late for Saenz, the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to finally outlaw asbestos in a test case with huge implications. If the agency fails to ban a substance so widely established as harmful, scientists and public health experts argue, it would raise serious doubts about the EPA's ability to protect the public from any toxic chemicals.
To fight the proposed ban, the chemical companies have returned to a well-worn strategy and marshaled political heavyweights, including the attorneys general of 12 Republican-led states who say it would place a "heavy and unreasonable burden" on industry.
Lost in the battle is the story of what happened in the decades during which the U.S. failed to act. It's not just a tale of workers in hardscrabble company towns who were sacrificed to the bottom line of industry, but one of federal agencies cowed again and again by the well-financed lawyers and lobbyists of the companies they are supposed to oversee.
It's the quintessential story of American chemical regulation.
For decades, the EPA and Congress accepted the chlorine companies' argument that asbestos workers were safe enough, and regulators left the carcinogen on the list of dangerous chemicals that other countries ban but the U.S. still allows. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration even let OxyChem and Olin into a special program that limited the frequency of inspections at many of their plants.
Along the way, the two companies proved that they didn't need asbestos to make chlorine: They built some modern facilities elsewhere that didn't use it. But they balked at the cost of upgrading the older facilities where it was still in use — even as they earned billions of dollars from chemical sales and raked in record profits this year.
OxyChem, owned by one of the country's largest energy companies, Occidental Petroleum, declined requests for an interview. After ProPublica sent a summary of its reporting, company officials said the accounts from the Niagara Falls plant were "inaccurate" but declined to say what specifically was incorrect. In a statement, the company said it complies with federal regulations on asbestos and that workers who handle it are "trained, work in restricted areas of our plant, protected by personal protective equipment and are offered annual medical examinations."
The company also said it authorizes employees to stop work if they feel unsafe. "The health and safety of every plant worker and the people in our surrounding communities is our top priority," the company said.
Olin did not respond to calls and emails sent over the course of a month.
It has been easy to minimize the toll asbestos takes on workers. Workers' compensation cases are often confidential, and employees may fear speaking out and jeopardizing their livelihood. ProPublica reporters, however, found a unique opportunity to explore what it was really like to work at an asbestos-reliant plant after America's longest-standing facility, the one run by OxyChem in Niagara Falls, shuttered last November.
With their jobs no longer on the line, Saenz and 17 other former workers, some with institutional knowledge dating back to the 1960s and others with memories less than a year old, said they felt free to talk. They agreed to hours of interviews and dug through their homes for documentation to reconstruct their work lives in the decades they spent at the plant.
What they recounted — ever-present asbestos dust with scant protection — stunned six experts in industrial hygiene and occupational health who were consulted by ProPublica.
"Totally unacceptable," said Rachael Jones, professor and chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"Fraught with danger," said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a public health physician trained in occupational medicine and epidemiology who leads Boston College's program for Global Public Health and the Common Good.
"It sounds like something that maybe would happen in the 1940s or the 1950s," said Celeste Monforton, a lecturer in public health at Texas State University who studies occupational health and safety practices.
"It's just so counter to everything that they put in the record about using [asbestos] safely," Monforton said.
A good factory job
For more than a century, OxyChem's plant on the Niagara River, just 3 miles upstream from the world-renowned falls, was a small city unto itself. It buzzed with workers day and night, and, in its heyday, had its own cafeteria, credit union and health clinic. A job there carried a certain cachet. Workers could make six figures, even without college degrees.
But the plant had a dark legacy. Its previous owner, Hooker Chemical, had buried toxic waste in an unfinished aqueduct called Love Canal, then turned the property over to the city for development in the 1950s. After contaminated groundwater sickened the people who lived there, it became known as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Unlike many of the other workers who grew up in the shadow of the plant, following their fathers and uncles into jobs there, Saenz was originally from Northern California. But he fell in love with a woman from Niagara Falls and moved there to start a family with her, working at a hotel, delivering flowers and tending bar — anything to put food on the table, he said — before deciding OxyChem was the job he wanted to stay in.
He was hired in 1989 and soon after got a crash course in chemistry. A jolt of electricity, he learned, could turn a tank of salt water into three substances: chlorine, caustic soda and hydrogen. The chlorine could be sold for disinfecting water, the caustic soda for making paper, soap and aspirin. There was, however, a real danger: If the chemicals mixed, the tank could turn into a bomb. So each tank had a thick, metal screen inside to keep the chemicals apart.
The screen was coated with a layer of impenetrable asbestos. OxyChem used chrysotile, or white asbestos, the most common type. It showed up on trains in oversized bags that looked like pillows stuffed with down feathers. At OxyChem, there were about 200 tanks, called cells, each the size of a dining room table and containing a metal screen.
When a screen needed to be recoated, a special team of workers removed it and brought it to the cavernous cell-maintenance building. There, they blasted it with a high-pressure water cannon until the old asbestos fell off. Then, they dipped the clean screen into a wet mixture containing new asbestos and cooked it in an oven until the asbestos hardened. They worked on one or two screens each day.
The asbestos job was one of the most hazardous at the plant, requiring special training. But it also provided a rare benefit. Unlike most positions, which forced workers to take afternoon and midnight shifts, the asbestos job was days only. Saenz, who initially worked in a different department, waited years for an opening on the team, eager to spend more time with his growing family. After his fourth child was born, a spot opened up.
The team was a small fraternity of eight or so men who ate lunch together in a special trailer. Some days, when their shift ended at 2 p.m., they would meet at JD's, a dive bar near the plant. Other days, it was the wing joint down the street or the bar in Terry Cheetham's basement.
Cheetham was the big brother of the group; the guys called him Soupie. Reserved and shaggy-haired, garrulous only with a beer in hand, he'd dropped out of high school after his father's death and gone to work for OxyChem. He wanted to help his mom support their family. Soon after Saenz joined the team, Cheetham tapped him on the shoulder. "We're going for a ride after work," he said. Later, they pulled up outside the local liquor store. As the new guy, Saenz had to carry the keg.
The guys raised their kids together, helped each other's families through difficult times. At the plant, they always had each other's backs. Certain hazards, like fires, were hard to miss. Others, like chlorine leaks, were more subtle. Then, there was the asbestos. As Saenz spent more time on the job, he began noticing just how much of it surrounded him.
'Swimming' in dried asbestos particles
Federal workplace safety standards require keeping asbestos fibers wet to prevent them from going airborne, having workers wear protective equipment and containing the asbestos inside certain areas. OxyChem had rules in place to meet those standards. But protocols failed to match reality at the Niagara Falls plant, according to more than a dozen workers.
Water-blasting the screens was like washing a car with a high-powered hose. Asbestos splattered everywhere. It wasn't a problem when the asbestos was wet. But it would dry overnight, and the next morning, it would be stuck to the ceiling and the walls. Clumps would roll across the floor like tiny tumbleweeds. Floating particles would catch the light when the sun poured in.
There was so much asbestos in the cell-maintenance building that it was impossible to keep it all wet, said Robert Cheff, who worked at the plant from 1981 to 2007. "We were constantly swimming in this stuff."
Workers wore protective gear for certain tasks, like pressure washing and screen dipping. But they went into the building to carry out other tasks without special suits or anything protecting their faces, despite company requirements. One worker said managers enforced those rules. But a dozen others interviewed by ProPublica recalled that the bosses looked the other way. Suiting up was impractical, those workers said. It took time away from the tasks that needed to get done and was uncomfortable, especially on hot days, when the temperature inside could reach 100 degrees.
In the summer, the windows and doors were left open to keep the workers from overheating, allowing asbestos to escape outside. Wet asbestos splashed on their uniforms, coats, helmets and boots. One guy seemed to always have some on his mustache. It would dry and flake off their clothes wherever they went, they said. Saenz remembered walking into safety meetings in the administrative building with asbestos drying on his coveralls. The guys carried so much asbestos into the trailer where they ate lunch and took breaks that it needed to be replaced, former union leaders said.
Their uniforms sat in the laundry, caked with dry asbestos. When the union raised the problem in 2010, managers responded by giving the team its own hamper with a lid to contain the asbestos, said longtime union officer Mike Spacone. Only after union leaders threatened to call federal authorities did the company give the team its own laundry facilities, Spacone said.
On occasion, workers who handled asbestos would leave without showering in the plant's locker room or wear their work clothes home. "My kids played sports," recalled Dave Helbig, an employee from 1980 through 2021. "Sometimes I had to leave to get to their games."
The company would have known employees were being exposed; workers with a high risk of exposure sometimes clipped a small monitor to their bodies to measure the amount of asbestos in the air around them. At least five times in 2001 and 2002, the levels around team member Patrick Nowak exceeded OSHA's exposure limit, his company records show. "I failed so many times, they quit testing me," he said. The records do not indicate if Nowak was wearing a protective mask known as a respirator, as some other employees' records do.
Tony Garfalo wore a monitor seven times in 2001, and, on four occasions, the results exceeded OSHA's limit, his records show. Once, the asbestos level was more than five times the allowable limit. The records say he was wearing a half-face respirator. Garfalo said his bosses promised to address the situation, but "nothing changed."
He and the others knew all too well the damage asbestos could cause. Garfalo said his father, who worked the asbestos job at the plant, developed asbestosis. Employees in other departments got sick from a type of asbestos-containing pipe covering that once insulated the plant, longtime employees said and court records show. Cheff said his uncle died from asbestosis at 59. A millwright named Teddy Skiba was diagnosed with mesothelioma and later died.
In addition to those signature diseases, which are rare even among asbestos workers, the tiny strands can harm the body in other ways. They can put people at increased risk of heart disease by scarring the lungs, forcing the heart to work harder to pump blood through them to pick up oxygen. Some scientific evidence suggests an association between asbestos exposure and stroke. And battling all kinds of illnesses with damaged lungs can weaken the body's ability to fight them; that damage can mean the difference between life and death.
One retired member of the team, Umberto Bernardone, died from an aneurysm in 2004 at age 77. He had long had trouble breathing, said his son, Mario, who also worked at the plant. X-rays showed that asbestosis had scarred his lungs. "The asbestos was with him all the time," Mario said.
Not long after, another retired team member, Salvatore "Buddy" Vilardo, died from a blood clot, his son said. He was 62.
Cheetham, the group's big brother, had just retired when he fell ill in 2004. A doctor in Buffalo said it was cancer. Cheetham told his daughter Keri that he was certain the asbestos was responsible and asked her to consult a lawyer after he died. When the guys found out he was sick, they showed up at his house. They found their friend in a bed in his living room, under the care of a hospice nurse, struggling to breathe.
Cheetham died five months before his 56th birthday. His autopsy surprised his family — it wasn't asbestos after all; an aggressive form of skin cancer had killed him. His former co-workers weren't told about the autopsy. For years, they believed his cancer had been brought on by asbestos exposure. The memory of Cheetham's last gasps haunted the guys like a ghost, a harbinger of what their own futures might hold.
EPA's faltering attempts to ban asbestos
Elsewhere in the world, governments were taking action to protect their people. Saudi Arabia banned asbestos in 1998, Chile and Argentina did so in 2001, Australia in 2003. By 2005, asbestos was outlawed across the European Union. "It was a no-brainer," said Tatiana Santos, head of chemical policy at the European Environmental Bureau, a network of environmental citizens' groups.
America's EPA could have banned asbestos. Congress could have banned it. But over and over, they crumpled in the face of pressure from OxyChem and its peers in the chlorine industry.
The EPA tried to enact a ban in the late 1980s, but the companies got ahead of it. Records from the time show corporations testified that removing asbestos from chlorine plants would not yield significant health benefits because workers were only minimally exposed; they also argued it would require "scrapping large amounts of capital equipment" and thus would "not be economically feasible."
Under federal law at the time, the EPA was obligated to regulate asbestos in the way that was "least burdensome" to industry. That forced the EPA to make a cold calculation: Banning asbestos in chlorine plants would prevent "relatively few cancer cases" but increase the companies' costs. So when the agency enacted an asbestos ban in 1989, it carved out an exemption for the mineral's use in the chlorine industry.
The EPA made it clear that the companies should begin using alternatives to asbestos screens; in fact, according to company records made public through litigation and published as part of Columbia University and the City University of New York's Toxic Docs project, OxyChem had already developed screens that didn't need an asbestos coating. Still, the companies celebrated their immunity from regulation.
"WE HAVE A WIN," a lobbyist declared in an internal communication included in the Toxic Docs project.
In the end, asbestos was never banned. The asbestos industry challenged the ban in court, and in 1991, a panel of federal judges deemed the rule too onerous and overturned it. The decision was a stinging blow to the EPA, several current and former employees told ProPublica.
"I still remember the shock on the managers' faces," said Greg Schweer, an EPA veteran who ran its new-chemicals management branch before he retired in 2020. The office "was full of energized people wanting to make their mark. But things changed after that." The agency shelved efforts to regulate other dangerous substances and wouldn't attempt a similar chemical ban for 28 years.
Most industries stopped using asbestos anyway, a phenomenon experts largely attribute to a wave of lawsuits from people with asbestos-related diseases. But the chlorine industry kept using its asbestos screens. It continued importing hundreds of tons of the substance every year, more than the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
In 2002, Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, tried to get a ban through Congress. She tried again in 2003 and again in 2007. That year, with Democrats in control of the Senate and House, her effort found some traction. OxyChem was keenly aware how much an asbestos ban would hurt its bottom line. Chlorine and caustic soda were the focus of its chemical operation, financial statements show, driving more than $4 billion in annual sales. Most of OxyChem's plants still used asbestos; if they had to close, production would tumble.
Occidental Petroleum, OxyChem's owner, was a force on Capitol Hill, with lobbyists that spent millions influencing policy and a political action committee that pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into campaigns each election cycle. OxyChem was also a member of the American Chemistry Council, an influential trade organization that made campaign contributions of its own.
The industry had an ally in then-Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana; at the time, at least a quarter of the 16 asbestos-dependent plants in the country were located in the Republican senator's home state, records show. At a hearing in June 2007, Vitter echoed the chlorine industry's standby talking point, that its manufacturing process involved "minimal to no release of asbestos and absolutely no worker exposure."
"Now, if this were harming people or potentially killing people, that would be the end of the argument, we should outlaw it," he added. "But there is no known case of asbestos-related disease from the chlor-alkali industry using this technology."
Then-Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat in favor of the ban, pushed back, saying the chlorine manufacturing process was "not as clean as one would think." But to build support for the bill, proponents ultimately agreed to exclude products that might contain trace levels of asbestos, such as crushed stone, as well as the asbestos used in the chlorine industry.
The bill passed out of the Senate on a unanimous vote. But many of the public health advocates who championed the initial measure opposed the watered-down version, saying it had been practically gutted, and it failed to find support in the House. Vitter, who later went on to lobby for the American Chemistry Council, did not respond to requests for an interview.
In the 15 years that followed, congressional attempts to ban asbestos would continue to fall short.
Federal inspections miss evidence
Yet another federal entity had the power to protect the OxyChem workers. There was once a time when OSHA inspectors visited the Niagara Falls plant about every year. That ended in 1996, when the plant won coveted admission into an OSHA program that exempted it from such scrutiny.
The Star Program, created during the Reagan administration as part of OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs, allows plants that can prove they are model facilities to avoid random inspections. The theory behind the program is that motivating companies to adhere to best practices on their own is more effective than having underfunded government inspectors punish them.
At the Niagara Falls plant, former union leaders believed the program would protect jobs and make the facility safer, they told ProPublica. They worked with management on the application — a months-long process that entailed updating the plant's safety practices and submitting to a rigorous inspection. But what actually changed, the union leaders said, was that OSHA inspectors came far less frequently and announced their visits well in advance.
When OSHA came to re-evaluate the plant, usually every three to five years, management spent months preparing, said Spacone, the union officer. "They would clean the hell out of the place. Everything would be spotless." Work in certain areas came to a halt. Plant representatives tried to limit what the evaluators saw.
Even still, in 2011, evaluators found asbestos "scattered in certain areas of the floor" and covering much of the mechanical equipment, records show. "This contamination can spread easily when dry," they wrote in a report. "Appropriate clean up procedures must be instituted to prevent airborne asbestos." The evaluators did not give the plant an official citation. In the end, they applauded the plant's "commitment to safety and health" and recommended it for continued participation in the program.
Three years later, evaluators identified another issue related to hygiene: Although the plant tested the air for hazards like asbestos, it wasn't using the data to spot problems. What's more, the person in charge of the program wasn't properly trained. OSHA let the plant remain in the program on the condition that it fixed the problems within a year. The plant updated its software and the department leader took a 56-hour course, records show.
Apart from the re-evaluation visits, OSHA made just two other trips to the plant between 1996 and 2021, records show. Only one included a full inspection. On that visit, inspectors cited the plant for failing to protect workers from falls. The other visit did not result in any citations.
With OSHA largely out of the picture, the plant's managers became more lax about safety, Spacone said. "I started thinking [that joining the Star Program] was a mistake," he said. Debbie Berkowitz, a former chief of staff and senior policy adviser at OSHA during the Obama administration, said that, in her experience, it was possible for plants to stay in the program long after their commitment to safety had lapsed. "Once they're in, they're in," she said. "In most cases, it is a total ruse."
OSHA declined to make an official available for an on-the-record interview or comment on ProPublica's findings at the Niagara Falls plant. A Department of Labor spokesperson said that plants can be terminated from the program and that unions can withdraw their support.
In the absence of government intervention, union leaders tried to tackle the asbestos problem themselves, four former union presidents told ProPublica. The union repeatedly asked management to expand the asbestos team and have certain people dedicated to cleaning. Plant leaders refused, they said. "It was a never-ending battle," said Vincent Ferlito, one of the former presidents. "It always came back to the same thing: money."
Fed up with the mess, Garfalo grabbed a roll of red caution tape one day in 2007 and wrapped it around the asbestos-soiled building where his team worked, to the amazement of his colleagues. He barricaded each doorway, then hung as many danger signs as he could find. The protest prompted his managers to hire professionals for a one-time clean, but they also warned him to never do it again, he said.
By 2011, a year after he'd retired, Garfalo couldn't ignore a lingering cough that would occasionally startle him out of sleep. His doctor couldn't tell whether his breathing difficulties were caused by asbestos or his smoking habit, but said that smokers who are exposed to the substance have an even higher risk of serious illness. Garfalo's mind traveled back to a day, a dozen years earlier, when he climbed atop the cell-maintenance building to fix a fan, only to discover that the entire roof was coated in asbestos. Train cars parked beside the building were covered, too. He thought about the homes less than a half-mile away and wondered how far the fibers had traveled.
New battles over a proposed asbestos ban
In August 2021, OxyChem announced it was closing the Niagara Falls plant, blaming "unfavorable regional market conditions" and rising rail costs in New York state. Over time, its workforce had dwindled from more than 1,300 to about 150. OxyChem's chlorine operation was now mostly in Gulf Coast states with lower taxes and less regulation.
And a law that had once protected it from "burdensome" environmental rules had changed.
In 2016, Congress had updated the Toxic Substances Control Act, removing the requirement that the EPA choose regulations that burdened industry as little as possible. Though the change gave the agency another chance to ban asbestos, it wasn't going to happen during the Trump administration; the former president once alleged that the movement against asbestos was "led by the mob" and had his face featured on the packaging of Russian-produced asbestos.
Under the Biden administration, however, the EPA determined that all workers in asbestos-dependent chlorine plants faced an "unreasonable risk" of getting sick from it, citing a review of the companies' own exposure-monitoring data. This April, EPA Administrator Michael Regan proposed a ban for the first time in more than three decades.
It could be eight months or more before the rule is finalized. Two trade associations, the American Chemistry Council and the Chlorine Institute, are imploring the EPA to reconsider. They are once again arguing that the companies use asbestos safely — and they've turned to industry-friendly scientists and consulting firms to accuse the EPA of overestimating the risk to workers.
When given a summary of ProPublica's reporting on the Niagara Falls plant and asked to respond, Chlorine Institute Vice President Robyn Brooks said her organization had no knowledge of the situation and referred reporters to OxyChem. The American Chemistry Council pointed to the plant's participation in the Star program as proof of its "record of performance."
The industry groups have also made the case that a ban would jeopardize the country's supply of chlorine and could even create a drinking water shortage. But the EPA and public health advocates contest those claims. They point out that only a small fraction of the chlorine produced by asbestos-dependent plants is used to clean drinking water and that OxyChem and Olin have voluntarily closed or reduced capacity at several of those plants in recent years without catastrophically disrupting the supply chain.
In fact, OxyChem told investors in August that its plans to upgrade the asbestos-reliant technology at its largest chlorine facility next year would have "no impact on customers," a transcript shows. For at least eight years, the company has been slowly upgrading some plants to a newer technology that uses a polymer membrane to separate the chemicals; it built a completely asbestos-free plant in 2014.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come to the companies' defense, saying asbestos is "tightly regulated" and "used safely every day" in the chlor-alkali industry. So have 12 Republican attorneys general, including Ken Paxton of Texas and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. In a letter, they questioned whether the EPA has the authority to pursue a ban, signaling a readiness to take the agency to court like the asbestos industry did in 1989. (The Chamber and most of the attorneys general declined to comment or did not respond to inquiries from ProPublica. A spokesperson for Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson called the situation at the Niagara Falls plant "very concerning" and said that it would be "completely misleading" to suggest that the letter implied approval of such circumstances.)
Industry leaders are confident they will prevail. "We've been engaged in this activity for quite a while and have pushed back on it," Olin CEO Scott Sutton told shareholders on a July 29 earnings call. "I think you're not likely to see a final rule come out that is as proposed."
Michal Freedhoff, the EPA's top chemical regulator, said she could not comment on what the final rule-making decision would be. But she said the agency was not backing down on the science and that ProPublica's reporting underscores the need for decisive action.
Given the potential for litigation, lawmakers are renewing their effort to pass a law banning asbestos, which would be more difficult to challenge in court. "It is a brutal and painful fight," said Linda Reinstein, a leading advocate who co-founded the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization after her husband, Alan, died of mesothelioma in 2006. "We're not going away."
Hanging in the balance is the health of hundreds of workers at the eight remaining asbestos-dependent chlorine plants in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Kansas. ProPublica reached out to current and former employees at those facilities. At the OxyChem plant in Wichita, union president Keith Peacock said he was comfortable with the way asbestos was handled. "I don't know of anyone who sees this as a health issue," he said. "There are rules in place for it and everyone adheres to those safety guidelines."
But Chris Murphy, a former union president at Olin's plant in Alabama, said the conditions there mirrored the ones described by the workers in Niagara Falls. He said he himself had seen asbestos caked on beams and cranes in recent years and been told to remove it with a putty knife. "There ain't nothing to it," he remembered his managers saying. "You'll be all right. It ain't that bad." He wasn't told to wear protective gear, he said, so he didn't.
The former OxyChem workers who still live in Niagara Falls gather once a month to reminisce over Buffalo wings and beef piled high on salty kummelweck rolls. They can only wait and see if they develop symptoms as they enter the post-exposure time frame in which asbestos-related disease is commonly diagnosed.
Saenz left the plant with a bad back in 2016. Now a 64-year-old grandfather of two, he's been having lung trouble and considering X-rays to see if there are signs of asbestos-related damage. "I'm wondering if I'm not headed down that road," he said.
He sees the burden he now carries as a tradeoff for the lifestyle he was once afforded. "It was a great place to work. I was able to raise four children and buy a house and live the American dream." He even gave his son Henry Jr. his blessing to start a job at OxyChem in 2013, so long as he stayed far away from asbestos. Saenz now wonders how much more time he has left with his family.
"It's a nightmare," he said. "It's a price you pay, I guess."
Photography for this story is by Rich-Joseph Facun and graphics are by Haisam Hussein. Bernice Yeung and Danielle Ivory contributed reporting. Derek Willis contributed data analysis.
Sarah Boden of NPR member station WESA produced the audio version of this story.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Soul Cap has gotten the green light from swimming’s top governing body, which figures to be a huge step toward bringing more diversity to a largely white sport.
The hope is that will lead to more swimmers of color reaching the sport’s highest echelons in the generations to come.
Seren Jones, co-founder of the British-based Black Swimming Association, is seeing signs of progress in her role as an instructor.
“I teach water safety to nonswimmers and beginners,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s absolutely incredible to see so many, really the majority of women across London, using the Soul Cap. I’m talking about women from the 20s to their 70s. It’s phenomenal. They feel empowered to learn and be safe in the water without worrying about their hair, which previously was a major issue.”
The Soul Cap initially was banned from competition by FINA, now known as World Aquatics, leading to harsh criticism during the Tokyo Olympics from supporters of more inclusive policies.
Most notably, open water competitor Alice Dearing — the first Black female swimmer to make the British team — thought FINA was out of touch for barring the Soul Cap on the grounds that it didn’t follow “the natural form of the head.”
Dearing had wanted to try the larger cap to cover her Afro.
Reversing course last September, the governing body added the Soul Cap to the list of approved equipment, with executive director Brent Nowicki saying “diversity and inclusivity is at the heart of FINA’s work.”
The world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, are the first major international meet since that ruling, but smaller caps that fit more snugly to the head remain the norm at the highest echelons of the sport. Top swimmers are focused on doing whatever they can to reduce drag, which leads to faster times.
Jones concedes that world-class athletes are not the Soul Cap’s target group.
“We all know that in swimming you want to be as streamlined as you can get,” Jones said. “That can make all the difference in a race that’s decided by thousandths of a second.”
At the lower levels, though, the Soul Cap can be a powerful conduit to reaching more swimmers of color.
“The large caps, the Soul Caps, are already making a massive difference in grassroots and recreational swimming,” Jones said. “It’s also making a difference for age-group swimmers. They get to dabble and experiment with serious training in a competitive environment. But the more serious a swimmer gets, you’ll probably see them resort back to the more traditional swim cap that exists now.”
Florida coach Anthony Nesty, who works with some of the biggest names in U.S. swimming, wasn’t even aware the Soul Cap had been approved for the world championships.
Yet, as the first Black man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal when he competed for Suriname at the 1988 Seoul Games, Nesty is eager to see a more diverse group of athletes on deck.
“Anything that can help the sport have more athletes of color is one less thing to worry about,” he said. “That will always be a plus.”
Cullen Jones, the groundbreaking Black American swimmer whose four Olympic medals include a pair of golds, is a big fan of the Soul Cap.
“One of the beautiful things about the Soul Cap model is the inclusivity for people with longer hair,” he said. “Men, women, people with longer hair can enjoy the water. I know that for a lot of the companies, many of the caps are made for hydrodynamics. The Soul Cap is more about being inclusive.”
Jones is still puzzled by FINA’s initial resistance to letting swimmers use the cap in competition.
“It’s not giving you any kind of edge,” he said. “But it’s giving people who might not have thought to do swimming the ability to feel comfortable around the water.”
That aligns with one of his passions: teaching more Black people how to swim. Coming from a family where many of his relatives have long hair, Jones said it’s important to have a cap “that makes them feel comfortable and not having to worry about hair, which is a big cultural thing — especially in the Black community, myself included.”
For Jones, this issue is especially poignant. He was diagnosed with alopecia near the end of his swimming career, causing him to lose all his hair.
“I had to go to a therapist to deal with a certain lack of identity because I didn’t have my hair,” he said. “I understand very much how important it is. So that barrier to entry is lifted with something like a cap that fits comfortably around your head.”
Bob Bowman, the Arizona State coach best known for his partnership with 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, does not know of any elite swimmers using the Soul Cap.
Even so, he believes it can a huge impact on the sport. He compared the Soul Cap to jammer swimsuits, which extend to just above the knee and made it far more appealing for young males to hit the pool a generation ago.
“I think that encouraged a lot of boys to swim since they didn’t have to wear a small Speedo,” Bowman said. “It’s the same kind of thing as that. It will encourage some people who might not have swum to try it.”
Seren Jones said the Soul Cap’s full impact will take years to realize.
She’s prepared to be patient.
“These things take time,” she said. “We still have a very long way to go. I’ve been on pool decks that look very much like they did when I was a swimmer 10 years ago. They are predominantly white. But there are more swimmers from different parts of the world taking this sport seriously.
“Let’s see how far they go.”
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Agency Remains Committed to Protecting Youth by Enforcing Against Illegal Products
SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter for marketing illegal flavored nicotine gummies – the first warning letter for this type of product. These types of gummies are of particular public concern because of their resemblance to kid-friendly food or candy products and the potential to cause severe nicotine toxicity or even death among young children.
The manufacturer, VPR Brands LP (doing business as, "Krave Nic"), markets gummies that have 1 milligram (mg) of nicotine each and are available in three flavors – Blueraz, Cherry Bomb and Pineapple. The packaging claims that the products contain tobacco-free nicotine. This firm has not submitted a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to the FDA, and does not have a marketing authorization order to manufacture, sell or distribute these products in the U.S.
"Nicotine gummies are a public health crisis just waiting to happen among our nation's youth, particularly as we head into a new school year," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "We want parents to be aware of these products and the potential for health consequences for children of all ages – including toxicity to young children and appeal of these addictive products to our youth. The FDA will not stand by as illegal products infiltrate the marketplace."
The manufacturer states that each gummy contains 1 milligram of nicotine with 12 gummies (12 mg) per tin. Research indicates that ingesting 1 to 4 milligrams of nicotine could be severely toxic to a child under 6 years of age depending on the child's body weight. However, nicotine toxicity among youth of any age may lead to nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, increased blood pressure and heart rate, seizures, respiratory failure, coma and even death. Nicotine is also highly addictive and exposure during adolescence can harm the developing brain.
In a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found that flavored non-tobacco oral nicotine products, including gummies and lozenges, were among the most commonly used tobacco product among youth in southern California – second only to e-cigarettes. Use was particularly high among certain racial or ethnic, sexual or gender minority groups, and those with a history of nicotine use. These flavored non-tobacco oral nicotine products present an increased risk to youth due to their resemblance to kid-friendly food or candy products, such as gummies or gum, the availability in youth-appealing flavors, and the ability for teenagers to conceal use from adults.
The warning letter issued today requests a written response from the manufacturer describing how the firm intends to address any violations and bring their products into compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). Failure to promptly correct violations can result in further action such as civil money penalties, seizure, and/or injunction. Additionally, the firm must not sell or distribute violative products. The firm must submit a PMTA and receive marketing authorization from FDA before selling or distributing the product in the U.S.
In response to the increase of non-tobacco nicotine in tobacco products, including in some of the e-cigarette brands that are most popular with youth, Congress passed a federal law that went into effect on April 14, 2022, clarifying the FDA's authority to regulate tobacco products containing nicotine from any source. This law gives the FDA authority over products made with non-tobacco nicotine, including synthetic nicotine, and imposes requirements under the FD&C Act for manufacturers, importers, retailers and distributors of non-tobacco nicotine products. To date, no non-tobacco nicotine product has received a marketing granted order.
"We remain unwavering in our use of compliance and enforcement resources to curb all unlawful marketing of tobacco products, especially those that youth could easily confuse with something that they consume regularly – like candy," said Brian King, Ph.D., M.P.H., director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. "Today's action should be a wake-up call for manufacturers of these illegal products that the FDA is actively working to identify violations and to swiftly seek corrective actions."
Efforts such as these support the FDA's commitment to using a science-based approach to protect youth from initiating tobacco use. In addition to the FDA's regulatory oversight, the agency recognizes the critical need for targeted youth tobacco prevention efforts designed to protect America's kids, including mass media campaigns such as "The Real Cost." The FDA also collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the only nationally representative survey of middle and high school students that focuses exclusively on tobacco product use.
Additional Resources:
- Perspective: Update on FDA Review and Enforcement of Non-Tobacco Nicotine Products
- FDA Continues to Implement Law, Regulate Non-Tobacco Nicotine Products, Warns Retailers and Manufacturers Against Illegal Sales
- Requirements for Products Made with Non-Tobacco Nicotine Take Effect April 14
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MSRcosmos has been listed for the second consecutive year on Inc. Magazine's List of the Midwest Region's Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
WILMINGTON, Del., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine revealed that MSRcosmos is No. 60 on its third annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing Midwest private companies, based in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Born of the annual Inc. 5000 franchise, this regional list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the Midwest economy's most dynamic segment–its independent small businesses.
"We are extremely thrilled to be listed for the second consecutive year," said MSRcosmos Co-Founder & CEO Devi Kondapi. "Inspiring innovation through cutting-edge technology, people expertise, and client-centric approaches, are our key pillars for rapid growth. Additionally, our strategic acquisitions made in the last few years have introduced new clients boosting our overall growth."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, metro area, and other criteria, can be found at inc.com/midwest.
"This year's Inc. 5000 Regional winners represent one of the most exceptional and exciting lists of America's off-the-charts growth companies. They're disrupters and job creators, and all delivered an outsize impact on the economy. Remember their names and follow their lead. These are the companies you'll be hearing about for years to come," said Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine.
As a pioneer in digital transformation, customers rely on MSRcosmos for its specialized service expertise around cloud, data & AI, intelligent automation, and application modernization.
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National Weather Service officials don’t have to be told that 2022-23 is becoming a record year for snowfall totals in the Flagstaff area.
For employees in the service’s office in Bellemont, all they have to do is look out their windows.
The Bellemont office has had 146.7 inches of snow from last July to Wednesday. That tops the previous record of 115.4 inches set from July 1, 2009 to March 1, 2010.
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Here's how Conor Daly can qualify for the Daytona 500 with Floyd Mayweather's team
Twice Conor Daly has qualified for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing by the skin of his teeth. Later this month, the IndyCar veteran will hope that same luck follows him to the Great American Race.
On Tuesday, The Money Team Racing, owned by famed boxer Floyd Mayweather, announced that Daly would man its No. 50 BITNILE.com Chevy in an attempt to earn a spot in the 2023 Daytona 500. Should he qualify (or race his way into the 40-car field), the start would mark Daly's second Cup series start, following his debut at the Charlotte Roval, also with TMTR, last fall.
TMTR also announced that it plans to enter Daly in as many as seven Cup races this year, including at Circuit of the Americas March 26, a week prior to IndyCar's race at Texas Motor Speedway, and on the IMS road course during NASCAR and IndyCar's shared weekend at the Racing Capital of the World Aug. 12-13.
"The Money Team Racing shocked the world by making the Daytona 500 last year, and I believe in this team and know we will prepare a great car for this year's race," Mayweather said in a release. "Like a fighter who's always ready to face the best, Conor has the courage to buckle into this beast without any practice and put that car into the field."
"Conor is like a hungry fighter and my kind of guy. I sure wouldn't bet against him."
'It's like a drug':Conor Daly is soft-hearted, focused on Indy 500 win and going 243 mph
Daly joins a field of six cars vying for four spots alongside the 36 chartered Cup entries that are guaranteed to make the Cup series kickoff each February. The others are: former IndyCar competitor (and seven-time Cup champ) Jimmie Johnson (Legacy Motor Club), Travis Pastrana (23XI Racing), Zane Smith (Front Row Motorsports), Chandler Smith (Kaulig Racing) and Austin Hill (Beard Motorsports). Additionally, Team Hezeberg and NY Racing could opt to field drivers.
How can Daly qualify for the Daytona 500?
IndyCar fans that have followed Daly know that qualifying for the biggest race on the calendar typically isn't simple. NASCAR's Daytona 500 is no different.
The process begins Wednesday, Feb. 15, with Cup's Busch Light Pole Qualifying at 8:15 p.m. There, all cars (both chartered and open) will make single-lap qualifying runs in the random order produced through a Tuesday night drawing. The 10 fastest cars will move onto the second round, and the fastest two from that group will lock in spots on the front row. Barring something truly miraculous -- given Daly will have zero practice time before qualifying -- Daly's spot in the field will have to come from one of two other ways.
Two of the six open cars will lock in a spot in the field by virtue of being the fastest two in that group after their one-lap qualifying runs. It's the simplest and safest way to make the grid, in that Daly won't have to rely on the variability of race running and the risks of crashing or hoping for someone else to fall upon bad luck.
If he and TMTR can't make the field on speed alone, they'll have to rely on one of Thursday's 60-lap 'duel' races that will each feature half of the prospective grid, which at the moment would include 18 chartered entries and three open cars. The chartered entries with "odd" qualifying results (1st, 3rd, 5th, etc.) among that pool will race in the first duel, along with the 1st, 3rd and 5th-fastest open cars from qualifying, with the other half of the field running the second duel.
Open cars that finished with the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th-fastest qualifying speeds among them can only guarantee themselves a spot in the Daytona 500 by edging out the other two open cars in their respective duels. If the fastest qualifying open cars both top their respective duels (in terms of the three open cars in it), then the 3rd and 4th-fastest qualifying open cars will make the Daytona 500 field to fill out the grid. Those same four open cars would also make the race if the 3rd and 4th-fastest qualifying open cars were to top the trio of open cars in their respective duel races.
But if, for example, the 5th-fastest qualifying open car were to edge out No. 1 and No. 3 in the first duel, then it would bump out the 4th-fastest qualifying open car from the race, unless that car topped the open field in the second duel (in this situation, the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th-fastest cars from qualifying would be in the field). The Daytona 500 grid is then set by virtue of the finishing order in the duel races, with the 18 chartered cars and top open car from Duel No. 1 making up the inside spots of Rows 2-19, and those from Duel No. 2 taking the outside positions of hose respective rows. The final two places on the grid in Row 20 (39th and 40th) will go to those two cars who qualified for the race on qualifying speed (whether those were the first and second-fastest qualifying cars with 3rd and 4th edging them in the duels, or some other combination of the four fastest open cars in qualifying cars that still earned a spot on the grid).
A year ago, TMTR's driver for the Daytona 500, Kaz Grala, faced a similar battle. Grala, who had made four previous Cup series starts (including the 2021 Daytona 500), finished with the third-fastest qualifying speed among open cars, and thus needed to race his way into the field during the first duel. In the closing laps, Grala was a lap down, having been penalized for speeding on pit road due to issues with his dashboard and the lights that show his RPM. With just a few laps to go, he sat several seconds behind fellow open car driver JJ Yeley (also a lap down), who finished 5th among the open cars in qualifying and could only earn a spot in the 500 by beating Grala and Noah Gragson (who locked in a spot by topping open cars in qualifying) in the duel.
But as the main pack of cars came around to lap cars again, Daniel Hemric (also lapped) slowed so not to be involved with any carnage that might've followed. Hemric slowing broke Yeley's momentum and allowed Grala to pass the latter on the final lap and race his way into the Daytona 500 field.
Should it come to it -- even without any Cup experience on an oval -- Daly says he's ready for the challenge.
"I am thrilled to be given the opportunity to attempt to run in the Daytona 500," Daly said in a release. "It is the most prestigious race in NASCAR, and to have the change to compete in it is truly an honor. I am looking forward to the challenge and can't wait to get behind the wheel of whatever BITNILE.COM race car, boat, dune buggy or vehicle they ask me to drive.
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Omnibus Spending Bill includes $418,000 for Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneurs
COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, announced today that its Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence program was selected by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for Fiscal Year 2023 Congressionally Directed Spending funding at a level of $418,000 – a direct federal funding request sponsored by U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). The funding for TEDCO's 10-month leadership development program was included in the FY23 Omnibus Spending bill recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden.
"As Chairman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, I have long been committed to leveling the playing field for our underserved entrepreneurs. Small business is a path of self-determination for many, especially Black women entrepreneurs," said Senator Cardin. "TEDCO has demonstrated its ability to reach these small business owners and help their businesses grow and thrive. I'm proud we have secured $418,000 in direct federal investment for this project, which will foster the entrepreneurial spirit within Maryland's HBCU community."
"To strengthen Maryland's small businesses, we need to remove barriers to ensure that every entrepreneur has access to the resources and support to succeed. That's why I fought to deliver this $418,000 direct federal investment in TEDCO's Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneurs – to expand opportunity, boost startups, and leverage Maryland's diverse talent to foster more leadership opportunities. I look forward to continuing to work with TEDCO to advance our shared commitment to equity in action," said Senator Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
TEDCO's Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence was created to address barriers to success. While they lead the way in business formation, only 3% of Black women business owners are running mature businesses. Research cites three key reasons—the types of businesses, limited access to capital, and the uneven distribution of access to key resources needed for entrepreneurship success—as barriers to entry and catching-up of disadvantaged groups. The new program builds on a promising statistic for Maryland's inclusive economy: at 52%, Maryland has the highest rate per capita of women-business ownership in the United States.
"We are deeply appreciative of the efforts of Senators Van Hollen and Cardin, the Maryland congressional delegation members, and Congress for supporting and funding the Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence in this year's FY23 Omnibus Spending package," said Troy LeMaile-Stovall. "This funding supports local entrepreneurs in building critical skills, expanding their networks, and successfully growing their businesses—and the Maryland economy."
The first year of the Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence is underway, starting as a pilot program in collaboration with Howard County Government, with plans to expand across the state. The program leverages the unique expertise of Maryland's four HBCUs including Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. These Maryland HBCUs work with the cohort to determine their needs at the intersection of research, tech transfer and education. Another major component of the program is helping cohort members collaborate as a community and build their local and statewide networks.
"We know that women-owned start-ups, particularly those led by Black women, face an array of challenges, including the all-important access to capital," said Linda Singh, executive director for TEDCO's Women Entrepreneur Leadership Programs. "Our Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence will give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to collaborate, grow their networks, and navigate the local innovation ecosystem together. It's a winning combination for the leaders, their companies and the state of Maryland."
About TEDCO
TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, enhances economic empowerment growth through the fostering of an inclusive entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. TEDCO identifies, invests in, and helps grow technology and life science-based companies in Maryland. Learn more at www.tedcomd.com.
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Marine recruit dies during physical fitness test; investigation underway
PORT ROYAL, S.C. (WANF/Gray News) - An investigation is underway in South Carolina after a recruit died at a Marine Corps training center.
According to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, 21-year-old Noah Evans died during a physical fitness test on Tuesday.
Officials said Evans was a recruit assigned to Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion and Recruit Training Regiment.
“Our deepest condolences go out to Noah’s family and to the Marines and staff of Mike Company,” the recruit depot shared online.
Evans was from Decatur, Georgia, held a high school diploma, and was not married, according to the Marine Corps.
His cause of death remains under investigation.
Since 1915, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island has trained recruits east of the Mississippi River, WCSC reports.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
22-30-32-37-39
(twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-seven, thirty-nine)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
22-30-32-37-39
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Gunshots at Oklahoma high school after basketball game send announcers ducking for cover
By Andy Rose and Chris Boyette, CNN
Gunfire broke out at an Oklahoma City area high school after a basketball game Tuesday night, sending game commentators ducking for cover and fans running.
At least one man was shot and taken to a hospital, officials told CNN affiliate KOCO.
“After the completion of the boys’ basketball game against Millwood High School, a fight occurred and gunshots were fired inside the field house,” Del City High School Principal Steve Gilliland said on the school’s website. “The Del City Police Department is onsite and investigating the incident.”
Shots could be heard in the gymnasium in a Millwood Falcons Sports livestream as people congregated on the court after the game ended with Del City winning 62 to 58 and announcers commenting on the matchup.
Officials told KOCO that shots were fired both inside and outside the fieldhouse.
“There was at least over 500 people here, maybe a little bit more,” Del City Police Capt. Brad Cowden told the station. “The game had just concluded when this incident occurred.”
No information was available on the wounded person’s condition or whether he is connected to the school.
The principal said the school will shift to a virtual learning day on Wednesday.
CNN has reached out to the Del City Police Department for more information.
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Report Outlines Company's Progress Toward Its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Goals
ST. LOUIS, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global packaging leader TricorBraun today published its inaugural Sustainability report, outlining its progress toward its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals.
"We are pleased to present our first-ever Sustainability Report, which brings to life our commitments to sustainable and ethical practices," said Court Carruthers, president and CEO, TricorBraun. "Our team is guided by the principle that we do things the right way always, and this naturally extends to our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts—including helping our customers with their own ESG goals by offering sustainable packaging options while improving our own environmental footprint."
Key highlights from the report include these 2022 milestones:
- Reduced our carbon footprint and incorporated international operations into our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory
- Sourced renewable energy to further reduce negative climate impacts
- Piloted our first Zero-Waste program in multiple locations across North America
- Further protected our team members by creating a Warehousing Roundtable which emphasizes dock, forklift, and 5S safety programs
- Supported open communications channels that are accessible for all team members by relaunching the TricorBraun Ethics Hub to include additional languages, international access, and mobile reporting
- Established exclusive agreements to offer sustainable packaging options to customers in the US, Canada, and Europe
"The release of our first Sustainability report is a significant milestone as our team continues to work tirelessly in pursuit of achieving our ESG goals," said Susan Bergethon, SVP & general counsel, and leader of the Company's ESG strategy. "We are pleased with our progress to date, and we look forward to making continued progress toward our intentional ESG goals for the benefit of our team members, our customers, our business—and our planet."
To read the full report and learn more about TricorBraun's ESG goals, visit https://www.tricorbraun.com/about-us/esg-at-tricorbraun/2022-sustainability-report.html.
About TricorBraun
Founded in 1902, TricorBraun is a global packaging leader. We provide innovative solutions across a wide array of customer end markets in plastic, glass, and aluminum containers, closures, dispensers, tubes, and flexibles. Our award-winning Design & Engineering Center provides forward-thinking design, driven by consumer insight and creative solutions. TricorBraun is comprised of more than 2,000 packaging professionals operating from more than 100 locations across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
639 AM PDT Mon Aug 1 2022
...ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH ABUNDANT
LIGHTNING TODAY AND TONIGHT...
...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY TODAY AND TUESDAY...
.Scattered thunderstorms with abundant lightning will once again
develop over portions of central and eastern Oregon today and
tonight. Frequent lightning and strong outflow winds will be the
primary concerns for any new and existing fires. While some storms
may produce heavy rainfall, others may be drier in nature.
Winds will be breezy across the Kittitas Valley, the eastern
Columbia River Gorge, and the Lower Columbia Basin south of the
Tri-Cities and Prosser today. Widespread breezy winds will occur
around the Columbia Basin on Tuesday. Winds in combination with
low humidity will cause rapid fire spread in dry grassy areas.
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM PDT
TUESDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES
OR641, WA690, AND WA691...
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 641 Lower Columbia Basin of
Oregon, 690 Kittitas Valley and 691 Lower Columbia Basin.
* IMPACTS...The combination of gusty winds and low humidity will
create issues for fire control in dry grassy areas. Fires may
spread rapidly.
* WINDS...West 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 15 percent.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now....or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds...low relative humidity...and warm temperatures can
contribute to extreme fire behavior.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with afternoon temperatures of
100 to 107 degrees.
* WHERE...Portions of central, south central and southeast
Washington and north central and northeast Oregon.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat-related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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No. 15 Ewing 66, West Windsor-Plainsboro South 44
Kenny Rankin netted 31 points to lead second-seeded and No. 15 in the NJ.com Top 20 Ewing in the first round of the Mercer County Tournament, in Ewing.
Ewing (20-3) will face either third-seeded Norte Dame or seventh-seeded West Windsor-Plainsboro South in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Darnelle Forrest added on 14 points to the win.
Ben Jaclin led West Windsor-Plainsboro South (13-11) with 24 points.
No. 8 Trenton 59, Princeton Day 27
Davontay Hutson tallied 19 points and eight rebounds to lead top-seeded and No. 8 in the NJ.com Top 20 Trenton to a 59-27 win over eighth-seeded Princeton Day in the first round of the Mercer County Tournament, in Trenton.
Trenton (23-1) will face fifth-seeded Hamilton Wst in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Kabrien Goss recorded 17 points, five rebounds and three steals for Trenton.
Adam Stewart led PDS (8-14) with nine points.
Hamilton West 49, Robbinsville 48
Hass Cannon netted a game-high 25 points to help fifth-seeded Hamilton West edge out a 49-48 win over fourth-seeded Robbinsville in the first round of the Mercer County Tournament, in Robbinsville.
Hamilton West (15-8) will face top-seeded and No. 8 Trenton in the semis on Tuesday
Tyler Handy and Evan Bunnell each scored 14 points for Robbinsville (14-11).
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LOS ANGELES (WGHP) — TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died at the age of 19, according to a Los Angeles County coroner report.
Someone found Noriega unconscious in a Los Angeles mall parking lot on Thursday and called 911.
Medical personnel arrived to the scene a short time after but were unable to revive Noriega.
Noriega was not inside a car when he was found, and there were no signs of trauma on his body. Police do not suspect foul play.
An autopsy will take place sometime later, according to TMZ.
Just hours before being found, Noriega posted a video of himself laying in bed with the caption “who else b thinking they gon di€ young af.”
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WILSON, North Carolina — Less than a year ago, President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. $108 Billion of that is set aside for public transportation. Right now, 45% of Americans are without some form of public transportation.
Most people across the United States have likely never heard of Wilson, North Carolina, but there is a community similar to it in states across the country. About 50,000 people live in this town and nearly every single one of them has somewhere they need to go. Rodger Lentz is the assistant city manager of the town. Their transportation issues have been going on for years.
"Really when I got here in 2007, transportation was an issue like getting people to work or getting people essential services, the bus runs just once an hour," Lentz said. "Our bus system wasn't even connecting people to the highest paying jobs in the community."
However, all changed two years ago when they embraced a microtransit model; replacing their city buses with ride share type vans that can be ordered on an app or called through a number, and only cost $1.50 to go anywhere in the city.
"I mean by the fourth week we already matched what the buses were doing and now were approaching 4,000 trips every week," Lentz said.
As a driver, Kutina Winston hears stories from riders every day about the freedom and access this partnership with Via has given them.
"I mean everybody that we drive, that's the first thing they say, I am so glad that you all are in place because the buses were horrible," Winston said. "Yes we take people to the grocery store but mainly to work and doctors appointments."
Wilson used to have five fixed bus routes that ran once an hour. They only reached 40% of the city but now with Via they reach 100%. Cities with more than 100,000 people like Arlington Texas, Cape Coral Florida and Broken Arrow Oklahoma have had no public transportation but organizations like Via are trying to change that. Chris Snyder, the co-COO of Via, acknowledges this microtransit model is by no means meant to replace public transit in every city.
"45% of Americans basically have no access to public transit, so it's sort of an equity issue," Snyder said. "There is one New York city in the country, there are thousands of Wilsons."
The idea is to keep what's working while also filling the necessary gaps. In Wilson that meant access.
"The question was how can we do more with the same budget and how can we expand access to many more people into a bigger part of the cities," Snyder said.
In a place like Jersey City, the problems were very different because of the expansive, successful transit systems in place.
"And the question was really more about how do we get people to that kind of core backbone of the public transit infrastructure which we need to enhance," Snyder said.
Via is now in over 600 cities across the world, providing individualized solutions to each city's transit needs.
"This was a blessing to Wilson and I know it can be a blessing to other cities and states as well," Winston said.
This concept is meant to be integrated into public transportation, keeping the systems affordable and equitable. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/microtransit-can-help-fill-transportation-gaps-in-cities-across-the-us | 2022-08-04 23:33:02 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/microtransit-can-help-fill-transportation-gaps-in-cities-across-the-us |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol.
The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and has further fractured an already deep political division inside the Tennessee Legislature.
Resolutions have been filed against Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led chants from the House floor with supporters in the gallery last Thursday. The resolution declared that the three had participated in “disorderly behavior” and “did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”
Republican Reps. Bud Hulsey, Gino Bulso, and Andrew Farmer filed the resolutions. They successfully requested Monday that the House expedite the process and vote on the resolutions Thursday.
Despite support from the Republican supermajority, their requests sparked outrage among supporters watching in the gallery. Their loud jeers led House Speaker Cameron Sexton to demand that they be removed by state troopers. Also during the turmoil, several lawmakers engaged in a confrontation on the House floor. Jones later accused another member of stealing his phone and trying to “incite a riot with his fellow members.”
Sexton deemed Jones out of order and cut off Jones’ microphone.
Hundreds of protesters packed the Capitol last week calling for the Republican-led Statehouse to pass gun control measures in response to the Nashville school shooting that resulted in the deaths of six people. As the chants echoed throughout the Capitol, Jones, Johnson and Pearson approached the front of the House chamber with a bullhorn.
As the three shared the bullhorn and cheered on the crowd, Sexton, a Republican, quickly called for a recess. He later vowed the three would face consequences. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Karen Camper described their actions as “good trouble,” a reference to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ guiding principal.
By Monday, Sexton confirmed that the three lawmakers had been stripped of their committee assignments and said more punishments could be on the way. A few hours later, House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison referred to Jones as the “former representative” during the evening session.
Pearson and Jones are both freshman lawmakers. Johnson has served in the House since 2019. All three have been highly critical of the Republican supermajority. Jones was temporarily banned from the Tennessee Capitol in 2019 after throwing a cup of liquid at former House Speaker Glen Casada and other lawmakers while protesting the bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest inside the Capitol.
Expelling lawmakers is an extraordinary action inside the Tennessee Capitol. Just two other House members have ever been ousted from the chamber since the Civil War. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/tennessee-house-moves-to-expel-3-democrats-after-gun-protest/ | 2023-04-05 02:50:15 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/tennessee-house-moves-to-expel-3-democrats-after-gun-protest/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche died from inhalation injury and burns after her fiery car crash and the death was ruled an accident, according to coroner's results released Wednesday.
Heche, 53, also had a fractured sternum caused by “blunt trauma," according to information on the website of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
A full autopsy report was still being completed, the coroner's office said.
The Emmy-winning film and television actor was removed from life support Sunday at a burn center. She was injured when her car jumped a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home on Aug. 5. The car and the home burst into flames. Only Heche was injured.
Heche suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury” caused by a lack of oxygen, according to a statement released last week on behalf of her family and friends.
She was declared brain-dead but was kept on life support until her organs could be donated.
Detectives looking into the crash had said narcotics were found in a blood sample taken from Heche. However, police ended their investigation after she was declared brain-dead.
The coroner’s office listed Aug. 11 as her date of death.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, May 4, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Foard County in northern Texas...
Northern Knox County in northern Texas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 407 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles northwest
of Truscott, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Crowell and Truscott.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect for the warned area.
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'Insights Advanced' greatly enhances data access and visibility, allowing operators to better track their own—and their competitors'—buying and selling power
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLAZE®, the industry-leading cannabis software suite and point-of-sale (POS) platform for Cannabis Retailers, today announced the launch of its Insights Advanced product for Enterprise and MSO cannabis retail customers. BLAZE Insights remains available for all clients to use, while the Insights Advanced option now allows large operators a more nuanced ability to track, evaluate and compare their performance among their outlets and competitors on a daily—or hourly—basis.
"BLAZE Advanced Insights is a game-changer for our enterprise and MSO clients who work across state lines and must accommodate differing compliance laws regulating each," said CEO Chris Violas. "With the Advanced Insights tool, data is consolidated and compiled so that our busiest team members have instant access to the metrics they need to make the swift decisions about ordering and selling that directly impact their bottom line, whether that's inside the dispensary, in the warehouse or on the road for delivery."
The power of BLAZE Advanced Insights includes:
- Advanced Manager Dashboard See business metrics broken out week-over-week, month-over-month and year-over-year
- Advanced Member Segmentation Extract any member segmentation by demographics, affinity and behavior
- Advanced Lifetime Value Measure the lifetime value of marketing sources and promotions
- Advanced Discount Dashboard Summarize all discounts, including the difference between expected and actual revenue
- Advanced Staffing Dashboard Identify staffing bottlenecks and best budtenders based on average transaction volume by day-of-week and hour-of-day
- Advanced Delivery Dashboard Identify top product sales by delivery city and region and see delivery times by packed by employee
- Advanced Products Dashboard Liquidate non-performing products, optimize reorders and monitor supply levels
BLAZE powers the cannabis industry with intuitive technology solutions. Founded in 2017, the BLAZE software suite fully supports vertically integrated operations, standalone dispensaries, delivery services, distributors and cultivators. The platform's seed-to-sale software and apps enable businesses across the supply chain to easily automate compliance across the board. The BLAZE POS platform centralizes operations and combines efficient online ordering, inventory management and payment processing while offering full APIs and seamless integration with over 60 cannabis tech platforms. BLAZE.me
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Asked about being an NFL Most Valuable Player finalist, Jalen Hurts revealed, “I didn’t know.” Nick Sirianni pounded his fist on a table in mock disgust and cracked “Oh man!” when queried about his finalist snub for Coach of the Year.
In other words, individual awards don’t mean a whole lot this week in Philly.
Not when there’s a Super Bowl to win.
The trophy is within reach for the Eagles as they head into the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. Sirianni and several Eagles stumped for Hurts to win MVP in the wake of The Associated Press award finalists being announced Wednesday. Hurts took a moment to soak in having his name in the mix with fellow quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow as a candidate for the NFL’s highest individual prize. No Eagle has won MVP since QB Norm Van Brocklin in 1960.
“I think it’s a cool honor,” Hurts said. “I don’t really have much to say about it. I’m at a loss of words, to be honest.”
Hurts put up numbers in the regular season worthy of such consideration: Philadelphia went 14-1 in his starts and he had 3,701 yards passing, 760 yards rushing and 35 touchdowns combined. He led the Eagles to the top seed in the NFC and a playoff victory over the New York Giants.
“I hope Jalen wins it,” Sirianni said. “You want that for your players. He’s had a great year.”
The funny thing is, Hurts’ MVP push may have been aided by results in the games he didn’t play. The Eagles went 0-2 when Hurts sat out two late-season games because of a sprained right shoulder. The message was clear as they stumbled behind backup Gardner Minshew — what kind of team would they be without Hurts?
“I think he should win it,” tight end Dallas Goedert said. “I think he’s been the biggest piece of what we’ve done this year.”
Hurts is still achy in his right shoulder — he told FOX Sports before the win over the Giants that he was “nowhere near 100%” — but it didn’t show on the field. He went 7 of 7 for 89 yards in the first quarter, threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score in the 38-7 romp.
Hurts brushed off questions about his health again Wednesday.
“I’ve felt better, but it doesn’t really matter,” Hurts said. “I’ve got to get it done.”
Much has been made of the fact that 49ers QB Brock Purdy is just a 23-year-old rookie as he makes only his second career postseason start. Hurts, though, is just 24 and playing in his first NFC title game.
No one on the Eagles expects the moment to swallow Hurts. Hurts wore a Michael Jordan “I’m Back” shirt into Lincoln Financial Field for the season finale, in a nod to both of their comebacks (Hurts from the shoulder injury; Jordan from retirement). Sirianni hasn’t been shy about comparing Hurts’ competitiveness to Jordan’s famed fierceness. Jordan, of course, won six NBA championships. Hurts so far has an NFC East title.
“The things that Michael Jordan, you were able to see a lot of things about him in ‘The Last Dance’ about his competitiveness and about just his desire and will to win,” Sirianni said. “So when you make that comparison, you think, the first thing, as good as he’s played this year, as well as he’s run the football, as well as he’s thrown the football, reading defenses, accurate throws, as well as he’s done all that, what you notice first about him is his will to win, his competitive drive.”
Modest at the podium, Hurts has a different fire in the locker room and on the field.
“I try and set the pace, set the temperature of the room,” he said.
That’s one reason why he’s an MVP candidate. He also is in the running for Offensive Player of the Year. Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen was a finalist for AP Assistant Coach of the Year.
New York’s Brian Daboll, Jackonville’s Doug Pederson and San Francisco’s Kyle Shanahan are the finalists for AP Coach of the Year award. Sirianni went 3-0 against Daboll and the Giants this season. Sirianni beat Pederson and the Jaguars in October.
There’s only one more name on the list to knock off.
“Those awards are nice. I’m really happy for Jalen and Shane that they’re on that,” Sirianni said. “But we have obviously much bigger things ahead and on our sights than individual awards.”
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Cyhi The Prynce is finally dropping a follow-up to his 2017 debut album No Dope on Sundays. The long-awaited project, The Story of EGOT, doesn’t have an official release date, but there appears to be a prelude to this project, titled EGOT the EP, dropping Friday (June 3).
And it’s not hard to tell that Cyhi is getting into album mode.
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After spitting what some consider to be a subpar (for him) freestyle on Sway in the Morning, The Prynce pulled up with a straight fire performance on the L.A. Leakers radio show out in Los Angeles. Many were looking for a follow-up to his Joe Budden diss he dropped on Sway, but this time around he got straight to the point.
Check out the verse below, then peep what the Twitterverse had to say.
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Featured at Design & Construction Week, LG's Integrated Approach Combines Performance, Connectivity and Efficiency
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Positioned as a leading integrated solutions provider for homebuilders, LG Electronics USA is taking a key role at Design & Construction Week® held in conjunction with the 2023 International Builders' Show (IBS) and Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS). LG's booth features selections from what is arguably the broadest portfolio of award-winning home appliances and smart home innovations that cater to the dynamic homebuilder market.
From luxury built-in and functional kitchen packages, to a wide assortment of premium laundry innovations, to advanced HVAC and energy solutions, LG technologies on display at IBS/KBIS 2023 address builder trends and desires for smarter, healthier and greener living options.
LG's presence at Design & Construction Week 2023 is being led by LG Builder, a special division of LG Electronics USA that is focused on bringing an array of connected home appliances and exclusive product offerings to design and building professionals. Offering an expanded nationwide network of technicians to support dealers and an industry-first customer care service with ThinQ™, LG Builder extends LG's trademark reliability, innovation and value to the builder, remodeler and designer communities. LG is displaying new ENERGY STAR® certified home appliances across three diverse appliance brand portfolios – LG, LG STUDIO and Signature Kitchen Suite:
- The fast-growing Signature Kitchen Suite brand reflects LG's commitment to producing the industry's best built-in luxury appliances with leading-edge technology, enabling "Technicurean™" home chefs to prepare and preserve food in the best possible ways. New for 2023 is the first-of-its-kind 48-inch built-in French Door Refrigerator featuring a functional and innovative convertible drawer with five preset temperatures ranging from 41⁰F to -7⁰F to allow for precise food preservation. Signature Kitchen Suite is also expanding its luxury product line with a Wi-Fi connected 36-inch gas cooktop featuring five powerful brass burners and a porcelain coated cooking service, as well as a new one-hour complete cycle 24-inch PowerSteam® stainless steel dishwasher. Also new for the brand is ThinQ Care, a customer care service that alerts owners of potential problems to smart appliances before they occur and offers useful maintenance tips to keep Signature Kitchen Suite appliances performing their best.
- The design-driven LG STUDIO collection that offers a more refined and contemporary look comprises an array of innovative appliances with advanced technologies for the kitchen and laundry room. The LG STUDIO kitchen appliance lineup features built-in and freestanding options with exclusive features and premium finishes for those with a discerning eye for design. New product introductions for this year include MoodUP™ by LG STUDIO, which allow consumers to customize the refrigerator to suit their mood using colorful LED panels. With more than 190,000 color combinations for the upper and lower (refrigerator) door panels, consumers can instantly change and personalize the kitchen atmosphere via the LG ThinQ app. The new 21-cubic-foot refrigerator also brings music to the kitchen with an integrated Bluetooth® speaker. The fridge's LED panel colors can sync with the songs playing from streaming apps or the Music Collection playlist featured on the ThinQ app.
- LG Home Appliances offer builders cutting-edge upgradeable appliances designed with a modern aesthetic, convenient features and time-saving technology, delivering the ultimate customer experience and value. Noteworthy 2023 kitchen appliances from LG include the LG Mirror InstaView® Counter-Depth MAX™ with WiFi, the QuadWash® Pro dishwasher, InstaView® Combination Double Wall Oven, and Electric Double Slide-in Range, all of which boast powerful, efficient and long-lasting performance. LG is also expanding its top-rated laundry lineup with two new WashTower™ models – the new WashTower Compact and WashTower with LCD that features Dual Inverter Heat Pump technology to reduce energy consumption.
HVAC: Energy-efficient residential heating and cooling solutions from LG Air Conditioning Technologies USA highlighted at the show include ducted and duct-free options – from the ENERGY STAR certified Art Cool™ Gallery picture frame and Art Cool Mirror indoor units to the superior heating performance of LGRED° technology and convenience of the ceiling mounted 4-way cassette. Key 2023 innovations for the high-performance builder market are led by the indoor Multi-position Vertical Air Handling Unit featuring LGRED° and the ENERGY STAR certified Multi F MAX with LGRED° heat pump system.
ENERGY STORAGE: With LG Electronics Energy Storage Systems (ESS), builders can offer home and business owners access to more reliable, cleaner energy (when coupled with PV and grid power). LG Electronics' new residential, all-in-one energy storage system, "Home 8," provides the capability to store energy in advance to offset peak electricity costs and provide emergency backup power. Home 8 enables homebuilders to offer time-of-use functionalities with 14.4 kWh of useable capacity and 15.8kWh name plate capacity to power homes day and night. Complementing the residential system, LG Electronics' plug-and-play commercial ESS solution works with existing infrastructure to offer efficiencies and support decarbonization efforts.
SMART HOME: As a leading innovator in the smart home category with expertise across home appliances, consumer electronics and more, LG enables builders and designers to easily create a smart home ecosystem for their clients. LG home appliances, HVAC systems, and energy storage systems are designed with connectivity, quality and energy efficiency in mind. With LG's AI-enabled platform, ThinQ, managing smart homes is easier than ever – from offering suggestions to improve homeowners' day-to-day life to providing maintenance tips to keep appliances in good condition. These Wi-Fi-enabled smart devices can be managed, monitored and controlled remotely as a complete turnkey solution with the LG ThinQ app.
INDUSTRY LEADING SERVICE: LG has a dedicated team to support builders and dealers with general service questions, service status checks, service call scheduling and warranty inquiries. Providing added trust to customers everywhere, the brand's world-class service is backed by an extensive industry-leading service network across the country. With dealer and consumer support, LG has branded, factory trained technicians nationwide offering two-hour appointment windows and same day service.
SHOW HOME PARTNER: Reflecting its commitment to homebuilders, LG was named Platinum Partner of The New American Home, official show home of the National Association of Home Builders. LG HVAC and LG Builder innovations are integrated throughout this one-of-a-kind showcase that spotlights industry best practices, innovative design concepts, state-of-the-art products and the latest construction techniques.
To learn more about the LG products for the professional market, visit lgbuilder.com.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $68 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is a nine-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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The 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Odds & Preview: Patty Tavatanakit
Patty Tavatanakit will compete in the 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic in Sylvania, Ohio at Highland Meadows Golf Club from July 13-16.
Looking to place a bet on Tavatanakit at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic this week? Read on for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Patty Tavatanakit Insights
- Tavatanakit has finished better than par once and scored five rounds with a better-than-average score over her last 12 rounds.
- She has not finished any of her most recent 12 rounds with a top-10 score on the day.
- Tavatanakit has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in one of her last 12 rounds.
- In her past five appearances, Tavatanakit has not finished in the top 20.
- Looking at the past five tournaments she has entered, she made the cut once.
- Tavatanakit has finished with a better-than-average score in one of her past five tournaments.
Over the last year
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Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Insights and Stats
- Highland Meadows Golf Club measures 6,561 yards for this tournament, 453 below the average course on the Tour in the past year (7,014).
- Players have recorded 69.5 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on Tour. Events hosted on this course have a lower scoring average of -8.
- The courses that Tavatanakit has played in the past year have had an average distance of 6,567 yards, while Highland Meadows Golf Club will be at 6,561 yards this week.
- The tournaments she has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -8.
Tavatanakit's Last Time Out
- Tavatanakit was above average on the 16 par-3 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, averaging par to finish in the 74th percentile of competitors.
- Her 4.10-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open was strong, putting her in the 83rd percentile of the field.
- Tavatanakit was better than only 31% of the field at the U.S. Women’s Open on par-5 holes, averaging 5.13 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 5.02.
- Tavatanakit recorded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the tournament average was 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Tavatanakit had three bogeys or worse, which equaled the field average.
- Tavatanakit recorded more birdies or better (four) than the tournament average of 3.0 on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- In that last competition, Tavatanakit had a bogey or worse on eight of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 8.4).
- Tavatanakit finished the U.S. Women’s Open recording a birdie or better on two par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 2.8 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Tavatanakit had more bogeys or worse (four) than the field average (2.6).
Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: Highland Meadows Golf Club
- Location: Sylvania, Ohio
- Par: 71 / 6,561 yards
- Tavatanakit Odds to Win: +8000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Enjoy food from many of your favorite restaurants without any fees
Food delivery services like Grubhub make enjoying your favorite takeout completely hassle-free — your food arrives at your door without having to sit in traffic, find a parking space or wait in line.
But there is one thing that isn’t so hot about GrubHub: the delivery fees.
If you’re an Amazon Prime member, we’ve got good news. You can score a year of Grubhub+ free, so you can order food at a wide array of restaurants on Grubhub without any delivery fees. Learn more about this can’t-miss deal and how to sign up for big takeout savings this year.
How to take advantage of the GrubHub deal for Prime members
What does the deal entail?
Starting July 6, Prime members are eligible to sign up for a free year-long trial membership to Grubhub+. Grubhub+ provides unlimited access to $0 delivery fees at hundreds of thousands of restaurants for orders of $12 or more before tax, tip and other fees. Normally, a Grubhub+ membership costs $9.99 per month.
The membership also entitles you to other member-only benefits and rewards like additional discounts and free food. In addition, Grubhub+ orders are eligible for a donation match to Gruhub’s Donate the Change program, which contributes to more than 20 charitable organizations.
How do you sign up for the deal?
Start by making sure you’re signed in to your Amazon Prime account on your smartphone, tablet or computer. Next, click the “Activate free Grubhub+” link.
If you already have a Grubhub account, you’ll be prompted to sign in. If you don’t have an account, you’ll be given the opportunity to create a Grubhub account. You must also agree to the terms and conditions to link the two accounts and share your Prime membership information with Grubhub.
If you aren’t a Prime member, you’ll need to sign up before activating the deal. Those who already have a Grubhub+ membership are still eligible. Follow the same steps outlined above, and the free membership period will begin with your next billing cycle. Unfortunately, Grubhub Campus, Corporate and some existing partnership members are ineligible for the Prime deal.
What happens after the one-year period ends?
When your free one-year Grubhub+ membership ends, Grubhub will charge the payment method linked to your Grubhub account each month at the current rate, which is presently $9.99 per month. If you want to cancel your membership, you only need to click the link in the Grubhub+ membership area of your Grubhub account settings or contact Grubhub customer support.
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Advice from doctors during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time when healthcare providers raise awareness about the disease.
Living a healthy lifestyle can help reduce the risk for several diseases, including certain cancers. Data suggests that adage holds true for colorectal cancer.
According to data from the World Cancer Research Fund International, there is strong evidence that eating whole grains, dietary fiber and dairy products decreases the risk of colorectal cancer.
A physically active lifestyle also can decrease the risk of colorectal cancer.
On the other hand, eating red and processed meats and drinking alcohol can increase a person’s risk for colorectal cancer as well as being overweight or obese.
A review from JAMA Network Open showed “convincing evidence” there is an association between lower colorectal cancer risk and diets higher in fiber, calcium and yogurt, and lower in alcohol and red meat.
Dr. Michael Driscoll from Norton Healthcare said screenings can save lives.
“We know that colorectal cancer is largely greater than 90%, preventable,” Driscoll said. “Oftentimes, if people get their appropriate screenings on time, these can get caught in the polyp stage before they progress on to actual cancer and those can be removed.”
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HAZEL GREEN, Ala. — Before starting college, Taylor Mohead had never been outside her hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, the recent Tuskegee University graduate is trekking around trees in Hazel Green, Alabama, in fire gear and sweltering heat.
The U.S. Forest Service intern is among 20 students from historically Black colleges or universities who are participating in a prescribed burn demonstration under instructors' supervision. They clear paths, light fires and make sure the embers are out when they're done. It’s part of an apprenticeship program that will give them the credentials to hit the ground running toward a fire line.
It’s a grueling way to spend summer break, but Mohead is relishing it. She never pictured herself fighting forest fires.
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“Look at me. I’m really small. I’m really short. And then being a woman of color, that’s something, too. I feel like that’s more inspiring," Mohead said, grinning. “I got goosebumps right now.”
The on-site fire academy is part of the 1890 Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and a cluster of HBCUs comprised of Florida A&M University, Southern University in Louisiana, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University.
The recruitment effort comes as wildfire season around the U.S. grows due to climate change and minorities remain underrepresented in forestry and firefighting. The number of wildfires this year is below the 10-year average, but hot and dry conditions are raising the risk, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The idea for a consortium came during the pandemic to address a “mission critical area of the Forest Service,” said Stephanie Love, the USDA Forest Service’s national diversity student programs manager and an Alabama A&M alum. The initiative became official in 2021.
“These four HBCUs have some of the top agricultural programs at HBCUs in the nation. So, it just makes sense to align our efforts and move together in the same direction,” Love said. “We’re trying to create a pipeline of students who are pursuing this natural resources education and forestry and fire.”
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The hope is every student comes away with a foundation to chart one of many possible paths in forestry, ecology, agriculture or firefighting.
The consortium is building on top of a decadeslong relationship between Alabama A&M and the Forest Service. A USDA Forest Service Center of Excellence in Forestry was created at the school in 1993 to prepare students for jobs with the agency.
The Bulldogs established a nationally accredited firefighting team in 2009 made of students, called the FireDawgs. When class isn't in session, the FireDawgs are dispatched to wildfires or burn operations around the country.
The development programs that have come out of the Alabama-Forest Service collaboration are responsible for training two-thirds of Black foresters in the federal agency, said Love, who was in the first FireDawgs squad.
Diversity among the Forest Service's wildland firefighters has increased by 20% in the last decade, according to data collected by the agency. It has approximately 13,000 employees including firefighters and other staff who respond to wildfires. Between July 2010 and July 2022, white staffers fell from 86% to 66%.
Black fire personnel have remained mostly around 1.3%. Black women make up around 0.5%. Hispanics make up 12%, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives and Asians linger around 3% and 1%, respectively. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up less than 1%.
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The dearth of applicants of color may partly be due to a lack of awareness. They are not often encouraged to consider firefighting by guidance counselors or recruiters, said Terry Baker, CEO of the Society of American Foresters and its first Black leader. There also is a misconception that working outdoors isn't highly technical or doesn't require skill, he said.
Once students decide to study forestry or related fields, retaining them becomes the next challenge. Love said the Forest Service and HBCUs ensure there are mentorships, scholarships and internships.
Bradley Massey, an Alabama A&M junior and president of the school's forestry club, said the school sparked a passion he was missing. Massey said he was a student at Auburn University of Montgomery when he lost focus, working in retail back home in Huntsville before enrolling in Alabama A&M in 2021.
“As the school year progressed, that’s when more information about the FireDawgs presented itself,” Massey said in between running around in fire gear. “I wanted to just have experience and be able to make the most out of my college experience because I wasn’t just going back for fun. I was going back for a purpose.”
He has since accomplished feats like passing several firefighter work capacity tests including walking 3 miles (5 kilometers) in under 45 minutes while carrying a 45-pound (20-kilogram) pack. In October, he traveled to a conference in Boise, Idaho, where he went on field trips and talked with fire professionals and students from around the nation.
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“I didn’t want to leave,” Massey said. “It was like going into Comic-Con and seeing all the cool stuff and just wanting to take many pictures ... I feel like it has helped me a lot in my career now."
Baker, of the Society of American Foresters, said the need for more firefighters will only increase as wildfires intensify with worsening climate change and droughts.
“If we’re going to meet these challenges, we’re going to have to have everyone,” Baker said. “What does that mean to a profession that has been primarily white male?”
Black firefighters can feel intimidated and isolated in the field when they parachute into fires in predominately white communities or don’t have other crew members of color around them, Baker said. He recalled fire scenes where “people became comfortable enough to openly say I was the first Black person they’ve ever met in real life that they didn’t see on TV.”
The current crop of students says it has been reassuring to meet HBCU alumni who have gone on to become fire or forestry professionals, noting there is something special about being in the field surrounded by classmates turned crew who look like them.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- REPLI, a prop-tech company pioneering digital marketing technology and solutions for the multifamily industry, announced its placement on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. This prestigious list represents the companies and entrepreneurs that have consistently and rapidly expanded their business, and REPLI was ranked No. 1376 after experiencing 470% growth over the past three years.
"To be listed on the Inc. 5000 list of companies is truly an honor," said Corbin Wrights, CEO and founder of REPLI. "I believe the growth we've experienced is a reflection of our commitment to culture, the empowerment of our team members, the enduring relationships forged with our partners and clients, and our commitment to rebelling against the status quo in order to solve our industry's biggest challenges."
REPLI will continue to set the bar and experience hypergrowth into 2023 and beyond. "2022 has been our biggest year in revenue and team growth, and we're excited to break new ground daily with no plans of slowing down," said Wrights.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Founded by Corbin Wrights in 2018, Atlanta, Georgia-based REPLI provides multifamily organizations the digital marketing technology and services to efficiently market their apartment communities online – at scale. REPLI is one the of industry's fastest-growing bootstrapped prop-tech companies in the United States, managing and servicing over 300,000 units nationwide. With teams located in the US, UK, Philippines, and India – REPLI's global footprint supports our unyielding commitment to client success and satisfaction.
REPLI's Aha! Moment happens when a multifamily organization has a portfolio of properties that needs a full, omnichannel digital marketing presence (website, SEO, digital advertising, social, reputation management) and realizes that because of REPLI's technology and services, they can have a fully integrated digital marketing stack ready to go live in a matter of days and the ability to manage it all from a single, centralized backend that seamlessly integrates with their property management software systems and platforms.
For more information, please visit www.repli360.com
The Inc. 5000 is a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. The Inc. 5000 is a celebration of innovation and a hallmark of entrepreneurial success.
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Appoints Brian Adams as President and Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors, Effective Immediately
Appoints Richard W. Rew II as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Announces Preliminary Unaudited First Quarter 2023 Revenue Exceeding Guidance
MOORESTOWN, N.J., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.® (Nasdaq: TRHC) ("TRHC" or the "Company"), a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, today announced the appointment of Brian Adams as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Adams, who was serving as TRHC's interim Chief Executive Officer since September 2022 and previously served as the Company's Co-President and Chief Financial Officer, was also appointed to the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") as a Class I director, effective immediately.
The Company today also announced that Richard W. Rew II has joined the Company as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, effective April 10, 2023. Mr. Rew joins the Company from IsoPlexis Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. As Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Rew will be responsible for legal operations, litigation, corporate governance, and regulatory affairs of the Company. Mr. Rew will report to Mr. Adams.
In addition, the Company reported today preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Statements on Chief Executive Officer Appointment
Michael Purcell, Chairman of the Board, commented:
"As interim CEO, Brian has brought stability to the organization and laid a strong foundation for both profitable growth and long-term value creation. Thanks to his deep industry experience and strong knowledge of our primary target markets, in particular the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), he has also earned the respect of our clients, partners, team members and shareholders. The Board's decision to appoint Brian as the Company's CEO reflects its commitment to fostering a high-performing management team and retaining, rewarding and developing TRHC's own talent. We firmly believe Brian is the right leader as we embark on the next chapter for the Company."
Brian Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer, added:
"I greatly appreciate the Board's trust and belief in me, and I am honored to continue working alongside a talented management team and dedicated employee base. Over the past few months, we have made significant strides refocusing our business around our solutions for PACE, our fastest growing market, and we are committed to advancing these offerings in order to support future growth and enhance our client experience. Our combination of solutions is not only relevant in PACE, but also to adjacent healthcare markets taking on financial risk and serving similar demographics and I am excited to capitalize on these opportunities. The Board and the leadership team are confident in our current market position and look forward to keeping the momentum going as we continue to make positive impacts on patient care for our clients."
Preliminary Estimated First Quarter 2023 Revenues From Continuing Operations
The Company is also reporting today preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2023 is expected to be between $87.0 - $88.5 million, exceeding the prior guidance range of $82 - $84 million. The Company plans to report its first quarter 2023 financial results in early May.
About Brian Adams
Mr. Brian Adams is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tabula Rasa HealthCare. Prior to this role, Mr. Adams served as interim CEO and before that, Co-President of the Company, overseeing strategy, sales and account management, professional affairs, IT and software engineering, human resources, legal and finance. He formerly served as TRHC's Chief Financial Officer, guiding TRHC through successful public and private debt and equity financing efforts and designed and implemented a plan to achieve profitability. His broad management experience includes strategic planning, business performance optimization, and financial integration for mergers and acquisitions.
About Richard W. Rew II
Mr. Rew is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Tabula Rasa Healthcare. He has served as General Counsel to public companies for more than 20 years. Mr. Rew's relevant experience includes serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of several companies in the healthcare/medical device space including ArthroCare Corporation, Luminex Corporation and, most recently, IsoPlexis Corporation. Mr. Rew has relevant experience in corporate governance, M&A, compliance, litigation, and regulatory matters.
About Tabula Rasa HealthCare
Tabula Rasa HealthCare provides medication safety solutions that empower healthcare professionals and consumers to optimize medication regimens, combating medication overload and reducing adverse drug events. TRHC's proprietary technology solutions, including MedWise®, improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, and lower healthcare costs. TRHC's extensive clinical tele-pharmacy network improves care for patients nationwide. Its solutions are trusted by health plans and at-risk provider groups to help drive value-based care. For more information, visit TRHC.com.
The historical financial data included in this press release are unaudited and preliminary, based upon the Company's estimates and subject to completion of its financial closing procedures. Moreover, these data have been prepared on the basis of currently available information by, and are the responsibility of, management. The Company's independent auditors, KPMG LLP, have not audited or reviewed, and do not express an opinion with respect to these data. Management believes that such preliminary unaudited historical financial data have been prepared on a reasonable basis. However, because currently available information is preliminary, such estimates should not be relied on as necessarily indicative of the Company's financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. This summary is not a comprehensive statement of the Company's financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. The Company's actual results, including net income, or other reported financial measures, such as Adjusted EBITDA, are yet to be finalized and are subject to the completion of the Company's financial closing procedures, final adjustments and other developments that may arise between now and the time the financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 are finalized.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "believe," "will," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "could," "potentially" or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. You should read these statements carefully because they discuss future expectations, contain projections of future results of operations or financial condition, or state other "forward-looking" information. These statements relate to, without limitation, our future plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, and financial performance and the assumptions that underlie these statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: (i) our expectations regarding industry and market trends, including the expected growth and continued structural change and consolidation in the market for healthcare in the United States; (ii) our expectations about the growth of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ("PACE") organizations; (iii) our expectations about private payers establishing their own at-risk programs; (iv) the advantages of our solutions as compared to those of competitors; (v) our estimates about our financial performance; (vi) the visibility into future cash flows from our business model; (vii) our ability to reduce expenses as a result of our disposition of non-core businesses; (viii) our growth strategy, including our ability to grow our client base; (ix) our plans to further penetrate existing markets and enter new markets; (x) expectations of earnings, revenue, and other financial items; (xi) plans, strategies, and objectives of management for future operations; (xii) our ability to establish and maintain intellectual property rights; (xiii) our ability to retain and hire necessary associates and appropriately staff our operations; (xiv) future capital expenditures; (xv) future economic conditions or performance; (xvi) our plans to pursue strategic acquisitions and partnerships; (xvii) our plans to expand and enhance our solutions; and (xviii) our estimates regarding capital requirements and needs for additional financing; and (xix) the risks described in Part I, Item 1A of our 2022 Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2023, and our other filings and reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These statements, like all statements in this report, speak only as of their date, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements in light of future developments, except as required by applicable law. We caution investors that our business and financial performance are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties.
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Brewers second. Willy Adames homers to right field. Darin Ruf grounds out to shallow infield, Wander Franco to Yandy Diaz. Rowdy Tellez walks. Brian Anderson walks. Rowdy Tellez to second. Joey Wiemer flies out to right center field to Josh Lowe. Brice Turang strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Brewers 1, Rays 0.
Brewers fourth. Darin Ruf doubles to right field. Rowdy Tellez homers to center field. Darin Ruf scores. Brian Anderson grounds out to shortstop, Wander Franco to Yandy Diaz. Joey Wiemer grounds out to shallow infield, Wander Franco to Yandy Diaz. Brice Turang flies out to shallow center field to Randy Arozarena.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Brewers 3, Rays 0.
Rays fourth. Brandon Lowe strikes out swinging. Randy Arozarena walks. Harold Ramirez walks. Randy Arozarena to second. Josh Lowe homers to right field. Harold Ramirez scores. Randy Arozarena scores. Taylor Walls called out on strikes. Manuel Margot singles to left field. Francisco Mejia grounds out to second base, Brice Turang to Rowdy Tellez.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Brewers 3, Rays 3.
Brewers fifth. Owen Miller singles to center field. William Contreras homers to center field. Owen Miller scores. Christian Yelich doubles to right field. Willy Adames strikes out swinging. Darin Ruf grounds out to third base, Taylor Walls to Yandy Diaz. Rowdy Tellez is intentionally walked. Brian Anderson singles to center field. Rowdy Tellez to second. Christian Yelich scores. Joey Wiemer reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Brian Anderson out at second.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Brewers 6, Rays 3.
Rays eighth. Brandon Lowe flies out to deep center field to Joey Wiemer. Randy Arozarena hit by pitch. Harold Ramirez strikes out swinging. Josh Lowe singles to left field. Randy Arozarena scores. Luke Raley pinch-hitting for Taylor Walls. Luke Raley hit by pitch. Josh Lowe to second. Manuel Margot walks. Isaac Paredes pinch-hitting for Francisco Mejia. Isaac Paredes reaches on a fielder's choice to third base. Manuel Margot out at second.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 4 left on. Brewers 6, Rays 4. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/milwaukee-tampa-bay-runs-18111263.php | 2023-05-21 21:05:58 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/milwaukee-tampa-bay-runs-18111263.php |
Will Republican Party stand behind Trump if he's indicted?
A federal grand jury is meeting in Miami about the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump unlawfully held and then mishandled classified documents.
While this is happening, Trump is fuming on social media.
"No one has told me I'm being indicted, and I shouldn't be because I've done NOTHING wrong, but I have assumed for years that I am a target of the WEAPONIZED DOJ & FBI," Trump said on his Truth Social site.
All of this became public last summer after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, hunting for classified documents that it said Trump refused to hand over to the government.
So, what is the litmus test for an indictment to happen?
WPTV asked that question to Mark Schnapp, a former federal prosecutor turned defense attorney.
"That the documents were unlawfully retained and that there was an effort to hide the documents and not produce what was required by the subpoena," Schnapp said.
Trump's possible defense could be that he had the right to hold classified documents. Schnapp posed another possible defense that the former president may use.
"I think his threshold argument is that when he left the White House other people packed them up, and he didn't pick and choose what was there," Schnapp said.
What are the political ramifications if Trump is indicted?
"I think for Donald Trump's opponents, they are going to see this as an opportunity," NewsChannel 5 political analyst Brian Crowley said. "They are going to say enough with the drama. We don't need this anymore. Donald Trump should deal with his legal problems. Let's move on and elect a president from the Republican Party. Let's nominate someone who doesn't have all this drama."
Crowley also noted that Trump's significant base of support will rally around him. The question is would that be enough to secure the GOP nomination? The legal and political drama is underway.
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Towing service and first responders battle boat fire at Lake Texoma
Published: Jul. 19, 2022 at 4:14 PM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
KINGSTON, Okla. (KXII) - Towing service TowBoatU.S. Lake Texoma helped battle a boat on fire at Cedar Bayou Marina early morning Tuesday.
The fire was extinguished around 3 a.m.
The call for help was announced around 1 a.m.
TowBoatU.S. joined Sherwood Shores, Whitesboro, and Gordonville Fire Departments to put out the flames.
Nobody was injured.
The work of the first responders and TowBoatU.S. stopped the fire from spreading to other boats at the marina.
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Foundation preserves eight acres near Don Pedro State Park
Purchase helps keep intact habitat in the Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve
CHARLOTTE COUNTY – The Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast has finalized the purchase of eight acres adjacent to Don Pedro State Park for $2.7 million.
The nonprofit said the landowner worked with the organization for three years on a partnership, Christine P. Johnson, president of Conservation Foundation, said. “It is our hope to now resell the property to the state of Florida as an addition to Don Pedro Island State Park, protecting the park’s natural beauty and enhancing recreation opportunities for all to enjoy.”
Earlier:Renowned cantors to perform at holiday concert; Conservation Foundation protects 69 acres
Don Pedro Island State Park, composed of a mainland section and an island section, is part of a barrier island system protecting the Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve, which flows into Charlotte Harbor.
The newly conserved eight acres are on the south boundary of the mainland section. The land could have been developed with more than 80 condominium units, but instead, now buffers the park from residential development and improves park officials’ ability to manage the adjoining uplands with essential prescribed fires.
Conserving this land also supports the preservation of rare, intact barrier island habitat and integral mainland shoreline habitat for many imperiled species, including gopher tortoise, indigo snake, snowy plover, and roseate tern, advocates said.
The property is primarily uplands with a small wetland. Improved management will eliminate invasive species and prevent their spread into Don Pedro Island State Park. Additionally, the property contains eight boat slips on a protected canal, which, if purchased by the state, will enhance the park’s recreation amenities, including kayaking access to the secluded island portion of the park.
The Osprey-based Conservation Foundation purchases natural areas, holds voluntary land protection agreements, and educates for responsible land and water stewardship in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/01/16/conservation-foundation-preserves-8-acres-near-don-pedro-state-park/69804020007/ | 2023-01-16 17:23:25 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/01/16/conservation-foundation-preserves-8-acres-near-don-pedro-state-park/69804020007/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Children's author Angeline Boulley will soon return her many readers to the world of her prize-winning debut novel “Firekeeper's Daughter.”
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers announced Friday that Boulley's “Warrior Girl Unearthed” will come out May 2023. Like its predecessor, "Warrior Girl Unearthed" will be set in an Ojibwe community, focusing on a teenage girl who learns of a plot to make money off the theft of Indigenous graves. Holt calls the book “a complex and compelling mystery, effortlessly exploring themes of identity, family, and reclamation in a Native community.”
Boulley's book will be illustrated by Michaela Goade, whose drawings for “We Are Water Protectors” brought her a Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration of a children's book.
Boulley's bestselling first book, also featuring a young protagonist, received numerous awards, was selected for Reese Witherspoon's book club and is being adapted by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company for Netflix.
“I revel in telling stories about Ojibwe teenagers — strong in their culture and language — who love their communities,” Boulley said in a statement. “Young people protecting and caring for their elders and ancestors are an inspiration to me and, I hope, to readers everywhere.” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/JHS7EOHU4BFELDNSW3IMH7XZ2A/ | 2022-08-05 13:23:06 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/JHS7EOHU4BFELDNSW3IMH7XZ2A/ |
Board voting on superintendent departure after teacher shot
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his first-grade teacher.
On Tuesday, the Newport News School Board posted an agenda for a special meeting on Wednesday, saying it will vote on a separation agreement and severance package for Superintendent George Parker III. The board is also scheduled to vote on a new interim superintendent.
Parker has been sharply criticized by parents and teachers who have called for his resignation or firing.
The board did not release any details of the separation agreement. Parker and School Board Chair Lisa Surles-Law did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Police say Abigail Zwerner, 25, was shot by a student in her class as she was teaching at Richneck Elementary School. Police Chief Steve Drew has repeatedly characterized the shooting as “intentional,” saying the boy had the gun “on his person,” aimed the gun at Zwerner and fired one round, striking her in the hand and chest.
Zwerner was hospitalized for nearly two weeks but has been released and is continuing her recovery on an outpatient basis, a hospital spokesperson said.
Six days after the Jan. 6 shooting, Parker revealed that at least one administrator had been told the day of the shooting that the boy may have had a weapon. He said the student’s backpack was searched, but no weapon was found.
Police have said school officials did not tell them about that tip before the shooting, which happened hours later.
Cindy Connell, a teacher at Gildersleeve Middle School in Newport News, said removing Parker is “absolutely” the right move.
“I think it’s a good first step on a very long road to regain teacher and community trust, which is currently nonexistent,” Connell said.
“I think they need to listen to the concerns of teachers in a serious way, not just giving lip service. We’re the ones who are in the classrooms and in the buildings, all day, every day. I still feel that our concerns are not taken seriously.”
During a raucous school board meeting last week, teachers and parents said administrators had been dismissive of repeated complaints about misbehavior. They said students who assaulted classmates and staff were routinely allowed to stay in the classroom with few consequences due to a misguided emphasis on attendance and other education statistics.
Much of the anger was directed at Parker, who was also criticized after two earlier school shootings in Newport News in a little over a year.
In September 2021, two 17-year-old students were wounded when a 15-year-old boy fired shots in a crowded high school hallway after he had a fight with one of the students. Two months later, an 18-year-old student fatally shot a 17-year-old in the parking lot of a different high school after a basketball game.
Zwerner has hired a trial attorney to represent her. Diane Toscano, founder of the Toscano Law Group in Virginia Beach, said in a media advisory Tuesday that she plans to share an update on Zwerner and release new information about the shooting on Wednesday.
The advisory said Toscano will also “address next steps,” but did not specify whether Zwerner plans to file a lawsuit against the Newport News school district or school administrators. Toscano did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Toscano is a former prosecutor who worked in the Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office from 2006 to 2009. Her law firm handles criminal defense cases and civil litigation.
Police have said the gun used in the shooting was legally purchased by the boy’s mother. In a statement last week, the family said the gun was secured. Attorney James Ellenson told The Associated Press that according to his understanding, it was in the woman’s closet on a shelf well over 6 feet high and had a trigger lock requiring a key.
The family also said in its statement that the boy has an “acute disability” and was under a care plan “that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day.”
The week of the shooting was the first when a parent was not in class with him, the family said, adding, “We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives.”
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Which book light is best?
Book lights may seem like a thing of the past in a world of e-readers and tablets, but rest assured that you aren’t alone in preferring the physical feel of a book. Book lights are made for bibliophiles that enjoy reading late into the night. They are especially handy for use in situations where you wouldn’t want to disturb someone else in the room or airplane cabin with an overly bright light.
The Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light might be the best option for you, thanks to its three different light temperatures, rechargeable batteries and lightweight design.
What to know before you buy a book light
Why use a book light?
Book lights are designed for late night reading, but they are also great for a variety of other things. If you’re a writer, book lights are a great way to illuminate your notebook or journal. Book lights are also great for late-night knitting or crocheting.
Don’t think that book lights have to be limited to use in bed, either. Book lights are great for use on airplanes, buses, trains and cars since their soft light can be used without bothering those around you. Many people even prefer using book lights at their desk as opposed to an overhead or desk lamp since they are smaller, easier to control and can be less bothersome to the eyes.
Book light size and weight
One of the most important things to consider when buying a book light is its size and weight. Book lights, in their essence, should be lightweight so that they don’t harm books when they’re clipped onto either the cover or the pages. Size and weight are usually correlated, so opting for a smaller book light is best if you intend to use it with books.
Different types of book lights
While the clip-on book light is a tried and true design, there are several different types of book lights that you can buy online now. For example, the Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light is a book light that you wear around your neck instead of clipping it to your book or notebook.
Aside from differences in designs, most book lights are differentiated by the type of light they use. The Vekkia Amber Rechargeable 9 LED Eye-Care Book Light is a good example of this. It uses a warmer light that is much easier on the eyes than traditional blue light.
What to look for in a quality book light
Easily adjustable neck
If you opt for a classic book light designed to be clipped onto a book, you’ll want to make sure that the neck is flexible enough to be easily adjusted. Most book lights will have a flexible neck that can be moved around while reading, but some come with stiff necks that can be awkward to adjust. Of course, if you plan on using your book light for knitting or crocheting, this won’t be as important.
Battery life or rechargeable battery
Book lights of old used to require batteries and had a relatively short battery life. Some book lights on the market still do require batteries that will have to be changed out every so often, but most models have an improved battery life thanks to advancements in technology.
Nowadays, it is very common for book lights to be rechargeable, which is a great feature that can save you money on batteries in the long run. So, if you use a book light often, look for this feature in your next book light.
Adjustable light settings
Quality book lights, such as the Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light, will have multiple light settings that can be adjusted to fit your personal preferences and needs. These book lights are best for your eyes and normally avoid blue light, known to disrupt sleep patterns.
How much you can expect to spend on a book light
Book lights normally range from $15-$30.
Book light FAQ
What type of light is best for late-night reading?
A. Go with a light that has a warmer temperature for reading in the dark. Blue light or cooler lights will be hard on the eyes.
Can I use a book light with paperback books?
A. Yes, but if you want to avoid damaging your paperbacks, buy a book light that is on the lighter side.
What’s the best book light to buy?
Top book light
Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light
What you need to know: This rechargeable book light from Vekkia is perfect for those who like to read late into the night.
What you’ll love: Thanks to its long battery life, soft lighting and portability, you will be able to read for hours on end before bed or while traveling.
What you should consider: Some users have complained that the neck is too flexible.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top book light for the money
Glorious-Lite 9 LED Book Light
What you need to know: This book light is great for those looking for a quality book light on a budget.
What you’ll love: This book light has three color temperatures (white, warm and natural) to keep your eyes comfortable for long reading sessions.
What you should consider: This book light is not rechargeable and operates on batteries, but it can be plugged into your laptop or an AC adaptor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Honwell Rechargeable Book Light
What you need to know: This book light from Honwell is perfect for children, thanks to its cute design and color options.
What you’ll love: Since the book light is rechargeable, you won’t have to worry about batteries. Plus, it’s cordless thanks to its convenient USB interface.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that the book light has a short battery life.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SEOUL, South Korea, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CanariaBio Inc. (developing its biotechnology assets through its subsidiaries, MH C&C and OncoQuest Pharma US Inc.) announces today that it has reached 50% of target enrollment of 602 patients for its pivotal Phase III clinical study of its lead product oregovomab, in combination with standard of care chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) for the treatment of front-line advanced ovarian cancer patients.
This double blind and placebo controlled multinational trial (FLORA-5, GOG-3035, NCT04498117) is currently accruing patients at over 137 centers in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Taiwan and US; with additional sites in India and Romania being activated. This study seeks to confirm the observations of Brewer et al (Gynecology Oncology 2020 156:523-529) that demonstrated oregovomab in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel improved both progression free and overall survival relative to chemotherapy which was statistically significant and clinically meaningful in the absence of incremental toxicity.
For this ongoing Phase-III study, the last Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (IDSMB) meeting held in March 2022 identified no safety concerns and IDSMB recommended to continue the study without modifications.
"We are excited about reaching this important milestone, which is a testament of the hard work that all our investigators, GOG leadership, team members and collaborators has put in, and are grateful to the patients that have participated in the study," said Dr. Sunil Gupta MBBS, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer of OncoQuest Pharma US, Inc. (a subsidiary of CanariaBio Inc.) "We remain on track with our projected enrollment, and we are excited about the potential benefits that our drug may bring to patients with ovarian cancer."
Oregovomab is a murine IgG against CA 125. Indirect immunization with oregovomab interacts with immune modulating properties of infused paclitaxel and carboplatin resulting in synergistic clinical benefit as observed in a phase 2 trial. In a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of 97 patients, treatment with Oregovomab in combination with chemotherapy had demonstrated a highly statistically significant and clinically meaningful outcome for both progression-free and overall survival compared to standard of care chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel). The risk of progression and of death was reduced by more than 50% when compared to control arm, and safety data showed that oregovomab did not add incremental toxicity to the chemotherapy regimen. Clinical and translational results were published in Gynecology Oncology 2020 156:523-529) and Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy 2020 69: 383-397, respectively. To learn more, visit www.FLORA-5.com.
CanariaBio Inc. is a Korean biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of immunotherapies for cancer. CanariaBio's technology platform includes a portfolio of tumor antigen specific monoclonal immunoglobulins targeting CA-125, MUC1, PSA and Her2/neu. The company is exploring the therapeutic potential of these antibodies as indirect immunizers in combination with other immune modulating drugs or drug combinations to address unmet medical needs in oncology.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service New York NY
407 PM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast New York, including the following
counties, Nassau and Suffolk.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 407 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms approaching. Minor flooding is expected to
begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of
rain have fallen earlier this afternoon across portions of
the advisory area.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 1 1/2 inches are expected
over the area through 6pm. This additional rain will result
in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Levittown, Huntington Station, Deer Park, Glen Cove,
Plainview, Garden City, Syosset, Mineola, Huntington,
Westbury, Farmingdale, Northport, Oyster Bay, Hempstead,
Hicksville, Dix Hills, Melville, Port Washington, Woodbury
and Manhasset.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final stops Friday on what has become an island-hopping diplomatic duel in the South Pacific.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in Tonga where she met with Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku and other officials including King Tupou VI. Her visit came just three days after China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi held similar meetings in Tonga.
Wong and the officials talked about climate change and rebuilding efforts after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit in January. Also on the agenda was the contentious issue of regional security.
“We are not a government or a country that wants to come in and tell you what you should do,” Wong said at a news conference in the capital, Nuku’alofa.
She said Australia considered itself part of the Pacific family.
“We want regional security to be dealt with, to be the responsibility of the Pacific family,” Wong said. “And we will continue to engage with our friends, our partners in the region.”
Hu’akavameiliku said Tonga was honored that Wong had decided to visit just two weeks after taking office, following an election in Australia.
“This is a clear sign of the Australian government’s strong commitment to strengthening our bilateral relations and engagement with our region,” the prime minister said.
Meanwhile, Wang met in Papua New Guinea with Prime Minister James Marape and other officials ahead of a scheduled flight Friday afternoon to East Timor, the final stop on his eight-nation tour of the region and the first outside of the South Pacific. Wang is due to leave from East Timor on Saturday.
Wang had hoped to ink an ambitious multilateral deal with 10 South Pacific nations this week covering everything from security to fisheries. He couldn’t find consensus on that deal but has been notching up smaller wins by signing bilateral agreements with many of the countries he’s been visiting.
The diplomatic push by China, especially around Pacific security, has caused deep concern among some of the island nations as well as farther afield in Canberra and Washington. Since news of the proposed deal emerged, Wong has made two trips to the Pacific to shore up support for Australia. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-and-australias-dueling-pacific-tours-make-final-stops/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-06-03 07:08:56 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/china-and-australias-dueling-pacific-tours-make-final-stops/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Trump supporter throws beer at stand-up comedian for voting for Biden
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (Gray News) – A stand-up comedian is going viral after an audience member threw a can of beer at her for voting for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Ariel Elias was in the middle of her set at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in New Jersey when a woman in the audience asked her if she voted for Donald Trump.
Video captured the entire encounter.
The video shows that, after a few moments of back-and-forth with the woman and attempts to dodge the question, Elias finally admitted she voted for Biden.
“So you voted for Biden?” the woman asked.
“I don’t know; why does it matter?” Elias responded.
“Yes, you did!” the woman said.
“Yeah, so what? Why does it matter?” Elias asked.
“I could just tell by your jokes that you voted for Biden,” the woman said.
“Alright. I can tell by the fact that you’re still talking when nobody wants you to that you voted for Trump,” Elias fired back as the crowd erupted in laughter.
After Elias tried to get back on track with her set, moving into her next set of jokes, a can of beer was hurled at the stage, hitting the wall behind Elias with force.
Seemingly shocked, Elias stood there for a moment with her mouth agape while the crowd began yelling at the person who threw the beer.
Not missing a beat, Elias then picked up the beer and chugged the rest of it as the audience applauded her.
According to local media, the man who threw the beer is the husband of the woman who had the banter with Elias.
According to a tweet from Elias, the club is pressing charges against the man who threw the beer. The club also booked Elias to come back in April.
“To answer the most obvious question, yes, I did pick up what was left of the beer and chug it,” Elias tweeted.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Consider this a Public Service Announcement.
Anyone possessing a San Francisco 49ers jersey they don’t mind parting with, please contact Chase McLaughlin c/o the Indianapolis Colts.
Through his whirlwind tour of the NFL that began in 2019 as an undrafted rookie out of Illinois, McLaughlin has spent time with eight teams, including two tours with the Colts and Minnesota Vikings.
His bio takes a few minutes to scan and reflects his determination: 25 roster moves in four seasons. Here today, seemingly somewhere else tomorrow. He was with five teams during a seven-month stretch of his rookie season.
He’s appeared in 45 games and scored a field goal or PAT in 44.
Along the way, McLaughlin has gotten all too familiar with the lifestyle of a young placekicker.
“Hotels the whole time,’’ he said with a wry smile.
He’s not a fan, even though someone is always cleaning up after you and making your bed.
“Not anymore,’’ he said. “Living out of a suitcase isn’t the way to do things.
“It’s fun for about a week. After that, it gets pretty old.’’
One of the perks – yeah, that’s what we’ll call it – is being able to fill your man cave with mementos of your NFL travels. McLaughlin has collected a jersey from seven of his eight teams: Buffalo, which signed him as a rookie in ’19, Minnesota, the Los Angeles Chargers, Jacksonville, the New York Jets, Cleveland and Indy.
“All of them except for the 49ers,’’ McLaughlin said. “So anyone who’s listening, send me a jersey. We’ll get it one day.’’
As much as he yearns for 49ers garb to complete his collection, McLaughlin hopes he’s wearing a Colts jersey for the next several years.
Perhaps the man who’s been without a permanent NFL home – he and wife have found a permanent home in Indy; we’ll get to that in a bit – has finally found one.
“I feel like I’ve done a great job, but it’s not up to me,’’ McLaughlin said. “It’s up to God. It’s up to the people who make those decisions.
“All I can do is take advantage of my opportunities and see what they think.’’
The Colts turned to McLaughlin in September after incumbent kicker Rodrigo Blankenship missed what would have been a game-winning 42-yard field goal in overtime in the season opener at Houston. The game ended in a 20-all tie and set the tone for what’s been a tumultuous season.
The Colts made the normal in-season commitment to McLaughlin: a one-year, $956,000 contract.
He’s done everything within his power to merit a multi-year deal. Consider:
*28-of-33 on field goals and 16-of-16 on PATs. He’s 20-of-22 inside 50. One of the misses was a 48-yarder that hit the right upright against the Las Vegas Raiders.
*8-of-11 on attempts of at least 50 yards. The eight successful 50-plus yarders are a franchise record and tied for second-most in the league.
*converting at least one field goal in 13 straight games, the longest streak in a season by a Colts’ kicker since Mike Vanderjagt in 2003 (16 games).
*tying the club record with five field goals at Minnesota.
*tying Lou Michaels’ franchise record with 18 points via kicks against the Vikings: five field goals, three PATs.
Interim head coach Jeff Saturday has been impressed with McLaughlin’s “mental toughness.’’
“Any time he’s asked to do anything, he steps out there and does his absolute best,’’ he said. “I mean, obviously kicking the 50-plus yarders. He’s been asked to do a lot, been very consistent.
“Listen, that’s a thankless job the majority of times. Everyone’s expecting . . . it’s expected. There’s not a ‘Hey, this is iffy.’ It’s expected to go through every time he kicks it.’’
McLaughlin’s role – all kickers’ roles – is demanding. Excluding kickoffs, points are on the line every time he steps on the field.
Compounding McLaughlin’s situation is he’s kicking for one of the most inefficient offenses in the league. The Colts have scored a league-low 21 offensive touchdowns, and have failed to score a single TD in four games for the first time since 1993.
In three games, McLaughlin has accounted for all of the scoring, including 52-, 51-, 31- and 48-yard field goals in the 12-9 overtime win at Denver. The 31-yarder tied it with 5 second remaining in regulation. The 48-yarder in OT proved to be the deciding points.
“You’re just out there for one job,’’ he said, “and that’s to make the kicks. We go out there with the same intention every time . . . just make the kicks, whether that’s first quarter, fourth quarter, anything in between; 50 yards, 20 yards, whatever.’’
That mindset has resulted in McLaughlin arguably being the Colts’ offensive MVP this season. But has it been enough for his nomadic career to finally find a home?
“I think I’ve done all I could do,’’ he said.
When general manager Chris Ballard was looking for a replacement for Blankenship in September, McLaughlin was among the kickers he brought in. He had prior experience with him. When the team placed Adam Vinatieri on the injured reserve list for the final four games of ’19, McLaughlin stepped in and converted 5-of-6 field goal attempts and all 11 of his PATs.
McLaughlin was ready for round 2 with the Colts. He and his wife Jessica had been leasing a home in the Westfield area since the end of 2019, and McLaughlin had kept himself ready for anyone to dial him up by kicking at Grand Park Sports Campus, the site of the Colts’ training camp.
“A year after our lease was up, I was in Jacksonville at the time and my wife and I decided we liked Indy and we just stayed here,’’ he said. “This is home.’’
Three ruled out
Saturday ruled three players out of Sunday’s road test against the New York Giants: cornerback Kenny Moore II (ankle), tight end Kylen Granson (ankle) and wideout Ashton Dulin (concussion).
Defensive end Yannick Ngakoue is questionable after being added to Friday’s injury report with a throat injury.
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LONDON (AP) — Hugh Hudson, a British filmmaker who debuted as a feature director with the Oscar-winning Olympics drama “Chariots of Fire” and later made such well-regarded movies as “My Life So Far” and the Oscar-nominated “Greystroke,” has died at age 86.
Hudson’s family issued a brief statement announcing that he died Friday at a hospital in London “after a short illness.”
A London native, Hudson started out as a documentary editor and producer and also worked in television advertising before finding work in feature films in the late 1970s as a second-unit director on Alan Parker’s “Midnight Express.” In 1981, producer David Puttnam asked Hudson to direct “Chariots of Fire,” which starred Ben Cross and Nigel Havers as British athletes of contrasting religions and backgrounds at the 1924 Olympics.
With its inspirational plot and sentimental theme music by the Greek composer Vangelis, “Chariots of Fire” was a solid commercial success and won four Academy Awards, including best picture and score. Hudson, a nominee for director, later helped produce a stage adaptation of “Chariots” that was timed for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
He had mixed success with future movie projects. “Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” a 1984 movie featuring Ralph Richardson in his final movie role, was a box office success that received three Oscar nominations. But two years later, he was a nominee for a Golden Raspberry for directing the critical and commercial flop “Revolution.” His other credits included “My Life So Far,” “Lost Angels” and “Altamira.” He also co-wrote “Tiger’s Nest,” a 2022 release.
According to his family’s statement, Hudson is survived by his wife, Maryam, his son, Thomas, and his first wife, Sue. | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-hugh-hudson-chariots-of-fire-director-dead-at-86/ | 2023-02-11 11:36:56 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-hugh-hudson-chariots-of-fire-director-dead-at-86/ |
What in God’s green earth has happened to the North Dakota Republican Party? The North Dakota GOP, The Party of Milton Young and Mark Andrews. Civilized Conservatives. Now that the primaries are over, take a look at the candidates running for offices on the Republican ballot -- candidates who were at the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying they should have done more; candidates who were not at the insurrection but advocated for it and are now are calling for a civil war. My Mother would say,” Why they’ve fallen off their rocker”. Civilized North Dakotan Republicans, for goodness sake, you need to cross over and vote Democrat.
My Grandfather, who was a member of the Non Partisan League, told me how wonderful it was when the REA, Rural Electric Association, brought electricity to the farm and he could milk cows at night with light from an electric light in the barn instead of a kerosene lamp by his milk stool. You have Republicans that would now scream that’s a Socialistic program and vote to block it. My other Grandfather, who homesteaded in western Benson County, told me how great it was when the Farmers Union Central Exchange started a coop program to market cattle for members. He didn’t have to ride the Soo Line Railroad cattle car to St. Paul to market his cattle another program some current Republicans would scream Socialistic. I have acquaintances who are farmers who tell me they’re no Socialistic Democrat. But they participate and receive payment from one of the largest socialistic programs in the world -- Federal Crop Insurance. I mean you’re talking a Norway and Sweden type program. They cry it should be doing more.
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North Dakota Republicans, Civilized Conservatives, you need to cross over and vote Democrat until you can rid your party of these extremists.
Collin Evenson, Devils Lake | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/letter-party-should-rid-itself-of-extremists/article_f86f3e60-2256-11ed-b81b-bf0b1ffaa306.html | 2022-08-26 08:31:16 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/letter-party-should-rid-itself-of-extremists/article_f86f3e60-2256-11ed-b81b-bf0b1ffaa306.html |
Can Taylor Swift soften up? Like many high-achieving workaholics, I imagine she's lost the instinct and, practical girl, uses enhancements. In the evening, with her lover nearby, does she vape a little Lavender Haze CBD Rosin and focus on the quietude creeping into her body beneath the relentless chatter of her thoughts? Does she grasp his hand and put it on her cheek? On a therapist's couch, does she release her hard-earned dignity and confront the petty little antihero within? Alone with her memories, does she sometimes let them fragment, refusing to untangle them into elegant morality tales and instead staying within their thickets of grief and frustration and desire? And then, in the studio, can she bring a lyric built on questions, turn to her trusted collaborator and say, "I don't care if this song is a hit, I want it to be weird"?
All of these open-ended scenarios — in which a well-tended woman begins to dissemble herself — surface, however obliquely, on Midnights, Swift's 10th and most challenging album. When Swift announced it two months ago, she promised new levels of self-exposure, invoking the classic trope of the midnight confession, music made in the spirit of "the floors we pace and the demons we face," as she said in a statement. And she's delivered, but not by offering many concrete admissions. She's more focused on what such revelations might sound like before they settle into a story to be shared. Accessing the vibes projected by the TikTok confessionalists who are her spiritual children and the genre-agnostic singer-songwriters reconfiguring indie pop and R&B as she once did in country, Swift uses Midnights as a way to rethink the sonic rhetoric of first-person storytelling and shake off habits that have served her artistically and commercially for more than a decade. Sometimes she succeeds; sometimes she hangs on to her old habits. But the attempt intrigues throughout.
Midnights doesn't challenge listeners by aggressively adopting a wide array of new sounds, as did her blockbuster breakthroughs Red and 1989. Nor does it neatly redraw Swift's musical parameters as did folklore, a startling turn upon release that has now proven to be an ideal 21st-century adult contemporary album. On Midnights she worked exclusively with her soulmate producer Jack Antonoff, bringing in only a handful of collaborators (the most notable is Lana Del Rey, who gives great femme energy on "Snow On The Beach"), burrowing into a sound that might be called ahistorical chillout music. Awash in synthesized elements that range from the vintage Moog and Juno 6 synths to laptop generated atmospherics and vocal manipulations, Midnights envelops Swift's story songs in a soft and mutable glow that sometimes recalls particular sources — the layered vocals and synth drums point toward Whitney Houston on "Lavender Haze," get Twin Peaks-y with "Maroon," lean more toward Billie Eilish on "Labyrinth" — but ultimately places the listener in the immediate nowhere of private space, a bedroom or a chat room, where, loosed from the outside world, stories can change in a whisper.
Swift has said that Midnights relays 13 specific after-hours agonies, most ostensibly from her own life, though a couple of tracks, like the highly theatrical "Vigilante S***," could be read as the kind of fiction that still strongly represents its author's experiences. Many of these songs are easy to Easter-egg as they take up the same threads that have dominated her writing since her pop breakthrough. "You're On Your Own, Kid" is a Nashville story, with its callow heroine playing industry parking-lot parties and quickly outpacing the mentor figure for whom she lusts and yearns. "Maroon" is from her wine-drinking New York days, probably referencing the same elusive free spirit who haunts her in Lover's "Cornelia Street." "Anti-Hero" has her behaving badly over tea, a nod to her current London home. The album includes two songs clearly dedicated to her partner Joe Alwyn (he cowrote one under his pseudonym, William Bowery), extolling his patience with her ever-changing moods and railing against outside forces who continually challenge their privacy. (The album's most political line: "The only kinda girl they see / is a one night or a wife.")
These stories won't surprise anyone, but their form may catch appreciators of Swift's conversational singing style off-guard. She's still sing-talking, doing that expert, subtle interpolations of hip-hop's cadences and country crooners' relaxed timbre. But often, she and Antonoff twist and push her gleaming vocals in new directions.
That's where the softening happens. For all of her kindness in the world and empathy and dedication to openness as a songwriter, Taylor Swift is, in her essence, sharp. Her vulnerability hides a blade. This quality resides in her voice, a weightless instrument that Swift has honed over time into Valyrian steel — glamorous, gleaming, but more deadly than it appears. Sharpness is also key to Swift's perspective, surfacing in her love of the telling detail, of the rejoinder that cuts through whatever bulls*** the object of her love/hate has burdened her with. It's a quality associated with gamine women, boyish in their agility and their cool refusal to be seduced. It is not lush; by some definitions, it's not feminine. It can be misunderstood as pettiness or even cruelty.
On Midnights Swift and Antonoff alter her voice in ways that fight against its cool glint, multitracking it until it glows, altering its pitch at times so that it's barely recognizable. On "Midnight Rain" it's auto-tuned to vacillate between birdlike high notes and an almost masculine lower register, punctuating the story the verses tell of a young woman outgrowing a relationship with a sound that evokes that process of unfolding into a new self. "Labyrinth" — as good as any song inspired by one of her favorite subjects, the experience of still hanging on when you have to let go — melts her voice into myriad light streams, some as twisted as in a Bon Iver song, others clearly hers. These synthetic renderings work against the high craft of Swift's meticulous songwriting, the neatness and control that makes her songs powerful but that can also diminish their emotional impact. Usually she's explaining every move she makes, but here the music pulls her into the eternal now of her emotions, working against her persistent impulse to make sense of them. Though they always return to the lucidity at Swift's core, these efforts recall the metamorphic effect of songs like SOPHIE's "Is It Cold in the Water?," opening up to modes of feeling that defeat neat storylines.
Those who treasure Swift's Dorothy Parker side, her wit and tartness, needn't worry. She's up to her old ways in songs like "Karma" (it's her boyfriend, the breeze in her hair on the weekend, a relaxing thought) and "Vigilante S***," a vampy number whose dropped beat recalls "killer" by FKA twigs. "Question...?" is the kind of story song only Swift can write, dipping into gel-pen poetry to cultivate a swoony mood, then focusing on a scene of romantic persuasion and betrayal drawn so acutely that it stings. "Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room / And every single one of your friends was making fun of you / But 15 seconds later they were clapping too?" Swift sings, perfectly describing the way uncertain love can be solidified by social pressure, the way women in particular can be cornered by others' desires for them. Then, of course, the pushy paramour leaves in the middle of the night. This is the kind of truth-telling that's earned Swift the devotion of her fans. She still notices the little things that shatter a person.
The question this album poses is, who is that person? On its deepest level, Midnights is an interrogation of the first person, an attempt to find its origin point not in well-spun confessions but in the more confused and prescient utterances that come before any conclusions are drawn. That Antonoff and Swift explore this misty space through sound instead of more directly, through words, sometimes lends a half-finished quality to Swift and Antonoff's experiments. A certain kind of listener will wish that Midnights were weirder, more committed to its distortions. That listener might also draw a strange parallel to 808s & Heartbreak, the artistic breakthrough of Ye, her erstwhile antagonist (who then went by Kanye West). That was also a work about disordered emotions that relies on technology to express the kind of vulnerability that can't be contained in standard rhymes. In 2022, there's no doubt that Swift is the artist who's still growing, pushing herself to understand what it means to be a public figure who is also a person with faults and unresolved pain. She's still working to slacken the hold of the Old Taylor — of the many Old Taylors she's constructed through her music and celebrity. The multiform voice on Midnights suggests that the New Taylor is still emerging out of the haze.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A bill that would enhance fentanyl penalties in Nevada did not pass after a hearing in an Assembly committee, while a companion bill was significantly amended in a last-minute shift for Nevada Democratic leadership’s plans to send fentanyl legislation to the governor’s desk.
The amended legislation starts low-level trafficking charges at 28 grams of possession for fentanyl, which was formerly proposed at 4 grams. The alteration came on Friday evening in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, hours before the deadline for most bills to pass out of their second committee.
For months, harm reduction experts and some Democrats have warned the legislation starting at 4 grams would repeat “war on drug” policies that criminalized low-level users. Those concerns animated bill hearings and back-door discussion, which were pushed by Democratic leadership but questioned by many rank-and-file Assembly members.
Fentanyl trafficking charges in Nevada currently start at 100 grams of possession, a result of a sweeping 2019 criminal justice reform law that Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo promised to walk back among his campaign pledges.
Lombardo wants to make fentanyl possession in any amount a category B felony, which is on par with trafficking penalties. Democratic leadership members, including Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, have indicated they have no plans to hear his landmark public safety bills. Cannizzaro sponsored the Democratic bill that did not pass.
Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford presented the amended fentanyl bill and answered lawmakers’ questions in two hearings. Ford’s office described the last-minute adjustments as a “compromise between the many groups with an interest in this issue” in a tweet following the hearings.
The bill promoted by Ford includes a provision giving legal protection to people seeking medical assistance for someone experiencing an overdose. The proposal also would create medication-assisted treatment programs in jails and prisons for people with substance-use disorders, if funding is available.
Fentanyl is often mixed into supplies of other drugs, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Some users seek it out. Others don’t know they’re taking it.
Ingesting 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal, while 1 gram — about the weight of a paper clip — could contain 500 lethal doses.
Imposing longer prison sentences for possessing smaller amounts of drugs represents a shift in states that in recent years have rolled back drug possession penalties. State legislatures including Oregon, West Virginia, South Carolina and Alabama have debated or passed harsher penalties for lower amounts of fentanyl.
The bill also directs a committee to study the cost of upgrading the state’s crime labs to test the amount of fentanyl in a drug mixture.
Harm reduction advocates and some lawmakers have voiced concerns about the state’s labs, which test only for the presence of fentanyl, not the exact proportion in a drug mixture.
In hearings, they said a few milligrams of fentanyl mixed into larger quantities of other drugs could cause defendants to be subject to more strict fentanyl trafficking penalties under the state’s testing protocols, regardless of whether they were aware the drugs were laced with fentanyl.
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BRUSSELS, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the World Quality Selections held in Brussels, Belgium, winners of the Monde Selection 2023 Quality Awards were announced. Yili was awarded five prizes, including a gold, three silver, and one bronze, for its flagship products: INIKIN Volcanic Mineral Water, Yili Organic Camel Milk Powder, PlantiFresh, Meiyitian Lactobacillus Drink White, and Yili Ledou Milk Crisp Cup. This marks another important recognition of Yili's high-quality products, following its recent success at the World Food Innovation Awards 2023.
Monde Selection, also known as the World Quality Selections, is a global leader in evaluating the quality of consumer products. It brings together a jury of eminent experts to evaluate the quality, taste and other attributes of products in accordance with a rigid evaluation procedure and stringent standards. The jury is composed of independent international experts in their own fields, including water tasters, flavor technologists, Michelin-starred chefs, professional food critics, members of Euro-Toques, and members of the Mastercooks of Belgium.
The award winner INIKIN Volcanic Mineral Water is naturally filtered through igneous volcanic rock and contains 5 kinds of volcanic minerals. With a smooth and sweet taste, the high-quality beverage brings health benefits to consumers.
Yili Organic Camel Milk Powder is made from 100% pure organic milk from Bactrian camels in the Alxa Desert and contains more than 20 different kinds of natural nutrients.
PlantiFresh, Yili's first low-temperature plant-based drink, is produced via a single-enzyme hydrolysis reaction to extract the sweetness of oats, allowing consumers to enjoy a healthy and delicious drink.
Meiyitian Lactobacillus Drink White is a refreshing fat-free active lactobacillus milk beverage with 25% less sugar. Produced via a unique fermentation process, the product benefits consumers' gastrointestinal health by helping to reduce the digestive burden.
Yili Ledou Milk Crisp Cup, produced with milk imported from New Zealand as well as real fruits and prebiotics, provides the higher amounts of nutrients needed to support children's healthy growth and development while also having a wonderful taste.
The five awards from Monde Selection provide strong recognition of Yili's outstanding performance on quality, taste and innovation and demonstrate the Group's deep understanding of consumers' needs and commitment to its concept of "no innovation, no future."
Commenting on Yili's achievement, Dr. Zhanyou Yun, Vice President of Yili Group, said that following its "New Vision for Value Creation," Yili will continue to advance its innovation strategies to provide consumers with higher-quality products and services, support the high-quality development of the global healthy food industry, and strive to fulfill its dream of "World Integrally Sharing Health."
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The company has created a special program to support Smithsonian scientists advancing conservation through the science of animal tracking
MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) announced it has created a first-of-its-kind program in support of the Smithsonian Institution's Movement of Life Initiative, which advances conservation through the science of animal tracking. Through this program, Iridium® satellite connections are enabling Smithsonian scientists to overcome the challenge of tracking wildlife in remote areas, enabling better understanding of threats to the survival of terrestrial, avian, and marine life.
"Many of the landscapes where we work are large and inaccessible on foot or by vehicle, areas where Iridium offers a reliable solution to collect data on wildlife and their movements. The transmission of data in real-time is also vastly important, allowing field teams to respond to animals that are potentially in threat," said Jared Stabach, research ecologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and the terrestrial program lead for the Smithsonian's Movement of Life Initiative. "By collaborating with Iridium, we're better positioned to protect species and their habitats, providing information that informs conservation efforts on the ground."
Among the first species included in this program are Asian elephants, Masai giraffes, jaguars, wildebeests, bobcats, and addax (a rare antelope native to the Sahara Desert). Animal location data is sent over the Iridium network at predetermined intervals, enabling conservationists to monitor positions and transmit data to research bases or park ranger outposts as required. To aid the work of field conservationists, Iridium Extreme® Push-to-Talk (PTT) devices are also being used to provide reliable group communications for scientists and their teams while deployed in the field.
"The Movement of Life's global animal conservation efforts are incredibly important for the protection of threatened and endangered species, and Iridium is uniquely qualified to help with on-the-ground efforts in an impactful way," said Iridium CEO Matt Desch. "This partnership was a natural fit, and we're happy to join the Smithsonian in this important work and to play a part in better understanding the migrations of these animals and ecological impacts on their well-being."
This program is made possible through collaboration with Iridium partners that are supporting implementation, including collar manufacturing and service provision. These partners include Applied Satellite Technology Ltd (AST) and Savannah Tracking Ltd, and Ground Control and VECTRONIC Aerospace.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Humanigen, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGEN).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 25, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Humanigen, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Humanigen's lead product candidate, lenzilumab, was less effective in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients than defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the lenzilumab Emergency Use Authorization and the ACTIV-5/BET-B study was unlikely to meet its primary endpoint; (iii) accordingly, lenzilumab's clinical and commercial prospects were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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The Yankees could give the ultimate boost to their lineup and rotation — by acquiring Shohei Ohtani.
The list of teams interested in adding the Angels pitcher/slugger, an impending free agent, before the Aug. 1 trade deadline starts with New York, according to ESPN’s Buster Olney.
“In talking with sources yesterday, they see the Yankees as potentially being the most motivated because Gerrit Cole, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, they’re middle-aged players right in the prime of their careers,” Olney said Thursday on “Get Up.”
“This is the Yankees’ window to win now. You bring in Ohtani, suddenly that Yankees rotation with him involved looks so strong. Ohtani hitting in Yankee Stadium, which favors left-handed sluggers, that’s something I’m sure the Yankees would be willing to pay for if Ohtani is made available by the Angels.”
Ohtani leads all MLB batters with 32 home runs while pitching to a 3.32 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 100.1 innings.
The Angels have not indicated they would trade the 2021 AL MVP but, at 45-46, sit in fourth place in the AL West and recently lost fellow superstar Mike Trout to a fractured hamate bone.
The Yankees are 49-42 and a game out of the final AL Wild Card spot.
The 29-year-old Ohtani would elevate a Yankees lineup that finished the first half 28th in team batting average and 19th in runs. Judge, who hit an AL-record 62 home runs last season to win the 2022 MVP over Ohtani, hasn’t played since June 3 due to an injured big toe.
Ohtani would also help a Yankees rotation that’s been without Frankie Montas all season and only recently got back Carlos Rodon. Luis Severino, who also missed nearly two months due to injury, has a 7.38 ERA.
Olney listed the Rays and Rangers as teams also interested in Ohtani, who is expected to command more than $500 million this offseason.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 3, 2023, the Board of Directors of Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) has appointed Kelyn Brannon as a director.
Kelyn is a finance executive with experience leading three successful IPOs as CFO on both the NYSE and NASDAQ. Her 35 years of experience spans across corporate finance, investor relations, audit, and finance consulting experience for the "Big 4" in the US and the UK. Kelyn began her career at Ernst and Young in the US and UK focusing on Audit and corporate finance. She was the first chief accounting officer, Vice President of Finance, and International CFO at Amazon.com. Kelyn is a member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Before joining iRocket, Kelyn was the Chief Financial Officer of Astra Space, Inc. Before that, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Asure Software, Inc. between 2017 and 2020. Kelyn served as Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks, Inc. between 2013 and 2015, and Chief Financial Officer of Calix, Inc. between 2008 and 2011. Kelyn served as CEO of Creative planet between 2000 and 2003 which was acquired by Brookfield Communications.
Throughout her career, Kelyn served as a CEO and CFO of a variety of national and international companies. Adept at directing Finance, Tax, Accounting, Investor Relations Legal, Human Resources, IT, and Facilities divisions.
Kelyn has excellent interpersonal, and communications skills leveraged to manage change, collaborate with peers, and interact with investors. A results-oriented professional with a high degree of integrity capable of analyzing problems and driving sound solutions in a timely, professional, and regulatory-compliant manner.
"Kelyn is a strategic thinker with a track record of developing financial growth and capital raise strategies, driving company expansion, reducing infrastructure spending, and minimizing tax liability, and brings value to iRocket's board from previously serving in the space sector" said iRocket Chairman and CEO Asad Malik.
Founded in 2018, Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket), is proud to be the first fully autonomous, Reusable Small Launch vehicle manufacturer, utilizing 3D printing and additive manufacturing. With an innovative design, our focus is on reliability and rapid low-cost access to space. We are ready to pave the way for innovations in the space industry by addressing the various inefficiencies that currently exist. With our proprietary reusable engine technology, iRocket is well-equipped to be the small launch service provider of choice. We hope you'll join our journey in revolutionizing rocketry into the 21st century.
For more about iRocket, visit us at www.irocketusa.com and follow us on LinkedIn @iRocket Twitter at @iRocketUSA.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Zambian student who was serving a 9-year, six-month sentence in a Russian prison has been killed fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, the Zambian government announced Monday.
Zambian Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo says Russian officials informed the Zambian government of the death of 23 year-old Lemekhane Nyireda, who was a government-sponsored student before he was sentenced for unspecified crimes in April 2020.
Kakubo said the Zambian government was seeking answers from Russia about how Nyirenda ended up on the battlefield in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“In view of this very sad development, the Zambian government has requested the Russian authorities to urgently provide information on the circumstances under which a Zambia citizen, serving a prison sentence in Moscow, could have been recruited to fight in Ukraine and subsequently lose his life,” Kakubo said Monday.
He said the Zambian Embassy in the Russian capital of Moscow had established that Nyirenda died on Sept. 22 and that his remains have been transported to the Russian border town of Rostov ahead of repatriation to Zambia.
Before his prison sentence, Nyirenda was studying nuclear engineering at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He was serving his sentence at the Tyer medium security prison on the outskirts of Moscow, according to the Zambian government.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s new ambassador to the U.S. is taking office amid disputes over trade, access to computer chips and Washington’s support for self-governing Taiwan.
Xie Feng arrived in New York on Tuesday and told reporters at JFK Airport that relations between the world’s two largest economies face “serious difficulties and challenges.”
“We hope that the United States will work together with China to increase dialogue, to manage differences and also to expand our cooperation, so that our relationship will be back to the right track,” Xie said in remarks delivered in English.
The “Taiwan question” would be among the sensitive issues at the top of his agenda, Xie said.
Exchanges took a downturn after the Trump administration raised tariffs on key Chinese imports that President Jospeh Biden has since maintained, while blocking Chinese companies from accessing the most cutting-edge computer chip technology.
China has meanwhile raised its threats to attack Taiwan with regular incursions by ships and fighter jets into airspace and waters near the island that have drawn concerns about a crisis imperiling the global economy.
Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. is the island’s main source of defense cooperation and political support, drawing frequent protests from Beijing. A visit last August by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prompted Beijing to fire missiles into the Pacific and stage send its forces into a rehearsal of a blockade in the Taiwan Strait.
Large-scale exercises were also launched after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited the U.S. in April, during which she met with Pelosi’s successor, Kevin McCarthy.
The shootdown in February of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the U.S. led to the U.S. canceling a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, pushing back a resumption of visits interrupted by China’s strict COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Dialogue has been maintained on neutral territory, however, with top Communist Party diplomat Wang Yi holding talks with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Vienna earlier this month.
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Man tied to officer’s attack during Capitol riot pleads guilty to lesser charges
(AP) - A West Virginia man initially charged with assaulting a police officer who died after defending the U.S. Capitol from a mob pleaded guilty on Wednesday to misdemeanor offenses that could allow him to avoid more jail time.
Another man accused of attacking the officer with bear spray is weighing a stricter plea deal that calls for a prison sentence exceeding six years.
A federal grand jury indicted George Pierre Tanios last year on felony charges that he conspired with a Pennsylvania man, Julian Elie Khater, to assault and injure Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with chemical spray during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Tanios, 40, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, each of which carries a maximum sentence of one year of imprisonment.
Prosecutors also have extended an offer for Khater to plead guilty to felony assault charges. If he accepts the offer, estimated sentencing guidelines will recommend a prison term ranging from six years and six months to eight years and one month. Khater hasn’t decided whether to accept that plea offer, one of his lawyers said Wednesday during a virtual hearing.
The medical examiner’s office in Washington, D.C., determined in April 2021 that Sicknick, 42, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan is scheduled to sentence Tanios on Dec. 6. Hogan said the estimated sentencing guidelines for Tanios range from no jail time to six months of imprisonment for both counts. Tanios was jailed for about five months after his arrest and could get credit for time served.
Khater has remained jailed while awaiting a trial in October on felony charges, including assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors’ offer to Khater would require him to plead guilty to that charge. The offer expires on Aug. 17.
Tanios, of Morgantown, West Virginia, and Khater, of State College, Pennsylvania, weren’t charged in Sicknick’s death. But the case against them has been among the most prominent brought by the Justice Department, which is prosecuting hundreds of people for their conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Sicknick and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Prosecutors have said Khater sprayed Sicknick and other officers with bear spray after retrieving a canister from Tanios’ backpack.
Tanios’ attorneys have said he brought the chemical spray to Washington for self-defense at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. In a court filing last year, they said there was no evidence that Tanios and Khater planned to use the spray in “an ultra-coordinated attack” on police.
“Indeed, had Mr. Tanios been a violent member of a mob and a willing participant in a riot, he would have been running around spraying people himself. He never did because that was not the reason for his travel to Washington, D.C.,” they wrote.
Tanios pleaded guilty to two counts: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. Both are misdemeanors punishable by a maximum sentence of one year of imprisonment and a fine of up to $100,000.
Tanios isn’t accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
A trial for Khater is scheduled to start on Oct. 5.
Hogan had refused to free Tanios and Khater from jail before trial, calling them dangerous. The judge said Tanios “coordinated the direct assault” on Sicknick and two other officers.
“Mr. Khater did the spraying. Mr. Tanios did not, but he obviously worked with him on that despite (defense) counsel’s arguments,” Hogan said during a May 2021 hearing, according to a transcript.
But a federal appeals court ruled in August 2021 that Tanios could be released from pretrial detention. A three-judge panel concluded that Hogan erred in assessing the danger posed by Tanios, who didn’t have any felony convictions or ties to any extremist organizations.
Tanios operated a sandwich restaurant in Morgantown near West Virginia University’s campus. Khater told investigators that he drove from New Jersey to pick up Tanios in West Virginia before they traveled to Washington on the eve of the riot.
In a court filing last year, prosecutors said Tanios and Khater “carefully timed their assault on the officers to occur in tandem with an attack on the police barrier.”
“This allowed the defendants to assault the officers while they were distracted, maximizing their chances of landing chemical spray in their eyes and thus incapacitating them to the point where the police line would break,” they wrote.
More than 100 police officers were injured at the Capitol.
The medical examiner’s office concluded that a medical condition alone — not an injury — caused Sicknick’s death. U.S. Capitol Police said the medical examiner’s findings didn’t change the fact that Sicknick had died in the line of duty, “courageously defending Congress and the Capitol.”
“The attack on our officers, including Brian, was an attack on our democracy,” police officials said in a statement last year.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to Jan. 6. Over 340 have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors, and over 200 have been sentenced. More than 260 people are charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement during the riot, according to the Justice Department.
The longest prison sentence for a Capitol rioter so far is five years and three months.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knauf Insulation, Inc. and Big Machine Music City Grand Prix are leading a glass recycling collection in Nashville's entertainment districts. The glass recycling initiative kicked off July 1 at participating establishments on Broadway and in Midtown and will culminate August 5-7 with the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.
To date, more than 25,000 bottles have been collected, with the goal of 150,000 by the end of race weekend. Most major Broadway and Midtown establishments are participating, including:
- Big Machine Brewery & Distillery
- Honkey Tonk Central
- Tootsie's Orchid Lounge
- Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk and Steakhouse
- Luke's 32 Bridge
- Jason Aldean's Kitchen + Rooftop Bar
- Losers Bar & Grill on Broadway
- Losers in Midtown
- Winners Bar & Grill
Honkey Tonk Central is leading the pack with more than 5,000 bottles collected so far.
"We are very excited that Knauf and Music City Grand Prix has partnered with our bars on Broadway to recycle our glass bottles," said Jeanna Puskar, General Manager of Honkey Tonk Central. "Not only are we providing great entertainment for our guests, but we are helping the planet one bottle at a time."
Recycled glass is picked up throughout the week from each location and delivered to Knauf's local recycling partner, Strategic Materials, Inc.
"People forget that glass isn't trash, it is a very important raw material used in products like fiberglass insulation," said Chris Mahin, Vice President of Sustainability and HSE at Knauf Insulation.
Knauf is heavily invested in improving glass recycling rates given that the company uses 500 million pounds of recycled glass in its manufacturing process annually. In addition to diverting 50 tons of recycled glass from landfills every hour, the use of this type of recyclable has additional environmental benefits including lowering the amount of energy necessary for manufacturing and decreasing the amount of raw minerals needed to be mined.
"We know our hometown of Nashville appreciates Knauf putting its values into action through an impactful program that will take glass out of our landfills and transform them into environmentally-friendly building products," said Big Machine Music City Grand Prix CEO, Matt Crews.
For the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, that attracted more than 110,000 guests over three days in last year's inaugural event, Knauf Insulation will be recycling glass on the Nissan Stadium campus throughout race weekend.
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES will visit Nashville Aug. 5-7 for the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, Round 14 of the 17-race season. The three-day festival of racing and music also will include Indy Lights, GT America, Trans Am, Stadium SUPER Trucks and Vintage Indy. The musical entertainment is highlighted by nightly on-site concerts featuring prominent artists led by Tim McGraw on Saturday, Aug. 6, and Carly Pearce and Brantley Gilbert for the Grand Ole Prix show on Sunday, Aug. 7. For ticket and event information, please visit www.musiccitygp.com.
Knauf Insulation North American is part of Knauf Group, a family-owned global manufacturer of building materials based in Iphofen, Germany. Knauf leverages the expertise of over 35,000 employees across 250 production facilities in 86 countries to generate revenue of $12 Billion. In North America, Knauf Insulation is a leading manufacturer of thermal and acoustical fiberglass insulation for residential, commercial, industrial, OEM and metal building applications. Knauf's mission is to challenge conventional thinking and create innovative solutions that shape the way we live and build in the future, with care for the people who make them, the people who use them and the world we all depend on. For more information, visit www.knaufnorthamerica.com.
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CLAYTON, Mo., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) announced today that on Friday, January 27, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, Olin's senior management will review the company's fourth quarter 2022 financial results. Prepared remarks will be followed by a question and answer period.
A press release, including financial statements and segment information, will be distributed after the market closes on Thursday, January 26, 2022, together with the associated slides.
Interested participants may access the conference call by dialing (877) 883-0383 [Canadian callers, please dial (877) 885-0477; International callers, please dial (412) 902-6506], using the pass code 8147039. The call will also be webcast live on the company's website at www.olin.com, accessible under the fourth quarter conference call icons. Participants should log on to the website 15 minutes prior to the start of the call.
Following the event, the webcast will remain available for replay on the company's website for one year. A telephonic replay of this conference call will be available beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time for 14 days by dialing (877) 344-7529 [Canadian callers, please dial (855) 669-9658; International callers, please dial (412) 317-0088], using the pass code of 8342280.
Olin Corporation is a leading vertically-integrated global manufacturer and distributor of chemical products and a leading U.S. manufacturer of ammunition. The chemical products produced include chlorine and caustic soda, vinyls, epoxies, chlorinated organics, bleach, hydrogen and hydrochloric acid. Winchester's principal manufacturing facilities produce and distribute sporting ammunition, law enforcement ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges.
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2022 marks Carewell's second consecutive inclusion on the coveted list
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carewell, the leading e-commerce resource for caregivers, has been ranked number 248 on Inc. Magazine's 2022 Inc. 5000 list. The annual list recognizes the 5000 fastest-growing, privately-owned companies in America and 2022 marks Carewell's second consecutive inclusion on the list. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"Carewell was founded as a trusted one-stop shop for caregivers after I experienced the lack of support available to the millions of family caregivers across the country," says Bianca Padilla, CEO and Co-founder of Carewell. "Our growth is fueled by our commitment to the community and as the number of caregivers continues to grow, we're scaling to meet those needs."
Carewell offers a wide assortment of expert-vetted home health and wellness products and a library of information to simplify the shopping process. At the core of the company's commitment to caregivers is its 24/7 customer support line. Available in English and Spanish via phone, email, or chat, Carewell's Caregiving Specialists can answer product and caregiving-related questions to help guide caregivers through their journey.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
Carewell is the leading e-commerce marketplace designed to improve the lives of caregivers and their families. With more than 10,500 affordable and expert-vetted home health products, 24/7 customer support, and a library of resources, we simplify the shopping experience and provide personalized service to make caregivers' lives easier and help people age gracefully. Founded in 2017 by Bianca Padilla and Jon Magolnick after experiencing the lack of support available to caregivers, Carewell was named one of Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Retail of 2021; included in Forbes' Top 100 Most Customer-Centric Companies of 2022, and ranked 74th on the Inc. 5000 2021 list of the fast-growing private companies in America. For more information on Carewell, please visit Carewell.com.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, visit http://conference.inc.com/.
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Public Relations Manager
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When the Tour de France ends this week, another one begins — this time for the world's best female riders. For the first time in 33 years, women will compete in the most famous cycling stage race.
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GAINSEVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Sproat allowed just one run over seven innings, Colby Halter had three RBIs — including the go-ahead solo homer in the bottom of the fifth — and top-seeded Florida beat Central Michigan 7-3 on Friday night at the Gainesville Regional.
Florida (40-22) plays No. 2 seed Oklahoma in the semifinals after fourth-seeded Central Michigan (42-18) plays No. 3 seed Liberty — which lost to Oklahoma in the regional's opener — in a loser-out game Saturday.
Sproat (8-4) scattered nine hits with two walks and a balk and struck out six. Ryan Slater gave up a lead-off single before hitting two batters before escaping a bases-loaded jam unscathed in the eighth inning. He allowed two runs in the ninth before ending the Chippewas' threat to earn his sixth save of the season when he struck out Garrett Navarra to end the game.
Justin Simpson scored when Danny Wuestenfeld singled up the middle to give Central Michigan a 1-0 lead in the top of the third but Sterlin Thompson answered with a solo homer in the bottom and Halter's home run in the fifth made it 2-1.
BT Riopelle single and Jud Fabian walked to lead off the bottom of the eighth and, after a sacrifice bunt by Ty Evans, scored on a single by Jac Caglianone. Pinch-runner Corey Robinson replace Caglianone at first, Rivera flied out and Kendrick Calilao walked before Halter hit a two-RBI double to right-center field that gave Florida a 7-1 lead heading into the ninth.
Wuestenfeld went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, Simpson was 3-for-4 with two runs scored for Central Michigan.
Caglianone finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Thompson was 2-for-3 with a walk.
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 6-12:
Nov. 6: Actor June Squibb (“Nebraska”) is 93. Singer P.J. Proby is 84. Actor Sally Field is 76. Jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is 73. TV host Catherine Crier is 68. Former news correspondent Maria Shriver is 67. Actor Lori Singer (“Fame,” ″Footloose”) is 65. Actor Lance Kerwin is 62. Bassist Paul Brindley of The Sundays is 59. Singer Corey Glover of Living Colour is 58. Actor Peter DeLuise (“seaQuest DSV,” ″21 Jump Street”) is 56. Actor Kelly Rutherford (“Melrose Place”) is 54. Actor Ethan Hawke is 52. Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson (“The Taste,” ″Chopped”) is 52. Actor Thandiwe Newton is 50. Model-actor Rebecca Romijn is 50. Actor Zoe McLellan (“NCIS: New Orleans”) is 48. Actor Nicole Dubuc (“Major Dad”) is 44. Actor Taryn Manning is 44. Actor Patina Miller (“Madam Secretary”) is 38. Singer-songwriter Ben Rector is 36. Actor Emma Stone is 34.
Nov. 7: Actor Barry Newman is 84. Actor Dakin Matthews (“Gilmore Girls,” “King of Queens”) is 82. Singer Johnny Rivers is 80. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 79. Actor Christopher Knight (“The Brady Bunch”) is 65. Guitarist Tommy Thayer of Kiss is 62. Actor Julie Pinson (“As the World Turns,” “Days of Our Lives”) is 55. Guitarist Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne is 54. Actor Michelle Clunie (“Queer as Folk,” “The Jeff Foxworthy Show”) is 53. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) is 52. Actor Jeremy London (“Party of Five”) is 50. Actor Jason London (“The Rage: Carrie Two”) is 50. Actor Yunjin Kim (“Mistresses,” “Lost”) is 49. Actor Adam DeVine (“Modern Family”) is 39. Guitarist Zach Myers of Shinedown is 39. Actor Lucas Neff (“Raising Hope”) is 37. Rapper Tinie Tempah is 34. Singer Lorde is 26.
Nov. 8: Singer Bonnie Bramlett is 78. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 73. Former “Entertainment Tonight” host Mary Hart is 72. Former Playboy CEO Christie Hefner is 70. Actor Alfre Woodard is 70. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 68. Guitarist Pearl Thompson (formerly Porl Thompson) of The Cure is 65. Singer-actor Leif Garrett is 61. TV chef Gordon Ramsay is 56. Actor Courtney Thorne-Smith is 55. Actor Parker Posey is 54. Singer Diana King is 52. Bassist Scott Devendorf of The National is 50. Actor Gretchen Mol is 50. Actor Matthew Rhys (“The Americans,” “Brothers and Sisters”) is 48. Actor Tara Reid (“Sharknado,” ″American Pie”) is 47. Singer Bucky Covington (“American Idol”) is 45. Actor Dania Ramirez (“Devious Maids,” ″Entourage”) is 43. TV personality Jack Osbourne (“The Osbournes”) is 37. Actor Jessica Lowndes (“90210″) is 34. Singer SZA is 33. Singer-actor Riker Lynch (“Glee”) is 31. Singer Lauren Alaina (“American Idol”) is 28. Actor Van Crosby (“Splitting Up Together”) is 20.
Nov. 9: Actor Robert David Hall (“CSI”) is 74. Actor Lou Ferrigno (“The Incredible Hulk”) is 71. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 63. Drummer Dee Plakas of L7 is 62. Rapper Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa is 58. Rapper Scarface of Geto Boys is 52. Musician Susan Tedeschi is 52. Actor Eric Dane (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 50. Singer Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees is 49. Bassist Barry Knox of Parmalee is 45. Singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 44. Country singer Chris Lane is 38. Actor Emily Tyra (“Code Black”) is 35. Actor Nikki Blonsky (“Hairspray”) is 34.
Nov. 10: Blues singer Bobby Rush is 88. Actor Albert Hall (“Ally McBeal,” ″Beloved”) is 85. Country singer Donna Fargo is 81. Lyricist Tim Rice is 78. Actor Jack Scalia is 72. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 66. Actor Mackenzie Phillips (“One Day at a Time”) is 63. Actor Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey”) is 59. Comedian Tommy Davidson (“In Living Color”) is 59. Actor Michael Jai White is 58. Country singer Chris Cagle is 54. Comedian Tracy Morgan (“30 Rock”) is 54. Actor Ellen Pompeo (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 53. Actor Orny Adams (TV’s “Teen Wolf”) is 52. Rapper U-God of Wu-Tang Clan is 52. Rapper Warren G is 52. Actor Walton Goggins (“The Unicorn,” “The Shield”) is 51. Contemporary Christian singer Matt Maher is 48. Singer-guitarist Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World is 47. Rapper Eve is 44. Bassist Chris Joannou of Silverchair is 43. Actor Heather Matarazzo is 40. Country singer Miranda Lambert is 39. Actor Josh Peck (“Drake and Josh”) is 36. Singer Vinz Dery of Nico and Vinz is 32. Actor Genevieve Buechner (“UnREAL”) is 31. Actor Zoey Deutch (“Vampire Academy”) is 28. Actor Kiernan Shipka (“Mad Men”) is 23. Actor Mackenzie Foy (“Twilight”) is 22.
Nov. 11: Country singer Narvel Felts is 84. Guitarist Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge is 77. Keyboardist Jim Peterik of The Ides of March (and formerly of Survivor) is 72. Singer-keyboardist Paul Cowsill of The Cowsills is 71. Singer Marshall Crenshaw is 69. Singer-guitarist Andy Partridge of XTC is 69. Singer Dave Alvin is 67. Synthesizer player Ian Craig Marsh (Human League, Heaven 17) is 66. Actor Stanley Tucci is 62. Actor Demi Moore is 59. Actor Calista Flockhart (“Brothers and Sisters,” ″Ally McBeal”) is 58. Actor Frank John Hughes (“24″) is 55. TV personality Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) is 53. Actor David DeLuise (“Wizards of Waverly Place”) is 51. Actor Tyler Christopher (“General Hospital”) is 50. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 48. Actor Scoot McNairy (“Argo”) is 45. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste is 36. Actor Christa B. Allen (“Revenge”) is 31.
Nov. 12: Playwright-actor Wallace Shawn (“The Princess Bride”) is 79. Singer Brian Hyland is 79. Keyboardist Booker T. Jones of Booker T. and the MG’s is 78. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 78. Singer Neil Young is 77. Guitarist Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult is 75. Country singer Barbara Fairchild is 72. Actor Megan Mullally (“Will and Grace”) is 64. Bassist David Ellefson (Megadeth) is 58. Actor Rebecca Wisocky (“Devious Maids”) is 51. Actor Radha Mitchell (“Finding Neverland”) is 49. Actor Tamala Jones (“Castle,” ″The Brothers”) is 48. Actor Angela Watson (“Step By Step”) is 48. Singer Tevin Campbell is 46. Actor Ashley Williams (“Huff,” ″Good Morning, Miami”) is 44. Actor Cote de Pablo (“NCIS”) is 43. Actor Ryan Gosling is 42. Bassist Chris Huffman of Casting Crowns is 42. Actor Anne Hathaway is 40. Singer Omarion (B2K) is 38. Drummer Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes is 32. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Celebrity-birthdays-for-the-week-of-Nov-6-12-17546448.php | 2022-10-31 14:35:50 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Celebrity-birthdays-for-the-week-of-Nov-6-12-17546448.php |
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XELA, CCL, AERC, HOOD, and PLUG.
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OREGON, Ohio — An Ohio oil refinery was shut down Wednesday after two people died in the massive fire on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for British Petroleum told the Associated Press that the fire occurred at its Husky Toledo Refinery in the city of Oregon, just outside Toledo.
According to the news outlet, the company said that the two workers were initially injured in the blaze but later succumbed to their injuries.
In a video provided to CNN, Ryan Rohm told the news outlet that he began noticing black smoke rise from the refinery around 7 p.m., adding an explosion also shook the ground and houses nearby.
During a Wednesday night speech on the House of Representatives floor, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur offered her condolences to the families of Ben and Max Morrissey, the two men who died in the fire.
"Madam Speaker, I rise today with deep sadness to pay tribute to two highly skilled U.S. steelworkers, brothers Ben and Max Morrissey, who tragically lost their lives at the British Petroleum refinery in my hometown," Kaptur said as she addressed lawmakers. "Yesterday, while on the job at the BP-Husky plant in Oregon, Ohio, their lives were cut short in a horrific explosion. Responsible citizens, husbands and fathers who performed America’s essential work that drives progress and our American way of life forward."
The company spokesperson said the fire was extinguished around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday and the refinery was "safely shut down," NBC News reported.
The cause of the fire has not been released, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/ohio-lawmaker-pays-tribute-to-brothers-who-died-in-refinery-fire | 2022-09-22 19:36:58 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/ohio-lawmaker-pays-tribute-to-brothers-who-died-in-refinery-fire |
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