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This week (March 1), Broccoli City and partner Live Nation Urban announce that the beloved Broccoli City Festival is returning to the RFK Stadium Festival Grounds in Washington, DC July 15–16, 2023.
The festival kicks off on Saturday, July 15, with Lil Uzi Vert, Jazmine Sullivan, City Girls, Mariah the Scientist, Saucy Santana, Rema, Ice Spice, Finesse 2 Tymes, Tia Corineand OG Bobby Billions. The festivities continue on Sunday, July 16, with a special hometown headlining set from Brent Faiyaz, Kodak Black, Glorilla, Chloe Bailey, Asake, Coco Jones, Fat Trel, Lola Brooke, LARussell and Tre’ Amani.
This year’s festival also features a fresh “Battle of the Bands” installment on Saturday and Sunday with legendary go-go acts such as Backyard Band, Uncalled For Band (UCB), Total Control Band (TCB) Reaction Band, TakeOvaBand (TOB) and Sirius Company.
“This year’s lineup continues our tradition of celebrating culture in the DMV, both nationally and locally. We want to continue highlighting those who continue to play a role in driving progress in Black communities,” says Brandon McEachern, co-founder of Broccoli City Festival. “Our goal is to always create a dope cultural experience and highlight a diverse group of artists who are taking Black music to new heights, and I’m proud of how it’s come together.”
Other highlights include the return of staple BC Fest attractions including seamless entry, multiple stages of non-stop music, the best local food trucks, live art installations, interactive sponsor activations, an impact and marketplace village featuring Black-owned businesses and community programs. Beverages, including craft cocktails, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks will be served at bars throughout the festival grounds and in the VIP areas.
General Admission and VIP pass options go on sale Friday, March 3 at 10 a.m. ETthrough BCFestival.com/Tickets. BC Fest will take place from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., rain or shine.
For more information, including lineups, event news, and the latest updates, please visit the festival website: BCFestival.com, and follow @BroccoliCity on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An independent auditor will review the New York state government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts by the administration of the previous governor to downplay the number of deaths of nursing home residents.
The state plans to select an independent auditor, who would have until late 2023 to deliver a final report, under a timeline released Tuesday by current Gov. Kathy Hochul's office. Initial findings are expected in May.
The report will include a planning guide for future emergencies and will explore issues from the transfer of nursing home patients to the reopening of schools and businesses to efforts to purchase needed medical supplies.
The governor, who is running for her first full term in November and won the recent June Democratic gubernatorial primary, promised in mid-March to eventually launch a review of the state’s COVID-19 response.
Critics, including Republicans and Democratic Assemblymember Ron Kim, have said the Hochul administration has waited far too long to launch an investigation.
Hochul's spokesperson, Hazel Crampton-Hays, said the timing of the investigation is not connected to New York's political calendar.
"New Yorkers who have lived through being at the epicenter of a global pandemic, lost loved ones, and experienced economic hardship deserve a thoughtful, meaningful, and independent after action review, and we won’t rush through this important work for the political calendar,” Crampton-Hays said in a statement.
Kim said the independent auditors must probe the handling of COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, including the impact of efforts by the administration of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, to obscure the COVID-19 death toll by excluding out-of-facility deaths.
That toll excluded the deaths of over 4,000 New Yorkers, according to numbers released by the state in January 2021 in the wake of a damning attorney general report. Attorney General Letitia James' report also found a lack of infection controls at nursing homes put residents at increased risk of harm.
What "was the intent behind hiding the accurate death toll numbers, which precluded the legislators from intervening sooner on behalf of their panicked constituents?” Kim, a Queens lawmaker who has said his uncle died of suspected COVID-19 in a New York nursing home, said in a statement.
Cuomo and his administration used that incomplete data to erroneously claim that New York's share of COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents was among the nation's lowest. A March report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli called that claim “misleading” and said Cuomo officials should have known its data wasn't comparable to other states that included out-of-facility deaths.
Kim also wants scrutiny of a March 2020 directive that barred nursing homes from rejecting recovering coronavirus patients being discharged from hospitals.
James' report found that directive “may have contributed to increased risk of nursing home resident infection and subsequent fatalities.”
But James said the state needs additional data and analysis to conclusively prove such a link.
DiNapoli also found “persistent underinvestment in public health” may have hampered New York's pandemic response, as local and state health agencies struggled with inadequate staffing.
The Cuomo administration also faced criticism over health care workers' lack of access to masks and other needed COVID-19 supplies in the pandemic's early days.
Zucker repeatedly assured the public that New York had enough stockpiles of medical supplies at multiple public appearances from mid-January through February 2020.
But an AP review of state expenditure reports found Zucker’s agency only began spending far above average on medical supplies by March 19, when spending jumped from $1.6 million to $9 million.
Hospitals fearing supply shortages in spring 2020 instituted policies in some cases requiring use of a single surgical mask for as long as a week. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Independent-review-planned-for-New-York-s-17320094.php | 2022-07-21 18:39:36 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Independent-review-planned-for-New-York-s-17320094.php |
BOSTON and OXFORD, United Kingdom, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RENEW Energy Partners ("RENEW") and Manufacture 2030 ("M2030") are announcing a new phase of their plan to help corporations and their suppliers measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions.
This collaboration is responding to the growing number of multinational companies committing to science-based carbon reduction targets. Hitting these targets in time requires cutting emissions across the entire value chain, particularly Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services, which are located within the supply chain.
RENEW and M2030 teamed up earlier in 2022 with Edison Energy, a global energy and sustainability firm, to create the Accelerate Auto project, a $50M fund for decarbonization efforts targeted specifically at automotive suppliers. This next phase builds on the success of Accelerate, broadening the scope of the collaboration to include all industry sectors and increasing the funding available up to $300M.
Central to the partnership is a commitment to accelerate supplier decarbonization via the M2030 Climate Action Program (CAP). Unlocking financial barriers with easier access to greenfunding, provided by RENEW, for approved capital expenditure projects, is a key driver of climate action, along with supplier training and capability building.
M2030's industry-leading platform helps suppliers to identify what action to take, both at a manufacturing site and product level, to improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. Suppliers can build robust action plans and decarbonization roadmaps on the M2030 platform, and then RENEW can expedite funding for suppliers, offering these companies fully funded solutions to implement their roadmap more rapidly.
By combining these capabilities, RENEW and M2030 will ensure that suppliers are more likely to meet their customers sustainability targets on time and stay competitive.
"RENEW is excited to be supporting M2030 in their mission to reduce Scope 3 emissions," said Charlie Lord, Principal and Co-Founder of RENEW. "M2030's platform for tracking and reducing emissions provides the financial industry with the critical insights and information it needs to assess decarbonization projects. Our fully funded agreements can then make it financially compelling to move forward on these important projects."
Martin Chilcott, Chairman and CEO of M2030, added, "We are delighted to be expanding our partnership with RENEW to help remove financial barriers to progress, dramatically reducing emissions across global supply chains. Having previously worked together on the Accelerate Auto program, we know how impactful our joint capabilities can be, and the benefits this will bring to the suppliers participating in our decarbonization programs."
RENEW Energy Partners is a decarbonization firm that provides turnkey solutions for funding, installing, and managing energy-efficiency and on-site clean energy projects. The company helps building owners meet regulatory and consumer demands to reduce their carbon footprint, while saving money and making their buildings cleaner and more resilient. Upgrades and retrofits are funded by future savings. For more information, visit renewep.com.
Manufacture 2030 provides global brands, corporations and their small and medium-sized suppliers with the data, tools and support they need to be certain they can hit their GHG emissions reduction targets. Our unique software platform and support services help measure, manage, and reduce emissions across global supply chains. Our clients include leading brands Reckitt, Bayer, GSK, and Toyota. For more information, please visit manufacture2030.com.
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- BMO extends reach into Southern California, actively supporting the region's impact-driven soccer team
- BMO and ACFC to reallocate 10% of sponsorship value back to 'Girls Play Los Angeles' program
LOS ANGELES and CHICAGO and TORONTO, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Angel City Football Club today announced that BMO has joined the ACFC family as a Founding Partner. The announcement coincides with BMO announcing it secured the naming rights to Angel City's home stadium now called BMO Stadium. Angel City will kick off its season at BMO Stadium in downtown Los Angeles in late March 2023.
The partnership represents the bank's commitments to equity in sport and helping to grow the game in North America, reinforcing BMO as The Bank of Soccer. It also complements the U.S. expansion pillar of BMO's North American growth strategy, where BMO currently serves clients through over 500 branches, access to 42,000 ATMs, more than 5,000 employees, and digital banking services in all 50 U.S. states.
As The Bank of Soccer, BMO partners with MLS teams including LAFC, Toronto FC, CF Montréal, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC. BMO recently partnered with Toronto FC to launch the Women in Soccer Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind in Canada initiative providing women unique on-the-job experience in coaching, scouting, player development, team services and medical, creating a direct pathway to increase the number of women in sport.
The bank has also invested over C$25 million to engage, develop and cultivate youth soccer at every level of competition across Canada since 2005, supporting 150,000 youth athletes in the sport. As a Premier Partner of Ontario Soccer, BMO's support of more than 100,000 girls is helping enhance gender equity in the game and helping create systemic change at all levels of soccer. Through community impact-driven partnerships like these, BMO is growing the game of soccer across North America.
Both organizations are aligned in their commitment to eliminating barriers to inclusion and driving equity in sport. BMO is committed to supporting underrepresented groups within soccer to level the playing field.
"Inspired by our Purpose, to Boldly Grow the Good in business and life, and driven by a commitment to progress and advancing gender equity in soccer, this partnership unifies BMO and ACFC in a common goal," said Cameron Fowler, Chief Strategy and Operations Officer, BMO. "As The Bank of Soccer, we are committed to growing the game across North America, founded upon a belief that by creating equal opportunities, we can inspire a new generation of players, leaders, and coaches to reach their full potential on and off the field. We are excited to share the bank's passion for the game with Angel City FC and the Los Angeles community."
"We are excited to work alongside BMO to create opportunities across Los Angeles to help build future leaders and grow the game of soccer together," said Julie Uhrman, Co-Founder and President of Angel City Football Club. "We are inspired by all that BMO has done to support soccer across North America and now in Los Angeles. We are thrilled to welcome them to the Angel City Family and make a positive impact."
As with each sponsor of ACFC, BMO and ACFC will reallocate 10% of the partnership back into the community through the Angel City Sponsorship Model. ACFC and BMO will reallocate 10% of the sponsorship to Girls Play Los Angeles (GPLA). BMO will be supporting over 400 high school-aged girls and non-binary youth across Los Angeles with no-cost access to soccer. The program will include dedicated leadership development sessions to prepare participants for college admission and encourage a life-long personal and professional relationship with sport.
To further this partnership, ACFC will create a content series with BMO highlighting equity discussions in the community. This series is designed to amplify the equity discussion and its progress with BMO executives, the community, and ACFC circles.
ABOUT BMO
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of C$1.14 trillion as of October 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
ABOUT ANGEL CITY FOOTBALL CLUB
Angel City Football Club (ACFC), the 11th member of the National Women's Soccer League, is heading into its sophomore season. The team is founded by Academy Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman, technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman, media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and venture capitalist, 776 founder and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Freya Coombe leads the team as head coach. The club plays all home games at BMO Stadium in downtown Los Angeles.
Learn more about ACFC at www.angelcity.com and follow the team on social media @weareangelcity. Season tickets for the 2023 season are on sale now in limited quantities. Fans are encouraged to purchase sooner rather than later at https://angelcity.com/tickets.
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IOWA (WHO-TV) – An autopsy released Thursday revealed the causes of death for three family members who were killed at an eastern Iowa state park last month, as well as for the man believed to have killed them.
The bodies of the Cedar Falls, Iowa family were found at the Maquoketa Caves State Park on July 22; their deaths have been ruled homicides.
Tyler Schmidt, 42, was killed by a gunshot wound and “multiple sharp force injuries,” according to an Iowa Dept. of Public Safety news release. Sarah Schmidt, 42, died of multiple sharp force injuries, and 6-year-old Lula Schmidt died from a gunshot wound and strangulation.
Investigators previously said a fourth family member, 9-year-old Arlo Schmidt, survived the attack without physical injury. As of Thursday, it wasn’t clear whether or not he was in the tent when the deadly attack happened.
The cause of death for 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, of LaVista, Nebraska, who the department said killed the Schmidts, was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators found Sherwin’s body in a wooded area outside of the campground.
Investigators have said they don’t know what caused Sherwin to attack the family.
The DCI is continuing its investigation into the deaths, but said in the release, “However, the known facts and circumstances, and all evidence collected to this point, substantiate Sherwin was the perpetrator of the homicides and acted alone.”
No other information was released by the DCI.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/parents-6-year-old-killed-at-iowa-state-park-were-shot-stabbed-strangled-autopsy/ | 2022-08-05 00:36:04 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/parents-6-year-old-killed-at-iowa-state-park-were-shot-stabbed-strangled-autopsy/ |
SHANGHAI, June 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, 2022, Dragon Boat announced that its IND application of the innovative anti-CLDN 18.2/CD47 bi-specific antibody (bsAb) injection (R&D code: BC007) was officially accepted by National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) under the acceptance number CXSL2200267. This drug is the first domestic clinical filing of the CLDN 18.2/ CD47 bsAb, which is intended for the treatment of late stage solid tumors.
BC007 is a innovative bsAb targeting CLDN 18.2 and CD47 and the early-stage development was completed collaboratively by Sanyou and Dragon Boat. Validation results of the in vivo efficacy showed that BC007 exhibited dose-dependent anti-tumor effects against CLDN18.2 overexpressing CDX mouse models of human gastric cancer, human pancreatic cancer and human colon cancer, and was significantly better than the selected comparator antibody. In the safety studies, hematological toxicity is one of the common challenges of CD47 targeting antibodies. But in the cynomolgus monkey toxicity study, multiple doses of BC007 was administered for 5 weeks without animal death, and the hematological toxicity was mild and well tolerated by the animals.
In March this year, the IND application of anti-CLDN 18.2 antibody injection (BC008) developed by Dragon Boat has been approved by National Medical Products Administration. In the future, Dragon Boat will bring greater clinical benefits to the patients by exploring more treatment options.
Dr. Guojun Lang, CEO of Sanyou, said "We sincerely congratulate Dragon Boat on the NMPA acceptance of IND application with the CLDN 18.2/CD47 bsAb, which is another milestone after the clinical approval of the anti-CLDN 18.2 nanoantibody co-developed by Sanyou and Dragon Boat in March. This project further proves the outstanding competency of Dragon Boat in the field of innovative biopharmaceutical research and development. This project is also another successful case of Sanyou's Cooperative Project Organization (CPO) business model. We wish the clinical studies will proceed successfully and benefit the patients as soon as possible".
About CLDN 18.2
Tight junction protein claudin-18 isoform 2 (CLDN18.2) is a member of the claudin family, which includes tight junction proteins that establish paracellular barriers to control the molecular passage and motions among cells. Normally, CLDN 18.2 is expressed only on the surface of differentiated epithelial cells of the gastric mucosa. However, after the development of malignant tumors, tight junction proteins are disrupted, exposing the CLDN 18.2 epitope on the surface of tumor cells. Studies have shown high CLDN 18.2 expression in the tumor cells of 50%-80% of gastric cancer patients and 60% of pancreatic cancer patients.
About CD47
CD47 is a glycosylated transmembrane protein, a key member of the immunosuppressive signaling pathway, which inhibits macrophage phagocytosis and mediates the immune escape mechanism of various malignant tumors, mainly by interacting with the inhibitory receptor signal-regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα), which is widely recognized as a "don't eat me" signal. Numerous studies have shown that CD47 is overexpressed in different types of tumors, including myeloma, smooth muscle sarcoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
About Dragon Boat Biopharmaceutical
Founded in 2005, Dragon Boat Pharmaceutical is a high-tech enterprise committed to the research and development of biologics. Dragon Boat focus on the therapeutic area for gastrointestinal cancer and are dedicated to bringing novel drugs for treating oncology and autoimmune disease to global patients. The company was wholly owned by Guilin Sanjin (002275) since 2013.
Adhering to the concept of independent innovation, Dragon Boat established a drug R&D center in Zhangjiang high-tech park, occupying 5,000 square meters, covering early discovery, preclinical research, IND, clinical research, BLA and manufacturing. The company's pipeline has 9 biologics candidates, covering multiple modalities and multiple immune targets. As of today, 4 of them entered the clinical development stage. With insistent investment to R&D and excellent drug discovery capability, Dragon Boat Pharmaceutical became a leading innovative biotech company in China.
About Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals
Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. is a biological high-tech enterprise focusing on R&D and services of innovative antibody drugs. Sanyou is committed to establishing a leading high-quality, high-throughput, integrated R&D and value transformation platform for innovative antibody drugs internationally, constructing a business ecosystem involving therapy, R&D, and diagnostic products and services, and cooperating with global biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and drug R&D companies to make a new progress in the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. Sanyou has established an innovative antibody drug integrated R&D laboratory of over 20,000 square meters with advanced facilities and equipment, and more than 40 core innovation technology platforms, including innovative antibody drug discovery featured with a series of trillion phage display antibody libraries, innovative antibody drug optimization, cell line construction, upstream and downstream process development, preclinical R&D and industrial development.
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Ronaldo twice had the ball in the net in quick succession shortly after half-time in Monday's goalless draw at Old Trafford.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner's initial strike was struck off for a clear offside, before he then stole in to score again as Newcastle prepared to take the resulting free-kick.
Ronaldo claimed the ball was already in play as Fabian Schar had played a short pass to Nick Pope, who was to take the free-kick.
Referee Craig Pawson disagreed, with his arm still in the air as Ronaldo tackled Pope, prompting a furious reaction from the United forward and his team-mates.
Nine of United's 10 outfield players – Luke Shaw the exception – surrounded Pawson, who then booked Ronaldo.
A statement from the FA on Tuesday read: "Manchester United FC has been charged with a breach of FA Rule E20.1 following its Premier League game against Newcastle United FC on Sunday (16/10/22).
"It's alleged that Manchester United FC failed to ensure its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the 49th minute of this match, and the club has until Thursday (20/10/22) to respond." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/news/united-charged-for-protests-during-newcastle-/1971006 | 2022-10-18 23:42:48 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/premier-league/news/united-charged-for-protests-during-newcastle-/1971006 |
Law enforcement officials believe the body found in a submerged vehicle Sunday is "more than likely" that of Kiely Rodni, the missing 16-year-old last seen almost three weeks ago at a campground party in Northern California, authorities said Monday.
Kiely was at the Prosser Family Campground on August 5 and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. August 6, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said. Her disappearance was initially treated as a possible abduction, which law enforcement later explained was because they "had nothing to go on."
Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said the case is still an active investigation and the victim has not yet been positively identified.
"Last night we did receive some information of the recovery of the vehicle that we've been searching for and it was located inside Prosser Lake," Moon said at a Monday news conference. "It was located within a search zone that we have been searching since the very beginning of our operation."
Moon added that the lone body found inside is believed to be the missing teen, though she did not name Kiely.
The vehicle was located by volunteer dive group Adventures with Purpose, who often join underwater searches, Moon said. It was found upside down about 14 feet beneath the lake's surface, which has dropped about 3 feet since the teen first disappeared, according to Nevada County Sheriff's Capt. Sam Brown said.
Multiple agencies contributed to the search for Kiely over the last two weeks, including dive teams and swimmers who also scanned the lake with side-scan sonar, Brown said.
There were 200-300 juveniles at the campground party, which was in a wooded area, said Placer County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Angela Musallam during a news conference last week.
The grounds are about 17 miles north of Lake Tahoe and 36 miles from Reno, Nevada.
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Bill Self said he’s doing well after a health scare kept him from coaching Kansas in the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments last month, and he reiterated Wednesday that he has no plans to step away from the Jayhawks any time soon.
Self spoke to reporters for the first time since March 8, when he went to an emergency room after a final shootaround for the conference tournament. He was complaining of chest tightness and concerns about his balance, and the 60-year-old had two stents placed to help treat blocked arteries at the University of Kansas Health System.
“To be honest,” Self said, “I haven’t done a lot since the Big 12 Tournament. But I’m exercising almost daily. I don’t know if you guys believe this: They told me that I need to improve my diet and exercise more.”
“But I feel fine,” the Hall of Fame coach continued. “My energy level is probably back to where it was prior to the episode but not where it’s getting ready to go, I believe. I think sometimes we don’t realize we don’t feel well until we actually feel well and know the difference. And I’m in the process of feeling well again, so I’m excited about that.”
Longtime assistant Norm Roberts guided the Jayhawks to the Big 12 title game, where they lost to Texas. They still received a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament, thanks to their regular-season Big 12 championship and strong schedule, and easily beat Howard in the first round before losing a 72-71 nail-biter to eighth-seeded Arkansas in the second round.
Self helped to run practices during both of the NCAA tourney games but decided against coaching on game day.
“I was never scared that I wasn’t going to be OK. But it was a different feeling,” he said. “I’m sure many have had it, but it was kind of like an out-of-body type experience that you really don’t know what’s going on. You have no control over what is going on. So it was something that I’d never experienced before, but it was never to the point where I felt like I was in danger.”
Self did acknowledge that the health scare made him reevaluate his future in coaching.
“I think the last several weeks I’ve been able to reflect on a lot of things,” he said. “The one thing I can tell you without question: I missed my job. I love my job and I want to do my job for a long time. That’s what is positive.”
“Now,” Self said, “for me to be effective doing that, I think I have to wake up a little bit and maybe do some things from a lifestyle standpoint, a personal habit standpoint, that I’ve been very, very, very inconsistent with my entire adult life. And I said that jokingly earlier, can you imagine a doctor telling you to lose weight, eat right and exercise? I’ve been told that a long time, but I’m taking that serious for the first time I probably have in my life.”
The Jayhawks, who are holding their end-of-season banquet Thursday, are poised to look much different next season.
Star freshman Gradey Dick has declared for the NBA draft, All-American forward Jalen Wilson has likewise announced his intentions to go pro, and Kevin McCullar Jr. is expected to join them. The Jayhawks also have had forwards MJ Rice and Zach Clemence, big man Cam Martin and guards Joseph Yesufu and Bobby Pettiford Jr. enter the transfer portal.
The Jayhawks have four high-level freshmen arriving next season, but Self acknowledged the need to work the portal.
“We’ve got work to do before we’re a top-10 team, but I’m really hopeful within weeks everybody would say they should be ranked higher than a top-10 team,” Self said. “I feel like we’re in on some good kids.”
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Breakthrough to Utilize its Expertise in Lab Development and Operations to Support Boulder's Burgeoning Yet Underserved Biotech Community
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough Properties, a leading global developer of life sciences real estate backed by a joint venture of Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, today announced it has acquired a 9.3-acre, four-building campus in Boulder, CO, which will be transformed into "Boulder 38 by Breakthrough" featuring 164,000-square-feet of office, lab and flex space.
Boulder 38 by Breakthrough is situated in the heart of the city within convenient proximity to local retail, restaurants and amenities, as well as large technology and life science campuses. Located at the intersection of 38th Street and Arapahoe, the property features easy access into and out of Boulder and is just one mile from Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, a 400,000-square-foot research and teaching facility at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"We are excited to bring the Breakthrough platform to Boulder and contribute to the phenomenal growth of a thriving life science innovation market," said Daniel D'Orazi, EVP and Chief Investment Officer. "From our fully integrated design and development teams to our highly experienced lab operations platform, Breakthrough is uniquely positioned to provide best-in-class infrastructure and amenities to meet the intense and growing demand for high quality lab and office environments in this supply-constrained market."
Research conducted at the University of Colorado and the surrounding ecosystem has helped to foster a thriving regional bioscience hub. According to CBRE market report data, the Boulder life sciences market has maintained over one million square feet of active life science requirements over the past 18 months, and workspaces with elevated amenities is a desired feature of the companies located in the area.
"Boulder has succeeded in cultivating a unique ecosystem propelled by leading research and academic institutions, creative residents and premier outdoor recreational amenities," said Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Paul DeMartini. "We are excited by this opportunity to create a world-class research campus that will serve as a magnet for life science innovation and talent."
The acquisition and redevelopment of Boulder 38 is being capitalized by the Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund. The Fund, which held its final closing in April of this year, raised $3 billion in direct capital and co-investments to scale a global portfolio of best-in-class ecosystems for dynamic early-, mid-, and late-stage life science companies.
Since its founding just over three years ago, Breakthrough has assembled a pipeline of more than 4.6 million square feet of projects in various stages of construction and pre-development across the United States and Europe.
Boulder is the fourth new market that Breakthrough has entered during 2022. Breakthrough recently announced its acquisition of 2300 Market Street in Philadelphia's burgeoning Center City district, with plans to redevelop the site to support over 200,000 square feet of life science space. Breakthrough also recently completed its first acquisitions in the Oxford and Cambridge life science hubs in England.
Other notable Breakthrough projects include The 105 by Breakthrough in Boston, home to CRISPR Therapeutics' U.S. facility; the 10-acre Torrey View by Breakthrough campus, which will house global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)'s expanded San Diego Reagent Innovation Center for its growing BD Biosciences, in San Diego; Trinity House in Oxford, England; and The Vitrum Building, located inside St. John's Innovation Park in Cambridge, England.
Breakthrough puts sustainability at the forefront of all of its initiatives with a particular emphasis on increasing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and providing healthy workspaces for users. The Company targets LEED Gold certification at its United States properties, as well as BREEAM Outstanding certification in all of its projects across the United Kingdom and EU markets.
About Breakthrough Properties (www.btprop.com)
Formed in 2019 as a joint venture between global real estate owner, developer and investor Tishman Speyer and biotechnology investment firm Bellco Capital, Breakthrough Properties is a life science real estate development company that leverages cross-sector collaboration to deliver environments that foster innovation and scientific breakthroughs. Breakthrough Properties' mission is to acquire, develop and operate the best life science properties in leading urban technology centers around the world and support scientific innovation across biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Breakthrough combines Tishman Speyer's decades of global real estate development experience with Bellco Capital's industry-making biotechnology entrepreneurship to reimagine environments where companies can create life-changing therapies for patients.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Production Lending recently closed and funded a $35,000,000 loan to a private, Midland-based oil and gas company. Proceeds from the loan will be used to drill and complete six horizontal wells in the northern Midland Basin, where the company has already successfully drilled and completed several wells on its acreage.
Production Lending's investment will allow the company to expedite the development of its large acreage position and take advantage of high commodity prices. The loan was structured to provide the company with flexibility around principal payments, additional development proceeds and early prepayment of the facility.
Production Lending is a Houston, TX based firm focused on secured debt investment opportunities in small, private, US-onshore oil and gas companies. It is owned and run by two former energy bankers, Abhishek Kumar and Ryan Childs, who have underwritten financing transactions worth more than $60 billion over their careers. Their business specializes in providing growth and acquisition financing in the form of short-term bridge capital and longer tenor debt and preferred equity investments throughout United States.
Since August 2016, Production Lending has funded 28 debt transactions for a total capital commitment of more than $105 million, along with an additional 12 preferred equity transactions worth more than $15 million. The firm specializes in providing growth and acquisition financing in the form of short-term bridge capital, longer tenor debt and preferred equity investments throughout the U.S. More information about Production Lending can be found at www.productionlending.com.
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United States picked to host 2025 Club World Cup, an expanded soccer tournament with 32 teams
GENEVA (AP) — The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025, the first time the FIFA tournament will have 32 teams.
Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea already earned places as recent Champions League winners for the expanded tournament lineup that is set to test stadiums and operations one year before the 2026 World Cup.
The United States will host the men’s World Cup with Canada and Mexico, and FIFA could yet give some Club World Cup games to those countries.
The Club World Cup will take place in June-July 2025. The United States was chosen as host Friday during an online meeting of the FIFA Council.
FIFA praised “the United States’ position as a proven leader in staging global events and because it would allow FIFA to maximize synergies with the delivery” of the 2026 tournament.
The Seattle Sounders also are in the lineup for the Club World Cup as the 2022 champion of North American soccer region CONCACAF. The Americans should get another entry as the host nation.
Storied European teams have visited the United States for preseason friendly games for years but the expanded club tournament will give fans a rare chance to see 12 of them play competitive games.
FIFA said in March the basic qualification path for clubs was to win a continental championship in any of the four years from 2021 to 2024 in the five main confederations: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Europe with 12 teams and South America with six are the only continents with more than four entries. Extra places should be awarded according to team rankings by results a four-year span in continental competitions.
The current seven-team Club World Cup for continental champions played every season creates little broad appeal and FIFA has long wanted to stage a full-sized tournament every four years.
This expanded version in 2025 is a huge commercial opportunity for FIFA to try new broadcasting models and sign new sponsors, funding hundreds of millions of dollars in prize money for the clubs.
The influential European Club Association said in March it hoped for talks with FIFA on how to manage the commercial rights.
The format for a Club World Cup lasting about three weeks has yet to be decided. One option is guaranteeing the 32 teams at least three games each playing in eight groups of four. The eight group winners could then advance to the quarterfinals. That would create a tournament of 56 games if a third-place game was included.
The current annual Club World Cup format will continue with a final edition scheduled for December in Saudi Arabia.
Reviving the Club World Cup was a priority for FIFA president Gianni Infantino on being elected in 2016, but his first project plan was blocked. A Saudi-linked $25 billion deal with Japanese technology investor SoftBank provoked anger from European soccer officials who saw it as secretive and an overreach by FIFA.
FIFA got agreement in 2019 for a 24-team event to launch in June 2021 in China, but that was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic before commercial details had been confirmed.
FIFA came back with a fresh Club World Cup plan after the Super League project led by an elite group of clubs quickly failed in April 2021 while causing intense turmoil for European soccer body UEFA.
Other teams already qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup are: Palmeiras (Brazil), Flamengo (Brazil), Monterrey (Mexico), Leon (Mexico), Al-Ahly (Egypt), Wydad Casablanca (Morocco), Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) and Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia).
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DEAR HELOISE: Houses with masonry siding have weep holes located every couple of feet apart along the base of the house. This is to let moist air flow out of the walls. However, it also allows critters to enter the home and live in the walls. To prevent this from happening, get a piece of tight mesh metal screen from a hardware store. Using tin snips, cut little 1-inch circles. Take one of those circles and wrap it around a pencil, then remove and push the mesh circle into the weep holes so it sets against the sides of the hole all around. You have now created a barrier to bugs while allowing air to flow in and out of your home.
-- Rich S.,
Bulverde, Texas
DEAR READER: This is a good idea. In many southern states there are very large cockroaches, geckos, fire ants and more that we need to keep out of our homes.
DEAR HELOISE: I found an 8-inch strip of duct tape on a torn seam on my son's sleeping bag. I removed the tape and decided to sew up the tear and wash it. However, after washing it, there was still some sticky residue from the duct tape. I tried everything I could think of to get the residue stickiness from the tape off of the fabric of the sleeping bag, but nothing worked. Finally, I took a 3-inch piece of tape and began to blot the sticky area with the tape, and it worked. It took a while, but I finally got that stubborn, sticky residue off.
-- Kay J.,
Clarksville, Ohio
DEAR HELOISE: It has been suggested that one in every three bites of food we eat depends on pollinators such as bees, butterflies and birds. Sadly, one of the major pollinators, bees, are dwindling globally, and could drastically affect food production worldwide.
To help bees, please plant flowers and shrubs in your gardens that attract bees and butterflies. Some of the flowers that attract butterflies and bees are hibiscus, mountain laurel, gardenia, rose of Sharon, rhododendron, zinnias, lavender and wisteria, to name a few. Do not use pesticides, because too many are poisonous to pollinators. By planting flowers and restricting pesticides, you'll be helping to save our planet and the pollinators we depend on.
-- Michael H.,
Defiance, Ohio
DEAR HELOISE: I retired and thought I couldn't wait to sleep in every morning instead of getting up at 5:30 a.m. five days a week. By the end of the first year, I was depressed and overweight. I went in to speak to a therapist, and she told me to go back to work at something or do volunteer work.
Working just two days a week has provided me with benefits physically and psychologically, just like the therapist said it would. It's just a simple job where I work 9 to 3, but it has widened my circle of friends, and it's fun to work among younger people and listen to them talk about their lives. The extra money is nice, too.
-- Patty L., Ashland, Wis.
DEAR READER: Work gives meaning to many people and gives us a reason to get up and get going. So I say, "Good for you, Patty!"
Send a money- or time-saving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000; fax to (210) 435-6473; or email
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The mayor of Poland’s capital, Warsaw, said Friday he has COVID-19. Again.
Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said on Twitter the virus seems to be “even more treacherous and contagious” then before and its symptoms are far from banal. Last year he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection.
He appealed to the Poles not to ignore the threat of potential reinfection. Trzaskowski, an opposition figure, also criticized Poland’s right-wing government for having taken no preventive steps of late to counter new variants.
The Health Ministry estimates the level of immunity in this nation of 38 million is above 90% due to inoculations, more than 54 million jabs, and to the resilience of those who have recovered from the disease. Nationwide measures are to be introduced when the number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 reaches 5,000.
But experts are saying the new variant is highly contagious and steps against its spreading should be taken now. The number of new registered infections was almost 2,000 on Friday and two people have died, while a week ago it was just over 1,000 new cases and no deaths.
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Florida Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson will no longer use 'AR15' nickname for this reason
University of Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is changing his nickname, abandoning the moniker "AR-15" because of its association with gun violence.
"While a nickname is only a nickname and 'AR-15' was simply a representation of my initials combined with my jersey number, it is important to me that my name and brand are no longer associated with the assault rifle that has been used in mass shootings, which I do not condone in any way or form," the Gators player said in a statement published to his Twitter.
Richardson said that, after thinking hard and consulting with friends and family, he would no longer use the nickname and would stop using a logo featuring a scope reticle as part of his branding.
"My representatives and I are currently working on rebranding, which includes the creation of a new logo and transitioning to simply using 'AR' and my name, Anthony Richardson," he added.
Richardson, who split time with Emory Jones as a redshirt freshman last season, threw for 529 yards, six touchdowns and five interceptions in seven games. Richardson is expected to be Florida's starting quarterback this season, as Jones transferred to Arizona State earlier this year.
Rick Hurtado, director of football communications for the Florida Gators, referred CNN to Richardson's statement when approached for comment.
America's problem with gun violence has once again been brought to the fore by an alarming surge in mass shootings, like those at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
AR-style weapons have been used in some of the country's deadliest shootings, including Uvalde, Tulsa, El Paso, Parkland, San Bernardino and Newtown.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Flights at Syria’s international airport in Aleppo resumed Friday, three days after it was put out of service by a suspected Israeli airstrike, the country’s head of civil aviation said.
Bassem Mansour told the pro-government Sham FM radio station that flights to and from the airport of Syria’s largest city resumed Friday morning after repairs were completed.
The suspected Israeli airstrike early Tuesday left multiple craters on the airport runway, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press showed Thursday.
Since the Feb. 6 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria killing more than 50,000 people, including over 6,000 in Syria, the airport has been a main entry point for jets carrying aid into the war-ton country. Authorities said after the strike that relief flights had been diverted to airports in Damascus and Latakia.
The attack on Aleppo airport comes after Israel struck the airfield as part of an Israeli campaign to disrupt Iranian weapons transfers into Syria for Iran-backed groups — including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Those attacks have continued despite ongoing political turmoil in Israel and as Iran’s nuclear program edges closer to enriching weapons-grade levels of uranium. Negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear capability have fallen apart.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.
Aleppo’s airport, like many others in Middle East nations, is a dual-use facility that includes civilian and military sides. Iran has been key in arming and supporting President Bashar Assad in his country’s long civil war.
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Phishing Scheme Attempted to Leverage Legitimate Government Site for Solicitation of Fake Philanthropic Donations
CAMBRIDGE, England, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, today announced that its Antigena Email product has added an early warning system, allowing members of the Darktrace community to contribute and benefit from insights gleaned from across the fleet. This new capability is now available to Antigena Email users and includes the extension of anonymized, learned domain behavioral profiles across Darktrace's expansive and diverse group of global customers.
"Darktrace stops all kinds of cyber-attacks against organizations in every sector in over 110 countries globally. That represents a huge bank of knowledge about how malicious payloads behave in the very earliest stage of a cyber-attack," commented Jack Stockdale, OBE, Darktrace CTO. "Antigena Email has now realized the vision of leveraging collaborative, anonymized insights to leave attackers with nowhere to hide."
Ninety-four percent of cyber-attacks begin in the inbox. As organizations continue to rely on email as a primary workplace collaboration tool and attacks become increasingly novel and sophisticated, email security technologies that rely on behavior rather than threat intelligence become more imperative.
Darktrace's Self-Learning AI observes emails to build bespoke behavioral profiles for each customer and leverages these behavioral profiles, rather than a ledger of binary 'good' or 'bad,' to accurately determine whether each email belongs in a recipient's inbox. Antigena Email uniquely analyzes domains within email addresses and links in email bodies and attachments to evaluate their popularity and typical presence in the inbox.
Now, when Antigena detects unusual domain behavior in a customer environment, a supplementary interpretation can be made by comparison with this new fleet-wide version of the behavioral profiles. This new functionality can lead to increased suspicion, for example, of a potential account compromise when a fleet-wide popular domain suddenly strays from its usual behavioral patterns – even in a trusted supplier or vendor.
This update recently allowed Darktrace to stop a phishing campaign sent from a compromised government account in South America that was soliciting fake philanthropic donations. Although the government domain was legitimate, the attacker had inserted their own "reply-to" address into the email headers. This address had zero domain precedent locally or globally and, in combination with other indicators, led Antigena Email to flag this email as suspicious.
About Darktrace
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 6,800 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. Darktrace's fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the Group has more than 2,000 employees worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine's 'Most Influential Companies' for 2021.
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Keep your cool with money-saving tips
With inflated energy prices, you might be wondering how to save money cooling your home this summer. If you usually rely heavily on air conditioning to cool your apartment, NOW’s the time to look for alternative methods.
These apartment-cooling tips will save you money in the summer without leaving your home uncomfortably warm. So, step away from the thermostat and embrace different ways of beating the heat.
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Money-saving apartment-cooling hacks
Close your curtains and shades
Sitting around in the dark might not feel particularly summery, but one of the best ways to keep your apartment cool is to close curtains and window shades early in the day. Do it before the sun comes in and starts warming your apartment. This way, you can reduce the temperature in your home by several degrees without ever turning on the air conditioning.
Be aware of when to open the windows
It might seem like keeping your windows open on a hot day would keep you cooler, but it doesn’t. When it’s hotter outside than inside, opening your windows will let cool air out and hot air in.
If it’s cool outside when you wake up or go to bed, open your windows. This will let in the cool air. As soon as the sun starts hitting your windows or the ambient temperature rises, close them to keep out the heat.
Make use of a smart thermostat
Many people find they save hundreds of dollars a year on their energy bills simply by switching to a smart thermostat. Smart thermostats carefully control the cooling system in your home so it works to your advantage. The exact settings you should use depend on a wide range of factors. Finding the correct balance can keep your apartment as cool as usual without using the air conditioning as frequently.
Consider a ceiling fan
Although ceiling fans don’t reduce the temperature in a room, they create a breeze and circulate air. When using a ceiling fan, you can raise the setting on your thermostat by 4 degrees without feeling any hotter.
These fans don’t cost much to run, especially if you opt for an Energy Star-rated model. Just make sure you set your fan to rotate counterclockwise in summer. This more effectively draws hot air upward so it sits near the ceiling rather than lower down in the room.
Use a tower fan instead of air conditioning
Air conditioners work by drawing in warm air, using chemicals to cool it and pumping it back out again. This is an energy-intensive process that uses around 3,500 watts of electricity per hour. Tower fans simply pull air in from the back of the unit and push it outward at force, which doesn’t cool a room but creates a cooling breeze. It’s much less energy-intensive, using roughly 2,400 watts in 24 hours.
Of course, tower fans only make you feel cooler while they’re blowing air onto you, which isn’t always practical. However, when you’re in bed, watching TV or working at a desk, it’s easy enough to point a fan at yourself. This way, you’ll use significantly less energy than you would with the air conditioning on.
Try ice to improve your fan
Sometimes the air in your home is just too warm for a fan to make much of a difference. In these cases, it can just feel like your fan is blowing hot air at you. However, if you place a bowl of ice in front of your fan, it will cool the air that blows out of your fan. You can also use a personal air conditioner, which works through evaporative cooling.
Freeze your pillow
If you find it hard to sleep in hot weather, try freezing your pillow before bed. It might sound strange, but it works. Put your pillow in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for 10 minutes before you get into bed. While it won’t cool your whole apartment or stay cold for long, it can be enough to help you drift off on a sweltering night.
Minimize appliance use
All appliances heat your home a little but some more than others. Keep your apartment cooler by running your washer and dryer as little as possible, so wait for a full load of laundry to build up. If you have a communal outside drying space, use this instead of your dryer to keep your apartment cool. Ovens and hobs create a lot of heat, so stick to salads and other foods that require little or no cooking when you can.
Best smart thermostats
This easy-to-use smart thermostat will help reduce your energy bills by reducing wasted energy when cooling your home. You can control it from anywhere, so if you accidentally leave your AC running when you leave your home, turning it off is no problem.
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Ecobee claims customers can save up to 23% on their energy bills just by properly programming their smart thermostat. It works with any smart home system.
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Best fans
Lasko Portable Electric Oscillating Tower Fan
This large, quiet tower fan is cheaper to run than AC, so a great alternative when you only need to cool one room.
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Honeywell HYF260 Quiet Set Whole Room Tower Fan
Affordable yet powerful enough to cool a whole room, this tower fan is a great money-saving alternative to running AC.
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Prominence Home Store Benton Ceiling Fan
Suitable for cooling average-sized rooms, this reasonably-priced ceiling fan is a great investment in cooling your apartment cheaply.
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Best window shades and curtains
Thanks to their effective light-blocking properties, these curtains are ideal for keeping the sun out of your apartment and reducing the temperature.
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ChrisDowa Blackout Roller Shade
Easy to install, this roller shade is a great alternative to curtains for keeping light out and your apartment cool.
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Republicans up and down the ballot are working to retool their message on crime going into 2024 after the party found only limited success with the issue in the midterms.
Last week, likely presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) traveled to the Democratic enclaves of New York and Chicago ahead of his expected presidential campaign launch with stops at police unions. Further south and down the ballot, the Republican State Leadership Committee rolled out a wave of digital ads in Virginia hitting Democrats over opposing legislation that would charge drug dealers with homicide. And former President Trump, who’s running for another White House bid in 2024, has repeatedly hammered President Biden on the issue.
The efforts come as the party looks to regain ground following the GOP’s disappointing midterm elections last year.
While the GOP generally underperformed in 2022, Republicans point to New York where the party made inroads focusing on crime as a top issue. Republicans in the Empire State picked up three House seats, including the one held by then-Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.). And despite ultimately losing to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), then-GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin performed better than expected against the governor.
“Lee Zeldin ran a one-issue campaign on the issue of crime,” said one House Republican strategist. “Every day he was at a metro stop or a corner store where somebody got shot or mugged.”
“That’s just a great case study in how effective the message can be,” the strategist added.
And Democrats say they too are keenly aware of the potency of the issue going into the next election.
“Democrats have learned that they need to take that issue very seriously and I hope, get ahead of it,” said Jon Reinish, a New York-based Democratic strategist.
Corey Grable, an Independent who is running for president of New York City’s Police Benevolent Association, told HillTV that policies promoted by the left flank of the Democratic Party, including calls to defund the police, have put the party on the wrong side of the issue.
“As far as the Democrats, I think that unfortunately, they’ve gotten out on the wrong side of the issue,” Grable said. “The reality is many of the policies that have been created have actually had this unintended consequence of actually hurting people that they were aiming to protect.”
And Republicans have used crime to tie the majority of Democratic candidates to the left-leaning flank.
“It’s the clearest and easiest way for Republicans to tag Democrats to the fringe of the party,” said the House Republican strategist.
But Democrats have employed a tougher-on-crime message in recent years while also acknowledging police brutality.
In his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Biden expressed support for police officers but noted the death of Tyre Nichols, an unarmed Black man who died in police custody last month.
Incumbent Democratic mayors, including Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is running for reelection and is against defunding the police, also find themselves under pressure on the issue. A WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 survey released earlier this month found that 44 percent of Chicago voters named crime and public safety as their “most important issue,” followed by criminal justice reform at 13 percent.
Lightfoot has accused some of her opponents of being supportive of defunding law enforcement on the debate stage and in ads.
Meanwhile, Republicans are also using crime and the situation at the southern border as a means to talk about the ongoing opioid crisis in the country.
“Crime is the starting point, but once we dig into what issues the issues of crime [are], this is one where we believe that this is a top issue that’s going to matter to voters this cycle,” said one Republican operative.
And polling shows that voters are concerned about the ongoing crisis.
An Axios-Ipsos survey released on Thursday found that 26 percent of voters, a plurality in the findings, said that they view opioids as the greatest threat to public health in the U.S. Thirty-seven percent of Republican voters said the same.
Biden and Democrats have incorporated the opioid crisis into more of their rhetoric, with Biden addressing the issue at the State of the Union.
“Having the president offering his own solutions which do have broad, bipartisan appeal about the opioid crisis I think was a major step in the right direction,” Reinish said. “Democrats have got to take the bull by the horns.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Adidas has appointed Bjørn Gulden, the CEO of rival Puma, as its new chief executive, and he will take over the German sportswear brand in January as the company weathers the fallout from its split with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Gulden will replace Kasper Rorsted, Adidas’ CEO since 2016, whose departure was announced in August. Adidas said at the time that Rorsted would hand over during the course of next year but said on Tuesday that he and the supervisory board “mutually agreed” that he will step down and leave the company Friday.
Chief Financial Officer Harm Ohlmeyer will head Adidas until the end of the year. He takes the helm temporarily after the company ended a partnership with Ye late last month amid mounting outcry over the rapper’s offensive and antisemitic remarks.
Adidas, which followed other companies in cutting ties with Ye, is expected to take a hit of up to 250 million euros (dollars) to its net income this year from the decision to immediately stop production of its line of Yeezy products and is left searching for another star to help it compete with ever-larger rival Nike.
Gulden, a 57-year-old Norwegian who was once a professional soccer and handball player, has been Puma’s CEO since 2013. He has worked at Adidas before and was its senior vice president of apparel and accessories from 1992 to 1999.
He also has served as CEO of Danish jewelry brand Pandora, managing director of footwear retailer Deichmann and president of Rack Room Shoes and is board chairman at Danish food retailer Salling Group.
Gulden “knows the industry extremely well and draws on a rich network in sport and retail,” Adidas supervisory board chairman Thomas Rabe said in a statement.
“As CEO of Puma, he reinvigorated the brand and led the company to record results,” Rabe said, adding that the Adidas board “is convinced that Bjørn Gulden will head Adidas into a new era of strength and is looking very much forward to a successful cooperation.”
Puma, which like Adidas is based in the southern German town of Herzogenaurach, said its chief commercial officer, Arne Freundt, will replace Gulden as its CEO. | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-adidas-appoints-boss-of-rival-puma-as-ceo-after-ye-fallout/ | 2022-11-08 16:19:24 | 1 | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-adidas-appoints-boss-of-rival-puma-as-ceo-after-ye-fallout/ |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed sale of CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CTT) to PotlatchDeltic Corporation (Nasdaq: PCH). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of CatchMark will receive only 0.23 shares of PotlatchDeltic for each share of CatchMark that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the consideration undervalues the Company.
If you believe that this transaction undervalues the Company and/or if you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-ctt/ to learn more.
To learn more about KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General, visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said Thursday he intends to veto a package of bills passed by the GOP-dominated legislature that targets the LGBTQ+ community, including a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and the state’s version of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Edwards has said throughout the legislative session, which ended Thursday, that he opposes the series of LGBTQ+ bills. If Edwards blocks the bills, lawmakers can convene for a veto session. Overriding a veto requires support from two-thirds of both the House and Senate — and Republicans hold a two-thirds majority in both chambers. Louisiana legislators have only convened for two veto sessions since 1974.
While the main job of lawmakers for the past two months has been to pass a state budget, debate over the contentious anti-LGBTQ+ bills has gained statewide and national attention this session.
Marked by misinformation, religious arguments, hours of emotional testimony from the LGBTQ+ community, and a dramatic resurrection of a bill once presumed dead, Louisiana’s culture divide echoes what has been seen in GOP-led statehouses across the country, where bills targeting the transgender community have topped conservative agendas.
This year alone, more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in 41 states, according to data collected by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization. On Tuesday, HRC declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S., releasing a guidebook containing resources to help people relocate to states with stronger LGBTQ+ protections.
In the waning days of the session, lawmakers passed a series of controversial legislation, including: A “Don’t Say Gay” bill that broadly bars teachers from discussing gender-identity and sexual orientation in public school classrooms; a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths; and a measure requiring public school teachers to use the pronouns and name that align with a student’s sex assigned at birth.
The bills have not yet reached Edwards’ desk. But when asked during a news conference if he would veto them, he replied, “That is my expectation.”
Republicans maintain that they are trying to protect children with the bills. Opponents argue it would do the opposite, leading to heightened risks of stress, depression and suicidal thoughts among an already vulnerable group.
Edwards called the ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths — which includes puberty-blockers, hormone treatments and surgery — wrong.
“Let’s try to unite, not divide. Let’s not pick on a very small minorities, who happen to be comprised of the most vulnerable, fragile, children in our state — those most likely to engage in suicidal ideations and suicide attempts,” Edwards said.
Senate President Page Cortez, a Republican, said it will be up to lawmakers whether they convene for a veto session. In order to do so, a simple majority of lawmakers would need to agree to it.
When asked if he thought the GOP has the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto, he replied, “I don’t know at this point and time.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/louisiana-governor-says-he-intends-to-veto-anti-lgbtq-bills-including-ban-on-gender-affirming-care/ | 2023-06-09 12:53:32 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/louisiana-governor-says-he-intends-to-veto-anti-lgbtq-bills-including-ban-on-gender-affirming-care/ |
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PARIS (AP) — Air India's owner said Tuesday that the carrier is buying 250 Airbus passenger jets, a mammoth order underlining the surging demand for air travel fueled by the country's swelling middle class.
The airline is buying 40 wide-body A350 aircraft and another 210 narrow-body A320neo planes, Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran said in a videoconference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Toulouse, France-based plane maker did not disclose financial terms of the deal, which could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
“Today is a historic moment for India, for Air India and for Airbus,” Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in the video call. The size of the order “demonstrates the appetite for growth in the Indian aviation industry. It's the fastest growing in the world."
Air India, India’s largest international carrier and second-largest domestic carrier, is seeking to reinvent itself by expanding its operations and modernizing its fleet. The new jets will help Tata compete against India’s dominant carrier, IndiGo.
Chandrasekaran said the A350s will be used to "fly all ultra long distance across the globe." Single-aisle A320s are typically used on short-haul routes. He said the airline has “significant options” to increase its order.
Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, regained ownership of the debt-laden national carrier last year. The Tata Group pioneered commercial aviation in India when it launched the airline in 1932. It was taken over by the government in 1953.
Modi and Macron applauded the deal, with both saying it's a sign of the strengthening “strategic partnership" between their countries.
“India is going to be the world’s third-largest market in the aviation sector," Modi said. Over the next 15 years, it's estimated that India will need more than 2,000 aircraft and “today’s historic announcement will help in meeting this growing demand," he said.
Macron called the deal a “new success” in the strategic partnership between India and France and an opportunity to “develop new areas of cooperation with India."
Tata is integrating Air India with Vistara, which it jointly runs with Singapore Airlines, and with Air Asia India, which it runs with Malaysian discount operator Air Asia. | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/air-india-orders-250-airbus-jets-as-air-travel-17783204.php | 2023-02-14 13:48:39 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/air-india-orders-250-airbus-jets-as-air-travel-17783204.php |
Which is the best motorcycle toy?
Motorcycles have long been the vehicle of choice of racers because they are powerful and fun machines. Having only two wheels adds to the fun as you need to lean over and swoop through the turns on a motorcycle as you would on a bicycle. Because they are not closed in like in a car, motorcyclists feel the wind in their face, making speeds seem even faster than they are.
Televised motorcycle events like motocross and supercross are thrilling to watch as daredevils leap high in the air from jump to jump. Kids like the action, so it is no surprise that they like motorcycle toys, too. If you are looking for a model motorcycle kids can build themselves, take a look at the CoolToys Custom Take-A-Part Motorcycle Playset – Motorcycle with Electric Play Drill and Modification Pieces. It comes with everything you need to build your own motorcycle, including a clever power drill.
What to know before you buy a motorcycle toy
Build your own
These are kits that kids build themselves. They range from simple construction sets of only a few dozen pieces to more detailed kits with hundreds of pieces. You will find build-your-own motorcycle kits made by Duplo, Lego, Transformers and many others.
Miniature motorcycle racing toys
These are action toys with action figures. Available as single racers and in competition sets, these toy racers may be powered by batteries, friction motors or by hand. Stunt and daredevil motorcycle toys are very popular.
Motorcycle scooters
Toddlers provide their own power with scooters styled to look like motorcycles. As they push along, they develop their gross motor skills. Scooters have wide tires and/or auxiliary wheels to keep the motorcycle upright at all times.
Motorcycle pedal cars
There are a few pedal cars that are small bicycles made to look like motorcycles. These are for smaller kids, so like scooters, they are built to stay upright for kids who have not yet learned how to balance a two wheeler.
Electric ride-on toys
Electric ride-on motorcycles are as much fun for kids to ride as the big ones are for adults. These pocket rockets are the choice of kids who prefer electric motorcycles to electric cars, trucks and tractors. Look for battery-powered motorcycles that come with removable training wheels for younger children until they learn to balance themselves. While most electric ride-on motorcycles are two wheelers, you will occasionally find three-wheel motorcycles.
What to look for in a quality motorcycle toy
Materials
It depends on the category of toy, but always look for better materials and better craftsmanship. Pay attention to small parts that may break off as these can be a hazard to very young children.
Accessories
While you can easily find stand-alone motorcycles, ones that come with riders or some kind of stunt apparatus gives you more bang for your buck.
How much you can expect to spend on a motorcycle toy
Build-your-own scale model kits cost $10-$50. Racing toys cost $15-$40. Ride-on motorcycles cost as little as $40 for scoot-alongs, $100 for pedal power and $100-$500 for electric power.
Motorcycle toy FAQ
Why are kids so fascinated by motorcycles?
A. Once kids learn how to ride a bicycle, the next step for many is to add a motor. Motors give kids a sense of power and control. Many motorcycle motocross and supercross competitions are shown on television and this form of racing is considered a step up from bicycle racing like BMX and others. Another neat thing for kids is that with a motorcycle, you get to wear a helmet.
What kind of helmet should you buy for your child for a ride-on toy?
A. Look for helmets that come in appropriate sizes for small, medium and big kids. Consider only helmets that meet or exceed industry safety standards established by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Snell and the American National Standards Institute.
What’s the best motorcycle toy to buy?
Top motorcycle toy
CoolToys Custom Take-A-Part Motorcycle Playset
What you need to know: This building set comes with everything you need to make your own motorcycle, including a power drill and threaded plastic bolts.
What you’ll love: Science, technology, engineering and math come together in this yellow and blue Harley-style motorcycle. This motorcycle toy is fun for kids age 3 and up to put together and take apart. Little kids develop fine motor skills while learning concepts like clockwise and counterclockwise. With the touch of a button, you can activate the realistic engine sounds and lighting effects.
What you should consider: While its made for kids ages 3 and older, this toy might not appeal to older kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top motorcycle toy for the money
Supercross, Race and Wheelie Competition Motorcycle Set
What you need to know: Recreate the jumps you see at live events with these 1/18 scale Ricky Carmichael and Ken Roczen riders, bikes and deluxe jump ramp.
What you’ll love: Operate the controls by how you adjust the rider’s helmet. Tilt the helmet back to pop wheelies and forward for straight-line speed. These motorcycles are powered by revving up their wheels on the floor. For more action, add other riders and bikes that are sold separately. These authentic motorcycles are highly detailed replicas of what the top supercross racers ride.
What you should consider: This is a manual toy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Razor MX400 Dirt Rocket Ride-On 24V Electric Motocross Dirt Bike
What you need to know: This electric mini motorcycle for kids ages 13 and up is powered by a high-torque 250-watt motor.
What you’ll love: This 57-pound minibike goes up to 14 miles an hour. The solid all-steel frame and double-crown fork easily carry riders weighing up to 140 pounds. The 21-inch pneumatic tires soften the rough surfaces for a smoother ride. The soft rubber grips have twist-action speed control for easy acceleration and the rear brake is hand-operated. The plastic fenders and fairings are sturdy and shatter-resistant.
What you should consider: At top speed, the battery lasts only 30 minutes and takes 12 hours to fully charge.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Leading Fintech Firm Creates New Financial Opportunities via Fractional Trading in U.S. Equities for Fubon's Customers
JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fubon Financial Holdings ("Fubon"), the second-largest financial company in Taiwan, selects ViewTrade as its chosen technology provider to grant Fubon's clients access to U.S. markets for accounts of all sizes as well as the ability to buy fractional shares. Through its unique technology solutions, ViewTrade is now enabling Fubon's retail customers to easily and regularly invest in the U.S. markets.
"We are thrilled to be working with Fubon and providing their customers with this new financial opportunity," said Andy Liao, Business Development - Asia at ViewTrade. "Fractional trading via an omnibus account has made it possible to relieve the burden on retail investors to meet whole-share minimums. With fractional share trading, younger, newer investors can get an earlier start participating in the markets by investing."
Contributing to a regular savings plan through the U.S. Equities Market is becoming a popular way to invest in Taiwan. Fractional trading, with its ability to facilitate dollar-cost averaging, is an important component provided by ViewTrade in the Asia market.
"Fractional trading allows us to provide investors, with small investment amounts, the opportunity to invest in high-priced stocks, which was once a pain point that we were unable to solve. Now, they can enjoy being the shareholder of Amazon, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Tesla, Costco, etc.," said Jiemin Wang, Head of Global Equities Product Team at Fubon.
About ViewTrade
ViewTrade is the force that powers fintech, providing everything – technology, support and brokerage services – that innovators need to quickly launch or enhance a retail trading platform or app. Over the past 20+ years, our approach has helped hundreds of firms – from startups to large banks, brokers and RIAs – create the differentiating investment experiences their clients demand.
Today, ViewTrade serves clients in more than 20 countries across five continents, representing millions of individual investors. Our offerings translate into multiple languages and provide client service in more than a dozen languages. As a B2B firm, we never compete with our clients for business.
For more information, visit https://viewtrade.com/, and follow the company on LinkedIn.
About Fubon:
Fubon was established in 1961 and currently employs 45,000 people globally. Fubon Financial Holdings is the second-largest financial company in Taiwan by assets. Fubon led the financial sector's earnings per share for 13 consecutive years, was selected to the Fortune Global 500 for the past four years, and Brand Finance's "Top 500 Most Valuable Brands" for the past two years.
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WASHINGTON, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) today announced community partnership grants to 28 organizations as part of its ongoing effort to support and build a network of best-in-class military and veterans service organizations. WWP's support of these new and returning partners helps expand the life-changing resources and programs available to America's wounded veterans and their families.
Learn more about WWP's community partnerships.
"Wounded Warrior Project understands the needs of wounded veterans, service members, caregivers, and military families are growing, and that no single organization can meet these challenges alone," said WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "By working together with others, we can create a truly integrated and collaborative ecosystem of support, ensuring the military and veteran community is able to thrive long term."
The investment of more than $5.9 million will complement WWP's programs and services by supporting organizations that focus on:
- brain and mental health
- suicide prevention
- whole health and wellness
- financial wellness
- family resiliency and connection opportunities for warriors and their families
The organizations receiving grants include:
- Code of Support Foundation
- The COMMIT Foundation
- Dog Tag Inc.
- Eisenhower Center
- EOD Warrior Foundation
- Gold Star Peak
- Green Beret Foundation
- Homes For Our Troops
- Hope For The Warriors
- Navy SEAL Foundation
- Operation Healing Forces
- Soldiers To Sidelines
- The Honor Foundation
- Travis Manion Foundation
- Vail Veterans Program
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Vets4Warriors
- Warrior Canine Connection
As part of WWP's commitment to the Hidden Helpers Coalition, a portion of this funding also supports organizations serving children and youth caregivers of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans. WWP, along with Elizabeth Dole Foundation, is a proud co-chair of the Hidden Helpers Coalition, a groundbreaking and collaborative network of over 60 organizations committed to supporting our nation's youngest military caregivers. WWP announced a new $1.5 million fund dedicated to this initiative during a Hidden Helpers Coalition event at the White House in 2021.
These organizations receiving grants include:
- American Red Cross
- Armed Services YMCA
- Cohen Veterans Network
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation
- Kids Rank
- Military Child Education Coalition
- Military Family Advisory Network
- National Military Family Association
- Our Military Kids
- PsychArmor
Since 2012, WWP has partnered with and supported 212 organizations that assist wounded veterans and families at the local and national level, connecting them with the resources they need to thrive in civilian life.
About Wounded Warrior Project
Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers — helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more.
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Friday night roundup: Buitron leads Sonora over Alpine
Sonora quarterback Jaime Buitron threw three touchdown passes to lead the Broncos to a 27-6 win over Alpine on Friday.
Buitron threw for 141 yards with a pair of TD passes to Jonah Galvan and another to Juan Castillo.
Alpine scored 3:01 into the game on a 1-yard TD run by Aiden Garcia, but the Broncos pitched a shutout from there.
Sonora's defense has allowed seven points or less in each of its three wins.
Buitron's 52-yard TD pass to Galvan with 2:40 in the second quarter put the Broncos on top 7-6, and a 5-yard TD strike to Castillo with 25 seconds left extended the lead to 14-6 at halftime.
Buitron found Galvan again at the 3:00 mark of the third quarter for an 11-yard TD and a 21-6 lead.
Hunter O'Banon added a 4-yard TD run with 2:51 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Sonora had 313 rushing yards, led by Edgar DeLuna, who turned four carries into 106 yards. Buitron had 11 carries for 88 yards, and O'Banon had 23 carries for 80 yards.
Buitron and O'Banon also each had an interception on defense.
Alpine was led by Yian Hernandez, who had 12 carries for 87 yards.
Sonora (3-1) will host Harper next week, while Alpine (0-4) will host Odessa Compass Academy in its District 1-3A Division II opener.
Robert Lee 46, Blackwell 38
The Robert Lee Steers improved to 4-0 with a win on the road over Blackwell.
It was the third straight win by 12 points or less for Robert Lee, which is off to its best start since 2018, when the Steers also started 4-0 before finishing 7-4 and earning their last trip to the playoffs.
Robert Lee is off next week before returning to action at home Sept. 30 against Coke County rival Bronte.
Blackwell fell to 1-3 and will host Brookesmith on Sept. 24
Other Week 4 scores
San Angelo Central 35, Belton 12
San Angelo Lake View 35, Lubbock High 21
Brady 62, Dublin 42
Wall 29, Peaster 9
Ozona 34, Grape Creek 2
Llano 31, Coleman 6
May 63, Garden City 34
Ingram Moore 32, San Angelo TLCA 22
Clyde 41, Ballinger 19
Mason 50, Christoval 12
Menard 50, Bronte 0
San Saba 26, Eldorado 0
Miles 56, Winters 12
Roscoe 58, Sterling City 18
Paint Rock 66, Trent 16
Water Valley 34, Odessa Compass Academy 0
Rochelle 65, Lometa 36
Zephyr 68, Lohn 6
Baird 40, Veribest 25
Cross Plains 35, Junction 20
Reagan County 47, Iraan 6
Eden 66, Gustine 44
Irion County 69, Highland 24
Cherokee 84, Bluff Dale 44
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PHOENIX, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOPE) announced today that it will report its 2022 third quarter results after market close on Thursday, October 27, 2022. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results in more detail at 1:30 P.M. (4:30 P.M. ET) the same day.
Those interested in participating in the question-and-answer session should follow the conference dial-in instructions below.
Participants may register for the call here to receive the dial-in numbers and unique PIN to access the call seamlessly.
Please dial in at least ten minutes prior to the start of the call. Journalists are invited to listen only.
Investors, journalists and the general public may access a live webcast of this event at: Q3 2022 Grand Canyon Education Inc. Earnings Conference Call. A webcast replay will be available approximately two hours following the conclusion of the call at the same link.
Grand Canyon Education (GCE), incorporated in 2008, is a publicly traded education services company that currently provides services to 27 university partners. GCE is uniquely positioned in the education services industry in that its leadership has 30 years of proven expertise in providing a full array of support services in the post-secondary education sector and has developed significant technological solutions, infrastructure and operational processes to provide superior service in these areas on a large scale. GCE provides services that support students, faculty and staff of partner institutions such as marketing, strategic enrollment management, counseling services, financial services, technology, technical support, compliance, human resources, classroom operations, curriculum development, faculty recruitment and training, among others. For more information about Grand Canyon Education, Inc. visit the Company's website at www.gce.com.
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Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
602-639-6648
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More than 16 Million Americans Live with Cognitive Impairment
DALLAS, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Helping care at home organizations expand their service lines and provide high-quality patient care, Axxess now enables clients to offer cognitive impairment services through a new strategic partnership with Cognitive Assessment and Memory Program (CAMP). CAMP combines digital therapeutics with app-based technology and artificial intelligence to provide assessments and treatments for mild to moderate cognitive impairment.
"Care at home organizations with increasing costs are looking to expand their service lines, and caring for patients with cognitive impairments is a natural opportunity," said Chris Taylor, Axxess Senior Vice President of Channel Partnerships. "We are pleased to partner with CAMP to provide our clients more innovative ways to grow their business and serve patients in their communities who need them most."
CAMP partners with home health organizations to expand patient reach and services. Physicians can order CAMP for their patients, who are then given a cognitive assessment and a custom treatment plan consisting of cognitive exercises. In-depth reports provide detailed patient progress and insight. Because the program is tailor-made for each patient, using CAMP can improve physician relationships and decrease hospitalizations.
"Axxess and CAMP share a unified vision of providing technologically innovative solutions for patient health in order to provide the best possible patient care," CAMP CEO Jeb Andrews said. "From the moment of our initial meeting, I knew we had a shared understanding of missions and values. We could not be more excited to partner with Axxess to fulfill the vision of helping as many patients and families suffering from cognitive impairment as possible. We wanted to partner with the right team, and we know we have done just that."
About Axxess
Axxess is the leading technology innovator for healthcare at home, focused on solving the most complex industry challenges. Trusted by more than 9,000 organizations that serve more than 3 million patients worldwide, Axxess offers a complete suite of easy-to-use software solutions that empower home health, home care, hospice, and palliative providers to make healthcare in the home human again. The company's collaborative culture focused on innovation and excellence is recognized nationally as a "Best Place to Work."
About CAMP
CAMP is a first-of-its-kind digital cognitive rehabilitation program monitored by physicians and delivered by home health clinicians or therapists. CAMP is designed to help patients with mild-to-moderate cognitive impairments including Dementia, Alzheimer's, TBI, Chemo Brain, Age-related Memory Loss, and other common cognitive deficits. CAMP provides in-depth training and support so home health RNs, LPs, STs, and/or OTs can become CAMP certified and begin delivering cognitive rehabilitation treatments managed through our system.
Axxess Contact: Dennis Petroskey
(202) 215-6767
dpetroskey@axxess.com
CAMP Contact: Mollie Cline
(800) 514-9091
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Single flea bite leads to amputation of man’s hands, toes, family says
SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) – What started as a single flea bite has now left a Texas man without hands or toes.
Michael Kohlhof, 35, believed he had flu-like symptoms until his feet went numb.
According to a GoFundMe post from Kohlhof’s family, he went to the emergency room on June 19 and was admitted to the ICU with septic shock.
Kohlhof was diagnosed with typhus, an infectious disease spread to humans by fleas, lice and chiggers, his family said.
His brother told KENS 5 that the kind of typhus Kohlhof had was from a flea.
Doctors told the family that most people treat the disease early after seeing a swelling or rash at the bite mark, but Kohlhof’s brother told KENS 5 that he never had those symptoms.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flea-borne typhus occurs in tropical and subtropical climates around the world, including areas of the United States - southern California, Hawaii and Texas. However, it is a rare disease in the U.S.
Kohlhof was put on a ventilator, and the day after he was admitted to the hospital, doctors told the family to say their goodbyes.
He defied the odds, was taken off sedation July 1 and opened his eyes a few days later, his family said in the GoFundMe post. But his complications didn’t stop there.
Family members said in the post that doctors amputated both of his hands July 10. On Thursday, doctors amputated his toes and part of his feet.
His family said Kohlhof is a handyman and art lover, with all his passions centering around the use of his hands.
According to his family, Kohlhof does not have health insurance, so they set up the GoFundMe to help pay for medical expenses.
“Michael has strength and will be undergoing an excruciating amount of surgeries, therapies and rehabilitation, mostly to restore activities of daily living. But he shouldn’t have to worry about the financial pain,” the GoFundMe reads.
The CDC says there is no vaccine to prevent flea-borne typhus. The best way to reduce your risk of infection is by avoiding contact with fleas, including keeping fleas off pets, avoiding contact with wild animals, and using insect repellent when spending time outside.
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Bam Adebayo NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Heat vs. Celtics - May 17
Bam Adebayo and the rest of the Miami Heat match up versus the Boston Celtics in the NBA Playoffs on Wednesday, at 8:30 PM ET.
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- This season, Bam Adebayo has made eight shots per game, which accounts for 18.7% of his team's total makes.
- Adebayo's Heat average 99.2 possessions per game, which ranks 29th among NBA teams, while the Celtics have a middling offense in terms of tempo, ranking 16th with 101.9 possessions per contest.
- The Celtics concede 111.4 points per contest, fourth-ranked in the NBA.
- Conceding 44 rebounds per game, the Celtics are the 18th-ranked squad in the league.
- In terms of assists, the Celtics have given up 23.1 per contest, second in the NBA.
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Fans are invited to share their little moments of love and connection on TikTok for a chance to be part of Ciara's "Treat" music video
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summertime is synonymous with joyful little memories; from blasting sing-a-longs on family road trips or FaceTiming with a friend from camp to trying the latest TikTok trends with mom or playing dress-up with cousins. Kellogg's® Rice Krispies Treats believes that all those small moments can add up to something big.
In fact, the brand conducted a national survey1 that found three out of four parents believe small, everyday moments with family are the most important way to foster big connections over time. At a time when the feeling of "not doing enough" is all too common for families, Rice Krispies Treats wants to help create more those moments that matters most.
That's why this summer, the brand is teaming up with Grammy Award-Winning singer/songwriter, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ciara to write and release "Treat," a boppin' track—inspired by real data2 sourced from real families' and framilies' moments of connection—that will stick with you and fuel even more togetherness.
How? Ciara is calling on fans nationwide for a chance to star alongside her and her family in the "Treat" music video via TikTok. And, it gets even sweeter. Those selected for the music video will be rewarded with a yearlong supply of Rice Krispies Treats.
"When we sat down to write 'Treat,' we were so inspired by the sweet traditions shared by families like ours," said Ciara. "As a mom and busy parent, I know the power of finding connection in the smaller things and the magic that music has to bring us together, which is why I invited my son and daughter to sing on this track with me! It's a little moment of love we'll always remember, and we cannot wait to see what our fans will share on TikTok to help us finish the music video."
To join the fun on TikTok with Ciara and Rice Krispies Treats, share a special moment (or two, or three, or four) on TikTok by using the "Treat" audio and #OurTreatEntry for the chance to be featured in the music video and win a year's supply of Rice Krispies Treats to keep the ooey-gooey moments going all summer long. Find full rules and requirements here and below.
"Whether you are a kid or just a kid at heart, pulling apart Rice Krispies Treats with someone you love is a great way to turn small moments into big connections," said Heidi Ray, Senior Director of Brand Marketing for Kellogg's Portable Wholesome Snacks. "Partnering with Ciara has been a dream for us, and we are thrilled to give families and friends a soundtrack to inspire those mini moments."
You can now stream "Treat" on Rice Krispies Treats' Spotify and YouTube pages! This fall, the "Treat" music video will be released exclusively on Rice Krispies Treats channels, featuring Ciara and real fans.
Hungry for more? You can stay up to date on all things Rice Krispies Treats by following along on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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ABOUT KELLOGG COMPANY
At Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), our vision is a good and just world where people are not just fed but fulfilled. We are creating better days and a place at the table for everyone through our trusted food brands. Our beloved brands include Pringles®, Cheez-It®, Special K®, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes®, Pop-Tarts®, Kellogg's Corn Flakes®, Rice Krispies®, Eggo®, Mini-Wheats®, Kashi®, RXBAR®, MorningStar Farms® and more. Net sales in 2021 were nearly $14.2 billion, comprised principally of snacks as well as convenience foods like cereal, frozen foods and noodles. As part of our Kellogg's® Better Days ESG strategy, we're addressing the interconnected issues of wellbeing, climate and food security, creating Better Days for 3 billion people by the end of 2030. Visit www.KelloggCompany.com.
1 KRC Research, "Parents & Quality Time - National Consumer Survey," Dec. 2021.
2 Lynch, J., Easley, J. (2022). Special Moments [Unpublished raw data on shared moments with both adults and children]. Wonderlust Collective, Inc.
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Minnesota Vikings are entering a new beginning under Kevin O’Connell and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah?; Can the Vikings replicate the …
Minnesota Vikings are entering a new beginning under Kevin O’Connell and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah?; Can the Vikings replicate the … | https://www.skornorth.com/can-minnesota-vikings-replicate-the-cincinnati-bengals-path-to-the-super-bowl/ | 2022-05-27 18:16:21 | 0 | https://www.skornorth.com/can-minnesota-vikings-replicate-the-cincinnati-bengals-path-to-the-super-bowl/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden continues to “improve significantly” despite a lingering sore throat from his coronavirus infection, according to an update Sunday from his doctor.
“The president is responding to therapy as expected,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor in his latest note. Biden has been taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that helps reduce the chance of severe illness.
O’Connor wrote that Biden still has a sore throat, though other symptoms, including a cough, runny nose and body aches, “have diminished considerably.”
Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning. O’Connor said Saturday that the president likely became infected with a highly contagious variant, known as BA.5, that is spreading throughout the country, and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said Sunday, “It is the BA.5 variant.”
“Thank goodness our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president’s doing well,” Jha told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Jha also gave a positive update on the president’s health.
“I checked in with his team late last night. He was feeling well. He had a good day yesterday,” Jha said.
That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year. It is believed responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then.
Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.
The White House has not released any photos or video of Biden since Friday, when the media watched him participate in a virtual meeting with economic advisers.
Jha pledged that the White House would keep giving updates on the president’s condition and whether he might have long-term symptoms.
“We think it’s really important for the American people to know how well their president is doing,” he said.
“Obviously if he has persistent symptoms, obviously if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early and often with the American people. But I suspect that this is going to be a course of COVID that we’ve seen in many Americans who have ben fully vaccinated, double boosted, getting treated with those tools in hand,” Jha said. “The president’s been doing well and we’re going to expect that he’s going to continue to do so.’’
Biden’s press secretary has said 17 people, including members of the president’s senior staff and at least one member of Congress, were determined to have been in close contact with Biden when he might have been contagious. None has tested positive so far, Jha said on “Fox News Sunday.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/biden-improves-significantly-throat-still-sore-from-covid/ | 2022-07-25 00:56:15 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/biden-improves-significantly-throat-still-sore-from-covid/ |
SOOKE, British Columbia (WJW) — It’s possible that the first thing you notice at this $1,599,000 home for sale in Canada isn’t the price tag.
The bright aqua and teal exterior of the home at, located at 7405 Thornton Heights in Silver Spray East Sooke, is accentuated by several eye-catching orca sculptures bursting from the ground.
The home, called “The Whale House” by realtor The Neal Estate Group of Victoria, is custom-built and offers “breathtaking views” over the Juan de Luca Strait, according to its Zillow listing.
Also catching the eye is the main floor’s curved ceiling with exposed beams. The family room is surrounded by glass and features a radius window, keeping with the curved architectural theme. A video tour on YouTube delves even deeper into some of the home’s highlights.
“A large family room is surrounded in faux walls with detailed panels including more native art to continue the West Coast vibe throughout,” reads the listing. “The panels continue onto the ceiling creating a visual canvas making you feel like you have stepped into a secret hideaway to read a book or watch your favourite movie by the cozy fireplace.”
The 3,172-square-foot home was built in 2016 and features three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
It’s also got a hot tub and a backyard that’s a 3,500-acre park with trails and easy access. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/this-1-6-million-whale-of-a-home-makes-a-splash/ | 2022-10-18 16:52:22 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/this-1-6-million-whale-of-a-home-makes-a-splash/ |
BALTIMORE, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Day Animations, an award-winning explainer video company, is opening the Illustrating Awesomeness Scholarship for the sixth consecutive year. Illustrating Awesomeness is a scholarship opportunity for young women or gender non-conforming individuals of color who are actively working to change the world.
Since the program launched in 2016, the Illustrating Awesomeness Scholarship has been awarded to young people pursuing degrees in fields such as Nursing, Cinema & Media Studies, and Computer and Electrical Engineering. Recipients have attended universities and colleges across the country, including the Ohio State University, Alabama A&M, and the University of Southern California.
A certified B Corp, Next Day Animations is committed to using business resources to address social problems like systemic opportunity gaps and support young people doing great work in their communities.
"Since our work here at Next Day Animations is highly creative, it feels right that we are supporting the creative minds of tomorrow through our scholarship," says Bess Zafran, Marketing Specialist. "The winners are always deeply passionate about making a difference, and learning about their goals and visions for the future is one of my favorite parts of the year."
You can read more about the 2021 winners here.
The scholarship is open to undergraduate students attending college in the United States and will be applied to tuition for the 2023 Spring semester. Four $750 scholarships will be awarded. Eligible applicants can view more information at https://nextdayanimations.com/scholarship/.
This scholarship reopens amidst Next Day Animations' reception of a Torch Ethics Award from the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland and recognition from Fortune and Great Place to Work® as one of the Best Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing.
Founded in 2010, Next Day Animations specializes in explainer videos for nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and businesses. Their clients include SalesForce, Special Olympics, HBO, Goodwill, and Johnson & Johnson. Based in Baltimore, Next Day Animations partners with clients all over the world to deliver high-quality, powerful animations. Learn more about Next Day Animations at www.nextdayanimations.com.
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Two people and a shooter died in a shooting outside a church in Ames, Iowa.
The Story County Sheriff's Office says two people and a male shooter died in the Thursday night shooting outside the Cornerstone Church. The church is on the outskirts of Ames, near Interstate 35, about 30 miles north of Des Moines.
The sheriff's office didn't give details about the shooting but told KCCI-TV that they received multiple calls at 6:51 p.m. The sheriff's office says there was no longer a threat to the public.
This is a developing story. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/2-people-and-shooter-die-in-shooting-outside-iowa-church | 2022-06-03 03:31:10 | 0 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/2-people-and-shooter-die-in-shooting-outside-iowa-church |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – As Valentine’s Day approaches, a DIY arts and crafts studio in Little Rock offers a fun and creative date night or Galentines Day experience.
Pinspiration has 70 different projects customers can choose from like candle making, acrylic paint pours, canvas painting and more. For those 21 and older, they have a bar with various beer and wine options.
They also have a splatter room where guests get into protective gear including a poncho, shoe caps, and goggles then fling paint at a canvas.
For more on hours and what projects are included, you can visit the Pinspiration Little Rock website at Pinspiration.com. | https://www.fox16.com/klrt-good-day/diy-craft-studio-offers-unique-date-night-experience-for-valentines-day/ | 2023-02-09 17:12:09 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/klrt-good-day/diy-craft-studio-offers-unique-date-night-experience-for-valentines-day/ |
Browns spoil Baker Mayfield’s chance at revenge with late field goal
Posted/updated on: September 11, 2022 at 6:11 pmBy DAVID NEWTON
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Baker Mayfield didn’t get his revenge against the Cleveland Browns, but he came close.
After looking dreadful for almost three quarters, Mayfield led the Carolina Panthers to 17 fourth-quarter points and the lead before the Browns spoiled his revenge party with a 58-yard field goal by rookie kicker Cade York with eight seconds left.
The 26-24 loss left Mayfield 0-4 in NFL openers, including 0-3 with the Browns.
Mayfield was 10-for-19 for 101 yards with four balls tipped at the line of scrimmage, an interception and two sacks in the first half. He also muffed a snap in the shotgun.
His only big play in the half was a 50-yard completion to tight end Ian Thomas, who was wide open down the middle of the field.
It got so bad that he was booed for the first time after being forced to throw the ball away under pressure to end the fifth of his seven possessions.
There also were boos as the Panthers left for the locker room at halftime down 17-7. It was so bad that Quincy Avery, the personal passing coach for Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, tweeted: “That’s the Baker we know and love.”
Mayfield finally showed some of the energy the Panthers were looking for out of him late in the third quarter and early into the fourth quarter with a touchdown drive he capped with a 7-yard scramble up the middle.
He then showed some of the emotion he has throughout his career, slamming the ball into the padded stadium wall after cutting the lead to 20-14.
After a Cleveland field goal, Mayfield threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to Robbie Anderson to trim the lead to 23-21 with 6:02 remaining.
He then led Carolina to a go-ahead field goal with just over one minute to play, setting the stage for York’s game winner. Mayfield finished 16-for-27 for 235 yards.
The Browns traded for Watson during the offseason, prompting Mayfield to ask for a trade from the team that made him the first pick of the 2018 draft.
That happened on July 6, when the Panthers acquired Mayfield after the Browns agreed to pay $10.5 million of the quarterback’s 2022 salary ($18.9 million) and Mayfield agreed to take a $3.5 million salary cut that he can earn back in incentives.
He underwent what Carolina called an “open” competition with 2021 starter Sam Darnold for the starting job, although league sources said it was Mayfield’s job to lose all along. He officially was named the starter on Aug. 22.
He never made a big deal about facing his former team before Sunday, saying it’s a “good storyline” but he was focused on doing his job.
“Obviously, there’s a lot of attachment there,” Mayfield said of the Browns. “I’m not going to sit here and be a robot and say it doesn’t mean anything. It will.”
It was all hugs and smiles for Mayfield before kickoff as he greeted many of his former teammates, coaches and executives.
There were more hugs and fewer smiles after the game. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1161794 | 2022-09-12 02:23:54 | 1 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1161794 |
(KTLA) — Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and rapper Lil Yachty are among the eight celebrities who have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they illegally touted cryptocurrencies and violated security laws.
Other celebrities charged include rapper Soulja Boy, Austin Mahone, Ne-Yo, Akon, and adult film star Kendra Lust, a news release said.
The SEC is charging the celebrities because they didn’t disclose that they were paid for their endorsements of Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT), cryptocurrencies created by entrepreneur Justin Sun.
None admitted or denied the SEC’s findings as part of the settlement. Soulja Boy and Austin Mahone did not reach a settlement with the SEC, the agency said.
In response to a request for comment, Lohan’s publicist Leslie Sloane said the actress was contacted in March 2022, was unaware of the disclosure requirement, and agreed to pay a fine to resolve the matter. Lohan, who last week announced she is pregnant, was called to give up the $10,000 she was paid, plus interest, and pay a $30,000 fine, according to an SEC complaint.
A spokeswoman for Paul declined to comment. Emails left with representatives for the other celebrities named in the SEC complaint weren’t immediately returned Wednesday.
Sun was also charged with “fraudulently manipulating the secondary market for TRX through extensive wash trading, which involves the simultaneous or near-simultaneous purchase and sale of a security to make it appear actively traded without an actual change in beneficial ownership, and for orchestrating a scheme to pay celebrities to tout TRX and BTT without disclosing their compensation.”
The SEC claims Sun and his companies targeted investors and generated millions in illegal proceeds.
“This case demonstrates again the high-risk investors face when crypto asset securities are offered and sold without proper disclosure,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a statement.
Other celebrities, like Kim Kardashian, paid over $1 million to settle SEC charges, while former football player Tom Brady and comedian Larry David were named in a class-action lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
In 2020, actor Steven Seagal agreed to pay more than $300,000 as part of a similar settlement with the SEC, which also banned him from promoting investments for three years.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/lindsay-lohan-others-hit-with-sec-charges-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies/ | 2023-03-23 00:35:48 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/lindsay-lohan-others-hit-with-sec-charges-for-endorsing-cryptocurrencies/ |
NOV03 Met Primary Endpoints for Signs and Symptoms of Dry Eye Disease Associated with Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in Both Phase 3 Trials
VAUGHAN, ON and LAVAL, QC and HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health business of Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ("Bausch Health") and Novaliq GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on first- and best-in-class ocular therapeutics, today announced that data from the second pivotal Phase 3 trial (MOJAVE) of investigational treatment NOV03 (perfluorohexyloctane) were presented virtually yesterday at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting. NOV03 is being investigated as a first-in-class treatment with a novel mechanism of action to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease (DED) associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).
"The findings show that NOV03 met both efficacy endpoints, which reinforces the results from the first pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial and builds upon the growing body of evidence in support of NOV03 as a potential first-in-class treatment for dry eye disease associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction," said Joseph C. Papa, chairman and CEO, Bausch Health. "If approved, NOV03 would be the first pharmaceutical therapy available in the United States with a novel mechanism of action designed to alleviate both signs and symptoms for those suffering with dry eye disease associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction."
DED is one of the most common ocular surface disorders, causing discomfort for approximately 18 million Americans.1,2 MGD is a major cause of the development and progression of evaporative DED, which is caused by a deficient tear film lipid layer that leads to increased tear evaporation.3 In one trial, it was found that approximately 86% of patients with DED had MGD involvement.4
The data presented from the second Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, hypotonic saline-controlled, double masked trial show NOV03 met both primary efficacy endpoints: total Corneal Fluorescein Staining (tCFS), a measure of assessing damage to the eye, and VAS eye dryness endpoints at day 57.
"We are excited to see consistent data on multiple fronts across both Phase 3 studies of NOV03. In addition to meeting each of the primary sign and symptom efficacy endpoints, NOV03 continues to appear to be well tolerated in this population," said John Sheppard, M.D., professor of Ophthalmology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va., EyeCare Partners Mid-Atlantic Medical Director and NOV03 trial investigator. "Treatment options for dry eye disease associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction in the United States are currently limited to mechanical methods, such as medical devices, warm compresses, lid scrubs and massage. If approved, NOV03 would offer eye care professionals a promising new therapeutic pharmaceutical approach for these patients."5
The data was based on results from 620 participants ages 18 years and older who were randomized to either receive treatment with NOV03 four times daily or hypotonic saline solution four times daily (n=311 NOV03; n=309 saline). Key points from the trial include:
- On day 57, change from baseline in total Corneal Fluorescein Staining (tCFS) was statistically significant in the NOV03 arm compared to the control saline group (-2.3 [2.8] vs. -1.1 [2.9]) (P<0.001) (primary endpoint).
- Additionally on day 57, VAS eye dryness score was statistically significantly improved in the NOV03 arm compared to control group (-29.5 [28.6] vs. -19.0 [27.2]) (P<0.001) (primary endpoint).
- tCFS and VAS eye dryness score were also statistically significant at day 15 (secondary endpoints).
In the trial, NOV03 was well tolerated with few subjects experiencing ocular adverse events (AE) in the study eye (9.6% NOV03 group, 9.7% control group). Blepharitis, mostly mild, was the only AE that occurred in a >1% higher proportion of subjects treated with NOV03 versus control (1.6% vs 0.3%).
"These results reaffirm the safety and efficacy data of NOV03 as a potential treatment option for patients with dry eye disease associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction," said Christian Roesky, Ph.D., CEO, Novaliq. "In collaboration with Bausch Health and Bausch + Lomb, we look forward to submitting NOV03 for FDA approval during the second quarter of 2022 with the potential to bring a novel drug option for this condition to the United States."
About NOV03 (perfluorohexyloctane) Ophthalmic Solution
NOV03 is an investigational, proprietary, water-free, single-component preservative-free eye drop.6 In 2019, Bausch Health and Bausch + Lomb acquired an exclusive license for the commercialization and development of NOV03 in the United States and Canada. In addition to data from the MOJAVE trial, data from the first pivotal Phase 3 trial (GOBI) was presented at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 24, 2022. Results from the pivotal Phase 2 trial (SEECASE) was published in Cornea: The Journal of Cornea and External Disease in September 2021.7 The clinical development program for NOV03 is expected to conclude with an ongoing multi-center, open-label, single-arm, 12-month safety extension trial (KALAHARI).
About Novaliq
Novaliq is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development and commercialization of first- and best-in-class ocular therapeutics based on EyeSol®, the worldwide first water-free technology. Novaliq offers an industry-leading portfolio addressing today's unmet medical needs of millions of patients with eye diseases. Novaliq GmbH is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany and Novaliq Inc. has an office in Cambridge, MA, USA. The long-term shareholder is dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG, an active investor in Life and Health Sciences companies. More on www.novaliq.com.
About Bausch + Lomb
Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health business of Bausch Health Companies, Inc., is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world – from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Its comprehensive portfolio of more than 400 products includes contact lenses, lens care products, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products and ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments. Founded in 1853, Bausch + Lomb has a significant global research and development, manufacturing and commercial footprint with more than 12,000 employees and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Bausch + Lomb is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario with corporate offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.bausch.com and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
About Bausch Health
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products, primarily in the therapeutic areas of eye health, gastroenterology and dermatology. We are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health. For more information, visit www.bauschhealth.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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New non-surgical alternative to spaying, neutering might help curb cat populations
(CNN) - There might be a new non-surgical way to help curb populations of feral cats.
A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications reported that long-lasting contraceptive injections are showing promise to keep cats from getting pregnant.
Dr. Bill Swanson, a director at The Cincinnati Zoo, led the study.
He says six cats were injected with a gene that affects a hormone in ovarian follicles.
Two years later, researchers found that the shot was still working, and none of the cats in the group became pregnant after a couple of male cats were introduced.
The procedure is less intrusive than spaying and neutering, but it could be years before the injection gets final approval.
There are an estimated 600 million domestic cats in the world, and 80% of them are feral or strays.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide whether women seeking access to a widely used abortion pill would face more restrictions while a court case plays out. But on the day of the highly anticipated decision the justices had only this to say: We need more time.
In a one-sentence order, the court said it now expects to act by Friday evening. There was no explanation of the reason for the delay.
The new abortion controversy comes less than a year after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
The following is a look at the drug at issue in the new case, how the case got to the nation’s highest court and what the delay might say about what’s going on.
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WHAT IS MIFEPRISTONE?
Mifepristone was approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration more than two decades ago. It has been used by more than 5 million women to safely end their pregnancies, and today more than half of women who end a pregnancy rely on the drug, the Justice Department said.
Over the years, the FDA has loosened restrictions on the drug’s use, extending from seven to 10 weeks of pregnancy when it can be used, reducing the dosage needed to safely end a pregnancy, eliminating the requirement to visit a doctor in person to get it and allowing pills to be obtained by mail. The FDA also approved a generic version of mifepristone that its manufacturer, Las Vegas-based GenBioPro, says makes up two-thirds of the domestic market.
Mifepristone is one of two pills used in medication abortions, along with misoprostol. Health care providers have said they could switch to misoprostol only if mifepristone is no longer available or is too hard to obtain. Misoprostol is somewhat less effective in ending pregnancies.
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HOW DID THE CASE GET STARTED?
A lawsuit over mifepristone was filed in Amarillo, Texas, late last year. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group, represents the pill’s opponents, who say the FDA’s approval of mifepristone was flawed.
Why Amarillo? U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was nominated by then-President Donald Trump, is the sole district court judge there, ensuring that all cases filed in the west Texas city land in front of him. Since taking the bench, he has ruled against President Joe Biden’s administration on several other issues, including immigration and LGBTQ protections.
On April 7, Kacsmaryk issued a ruling that would revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, but he put the decision on hold for a week to allow an appeal.
Complicating matters, however, on the same day Kacsmaryk issued his order, a court in Washington state issued a separate ruling in a lawsuit brought by liberal states seeking to preserve access to mifepristone. The Washington judge, Spokane-based Thomas O. Rice, whom then-President Barack Obama nominated, ordered the FDA not to do anything that might affect the availability of mifepristone in the suing states. The Biden administration has said it is impossible to follow both judges’ directives at the same time.
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HOW DID THE CASE GET TO THE SUPREME COURT?
The Biden administration responded to Kacsmaryk’s ruling by asking the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent it from taking effect for now.
Last week, the appeals court narrowed Kacsmaryk’s ruling so that the initial approval of mifepristone in 2000 is not affected, for now. But it agreed with him that changes the FDA made to relax the rules for prescribing and dispensing the drug should be put on hold. Those rules included expanding when the drug could be taken and allowing for the drug’s delivery through the mail.
The appeals court acted by a 2-1 vote. The judges in the majority, Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham, are both Trump picks.
The Biden administration and the maker of mifepristone, New York-based Danco Laboratories, appealed to the Supreme Court, saying that allowing the appeals court’s restrictions to take effect would cause chaos. Facing a tight deadline, the Supreme Court gave itself some breathing room and issued an order suggesting it would act by Wednesday evening. That timeline was extended to Friday, the day the justices will hold a previously scheduled private conference.
The justices could talk about the issue further then. The additional time could also be part of an effort to craft an order that has broad support among the nine justices. Or one or more justices might be writing a separate opinion and asked for a couple of extra days.
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WHAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT?
The Supreme Court’s delay suggests a maddening reality about an institution that ordinarily adheres to a schedule that hasn’t changed much in years: Even experts can be in the dark about when the court will decide things and how.
Cases are argued over seven months from October to April, and the most important decisions typically come right before the justices take a long summer break. The court does not say which cases it plans to hand down on a given day, and the court, in a search for consensus, will sometimes pass on the biggest issues it faces and decide a very small legal point.
But nowhere is the uncertainty as great as a separate category of cases that have come to be known as the shadow docket.
Apart from death row inmates seeking 11th-hour reprieves, shadow docket cases generally involve emergency appeals to the justices before lower courts have reached final decisions. That includes the mifepristone case.
When the justices consider this set of cases, they don’t usually have a deadline to act. A few years back, an order concerning an elections case in Texas came in the wee hours of a Saturday morning for no reason other than that’s when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg finished work on her dissenting opinion.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As a video was released publicly this week showing sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinning Irvo Otieno to the floor, attorneys for several of the defendants charged with second-degree murder in his death began to weigh in to defend their clients.
During bond hearings and through statements, lawyers sought to distinguish their clients from the mass of bodies involved in holding Otieno to the floor for over 10 minutes.
One said in court that his client only worked to secure leg irons on Otieno, while another said his client put his body weight on the man for just a short period of time and then tried to position Otieno on his side so he would not have trouble breathing.
Some defense attorneys also said their clients were only trying to restrain Otieno and there was no evidence of an intent to kill the 28-year-old Black man as deputies sought to have him admitted to Central State Hospital on March 6.
“At no time did he realize that Mr. Otieno … was in any danger whatsoever,” said attorney Caleb Kershner, who represents one of the seven Henrico County deputies who have been charged, along with three hospital employees.
But Otieno’s family and their lawyers, including prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, pushed back against any attempt to minimize the role they say individuals in the crowded room played in Otieno’s death.
During a press conference Tuesday evening, family attorney Mark Krudys quoted some of the language used by defense counsel during bond hearings earlier that day, including a description of Otieno as being in obvious need of medical attention.
“Despite that they piled on him,” Krudys said. “Ten individuals.”
Krudys and Crump said the defense attorneys were offering “excuses” for what the video showed while trying to cast Otieno, who was shackled and handcuffed, as combative.
“They are trying to say … ‘Well, he was struggling. Well, he was still resisting.’ No he wasn’t. He was trying to breathe,” Crump said at the news conference, which was punctuated by sobs from Otieno’s mother.
Otieno’s family has said he was brutally mistreated not only at the hospital where he died but also while in law enforcement custody beforehand.
Otieno, whose family said he had long-running mental health struggles, was initially taken to a Richmond-area hospital by police for psychiatric care March 3. But after authorities said he became combative, he was criminally charged and transferred to the jail. His family says he was denied access to needed medication during his time there.
News outlets obtained video this week of the events that preceded Otieno’s death at the state mental hospital in Dinwiddie County. The prosecutor had previously shown the footage, for which there is no audio, to Otieno’s relatives and attorneys.
According to timestamps, an SUV carrying Otieno arrived at the hospital just before 4 p.m. March 6.
In court, defense attorneys said that before he arrived there he was resistant. One said it took approximately 12 officers to get Otieno out of his cell at the jail.
Video from the hospital shows that nearly 20 minutes after the SUV’s arrival, officers remove Otieno from the vehicle and escort him inside. He appears to be upright but hunched over.
By 4:19., a different camera shows him being forcibly led into a room with tables and chairs. He is hauled toward a seat and eventually slumps to the floor, first seated and then lying flat.
An increasing number of people become involved in holding Otieno down. At times his shirtless body is obscured by the sheer number of bodies or by someone standing front of the camera.
Steve Benjamin, a Richmond criminal defense attorney who serves as special counsel to the Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee and is not involved with the case, said the video by itself is not enough to determine the criminal culpability of the deputies or hospital workers.
“We don’t know if those who were observing were saying to the deputies, ‘Get off him, he can’t breathe.’ We don’t know if he was saying he couldn’t breathe or if he was threatening violence to those who were trying to restrain him. We simply have no idea,” Benjamin said.
“Our reaction to that video is human and natural,” he said, “but it doesn’t go very far in answering the question of, was there a criminal offense committed here?”
In Virginia case law, second-degree murder is generally defined as the malicious killing of another, meaning the conduct must be so likely to cause death or serious injury that it demonstrates utter and callous disregard for life.
The first charges in the case were announced last week against the deputies, followed by the hospital workers two days later. Dinwiddie Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill said in an email Wednesday that while she doesn’t have additional charges “in the pipeline,” the state police investigation remains ongoing.
A separate investigation into the events preceding Otieno’s death — at both the hospital and the jail — is also ongoing, according to Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor.
All 10 defendants have been granted bond and have pre-trial hearings set for late April or May.
Final autopsy findings have not been released. Baskervill has said in court that Otieno died of asphyxiation, though some defense attorneys have raised the possibility that injections administered at the hospital may have played a role.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has been asked to deliver the eulogy at Otieno’s funeral, his National Action Network said Wednesday. Details have not been announced.
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Braves vs. Red Sox: Odds, spread, over/under - July 25
The Atlanta Braves (64-34) and the Boston Red Sox (53-47) will square off in the series opener on Tuesday, July 25 at Fenway Park, with Charlie Morton starting for the Braves and Brayan Bello taking the mound for the Red Sox. The first pitch will be thrown at 7:10 PM ET.
The Braves have been listed as -145 moneyline favorites in this matchup with the Red Sox (+120). The total for the game has been set at 10.5 runs.
Braves vs. Red Sox Time and TV Channel
- Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: NESN
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue: Fenway Park
- Probable Pitchers: Morton - ATL (10-7, 3.36 ERA) vs Bello - BOS (7-6, 3.60 ERA)
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Braves vs. Red Sox Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Braves have won 56 out of the 85 games, or 65.9%, in which they've been favored.
- When they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter, the Braves have a 46-20 record (winning 69.7% of their games).
- The implied probability of a win from Atlanta, based on the moneyline, is 59.2%.
- The Braves were the moneyline favorite for nine of their last 10 games, and they went 4-5 in those matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups, Atlanta and its opponents combined to hit the over on the run total five times (all 10 games had set totals).
- The Red Sox have been chosen as underdogs in 51 games this year and have walked away with the win 26 times (51%) in those games.
- This season, the Red Sox have been victorious 14 times in 22 chances when named as an underdog of at least +120 or worse on the moneyline.
- Over the past 10 games, the Red Sox have been underdogs just once and won that contest.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Boston and its opponents have failed to hit the over four times.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Miss Universe Cayman Islands has been found guilty of damaging two cars and assaulting three people, including a police officer.
Tiffany Conolly had peaded self-defense in the October 2019 incident, in which authorities said she visited her ex-boyfriend’s home and assaulted him and his father and later a police officer.
During the trial, Conolly’s attorney argued the beauty queen was facing mental health challenges and contended she was mistreated by police.
A judge who found Conolly guilty Thursday dismissed those allegations, saying the evidence against Conolly was “overwhelming,” according to local media reports.
Conolly’s attorney could not be reached for comment. Conolly is scheduled to be sentenced in April.
The case forced Cayman Islands beauty pageant organizers to send the first runner-up to the Miss Universe contest last month. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/judge-finds-cayman-islands-beauty-queen-guilty-of-17776680.php | 2023-02-10 17:13:32 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/judge-finds-cayman-islands-beauty-queen-guilty-of-17776680.php |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla’s sales rose 35% in the July-September period compared to the second quarter as the company’s huge factory in China got past supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions.
The electric vehicle and solar panel company said Sunday it sold 343,830 cars and SUVs in the third quarter compared with 254,695 deliveries made from April through June.
But the delivery numbers still fell far short of Wall Street estimates. Analysts polled by data provider FactSet expected sales of 371,000 vehicles.
Tesla said it’s becoming more challenging to find transportation capacity at a reasonable cost when it needs to move vehicles from its factories to its customers. Tesla said it had higher than usual numbers of vehicles in transit at the end of the quarter that will count as sales once they’re delivered to customers.
Tesla said it produced 365,923 vehicles in the July-September period.
So far this year, the company has delivered 908,573 vehicles, but it will need a strong finish to the year to hit its predictions of 50% annual sales growth for the next few years.
Last year, the Austin, Texas, company delivered 936,172 vehicles. A 50% increase would be just over 1.4 million for this year.
The third-quarter sales are a good indication of how the company’s earnings will go when it releases them after the market closes on Oct. 19.
The rest of the auto industry reports September and third-quarter sales on Monday in a tough environment. Automakers, including Tesla, have reported difficulty getting computer chips and other parts needed to make vehicles. As a result, some factories are running way under capacity, and supplies of vehicles are low and prices are high.
As the pandemic erupted in the U.S. in 2020, automakers had to shut factories for eight weeks to help stop the virus from spreading. Some parts companies canceled orders for semiconductors. At the same time, demand for laptops, tablets and gaming consoles skyrocketed as people stuck at home upgraded their devices.
By the time auto production resumed, chip makers had shifted production to consumer goods, creating a shortage of weather-resistant automotive-grade chips. Although Tesla has fared better than other automakers, the industry still can’t get enough chips. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-tesla-sales-bounce-back-in-q3-but-fall-short-of-estimates/ | 2022-10-03 02:29:25 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-tesla-sales-bounce-back-in-q3-but-fall-short-of-estimates/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice, a Texas jury ruled Friday.
Sgt. Daniel Perry was working for a ride-sharing company in July 2020 when he turned onto a street and into a large crowd of demonstrators in downtown Austin. In video that was streamed live on Facebook, a car can be heard honking before several shots ring out and protesters begin screaming and scattering.
The 28-year-old protester, Garrett Foster, was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Perry, who faces life in prison, now awaits sentencing.
“We’re happy with the verdict. We’re very sorry for his family as well. There’s no winners in this,” Stephen Foster, the victim’s father, told reporters Friday.
The jury deliberated for two days. During closing arguments, Perry’s attorneys said he had no choice but to shoot Foster as he approached Perry’s car with an AK-47 rifle, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Prosecutors said Perry could have driven away before firing his revolver.
Witnesses testified that Foster never raised his rifle at Perry, according to the newspaper. Perry, who did not testify, told police that Foster did.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, then-Police Chief Brian Manley said officers heard “two separate volleys of gunfire.” Officers made their way to the crowd, where they found Foster with multiple gunshot wounds.
Manley said the driver, who was not named at the time, called 911 and reported the shooting, and that the second round of shots was fired by protesters who witnessed the shooting.
Perry was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of Austin. The trial comes after attempts from Perry’s team to throw out the case over the past year.
When Foster was killed, demonstrators in Austin and beyond had been marching in the streets for weeks following the police killing of George Floyd. Floyd died May 25, 2020, after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against the Black man’s neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd, who was handcuffed, repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe.
Floyd’s killing was recorded on video by a bystander and sparked worldwide protests as part of a broader reckoning over racial injustice. | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/army-sergeant-guilty-in-fatal-texas-shooting-of-protester/ | 2023-04-08 21:03:18 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/army-sergeant-guilty-in-fatal-texas-shooting-of-protester/ |
The world of rock n' roll has lost an icon.
Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, known for hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" has died. He was 87.
The musician's publicist confirmed his death to NBC News Oct. 28—two days after several outlets erroneously reported his passing, sharing an obituary written by Lewis' biographer, Rick Bragg. "Judith, his seventh wife, was by his side when he passed away at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis," it read, "He told her, in his final days, that he welcomed the hereafter, and that he was not afraid."
A week before the Lewis' erroneous death report, a post on his Instagram page from Oct. 19 had stated that the musician was "too ill with the flu to attend" celebrations of his recent induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Oct. 16.
The singer's cause of death has not been revealed yet. However, according to his obituary, Lewis "suffered through the last years of his life from various illnesses and injuries that, his physicians have often said, should have taken him decades ago; he had abused his body so thoroughly as a young man he was given little chance of lasting through middle age, let alone old age."
Just before Lewis' death, Judith said her husband "is ready to leave," his obituary noted. "He said he was ready to be with Jesus."
Lewis is also survived by his children Jerry Lee Lewis III, Ronnie Lewis, Phoebe Lewis and Lori Lancaster, a sister, cousin Jimmy Swaggart and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sons, Steve Allen Lewis—who drowned in a swimming pool at age 3 in 1962, and Jerry Lee Lewis Jr.—who died in a car crash at 19 in 1973, and two siblings.
Lewis began his career in the '50s and rose to fame as one of the most famous rock n' roll singers and pianists. The four-time Grammy winner's most recent album, gospel record Jimmy Lee & Jerry Lee: The Boys From Ferriday, which was released in July 2022, is a collaboration with his cousin Swaggart, a televangelist "who had preached against his music when they were younger."
According to his obituary, while working on the project, "Lewis, though his voice and body were weakened by his injury and a recent stroke, seemed happy, content."
In the obituary, Lewis also described his own legacy. Bragg wrote, "If you asked him, in his waning years, what he hoped people would say about him, he had a simple answer: 'You can tell 'em I played the piano and sang rock n' roll.'"
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Texas mall shooter kills 8, injures 7: A 33-year-old man opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle in an Allen, Texas mall on Saturday. Officials are investigating the shooter's motive, potentially tracing it to his suspected white supremacist and far-right ideologies. After police killed the shooter, they found a patch on his chest that read “RWDS." Politico explained RWDS stands "for the phrase 'Right Wing Death Squad,' which is popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups."
Crickets from the Texas Legislature: Remember just over a week ago when an angry neighbor killed five people—including two children—outside of Houston? Or nearly a year ago when 19 elementary school students and two teachers died in the Uvalde shooting? In the past two years, Texas has had over a dozen mass shootings, and lawmakers have increased access to firearms. Gov. Greg Abbott, who must be tired of attending vigils at this point, attended the vigil for the most-recent shooting (the mall one) and said "there would be no new effort by his administration to limit access to firearms—because it would not work," according to the New York Times.
Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge goes up in flames: The Olympic National Park ski lodge, built in 1952 and closed for renovations since March, burned to a crisp Sunday afternoon. Part of the planned renovations included upgrades to fire detection and notification systems. No word yet on what started the fire.
Is the only positive news sports? The Seattle Mariners beat the Houston Astros 3-1 yesterday and won the series against them, so that was good. And then, in their playoff journey, the Kraken beat the Dallas Stars 7-2. They're now leading the series 2-1. Is there some deeper meaning we can find here in these Seattle vs. Texas victories? Maybe if Texas wants to win against us at sports they need to pass gun reform laws. It's a cognitive leap, but they should try it out just to see if it works!
Sorry I made the sports political: Here is a video of sports and not politics.
JUST. LIKE. THEY. DREW. IT. UP.
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Man dies in White Center shooting: At around 3 am Monday morning, a shooting killed a 41-year-old man in White Center. Police are searching for the suspect.
Sound Transit is back to normal: After 10 days, the light rail will actually function like a real transit system again. Presumably, the hole in the Westlake Center transit tunnel is patched up enough and trains can run both directions. The trains will be running every 10 minutes on Monday, and then we're back to eight-minute peak service on Tuesday. Look, I'm glad Sound Transit didn't let any ceilings fall on our heads, but I'm dreaming of a day when minor construction snags don't derail an entire city and—picking nits here—our peak frequencies aren't eight fucking minutes.
Just a reminder that it’s back to regular service tomorrow, with trains running every 10 minutes at peak hours. We’ll be back to our regular 8-minute peak service Tuesday. We thank you for patience the past week and a half!
— Sound Transit - 🚆 🚈 🚍 (@SoundTransit) May 8, 2023
Seattle adds 31 new EV chargers: Yet, none of these new electric vehicle chargers will be further south than Columbia City. By not putting electric vehicle infrastructure in places where low-income and minority people live, Seattle City Light is widening the EV gap and making it even harder for people who haven't already to transition to EVs.
Trailhead Direct returns! Starting on May 13, you'll be able to hop over to Mount Si, Mount Teneriffe, and Little Si on a King County Metro shuttle during weekends and holidays. The service runs until Sept. 4.
Someone built an ice cream stand outside of Auschwitz: A few days ago, an ice cream and waffle stand opened on private property about 700 feet outside of Auschwitz, a concentration camp that killed 1.3 million people—most of them Jewish—during the Holocaust. Auschwitz Museum spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel called it “an example not only of aesthetic tastelessness but also of disrespect for a special historical site."
I remember the first time I visited Auschwitz. I got back to Kraków that evening and the only thing I wanted to do was sit in my hotel room. Turns out some people want to eat ice cream. pic.twitter.com/Wi72lswYm3
— Ben Stanley (@BDStanley) May 5, 2023
Nightmare fuel: A Chesapeake, Virginia 17-year-old died on Saturday after a nearby dune collapsed in on a hole the teen was in, burying him alive under several feet of sand.
No wait, this is nightmare fuel: The water systems in California (and across the nation) are super easy to hack, reports the Los Angeles Times. Things like dams and water treatment plants rely on antiquated software and weak passwords to defend them against cyber attacks. People could hack in and change chemical balances or open up floodgates and sluices. There's also very little centralized regulation to beef up these measures uniformly. Upgrades are happening, but slowly.
It'll be hot this week: Rain today, but then it'll be dry, dry, dry. We could hit 90 degrees in Seattle on Sunday— just in time to make your mom all sweaty for Mother's Day. Moms love to sweat.
A few showers around the area today then dry for the rest of the week into next week. Mothers Day weekend looking hot with possible record highs Sunday (Seattle record on Sunday 88° in 2018). About 40% chance of getting into the 90s Sunday for Seattle, 50%+ for SW Interior. #wawx pic.twitter.com/JZzWiapa8g
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Trump won't talk: Donald Trump refused to testify in the civil suit brought against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her in 1996. Carroll testified for several days. Trump has not even attended the trial. The jury, however, watched a deposition Trump made in October, where he vehemently denied Carroll's claims. The jury will likely start deliberating on Tuesday after closing arguments today.
This is kinda off-topic: But, have you watched the new show Jury Duty yet? Where one guy thinks he's doing jury duty but the entire jury is actors and the whole trial is fake? It's one of those ridiculous shows that restore your faith in humanity a little bit. I loved it. | https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2023/05/08/78982750/slog-am-texas-mall-shooter-may-have-white-supremacist-ties-seattle-mariners-and-kraken-win-auschwitz-does-not-want-ice-cream | 2023-05-08 17:32:09 | 1 | https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2023/05/08/78982750/slog-am-texas-mall-shooter-may-have-white-supremacist-ties-seattle-mariners-and-kraken-win-auschwitz-does-not-want-ice-cream |
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MUBENDE, Uganda -- The nurse wanted the toddler with a high fever transferred at once from a private clinic in Uganda to a public hospital even though the child tested positive for malaria amid an Ebola outbreak that has rattled health workers.
But the clinic's owner wasn't convinced as he examined the boy in his lap. The boy didn't have Ebola, he concluded after looking for the tell-tale bloody signs of the virus, and then sent the patient and his thankful mother home after administering intravenous medication.
The incident underscores the pitfalls health workers face in their response to a new Ebola outbreak in central Uganda. Because some malaria symptoms are similar to those of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating in three districts, community-based clinics that are usually the first port of call for those seeking care can be ill-equipped to make the right decisions at the right time.
"You can't say that everyone who is dying is dying of Ebola," said nurse Edgar Muhindo of Mubende's St. Florence Clinic, which unknowingly treated two Ebola patients for malaria before they sought care elsewhere. "But if it's Ebola, it's important to confirm that it's Ebola. That's why it's important for more health units to have the machines that can detect this Ebola virus."
Simple microscopes at such remote clinics can quickly confirm malaria or typhoid, possibly obscuring the possibility that the same patient could simultaneously have Ebola.
This was the case with a 24-year-old man who became sick in mid-September, was treated for malaria and pneumonia, and died the day before a sample from him confirmed the Ebola outbreak.
By that time, six others had died from what officials called a strange illness.
Mellon Kyomugisha, a medical lab assistant who recalled touching the first confirmed Ebola victim when he came to St. Florence Clinic with malaria, said she felt it wasn't necessary to isolate until worrisome symptoms emerge. She was at work several days later, putting on protective gear when she had to see a patient.
Thirty-five Ebola cases have been confirmed since Sept. 20, including six health workers, and a doctor is among at least seven confirmed deaths.
Only one government-run facility, located 111 miles away in Entebbe, is equipped to test for Ebola, and officials sometimes wait up to 48 hours before results come in.
Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and at times internal and external bleeding.
Scientists don't know the natural reservoir of the virus, but they suspect the first victim in an Ebola outbreak gets infected through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat.
The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the largest death toll since the virus was discovered in 1976.
Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed more than 200. Authorities don't expect the current outbreak to be so deadly but are urging people to immediately report suspected cases. There is no proven vaccine for the Sudan strain of Ebola.
Health authorities are still investigating the source of the current outbreak, which likely began in August, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in a televised address earlier this week. It was a surprising admission for an East African country that's often cited for its leadership in fighting disease outbreaks.
Hamstrung by testing difficulties from the beginning, the initial response was sometimes chaotic as health officials raced to corral contacts and set up an isolation unit, according to health workers and others on the ground.
Some health workers said they felt helpless when ambulances delayed in picking up patients possibly suffering from Ebola. A woman whose farmworker died of Ebola recalled being taken into an isolation unit where some quarantined patients started to bleed, worrying those without symptoms who knew they risked infection.
Health authorities in Mubende have since created separate isolation spaces for Ebola patients and their contacts, said Rosemary Byabasaija, the leader of a government task force fighting Ebola. She said early "disorganization" in case management has since been rectified.
"When the news broke, it caused stampeding both in the hospital and the communities," she said.
Ugandan authorities had documented 427 known contacts by Sept. 30. But some taken into quarantine escaped and remain at large, complicating the tracing work that's key to preventing a widening outbreak.
"It's like someone throwing a grenade," Dr. Emmanuel Batiibwe, director of Mubende Hospital, said of the outbreak's early days. "There's that explosion. Everybody scampers for cover and then they begin coming back slowly to see what's going on... So it was a similar scenario which happened here."
The hospital made "the biggest alarm you can ever think of," he said, and soon efforts were underway to set up an isolation unit with the help of Doctors Without Borders. That unit was still being set up 10 days after the outbreak had been declared.
Farmer Margaret Nakanyike, one of those herded into the isolation unit after two members of her household showed Ebola signs, said she was lucky to escape infection at the hospital. After testing negative, she is isolating at her house not far from the garden where her worker who died from Ebola was buried.
Across Madudu, the subcounty in Mubende that's been hardest hit, ambulances speed along the dirt road to respond to Ebola alerts.
Kaamu Kato, who runs a government-run health center in Madudu, waited anxiously for an ambulance to take a 16-year-old mother with a baby who had arrived with a fever and bloody diarrhea. She didn't have malaria, so Kato and others immediately Ebola-alerted for an ambulance.
The transport came two hours later. The patient, after trying to leave, lay in the grass, apparently in pain, as health workers watched from a distance. Kato said he could do nothing.
"There are things which are beyond my control," he said. "I have played my part. It's now up to them to come here quickly or to delay." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/08/testing-trouble-adds-to-disorder-in-ugandas-ebola/ | 2022-10-08 10:36:56 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/08/testing-trouble-adds-to-disorder-in-ugandas-ebola/ |
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) today closed its private offering and issued $550.0 million in aggregate principal amount of its 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 (the "Notes").
Each of the company's subsidiaries guaranteed the Notes, other than Dustland, LLC, Sunseeker Resorts, Inc. and its subsidiaries and certain other insignificant subsidiaries. The Notes and the related guarantees are secured by security interests in substantially all the property and assets of the company and the guarantors of the Notes, excluding aircraft, aircraft engines, real property, and certain other assets. The collateral that secures the Notes also secures the company's existing $150.0 million 8.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Existing Notes") and the company's new Revolving Credit Facility (defined below) on a pari passu basis. Combining the aggregate principal amount of the Notes with the aggregate principal amount of the Existing Notes, the company has approximately $700 million of debt secured by such collateral.
The company used the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes to repay the company's Term Loan B, which had an outstanding principal amount of $533 million, and to pay costs and expenses of the transaction and will use the balance for general corporate purposes.
"This debt refinancing puts Allegiant in a strong position for the future, as it gives us the liquidity profile to execute on our growth strategy," said the company's President and CFO Gregory C. Anderson. "The call feature in this transaction provides valuable flexibility as we navigate through the current interest rate environment while ensuring a robust capital structure to support our business initiatives."
The company also entered into a credit agreement that provides a senior secured revolving loan facility of up to $75.0 million (the "Revolving Credit Facility"). The Company's obligations under the Revolving Credit Facility will be guaranteed by the same guarantors that guarantee the Notes and will be secured by the same collateral that secures the Notes. The Notes and Revolving Credit Facility together provide $625 million in liquidity secured by such collateral at a current blended rate of 6.4% while undrawn.
The new revolving credit facility from Barclays, along with existing revolving credit facilities from MUFG Bank and Credit Agricole, will give Allegiant over $1.4 billion in available liquidity.
The Notes and the related guarantees have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction. The Notes and the related guarantees were offered and sold only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act ("Rule 144A") and to certain non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A family friend of the rapper XXXTentacion broke down Tuesday as he told jurors how he and the rapper were ambushed by armed robbers as they drove away from a motorcycle shop, how he fled in fear and then heard the gunshots that killed the rising star.
Leonard Kerr’s testimony highlighted the opening day in the trial of three men accused of fatally shooting XXXTentacion on June 18, 2018, inside his BMW sports car, which had been blocked by an SUV as Kerr and the rapper pulled out of the Riva Motorsports’ parking lot near Fort Lauderdale.
Two men jumped out with guns, Kerr said. He said the taller man pointed his weapon at him and told him not to get out of the car, punctuating his command with a curse word. The other man was trying to pull the rapper’s gold chain from his neck. Kerr said he could hear XXXTentacion asking, “What’s this for?” At that point, Kerr said, he decided to escape, pushing the button that opened the passenger door.
“If I run, I can get shot, but I can live. If I sit….” Kerr said, his voicing trailing off until he stopped to regain his composure.
Kerr said when he looked back, the taller man was pointing his gun at XXXTentacion, and he said he heard at least two loud bangs. The men then got back into the SUV and sped off, taking with them the $50,000 the rapper had in his designer bag.
Michael Boatwright, 28, is accused of being the shooter, while his friend, Trayon Newsome, 24, is accused of being the other gunman. Dedrick Williams, 26, is accused of being the driver. They could all receive life sentences if convicted of first-degree murder. A fourth man who prosecutors say was in the SUV, 26-year-old Robert Allen, pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder and is set to testify against his former friends.
During opening statements earlier Tuesday, the jurors heard divergent theories about the shooting. A robbery gone awry, according to prosecutors. According to the defense, it could have been a feud between XXXTentacion and the megastar Drake, but they say detectives refused to investigate that possibility.
Prosecutor Pascale Achille told jurors that Boatwright, Newsome, Williams and Allen, set out that day to commit armed robberies. Allen and Williams went inside the motorcycle shop to buy masks, she said.
There, they happened upon XXXTentacion, who, according to Kerr, had the $50,000 he had just gotten from the bank hanging out of his bag. The pair recognized him, and the group seized upon the opportunity, deciding to rob him as he left, Achille said. Boatwright shot him several times “without any provocation,” she said.
To varying degrees, the defendants are linked to the shooting by surveillance video and cellphone locations, and all are implicated through Allen’s expected testimony, Achille said. Then there are the social media photos of some of the men flashing the money posted that night, she said.
“They go on social media and start bragging that they have this influx of cash,” Achille said. “They flash it like it’s Christmas Day.”
To the men’s attorneys, the defendants are victims of Robert Allen’s lies and the failure of detectives to investigate XXXTentacion’s feud with Drake — XXXTentacion once said on social media that if he ever wound up dead, the Canadian rapper would be the cause. He later retracted that. Another rapper had also made threats against XXXTentacion.
They said that with the rapper’s slaying coming just four months after the slaying of 17 people at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was under extreme political pressure to solve the case quickly.
“For Broward County, for everyone involved, this was a nightmare,” said Mauricio Padilla, Williams’ attorney.
That’s why they wanted no part with investigating a celebrity, he said.
Prosecutors say there is no evidence linking Drake to the shooting, and Williams is clearly seen in the store’s surveillance video, recognizable through his distinctive facial tattoos. He was also identified by one of the clerks. Padilla conceded Williams was present in the store but didn’t say how he would explain that.
Joseph Kimok, Boatwright’s attorney, also pointed the finger at a third man as the possible shooter — a friend Williams was seen talking to inside the motorcycle store just before the shooting who has the same build as his client. He alluded that the friend could have gotten into the SUV Williams was driving outside the view of surveillance cameras. He said the evidence will show that Boatwright was asleep at the home he shared with his grandmother at the time of the shooting.
“At no point (in the surveillance videos) will you see Mr. Boatwright, because he wasn’t there,” Kimok said.
Yes, a cellphone linked to him was near the store — but that was a community phone used by several men, he said. And yes, he “very stupidly posed” with money that night — but that money was Allen’s, not Boatwright’s, Kimok said.
Newsome’s attorney also denied that his client was present.
The victim, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, pronounced his stage name “ex-ex-ex-ten-ta-see-YAWN.” He was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled issues including prejudice and depression in his songs. He also drew criticism over bad behavior and multiple arrests, including charges that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-prosecutor-xxxtentacions-accused-killers-set-out-to-rob/ | 2023-02-08 19:47:22 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-prosecutor-xxxtentacions-accused-killers-set-out-to-rob/ |
TORRANCE, Calif., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Loans4Less.com, Inc. (OTC: LFLS) announced today that it has retained Dave Elias & Associates, a New Jersey-based merchant banking and advisory firm specializing in mergers & acquisitions, to evaluate strategic alternatives for Loans4Less.com.
Steven Hershman, CEO Loans4Less.com, stated, "In order to take full advantage of the market opportunity and maximize shareholder value, we believe it's the right time to sell our portfolio of intangible assets, including Loans4Less.com, Federal Service Mark and 60 domain names. With the assistance and guidance of Dave Elias and his team, we plan to review the full range of strategic alternatives that realize the full value of Loans4Less.com."
"To attain competitive bidding amongst commercial and retail banks as well as financial institutions that specialize in lending programs we entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Dave Elias & Associates," concluded Mr. Hershman.
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Loans4Less.com, Inc is a California online Mortgage Broker focused on becoming a national origination brand platform for conforming residential mortgage programs and other consumer loans. Loans4Less.com offers very competitive rates, terms and costs, daily rate updates, other market information and prides itself on excellent and honest service. Loans4Less.com does not operate a warehouse line of credit, hold trust funds, lend directly or service loans. Loans4Less.com relies on various wholesale lenders for its retail home loan programs. The Company plans to rapidly grow revenues with cost effective advertising and by engaging with a strategic partner to broaden the Loans4Less a generic brand and to maximize our shareholders value.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence officials had gathered to brief select members of Congress on future threats to U.S. elections when a key lawmaker in the room, No. 3 House Republican Elise Stefanik of New York, tried to move the discussion to a new topic: Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Stefanik, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, asked the officials during the April 1 briefing whether they had any evidence of Russian involvement in the release of Biden’s laptop to the news media in the fall of 2020 — a possibility floated by high-ranking former government officials in the weeks before the presidential election. Intelligence officials told Stefanik the question would be better answered by law enforcement.
Stefanik’s query, shared with The Associated Press by a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting, reflects a widespread sentiment in the GOP that questions about the financial dealings of President Joe Biden’s son remain unanswered. And they say they intend to do something about it.
As Republicans prepare for a possible return to power amid rising hopes of winning the House and the Senate in the November elections, they are laying the groundwork to make Hunter Biden and his business dealings a central target of their investigative and oversight efforts.
Republican lawmakers and staff have discussed analyzing specific messages and financial transactions found on the laptop and have also discussed issuing congressional subpoenas to foreign entities involved in paying Hunter Biden, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The conversations have been in the early stages but have included talks of bringing on Republican lawyers and former Justice Department officials to help lead the investigations, the people said.
The White House in turn is preparing to defend the Democratic president from any allegations of wrongdoing and make the case that Republicans are driven by opportunism. Democrats are likely to point out how Republicans did not seek investigations into President Donald Trump’s own business pursuits in Russia and China or into the foreign dealings of his children and son-in-law while they held key campaign or White House roles.
It all raises the possibility of a messy, politically explosive showdown between a GOP-controlled Congress and the White House, one that could delve deeply into the affairs of the president’s family and shape the contours of the 2024 race for the White House.
Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work are already under federal investigation, with a grand jury in Delaware hearing testimony in recent months. While he never held a position on the presidential campaign or in the White House, Hunter Biden’s membership on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and his efforts to strike deals in China have long raised questions about whether he traded on his father’s public service, including reported references in his emails to the “big guy.”
Joe Biden has said he’s never spoken to his son about his foreign business. And there are no indications that the federal investigation involves the president in any way. The White House declined to comment, and a lawyer for Hunter Biden did not respond to an email.
Republican leaders see Hunter Biden as a unifying force that can bring together different factions of the GOP and potentially satiate those calling for more dramatic action. Some members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus have said the first order of business for a Republican majority should be an impeachment trial of Joe Biden in retaliation for the two impeachments of Trump.
There’s also increasing discussion among Republicans about urging the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, said people familiar with the matter.
“Hunter Biden’s fair game because I believe Hunter Biden is a national security risk,” said Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who is in line to take over the House Oversight Committee if Republicans win the House. “Hopefully, when I get the gavel, we’ll take it a step further.”
In preparation, Comer’s oversight staff has already begun to make document requests and archived information related to the president’s son.
The New York Post first reported in October 2020 that it had received from Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a copy of a hard drive of a laptop that Hunter Biden had dropped off 18 months earlier at a Delaware computer repair shop and never retrieved.
The story was greeted with skepticism due to questions about the laptop’s origins, including Giuliani’s involvement, and because top officials in the Trump administration had already warned that Russia was working to denigrate Joe Biden ahead of the November election. The Kremlin had also interfered in the 2016 race by hacking Democratic emails that were subsequently leaked.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee now want to probe the origins of a widely shared letter from 50 former intelligence officials released a week after the New York Post story. The letter claimed the laptop carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and suggested that “the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue.”
Joe Biden in the second presidential debate, responding to Trump’s reference to the “laptop from hell,” said “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant.” That statement went further than the letter, though it was immediately and widely reported as having labeled the laptop as disinformation. Trump and many Republicans accused Biden of invoking Russia to avoid scrutiny about his son.
No evidence has emerged since of any Russian connections to the laptop or the emails. A declassified U.S. intelligence assessment of the 2020 election alleged that Russian leader Vladimir Putin authorized multiple efforts in support of Trump. Russian state media amplified “disparaging content” about Biden “including stories centered on his son,” the assessment said, which also alleges Putin had “purview” over the activities of a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Giuliani.
Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello, called allegations that the Russians were behind the laptop “absurd.” Stefanik in a statement said “any alleged attempt by the intelligence agencies or intelligence community leadership to portray the facts surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop as misinformation needs to be investigated and prosecuted.”
Meanwhile, GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who in 2020 issued a report on Hunter Biden and his work on behalf of Ukraine gas company Burisma, recently made a presentation on the Senate floor laying out allegations they say the media have ignored but the Justice Department and Congress need to investigate.
“The Biden administration has been totally unresponsive to our oversight requests,” Grassley said.
For now, the Biden administration and many top Democrats are not commenting publicly on Hunter Biden. But the White House has already reassigned communications staff to prepare to respond to GOP investigations of Hunter Biden and other likely targets, including the origins of the coronavirus and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Democrats are expected to argue that Hunter Biden is ultimately a distraction to most voters concerned about domestic issues. The current House Oversight chair, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, previewed that argument in a statement responding to Comer, her Republican counterpart.
Said Maloney: “I’d hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would be more focused on delivering for the American people than on phony outrage.”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri faith leaders, activists and elected officials on Wednesday decried the Republican-led House for shutting down a Black lawmaker’s speech and passing a bill that could strip power from the Black woman elected as St. Louis prosecutor.
The House last week passed legislation to allow Republican Gov. Mike Parson to appoint a special prosecutor to handle violent crimes in areas with high homicide rates, such as St. Louis. The bill is part of a Republican push for anti-crime legislation this session.
State Rep. Kevin Windham, a Black Democrat from St. Louis County, was reading aloud a news article about similar legislation in Mississippi during the House debate when some white Republican lawmakers objected that his speech had nothing to do with Missouri.
House Speaker Dean Plocher ruled Windham out of order, halting his speech. Windham’s microphone was turned off. House Majority Leader Jon Patterson then made a motion to shut off debate on the bill, which the Republican majority voted to do — leaving other Black Democrats standing without having a turn to speak.
Patterson last week defended his role in halting the debate, saying the “conversation was devolving” and that race “did not play a role in me deciding that it was time to have a vote on the bill.”
The office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner issued a statement calling the legislation “a political stunt.”
The discord in the Missouri House came just days after a similar upset in Mississippi, where Black lawmakers denounced the majority-white, Republican-led Legislature for voting to take power away from local leaders in the predominantly Black city of Jackson.
Like in Mississippi, Missouri’s legislature has a largely white Republican majority. Most of the Black lawmakers represent the state’s two largest urban areas of St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
(AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the government can’t stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning guns — the latest domino to fall after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation’s gun laws.
Police in Texas found a rifle and a pistol at the home of a man who was the subject of a civil protective order that banned him from harassing, stalking or threatening his ex-girlfriend and their child. The order also banned him from having guns.
A federal grand jury indicted the man, who pled guilty. He later challenged his indictment, arguing the law that prevented him from owning a gun was unconstitutional. At first, a federal appeals court ruled against him, saying that it was more important for society to keep guns out of the hands of people accused of domestic violence than it was to protect a person’s individual right to own a gun.
But then last year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a new ruling in a case known as New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. That case set new standards for interpreting the Second Amendment by saying the government had to justify gun control laws by showing they are “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
The appeals court withdrew its original decision and on Thursday decided to vacate the man’s conviction and ruled the federal law banning people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns was unconstitutional.
Specifically, the court ruled that the federal law was an “outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted” — borrowing a quote from the Bruen decision.
The decision came from a three-judge panel consisting of Judges Cory Wilson, James Ho and Edith Jones. Wilson and Ho were nominated by former Republican President Donald Trump, while Jones was nominated by former Republican President Ronald Reagan.
The U.S. Justice Department Thursday night issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland following the decision: “Nearly 30 years ago, Congress determined that a person who is subject to a court order that restrains him or her from threatening an intimate partner or child cannot lawfully possess a firearm. Whether analyzed through the lens of Supreme Court precedent, or of the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment, that statute is constitutional. Accordingly, the Department will seek further review of the Fifth Circuit’s contrary decision.”
Thursday’s ruling overturned the federal law and is not likely to impact similar state laws, including one in California. Still, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, called the judges who issued the ruling “zealots” who are “hellbent on a deranged vision of guns for all, leaving government powerless to protect its people.”
“This is what the ultra-conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court wants. It’s happening, and it’s happening right now,” Newsom said. “Wake up America — this assault on our safety will only accelerate.”
Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said the problem with laws like the one the federal appeals court struck down is that they are too broad and don’t take into account the details of each case.
He offered as an example a client of his whose neighbor filed a restraining order against them because they had pointed a security camera on their property.
“They lost their gun rights,” he said. “When they do a blanket prohibition without considering individualized circumstances, they shoot the dogs with the wolves.”
Thursday’s ruling demonstrates the far-reaching impacts of the Bruen decision. In California, the decision has prompted lawmakers to overhaul their law regarding permits to carry concealed weapons.
Wednesday, Newsom endorsed a bill in the state Legislature that would ban people from carrying concealed guns in nearly all public places, with an exception for churches and businesses who put up a sign saying guns are OK.
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray remained unbeaten this season in matches that go to a deciding third or fifth set by coming back to beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 across more than three hours in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday.
Murray, a 35-year-old who has an artificial hip, faced a pair of break points while serving at 15-40 and already trailing 4-3 in the final set. Convert either of those chances, and Etcheverry would have served for the victory.
But 2009 Indian Wells runner-up Murray managed to hold there, beginning a three-game, match-ending run against Etcheverry, a 21-year-old from Argentina who is ranked 61st after reaching the final of a tournament in Santiago, Chile, last week.
So far in 2023, Murray is 5-0 in best-of-three-set matches that last three sets, along with 2-0 in best-of-five matches that go five. He is 0-3 in contests that conclude earlier.
Another man who owns three major titles, Stan Wawrinka, made a successful return to the hard-court tournament in the California desert after four years away, beating qualifier Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
Wawrinka, a 37-year-old who has been ranked as high as No. 3 and is now No. 100 after a series of operations to his left foot and left knee, hit 10 aces and won 28 of 33 first-serve points. His previous match in Indian Wells was a loss to Swiss Davis Cup teammate Roger Federer in the third round in 2019.
Wawrinka will face No. 26 seed Miomir Kecmanovic in the second round at the first Masters 1000 tournament of the season.
Former No. 3-ranked and 2020 U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem was beaten 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) by Adrian Mannarino. The French player won the last three points of the tiebreaker to defeat Thiem, the 2019 Indian Wells winner whose ranking has dropped to No. 102 as he works his way back from right wrist and abdominal injuries.
Emma Raducanu, who won the 2021 U.S. Open as a teenage qualifier, was back on court Thursday for the first time since January after having tonsillitis, and fell behind 2-0 in each set during what would become a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic.
Another 20-year-old, Ben Shelton, trailed 2-0 at the outset against Fabio Fognini before taking 12 of the last 15 games to win 6-4, 6-1. Shelton, the 2022 NCAA singles champion at the University of Florida who hadn’t won a match since reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals, will take on No. 4 seed and defending champion Taylor Fritz next.
Fognini was warned for an audible obscenity and for taking too much time getting ready to return serves; he also spiked a racket during the match but wasn’t cited by the chair umpire for that.
Thanasi Kokkinakis claimed 32 of 34 points he served in a 6-4, 6-1 victory over wild-card entry Brandon Holt to earn a matchup on Saturday against reigning U.S. Open champion and No. 1 seed Carlos Alcaraz.
Danielle Collins, the 2022 Australian Open runner-up, lost a second consecutive match against an opponent ranked outside the top 50, knocked out 6-4, 6-4 by 80th-ranked Dalma Galfi. Galif had lost in qualifying but moved into the main draw when someone withdrew. Collins delivered only nine winners while making 41 unforced errors.
In a match featuring American former Grand Slam singles champions, 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin beat 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-1. Claire Liu beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 7-6 (5), 6-3 and will play No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the second round.
Varvara Gracheva, who qualified for Indian Wells after reaching the final at Austin, Texas, last week, defeated Ysaline Bonaventure 6-2, 6-2; Katerina Siniakova beat Jule Niemeier 7-5, 6-4; and Jil Teichmann was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Ashlyn Krueger.
In other results, Jack Draper overwhelmed qualifier Leandro Riedi 6-1, 6-1 to set up an all-British matchup against No. 24 Dan Evans; Mackenzie McDonald defeated Filip Krajinovic 6-3, 6-0; and Marton Fucsovics beat J.J. Wolf 1-6, 6-0, 6-3.
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Technology company to use funding to scale operations, gain market share in wedding industry poised for record-breaking year despite slowdown in overall U.S. economy
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Paper Coin (RPC), a software-as-a-service startup providing a suite of digital contracts and invoicing tools for the wedding industry, today announced the company has secured $2.3 million in funding. Elevate Capital led the funding round for RPC, with additional investors in the round including HearstLab, Stormlight Holdings, and other investors.
RPC is the fastest-growing payment platform for the wedding and event industry and plans to use this new funding to scale up its operations to meet customer demand and gain increased market share in the wedding services market which is expected to reach $414.2 billion by 2030.
RPC's user-friendly software platform enables easy management of digital contracts, provides flexible invoices, simplifies online payments, automates helpful reminders, and provides document storage for wedding and event industry professionals. RPC streamlines the payment process for these vendors by allowing them to accept all forms of payments and offer flexible payment options for clients.
"We're seeing significant demand from wedding planners, vendors, and couples who have all recognized the benefits of using RPC's software to help streamline the behind-the-scenes business workflows for the wedding industry by digitizing and automating contracts, invoices, and payments," said Elizabeth Sheils, co-founder and CEO of RPC. "Now that the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, the wedding industry is experiencing an unprecedented number of weddings because so many had to be postponed during the pandemic. More than 1,900 businesses have registered with RPC and so we're experiencing rapid growth. We're extremely pleased to have the support of Elevate Capital, HearstLab, and more impressive investors on our team."
Wedding planners, who are commonly self-employed professionals, direct business and communications between their client; the couple to be married, and any number of third-party contractors such as florists, decorators, venue owners, caterers, musicians, or photographers. RPC is the first to unify all invested parties on one platform, allowing planners to seamlessly execute complex event coordination tasks and manage their business in a professional and organized manner.
"It's been exciting to see so many vendors in the wedding industry migrating their entire business operations to RPC," said Nora Sheils, co-founder and COO of Rock Paper Coin. "Our team is happy to play a key role in helping these businesses run more efficiently so they can focus their energy on creating beautiful and memorable weddings and events, instead of dealing with piles of paperwork and reminders."
"We are excited to invest in RPC as the lead investor and to support the co-founders, Elizabeth Sheils and Nora Sheils. We were greatly impressed with their backgrounds as seasoned wedding planners who built one of the largest wedding planning companies in the Pacific Northwest," said Nitin Rai, Elevate Capital Founder and Managing Partner. "Elizabeth and Nora understand the industry from the inside, are intimately familiar with the challenges of planning weddings, and know how to connect with their customers. Their ongoing efforts to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and individuality are at the forefront of Elevate Capital's portfolio companies. We believe RPC has strong momentum for a busy 2022 and growth in 2023, and I look forward to joining their board."
RPC gained support from HearstLab, which invests in early-stage, women-led companies. "We are delighted to invest along-side Elevate Capital and to support RPC," said Eve Burton, Hearst EVP and HearstLab Chairwoman. "Not only are Elizabeth and Nora two exceptional entrepreneurs, but their product is enhancing the careers of so many women in the wedding planning industry. We look forward to seeing how Hearst's strengths in enterprise technology, sales, content and our internal Scout Network can assist with the growth of this strong innovative software company."
RPC's revenue increased by 250% from 2021 to 2022, and the company plans to continue to grow and scale its operations in 2023. To support the company's growth, RPC expects to hire additional employees in the months ahead and build on the team's expertise in the wedding industry.
Rock Paper Coin is the first-ever software to bring together event planners, couples, and vendors into one system for managing contracts, paying invoices, and sharing documents. With its streamlined system, event professionals can manage the backend of their business with ease. To keep up with the demands of today's couples, Rock Paper Coin serves as a financial solution to help businesses book more clients. Visit rockpapercoin.com and follow RPC on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Elevate Capital is a Pacific Northwest-based venture capital firm that invests nationally in early-stage underrepresented entrepreneurs, that includes women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and veterans. For instance, more than 62% of Elevate Capital Fund II investments are in women, 52% in African Americans (majority are women), 67% in founders of color, 10% LGBTQ+, 10% veterans, and 5% Latinx founder/CEO led startups. Since 2016, Elevate Capital has invested nearly $45 Million in 57 startups, of which more than 95% are led by diverse founders. Visit elevate.vc or follow Elevate Capital on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
HearstLab provides cash investments and services to early-stage, women-led startups innovating across fintech, data analytics, health, transportation, enterprise technology and media. Its mission is to close the gap in VC funding for women by helping founders build sustainable and highly scalable businesses. With access to Hearst resources across 360+ businesses, HearstLab's breadth of services includes assistance with privacy and security, software development, legal services, financial analysis, and marketing and design support. To learn more about HearstLab, visit HearstLab.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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BEIJING, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sitting at the southernmost tip of the Chinese mainland, Xuwen Port in Zhanjiang, South China's Guangdong Province was one of the starting ports for the ancient Maritime Silk Road more than 2,000 years ago. Today, the port is the world's largest passenger-cargo ro-ro terminal. Despite its crucial historical role, the port had been relatively unknown both at home and abroad - until very recently.
On the afternoon of April 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, paid a visit to the port, drawing widespread attention to the crucial role the port plays in some of the country's key national development strategies.
Xi stressed that Xuwen Port should be upgraded to a modern, comprehensive hub of water and land transportation that connects the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Hainan Free Trade Port. He emphasized the role of the Qiongzhou Strait between Guangdong and Hainan as a vital gateway to the development of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
The President's remarks about the crucial position of Xuwen Port as part of key national strategies elevated the sense of responsibility and "glory of the mission" for workers at the port and were a great source of inspiration for them to aim higher, said Zhang Jinhong, chairman of Zhanjiang Xuwen Port Co, noting that following the President's visit, more comprehensive and systemic planning will be carried out to elevate the port's operation, so as to be "truly worthy of our historical positioning."
Xi's inspection of the port that was once crucial for the ancient Maritime Silk Road vividly demonstrates China's unwavering commitment to high-quality opening-up and closer connectivity with the world through the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is embodied in Xi's economic thought widely known as "Xiconomics."
Renewed strategic role
Almost two weeks after Xi's visit to Xuwen Port, Zhang, who accompanied and briefed the president throughout the visit, still recalls every detail and every inquiry vividly. What struck him the most was the renewed strategic role attached to Xuwen Port.
"We have also been thinking about how to improve service quality so that we can develop faster, which is also our goal. But we have never linked our job to the national strategy," Zhang said, noting that the positioning of Xuwen Port as an intersection between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Hainan Free Trade Port fosters a sense that "we are shouldering a heavy historical mission and responsibility."
Such a historical mission for Xuwen Port dates back more than 2,000 years ago, when the port was one of the first starting points for the ancient Maritime Silk Road with official record, playing an especially key role in trade with Southeast Asia and South Asia. As early as the Han Dynasty, it had become a crucial trade hub thanks to its unique geographic location. It sits at the southernmost tip of the Chinese mainland and across the Qiongzhou Strait, a crucial transport channel between the mainland and Hainan with the vast South China Sea to its east.
Now, as the country steadily pushes forward with its high-quality opening-up through various major development initiatives, including the BRI and the Hainan Free Trade Port, Xuwen Port's strategic role has consistently been elevated.
During his visit, Xi was informed about Guangdong's endeavors to improve regional connectivity through the development of better transportation infrastructure and the planned alignment of its development with that of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Underscoring the importance he attaches to the port's development, Xi made many detailed inquiries regarding the port's operation, including the design of the main building, operation safety, ferry prices, as well as the food services at the terminal.
"All of what we are doing now has basically met the most basic expectations in terms of connecting the Hainan Free Trade Port and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, though there is still much to improve upon," Zhang said.
To bolster regional infrastructure connectivity, the construction of a modern Xuwen Port started in 2017 with an investment of 2.1 billion yuan ($304.56 million). The port officially started operations in September 2020 and has an annual throughput of about 3.2 million vehicle trips and 17.3 million passenger trips. It cuts down the sea journey to Hainan to 12 nautical miles and the sea crossing time to one hour.
In the first quarter of 2023, Xuwen Port saw a throughput of about 1.57 million vehicle trips, up nearly 52 percent year-on-year, and about 5.29 million passenger trips, up 68 percent year-on-year. The port handles 90 percent of cargo and one-third of total passenger traffic between Guangdong and Hainan.
In fact, to better serve the building of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the port construction, which started in 2017, had to make major adjustments to the design of the port when the master plan for Hainan was announced in 2018.
"We pretty much threw out the original plan and started from scratch," Zhang said, noting that the current plan took into account potential growth in volume brought by the Hainan Free Trade Port.
"Waterfront towers get the moonlight first. We now serve Hainan and the Hainan Free Trade Port, and once the Hainan Free Trade Port is developed, we will enjoy its dividends first," Zhang said, adding that once Hainan begins independent customs, certain logistics capacity can be built in Xuwen.
Unswerving commitment
The renewed strategic significance of Xuwen Port is also a direct testament to China's unswerving commitment to high-quality opening-up and high-quality construction of the BRI.
Xi's economic thought also addresses the needs and difficulties of global development through cooperation frameworks such as the BRI. China is also sharing development opportunities with the world through its higher-level opening-up. Many of China's national development strategies highlight this. The Hainan Free Trade Port, which aims to become a top-tier free trade port with global influence by the middle of the century, has epitomized China's resolve to promote high-quality opening-up and opportunities to the rest of the world.
During the inspection tour in Guangdong, the Chinese President also stressed the importance of remaining steadfast in comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-quality opening-up, and urged Guangdong Province, a pacesetter in the country's reform and opening-up. He expressed hope that foreign investors will seize opportunities and achieve greater business success by coming to China, particularly Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. He also stated that China is ready to collaborate with any nations that are interested in engaging in mutually beneficial cooperation to advance the shared prosperity and development of the global economy.
In fact, there are countless real-life examples of China sharing development with the rest of the world. A project delivered by Evergreen in Egypt, based on the mariculture of shrimp and gold pomfret, successfully became a large source of protein for people in Egypt and Evergreen also helped trained over 80 Egyptian experts, creating over 3,000 local jobs in the process, said Chen Dan, chairman of Guangdong Evergreen Group.
Chen also recalled the vivid scenes of the president's visit to a mariculture base under a national-level key project in the city of Zhanjiang, which is run by the company, on April 10. Chen told the Global Times that unlike other companies that impose restrictions on certain exports, Evergreen has been exporting its products and technology to countries along the BRI.
China's continued opening-up has also brought greater opportunities for many overseas traders, including fruit exporters from as far as South America.
Gonzalo Matamala, general manager of Chile-based cherry supplier Giddings Fruit's Asia and China region, said that in recent years he noticed a growing number of new fruit varieties making their way into the Chinese market.
"I think the Chinese government is doing something that is very smart, in that it keeps allowing more fruits from more countries to come into the Chinese market. So, it introduces competition and benefits the Chinese consumer," Matamala said.
Sharing opportunities requires openness and connectivity, which are embodied in China's major development initiatives such as the BRI, and Xuwen Port, which dates back thousands of years, has gained renewed significance. And just like the revival of Xuwen, China is steadily carrying out the historic mission of promoting the high-quality development of the BRI, so as to build greater connectivity that brings greater common development and prosperity. Such a historic mission is palpable in Xuwen.
"We are making a comprehensive and systemic plan and earnestly want to further elevate [the port] to a new stage through years of efforts, so as to be truly worthy of our historical positioning," Zhang said.
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Clinical program broadens access to ketamine-assisted therapy for an underserved population
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Numinus Wellness Inc. ("Numinus" or the "Company") (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF), a mental health care company advancing innovative treatments and safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, today announced the launch of its Ketamine for Chronic and Serious Medical Illness Program. This new program will be introduced first in Numinus' clinics in Utah, British Columbia and Quebec. The Company intends to expand the program to other clinics in later months.
"Chronic and serious medical illness encompasses a wide range of diagnoses, from terminal cancer to chronic pain. In the US alone, six million people could benefit from palliative care, but current treatments have gaps that leave patients struggling to cope with distress," said Dr. Neil Barclay (MD), VP, Product and Protocol Development, Numinus. "Numinus' program addresses this gap by providing safe, evidence-based ketamine-assisted therapy that is specifically designed for this patient population and serves as an adjunct to patients' existing treatment."
Numinus' program will offer ketamine-assisted therapy alongside additional community support, and has a targeted focus on improving patients' physical, emotional, mental and spiritual suffering caused by their illness. Care will be provided by health care professionals who are specifically trained in chronic and serious medical illness. They will work with each patient's existing health care team to ensure they receive an integrated experience.
"Many patients develop adjustment disorders, including depression and anxiety, as they go through the various stages of chronic and serious medical illness," said Dr. Paul Thielking (MD), Chief Science Officer, Numinus. "Ketamine-assisted therapy has significant evidence showing efficacy in addressing these symptoms, and Numinus recognizes the opportunity to alleviate suffering while expanding our model of accessible care to more populations."
To raise further awareness of the positive impact of psychedelic-assisted therapy for those facing palliative and serious illness, Numinus is presenting the Salt Lake City premiere of Dosed 2: Trip of a Lifetime on November 8, 2022 -- a documentary following the journey of a patient undergoing psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat end-of-life distress.
Additionally, since Numinus' acquisition of Novamind earlier in 2022, integration has continued as planned, including the latest consolidation of the Murray and Salt Lake City clinics to streamline clinic operations and enhance the patient experience. By combining two nearby locations, Numinus expects to provide an expanded service offering to clients in the region, while also reducing operating costs.
Numinus Wellness (TSX: NUMI) helps people to heal and be well through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care and access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The Numinus model - including psychedelic production, research and clinic care - is at the forefront of a transformation aimed at healing rather than managing symptoms for depression, anxiety, trauma, pain and substance use. At Numinus, we are leading the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream clinical practice and building the foundation for a healthier society.
Learn more at numinus.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials believe that three wolves shot and killed just over the state's border in Wyoming may have belonged to Colorado's closely watched North Park wolf pack.
The North Park pack, which often crosses into Wyoming where hunting wolves is legal, gained notoriety last year after birthing Colorado’s first known litter of pups in 80 years.
Travis Duncan, spokesperson for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said in an email that the agency cannot yet confirm whether the slain wolves were in the North Park pack but will continue to monitor the animals "if and when they are next seen in the area.”
Duncan added that at least two wolves were seen Friday in northern Colorado.
In Colorado, killing a wolf can bring a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison. But once all four paws are across the border into Wyoming, wolves are in the state’s “predator zone” where anyone can legally hunt the animals without a license.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The difference in state laws could impede Colorado's planned reintroduction of wolves that was narrowly approved by voters in a controversial 2019 ballot initiative. The introduction is planned for 2023 on the sparsely populated Western Slope.
Earlier this year, authorities from Yellowstone National Park reported that 20 wolves had wandered out of the park and were killed by hunters. At least one pack — the Phantom Lake Pack — lost most or all of its members and is considered “eliminated.”
“It’s very clear that wolves need to be protected, perhaps permanently, from this sort of unregulated slaughter," said Rob Edward, adviser to the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, an organization fighting for reintroduction.
Edward said wolves help maintain a balanced ecosystem in part by culling their prey populations including elk, moose and deer.
The reintroduction of wolves in Colorado remains hotly opposed by ranching organizations worried about losing livestock to the predators. Last year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the state's first livestock kill by wolves in decades. The agency reimburses ranchers for the losses.
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HIA TOPICS delivers library of medically authenticated answers
ALPHARETTA, Ga., June. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/-- The Hispanic Health Coalition of Georgia today announced the launch of a partnership with HIA Technologies, Inc™. This important development is part of a larger strategic plan to expand efforts to reach and improve the effectiveness in serving the Hispanic/Latino community. It will also serve other minority, underserved, and socio-economically challenged populations. The interactive education platform, HIA TOPICS™ will be leveraged to reduce misinformation, increase engagement, and improve health literacy. Leveraging 20+ years of academic research in human/computer interaction, digital humans, and advanced AI technologies, HIA TOPICS allows health providers to create their own virtual learning environments, eliminates barriers to medically validated information, and connects patients to real-time answers from their physician via conversational AI.
Shirley E. "Bella," Borghi, HHCGA Executive Director, said this about the partnership with HIA:
"The HHCGA has long regarded education as a critical strategic component in the quest to promote awareness and facilitate access to healthcare services and available benefits. By partnering with HIA, the HHCGA can now deliver a library of healthcare topics, sourced from known and respected subject matter experts to the Hispanic/Latino community. HIA TOPICS represents an extraordinary opportunity for underserved communities to have answers to health questions, and to do so in an interactive virtual learning environment."
With HIA TOPICS, clinicians deploy physician-authored education from a library of healthcare topics. Digital agents then host interactive presentations during which patients can ask questions and hear their physician's answers, thanks to physician-controlled AI.
CEO Vacit Arat states, "Our method of matching physician-authored responses to real-time patient questions simulates live interactions with pinpoint accuracy." He adds, "Patients get trusted information from the source, stop error-prone internet searches, and reconnect with their providers from the safety of home. HHCGA is a perfect example of how organizations that are committed to health equity can leverage cutting-edge technology that is both inclusive and accessible."
For HHCGA, the goal of the program is to explore the utility and impact of HIA TOPICS on patients, and measure potential improvements in efficiency and adherence to or adoption of medical protocols. Some specific use outcomes that are being collected include: quantitative and qualitative data to address the impact of social determinants on underserved populations, with a focus on the Hispanic/Latino population and ultimately justify their Extension For Community Healthcare Outcomes (Echo) model, which would support peer collaboration, network building, and capacity resilience throughout the public health workforce.
HHCGA's implementation of HIA TOPICS focused first on increasing awareness for screening exams related to Colonoscopy and Mammography. Colon cancer and breast cancer kill a disproportionate number of Hispanic/Latino and Black Americans every year. As cited by the American Cancer Society, 176,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed within our Hispanic/Latino population, resulting in 46,500 deaths each year, and 224,080 new cancer cases will be diagnosed within the Black community resulting in 73,680 deaths each year. With early screening and detection, the survival rate of these cancers is dramatically increased for better health outcomes. By providing trustworthy education designed to specifically reach these audiences, HHCGA plans to publish results from this program in a whitepaper this summer.
About HIA Technologies
HIA Technologies, Inc. was founded with the mission to vastly expand the ways businesses reach their audiences, allowing them to participate in intimate, personalized, conversations in an efficient, precise, and low-cost manner. HIA's Embodied AI technology is a transformative user interface that allows artificially intelligent interactive characters to conduct sophisticated conversations with people, educate them, ask and answer questions, and report back on the interactions. A result of 20+ years of research in human-computer interaction, digital humans, AI, and XR, HIA's products allow businesses to quickly create and deploy conversations at scale, opening the door to endless engagement opportunities.
About The HHCGA
The Hispanic Health Coalition of Georgia, ("HHCGA"), is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, with more than
35 years dedicated to serving the Hispanic/Latino and under-served populations throughout the State of Georgia. The HHCGA is Georgia's only statewide organization focused on Hispanic/Latino Chronic Disease prevention and better health outcomes. It offers direct community services and support activities to improve the health of Georgia Latinos. As an expert in community health promotion, education, policy, and health advocacy, HHCGA creates high-quality, culturally sensitive, and linguistically appropriate health care and prevention services for their community.
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Updated June 28, 2022 at 8:59 AM ET
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan will sentence the disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to a prison term on Tuesday, doling out the most concrete punishment yet over the sex-trafficking ring that Maxwell helped financier Jeffrey Epstein run for a decade, exploiting girls as young as 14.
Several of those girls, now adults, testified during the trial, bravely pulling the curtain back on years of abuse they suffered after Maxwell and Epstein tugged them into their orbit using the allure of wealth and their connections to powerful people such as Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
The women will be heard again on Tuesday. Eight women sent the court victim impact statements — unredacted, over Maxwell's objections — describing the long-lasting effects of Maxwell's crimes. Nathan ruled that six of the victims were also free to speak at the hearing if they chose to.
Prosecutors want Maxwell to serve up to 55 years
The U.S. Probation Department recommended a 20-year sentence for Maxwell, based on federal guidelines for crimes that were "heinous and predatory in nature." But prosecutors sought a sentence between 30 and 55 years, citing the number of victims and Maxwell's refusal to take responsibility.
Maxwell, 60, is being sentenced roughly six months after a jury found her guilty of sex trafficking a minor and other serious felonies. Epstein, who was a convicted sex offender, died in August 2019 at a Manhattan correctional facility. Authorities had arrested him one month earlier. His death was ruled a suicide.
Maxwell asked for a much more lenient sentence of only around five years in prison, saying she's being punished for her longtime companion's crimes.
"Epstein was the mastermind, Epstein was the principal abuser," her attorney said in a court filing earlier this month that was notable because it was one of the few instances in which Maxwell acknowledged sexual crimes took place.
Her defense team said Maxwell has "experienced hard time" in the Metropolitan Detention Center where she's been held, adding that her life has been threatened there. But prosecutors dismissed those claims and cited Maxwell's "utter lack of remorse" for her actions.
Prosecutors also asked Nathan to impose a $750,000 fine on Maxwell — the maximum allowed for her crimes. But they stopped short of seeking financial restitution, saying the victims who participated in the case have already received money through the Epstein Victim Compensation Program and/or civil settlements.
Maxwell was compensated richly by Epstein, U.S. says
From 1994 to 2004, federal prosecutors say, Maxwell and Epstein "worked together to identify girls, groom them, and then entice them to travel and transport them to Epstein's properties." They say the pair often traveled between Epstein's mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a villa in Palm Beach, a ranch in New Mexico, a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and an apartment in Paris.
In return, they say, Maxwell enjoyed a "lavish lifestyle" in which she was waited on by personal staff.
"Maxwell also received a townhouse that Epstein bought for her in New York City, and Epstein transferred a total of approximately $23 million to Maxwell during the timeframe of the conspiracy," the sentencing memorandum states.
Prosecutors also said Maxwell "fostered a culture of silence" in Epstein's properties, instructing household staff to "see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing" unless they were asked a direct question.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York did not seek to force Maxwell to forfeit any real estate, saying the crimes in question were committed at Epstein's properties, not any that Maxwell owned.
Eight survivors submitted written victim impact statements
Eight women who say Maxwell manipulated and abused them for years sent victim impact statements for the court to consider in weighing Maxwell's punishment. Some of them addressed their thoughts to the judge, while others spoke directly to Maxwell.
They include Maria and Annie Farmer — sisters who first came forward in the 1990s, in an attempt to alert authorities that Epstein was a serial sex predator harming girls and young women.
They described how their futures were stolen at a vulnerable age. Several victims said their abusers undermined their faith in themselves and left deep wounds by preying on their youth and innocence.
"This toxic combination of being sexually exposed and exploited, feeling confused and naïve, blaming myself all resulted in significant shame," Annie Farmer wrote in her statement. "That sickening feeling that makes you want to disappear."
The victims spoke about locking terrible memories away for years, only to have them resurface during their adult lives. And they described the ongoing burden of fighting for justice against someone who refuses to show remorse.
Victims allege threats followed years of abuse
Maria Farmer said her future as an artist was ruined by Maxwell and Epstein when she met them in 1996. She also told the judge that she suffers from PTSD from years of abuse and threats.
"She assured me that I could be killed walking down my favorite path in NYC," Farmer said. "....Her threats have never left my mind and I believe she will harm me if she ever has a way. Please keep this in mind when determining her terms of imprisonment. She is a very dangerous and devious individual."
Another survivor, Sarah Ransome, said Epstein and Maxwell threatened that her family would be killed if she ever tried to escape what she calls a "dungeon of sexual hell." Ransome, who fled to the U.K. in 2007, told the judge that she has proof Epstein tried to find her 10 years later.
She also included photos with her statement that she said showed her in the hospital, badly injured after surviving two suicide attempts.
"Simply put, Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster," another survivor, Juliette Bryant, wrote in her brief statement. As in other statements, Bryant also said she was grateful to see the crimes exposed, with the hope of justice finally found.
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Wanted fugitive arrested in Bryan County
Published: Jun. 16, 2023 at 10:10 AM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
BRYAN COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) - A man who has been on the run for nearly a month is behind bars.
According to the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office, Rodney McMichael was taken into custody in Durant Monday afternoon.
McMichael was wanted on several state and tribal warrants including trafficking meth and possession of a stolen vehicle.
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DANVILLE, Pa., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the Medicaid expansion announced earlier this year, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) enrolled over 95,000 new Medicaid members statewide, effective Sept. 1. With these new members, Geisinger Health Plan Medicaid now serves more than 325,000 Pennsylvanians across all 67 counties.
Geisinger Health Plan is one of five health plans managing care in Pennsylvania for an estimated 2.8 million recipients eligible for Medical Assistance.
"We're excited to add so many new members to Geisinger Health Plan — and we look forward to providing resources to address drivers of health, such as food security and transportation, that impact health outcome," said Kurt Wrobel, president of Geisinger Health Plan. "Geisinger Health Plan Family is designed to help our Medicaid members get access to the health services and community resources they need to improve their health and well-being. We welcome them to the Geisinger family."
For those eligible for Medical Assistance in Pennsylvania, GHP Family offers many services that are covered at no cost, including doctor's visits, preventive services, diabetes care, prescription drugs and more. Coverage also includes valuable extras like health and wellness programs, mental health and substance abuse resources, online tools, and enhanced vision and dental benefits.
You must be enrolled in Medicaid with the Department of Human Services (DHS). You can then choose a plan and enroll online using the PA Enrollment Services website or by calling 800-440-3989 (TTY: 800-618-4225) Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Learn more about Geisinger Health Plan Family Medicaid coverage at ghpfamily.com.
About Geisinger
Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan with more than half a million members, a Research Institute, and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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WASHINGTON -- In his opinion blocking a federal regulation protecting bodies of water, U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland recognized the confusion in recent years surrounding the rule.
The "waters of the United States" definition under the Clean Water Act clarifies the waterways and wetlands under federal protection, but as Hovland noted in his decision last Wednesday, there has been "an endless stream of lawsuits and legal challenges" surrounding regulations.
States and industry groups challenged a 2015 definition that expanded the waters under federal protection. The Trump administration replaced the regulation with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule narrowing protections, but federal courts rejected those standards.
"Suffice it to say the Clean Water Act, and the varied and different definitions of 'waters of the United States,' have created nothing but confusion, uncertainty, unpredictability, and endless litigation throughout this country to date," wrote Hovland, who serves in the district of North Dakota.
Hovland's decision added to the debate surrounding the current waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, which the Biden administration announced last December. Arkansas and 23 other states secured a preliminary injunction blocking the regulation amid an ongoing lawsuit challenging the rule. A federal judge in Texas last month blocked the definition from taking effect in Texas and Idaho.
"If you look at the complaints that were filed by the states in this North Dakota case and in the Texas case, they're making the same arguments," said Brigit Rollins, a staff attorney at the nonpartisan National Agricultural Law Center in Fayetteville.
"These are arguments that come up a lot in the WOTUS debate. These are not new arguments that the states are bringing up, particularly because of this rule. We see these a lot."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers announced the latest "waters of the United States" definition last December with nationwide implementation to take effect March 20. Citing confusion surrounding previous rules, officials based the latest definition on the "waters of the United States" rule in effect from 1986 to 2015. The rule additionally incorporates precedent from a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court case regarding actions affecting downstream waters and wetlands connected to a protected waterway.
Lawmakers and agricultural organizations were quick to criticize the rule, arguing the definition grants federal agencies excessive regulatory authority.
Rollins said another issue evaluated by lawmakers and courts regards navigable waters -- or bodies of water allowing interstate and foreign commerce -- under the Clean Water Act.
"How far Congress meant for WOTUS to extend beyond traditional navigable waters is sort of that struggle at the heart of trying to define WOTUS, and we see that in these decisions," she said.
"There was kind of this look at this idea that WOTUS, this new rule, includes intrastate waters, and that's something the judges have zeroed in on, saying, 'We think that this reads navigability out of WOTUS by including all intrastate waters that perhaps cannot be used to facilitate interstate commerce or foreign commerce, and would therefore fall outside of that commerce clause authority.'"
In his opinion, Hovland stated the rule does not provide landowners with clear definitions of waters affected by the federal definition. He described the agencies' determinations as "unintelligible and provide little guidance to parties impacted by the regulations." Hovland and U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown of Texas expressed concerns about the broadness in determining the waters affected by the "waters of the United States" rule.
West Virginia is leading the states' challenge in the North Dakota federal court. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin called last week's decision a "win for every Arkansas landowner."
The EPA said in a statement that officials are reviewing Hovland's decision to determine the best options regarding water protections.
"The agencies remain committed to establishing and implementing a durable definition of 'waters of the United States' informed by diverse perspectives," the EPA said. "Our goal is to protect public health, the environment, and downstream communities while supporting economic opportunity, agriculture, and industries that depend on clean water."
For states where the recent rule is not in effect, officials will follow the rule and government orders made before the 2015 change. Officials had been using this guidance leading up to the recent "waters of the United States" definition taking effect.
The U.S. Congress has already voiced its opposition to the latest rule; the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives passed a congressional resolution nullifying the definition with a handful of Democrats joining Republican colleagues on the votes.
President Joe Biden vetoed the legislative action.
Republican Reps. Rick Crawford of Jonesboro and Bruce Westerman of Hot Springs sponsored the House version of the resolution. Republican Sens. John Boozman of Rogers and Tom Cotton of Little Rock were sponsors of the Senate version.
"Both Presidents Obama and Biden have tried to seize from [the] state and localities, the regulation of ever-smaller wetlands, streams, ponds, and periodic sources of water," Crawford said in a statement. "This radical power grab for federal control would mean higher prices for agriculture products, as well as environmentalist vetoes over private land use, all without making our water cleaner."
Westerman, the House Natural Resources Committee chairman, also celebrated Hovland's decision.
"Arkansas farmers, small businesses, and landowners can sleep better knowing that they will not be impacted by the flawed WOTUS rule for the time being," he said.
Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., criticized the Biden administration for the definition, arguing agencies pitch rules while failing to have "any experience or any basis for its legitimacy."
"A lot of these are just good ideas that emanate from a very hyper-regulatory organization, and they just test the limits to see how far they can go with this stuff," the Rogers lawmaker told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "Frankly, when they go too far, it's going to raise the ire of a lot of people that are impacted by it."
The American Farm Bureau Association, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, and the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association were among the parties that intervened in the North Dakota lawsuit in support of the states.
"Particularly, when it concerns farming, there is not a better conservation-minded people than today's American farmer," Womack said. "They live off the land. That's their enterprise. They have to have the land in order to do what they do."
Evan Teague, vice president of environmental issues with the Arkansas Farm Bureau, struck a similar message in a statement on the preliminary injunction.
"We stand firm in our belief that no one understands and protects the environment better than the farmers and ranchers who rely on water for food production every day," he said. "This is not an issue of regulation vs. non-regulation. It is about who is regulating: Washington bureaucrats or folks closer to home who have a practical understanding of these issues and are directly accountable to the people whom they serve."
Hovland's decision coincides with building anticipation regarding how the U.S. Supreme Court may affect water protections in the coming months. Justices heard oral arguments last October regarding an Idaho couple's efforts to build near wetlands that federal officials determined are protected. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision by the end of its term this June.
Hovland expressed hope the Supreme Court will provide clarity on water protections.
"Until then, every state will continue to swim in waters of uncertainty, ambiguity, and chaos," he added.
Crawford and Westerman said they want the Supreme Court to issue a ruling addressing the federal government's regulatory authority over waters. Womack noted the Supreme Court's responsibilities involve adjudicating regulatory disputes.
"I'm a limited government sort of guy," he said. "I think, sometimes, we ask the federal government to do things for us that don't really need to be done."
Rollins has doubts about the Supreme Court resolving the debate surrounding water protections. She mentioned opinions from the 2006 Supreme Court case as an example; by justices mentioning downstream waters and nexuses to protected water bodies, federal agencies had vague guidelines on implementing regulations.
"For the foreseeable future, for our lifetime, there's probably not going to be an end to some kind of legal dispute over the best way to regulate water," she said. "That's how government works, that's how people work. We're all trying to figure out what's the best way to do this." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/16/latest-waters-of-the-united-states-decision-adds/ | 2023-04-16 11:32:55 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/16/latest-waters-of-the-united-states-decision-adds/ |
More Than 50 Titles Available to Play Instantly for New and Existing Owners of LG Smart TVs Operating webOS 5.0 or Higher in North America and Europe
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA is partnering with Google Stadia to offer three months of access1 to Stadia Pro for both new and existing LG Smart TV owners. This limited-time promotion is now available and applies to LG TVs2 operating webOS 5.0 or higher in the 22 countries3 where Stadia, Google's cloud gaming platform, is now available.
LG TV owners who claim their free Stadia Pro subscription gain instant access to more than 50 games, with new titles added every month, unique discounts on games and add-on content regularly offered. With Stadia Pro enabling up to 4K HDR graphics, 60 FPS gameplay and immersive 5.1 surround sound, LG Smart TVs are the perfect choice for avid players seeking the ultimate gaming experience without purchasing an expensive console or gaming PC.
The Stadia store also features over 250 popular games available to buy, including Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil Village, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Hitman 3 and Baldur's Gate 3, as well as access to a growing list of free games and demos, all playable with just a compatible controller — no game downloads or installs required.
Claiming this free Stadia Pro offer is quick and easy for LG Smart TV owners, who can simply find and click on the Stadia Pro offer within the LG Content Store. They can then scan a QR Code and begin the redemption process on their phone, using their unique code.4
Already a favorite among gamers worldwide, LG OLED TVs, LG's premium Smart TVs, are the ideal choice for playing first person shooters, real-time strategy titles, and racing games as they ensure immaculate HDR picture quality, deep blacks and precise colors courtesy of several million self-lit pixels. What's more, LG OLED's ultra-fast 0.1 millisecond response time and extremely low input lag without picture quality loss gives gamers the edge they need to win every time.
1 Offer available to new Stadia Pro subscribers. A valid form of payment is required to sign up, but you will not be charged during the first three months and you may cancel at any time – you must cancel before the three-month period expires or you will be charged for the fourth month. For how to manage your subscription, visit g.co/stadia/subscriptions.
2 Complete list of compatible TV models can be found here
3 Google Stadia is currently available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.
4 Offer redeemable from Aug 3, 2022 to January 31, 2023. Deadline to claim this free Stadia Pro subscription offer varies by market. Terms and conditions apply. Consult LG's official country website for details.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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Her debut single "Deeper" will be released, today, September 16th on all streaming platforms with her NFT Artist Pass release to follow on September 21st
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amari comes from CyberBrokers, a first-of-its-kind art collectibles ecosystem centered around 10,001 unique and on-chain CyberBroker NFTs designed by heralded cryptoartist Josie Bellini. Constructed from a community where the world governments had come together to save humanity by moving into the metaverse, Amari of Medina was born. Once in the metaverse her well known NFT materialized and her artistry thrived. As an artist she is inspired by many things. Amari is always taking bits and pieces from all the thrills that she seeks in the world around her, always looking for a deeper meaning and a deeper connection, which ultimately leads to her first single "Deeper."
"Deeper" is written and produced by Sean Myer (Ava Max / Fletcher / Demi Lovato / Ekali ) and is rounded out by a team of strong writers including, Sarah Barrios (Ava Max / Fletcher / Demi Lovato / Ekali) Linnea Sodahl (Zara Larsson, Tove Styrke, Twice, Tinie Tempah and Axwell) and Kevin Fisher ( Fergie / All Time Low / Five Seconds of Summer / Lany / One Republic). Heavily influenced by strong female artists like Halsey and Ellie Goulding, the direction of her sound is best described as top 40's pop with electronic undertones.
Following "Deeper" on DSPs, more will be made available on September 21 via the Amari Artist Pass NFT. It serves as the ticket into the Amari community with access to limited edition Amari merch, special access to artist related IRL and metaverse activations, access to seasonal holders events, activities, and giveaways, voting on creative direction of Artist (i.e. collaborations) and free claim of the Amari one-shot comic and future lore drops.
The mint of the pass will have 2000 total available on Ethereum with some dedicated to the original Player Zero Founders Pass holders.
Player Zero Records is a new Web3 record label which was founded by innovators Digital Arts & Sciences and famed producer Dr. Luke.
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Emerging from a virtual world, Player Zero––a joint venture from web3 collective Digital Arts & Sciences and multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer Dr. Lukon e–introduces the AVA (Animated Virtual Artist) to entertain music fans in a new reality. AVA's enable limitless multimedia possibilities within virtual worlds, and allow Player Zero to lift the creators behind the scenes (songwriters, producers, digital artists, writers and animators), as well as give fans an opportunity to participate in the creative direction and success of the artists. Follow Player Zero through its music releases, socials, videos, metaverse experiences and NFT drops. Creativity should have no limits.
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2 teens plead guilty in 2021 beating death of Spanish teacher in Iowa
Two teens pleaded guilty after they were accused of murdering a high school Spanish teacher in Iowa in 2021.
Willard Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale pleaded guilty in April to the beating death of 66-year-old Nohema Graber after her body was found on Nov. 3, 2021, hidden under a tarp, wheelbarrow, and railroad ties at an Iowa park. Graber, a mother of three, taught them Spanish at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Iowa, roughly 95 miles southwest of Des Moines.
RELATED: Iowa teens killed Spanish teacher, 66, with baseball bat, newly released court docs allege
Miller and Goodale attacked the teacher because of a bad grade she had given Miller. The two were 16 at the time, the Associated Press reported.
Goodale asked the court to delay his trial because the defense and prosecution received a file from an Iowa criminal investigation unit, which his lawyers did not get a chance to review, The Gazette in Iowa reported in 2022.
Nohema Graber (Photo: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)
The Des Moines Register reported that Miller's trial was scheduled for April, and prosecutors recommended he receive life in prison with eligibility for parole after 30 years.
Prosecutors also recommended Goodale, who had agreed to testify against Miller, be eligible for parole after 25 years.
Both were charged as adults because of the seriousness of the crime, but they weren’t subject to a mandatory sentence of life without parole because they were 16. Willard is now 17 and Goodale is 18, the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors said evidence showed both teens hit Graber with a bat. Miller admitted to carrying out the assault but denied hitting Graber. Goodale said Miller initiated the plan and they both struck the teacher, the AP noted. Evidence showed Miller and Goodale hit the teacher while she was taking an after-school walk, prosecutors said.
RELATED: Iowa teenagers accused of killing Spanish teacher over bad grade
Investigators said that Miller met with Graber at the high school on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2021, to discuss his poor grade in her class.
Graber later drove her van to a park where she was known to take walks after work, authorities say. Witnesses saw her van leaving the park less than an hour later with two males in the front seat, the Associated Press reported.
According to investigators, the van was abandoned at the end of a road. After getting a phone call from Goodale, a witness later picked up Goodale and Miller as they walked to town on that road.
Goodale and Miller were detained after a witness provided police with photos of a Snapchat conversation in which Goodale allegedly implicated himself and Miller in the killing, the AP noted.
According to the Des Moines Register, Miller is scheduled for sentencing on July 5 and Goodale on August 23.
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CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Claremont McKenna College-Rose Institute Poll finds that Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is more relatable, more competent, and more likely to take on economic and intellectual elites than Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The full four-page report is available here.
The poll surveyed a representative sample of 850 Pennsylvania registered and likely voters about Pennsylvania Senate and Governor races and perceptions of Fetterman and Oz. Nearly all interviews were completed before the highly publicized Oz-Fetterman Senate debate.
The survey provides reasons why Fetterman was leading before the debate and clues about the race's fundamentals down the stretch:
- When asked about threats to democracy, 68% of Democrats said they perceive Oz as a threat and 72% of Republicans perceive Fetterman as a threat.
- Meanwhile, 46% of Republicans perceive Democrat Josh Shapiro as a threat to democracy and 77% of Democrats perceive Republican Doug Mastriano as a threat.
Co-authors of the poll at Claremont McKenna's Rose Institute of State and Local Government:
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Ali McGuirk was open to falling in love.
“I had been in the market for a while,” McGuirk told the Herald. “So I got an ’86 Fender Strat.”
The Burlington, Vt.-based, Boston-born singer and songwriter was in Nashville on Sept. 16. It was the day her new album, “Til It’s Gone,” came out. So she stepped into Carter Vintage Guitars with some friends and settled on the classic Stratocaster.
“It was an album release gift to myself to mark this chapter and it was my birthday week so I just went for it,” McGuirk said ahead of her Oct. 7 album release celebration at the Crystal Ballroom in Somerville.
McGuirk deserves a reward for “Til It’s Gone.”
The Boston scene is full of talents who should have gone national years ago. With her new LP, McGuirk joins the ranks of the few who have jumped from local hero to national act. A big part of the recent push into fresh markets has come from the support of Northampton record label Signature Sounds (full disclosure, I helped write McGuirk’s bio for the label).
But McGuirk deserves most of the credit. She spent nearly a decade singing her hypnotic hybrid of soul and jazz around the city (see 2017 album “Slow Burn”). “Til It’s Gone” radically expands her reach. To categorize the record into a single genre is plain dumb as it’s equal parts pop, rock, folk, Americana, retro r&b, neo soul and quiet storm.
“My goal (for this album) was to let the songs lead the charge,” McGuirk said. “It was important for me to express these other parts of me that come out when writing, the sitting-at-home-with-an-acoustic-guitar parts of me. It’s disingenuous for me to say I’m just a soul singer or all jazz.”
The lyrical themes are as wide, complex and nuanced as the music. “Evelyn” digs into a couple hundred years of generational trauma the women in her family have survived. “The Work” takes on some people’s refusal to explore and confront their biases. Around these tunes are songs of heartbreak and triumph, tenderness and fury.
As McGuirk’s fall calendar fills with shows from Portland, Maine, to Taos, N.M., she thinks about playing these heavy tunes night after night.
“Every musician’s job is practiced vulnerability, letting people into your world,” she said. “That’s part of what makes (performing original songs) therapeutic and part of what makes it difficult sometimes.”
McGuirk says that her songwriting process is like journaling so she’s used to revealing her emotions to an audience. But on “Til It’s Gone” she elevated some of her songs, making them bigger than herself.
“Songs like ‘The Work’ or even ‘Evelyn’ are abstract stories and not about me,” she said. “It can feel better to tell these kinds of stories than having ‘you’ and ‘me’ pronouns in every song.”
Whatever the subject matter, whatever the sound, McGuirk has a new guitar to play her songs on tour this fall. A guitar she more than deserves considering the achievement of “Til It’s Gone.”
For tour dates, tickets and more, go to alimcguirk.com.
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OSLO, Norway — Two people were killed and more than a dozen injured early Saturday in a mass shooting in Oslo, Norwegian police said, as the city was gearing up for an annual Pride parade.
The shooting happened outside a bar in the downtown area of the Norwegian capital, police said.
A suspect was arrested and police don't believe any other people were involved, police spokesman Tore Barstad said.
Barstad said the motive was not immediately known and that it wasn't clear whether the shooting had any connection to the Pride parade that was to be held Saturday in Oslo.
"Police are in contact with the organizers of the Pride event this Saturday. There will be a continuous assessment of what measures police should take to protect that event and whether this incident has a connection to Pride at all," Barstad told reporters.
He said 14 people were receiving medical treatment, eight of whom have been hospitalized.
Olav Roenneberg, a journalist from Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, said he witnessed the shooting.
"I saw a man arrive at the site with a bag. He picked up a weapon and started shooting," Roenneberg told NRK. "First I thought it was an air gun. Then the glass of the bar next door was shattered and I understood I had to run for cover."
Norwegian broadcaster TV2 showed footage of people running down Oslo streets in panic as shots rang out in the background.
Oslo Pride organizers said they were in close contact with the police.
"We are shocked and saddened by the tragic incident, and we are following it closely," Oslo Pride said in a Facebook statement. "Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones."
Norway is a relatively safe country but has experienced violent attacks by right-wing extremists, including one of the worst mass shootings in Europe in 2011, when a right-wing extremist killed 69 people on the island of Utoya after setting off a bomb in Oslo that left eight dead.
In 2019, another right-wing extremist killed his stepsister and then opened fire in a mosque but was overpowered before anyone there was injured.
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VIRGINIA (WXIN) – Thousands of mirrors are being recalled because they may fall off the wall, possibly leading to lacerations.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves about 22,400 IKEA LETTAN Mirrors sold. The recalled mirrors were sold at IKEA stores nationwide and online from December 2019 to October 2022, with a price from $23 to $56. Also included in the recall are an additional 17,500 mirrors sold in Canada.
The recall was initiated after the company received 55 reports of the plastic fittings breaking, including one report of the fittings coming loose and the mirror falling off the wall.
The mirrors, which are frameless and about 38 inches high, were sold in width sizes of 23 31, 39 and 47 inches. The recalled mirrors have a date stamp before and including 2105. The date stamp is in YYWW format, representing the year and week of manufacture.
Anyone with the recalled mirrors should stop using them and contact IKEA for a free set of replacement wall fittings and instructions. They can also return the mirror to any IKEA for a full refund.
“IKEA apologizes for any inconvenience this recall for repair action may cause,” the company said.
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You’ve likely heard of 3D printing for things like medical devices, homes or this bridge in Amsterdam — but did you know you can also print real-life, edible food?
Researchers at Columbia University have successfully created a seven-ingredient slice of edible cheesecake using a 3D printer and share the results of their study, published in NPJ Science and Food journal.
To make the cheesecake, which was peanut butter-banana flavored with a cherry drizzle, the researchers converted all the ingredients into paste-like substances. While the peanut butter, Nutella, frosting and cherry drizzle did not require additional prep, the bananas had to be mashed, and the graham crackers were combined with butter and water to create a paste.
The ingredients were then printed in layers into the shape of a slice of cheesecake, with the construction becoming similar to a home with “floors, walls and ceilings being the foundation (graham cracker) and inner pools (Nutella and peanut butter) holding softer ingredients within (banana and jelly),” the researchers wrote.
The researchers admit that because there is a growing shift among consumers away from processed and more toward whole foods, 3D food printing may seem off-putting to some. They point out in a press release about this experiement, however, that printing food has several benefits for those who might need “personalized nutrition,” like allowing cooks to control the nutrient content in a meal, offering more customized meals and helping those with medical issues.
“We also see other important uses for 3D food printing, including creating alternatives to bland, unattractive pureed foods for those with swallowing and other digestive disorders,” they said in the journal. “Bringing new textures and shapes to food can enliven its attractiveness while allowing for production on a large scale in a factory or foodservice kitchen setting in hospitals and other operations.”
Want to see how they did it? Columbia shared a YouTube video from the engineers that shows the process:
Believe it or not, the cheesecake is actually not the first time a 3D printer has been used to create food. The researchers say other items have included pizza, pasta and plant-based meat.
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Teacher threw hockey stick at 8-year-old, mom says
PRINCETON, Minn. (WCCO) - A Minnesota mom says her 8-year-old son is afraid to return to school this fall after his gym teacher allegedly threw a hockey stick at him.
Jodi Johnson is furious over what she says happened to her son Easton in gym class on March 28, one day after his 8th birthday. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
“They would just say that it was a bad reaction the teacher had, and I just had a hard time swallowing that that’s how they feel,” she said.
Easton was throwing hockey sticks into a pile along with other students when teacher Kim Neubauer allegedly picked up the stick the boy just laid down and threw it back at him.
“With the force of the stick, it hit the upper part of his mouth, and it did knock a tooth out,” Johnson said.
She says that, fortunately, the tooth was a baby tooth, but the root and gum were significantly damaged and Easton’s lip was also busted.
The Princeton School District says they put Neubauer on unpaid administrative leave two weeks after the incident. That leave lasted through the end of the school year, and when the year ended, the district says it ended Neubauer’s employment.
After she was let go, the district publicly recognized it as a retirement, putting up a congratulatory post on Facebook. That post was ultimately taken down.
Easton’s parents say the district’s actions are not enough. His mom is frustrated no one can be held accountable because there is no criminal investigation into the incident.
“The school district, the principal, the nurse – nobody made a police report,” Johnson said.
Easton is currently enjoying summer break with his dog, Mya, but his mom says his anxiety about starting third grade in the fall is already setting in.
“He’s very nervous about gym class, who teaches gym class, what do they do in that gym class,” Johnson said. “It’s gonna take quite a bit, I think, to get him to feel comfortable again.”
Princeton Superintendent Ben Barton released a statement, saying in part that student safety is a top concern. He said that privacy laws prevent the district from sharing exactly what action was taken regarding this incident.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New West Genetics (NWG) is pleased to announce seed production for their hybrid trait, AMPLIFY, has begun this 2023 season. NWG's AMPLIFY trait creates a non-GMO hybrid that doubles grain yield while offering the traditional benefits of a hybrid crop. This jump in yield and reliability will revolutionize the economics of hemp production, enabling hemp to compete with established crops like soy and canola, paving the way for hemp's entry into the food, feed, and sustainable fuels markets.
The power of hybrid crops has transformed agricultural production, addressing the needs of the expanding population and the needs of farmers for more vigorous and reliable genetics. "Beyond yield increases that come with hybrids, the benefits also include faster growth, seedling vigor, better stress responses, and disease resistance," reports NWG Chief Technology Officer Rich Fletcher. In challenging conditions, hybrid varieties can become better established than open-pollinated or conventional genetics. Hybrids like AMPLIFY also allow for more flexibility with planting timing, which is highly valuable for unpredictable weather patterns.
In the US, acceptance of hemp in traditional rotations requires that the crop is economically competitive with established crops, including soy and corn. NWG's AMPLIFY technology combines genetic traits, hybrid vigor, and entirely female populations to drive hemp grain to reach and even exceed this threshold. Whereas a typical hybrid yield increase in row crops ranges from 10-30%, AMPLIFY enables a 2x yield increase. This innovative combination allows NWG's seed to out-compete traditional sources of oils and proteins.
Cristine Handel, Ag tech consultant and former Global Head of Business Development at Syngenta, is excited about the value hemp brings to the supply chain. She remarks; "Farmers are looking for new, competitive crops that bring economic results and added soil health for farm sustainability. With AMPLIFY, NWG has provided that and more. AMPLIFY is poised to become a solid rotation option for farmers, bringing much higher yields, ease of agronomy and the bonus of an exceptional root system for carbon sequestration."
AMPLIFY hybrid technology will roll out in 2024 with NWG's strategic partners, then will be widely available in the 2025 season. NWG CEO Wendy Mosher states, "By harnessing the power of hybrid technology, we ensure a sustainable and prosperous future for the hemp industry. We are excited to showcase the AMPLIFY hybrid trait in trial plots across the US this 2023 season; contact us for a location near you."
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Customer reviews rank Arkose Labs as no. 1 in "Likelihood to Recommend," "Ease of Setup," and "Ease of Use" categories in the new G2 Grid® Report.
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkose Labs™, the global leader in bot management and account security, has been named Leader in G2's Bot Detection and Mitigation Winter 2023 Grid® Report. The company has achieved this recognition for three consecutive quarters.
Arkose Labs announced the recognition today, citing strong customer collaboration, an innovative product suite and differentiated roadmap, and high technology efficacy, as the drivers for its near-perfect ratings. G2 ratings are calculated based on several criteria, including customer reviews.
Arkose Labs delivers value into the marketplace by working closely with enterprise CISOs to stop adversarial attacks. As a result of Arkose Labs' distinct approach, CISOs consistently save their companies millions of dollars on downstream benefits, such as reducing support time managing compromised accounts, decreasing fraud case management for payment teams, lowering disruption rates for new customers, and reducing infrastructure cost by removing high volumes of bad bot traffic.
This report is a much-anticipated view into cybersecurity vendors that detect and mitigate prevalent types of online attacks: account takeovers, credential stuffing attacks, fake account creations, IRSF/SMS Toll Fraud, phishing, etc. Reviews written by actual customers weigh heavily on the individual scoring for each vendor.
According to G2, 100% of customers rated Arkose Labs 4 or 5 stars for an overall score of 4.9, the highest among vendors; 100% of customers believe Arkose Labs is headed in the right direction, 100% rated it for Ease of Setup, and 98% said they would be likely to recommend its products. Additionally, Arkose Labs received a 99% score in the Quality of Support category and 98% in the Ease of Doing Business With category.
"We're humbled by the new G2 ratings, as they reflect the daily collaboration between our team and customers to stop bad actors," said Kevin Gosschalk, founder and CEO, Arkose Labs. "In providing our customers with award-winning service and an outstanding product, CISOs can be confident that our solutions produce a material ROI, as well as protect their systems and strengthen the online environment they create for consumers."
Outstanding customer support has long been recognized by industry analysts and customers as one of Arkose Labs' primary differentiators. Its cutting-edge bot management technology is supported by a 24 x 7 x 365 Security Operations Center (SOC) and threat research team dedicated to providing customers with maximum defense against large-scale attacks. The SOC provides active mitigation, working right alongside with customers during attacks and adapting the Arkose Labs decision engine to evolving threats.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties. With Democrats facing headwinds this year, Republicans had hoped that strategy could pay off yet again.
But Republican voters have nominated loyalists of former President Donald Trump in several Democratic states, including Maryland and Connecticut, making the GOP’s odds of winning those general election races even longer. Massachusetts will face its own test next month as GOP voters decide between a Trump-backed conservative and a more moderate Republican for the party’s gubernatorial nominee.
“It can’t continue,” said former Connecticut U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, referring to the GOP choosing pro-Trump candidates. “One of the things that will happen is that a lot of the Trump candidates who won the primary will lose the general election. And there are a lot of unhappy Republicans who hold office now who believe that the Senate now is in jeopardy of staying Democratic.”
Trump’s influence was on full display earlier this month when his last-minute endorsement helped propel Leora Levy, a member of the Republican National Committee who opposes abortion rights, to victory in a Republican U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut over the party’s endorsed candidate, former House Minority Leader Themis Klarides. Klarides supports abortion rights and said she didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.
“Sad day for CT …,” tweeted Brenda Kupchick, the Republican first selectwoman of Fairfield and a former state representative, after the Aug. 9 race was called for Levy. Days earlier, after Trump endorsed Levy on speakerphone at a GOP picnic, Kupchick tweeted, “How is that helpful in the general election in CT?”
Kupchick’s tweets sparked criticism in both GOP camps. Trump supporters accused Klarides of not being a “true conservative.” Moderate Republicans predicted that Levy’s nomination ensured Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal would sail to victory in November, despite a Quinnipiac poll in May registering his lowest job approval since he took office in 2011.
The last Republican to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate was Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who served from 1971 to 1989, though Connecticut has elected a moderate Republican governor as recently as 2006, with M. Jodi Rell.
Levy, who has never before served in elective office, contends her message of controlling high inflation and energy prices, stopping “government intrusion between parent and child” and addressing crime will resonate with a wide range of voters.
A similar dynamic has unfolded in liberal Maryland, where Dan Cox, a far-right state legislator endorsed by Trump, won the Republican primary for governor over a moderate rival backed by outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, a Trump critic. And in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, Republican voters casting ballots in the state’s Sept. 6 gubernatorial primary will choose between Geoff Diehl, a Trump-backed former state representative, and Chris Doughty, a businessman with moderate views. Centrist Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, a Trump critic, decided against seeking a third term.
The Democratic nominees in Maryland and Massachusetts are viewed as strong favorites to flip the governor’s mansions in those states.
Trump’s backing has propelled his candidates to victory in top races in battleground states, too, boosting Democrats’ optimism of winning the general election. In Arizona, former TV news anchor Kari Lake, who has said she would not have certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, defeated lawyer and businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson, who had been endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and outgoing GOP Gov. Doug Ducey. In Wisconsin, Trump-backed businessman Tim Michels beat former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who had been endorsed by Pence and the state party. Both Michels and Kleefisch, however, falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
In Connecticut, Levy’s nomination is already being used as a rallying cry for Democrats, who contend she’s out of the mainstream for a state where Republicans are outnumbered by unaffiliated voters and by Democrats. Aside from opposing abortion rights — reversing her position years ago of supporting abortion rights — Levy has spoken out against job-related COVID-19 vaccine requirements and transgender rights. Levy effusively thanked the former president during her acceptance speech, promising, “I will not let you down.”
A day after the primary, Blumenthal’s campaign sent out a fundraising message that warned, “The primary results are in, and I’m officially facing off against Trump’s hand-picked candidate in the general election — a radical Republican who will be nothing but a rubber stamp on Mitch McConnell’s disastrous agenda.”
Levy, in turn, has tied Blumenthal to Biden, casting him as a “rubber stamp” for the Democratic president’s “failed policies” as president and blaming Blumenthal for playing a “a key role in creating virtually every challenge our country faces today.”
“Dick Blumenthal wants this election to be a referendum on a President. Donald Trump is not on the ballot in November, but Joe Biden is,” she said in a news release issued after the primary.
Shays, who now lives in Maryland, said he believes an endorsement by Trump is disqualifying. He said he contributed to the campaign of Wes Moore, the Democrat running against Cox in Maryland, and would vote for Blumenthal if he still lived in Connecticut.
“I will vote against anyone who seeks the support of Donald Trump because that tells me so much about their character and what they intend to do if elected. That’s the bottom line to me,” Shays said.
Ben Proto, chair of the Connecticut Republicans, dismissed any suggestion that the primary victory by Levy signaled a political evolution within the state GOP. Rather, he said, the party this year has “candidates across the board who hold different opinions on particular issues.”
But what they have in common, he said, is the goal of getting inflation under control, making Connecticut more affordable, addressing crime and allowing parents to be the “primary stakeholder” in their children’s lives.
“At the end of the day, the issues that are important to the people of the state of Connecticut, we’re pretty solid on,” he said.
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July 18, 1928-June 24, 2022
WAVERLY-Dr Robert Edward Lee, age 93, of Waverly, IA died Friday, June 24, 2022 at Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community in Waverly.
Lee was born on July 18th, 1928 in Decorah, Iowa to Arthur Ophelius Lee and Arla Ovedia (Scarvie) Lee. He graduated from Scandinavia, Wisconsin High School in 1946 and from Luther College in 1950. At Luther he was prominent in band activities and the first president of the noted Dorian Society there. Advanced degrees would follow– an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1957 and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1966.
Shortly after graduating from Luther, Lee began his teaching career as a public-school teacher New Richland, Minnesota. This was followed by other teaching stints in Wisconsin. While teaching in Madison, WI Lee met his wife, Joyce Everson, through Luther College connections and mutual music interests. They married in 1957.
In 1959, Lee began his thirty-seven-year tenure at Wartburg College. Initially he taught all instruments, all band activities and, during his first 5 years, also directed the orchestra. He added numerous instrumental specialists to the music faculty along the way and thus helped build what has become an outstanding college music program. After retirement in l995, Lee volunteered for fifteen years at Waverly-Shell Rock High School helping instrumental musicians prepare for All-State Auditions and Solo-Ensemble Contests. Lee retired a final time at age eighty-two for a total teaching career of forty-five years.
Lee considered himself a most blessed individual enjoying family life, personal life and professional life. His career was not considered work because “It isn’t work unless you would rather be doing something else.” And he often said if he were independently wealthy, he would gladly pay for the privilege of conducting the Wartburg College Concert Band.
Lee is survived by his wife, Joyce, son Andrew (Gretchen) Lee, daughter Heide Lee Malat (Ron), granddaughters Ariel (Nick) Tintle, McKenna Lee, Madeline Lee Malat and Julia Dismore plus one grandson, Hunter Dismore, and a brother, Arthur (Judy) Lee. He was preceded in death in death by his parents, sister, Madelyn Larson and brother, Loren Lee.
Lee has donated his body to science and a memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 23, at the Wartburg Chapel in Waverly. The service will be streamed live on Kaiser-Corson’s Face Book Page. Memorials may be directed to the Robert E. Lee Endowed Scholarship at Wartburg College or Cedar Valley Hospice. Online condolences may be left at www.kaisercorson.com. 319-352-1187 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/dr-robert-edward-lee/article_e1997504-74a6-5b76-98f8-b108ec458996.html | 2022-07-17 08:04:45 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/dr-robert-edward-lee/article_e1997504-74a6-5b76-98f8-b108ec458996.html |
AACHEN, Germany, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FEV and ProLogium Technology, a leader in solid-state batteries, signed a MOU to cooperate in the development of solid-state battery systems. Both parties are leveraging their expertise to jointly develop energy storage systems based on ProLogium's unique solid-state batteries (SSBs) technology. SSBs, whose properties and innovative internal structure require new battery concepts, have a variety of advantages. Among other things, they are a suitable energy storage alternative with particularly high energy density for a wide range of applications, such as the transportation sector.
Under the MOU, FEV – a globally leading engineering service provider – and ProLogium will focus their joint efforts on battery system development for customers, sales activities and cell/module verification based on ProLogium's solid-state battery technology.
"As a technology-open development service provider, we are working on solid-state battery solutions in the field of e-mobility. With ProLogium, we have been able to gain a renowned cell manufacturer as a partner in this area who is a leader in SSB technology," said Prof. Stefan Pischinger, President and CEO of FEV Group. "ProLogium ideally complements our 360-degree battery development. Due to our unique development and testing capabilities we are able to design cutting-edge technology, which meets all regulatory requirements and customer demands around the world."
FEV has many years of experience in battery development. The tailor-made design and integration of battery systems consider the battery management system as well as cells, modules and packs. Depending on the application, the company offers solutions with high specific power density or high energy density. With eDLP near Leipzig, Germany, FEV operates the world's largest independent battery development and test center for high-voltage batteries.
"Our recent agreement with FEV reflects the continued development of ProLogium and our global business strategy," said Vincent Yang, CEO, and founder of ProLogium Technology. "It brings together two like-minded and complementary partners focused on creating new value in a traditional industry. We believe our collaboration will help the automotive industry achieve innovative, clean and efficient energy consumption of electrified vehicles faster."
Demands on BEV batteries strongly increase in terms of safety, energy density, costs and lifetime. Solid-state batteries are among the most promising technologies to offer advantages over lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes, which are mostly used in e-mobility. In addition, SSBs impress with an extra mileage advantage because of their lighter weight and smaller volume for the same capacity. "To get the most out of this technology, the core competencies deal with cell development, but also with the integration at the pack level and the algorithms for controlling the technology. Otherwise, advantages in terms of energy density, service life and safety could only be partially realized," said Pischinger.
About FEV
FEV is a leading international, independent service provider for hardware and software in vehicle and powertrain development, as well as the energy industry. The range of competencies includes the development and testing of innovative solutions up to series production and all related consulting services. The range of services for vehicle development entails the design of body and chassis, including the fine tuning of overall vehicle attributes such as driving behavior and NVH. FEV also develops innovative lighting systems and solutions for autonomous driving and connectivity. The electrification activities of powertrains cover powerful battery systems, e-machines and inverters. Additionally, FEV develops highly efficient gasoline and diesel engines, transmissions, EDUs as well as fuel cell systems and facilitates their integration into vehicles suitable for homologation. Alternative fuels are a further area of development. The service portfolio also includes tailor-made test benches and measurement technology as well as software solutions that allow efficient transfer of the essential development steps of the above-mentioned developments, from the road to the test bench or simulation. For defossilization of the entire energy value chain, FEV offers energy management and infrastructure solutions from a single source, which intelligently link and holistically optimize power and heat generation, mobility, and industry. The FEV Group currently employs 6,500 highly qualified specialists in customer-oriented development centers at more than 40 locations on five continents.
ABOUT PROLOGIUM
Founded in 2006, ProLogium is a global leader in innovative next generation battery technologies for vehicle, consumer, and industrial applications. ProLogium is the first battery company in the world to mass-produce solid-state lithium ceramic batteries. Its proprietary technologies cover over 500 (applied or awarded) patents worldwide. ProLogium's automated pilot production line has provided nearly 8,000 solid-state battery sample cells to global car manufacturers for testing and module development. ProLogium Technology's GWh level solid-state lithium ceramic battery plant will be the first in the world to go online in early 2023, and it aims to begin scaling up by the second half of the year, followed by capacity expansion plans in major markets worldwide. Further information can be found at www.prologium.com
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — The number of weapons found inside New York City public schools has nearly doubled so far this school year compared to the same period the last year, officials said.
Just over 1,500 weapons have been found. Most of them are knives. There’s been a drop in the number of guns recovered with five found so far this year compared to eight in the same period last year, according to the NYPD.
In the latest incident, a 16-year-old boy was allegedly caught with a loaded gun and a knife at a Queens high school Monday morning. The city had metal detectors in place on Tuesday as students entered the school building. Eleventh grade student Jazmin Reyes said she needed to take off her felt and jacket. She needed to remove all the coins in her pockets and put her phone in her bag.
“They scream at you,” the teen said. “It was uncomfortable, it was horrible.”
So was Monday’s incident.
“When I found out, I was terrified. I called my mom and I actually thought that I was going to die because we didn’t know if they caught him or not until the very, very last period. So I was telling my mom that I loved her,” the teen said.
While there are some students calling for metal detectors in all New York City schools, the Dignity in Schools Campaign New York, focused on healing centered schools, is advocating for the removal of metal detectors and calling for more social workers.
This past May, the mayor announced roving metal detectors at schools seeing increased shootings and violence among students.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education said, “at the center of all we do is student safety and wellbeing. We are fully committed to creating a safe environment for our kids, which includes a strict policy regarding dangerous items. Weapons are unequivocally prohibited in our buildings. We work closely with all of our partners, including NYPD’s school safety agents, to keep our classrooms safe. Every school building is staffed by school safety agents who have a direct line to the local precinct, all doors in our school buildings aside from main entrances are locked and alarmed, and we recently announced the launch of project pivot, designed to provide critical social and academic interventions to young New Yorkers. All of this work begins in the community, however, and we encourage everyone to reinforce safety messages with their students, including emphasizing the importance of telling a trusted adult when they see or hear something that could affect campus safety.” | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/students-on-edge-after-more-weapons-found-in-nyc-schools/ | 2022-10-25 22:29:07 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/students-on-edge-after-more-weapons-found-in-nyc-schools/ |
Dr. Ezell Brings Over Two Decades of Leadership and Operating Experience in the Energy Industry
Interim CEO Harsha V. Agadi To Be Appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and Will Assist with the Leadership Transition
HOUSTON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flotek Industries, Inc. ("Flotek" or the "Company") (NYSE: FTK), a leader in technology-driven specialty green chemistry and data analytics solutions, today announced that President Ryan Ezell has been named Chief Executive Officer of Flotek and will join the Board of Directors, effective June 8, 2023. He succeeds interim CEO Harsha V. Agadi, who has been elected Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, effective June 8, 2023, succeeding David Nierenberg, who will remain on the Board and serve on the Audit, Corporate Governance & Nominating, Compensation and Risk & Sustainability Committees.
Mr. Agadi said, "Ryan is the right leader for Flotek's future. With hands-on experience across different areas of the Company, Ryan brings unique and deep strategic, operational, and customer knowledge that equip him to drive Flotek's continued growth for the benefit of our shareholders, customers, and employees. His leadership over the past few months has helped put the Company in a strong position to achieve our previously disclosed full-year 2023 guidance of $210 million to $230 million in revenue and an adjusted gross profit margin of 8% to 10%. I look forward to working with Ryan to ensure a seamless transition."
Mr. Nierenberg, the former Non-Executive Chairman and second-largest shareholder of Flotek, said, "On behalf of the entire Board, I am thrilled to welcome Ryan as the next CEO of Flotek, following a thorough and competitive search process involving both internal and external candidates. We are confident that Ryan's proven record of success and deep understanding of the business and energy industry make him the ideal leader to capture attractive market opportunities and take the Company into its next phase of profitable growth. We thank Harsha for his outstanding leadership as we worked to identify our permanent CEO.
"I also want to congratulate Harsha on his election as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. His recent successful experience leading the Company will be invaluable to his new role. I'm pleased to be remaining on the Board and look forward to working with Harsha, my fellow Directors, and Ryan's team as he launches Flotek's next chapter of success and value creation."
Under Mr. Agadi's leadership as interim CEO, the Company recorded a 273% increase in first quarter 2023 total revenue compared to the same period in the prior year. This growth reflects significant progress toward becoming the collaborative partner of choice for sustainable optimized chemistry and integrated data solutions for energy companies across the globe.
Dr. Ezell said, "Over the past few months, I have worked closely with Harsha to co-develop Flotek's growth strategy. We are already seeing momentum at the Company, with strong gross profit growth in the first quarter – but that is just the beginning. Today, Flotek is better positioned than ever before to bring affordable, sustainable energy to more customers around the world. I look forward to building on our strong foundation to drive growth and increased shareholder value over the coming years."
About Ryan Ezell
With a career spanning more than 20 years in the energy industry, Dr. Ezell brings extensive international and multiple business segment experience. He has managed a business with revenues exceeding $2.8 billion and teams of over 5,500 employees, and has a proven track record of driving profit and growth in many market environments.
Dr. Ezell has served as both President and Chief Operating Officer of Flotek, during which he engineered and executed a strategic turnaround, resulting in contracts that grew revenue more than 3X from 2021 to 2022, and increased revenue backlog to over $2.1 billion. Prior to that, he was the President of Flotek's Chemistry Technologies segment, where he led a shift in the chemistry technologies portfolio and an evolution of the business' strategy that resulted in growth that outpaced the market and market share gains of over 10X in a year. He began his tenure at Flotek as Senior Vice President of Operations, during which he drove an operational restructuring that led to a 60%+ reduction in costs across manufacturing, logistics, field service, delivery, facilities, and personnel.
Prior to joining Flotek, Dr. Ezell held various leadership roles over the course of a decade at Fortune 500 global energy company Halliburton, where he drove strategy and growth, contributed to merger and acquisition strategies, and implemented change management. He also served as a member of Haliburton's Technology Review Board and a member of the Board on four company joint ventures.
Dr. Ezell has a Ph. D. in Polymer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Millsaps College. He is a published scientist and is an author on more than 26 patents.
About Flotek Industries, Inc.
Flotek Industries, Inc. creates unique solutions to reduce the environmental impact of energy on air, water, land and people. A technology-driven, specialty green chemistry and data company, Flotek helps customers across industrial and commercial markets improve their environmental performance. The Company's primary focus is to enable its customers to maximize the value of their hydrocarbon streams and improve return on invested capital through its real-time data platforms and green chemistry technologies. Flotek serves downstream, midstream, and upstream energy customers, both domestic and international. In addition, the Company is positioned to integrate parallel industrial chemistry and data platforms by capitalizing on its digitization, engineering, chemical formulation knowledge, and intellectual property to drive multi-disciplinary advancements in sustainability and enterprise risk management. Flotek is a publicly traded company headquartered in Houston, Texas, and its common shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "FTK." For additional information, please visit www.flotekind.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements set forth in this press release constitute forward-looking statements (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) regarding Flotek Industries, Inc.'s business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Words such as will, continue, expects, anticipates, intends, plans, believes, seeks, estimates and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements in this press release. Although forward-looking statements in this press release reflect the good faith judgment of management, such statements can only be based on facts and factors currently known to management. Consequently, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results and outcomes may differ materially from the results and outcomes discussed in the forward-looking statements. Further information about the risks and uncertainties that may impact the company are set forth in the Company's most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K (including, without limitation, in the "Risk Factors" section thereof), and in the Company's other SEC filings and publicly available documents. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this press release.
Inquiries, contact:
Bond Clement
Chief Financial Officer
E: ir@flotekind.com
P: (713) 726-5322
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Kekst CNC
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P: (212) 521-4800
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Ascendant Man City could leapfrog EPL leaders Arsenal with a win at Craven Cottage.
Manchester City could reach the summit of the English Premier League with a win on Saturday as they travel to West London to take on midtable Fulham.
Pep Guardiola's men were in imperious form on Wednesday as they brushed aside Arsenal 4-1 at the Etihad Stadium to reduce the Gunners' lead at the top of table to just two points. City also have the advantage of having two games in hand over their title rivals.
They now come up against a Fulham side that has seen their outside hopes of European qualification evaporate after a run of recent poor form.
With the hosts still without key striker Aleksandar Mitrović, who's in the middle of an eight-game ban, the Cottagers look like particularly favorable opponents for a City side that now look on an unstoppable procession to the championship.
Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game live wherever you are in the world.
Fulham host Man City at Craven Cottage in London on Sunday, April 30. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. BST local time in the UK (9 a.m. ET, 6 a.m. PT in the US and 11 p.m. AEST in Australia).
If you find yourself unable to view the game locally, you may need a different way to watch the game -- that's where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and it's also a great idea if you're traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network, and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.
With a VPN, you're able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors' Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.
Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you're streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions.
Looking for other options? Be sure to check out some of the other great VPN deals taking place right now.
ExpressVPN is our current best VPN pick for people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It's normally $13 per month, and you can sign up for ExpressVPN and save 49% plus get three months of access for free -- the equivalent of $6.67 per month -- if you get an annual subscription.
Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
This game is on USA Network, which you can access as part of your cable package or at the NBC Sports website with a valid login, and can be streamed via Sling TV and other more expensive streaming TV services.
Sling TV's Blue plan includes USA Network, making it a useful option for those wanting to watch EPL action. It's $40 a month and includes over 40 channels, including other sports channels like ESPN and FS1.
Premier League rights in the UK are split between Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video. This game is exclusive to Sky Sports, showing on its Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League and Ultra channels. If you already have Sky Sports as part of your TV package, you can stream the game via its Sky Go app, but cord-cutters will want to get set up with a Now account, and a Now Sports membership, to stream the game.
Sky subsidiary Now (formerly Now TV) offers streaming access to Sky Sports channels with a Now Sports membership. You can get a day of access for £12, or sign up to a monthly plan from £25 per month right now.
If you want to stream this EPL clash live in Canada, you'll need to subscribe to FuboTV Canada. The service has exclusive rights to this Premier League season.
FuboTV is the go-to destination for Canadians looking to watch the Premier League this season with exclusive streaming rights to every game. It costs CA$25 per month, though you can save some cash by paying quarterly or annually.
Football fans Down Under can watch this EPL fixture on streaming service Optus Sport, which is showing every single Premier League game live in Australia this season.
With exclusive rights to screen every EPL match live this season, as well as German Bundesliga and Spanish La Liga games, streaming service Optus Sport is a particularly big draw for Aussie soccer fans.
If you're already an Optus network customer you can bag Optus Sport for a reduced price, with discounts bringing the price down to as low as AU$7 per month. If you're not, a standalone monthly subscription to the service starts at AU$25. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/fulham-vs-man-city-livestream-how-to-watch-premier-league-soccer-from-anywhere/ | 2023-04-30 11:48:43 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/fulham-vs-man-city-livestream-how-to-watch-premier-league-soccer-from-anywhere/ |
WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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Flight nurse killed in helicopter crash remembered for having a 'heart of gold'
Samuel Adam Russell, 43, and Marc Gann were killed enroute to help a hiker in Shelby County
Samuel Adam Russell, 43, and Marc Gann were killed enroute to help a hiker in Shelby County
Samuel Adam Russell, 43, and Marc Gann were killed enroute to help a hiker in Shelby County
Connor Spivey is still shocked his step-uncle Samuel Adam Russell is gone.
“His wife, she's still being strong. Is his son, in there, he's doing he's trying to, you know, doing the best he can.” Spivey said.
The flight nurse was one of the three crew members onboard Sylacauga’s Lifesaver 4 Medical helicopter last Sunday when it crashed off Highway 280 in Chelsea.
The team was on their way to northern Shelby County to help a hiker in distress when the chopper went down.
Russell's obituary says he prayed with the people he helped rescue.
“He loved people, you know? He prayed on the people before,” Spivey said.
Today, hundreds came out to show Russell, they love him, including first responders from all over central Alabama who followed behind the 43-year-old's casket. Paula Hill knows Russell’s father.
“Kind of somber, it was, I mean, you could see a lot of men firefighters had tears in their eyes,” Hill said.
She and Loretta Acklin knew him as a young boy. Acklin remembers a funny story about Russell’s yellow cat.
“He came in and told his mama that his cat was gray, and she wanted to know why. And he had dipped it in a bucket of gray paint. Oh, that was that's some fun memories to look back on,” Acklin said.
Memories Spivey will look back on remembering the kind of man his step-uncle was.
“He was just a care, you know, he's just a great guy and just someone who just had a heart of gold. There's no doubt where he is right now,” Spivey said.
A memorial service is set for tomorrow at Sylacauga High School to honor Russell and pilot Marc Gann. Gann's funeral will be held Wednesday. The third surviving crew member is recovering from her injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. We're still waiting to hear what caused it. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/flight-nurse-killed-in-helicopter-crash-remembered-for-having-a-heart-of-gold/43557594 | 2023-04-11 00:29:03 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/flight-nurse-killed-in-helicopter-crash-remembered-for-having-a-heart-of-gold/43557594 |
Man wins $1.2 million from $20 scratch-off bought at work, lottery officials say
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 3:16 PM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
HIGH POINT, N.C. (Gray News) – A man in North Carolina hit a $2 million jackpot after risking just $20 on a scratch-off ticket, according to lottery officials.
The North Carolina Lottery said Hyeon Jung bought his lucky 100X The Cash ticket from Green Street Grocery in High Point where he works as an employee.
When Jung returned to the store Friday to collect his prize, he had the option of taking it as an annuity of $100,000 over 20 years or a lump sum of $1.2 million.
Ung chose the lump-sum $1.2 million and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $855,006.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
Gov. Whitmer, 50, said she tested negative Monday afternoon, but then tested positive Monday evening. She had been fully vaccinated and twice boosted and is experiencing mild symptoms.
Whitmer said she will be working remotely while following protocols.
“I am grateful for the support of my family, my staff, and the vaccine for offering me robust protection against the virus. I look forward to getting back to work in person, meeting with constituents, and keeping Michigan on the move,” Whitmer said in a statement.
“I encourage my fellow Michiganders to get vaccinated and boosted.”
Federal prosecutors in Michigan, meanwhile, are in the process of re-trying two men — Adam Fox, of Wyoming, and Barry Croft, from Delaware — who were accused in the plot to kidnap Whitmer in 2020, reportedly in response to COVID-19 restrictions ordered by the state during the pandemic.
Fox and Croft had been tried in April, but a jury could not reach a decision. Two accused co-conspirators had previously pleaded guilty, while two others were acquitted.
Jury selection begins Tuesday, Nexstar’s WOOD reports.
Whitmer, also the Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, will face off against Republican opponent Tudor Dixon in the November election. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-tests-positive-for-covid/ | 2022-08-09 14:43:46 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-tests-positive-for-covid/ |
Suns' Isaiah Todd grew up idolizing his new teammate, fellow Maryland native Kevin Durant
Isaiah Todd, who came to the Phoenix Suns in the deal that also brought Bradley Beal and Jordan Goodwin from the Washington Wizards, says he grew up idolizing his new teammate, fellow Maryland native Kevin Durant.
The 6-foot-9 and 21-year-old Todd is entering his third NBA season, having bypassed college after high school. Todd spoke at Phoenix's Wednesday media availability about how he found out he was leaving his home-area team Washington with Beal and Goodwin.
"It was exciting, man. I was in the middle of training and I found out Brad was going," Todd said. "I called my agent to talk to him about it and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, you’re a part of that trade, too.’ I immediately called my mom and told her I was going. I was just ready to get to work.”
The three players were acquired in exchange for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet and multiple future draft picks. Paul later was sent to Golden State.
Todd discussed how he looked up to both Durant and Beal among his favorite players during his formative years in Maryland, before he became a five-star recruit at Word of God Christian Academy (Raleigh, N.C.).
But Durant was that dude more so to Todd and his peers.
The 2014 MVP and 13-time All-Star Durant was raised in Prince George's County on the eastern outskirts of Washington D.C. He's entering his 17th year as a former one-and-done and No. 2 overall draft pick out of Texas.
Beal played the past 11 seasons in Washington.
So for the young Todd growing up in Maryland, both were players he admired.
“Yeah for sure. That’s why I was saying even Brad and KD, they don’t realize I was born in ’01. Growing up I was watching Brad .... and KD, and those guys that come from the area that you may not even know.
“But KD was the guy. I don’t even know to this day if he’s really from D.C., P.G. or whatever, but Maryland. Just being from Baltimore and him being the closest thing to the greatest player coming from there.”
Todd and Goodwin will be playing in their third NBA Summer League, debuting for Phoenix this Saturday against the Milwaukee Bucks at 6 p.m. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nba/suns/2023/07/05/suns-isaiah-todd-says-he-grew-up-idolizing-new-teammate-kevin-durant/70385706007/ | 2023-07-06 01:08:48 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nba/suns/2023/07/05/suns-isaiah-todd-says-he-grew-up-idolizing-new-teammate-kevin-durant/70385706007/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America's leading digital marketplace bank, announced that it will report earnings for the third quarter 2022 after the market closes on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
LendingClub will host a conference call to discuss the third quarter 2022 financial results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day.
Submission of Conference Call Questions
In addition to questions asked live by analysts during the call, the company will also accept for consideration questions submitted via email prior to 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (3:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Please email questions to ir@lendingclub.com.
Webcast Information
A live webcast of the call will be available at http://ir.lendingclub.com under the Filings & Financials menu in Quarterly Results. To access the call please dial + 1 (844) 200-6205 or outside the U.S. +1 (929) 526-1599 with Access Code 659586 ten minutes prior to 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
Replay
An audio archive of the call will be available at http://ir.lendingclub.com. An audio replay will also be available 1 hour after the end of the call until November 2, 2022 by calling +1 (866) 813-9403 or outside the U.S. + 44 (204) 525-0658 with Access Code 037801.
About LendingClub
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank, National Association, Member FDIC. LendingClub Bank is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S., where members can access a broad range of financial products and services designed to help them pay less when borrowing and earn more when saving. Based on more than 150 billion cells of data and over $75 billion in loans, our advanced credit decisioning and machine-learning models are used across the customer lifecycle to expand seamless access to credit for our members, while generating compelling risk-adjusted returns for our loan investors. Since 2007, more than 4 million members have joined the Club to help reach their financial goals. For more information about LendingClub, visit https://www.lendingclub.com.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
4-7-3
(four, seven, three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
4-7-3
(four, seven, three) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-3-game-17285401.php | 2022-07-05 18:49:56 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-3-game-17285401.php |
Leading financial software company announces changes to executive team to position the Company for accelerated business growth and success in digital banking
MALVERN, Pa., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Savana, an industry leader in financial software for banks and fintechs, today announced that accomplished banking software industry veteran, Emily Steele, will join the Company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Her entire career spent in financial technology, Ms. Steele comes to Savana with over 20 years in the banking software industry, where she has actively engaged with global thought leaders, financial services industry consultants, and technology innovators to define and deliver high-performance digital end-to-end banking technology. Previous Savana President and CTO, Mike Wolfel will become the Company's CEO and maintain his position of CTO, while previous CEO, Michael Sanchez will take the position of Executive Chairman.
Steele joins Savana with a wealth of knowledge and experience in financial services. Most recently, she served as President of Temenos, North America, a leading global provider of banking software solutions. Now as the President and COO of Savana, Steele will be focused on three main areas of growth – GTM, customer delivery and success, and employee expansion. Her unwavering passion for continuously creating a better customer experience are in line with Savana's values.
"I am thrilled to join the Savana team and to be working with Michael Sanchez once again," said Emily Steele, President and COO of Savana. "I have worked with all different types of companies in the banking sector, and what makes me most excited to get out of bed every morning is the entrepreneurial spirit of a company like Savana. I am a huge proponent of banks transforming their technology. Savana's technology unifies how the bank works, creates consistent consumer experiences, and removes much of the risk and fear that comes with digital transformation."
Savana's organizational redesign comes at a time where there is major growth happening in the fintech space and will position the Company to successfully scale.
"When I founded this company 13 years ago, I knew we had something special," said Michael Sanchez, Executive Chairman and founder of Savana. "It's been an exciting journey for us and this is truly just the beginning. Today, we have substantial funding, a one-of-a-kind technology platform, incredible customers, and an ambitious team. I am thrilled that Emily chose to make Savana her next career move. I know from personal experience what Emily is capable of and am confident we will only continue to grow and innovate under her leadership."
"I want to welcome Emily to the Savana team. It is an honor to be working together with a fintech veteran who has years of experience in scaling companies like Savana," said Michael Wolfel, CEO of Savana. "I am also proud to step up as Savana's new CEO. I have been at the company since the beginning and have seen how our technology has helped to support banks in their transformation. With this powerhouse team of leadership and talented employees, I know we will continue to help banks innovate and thrive in today's competitive landscape."
For more information on Savana, visit www.savanainc.com.
Savana unlocks next-generation, customer-centric banking operations through the industry's first and only digital delivery platform. Leveraging unmatched banking knowledge and expertise, Savana solves the issues that arise during digital transformation or in creating and launching a new bank. Redefining customer-first operations, Savana is powering the future of banking. Learn more about Savana at www.savanainc.com.
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Who’s hanging out in the woods in your NJ town?
During the pandemic, state and county parks were flooded with people looking to be outside and get some exercise safely.
It was almost comical to see so many people in the woods looking to avoid close contact. I remember seeing people, sometimes whole families walking outdoors, in the forest with masks on. Lots of people discovered their local county and state parks that way.
State and county parks are great. New Jersey has some best of the state parks in just about every corner of this great state. Your county has some great parks, too. Growing up in suburban New Jersey, many of us didn't need a state or county park to explore nature. We would just hang out in the woods and make our own adventures.
Although they seem to be less abundant than in generations past, there are still patches of woods in pockets all over suburban New Jersey.
You just have to be a little adventurous and curious to explore them. Make sure there aren't any "no trespassing" signs and give it a shot.
There is a vast forest just behind where I live and it turns out I'm not the only one who likes to take a quiet walk in the woods in our Garden State.
It's nice to be in a place where you can barely hear any sound.
Apparently, a bunch of kids like to hang out there too, just like we did.
You need some shelter if in starts to rain when you're hanging out in the woods.
Every little stream out there had at least some crude bridge.
Even though it's not a "park" someone took the time to make a bench.
I came across an old abandoned cranberry bog.
The water was regulated when it was active by a lock system.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it......
Obviously, some of these kids have access to a chain saw.
It looks like whoever is hanging out in these woods has figured out to be pretty handy.
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(The Hill) – Eight people were killed and more than 70 others were injured in mass shootings during the long Memorial Day weekend, according to an online tracker.
Data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that keeps track of every shooting in the country, show that eight people were killed and 71 injured across 15 mass shootings in a dozen states since Saturday.
The deadliest shooting happened at a motorcycle rally in New Mexico that left three people dead and four injured Saturday. Authorities said those involved in the shooting were affiliated with biker gangs, and at least one person has been charged with murder.
A shooting near the beach in Hollywood, Fla., where nine people were wounded Monday, had the most people injured of any from the weekend. Three of those injured were children.
Officials said all of them were in stable condition. Shots were fired after a fight broke out on the Hollywood Oceanfront Broadwalk.
The archive defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were shot or killed, not including the shooter.
The second-largest mass shooting from the weekend happened Sunday when eight people were injured, including one in critical condition, in a parking lot outside a stadium near Philadelphia. About 100 young people had reportedly gathered in the parking lot to celebrate the end of the school year and the holiday weekend.
NBC News reported that at least 16 people and dozens were injured from shootings, including those not from mass shootings, throughout the weekend.
An organization that works to end gun violence, Brady: United Against Gun Violence, reports that 117 people are shot and killed in the United States each day on average, while 210 survive gunshot injuries. The group found that 46 per day are killed. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/8-killed-71-injured-in-mass-shootings-over-long-holiday-weekend/ | 2023-05-30 16:49:48 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/8-killed-71-injured-in-mass-shootings-over-long-holiday-weekend/ |
TAYLOR, Pa. — Railroads all across America could be coming to a stop, and that could have profound impacts across northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
At the Taylor yard in Lackawanna County, most operations could come to a halt if a new labor agreement isn't reached by Friday morning.
The freight from trains is loaded onto trucks for delivery. Those operations will likely stop if there's a strike.
Building a home? Many deliveries of lumber come by rail. A strike could mean even higher prices.
Buying a car? Many deliveries of new automobiles also come by train. That could further delay an already slow purchasing process at the dealership.
Pennsylvania's biggest industry is agriculture. In our area, grain that's turned into flour at local mills often comes by train.
In a quote given to Newswatch 16, a representative from a local railroad who wished to remain anonymous said,
"We are hopeful that the class one's and labor unions come to an agreement before the strike date. Because a strike will have a negative impact on the national economy in an environment where the supply chain is already stretched."
And while there is no information on how long a railroad strike could last if it does happen, the federal law governing railroad contract talks says no strike or employee lockout of railroad workers will be allowed before Friday.
So there are still a little more than 48 hours to go to reach a settlement.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/railroads-ready-to-strike-how-it-might-affect-the-economy-wnep-newswatch16-jack-culkin-scranton/523-166f5725-b378-406c-a767-f52094c7280e | 2022-09-14 13:20:04 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/railroads-ready-to-strike-how-it-might-affect-the-economy-wnep-newswatch16-jack-culkin-scranton/523-166f5725-b378-406c-a767-f52094c7280e |
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