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AdCellerant makes quality digital marketing accessible to every business.
DENVER, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The cookieless future is approaching. With the depreciation of cookies, the industry is shifting to cookieless. But what does that actually mean? It means we'll have to rely on other identifiers such as IP addresses, device IDs, email, and phone numbers to link the user's actions.
Everyone is looking for a way to develop a new infrastructure that will not effectively restart the industry completely, but rather replace the mechanism with another ID that accomplishes similar targeting and measurement.
"I don't think the spirit of advertising will change a lot, just the technology behind it." - Adam Shaffner, Director of Product Management at AdCellerant.
About the whitepaper
The goal of this whitepaper is to inform our partners and prospective clients about this ever-changing industry and topic. We want them to feel informed and prepared for the future decisions they'll need to make for their business. By downloading the whitepaper, individuals will be able to learn more about the following:
- The definition of cookies and cookieless
- Why you shouldn't be afraid of going cookieless
- The Google Privacy Sandbox
- The future of data collection
- Key data and stats
- Products and solutions that do (or don't) rely on cookies
- What lies ahead
Our team of experts at AdCellerant continues to stay on top of the changes and vet new technology to keep up with this ever-changing industry. We've also partnered with the IAB in 2022 to ensure we are a part of the larger conversation when it comes to the cookieless future.
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'Rogue wave' kills American woman, injures four on Antarctic cruise
One passenger was killed and four injured when a "rogue wave" hit their cruise ship during a storm earlier this week.
The passengers had been taking an Antarctic cruise aboard the Viking Polaris when it was hit by the storm as it sailed towards Ushuaia, Argentina, late on Tuesday evening.
The storm caused a giant wave that broke several panes of glass on the cruise ship and these fell onto and killed an American woman.
Viking Cruises confirmed in a statement issued Saturday that the ship had been hit by a "rogue wave" — a type of wave the U.S. National Ocean Service describes as being "greater than twice the size of surrounding waves."
"It is with great sadness that we confirmed a guest passed away following the incident," Viking Cruises said.
It did not reveal the passenger's name or nationality.
However, the Argentine state news agency Telam said the dead passenger was an American woman who "received blows from a glass surface that collapsed in the middle of the storm."
"Four other guests sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the incident and were treated by the ship's onboard doctor and medical staff," Viking said.
The cruise line said it is investigating and has canceled the Viking Polaris' next trip scheduled for Dec. 5 to 17.
The boat arrived in Argentina Wednesday and had sustained "limited damage" during the incident, Viking Cruises said.
The U.S. National Ocean Service describes rogue waves as being "very unpredictable" and says they often come unexpectedly from directions other than prevailing wind and waves." | https://www.kcra.com/article/rogue-wave-kills-american-woman-injures-four-on-antarctic-cruise/42139425 | 2022-12-03 13:52:39 | 0 | https://www.kcra.com/article/rogue-wave-kills-american-woman-injures-four-on-antarctic-cruise/42139425 |
A New Jersey bus monitor was charged with manslaughter after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died after the bus ride to school on Monday.
Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald’s office said in a press release that at about 9 a.m. on Monday, the Franklin Township Police Department responded to reports of an unresponsive juvenile.
As soon as officers arrived, they began administering CPR to the 6-year-old child until emergency crews arrived and transported her to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Detectives from the department as well as with the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Unit conducted an investigation which found the 6-year-old girl with special needs attended an extended school year program at a school in the township.
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The girl used a wheelchair and was taken to the school from her home on July 17, on a bus.
Once on the bus, the bus monitor, 27-year-old Amanda Davila, secured the child and her wheelchair in the back of the bus.
WISCONSIN CHILD KILLED BY SWERVING PICKUP TRUCK AT SCHOOL BUS STOP
The prosecutor’s office said there was a series of bumps in the road during the ride that caused the 6-year-old to slump over in her chair, causing the 4-point harness securing her to the chair to tighten around her neck and block her airway.
Davila was allegedly seated forward in the front of the bus while wearing earbuds in both ears and using a mobile phone, which was in violation of policies and procedures, investigators learned.
Davila was arrested on Wednesday because of the investigation, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.
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She was charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, then booked into the Somerset County Jail, pending a detention hearing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit at 908-231-7100 or the Franklin Township Police at 732-873-5533.
Information can also be provided through the county Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS (8477). | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/new-jersey-6-year-old-dies-after-bus-ride-to-school-bus-monitor-charged-with/article_775409d5-816e-5ccc-ac0f-298865251e27.html | 2023-07-20 23:29:24 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/new-jersey-6-year-old-dies-after-bus-ride-to-school-bus-monitor-charged-with/article_775409d5-816e-5ccc-ac0f-298865251e27.html |
California's Chef Mike Fischetti earns Certified Angus Beef top chef honors.
WOOSTER, Ohio, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With an eye for intentional and seasonal ingredients, Chef Mike Fischetti changes his menu at The Pocket in Carmel-by-the-Sea every four weeks or so to highlight new flavors and inspire creativity in his kitchen.
His passion for culinary innovation and disguising familiar flavors in dishes that are entirely new earned Fischetti the 2023 Certified Angus Beef Chef of the Year award.
"I've always personally kind of walked against the grain. So even though this is a town steeped in tradition and keeping their menus very similar, I didn't want to be that restaurant and I didn't want to be that chef," Fischetti says. "I always want to be ever-evolving and whether it's a transient town that's driven by tourism or not, we still have a core group of locals and I want them to have something different every time they come into the restaurant."
Flavors of The Pocket
Fischetti joined The Pocket two years after it opened. Today, his menu is the perfect complement to the restaurant's namesake.
The Pocket is the perfect place to be; it's a feeling—one where you're surrounded by great friends, great views and, of course, great food, all the things you enjoy most in life.
"The menu is very eclectic and very seasonally driven, so it changes quite often. We try to have the vibe of being the place to be in town," Fischetti explains.
Food is a journey, he says. It's more than feeding yourself with substance.
That's why Fischetti cooks with the seasons and serves only the best.
Introduced to the Certified Angus Beef ® brand early in his culinary career, the consistency and quality of the product are what keeps it on his menu wherever he goes.
Fischetti has been a Certified Angus Beef ® brand ambassador for the last 13 years. During this time, he's connected with the brand's network of chefs and pitmasters, and visited family Angus ranches across the country.
"It's an honor to be recognized by Certified Angus Beef as the Chef of the Year because I know that there are so many great chefs that work with the brand, and to be recognized just this one year of being the best, that means a lot," Fischetti shares.
To be the best, Fischetti focuses not only on the ingredients themselves, but also on his family's heritage and personal experiences, which lend a heavy hand in his creations.
One of the newest menu items is Certified Angus Beef ® pastrami croquettes. Brisket brined for 14 days, smoked in-house and then ground for the filling, each ingredient is intentionally crafted. The sauerkraut, pickles and even the special mustard sauce are made from scratch in-house.
"My whole family is from Brooklyn, New York. I grew up eating in Jewish delis. So, the idea of taking a Jewish deli sandwich and turning it into something that's not recognizable but using those same flavor profiles is a big part of my cooking style," the chef says. "I like to take classic dishes and make them unrecognizable. But once you start eating it, you're like, 'Oh yeah, that's where that came from.'"
Fischetti says that flavors should bring you back to a core memory.
"Cooking with my grandmother, cooking with my mom, and every time I take a bite of these, it triggers a childhood memory."
With Chef Mike Fischetti at the helm, The Pocket really is a place to be—it's full of friends and family, and dishes that keep you coming back again and again.
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Mark Wangrin and his wife, Barbara, put on their athletic gear and drove to their Austin, Texas, fitness center for an early morning Sunday workout. Mark hopped on treadmill No. 1. Barbara climbed onto a nearby rower. Then she switched to weights.
While running, Mark glanced at the digital board in the front of the room that tracked people's workout statistics. His heart rate was registering at 240 beats per minute. He thought it was a technology glitch and kept going.
Soon after, he collapsed.
"We need a doctor or nurse at treadmill one!" a coach yelled.
Barbara was the first to reach Mark. He lay on the ground beside the equipment. His face had turned Smurf blue.
A certified physical therapy assistant who's taken annual CPR training for the last dozen years, Barbara knew exactly what to do.
"The tape started playing in my mind when I saw Mark on the floor," Barbara said. "The knowledge kicked right in."
She asked, "Mark, Mark. Are you OK?" Getting no response, she tilted his head back, checked his airway and gave her husband several rescue breaths. A doctor jumped off a nearby treadmill and began chest compressions, working with her in unison. The coach grabbed the center's automated external defibrillator, or AED. Then, they shocked Mark's heart with the AED as they waited for emergency responders.
When paramedics arrived, they inserted a tube into Mark's trachea to keep his airway open. Gym coaches comforted Barbara as she stayed by Mark's side.
In the ER, doctors determined Mark had experienced a sudden cardiac arrest.
The trauma caused his organs to begin shutting down. They put him in a medically induced coma and packed him in ice to cool his body and help save his failing organs.
When Barbara arrived in the ER, staff called hospital clergy. Mark was raised Catholic and Barbara Jewish. They raised their two children Jewish. The clergy was Muslim.
"He was very comforting, and I appreciated him so much," Barbara said. "I thought to myself, 'I'll pray to any god out there listening to me right now.'"
Doctors told Barbara that Mark's prognosis was dire. If he survived, he would likely have significant mental and physical complications.
Mark remained in a coma in the ICU. He recalls strange dreams: He was thirsty but couldn't get a drink; riding in a car that wouldn't make turns.
"The theme of them all was, I couldn't do what I wanted to do," he said.
Barbara sat by his bedside. She massaged his feet, washed his hair and played his favorite music – songs by Bruce Springsteen.
"You've got to be an advocate for your loved one," she said.
Mark collapsed in April 2021. He turned 61 while in the coma. That day, Barbara played Springsteen's "Surprise Surprise" on repeat. "Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes," the lyrics go. Their daughter, Makala, who was 25 at the time, brought a birthday tiara for her dad.
They decorated Mark's room with pictures of friends and family, including Mark's son, Ben, then 21, who was away at school at the time. The family gave Mark a stuffed dachshund, or "Faux Bo," a doll that's identical to Bo, the family dog. "It was important for me to tell Mark's story for him while he wasn't able to," Barbara said.
On his ninth day in the hospital, Mark woke up. His lips were chapped and he asked for ice cubes and oral mouth swabs soaked in water. "It was like heaven," he said.
Two days later, doctors put in his chest an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. The device will deliver shocks to his heart if it detects an irregular heartbeat. Two days after that, Mark left the hospital.
"I thought about my kids, how they were too young to lose their dad," Barbara said. "But Mark was in the right place at the right time with the right people."
On the way home from the hospital, Barbara bought Mark a smartwatch – blue to match how she found him on the gym floor – to track his heart rate.
Mark started rehab, walking on a treadmill and around the block at home. He worked hard. He was motivated to get stronger and earn the rehab center's "Keeping the Beat Alive" T-shirt. Mark ultimately earned two T-shirts.
"He's very goal-oriented and competitive," Barbara said.
At home, Mark cuddled Bo in bed and gained back some of the weight he'd lost in the hospital. Then, less than two months after collapsing, he returned to his government communications job, working from home.
On the first anniversary of his cardiac arrest, he returned to the gym – and to treadmill No. 1.
"I went through the whole workout with no problem," Mark said. "I'm not going to live in fear of this happening again. The only thing I can control is how I approach it and what I can do to help prevent it."
Now, nearly two years after his cardiac arrest, Mark eats healthier, practices mindfulness and regularly follows up with his doctor. He's on blood pressure medication and while he can't let his heart rate climb too high, he regularly rides his exercise bike.
As a recovering alcoholic who's 14 years sober, he's also applied lessons learned from recovery to his journey – asking for serenity and turning his will over to a higher power.
"I laugh more, mostly at myself," Mark added. "I look for silver linings, bright sides and humor in most everything."
He's taken a CPR and AED class in the last year, and says everyone should. He's learned that rescue breaths aren't always needed. Hands-only CPR can be just as effective.
"I'm alive only because other people knew what to do," Mark said.
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Prosecutors: R. Kelly should get at least 25 years in prison
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NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly, the R&B superstar known for his anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” deserves at least 25 years behind bars for sexually abusing women and girls, prosecutors said in a memo filed Wednesday in advance of his sentencing later this month.
A New York City jury found Kelly guilty of racketeering and multiple other counts last year at a sex-trafficking trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement. Prosecutors alleged that the entourage of managers and aides who helped Kelly meet girls — and keep them obedient — amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Several accusers testified in lurid detail during the trial, alleging that Kelly subjected his victims to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage.
Kelly used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.
“He continued his crimes and avoided punishment for them for almost 30 years and must now be held to account,” prosecutors wrote.
Kelly’s lawyers have argued that he deserves only a maximum of about 17 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
Among multiple sordid allegations, jurors heard testimony about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time.
Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.
The competing defense memo suggested prosecutors arguments for a higher sentence overreached by falsely claiming Kelly participated in the bribery of “a public aid officer to produce an identification card” that allowed the sham marriage to go forward.
Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career.
“The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say.
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Services for Mary Elizabeth Melton Dixon Raper, 82, of Temple, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Heights Baptist Church in Temple.
Mrs. Raper died Monday, Dec. 26, at her residence.
She was born Apr. 11, 1940, to Samuel Newton Melton and Ruth Adalia Fahnstrom in Austin. She graduated from Temple High School in 1958 and became a licensed vocational nurse. She worked at King’s Daughter’s Hospital as a floor and ER nurse; and worked at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in the cancer center. She was a member of Heights Baptist Church in Temple and volunteered at Feed My Sheep. She married John C. Raper Jr. on July 25, 1986.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Chris Dixon and Keith Dixon; a daughter, Kelli Dixon; 10 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Heights Baptist Church in Temple.
Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple is in charge of arrangements. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_4819b17a-8d2d-11ed-a972-3f74c35d9511.html | 2023-01-06 09:26:29 | 1 | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_4819b17a-8d2d-11ed-a972-3f74c35d9511.html |
LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardagh Group S.A. announces that its subsidiary, Ardagh Glass Packaging - Africa (formerly Consol Glass) has successfully completed the refinancing of the South African debt facilities assumed at the time of the Consol Glass acquisition in April 2022.
Under the terms of the refinancing, maturities have been extended to 2028, from 2023, and the total facilities were increased by approximately ZAR 3 billion. These facilities will support Ardagh Glass Packaging - Africa's investment program for additional capacity, principally the construction of a third furnace at the Nigel production facility, near Johannesburg, which is expected to commence production in late 2023. They also provide increased liquidity to support the business and operations.
This refinancing was undertaken with the existing syndicate of South African banks (FirstRand Bank, Standard Bank of South Africa, Nedbank and ABSA Bank) which continued to show their support to Ardagh Glass Packaging - Africa. This reflects the longstanding track record of the Ardagh Glass Packaging - Africa team and business, and its commitment to serve growing demand for sustainable glass packaging in the region.
Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging for brand owners around the world. Ardagh operates 65 metal and glass production facilities in 16 countries, employing more than 20,000 people with sales of approximately $10bn.
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Lance Lynn went more than an hour between appearances on the mound Wednesday against the Kansas City Royals.
What does a starting pitcher do during that stretch?
“Played cards,” Lynn joked. “No, I threw twice (in the tunnel). Had hot packs on the whole time. Ride the bike. It was an hour and 10 minutes of staying hot. I’m too old to sit down.”
A rain delay did not appear to affect the Chicago White Sox right-hander, who allowed one run on four hits in six innings in a 4-1 victory in front of 19,753 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“As soon as the first inning, that ball was jumping out of his hand,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said. “And when it jumps, it’s got life. Makes all his complementary pitches tougher because it all looks the same.
“That’s another plus in that rotation. You know what he’s capable of if he’s himself. Sure looks like it.”
Lynn struck out eight and didn’t surrender a walk, helping the Sox take two of three in the series.
“My favorite part of the afternoon was (Lynn) and his teammates, they didn’t get distracted,” La Russa said. “I really liked our concentration. Lynn led the way and we jumped early with some runs.”
Lynn received offensive support from José Abreu, who hit a three-run homer in a game that featured a 65-minute rain delay.
The rain came in the bottom of the second with the Sox ahead 1-0. Royals starter Brady Singer returned after the delay and struck out Adam Engel to end the inning.
Tim Anderson began the third for the Sox with a single. He moved to second on a one-out single by Eloy Jiménez, who went 3-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to nine games.
Abreu followed with his 14th homer. He has homered in three of his last four games and is slashing .375/.423/.574 with 12 doubles, five home runs and 23 RBIs in his last 35 games.
“Everybody gets better if you share the responsibility for starting rallies, moving them over and moving them in,” La Russa said.
The Sox had 12 hits, their third straight game with at least 10.
“We are all clicking,” said first baseman Andrew Vaughn, who went 2-for-4 with a run. “Stringing hits together, everybody was hitting the ball hard and finding holes and we were putting them all together and scoring runs, which is good.
“We put up 10-plus (hits) today. It’s a huge boost for our offense. Everyone, one through nine, is going up there swinging and it’s good.”
Lynn felt good before and after the delay. He allowed three singles, two to Brother Rice alumnus Michael Massey, and a solo home run to Bobby Witt Jr.
“When you’re looking in the grand scheme of things, you’re probably looking at two ups because you had to throw in the tunnel (during the delay),” Lynn said. “I threw to a catcher twice. So you’re looking at two more ups as the fourth inning by that time (the game resumes). So to get through the sixth was good.
“Would have liked to go deeper, but with an hour delay that wouldn’t have been smart.”
Relievers Jake Diekman (two), Kendall Graveman (three) and Liam Hendriks (one) combined for six strikeouts during the last three innings as the Sox wrapped up a 4-2 homestand.
By taking two of three against the Oakland Athletics and Royals, the Sox won consecutive home series for the first time since winning two of three against the Seattle Mariners on April 12-14 and Tampa Bay Rays on April 15-17.
The Sox remain two games behind the Minnesota Twins in the American League Central. Before Tuesday’s game, Sox general manager Rick Hahn discussed the desire to see the team recapture the “swagger” it displayed in the past.
Lynn said winning helps in that department.
“Day in and day out, we just have to keep playing hard, put quality at-bats together and make our pitches,” Lynn said. “When it’s all said and done and we do that and start winning some games, that’s when the swagger comes back. It’s hard to have swagger when you’re playing like (crap).”
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HINGHAM, Mass., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ONUG, the voice of the Global 2000 Enterprise Cloud Community, announced significant changes and additions to its governing boards, reflecting the organization's commitment to market enablement , innovation, and shaping the future of the enterprise IT sector.
ONUG welcomes Petek Ergul, Managing Director, Global Head of Telecommunication Services - HSBC, to its esteemed ONUG Board. Petek joins recent additional Board Members including Yesim Akdeniz, Managing Director for Network Services - Citi, Amarjeet Kaur, Director - Edward D Jones, and Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, EY Americas Cloud Cybersecurity Leader, Managing Director - EY. The ONUG Board comprises top enterprise technology leaders who set the direction for the initiatives that will best serve the interests of our ONUG member companies.
Petek will bring a wealth of experience, fresh perspectives, and unique insights that will undoubtedly contribute to the growth and continued success of the ONUG Community. Petek has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and leadership in the enterprise IT sector. Her invaluable contributions embody the spirit of ONUG and will play an integral role in furthering our mission and driving the organization's continued success.
"We are delighted to welcome Petek Ergul to the ONUG Board," said Nick Lippis, Chairman and Co-Founder of ONUG. "Her diverse expertise and proven vision will undoubtedly propel ONUG and the entire enterprise IT community forward."
In addition to the new board member, ONUG is excited to announce the expansion of the ONUG Collaborative Steering Committee, an essential component of the organization's mission to foster collaboration and innovation between ONUG's Community of Global 2000 enterprise professionals and the supplier community. The ONUG Collaborative Steering Committee will now include the enablement of network and security markets within large enterprises as well as the development of the hyperscale service provider market.
The expanded Collaborative Steering Committee, now named the Hyperscaler Network and Security Steering Committee, will enable the hyperscale service provider market through the identification, development, and implementation of large enterprise use cases and requirements that benefit from the consumption of hyperscale service provider services such as Network as a Service (NaaS). The role of hyperscale service providers is on the rise, with many service providers positioning themselves to leverage this growing trend.
Under the guidance of the new Steering Committee, the Private 5G Working Group will be added as an additional Working Group. This strategic addition highlights ONUG's commitment to exploring cutting-edge technologies and solutions through the lens of use cases that have the potential to revolutionize the enterprise mobility landscape.
The Hyperscaler Network and Security Steering Committee will be chaired by representatives from industry-leading organizations, including FedEx, Cigna, Raytheon Technologies, Fidelity Investments, HSBC, Cisco, Microsoft Azure, ONUG, and Google Cloud.
"We believe that the expanded mandate of the ONUG Collaborative Steering Committee, along with the addition of the Private 5G Working Group, will enable us to address the evolving needs of enterprise security, networking and mobility to provide innovative solutions for these markets," said Lippis. "The Hyperscaler Network and Security Steering Committee will play a pivotal role in driving collaboration and advancing the state of enterprise IT."
ONUG remains committed to fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing among enterprise IT professionals and suppliers that span equipment suppliers, service and cloud service providers. The organization's continued growth and success are a testament to the passion and dedication of its members, and with these new additions and changes to the governing boards, ONUG is poised for an even brighter future.
About ONUG
ONUG is the only organization composed of senior-level IT executives from the Global 2000 that represents the interests and initiatives of the Enterprise Community. Through its global event series, working groups, training academies, and webinars, ONUG plays a central role in the creation of new and improved tools to develop, manage, and secure the digital enterprise. ONUG's peer permission structure fosters the exchange of information among the world's largest organizations as they build and secure the digital economy. The ONUG Community is made up of IT leaders from Bank of America, Raytheon Technologies, Cigna, Citigroup, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Gap Inc., GE, Intuit, JP Morgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, State Street Bank, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Oath, and hundreds more. For more on ONUG, go to www.onug.net or follow on Twitter @ONUG and LinkedIn
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FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (NYSE: CHCT) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased its common stock cash dividend for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. This dividend, in the amount of $0.4425 per share, is payable on August 26, 2022 to shareholders of record on August 12, 2022. This dividend rate equates to an annualized dividend of $1.77 per share. Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated has increased its dividend every quarter since its Initial Public Offering.
About Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated
Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company") is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to the historical information contained within, the matters discussed in this supplemental operating and financial information package may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expects", "may", "should", "seeks", "approximately", "intends", "plans", "estimates", "anticipates" or other similar words or expressions, including the negative thereof. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections or other forward-looking information. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. Because forward-looking statements relate to future events, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of the control of Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company"). Thus, the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Some factors that might cause such a difference include the following: general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of the Company's common stock, changes in the Company's business strategy, availability, terms and deployment of capital, the Company's ability to refinance existing indebtedness at or prior to maturity on favorable terms, or at all, changes in the real estate industry in general, interest rates or the general economy, adverse developments related to the healthcare industry, the degree and nature of the Company's competition, the ability to consummate acquisitions under contract, effects on global and national markets as well as businesses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other factors described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Readers are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this supplemental operating and financial information package and undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking g statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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- WELL forms a new business unit to consolidate its Canadian outpatient clinic businesses into a highly integrated national 'bricks and clicks' clinic platform reflecting 'hybrid' care. The new business unit will include WELL's Primary Care, Allied Health, and MyHealth Specialized Care businesses and supports almost 1,300 healthcare practitioners.
- WELL has expanded its $200 million senior secured credit facilities(1) led by Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") and supported by a syndicate of lenders to encompass the Canadian Clinics Business Unit and extended it until 2026, providing the Company with additional access to credit to help grow WELL's fleet of outpatient clinic locations.
- WELL is ramping up its growth in new clinics. In the last couple of weeks, WELL has expanded its clinical presence with two new clinics: one each in Ontario and British Columbia and has established a strong pipeline of new prospects.
VANCOUVER, BC, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) (the "Company" or "WELL"), a practitioner focussed digital health company positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce it has formed a new legal entity called WELL Health Canada Clinics Inc. ("Canadian Clinics Business Unit") to house its Canadian omni-channel clinical businesses. These businesses include the Company's previous Primary Care, Allied Care and MyHealth Specialized Care business units.
The Canadian Clinics Business Unit represents WELL's owned and operated fleet of Omni-Channel outpatient clinics leveraging WELL's highly integrated 'hybrid' brick and mortar and virtual service capabilities and includes the Company's primary care, specialized care, allied health, and diagnostics services but does not include the Company's TiaHealth.com service which is part of WELL's Virtual Services division. This business unit supports almost 1,300 healthcare practitioners who provide 1.87 million patient visits annually on a run-rate basis(2); over 40% of these patients are seen remotely via one of WELL's virtual or telehealth platforms, with the remainder treated in one of WELL's 81 Canadian clinics(3). This business is also expected to generate revenues exceeding $160 million with double digit operating Adjusted EBITDA(4) margins. Driven by WELL's consolidation and capital allocation efforts, this business has been experiencing organic growth rates approaching double digit percentage growth. The Canadian Clinics business unit is a key pillar in WELL's mission to empower practitioners.
Dr. Michael Frankel, WELL's Chief Medical Officer, said "This consolidation of our Canadian clinics business provides WELL with the proper foundation to become a national health system providing the very best in highly integrated 'bricks and clicks' care. We are excited to provide healthcare practitioners with a compelling home where they are supported with exceptional front and back-office support and technology solutions so they can provide critical care to their patients. We intend on further developing our services from coast to coast."
WELL will look to continue its consolidation and modernization of healthcare resources in Canada powered by its organic growth and with the help of its funding partners RBC, the Bank of Montreal, HSBC Bank Canada, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, ICICI Bank Canada and Laurentian Bank of Canada (collectively the "Lenders"). RBC is the Lead Arranger, Sole Bookrunner, and Administrative Agent on the financing. The Lenders have amended previous MyHealth credit facilities to include the newly formed Canadian Clinics Business Unit, as well as provided an extension of their credit commitments for an incremental year, extending the maturity to June 2026. The facilities are currently priced at an interest rate which is equivalent to SOFR/CDOR plus 1.25% to 3.25%(5), depending on the debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio of the consolidated results for the Canadian Clinics Business Unit.
WELL's goal is to continue to grow Canada's largest network of outpatient clinics using a combination of greenfield sites and new acquisitions. WELL is pleased to confirm that it has added a primary care clinic in Vancouver to its network and a new greenfield haemorrhoid treatment center in Hamilton, Ontario. The Company's combined investment to add these two clinics to the network is less than $100k. The combined annual revenues of the two clinics are expected to exceed $2 million in their first year under WELL and be profitable. The Company's recently announced acquisition of Calgary based InLiv, a premium provider of healthcare services in the Province of Alberta, will also be part of the Canadian Clinics Business Unit upon closing and is expected to exceed $7 million per year in revenues with 85% of such revenue reflecting recurring membership revenue.
"We are thrilled to have the continued support of our banking partners and to announce the amendments to our existing Canadian credit facilities" said Hamed Shahbazi, CEO and Founder of WELL. "Our ability to expand our Canadian credit agreement with favourable terms in the present challenging macroeconomic environment is not only a testament to the fantastic support we are receiving from our banking partners but also the strength of WELL's outpatient clinic business. The updated credit facilities allow us to more efficiently deploy capital towards our strategic priorities and generate more shareholder value by improving our revenue and Adjusted EBITDA per share metrics."
WELL's objective is to continue to grow its Canadian Clinics Business Unit both organically and inorganically and continue to demonstrate market leadership as the country's first pan-Canadian clinical network with a highly integrated network of tech-enabled outpatient healthcare clinics across the country.
- The credit facilities amended are referenced in the press release dated 8 June 2021. The facilities include commitments for C$140 million senior secured credit facilities and an additional C$60 million uncommitted accordion feature.
- Run-rate patient visits is calculated by annualizing May 2022 patient visits figures.
- The 81 clinics include the primary care clinic in Vancouver and the haemorrhoid treatment centre in Hamilton. It does not include InLiv as the transaction has not closed.
- Non-GAAP financial measure. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("EBITDA") and Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as alternatives to net income/loss determined in accordance with IFRS. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not have any standardized meaning under IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. WELL defines Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA before transaction, restructuring, and integration costs, time-based earn-out expense, change in fair value of investments, share of loss of associates, foreign exchange gain/loss, and stock-based compensation expense. The Company considers Adjusted EBITDA a financial metric that measures cash that the Company can use to fund working capital requirements, service future interest and principal debt repayments and fund future growth initiatives.
- SOFR is a USD denominated benchmark interest rate based on transactions in the Treasury repurchase market, where investors offer banks, overnight loans backed by their bond assets. CDOR is a benchmark reference rate for bankers' acceptance (BA) borrowings denominated in Canadian dollars.
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Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
WELL is a practitioner focused digital healthcare company whose overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients. WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such, WELL owns and operates Canada's largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and on OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including without limitation WELL's future growth plans. Forward-Looking Information is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking Information generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-looking Information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such Forward Looking Information and, which are not guarantees of future performance. WELL's statements expressed or implied by Forward Looking Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking Information is qualified in their entirety by inherent risks and uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general; regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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POJOAQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Three Pojoaque High School grads gained national exposure for their company on the popular TV show, Shark Tank. Aaron Gonzales and Antonio Gonzales started the company in Arizona after Aaron’s home became infested with scorpions and Antonio’s son was stung by a scorpion and almost died.
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They created Slick Barrier to stop pests and critters from getting into people’s homes. The company was eventually selected to appear on Shark Tank, which was filmed last fall. “It’s definitely a lot different than what it shows on TV, we’re up there for a lot longer time than what it shows on television but we were really, really excited to get the Shark Lori that we ended up with,” says Aaron Gonzales.
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Three Hundred California Warehouse Workers Vote Overwhelmingly for Representation with Teamsters Local 630
LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Three hundred workers at Smart & Final Distribution Center in Riverside, Calif., have voted overwhelmingly, by a 4-1 margin, to join Teamsters Local 630 in Los Angeles. The California warehouse workers are seeking consistent standards, better health care, a path to retirement, an end of favoritism, job security, improved safety, and respect on the job.
This is the second group at the company to join Local 630 this year. In February, more than 300 workers in Commerce, Calif., voted overwhelmingly for Teamster representation.
"We voted to form our union with the Teamsters because we had no job security and no way of retiring with dignity," said Daniel Delgado, an 18-year warehouse worker at Smart & Final. "We felt voiceless. But now, with our fellow warehouse workers at our sister warehouse in Commerce, we will have a strong voice and power at the bargaining table for the future of our families."
After launching their organizing campaign, Delgado and his co-workers overcame a vicious anti-union campaign from management to win strong representation on the job.
"We started our struggle a few months ago due to lack of respect. We need fair treatment, improved working conditions, better pay, and enhanced benefits," said Roberto Cruz, a 15-year Smart & Final warehouse worker at the Riverside facility. "We took up the mantle and stood up for our rights knowing that the union will empower us and bring positive change."
Smart & Final is a chain of warehouse-style food and supply stores based in Commerce, Calif., and is owned by Mexican supermarket operator Chedraui.
"I want to congratulate workers at Smart & Final in Riverside for taking a courageous stand and flexing their collective muscle to elect Local 630 as their representative. These workers chose to stand in unity with their sisters and brothers at Smart & Final in Commerce, California. Now it's time for Smart & Final to respect their voices by negotiating a fair contract," said Lou Villalvazo, Local 630 Secretary-Treasurer and Southwest Food Chair for Teamsters Joint Council 42.
"Smart & Final workers were determined to win a better future, and I applaud them for their strength and unity throughout this hard-fought organizing campaign," said Tom Erickson, Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. "Congratulations to the entire team at Local 630 for leading the organizing effort and winning big at this company for the second time this year. Once again, Smart & Final workers have shown this company that when we stand together, we can win the toughest fights."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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'The View' hosts praise Biden's anti-'MAGA Republican' language: 'How is that divisive?'
Biden said Thursday that 'MAGA Republicans' threaten democracy
"The View" hosts reacted to President Biden's recent remarks on Tuesday slamming "MAGA Republicans" as threats to democracy.
ABC's "The View" returned on Tuesday for a new season and co-host Joy Behar said the "MAGA crowd" was "so sensitive."
"Joe Biden, let me just remind people, that he's getting bipartisan passing of veterans health care, infrastruction, gun safety, COVID relief and climate change. You know he cares about red states, because a lot of red states are underwater right now. Look what's happening in Mississippi right now," she said.
"You have somebody who cares about everybody, how is that divisive? But they will twist and he will twist everything around so everything comes back to him," she continued, referring to former president Donald Trump.
New co-host and former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on Biden's comments likening the "MAGA philosphy" to "semi-fascism."
"I take a little bit of issue with him broadly applying the term semi-fascism to Republicans," she said. Behar interjected and said "MAGA Republicans."
"I think Donald Trump is, I think the vast majority of his supporters are not. I think they are good people that want an economy that works for them, who saw more money in their paycheck under Donald Trump, and my fear is this, I think Biden wants to be a uniter but I don't think that speech was uniting," she said.
Co-host Sunny Hostin pushed back on Farah Griffin and said that a majority of Republicans believe Trump is the leader of the party.
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"60% to 70% of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is the leader of their party and so if you’re saying that he’s a fascist, what are they? If you are saying that he is a white supremacist, what are they? If you’re saying that he’s racist, what are they? Because if you follow someone that has hate in their heart, and I believe that he does, then you’re complicit in that. And you don’t get a pass on that," she argued.
Co-host Sara Haines emphasized that Biden was specifically talking about "MAGA" and said Biden's strategy was "smart."
"He's smartly playing to the independents because the independents are 41% of voters compared to only 28% of Democrats and Republicans, and so if you’re going for that middle ground, he just jumped nine points since July with independents. He’s playing a smart strategy," she said.
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During a campaign-style speech on Thursday in Philadelphia, the president said "MAGA Republicans" were a threat to democracy and added that democracy was "under assault."
Biden, during a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, said "MAGA Republicans" in Congress were full of anger and hate.
"I want to be very clear up front, not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology," Biden said."I know because I've been able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career."
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2023 Travelers Championship Schedule: Thursday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
On Thursday, June 22, golfers will play the par-70, 6,852-yard course at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut in the first round of the 2023 Travelers Championship, with a purse of $20M to be had. Xander Schauffele claimed the top spot the last time out at this tournament.
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- Start Time: 6:45 AM ET
- Venue: TPC River Highlands
- Location: Cromwell, Connecticut
- Par/Distance: Par 70/6,852 yards
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Northeast digs out from winter storm, faces power outages
By KATHY McCORMACK
Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Parts of New England and New York were digging out of a nor’easter Wednesday that caused tens of thousands of power outages, numerous school cancellations and whiteout conditions on the roads.
The storm began Monday night and lasted throughout Tuesday, dumping as much as 3 feet (91 centimeters) of snow and gusty winds before moving on. Others got just a few inches or a wintry mix. More high winds and below-normal temperatures were in Wednesday’s forecast before a warm-up later in the week.
Some of the highest snow totals reported were 35 inches (89 cm) in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and in Ashby, Massachusetts, about 15 miles away (24 kilometers), the National Weather Service said. At least 2 feet (60 cm) of snow fell in parts of northern New York and the Catskill Mountains, with Indian Lake in New York’s Adirondack Mountains recording 31 inches (79 cm).
About 220,000 customers in the region were without power Wednesday morning, according to the PowerOutage.us tracking site.
“We are still expecting this to be a multiday restoration effort,” Unitil spokesperson Alec O’Meara said. Crews from New York and Pennsylvania arrived to help bring back power in parts of Massachusetts and help assess damage from trees and downed lines.
There were concerns about roofs weighed down by the snow. An inflatable sports arena dome collapsed in Goffstown, New Hampshire, which received about 15 inches (38 cm) of snow. It wasn’t immediately known whether anyone was inside at the time or if there were any injuries.
Several cows were killed when a barn collapsed at a dairy farm in Dracut, Massachusetts. The owners of Shaw Farm said in a statement Tuesday that they “experienced one of life’s unexpected challenges,” adding that no staff members were hurt.
During the worst of the storm Tuesday, about 2,100 flights traveling to, from or within the U.S. were canceled, with Boston and New York City area airports seeing the highest number of scrubbed flights, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Numerous schools had been closed; many were running on a delayed schedule Wednesday.
As residents in the Northeast dealt with the storm’s aftermath, forecasters warned of more flooding and potentially damaging winds as a new atmospheric river pushed into a swamped California. So far this winter, California has been battered by 10 previous atmospheric rivers, long plumes of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, as well as powerful storms fueled by arctic air that produced blizzard conditions. | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/15/northeast-digs-out-from-winter-storm-faces-power-outages/ | 2023-03-15 12:55:22 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/15/northeast-digs-out-from-winter-storm-faces-power-outages/ |
Where’s Shane? Taco Fest
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 10:51 AM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - It may not be Tuesday, but this morning we’re gettin’ our taco on. Taco Fest is this weekend-- and this morning we’re out at Taco Locale cookin’ up some delicious food, and getting all the details on Taco Fest! Taco fest is Saturday, June 25th -- and you can find more information on it at festiveict.com/wichita-taco-fest.
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Audubon continued its impressive defensive start to the season, posting its sixth shutout with a 1-0 win over Woodstown in Woodstown.
The Green Wave scored the only goal of the game in the second half and improved to 7-2 overall.
Jordana Fredo made seven saves in a losing cause for the Wolverines, who fell to 5-4.
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HUNTINGTON — Mallory Crowder and Alanna McKenzie combined for 31 points and Riverside survived some off-target free throws in the fourth period to edge Huntington St. Joe, 45-41, Friday night at the St. Joe gym.
The Lady Warriors (3-2) used a 10-0 run in the third period to break from a 19-19 tie at the half for a 29-19 lead. The Lady Irish wouldn’t go away and cut the lead to 33-32 with 6:54 left on a basket by Chloe Lee.
McKenzie, a senior as is Crowder, then reeled off six straight points to put Riverside up, 39-34, with 4:24 left. Niko Kaufmann countered for the Lady Irish with a basket to cut the lead to 39-36 with 3:21 to play.
The Warriors would get the foul line plenty late as St. Joe had to foul. The visitors made just enough to escape with the win.
“We were getting the ball down low to score, then we went away from it,” first-year Riverside coach John Michael Frisby said. “That let them back in it. We’d get up, they’d get back in. We’d get up, they’d get back in.
“We went to a 2-3 (zone) in the second half to keep their shooters on the perimeter. Defense won it for us.”
St. Joe assistant coach Alyssa Hammond made it tough on McKenzie, but saw others step up for Riverside.
“Wanted to keep No. 34 (McKenzie) off the glass and limit her points,” Hammond said. “We did focus on her and opened spots for other girls. We didn’t respond then.”
St. Joe’s Niko Kaufmann led all scorers with 32 points. She made six three-pointers, but no other Lady Irish play reached double figures.
“She can’t be the only one,” Hammond said. “We’ve got to attack the rim.”
Ramey George is the other half of the one-two St. Joe punch, but the senior had a tough game Friday.
“She got down on herself,” Hammond said. “We’ve got to pull out of it.”
St. Joe is back in action Saturday against unbeaten Portsmouth Notre Dame. The game is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. at Shawnee State University.
McKenzie had a clutch basket with 2:29 left and drew a foul. She missed the free throw, but the lead went to 42-36.
“That got the momentum back for us,” Frisby said. “McKenzie and Crowder have been playing together a long time. They have a good high-low game. We’ve got a lot of young girls, but we’re starting to jell.”
One area Riverside hopes to pick up in is foul shooting. The Lady Warriors made 7-of-22 for the game with a 4-of-17 effort in the fourth period alone.
“We practice that every day,” Frisby said. “I got very antsy at the end.”
St. Joe got into the bonus at the start of the fourth period, but didn’t capitalize.
“We’ve stopped driving,” Hammond said. “They did what we should have done, try to get fouls.”
Riverside’s next game is Monday at Lincoln County. Tip is 7 p.m.
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HUNTINGTON ST. JOE: 6 13 11 11 — 41: George 3, Ch. Lee 2, Ransbottom 4, Kaufmann 32.
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Travis Barker can't get his hands off Kourtney Kardashian's little piggies.
The Blink-182 rocker showed off his playful side in a carousel of wedding photos shared by his wife on May 27. The pictures, snapped by fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth, featured Travis and the Kardashians star packing plenty of PDA in their wedding reception outfits.
As the sequence of images goes, Travis is seen taking off Kourtney's heels. The Poosh founder is then pictured leaning back and laughing as he puckers his lips to her foot. Toward the end of the photo series, Travis digs his head up the side of Kourtney's leg to pull off her wedding garter with his teeth.
Kourtney wrote alongside the shots, "cheers to forever."
In a Instagram post of his own, Travis shared sultry photos of himself and Kourtney making out in an elevator on their big day. The post, captioned "Love in the elevator," proves Kravis just couldn't keep their hands—and lips—off each other during their nuptials.
Kourtney, 43, and Travis, 46, exchanged vows in front of close friends and family—including Kourtney's sisters Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner as well as mom Kris Jenner—in Portofino, Italy, on May 22. Held at the Castello Brown, the ceremony came a week after the couple legally wed at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Since getting hitched, Kourtney has started trying on Travis' last name. In addition to rocking her new "KKB" initials on her Dolce & Gabbana wedding dress, she recently changed the name on her Instagram profile to read "Kourtney Kardashian Barker."
The reality star and her new husband have also kept the party going after their whirlwind wedding weekend. On May 23, they were spotted living life up as the Barkers on a yacht.
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Areas of light snow and freezing drizzle likely in the morning, then cloudy skies during the afternoon. High 27F. Winds NW at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 60%. Snow accumulations less than one-half of an inch possible. A trace of ice possible..
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COLUMBUS GROVE, OH (WLIO) - Catholic Schools Week began Sunday, and one school invited parents to come to see what they're all about.
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School invited parents to join them for mass and then take a tour of their children's classrooms. Kids showed their parents their latest work and teachers talked about what they're learning.
Other events the school will be participating in include a career day, a fundraiser for a family in need, and meeting students from other Catholic schools to have a mass together in Ottawa.
The principal, Nancy Dukes, says that many people don't know that a Catholic school even exists in Columbus Grove, but that it's a great place for students.
"I'm just amazed at the faith-filled parish community, and the respectful students, and the support of the families, so I just wanted to get the word out that, hey, we are here, and all students of all faiths are welcome to attend school here," she said.
St. Anthony of Padua also offers full or partial scholarships to families that are interested in a Catholic education but may not be able to afford it.
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Amber Alert issued for 7-month-old girl believed to be in ‘great danger’ in Kentucky
(Gray News) - Authorities in Kentucky issued an Amber Alert for a 7-month-old girl who is believed to be in “great danger.”
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office requested the Amber Alert for Jocelyn Lair on June 9.
The 7-month-old, who went missing from Monticello, Kentucky, was last seen wearing only a diaper.
The child is white, weighs 18 pounds and has hazel eyes with brown hair.
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Jocelyn is believed to be in the company of her mother Shelley Lair.
The 39-year-old white woman is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 119 pounds, officials said. She was last seen wearing a pink tank top with black shorts.
Shelley Lair was driving a red Ford Focus with gray and green spray paint on the passenger side of the vehicle, which has the Kentucky license plate BWV609.
Officials said Jocelyn could be in danger because of her mother’s drug use.
Kentucky’s Department for Community Based Services has an emergency custody order for the child.
Anyone with information about the child’s location should call 911 or the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office at 606-878-6622.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On NBC 10 News Today, viewers met Mr. Motivation who spreads joy in a New Orleans hospital. To learn more about Mr. Motivation, be sure to watch the video above.
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INDIANAPOLIS — We've seen the violence in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. The war is forcing many Ukrainians to flee their country.
Despite all of the tragedy, there are signs of unity.
People from Poland, including a former Center Grove exchange student, are stepping up to help Ukrainian refugees.
Eric Levin and his wife Kamila Grabka-Levin, have turned what used to be a center for youth education in Poland into a hostel to house 72 Ukrainian refugees.
He said it was something he felt he needed to do.
"They all had normal lives, everyone had a home, families, jobs," Levin said. "Now they are here and they had to leave everything."
His wife said they knew the Ukrainians needed help.
"We had no doubt that we needed to help these people," Grabka-Levin said. "That there would be refugees who would come to Poland as our neighbors, as our friends. It's our duty to help them."
Kamila is teaching refugee children how to speak Polish so they are able to be immersed in the community.
Yulia Szyabiieva is a Ukrainian refugee and described the moment her family decided to flee the county.
"When the war started, and the bombs began to fall, we had to leave our home," Szyabiieva said. "We waited until the last minute to leave. We were hoping we could stay. But after the bomb fell and demolished my child's school — that was the moment we decided to run."
Valentina Szvedova, also a refugee staying at the hostel, echoed her sentiments, adding she left because she was scared for her child's safety.
“Sirens would go off every hour and we would have to go hide in the basement and spend a lot of time in the secure place," Szvedova said. "We couldn’t handle it anymore and had to make the decision to leave."
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Debut of Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedals and Showcase of 27Nm Invicta™ Wheel Base and Ecosystem
AALBORG, Denmark, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek, sim racing gear innovator, the creator of the all-in-one liquid cooler, and the global leader in liquid cooling solutions for gaming PCs and DIY enthusiasts, today announced its Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedals as well as a preview of its Invicta™ Direct Drive Wheel Base and Forte™ Formula Wheel received high acclaim by sim racers and motorsports reviewers when unveiled at the Gamescom Expo in Cologne, Germany, last week.
Asetek SimSports™ exhibited products from its upcoming line of wheel bases and wheels, including a prototype of its top of the line Invicta™ Wheel Base with 27Nm of torque and a quick-release system and its Forte™ Formula wheel. Also on display was its growing portfolio of sim racing pedals including the premium performance Invicta™, high-performance high-value Forte™ and the limited edition Pagani-branded sim racing pedal set.
Gamescom 2022 is the world's largest gaming event and trade fair for computer and video games. It brings together gamers, including Sim Racers, from around the world to compete in e-sports competitions and to experience the very latest in games and gaming gear.
"At Gamecom in Germany, we were able to test prototype versions of Asetek SimSport's first direct drive wheel base and one of their upcoming steering wheels," said Thomas Harrison-Lord of Traxion.GG. "In action, we can say the paddle [on the quick-release system] is ideally located and clips right into place with consummate ease. Another benefit of the quick-release system is that it will allow for wheels featuring digital displays without the need for visible cables or Bluetooth."
"It wouldn't be fair to comment on the build quality at this stage, but there is no doubt that the potential is there for something that is market-leading depending upon availability and pricing – both of which are to be confirmed," continued Thomas Harrison-Lord.
"The actual unit we tested was clearly a prototype and was running a conservative 10Nm at the time," continued Thomas Harrison-Lord. "Despite this lower figure, feedback was sturdy with granular road surface detail fed back to the driver. It somehow felt like a higher torque figure than what was stated, which bodes well as the item nears production. We tested the Invicta wheel base with the Forte steering wheel. The wheel in particular felt like it molded to my fingers and the paddles felt great. Once again, lighting is a key component with a crisp rev counter just in your peripheral vision," stated Thomas Harrison-Lord.
"The Gamescom Expo was a great opportunity to unveil our expanded sim racing gear offerings. The excitement in the booth was palpable around the unveiling of our Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedals, and interest strong in the unique design and benefits of our wheel base and wheel. I'm delighted that both end users and reviewers are embracing our growing sim racing gear offering which we've designed and developed to provide sim racers of all levels with the thrill of real-life racecar racing," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek.
About Asetek
Asetek (ASTK.OL), a global leader in mechatronic innovation, is a Danish garage-to-stock-exchange success story. Founded in 2000, Asetek established its innovative position as the leading OEM developer and producer of the all-in-one liquid cooler for all major PC & Enthusiast gaming brands. In 2013, Asetek went public while expanding into energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centers. In 2021, Asetek introduced its line of products for next-level immersive SimSports gaming experiences. Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in China, Taiwan, and the United States.
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US set to destroy its last chemical weapons, closing a deadly chapter dating to World War I
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — At a sprawling military installation in the middle of the rolling green hills of eastern Kentucky, a milestone is about to be reached in the history of warfare dating back to World War I.
Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot are close to destroying rockets filled with GB nerve agent that are the last of the United States’ declared chemical weapons and completing a decades-long campaign to eliminate a stockpile that by the end of the Cold War totaled more than 30,000 tons.
The weapons’ destruction is a major watershed for Richmond, Kentucky and Pueblo, Colorado, where an Army depot destroyed the last of its chemical agents last month. It’s also a defining moment for arms control efforts worldwide.
The U.S. faces a Sept. 30 deadline to eliminate its remaining chemical weapons under the international Chemical Weapons Convention, which took effect in 1997 and was joined by 193 countries. The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent — a deadly toxin also known as sarin — that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
By destroying the munitions, the U.S. is officially underscoring that these types of weapons are no longer acceptable on the battlefield and sending a message to the handful of countries that haven’t joined the agreement, military experts say.
“One thing that we’re really proud of is how we’re finishing the mission. We’re finishing it for good for the United States of America,” said Kim Jackson, manager of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.
Chemical weapons were first used in modern warfare in World War I, where they were estimated to have killed at least 100,000. Despite their use being subsequently banned by the Geneva Convention, countries continued to stockpile the weapons until the treaty called for their destruction.
In southern Colorado, workers at the Army Pueblo Chemical Depot started destroying the weapons in 2016, and on June 22 completed their mission of neutralizing an entire cache of about 2,600 tons of mustard blister agent. The projectiles and mortars comprised about 8.5% of the country’s original chemical weapons stockpile of 30,610 tons of agent.
Nearly 800,000 chemical munitions containing mustard agent were stored since the 1950s inside row after row of heavily guarded concrete and earthen bunkers that pock the landscape near a large swath of farmland east of Pueblo.
The weapons’ destruction alleviates a concern that civic leaders in Colorado and Kentucky admit was always in the back of their minds.
“Those (weapons) sitting out there were not a threat,” Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar said. But, he added, “You always wondered what might happen with them.”
In the 1980s, the community around Kentucky’s Blue Grass Army Depot rose up in opposition to the Army’s initial plan to incinerate the plant’s 520 tons of chemical weapons, leading to a decades-long battle over how they would be disposed of. They were able to halt the planned incineration plant, and then, with help from lawmakers, prompted the Army to submit alternative methods to burning the weapons.
Craig Williams, who became the leading voice of the community opposition and later a partner with political leadership and the military, said residents were concerned about potential toxic pollution from burning the deadly chemical agents.
Williams noted that the military eliminated most of its existing stockpile by burning weapons at other, more remote sites such as Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean or at a chemical depot in the middle of the Utah desert. But the Kentucky site was adjacent to Richmond and only a few dozen miles away from Lexington, the state’s second-largest city.
“We had a middle school of over 600 kids a mile away from the (planned) smokestack,” Williams said.
The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s. The state’s disposal plant was completed in 2015 and began destroying weapons in 2019. It uses a process called neutralization to dilute the deadly agents so they can be safely disposed of.
The project, however, has been a boon for both communities and facing the eventual loss of thousands of workers, both are pitching the pool of high-skilled laborers as a plus for companies looking to locate in their regions.
Workers at the Pueblo site used heavy machinery to meticulously — and slowly — load aging weapons onto conveyor systems that fed into secure rooms where remote-controlled robots did the dirty and dangerous work of eliminating the toxic mustard agent, which was designed to blister the skin and cause inflammation of the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
Robotic equipment removed the weapons’ fuses and bursters before the mustard agent was neutralized with hot water and mixed with a caustic solution to prevent the reaction from reversing. The byproduct was further broken down in large tanks swimming with microbes, and the mortars and projectiles were decontaminated at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (538 degrees Celsius) and recycled as scrap metal.
Problematic munitions that were leaky or overpacked were sent to an armored, stainless steel detonation chamber to be destroyed at about 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit (593 degrees Celsius).
The Colorado and Kentucky sites were the last among several, including Utah and the Johnston Atoll, where the nation’s chemical weapons had been stockpiled and destroyed. Other locations included facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, and Oregon.
Kingston Reif, an assistant U.S. secretary of defense for threat reduction and arms control, said the destruction of the last U.S. chemical weapon “will close an important chapter in military history, but one that we’re very much looking forward to closing.”
Officials say the elimination of the U.S. stockpile is a major step forward for the Chemical Weapons Convention. Only three countries — Egypt, North Korea, and South Sudan — have not signed the treaty. A fourth, Israel, has signed but not ratified the treaty.
Reif noted that there remains concern that some parties to the convention, particularly Russia and Syria, possess undeclared chemical weapons stockpiles.
Still, arms control advocates hope this final step by the U.S. could nudge the remaining countries to join. But they also hope it could be used as a model for eliminating other types of weapons.
“It shows that countries can really ban a weapon of mass destruction,” said Paul F. Walker, vice chairman of the Arms Control Association and coordinator of the Chemical Weapons Convention Coalition. “If they want to do it, it just takes the political will and it takes a good verification system.”
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DeMillo reported from Little Rock, Arkansas, and Peipert reported from Pueblo, Colorado.
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WASHINGTON — Rock star Bono, the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month's Monterey Park, California, shooting, and the family of Tyre Nichols will be among the featured guests sitting alongside first lady Jill Biden at Tuesday's State of the Union address.
The White House said the guests were invited “because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the President in his speech, or they embody the Biden-Harris Administration’s policies at work for the American people." President Joe Biden was expected to refer to several of the invitees by name during his remarks.
The guests:
- Maurice and Kandice Barron of New York, the parents of a 3-year-old who has survived a rare pediatric cancer, meant to highlight Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative.
- Lynette Bonar of Tuba City, Arizona, a nurse and medical executive involved in bringing the first cancer center to a Native American reservation.
- Bono, the Irish lead singer of U2, for his advocacy and philanthropic support for global health and AIDS relief initiatives.
- Deanna Branch of Milwaukee, whose son was diagnosed with lead poisoning from unsafe drinking water in their home, as Biden aims to replace all lead drinking water pipes in the coming decade.
- Kristin Christensen and Avarie Kollmar of Seattle, a mother-daughter pair who are sharing their story about caring for their injured Navy veteran husband and father.
- Ruth Cohen of Rockville, Maryland, a Holocaust survivor and volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who has warned against rising antisemitism.
- Mitzi Colin Lopez of West Chester, Pennsylvania, an advocate for people brought to the U.S. illegally as children who have received protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
- Maurice “Dion” Dykes of Knoxville, Tennessee, who is training to be a teacher after a 25-year graphic design career as part of a program funded by the 2020 COVID-19 relief law.
- Kate Foley of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, a 10th grade student looking to use the skills from her school engineering classes to pursue a career as a biomedical engineer.
- Darlene Gaffney of North Charleston, South Carolina, a breast cancer survivor who has promoted the importance of early detection and timely cancer screenings.
- Doug Griffin of Newton, New Hampshire, who lost his daughter, Courtney, in 2014 to a fentanyl overdose, as the Biden administration works to strengthen federal efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.
- Saria Gwin-Maye of Cincinnati, an ironworker who will work on the federally supported revitalization of the Brent Spence Bridge.
- Jacki Liszak of Fort Myers, Florida, who met with the president and first lady in the wake of Hurricane Ian and whose business stands to benefit from federal climate resiliency funding.
- Harry Miller of Upper-Arlington, Ohio, a mechanical engineering student and a former football player for Ohio State University, who left football to prioritize his mental health.
- Gina and Heidi Nortonsmith of Northampton, Massachusetts, the plaintiffs in Goodridge vs. MA Dept. of Public Health which cleared the way for their state legalizing same-sex marriage.
- Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was severely injured days before the midterm elections by a man with a hammer who allegedly sought to harm the California lawmaker.
- Paul Sarzoza of Phoenix, the owner of a cleaning and facilities services company that is benefitting from servicing companies investing in high-tech manufacturing in his area.
- Brandon Tsay of San Marino, California, who disarmed the shooter responsible for killing 11 people in Monterey Park, California, last month during celebrations of the Lunar New Year, preventing further deaths.
- RowVaughn and Rodney Wells of Memphis, Tennessee, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols who died last month after being severely beaten by police in Memphis, sparking a renewed call for police reform legislation.
- Amanda and Josh Zurawski of Austin, Texas, who found doctors unable to intervene after her water prematurely broke at 18 weeks pregnant due to the Texas abortion ban. Amanda Zurawski developed sepsis and nearly died because of the delay in receiving treatment, as the Biden administration looks to highlight the consequences of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade last year. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-state-of-the-union-guests-2023-bono-nichols-family/507-be5a24d3-fec4-4688-bc18-678e5a2e8889 | 2023-02-07 14:20:27 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-state-of-the-union-guests-2023-bono-nichols-family/507-be5a24d3-fec4-4688-bc18-678e5a2e8889 |
Launch of the new ranking coincides with ESG Book's call for corporates to have greater ownership of their sustainability data.
- ESG Book's new online ranking identifies the 100 leading corporate performers worldwide on environmental, social, and governance issues.
- Public corporations with a market value above $10 billion are ranked on their ESG Score, with each firm's climate performance also profiled in the ranking.
- Dutch semiconductor firm ASML tops the leaderboard, followed by cyber security specialist Check Point Software Technologies, and luxury goods company Hermès.
- ESG Book's data-driven platform provides access to almost 100,000 corporate sustainability disclosures, making ESG information freely available, comparable, and transparent.
LONDON, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ESG Book, a global leader in sustainability data and technology, today launched the Top 100 ESG Companies leaderboard, a new global ranking of the 100 leading corporate performers on environmental, social, and governance issues.
The launch of the new ranking coincides with ESG Book's call for greater transparency around ESG ratings, and for corporates to have greater ownership of their sustainability data.
Updated monthly, the Top 100 ESG Companies leaderboard is a ranking of the world's largest publicly listed companies, each with a market value above $10 billion, from 20 leading market indices. Companies are assessed on their ESG Score, which offers a sector-specific analysis of corporate performance on financially material ESG criteria, and identifies sustainable companies that are better positioned to outperform over the long-term.
ESG Book's ranking also includes its proprietary Temperature Score metric, which translates the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from each company to a score based on sector-specific emissions pathways. In addition, each company's annual GHG emissions (tonnes of equivalent CO2) are listed in the ranking.
ASML, a Dutch supplier to the semiconductor industry, tops the 100 Most Sustainable Companies ranking with an ESG Score of 73.13. Check Point Software Technologies, an American-Israeli cyber-security company, ranks second with an ESG Score of 72.64, followed by the French luxury goods company Hermès with an ESG Score of 71.71.
Dr Daniel Klier, CEO of ESG Book, said: "Sustainability is transforming capital markets at an unprecedented rate, driven by investor demand, regulation, and real economy changes. However, markets require clearer and more transparent information about the non-financial performance of companies."
"It's time to put data back in the hands of companies, and deliver it in a better, more accessible way. ESG Book enables companies to disclose their sustainability information directly to investors in real-time, and become custodians for their data. We are excited to launch our Top 100 ESG Companies ranking, and recognise the corporate sustainability leaders of today. In doing so, we invite all corporates to use our platform to drive greater transparency around ESG data."
ESG Book offers a wide range of sustainability-related data, scoring, and technology products that are used by many of the world's leading investors and companies. Covering over 25,000 companies, ESG Book's product offering includes ESG raw data, company-level and portfolio-level scores and ratings, and analytics tools. In June 2022, the company announced a $35 million Series B to drive global adoption of its industry-leading SaaS data management and disclosure platform.
To explore ESG Book's ranking of the Top 100 ESG Companies, visit www.esgbook.com
About ESG Book
ESG Book is a global leader in sustainability data and technology. Launched in 2018, the company offers a wide range of sustainability-related data, scoring, and technology products that are used by many of the world's leading investors and companies. Covering over 25,000 companies, ESG Book's product offering includes ESG raw data, company-level and portfolio-level scores and ratings, analytics tools, and a SaaS data management and disclosure platform. ESG Book's solutions cover the full spectrum of sustainable investing including ESG, climate, net-zero, regulatory, and impact products.
ESG Book's platform makes sustainability data more widely available and comparable for market stakeholders, enabling companies to be custodians of their own data, providing framework-neutral ESG information in real-time, and promoting transparency. www.esgbook.com
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New Hampshire group proposes 1st offshore fish farming in the East Coast
The offshore fish farming would raise salmon, trout in open-ocean pens near Massachusetts
A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could harm the environment.
The vast majority of U.S. aquaculture, the practice of raising and harvesting fish in controlled settings, takes place in coastal waters or on land, in tanks and ponds. But New Hampshire-based Blue Water Fisheries wants to place 40 submersible fish pens in water about 7.5 miles off Newburyport, Massachusetts, on two sites that total nearly a square mile, according to federal documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
The farm would grow millions of pounds of Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout, two popular seafood species, documents state. The proposal needs a battery of approvals, and would be the first of its kind off the East Coast.
SALMON FISHING BANNED FOR MUCH OF THE WEST COAST AS POPULATION DECLINES DRAMATICALLY
Hawaii was the first U.S. state to allow operation of commercial open ocean aquaculture. Supporters of the farms tout them as a new method of sustainable fish farming, but environmental groups have voiced concerns about pollution and the possibility of projects releasing non-native species. Other offshore fish farming projects have been proposed for the waters off California and Florida.
The New England company hasn't said much about its plans. Scott Flood, who is listed as a representative for Blue Water Fisheries on documents, declined to comment on the project. Other representatives for the company did not return phone calls seeking comment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is working with Blue Water Fisheries and other federal agencies on the regulatory and approvals process, said Allison Ferreira, a spokesperson for the agency. The company needs authorizations from NOAA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among other approvals.
A key step in the approvals process for Blue Water Fisheries is the preparation of an environmental impact statement, Ferreria said. There is not yet a timeline for that process, she said.
The aquaculture project would include pens submerged about 49 feet below the surface in depths of about 262 feet, federal documents state. The project would yield "up to 25.6 million pounds of a combination of steelhead trout and Atlantic salmon annually," the documents state. The company’s year-round operations would take place out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
OVERFISHING WIPES OUT BAHAMA’S MARINE SNAILS, A FUNDAMENTAL SEAFOOD RESOURCE
The project also includes a proposal to aquaculture lumpfish, a species of fish that can be used to control parasites.
Aquaculture of Atlantic salmon in ocean pens already takes place in New England, as fish farming giant Cooke Aquaculture cultures the fish off Maine. However, those operations are located in coastal areas.
Any project involving the offshore culture of Atlantic salmon is likely to get the attention of conservation groups, as the salmon are listed under the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. Conservation groups have long made the case that farming salmon in the marine environment is bad for wild salmon, in part because the farmed fish can escape and jeopardize wild salmon by hybridizing with them and competing with them for food. They've also sounded alarms about the spread of parasites and the transfer of diseases.
Conservation groups have also argued the fish farms are bad for the environment because of pollution in the form of the antibiotics and pesticides often used on the farms.
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Fish farming also has its supporters, who say the aquaculture of popular seafood species helps to take fishing pressure off wild fish stocks.
The New Hampshire group's project raises potential alarms about possible fish escapes, said John Burrows, executive director for U.S. operations with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, a conservation organization. Using net pens far from the shoreside operations "significantly raises the likelihood of storm damage or predators causing escapes that may go undetected for several days," Burrows said.
Don't Cage Our Oceans, a national group that opposes offshore fish farming, is also monitoring the project, said Andrianna Natsoulas, the coalition's campaign director.
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Over 2.5 million teens use e-cigarettes with nearly half (46%) of high schoolers who vape doing so on a frequent basis putting a new generation at risk for a lifetime of nicotine addiction
Statement by Robin Koval, CEO and President of Truth Initiative
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The results of the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) released today show that the youth e-cigarette epidemic remains a serious public health threat driven by the actions of the tobacco industry to flood the market with cheap, youth-appealing flavored e-cigarettes while keeping brands already popular among teens easily accessible on shelves across the country. The vast majority of these products have not received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization, a requirement to legally enter the market. The industry is playing a dangerous game of "catch me if you can" with the FDA at the expense of young people's physical and mental health.
In 2022, over 2.5 million middle and high school students reported current e-cigarette use, a higher number than in 2021. Among all youth who currently used e-cigarettes, 42.3% used them on 20 or more of the past 30 days, with nearly half (46%) of high schoolers who vape doing so near daily, putting them on a trajectory for a potential lifetime of nicotine addiction and at increased risk for addiction to other substances.
This troubling news comes at a time when the U.S. Surgeon General has issued a national advisory on the youth mental health crisis which can connect to vaping nicotine. Many young people are turning to e-cigarettes to relieve stress, a myth that the tobacco industry continues to perpetuate, when in fact the opposite is true. Years of scientific, peer-reviewed research shows nicotine can amplify feelings of anxiety and depression and increase stress. Nicotine is also harmful to developing brains and its use during adolescence can disrupt the formation of brain circuits that control attention, learning, and susceptibility to addiction.
Today's announcement is disheartening but not surprising given the e-cigarette market overall is expected to have its best year yet with sales up 12% over last year. While sales data are not specific to youth, we know that youth prevalence of e-cigarette use is nearly four times that of adults, driven in large part by the broad availability and appeal of flavored products which are used by 84.9% of youth who vape, and the growing popularity of disposable products used by 55.3% of young e-cigarette users. Disposable products with flavors like "Cheesecake," "Bubble Gum," and "Strawberry Ice Cream," now make up 35% of the market, which is likely a significant understatement as retail sales scanner data are having trouble keeping up with the influx of products. The number of new product bar codes has more than tripled in less than a year, from nearly 500 in June 2021 to almost 1600 by March 2022. An expanding array of flavors using synthetic coolants are also hitting the market in flavors like "Banana Ice," "Strawberry Freeze," or "Frosted Apple," adding to the number of menthol and other cooling e-cigarettes available, which now represent 56% of e-cigarette sales.
We are calling on FDA's leadership to hit the reset button on the Premarket Tobacco Application (PMTA) process. The industry is gaming the system and the FDA needs to change its game plan as the application volume and flood of new products illegally on the market have become untenable. Simply put, 'pre-market' review is supposed to be conducted before any product is allowed on the market — not the 'post-market' process that is in actuality what we have today. All unauthorized e-cigarettes including flavors, menthol and disposables should be removed from the market immediately and no new product should be allowed on the shelf while FDA accelerates its pre-market review process to protect public health as the law intended and requires. It should prioritize the application reviews for tobacco derived and synthetic nicotine e-cigarette products that make up the majority of sales (65%) and are the most popular among youth.
Every day of delay allows for the continued proliferation of new, flavored e-cigarettes to hit the market and the top brands to remain readily accessible. These delays have major consequences: According to our Truth Longitudinal Cohort data, up to 2.5 million youth and young adults (aged 15-24 years) have started using e-cigarettes following the missed court-ordered FDA deadline of September 9, 2021, to review e-cigarette marketing applications. It also leaves smokers uncertain whether these products will truly help or are even safe to use.
In the meantime, bold actions taken by many states to remove flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products from the market, and by public health organizations dedicated to ending youth tobacco use are having an impact and making progress, but we need more help to put an end to this epidemic that is putting a new generation at risk for nicotine addiction. Truth Initiative's peer-reviewed research shows that strong awareness of the nationally acclaimed truth® campaign, which offers a holistic suite of products and services to empower young people to live free from smoking, vaping, and nicotine addiction, is significantly associated with lower likelihood of vaping among 15- to 24-year-olds. Further research shows truth brand awareness is associated with lower odds of both current e-cigarette use and intention to vape in the future. Our evidence-based, first-of-its-kind, free quit vaping program This is Quitting, the largest in the country and the only one that has been validated by peer-reviewed research, is helping nearly 500,000 young people on their journeys to quit vaping. Our digitally delivered, peer-led school curriculum, Vaping: Know the truth has reached over 460,000 students in almost 6,000 schools across the country. For more information on these programs visit truthinitiative.org.
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Truth Initiative is a national public health organization dedicated to achieving a culture where all young people reject smoking, vaping and nicotine and a future where tobacco and nicotine addiction are a thing of the past. In 2020, we celebrated 20 years of saving lives and preventing millions of youth from smoking. Our impact has helped drive the teen smoking rate down from 23% in 2000 to under 3% in 2021. The truth about tobacco and the tobacco industry are at the heart of our proven-effective and nationally recognized truth® public education campaign. As youth e-cigarette use threatens to addict a new generation to nicotine, we are leading the fight against tobacco and nicotine addiction in all forms. Our rigorous scientific research and policy studies, community and youth engagement programs supporting populations at high risk of using tobacco, and innovation in tobacco dependence treatment are also helping to end one of the most critical public health battles of our time. Based in Washington D.C., our organization, formerly known as the American Legacy Foundation, was established and funded through the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between attorneys general from 46 states, five U.S. territories and the tobacco industry. To learn more, visit truthinitiative.org.
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AP source: NBA, players reach deal for a new labor agreement
(AP) - The NBA will have labor peace for years to come.
The league and its players came to an agreement early Saturday on a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press.
The deal will begin this summer and will last at least through the 2028-29 season. Either side can opt out then; otherwise, it will last through 2029-30.
Among the details, per the source: the in-season tournament that Commissioner Adam Silver has wanted for years will become reality, and players will now have to appear in at least 65 games in order to be eligible for the top individual awards such as Most Valuable Player.
The agreement — struck hours after the league was prepared to exercise its right to opt out of the current CBA on June 30 — doesn’t end the process, but it’s the biggest part of the process.
The owners will have to vote on what the negotiators have hammered out, and the players will have to vote to approve the deal as well. Then comes the actual writing of the document — the most recent CBA checked in at around 600 pages containing nearly 5,000 paragraphs and 200,000 words. Much of it will be the same; much of it will need revising.
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As an intersex person, Alicia Roth Weigel knows that biological sex is more complicated than two boxes on a birth certificate.
"Intersex people are born with physical traits that don't fit neatly into a 'male' or 'female' box," Weigel says. "We have combinations of hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia that just doesn't fit neatly on one of those two binary options that you were taught in elementary biology class are the only options."
Weigel, who identifies as she/they, was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome — a condition in which a person has both X and Y chromosomes, but does not respond to male hormones. Though Weigel presented as female at birth, tests revealed that she lacked a uterus and ovaries, and that she had internal testes.
Citing the risk of testicular cancer, Weigel's doctors convinced her parents to have her testes surgically removed, but Weigel now says the cancer risk was overstated — and that the removal of her testes as an infant led to complications later in life.
"By removing my testes, they basically put my body into artificial hormone withdrawal and didn't give me new hormones until a certain age when they decided it was time to induce puberty on my body," she says. "Puberty that would have happened naturally on its own had they left my body intact."
An advocate for the rights of intersex people, Weigel is one of three intersex people profiled in Julie Cohen's documentary Every Body. Cohen co-directed (along with Betsy West) the documentaries RBG, Julia and Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down. She says Every Body was inspired by the story of David Reimer, a Canadian man whose botched circumcision led to him being castrated as a baby and raised as a girl.
Though the sex researcher who treated Reimer maintained that a child's gender was malleable until the age of 2 or 3, Cohen says Reimer's case ultimately proved otherwise. Over a period of time, he assume a male gender identity, started taking male hormones and eventually had surgery to reconstruct a penis.
"David always felt uncomfortable [as a girl] and even went as far as always trying to urinate standing up because he actually knew he was a boy," Cohen says. "Ultimately, the parents broke down and told him the truth. ... They thought he would be horrified by this information. In fact, he was incredibly relieved because now his whole childhood made more sense to him."
Interview highlights
On the notion that biological sex exists on a spectrum
"Intersex" is really an umbrella term. It encompasses a wide variety of combinations. But what we all share is that our anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box.
Alicia Roth Weigel: I think society understands at this point that sexuality is a spectrum. Some people are gay, some are straight, a lot are in-between. And society is also starting to understand that gender is a spectrum, that you're not just a man or a woman, but there's a lot in between there, too. What society hasn't quite learned yet is that sex is also a spectrum. ... "Intersex" is really an umbrella term. It encompasses a wide variety of combinations. But what we all share is that our anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box.
On growing up intersex
Weigel: I was told that ... I had a problem and it was being fixed and I should never talk to anyone about it. ... I was told that I had testes that could become cancerous, and that's why they were removed. And that was part of this pathological syndrome that I should never tell anyone about, because it is shameful. ...
I felt like a freak my whole life. And that led me to a bunch of different behaviors to "compensate" for being a freak. On the positive side, I became a tri-varsity athlete. I got stellar grades. I went to the Ivy League school. I did all the extracurriculars to try to prove to the world that I was worthy of love, because I didn't fundamentally believe that based on how I was raised. Those are the positives. The negatives were I started abusing a lot of different substances very young, and that was to try to obliterate these feelings of shame and isolation that I felt. And having to lie to the world about who I was.
On undergoing surgery to remove her testes as an infant
Weigel: What we now know, looking at the data, is my risk of getting testicular cancer was only somewhere between one and 5%, and much later in life — that that cancer never happens in childhood for people born like me, or very rarely, if it ever does. And so because of a somewhere between one and 5% risk of cancer, they decided to remove my hormone-producing organs without asking me. And the other kicker is your testes or your ovaries, they do a lot more than just control the way that you develop in terms of your gender traits. They can control things such as bone density, how your organs develop in a variety of different ways. ... And by [removing my testes], because my body was in hormone withdrawal, it started leaching calcium from my bones. ... And so essentially, by trying to fix something that wasn't even broken, they created problems. By trying to fix me, they broke me. ...
By trying to fix me, they broke me.
There are major organizations, like the United Nations, that defines these surgeries as torture. ... Genital mutilation is not something that only happens in far off tribes in Africa. It happens in accredited hospitals across the United States each and every day. And yet society has such an aversion to curiosity, to, rather than "othering" something that is different, embracing it and learning about it. And that's where my anger is. It's like we need to teach our children, who will then become adults, that we need to remain curious and open minded and be open to learning and be open to loving. Because only then will these surgeries really stop. And only then will intersex kids be able to be raised out as who we truly are.
On how David Reimer's case was used to justify surgery on intersex infants
Cohen: This actually did impact the medical literature and the whole study of intersex infants, because this case, although David Reimer wasn't intersex, this case was used as the proof, as the justification for performing surgeries on intersex children. Like if you can make a boy a girl through surgery, then certainly you can take an intersex child somewhere on a spectrum and raise that child as a girl and they can be happy and healthy. It wasn't true even in this test case. But that ... false interpretation spread fairly fairly widely. And this case was used as a justification for [surgery] on intersex infants and children.
On how current legislation aimed at the trans community also impacts the intersex community
Weigel: The unfortunate bit is the world doesn't know what intersex means yet. And so when they read these bills, they don't know what that means. But we are explicitly written into all of these anti-trans health care laws across the country. These laws say: Deny surgeries and hormones to trans people who are asking for them with consent. But you can continue to force those same exact surgeries and those same exact hormones on intersex babies who are not only too young to consent, but are too young to speak. ...
So unfortunately intersex is on the agenda. A common misconception that I like to correct is that Republicans actually very much know about intersex individuals because they have written us into their bills targeting the trans community. So unfortunately, the Republicans have done their homework. They know that intersex people exist and they are actively targeting us. The Democrats unfortunately have not, and they don't even know that we exist in order to protect us. So I do like to clarify that misconception because one side has done their homework and are using it to hurt us. One the other side needs to do their homework to protect us from those who seek to harm us.
Heidi Saman and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Carmel Wroth adapted it for the web.
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The advertising agency now offers advanced cross-platform video conversion tracking for enhanced performance analysis and optimization
PORTLAND, Ore., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rain the Growth Agency, the leading independent, performance-minded, fully integrated DTC advertising agency, has announced a strategic partnership with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV measurement company.
The agreement allows Rain the Growth Agency's roster of advertisers efficient and standardized access to iSpot's full funnel approach to measurement. From media measurement and competitive tracking to conversion analytics and TV/OTT cross-platform verification—the agency is equipped to prescribe the capabilities of the iSpot platform based on a brand's unique KPIs, and integrate third-party verification into customized dashboards.
As DTC advertisers continue to recognize TV and OTT as performance vehicles, Rain the Growth Agency can now optimize media using iSpot's business outcome metrics. This includes deterministic full-funnel TV and OTT ad conversion analytics such as web visits, web engagement, offline point-of-sale (POS) metrics, store foot traffic, app installs and app engagement. These metrics are combined with the power of Rain the Growth Agency's full suite of proprietary video measurement tools including marketing mix modeling and custom dashboards.
"iSpot is the preeminent leader in video audience measurement and emerging currencies," said Kyle Eckhart, Senior Vice President of Client Strategy, Rain the Growth Agency. "We are delighted to be partnering with iSpot to offer comprehensive measurement solutions that will empower informed audience-first strategy and campaign optimization."
The deal comes on the heels of iSpot's acquisition of DRMetrix, a real-time measurement offering optimized for DTC and performance marketers and marks an expansion of iSpot's efforts to offer premium tools to all segments of the video marketplace.
"We're delighted to launch a strategic partnership with Rain the Growth Agency to provide best in class measurement, attribution and insights that can optimize investments wherever their clients need a deep understanding of their video performance, competitive context and how to deliver for performance brands," said Rob McCave, Head of Agency Development, iSpot.tv.
A total of 309 DTC brands have advertised on TV in the first half of 2022. That's up from 166 in the first half of 2019 and 254 even in the first half of 2021, according to iSpot's recent report on DTC TV advertising.
Rain the Growth Agency is an independent, women-led, performance-minded, fully integrated advertising agency. We link strategy, creative and production with audience targeting, dynamic cross-channel media investment and advanced analytics to achieve sales and branding goals simultaneously, without compromise. Our holistic Transactional Brand Building approach produces transformational growth for clients ranging from DTC fast companies and category disruptors to established brands with traditional models. For more than 20 years, we have been scaling businesses such as Peloton, Chewy, Wayfair, Headspace, Humana, USAA, 23andMe, SimpliSafe and 1-800 Contacts. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon and co-founded in 1998 by Michelle Cardinal, our agency has grown to 300 employees nationwide.
iSpot.tv is the market leader in real-time television advertising measurement and attribution. The company's always-on platform measures impressions and attention for all TV ads in a unified manner across linear, time-shifted, VOD and OTT environments. iSpot.tv's TV attribution solution enables advertisers and TV networks to plan, optimize and transact on business-outcome measures. The company delivers its solution in real-time via intuitive and modern dashboards as well as APIs and customized analytics. iSpot.tv has hundreds of brands and all major TV networks licensing its enterprise solution.
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Rian Johnson can't wait to take viewers on another mysterious adventure with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery!
The director recently sat down with ET's Ash Crossan to discuss the highly anticipated follow-up to 2019's Knives Out. While not a direct sequel -- Glass Onion features a new location and cast of characters -- the standalone mystery continues the adventures of Daniel Craig's Detective Benoit Blanc, who is called in to investigate a brand new mystery.
"Coming off of the first one, Daniel and I, even when we were making it, we were having so much fun, we were like, 'It'd be fun to keep doing these,'" Johnson recalled of how plans came together for the new installment. "The idea was always to kind of take inspiration from what Agatha Christie did with her books, where it wasn't a continuation of the last one, it wasn't kind of just turning the crank on the same sort of thing. Christie really took huge different swings with every single book that she did in terms of not just the mechanics of the murder mystery, but also the setting, also the characters, and the themes, so that was kind of the starting point is just, let's write a whole new movie that is the whole reason for being all it's own."
The hardest thing about crafting the new mystery, Johnson added, was "the same thing that's tough about writing any other story, which is figuring out what's your story."
"By that, I don't mean the murder or the mystery or anything," he explained. "I mean, what is the thing that the audience is going to care about? The thing that's going to actually keep their butts from getting numb, that's going to keep them engaged and leaning forward -- you want them leaning forward as opposed to leaning back and, like, stroking their chin."
In addition to Craig, Glass Onion's star-studded cast includes Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr. and many more, leading Johnson to joke that he'll be "scraping the bottom of barrel" when it comes to casting a possible third film.
However, there were two cameos in the film that the director said were "incredible" to cast -- Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim. The two share just a small scene in Glass Onion, but it ended up being the final on-screen role for both. Lansbury died in her sleep on Oct. 11 at age 96, while Sondheim died at 91 on Nov. 26, 2021.
"I don't want to blow it up too much, it's just one little fun moment that they have," Johnson said of the scene. "But what it meant for me, besides just how special it is to have both of them in the movie, it meant that I just got to spend 10 minutes with each of them to film this little moment."
"Getting to meet them, getting to tell Angela Lansbury what her work meant to me, telling her about watching the filmed version of Sweeney Todd that was on cable when I was a kid and how that really kind of started me loving musical theater... It felt like a very special privilege to get to do that."
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will have a limited theatrical release starting Nov. 23 before streaming on Netflix on Dec. 23.
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(The Hill) — Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney addressed in a video posted to TikTok Thursday the ongoing anti-trans controversy over her partnership with Bud Light, accusing the company of not supporting her or even reaching out after the conservative backlash.
“For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said in her TikTok video. “And the hate doesn’t end with me.”
Bud Light, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch, partnered with Mulvaney in April on an Instagram ad that included her posing with a personalized beer can. The ad immediately drew criticism from conservatives who accused the beer company of pushing a pro-LGBTQ agenda and resulted in boycotts of the beer, which recently fell from its spot as the top-selling beer brand in the U.S. for the first time in more than 20 years.
The company also faced criticism from Mulvaney’s supporters and LGBTQ advocates who felt it did not stand firm in its backing of the influencer. Mulvaney also reiterated that members of the LGBTQ community are customers of Bud Light as well.
She said she decided to address the situation on Thursday because she has endured “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined.” She added that she had wanted to wait to address it until the situation had calmed down, but that it never did.
Mulvaney said over the last few months she has been scared of leaving her house, ridiculed in public and followed. She added that she is experiencing loneliness that she “wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
“I should have made this video months ago, but I didn’t. And I was scared. And I was scared of more backlash and I felt personally guilty for what transpired,” she said. “So I patiently waited for things to get better. But surprise — they haven’t really. And I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did.”
“And you might say, ‘But Dylan, I don’t want to get political,’” Mulvaney continued. “Babe, supporting trans people — it shouldn’t be political. There should be nothing controversial or divisive about working with us.”
Mulvaney’s comments come just a week after Marcel Marcondes, Anheuser-Busch’s global chief marketing officer, said that the controversy was a “wake-up call” to how things can get “divisive and controversial so easily.” The CEO of Anheuser-Busch, Brendan Whitworth, also told “CBS Mornings” that the company was sending financial assistance to wholesalers and beer distributors who may have been impacted by the decline in sales.
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The FEMA disaster relief fund is once again flush with cash after coming precariously close to a zero balance last week. The fund got a quick hit of $2.65 billion as part of the temporary measure Congress passed last week to keep the government open for business, but that money may not last very long.
Additional funding for disaster aid became a point of contention when House Republicans insisted that the money be offset by cuts to environmental programs. In the end, the issue was resolved without settling the dispute over offsets.
Disaster Cleanup Continues
FEMA's fund has been used to deal with the aftermath of many disasters this year, from flooding in the Midwest, to tornadoes in Missouri and Alabama, to Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Irene on the East Coast.
A month and a half after Irene hit the village of Schoharie, N.Y., large machines are still working to dry out the first floor of the Schoharie County Office Building. There's also water in the basement.
"This water ... running here is being pumped out of the basement of the county office building. They're still pumping water: That's how wet it is, the ground," explains Harold Vroman, chairman of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors.
Without that assistance, we might just as well become a ghost town, and that would be such an absolute tragedy.
Irene's remnants caused major flooding in Schoharie, wrecking homes, and damaging roads and bridges. In the village's cute little downtown, nearly all of the businesses are still boarded up. Vroman says the county office building is also closed.
"It's going to be almost a year by the time they get everything fixed," Vroman says. "You're looking down the road for houses and people [and] businesses, two to three years, five years even."
It's going to take a long time, Vroman says. It will also take a lot of help from the federal government.
"Without that assistance, we might just as well become a ghost town, and that would be such an absolute tragedy," says Alicia Terry, director of planning for the county.
Terry coordinated some of the disaster relief efforts and has been keeping a close eye on Congress, which recently almost shut the government down in a fight over how to pay for disaster funding.
"We understand the need for fiscal adjustments, but please, it cannot come at the expense of the disaster relief that is needed in these communities," Terry says.
The estimated cost to repair Schoharie County infrastructure alone is about as much as a full year's budget for the county: $73 million. This kind of damage is repeated in dozens of counties across the country, and that means the $2.65 billion Congress just added to the FEMA disaster relief fund isn't going to last long.
"Based on our understanding of just disasters that have already occurred, we think we might be able to make it through ... the end of December or January," says Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, chair of the Homeland Security subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The Obama administration has indicated at least another $4 billion will be needed to get through fiscal year 2012.
The Controversy Evaporates
It all started when Rep. [Eric] Cantor just called for offsets for these disasters. And I said, 'No, that is not the way we've done it in the past.'
At this point, given the fight over disaster funding last month, it would seem that another quarrel over FEMA's funding could be on the horizon. But it looks like it's not going to be an issue after all.
As part of the debt limit deal this summer, Congress and the president created an $11 billion cushion to replenish the FEMA disaster relief fund in fiscal year 2012 without having to make cuts to other programs to pay for it.
"There will be roughly around $11 billion that's available for disaster relief without being offset," says Hal Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky who heads the House Appropriations Committee.
Republican demands to offset $1 billion in extra cash for FEMA two weeks ago nearly brought the government to a standstill, yet the possibility of spending as much as $11 billion in this new fiscal year isn't a problem. Sen. Landrieu offers this explanation:
"I wasn't looking for a fight. It all started when Rep. [Eric] Cantor just called for offsets for these disasters. And I said, 'No, that is not the way we've done it in the past.' "
When asked about whether his members would require offsets for additional FEMA money this fiscal year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, pointed back to the debt-limit deal.
"There is a construct that's been put in place, and as you know, budgeting for up to the 10-year average has been set. And so that money is within the budgeting construct," Cantor said.
And just like magic, this controversy is apparently over. For those in areas hit by disasters, all that really matters is it looks like federal help will keep coming.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexite, the pioneering data platform for real-time in-store intelligence, is exhibiting its leading retail technology at NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show Innovation Lab from January 15-17 in New York City. Nexite will showcase its innovative merchandise platform that provides retailers with an automated, in-store solution that connects physical merchandise to the cloud. This innovative technology has already proven to be extremely successful in driving sales and offering new customer experiences.
The Retail Big Show's Innovation Lab that introduces the latest applications in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and more. It also gives attendees a better understanding of how these solutions can help retailers manage inventory challenges and ultimately transform the retail industry.
"We are thrilled to participate in NRF's Innovation Lab and connect with other like-minded leaders who are finding innovative ways to improve the retail industry," said Ronit Eliav, Chief Marketing Officer of Nexite. "The retail industry has experienced many unforeseen challenges that have inspired us to find more unique ways to support retailers as they navigate this ever-evolving market. NRF's Innovation Lab gives us the opportunity to not only share the technology with others, but also dive deeper into how it provides a live, in-store customer journey solution for retailers who are looking to better understand their customers' individual behaviors and optimize sales as a result."
Nexite created the first-ever tiny Bluetooth tag and SaaS platform that provides a continuous flow of long range, real-time data directly from the merchandise. This technology gives customers a more tailored shopping experience that is optimized from product selection to merchandising, in-store product positioning, and live phygital customer experiences. Real-time merchandise insights allow staff members to spend less time on inventory management, product lookups, BOPIS fulfillment, and more.
The NRF Big Show will be held in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Nexite's pioneering connected merchandise platform delivers invaluable, first-of-its-kind real-time in-store sales intelligence aligned to customer behavior for sales optimization. Leveraging world class engineering expertise, Nexite's platform comprises battery-free, long-range communication technology that provides a continuous stream of data, automatically and in real-time. Nexite maximizes merchandise performance to drive store revenues for all physical retail markets, and enables completely frictionless shopping including seamless checkout and returns.
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Partners with TxDOT and Other Government Agencies to Launch its MaaS/MOD Platform in Houston
HOUSTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metropia, Inc.'s congestion-solving Mobility-as-a-Service/Mobility on Demand (MaaS/MOD) platform rolled out with the launch of the TxDOT-sponsored ConnectSmart app in Houston, Texas.
ConnectSmart marks the first MaaS/MOD platform deployment in a U.S. major metropolitan area that integrates system operations. The ConnectSmart app was developed upon Metropia's platform and tailored to respond to the unique demands of Greater Houston's transportation systems. This approach allows any agency to launch a customized app for their region by integrating local traffic data, transit and other mobility service providers to solve regional transportation challenges.
ConnectSmart will help users enjoy a better commute, seamlessly connect to mobility options, book and pay for transit tickets, rely less on single-occupancy vehicles, improve safety, and reduce traffic along with the resulting harmful exhaust emissions associated with congestion.
ConnectSmart was officially launched on September 16 at a special event in Houston attended by city dignitaries and officials from TxDOT, nearby municipalities and transportation-related organizations.
Metropia Founder and President, Yi-Chang Chiu, PhD, said, "Fixing traffic congestion cannot be solved simply by building more highways. Metropia's approach in developing ConnectSmart was to build upon conventional MaaS/MOD with intermodal trip planning, transit ticketing, and payment capabilities. Our advanced platform integrates regional traffic data and sensors like cameras and DMS into its trip planning engine. It includes active demand management strategies like behavioral economics to influence app users to adopt more sustainable mobility behaviors that reduce driving dependencies. We believe our approach will be a cornerstone of transportation in the future."
Thanks to TxDOT making a long-term commitment to the ConnectSmart project and because of Metropia's vision, commuter behavior will likely change and include widespread adoption of the app.
The development of the Houston ConnectSmart app is the result of a partnership between the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC), City of Houston, Houston METRO, Houston TranStar, Tow and Go and BCycle, Conroe Connection, Fort Bend Transit and Harris County Transit.
About Metropia, Inc.: Headquartered in Houston, TX, Metropia is a transportation technology solutions firm with a passion for solving urban mobility problems. The company bridges the gap between Mobility-as-a-Service / Mobility on Demand and Transportation Systems Management and Operations, leveraging artificial intelligence and behavioral economics-based interventions into a unified platform. Metropia has helped governments, cities, transit agencies, and private companies both domestic and abroad achieve traffic and carbon reductions, ridership growth, and operational efficiencies.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TKO Miller is pleased to announce that GLK Foods, LLC (GLK), a world-leading producer of premium food products including sauerkraut and Oh Snap! pickled vegetable products, has divested its Sauerkraut Division to Fermented Food Holdings, Inc. (FFH).
GLK Foods is headquartered in Appleton, WI and has been a family-owned operation for four generations since 1900. GLK's Sauerkraut Division is the largest producer of sauerkraut in the world, serving grocery, foodservice, and industrial co-pack markets. The Sauerkraut Division produces in-house brands such as Cortland Valley, Flanagan, Silver Floss, and Saverne, and co-packages the majority of all North American sauerkraut brands including privately labeled and other industrial co-packaged brands. In addition to its market-leading sauerkraut business, GLK Foods also produces and markets the popular Oh Snap! line of pickled vegetables. This business will be retained by GLK Foods.
FFH is a food company dedicated to bringing together high-quality fermented food brands to reach a broader group of consumers and introduce them to the benefits of fermented foods. Founded in 2021 by Oliver Joost and Marcelo Marim, FFH seeks to leverage its partners' deep industry expertise to accelerate the growth of its portfolio, as well as the fermented foods category. For more information, visit fermentedfoodholdings.com.
TKO Miller, LLC is an independent, advisory-focused, middle-market investment bank. With over 130 years of collective transaction experience, TKO Miller provides merger and acquisition and financial advisory services for privately held and private equity-owned businesses nationwide, with a special focus on family- and founder-held businesses.
TKO Miller aims to bring value to clients by combining outstanding people with a results-oriented, flexible approach to transactions. Our services include company sales, recapitalizations, asset divestitures, and management buyouts. TKO Miller has a generalist focus but has served clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, business services, consumer products, and industrial products and services. For more information, visit our website www.tkomiller.com
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation ("Sabre") (NASDAQ: SABR) will host a live webcast of its third quarter 2022 earnings conference call on November 2nd, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. ET. Management will discuss the financial results, as well as comment on the forward outlook. The webcast is expected to last approximately one hour and will be accessible by visiting the Investor Relations section of Sabre's website at investors.sabre.com.
A live audio webcast of the session will be available on the Sabre website at investors.sabre.com. A replay of the event will be available on the website for at least 90 days following the event.
About Sabre
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
In post-trial motions filed Friday, Heard’s attorneys call the jury’s June 1 award of $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages to Depp “excessive” and “indefensible.” They ask the judge to set aside the verdict and dismiss Depp’s lawsuit or order a new trial. Immediately after the verdict, the judge reduced the compensatory damages to $350,000 under a state cap.
Depp sued Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp’s lawyers alleged he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned him by name.
The six-week televised trial turned into a spectacle that offered a window into their dysfunctional marriage. Much of the testimony focused on Heard’s claims that she had been physically and sexually abused by Depp. Heard described more than a dozen alleged assaults, including a fight in Australia — where Depp was shooting a “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel — in which Depp lost the tip of his middle finger and Heard said she was sexually assaulted with a liquor bottle.
Depp said he never hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
Depp had to prove that he never assaulted Heard, that her op-ed piece defamed him and that she wrote the article with actual malice.
In their post-trial motions, Heard’s legal team argued that to find that Heard had actual malice, Depp would have had to show that at the time Heard’s article was published, she did not believe she had been abused.
“Instead, the evidence overwhelmingly supported Ms. Heard believed she was the victim of abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp,” Heard’s lawyers say in their motion.
Heard’s lawyers also ask the judge to investigate “potential improper juror service,” alleging that one of the jurors who was chosen to serve on the jury was listed as being born in 1945 in documents given to the attorneys before the jury selection process, but is listed as being born in 1970 in publicly available information.
“This discrepancy raises the question whether Juror 15 actually received a summons for jury duty and was properly vetted by the Court to serve on the jury,” Heard’s lawyers said in their motion.
Depp’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The jury also awarded Heard $2 million in her counterclaim against Depp, finding that that Heard was defamed by one of Depp’s lawyers, who accused her of creating a detailed hoax that included roughing up the couple’s apartment to look worse for police.
In some ways, the trial was a replay of a lawsuit Depp filed in the United Kingdom against a British tabloid after he was described as a “wife beater.” The judge in that case ruled in the newspaper’s favor in 2020 after finding that Heard was telling the truth in her descriptions of abuse. | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/heard-seeks-to-throw-out-verdict-in-depp-defamation-trial/ | 2022-07-04 19:28:50 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/heard-seeks-to-throw-out-verdict-in-depp-defamation-trial/ |
How to Watch the SE Louisiana vs. Lamar Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the Southland Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 9, 2023 at 10:14 AM CST
The Southland championship will be decided Thursday, as the No. 1 seed SE Louisiana Lions (20-9) meet the No. 3 Lamar Cardinals (20-11) at 5:00 PM.
Hoping to catch this game live? Below, we lay out all the details you need to know about how to watch this contest on fuboTV.
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SE Louisiana Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET
- Where: The Legacy Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana
- TV: ESPN
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SE Louisiana vs. Lamar Scoring Comparison
- The Cardinals average 10.3 more points per game (64.7) than the Lions allow their opponents to score (54.4).
- Lamar is 18-4 when it scores more than 54.4 points.
- SE Louisiana is 18-6 when it gives up fewer than 64.7 points.
- The Lions average 62.6 points per game, just 2.5 more points than the 60.1 the Cardinals allow.
- SE Louisiana is 15-1 when scoring more than 60.1 points.
- Lamar is 13-7 when allowing fewer than 62.6 points.
- This season the Lions are shooting 41.1% from the field, 7.2% lower than the Cardinals concede.
- The Cardinals make 32.9% of their shots from the field, 8.1% lower than the Lions' defensive field-goal percentage.
SE Louisiana Schedule
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A child is dead after a car crashed into a truck that had pulled off on the side Hull Street Road on Monday, June 5.
A 1999 Toyota sedan was driving east on the 20800 block of Hull Street Road at about 2:20 p.m. on Monday afternoon when it hit a 2019 GMC pickup truck and camper that had pulled onto the right shoulder, according to Chesterfield Police.
A juvenile passenger in the Toyota was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The driver of the Toyota was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
One person was inside the camper at the time of the crash and was not injured.
Anyone with information should contact the police at 804-748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660 or through the P3 app.
All eastbound lanes of Hull Street Road are currently closed near Skinquarter Road in Chesterfield County, and drivers should use alternate routes. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/child-dies-in-multi-vehicle-crash-on-hull-street-road-in-chesterfield/ | 2023-06-05 21:14:22 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/child-dies-in-multi-vehicle-crash-on-hull-street-road-in-chesterfield/ |
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SHANGRAO, China, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that since August 15, 2022, the local government of Sichuan province, where certain of JinkoSolar' s manufacturing facilities are located, has imposed province-wide power rationing measures to ease the power shortage in the region. As a result of these measures, the production capacity of JinkoSolar' s manufacturing facilities in Sichuan province has been temporarily affected.
JinkoSolar is actively monitoring the situation and has implemented various measures to minimize the adverse impact from the power rationing on its business operations and financial performance, including but not limited to having its other manufacturing facilities assume more production, and actively communicating with the local government about power supply related matters. However, as it remains uncertain how long the power rationing measures will persist and when JinkoSolar's Sichuan manufacturing facilities can resume full production, JinkoSolar is currently unable to evaluate the extent to which its business operation and financial performance for full year 2022 will be affected.
About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 40.0 GW for mono wafers, 40.0 GW for solar cells, and 50.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2022.
JinkoSolar has 12 productions facilities globally, 21 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, UAE, and Denmark, and global sales teams in mainland China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, as of March 31, 2022.
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10-year-old transgender girl can rejoin school’s softball team, federal judge orders
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Indianapolis Public Schools to allow a 10-year-old transgender girl to rejoin her school’s all-girls softball team while a lawsuit continues against a state law that bans transgender females from competing in girls school sports.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson in Indianapolis issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday on behalf of the girl, finding that she “has established that she has a strong likelihood of succeeding on the merits” of her claim.
“She has also established that she would suffer irreparable harm for which there is no adequate legal remedy,” Magnus-Stinson wrote in her order of the girl, who will be a fifth-grader when classes resume in August.
Indianapolis Public Schools had told the girl’s mother earlier this year that her daughter would no longer be able to play on the girls’ softball team because of the new law, the judge added.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit on behalf of the girl in hopes of blocking the law. The suit was filed in May, minutes after Republican state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of the legislation, and alleges that preventing the girl from rejoining her team because she is transgender is violation of Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
That lawsuit continues against the law, which took effect on July 1 and which opponents have argued is a bigoted response to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Republican sponsors of the bill maintain it is needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarships but have pointed to no instances in Indiana of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.
ACLU of Indiana’s legal director, Ken Falk, said Tuesday in a statement that the group is pleased that the judge decided that the girl should “be allowed to play on her school’s softball team.”
“When misinformation about biology and gender is used to bar transgender girls from school sports it amounts to the same form of sex discrimination that has long been prohibited under Title IX, a law that protects all students – including trans people – on the basis of sex,” Falk said.
Magnus-Stinson wrote in her order that Indianapolis Public Schools has taken “no position regarding whether the Court should issue a preliminary injunction,” but that the state has intervened and opposes the request for the preliminary injunction.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said following Tuesday’s ruling that the transgender sports law “remains in effect across the state” and said his office will continue defending it.
“The court’s ruling allows only this particular plaintiff to play this particular sport at this particular elementary school,” he said in a statement to WXIN-TV.
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Some Philly region businesses are closing early on Super Bowl Sunday
The big game is big business for many bars and restaurants. Others are closing up shop before kickoff.
A Super Bowl appearance basically amounts to a religious holiday in the Philly region. But who gets the day off?
From diners to thrift stores, some businesses in the Philadelphia region are closing early on Sunday well ahead of the Eagles-Chiefs showdown at 6:30 p.m. EST. In the Midwest, Kansas City businesses are also drawing the curtains early to give workers time to watch the game.
Of course, Super Bowl Sunday spells dollar signs for many establishments, from famous neighborhood sports bars in Philadelphia to fan-packed watering holes in Berks County.
“The opportunity to have yet another large crowd dining out on a Sunday — or to cater, or to sell takeout — it can’t be replaced,” said Job Itzkowitz, executive director of the Old City District.
The same can be said for retailers selling Birds-themed merch. But for many proprietors, it’s not worth the effort of staying open into the evening, to say nothing of navigating the celebratory mayhem if the Eagles win.
Here are some of the businesses that are closing early Sunday or opening late on Monday.
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Over the bridge, the New Berlin Diner in Camden County is ending the lunch line at 3 p.m.
The Habitat for Humanity Restore in Maple Shade posted a sign on its window announcing a 4 p.m. closure due to a “sports emergency.”
Fearless Restaurants, a group that operates seven eateries in the city, suburbs, and at the Jersey Shore, posted on social media that all their locations are calling it quits after lunch at 3:30 p.m.
Downerss, a vintage boutique in Fishtown, is closing at 3 p.m.
Thunder Mug Cage in East Falls will close at 1 p.m.
Retro Fitness in the Spring Garden area will close at 5 p.m.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in anticipation of late night celebrations, will open late on Monday, at noon. | https://www.inquirer.com/news/super-bowl-sunday-business-closings-20230211.html | 2023-02-12 05:06:23 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/news/super-bowl-sunday-business-closings-20230211.html |
Saudi-funded LIV Golf has joined the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in an amended complaint in which four players have removed their names.
That leaves seven players, most notably Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, along with LIV Golf as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The four who withdrew their names are Carlos Ortiz, Abraham Ancer, Pat Perez, and Jason Kokrak.
The amended complaint was filed Friday afternoon in the US District Court in Northern California. Three players still on the lawsuit — Matt Jones, Talor Gooch, and Hudson Swafford — previously sought a temporary restraining order to played in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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The judge denied their request two weeks ago.
The lawsuit claims the PGA Tour has used monopoly power to try to squash competition and has unfairly suspended players.
Greg Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf, has said the league would fully support the players in any legal action they pursued. LIV Golf, backed by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, now is directly involved.
In the amended complaint, LIV Golf argues that without a favorable ruling, its “ability to maintain a meaningful competitive presence in the markets will be destroyed.”
LIV Golf alleges the PGA Tour’s restraints forced it to raise its costs to sign players and kept it from recruiting others who fear the threat of being punished. It also claims the tour forced LIV Golf to delay its launch for 2022 and have a smaller schedule in its first year.
LIV Golf has offered several big names signing fees that are reported to be worth $150 million or more, in addition to the $25 million in prize money at each event. LIV Golf has staged three tournaments so far. The fourth is next weekend outside Boston.
The amended complaint says while LIV Golf has launched its tour despite “supracompetitive costs” and reduced access to players, “facing headwinds of this nature is not sustainable.”
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The PGA Tour has leaned on its right that its members require a conflicting event release to play overseas, and no releases are granted for North American events. Five such LIV events are on the schedule this year.
The tour has suspended players who complete in LIV Golf without a release — none were granted — and most of those suspensions are through March 2024.
DP World: A Saturday that started early for Thriston Lawrence by completing the four holes from his weather-affected second round ended with him leading by three shots after three rounds of the European Masters in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
Lawrence was back on course at 7:40 a.m. at Crans-sure-Sierre Golf Club and birdied the par-4 18th to card a 64 and sit at 14 under, one shot behind leader Alejandro Cañizares.
A 67 in the afternoon, with five birdies and two bogeys, lifted South African Lawrence to a 17 under total of 193 as Cañizares shot 73 to fall down the leaderboard.
Lawrence led by three over Matt Wallace whose 68, after back-to-back 64s, included birdies at Nos. 17 and 18. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/27/sports/liv-golf-has-joined-antitrust-lawsuit-against-pga-tour/ | 2022-08-27 20:06:21 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/27/sports/liv-golf-has-joined-antitrust-lawsuit-against-pga-tour/ |
Genpact to leverage Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service technology to enhance speed-to-market of leading-edge solutions that help companies use data and AI's power to drive actionable business insights
NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses, announced a collaboration with Microsoft that allows Genpact's global talent to access Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service to enable them to unlock new opportunities to implement generative AI capabilities for clients.
Genpact has identified various opportunities to leverage large language models (LLMs) to drive enterprise efficiencies in areas such as transition management, global service desk management, infrastructure management, and other areas. Generative AI has the ability to help companies improve employee productivity, and enhance operational efficiency and agility, allowing Genpact's business teams – the domain experts – to develop use cases that solve the many day-to-day challenges enterprises face. Azure's cloud infrastructure coupled with the flexibility of the Azure OpenAI Service will help accelerate these solution developments.
"Generative AI's potential to drive innovation is unprecedented, and by democratizing access to this technology, including Microsoft Azure's powerful AI tools, we continue to foster our culture of innovation, experimentation, and knowledge across our more than 115,000 global workforce," said Vidya Rao, Chief Information Officer at Genpact. "Our continuous learning environment helps clients optimize AI's rapidly evolving landscape, and we're excited to leverage Microsoft's AI tools to revolutionize the way we approach problem-solving."
This relationship with Microsoft builds on Genpact's deep expertise in AI innovation – from decades-long investments in advanced data analytics to strategic AI acquisitions, to leading-edge technology solutions and extensive experience with LLMs across numerous industries, including consumer goods, retail, life sciences, healthcare, hi-tech, and financial services.
"Genpact is an innovator in combining AI and advanced analytics, and we are pleased to collaborate with them to expedite the development of new solutions that empower enterprises to strategically use generative AI for business value," said Sangita Singh, General Manager IT&ITES, Microsoft India. "Microsoft Azure AI, combined with Genpact's industry knowledge, operational expertise, and experience in running processes for Global Fortune companies, will be a powerful combination."
Genpact will support its employees' use of generative AI tools through comprehensive training programs and resources. Genpact also recently established a generative AI practice with a team of data scientists, data engineers, and domain experts focused on the rapid development of generative AI capabilities on the Genpact Cora platform which is already integrated with more than 250 enterprise ecosystems handling more than 20 million transactions a month.
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In the US Southwest, residents used to scorching summers are still sweating out an extreme heat wave
PHOENIX (AP) — Even Southwestern desert residents accustomed to scorching summers are feeling the grip of an extreme heat wave smacking Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Southern California this week with 100-degree-plus temps and excessive heat warnings.
To add insult to injury, the region has been left high and dry with no monsoon activity, which can help offset the blazing temperatures. In Arizona, the monsoon season officially begins June 15 and can bring powerful storms with high winds, lightning and heavy bursts of rain.
In Phoenix, Martin Brown and his black Labrador, Sammy, escaped the heat Monday in the lobby of Circle the City, an air-conditioned walk-in health clinic for homeless people that is also a designated hydration station. Anyone can come in, sit and get bottled water or snacks like a burrito or ramen.
“We’re homeless, so we don’t have a choice. Well, we have a choice: We can sit at the park and swelter in the heat, but no thank you. This is much better,” Brown said.
He spends five days a week there during business hours and then takes the bus to spend nights at the park to escape the “jungle hot” time of day.
The heat has made pockets of the desert city feel like ghost towns. A series of sunset concerts was canceled, and covered restaurant patios equipped with cooling misters sit empty.
Phoenix on Tuesday was poised to hit a 12th consecutive day of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) or higher, according to the National Weather Service. The longest recorded stretch so far was 18 days in 1974.
The high pressure needed to generate monsoon storms isn’t in just the right position, according to state climatologist Dr. Erinanne Saffell, so metro Phoenix is left with below normal precipitation and dry conditions that facilitate hotter temperatures. Also, some experts believe this year’s heavier snowpack in the West took more energy to melt, prolonging the progression of a summer high-pressure system.
“It just kind of delayed everything,” Saffell said.
Stepping outside is like walking into a giant hair dryer. Accidentally brushing metal and other surfaces can feel like touching a hot stove.
All the concrete and pavement in sprawling Phoenix contributes to the misery, as sidewalks and buildings bake all day and release accumulated heat slowly overnight. During the current wave, the “low” temps aren’t dipping below 90 degrees (32.2 C).
“Phoenix in the early 1900s would average about five days a year where they had 110 degrees or higher. Now you count the last 10 years, it’s about 27 days a year. That’s five times more,” Saffell said.
Las Vegas could also see the mercury reach between 110 and 115 degrees (43.3 and 46.1 C) this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, temperatures were forecast to be between 100 and 103 (37.7 and 39.4 C) on Tuesday with a heat advisory in effect all day. Inland areas of Southern California are predicted to see conditions peak between 100 and 113 (37.7 and 45 C) from Friday through Sunday.
Like every summer, libraries, churches and other facilities in Phoenix serve as cooling centers or hydration stations for those who need refuge.
Isaiah Castellanos spent Monday morning inside the city library’s downtown branch and planned to return after grabbing lunch. A liver transplant recipient, Castellanos said his medications make him sunburn easily. He can’t afford to go to the movies or a museum, so the free public library is his go-to place to escape his under-air-conditioned home.
“It’s quiet. I’ll turn on my music and read a book or watch YouTube with my headphones, but also stay cool,” Castellanos said.
Melody Santiago, who oversees the front office of the Circle the City clinic, said some people are so grateful they return with thank-you cards or cookies. She is certain more will come in over the next week.
“It’s getting really hot, and they have nowhere else to go,” Santiago said. “It’s an eye-opener: You never know, you could be there too.”
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3 women killed, baby wounded in shooting at Tulsa apartment
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three women were shot and killed and a baby wounded during a shooting early Monday at a Tulsa apartment complex, Tulsa police said.
Officers responded about 6:30 a.m. Monday to a report of a triple killing at Wood Creek Apartments in east Tulsa and found three women dead inside, police said in a news release. An infant who had also been shot was found next to one of the women.
Police say the infant underwent surgery and was expected to survive. A 13-year-old boy was inside the apartment and hid in a back bedroom when he heard the gunshots, police said, adding that the suspect forced the boy out of his bedroom and “was then very remorseful of his actions.” The boy managed to escape out of an apartment window and called for help, police said.
Police identified the dead women as Ashley Atwell, 38; Annaway Mackey, 20; and Sara Gonzales, 19.
The ex-boyfriend of one of the women, Caleb Venson, was arrested on three complaints of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and shooting with intent to kill, police said.
Venson was being held without bond, jail records show. Formal charges had not been filed late Monday, and jail records don’t indicate the name of an attorney who could speak on Venson’s behalf. An after-hours call to the Tulsa public defender’s office went unanswered.
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This version has been corrected to indicate shooting was Monday, not Tuesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Mushers and their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race face plenty of variables in the Alaska wilderness. An unexpected one this year has been heat that is taking a toll in a sport better suited for temperatures well below zero.
Jason Mackey said a thermometer hanging from the back of his sled hit 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.67 degree C) at one point this week as he camped alongside the trail while mushers neared the halfway mark of the race. Other racers threw their game plans for the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) race across Alaska out the window to deal with the heat and messy trail conditions.
Although it’s warm, it wasn’t 80 degrees in interior Alaska, which would probably be a record high in July, said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service’s Alaska Region. Instead, when you leave a thermometer in the sun, it absorbs the solar energy, which is the reason official measurement thermometers are kept in the shade.
But it’s still warm and sunny, and it’s having noticeable effects on people who are exposed to it, Brettschneider said.
Last weekend, the same area was much cooler than normal, with what appeared to be ideal mushing conditions. The warmer conditions are being driven by an area of high pressure, he said.
Many communities in the nation’s largest state hit record highs this week, from Kodiak off Alaska’s southern coast to Deadhorse, the supply town for oil companies operating on the state’s North Slope, about 1,250 miles (2,012 kilometers) away.
Along the Iditarod race route, the community of McGrath didn’t set records but had a high Wednesday of 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2.22 degree C), 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 degree C) above normal. More telling was a low temperature of 27 degrees Fahrenheit (-2.78 degrees C).
“Normally it should be below zero (-17.78 degrees C),” Brettschneider said.
That warmth was evident all along the Iditarod trail Wednesday. “There’s almost no places that were below freezing along the route,” he said.
That was not news to Mackey. “I wish the temperatures would cool down,” the musher told a television crew from the Iditarod Insider.
It’s just not the heat that was bothersome. He said he looked down at his sled at one point and saw two mosquitoes.
“Yeah, it’s spring,” Mackey said.
The heat is taking its toll on Mackey’s dogs, which he called “big boys” at 80 pounds (36.29 kilograms). He said other teams were moving in the heat of the day, but he wasn’t willing to do that. “I mean, it zaps them,” he said of the dog team.
Kelly Maixner, a pediatric dentist, said his dogs don’t like the heat, and he’d rather it be minus -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-28.89 degrees C).
During the race, mushers must take one 24-hour layover at a checkpoint to rest. Part of where to take that layover plays into the strategy of most every musher.
Nic Petit took his mandatory rest early in the race, at the checkpoint in Nikolai, because the sun was out. “I like hot dogs, just not my dog as a hot dog,” said Petit, who was born in France and raised in New Mexico.
The melting was causing issues and concerns for some mushers, especially as they made for the race’s halfway point, the ghost village of Iditarod.
“It could be soft and punchy out there, and who knows how the hills are going into Iditarod,” Richie Diehl told the TV crew. “It could be big tussocks just like a couple of years ago, and it could be a brutal run, you know, with the rolling hills and possibly barren tundra.” Tussocks are clumps of grass.
Rookie musher Bailey Vitello of New Hampshire was near last place Thursday, running his dogs in the rain during the day and having to deal with ice at night.
He would rather not be behind and dealing with ripped-up trails. “The back-of-the-pack is the worst part of the trail,” he told the TV crew.
Riley Dyche of Fairbanks took his 24-hour break before reaching Iditarod because he didn’t want to run his dogs in the heat of the day. That likely cost him either $3,000 in gold nuggets or a new smart phone, the prize given to the first musher at the halfway point.
“I don’t think the little incentive prize — it would have been cool — but I don’t think it would have been a benefit to these guys for getting to the finish line,” he said, speaking of his dogs.
Instead, that prize went to race leader Wade Marrs, who is originally from Alaska but now living in Wisconsin. He arrived in Iditarod about 1 a.m. Thursday.
The good news for mushers is that as they continue west, temperatures will be more Alaska-like, highs around 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 degrees C) and lows below zero, Brettschneider said.
The race started Sunday in Willow, just north of Anchorage. Mushers will take their dog teams over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and the Bering Sea ice to the finish line in Nome. The winner is expected sometime early next week. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/sports/heat-takes-toll-as-iditarod-mushers-trek-across-alaska/ | 2023-03-10 05:17:30 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/sports/heat-takes-toll-as-iditarod-mushers-trek-across-alaska/ |
DALLAS, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC ("Oncor") plans to release its fourth quarter and year end 2022 results on February 28, prior to Sempra's (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) fourth quarter and year end 2022 conference call. Oncor's earnings release will be available on Oncor's website, oncor.com.
Sempra executives will conduct a conference call at 12 p.m. ET, Tuesday, February 28 that will include discussion of Oncor's fourth quarter and year end 2022 operational and financial results. Investors, media, analysts and the public may listen to a live webcast of the conference call by registering on the Investors section of Sempra's website and clicking on the appropriate link. Prior to the conference call, an accompanying slide presentation will be posted on Sempra's Investors site.
For those unable to obtain access to the live webcast, it will be available on replay a few hours after its conclusion on Sempra's website.
Oncor's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after Sempra's conference call and, once filed, will also be available at oncor.com.
Headquartered in Dallas, Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC is a regulated electricity distribution and transmission business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest distribution and transmission system in Texas, delivering power to more than 3.8 million homes and businesses and operating more than 140,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas. While Oncor is owned by two investors (indirect majority owner, Sempra, and minority owner, Texas Transmission Investment LLC), Oncor is managed by its Board of Directors, which is comprised of a majority of disinterested directors.
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UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) — Plans to move forward with demolishing the elementary school where 21 people died last year are paused right now due to a court order, according to the district’s interim superintendent.
During a news conference Monday morning, Interim Superintendent Gary Patterson from the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District told reporters that he cannot share a timeline on when crews can tear down Robb Elementary School because of “litigation.” He clarified that this is related to a court order filed by District Attorney Christina Mitchell, but he said he hopes this will be resolved by this summer.
“Litigation has tied that up and will continue to tie that up. We hope to be fairly close to the end of that,” Patterson said about the school demolition plans Monday. “When everybody’s cleared that building, we’re waiting for one more party to clear it. When that’s cleared, then we can begin the plans for the demolition.”
KXAN reached out Monday afternoon for comment from the district attorney. This story will be updated once any response is shared.
A gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022. Monday’s news conference gave local leaders, including Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, a chance to discuss the tragedy’s impact nearly a year later. He shared how there will be no city-sanctioned events this week to remember the tragedy, but mentioned the victims’ families are planning their own remembrances that the public can attend.
“This week we’re here to support the families,” McLaughlin said. “This is not about us. This is about these families and these survivors, and it’s our time to reflect on the memories of these children that lost their lives that day and the two teachers.”
The mayor expressed frustration Monday about the lack of accountability nearly a year later for the failed response to the shooting. Critics point out it took dozens of law enforcement officers 77 minutes before they went into the classroom and killed the gunman.
“I’ve said over and over: everybody that was there that day has to be held accountable whether it be the school police department, the Uvalde Police Department — every agency that was there,” McLaughlin said. “This is my opinion: it’s been a bunch of BS that we’ve been a year, and we’re still waiting for answers that we are. But we’re moving forward to get those answers now. As soon as we have our report, we should have been done, but it’s not. Then I can promise you whatever action we need to take, we will take.”
He and the Uvalde city manager, Vince DiPiazza, noted Monday the city hired an independent investigator to come in and evaluate its police department’s response to the Robb Elementary shooting. However, they said that effort still remains ongoing.
The Uvalde CISD created a foundation after the shooting to work on demolishing Robb Elementary School and building a new facility in its place. The new school will cost about $60 million and relies entirely on private donations. To date, the Moving Forward Foundation is more than 70 percent to that goal. The new building’s plans include ways to memorialize those killed last year.
At the Texas Capitol, lawmakers took up measures aimed at improving school safety and addressing mental health care following the deadly shooting. However, legislation striving to tighten restrictions on guns failed to advance despite the pleas and protests from families of the children killed in Uvalde. They specifically called for a measure to raise the age to buy AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. The gunman in this shooting bought two AR-15-style rifles just days after his 18th birthday.
Uvalde’s mayor said Monday all the mass shootings that are happening should lead to a conversation about “gun control,” but he endorsed no specific changes he’d like to see happen.
“We need to look at changing the law. We need to do stronger background checks, but we have elected officials up there on both sides of the party that say my way or the highway,” McLaughlin said. “We need to reach a point that we can sit in a room and have a conversation. I’m not going to get 100%, and you’re not going to get 100%, but together we can come up with something that works.”
A poll released earlier this month from the Texas Politics Project showed three out of four Texas voters support the idea of enacting stricter gun control measures that would raise the age requirement to purchase a weapon in the state. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/district-court-order-from-uvalde-district-attorney-stalls-school-demolition-plans/ | 2023-05-22 21:16:35 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/district-court-order-from-uvalde-district-attorney-stalls-school-demolition-plans/ |
Which Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon is best?
If you’re shopping for Valentine’s Day gifts, there’s a good chance you’ll find the perfect one for your significant other on Amazon. However, considering the online retailer stocks well over 10 million products, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at the same time.
To narrow your options, think about the recipient’s hobbies, preferences or favorite things. For example, active individuals and fitness enthusiasts may appreciate the Theragun Prime Massage Gun, which aids in recovery and relaxation after strenuous workouts.
What to know before you buy a Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon
Popular Valentine’s Day gifts
There’s no shortage of common Valentine’s Day gifts on Amazon, such as chocolate truffles, teddy bears, jewelry and personalized items. The retailer has recently overhauled its Premium Beauty department, which now includes an extensive range of designer fragrances, beauty products and skin care items.
Electronics, ranging from wireless earbuds to Chromebooks, remain top choices for high-end Valentine’s Day gifts. Besides hundreds of devices from top brands like Samsung, Apple and HP, Amazon sells over a dozen of its own branded devices, including Kindles and Fire tablets.
Unconventional Valentine’s Day gifts
For those thinking outside the box for Valentine’s Day, there are many unconventional gift options worth considering. Handmade gifts and artwork, for example, are unique options that are both memorable and sentimental. Funny gifts, including novelty items, may be suitable for the recipient with a sense of humor. Those who are big fans of certain comic books, TV shows or film series may appreciate collectibles over more traditional Valentine’s Day gifts.
What to look for in a quality Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon
Trusted brands
When you shop online, you don’t have the opportunity to touch or see an item before you buy it. To minimize the risk of disappointment and discrepancies in quality, many shoppers turn to trusted brands for Valentine’s Day gifts. Most reputable manufacturers stand behind their products, and many of them offer satisfaction guarantees and exceptional customer support. Other manufacturers may offer longer warranties on devices and products compared to those made by lesser-known brands.
Product size
Before you finalize your order, make sure the Valentine’s Day gift you’re ordering comes in a practical or appropriate size.
- If you find a particularly good deal on a beauty product, it might be cheap simply because it’s a travel-size container instead of a full-size one.
- As far as buying clothing online, pay close attention to product specifications to determine the garment’s cut and sizing. In some cases, you may need to size up or down.
- There are several miniature and single-serving versions of small kitchen appliances, such as waffle makers. Depending on your recipient’s needs, it may or may not be a practical size.
- Oversized gifts, including wine refrigerators, may require a scheduled delivery. Depending on the logistics company handling the delivery, you may need to schedule as much as two or three weeks in advance.
Valentine’s Day-inspired colors
Many products are available in Valentine’s Day-inspired colors, namely pink and red. Several small kitchen appliances, such as stand mixers or air fryers, are often available in these colors — and it’s no surprise they sell out quickly. Gift-worthy clothing items, from coats to pajama sets, come in various shades of pink or red. As far as jewelry is concerned, rubies, garnets, rose quartz and pink topaz are among the bestselling gemstones for Valentine’s Day pieces.
How much you can expect to spend on Valentine’s Day gifts on Amazon
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of affordably priced Valentine’s Day gifts on Amazon for $25 and below, such as chocolate assortments and novelty items. If you’re willing to spend closer to $100, there are plenty of options made by premium brands. Amazon’s luxury offerings, particularly designer handbags, clothing and shoes, cost between $75-$500.
Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon FAQ
Is it OK to give Amazon gift cards for Valentine’s Day?
A. It depends on the recipient. Some people welcome Amazon gift cards because they get the pleasure of choosing their own gift, whether it’s a new Kindle title or a kitchen gadget. Other individuals, however, may view a gift card as an impersonal option.
How early should I order Valentine’s Day gifts from Amazon?
A. Between anticipated supply chain interruptions and peak purchasing times, it’s a good idea to start shopping for Valentine’s Day gifts sooner than later. If possible, order the gift from Amazon by the middle of January to account for unexpected delays.
What’s the best Valentine’s Day gift to buy on Amazon?
Top Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon
What you need to know: With four attachments and five speeds, this Theragun is ideal for someone seeking a personalized massage at home.
What you’ll love: The massage gun’s ergonomic design makes it easy to manipulate around hard-to-reach areas, such as calves. It has a brushless motor for quiet operation. The device integrates with an app, which allows users to further customize their massage experience.
What you should consider: Some people felt it was challenging to access or operate the controls.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Valentine’s Day gift on Amazon for the money
PajamaGram Shearling Rollneck Pajama Set
What you need to know: This PajamaGram is a popular, cozy Valentine’s Day gift.
What you’ll love: It’s made with a soft and comfortable jersey fabric with a shearling fleece lining. It’s available in a range of color combinations and sizes XS-3X.
What you should consider: They aren’t as thick as some buyers would like.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Oh! Nuts Gourmet Chocolate Tin
What you need to know: If you’re looking for a contemporary spin on a food-inspired gift, this tin includes seven palate-pleasing snacks.
What you’ll love: The gift box includes a well-rounded assortment of sweet and salty foods, including roasted peanuts and chocolate-covered pretzels. It’s neatly divided into seven sections in a textured tray. The attractive tin can be reused or refilled.
What you should consider: It’s not the cheapest option among gift baskets and gourmet snack assortments.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered.
The severe disruptions are the latest in a wave of industrial action by public sector workers amid U.K.’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. They come just two days after junior doctors went on strike for five days, the longest walkout in the history of the state-funded National Health Service.
Thousands of operations and appointments have been canceled, and health officials say the impact of the latest round of strikes to hit the country’s public health system is likely to be the biggest yet because almost no work can be done at hospitals unless it’s supervised by a senior doctor.
Senior doctors, known as consultants in the U.K., will only be “on call” for urgent work such as critical cancer care until Saturday morning.
The Conservative government has offered a 6% pay increase to the doctors, but the British Medical Association, the doctors’ union known as the BMA, called this “derisory.” It said doctors have seen real-term take-home pay fall by more than a third over the last 14 years, and accused authorities of refusing to engage in negotiations on pay.
Union executive Dr. Vishal Sharma said that many in his profession felt “undervalued and overworked.”
“Consultants will stand on the picket lines today, because we are angry and at rock bottom. We never wanted to be forced into taking this huge step,” Sharma said. “Ministers have done absolutely nothing to stop this action taking place.”
Psychiatrist Polly Christodoulou, who joined the picket line outside a hospital in south London, said that many colleagues have left for the private sector or to other countries such as Australia, because the wages offered are far better.
“A lot of us have trained for 15-years-plus to get to where we are and that is not being valued,” she said. “I want to be able to stay and support the NHS, but it is becoming more and more difficult.”
The BMA says senior doctors on a 2003 contract earn a starting salary of about 88,300 pounds ($113,453), rising to around 119,100 pounds after about 20 years. Doctors argue that their wages have fallen behind that of other highly-trained professionals such as lawyers.
Nurses, junior doctors and emergency health care workers have all joined public sector strikes in recent months to demand better pay to cope with soaring food, energy and housing costs. Inflation in the U.K. stood at 7.9% in June, down from double digits earlier in the year, but it’s still far higher compared to other Group of Seven economies.
Even before the strikes, the National Health Service, a beloved British institution that began life in 1948, was already under huge pressure, stretched by a dwindling workforce, huge backlogs and funding gaps.
Hospital executives have warned that the labor disputes could cost billions of pounds, and that unions and officials must reach a deal soon to end the impasse.
Meanwhile, rail workers also staged a further round of strikes Thursday, as a long-running pay dispute dragged on and brought new travel disruption for commuters and travellers.
The latest walkouts came as a bill aimed at curbing the impact of strikes became law on Thursday. The law will allow officials to impose minimum service levels during industrial action by essential workers, including paramedics, firefighters and rail workers.
The law had faced strong opposition from unions and opposition parties, which say it takes away the fundamental right to strike from many workers.
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By JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos took a commanding lead in an unofficial count of more than 60% of the votes in Monday’s presidential election in the deeply divided Asian democracy.
Marcos Jr. had more than 20.9 million votes, far ahead of his closest challenger, current Vice President Leni Robredo, a champion of human rights, who had 9.9 million votes.
Officials said the election was relatively peaceful despite pockets of violence in the country’s volatile south. Thousands of police and military personnel were deployed to secure election precincts, especially in rural regions with a history of violent political rivalries and where communist and Muslim rebels are active.
Filipinos stood in long lines to cast their ballots, with the start of voting delayed by a few hours in a few areas due to malfunctioning vote machines, power outages, bad weather and other problems.
Marcos Jr., whose father was ousted in a 1986 army-backed “People Power” uprising, held a wide lead in pre-election surveys. But Robredo tapped into shock and outrage over the prospect of a Marcos recapturing the seat of power and harnessed a network of campaign volunteers to underpin her candidacy.
Eight others were in the presidential race, including former boxing star Manny Pacquiao, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and former national police chief Sen. Panfilo Lacson.
The election winner will take office on June 30 for a single, six-year term as leader of a Southeast Asian nation hit hard by two years of COVID-19 outbreaks and lockdowns.
Still more challenging problems include a battered economy, deeper poverty and unemployment and decades-long Muslim and communist insurgencies. The next president is also likely to hear demands to prosecute outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte for thousands of killings during his anti-drug crackdown — deaths already under investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Duterte’s daughter, southern Davao city Mayor Sara Duterte, is Marcos Jr.’s vice presidential running mate in an alliance of the scions of two authoritarian leaders who concern human rights groups. The tie-up has combined the voting power of their separate northern and southern political strongholds, boosting their chances but compounding worries of human rights activists.
Sara Duterte also had a formidable lead in the unofficial count from the Commission on Elections server. The president and vice president are elected separately in the Philippines.
“History may repeat itself if they win,” said Myles Sanchez, a 42-year-old human rights worker. “There may be a repeat of martial law and the drug killings that happened under their parents.”
Sanchez said the violence and abuses that marked the martial-law era under Marcos and Duterte’s drug war more than three decades later victimized loved ones from two generations of her family. Her grandmother was sexually abused and her grandfather tortured by counterinsurgency troops under Marcos in the early 1980s in their impoverished farming village in Southern Leyte province.
Under Duterte’s crackdown, Sanchez’s brother, a sister and a sister-in-law were wrongfully linked to illegal drugs and separately killed, she told The Associated Press in an interview. She described the killings of her siblings as “a nightmare that has caused unspeakable pain.”
She begged Filipinos not to vote for politicians who either openly defended the widespread killings or conveniently looked away.
Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte avoided such volatile issues in the campaign and steadfastly stuck instead to a battle cry of national unity, even though their fathers’ presidencies opened some of the Philippines’ most turbulent divisions.
“I have learned in our campaign not to retaliate,” Sara Duterte told followers Saturday night on the final day of campaigning, where she and Marcos Jr. thanked a huge crowd in a night of rap music, dance shows and fireworks near Manila Bay.
At her own rally, Robredo thanked her supporters who jammed her star-studded sorties and waged a house-to-house battle to endorse her brand of clean and hands-on politics. She asked them to fight for patriotic ideals beyond the elections.
“We’ve learned that those who have awoken will never close their eyes again,” Robredo told a crowd that filled the main avenue in the capital’s Makati financial district. “It’s our right to have a future with dignity and it’s our responsibility to fight for it.”
In Maguindanao province, a security hotspot in the south, three village guards were killed by gunmen outside an elections center in Buluan town, briefly disrupting voting. Nine would-be voters and their companions were wounded separately Sunday night when unidentified men fired five rifle grenades in the Datu Unsay town hall, police said.
Aside from the presidency, more than 18,000 government posts are being contested, including half of the 24-member Senate, more than 300 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as provincial and local offices across the archipelago of more than 109 million Filipinos.
More than 67 million people were registered to vote, including about 1.6 million Filipinos overseas.
In the 2016 contest, Duterte emerged as the clear winner within a few hours after polls closed and his key challengers quickly conceded. The vice presidential race that year was won narrowly by Robredo over Marcos Jr., and the outcome was slower to become known.
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Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan, Aaron Favila and Cecilia Forbes in Manila, Philippines, and Kiko Rosario in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, after months of effort by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and other stakeholders, FDA has updated the EUA for the COVID-19 oral antiviral, Paxlovid, to permit pharmacists to order and prescribe Paxlovid under certain conditions.
The federal government had already authorized pharmacists to order and dispense oral therapeutics under the PREP Act. However, the ability for all pharmacists to prescribe was not included under the conditions in the original EUA for Paxlovid. FDA's label change removes this barrier to permit Paxlovid to "also be prescribed for an individual patient by a state-licensed pharmacist under the following conditions:
- Sufficient information is available, such as through access to health records less than 12 months old or consultation with a health care provider in an established provider-patient relationship with the individual patient, to assess renal and hepatic function; and
- Sufficient information is available, such as through access to health records, patient reporting of medical history, or consultation with a health care provider in an established provider-patient relationship with the individual patient, to obtain a comprehensive list of medications (prescribed and non-prescribed) that the patient is taking to assess for potential drug interaction.
The state-licensed pharmacist should refer an individual patient for clinical evaluation (e.g., telehealth, in-person visit) with a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant licensed or authorized under state law to prescribe drugs, if any of the following apply:
- Sufficient information is not available to assess renal and hepatic function.
- Sufficient information is not available to assess for a potential drug interaction.
- Modification of other medications is needed due to a potential drug interaction.
- Paxlovid is not an appropriate therapeutic option based on the authorized Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers or due to potential drug interactions for which recommended monitoring would not be feasible."
FDA's change comes following a new analysis by CDC, which confirmed APhA's earlier findings of inequitable dispensing of COVID-19 oral antivirals. Increasing access to authorized prescribers, including pharmacists, will increase availability and provide more opportunities for socially vulnerable and medically underserved communities to access these lifesaving medications.
"APhA thanks FDA for recognizing the expertise of pharmacists as critical providers of care for important COVID-19 treatments," stated Ilisa BG Bernstein, PharmD, JD, FAPhA, APhA interim executive vice president and CEO. "Opening the door for pharmacists as prescribers will open the door to equitable access at pharmacies in communities across the country."
"Removing barriers to pharmacist prescribing of oral antivirals has the potential to be a game-changer for addressing health equity and providing timely access to these life-saving treatments in pockets of the country where pharmacists may be the only health care provider for miles—just as it has been for the administration of COVID-19 vaccines. Pharmacists are educated, trained, and able to assess patients in accordance with clinical guidelines for appropriate use of these more convenient COVID-19 treatment options. We look forward to working with our colleagues to improve access to this lifesaving medication. Our members are ready to get to work!," said Bernstein.
Bernstein concluded, "While we appreciate the opportunity to serve our patients in this capacity, this effort will only be successful and sustainable if CMS and other payers take immediate action to provide adequate and appropriate payment for pharmacist consultations and services."
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Trial over a 2016 skiing accident involving Gwyneth Paltrow began on Tuesday.
The actress and businesswoman was present in the Park City, UT courtroom as a jury was seated and opening statements began in the case. Terry Sanderson, 76, has accused her of crashing into him and causing him serious injuries while they were both skiing on a Utah mountain in Feb. 2016.
In the court documents originally filed by Sanderson and obtained by CNN in 2019, Sanderson stated that while skiing at Deer Valley Resort, Paltrow allegedly "skied out of control ... knocking him down hard, knocking him out, and causing a brain injury, and four broken ribs and other serious injuries."
Sanderson also claims Paltrow and her ski instructor skied away after the incident without getting him medical care.
According to Paltrow's countersuit, she "was enjoying skiing with her family on vacation in Utah, when Plaintiff -- who was uphill from Ms. Paltrow -- plowed into her back. She sustained a full 'body blow.' Ms. Paltrow was angry with Plaintiff, and said so. Plaintiff apologized. She was shaken and upset, and quit skiing for the day even though it was still morning."
Sanderson had initially sued Paltrow for $3.1 million dollars, but later amended his complaint and is now seeking in excess of $300,000 in damages, according to court documents.
Paltrow is seeking $1 in damages, plus attorneys fees.
The judge offered instructions Tuesday to the eight-person jury and the attorneys for each side introduced themselves to the court before opening statements by one of Sanderson's lawyer, Lawrence Buhler, followed by Paltrow's attorney, Steve Owens.
Owens reiterated Paltrow's claim that she was downhill from Sanderson before the collision took place.
The trial is expected to last about one week. It is not yet known if Paltrow will take the stand, but her attorney told the jury they would hear from family members who were skiing with her at the time of the incident.
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Exactly four months removed from their calamitous elimination in last year’s postseason, the Dodgers will begin a new trek that they hope will end differently come this October.
Despite significant roster turnover, questions at several key positions and the likely influx of a younger core over the course of 2023, the Dodgers still enter this new season with World Series expectations.
Both Baseball Prospectus and FanGraphs project the team to finish atop the National League West standings (the latter, albeit, in a tie with the San Diego Padres). Most oddsmakers give them the shortest odds of winning the NL pennant. And anything short of a championship is likely to feel like a failure for a franchise with just one World Series title from its 10-year-playoff streak.
“When you wear the Dodger uniform,” manager Dave Roberts said, “that’s the bar.”
With the team opening camp Wednesday in Arizona, here are five things to watch this spring.
The Dodgers haven’t often had wide-open spring-training competitions for starting spots in recent years.
This camp will be different.
After parting ways with Cody Bellinger in the offseason, the team has an opening in center field and any number of candidates in contention to fill it.
There are such returning options as Chris Taylor and Trayce Thompson. Taylor was inconsistent in 2022 while dealing with a string of injuries. Thompson reestablished himself in the majors but also wasn’t quite an everyday player. And while they both have experience in center field, they could be needed in left field as well if the Dodgers want a platoon partner for the recently signed David Peralta.
James Outman is another intriguing name after a flashy major league debut and impressive production in triple A last year. The 25-year-old is expected to contribute in the majors this year but could use a big spring in order to break camp with the team right away.
The Dodgers also signed several veteran outfielders to minor league deals this winter, including Jason Heyward, Steven Duggar and Bradley Zimmer. Heyward is the biggest name, a former All-Star who helped the Chicago Cubs win the World Series in 2016. Zimmer has also received buzz this winter while working on swing changes with the club’s hitting staff.
Miguel Vargas has spent most of his professional career at third base, but he may be asked to play second for the Dodgers this season.
Last year, the Dodgers spent most of spring claiming they didn’t need a designated closer in their bullpen ... only to trade for likely future Hall of Fame closer Craig Kimbrel just before opening day.
That experiment didn’t work — Kimbrel struggled all season and was left off the postseason roster — but the question about the need for a consistent ninth-inning option remains.
So far, the Dodgers have again maintained that a designated closer is not a necessity. They like the depth of their bullpen and see benefits to letting matchups dictate their relief decisions each game.
But if the team does decide to pivot leading up to the regular season, it has several in-house contenders for a potential closer role.
Evan Phillips would be the most logical choice after his breakout 2022 season. But the team also valued his ability to pitch in any situation last year, often facing the heart of the opposing lineup late in games (the team’s infamous National League Division Series Game 4 loss to the Padres aside).
Daniel Hudson could be another option, as long as he’s fully recovered from the anterior cruciate ligament tear that ended his 2022 season in late June.
Brusdar Graterol, Alex Vesia and Yency Almonte are also alternatives who figure to feature prominently in the club’s bullpen.
The Dodgers believe they can get plenty of offensive production from their likely new double-play pairing of shortstop Gavin Lux and second baseman Miguel Vargas.
How those two perform defensively, however, is harder to predict.
Shortstop is Lux’s natural position, and he handled the role for a stretch in 2021 while Corey Seager was injured. The fifth-year big leaguer graded out decently at second base last year.
Despite that, though, Lux also has a track record of occasionally shaky defensive stretches and will be moving to shortstop in the first year of Major League Baseball’s new rules banning shifts — putting a heightened importance on his already premium position.
Vargas is even less proven in the field. The rookie made only 28 appearances at second base in the minor leagues, where he was mostly a third baseman whose defense was seen as his biggest weakness by talent evaluators. And though he has natural athleticism and range, the shift ban could make it harder to compensate for his potential growing pains with the glove.
If either struggle, the Dodgers’ alternatives up the middle are limited.
Miguel Rojas is a dependable infielder capable of playing either role but has struggled at the plate in recent seasons and is coming off two offseason surgeries to his right hand and wrist. Taylor also has defensive versatility but will likely be needed in the outfield.
The only other member of the 40-man roster with MLB experience at either middle infield spot is Yonny Hernández, a 24-year-old with his fourth organization in the last calendar year. Michael Busch is the club’s next-best infield prospect but has defensive question marks of his own after switching from first to second base a few years back.
For the first time in 10 years, the Dodgers will enter a season without Justin Turner in their clubhouse.
Though they replaced his on-field role at designated hitter with the signing of J.D. Martinez, it remains to be seen who will step into the off-the-field leadership void.
Roberts expects Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to become more vocal behind the scenes, though neither is an outspoken, rah-rah type by nature. Same goes for Clayton Kershaw, who has quietly become a prominent mentor for some of the club’s younger pitchers in recent years.
Taylor, Max Muncy, Austin Barnes and Will Smith could take on more responsibility as the four longest-tenured position players on the team.
After bordering on super-team status the past couple seasons, the Dodgers have less obvious answers to their biggest questions heading into spring training.
Martinez and Rojas should also help provide a veteran presence but will need some time to settle into their surroundings after arriving this offseason.
They probably won’t make the opening day roster (barring an injury in the rotation), but the young pitching trio of Gavin Stone, Ryan Pepiot and Bobby Miller will have the chance to add to their resumes during camp in anticipation of potential call-ups later this year.
For now, they appear to be at the top of the pecking order for organizational starting pitching depth. And this spring, the club will get its latest chance to see exactly how MLB-ready they are.
Pepiot debuted in the majors last year, posting a 3.47 ERA in nine appearances. However, he also struggled with his command, an issue he tried to iron out during stints back in triple A.
Stone emerged as a legitimate big league prospect last year, winning the organization’s minor league pitcher of the year award while advancing from high A to triple A.
Miller remains perhaps the most gifted pitcher in the pipeline, a former first-round pick who finished last season in triple A.
With Kershaw and Julio Urías slated to play in the World Baseball Classic next month, there should be plenty of opportunities for the three young pitchers in Cactus League play as well, important opportunities for their careers and the Dodgers’ depth on the mound in 2023.
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Huzzah! “The Great” returned for its third season last week, and it remains one of my favorites. Some readers have made it clear over the years that the Hulu comedy is too profane and loose with history for their tastes; but for fans, those qualities are part of the pleasure. “The Great” is a bawdy satire, first and foremost, of politics, monarchy, sexism, marriage, and sexual repression. It’s raucous — but then it also manages to stir up some honest feeling, particularly in the turbulent marriage of Peter (Nicholas Hoult) and Catherine (Elle Fanning).
The season opens after Catherine tries to kill Peter but accidentally stabs his lookalike, Pugachev (also Hoult), who figures significantly into this season’s plotline. That almost-murder — triggered by the sex he was having with her mother, who fell to her death in flagrante — doesn’t get in the way of the couple’s love. They continue to amuse each other with their eccentricities, and Fanning and Hoult continue to shine in their roles, expertly playing off each other. Fanning does manic, funny, grief-filled, and lusty, and sometimes all of them at once. Hoult has managed to bring all kinds of layers to his royal fool.
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This season allows some of the side characters, and the actors who play them, to stand out. Belinda Bromilow’s Aunt Elizabeth is always about the castle, to offer Catherine tactical advice and to spy on members of the court as they have sex. She is comically sex-positive, at the other end of the spectrum from Adam Godley’s Archbishop Archie, who whips himself for his longings. He’s always scheming, like most of those who linger around the queen. Phoebe Fox, as Catherine’s former best friend, is on hand, too, loving Peter’s loyal best friend Gigor (Gwilym Lee) while married to a fussy 12-year-old.
Playful, deeply irreverent, twisted, moving, and, this season, defined by one or two powerful twists, “The Great” is true to its title. By the way, all 10 episodes of season three are aleady available on Hulu.
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(KTLA) – Happy Meals might get a little spooky this October.
McDonald’s is rumored to be resurrecting its Halloween Happy Meal pumpkin pails, which first debuted nationwide in 1986. According to the blog, Nightmare Nostalgia, McDonald’s employees have been sharing the news on social media.
Though McDonald’s has yet to confirm the rumor or respond to a request for more details from Nexstar’s KTLA, employees at multiple franchise locations told us they expect the pails to be available soon.
The buckets, which can adequately hold burgers and fries, and also plenty of Halloween candy, will return on Oct. 18 with the promotion ending on the holiday itself, Oct. 31, the website claims.
The original iteration of the Halloween pails were three orange jack-o-lantern pails named McPunk’n, McBoo, and McGoblin. According to Eat This Not That, the buckets were changed to a white ghost, green witch, and orange pumpkin during the 1990s.
The favorite items continued to transform throughout the years, with some themed for shows like “Scooby-Doo” and “Monster High,” or characters like Mr. Potato Head.
The buckets were last seen in 2016 when McDonald’s designed them based on the Halloween classic film, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jennifer Lawrence has wanted to do a big comedy for years. She has always been funny and vibrant in her television appearances. And while she has brought humor and physical comedy to many of her roles for David O. Russell and others, she also hasn’t exactly gotten the big, broad “Dumb and Dumber” or “Anchorman” experience, to cite some of her favorites (or at least the ones she’s memorized).
That changes this summer with “ No Hard Feelings ” (in theaters June 23), a classic, raunchy R-rated comedy that was tailor made for her.
“I’ve always wanted to do a comedy. And I’ve read a lot of them,” Lawrence told The Associated Press last week in Las Vegas. “I just didn’t read anything that was funny enough.”
“No Hard Feelings” was inspired by a real Craigslist ad posted by parents who were seeking a woman to “date” their son to bring him out of his shell the summer before he went to college. There are debates over just how real the “real ad” was, but thinking about the woman who might answer an ad like that was a premise funny enough to catch the attention of several producers and writer-director Gene Stupnitsky.
Stupnitsky, an Emmy-nominated alum of “The Office” who also directed and co-wrote the 2019 hit “Good Boys,” knew just who to take it to. He told Lawrence about the idea one night at dinner with friends in which, he estimated, they had had about “eight or nine martinis between us.”
The two met over a decade ago, through a mutual friend, at Medieval Times of all places. Lawrence, he remembered, was dressed in a full Wizard costume. And they soon became actual friends. He even introduced Lawrence to her husband.
“I owed him one,” Lawrence said. “That’s why I did this film.”
Stupnitsky, sitting next to Lawrence, added: “There’s probably some truth to that.”
With Lawrence attached to star and produce, the movie became a hot commodity, with streaming services and studios vying for the rights to make it. Ultimately, they went with Sony and a traditional theatrical release.
“The reason I wrote this movie for her is because I knew how funny she was and I wanted everyone else to know. I mean, people know she’s funny but they wanted her in a comedy. I thought, yes I know how to do this. I know how to write her voice,” Stupnitsky said. “I remember I told her, ‘I really want you to experience a feeling of sitting in a theater with hundreds of people laughing.’ She’s had many, many experiences in film, but she hasn’t quite had this one.”
In “No Hard Feelings,” Lawrence’s character Maddie is having a rough stretch with money. As an Uber driver without a car she’s in a pressing bind. So when she finds this ad with the promise of a Buick Regal as payment, she takes the bait. In a clip that Sony debuted for theater owners at the CinemaCon convention last week, Maddie meets 19-year-old Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) for the first time wearing a slim, hot pink mini dress and high heels and acting overtly flirty and available.
“She’s dressed like what she thinks is a 19-year-old’s idea of a sex fantasy. And she’s wrong,” Stupnitsky said. “He’s like the one kid who she can’t seduce.”
The situation escalates from there as she tries to give him a ride home. He thinks he’s being abducted and, as anyone who has watched the red-band trailer knows, it ends with her getting pepper sprayed. But there’s a sweet core to the film too.
“He is longing for a connection, which is what she needs as well but doesn’t know it yet,” Stupnitsky said. “She wants to get the car and move on with her life. But he’s forcing her to kind of take things slow and get to know him and be intimate, in a way, with him in a platonic sort of way.”
The experience, Lawrence said, was a blast, helped by her connection with her younger co-star.
“We just laughed all day long,” she said. “Sometimes I would get in bed after work and just like, giggle before going to sleep, just thinking about the day. I was also sad for making it because I was like, ‘God, I’m just I’m not going to have one of these again. This is this is so singular.’”
As a producer on the film, Lawrence has already gotten to watch it with an audience and experience that big, communal laughter that Stupnitsky promised.
“I went to a test screening and sat in back,” she said. “It was pretty extraordinary.”
Every film, she knows, is a gamble but she’s pretty confident about “No Hard Feelings.”
“You really never know. You might think audiences want this and they don’t. And I’ve certainly had my experiences with that,” she said. “It’s a mix of instinct and looking at the information that you have. I knew what we had was the funniest movie that anybody would have ever seen — I have no doubts about that—and I knew that Gene was the one that could do it.”
It’s also Lawrence’s first major theatrical release in a few years, since the 2019 X-Men movie “Dark Phoenix.” Her recent films have been primarily streaming releases with Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” and Apple’s “Causeway,” which she also produced.
“I think audiences are really going to remember why they love her,”Stupnitsky said.
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SPD needs your help to solve 2017 mystery of human remains at Seattle park
SEATTLE - Seattle Police are hoping to crowdsource a solution to a years-long mystery—the identity of the person whose remains washed up in pieces near Discovery Park in 2017 and 2018.
Though the body parts were very distinctive, detectives have been unable to move this cold case forward.
They’re hoping advances in DNA identification, and genetic genealogy in particular, can finally give a family out there some closure over what happened to their missing loved one. But the problem has been finding the money to pay for it.
"So the first recovery was a hand, and then a month later a torso and a leg washed up—very distinctive shoes, black and gold Air Jordans," said Det. Rolf Norton. "And then three days later on Jan. 25, a foot washed up with the other matching shoe."
The shoe is a size 10, but that hasn't helped investigators zero in on the person's identity.
The multiple body parts washed ashore in 2017 and 2018 near 4-Mile Rock at Discovery Park.
"We scoured a missing persons reports," said Norton. "It’s a mystery—we don’t know who this person is, we do not know what happened to this person, we don’t know where they came from, we don’t know how they ended up in the water."
Detective Norton says that one avenue that is available now that wasn’t five or 10 years ago, is the use of forensics genealogy,
"That’s where we take a DNA profile and search it through publicly-available genealogy websites in hopes of getting a link to a relative of the person that we’re trying to identify," explained Norton.
But it costs money to run the tests. It’s expected to be at least $15,000. So, the department’s hoping that public interest in solving cold cases might translate to cold hard cash.
"For the Seattle Police Department, we haven’t used this strategy just in identifying unidentified human remains in the past, we’ve only used it for criminal investigations," said Norton. "There’s hopefully a family out there who has unanswered questions, but just getting to the bottom of this mystery."
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City of Kyle trying to break world record at upcoming fair
KYLE, Texas (Gray News) – The City of Kyle is trying to break the record for the largest same-name gathering during the Kyle Fair A Tex-Travaganza next month.
This will be the city’s fourth attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record, currently held by Kupreski Kosci and Bosnia and Herzegovina with a total of 2,325 participants named Ivan set in July 2017.
“In order to break this record, we’re calling for any and all Kyles. We need tall Kyles, short Kyles, young Kyles and old Kyles to get close to the record set five years ago,” Special Events Manager Claudia Rocha said in a news release.
“We’re very excited about the upcoming, inaugural Kyle Fair and have high hopes that this event will bring out the Kyles needed to grab a spot in the record books.”
The gathering of the Kyles will take place at 4 p.m. May 21 at Lake Kyle Park. All eligible Kyles should sign in at the VIP tent, and a group photo will follow.
All Kyles who take part in the event will be given a free Kyle Fair T-shirt of their choice, according to the city.
There is no cost to participate. Entry into the Kyle Fair is free and includes live music performances.
The City of Kyle is located south of Austin and is home of the annual Pie in the Sky Hot Air Balloon festival.
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By STAN CHOE
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks sank Monday as Wall Street prepped for a week full of potentially market-moving events, from decisions on interest rates around the world to earnings reports from the biggest U.S. companies.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.3%, giving back some of the gains that had carried it last week to its highest level since early December. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 260 points, or 0.8%, while the Nasdaq composite sank 2%.
Markets have been veering recently on worries that the economy and corporate profits may be set for a steep drop-off, along with competing hopes that cooling inflation will get the Federal Reserve to take it easier on interest rates.
The central bank’s next decision on rates is coming Wednesday, and most investors expect it to announce an increase of just 0.25 percentage points. That would be the smallest increase since March, following a spate of hikes of 0.75 points and then a 0.50-point increase, and it would mean less added pressure on the economy.
Higher rates combat inflation by intentionally slowing the economy, while also dragging down on prices for investments. Inflation has been cooling since the summer amid last year’s blizzard of rate hikes, but the economy has also been showing signs of concern.
The big question is whether Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday afternoon will give markets what they want to hear — hints that rate hikes will end soon and rate cuts may even be possible late this year — or stick to the Fed’s mantra that it plans to keep rates higher for longer, even if a modest recession hits.
“I think that they have no intention of cutting rates this year,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, adding that the Fed waits an average of roughly nine months after its last rate hike before cutting.
“They’ll reiterate that they don’t want to make the mistakes of the 1970s,” he said, “but I think in the back of their minds, they’re going to say no matter which inflationary indicator you look at, they’re all heading in a stairstep downward pattern.”
Central banks for Europe and for the United Kingdom are also set to announce their latest increases for rates this week.
Beyond interest rates, more than 100 companies in the S&P 500 are scheduled this week to report how much profit they made in the last three months of 2022. Among them are tech heavyweights Apple, Amazon, and Google’s parent company. Because these companies are three of the four biggest on Wall Street by market value, their stock movements carry much more sway on the S&P 500 than others.
Apple’s 2% drop Monday, for example, was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500.
The only other stock that rivals them in size, Microsoft, shook Wall Street last week when it gave forecasts for upcoming results that raised worries about a slowdown in corporate spending on tech. Its stock fell 2.2% Monday.
All told the S&P 500 fell 52.79 points to 4,017.77. The Dow lost 260.99 to 33,717.09, and the Nasdaq fell 227.90 to 11,393.81.
Strategists at Morgan Stanley led by Michael Wilson warn tougher times may be ahead.
“The reality is that earnings are proving to be even worse than feared based on the data, especially as it relates to margins,” they wrote in a report. “Secondly, investors seem to have forgotten the cardinal rule of ‘Don’t Fight the Fed’. Perhaps this week will serve as a reminder.”
Later this week, the U.S. government will also give its latest monthly update on the job market. Hiring has remained resilient across the broad economy, even as housing and other corners weaken sharply under the weight of all the Fed’s rate hikes from last year.
Some big tech companies have announced high-profile layoffs after acknowledging they misread their boom coming out of the pandemic. But job cuts may be starting to spread to other areas of the economy. Hasbro and 3M last week announced layoffs.
All told, economists expect Friday’s report to show that U.S. employers added 187,500 more jobs than they cut during January. That would be a slowdown from December’s hiring of 223,000.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.53% from 3.51% late Friday. The two-year yield, which tends to move more on expectations of Fed actions, rose to 4.25% from 4.20%.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise, Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly higher Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sep. fell 7.25 cents at $7.9075 a bushel; Sep. corn was up .75 cent at $5.95 a bushel; Sep. oats rosep 1.25 cent at $4.5975 a bushel; while Aug. soybeans advanced 66.25 cents at 15.7275 a bushel.
Beef mixed and pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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Titans' Treylon Burks takes brutal hit to facemask, somehow maintains touchdown catch
It was Burks' first touchdown catch
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Treylon Burks made an incredible touchdown catch as he took a helmet to his facemask in the first quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill found Burks streaking across the middle of the field into the end zone for the 25-yard touchdown. Burks made the catch in between two Eagles defenders but took a huge hit from safety Marcus Epps. Burks was down for a few moments.
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The replay showed Epps’ helmet hitting Burks directly in the facemask. He was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play. Burks eventually got up and walked to the sideline under his own power. He was taken back to the locker room for further evaluation.
It was Burks’ first career touchdown.
The touchdown helped tie the game 7-7.
Burks came into the game with 24 catches for 334 yards in seven games.
Tennessee came into the game off a loss last week against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Titans were looking to spoil the Eagles’ chances of clinching a playoff berth.
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As Israel continues to lead the way in foodtech innovation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a firsthand look at the latest developments in Steakholder Foods and the foodtech industry:
- Tasted Steakholder Foods' delicious, 3D-printed cultivated meat creations.
- Became first Prime Minister to ever taste 3D-printed cultivated fish.
- Experienced a demo of Steakholder Foods' industrial printer, printing a customized steak and fish fillet.
- Hosted a roundtable discussion with industry leaders, government officials, and representatives of investors, academia, and the non-profit sector.
REHOVOT, Israel, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Steakholder Foods Ltd. (Nasdaq: STKH), an international deep tech food company at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry, announced that it was proud to host the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, who explored the latest advancements in cultivated meat and 3D bio-printing, and tasted 3D-printed cultivated fish and meat products at the cutting edge of foodtech.
During his visit, the Prime Minister had the opportunity to tour the company's facilities, see firsthand how Steakholder Foods' industrial-scale 3D bio-printer works, and learn about its potential to print tons of cultivated meat per day. He said that there is a global revolution in how humanity is producing food, and emphasized that his government is working to help companies move forward in order to maintain a technological lead.
He then tasted a 3D-printed cultivated fish fillet, printed with Steakholder Foods' customized bio-inks using Umami Meats' fish cells. The tasting also included Steakholder Foods' beef product grown with ethically harvested cells in the Company's facilities.
Joining the tour were industry leaders (including the CEOs of leading Israeli food manufacturers), government officials, and representatives of investors, academia and the non-profit sector, including:
- Prime Minister of Israel - Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu
- Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology – Mr. Ofir Akunis
- Director-General of the Prime Minister's Office – Mr. Yossi Sheli
- CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority – Mr. Dror Bin
- Director-General of the Ministry of Health – Mr. Moshe Bar Siman Tov
- Prime Minister's Animal Rights Advisor – Mrs. Tal Gilboa
- Israeli Cabinet Secretary – Mr. Tzahi Braverman
- Steakholder Foods CEO – Mr. Arik Kaufman
- Steakholder Foods Co-Founder and Chairman – Mr. Yaron Kaiser
- Heads of leading food manufacturers in Israel - Vice President for Business Development of the Strauss Group, Mr. Elad Komissar, CEO of Osem-Nestlé, Mr. Avi Ben-Assayag and Chief Innovation Officer of Tnuva, Mr. Shay Cohen.
- CEO of Milk & Honey Ventures – Mr. Beni Nofech
- Innovation and Applied Research Leader, Technion R&D Foundation - Mr. David Shem Tov
Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Today we ate fish that was produced without fish and meat that was produced without cattle. This is a global revolution.
Israel is a global leader in the field of alternative protein and we will see to it that we continue to lead."
Arik Kaufman, CEO of Steakholder Foods: "As Israel continues to lead the way in food innovation, today's visit by the Prime Minister of Israel is a testament to the importance of our technology and the incredible potential it holds for the future. We were honored to offer Mr. Netanyahu the opportunity to taste and witness the future of food."
About Steakholder Foods
Steakholder Foods Ltd., formerly MeaTech 3D Ltd., is an international deep -tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat revolution. The company-initiated activities in 2019 and is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "STKH" (formerly MITC), with headquarters in Rehovot, Israel.
The company is developing a slaughter-free solution for producing a variety of beef, and seafood products — both as raw materials and whole cuts — as an alternative to industrialized farming and fishing. With its membership in the UN Global Compact, Steakholder Foods is committed to act in support of issues embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include strengthening food security, decreasing carbon footprint, and conserving water and land resources.
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AN OLYMPIAN'S GUIDE TO FINDING RELIEF FROM EVERYDAY STRESS
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
S-T-R-E-S-S-!
It's keeping more of us on edge during the day and awake at night here in the U.S. than ever before, according to several recent studies.1, 2 Odds are you are feeling some level of stress right now.
Some stress is an expected part of normal adult life and actually has some positive value. It gets us up and out of bed in the morning and "adulting" – taking care of family, work, and other responsibilities. But an unreasonable, unrelenting amount of stress can be withering – mentally and physically – and wreak havoc long term on our emotional wellbeing and overall health.
So what can we do to find a healthier balance in our lives? RESCUE Remedy®, the world's No.1 Stress & Sleep support brand3, turned to one of our own loyal fans who knows a thing or two about stress – two-time U.S. Olympic Gold Medal Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, the winningest snowboard cross athlete alive.4 Over the past 20 years, Jacobellis has competed in five Olympics and has also won 1 silver medal and is a 6-time world champion and 10-time X Games gold medalist.
Jacobellis shares perspective and tips on how she navigates the stress of slippery slopes and everyday life.
1. What is the most stressful time of the day for you?
I would say the late afternoon and evening are my most stressful times of the day. That's when I am thinking ahead to what needs to be accomplished in the next day, week, month and beyond.
2. What are the top 2-3 everyday stressors that you experience?
Like most people, I stress about my work goals and my financial future. As an athlete who is still actively competing, I also worry about my long-term health.
3. Who do you turn to for support when you are stressed?
Friends and family provide so much support for me, whether I am competing or training.
4. Does stress affect your sleep?
If I am overwhelmed with priorities and tasks, my daytime stress can easily spill over into my sleep. I need to be able to clear my mind so I can get the rest I need for the next day ahead.
5. What are your tried-and-true tips for managing stress?
- Talk it out. I have found that talking out the moments in life that are stressful can usually generate solutions. But if I am mentally blocked, I can't always see solutions. An "outsider" with a fresh perspective can be very helpful.
- Change up your routine. Sometimes you need space to find perspective about a stressful situation. Exercise always works for me. Sometimes I just need to find time for myself to think and then I can refocus to accomplish what needs to get finished.
- Support other women. I think it is very important for women to be there for one another and support each other. From my personal experience, it is very common for women not to make themselves a priority because they have so many other responsibilities, especially within a family dynamic. Just helping a woman notice she is not even making herself a priority is the first step. Carving out time for herself will directly impact her overall health and that can translate into her family's overall health. There is a balance with life and that shifts all the time. Women need to be there for one another always.
- Look into therapy. I have found professional therapy to be helpful. It's always okay to not be okay and to ask for help.
- Use RESCUE Remedy® for natural stress relief. I love this product for its natural homeopathic properties. That's what sold me. I have been a professional athlete for over two decades. At this level, I am always responsible for what I put into my body, as I can be drug tested at any moment. Knowing every ingredient and researching products is vital for sustaining myself and complying with U.S. Anti-Doping regulations. I use RESCUE Remedy® to help reduce stress and get to sleep.
Jacobellis uses the RESCUE Remedy® Stress Dropper in the familiar yellow box and bottle. It's a must have in the globetrotting athlete's travel bag and bedside table.
"I find myself reaching for Rescue®, when I have several things going on all at once: travel, training, or work deadlines. Also, right before bed is a very ideal time for me to take RESCUE®. It helps me relax and get a good night's rest so I can be more efficient the next day," she said.
Like many RESCUE® fans, Jacobellis discovered the brand while researching stress relief for her four-legged canine friend, Gidget. Pets get stressed, too. Ask any pet lover and they'll tell you their pet's stress raises their stress level, too.
"Gidget was always very stressed during thunderstorms, and a vet recommended RESCUE Remedy® Pet. I was not even aware that RESCUE Remedy also has a product for use by people. At the time I was more focused on what it did for my dog," said Jacobellis.
"At the first sign of a storm I would put a few drops on her tongue. As a result, her anxiety would be greatly reduced. This would inadvertently reduce my stress, knowing she was more comfortable. I wanted the best for my dog and her overall health was very important to me," she said.
While maintaining a busy competition and training schedule, Jacobellis also lives her advice for women supporting other women as the inspirational leader and mentor for the Super Girl Pro Series to encourage up-and-coming female athletes and snowboarders.
"It is important for me to support the next generation of action sport females. I had so many struggles as a female athlete in a male dominated sport, and it took me years to earn the respect of the men in my field. I want younger athletes to look up to me and learn how to grow in the sport as well as individuals. Making an environment that supports the younger women in snowboarding provides more diversity in the sport, and, therefore, we can all grow from each other's experiences and create lifelong friendships," said Jacobellis.
Learn more about RESCUE Remedy® and how it can support you through your stressful days at: https://www.rescueremedy.com
RESCUE Remedy® claims are based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence and are not FDA evaluated. RESCUE Remedy® may not be effective for everyone. Individual results may vary.
1Nelsons Stress Survey, 2022
2American Psychological Association, 2022
3Nelsons, May 2022. Rescue® is the most widely distributed natural stress & sleep brand worldwide. Data on file.
4 Lindsey Jacobellis is a paid spokesperson for Nelsons.
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RESCUE®
The original RESCUE Remedy® in the iconic little yellow bottle has provided gentle, non-habit forming stress relief to millions around the world for generations and each product in the RESCUE® family is still made using the original methods developed by Dr. Bach over 80 years ago. Specially blended from five individual Bach® essences; Rock Rose, Impatiens, Clematis, Star of Bethlehem and Cherry Plum, with the addition of White Chestnut in the night range, RESCUE® offers a wide range of natural solutions for consumers' emotional wellbeing, day and night.
RESCUE® stress relief and sleep aid remedies are sold online and at thousands of stores nationwide.
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RESCUE Remedy® is a brand of Nelsons, a leading global manufacturer of natural healthcare products, with a long-standing commitment to supplying the highest quality natural healthcare products that meet all regulatory and quality standards. Nelsons is based in the United Kingdom. Its RESCUE Remedy brands are recognized and sold all over the world and in the US include RESCUE REMEDY® RESCUE SLEEP® and RESCUE PLUS®.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
330 AM EDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values of 95 to 100 expected each afternoon
and evening today and tomorrow.
* WHERE...The central and southern Taconics, mid Hudson Valley and
Capital Region of eastern New York and Northwestern Connecticut.
* WHEN...From noon today to 8 PM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
related illnesses to occur if precautions are not taken.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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LIMASSOL, Cyprus, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Praxis, a leading payment orchestration software provider, is happy to report on its 14th consecutive month of positive growth in both volumes and transactions processed through its platform. Bootstrapped and profitable, the company has seen a consistent increase in the number of transactions processed via the Praxis system, growing by 10%+ month on month, and almost doubling its numbers in terms of transaction volumes.
"We have been on a growth trajectory for the past 14 months and we are not slowing down. Praxis is well on track to exceed our goal of USD 4 billion in approved transaction volume in 2023. We appreciate our partners, merchants, putting their trust in us and choosing Praxis as their reliable partner in payments and growth", says Amit Klatchko, Praxis Co-Founder and Director.
"Praxis currently has 200+ active clients and supports over 650 brands. We are signing dozens of new deals every month, with the vast chunk of our leads coming from referrals, word of mouth, and positive feedback from their business partners or friends. This is the testament to our professionalism, the dedication of our team and the quality of service we provide", says Klatchko.
Praxis Tech has been rolling out new features in recent months that operate to improve processing efficiency and increase approval rates throughout a range of businesses. Newly released features such as Background Dynamic Currency Conversion (BDCC), Smart Routing, Transaction Decline Recovery with Open Banking and Retry on Insufficient Funds have been proven to increase approval rates for high-volume transaction industries such as investment trading, iGaming, and eCommerce.
The company also aims to cater to new verticals with its recently upgraded Recurring Payments feature, designed to provide for a subscription payments model. Praxis' Recurring Payments offering is complemented by One-Click Payment and Automatic Top-Up functions, with all features powered by Praxis' Merchant Initiated Transactions (MIT) technology
Praxis launched in 2014 with its flagship product - Cashier - which quickly became the household name for this type of payment software. In 2022 Praxis uplifted its brand from Praxis Cashier to Praxis Tech, to reflect its expanded offering of new products - Praxis Direct (API) and Hosted Payment Fields (HPF). Praxis Tech is PCI Certified, providing its clients with the highest standards of data security.
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Women's rights activists in Honduras are celebrating a major victory, after President Xiomara Castro announced that her government will lift its near-total ban on the emergency contraception pill.
Castro announced the reversal Wednesday night, in the final hours of International Women's Day. As she undid the policy, Castro noted that the World Health Organization says the pill is not "abortive."
Hoy, #8M conmemoramos lucha histórica de la mujer, firmando con secretario @DrMatheu144 el Acuerdo Ejecutivo para libre uso y comercialización de la PAE. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) determinó que es parte de los derechos reproductivos de la mujer y no es abortiva. pic.twitter.com/ELQPTzhfd5
— Xiomara Castro de Zelaya (@XiomaraCastroZ) March 9, 2023
The WHO's policy recommendation states, "All women and girls at risk of an unintended pregnancy have a right to access emergency contraception and these methods should be routinely included within all national family planning programs."
Legalization will undo a 2009 ban
For years, Honduras was the only nation in the Americas to have an absolute ban on the sale or use of emergency contraception, also known as morning-after or "Plan B" pills. It also prohibits abortion in all cases.
Honduras moved to ban emergency contraception in 2009, as the country went through political and social upheaval. Its supreme court affirmed the ban in 2012.
After Castro became the country's first female president, Honduras eased its stance on the medicine known as PAE — for Píldora Anticonceptiva de Emergencia. But when Minister of Health José Manuel Matheu announced that policy shift last fall, critics said it didn't go far enough, as the medicine would only be made legal in cases of rape.
At the time, Matheu said the pill didn't qualify as a method of contraception. But on Wednesday night, he joined Castro at her desk to sign a new executive agreement with her, opening the path to emergency contraception.
Activists called on Bad Bunny to help
Groups in Honduras that pushed for open access to emergency contraception include Strategy Group for PAE, or GEPAE, which has been working with the U.S.-based Women's Equality Center.
When Puerto Rican rapper and pop star Bad Bunny toured Honduras, GEPAE used eye-catching billboards to call on the artist behind the hit "Me Porto Bonito" — which references the Plan B pill — to urge Honduran leaders to legalize emergency contraception.
The group Centro de Derechos de Mujeres, the Center for Women's Rights, welcomed the news, saying through social media, "Our rights must not remain the bargaining chip of governments!"
Violence against women in Honduras has long been at a crisis level. According to the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean, Honduras had the highest rate of femicide of any country in the region in 2021, the most recent year tabulated on its website.
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PINE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Paramedics and volunteers with a group that rescues people after natural disasters went door to door Saturday on Florida's devastated Pine Island, offering to evacuate residents who spoke of the terror of riding out Hurricane Ian in flooded homes and howling winds.
The largest barrier island off Florida’s Gulf Coast, Pine Island has been largely cut off from the outside world. Ian heavily damaged the only bridge to the island, leaving it only reachable by boat or air. For many, the volunteers from the non-profit Medic Corps were the first people they have seen from outside the island in days.
Residents described the horror of being trapped in their homes as water kept rising. Joe Conforti became emotional as he recounted what happened, saying the water rose at least 8 to 10 feet (2.4-3 meters), and there were 4-foot (1.2-meter) waves in the streets.
“The water just kept pounding the house and we watched, boats, houses — we watched everything just go flying by,” he said, as he fought back tears. “We’ve lost so much at this point.”
Conforti said if it wasn't for his wife, Dawn Conforti, he wouldn't have made it. He said: “I started to lose sensibility, because when the water’s at your door and it’s splashing on the door and you’re seeing how fast it’s moving, there’s no way you’re going to survive that.”
He said his wife had them get on top of a table to keep from getting swept away by the water. The next day, he said, they brought food to an older gentleman who lived on the next block, and they made sure to get him off the island on the first available boat.
“He lost everything,” Joe Conforti said of the man. “He said that if we didn’t bring him the food, he was going to take his life that night because it was so bad.”
Some residents shed tears as Medic Corps volunteers came to their doors and asked if they wanted to be evacuated on Saturday. Some declined the offer for now and asked for another day to pack their belongings. But others were anxious to get away immediately.
Helen Koch blew her husband a kiss and mouthed the words “I love you” as she sat inside the Medic Corps helicopter that lifted her and seven of the couple’s 17 dogs to safety from the decimated island. The dogs were in cages, strapped to the outside of the helicopter as it took off.
Her husband, Paul Koch, stayed behind with the other dogs, and planned to leave the isolated island on a second trip. He told The Associated Press that days earlier, he didn't think they would make it, as the major hurricane raged and the house began taking on water.
Pine Island has long been known for its quiet, small-town atmosphere and mangrove trees. It's a popular destination for fishing, kayaking and canoeing. Now, bleak scenes of destruction are everywhere in this shattered paradise.
Houses have been reduced to splinters and boats have been tossed onto roadways. The island has no power, and no running water – save for a few hours on Friday when one resident said they were able to take a shower. A community of mobile homes was destroyed.
The Medic Corps volunteers went to one house to search for a woman who was known to have stayed behind during the storm and has had no contact with her friends since. Inside the woman’s house, heavy furniture had been toppled over and her belongings were tossed about. There was no sign of the woman, raising fears she had been sucked out of her home by the storm surge.
Linda Hanshaw said the tight-knit island community is amazing and “everyone I know who hasn’t left is trying to leave.”
But that wasn’t true for everyone. Kathleen Russell was trying to persuade her elderly husband to leave, but he didn’t want to budge just yet. The couple kept declining offers to evacuate. The couple said they were not ready, but might be willing to leave on Sunday.
Claire St. Leger said she had nine people in her house, including neighbors, as the storm came in.
“I thought for sure we were all dying,” she said. “I just sat in an inside room with pillows, I crossed myself so many times, I thought for sure we were dying. Water kept rising.”
Medic Corps is a nonprofit group of pilots, paramedics, doctors, a former Navy SEAL and other volunteers that responds to natural disasters and gets people to safety. According to the organization's website, it began in 2013 in response to Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines and in 2017 it began deploying aircraft and responders to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley Securities, Inc., a leading full service investment bank and subsidiary of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) ("B. Riley"), today announced it will host its second annual Crypto Conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 in New York.
B. Riley Securities 2nd Annual Crypto Conference: Miners + Web3 + DeFi will feature public and privately held companies across the digital asset chain in a forum designed for maximum knowledge sharing. Executive management teams from leading operators across blockchain infrastructure, computing, crypto exchanges, decentralized finance (DeFi), hosting, mining, staking and Web3 will engage in-person with investors to provide insight into the next phase of growth for this evolving asset class.
"Our annual Crypto Conference highlights our firm's multidisciplinary approach in serving stakeholders across the crypto economy with each of our participants representing a different angle of the evolving digital asset chain," said Andy Moore, CEO of B. Riley Securities. "Our event aims to serve as a rich forum for institutional investors to gain insight into this ascending asset class directly from leading operators."
Conference highlights include a series of fireside chats moderated by B. Riley's award winning equity research team. Corporate management teams will be available for one-on-one and small group meetings with institutional investors.
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Participation is by invitation only and is reserved for clients of B. Riley. Interested participants may contact their B. Riley representative for more information or email conference@brileyfin.com.
B. Riley Securities serves more than 1,100 institutional investors and has become one of the largest underwriters for crypto-related businesses, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for such companies since 2021. To learn more about B. Riley Securities, visit www.brileysecurities.com.
B. Riley Securities provides a full suite of investment banking, corporate finance, advisory, research, and sales and trading services. Investment banking services include initial, secondary and follow-on offerings, institutional private placements, merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory, SPACs, corporate restructuring and recapitalization. B. Riley is nationally recognized and highly ranked for its proprietary small-cap equity research. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of B. Riley Financial. Please see www.brileyfin.com/disclosures for disclosures about B. Riley Securities Research.
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A Washington dump truck driver has died from injuries sustained after the truck was torn apart when it collided with an overpass crossing Interstate 10 on Sunday, Louisiana State Police said.
Bernard Bush, 71, of Washington, was driving a 2004 Peterbilt dump truck west on Interstate 10 around 1:25 a.m. when the dump truck bed, which was in an elevated position, struck the underside of the Trumps Road overpass near exit 72 in Acadia Parish.
The collision caused the dump bed to separate from the truck’s frame and the cab of the dump truck to overturn. Bush was thrown from the vehicle as it flipped, Trooper Thomas Gossen said in a statement.
The 71-year-old was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where he died from his injuries Tuesday night.
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It was a shocking story that made headlines across the globe this week: A woman in Ecuador named Bella Montoya was declared dead but later surprised family members gathered for her wake when she showed signs of life from her coffin.
"It gave us all a fright," Montoya's son, Gilberto Barbera, told The Associated Press.
Though tales of people mistakenly declared dead garner widespread attention when they do occur, the grave error is exceedingly uncommon.
"Waking up dead in your coffin is vanishingly rare," Dr. Stephen Hughes, a senior lecturer at the Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine, told NPR.
He estimated that there are probably only a handful of cases worldwide per year of medical professionals erroneously pronouncing a patient dead.
"But it does happen sometimes," Hughes added.
In February, an 82-year-old woman was discovered alive at a New York funeral home after being declared dead at a nursing home hours earlier.
A similar case that occurred in Iowa in January resulted in a $10,000 fine for the Alzheimer's care facility that sent a hospice patient to a funeral home, where workers discovered her gasping for air in a body bag.
According to Hughes, the first step in determining whether a patient is dead is trying to get them to respond. If that doesn't work, doctors will typically look for signs that blood is pumping (such as searching for a pulse) and that the person is breathing (such as feeling their chest move). Finally, doctors may shine a light in the patient's eye to see if their pupils dilate in response. If none of that works, they are likely dead.
But there are a number of reasons a living person could be mistaken for dead, Hughes said. Doctors who are "less than diligent" may hurriedly do a cursory examination of a patient and fail to pick up on signs of life, and poor medical education may also contribute, he said.
There could also be medical reasons for the misdiagnosis. Hughes said patients exposed to cold water may experience lower heart and breathing rates, and certain drugs such as barbiturates can also slow the body down.
"I'm looking at about three or four cases worldwide per year," Hughes said. "It's rare and it's alarming, so it gets published [in the media]."
Still, he noted, these kinds of mistakes are "very, very, very rare."
Such determinations are distinct from "brain death" when patients still have cardiac and respiratory function, often with the assistance of machines like a ventilator, but have suffered the irreversible loss of brain function.
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ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine — When the fighter jet crashed into these northwestern Ukrainian woods, killing its 27-year-old pilot, splintering trees and spewing fuel, it tore a gash in the forest canopy. Then it exploded. The wildfire that followed charred trees and earth, threatening two nearby villages.
Two months later, fire extinguished, the area still smells like jet fuel. Debris litters the ground. A jagged piece of metal, painted Ukrainian blue and yellow, rests between green shoots of grass growing through blackened leaves. Another shard juts from a tree some 20-feet above the ground.
"It's a catastrophe," says Viktor Radushinskiy, a member of the state forestry department.
One of many.
The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine, a government agency, has documented more than 300 cases of what it calls "environmental crimes," carried out by Russia since its invasion began in late February. The actual number is believed to be closer to 1,500, it says, but many sites are still occupied by Russia or made inaccessible by the fighting.
Fires at fuel depots. Blown-up reservoirs of dangerous chemicals. Damaged gas pipelines. Disruptions and wildfires at the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone. Destroyed vessels in the Black Sea area. These are the most immediate concerns identified by the state agency.
But the environmental impacts of Russia's invasion may reach far beyond Ukraine's embattled borders.
Chemicals and bodies are poisoning waterways that feed the region's fertile farmland and supply drinking water. Warships are killing dolphins and explosions are disrupting bird migrations. Long-range artillery battles are pockmarking wildlife refuges with craters. And there are concerns that the war and its fallout could hamper Europe, the Middle East and Russia's ability to combat wildfires in what's shaping up to be another devastating year.
"This will affect people in the long-term," says Yevgeniy Medvedovskiy, the chief of the state department of environmental inspection for the Zhytomyr region, as he looks at the burnt husks of fallen trees. "The atmosphere has no limits, no borders. This will affect everyone."
Environmental effects will last "long after the shells have stopped exploding"
Environmental damage like splintered trees and polluted waterways may seem like a secondary concern, given the atrocities against people documented in places like Bucha and Mariupol, and the violence currently being inflicted by Russia on residents in Ukraine's east.
But the war's effects on the environment will be felt "long after the shells have stopped exploding, long after the bullets and the guns have ceased," says Carroll Muffett, head of the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C. Muffet is one of the lead authors of an open letter signed by hundreds of international law and environmental experts in March, warning about the long-term risks the conflict poses for Ukraine and Europe.
"When we talk about the environmental consequences of war, what we're really talking about is simply the impacts of war on humans and on the places where they live in another more protracted and often more insidious form," he says.
That fact isn't lost on Ukrainian authorities. The country has created a team of roughly 100 scientists, across 18 regional offices, who are tasked with documenting evidence of what it calls environmental war crimes.
In Zhytomyr, the task force's scientists are mostly women like Iryna Bereziuk, who monitored gas pipelines, industrial sites and air quality before Russia crossed the nearby Belarusian border in February. Now, they have to visit mine-littered woodlands, Russian-occupied areas and still-burning fuel depots to collect air, water and soil samples.
"Sometimes the smell is so strong, you can't even breathe," Bereziuk says in the laboratory she heads.
Each site is treated like a crime scene. Photos are taken. Interviews conducted. Samples collected. All of the evidence will be used, "to punish the aggressor in the international courts," says Oleksiy Obrizan, the task force's chairman.
There's little precedence in international courts for prosecuting such crimes. A United Nations compensation commission set up after Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait is the one example Ukrainian environmental advocates could reference. Scientists have advocated for strengthening international law to make it easier to hold countries accountable.
Last year, an independent panel of international lawyers launched an effort to better define ecocide — or as they put it, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused" — under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
From his office in Kyiv, Obrizan says he knows prosecuting such crimes will be challenging in international courts, especially with Russia maintaining a seat on the U.N. Security Council — the body that established the commission following the Gulf War.
But he says collecting evidence of environmental war crimes is worth the effort. "These environmental problems are not just Ukraine's," he says. "They are the world's."
The war poses broader wildfire threats
One unexpected example of the war's broader environmental repercussions is how it's affecting the broader region's ability to respond to summer wildfires.
Last year, Western Europe, Turkey and northern Russia suffered devastating wildfire seasons. The Greek Isles and woodlands around Athens were ravaged by fire amid record heat waves.
"We're looking at the exact same pattern that we had last year," says Scott Dehnisch, the wildfire coordinator for the U.S. Agency for International Development. "Very very hot and very very dry."
Western Europe's first heat wave of the summer is already fueling destructive wildfires in Spain and Germany. Temperatures are more than 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than normal in some areas, a marker, meteorologists say, of climate change.
The problem, Dehnisch says, is that many of the firefighting aircraft typically used by Western Europe and the Middle East during fire season come from Russia. They're contracted out through the summer, he says. "And because of sanctions and those aircrafts unavailability due to the war, those are off the table now."
An effort is underway to fill that gap in Western Europe and around the Mediterranean with U.S. and Canadian-based firefighting aircraft, Dehnisch says. But both countries have their own pressing needs, and backfilling aircraft in those regions does little to alleviate the problem in the world's most-forested country: Russia, which typically relies on its military each fire season.
Siberia is already experiencing massive wildfires in Russia's forest-covered north. In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin took a break from his wartime musings to address the situation on Russian state media.
"We cannot allow a repeat of last year's situation, when forest fires were the most long-lasting and intensive of recent years," he said in a video message.
Wildfires in Siberia and the broader global Arctic have an outsize impact on the world's climate. Scientists believe nearly half of the world's peatland-stored carbon — carbon that's been locked away by permafrost and frigid temperatures — is in the Arctic Circle. Wildfires unlock that carbon, releasing more greenhouse gases that worsen global warming. They also blanket snow and ice with black soot, making them melt faster.
"This war, outside of even just Ukraine, really has multiple, exponential layers of damage that it's doing," Dehnisch says.
The Black Sea's biodiversity is being threatened
On southern Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a small flock of seabirds sits on a shell-covered shoreline next to a still lagoon.
Despite occupying less than 6% of Europe's landmass, Ukraine is home to 35% of its biodiversity. The country is home to thousands of rare plant and animal species and a critical resting spot for migratory birds like the curlew sandpiper, which come to Ukraine on their springtime journey from Africa to nesting grounds in Siberia.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February coincided with the springtime migration. Fighter jets roared over nature refuges. Explosions boomed over the crashing waves of the Black Sea. Birds, susceptible to sound, were scared away from their normal resting grounds, says Ivan Rusev, a Bulgarian-born environmentalist and ecologist at Tuzla Lagoons National Nature Park.
Rusev has a broad smile and tanned skin. He wears a necklace adorned with a diving bird, its wings locked on either side of its body in the shape of the Ukrainian trident. Growing up in a Soviet town where the water was polluted by industry and the forests denuded, he says, he learned the value of protecting the natural world.
"We need to save biodiversity and help nature," he says. "And it will help us."
In 2010, Rusev helped create Tuzla Lagoons National Nature Park with its 18-mile sandbar to protect the ecosystem from poaching and development. There are 55 national parks in Ukraine, Rusev says. Many of them, including the country's largest, the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve near the city of Kherson are now under Russian control.
Others — even parts of this park — he says, are now being used by the Ukrainian military to prevent future Russian advances.
A short drive from the park's headquarters, past a string of anti-tank mines hidden in the tall grass, Iryna Vykhrystyuk, the director of Tuzla Lagoons National Nature Park, walks on the white sand of Ukraine's Black Sea Coast.
Parts of this national park were bombed in the first month of the war, she says. Explosions are still regularly heard offshore, generally in the direction of Snake Island. Dolphins, confused and run ashore by the low-frequency radar used by Russian submarines and warships, are commonly found decaying on the beach.
"Normally this place is like heaven," Vykhrystyuk says, as small waves roll over the beach. It has the most amazing sunrises and sunsets. The dark skies and starscapes attract photographers from around Ukraine and the world.
Now, the beach is empty.
When Ukraine wins the war — not if — Vykhrystyuk says, looking out to the sea, she hopes people will return.
Hopefully, she says, it will help them heal.
Olena Lysenko contributed reporting to this story.
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PORTER, Ind. (WXIN) — A frozen Canada goose was dislodged from its icy binds thanks to the help of volunteer firefighters in northern Indiana.
According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, conservation officers were notified on Monday about a Canada goose being frozen to the wet sand along the edge of Lake Michigan at Indiana Dunes State Park.
Several Good Samaritans had already attempted to free the goose but without any luck, DNR said.
In order to assist the animal and prevent further risk to the public, the conservation officers called in volunteer firefighters from Porter who made quick work of safely removing the goose from the frozen beach.
DNR said the bird was then transferred to a licensed wildlife rehabilitation and veterinarian facility for treatment.
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Twitter sues Musk to force him to complete $44B acquisition
(AP) – Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.
Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company.
Twitter’s lawsuit opens with a sharply-worded accusation: “Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests.”
“Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away,” the suit says.
Twitter filed its lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, which frequently handles business disputes among the many corporations, including Twitter, that are incorporated there.
As part of the April deal, Musk and Twitter had agreed to pay each other a $1 billion breakup fee if either was responsible for the deal falling through. The company could have pushed Musk to pay the hefty fee but is going farther than that, trying to force him to complete the full $44 billion purchase approved by the company’s board.
“Oh the irony lol,” Musk tweeted after Twitter filed the lawsuit, without explanation.
The arguments and evidence laid out by Twitter are “very strong and compelling” and likely to get a receptive ear in the Delaware court, which doesn’t look kindly on sophisticated buyers backing off of deals, said Brian Quinn, a law professor at Boston College.
“They make a very strong argument that this is just buyer’s remorse,” Quinn said. “You have to eat your mistakes in the Delaware Chancery Court. That’s going to work very favorably for Twitter.”
Musk alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service. Twitter said last month that it was making available to Musk a ″fire hose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets.
The company has said for years in regulatory filings that it believes about 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake. Musk is also alleging that Twitter broke the acquisition agreement when it fired two top managers and laid off a third of its talent-acquisition team.
Twitter’s suit repeatedly emphasizes Musk’s contemplation of starting a Twitter competitor -- an alternative option he sometimes aired publicly and sometimes privately to Twitter’s executives and board members. While the company has said it cooperated in providing the spam bot data he requested, the lawsuit suggests there was concern that disclosing too much “highly sensitive information” could expose Twitter to competitive harm if shared.
The biggest surprise for Quinn was how much evidence Twitter has -- for instance, communications with Musk about whether to retain or lay off employees, as well as the billionaire’s own public tweets -- to reject his arguments for backing out.
“They are marshaling many of Musk’s own tweets to hoist him on his own petard,” he said.
When Musk offered to buy the company and take it private in mid-April, the board initially tried to block him by deploying a financial maneuver that would have made the acquisition prohibitively expensive.
By April 25, though, Twitter had reconsidered the offer, concluding that selling the company to Musk for $54.20 a share was in the best interest of shareholders. In a joint press release, Musk pledged to “unlock” the social media company’s potential by loosening restrictions on speech and rooting out fake accounts.
But his confidence didn’t last long. Tesla’s stock — Musk’s primary source of wealth — plummeted amid a broader stock market selloff in May, and Musk soon seemed less enthusiastic about owning Twitter.
Twitter’s suit calls Musk’s tactics “a model of hypocrisy,” noting that he had emphasized plans to take Twitter private in order to rid it of spam accounts. Once the market declined, however, Twitter noted that “Musk shifted his narrative, suddenly demanding ‘verification’ that spam was not a serious problem on Twitter’s platform, and claiming a burning need to conduct ‘diligence’ he had expressly forsworn.”
Similarly, the company charges that Musk operated in bad faith, accusing him of requesting company information in order to accuse Twitter of providing “misrepresentations” about its business to regulators and investors.
Musk “has been acting against this deal since the market started turning, and has breached the merger agreement repeatedly in the process,” the suit charges. “He has purported to put the deal on ‘hold’ pending satisfaction of imaginary conditions, breached his financing efforts obligations in the process, violated his obligations to treat requests for consent reasonably and to provide information about financing status, violated his non-disparagement obligation, misused confidential information, and otherwise failed to employ required efforts to consummate the acquisition.”
Twitter’s lawsuit alleges that the company “has suffered and will continue to suffer irreparable harm” as a result of Musk’s contractual breaches that “cast a pall over Twitter and its business.”
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Black History Month continues: 30 years ago Reggie White signed with the Packers
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Before he came to the team, Reggie White was a free agent - saying that would play anywhere except Green Bay.
And he wasn’t the only one - team historians say players in the league called our city the Siberia of the N.F.L.
However, the team’s general manager at the time - Ron Wolf - decided there was only one way to turn around the fate of the team and that was to convince Reggie White to come to Green Bay,
With a promise that White would become a trailblazer that eventually leads the Packers to the Super Bowl - the team was able to sign him in 1993.
That year the team made it to the playoffs for the first time in more than 10 years.
Elroy Butler, Packers Safety from 1990 to 2001, remembers: ““That’s why I tear up thinking about Reggie because - he just put his arms around everybody. And it’s almost like he went home and wrote down every negative stereotype of Green Bay, and I’m gonna debunk it.”
The next year White began to to recruit black free agents, and in 1997 he helped the team win Super Bowl XXXI.
In White’s six seasons with the Packers, they never missed the playoffs.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Baker Mayfield was waived by Carolina on Monday and claimed by the Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday. After a cross-country flight, he got one short practice with his new team on Wednesday.
And on Thursday night, Mayfield led the Rams to two late fourth-quarter touchdowns and a stunning 17-16 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders, capped by a 23-yard scoring pass to Van Jefferson with 10 seconds left.
Mayfield could only wonder what Friday will bring in this wild week of his life, but the former No. 1 overall pick knows it probably won’t be more fun than one of the most amazing moments of his bumpy NFL journey.
“I don’t know if you could write it any better than that,” Mayfield said. “Obviously, we’d like to be a little bit more stress-free, but it’s a pretty damn good story, I’ll be honest with you.”
Just two days after the Rams (4-9) claimed him, Mayfield went 22 of 35 for 230 yards — and eventually snapped the defending Super Bowl champions’ six-game losing streak in dramatic style.
“What a quick study,” Rams coach Sean McVay said. “He just got here five minutes ago and figured out a way to be able to do some special things tonight.”
The Rams went on a 75-yard TD drive moments before the winning drive, the latter of which ended with Mayfield finding Jefferson behind rookie Sam Webb in the end zone. The 98-yard march was the longest go-ahead TD drive in the final 2 minutes of a game over the past 45 NFL seasons.
Los Angeles trailed 16-3 after Daniel Carlson’s third field goal with 12:20 to play, but Mayfield got the Rams moving and Cam Akers made a short TD run with 3:19 left, one play after he fought for a first down at the Vegas 1 on a gritty fourth-down catch.
The Rams’ defense stopped Derek Carr and the Raiders at the 2-minute warning, but AJ Cole dropped a 64-yard punt at the Rams 2.
Undaunted and with no timeouts, Mayfield led the Rams downfield again — with ample help from an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Raiders’ Jerry Tillery for knocking the ball out of the quarterback’s hands after a play. The drive included a contested 32-yard reception by Ben Skowronek, who finished with career highs of seven catches for 89 yards.
“Man, you forget what winning is like, and it sure is fun,” McVay said after the Rams’ first victory since Oct. 16.
Josh Jacobs rushed for 99 yards and the only touchdown for the Raiders (5-8), whose three-game winning streak ended in humiliating fashion. Less than four weeks after Las Vegas lost in former ESPN analyst Jeff Saturday’s NFL coaching debut with Indianapolis, the Raiders lost to a quarterback who joined his new team less than 48 hours before the game and had just one brief walkthrough practice.
“We’ve played against (Mayfield) before and know he’s a really good competitor,” Raiders coach Josh McDaniels said. “He made some critical throws for them. We prepared for all three quarterbacks, not necessarily knowing who we were going to get and on a short week, so give them credit. He made enough plays.”
Carr passed for 137 yards with no TDs and two interceptions. Davante Adams made two jaw-dropping catchesin the first half, but had none in the second half while Las Vegas’ offense managed only 67 yards.
“We left some plays and points out there,” Carr said. “And then at the end of the game, I just didn’t think we finished it how we could have finished it to win the game. You know, not even having to put the defense out there or anything like that. We just didn’t execute.”
John Wolford ran the opening series for the Rams’ offense, but McVay then turned it over to Mayfield, a player he has long admired. Mayfield was having a terrible season for the Panthers, but he improbably injected a spark into the Rams with a handful of big plays and decent drives despite minimal knowledge of the playbook.
“There was kind of a shortened list of plays that I was really, really studying,” Mayfield said. “I will say we dipped out of that little list and got into some other things.”
With McVay apparently giving detailed instructions into his helmet before each huddle, Mayfield immediately got the Rams moving. Akers short-circuited Mayfield’s solid second drive with a fumble in the red zone, but Rams linebacker Ernest Jones made an end-zone interception late in the first half.
Mayfield completed 15 of his 20 passes in the fourth quarter, flawlessly directing his new teammates downfield for two scores.
“I love to compete,” Mayfield said. “I love this game.”
INJURIES
Jacobs injured his hand early in the second half and briefly went to the locker room, but kept playing. … Aaron Donald (high ankle sprain) missed his second game due to injury in his nine-year NFL career. … Raiders RG Alex Bars injured his knee on the opening drive and didn’t return. … Rams WR Jacob Harris injured his shoulder playing special teams in the second half.
UP NEXT
Raiders: Host New England on Sunday, Dec. 18.
Rams: At Green Bay on Monday, Dec. 19.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Under a small patio in the backyard of her East Stockton home, 45-year old Veronica Aguilar is creating tamale magic.
"I think that it's the flavor from the meat is what makes them so good," said Aguilar in Spanish.
Using her grandmother's recipe, the native of Michoacán, Mexico has made and sold her chicken, pork and cheese tamales for two years.
But, that came to a sudden end after she was robbed at gunpoint a few weeks ago.
The robbery happened at the corner of N. Wilson Way and E. Alpine Avenue not far from the city's well known flea market in the morning.
Aguilar was wrapping up her day when a car drove up seemingly to buy tamales.
"She stayed in her car and wanted a dozen cheese tamales," said Aguilar.
Aguilar says the female customer was in the car's passenger side and a small child was in the back. Aguilar then approached the car to hand over the tamales.
"She grabbed a gun and the lady said to give her my money, cellphone and car keys. I did so without hesitation," said Aguilar.
She says the suspects car was red and immediately took off, leaving her shaken by the experience.
"I'm scared to go out now. I suffer a lot of anxiety and depression," said Aguilar.
She says she will no longer sell on the streets and will only do deliveries.
But, enter Stockton conscious hip-hop artist, spoken word poet and community organizer Alfonso "Fonzo" Grijalva.
"To see that someone was in the process of trying to provide for their family and then someone took a firearm and robbed them and took everything I can only imagine how helpless Veronica felt," said Grijalva.
So Grijalva has organized what he is calling a "Community Buy Out" this Sunday at the Hatch Workshop in Downtown Stockton.
Veronica will be there with her tamales with the hope she sells out.
"Hopefully that can show her that the community in Stockton we don't condone that. It was an isolated incident where one person decided to make that decision. Collectively, Stockton, California we're not with that," added Grijalva.
Aguilar is shocked, to say the least.
"I think it's like an angel that God sent me. Things happen for a reason. I don't know how to repay him for the love and support we received from him," said Aguilar.
If you would like to take part in the "community buy out," it happens Sunday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hatch Workshop at 40 S. Union St. in Downtown Stockton.
They are also accepting donations on Aguilar's behalf.
For more information call or text 209-627-0685 or email freeyourselffonzo@hatch.workshop
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Robot vacuums make life easier and Prime Day 2023, which will occur on July 11 and 12 this year, is the time to score steep discounts on this household essential. You can start gearing up now for plenty of hot deals. Plus, we’ve sourced the best early deals you can buy now.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — If you're thinking of wiping down your kitchen with that bottle of Pine-Sol all-purpose cleaner under your sink — stop. It may contain bacteria that could cause serious illness in people with compromised immune systems.
The Clorox Company said Tuesday it has recalled its scented multi-surface cleaners and all-purpose cleaners. The recall doesn't include its iconic original pine-scented Pine-Sol, which is its only product registered as a disinfectant.
The products recalled by the Oakland, California-based company also include scented CloroxPro Pine-Sol All Purpose Cleaners and Clorox Professional Pine-Sol Lemon Fresh Cleaners, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement.
The products "may contain bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an environmental organism found widely in soil and water," the commission said.
"The bacteria can enter the body if inhaled, through the eyes, or through a break in the skin. People with healthy immune systems are usually not affected by the bacteria," the commission said.
Testing identified bacteria in the recalled products produced between January 2021 and September 2022, the commission said. It said consumers should take pictures of the 12 digit UPC code and the date code, throw the product in its container in the trash, and contact the company for a refund.
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Celtics vs. 76ers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 4
Published: May. 7, 2023 at 9:54 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Boston Celtics are 2.5-point favorites heading into Game 4 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center on Sunday, starting at 3:30 PM ET on ESPN. The Celtics have a 2-1 series lead.
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Celtics vs. 76ers Game Info & Odds
- Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
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Celtics vs. 76ers Score Prediction
- Prediction: 76ers 114 - Celtics 113
Celtics vs 76ers Additional Info
Spread & Total Prediction for Celtics vs. 76ers
- Pick ATS: 76ers (+ 2.5)
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Over (214.5)
- The 76ers' .585 ATS win percentage (48-34-0 ATS Record) is higher than the Celtics' .537 mark (44-35-3 ATS Record) in 2022-23.
- Philadelphia covers the spread when it is a 2.5-point underdog or more 52.6% of the time. That's more often than Boston covers as a favorite of 2.5 or more (49.3%).
- When it comes to exceeding the total in 2022-23, Philadelphia and its opponents do it more often (53.7% of the time) than Boston and its opponents (52.4%).
- The Celtics have a .716 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (53-21) this season while the 76ers have a .500 winning percentage as a moneyline underdog (13-13).
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Celtics Performance Insights
- Boston has been getting things done both offensively and defensively this season, ranking fourth-best in the NBA in points per game (117.9) and fourth-best in points allowed per game (111.4).
- The Celtics rank seventh in the NBA with 26.7 assists per game.
- The Celtics rank top-five this season in three-point shooting, ranking second-best in the league with 16 treys per game. Meanwhile, they rank sixth with a 37.6% shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
- Boston has taken 52% two-pointers and 48% threes this season. Of the team's baskets, 62% are two-pointers and 38% are threes.
76ers Performance Insights
- Philadelphia is 14th in the NBA in points scored (115.2 per game) and third-best in points conceded (110.9).
- This season the 76ers are ranked 16th in the league in assists at 25.2 per game.
- The 76ers are 11th in the NBA in 3-pointers made (12.6 per game) and best in 3-point percentage (38.7%).
- Philadelphia attempts 38.9% percent of its shots from beyond the arc, and 61.1% percent from inside it. In terms of makes, 30.9% of Philadelphia's baskets are 3-pointers, and 69.1% are 2-pointers.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luis Arraez was taking a nap Friday after a workout when he got a call and was told the Minnesota Twins had traded him to the Miami Marlins.
“I was surprised,” he said, “but this is baseball. This is a business. I’m ready to go now. I’m a Marlin and I’m excited to be here.”
The Twins traded the reigning AL batting champion to the Marlins for a three-player package featuring starting pitcher Pablo López.
López should bolster an already deep Twins rotation, albeit one that’s absent a true ace. He’ll slot in with Sonny Gray, Tyler Mahle, Kenta Maeda, Joe Ryan and perhaps Bailey Ober. This has been an eventful month for the Twins, having re-signed shortstop Carlos Correa.
“I’m really excited about coming to this team, the leaders they have in the clubhouse and the players they have to support each other,” López said on a video interview with reporters. “It’s a mentality that really motivates me too. I ask and expect more of myself when it comes to my performance and the ways I can help out the team.”
The 25-year-old Arraez had a breakout season for Minnesota last year, making his first All-Star team while batting a league-best .316 and denying Aaron Judge a Triple Crown. The Yankees star led the AL in home runs and RBIs and finished five points behind Arraez in batting average.
Arraez is a multi-positional player who spent most of his time at first base for the Twins last year, starting 61 games there, 34 at designated hitter and 31 at second base. He has also played extensively at third base and left field.
Marlins general manager Kim Ng said Arraez is expected to play second base for Miami, and Jazz Chisolm Jr, who has mainly played second base during his major league career with the Marlins, will move to center field.
The Twins also received two prospects from the Marlins: infielder Jose Salas and outfielder Byron Chourio. The 19-year-old Salas, who finished last season with Miami’s high Class A affiliate, was picked as the organization’s fifth-best prospect in the most recent MLB Pipeline rankings. The 17-year-old Chourio, also a native of Venezuela, played in the Dominican Summer League last season after signing with the Marlins organization in June.
Arraez will give the Marlins three years of contract control. This is his first year of salary arbitration eligibility. He was the only Twins player who didn’t settle at the deadline last week, asking for $6.1 million in 2023 while the team offered $5 million.
The native of Venezuela became a fan favorite for his persistence and patience at the plate, as tough of an out as there has been in baseball in recent years with only 131 strikeouts in 1,569 career plate appearances. He has only 14 home runs over four seasons, but his career on-base percentage is .374.
Twins fans who are old enough might also have winced when the club traded reigning AL batting champion Rod Carew after the 1978 season, albeit with far different circumstances.
“Anytime you have a player that’s well liked in the environment, who you know is going to go work and do it every day which we got to see with Luis, it makes it harder,” Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said. “We’d love to have Luis and Pablo on our team, but to get something as impactful as what Pablo brings to our team, you have to give something impactful.”
The 26-year-old López had a 3.75 ERA in 32 starts last season. He threw a career-high 180 innings. Over the last two seasons, he had 289 strikeouts in 282 2/3 innings.
“When you trade anyone it’s always difficult, particularly when you’re talking about someone like Pablo,” Ng said. “Just a first-class guy, tremendous human being. He’s done a lot for the Marlins organization.”
Maeda, Gray, Mahle and Ryan were all acquired in recent trades, too, and whether minor-leaguers or major-leaguers the Twins have had to part with several valuable players to get them.
“I don’t care where they come from. We need really good starters and we need really good pitchers,” Falvey said. “The goal here is to continue to deepen your starting rotation and pitching staff however we can do it.”
Falvey listed Ober sixth when he mentioned the group in a video interview. He said the Twins have discussed a six-man rotation but weren’t “ready to stamp that yet.” Injuries ravaged the rotation last year, so chances are the Twins will need more than six starters over the course of 2023.
The deal makes sense for Miami, which has a strong pitching rotation highlighted by NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara, and newly acquired right-hander Johnny Cueto. The Marlins struggled at the plate last season, though, batting .230 in 2022, and had been looking to add another hitter to their lineup after signing former Philadelphia infielder Jean Segura. Miami also recently traded shortstop Miguel Rojas to the Dodgers.
“We’ve talked about it quite often, wanting to add offense this offseason,” Ng said. “We’re willing to trade some of our pitching to do it. What we get in Luis Arraez is a left-handed, very good hitter.”
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AP Sports Writer Alanis Thames contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, parent company of San Francisco-based MUFG Union Bank, N.A. (the Bank), today announced that effective September 22, 2022, the Bank's reference rate will increase to 6.25 percent from 5.50 percent.
About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.'s U.S. Operations including MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
The U.S. operations of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups, has total assets of $342.4 billion at June 30, 2022. As part of that total, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation (MUAH), a financial holding company, bank holding company, and intermediate holding company, has total assets of $152.5 billion at June 30, 2022. MUAH's main subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides a wide range of financial services to consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. As of June 30, 2022, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. operated 297 branches, consisting primarily of retail banking branches in the West Coast states. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital markets origination transactions, domestic and foreign debt and equities securities transactions, private placements, collateralized financings, and securities borrowing and lending transactions. MUAH is owned by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. MUFG Bank, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Visit www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, June 27, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
905 AM PDT Sat Jun 25 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Hot conditions with daytime temperatures from low 90s to
106. Overnight lows in the near 60 in the valleys with upper
60s to 70s in the hills.
* WHERE...Southern Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San
Antonio and Mountains Of San Benito County and Interior
Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Monument.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Hottest locations will be far southern
Salinas Valley and interior portions of San Benito county.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Palm Beach Skate Zone remains community staple after damaging fire
A cool, popular ice skating spot in Lake Worth Beach is thriving after the facility was nearly destroyed by flames in February.
“Palm Beach Skate Zone is the coolest place in town,” said general manager Debbie Freitas.
Palm Beach Skate Zone is the only ice skating and hockey facility with three rinks in Pam Beach County. Known for its family-oriented atmosphere, the facility offers a variety of activities and programming for all ages.
“We have our summer camps, we have figure skating camp and then our regular hockey camp, public skating,” Freitas said.
With it first opening in 1997, Palm Beach Skate Zone has been a household name and community staple for decades.
"The place is fantastic. The staff is phenomenal, the facility’s great," said parent Steve Orchard.
“I don’t know what I’d do without it,” said hockey player Jake Orchard.
However, back in February, fierce flames erupted behind the facility leaving many wondering if the popular skating facility would be closed indefinitely.
"We couldn’t believe that something that massive happened," said parent Adi Kisos.
Freitas recalls the moment she and staff learned of the fire and drove to the facility.
“It was little after 2 in the morning. The flames were about 40 feet behind the building," she said. "Well your heart sinks, and we just threw the phone down, jumped in the car and came."
Following the fire, staff set up offices outside under a tent for a week and reopened shortly thereafter.
"We were able to get our roofing and our wall behind in a timely manner," Freitas said.
"After going through a fire and everything, they handled it well," Jake Orchard said. "I don’t feel like I missed anything."
Currently, two out of the three rinks are up and running, with the third one expecting to reopen by the end of August.
"We are so looking forward to this season," Freitas said. "It’s a great place to be."
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Warnock opponent implores high turnout in Georgia Senate runoff to propel Walker to victory
Loeffler spoke with Fox News Digital following Walker campaign rally in Milton, Georgia
MILTON, Ga. – EXCLUSIVE: Former Republican Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler is imploring Georgians to turn out in large numbers for the Dec. 6 runoff election between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP nominee Herschel Walker.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital following a Walker campaign rally in Milton, Georgia, Loeffler, who narrowly lost to Warnock in her own runoff election in January 2021, emphasized that turnout will be key to propel Walker to victory, and she touted his performance on Election Day despite the massive advantage in spending by Democrats on the race.
"I'm all in for Herschel. Herschel has been working so hard. He's going to stand up and defend our Georgia values, our American values. He's working every day, so I'm right there alongside of him making sure that we get the vote out," Loeffler said when asked why she decided to get back out on the campaign trail to stump for Walker.
Loeffler said that every election is about turnout, but that it is particularly important in runoff elections. She then pointed to the size of the crowd at the Walker rally, which numbered close to 300 supporters, and noted it was a good sign to see such numbers during Thanksgiving week.
"That's what it's going to take, really strong turnout because, look, Herschel Walker got outspent by over $70 million and there's only a 35,000 vote difference in a state of 7 and a half million registered voters. So, it is vital that turnout is ours this time," she said.
Loeffler dismissed any potential challenges that former President Trump's announcement that he would be a candidate for president in 2024 would pose for Walker in the race, considering Trump's underwater favorability ratings in the state.
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ALLOWS EARLY VOTING SATURDAY IN US SENATE RUNOFF ELECTION
"Look, when I'm out with Georgians every day talking to them, they're about what's going on around the kitchen table, the impact on their lives, the out-of-control spending in Washington, the woke indoctrination in the schools, crime, open borders. They're very focused on someone that can come solve their problems right now in 2022. So, they're focused on the kitchen table and not palace intrigue," she said.
When asked who she thought should be at the top of a future Republican presidential ticket, Loeffler said there is "an incredibly deep bench" in the party and that it is important for voters' voices to be heard.
"That's what this is all about. And, you know, President Trump put America first, and I think anyone else who gets on the ballot is going to try to have that America First agenda, because that's the only agenda that works for this country," she said.
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Lawsuit claims construction worker killed was buried alive
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A lawsuit claims a construction worker was buried alive while working on a project in the Las Vegas valley earlier this year.
KVVU reports that 32-year-old Rigoberto Canas Ramos died in what the coroner determined was an accident on March 31 in the northwest part of town.
Ramos was doing trench work at a construction site. Fire officials in Las Vegas said a trench collapsed at the site.
A lawsuit claims Ramos’ fellow workers rushed to the trench to locate him and found a substantial amount of dirt had been poured into the trench.
According to the complaint, other workers rushed to rescue Ramos by frantically digging by hand and using an excavator to remove about five feet of dirt from the trench.
Attorneys claim no safety consultants were at the property or nearby, and Ramos was buried alive.
According to the complaint, Ramos was working for a subcontractor of KB Home. It alleges the home builder and its hired safety company, Customized Safety and Quality Solutions, didn’t have any personnel overseeing construction on a reasonably frequent basis throughout construction.
The complaint continued, saying other construction accidents and/or near-misses had occurred before Ramos’ death without any response to ensure future accidents would not occur.
The Department of Labor said in the first six months of this year, 22 workers nationwide have died from hazards in trenching and excavation work. There were 15 all last year, according to the report.
In response, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it’s adding stricter enforcement to protect workers by performing more than 1,000 trench inspections at construction sites across the country.
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Weed-killing chemical found in majority of urine samples in US, study finds
Published: Jul. 12, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
(CNN) - A new study shows a popular weed-killing chemical is in more than 80% of the nation’s urine samples.
The controversial herbicide glyphosate has been linked to cancer and is the active ingredient in the widely used Roundup for weed control products.
The company is at the center of thousands of lawsuits claiming it causes cancer.
Farmers spray the pesticide, which has been found in a variety of food, including baby formula.
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Leading research solution recognized as Legal Information Solution winner
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today announced that VitalLaw, its acclaimed research solution, has earned a bronze Stevie Award in the 19th Annual 2022 International Business Awards in the Legal Information Solution category.
VitalLaw is a leading research platform that provides world-class analysis and comprehensive support to legal professionals across industries. With more than 25,000 pieces of practical content and data visualization tools, VitalLaw gives customers access to solutions that enrich the entire legal process by delivering faster answers and deeper insights. The solution also provides customers with more consistent and current updating of laws and regulations, as well as expert content in key practice areas.
"VitalLaw enhances the customer experience by increasing productivity and providing expert analysis through a seamless workflow experience, and I am proud that it has been honored with a Stevie Award," said Ken Crutchfield, Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. "As we continue to invest in innovative technology, VitalLaw is a valuable, user-friendly platform that empowers customers to drive better outcomes for their clients."
Additionally, Crutchfield earned a gold Stevie Award in the Product Development/Management Executive of the Year category. Crutchfield was recognized for excelling at managing his team and leading them to effectively expand VitalLaw's primary source content and actionable insights through its successful launch.
The International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories across industries. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 300 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process in June and July.
Details about the International Business Awards and the list of 2022 Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.
About Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare; tax and accounting; governance, risk, and compliance; and legal and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.8 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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Release aids developers in confidently deploying software, increasing stability and improving time-to-market
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company today announced the availability of its CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release. The 2.28 release supports Armory's commitment to empowering development teams to easily, reliably, safely and continuously deploy software at any scale.
Armory's CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release encompasses new features, optimizations, and contributions from the Spinnaker community to ensure development teams can deploy code with even greater confidence than ever before.
This release embodies Armory's commitment to providing enterprise-grade Spinnaker and addressing the increasingly complex use cases elite development teams encounter. This includes exhaustive functional testing of all community code commitments, enhanced plug-ins and CVE remediation. This resulted in a Long Term Support (LTS) release assuring platform teams can provide developers with a stable platform that delivers reliable deployments at high velocity. CD Self-Hosted addresses the two most common pain points companies encounter: growth and scale.
"Armory has invested heavily in our test automation infrastructure so the reliability and performance of the platform provides the stability that elite development teams demand," said Jim Douglas, Armory president and CEO. "This latest 2.28 release empowers dev teams to accomplish continuous deployment at scale while providing them the best user experience."
Release 2.28 includes new features created to address common customer pain points within Terraform outputs and parallel pipelines. Specific features include:
- Terraformer Show Stage - Allows the pipeline to automatically enforce infrastructure policies and test for quality with every infrastructure change, reducing operational risk and increasing stability.
- Remote backend support for Terraform Enterprise and Terraform Cloud - Helping users have unique access to assistance within the platform.
- Max Concurrent Pipeline Executions - Customers can control the amount of maximum parallel pipeline executions, accelerating deployment frequency and velocity while speeding up time-to-market with exciting new features and products.
"Elite developer teams know and love the power of Spinnaker when it comes to deploying their software continuously," said Adam Frank, VP Product at Armory. "The Spinnaker community is a part of Armory's DNA, and it's evident in how we've built CD Self-Hosted and Managed. We've taken the best of Spinnaker and combined it with our world-class approach to continuous deployment to give developers a complete and reliable end-to-end solution from the moment they commit code."
This announcement comes on the heels of yet another milestone for Armory in its mission to make software deployment reliable, scalable, and safe; and ultimately help developers Commit, Deploy, Repeat: the launch of Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service, which delivers declarative deployments across multiple environments that support advanced progressive strategies, allowing developers to focus on building great code rather than deploying it.
To accommodate the release of Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service into Armory's growing continuous deployment solutions, the self-hosted and managed offerings of Armory Enterprise have been renamed:
- Armory Enterprise becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted
- Armory Enterprise Managed becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Managed
- Armory Agent for Kubernetes becomes Armory Scale Agent for Spinnaker & Kubernetes
To learn more about Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28, visit: https://www.armory.io/blog/self-hosted-and-managed-v228.
Armory enables developers to continuously improve and assure their customers' experience through scalable, safe, reliable, secure, and continuous software deployment. Armory makes continuous deployment achievable and effortless, at any scale, for all developers by providing easy-to-use continuous deployment solutions that eliminate the need to migrate away from existing tools, minimizing disruption to an existing software delivery lifecycle. Developers can easily and declaratively deploy new versions alongside live versions, incrementally scale up new versions, enable manual reviews prior to scaling up, effortlessly rollback to an old version, and manage the deployment across multiple targets and environments; continuously improving and protecting their customer experience.
Founded in 2016, Armory is funded by B Capital, Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, and Javelin Venture Partners. Learn more at www.armory.io.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Before she tried encapsulating one of the more memorable WNBA playoff games, Becky Hammon let out a little chuckle.
“That was a hell of a game. I don’t know if I’ve ever been a part of something like that,” the Las Vegas Aces coach said.
Hammon could speak with a mix of excitement and relief after the Aces pulled out a wild 110-98 overtime in over the Seattle Storm in Game 3 of their WNBA playoff semifinal series on Sunday.
There were big shots and buzzer beaters. Spectacular offensive performances, disputable missed calls and one glaring blown assignment by the home team that added up to the Aces being one win away from advancing to the WNBA Finals and ending Sue Bird’s career.
Jackie Young sent the game to overtime with a buzzer-beating basket, and then Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum hit big shots in the extra session as Las Vegas took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.
“We live for these moments. You work hard for these bright light games and just staying in it and understanding that we’ve worked hard to get to where we are,” said Aces’ star A’ja Wilson, who finished with a playoff career-high 34 points.
The end of regulation will rightfully get most of the attention. But Las Vegas was dominant in overtime, outscoring Seattle 18-6.
Gray had been quiet in the fourth quarter but scored eight of her 29 points in overtime including a pair of 3s that silenced Storm fans that had been roaring only a few minutes earlier when it appeared Seattle was on the cusp of winning the pivotal game.
“There was so many back and forth (moments), ‘Oh they’re gonna win it, oh no they’re gonna win it, oh we’re going to overtime.’ … That’s what playoff basketball is all about. It felt good,” Gray said.
From the Seattle perspective, it never should have reached overtime.
Seattle led 92-90 with 0.8 seconds left in regulation after Bird hit a corner 3. It was a storybook moment to be another highlight in Bird’s final season before retiring.
But on the ensuing inbounds play, Young got free from Ezi Magbegor and scored in the lane ahead of the buzzer to send the game to overtime.
“It was really frustrating. We had the game and we gave it to them and that’s really it,” Seattle’s Breanna Stewart said.
Gray added 12 assists and Riquna Williams added a key 14 points off the bench. Plum had 16 points, including an important three-point play to start overtime for the Aces.
Stewart led Seattle with 20 points, while Bird and Jewell Loyd both had 17. Tina Charles added 16 points but missed a pair of free throw with 7.2 seconds remining in regulation that could have given Seattle a three-point lead.
The second half was filled with wild emotional swings and a conclusion to regulation that featured one big play after another. The final 11 seconds featured 10 points scored.
“We were up four with not a lot of time left and that’s really, to me, where we lost the game,” Bird said.
Seattle led 89-85 when Williams hit a 3 with 8.9 seconds left for Las Vegas. Charles missed her two foul shots and Wilson put Las Vegas ahead 90-89 with a spinning drive in the lane with 2.2 seconds left, although it appeared she got away with taking extra steps.
Then it was Seattle’s turn to have an apparent winner on Bird’s 3 off an inbound pass when she came open in the corner in front of the Seattle bench. Bird even left her hand in the air as Seattle’s home building roared.
But all that was muted moments later when Young cut to the basket and scored ahead of the buzzer.
“It’s on me. … What happened end of game all of our execution things that falls on me,” Seattle coach Noelle Quinn said.
The Aces victory also moved Bird one step closer to retirement. Bird has announced this will be her final season, and Las Vegas can send her off into retirement as one of the greatest players in league history with a victory in Game 4.
TIP-INS
Seattle lost a home playoff game with Stewart healthy for the first time. The Storm were 10-0 previously. … In the 14 previous series tied at 1-1, the winner of Game 3 has gone on to win the series eight times. … The Aces have reached the WNBA Finals twice in franchise history, once in 2020 in the WNBA bubble and in 2008 when the team was in San Antonio.
UP NEXT
Game 4 will be Tuesday night with Las Vegas looking to advance to the finals.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Whatever the New England Patriots’ offense looks like in the aftermath of former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels’ departure, Bill Belichick is clear about one thing: Mac Jones will have a say in molding it.
“Certainly, he’ll have input,” Belichick said of the second-year quarterback Tuesday on the eve of him beginning his second training camp.
“There’s always an element of all of us working together. … Still we’re starting a new stage here from moving into offseason to in-season so there’s just differences. We need to all build into that.”
Last year Jones entered camp as wide-eyed as any rookie quarterback, looking to learn as much as he could from then-incumbent starter Cam Newton.
Jones proved himself not only to be a quick study in his first pro system, but showed the coaching staff enough proficiency to ultimately supplant Newton for the starting job.
After enduring some typical first-year growing pains, he grew more comfortable throughout a rookie season that saw him pass for 3,801 yards, 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions while leading his team to 10 regular-season wins and a playoff berth.
Now he’ll have to try to build on Year 1 without McDaniels after he left to become the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
For now, at least, Belichick hasn’t announced a replacement. Joe Judge has rejoined the team after being fired as the New York Giants head coach and has the title of offensive assistant/quarterbacks. He worked primarily with Jones during minicamp, and both Judge and senior football adviser Matt Patricia spent time calling offensive plays.
Whomever winds up being the primary voice for Jones early this season, the former Alabama star clearly spent time working on his conditioning, as evidenced in the more toned physique he debuted during offseason workouts.
He’ll also have more playmakers to throw to this upcoming season after Belichick added receiver DeVante Parker and drafted Tyquan Thornton, who clocked the fastest 40-yard dash time during the NFL combine.
All that is secondary, though, to the confidence veteran Devin McCourty said he’s already seen from Jones since the start of their offseason program.
“I think the longer it’s been, he’s just being himself,” McCourty said. “I think when Mac got here he was trying to make sure he checked every box. He was working hard, he was in here early, he was staying late. He was almost trying to be so buttoned up I think at different points last year he had different guys telling him to just be himself.”
He’s seeing signs Jones is beginning to be comfortable doing that.
“I think that’s what he’s done,” McCourty said. “You’ve seen his goofy side, having fun — that’s what this is all about. The sooner players can get to that, obviously for him — quarterback (and) leader of the team. …that’s what we’ve seen so far. I’m excited for him.”
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Yosemite National Park closed till March 1 due to severe storm
Due to heavy snow and severe winter conditions, Yosemite National Park has decided to close to the public till Wednesday, March 1.
Park officials say travel on all park roads is restricted to administrative traffic only, and they should use El Portal Road, the extension of Highway 140, to access the park.
RELATED: Southern California gets hit with powerful storm bringing rain, mountain snow, gusty winds
On Friday, Big Oak Flat Road, the extension of Highway 120, was closed. People are strongly discouraged to travel to the park, but if you are in the area, tire chains are required on all vehicles.
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