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--Study shows that NSAIDs disrupt epithelial cells in the colon and sensitize them to C. difficile toxins by perturbing cell mitochondria—
PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Why do nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) exacerbate gastrointestinal infections by Clostridioides difficile, the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide? In a new paper published in Science Advances, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have begun to answer that question, showing that NSAIDs disrupt the mitochondria of cells lining the colon, sensitizing them to damage by pathogenic toxins.
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that leads to a wide range of symptoms, from mild diarrhea to complex infection and death. The factors that influence this wide spectrum of clinical outcomes remain largely unclear, but emerging evidence suggests that factors like diet and pharmaceutical drugs influence both susceptibility to infection and disease progression. However, researchers still know very little about how these factors impact the course of C. difficile infection.
Prior studies have shown that NSAIDs like indomethacin, aspirin, and naproxen negatively affect the gut, both in patients with C. difficile infection and other conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Long-term NSAID use can lead to stomach ulcers and intestinal injuries, like bleeding and perforation of the intestinal tissue. Researchers hypothesize this is due to the effects of NSAIDs on cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes; a process that helps reduce inflammation and pain but also impairs mucosal function in the upper gastrointestinal tract. However, NSAIDs also have off-target effects and have been shown to affect cellular mitochondria by uncoupling cellular mitochondrial functions, but researchers had not explored the mechanism or impact of these off-target effects when it comes to C. difficile infection.
To define these effects, the researchers, led by graduate student Joshua Soto Ocaña, used in vitro and mouse models of C. difficile infection to test how permeable colonic epithelial cells are in the presence of the NSAID indomethacin. The researchers observed that both indomethacin and a C. difficile toxins increased epithelial cell barrier permeability and inflammatory cell death. They also found that the effect was additive: the combined effect on cell permeability of both toxins and indomethacin was increased compared to each independently, suggesting NSAIDs and C. difficile work synergistically to increase the virulence of this pathogen.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that NSAIDs exacerbate C. difficile infection independent of COX inhibition and instead through off-target effects on mitochondria. They did so by treating colonic epithelial cells with a precursor molecule that is similar in structure to indomethacin but lacks the ability to inhibit the COX enzyme. Not only did they find that this NSAID-like molecule induced cell death, but they also found that adding selective COX inhibitors did not increase cell death, demonstrating that COX enzyme inhibition is not required to induce epithelial cell damage during C. difficile infection and that, instead, this damage occurs through off-target effects of NSAIDs.
To test the role of off-target effects during C. difficile infection, the researchers used mice pretreated either with indomethacin or the NSAID-precursor molecule. When exposed to C. difficile, both groups of mice showed equal enhancement in disease severity and mortality compared to untreated control mice infected with C. difficile only. The researchers also observed a similar effect in mice who were pretreated with the NSAID aspirin. To further define the specific mechanisms driving these off-target effects of NSAIDs, researchers looked at mitochondrial functions in colonic epithelial cells in vitro and in mice. They observed that the combination of NSAIDs and C. difficile toxins increased damage to colonic epithelial cell mitochondria and disrupted several important mitochondrial functions.
"Our work further demonstrates the clinical importance of NSAIDs in patients with C. diff infection and sheds light on why the combination of these two may be so detrimental," said senior author Joseph P. Zackular, PhD, Investigator and Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Our mechanistic findings are a starting point for further research that aims to understand the impact of mitochondrial functions during C. diff infection. These data could also inform how NSAID-mediated mitochondrial uncoupling affects other diseases, such as small intestinal injury, IBD, and colorectal cancer."
This work was supported by NIH grants K22AI7220, R35GM138369, and R37AI095755-12 and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Junior Faculty Pilot Grant.
Soto-Ocaña et al. "Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs sensitize epithelial cells to Clostridioides difficile toxin–mediated mitochondrial damage," Science Advances, July 19, 2023, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5552
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as an inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit https://www.chop.edu.
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TORONTO (AP) — TORONTO (AP) — Alamos Gold Inc. (AGI) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $48.4 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Toronto-based company said it had net income of 12 cents per share.
The gold mining company posted revenue of $251.5 million in the period.
Alamos Gold shares have increased 26% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $12.69, a rise of 65% in the last 12 months.
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(KTLA) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is still dealing with the backlash following last year’s slapping incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock.
To prevent future fiascos from happening, a crisis team will be standing by during this year’s ceremony for the first time ever.
Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy, explained to Time Magazine how the team has prepared for the 2023 awards show.
“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say this is the group that we have to gather very quickly,” he explained. “This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement. And obviously depending on the specifics of the crisis, let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.”
Kramer believes that with a steady hand like Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show, things will be fine, but if not, the crisis team is on standby.
The 95th Oscars will be held on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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Inga Lam Returns to Host the Third Annual "Incredible Egg Competition"
CHICAGO, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Egg Board's "Incredible Egg Competition" launches today for its third year, hosted by cooking aficionado, food influencer and reigning champion, Inga Lam. The three-week competition celebrates the incredible egg and the joy of springtime by inviting bakers, home cooks and foodie influencers to compete for the prized "Golden Egg" trophy, a monthly breakfast for a year at the competitor's favorite local restaurant and a $5,000 donation to the hunger-relief charity of their choice. This year's competitors will show us that you can't celebrate Easter without real eggs by tapping into their incredible versatility to create countless dishes fit for springtime entertaining!
"Through their unique creations, these three talented foodies will show us that there is simply no substitute for real eggs when cooking or baking for Easter," said Emily Metz, president and CEO of the American Egg Board. "From brunch spreads to sweet treats and everything in-between, we are thrilled to celebrate all the incredible egg-based dishes created by this year's competitors."
The essential food of spring, the versatility and functionality of eggs allow for countless creations for breakfast, brunch, baking, snacking and more. Three noteworthy tastemakers, including home cook and décor whiz Jessica Bui, recipe developer and food stylist Mallory Jones Oniki, and two-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Kristina Cho, will compete to see who has the best, most awe-inspiring egg dishes of the season.
The first week of competition, The Dozen Egg Brunch, is now live for voting with delectable entries from all the competitors. The second week of competition launches March 20 and calls for creators to whip up a dish with international Easter inspiration. The third and final weekly competition, launching on March 27, is The Springtime Stretch, where the competitors will share how they safely use decorated Easter eggs in new dishes to stretch the joy of the season. Egg lovers can cast a vote for their favorite entries on www.IncredibleEgg.org/Competition.
"I'm so excited to return to the Incredible Egg Competition as this year's host to celebrate all things eggs and springtime!" said Lam. "We have three really amazing competitors this year, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing everyone's creations these next three weeks. Eggs are one of my all-time favorite ingredients, a true staple in my kitchen, because they can provide so much flavor, richness and volume to so many dishes. But my favorite thing about them is just how versatile eggs can be - it means the possibilities are limitless! So, I can't wait to see the fantastic recipes they'll come up with"
The competition concludes on April 4 with the fan-favorite competitor named the winner of the Incredible Egg Competition. As winner of the 2022 competition, Lam's hunger-relief charity of choice was Heart of Dinner, a New York City based organization that hand delivers culturally thoughtful food packages with handwritten notes to vulnerable elders in the local Asian American community.
"It was truly an honor to win the Incredible Egg Competition last year, and to have the opportunity to donate $5,000 to Heart of Dinner, a relief organization that has, and continues to make a huge impact on an underserved community that's very dear to me. Given today's economic uncertainty, I think it's especially important to support hunger relief charities that provide access to nourishing meals with dignity to communities in need," said Lam.
To follow along with all the springtime fun and vote for your favorite influencers, visit www.IncredibleEgg.org/Competition. If you're celebrating the spring season at home, share your egg creations by tagging @incredibleegg and using #TheIncredibleEggCompetition.
About the American Egg Board (AEB)
Home of The Incredible Egg, the American Egg Board (AEB) is the national marketing organization of America's egg farmers. The AEB's mission is to increase demand for eggs and egg products through research, education, and promotion. The AEB is located in Chicago, Ill. For more, visit IncredibleEgg.org.
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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Select Committee on China said Saturday the U.S. must take seriously the threat posed to Taiwan, as Beijing launched military drills around the island in the aftermath of the Taiwanese president's meetings with American lawmakers.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who attended the meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen in California last week, told The Associated Press that he plans to lead his committee in working to shore up the island government's defenses, encouraging Congress to expedite military aid to Taiwan.
“I think it all just points to what is obvious,” Gallagher told the AP, arguing that Chinese President Xi Jinping is intent on reunifying Taiwan with the mainland.
"We need to be moving heaven and earth to enhance our deterrence and denial posture, so that Xi Jinping concludes that he just can’t do it," Gallagher said.
China conducted drills with warships and dozens of fighter jets around Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in what was viewed as retaliation for the meeting between the U.S. lawmakers and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Tsai in a bipartisan session at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, with more than a dozen members of the U.S. House for what was the most sensitive stop during her transit through the U.S.
China’s response to Tsai’s transit through the U.S. has not, so far, been as intense as its reaction last year after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan.
While both McCarthy and Tsai spoke in measured remarks after the meeting about maintaining the status quo between their countries, which have no formal diplomatic ties, the daylong meeting enraged China.
The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to Taiwanese who want to make the island’s de facto independence permanent.
Taiwan split with China in 1949 after a civil war, and the United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government.
The U.S. acknowledges a “one China” policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but it does not endorse China’s claim to the island and remains Taiwan’s key provider of military and defense assistance.
The ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing says contact with foreign officials encourages Taiwanese who want formal independence, a step the ruling party says would lead to war.
Chinese officials condemned Tsai’s meetings with lawmakers and announced sanctions on two organizations that hosted her in the U.S., but its immediate response so far has been less forceful than its reaction to Pelosi’s August trip to Taiwan.
China had warned U.S. lawmakers not to join the meeting with Tsai, Gallagher said. And after the meeting, China urged the U.S. off what it called a “wrong and dangerous road”
Gallagher, who served as a U.S. Marine with tours in Iraq, said U.S. lawmakers will not be intimidated by the Chinese.
“It's an attempt to shift the ideological battle space and, again, an attempt to intimidate us, and make us feel like we’re changing the status quo and provoking them, when the opposite is true,” he said.
Gallagher said he wants Congress to work on stepping up its military commitments to Taiwan. He said the U.S. should be more quickly sending weapon systems to Taiwan for its defense.
One idea that arose from the meeting, he said, was for the U.S. to help Taiwan with technology to manufacture its own defense systems.
In 2022, China responded in the aftermath of Pelosi's visit with its largest live-fire drills in decades, including firing a missile over the island.
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Updated February 1, 2023 at 2:34 PM ET
The funeral for Tyre Nichols has gotten underway in Memphis, roughly three weeks after he died following a beating by police that was caught on video and sparked a wave of protests and calls for accountability nationwide.
The service Wednesday afternoon began with several musical performances and remarks from religious leaders, as photos of Nichols flashed across a screen.
"We have come to be of comfort and support to this family," said the Rev. J. Lawrence Turner, senior pastor of the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
"This family has endured the unsolicited, unwarranted, unreasonable, unjustifiable and massive burden of grieving their loved one and at the same time fighting for justice," Turner added.
The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver Nichols' eulogy, and Ben Crump, an attorney for Nichols' family, will give a "call to action," organizers said.
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to attend the funeral at the invitation of Nichols' family. Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, and Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, are also expected.
Services at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis were being livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube.
Nichols died on Jan. 10, three days after he was brutally beaten by police during a traffic stop. He was 29.
Body-camera video shows officers pull over Nichols on Jan. 7 on suspicion of reckless driving. They yank Nichols from his car and try to arrest him, but he flees.
When police finally catch up with him at a second location, officers kick him, hit him with a baton and repeatedly punch him in the head in a violent encounter also captured by a surveillance camera nearby.
Five Memphis police officers have been fired and charged with Nichols' murder, and two other officers are facing discipline. The city's fire department fired two EMTs and a lieutenant. The Memphis Police Department also disbanded the specialized unit whose officers beat Nichols.
Nichols' death has garnered national attention and drawn comparisons to other instances in which Black people have been killed at the hands of police, including Taylor and Floyd. President Biden said the video of officers beating Nichols left him "outraged and deeply pained."
An avid skateboarder, Nichols had a 4-year-old son, worked at FedEx with his stepfather and had a tattoo of his mother's name.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Scott Dixon watched Scott McLaughlin lead lap after lap around Portland International Raceway and figured at some point, his fellow New Zealander would be ordered to pull over.
“I think I called it with 10 laps to go, ‘I’m surprised they haven’t swapped yet’,” Dixon said.
Team Penske issued no such team orders and will now wait until Sunday to see if it costs the organization the IndyCar title.
McLaughlin won his third race of the season and goes into this weekend’s season finale trailing points leader Power by 41 points. Still mathematically in the fight, but in need of a lot of help on the California road course.
Power, meanwhile, finished second to McLaughlin at Portland on Sunday to widen his lead in the standings. He arrived in Portland with just a three-point cushion over teammate Josef Newgarden, and Power is now up by 20 points over both Newgarden and Dixon.
Like Dixon, Power wondered why Team Penske didn’t move McLaughlin aside.
“Absolutely. I was on the radio asking for it,” said Power, noting that a victory would have been worth 11 additional points and sent him to Laguna Seca up 31 over the competition.
“Obviously, 10 points, 11 points would make a big difference,” Power said. “You wouldn’t be having to finish third (to win the title). You would have been having to finish eighth or something.”
Power then turned to Dixon and asked his longtime rival if his car owner, Chip Ganassi, would have called team orders in that position. Dixon nodded affirmatively.
But Power has seen it before from years of championship battles against the Ganassi group, including a four-year fight with Dixon and Dario Franchitti from 2010 through 2013. As Dixon and Franchitti always worked as a group, they often wondered why Power at Penske was forced to equally contend with his own teammates.
Power finished second in the championship race to a Ganassi driver three consecutive years, was fourth in 2013, and then finally won his only title in 2014 when he beat teammate Helio Castroneves.
Roger Penske allows each of his drivers to represent their teams and sponsors individually, and his drivers can race each other, but he draws that line at crashing into one another. Because he wants everyone to have a fair chance, any pre-race discussions about potential team orders for pole-sitter McLaughlin were brief.
“At the end of the day it was completely circumstantial. It’s pretty obvious what position you’re in if you do need to give up,” McLaughlin said. “I told Will before the race that I would fight him cleanly, and I think that’s all he expected.”
And although he was unaware Power was on the radio calling for a switch of the leaders, McLaughlin said he understood and would have understood if he’d been ordered to pull over. He led 104 of the 110 laps in a dominating victory.
“I’m a team player. I’ll do whatever I need to do, but for me I think the best thing we could do was win the race, either car. I think that’s exactly what happened,” McLaughlin said.
But if he’d been told to give away the win?
“Everyone knew that I would have been the true winner, so?” he said.
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BEIJING (AP) — Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia — countries at odds with the United States — are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, China’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Other countries are also taking part in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises, the ministry said without giving details. Iran, Pakistan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates all have coastline along the waterbody lying at the mouth of the strategic Persian Gulf.
“This exercise will help deepen practical cooperation between the participating countries’ navies … and inject positive energy into regional peace and stability,” the ministry statement said.
U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Wednesday that the White House was not concerned by the joint training exercise. Kirby said the U.S. and other nations conduct training exercises all the time and this won’t be the first time that the Russians and Chinese have trained together.
“We’re going to watch it, we’ll monitor it, obviously, to make sure that there’s no threat resulting from this training exercise to our national security interests or those of our allies and partners in the region,” Kirby said on CNN. “But nations train. We do it all the time. We’ll watch it as best we can.”
The exercises scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday come amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and China over a range of issues, including China’s refusal to criticize Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine and continuing support for the Russian economy.
The U.S. and its allies have condemned the invasion, imposed punishing economic sanctions on Russia and supplied Ukraine with defensive arms. Iran and the U.S. have been adversaries since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and the taking of U.S. diplomats as hostages.
China has dispatched the guided missile destroyer Nanning to take part in the drills centered on search and rescue at sea and other non-combat missions. China maintains its only foreign military base, complete with a navy pier, in the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, located just across the Gulf of Oman.
The three countries held similar drills last year and in 2019, underscoring China’s growing military and political links with nations that have been largely shunned by the U.S. and its partners.
Last week, China hosted talks between Iran and its chief Middle Eastern rival Saudi Arabia that resulted in an agreement between them Friday to restore full diplomatic relations after seven years of tensions.
While the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have long-standing military and political ties, relations have frayed over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the kingdom’s leadership, and cuts in production by the OPEC+ oil cartel that the administration said was helping Russia.
China’s hosting of the Iran-Saudi talks placed it in the unusual role of mediator in regional conflicts, one that Beijing appears to be keen to capitalize on under the rubric of President Xi Jinping’s “Global Security Initiative.”
The country’s Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Affairs Xue Bing on Tuesday “further affirmed China’s readiness to work with countries in the region to contribute to peaceful regional development and build a closer China-Africa community with a shared future by implementing the outlook,” the official Xinhua News Agency quoted him as saying on a visit to Ethiopia.
China opposes “geopolitical competition by external forces (and) has no intention to and will not seek to fill the so-called vacuum or put up exclusive blocs,” Xue was quoted as saying.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, June 18, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Spokane WA
556 PM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Northeast Washington, including the following
county, Ferry.
* WHEN...Until 900 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous flows over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 553 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly over the mountainous terrain west of Inchelium
including the Summit Trail Burn Scar of 2021.
- Summit Trail Burn Scar of 2021 is the most likely place to
experience minor flooding. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.3
to 0.6 inches are expected over the area. This additional
rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Twin Lakes and steep terrain west of Inchelium.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Beware of rock slides or debris flows in the
steep terrain. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or creeks.
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Taron Egerton can't seem to escape the Wolverine rumors. The 32-year-old actor denied more theories that he's set to play the iconic X-Men character, speaking up on SiriusXM's Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw this week. The tidbit marks over two years of speculation surrounding Egerton's potential casting -- ET first spoke to him about the rumor at 2019 Comic-Con.
"It's really flattering that people think that I'm the guy to do it," Egerton said this week, "but there's no truth."
In 2019, Egerton voiced an almost identical sentiment. "I'd never really thought of myself that way," he said at the time. "There’s no truth to it but it's a lovely rumor."
Clearly, the denial didn’t stop fans, who will not stop campaigning for Egerton to take over the role from former The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman, and Egerton's friendship with Jackman doesn't slow them down. Nevertheless, Egerton says he and Jackman have never even discussed the possibility.
"I mean, it's not a real thing," he said this week. "You know, if it was like, if it was a real thing, of course, I'd talk to him about it, but it's not a real thing."
But would Egerton even consider it? Maybe not. "I would only want to do it if I felt like I was the right person to do it," he said. "And I, I'm not." He elaborated, "I have times in my life where I'm in shape for work, but it's not most of the time and like to, to play Wolverine, you'd have to be cut to shreds… Very flattering, but no truth."
Though he may not be destined for X-Men fame, Egerton is currently starring in Apple TV+'s Black Bird, the true crime thriller which also features the final television appearance of the late Ray Liotta, who plays Egerton's father.
"He had what I can only describe as a sort of creative glow," Egerton said of Liotta's acting. "It's probably the most profound relationship I've ever had on set with another actor… I felt that he loved me."
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DETROIT (AP)The Detroit Lions were so dominant on offense that they didn’t punt.
Detroit’s defense was pretty good, too.
Jamaal Williams ran for his 14th touchdown early in the first quarter to help the Lions get off to a strong start and they did not slow down in a 40-14 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
”This was a big win for us because I feel like this is the game that can catapult us through December,” coach Dan Campbell said.
The Lions (5-7) scored on all five of their drives in the first half to take a 17-point lead, and their first three possessions of the second half to pull away.
”That was as complete a team win as I’ve ever been part of,” quarterback Jared Goff said.
The Jaguars (4-8) had a scare on the last play of the second quarter when quarterback Trevor Lawrence was sacked and grabbed his left knee, but their defense made his return moot.
Lawrence, coming off the best performance of his two-year career, was 17 of 31 for 179 yards with a touchdown for an offense that was just 3 of 12 on third down. He was taken out late in the fourth quarter with his team trailing by 26 points.
”It was an ugly day for us, for sure,” Lawrence said. ”It’s just embarrassing for us for what we put out there.”
Goff, meanwhile, had one of his best games by completing 31 of 41 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns.
”Our quarterback played as good as you can play,” Campbell said.
Amon-Ra St. Brown had 11 receptions for 114 yards and two touchdowns while Williams and D’Andre Swift combined for 97 yards rushing and two scores for the Lions.
Jacksonville’s Travis Etienne, who was limited to 54 yards rushing, lost a fumble early in the game and Williams scored on a 1-yard touchdown run seven snaps later.
”We were kind of shocked to start the game,” coach Doug Pederson said. ”We were not ready.”
PLAYOFFS?!
Detroit is unlikely to catch the NFC North-leading Minnesota Vikings, but is still in the playoff race as a wild-card contender.
”It feels good to have that as a whisper because you know what this team and this city have been through,” said receiver DJ Chark, who set season highs with five catches for 98 yards against his former team.
DUBIOUS DISTINCTION
Jacksonville lost a 20th consecutive game to an NFC team, extending its NFL cross conference-record losing streak. The Jaguars have not won an NFC game since beating the New York Giants 20-15 in the 2018 season opener.
DETROIT DEBUT
Lions rookie receiver Jameson Williams played for the first time since suiting up for Alabama in college football’s championship game and injuring his left knee. Williams, drafted No. 12 overall, drew a roar from the crowd when he jogged on the field for Detroit’s second snap and again late in the first half.
Goff threw a pass to Williams late in the third quarter that fell incomplete and the crowd wanted more, chanting, ”We want Ja-mo!” in the fourth.
”This was just a primer for him to get his legs under him,” Campbell said.
TOP OF THE CLASS
Jacksonville linebacker Travon Walker, the No. 1 pick overall, had five tackles. Detroit defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, selected second overall, had two tackles and was credited with half a sack to give him a total of six this season.
INJURIES
Jaguars: LB Chad Muma (ankle) was hurt during the game and starting FS Andre Cisco (shoulder) was inactive after being listed as questionable.
Lions: DE Romeo Okwara, who tore his Achilles tendon 14 months ago, was inactive in the first game he was eligible to play this season.
”It’s the healthiest we’ve been and there’s a good chance we can get Romeo back next week,” Campbell said.
UP NEXT
Jaguars: Play at Tennessee on Sunday.
Lions: Host the Vikings on Sunday.
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MIDDLETOWN, Md., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Heritage Financial, Inc. (the "Company") (OTC PK: CMHF), the parent company of Middletown Valley Bank ("MVB" or the "Bank"), announced today that for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 the Company earned net income of $5.41 million or $2.40 per share, an increase of $653 thousand or 13.7% compared to net income of $4.76 million or $2.11 per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. Third quarter 2022 net income was $1.52 million or $0.68 per share, a decrease of $550 thousand compared to second quarter 2022 net income of $2.07 million and a decrease of $737 thousand compared to $2.26 million for the third quarter of 2021.
Balance sheet growth remained strong during the third quarter with total assets growing by $37.1 million, up from $872.6 million as of June 30, 2022 to $909.7 million as of September 30, 2022. Total assets were up $91.8 million on a year-to-date basis for 2022 compared to $817.9 million as of December 31, 2021. The asset growth for the quarter and for the year has been driven by strong loan growth. Total loans grew $34.5 million from $692.8 million as of June 30, 2022 to $727.3 million as of September 30, 2022 and are up $129.3 million (excluding PPP loans) from December 31, 2021. Due to rapidly rising market rates and a decline in liquidity within the economy due to higher inflation, the third quarter saw increased competition for core deposit dollars within the banking industry. Overall funding for the balance sheet and loan growth as noted previously has come from: 1) the deployment of cash, with cash balances going from $41.3 million as of December 31, 2021 to $15.8 million as of September 30, 2022, 2) deposit growth of $41.6 million, with deposit balances increasing from $736.7 million as of December 31, 2021 to $778.3 million as of September 30, 2022 and 3) an increase in short-term borrowing from zero outstanding at December 31, 2021 and $5.0 million as of June 30, 2022 to $53.0 million as of September 30, 2022.
Earnings for the third quarter were impacted by increased interest expense related to the balance sheet funding as noted above. Interest expense increased from $630 thousand in the second quarter of 2022 to $1.3 million for the third quarter of 2022. While funding costs increased, this was largely off-set by increased interest income directly related to the strong loan growth noted above and by the repricing of variable rate loan products within the portfolio, which were tied to the Fed rate increases during the quarter. While net interest margin dropped quarter over quarter from 3.45% in the second quarter of 2022 to 3.35% in the third quarter of 2022, earning asset volumes helped to push overall net interest income higher for the quarter. Most of the decrease in earnings comparing third quarter 2022 to second quarter 2022 can be attributed to lower non-interest income, down $133 thousand due to a slow-down in mortgage activity related to rising rates, and increased operating expenses, up $727 thousand for the quarter, related to higher employee costs, data processing expense and other operating expenses. Management continues to recognize the importance of the employee base to the success of the Company and in a proactive move to reward all employees and to help off-set higher cost of living due to high inflation, the Company increased salaries by 5% effective July 1, 2022 to all employees throughout the organization. Increased communications expense related to volume and technology upgrades contributed to increased data processing expense on a quarter over quarter basis, up $126 thousand comparing the third quarter to second quarter 2022. "Other" operating expense increased $372 thousand when comparing third quarter 2022 to second quarter 2022. The second quarter expense was lower than normal due to a one-time credit adjustment to the provision for off-balance sheet credit lines of approximately $356 thousand to better represent unused line commitments. Income tax expense was also slightly higher during the third quarter due to small adjustments related to the effective tax rate and deferred tax calculations.
In summary, strong earning asset growth for the quarter helped to off-set funding cost pressure and lower secondary mortgage revenue; however, higher operating expenses, due in part to a one-time credit in the second quarter, resulted in lower overall earnings for the third quarter of 2022 when compared to second quarter 2022 results. Year-to-date through September 30, 2022 the Company has recorded net income of $5.4 million, the highest first nine-month earnings in the history of the Company.
Subsequent Events:
On October 3, 2022 the Company announced the closing of its underwritten public offering of 600,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $21.00 per share. The offering resulted in gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $12.6 million. The net proceeds to the Company, after deducting underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses was approximately $11.4 million.
The Company is also providing an update on its previously reported data security incident. On October 1, 2022, the Bank determined there was unauthorized access to a portion of its information technology system. Within hours of the detection of the event, the Bank implemented a series of containment and remediation measures to address the situation. The Bank also launched an investigation and engaged legal counsel, a computer forensic firm and other incident response professionals. In connection with the investigation, the Bank subsequently became aware that the incident impacted files containing certain customer information. The Bank is currently notifying all individuals identified to date, consistent with applicable laws whose information may have been impacted, including Bank customers and others whose information was contained in those files. All impacted individuals will be offered free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. Currently, the Company does not believe that this data security incident will have a material adverse impact on its financial condition or results of operation.
Quarterly Highlights – 3Q22 vs 2Q22
- Tangible book value per share increased by $0.12 from $22.67 per share at June 30, 2022, to $22.79 as of September 30, 2022. The tangible book value increase was due to earnings of $1.52 million for the quarter partially off-set by additional adjustments to accumulated other comprehensive loss of $1.18 million for the third quarter.
- Gross loans increased by $34.5 million or 5.0% for the third quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of 2022. All PPP loan forgiveness was completed during the second quarter and there were no loan balances, interest income or fee income included in third quarter results related to the PPP loan program.
- Overall deposits were down $12.5 million for the third quarter from $790.8 million as of June 30, 2022 to $778.3 million as of September 30, 2022. Balances were down due to less liquidity in the economy due to higher inflation and less government stimulus along with higher market rates and competition for deposit dollars. Ending deposit balances included $10 million in brokered CDs, as of September 30 and June 30, 2022.
- Net interest margin was impacted by increased market pressure on rates as a result of the numerous Fed rate increases during the quarter and year-to-date. While loan growth has remained strong, deposit growth slowed during the third quarter and the Bank added wholesale funds to the balance sheet to fund the growth. As of September 30, 2022 the Bank had $50 million in short-term (less than 30-day maturities) FHLB advances outstanding and an additional $3 million in overnight fed funds outstanding. Net interest margin fell 10 basis points to 3.35% in the third quarter of 2022 from 3.45% in the second quarter of 2022; however, due to the increased volume in earning assets as noted previously, net interest income increased $193 thousand at the Company level.
- The allowance for loan losses to total loans ratio was 1.03% at September 30, 2022, no change from the June 30, 2022 ratio of 1.03%. The reserve ratio stayed consistent for the third quarter based on additional provision expense of $424 thousand directly related to the loan growth as noted above. Credit quality remained strong with non-performing assets to total assets at 0.20% as of September 30, 2022 and no loan charge offs for the third quarter of 2022.
Quarterly Highlights – 3Q22 vs 3Q21
- Tangible book value per share decreased $1.30 per share to $22.79 as of September 30, 2022 compared to $24.09 as of September 30, 2021. The tangible book value decrease was due to an increase in the accumulated other comprehensive loss to $10.1 million as of September 30, 2022 compared to $779 thousand as of September 30, 2021.
- Gross loans of $727.3 million as of September 30, 2022 were up $156.6 million or 27.4% compared to September 30, 2021, which includes PPP loan forgiveness of $17.9 million during the time period. Excluding PPP loans, core loan growth on a year-over-year basis was $174.4 million or 31.6%.
- Total deposits at September 30, 2022 were $778.3 million, an increase of $79.7 million or 11.4% compared to $698.6 million as of September 30, 2021. September 30, 2022 includes $10 million in brokered CD deposits compared to $244 thousand as of September 30, 2021.
- Net interest margin for the third quarter of 2022 was 3.35% at the Bank level compared 3.48% for the third quarter of 2021. Increased cost of funds for the third quarter of 2022 as noted earlier along with no PPP interest and fee income in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $698 thousand in the third quarter of 2021 accounts for most of the variance.
- The loan loss provision for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $424 thousand compared to a recovery of $243 thousand for the third quarter of 2021. The third quarter of 2021 included $550 thousand in recoveries related to an isolated charge-off in the second quarter of 2021, which allowed for the recovery in the third quarter of 2021.
- Non-interest income of $1.18 million for the third quarter of 2022 was down $508 thousand compared to $1.69 million for the third quarter of 2021. Lower refinancing and secondary mortgage activity due to the rising rate environment in 2022 account for most of the decrease.
- Non-interest expense for the third quarter of 2022 was $5.69 million, an increase of $682 thousand compared to $5.01 million for the third quarter of 2021. Increased employee costs and data processing fees to support the growth of the Company account for most of the increase along with year-over-year inflation related to general operating costs.
Dividend
A dividend of $0.04 per share was declared by the Board of Directors on October 21, 2022, for stockholders of record as of November 4, 2022, and payable on November 11, 2022.
Community Heritage Financial, Inc.
Robert E. (BJ) Goetz, Jr.
President & Chief Executive Officer
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DA: Couple guilty of using fake vaccine cards to enter sporting event
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (Gray News) - Authorities in New York report a couple has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges after they used false vaccine cards to attend a sporting event earlier this year.
On Wednesday, Michael Naab, 34, and Amber Naab, 37, were also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and to pay a $125 fine plus a $125 surcharge, according to Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn.
A case was brought against the couple after officials said they presented falsified COVID-19 vaccination cards to attend a Buffalo Bills game knowingly in violation of the vaccination policy at Highmark Stadium on Jan. 15.
As part of the plea, the two are prohibited from attending any Bills games at the current stadium or purchasing season tickets in their names.
The district attorney commended the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, Erie County Department of Health, New York State Department of Health and the Buffalo Bills for their work in the investigation.
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CRESCO, Iowa – The State Auditor’s Office has honored the Howard-Winneshiek Community School District with the Public Innovations and Efficiencies (PIE) Award.
Auditor Rob Sand says he created the PIE program in 2019 to encourage governmental entities to implement cost-cutting measures and spark innovative ideas to save public funds. Sand says PIE participation increased by more than 55% since 2021.
Cost-cutting measures range from shutting off the lights to reduce energy costs, to the creation of policies that reduce travel expenses. Cities and counties were awarded points, based on the number of cost-cutting measures implemented in 2021.
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ATLANTA (AP)Josh Pastner is facing an uncertain future as Georgia Tech’s basketball coach after another losing season and few signs of progress in the Atlantic Coast Conference program.
The Yellow Jackets capped a 15-19 campaign Wednesday with an 89-81 loss to Pittsburgh in the second round of the ACC Tournament at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Pastner was asked if he expected to be retained for an eighth season with the Atlanta school.
“I hope to be at Georgia Tech,” he said. “I love Georgia Tech. I love my job. I have a real passion for it, and I believe in it.”
In the end, Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera and athletic director J Batt, who has only been on the job since October, will make the call.
“They’re in charge, so whatever they say, they’re in charge,” Pastner said. “I hope I can continue to be at Georgia Tech.”
His best season was a surprising run to the ACC Tournament championship during the pandemic-marred 2020-21 season, which also marked Georgia Tech’s lone NCAA appearance in the past 13 seasons. They were knocked out by Loyola in their opening game.
The Yellow Jackets, once one of the ACC’s top programs, haven’t won an NCAA postseason game since 2010.
Pastner left Memphis to take over at Georgia Tech in 2016, following Brian Gregory’s forgettable five-year tenure.
Pastner’s reputation as a high-level recruiter was supposed to raise the Yellow Jackets’ talent level, but he has rarely landed a heralded recruit during his time in Atlanta.
His record at Georgia Tech is 109-113, including a 51-77 mark in the ACC.
“Look, I would tell you that when I got the job, they told me when I came in, and I met with everybody, that it’s going to be … starting from ground zero,” said the 45-year-old Pastner, clearly lobbying for his job. “And they said you’re going to lose so much your first three or four years that you’re going to — we’ve got to have someone that’s going to be ultra-positive because you’re going to lose so much.”
Pastner was just 31 when he took over at Memphis for John Calipari in 2009.
The Tigers kept right on winning, going 130-44 with four NCAA Tournament appearances over Pastner’s first five seasons.
But the program dipped his final two years, posting a 37-29 mark while failing to make the NCAAs. When Georgia Tech came looking for Gregory’s successor, Pastner jumped at the chance.
“Initially they told me they didn’t know if I could handle it because at Memphis, we had won a lot of games,” Pastner recalled. “I said, ‘No, I’m excited about the rebuild.’”
There were finally indications of progress in his fifth season, when the Yellow Jackets made that one-and-done NCAA appearance.
But they slumped to 12-20 last season, including a 5-15 mark in conference play.
This season, Georgia Tech got off to dismal start in the ACC, dropping 12 of their first 13 league contests – including a nine-game losing streak.
Pastner’s team rallied late in the year. The Yellow Jackets won six of their final eight regular-season games, though that was only good enough for a 6-14 mark in the ACC. Then, they knocked off Florida State 61-60 in the opening round of the conference tournament.
Will the strong finish be enough for Pastner to keep his job? Especially when attendance at McCamish Pavilion has plummeted the last two years?
Pastner’s tenure has also been marred by NCAA sanctions linked to a former friend who was accused of recruiting violations. Georgia Tech accepted a postseason ban in 2020, when the season shut down anyway because of COVID-19, and some of its sanctions were overturned on appeal.
Potentially working in Pastner’s favor: The athletic program has struggled financially and is paying a hefty buyout to Geoff Collins, who was fired early last season in just his fourth year as Georgia Tech’s football coach.
Then again, Cabrera showed he was willing to dump a coach who wasn’t getting the job done.
Pastner hopes to get one more year to build on the success of the past month.
“We’ve really finished really well this year,” he said. “I wish we started better.”
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Jury resumes deliberations in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook trial
By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury has resumed deliberations in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ defamation trial over his calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. Jurors resumed their work Friday to decide how much in damages Jones and his company Free Speech Systems should pay to eight victims’ relatives and to an FBI agent who responded to the shooting. Jones was found liable for damages last year. The plaintiffs testified they have been harassed by people who believe one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history was a hoax. Jones has bashed the trial as a “kangaroo court.” | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/07/jury-resumes-deliberations-in-alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial/ | 2022-10-07 16:25:16 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/07/jury-resumes-deliberations-in-alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial/ |
Hires Louise Jordan DipWSET as new Director of Communications
NAPA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintessential, a family-owned and operated import, marketing and sales company that exclusively represents family-owned wineries, is pleased to welcome Louise Jordan DipWSET as its new director of communications. Jordan will work closely with Steve Sr. and Dennis Kreps, owners of Quintessential, to elevate and integrate the company's public relations and marketing capabilities.
"Louise brings with her two decades of global wine and spirits experience across multiple sectors such as sales, public relations, brand management and marketing for more than 100 brands and 13 wine and spirits regions. This gives her a 360-degree approach for creating innovative and impactful communication strategies and programming," says Dennis.
Jordan began her career as a sales representative with Frederick Wildman & Sons in New York City. She also sold wine at the renown Astor Wines & Spirits, and managed wine programming at the International Wine Center while also earning her WSET Diploma with merit before returning to Wildman as the European estates brand manager. She has more than 16 years of public relations and marketing expertise with prominent agencies such as Sopexa USA and Teuwen Communications with their international client portfolios. At E. & J. Gallo Winery, she managed public relations and trade advertising. Prior to joining Quintessential, Jordan ran her own wine and spirits communications company, Last Drop Consulting, working with clients such as Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits to help build its fine wine brands.
"We were drawn to Louise's standout achievements in aligning communications strategy with highly creative ideas that yield impressive results," said Dennis. "We look forward to leveraging her experience for our brands." Such projects include creating a global branding and communications platform for the Alsace wine region, winning the PRNews Media Relations Elite Award for the "Changing the Conversation" campaign for Bordeaux Wines, raising awareness for Gallo's DTC wineries through the company's largest digital campaign with VinePair and launching its first-ever "IG Lives" platform.
To contact Louise Jordan DipWSET, please email ljordan@quintessentialwines.com or call 707.266.5231.
About Quintessential: Headquartered in Napa, Calif., Quintessential is an import, marketing and sales company exclusively representing family-owned wineries. Owned and operated by father and son, Steve Sr. and Dennis Kreps, Quintessential is a leading fine wine importer in the United States, and an early champion of multi-generational producers that value authentic expressions of celebrated terroir from 50 wineries around the world.
Quintessential's portfolio of 50 wineries across the globe: Argentina (Bodegas Bianchi, Pascual Toso); Australia (3 Rings, Kay Brothers, Paringa, Vintage Longbottom); Chile (Matetic Vineyards, TerraPura); France (Andres Brunel, Cachette, Champagne Palmer & Co, Chateau Ferry Lacombe, Gustave Lorentz, La Chapelle du Berry, Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, Maison Bouey); Hungary (Count Karolyi); Italy (Ascevi Luwa, Attilio Ghisolfi, Bel Colle, Cortonesi, Luca Bosio, Tenuta Carobbio, Tropical, Truffle Hunter, Vino dei Fratelli); New Zealand (Forrest, Rongopai); Portugal (Casa Relvas, Quinta do Vallado, Vila Nova); Spain (Bodegas Muriel, Conde de los Andes, Pazo Cilleiro, Vina Eguia); South Africa (Simonsig Estate); United States (New York: Anthony Road ); (California: Atlas Peak, Eponymous, Foppiano Vineyards, Geyser Peak, Ironstone Vineyards, Joseph Thomas, Leaping Horse Vineyards, Lucas & Lewellen Estate, Obsession, Outlot, Samuel Charles, Two Angels, XYZin)
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Email: pr@quintessentialwines.com
Phone: 707.226.8300
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Natalee Holloway suspect to be extradited to US, Andrew Cuomo's comeback and more top headlines
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WESTMINSTER, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Corporation (NYSE: BALL) received notice today of an amended unsolicited mini-tender offer by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC) to purchase up to 2,000,000 Ball common shares, representing approximately .63% of the company's outstanding shares. TRC's amended offer price of $65.25 per share in cash is approximately 1.9% lower than the $66.53 closing price of Ball common shares on June 14, 2022, the last closing price prior to commencement of the amended offer.
Ball does not recommend or endorse TRC's amended unsolicited below-market mini-tender offer and recommends that shareholders not tender their shares because the amended offer is at a price significantly below the current market price of Ball common shares. Ball is not affiliated or associated in any way with TRC, its mini-tender offer or the mini-tender offer documentation.
Ball urges shareholders to obtain current market quotations for their shares, to consult with their broker or financial advisor, and to exercise caution with respect to TRC's mini-tender offer. Ball recommends that shareholders who have not responded to TRC's offer take no action. Ball also recommends that shareholders who have already tendered their shares withdraw those shares in accordance with TRC's offering documents prior to the expiration of the offer.
TRC has made similar below-market mini-tender offers for other companies' shares. Mini-tender offers are devised to seek less than 5% of a company's stock, thereby avoiding many filing, disclosure and procedural requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The SEC has cautioned investors that some bidders making mini-tender offers at below-market prices are "hoping that they will catch investors off guard if the investors do not compare the offer price to the current market price." The SEC's guidance to investors on mini-tender offers is available at http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/minitend.htm.
Ball encourages brokers and dealers, as well as other market participants, to review the SEC's letter regarding broker-dealer mini-tender offer dissemination and disclosure at https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/minitenders/sia072401.htm.
Ball requests that a copy of this press release be included with all distributions of materials relating to TRC's mini-tender offer related to Ball common shares.
About Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation supplies innovative, sustainable aluminum packaging solutions for beverage, personal care and household products for customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ 24,300 people worldwide and reported 2021 net sales of $13.8 billion. For more information, visit www.ball.com, or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Whether your going to the 2022 Wawa Welcome America Party on the Parkway on July 4th or your planning to watch the Jason Derulo concert and grand finale fireworks at home on NBC10 or stream it from a BBQ, you still may be impacted by road closures days ahead of the main event of the 16-day free festival.
Road closures for the July 4th free fun on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia begin Thursday, June 30, at 7 p.m. and end around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5.
Here is a look at the road closures announced by the City of Philadelphia that are needed to set up and breakdown the party and concert:
Road Closure Starting on Thursday, June 30
From Thursday, June 30, at 7 p.m. to around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway inner lanes from Logan Circle to Eakins Oval
Road Closures Starting Sunday, July 3
The following road closures begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, and last until about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- Logan Circle
- Winter Street between 21st Street and Ben Franklin Parkway
Road Closures Starting Monday, July 4
The following roads will be closed starting around 5 a.m. on Monday, July 4, until around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway from 18th Street to Eakins Oval (all lanes)
- Eakins Oval (all lanes)
- Kelly Drive between Eakins Oval and Fairmount Avenue (Kelly Drive inbound closed at Fountain Green Drive beginning at approximately 5 p.m.)
- Rear of Art Museum – Anne d’Harnoncourt Drive
- 2000 to 2100 Winter Street
- MLK Drive from Falls Bridge to Eakins Oval
- Spring Garden Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and 31st Street
- 23rd Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Eakins Oval
The following road closures begin around 5 a.m. on Monday, July 4, and last until around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- 1900 Race Street
- 1800 to1900 Vine Street
- I-676 Off-Ramp at 22nd Street
- I-676 On-Ramp at 22nd Street
- I-76 eastbound Off-Ramp at Spring Garden Street
- Spring Garden Tunnel
- Park Towne Place between 22nd Street and 24th Street
- 22nd Street between Winter Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
- 21st Street between Winter Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
- 20th Street between Arch Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
- 19th Street between Callowhill Street and Cherry Street
The following road closures will begin Monday, July 4, around 1 p.m. and last until around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- All roads from Arch Street to Spring Garden Street, 18th Street to 22nd Street (local access maintained for residents)
- All roads from Arch Street to Fairmount Avenue, 22nd Street to Corinthian Street (local access maintained for residents)
- 16th and 17th Streets, between Arch Street and Spring Garden Street will be closed only if conditions warrant in the interest of public safety
- 1600 to 1700 Benjamin Franklin Parkway will be closed only if conditions warrant in the interest of public safety
The following road closures "due to public safety interests relating to the fireworks show" will begin around 8 p.m. on Monday, July 4, and last until around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5:
- Kelly Drive from Fairmount Avenue to Fountain Green Drive
- Lemon Hill Drive
- Sedgley Drive
- Waterworks Drive
- Poplar Drive
The City warned that Parkway closures could begin earlier on July4th depending on crowd size.
What About Parking in the Area?
"The Philadelphia Parking Authority will not be enforcing meters, kiosks, or residential parking time limits on Monday, July 4 and Tuesday, July 5." the City said in a news release. "Safety regulations, however, will remain in effect. Enforcement of all parking regulations will resume on Wednesday, July 6."
SEPTA Running on Special July 4th Schedule
SEPTA buses, trolleys, its Broad Street and Market Frankford line subway, Regional Rail and the Norristown High Speed Line will be operating on a Sunday schedule on Monday. SEPTA will provide additional train service at night for the fireworks.
Updates from SEPTA can be found at their site or @SEPTA on Twitter.
Taking a Taxi or Rideshare?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America. But the U.S. and Europe remain divided over the landmark law.
Hours before hosting Macron at a state dinner. Biden acknowledged that the law contains “glitches,” but said “there are tweaks we can make” to satisfy France and other European allies.
“The United States makes no apology. And I make no apologies,” Biden said, but changes may be needed to the four-month-old law “to make it easier for European countries to participate.”
Macron has made clear that he and other European leaders are concerned about incentives in the law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, that favor clean energy technology made in North America, including electric vehicles.
The U.S. subsidies would be an enormous setback for European companies, the French leader said, but he added that he is hopeful the dispute can be resolved amicably.
Despite Biden’s conciliatory words, several Democratic members of Congress said they have no plans to revisit the question in new legislation.
Here’s a look at the disagreement with France and other allies over clean energy and jobs.
WHAT IS THE MAIN POINT OF CONTENTION?
New and extended tax credits worth about $375 billion are intended to help the the U.S. clean energy industry, as well as buyers of qualifying electric vehicles made in North America. Democrats included the credits in the expansive climate law as a way to encourage domestic battery and electric vehicle production. But manufacturers in Europe and South Korea, who sell millions of vehicles in the U.S., have threatened to lodge legal complaints with the World Trade Organization.
“The choices that have been made … are choices that will fragment the West” and discourage U.S. investments in Europe, Macron said earlier during his visit to Washington. The climate law and major legislation boosting semiconductors were not properly coordinated with Europe and created “the absence of a level playing field,” he said.
Appearing with Biden at the White House Thursday, Macron was more upbeat. He said the U.S. and France would “resynchronize” their clean energy efforts to ensure there’s no “domino effect” that undermines projects in Europe.
WOULD THE EU HAVE A GOOD ARGUMENT AT THE WTO?
The Europeans likely would have a strong case if the dispute went to the World Trade Organization, said Alan Wolff, former WTO deputy director-general.
WTO rules say that countries can’t simply hand out money for the purchase of domestically made products that face competition from abroad. “That’s where they went wrong,’’ said Wolff, now visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “These are prohibited subsidies as far as I can see, and I haven’t met anybody who reads it differently than I do.’’’
Macron did not threaten to go to the WTO during his White House visit, but even if the Europeans took their case to the Geneva-based organization, it might not accomplish anything. The WTO’s appeals process has not been functioning since late 2019 when the U.S. — to protest what it considered unfair treatment by the WTO — blocked the appointment of new judges to replace those whose terms had expired.
While the Europeans could bring a case, if they won the first round, the United States could appeal and the dispute “would just sit there because there’s no appellate level,’’ Wolff said.
The Biden administration could try to slow down some of the clean energy provisions to ease the European objections, but it’s unclear if that would be a long-term solution, Wolff said, adding that he was speaking “as a trade lawyer” while Biden “is looking at it as a president who wants smooth relations with his closest allies.″
There’s no indication that the administration plans to make such an adjustment.
WILL CONGRESS CHANGE THE LAW IT JUST ADOPTED?
Congressional Democrats have said they have no intention of reconsidering the climate law, which passed after more than a year of negotiations without any Republican support.
“Congress passed a law to rev up the American electric automobile industry, create good-paying American jobs and tackle climate change at the same time. I have no intention of reopening it,’’ Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., one of the law’s main architects, said Thursday.
“Congress values America’s partnership with the EU, but that cannot mean undermining one of the signature elements of our landmark bill,’’ Wyden added in a statement emailed to the AP. “And remember, European nations have spent decades subsidizing their own prized domestic industries, from aerospace to clean energy, and passing regulations and taxes targeted solely at U.S. tech firms in an effort to jumpstart their own digital companies. It’s a bit rich for EU politicians to be scandalized now.”
In an interview, Wyden essentially dared Macron and other EU leaders to take the dispute to the WTO. “We put a special focus on creating jobs in America. There isn’t anything in trade laws that says you can’t put a focus on creating jobs in America,’’ he said.
Other Democrats, including Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, have also said they do not intend to reopen the climate law.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., meanwhile, has urged the Treasury Department to use “maximum flexibility” in implementing the tax credit for Americans buying electric vehicles. South Korean automaker Hyundai stands to lose the credit even as it invests billions of dollars to open its first American EV plant in Georgia.
IS THERE ROOM FOR COMPROMISE?
Biden appeared to indicate willingness to make changes in the law to accommodate Europe, saying U.S. lawmakers did not intend to punish France or other allies.
“”When you write a massive piece of legislation that has … the largest investment in climate change in all history … there’s obviously going to be glitches in it and need to reconcile changes in it,” Biden said Thursday at a joint news conference with Macron.
Biden cited a provision that benefits “anyone who has a free trade agreement” with the U.S., including Canada and Mexico. “Well, that was added by a member of the United States Congress who acknowledges that he just meant allies. He didn’t mean literally free trade agreement. So there’s a lot we can work out,” Biden said.
Biden did not mention names, but the provision boosting electric vehicles made in North America was added by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat who has been both a political ally and foe of Biden. Manchin’s vote was crucial to final approval of the climate law.
A Manchin spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on additional steps it has taken that will lead to more infant formula available in the U.S. under the agency's recent increased flexibilities.
Company (Product Origin): Danone (Ireland)
Product(s): Aptamil First Infant Milk Stage 1 (This infant formula is appropriate for most infants and meets U.S. nutrient requirements, but it may not be suitable for infants born prematurely, or with a low birth weight, infants who had low iron levels at birth, or infants who are at risk for becoming iron deficient due to illness. Parents and caregivers of infants born prematurely, or with a low birth weight, infants who had low iron levels at birth, or infants who are at risk for becoming iron deficient due to illness should check with their child's health care provider to determine if this formula is appropriate for their child. Additional iron may be needed in these instances.)
Type of Formula: General
Estimated Quantity: About 750,000 cans (about 1.3 million pounds or nearly 19 million full-size, 8-ounce bottles)
Availability: Expected in July - the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is evaluating options for getting the products to the U.S. as quickly as possible.
More Information and Where to Find the Products: Expected to be sold at major retailers. In July, consumers can learn more about Aptamil in the U.S. at us.aptamil.com.
The FDA is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of the infant formula products listed above following the review of information provided pertaining to nutritional adequacy and safety, including microbiological testing, labeling and additional information about facility production and inspection history.
The agency is leveraging a number of flexibilities to bolster the supply of products that serve as the sole source of nutrition for many infants while ensuring the infant formula can be used safely and provides adequate nutrition. The FDA remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it.
The FDA issued guidance on May 16 that outlined a process by which the agency would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to further increase the quantity of domestically-produced product for the U.S. market. The agency has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
Ongoing FDA Steps to Increase Availability of Safe, Nutritious Infant Formula
The agency's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the resumption of production at the Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Mich., facility, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also has additional information available at HHS.gov/formula, including information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that safe and nutritious infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Infant Formula Information and Ongoing FDA Efforts to Increase Supply
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- HHS.gov/formula
- HHS.gov/news
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-723-3366
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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Over 3 tons of cocaine seized from semi-submersible in Pacific Ocean
Published: Jul. 1, 2023 at 5:36 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - The secretary of the Navy of Mexico says they intercepted a semi-submersible carrying over 3.5 tons of presumed cocaine in the Pacific Ocean.
The Mexican Navy intercepted the semi-submersible on June 27, the institution announced on Thursday. Five individuals of different nationalities were detained.
Authorities explained in a statement that the vessel is 85 feet with two internal engines, an average speed of eight knots and an autonomy of 20 days.
According to authorities, the seizure is the most significant bust in 2023 in Mexico during the current administration.
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LONDON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Investing in Green Hydrogen 2023 is a highly anticipated event organized by Leader Associates, aimed at bridging the gap between hydrogen projects and capital. The event is scheduled to take place on 14-15 September 2023 at the QEII Centre, London, UK. Its mission is to accelerate the sustainable energy transition towards a hydrogen society for a brighter, more resilient future.
This event is a leading global platform that aims to bring together the entire hydrogen value chain and is expected to attract over 1500 investors, project developers, development banks, financiers, and other stakeholders from over 55 different countries. The two-day conference will focus on hot topics and provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges in financing hydrogen projects, including participation in the IGH Strategic & H2TECH Summit, Hydrogen Impact Investment Awards, Live Exhibition, IMPACT Hydrogen Digital Series, and networking programs.
Investing in Green Hydrogen will bring together prominent stakeholders from various sectors of the hydrogen industry, providing a unique opportunity for investors, project developers, development banks, and financiers to network and learn from leading voices in the field. Ministries and government officials from the UK, Germany, the US, Australia, Chile, Oman, and Portugal will be in attendance, alongside major players in the oil and gas sector such as bp, Engie, Shell, ExxonMobil, E.ON, Equinor, Orsted, Saudi Aramco, and OQ.
Developers, independent power producers (IPPs) and Investors will also be represented, including EDP Renewables, CWP Global, InterContinental Energy, Mitsubishi, and ACWA Power, Adani Group, Hy24 Partners.
In addition, H2TECH and value chain leaders such as A.P. Moller – Maersk, Chiyoda Corporation, Air Liquide, Air Products, Technip Energies, and Chart Industries will also be present, providing their insights on the latest technological advancements and business trends in the hydrogen industry.
Green Hydrogen is becoming increasingly important in the global energy transition and is a priority for numerous countries, energy leaders, and investors. Investing in Green Hydrogen 2023 offers an opportunity for attendees to learn about government strategies to promote the green hydrogen economy, the latest projects, scale-up opportunities, and the updated hydrogen supply chain.
To be part of the hydrogen revolution, register and learn more about the event at www.investinginhydrogen.com/
The event organizer, Leader Associates, is an international event organizer committed to clean energy and environmental sustainability. The organization stands at the forefront of the clean energy revolution, making renewable energy available and affordable through practical business platforms and non-business programs.
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<u>NFL DIVISIONAL ROUND PLAYOFFS</u>
GIANTS at EAGLES
Saturday, 8:15 p.m., Eagles by 7 ½, 48
HANK’S HONEYS: The Eagles are the better team but not by more than a touchdown. The Giants have all the momentum coming in. Playoff games between divisional rivals tend to be closer and the hook makes this a Giant lean. The Giants, suddenly full of confidence and bravado, have shown they can win games in more than just one way now that Daniel Jones and the passing game has stepped up. While he’s not going to have the kind of day he had against the woeful Vikings’ secondary, Jones’ ability to keep the chains moving, combined with Saquon Barkley’s production on early downs, can shorten the game and keep this one tight.
The Eagles were a dominant team before injuries to QB Jalen Hurts and OT Lane Johnson but haven’t been the same since drubbing the Giants, 48-22, just over a month ago when the Giants’ D was riddled with injuries. The bye week was crucial to the Eagles, giving Hurts’ shoulder an extra week to heal. But will he be rusty? With Johnson hoping to get back in the lineup, Philly’s offensive line can neutralize the strength of the Giants’ defense as C Jason Kelce goes up against Dexter Lawrence. That may be enough to back the Birds on the money line but not against a motivated Giants team that has been beating the spread all year.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Giants and the under.
COWBOYS at 49ERS
Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Niners by 3 ½, 46 ½
HANK’S HONEYS: Forget the recency bias from the Cowboys’ perfect game in Tampa. The 49ers are the most complete team in the playoffs and should be able to exploit each one of the Cowboys’ weaknesses. Their run defense is even better than last season when they limited Dallas to 77 yards rushing in a 23-17 wild card win. If Dak Prescott has to stand back in the pocket and throw all day, odds are he’ll revert to his 15 INT ways. OT Jason Peters’ hip injury weakens the O-line and even if he can play, Nick Bosa has had good success against the veteran in the past. The Cowboys managed to cover up their holes in the secondary against the Bucs but with no run game to worry about, that wasn’t hard. However, Dan Quinn’s defensive scheme can leave gaps against the run and the Niners have the personnel to make the Boys pay. There hasn’t been any dip in the 49ers’ play since Brock Purdy took over. You can’t say that about the Cowboys and their week-to-week roller coaster. Can they bring their A-Game two weeks in a row? Hasn’t happened a lot.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: 49ers and the over.
JAGUARS at CHIEFS
Saturday, 4:30 p.m., Chiefs by 8 ½, 53
HANK’S HONEYS: It’s time the magic runs out on the Jaguars against a well-rested, playoff-tested Chiefs team. Andy Reid has been money with a week to prepare for an opponent and, while it works both ways, he has a lot of insight into Doug Pederson after coaching with him for 10 years. There are reasons to back the Jaguars for sure. Trevor Lawrence has come into his own and will be facing a less-than-stellar K.C. pass defense. The Jags also know they’re never out of a game. The Chiefs won the regular season meeting 27-17 when the Jaguars weren’t playing this brand of football. However, let’s look at that game in particular. The Chiefs were minus-three in turnovers and coasted to a 20-0 lead before letting Jacksonville back in it. Reid tended to take his foot off the gas in those spots this season but he won’t against these comeback kids. He’s much more aggressive in the postseason. Look, also, for Reid to take advantage of the Jags’ trouble covering tight ends with Patrick Mahomes hooking up with Travis Kelce for chunk plays.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Chiefs and the under.
BENGALS at BILLS
Sunday, 3 p.m., Bills by 4 ½, 49
HANK’S HONEYS: Our advice is to bet the over and enjoy the show as two elite QBs battle it out in what could be a who-has-it-last kind of game. In that event, take the points. The Bills have been a bit over-valued all year and are just 8-8-1 ATS with a 3-5 home ATS record while going 7-1 SU. Not true of the Bengals, whose 7-2 away mark ATS is second only to the Giants. We got a brief glimpse of this matchup before the Damar Hamlin scare and saw that Joe Burrow can move the ball against the Buffalo secondary with a 158.3 passer rating after starting 4-for-4 for 52 yards and a TD. There is certainly concern with three starters missing from his O-line but Burrow has been rising above that. He will probably take some sacks but he can also make plays that were there for the Dolphins last week with his quick-release mobility. Josh Allen’s INT woes resurfaced against the Dolphins last week when he got too aggressive again. If he doesn’t clean that up, it could be a deciding factor. The Bengals are plus-seven in turnover ratio in their last nine games.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Bengals and the over.
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WEEK’S BEST BET: 49ers. Purdy, Purdy, Purdy good.
LAST WEEK: 3-3 ATS, 2-2-2 OVER/UNDER
BEST BETS: 0-1
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Offers Are Due December 6, 2022; Auction to Be Held December 8, 2022
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilco Streambank (www.HilcoStreambank.com) announced that it is seeking offers to acquire a proprietary software platform featuring a diamond cut score calculator and jewelry configurator utilized by a jewelry e-commerce retailer. The available assets include software code for the unique "Cut Score Calculator," Jewelry Configurator, Web Inventory Scraper, e-commerce applications, and administrator dashboards; documentation cataloguing the development of the software; and additional assets.
Offers to acquire the software platform and related assets are due by December 6, 2022, and an auction will be held on December 8, 2022.
"This software puts gem selection and jewelry design in the hands of the customers," commented Hilco Streambank CEO, Gabe Fried. He continued, "More and more people are buying their diamonds and luxury jewelry online. These tools make the experience user friendly so that customers can get all the advantages of the in-store experience online. The Cut Score Calculator allows customers to compare diamonds with varying attributes, and the Jewelry Configurator allows them to design their own product in 3D. The software platform is sure to attract attention from jewelry ecommerce retailers and those seeking to enhance the customer experience of purchasing jewelry online."
The software supported the business of Enchanted Diamonds which, at its peak, generated more than $12 million in annual sales.
For more information, click here or contact Hilco Streambank.
The sale is being conducted by Salvatore LaMonica, Esq., solely in his capacity as the Chapter 7 Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Online Diamonds International Corp. (d/b/a Enchanted Diamonds) and is subject to approval of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
About Hilco Streambank: Hilco Streambank is a market leading advisory firm specializing in intellectual property disposition and valuation. Having completed numerous transactions including sales in publicly reported Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy cases, private transactions, and online sales through IPv4.Global, Hilco Streambank has established itself as the premier intermediary in the consumer brand, internet, and telecom communities. Hilco Streambank is part of Northbrook, Illinois based Hilco Global, the world's leading authority on maximizing the value of business assets by delivering valuation, monetization and advisory solutions to an international marketplace. Hilco Global operates more than twenty specialized business units offering services that include asset valuation and appraisal, retail and industrial inventory acquisition and disposition, real estate and strategic capital equity investments.
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in response to the Department of Homelands Security's plan to deal with an expected surge of illegal migration when Title 42 ends.
"For months, the Biden administration has been pressed to present a plan to deal with even greater surges of illegal immigration after Title 42 is formally ended on May 11. Today, the Department of Homeland Security finally rolled out a 'plan' that amounts to the same failed policies that resulted in record levels of illegal immigration, only on steroids.
"Today's announcement by the Biden administration, billed as 'sweeping new actions to manage regional migration,' does not even make a pretense that it is designed to prevent or deter even larger numbers of migrants from entering the country. Rather, it is a massive scheme to process migrants and disburse them around the country as quickly as possible.
"The effort to 'manage' even greater levels of illegal migration further abuses parole authority to admit people who do not have visas and creates new regional processing centers that serve as assembly lines to move people into the United States. By the administration's own estimates, the number of migrants attempting to enter the country when Title 42 ends could reach as high as 18,000 a day – or about 540,000 per month.
"DHS's plan claims that migrants who cross the border illegally will be subject to expedited removal, but that is a hollow threat that is designed to convince the American public that they are attempting to enforce immigration laws, which they have adamantly refused to do since the day President Biden took office. It is not a plan to deter illegal entry. In reality, it is an open invitation to foreign nationals to make specious claims for asylum, under which they will be allowed to enter the United States while they wait as long as ten years for a hearing on their cases.
"The plan also includes expanded abuse of presidential parole authority to admit people from a growing number of countries who have family members in the United States. Parole is not a lawful pathway for immigrants. We already have that—it's called a visa.
"The DHS plan amounts to a massive and illegal scheme designed to accommodate unlimited numbers of migrants in defiance of the department's statutory obligation to deter and prevent illegal immigration. It is the same failed strategy that has already resulted in more than 7 million illegal entries in just the first 26 months of this administration. Expanding these policies, as the DHS plan proposes, will do irreparable damage to the country that will be felt for generations to come."
Contact: Ron Kovach, 202-328-7004 or rkovach@fairus.org.
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Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
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LONDON, UK — The death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 means that her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales, is the new British king.
The palace announced she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse.
Prior to her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, Elizabeth expressed her "sincere wish" that Charles' wife, Camilla be known as "Queen Consort" when Charles ascended to the throne. The request tied up a loose end that had hung over the House of Windsor since Charles’ divorce from the popular Princess Diana. It was also seen as an effort to safeguard a smooth transition.
Because she is not a member of the royal family by blood, Camilla has no claim to the throne and will not become queen if Charles were to pass away or step down. It was the same for Prince Philip when he was alive and married to Elizabeth.
What is the royal order of succession after Charles?
1. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge: first-born child of Charles and Princess Diana.
2. Prince George: first-born child of William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
3. Princess Charlotte: second-born child of William and Catherine.
4. Prince Louis: third-born child of William and Catherine. Until a few years ago, Louis would have been ahead of Charlotte because preference was given to male siblings regardless of when they were born. The Succession to the Crown Act, passed in 2013, removed that rule.
It’s a safe bet that nobody below this point on the list will ever take the throne. William and his three children, his grandchildren and so-on would either have to pass away or abdicate their right to the monarchy. Abdicating the throne has only happened once in history. And once George becomes a father, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will all be ahead of Charlotte in the line of succession.
5. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex: second-born child of Charles and Diana. Although he and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stepped away from their royal duties in 2020 and moved to the U.S., Harry remains in the line of succession.
6. Archie: first-born child of Harry and Meghan.
7. Lilibet “Lili” Diana: second-born child of Harry and Meghan.
8. Prince Andrew, Duke of York: third child of Queen Elizabeth II. He takes this spot ahead of his older sister, Princess Anne, who was born before the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act.
9. Princess Beatrice: first child of Prince Andrew.
10. Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi: daughter of Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
11. Princess Eugenie: second child of Prince Andrew.
12. August Philip: son of Princess Eugenie and husband, Jack Brooksbank
13. Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex: fourth child of Queen Elizabeth II
14. James, Viscount Severn: second child of Prince Edward. Because his older sister was born before the 2013 succession act, he takes this spot.
15. Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor: first child of Prince Edward
16. Princess Anne, The Princess Royal: second child of Queen Elizabeth II
17. Peter Phillips: first child of Princess Anne
18. Savannah Phillips: first child of Peter and Autumn Phillips
19. Isla Phillips: second child of Peter and Autumn Phillips
20. Zara Tindall: second child of Princess Anne
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BENGALURU, India, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- H&M Foundation is expanding the inclusive circularity in the textile industry through Saamuhika Shakti by welcoming two new partners that are developing Circular Textiles Waste Models, with waste pickers playing the lead role.
India accounts for 8.5% of global textile waste generation. Out of total textile waste circulation in the country, domestic post-consumer collection contributes 51%, 42% comes from pre-consumer sources, and 7% is imported post-consumer waste. Innovations in textile waste management are emerging, but as of yet, the economic value chain bypasses the waste picker.
"Our goal is to generate additional income streams through textile waste. Through this initiative, we are promoting inclusive circularity and improving waste pickers' livelihood opportunities." says Maria Bystedt, Strategy Lead H&M Foundation.
The two new partners are Stichting Enviu Nederland (Enviu) and Intellecap's Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF). Together with the existing collective, they will include waste workers already within the Saamuhika Shakti program into two work streams:
A micro-entrepreneurship with CAIF
CAIF will lead the waste-entrepreneurship model and use Bengaluru's existing Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs) as a network of hyperlocal centers to aggregate and segregate post-consumer textile waste. There, CAIF will work with 6-7 waste entrepreneurs running the DWCCs to adopt the Circular Textiles Waste Model, by building textile waste sorting capacity at their centers and training the waste sorters and waste pickers in the handling of this kind of waste. Their intervention will focus on enabling textile waste collection, sorting, and selling to generate revenue for waste pickers.
A circular B2B linen enterprise with Enviu
Enviu will work to create a circular B2B textile service model, starting with the hotel industry. Waste hotel linen will be recycled and brought back into the loop as new towels, integrating waste pickers in the process. By December 2023, Enviu looks to collect and divert from landfills close to 30-35 tons of cotton waste sorted by waste workers. Enviu also aims to employ waste workers in alternative livelihood opportunities in the hotels' laundry, logistics, and warehousing services.
This new textile recycling setup within H&M Foundation's initiative Saamuhika Shakti is contributing to a larger multi-year textile-recycling program across India, adding on a social perspective and ensuring that the voices of waste pickers are part of the equation. The larger program is also seed funded by IKEA Foundation.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Transgender youth in Tennessee would be banned from receiving gender-affirming care under legislation currently headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who has voiced support for the bill.
House lawmakers voted 77-16 on Thursday, with three Democrats joining their Republican colleagues to pass the bill.
Civil rights groups have vowed an immediate lawsuit if and when the bill becomes law — setting up the potential for a lengthy legal battle over the coming months.
“These children do not need these medical procedures to be able to flourish as adults,” said House Majority Leader William Lamberth. “They need mental health treatment. They need love and support, and many of them need to be able to grow up to become the individuals that they were intended to be.”
Across the United States, state lawmakers have introduced legislation attacking gender-affirming medical care for young people even as such services have been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and are endorsed by major medical associations.
Similar bills have advanced in Nebraska, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Dakota. In Utah, the Republican governor recently signed a transgender medical ban into law. Meanwhile, a federal judge who blocked Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming care for minors is now considering whether to strike down the law as unconstitutional. A similar ban in Alabama has also been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
If enacted in Tennessee, doctors would be prohibited from providing gender-affirming care to anyone under the age of 18, including prescribing puberty blockers and hormones — and could even be penalized.
However, the legislation spells out exceptions, including allowing doctors to perform these medical services if the patient’s care had begun prior to July 1, 2023 — which is when the ban is proposed to go into effect. The bill then states that that care must end by March 31, 2024.
The bill then allows the attorney general to investigate health care providers who may violate the statute, which carries a $25,000 penalty.
“We have taken away a woman’s right to determine her health care and her health outcomes — and now we’ve gone to children,” said Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson, referencing the state’s strict abortion ban that was allowed to go into effect last year.
“If a doctor and a family feels that taking hormone blockers is going to be healthy and productive and life-saving for these children, that’s a decision that should be made,” she added.
Tennessee in particular has been caught in the center of the conflict over transgender youth medical care — ever since video surfaced on social media last year of a Nashville doctor touting that gender-affirming procedures are “huge money makers” for hospitals.
The video prompted calls by Tennessee’s Republican leaders for an investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical Center, but to date, it’s unknown if any authorities have done so. The private nonprofit hospital said it had provided only a handful of gender-affirming surgeries to minors over the years but has put a temporary pause on the procedures to review its policies.
On average, Vanderbilt University Medical Center says it provided five gender-affirming surgeries to minors every year since its transgender clinic opened in 2018. All were over the age of 16 and had parental consent, and none received genital procedures.
But not every red state has enacted such bans with gusto.
In Wyoming, a bill stalled in a legislative committee earlier this week amid worries that health insurers would run afoul of federal law by denying coverage for gender-conforming procedures.
The bill, which had passed the state Senate, failed 5-2 in a House committee after lawmakers removed the insurance coverage prohibition. To succeed now, it would need to be revived on the state House floor before a Monday deadline — a challenging prospect.
Wyoming, despite having one of the most Republican-dominated legislatures, has a long tradition of skepticism toward culture war bills.
“It’s a bill that seeks to demonize, it’s a bill that already knows who its enemies are. And it’s not a bill that’s about solving a Wyoming problem,” Sara Burlingame, director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Wyoming Equality and a former state lawmaker herself, told the committee.
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s House Republicans on Thursday also advanced legislation that would severely limit where drag shows can take place. A slightly different version had passed the GOP-led Senate chamber earlier this month, meaning lawmakers must wrestle out the difference before it can go to Gov. Lee’s desk.
Similar to the gender-affirming medical youth care bill, Lee is expected to sign the legislation.
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Associated Press writer Mead Gruver contributed to this report from Cheyenne, Wyoming. | https://who13.com/health/ap-health/ap-trans-youth-care-ban-headed-to-tennessee-governors-desk/ | 2023-02-23 23:08:35 | 0 | https://who13.com/health/ap-health/ap-trans-youth-care-ban-headed-to-tennessee-governors-desk/ |
Back Joel Embiid, 76ers as underdogs against Nikola Jokic’s Nuggets in MVP matchup
Behind a big performance from its NBA MVP frontrunner, Philadelphia will cash as an underdog Monday night
Playoff positioning. MVP votes. Late-season momentum. Bragging rights.
There’s a lot on the line Monday night in Denver, where Joel Embiid and the suddenly slumping Philadelphia 76ers wrap up a four-game road trip against Nikola Jokic and the Western Conference-leading Nuggets.
Oddsmakers installed Denver as a solid home favorite, which is understandable for multiple reasons.
Philadelphia has dropped consecutive games and three of its last four. Point guard James Harden is questionable with an Achilles injury that has sidelined the NBA’s assist leader for the past three contests. And the Nuggets are coming off a 23-point win over the Milwaukee Bucks, who have the league’s best record.
So we’re recommending fading Philadelphia in Monday’s marquee NBA matchup, right? Not exactly.
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76ers vs. Nuggets Prediction: Analysis
He’s too modest to admit it, but Nikola Jokic would love to become the first player in nearly three decades to win three straight NBA MVPs. But nobody craves the league’s top individual award more than 76ers big man Joel Embiid.
And unlike the soft-spoken Jokic, Embiid isn’t shy about admitting it.
The 7-foot center desperately wants the career validation that comes with winning an MVP. And it absolutely fueled Embiid back on Jan. 28, when he tallied 47 points and 18 rebounds in a 126-119 come-from-behind home victory over Jokic and the Nuggets.
At the time, Jokic was the MVP frontrunner, thanks to an incredible midseason stretch in which he compiled monster stats and numerous triple-doubles.
But just when it looked like Embiid would serve as Jokic’s MVP bridesmaid for a third straight season, March hit. That’s when Embiid went on a torrid run of his own, posting 10 consecutive 30-point games to overtake Jokic as the odds-on MVP favorite.
Embiid’s MVP position was enhanced by the fact that Philadelphia went 8-2 during his scoring streak while Jokic and the Nuggets hit a rough patch, losing four in a row and five of six.
However, now the Sixers are struggling, Denver has bounced back with three consecutive SU and ATS wins, and the MVP odds gap between Embiid and Jokic has narrowed again.
Which brings us to Monday’s 76ers-Nuggets rematch in the Mile High City: Embiid wants this game — and wants it badly. So much so that he was probably looking ahead to it Saturday in Phoenix, where he had “just” 28 points and 10 rebounds in Philadelphia’s ugly 125-105 loss to the Suns.
» READ MORE: Joel Embiid’s run of dominance has him as MVP favorite over Nikola Jokic
Crazy as it sounds, the 28-point performance was Embiid’s second-lowest scoring output in 13 March games.
Knowing full well that his lead has shrunk in the NBA MVP odds race, Embiid is going to play like a man possessed Monday. And he knows putting up big numbers isn’t going to be enough to solidify his MVP case.
Embiid also needs to contain Jokic to some degree (as he did in the first meeting) and lead the 76ers to a victory (as he did in the first meeting). And if he can do all that without Harden, who had 17 points and 13 assists in the first Denver-Philly clash? All the better for Embiid.
What about the fact that the Sixers let a nine-point fourth-quarter lead slip away in Friday’s 120-112 loss at Golden State as a 4.5-point underdog?
Which was followed by another fourth-quarter debacle Saturday in Phoenix, where Philadelphia watched a six-point deficit turn into a 20-point loss as a 1.5-point underdog?
Can’t put any lipstick on those two pigs, that’s for sure. But everyone rushing to lay the points with Denver on Monday because of the Sixers’ dreadful performances over the weekend are forgetting a few important facts.
Fact No. 1: Philadelphia hasn’t lost three straight games in nearly four months (the last time was Nov. 30-Dec. 5 — also the last time the team lost three in a row on the road).
Fact No. 2: The 76ers, who continue to sport the NBA’s second-best point spread record, haven’t had a three-game ATS slide since mid-January — a stretch of 31 games.
Fact No. 3: Philadelphia has been an underdog in 22 games this season. Number of instances the Sixers have lost — let alone failed to cover the spread — three straight times as an underdog? Zero.
So we’re banking on Embiid delivering another signature performance and helping Philly at least get inside this number — if not post an outright win.
76ers vs. Nuggets Odds (via FanDuel):
Point spread: 76ers (+5.5, -108) vs. Nuggets (-5.5, -112)
Moneyline: 76ers (+190) vs. Nuggets (-230)
Total: 228.5 points
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BOSTON — Maybe he will run a marathon. He probably won’t be coaching. For now, Patrice Bergeron is content to be the “Uber driver for the family,” and that’s a pretty good feeling.
A soon-to-be Hall of Famer who centered the first line on the best team in hockey during his final season, Bergeron announced on Tuesday that he would not return next season.
It wasn’t that his skills were slipping: He won his second straight Selke Trophy as the league’s top forward— and sixth overall — and led the Bruins to the most wins and most points in NHL history. But his desire to prepare for the games was.
“It was taking a lot longer now. I couldn’t just put the equipment on and jump on the ice,” he said.
“I wanted to play the game at the highest level that I could, and felt like I wanted to kind of leave on top of my game,” Bergeron told a gathering of reporters, with representatives from ownership and the front office also in attendance for the news conference in the aptly named Legends restaurant. “I just knew it was time.”
Bergeron scored 427 goals with 613 assists in 19 seasons with the Bruins, who selected him in the second round of the 2003 draft. He added 50 more goals and 78 points in the playoffs, leading the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final three times, and scoring twice — one of them short-handed — in the Game 7 clincher against Vancouver. The French-speaking native of the Quebec City suburbs also won two Olympic gold medals with Canada.
Bruins president Cam Neely said the team hadn’t made any plans yet to honor their former captain, but retiring his No. 37 is “a no-brainer.” “We’ll figure out a time to do that,” Neely said.
The front office and coaching staff will also discuss the new captain. Brad Marchand is the longest-tenured member of the roster, and he has worn the alternate’s “A” since 2020, when Bergeron was elevated to the captaincy with the departure of Zdeno Chara. (Bergeron noted that Chara didn’t exactly let himself go, running the Boston Marathon last year.)
Neely said he and the rest of the Bruins management tried to talk Bergeron out of retiring, with no luck.
“The recurring theme was always that you’re going to know when it’s time. And it just felt like it was,” Bergeron said. “I’m a very intuitive guy. I feel like I always listen to my instincts and my heart, and it just felt like it was time for me to move on. Unfortunately, I wish I could play forever and never have to do this. But, as you know, eventually you have to move on. The body tells you something sometimes.”
Bergeron, 38, led the Bruins to the 2011 Stanley Cup championship and two other trips to the Final. He considered retirement last summer, but came back on a one-year deal and helped Boston win the Presidents Trophy with the NHL’s best record ever.
But after a first-round loss in the playoffs, though, he went through the thought process again.
“When the wound is fresh, you can’t make rational decisions. You have to really make sure you think about things or at least give yourself time to let it come to you, and I felt like that’s what I did,” Bergeron said. “There was a part of me that, yes, wanted to come back early on. ... Once I took a step back and I realized everything that I was fortunate to experience and live as a hockey player and as a person, I felt very lucky and grateful.”
Bergeron didn’t spend much time reminiscing about his career highlights. But he was asked about one moment that proved to be formative: The concussion that ended his 2007-08 season after 10 games and left him appreciating the game even more.
“Things happen for a reason,” he said. “Of course, I’d like to change that moment, but at the same time I wouldn’t because it made me stronger and made me realize how thankful I am and grateful to be able to play. It took that away from me for quite some time, so for every time in harder days or dog days of winter when it’s dark, I always try to go and appreciate practice, or a workout, or obviously the games. So it’s taught me a lot.”
Bergeron’s retirement brought tributes from the Boston locker room and across the league.
“What you’ve built here is special,” Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy said in a video posted by the team. “I promise I’ll do everything I can to take care of it. I love you. I know we’ll be friends forever, and I want to wish you the best of luck in your next chapter with your beautiful family.”
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(NEXSTAR) – A new territory of the Burger Kingdom was recently unearthed at a mall in Delaware.
Delaware resident Jonathan Pruitt first shared a photo of the discovery — a seemingly intact albeit hidden-from-view Burger King restaurant, sealed off from the rest of Wilmington’s Concord Mall — on Facebook in April.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Pruitt’s picture of the so-called “vintage” Burger King has since been widely shared across Twitter and Reddit by folks hungry for a bite of nostalgia.
“It’s unbelievable how a random photo I posted 2 months ago on a local Facebook page goes viral all over the internet,” Pruitt remarked on his Facebook page.
Pruitt, an HVAC technician, explained to Nexstar that he was actually working in the mall the day he took the photo.
“I was walking through the mall, the door was opened,” Pruitt said of the unmarked entrance to the former restaurant. “The owners told me about it, but they would never let anybody in there.”
The restaurant, which is hidden behind a wall at the Concord Mall, had actually been operational until 2009, the mall’s general manager tells Nexstar. But the dining room’s aesthetic gives ‘80s and ‘90s vibes, with its parquet flooring, angular wall adornments and pastel-topped tables and chairs.
Even a representative for Burger King called it “gloriously retro.”
“Though we aren’t able to confirm details regarding this location, we have verified that the gloriously retro design and décor lines up closely with Burger King restaurants operating in the 1980s and 1990s and this is in fact a former Burger King restaurant,” a representative for the chain wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar.
Tom Dahlke, the current general manager of the Concord Mall, told Nexstar that his company was aware of the space prior to purchasing the mall in 2020. But it’s been sealed off — somewhat — for over a decade.
“We have a wall built up, as most common malls do, and there’s a door to it and everything else. It’s not like it’s buried,” Dahlke said.
The space, however, is clearly off-limits to mall guests. Video shared by the local government shows the outer wall currently displays a promotional mural for the mall. Beside it is an unmarked door.
“We’re hoping to lease it,” Dahlke told Nexstar.
In the meantime, social-media users are having a whopper of a time sharing their thoughts on the discovery. One even claims she used to work in the mall in 2019, at which time the Burger King was used as a storage space for other, functioning businesses.
“This place is f—ing terrifying,” the Twitter user, who goes by @loserskwaddd, remarked in a 2019 video she recorded while inside the space.
Pruitt, however, told Nexstar he thought the space was pretty “cool,” but admitted he didn’t step any further into the dining area.
“I was actually worried [the mall owners] wouldn’t like it, you know?” he said.
After the picture went viral, Pruitt got a phone call from the general manager, who “couldn’t thank me enough” for posting the image.
“Obviously, the reaction to all of this going viral is a great opportunity for Concord Mall to get recognition,” general manager Dahlke told Nexstar. | https://www.ksn.com/news/dont-miss-this/see-it-vintage-burger-king-restaurant-found-behind-wall-at-delaware-mall/ | 2022-07-02 19:10:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/dont-miss-this/see-it-vintage-burger-king-restaurant-found-behind-wall-at-delaware-mall/ |
Leading Smart Technology Companies Show Improved Customer Engagement Driven by Adtarg's Data Insights
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WeBranding Global announced today the company's newest version of Adtarg, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered marketing platform, will debut at the Consumer Technology Association's CES 2023. With millions generated in seed funding this year, the company's industry-leading Customer Insight System (CIS) now includes Market Listening System (MLS) and Voice of the Customer (VoC), designed to improve customer experiences and enhance e-commerce marketing strategies for global brands.
Adtarg is a revolutionary SaaS platform powered by AI that is helping companies accelerate growth and compete in the global tech ecosystem. It captures and analyzes big data, provides curated customer insights, and accelerates innovation in customer engagement products and services designed to strengthen brand loyalty and improve customer satisfaction.
WeBranding Global's innovative digital marketing tool is designed for global brands and supports digital transformation, while improving data-driven decision making to enhance brand strategy and customer lifecycle management. Companies use Adtarg to uncover powerful data insights, strengthen brand loyalty, enhance product marketing results, and engage customers across global markets and digital platforms.
The platform's 3-in-1 system not only improve social media monitoring in real time, tracking brand mentions and delivering competitor analysis for a more comprehensive view of the digital marketplace, but increases customer engagement with data-driven user profiles that improve marketing strategy. With Adtarg (AI)-powered marketing platform, brands can also improve data collection and analysis across e-commerce platforms, from Amazon to Walmart, to better manage customer feedback.
"Adtarg uses the latest AI-powered digital marketing and data analytics technologies to help brands stand out in the marketplace and solve the problems that come from serving customers around the world, across different cultures, time zones, and borders," said Rebecca Ding, founder and CEO, WeBranding Global. "WeBranding Global is helping companies build stronger, more personal relationships with customers across e-commerce platforms and improving product satisfaction and customer retention success. Adtarg helps businesses grow with the power of data, creating more unified experiences people love."
Adtarg allows companies to better track and respond to customer patterns and insights across digital channels. Backed by machine learning and big data analytics, the SaaS digital marketing platform delivers customized, real-time customer expectation, experience, preference, and aversion data. With more customer-driven marketing plans, companies are improving brand development and shopping experiences online. Trusted by the world's valuable brands, Adtarg delivers real-time data insights, driven innovation, identifies gaps in the market and helps companies influence customer behaviors and strengthen brand loyalty across channels.
CES 2023 visitors can experience the hands-on Adtarg exhibit and receive a free brand consultation at WeBranding Global's booth #9272 at the LVCC North Hall, from January 5-8, 2023. WeBranding Global will showcase leading technology companies from around the world who use Adtarg to build responsive, personal brand experiences online.
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Partnerships with Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism provide exclusive, significant cost savings to new and existing Gong customers
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gong, the Reality Platform™ leveraging artificial intelligence to transform go-to-market teams, today announced new partnerships with leading data and sales intelligence providers Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism. Gong will integrate with the partners' robust contact enrichment capabilities to provide sales professionals with powerful insights and autonomous actions to close more deals faster and with less effort. The new features are expected to be available this fall.
Additionally, available immediately, Gong customers* can receive exclusive discounts off the list price from each of the partners.
Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism provide critical prospect and customer contact data that enable go-to-market teams to connect with confidence and increase the quality of conversations. Combining this data with Gong's Reality Platform will provide sales professionals with hundreds of millions of verified contacts at their fingertips and the intelligence necessary to understand who should be contacted and when within the context of every deal.
"Communicating with the right people at the right time leads to more meaningful, high-value conversations," said Gong President and COO Kelly Breslin Wright. "Integrating our platform with Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism will empower revenue teams to connect quickly and confidently with the right influencers and decision-makers to unlock more revenue."
When a sales rep is managing a deal in Gong, the Reality Platform will automatically identify optimal contacts at an organization that should be engaged to improve the likelihood of deal success. The platform will automatically notify the sales rep, surface contact information for the prospects, and, with one click, generate a personalized email based on the context of the deal for the sales professional to send. By bringing together Gong with these leaders, Gong will provide customers with significantly better coverage, increasing the hit rate of finding the most relevant and accurate contact.
"These partnerships will help companies increase the efficiency and productivity of their customer-facing teams," said Breslin Wright. "Importantly, the partnerships will also deliver incredible value to our customers by providing exclusive savings during this time of economic uncertainty."
New and existing Gong customers can receive a significant discount off the list price for each of the partners*. Full details of this limited-time commercial offer can be found here: Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism. These exclusive deals are available immediately.
These partnerships will further augment Gong's industry-leading customer engagement features. Gong was named a leader in revenue operations and intelligence by Forrester Research in a recent report that recommended, "Companies that want to optimize buyer engagement and seller performance with a provider that has a proven track record should consider Gong."
*Available to new and existing Gong customers who are not current customers of Apollo, Clearbit, and Cognism.
Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential. The Reality Platform™ autonomously empowers customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, enabling revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for repeatable winning outcomes. More than 3,000 innovative companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow trust Gong to power their business reality. For more information, please visit www.gong.io.
Apollo.io is the leading B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform, trusted by over 160,000 companies and more than one million users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales teams with easy access to contact data for over 220 million contacts, along with tools to engage with these contacts in one single platform. By helping sales professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers.
Clearbit is a leading go-to-market intelligence solution that enables B2B teams to leverage real-time company data to create demand, capture intent, and optimize pipeline. Over 1,500 customers in organizations like Segment, Asana, and Atlassian use Clearbit's Data Activation Platform and flexible integrations to grow faster and smarter. Founded in 2015, Clearbit is backed by Zetta Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and First Round Capital. For more information, visit www.clearbit.com.
Cognism is a leader in premium sales intelligence, setting a new standard for data quality and compliance, trusted by 1,800+ revenue teams worldwide. Cognism helps businesses connect with their dream prospects by providing premium contact, company and event information, including firmographics, technographics, sales trigger events, intent data, verified business emails and phone-verified mobile numbers.
Next level GDPR & CCPA compliance, combined with innovative technology and integrations with leading CRM and sales engagement partners, make Cognism the number one choice for businesses looking to create a predictable pipeline, find their next best business opportunity and overcome global compliance barriers. For more information on Cognism's intuitive premium sales intelligence platform powered by world-leading data, compliance and targeting, please visit www.cognism.com.
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PORTLAND, Maine — UPDATE
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said at 9 a.m. Wednesday that the man had been safely located.
ORIGINAL STORY
Police issued a Silver Alert for a missing Portland man on Tuesday after he was last seen on Nov. 17.
The man was last seen leaving his group home on Forest Avenue on Nov. 17 and did not return, according to a press release issued by the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Police describe him as a 5-foot 10-inches tall white male who is 200 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes, and a goatee.
He typically wears a gray fanny pack and sweatpants, and could be wearing a Celtics hooded sweatshirt, the release stated.
Police said he has intellectual disabilities and is known to wander around Portland.
Anyone who has information on his whereabouts is asked to call the Portland Police Department at 207-874-8575. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/update-portland-man-william-broomall-reported-missing-has-been-located/97-b57afe16-d666-40cf-be15-d25a475ece6b | 2022-11-23 16:28:38 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/update-portland-man-william-broomall-reported-missing-has-been-located/97-b57afe16-d666-40cf-be15-d25a475ece6b |
Joint Base Andrews on lockdown after armed person reported
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joint Base Andrews, one of the nation’s most sensitive military bases and home to Air Force One, has been locked down after reports of a man carrying an “assault-style” rifle on Thursday, authorities said.
The Maryland base was locked down after the person was reportedly seen near the base’s housing area, according to the base’s Facebook page.
Staff Sgt. Jared Duhon, a spokesperson for the base, said no shots have been fired. There was no immediate report of any injuries and additional details were not immediately available.
Joint Base Andrews, a few miles outside Washington, is home to the fleet of blue and white presidential aircraft, including Air Force One and the “doomsday” 747 aircraft that can serve as the nation’s airborne nuclear command and control centers if needed.
Last month, an intruder breached the base and gained access to part of the base’s housing complex. A resident opened fire on the trespasser. And in February 2021, a man got through the military checkpoint onto the installation, then through additional fenced secure areas to gain access to the flight line and climb into a C-40, which is the military’s 737-equivalent aircraft used to fly government officials.
“Security Forces foot and mobile patrols are out looking for the suspect,” the Facebook post read.
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Dazio reported from Los Angeles.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Peter Lacy, commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, has resigned suddenly, according to a spokesperson for the governor’s office.
Lacy had previously told the governor’s office he would leave the job effective May 27, but on Wednesday notified Gov. Eric Holcomb that the resignation was effective immediately.
Lacy was appointed BMV commissioner in 2017 after serving as chief of staff for two years.
In a news release issued April 12, Holcomb announced Joe Hoage, the commissioner of the Department of Labor and the former general counsel for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, would be the next BMV commissioner. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-bmv-commissioner-resigns-earlier-than-planned/ | 2022-04-27 22:21:14 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-bmv-commissioner-resigns-earlier-than-planned/ |
CAUGHT ON CAM: 2 teens jump officers at subway station
NEW YORK (WCBS) – Two teenage boys in New York are facing charges of assaulting an officer after a violent incident at a subway station.
Cell phone video caught part of the incident, showing the fight between two New York Police Department officers and two 16-year-olds.
At one point in the video, the boy punches an officer before wrestling him to the ground and putting him in a chokehold.
Eventually, with the help of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) worker, the cops were able to put the two teens in handcuffs.
The fight occurred around 6 p.m. on July 23 at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station. The Staten Island Borough president released the video.
Police said the altercation started when officers saw the two teenagers jump the turnstile and were told to leave the station. One of the teens began arguing with the officers, so they tried to put him into custody, which is where the events in the video pick up.
MTA Chairman Janno Liber asked the NYPD to crack down on fare beaters because the problem has tripled in recent years.
“I was outraged. Here’s a cop who is doing what we asked of the NYPD to try to deter and cut down on fare evasion,” he said. “We want people to feel comfortable and safe. When they see people smoking or open drug use or fare evasion, people get worried that person might do something else.”
NYPD Chief of Transit Jason Wilcox said there had been an increase in assaults on MTA employees and police.
“We have seen an over 55% increase in assaults on police officers this year,” he said. “The majority of these assaults began as officers were engaging persons who had committed fare evasion and or other quality of life violations.”
The two teens were arrested for assaulting the officer and may face additional charges. They were arraigned in family court and released without bail until their next appearance.
One of the teens has two prior arrests this year for robbery and for possession of a loaded gun.
In a statement, the police union president said in part, “Cops are putting ourselves on the line to make the subways safer, but we are feeling abandoned by a justice system that won’t back us up.”
One of the officers received treatment for swelling. Both were expected to recover.
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- First Landsea Homes development on East Coast completely sold out
- Enclave of 183 high-quality, LEED certified homes with waterfront views and amenities
WEEHAWKEN, N.J., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) ("Landsea Homes" or the "Company"), a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced today that its' luxury waterfront community, Avora, Landsea Homes' first residential community on the East Coast, has officially closed its last home.
"Avora is a special project for Landsea Homes and it's exciting to celebrate this milestone. The opening of Avora in 2018 marked Landsea Homes' foray into the East Coast housing market and it was also one of the company's very first development projects," said Mike Forsum, President and Chief Operating Officer, Landsea Homes. "The homes at Avora were uniquely designed to provide luxury living with a coveted waterfront setting, sophisticated amenities and access to all the prime dining, shopping and entertainment the region has to offer. The sellout of Avora is a testament to the great demand for our homes and we're thrilled knowing Avora residents will be "Living in their Element" for years to come."
Located in the Port Imperial neighborhood of New Jersey's Gold Coast, the homes at Avora were priced from $650K to $4M and include open floor plans with one to four bedrooms and flexible layouts designed for modern living. Each home features gourmet kitchens, chef-grade appliances, high ceilings and an outdoor terrace for enjoying the stunning views of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline.
Many homes also included flexible living space options through Landsea Homes' LiveFlex® program, which allows buyers to transform spaces for their lifestyle, from a work-from-home office to personal gym or remote schooling study zone.
Avora boasts a prime location directly next to the NY Waterways Ferry and the Hudson Bergen Light Rail, which was a major draw for buyers.
Residents enjoy resort-style amenities, including a contemporary lounge, children's playroom, private screening room, virtual golf and game room, fitness center, expansive sun deck with an outdoor swimming pool and dining terraces, on-site pet grooming and private parking, as well as a concierge service.
Current Avora residents Angie and Meric and their 13-year old daughter bought and moved into their three-bedroom home at the end of 2020 and have been thrilled with their decision ever since.
"Avora has everything we were looking for in our new home – and more," said Angie. "The unique architecture originally drew us in, but it was the modern interiors, amazing city and water views, and family-friendly amenities including the fitness center, outdoor pool, and personalized lifestyle concierge that really sold us. We also love the location right on the waterfront and that it is walking distance to everything we need, including the ferry."
Landsea Homes is currently selling at two other East Coast communities in Manhattan, including Förena, a distinctive collection of 50 serene residences featuring a lush outdoor Zen Garden as well as 212W93, an exclusive collection of 20 luxury homes on the Upper West Side featuring a landscaped rooftop terrace with skyline views.
For more information about Landsea Homes, please visit: https://landseahomes.com/.
About Landsea Homes Corporation
Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) is a publicly traded residential homebuilder based in Newport Beach, CA that designs and builds best-in-class homes and sustainable master-planned communities in some of the nation's most desirable markets. The company has developed homes and communities in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Texas and throughout California in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Orange County. Landsea Homes was named the 2022 winner of the prestigious Builder of the Year award, presented by BUILDER magazine, in recognition of a historical year of transformation.
An award-winning homebuilder that builds suburban, single-family detached and attached homes, mid-and high-rise properties, and master-planned communities, Landsea Homes is known for creating inspired places that reflect modern living and provides homebuyers the opportunity to "Live in Your Element." Our homes allow people to live where they want to live, how they want to live – in a home created especially for them.
Driven by a pioneering commitment to sustainability, Landsea Homes' High Performance Homes are responsibly designed to take advantage of the latest innovations with home automation technology supported by Apple®. Homes include features that make life easier and provide energy savings that allow for more comfortable living at a lower cost through sustainability features that contribute to healthier living for both homeowners and the planet.
Led by a veteran team of industry professionals who boast years of worldwide experience and deep local expertise, Landsea Homes is committed to positively enhancing the lives of our homebuyers, employees, and stakeholders by creating an unparalleled lifestyle experience that is unmatched.
For more information on Landsea Homes, visit: https://landseahomes.com/.
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA).
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Many changes to the genomes of early humans had opposing effects from each other, possibly because of a delicate balance between improved cognition and psychiatric disease risk
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences. HARs were stable in mammals for millennia but quickly changed in early humans. Scientists have long wondered why these bits of DNA changed so much, and how the variations set humans apart from other primates.
Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes have analyzed thousands of human and chimpanzee HARs and discovered that many of the changes that accumulated during human evolution had opposing effects from each other.
"This helps answer a longstanding question about why HARs evolved so quickly after being frozen for millions of years," says Katie Pollard, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and lead author of the new study published today in Neuron. "An initial variation in a HAR might have turned up its activity too much, and then it needed to be turned down."
The findings, she says, have implications for understanding human evolution. In addition—because she and her team discovered that many HARs play roles in brain development—the study suggests that variations in human HARs could predispose people to psychiatric disease.
"These results required cutting-edge machine learning tools to integrate dozens of novel datasets generated by our team, providing a new lens to examine the evolution of HAR variants," says Sean Whalen, PhD, first author of the study and senior staff research scientist in Pollard's lab.
Pollard discovered HARs in 2006 when comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes. While these stretches of DNA are nearly identical among all humans, they differ between humans and other mammals. Pollard's lab went on to show that the vast majority of HARs are not genes, but enhancers— regulatory regions of the genome that control the activity of genes.
More recently, Pollard's group wanted to study how human HARs differ from chimpanzee HARs in their enhancer function. In the past, this would have required testing HARs one at a time in mice, using a system that stains tissues when a HAR is active.
Instead, Whalen input hundreds of known human brain enhancers, and hundreds of other non-enhancer sequences, into a computer program so that it could identify patterns that predicted whether any given stretch of DNA was an enhancer. Then he used the model to predict that a third of HARs control brain development.
"Basically, the computer was able to learn the signatures of brain enhancers," says Whalen.
Knowing that each HAR has multiple differences between humans and chimpanzees, Pollard and her team questioned how individual variants in a HAR impacted its enhancer strength. For instance, if eight nucleotides of DNA differed between a chimpanzee and human HAR, did all eight have the same effect, either making the enhancer stronger or weaker?
"We've wondered for a long time if all the variants in HARs were required for it to function differently in humans, or if some changes were just hitchhiking along for the ride with more important ones," says Pollard, who is also chief of the division of bioinformatics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UC San Francisco (UCSF), as well as a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator.
To test this, Whalen applied a second machine learning model, which was originally designed to determine if DNA differences from person to person affect enhancer activity. The computer predicted that 43 percent of HARs contain two or more variants with large opposing effects: some variants in a given HAR made it a stronger enhancer, while other changes made the HAR a weaker enhancer.
This result surprised the team, who had expected that all changes would push the enhancer in the same direction, or that some "hitchhiker" changes would have no impact on the enhancer at all.
To validate this compelling prediction, Pollard collaborated with the laboratories of Nadav Ahituv, PhD, and Alex Pollen, PhD, at UCSF. The researchers fused each HAR to a small DNA barcode. Each time a HAR was active, enhancing the expression of a gene, the barcode was transcribed into a piece of RNA. Then, the researchers used RNA sequencing technology to analyze how much of that barcode was present in any cell—indicating how active the HAR had been in that cell.
"This method is much more quantitative because we have exact barcode counts instead of microscopy images," says Ahituv. "It's also much higher throughput; we can look at hundreds of HARs in a single experiment."
When the group carried out their lab experiments on over 700 HARs in precursors to human and chimpanzee brain cells, the data mimicked what the machine learning algorithms had predicted.
"We might not have discovered human HAR variants with opposing effects at all if the machine learning model hadn't produced these startling predictions," said Pollard.
The idea that HAR variants played tug-of-war over enhancer levels fits in well with a theory that has already been proposed about human evolution: that the advanced cognition in our species is also what has given us psychiatric diseases.
"What this kind of pattern indicates is something called compensatory evolution," says Pollard. "A large change was made in an enhancer, but maybe it was too much and led to harmful side effects, so the change was tuned back down over time—that's why we see opposing effects."
If initial changes to HARs led to increased cognition, perhaps subsequent compensatory changes helped tune back down the risk of psychiatric diseases, Pollard speculates. Her data, she adds, can't directly prove or disprove that idea. But in the future, a better understanding of how HARs contribute to psychiatric disease could not only shed light on evolution, but on new treatments for these diseases.
"We can never wind the clock back and know exactly what happened in evolution," says Pollard. "But we can use all these scientific techniques to simulate what might have happened and identify which DNA changes are most likely to explain unique aspects of the human brain, including its propensity for psychiatric disease."
The paper "Machine learning dissection of human accelerated regions in primate neurodevelopment," was published in the journal Neuron on January 13, 2023.
Other authors are Kathleen Keough, Alex Williams, Md. Abu Hassan Samee, and Sean Thomas of Gladstone; Fumitaka Inoue, Hane Ryu, Tyler Fair, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitrious, Beatriz Alvarado, Orry Elor, Dianne Laboy Cintron, Erik Ullian, Arnold Kriegstein, and John Rubenstein of UC San Francisco; Martin Kircher, Beth Martin, and Jay Shendure of University of Washington; and Robert Krencik of Houston Methodist Research Institute.
The work was supported by the Schmidt Futures Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (DP2MH122400-01, R35NS097305, FHG011569A, R01MH109907, U01MH116438, UM1HG009408, UM1HG011966, 2R01NS099099).
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LONDON (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II has triggered a series of carefully structured ceremonial and constitutional steps, as Britain undergoes a period of national mourning and heralds the reign of King Charles III.
Here is a look at what will happen in the coming days.
Friday, Sept. 9
— King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, travel from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to London.
— Noon local time (1100 GMT) — Church bells ring at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and cross the country in honor of the queen.
— Noon — Parliament holds a special session so lawmakers can pay tribute to the queen.
— 1 p.m. — Gun salutes are fired in London’s Hyde Park and at military sites around the country, one round for reach of the 96 years of the queen’s life.
— Afternoon — The king meets with Prime Minister Liz Truss.
— 6 p.m. — The king makes a televised address to the nation.
— 6 p.m. — A service of remembrance is held at St. Paul’s Cathedral for the queen.
Saturday, Sept. 10
— 10 a.m. — Charles meets at St. James’s Palace with a group of senior officials known as the Accession Council and is officially proclaimed king.
— 11 a.m. — An official reads the proclamation aloud from a balcony at St. James’s Palace. It is also read out in other locations across the U.K.
— 1 p.m. — Parliament holds a second day of tributes to the queen.
Subsequent days:
— The queen’s body is moved from Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands to Edinburgh, and then to London.
— She will lie in state for several days in Parliament’s Westminster Hall, where the public will be able to pay their respects.
— A state funeral at Westminster Abbey is due to be attended by leaders and dignitaries from around the world.
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As the winter storm pummeling much of the eastern part of the United States begins to let up, a meteorological phenomenon known as an atmospheric river is forecast to bring days of rain and heavy winds to the West.
An atmospheric river is a relatively narrow channel of wind, hence the "river," that transports water vapor from the tropics to the West Coast. Powerful rivers that arrive at just the right angle of the coast can carry all the way to the Sierra Nevada.
"[Atmospheric rivers are] actually responsible for a good majority of the rainfall during the colder season which is the season when [the West Coast] gets most of the rain," National Weather Service senior forecaster Bob Oravec told NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday.
Atmospheric rivers that contain the largest amounts of water vapor and strongest winds lead to extreme rainfall and flooding, causing damage to property and inducing mudslides, Oravec warned.
Portland, Ore., has seen overflown riverbanks, fallen trees blocking roads, and collapsed power lines. As of Wednesday morning, more than 60,000 customers were without power in Oregon, the state with currently the most power outages, according to PowerOutage.us. Washington follows behind, with more than 20,000 customers without power.
Fire crews responded to flood-related emergencies in Gig Harbor, Wash., including electrical fires Tuesday.
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Seattle and Salt Lake City saw wind gusts of 45 to 55 mph Tuesday evening. And the San Francisco Bay Area saw as much as 4 inches of rain in North Bay on Monday and Tuesday.
After a brief lull on Wednesday, forecasters expect heavy rainfall and winds to resume on Thursday and linger through the weekend.
"We've had an atmospheric river that just ended recently produced a lot of heavy precipitation," Oravec said. "As we go forward over the next week, it looks like we're going to have several more opportunities for additional atmospheric rivers to affect the West Coast."
Forecasters predict the Bay Area will see 1 to 6 more inches of rainfall from Thursday to Saturday, with the highest numbers along the coast and over mountains.
"We may end up with over 15 inches of total precipitation over the next week or so, especially over the Sierra and parts of northern California," Oravec said. "It's going to make somewhat of a dent to the prolonged drought they are experiencing."
Despite heavy rainfall in the West, the East is beginning to see warmer temperatures after a historic winter storm brought frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall. Hard-hit places like the Buffalo, N.Y., area, where at least 31 people have died, are trying to recover and clear roads as snowfall lessens.
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New report finds high fuel cost is motivating supply chain professionals to consider adding electric or semi-electric trucks to the fleet
Fear of cost increases continues; Driver shortages remain a challenge
CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DispatchTrack, the global leader in last mile delivery solutions, released a new report, the Last Mile Sustainability Perspective, which explores how supply chain organizations are currently thinking about last mile operations amid accelerating economic headwinds. The study pays particular attention to how organizations are thinking about sustainability and optimization today as well as other factors impacted by the current economic climate including rising costs and driver shortages. Findings are based on a survey of over 140 supply chain professionals from a variety of industries conducted in October and November.
Despite growing inflation, 77% of companies claim to be prioritizing sustainability or have plans to do so in the coming year, a notable jump from 69% in August. Even more, 8 in 10 supply chain organizations currently have sustainability efforts underway. And, while many of those believe they are making progress, less than half (38%) of the companies surveyed are able to actually measure the results of their efforts.
It appears electric or semi-electric trucks (EVs) aren't among the sustainability strategies underway. Findings signal supply chain professionals are hesitant to add EVs to their fleets. Only 14% are using or have plans to use EVs in the near term, though nearly half acknowledged they don't know enough about EVs to make a decision. Limited charging stations and worries about running out of miles top the list of their concerns. Strikingly, the report found 85% of companies would consider adding EVs in order to save on fuel costs. Far fewer (60%) would consider using EVs to reduce their fleet's carbon emissions.
The report also explored business outlook and found rising operating costs were far more concerning than demand reduction. Three-quarters ranked rising costs as their top concern while 37% pointed to reduced demand. The group identified a number of areas where last mile operations can be better optimized for cost savings including delivery execution (42%), customer communication (41%), and routing (40%). The report also found the vast majority of supply chain organizations (73%) still struggle with driver shortages, though not as significantly as the previous year.
"There's no question the economy is having a major impact on all aspects of business and the supply chain certainly is no exception. Everyone is facing pressure to do more with less. At the same time, the C-suite recognizes that the last mile delivery experience is crucial to customer retention so they have to find a way to reduce costs without breaking their promise to customers," said Satish Natarajan, DispatchTrack co-founder and CEO. "Fortunately, a superior delivery experience and cost efficiency aren't an either/or. Route optimization not only ensures deliveries are made on time but is also critical to cost savings by reducing miles driven and trucks on the road, which also happens to cut carbon emissions."
- There's a sharp rise in companies prioritizing sustainability. 77% of companies are already prioritizing sustainability or plan to in the next year, a jump from 69% in August 2022. 39% of companies are already prioritizing sustainability, up from 22% in August, while 38% have plans to prioritize sustainability in the next year, down from 47% in August.
- 8 in 10 companies have sustainability efforts well underway. The top sustainability strategies for companies include maximizing truckload capacity (61%), improving routing efficiencies to limit emissions (54%), technology investments (17%), and offering delivery options to customers that limit emissions (16%).
- Promoting sustainability efforts is mixed. 1 in 5 are sharing their initiatives with both employees and customers; 1 in 3 companies are promoting sustainability initiatives internally, but not externally.
- While most companies have implemented new ways to improve sustainability, the majority don't have a way to measure progress. Only 39% of companies track their sustainability efforts and have the means to measure results while 61% do not track their sustainability efforts nor have the ability to measure them.
- More than half acknowledge sustainability is important to their customers. 55% state that sustainability is somewhat (35%) or extremely (20%) important to their customers. 15% state that it's not important to their customers.
- 14% are already using or have plans to add electric or semi-electric vehicles to their fleet within the next one or two years. 6 in 10 companies do not use EVs but would consider it in the future while 1 in 4 aren't using EVs or don't plan to in the future.
- Supply chain leaders are hesitant about EVs. The top concerns with using EVs include not knowing enough (47%), not enough charging stations or running out of miles (44%), wanting to see how others are doing before investing (28%), cost restrictive (27%), and infrastructure limitations (26%).
- Fuel costs are motivating companies to consider EVs, more so than environmental impact. The top motivating factors for companies to use EVs for deliveries include fuel cost savings (85%), better for the environment (61%), and customer importance (30%).
- The overwhelming majority consider supply chain logistics to be part of their company's overall business strategy. 75% state that supply chain logistics is part of the overall business strategy while 25% state that it is not.
- Companies worry there will be a dip in demand—but they are much more concerned about rising costs. Logistics professionals ranked rising costs (75%), decreased demand (37%), and reduced staff (11%) as the top ways the current economic climate has impacted their business. 18% stated it hasn't had any impact.
- Delivery execution and customer communication top list of areas for improvement. Companies ranked the following as the areas where they see opportunities for improvement for last mile efficiency delivery execution (42%), customer communication (41%), routing (40%), return management (37%), and inventory management (35%).
- Driver shortages remain a challenge. 73% of companies are still struggling with driver shortages.
The online survey was conducted via SurveyMonkey October 18th – November 2nd, 2022 among 142 logistics professionals. Industries include furniture and appliances, 3PLs, building supplies, medical, agriculture, auto parts, and food, beverage, and grocery distribution. Employee sizes ranged from 1-10, 11-50, 51-100, and 100+.
DispatchTrack is the global leader in last mile delivery solutions, helping top brands around the globe power successful deliveries 180 million times a year. Since 2010, DispatchTrack's scalable SaaS platform has made delivery organizations more connected, agile, and intelligent using highly configurable capabilities designed to empower better delivery management from end to end. Our proprietary AI-powered routing algorithm ensures 98% ETA accuracy in last mile deliveries, and we're constantly innovating to improve performance and better serve our 2,000+ global customers, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, Ashley, Ferguson Enterprises, Cargill, McCain Foods, and many others. When businesses make promises to their customers—DispatchTrack makes sure they deliver.
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BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Today, March 2nd, is National Old Stuff Day in the United States, which is often seen as a kick-off to spring cleaning.
There will be many garage sales and full curbs throughout the area this time of year, and the Broome County Health Department is reminding residents to be careful of what you pick up.
According to the health department, older furniture and architectural features like desks, doors, and mirror frames may contain lead.
If the paint is peeling, or looks scaly, it is likely lead based. If you have children, do not bring these objects home as dust from lead paint can cause serious harm to young kids.
The health department also says to be careful about picking up “soft items” like pillows, rugs, couches, and mattresses. These items can harbor bed bugs, dust mites, rodent droppings, and tobacco ash.
And finally, never use items like baby cribs, highchairs, or helmets second-hand. They can look fine on the outside but may be badly damaged and not safe.
Reusing items is a great way to save money and help the environment, just remember to double check anything you are picking up, as the sellers/donators are getting rid of it for a reason. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/its-national-old-stuff-day-celebrate-with-caution/ | 2023-03-02 21:52:22 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/its-national-old-stuff-day-celebrate-with-caution/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House laid out a national security strategy Wednesday aimed at checking an ascendant China and a more assertive Russia even as it stressed that domestic investments are key to helping the U.S. compete in the critical decade ahead.
The administration’s first national security strategy, a document required by statute, stresses the need for a foreign policy that balances the interests of global allies with those of middle-class Americans.
“We understand that if the United States is to succeed abroad, we must invest in our innovation and industrial strength, and build our resilience, at home,” the strategy states. “Likewise, to advance shared prosperity domestically and to uphold the rights of all Americans, we must proactively shape the international order in line with our interests and values.”
In broad brushstrokes, the strategy sketches a “decisive decade” for national security, as President Joe Biden faces an arguably more complicated world than when he took office 21 months ago in the midst of the worst global pandemic in a century. At the same time, the White House said policy-makers must “avoid the temptation to view the world solely through a competitive lens, and engage countries on their own terms.”
Biden came to office championing a “foreign policy for the middle class” that sought to put greater focus on China as a rising economic and military competitor, reinvigorate alliances that had frayed during the Trump administration and protect human rights, all while looking out for U.S. interests.
Administration officials say that the focus on U.S. interests remains central to Biden’s foreign policy vision. But the new strategy document also reflects the long list of crises that has left the world facing shared challenges including climate change, food insecurity, communicable diseases, and inflation.
“We’re in the early years of a decisive decade,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a speech at Georgetown University to spotlight release of the document. “The terms of our competition with the People’s Republic of China will be set. The window of opportunity to deal with shared challenges like climate change will narrow drastically, even as the intensity of those challenges grows. So we need to grasp our moment.”
The document stresses the necessity of competing effectively with China, which the administration says is the only competitor that has both the intent and, increasingly, the capability to reshape the international order, while constraining a dangerous Russia.
Biden is dealing with a nearly eight-month Russian war in Ukraine that is wracking the global economy, increasingly assertive action by China toward the self-ruled island of Taiwan, mounting nuclear concerns in Iran and North Korea, and strained relations with the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“Around the world, the need for American leadership is as great as it has ever been. We are in the midst of a strategic competition to shape the future of the international order,” Biden said in the introduction to the document. “Meanwhile, shared challenges that impact people everywhere demand increased global cooperation and nations stepping up to their responsibilities at a moment when this has become more difficult.”
Sullivan in remarks to reporters before the speech said the Ukraine crisis delayed rollout of the document but it had not “fundamentally altered” Biden’s approach to the strategy. The administration had initially planned to release the strategy in February.
“I do believe that it presents in living color the key elements of our approach: the emphasis on allies, the importance of strengthening the hand of the democratic world and standing up for our fellow democracies and for democratic values,” Sullivan said.
On the issue of oil, Biden said Wednesday the administration would “react to Saudi Arabia” in response to the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance announcement last week that it would cut oil production. The president’s comments came after he said a day earlier that the Saudis would face “consequences” for the move.
Democratic lawmakers are pushing legislation that would halt U.S. military sales to the Saudis in light of the oil production cut, which White House officials say will help another OPEC+ member, Russia, pad its coffers as it prosecutes its war in Ukraine.
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Academy Award nominee Brendan Fraser, style icon Vanessa Hudgens, and Oscars performer Sofia Carson were among the first big names to walk the carpet.
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Trump faces peril in documents probe after decades of scrutiny
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact.
But he’s perhaps never confronted a probe as perilous as the Mar-a-Lago investigation, an inquiry focused on the potential mishandling of top-secret documents. The sense of vulnerability has been heightened in recent weeks not only by the Justice Department’s appointment of a special counsel with a reputation for aggressiveness but also by the removal of a Trump-requested independent arbiter in the case and by judges’ unequivocal rejection of his lawyers’ arguments.
It’s impossible to predict how much longer the investigation will last or whether the Justice Department will take the unprecedented step of indicting a former president and current candidate. But Trump is no longer shielded from prosecution the way he was as president, and some legal experts regard the Mar-a-Lago investigation as centered on more straightforward factual and legal questions than the prior probes he has dealt with.
“Unlike many of these past investigations which involved these complex financial frauds where prosecutors have to explain to a jury why the conduct is even a crime to begin with, here prosecutors won’t have that difficulty, won’t have that challenge to explain what the crime is about” if charges are ultimately filed, said former Justice Department prosecutor Robert Mintz.
One investigative hurdle for the Justice Department was lifted last week when an appeals court panel that included two Trump-appointed judges ended the work of a special master who’d been tasked with an independent review of the thousands of documents seized in the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago. The decision enables prosecutors to use the entire cache of records for their investigation.
In a scorching opinion that reached deep back into history, the court acknowledged that a search of an ex-president’s property is extraordinary but not so extraordinary as to afford him special treatment.
“It’s not often you see cases cited in a court of appeals decisions that were decided in 1794, in the 1800s,” said David Weinstein, a Florida criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor. “These are bedrock principles of law that have long existed that they relied on.”
Of course, investigations are nothing new for Trump, and speculation about his legal jeopardy has been off-course before.
Last year, state prosecutors in New York indicted Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, and its longtime chief financial officer — but did not charge the former president. In September, the New York attorney general accused Trump of padding his net worth by billions of dollars and misleading banks — but those allegations were made in a lawsuit, not a criminal case.
As president, he was investigated by an earlier special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, over whether his successful 2016 campaign had illegally colluded with Russia and whether he had tried to obstruct that probe. Mueller ultimately found insufficient evidence to allege a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia and also cited longstanding Justice Department policy that prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.
The obstruction prong of that investigation involved an analysis of constitutional law and the scope of presidential power. But prosecutors in the Mar-a-Lago probe have largely dismissed the relevance of Trump’s status as a former president, asserting during a court fight over the special master that the classified records he had access to as commander-in-chief don’t still belong to him.
And the appeals panel in its opinion last week rejected the idea that Trump was entitled to the return of the records seized from his home or to have an independent arbiter go through them, something it said would create a “special exception.”
The records investigation had simmered for months before bursting into view with an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, with agents removing roughly 100 documents with classification markings. By that point, Justice Department officials say they’d developed probable cause to believe crimes had been committed related to the retention of national defense information as well as obstruction.
The investigation has since shown signs of accelerating, with the Justice Department presenting evidence before a grand jury and granting immunity last month to a Trump ally to secure his testimony.
The probe is being run by Jack Smith, who previously led the Justice Department’s public integrity section and more recently has served as a war crimes prosecutor in the Hague. Smith is also overseeing key aspects of a separate Justice Department investigation related to efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney is separately investigating attempts to overturn that state’s results, too.
Smith’s appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland came three days after Trump declared his White House candidacy. The announcement won’t stop the investigation, though it may quicken the pace so as to avoid colliding with the heart of the 2024 presidential race.
His candidacy could theoretically infuse the investigation with greater import, said former federal prosecutor Franklin Monsour Jr., since it will no longer be just about a former president. “It’s now about someone trying to become president again, and trying to possess national security material again.”
Yet, legal experts expect the Justice Department to weigh more than just the strength of evidence in deciding whether to proceed with a case. There will be questions over how much classified evidence it can present to a jury — and the feasibility of picking an impartial jury given Trump’s ubiquitous name recognition and the impassioned reactions he produces on both sides.
A prosecution of a former president also risks being seen as political, further polarizing an already divided country, as well as transforming a court into a circus-like atmosphere.
“It’s basically weighing the principle that no individual is above the law against the practical political fallout that bringing these kinds of charges against a former president, particularly one who is once again running for president, will engender,” Mintz said.
“It’s an extraordinarily difficult decision,” he added.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Iscoe Law Firm, one of Florida's leading personal injury attorney teams, wants to remind Florida boaters that many devastating accidents happen on or near water. Boating accidents can also happen when people rent or buy defective motorized water vehicles or don't receive adequate safety training and education prior to using them.
When an injury accident occurs and someone is at fault, there are legal options to consider. Don't let an already derailed vacation be made even worse with steep medical bills, lost income from missed work, and pain and suffering. Reach out to a skilled Iscoe Law boating accident lawyer to explain the legal options available following your jet ski, boating, or personal watercraft accident.
"After a boat or jet ski accident, the steps you take can impact your injury and your claim both now and many years into the future," said Gary T. Iscoe, Esq. Founding Partner of Iscoe Law Firm. "First, anyone injured in an accident should seek medical care. If the injuries are life-threatening, an ambulance should be called. Accept any treatment the doctor prescribes immediately after your injuries and throughout the course of your treatment. This will help protect your injury claim."
You will also want to contact an Iscoe Law boating accident attorney as soon as possible. They can help you collect and preserve evidence in your case, protect you from insurance companies who don't want to pay on your claim, and ensure that your injury claim is paid within the four-year personal injury claim statute of limitations window.
Since 1991, Gary T. Iscoe, a Trial Lawyer, has been dedicated to holding the powerful accountable for taking advantage of the powerless. From representing clients in serious injury cases, wrongful death cases, class actions, and other lawsuits including medical malpractice, and product liability. Gary and his team understand Florida's complex personal injury laws.
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WOODINVILLE, Wash., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerA, a leader in enhancing interactive entertainment with officially licensed gaming accessories, today launched its latest and greatest controller, The MOGA XP-Ultra Multi-Platform Wireless Controller for mobile, PC, and Xbox Series X|S. The uniquely designed and feature-packed controller is the first officially licensed wireless controller for Xbox Series X|S on the market that is engineered to be used for mobile gaming, PC, and Xbox consoles interchangeably.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man died while waiting over a half-hour for an ambulance after being struck by a hit-and-run driver last month, according to emergency dispatch logs, an incident that Portland firefighters say highlights their frustration at a lack of available ambulances to respond to emergency calls.
The Bureau of Emergency Communications 911 dispatch log was obtained by KGW-TV through a public records request. It revealed that American Medical Response, the private provider contracted by Multnomah County, was operating at level zero — a code meaning there are no ambulances available to respond to an emergency call.
“More and more, day after day, we’re seeing this level zero pop up, and as firefighters we’re getting frustrated,” Isaac McLennan, president of the Portland Fire Fighters’ Association, told KGW-TV. “This is a highly dangerous situation and it should be unacceptable not only just for firefighters, it should be unacceptable for everybody who lives in this community.”
Shortly after midnight on April 28, both firefighters and an ambulance crew were dispatched to the accident scene in northeast Portland. Police said it appeared the man, who has not been publicly identified, was attempting to cross the street in a wheelchair when he was hit.
The man was still alive when firefighters arrived, but 911 dispatchers repeatedly told them that American Medical Response was operating at level zero, according to dispatch logs. The firefighters worked to stabilize the man in the road while waiting for an ambulance.
The logs show the initial dispatch went out at 12:10 a.m. Firefighters arrived at 12:14, and an ambulance got there at 12:42. The ambulance left the scene five minutes later, as a hospital transport was no longer necessary because the man had died.
McLennan told KGW-TV there was no practical way firefighters could have taken the man to the hospital themselves as it was clear he needed an ambulance.
Global Medical Response, the parent company of American Medical Response, said in a statement to KGW-TV that the incident is still under review by the company as well as by county emergency officials.
“The safety of our patients is always our top priority. American Medical Response is committed to responding to all calls in a timely manner,” it said.
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Agency Leveraged Inbound Marketing Strategies and HubSpot Expertise To Overcome Challenges and Support Business Objectives
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartBug Media® — a leading Intelligent Inbound® marketing agency that assists B2B businesses, B2C organizations and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development — understands the pressure a changing financial landscape places on banks, credit unions and financial services firms. Over the last few years, SmartBug® has combined the power of intelligent inbound marketing with deep HubSpot expertise to help financial services clients identify opportunities for increased visibility and awareness of financial products, engage customers and build trust.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, despite contractions in the American economy for two consecutive quarters, has not determined the U.S. is in a recession in large part because job creation is so robust. Still, there are signs — the Federal Reserve steadily increasing interest rates to combat rapidly rising inflation and a volatile housing market — that have financial institutions concerned about providing products and services to their existing customers and attracting new ones.
"Connection to their customers is the most important opportunity available to banks, credit unions and other financial services providers," SmartBug Chief Revenue Officer Stephanie Valenti noted. "The days of financial institutions just expecting customers to come to them are gone, and our clients understand they need to earn their customers' business. SmartBug uses HubSpot tools to meet their objectives, such as building trust through value-first content, solving data-access issues to track conversions and supporting ambitious business expansion."
Here's how SmartBug strategists created custom objects through HubSpot that kept track of important metrics specific to the client, including the ability to sort, automate and report on associated data:
First State Community Bank (FSCB) is a financial leader in the state of Missouri, but connecting to current customers and attracting new ones was a challenge. SmartBug optimized existing content — using search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization — to increase year-over-year blog views by 1,346% and website visits through the blog by 219%, growing the bank's list of subscribers and its ability to build visibility and trust.
Emles Advisors was founded by experts in sales, marketing and investment management, and these experts knew HubSpot was the platform they needed to meet their short- and long-term objectives, but they realized they didn't know how to use it. As HubSpot's top agency partner, SmartBug onboarded the Emles team in HubSpot and coached them about how to use the tools available to them on the platform: customer relationship management, marketing hub, sales hub and reporting.
Based in the U.K. and with offices on six continents, Valutrades is a brokerage that provides traders access to the global foreign exchange market. The firm was already using HubSpot but not well, and it needed the expertise of SmartBug to help it expand globally when a host of regulations limited trading. SmartBug took advantage of everything HubSpot has to offer, primarily to transition the firm's website to a multilingual platform and to implement a smart content management strategy that increased monthly visitors from 10,000 to 50,000 and time on page as well.
"Facing a potential recession is certainly unsettling for banks, credit unions and other financial services, and they'll need a partner who can tackle tough challenges using a powerful tech stack that includes a powerhouse like HubSpot," Valenti said. "SmartBug has a deep well of experts across several marketing verticals who can craft thoughtful and determined strategies to help clients weather economic storms."
ABOUT SMARTBUG MEDIA®
SmartBug Media® is a globally recognized Intelligent Inbound® marketing agency assisting B2B businesses, B2C organizations and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development.
As HubSpot's 2021 North America Partner of the Year, SmartBug® is one of its top-performing, elite global solutions partners as well as an Elite Master partner of Klaviyo.
Founded in 2008 as one of the few fully remote agencies, SmartBug is an innovator and trusted authority on creating life-work harmony for its 180-plus employees spread across 35 states and five countries. The company that implemented quarterly Certification Days to foster continuous learning and career development has won two Great Place to Work® and 31 Comparably awards. It has also been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for six consecutive years and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agencies list three years in a row. With hundreds of awards for client work — and a team holding a combined 1,000-plus marketing certifications — SmartBug is fully dedicated to delivering client success and an unparalleled agency experience. Its services include inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development. For more information about SmartBug Media, visit smartbugmedia.com.
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Great start for the 10/11 Can Care-a-Van in Ainsworth, Superior and Sutton
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - On Monday, Ainsworth, Superior and Sutton had a great first day for the 10/11 Can Care-a-Van.
Below are results from Monday’s Can Care-a-Van.
Ainsworth
Goal: 4,000 lbs. of food
Donated: 753 Ibs.
The food from this stop benefits the Brown County Food Pantry.
Superior
Goal: 4,000 lbs. of food
Donated: 12,241 Ibs.
The food from this stop benefits the Nuckolls County Food Pantry.
Sutton
Goal: 6,000 lbs. of food
Donated: 7,896 Ibs.
The food from this stop benefits The Bread Box.
The Can Care-a-Van will be in Aurora, Ord, Nebraska City, Neligh, and Lexington on Tuesday.
Thanks to our 10/11 Can Care-a-Van sponsor Black Hills Energy for making this week possible.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Agillence, Inc., an optimization company, today announced that it has been selected by Toyota Motor Europe N.V./S.A. (TME) to provide proprietary optimization software to support planning parts logistics networks.
Agillence Lean Logistics Optimizer (ALLO) software was selected by TME based upon its ability to solve its complex logistics network requirements, while honoring lean principles.
The initial one-year pilot activity embeds the opportunity to evolve into a long-term cooperation.
"ALLO will provide TME the ability to contribute on the definition of a sustainable logistics network towards the achievement of carbon neutrality while supporting the identification of cost optimization opportunities in parts logistics planning along with reduction of planning cycle time " said Jean Christophe Deville, Head of Production Parts and Vehicle Logistics in TME.
"At Agillence, we are advancing ALLO to cater to the unique geographical logistics complexities and demands of Europe. We're incorporating in-depth end-to-end CO2 computations and associated costs into our ALLO optimization model, enabling shippers to reach their carbon neutrality aspirations more effectively. It's a privilege to have been chosen by TME," stated Srini Paruchuri, our Vice President of Customer Strategy and Solutions..
About Agillence, Inc.
Agillence has developed powerful "next generation" optimization technology for solving supply chain problems. Coupled with a unique web-based product architecture, Agillence delivers clients unprecedented benefits.
Agillence is proven in the area of automotive inbound logistics as experts. Agillence can provide the right people, process and technology to ensure optimized material flow. Our customers include OEMs, Tier suppliers and 3PLs across the globe.
Learn more about Agillence: www.agillence.com and LinkedIn.
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A Debt.com survey shows 5% more Americans were victimized than the year before – possibly because more than half stopped using theft-protection services.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- December is Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month, but most Americans are fully aware that this is the most common crime in the nation. They just don't know what to do about it.
Debt.com's annual identity theft poll shows the crime was even more pervasive this year than last, ticking up from 40% in 2021 to 45% in 2022. Most victims weren't surprised when it happened to them.
Last year, 84% said they were "surprised to find out they were a target of identity theft." This year, that plummeted to 38%.
Yet awareness didn't equal action. Just the opposite, in fact. While more than 8 in 10 respondents said they used identity-theft protection services last year, less than 4 in 10 told Debt.com the same thing this year.
"If you stopped using or never used these services, you're probably aware that you're an easier target for thieves than those who avail themselves," says Debt.com president Don Silvestri. "The real question is: Why are people giving up these services? Obviously, they feel they're either not working or aren't worth the money. That's where both the private sector and the government need to focus."
The cost of identity theft: More is less
If there was any good news from this year's survey, it's this: While identity theft is happening more often, it's costing each victim less...
Money lost in 2022:
- $50 to $500 – 15%
- $500 to $1,000 – 8%
- $1,000 to $2,500 – 5%
Money lost in 2021:
- $50 to $500 – 22%
- $500 to $1,000 – 21%
- $1,000 to $2,500 – 15%
Losing less money also translates into running up less debt. So another silver lining is that fewer identity theft victims are going into debt as a result...
2022:
- $0 to $250 – 11%
- $251 to $500 – 9%
- $500 or more – 6%
2021:
- $0 to $250 – 17%
- $251 to $500 – 17%
- $500 or more – 14%
While Silvestri takes some comfort in these numbers, he's worried that Americans are learning to live with identity theft instead of trying to eradicate it.
"With more people becoming victims but the costs of the crime dropping, it might lull us into complacency," Silvestri says. "There's no guarantee the costs of the crime won't skyrocket again next year. This is a crime we need to take seriously, even though we never see the face of the perpetrators."
About: Debt.com is a consumer website where people can find help with credit card debt, student loan debt, tax debt, credit repair, bankruptcy, and more. Debt.com works with vetted and certified providers that give the best advice and solutions for consumers 'when life happens.'
*Percentages are rounded up to the nearest whole number and might not total 100 percent.
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 returns to court Wednesday for sentencing in a mass shooting that targeted Hispanic shoppers in the border city of El Paso.
Patrick Crusius, 24, is set to receive multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to federal hate crime and weapons charges in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Although the federal government did not seek the death penalty, Texas prosecutors have not taken lethal injection off the table under a separate case in state court.
Investigators say the shooting was preceded by Crusius posting a racist screed online.
The sentencing phase could last several days. It is the first time that relatives of the victims, who included citizens of Mexico, will have an opportunity to address Crusius face-to-face in court.
Some things to know about the shooting and the case:
WHO IS PATRICK CRUSIUS?
Crusius was 21 years old when authorities say he drove more than 10 hours from his home in an upper-class Dallas suburb to El Paso and opened fire.
The son of a licensed therapist and nurse, Crusius had been enrolled as a student at Collin College, near Dallas, and had no criminal convictions before the shooting. On social media, Crusius appeared consumed by the nation’s immigration debate, tweeting #BuildtheWall and posts that praised then-President Donald Trump’s hardline border policies.
His views went further in a document posted to an online message board about 20 minutes before the massacre in which he said the shooting was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
In American politics, Republicans continue to use the word “invasion” to describe migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, waving off critics who say the rhetoric fuels anti-immigrant views and violence.
THE SHOOTING
Prosecutors say the Aug. 3, 2019, attack began in the parking lot on a busy weekend at a Walmart that is popular with shoppers from Mexico and the U.S. Approaching the store, Crusius shot participants in a fundraiser for a girls’ soccer team.
Inside, Crusius continued firing with an AK-47-style rifle, cornering shoppers at a bank near the entrance where nine were killed, before shooting at the checkout area and people in aisles.
Crusius was apprehended shortly after the shooting and confessed to officers who stopped him at an intersection, according to police.
More than two dozen people were injured and numerous more were severely traumatized as they hid or fled.
THE VICTIMS
The people who were killed ranged in age from a 15-year-old high school athlete to several elderly grandparents.
They included immigrants, a retired city bus driver, teachers, tradesmen including a former iron worker, and several Mexican nationals who had crossed the U.S. border on routine shopping trips. Witnesses recounted moments of terror, anguish and heroism.
An infant boy named Paul Anchondo narrowly survived with a broken hand as his parents were gunned down. Mother Jordan Anchondo is credited by relatives with shielding her baby.
David Johnson, 63, was killed after pushing his wife and 9-year-old granddaughter under a counter. The woman and child survived.
The funeral for one victim, 63-year-old Margie Reckard, drew thousands of sympathizers after her husband announced he had few relatives left and invited the world to attend.
TEST CASE
The sentencing arrives amid efforts by the Justice Department under President Joe Biden to more aggressively identify hate crimes and deliver meaningful results in the highest profile cases.
The 2019 Walmart attack is the deadliest of a dozen mass shootings in the U.S. linked to hate crimes since 2006, according to a database of mass killings in the U.S. compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
Crusius agreed in February to accept up to 90 consecutive life sentences, avoiding the possible death penalty on charges of using a firearm in a crime of violence that causes death. Companion hate crime convictions against Crusius don’t carry the death penalty.
Federal prosecutors haven’t formally explained their decision, but have acknowledged that Crusius suffered from schizoaffective disorder that can be marked by hallucinations, delusions and mood swings.
Adria Gonzalez, a 41-year-old El Paso native who survived the Walmart attack even as she helped panicked shoppers toward exits, says she fears that a life sentence won’t be enough to rein in racist attacks on Latinos.
“It’s not only him. There are other people, other groups that could hurt us,” she said.
WHAT’S NEXT
Crusius still faces capital murder charges in state court and could receive the death penalty if convicted.
It is unclear when that case will proceed. In November, El Paso County’s former district attorney resigned over mounting criticism about her performance on the job, which included accusations that problems in her office were slowing down Crusius’ case.
Also, victims’ relatives have sued Walmart. Such lawsuits are common following mass shootings in the U.S. but typically face high hurdles to succeed.
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Exclusive Performances by Zyah Belle, Charlotte Dos Santos, Dylan Sinclair, Yah Yah
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced their annual Rhythm & Soul showcase "On The Come Up" will take place virtually August 22 through August 25. Throughout the event, ASCAP will spotlight some of the hottest up-and-coming hip-hop and R&B stars, selected for their early success and growing fanbases. ASCAP's website and social media handles @ASCAP and @ASCAPUrban will feature never-before-seen, exclusive video performances from the artists at 3PM ET each day.
"On the Come Up" supports the careers of ASCAP's rising songwriters, producers and artists. The showcase evolved from a newsletter that helped introduce the music industry to chart-topping artists including Miguel, Inayah, Jessie Reyez, Fetty Wap, Tasha Cobbs, Tierra Whack, Jonathan McReynolds, BLXST, Dani Leigh, Rico Nasty and Dreezy.
The complete lineup and schedule for this year's ASCAP "On the Come Up" Showcase is as follows:
Monday, August 22: Charlotte Dos Santos, @charlottedossantos_
Growing up with her Brazilian father and Norwegian mother, Charlotte Dos Santos absorbed music without the limitation of genre. By early 2020, she had wowed listeners with her two critically acclaimed EPs, picking up praise from The Fader, The Observer, Wonderland Magazine, Pitchfork, The Independent, Bandcamp and more. Her debut album Cleo earned her a Newcomer of the Year nomination at the Norwegian Grammy Awards, while the title track from her Harvest Time EP was playlisted at BBC 6Music and its single "Helio" added to numerous New Music Friday Spotify playlists. In 2020, Dos Santos was in Oslo when life as we knew it ground to a halt. In the stillness of isolation, padding around a brightly lit flat with her husband, she formed the foundations of her album Morfo, set to release in autumn 2022 on Because Music. Morfo combines elements of soul, R&B, funk, samba and classical, casting a warm glow over universal themes from partnership and trust to betrayal. She also stands more boldly in the footprints walked by her Brazilian ancestors. The result is a body of work steeped in history – both personal and familial – yet timeless.
Tuesday, August 23: Zyah Belle, @zyahbelle (Instagram)
Hailing from Vallejo, CA, Zyah Belle is a talented recording artist, singer-songwriter, vocal arranger and producer, who combines her sultry, jazz-inspired voice with honest, vulnerable lyrics, lush vocal harmonies and rich melodies. Since 2016, she has recorded, written and produced vocals for the likes of Snoop Dogg and his daughter CHOC, Terrance Martin, Freddie Gibbs, Grammy award-winning producers such as 1500 or Nothin' and more. More recently, Belle performed and recorded for Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir and participated on the choir's creative team, directing movement, choreography and stage direction. Additionally, she provided vocals on West's Grammy and Billboard Award-winning Jesus is King album. Belle was previously honored with the Sacramento News & Review SAMMIE Award for "Best R&B Artist of The Year" and the Robert Brookins "Rising Star" Award. She has also been featured in Complex Magazine, Essence, VIBE, Uproxx, Portland Mercury, Sacramento News and Review and NPR. Zyah also has amassed nearly 2 million streams between Spotify, Apple Music and Soundcloud.
Wednesday, August 24: Dylan Sinclair, @dylansinclair (Instagram)
Hailed as an R&B Artist to Watch for in 2022 by Apple Music, the 21-year-old JUNO Award-nominated R&B artist Dylan Sinclair has cemented himself as one of the genre's most promising up-and-coming stars with the release of his breakout EP, No Longer in the Suburbs. The singles "Open," "Lifetime" and "Suppress" from the Toronto-based, Filipino-Guyanese musician's coming-of-age record garnered placements on flagship R&B playlists across Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and TIDAL and gained him over 600,000 monthly listeners on Spotify alone. Dubbed an "R&B king in the making" (Complex) and a leading voice "reshaping Toronto's R&B sound" (CBC Radio), Sinclair's music has received praise from critics for his fresh take on R&B with recent raves from The Recording Academy/The GRAMMYs, The Toronto Star, Complex, Billboard, BET, Vibe, UPROXX, Teen VOGUE, ESSENCE, and more. Sinclair is gearing up for the release of the No Longer in the Suburbs [Deluxe Edition] due out this fall. The expanded edition will include several new songs, top tier collaborations, and an explosive remix featuring two of the most promising male vocalists in R&B today. Sinclair has collaborated previously with fellow R&B artists Savannah Ré and Emanuel in addition to award-winning record producers like Boi-1da (Drake, Rihanna, Eminem, Cardi B), Rowan (Bryson Tiller, GIVĒON, Russ), and Marcus Semaj (GIVĒON, Snoh Aalegra, dvsn).
Thursday, August 25: Yah Yah, @say.yahyah (Instagram)
Yah Yah is a gifted singer-songwriter, raised in Atlantic City, NJ, whose vocal abilities have captivated audiences since her adolescent years. With motherhood and marriage in the works, she has made it her mission to set an example for women to show that these milestones add to your journey and don't hinder your ability to be successful. In 2013-2017, she toured with multi-platinum recording artist Shaggy after being featured on his 2013 album "Out Of Many One Music." The Yah Yah name came along at the end of 2019 when she decided it was time to rebrand and take her music to the next level. Since then she has had multiple releases such as "All Bad' and "Gratitude" to name a few. Yah Yah has worked alongside music producers such as Sly and Robbie, Needlz, Dominic Gordon and Ayo & Keyz as an artist and songwriter.
The 2022 ASCAP "On The Come Up" Showcase can be viewed on @ASCAP and @ASCAPUrban Instagram, YouTube channel and the ASCAP website.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business - from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 875,000 members representing more than 16 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. Learn more and stay in touch at www.ascap.com, on Twitter and Instagram @ASCAP and on Facebook.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wincing from abdominal pain, unable to ply his customary relentless style of tennis, Rafael Nadal thought he might need to stop playing in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against Taylor Fritz.
Up in the Centre Court stands, Nadal’s father was waving his arms, motioning to the 22-time Grand Slam champion to quit. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he didn’t listen. Nadal stayed out there, adjusted his service motion and his strategy — and figured out a way to win.
With much of the crowd roaring and standing after Nadal’s best strokes, he twice erased one-set deficits against the 11th-seeded Fritz and emerged with 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) victory Wednesday to reach his eighth semifinal at the All England Club.
“For a lot of moments,” Nadal said, “I was thinking, ‘Maybe I will not be able to finish the match.’”
He did complete it, but said he couldn’t be sure whether he will be able to play Friday against Nick Kyrgios, a 27-year-old Australian who earned his Grand Slam semifinal debut with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over Cristian Garin of Chile.
“I don’t know exactly what I have. It’s clear something’s not right,” said Nadal, who will get tests Thursday for an issue that first cropped up nearly a week ago but got much worse at 3-1 in the first set against Fritz. “I’m obviously worried.”
The other men’s semifinal is Novak Djokovic against Cam Norrie. The women’s semifinals Thursday are 2019 champion Simona Halep against Elena Rybakina, and Ons Jabeur against Tatjana Maria. Halep eliminated Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4, and Rybakina defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Nadal got to his 38th career major semifinal by denying what would have been a first such appearance for Fritz, who beat Nadal in the hard-court final at Indian Wells, California, in March. That ended a 20-match winning streak for Nadal, who was bothered that day by a painful rib injury.
This time, the problem was a muscle in his stomach area, which had some athletic tape. Nadal left the court with a trainer for a medical timeout while up 4-3 in the second set; Fritz paced around the baseline, waiting.
A doctor gave Nadal some pills; the trainer tried to relax the muscle.
“They can’t do much,” Nadal said. “Nothing can be fixed when you have a thing like this.”
When action resumed, Nadal clearly was compromised. It was hard not to think: Might he give up?
Nadal acknowledged that went through his mind. Fritz did, too.
“It definitely made me kind of think. I kind of stopped being as aggressive,” the 24-year-old American said. “I feel like I let it kind of get to me a little bit.”
He pretty much handed over the second set of what would become a 4-hour, 21-minute contest under a sky of slate clouds. After Fritz took the third set, his big serve got broken three times in the next.
Nadal occasionally would watch a ball off Fritz’s orange racket fly by. Nadal couldn’t move the way he usually does. His trademark grunts of “Uhhhh!” were rare. He didn’t generate the usual zip on his serves, which dipped from a high of 120 mph to barely above 100 mph. He sought to end exchanges with a quick-strike forehand or a drop shot — sometimes with success, often not.
But Nadal is not one who concedes easily. This was his 351st Grand Slam match and he has a total of three mid-match retirements at majors (against Andy Murray at the 2010 Australian Open, against Marin Cilic at the 2018 Australian Open, and against Juan Martin del Potro at the 2018 U.S. Open). In all tour-level events, the totals are: 1,275 matches, nine retirements.
“I hate to do it,” Nadal said.
So he summoned his best for last, grabbing a 5-0 lead in the closing tiebreaker — the first-to-10, win-by-two format starting at 6-all in a fifth set is new to Wimbledon this year — and then five of the last six points.
Fritz’s take on the tiebreaker? “Got destroyed,” he said.
“Probably hurts more than any loss I’ve ever had,” Fritz said. “After the match was over, I was sitting there and I felt like crying.”
Nadal extended his unbeaten mark in 2022 Grand Slam matches to 19-0 as he seeks to add a trophy at Wimbledon to his triumphs at the Australian Open in January and French Open in June. For everything he’s accomplished, the 36-year-old Spaniard never has won the first three Slam titles of a season.
Nadal, who won Wimbledon in 2008 and 2010, leads Kyrgios 6-3 head-to-head; they are 1-all at Wimbledon. In 2014, Kyrgios, then just 19 and ranked 144th, announced himself to the world by winning; in 2019, Nadal took the rematch after Kyrgios was at a local pub into the wee hours the night before.
“I feel like that would be a mouth-watering kind of encounter for everyone around the world,” Kyrgios, never afraid of a little hyperbole, said about facing Nadal again. “That would probably be the most-watched match of all time.”
Give Kyrgios credit for honesty on this matter, at least: Even he did not think this day ever would arrive. Kyrgios became the first unseeded and lowest-ranked man to get to the final four at the All England Club since 2008 by playing what, for him, amounts to a restrained and efficient brand of tennis against Garin.
“I thought my ship had sailed,” Kyrgios said. “Obviously, I didn’t go about things great early in my career and may have wasted that little window.”
Kyrgios, who is ranked 40th, has garnered more attention for his behavior on and off the court than his skills with a racket in hand. His match against the unseeded Garin came a day after police in Canberra, Australia, said that Kyrgios is due in court next month to face an allegation of common assault stemming from something that happened in December.
“I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of things I want to say, kind of my side about it,” Kyrgios said at his post-match news conference. “Obviously I’ve been advised by my lawyers that I’m unable to say anything at this time.”
Worth noting, too, is how well Kyrgios has been playing. His serve, in particular, is among the best in the game, regularly topping 130 mph, and he pounded 17 aces against Garin while getting broken just once — in the very first game, at love.
His big forehands are terrific, too, but little else is conventional about Kyrgios. One example: “I don’t have a coach,” Kyrgios said with a smile. “I would never put that burden on someone.”
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Stevens says Aurora could vastly improve drug discovery, which already has been sped up by using computers to scour massive amounts of data before starting experiments in a lab. He envisions being “able to search 20 billion molecules in an hour to find the best one to inhibit a particular protein target. No one’s ever done that.”
Similar techniques can be used in the search for battery materials that are cheaper, more widely available or less toxic.
Artificial intelligence whiz
Stevens, who also is a University of Chicago computer science professor, says Aurora is particularly well suited to artificial intelligence. Coupled with traditional computer simulations, the result will be vastly improved models of everything from weather patterns to robotic surgery.
“For lots of AI problems, we don’t have enough data to train the models,” he says. “We can use the supercomputer to generate enough data where you don’t have enough data naturally.
“Instead of running one simulation of potential climate outcomes — if you augment with AI, you could run 100 or 1,000 different models to better understand the amount of uncertainty. What you want to know with predictions, such as flooding in the Midwest, what’s the uncertainty?”
Researchers have been testing a mini version, or testbed, of Aurora called Sunspot since December in preparation for what will run on the new supercomputer. They’ll begin using Aurora itself in the fall. It will be opened up to the scientific community at large next year.
It’s not just the machine that draws researchers.
“People don’t appreciate that there are problems you run into at 1,000 processors that you don’t encounter on 100 processors,” says Amanda Randles, a Duke University researcher. “There are only a handful of people who have experience at working at those levels.
“The national labs have some of the best coders in the world. There are a lot of incredibly smart people working with cutting-edge toys.”
Aurora was built by chipmaker Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and funded by the Department of Energy. The new computer not only required a new building, but also new power-distribution infrastructure at Argonne.
To keep the supercomputer cool, Argonne uses water, lots of it. About 44,000 gallons are continuously pushed through the machine, which weighs in at about 600 tons, or about as much as an Airbus A380 jumbo jet. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-finishes-aurora-its-fastest-supercomputer | 2023-06-22 21:41:06 | 1 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-finishes-aurora-its-fastest-supercomputer |
RICHMOND, Va. -- We welcome Charlottesville-area food blogger Blair Lonergan, aka The Seasoned Mom, back to the Virginia This Morning Kitchen. Today she shared her Buffalo Chicken Chili recipe! For more inspiration and great recipes, visit the website.
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Lyme disease vaccine trials planned for Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are garnering a lot of interest, according to officials on the Vineyard.
“A lot of people are calling, trying to find out how they can sign up for the study,” said Maura Valley, health agent in Tisbury.
“It would be great to have this vaccine available to people, just because Lyme disease is so prevalent on the island,” she said.
The Islands have been selected among other sites for the trials.
The vaccine, called VLA15, is being developed by French vaccine company Valneva and Pfizer.
Patrick Roden-Reynolds, director of the Martha’s Vineyard tick program, said he’s glad to see the trials happening on the Islands.
“Tick-borne disease is a major problem here,” he said.
The Islands have a much higher rate of tick-borne disease than the state as a whole, he said.
Last year, the rate of emergency room visits for tick exposure in Dukes and Nantucket Counties was more than five times that of the next-highest county, Berkshire County, according to state data.
For the Phase 3 trials, researchers are looking for participants as young as age 5. Adults and children who volunteer will receive either the vaccine or a placebo.
Valley said participants are expected to receive their first dose in August or September, then another about 60 days later and a third in the spring.
VLA15 is the only Lyme disease vaccine currently in clinical development, according to Pfizer.
The trials are expected to last about 2.5 years.
Then, the vaccine goes to a CDC advisory committee for review.
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As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a better life. So two weeks after high school graduation in 1998, at age 18, he joined the U.S. Army.
During nine years of service that included two tours in Iraq, Dabney was a combat medical specialist. But after he left the Army in 2007 and returned to Memphis, married with children, he struggled to see what he’d gained from his service.
“I had exchanged my youth, ambition and vigor for a future that is limited just because of my mental health,” said Dabney, who was formally diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in 2013.
His experience seeking treatment through the veterans health care system was plagued with challenges, he said. After navigating the system as a Black veteran, he wondered if he might help others find more culturally competent services that the federal government seemed ill-equipped to provide.
Testimonies like Dabney’s will be shared at the first-ever national policy conference for Black veterans in Washington on Thursday. Representatives from nearly 20 advocacy groups for service members of color plan to collaborate on a legislative agenda to address longstanding racial, economic and social inequities facing more than 2 million Black American veterans.
“For many people from Black and brown (veterans) communities, we’re starting from a different place in life,” the 42-year-old war veteran said. “Being able to talk to people who started from that place, who have a mindset similar to yours as they went through the military, has a different meaning to us.”
In addition to disparities in the military justice system, homelessness, and unemployment, federal veterans benefits data show Black service members’ post-Sept. 11 disability claims have been granted at lower rates than their white counterparts. Advocates say racial inequality in veterans' benefit access stifles or, worse, upends the lives of those who proudly served their country.
“The system isn’t accommodating us, we’re accommodating it,” said Victor LaGroon, chairman of the Black Veterans Empowerment Council, which organized Thursday’s conference. “We’ve got to have these systemic and legislative discussions because, until there’s full transparency and accountability, people are going to continue to skirt the issues.”
Slated speakers include the secretaries of the Veterans Affairs and Labor departments, as well as officials from some state and local veterans service agencies.
Richard Brookshire, a former Army combat medic who served in the Afghanistan War, said a major goal of the conference is to help the Black veterans community coalesce around “what’s actionable” in a broader agenda that also targets historic inequity that dates back to Black veterans serving in World War II.
“There needs to be a critical mass in the Black veteran community to demand it,” said Brookshire, who co-founded the Black Veterans Project. “The seed has been planted and we’re going to begin to see the tree bear fruit.”
The Black Veterans Empowerment Council was formed in 2020, amid the national reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd by police, as a roundtable of Black veterans groups meant to advise the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Council members said part of their work over the last two years has been acquiring data to prove how Black veterans have unequal access to the benefits system.
According to Veterans Benefits Administration records analyzed by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School and reviewed by The Associated Press, there are statistically significant differences in disability claim outcomes for Black and white veterans. Although disability claim approval rates are low across the board, they are significantly lower for Black veterans.
Between 2002 and 2020, Black veterans had the lowest claim approval rate, at 30.3%, when compared to their non-Black counterparts. White veterans had 37.1% of their claims approved, while Hispanic veterans had an approval rate of 36% and Asian or Pacific Islander veterans had a rate of 30.7%.
Linda Mann, co-founder of the African American Redress Network at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, led a group of students that did an additional analysis on the benefits data. According to their findings, disparities in how Black veterans are rated on the severity of their condition amounted to lower disability compensation and decreased eligibility for other VA benefits.
These findings build on historic racial inequities in veterans benefits that stretch back to integration of the armed services in the late 1940s. Black service members who fought in World War II were either denied or prevented from taking full advantage of housing and educational benefits through the GI Bill. Black veterans of the Korean War had similar experiences with the program. Advocates say the generational effects of that discrimination, in terms of wealth, are still being felt today.
“What most people would usually say is we went through the civil rights movement and things are better,” Mann said, but that was not borne out by the Freedom of Information Act statistics the advocacy groups received.
“The continued inequity on the part of the military and VA tracked in not only the FOIA data that we looked at, but also in the practices and policies,” Mann said.
The VA did not provide comment in time for publication.
Last year, the Black Veterans Project and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress sued the VA over its Freedom of Information Act requests for benefits data by race. They won the access. In April, the White House released a summary of the VA’s equity action plan, in which the agency acknowledged race and gender disparities for veteran benefit access.
Dabney ultimately did blaze a better path for himself, going on to college and becoming a hospital chaplain in Chicago. But it took overcoming a descent into alcoholism, infidelity and self-neglect before he found his calling.
After his diagnosis for PTSD and depression, he was connected to mental health counseling services through the VA at a community-based outpatient center near Chicago. The assigned counselor, a white woman, frustrated Dabney because he felt she could not relate to the complexities of his identities as a war veteran and a Black man from rough beginnings in Memphis.
“I got to the point where I would just say ‘Yes. Yes, that’s it,’” Dabney recalled. “Instead of me advocating for myself, I began to mold what I said based on what I thought that they could understand. In doing so, I wasn’t able to really open up and present my full self to them.”
He was ready to give up, but what he really needed was a peer encouraging him to stick with it, he said.
Now, Dabney manages a peer apprentice program at the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance in Chicago. The program helps other Black veterans through a growing network of peer-directed mental health resources.
“It’s those relationships that encourage individuals to seek further help, to seek help from clinicians,” Dabney said.
Walidah Bennett, founder and director of a multi-faith veterans initiative at DePaul University in Chicago is working to provide Black churches and clergy with resources to serve veterans in their congregations.
Bennett's son, a veteran of the Iraq War named Saad Muhammad, died by suicide in 2013, and in the 10 years since his death, she has established 15 community sites for veterans in crisis. Suicide rates among Black veterans have been on the rise, increasing from 11.8% to 14.5% between 2001 and 2019, though rates remain highest among white veterans, according to the VA's 2021 annual report on veteran suicide prevention.
“Had we had the community spaces that we have today, it could have been very helpful to my son,” Bennett said.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calliditas Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq: CALT, Nasdaq Stockholm: CALTX) ("Calliditas") today announced that its European commercial partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG, has launched the first and only approved treatment in the EU for primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN), a rare, progressive disease of the kidneys with a high unmet need. STADA will initially launch in Germany with additional European countries to follow.
"We are excited that STADA is in the position to swiftly launch this product in Europe, starting with the German market. To bring an approved medication to patients suffering from this rare disease has been our focus since we started this endeavor well over a decade ago," said Calliditas CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander.
Calliditas received conditional approval in July from the European Commission for the development candidate Nefecon, providing the first and only approved treatment alternative for adult patients with IgAN at risk of rapid disease progression with a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) ≥1.5 g/gram. The conditional marketing authorization, which has now been transferred to STADA, applies in all 27 European Union Member States as well as Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. This is the first orphan medicine introduced through STADA's Specialty Care business unit.
"Making this product available to primary IgAN patients in Europe brings for the first time a therapeutic option to an under-served patient population," commented STADA CEO Peter Goldschmidt. "The launch of STADA's first orphan Specialty medicine is evidence of how STADA is bringing additional value to patients, healthcare professionals and health systems through a broad portfolio of Specialty, Generics and Consumer Healthcare products."
In Germany, the lead launch market, 3.1 people per 100,000 develop IgAN each year, a frequency slightly higher than the 2.5 per 100,000 which is the estimated global incidence.[1]
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About Calliditas
Calliditas Therapeutics is a commercial stage biopharma company based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product, developed under the name Nefecon, has been granted accelerated approval by the FDA under the trade name TARPEYOTM and conditional marketing authorization by the European Commission under the trade name KINPEYGO®. KINPEYGO is being commercialized in the European Union Member States by Calliditas' partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG. Additionally, Calliditas is conducting a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis and a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial in head and neck cancer with its NOX inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. Calliditas' common shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
About STADA Arzneimittel AG
STADA Arzneimittel AG is headquartered in Bad Vilbel, Germany. The company focuses on a three-pillar strategy consisting of generics, specialty pharma and non-prescription consumer healthcare products. Worldwide, STADA Arzneimittel AG sells its products in approximately 120 countries. In financial year 2021, STADA achieved group sales of EUR 3,249.5 million and reported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of EUR 776.5 million. As of 31 December 2021, STADA employed 12,520 people worldwide.
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[1] O'Shaughnessy MM et al. Glomerular disease frequencies by race, sex and region: Results from the International Kidney Biopsy Survey. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011; 26(2): 414-430
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case, according to court records filed days after the federal government said it wouldn’t seek the death penalty in the case.
Patrick Crusius is still charged in state court with capital murder and could still face the death penalty in Texas if convicted in the 2019 mass shooting that killed 23 people.
In a court filing Saturday, defense attorneys asked for a hearing to be set so Crusius could plead guilty to federal charges. He was charged with federal hate crimes and firearms violations.
U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama, in an order Monday, set the hearing for Feb. 8 in El Paso.
Crusius surrendered to police after the attack, saying, “I’m the shooter, ” and that he was targeting Mexicans, according to an arrest warrant. Prosecutors have said he published a screed online shortly before the shooting that said it was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
The Aug. 3, 2019, shooting happened on a busy weekend day at a Walmart that is typically popular with shoppers from Mexico and the U.S. In addition to those who died, more than two dozen were injured. Many were citizens of Mexico.
El Paso is a largely Hispanic city that forms an international metro area with Ciudad Juarez with more than 2 million people. On the U.S. side, suburbs stretch into New Mexico.
Although the federal and state cases have progressed along parallel tracks, it’s unclear when Crusius might face trial on state charges. A status hearing in the state case was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, according to court records.
The district attorney who had been leading the state case, Yvonne Rosales, resigned in November over accusations of incompetence involving hundreds of cases in El Paso and slowing down the case against Crusius. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last month appointed a new district attorney to “restore confidence” in the local criminal justice system. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-walmart-shooting-suspect-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges/ | 2023-01-25 03:47:24 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-walmart-shooting-suspect-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges/ |
One of the popular holiday shows on the theatrical scene remains "The Nutcracker." For many people, the season just isn't the same, if "The Nutcracker" is included on their show agenda.
The Joffrey Ballet continues its production of "The Nutcracker" through Dec. 27 at The Lyric Opera House, which is the troupe's current home. The ballet company offers an exuberant and beautiful production of the holiday classic.
The ballet, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, features a twist on the traditional ballet. This re-imagined version debuted in 2016.
Wheeldon's "The Nutcracker" places its setting in Chicago at the time of The Colombian Exposition. Instead of focusing on Clara, who is from a well to do family, the story features Marie, who is from a poor, hard-working immigrant family.
During a dream, Marie goes on a journey with a life-size Nutcracker and the Impressario, who presides over the fair. They travel to the World's Fair and visit the various ethnic pavilions there.
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"The Nutcracker" is a stunning show delivered by the powerful troupe of dancers in The Joffrey Ballet. In addition to strong performances, the production stars bright, colorful sets.
The Joffrey Ballet, which features a number of new dancers this season, remains a world class troupe.
In "The Nutcracker," various scenes are a delight to watch including the assortment of ethnic-inspired dances; the Mother Nutcracker segment; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; and more. Make plans to see this seasonal delight.
FYI: "The Nutcracker" performed by The Joffrey Ballet, runs through Dec. 27 at The Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago. Visit joffrey.org for tickets.
Gallery: Indiana Ballet Theatre to present 'Kaliedoscope'
Members of the cast of Indiana Ballet Theatre's 'Kaliedoscope' dance concert fine tuned their performance Friday evening at The Hoosier Theatre in Whiting.
Photos by John Luke, The Times
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers run through a dress rehearsal Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show, which will be presented Saturday. Amand…
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday at the Hoosier Theatre for their big "Kaliedoscope" show, which will be presented Saturday. Ama…
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show, which will be presented Saturday. Amanda Tuohy produced and …
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Indiana Ballet Theatre’s Sara Eichmeier performs during the dress rehearsal Friday at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting as dancers rehearse for t…
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers prepare for a dress rehearsal backstage at the Hoosier Theatre. Their big "Kaliedoscope" show, will be presente…
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers during a walk-through at the Hoosier Theatre as they prepare for a dress rehearsal Friday of their big "Kaliedo…
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers take a break prior to a dress rehearsal Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show, which will be presented Satur…
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
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Amanda Tuohy, producer and director, onstage at the Hoosier Theatre Friday as she and Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse for their big "K…
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Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers take a break as they watch the opening video prior to a dress rehearsal Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" sho…
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big Kaliedoscope show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers during a walk-through at the Hoosier Theatre as they prepare for a dress rehearsal Friday of their big "Kaliedo…
Indiana Ballet Theatre rehearsal,
Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse Friday for their big "Kaliedoscope" show at the Hoosier Theatre in Whiting, which will be presented Saturday.
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Amanda Tuohy, producer and director, at the Hoosier Theatre Friday as she and Indiana Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse for their big "Kaliedosc…
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SYNB2081 is the second clinical drug candidate developed through the partnership between Ginkgo and Synlogic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BOSTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing medicines for metabolic and immunological diseases through its proprietary approach to synthetic biology, today announced a new drug candidate for the treatment of gout developed in partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming. The new candidate, SYNB2081, is a Synthetic Biotic and is the second product to advance to clinical development through a research collaboration between Synlogic and Ginkgo, following the investigational new drug candidate SYNB1353 for the potential treatment of homocystinuria (HCU).
Gout is a complex form of inflammatory arthritis that occurs when excess uric acid in the body forms crystals in the joints. Patients experience symptoms such as intense joint pain, inflammation and redness, and limited range of motion in the affected joints. Current treatment options present limitations in both safety and efficacy, highlighting a need for new approaches. In addition, gout is a recognized risk factor in chronic kidney disease. SYNB2081 is a Synthetic Biotic designed to lower uric acid.
"With our second drug candidate into clinical development, this not only demonstrates the value of combining Ginkgo's platform with our Synthetic Biotic platform, but also highlights the potential to develop Synthetic Biotics across a range of diseases, giving us the potential to provide meaningful new treatment options to patients in need," said Dr. David Hava, Chief Scientific Officer, Synlogic.
SYNB2081 is named after one of the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens in the world. Nicknamed "Sue," the specimen is housed at the Field Museum in Chicago and is officially named FMNH PR 2081. Data from "Sue" suggests that dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex suffered from gout much in the same way as other reptiles and birds do.
"The advancement of SYNB2081 and SYNB1353 are clear indicators of the transformative platform Synlogic has created to develop new Synthetic Biotics through synthetic biology," said Patrick Boyle, Head of Codebase for Ginkgo. "We're honored to work with the Synlogic team in this pioneering next step to potentially help patients living with gout. As we've seen the Synlogic pipeline develop over the past year, we're eager to continue supporting Synlogic in generating additional therapeutic candidates."
Synlogic is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing medicines through its proprietary approach to synthetic biology. Synlogic's pipeline includes its lead program in phenylketonuria (PKU), which has demonstrated proof of concept with plans to start a pivotal, Phase 3 study in the first half of 2023, and additional novel drug candidates designed to treat homocystinuria (HCU) and enteric hyperoxaluria. The rapid advancement of these potential biotherapeutics, called Synthetic Biotics, has been enabled by Synlogic's reproducible, target-specific drug design. Synlogic uses programmable, precision genetic engineering of well-characterized probiotics to exert localized activity for therapeutic benefit, with a focus on metabolic and immunologic diseases. In addition to its clinical programs, Synlogic has a research collaboration with Roche on the discovery of a novel Synthetic Biotic for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Synlogic has also developed two drug candidates through a research collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks: SYNB1353, designed to consume methionine for the potential treatment of HCU, and SYNB2081, designed to lower uric acid for the potential treatment of gout. For additional information visit www.synlogictx.com.
Ginkgo is building a platform to enable customers to program cells as easily as we can program computers. The company's platform is enabling biotechnology applications across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to industrial chemicals to pharmaceuticals. Ginkgo has also actively supported a number of COVID-19 response efforts, including K-12 pooled testing, vaccine manufacturing optimization and therapeutics discovery. For more information, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Indiana Fever are just focusing on this season and not dwelling on the past.
Indiana (0-2) lost its 20th consecutive game dating to last year with Sunday’s 90-73 loss to New York. That tied the Tulsa Shock for the longest losing skid in WNBA history. Indiana also owns the third-longest losing streak
“We poured our mess out in our first team meeting,” Indiana first-year head coach Christie Sides said. “We’re not talking about last year. We’ve got to figure out how to find that win.”
Indiana hopes that victory comes next Sunday in its next game when the Fever visit Atlanta.
“(We’re) 0-2. That’s all that matters,” Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell said. “I can’t help what history says. (Stinks) to be a part of it. I feel we are in transition and changing and I do my best to lean on that.”
Mitchell was part of the team last season that lost its final 18 games. She already feels a shift in the organization.
“Culture has been big for our program and organization,” she said. “I think from an internal standpoint, we’ve changed in such a positive way.”
With nine first- and second-year players on the roster, including No. 1 pick Aliyah Boston, the Fever are excited for the future. Boston, who had a tremendous amount of success in college playing for Dawn Staley at South Carolina, had 15 points in Sunday’s loss.
“I’d say there is nothing but positivity around here right now,” said Fever second-year forward NaLyssa Smith, who had 16 points and 12 rebounds Sunday. “Everyone is excited for our future.”
While the team knows the future is bright, Sides wasn’t happy with the present. Indiana got off to another slow start for a third straight game.
The Fever trailed New York by 22 after one quarter. That came after Indiana was down by nine at the end of the first quarter against Connecticut in the opener Friday. Indiana also struggled in a preseason game against Dallas, getting off to a slow start as well.
“This is our third straight start where we got off to a bad start in the first quarter,” Sides said. “We can’t keep digging ourselves a hole in the first quarter.”
Sides also wasn’t happy with the defensive effort of her team.
“If you can’t play defense you can’t play for the Fever,” she said. “At this point, we’ve got to establish our defense at the defensive end of the court. That’s what we’re going to do and there’s going to be five people that are gonna play in the game that can do that.”
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque health insurance company is the new home to two colonies of bees. 120,000 bees are now abuzz at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico headquarters near Ballon Fiesta Park.
The bees will collect nectar and help pollinate local flowers and crops in the metro. The honey they produced will also be harvested each fall and shared among employees. “The bees and their health are always a direct reflection of their environment. They’re going to see that direct correlation to the impact they have on the environment around them and their own bees health,” said Amy Owen, beekeeper.
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed in Monday trading as momentum faded from last week’s rally on Wall Street amid varied sentiments about coronavirus restrictions easing in China and global interest rate increases.
Benchmarks fell in Japan and South Korea, while rising in China. Analysts say some investors are being cheered by signs inflation is abating in the U.S. earlier than initially thought, while they warn factors remain that could refuel inflation, including geopolitical risks.
“But it is far too hasty to declare a decisive conclusion to inflation risks,” said Venkateswaran Lavanya at Mizuho Bank.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.8% in morning trading to 28,047.58. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% to 7,163.10. South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.2% to 2,479.52. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 2.1% to 17,688.84, while the Shanghai Composite rose 0.4% to 3,099.19.
“We also have the Democrats holding the Senate while the Republicans look likely to control the House. Policy paralysis at a time of economic crisis is not a good look for what may lay ahead over the next two years. The current stock rally may have only days to run,” said Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities, referring to the U.S. midterm election results.
Wall Street closed last week with a rally, amid hopes inflation pressures had eased. That would make the Federal Reserve less likely to keep raising interest rates. But some analysts said the Wall Street rally was overdone.
The S&P 500 rose 36.56 points, or 5.5%, for its best day in more than two years, to 3,992.93. Its 5.9% gain for the week was its third in the last four and its biggest since June.
The Dow rose 32.49, or 0.1%, to 33,747.86, and the Nasdaq climbed 209.18, or 1.9%, to 11.323.33. Both also notched hefty gains for the week.
Markets are getting a boost from China’s relaxing some of its strict anti-COVID measures, which have been hurting the world’s second-largest economy. Easing of restrictions translates to potentially more growth in China, a definite plus for the Asian region.
A report last week showed inflation in the United States slowed by more than expected last month. The Fed has already lifted its key overnight interest rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, up from basically zero in March. The likely scenario is still for further hikes into next year.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude gained 22 cents to $89.18 a barrel. U.S. crude gaining 2.9% to $88.96 per barrel Friday. Brent crude, the international standard, added 29 cents to $96.28 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 139.20 Japanese yen from 138.76 yen. The euro cost $1.0391, down from $1.0356.
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SUN LAKES, Arizona (AP) — Heat waves fueled by climate change are arriving earlier, growing more intense and lasting longer, creating higher risks of illness and death for older people who are especially vulnerable to hot weather.
In America’s hottest big metro, older people accounted for most of the people who died last summer in broiling heat inside their homes, almost all without air conditioning. The heat dangers well known in greater Phoenix are becoming known familiar nationwide.
Some takeaways:
WHY ARE OLDER PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM THE HEAT?
People ages 60 and over tend to have more chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and kidney problems than younger people. Those conditions can be made worse by high temperatures because as the heat index rises, it becomes harder to cool off the body.
Medicines that many older people use to treat chronic ailments, such as diuretics for high blood pressure, can also make them more vulnerable to the heat.
Older people can have mobility issues, which can make it hard to get help when it is needed during an extreme heat event. And they tend to live alone and be more socially isolated, which means other people may not know they are in distress and provide the relief they need before it is too late.
HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE FIGURE INTO THIS?
Global warming is leading to more intense and longer lasting heat waves in areas once accustomed to milder weather, with one study showing that dangerous heat in the coming years will increasingly hit many parts of the world at least three times as hard as climate change worsens.
Another study in recent years estimated more than a third of U.S. heat deaths each year can be attributed to human-caused global warming. It found more than 1,100 deaths a year from climate change-caused heat in U.S. cities where people often don’t have air conditioning or are not acclimated to hot weather.
WHAT ARE NOTABLE EXAMPLES OF HEAT-ASSOCIATED DEATHS?
The most dramatic example of a deadly heat-associated disaster in the United States occurred in Chicago in 1995. That summer, more than 700 people, most of them older Black people, died alone in apartments that were transformed into ovens.
Also in Chicago, three African American women in their 60s and 70s died in spring 2022 when the centrally controlled heating in their housing complex remained on and the air conditioning was off despite unseasonable 90-degree (32 C) weather in mid-May.
An undetermined number of older people died during the summer of 2021 when an unexpected heat wave swept across the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Canada reported that coroners confirmed more than 600 people died from the heat in neighboring British Columbia.
HOW CAN OLDER PEOPLE BE BETTER PROTECTED FROM THE HEAT?
Phoenix and many other U.S. cities have long had plans in place to protect people during heat waves, usually by taking steps like opening cooling centers and distributing bottled water.
Health clinics, utilities and local governments are finding new ways to help keep older people safe when temperatures soar.
The clinics are working to improve communication with at-risk people living alone so they know how to better handle the exteme heat. Local governments and n on-profit organizations also try to help with free repair or replacement of non-functioning air conditioners for low-income people.
In some jurisdictions, low-income people can also find private or public funds to pay utility bills so they can keep their air conditioning running. Regulations and laws proposed after extreme heat deaths of older people in metro Phoenix and Chicago can also help keep the air conditioning on.
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Ben Shelton 2023 Mallorca Championships Odds
Ben Shelton meets Christopher Eubanks to begin play in the Mallorca Championships in Mallorca, Philippines (in the round of 16). In his last tournament (the cinch Championships), he was knocked out by Lorenzo Musetti in the round of 16. Shelton has the fifth-best odds (+750) to be crowned champion at Country Club Santa Ponsa.
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Shelton at the 2023 Mallorca Championships
- Next Round: Round of 16
- Tournament Dates: June 23 - July 1
- Venue: Country Club Santa Ponsa
- Location: Mallorca, Philippines
- Court Surface: Grass
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Shelton's Next Match
Shelton will play Eubanks in the round of 16 of the Mallorca Championships on Wednesday, June 28 at 6:00 AM ET.
Shelton currently has odds of -155 to win his next contest against Eubanks. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Shelton Stats
- In his previous tournament, the cinch Championships, Shelton was beaten in the Round of 16 by No. 16-ranked Musetti, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6.
- Through 18 tournaments over the past year, Shelton is yet to win a title, and his overall record is 12-18.
- Shelton has not won any of his one tournaments on grass over the past year, with a match record of 1-1 on that surface.
- Through 30 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Shelton has played 28.9 games per match. He won 49.0% of them.
- On grass, Shelton has played two matches over the past year, and he has totaled 28.0 games per match while winning 50.0% of games.
- Shelton, over the past 12 months, has won 81.9% of his service games and 16.7% of his return games.
- On grass over the past year, Shelton has claimed 85.2% of his service games and 17.2% of his return games.
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NEW YORK and DEARBORN, Mich., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JDRF, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, announces the launch of the 2022 vehicle sweepstakes for JDRF. This year one lucky winner will win Ford's highly anticipated new electric F-150® Lightning™.
"Building on the excitement around F-150 Lightning is an excellent way to help JDRF fund research and help find a cure for type 1 diabetes," said Linda Zhang, F-150 Lightning chief program engineer. "One lucky individual will win an F-150 Lightning, but being involved in helping to raise funds and awareness for JDRF is a big win for everyone."
Launched on April 26, 2022, the F-150® Lightning™ is the smartest, most innovative F-150 Ford has ever built, with the freedom of a 10-kilowatt smart power plant on wheels and software updates that will make it even better over time.
"For more than 25 years, the Ford Motor Company's generosity has helped raise awareness of type 1 diabetes and support the funding of transformative research," said Katie Doyle, JDRF Assistant Vice President of Corporate Development. "JDRF is proud of this longstanding partnership and thankful for the continued support."
As they have in past sweepstakes, Ford Motor Company has donated the grand prize vehicle to JDRF.
Eligible donations start at $10, with all proceeds going to support the JDRF mission to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications. The annual fundraiser, which has raised nearly $2,000,000 to date, will conclude following National Diabetes Awareness Month with a drawing on December 1, 2022, from Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
To make a donation and view the sweepstakes please visit, winfordlightning.com.
The prized 2022 Ford F-150® Lightning™ Lariat will feature:
- Extended Range Battery with an EPA estimated range of 320 miles
- Dual Electric Motors: 580 horsepower and 775 lb.-ft. of torque
- Mega Power Frunk: 400-liter lockable, drainable front trunk
- Leather-trimmed heated and ventilated front seats
- Heated Rear seats
- Power Tailgate with Unique Rear Signature Lighting
- SYNC® 4A with 15.5-inch touchscreen
- Geometric Gray-Ion satin grille
- 20-inch Dark Carbonized Gray wheels
- Pro Power OnBoard - 9.6 kW with 11 outlets available
- Ford Charge Station Pro Included – 80 amp power delivery
- Twin Panel Moon Roof
About JDRF
JDRF's mission is to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications. To accomplish this, JDRF has invested more than $2.5 billion in research funding since our inception. We are an organization built on a grassroots model of people connecting in their local communities, collaborating regionally for efficiency and broader fundraising impact, and uniting on a national stage to pool resources, passion, and energy. We collaborate with academic institutions, policymakers, and corporate and industry partners to develop and deliver a pipeline of innovative therapies to people living with T1D. Our staff and volunteers throughout the United States and our five international affiliates are dedicated to advocacy, community engagement and our vision of a world without T1D. For more information, please visit jdrf.org or follow us on Twitter (@JDRF), Facebook (@myjdrf), and Instagram (@jdrfhq).
About Type 1 Diabetes
T1D is an autoimmune disease in which a person's pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to get energy from food. It occurs when the body's immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, called beta cells. While its causes are not yet entirely understood, scientists believe that both genetic factors and environmental triggers are involved. Its onset has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle. There is nothing you can do to prevent T1D, and—at present—nothing you can do to get rid of it.
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Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He grew up in a suburb of Seattle, where his father scraped by as a construction worker and his mother taught dance.
But everything changed when he finally got a fiddle for his eleventh birthday. He had begged for the instrument for three years, until his parents were finally able to purchase one for $50 from a local musician.
"I had a sense that I could communicate what I was thinking through it, through the music. I sensed the joy and the depth of it," O'Connor tells NPR's Leila Fadel. "Right away, I was attracted to the blues music on the fiddle, which ends up having an incredible history going back hundreds of years... I was really living this folk music history, even as a young child."
It was the start of a journey against the odds chronicled in O'Connor's memoir published this month, Crossing Bridges, with its accompanying photo book and CD of childhood recordings.
O'Connor, who already had a couple years of classical and flamenco guitar playing behind him, at first picked up tunes by ear, "self-taught, self-motivated to learn." He quickly caught the attention of Benny Thomasson, who helped develop the Texas style of fiddling and just happened to have retired in another part of Washington state. O'Connor would spend his weekends learning from the Texan master.
Thomasson "taught me creatively and really pushed me to come up with my own improvisations, my own renditions of old tunes," O'Connor recalls. "This is such a fantastic way to express for a child to have a unique voice already without even having to really try and search for it, because he encouraged it. And my mother did, too."
The musician, who has gone on to develop his own method of teaching fiddling based on American folk music, stressed the importance that mentors can play in the life of a child by breaking down barriers.
"It was really the creativity that enabled me to have an enjoyable life in music where I would have been just possibly another child prodigy, kind of washed up by the time they were 16 or 17 and burnt out because it was all about technical issues," he said. "With fiddling, it was half chops and half the the heart and soul of it. And that was the magic."
Within the space of a year, O'Connor racked up wins at fiddling contests across the country, made his Nashville debut at the Grand Ole Opry and became the youngest musician to sign a contract with Rounder Records.
As a teen, O'Connor outperformed amateur and professional musicians many times his age – on the fiddle as well as on guitar and mandolin. He was such a serial winner that the National Guitar Flatpicking Championships instituted the "Mark O'Connor Rule," a five-year ban for winners, after he won that contest the second time in a row.
O'Connor eschewed traditional categories, shifting from bluegrass and country to jazz and rock, joining the David Grisman Quintet and Dixie Dregs (previously known as The Dregs), as well as touring with renowned French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. He collaborated with fellow musicians like Wynton Marsalis, Dolly Parton, Jonny Cash and James Taylor.
He also branched out into classical, composing symphonies and concertos played by orchestras from Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and London. O'Connor says his Fiddle Concerto has been performed more than any other violin concerto composed in the last 60 years.
He's also shared the Carnegie Hall stage with leading classical violinists Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Midori. An album featuring a recording of his own "Appalachia Waltz" with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Edgar Meyer topped the Billboard classical music chart in 1996. And the fiddler composed a piece performed by competitors for the 2021 Menuhin International Violin Competition that he dedicated to the late star violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
But O'Connor's remarkable journey was filled with challenges: violent outbursts from his alcoholic father at home, severe bullying at school and jealousy on the road. These struggles also prevented him from experiencing stage fright.
"I was predisposed back home to be fearful of most things. It turned out that music allowed me to not be frightened. It was a revelation that my life could change in this way," he writes in the memoir.
I"I wanted to write this book about creating an escape for troubled children through the arts, through music," he says, "because it's a way to get out of your fraught household or hard, difficult times at school or with friends and and music, which transported me to a better place as a little kid."
When O'Connor first began collecting prizes, he faced taunts from his classmates for playing the fiddle that sometimes turned violent. In one incident, a group of five or six older kids beat him up and left him in a cast on his right leg for two months. A few years later, some of those kids had snuck into the building and sat in the back of the music room as O'Connor played.
"I realized how powerful music is. I didn't even have to say a word to them. I could just play my music for them," O'Connor said. "And I often wondered that if more children carried an instrument around, how much safer they could be, because I think that music is a connector in our society."
This interview was conducted by Leila Fadel, produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Olivia Hampton. To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player at the top of this page.
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EPA proposes first-ever limit on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Posted/updated on: March 14, 2023 at 12:43 pm(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- The Environmental Protection Agency proposed its first-ever rule to reduce the prevalence of PFAS chemicals in drinking water Tuesday, taking the first step to require cities to test for the so-called "forever chemicals."
"Today, I am thrilled to announce that EPA is taking yet another bold step to protect public health. I'm so proud to announce that EPA is proposing the first ever national standard to protect communities from PFAS in drinking water. This is something that communities like Wilmington have been demanding for years. And today we're finally answering those calls," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said at the announcement in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The type of chemicals known as PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluorolalkyl substances, have become ubiquitous in modern life, used in everything from household products like nonstick pans, waterproof clothing and furniture to industrial uses like military-grade firefighting foam and manufacturing. They're often nicknamed "forever chemicals" because they can stay in the environment or in the human body for a long time once they're introduced.
The proposed EPA rule will regulate two of the oldest these chemicals -- PFOA and PFOS -- as well as a mixture of four other chemicals in this category including GenX, which has been detected in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
"It's the resilient and durable qualities that make these chemicals so useful in everyday life. But it's also what makes them particularly harmful to people in the environment," Regan said Tuesday. "What began as a so-called miracle groundbreaking technology meant for practicality and convenience, quickly devolved into one of the most pressing environmental and public health concerns in the modern world."
Long-term exposure to certain types of PFAS, which can accumulate in the body over time, "have been linked to serious illnesses, including cancer, liver damage and high cholesterol," according to Regan.
PFOA and PFOS will be limited at a maximum level of four parts per trillion, meaning any water system that identifies levels above that would need to notify residents and take actions to get levels at least down to at least that level. The EPA previously recommended that anything above 70 parts per trillion is considered unsafe, but it lowered that health advisory level last year.
There hasn't been national testing to determine how many Americans have this level of the chemicals in their water, but the EPA estimates that 3,400-6,300 water systems serving 70-94 million people use water that contains PFAS levels above what will be allowed under this rule.
The agency says the rule will prevent thousands of deaths and reduce tens of thousands of illnesses attributable to PFAS if fully implemented.
The American Chemistry Council, a trade group that represents the industry that makes these chemicals, says it supports drinking water limits on PFOS and PFOA but disagrees with the science EPA used to decide on the maximum limits.
"PFOA and PFOS were phased out of production by our members more than eight years ago. We support restrictions on their use globally, and we support drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS based on the best available science," ACC said in a statement. "However, we have serious concerns with the underlying science used to develop these proposed MCLs and have previously challenged the EPA based on the process used to develop that science."
Many advocates and experts applauded EPA's rule as a critically important step but said they still want to see the agency regulate all 12,000 chemicals in the PFAS category and hold the companies who make the chemicals and caused PFAS pollution accountable.
"EPA's groundbreaking proposal to regulate six PFAS 'forever chemicals' for the first time is crucially important. We have a five-alarm fire. Setting strong standards will help ensure the fundamental right of every family to have safe water flowing from their kitchen tap. We must crack down on PFAS polluters. They should be required to halt further pollution, clean up the contamination they've already caused, and pay to treat PFAS-contaminated drinking water," Erik Olson, senior strategic director for health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
Regan said the Biden administration has also made $9 billion available as a "shot in the harm" to help public water systems start to address this issue.
The EPA rule will be published for public comment and could be revised. Regan said he plans to finalize it by the end of this year.
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Projects in Danville and Freeport commence construction, will sell power to commercial, municipal and residential customers
JERSEY CITY, N.J., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Soltage, an independent power producer, announced today the construction of three solar projects developed under the Illinois Community Solar Program.
"We are proud to begin construction on an additional portfolio of projects in the great state of Illinois," said Jon Cole, Soltage's Senior Vice President of Development. "Customers who subscribe to these projects receive significant savings on their electricity bills, as well as price certainty over time as these projects will be running for many decades." These solar projects, located in the cities of Freeport and Danville, demonstrate Soltage's continuing commitment to build out clean energy infrastructure to serve Illinois customers. The addition of these projects brings Soltage's community solar portfolio in the state to eleven individual assets.
Subscribers to these solar projects will include local commercial, municipal, and residential energy consumers who Soltage is serving alongside longtime Illinois partner MC Squared Energy Services. These three projects, once constructed, are anticipated to provide over 10,000 MWh of renewable energy per year and operate for a minimum of 40 years.
These projects aim to integrate both renewable energy and ecological restoration by incorporating native vegetation beneath the solar panels. The operational protocols for these solar projects feature 27 unique varieties of low profile and pollinator friendly native vegetation planted across over 20 acres of land. In addition to producing clean energy, the projects will serve as a critical habitat for local flora and fauna.
The Illinois Community Solar Program was established in 2018 by the Future Energy Jobs Act to support the development of new photovoltaic distributed generation and community solar projects in Illinois. A component of the program, Climate and Equitable Jobs Act obligates the Illinois Commerce Commission to take various actions to implement new programs, initiatives, and directives to further the State's goals of transitioning the State to 100% clean energy.
Soltage is a leader in the development, financing and operation of distributed utility-scale solar and storage assets for utility, commercial, industrial and municipal customers across the United States. Soltage has developed more than 125 clean energy projects with more than 450 MW total distributed generating capacity under construction and management. Soltage is backed by a group of investors including Prudential Capital Group and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.soltage.com.
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Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday concluded the 2023 legislative session that was marked by tax cut measures and ended with the shelving of some controversial measures, including a bill that would make it a crime to help a non-family member fill out an absentee ballot.
Republican and Democratic leaders cited the tax cut measures, which included removing half of the 4% state sales tax on groceries, as well as a temporary tax cut on overtime pay.
"Those tax cuts were focused on working Alabamians," said Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Reed, R-Jasper.
House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said the session resulted in the "largest tax cut in Alabama history" with the partial removal of the state sales tax on food.
"It's been a historic session in my opinion and it's the work of the body that has made that possible," he said.
Some lawmakers, mostly Democrats, had attempted for more than a decade to remove the sales tax on food, but the effort failed amid concerns about the cost to education funding. The effort drew broad bipartisan support this year in the face of soaring grocery prices and larger than usual tax collections.
Senator Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove, who had pushed for the full removal, said she was "excited that the people of Alabama will get some sort of relief on their grocery taxes."
Lawmakers on Tuesday shelved a number of controversial measures rather than get bogged down in contentious floor debates on the final night of the legislative session.
The absentee ballot proposal, which cleared the House on a party-line vote, had emerged as one of the most contentious issues of the session. It did not get a vote in the Alabama Senate. Republicans had said the measure was needed to prevent voter fraud, including so-called ballot harvesting, but opponents called it an attempt at voter suppression by threatening people with jail time for helping someone vote.
Kathy Jones, president of the League of Women Voters of Alabama, said she was relieved the bill did not pass. She said it would have authorized the state to "intimidate, arrest and prosecute patriotic, law-abiding citizens for merely helping their friends and neighbors be able to vote absentee."
Other measures that died on the final meeting day of the session included an effort to strengthen the state public records law and a long-running effort to require students to complete kindergarten, or demonstrate first-grade readiness, before starting first grade.
Ledbetter said Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's office had concerns about the public records bill.
"We are very disappointed that we didn't get the bill passed this year. The governor's legal team did not agree with the finite timeline to produce a public record," Felicia Mason, executive director of the Alabama Press Association, wrote in an email.
The Republican governor had expressed her support for the first-grade readiness bill in her State of the State address. The House had approved the measure, but it did not get a vote in the Alabama Senate where a Democratic senator had raised concerns. House member Pebblin Warren, D-Tuskegee, said she will bring the bill back next year.
"We're going to keep on trying for our babies, and I'm going to keep on fighting," Warren said. | https://www.apr.org/news/2023-06-07/alabama-lawmakers-end-session-marked-by-tax-cuts | 2023-06-07 15:02:34 | 0 | https://www.apr.org/news/2023-06-07/alabama-lawmakers-end-session-marked-by-tax-cuts |
Chicagoans enjoyed the 2nd warmest weekend of 2023 with a Saturday high of 73 and an 81-degree high Sunday.
Today’s (Monday’s) 84 degrees likely high marks the 9th time this year temps have reached or exceeded 80-deg—and a 9th is likely Tuesday—with Tuesday’s likely to exceed today’s reading by 3-degrees. Lake breezes will continue cooling lakeshore areas.
A jarring change to cooler weather with a 23 degrees 24-hour high temp pullback likely at O’Hare is to hit Wednesday with a backdoor cold front’s passage. The front is to race southward the length of Lake Michigan ushering 25 to 30 mph north/northeasterly wind gusts into the area Wednesday—strong winds likely to build 5 feet or greater waves and to produce rip currents along the shoreline.
The front will pass with only a scattering of clouds but with smoke off Canadian wildfires likely to pick up in coming days. Firefighters in western Canada are hopeful rains in the British Columbia and Alberta will help in the effort to fight the fires there which have charred more than 2-million acres—–2000% the amount of terrain burned in Canada by this time a year ago.
From a July level 87-deg inland high Tuesday, temps Wed are likely to peak no higher than the low to mid 60s—and likely hold to the 50s on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The predicted 64-deg high Wednesday and the 63-deg high expected Thursday equal normal late April level temps.
But jarring as the Wed/Thu temp drop will be, and as cool as morning temps will be Wed, Thu and Fri mornings, a healthy temp rebound is likely to take place going into—and over—the coming Memorial Day weekend with temps predicted to surge back to 81 at O’Hare Saturday; 85 Sunday and 88 Memorial Day. Lake breezes will cool lakeshore areas each of those days but are expected to be fairly light and therefore to reach only a limited distance inland.
It’s very dry and going to stay that way. No rain is predicted in the coming week—and it may be mid next week before any occurs in the Chicago area extending the very dry weather regime which has dominated the past two months. Since April 1st, Chicago has record only a bit more than one-third of its normal rainfall—just 2.44″ versus the normal 6.86″ tally during that period of time. May by itself, now 3 weeks old, has recorded all of 0.42″–just 15% of its typical 3.11″ of rain to date.
HERE’S MY MONDAY CHICAGO METRO FORECAST (5/22/2023):
TONIGHT: Mainly clear and seasonably mild. Low 57.
TUESDAY: Generous sunshine—only some scattered fair weather clouds—AND WARM! A July level 87-deg high inland—but only 70s on area beaches.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy, turning windy and cooler toward morning. Low 46 shortly after daybreak Wednesday with a gusty “NNE” wind taking hold.
WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny, smoky skies, gusty NNE winds 25 to 30 mph at times and MUCH COOLER. Temps 20 to 25-deg lower than Tuesday. High 63—50s along Lake Michigan.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny, breezy and cool for the season. High 63—but 50s again on area beaches.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny, less windy and warmer in the afternoon—especially away from the lake. High 73—but low 60s lakeshore.
SATURDAY: Partly sunny and warmer. Lake breezes continue. High 81—but mid to upper 60s lakeshore.
SUNDAY & MEMORIAL DAY: Partly cloudy and warmer. High Sunday 85. Monday’s high 88—but cooler 70s each day along Lake Michigan. | https://wgntv.com/weather/skilling-clear-monday-night-before-warm-cloudy-tuesday/ | 2023-05-22 22:04:07 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/weather/skilling-clear-monday-night-before-warm-cloudy-tuesday/ |
SCRANTON, Pa. — At the height of the pandemic in the fall of 2020, Dr. Sean Devine of Scranton was treating Covid-19 patients in the ICU.
The pulmonologist with Geisinger health system found himself coming down with Covid. his condition took a turn for the worse.
"I decided to call my wife and say I need to go to the hospital. I did not think I was going survive knowing what Covid-19 was doing to people," said Dr. Sean Devine, division chief of pulmonary medicine at Geisinger.
Dr. Devine was in a coma and placed on a ventilator.
One month later, he was flown from Pennsylvania to the University of Florida. One of two places in the country able to do lung transplants for Covid patients.
"When I got there, I was not able to communicate, I was not able to move. After intensive rehab while on ECMO, I was able to be strong enough to qualify for a lung transplant," said Dr. Devine.
On February 9th, 2021, Doctor Devine was given the gift of life with two new lungs. The surgery took 10 hours.
April is national donate life month. According to Rick Hasz, the president and CEO of the Gift of Life Donor Program, the list of people in need of an organ transplant grows every day.
"Transplantation is really the only modality for patients who have end-stage organ failure, without it, patients will die," said Rick Hasz.
Across the nation, nearly 100,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant. Hasz says 5,000 of those people are from our region.
"The great limiting step right now in transplantation is the availability of organs, and that really depends on a family at their worst possible time saying yes to donation," said Hasz.
Even though Dr. Devine doesn't know who his donor was, he returned to work. Forever grateful, his donor's family said yes.
"It makes you realize life is tenacious, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have a second chance at life," said Dr. Devine.
To learn more about the work of the Gift of Life Donor Program or to sign up to become a donor, click here.
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ESPN’s Jalen & Jacoby hint at visiting NSU to watch newest commit Hansel Enmanuel
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 9:21 PM CDT|Updated: 10 minutes ago
NATCHITOCHES, La. (KALB) - It’s no secret that wherever the newest Northwestern State commit Hansel Enmanuel goes, the media follows.
The three-star, one-armed basketball phenom has been all over social media lately with highlight dunks and plays from the Drew League. His story and his play have caught the eyes of many, including Jalen Rose and David Jacoby who co-host the show Jalen & Jacoby on ESPN.
Recently on ESPN, both hosts were talking about Enmanuel’s recent commitment to Northwestern State. Rose said on the show, “We are taking the show there. That’s our guy. We are going to represent.”
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It was named one of Iowa’s top rural tourist attractions and it’s now open for the season! Carole Custer, President of Bell Tower Community Foundation, and Matt Wetrich, Executive Director of Jefferson Matters, share details of the Bell Tower Festival in Jefferson.
The Bell Tower Festival is June 8-10 at the Courthouse Square Bell Tower Plaza. Learn more at mahanaybelltower.org. | https://who13.com/hello-iowa/make-plans-to-visit-a-top-rural-tourist-attraction/ | 2023-05-22 21:48:34 | 1 | https://who13.com/hello-iowa/make-plans-to-visit-a-top-rural-tourist-attraction/ |
The mural project, which started in 2016 as a way to cover up graffiti art at one Indiana store location, has turned into an award-winning initiative giving local artists a platform to showcase their work.
This collaboration is one way Jiffy Lube of Indiana and the Arts Council of Indianapolis are furthering their commitment to supporting and uplifting public art and local artists.
Together, they are on track to complete 30 murals by the end of the year, including 6 new murals this year!
Steve Sanner, president and owner of Jiffy Lube Indiana, Megan Jefferson, owner & artist at Jefferson Art Studio, and Hallier Arnold, Avon High School student and artist, joined us Monday on “Life.Style.Live!” along with other Avon High School student-artists to share the background and thought behind the students’ mural design, how this project has impacted them, why a project like this is so important and more.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — 2022 was a record-breaking year for the Dayton Fire Department.
Cpt. Brad French, the Public Information Officer for the Dayton Fire Department, said they responded to more than 41,000 calls.
“It’s been an increase across the board in fire incidents, emergency medical incidents, rescue incidents. Just a very busy year for our folks,” Cpt. French explained.
Their second busiest year was 2017 with around 39,000 calls. While 2022 is their highest call volume in history, Cpt. French said they have not found a specific cause for the increase.
“We track our data very regularly and don’t notice any one particular pattern in any category, just an increase in usage by our citizens across the board,” Cpt. French said.
Because of this they are reminding everyone to keep safety top of mind, especially during the winter months when fire danger is higher. This means heating your home safely.
“Things like their stovetops and ovens, and things like that. Sometimes people are tempted to use those if they’re in a situation where they’re struggling with heat, and that’s very unsafe to do,” Cpt. French said.
Of course, this record year meant Dayton firefighters were constantly on the move. French said they always rise to the occasion.
“The run volume goes up and our folks just stay a little bit busier. So they a have little bit less time in the station, a little bit more time out on the street. But they always step up and we’re proud of the work that everybody does,” Cpt. French said.
To help lower the call volume, Cpt. French said they added an additional transport unit that is out on the streets 24/7 to help with less urgent calls. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/dayton-fire-department-responded-to-record-number-of-calls-in-2022/ | 2022-12-27 22:47:58 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/dayton-fire-department-responded-to-record-number-of-calls-in-2022/ |
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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge denied bond Thursday evening for Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who's accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participation in a criminal street gang.
Fulton County Judge Ural Glanville handed down the ruling saying he has significant concerns about the entertainer, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, being a danger to the community, news outlets reported.
Prosecutors argued Williams is the head of a violent street gang called Young Slime Life that he cofounded. The gang committed multiple murders, shootings and carjackings over roughly a decade and promoted its activities in songs and on social media, prosecutors allege in an 88-page indictment that charges him, rapper Gunna — whose real name is Sergio Kitchens — aspiring rapper Christian Eppinger and 24 others with racketeering.
Eppinger was already in jail, accused of shooting an Atlanta police officer six times in February.
Young Thug, prosecutors said Thursday, is “the top dog, the most dangerous man here, because he doesn’t have to get his hands dirty, he has others to do his business,” Atlanta station WXIA-TV reported.
Williams has been in custody since his arrest last month at his home in an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta. His attorneys presented several witnesses to counter the image prosecutors painted, pointing to the musician's community involvement. Music executive Kevin Liles testified that Williams was “like a son” and he was willing to put up his own wealth and business behind a bond.
The rapper, he said, “is not just an artist - he’s an influencer, a person I think was put here to change the people around him” and a “contributing citizen to this world.”
Young Thug co-wrote the hit “This is America” with Childish Gambino, making history when it became the first hip-hop track to win the song of the year Grammy in 2019.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There's plenty to treasure along our coastlines: the sherbet-swirled clouds of an oceanic sunrise; early-morning sea turtle hatchling releases; there's even charm in the hungry seagulls that peck at your family's beachside picnic.
Got that? Good. Now go grab your favorite grade-schooler and have them sketch that out – a Caribbean cruise is on the line here!
The Texas Adopt-A-Beach Program announced this month that entries are open for the 27th Annual "Treasures of the Texas Coast" Children's Art Contest. As the contest's title suggests, all artwork should show why the Texas coast is important or special to the artist.
The grand prize of this year's contest is one six-to-eight-night Caribbean cruise for two from Royal Caribbean International; two day passes to Six Flags Over Texas or Hurricane Harbor Arlington; and a copy of the book “The Big Beach Cleanup” by Charlotte Offsay.
But teachers, that's not all: the grand prize winner's teacher will also win six-to-eight-night Royal Caribbean cruise for two, as well as various prizes from Texas Adopt-A-Beach.
40 finalists will also be chosen and receive one free ticket to Schlittterbahn; one free ticket to visit the USS Lexington; a coupon to visit the Texas State Aquarium; prizes from Texas Parks and Wildlife; prizes from Texas Adopt-A-Beach; a certificate of recognition from the Texas General Land Office; and copies of the 2024 calendar displaying the winning artwork.
Entries are open to all Texas students from grades K-6 enrolled in public, private and homeschool education. Entries are to be submitted by mail and postmarked by Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023, to the following address:
Texas General Land Office
Adopt-A-Beach Program: Children's Art Contest 2023
P.O. Box 12873
Austin, Texas 78711-2873
Further details about the contest's guidelines, entry forms and submission process can be found online here. | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/events/childrens-art-contest/503-c6f2d5d4-e454-422b-a919-c1142acbad8d | 2023-02-20 21:37:54 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/events/childrens-art-contest/503-c6f2d5d4-e454-422b-a919-c1142acbad8d |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
2-9-2
(two, nine, two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
2-9-2
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‘I knew I was dying’: How 5 rounds of Narcan possibly saved KCK police officer’s life
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department is opening up about a medical emergency possibly due to fentanyl exposure.
Officer Dallas Thompson dropped to the ground. His team used five rounds of Narcan before emergency workers transported him to the hospital.
The community policing team is still emotional as they discuss what happened in January.
Officer Dallas Thompson says he thought of his daughters as he struggled for air and his vision went blurry. He could hear the rest of the team yelling and encouraging him to stay with them.
“It was really scary,” recalls Sgt. Lee Ann Shelton.
Shelton crouched next to Officer Dallas Thompson and encouraged him to breathe.
“You’re just in the heat of the moment and the only thing you care about is having the officer start breathing again,” Shelton said.
Everyday Community Policing
Officer Thompson and his team were helping deliver food to families in need through Harvesters at a local church.
They quickly switched gears to help in a burglary investigation. Eventually, a suspect was detained. Thompson did a quick pat-down while wearing gloves. He found pills crumpled in an envelope.
His captain called out that he recognized the pills- they could be laced with fentanyl. Thompson carefully removed his gloves. The envelope and pills were sealed in a special evidence bag.
It’s just one thing that haunts the team. No one broke protocol or made a mistake. They were careful. An officer still landed in the ER.
What happened next is told through direct interviews and body camera footage the team describes as “tough to watch.”
“It’s rough. It’s not easy to watch. You know the outcome. You know, it’s like watching a movie that you’ve already seen. You know how it’s going to resolve but it’s still difficult to watch,” said Captain Joseph Grasella III.
Within minutes of removing the gloves, Thompson fell straight backward and crashed to the ground. The team jumped into action.
“Seeing Dallas fall down like that. Instantly, I felt helpless. I felt like I was going to essentially watch my friend die,” said Captain Grasella.
Grasella remembers Dallas struggling to breathe and his bloodshot eyes.
“I’ve never seen eyes turn that bright red before. It was all of those blood vessels just struggling for air,” Captain Grasella said.
Training kicked in. Grasella grabbed his Narcan and delivered a powerful dose of the nasal spray which works to counteract opioids like Fentanyl. Additional officers poured into the scene and passed their Narcan to the Captain, too. The first few doses didn’t seem to help. Grasella switched nostrils and eventually delivered a total of five doses to Officer Thompson who confirms he felt like he was dying.
“If this thing was worth a million dollars, it’s priceless to me now,” Captain Grasella said while holding Narcan in his hand.
“You’re going to make it”
Officer Thompson lets his team tell what happened that day. He doesn’t remember much except struggling to breathe. He couldn’t communicate.
He remembers people yelling and encouraging him to hold on. His vision was blurry. He remembers thinking of his daughters and how he didn’t want them to grow up without a father. He explains his youngest daughter still doesn’t understand what happened to her dad.
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As an officer, he’s seen people overdose and not make it. He feels he was close to that edge.
Thompson was treated at KU. That’s because Narcan wears off quicker than powerful drugs. It’s simply a life-saving bridge so people can seek medical care.
The team points out Officer Thompson’s first words were for his partner who suffered a shoulder injury during the investigation. He was riding in another ambulance.
“First thing Thompson said when he was starting to come through. He started yelling the officer’s name because he was exposed to the fentanyl as well,” said Sgt. Shelton.
Members of the community policing team always carried Narcan before… but some left it in their car. Now, they all carry it directly on their vests saying there’s no time to spare in an event like this.
“It’s not if it’s going to happen, it’s when. I think as a police department, we’ve done a much better job of making sure we’re ready when it happens again,” Captain Grasella said.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - For the second time ever, the Med City is giving out grants for their bikeshare program. It's also the last time ever.
The program allows both individuals and organizations like community projects, non-profits, and housing developers to receive a refurbished bike from the city's bike share fleet. Applicants will need to complete basic bike maintenance training to receive their new ride.
The initiative looked to rid Rochester of excess bikes while providing those in need with transportation. According to Matt Tse, the city's active transportation coordinator, that excess is almost out.
"Back in 2021, we granted out about 100 of [the bikes]. Now we're looking to grant out the remaining 50," he said. "Any leftover between a handful will be retained at the Parks and Rec Department as part of their recreational fleet and then we'll have a couple on hand just to make sure that we can always keep that fleet at maximum operating capacity."
Though there are no plans to revive the bikeshare grants in the future, similar projects are being considered by the city.
"We're looking at ways of partnering with different third parties, in this case Lime, who already do the scooters and dockless bikes [you can rent in the city]," said Tse. "We're looking to partner up with them to offer this program through the library again, sort of at an equity pass program discounted rate. That's in the works right now."
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 16, 2023
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COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Seattle WA
242 AM PST Mon Jan 16 2023
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO
NOON PST TODAY...
* WHAT...Minor coastal flooding expected.
* WHERE...Admiralty Inlet Area zone.
* WHEN...From 7 AM this morning to noon PST today.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only
isolated road closures expected.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...While weaker than yesterday, low pressure
offshore will enhance tidal anomalies up to a foot above
predicted anomalies. This could lead to minor tidal overflow
along the Admiralty Inlet area. High tides look to decrease,
though remain close to advisory levels Tuesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be
closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of
unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone
property.
* WHERE...San Juan County zone.
across the San Juan Islands. High tides look to decrease,
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Bryce Young’s five touchdown passes were nothing all that new for Alabama’s Heisman Trophy winner.
That 63-yard sprint down the left sideline and other big runs presented a seldom seen side of his game.
Young didn’t just throw for those touchdowns — all in the first half — he even ran for 100 yards and a score in No. 1 Alabama’s 55-0 opening victory over Utah State on Saturday night.
It was, he said, a “cool” and “interesting” experience.
“I just try to do whatever is best for this team, whatever the defense gives us,” Young said. “That’s definitely interesting. It definitely wasn’t something I was planning. For me, it’s just taking whatever the defense gives us.
“Today that was just what was available. It’s cool.”
The Crimson Tide began their quest for national title redemption with a not unexpected start-to-finish domination of the six-touchdown underdog Aggies (1-1). Less anticipated: Young’s runs.
Known primarily as a passer with a penchant for scrambling and buying time, Young flashed his running ability more than he ever did last season, including a 63-yarder down the left sideline.
He also spread the ball around to Alabama’s new set of playmakers, with two touchdown passes to both Georgia transfer Jermaine Burton and Traeshon Holden and some handoffs to Jahmyr Gibbs.
Young ran five times after netting zero yards thanks to sacks last season with a previous long run of 16 yards. He also completed 18 of 28 passes for 195 yards before exiting one drive into the second half following his TD run.
“I see Bryce do that on the regular, so it wasn’t really new to me,” Alabama safety Brian Branch said. “Just watching him be himself out there is truly amazing. Playing with a Heisman winner, I can’t describe it.”
Gibbs, a much talked about transfer from Georgia Tech, flashed his speed with a 58-yard run on the first play after the half. He finished with 93 yards on nine rushes.
His backup, Jase McClellan, caught a pair of TD passes.
Alabama outgained the Aggies 559-136 in total yards.
“It is what it is, and I’ve seen people in the SEC come here and get treated exactly the same way,” Utah State coach Blake Anderson said. “We’re not built that way. We’re a long ways from being able to play that game physically and match up. Maybe we’ll never be able to.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Utah State, which finished last season ranked, had won two straight games against Power 5 teams and started off strong with a 23-yard gain. Then the offense stalled and the defense was overwhelmed by Young & Co. The Aggies couldn’t turn a late blocked punt into points.
Alabama: Spent the offseason stewing over a loss to Georgia in the national championship game and came in as the favorite to win the national title, according to FanDuel sportsbook. Then Alabama did pretty much what it wanted to against a mismatched opponent. The Tide put some new playmakers on display after losing receivers Jameson Williams and John Metchie III and tailback Brian Robinson Jr.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Alabama didn’t do anything to diminish its status as the team to beat, but No. 3 Georgia and No. 2 Ohio State got the chance to make much bigger statements. The Bulldogs beat 11th-ranked Oregon 49-3. The Buckeyes topped No. 5 Notre Dame, 21-10.
SIDELINED Louisville transfer wide receiver Tyler Harrell had a walking boot on his right foot and didn’t dress for the game. Tight end Cameron Latu also missed the game with a knee injury.
CHANNELING SABAN
Saban emphasized it wasn’t a perfect performance and there’s plenty of room for improvement. His players echoed that sentiment.
“It was good, but we still have stuff to work on,” Branch said. “It’s not like we played a perfect game.”
Added Saban: “No disrespect to Utah State — their players played hard, they’ve got a good little team. But we’re going to play teams that are much more physical and aggressive and talented than what they are, so we’re going to have to do things correctly.”
UP NEXT
Utah State hosts Weber State on Sept. 10.
Alabama visits a Texas team led by former Tide offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian.
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BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from chinadaily.com.cn:
The World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit has become a key platform for businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to seize development opportunities in the digital age, a leading WIC official said on Wednesday.
Since the first summit was held in 2014, the event has also become a stage for internet companies from home and abroad to debut new and leading technologies, which has made great contributions to global innovation progress, Ren Xianliang, secretary-general of the World Internet Conference, said on the sidelines of the 2022 WIC Wuzhen Summit in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
"Internet technologies are always developing and evolving rapidly. The summit has been serving as a platform to showcase the latest trends in internet technology development and cyberspace governance. It has also boosted exchanges in innovation and applications," Ren said.
Small and medium-sized enterprises have also found new opportunities and business partners at the summits, he added.
Furthermore, the summit is expected to play a more important role in accelerating the development of internet technologies since the WIC was turned into a permanent international organization in July, he added.
"The organization aims to initiate dialogue in key topics and areas in global cyberspace governance. More importantly, it will help build trust and eliminate misunderstandings in the international community," Ren said.
The organization now has members from more than 20 countries and regions. They include leading internet companies, trade associations and researchers. The WIC will adhere to the principle of multilateral participation, and would like to join hands with various entities from other countries, such as governments, internet enterprises and technical communities, to advance the building of a multilateral, democratic and transparent global internet governance system, he added.
While addressing the second WIC Wuzhen Summit in 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the initiative of jointly building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.
To fulfill the initiative, Ren said that a few declarations and actions were unveiled during past summits, and the WIC has continuously accumulated wisdom and consensus from all walks of life and continued to deepen cooperation in digital fields.
Currently, development and security are among the most discussed topics related to the internet sector. The WIC will continue to study and implement practical cases from around the world on innovation in digital economy, internet infrastructure construction, online cultural exchanges as well as cybersecurity and governance of global cyberspace, he said.
"From such cases people can learn about how the development of the internet can better benefit mankind," Ren added.
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Lawyer demands Fox apologize for Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for a one-time supporter of former President Donald Trump who has been caught up in a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory demanded Thursday that Fox News and host Tucker Carlson retract and apologize for repeated “falsehoods” about the man’s supposed intentions.
The action taken on behalf of Raymond Epps specifically mentions a voting machine company’s pending $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, an indication that people caught up in political conspiracy theories are fighting back.
The lawyer, Michael Teter, said he gave Fox formal notice of potential litigation. Fox News had no immediate comment.
Epps, a former Marine from Arizona, traveled to Washington, D.C., for Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally and was caught there on video twice, once urging demonstrators to go to the Capitol.
He was never arrested, leading some to theorize that he was a government agent conducting a “false flag” operation to whip up trouble that would be blamed on Trump supporters. There has been no evidence to suggest that was true, and Epps told the congressional committee investigating the attack that he has never worked at or been an informant for a government agency.
Yet the theory, first posed on a fringe conservative website, spread to the more influential Fox News and to Congress and was even mentioned by Trump himself.
Epps told The New York Times last summer that he and his wife had to sell their business and home and leave for an undisclosed location because of threats.
“The crazies started coming out of the woodwork,” Epps testified to the congressional panel.
He has acknowledged being caught on video on Jan. 5, 2021, telling demonstrators to go to the Capitol the next day. He said he was trying to defuse a tense situation and meant that the demonstration should be peaceful. He testified that it was “something stupid” that he said and he regretted it.
Epps also was caught on video at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but said he did not enter the building. He has been mentioned on Carlson’s prime-time Fox News Channel show five times in 2023 alone, according to a search of transcripts found in Nexis.
On March 6, Carlson said: “What was Epps doing there? We can’t say, but we do know that he lied to investigators.”
Last July 13, on the day the Times story about Epps and his wife going into hiding was published, Carlson said he was “on camera repeatedly telling people to storm the Capitol. A lot of people who did that are still in jail, but Epps is not. But it’s a conspiracy theory?”
In his letter to Fox on Thursday, Teter demanded “that Mr. Carlson and Fox News retract the claim that Mr. Epps was working for the FBI or any other government entity when he attended the Jan. 6 events and the claim that Mr. Epps acted as an instigator or provocateur of the incident.”
He called on Carlson and Fox to issue a formal on-air apology “for the lies.”
Teter said revelations that have emerged through court papers in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit may explain why Fox acted the way it has with his client.
Dominion has said Fox knowingly and maliciously spread lies that it was involved in voting irregularities that hurt Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Documents have revealed the suspicion that many at Fox had about those theories, but also internal concern about how the network might be losing pro-Trump viewers who believed the false claims that the election was stolen.
Fox has said that it was doing its job in reporting on newsworthy claims made by the then-president and his allies.
In Epps’ case, Teter wrote that “fear of losing viewers by telling them the truth is not a defense to defamation and false light, nor will it absolve you of liability related to claims for infliction of emotional distress.”
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Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Friday ahead of the two countries' joint military exercise that aims to show their strength against growing North Korean threats.
The joint drills will be the first involving a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region since 2017, when the U.S. sent three aircraft carriers including the Reagan for naval drills with South Korea in response to North Korean nuclear and missile tests.
The allies this year have revived their large-scale military drills that were downsized or shelved in previous years to support diplomacy with Pyongyang or because of COVID-19, responding to North Korea’s resumption of major weapons testing and increasing threats of nuclear conflicts with Seoul and Washington.
The South Korean navy said its combined training with the Reagan battle group is meant to boost the allies’ military readiness and to show “the firm resolve by the Korea-U.S. alliance for the sake of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.”
The North Korean threat is also expected to be a key agenda when U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits South Korea next week after attending the state funeral in Tokyo of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The Reagan’s arrival in South Korea comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament this month he would never abandon his nuclear weapons and missiles he needs to counter what he perceives as U.S. hostility.
North Korea also passed a new law that enshrined its status as a nuclear power and authorized the preemptive use of nuclear weapons over a broad range of scenarios where the country or its leadership comes under threat.
Sung Kim, the Biden administration’s special representative for North Korea, met with South Korean counterpart Kim Gunn in Seoul on Thursday where they expressed “serious concern” over the North’s escalating nuclear doctrine spelled out in the new law, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said.
The diplomats reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend South Korea in the event of a nuclear war with the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear. The allies also maintained their months-old assessment that North Korea is gearing up to conduct its first nuclear test since 2017 and discussed “stern” countermeasures to such an action, the ministry said.
North Korea has dialed up weapons testing to a record pace in 2022, launching more than 30 ballistic weapons including its intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as it exploits a divide in the U.N. Security Council deepened over Russia’s war on Ukraine.
While North Korea’s ICBMs garner much of U.S. attention because they pose a potential threat to the American homeland, the North has also been expanding its arsenal of nuclear-capable, shorter-range missiles designed to evade missile defenses in South Korea.
North Korea’s expanding arsenal and threats of preemptive nuclear attacks have triggered concerns in South Korea over the credibility of the U.S. “nuclear umbrella” protecting its allies in the event of war.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who took office in May, has vowed to enhance South Korea’s conventional missile capabilities and work with the Biden administration to develop more effective strategies to deter North Korean attacks.
Senior U.S. and South Korean officials met in Washington this month for discussions on the allies’ deterrence strategies and issued a statement reaffirming that “any (North Korean) nuclear attack would be met with an overwhelming and decisive response.” The statement said the United States reiterated “its ironclad and unwavering commitment to draw on the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear (one)” to provide extended deterrence to South Korea.
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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — The man charged with a hit-and-run crash that killed a Pinellas County deputy in September has been scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, followed by a second suspect.
According to Sheriff Gualtieri, on September 23, Deputy Michael Hartwick, 51, was working a traffic detail on I-275 to provide safety and security for the ongoing construction along the road. Gualtieri said Deputy Hartwick arrived at the location around 10:40 p.m.
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The PCSO said Hartwick got out of his cruiser and walked around the front of his car onto the shoulder of the road. Gualtieri said a few minutes later, a frontloader with forklift-type arms passed by the area traveling approximately 20 miles per hour and escorted by a white pickup truck.
PCSO said the front loader hit and killed Deputy Hartwick instantly. The truck stopped, but Gualtieri said the front loader continued down the road before eventually pulling off to the site of the road.
According to Gualtieri, the driver of the front loader is Juan Ariel Molina-Salles, 32, of Honduras. After stopping, Molina-Salles allegedly took off his construction vest and hat and gave them to another worker, and asked him to get rid of both. Deputies said Molina-Salles then left the area, heading north.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said that started a nine-hour manhunt with three helicopters, hundreds of law enforcement officers, and all the police K-9 units.
Gualtieri said the investigation was hindered from the very beginning as most of the construction workers were giving false names because many were also undocumented workers. The sheriff said the company employing the workers is Archer Western in Tampa, and it is a contractor for the Florida Department of Transportation.
“They shouldn’t be out there, and they shouldn’t be doing this,” Gualtieri said.
As the manhunt continued, Gualtieri said they requested the aid of Pasco County bloodhound units to find the suspect. Gualtieri said Molina-Salles, at one point, tried to get his roommate in Tampa to pick him up after the deadly crash. However, the roommate, also an undocumented worker, turned around and refused to come get him when that person saw the law enforcement presence.
According to the sheriff, the move to bring in the bloodhounds paid off, and Molina-Salles was arrested.
Gualtieri said sheriff’s deputies couldn’t do much with the company employing the undocumented workers or with the workers themselves due to immigration law. The sheriff said Molina-Salles had entered the country once illegally and was deported back to Mexico but later returned through Eagle Pass, Texas, and had been in Tampa since March.
Sheriff Gualtieri said Molina-Salles faces a charge of leaving the scene of an accident with a death, and it’s punishable by up to 30 years in prison, with a minimum mandatory sentence of four years in prison if convicted. There’s also an immigration hold on Molina-Salles if he is given bond on the local charge.
The construction worker who allegedly took Molina-Salles’ gear is Elieser Aurelio Gomez-Zalaya, 31, who was also an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. Gualtieri said he was charged with accessory after the fact. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/undocumented-worker-charged-with-hitting-killing-pinellas-deputy-scheduled-to-be-arraigned | 2022-11-14 11:01:03 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/undocumented-worker-charged-with-hitting-killing-pinellas-deputy-scheduled-to-be-arraigned |
Officials have yet to release the name of the firefighter, while they contact next of kin.
Firefighters have been battling nearly 50 small blazes in Jackson and Josephine counties, caused by lighting strikes on Wednesday night.
Earlier this month, firefighter Colin Hagan was also killed after being struck by a tree while working at the Big Swamp fire near Oakridge.
This Josephine County fatality will be the sixth wildland firefighter killed nationally this year, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. On a seperate fire in Jackson county on Thursday, a firefighter had to be removed from the line and treated for heat-related illness.
ODF officials say their teams will be taking time to discuss these incidents and ensure firefighters are prioritizing safety when out in the field.
Teams in both counties have made significant progress in containing the recent wildfires. Out of the 48 fires confirmed, 17 have been fully extinguished and the remaining 31 are being lined and mopped up. No homes have been threatened and no evacuation orders are in place. | https://www.ijpr.org/wildfire/2022-08-19/firefighter-killed-in-josephine-county-second-death-in-oregon-this-season | 2022-08-19 18:39:23 | 0 | https://www.ijpr.org/wildfire/2022-08-19/firefighter-killed-in-josephine-county-second-death-in-oregon-this-season |
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