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Taylor Lorenz defending China lockdowns latest instance of media shielding communist regime
Liberal journalists praised China's 'zero-COVID' policy and rejected the lab leak theory
Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz recently defended the Chinese Communist Party’s "zero-COVID" lockdown policy, adding herself to the list of left-leaning media figures who have downplayed China’s human rights abuses and touted its coronavirus response as a success.
On Saturday, Lorenz angrily responded to a Washington Post article, slamming her own employer after it tweeted out an article critical of China's "zero COVID" policies.
"A coronavirus outbreak on the verge of being China's biggest of the pandemic has exposed a critical flaw in Beijing's 'zero Covid' strategy: a vast population without natural immunity,' the tweet said.
Lorenz's Twitter rant praised China's authoritarian COVID lockdowns and accused the U.S. of killing "millions of vulnerable people" by reopening the country.
"There is no lasting 'natural immunity' to COVID," she wrote. "You can get covid over and over and over again bc there are so many endlessly evolving strains and antibodies wane. Also, choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people (as the US is doing) isn't a 'critical flaw'."
NYT, CNN ONCE CLAIMED CHINA 'WON' THE PANDEMIC, NOW CITIZENS ARE REVOLTING
After receiving widespread social media backlash, Lorenz accused critics of putting words in her mouth by claiming that she had endorsed policies she’s "absolutely never spoken about." She also asserted that her commentary included significantly more nuance than her detractors had portrayed.
Lorenz is no stranger to controversy and hasn't been shy about attacking her own employer, having also publicly criticized her own editor for errors in a story about YouTubers and the Depp-Heard civil trial. A Washington Post insider told Fox News Digital they weren't sure "how she gets away with it."
"Some colleagues were startled by it—not necessarily disagreeing with the opinion (though maybe that, too), but more so that she would say that publicly. I don’t understand how she gets away with it, but apparently she does. I’m unaware of any internal discipline against her," the insider said.
Lorenz’s comments about China’s coronavirus policies are part of a larger trend in journalism that has seen media personalities point to the communist regime as a government at the forefront of COVID mitigation. Such reports have frequently skirted key details about the human cost of such sweeping measures.
In January 2021, The New York Times was lambasted for publishing a story that praised China, calling it one of the "safest places in the world" for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Times reporter Li Yuan penned the story headlined, "In a Topsy-Turvy Pandemic World, China Offers Its Version of Freedom," which criticized the U.S. response to the pandemic, touted China’s economic growth, and spoke positively about China’s "freedom to move around."
"The pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Citizens of China don’t have freedom of speech, freedom of worship or freedom from fear — three of the four freedoms articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt — but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life. In a pandemic year, many of the world’s people would envy this most basic form of freedom," Yuan wrote.
Several articles from American media outlets were used by prominent Chinese official Zhao Ligian to promote propaganda from Beijing.
Zhao tweeted or in some cases retweeted stories from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, and USA Today, which labeled former President Donald Trump’s comments about the pandemic "xenophobic," and often painted a dire picture of the U.S. COVID response.
On-air personalities ripped into Trump for calling it the "Wuhan virus," or the "China virus," despite previously using similar terminology to describe the virus in the past. Some critics were concerned that the phrases could spark hate crimes against Asian Americans, but others took it a step further, urging Americans to avoid referencing where the virus originated.
"We need to stop calling it or labeling it like its they did it us. Mother nature really did this to us," "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg said in March 2020.
Numerous outlets also claimed that the coronavirus lab leak theory in Wuhan was a "debunked" "conspiracy theory," including the Post, even though no final determination about the origins of the virus have been made.
AMERICAN COLLEGES JOIN GLOBAL PROTESTS AGAINST CHINA'S ANTI-COVID LOCKDOWN
The Post revised a February 2020 report, 15 months later, which had the headline, "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked."
The headline was changed to "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed."
On two separate occasions, CNN host Fareed Zakaria painted a glowing portrait of China’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In one instance, he claimed that China had "essentially vanquished" the virus without a vaccine. During another segment, he said that Trump and other officials were pushing a "conspiracy theory" with lab leak discussions, comparing it to a theory that HIV was invented in CIA labs.
Last December, Bloomberg Politics suggested that China was "vindicated" for its approach to containing COVID-19 after the discovery of the new omicron variant.
"The emergence of a new coronavirus variant has provided some vindication for China’s Covid Zero approach, which has kept strict border controls in place since the start of the pandemic," the account tweeted at the time.
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In one contentious back and forth, CNN’s Brianna Keilar quickly ended an interview with then-Trump administration official Peter Navarro when he said the U.S. was "dealt a bad hand" by China, calling his comments a "waste of time."
Chinese protesters are clashing with police across the country as outrage against the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian policies grows.
China's COVID-19 authorities have relocated tens of thousands of people to camps after testing positive and imposed draconian lockdown measures, going so far as to weld some people's doors shut. Widespread protests are rare in China's repressive political environment, and police are cracking down harshly on students and workers who dare to demonstrate.
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Protests erupted in part due to a fire at an apartment building in China's Xinjiang region that killed 10 people and injured several more. Citizens were outraged after reports suggested that COVID-19 lockdown measures had prevented first responders from stopping the blaze faster.
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Teen dies, two ‘critically injured’ in fatal St. Petersburg accident
ST. PETERSBURG, FL. (Gray News) - One teen is dead and two others were hospitalized after a series of vehicle burglaries lead to a fatal accident in St. Petersburg, Florida.
On October 2, around 3:20 a.m. Pinellas County deputies responded to an area in unincorporated St. Petersburg in reference to a vehicle burglary in progress.
The sheriff’s office’s K9 Unit, Flight Unit and patrol deputies also responded to assist in locating any suspects.
Deputies managed to take one subject into custody shortly after arriving on the scene.
Deputies say three more unrelated suspects were seen by the flight unit helicopter attempting to break into vehicles. The suspects approached a 2016 Silver Maserati that was parked in a driveway nearby.
Deputies say one of the suspects, identified as a 15-year-old juvenile, used a t-shirt to open the vehicle door of the Maserati, which was unlocked and the keys were inside.
The other two suspects, a 16-year-old juvenile and a 15-year-old juvenile, also got into the vehicle and attempted to flee the scene with no car headlights on.
Patrol deputies on the ground attempted to stop the vehicle, however, deputies say the vehicle accelerated and reached a speed of over 80 miles per hour.
Deputies did not pursue the vehicle.
Deputies say the 15-year-old driving the vehicle lost control, drove over a curb, hit a business sign and the vehicle flipped. Responding deputies immediately rendered aid to the suspects.
Deputies say the 15-year-old suspect driving the vehicle sustained critical injuries, and the 16-year-old suspect sustained life-threatening injuries. Both were taken to the hospital.
The second 15-year-old suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate the incident.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement.
A Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded over Israeli territory, the Israeli military said, prompting another round of strikes.
Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the air defenses shot down some of the missiles fired by Israeli warplanes flying over neighboring Lebanon.
Israeli authorities did not comment on the airstrike on Homs. But the military said one of the Syrian air defense missiles exploded over Israeli territory without causing any damage. Israeli police said the rocket’s remains landed in the southern Israeli city of Rahat.
In response to the rocket, Israeli jets struck the air defense battery from where the anti-aircraft rocket was launched. The military said it also struck other targets, without elaborating.
Israel, which has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment next door, has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets in government-controlled parts of neighboring Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges them.
The last suspected Israeli airstrike on Syria was on June 14, near the capital Damascus that left one soldier wounded.
Israel has also targeted the international airports in Damascus and the northern Syrian city of Aleppo several times over the past few years, often putting it out of commission. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-israels-air-force-attacks-syria-and-syrian-air-defense-missile-explodes-over-northern-israel/ | 2023-07-03 03:47:22 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-israels-air-force-attacks-syria-and-syrian-air-defense-missile-explodes-over-northern-israel/ |
‘The stork is on the way’: Nick Cannon addresses speculation he’s expecting more kids
Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 3:31 PM CDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
(CNN) - Nick Cannon says he’s adding to his family.
The father of seven said “the stork is on the way” when asked about speculation he’s expecting three more babies later this year.
During an appearance on Angela Lee’s “Lip Service” podcast, Cannon suggested he plans to break his own personal record when it comes to having kids.
He also mentioned he tried celibacy but didn’t stick with it.
The entertainer already shares seven children with their mothers – including twins born last June.
A third baby born last June – Cannon’s youngest child, Zen – died from brain cancer in December at 5 months old.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota announced Wednesday that he suffered a serious injury to his right hand and is potentially facing amputation of a finger.
The Republican lawmaker said he was working in his yard over the weekend when he sustained the injury that required immediate surgery.
“I continue to remain in North Dakota close to medical care as there is a high risk of infection and the possible need for amputation,” Cramer said in a statement. “I am alert and in good spirits.”
The injury means Cramer will miss the remaining days of votes and hearings this week as the Senate is advancing a bipartisan gun safety package, which could pass by week’s end.
The landmark package, Congress’ response to mass shootings in Texas and New York that shook the nation, did not receive Cramer’s support. He and other Republican senators expressed criticism of the package’s inclusion of “red flag” laws that make it easier to temporarily take firearms from people adjudged dangerous Nineteen states mostly dominated by Democrats and the District of Columbia have them, but Republicans have blocked efforts in Congress to pass federal legislation on the subject.
“If we’re not going to pass a federal red flag law, and we shouldn’t, why would we incentivize states to do something that we think is a bad idea?” Cramer told AP last week.
He said in his statement Wednesday that he plans to return to Washington after the Fourth of July holiday recess and expects “to be doling out a lot of left-handed fist bumps.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/sen-kevin-cramer-injures-hand-may-face-finger-amputation/ | 2022-06-23 10:35:42 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/sen-kevin-cramer-injures-hand-may-face-finger-amputation/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Héber scored a key goal in the second half and New York City FC clinched third place in the Eastern Conference, defeating Atlanta United 2-1 on Sunday's Decision Day in the MLS.
Héber's goal in the 60th minute gave NYCFC a 2-0 lead, which held up after Atlanta United's Andrew Gutman scored a few minutes later.
Gabriel Pereira scored early in the first half for NYCFC (16-11-7).
The win kept NYCFC in third place with 55 points, two points ahead of New York Red Bulls, which defeated Charlotte 2-0.
Atlanta (10-14-10) did not make the playoffs.
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Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio. | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-03-09/the-dirty-secret-to-credit-card-rewards | 2023-03-09 23:09:09 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-03-09/the-dirty-secret-to-credit-card-rewards |
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas fired basketball coach Chris Beard on Thursday while he faces a felony domestic family violence charge stemming from a Dec. 12 incident involving his fiancée.
The Associated Press obtained the termination letter that was sent to Beard’s attorney.
Beard had five years left on a seven-year guaranteed contract that includes a provision he could be fired for cause if he was charged with a felony. The charge of assault by strangulation/suffocation family violence carries a possible prison sentence of two to 10 years if convicted; the woman told police he strangled and bit her, but later denied Beard choked her.
Beard had been suspended without pay since he was arrested, and school officials have said there is an ongoing internal investigation.
Police responded to an emergency call at Beard’s house after midnight on Dec. 12 and arrested him after Beard’s fiancée, Randi Trew, told officers he choked her from behind, bit her and hit her when the two got in an argument. Beard’s attorney has said the coach is innocent.
The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of extreme violence, but Trew issued a public statement on Dec. 23 in which she denied telling police Beard choked her. She also said she never intended for him to be arrested or prosecuted.
“Chris did not strangle me, and I told that to law enforcement that evening,” Trew said in her statement. “Chris has stated that he was acting in self-defense, and I do not refute that. I do not believe Chris was trying to intentionally harm me in any way.”
Trew’s statement did not address why she made the emergency call or other details in the police report, such as bite marks and abrasions on her face and telling officers that she couldn’t breathe for about five seconds.
According to the arrest affidavit, Trew initially told police that she and Beard they had been in an argument where she broke his glasses before he “just snapped on me and became super violent.” Police reported Trew said Beard slapped her glasses off her face and “choked me, bit me, bruises all over my leg, throwing me around and going nuts.”
The Travis County district attorney’s office has not responded to previous requests for comment on Beard’s case or whether Trew’s Dec. 23 statement would change how prosecutors proceed with the felony charge.
A Jan. 18 court hearing is scheduled, according to online records.
Beard led Texas Tech to the 2019 NCAA Tournament championship game and was hired at Texas in 2021 with the expectation that he would lift his alma mater to the same elite level. He had the Longhorns program humming this season, starting 6-0 and ranked as high as No. 2.
Associate head coach Rodney Terry took Beard’s place during the suspension. The Longhorns (12-2, 1-1 Big 12) won their first five games under Terry before losing 116-103 to Kansas State on Tuesday.
A Texas graduate, Beard spent 10 seasons at Texas Tech as an assistant under Bob Knight from 2001-2011, then returned there as head coach in 2016.
He was 112-55 in five seasons with the Red Raiders and was named The The Associated Press coach of the year in 2019 as he guided Texas Tech to a 31-7 finish and lost in an overtime thriller to Virginia in the national championship game.
His departure for Texas — a deal reached after a meeting with Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte that included a McDonald’s breakfast an hour’s drive north of Lubbock — left Texas Tech officials frustrated.
As soon as he landed in Austin, Beard set out to rebuild a program from the ground up as he rebuilt the Texas roster and tried to whip up new enthusiasm for the program as he engaged with students and held often comedic “fireside chats” on campus. In his first season, he led Texas to a first-round victory over Virginia Tech that was the Longhorns’ first NCAA Tournament win since 2014. | https://www.mcall.com/sports/national-sports/ct-chris-beard-fired-texas-basketball-20230105-7tmehkak6fd7vpug3wbzibi5fi-story.html | 2023-01-05 21:28:28 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/sports/national-sports/ct-chris-beard-fired-texas-basketball-20230105-7tmehkak6fd7vpug3wbzibi5fi-story.html |
Live and Interactive Online Program to Extend Critical Music Education Resources and Mentorship Sessions to Creators
NEW YORK, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, legendary, two time GRAMMY-award winning producer DJ Jazzy Jeff has officially launched his debut online music producing program, Command Central: Making Beats.
Powered by CafeMedia, the intensive six-week online program will provide content creators, DJs and aspiring producers of all skill levels with the resources to build the core foundational skills for music production. Each week will sharpen participants' beat making skills through intricate video module lessons ranging from drums, melody, arrangements, mixing, and sampling which participants will then apply to their own produced tracks. DJ Jazzy Jeff will be joined by award-winning colleagues, and other surprise guests for live sessions and one-on-one feedback throughout the program.
"I'm excited to be launching this new program," said DJ Jazzy Jeff. "It's really important for me to pass down knowledge that I have acquired to the next generation of producers and Beatmakers. Giving the next generation a shot to make it in the music industry is special to me."
The course will be available in two different tiers:
- DIY version: Includes the full-video program, written exercises, and bonus resources.
- Interactive version: Includes the full-video program, written exercises, bonus resources, weekly live sessions with DJ Jazzy Jeff and other special guests, the exclusive chance to have produced work played in DJ Jazzy Jeff's live DJ sets, weekly feedback on submitted tracks and exclusive access to online student community forums
By the end of the program, students will be equipped with three finished tracks of their own and a wealth of newly cultivated production skills vital to each participant's expanding musical career. The Making Beats program bridges accessibility gaps for emerging creatives in the music community.
Widely recognized for multi-platinum, Grammy-winning collaborations with Will Smith and renowned work as one half of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, the Philadelphia native stands as a pioneer in the hip-hop genre. DJ Jazzy Jeff's rich music legacy spans more than three decades including a DMC Championship, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and multiple GRAMMY Awards including the first GRAMMY for Best Rap Performance. Recently joining fellow icons on the 2023 GRAMMYs stage for the ceremony's 50 Years of Hip-Hop Tribute performance, the producer is bringing his legacy full circle to guide the new wave of music producers set to shape the industry we recognize today.
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DJ Jazzy Jeff's rich legacy in music includes a DMC Championship and multiple GRAMMY Awards, American Music Awards, and NAACP Image Awards. Introduced to the world as one half of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, his accomplishments extend beyond his multi platinum, Grammy-winning TV collaborations with Will Smith. Notable is his acclaimed production company, A Touch of Jazz, credited for work with Michael Jackson, Jill Scott, Darius Rucker, and more.
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Police: 8 people, including girl, wounded in 2 DC shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
There were no fatalities in the two shootings, which police said could be related because they occurred in the same area of the city in a short time frame.
About 10 p.m. police responded to reports of shots fired on Lebaum Street and found seven men who suffered gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening, Assistant Chief of Patrol Services South Andre Wright said in a news conference at the scene.
Most of the victims took themselves to hospitals, Wright said.
“There was some chaos, obviously, because of the number of victims and the loved ones,” he said.
While officers were on Lebaum Street, police received a report of a shooting on 2nd Street, where they found a 12-year-old girl who had suffered “a gunshot wound to her lower extremities,” Wright said, adding that the injury was not life-threatening.
Police were looking for a car described by witnesses on Lebaum Street as a black sedan, possibly a Mercedes, from which shooters “drove through the block and indiscriminately fired upon” people.
The two shootings were believed to be connected due to the proximity of the scenes and the close times of the shootings, Wright said, although a possible motive was not immediately known.
“It’s a beautiful night. There were folks who were hanging out here and there were folks who were moving about on the 2nd Street scene,” Wright said. “And for some reason you have some people who think that it was okay to fire a firearm at multiple individuals at two different scenes. And we’re not going to let that stand.”
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The auction of a high-tech portrait of Warren Buffett didn't come close to matching the $19 million someone paid earlier this year for a private lunch with the billionaire, but it still raised $75,100 for one of his favorite charities.
The eBay auction wrapped up Tuesday evening on Buffett’s 92nd birthday. The portrait created by Motiva Art features a grid of letters over the picture that light up to spell out 11 of the Berkshire Hathaway CEO’s best-known quotes including, “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.”
A previous portrait of Buffett painted by performance artist Michael Israel in 10 minutes outside the Berkshire annual meeting attracted a $100,000 price in 2008.
The lunch auction Buffett has done for years to benefit the Glide Foundation that helps the homeless in San Francisco always attracts big bids because it offers exclusive access to the investor who is willing to answer almost any question except what he might buy next. This year's auction generated a remarkable amount of money because Buffett said it was going to be the final one.
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But he has auctioned off a number of unusual items over the years to benefit Girls Inc. of Omaha, which provides educational, cultural and recreational programs for young women in Buffett’s hometown. That nonprofit will get all the proceeds from this week's art auction.
At one point, Buffett raised $210,000 for Girls Inc. by auctioning off one of his old wallets containing a stock tip. He's also sold off a couple of his old cars when he was ready for an upgrade to benefit Girls Inc.
Someone paid $122,500 for Buffett's 2006 Cadillac with his signature on the dashboard in 2015. And another bidder paid $73,200 in 2006 for Buffett's 2001 Lincoln Town Car.
Buffett also secured a $2.2 million donation for Girls Inc. when he won a 10-year bet against a hedge fund manager that an S&P 500 stock index fund would outperform a collection of hedge funds after all their fees and expenses were factored in. Buffett has long said that most investors are better off regularly investing in a simple index fund instead of paying the high fees most investment managers charge. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/sale-of-warren-buffett-portrait-cant-match-19m-lunch-bid/article_32ac4ba2-15e5-572d-b54e-5e5f85029bcf.html | 2022-08-31 00:35:09 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/sale-of-warren-buffett-portrait-cant-match-19m-lunch-bid/article_32ac4ba2-15e5-572d-b54e-5e5f85029bcf.html |
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — More witnesses are expected to testify on Wednesday in a trial about a 2016 ski crash between Gwyneth Paltrow and the retired Utah man suing her and claiming her recklessness left him with lasting injuries and brain damage.
On the opening day of the trial, Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson appeared across the courtroom from each other, looking nonplussed to hear arguments that have become familiar over the past seven years of legal proceedings. Since Paltrow and Sanderson’s skis intertwined on what they expected to be an enjoyable day on the slopes with friends and family, the two have been tangled in a lengthy legal drama about what really happened on a beginner’s run that day at one of the most upscale ski destinations in the United States.
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The mountain, Deer Valley Resort, has among the region’s most expensive lift tickets and is known for its après-ski champagne yurts and proximity to Park City — a posh resort town known for hosting the Sundance Film Festival.
Though the court is not publishing a witness list, attorneys said Wendell Gibby and Sam Goldstein — a radiologist and neuropsychologist — would likely be called to testify on Wednesday. Sanderson’s lawyers said they expected to call four witnesses total on Wednesday and left the possibility open that one could be Paltrow, depending on when others expected to testify arrive in Park City.
Gibby and Goldstein have previously appeared as expert witnesses for Sanderson, who has said he broke ribs and sustained brain damage from the crash. Thus far, attorneys have argued over whether Sanderson’s medical problems stemmed from the crash or were merely a byproduct of aging.
Both parties blame the other for the collision and claim they were crashed into from behind, relying on a little-known Utah law stipulating that whoever is downhill has the right of way when skiing and snowboarding. Paltrow's attorney have asked Judge Kent Holmberg to enact special restrictions throughout the actor-turned-wellness tycoon's trial, while she has used a blue notebook to shield her face from view when entering and exiting the courtroom.
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They called Sanderson’s story " utter B.S. " building off earlier claims from court filings and previous depositions where they accused him of suing to exploit the Oscar-winning star of “Shakespeare in Love’s” wealth and celebrity.
Sanderson's attorneys have thus far attempted to paint her as a negligent celebrity with little care for the injuries inflicted upon the 76-year-old military veteran. They called Sanderson's ex-girlfriend and a ski companion who was nearby during the crash to testify on Tuesday. Karlene Davidson said the crash had “changed” Sanderson and contributed to the demise of their romance. Craig Ramon testified that Paltrow hit Sanderson and said that afterward, one of her family's ski instructors came up to him and said “Your buddy just took out Gwyneth Paltrow.”
The trial underway in Park City is the latest development in the seven-year case and follows Sanderson’s decision to amend an earlier lawsuit after a $3.1 million complaint that named Paltrow and Deer Valley was dismissed. Paltrow subsequently filed a counterclaim for $1 and attorney fees. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/nation/doctors-expected-testify-gwyneth-paltrows-ski-trial/ | 2023-03-22 05:37:18 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/nation/doctors-expected-testify-gwyneth-paltrows-ski-trial/ |
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "While traveling for vacations, I always have trouble cleaning insect remains off my external mirrors. I thought there should be a protective cover for the mirror housings," said an inventor, from Sacramento, Calif., "so I invented the SIDE-VIEW MIRROR COVER. My design helps to protect and preserve the original appearance and condition of the mirrors."
The invention provides an effective way to protect the mirror housings on a vehicle. In doing so, it prevents the accumulation of insects on the mirror housings. As a result, it provides added protection and peace of mind and it offers an attractive appearance. The invention features a weatherproof design that is easy to apply so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)Reserves Cole Anthony and Bol Bol each scored 17 points to lead the Orlando Magic to a 115-104 win over the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.
Wendell Carter Jr. led seven Magic scorers in double figures with 19 points, and Orlando’s bench outscored the Nuggets’ reserves 56-10. Orlando is in 13th place in the Eastern Conference with a record of 23-33.
Aaron Gordon had a season-high 37 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Nuggets. Nikola Jokic had 29 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, and combined with Gordon to score all 29 of Denver’s points in the third quarter.
NETS 116, BULLS 105
NEW YORK (AP) – Spencer Dinwiddie scored 25 points in his first game since returning to Brooklyn, and the Nets beat Chicago hours after trading superstar Kevin Durant to Phoenix.
Joe Harris had 18 points, and Yuta Watanabe chipped in 14 points in 22 minutes off the bench. Dorian Finney-Smith, who came with Dinwiddie from Dallas in the trade for Kyrie Irving, had nine points and nine rebounds in his Nets debut.
It was Dinwiddie’s first game in a Nets uniform since Dec. 27, 2020. He spent five seasons with the team and returned with 18 points in the second half.
Zach LaVine scored 38 points and DeMar DeRozan had 14 for Chicago, which lost its second straight and fell to 10-18 on the road.
BUCKS 115, LAKERS 106
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Giannis Antetokounmpo had 38 points and 10 rebounds, and Milwaukee rallied in the second half for its ninth consecutive victory, beating Los Angeles without LeBron James.
James sat out to rest his sore left ankle and foot two nights after he passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s career scoring leader.
Khris Middleton scored 22 points and Jrue Holiday added 18 for the Bucks, who matched their longest winning streak since their 9-0 start to this season.
Dennis Schroder had 25 points and 12 assists in a standout performance at point guard for the Lakers, who had only four reserves after their flurry of trades in the past two days. Anthony Davis had 23 points and 16 rebounds while battling foul trouble in Los Angeles’ third straight loss.
HAWKS 116, SUNS 107
ATLANTA (AP) – Trae Young scored 25 of his 36 points in the second half and Atlanta beat short-handed Phoenix, which was awaiting the arrival of newly acquired Kevin Durant.
Josh Okogie had 25 points and Deandre Ayton added 23 points for Phoenix, which had its three-game winning streak end.
The Suns had only nine players available after trading Cam Johnson and Mikal Bridges as part of a package for Durant, the 13-time All-Star, before Thursday’s trade deadline. Durant did not join his new team for the game, but the anticipation for his arrival is growing.
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The Westfield City Council on Monday night narrowly rejected an ordinance that would have created a new parks and recreation department and board.
The council voted 4-3 against the ordinance. Councilors Joe Edwards, Scott Frei, Mike Johns and Troy Patton voted against the measure, while Jake Gilbert, Cindy Spoljaric and Scott Willis voted in favor.
Westfield Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Chris McConnell told the council that the aim of creating a parks and recreation department and board was to attract more state and federal funding to the city to build parks and trails.
The department would have been staffed by city employees, while the mayor would have appointed four community members to the board.
Westfield is the only city in Hamilton County that does not have a parks and recreation department. Currently, the city’s parks operations are handled by the Westfield Public Works Department.
Westfield has 11 city parks, including the two-year-old Grand Junction Plaza in the city’s downtown. There are nearly 94 miles of trails in Washington Township, including about 86 miles inside Westfield’s city limits.
McConnell told the council in May that a parks board is necessary to apply for state programs, such as the Indiana Trails Program, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Next Level Trails Program, NextLevel Conservation Trust and the President Benjamin Harrison Trust Fund.
In subsequent meetings, some council members expressed concerns about how the parks department would be funded and how board members would be selected. On Monday, Spoljaric argued community members could apply and the city council would then send suggestions to the mayor.
“I’m trying to think of a nice way that we all win here if that’s doable,” Spoljaric said.
Patton based his objection to the ordinance on the city council not seeing a budget for the proposed entity.
“We don’t have to have a department of parks and recreation to have a board to get this funding, so I don’t want to create another department where we then assign people,” Patton said. “I don’t think we should actually establish a parks and recreation [department] until we see the budget because I can’t imagine approving it without seeing the budget first.”
Westfield Chief of Staff Jeremy Lollar said the money for a standalone parks and recreation department currently exists and it would come from the city’s public works department.
“As we introduce the budget, you’ll see the parks department separately, but again, not new money,” Lollar said. “Money that’s already in the public works department that will just go under a new appropriation number.”
However, Patton still objected without seeing a budget.
“For me to vote on a new department of parks and recreation without seeing a budget, there is no way I would get behind that because we don’t do a very good job in the operational side of understanding our expenses and controlling our expenses, so that’s my opinion,” Patton said.
No other council members addressed the proposal at the meeting before Monday’s vote.
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SARASOTA COUNTY, Fl. — The reality of storm recovery is hard to describe. Seeing the damage on television and social media may be striking, but living it is an emotional and traumatizing journey.
“All we can do right now is just pick up the pieces,” said Luke Quave, a resident of Port Charlotte, Florida.
Our team spent a week covering Hurricane Ian, and we met families who shared their struggles and stories of survival. Mother Shannon Terry swam across her street with her daughters on her back after her house flooded. Her neighbor whom she’d never spoken to before took her family in.
Now, there are more than 10 strangers living in one house with no water, power or internet.
“I feel helpless, and as a mother with kids, that’s not a good feeling,” said Shannon Terry, a North Port Florida resident.
In many cases across North Port and Port Charlotte, there are seven, eight, and sometimes more than 10, people living in one house without a working toilet. The smell leaves no doubt.
There’s also no air conditioning, so the smell of mildew and rot is overwhelming. People are doing the best they can, but they are trapped.
“We didn't tell you about the menagerie of animals in there that don't all get along,” said Brenda Lopez after she shared that the house she is staying in has two families bunking together. “So, we've got all these doors locked and pans and feedings and it's just, you know, we all need our own homes.”
Signs of struggle, both big and small, are everywhere. We saw a man who tied his vehicle to his house in hopes of keeping it from floating away.
Without working internet, applying for aid from FEMA or other programs is impossible. So much is impossible.
“We're stuck here. There's no water, no roads. No electricity. You know what I mean? You’re just stuck,” said Lopez.
Yet, there is also a building sense of hopefulness. People are helping strangers, opening their homes, lending their boats, clothes, and money.
Luke Quave was one of those helpers.
“I'm just cruisin’ through the neighborhood to see if there's anybody I can help. Anything I can do for anybody at this point, because I think everybody needs that right now,” said Quave.
Quave is the neighbor we all hope we’d have. When his neighbor’s roof collapsed in the middle of the storm, he set out, crawling on his hands and knees to rescue them.
“Yeah, I literally, the wind the wind was so strong that I had to literally, like, get on all fours and grip the grass like this,” said Quave.
His neighbors are still staying with him now. His kindness is what we saw on every corner. People in Southwest Florida reminded us they may have nothing material, but to be alive after this storm was all that mattered. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/the-brutal-reality-of-living-in-storm-damaged-neighborhoods | 2022-10-07 20:10:42 | 0 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/the-brutal-reality-of-living-in-storm-damaged-neighborhoods |
LANCASTER, Pa. — Crews in Lancaster County are currently searching for a missing juvenile.
According to Lancaster County 911 Dispatch, the search began in the area of Manor Township after the first call came in at 7:52 p.m.
The age of the individual has not been released at this time.
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AURORA, Mo. (AP) — Four people died and seven others were seriously injured when a car crossed the center line of a Missouri highway and struck five motorcycles.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon on Missouri Route 39 near the southwestern Missouri town of Aurora. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a Toyota Corolla crossed the center line of the two-lane highway and struck the motorcycles, ejecting the drivers and passengers on each motorcycle. One of the motorcycles caught fire.
All four people killed were from Aurora. They were James Olmsted, 59; Kameron Hale, 28; Linda Anderson, 61; and a 17-year-old girl whose name was not released. The patrol said Olmstead and Hale were drivers of motorcycles; Anderson and the girl were passengers.
The 51-year-old woman who was driving the Toyota was arrested on suspicion of impairment, the patrol told KYTV-TV. As of Sunday, no charges had been filed. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/four-dead-in-missouri-after-car-crosses-center-line-strikes-motorcyclists/ | 2023-06-05 06:30:03 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/four-dead-in-missouri-after-car-crosses-center-line-strikes-motorcyclists/ |
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark – A group of students in the Pulaski County School District will repeat the first day of school next week.
The district says they’re having to adjust classes based on the number of students enrolled in certain grade levels.
In some cases, this means moving a student to a different school in the district.
“Basically, we’re doing the first day all over again,” said PCSSD parent Veronica Bailey.
Veronica Bailey says she got a call from the district Monday saying there were too many kids in the Kindergarten class at Sylvan Hills Elementary and her daughter, Violet, would have to move.
“I’m the protector so my instant is anger,” said Violet’s father Jeffery Bailey.
District leaders say it’s one of the hardest calls they must make.
After first day counts, Jessica Duff, says the district reassesses class sizes to make sure they are up to state standards. If they are over, adjustments must be made.
“We would much rather make sure the student is getting that attention in an appropriate classroom size than to be overcrowded,” said Jessica Duff with the Pulaski County Special School District.
Duff says the district makes decisions on movement based on who registered last and provides transportation to the new school.
The Bailey’s say they wish they knew of the changes earlier so they could make adjustments of their own.
“Having to be away from parents all day long, it’s a lot to deal with, so having to do that all over again it’s stressful,” said Violet’s stepmother Samantha Bailey.
The district says at least eight students were moved from Sylvan Hills Elementary this year.
Leaders say they want to emphasize the importance of registering early to prevent events like this in the future. | https://www.kark.com/news/education/some-pcssd-students-forced-to-move-campuses-district-says-some-classes-are-too-full/ | 2022-09-01 00:05:15 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/education/some-pcssd-students-forced-to-move-campuses-district-says-some-classes-are-too-full/ |
Marcos: China laser not enough to activate US defense pact
By JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president said Saturday the Chinese coast guard’s use of military-grade laser that briefly blinded some of the crew aboard a Philippine patrol vessel in the disputed South China Sea was not enough for him to invoke a mutual defense treaty with the United States, but warned that such aggression should stop.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told a news conference he also reminded China’s ambassador to Manila that escalating aggression and incursions into Philippine waters by Beijing’s coast guard, navy and government-backed civilian fishing fleets violate an agreement he struck with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month.
“Despite the fact that it was a military-grade laser that was pointed at our coast guard, I do not think that that is sufficient for it to trigger the Mutual Defense Treaty,” Marcos said in his first public remarks about the Feb. 6 incident involving two Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal.
Responding to a question, Marcos said he was concerned that activating the 1951 treaty would ratchet up regional tensions.
Marcos spoke to reporters in the northern resort city of Baguio where he delivered a speech before cadets and former graduates of the Philippine Military Academy and repeated a vow to defend the country’s territory amid a new territorial spat with China.
“This country will not lose one inch of its territory,” Marcos said to applause. “We will continue to uphold our territorial integrity and sovereignty in accordance with our constitution and with international law.”
“We will work with our neighbors to secure the safety and security of our peoples,” Marcos said without elaborating.
Like his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, Marcos has taken steps to nurture friendly ties with Beijing. He met Xi in the Chinese capital early last month to boost relations and discuss the Asian neighbors’ long-seething territorial disputes in the strategic waterway that also involve Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei.
China claims the South China Sea virtually in its entirety, putting it on a collision course with other Asian claimants and separately with Washington. The U.S. lays no claims to the disputed sea but has deployed its Navy ships and fighter jets to patrol the waters, promote freedom of mobility and challenge China’s territorial claims.
The contested waters have become a delicate front in the broader rivalry between the U.S. and China in Asia and elsewhere.
In the latest flare-up, the Philippines says a Chinese coast guard ship beamed a high-grade laser to block the Philippine vessel from approaching Second Thomas Shoal, which is held by Philippine forces. The Marcos administration sent a strongly worded diplomatic protest to the Chinese Embassy in Manila and Marcos summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian on Tuesday to express his concern.
China responded by saying its coast guard ship used a hand-held laser and another light-emitting gadget to harmlessly measure the distance and speed of the Philippine vessel, which it claimed intruded into Chinese territorial waters and was warned to leave the area.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said China’s “dangerous operational behavior directly threatens regional peace and security, infringes upon freedom of navigation in the South China Sea as guaranteed under international law.”
Washington, he said, was standing by its treaty ally Manila following the latest sea feud.
Price renewed a warning that an armed attack on Philippine military forces, public vessels or aircraft, including those of the coast guard in the South China Sea, would invoke U.S. mutual defense commitments under the 1951 treaty.
Australia, Japan, Canada, Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom also expressed alarm following the Chinese coast guard’s use of the military-grade laser against the Philippine patrol vessel that they said threatens regional peace and stability. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/17/marcos-china-laser-not-enough-to-activate-us-defense-pact/ | 2023-02-20 03:14:20 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/17/marcos-china-laser-not-enough-to-activate-us-defense-pact/ |
Iconic sheep sweater worn by Princess Diana could fetch $50,000 at auction
LONDON (AP) — A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana is expected to sell for more than $50,000 at auction.
The playfully patterned wool jumper featuring a single black sheep amid a pattern of white ones headlines Sotheby’s online Fashion Icons sale in September.
The 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer was photographed in the garment at a polo match in June 1981, soon after her engagement to Prince Charles, who was then heir to the British throne.
Diana was already becoming a style icon —- and one of the world’s most photographed women — and the moment gave a big boost to designers Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne, who made the sweater for their small knitwear label Warm & Wonderful.
A few weeks later, Muir and Osborne received an official letter from Buckingham Palace explaining that Diana had damaged the sweater and asking whether it could be repaired or replaced. The damaged original was returned, a new sweater was knitted and dispatched, and Diana was photographed wearing it with white jeans and a black ribbon tie at an event in 1983.
Some have speculated Diana liked the “black sheep” pattern because she felt like an outsider in the royal family. Emma Corrin sported a replica as the young Diana in season four of “The Crown.”
Warm & Wonderful still makes a cotton version of the design, which sells for 190 pounds ($250). Osborne discovered the original lying forgotten in a box in an attic earlier this year.
Cynthia Houlton, Sotheby’s global head of fashion and accessories, said “this exceptional garment, meticulously preserved, carries the whispers of Princess Diana’s grace, charm, and her keen eye for fashion.”
The sweater, which has an estimated price of $50,000 to $80,000, will be on display at Sotheby’s New York showroom from Sept. 7-13. Online bidding opens Aug. 31 and runs to Sept. 14.
The record for a piece of Diana memorabilia is $604,800 for a Victor Edelstein-designed ballgown sold by Sotheby’s in January.
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Workers Protest Company Plans to Outsource 200 Local Jobs
FREEHOLD, N.J., June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 11 members who work at Nestle will rally on Tues., June 20, to demand the company keep its Freehold plant open.
Teamsters are fighting plans by Nestle USA to close its only coffee production facility in the U.S. and outsource 200 good-paying union jobs to Mexico.
Nestle managers told workers and their Teamsters Union representatives the plant could close by the end of 2023, a decision that would deeply impact workers and the local community.
Nestle made a $17 billion profit in 2022 and has taken $14.5 million in taxpayer-funded public subsidies from the state of New Jersey.
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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden sat down with conservative media outlet Newsmax over the weekend to discuss the administration’s efforts to end cancer, a longtime passion shared by both the first lady and the president.
Dr. Biden spoke with Newsmax host Nancy Brinker, who herself is a breast cancer survivor and founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, to discuss the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, which dates back to Joe Biden’s days as vice president under Barack Obama. The president revived the effort in February, outlining a vision to cut cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years.
Newsmax is not the typical host of choice for the Biden administration, with its focus on conservative audiences and controversial coverage of the 2020 presidential elections, though CEO Christopher Ruddy has maintained Newsmax is “an independent news agency” – and said cancer research is one area that all Americans can agree on.
"There are things Americans disagree with, but fighting cancer is one thing that unites Americans; and we're honored to have Dr. Biden talk of her efforts and President Biden's to combat this deadly condition," Ruddy said in a statement.
Both the president and first lady have deeply personal connections to ending cancer. President Joe Biden's son, Beau Biden, who the first lady raised, died from brain cancer in 2015. The first lady’s interest in cancer research dates to the 1990s, when four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer in the same year. Her parents also died of cancer.
Dr. Biden will speak both to the Moonshot initiative and her personal interest in combating cancer, according to Newsmax. The first lady has undertaken a number of efforts to support cancer survivors and further research into the disease that killed over half a million Americans in 2020 alone. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease.
In July, the first lady joined members of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative and other administration officials for a closed-door meeting to better outline priority actions for the effort.
The newy-reignited initiative focuses on:
Closing the screening gap by creating targeted programs to expand nationwide access for early cancer detection
Working to understand and mitigate how toxic environmental exposures contribute to cancer diagnoses
Decreasing the amount of preventable cancers through public health education and outreach campaigns
Investing and supporting research and development to prevent, detect and treat all forms of cancer
Easing the burden on cancer patients and their caregivers by expanding access to treatments, screenings, trials and quality care
More recently, Dr. Biden visited UC San Francisco to hear about the progress made in breast cancer research over the past six years. Dr. Alan Ashworth, president of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, told the first lady of the importance in genetic testing for breast cancer patients, as there have been many advances in how doctors can now identify specific types of cancer and better treat the patients.
“I love what you are doing here,” Biden told those working at the facility during her early October visit. “You have great hearts.”
The first lady also spent this past weekend focusing on cancer-related issues across a number of states, first joining Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., in Broward County for a discussion “focused on breast cancer survivorship,” per the White House, both as part of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative and a nod to Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
“None of us can beat cancer alone,” Dr. Biden told those assembled on Saturday. “We survive with the love of our families, the dedication of our doctors and nurses, and the support of communities, like this one, that are coming together to fight this disease.”
The event also came ahead of National Mammography Day, celebrated the third Friday of October, and the first lady reminded busy mothers that mammograms “can save your life—and nothing on your to-do list is more important than that!”
The American Cancer Society estimates around 287,850 new cases of breast cancer will be detected in U.S. women throughout 2022, and around 43,250 will die from breast cancer. Over 90% of breast cancer deaths are in women aged 50 years and older.
On Sunday, the first lady joined cancer survivors and their loved ones at the Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game to sing “Fly Eagles Fly,” the latter team’s fight song, during the National Football League’s Crucial Catch game, a partnership with the American Cancer Society that aims to “fight cancer through early detection and risk reduction.”
It was the second time in as many months Dr. Biden traveled to Philadelphia to raise awareness for cancer; in September, the first lady joined the Phillies’ sixth annual "Childhood Cancer Awareness Night” to support young cancer patients and their families.
Dr. Biden on Sunday evening also shared a video of the White House illuminated in pink lights “in honor of the loved ones we’ve lost, those who are still fighting, and those who have survived breast cancer.”
The first lady’s full, 20-minute interview with Newsmax will air on Monday at 9 p.m. Eastern. Dr. Biden also told Brinker, who served as U.S. ambassador to Hungary from 2001 - 2003, about her meeting “with Ukraine's first lady and shared a horror story about Russians targeting Ukrainians on a bread line,” per Newsmax. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/10/17/first-lady-jill-biden-newsmax-interview-cancer-moonshot-initiative | 2022-10-17 19:27:26 | 0 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/10/17/first-lady-jill-biden-newsmax-interview-cancer-moonshot-initiative |
TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Thursday, December 15, 2022
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the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the evening,
then widespread frost after midnight. Cold with lows in the lower
30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 50.
$$
TXZ201-162315-
Hardin-
Including the cities of Lumberton and Silsbee
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A slight
chance of. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Cooler with highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ215-162315-
Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Cooler with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ216-162315-
Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Cooler with highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ259-162315-
Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs in
the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
$$
TXZ260-162315-
Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny this morning, then becoming partly sunny. Highs
around 60. East winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the evening,
then widespread frost after midnight. Cold with lows in the lower
30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
$$
TXZ261-162315-
Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Cooler with highs in
the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
TXZ262-162315-
Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
308 AM CST Fri Dec 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Near steady temperature around 50. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
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The share of Americans who volunteer their time to help charities build houses, serve food, do environmental cleanup, and much else has been on the decline nationwide but nowhere as sharply as in Florida, where only 16% of residents donate their free hours to local organizations, according to the latest available statistics.
That’s a drop from the nearly 23% of residents who volunteered in 2017.
Florida’s volunteer rate slumped in large part because of the pandemic, which made it especially risky for older Americans — who are among the most loyal and regular part of the volunteer population in Florida and elsewhere — to interact in public settings.
The loss of those volunteers is painful for many nonprofits, which are stretched to provide needed services and programs because they face a tight job market for paid workers and increased demands for help.
“What’s happening now is actually the staff is wearing multiple hats, as many nonprofit staff members do, to make up for the gap of volunteers,” says Sabeen Perwaiz Syed, CEO of the Florida Nonprofit Alliance, which represents charitable organizations across the state.
Meanwhile, Wyoming was the only state in the country to chalk up an increase in volunteering. Nearly 40% of residents volunteer, according to the latest figures available, compared with slightly less than 33% in 2017. The growth is in part because its open spaces made it easier for volunteers to keep working safely during the pandemic, and now nonprofits are seeking to capitalize on people’s growing interest in giving their time.
Those figures are part of an AmeriCorps analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data for 2017, 2019, and 2021, the latest year available.
The challenge of finding ways to attract and keep volunteers is not a new issue facing nonprofits, although it has been worsened by the pandemic.
Nathan Dietz, a researcher at the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute, says charities that didn’t focus on retaining volunteers during the pandemic may find it difficult to get them back.
“There were some organizations who, during the pandemic, they just said, ‘We don’t know how we’re going to do volunteer management or volunteer engagement, and we don’t really have time to figure it out because we have bigger problems,’” Dietz said. “When people disengage from that kind of regular activity, it’s hard to re-engage them even if you’re trying to actively do that.”
Wyoming, known for wide-open spaces, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, had fewer restrictions and closings than many states throughout Covid-19. That kept more volunteer opportunities open and minimized disruptions to volunteers’ routines.
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation, a conservation nonprofit near Grand Teton National Park, relies on volunteers to collect local wildlife data and remove fencing that’s harmful to animals. The organization says more people wanted to volunteer during the pandemic than in past years.
Steve Morriss, a longtime volunteer with the foundation and other local nonprofits, says volunteer work in the outdoors was especially appealing for retirees like him during the pandemic because it allowed them to socially distance but still interact with others and do good.
The Heart of Wyoming Habitat for Humanity chapter, which relies on volunteers to build homes in Natrona County, saw an uptick in volunteering interest after re-opening its construction sites during the pandemic. Companies that previously provided financial support, in particular, began to give their employees time off to volunteer at Habitat.
The Wyoming Community Development Authority, a housing lender, is one financial supporter whose employees spent two days last year working on a Habitat construction site.
“Now it was no longer enough to make a gift, which we very much appreciate,” says Tess Mittelstadt, the nonprofit’s executive director. “But they wanted to see what that gift meant, and they wanted to see what that meant for people in our community.”
Jody Shields of the Wyoming Nonprofit Network says since the pandemic, she’s noticed increased interest from companies looking for volunteer opportunities because they allow employees both to bond with one another and to support local causes.
Mittelstadt says the organization is seeking to keep volunteerism high by providing volunteers with information about the specific families they’re helping by building houses. Habitat also invites volunteers to events celebrating completed homes.
Data suggests all the effort is paying off. Volunteers spent 57% more hours building new homes during the nonprofit’s last fiscal year compared with the previous year, according to Mittelstadt.
“Everybody knows somebody in our community, and everybody’s willing to lend that helping hand,” she says.
Even as the pandemic has receded, volunteerism is not rebounding in Florida, says Perwaiz Syed of the Florida Nonprofit Alliance.
“Nonprofits have had a lot of volunteers stop,” she says. “They have not returned. Many of them are seniors. They’re putting their health first and have not re-engaged in person.”
A study of 2,300 nonprofits by the alliance found that 40% of nonprofits reported they needed more volunteers and 25% of nonprofit employees said they were feeling overworked as they took on tasks previously done by volunteers.
The Manatee Literacy Council, which provides adult literacy tutoring, employs three part-time staff members and has 60 volunteer tutors, mostly retirees, available year-round. It lost 75% of its volunteers during the height of the pandemic. The program was able to move some of its work online, but it still can’t meet demand. The center currently has a waiting list of 100 people in need of tutoring.
To recruit more volunteers, the group sends representatives to community events to talk about its work, says Michelle Deveaux McLean, the council’s CEO.
She also says she is working hard to keep volunteers returning by organizing monthly meet-ups and creating a supportive environment. It continues to be a struggle.
“I’m lucky if I have five volunteers every month. We’re just perpetually upside down,” McLean says.
Other Florida nonprofits are turning more to online volunteering and enlisting companies to urge employees to volunteer.
For instance, Office Depot, based in South Florida, includes volunteerism as part of its professional development for employees. Since 2017, the company has sent workers to help charities do landscaping, paint murals, prepare meals for youths in Florida, and more.
Even as nonprofits work on a variety of ways to try to expand the number of volunteers, doing so may take time.
“I do think that Florida’s numbers will increase over time as we stabilize a bit from the pandemic,” Perwaiz Syed says. “I don’t think you’re going to see us in the top 10 because that’s just not possible to go that far that quickly. But I do think it will increase a little bit.”
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Kay Dervishi is a staff writer at the Chronicle. Email: kay.dervishi@philanthropy.com. Yesica Balderrama is a data reporter/producer at the Chronicle. Email: yesica.balderrama@philanthropy.com. The AP and the Chronicle are solely responsible for this content. They receive support from the Lilly Endowment for coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/why-are-volunteerism-rates-uneven-florida-wyoming-explain/ | 2023-04-18 11:32:18 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/why-are-volunteerism-rates-uneven-florida-wyoming-explain/ |
Deandre Ayton NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Suns vs. Clippers - April 20
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- Ayton has taken 13.2 shots per game this season and made 7.8 per game, which account for 12.0% and 15.1%, respectively, of his team's total.
- Ayton's opponents, the Clippers, have one of the slowest offensive tempos, ranking 22nd, averaging 101 possessions per game, while his Suns average 101.4 per game, which ranks 19th among NBA teams.
- Defensively, the Clippers are ranked 12th in the league, conceding 113.1 points per game.
- On the boards, the Clippers are ranked 13th in the league, conceding 43.1 rebounds per contest.
- Looking at assists, the Clippers have conceded 25 per contest, 10th in the NBA.
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A four-legged, fluffy beacon of happiness often walks the halls of Good Samaritan Medical Center.
Caring Canines is a program at Good Samaritan that brings therapy dogs and their owners to the medical center. Cotton and her owner Liz Else are volunteers with the hospital’s Caring Canines program. Every other Thursday, they roam the halls of Good Samaritan, spreading and always bringing a smile to every face around.
Cotton is a 7-year old Labradoodle. Cotton and Else have been volunteering at Good Samaritan since fall 2019. Cotton also visits the Broomfield Police Department and Centura Avista Adventist Hospital.
Else said Cotton found her own way into the therapy dog scene. Else observed that Cotton was super energetic as a puppy, so she never would have thought she would qualify to be a therapy dog.
“She loves people, and it was meant to be for her. Honestly, I did not pursue this, she found her own way,” Else said.
Else had to register Cotton through Alliance of Therapy Dogs and explained that therapy dogs are calm, reserved, quiet, and do not jump up on people. The program to become a therapy dog for Good Samaritan was even more rigorous, as Cotton had to prove she had no bite reflex and got a medical exam before being allowed to volunteer at Good Samaritan.
Else said Cotton is a “people dog” and very easy going. Cotton loves her therapy dog duties. Cotton gets excited every time she gets her leash and harness out.
Lori Tabello, a clinical dietitian, said seeing Cotton is such a delight. She noted that she works in the basement, and the therapy dogs would not always find their way down there, however it is part of Cotton’s routine to visit the dieticians’ offices. Tabello was more than happy to see Cotton and give her many treats.
“No one thinks of the basement, and we asked for the dogs to come down here, and we love it each time,” Tabello said.
Cotton is well-loved at Good Samaritan. Else and Cotton are happy to greet everyone who wishes to meet Cotton.
And, Cotton is there for both the patients and caregivers. Many offices have little snacks ready for Cotton’s visits, and she will naturally wander over to the offices where she knows she is bound to get treats and petting. Else and Cotton will visit patients who request to see a therapy dog, but she will also wander around and drop in on patients who may see a dog roaming the hallways.
Cotton was particularly happy to visit Helena Krieger, patient relations liaison, in her office. Krieger briefly managed the Caring Canines program, so she knows Cotton well.
“It’s such a treat to see her,” Krieger said.
She noted that working in an office all day can take a toll, but seeing Cotton brings a smile to her face.
Cynthia Leutholtz was in the Infusion Center when she got to see Cotton for the first time, on Thursday. She She has a dog at home, so some time with Cotton was like having a piece of home with her.
“It helps with anxiety and it’s just nice,” Leutholtz said.
Volunteer Services Manager Katrina Gebhart said the program had to pause due to the pandemic, but she is hoping to get it started up again in all its former glory. Caring Canines used to have 60 therapy dog volunteers, but that number went down to only four therapy dog volunteers during the pandemic. There are currently six therapy dogs being trained to be able to serve at Good Samaritan, according to Gebhart.
“They know that their dogs bring joy,” Gebhart said.
She noted that when people see how much love their dog has, they often join therapy dog programs to give back and help their dog be able to share that love with as many as possible.
Most patients are not entirely excited about having to be at the hospital, but a visit from a therapy dog is a great way to get patients to open up. One example, Gebhart said, is when Cotton went to visit Christel Kiley, a patient at Good Samaritan who wrote the book “Marcie and Me: An Unusual Dog Story” that highlights her love-hate relationship with her dog.
It’s memorable to see Cotton make a connection with patients and bring joy to people.
“When they (patients) see the dogs, it is like a complete transformation on their face,” Gebhart said.
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At the end of Thursday night’s 27-22 comeback win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson had a simple message, courtesy of a fan.
“Pay ’Em Now.”
As Jackson headed down the Raymond James Stadium tunnel after the Ravens’ second straight victory, a fan threw a sign toward the 2019 NFL Most Valuable Player with those words and Jackson’s No. 8 jersey written on it. Jackson picked it up and read the message before walking back out toward the crowd and holding it triumphantly above his head. He added his autograph and handed the sign back to the fan as the crowd cheered for the South Florida native in his return to his home state.
After a shaky start, Jackson put together one of his best performances of the season, completing 22 of 38 passes for 238 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 43 yards to hand future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady his first three-game losing streak since 2002. After going 19-for-30 for 144 yards in the first half, Jackson completed all eight of his attempts in the second, leading the Ravens back from a 10-3 deficit.
Jackson’s contract negotiations have been the subject of much scrutiny over the last two years. The No. 32 overall pick in the 2018 draft is playing under his fifth-year option worth $23.016 million this season after he and the Ravens failed to reach an agreement on a long-term contract extension before Jackson’s self-imposed Week 1 deadline. If he and the Ravens do not agree on an extension by March 7 of next year, Baltimore would need to use its franchise tag to keep him from becoming a free agent. Under an exclusive franchise tag, Jackson would likely be owed about $45 million in 2023.
The Cleveland Browns redefined the quarterback market earlier this year when they signed Deshaun Watson to a five-year, $230 million deal, fully guaranteed. Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti commented on that deal when he spoke with Baltimore reporters at the end of March: “To me, that’s something that is groundbreaking, and it’ll make negotiations harder with others.”
As Jackson sat down for his postgame interview on the field with Amazon Prime’s “Thursday Night Football” crew, the remaining Ravens fans chanted “Pay that man!” None of the commentators, including host Charissa Thompson, former tight end Tony Gonzalez, former quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, former left tackle Andrew Whitworth and former cornerback Richard Sherman, asked Jackson directly about the sign, but Sherman said he wants to see Jackson eclipse Watson’s contract.
“What I really want to talk to you about is the sign you picked up. As someone who’s represented themselves, I want you to get all the money you deserve,” Sherman said. “I know you ain’t talking about it in season, so I ain’t gonna make you talk about it in season, but pay the man. Give him $231 million guaranteed.”
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Which lip blush is best?
You’ve heard of lipstick and lip gloss, but what about lip blush? We’re not talking about the cosmetic procedure that applies permanent color to the lips, but a family of lip products with qualities different from most other lip products. Lip blushes are sheerer and more matte, and they subtly enhance the look of lips without giving you an overly made-up look.
When you’re looking for a great lip blush that doesn’t break the bank, Kylie Cosmetics Lip Blush is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a lip blush
Lip blush is relatively new
When it comes to lip blushes, don’t expect to find extensive options like you can with lipsticks and lip glosses. Lip blush is a look that evolved after the matte lipstick craze of a few years ago, when users wanted the velvety appearance of a matte lip but didn’t want the heaviness of a lipstick. It’s still very much evolving, so you may have to do some digging to find the perfect one for you.
It’s subtle, but you can layer it
Lip blush is meant to give you natural, mostly sheer color. However, that doesn’t mean it needs to be relegated to casual looks — you can also use it in the evening.
Under the theory of “highlight one feature at a time,” lip blush is the perfect way to keep the rest of your face simple and fresh while you create a dramatic look for your eyes, letting them draw all the attention. For an evening look, add a few layers of lip blush for a little more oomph while maintaining the subtlety of a blush.
Prep is key
While all lipsticks look best on well-prepared lips, with matte products like lip blush, a healthy, cared-for lip is essential. Matte products reveal more of the texture of the lip beneath, and sheer lip blushes do this most of all. Be sure your lips are exfoliated and moisturized before applying.
What to look for in a quality lip blush
Moisturizing
Just because it’s matte, that doesn’t mean it has to be drying. Look for moisturizing ingredients, such as beeswax or coconut oil, to ensure your lip blush doesn’t cake or stick.
The right tone
As with lipsticks, one of the main ways to make sure a color looks great on you is to choose one that’s in the right tone family for your skin. Skin colors can roughly be categorized as cool or warm. Chances are that yours is one or the other, although a few lucky individuals fall in the middle and can rock both.
To determine your skin tone, look at the veins on the inside of your wrist. Blue veins tend to indicate a cool skin tone, while more greenish ones are generally associated with warmer tones.
Multitasking
One of the inspirations for lip blush was the multitasking color sticks that could double as both cheek and lip color. You can still find a lip blush that will also double as cheek color in a pinch. This is great for when you want to travel light and carry one product for both, or when you want to create a monochromatic look with the same hue on your lips and your cheeks.
How much you can expect to spend on a lip blush
There aren’t many drugstore-brand lip blushes on the market yet, but a few can be found for under $10. Premium brands run about $15-$25.
Lip blush FAQ
What’s the difference between matte lipstick and lip blush?
A. There are some similarities, and to an extent, it’s a difference in naming. However, lip blushes tend to give a sheer wash of color, much like regular blush gives to cheeks, rather than solid color. It goes on lighter than lipstick and doesn’t dry quite as heavy.
How do you help lip blush stay in place?
A. The good news is that although it’s sheer, it doesn’t tend to be runny like its cousin, lip gloss. Its matte consistency makes it much more likely to stay in place. If you have trouble with feathering or smearing, consider a clear or compatible lip liner to keep it from getting outside the lines of your lips.
What’s the best lip blush to buy?
Top lip blush
What you need to know: Helmed by reality TV powerhouse Kylie Jenner, these cosmetics have a modern edge, as the selection of lip blushes demonstrates.
What you’ll love: This blotted matte lip goes on smooth and dries to a light consistency. Available in a variety of flattering, eye-catching colors, you’re sure to find the shade for you in this selection.
What you should consider: As with other matte products, this lip blush doesn’t last as long as conventional lipstick. The colors look good even as they fade, but you may need to reapply for a longer wear time.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Top lip blush for the money
Sephora Collection Lip Blush Blotted Matte Lipstick
What you need to know: This affordable Sephora house brand doesn’t skimp on quality.
What you’ll love: This hydrating, creamy lip blush that lasts goes on with a mousse-like consistency and dries to a beautiful color that is sheer and flattering.
What you should consider: Some users reported some transfer and smudging, so prep your lips well, and blot after applying.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Worth checking out
E.l.f. Monochromatic Multi Stick
What you need to know: A low-cost fave that does trends well, this product perfectly re-creates all that’s best about an all-purpose blush stick.
What you’ll love: This is one of the all-in-one sticks intended for use on lips, cheeks and eyes. It’s creamy, flattering to most skin tones and quietly radiant.
What you should consider: Since it’s also intended for cheeks, where heavy color doesn’t work, this can look very sheer on lips, particularly if you don’t have pale ones. You’ll need to layer to get more color.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Florida's Newest Premier Gulf Coast Resort Is Set To Offer Waterfront Wedding Options, A Private Bridal Suite, Innovative Catering Specialists, Wedding Planners And More
PUNTA GORDA, Fla., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor, one of the most highly anticipated new hotels opening October 2023, is set to become one of Southwest Florida's most sought-after wedding destinations. From intimate gatherings to extravagant celebrations, Sunseeker Resort will offer event spaces that will provide the perfect setting for all of your wedding plans, including ceremony sites, a private bridal suite with convenient access to a full-service salon and waterfront ballrooms complete with floor-to-ceiling windows and private terraces that overlook the picturesque Charlotte Harbor.
Sunseeker wedding packages include a dedicated hotel representative who will partner with your wedding planner to take care of all the details such as arranging complimentary services like menu tasting for up to four guests, design of custom wedding cake by Sunseeker's world-class executive pastry chef, selection of cocktail hors d'oeuvres & four-course dinner menu, coordination of guest room block and destination itinerary planning, and securing wedding night accommodations for the couple in one of Sunseeker's exclusive Sunsuites™. Package enhancements include an enhanced champagne toast and a variety of curated food stations including a handmade sushi display, artfully crafted slider bar, international mini pastry tower and expansive dim sum presentation.
"From memorable milestones to once-in-a-lifetime celebrations, Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor provides a stunning backdrop for the wedding of your dreams," said Sunseeker Resorts Director of Catering, Heidi Thixton. "We know that saying "I Do" is the most important day for couples and the team at Sunseeker ensures that no detail is overlooked. Whether you envision a classic black-tie affair or elegant contemporary celebration, our waterfront ballrooms, world-class hotel amenities and dedicated hotel, banquet and culinary teams provide extraordinary service, so couples know their only requirement is their presence."
Every couple's dedicated Sunseeker representative will guide them through unique ceremony options onsite and offsite including indoor options such as The Great Egret Ballroom, an impressive 15,000-square-foot space lined with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Charlotte Harbor that offers an elegant atmosphere that can accommodate up to 450 guests. The Royal Tern Jr. Ballroom is another elegantly outfitted ballroom perfect for intimate celebrations that features 5,500-square-feet of open space and idyllic views and can accommodate up to 250 guests.
Bridal parties can reserve access to Sunseeker's plush bridal suite, the perfect location for bridal parties to primp and prep ahead of the event. The suite is conveniently connected to Sunseeker's Lorelei Spa & Salon and even offers a customizable mimosa bar option.
After the ceremony, guests will be greeted by servers with white & red wine options and four selections of hors d'oeuvres upon their arrival. Following the reception, guests will enjoy a four course dinner inspired by Florida's locally sourced ingredients that cover everything from land to sea. For the celebrated cake cutting moments of the event, the Sunseeker Resorts world-champion pastry chef, Patricia Nash, will help create a custom design based on the couple's dream specifications.
For couples looking to host a rehearsal dinner or farewell brunch, Sunseeker Resorts' 20 unique food & beverage concepts offer an endless of endless options to choose from without having to leave the resort.
Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor is located at 4949 Tamiami Trail Charlotte Harbor, FL 33980. The resort is just ten minutes from Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) and easily accessible to out of town wedding guests from several major international airports including Fort Myers (RSW), Sarasota-Bradenton (SRQ), St. Pete-Clearwater (PIE) and Tampa (TPA).
For more information or to make reservations at Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor, visit www.sunseekerresorts.com or call (833) 909-5700. For the most up-to-date news and information, please follow the hotel on Instagram @sunseekerresorts.
ABOUT SUNSEEKER RESORT CHARLOTTE HARBOR
Opening Fall 2023, Florida's newest luxury resort located in Charlotte Harbor is the first resort property of Sunseeker Resorts, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegiant Travel Company. Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor occupies over 22 waterfront acres with 785 guestrooms, including 189 Signature Sunsuites™. Set upon the Peace River and Florida's Gulf Coast, this premier resort offers 20 original dining and bar concepts; including seven stand-alone restaurants and a 25,000-square-foot multi-venue experience. Additional hotel amenities include a waterfront promenade, two unique rooftop and waterfront pool experiences, 60,000-square-feet of combined convention space, full-service spa and salon, a 7,100-square-foot state-of-the-art fitness center with four group exercise studios with specialty instructor lead classes, seven retail and market shops, and an 18-hole championship level golf club exclusive to hotel guests only. The resort is conveniently located within a short drive of Punta Gorda, Fort Myers, Tampa, St. Petersburg-Clearwater, and Sarasota airports. For more information, visit www.SunseekerResorts.com. Follow us on Instagram: @Sunseekerresorts and like us on Facebook: @Sunseekerresorts.
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ABOUT ALLEGIANT TRAVEL COMPANY
Las Vegas-based Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is an integrated travel company with an airline at its heart, focused on connecting customers with the people, places and experiences that matter most. Since 1999, Allegiant Air has linked travelers in small-to-medium cities to world-class vacation destinations with all-nonstop flights and industry-low average fares. Today, Allegiant's fleet serves communities across the nation, with base airfares less than half the cost of the average domestic round trip ticket. For more information, visit us at Allegiant.com. Media information, including photos, is available at http://gofly.us/iiFa303wrtF
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GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the formation of JoySuds LLC, which acquired the Joy® brand from Procter & Gamble in late 2019, JoySuds has embarked on several initiatives to reinvigorate and extend this iconic American brand, while also defining the ethos of the brand moving forward.
In furtherance of this initiative, and in anticipation of the launch of its new Pure Joy™ family of products, JoySuds is excited to announce a new partnership with SEE Turtles, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles around the world.
The new Pure Joy™ line will represent an ever-expanding group of eco-friendly products characterized by 100% recyclable packaging and formulas that are free of parabens, synthetic dyes and phthalates, while also giving back to the many great SEE Turtle initiatives.
Every time a Pure Joy™ product is sold, it will help save another baby turtle as a portion of Pure Joy™ profits are put toward this effort. JoySuds is backstopping this pledge with a commitment to put a minimum of 500,000 baby turtles back into oceans around the world every year.
In reference to this partnership, Brad Nahill, President of SEE Turtles said, "More than one-third of our growth this year will be from Joy's contribution alone. Right now we're at eight million turtles at 60 beaches in 20+ countries. We plan to get to 10 million baby turtles saved with the help and support of our partnerships like this one with JoySuds."
As the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) notes, nearly all species of sea turtles are classified as endangered. Besides human activities which include pollution, poaching and habitat destruction, it's estimated that only one out of one thousand hatchlings survive into adulthood.
Through this exciting new relationship with SEE Turtles, Pure Joy™ plans to do its part to help improve these outcomes.
To learn more about the SEE Turtles organization, please visit www.seeturtles.org.
JoySuds, LLC was formed in November 2019 to acquire the Joy® and Cream Suds® brands for the US, Canada and certain other Latin American and Caribbean territories from the Procter & Gamble Company. JoySuds is focused on reinvigorating the distribution and product offerings of both the Joy® and Cream Suds® brands, building on their rich histories of innovation and performance.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- July 4th is the time to be proud to be Americans, and six Taiwan startups were invited by SelectUSA Investment Summit to consider investing in the U.S. Followed by the summit, they are visiting the Bay Area during the Independent Day weekend to exchange ideas with Silicon Valley startups, including startups that were founded by notable ex Meta (formally Facebook) and Tesla leads, and Tim Draper, the legendary venture capitalist.
Six startup teams were selected by Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs via a program, TREE, to represent the emerging technology of the country at the SelectUSA Investment Summit "Taiwan Deep Tech". Among the startups, two received recognition by SelectUSA: Robotic company Mechavision, which builds a layer of fast-responsive tactile skin to industrial robots to ensure that the safety requirements of human-robot collaboration are met, is one of the global top 10 tech startups. Biomedical company BELX, which develops plant-based drugs for the treatment of solid tumors, viral infectious diseases and aging-related chronic diseases, is selected into the Global Women in Tech Mentorship Network Project (SGWIT).
"Taiwan government is very supportive of tech innovation, especially those deep tech startups from research institutions," said Dr. Chyou-Huey Chiou, Director General of the DoIT. He referenced that Taiwan was ranked on the top of the Innovation Capability category in the World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness assessment. He also mentioned that the U.S. provides great growing opportunities for startups. "That's why we are bringing startups to attend SelectUSA and visit Silicon Valley's startups."
After the summit, those startups were invited by the U.S. government (American Institute in Taiwan and San Francisco City) to visit the Bay Area to exchange ideas with local innovative startups. U.S. startup founders were impressed by technical capabilities of Taiwan startups: Atayalan Technology offers enterprises with optimized 5G private network management software technology. Adirtek provides a big data analytic Internet of Things technology to ensure quality products for semiconductor manufacturers. ELECLEAN applies electro-chemical technology to transform water into reactive oxygen species by using nano-catalysts and won World Health Organization certification with its patented, chemical-free self-cleaning technology.
Those six startups also visited Bay Area investors, including Tim Draper and Chih-Kai Cheng, Chair of B Current Impact Investment. Draper used the example that he invests in one of the six startups, Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry, to illustrate that he invests in companies that are ahead of the industry. Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry provides information security monitoring services for companies in the supply chain, medical, e-commerce and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Cheng said that B Current invests in sustainability startups, and he is excited to see those amazing Taiwan and U.S. startups that are bringing a positive impact to the environment.
Startups will conclude the trip this coming week but interested VC, research institutions and corporations can contact the TREE program to partner with those startups. Contact: Erica Lin at erica.lin@itri.org.tw
About TREE Program
The innovative Taiwan Research-Institute Entrepreneur Ecosystem Program (TREE) was launched by the Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2021. It forges an ecosystem that assists research institutions in building enthusiasm and skills for setting up new spin-off companies through systematic and customized consultations. TREE helps startups during the commercialization processes with innovative thinking to accelerate their growth.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:2 Lucky Star-2nd:5 California Classic-3rd:1 Gold Rush, Race Time: 1:47.97
(1st: 2 Lucky Star, 2nd: 5 California Classic, 3rd: 1 Gold Rush; Race Time: one: 47.97)
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By Kyle Prince
Eugene’s Visual Arts Week, which celebrates local artists, musicians, galleries and venues, kicks off at 5:30 pm Friday, August 5, with the First Friday ArtWalk. Hosted by Lane Arts Council and City of Eugene Cultural Services, the ArtWalk begins at the Farmers Market Pavilion, where opening ceremonies, including an artist marketplace, award ceremony, live music and more, will be taking place.
Locations featured on the ArtWalk include galleries, art studios, coffee shops and pop-up exhibits dispersed throughout downtown. All of the venues included on the walk will be open from 5:30 to 8 pm. The best part about the walk: It’s all free.
The opening ceremonies at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion include a First Friday ArtTalk with Michael Boonstra, the artist behind the new “Willamette River Contours” piece recently installed at the pavilion. The talk begins at 6:30 pm.
A previous home of the farmers market, the 5th Street Market, hosts multiple exhibits and galleries. In the Market Alley, check out augmented reality with VR equipment supplied by Glimmer Technology, and on the second floor of the 5th Street Market experience the laid-back vibes of landscapes and quotes curated by artist Alejandro Sarmiento and letter artist Erica Heim, otherwise known as the “Eugene Chalk Lady.”
For more local art, stop by the Art Bar at the Gordon Hotel, which will have an exhibit by Lane Arts Council grant recipient Cari Ingrassia.
Broadway also features multiple locations to check out as you stroll downtown. ArtCity Studios, on the basement floor of 160 E. Broadway, hosts WheelHaus Arts, which provides professional tools, supplies and teaching to an upcoming generation of artists. Earl Dunbar’s experimental work with color will be available for viewing at Broadway Commerce Center, featuring watercolors, oil paintings and acrylics done by the artist. Books with Pictures Eugene will showcase a series of works created with secondhand and thrifted materials by Lisa Yu.
Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Avenue, will also host various exhibits. Passersby will be greeted by StoryHelix, featured in the front windows of the library. StoryHelix, sponsored by Lane Arts Council and Wordcrafters in Eugene, is a collaboration of community storytellers and professional artists where each window panel tells a different story of a lived experience. Inside, the Mayor’s Art Show is on display on the second floor, and will be open for viewing until Sept. 5.
The lobby of Eugene Hotel, 222 E. Broadway, is turning into a pop-up gallery featuring artworks of all kinds done by residents and staff of the building. From 6 to 7:30 pm, live music by the Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers will accompany the art.
Directly around the corner, Community Cup Coffee on 901 Pearl Street, hosts photographic work by Barbara Bakalarova, whose subjects include portraits, arranged scenes and patterns found in nature. Dark Pine Coffee, just down the block at 954 Pearl Street, features a series of eye-opening paintings titled “Trippy, but Classy” by Kylie Jess, as well as oil-on-metal paintings by Brittany Micho.
Oregon Art Supply, 1020 Pearl Street, invites viewers to reconsider their definition of art through Diana C. Patin’s show, Got to be Good For Something; a mixed-media exhibit focused around objects that have passed their prime, and would otherwise be thrown away.
Just a few blocks away, Allies LLC, on 131 E. 11th Avenue, a support organization for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is hosting an exhibit called Fun Shine Pride! with new work by their customers.
Another exhibit to check out on 11th Avenue is Sound Waves by Eugene Weekly Art Director Todd Cooper, which is being hosted by Epic Seconds, 30 E. 11th Avenue. Cooper has had work featured in Rolling Stone and Spin and has worked with multiple record labels. These photos are not to be missed.
Multiple exhibits will be on display at New Zone Gallery, 110 E. 11th Avenue, including the Salon des Refusés, featuring works turned away from the Mayor’s Art Show; Hues of Comfort, by Kelly Sweat; and Taxidermy by Will Lotz, which showcases extraterrestrial life forms in various media.
Additional exhibits, galleries and attractions will also be open during the ArtWalk, including artwork by Sierra Squires at the Barn Light, collage works by Dori Koberstein, wildlife and landscape photography by Ben Sutter, acrylics, jewelry and more.
More information on the ArtWalk and Visual Art Week can be found at LaneArts.org/first-friday-artwalk. | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/08/04/celebrate-art/ | 2022-08-04 13:00:36 | 0 | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/08/04/celebrate-art/ |
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Weber Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of WEBR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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PARIS (AP) — Efforts to feed a dangerously thin Beluga whale that has strayed into the Seine River in France have failed so far and experts are now trying to get the whale out of the river lock where it is stuck, environmentalists said Monday.
The marine conservation group Sea Shepherd France tweeted Monday that “feeding attempts are continuing in parallel to finding a solution to get it out of the lock in the best conditions.”
Experts at the site have warned that the beluga should not stay too long in the warm, stagnant water between lock gates.
“The beluga still doesn’t eat but continues to show curiosity,” Sea Shepherd France tweeted. Overnight the whale “rubbed itself on the lock’s wall and got rid of patches that had appeared on its back. Antibiotics may also have helped.”
The lost Beluga was first seen in France’s river, far from its Arctic habitat, earlier this week. Drone footage shot by French fire services showed the whale gently meandering in a stretch of the river’s light green waters between Paris and the Normandy city of Rouen, many dozens of kilometers (miles) inland from the sea.
Experts since Friday have tried to feed the beluga with dead herrings and live trouts, with no success. Sea Shepherd fears the whale could slowly starve in the waterway and die.
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BERLIN (AP) — A village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to make way for a coal mine expansion has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remained holed up in a tunnel, police said Sunday.
The operation to evict climate activists who flocked to the site in the hamlet of Luetzerath kicked off Wednesday morning and progressed steadily over the following days. Police cleared people out of farm buildings, the few remaining houses and a few dozen makeshift constructions such as tree houses.
On Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated nearby against the eviction and the planned expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine. There were standoffs with police as some protesters tried to reach the village, which is now fenced off, and the mine.
Environmentalists say bulldozing the village to expand the Garzweiler mine would result in huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. The government and utility company RWE argue the coal is needed to ensure Germany’s energy security.
The regional and national governments, both of which include the environmentalist Green party, reached a deal with RWE last year allowing it to destroy the abandoned village in return for ending coal use by 2030, rather than 2038.
The Greens’ leaders argue that the deal fulfills many of the environmentalists’ demands and saved five other villages from demolition, and that Luetzerath is the wrong symbol for protests. Activists reject that stance.
Police said in a statement Sunday that nearly 300 people have been removed so far from Luetzerath. They added that “the rescue by RWE Power of the two people in underground structures continues; beyond that, the clearance by police is complete.”
They said that 12 people were detained in connection with Saturday’s incidents. Demolition of the buildings in Luetzerath is already under way.
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who joined Saturday’s big protest, took part in a smaller demonstration on Sunday, singing and dancing with other activists near the edge of the mine, German news agency dpa reported.
Police said Thunberg briefly sat on an embankment at the edge of the mine and officers carried her a few steps away after didn’t comply with calls to move for her own safety, dpa reported, adding that she then went on her way.
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Bill Schonely only saw one Trail Blazers championship. But no one championed the team like the gentle man who coined the phrase “Rip City!” and who’s voice connected the team and its players with the community for three decades as the team’s radio voice.
Schonely died Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023 at the age of 93. He is survived by his wife, Dottie, his three children and several grandchildren.
Next to Trail Blazers’ founder Harry Glickman, its safe to say that there has never been — and likely never will be — a more impactful Trail Blazer than The Schonz.
The sixth employee hired by Glickman when he landed an NBA franchise for Portland in 1970, Schonely was the team’s radio voice for almost three decades.
His call of the final seconds of the Blazers’ 1977 championship clinching win over the 76ers is etched in the memories of so many of us who grew up listening to so many losses.
For those of us who grew up sports fanatics in Portland in the 1970s, Bill Schonely’s voice was more than just our connection to a basketball team. His was a featured voice on the soundtrack of our childhood.
Long before the internet and social media and even cable TV, signature catch phases such as “bingo-bango-bongo,” “dribbles through the Cyclops” and “lickety-brindle-up-the-middle” put us in Schonely’s front-row seat at a time when any win for the home team deserved a celebration.
Portland journalist and former Portland Tribune sports columnist Kerry Eggers broke the news of Schonely’s death early Saturday morning. You can check out Eggers’ book on Schonely’s life by heading here.
On Saturday, Eggers told the Tribune that some of his favorite Schonely stories, recounted in his book, include Schonely’s days involved with pro wrestling and roller derby in Seattle and the time he played goalie at a Seattle Totems hockey practice.
Schonely, Eggers said, enjoyed being a foil for jokes from the likes of Jack Ramsay, longtime Blazers trainer Ron Culp, and from players.
“He could take a joke and he could give a joke. We shared a lot of laughs,” Eggers said.
"Wherever you may be, this is Bill Schonely. Rip City!" pic.twitter.com/2uKhAmKqXA
— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) January 21, 2023
In the first years of the franchise, a game at Madison Square Garden, the Boston Garden or against the Los Angeles Lakers was a big deal. The Schonz knew that, and through his descriptions took listeners to those storied venues. Schonely’s exact words when the team won at Madison Square Garden for the first time are lost from my memory, but not his excitement as he put the significance of a win in New York City into perspective for fans in little old Portland.
Schonely was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 and in 2012 received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
When you went to a Blazers game in the 1970s — for me that was a rare treat — you wanted to stay to watch Schonely do his postgame interview from center court. If the Blazers lost, which they did quite frequently until the breakthrough 1976-77 season, Schonely’s guest would often be an opposing player or coach. Whether it was one of the Trail Blazers or an opposing player, these postgame interviews, only a few minutes long, usually came off as a casual chat between friends.
That’s the way so many will remember Schonely — as a friend. Even for those who only interacted with The Schonz a few times, his genuine love for people, especially those from Portland and fans of the Trail Blazers, was obvious.
Except for a period of about five years between 1998 and 2003 — Schonely, against his wishes, was replaced as the team’s radio voice at the end of the 1997-98 season — Schonely has been the one constant for the Trail Blazers, including in his role as an ambassador for the team that continued until last April.
In a statement from the Trail Blazers, Dewayne Hankins, the team’s president of business operations, said: “Our hearts go out to his wife, Dottie, and the entire Schonely family during this difficult time. Bill was a warm, engaging and sharp person – always up for a joke, a keen observation or a kind remark. His mark on the organization, the state of Oregon and all of sports broadcasting will be felt for generations. No one loved Rip City more than Bill did and we are all forever grateful for his contributions to the community."
Terry Porter, a key player for the Blazers great teams of the early 1990s and now an alumni ambassador for the team, said: “The Schonz was a cornerstone of the organization since Day 1. He was the ultimate Trail Blazer — the voice of the Trail Blazers. He was someone that Blazers fans grew up listening to for many, many generations. His voice will be missed, his presence will be missed, but his legacy will not be forgotten. It’s intertwined with every part of this organization.”
Second-year Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups understandably didn't have much time to get to know Schonely, but said Saturday he will remember the moments he did have with the Rip City icon.
"Mr. Schonely is obviously an icon, a legend, not just in this area either," Billups said. "I was lucky enough just to spend a little time with him last year, he would come around quite a bit. He was always very kind to me and very encouraging, optimistic with me so I was lucky I got that little time with him."
Current star Damian Lillard didn't have his games called by Schonely, but after spending the last 10+ years in Portland, the Schonz is certainly someone Lillard got to know well.
"When I first got here, he was one of the first people that I met and anybody that knows him knows he immediately told me that he was the person who came up with Rip City," Lillard said. "I'm sure his voice will be remembered, what he represented will be remembered and I'm happy I've been around long enough and spent enough time around him to call him a friend and to get to know him. It's a sad day, and I send my condolences to his family, his wife."
Schonely’s “Rip City!” catchphrase was a spur-of-the-moment call during the team’s first season as he described a long shot by Jim Barnett swishing through the hoop.
Schonely likely never would have come to Portland had the Seattle Pilots lasted more than one season. Schonely was part of the Pilots broadcast team, but turned down an offer to move with the major league baseball club to Milwaukee.
Harry Glickman, who brought Buckaroos hockey to Portland in 1960, knew Schonely from his time calling Totems games and hired him to build a network of radio stations to carry games when the Trail Blazers joined the NBA for the 1970-71 seasons.
Commenting after Glickman died in June of 2020, Schonely told me the story of his arrival in Portland:
"I thought I was going to be in baseball for the rest of my life. Well, Harry found out that I was available so he called me. In his big, basso profondo voice he said, 'Shonz, how would you like to do NBA basketball?'"
At the end of a meeting that Schonely said lasted all of "five or six minutes,” Glickman said he wanted Schonely to be the voice of the Trail Blazers.
"We shook hands — we had nothing in writing — and I went from baseball to NBA basketball because of Harry Glickman, who in essence sent my broadcasting career onward,” Schonely said.
Schonely’s influence was felt well beyond the friendly confines of the Memorial Coliseum or Moda Center.
He was an advocate for Providence Child Center and the Center for Medically Fragile Children, serving on the board of the providence Child Center Foundation for more than 20 years.
In 1988, Schonely received the Providence Heart of Gold Award, and in 2009 Providence established the Bill’s Kids Fund for which Schonely helped raise millions of dollars, according to a statement from Providence.
“Bill said on several occasions that if he ever had a bad day, a visit to ‘Bill’s Kids’ at the Center for Medically Fragile Children would change that day for him,” said William Olson, chief executive for Providence Oregon. “On behalf of all the people of Providence, we send our love and prayers to Dottie and Bill’s family, and we will be holding them in our hearts.”
“Bill’s commitment to the children we serve at Providence was boundless. His passion never wavered, and we are deeply grateful for his decades of service, his giving spirit, and his generous heart,” said Kelly Buechler, chief philanthropy officer for Providence Foundations of Oregon.
Among the many social media posts honoring Schonely was this statement from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden:
“My friend Bill Schonely provided the soundtrack for generations of @trailblazers fans and forever made our beloved Portland into #RipCity. I join all of #RipCity in extending condolences to Bill’s wife Dottie & his entire family. RIP to a true Oregon legend.”
One of Schonely’s first broadcasting jobs was as a host of a sports show for Armed Forces Radio while he served in the Marines. A native of Pennsylvania, Schonely’s path to Portland was through Seattle. He worked in various roles in the Seattle market for almost 15 years. Schonely was the voice of the Seattle Totems hockey team, rival to the Portland Buckaroos in the old Western Hockey League. Other work in broadcasting included for Washington Huskies football, Seattle minor-league baseball and the NHL’s Oakland Seals.
After he was forced out as the Blazers’ radio voice at the end of the 1997-98 season, Schonely called games for the Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team from 2000-2002. He also was in demand as an emcee.
According to the Trail Blazers, there will be a private service and public celebration of life. Details will be announced at a later date. The team said that, in lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Schonely can be made to Providence Child Center and the American Heart Association.
In addition to Schonely, John Curry, who worked for four decades as a camera operator for the Trail Blazers, died last night. Curry, a veteran, often was on the baseline for Blazers games and took the hits down low to get the up-close shots for the fans at home.
"(Curry) knew I was a huge fan of boxing, so every day that I came into the locker room, he would always point the camera at me because he wanted me to face off with the camera," Lillard said. "Being with the organization for 39 years, the way he supported me, he always wore my shoes, we always had little side conversations, he was a (veteran), what he did for vets knowing what they go through when they return home and the struggles that they face, him taking initiative and being responsible from his own experience and taking the time to do something like that I think speaks to who he was as a man.
"It means so much more than being the person behind the camera."
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Transition to third-party manufacturing is the latest step by Peloton to simplify its supply chain and optimize its cost structure
NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peloton Interactive, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTON) ("Peloton" or the "Company") today announced it is exiting all owned-manufacturing operations and expanding its current relationship with leading Taiwanese manufacturer Rexon Industrial Corp.
The shift is a natural progression in Peloton's strategy to simplify its supply chain and focus on technology and best-in-class content to continue driving the business forward as the leading global Connected Fitness company.
Rexon will become the primary manufacturer of the hardware for Peloton's iconic Bike and Tread product lines. Along with this expanded partnership, Peloton will be suspending operations at its Tonic Fitness Technology, Inc. facility through the remainder of 2022. The Company acquired Tonic in October 2019.
Peloton Chief Supply Chain Officer Andy Rendich said, "We are thrilled to be expanding our partnership with Rexon, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer with over 50 years of experience. Rexon has been with Peloton for many years and is a proven partner for our global operations. We plan to maintain a significant corporate and manufacturing presence in Taiwan with over 100 Peloton Taiwan team members who continue to play a key role in our engineering and manufacturing strategy."
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy said, "Today we take another significant step in simplifying our supply chain and variablizing our cost structure – a key priority for us. We believe that this along with other initiatives will enable us to continue reducing the cash burden on the business and increase our flexibility. Partnering with market-leading third party suppliers, Peloton will be able to focus on what we do best – using technology and content to help our 7 million Members become the best versions of themselves."
Rexon CEO Rex Wang said, "We are thrilled to be expanding our relationship with Peloton as the Company reaffirms its commitment to Taiwan. For years, Rexon has worked side by side with Peloton to produce the hardware behind its iconic and industry-leading products. We are grateful for the opportunity to play an even greater role in the Company's manufacturing and look forward to continued collaboration in the future."
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements contained in this press release other than statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, statements regarding our expectations regarding our ability to implement, execute, complete, or realize our strategy of simplifying our supply chain, optimizing our cost structure, and focusing on technology and content; our plans to exit our owned-manufacturing operations in Taiwan and expand our relationship with third-party suppliers including Rexon; our plans to maintain a corporate and manufacturing presence in Taiwan; and our engineering and manufacturing strategy, are forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "potential," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "could," "would," "project," "plan," "target," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, though not all forward-looking statements use these words or expressions.
We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, short-term and long-term business operations and objectives, and financial needs. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated, including, without limitation: our ability to accurately forecast consumer demand of our products and services and adequately maintain our inventory; our reliance on and lack of control over third-party suppliers, contract manufacturers and logistics partners for our Connected Fitness Products; and those risks and uncertainties described in the sections titled "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part I, Item 2 and "Risk Factors" in Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2021, as updated by the section titled "Risk Factors" in Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022, as such factors may be further updated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at https://investor.onepeloton.com/investor-relations and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
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Peloton is the leading interactive fitness platform in the world with a loyal community of more than 7 million Members. The Company pioneered connected, technology-enabled fitness, and the streaming of immersive, instructor-led boutique classes for its Members anytime, anywhere. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that motivate its Members to be the best versions of themselves. An innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton has reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines the best equipment, proprietary networked software, and world-class streaming digital fitness and wellness content, creating a product that its Members love. Consumers can access the brand's immersive content through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, Peloton Bike+, Peloton Guide and Peloton App, which allows access to a full slate of fitness classes across disciplines, on any iOS or Android device, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku TVs, and Chromecast and Android TV. Organizations and enterprises can access select Peloton products and the platform for their teams and customers through Peloton Corporate Wellness or Peloton Commercial. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has a growing number of retail showrooms across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.
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Their millions of fans around the world are known as “airheads,” crazy about the music of Air Supply.
The Australian duo is celebrating their 47th anniversary this year, and their tour is making two upcoming stops in Indiana.
Graham Russel, singer-songwriter and guitarist, joined us Tuesday on “All Indiana” to discuss their tour.
You can see the duo performing at Brown County Music Center in Nashville, IN on Friday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m. and at Blue Gate Performing Arts Center in Shipshewana, IN on Saturday, October 1.
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Commercial initiatives drive stronger sequential performance
KINGSEY FALLS, QC , Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS) reports its unaudited financial results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022.
- Sales of $1,119 million (compared with $1,038 million in Q1 2022 and $956 million in Q2 2021)
- As reported (including specific items)
- Adjusted (excluding specific items1)
- Net debt1 of $1,712 million as of June 30, 2022 (compared with $1,549 million as of March 31, 2022). Net debt to adjusted OIBD ratio1 of 5.4x, up from 4.8x as of March 31, 2022.
- Total capital expenditures, net of disposals, of $116 million in Q2 2022, and $212 million in the first half of 2022. Forecasted 2022 net capital expenditures of $450 - $470 million, including $310 - $330 million for the Bear Island containerboard conversion project in Virginia, USA.
Mario Plourde, President and CEO, commented: "Our packaging businesses delivered good sequential performances in the second quarter, with improved pricing and sales mix, higher volumes, and lower raw material costs in the case of Containerboard outweighing the impact of continued cost inflation. Sequentially, results in our Tissue Papers business highlight the momentum being generated by the profitability initiatives underway. While pricing and mix improvements realized to date helped to mitigate the unprecedented headwinds on the cost side, these initiatives are trailing the pace of the current high inflation environment. These initiatives remain on track to generate important contributions in the back half of 2022, and are being closely monitored and regularly adapted to address the changing cost environment.
We continued to advance the Bear Island project in the quarter. The capital investments for this project, which totaled $81 million in the second quarter and $145 million year-to-date, combined with lower consolidated financial results, has resulted in an increase in our leverage in the second quarter. As we have previously stated, this trend is expected to reverse with improved business performance through the remainder of 2022 and throughout 2023 as well as the positive contribution from this facility following its start-up."
Discussing near-term outlook, Mr. Plourde commented, "We are focused on driving benefits from profitability initiatives underway in our Tissue Papers segment. While the level of expected long-term financial contributions remains intact, persistent cost headwinds and adjustments to the implementation timing of announced industry price increases have reduced our forecasted OIBD range for this segment to $25 - $40 million for 2022, from the previously stated $60 - $80 million2. This revision does not change the 2024 OIBD targets provided in our strategic plan in February. The current inflationary environment has also had implications for our Bear Island project in 2022. Higher cost levels combined with labour and material availability constraints, which have led to temporary delays in certain construction milestones, increased the total projected cost for this project to a range of $595 - $615 million (US$470 - US$485 million). Our team is working closely with contractors to mitigate any potential delay caused by these elements in order to meet the targeted mid-December 2022 start date. However, it is important to note that the timing of some critical construction milestones may be at risk due to these issues and, as a result the start-up of paper production may be delayed to the first quarter of 2023.
At the operations level, we are forecasting sequentially stable results in our packaging businesses in the third quarter, during which favourable pricing momentum is expected to mitigate continued cost inflation. As we have previously stated, the Tissue Papers business is expected to return to a trajectory of positive contribution in the upcoming quarters as meaningful benefits from implementation of the profitability initiatives begin to be realized."
Selected consolidated information
Segmented OIBD as reported
Segmented adjusted OIBD1
Analysis of results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022 (compared to the same period last year)
Sales of $1,119 million increased by $163 million compared with the same period last year. This reflects $146 million of combined benefits from improvements in selling prices and sales mix in all business segments. The Canadian dollar - US dollar exchange rate was also favourable for all businesses, contributing $24 million to sales levels on a consolidated basis. These were partially offset by a $16 million impact related to lower volumes in the Containerboard and Tissue Papers business segments.
The Corporation generated an operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBD) of $95 million in the second quarter of 2022, up from $87 million in the second quarter of 2021. On an adjusted basis1, second quarter OIBD totaled $91 million, a decrease of $7 million, or 7% from the $98 million generated in the same period last year. This decrease is attributable to higher raw material, production, energy and logistics costs in all segments, the effects of which were not fully mitigated by improvements in selling prices and mix in all businesses and a beneficial FX impact for the packaging segments.
The main specific items, before income taxes, that impacted our second quarter 2022 OIBD and/or net earnings were:
- $4 million gain from the settlement of a supply agreement in Tissue Papers segment (OIBD and net earnings);
- $3 million foreign exchange loss on long-term debt and financial instruments (net earnings).
For the 3-month period ended June 30, 2022, the Corporation posted net earnings of $10 million, or $0.10 per common share, compared to net earnings of $3 million, or $0.02 per common share, in the same period of 2021. On an adjusted basis1, the Corporation generated net earnings of $10 million in the second quarter of 2022, or $0.10 per common share, compared to net earnings of $8 million, or $0.07 per common share, in the same period of 2021.
Dividend on common shares and normal course issuer bid
The Board of Directors of Cascades declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per common share to be paid on September 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 17, 2022. This dividend is an "eligible dividend" as per the Income Tax Act (R.C.S. (1985), Canada). During the second quarter of 2022, Cascades purchased no common shares for cancellation.
2022 Second Quarter Results Conference Call Details
Management will discuss the 2022 second quarter financial results during a conference call today at 12:00 p.m. EDT. The call can be accessed by dialing 1-888-390-0620 (international 1-416-764-8651). The conference call, including the investor presentation, will be broadcast live on the Cascades website (www.cascades.com) under the "Investors" section. A replay of the call will be available on the Cascades website and may also be accessed by phone until September 4, 2022 by dialing 1-888-390-0541 (international 1-416-764-8677), access code 567197.
Founded in 1964, Cascades offers sustainable, innovative and value-added packaging, hygiene and recovery solutions. The company employs approximately 10,000 women and men across a network of close to 80 facilities in North America. Driven by its participative management, half a century of experience in recycling, and continuous research and development efforts, Cascades continues to provide innovative products that customers have come to rely on, while contributing to the well-being of people, communities and the entire planet. Cascades' shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CAS. Certain statements in this release, including statements regarding future results and performance, are forward-looking statements based on current expectations. The accuracy of such statements is subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including, but not limited to, the effect of general economic conditions, decreases in demand for the Corporation's products, increases in raw material costs, fluctuations in selling prices and adverse changes in general market and industry conditions and other factors.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson says he isn't concerned about Houston starter Framber Valdez's unusual hand rubbing during Game 2 of the World Series, downplaying speculation on social media that the left-hander was up to something fishy during a dominant victory.
Videos circulating on the internet showed Valdez repeatedly rubbing his left thumb across his right palm, then rubbing the ball between pitches. Valdez pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning of the Astros' 5-2 victory, which evened the Series at a win each.
Thomson said Philadelphia's dugout noticed what Valdez was doing but had no concern that he was adding a foreign substance to the ball.
“Yeah, we did… it’s all over Twitter,” he said. “The umpires check these guys after almost every inning, and if there’s something going on, MLB will take care of it.”
Valdez found it amusing that people thought he was doctoring the ball.
“Nobody should think of it as anything like in the wrong way,” he said via translator. “I do it out in the open. But it’s all tendencies I do. I do it throughout the game. Maybe distract the hitter a little bit from what I’m doing. Like maybe look at me, rubbing different things, and nothing about the pitch that I’m going to throw. I’ve been doing it all season.”
Valdez allowed four hits and one run with nine strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings for his sixth postseason win. That ties Pedro Martinez for most playoff wins by a pitcher born in the Dominican Republic.
Suspicions over illegal grip aids peaked during the 2021 season, prompting Major League Baseball to crack down with in-game umpire checks.
During Game 3 of an NL wild-card series, New York Mets manager Buck Showalter asked umpires to inspect San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove for illegal goop. They checked the right-hander in several places, including by rubbing his unusually shiny ears, but found no evidence of anything illicit.
Valdez said the hand rubbing is just one of the unorthodox things he likes to do when he pitches. Midway through his outing Saturday, he changed his glove and his spikes — and it turns out — some other things, too.
“I normally have different spikes when I warm up and the ones that I go into the game,” he said. “Today I decided to start the game with the ones I warmed up in. I had a long inning there and I was like: ‘You know what, I’m going to change everything. I’m going to change my glove, my belt, my cleats.’ And those are just things that us Dominicans do, just some tendencies here and there ... but just things to stay loose."
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(The Hill) – John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, said he believes former President Trump is panicking after being arraigned on federal charges related to his handling of classified materials on Tuesday.
“He’s scared s—less,” Kelly told The Washington Post. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this.”
Trump pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Miami on Tuesday. After leaving the courthouse, Trump greeted supporters at a local restaurant and then returned to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to deliver remarks to a cheering crowd.
In his speech Tuesday evening, Trump unloaded on Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the 37-count indictment against the former president, calling Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “thug” and a “raging and uncontrolled Trump hater.”
“For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable,” Kelly told the Post. “Up until this point in his life, it’s like, ‘I’m not going to pay you. Take me to court.’ He’s never been held accountable before.”
Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019, has become increasingly critical of his former boss since leaving the administration, reportedly describing the former president as “the most flawed person” he’s ever known. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/trump-extremely-scared-by-federal-charges-ex-chief-of-staff-says/ | 2023-06-15 16:27:48 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/trump-extremely-scared-by-federal-charges-ex-chief-of-staff-says/ |
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other crimes 20 years ago before authorities caught up to him in Texas after a manhunt.
Scott James Eizember, 62, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m.
“I’m at peace,” Eizember said, strapped to a gurney with an intravenous line in his left arm. “My conscience is clear, completely. I love my children.”
Once the lethal drugs began to flow, Eizember, who had a close-cropped beard, could be seen chatting with his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeffrey Hood, who was inside the execution chamber with him. He lifted his head at one point and mouthed the words, “I love you,” toward his daughter and attorneys who were among 17 people seated in the witness room.
Eizember’s breathing became labored and he was declared unconscious at 10:07 a.m. He appeared to stop breathing at 10:10 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m.
Eizember’s attorneys did not deny he killed A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70, on Oct. 18, 2003. But they told the state’s Pardon and Parole Board last month that the killings were unplanned and spontaneous and his life still had value.
The board voted 3-2 to reject a clemency recommendation.
“He has felt remorse every day of his imprisonment. There is no reason to kill him next month other than revenge,” attorney Mark Henricksen told the board.
After the execution, several members of the Cantrell spoke of the pain the family has endured and voiced concern at the length of time it took for Eizember to be executed.
“After living this nightmare, I must say that 20 years is too long for justice to be served,” Johnny Melton, the slain couple’s nephew, said in a statement read on behalf of the family. “We want to get it right and we absolutely want to ensure that everyone’s rights are protected, but the process is much too slow.”
Melton also stressed the importance of addressing domestic violence and improving mental health treatment, in the state of Oklahoma and across the nation.
“I know this is going to be a controversial statement, but I believe it to be a fact. It is the abuser who needs help. They need it when they are young,” Melton said. “By the time the victim needs help, it’s too late.”
Prosecutors allege Eizember broke into the Cantrells’ home in Depew, Oklahoma, after he saw them leave so he could lie in wait for his ex-girlfriend, Kathryn Smith, who lived across the street. When the couple came home unexpectedly, prosecutors say Eizember shot and killed Patsy Cantrell with a shotgun he found inside the home and then bludgeoned A.J. Cantrell to death with the weapon.
Eizember was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for killing A.J. Cantrell and convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 150 years in prison for killing Patsy Cantrell. Eizember’s attorneys had argued that Patsy Cantrell was shot and killed while he and A.J. Cantrell struggled over the shotgun.
After killing the couple, Eizember walked across the street and entered Smith’s home, shot her son in the back and attacked her mother, prosecutors say. Both survived and authorities say Eizember ultimately sped out of town in a stolen vehicle.
Police believe Eizember hid out in wooded areas around the towns of Depew and Bristow for more than 30 days while law enforcement agencies launched a large manhunt to track him down.
“He wasn’t afraid to kill again,” Assistant Attorney General Tessa Henry told the pardon board.
Eizember eventually made his way to Arkansas in a stolen car and kidnapped a physician and his wife at gunpoint, prosecutors said. After driving with the couple to Texas, he finally was captured near the town of Lufkin after the physician pulled out a pistol stashed in the couple’s van and shot Eizember four times, authorities said.
A federal jury in Arkansas convicted Eizember in December 2005 on two counts of kidnapping and one count each of carjacking and using a firearm in a crime of violence. He was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in that case.
Eizember filed a last-minute lawsuit seeking to have his spiritual adviser with him inside the death chamber during his execution after the Department of Corrections rejected the minister because of Hood’s history of anti-death penalty activism, including arrests. The DOC reversed course on that decision Wednesday, citing concerns from the Cantrell family that the decision could lead to Thursday’s execution being called off.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that states must accommodate the wishes of death row inmates who want to have their pastors pray aloud and even touch them during their executions.
Oklahoma uses a three-drug lethal injection method starting with the sedative midazolam, rendering the person unconscious, followed by a paralytic vecuronium bromide and finally potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
Eizember’s execution was the eighth in Oklahoma since the state resumed executions in 2021.
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Mississippi State honors offensive lineman Sam Westmoreland, who died earlier this week
The Mississippi State football player died at 18 on Wednesday
Friday would have been Sam Westmoreland's 19th birthday.
Westmoreland died on Wednesday, two days before he turned 19 and three days before he was scheduled to suit up for Mississippi State against Alabama.
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The Bulldogs honored their fallen teammate an offensive lineman, with a decal on their helmet prior to Saturday's game.
The white decal has maroon lettering that reads "SW" with his "78" below his initials.
The University of Missouri also honored Westmoreland with a patch of their own,
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER SAM WESTMORELAND DEAD AT 18
The Oktibbeha County Sherrif's Office said they found Westmoreland dead upon arrival at Blackjack Missionary Baptist Church, which is four miles off Mississippi State’s campus, the Clarion Ledger reports. While an ongoing investigation is taking place, no foul play is suspected.
"One of the most profound lessons I’ve learned while leading this great university is that the tragic loss of one of our students diminishes all of our students — and all of us at Mississippi State feel the impact of Sam Westmoreland’s death," MSU President Mark E. Keenum said in a statement.
"My prayers are with Sam’s family and friends, with his MSU teammates and coaches and with the Tupelo community during this most difficult time."
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Through three quarters, Alabama led 24-0 on Saturday night.
Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mississippi-state-honors-offensive-lineman-sam-westmoreland-who-died-earlier-this-week | 2022-10-23 04:16:33 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mississippi-state-honors-offensive-lineman-sam-westmoreland-who-died-earlier-this-week |
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — The public collection of DNA samples to help law enforcement solve crimes and identify human remains was postponed Saturday following objections of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement that she postponed “DNA Drive Day” because of concerns raised by the local branch of the ACLU, as well as inclement weather.
It was billed as the first such event in Massachusetts in which people could voluntarily submit DNA samples to aid law enforcement investigators. DNA samples provided to genealogy databases already have helped law enforcement solve cold cases and resolve missing person cases.
Ryan said her office will work with the ACLU chapter to resolve any concerns. “We believe that the community will best be served by further conversation,” she said.
Saturday’s outdoor event at Newton City Hall would have allowed people to provide a sample to FamilyTree DNA. The DNA submissions would be uploaded free of charge to a pair of genealogy databases, FamilyTree DNA and GEDmatch, where the data could help investigators, officials said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/weird-news/collection-of-dna-samples-to-aid-police-postponed-over-aclu-objections/ | 2023-06-18 17:27:35 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/weird-news/collection-of-dna-samples-to-aid-police-postponed-over-aclu-objections/ |
Paul Nelson, who gets most everywhere by bicycle, began riding down St. Paul’s historic Summit Avenue to work even before in-street bike lanes were added to the tree-lined corridor in the early 1990s. They were thought at the time to be the first bike lanes in the state, the beginning of a quiet revolution that has picked up enough momentum as to leave the pioneering infrastructure outdated.
In Nelson’s view, the lanes he welcomed 30 years ago along Summit — home to the longest stretch of Victorian mansions in the nation — are yesterday’s news. It’s time, he figures, for one of St. Paul’s most celebrated residential streets to add an elevated 4.7-mile bike path on the same level as the sidewalk.
A badly needed, multi-segment road reconstruction in the foreseeable future would provide St. Paul Public Works and St. Paul Parks and Recreation just the opportunity, he said, as dozens of boulevard trees will have to come down either way.
“They need to rebuild the whole street,” said Nelson, following a recent community meeting on the hotly debated separated bike path. “The change of design is insignificant.”
Bob Cattanach has been biking Summit just as long, and he couldn’t disagree more.
Cattanach, a cybersecurity attorney, has played a visible role in a sizable coalition of Summit Avenue homeowners and likeminded allies opposed to the protected bike facility. The “Save Our Street” advocates have hired an arborist who predicts the tree impact will be several times more intense than what city planners have said.
“If it’s an ‘oops!’ and you’re wrong, you can’t go back and fix it,” said Cattanach, wearing his bike racing jersey to the recent city-driven community discussion at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church. “They’re putting themselves into a box by locking themselves into a bike trail. You can do a more surgical approach on the road reconstruction without leveling everything.”
Regional bike trail
The regional bike trail has been proposed by city officials as a missing east-west link of sorts between river trails along Mississippi River Boulevard and the downtown area, and an opportunity to elevate, quite literally, all-ages bicycle infrastructure that has lagged that of Minneapolis and other increasingly bike-friendly cities.
“We are building for the next 50, 60, 70, 80 years along Summit,” said St. Paul Public Works Director Sean Kershaw, during the House of Hope presentation. “We’re looking ahead to say what do future modes of transportation look like? The data, when you look at that, is all forms of bicycle transportation are increasing.”
The St. Paul Parks and Recreation Commission will host a public hearing on the plans at 6:30 p.m. April 13 at the Palace Community Center, 781 Palace Ave. Public comments are due to the parks commission by noon on that date.
On Wednesday, Cattanach filed a lawsuit against the city in Ramsey County District Court seeking an injunction to delay the April 13 hearing. The suit claims that the city has dragged its feet fulfilling his 10 requests for public data over the past eight months, which seek studies, text messages, emails and other communications from city employees around the bike trail proposal.
Officials with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s administration have said they’ve produced data that stretches back as far as 10 years, and they still plan to move forward with the upcoming public hearing, the first step toward city council approval.
Here’s a look at a few key questions raised to date:
What is the approval process?
The Parks and Recreation Commission will consider a recommendation around the bike trail on April 13. The St. Paul Planning Commission will then be asked to weigh in, with vetting led by its Transportation Committee. After that, the plan will return to the Parks and Recreation Commission for their final consideration and overarching recommendation to the St. Paul City Council.
The bike trail proposal would go before the city council for approval, likely in May, before being forwarded to the Metropolitan Council, the metro’s regional planning agency, for final adoption. From there, the bike trail and street reconstruction would move forward in three major construction phases as funding allows.
The staff of the St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission and State Historic Preservation Office have been providing the city guidance as to potential effects on the historic district, but the project will not formally go to the HPC and SHPO until there is funding, according to Parks and Rec officials.
The street has not been fully reconstructed in the past century.
Why does Parks and Rec favor a separated, elevated bike trail when in-street lanes already exist?
Parks officials said they looked at traffic volumes, industry standards, user experience and community engagement before deciding a separated trail would be the best way to grow the city’s bike network and connect to regional trails.
Those trails include the Sam Morgan Regional Trail, which follows Shepard/Warner Road along the east side of the Mississippi River from Crosby Farm Regional Park to Indian Mounds Regional Park.
Public Works officials have noted that Summit Avenue, which averages between 3,900 and 11,300 vehicles per day, hosts enough traffic volume to leave it out of step with industry best practices. State and federal guidelines recommend that bikes be separated from vehicular drive lanes by a physical barrier such as curbs or vegetation when traffic volumes exceed 6,500 daily vehicles, and they indicate a general preference for buffers at volumes above 3,000 daily vehicles.
Part of the city’s goal is to make the its bicycle network accessible to cyclists of different abilities and all ages, which is easier to do with a protected lane buffered by parked cars.
“We’re really trying to provide a design that can meet this wide range, from confident cyclists, all the way to interested (but) concerned,” said Mary Norton, a landscape architect with the city, during the House of Hope presentation.
Would a bike trail level with the sidewalk really be safer than in-street lanes?
A 2019 study out of the University of Colorado-Denver and the University of New Mexico examining 13 years of crash data in multiple cities found that protected bike lanes improved traffic safety for everyone — drivers, pedestrians and cyclists alike — by lowering traffic speeds.
Overall, there have been 32 bicyclist-involved crashes along Summit Avenue reported to the city from 2012 to 2021, with 90% involving injury, but officials have noted that many less-serious crashes go unreported. Drivers have hit and killed two cyclists near the intersection of Snelling and Summit avenues, most recently in 2018 and previously in 2008.
Members of the St. Paul Bicycle Coalition have said the existing in-street bike lanes on Summit Avenue pit them against drivers opening the doors of parked cars.
Critics have raised concern that the proposed bike trail will situate cyclists too close to driveways, and the speediest cyclists will still prefer to take to the street anyway.
Were other east-west corridors considered?
Public Works and Parks and Rec officials have indicated that Grand Avenue, Portland Avenue, Marshall Avenue, Selby Avenue, Ayd Mill Road and Jefferson Avenue had all been evaluated “at a high level” and found to be insufficient for varied reasons, such as road interruptions, narrow right-of-way conditions and the lack of parkway characteristics for recreation. Cattanach, in his lawsuit, demanded further evidence, including studies and communications backing up those claims.
The Save Our Street coalition has urged the city to prioritize other bike corridors, including Ayd Mill Road.
How much would a regional, off-street bike trail cost the city?
Trail elements on their own are estimated to cost around $12 million. The estimated cost of fully reconstructing Summit Avenue — which would be pursued in three major phases — is $100 million. The city’s preferred strategy is to build the trail at the same time as each phase of the street reconstruction, reducing incremental costs. There’s no locked-in funding source yet for a full street reconstruction, though the mayor has proposed tripling the city’s half-cent sales tax to pay for arterial road reconstructions throughout the city.
How many boulevard trees will be lost to bike trail construction, and would street reconstruction without the proposed bike trail result in less tree removal?
That’s a major point of contention with the Save Our Street coalition. Working with professional arborist Chad Giblin, the coalition has predicted the loss of 827 to 952 trees, including 96 corner trees. That’s four or five times larger than city estimates.
St. Paul Public Works officials have said reconstructing Summit Avenue exactly as-is could lead to the removal of 132 “high vulnerability” trees, or 8% of the 1,561 existing trees on the corridor. That’s because accessing, improving or replacing underground utilities such as sanitary sewers, storm laterals and drinking water service lines will lead to some inevitable tree loss.
Most of the proposed bike trail plan unfolds within the same curb limits as the street reconstruction. As a result, “a reconstruction within the curbs would have exactly the same impact as the (bike trail) proposal we’re talking about,” Kershaw said during the presentation at House of Hope.
As he spoke, audience members held up printed signs marked “Not True,” underscoring fears that bike trail construction will weaken or rip up far more root lines than street reconstruction alone.
In two construction segments, said Kershaw, the trail as currently envisioned on paper would move the curb lines 1.5 inches on each side. That increases the potential tree removal from 8% up to 14% of the corridor, for a total removal of 221 high vulnerability trees.
Some design changes under consideration could still reduce the width of the trail facility in those segments to preserve more trees. City officials have said they’ll get a better handle of actual impacts during street engineering. A copy of the city’s 90% draft plan is online at engagestpaul.org/summit. | https://www.twincities.com/2023/04/02/st-paul-summit-avenue-bike-trail-public-hearing-things-to-know/ | 2023-04-02 12:49:48 | 0 | https://www.twincities.com/2023/04/02/st-paul-summit-avenue-bike-trail-public-hearing-things-to-know/ |
MADRID (AP) — Initial forensic work was to begin Monday to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in wooden boxes underground in a mausoleum.
The team of some 15 forensic experts, archeologists, scientific police and odontologists will work on extracting samples of the remains at the Valle de Cuelgamuros mausoleum, formerly known as the Valle de los Caídos, or Valley of the Fallen, and try to match them with DNA of surviving relatives. A special laboratory has been set up within the mausoleum.
More than 30,000 Franco victims are buried without identification in the mausoleum. The 128 the experts are looking for are the ones whose families have so far asked for their bodies to be identified and returned. The experts do have some indications of where the boxes are that they are looking for.
The exhumations, if successful, will be the first for victims under Spain's historical memory laws that are aimed at making reparations to Franco's victims and changing the way the dictatorship is viewed in Spain.
“Finally, and perhaps too long overdue, Spanish democracy is providing an answer to these victims,” Government spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez said on Spanish National Television TVE.
The grandiose mausoleum — with a towering cross that is visible from kilometers (miles) away — was Franco’s burial place and has always been a revered shrine for his extreme right-wing followers. It was built with forced prison labor to commemorate the fascist victory in the civil war.
In 2019, the Socialist government ordered the removal of Franco's remains under an amended historical memory law that banned exaltation of the dictator at the site.
In April of this year, the body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement, was exhumed from the site and transferred to a Madrid cemetery.
The exhumation work is expected to take weeks, if not months. It will almost certainly not be finished before July 23 elections which could see the right-wing Popular Party, or PP, ousting the Socialist-led leftist coalition government.
The PP has long opposed the historical memory law and has said it will scrap it if elected.
Many of the Franco victims were initially buried in mass graves, which were dug up at Franco’s request. The bodies were moved to the mausoleum to fill the site with victims from both sides.
Last year, Spain revamped the historical memory legislation to nullify legal decisions made during the dictatorship. It makes the central government responsible for the recovery of the still-missing bodies of tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared by the regime.
There are an estimated 100,000 victims buried in unmarked graves or roadside ditches across the country.
Franco and other rebel officers led an uprising in 1936 that brought down Spain’s democratically elected government. The ensuing civil war ended in 1939 with hundreds of thousands dead and the country left in ruins.
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BEIRUT (AP) — The International Monetary Fund gave a grim assessment Thursday of Lebanon’s prospects for getting out of its deepening financial crisis, saying that without reforms, the country is headed for hyperinflation.
Since late 2019, tiny Lebanon has fallen into the worst economic crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class that has ruled the country since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Three-quarters of Lebanon’s population of over 6 million, including a million Syrian refugees, now lives in poverty and inflation is soaring.
Ernesto Ramirez Rigo, the head of the IMF mission visiting Lebanon, said at a news conference Thursday that continued inaction by Lebanese leaders would leave the nation in a “never-ending crisis” in which it could spiral into hyperinflation, “affecting the quality of life of many Lebanese for years to come.”
The IMF visit came as progress towards finalizing a sorely needed IMF bailout package for the struggling country has largely stalled.
Since reaching a preliminary agreement with the IMF nearly a year ago, Lebanese officials have made limited progress on reforms required to clinch the deal, which include restructuring the country’s debts and its ailing banking system, reforming its barely functioning public electricity system and making governance reforms.
The visit was part of the regular assessments the IMF conducts of all member countries and was not directly related to the negotiations for a bail-out. However, Rigo expressed frustration at the slow rate of progress on the reforms required to reach a deal.
He denied that the IMF is thinking of walking away from the deal altogether.
“There is no deadline, we never walk away from our country members,” Rigo said. However, he said, “One would have expected a lot more in terms of implementation."
Rigo noted that even the legislation that has been passed to enact reforms has in some cases fallen short. Amendments to the country’s banking secrecy law approved in October, intended to facilitate accountability in the financial sector, and a draft capital controls law do not meet the IMF’s requirements, Rigo said.
The preliminary deal reached last year would have provided a bailout of about $3 billion, but Rigo said that figure would have to be revisited as the country's economic situation has changed.
Lebanon's currency, officially valued at 15,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar, is trading at more than 100,000 for $1 on the black market, which is used for nearly all transactions.
The pound hit a new low on Tuesday, hitting 140,000 pounds to the dollar, before rebounding slightly. On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters, mainly retired soldiers, tried to break through a fence leading to the government headquarters and parliament building in downtown Beirut before security forces drove them back by firing teargas. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/imf-warns-without-reforms-lebanon-could-see-17855858.php | 2023-03-23 15:29:48 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/imf-warns-without-reforms-lebanon-could-see-17855858.php |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
03-10-11-15-17
(three, ten, eleven, fifteen, seventeen)
Estimated jackpot: $77,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
03-10-11-15-17
(three, ten, eleven, fifteen, seventeen)
Estimated jackpot: $77,000
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Darlene Noci, A.L.M. promoted to Chief Development Officer
Benjamin Lane, Ph.D. promoted to Senior Vice President, Technical Operations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for clinically proven kinase targets in cancer, today announced two leadership team promotions. Darlene Noci, A.L.M. has been promoted to Chief Development Officer and will continue to oversee all global Product Development and Regulatory Affairs activities. Benjamin Lane, Ph.D. has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Technical Operations and will continue to oversee all Pharmaceutical Development and Quality Assurance activities.
Ms. Noci joined Nuvalent in 2021 as Senior Vice President, Product Development and Regulatory Affairs, bringing over 20 years of experience as an accomplished product development leader specializing in global regulatory affairs and strategic oversight of early and late-stage programs in oncology and rare diseases. At Nuvalent, Ms. Noci has driven the parallel design and execution of global development and regulatory strategies for its two lead programs, NVL-520 and NVL-655, leading to the successful and expedient submission of two INDs and initiation of two ongoing Phase 1/2 studies all within one year. Prior to joining Nuvalent, Ms. Noci held various regulatory, quality assurance and global development team leadership positions with increasing responsibility at X4 Pharmaceuticals, EMD Serono, Infinity, Sanofi, and Genzyme. Throughout her career, Ms. Noci contributed to several successful drug approvals, including Fabrazyme®, Mozobil®, Clolar®, and Bavencio®. Ms. Noci received her Master's in Government from Harvard University.
Dr. Lane joined Nuvalent in 2020 as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development, bringing over 17 years of experience in process chemistry and the development of pre-clinical through commercial programs at both large and small biotech companies. At Nuvalent, Dr. Lane has built high-performing and integrated pharmaceutical development and quality assurance teams, which have seamlessly delivered clinical supply for two parallel lead programs while navigating the complexities of an evolving global supply-chain. Prior to joining Nuvalent, Dr. Lane has held various roles of increasing responsibility at Agios, Infinity, and Biogen and contributed to the development, scale up, and transition to commercial manufacturing of small molecule therapeutics in hematology, oncology, and neurology including Copiktra®, Tibsovo®, and Pyrukynd®. Dr. Lane earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and held a postdoctoral position at Columbia University.
"These promotions reflect the significant contributions made by Darlene and Ben in establishing Nuvalent as a clinical-stage company with strong expertise in the development of novel oncology therapies," said James Porter, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer at Nuvalent. "We are pleased to recognize their talent and dedication and look forward to their continued leadership in advancing our mission to discover, develop, and deliver a pipeline of precisely targeted therapies for patients with cancer."
About Nuvalent
Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for patients with cancer, designed to overcome the limitations of existing therapies for clinically proven kinase targets. Leveraging deep expertise in chemistry and structure-based drug design, we develop innovative small molecules that have the potential to overcome resistance, minimize adverse events, address brain metastases, and drive more durable responses. Nuvalent is advancing a robust pipeline with parallel lead programs in ROS1-positive and ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), along with multiple discovery-stage research programs. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.nuvalent.com. Follow us on Twitter (@nuvalent) and LinkedIn.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, without limitation, implied and express statements regarding Nuvalent's strategy, business plans, and focus; the clinical development programs for NVL-520 and NVL-655 and the timing thereof; the potential clinical effect of NVL-520 and NVL-655; the design and enrollment of the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies and the timing thereof; the potential of Nuvalent's pipeline programs, including NVL-520 and NVL-655; Nuvalent's research and development programs for the treatment of cancer; risks and uncertainties associated with drug development; and capital allocation. The words "may," "might," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "aim," "goal," "intend," "believe," "expect," "estimate," "seek," "predict," "future," "project," "potential," "continue," "target" or the negative of these terms and similar words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. You should not place undue reliance on these statements or the scientific data presented. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, including, without limitation: risks that Nuvalent may not fully enroll the ARROS-1 or ALKOVE-1 studies or that enrollment will take longer than expected; unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis, or results obtained during clinical trials; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs, delays, or other unexpected hurdles; risks that Nuvalent may not be able to nominate drug candidates from its HER2 Exon 20 and ALK IXDN programs; the direct or indirect impact of COVID-19 or other global geopolitical circumstances on the timing and anticipated timing and results of Nuvalent's clinical trials, strategy, and future operations, including the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies; the timing and outcome of Nuvalent's planned interactions with regulatory authorities; and obtaining, maintaining, and protecting its intellectual property. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in greater detail in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as any subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent Nuvalent's views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. Nuvalent explicitly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Fabrazyme® is a registered trademark of Genzyme Therapeutic Products Limited Partnership.
Mozobil® and Clolar® are registered trademarks of Genzyme Corporation.
Bavencio® is a registered trademark of Merck KGAA.
Copiktra® is a registered trademark of Secura Bio, Inc.
Tibsovo® is a registered trademark of Servier Pharmaceuticals, LLC.
Pyrukynd® is a registered trademark of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Ticket Editor: Sarasota’s best new restaurant is this downtown tropical bar
Start with the Instagrammable cocktails, but be sure not to overlook the food, which is among the most impressive I've tasted this year in Sarasota.
Sarasota and Manatee counties have witnessed a multitude of exciting restaurant openings as we approach the midpoint of 2023. Among them, my personal favorite is a tropical bar by the same people behind one of the 10 best restaurants in downtown Sarasota.
Opened in April, Bar Hana is the sister business of Kojo, offering an upscale drinking and dining experience unlike anything else in the area. Start with their Instagrammable cocktails, served in a delightful collection of fun and vintage tiki glassware, but be sure not to overlook the food. Bar Hana's menu features some of the most creative and satisfying dishes I've tasted this year — dishes that may only be rivaled by the offerings of their other sister business, Palm Avenue Deli, when it opens next door.
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Bar Hana by Kojo in downtown Sarasota offers a tropical setting that's perfect for drinking and dining
Hidden behind a nondescript exterior on Palm Avenue, Bar Hana offers immediate escapism. Plants dangle spectacularly from the ceiling, handsome tiki masks hang behind the bar, and there's a dimly lit lounge area, along with a dining room of posh wood tables and matching chairs that appear plucked from a high-end furniture store in the mid-1960s.
To further enhance the nostalgic mood, a lone television screen shows black and white footage of surfers catching amazing waves in the Pacific Ocean, while the house speakers play sunny, timeless tunes by the likes of the Beach Boys, Dick Dale and a host of Motown stars. Venture to the spotless bathrooms, and you're met with vintage advertisements by mid-century travel ads offering tropical getaways to places like the Polynesian, Caribbean, and, yes, Florida.
Bar Hana definitely owes a debt to pioneering California tiki bars of the early and mid-20th century, such as Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's, while crafting its own unique identity, soaked in the Sunshine State but with a pan-Asian foundation akin to sister restaurant, Kojo. For instance, you won't find a tiki bar staple like the mai tai on Bar Hana's drink menu, but you will discover the Miami Vice (strawberry daiquiri + pina colada, $14).
For those craving the key mai tai ingredients like rum, Curacao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, you will be pleased to try the Blue Hawaii (light and gold rum, vanilla, Blue Curacao, sake, pineapple, lime; $16). You can also opt for the similarly flavored Hip Hop Anonymous made with Jamaican rum, orgeat, Curacao, and lime. Elevated takes on classics like the margarita ($16) and pina colada ($14) are also on the menu, along with enticing originals such as the Siesta Key Swizzle made with pineapple and spiced rum, lime, honey, and bitters ($16).
Of course, if you simply must have a mai tai or perhaps a zombie, I'm sure any of the gifted bartenders, who double as servers when not practicing mixology, will be happy to concoct one for you.
Not in the mood for a mixed drink? Bar Hana also offers wine by the glass and bottles, as well as a concise beer list that includes one of my personal favorite local creations, Motorworks' V Twin lager ($7 for a 12-ounce can), and international classics like Kirin Light ($7 for a 12-ounce bottle), but no domestic macro brews. Once you've made your drink choice, proceed to the food section of the menu, which, although relatively small, is incredibly enticing.
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Bar Hana in downtown Sarasota for excellent food, from ceviche and wings to bao buns and ribs
The food menu is smartly succinct, basically broken down into "cold" and "hot" dishes, which can be enjoyed daily from 11 a.m. until late in the evening. During a recent afternoon visit, with Bar Hana acting as an ideal oasis from the Florida heat, I found myself instantly at ease with a delightful serving of "coconut habanero ceviche" ($24). Local snapper chunks and pieces of fresh avocado are served with a deftly rendered version of the classic sweet-heat Peruvian marinade "tiger's milk" and presented in a newly halved coconut on a bed of ice with a side of plantain and taro chips.
Bar Hana's rendition of the ubiquitous tuna tartare ($24) was equally impressive, owing to the freshness of the fish and avocado immersed in a delightful truffled ginger ponzu dressing. It was garnished with an orange heap of yuzu tobiko fish roe, green onions, and thinly sliced radishes, and served alongside wonton chips, creating an eye-catching presentation. Moreover, for those who relish the experience of savoring every bite of the tuna and avocado atop a crispy wonton chip, I discovered that the server is more than willing to provide additional servings of these irresistible chips.
The cold section of the menu, which also includes a citrus salad and chilled sesame noodles, is a fine place for snacking, but the dozen or so hot dishes is where you will want to feast. Now, my love for quality chicken wings is perhaps unparalleled in the greater Sarasota-Manatee region, and there are few, if any, that match the level of taste and texture found in Bar Hana's "crispy lava wings" ($14). Each bite offers a delightful crunch with a sweet and spicy pineapple-habanero glaze, complemented by fried garlic, before revealing the juicy, tender morsel of meat inside. If you're in the mood for another crispy treat, the "crispy salt + pepper shrimp" ($19) were also outstanding, featuring large, plump crustaceans encased in a crunchy coating with an unstoppable caramelized chile-garlic seasoning and garnished with cilantro.
Bar Hana's Asian influences shine through in dishes such as the Japanese-style garlic mazemen noodles (sambal butter, furikake, scallion, crispy nori; $14) and the Chinese-style bao, where the soft bun is filled with a tender cut of roasted duck ($19) accompanied by a house hoisin glaze, fruit chutney, cilantro, and shredded vegetable slaw for added texture. The pan-fried wagyu and shiitake dumplings ($19), along with the fall-off-the-bone glazed pork ribs topped with Thai basil, crispy shallots, lime, and green onions ($21), should also be on your shortlist of must-try dishes at Bar Hana, especially for satisfying your carnivorous cravings.
Or, if you prefer, you can feed your carnivorous habit with the Big Island burger ($22). It features a medium-sized juicy beef patty topped with a grilled pineapple-caramelized onion relish, teriyaki mayo, and white American cheese. All of these inspired ingredients are nestled inside a perfectly soft and slightly sweet bun reminiscent of a Hawaiian roll, resulting in a winning flavor combination that sets it apart from the other best burgers in Sarasota-Manatee.
"Ono" is a Hawaiian term that means "delicious," and Bar Han's "ono fried chicken sammy" ($19) surely lives up to its name. The crispy exterior, moist interior chicken bursts with flavor courtesy of a spicy gochujang-honey sauce augmented by green cabbage slaw, nori ranch and cucumber kimchi pickles. Like the burger, Bar Han's fried chicken option is among the best in town.
I've adored Kojo since it opened in 2022 and I might even love Bar Hana more. The menus are similar, but there is an added playfulness to Bar Hana's cuisine that, for me at least, is more appealing. Additionally, the unique tropical setting of Bar Hana is simply unbeatable.
Finally, I can't end this column without providing an update on Palm Avenue Deli, the latest venture by Chef Natalia Levey and her local Hi Hospitality Group, which also owns Kojo, Bar Hana, and the Speaks Clam Bars on St. Armands Circle and in Lakewood Ranch. After enjoying a meal at Bar Hana with my wife, Kristin, we decided to take a look inside the deli located right next door, where we found Natalia and her husband, Mark Levey, hard at work.
Palm Avenue Deli is expected to open by the end of June, initially serving breakfast. The Leveys have plans to eventually operate the deli 24 hours a day. I could write an entire column about the exciting tour of the deli that the Leveys kindly provided us, but that will have to wait. In the meantime, make sure to visit Bar Hana for lunch, dinner, or brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Personally, I'm already looking forward to returning to Bar Hana and trying their brunch dishes before indulging in the New York-style Jewish deli offerings that will soon be available next door.
Bar Hana is at 1289 N. Palm Ave., Sarasota. For more information or to make a reservation, call 941-536-9717 or visit barhana.com.
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Wade Tatangelo is Ticket Editor for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and Florida Regional Dining and Entertainment Editor for the USA TODAY Network. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. He can be reached by email at wade.tatangelo@heraldtribune.com. Support local journalism by subscribing. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/entertainment/dining/2023/06/16/best-new-restaurant-in-sarasota-is-bar-hana-by-kojo-downtown/70321555007/ | 2023-06-16 15:07:37 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/entertainment/dining/2023/06/16/best-new-restaurant-in-sarasota-is-bar-hana-by-kojo-downtown/70321555007/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Nucor Corp. (NUE) on Thursday reported earnings of $1.14 billion in its first quarter.
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said it had net income of $4.45 per share.
The steel company posted revenue of $8.71 billion in the period.
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Police: 6 California killings may be work of serial killer
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California — all potentially at the hands of a serial killer — in crimes going back more than a year, police said.
Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed and shot to death alone in the dark. Late Monday, police said two additional cases last year — a man’s death in Oakland and the non-fatal shooting of a woman in Stockton — had been tied to those killings.
“It definitely meets the definition of a serial killer,” said Stockton Police Officer Joseph Silva. “What makes this different is the shooter is just looking for an opportunity, and unfortunately our victims were alone in a dark area.”
Police would not say whether all seven shootings had been linked to the same gun.
In the fatal Stockton cases, none of the men was robbed or beaten before the killings — which all took place within a radius of a few square miles between July 8 and Sept. 27 — and none appeared to have known each other, Silva said. The shootings also do not seem to be related to gangs or drugs.
The other Stockton crime — in which a 46-year-old woman was shot but survived her injuries — occurred April 16, 2021, around 3:20 a.m., police said. The woman was also alone at the time.
The shooting death of a 40-year-old man in Oakland has also been connected to the violence in Stockton, police said. The man was shot to death around 4:15 a.m. on April 10, 2021. It was not immediately clear whether the man was also unaccompanied when he was killed.
The city of Stockton, Stockton Crime Stoppers and a local construction company owner offered a total of $95,000 for information leading to an arrest in the slayings.
Police released a grainy still image of a “person of interest,” dressed all in black and wearing a black cap, who appeared in videos from several of the homicide crime scenes in Stockton.
The San Joaquin County’s Office of the Medical Examiner identified the Stockton victims on Monday as Paul Yaw, 35, who was killed on July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, who died on Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, who died on Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, who was killed on Sept. 21 and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54.
Lopez was shot shortly before 2 a.m. on Sept. 27 in a residential area just north of downtown.
He “was just a person who was out here at the wrong place, at the wrong time, at the wrong circumstance,” his brother, Jerry Lopez, told KXTV-TV. “It’s hard to process that this has happened.”
There may even be multiple people involved in the violence.
“To be honest, we just don’t know,” Silva said. “This person or people who are out doing this, they are definitely very bold and brazen.”
Police said four of the Stockton homicide victims were walking alone and a fifth was in a parked car when they were killed in the evening or early morning in the city of 320,000 residents, located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the state capital, Sacramento.
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Josiah Brown: Toddler pushed off Navy Pier into Lake Michigan dies from injuries
CHICAGO - Josiah Brown, the 3-year-old boy who was pushed off Navy Pier in Chicago by his aunt on Monday, has died from his injuries, according to Cook County Medical Examiner records.
The examiner's online record of deaths showed on Sunday night that a 3-year-old boy from Des Plaines who was injured on Sept. 19 at Navy Pier died on Sunday morning.
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Officials say the boy had to be retrieved from the bottom of the lake by CFD after a 6.5 foot drop off the pier.
He was rushed to a Lurie Children's Hospital where he was in critical condition all week. Prosecutors said he had a swollen brain, bleeding in lungs, seizures, and needed a heart infusion because his heart was depressed.
Victoria Moreno, 34, was charged with attempted murder and bail was denied at her bond hearing on Wednesday. Officials said she may face greater charges in the wake of the boy's death.
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On the day of the incident, the victim's mother left the boy at his grandmother's house where Moreno also lives.
Moreno stole the family's car and drove the boy into the city from Des Plaines. The defendant is not allowed to drive due to the medications she's on.
She has a history of mental illness and has taken her nieces without permission before.
Victoria Moreno | Chicago police
Prosecutors say Moreno waited until no one at the pier was looking and pushed the boy into the water, then watched him drown.
The child vomited twice and sank before witnesses could throw in a floatation device. The defendant did nothing to help, according to surveillance video and witnesses.
Moreno also claimed she didn't know the boy when first questioned by police.
She also stated that she let go of the boy's shirt because he was "acting up" and then he fell in.
She will appear in court again on Sept. 30.
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Company Reaffirms Financial Outlook for Full Year 2022
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) today announced that its Board of Directors has named Donald Allan, Jr., currently President and Chief Financial Officer, the Company's next Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2022. Mr. Allan will succeed James M. Loree, who has served as CEO since 2016. Upon assuming his new role, Mr. Allan will join the Board of Directors and retain his title as President. Also, as part of today's announcement, the Company has appointed Corbin Walburger to serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective July 1, 2022.
Andrea J. Ayers, Chair of the Board of Directors, said, "Don Allan's appointment reflects the Board's succession planning, and in naming him as our next CEO, we have chosen a world-class executive with exceptional experience and leadership skills. Since arriving at the Company in 1999, Don has been instrumental in driving the Company's growth and transformation strategy. He is well respected throughout the organization as well as among our valued customers and the investment community. He is ideally suited to lead Stanley Black & Decker through its next stage of growth, and we expect a very smooth transition of leadership."
Ms. Ayers added, "The Board greatly appreciates Jim Loree's leadership during his tenure at the Company. His contributions to the strategic repositioning of the business, and his strong dedication to the Company's key stakeholders, will be hallmarks of his legacy. Notably, he led the Company through a period of significant growth, increasing annual revenues from continuing operations from $11 billion in 2016 to over $19 billion expected in 2022. We are grateful to Jim for building the foundation for the Company's next period of growth and value creation."
Mr. Allan is a seasoned leader and 23-year veteran of Stanley Black & Decker who has played a key role in the Company's evolution to become the world's leading tool company. During his time as President and CFO, he has focused on driving strategic, long-term profitable growth and has overseen the execution and advancement of the Company's operating model. Mr. Allan has shared responsibility for Global Operations and Supply Chain, and has overseen the Stanley Security business, the Outdoor Products Group and Asia Tools & Storage. He has also led Finance, Information Technology, Margin Resiliency, Industry 4.0 and Advanced Analytics.
Mr. Walburger has been with Stanley Black & Decker for 14 years and currently serves as Vice President of Corporate Business Development with global leadership responsibility for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as the Company's corporate venture initiative. He joined the Company in 2008 following ten years at Goldman, Sachs & Company.
The Company has engaged Heidrick & Struggles to assist with the search for a permanent CFO.
Mr. Loree said, "It has been an enormous privilege to serve as CEO of this iconic company. I am exceptionally proud of all we have been able to accomplish during my career at Stanley Black & Decker, particularly over the past six years as CEO, and I am confident that the Company has a bright future ahead. I've worked closely with Don Allan for the past 23 years, and I am pleased to pass the baton to a leader of his extraordinary caliber."
Mr. Allan said, "I am honored to be named CEO and appreciate the Board's trust and support. I look forward to working with our 60,000 outstanding employees, as we navigate through the challenges of the current market environment and execute on our strategy to deliver value to our customers and shareholders. I am very pleased that Corbin Walburger has agreed to serve as our Interim CFO. He brings impressive experience and expertise to his new role.
"Looking ahead, with our recent portfolio actions, Stanley Black & Decker is a more focused and streamlined company, with leading franchises that serve the construction, outdoor, and industrial markets. Our strong leadership team is committed to capitalizing on our organic growth catalysts, enhancing operational execution through price realization and cost prioritization, transforming the supply chain, and successfully completing our outdoor integrations and security divestitures."
To further support Stanley Black & Decker's organic growth imperatives, the Company plans to rebalance $200-$250 million of current annualized investments to fund incremental commercial, engineering, and supply chain resources to further accelerate supply chain productivity. It expects this plan to generate approximately $1 billion of value within the next five years in addition to supporting the organic growth imperatives in the Tools and Outdoor businesses over the next three years. These initiatives will help drive the Company's near-term priorities and deliver significant free cash flow, which along with the completion of our previously announced $4 billion return of capital program in 2023, will support a multi-year period of organic growth, margin expansion and long-term shareholder value creation.
Company Reaffirms Financial Outlook for Full Year 2022
The Company is reaffirming its 2022 outlook, which it provided on April 28, 2022. Specifically, for the full year 2022, the Company anticipates diluted EPS of $7.20 to $8.30 on a GAAP basis and $9.50 to $10.50 on a non-GAAP adjusted basis. Free cash flow is expected to be approximately $1.0 billion to $1.5 billion.
About Stanley Black & Decker
Headquartered in the USA, Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) is the world's largest tool company operating nearly 50 manufacturing facilities across America and more than 100 worldwide. Guided by its purpose – for those who make the world – the company's more than 60,000 diverse and high-performing employees produce innovative, award-winning power tools, hand tools, storage, digital tool solutions, lifestyle products, outdoor products, engineered fasteners and other industrial equipment to support the world's makers, creators, tradespeople and builders. The company's iconic brands include DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, HUSTLER® and TROY-BILT®. Recognized for its leadership in environmental, social and governance (ESG), Stanley Black & Decker strives to be a force for good in support of its communities, employees, customers and other stakeholders. To learn more visit: www.stanleyblackanddecker.com.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Diluted EPS, excluding charges, or adjusted EPS, is diluted GAAP EPS excluding the impacts of acquisition-related and other charges. Free cash flow is defined as cash flow from operations less capital and software expenditures. Management considers free cash flow an important indicator of its liquidity, as well as its ability to fund future growth and to provide a return to the shareowners, and is useful information for investors. Free cash flow does not include deductions for mandatory debt service, other borrowing activity, discretionary dividends on the Company's common and preferred stock and business acquisitions, among other items. Free cash flow conversion is defined as free cash flow divided by net income. The Company considers the use of the Non-GAAP financial measures above relevant to aid analysis and understanding of the Company's results, business trends and outlook measures aside from the material impact of acquisition-related and other charges and ensures appropriate comparability to operating results of prior periods. The difference between 2022 GAAP and adjusted EPS guidance is $2.20 to $2.30, consisting of acquisition-related and other charges. These forecasted charges primarily relate to restructuring expenses, a voluntary retirement program, the Russia business closure, integration costs and non-cash inventory step-up charges.
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Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in any of its forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those projected or assumed in any of its forward-looking statements. The Company's future financial condition and results of operations, as well as any forward-looking statements, are subject to change and to inherent risks and uncertainties, such as those disclosed or incorporated by reference in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievements, or industry results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in its forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: (i) successfully developing, marketing and achieving sales from new products and services and the continued acceptance of current products and services; (ii) macroeconomic factors, including global and regional business conditions (such as Brexit), commodity prices, inflation and deflation, and currency exchange rates; (iii) laws, regulations and governmental policies affecting the Company's activities in the countries where it does business, including those related to tariffs, taxation, data privacy, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, government contracts and trade controls such as section 301 tariffs and section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs; (iv) the economic, political, cultural and legal environment of emerging markets, particularly Latin America, Russia, China and Turkey; (v) realizing the anticipated benefits of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances or divestitures; (vi) pricing pressure and other changes within competitive markets; (vii) availability and price of raw materials, component parts, freight, energy, labor and sourced finished goods; (viii) the impact the tightened credit markets and change to LIBOR and other benchmark rates may have on the Company or its customers or suppliers; (ix) the extent to which the Company has to write off accounts receivable or assets or experiences supply chain disruptions in connection with bankruptcy filings by customers or suppliers; (x) the Company's ability to identify and effectively execute productivity and operational improvements, cost reductions and price realization; (xi) potential business and distribution disruptions, including those related to physical security threats, information technology or cyber-attacks, epidemics, pandemics, sanctions, political unrest, war, terrorism or natural disasters; (xii) the continued consolidation of customers, particularly in consumer channels and the Company's continued reliance on significant customers; (xiii) managing franchisee relationships; (xiv) the impact of poor weather conditions and climate change; (xv) maintaining or improving production rates in the Company's manufacturing facilities, responding to significant changes in customer preferences, product demand and fulfilling demand for new and existing products, and learning, adapting and integrating new technologies into products, services and processes; (xvi) changes in the competitive landscape in the Company's markets; (xvii) the Company's non-U.S. operations, including sales to non-U.S. customers; (xviii) the impact from demand changes within world-wide markets associated with homebuilding and remodeling; (xix) potential adverse developments in new or pending litigation and/or government investigations; (xx) the incurrence of debt and changes in the Company's ability to obtain debt on commercially reasonable terms and at competitive rates; (xxi) substantial pension and other postretirement benefit obligations; (xxii) potential regulatory liabilities, including environmental, privacy, data breach, workers compensation and product liabilities; (xxiii) attracting and retaining key employees, managing leadership succession, supervision of a workforce in many jurisdictions, work stoppages or other labor disruptions; (xxiv) the Company's ability to keep abreast with the pace of technological change; (xxv) changes in accounting estimates; (xxvi) the Company's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and associated reputational impacts; (xxvii) the continued adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and an indeterminate recovery period; (xxviii) the possibility that the Company does not achieve the intended financial benefits from the acquisition of MTD and Excel; (xxix) the failure to consummate, or a delay in the consummation of, the Security or Access Technology sale transactions for various reasons (including but not limited to failure to receive, or delay in receiving, required regulatory approvals and meet customary closing conditions); (xxx) the failure to undertake or complete, or a delay in the timing of, the share repurchase program; (xxxi) failure to realize the expected benefits of the Company's capital allocation strategy and share repurchase program; and (xxxii) successful and effective rebalancing of $200-$250 million of investments to: fund commercial, engineering and supply chain resources; support organic growth imperatives in the Tool and Outdoor businesses; and achieve the expected $1 billion in value creation, within the expected time frames.
Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements are set forth in the Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including under the heading "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and in the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related Notes. Forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and forward-looking statements in documents attached that are incorporated by reference speak only as of the date of those documents. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or release any revisions to any forward-looking statement or to report any events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
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The U.S. National Park Service urged the public not to lick Colorado river toads in a Facebook post. The toad has skin that contains toxic organic substances.
These toxins have been known to paralyze or kill dogs. Officials say these toxins can also harm humans.
"These toads have prominent parotoid glands that secrete a potent toxin," the National Park Service said. "It can make you sick if you handle the frog or get the poison in your mouth. As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking."
They are among the largest toads in North America, measuring nearly 7 inches.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Lakers vs. Nuggets Western Conference Finals Game 4 on May 22, 2023
Player prop betting options for Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic and others are available in the Los Angeles Lakers-Denver Nuggets matchup at Crypto.com Arena on Monday (starting at 8:30 PM ET).
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Lakers vs. Nuggets Game Info
- Date: Monday, May 22, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Los Angeles, California
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NBA Props Today: Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis Props
- The 25.9 points Davis has scored per game this season is 0.6 fewer than his prop bet over/under set for Monday (26.5).
- Davis has pulled down 12.5 rebounds per game, 1.0 less than his prop bet in Monday's game (13.5).
- Davis' year-long assist average -- 2.6 per game -- is 0.1 higher than Monday's assist prop bet value (2.5).
- Davis has averaged 0.3 made three-pointers per game, 0.2 less than his over/under in Monday's game (0.5).
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LeBron James Props
- The 24.5-point total set for LeBron James on Monday is 4.4 less than his season scoring average.
- He averages 1.2 fewer rebounds than his prop bet Monday of 9.5.
- James has collected 6.8 assists per game, 1.7 less than his prop bet on Monday (8.5).
- He makes 2.2 three-pointers per game, 0.7 more than his over/under on Monday (1.5).
D'Angelo Russell Props
- The 10.5-point over/under set for D'Angelo Russell on Monday is 7.3 lower than his scoring average of 17.8.
- Russell averages 0.5 more rebounds than his over/under on Monday (which is 2.5).
- Russell's 2.7 three-pointers made per game is 1.2 more than his over/under on Monday.
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NBA Props Today: Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic Props
- Monday's prop bet for Jokic is 26.5 points, 2.0 more than his season average.
- Jokic's rebounding average -- 11.8 -- is 1.7 lower than his over/under on Monday.
- Jokic averages 9.8 assists, 0.3 more than Monday's over/under.
- Jokic, at 0.8 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.7 less than his over/under on Monday.
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Jamal Murray Props
- The 20 points Jamal Murray has scored per game this season is 6.5 fewer than his prop total set for Monday (26.5).
- Murray has averaged 3.9 rebounds per game, 1.6 less than his prop bet in Monday's game (5.5).
- Murray has averaged 6.2 assists per game, 0.7 more than Monday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Murray has connected on 2.6 three-pointers per game, 0.9 less than his over/under in Monday's game (3.5).
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New integration gives LinkedIn customers even more options and flexibility to more accurately reach RollWorks-created, account-based audiences on LinkedIn
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Account-based marketing platform RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, today announced the launch of RollWorks Audience Syncing for LinkedIn, a new integration with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions that allows customers to push RollWorks-created Account Lists into LinkedIn ad accounts. With this new feature, organizations of any size can leverage RollWorks' proprietary segmentation capabilities to identify high ROI accounts and ensure their ads are delivered to extremely targeted and relevant audiences on LinkedIn.
With this news, RollWorks builds upon its current integration for LinkedIn that allows customers to run their single image Sponsored Content ads through the RollWorks platform via their RollWorks account. The new integration allows customers to connect their own LinkedIn Campaign Managers account, which provides the flexibility to push RollWorks-created Audience Lists to their LinkedIn Campaign Manager account and leverage all LinkedIn ad formats and targeting capabilities.
"RollWorks focuses on the most relevant, high-quality prospects, and gives organizations a simple way to engage those targets," said Mike Stocker, SVP of Partnerships at RollWorks. "Audience Syncing is a powerful new integration that strengthens our ongoing collaboration with LinkedIn and gives our customers more flexibility to use RollWorks and LinkedIn together in the way that works best for them."
- Get even more targeted with LinkedIn audiences using RollWorks' segmentation capabilities: a huge value-add to account-based marketers using both platforms RollWorks segmentation creates hyper-specific targeting using specific attributes like intent, engagement, and G2 searches. Customers can then layer on native LinkedIn facets like Job Title, Member Skills, and Company Growth Rate.
- Use all available LinkedIn ads: building off of the current RollWorks integration with LinkedIn Ads, which offers single image sponsored content ads, customers can now use all LinkedIn ads, such as Video, Event, Lead Gen Forms, Conversation Ads.
- Connect multiple LinkedIn Campaign Manager accounts to RollWorks
Learn more about how to easily sync your RollWorks Audiences to your LinkedIn ad accounts.
If you're at HubSpot INBOUND® 22 in Boston this week, stop by the ABM For Small Teams session with Randi Barshack, CMO of RollWorks, and Kaitlin Bellay, Head of Partner Marketing at LinkedIn, today, Thursday, September 8, at 2:20 pm ET in the LinkedIn Lounge. And check out the complete list of RollWorks events at HubSpot INBOUND activities here.
RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, offers ambitious B2B companies an account-based platform to align their marketing and sales teams and confidently grow revenue. Powered by proprietary data and machine learning, RollWorks' solutions address the needs of organizations large and small — from those with best-in-class ABM programs to those just beginning their exploration. By empowering teams to identify their target accounts and key buyers, reach those accounts across multiple channels, and measure program effectiveness in their system-of-record, RollWorks is an indispensable platform for marketers and sellers who believe that an account-based approach is just good business. To learn more visit www.rollworks.com.
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CONWAY, Ark. (KARK) – It looks like a Grinch is attempting to steal Christmas in Conway, Arkansas.
The lights on Marilyn Moix’s home have been cut clean through the power cords twice in one week, she told Nexstar’s KARK. Her son, Justin Hoadley said they were targeted last year, too.
“This is our second time this year so far. It happened twice last year,” Hoadley said. “We’re going to keep fighting for Christmas joy because that’s what we do at our house.”
Hoadley questioned why someone would target his mom’s house of all places, as it is only six blocks from the police station.
The family hasn’t filed a police report, but they have asked authorities to be watchful on their patrols by the busy street corner.
“In the evening hours, that’s when it seems to happen. Right around dusk,” Moix said.
Some have suggested a game camera be used to catch who’s doing it, but it’s such a busy street that Moix said she doesn’t think it would work for her problem. Hoadley said he’d rather not install a camera, but he is prepared to keep replacing these lights all throughout the holidays if he has to.
“I love Christmas. We believe in the spirit of people, the spirit of the season, and the joy that lights and decorations can bring to not only our family, but to people as they pass by our home,” Moix said. “If the person sees this who’s doing this, can you just be happy with the season of Christmas and let the lights be the lights?”
The pair don’t want the culprit to spend the holidays in jail, they said. Hoadley has a different punishment in mind: “I just hope maybe they get a lump of coal in their stocking.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/grinch-repeatedly-cuts-christmas-lights-on-womans-home-she-says/ | 2022-12-11 21:57:10 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/grinch-repeatedly-cuts-christmas-lights-on-womans-home-she-says/ |
Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is drawn from events that came to light in a Bolivian Mennonite colony in 2009, when a group of men was charged with raping more than 100 girls and women in their community. For a long time, community leaders attributed these mysterious attacks to the work of evil spirits. Both the novel and now Sarah Polley's superbly acted movie adaptation scrupulously avoid showing the attacks themselves. They're less interested in dwelling on the horror of what the men have done than in asking what the women will do in response.
As the movie opens, the accused men have been jailed in a nearby town, and the other men in the community — complicit in spirit, if not in action — have gone to bail them out, leaving the women behind. The movie makes no mention of setting, as if to suggest that this story, filmed with English-speaking actors, could be taking place anywhere. So there's a sense of abstraction built in from the outset, something that Polley emphasizes by shooting in a nearly monochrome palette: not quite black-and-white, not quite sepia toned. Most of the movie takes place in the hayloft of a barn where eight women have gathered. They've been chosen to decide what course of action they and the other women in the colony will take.
Some of the women — like those played by Jessie Buckley and a briefly seen Frances McDormand — believe they should ultimately forgive the men, in keeping with their strict Christian values. Others, like those played by Claire Foy and Michelle McLeod, insist on fighting their attackers, to the death if necessary. Sheila McCarthy and Judith Ivey are especially good as the group's elders, who try to keep the peace as the arguments become more and more heated.
Women Talking might feel stagy at times, but it never feels static. The discussions here are mesmerizing, especially because Polley has shot and edited them to feel as dynamic and propulsive as possible. At times I wanted the movie to be even talkier: While the book's dialogue has been understandably truncated, sometimes the conversations feel a little too engineered for rhetorical flow. But none of that diminishes the gravity of the drama or the impact of the performances, especially from Rooney Mara as Ona, who emerges as the most thoughtful member of the group. Ona, who is pregnant from a rape, could easily have been focused on revenge. But instead, she proposes a radical third option: What if the women leave the colony and the men behind, and they begin a new life somewhere else?
As it unfolds, the movie etches a portrait of women who, even apart from the assaults, have only ever known lives of oppression. None of them was ever taught to read or write, so the task of taking the minutes of their meeting falls to a sympathetic schoolteacher named August — the movie's only significant male character, sensitively played by Ben Whishaw.
August is in love with Ona and wants to look after her and her unborn child, but she gently refuses: Whatever the women are going to do, they have to do it together and on their own. As the idea of leaving gains momentum, the debate keeps intensifying: How will they survive in the outside world? Should they bring their young sons with them? Will their departure keep them from fulfilling their duty to forgive the men — or is it only by leaving that they can even consider forgiveness?
There's obvious contemporary resonance to a story about holding male abusers accountable, though it would be reductive to describe Women Talking as a Mennonite #MeToo drama, as some have. What distinguishes this survival story from so many others is that, even as it acknowledges the abusive, patriarchal power structure in this religious colony, it still takes seriously the question of spiritual belief: It's the women's faith in God that ultimately empowers them to imagine a better, fairer way of life.
You may disagree with that conclusion, and I suspect that on some level, Polley wants you to. Women Talking comes to a deeply moving resolution, but it also knows that the conversation is just getting started.
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Were turkey and cranberry sauce on the table at the first Thanksgiving? There's plenty of supposition, but food historian Pamela Cooley says there's no official record that the pilgrims and Native Americans ate turkey and cranberries at that 1621 feast. No official record in the day's diaries, or newspapers, or Martha Stewart Livings.
It wasn't until 1796, when the first American cookbook was published that turkey and cranberries were linked in print. The book was called — (ready for it?!) — American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables: and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves: and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life.
(You can page through the whole thing here.) The 18th century author Amelia Simmons said to serve turkey with cranberry sauce, but didn't give a recipe for it.
NPR remedies that oversight every year, by graciously permitting me to share Mama Stamberg's with our audience. For one thing, it's not a sauce at all — this Thanksgiving recipe I've offered NPR audiences for decades. It's a relish. Mama Stamberg's Cranberry relish.
And so, for 2022, here goes.
Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish
2 cups whole raw cranberries, washed
1 small onion
3/4 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons horseradish from a jar ("red is a bit milder than white")
Grind the raw berries and onion together.
Add everything else and mix.
Put in a plastic container and freeze.
Early Thanksgiving morning, move it from freezer to refrigerator compartment to thaw. (It should still have some little icy slivers left.)
The relish will be thick, creamy, and shocking pink. (OK, Pepto Bismol pink, according to some mis-guided listeners.) It has a tangy taste that cuts through and perks up the turkey and gravy. Its also good on next-day turkey sandwiches, and with roast beef.
Makes 1 and 1/2 pints.
That's it. Simple as mincemeat pie and much tastier.
Back to some history.
Cranberry sauce, presumably without the horseradish, was very popular by 1817. Food historian Pamela Cooley says the magazine Niles Weekly Register reported the amounts of ingredients eaten at Thanksgiving in Connecticut that year: 5,500 turkeys and 1,000 gallons of cranberry sauce. You really have to like those tart little berries to run up numbers like that.
I like them a great deal. But the cranberry dish I love is from the great Indian actress and cook Madhur Jaffrey.
Madhur Jaffrey's Cranberry Chutney
1-inch piece fresh ginger
3 cloves finely chopped garlic
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
4 tablespoons sugar
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1-pound can cranberry sauce with berries
1/2 teaspoon salt (or less)
ground black pepper
Cut ginger into paper-thin slices, stack them together and cut into really thin slivers. Combine ginger, garlic, vinegar, sugar and cayenne in a small pot, and simmer on medium flame about 15 minutes or until there are about four tablespoons of liquid left. Add can of cranberry sauce, salt and pepper. Mix and bring to a simmer. Simmer on a gentle heat for about 10 minutes. Cool, store and refrigerate.
Makes about 1 1/2 cups.
Whatever you choose, whatever you serve, have a very fine Thanksgiving.
(And our thanks to Kim Severson at The New York Times for connecting us with Pamela Cooley.)
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) _ Meritage Homes Corp. (MTH) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $262.5 million.
The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company said it had net income of $7.10 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $6.41 per share.
The homebuilder posted revenue of $1.58 billion in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.63 billion.
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Biden will sign an executive order in Maine encouraging new inventions to be made in the US
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order while visiting Maine on Friday to encourage companies to manufacture new inventions in the United States.
Biden is going to Maine for the first time of his presidency, packaging his signing of the executive order with a speech at a textile factory and a fundraiser later in the town of Freeport.
The Democrat won three out of the state’s four electoral votes in 2020 and is seeking to shore up his support in the state. Maine allocates its electoral votes by congressional district, and he lost the vote in the state’s second district, which provided the only electoral vote in New England for then-President Donald Trump, a Republican.
“We’re talking about bringing manufacturing back to the country and creating jobs — good-paying jobs,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday as she previewed the trip.
The White House outlined the executive order being signed by Biden, which would improve the transparency of federal research and development programs to meet the administration’s goals for domestic manufacturing. The order asks agencies to weigh U.S. national security and economic interests when determining if domestic manufacturing requirements should be broadened.
The order also encourages federal agencies to consider domestic production when investing in research and development and to use their own legal authorities to encourage that new technologies are made in the U.S. But when goods cannot be made in the U.S., the order instructs the Commerce Department to create a clearer and timelier process for receiving a waiver.
Biden will be going to Auburn Manufacturing Inc., a maker of heat- and fire-resistant fabrics for industries that include shipbuilding, oil refining and electricity generation. The company challenged China for its unfair trade practices regarding amorphous silica fabric, or ASF, which is a heat-resistant material.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Boston left-hander Chris Sale will be sidelined until at least August because of a stress reaction in his left scapula, the latest in a series of setbacks since the Red Sox agreed to a long-term deal before the 2019 season that guaranteed him $160 million.
Sale left a June 1 start against Cincinnati in the fourth inning because of shoulder soreness, an outing in which his velocity started to drop in the third. The 34-year-old went on the 15-day injured list the following day and Boston moved him to the 60-day IL on Friday. He won’t throw for three-to-four weeks, and the earliest he can return is Aug. 1.
“Now we’ve just got to be patient,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said before a series opener at the New York Yankees. “No surgical procedure, and that’s huge for us.”
Kutter Crawford likely will take a turn in the rotation on Tuesday against Colorado.
As part of a flurry of moves, pitcher Matt Dermody was designated for assignment, a day after he made his first major league start and said he regretted posting a homophobic tweet two years ago.
Boston also activated outfielder Adam Duvall from the 60-day injured list after he recovered from a broken left wrist and selected the contract of left-hander Joe Jacques Triple-A Worcester.
Sale is 16-15 with a 4.21 ERA in 47 starts since agreeing in March 2019 to a deal that added $145 million over five years through 2024. He had been an All-Star for seven straight seasons at the time of the contract, going 103-62 with a 2.89 ERA in his first nine big league seasons.
Sale was limited to one start from late July to mid-September in 2018 because of shoulder inflammation, then returned and helped the Red Sox win the World Series.
He didn’t pitch after Aug. 13 in 2019 because of left elbow inflammation, missed all of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season following Tommy John surgery that sidelined him until Aug. 14, 2021. and didn’t pitch until July last year because of a stress fracture in a rib on his right side. He returned for two starts, then broke his left pinkie when hit by a line drive off the bat of the Yankees’ Aaron Hicks. Before Sale could return from that, he broke his right wrist in a bike accident.
“He’s used to it,” Cora said. “He’s been through a lot since 2018. … It takes a toll.”
Sale is 5-2 with a 4.58 ERA in 11 starts this season.
“In the beginning it was a little bit rough, but it was part of the progression,” Cora said. “When he got going, it was very close to the guy that pitched in ’17 and ’18 here. Velocity was up, the slider was getting there and the changeup was a work in progress. And he dominated big league lineups.”
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Coby White has quietly become one of the most important Chicago Bulls players with the ball in his hands.
The reserve guard has oscillated from shooting guard to point guard throughout his career with the Bulls. But this season has seen White finally develop equal confidence making reads as he drives to the rim and shoots 3-pointers.
White’s facilitating production has exploded in the final stretch, climbing to 4.2 assists per game in March after averaging fewer than two assists in the first three months of the season.
“Over the course of the season, I think I earned my coach’s trust with the ball in my hands and pick-and-rolls,” White said. “I give a lot of credit to him for giving me the opportunity to play with the ball in my hands.”
Developing decision-making has been a focal point for White. He isn’t quite a point guard a shooting guard, instead operating in a middle zone as he balances long-range shots with an improved ability to cut to the rim and spray passes to his teammates.
White’s shooting always has been a touch streaky, but these new aspects of his game have stayed consistent even on an off night from 3-point range. He went 0-for-3 from long range Monday and 3-for-8 overall in a 124-112 loss to the Clippers in Los Angeles. The Bulls entered Tuesday in 10th place in the Eastern Conference, one game behind the Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors and three ahead of the Washington Wizards.
“He’s been very decisive,” guard Zach LaVine said. “We all know how good he can shoot the ball, but making the reads, hitting the pocket, hitting the crosscourt pass with a low man — I don’t think it’s talked about enough how much of a challenge he’s been taking up.”
When White first landed on the Bulls roster as a 19-year-old first-round draft pick in 2019, he was immediately met with a bombardment of skepticism over whether he could play as a true point guard. He was thrust into the position with little warning, playing outside the shoot-first, ask-questions-later comfort zone he built during a single season at North Carolina.
Coach Billy Donovan recognizes those early years were full of growing pains for White. But he also celebrates the way White embraced that period of uncertainty to build himself beyond the definition he carried into the league.
“There’s this internal conviction that he has in himself,” Donovan said. “It was kind of rocky for him in terms of a limited amount of basketball, never mind going into the NBA and being a starting point guard. And there was never ever a wavering.”
Donovan describes White as “stubborn” — a word that White also uses for himself — in the way he faces challenges. After seeing that he was being targeted by opposing offenses as a weak link, he spent the summer focused heavily on growing into the type of defender who stepped in front of Austin Reaves to draw a charge in Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
White took the same approach to his ballhandling and distribution in the offseason, molding a confidence that has paid dividends.
“He’s not a finger pointer. He’s not a blamer,” Donovan said. “He really truly looks at himself.”
White’s increased ability to put the ball on the floor is critical toward improving a key part of the offense — challenging opposing defenders when they close out on perimeter shots.
Donovan has emphasized the importance of attacking closeouts since the first day of preseason. The Bulls field plenty of strong shooters but can stretch and strain opposing teams much more effectively if they pull defenders out to their shot, then drive past them to attack the rim.
This is where the Bulls generate two of the best parts of their game: rim finishing and spray-out passes for catch-and-shoot 3s.
“The more we can get Ayo (Dosunmu), Coby, Zach, Patrick (Williams), those guys at least attacking closeouts — we’ve done a really good job this year moving the ball and creating closeouts,” Donovan said. ”But if you look at our efficiency, I think that’s what’s helped our offense.
“We’ve gotten better at handling those situations in terms of guys making a decision of whether to make an extra pass, whether to drive the ball, whether to just to shoot it. And the more we can take advantage of those opportunities and be good at them, it’s going to really help us offensively.”
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Where are you from?
Well,, depends upon who is asking. If I am in Spain and am asked, my answer is, I’m from America.
If I am in California my answer is I am from Texas. If someone from Texas asks me, I am from Temple. (even if I was from Moffat or Nolanville, I would still say Temple!)
I am originally from New Orleans — so if someone from Texas asks me, my answer is I’m from New Orleans. But if someone from New Orleans asks me, my answer is that I am from Uptown. In New Orleans there is Uptown, 9th Ward, Metairie, the Garden district, the West Bank, the North Shore, the Irish Channel and about four more.
I had a woman in Temple tell me she was from New Orleans — good answer if I was a Texan — but I told her “No you are not, you are from Metairie”, since there’s a totally different accent than other parts. For the record, we call them “yats,” because the “greeting” in Metairie is “Where ya at?”
So for an 83-year-old grandmother in England to inquire where a black woman who is dressed in African attire is from — I would assume in her 83 years she has had quite a bit of exposure to Africa and was making a simple inquiry. Kicking her out of the family for her curiosity seems like the natural thing to do.
Donald Bousquet
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday:
General Mills Inc., up $4.31 to $79.72.
The maker of Cheerios, Yoplait yogurt and other packaged foods raised its profit forecast for the year.
Coty Inc., up 25 cents to $8.04.
The owner of CoverGirl and Clairol beauty brands gave investors an encouraging financial update.
Chemours Co., down $2.59 to $28.14.
The chemical company trimmed its earnings forecast for the year.
Carnival Corp., down 71 cents to $9.71.
Cruise lines fell as Hurricane Fiona strengthened into a Category 4 storm after battering Puerto Rico.
Walmart Inc., up $1.22 to $134.77.
The nation's largest retailer said it will hire 40,000 U.S. workers for the holidays, a majority of them seasonal workers.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., down $1.62 to $28.10.
The copper miner slipped along with prices for the base metal.
Viatris Inc., unchanged at $9.04.
The healthcare company's partner on a potential multiple sclerosis treatment gave investors an encouraging development update.
Beyond Meat Inc., down 13 cents to $15.90.
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Brightseed To Host a Satellite Symposium at Nutrition 2023 on July 23 with Coalition Members, Nutrition Industry Experts and Government Leaders
- Bioactive compounds in plants, fungi and other natural sources are critical to maintaining human health, but currently lack a universal definition and are absent from U.S. dietary guidelines
- The Coalition aims to bring mainstream awareness and education about bioactives to industry, consumers and policymakers
- Coalition members include Dr. Jed Fahey, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Taylor Wallace, Katie Stebbins, Dr. Ashley Burkhart, Dr. Robert Graham and Dr. Jennifer Kelly
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightseed, the bioactives company and creator of Forager® AI, today announces the formation of a 'Bioactives Coalition' to advance education and advocacy of science-backed bioactive compounds among food and health industries, consumers and policymakers.
The announcement comes in advance of American Society for Nutrition's (ASN) annual conference Nutrition 2023 (July 22 – 25, Boston) where Brightseed will host a satellite symposium on July 23: The Scientific Evolution of Bioactives in Human Health, Current Challenges, and the Path Ahead Illuminated by AI-Driven Science.
"Given the advancement in science and technology, the time is ripe to help build a widely accepted consensus on the definition and role of bioactive compounds for integration into dietary guidelines or current regulatory frameworks," said Jan-Willem Van Klinken, Brightseed's SVP of Scientific and Medical Affairs. "Bioactives are the 'missing good' in our food system and a core component required for proactive and preventative health. With the tools and research momentum available today, we can go beyond vitamins, minerals and proteins and begin including bioactives as an important part of nutrition and in modern medical education."
The Bioactives Coalition facilitates interactions among food and health system leaders who champion the adoption of bioactive compounds into U.S. dietary guidelines. The Coalition also aims to educate on the mounting scientific evidence, advancements in research and discovery, and key perspectives to inform bioactive use and regulation in functional food, beverage and supplements.
Bioactives Coalition members include world-renowned researchers and experts working at the intersection of agriculture, food and health:
- Jed W. Fahey M.S., Sc.D – John Hopkins nutritional biochemist whose research on plant-based nutrition targets chronic disease prevention
- Mark Hyman, MD – Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine; founder and director of The UltraWellness Center; host of The Doctor's Farmacy Podcast
- Taylor C. Wallace, PhD, CFS, FACN – Principal and CEO of the Think Healthy Group; co-author of the first North American guideline and intake recommendation for flavan-3-ols
- Katie Stebbins – Executive Director of The Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute at Tufts University
- Ashlie Burkhart, MD, CM – Chief Scientific Officer at Germin8 Ventures; Associate with the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School
- Chef Robert E. Graham, MD, MPH – Harvard-trained researcher and physician, public health scientist, food activist and founder of FRESH Medicine and FRESH Med U
- Jennifer Kelly, PhD – Nutrition Director at Food Systems For The Future
Science has long known that bioactive compounds in plants and other natural sources are critical to human health, yet due to the complexity of understanding their direct impact on human biology, they are often referred to as the "dark matter" of nutrition. Existing clinical evidence and AI-enabled advancements in R&D is contributing to a reevaluation of bioactives for industry and consumer health use cases.
In 2022, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics led the development of the first ever North American guideline and daily intake recommendation for flavan-3-ols, a watershed moment for the recognition of bioactives which outlines 400-600 mg per day recommendation from foods such as tea, berries, cocoa, apples, pears and cinnamon. The paper, co-authored by coalition member Dr. Taylor Wallace, serves as a substantial framework in which future bioactives recommendations can be considered, as artificial intelligence is accelerating new health insights and expanding bioactive sources at a quickened pace.
Brightseed's symposium at Nutrition 2023 will take place on July 23, from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET, and will include three speaker presentations, a panel discussion, and a Q&A with academics, government and industry leaders on the role of bioactives in human health and current challenges that prevent a universal understanding of their dietary value. In addition, Brightseed will also present a poster: Nutrient Composition Analysis of Multiple Batches of Hemp Hulls to Help Leverage Their Commercial Potential for Unique Delivery of Dietary Fiber and Bioactives.
For more information and to register for the conference, visit American Society for Nutrition.
About Brightseed
Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed's proprietary AI Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions. Visit www.brightseedbio.com to learn more.
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- A man visiting Hilton Head Island with his family captured cell phone video of an alligator charging at a fisherman, WYFF reported.
It happened at Shipyard Plantation Tuesday evening.
"It was about Tuesday night around 7 o'clock. My wife and three kids decided to go for a bike ride," said Micah Kimberlin, who recorded the video. "We came across a couple people standing [near a pond], and then we see an alligator...this gentleman is fishing kind of far away, and it's headed directly towards him. That's when I started filming this alligator heading toward him."
Thankfully, no one was injured. The alligator re-entered the pond shortly after charging on land.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said it is likely that the alligator associated humans with food.
"My opinion is it was probably an alligator that has been fed," said Morgan Hart, alligator project coordinator for SCDNR. "It has learned that people fishing there have given it food in the past. It is very hard to unteach an alligator that people mean food."
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Hart said if you're ever fishing in a pond with a gator, you should keep your distance.
"If you're seeing alligators, they're approaching you, they're interested in your bait, your line, your bobber, you should pull all that gear out, step away, give them time to move on," she said.
Host of The Outdoorsman, Buck McNeely, said ultimately, you never want to get too close to a gator or attract its attention as it could quickly end in tragedy.
"To an alligator, everything is fair game. Everybody is in the food chain," McNeely said.
Kimberlin's brother-in-law captured a photo of crews removing alligators from the pond where all this happened Thursday morning.
SCDNR now wants to remind everyone that a fed gator is a dead gator.
"Once an alligator learns to approach people for food, that is a dangerous animal that has to be removed," Hart said.
WJCL 22 News has reached out to Shipyard Plantation for a comment. We are waiting to hear back.
Kimberlin said he does wish the fisherman in the video had reeled in his bait sooner than he did.
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New York (CNN Business) — So, you won the lottery. Congrats! What do you do now?
Once you’re done screaming and dancing in a shower of Champagne, take a moment to gather yourself and start thinking about the more pragmatic aspects of your new life as a multimillionaire (or billionaire).
The billion-dollar Powerball drawing will take place Wednesday night. And Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is worth an estimated $720 million, with a cash value of $369.6 million.
So what will you do with the cash? Do you take the lump sum or the annuity paid out over time? How much will you give to charity, friends and family?
First things first, according to experts: Keep your mouth shut.
Before you broadcast your sudden windfall to the world, and even before you contact lottery officials, you’ll be wise to surround yourself with a team of lawyers and financial advisers.
Most states will not let you claim the prize anonymously, which means you’ll need to act fast to protect yourself before you’re inundated with vultures or new-found relations.
And while this might seem obvious, don’t forget to document your win. Make copies of both sides of your lottery ticket, and then lock it up somewhere only you can access it.
Then, get to work. And it will be a lot of work.
“I think it can be more of a curse than a blessing for some, just in all of the work that has to be done,” Belinda Herzig, senior wealth strategist at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, told CNN late last year when the Powerball jackpot was last this high.
Hiring a lawyer should be a top priority. And not just any lawyer.
“Find an attorney who has experience dealing with people with this level of wealth, because it is different,” says Herzig.
That means aiming for a specialist at a large national law firm.
Next up, you’ll need an accountant and a financial adviser to protect your wealth from “creditors and predators,” as Herzig puts it.
Again, you’ll want to look for experts at larger institutions who have experience figuring all this out. (Your neighbor Gary the CPA might be a great pal who’s done your taxes before, but he almost certainly hasn’t dealt with an influx of wealth like the one you, lucky lotto winner, are dealing with.)
Another thing to keep in mind: It pays to be a good person. One of the biggest winners of the Powerball will be the IRS, which gets its cut in federal income tax, Herzig says, but you can offset some of your tax liability by using philanthropy as a way to receive a charitable deduction.
Once you’re lawyered up and have a solid financial team you trust, have those advisers look over the lottery’s rules before you sign the original ticket, according to State Farm’s consumer-advice site Simple Insights.
The rest is mostly personal finance 101: Pay off your debts, set up savings for college, diversify your investments and keep up a robust emergency fund. Your crack team of helpers can manage it all for you.
But there’s one big piece of the lottery puzzle that you can’t farm out to lawyers, and that’s your mental health. Plenty of past winners serve as cautionary tales about the psychological impact of sudden wealth, and all the changes that come with it. | https://www.channel3000.com/news/money/if-you-win-the-lottery-here-s-what-you-should-and-shouldn-t-do/article_257628d3-ce03-5fa1-a521-42d476c1438c.html | 2023-07-19 17:47:26 | 1 | https://www.channel3000.com/news/money/if-you-win-the-lottery-here-s-what-you-should-and-shouldn-t-do/article_257628d3-ce03-5fa1-a521-42d476c1438c.html |
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights for the third quarter
- Continued momentum for the US smokefree business and the strong USD drove sharp increases in Group sales and earnings. Other businesses of the Group faced tough comparisons and some challenging market conditions.
- Group sales increased by 21 percent to 5,782 MSEK (4,778). In local currencies, Group sales increased by 5 percent for the third quarter.
- Group operating profit increased to 2,400 MSEK (2,075).
- Operating profit from product segments increased by 15 percent to 2,412 MSEK (2,099). In local currencies, operating profit from product segments1) declined by 1 percent for the third quarter.
- In local currencies, operating profit grew by 12 percent for the Smokefree product segment. For the Cigars product segment, operating profit declined, impacted by lower volumes. The Lights product segment faced particularly tough conditions and reported a steep decline in operating profit.
- Profit after tax increased to 1,778 MSEK (1,540).
- Earnings per share increased by 18 percent to 1.17 SEK (0.99).
1) Excludes Other operations and larger one-time items.
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Swedish Match telephone conference
A telephone conference will be held today, Thursday, October 28 at 2:00 p.m. (CET), (1:00 p.m. UK time). At this time we will review and comment on the results. Participants will include Lars Dahlgren, Anders Larsson, and Johan Levén.
Listen to the telephone conference: www.swedishmatch.com/Investors/Presentations/Webcasts-and-audiocasts/
Telephone conference presentation: www.swedishmatch.com/Investors/Presentations/
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Phone +46 8 658 0441
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Phone +46 70 207 2116
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Mark Hoppus is reflecting on all the big things that can change in a single year.
On May 21, Blink-182 musician shared a photo of a foggy day out at sea on his Instagram Story and marveled at the difference time can make.
"A year ago I was in chemotherapy. Today I'm here," he wrote. "Grateful."
Mark and his wife, Skye Hoppus, are currently celebrating his bandmate Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian's upcoming wedding this weekend. Fellow wedding guests, including Kardashian family friend Simon Huck, have shared Instagram Story photos of the couple in Italy.
Last September, Mark revealed that he was officially "cancer free." The good news came just three months after his initial announcement that he had been privately battling the disease in June.
"Thank you God and universe and family and friends and everyone who sent support and kindness and love," he wrote at the time. "Still have to get scanned every six months and it'll take me until the end of the year to get back to normal but today is an amazing day and I feel so blessed."
Last June, the "Feeling This" singer shared that he had been undergoing chemotherapy treatment "for the past three months" in a Twitter statement.
"I have cancer," he wrote. "It sucks and I'm scared, and at the same time I'm blessed with incredible doctors and family and friends to get me through this."
During a Twitch livestream in July 2021, Mark shared that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. "My cancer's not bone-related, it's blood-related," he said in a clip that was shared by the YouTube account Blink-182 Chile. "My blood's trying to kill me."
He expanded further upon the mental and physical toll his illness took on him in a December 2021 interview with GQ.
"I had a really dark time after finding out," he shared. "I went through this whole period of like, not why me, but of course me. Why wouldn't it be me? We've had so much good luck and good fortune, and things have kind of fallen into place for me specifically for so long, that of course I was due. I was due for something tragic."
He described chemotherapy as "like being on the worst international, overnight flight where you can't sleep or get comfortable," but noted that he was able to find solace speaking with his mom, who had previously beaten the same type of cancer.
"She's been my greatest resource this whole time," he told the outlet. "Nobody knows what it's like except somebody who's gone through chemotherapy." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1331915/mark-hoppus-is-grateful-to-be-in-italy-for-kravis-wedding-1-year-after-undergoing-chemo | 2022-05-21 21:22:03 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1331915/mark-hoppus-is-grateful-to-be-in-italy-for-kravis-wedding-1-year-after-undergoing-chemo |
100 years ago
June 23, 1922: Seventeen young men from McLean County are set to attend the Citizens' Military Training Camp to be held Aug. 2 to Sept. 2 at Camp Custer near Battle Creek, Michigan. McLean County is one of the 50 leading counties of the three states, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, in the number of applications for admission.
75 years ago
June 23, 1947: Central Illinois horse enthusiasts saw some of the finest horses in this part of the country during the final two sessions of the Corn Belt Horseman's association Fifth Annual Horse Show. During the showing of the equitation riders under 16, judge Don Kays praised Jo Ann Crane, owner and rider of Hytone King, for her style, ease and ability to govern her mount.
50 years ago
June 23, 1972: Health needs of McLean and Livingston County residents, as described at public meetings in May, have been compiled by the Mid-Illinois Areawide Health Planning Corp. The needs are described as improved services in general areas of cost, coordination and expansion of services, education, availability of physicians and care of the aged.
25 years ago
June 23, 1997: For two years, Raymond "Bus" Graham of rural Bloomington has collected aluminum cans, recycled them and donated the proceeds to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Graham, 64, had collected 21,000 cans, enough to fill 16 55-gallon drums. This year's Relay event has a $463,000 fundraising goal.
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YouTube confirmed technical issues with its TV service on Tuesday, saying that the company was "working on a fix!!" and told customers to "stay tuned."
if you’re having trouble watching @YouTubeTV rn, we’re currently having some ~technical issues~ BUT we’re working on a fix!! stay tuned 📺
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) September 6, 2022
The website Down Detector showed that reported users' issues were mainly with video streaming.
One user on Down Detector said in the comments that they were able to get streaming operational again after uninstalling the YouTube TV app from their device and then restarting the device and reinstalling the channel to update it. This fix had not been immediately confirmed by YouTube staff.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Native Americans whose relatives have gone missing or been killed wore red on Friday, a color synonymous with raising awareness about the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who have been victims of violence.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day is held on May 5 — the birthday of Hanna Harris, who was only 21 when she was slain on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana.
Countless more Indigenous people have gone missing since her body was found nearly a decade ago. Advocates describe it as a silent crisis, rooted in colonization, forced removal and government policies that led to the stamping out of culture and identity as entire communities were marginalized.
This weekend’s marches, symposiums, prayer gatherings, art installations and ceremonies are meant to pressure policy makers in the U.S. and Canada to ensure equity when investigating such cases. The red dresses, they say, are used to call home the spirits of missing and slain Indigenous victims.
“We have to call this national state of emergency what it is — a genocide,” Carol McBride, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, said in an email. She urged people to channel their grief into activism. “Wearing red is powerful.”
Canada’s House of Commons unanimously approved a motion this week calling on the government to declare a national state of emergency. Such a declaration would make more tools available, said Mel Critch, who works with the Native Women’s Association of Canada and is co-chair of the group Manitoba Moon Voices.
The burden of tackling the problem has fallen largely to Indigenous women, relatives and other community members, Critch said.
“As this moves through the Senate, our communities will be watching and listening carefully, praying for its adoption and a day when this will end, when our children and families will be safe,” Critch said.
Lawmakers in the U.S. introduced their own resolutions this week supporting the May 5 effort.
High rates of violence, sexual assault, homicides and disappearances of Indigenous people, particularly women, have festered for generations amid inadequate public safety resources in Indian Country, where tiny police forces are responsible for vast territories and a tangled web of local and federal jurisdictions often complicates efforts to track and communicate about cases as they happen.
About 4,200 missing and murdered cases have gone unsolved, according to U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs estimates. Federal health statistics document murder rates for Native American and Alaska Native women at 10 times the national rate.
Still, the number of missing and slain Indigenous women remains unknown. A 2021 review by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office pointed to reporting problems, distrust of law enforcement and jurisdictional conflicts.
Recently adopted U.S. laws aim to improve data collection and law enforcement responses. A national commission began holding public meetings in April to craft more recommendations. Gary Restaino, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, will be listening to tribal leaders and families at next week’s commission meeting in Flagstaff.
He said the Justice Department now prioritizes cases in Indian Country, bringing the Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to support the FBI when local or tribal police call for help.
“That, I think, is a real expansion from the way we have traditionally done these cases and should be an opportunity to get more resources into underserved areas in Indian Country,” he said.
Many states have created their own task forces and commissions, aiming to keep cases from falling through the cracks. Prosecutors in New Mexico’s largest judicial district have a special unit to help with missing person investigations involving Native Americans.
In California, lawmakers approved the creation of an alert system to help find Indigenous people missing under suspicious circumstances. The legislation came last year after the Yurok Tribe issued an emergency declaration after five Indigenous women were reported as missing or were killed within a span of 18 months.
“Every time someone goes missing in this state, that is tomorrow’s historical trauma,” said Abby Abinanti, the Yurok Tribe’s chief judge.
The tribe plans to use drones to bolster its search and rescue program.
The Round Valley Indian Tribes in Northern California also declared an emergency, and imposed a curfew for minors following the recent killings of two tribal citizens.
Washington is creating a cold case investigations unit, and Oklahoma’s governor signed legislation Monday ordering state public safety officials to work with tribes on an alert system named for Cherokee Nation citizen Kasey Russell, who went missing in 2016.
While there has been progress, state and federal lawmakers agree that more needs to be done.
California Assemblymember James Ramos told a hearing Tuesday that trends in his state don’t show improvement. He wants qualified tribal law enforcement officers to be able to access a statewide telecommunications system as they investigate missing persons cases.
In New Mexico, advocates want the governor to issue a new executive order to chart the next phase of implementing recommendations made in an extensive task force report in 2020.
For Melody Delmar, who leads MMIP projects for New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Department, the crisis is personal. As a social worker, she’s often among the first people families call when they need help.
Her dream? A state office dedicated to Indian Country cases where families could be assigned a social worker.
“There’s just so many levels of this and it can be complicated,” she said. “But we also can look at this and know there are solutions out there too.”
Nearly two years passed before federal authorities made an arrest in the case of Ella Mae Begay, a master Navajo weaver who went missing in 2021.
Her niece, Seraphine Warren, walked from the Navajo Nation to Washington D.C. to raise awareness. She has not given up finding her aunt — she’s gathering volunteers for another search of the desert in the coming weeks.
Waiting for information to trickle down from authorities to grieving family members is like torture, Warren said.
“All that families want is for somebody to check on them, to see if their cases are still being investigated,” said Warren, who will be marching in Seattle this weekend.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland received a briefing Friday in Albuquerque from her agency’s Missing and Murdered Unit, created in 2021. To date, the unit has investigated 728 cases; solved or closed 263 missing persons cases; and solved eight murder cases.
Advocates are watching closely as Congress hashes out budget requests for federal agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Cuts could result in fewer law enforcement officers in areas that are already understaffed.
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, said Congress has a responsibility to honor trust and treaty obligations with Indian Country.
“And it’s important to affirm that this is a priority,” he said.
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AUSTIN (Nexstar/KXAN) — In Texas’ state jails, the inmates are sentenced to just two years or less. But every summer, former inmate Maggie Luna remembers, the women inside worried their short sentences might take their life.
“All of these women that were suffering with me had not a lot of time, and they feared that they were getting death sentences,” she said. “Several times I told my mom, ‘I hope I make it out of here.'”
Her jail is one of the 70% of units within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that do not have full air conditioning. As much of Texas braces through record-setting triple-digit temperatures, current and former inmates are describing dangerous and disturbing conditions inside their cells.
“It is suffocating. It’s terrifying just to feel like you’re cooking. I remember asking my bunkie, ‘Do you think our brains are frying?'” Luna said.
She was released in 2016 after serving two years in the Lucille Plane State Jail for drug possession.
“Some days, we wouldn’t have water,” Luna recounted. “I saw a lot of women have seizures because of the heat. It is inhumane. We were like feral animals locked in this giant cage.”
Several emails sent from inmates and obtained by Nexstar express similar challenges within the last week.
“I’m having a really hard time breathing right now,” one inmate wrote. “It’s so humid you can’t breath… we were in AC for shakedown yesterday all morning and when we came back it was 118 degrees in here and going from AC to that made me sick to the point I threw up my electrolyte drink and I just felt sick and nauseous all day… not sure how long ima last here in the heat.”
“We are still not getting water,” another wrote. “They don’t give us respite at all. It’s very hot, we only have one big fan. They don’t give us respite showers AT ALL.”
Of the 100 units TDCJ operates, 14 have no air conditioning. Fifty-five units have “partial” AC, meaning they have “respite areas” such as cooled chapels, but do not provide AC in the cellblocks.
TDCJ said they provide water, ice, fans and air-conditioned respite areas to help inmates. They also rank inmates on a “heat sensitivity score” to prioritize the most at-risk people for cooled housing.
“Core to this department’s mission is protecting the public, our employees, and the inmates in our custody,” TDCJ Communications Director Amanda Hernandez said. “We take numerous precautions to lessen the effects of hot temperatures for those incarcerated within our facilities. These efforts work.”
Some lawmakers at the Texas Capitol have tried and failed to take further efforts. State Rep. Carl Sherman (D-DeSoto) filed legislation in the last legislative session to mandate universal air conditioning in Texas’ prisons. It passed unanimously out of the House Corrections Committee but did not receive a debate in the full House.
“We as a state are all complicit in this if we’re paying our tax dollars to house individuals who have been incarcerated under the custody of the state, and they’re in conditions that are worse than our animal shelters. I think we’re accountable for that,” he said. “We have the resources and we still have surplus, but there is not a will to provide AC in the housing units. So, you know, it’s intentional.”
Sherman places the bulk of the blame on the Texas Senate, which has never shown the political will to change the air conditioning standards.
In April, State Sen. Brandon Creighton told Nexstar the upper chamber has a ways to go on the issue.
“Texas was a thriving state before air conditioning was even created,” he said. “So our families outside of the penal system and the prison system lived in the state of Texas for decades and decades and decades before air conditioning was even a thing. So we have to balance the cost of that, we have to meet court scrutiny…but at the end of the day, we’ve got a little ways to go on that one.”
Yet some are concerned even the safety precautions TDCJ provides are not being delivered. Dr. Amite Dominick keeps regular contact with inmates as the president of Texas Prison Community Advocates. She worries “there’s just no relief.”
“The incarcerated people are not receiving water like they should be receiving it. They’re not getting showers. People are just passing out there. I’m hearing an uptick in seizure activity from incarcerated individuals and their family members… there’s nothing for them,” she said. “There’s supposed to be respite areas that some units are saying doesn’t exist, even though they have to legitimately exist. What I’m hearing is there’s not enough staff to go around to fill the water buckets. And there’s no ice in these waters. Folks are just excruciatingly miserable right now. They’re hurting.”
As of Thursday, TDCJ told Nexstar four inmates have required medical care beyond first aid for heat-related injuries so far in 2023. Nine staff members have also had heat-related illnesses.
They also report the department has added air conditioning to 3,598 beds since 2019. They also have an ongoing project to add air conditioning to 5,861 more beds this year.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The numbers have been drawn, but players were still awaiting the announcement of a possible winner in the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot Saturday night.
The numbers for the drawing were: white balls 28, 45, 53, 56 and 69, and red Powerball 20.
It was not immediately clear if there was a grand prize winner for the enormous jackpot. It can sometimes take hours for state lotteries to report in and determine if there is a winner.
A jackpot winner would face a choice of taking payment through an annuity, which doles out the money over 29 years, or opting for cash. Nearly all winners go with cash, which for Saturday night's drawing would be an estimated $782.4 million.
The odds of any given ticket winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, and it's those long odds that have led to three months without anyone matching all six balls.
The record jackpot has narrowly edged out the previous high, a $1.586 billion prize won by three ticketholders in 2016.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – SpaceX on Friday will again attempt to launch a pair of communications satellites with a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A 69-minute launch window is set to open up Friday at 7:06 p.m. This comes as a backup launch window from the previous attempt Thursday evening.
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Thirty seconds prior to the scheduled liftoff time Thursday, SpaceX announced the launch would be aborted.
According to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, there was a “tiny helium leak,” which may have posed a risk to the satellites.
Tiny helium leak (just barely triggered abort), but we take no risks with customer satellites. Standing down to investigate.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2022
Weather was forecast to be more than 90% favorable at launch time Thursday, with chances reduced slightly to 90% in the event of a 24-hour delay, according to the 45th Weather Squadron.
The G-33/G-44 mission will carry its namesake to orbit, two Intelsat satellites — the Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 — that the satellite services provider stated on its website are critical to its “C-brand clearing strategy” in the U.S., reported by SpaceNews as its mission to further quicken the rollout of 5G networks.
Today’s the day! Galaxy 33 (top) and 34 (bottom) are stacked and ready for launch. Follow the countdown: https://t.co/ZZIRKA7dvY pic.twitter.com/RE3Zyb4N2L
— Intelsat (@INTELSAT) October 6, 2022
B1060, the booster used in Thursday’s mission, will attempt a landing on the A Shortfall of Gravitas autonomous drone ship following its 14th flight, according to Space Launch Schedule.
ClickOrlando.com will stream the launch live at the top of this story when coverage begins.
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Mother killed in hit-and-run crash with car full of Christmas presents, family says
PEORIA, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - An Arizona family woke up to shocking news of their mother being killed in a hit-and-run crash days before Christmas.
KPHO reports Nichole Cortez was killed Monday in a hit-and-run crash on the Loop 101 off-ramp at Peoria Avenue with the driver responsible still on the run.
“That’s what hurts the most. This person just drove off like she was just a piece of trash,” Anthony Cortez, Nichole Cortez’s father, said.
Anthony Cortez said he feels empty this Christmas after losing his daughter.
“It’s totally affected our family. And especially at Christmas time. It’s making it very difficult to try to do Christmas, we’re just days away,” he said.
The father said his daughter was coming home from her job in cleaning services.
“The car overheated. She tried to pull over but didn’t exactly make it as the car was kind of in the middle of the lane,” Anthony Cortez said. “She got out with the door open, and somebody came by and hit the other side that hit her. She flew about 50 feet.”
Nichole Cortez’s father said she picked up extra night shifts to pay for gifts for her five kids.
“She was so stressed out about getting her children Christmas presents. We’re all kind of struggling a bit. So, she’s been trying to earn extra money,” Anthony Cortez said.
Anthony Cortez said his daughter loved her kids and had recently gone shopping.
“Presents were found in her car. She loved her children. She was a single mom, trying to do her best for her children. She would do anything for anybody,” Anthony Cortez said.
According to authorities, the car that left Monday’s scene is described as a 2010-2014 Dodge Challenger with damage to its front.
Anthony Cortez is hoping someone does the right thing and turns themselves in, saying justice will help the family feel closure.
“I really want them to be caught. How someone can just hit somebody on the side of the road and leave them is beyond me,” he said. “I’m hoping and praying that she [Nichole] wasn’t on the side of the road suffering.”
The family said they have set up a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses.
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Between locking up a playoff berth and Max Scherzer tossing six perfect innings to earn the 200th win of his career, the New York Mets had a lot to celebrate Monday night.
They hope there will be a lot more to celebrate over the next five weeks.
The Mets will look to maintain their lead in the National League East on Tuesday night when they visit the Milwaukee Brewers in the middle game of a three-game series.
Mets right-hander Carlos Carrasco (15-6, 3.70 ERA) is slated to start against Brewers left-hander Aaron Ashby (2-10, 4.58 ERA), who is expected to be activated off the injured list after missing the last month due to left shoulder inflammation.
The Mets clinched their first playoff berth since 2016 in the series opener on Monday, when Scherzer struck out nine in his first start in 16 days, leading New York to a 7-2 victory.
The Mets (94-55) remained a game ahead of the second-place Atlanta Braves (92-55) — who beat the Washington Nationals 5-2 — in the race for the NL East crown and likely the second bye in the NL playoffs.
The scorching pace of the defending World Series champion Braves — who are 69-28 since June 1, a span in which they have gained 9 1/2 games on the Mets — ensured a restrained celebration in the visiting locker room Monday night in Milwaukee.
“If we can win the division, that would be great — Atlanta is a great team and it will probably go down to the wire,” Mets owner Steve Cohen said. “And then we’ll see what happens in the playoffs. I think this is a team that can go really far.”
But with the Mets seeking their first championship in 36 years and with the clinching experience being new to much of the squad, manager Buck Showalter recognized the importance of celebrating Monday night.
“You’ve got to have step one to get to the rest of it, (and) I think our guys understand what’s ahead of us and the challenges,” Showalter said. “But nobody should feel bad about feeling some elation tonight. Kind of hit me with two outs in the ninth: ‘Wow, we’re an out away from being in there.'”
Showalter has managed 3,218 regular-season games without appearing in a World Series, though his clubs have made the playoffs five times. Only Gene Mauch (3,942) was in charge of more games without reaching the Fall Classic.
The Monday result made it harder for the Brewers (78-69) to join the Mets in the playoffs. Milwaukee is now 2 1/2 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies in the race for the third and final NL wild-card spot.
The Brewers, who are 46-50 since June 1, didn’t come close to a hit against Scherzer in his first start since he injured his left side on Sept. 3. Christian Yelich doubled leading off the seventh against Tylor Megill to end the Mets’ bid for the first combined perfect game in baseball history.
“We need to win games at this point in the year, so to go out and not win a baseball game hurts,” said Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes, who took the loss after giving up five runs in 5 2/3 innings.
Carrasco earned a win on Thursday when he allowed one run over six innings and struck out a season-high 11 batters in the Mets’ 7-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Carrasco is 2-1 with a 3.12 ERA in four career starts against the Brewers.
Ashby made his most recent appearance Aug. 19, when he didn’t factor into the decision after surrendering six runs over five innings as the Brewers fell 8-7 to the Chicago Cubs.
He is 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA in two games (one start) against the Mets, including a no-decision on June 16, when he surrendered four runs on four hits in 4 1/3 innings.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the Republican side of the aisle will look slightly different than it did a few years ago.
Rather than row after row of white men in suits, the House Republican majority increasingly has added Black, Latino and female elected officials to their ranks, an effort toward bolstering GOP diversity that’s helping to make the new Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse ever.
It’s a slow yet unsteady progress toward creating a Congress more reflective of America. But it also spotlights a still stark gap on the House Republican side, where the new majority remains made up mostly of white, male lawmakers, which does not fully capture the changing demographics of the country.
“Diversity matters,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
“Every person who serves in office brings with them a set of life experiences that shape their policy priorities, that shape how they see the world,” Walsh said. “It’s not that the experiences of white men don’t matter, but they don’t matter — they shouldn’t matter — more than everybody else.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is largely responsible for making strides at trying to diversify the Republican House. The California leader personally recruited and helped to elect more female candidates and people of color who delivered majority control.
McCarthy and his team worked to diversify their ranks during the 2022 midterm elections with dozens of Black, Hispanic and Asian American nominees on ballots nationwide, some of whom won office.
Still, compared with the diversity on the Democratic side of the aisle, the Republican tally remains slim.
There are four Black Republicans in the House — twice as many as in the last session. That’s a record for Republicans in the 20th and 21st centuries.
But it’s still fewer Black Republicans in the House than during Reconstruction, the era that followed the Civil War. As many as seven Black Republicans served in the House during the 1875-77 session, according to the U.S. House Historical Office, and the House membership overall was much smaller.
Women are making steady gains in the Republican Party in the House, with 33 GOP women in the House, according to the Center for Women in American Politics. That’s up from 13 House Republican women in 2019.
But there are no Black Republican women in the House, compared with 27 Black women on the Democratic side, including some who have been powerful leaders and chairwomen wielding gavels.
Republicans count five Latina women and two Asian Americans, a fraction of those the Democrats have elected, according to the Center for Women and Politics.
While the House freshman class includes seven new Republican women, the gains were essentially offset by six Republican women leaving, the center said in its analysis of the new Congress.
House Republicans have held steady with about a dozen Latino and Hispanic lawmakers, but overall the proportion of Latinos in Congress is less than in the U.S. population.
“This continues a long-running trend toward more racial and ethnic diversity on Capitol Hill: This is the seventh Congress to break the record set by the one before it,” said Pew Research Center, including senators in its tally.
But Pew reports a vast divide by party for the racial and ethnic minority members in the new Congress: 80% are Democrats while 20% are Republicans. The report said that’s similar to the last session of Congress. At that time, 83% of non-white lawmakers were Democrats and 17% were Republicans.
Pew said 13 members of Congress identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, the highest number openly identified in history. Among the 11 openly gay or lesbian members of the House, just one is a Republican, Rep. George Santos of New York.
The Senate shows strides, too, with 25 women this session, including nine Republican female senators, matching the record set in 2020, according the Center for Women and Politics.
Among the 100 senators, there is one Black Republican, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, and two Black Democrats, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia.
There are no Black women elected to the Senate.
There are six Latino or Hispanic senators, including two Republicans; and there are two Asian American senators, both Democrats.
One new Republican, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, “a member of the Cherokee nation, is the first American Indian to serve in the Senate in almost two decades,” the Pew Report said.
“I wouldn’t call it strides,” said Rashad Robinson, president of the Color of Change, a racial justice organization.
“We have complicated problems in this country that require solutions that come from a range of perspectives and that require us to think seriously about how we move forward,” he said.
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Florida flight returns to Cuba after birds cause engine fire
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire and filled the cabin with smoke, a news report said.
Southwest Airlines flight 2923 headed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, returned to Havana after striking the birds, WSVN-TV reported.
No injuries were reported.
The plane departed José Martí international Airport in Havana enroute to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Sunday afternoon. The aircraft was gaining altitude and “experienced bird strikes to an engine and the aircraft’s nose,” the airline said in a statement to the television station.
A passenger told WSVN that the impact sent fumes through the airplane and caused emergency oxygen masks to deploy.
“It was like a burn smell, and it was hurting my face. My eyes got real red, my chest started to burn,” Steven Rodriguez said.
After safely landing in Cuba, some passengers evacuated onto the wings through emergency exits and others used inflatable slides to leave the plane, WSVN reported.
The airline transported passengers and crew members to the airport terminal and planned to put the customers on a different flight to Fort Lauderdale, the station reported.
Southwest Airlines did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Warriors vs. Kings NBA Playoffs Game 2 on April 17, 2023
Published: Apr. 17, 2023 at 4:14 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Betting on player props is one of the ways to wager on the Golden State Warriors-Sacramento Kings matchup at Golden 1 Center on Monday (tip at 10:00 PM ET).
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Warriors vs. Kings Game Info
- Date: Monday, April 17, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA
- Location: Sacramento, California
- Venue: Golden 1 Center
NBA Props Today: Golden State Warriors
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Jordan Poole Props
- The 20.4 points Jordan Poole scores per game are 3.9 more than his over/under on Monday (16.5).
- He has pulled down 2.7 rebounds per game, 0.2 higher than his prop bet on Monday.
- Poole averages 4.5 assists, 1.0 more than Monday's prop bet (3.5).
- He has made 2.6 three-pointers per game, 0.1 more than his over/under on Monday (2.5).
Klay Thompson Props
- Klay Thompson is averaging 21.9 points during the 2022-23 season, 0.6 less than Monday's prop total.
- Thompson's rebounding average -- 4.1 -- is 0.4 lower than his over/under on Monday.
- Thompson averages 2.4 assists, 0.1 less than his over/under on Monday.
- Thompson, at 4.4 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.1 less than his over/under on Monday.
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NBA Props Today: Sacramento Kings
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De'Aaron Fox Props
- The 28.5 point total set for De'Aaron Fox on Monday is 3.5 more than his season scoring average (25).
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- WuXi Biologics has aligned its ESG strategy with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as with its stakeholders' interests in sustainable business performance.
- One example of WuXi Biologics' contribution to society is its rapid, robust pandemic response -- enabling nearly 30 Investigational New Drug Applications (INDs) for COVID-19 projects, manufacturing more than 1500kg of COVID-19 neutralizing antibody, and delivering hundreds of millions COVID-19 vaccine doses.
- WuXi Biologics has set mid- to long-term targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of Scope 1 and Scope 2 by 50% by 2030 compared with 2020, and achieve a 18% reduction in water consumption intensity by 2025 compare with 2019. The company outperformed its 2021 targets, reducing GHG emissions intensity by 8% and water consumption intensity by 13%.
- A culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is cultivated and well managed at WuXi Biologics. The number of employees in China, Ireland, the United States, Germany and Singapore has surpassed 10,000, of which more than 53% are women.
- As part of global corporate social responsibility (CSR), WuXi Biologics encourages its workforce to contribute to the welfare of their localities around the world. In 2021, 798 employee volunteers from nine cities in four countries – mobilized by the "PROUD" culture – contributed a total of 3,192 service hours to their local communities.
- WuXi Biologics' response to the July 2021 Henan floods included an immediate CNY 10 million donation for disaster relief by the WuXi Biologics Charity Foundation, programs to subsidize reconstruction efforts and financial support from the company for impacted employees.
- WuXi Biologics is committed to building a sustainable supply chain and leveraging a "Multi-Sourcing and Safety Stock" approach to mitigate any potential risks from supply chain disruptions, which allow the company to ensure the delivery of high-quality products and services to clients.
- WuXi Biologics' efforts have been widely recognized by the rating agencies, including being named by Sustainalytics as an "ESG Industry Top-Rated Company" for comprehensive compliance management.
HONG KONG, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi Biologics ("WuXi Bio") (2269.HK), a global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) service company, published its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report of 2021. It comprehensively introduces what the company has achieved on greening development, enabling clients, giving back to society and responsible governance in the past year.
In 2021, WuXi Biologics established a CEO-led ESG committee at the board level. The company also set up an ESG steering group and an ESG department. WuXi Biologics aligns its goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has enhanced its ESG strategy accordingly. Throughout the year, the company's ESG governance structure was continuously optimized to ensure that the sustainable development concept remains entrenched in the company's strategy and provides an overarching context for its daily operations, creating maximum benefit for both society and the environment.
Greening Development
To actively address climate change, WuXi Biologics set a mid- to long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and water consumption target: reduce its ratio of Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions intensity by 50% by 2030 compared with 2020, and deliver an 18% reduction in water consumption intensity by 2025 from a 2019 base year. An independent and accredited professional agency's comprehensive audit in 2021– based on the ISO 14064 standard – confirmed an 8% year-on-year decrease in GHG emissions intensity.
In addition, WuXi Biologics' large-scale adoption of environmentally friendly single-use technology saves approximately 70% of water and 30% of energy compared to traditional stainless-steel technology. The application of single-use technology also helped to decrease water consumption intensity by 13% year on year and improve energy efficiency for three consecutive years.
Sharing on sustainability efforts for green manufacturing, the biologics facilities in Dundalk, Ireland is designed to save energy, reduce emission and recycle resource. Expected to be operational soon, the site has fully applied WuXi Biologic's "Factory of the Future" principles. In China sites, energy efficiency is improved through a series of energy-saving initiatives and green development concepts including reutilizing steam condensate.
Enabling Clients
Leveraging its expertise and supporting global efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most significant ways WuXi Biologics gives back to society. By the end of 2021, the company had enabled nearly 30 COVID-19 Investigational New Drug (IND) applications for its clients, delivered more than 1,500 kg of COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies, and produced hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses, contributing greatly to global public health.
Behind these outstanding milestones were enabling innovation as the company's driving force and quality as its hallmark. Multiple innovative technology platforms represent WuXi Biologics' efforts to provide more efficient and cost-effective processes for global clients, resulting in more affordable and accessible biologics that can be brought more quickly to market. And the successful completion of 22 inspections by worldwide pharmaceutical regulatory agencies and over 180 client GMP audits demonstrates WuXi Biologics' unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest global quality standards for clients, patients and society at large.
Giving Back to Society
All of the company's milestones and achievements are inextricably linked to the expertise and dedication of the people at WuXi Biologics. The company is committed to the well-being of all employees and to a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). WuXi Biologics now has more than 10,000 employees in China, Ireland, the United States, Germany and Singapore, more than 53% of whom are women. With a focus on occupational safety, the company conducted more than 100 safety and health training sessions in 2021, totaling more than 50,000 hours of training time and covering all employees and contractors.
WuXi Biologics has consistently practiced social responsibility and encouraged employees to give back to their communities. In 2021, 798 employees from nine cities in four countries contributed a total of 3,192 hours to volunteer initiatives, covering public health, environmental protection, and youth education. WuXi Biologics' response to the July 2021 Henan floods included an immediate CNY 10 million donation for disaster relief by the WuXi Biologics Charity Foundation, programs to subsidize reconstruction efforts and financial support from the company for impacted employees.
Responsible Governance
Compliance is a cornerstone of WuXi Biologics' business and key to sustainability. The company is guided by shared values of integrity and has zero tolerance for business ethics violations. In 2021, all staff completed compliance training, with a 100% participation and pass rate. Emphasis is placed on information security and intellectual property protection, and measures implemented in these areas enabled the company to obtain ISO 27001 certification at two of its sites in 2021. The company's animal facilities earned accreditation from the International Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) in 2021, too.
As part of its commitment to maintaining a sustainable supply chain, WuXi Biologics works with suppliers who are socially and environmentally responsible, and who share its high standards, as outlined in its Code of Conduct for Business Partners. In addition, while pandemic circumstances continue to impact many around the world, the company's "Multi-Sourcing and Safety Stock" approach allows it to mitigate any potential risks from supply chain disruptions, and ensures the company can deliver quality products and accelerate project timelines to meet client needs.
WuXi Biologics has been well recognized for its excellent ESG performance by international agencies. The company was assessed as "Low Risk" and recognized as an "ESG Industry Top-Rated Company" by Sustainalytics, received an "A" ESG rating from the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) ESG rating, and was cited for "Best ESG" by Institutional Investor.
Dr. Chris Chen, WuXi Biologics' CEO and Chairman of the ESG Committee, commented: "Since its inception, WuXi Biologics has been committed to creating greater value for clients, employees, investors, as well as the community at large, while adhering to principles of sustainable development. With our ESG strategies in place, we look forward to refining our corporate governance, enhancing green operations, and actively fulfilling our social responsibilities. As a trusted partner, innovation enabler and contributor to the healthcare industry, we will continue to accelerate and transform the discovery, development and manufacturing of biologics through a comprehensive open-access platform, empowering our global partners and benefiting patients worldwide."
To view the report in full, please visit: https://www.wuxibiologics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021-ESG-Report.pdf
About WuXi Biologics
WuXi Biologics (stock code: 2269.HK) is a global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) offering end-to-end solutions that empower partners to discover, develop and manufacture biologics – from concept to commercialization – for the benefit of patients worldwide.
With over 10,000 skilled employees in China, the United States, Ireland, Germany and Singapore, WuXi Biologics leverages its technologies and expertise to provide customers with efficient and cost-effective biologics discovery, development and manufacturing solutions. As of the end of 2021, WuXi Biologics is supporting over 480 integrated client projects, including nine in commercial manufacturing.
WuXi Biologics views Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibilities as an integral component of our ethos and business strategy, and we aim to become an ESG leader in the biologics CRDMO sector. Our facilities use next-generation biomanufacturing technologies and clean energy sources. We have also established an ESG committee led by our CEO to steer the comprehensive ESG strategy and its implementation, further enhancing our commitment to sustainability. For more information about WuXi Biologics, please visit: www.wuxibiologics.com.
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TULSA, Okla., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) today increased the dividend for the first quarter 2023 by 3 cents per share to 65 cents per share, resulting in an annualized dividend of $2.60 per share.
The dividend is payable March 10, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business Feb. 24, 2023.
The company expects an average annual dividend increase of 4% to 6% through 2027, with a target dividend payout ratio of 55% to 65% of net income, subject to its board of directors' approval.
The Company also narrowed its 2022 financial guidance to earnings of $4.06 to $4.10 per diluted share from the previous range of $4.00 to $4.16 per diluted share. Net income is now expected to be in the range of $221 million to $223 million. Capital investments are expected to be approximately $655 million.
ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) is a 100-percent regulated natural gas utility, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "OGS." ONE Gas is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and is one of the largest natural gas utilities in the United States.
Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ONE Gas provides a reliable and affordable energy choice to more than 2.3 million customers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Its divisions include Kansas Gas Service, the largest natural gas distributor in Kansas; Oklahoma Natural Gas, the largest in Oklahoma; and Texas Gas Service, the third largest in Texas, in terms of customers.
For more information and the latest news about ONE Gas, visit onegas.com and follow its social channels: @ONEGas, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A venomous king cobra which escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo six days ago has been located inside the building where its terrarium is located but has not yet been recaptured, the park said Friday.
The deadly snake escaped on Saturday via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure at the Skansen Aquarium, part of the zoo on Stockholm’s Djurgarden island. Park guests who were inside the building where the snakes are located were evacuated. The zoo later assessed that there was no general risk for employees or guests and and the rest of the zoo remained open.
The park said it had located the reptile overnight in a confined space near its terrarium and staff were now working to retrieve it.
If the snake had gotten out of the building, it would not have survived the cold climate, the park said.
The snake’s official name is Sir Vass (Sir Hiss), but since its escape has been nicknamed Houdini, after the escape artist who thwarted every attempt to cage him. The reptile had just moved into the terrarium.
King cobras can be up to 5.5 meters (18 feet) long and mainly live in India, southeast Asia, in Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Open space developments in Bayonne and Jersey City have each earned a Municipal Project of the Year award from the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers, the cities announced.
In Jersey City, the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza was recognized after the city’s Department of Infrastructure and the Division of Engineering completed the final piece of construction. Bayonne was cited for renovations to Fitzpatrick Park.
The transformation of the Newark Avenue plaza Dowtown gives Jersey City’s “restaurant row” the permanency it deserves, creating what city officials boast is one of the state’s premier destinations for shopping, dining, and community events. The city held multiple community meetings to garner public input and incorporate feedback throughout the design.
“After careful consideration, in 2015, we took a chance to establish a safe space for pedestrians where we could foster community and stimulate our local economy,” Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said. “To receive this award from the state-level seven years later further confirms that our vision has become a reality and a major success.”
The construction included more tree plantings, ADA accessibility, built-in seating, bicycle racks, better lighting for improved visibility, and steel bollards near active portions of the roadway to ensure the safety of pedestrians.
“This was a significant undertaking because we really wanted to make sure we met all the community’s needs and wants within the design, especially for our local businesses who stand to benefit in a major way from the permanency project,” said Paul Russo, city director of the Division of Engineering.
The pedestrian mall was first closed to vehicles in 2015 and the plaza was expanded to a second block in 2018. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the plaza was lengthened to Grove Street between Montgomery Street and Christopher Columbus Drive, as well as First Street and Newark Avenue.
Bayonne credited Consulting and Municipal Engineering Associates (CME) for the Fitzpatrick Park award in the Municipal Design Projects category for places with populations above 20,000.
The renovations at Fitzpatrick Park include new playground equipment, a hockey rink, game and picnic tables, and stormwater management upgrades. The playground has new structures with Police Department and Fire Department themes. These structures honor the former police and fire headquarters building that stood on the site for most of the 20th century.
“I would like to congratulate CME for this award, which recognizes the high quality of our recent renovations at Fitzpatrick Park,” Mayor Jimmy Davis said. “These renovations are an important part of our administration’s program of improvements throughout the Bayonne municipal park system. We are very proud that the Fitzpatrick Park renovations have won statewide recognition.” | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/11/jersey-city-bayonne-municipal-projects-earn-top-awards.html | 2022-11-25 16:01:29 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/11/jersey-city-bayonne-municipal-projects-earn-top-awards.html |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law new guidelines Friday involving race-based discussions in businesses and schools as part of his campaign againstcritical race theory,which he called “pernicious” ideology.
Passed by lawmakers earlier this year, the legislation bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist, and that they should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race or that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race. It also bars the notion that meritocracy is racist, or that discrimination is acceptable to achieve diversity.
“We believe in education, not indoctrination,” DeSantis said during Friday’s bill signing in South Florida.
DeSantis said Florida students will not have oppressive ideologies imposed on them, as the bill provides “substantive protections” for students in grades K to 12. He said “pernicious ideologies” will not be allowed.
“We will not use your tax dollars to teach our kids to hate this country or hate each other,” DeSantis said.
Opponents say DeSantis doesn’t have an accurate idea of what critical race theory is, and argue that his motives are to suppress an accurate account of Black history.
“It’s just illustrating Gov. DeSantis’ pattern of Black attack policies led by Republican legislators. He has taken a culture war to a classic Republican battleground, which is the public schools. It’s going to hurt our children’s futures,”’ said Democratic Rep. Angie Nixon, who is Black. “CRT is not taught in K-12 education here in our public schools.”
DeSantis’ focus on culture war issuesinvolving race, gender and the coronavirus have made him one of the most popular Republican politicians in the country and a likely 2024 presidential candidate.
Critical race theory centers on the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society. There is little evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it have been incorporated into teaching materials.
Black lawmakers in Florida have said they believe the legislation will have a chilling effect on how African American history is taught because teachers will fear lawsuits if students’ parents object to how they present subjects like slavery, segregation, lynchings and the continued presence of racism in the U.S.
“The governor is on his bogeyman tour of issues that are not issues,” Democratic Sen. Shevrin Jones, who is Black, said in an interview. “The Republicans continuously cloak themselves in freedom, but clearly pick and choose which freedoms and for whom they support said freedoms .. They sure don’t support the freedoms of Black people.”
The new law does expand language in state law requiring classroom instruction on ”the ramifications of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on individual freedoms,” as well as study of the history of slavery, segregation and racial oppression, and of contributions by Blacks in U.S. history. But such material cannot seek to “indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view” inconsistent with the law.
“What are we supposed to do, just let these ideologies overtake our entire education system?” DeSantis said at a campaign-style event Friday to sign the bill in the South Florida city of Hialeah. The gathered crowd responded, ’Noooo.’
“This is an ideology that was taking hold in a lot of elite institutions, the media, corporate America, the bureaucracy, the education establishment. Most Americans don’t want anything to do with this stuff,” DeSantis said.
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Series references white papers, practical applications, interviews & other resources to highlight different areas of relevance for marketing, event planning professionals
LAS VEGAS, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spiro™, the global brand experience agency for the NEW NOW™, introduces the newest installment of its thought leadership series, n·Spiro™, revealing how brands can build strong, high-impact brand communities in "Beyond the Room: The Four Phases of Community." The n·Spiro program explores a variety of topics relevant to today's marketing, branding and event professionals, with the latest theme focusing on how and why brands should go beyond transactional exchanges to build deeper relationships with their customers—by sparking connections that turn into continuing brand communities long after an "event" ends.
"Beyond the Room" examines just how critical fostering human connection is for today's audiences — and how brands can design events & experiences for connections that can be nurtured in between brand activations and beyond. While connecting and establishing relationships with consumers has always been an important part of conducting business, being intentional about creating community is especially important today. That's because the last few years have left people facing "experience deficits," or declines in the amount and quality of time that they spend with like-minded people.
"At the heart of the human condition is a desire for connection," said Beki Winchel, Spiro's Director of Thought Leadership & Innovation. "We as people want to feel seen, heard and valued. We want to find spaces to interact with others who share our values and have those values reflected back to us."
This theme, "Beyond the Room," focuses on the power of building brand community, and how brands and marketing professionals can purposefully design experiences that invite and foster lasting connection between participants, audiences and brands—both "in the room" of a brand's event and far beyond it.
"People attend events, but they join communities," said Jeff Stelmach, Spiro's Global President. "Today's event professionals need to be intentional about designing experiences that unite and connect audiences where they are and how they want to engage, no matter how the mediums, messaging or delivery methods have changed.
n·Spiro's thought leadership program includes insights from brand experience leaders across industries and explores a wide range of topics that help brands forge deeper relationships with their audiences. For more about Spiro and the agency's ongoing efforts to educate others through n·Spiro, visit ThisIsSpiro.com/nspiro.
About Spiro
Spiro is the global brand experience agency for the NEW NOW™. We create global events and experiences that redefine how humans connect, and we bring them to life across integrated physical, digital, mobile and hybrid mediums. Working with some of the world's most recognized brands, Spiro's strategists, creators, innovators, builders, marketers and specialists are skilled in analytic & strategic event management, creative design, and production. Working together, we deliver high-impact experiential exhibits, conferences & events, product launches, sponsorship activations, and consumer pop-ups that unite audiences – wherever they may be.
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Series Educates Marketers, Event Planners on How to Adapt to Ongoing Industry Shifts, Meet Audiences Where They Are & Create Experiences That Help Brands Build Connection, Loyalty & Community
LAS VEGAS, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The modern global events industry looks nothing like that of a few years ago, and today's successful marketing and event planning professionals are those who've learned to not only adapt to these changes, but leverage them to their clients' benefit. When Spiro™, the global brand experience agency for the NEW NOW™, introduced its n·Spiro™ thought leadership program late last year, it sought to help event planners do exactly that. Spiro continues to do so through the launch of n•Spiro's second theme, titled "The Core Four: A Framework for the Future of Events."
The thought leadership program references snackable "lite" papers, trend reports, "pin drops," dashboards, interviews, videos, boardroom presentations and other resources to identify areas of interest and relevance for the global events industry. Its second theme delves into the four principles that are crucial to shaping impactful events that stand out, both now and in the future – and how each principle can help brands evolve and succeed in today's rapidly changing events landscape.
"In-person events have always played a critical role for brands in building authentic human connections," said Spiro's Global President, Jeff Stelmach. "However, consumers now want those human-like connections, regardless of how they attend or engage. An event's location has become more fluid, and the very definition of 'event' has changed as a result. The 'Core Four' principles help today's event professionals understand these complexities and find effective ways to connect with their audiences, wherever they are."
The "Core Four" principles covered in the series include the NEW NOW™, THERE•ness™, ARL™ (All Real Life) and Community. NEW NOW refers to the always-evolving state of the events industry. THERE•ness, meanwhile, refers to the concept of event attendees having the autonomy to choose when, where and how they want to engage in a particular experience - and the mode through which they choose to participate.
ARL (All Real Life) emphasizes the fact that event planners no longer need to distinguish between IRL, URL or hybrid opportunities when planning events, as their audiences now toggle back and forth seamlessly between digital and physical experiences. The fourth core principle, Community, shows marketing and event professionals how to create powerful moments of connection that make an impact during a meeting or event - and serve as a catalyst for creating ongoing connections that lead to the creation of new communities.
"At the end of the day, people attend events, but they join communities," said Spiro's Thought Leadership and Innovation Director Beki Winchel. "The Core Four principles form a framework that helps marketing, event and brand leaders design events and experiences that meet customers, employees and other audiences where THEY are. It gives power to the people and positions brand experiences as the catalysts to connections that turn into thriving communities."
In addition to insight from Spiro professionals, n·Spiro's thought leadership program includes insights from brand experience leaders across industries and explores a wide range of topics that help brands forge deeper relationships with their audiences.
Upcoming themes will explore everything from how to weave the top seven human needs into event & experience design, to how brands can continue to build rapport and community with audiences long after attendees have returned to their day-to-day lives.
For more about Spiro and the agency's thought leadership program, n•Spiro, check out ThisIsSpiro.com/nspiro.
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HOUSTON, Texas (WGHP) — Rapper Takeoff was shot and killed, allegedly while playing dice in Houston, according to reports. He was 28.
TMZ is reporting that Takeoff, one-third of the hip-hop group Migos, was killed early Tuesday morning. Law enforcement and witnesses said it happened around 2:30 a.m. at a bowling alley.
Takeoff, whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, and his uncle and groupmate Quavo, whose real name is Quavious Keyate Marshall, were at the bowling alley allegedly playing dice with another group when an altercation broke out and someone opened fire, hitting Takeoff, TMZ reported.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The media outlet also reported Quavo was not injured.
Two other people may have been shot in the altercation as well, but there was no immediate word on their conditions.
Weeks ago, Quavo and Takeoff released their debut “Only Built for Infinity Links,” without the third Migos member, Offset, whose real name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus.
Migos’ breakout smash hit was 2013’s “Versace,” which later featured Drake. The rap trio went on to dominate the charts with other collaborators including Jay-Z, Beyonce, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and Lil Uzi Vert.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — There’s no Bisons fan more loved and recognizable than Mark Aichinger.
If you’ve attended a game, you’ve likely heard the “ballpark icon” supporting the home team from the Sahlen Field stands with his classic heckles and gestures, including shouts of “you stink!” and a point to his armpit directed at opposing pitchers.
This September, that iconic gesture will be immortalized in bobblehead form.
The Bisons announced a “MARK Bobblehead Giveaway” for their Sept. 2 game against the Indianapolis Indians, with the first 2,000 fans to enter through the Swan Street gate receiving a bobblehead depicting Aichinger in a Bisons jersey and cap pointing to his armpit.
“It cannot be overstated how Mark is not only a part of our Bisons Baseball family, but how he has become such an integral part of the Bisons Baseball Experience at Sahlen Field,” Bisons general manager Anthony Sprague said in a release. “Our fans and our team feed off his energy and passion. When former Bisons players and coaches return to Buffalo, they look for him. The fun and excitement he brings to every game is what Bisons baseball is all about.”
MARK Bobblehead Giveaway night will be a celebration of Aichinger’s support and passion for the Bisons as a season ticket holder of more than 25 years, according to the team. Fans can purchase tickets for the game here.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- "Electromod" Jeep® CJ Surge concept explores an efficient battery-electric propulsion system of the future
- Two new attention-grabbing Ram concept trucks feature an array of innovative Mopar performance parts and accessories for the active work-and-play-lifestyle customer
- Mopar will showcase an array of customized vehicles and its latest quality-tested, factory-backed performance parts and accessories in its 15,345-square-foot exhibit in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center Show, Nov. 1-4
- This year marks the 85th anniversary of Mopar, the global name for Stellantis' genuine parts and authentic accessories
- For downloadable images of the new Mopar concept vehicles, visit the Stellantis North America media site
Mopar is charging into this year's Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas with three new head-turning concept vehicles and hundreds of quality-tested, factory-backed performance parts and accessories.
Inside the 15,345-square-foot exhibit in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center Show, Nov. 1-4, showgoers will experience the passion, creativity and innovation of Mopar - the iconic, 85-year-old performance brand.
"With a spotlight on electrification, Mopar is in a great position to fully enhance the customer experience with quality-tested, factory-backed parts and accessories," said Mark Bosanac, North America senior vice president, Mopar service, parts and customer care. "The Jeep CJ Surge concept explores a future zero-emission propulsion system kit and supports the Jeep brand's mission to become the leading electrified SUV brand in the world. Separately, our Ram 1500 Backcountry X and TRX Gold Shot concepts showcase a truckload of innovative Mopar accessories for our award-winning full-size trucks."
Following is information on each of the three new concept vehicles:
Jeep CJ Surge Concept
Custom designed and engineered to explore an efficient battery-electric propulsion system for classic Jeep models, the Jeep CJ Surge electromod concept allows Mopar designers and engineers to gain a better understanding of potential battery-electric vehicle (BEV) parts kit applications, leading to a future propulsion-system offering for enthusiasts to build or convert classic and current cars and trucks into zero-emission vehicles.
A true Jeep 4x4, the CJ Surge concept is powered by a custom propulsion system. Under the hood, a scalable 400-volt, 200-kW Electric Drive Module mounts to the frame with custom-designed solid motor mounts. Power to all four wheels is supplied by 24 lithium-ion battery modules and torque runs through a two-speed Jeep transfer case with selectable gearing. Battery modules are enclosed in a custom shell mounted in the rear of the passenger cabin.
Riding high on 35-inch BFGoodrich all-terrain tires paired with a 2-inch lift kit, the stunning Copper Canyon body stands out with gloss black and Surf Blue Surge graphics and bodyside striping. The concept hood and bezel are painted gloss black, along with the iconic seven-slot Jeep grille.
The CJ Surge concept rolls on matte black 18-by-9-inch Black Rhino Solid wheels that carry Surf Blue accents on the rim beads and ride below the oversized concept fender flares. Front and rear Jeep Performance Parts (JPP) Dana 44 Crate axles help the CJ Surge concept easily crawl over rocks and boulders.
A JPP Wrangler JK Rubicon Bumper Kit carries a JPP Rubicon Warn winch up front and is flanked on both sides by Surf Blue tow hooks and amber LED fog lamps. Underbody protection is provided by JPP Rubicon skid and front-bumper plates and concept JPP rock rails. A custom BEV charge port is located just behind the driver-side door opening.
Looking out from the 2-inch cropped windshield, the driver and passenger are perched in custom seats installed with concept seat risers. Both seats feature Surf Blue stitching on the black Sedoso cloth and houndstooth fabric inserts.
A Wrangler JK center console features a rotary shifter knob, while Mopar instrument-panel gauges include a charge indicator to let the driver know how much battery life remains.
The cockpit of the CJ Surge concept is surrounded by a custom-built roll cage, while a custom-shaped bikini top offers valuable shade and cover from the elements. No JPP concept would be complete without a set of Mopar all-weather floor mats.
To cap off the interior touches, the custom steering wheel is adorned by a unique JPP horn pad badge.
Ram 1500 TRX Gold Shot Concept
The eye-catching Ram 1500 TRX Gold Shot concept transforms the apex predator of the production truck world into a custom high-performance toy hauler for the motocross enthusiast.
Built upon the 702-horsepower Ram 1500 TRX - the quickest, fastest and most powerful pickup truck in the world - the Satin Bitter Yellow/Satin Black concept carries massive TRX side graphics and brings the proven high-speed capability and durability to arrive at the off-road trails in record time.
Custom-designed, Vintage Bronze 18-by-9.5-inch Black Rhino Chamber wheels ride on 37-inch BFGoodrich tires for a performance-inspired appearance at all four corners. Providing easy access to a pair of motorcycles in the truck bed is a Mopar bed step that lowers for easy access and, with a gentle push, retracts to a stored, out-of-the way position.
Behind the cab, a RamBar accessory bar features a pair of concept 14-inch TYRI rectangular LED lights, generating 4,300 lumens of exceptionally bright light. The truck-bed surface is protected by a black, Mopar spray-in textured bedliner.
Protecting the front and rear underside areas of the TRX Gold Shot concept are custom metal skid plates that feature laser-etched Mopar lettering. Use of the front skid plate helps to increase the approach angle by 2.3 degrees up to 32.5 degrees. Mopar rock rails also help protect the side sills from any damage.
Just below the rear bumper, a pair of 5-inch black Mopar exhaust tips provide a sporty, finished appearance.
The premium interior of the TRX Gold Shot concept comes straight from the award-winning Ram 1500 TRX production model with center stack, instrument cluster, flat-bottom steering wheel with prominent paddle shifters and center-console-mounted floor shifter.
Alaska Gold stitching and accents throughout the interior cabin match the striking exterior look.
Aggressive sport seats are premium wrapped with Capri leather and perforated Alcantara suede inner bolsters. Gold Spinneybeck leather chaser stripes provide a bold use of exterior-matching contrast color to the black front and rear seats. Both front seats feature embroidered TRX logos on the upper back panels and Mopar logos on the outboard shoulder bolster.
A vinyl floor from the Ram 1500 Tradesman model allows for quick and easy interior cleaning.
Ram 1500 Backcountry X Concept
For the truck owner who is serious about combining work and play, the Ram 1500 Backcountry X concept builds upon the class-exclusive RamBox cargo management system with custom-designed RamPack and RamRack features that significantly increase the secure storage space without compromising the functionality of the pickup bed.
Designed for sleek and integrated fit on both sides of the truck bed, the conceptual RamPack storage compartments – located above the standard RamBox on each bed side – open via a single, carbon-fiber, hatch-type panel. Valuable storage space is expanded by more than 68% (up to 12.3 cubic feet) with the custom RamPack system. Custom rectangular shelves run the full length of the vast compartments and a pair of tie-down loops provide secure mounting locations. Mopar RamBox vertical bin dividers also help to keep stored gear organized.
The custom RamRack on the Ram 1500 Backcountry X continues the design investigation of the telescoping storage-rack system first shown on the Ram 1500 Outdoorsman concept at the 2021 SEMA Show. The RamRack uses additional Thule cross rails above the bed for mounting gear and accessories. Attached in each corner of the RamRack are 2-inch TYRI LED lights, while a Center High Mount Stop Light adds a third brake light to the rear crossbar.
On the inside panel of the tailgate, a custom Mopar RamGate task-bench insert features various conversion charts and an angle finder coupled with an array of Rockler woodworking hardware. A durable Mopar spray-in bedliner protects the floor of the truck bed.
The Ram 1500 Backcountry X concept rides on a Mopar 2-inch lift kit with FOX shocks, matte-black 20-by-9-inch Fuel Heater wheels and 37-inch BFGoodrich tires. The two-tone Matte Iced Silver Titanium and matte-black exterior stands out with contrasting anodized orange bodyside stripes and accents on the hood, tow hooks (front and rear) and grille badge.
Up front, a Mopar tubular grille guard has four Mopar 5-inch LED off-road lights to provide significantly enhanced forward lighting.
Black-painted Mopar tube steps, located on both side rails, provide easy entry and exit from the elevated cabin. A Mopar rear bed step uses an articulating arm that lowers down for easy access to the truck bed and retracts back to a stored position.
Inside, tone-on-tone neutral green front and second-row bucket seats feature contrasting orange accent stitching that carries throughout the cabin on the steering wheel, door panels and armrests. Contrasting anodized orange air vent controls also provide a custom look and feel.
Front bucket seats wear custom embroidered Backcountry X and Mopar logos. Between the front seats, a custom, deployable work surface with an integrated measuring system slides out from the soft center armrest and provides 12 by 14 inches of additional workspace.
Unique interior A-pillar handles and exterior C-pillar handles are wrapped with a stylish black Gode-Tex vinyl.
Floor protection is provided by Mopar all-weather mats, while under the second-row bench seat, a concept RamVac on-board vacuum makes cleaning the cabin area easy after coming back from the trail or the worksite.
Even More Mopar Concepts
Making their SEMA debuts are additional custom vehicles from Jeep including:
- Jeep Gladiator D-Coder Concept
- Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk 4xe Concept
- Jeep '41 Concept
- Jeep Wrangler 4xe Birdcage Concept
- Jeep Wrangler Magneto 2.0 Concept
- Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 - 20th Anniversary Concept
In addition, two new customized vehicles from Mark Worman, legendary Mopar enthusiast and star of Motor Trend's Graveyard Carz, will also be making their debuts at the 2022 SEMA Show:
- 1970 Dodge Challenger TA, painted Vitamin C Orange and powered by a Hellcrate Redeye 6.2-liter supercharged HEMI® V-8 crate engine
- 1971 Plymouth Barracuda, painted factory B5 Blue and powered by a 426-cubic-inch HEMI V-8
For downloadable images of the new Mopar concept vehicles, visit the Stellantis North America media site
Mopar
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Mopar, the global name for Stellantis genuine parts and authentic accessories.
A simple combination of the words MOtor and PARts, Mopar offers exceptional service, parts and customer-care. Born in 1937 as the name of a line of antifreeze products, Mopar has evolved over 85 years to represent both complete vehicle care and authentic performance for owners and enthusiasts worldwide.
Mopar made its mark in the 1960s during the muscle-car era with performance parts to enhance speed and handling for both on-road and racing use. Later, Mopar expanded to include technical service and customer support, and today integrates service, parts and customer-care operations in order to enhance customer and dealer support worldwide.
Complete information on Mopar is available at www.mopar.com and the newly redesigned Mopar blog at www.blog.mopar.com. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please visit www.stellantis.com.
Follow Mopar and company news and video on:
Company blog: blog.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Media website: media.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Mopar brand: www.mopar.com/
NEW Mopar blog: blog.mopar.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mopar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/officialmopar
Twitter: twitter.com/OfficialMOPAR
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/mopar or www.youtube.com/StellantisNA
Jeep Performance Parts
Created in 2012 and offered by Mopar for the Jeep brand, Jeep Performance Parts (JPP) provide off-road enthusiasts with high-end, hard-core quality aftermarket accessories and performance parts. The portfolio of factory-backed, quality-tested parts includes axles, lift kits, bumpers, winches, skid plates, suspension components and more. The products are created in close conjunction with the Jeep brand, engineering and product design-office teams for development, testing and validation. Strict standards and factory-exclusive data — information not available to the aftermarket — are used to seamlessly integrate performance parts and accessories in order to deliver proper fit, finish and quality right down to the color, grain and appearance of each product. To see the full line of Jeep Performance Parts, visit mopar.com/jpp.
Stellantis Parts and Services
Supporting automotive customers throughout the world, Stellantis Parts and Services is a diverse, dedicated team committed to providing exceptional customer service and a 360-degreee, multi-brand, one-stop-shop solution. With certified technical expertise, a vast distribution network and a comprehensive portfolio of approved multi-brand parts and accessories, the focus of the division is to efficiently deliver the right quality part to the right place at the right time – the first time and every time. With the arrival of electrification and the significance of circular economy and the Independent Aftermarket, Stellantis Parts and Services is well-positioned to transform and enhance the customer experience.
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(NEXSTAR) – After weeks of uncertainty, Elon Musk made good on his threats to remove blue checkmarks from the accounts of verified users on Thursday.
From former President Donald J. Trump to celebrities LeBron James and William Shatner, users who didn’t pay up to retain the blue badge lost them.
The costs of keeping the marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization, plus $50 monthly for each affiliate or employee account. Twitter does not verify the individual accounts to ensure they are who they say they are, as was the case with the previous blue check doled out during the platform’s pre-Musk administration.
Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks began disappearing from these users’ profiles late morning Pacific Time.
Converting what was once a signal of authenticity into a revenue stream has caused confusion, made worse by several false starts. When CEO Musk first made it possible for users to buy a blue checkmark, fake accounts purporting to belong to former President George W. Bush and Ely Lilly sprang up.
Adding to the complexity in November, Musk created a multicolored system with various checkmarks for different entities.
On Thursday, some mourned the loss of their checkmark while others poked fun at its demise.
“It can be spelled both ‘checkmark’ and ‘check mark,’ not that it really matters anymore,” Dictionary.com tweeted.
The first evidence of checkmark-related confusion started to emerge as well, with a check-less @nycgov tweeting, “This is an authentic Twitter account representing the New York City Government,” to which @NYCG0VERNMENT replied, “No, you’re not. THIS account is the only authentic Twitter account representing and run by the New York City Government.”
Other organizations, such as the Washington State Department of Natural Resources recommended visitors go to its website and click the Twitter icon at the bottom of the page to reach the verified government Twitter account.
The demise of the blue checkmark
After buying Twitter for $44 billion in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more people to pay for a premium subscription. But his move also reflects his assertion that the blue verification marks have become an undeserved or “corrupt” status symbol for elite personalities, news reporters and others granted verification for free by Twitter’s previous leadership.
Twitter began tagging profiles with a blue checkmark starting about 14 years ago. Along with shielding celebrities from impersonators, one of the main reasons was to provide an extra tool to curb misinformation coming from accounts impersonating people. Most “legacy blue checks,” including the accounts of politicians, activists and people who suddenly find themselves in the news, as well as little-known journalists at small publications around the globe, are not household names.
One of Musk’s first product moves after taking over Twitter was to launch a service granting blue checks to anyone willing to pay $8 a month. But it was quickly inundated by impostor accounts, including those impersonating Nintendo, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Musk’s businesses Tesla and SpaceX, so Twitter had to temporarily suspend the service days after its launch.
The relaunched service costs $8 a month for web users and $11 a month for users of its iPhone or Android apps. Subscribers are supposed to see fewer ads, be able to post longer videos and have their tweets featured more prominently.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/its-finally-happening-twitter-users-bid-farewell-to-blue-checkmarks/ | 2023-04-20 22:30:17 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/its-finally-happening-twitter-users-bid-farewell-to-blue-checkmarks/ |
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