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Weight loss surgery can control diabetes and heart disease.
But new studies show it also dramatically reduces cancer deaths, too, further tightening the obesity-cancer link.
Day by day, experts are learning what too much body fat does.
"It's not just like some sort of storage tub full of margarine," says Dr. Richard Bleicher, a breast cancer surgeon at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Dr. Bleicher of Fox Chase Cancer Center says breast cancer was the first cancer tied to obesity.
However, that list keeps growing.
"Gall bladder cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer, and many, many more," he says,
In fact, the National Cancer Institute says obesity raises the risk of 13 cancers: thyroid, breast, liver, gallbladder, upper stomach, pancreatic, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, kidney, multiple myeloma, esophageal, and meningioma (lining of the brain and spinal cord).
Bariatric surgeon Rohit Soans of Temple Health says fat contributes in several ways.
"One of the big hormones that it produces is estrogen. Estrogen is directly linked in a lot of gynecological cancers," says Dr. Soans.
And it fuels breast cancer in men, as well as women.
"The heavier we get, the higher our estrogen levels," says Dr. Bleicher.
The second mechanism raising cancer risks is the increased level of insulin and insulin-like growth factors obese people have.
"Insulin is carcinogenic, and it can increase the rates of colon cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer," says Dr. Soans.
And there's a third mechanism:
"There's a lot of inflammatory things that are circulating in the body when an individual becomes obese, actually put out by the body fat," says Dr. Bleicher.
Those harm cells over time, helping some grow abnormally.
Dr. Bleicher says obesity also lowers survival after breast cancer.
The two surgeons say the full role of obesity in cancer isn't known yet, but it is clear treating it is important.
"Women that got bariatric surgery have a near 60% reduction in developing first-time gynecological cancers, including breast cancer," says Dr. Soans.
Dr. Bleicher adds, "If we can maintain a healthy body weight, we're all better off."
Dr. Soans notes that many obesity-related cancers are rising among people in their 30s and 40s, where obesity rates are so troublesome. | https://6abc.com/obesity-cancer-excess-weight-surgery/13372607/ | 2023-06-12 20:19:19 | 1 | https://6abc.com/obesity-cancer-excess-weight-surgery/13372607/ |
One time in an interview, Jennifer Coolidge tried her hand at using a hyperbole, claiming she slept with scores of men after playing Stifler's mom in 1999's American Pie.
"I did say that jokingly," the actress said in a conversation with Ariana Grande for Entertainment Weekly, "and, God, you really can't make jokes in our town, because I did make the terrible mistake of saying, ‘Thank God for that movie, I got to sleep with 200 men,' or whatever. And look, I would love to say that was true, but I mean, that was sort of an exaggeration."
While Jennifer is glad Ariana brought the topic up so she can "clear the air," The White Lotus star stands by her claim that the role definitely impacted her dating life. She noted, "It did sort of open up the world to a much broader group of handsome men—and younger men."
In fact, when asked by Ariana who her best sexual partner was from that chapter, Jennifer declared, "It was definitely the youngest fellow."
"This one guy was particularly young," Jennifer continued. "Legal, of course. It was all very legal."
The Legally Blonde actress remembers this one lover as the best, but she also remembers their encounter for a particularly uncomfortable reason.
"The one moment was a little bit awkward," she explained. "Afterwards, the next morning, I told him I needed to get a blow dry. So he was so young, we called his mother to see where I could get a blow dry. It was so weird that happened on the phone. It was very clear that we were in the bed together."
Despite the elephant in the room, his mother did provide a good recommendation in the area so, as Jennifer put it, "It all worked out." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1358145/jennifer-coolidge-sets-the-record-straight-on-sleeping-with-200-men-after-american-pie | 2022-12-13 22:48:14 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1358145/jennifer-coolidge-sets-the-record-straight-on-sleeping-with-200-men-after-american-pie |
MAYVILLE, Wis. — Small rural towns across the country has been hit by the housing crisis. With limited options and space, towns are starting to use creative and cost savings solutions.
Mayville, Wisconsin is turning a vacant school building into affordable apartments.
“Mayville is a very charming town,” said John Guinn, the mayor of Mayville. “As time goes on, we’ve been successful over the past years in terms of development and building new homes and using a lot of our inventory up. So, we had to get innovated and provide affordable housing in the community.”
According to the National Association of Realtors, home prices are up by more than 30%, while Redfin reported apartment rent has risen 15% from a year ago.
With limited inventory in small towns, like Mayville, towns have turned to the trend of vacant school buildings to accommodate residents.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded the city $250,000 to turn the old red brick school building into a 20-unit complex called the Albrecht School Apartments.
This could help solve a common problem in rural Wisconsin — a shortage of housing.
"We think the building has a lot of potential and a lot of historical value that we are looking at,” said Andreas Lezema, the owner of the building and contractor. “We're looking forward to the new construction but preserving that historical significance while giving it the modern look as well. As we did more research, we found out that my great-grandmother whom I never met, taught her. Her whole career she taught here, and her name was Willemina Albrecht, so we changed the name to Albrecht School Apartments."
A 2019 study by the Wisconsin Realtors Association reported that the state hasn’t built enough homes to keep up with population growth. This has resulted in a shortage and makes it hard for businesses to recruit and retain employees because workers in rural areas struggle to find affordable housing. One of the solutions is to build more multifamily housing, like apartments.
What makes this building unique is that it can save on cost since the infrastructure is already there, but it's also a greener way to create more apartments since contractors are recycling material at the school.
"We are taking advantage of the charm that's already there,” Guinn said. “What a tragedy it would have been if we decided to tear this from the ground up and build new construction."
While this trend is picking up in other states, Guinn said he hopes Mayville can help other communities accomplish this as well.
"I generally get two to three inquiries a month from other municipalities about being curious on what we are doing here and are trying to emulate that model,” Guinn said. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/towns-are-turning-vacant-schools-into-affordable-housing | 2022-09-05 19:18:31 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/towns-are-turning-vacant-schools-into-affordable-housing |
PHOENIX (AP) — A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions about the rights of death row prisoners appears to have paused a scheduled execution next week, even though it hasn’t officially been called off.
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs won a key battle recently when the Arizona Supreme Court concluded a state law didn’t require her to proceed with the planned April 6 execution of Aaron Gunches, even though his execution date wasn’t canceled.
Hobbs has vowed no prisoners will be executed until there’s confidence that the state isn’t violating constitutional rights when enforcing the death penalty.
Gunches was scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the 2002 killing of Ted Price, who was his girlfriend’s ex-husband. He had pleaded guilty to a murder charge in the shooting death near Mesa, Arizona.
Price’s sister, Karen Price, had tried unsuccessfully to get the court to order Hobbs to carry out the execution. Price then asked for a stay of execution. In making that seemingly contradictory move, Karen Price’s attorney expressed concern that the state was going let the court order authorizing Gunches’ execution expire before factual issues in Karen Price’s litigation could be resolved.
The governor’s office said Monday that it isn’t expecting the execution to be carried out next week. “As we explained in our prior statements and legal filings, the state does not expect to be in a position to carry out an execution by April 6,” the governor’s office said in a statement. Hobbs had previously appointed a retired federal magistrate judge to examine Arizona’s procurement of lethal injection drugs and other death penalty protocols due to the state’s history of mismanaging executions.
Colleen Clase, an attorney for Karen Price, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.
“The governor has made very clear the state is not prepared to go forward with the scheduled execution,” said Dale Baich, a former federal public defender who teaches death penalty law at Arizona State University. “I would expect that it would not take place (next week).” Lawyers for Hobbs have said the state lacks staff with expertise to carry out an execution, was unable to find an IV team to carry out the lethal injection and doesn’t- currently have a contract for a pharmacist to compound the pentobarbital needed for an execution. They also said a top corrections leadership position that’s critical to planning executions remains unfilled. Some requirements for carrying out executions under the state’s death penalty protocol have not been met in Gunches’ case.
The corrections department said the warrant of execution issued by the state Supreme Court wasn’t read to Gunches. And Gunches wasn’t moved to a special “death watch” cell where he would be monitored around the clock and remain until his execution.
In a statement Monday, the agency said that its death penalty protocols “have been paused as we conduct our systemic review of the execution process and complete the necessary steps to demonstrate efficacy and competency in the established protocols.”
Arizona, which currently has 110 prisoners on death row, carried out three executions last year. That followed a nearly eight-year hiatus brought on by criticism that a 2014 execution was botched and because of difficulties obtaining execution drugs. Since then, the state has been criticized for taking too long to insert an IV for lethal injection into a condemned prisoner’s body and for denying the Arizona Republic permission to witness the three executions.
Gunches, who is not a lawyer, represented himself in November when he asked the Supreme Court to issue his execution warrant so that — he said — justice could be served and the victim’s families could get closure. In his last month in office, Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the court for a warrant to execute Gunches.
But Gunches then withdrew his request in early January, and newly elected Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes later asked for the warrant to be withdrawn.
The state Supreme Court rejected Mayes’ request, saying that it must grant an execution warrant if certain appellate proceedings have concluded and that those requirements were met in Gunches’ case.
Gunches switched courses again, saying now that he wants to be executed and asked to be transferred to Texas, where, he wrote, “inmates can still get their sentences carried out.” Arizona’s high court denied the transfer. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/arizona-gov-steps-in-scheduled-execution-unlikely-next-week/ | 2023-03-28 00:13:39 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/arizona-gov-steps-in-scheduled-execution-unlikely-next-week/ |
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – The superintendent of Newport News Public Schools has revealed new information in the shooting of a teacher at Richneck Elementary School by a 6-year-old student last week.
During a virtual town hall with Richneck parents on Thursday, officials said at least one administrator knew that the student may have had a weapon on him hours before the shooting happened.
“At least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon,” said Supt. Dr. George Parker.
Thursday’s town hall was for Richneck parents only, though one shared their access link with Nexstar’s WAVY.
Parker revealed that there had been a report that the boy may have had a weapon when he got to school Friday morning. His backpack was searched, but nothing was found.
Two and a half hours later, police were storming the school after that boy shot his first-grade teacher.
The Newport News School Board revealed earlier at a Thursday news conference that administrative changes will be taking place at Richneck, and would be communicated to parents in the town hall. But during the town hall event, Dr. Parker would not say what those administrative changes were.
Parker said the district is currently reviewing the timeline that the administrator was notified about a possible weapon.
The superintendent told parents that he’s also been in contact with Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — where 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting in May 2022 — for advice on how to proceed.
“We’ve been in contact with Uvalde in Texas who have been very gracious in communicating with us,” Parker stated.
After three school shootings in three years, Newport News Public Schools is changing the way the district handles security, officials have recently indicated.
Richneck Elementary is currently in the process of adding a separation wall and doors to the 2nd-grade hallway, and will install permanent metal detectors, according to Parker, who also shared plans to reconstruct the school’s front entrance, creating a working buzzer system and double entranceways so staff can see who is trying to enter the building.
Parker told parents he’s also considering requiring clear plastic backpacks for Richneck students that would be purchased by the district.
In a news conference hours earlier, school board chair Lisa Surles-Law announced the district’s plan to add permanent metal detectors in all division schools. Funding was just secured on Wednesday by the school board for 90 such state-of-the-art devices. The detectors can identify weapons without slowing down morning arrivals.
“So we just got our approval to purchase them yesterday. We are in the process of making those orders. We have requested that we get the ones for Richneck immediately,” Surles-Law stated.
The move is a big step in security measures that Parker hinted at during Monday’s joint news conference with police and city leaders regarding Richneck.
Parker had publicly said the shooting at Richneck was 100% preventable and he would be re-evaluating his stance on fixed metal detection. Parker, after a 2021 shooting at an area high school, had previously told WAVY that he did not support fixed metal detectors because he did not want schools to feel like prisons for students, but rather places of learning.
Tom Aman, a local parent, praised the district’s decision to purchase metal detectors.
“Metal detectors in every school and every single entry-way is a step. Empowering our teachers to take back their classrooms and get rid of disruptive students is a start. But once again, it comes back to the culture. If the teachers don’t feel like they’re being heard and if the teachers and the students don’t feel safe, they can’t teach and they can’t learn,” Aman told WAVY.
In the meantime, Parker told Richneck parents the district is still working on when students can go back to class.
“We want to make sure that we have measures in place that will allow our faculty and our students and you our parents to feel confident that your student is entering a safe building on a daily basis,” Parker said. | https://wgntv.com/news/at-least-one-administrator-was-alerted-6-year-old-had-possible-weapon-before-shooting-virginia-school-official-says/ | 2023-01-13 19:10:46 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/at-least-one-administrator-was-alerted-6-year-old-had-possible-weapon-before-shooting-virginia-school-official-says/ |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joe Musgrove of the San Diego Padres lost his bid for another no-hitter with two outs in the eighth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Kolten Wong hit a double that short-hopped the wall in right field to break up Musgrove’s try.
Musgrove has thrown the only no-hitter in Padres history. It came in a 3-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on April 9, 2021.
After Wong’s double, Musgrove stayed in and got the last out in the eighth with his career-high 114th pitch. He threw 112 pitches in his no-hitter last year.
Musgrove entered the night with a 5-0 record and a 1.86 ERA that ranked fourth in the National League. His nine quality starts led the NL.
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Two guards who helped Penn State reach the NCAA Tournament this season made history Thursday night when they were chosen in the second round. of the NBA Draft.
Jalen Pickett went 32nd overall to the recently crowned NBA champion Denver Nuggets before Seth Lundy was picked 46th by the Atlanta Hawks. It marked the first time two Penn State basketball players were picked in the same draft.
They are also the first Nittany Lions selected by the NBA since Tony Carr went to the New Orleans Pelicans (No. 51 overall) in 2018.
Pickett, a consensus All-American, is the highest-drafted Nittany Lions player in the modern era of the two-round NBA Draft, which dates to 1989. Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth, a former Penn State player, is the previous highest PSU pick (35th overall).
Pickett averaged 17.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game with a 50.8 field goal percentage this season. He is the first Division I men’s college basketball player in at least the past 30 years to average 17/7/6 or more while shooting at least 50%.
Lundy completed his four-year Penn State career in 2022-23 by averaging 14.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He was one of only five Division I players to reach 10-plus points per game and 6-plus rebounds per game while shooting at least 50% from two-point range (53.3%), 40% from 3-point range (40%) and 80% from the free throw line (80.7%).
Lundy finished his Penn State career sixth all-time in school history in career 3-pointers (229).
Pickett and Lundy led Penn State to a 23-14 overall record, its first NCAA Tournament victory since 2001 and first trip to the tournament since 2011.
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Disney Cruise Line's newest Bahamian destination, Lighthouse Point, to debut in June 2024
CELEBRATION, Fla., March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney Cruise Line announced today the inaugural dates and select itineraries for its new island destination in The Bahamas, headlining a season full of new and guest-favorite itineraries around the world in summer 2024. Along with the first sailings to Lighthouse Point, families will be able to choose magical vacations to bucket-list destinations that include the Mediterranean, northern Europe, Alaska and the Caribbean.
"We are delighted to take families to new places during the summer 2024 season, including our newest island destination at Lighthouse Point in The Bahamas," said Sharon Siskie, senior vice president and general manager, Disney Cruise Line. "We're also thrilled to return to Europe with new ports of call and offer exciting adventures to Alaska and the Caribbean. All of these Disney Cruise Line sailings provide the unique experiences that our guests have come to expect from Disney, from world-class dining and dazzling entertainment to character encounters and legendary guest service."
Bookings open to the public March 30, 2023. For more details, visit the Summer 2024 itineraries page of disneycruise.com.
First Sailings to Lighthouse Point
In June 2024, Disney Cruise Line will debut its newest Bahamian destination on the island of Eleuthera at Lighthouse Point. Guests sailing aboard the Disney Magic from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will discover a vibrant beach retreat designed with families in mind, infused with the color and energy of Bahamian artistry, and developed with a commitment to conservation at its core.
A seven-night inaugural sailing aboard the Disney Fantasy from Port Canaveral, Florida, on June 8 will allow guests to be among the first to make a splash in the crystal-clear waters of this new destination at Lighthouse Point. This ultimate Disney Cruise Line island destination itinerary will feature two stops at Lighthouse Point and one day at Castaway Cay. On June 6, a three-night preview cruise on the Disney Magic from Fort Lauderdale will offer a sneak peek of Lighthouse Point with limited access to some areas.
Following the inaugural voyage, Lighthouse Point will be a featured port of call on select three-, four- and five-night sailings to The Bahamas and Caribbean on the Disney Magic out of Fort Lauderdale. These itineraries will vary stops between Lighthouse Point and Castaway Cay, with five special departures including both Disney Cruise Line island destinations.
New European Destinations
Dreams will come to life for Disney Cruise Line guests in summer 2024 as the Disney Dream returns to premier European destinations in the Mediterranean, Greek Isles, British Isles and popular locales in the Norwegian Fjords and Iceland.
These sailings will feature a number of new ports of call, including Valencia, Spain; Haugesund, Norway; and Hamburg, Germany, along with three Mediterranean destinations that will return for the first time since 2014: Catania, Italy; Kusadasi, Turkey; and Valletta, Malta.
Mediterranean and Greek Isles cruises from Barcelona and Civitavecchia (Rome) will range from five to 11 nights, while northern Europe and British Isles sailings will offer itineraries anywhere from three nights to one 12-night voyage that includes the Norwegian fjords, three days in Iceland and an overnight stay in Reykjavik.
Adventures in Alaska
Cruises to Alaska from Vancouver, Canada, will return on the Disney Wonder from May through September 2024, offering more chances for families to experience the natural splendor and adventure of "The Last Frontier" with five-, seven- and nine-night sailings. Majestic wildlife and stunning scenery in iconic places like Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan and glacier viewing along the Stikine Icecap will blend with Disney's world-class entertainment, dining and guest service to create a family-friendly vacation that celebrates the spirit of Alaska both on land and on board.
Tropical Escapes to The Bahamas and Caribbean from Port Canaveral
The Disney Fantasy and Disney Wish will travel to sun-kissed islands throughout The Bahamas and Caribbean in summer 2024. All sailings on these Port Canaveral-based ships will feature a visit to Castaway Cay, a picturesque private island oasis in The Bahamas that offers something for everyone in the family, from fun and relaxation to adventurous water activities.
The Disney Wish will feature three- and four-night Bahamian vacations, while the Disney Fantasy will sail to popular ports in the eastern and western Caribbean on seven-night cruises. One five-night Disney Fantasy voyage in July will take families to Nassau with two stops in Castaway Cay, while a special 10-night southern Caribbean sailing will give families another opportunity to visit Lighthouse Point with additional visits to the islands of Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Tortola and Castaway Cay.
To learn more about Disney Cruise Line or to book a vacation, visit disneycruise.com.
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CULLMAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – A Cullman woman was killed in a three-vehicle wreck late Saturday night.
The wreck occurred on AL-69 near mile marker 251, roughly five miles east of Cullman, just after 10:45 p.m.
Alabama State Troopers said Savannah D. Hamilton, 25, was killed when the Hyundai Sonata she was driving collided with a Nissan Sentra. After colliding with the Sentra, the Sonata collided head-on with a Ford Edge.
Hamilton was pronounced dead at the scene; the driver of the Edge and a passenger were taken to Cullman Regional Medical Center for treatment. The driver of the Sentra was uninjured. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/cullman-woman-killed-in-three-vehicle-wreck/ | 2022-08-22 19:24:59 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/cullman-woman-killed-in-three-vehicle-wreck/ |
PHILADELPHIA - It’s been a whirlwind 16 months for Andrew Painter.
He’s pitched for Calvary Christian Academy in Florida, the Clearwater Threshers, the Jersey Shore BlueClaws and the Reading Fightin Phils.
His next stop just might be the Phillies.
Painter received the Phillies Paul Owens Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award on Thursday before the Phillies hosted the Braves. The award is named after the former Phillies general manager and manager. Painter, 19, went a combined 6-2 with a 1.56 ERA in 103 ⅔ innings for his three minor league teams. Even more impressive was the 6-foot-7 right hander struck out 155 and walked just 25.
“It’s all moving pretty fast,” Painter said. “It’s kind of hard to get a grip on it. I was thinking about it earlier, how this first year has gone by quick, but it’s also weird to think how, in the beginning of the year, I was in Clearwater, then I was at three different locations. But it’s definitely moved quickly.”
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The Phillies selected Painter with the No. 13 selection in the first round of the 2021 draft. He is ranked as the Phillies No. 1 prospect by MLBpipeline.com. The speculation is that Painter will be a member of the Phillies starting rotation at some point next season. Philadelphia president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski has made it clear he isn’t adverse to having young pitchers in the big league rotation.
“I just do what they tell me to do,” Painter said, “and be ready whenever they are.”
Painter, who features a 98 mph fastball, a sharp-breaking curveball and an improving changeup, isn’t carried away by his gaudy statistics.
“It’s cool to look at,” Painter said of the numbers. “But I try to block it out, because my thing is, once you look at it and start to realize what you’ve done, then it gets a whole lot harder. So try to block it out and worry about that next start. But it was an impressive stretch and it felt good.”
Painter is proud of throwing more than 100 innings this season. He threw 45 ⅓ innings as a Calvary Christian senior in 2021.
“The most I had thrown in a year was 60 or 70 innings so getting through (the 100-inning barrier) and not slowing down feels great,” he said. “It gives me confidence going into next year and how I feel about my body. I am feeling really good.”
Painter and fellow minor league pitchers Mick Abel and Griff McGarry are considered the future of the Phillies. Could all three one day be members of the starting rotation?
"We've all talked about it and we've kind of discussed it a little bit," Painter said. "We are in there getting our work in and stuff like that, but it's definitely cool to kind of rise through the system like that and imagine that we will all be there at the same time.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/baseball/professional/how-soon-before-fast-moving-andrew-painter-joins-the-phillies-rotation/article_27fa9752-3ad4-11ed-936f-3f03ea4c8d3a.html | 2022-09-23 01:44:35 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/baseball/professional/how-soon-before-fast-moving-andrew-painter-joins-the-phillies-rotation/article_27fa9752-3ad4-11ed-936f-3f03ea4c8d3a.html |
Long before his #MeToo demise as a U.S. senator, satirist Al Franken wrote a shocking investigative exposé of politicians and pundits who, prepare yourself, don’t always tell the truth. The subtly titled book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” caused upheaval in Washington and led to a bipartisan national shakeup in politics. Politicians forever ended the practice of lying.
Oops. Correction: It actually got worse than ever, including the election of a president who reportedly lied more than 30,000 times in his single term.
Lying is not technically against the law, but it might be time for greater legislative clarity on the matter of deliberately deceiving the public for political or financial gain. Kansas City’s former communications director, Chris Hernandez, is suing his ex-employers, saying they demoted him when he refused to lie on behalf of City Manager Brian Platt. The city, which disputes the accusation, is arguing in court that, even if officials did lie, deliberately misleading the public isn’t illegal.
Increasingly across the country, the truth is on trial. The American public has been yanked so many different ways by falsehoods presented as fact that people simply don’t know whom to believe anymore. Millions bought the lie that coronavirus vaccines are part of a government plot. Millions more believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Similar lies were behind the hammer attack that hospitalized then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Falsehoods are hardly harmless. People can die.
Fox News is currently in court defending itself for having advanced the lie that Dominion Voting Systems helped rig the 2020 presidential election against President Donald Trump. Fox doesn’t deny the lies. Rather, it questions whether the lies caused actual harm.
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Fox’s Tucker Carlson defended himself in a 2020 slander lawsuit by arguing that the things he says on television are clearly exaggerations and aren’t supposed to be believed by viewers. He won.
The big question hanging over Congress these days is whether Rep. George Santos, R-New York, should be ousted over his serial lying to win election. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says that he won’t fire Santos based on his massive biographical fraud. Rather, he’ll only be ousted if Santos’ lies broke the law.
Should lying be illegal? In 2005, Congress actually tried to criminalize lying about military service with the Stolen Valor Act. In 2012, the Justice Department tried to prosecute Xavier Alvarez for having claimed to be a Marine combat veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor. The Supreme Court, however, sided with Alvarez. As frustrating and offensive as falsehoods might be, they are protected speech under the First Amendment, the court ruled.
Lies provoke outrage, for sure. But unless actual physical or financial harm can be proven, Americans will simply have to live with all these lying liars and the lies they tell.
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board (STLtoday.com) | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/other-view-lying-liars-have-a-constitutional-right-to-keep-lying | 2023-02-01 23:04:59 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/other-view-lying-liars-have-a-constitutional-right-to-keep-lying |
iPhone 14 reportedly dials 911 during roller coaster rides
(CNN) - The iPhone 14′s new crash detection feature is causing problems for users who ride roller coasters.
Apple’s latest phone is reportedly experiencing its own accident on roller coasters by dialing 911.
The feature has set off false alarms for emergency personnel near Cincinnati’s Kings Island Amusement Park.
They’ve received at least six iPhone emergency calls since the new smartphone went on sale in September.
Similar 911 calls have originated from passengers on a roller coaster at Six Flags Great America near Chicago.
The same crash detection technology also is featured on the Apple Watch 8.
The fix is simple: Users should put the iPhone 14 and the Apple Watch 8 on airplane mode before boarding a roller coaster.
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Helen Slayton-Hughes, the actor known for playing lovable curmudgeon Ethel Beavers in the NBC series “Parks and Recreation,” has died, her family announced.
She was 92.
Beavers was a recurring character on “Parks and Rec” from 2011 to 2015.
The resident court stenographer on the infamous fourth floor of the municipal building in Pawnee, Indiana was also tasked with issuing and signing marriage licenses ... and reading transcripts in the freezing cold. Slayton-Hughes brought a perturbed kind of deadpan to the role, making her a fan favorite.
The actor was born in Glen Ridge and had many small TV roles starting in the 2000s, including “The West Wing,” “NYPD Blue,” “Arrested Development,” “True Blood,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Rutherford Falls.”
“To the friends and fans of our beloved Helen, Helen passed away last night,” the actor’s family said in a post on her Facebook page Thursday. “Her pain has ended but her fierce spirit lives on. Thank you for the love and support of her and her work.”
The actor’s family quoted her in the announcement: “I love doing drama but I’m always hired to do comedy.”
Slayton-Hughes studied drama at Syracuse University, where her peers were Peter Falk and Jerry Stiller. After spending decades acting in community theater, her screen acting career started in the 1980s, when she was in her 50s.
She made appearances in films like “Mafia on the Bounty” (1980) and “Shoot the Moon” (1982). Slayton-Hughes moved to Los Angeles when she was 70 after booking a role on “Nash Bridges.”
She also appeared in films like Gus Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” (2018) and George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005).
More recently, Slayton-Hughes had roles in the Netflix movies “The Curse of Bridge Hollow,” released in October, and “He’s All That,” which premiered in 2021. She was also in the 2018 thriller “The Invisible Mother.”
“The White Lotus” and “Emily the Criminal” star Aubrey Plaza, who rose to fame playing April Ludgate in “Parks and Rec,” remembered Slayton-Hughes on Instagram Friday.
“It was always Ethel Beavers,” she said. “Always. Rest in Peace Helen. You were so loved and admired and I wanna be you when I grow up.”
Adam Scott, who played Ben Wyatt on the show, also paid tribute to the actor.
“Lots of love to Helen Slayton-Hughes, her family, and to Ethel Beavers,” he said in an Instagram post. “All your friends in Pawnee will miss you.”
He also shared a quote from Beavers: “It’s after 10 o’clock! I’ve been asleep for four hours,” a screenshot of a scene where Beavers holds a flask out at a restaurant and asks if anyone can top her off.
Slayton-Hughes, who is survived by four children and six grandchildren, hailed from a family of performers — Emmy winner Peter Dinklage, who grew up in Mendham, is her first cousin once removed.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NATSO, representing America's truckstops and travel plazas, and SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers, issued the following statement regarding passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The following statement can be attributed to NATSO's Executive Vice President of Government Affairs David Fialkov:
"The Inflation Reduction Act represents a missed opportunity for Congress to build upon more than a decade's worth of emission reduction advancements in over-the-road transportation. While it makes sense for fuel technologies to earn favorable tax treatment through tangible reductions in carbon emissions, this bill gives aviation fuel more favorable treatment without having to demonstrate improved environmental benefits.
"The diversion of investment away from renewable diesel will increase retail diesel prices. Rather than reducing inflation, this legislation will increase the price of all consumer goods hauled by truck.
"The Inflation Reduction Act hands the airline industry another special break. That industry meanwhile is more than happy to accept its second bailout in three years while it is also fighting against having to comply with more stringent environmental standards."
NATSO is the trade association of America's travel plaza and truckstop industry. Founded in 1960, NATSO represents the industry on legislative and regulatory matters; serves as the official source of information on the diverse travel plaza and truckstop industry; provides education to its members; conducts an annual convention and trade show; and supports efforts to generally improve the business climate in which its members operate. For more information, visit NATSO.com. Contact: Tiffany Wlazlowski Neuman, Vice President, Public Affairs.
SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers represents a diverse membership of approximately 260 independent chain retailers and marketers of motor fuel. While 67 percent are involved in gasoline retailing, 83 percent are involved in wholesaling, 56 percent transport product, 39 percent have bulk plant operations, and 20 percent operate terminals. Member retail outlets come in many forms including truckstops, traditional "gas stations," convenience stores with gas pumps, cardlocks, and unattended public fueling locations.
Contact: Tiffany Wlazlowski Neuman
Vice President, Public Affairs
twlazlowski@natso.com
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I’m ticked off that some clown named Spam Risk keeps calling me several times a day. I don’t know a Spam Risk and if I did I’d call him if I had anything to tell him.
I am ticked off that even the school buses speed on North Econ Trail between Watermill and University Boulevard. Not to single him out because there are many others; but there is a motorcyclist who comes through there at least 50 miles an hour in the 25 mile an hour zone. I just hope he doesn’t kill anybody on his way to work or school where it is he’s going. I am also ticked off that Orange County refuses to put any speed mitigating devices in place on North Econ Trail.
Shut up, Spectrum! You self-proclaimed good looking guy - not! You are so obnoxious and I know I am not alone hitting the mute button whenever you start yelling. Would never buy what you are selling.
I’m ticked off at FDOT or Seminole County for the landscaping around the deadly intersection of State Road 415 and Celery Avenue east of Sanford. How many people have been killed at that intersection? So rather than make it safer with traffic lights, they’re planting trees to further obstruct the view of oncoming Northbound SR 415 traffic.
What’s wrong with some people?! Why are you sitting on the floor of the library with your phone propped against a water bottle talking to someone? Thanks for indicating to me that it’s okay for me to walk around you. How about you don’t sit on the floor blocking the aisle! And why do library employees allow this?
I’m ticked off that self-driving cars are being foisted upon us. We have enough problems with people actually driving cars without adding to the chaos on our highways. We are not ready for the Jetsons Era just yet. Maybe in 50 years we might be.
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My niece Holly and her husband, Don, are chefs. Dinner invitations to their friends’ homes are few. The excuse? Pals say they are intimidated by the fancy food the couple serve when entertaining at their house.
To prove a point, they hosted a gathering designed to show that their party food could be delicious, yet in no way posh. They made Smashed Cheeseburgers, a one-at-a-time culinary performance art of sorts. Each two-patty burger takes less than two minutes to cook on a super-hot plancha (cast-iron griddle) perched on the grate of a gas or charcoal grill. It goes fast.
Buns are toasted and topped with condiments before grilling starts, so the burgers go together quickly, the cheese layered between the patties melted to perfection.
It’s the crust that forms on each side of the meat that gives the burgers their irresistibility as well as a welcome texture contrast to the soft burger buns. The ground beef is rolled into ready-to-cook spheres in advance, 2-ounce balls ready for smashing.
It seems like a great idea for summer gatherings with four to six guests. The plancha process goes fast: Smash, sizzle, flip, cheese, sizzle, stack.
At her outdoor shindig, Holly served store-bought ice cream cones, Drumsticks. With a grin, Holly asked guests if that was fancy enough. Here I offer a recipe for Strawberry Clouds, a delicious finish that can be served on angel food cake or ice cream.
And if you want a delicious side to serve with the burgers, it would be hard to beat scrumptious baked beans scented with oranges. The dish can be prepared in advance and reheated. Happy grilling.
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Smash Cheeseburgers
Yield: 6 servings
INGREDIENTS
24 ounces 80/20 ground beef, freshly ground beef chuck preferred; see cook’s notes
6 soft hamburger buns
Soft butter for spreading on buns
Condiment suggestions: easy burger Thousand Island dressing (3 parts mayo plus 1 part ketchup), lettuce, thinly sliced red onion, sliced tomato, sliced pickles, mustard
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
6 thin slices melting cheese, such as American or Jack
Equipment: large solid (stiff) spatula, potato masher, thin flexible spatula such as a slotted fish spatula, plancha (cast-iron griddle), gas or charcoal grill, optional heat-resistant barbecue gloves, optional smashed-burger press (if using a press, large solid spatula and potato masher aren’t needed)
Cook’s notes: Although most smash-style burger aficionados prefer 80-20 ground beef for its fat content, I have used leaner 85-15 ground meat with success.
DIRECTIONS
Divide ground beef into 2-ounce portions and roll each into a ball and place on plate. The easiest way to do this is to use a kitchen scale, but it you don’t have one, you can roll the meat into balls with a diameter of 1 3/4 inches, trying to make them the same size.
Place griddle on grill grate (charcoal or gas). Start grill. Cover and heat plancha until sizzling hot, 550 to 600 degrees. This will take about 10 to 15 minutes. Make sure children are far away from grill.
Meanwhile, prepare buns. Thinly smear cut surface of each bun with soft butter. Place butter-side-up on rimmed baking sheet. Broil in oven about 6 to 8 inches below broiler element. Turn on oven light and watch carefully to toast surface. In my oven that’s 1 1/2 minutes.
Because the process moves quickly at the grill, prepare the buns in advance with desired condiments, and set them next to grill. If you are new at this, make one burger (2 patties) at a time; if you are a pro, make two (4 patties) at a time. For newbies, you can wear heat-resistant gloves for protection; place two balls of meat about 4 inches apart on the super-hot plancha. With a large solid spatula in one hand and a potato masher in the other, press down balls of meat with large spatula and use potato masher on top of spatula to increase pressure (smashed burger presses are also sold that can be used instead of the big solid spatula and potato masher). The meat will form very thin patties. Remove spatula or press; there may be areas that have small holes. Grill about a minute (tops are beginning to turn pale pinkish-gray in spots), seasoning with salt and pepper. Use thin flexible spatula to turn each patty (trying to capture all browned bits, using a scraping motion) and immediately top one patty with cheese. Grill about 30 seconds and place patty without cheese atop the one with cheese. Transfer to prepared bun and serve.
Orange Blossom Baked Beans
Yield: about 14 cups, 10 to 12 servings
INGREDIENTS
3 1/2 cups great white Northern beans, picked over, rinsed, soaked overnight
Canola oil or vegetable oil for greasing pot
1 large onion, halved, peeled, sliced
1 tablespoon salt, use less if you like, but these beans are happiest when well salted
1/2 to 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
3/4 cup orange marmalade
1 teaspoon ground cayenne
2 tablespoons tomato paste
Optional: 1 tablespoon finely chopped chipotle in adobo
Grated zest of 1 orange (colored portion of peel), reserve orange
2 tablespoons honey, preferably orange blossom honey
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 pound salt pork, rinsed very well, drained, patted dry, diced
DIRECTIONS
Drain beans and rinse, and place in large pot or Dutch oven. Cover beans with water by 2 inches and bring to boil on high heat. Reduce heat and simmer until almost tender, about 50 minutes to 1 1/2 hours. Allow to cool; drain through a colander reserving cooking liquid.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Thoroughly grease the inside of a bean pot or a 4 1/2- to 5-quart deep casserole with a tight-fitting lid. Scatter onion slices over bottom of pot or casserole. Spoon cooked drained beans on top.
In a large bowl, pour 1 quart (4 cups) bean cooking liquid (if you don’t have enough add water); whisk in salt, pepper, dry mustard, marmalade, cayenne, tomato paste, chipotle if using, zest, honey and ginger. Pour mixture over beans to just barely cover (reserve leftover liquid to add later ifs needed). Scatter salt pork over beans.
Lower oven temperature to 250 degrees. Cover and place in oven for 7 to 8 hours, adding more liquid — the cooking liquid mixture — as needed to keep beans from drying out. Remove lid during the last 1 1/2 hours of cooking so a nice crust can develop. Serve hot. Cut the (zested) orange in half and squeeze a little fresh orange juice on top of beans (capturing any seeds in the process). I know this sounds a little odd, but it’s a succulent combo.
Source: Adapted from “Bean by Bean,” by Crescent Dragonwagon (Workman, $15.95 softcover)
Strawberry Clouds
Yield: 6 servings
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into several pieces
24 large fresh strawberries, washed, not hulled
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup strawberry vodka or watermelon vodka
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
12 thin slices of angel food cake or 6 generous scoops of ice cream
DIRECTIONS
Place a large, deep skillet on medium heat. Add butter, partially melt, and add strawberries. Gently toss and cook berries until all butter melts and coats berries. It’s OK if the butter boils, but don’t let it brown. Add sugar, vanilla, vodka and juice; continue to cook, letting mixture bubble and further coat the berries. The strawberries should be tender but not mushy, and the sauce should reduce a little. (If made 1 to 2 hours in advance, reheat on medium heat setting to liquefy sauce — berries don’t have to be hot.)
In shallow bowls, spoon berries and sauce over sliced angel food cake or ice cream (vanilla or pistachio).
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CHANGSHA, China, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China SCIO:
As the demonstration base for integrating culture with science and technology, Changsha has become a bright star of China's media industry.
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Major League Baseball was once so concerned about gambling it banned Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays just for working as casino greeters. Now MLB itself and almost all of its teams have official casino sponsors.
The NCAA railed for decades that paying players would destroy college sports, all while raking in billions off of their unpaid labor. Now schools boast of booster collectives that help recruit top talent to their teams.
So when the PGA Tour overcame its indignation and agreed to merge with LIV Golf — despite the human rights abuses of its Saudi Arabian backers — the flip-flop followed a long-established tradition in sports of flexible attitudes that often hurtle into full-blown hypocrisy.
“Phil Mickelson initially said, ‘Oh, my God. It’s frightening some of the things have occurred.’ But for the right amount of money, he decided he’s going to join the LIV Tour. And this does seem to be much the same thing,” said Matthew Mitten, a sports law professor at Marquette University. “Sports are an outlet for people. The question is: How far will we go?”
As the top pro circuit in the world, the PGA Tour attracted the best golfers and all that came with them: bankable TV deals, luxury goods sponsorships and the attention of fans who want to see the most skilled athletes playing for the most prestigious prizes. That was all threatened when LIV Golf – backed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund — began offering nine-figure sums to lure stars like Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to a new tour that featured team play and 54-hole events.
To fend off the challenge, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan harped on the source of the money, telling his players last year, “Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?”
The answer, as of Tuesday, is yes.
“I recognize that people are going to call me a hypocrite,” Monahan told reporters after getting an earful from players who had just learned they were about to be partners with the regime they had been denouncing. “I accept those criticisms. But circumstances do change.”
What changed for Monahan, like so many other sports pooh-bahs before him, was the opportunity to wet the tour’s beak in Saudi billions.
What didn’t change: It was never about anything else.
“One defense to going for the money is that sports shouldn’t be about politics. But the leagues can’t have it both ways,” said Jodi Balsam, who teaches sports law at Brooklyn and NYU law schools.
“It shows a certain amount of inconsistency, and perhaps even hypocrisy,” said Balsam, who noted that baseball moved its 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to a Georgia voting law but continues to do business in other, more troublesome places, including China. “None of their decision-making that supposedly is responsive to the ideological environment is actually principled. It’s all pandering.”
Not lost among the ironies: LIV was suing the PGA Tour, accusing it of using its monopoly to crush potential competitors. On Tuesday, LIV had an epiphany about the need for competition and combined with the PGA Tour in what Balsam called “a golf monolith” that will control players and every other aspect of tournament play, from sponsors to players to fans.
“There’s nowhere else to play,” she said. “This will create a colossus that will be able to dictate the terms of how they do business with all their relationships upstream and downstream. A golf monarchy is going to have significant control over how we enjoy the game.”
And golf isn’t the only sport playing it both ways.
— The women’s professional tennis tour pulled out of China two years ago over concerns about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai, who dropped out of public view after saying in a social media post that a high-ranking government official raped her. The tour announced in April it would return this season with at least six events in China — backing off two of its key demands: a chance to meet with Peng, and a thorough, transparent investigation of her sexual assault accusations.
— Other leagues have also stumbled as they tried to balance China’s 1 billion-strong market with its human rights violations, among them the suppression of religious rights and democratic movements. Nor have Chinese abuses scared off the Olympics, which returned to Beijing for a second time last year amid claims that the treatment of the Uyghur ethnic minority amounts to genocide.
— The IOC has likewise struggled to look serious in dealing with Russia – first for a years-long doping scheme, and then for its invasion of Ukraine. The decided upon measure: Let some athletes participate, but ban the flag and anthem.
–The most recent World Cup was held in Qatar, which has little soccer tradition and a record of human rights abuses it hoped to cleanse with what has come to be known as “sportswashing” — using major sporting events to distract the international community from its more unsavory behaviors. (What the World Cup did for Qatar and the 2022 Olympics did for China, LIV Golf was supposed to do for Saudi Arabia.)
— Contact sports face a different dilemma: With increasing data about the dangers of concussions, leagues have to balance the violence that can be a draw for fans with the risk to their players’ brains. “There is no higher priority than player safety,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said — before the league added a 17th game to the schedule and ramped up the Thursday night schedule that forces players back onto the field on short rest.
“I am leery of all companies that take strong moral stands,” said Marc Isenberg, an athlete advocate and former Division III basketball player who has written about college sports and its ills and teaches a course at the University of Southern California on athletes’ newfound right to earn money off of their name, image and likeness. “And (I) try not to be shocked when they’re exposed as amoral profit-maximizers.”
Isenberg works with players to fend off unscrupulous agents and other predatory business arrangements. But the problem is sometimes the NCAA itself, which spent a century portraying its players as “student-athletes” to keep them from marketing their skills like any painter in the art school or flutist in the band.
Despite its protests, college sports have thrived since a (unanimous) U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down some of the more stifling NCAA restrictions. Another Supreme Court decision allowed all states to legalize sports betting; it turns out, with the riches of “gaming” sponsorships and a new way to attract viewers, U.S. pro leagues came around on this one-time taboo, with the NFL and NHL even putting teams in Las Vegas.
The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland-Las Vegas Raiders’ move to the gambling capital of the United States — if not the world — typifies what is one of the most frustrating forms of sports hypocrisy to fans: Their favorite teams gush with love for their hometown, until a ballpark or arena begins to show some wear.
Other cities are trotted out as suitors until, ideally, the state or local government subsidizes a new stadium.
If not, someone else will.
Baseball’s Oakland Athletics are working both sides even now, less than a decade after Commissioner Rob Manfred said: “I am committed to Oakland as a major league site.”
“I think that if we were to leave Oakland, I think 10 years from now we would be more likely than not looking backwards saying we made a mistake,” he said in 2016.
But since then, A’s owner John Fisher has stripped the roster; the payroll of under $58 million is the lowest in baseball. With the team’s future in flux, neither ownership nor the local governments have been willing to invest in the crumbling Oakland Coliseum, which has been beset by feral cat feces, moth infestations and backups of raw sewage.
Through Monday, the team had a record of 12-50, which puts them on a pace for a modern day record-shattering 131 losses — the most since the Cleveland Spiders were disbanded in 1899. Fans have responded in kind: Only 8,675 on average have come to see the team that put down roots in Oakland more than a half-century ago.
And many fans believe that is the point: The worse the ballpark looks and the lower attendance drops, the better Fisher’s case for a new home. In April, he signed a deal — with Manfred’s blessing — to move the team.
To Las Vegas.
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Contributing to this story were AP Tennis Writer Howard Fendrich, AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson, AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley and AP National Writer Eddie Pells. | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/hypocrisy-isnt-new-in-sports-its-just-more-obvious-in-pga-tour-liv-golf-merger/ | 2023-06-08 20:18:15 | 0 | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/hypocrisy-isnt-new-in-sports-its-just-more-obvious-in-pga-tour-liv-golf-merger/ |
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Battles over Western water seep into tight US Senate races
As cities in Arizona and Nevada continue to experience drought, water supply is playing a significant role in U.S. Senate races. Democratic incumbents up for reelection hope that federal drought-relief funding will help at the ballot box.
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In a midterm campaign season dominated by inflation, abortion, and crime, there’s another issue that is becoming more urgent in Western states: drought.
The topic of water historically has played little to no role in campaign ads in much of the region, but funding to fight drought is coming up now in door-knocking campaigns and is on the long list of talking points that advocacy groups are using to rally voters in two states with vulnerable Democratic incumbents and looming water cuts: Nevada and Arizona.
“This issue appeals to the economic anxiety of our voters and our people,” said Angel Lazcano, a Las Vegas-based organizer for Somos Votantes, which seeks to mobilize Latino voters across swing states.
Federal officials recently announced that Nevada and Arizona would get far less water in 2023 as the stranglehold on the Colorado River worsens because of drought, climate change, and demand. The federal government threatened to impose deeper, broader cuts if the seven states that depend on the waterway can’t agree on how to use less.
The two vulnerable incumbents whose states are hit hardest by the cuts – Catherine Cortez Masto, of Nevada, and Mark Kelly, of Arizona – seized on the opportunity to seek funding through the federal legislation. They were joined by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who is seeking reelection in Colorado, and Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. The four Western senators negotiated $4 billion in last-minute funding to help address the region’s growing water crisis in the Inflation Reduction Act.
In tight races in Nevada and Arizona, the Colorado River basin cuts and last-minute $4 billion in drought-relief funding will serve as a test of how influential access to water will be in deciding two of the most consequential Senate races this cycle.
Though still not allocated, the drought relief funding will generally pay farmers to leave fields unplanted and will pay for water conservation and habitat restoration projects.
Ms. Cortez Masto said in a brief interview that she doesn’t see it as a campaign issue, but rather an issue for the entire West.
Somos Votantes released ads in English and Spanish, thanking Ms. Cortez Masto for the funding. In Arizona, the Environmental Defense Fund and its advocacy partner did the same for Ms. Sinema and Mr. Kelly, who has touted the funding on social media.
Kathleen Ferris, a senior water policy researcher at Arizona State University, said drought is a politically murky subject. She doubts the relief funding will have any sway on the election, and even the Colorado River cuts have not risen to the level of other hot-button issues.
Campaigns historically have trouble communicating complex water policies because there are so many interest groups that have a stake, she said.
“It’s not necessarily easy to say, ‘Well, I will do this,’ which would hurt this group, or ‘I will do that,’ which would hurt another group,” said Ms. Ferris. “So mostly, what they say is ‘I will convene stakeholders’ and ‘We will have robust discussions’ and ‘We will figure out a path.’ Well, that’s not very sexy for the electorate.”
The funding is small in the wider context of a historic megadrought. Farmers in Yuma, Arizona, are already requesting over a quarter of the funding, and projects elsewhere to convert ocean water to drinking water often cost billions.
Though projects in Nevada and Arizona may get priority, 17 states are eligible for the funding, which will be doled out through 2026.
Questions also remain about whether the one-time allocation will turn into an annual stipend. If so, experts say, other funding requests could come under scrutiny from states not reliant on the river.
Though the basin cuts will not result in immediate new restrictions, they signal that unpopular decisions about how to reduce consumption could come soon.
Nowhere have the effects of drought been as visible as in Lake Mead, the Colorado River’s largest reservoir, which supplies water to nearby Las Vegas. Residents have watched human remains and old artifacts reveal themselves as levels drop.
Mr. Lazcano, the community organizer at Somos Votantes, which endorsed Ms. Cortez Masto, brings up Las Vegas’ robust water recycling infrastructure and the $4 billion in drought relief funding while door-knocking or hosting events in Las Vegas’ Latino neighborhoods.
He pitches drought relief as an environmental and economic issue – affecting jobs and opportunities next to rising gas prices, labor shortages and inflation.
“I feel like people have that surface-level understanding of these things that are happening,” he said. “Like they hear about the cuts and the money coming in, but they’re not too sure with how to take that in, and that’s where we come in. To tell them about how it is, or what these investments mean.”
The funding has earned mixed reactions from Republican candidates in Nevada.
While the inflation measure was universally vilified by the party, GOP lawmakers and candidates did not deny that drought needs urgent attention.
Adam Laxalt, who is running against Ms. Cortez Masto, has mostly stayed away from talking about drought. In an email, he said he supports efforts to address water problems in Nevada, noting that the crunch “didn’t just happen overnight.”
The Inflation Reduction Act will contribute to more inflation, and Ms. Cortez Masto should have secured funding without having to support a larger bill, he said.
Sam Peters, a Republican candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District – which covers much of rural central Nevada down to the northern edge of the Las Vegas area – criticized paying farmers not to use water, saying that Democrats “throw money at it without a real solution.” He suggested desalination as a longer-term solution.
U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, Nevada’s lone Republican congressman, supported the general idea of the funding and also pointed to desalination, the technology that removes salt from ocean water and turns it into drinking water.
A $1.4 billion desalination project was proposed in California with support from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom but was rejected by a California coastal panel in May because of its cost and threat to marine organisms at the base of the food chain.
Days after the Inflation Reduction Act passed, Mr. Amodei sent out a blog post that didn’t mention drought but outlined the provisions he said would deepen the country’s economic woes.
Asked about the drought funding later, he said it was “maybe some of the least egregious stuff” in the act.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Mary Bassett said in a statement Friday that she was “leaving now so the next commissioner can have the chance to lead this great department for a full 4-year term under the leadership of Gov. Hochul.”
“This was a very difficult decision,” Bassett said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, won her first full term in the November election, after having taken the office in 2021 following the resignation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Hochul said in a statement that Bassett led the Department of Health during “one of the most challenging public health eras of our lifetimes,” battling the coronavirus, mpox and polio outbreaks. She thanked Bassett for her service.
Mpox is a virus previously known as monkeypox, because it was first seen in research monkeys. The World Health Organization changed the name to mpox last month, saying the original name could be construed as stigmatizing and racist.
Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner, became the state health commissioner on Dec. 1, 2021, taking over for Howard Zucker.
Zucker resigned after facing backlash for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including the Cuomo administration’s decision to downplay the extent of how many people were dying of COVID-19, particularly in nursing homes.
Before becoming state health commissioner, Bassett worked at Harvard, where she was director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a professor at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NY-state-health-commissioner-resigning-to-return-17629000.php | 2022-12-03 20:12:11 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NY-state-health-commissioner-resigning-to-return-17629000.php |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Friends, family and fans are set to gather Tuesday afternoon for a massive public memorial service to honor drag icon Heklina at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. Heklina unexpectedly passed away in April in London.
The 1,400-seat theater is expected to be bursting with mourners during the service set to begin around noon and end around midnight. The celebration is expected to spill out of the theater onto the streets causing some road closures.
Market Street and 18th Street will be closed from around noon to midnight. Muni Bus lines 24 and 25 will also adjust to go around the area for the celebration.
The theater will still be open to those who previously purchased tickets starting at around 7 p.m.
Heklina was in London performing “Mommie Queerest.” Her death shocked not only San Francisco but the U.S., as she was one of the pioneers in drag performance. She was a mainstay in the local drag community and a frequent guest on KRON4’s “Live In the Bay.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/castro-theater-holds-memorial-for-drag-icon-heklina/ | 2023-05-23 13:24:48 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/castro-theater-holds-memorial-for-drag-icon-heklina/ |
Credit Suisse pays $495M tied to mortgage-backed securities
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
AP Business Writer
Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $495 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. over a yearslong dispute tied to mortgage-backed securities, an investment vehicle that played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. The Swiss bank said that some of the transactions were prior to 2008. The New Jersey Attorney General, which announced the settlement Monday, filed a lawsuit in 2013 alleging more than $3 billion in damages citing the involvement of Credit Suisse. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/17/credit-suisse-pays-495m-tied-to-mortgage-backed-securities/ | 2022-10-17 13:24:12 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/17/credit-suisse-pays-495m-tied-to-mortgage-backed-securities/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Kaleyra, Inc. (KLR) on Wednesday reported a loss of $57.8 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had a loss of $1.28. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 10 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $93.7 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $98.5 million, or $2.25 per share. Revenue was reported as $339.2 million.
For the current quarter ending in March, Kaleyra said it expects revenue in the range of $77 million to $81 million.
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Police: Carbon monoxide killed 3 tourists at Bahamas resort
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 5:50 PM CDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three U.S. tourists found dead at a resort in May.
Authorities did not provide further details on Tuesday, saying only the deaths were still under investigation.
The victims were a couple from Tennessee and a man from Florida whose wife was hospitalized.
The couples were staying in separate villas next to each other in the same building at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort on the island of Exuma. It was not clear if the villas had carbon monoxide detectors and if they did, whether they were working.
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Floods worsen in Nigeria, with hundreds dead and thousands displaced +++ Pastoralists in Kenya's Turkana region hit by the drought in the Horn of Africa +++ Zimbabwe is set for a bumper wheat harvest +++ Ex-Africa CDC head John Nkengasong wins global health prize +++ Sierra Leone's first nationwide women's football league kicks off. | https://www.dw.com/en/dw-news-africa-with-tomi-oladipo-21-october-2022/video-47236533 | 2022-10-21 20:42:11 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/dw-news-africa-with-tomi-oladipo-21-october-2022/video-47236533 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento LGBT Community Center Economic Justice Program hosted its third annual free "You Betta Work" LGBTQ+ affirming career and resource fair Thursday.
With over 30 organizations and companies represented and over 300 applicants, the Sacramento LGBT Community Center creates a safe space for members within the community to take on various career opportunities and make connections that will better their future.
"It continues to grow," said Tim Johnson, chief development and external affairs officer at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. "The individuals coming today to look for work are largely marginalized in many cases throughout their lives. We are a safe space for them to come and look for employment. Not only employment, but housing and other things as well."
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center hosts the "You Betta Work" fair four times a year on top of many other programs and partnerships.
The Economic Justice Program aims to connect LGBTQ+ jobseekers to equitable employment in the Sacramento Region by offering services such as taking a free professional headshot and being in a space where they can network and see who’s hiring in the area.
"It's an opportunity to provide people in our community access to equitable jobs that are offered within the Sacramento region," said Simone Thomas, deputy chief program officer at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. "I think it's really important. It shows the progression of Sacramento and how we have grown as a city and how we're able to really come together for such amazing events."
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center will be hosting the next "You Betta Work" fair in July. For more information, you can visit their website at www.SacCenter.org. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/community/race-and-culture/sacramento-lgbt-community-center/103-b29b2093-cab0-4b1f-b4a0-b3d6517f17e5 | 2023-03-24 01:42:16 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/community/race-and-culture/sacramento-lgbt-community-center/103-b29b2093-cab0-4b1f-b4a0-b3d6517f17e5 |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ricochet, the beloved Golden Retriever who found her calling as a therapy dog when she learned to surf, has died in Southern California.
The 15-year-old canine helped countless veterans and kids during more than a decade providing therapy in the waves off San Diego, according to her owner Judy Fridono.
The dog, who died Friday, was diagnosed with liver cancer last August, she said.
Ricochet was trained to be a service animal, but the energetic pup was more fond of chasing birds than assisting with household chores, Fridono said.
The canine’s mission became clear in 2009, when she got on a surfboard with quadriplegic surfer Patrick Ivison. A viral video of their ride got more than 6 million views.
“That day she hopped on the board with Patrick, she was reborn,” Fridono said in a 2012 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune. “She kept running back to the water with her tail wagging like she could finally tell me, ‘This is what I want to do.’”
For the rest of her life, Ricochet helped kids with special needs, wounded service members and families of fallen veterans.
She worked as a therapy dog for Pawsitive Teams and the Naval Medical Center San Diego where she supported people with trauma, anxiety and other emotional challenges, the Union-Tribune said.
In addition, Ricochet helped raise $1 million for charity and the donation of more than 1 million bowls of food for homeless animals, the newspaper said. | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ricochet-san-diegos-surfing-therapy-dog-dies-at-15/ | 2023-04-04 13:04:29 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ricochet-san-diegos-surfing-therapy-dog-dies-at-15/ |
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ATLANTA – A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the partial release later this week of a report by a special grand jury that investigated efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The report’s introduction and conclusion, as well as a section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath, will be released on Thursday, said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.
Any recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted will remain secret for now to protect their due process rights, McBurney wrote.
McBurney's order came three weeks after hearing arguments from prosecutors, who urged the report be kept secret until they decide on charges, and a coalition of media organizations, which pressed for its release.
The release is a significant development in one of several cases that threaten legal jeopardy for the former president as he ramps up a 2024 White House campaign. The special grand jury spent about seven months hearing testimony from witnesses including high-profile Trump allies, such as attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and high-ranking Georgia officials, such as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp.
McBurney wrote that the report includes recommendations for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, including “a roster of who should (or should not) be indicted, and for what, in relation to the conduct (and aftermath) of the 2020 general election in Georgia.” The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.
The special grand jury's final report was requested by Willis and is meant to inform her investigative decision-making process, McBurney wrote, adding that the panel's investigation was largely controlled by the district attorney and her team and was “a one-sided exploration."
There was “very limited due process” for people for whom the grand jurors recommended charges, McBurney wrote. Some may not have had the opportunity to appear before the panel, and those who did appear did not have the right to have their lawyers present or to offer any rebuttal.
For that reason, the judge concluded, it is not appropriate to release the full report at this time.
It is not clear if or when Willis will present the case to a regular grand jury with the purpose of getting one or more indictments. At a Jan. 24 hearing, she said decisions are "imminent” but did not elaborate.
Trump told The Associated Press last month that he did “absolutely nothing wrong.” He said he felt “very confident” that he wouldn’t be indicted.
At the January hearing, Willis had argued against the immediate release of the report, saying it could violate the rights of potential defendants and negatively affect the ability to prosecute those who may be charged with crimes.
“We want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly and we think for future defendants to be treated fairly, it is not appropriate at this time to have this report released,” Willis said during the hearing.
A group of news organizations, including the AP, argued in favor of releasing the report immediately in full, saying that public interest in the report is “extraordinary.”
“The discomfort of the prosecuting authority in disclosing court records isn’t enough to make them sealed,” said attorney Tom Clyde, representing the media. “It has to be significant, identifiable evidence that’s going to cause a problem.”
Willis said in an emailed statement Monday that she believes McBurney's order is “legally sound and consistent with my request” and that she has no plans to appeal. Clyde declined to comment.
Willis and her team began investigating two years ago, shortly after the release of a recording of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In that conversation, the then-president suggested that Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, could “find” the votes needed to overturn Trump’s narrow election loss in the state to Biden, a Democrat.
“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said on the call.
Since then, the investigation’s scope has broadened considerably. The special grand jury operated behind closed doors, as required by law, but public court filings and hearings related to its work provided a window into some of the topics Willis was exploring. Those included:
— Phone calls by Trump and others to Georgia officials in the wake of the 2020 election.
— A group of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won the state and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
— False allegations of election fraud made during meetings of state legislators at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020.
— The copying of data and software from election equipment in rural Coffee County by a computer forensics team hired by Trump allies.
— Alleged attempts to pressure Fulton County elections worker Ruby Freeman into falsely confessing to election fraud.
— The abrupt resignation of the U.S. attorney in Atlanta in January 2021. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/02/13/judge-to-release-parts-of-georgia-special-grand-jury-report/ | 2023-02-13 19:45:07 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/02/13/judge-to-release-parts-of-georgia-special-grand-jury-report/ |
LONDON (AP) — Erling Haaland scored his 50th goal of the season as Manchester City moved to the top of the Premier League on Sunday.
The prolific striker fired the defending champions ahead from the penalty spot after only three minutes at Fulham. City went on to win 2-1 at Craven Cottage and moved one point ahead of long-time league leader Arsenal, with a game in hand.
Haaland’s goal saw him tie Alan Shearer and Andy Cole’s joint record of 34 goals in a Premier League campaign.
Both of those players reached their totals in 42-game seasons, while Haaland’s haul has come in a still unfinished 38-game campaign.
Haaland had already overtaken Mohamed Salah’s record of 32 goals in a 38-game season with his strike in the 4-1 win against Arsenal on Wednesday.
With City still having six more games to play in the league this season, the Norway international looks likely to set a new outright record.
Haaland fired past Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno from the spot after Julian Alvarez had been brought down by Tim Ream, who later injured his arm and was replaced by Issa Diop.
Fulham evened the score after 15 minutes through Carlos Vinicius, but City was back in front in the 36th from Alvarez’s strike.
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RACINE, Wis. (TMJ4) — Four years ago 34-year-old Heather Braun woke up in a hospital. She overdosed on heroin. The doctors drew her blood and found out she was pregnant. That was the moment everything changed.
"I was at my lowest point in my life four years ago," Braun said.
She got clean, raised her daughter and even won a Wisconsin state weightlifting competition.
Braun battled opioid addiction on and off for ten years. She had tried to get sober before, but it didn't stick.
She credits two things that helped her kick her addiction: her daughter and weightlifting.
"(My daughter) has no idea like how big of like the hero she is," Braun said.
She wanted to be the mother that her daughter deserved. It wasn't easy. Opioid addiction results in a severe physical dependence on the drug. Getting clean takes a lot of hard work and suffering.
"You can’t just, you know, stop, and that’s with nothing because your body goes through withdrawals which means your baby that's living inside of you, it can be fatal," she said.
Braun took suboxone, a drug that helps decrease the severity of withdrawals, for a few years to help with the dependency. She stopped taking it in 2021.
Becoming sober requires various steps, tools, and support from loved ones. For Braun, one of the tools that made a huge difference in maintaining her sobriety was weightlifting. She stepped into the Mt. Sinai Gym in Racine. From there, she persevered through the physical pain of weightlifting and the withdrawals.
Casual working out turned into a desire to compete. Her second-ever competition was the state championships. She won the meet and qualified for the national competition.
For Braun, working out is her saving grace. It's work, but so is sobriety. Weightlifting has become part of who she is and it's what gave her the strength to beat addiction.
"It's like a mixture between euphoria and death," she said about the feeling she gets while lifting.
Braun hopes her story serves as an inspiration for others.
"If (my story) just touches one person, and helps give them hope that like (sobriety) is possible. There is happiness on the other side," she said.
Braun wants to help other people beat addiction. She wouldn't mind winning a few more competitions either. But most importantly, she wants to be the best mom she can be for her daughter.
"That's the biggest thing," she said. "I want to be a good example for my daughter. I want to make her proud."
This story was originally reported by James Groh on tmj4.com. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/woman-becomes-weightlifting-champion-after-heroin-overdose-and-surprise-pregnancy | 2022-10-11 19:41:29 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/woman-becomes-weightlifting-champion-after-heroin-overdose-and-surprise-pregnancy |
Legendary quarterback Tom Brady has announced his retirement after 23 seasons in the NFL.
"I'll get to the point right away," Brady, 45, said in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday.
"I'm retiring for good. I know the process was a pretty big deal last time, so when I woke up this morning, I figured I'd just press record and let you guys know first.
"It won't be long-winded. You only get one super-emotional retirement essay, and I used mine up last year."
The seven-time Super Bowl champion also thanked his family, friends, teammates and competitors for their support during his illustrious career.
"Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream," he said in the short video. "I wouldn't change a thing."
Brady had initially retired in February 2022, but the decision proved temporary as he returned for one more season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He is considered by many to be the greatest quarterback of all time, having led the New England Patriots to six Lombardi Trophies and the Bucs to one.
During his long career, the three-time league MVP has broken almost every passing record, including regular season passing yards (89,214) and passing touchdowns (649). He has also amassed the most wins of any player in NFL history (251).
"The greatest ever," the NFL tweeted on Wednesday.
Unrivaled career
Selected 199th overall in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft by the Patriots, Brady played 20 seasons in Foxborough.
He left New England as a free agent after the 2020 season and signed with the Bucs where he led the team to a Super Bowl win in 2021.
"Greatest of All Time. No question, no debate. It's been an honor and a privilege," JJ Watt -- one of the best defensive players of all time -- tweeted Wednesday.
He added: "The newly retired group meets on the golf course every morning at 10am. Drinks are on the new guy, so bring your wallet."
Despite all his success, Brady found winning a lot tougher during his final season in the NFL.
The Bucs finished with an 8-9 record, with many of their stars not performing at the level which helped them win a title two seasons ago.
Brady didn't look like his unflappable self either, with unusual errors and uncharacteristic mistimings creeping into the Tampa Bay offense.
It was also a difficult year off the field, with Brady going through a divorce from his wife of 13 years, Gisele Bundchen.
Despite the difficult final year of his career, Brady marches off into the sunset as the owner of more Super Bowls than any individual NFL franchise, a 15-time Pro Bowler and a strong case as, not just the greatest NFL player of all time, but one of the best athletes ever in any sport.
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RED BANK, N.J., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to intercepting and preventing immune-mediated disease, today announced that management will participate virtually in a corporate presentation at the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference on Monday, September 12th at 7:00am EST.
The presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed by visiting the Events and Webcasts section of the Company's website: http://investors.proventionbio.com/events. The webcast will be archived on the Company's website for 30 days following the presentation.
Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing the development of investigational therapies that may intercept and prevent debilitating and life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. The Biologics License Application (BLA) for teplizumab, its lead investigational drug candidate, for the delay of progression to Stage 3 clinical type 1 diabetes in at-risk individuals has been filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Company's pipeline includes additional clinical-stage product candidates that have demonstrated in pre-clinical or clinical studies proof-of-mechanism and/or proof-of-concept in other autoimmune diseases, including celiac disease and lupus. Visit www.ProventionBio.com for more information and follow us on Twitter: @ProventionBio.
Provention Bio, Inc. uses its website, www.proventionbio.com, as a means of disclosing material nonpublic information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation F.D. Such disclosures will be included on the Company's website in the "News" section. Accordingly, investors should monitor this portion of the Company's website, in addition to following its press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts.
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WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Fox 14 Your Morning News, on Saturday, May 27, 2023, a special session of the Louisiana Annual Conference was held at United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge. For more information, watch the video above.
WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Fox 14 Your Morning News, on Saturday, May 27, 2023, a special session of the Louisiana Annual Conference was held at United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge. For more information, watch the video above. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/morning-show/fox-14-your-morning-news-95-churches-in-louisiana-left-the-united-methodist-church/ | 2023-05-30 17:37:01 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/morning-show/fox-14-your-morning-news-95-churches-in-louisiana-left-the-united-methodist-church/ |
Detroit man charged with shooting, wounding 2 state troopers
Andre Hardaway is being held on an $850K bond
A 55-year-old man has been charged with shooting two Michigan State Police troopers inside a Detroit home.
Andre Hardaway of Detroit was arraigned Wednesday on assault with intent to murder and gun charges, the Wayne County prosecutor's office said.
MICHIGAN POLICE SAY 2 TROOPERS SHOT, BARRICADED GUNMAN ARRESTED IN DETROIT
Members of a state police emergency support team and Detroit police officers were at a home Friday when the troopers were shot. Hardaway also was shot and wounded before barricading himself inside the home. He surrendered more than three hours later, the prosecutor's office said.
The troopers and Hardaway were treated at hospitals.
DETROIT POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDS 3 FOLLOWING FATAL SHOOTING OF WOMAN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS
Detroit Police Chief James White said the troopers were assisting a Detroit police team that pursues fugitives.
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Hardaway was ordered held Wednesday on an $850,000 bond. A probable cause conference has been set for March 22 followed by a March 29 preliminary examination. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/detroit-man-charged-shooting-wounding-2-state-troopers | 2023-03-15 20:13:57 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/detroit-man-charged-shooting-wounding-2-state-troopers |
Many properties in Ramsey County have some sort of racially restrictive language on the deed designed to limit who could own the homes.
These so-called racial covenants were drafted beginning in the early 1900s, but appeared on property deeds until the 1950s. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited this type of discrimination, but the existence of historic property restrictions helps to illustrate how racial segregation grew and impacted Ramsey County.
Most property owners have no idea these covenants are included on their deeds.
Using public records, the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice project, in collaboration with Welcoming the Dear Neighbor? at St. Catherine’s University, has identified more than 2,000 properties in Ramsey County with racial covenants.
Does your home have a racial covenant? Click on a pin below for more details:
The Ramsey County tally is believed to be an undercount because many deeds are handwritten and illegible. Here’s a breakdown of how many racial covenants Mapping Prejudice found by city: | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/15/map-of-ramsey-county-properties-with-racial-covenants-on-the-deed/ | 2022-06-16 00:42:36 | 0 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/15/map-of-ramsey-county-properties-with-racial-covenants-on-the-deed/ |
With Five New IMAX with Laser Systems, Cineworld Now Plans to Upgrade or Open a Total of 52 IMAX Systems across its Worldwide Footprint by 2026
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cineworld and IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced an expansion of their longstanding partnership, under which 52 IMAX locations across Cineworld's worldwide footprint will be upgraded or opened by 2026. Cineworld and IMAX had previously contracted for 47 new or upgraded IMAX® systems and under the new agreement will add an additional five new IMAX with Laser systems across the UK and Europe. Under the agreement, Cineworld Leicester Square in London, Regal Irvine Spectrum in California, and Regal UA Sheepshead Bay in New York City will all feature IMAX with Laser.
"Cineworld has always been visionary and unyielding in its drive to offer the best possible moviegoing experience, and this agreement signals the company's desire to serve its fans into the future and meet the growing consumer demand for IMAX around the world," said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. "Mooky, Renana and their teams continue to be excellent partners to us at IMAX and we look forward to further building on our many years of success together."
"The ongoing, outstanding success of the Blockbuster movies in IMAX proves the importance customers give to high quality, and this only got stronger after COVID," said Mooky Greidinger, CEO of Cineworld. "Our partnership with IMAX goes back many years, since the days of the 70mm, through Digital and now Laser. We believe that IMAX's commitment to being the best quality in the world for the moviegoer is second to none and we are proud to continue and offer our customer the IMAX experience in more and more locations around the world."
Cineworld currently operates the most IMAX locations in Europe, and the two companies enjoy a longstanding partnership spanning nearly twenty-five years. Cineworld was among the first global exhibitors to launch IMAX with Laser, striking an agreement in 2018 to install 55 systems in, and a subsequent agreement in 2019 to install an additional 15 systems.
IMAX with Laser is IMAX's most advanced theatre experience, developed from the ground-up to be immersive by design and deliver crystal clear, lifelike images and precision audio for a moviegoing experience unlike anything else. It is unmatched with by a groundbreaking 4K laser projection system that features a new optical engine, custom designed lenses, and a suite of proprietary technology that delivers brighter images with increased resolution, deeper contrast, and the widest range of colors exclusively to IMAX screens.
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A Brazilian man reportedly survived 11 days in the Atlantic Ocean last month, taking refuge inside a freezer after his boat sank, according to CNN affiliate Record TV.
The man, Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues, is a fisherman. During a fishing trip in early August that was supposed to last three days, cracks in his boat started filling with water, sinking the vessel off the coast of northern Brazil. He was able to jump inside the floating cooler to stay alive, and a group of fishermen found him 11 days later off the coast of Suriname.
According to Record TV he was treated at a hospital in Suriname and detained by authorities for a few days because he didn't have proper documentation. Now's he's back in Brazil. "I was born again. I thought I wouldn't be telling this story, but I'm back here," he added.
"I was desperate. I thought my end was coming. But thanks God, God gave me one more chance," Rodrigues told Record TV. "I saw [the freezer] wasn't sinking. I jumped [inside it]. It fell to one side and kept normal."
The fisherman says he doesn't know how to swim.
"Sharks were surrounding the freezer, but they went away. I thought (I would be attacked). I stayed on the top (of the freezer), I didn't sleep, I didn't sleep. I saw the dawn, the dusk, asking God to send someone to rescue me." Eventually water started to creep inside the freezer, and he says he used his hand to scoop it out. He didn't have food or water.
"I was thinking about my kids, my wife. Every day I was thinking about my mother, my father, all my family. It gave me strength and hope ... but at the moment I thought there was no other way," he told Record TV.
When the fishermen arrived, he said: "I heard a noise, and there was a boat on top of the freezer. Only they thought there was no one there. Then they slowly pulled over, my vision was already fading, then I said, 'My God, the boat.' I raised my arms and asked for help." Rodrigues was thankful to survive.
"That freezer was God in my life. The only thing I had was the freezer. It was a miracle."
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After off-screen drama threatened to consume Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” the Warner Bros. release opened No. 1 at the box office, debuting with $19.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, “Don’t Worry Darling” was engulfed by a storm of controversies that revolved around everything from Pugh’s allegedly strained relationship with Wilde to whether Styles might have even spit on co-star Chris Pine at the film’s Venice Film Festival premiere. (Styles denied it.) The movie, too, was torched by critics (38% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and arrived in theaters with more baggage than any recent release.
For an original film that cost $35 million to make, a $19.2 million launch was solid — and slightly more than the studio had forecast. A large number of moviegoers — including plenty of Styles fans — turned up to see what all the fuss was about.
But the release of “Don’t Worry Darling,” playing in 4,113 theaters, was also no home run. Audiences gave it a B- CinemaScore, and ticket buyers fell off on Saturday after more promising results on Thursday and Friday. Warner Bros. said the audience was 66% female. The film added $10.8 million internationally.
Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros., estimated that “the background noise had a neutral impact.” The studio, he said, was “pleased with these results given our modest production budget.”
The audience scores and tapering-off ticket sales suggest “Don’t Worry Darling” may struggle to hold well in the coming weeks. But its good-enough debut means that Wilde’s film didn’t turn into the complete fiasco that some pegged it to be.
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, said that, ultimately, bad publicity was good publicity for Wilde’s follow-up to her directorial debut, the 2019 teen comedy “Booksmart.”
“The latest from Olivia Wilde benefited from the heightened awareness and mainstream press coverage that made ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ the virtual water cooler film of the moment and raised its FOMO factor to even greater heights and this paid big dividends at the box office,” said Dergarabedian.
Last week’s top film, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s African epic “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis, slid to second place with $11.1 million in its second weekend of release. That was a modest 42% dip for the Sony Pictures release, a sign of resiliency for the acclaimed action drama.
Third place went to a familiar box-office force. The Walt Disney Co.’ rerelease of James Cameron’s “Avatar” grossed $10 million domestically and $20.5 million internationally, 13 years after its initial run in theaters. Cameron’s remastered “Avatar,” playing in 1,860 theaters, was again especially popular in 3-D, which accounted for a whopping 93% of its domestic sales. A prelude to the upcoming December release of the long-awaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the rerelease further pads the all-time worldwide box office record for “Avatar,” which now surpasses $2.85 billion.
Holding well in fourth place was “Barbarian,” the Airbnb thriller from Disney and 20th Century Studios. In its third weekend of release, the film added 550 theaters and fell just 26% from the weekend prior. “Barbarian” has thus far grossed $28.4 million against a $4 million budget.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Don’t Worry Darling,” $19.2 million.
2. “The Woman King,” $11.1 million.
3. “Avatar,” $10 million.
4. “Barbarian,” $4.8 million.
5. “Pearl,” $1.9 million.
6. “See How They Run,” $1.9 million.
7. “Bullet Train,” $1.8 million.
8. “DC League of Super Pets,” $1.8 million.
9. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $1.6 million.
10. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $1 million.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — LeBron James’ injury hasn’t changed the Los Angeles Lakers’ goal of reaching the postseason.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham said Tuesday that James is still going through medical evaluations before the team makes a decision on how long the NBA’s career scoring leader may be unavailable after injuring his right foot Sunday in a victory over Dallas.
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Lauri Black, MS, CGC, was recently appointed as the program's Director of Genetic Services. A licensed, certified genetic counselor specializing in reproductive medicine, Black's expertise includes preimplantation genetic testing, male factor infertility genetics, fertility patient and gamete donor genetic risk assessment, and prenatal testing.
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About The Prelude Network®
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HOUSTON (AP) — A chemical company was ordered to pay $16 million and sentenced to two years of probation for its role in a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area plant nearly a decade ago, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
The employees at the now-closed DuPont chemical plant in LaPorte, Texas, died in November 2014 when a chemical used in the manufacturing of insecticide and fungicide, methyl mercaptan, was released.
U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani, who is based in Houston, said the deaths were the result of “DuPont’s criminal negligence.”
“The sentence imposed today sends a clear message of my office’s dedication to holding managers at industrial facilities, and the corporations that own and operate those facilities, accountable for violations of … laws meant to protect the safety of workers and nearby communities,” Hamdani said.
During a court hearing Monday, DuPont, along with Kenneth Sandel, who ran the unit at the plant where the employees who died worked, each pleaded guilty to one count of a negligent release of an extremely hazardous substance.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal ordered DuPont to serve the two years of probation, which means that federal officials will have full access to all of the company’s operating locations. DuPont was also ordered to pay a $12 million criminal penalty and make a $4 million community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Sandel was ordered to serve one year of probation.
In a statement, Corteva, a spinoff from DuPont that took over its agricultural operations, said it “deeply regrets” the deadly gas leak.
“We are committed to the highest safety standards, and safety is a core value,” Indianapolis-based Corteva said in a statement.
In a final report released in 2019 on the deadly gas leak, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board concluded that various safety management system deficiencies, including problems with troubleshooting operations, safe work practices and toxic gas detection contributed to the severity of the incident.
Attorneys for Sandel, 52, did not immediately return emails seeking comment. In court documents, federal prosecutors had requested Sandel be sentenced to eight months in prison.
The chemical began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2014, in a unit at the plant in La Porte, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Houston. Crystle Wise, Wade Baker and brothers Robert and Gilbert Tisnado were killed. A fifth worker was injured.
Sandel and DuPont engineers allegedly devised a plan to divert a large volume of methyl mercaptan gas into a waste gas pipe system during the day before and night of the fatal incident, according to prosecutors and an indictment. However, Sandel failed to implement necessary procedures to evaluate safety aspects of that plan, according to prosecutors.
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In 2016, DuPont permanently shut down the insecticide production plant where the workers died.
Brent Coon, an attorney who represented Wise’s family, said jail time for executives would be more effective in preventing similar tragedies. DuPont settled lawsuits filed by Wise’s family and the families of the other workers who were killed.
“It remains to the general public to believe whether or not … probation is fair criminal punishment for somebody whose decision led to several highly avoidable and painful deaths,” Coon said. ___ Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/dupont-ordered-to-pay-16m-in-texas-plant-leak-that-killed-4/ | 2023-04-25 17:31:50 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/dupont-ordered-to-pay-16m-in-texas-plant-leak-that-killed-4/ |
The mayor of tiny Rufus, Oregon, faces accusations of attempted murder after an alleged road-rage incident near Parkdale on Halloween.
Dowen Jones, who won election in 2018 with 76 votes, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly shooting at a family on Oregon 281.
The family of four – including two children, ages 5 and 8 – was driving south on the highway behind an SUV that was “driving erratically” around 8:43 p.m. Monday, a press release Tuesday from the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said. The SUV pulled over at the 6000 block of Oregon 281.
As the family slowed down to get a closer look at the driver, the man stepped out of the passenger side and fired multiple shots from a handgun, the press release said.
The gunfire damaged the car, but no one was injured.
Investigators identified Jones, 47, as the alleged shooter. They arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder and four counts of first-degree attempted assault. He was booked into Northern Oregon Regional Corrections facility on Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said.
Scott Holliday, president of the Rufus City Council, said Jones is an electrician who sometimes attends the Baptist church where Holliday is the pastor.
“I think the world of him, and so do a lot of people,” Holliday said.
Jones, also a photographer, is not running for re-election. Rufus has a population of 270 people, according to the website for Sherman County. It is along the Columbia River Gorge, 100 miles east of Portland and 100 miles west of Pendleton.
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"Quizlet is entering a pivotal era of growth," said Glotzbach. "Lex brings the right mix of experience, advocacy and entrepreneurial spirit to further our work to empower students around the globe in every stage of their learning journey."
A seasoned founder and CEO with a proven track record of building products and scaling global organizations, Bayer brings a unique perspective that will be key in leading the team and accelerating future global growth. Bayer was most recently CEO of Starship Technologies and before that served as Group Head at Airbnb, where he had oversight of business development, payments and Airbnb for Work.
"I had the privilege of leading the search for Quizlet's new CEO after Matt decided to step down," said Shannon Brayton, Quizlet board member. "It was difficult to find someone to replace Matt and all the positives he brought to the role, but after a robust search, we're confident that Lex is that person. He impressed the board with his entrepreneurialism, his understanding of the Quizlet business, and his deep analytical skills, and we're excited to see what he can bring to students in this next chapter of the company's history."
"Under Matt's leadership Quizlet has grown into a global business and brand that is both recognized and beloved by Gen Z," said Bayer. "I look forward to waking up every day focused on helping millions more students learn and achieve better educational outcomes with the support of personalized and adaptive learning technologies."
Bayer is a resident of the Bay Area and will be based out of Quizlet's headquarters in San Francisco.
Quizlet is a global learning platform that provides engaging study tools to help people practice and master whatever they are learning. Every month, over 60 million students, teachers and everyday people use Quizlet to study any subject imaginable for school, work or as part of their personal interests -- including 2 in 3 high school students and 1 in 2 college students in the US. Combining cognitive science and machine learning, Quizlet guides students through adaptive study activities to confidently reach their learning goals. The company offers a combination of free and paid subscriptions for both students and teachers that enable further customization. Quizlet is headquartered in
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DENVER (AP) _ SSR Mining Inc. (SSRM) on Tuesday reported a loss of $25.8 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Denver-based company said it had a loss of 12 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 7 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 5 cents per share.
The precious metals mining company posted revenue of $166.6 million in the period.
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Just in time for Christmas in July!
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From furniture to seasonal decor, housewares to gifts, food and drinks to paper and party goods–your Christmas Tree Shops store has it all to help celebrate both special occasions and everyday living at a great value! Whether you're searching for the best deals on holiday decorations, trend-right home decor, gourmet treats, party supplies or great gifts…you'll be thrilled to discover all this and more at your store. Find big bargains on all your favorite things…its Christmas savings in July!
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New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids
(AP) - Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.
The longstanding practice of “watchful waiting,” or delaying treatment to see whether children and teens outgrow or overcome obesity on their own only worsens the problem that affects more than 14.4 million young people in the U.S. Left untreated, obesity can lead to lifelong health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and depression.
“Waiting doesn’t work,” said Dr. Ihuoma Eneli, co-author of the first guidance on childhood obesity in 15 years from the American Academy of Pediatrics. “What we see is a continuation of weight gain and the likelihood that they’ll have (obesity) in adulthood.”
For the first time, the group’s guidance sets ages at which kids and teens should be offered medical treatments such as drugs and surgery -- in addition to intensive diet, exercise and other behavior and lifestyle interventions, said Eneli, director of the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
In general, doctors should offer adolescents 12 and older who have obesity access to appropriate drugs and teens 13 and older with severe obesity referrals for weight-loss surgery, though situations may vary.
The guidelines aim to reset the inaccurate view of obesity as “a personal problem, maybe a failure of the person’s diligence,” said Dr. Sandra Hassink, medical director for the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood weight, and a co-author of the guidelines.
“This is not different than you have asthma and now we have an inhaler for you,” Hassink said.
Young people who have a body mass index that meets or exceeds the 95th percentile for kids of the same age and gender are considered obese. Kids who reach or exceed the 120th percentile are considered to have severe obesity. BMI is a measure of body size based on a calculation of height and weight.
Obesity affects nearly 20% of kids and teens in the U.S. and about 42% of adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The group’s guidance takes into consideration that obesity is a biological problem and that the condition is a complex, chronic disease, said Aaron Kelly, co-director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
“Obesity is not a lifestyle problem. It is not a lifestyle disease,” he said. “It predominately emerges from biological factors.”
The guidelines come as new drug treatments for obesity in kids have emerged, including approval late last month of Wegovy, a weekly injection, for use in children ages 12 and older. Different doses of the drug, called semaglutide, are also used under different names to treat diabetes. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk, helped teens reduce their BMI by about 16% on average, better than the results in adults.
Within days of the Dec. 23 authorization, pediatrician Dr. Claudia Fox had prescribed the drug for one of her patients, a 12-year-old girl.
“What it offers patients is the possibility of even having an almost normal body mass index,” said Fox, also a weight management specialist at the University of Minnesota. “It’s like a whole different level of improvement.”
The drug affects how the pathways between the brain and the gut regulate energy, said Dr. Justin Ryder, an obesity researcher at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
“It works on how your brain and stomach communicate with one another and helps you feel more full than you would be,” he said.
Still, specific doses of semaglutide and other anti-obesity drugs have been hard to get because of recent shortages caused by manufacturing problems and high demand, spurred in part by celebrities on TikTok and other social media platforms boasting about enhanced weight loss.
In addition, many insurers won’t pay for the medication, which costs about $1,300 a month.
“I sent the prescription yesterday,” Fox said. “I’m not holding my breath that insurance will cover it.”
One expert in pediatric obesity cautioned that while kids with obesity must be treated early and intensively, he worries that some doctors may turn too quickly to drugs or surgery.
“It’s not that I’m against the medications,” said Dr. Robert Lustig, a longtime specialist in pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. “I’m against the willy-nilly use of those medications without addressing the cause of the problem.”
Lustig said children must be evaluated individually to understand all of the factors that contribute to obesity. He has long blamed too much sugar for the rise in obesity. He urges a sharp focus on diet, particularly ultraprocessed foods that are high in sugar and low in fiber.
Dr. Stephanie Byrne, a pediatrician at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said she’d like more research about the drug’s efficacy in a more diverse group of children and about potential long-term effects before she begins prescribing it regularly.
“I would want to see it be used on a little more consistent basis,” she said. “And I would have to have that patient come in pretty frequently to be monitored.”
At the same time, she welcomed the group’s new emphasis on prompt, intensive treatment for obesity in kids.
“I definitely think this is a realization that diet and exercise is not going to do it for a number of teens who are struggling with this – maybe the majority,” she said.
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PINE BROOK, N.J. (WXIN) – More than 3 million animal figure toys are being recalled after two children died after playing with them.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves all Calico Critters Animal Figures and Sets sold with bottle and pacifier accessories at Walmart, Meijer, and other stores. The toys were sold nationwide and online from January 2000 through December 2021.
The recall was initiated after Epoch Everlasting Play LLC learned about three incidents, including two deaths, involving the pacifier accessory. One fatality involved a 9-month-old Japanese child in 2015, while another happened in New Mexico in 2018.
According to a SaferProducts.gov report, the New Mexico case involved a 2-year-old girl who initially was thought to have choked on a piece of food. However, during an autopsy, the pacifier accessory was found in the child’s bronchus. The toy was part of the Yellow Labrador Twins set within the toy line.
The recalled figures have the following item numbers printed on the bottom of the packaging. The bottle accessories were sold in yellow, pink, blue and orange colors. The CPSC said one style of the bottle has two yellow handles. The pacifier accessories were sold in yellow, orange, pink, dark pink, blue and teal colors.
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The Loren brand introduces its debut US property, bringing new meaning to Austin hospitality with destination restaurant Nido and Milk + Honey spa
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The much-anticipated, The Loren at Lady Bird Lake in Austin is now open and is the first U.S. hotel for The Loren Hotels and Residences brand. Featuring 108 well-appointed guest rooms and suites, all with lake and city views, The Loren at Lady Bird welcomes guests to a greenhouse in the park, complete with destination restaurant Nido, milk + honey spa, 24-7 access fitness center, rooftop terrace with infinity pool and signature event space with 180-degree views. Ideally-located in close proximity to downtown Austin, guests can easily explore the city via the pedestrian bridge across the street from the hotel or complimentary e-bikes available upon request. The Loren at Lady Bird Lake joins the brand's flagship property, The Loren at Pink Beach in Bermuda, which opened in 2017.
"We are thrilled to introduce the lively city of Austin to The Loren brand with the opening of The Loren at Lady Bird Lake. The beautification of every day living sits at our core and every design detail has been inspired by our lakefront location with the skyline in the background," says Stephen King, CEO & Founder of The Loren Hotels. "This marks our first property in the US and we know both domestic and international travelers seek elevated hotel stays in locations that organically deliver stellar viewpoints paired with attentive services, amenities and thoughtful design."
The Loren brand worked with a number of talented advisors to bring their vision for The Loren at Lady Bird Lake to life in the Austin including Rhode Partners, Drenner Group, Hoar Construction and Fleur-de-lis Interior design. The Loren at Lady Bird Lake's modern accommodations, impeccable service, and exclusive amenities are the perfect counterpart to the indoor-outdoor environment surrounding Austin's iconic Lady Bird Lake. Elegant king accommodations offer generous spaces with sophisticated modern furnishings and expansive views through floor-to-ceiling windows. Luxurious bathrooms feature natural stone, walk-in spa showers, plush bathrobes, SFERRA towels, and Malin+Goetz products. Rooms at The Loren at Lady Bird Lake also include a fully stocked gourmet minibar featuring thoughtfully-sourced selections from snacks to bourbon and wine. Expansive One and Two-Bedroom Suites feature panoramic, uninterrupted views of Lady Bird Lake to the north and feature a comfortable seating area, perfect for relaxing and taking in the natural surroundings. The Loren Suite and Premier Suite offer balconies with views of choice - from Lady Bird Lake, and Downtown Austin to Texas Hill Country. In-room dining is available for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Guests can expect masterful services and amenities including signature restaurant, Nido, a new restaurant concept that brings the rugged charm of the area surroundings together with the culinary techniques of coastal Europe, all perched above Lady Bird Lake and the energetic cityscape. Diners will feel welcomed to a moody escape, eight floors up, as Nido offers a simple, approachable, and elegant dining experience with an ingredient-first mentality led by Executive Chef Brad McDonald. Outdoor lounge seating is available overlooking Lady Bird Lake. Nido is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As a tranquil destination hotel, The Loren at Lady Bird Lake is also home to milk + honey Spa. The 5,000 square-foot, world-class space offers a full range of all-natural spa and medspa treatments with ten treatment rooms, steam showers, a lounge area, and the amenities rooted in a philosophy focused on healing, wellness and relaxation. A rooftop terrace with infinity pool offers guests an ideal spot to enjoy a full-service poolside experience including food and drinks and a 24-7 fitness center is located on the 7th floor.
Guests ready to book their next trip to Austin and stay at The Loren at Lady Bird Lake can explore a variety of offers and experiences including a limited-time, third night complimentary package.
For more information and to book a stay, please visit: The Loren Hotel at Lady Bird Lake - Luxury Hotel (thelorenhotels.com) and follow @thelorenhotels on Instagram to stay up to date on the latest happenings and offers.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine began resuming electricity exports to European countries on Tuesday, its energy minister said, a dramatic turnaround from six months ago when fierce Russian bombardment of power stations plunged much of the country into darkness in a bid to demoralize the population.
The announcement by Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko that Ukraine was not only meeting domestic consumption demands but also ready to restart exports to its neighbors was a clear message that Moscow’s attempt to weaken Ukraine by targeting its infrastructure did not work.
Ukraine’s domestic energy demand is “100%” supplied, he told The Associated Press in an interview, and it has reserves to export due to the “titanic work” of its engineers and international partners.
Russia ramped up infrastructure attacks in September, when waves of missiles and exploding drones destroyed about half of Ukraine’s energy system. Power cuts were common across the country as temperatures dropped below freezing and tens of millions struggled to keep warm.
Moscow said the strikes were aimed at weakening Ukraine’s ability to defend itself, while Western officials said the blackouts that caused civilians to suffer amounted to war crimes. Ukrainians said the timing was designed to destroy their morale as the war marked its first anniversary.
Ukraine had to stop exporting electricity in October to meet domestic needs.
Engineers worked around the clock, often risking their lives to come into work at power plants and keep the electricity flowing. Kyiv’s allies also provided help. In December, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $53 million in bilateral aid to help the country acquire electricity grid equipment, on top of $55 million for energy sector support.
Much more work remains to be done, Halushchenko said. Ukraine needs funding to repair damaged generation and transmission lines, and revenue from electricity exports would be one way to do that.
The first country to receive Ukraine’s energy exports will be Moldova, he said.
Besides the heroic work by engineers and Western aid, warmer temperatures are enabling the resumption of exports by making domestic demand lower. Nationwide consumption was already down at least 30% due to the war, Halushchenko said, with many industries having to operate with less power.
Renewables like solar and wind power also come into play as temperatures rise, taking some pressure off nuclear and coal-fired power plants.
But it’s unclear if Ukraine can keep up exports amid the constant threat of Russian bombardment.
“Unfortunately now a lot of things depend on the war,” Halushchenko said. “I would say we feel quite confident now until the next winter.”
Exports to Poland, Slovakia and Romania are also on schedule to resume, he said.
“Today we are starting with Moldova, and we are talking about Poland, we are talking about Slovakia and Romania,” Halushchenko added, noting that how much will depend on their needs.
“For Poland, we have only one line that allows us to export 200 megawatts, but I think this month we will finish another line which will increase this to an additional 400 MW, so these figures could change,” he said.
Export revenue will depend on fluctuating electricity prices in Europe. In 2022, while Ukraine was still able to export energy, Ukrainian companies averaged 40 million to 70 million euros a month depending on prices, Halushchenko said.
“Even if it’s 20 (million euros) it’s still good money. We need financial resources now to restore generation and transmission lines,” he said.
Ukraine has the ability to export more than the 400 megawatt capacity limit imposed by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E. “We are in negotiations to increase this cap because today we can export even more, we have the necessary reserves in the system,” the minister said.
The current capacity limit is in line with what Ukraine was exporting in September 2022 before Ukraine diverted resources to meet domestic needs amid the Russian onslaught.
The 400-megawatt capacity is “only a start” as Ukraine pursues a long-term goal of becoming “truly integrated” into Europe’s network, which would increase its security of supply and help its neighbors exchange electricity, according to Georg Zachmann, energy policy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
At a price of 100 euros per megawatt hour, the monthly income stream for Ukraine would at most reach 30 million euros.
As capacity increases, however, concerns will move from supply to commerce and politics due to Ukraine’s coal-fired plants paying almost nothing for carbon emissions, while EU competitors pay 100 euros per ton.
Halushchenko wants to increase the maximum technical capacity to 2 gigawatts. At the very least, he would like exports to meet the country’s import restriction of 850 megawatts, he said. ENTSO-E represents 39 electricity transmission system operators from 35 countries across Europe.
Ukraine began trading electricity with European countries in June, in a bid to move away from Russia’s sphere of influence. Power lines were synchronized in March 2022, shortly after the war began.
Engineers sped up the process to link Ukraine to the continental grid, allowing it to decouple its power system from Russia. Moldova was added later. Before that, Ukraine and Moldova were part of a power sharing system that included Russia and Belarus.
The resumption of exports is an obvious win for Ukraine, but it also benefits Europe, according to energy analyst Olena Pavlenko of the Kyiv-based think tank Dixie Group.
“European consumers need this, it increases competition in the (European) market, lowers prices and feels more energy secure,” she said.
“For Ukraine this is a solution to not just take money in grants and credit but to earn money. This is a good start for the future operation and partnership with the EU, as a business partner,” she added.
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David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed.
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RICHWOOD, La. (KTVE/KARD) – The Richwood Board of Aldermen took a vote, but failed to pass the town’s budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year during Thursday, November 17th meeting.
The budget was expected to be adopted before the first of July, which starts at the beginning of the fiscal year.
State law requires municipalities to pass a budget during that time. Members of the community were there and expressed their concerns about the future of the town.
Mayor Gerald Brown says he’s disappointed with the board’s decision.
“The Legislative Auditor’s Office has been in communication with us about how things are going and, so they are aware. At any given point they can come in and invoke what the Lawrason Act has to say, ‘hey you can’t spend that 50% of the last adopted budget. You can effectively shut the town down.’”
Wilbert Reed, one of the aldermen who cast a “no” vote, says why he didn’t support the budget.
“The administration needs to understand that we have a job to do as aldermen. Our job is to protect the citizens and the money of the town, and we are going to do that regardless. Until we start meeting halfway on these issues, we are going to have some problems with growing pains.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee secretary of state is encouraging victims of human trafficking, stalking, domestic abuse or any sexual offense to protect their addresses from public disclosure under a free state program.
Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s office says the Safe at Home address confidentiality program provides approved applicants a substitute address that can be used for voter registration, government services such as a driver’s license, access to assistance programs, and other legal needs.
The address can be used by anyone in that household. Safe at Home applicants can complete an application with a partner agency listed at SafeAtHomeTN.com. They can also call 615-253-3043 to find a partner agency.
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Midway through Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy's new graphic novel, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem, the viewer is confronted with a harrowing scene.
The protagonist, a young Afro-Caribbean immigrant named Stephanie Saint Clair, is on a bus traveling South from New York City to escape an abusive relationship — when the Ku Klux Klan stops the vehicle. After ordering Saint Clair and all other Black passengers off the bus, the Klan violently assaults them.
This was the first scene that New York-based artist Colomba drew and presented to publishers after she and Lévy, her longtime Paris-based collaborator, began scripting the project three years ago.
"It's a pivotal moment in her life," Colomba said. "She could have been killed easily, and I'm sure they left her for dead. ... And so it's almost like the Phoenix, it's almost a miracle. There's something so powerful to transcend that."
From the proverbial ashes of this moment, Stephanie Saint Clair, who also went by "Queenie," fashioned a new persona, one she would use while running the numbers game — the illegal lottery — during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in 1933, in the wake of Prohibition ending, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells her story, which has largely been forgotten until now. Unfolding like a mob thriller, and interspersed with flashbacks to Saint Clair's childhood, the book follows her battle to retain her empire as rival gangs muscle in on her numbers racket.
Colomba and writer Aurélie Lévy did intensive research into Saint Clair's life and the time period in which she lived. But they acknowledge that there were some details they had to fill in. For instance, historians disagree on whether Saint Clair was born in the French Caribbean island of Martinique or Guadeloupe. And it's unclear if she did in fact encounter the Klan. But incorporating that scene allowed the authors to explore the racial dynamics of the time that Saint Clair — who spoke English with a French accent — was up against, as well as her character's naïveté around being a Black woman in America.
"Because she's from Martinique... she thinks she can get away with things. She thinks that she's not going to be seen as an African-American, but as either a French person or as somebody who is from the Caribbean," Colomba said, likening the character's encounter with American racism to a culture shock.
Though Colomba and Lévy included many real figures — including Saint Clair's protégé Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson and rival mobsters Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano — others are fictional and intended to chip away at different layers of Saint Clair's experience and frame of mind. For example, Lévy and Colomba invented a white Jewish male character named Rosenfeld, who acts as a father-figure to Saint Clair and fronts her business. Lévy explained that this was necessary because, as a Black woman, Saint Clair would likely not have been able to make her own investments.
"We felt a huge responsibility," Lévy said, reflecting on the writing process. "[Her story is] very dense historically. And then we had to find out as much as we could about her and then invent the rest," she said. "It was both a blessing and a curse to have those gaps."
A curse because Saint Clair also carefully controlled her own narrative, so it's impossible to know what is true and what may be embellished. A blessing because Queenie was a larger-than-life gangster and fashion icon.
In 1912, Saint Clair boarded a ship for New York City. By the 1920s, Saint Clair had established her numbers racket in Harlem, and within a few years, she was earning an estimated $200,000 a year, or $3.5 million today.
As her empire and fortune grew, Saint Clair crafted a persona of wealth and power through advertisements she purchased in The New York Amsterdam News, a widely-circulated Black newspaper. The ads featured photographs of Saint Clair in fine clothing and jewelry.
"It was propaganda," Lévy said. "You had to be pretty smart to understand the power of image."
But Saint Clair also used the ads to advocate for Harlem's poor and Black residents. They included mini opinion pieces where she called out police brutality and corruption — often by name — and denounced unlawful searches. In this way, she helped educate her community on their civil and voting rights. Her business was also lucrative because Black people at the time were largely excluded from participating in legal forms of investing. Banks often refused to serve Black people and denied them loans. As a result, many saw the illegal lottery game as one of the few avenues for building wealth.
"I think what blew us away about her was how forward-thinking, precocious and visionary she was," Lévy said. "And whatever she left you, she deliberately left. I think she was very careful about that."
The graphic novel portrays Stephanie Saint Clair as a savvy, brilliant woman with an unusual knack for numbers, and depicts her transformation from precocious child longing to escape plantation life in Martinique into a woman who is at once ruthless and tender.
Lévy and Colomba said they wanted to avoid the pitfalls of the biopic as they told Saint Clair's story. Both were well aware of the burden of representation that often accompanies Black characters who are the first of their kind.
"Unfortunately, when we encounter figures that are people of color, there's a tendency to simplify and to make them reassuring. They either have to be really bad or really good. And it doesn't make them human," Colomba said. "I think by creating a layered character, it humanizes [Saint Clair]. Being complex is just being human."
"And I think nothing testifies more of how hard times were than who you had to be to survive as a woman and all the more as a Black woman. So there's no way she could have been [one-dimensional]," said Lévy.
Colomba said she first learned about Saint Clair through her mother, Lucíanne, a former school teacher and immigrant from Martinique who taught her children about their Caribbean roots, history and heroes.
"My mother was always [making] a point to introduce us to figures from the Caribbean ... who have some power in culture and who she felt [were] important for us to know," Colomba said. "She always wanted for us to know more about our culture."
The moment Colomba learned about Saint Clair, she was immediately captivated and wanted to know more, to understand how Queenie became the person she was.
"When you are born in Martinique and just before the 20th century, your choices in life are slim. And it takes an incredible mind or tenacity to think that you deserve more. And for [Saint Clair], she decided at a very young age... to envision something bigger," Colomba said.
And she and Lévy hope that Queenie's story will resonate with others, too.
"There is something quite inspiring about someone who is so tenacious and decides that the box she was put in is not going to contain her," Colomba said.
"She rewrote her own story. That's how I like to imagine her: as someone who controls the narrative," echoed Lévy.
Edited by Mallory Yu
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A Chicago White Sox fan walked up to the mic during a session with players at the 2001 SoxFest and posed a simple question to pitcher Kip Wells.
“What are you going to do about those walks?” he asked. “It’s driven me to drink.”
It was a typical SoxFest moment, and Wells didn’t take it personally.
“I know,” Wells replied with a sheepish grin. “I’m the one out there walking them.”
SoxFest tends to be a little edgier than its counterpart, the Cubs Convention, with blunter questions and some heated back-and-forth between fans and management. When executive vice president Ken Williams was general manager, you could see the steam rising from the top of his head. Sox fans don’t mince words.
Due to reasons unexplained, the organization opted not to hold SoxFest this winter, a decision that has created a tremendous amount of backlash on Twitter and the internet, especially after the Cubs held their convention last weekend.
It was understandable SoxFest was canceled in 2021 and ‘22 because of the pandemic, but several teams, including the Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox, resumed their fan fests this month. Were the Sox trying to avoid the wrath of fans, or was there another reason for the decision?
It doesn’t matter now. What’s done is done. And with a little more than three weeks before spring training begins in Glendale, Ariz., the Sox desperately need some help getting fans excited about what’s in store for the 2023 season.
Fortunately, we’re here to help.
Here are 10 things to look forward to in 2023.
1. It couldn’t get any worse
This goes without saying. The Sox were overconfident heading into 2022, from upper management to the players, but spent most of the season trying to get to .500. Injuries were a part of the struggles, but underperforming stars such as Yasmani Grandal, Yoán Moncada and Lucas Giolito also factored into the mess. Motivation should be no problem in ‘23.
2. Pedro Grifol is not Tony La Russa
SoxFest would’ve been the perfect time to get to know the new manager. Oh, well. At first glance, Grifol seems like the perfect antidote to La Russa, and he’ll get a chance to show what he’s all about in spring training. Every new manager deserves a honeymoon period. How long it lasts for Grifol will depend on how the Sox start the season.
3. The chip on Dylan Cease’s shoulder
After being left off the American League All-Star team last summer, the team’s poet laureate used the snub for motivation. “Just trying to win is enough motivation for me,” he said after returning from the break. “But I’ll take any chip on my shoulder I can get.” The chip worked, and Cease finished second in AL Cy Young voting. It’s going to be hard to ignore Cease this time if he continues dominating hitters as he did in ‘22, but the chip should remain.
4. Andrew Vaughn is out of the outfield
Vaughn tried his best, but with a minus-14 in defensive runs saved, he ranked as the second-worst defensive outfielder in the American League behind the Seattle Mariners’ Jesse Winker (minus-16). With José Abreu gone, Vaughn will return to his natural position at first, with slick-fielding Andrew Benintendi playing left and Eloy Jimenez becoming the primary designated hitter. Sox pitchers should benefit from the switch.
5. Tim Anderson is healthy again
After surgery in early August to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand, Anderson was slated to return for the final weeks of the season. He never made it back but should be fully healed and ready to return to his first-half form. Anderson has two seasons before free agency. But after seeing how much Trea Turner, Carlos Correa, Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson were paid this winter, he should be primed to improve defensively — and to stay on the field.
6. Garrett Crochet eventually will return
When the left-hander will be added to the Sox bullpen is unknown. After Crochet missed 2022 following Tommy John surgery, the Sox figure to start him in Triple A and control his workload. But his importance is magnified with closer Liam Hendriks battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and the Sox will need Crochet in the second half for a postseason run.
7. ‘Hi, Mom!’ Talking Bobblehead Day
The coveted Eloy Jiménez talking bobblehead will go to the first 20,000 fans to show up May 13 against the Houston Astros. Eloy’s mom is not included.
8. Reaction to Joe Kelly’s book
After a dismal start to his Sox career, Kelly finished with a 1.13 ERA in his final nine appearances, showing signs of his old self. With the release this spring of his new book, “A Damn Near Perfect Game,” Kelly will be in the spotlight everywhere he goes, just as he prefers, after ripping Carlos Correa, Josh Donaldson, the Astros and others. Now he has no choice but to pitch well this season.
9. Two new bars in the upper deck
The Sox are opening two upper-deck drinking spots they’re calling “View Bars” in Sections 516 and 548. The team released two photos of the bars, which will be available to all fans and also through group sales. Selling upper-deck tickets has been a difficult task, except for opening day and the City Series against with the Cubs, so it makes sense to try and entice fans to hike up to the 500 level.
10. Liam Hendriks’ rehab
Cease told reporters last week that the news on Hendriks was “pretty devastating” for everyone. “But it sounds like something he’ll be able to overcome, and obviously it’s much more important than baseball,” he said. “We’re all with him.” Everyone agrees that Hendriks will beat this thing. Hopefully he’ll be back on the mound soon, but even seeing a healthy Hendriks in street clothes would be an inspiring sight for Sox Nation.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Key takeaways
- As economic disruption shifts business and technology strategies, enterprises will look towards the IT lessons of the past to help shape their future.
- Report identifies advancements across six macro forces consequential to business transformation over the next 18 to24 months.
Why this matters
As enterprises continue to push the fast-forward button on emerging technology adoption amid escalating economic disruption, Deloitte's 14th annual Tech Trends report details how technology leaders are using lessons from the past to build tech-forward, future-friendly strategies, today. This year, trust is emerging as the central element across all 2023 Trends, as enterprises increasingly recognize that business outcomes are limited less by technological capability, and more by the comfort and confidence in adoption and impact.
Anchored in the three core tenets of information technology (IT) that have endured over the past 180+ years: interaction, information and computation, Tech Trends 2023 chronicles the shared march towards three convergent endgames of simplicity, intelligence and abundance.
- Interaction moves towards simplicity: While the technologies that drive human-computer interactions are becoming more complex, user experiences will continue to become simpler.
- Information evolves towards intelligence: As information systems advance, machine intelligence will become increasingly well-rounded.
- Computation towards abundance: As machines miniaturize, virtualize and decentralize, the capacity to solve seemingly intractable problems will continue unabated.
Critically, established organizations should balance today's systems as they navigate towards what's next. As such, the report chronicles emerging trends in three additional categories: The business of technology, cyber and trust, and core modernization. Taken together, these three grounding forces balance the aforementioned three pioneering forces.
Key quotes
"Tech Trends 2023 applies research, Deloitte's unique history in working with global organizations across industries, and the combination of business and technology experience to predict how enterprises navigate to what's next. Instead of betting on the future, Deloitte is helping clients build confidence in harnessing disruptive technologies to make their innovation ambitions real. Our insights for this year's report have revealed a number of truths: transformation should be business and mission led, powered by AI, fueled by technology providers big and small, with a goal to make and shape new markets. Tech Trends 2023 can help organizations nurture what we have now as we navigate to what's next, building something significant, sustainable and future-friendly for tomorrow."
– Bill Briggs, global chief technology officer and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
"Mark Twain reportedly observed that, 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.' There are clear call-backs in this year's Tech Trends to historical technology inflection points such as the GUI, the internet, and mobility. Each trend offers opportunities to test new approaches and learn and transform both technology and business models. In navigating these new pathways, we should strive to achieve a balance between our pioneering spirit and our protective mandate. Done well, we can promote the primacy of business to IT, minimize risk, maximize the value of our investments and work to build trust within our business ecosystems."
– Mike Bechtel, chief futurist and managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte Tech Trends 2023
Three enduring eternities: Pioneering and innovative, these trends center around advancements in interaction, information and computation, and focus on how trust influences enterprise risk, human-computer interaction and data integrity:
- Through the glass: Immersive internet for the enterprise: Tangible, conversational and virtual interfaces will shift beyond the screen to an immersive internet that will manifest in three ways: extended reality, including a consumer-facing metaverse experience; enterprise simulation, using digital twins of our physical assets to prototype and experiment; and augmented workforce experience – across recruiting, productivity, learning, and more. With the ability to get digital richness in the physical space, companies are trusting in the promise of an immersive internet to build lucrative business models around the unique capabilities afforded by "unlimited reality."
- Opening up to AI: Learning to trust our AI colleagues: With AI tools increasingly standardized, organizations are realizing that competitive gains will best be achieved when there is high confidence that AI is delivering the right analytics and insights. To build trust, AI algorithms must be visible, auditable and explainable, and workers must be involved in AI design and output.
- Above the clouds: Taming multicloud chaos: 10 years of heterogeneous multicloud deployments has created considerable complexity in cloud management. Enterprises are bringing simplicity and visibility through a common layer of abstraction and automation (called metacloud or supercloud). With these cross-cloud services managing operations, governance and security, organizations can take full advantage of cloud versatility, elasticity, flexibility and scalability.
Three foundational forces: These trends center on the macro forces of the business of technology, cyber and trust, and core modernization as organizations pursue what's next:
- Flexibility, the best ability: Reimagining the tech workforce: Modern engineering is at the heart of business strategy. But rather than competing to hire the same finite pool of 10x engineers, savvy organizations are creating new IT structures and roles to better align with available talent supply. By prioritizing values, cultural fit and aptitude, and trusting talent to flex their curiosity and versatility in becoming serial specialists over extant skills, this approach is resulting in an improved talent experience and business outcomes.
- In us we trust: Decentralized architectures and ecosystems: Even with market volatility surrounding cryptocurrency, the enterprise potential of blockchain and digital assets is continuing to grow. In a world of eroding trust and a proliferation of misinformation, the new approach to validating data and transactions is trustless, with a public blockchain as the system of record. As blockchain-powered "trustless ecosystems" evolve into Web3, they're becoming key to the creation and monetization of digital assets.
- Connect & extend: Mainframe modernization hits its stride: Once considered a breed bound for extinction, mainframes are enjoying a quiet renaissance. Today, enterprises are using middleware to link core systems to new-generation computing technologies such as graphics processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputers, as well as innovative user interfaces that provide promising new paths into cloud-based analytics, AI and ML. This core optimization strategy is breathing new life into legacy systems, extending the trust in and value of their computing power, data stores and functionality.
Beyond Tech Trends 2023: Widening the aperture: From InfoTech to xTech
Since 2010, Deloitte's Tech Trends team has been entrenched in researching, sense-making, and shaping how emerging technologies are transforming and disrupting businesses in new and unpredictable ways. Within this year's dialogue, several pioneering leaders drew attention to an extended set of technologies, or xTech, which to date have been separate from IT. As such, this year's report begins to explore the possibilities that may take hold as six technologies, spaceTech, bioTech, neuroTech, robotTech, climateTech and energyTech, may eventually rival IT, with the idea that these emerging disciplines represent a broad spectrum of potentially transformational business applications on the next technological horizon.
To download the full report, visit Deloitte Tech Trends 2023.
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In Istanbul, what was once routine for the winter is now a luxury By Peter Kenyon Published January 22, 2023 at 6:00 AM MST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:27 Routines of Istanbul winter life - from visits to traditional public baths to hot drinks - are getting hard to afford amid Turkey's economic crisis. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.knau.org/2023-01-22/in-istanbul-what-was-once-routine-for-the-winter-is-now-a-luxury | 2023-01-22 17:51:18 | 1 | https://www.knau.org/2023-01-22/in-istanbul-what-was-once-routine-for-the-winter-is-now-a-luxury |
News Summary:
- Integration of Sartorius' process scale multi-column chromatography with Waters' process analytical technology to provide robust analytical data for downstream biomanufacturing of mAbs, recombinant proteins, vaccines, and other biologics.
- Integrated solution to deliver vital analytical data in days, not weeks – and to reduce waste and help lower drug production costs.
- Bioprocess scientists will be able to check product quality closer to the process, saving weeks of production time.i
MILFORD, Mass. and GOETTINGEN, Germany, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC™) Process
Analysis System and the Sartorius™ Resolute® BioSMB™ multi-column chromatography platform will give bioprocess engineers access to more comprehensive analytical data for downstream batch and continuous manufacturing, improving yields while reducing waste and driving down biomanufacturing costs.
"From the beginning of our collaboration with Sartorius, we've strived to give bioprocess engineers faster and more direct access to critical quality attribute information about their drug products in the name of improving production yields and getting drugs to patients faster," said Jon Pratt, Senior Vice President, Waters Division. "Based on the positive response of customers to our collaborative efforts with upstream bioprocessing analytics, we see tremendous benefit to combining the PATROL Process Analysis System and the Sartorius BioSMB to bring timely point-of-decision analytics to downstream biomanufacturing for monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines and AAV gene therapies."
"Now that intensified, continuous manufacturing of biologics is becoming a reality, there is a greater need for real-time analytical measurement," said René Fáber, Head of Bioprocess Solutions Division, Sartorius. "The value of combining technologies from Sartorius and Waters lies in bringing fundamentally important analytics to the point where it is needed and giving bioprocess engineers a more complete understanding of their downstream manufacturing processing and its effects on drug product quality. We believe this can have significant impacts on drug production costs by helping to increase yields and reduce waste."
In-process sampling and the analysis of biological drugs sent to a central laboratory can take weeks before the results of necessary quality checks are in. Waters and Sartorius have shown how bioprocess scientists can streamline these analytics, so that product quality tests for protein A, aggregation and charge variants occur closer to the process, potentially saving weeks of production time. This has a positive impact on total process yield and product quality because the individual downstream unit operation can be further optimized much more easily, and corrective actions can be taken much faster.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Sartorius Resolute BioSMB system.
- Learn more about the Waters PATROL UPLC Process Analysis System.
- Follow and connect with Waters via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook
About Sartorius (www.Sartorius.com)
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life sciences research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services division focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions division, with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely, rapidly, and economically. The company based in Goettingen, Germany, has a strong global reach with around 60 production and sales sites worldwide. Sartorius delivers significant organic growth and regularly expands its portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2022, the company generated sales revenue of around 4.2 billion euros. At the end of 2022, around 16,000 employees were working for customers around the globe.
About Waters Corporation (www.waters.com)
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments and software, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With more than 8,200 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 14 manufacturing facilities, and with products available in more than 100 countries.
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Waters Corporation
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Sartorius
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LOS ANGELES, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Rams honored Women's History Month by hosting a series of girls' flag football clinics for local elementary, middle, and high school students. The Rams' efforts culminated with a skills and drills clinic for more than 200 elementary and middle school girls at Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles - Challengers Clubhouse on Thursday, March 30. The participants received co-branded Rams and USA Football "We Are FootbALL" t-shirts, eye black and flag belts.
The organization uplifted and empowered girls across the community during the nine clinics supported by Nike, Gatorade, and USA Football. Attendees participated in football-related drills and competitions led by women from the Los Angeles Legends Sports Organization. Immersing participants in another facet of the world of sports, Rams staff members and women in sports across the Los Angeles region joined the clinics for inspiring panel discussions.
The clinics placed a spotlight on girls' flag football in Los Angeles, raising awareness and providing access. Throughout March, the Rams hosted camps at Crenshaw High School, Estrella Elementary School, Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School, La Tijera Elementary School, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Nimitz Middle School, Junipero Serra High School, and a high school clinic at Cal Lutheran University.
Kicking off 2023, Super Bowl LVI Champion and the 2021 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Andrew Whitworth allocated his $250,000 donation, courtesy of the NFL Foundation and Nationwide, to refurbish the track at Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles - Challengers Clubhouse. With support from Cedars-Sinai and Bridgestone, the refurbishment included a new 50-yard turf field, new bleachers and updated signage to contribute to the future of the young athletes who call Challengers Clubhouse home.
Regarding the clinics, Patrick Mahoney, Chief Executive Officer of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles, said, "We are grateful to the Rams for providing a forum for our girls to hear from inspiring female athletes who shared messages of courage, strength, grit and joy."
Noel Grigsby, Rams Coordinator of Social Justice and Football Development, added, "We have impacted more than 600 girls throughout Los Angeles with our Women's History Month efforts. It was wonderful to see how excited the girls were to play football. We're committed to creating a pipeline for girls' flag football by growing interest across the region and developing strategies to sustain participation."
Supporting the growth of girls' flag, the Rams and USA Football will provide a Girls Flag Football Resource Package with information about rules, grants, equipment and practice plans to high school flag programs throughout Southern California. In addition, the Rams and USA Football will provide equipment kits to 100 local high schools to assist with practices and games.
In January 2022, the Rams and Chargers launched the Los Angeles Girls Flag Football League of Champions. Last season, the league grew from eight teams to 16 teams with the support of Nike, USA Football and Gatorade. The Rams and Chargers provided players with uniforms in partnership with Nike, stipends for coaches, coaching manuals, officials, athletic trainers, as well as equipment and transportation for the five-week season. The goal of the League of Champions is to create more opportunities for young women to engage in football.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Los Angeles Rams: Tatum Texada – ttexada@rams.nfl.com
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles: Brittany Bell – britt@theconsultingqueen.com
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EXCLUSIVE: The Biden administration spends about $130,000 per day to store and maintain unused border wall panels at the southern border, and Senate Republicans are demanding answers.
Republican members of the Senate Armed Forces Committee — using details provided to them in a request for information to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) — sent a letter Wednesday evening to the Defense Department asking why nearly $50 million is being spent each year to store the Trump-era border materials.
Led by ranking member Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and signed by Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, along with nearly every other Republican on the committee, the senators wrote that they "are disturbed to learn the Department of Defense is paying private landowners to store border wall materials procured under the Trump Administration instead of fortifying the southern border with those materials."
"At present, over 20,000 border wall sections, otherwise known as bollard panels, lie unused at 20 project sites across southern Arizona and New Mexico," the senators said in the letter addressed to Melissa Dalton, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs. "Every day, the Department of Defense pays $130,000 to store, maintain, and secure these materials. Since you were sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs a year ago, you have allowed the Department to pay over $47 million to store these panels. The Department of Defense should not be incurring these daily charges but should be using these funds to bolster national security."
TEXAS REPUBLICANS PUSH LEGISLATION TO CREATE 'BORDER PROTECTION UNIT,' INCREASE CRIMINAL PENALTIES
"This failing program clearly misses that standard," the senators added.
In its correspondence with the committee, the USACE confirmed the cancelation of the border wall contracts by President Biden's administration in 2021 "left a variety of excess materials" and the "total costs to store, maintain, and secure all the materials across all sites is estimated to be approximately $130,000 per day."
"Some of these materials, to include security cameras, overhead lights, and electrical and stormwater materials are being disposed of in accordance with federal excess material disposal laws and regulations," the USACE stated. "Overall, 61% of non-bollard panel materials, and 4% of bollard panel materials have been transferred to other government agencies or disposed of through the DLA disposition process. The total value of these materials is estimated at approximately $300 million. However, the cost to the government cannot be finalized until audits are completed and negotiations with contractors are concluded."
The senators also pressed Dalton on why the remaining unused bollard panel materials are not being disposed of by the Defense Department, a required government process for the department that works in coordination with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to reutilize, resale, or demilitarize military property.
"We assume you are well aware of this capability since the Department used the program to transfer 1,700 border wall panels to the state of Texas early in your tenure," the senators wrote. "It has come to our attention that only 4% of the excess bollard panel materials have been transferred. We urge you to pursue all possible avenues to sponsor or endorse the reuse of excess Department of Defense property, including further transfer to states."
Attached to the letter to Dalton was a series of questions from the committee regarding "internal correspondence" that led to the storage of materials at high costs rather than being disposed of, as well as a list of the entities and individuals who are being paid by the DOD to store the border wall panels on private land and how those agreements were arranged.
FOX FLIGHT TEAM FOOTAGE CAPTURES MORE THAN $100M IN UNUSED BORDER WALL MATERIALS
Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, the ranking member of the committee, told Fox News Digital the spending to store the unused materials is "holding back" efforts from lawmakers to protect Americans and secure the border.
"It is astounding to me that the Department of Defense is paying $130,000 per day to do nothing with $300 million worth of border wall materials," Wicker said. "This clear example of government waste is holding back our mission to protect American citizens and American security. President Biden appears to prefer spending money to avoid building the wall, rather than protect Americans from cartels."
The Republicans from the committee who signed the measure include: Sens. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., Rick Scott, R-Fla., Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Ted Budd, R-N.C., Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
The disposal of all unused border security materials, as required in the government's process to close contracts, has delayed the closure of multiple border construction contracts, according to the USACE.
The process to cancel all contracts "is still on-going and is projected to continue at a minimum through 2024," the USACE told the committee. Non-bollard materials are "scheduled to be turned in to DLA facilities by the end of March 2023" and USACE is in "discussions with DLA regarding the over 20,000 excess bollard panels," the agency added.
"Given the size, weight and transportation requirements for this material, significant planning and coordination may be required. Contract terminations cannot be completed until all materials have been properly disposed," the USACE told the committee.
In October 2021, the Fox Flight Team captured footage of roughly 10,000 steel panels that have been sitting outdoors, unused, since Biden took office earlier that year. Valued at $100 million, Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported at the time there was enough steel for over 100 miles of border wall, but only about 14 miles were built before construction was halted after the Trump administration left office.
There were over 1.7 million encounters of migrants at the border in FY 21 and more than 2.3 million in FY 22. So far in FY 2023, which began in October, there have been more than a million encounters.
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Facebook users have one month left to apply for share of $725M settlement
U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year.
Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
SUGGESTED: How to get money from Facebook’s $725 million data privacy settlement
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Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, is eligible to receive a payment. To apply for the settlement, users can fill out a form and submit it online, or print it out and mail it. The deadline is August 25.
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It’s not clear how much money individual users will receive. The larger the number of people submitting valid claims, the smaller each payment will be since the money has to be divided among them.
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
SUGGESTED: Meta launches Threads amid a sea of new social media platforms
Uproar over the revelations led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by U.S. lawmakers and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts.
Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, but the social network still boasts more than 2 billion users worldwide, including an estimated 250 million in the U.S.
Beyond the Cambridge Analytica case, Meta has been under fire over data privacy for some time. In May, for example, the EU slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October. And the tech giant’s new text-based app, Threads, has not rolled out in the EU due to privacy concerns.
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OSHKOSH, Wis., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U-Haul® is offering 30 days of free self-storage to northeast Wisconsin residents impacted by recent flooding.
Weekend thunderstorms downed trees and powerlines, and flooded roads in Oshkosh and surrounding areas, creating an immediate need for access to dry and secure self-storage.
"These neighborhoods are part of a close-knit community and almost everyone knows someone affected by these storms," said David Bynum. U-Haul Company of Northern Milwaukee and Suburbs president. "Many families are in need of a place to store their belongings. U-Haul can help during the recovery process."
People seeking more information about the U-Haul disaster relief program or needing to arrange 30 days of free self-storage should contact the participating facility nearest them:
U-Haul Moving & Storage at UW of Oshkosh
243 Ohio St.
Oshkosh, WI 54902
(920) 233-1244
U-Haul Moving & Storage of Oshkosh West
900 N. Koeller St.
Oshkosh, WI 54902
(920) 232-3713
Customers needing cardboard boxes can utilize the in-store Take a Box, Leave a Box program. U-Haul offers an area where customers can drop off used boxes in good condition, and others can access the boxes at no cost. U-Haul encourages anyone who has reusable boxes to drop them at the nearest U-Haul store location to assist this environmentally friendly initiative.
In addition to its 30 days free self-storage disaster relief program, U-Haul is proud to be at the forefront of aiding communities in times of need as an official American Red Cross Disaster Responder.
Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 offers secure access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the customer dispatch option on their smartphones and our proprietary Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 876,000 rentable storage units and 75.1 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. U-Haul has been recognized repeatedly as a leading "Best for Vets" employer and was recently named one of the 15 Healthiest Workplaces in America.
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OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — An Ole Miss student is accused of making threats against faculty and staff.
Campus Police arrested Kendrick Ford after he allegedly made the threat on April 27.
Police charged him with making a terrorist threat.
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — An Ole Miss student is accused of making threats against faculty and staff.
Campus Police arrested Kendrick Ford after he allegedly made the threat on April 27.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week to impose the deal that unions agreed to in September.
“Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate our economy,” Biden said in a statement. “Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down.”
In a statement, Pelosi said: “We are reluctant to bypass the standard ratification process for the Tentative Agreement — but we must act to prevent a catastrophic nationwide rail strike, which would grind our economy to a halt.”
Pelosi said the House would not change the terms of the September agreement, which would challenge the Senate to approve the House bill without changes.
The September agreement that Biden and Pelosi are calling for is a slight improvement over what the board of arbitrators recommended in the summer. The September agreement added three unpaid days off a year for engineers and conductors to tend to medical appointments as long as they scheduled them at least 30 days in advance. The railroads also promised in September not to penalize workers who are hospitalized and to negotiate further with the unions after the contract is approved about improving the regular scheduling of days off.
Hundreds of business groups had been urging Congress and the president to step into the deadlocked contract talk and prevent a strike.
Both the unions and railroads have been lobbying Congress while contract talks continue. If Congress acts, it will end talks between the railroads and four rail unions that rejected their deals Biden helped broker before the original strike deadline in September. Eight other unions have approved their five-year deals with the railroads and are in the process of getting back pay for their workers for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
If Congress does what Biden suggests and imposes terms similar to what was agreed on in September, that will end the union’s push to add paid sick time. The four unions that have rejected their deals have been pressing for the railroads to add that benefit to help address workers’ quality of life concerns, but the railroads had refused to consider that.
Biden said that as a “a proud pro-labor president” he was reluctant to override the views of people who voted against the agreement. “But in this case — where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions of other working people and families — I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal."
Biden's remarks and Pelosi's statement came after a coalition of more than 400 business groups sent a letter to congressional leaders Monday urging them to step into the stalled talks because of fears about the devastating potential impact of a strike that could force many businesses to shut down if they can’t get the rail deliveries they need. Commuter railroads and Amtrak would also be affected in a strike because many of them use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and National Retail Federation said even a short-term strike would have a tremendous impact and the economic pain would start to be felt even before the Dec. 9 strike deadline. They said the railroads would stop hauling hazardous chemicals, fertilizers and perishable goods up to a week beforehand to keep those products from being stranded somewhere along the tracks.
“A potential rail strike only adds to the headwinds facing the U.S. economy,” the businesses wrote. “A rail stoppage would immediately lead to supply shortages and higher prices. The cessation of Amtrak and commuter rail services would disrupt up to 7 million travelers a day. Many businesses would see their sales disrupted right in the middle of the critical holiday shopping season.”
A similar group of businesses sent another letter to Biden last month urging him to play a more active role in resolving the contract dispute.
On Monday, the Association of American Railroads trade group praised Biden’s action.
“No one benefits from a rail work stoppage — not our customers, not rail employees and not the American economy,” said AAR President and CEO Ian Jefferies. “Now is the appropriate time for Congress to pass legislation to implement the agreements already ratified by eight of the twelve unions."
Business groups that have been pushing for Congress to settle this contract dispute praised Biden’s move.
“The Biden administration’s endorsement of congressional intervention affirms what America’s food, beverage, household and personal care manufacturers have been saying: Freight rail operations cannot shut down and imperil the availability and affordability of consumers’ everyday essentials,” said Tom Madrecki, vice president of supply chain for the Consumer Brands Association. “The consequences to consumers if a strike were to occur are too serious, especially amid continued supply chain challenges and disruptions.”
Clark Ballew, a spokesman for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division, which represents track maintenance workers, said before Biden's announcement that the union was "headed to D.C. this week to meet with lawmakers on the Hill from both parties. We have instructed our members to contact their federal lawmakers in the House and Senate for several weeks now.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Neil Bradley said Biden was correct in advocating for the deal already reached. “Congress must do what it has done 18 times before: intervene against a national rail strike," Bradley said in a statement, and he called Congress enforcing the deal agreed to by railroads and union leaders the "only path to avoid crippling strike.”
The railroads, which include Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern, wanted any deal to closely follow the recommendations a special board of arbitrators that Biden appointed made this summer that called for the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses but didn't resolve workers' concerns about demanding schedules that make it hard to take a day off and other working conditions. That's what Biden is calling on Congress to impose. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-congress-prevent-rail-strike/507-440a8a20-8130-444a-ad0c-804ff25d1868 | 2022-11-29 04:41:28 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-congress-prevent-rail-strike/507-440a8a20-8130-444a-ad0c-804ff25d1868 |
LONDON (AP) _ Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LYG) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $1.62 billion.
The company said it had earnings of 8 cents per share.
The bank posted revenue of $5.54 billion in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $5.54 billion, which beat Street forecasts.
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American Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica dies in motorcycle accident at 24
BULL VALLEY, Ill. (AP) — Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica, who competed for the United States last year in the Beijing Games, has died. He was 24.
Gasienica died after being involved in a motorcycle accident on Monday night in the village of Bull Valley, located in Chicago’s far northwestern suburbs, according to the Bull Valley Police Department.
“Patrick was an incredible competitor, teammate and friend,” USA Nordic posted on Twitter.
Gasienica finished 49th and 53rd in individual events at the Beijing Olympics, and was 10th in a team competition with Casey Larson, Kevin Bickner and Decker Dean.
“We don’t really have a lot of jumpers, but it’s getting better,” Gasienica said last year in China. “Especially since the pandemic, a lot of different kids are joining the different clubs around America. Hopefully in a couple of years — five, 10, maybe — we’ll have a really, really great team.”
Gasienica, who was born in Oak Park, developed as a young ski jumper at the Norge Ski Club about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.
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NEWARK, Ohio (AP) _ Park National Corp. (PRK) on Monday reported net income of $42.1 million in its third quarter.
The bank, based in Newark, Ohio, said it had earnings of $2.57 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.93 per share.
The financial services holding company posted revenue of $146.6 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $137.5 million, beating Street forecasts.
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Milwaukee Bucks 1981-1982
Milwaukee Bucks 1981-1982
When looking at the Milwaukee Bucks in both 1982 and 2022, you would notice some similarities on paper, but some drastic differences show up off of the stat sheets. The 1981-‘82 Bucks season was just about as successful as the 2021-22 slate of games. Both teams were solid contenders to bring another title to Milwaukee, with a solid core lineup. Rather than a commanding presence in the lane that Giannis Antetkounmpo provides, this version of the Milwaukee Bucks was focused on offense around point guard Sidney Moncrief, as well as current Bucks’ announcer Marques Johnson. The 2021-22 starting five for Milwaukee was also considered very strong, with a big three of Giannis, Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday, bolstered by fan-favorite Bobby Portis and outside shooter Grayson Allen.
The Bucks’ lone draft pick for the season was center Alton Lister, who played five seasons in Milwaukee before being traded. The team was fairly set with a deep starting lineup, which mainly consisted of Moncrief, Johnson, Bob Lanier, Quinn Buckner and Mickey Johnson. The bench was led by Junior Bridgeman, and also featured Bobby Dandridge, who was in the final year of his playing career.
The power forward spot was generally held by Mickey Johnson, a 6’10” combination forward and center out of Chicago, in his eighth season. That spot now belongs to the “Greek Freak,” a 6’11” combination forward and center, who just completed his ninth year in the league. Johnson weighed in at 190 pounds, whereas modern training has helped Giannis dominate his position with an extra 50 pounds of mass, much of that likely being muscle. Stat-wise, Antetokounmpo has already surpassed Mickey Johnson’s totals for his 12-year playing career, with no signs of slowing down.
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Coach Don Nelson was at the helm for Milwaukee, in his sixth season with the Bucks. He would follow the 1981-82 campaign by winning Coach of the Year for the first of three times in 1983 and remained with Milwaukee until 1988. Following his tenure with the Bucks, he held a successful career in front offices around the league and was ranked in the Top 15 coaches in NBA history at the league’s 75th anniversary celebrations this past season. In 2012, Nelson was also inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Like Nelson, current Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer was named Coach of the Year, in 2014 with Atlanta and 2018 with Milwaukee.
Coincidentally, both teams also won the Central Division title in the regular season but were bounced in the Conference semifinals to a team that would go on to represent the East in the NBA Finals. In 1981-82, Milwaukee lost to a Philadelphia 76ers team led by Julius “Dr. J” Irving and Daryl Dawkins, before Philadelphia would ultimately concede the title to the Los Angeles Lakers. In 2022, Milwaukee would be eliminated in a tough series with the Boston Celtics, who were later beaten by a dominant Golden State Warriors team in the midst of a championship dynasty.
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Giannis Antetkounmpo
Giannis Antetkounmpo
The true difference in Bucks seasons, though, is the reception within the city of Milwaukee. For the 1981-82 campaign, Milwaukee was a decade removed from their first NBA title and had lost the Conference Semifinals the previous two years. Keep in mind that when the Bucks won their first title, there wasn’t even a championship parade. Fast forward 40 years, and the story is much different. Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the faces of the NBA, let alone the Bucks franchise, and you would be hard pressed to go out to a major event in town without seeing at least some element of Milwaukee Bucks merchandise. In four decades, the franchise has undergone massive change, and brought along the entire city for the ride. | https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/looking-back-at-40-years-of-bucks-basketball/ | 2022-08-16 20:05:05 | 0 | https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/looking-back-at-40-years-of-bucks-basketball/ |
Beyond6 Compressed Natural Gas Station Will Reduce Detmar's Carbon Intensity by an estimate of nearly 60%
MIDLAND, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond6, a nationally recognized low carbon intensity solutions company, will build a state-of-the-art renewable compressed natural gas facility to supply For Detmar Logistics, LLC, a Midland-based, last mile materials company focused on lower carbon intensity transportation.
When complete in Q3 of 2023 (anticipated), the station will deliver CNG linked to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), which will have a lower carbon intensity compared to conventional CNG, to Detmar's new CNG-powered fleet of 60 trucks on the east side of town, just off I-20. The station will also accommodate public vehicle fueling and bulk-fills for virtual pipeline operators.
Beyond6's CNG station furthers Detmar's objective to support their customer's lower carbon intensity goals and freight efficiency efforts in frac sand, gravel dry bulk transportation, and lower carbon intensity-specialized logistics. Fueling with RNG allows Detmar to reduce their customer's scope 3 emissions by nearly 60%.
Operationalizing renewable natural gas is a mission-critical goal for Detmar Logistics. "We must be accountable to our clients and the environment. Partnering with Beyond6 allows us to do both," said Matt Detmar, Detmar Logistics' president and CEO.
New York-based Beyond6 designs, builds, owns, operates, and maintains a network of alternative fueling stations across the country. "Our team of highly-trained strategists, designers and operations professionals are committed to moving the alternative fuel industry forward. This project will put both companies on the cutting edge of lower carbon intensity," said Andrew West, Beyond6 founder and strategic advisor.
Said West, "Detmar Logistics trusts and values the relationship with Beyond6 to help them reduce carbon emissions and grow their bottom line."
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, acquired full ownership of Beyond6, LLC, and its nationwide network of compressed natural gas stations from Mercuria Energy Trading and West in late 2022.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RFG Advisory, an innovative and fast-growing platform for independent Advisors, is pleased to announce it has been awarded on the USA Today list of Best Financial Advisory Firms 2023. This award is presented by USA Today and Statista Inc., a world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on April 26th, 2023, and can currently be viewed on the USA Today website.
USA Today and Statista selected Best Financial Advisory Firms 2023 based on two dimensions: recommendations by clients and peers and a firm's growth of Assets Under Management (AUM). Recommendations were collected via an independent survey sent to over 20,000 individuals, while the development of AUM was analyzed both short and long term based on publicly available data. In the consideration for the top 500 RIA firms, recommendations had a weight of 20% while development of AUM had a weight of 80% (short-term and long-term growth were equally weighted) to derive the final score.
RFG Advisory is ecstatic to be recognized on the USA Today list of Best Financial Advisory Firms 2023 based on both qualitative client and peer recommendations and quantitative growth data.
Bobby White, Founder and CEO of RFG, added, "RFG is always striving to improve what we offer to our Advisors, so they can be at their best for their clients. Being recognized by such a highly regarded publication shows us we're on the right track."
"We're absolutely thrilled and humbled to be named to this prestigious list of financial advisory firms," said Shannon Spotswood, President at RFG Advisory. "This is an honor that reflects our dedication to building an RIA of the future. Everything we do is in relentless pursuit of excellence for our independent Advisors, enabling them to grow, deliver exceptional client experiences and reimagine their potential."
In the past year, RFG was named a Best Place to Work for Financial Advisors, won top Wealthmanagement.com honors for their Advisor support initiatives, RFG Assist, and added 17 new Advisors to their team.
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RFG Advisory is an innovator in the wealth management industry. Passionately committed to serving independent financial advisors and their clients, RFG Advisory prides itself on being a service company first, a technology company second and a hybrid-RIA third. RFG Advisory delivers a turn-key integrated platform that provides Advisors all of the tools and resources they need to be the CEO of their practice, not the COO, including turn-key technology, institutional-caliber investment management, marketing, compliance, business consulting and operational support. Focused on amplifying independence, Advisors who affiliate with RFG Advisory maintain all of the equity in their business and pay a basis point fee for access to RFG's investment and technology platform. Additionally, through RFG Capital, the firm buys stakes in advisor practices to facilitate succession planning and provide loans to advisors to enable the move to full independence.
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New report says only 14% of diagnosed cancers in the US are detected by screening
A small proportion－14.1%－of all diagnosed cancers in the United States are detected by screening with a recommended screening test, according to a new report.
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The remaining diagnosed cancers tend to be found when someone has symptoms or seeks imaging or medical care for other reasons, suggests the report, posted online Wednesday by researchers at the nonprofit research organization NORC at the University of Chicago.
"I was shocked that only 14% of cancers were detected by screening. I think, for many people, we talk so much about cancer screening that we imagine that that's how all cancers are diagnosed. We talk about mammograms and colonoscopies all the time," said Caroline Pearson, an author of the report and senior vice president at the organization.
Yet "the vast majority of cancer types don't have screening tests available," Pearson said.
The technical report notes that just four types of cancer－breast, cervical, colorectal and lung－have screening tests recommended for use by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and the percent of cancers detected by screening varies across those types: 61% of breast, 52% of cervical, 45% of colorectal and 3% of lung cancers. The report also includes data on prostate cancer, even though screening for prostate cancer is not broadly recommended, and the data suggests that 77% of prostate cancers are detected by screening.
The report, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, is based on data from 2017. But Pearson said that since then, studies have shown that the rates of cancer screenings declined during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She suspects the percentage of cancers detected by screening could now be even lower than what was found in the new report.
"I definitely think that the percent of cancers detected by screening would have been lower as a result of the pandemic. We know that people missed a tremendous number of recommended screenings, and we are seeing those cancers showing up at later stages in clinical settings," Pearson said. "So with the reduction in screenings, we get fewer cancers diagnosed that way, and that is certainly something that we would pick up in the data."
For the new report, Pearson and her colleagues developed a model to calculate the percentage of cancers detected by screening, using data from the National Cancer Institute on the incidence of diagnosed cancers, national screening rates from the National Health Interview Survey, testing rates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and several studies on the rate at which cancers are detected.
There has not been much data in the medical literature on cancers that are detected by screening, she said, adding that she hopes the report draws attention to the importance of cancer screening, the need for more tests and the need for more data on how cancers are diagnosed, including the important role that screening tests play in catching cancers early.
"We would benefit from much more robust data and analysis to really understand how cancer is affecting different populations and how we can improve equity," Pearson said. "For the researchers of the world, I would love for people to dig into some of these estimates and some of the geographic variations that we're seeing to understand how we can begin to shape the public policy environment to improve treatment across the country and improve screening across the country."
Dr. Otis Brawley, an oncology professor at Johns Hopkins University, said he was not surprised by the findings in the new report－especially because some cancer screening tests can be improved in their performance.
"Everyone has been led to believe that screening is better than it actually is," said Brawley, who was not involved in the new report. "We need to invest in research to try to find better tests."
In the case of breast cancer, for instance, "clinical trials tell us screening prevents 25% of those destined to die of breast cancer from dying of breast cancer," he said. "In the U.S., about 60% of women aged 50 to 70 get screened. That means we can only prevent about 15% of the deaths destined to occur. It also means a lot of patients are diagnosed with cancer after a negative screening test."
People in the United States could benefit from following cancer prevention measures－ such as getting screened and maintaining a healthy lifestyle－but the public can also benefit from better screening tests themselves, Brawley said.
"We spend so much time pushing screening and pushing screening tests -- yes, they do save lives, but we need to be able to save more lives," he said. "We need better." | https://www.wmur.com/article/only-14-diagnosed-cancers-us-detected-by-screening-report-says/42248973 | 2022-12-15 05:36:27 | 0 | https://www.wmur.com/article/only-14-diagnosed-cancers-us-detected-by-screening-report-says/42248973 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. nuclear regulators have licensed a multibillion-dollar complex to temporarily store tons of spent fuel in New Mexico from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its decision Tuesday about the proposed project in southeastern New Mexico. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state’s congressional delegation oppose locating the storage complex in the state, saying they fear New Mexico will become the nation’s dumping ground for spent nuclear fuel because the federal government has no permanent solution for the waste piling up at commercial reactors around the country.
The agency was initially expected to issue a decision and a final safety report on the proposed facility by the end of March, but was delayed by staffing constraints. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/us-regulators-ok-spent-nuclear-fuel-facility-in-new-mexico/ | 2023-05-09 23:28:26 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/us-regulators-ok-spent-nuclear-fuel-facility-in-new-mexico/ |
Comerica Announces 2023 Earnings Release Dates; Details for Conference Call to Review Second Quarter 2022 Earnings
Published: May. 18, 2022 at 3:25 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
DALLAS, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is expected to release quarterly earnings on the dates indicated below and will host conference calls to review results.
Details for Comerica Incorporated's upcoming second quarter 2022 earnings call on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, are now available. Additional information for remaining 2022 and 2023 earnings calls will be provided in advance of each call.
Earnings Conference Call Schedule:
In addition, the financial results and earnings presentation will be furnished on Form 8-K filings that will be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov.
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Voyager Digital Ltd. ("Voyager" or the "Company") (OTCPink: VYGVQ) (FRA: UCD2) announced today that after multiple rounds of bidding in a highly competitive auction process that lasted two weeks, its operating company Voyager Digital LLC, selected West Realm Shires Inc. ("FTX US") as the highest and best bid for its assets. The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors ("UCC") participated actively in the competitive auction and supports FTX US's winning bid.
FTX US's bid is valued at approximately $1.422 billion, comprised of (i) the fair market value of all Voyager cryptocurrency at a to-be-determined date in the future, which at current market prices is estimated to be $1.311 billion, plus (ii) additional consideration that is estimated as providing approximately $111 million of incremental value. The Company's claims against Three Arrows Capital remain with the bankruptcy estate, which will distribute any available recovery on such claims to the estate's creditors.
FTX US's bid maximizes value and minimizes the remaining duration of the Company's restructuring by providing a clear path forward for the Debtors to consummate a chapter 11 plan and return value to their customers and other creditors. FTX US's market-leading, secure trading platform will enable customers to trade and store cryptocurrency after the conclusion of the Company's chapter 11 cases.
The asset purchase agreement between Voyager Digital LLC and FTX US will be presented for approval to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 and the objection deadline to the transaction is October 12, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time. The sale to FTX US will be consummated pursuant to a chapter 11 plan, which will be subject to a creditor vote and is subject to other customary closing conditions. FTX US and the Company will work to close the transaction promptly following approval of the chapter 11 plan by the Bankruptcy Court.
The auction follows Voyager's July 5, 2022 entrance into a voluntary restructuring process aimed at returning maximum value to customers. Since the Company's chapter 11 filing, in furtherance of this objective, Voyager has engaged in a dual-track process, considering both a potential sale and a standalone reorganization. In-line with the process outlined in court filings, Voyager received multiple bids contemplating sale and reorganization alternatives, held an auction and, based on the results of the auction, has determined that the sale transaction with FTX is the best alternative for Voyager stakeholders.
Additional information about the timeline and customer access to crypto will be shared as it becomes available. A copy of the Bidding Procedures, Bidding Procedures Order, Bidding Procedures Motion and other pleadings filed in this case may be obtained free of charge by visiting the Voyager case website https://cases.stretto.com/Voyager.
The results of the auction do not change the Bar Date nor the need for customers to determine whether to file a claim. More information can be found here. Customers can file a claim on Voyager's case website here. The deadline for filing a claim is October 3, 2022, at 5:00 PM ET.
Voyager was advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Moelis & Company LLC, and Berkeley Research Group. FTX US was advised by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. The UCC was advised by McDermott Will & Emery LLP and FTI Consulting.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Weber Inc. (NYSE: WEBR) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent and freed, the Los Angeles County district attorney announced Thursday.
Daniel Saldana, 55, was convicted in 1990 of opening fire on a car containing six teenagers who were leaving a high school football game in Baldwin Park, east of Los Angeles. Two students were wounded but survived.
The attackers mistook the teens for gang members, authorities said.
Saldana was 22 at the time of the shooting and worked full-time as a construction worker. He was one of three men charged with the attack. Convicted of six counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, Saldana was sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison.
Saldana appeared with District Attorney George Gascón at a press conference announcing his exoneration Thursday. He said he was grateful to be freed.
“It’s a struggle, every day waking up knowing you’re innocent and here I am locked up in a cell, crying for help,” Saldana said, according to the Southern California News Group.
“I’m just so happy this day came,” he added.
Gascón’s office began investigating after learning in February that another convicted attacker told authorities during a 2017 parole hearing that Saldana “was not involved in the shooting in any way and he was not present during the incident,” the DA said.
A former deputy district attorney was present at the hearing “but apparently did nothing” and failed to share the exonerating information with Saldana or his attorney as required, Gascón said.
That caused Saldana to spend an additional six years in prison before the DA’s office reopened the case and declared him innocent, Gascón said.
The district attorney didn’t disclose other details of the case but he apologized to Saldana and his family.
“I know that this won’t bring you back the decades you endured in prison,” he said. “But I hope our apology brings some small comfort to you as you begin your new life.”
Gascón added: “Not only is this a tragedy to force people into prison for a crime they did not commit, but every time that an injustice of this magnitude takes place, the real people responsible are still out there to commit other crimes.” | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-man-declared-innocent-of-attempted-murder-after-33-years-in-california-prison/ | 2023-05-26 20:03:03 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-man-declared-innocent-of-attempted-murder-after-33-years-in-california-prison/ |
A "miracle" has pilgrims flocking to a tiny monastery in rural Missouri. The body of a nun who was buried without embalming in a wooden casket four years ago is remarkably well preserved.
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U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court's decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation.
“I think the cruelty is the point because this is not pro life by any means,” said Rapinoe, who was close to tears at times as she expressed her outrage.
The always outspoken Rapinoe was joined by some of the country's leading sports figures in publicly sharing their dismay, anger and concern after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to abortion.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted that the ruling was about “ power and control,” and he retweeted a couple posts about the effect of the decision on Black women.
In a joint statement, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the leagues “believe that women should be able to make their own decisions concerning their health and future, and we believe that freedom should be protected.”
“We will continue to advocate for gender and health equity, including ensuring our employees have access to reproductive health care, regardless of their location,” they said.
Rapinoe is in Colorado as the two-time defending World Cup champions prepare for a game Saturday against Colombia. As a gay woman, she also spoke about fears that the conservative court would come for her rights next.
“We live in country that forever tries to chip away what you have innately, what you have been privileged enough to feel your entire life," she said.
The high court's decision will directly impact women who play for teams in states that could ban abortions outright in the wake of the ruling.
That is the situation in Kentucky, home of Racing Louisville of the National Women's Soccer League, where access to abortion ended abruptly with Friday's ruling.
Kentucky had a trigger law enacted in 2019, that now ends nearly all abortions in that state.
“Kentuckians requiring an abortion will be forced to drive an average of 245 miles for proper health care in the wake of today's Supreme Court decision. This development leaves us especially concerned about marginalized members of our community and future Supreme Court decisions that could impact them,” Racing Louisville said in a statement.
In Florida, a new law goes into effect on July 1 that will ban all abortions after 15 weeks. The NWSL's Orlando Pride put out a joint statement with Orlando City of Major League Soccer.
“Access to safe reproductive health care and having autonomy over one's body are basic, nonnegotiable human rights, and our club deeply objects to today's Supreme Court decision,” it said.
Texas, home to the NWSL's Houston Dash and the WNBA's Dallas Wings, is among 13 states that have trigger laws similar to Kentucky. Two other WNBA teams, the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream, are in states where abortion restrictions are possible.
Just a day before the ruling, Billie Jean King celebrated the anniversary of Title IX and it's impact on women and sports.
"This decision will not end abortion. What it will end is safe and legal access to this vital medical procedure. It is a sad day in the United States,” King said in a statement.
In her 2021 autobiography “All In,” King said she had an abortion in 1971 in California, where it was legal. Her name also appeared on a petition to legalize abortion in a 1972 edition of Ms. Magazine, joining several prominent women stating they’d had an abortion.
The criticism of the court's decision came cascading down from women coaches, players, teams and unions.
Tennis player Coco Gauff found it hard to believe.
“Incredibly disappointed by the decision made today. The sad part is this will not stop abortions from happening … this will only increase illegal and unsafe abortions. Today is a very sad day for our country and I cannot believe once again history is repeating itself,” tweeted the 18-year-old Gauff, runner-up at the French Open earlier this month.
The WNBA players association did not mince words: “This ruling provides a treacherous pathway to abortion bans that reinforce economic, social and political inequalities and could lead to higher rates of maternal mortality while eviscerating rights to reproductive freedom for everyone.”
Michigan's Carol Hutchins, the winningest coach in college softball history, said she was informed of the decision by news alerts on her phone Friday.
“I totally expected it to happen because it’s been talked about and it was clear this was coming,” Hutchins said. “Women’s rights are human rights and in general, human rights in this country are under siege in my opinion. I’m concerned for people’s rights to life, liberty and happiness.”
But women weren't the only athletes speaking out.
Stefan Frei, goalkeeper for the Seattle Sounders, went to Twitter soon after the decision was handed down.
“Impose a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, and following day end the fundamental constitutional protection of reproductive rights!? Our country is actively moving in the wrong direction," Frei said, referencing the Supreme Court's decision striking down New York’s “proper cause” requirement limiting who can carry a gun.
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A third of global glaciers located at World Heritage sites will disappear by 2050, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warned on Thursday.
Among the glaciers to vanish will be those at Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro, according to UNESCO.
While those glaciers will melt regardless of efforts to limit temperature increases, it is possible to save the remaining two thirds of glaciers at these 50 sites, the organization stressed in a new report.
But to do so, the authors cautioned, global heating must not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels.
“This report is a call to action,” Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO director-general, said in a statement.
“Only a rapid reduction in our CO2 emissions levels can save glaciers and the exceptional biodiversity that depends on them,” Azoulay added.
As delegates prepare to meet in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, next week for COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, Azoulay stressed that the summit will play “a crucial role to help find solutions to this issue.”
“UNESCO is determined to support states in pursuing this goal,” she said.
The 1.5-degree-Celsius warming threshold is the same bar that countries said they hoped to stay below at the U.N. climate summit in Paris — COP21 — in 2015. At the time, they pledged to adhere to a 2-degree-Celsius, or 3.6-degree Fahrenheit, warming limit.
Fifty UNESCO World Heritage sites are home to a total of 18,600 glaciers that cover an area of about 25,500 square miles, the authors found.
That’s equivalent to about 10 percent of the Earth’s total “glacierized” area, according to the report, which was compiled in collaboration with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
These glaciers have been retreating at an accelerated rate since the turn of the century due to carbon dioxide emissions, which are warming temperatures, the authors explained.
In total, the glaciers are losing 58 billion tons of ice each year — equivalent to the combined annual water use of Spain and France — and are responsible for about 5 percent of global sea-level rise, according to UNESCO.
Half of humanity depends either directly or indirectly on glaciers as a source of water for domestic consumption, agriculture and power, the report stressed. Glaciers are also critical to a wide range of ecosystems and the biodiversity that populates them.
In addition to the vanishing glaciers at Yellowstone, Yosemite and Kilimanjaro national parks, among those ice masses due to disappear by 2050 are those at the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park on the U.S.-Canada border.
These North American glaciers have lost 26.5 percent of their volume in the past two decades, according to the report.
Others include those at Mount Kenya, those in the Three Parallel Rivers of China’s Yunnan Protected Areas and in Western Tien-Shan — on the Kazakh-Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. These glaciers have shrunken by 57.2 percent and 27 percent, respectively, since 2000, per the report.
In Europe, glaciers in danger of disappearing include those at Mont Perdu in the French-Spanish Pyrenees, as well as those in the Dolomites in Italy, according to the report.
Glaciers at Argentina’s Los Alerces National Park and those at Peru’s Huascaran National Park are under threat in Latin America, the authors found. These glaciers have lost 45.6 percent and 15 percent of their volume, respectively, since 2000, per the report.
Glaciers in Te Waipounamu, New Zealand, meanwhile, have lost almost 20 percent of their volume since 2000, UNESCO warned.
To help save the remaining glaciers at World Heritage sites, UNESCO is calling for the creating of an international fund for monitoring and preservation.
Such a fund, the report explained, would promote related research and implementing early warning and disaster risk reduction measures.
“When glaciers melt rapidly, millions of people face water scarcity and the increased risk of natural disasters such as flooding, and millions more may be displaced by the resulting rise in sea levels,” Bruno Oberle, director-general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in a statement.
Curbing greenhouse gas emissions and investing in nature-based solutions “can help mitigate climate change and allow people to better adapt to its impacts,” Oberle added. | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/unesco-says-a-third-of-world-heritage-glaciers-will-vanish-by-2050/ | 2022-11-03 17:04:02 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/unesco-says-a-third-of-world-heritage-glaciers-will-vanish-by-2050/ |
Teen dies during apparent social media stunt on Los Angeles bridge, police say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 17-year-old boy fell to his death this weekend while climbing a Los Angeles bridge in an apparent social media stunt, police said.
Police were sent to the 6th Street Viaduct around 2 a.m. Saturday and found the boy, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. His name wasn’t immediately released.
The teen slipped and fell “when climbing upon one of the arches, in order to post, apparently, a social media broadcast,” Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday during a meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
The bridge opened last July. The $588-million span, which replaced an 84-year-old Art Deco span, runs 3,500 feet over the concrete-lined Los Angeles River and connects downtown to the historic Eastside.
The bridge, which has thousands of LED lights and views of LA’s skyline, is the largest and most expensive span ever built in the city. It was designed to become a city landmark.
But police closed the bridge several times after it quickly became a hotspot for street racing, graffiti and illegal takeovers that drew hundreds of spectators to watch drivers perform dangerous stunts in their vehicles.
Social media stunts abounded as well — in one case, a man sat in a barber’s chair for a haircut in the middle of the lanes.
A man was also fatally shot on the bridge in January during unauthorized filming of a music video.
“Tragically we see that location, while it has spawned a great deal of pride in Los Angeles, it has also unfortunately served as a backdrop now for tragedies such as this,” Moore told the Police Commission. “Our added patrols will continue at that location … to counter such reckless actions.”
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Whelan talks will continue because Russians have ‘things they want,’ US official says
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN
The Biden administration believes the Russian government will continue to engage on detainee issues, including freeing American Paul Whelan, following the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner because “they have things they want in this world” a senior administration official tells CNN.
Moscow knows that ultimately the two sides will reach “a mutually acceptable arrangement if they keep talking to us,” the official continued.
“We have shown an openness to talk about that which is actually available to us and gotten only in response a demand for something not available to us,” the official said, reiterating that the Russians refused what had been offered to secure the release of Whelan.
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that further prisoner swaps with the United States are possible. Putin said the exchange of Griner for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout “is the result of negotiations and the search for compromises.”
“In this case, compromises were found. We do not refuse to continue this work in the future,” he said.
CNN previously reported that convicted Russian murderer Vadim Krasikov, who is in German custody, was one of Moscow’s requests, and the official did not rule out that his release has been a continued request.
Demands related to the war in Ukraine did not come up in the negotiations to secure Griner’s release and attempt to secure Whelan’s, the official said, adding that the US would not make concessions on that front.
“We’ve obviously thought about why that might be the case” that the Russians didn’t float it, the official said, “and I think we credit it to the fact that we’ve been so crystal clear, so consistent, that it is not for us to negotiate how that horrific situation gets resolved.”
The official added: “If it were raised, of course, it is not for bargaining. Another country’s future is not for bargaining and the defense of democracy against autocracy is not for bargaining.”
Even though US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that “every possible” offer was made to the Russians to secure Whelan’s release, the Biden administration has ideas about “new forms of offers” they are going to try with the Russians in an effort to secure Whelan’s release, the senior administration official.
Whelan told CNN on Thursday that “the President and his team are going to have to look at what they have that is valuable that these people want, and hopefully give it to them, or I’ll be here for a long time.”
Whelan’s brother David, however, has cast doubt on the possibility of identifying something that the Russians want.
“It’s clear that the US government has no concessions that the Russian government will take for Paul Whelan. And so Paul will remain a prisoner until that changes,” David Whelan said in a statement Thursday.
Russia views Whelan as a spy, the official explained, which means they treat him in a different category. The official didn’t count out the US offering a Russian spy in US custody as a potential offer to Russia.
“There is a willingness to pay even a very big price on the part of this President,” the official said. “We have made clear to the Russians that we at least are open to talking about that which is at our disposal, that which we could actually deliver. It would be somebody in our custody.”
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Two men were shot and killed by a teen armed with a shotgun during an attempted home invasion, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
The shooting happened Friday night just after 10:30 p.m. on 1st Street in the Channelview area.
Gonzalez said three masked men tried to make their way into a home when a 17-year-old man armed with a shotgun opened fire. Two of the men were pronounced dead at the scene and the third escaped in a dark-colored 4-door sedan.
An adult woman, two 17-year-old men and a young 12-year-old boy were inside the home at the time of the shooting, according to Gonzalez. The case will now be presented to a grand jury.
Homicide units with the Harris County Sheriff's Office are now investigating. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact them at (713) 274-9100.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Humanitarian concerns are being raised about a new prison policy in New Mexico that provides inmates with photocopies of their personal mail – never the actual mail itself – as part of a plan to limit the flow of drugs into New Mexico prisons.
Initial data doesn’t show an immediate impact on the drug positivity rate of inmates.
Legislators worry it might weaken meaningful communication between inmates and families that is key to rehabilitation, including small keepsakes like a child’s drawing.
“It seems so draconian to find that inmates could no longer get drawings from their kids,” said state Rep. Gail Chasey, an Albuquerque Democrat who presided over a recent hearing concerning the Corrections Department.
Corrections officials have defended the policy as a necessary step to curb drug use and protect the health of people living or working inside state prisons.
They said some inmates had received letters soaked in narcotics — such as fentanyl or synthetic cannabis — and burned them to inhale the smoke.
Starting earlier this year, people who want to mail a letter to a New Mexico inmate must now send it to an address in Florida, where a private company photocopies the material and then mails it back to the state prison system.
It costs the state about $3.50 per inmate each month, regardless of whether the inmate receives any mail, for the Securus mail system. The cost could reach somewhere in the neighborhood of $160,000 a year, depending on the number of inmates in the system.
The change also restricts what kind of mail inmates may receive, with greeting cards, for example, no longer accepted, according to legislative records.
Wence Asonganyi, health services administrator for the Corrections Department, said the mail changes came after prison leaders determined they had to act amid a rise in symptoms among inmates consistent with a drug overdose.
“It is quite disturbing when on a weekly basis you get numbers of suspected overdoses within the prison system across the state, and all you have is a plan is to take them to a hospital or provide first aid,” Asonganyi said. “You know that’s not sustainable. You know that’s not good care.”
He said the Corrections Department had seen a substantial drop in medical incidents related to drug use following enactment of the new mail policy.
Legislative analysts offered a different assessment. They said the positivity rate from random drug tests of inmates hadn’t shown an immediate improvement, according to quarterly reports issued by the department.
Asonganyi contends the drug positivity rate isn’t the right way to measure the program’s success because some of the drugs have been altered in a way that makes them hard to identify in a normal drug screening.
Legislative analysts, in turn, suggested the Corrections Department propose a better way to measure the program’s success, if they have more meaningful data.
The legislators at the recent hearing said they will further scrutinize the policy.
Chasey, who leads the House Judiciary Committee, said New Mexico’s revenue boom should allow for new investments to improve the prison system. She suggested there might be another safe, cost-effective way to screen the mail.
“I certainly don’t want to put staff at risk, and I don’t want inmates at risk,” Chasey said. “We’d like to try to help.”
Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque, asked whether the out-of-state photocopying of mail was authorized by state law. Corrections officials said the law is silent on the issue.
Diana Crowson, whose son is an inmate at the state prison in Santa Fe, said the new policy has disrupted mail service to inmates. Keeping in touch with family, she said, is an important way to reduce recidivism for people released from custody.
“Not only the inmates,” Crowson said, “but the families are suffering from this." | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/New-mail-policy-for-New-Mexico-prison-inmates-in-17340510.php | 2022-07-30 22:19:18 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/New-mail-policy-for-New-Mexico-prison-inmates-in-17340510.php |
A combination of world-class building technologies, services and support will cover the full spectrum of heating and cooling needs in Central and West Coast Florida
MINNEAPOLIS, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Daikin Applied today announced that it has acquired Carroll Air Systems, a Tampa, Fla.-based company that provides heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and services for commercial, industrial and institutional facilities. Supporting the Central and West Coast regions of Florida, Carroll Air Systems is a long-standing sales representative for Daikin and other leading HVAC equipment manufacturers, and is now part of the world's number one air-conditioning company.
The acquisition creates a sole source for comprehensive customer care, providing consulting engineers, contractors, and building owners and operators with the systems design support, solutions, services and parts they require for high-performing, sustainable buildings. Customers will have one destination for all HVAC needs from selecting and commissioning equipment to maintaining systems to upgrading or replacing technologies.
"Daikin Applied and Carroll Air Systems have a shared mission to deliver an unrivaled customer experience," said Jeff Drees, President and CEO of Daikin Applied. "Bringing the Carroll Air team into our organization fits our culture and structure. However, it's our customers that will ultimately benefit. They will have access to the most proven, experienced professionals in the region — specialists now backed by the innovation, resources and capabilities of a global leader."
Carroll Air Systems has been a mainstay of the construction and building management industry, involved in the development and renovation of airports, hospitals and clinics, offices, schools and other facilities across parts of Florida.
"We recently celebrated our 51-year anniversary," said Phillip Carroll, CEO of Carroll Air Systems. "With this move, we'll have the resources and roadmap to deliver quality air, efficiency and sustainability for the next half century and beyond. I'm excited about the future of this organization, and our ability to evolve with and support our customers throughout their HVAC journey."
Daikin Applied's regional service operations will combine with the Carroll Air Systems service team. Phillip Carroll will lead the merged operations, including service, sales and parts, which will now do business as Daikin Applied Central and West Coast Florida.
For additional details on Daikin Applied, and its full range of commercial and industrial HVAC equipment and solutions, connect to www.daikinapplied.com. Also, follow the company on LinkedIn for the latest on HVAC technology, services and trends.
About Daikin Applied Americas
Daikin Applied, a member of Daikin Industries, Ltd., designs and manufactures advanced commercial and industrial HVAC solutions for customers around the world. The company's technology and services play a vital role in creating comfortable, efficient and sustainable spaces to work and live — and in delivering quality air to workers, tenants and building owners. Daikin Applied solutions are sold through a global network of dedicated sales, service and parts offices. For more information or to locate a Daikin Applied representative, visit www.daikinapplied.com or call 800-432-1342.
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Human Factors Validation Study demonstrated that adolescents and adults could follow the instructions to correctly administer NaxSwab™ OTC in a simulated emergency environment
BETHESDA, Md., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pocket Naloxone Corp., a startup pharmaceutical company with the vision of enhancing naloxone delivery, announced results from a human factors validation study, using the intend-to-market packaging and labeling, demonstrated that laypersons of varied ages and reading comprehension levels and HCPs (healthcare professionals) were successfully able to administer its novel naloxone nasal swab NaxSwab™ in a simulated emergency rescue environment to potentially revive someone from an opioid overdose. The study enrolled sixty participants in four 15-member cohorts, pre-defined by the FDA, encompassing Naïve Passersby, Adult Patients and Lay Caregivers, Adolescents with ages 10-17 years and a mix of HCPs comprising paramedics, pharmacists and nurses.
The study was conducted by Eurofins Human Factors MD. Participants were asked to use the product in a home setting while exposed to stressors, to render aid to a manikin lying prone on the floor. They were not allowed to read the packaging or instructions ahead of time and at least about 30 percent of subjects in each non-HCP cohort had low literacy rates. Results showed that almost all (41 of 45) lay participants and all 15 HCP participants were able to administer an initial dose, call for emergency help, and administer a second dose when symptoms persisted or returned. Very few issues that could have impacted dosing were identified, all of which were observed in lay participants with 4th-8th grade reading levels. The FDA had requested that efforts be made to obtain an improved success rate relative to FDA's CONFER LCS study for the 'Call 911' step and with appropriate label enhancements, a 100% success rate was achieved in the company's current study.
Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that acts by blocking the effects of opioids at the opioid receptors. Clinical practitioners believe that faster naloxone absorption into the bloodstream could provide an advantage to help revive someone in the presence of highly potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Previously, the company reported that for the critical early exposure period, in the PK study, NaxSwab™ OTC was associated with a 10-fold higher naloxone exposure (i.e., AUC or area under the curve) at 2.5 minutes post dose and more than a 3-fold higher naloxone exposure at 5 minutes post dose compared to the 0.4 mg IM naloxone reference product. NaxSwab™ OTC was associated with a 74% higher naloxone exposure at 2.5 minutes post-dose and 19% higher naloxone exposure at 5 minutes post-dose compared to 4 mg naloxone spray.
"We noted the Advisory Committee's unanimous vote to approve OTC naloxone nasal spray in February of this year. It's critical to make naloxone more accessible to the community. Our company's mission has always been to develop a low-priced naloxone product to be truly affordable and accessible that at the same time demonstrates faster early absorption into the bloodstream to meet this moment with fentanyl and is easy to use," commented Ashanthi Mathai, CEO and Co-founder of Pocket Naloxone Corp. "To that point, we are pleased that our human factors validation study results show that our simple, ready-to-use naloxone nasal swab can be correctly administered by children and adults."
About Pocket Naloxone Corp.
Pocket Naloxone Corp.'s vision is to help in facilitating a world free of opioid overdose deaths and its mission is to meet the FDA's unprecedented call for an OTC naloxone product. The company's goal is to make its NaxSwab™ naloxone nasal swab available at a low, affordable cost once approved to be accessible regardless of insurance coverage and other factors. The company has other pipeline assets in development utilizing the same nasal swab applicator delivery platform. www.pocketnaloxone.com.
About Eurofins Human Factors MD
Eurofins Human Factors MD, LLC is one of the preeminent leaders in the human factors industry who have played a critical role in many successful regulatory submissions, several of which are emergency-use products. The company's mission is to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies develop products that are both usable and accessible by developing and executing upon rigorous human factors tests to ensure this is the case.
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LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SESAC Performing Rights hosted its annual Film & Television Composer Awards at the Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday, June 2. The invitation-only event was attended by some of the industry's top executives, publishers, and composers. The awards dinner honored SESAC's top composers in the categories of film, network television, local television, cable television, and streaming media.
"This year seems particularly special, as we join together to celebrate the achievements of our writers," said Erin Collins, SESAC's Vice President of Film, Television, and Developing Media. "We're thrilled to have some new faces and honored to represent our legacy composers. We are always humbled by the incredible talent and accomplishments of our composers and grateful we can come together as a community to celebrate their successes."
Christophe Beck was honored for his film composition of Free Guy, while Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart – The Newton Brothers – were honored for The Forever Purge. In other categories, several television composers including Danny Lux, Gabriel Mann, and Jon Ehrlich, took home awards, recognizing the compositions to some of the industry's most popular shows to include A Million Little Things, Grey's Anatomy, Manifest, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and many more.
For a fill list of honorees, click here.
SESAC Performing Rights is the second oldest PRO in the U.S. It drives efficiency in licensing for music users and enhances value for its affiliated writers, publishers, and composers by providing timely, efficient royalty collection and distribution. SESAC represents thousands of top-tier songwriters and film composers from a broad range of genres including artists such as Adele, Christophe Beck, Rosanne Cash, David Crosby, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Lalah Hathaway, Kesha, Gabriel Mann and many more. SESAC Music Group is a leader and innovator in music licensing that administers public performance, mechanical, and other rights through SESAC Performing Rights and its affiliates including The Harry Fox Agency, Rumblefish, and Mint Digital Services. SESAC Music Group has offices in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London and Munich.
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FULTON, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — New York State Police in Fulton are looking for a 37-year-old who was reported missing by his family and friends.
Michael Burr was last seen in January of 2023, in the Town of Schroeppel. Burr is homeless, but has been seen in Oswego County and the city of Syracuse frequently.
He is 5 feet 6 inches tall, 180 pounds, medium build, brown eyes, short brown hair and brown facial hair.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged Friday to help troubled energy giant Uniper after it asked the government for a bailout to cope with surging prices for natural gas due to the war in Ukraine.
In a statement, Uniper said the “stabilization measures” it is seeking were “aimed at ceasing the current accumulation of substantial losses, covering Uniper’s liquidity needs and protecting Uniper’s investment-grade credit rating.”
Scholz assured the company — Germany’s biggest importer of Russian gas — of the government’s support.
“This is a company that is of great important to large parts of the economy and to many consumers,” he said during a visit to a trade fair in Munich. “Everyone can be sure: we will play our part to save Uniper.”
The company said its major shareholder, Finland-based Fortum, was also in talks with the German government to “address the negative impact of the current gas supply restrictions on Uniper.”
“Fortum’s proposal includes a restructuring of Uniper aiming at establishing a security of supply company under the ownership of the German government,” it said.
While the government could take a big stake in Uniper to keep the company afloat or let it pass on higher purchasing costs to consumers, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Friday that the next steps were still being discussed.
“We won’t let a systemically relevant company become insolvent and cause turbulences on the global energy markets,” he said. “We will act.”
Uniper downgraded its financial outlook for this year last week, pointing to a sharp reduction in gas deliveries by Russia’s Gazprom in recent weeks that has forced it to buy substitute supplies at significantly higher prices.
“Since Uniper cannot yet pass on these additional costs, this results in significant financial burdens,” it said at the time.
Germany activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for gas supplies last month. Triggering the third stage would allow the government to determine which sectors and companies gas suppliers need to prioritize, effectively amounting to state energy rationing.
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LONDON, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wirex, a leading crypto payments company, is expanding the suite of top-up methods on their non-custodial wallet for Indian customers. The addition of this popular payment option to purchase crypto will make the digital economy more accessible for over 1 billion people in India.
The Wirex Wallet is available globally and was created to make the benefits of DeFi available for everyday users. Considered one of the most accessible wallet products available, it offers an industry-leading user interface and high level of convenience, allowing users to manage over 100 different cryptocurrencies and NFTs from their mobile device. Wirex prioritises security, with resilient multi-computation (MPC) technology as well as a unique, keyless access system using biometrics.
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Wirex has rapidly expanded the blockchains offered on the Wirex Wallet to give users more choice, including Ethereum, Fantom, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, and recently, the Polygon blockchain. Combining the best of Ethereum and sovereign blockchains, Polygon has already proven hugely popular across the globe thanks to its low fees, fast transaction speeds and highly secure nature.
Pavel Matveev, CEO and Co-Founder of Wirex, commented: "Having already gained a global reputation for innovation, we've released the Wirex Wallet to enable mainstream users to benefit from DeFi. Extending the features and functionality for customers in India is the next step in this. As the largest crypto market in the world, it's important that we provide a best in-class experience for users by offering the ultimate convenience, flexibility and security when using the app."
Antoni Martin, Enterprise Lead at Polygon, commented: "Wirex continues to add new features and functionality to its user-focused platform and its expansion of payment methods will add to its work in onboarding new users as seamlessly as possible. Polygon is delighted to be a part of these efforts, and we hope we can do our part for the increased adoption of cryptocurrencies around the world."
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About Wirex
Wirex is a worldwide digital payment platform and regulated institution that has forged new rules in the digital payments space. In 2015, the firm developed the world's first crypto-enabled payment card that gives users the ability to seamlessly spend crypto and traditional currencies in real life.
Wirex was created in 2014 by CEOs and co-founders Pavel Matveev and Dmitry Lazarichev, who identified the need to open up the esoteric world of cryptocurrencies and make digital money accessible for everyone. With the core aim of making it as easy as possible to use digital assets in everyday life, Wirex provides a trusted and cost-effective service for crypto and traditional currency transactions by incorporating the next generation of payments infrastructure integrated with cryptocurrency blockchains
With over 5 million customers across 130 countries, the company offers secure accounts that allow customers to easily store, buy and exchange multiple currencies instantly at the best live rates on one centralised mobile app. Quick and simple crypto transfer options are available, as well as the freedom to spend 150+ traditional and cryptocurrencies in more than 68 million locations around the world using the Wirex card.
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The U.S. Department of Education will forgive $5.8 billion of federal student loans for those who attended Corinthian Colleges, a chain of for-profit schools that deceived students about their job placement rates and students' ability to transfer credits.
It is the single largest discharge of student loans in history, according to the department.
The move, which was announced Wednesday, will impact 560,000 borrowers, the Education Department said.
'Wholesale financial exploitation'
In 2015, the Education Department found that Corinthian had "engaged in widespread and pervasive misrepresentations" about borrowers' future job prospects, including promises they would find a job.
The Department also found that Corinthian had falsified its public job-placement rates and misled prospective students about their ability to transfer credits.
"For far too long, Corinthian engaged in the wholesale financial exploitation of students, misleading them into taking on more and more debt to pay for promises they would never keep," Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said.
Central to the case against Corinthian was California's then-Attorney General, Kamala Harris, who sued the company in 2013, alleging it used deceptive and false advertising and recruitment tactics.
Harris' case against Corinthian helped lay the groundwork for the Education Department's 2015 findings against the chain, which allowed defrauded students to apply for loan cancellation under a provision known as borrower defense.
Since then, the Department says, roughly 100,000 Corinthian borrowers have had their debts discharged through the traditional borrower defense process.
With this latest news, though, the Department is dispensing with the need for an application and automatically erasing all remaining federal student loan debts for any borrower who attended a Corinthian campus.
Students affected do not have to take any further action to receive a discharge, and the government says it will begin notifying borrowers soon.
"It's a tremendous victory," says Eileen Connor, who directs the Project on Predatory Student Lending. "It is going to improve the lives of so many people. It's going to end suffering for so many people. And it's the right thing to do. I'm overjoyed."
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. was founded in 1995 and later acquired several for-profit schools across the country.
In 2010, more than 110,000 students were enrolled across its 105 campuses, which included Everest colleges. But, by 2015, Corinthian had either sold or closed all of its campuses.
In 2016, Harris and the state of California won a judgment of $1.1 billion in their case, including $820 million in restitution on behalf of the students and $350 million in civil penalties.
$25 billion in loan forgiveness so far
This is just the latest – and largest – effort by the Biden administration to provide targeted student loan relief.
In February, for the first time, the department said it would grant borrower defense claims while the school accused of defrauding borrowers, DeVry University, remained open for business.
The Education Department has also made it easier for borrowers to shed their debts through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and a separate loan discharge program for borrowers with permanent disabilities – both had been the subjects of NPR investigations.
In all, the Biden Administration says, it has approved $25 billion in loan forgiveness for 1.3 million borrowers.
It's not clear, though, what this move says, if anything, about the possibility of broader loan forgiveness.
Pressure has been building on the White House, which has repeatedly leaked to reporters that Biden could soon announce plans to forgive $10,000 per borrower, with some income limits. But officially, the White House insisted late last week that "no decisions have been made yet."
This story has been updated with new details
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CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BPOC, one of the longest tenured pure-play healthcare investors, today announced a strategic investment in Praxis Packaging Solutions ("Praxis"), a leading provider of primary and secondary contract packaging services for over-the-counter ("OTC") and prescription ("Rx") pharmaceutical, medical device, animal health and health and beauty industries. As part of the transaction, Huizenga Group, which acquired Praxis in 2008, will retain a minority ownership interest in the company.
Founded in 1989, Praxis Packaging Solutions is the premier packaging solution for the healthcare industry with a wide range of capabilities including primary solid and liquid filling, as well as secondary packaging, repackaging, serialization and labeling. BPOC's investment will enable Praxis to expand its sales and marketing team and broaden its existing service offering. BPOC will also tap its network of industry experts to accelerate value creation, including John Lowry, former CEO of Amerigen Pharmaceuticals and Catalent Pharma Solutions, who will join Praxis as Executive Chairman.
"For over 30 years, Praxis has provided flexible, high-quality contract packaging services across the healthcare sector. BPOC is excited to partner with the company's proven management team and John Lowry to enhance Praxis' unique market position and capabilities," said Adam Hentze, Principal at BPOC.
"We are very proud of everything that we have achieved with Huizenga Group's support. As we enter an exciting phase of growth, we are very happy to welcome BPOC," said Richard King, President and CEO at Praxis Packaging Solutions. "BPOC is a true industry leader, and I am confident that they are the right strategic partner for our business."
"Praxis has an incredible management team, and it has been a pleasure to work together to grow the business since 2008. We see BPOC as a great go-forward partner, we remain committed to Praxis and are optimistic about its future prospects," said J.C. Huizenga, Chairman of Huizenga Group.
SVB Securities served as financial advisor and Honigman LLP served as legal counsel to Huizenga Group in connection with the transaction. Paul Hastings LLP served as legal counsel to BPOC and Twin Brook Capital Partners provided debt financing.
Founded in 1996, BPOC is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests exclusively in healthcare companies and is one of the nation's most experienced investors in the industry having raised five funds with total capital commitments of nearly $1.8 billion. BPOC has invested in numerous providers, manufacturing, outsourcing, distribution and information technology companies through growth equity, management buyouts and leveraged recapitalizations. For more information, visit www.bpoc.com/
Established in 1989 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, Praxis Packaging Solutions specializes in primary and secondary contract packaging services for the OTC and Rx pharmaceutical, medical device, animal health and health and beauty markets. Praxis is FDA, DEA, and cGMP certified and compliant with production facilities located in Grand Rapids, MI, Columbus, OH and Randolph, NJ. For more information, visit www.praxispackaging.com/
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ONE ACOSTA ROBBED DASH CAM VIDEO SHOWS THE MOMENT A NORFOLK SOUTHERN TRAIN DERAILED IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. CARS THAT CAREENING OFF THE TRACKS. I LOOKED UP AND THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF DEBRIS AND METAL SHOOT OUT FROM UNDER THE TRAIN CARS. NORFOLK SOUTHERN SAYING 28 OF THE 212 CARS DERAILED INCLUDED FOUR EMPTY TANKERS WITH RESIDUAL AMOUNTS OF DIESEL EXHAUST FLUID AND COMMON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS. ONCE WE GOT CREWS IN THERE, WE NOTICED THAT THERE WAS NO HAZARDS LEAKING, NO SPILLAGE. OHIO’S EPA DIRECTOR LOOKING TO REASSURE RESIDENTS IN THE AREA. THERE WAS NO RELEASE OF ANY CHEMICAL OR ANY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TO THE SOIL, TO THE AIR, TO THE WATER. WE WERE, OF COURSE, TRACKING THAT CLOSELY. THERE ARE
Latest Ohio derailment poses no public risk, officials say
Updated: 12:03 PM MST Mar 6, 2023
Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern cargo train between Dayton and Columbus, the second derailment of a company train in the state in a month.Norfolk Southern and Clark County officials say 28 of the southbound train’s 212 cars, including four empty tankers, derailed at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Springfield Township near a business park and the county fairgrounds. Springfield is about 46 miles (74 kilometers) west of the state capital of Columbus.As a precaution, residents living within 1,000 feet (305 meters) were asked to shelter in place and responding firefighters deployed the county hazmat team as a precaution, but officials early Sunday said there was “no indication of any injuries or risk to public health at this time.”A crew from Norfolk Southern, the hazmat team and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency “each independently examined the crash site and verified there was no evidence of spillage at the site,” officials said.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern cargo train between Dayton and Columbus, the second derailment of a company train in the state in a month.
Norfolk Southern and Clark County officials say 28 of the southbound train’s 212 cars, including four empty tankers, derailed at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Springfield Township near a business park and the county fairgrounds. Springfield is about 46 miles (74 kilometers) west of the state capital of Columbus.
As a precaution, residents living within 1,000 feet (305 meters) were asked to shelter in place and responding firefighters deployed the county hazmat team as a precaution, but officials early Sunday said there was “no indication of any injuries or risk to public health at this time.”
A crew from Norfolk Southern, the hazmat team and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency “each independently examined the crash site and verified there was no evidence of spillage at the site,” officials said. | https://www.koat.com/article/latest-ohio-derailment-poses-no-public-risk-officials-say/43216349 | 2023-03-06 19:14:07 | 0 | https://www.koat.com/article/latest-ohio-derailment-poses-no-public-risk-officials-say/43216349 |
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2023 will be here before you know it. If you're still figuring out your New Year's Eve plans, but don't forget about your outfit. End 2022 on a stylish note and start the new year feeling your best with a fire look.... that doesn't break your budget. There are so many affordable finds that will give you an extra boost of confidence to make the most of the big night.
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Lyaner Spaghetti Straps Split Hem Sleeveless Bodycon Midi Dress
Wow everyone you see with this spaghetti strap dress with a slit. You can't go wrong with black, but there are 26 additional colors to choose from.
Kolagri One Shoulder Cutout Bodycon Ruched Dress
It's the perfect time of year to wear velvet. This ruched number comes in 10 versatile colors.
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LONDON (AP) — Peter Brook, a British theater and film director known for an influential and distinguished career which saw him garner worldwide acclaim, has died. He was 97.
The two-time Tony Award winner, who had settled in France decades ago, directed the film adaptations of his best stage works as well as the 1963 movie “Lord of the Flies.”
Brook’s publisher Nick Hern Books said in a statement Sunday that he “leaves behind an incredible artistic legacy." French media reports said that Brook died in Paris on Saturday.
Born in London in 1925, Brook would go on to study at Oxford University and direct his first London show “Doctor Faustus” while he was still a teenager.
After serving as director of productions at the Royal Opera House, he gained further notoriety through his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, or RSC, including “Titus Andronicus” starring Laurence Olivier.
He was a Tony Award winner for Best Direction in 1966 for his interpretation of Peter Weiss’ “Marat/Sade,” and in 1970 for the production of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream."
Brook was also the recipient of an Olivier Award, an Emmy and an International Emmy during his seven-decade career.
After settling in Paris in the 1970s, the director founded the International Center for Theater Research, for which he would regenerate the rundown Bouffes du Nord theater in the French capital.
Worldwide recognition also saw him honored with art prizes including Japan’s Praemium Imperiale, Italy’s Prix Italia, and most recently Spain’s Princess of Asturias in 2019.
British actor Adrian Lester, who worked with Brook across RSC productions of Hamlet, tweeted he had been a “giant in our field.”
Brook was married to actress Natasha Parry from 1951 before she died following a stroke in 2015. They are survived by two children, Irina and Simon, both of whom are directors. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/British-theater-film-director-Peter-Brook-dies-17282141.php | 2022-07-03 15:08:02 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/British-theater-film-director-Peter-Brook-dies-17282141.php |
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced the pricing of a public offering of $500 million of 5.05% senior unsecured notes due January 13, 2026 (the "2026 notes"), which are callable at par on January 13, 2024 (the "2026 Notes Par Call Date"), and $600 million of 4.85% senior unsecured notes due March 15, 2030 (the "2030 Notes"). The public offering price for the 2026 Notes was 99.618% of the principal amount for an effective semi-annual yield to maturity of 5.189% and the public offering price for the 2030 Notes was 98.813% of the principal amount for an effective semi-annual yield to maturity of 5.047%.
In conjunction with the pricing of the 2026 notes, the Company executed a three-year, $500 million fixed-to-variable interest rate swap, which is subject to the counterparties' right to terminate the swap at any time following the 2026 Notes Par Call Date and results in an effective variable borrowing rate of SOFR minus 0.0347% thereunder for the duration of the swap. The Company intends to use these variable rate borrowings in lieu of borrowing under the Company's revolving credit facility, which, as of December 31, 2022, permits U.S. borrowings at an interest rate of SOFR plus 0.725% with a SOFR adjustment charge of 0.10% and a revolving credit facility commitment fee.
The net proceeds from this offering will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, the repayment or repurchase of Realty Income's indebtedness (including borrowings under Realty Income's $4.25 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility or Realty Income's multi-currency commercial paper programs), foreign currency or interest rate swaps or other hedging instruments, the development and acquisition of additional properties and other acquisition or business combination transactions, and the expansion and improvement of certain properties in Realty Income's portfolio.
This offering is expected to close on January 13, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The active joint book-running managers for the offering are Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, and Morgan Stanley.
A copy of the prospectus supplement and prospectus, when available, related to this offering may be obtained by contacting: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer Service, Email: wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com, by telephone (toll free) at 1-800-645-3751, BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, Email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com, by telephone (toll free) at 1-800-294-1322, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, by telephone (collect) at 1-866-471-2526 or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, by telephone (toll free) at 1-866-718-1649.
These securities are offered pursuant to a Registration Statement that has become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities are only offered by means of the prospectus included in the Registration Statement and the prospectus supplement related to the offering. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction where, or to any person to whom, the offer, solicitation, or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Realty Income
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,700 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 630 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 54-year operating history and increased the dividend 118 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used in this press release, the words "estimated," "anticipated," "expect," "believe," "intend," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements also include discussions of our business and portfolio including portfolio acquisitions and the related properties timing, concentrations, rent, properties, clients, and impact to the current portfolio, future operations and results, the announcement of operating results, strategy, plans, and the intentions of management. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us, which may cause our actual future results to differ materially from expected results. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are, among others, our continued qualification as a real estate investment trust; general domestic and foreign business and economic conditions; competition; fluctuating interest and currency rates; access to debt and equity capital markets; continued volatility and uncertainty in the credit markets and broader financial markets; other risks inherent in the real estate business including our clients' defaults under leases, potential liability relating to environmental matters, illiquidity of real estate investments, and potential damages from natural disasters; impairments in the value of our real estate assets; changes in income tax laws and rates; the continued evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit its spread, and its impacts on us, our business, our clients (including those in the theater industry), or the economy generally; the timing and pace of reopening efforts at the local, state and national level in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and developments, such as the unexpected surges in COVID-19 cases, that cause a delay in or postponement of reopenings; the outcome of any legal proceedings to which we are a party or which may occur in the future; acts of terrorism and war; any effects of uncertainties regarding whether the anticipated benefits or results of our merger with VEREIT, Inc. will be achieved; and those additional risks and factors discussed in our reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Those forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future plans and performance and speak only as of the date of this press release. Actual plans and operating results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in this press release. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements were made.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Could there be a new sheriff in Wake County?
The Wake County Sheriff's Office Democratic primary is headed to a runoff as it appears no candidate received the required 30% + 1 margin needed to secure a victory Tuesday night.
With all 208 county precincts reporting unofficial results, Willie Rowe held a a 4,620 vote lead over incumbent Sheriff Gerald Baker in a primary that drew seven candidates.
Rowe has 29.45% of the vote, just below the threshold. Baker finished with 24.11% of the vote. Cedric Herring came in third with 16.29%, 6,765 votes behind Baker.
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Assuming no marked change to these results, Rowe will face off against Baker in a runoff.
Making sure that we're good stewards of the taxpayer's dollar," Baker said Tuesday night. "That budget is a very serious thing, it's over $100 million. That was a question coming in in '18, if I could handle it or not. Well, we've done that. Drugs in our county. We're doing a great job. We're taking big drugs off the streets of Wake County."
On the Republican side, the results were far more clear.
Former Sheriff Donnie Harrison unofficially won 80% of the vote, defeating Tivon Howard and David Blackwelder.
Harrison served as Wake County sheriff from 2002-2018 before losing to Baker in the general election.
Should Rowe prevail over Baker in the runoff, the former Wake County deputy would square off in the general election against Harrison, against whom he had an unsuccessful sheriff bid some years back.
Whoever wins the Democratic runoff, Harrison will see a familiar foe.
"Well, I love law enforcement. It's all I've ever done," Harrison said Tuesday night. "With all the stuff that's going on throughout this country, we've got to have somebody who's going to enforce the law. And I feel like I'm the right person."
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